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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
Written for The Prison Mirror.
WHAT NEXT?

Some of my colleagues have written
papers recently on the subject of the
future, what in their minds eye (or i'm
agination, if you please.) science and
invention was going to produce in years
to come.
Now, let US reason together for few
minutes. Let us take two or three
things that are right before our eyes
and trace their progress from the time
of their discovery or invention up to
the present status, and then, using this
as basis, see if we cannot conceive
what we can reasonably expect to be
point they are liable to reach.
First, let us take our mode of trans
portation by land, commonly called a
railway train. 1t is not necessary to
go back and enter a graphic descrip-
tion of what the first locomotive looked
like, and then make comparison with
the monsters of today, as these facts
are familiar to one and all. But we
can make mention of what is within
the memory of nearly every one here,
which is, that only few years ago the
speed of railway train which ran
from New York to Chicago in forty
eight hours was considered pretty fast
travelling at the time-an average of
about twenty miles an hour. But see
what has been done since. In 1893 the
Columbian limited ran every day from
New York to Chicago in nineteen
hours with heavy train-an average
of over fifty miles an hour; and the
engineers said then they were not doing
their best. Today and every day the
Empire state express is running from
New York to Buffalo, 44O miles, at an
average speed of fifty-eight miles and
fraction per hour. thus enabling pas
sengers to eat their breakfast in New
York and their dinners at Buffalo.
Now with these facts before us,
what progress are we going to make in
this matter? What is skill, science
and invention going to do for us in the
way of safe and rapid transit? Does
it not look reasonable to suppose that
most of us will live to see train run.
ming from New York to Chicago at
an average rate of speed of 100 miles
an hour? 1 answer, most emphat.
ically, YES. And 1 believe too that it
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

with electricity. Upon this will be
seen the electric bicycle, the electric
tandem and tricycle., with no pedals to
tread; also the electric coupe and the
electric family carriage moving along
at as great speed as the fastest rail-
way trains of today. 1 believe that all
these things are within the range of
the possibilities, and 1 offer them as
such, based upon what we see around
us as already accomplished, and what
we can reasonably expect that science
and invention will produce.
What is here said of the future of
power and transportation by land is
equally true of the navigation of the
sea. Only short time ago two weeks
was considered as quick journey from
New York to Liverpool. Now the
"ocean greyhounds" are going across
in six days, thus reducing the time to
less than one half. And does any one
imagine for moment that this six
days is not going to be cut in two again
reducing it to three? say it will,
and to him who thinks otherwise let
me say that science and invention in
this, the same as in everything else,
has not yet reached its zenith.
The third and last subject of which
1 shall make mention in this article is
that of aerial navigation. Some day
that too is going to be mastered and
solved. When it is it will be less sur
prising to the one billion of people
which these United States will contain
100 years from now than it is to you
today, when l say that the government
settling. clerk will attend church on
Sunday night in Washington with his
family and then, kissing his wife and
babies good bye, will step aboard his
airship and with the guiding hand of
one of the descendants of GA. G. R." he
will make settlements with the differ
ent nations at London, Paris, Berlin,
st. Petersburg, Vienna, Constantinople,
Athens, Rome and Madrid arriving
home safely to eat breakfast with his
family on the following Sunday morn
ing. Contradict it if you can.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
Written for The Prison Mirror.
THE LEGEND AND THE FALL
OF TROY

