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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-05-04
CITY OF MATANZAS.
Description of a Cuban Town That Is Now
of General Interest.


Matanzas is fortified seaport town
on the northwest coast of Cuba, 50
miles east of Havana. 1t is situated
on fat ground on both sides of the San
Juan river. The houses are built very
substantially, mostly of stone. The
principal editices are the Castle San
Severino, the church, the academy, the
hospital, a theater and extensive bar
racks. In commercial Importance Ma
tanzas ranks next to Havana.
1t has railway connections with Ha-
vana, Cardeuas and other principal
towns in the island. The imports con-
sist chiefly of food, machinery and ma
terials for sugar and coffee plantations.
Fancy goods are brought principally
from Havana. Matanzas bay, where
the United States vessels lay, is spa
cious, easy of access aud completely
sheltered from wind, except gales from
the northeast, which bring in heavy
swell.
The population of Matanzas, accord
ing 10 lue CELSIUS III lOOOJ was i,oNo.
Since then it Increased several thou
sand prior to the present insurrection.
Since the insurrection many people
have abandoned the place. The prob
able population at this time is between
1000 aud 10000.
Matanzas WAS founded in 1893 by
emigrants from the Canary islands.
In the same year Bishop Compostello
laid the first stone of the cathedral.
The city suffered severely from a
confagration in 1915.
Two miles and a half east of Ma
tanzas are the beautiful slalactite caves
of Bellamar. In the center of the
public square of Matanzas is statue
of Ferdinand VII. Along the east
side runs the residence of the COM
mandant. The Matauzas theatre was
the handsomest building of its kind in
Cuba. The Empresa academy has
borne the reputation of being one of
the best educational institutions in the
West Indies.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-05-04

Philippines or
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09
MIND AND NATTER.

IT MIGHT perhaps be an ele-
ment Of comfort to us all if we
could but clearly realize that our
material bodies are nothing but
the dress or covering of the Man.
How ridiculous you all think fop
or a dude, who is really being run
and governed by the clothes he
wears. You do perhaps not see
that when you allow your body to
run and govern you, you are even
more foolish and ridiculous than
he. For the body was made for the
Man, not Man for the body. That
material part which you value so
highly, and for the satisfaction of
which you may have thrown away
all which made life dear and sweet
is but an instrument-as the plane
in the hands of a carpenter or the
hammer in the hands Of the smith.
1t is only the tool which enables
Man to attain the highest pur-
poses. Your body may have
gotten into evil habits-trousers
get in the habit of bagging at the
knees and when it has done SO it
will demand to be allowed to con-
tinue in those habits, but remem-
Der that it is your servant. The
driver of a horse knows we'll his
steed. He knows when to take a
good grip on the reins and say,
whoa, there, Bill" If he does
not say anything and let's the reins
lie loose BILLY" is apt to take a
run down the street and smash
things, and if Billy" once gets
into the habit of doing that, it is
pretty hard to make him quit.
Remember this, whatever the
habits of your body may have been
in the past it is possible and even
comparatively easy to make it
change them. The human body
is so constructed that whatever it's
habits may have been, if once COM
PEELED to change them, it will soon
run along in the new path Of it's
own accord and be as happy as it
formerly was in following the old
ways, which the Man found reason
to object to.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09
LITERARY NOTES.

We are this week in receipt of The
Green Bag, magazine for lawyers.
The contents are of such a varied and
interesting character that The Green
Bag will no doubt find an interested
circle of readers outside of the legal
profession. In our next number we
will republish from The Green Bag an
interesting article on the United States
Jail of Muscogee.
The San Francisco Argonaut comes
to us breezy and independent as usual.
Every page is full of interest. Every
true American must second the Argon-
aut in its proposition, that American
blood should not be shed to establish
alf-civiliZed governments by half
civilized people, but that to the United
States belong any benefits that may be
derived from the effusiOn.
Sixtynine pictures appear in the Col
lier's Weekly; eight of them are por-
traits of Gladstone at different periods
of his life, and four have other subjects.
but more than fifty are of objects, scenes
and individuals made especially prom
lnent and interesting by war with Spain.
For frontispiece the paper displays the
conning-tower of the torpedo boat
"Winslow," showing the results of
Spanish shots at Cardenas. This bat
tie itself is the subject of a full-page
picture, after a painting by Ritschel;
the funeral of the "WinslOw's" dead.
and portraits of the survivors, are the
subjects of several pictures.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

