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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-26

eyes boring into him. He is visited
and subjected to cross examination
calculated with fendish subtlety to
throw him off his guard and make him
incriminate himself, innocent or guilty.
A man suspected of murder in Connec-
ticut was lately cross examined in this
way for nine hours at one stretch. Then
the self-appointed torturers reported
that he contradicted himself several
times. The shrewdest police spy in the
Union would have done the same under
like circumstance. This process of
torture is called by those who resort to
it the "third degree" A part of it is
to take the accused under guard to the
scene of the murder and note how he
behaves. In the name of civilization
we protest against this brutality and
unwarrantable assumption of authority
by policemen. Even helpless prisoners
have some human rights.-The st.
Paul. Midway News.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-26
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so we would be yet shrouded in the
darkness of barbarism. 1t is the pur-
suit of happiness which has given us
music, art and literature, the ennobling
influences of which have created civil
ization. Then why should we not seek
entertainment, pure and simple in lit
erature? 1t has been urged by some
that it is trashy and leads the mind in
to frivolous channels. Do not let this
bugaboo frighten you from the enjoy
ment of the rays of sunshine contained
in fiction. Common sense may be ap-
piled to our pleasures as we'll as to our
more serious occupations, frightening
our lives and giving to us that pearl
beyond price, cheerful disposition.
SINBAD.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-26
Written for The Prison Mirror.
FOLKLORE.

Before the written history of any
country is commenced, events are per-
petuated orally, by simple songs and
popular tales. These tales and songs
do not always deal with man alone or
to the primitive religion, usages, festi-
walls and games. More often they tell
of impossible heroes, huge giants,
winged horses, tiny fairies, and most
wonderful lands where everything is
perpetual peace and happiness. But,
alasl though thousands of years have
elapsed since folklore discovered these
lands, no one has ever succeeded in
finding them.
Folklore is composed of complete
tales, songs, proverbs and notices, all
of which influence our language and
conversation to remarkable degree.
In our everyday life we use. and hear
others use, adages and proverbs that
come from folklore. You tell one an
other that "there is no use crying over
split milk" and mot to count your
chickens before they are hatched,"
-'that one is penny wise and pound
foolish" "a dog in the manger," "a bull
in china shop" all these and thou
sand other folklore sayings are used
by us and we never find it necessary to
tell the whole story connected with the
adage-every one knows it. They are
part of our existence.
English literature is very rich in
folklore. Tennyson, Browning, Moore,
Emerson, Lowell and many others
have brought to us gems of the purest
kind from all ages. Some drawn from
the burning sands of the desert and
some from the frozen north. All COM
bining to form wonderful and beauti-
full pictures of the past and bright
hopes for the future.
10 folklore we are indebted for many
of our highest and best thoughts. Brit
ain has great wealth of folklore, par
ticulary that drawn from the Druids.
The Druids had no written history,
everything relating to their religion
and history was transmitted orally.
The mythical history of Britain COM
menced many centuries before the
time of Christ. The earliest folklore
ruler of Britain was the giant Albion.
Brutes or Brute is parsonage of great
Importance in the folklore of Britain
and is tabled as being the founder Of
London, and as having killed the last
of the giants that remained on the
island. These stories should be of inter.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-26
Written for The Prison Mirror.
GREEK ART.


Greek art is noted for its beauty, but
it is the ideal rather than the realistic
beauty that draws our admiration, and
that is nowhere more true than when
we study Greek sculpture; the same
ideal beauty manifests itself in every
piece of sculpture known to have been
produced by the Greeks.
Sculpture is traced back to pre-his
toric times, or we may say that history
has been revealed to us by the sculp-
ture and the engravings, and writings
thereon, executed by the people of those
ancient times.
TO be able to reproduce in stone, or
some other indestructible material, men
or animals, or combination of the two
has been the ambition of all people,
whether civilized or savage, since time
immemorial. The oldest specimen of
sculpture in existence is naturally very
crude, and no doubt fell short of the
ideal the maker had in his mind.
The first people to reach perfection
in sculpture were the Greeks, but the
first work done by them, in that line,
was very crude, and, undoubtedly,
simply an imitation of the Egyptian
sculpture. But the Greeks were pro-
gressive and ambitious and kept on
perfecting their art until they reached
their ideal.
The Greeks of that time were licen.
tious and indulgoat people,; how they
were able to produce or even to con-
ceive of such beautiful works of art as
we have evidence that they did pro-
duce, in the fragments and statues now
treasured as priceless works of art in
every museum of any Importance in
the world, has sometimes been the
cause of argument. But the very fact
that they were of a carnal disposition
seems to solve the problem.
To enjoy physical pleasure in any
degree, perfect or nearly perfect
physical constitution is indispensable
and that coupled with their love for
sport such as foOt-racing and other
pastimes known as the Olympic games,
where physical strength of the highest
order was required, naturally caused
them to look for the ideal man and
woman, and that ideal they tried to put
into reality; the result we find in their
Apollo and Venus of Milo. F. J.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-26
"THE THIRD DEGREE"