Before setting forth the legend itself
let us presen, few facts as given by
the historians pertaining to its princi-
pal characters. First, then, is Helen,
daughter of Tyndarus, King of Sparta,
the woman whose beauty was the
cause of the Trojan war. After her
brothers death Helen became heiress
to her fathers throne. This kingdom
and her great beauty caused a large
number of suitors to appear at her ia
theirs court to sue for her hand in mar
riage. 10 avoid petty jealousies and
useless quarrels among them, it was
suggested and agreed to that the choice
of husband be left with Helen, and
the rejected suitors stand ready at any
time in the future to protect her chosen
husband in his acquisition. Menelaus
was the chos. suitor.
Second in consideration is Paris, son
of Priam, King of Troy. Before the
birth of Paris, Priam had been told
that the child to be, would cause the
destruction of Troy. At his birth, then,
Paris was given to shepherd, to be
exposed on the mountain side in order
that his death might avert such dire
calamity.
Now for the legend of the causes
producing the siege and fall of Troy.
Zeus, the supreme god of the universe,
wishing to destroy large portion of
the human race, and having done so
by flood several generations before,
and given a promise not to use this
method second time, bethought him.
self of plan which, as the sequel
shows was hignly successful. He,
therefore, at an assemblage of the de-
tiles to witness the marriage of Peleus,
king of Thessaly, which took place on
Mt. Ida, caused the goddess Discordia
to cast among the assemblage golden
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
Vol. XI.-No. 3.
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SO we must part forever; and although
1 long have beat my wings and cried to 60
Free from your narrow limiting control,
Forth into space, the true home of the soul.
Yet now, yet now, that hour is drawing near,
pause, reluctant, finding you so dear,
All Joy awaits me, in the realms of God,
Must you, my comrade, mOulder meath the
sod?
l was your captive; yes, you were my slave;
Your prisoner, yes, obedience you gave
To all my earnest wishes and commands,
Now to the worm leave those willing hands.
That tOiled for me, or held the books l read,
tread,
Those arms that clasped my dear ones, and
the breast
WhereOn our loved and loving one found rest.
Those lips thro' which my prayers to God have
risen,
Those eyes that were the windows to my
prison.
From these, all these deaths angel bids me
sever,
Dear comrade, body, fare thee we'll forever
l 60 to my Inheritance; and 60
With joy that only freed soul can know,
Yet in my spirit wanderingS trust
may pause sometimes near your sacred dust.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

There is dignity in labor. 1t does
not lower the mental powers and indi-
vidual dignity; but, if pursued with
proper appreciation of it's incalculable
assistance to human happiness and
made subservient to the great plan of
human life, is ennobling and itself ex-
alted.-Philadelphia Saturday Evening
Post
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

to look for realization of the pur-
poses of the Incarnation to an imagin-
airy millennium. In reality there is no
contradiction, no contrast, for there
was neither prophecy nor promise Of
universal peace.
The Catholic reading of the Gospel is:
Glory to God in the highest:
Peace on earth to men of good will.
However the words good will'' be in
terpreted, they clearly mark restric-
ton, limitation. and indicate that the
peace proclaimed is personal, interior,
spiritual, the peace of which the apos-
tie speaks.
1t would be interesting to examine
how far the Gospel has affected the
warlil1e passions of nations or the
usages of war; but if it be maintained
that Christ our Lord and the Christian
religion and the cross have given only
one occasion more for sanguinary con-
f1ict among the unhappy sons of men,
this, instead of being an argument
against Christ, is an argument for
Christ.
But there are many evils besides war,
many good things besides peace.
Whether Christianity has or has not
exerted a benign influence in the coun-
ell chambers of rulers and in the tents
of generals, no one can doubt that TO
it must be ascribed many of the bless
ings we enjoy.
In view of the teaching, the life. the
death of him whose birthday Christ
mas commentaries, we must ask not
what has our Lord Jesus Christ done
'lou m!u p9A!so9L QoIQM pIIoM e moIJ
but is grace life eternal? is the Gospel
the power of God unto the salvation of
every one that believeth?
REV. J. j. PRENDERGAST,
Rector st. Marys Cathedral.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