The last half Of the nineteenth
century has shown a greater adj
vance in mechanical inventions and
progress than probably all time
previously. There is still one
thing undiscovered, however, and
that seems a very simple thing.
It is aerial navigation. Should
this discovery be made, it is safe
to say that it would cause such a
revolution as nothing else, nor all
other inventions together, has &C
complished. For one thing it
would make war an impossibility.
It would cause all present safe
guards against crime to become
obsolete, and it is almost certain
that society would have to pro-
hibit the manufacture Of the de-
vice-in self-defense. Just i'm
agine that one man with machine
Of this kind would be able at his
leisure to destroy the strongest
navy ever built or the greatest
Notifications with absolutely no
danger to himself, while the GRIM
inal would, aided by darkness be
able to accomplish his fell pur-
pose, without leaving a mark of
either his coming or going.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

enters that fact in a book where is
already recorded the date of his
birth, the names and occupation
of his parents, whether he is bap-
tized and whether a communicate
of the church. A child is born of
the union, and the fact is reported
and recorded. He is convicted Of
a crime. It is likewise recorded.
He wishes to leave the parish, and
must apply to the minister for his
certificate, which records all the
above facts according to the books.
If he enters another parish and
stays certain number Of days he
must deposit his certificate there
and be written" Should he fail
to do so he may be arrested as a
tramp. If a man has ever CON-
mitted crime the certificate will
show it, and there is no way in
which that record can be obliter-
ated no matter what a man may
afterwards accomplish. Should he
be arrested for a crime this little
paper will tell the story Of his past
transgressions. Thus you fire.
quently see in a Swedish news
paper items like this:
Former Guardsman and the
sixth time for : larceny punished
Peter Hard has been arrested, etc.
The punishments for first often
ses are particularly mild, but
gradually grow more severe if the
same offense is repeated.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

In MOST of the naval engage
ments thus far there has been a
remarkable inability on the part
Of the Spanish gunners to hit our
boats. The editor Of this paper is
able to announce definitely that
the reason for this is that Spain
has decided that as she will have
to pay for any damage done it will
be cheaper to not do any. It is
said that the men who hit the tor
pedo boat Winslow will be court
martialed for malicious destruction
of property.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

ONE Of the terrible consequences
Of this war, and one which, if it
had been foreseen, would have
prevented it altogether, is the
fearful possibilities Of war-albums
with half-tone illustrations that
will follow. Every other soldier
carries loaded camera, and they
won't do thing, and then when
they come back everything will be
published by houses who sell
through agents only. Well, we
are safe anyhow. They can't get
at us.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

THROUGH the untiring efforts to
manufacture sensational war news
on the part of the yellow press
this country is rapidly gaining a
Weylerian reputation among the
nations. If the people generally
knew what these newspapers are
doing towards reducing the esti-
nation Of America abroad, and to
hamper the government operations
they would probably besuppressed
or squelched somehow.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

WE PRINT on another page a
communication from Mr.. Hop
Sing, in which the paper and some
Of it's contributors get roasted
Well, we don't blame him much.
But he is mistaken in his idea that
the paper is published principally
for the enlightenment Of the
public-at least the present editor
has the idea that it is published
mainly for the benefit of the in
mates. AS for the charge of
plagiarism and verbosity it is un-
fortunately only too we'll founded.
MIR. Sing ends with hopefully
(that is for improvement We
hope so, too. But before we close
we must exculpate the inmates
here from the charge Of stealing
that sermon. That was contrib
uted by one of the reformed at
st. Cloud. We are also sorry if
this in any way reflects on the
former editor, but we console our
selves with the thought that if it
had reflected on the present one
it would have been published just
the same.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

A CONVICT may not have many
to select his litera-
ture, but he knows when he is
bored, and he will not read dull
or moralizing screeds ad libitum.
We therefore ask our contributors
to give us only homeopathic doses
of moralizing, and try to confne
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

