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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06
TERMS. $1.O0 per year. in advance
Six Months so cents,

each individual is somewhat indebted
to this benign influence that through
the ages has been the taIisman of earthly
as well as heavenly affection.
TO digress moment, we may revert
to the astounding fact that not nota-
BILE agnostic or atheist now living can
trace his present unbelief back three
generations in his own family. Even
the renowned Col. Ingersoll admits with
unfelgned pleasure that the gentle
woman who sucked him and guided
his footsteps in the formative period of
his illustrious career was inspired in
her motherly love by the divine infu-
ence he now disregards.
Now, my friends, in the cold busi-
ness methods of this wOrkaday world
we are prone to seek reasons for any
extraordinary movement or influence.
AND these reasons on our worldly basis
dWlndle down to one of two prime
causes: ultimate individual gain in
pecuniary sense: or for humane princi-
pies inspired by the hope of heavenly
reward. Now, gentlemen, we can easily
judge, each for himself, which motive
has ever prompted religion in battling
for mankind. Was it for the sake of
money that within the present century
fair women went forth mid the car.
mage of battle to nurse and care for the
wounded? Was it for money that the
pure lips of the same fair women
sucked the venomOus poison from the
liberated, festered wounds caused bv
poisoned arrows? Is it for money that
at the present time the Red Cross SOci-
ETY. is performing similar offices for the
afflicted on the desolated Island of
Cuba? Then, my friends, as you will
readily concede that lucre is not the
motive in these as in thousands of ex-
amples we might quote, [ am willing
as an admittedly passive scoffer to &C
knowledge that religion, above all other
sources, is the parent, the guardian of
our civilization and that we. as it's.
beneficiaries, must manfully recognize
the debt. J,L.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06
Written for The Prison Mirror.
CIVILIZATIONS LEDGER
Shows That We Owe a Great Debt to
Religion.

In careful study of the upbuilding
of all nations and of all peoples, whether
they be the most enlightened or from
an obscure portion of our globe. one
becomes Immediately impressed with
the far preaching, subtle power and in
fluence welded by the innate religious
spirit which has been prominent trait
of the individual and the nation in all
times. 1t matters not that the indi-
vidual or the nation be what we term
pagans: they still possess that occult,
mysterious belief in something
greater than chiefs and kings-a some
thing that proclaims the natural ten
dency of an instructive belief in an
omnipotent power
There is yet to be found the nation or
tribe that has not some vague intui-
tlon of supreme power that they re-
spect and revere, even though they do
not understand it. The Chinese may
find the worldly symbol of this omnip-
otence in block of carved wood: the
untutored savage may worship the
Great Spirit in the gentle breeze wafted d
melitluOusly through the nodding
branches Of hisjprimeval forest home,
or he may recognize potent divinity
in the thunderOus charge of Natures
elemental batteries as the irresistible
tornado sweeps across the open plains.
To us it matters not in what form the
pagan or savage recognizes this supreme
power. 1t is..suf1icient for our purpose
here that we find this unseen power
recognized at all times and in all places
as absolute-as the basis of and inspir.
alton to all effort.
In our Survey of Greek Civilization
in the most civilized, most highly cul-
tured nation of ancient times, we find
the same ruling power, the same reli-
gious spirit, in one form or other, per-
meating the philosophy, the art, the
sculpture of the Greeks.
Gliding rapidly through the centuries
to our own times we are compelled,
CONSCIOUSLY VI UIICOuOClOuS1y, W
and marvel at the benefcent influence,
the heroic unselfishness, the untiring
energy that has in all times, through
all ages, characterized religious bodies
as the pioneers in and projectors of all
the blessings of civilization that are to
be enjoyed in this wonderful closing
decade of the nineteenth century.
We find in natural sequence to what
has been said that civilization owes an
ever-increasing debt to religion. 1t
matters not whether we are believers
or unbelievers, scoffers or neutrals, we
cannot overcome the prosy fact that
whatever we might have been, what
ever we may yet aspire to be, has had it's
root in the religious care and love i'm
planted in the maternal breast, in the
motherly heart and hand that guided
us in youth. We therefore see that
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06
written for The Prison Mirror
is IGNORANCE BLISS?
According to This Writer the Less We
Know the Happier We Ought to Be.

