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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-07-21
Written for The Prison MuTOr.
A WESTERN SOLDIER.

Capt. "Buckeyy O'Neill, the most pic
turesque man in the West, was one of
the first to fall before Spanish bullets
in ambush at Santiago. "Buckey"
came from Arizona with his band of
300 Rough Riders, but all over the land
hearts will grieve for their loss in him
of near and dear friend. He was too
splendid to be the representative of a
portion of the country, and all Ameri-
cans may be proud to have him taken
as national type.
In the vastness of Western territory
"Buckey" found fitting stage for the
drama of his life, which was so many
sided that an Eastern Journal we'll de-
scribes him as "Arizona miner, scout,
judge, sheriff, mayor, gambler, dead
shot, soldier, hero and all-around good
fellow"
To have been all these and to have so
lived his life as to leave the stamp of
his unique personality upon the COM
munity is distinction enough for. one
man.
"Buckey's" greatness was of his own
making. With prophetic foresight and
spirit that knew no fear he carved
his own way, "bucking" every obstacle
and honestly earning the name by which
he was best known.
Fate or fortune gave him many op-
portunities. His real name was
William Owen O'NeilI. He was born
of Irish parents in st. Louis in 1860.
He graduated from the national law
school of the District of Columbia, and
later, out of seventytwo applicants for
assistant paymaster of the navy, he
passed at the head. There was some
delay in making the appointment, and
O'Neill became impatient and left for
Arizona, where he found opportunities
which led to prosperity and distinction.
He was at different times editor of the
Arizona Miner, the Phoenix Herald,
and the Hoof and Horn, a cattleman's
paper.
In that country of chance and haz-
ard Buckley got hold of some good
mining properties, and was elected Sher-
iff for three consecutive terms. His
reputation as fearless regulator of
morals of that community will be long
remembered. He was the best shot in
the territory, and became the terror of
lawbreakers. He came unscathed from
number of desperate fights.
His next political office was that of
sheriff of Yavapai county. He was
three times defeated for Congress and
was unanimously elected mayor of
Prescott, the only vote against him be.
ing his own.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-07-21
Written for The Prison Mirror.
VALUE OF RESOLUTION.

Two great faculties of the human
mind are the power by which we recall
events that are passed (memory) and
the power by which we anticipate or
project coming or future occurrences,
(anticipation). If these two psychic
faculties are we'll developed and
healthy they are of great service; and
when brought together and acted upon
by the will they enable us to profit by
past failures, and to make out and re-
solve upon course of life and action
for the future.
We shall pursue short-sighted pol
icy if we neglect to form plans for the
future because we are in prison and
cannot put the good resolutions imme-
diately into practice. Some cynic has
TRIED to summarize life thus: cat
thirty man suspects himself fool,
knows it at forty, resolves and re-
resolves-then dies the same" But
there is no reason why resolutions
should come to naught if the resolver
lives long enough to put them into
practice. If man has time enough
and will enough he can accomplish al
most anything. Nearly all of us have
lived long enough and had experience
enough to know what we are capable
of, and the thing for us to do is to
keep up courage, mark out new
course of life, and prepare ourselves to
make a success of it,
Among the many wise things writ
ten by the great German poet, Goethe,
the following is, in my judgment: his
best:
If wealth is gone, something is gone;
Quick, make up thy mind,
And wealth find.
If hour is gOne much is gone;
Seek glory to find
The people then will alter their mind.
If courage is gone, all is gone;
'rwere better if thou hadSt never been
born.
But the climax here is too strongly
drawn. If courage is clean gone for
ever, then one is in bad way. But
for any ordinary vanishing of courage
few we'll ll-digested meals and a few
good nights sleep are quite sufficient
to restore it. The best way to keep up
courage is to form plans and have
something in mind to live for. Some
of the most successful men America
has produced have been men whose
lives were persistent failures for long
time-e. g., the Ornithologist, Audobon
and our illustrious inventor and scien
tist, Edison-but by persistent resolu.
tion and courage they continued, each
becoming mighty victor in his line.
believe that neither of them was ever
arrested, but Edison ran away once tc
avoid it. Even study of the life OF
Tom Corwin ought to be a courage.
bracer for us. When a boy, he was
kept from school because he was
needed on the farm, but when, by acci.
dent, his leg got broken so that he was
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-07-21
Written for The Prison Ml1'rOr.
A LOVE STORY.