A SCIENTIFIC exchange informs
us that no less than seven kinds of
bacillus or microbes, capable of
spreading disease were found on a
one-dollar bill. We tell our sub
scribers this, in confidence, just to
show them how dangerous it is to
carry one-dollar bills. They can
be sent to us through the mails,
and we'll risk the life of the War
den or the Chief Clerk every time
with the greatest abandon.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09
THE MIRROR is weekly paper published

THE MIRROR is weekly paper puDllSned
In the Minnesota State Prison. 1t was founded
In 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and man
aged by them. Its objects are to be home
newspaper; to encourage moral and intellectual
improvement among the prisoners; to acquaint
the public with the true STATUS Of the prisoner;
to disseminate pathological information and to aid
In dispelling that prejudice which has ever been
the bar sinister to fallen mans sef-redempton.
The paper is entirely dependent on the public for
its financial support. If at any time there should
accrue surplus of funds, the money would be
expended in the interests of the prison library.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

themselves to cheerful subjects.
Our wretched situation is suffici-
emily apparent to us all without
having it continually set before us
in print.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

IHE State OF Minnesota now has
a chance to do graceful thing, and
a kind thing which will reflect up
on her credit for wisdom. She has
it now within her power to give
some men who have made mis-
step in life, but who are still true
men at heart, an opportunity to
wipe out with their blood the spot
upon their names. She has it in
her power now to place within
their reach that which no mere
pardon could do. That, without
which even freedom losesits charm
an honored name. Now [ fain
would have the eloquence Of a
Patrick Henry, the logic of Cicero,
for [ am the mouth and voice of
men who have no other. Is not
the interest of the State served by
returning to her cleansed those
sons who are now lost? There are
such men, and they are not hard to
pick out. Men who have not fall
en- from a preconceived plan to de-
fly law and society, but who through
misfortune or circumstances which
overbore them have failed. They
are easily marked.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09
N 0 TIC E..

ALL PERSONS receiving copies of
THE MIRROR who are not Oh our
regular lists will please consider
such as sample copies. If, after
reading, you conclude that THE
MIRROR is worthy of patronage
send your name to this office for a
trial subscription at rates as pub.
lished above.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

In SWEDEN a careful record is
kept of the convictions of a man
for theft, and such careful track is
kept Of the population by the
clergy, who handle the statistics,
that on New Years day every year
it is possible to announce the exact
population of any parish or the
entire country. This system is
very simple. For instance, man
is written" in a certain parish.
He gets married, and the minister
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

that the mole is going to be removed by
eletrolysis. This is to prevent any
more reports of cannonading in the
windward passage, which has come
from there so frequently lately. 1t is
understood that these reports have been
mainly caused by the effects of frijoles
blancos in the Spanish navy.
~
Quartermaster Lamb of the Twenty
second Kansas has made requisition on
the government for 1000 patches, being
unable to get uniforms.
The favorite armorial bearings of
American snobOcracy ought to be the
apple and bar sinister since the most re-
mote ancestress they know of was an
apple woman who was not married.
*
The commissary department of an
army is more important and harder to
properly handle than Office of COM
mander in chief,
*
''Look here, Doctor, belong to the
National Guard, and my financial stu
alton is such that l cannot, with justice
to those who depend on me, 60 to the
war. But if 1 don't offer to 60 the boys
will call me coward. Can't you help
me out ?"
Examining Surgeon-Certainly, my
boy. Did you ever smoke cigarette?
Guardsman-Half a dozen, perhaps.
Elk. S.-That's all right. You are suf-
fering from the cigarette habit. Not
accepted.
Ii dealers in patent medicines could
but realize the bitter hatred and thirst
for revenge that takes possession of a
man who has been swindled into read
ing about column of an empirical ad
with a seductive heading and introduce
ton, they would quit it.
~
A writer in the New York Sun gives
a number previous instances where 1--WE
licked" and then proceeds to ask: "In
the face of this record how can any sane
person doubt the result of war with
Spain?" No, Mister Tucker, you have
license to call commission de lunatico
inquirendo if you can find any subjects.
But you will have to move to Spain to
do any business with it.
*
The pointer from The MIRROR adj
visory board in last weeks issue in re-
gard to that submarine torpedo boat
caused great CONSERVATION in Wash
ington. Up to that time it had been a
question of how to get Cervera to come
out. But when the other Advisory
Board read about the torpedo boat,
they Immediately directed Sampson to
sink one of his vessels in the neck of
that bottle to prevent the Spanish in
fernal machine from coming out. The
item also caused CONSERVATION in the
Pierian Circle, and interpretations were
made by both the home and foreign
secretaries about the matter.
~
The Saltwater Gazette says we
scooped them on the information that
a third call for volunteers was practi-
cally certain. We got our information
from Gov. Clough. The Governor says
that everybody that wants to 60 to the
war will have chance We take the
Governors word for it, incidentally
calling attention to the fact that Sinbad
wants to 60. There are others.
Xxx
There once was an Admiral Cervera
Who drank nothing but oldest Madeira.
He went to Curacao
And said "let us go,
For those Yankees are now in our rear-o.'
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09
HITS AND STRIKES.
BY CASEY.

