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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-04-18

In the old Roman
days OF Nero. were
cast Into the drns
OF lions where
they died a hofri. ,
bic, hut foTtp-'
nately speedy
death. The world
has progressed,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-04-18

""H -" 49, -
akness OF disease
&c sensitive femi.
organs, yet al.
without excep-
ton there lies
the trouble.
Aud there Is
just one known
remedy that
- reac h es
Nh and cures
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30
sINBkn,s FLOWERS.
U. R. FROZE.

"How does the meadow-fower its bloom unfold ?
Because the lovely little flower is free
Down to its root, and in that freedom bold"
Humanity and flowers are very
old companions. When the soul
of man drew on it's coat of flesh.
and moved onto the earth, he
found it already supplied with
flowers. And from the beginning
until the present, man and flowers
have gone in close companionship
to the uttermost parts of the
world. It cannot be denied that
each have reaped rich benefits
from one another's acquaintance
ship, and these benefits have not
been all one-sided. The loving care
that civilized man has bestowed
upon flowers, has made them more
prolific, varied and beautiful:
while they in turn have made
mankind more susceptible to cul-
ture and gentleness.
The mission Of flowers is world
wide: giving joy to the child, who
toddling across the green sward,
gives vent to ecstatic pleasure in
the possession of the common field
daisy, recognizing in the fragile
yellow petals, fellow wanderer
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

is not one whit greater than any
one of those men who accompanied
him; save only in that strange
spell-a name.
Now l am not writing to dis
prove the greatness of anyone; but
I am writing to prove what [ know
to be true; and that is that your son,
or your brother, or your friend,
may be doing each day of his life
a deed as brave and noble as any
ever wrought at San Juan or Ma
Mia; that your eyes too steadfastly
fixed upon the light that shines
from the heroes afar, are some
times blinded to the nobility of
your dear ones near at hand, who
may be only awaiting the right
combination of conditions that
will make them a Washington, a
Lincoln or aDewey.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

whole it would certainly be done;
but the only way each can secure
the full share of profit and pleasure
due him, is to "get into it" then
you will feel that a part of it is
yours; or you will feel your part
and act it too. There will proba-
bly, never come again in the life
time of many circumstances SO op-
perfume of learning the actual
minutiae of our Legislative bodies.
Surely the circle is as a spring of
water in a desert land
Many no doubt, at times feel
the lack of incentive to effort. [
know [ often feel it-but you must
find it within. All men find the
true life within, and how much
more must it be so with us in
here. So whether you ever expect
to take your place in the outside
world or not you still have the
same incentive to mental effort. So
take a firm hold boys; and ''get in!'
Make the thing yours, and keep
the pot a boilin'.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

The Rights of Man, published
in Minneapolis, we are pleased to
say has been placed upon our ex-
change list. It is pithy and to the
point, and ''hews to the line.''
Wage earners desiring all explana-
ton of many things that have
been a puzzle to them would do
we'll to send for it. 819 North
western Block Minneapolis MINI.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

man, and SO appalling in it's end
less cycles of effects, that Omnip-
otence alone, is the One altogether
fit to deal with them.
To take every possible precau-
ton to prevent the occurrence of
those murders, seems to me to
be all that man is called upon to
do. Let him do that we'll and He
who has the dispensing of life, as
we'll as death, will attend to the
punishments.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

The following was received by
word Of mouth from Mr.. John
Cover, who does not claim to be
the author any more than does the
writer of this. But I think it we'll
worth repeating.
He stood at the entrance of the
Royal Cafe. There was the look
of many battles about his enact
ated form. He was minus both
arms and one of his legs, and there
was a great scar across his face.
Out Of the cafe strolled Col.
- of the til Mississippi vol
unteers. He eyed the man care
fully up one side and down the
other.
"Well stranger" said he, ''Ireck-
on you must have been in the
WARP
eyes sir was there all right"
replied the veteran, as he shifted
the weight of his body to the peg
leg.
The tall Colonel from Missis-
sippi went down in his pocket and
pulled out bill remarking as he
handed it to the man:
II reckon you are about right"
"Look here mister" replied the
veteran, II want you to understand
that l amt no beggar."
''Oh, no. replied the colonel,
"but sab, you are the first id
Yankee that I've ever seen, sab,
who was trimmed up just to my
liking"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