Wilhelmina De Wilful sat in the
Whitewashed boudoir behind her papa's
fish market. Her elephantine form
was partly covered by a Greek tunic of
brick colored calico. Her front hair
hung in a Corinthian column and was
done up behind to resemble a Queen
Anne cottage with an Ionic facade.
Upon her right foot she wore rubber
boot; and upon the LETT, nothing but a
large bunion and five corns. She was
engaged in those beautiful feminine
occupations of removing the internal
improvements from a catfish and wip-
ing large chunks of cry from her rich
Ollve-green eyes.
Any one versed in cryology would
have known from the size and contour
that they were tears of joy without any
salt in them. She had just heard that
Felix DE Faithful-WhO had been con-
victed of numbering his old father and
mother with an aXe-had been pardon
ed; upon the grounds that he was
poor orphan without criminal intent.
Within the room no sound was heard
except an occasional low plaintive note
from the organs of the catfish; while
without it was deadly still. The wind
soughed nary a sough, it had blowed it.
self in at cakewalk the night before
and was ION de bum."
From the eighth story window of a
tenement house at the corner of Cod
blessus and Misery Streets a manly
form was seen to drop lightly to the
pavement. 1t was Felix De Faithful:
but even his most anxious creditor
would never have suspected it; for he
was in the disguise of a gentleman. He
carelessly winded his way to the domi-
cile of Wilhelmina DeWilful with that
graceful Nicollet Ave. glide; and blew
a loud blast upon the fishhorn at the
door which brought out the stern par
ent of whom he demanded his daughters
hand.
"You want my daughter ha, we'll take
her-NIT-I tell you those" Then,
snatching the PIP carat diamond from
Felix's bosom he hurled it at him:
knocking him to the floor, where he lay
for the first and last time in his life,
perfectly sensible.
Now as Felix had thorough prison
education, he was long on the classic
and short on the grammar, therefore,
as soon as he came to, he dropped at
once into poetry; and quoted those
beautiful lines of Homer's:
Enne Menne Mime Mo
My Wilhelmina where do she go.
But only the souless etho answered Oh!
she has gone out, mot at home" He
rushed into the boudior, but-like the
man who fell out of the balloon
Wilhelmina wasn't in it. He then
looked into the money drawer, alas, like
a policeman when needed, she was no.
where to be found. He was about to
give up in despair; when he heard a
joyous sound coming from within the
padlOcked icebox it was WilheImina
ringing her heart to attract attention.
Before Felix had fallen to be a poll
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-07-21
Vol. XI.-NO. 50.

"When all day long, footsore and tired,
We seek for work but seek in vain,
And wan-eyed children cry for food,
And mothers stif1e sobs of pain;
While other homes are bright and warm
And table laid without regard
To hungry, homeless shivering poor,
Oh! keep us, Lord, from feeling hard.
''When riches have been won, and life
Is full of luxury and care,
With costly yachts, or splendid homes,
And hosts of friends our joys to share;
We turn our faces from the slumS,
And selfishly our time we guard
Lest want annoy us with its calls;
Lord. keep us then from being hard"
SARAH BOLTON.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-04
Epp;neers In War.

One has only to look back few hun
bred years in history and note the ALSO
lutte transformation wrought in warfare
as soon as the introduction OF gunpow
der and fire artillery became an accom-
plished fact The trained knight, bred
to arms and honestly believing that in
him lay all the science OF warfare that
could ever be possible, was suddenly
transformed into a ridiculous Don Quix-
ote. helpless before the rude band OF
peasants who, with their 'vlilalnous
saltpeter, - made all his knowledge OF
the art of war obsolete. Today we are
undoubtedly ON the verge OF similar
transformation, and should the mist 5r-
tune of war become a dire necessi y
there is every reason to believe that the
ingenuity of American engineers, con
structors and inventors would evolve
devices of destruction before which the
existing battleships and fertilization:
would soon be relegated to obscurity.
Two instances of most recent occurrence
have demonstrated the weakness OF
modern warships, one the ease with
which the single blow of ram sent ths
Victoria TO the bottom of the Mediter
ranean, the other the havoc which
single explosion wrought upon thu
Maine in Havana harbor. The moderI
warship is fatally like the armoret
knight of medieval times, VULNERABLE
| because of exceeding bulk and clumsi
| ness. a fair mark for the skill of the en-
| eineer who can combine force and mo
| ton and substitute rapidity for size ant
secrecy for Observation-Disclosures.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-04
LIKE 4 CHARM.
That 10 How Riohmond Citizens Talk
about the al little ConQuosos.