In the dark ages thumbscrews, bone
crushing machines and other ingenious
devices were employed to extort from
prisoners confessions of crime. Often
times they were so tortured that they
lost their reason and confessed to things
they never did. But if they survived
the bone crushing they were hanged
anyhow. Tortures of nature not less
revolving are said to be resorted to by
Weyler in Cuba, and he is heralded from
one end of this land to the other as a
bloodthirsty monster.
In our humane and enlightened land
and age no such fiendish tortures are
employed. Oh, no!
But let us see. He who reads of the
processes of terror invented, it is said,
by the New York police is by no means
certain whether we are one whit more
merciful or civilized than Butcher
Weyler or the middle age inquisitlon.
In theory prisoh her is adjudged inno-
cent till he is proved guilty. And
whether he is guilty or innocent it is
none of the policies business in any
manner, shape or form. Their business
is to arrest; the courts determine the
rest. But when person is accused of
murder the New York fashion, unfor-
tunately spreading elsewhere, is for the
police to subject the poor wretch to a
refinement of mental suffering COM
pared to which the thumbscrew of the
middle ages is merciful. The prisoner
is watched every moment night and
day consciously. If he so much as
yawn, note is made of it. Every turn
he takes there are those bloodthirsty
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-26
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YOUR CHICKENS COME HOME
TO ROOST.


Did you ever think, in the scuffle of life,
OF the flocks that you nurture and grow
That you feed and pamper with infinite care,
Which will follow wherever you go?
And that these same t1OckS at night will come,
Like all good chickens, to rOOst at home?
You meet a man in a business deal,
And you cheat him, and trick him, and lie;
And you tickle yourself for your bold, shrewd
game,
With a satisfied leer in your eye.
But later on when the years are done,
To roost at home will your chickens come.
You play at love, yet your heart is flint;
You flatter, and dupe, and fool;
And you win the innocent girl at last,
But, just remember the rule
That every mans chickens, one by one,
Come home to roost when the day is done.
You may gain for the present your evil will,
Of your evil acts you may boast,
But the stars swing round to the evening time,
When your deeds, like blackened host
Like DAVIS of the night, WILL every one,
Come home to rOOst when your day is done.
-Maude Meredith in Northwest Magazine.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-26
Written for The Prison Mirror.
COMMON SENSE.

Most of our trials and sorr Ows may
be in large measure overcome by
liberal application of common sense.
If we consider carefully the things
which to us seem most unbearable we
can often by honest reasoning discover
that our woes are largely of our own
making and have their origin in dis
eased mind-or stomach, perhaps.
Things that have seemed of great
moment to us, when examined by the
keen searchlight of reason, lose some
what their appalling aspect and resolve
themselves into problems easily within
our grasp.
This thought is cleverly expressed in
little poem from the pen of Ben King
called "The Pessimist.'
There is nothing to do but work,
Nothing to eat but food,
Nothing to wear but clothes
To keep one from being nude.
Nothing to breathe but air,
Quick as flash it is gone.
Nowhere to fall but off,
Nowhere to stand but on.
Nothing to sing but songs,
All WE'LL Alas! Alack!
Nowhere to go but out,
Nowhere to come but back.
Nothing to comb but hair,
Nowhere to sleep but in bed.
Nothing to weep but tears,
No one to mourn but the dead.
Nothing to strike but gait,
Everything moves that goes,
Nothing at all but common sense
Can ever withstand these woes.''
There is quite lot of common sense
in this homely little rhyme which might
with profit be applied to our everyday
life.
Shut out from the world as we are
we may find some small grain of satis-
faction in the knowledge that life is,
for us, after all, made up of much the
same elements as for our more fortu-
nate brothers on the other side of the
great stone fence, and while we are de-
prived of most of the pleasures which
make life attractive we yet have some
things in common.
Instead of giving way to despon-
dency let us look to the brighter things
which come into everyone's life-even
in prison. A great source of pleasure
will be found in books-those ever
faithful friends of the lonely. From
them we can CLEAN much wisdom,
which, while it entertains, will help us
to bear the burdens of shadowed life.
In reading history and biography we
put ourselves in touch with the weighty
problems which have swayed the
masses of humanity to glorious deeds,
and become familiar with the sayings
and doings of noble men and women.
But 1 do not believe in confning
ones thoughts entirely to the more
serious side of life. There is much
that is good and wholesome in what is
known as light literature. Half of
life's energies are usually devoted to
pursuits of happiness. Ifthis were not
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-26
Written for The Prison Mirror.
TRUE REFORMATION