THE MIRROR is a weekly paper published
In the Minnesota State Prison. 1t was founded
In 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and man
aged by them. Its objects are to be home
newspaper; to encourage moral and intellectual
improvement among the prisoners; to acquaint
the public with the true STATUS of the prisoner;
to disseminate pathological information and to aid
dispelling that prejudice which has ever been
the bar sinister to fallen mans sef-redemptiOn.
The paper is entirely dependent on the public for
Its financial support. If at any time there should
accrue surplus of funds, the money would be
expended in the interests of the prison library.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

ONE is reminded by the homage
at present being paid to Admiral
Dewey, of the saying that "some
are born great. some achieve
greatness, and others have great
ness thrust upon them Now
that reads nicely. It fits the
tongue and we like to hear our
selves saying it; but it has never
seemed to me that it is literally
true. To say that one may have
greatness thrust upon him, is as
preposterous as to say that he may
have goodness, or courageousness
thrust upon him.
Dewey was as great when he
graduated in 1864 and was STA
toned at Key West; or when two
years later he sailed as Lieuten-
ant; or at any time during all the
thirty odd years of obscurity since,
as he was the night he sailed in
to Cavite Bay last summer. Cir
cumstances only have brought the
difference. They have been so
shaped that the latent greatness
already in the man have become
apparent; and the world cries:
"behold the immortal" Had there
been no Spanish war, do you think
Dewey would have been less great ?
Still you and I dear reader, in that
case would probably never have
heard of him.
I had a friend once; quiet boy,
full of calm and quiet courage.
There was the look of battle in
his eye, such as the writer's give
to Dewey. Like Dewey too he
often INDUCED, while at school,
in the pleasant pastime of punich-
ing his comrades heads. He tried
for the appointment to West Point,
but there was no Governor Morrill,
for him; none to lend their in
fuence to secure him the appoint
ment. In one short week he re-
turned, boy no longer, but hav-
ing lost none of his quiet courage.
He was great. Great enough to
smile at his misfortunes; great
enough to blame no one; great
enough to take his humble place
by his old fathers side on the farm
and live the life of patient in
dustry, unsung but undismayed.
Do you think it takes a "Ma-
Mia" or "Merrimac" to show me
that mans greatness?. And there
are men all about you, dear reader,
who are full to the very brim with
that best of all greatness.
Names may have greatness
thrust upon them; but the man
never. Hobson did a brave deed,
and I admire him for it but he
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

The regular meeting of the
Plerian Chautauqua Circle was
pulled Of last Sunday. The
mock congress is still a feature Of
the meeting, and while it has lost
none of it's usefulness, it is not
perhaps quite all that could be
desired in point Of interest. If
the zeal Of some few could make
it proportionately interesting to the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30
N 0 TIC E..

ALL PERSONS receiving copies of
THE MIRROR who are not Ol our
regular lists will please consider
such as sample copies. If, after
reading, you conclude that THE
MIRROR is worthy of patronage
send your name to this Office for a
trial subscription at rates as pub
lfshed above.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