This question will undoubtedly be
answered in the affirmative by every
one who has grown old in worldly
trials and tribuIatioas. In every home.
from the beggar's hut to the kings
palace. there is the period of childhood,
when ignorance is1the cause of much
bliss. This was the time when we sat
On our parents lap; the time when the
little girls played with their dolls, and
invited little friends to parties in their
playhouses; the time when little boys
initiated the farmer, merchant, school
master, ETC., when toys were imple-
ments Of commerce: the time when
IN imagination we maneuvered as SOL
diers on fierce and prancing brooms for
horses; the time when we camped in
the fields and woods: the time when
we reJolced at the coming of holiday;
the time when the presentation to us
OF the first pocket knife gave such
pleasure: when few pennies looked
to us like large capital. In those days
the merest trifle brought joy and hap
pineSs which we never since have eX-
perienced in the same way. And the
main factor of all these early pleas
urable sensations was ignorance. In
our then ignorant state we were con-
tented; we looked up to parents with
the full confidence that they could
and would satisfy our wants; and, like
Adam and Eve in paradise, we were
free from worldly care and trouble.
With school days our little troubles
began. Why? Because then our lib
erty became limited: we were forced to
cast off ignorance and take up learn
ing. If we did not learn as much as
our fellow scholars they could take ad-
vantage OF us and thus increase our
troubles. The Older we grew the more
we had to learn; and the present and
future require comparatively the same
progress. If we do not keep up in the
race the more learned will take the
cream OF existence and we only receive
the skinned milk of life's labors. The
more we advanced in knowledge the
more obstacles we met. For instance
the ego arose within us and led us to
further temptations, thus bringing on
more disappointments, new troubles
and new sorrows. Step by step as one
family, tribe or nation advanced in
knowledge, the others had to keep up,
or bear the burdens for their superiOrs
in knowledge.
Life seems to be a continual battle,
full of tribulations., 1t is peculiar that
the more cultivated nation becomes,
the more crimes they have to subdue.
Laws are made to conquer and pre-
vent crimes and the criminals then
speculate on new methods to outwit
these laws. 10 prove this we. need but
look at the multitude of new laws
added to the code year after year. So
it is really question of whether ma.
tions are happier now than at the time
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06
BABY MEN.
The Ones Who Make Mountain Out of
Mole Hill.

Sometimes we think, that one thing
which makes hard times harder, is the
number of baby men running about.
You can hear them squall almost any
time of day or night. BY baby men,
we mean those fellows who are easily
knocked out. Here are a few speci-
mems: One who quits work for week
on account of frosted finger. A man
who lies abed till nine o'clock on &C.
count of the cold. One who is jealous
because his neighbor is getting to the
front by hard work. A man who is
afraid of work. A man who is afraid
he will soil his hands. One who wants
some one else to support him. A man
who blames his wife for being poor.
One who blames the government be-
cause his ancestors did not leave him
any money. "A strong, healthy man
who cries because he is tired A man
who gets sick for want of exercise.
One who will not rustic. The dude,
and the dandy. The sluggard and the
wilmer: soft men who are afraid to
run, jump or kick.
Pretty men who are just too sweet
to live. TOadies, sillies and foolies.
The world is full OF baby men, and
there is no use looking for the millen-
niuns nor even for extra good times
till they are grown Watertown
Is. d. Times.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06

Many persons fret themselves greatly
over not their own shortcomings, but
those of their neighbors, real or imagi-
nary. as may be. They are annoyed
because they see courses of conduct
which do not commend themselves to
their judgment; and they are all the
while in some ENHANCEMENT of fret or
worry, because other persons do this or
don't do that.-Lilian Whiting.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
Col. E. e. Lambert Of the Fiftietb

