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Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-10-12

pkgs; quiet and lower to sell; city mills
patents @6.S5Q610: winter patents. $o.10g
5S5; city mills clears. $5.5ON5.65; winter
straight, sl65@4.S5: Minnesota patents.
WHEAT-Receipts. 403. $50; sales, $780,
GO; opened lower on rain news but rallied
on stronger cables and buying for a re-
95 3-16
RYE-Dull; No. Western. 4sa elf. Buf-
falo.
CORN-Receipts SSS,O5O; sales, 21O.OOO
opened lower on rains but rallied later
with wheat; December S3N@33 1916.
OATS-Receipts, 1885, sales. none;
ruled dull and barely steady; track white.
BEEF-Quiet; family. $sa1O.5O; extra
mess, $7.500tS.50; packed. $s5O0I9.50
PORK-Easy; new mess. $9.50@10; fam
lily, $1l@12: short clear, $10@l3
LARD-Quiet; prime Western steam.
BUTTER-Receipts. 66n pkgs.; quiet; !;
state dairy. 1908; do. creamery, 14M22:
Western creamery, 14@22; Elgins. 22: fac
cHEESE-Receipts. 1891 pkgs.: easy:
large white. $685.; small white. 9ls: large
colored. 9I9A; small colored, 91h.
EGGS-Receipts. 1896 pkgs.; quiet; state
and Pennsylvania, 16M1S1s; Western. 1872
OH.
SUGAR-Raw, quiet; fair refining.
3 15-16; centrifugal 96 test. 3B; refined.
quiet; crushed, 81; powdered. 5A; granu-
lated, 57s.
. PETROLEUM-Dull; refined, all ports,
IS. 556u5. GO.
COFFEE-Quiet; No z, 7M.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE-Quiet 34A01
34A.
MOLASSES-Firm; New Orleans. 25G31
RICE-Firm; domestic, 4asMGH; Japan.
4A@5A.
FREIGHTS-Quiet
ROSIN-Steady; strained, common to
good. $1.40 to $1.45.
TALLOW-Easy.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-10-12
caicaso Produce a,arks,.

Chicago, Oct. II.
The leading futures closed as follows:
WHEAT-October. new, s6k; Deccm-
Der, 913sM91k: May, 90k.
CORN-October, 27h; December 2834Gi
2S&; May. 32k.
OATS-October. 1875; December. 1875;
May. 22M22A
MESS PORK-December, $3.50; January,
". 70: December. S6.27; January. S4.42h.
SHORT RlBS-OctOber, $4G0: December,
$3.50; January, A.52la.
Cash quotations We're as follows:
F'LOUR-Steady.
WHEAT-No. 2 spring, S6k; No do,
so; No. red, S91a.
CORNING. 2. 27B@27A: No yellow,
27h.
oATs--No. 2. 1SA: No. 2 white. 22a22,s;
No. white, 2034M22A
RYE-No. 2. 49,.
BARLEY-No 2 nominal: No 8 9SG43.
No. T. fob. 25ism36
FLAXSEED-No. l. 9s1sd1.Olia.
TIMOTHY SEED-Prime. 2.60
PORk-Mess, s7.75Gi7.SO; short ribs. s44,
M4s5; dry salted shoulders, 4BM4ss; short
clear sides. Els
IARD-$.2Jib
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-10-12
FINANCIAL.
Money Situation Righted

The imports of Gold. which have started
on liberal scale. will favorably affect
the stock market in two ways. 1t will ap-
pear to foreigners as bull argument of
the strongest kind. and incline them to
buy our securities. and it will give new
courage to the bulls at home by easing
the money situation. The cause of the
decline was in the first instance. the con-
servatism of the Banks in calling loans.
Now that the bulk of the demand to move
crops has been filled. the balance wanted
will be more than supplied by receipts of
Gold from abroad. and the Banks will
again be free lenders. With all the other
contributing factors to higher prices, such
as railroad earnings, clearances. etc.. in
our favor all that is wanted to resume
the upward movement in the market is a
large and sure supply of money. The
market shows great inherent strength;
there is very little stock for sale at these
prices, and large short interest.
WHEAT AND CORN
The drought throughout the West
should cause Wheat to again sell at a dol
lar a bushel. Shortage of five hundred
million bushels in the Corn crop should
make Corn advance ten cents bushel.
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Chicago Live Stock Market.

