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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-09-29
HITS AND STRIKES.


HITS AND STRIKES.
The saint who enjoyed the communion of
The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven,
The wise and the foolish, the beasts and the
Are all doing time in the Saltwater pen.
*
MinnesOta's gubernatorial campaign
is getting red hot, but the hobos are
still compelled to fire up with railroad
ties to keep their chilblains from flower
ing during the Indian summer nights.
*
A Kansas soldier who received a
New Testament, among other good
things from home, sent it back with
the request that an Old Testament be
sent instead, saying: 81 want to read
up on was tactics, and there amt no
war at all in that part of the Bible"
***
The returned soldiers are now busy
giving instruction in the manual of
arms" and the young ladies are said to
find the study delightful.
*
History is busy repeating itself
Some time since a few old-timers at
Swandyke, COL, thought it would be
good joke to get tenderfoot barber to
do little digging in barren place,
just for the enjoyment of the company.
But the barber uncovered an ore-body
which runs 81 ounces of silver to the
ton, and now the old.timers are doing
all the swearing.
A returning Klondiker lost a pocket
book containing S61, 900 which was re-
turned to him by streetcar conductor,
who was generously rewarded with 800.
The Klondiker is now suffering from
enlargement of the heart, and it is
feared he will never get over it.
.**
President Mckinley says "There shall
be no embarrassing of the war depart
m ant." This announcement has caused
marked depression in the quotations
on calcinine.
***
A soldier down in Burlington, Iowa,
is up against it. His wife has had him
arrested for deserving her, and if he
stays with the lady, Uncle Sam will ar
rest him for deserving from the army.
Xxx
One Of the great pleasures coming
the way Of newspapermen, is the read
ing of the poetical misfosters submit
ted for publications by novices. 1t is
a treat, to be sure, even our waste
basket grins.-Tyler Journal.
Editor Gronlund has done very well
to adopt into the English language the
word "misfoster," which is of Scandi-
navian extraction, as there is no word
which adequately conveys its meaning
at present in our word supply.
Xxx
A report comes from st. Paul that
sneak thieves are getting so bad down
there that they even rob the policemen
of their sleep. 1t is not credited here.
1t is must have been highwaymen.
Xxx
The managers of the Topeka carnival
sent all the way to Honolulu for pref
ty girl Saltwater is much nearer than
Honolulu, and there are more pretty
girls in Saltwater than in any other
city on earth of its size.
Xxx
Mr.. Abbot Blunt, who writes para
graphs for the Minneapolis Times
takes an uncOnscionable amount of
ghouIish enjoyment out of throwing
rocks at Kansas City. And yet Abbot
was one of that noble band of news
paper men, composed of Chas. ALT.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-09-29

Resisting the temptation to do a
dishonorable act is sometimes, yes.
often, greater virtue and more
creditable to a man than the mere
everyday acts of grace on the part
of men whose whole lives have
been spent under the guiding and
protecting influence Of honorable
preceptors and loving and virtuous
parents.
Crimes are sometimes commit
ted in which the injured party is
more guilty than the one who
breaks the law. To illustrate let
us suppose, for instance, that the
treasurer of the United States
we're to leave the gold, silver and
bank notes which are in his GUS
tody without guardian and in a
place where a poor man would
have access to them, who then
would be the most guilty. if the
poor man should fall from grace?
The opinion Of the public, if the
facts should become known, would
consider that poor man a hero if
he resisted the temptation to pos
sess himself of some Of the riches
SO easily within his grasp. Sup
pose that the chief of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing were
to leave the plates and dies from
which bank notes are printed and
the paper of which they are made
unguarded, in place where the
public could have unhindered &C.
cess to them, to what extent would
the crime of counterfeiting then
be increased. And the man who
found himself within the reach Of
these things without danger of be-
ing discovered, would he not per-
form a very valiant deed if he
walked away empty-handed? There
are temptations which no man
has right to place in the road of
his fellow man. The man who
would would wantonly place such
temptations in the way Of anyone
is even more of a criminal himself
than the one who falls.
The reader will probably say,
very true, but such things are new
er done. The custodian of valua-
BILE documents does not leave them
at random, a prey to the frst-com-
er, nor does the treasurer leave his
gold and silver anywhere but in
secure vaults guarded by the best
locks mechanical skill can devise.
If the reader supposes so he is
wrong. My meditations on this
subject were brought forth by the
story told at criminal trial some
months ago. According to the
story told by the officers of a great
corporation, whose capital is mil
lions and whose securities are as
current in the money markets of
the world as the greenbacks Of the
United States, these officers, on
moving from the building where
the headquarters of the corpora
ton had been located left behind
them the seal of the company and
the books containing the blanks
which when properly filled in con-
stitute the bonds and stock certif-
icates Of the company.
A man was on trial for having
passed one Of these certificates OF
stock on a bank. He, however
denied knowing that the sigma
lures were not genuine. But /
thought at that time if the story
told by the officers Of that corpor-
alton was true then they were in
deed the greater criminals for hav-
ing, through their criminal care
lessness in the handling Of these
dangerous articles, placed a pit
in the road of fellow man
who, perhaps, until he met such q
great temptation, may always have
hoon on hOnocf man
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-09-29