we'll as death, will attend to the
punishments.
The writer of leading article
in one of our exchanges must have
had his mental vision inoculated
with the miasmatic joys of lingo
ism," when he said of Rudyard
Kipling:
"Wkether he writes Of the Rus
sian bear, the orang outang of the
Archipelago, the white man or
darkest Africa, by crude metaphor
and still more rude allegory the
inevitable deduction is an endorse
ment of the aggressive policy of
England in the past and the bor-
rowed contagion of imperialism
which has recently invaded our
country"
If at any place in this effusion
the writer had given any evidence
that he had actually read the
things that Kipling wrote, we
could at least conclude that how
ever much it might lack in point
Of logic it was at least his own
honest opinion. But he doesn't!
There's not the slightest indica-
ton anywhere in it, that he has
ever read even one book that
Kipling wrote.
Again:
can astonished and awe stricken
world, has looked to him in vain
for wisdom and hearkened but
failed to hear him sing
Now, what do you think of that?
Whatever else his "obiter dictum"
may lack it certainly isn't that
very essential qality the vulgar
designate gall" How this lite
rary anomaly could have so Zig
gered'' his mental spectrum as not
to have seen any wisdom in
"Tales Of the Hill, Jungle Tales
"Baa Baa Black Sheep and Other
Tales" or have been so lacking in
the appreciation of harmony as
not to have heard music in "The
'Eathen,'' "L' Envoi,'' "Mandalay"
or "The Mary Floster'' is the
strangest part of all.
The writer of the article says:
"No singer of the ages ever sang
more sweetly the dolorous dirge
of a sin-sick world than did poor
Poe"
Now that is very true; but be-
cause Poe chose to unburden him
self of his remorse for an illspent
and disolute life by heaping it
upon the public, it doesn't follow
that Kipling is less great because
his life is clean, and the things of
which he writes natural and
wholesome. The1e is 'sin Sickness
enough in the world already. We
all have "dolorus dirges'' of our
own without being burdened with
those of others.
And he also says:
"Why should Kipling be an
exception? The solution is this.
He has lately taken up the fiat
terer's burden and is writing to
the Queens TASTE
Well now, of all the nice things
that have been said of Kipling,
none can be more trite than that
he has written to the queens
taste:" and had he but started with
this aphorism alone aud followed
it to it's logical conclusion he would
not perhaps, have done his judg-
ment such an injustice; and we
could have had the satisfaction of
feeling that he had Kipling
written up to the queens taste.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

from some celestial sphere. Crown
ing the bride. they breath forth in
their fragrance blessing and
promise Of future happiness To
the afflicted they bring the COM
fort of unspoken sympathy, and
resting highly upon the newly
made grave, their fragrance rises
upon the sunbeams, carrying tok
ems of love to the departed.
One privilege the law has not
seen fit to deprive us of, is the
opportunity of resting our eyes.
upon flowers of all hues. For a
number of years; though we may
never have given it an appreciat-
ing thought, we have been blessed
with delightful array of flowers
within these prison walls. AS we
passed to and fro from our daily
toll, our eyes have drawn pleasure
from the beautiful flowers that
have lined both sides Of our street.
AS the summer days passed, the
flowers grew in beauty and fra
GRANGE. When the cold days Of
Autumn came, our loved flowers
commenced to wither, and then
disappeared where? I wonder
how many of us have ever given
one thought to those beautiful
flowers from the time they ceased
to please our senses.
When the flowers disappeared
they we're neither dead nor sleep
ing, and were in fact only CON-
mencing to live, for out of each
plant of last year, have come many
plants. When removed from the
yard, the plants we're taken to the
greenhouse, and here from each
plant, small section was cut, and
this small section contained in
embryo all the elements Of plant.
Then this small stem was placed
in bed of pure white sand, and
here the infant plant in company
with hundreds of other infants,
enjoyed nap for thirty days. It
was during this period that the
brow of Sinbad showed lines of
anxiety, for upon the success Of
this crop Of babies depended the
beauty of the grounds for the
coming year. Like an anxious
mother watching her sleeping chill
dren, Sinbad watched his baby
plants, regulating the temperature
and moisture, and fighting hand
to hand battles with the fungus
that preys upon the lives Of infant
plants.
At the end Of it's thirty days;
sleep our infant plant is found to-
have developed toes in the shape
of tiny roots. When this condition
has been achieved, our baby plant
is taken from the common bed and
placed in tiny pot, filed with
the kind of soil best adapted to it's
constitution, and is thus started in
life by itself.
AS our baby grew, it was given
a larger pot to kick about in, and
the rapidity of baby plants growth
can be best judged by the fact
that from the time it was propa-
gated last Autumn until it goes
into the ground the coming spring,
our baby plants will have changed
pots no less than five times. I'm
place of the plants that passed
away from our grateful view are
now over 22O plants that have
through this process, passed
through infancy and childhood,
and are about to display the beau
ty of their glowing youth to our.
expectant gaze.
The above is the rule. The ex-.
ception has for months been bur-
led under the four feet of snow
that covers our yard. Here, deep
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

