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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
Written for The Prison Mirror.
OUR RIVAL-THE SALOON.

The greatest frequenter of the saloon
knows that whisky and beer is not the
primary attraction there The ma
jority of young men, when they enter
saloon, do not give moments thought
to whisky, but they anticipate with
great zest the pleasure they will derive
from a we'll contested game of billiards
or pool with good jolly company. Of
course the inevitable result, in a great
many cases, is to make drunken sots of
these seekers after recreation. If the
beverages supplied were of different
nature, l do not believe any harm
would result from the company that
congregates in these places.
'The saloon is the poor mans club"
and it, or substitute similar in nearly
every respect, will probably always re-
main his place of enjoyment. In Eng
land, coffee houses have been erected
in nearly all the large cities; but they
are, comparatively speaking, failures,
because managed by charitable insti-
tutiOns. l can fully understand why
they are not a success, if they were run
on the same principles as one 1 know
of. In this one you could not turn
your head without striking a framed
set of rules informing you how you
must demean yourself in order to be
allowed to spend your money there.
The place was clean and cOZy in every
respect, but these rules made you feel
about as comfortable as man with
bad attack of the gout. A saloon
keeper would lock his doors about as
quickly as he would post up such rules
in his establishment.
And again, man, as rule, does not
care to be found in places known to be
under the auspices of charitable socie-
ties, at least, not when he is in quest of
his own pleasure and amusement. At
those times as the saloonkeeper we'll
knows-he is only too glad to pay we'll
for what he receives.
The prohibition movement is worthy
of the highest commentator, but it is
a pertinent question if they are not at
tempting to make too clean a sweep at
once. The chance of their ever gain
ing political power through a third
party is not one in ten thousand. The
chain of fintemperance has been strongly
forged and is not easily broken. Why
they do not join with either of the two
great political parties is not clear to
the writer. But I am glad to admit
that there are number OF smart men
in this movement, who undoubtedly
know the best means of reaching the
end they have in view. J.L.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
Written for The Prison Mirror.
ANGER.
ssssssssssssssss

Phrenology teaches us that the
brain is divided into parts correspond
ing to the different traits of our char
acter, and that by careful cultivation
certain faculties can be made to pre-
dominate SO that they control our spir-
itual and physical actions during life.
AS we take view of the human race
we find individuals who are controlled
by different passions, as love, truth,
hate, envy, jealousy, dishonesty, anger,
ETC.; in short, we are born with good
and evil faculties. Anger is one of the
great evils that cause so much sorrow
and misery during life, and should,
. therefore, be guarded against early and
late. How many thousands of our fell
low-beings are today suffering men.
tally and physically, behind locks and
bars, from the results of anger? In an
unguarded moment they lost control
of their mental power. Some of the
human family are born with a very
sensitive, delicate and nervous consti-
tuition, so that on the least opposition
to their theories, their anger is aroused
? to vigorous action and creates a revo-
luton in both mind and body that has
proved fatal. Others again are born
with a strong constitution so that they
- can control their actions even under
the most extreme influences of evil
forces. But by continual training
- we may develop our mind to such
state, that we become able to subdue
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
Vol. X.-No. 80.
THE SACK OF FLOUR.

Guilty, judge and l own the crime
l slipped away with a sack of flour:
They nabbed me just in the nick of time
I'd had it home in half an hour.
Only the constable on the hill,
Knew that must have jumped the BILL
Knew as we'll as he could that
Hadn't the money with which to buy.
''Larceny?" that's the proper word;
There's never a crime but Law can name.
Only, 1 wonder if Law has heard
That any one but the thiefS to bameo
Say, did the constable on the hill
Tell you about the closed up mill?
Tell you of men that must beg or steal
To give their babies and wives meal:
Yes, have begged-and III tell you how:
walked the roads and the fields and lanes,
And asked for work with pleading brow
And came back empty for all my pains.
Say; did the constable ON the hill
Tell you the wheels of trade were still?
Tell you, when work was dull or dead,
The wife and the child must go unfed?
Guilty, Judge-let the law be paid;
But if you had children, four or five,
AS pretty as God has ever made,
And lacked the food to keep them alive,
Lacked the method but not the will,
Their cries of hunger to stop and still
And then saw oceans of food in view
For Gods sake tell me- what would YOU dOo
Say, if you had wife whose heart
Had fed your own for score of years
And never moment walked apart
From all of your griefs and hopes and fears,
And now in that faithful bosom had grown
A little life that was part your own,
And hunger narrowed them through and
through.
For Gods sake tell me. what would you do?
Dollars by thousands stacked away
HarveSts rOtting in barn and she'd
Silks and ribbons and fine display
And children crying for lack of bread!
Wealth and Famine are hand in hand.
Making the tour of a heart-sick land;
Half of the country's future veal
Crushed by the Presents selfish heel.
Guilty, Judge-and own the crime;
Put me in prison without delay
'Only-please work me double time
And send my family half the pay.
And tell my children if ever they ask
That was working my gloOming task,
Not for pleasure or money gem
But for the love that have for them
Will Carleton.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
A DREADFUL PROCESSION.