That 10 How Riohmond Cltixsns Talk
About the Little conqussss.
Following up the workings of the
little conquerer in Richmond many
surprising cases are being placed be-
fore the public. Our citizens are sur
prised and delighted. They express
their approval in an emphatic manner,
never hesitating to let the public know
what it means to be c0nversant with
the capabilities of the little conquerer.
A good example of this comes from
Richmond ave. Mr.. Edgar Mote, a
much respected citizen, was found at
his residence. number III, and the
following is the account in detail as
given in his own words:
Mr.. Mote, who is employed at Hasty
Bros factory lS4 Fort Wayne avenue,
says: For a long time my kidneys
have not been right and recently a
steady aching pain set IN that was
most distres ing. At no time was it
severe enough to lay me up, but it
made me feel miserable all the time. |
was advised to try Doan's Kidney
Pills. did so, getting them at A. G.
Luken & Co.'s drug store, and they
acted like charm. A very short time
sufficed to thoroughly relieve me of the
aches and pains. l have no hesitency
IN recommending Doan's Kidney Pills
20 others similarly troubled after my
experience with them"
Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by sill
dealers, price 80 cents. Mailed by
Foster Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
Sole agents for the q. S. Remember
he name Doan's and take no other.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-04
scooPING UP A LOCOMOTIVE.

a T.
from the attraction and repulsion of fric-
tional electricity-the same kind that
is produced by the chatting of the silk
flaps against the rotating glass disk in
the so called electrical machine" An
experiment with the same kind of cleo
tricity, which can easily be tried, is to
apply gentle friction TO thin piece of
cloth or paper, when on bringing it
near the wall of the apartment it will
be attracted thereby and adhere to the
surface-be il wood, plaster or paper
for brief time.
The Popular Science News says that
an interesting discovery, from a geolog-
ical point of view, was recently made
by an explorer in the mountains of
Whites Hook, Natal. says LIE Genie
Civil. On the summit of an extinct vol
cano, on the edge of lake that occu-
pies the crater, soundings revealed a
layer of sand inclosing small diamonds.
1t would be interesting to know wheth-
er these diamonds were there acciden-
tally-that Is, as the result of washing
operations carried on by the natives-or
whether this discovery corresponds to
an actual mine of diamonds, for the
hills of Whites Hook are not situated
in regions known to be diamond bear
ing. On this last hypothesis the pres
ence of precious stones i'll the crater of
volcano would doubtless throw some
light on the formation of the gems in
nature.
Rycbnowski, the electrician of Lem
berg, claims to have discovered an cleo
trio fluid, which he calls "electroid. "
The discovery has caused a great sensa-
ton ON the continent. He obtains it by
electrolysis, but it is not identical with
electricity. Its effects are declared to be
startling, producing light and causing
Geissler tubes to emit f1uorescent rays
1t works photochemically, rotates OBJ
jects in midair, produces whirlpools in
water and kills bacteria. Metal and
glass thereby can be charged with elec-
tricity, and the magnetic needle changes
direction under its influence.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-04
To Metallic Wood.

The process for metalizing wood is
thus described in Mondes: The wcets -
first immersed for three or four days,
according to its permeability, In caus-
tic alkaline lye at a temperature OF
from 75 TO so degrees. From thence II
passes Immediately into bath of hydro
sulphite of calcium, to which Is added.
after "a or sc hours, concentrated soIu-
ton of sulphur IN caustic potash. The
duration Of this bath Is about AZ hours,
and its temperature Is from % to %
degrees Finally the wood Is immersed
from 80 TO 40 hours in hot solution OF
acetate of lead. The process, as may be
seen, is long one, but the results are
surprising. The wood thus prepared.
after having undergone a proper drying
at a moderate temperature, acquires I'M
der a burnisher of hard wood polished
surface and assumes a very brilliant
metallic Iuster This luster is still
further increased If the surface OF the
wood is first rubbed with a piece o.
| lead, tin or zinc and is aftervard pol
ished with glass or porcelain FURNISH
er. The wood thus assumes the appear
ance of true metallic mirror and U
very solid and resistant.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-04