HE divine message of peace and
good will which came to the earth
with the advent of the Savior nine
teen centuries ago has never been, so
far as history reveals the story of the
years. so potent in it's influence as it
is to-day. 1t may be regarded as the
greatest of all the watchwords of
Christian progress and enlightenment,
for while men have differed and have
even made war upon each other in
their zeal or bigotry regarding articles
of creed and tenets of faith, they all
yielded admiration for and belief in
this promise Of harmony and love. The
fulfillment or realization of universal
amity has made more rapid and
broader progress under the influence
of the Christian faith than under all
other creeds of religion known to man.
The great principle of internation-
al arbitration has in the last
half century been time and again en-
ployed for the successful avertment of
war and the adjustment of quarrels
which would, if left unsettled have
been continuous causes of anxiety,
danger and material loss. The growth
of national as well as individual SEN
timent and desire is stronger, year by
year, for arbitrament through reason
instead of by the sword. In like pro-
portion has been the development and
perfection of the codes of law, of trade
and commerce toward the common
goal the attainment of justice and the
maintenance of peaceful and prosper
Gus intercourse.
We are told that 1.-The ways of the
Lord are past finding out" and in con-
sidering this working out of the pro-
phetic promise who shall say that the
modern marvels in making power
the giant battle-ships, the fleet and
deadly torpedo, the dreadful long
range artillery, the Mitrailleuse and
the magazine rif1e-are not themselves
means in the hands of the Almighty
toward the same great merciful end
None of the great nations of the world
for now more than twenty-five years
have dared to war with each other,
and the very perfection and power and
cost of these weapons have made war
almost prohibitive Recent wars have
mainly been confined to the operations
of civilized nations in opening up to
Christianity and enlightened inter-
course the continents and countries
which are encountered by savage or
barbaric races. These efforts, leading
as they do to the amelioration of the
condition of the subjugated peoples,
may well be regarded as making for
the realization of that worldwide
peace which the Evangel of Christmas
tide heralds in angelic chorus to all
lands and all peoples.
LEVI P. MORTON.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

MA Y subject is one that has filled
great libraries and galleries of
art; has powerfully influenced, as
no other thing could do, the history of
the world; has changed the character
OF mems thoughts and aspirations, and
must ever necessarily be interviewer
with mems hopes for the future of hui
manity. IS
When the Christ-chilG. was born, the
whole world was becoming more and
more conscious of a sense of decrepi-
tude and decay.
When, in the solemn midnight, the
heavens We're opened and the air made
luminous by the presence and musical
with the voices of angelic hosts pro-
claiming the birth of the Messiah, the
glad tidings We're announced for all
men everywhere, and first, with singu-
lar fitness, to the poorest and lowliest.
Through his appointed teachers, from
that day TO this, the child who was
born in Bethlehem has been preaching
His life giving gospel and proclaiming
His sweet beatltudes.
For every age and each Individual
He has made these beatitudes at
tainable, and the conditions of them
practicable and feasible, by His holy
precepts and examples, by the aid of
purifying and Strengthening sacra-
mentS, by the charities and countless
benefactions with which He has in
spired His followers, and by the my
Rad images of His own perfection and
goodness in the lives and teachings of
holy men and women. He has taught
the world to build hospitals and asy-
lums for the solace of all the ills that
flesh is heir to. He has emancipated
the slave, He has raised woman from
her condition of the slave and toy of
man to that of his equal companion.
He has given new impulse and inspira-
ton and almost creation to the finer
arts-to architecture, painting, sculp-
ture, poetry. music, oratory-to litera-
ture and Jurisprudence. He alone has
made possible Magma Charta and the
preamble of the Declaration of indie
pendence. He has turned the face of
the world from its wistful gaze after
a fast receding mythical golden age to
a confident looking for a fulfillment, in
no small literal measure, of the prayer
that He taught the world: Thy king
dom come, Thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven"
My heart, yet bleeding from the fresh
wound of the loss of the great genius
who was my friend, at one time citi-.
zen of San Francisco, but long since
an adopted citizen of the world,
prompts me to say that the inspiration
of the thought of Henry George could
have come only from the Christ-like
spirit and the Christ-like love of JUS
tfce and of the brotherhood which per-
wade that thought. 1t is this that has
won to him the heart of the world, and
that makes his monumental work not
merely philosophy, but a prophecy, a
poem and prayer.
e~rnn 49
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

or the orphan. The distinction of our
time is the universal acceptation of
the responsibility of prosperity to care
for misfortune. The Roman world had
the few highly educated and the masses
densely ignorant. The Christian world
has thrown the duty of education upon
the state and the state is intelligently
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19
&c LORY to God in the highest, and
Jon earth peace, good will toward
\ men. Luke ii:14.