Col. E. E. Lambert of the Fiftieth
q. 8. Volunteers of Iowa is talked of
for court martial "honors.n Col. Lam
bert undertook to tell the truth about
military incompetency and the pow
er of politics that is dominating mill
tary affairs, aud he is to be held &C
countable for his "disrespectful" re-
marks by the provisions Of Article 10
of the rules of the United States
which is as follows:
Articles 19-Any officer who uses
contemptuous or disrespectful words
against the president, vice president,
congress OF the United States or the
chief magistrate or legislature of any
of the United States in which he Is
quartered, shall be dismissed from
the service or otherwise punished as
the court martial may direct"
The above:article shall explain why
"the whole truth and nothing but the
truth" has not been told by army
officers of the criminal incompetency
of the commissary and medical de-
partments. The following IS the grand
and fearless statement for which Col.
Lambert is to suffer court martial:
1.-The Fiftieth Iowa is in Des Moines
today because political gang, head.
ed by Governor Shaw and United
States Senator Allison, interferred
/ am sorry to think
that gang with no consideration fol
the health of body of young men
are willing to misrepresent the truth
to serve political ends. New Hamp
ton Tribune.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
Farms for Sale.

I have large number of very fine
farms for sale IN Howard county.
Some at special bargains. II you
wish to purchase it WILL pay you to
visit me. Prices are very reasonable
and terms to suit purchaser. l also
have farms in Minnesota and Dakota
for sale on installment plan. Why
pay high cash rent when the money
may be applied toward a home OF
your own Respectfully,
JOHN M. CANNON, Cresco, Ia.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
Aspecific Charge,

The specific charge made by
Captain Worden, who has just died
at Fort Logan, Col, is astonishing if
true. This is what he said:
"While sick with fever at Tampa, 1
was left ten days without mouthful
to eat, in an abandoned car house,
he says. "My sole subsistence was
cast away lemon peels. die of starva.
ton. At Tampa 1 was for ten days
confined in naked warehouse with
out a morsel to eat"
The commission which is now at
work investigating the conduct OF
the war should sift the charge of a
dying man to the bottom, locate the
blame, and punish whoever is respon-
sible. The charge is specific and de-
mands an answer.-Des Moines News.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04

1t has now been demonstrated that
the $42, 100000 in silver and the $3.50,
100000 in treasury notes supplement
ed with the proceeds of the internal
revenue tax would ha We provided am
pie means for the prosecution of the
war, and saved entailing upon the
productive industries of the country
the burdens of a bond issue, which
must, interest and principal fall upon
that class, the republicans having
taken ample care to protect the idle
rich from nearly all its burdens.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
pn q. h KEL1oes,
If You Leave Home

for the summer, go where you will
find literally, q new world. Such a
spot is Yellowstone Park. There is
no place like it in the world You
will be astonished at what you see
and learn there. A months outing
in those mountains 1000 feet above
the sea level, in an atmosphere pure
and invigorating, would add years to
your life. There are four modern
hotels, good roads-maintained by
the o.. S. Governinent-for riding,
driving or cycling; riding horses or
pack trains. Geysers, cany ons,- mud
springs, lakes, cataracts and cascades
in large number, are crowded into a
space 81 by 60 miles in size. If you
can afford it, you wrong yourself by
not going there especially if you are
patriotic American. If you cannot
afford 1T, then go to beautiful Leech
Lake in Minnesota, new and popu-
lar resort. New hotels, fine fishing
and bunting, and good boating at
reasonable rates. Send Chas. s. Fee
of Northern Pacific Railway, ST.
Paul, Mimi, six cents for Wonderland
1913, that describes by pen and picture
both resorts. Mention where adver-
.tisement WEE seen,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
RIVAL Snort OF FUNDS.
consequently He Couldn't Hire q
Carriage for His Hard-
Won Lady.

''Talk about your odd lawsuits"
laughed the lawyer, says the Detroit
Free Press. 81 have one right now
that holds first mortgage on the
bakery. It's from one of the outlying
townships, and the people there are
just as much stirred up as If Spanish
army was advancing upon them.
"a young fellow took his girl to q
harvest picnic. She was no sooner on
the ground than she exercised the
privilege of her sex and smiled upon a
hated rival of her escort. The latter
had too much the spirit of q man to
countenance such treacherous ingrati-
tude. He absolutely declined to swing
her, quench her thirst with pink lem
ionade, set up the gingerbread or hold
her hand. When the festivities were
over he crawled into his buggy, discon-
solate and alone, leaving her and the
hated rival to devise ways and means
to get her home. They succeeded in
soaring up farmers rig, but neither
could raise the one dollar tariff he inn
posed for it's use. She settled the mat
ter by having the price charged to
pap But pap kicks like mule in a
hailstorm and says he'll be eternally
hanged If he'll stand for the turnout.
So he has hired a country lawyer and
brought suit to recover the price from
the original sutton, who, vows the
farmer, was 'morarly and legerly
bound fur to fetch the girl home after
he took her.
"T'm for the defense, and haven't the
slightest doubt that we will eventual
ly get decision from the supreme
court as to the nature and extent of
picnic obligations"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
OUR CANDIDATE In 1900
FUSION TICKET