1t is noticeable how the discussion of
the problem of convict labor has been
brought to the forefront during the
last few years, together with the i'm
pOrtant subjects of reformatories for
both sexes and the proper mode of
dealing with eX-cOnvicts. The truth
is, this so-called problem must be
settled or it will ultimately prove a
hideous malignant cancer to torture
the national life.
There are over 100000 persons in the
penltentiaries, county jails, reforma-
tories, city prisons, warehouses, mill
tary prisons, almshouses and benevo-
lent institutions, and the number is in
creasing. Is the increase to continue :?
Some people say one thing, some
another. Some treat the matter indif-
ferently and say the increase of paupers
and criminals can't be helped. The in
crease of this class will increase with
the increase of population. 1t is nec-
eSsary incident of civilization. Is it {?
The fundamental difficulty is that,
while the old idea that prisoners must
be treated as incorrigibles, permanently
under the ban is passing away and re-
formers have begun 20 comprehend
that penitentiary is something or
should be something, better than a
foretaste of hell, there has been back
wardness in graphing with the real
seat of the difficulty, which is found in
neglected children who are bred to
crime IN the streets and alleys and who
get their instruction in the curriculum
of crime from prematurely old youths,
who, before the down grows on their
upper lips, have run through a formid-
able list of vices. The great army of
criminals and paupers is the product
of sOciety's Indifference to the school
of crime open daily and all night and
in which boys, who might have been
growing up in purity and usefulness
and distinction, doubtless, are ready
pupils along with young girls who
might have grown to virtuous and
honorable and blessed womanhood and
motherhood; but who graduate from
the kindergarten of vice and from a
post graduate course of crime and in
fanny, to be wrecked in the way of their
own choosing; the truth is there is not
enough doing to prevent children from
drifting beyond the flash of lighthouse
light, out on the wild waste of waters.
Commander Booth-Tucker of the Sal
vation Army estimates the floating
criminal population in this country at
100000, in and out of prisons and re-
fOrmatOries. That is large number.
Yet undoubtedly there are more crimi-
nails out of Jail than inside the walls.
If we cut down the estimate of crimi-
nails and paupers to 100000, that is a
terrible record for a nation little over
100 years old. If we accept the Booth
Tucker estimate, it is evident that, even
from a purely economic standpoint,
such an expensive element must be re-
duced immensely. From moral and
religious standpoint such volume of
crime and pauperism is stinging re-
proach to the Christian name. Booth
fuckers plan is to establish farm
colonies of 200 to 1000 or more acres on
land available in the vicinity of cities
suffering from congested population.
On this land the people who are will
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
Written for The Prison Mirror.
SENTIMENT IN BUSINESS.
j. F. j..