knowledge can only be attained by
the cultivation and development of
ones mental energies. So also ones
reformation can only be attained by
the development of will-power, and the
ability to say NO and mean it. No one
commits crime because he prefers the
narrow confines of prison cell to the
God given and precious air of freedom;
and none can keep their freedom who
will not appreciate and guard it and to
do so we must have some knowledge of
right and wrong and respect for the
rights of others.
There are only two exceptions where
crime may be excused, and the first is
where an insane person commits one,
and secondly when child of tender
years commits crime. They are in
capable of knowing right from wrong
and hence, in the eyes of God as we'll as
man, not responsible for their actions.
| Crime in itself is a curse both to the
one who commits it and to the one in
jured by it.
Liquor is generally the excuse pro-
mulgated by large majority of evil
sion of his faculties who becomes in
toxicated and makes a beast out of
himself, whether he commits a crime
or not, is just as responsible for his ac-
|
enness is no excuse whatsoever. There
is more hope for man who will hon.
estly admit his crime than for the sneak
who attempts to deny or excuse him
self by saying he did not know what he
was doing or that he was drunk and
not responsible.
Then, again, hunger and poverty are
also some of the numerous excuses
which are given. But go back to the
Origin of the reason why he becomes so
situated and you will find liquor and
amorous passions the true cause of his
degradation. The criminal is not only
curse to himself but to society and to
all his family-father and mother, sis
ter and brother, alike suffer and the
shame and ignominy often break the
heart of his best and truest friend on
earth-his mother. She too suffers:
his disgrace is hers; his misfortunes
her misfortune: and only too often, in
an agony of grief and despair she goes
to an early grave fastened there by the
actions of perhaps her only son, to whom
she gave life and birth.
True reformation does not only con-
sist of obeying the laws of man but also
the laws of God. Who of us here
would be in prison if we had kept the
Golden Rule "DO unto others as you
would that others would do unto yOu?"
None, perhaps There would be no
need of prisons as there would be no
prisoners. Crimes are often committed
in the heat of passion 1 will admit,
hence the necessity of cultivating will
power that we may be the master of
our passions, and not they the master
of both our body and soul. Cultivate
will power and say: will, so help me
God, with the help of God, never again
be tempted to plunge into the turmoil
of vice, dissipation and crime.
T. Mel.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-08-19

Figures just given out by the Treas
ury Bureau of Statistics show that the
exports for the fiscal year ending June
80 were the largest in the history of
the contry, exceeding by over s21, 7O0,-
900 the largest preceding total, which
was recorded in the year 1892. For the
month of June the exports were valued
at $74,174,6S9, which represents an in
crease OF over $7,400.OOO as compared
with the corresponding month of last
year. The imports for the month were
valued at $84,826, ITO, which represents
an increase of over $4,000 900 as COM
pared with. the corresponding month
last year. The dutiable imports were
valued at $43,672,S47, which represents
an increase of over 81, 900, 900 as COM
pared with June, 1896, while the non
dutiable imports were valued at SAL
153, 1868, an increase of over SIG, 1000, 900
as compared with the corresponding
month a year ago. For the twelve
months ending with June the total ex-
ports were valued at $1,051, $751;, O91,
which represents an increase of over
$169. 100000 as compared with the pre-
ceding fiscal year. The exports were
valued at 1874. 373.9 which represents
decrease of over 100000 as COM
pared with the preceding fiscal year.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-08-19
ANARCHISTS NOT WANTED.
Enumeration Commissioners PowdeF'
~ Isnucs some InatructtOns.