Lincoln or aDewey.
IT may be a startling fact to-
some that the names of the trusts
formed in 1898 would more than
fill this column. There we're
thirty-six incorporated, at sums
ranging from thirty-six to one
hundred and twenty-five millions
aggregating a round billion of
dollars.
The articles controlled are all
necessaries of life and death: IN
Guiding as they do, pretty much
everything from coal oil to collins.
And then there is a bill in the
legislature to increase the oppor-
tionment to high schools from
four to ten hundred. munifcent
legislature; 0 credulous people.
How long will you lie asleep?
IT HAS often seemed to me that
God Almighty must certainly
frown at the frequent usurpation
by man of His especial preroga-
tives. I speak of the dispensation
of death. There seems to be an
impression with many that the
number of people necessary be-
fore the act" in some way, makes
it right. It seems especially meet
that should say this at this par
ticular time, since SO much is
being said about the killing of
Mrs. Place in the State of New
York.
The fact that the majority Of the
six million or SO of people of the
state, have consulted together and
agreed to kill, does not, it seems
to me, in any way detract from the
letter of the law.
That old platitude about the
sovereign people, and the safety
of the commonwealth is all "bosh."
A little over century ago the
sovereign people, thought it nee
essary for the safety of the "com-
monwealth" to burn at the stake
a certain poor old woman, because
forsooth, upon certain day neigh.
boris baby had measles and the
baby's brother felt pins sticking
in him.
If the killing of a murderer
ever made anything right; if it
brought peace and solace to the
sorrowing friends of the murdered
one; or was in any a compensation
or help to them, It might at least
be said there was some show of
reason in it. Instead, it is only
adding crime to misfortune, and
nothing is made better or any per-
son happier.
I grieve that these things should
be so; and my grief is only ex-
ceeded by my surprise when [
learn, that some of the papers of
the country seem not to have dis
abused themselves of the old Ante
bellum notion that such things
were done with the idea of pun
ishing the murderer.
How supremely frivolous that
sounds. AS though a set of men,
with wise and sanctimonious faces,
could, by placing poor halfdazed
woman in chair, turning on the
current, and ushering her into
eternity, mearure out a punish
ment in the smallest degree COM
mensurate with the enormity of
the act she committed.
The consequences of such an
act it seems to me, are SO infinitely
beyond and without the sphere of
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

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each week, notice should be sent to this Office
and the matter will be attended to at once.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

Entered at the Post office at Saltwater, Mimi.
as second. class mail matter.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

Contributions solicited from all sOuI ces.
Rejected manuscript will not be returned.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30

Edited and Published by the In
mates of the Minnesota State Prison.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-07-20
TEST NOTICE.

Department of the Interior. United
States Land Office, Helena, Montana,
July LIST, lS99.-A sufficient contest.
affidavit having been filed in this office
by Thomas e. Brady, of Great Falls,
Montana, contestant, against Timber
Culture entry No. 2053, made Aug. Goth.
1888. for SWM section %. township 26
north, range 6 west, by Henry Mclean
Martin, cnnte tee. in which it is alleged
that said claimant died somewhere
about the year 1890 in the S ate of
Montana, and that his heirs have wholly
abandoned said tract and have in no
way complied with the laws of the
United States concerning the cultiva-
ton of said land for the raising OF trees
upon the same, that neither said de-
ceased nor his heirs have at II time
broken five acres of land upon said tract
or seeded the same to tree seed or raised
any trees whatever upon the same, or
made any effort to raise rr grow trees
upon any part of said tract of land. said
parties are hereby notified to appear. re-
spond and offer evidence touching said
allegation at 10 o'clock a. m, on Aug
ust 18th, 1899 before Eugene Prior.
a notary public, at his Office in Great
Falls, Mon ana, and that final hearing
will be held at 10 o'clock a. m, on Aug
ust 21st, 1899, before the Register and
Receiver at the Uni ell States Land
Office in Helena, Montana.
The said contestant having, in proper
affidavit, filed July 1sr, 1899, set forth
facts which show that after due dill
gcnce personal service cannot be made,
it is hereby ordered and directed that
service be given by due and proper
publication.
GEoRoE D.. GREENE, Register.
First pub July
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-07-20
Partnership Notice.