AS the world grows older and civili-
zation intensifies, problems are con-
stantly arising for solution; while at
the same time it seems that the modern
school of philosophy is not equal to the
increasing demands made upon it.
Among the problems that the nine
teenth century will pass over unsolved
into the twentieth century, is one of
peculiar interest to this commercial
world of ours. Shall sentiment have a
place in business? This paper will not
presume to answer the question, but
will point out some of the obstacles
that must needs be met before answer
ing it in the affirmative.
An old German adage, "Friendship
is friendship, but business is business ~
is pertinent, if it does not tell us just
where the line is drawn between. The
business man of today who seeks COM
merclal supremacy in this very prac-
tical age, treads no royal boulevard
strewn with tea-rOses and violets.
Highways of steel, that bind together
continents, and steamers that pIOw the
oceans with the speed of an express
train, transporting the commodities of
a world, create in our marts a competi-
tion and rivalry that exercise the
best brains our nation can produce.
Someone has remarked the passing
OF the day of great statesmen, when
such men as Webster, Calhoun, Clay
and Patrick Henry and others as
worthy, whose brilliant oratory and
sound logic shaped and nodded en-
pires, were the rule rather than the ex-
ception in our national congress. May
1t not be that commerce now claims the
master minds that in other days were
wont to guide the destinies of a govern
ment instead of the policy of some
great corporation.
1t will be seen, then, that when en-
gaging in commercial pursuits, that
one must of necessity come in compe-
tition with rivals who have the world
for their base of operations and whose
affairs are managed by brainy men.
TO couple, then, with the prevailing
trade policy, theory diametrically its
opposite, that business is friendship, is
but to invite and make disaster GER
tainty. The merchant who listens to
the stale of woe' and becomes the gen.
erous creditor of"poor but honest" GUS
toners, may hope for little mercy from
HIS creditors when "Bills Payable" &C.
count falls due. Nor will he do we'll
to trace the dollars that come to him
over his counter, to learn if they have
been wet by widows tears or stained
with human blood.
The commercial world is a cruel
world, and heartless. True, as has been
said, corporations have no soul, but
then how can they, when the inexor.
able law of supply and demand rules
the world of trade?
have in mind sturdy Scotchman
who by keen business sagacity, by
strict conformity to commercial policy
by integrity, but without ever taking
his heart into his counting-room
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
MIND, MUSCLE AND MONEY.
Paper Read Before the ChdutauQua Circle.

Paper Read Before the ChdutauQua Circle.
Civilization is product of mind out
of muscle. 1t is true that our great
cities, our network of electric wires.
and our steel-shod highways of COM
merce were all built by muscle; but if
man had no mind they would not have
been built at all. Upon the cultiva-
tion of mind depends the continuance
of our civilization. The minds of men
in this country seem to have developed
with remarkable rapidity, and the ma
tion is making greater strides toward
a higher civilization than exists any
where else on the globe. The energy
of our minds is being used chiefly for
the accumulation of wealth, and when
comparative wealth is secured, the de-
sire for more prevents the full enjoy
ment of what has been accumulated.
Everybody weeks for money, and the
great rush for the almighty dollar
makes men rivals instead of brothers.
Mind and muscle must push the car
of progress onward; neither can move
it alone. Each is worthy of the respect
of the world, but neither should de-
base itself by becoming subservient to
the almighty dollar.
Labor has set in motion its fountains
of thought, and in its sparkling
streams has been found an ally for
muscle, an alliance with which even
avarice is bound to respect From such
an alliance has been born organized
effort. Mind and muscle in this man.
ner endeavor to improve our civiliza-
tion, while the worshipers at the shrine
of mammOn cause labor to toll in
sweatshops. Mind and muscle try to
elevate themselves while the almighty
dollar chills the moral, spiritual and
intellectual growth of the masses with
its heartlessness The motto of our
manufacturing and commercial world
is to pay labor as low price as possi-
bic and sell it's product for the highest
price attainable. This rule of business
creates sweatshops and forces able
bodied men into idleness, and their
wives and children into industrial slav.
cry.
The almighty dollar seizes upon the
new invention evolved from the mind
and experience of labor, and instead
of the genius of invention becoming
blessing to man it is a curse, because
it forces labor into idlenesS, and en-
courages those who control the inven-
tion to form a trust, which in turn
forces all other manufacturers of SINH
lar goods to close their workshops.
Enforced idleness dwarfs the mind
of labor and the poverty resulting from
the idleness of the parent robs chill
dren of the opportunity to cultivate
their minds. A continuance of such
methods means that the nation will
reap in the future harvest composed
of undesirable citizens who will be the
ignorant and discouraged slaves of a
minority whose love for the almighty
dollar has caused forgetfulness of the
fact that the majority are human be-
ings and not chattels like our domestic
animals.
In these times of close competition,
immigration is unrestricted to a degree
which is national calamity. Many a
worthy man seeks employment in vain.
We should reduce the hours of work
50 as to provide employment for those
now forced into idleness by the genius
of invention, and do it without re.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-22
YESTERDAYS PRIMARY.

