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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06

TAKE a look at yourself in the
glass and if your eyes have not a
brighter sparkle than when you
were swimming in hop slops, jump
right into a beer vat as soon as you
leave here. If your head is clearer
now, why not stick to the inexpen-
sive beverage that has made it so?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06
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ROR who are not subscribers will
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les. If, after reading them, you should
conclude that The MIRROR is
worthy of your patronage, send one
dollar to this office and we will enter
your name on our books for a
years subscription.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06
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Silence is just as far from being
wisdom as the rattle of an empty
wagon is from being music. Up.
To-Date.
The 100 little snakes which have
just been born in Boston should
be photographed at once for q
Kentucky trade mark. st. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
That Virginia negro who chOked
to death Christmas day while eat
ing 'possum and sweet potato prob
ably felt like inquiring 20 Death.
where is thy sting?"- st. Paul
Pioneer Press.
Ohio has a unique prisoner. He
was in for life and was pardoned,
but refused to leave the peniten-
tiary because he had been in it
long enough to become attached
to it as his home.-St. Paul Globe.
Joe Letter OF Chicago has prob
ably been able to put by out of his
modest earnings for the six months
just drawing to close something
like $lO,OOO,OOO Observe, my
son, what economy and strict atten-
ton to business will do. Mr..
Letter began life with bare mil
lion to his credit -Oswego IN. "
Times.
The state board of charities and
corrections sent out blanks to the
chiefs of police and town marshals
to ascertain the nationality and
birthplace of each tramp arrested
and as in former years to give their
ages, numbers, etc. 1t is expected
that the board will make
thorough study of the tramp ques-
tion.- Minneapolis Journal.
The Turks have fired upon an
American man of war The Off
GERS in command looked surprised
for moment and then went and
told the American consul about
it. and the Turks apologized. The
American people would have felt
good deal more pride in the Incl
dent if the commander of the man
of war had contributed half a
thousand Turks to the population
of hades. Princeton Union.
Jay Gould bequeathed his son
George S5,OOO.OOO, which, accord
ing to the laws of New York, would
be liable to an inheritance tax.
But it was lately decided that the
sum named was not subject to the
tax, that it was not bequest, but
the payment of a debt that the
father owed his son for servicesl
Georges services must have been
valuable It would take farmer
making $1,000 year one thousand
years to earn as much Farm.
Stock and Home.
Don't worry bout a navy for our
beloved Uncle Sam, he's got the
stuff to buy one of any other man,
and if Spain should sound the
tocsin when we didn't own a boat.
'twouldn't take week for us to
man the heetest one afoat: we
could swap some macarOni for
Italy's you know, and Cuba would
be libre before we struck blow;
we could buy the British lions
and the Russian bears as we'll. and
for dozen years or more they'd
talk Spanish down in hell.-Bede's.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06

THERE are men in this world
VINO will gladly stop to tell you
where the nearest -four mill is
situated, if you tell them you are
hungry.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06
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The Home Magazine. (Bing-
hampton, n. Y, } has a very pros
porous appearance in it's January
number and it certainly deserves
it. In fiction it is unusually in
teresting this month, containing as
it does bright stories and sketches
appropriate to the entrance of the
new year.
James Mcneil Whistler. the
eccentric American artist who has
cut such figure in English and
French art, is the subject of an
entertaining letter from Paris in
the San Francisco Argonaut of
january Sd. It relates a number
of amusing anecdotes of the man
who wrote ''The Gentle Art of
Making Enemies.
A character sketch of Mark
Twain by Robert Barr is an at
tractive part Of the January num-
Der of McClure's Magazine. Mr..
Barr is man who himself pos
sesses the secret of devising hui
morous and grotesque tales, and as
he has been the close personal
friend of Mark Twain for long
time, he is sure to give us an in
teresting study Of him.
II never saw so much genteel
poverty before as exists in Wash
ington, d. c." writes a Cabinet
members wife in the January
Ladies' Home Journal. "You have
no idea how many of these de-
partment clerks tremble in their
boots for fear of losing their posi-
ton with a change of administra-
ton and enforcement of the Civil
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06

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paid.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06