immigration COmmisstOner fow"'
~ Isnucs some InAtructtOns.
Washington, Aug. 15.-Commissioh-
or Powderly. of the immigration bu.
rcou. has sent the following letter OF
instructions to immigration officials NJ
Now York, Boston, Philadelphia, Bai.
timore and Quebec. Cam, relative TO
the anticipated arrival In this country
of Spanish anarchists: -,
Conformation has reached TINS pu-
reou to the effect that one Planas, H.
ienIcr of the Spanish anarchists, mas
hcrr expelled from France, being con-
Inctrd to llavre. from which port It
;s rynrctcd he will be sent to the Unit
cd States. am also advised that
,rarida Marmol. another anarcnist, nus
gone to England and probably is ON
ron,o to this country. a careful IN
snrction should be made OF arriving
messengers in order that should any Oh
his class be detected, Il careful eX-
ANIMATION can be had as to their rleht
of admission into the United suites
under existing laws.
II is stated ut the bureau or immlgra-
tion that there is no law under when
nersons can he excluded on the ground
thot they are anarchists. so that II
plaras and Marmol are refused admis-
sion TO the country the refusal must be
based solely upon the fact that tney
come within the general Immigration
law as to paupers, contract laDorers'
criminals. etc.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-08-19
FIRST BLooDSHED
CLASH BETWEEN THE STRIKERS
AND DEPUTY SHERLFFS
Serious Trouble Almost Prcc'p''"''''
by the Sheriff and HIS DcP"t'e"
While Executing the lntu"ct'"""
of the COurt-Injury lnhtcteu ~"
One of the Strikers by Deputy
Sheriff EnruEcs His Comrades.

Pittsburg, Aug. 15.-lnjunctions ny
the court have put stop to marques
by the striking miners against the New
York & Cleveland Gas Coal company
for time ut least. But in the eAecu-
ton of the injunctiOnS the sheriff ana
his deputies narrowly escaped prcclM'
tating serious tro.;blr. AS it was. the
first blood of the strike was shed.
Henry Stewart. one Of the deputies,
struck Jacob Mott, a drummer OF the
Mcdonald band, with the edge OF Il
brass horn and cut severe gaSl
above hiseye. The sight of the blood
wrought up the 1000 idle miners to
such pitch that desperate conflict
was imminent. The deputies also were
excited and noisy. The strikers were
jeering and yelling and urging fur
Their rush down the road. In the crowd
there We're enough angry strikers to
annihilate four times the force of Of
iicers on the ground. Capt. Bellins-
ham, Sheriff Lowry. Chief Deputy
James Richards and Supt. De Armitt
were the only cool men in the assem-
blage. To them belongs the credit OF
avoiding a riot. When Bellingham
/ saw there was danger of his men get
ting geyond his control he commanded
halt and addressed himself to the
task of restraining the more belliSer-
ent. So well We're his efforts directed
that he soon had restored order. Sher-
i'll Lowry had difficult task to per-
form but he handled it WE'LL and by
his GOODNESS and good nature did much
to neutralize the bitterness and strife
invited by the behavior of his sub
ordinates. The strikers finally retired
and marched back to their camp,
where the officers held conference
with their attorney, and he advised
them to quit marching until the court
had heard the arguments next Mon
day. President Dolan then issued or
ders that no marches should be made
on any of the mines of the New York
& Cleveland Gas Coal company until
further orders, although a march may
be made against other places. Two
meetings will be held at Plum Creek
at which addresses will be made by
George Harris, of the Central Pennsyl-
vania field; Mrs. Jones of Chicago,
William Warner and Cameron Miller.
In order to more thoroughly fortify
his position Sheriff Lowry has sworn
in twenty additional deputies. So
long as the men simply camp where
they are, without marching to the
mines and interfering with the men
going to and from work they will not
be disturbed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-08-19