Chicago, Oct. II.
HOGS-Estimated receipts today. q ,0o0;
left over. yesterday, $500; active. averag-
ing &c. higher; light. S37514.1o; mixed
s3.10Q4.05; heavy, $2.45u4OO; rough, $345
@355
CATTLE-Receipts, $1,000: steady for
best. others wea to l0c. lower; beeves,
$3.S5M5.40; cows and heifers. ST. S5G4 40:
Texas steers, s2.70M3S0: Westerns, $3QI4. 50;
stockers and feeders. $2S5Gl4 40.
SHEEP-Receipts. $4,000; market steady
for good; others weak to lower
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The Boston Market.

Boston. Oct. II.
FLOUR-Steady: spring. s525a5. 7O clear
and straight. 50. $4,000; winter patents.
$5.25d5.50: clear and straight, $4.6Od5.OO.
CORN MEAL~Per bag, 76Q7S: per bbl.,
s1.65li1.70.
CORN-Quiet; steamer yellow, SS@3S1a
No. steamer, Az.
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New York Cotton Market.

b'. I'D New York, Oct. IL
Cotton futures closed easy: sales, 1S1. 400
bales. January. 6.35: February. 6.SS;
March, 6.43; April. 6.46; May, ESQ., June,
653; July. CSC; October, 649; November,
6.2S: December, 632.
Cotton spot closed easy; middling up
lands. C ZIG; middling Gulf, l1-16; sales.
S95 bales,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-10-12

cent. Potato prospects, 30 per cent;
some rot reported.all varieties affected.
Amount Of stock fodder. 118 per cent.
GENERAL AVERAGE FOR THE
STATE
Acreage Of corn. yellow, 70 per cent;
sweet, II per cent. Yield Of oats, 29
bushels, ,quality,s2 per cent; peas, yield,
20 bushels, quality. 81 per cent; wheat,
yield. 10 bushels. quality, 80 per cent;
rye. yield, IA bushels. quality, 81 per
cent; barley, yield, "a bushels, quality,
II per cent; mixed grain. yield, 27
bushels, quality, 10 per cent. Condi-
ton of fruit, % per cent. Potato pros
poets. 30 per cent; rot continues to
quite an extent in every county, early
varieties suffering most and no variety
exempt except Dakota Red and Bliss
Triumph in Aroostook county. Yield
Of ensilage corn, Is tons, Amount Of
stock fodder on hand. 10 per cent.
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New York Money Market.

New York. Oct. II.
Money on call steady at 2laG3 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper. 4AM5 per cent.
Sterling exchange easier. with actual
business in bankers bills at $4.S4A p
for demand and AS2A A@4.S2as for 60 days
posted rates. s4.S3@4.S3la and SISSY; COM
mercial bills. $4.S1
Bar silver, 81.
Mexican dollars, 431E.
Government bonds, firmer.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-10-12

New vost Produce Market
.lINew York, Oct. H.
FLOUR-Receipts, 80, 163 bbls. sales, 23O0
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-10-12

Board Bulletin, No. 8, for the season
Of 1897, has been issued by Secretary B.
walker McKeen of the board of agrl-
culture. This number is called the
swine number, and will be very inter-
esting to the farmers of the State.
Board Bulletin for October.
SWINE NUMBER
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Government bonds, firmer.
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SOMERSET COUNTY.

SOMEftSEl COONI1.
Acreage of corn, yellow, SO per cent;
sweet, SO per cent. Yield of oats, "a
bushels, quality, rs per cent; peas,
yield, 10 bushels, quality, GO per cent;
rye, yield, II bushels; barley, yield, 16
bushels, quality, IS per cent; mixed
grain. yield, 80 bushels, quality, 80 per
cent. Condition of fruit, % per cent.
Potato prospects, Al per cent; much
rot reported, early varieties suffering
most. Yield Of ensilage corn, % tons.
Amount of stock fodder, SO per cent.
WALDO COUNTY.
Acreage of corn, yellow, "A per cent;
sweet, rs per cent. Yield Of oats, 25
bushels; barley. 80 bushels. Condition
of fruit, 36 per cent. Potato prospects,
10 per cent; very much rot reported,
Early Rose and Hebrons suffering
most. Yield of ensilage corn, Is tons.
Amount of stock fodder, 103 per cent.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Acreage of corn, yellow, 1O5 per cent.
Quality of oats. 81 per cent. Yield of
peas, so bushels, quality, 80 per cent;
wheat, yield, 8 bushels, quality, 62 per
cent; barley, yield, II bushels. quality.
65 per cent. Condition of fruit. 20 per
cent. Potato prospects, 80 per cent;
much rot reported from all sections;
varieties mentioned as suffering most,
Fill Baskets, White Elephant, North
Pole. Early Rose and Hebrons. Amount
of stock fodder, 103 per cent.
YORK COUNTY.
Acreage of corn. yellow. so per cent;
sweet, IS per cent. Quality of oats. so
per cent. Condition of fruit, Is per
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-12-09
TERMs.J $1.OO per year. in advancr
Six Months 80 cents.