men,. Luke ii:14.
This is the first Christmas carol. You
ask, What has it to do with us to-
day." 1t has everything to do with
us. We cannot separate the song from
the unique personality of whose ma
tivity it was the annunciation. We are
in the last years of the last decade of
the nineteenth century since the birth
of the babe of Bethlehem. The birth
of that child has had more influence
on the history of the world than any
other event since time began. The
Christ-child was no son of distin-
guished parents, no heir to riches or
royalty, and yet, as Richter said, He
lifted the gates of empires off their
hinges and turned the streams of his
tory into new channels" The Christ
child is lord of the worlds calendar.
Even creation is forgotten as the epoch
from which all is to be reckcned..
The fair promise of peace on earth
and good will to all meH which the
listening shepherds of Bethlehem heard
from the angels singing in the sky has
not found its complete fulfillment yet.
Signs, such as the Alabama and other
arbitrations, are not wanting that we
are fastening toward the glad day Of
promise and prophecy, when the ma
lions shall beat their swords into
plowshares and their spears into prun-
ing-hooks'
May God haste the day when peace
on earth and good will toward men"
shall be not the song of angels merely
but an accomplished fact.
REV. JOHN HEMPHTEE.
d. , Calvary Presbyterian Church.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

NOTHING is more misleading, or
IN indeed, more prejudicial to the
NChristian religion than Scripture
misunderstood or misapplied. The
canticle of the angels over the crib Of
Bethlehem on the night of our Re
deemer's birth seems to be gainsaid
by the actual history of the world
since then; and the contrast between
the prophecy and the event, between
the peace that was announced and the
endless wars that have deIuged even
Christian nations with blood, drives
some into doubt and despair and others
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

WISH all the daughters (and sons)
on the Pacific Coast a very happy
Christmas. Some of you may say,
ali. Mrs. Bottome. you would not wish
me a happy Christmas if you knew my
circumstances. Yes, 1 would. The song
the angels sang on the fields of Bethle-
hem will make US glad if we accept it,
no matter what our circumstances may
be. oh, if we only catch the glad
music of Christmas we shall exclaim,
THE suffering of the present hours are
not worthy to be compared with the
glory that shall be revealed"
Help everybody to happy Christ
mas.
Thus will be brought about the day
of which angels sing.
MARGARET BOTTOME,
President of the International Order of
the Kings Daughters and Sons.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

HE great principles of Justice,
Liberty and Equality, with the
Golden Rule have been echoed
and re-echoed around the globe
through the centuries by the leaders of
all great religions. 1t is folly to claim
for any blind faith what science, rea-
son and advancing civilization have
achieved for the human race. Has this
message brought peace and good
will to the starving multitudes?"
And what has this message Of
peace and good will done for
woman?
When the mothers of the race enjoy
justice, liberty and equality, then, and
not till then can. they echo back the
glad message of love: GLORY to God in
the highest. peace on earth and good
will to all mankind"
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