The saint who enjoyed the communion of
Heaven,
The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven.
The wise and the foolish, the beasts and the
men
Are all doing time in the Saltwater pen.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-09-29

Minnesotas gubernatorial campaign
is getting red hot, but the hobos are
still compelled to fire up with railroad
ties to keep their chilblains from flower
ing during the Indian summer nights.
The times., 1898-08-16
DISINFECTING THE SHIPS.
Troops on the st. Louis Still Under
Quarantine Rules

Montauk Point n. Y, Aug. 1.-THE
presence OF yellow fever on board the
transport ST. Louis startled the health
officers when that fact was discovered.
and all night the barge Protector lay
alongside busy at disinfecting the ship
and the 1.200 people on board. 1t was too
great a task for one day, and it will be
late this afternoon before 1t is completed.
Yesterday two old excursion barges were
towed into Fort Pond Bay, and when the
Protector went to work on the soldiers
on the ST. Louis one of the barges was
pressed into use as a reception boat.
AS the men were bathed on board the
Protector they were put on the barge
and there supplied with new clothing.
They were taken ashore 100 at time
and landed at Quarantine pier. The pres
ence of yellow jack on the ship has the
result of a much closer quarantine than
that OF yesterday when the troops from
the Gate City were landed
The work on the St. Louis has not vet
been finished. but the Miami's troops will
not be held any longer than necessary.
One day of sunshine has done more for
Camp Wikoff and the soldiers than an
army of doctors could have done. The
camp is full of life. as are all of the men
except 125. who are in the hospital and
under the invigOrating influence of the
fine air of Montauk.
The times., 1898-08-16
KILLED AT HIS w1FE's SIDE.
Mysterious AssRssinntion of an ItaI-
ian on Long Island


New York Aug. 15.-Franzesco Vilon-
etto. living in Ocean Avenue, Ozone
Park, L. L., was shot and instantly kill
ed last night while standing with his
wife in front of his home. The fatal
shot came from the direction of the road
way, and one man is under arrest on
others are held as witnesses.
Vilonetto was standing only three feet
from his wife when he was killed. Mrs.
Vilonetto was standing with her back
against the fence. at the street line. fac
ing the house. She held an infant in her
arms. They were talking when there
was the report of a pistol. and Vilonetto,
clasping his hands over his left breast.
exclaimed something in italian and fell
dead.
Dropping the child, the women fell
beside her husband. and her screams
quickly gathered a crowd. Coroner Leon
ard Ruoff passed along just then- He
had noticed one man assisting another
once gave chase Catching up with
the two men he discovered that one of
them was an Italian known as Joe"
The man is a mute. Coroner Ruoff took
him into custody. but could find no weap-
on in his possession. The coroner learn
ed that at the time the shot was fired
the mute and a boy named Joseph Aqui-
no were standing together in the road
way in the direction from which the bull
let came.
The times., 1898-08-16
Awakened by an Intruder.

Cumberland Md. Aug. 15.-Yesterday
morning about o'clock Mrs. William
Venting. living on the Baltimore pike.
Just outside the corporate limits, was
awakened by a slight noise. she mas been
quite sick for about ten days. ana her
bed had been placed just in from. of The
window Upon looking up she saw a
large man crawling in the window, with
one hand on the bed and mis- knees on
the window sill, it being necessary for
him to crawl over her to get in the room.
He wore a slouch hat pulled down over
his eyes, and was either a dirty tramp
or a negro.
Mrs. Venting called her husband from
an adjoining room. He snapped 4 re-
volver three times at the mar as ne
backed down out of the windoy to The
porch roof and then dropped 30 the
ground. For some reason the revOly er
did not go off until snapped the fourth
time, when the intruder was quite far
away.
The times., 1898-08-16
Sampson md sehIey