Service rules. The departments
unfit both men and women for any
other occupation. You would be
surprised to know how many of
the fashionable society men ar
department clerks. Some of the
most attractive among them get O.
majority of their meals out of So
ciety. They rent room for
small amount, and dine out every
night, frequently getting lunch
or breakfast from a friend. In
return, they make it their business
to be entertaining and always in .
good humor, ready to be of service
and to initiate new people into the
etiquette of the place
The editor of the American
Monthly Review Of Reviews, III
the January number of that peri
odical, discusses the Hawaiian an
nexation issue under the four heads
Of ''The Ethical Question: 'The
Constitutional Problem THE
Strategic Bearings and THE
Economic Aspects" The Reviews
attitude has all along been in favor
of annexation, for strategic reasons,
but fears are expressed lest the
enthusiastic friends of the Amer
lean beet-sugar industry will force
an adverse decision for the sake Of
an incidental gain.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06

Contributions solicited from any and all sour
ces. Rejected manuscript will not be returned.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06

Entered at the Post-Office at saltwater, MIMI,
as second class mail matter.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06

Silence is just as far from being
wisdom as the rattle of an empty
wagon is from being music.-Up-.
To-Date.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06

Edited and Published by the Inmates
of the Minnesota State Prison.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06

The 100 little snakes which have
just been born in Boston should
be photographed at once for d
Kentucky trade mark st. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
The evening times., 1898-11-29
TRAMP LEAVES A NOTE OF
THANKS BEFORE DEPARTING
Eats the Oysters in the Pantry and
Expresses His Gratitude in
Writing.

A tramp entered the residence of Mrs.
Alley. 1919 Columbia Street northwest,
this morning. and after partaking of
nice meal and leaving a polite note of
thanks left for parts unknown. This
morning about II o'clock Mrs. Alley, to-
gether with a friend, was sitting in the
front room on the second floor. A noise
was heard in the dining room, but no par
ticular attention was paid to it at the
time. Later. after the ladies thought that
If a burglar was there he had had time
To depart, they started an investigation.
In the pantry they found newspaper
which had been placed on a table in such
a manner as to attract attention. MTit-
ten on one side Of the sheet We're the
words: Much obliged for the oysters in
the pantry, HE'S, John. The writing was
in a large legible hand, and apparently
executed by an intelligent person. The
thief also helped himself te a cod dish
of chicken hash, but apparently preferred
the oysters, as but one spoonful was
missing.
This is the second time within a week
that tramps have entered this resi- ience.
and Mrs. Alley is beginning to repent her
reputation as a housekeeper.
The evening times., 1898-11-29
VALUE OF AMERICAS
NEW POSSESSIONS
Henry CIews on the Philippines--As
an Investment lie Considers
Them Gilt Edged.

New York. Nov. 2s-Henry Clews, the
financial critic, says OF Americas acqui-
sition of territory:
THE acquisition of the Philippine ISL
ands together with Porto Rico, gives us
a fun equivalent in the way of value for
the entire outlay connected with the re-
cent war. which has been estimated in
round numbers TO be $500, ,05O,0o0. These
islands Will very speedily at least double
in value what they cost us through the
rapid development which will be sure to
be inaugurated under American rule and
enterprise We have just as much right
10 hold these colonies under the Constitu-
tion as We have to hold Alaska. which
was purchased from Russia for S1.000.0 600
and IS now worth over $5o, coo 600. Alaska
is under our territorial government-the
Philippine islands and Porto Rico will be
similarly governed in the future The
ground Of opposition TO this country col
onizing these islands Is not well taken
and the arguments adduced are far from
being sound or convincing TO an enter
prising American. China is the oldest ma
ton on earth. and believed in walling
herself in. Behold the Tesult-sle is a
prey to all other enterprising nations in
this nineteenth century is fast being torn
apart, and possesses no power Of self
preservation TO meet the forces of the
worlds development.
These islands In addition TO repaying
US for the actual war expenses. will also
be ample to provide for the capitalization
Of the pensions that the nation will be
liable for growing out of the Spanish
American war"
The evening times., 1898-11-29
Animals i'm Heraldry.
From the FieId.)