HRISTS message of peace on earth,
n good will to men is nearer realiza-
~ ton to-day than ever before. When
our race was in barbarism man
When our race was in barbarism. man
was arrayed against man, clan against
clan. family against family, city
against city, tribe against tribe, nation
against nation. Courts have taken the
place of private wars.
Meanwhile there is nothing inconslst-
ent in a Christian nation strengthening
itself by land and sea. Let our army
and our navy be invincible and peace
is assured. Unhappily all men on the
surface of this planet are not yet in
spired by Christian principles. There
are yet nations who imagine that might
makes right, and therefore. for the
sake of humanity and civilization a
Christian power must be able and will
ing to meet strength with strength, to
repel, if need be, an invading army of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19
ON EIRZH,
GOOD WILL TOWIRD MEN,
CHRISTS MESSAGE: What It Means After
Nineteen Centuries

and universally meeting the obliga-
ton placed upon it.
The brotherhood of man and the
peace of the world are to-day the aspi-
rations of nations, the work of states
men and the continuing efforts of the
church.
CHAUNCEY DEPEW.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

- T the time of Christ's appearance
a tire was no peace anywhere on
~ earth except where populations
were overawed by Roman legions, and
good will among men did not exist. The
stranger was an enemy, international
hospitality and racial fraternity had
no existence. Slavery was universal,
and the master had absolute power
over the life and person Of the slave.
Emancipation began with the Chris
tan church. It's principles and prac-
tees broke the chains of the slave and,
created freedom of thought. A spark
of liberty was kept alive during the
middle ages, until, through the church
and the Christian universities. it made
possible conditions under which peo-
pies could govern themselves. The
wars of all preceding centuries held
progress and development in check.
The pagan world was grossly immoral;
the Christian world has sanctified the
marriage tie. The Roman world knew
neither sympathy nor pity. There was
no place in it for the homeless. the
helpless, the unfortunate, the widow
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barbarians, and thus to preserve for
mankind the results which centuries of
Christianity have achieved. When that
happy day shall have arrived, which is
ever drawing nearer, when all nations
and peoples shall dwell in the light of
Christ, then the powers of earth may
wholly disarm themselves.
REV. w. II. MORELAND,
St. Lukes Episcopal Church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-02
GOTHAM'S FINE GARDEN.
Plans for the Pleasure Spot in Bronx
Park

New York, July 2.-The park depart
ment has approved the plans for the new
botanical garden in Bronx park.
The plans originally submitted by the
board of managers of the garden were
changed, but the modificati lions consisted
merely in moving the location of some of
the buildings.
The botanical garden will comprise 250
acres, divided as follows: Buildings, %
acres; pine trees, 80 acres; other kinds of
trees, including a natural forest 135
acres; shrubs and small trees, Is acres;
plants, Is acres; bog garden, acres;
lakes and ponds, exclusive of the Bronx
river, acres; meadows, 10 acres.
Space is also provided for aquatics,
vines and rockeries.
Among the buildings provided for are
the museum, first horticultural house,
heat and power house, directors house.
houses for gardeners, propogating house,
stable, rain shelters and second horticul-
turaI house.
Addison Brown, president of the board
of managers, said:
''It is most gratifying and a matter of
congra tulation to observe that almost
every part of these diversified grounds
can be and will be turned to the most
beautiful uses. This will be done not only
without sacrificing any of the unique ma
tural charms of the park, but with great
addition to their beauty"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-02
RUSHING TO RUIN.
That's What Wall Street Says the Re-
publicans are Doing.

New York, July News from WASH
ington that a tax on all stock and BOND
transactions was contemplated by the
government was discussed in Wall
street today. The more conservative
houses, especially those dealing in in
vestment securities look with disfavor
on the scheme. President Eames of the
stock exchange said that the PROPOSE
ton was lila dvised. He had no knowI-
edge except in a general way he said,
of the action of the Republican senate
caucus and until he had more definite
information, he would say nothing eX-
cept to express the hope, that the pro-
posed measure would fail.
Join T. Terry, a director of the West
ern Union telegraph and Manhattan
re ilway companies said he doubted the
constitutionaIity of the measure and
thought it unfair and unjust in every
way. Mr.. Terry who has been a stead
fast Republican since the formation OF
the party said it seemed to him that the
party was rushing headlOng to ruin
when it advocated such legislation as