There has been sort of war within a
war going on in Washington naval cir
cles apropos of Admiral SIMPSONS pro-
motion and Commodore Schley's achieve
ment. 1t is quite possible that there
is certain amount of right on both sides
Admiral SIMPSONS friends claim that
Commodore Schley Is much oyerrated.
The commodore's supporters. on the 9TH
er hand, consider that the admiral has
done nothing. The friends of both con-
fess they enjoy many pleasant hours by
drinking Heurich's Maerzen Beer, regard
less of the controversy about honors of
the distinguished naval warriors When
the Senate goes into executive session to
consider the nomination of Sampson ov-
er Schleyl 1t will then be explained why
the admiral should overrate Schley and
in the interval let us drink Maerzen to
the health of both. -s,s -a
The times., 1898-08-16
GEN. MILEs's WIFE TO JOIN HIM
Accompanied by Miss Miles, She
VIII Go to Porto Rico

New York. Aug. 15-Mrs. Nelson A.
Miles and Miss Miles, wife and daughter
of the major general commanding the
army are at lhe Holland House. They
came from Amagansett L. l., on Satur
day to make arrangements to go to Porto
Rico. .
Gen. Miles telegraphed to his wife as
soon as he was informed of the signing
of the pace protocol asking her and
Miss Miles to join him at once.
Mrs Miles took 1t for granted that
transport would be leaving New York for
Ponce shortly, and came here to find out
the sailing date.
Inquiry of the deputy quartermaster
brought out the fact that no transport
is scheduled to sail from here for Porto
Rico Col Kimball found out, however,
from the quartermaster general that the
Obdam will sail from Charleston for
Ponce on THURSDAY afternoon.
Mrs. Miles finally decided to sail by
the Obdam, and the quarteTmaster gen.
eraI directed that quarters be reserved on
the transport for her and her daughter.
Mrs. Miles teiegraphed her husband
this afternoon of her intention to sail by
the OLDHAM and unless the original order
of her chief is countermanded, Mrs. Miles
will leave for Charles on tomorrow after
noon.
The times., 1898-08-16
MAIL FOR HAVANA.
The Mascotte VIII Resume Her
Trips Tomorrow

Tampa, Fla, Aug. 15-The re-estab-
lishment of the United States mail route
between Tampa. Key West and Havana
is a present being arranged by the Plant
system, Before the port of Havana was
closed the steamship Mascotte or Oil
vette made two trips each week between
Port Tampa and Havana, and the COM
pany received large subsidy from the
United States Government for carrying
the Cuban mails.
Since the closing of the port the steam
ers have been running Only to Key West.
but IL is the intention to open the line 10
Havana at once. and the MAscotte will
leave here on her regular run Tuesday
night with orders 10 proceed to Havana.
AT least FIVE hundred Cubans who have
been employed in the cigar factories In
Tampa are arranging to go 10 Havana as
soon they can obtain transportation.
The manufacturers here are urging them
10 stay, and point out the fact that the
factories of Havana and other Cuban
cities are not running at present and vii!
not be for some time. Consequently
there viii be no work and they will have
20 return TO the United States. Several
of the largest factories have already dis
patched agents to Havana 10 purchase
Havana leaf tobacco. as the supply here
is nearly exhausted
The movement of troops from here to
Huntsville Ala is delayed. as Gen Cop
p5nger commander Of the Fourth Army
Corps, does not desire and troops sent to
Huntsville until the camp ground Is ready
for them The Fifth Maryland and Sec
ond Georgia have hope of being mustered
out of service instead of beng sent to
Cuba or Porto Rico as part of the army
of occupation. They are opposed to do
ing garrison duty Row that the war Is
over.
Three transports are being loaded with
supplies at Port Tampa for Santiago
Just the same as though war still existed
One hundred and fifty teamsters and
pack train drivers who went TO Santiago
! with the Shafter expedition arrived in
/ Tampa today.I The men were brought
from Santiago on the Government trans
| ports and have been In the detention
| hospital on Egmont Key for ten days.
A few of them had yellow fever while
! in Cuba. and nearly all had been suffer-
! ing from malaria.
The transport Rita sailed last night for
! Porto Rico with large cargo of all kinds
! of supplies for Gen. Miles army. Major
! Pullman, the depof quarterrnaster, said
that the vessel would proceed to san
| Juan as that city would doubtless be
! the headquarters of the army of occupa-
! tion in Porto Rico and supplies would be
needed there more than at any other
/ Dlace
The times., 1898-08-16
D1sGUsTED WITH ALASKA.
Returned Prosrccters Report the
Craze a Big DeIusfon