Nominated by the Democrats, Populists
and Silver Republicans, Sept. Z, 1898
Secretary Of state-claude R Porter. APP
pAnoose.
Treasurer-Nelson Anderson, Des Moiaes.
Attorney General--J. M. Parsons, Polk.
Auditor-E. II. Gillette, Polk.
Judge Of Supreme Court-William A.
e1urrlAr. Polk.
Railroad Commissioner Gong term)-A.
HAnson O'Brien.
Railroad Commissioner (short term)-H.
ID. Wells, Clinton.
Clerk Of the Supreme Court-Earl r. Per-
1lns. Des Moines.
Supreme Court Reporter-w. H. Ferron.
fNAVjnr
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
From Sire to Son.

AS Family Medicine Bacon's
Celery King for the Nerves passes
from sire to son as legacy. If you
have Kidney, Liver or Blood disorder
get free sample package of this
Constipation, Headache, Rheuma.
tism, etc., this specific will ure you.
j. j. Lowry, the leading druggist is
sole agent and is distributing samples
free, Large packages 50c and 25c.--
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
Great Triumph.

Instant relief and a permanent cure
by the great remedy Otto's cure for
Lung and Throat diseases. Why will
you irritate your throat and lungs
with hacking cough whenJ. j. Lowry
sole agent, will furnish you free
sample bottle of this guaranteed re-
medy? Its success is wonderful, as
your druggist will tell you. Sample
free. Large bottles SOC and 25c.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04

The only way to make one dollar
as good as another, is to make it SO
by law; that is to make it a full legal
tender dollar. Every such dollar,
whether made of gold, silver or pa
per is of equal value, and is as good
as any dollar in the world, money be-
ing entirely creation of law.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
For Sale.


Do you want six-year-old filley,
standard and registered, good driver,
gentle aid kind; perfectly sound; can
trot fast and go into a pace and go
better than three-minute gait. She
is half-sister to Fitzgerald (pacer)
who has now won seven straight
races, two of them at the Howard
County Fair in three straight heats.
and can pace full miles below 2:2O.
This mare will be valuable for a brood
mare as we'll as good driver will be
sold cheap if sold soon. Call on or
address N. B. WHEELER, Cresco, la.
One Minute Cough Cure surprises
people by it's quick cures and children
may take it in large quantities without
the least danger. 1t has won for itself
the best reputation OF any preparation
used to-day for colds, Group, tickling
in the throat or obstinate coughs.
j. j. Lowry.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
Homeseekers Excursions via Chicago Grea
Western Railway.

On September 6 and Goth and
October and 18th the Chicago Great
Western Ry. will sell Homeseekers'
Excursion tickets to points in
Colorado, Idaho, Indian Territory,
lowe. Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, North and South Dakota,
Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming
for the round trip. Tickets good 81
days from date of sale. For further
information call on Agents Maple
Leaf Route"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04

According to the above figures,
which are absolutely reliable, Sep
TENDER wheat was worth 36a cents
more in 1898 than for 1898, corn 12a
cents, oats 81 cents, timothy seed 81,
hogs $3.15, and mess pork $S.05. Let
the farmer compare these prices and
figure out how much more money he
is making now than he did in 1893.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
Tranped.

Tranpeu.
Attorney-You say this defendant
kissed you in a dark room?
Fair Plaintiff-Yes, sir.
Attorney-Will you please explain
to the court how you came to enter a
dark room with the defendant?
Fair Plaintiff-O, it wasn't dark
when we went in. We turned the light
out afterward.-N. Y. Herald.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
How Is This.
An exchange says:


When republican writer or speak.
er desires to stir up the partisan ami
mails and set the dear people wild he
begins at once to talk of the financial
horrors of 1S93-the first year of the
last democratic administration, when,
according to much distinguished au-
thorities, the country went to the
domination bow-wows" and prosper
ity was swallowed up in the vortex of
of free trade. But in these onslaughts
they are careful not to institute a
comparison Of prices of farm products
which could not prove otherwise than
odious under the circumstances. In
order that some of the forgetful ones
may not be wholly ledastray by talk
OF democratic ruin" in 1893 and re
publican prosperity" In 1898, we
give below the prices of few farm
staples for the month of September
of the two years taking the quota.
lions of yesterday for 1898:
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
Attention Farmers!