1t was generally conceded that yes.
days primary election was the most
spirited that was ever known in this
city, 230l votes being polled in the five
precincts. The contestants and their
allies were up and at it before the sun
had risen laying plans, for the various
candidates were legion and they work
ed like beavers until old Sol closed the
day. The eagerness to hear the result
was unparalleled, and the streets were
thronged with people anxious to hear
all the details of the conflict. Between
seven and eight o'clock the result con-
corning the Mayoralty was obtained,
showing that Mr.. George L. Simpson
had been nominated by majority of
300. Mr.. Thompson, the present To-
cumbent, carried but one ward, the
First, and that by but 90 Later re-
turns showed that Mr.. Gardner L..
Boothe had received the Nom nation for
Corporation Attorney over Mr.. S. G.
Brent, the present incumbent, by ma.
jority OF 775. The contests for those
two positions attracted the most in
terest. Mr.. NJ. B. Harlow. candidate
for City Treasurer; Mr.. P. F. German,
for Tax Collector, and Mr.. Charles
Goodrich, for Measurer Wood and Bark,
had walks over, there being no oppo-
sition TO them. Mr. E. F. Price re-
ceived the nomination for Auditor over
Mr.. A. H. Thomson and Mr.. r. T..
Cook for Clerk of the Gas, over Mr.. j..
II. Raines. Several changes have been
made in the Council Ia the First ward
Mr.. w. B. Dobie received the nomna-
ton f,r Board of Aldermen in the place
of Mr.. n. p T. Burke, the present in
cumbent, and Messrs. Hubert Snowden,
Johu Trimyer, Alton Moore and c. n.
Moore, were nominated for Uncommon
Council. IN the Second ward Mr..
Theophilus Ballenger, the present in
cumbent, WAS nominated for the Board
of Aldermen, and Messrs. John b.
Strider, Jos. S. Beach, w. z. Latham
and J. F. Birrell for the Common Coun-
Gil. In the Third ward j. r. n. Curtin
received the nomination for the Board
of Aldermen over Mr.. l.. NJ. Davis, the
present incumbent. In the Fourth
ward Mr.. J. r. Sweeney had no oppo.
sition for the Board of Aldermen, and
Messrs. l. f. Uhler, George K. Hill,
T. H. Ficklin and J. NJ. White were
nominated for the Common Council.
The following is the official vote:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-22
DRY GOODS.
DRY GOODS.
M EMS
Summer Underwear.

As the summer approaches the winter wool
ems feel heavy, uncomfortr BILE and out Of
season. We must think of making change
from heavy weights worn in cold weather Il
the lighter and the lightest textures for pres
ent and eXtrome hot weather. We carry
everything in this line to suit every want
from the youth in health to the man advan .
ing in old ago Stock large. Prices low
Glass Of goods be t.
Mems Fancy Random Undershilts and
Drawers. Sizes 80 10 Al. Price Soc This
garment is a most beautiful pattern of French
high coloring made for long wear, finished in
the best style and will be favorite with
many.
Mems Balbriggan Undershirts and Draw
ers. Sizes 80 to 46. Price soc This wear
or is shade heavier than the regular sum-
mer gauzo and one we can recommend i'm
pregnated with intrinsic worth
Mems Silky Fibr,d Babriggan Undershirts
and Drawers. Sizes 80 to 4S. Price Soc
This is one those beautiful shades of mellow
exquisiteness dyed in the light of brilliancy
Mems iarisian Perforated Undershits and
Drawers. Sizes 30 to Al Price so If you
desire the cool and bracing feeling of delight
! fulne allow your form to tc encascd in this
garment.
Mems White Lisle Undcrshirts and Draw.
crs Sizes 30 to "A. Price SOC. Bright
ideas bud from wearing the thinest and cool
est underwear made for man A tonic for
our defeated candidates.
Mems Silk Fibre LgAtest Weight Summer
Undershirts and Drawers. Sizes 80 to AS
/ Price SOC. We cannot speak of a more pleas
ant and acceptable summer addition to the
! wardrobe thsn this ono.
Mems Silk Fibre Medium Weight Under-
shirts and Drawers. Sizes 30 to Al. Price
Soc This is choice number for men of
emaciated physical dis olution.
Mems Bahriggan Undershirts and Draw.
ers. All sizes 25c. Well made Silk finish.
Pearl buttons and perfect absorber OF por-
spiraton.
Mems Fancy Checkered Undcrshirts Sizes
36 to i2 Price 25c. Ncatness predomi-
mates Elasticity full. A stubborn wearcr.
Mems Natural Wool Summer Undershirts
and Drawers. All sizes. Price 81. Ex.
trcmely light with shades of warmth for
those of a chilly disposition
Mons Fine Summer Cancels Hair Under
shirts and Drawers. All sizes. Price 81.
This is little thicker and made for those who
are afraid to trile with the changes in this
fcllc climate.
and Drawers. a sizes Price $15O This
is one of those charming fine class of the
lightest weight WOODEN underwear Made al
most the weight of gauze with warmth and
cooness combined.
Mems Jean Drawers all sizes, 26c
Mems Jean Drawers. Sizes % to Al Price
SOC. Mado with reinforced scat. Double
stitched throughout. Pearl buttons Ma.
teiial best We cannot secure bottor materil
and make in the world for the price.
Bying now goods is better than investing
in DID, shop worn goods marked Gown
to low prices. All now goods are seasoned
with durability and that is what all buyers
crave for, demand and accept no substitute
We Shall devote this half column to aides !
Hosiery April %,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-22