go over consistently to the idea of our
parable OF the orchard. There is,
doubtless, disease in the orchard. The
worst disease is not in the scraggy trees
on the rough ground; it is as likely to
be in the fair trees in the Well.watered
places Our most serious problem is
not with the few sickly trees that may
die before we can save them, so much
as it is with the whole orchard, with
the average tree, with the good tree
that has been struck with blight.
We begin already to see what to do
with such as Bran or the Pomeroy
boy. BY and by we shall be wise
enough to establish suitable hospitals
for the surviving victims of the savage
state. We will not even call them
prisons. We will tend our patients till
they are well, with suitable diet and
exercise. We will no more let the
sneak-thief or the burglar come out to
practise his barbarism than we would
let the maniac escape. Will it not
strike the imagination of the "hood-
lum' and "tough," when society pro-
poses to take his wildness in hand, as
the kind but firm surgeon takes &C
count of sore? Do you not see that
it will strike a new and wholesome
fear into the mind of the burglar, when
society stops altogether trying to
punish him, and undertakes to cure
him instead, if it requires his life
time?
The great problem, however, is not
what to do with the surviving Savages
among us. The problem that deserves
most attention is how to improve the
moral health of the whole community.
The life of society depends upon its
average men and women. The average
moral health in America is as yet far
below par. The remnants of the old
savage rivalries, prejudices, bitter
ness, are not only in the slums of big
cities.
The health of society depends even
more upon the tone of it's leaders in
business, in politics, in society, in edu-
cation, in religion. Give us plenty of
leaders, sound and true to the heart,
reverent, fearless, obedient to every
heavenly vision-give us, in place of
time servers and towards, men for our
leaders who believe really in God-and
the whole nation will feel the rising
glow of moral health Christian Reg
lister.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-12-09

doing with his fortune? With doubt
and hate and greed in our hearts we
are standing Oh the threshold of the
new century. but before its hundred
years have Joined the stately procession
of the past the toilers of earth will be
working on some proft-sharing plan,
and we shall point with shame at the
man who has accumulated millions
from the public and hasn't the honor
to return the borrowed goods. Even
now rich men want to be governors
and senators, and are anxious for a
niche in the world that money cannot
buy. But they are barred from the
presidency as much as if they were
foreign born. and that highest office in
the world is now reserved especially
for the poor.
a hundred years are but day in the
history of a chosen race, but the cup of
bitterness is passing from us, nor have
we suffered this travail for naught-
Bede's Budget.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-12-09

extensive practice and was in good
pecuniary circumstances. He had a
nice home, charming wife, and four
beautiful children. He was strong,
healthy person, free from care, and
scruples. He enjoyed outdoor life
which met all the wishes of his heart,
gratified all his desires; in brief he
lived in continual joy and happiness.
He would say: 81 am the happiest and
most contented man on earth.'' But
he was affected with two kinds of
mania: One was PRIDE to such extent
that he believed himself independent
of God and man; the other was
mania for hunting rare game-and
the popularity with him in that line
was that in place of hunting at home
he went to other territories where even
the game was more scarce, and of a
poorer quality. Finally these rambling
trips led him to ruin; he was arrested
and sent to prison for the term of four
years. In the mean time his wife OBJ
tanned divorce. This left him with
out home or family and in destitute
condition. Then his pride was humii-
ated; then he first realized that he had
been partly insane The last time
saw him, he said, to use his own words:
81 have been the biggest fool on Gods
earth,' and who can dispute that this
man was partly insane when we take
his rowing mania into consideration?
This man might be compared to
Thompson's colt that swan the river
to get drink. If l understand the
word logic right, and use it as Judge
in insanity, the decision will be the
same as Lord BrOugham of England
gave in lS4S. He ruled that it was
erroneous to suppose that a mind
shown to be partially insane could not
be really sound upon any subject. If
his decision was correct, l will not
hesitate to say, there is not one single
person in the whole world who is
wholly sane. Show me one person
with perfect soul and body combined
which is the requirement to be really
sane; and | will show you personal,
living God. J.F.J.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-12-09