Craze u Big Delusion.
Sedalia. Mo-, Aug. 15.-W. H. Har-
rah, a former railroad conductor, who
left here February Is for the gold fields
of Alaska In company with John Frey.
son of j. ]. Frey. general manager of
the Santa Fe. returned home yesterday
with wide experiences and a net loss of
$1,000, which he in no way regrets.
The story Harrah brings back with
plain facts which discredit the fabulous
reports sent broadcast by the Pacific
Transportation Company.
You can say for me-" said Harrah.
that there are not one hundred paying
mines in Alaska today. and l have
money to back the statement. The
Alaska craze is the biggest fake ever
perpetrated upon the American people
All the gold-bearing claims are taken
and We're taken. long before this great
rush began. Dawson City is full Of
broken prospecIors. who are hard up
and stand good chance of Starving
later in the season. There is hdsi-
ness at Dawson City, and none at St.
Michael. The saloons and the dance
nails do what there is to do, end the
stores sell only little flour and little
hunk of bacon Occasionally.
There is no. such thing as a good
streak in Alaska. There is TO fresh
meat to be had that is really fresh
meat.
Il was in Leadvilie in its palmy days,
but it is not 10 be compared 20 Dawson
Ci,y as a wide-epen town. Some of the
best gamblers in the world are there.
The saloons do thriving business as
do also the dance halls. SundIy, how
ever, is religiou5ly observed. thanks to
the Canadian police, who are strict d.s-
ciplinarians. The saloons Are required
TO close at midnight Saturday. and it is
Monday morning before they are per-
mitted to open again.
Harrah and Frey, men of sterling rep
utation. backed by all the capital they
could possibly use, made a tour o. the
richest section of the Klondille. ind
they gave up their hunt for e0ld-dGst
investment in disgust. satisfied that the
big strikes were ended. and all paying
claims taken.
The times., 1898-08-16
THE SICK ARE hEG[ECTEO
Mrs. Nelson A. Miles Speaks Of
Her Experience.
MEDICAL CORPS TO BLAME
Said TO Be Decentralization Among
the Higher Officers to Recognize
the Value of Red Cross Relief
Work and Outside Assfstancc-
DeIicacies Go TO Waste.

Mrs Nelson A. Miles wife of the COM
manding general of the American army,
who has always taken deep interest in
sonally engaged in the work of reiev-
ing the sick and wounded soldiers in
many of the camps of the country has
made a number of plain statements rela-
tive to the administration of the medical
department.
Mrs Miles accompanied her husband on
nearly all of the trips which he has
made to the various Southern camps
since the outbreak of the war. She
recently visited the camps at Chicka-
mauga, Norfolk, Camp Alger, and Fort
Myer, and many opportunities were af-
forded her for observing. the work of
the military medical authorities.
Since her return she has spoken in
rather specific terms-of the Discrimination
among the higher officers of the army S
medical corps 10 recognize the efforts
which are beng made by the Rsd Cross
Society. and by private organizations ana
ind yiduals for the relief of the sick SOL
dlers in camp and hospitals. Mrs. Miles
-pl
who offer this outside aid. and she Is OF
the opinion that if 1t wcre more h'gnly
valued officially. the soldiers of the army
many of them, would be mich better on
than they are today.
An instance of the condition 81 afiairs
at some of the camps was noted py her
lust across the river from the Capital OF
the nation at the. cavalry reservation at
Fort Myer AT that post Mrs Mics
says she, found that stores OF dellcacieS
which had been sent there for the use OF
the soldiers had been lying for consla-
erable time undsturbed and unopened
The articles were deteriorating in quallty
and had il not been for the arrival oil
Mrs. Miles they would probably have be-
come worthless.
She said she appealed to the proper au-
thorities for the distribution of the deli
cacies, but failed in her purpose. She was
determined upon assisting the sick sol
diers and did so at the risk of incurring
official displeasure by opening the stores
and distributing them among the SICK
The observations of Mrs. Miles were
made at the suggestion OF certain friends
it is said. who intimated that she would
| find many evils in certain departments
! and especially the medical department OF
/ the army, which might be remedied. il
seems that Mrs. Miles's trip resulted ii
I disclosing many things which will be
brought to the attention of the proper
! military authorities.
The times., 1898-08-16
DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC MAN.
Buried in u Coffin He Had Long
Kent WaitfI z