Perhaps lovers of heraldry will admit that
whatever their other accomplishments may have
been the heralds of old were not usually OBJ
servant naturalists. Birds, beasts, fishes, and
reptiles. it is almost needless to say. have al
ways entered largely into that art which cyncs
term 1.-THE science of fools with long memories,
but which the student justly defines as
''the shorthand of history will be shown by
glance at any of the numerous books the
subject Lions tigers. leopards, bears, elephants,
wolves foxes. rabbits, squirrels, monkeys beavers,
porcupines, horses, asses, camels, bulls, grey
hounds and other dogs, rams, boars, etc, to con-
fine ones remarks 10 animals only, can always
easily be found, if not at recognized, and
the mistake of lie Gloreux, in Quentin Dur
ward,' who mistook Toison d'0r's device of an
ounce or tiger-cat behind a grating for ''cat
looking out at the dairy window" may still
find followers even in the present day, when one
reads for instance that The heraldic antelope has
the head of stag, uniforms tail, tisk issu-
ing from the tip of the nose, a ROW of tufts
down the back of the neck. and similar tufts on
the tail, chest, and thighs -; r.
The evening times., 1898-11-29
HEARING GIVEN
TO THE DENTISTS
Substitute ftiII Prescribing Rules of
Practice 10 BE Submitted at the
NrNl Spsrfon of CnEgreSN.

Practice TO BE Submitted at the
Next Session of Congress-.
A score or more of prominent dentists
were present at the hearing granted by
the District Commissioners in the board
room at the District Building at II O'Clock
today, for the purpose of considering the
proposed bill TO regulate the practice of
dentistry in the, District of Columbia
The draft Of the bill was prepared by
the District Commissioners with the as
sistance Of DR.. William c. Woodward. the
local health officer and is intended to
serve ,as "a substitute for the bill which
was introduced at the last session Of Con-
Fress.., The latter bin was referred 10 the
Commissioners shortly after the adjourn
ment of Congress for consideration and
report The Commissioners found many
defects in the same, and for that reason
thought that a. substitute bin should be
returned to Congress bearing the stamp
of their approval.
The substitute as read today provides
that the practice of dentistry in the Dis
trict shall be regulated by a local board
OF dental examiners who will make rules
and regulations for that practice which
shall be subject to the approval of the
Commissioners All dentists desiring to
pracuce mere shdll pass eAdHllfaltOAs 10
be held by the board of dental examiners
in June and December
The bill also provides that no corpora
tfon not incorporated by act of Congress
shall practice dentistry without special
permit from the District Commissioners
ANY violation Of the law would be pun
iehable with a fine of not more than
$50
The bin met with the general approval
Of the dentists present AT the hearing. At
toTney Conrad H. Syms appeared as the
representative Of the Washington Society
Of Dentists, and Dr. William Donnelly
represented the present board of dental
examiners. An attorney represented sew
eral LEGAL dentists and IN their behalf
brought UP the matter Of clinics by dem
The evening times., 1898-11-29
Ladies Sis and $40 suits, $3.50.

This lot consists of an immense
aggregation of ladies' thoroughly
tailored suits, and every one is
made with just the same care your
dressmaker would use. There are
black and blue cheviot serges-
there are ian eoverts in different
shades-there are Venetian cloth
and the nobby check cassimeres.
Every jacket is silk lined-taffeta-
or SINNERS satin-and you have
the choice of the single-breasted
fly-front, or the double-breasted ef-
fects. Some of them are finished
with strap seams, and the skirts
are the full flare and full fiounce
styles. The superior excellence of
these suits is to be seen at a glance,
and that they are SIS TO $50 values
you can see If you've looked about
at all Fact is, we are showing
these identical suits from same
makers at these prices-and we've
sold hundreds of them already this
season. And just to think-Ss.50.
The evening times., 1898-11-29

The stock market this morning was in
conclusive and unsatisfactory 10 the
bulls. There was strength in some issues
and weakness in others. In the opinion OF
many observers, this condition is the
forerunner of general recession 10 come
within a very short time. The argument
made is that the advance has now gone
for many days without any reaction, and
that there must be realizing. 1t is point
ed out also that the professional element
and many of the large interests have got
ten out of the market and that the present
buyers are the public who are proverbialiy
weak holders.
The evening times., 1898-11-29
Ladies $50 serge suits. SASS.