culture goes on entirely independent
of school or college. 1t is known that
Lincoln S great language culture was
largely due to his reading the Pilgrims
Progress. Many persons have acquired
mastery knowledge of English by
the study of Shakespeare and the biDle.
Burk and Pitt cultivated their wonder
full powers of oratory by committing
to memory orations of Demosthenes.
1t is said that an officer of the German
army was rescued from suicide, by the
accidental reading of Longfellows
Psalm of Life. The best writer's and
poets in all ages obtained both the in
spiration and power of expression by
reading we'll written, interesting books.
Much of the hidden beauty of nature
is often unveiled by the touch of the
poet mind. T.J.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-12-09
A SACRED HOUR.

10 every man of the higher type
there comes sacred hour when his
heart, wrenched but short while ago
by convulsive agony, turns in sudden
exultation of spirit to virtue. The
transition is as strange as that by
which man passes from one system
of belief to another, or from high
pitch of anger to a melting forgive
ness of all offenses. This solemn hour,
in which virtue is born into life, is the
sweetest ever known to man. He feels
as though the body, with all its weight
of ills, were lifted away from him, and
enjoys the mysterious bliss of having
no contradictions within him. His
chains fall off from him. Nothing IN
the wide world can alright him now,
though but short time since all
things filled him with shivering awe.
That is great night when the angel is
born in a man, when new world ap-
pears on his horizon, when all obstruct-
ing clouds are swept away, and virtue,
like a very sun, pOurs light and
warmth in upon his heart rt.-London
Echo.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-12-09
Written for The Prison Mirror.
A READING EDUCATION

1t is said that man is known by his
associates, by the company he keeps;
so it can also be said of man what
idea he has for an education, for the
betterment of himself, by the books he
may be found reading. 1t matters not
now rich or how humble position
man may find himself in. education is
beyond doubt, his most highly cher
ished interest. You will conceive.
however, that the education referred to
in this sense is not confined to the
school room, academy or college, but
it includes all the occupations. diver
siOnS, and influences of daily life. If
the writer was to be questioned as to
what are the two greatest organized
educational forces through which the
ideals of the present shall become the
realities of the future, the answer
would be, the school and library: each
the compliment of the other. If a
ltants, it would very likely be found
that majority had left their school
room before they had reached the age
of twelve, to complete their education
III the forty or fifty years of active life
which follow by the use of that
leading instrument of the all-lmpor-
Cant Out-Of-schoOl education. the book
and library. But this opportunity has
not been taken advantage of by all.
If the majority had, there is no doubt
but the population of the various
penal institutions would be much
smaller today.
The question arises then, to those
who are intelligent. and ever ready to
take hold of good thing, how shall
we prepare ourselves for this book
education? We must submit ourselves
TO training the same as in the school
room. and the discovery will soon be
made. through the determination of his
interest, what he loves. and it will be
found that what person loves to
read diScloses more clearly and more
oulOly lllaH dlly ClllllS else, HIS natural
tastes, temperament and intellectual
and moral possibilities. And what a
person may be led to read during his
own training, determines more certainly
than any other teaching what shall be
the trend, and the character of his
personality in these busy years that
are still pouring out an abundance of
opportunities.
There are numberless instances
which show that with the reading
habit once established and properly
directed the work of education and
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-12-09
EVOLUTION OF THE MILLIONAIRE.