The value Of the pearls found during
1896 on the coast of the gulf of Lower
California amounted to s35O,000. Be-
sides, there were, however, also ex-
ported 5000 tons of mussel shells, the
value Of which was estimated at a
further s1,o50,000. The pearl-fshing
with appur-enances forms the entire
occupation of the natives, and La Paz,
the capital for this trade in the PENN
sula, exists exclusively upon this in
dustry. Until few years ago only
native divers had been employed, and
the greatest depth to which they could
dive was thirty-five feet. Upon the
Introduction of the modern diving ap-
paratus depth of 100 feet was accom-.
plished, and while formerly the best
divers could not remain longer than
two minutes under water. a modern
diver thinks nothing of staying for two
hours at depth of 100 feet, although
at still greater depth the stay is nee.
essarily shortened on account Of the
enormous volume of water above.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-08-19

1t is very singular how the fact of a
mans death often seems to give people
truer idea of his character, whether
for good or for evil, than they have
ever possessed while he was living and
acting among men. Death is so genu-
inc a fact that it excludes falsehood,
or betrays its emptiness; it is touch
down that Proves the gold, and dis
honors the baser metal Could the
departed, whoever he may be, return
in a week after his decease, he would
almost invariably find himself at a
higher or a lower point than he has
formerly occupied on the scale of pub
lie appreciation.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-08-19

The powerful influence exerted by
trivial circumstances receives new en-
phasis in the fact that the officials of
the United States Treasury Department
regard the large recent demand for
small hills as an indication of renewed
activity in business. A little girl on her
birthday carried two coins in her
pocket, aad sagely remarked, "My dol
lar would not jingle if it were not for
my penny" The same is true in finan-
cial, social and private life-the small
change, the amenities, the Insignificant
daily kindnesses-t they constitute the
larger and better portion.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-08-19
Green Is n Bi-nmiSt.

Kansas City, Aug. 3D. William r.
Green. the defaulting cashier of the
Hannibal & st. Joseph railroad, who.
was arrested in Brooklyn on Monday,
proves to be bgamist. When he
ned from Kansas City in March. 1896,
taking with him, it is charged. $4,000
OF the railroad company's money. he
LETT wife and twin children in Otta-
wa Kan. In Brooklyn. under the
name OF W. W. Bowen, he married a
young woman of respectable family,
and was living with her when arrested,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-08-19

The legislature of Illinois has enact
led law forbidding bicycle races that
continue longer than twelve hours.
This is step toward attempting to
check a growing evil. The abuse Of
the wheel, by amateurs as we'll as by
professionals, is matter that calls
for decisive action; and parental au-
thority, plain speaking by physiolo-
gists, public opinion and legislative en-
actment, should all be enlisted in the
movement
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-08-19

According to the latest official report
the Japanese navy consists of two first
class battle ships and six projected;
one second-class battle ship, captured
from the Chinese; five armored cruis-
ers, ten second-class cruisers and six
building or projected, and seventeen
vessels which may be ranked as third
class cruisers, Spain has one first
class battle ship and one building, one
port-defense ship, eight hrst-class
cruisers and three building, six second
class cruisers, one building; ninety
nine third-class cruisers, three build
ing; thjrty-six first-class torpedo craft,
two building, and two second-class tor
pedo craft. The United States has
twelve sea-going battle ships, two ar
mored cruisers in commission, one
ram, six double-turret monitors, four
teen single-turret monitors, besides a
considerable number of other vessels.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-08-19
KLONDYKE FEVER ABATING.

People Beginning to Realize the
Folly of Starting Now.
San Francisco, Aug. 15.-During the
past week the Klondyke fever has
abated somewhat in this city, owing
probably to the discouraging reports
from Dyea. There are plenty of peo-
pie who announce their intention Of
trying the Chilcoot route in the spring
and of those who are anxious to go at
once, large proportion seem disposed
to travel via st. Michaels and up the
Yukon. At the offices Of the steam
ship companies it is reported the in
Quiry for tickets is diminishing.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-08-19
Wrecked n, Train.

Dallas, Tex, Aug. Is. = The north
bound Katy train was wrecked near
Caddo Mills, Tex, by some one remov-
ing q fish plate and bending the rails.
Every car but the rear sleeper was
turned over. Messenger Rawlins was
instantly killed. Several passengers
were injured.