Are you aware that we have a
full line of Farm Machinery, Bug
gies and Wagons. Also a line Of
Hardware, Tinware, Paints, Lin
seed Oil, Machine Oils, Axle
Grease. &c. Mems Overalls,
Working Shirts, Jackets, Mems,
Women's, Misses and Children's
/ Shoes, Rubbers and Hosiery
| these are side lines of goods and
they come in at time of year
when our grain and stock business
is dull; therefore I claim I can af-
ford to give you lower prices than
regular dealers in these lines who
depend entirely upon them for a
living. I will make prices to Cash
Buyers that Defy Competition.
Shall be pleased to figure on build
ing hardware with anyone intend
ing to build dwellings, or barns.
Will take sound horses or colts
in exchange for machinery, bug
gies, wagons, etc.
Yours for business,
II. S. JOHNSON,
Bonair. Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04

NNR r. G. PHELPS, the leading pension
NA attorney of Belfast, N. Y. writes:
II was discharged from the army on
account of i'll health, and suffered from
heart trouble ever since. frequently had
fainting and smothering SPELLS My form
was bent as man of so. / constantly wore
an overcoat, even in summer, for fear of
taking cold. could not attend to my BUSH
ness. My rest was broken by severe pains
about the heart and left shoulder. Three
years ago 1 commenced using DR.. Miles
Heart Cure, Notwithstanding had used so
much patent medicine and taken drugs from
doctors for years without being helped. DR..
Miles Heart Cure restored me to health. 1t
is truly wonderful medicine and it affords
me much pleasure to recommend this rem
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04

| The Chairman OF the township committees
are requested to call the caucuses in the differ
ent townships in pursuance of this call and to
make every effort to have large convention.
| tickets at the caucuses held in the respective
townships for the election of delegates to coun-
| ty convention. JOHN M. CANNON,
| Chairman Co. Central Committee.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
Democratic Judicial Convention.

A Delegate Convention of the Democrats Of
the Thirteenth Judicial District of Iowa will be
held at Ossian. Iowa, Friday October 18th 1895
for the purpose of putting in nomination two
candidates for Judges of the 18TH Judicial Dis
trict of Iowa. and for the transaction of such
other business as shall properly come before
the Convention. The counties comprising sale
District are entitled to representation as fol
lows:
anieRasss, :as E RGgsts
Clayton :. ....... .2S Winneshiek, IL
By order of Judicial Committee.
t. g. CLARY, Chairman,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
Great Suffering.

Mr.. John Swatik, 1876 Cornell Str Chicago
suffered with intense pain in his right arm for
fully six months and could get no relief from
physicians whom he called upon. His condit-
ion growing worse every day he decided to try
SEyERA'S ST.. GOTHARD'S OIL and Rheumat-
ic Cure. The pain ceased in a very short time,
and Mr.. swatik is working again and feels hap
pier than ever. His testimonial will be publish
ed In Severa's Almanac for 1899, Everybody
ought to have copy of this elegant Almanac
distributed gratis.
SEVERA's ST. GOTHARD'S OIL is known
everywhere as the promptest Pain soother in
rheumatic'and neuralgia pains. Price so cts.
Nearly every day brings us letters about the
wonderful results effected by sEyERA's BAL
SAM OF LIFE. Whoever is suffering from
constipation, indigestion, pain In the stomach
and headache, will be greatly benefited by
takiag SEyERA's BALsAM OF LIFE.
Price 10 Cents.
W. F. SEVERA,
Manufacturing Pharmacist,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
seyera's Family Remedies are for sale at al
druggists.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
Candidate for Recorder,

I hereby announce myself as can
didate for county recorder subject to
the action of the Democratic County
Convention. L. j. GLASS.