The millionaire has come, and he
has probably come to stay. But a
million can't make man happy, un-
less he would be happy without it, for
it S only bagatelle in these days of 90
story buildings, elevated railways, and
multi millionaires. The man with a
competency for life, with enough to
educate his children and to travel
modestly, and not enough to burden
him with cares, is richer than all the
bOOdleaires on earth. He is rich in
cOntentment, in hOnOrs that smell not
of pelf, in the years spent in the COM
panionship of those he loves, and in
the hours of thoughtful leisure which
fertilize the heart and afford this
worlds only beauty culture for the
soul.
Indeed millionaires are already striv-
ing to free themselves from the bur.
dens if not the disgrace of their
wealth, and we are fast approaching
the time when no man will be satisfied
to rest his name and fame on his
riches. a certain degree of contempt
is felt by all classes for the man who is
merely rich, having accomplished moth
ing in the world of thought or shown
an affectionate care for his fellow
creatures. So the rich have come to
learn that money alone can not give
them JOY nor secure regard, and that
the highest happiness must be attained
by them, if attained at all, through the
practice of the love-born truth that
they are their brothers keeper
We are just now passing through a
commercial era in which greed is dom.
inant, but we are laying the founda-
ton for better things, and the future
will find our nation stronger and our
people happier than today. Very soon
the important question will not be,
how much has he got? but, what is he
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-12-09
WHO ARE CRIMINALS?

The old fashioned division of man.
kind into two sharply marked classes,
the good and the bad, was very con
venient. We are still compelled to
use it, so far as to distinguish two op-
posite tendencies. There are those
who, on the whole, stand nightly for
virtue. In every community there are
men and women who, if they were
taken out, would leave their neighbors
morally weaker and poorer. 1t re-
mains true to this day that 'ten right
eous men'-that is, men altogether
devoted to righteousness-wil save
any city. There are also, at the oppo-
site end of the moral scale, a few men
who seem to be wholly enemies to
mankind. We think, in this connec-
tion, of the POmerOy boy and the
Borgias-cases that may almost be
classed under the head of moral in
sanity. In other typical instances of
crime-as, for instance, in the case of
Judas and Benedict Arnold-we at
once find good in them mingled with
the evil.
May we not say that men are NOR
ally like the trees in an orchard? Most
OF the trees bear only passable fruit
They nearly all suffer from pest, dis
ease, and occasional blight. They show
the marks Of inadequate care and tend
ing. Some are crowded badly Or over
shadowed by others. Only a few, thor
oughly healthy and sound, offer you
really excellent fruit. On the other
hand, only a few are so worthless as
not to bear, at least, few cider apples.
All, if you would spend the necessary
time in cultivating them, are improv-
able. The tree is extremely rare that
can not take graft.
This parable is more ancient than
Calvinism. If we allow it to stand as
the symbol of the moral facts about
men, shall we have place for any GRIM
inal class? Perhaps some one reminds
us of the sneak thief, the professional
burglar, the murderer. These stand
for the survival of the Old-time say
agery. AS the board OF health will not
let lepers walk the streets, so the courts
will not tolerate the more barbarous
forms of immortality.
But this legal division of a little por-
ton of the people into criminal class
is merely on the surface. The real
moral offense is to do what is socially
hurtful. The laws only reach the
lowest stratum of acts that are thus
socially hurtful. The burglar falls
below, and infringes against, the con-
ventional standard that the whole
community has set up. And we catch
him, if we can, and shut him up in Jail.
But what shall we say of the man high
up in the ranks of the respectable, the
educated, and the virtuous, who also
falls wholly below and infringes against
clearly seen and recognized standards
of justice and purity, or does violence
to the public good? 4
Let us, then, give up altogether our
old ideas of a criminal class. Let us,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-12-09
OUR HEROES.

Here's hand to the boy who has courage
To do what he knows to be right.
When he falls in the way of temptation.
He has a hard battle to fight
Who strives against self and his comrades
Will find most powerful foe.
All honor to him if he cOnQuers.
A cheer for the boy who says No
There's many battle fought daily
The world knows nothing about.
There's many a brave little soldier
Whose strength puts legion to rout
And he who fights sin single handed
Is more of a hero. | say.
Than he who leads soldiers to battle
And cOnquers by arms in the fray.
BE steadfast. my boy. when you're tempted.
To do what you know to be right.
stand firm by the cOlOrs of manhood
And you will O'ercOme in the fight
The right" be your battle cry ever
In waging the warfare of life.
And God. who knows who are heroes
Will give you the strength for the strife.
Phoebe Cary.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-12-09

So far as possible the evening should
not only be spent at home by the vari-
Gus members of the family, but they
should spend it together. Simply to
be at home does not answer the home
requirement.. 10 be thoughtlessly or
selishly absorbed in ones own special
pursuit, absent or apart from the home
circle, is not discharging the duty. To
be in the house is not to be in the
hOme.-J. F. w. Ware.