This is the greatest lot of all, for
they consist of the handsomest blue
and black cheviot serges-the iden-
tical suits which are 10 be found in
other stores at $50. Every one of
these suits is lined throughout with
black taffeta silk of a superior
quality = the skirt Is lined the
jacket is lined and the sleeves of
the jacket are lined throughout.
The quality of the cheviot serge is
extra fine. The making is fault
less-the fit perfect. s14eS is
ridiculous price for such suits. but
out they go as we bought them,
giving you the bargain of your life
time
The evening times., 1898-11-29

fists from cities other than this. The
substitute. he said. made no provision
for the regulation of clinics by such per-
sons and he asked that such provision be
incorporated. Upon suggestion of Engi-
neer Commissioner Beach ii was agreed
to substitute a clause providing that all
out-of-town dentists desiring 10 hold such
clinics should obtain special permits from
the board of dental examiners.
The evening times., 1898-11-29
AN ATTACK BY BEARS
-WEAKENS THE MARKET
SLIGHT DECLINE IN THE LIST
Changers Remain Firm and Central
Pacific Advances on Reports OF
1 Goad Eurnjnrs

Grangers Rcmain Firm and Central
Pacific Advances on Reports OF
Good Earnings.
New York, Nov. 29.--The stock market
opened firm and fractional gains due to
the impetus of yesterdays closing. There
was a disposition to, realize profits how
ever, which caused shading off of pric-
es in general. There was some pressure
against Sugar and Tobacco, while the
Changers were comparatively firm on re-
ports of good earnings. Central Pacific
made sudden advance Of over / per
cent on reports of progress in adjusting
the affairs of the company.
The bears attacked the general list
when it saw the effect OF the realizations
and prices are weakening further.
In Governments the 3s were up one
eight per cent. ..,o
At noon the stock market was radically
irregular and fairly active. Sugar was
a conspicuous feature, having advanced
IA per cent over Its opening quotation
without any apparent cause.
The fluctuations in the stock Were wide
and rapid, and from 1880 O'Clock until
noon the ticker was, mainly occupied in
registering the changes. 70 The changes in
the balance of the list, were fractional.
The evening times., 1898-11-29
The Divine Comedy From Memory.
From the London Glob

Neapolitan professor has lust performed
remarkable feat. Some time ago ne offered 10
make bet that ne could recite the whole OF
Dante's ''Diviue Comedy hy heart His ability
to do this was doubted, and his wager was taken
up \ select audience was invited 30 hear the
professor, WHO decaimed from e'eiock in the
evening until o'clock the next afterncon me
reciteF stopped occasionally, but Il was not be
cause he had forgotten the poem: il vas simply
to m0istcn his tongue with susared water. He
won his wager, for the audience had % confess
that he g,t through the l5,tS0 verses, moFe or
less of which the poem is composed, without the
least difficulty.
The evening times., 1898-11-29
WHAT DO THE CHILDREN DRINK? ?

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have You
tried the new food called GRAIN-O? 1t
IS delicious and nourishfng and takes the
place of coffee The more Grain-O you
give the children the more health you
distribute through their system. Grain-O
is made of pure grains, and when prop
erly prepared tastes like the choice
grades of coffee. but costs about one
quarter as much. All grocers sell it.
15c and 25c. ja27-tf
The evening times., 1898-11-29
New York Cotton Market.
SNAPSHOT INTERVIEWS.

new quarters win be Immediately bene
fetal to this part of the city. Later, when
the Postoffice Department comes. there
will be a large increase of business. AL
ready the retail dealers report a brisking
up of business and | know that this is not
an imaginary one, because their orders
from US are larger. The general business
situation is very promising and l believe
Washington will have the best winter in
several years.-John L. .Prosise, Paper
Dealer.
The evening times., 1898-11-29
$1,000 kersey coats. $40. IS.

Lot of black and tan kersey jack
cts. lined throughout with Skin
ner's satin, in a variety of high
colors. including the sleeves-fin-
ished with mother-of-pearl buttons
welt seams and notch sleeves-a
quality of kersey which Is not to
be found in coats anywhere under
soto go for s109S.
The evening times., 1898-11-29
Ladies' SIS and SIS suits, SI2.@.

Here is a value for you-and just
see the variety from which 10 pick.
Hundreds of suits, consisting of the
finest quality imported serges. We
netian cloths, unfinished worsteds,
cheviot serges, illuminated novelty
cloths and the finest cassimeres.
A complete description of these
suits is almost impossible here.
There are suits with tight-fitting
and loose-fitting jackets-there are
single-breasted hy-front and double
breasted effects, finished with the
most expensive pearl buttons.
Every jacket is silk-lined. includ-
ing the sleeyes-some with black
taffeta and some with colored taf-
feta-and some with high-colored
satin. Nearly ali have flounce
skirts. and some are elaboraiely
trimmed with straps of same ma
terial. The serges are in black and
blue. and several shades of gray.
There are some with 36-inch jack
ets-the fashionable tight-fitting
skirt effects-noyelties for which
you have TO pay double and more.
They all go at $3.50.
The evening times., 1898-11-29
''Hecht's Greater Stores. y
The sale Of ladies' suits, capes and
coats at one=third to one=half regular
prices has set the entire city agog!