"Love is not love that alters when It alterahon
finds" .
That is one of the sublinest lines IN all
literature II is the final definition OF love
bx the worlds greatest reader of the human
mind Shakespeare. Nearly all women
who truly love, love in this sublime way.
Men seldom do.
worianis most glorious endowment IS
the mower to awaken and hold the pure
and honest love of a worthy man When
she loses il and still loves on, no one IN
the wide world can know the heart agony
she eudures. The woman VINO suffers
from weakness and arrangement of her
special womanly organism soon loses the
power TO sway the heart of a man HeI
general health suffers and she loses her
good looks, her attTact1veneSs, her anna
bility and her power and preslse as
woman. DR. R Y. Pierce, of Buffalo n Y,
vi.h the assistance of his staff of able ply
sicians. has prescribed for many thousands
of women He has devised perfect and
ecientihc remedy for wornen's ailments 1t
is known as DR. Pierces FavoTite Prescfip-
ton II is positive specific for all weak
nesses. diseases, disorders, DISBURSEMENTS,
irregularities, and facilitating drains Pc
cuIiar to women. II purihes, regulates,
strengthens and heals. Medicine dealers
sefl Il and no honest dealer Will ADVISE
YOU to accept substitute that he may
make a little larger profit
II was afflicted with kidney trouble and
have always had a torpid liver. writes Ms
Crosswhite, OF Dstfau, Erath Co. Texas aiiea
i commenced your medicine was not aLls Z
stand on nv feet used one bette q 1E
Piercc's Favorit- Prescription and nvs vas 8
his Pleasant Pellets am How vel Rs
not walked in four uzo1fhs when co--s11.s--1eS
the treatment. but IN ten Gays " as @1-s
walk everywhexe
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-04
New Quick Firing Guns.

Messrs. Kynoch of Birmingham have
for some time past been engaged in per-
fectjng the rnschauiszn of . new quick
producing a weapon long way ahead
of any other gun of similar type. By
turning wheel the whole mechanism
is set working, and 600 magazine bull
lets are discharged per minute. The
gun, which weighs only a hundred
weight, is single barreled and while in
action is kept cool by a water jacket,
which is filled automatically. The fir
ing action is supplied with cartridges
by an endless belt. which passes through
a box and collects the cartridges. The
gun will kill at three miles, and as the
barrel is made to swing from right to
left it will probably prove to be one OF
the most deadly weapons of modern
warfare. w estminster Gazette.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-04
PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEYING.

One Of the Important Uses to Which the
| Camera Has Been Put.
Something like so, 900 square miles
of the mountainous country OF western
Canada has been surveyed with the
camera. Nothing comparable to this in
the way of Photographic surveying has
been accomplished on any such scale
anywhere else in the world.
The causes of failure on the part of
many who have tried the method and
discarded it in disgust are chiefly two.
One of these is defective knowledge
in descriptive geometry and perspective.
which are essentials of the plotting pho-
Geographic surveying. The other difficult
ty lies in the manipulation of the pho
tographic apparatus itself and the max
ing of proper negative. This is by no
means the easy thing it seems, since
photographs that would be highly ac-
ceptable to the average photographer,
professional or amateur, might be quite
useless for the purpose of the surveyor.
For example, the surveyors picture, in
order to be of use, must be taken with
the camera in precisely the horizontal
position, fitting never a hairbreadth
in one direction or another. The lens he
uses must be an anastigmat and abso-
lutely rectilinear, that the image may
not be in the least distorted. and the
plate must be of special kind and ad-
justed in the camera with a degree of
nicely of which the ordinary photog-
rapher has no conception.
Mr.. Deville, who had in charge the
Canadian work, points out in a practi-
cal way how many of the worst difficult
ties may be easily overcome. Thus the
simple device of having net suspend
ed between the legs of the tripod in
which stones are placed Ges0<1ve IN
cWslnndy weather that now IS 1ost through
the vibration of the instrument. And
the care which is counseled in deter
mining the exact period of proper ex-
posure for given plate, lens and light,
even if carried out with far less scien-
tific precision than is here suggested,
would enable many an amateur who
now wastes several plates for every good
negative to reverse the proportions of
failures and successes. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-04
WONDERS OF SCIENCE
HOW a LOCOMOTIVE WAS ScOopEO
UP IN NEW ENGLAND.