In days of old when knights were bold
The banker had to pay,
And warriors bold with spurs of gold,
They bled him night and day.
But days have changed, no more the knights
In merry fray contend,
The soldier for his country fights,
The banker does suspend.
~
The most interesting organization of
this war is Teddy Roosevelt's com.
bined Wild West Show and Society
Circus. 1t is rumored that they will
make tour of the country.
*
SPANS ultimate conclusion is likely
to be that Columbus made a great
mistake.
*
world the more he is dissatisfied with
himself.
If a man fails once, he begins to be-
lleVe IN luck.
*
1t is said that the Indignation in
California over Frances unfriendly
attitude is so great that they are not
going to use any more French labels
on the California wines.
*
An American life insurance COM
pany doing business in Spain has
offered to insure all who enter the
Spanish army to fight against us with
out any additional charge. Another
sample of corporate patriotism.
*
The St. Louis Republic inveighs
against the unholy conspiracy of the
brewers and glass manufacturers to
run up" the bottom of beer glass
about two inches in order to get even
with the new war tax on beer. This
possibility has caused notable cooling
of the patriotic spirit both in st. Louis
and Milwaukee.
*.
st. Peter-Did you ever write poetry
about Dove?
Shade-Yes, but
St. Peter
*
In one of Cincinnati's high schools
the boys learn to cook.-Looking for
ward.
*
A lad in Brooklyn has written a let
ter to the President offering his entire
fortune, 48 cents, to help Uncle Sam
lick the Spanish. Well, maybe that
4S cents looked bigger to the lad than
Helen Gould's 100000 did to her; so
why should he not get as much credit?
There are plenty of Americans who
have nothing but their lives to offer.
You may have heard the story OF the
widows mite?
~
Whichmorro, June 1O--(Special cable
to THE MIRROR in connection with the
Workit-Bynight cable and the Intoxi-
Gated Press. Copyright applied for and
dramatic rights reserved; foreign pat
ents also applied for. "A private tele-
gram from the Mole st Nicholas states
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

WE HAD not intended to ask for
any sympathy from editors of out
side publications. But we want
to call their attention to our de-
fenseless position. The following
shows what happens in this prison
right along:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

You CAN josh all you want to
about it, but if this great Amer
lean nation will take a good look
at itself in the glass, it will see
that it would have felt a sight
better if there had been a man on
the Spanish throne, instead of a
boy and his mother. I can't some
how or other help admiring the
mother she human or beast
who fights for her young. I hope
this is not reasonable.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09
A SAD OFFAIR,

Sweet the hour when first meet her
That face so fair and them golden hair
But her heart Was crul as an old jew
far She pulled my leg and then she flew
To Some other lover the Some to do
Beware yong man as hard as you can
for you may meet With my maryann
shell Work your purse for all she Can
then shell pass you up the flue
and look around for somother Buew
The editors on the outside may
have guns or clubs and things like
that but we have no arms of any
kind and when you consider thai
there are over two hundred poets
here you can realize our position
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