Parkersburg, W. Va, Aug. 15.-George
Fetty, sr., who died recently at Adonis.
near Sistersville, was very peculiar
man, and an incident in his life is ilst
now revived. Twenty years ago a cabi-
net maker owed the man an account
which he was slow in settling. In fact,
the man could not pay Fetty. Fetty.
seeing no other way to secure the bill,
had the cabinetmaker construct a coffin
for him. and during the course of the
construction he would call and get in the
grewsome op3ect and test it's fitness Aft
er several weeks of tedious work in get
ting the coffin to fit his odd customer the
cabinetmaker delivered Ii to Fetty's
home, where 1t has remained in the gar
ret of the house ever since. until the
time of the old mans DEATH when it was
brought down, the dust removed from the
lid, and the remains OF the purchaser
placed in it for burial. The coffin was an
odd-looking affair.
The times., 1898-08-16
HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER.
Now Antonia wonders if Her Eian-

ce Is Living or Dead
New York, Aug. 15.-When Alfred James
Roser. a member of Company E. Twelfth
Regiment, New York Volunteers, left
Peekskill for Camp Thomas he was the
accepted fiance of Antonia Bright,
daughter of Robert Bright, of No. 7O5
Sackett Street, Brooklyn. Miss Bright
and her parents, as well as Rosers faith
er and brothers, are now greatly per-
Is dead. and also having received a con-
tradiction of the report.
Roser wrote regularly to Miss Bright
until he was taken i'll with typhoid fever
three weeks ago. Then his letters were
written for him by his friend, Benjamin
C. Welden. The last of these letters was
dated August T. and In it Welden inform
ed Miss Bright that her f1ance was very
low. Welden also stated that he was
himself going directly to Chattanooga,
and would not be able to send her any
further news.
Miss Bright was grieving over this bad
news on Monday night last, when a
house and asked for her The man said
he was Roser's brother, and that his mis-
sion was to inform her Of her fiance's
death. The woman, he said, was his
wife. They both were in deep mourning.
The man added that his father, who Is at
Long Branch, had engaged an undertaken
to bring the body ON here for burial
Miss Bright received the man again last
Wednesday, when he told her the first
telegram was a mistake, and that Roser
was not dead, but slowly recovering
Meantime Miss Bright's father has writ
ten to the colonel of the regiment asking
for authentic news. He expects an an
swer this week, he stated last night.
The times., 1898-08-16
EXERCISES at Morganto,yn.

Morgantown, w. Va, Aug. 15--The first
half of the summer quarter at the univer-
sity came to close yesterday. DR.. Les
ter F. Ward, of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition at Washington, gave his concluding
lecture In the course on sociology. After
he had finished speaking DR.. Ward was
presented with a written testimonial.
signed by every member of the class, Of
their appreciation of his work. The tes-
timonial was intended as a vindication of
the recent false charges made by the
press concerning DR.. Ward and his theo-
ries. The statements, al the time of their
appearance, created a sensation.
The times., 1898-08-16
Heavy Rains in Virginia.

Roanoke, Va, Aug. 15.-An exceedingly
heavy rainstorm visited this nelghborhood
Yesterday, doing considerable damage to
crops and other property. The Norfolk
and Western Railroad and Roanoke-Salem
Electric Railway bridges were swept
awav The former, which is 100 feet
long was carried some distance and lodg-
ed against a tree. A freight train, in
charge of Engineer C. E. Kirkwood, was
not warned of the danger and ran into
the stream. Five cars piled on top Of the
locomotive, which blocked the stream
Luckily, no one was seriously hurt.
The times., 1898-08-16
INVASIoNS BY SHARKS.
Raiding On Striped Bass at Kent
Island Narro,vs

Chestertown. Md, Aug. 15-Local fish
ermen report that the large sharks which
have infested Chester River this season
have played havoc with the striped bass
rock fishing at Kent Island Narrows-
When these pirates make d raid on the
schools of striped bass 1t is said the
swiriing waters of the narrow channel
are fairly alive with frightened fish. In
some cases the fugitiyes are reported to
nave dashed upon the shore 10 escape
the pursuing sharks. A fisherman at the
narrows about ten days ago hooked fine
rock fish and as he drew il to the boat
a shark followed and when near the sur
face snapped ii in two, leaving the ex-
pectant fisherman only the big head of
the rock fish as a reward for his half
hour playing the fish. Five large
sharks have been caught well up in Ches-
ter River and have done much to de-
moralize hook-and-line sport