PERsoNAL.-The Charlestown, W.
W., Spirit of Jefferson says: Miss
Christine Chew has returned from IN
extended visit to Alexandria; and Mrs.
Howard and daughter, of Alexandria,
are at Mrs. Flaeg's.
Miss Mary Carlin is visiting Miss
Lucy Russell, in Winchester.
Rev. E. II. Green, of fredericksburg,
is visiting his brother, Rev. Bergman
Green, in this city.
Rev. d. F. Sgrigg, OF Richmond, spent
yesterday with friends in this city.
AT the Grant mausoleum parade in
New York next week, the Chief Mar
shal, General Dodge, will be asked by
ihe Sons OF Confederate Veterans, 10
assign Colonel John S Mosby 10 the
division in which the Southerners
inarGh, and an Invitation will be sent tl
Col. Mosby to be an honorary guest o.
the "boys" while in the city. DIR. o. S
Cookery, DR.. w. r. Inge Dalton and
Colonel James r. Branch were appoint
cd committee to receive him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-22
ELECTION Rows.-There were thre

ELECTION Rows.-There were three
rows incident to yesterdays election.
One (that at the Third ward polls) bid
fair at one time to assume serious as
pect, but fortunately, by the GOODNESS
of Officer Knight, the trouble was
brought TO close before any one had
been seriously hurt. A young man
named Frank Hayes, who has caused
the police considerable trouble, made
an unprovoked assault on Mr.. Darling.
the milk man. Officer Knight attempt
cd to arrest Hayes, when the latter
showed fight, struck at Mr.. Knight,
knocked off his hat and pulled the
badge ard a button from his coat.
Huff Hall and Harry Sims, two of
Hayes's friends, attempted to rescue the
prisoner, and Sims drew back his arm
to strike the officer, when Mr.. Julian
knight, who had been summoned to
assist in making the arrest: knocked the
would-be assailant down with his fist
The crowd surged and swayed and q
general fight seemed imminent. Young
Hayes was finally placed in wagon
and taken TO the station house, where
he assaulted Officer Atkinson and was
knocked down ny Lieutenant Smith.
This morning he was fined $50. Hall
and Sims were fined SO each. The
three were sent to Jail in default of pay
ment. George Stearns, Edward Beach
and VIM. Krause became involved in q
row over the election during the day.
They were fined 81 so each, and VIM.
Kelly, who was drunk and in menac
ing spirit, was locked up until he be-
came sober.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-22

SIN THE WAKE OF THE SETTING
SUN. This lecture to be given by Mr..
Jno. P. Clam at the Opera House on
Friday evening affords an audience a
most realistic tour to the points of es-
pecial interest along the Atlantic coast
and via the Southern route through
the romantic and historic sections of
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to
southern California. Nearly 200 richly
colored views will be shown and these
are most artistic and effective. If you
desire entertainment and education,
humor and pathos, art and eloquence,
you will find each and all if you ac-
company Mr.. Clum Friday evening
Sin the wake of the setting SUM-" Re.
served seats on sale at Warfeld's drug
ltOre