ELoQUENCE is divine gift and
it may be put to the noblest use
the furtherance of love of country.
of love of home, of love of God.
When put to either of these uses
it often leaves lasting monuments
to it's power. Such we have many
in the English language. One of
the most beautiful is Lincoln's
speech at Gettysburg.
But eloquence may be put to
the most vile use. And when used
to demolish it is no less powerful.
Take man like Ingersol], for in
stance, whose own gift Of language
is so wonderful that it might in
fact be used as an argument
against his theories that we are
all mere clay and do not contain
an immortal spirit, and what has
he done? He has used it like
the Vandals used their brute force.
To tear down and demolish that
which was beautiful, venerated
and necessary, and given in return
what? Nothing-not even ruin.
Yes-the hope of oblivion.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

This paper will be forwarded to
subscribers until ordered discontinued
and all arrears are paid.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Entered at the Post Office at Saltwater, MIMI,
as secOnd-IlasS mail matter.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-10-29
Notice OF Mortgage Sale
WIN. RAE,
Auditor.

Whereas, default exists in the conditions OF a
certain mortgage, dated May 10, 1894, and exc.
David IL. Whe, Ter. her husband, OF Lake c I'M.
ty, $, ID mortgp gors, to the northwestern Loan
AMI Banking Company, OF Madison, Lake coun.
y, s. D., mortgage, on that certain real estate
situated in Lake county, :. d., and described a.
follows, TO wit: from southwest corner OF the
northeast one. quarter of sec ion No. six (6>.
township one hundred six (lo6). north of rat ge
ffty-two t52), run east twelve (l2) rods on south
lit c of said quarter section, thence north on n
line parallel with west line OF said quarter sec
ton 10 rods teet--from this point "a place Of be.
g~inning-thence north ~ rods IL: feet on a line
parallel with west line of said quarter section,
thence east u rods : feet on u line parallel with
south line OF said quarter section, thence south
~ rods liz feet on a line parall with west line
of said quarter section, thence west to place of
beginning, containing one and 6-l0 acres more
or less. said mortgage having been given a. Sc
curity for the payment OF u certain note Of even
date Herewith, for five hundred dollars, executed
by mortgagor-, and payable To portgagee or or
der, on the first day II uly, lsaa, with interest
at seven per cent per annum, payable semi-an-
nually, and with interest on ali unpaid interest
at twelve per cent after due: said mort gage
having been filed for record In The Office OF the
register OF deeds Of Lake county, 8. D., May II,
1874. at3:l3 o'clock y. m, and recorded In book
ID OF mortgages, on page I'll, said mortgage hav.
ing been duly assigned by the mortgagee, Nv
written assignment. dated and executed MAY -,
1874, to ID. Moore, the said assignment having
been filed for record in the Office OF the register
- " 40" N'uhNis q hs SGPt'NibcI ~
ISIS. at 10 O'Clock y. m. and recorded Ia book
80 OF mort-ag ?, on page 353: and, whereas, the
DEFAULT consists In this, that the interest pay
ments due on said mortgage, july l.. lstHi, Janu.
ary ], 1897, July ! 1897, January l, 1sgs, and July
!, lsae, respectively, are due and unpaid, and the
holder OF said note or bond and mortgage does
hereby exercise the option given In said DO d
and mortgage and declares the whole ptincipst
sum due on account OF raid default, and there il
now claimed to be due on said note or bond and
mortgage the sum Of S6o9.47, principal and in
90 nnd uhnPnna thApn hn.. b-a, 49,.
ceedings at law or otherwise for the collection OF
said debt or any part thereof. Now, therefore,
the sheriff OF said Lake county. ). D., will cell
the said above described premises at the front
door or the court house, In the city Of Madison,
ia said Lake county. s. d., on the 18th day OF
November. 1893, at ? O'Clock p. m. to pay sa,d
debt, the attorney fee provided by law, and costs
OF sale,
Dated. Madison, S. D., this goth day OF Septem.
Der, 1898.
ID. MOORE,
Assignee OF Mortgage.
j. II. WILLIAMS ON,
Attorney Tor Assignee,