Antics of Electricity Startling Eject. of
Observation-Disclosures Produced and
Bacteria kilIed-RofAtion OF Objects In
Embellishments In . Volcano.
A strange accident recently occurred
on the Clinton and Fitchburg branch Of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad. Through the neglect of
telegraph operator. says Locomotive En-
cheering, an engine with a snowplow
passed the station where q stop order
had been received and met a milk train
ON the road. The engine of the milk
train was scooped up On the boiler CT
the snowplow engine and remained in
the position shown until taken TO an
engine house. An unusual thing about
the accident was that nobody was even
hurt. There had been five men in the
snowpiow, but they jumped out before
the collision and escaped without inju
ry. The fireman of the milk train en-
CINE was knocked from the cab into the
snow, and he escaped with few slight
bruises. The engineer of the top engine
and the engineer of the bottom engine
both remained at their posts, and mel
Their was injured.
The mention of electricity of frisky
behavior will suggest to most people |
some OF its actions on the trolley or |
about the street cars or In connection |
with electric light wires when it |
breaks loose, which are all of too dan
gerous q character to be amusing, not |
ing not at all IFS rraulS On their oxrY
desks, though no live wire be with
in a mile of them, writes George ]. |
Varney in Lippincott S. 1t does not al
ways occur to our minds that electricity |
is PLAYING a little trick when we take q /
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-04
commissioners Sale of Real
Estate.

Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned
LON mss oner appointed to sell real estate ir
cause 40. ii,43I, ending in the WAYNE civcniI
SouIt |, oe'ng cause Ex parate John j. Hoerner
e Al, wiz oy virtue of an order made and on.
.slsa IN SAID cause sell at public auction on
Ins premises on Thursday the I2th day of Nay-
ieai estate IN Wayne county, Indiana to-wlt:
Part OF lot No. l6 in that part Of the cltv ri
nIcn nond laid out by jeremiah Cor de-
scrloed as follows, to-wit Beginning at The
southeast corner OF said lot running thence
vest along Main street 20 feet: thence MOTH
~ rect; thence east 70 feet to 5th street thence
south along said 5th street to the place of he
gihnin g, together with the free and uninterrant-
90 use OF the passagevay through and going
rom pm street along the north line of sail
Ana VIII sell at pu bile auction at O'Clock n
IN. on SAID l2th day of May, 1895 on the prem
SIS the following described real estate in
wayne county, Indiana to-wif.
LOT 80: . IN John Smiths addition TO the
81 q 81 hicn ond. excepting q strip of ground
Al rect IN WIDTH of of the north side thereof
TERMS OF SALE.
Said real estate will be sold "a the Eoliox,,g
terms. to-wlt- One-tbird of the purchase
money TO be paid in cash; one-third in one '. ar
arc one-thIrd IN two years from the day of sail
ne purchaser to execute his notes for the d.
IeTeu paynen Mt waving valuation a nd apr rai4-
nent laws, bearing six per cent per anpuu
lhterest from the date thereof, and secured fy
mortgage on the real estate sold
EDWIN H. GATES. Conn fssfouer. |
"oH' e hobbisss attorney A. r59wed5t
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-04
Special Excursion ~ Burlington Park
via Pennsylvania Lines.

May 23d, 24th. 9th and 2Sth ae-
count the German Baptist annual
meeting at Rurli gton Park (Naper-
vile, Illinois, special low rate exeur-
sion tickets will be sold via Pennsyl-
vania Lines IS 10 will be the fare
from Richmond for round trip. For
particular accommodation of excur-
sionists special train will be run Sat
urday, May 2Sth, leaving Richmond at
S:07 a. M. central time. running
through to Burlington Park without
change. All excursion tickets will be
good returning until June oath, with
privilege to extend return limit to
June Both. For special information
please apply to c. w. Elmer, passen-
ger agent, Pennsylvania Lines, Rich
mond, Indiana.