entire have been position
oHon ladies' hggrade garments at third to half the
The opportunity about by the offering the
stock of Freedman Brothers, of New York City
stated above Not fifty would had the
have doneto lay down big lump and
take such immense quantity of But that
the prices could offer them thered
selling garment of the fifteen
when they the creations of of the makers
the fashionable
where
Already the selling breaking every previous
hardly hold the throngs that
Don't fail tomorrow-and choose while
perfect.
Well Charge what you buy-and you may pay as suits
you.
The evening times., 1898-11-29

Three thousand people will be put into
the new postoffice building when all the
offices are located finally. The effect TO
this vicinity of this addition of people
with money TO spend cannot but be a good
one. We and everybody else in this To-
cality lost customers when the old power
house burned down. People buy goods
where it is convenient to buy them, and
the great number of new people near here
will mean that there will be much new
husiness.-James s. Davis.
The evening times., 1898-11-29

the property is of very little value and
The price paid may be taken as very near
to what the ground is considered worth.
The price is excellent. There is no doubt
that there is slight Improvement in
real estate.-A. O'Neill, Board of Trade
The evening times., 1898-11-29
The Case of Congressman Roberts.
(From the Detroit Free Press)

There is much in Mr. Roberts's position which
appeals to common sense, however Congress may
view it. No doubt good Mormon he entered
upon his manifold marital obligations in good
faith, and feels that honor and duty call him
10 observe them. Ii he had become polygamist
after the passage of the Edmunds law there
would be no excuse for him; but, under the
existing circumstances, il would be a very severe
and arbitrary application OF the prohibitory
clause TO refuse him his seat in Congress- and it
case.
The evening times., 1898-11-29
BERLIN BoURSE MUST
LEAVE ITS QUARTERS
Decision by the Court That stock
Exchange Operations i'm n Music
Hall Are Illegal.

Berlin. Nov. 29-The supreme court has
decided that the meetings OF the Berlin
Bourse in a music hall are Illegal
Members of the Bourse now do busi-
ness from office to office.
The evening times., 1898-11-29
sla kersey coats, $500.

Lot of black kersey and plain
black and blue cheviot jackets, lin
ed throughout. including the
sleeves. with black rhadame silk
stylish at every point-and the best
fitting garments which are 10 be
had-to go for s..
The evening times., 1898-11-29
Washington stock Excnangc.

Sales-D. c. 365s, $50@l7; Columbia IT.
tie ms, 25m5: Capital Traction, 65@SS5 Is;
20GS5 IA; 20GS5 3-S; l0@S5 L.; Capital
Traction 75dS5 1-2 2OOGS5 3-S: 20GS5 SIS;
2O@S5 81; Washington Gas, 25@49 rs; U.
S. Electric Light 10a125; Ches. & Pot.
Tel, 15M56: Mergenthaier Linotype,
15G191 35d1s1 1-2; 1OG191 81; 1od1e1
rs; 60d192; Lanston Monotype, 10oGl5; so
OILS IA; 100d15 3-S; Amer. Graphophone
3Oa13 1-3; 25113 3-S. =
After call--U. s. 's'cop6on, s2OoG1o5 8-4.
The evening times., 1898-11-29

believe that values in Washington are
increasing. The stocks of nearly all the
local corporations are advancing in price
w. B. Curley, Broker. es.s,... -it-- 4.
The evening times., 1898-11-29

Prominent bulls of Metropolitan contin-
ue TO make rosy promises of large devel
opments in the affairs of the company in
the next few days. 1t is easy to hear
the remark that metropolitan is getting
control of everything in New York" The
stock continues strong.
The evening times., 1898-11-29

The gross earnings of Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy for the month OF Oc-
tober show an increase of s21695O- The
surplus after charges, shows an increase
of $19S944. The earnings of Minneapolis
and ST. Louis from July decreased $3.50.
The gross earnings for October decreases
S22, ,313. The net earnings decreased 50 22i.
The October gross earnings of the Read
ing Railroad increased S29,564. The net
earnings decreased SOS, 230. The coal and
iron earnings of Reading show a net de-
crease of sl6151S, making the net de-
crease of both the railroad and the coal
and iron $202,605.