To whom it may concern: This is to
certify that the membership of the firm of
Jos. Hirshberg and Co., doing business
at Dupuyer, Montana, heretofore con
sisting of Joseph Hirshberg, Julius
Hirshberg, Alfred Harris and Carl
Harris, was on the 10Th day of May,
1899, changed, by the said Alfred Harris
withdrawing from said partnership firm
by mutual consent of all of the parties
to said partnership.
The partnership firm of Jos. Hirshberg
and CO., Of Dupuyer, Montana, now con
sists of Joseph Hirshberg, of Helena,
Montana, Julius Hirshberg, of Choteau,
Montana and Carl Harris, of Dupuyer
Montana.
In witness whereof the partners in said
partnership have hereunto set their
hands and seals this 9Th day of June,
1899. JOSEPH HIRsHBERG. TSeal.1
julius HIRsHBERG. [Seal.
CARL HARRIS. TSeal.1
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-07-20
Alias Summons

In the district court of the. Eleventh Judfca'
district OF the State of Montana, In ano
for the County of Teton.
Geo. A. Fry and Geo. b. Fry co-partners
under the firm name and style of Geo. A.
Fry 90, plaintiffs, against +. d Matheson,
The State of Montana to the above named
defendants:
You are hereby summoned to answer the
complaint in this action which is fled in the
ofi1ce OF the Clerk OF this court, a copy of
which is herewith served upon you, and to file
your answer and serve a COPY thereof upon
Jne plaintiffs attorney within twenty DAYS
AFTER the service of this exclusive
or the day of service; and In case of your fail
ure to appear or answer, judgment will be
taken gains you by default for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
ms action Is brought to enforce the COL
1ecblon or q prOmissory note alleged to nave
Deen executed by you and by you delivered
to p~laSntiffS OF Dec. 10, 1893, for two hundred
hfty-eight and 25-1CO g25S.25) dollars, with in
tsrest at IL per cent per year from date.
Plalnt1ffs also ask for $500 attorneys fees
Tor all costs of suit.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Dis
trict court, this 24th day of June, In the year
OF our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-nine. STERLING MCDONALD,
loealJ Clerk.
j. Bair, attorney for plaintiffs.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-07-20
Notice 10 Creditors.

Estate of Charles Buckley, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed, administrator of the estate of
Charles Buckley, deceased, to the credi-
tors OF and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, to exhibit
them with the necessary vouchers, with
IN four months after the first publica-
ton of this notice, to the said admins
traitor, at the Office of Carl Harris,
Notary Public, Dupuyer, Mont, the
same being the place for the transaction
OF the business of said estate.
HENRY RYAN,
Acm nistratpT of the estate Of Charles
Buckley, de ca ed.
Dated, Dlplyvr, Mont, May 5, 1899.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-07-20

MOTlCE.-Department Of the Interior,
IL General Land Office, Washington,
D. c., June 9Th, 1899 Notice is hereby
given that sealed bids, addressed to the
Commissioner of the General Land
Office, will be received by the Receiver
of public moneys OF the United States
Land Office at Helena, Montana, up to
and including Au us II. 1899, for the
purchase, under the Act OF June 4, 1897,
OF six hundred thousand (6O0,OOO) feet of
green spruce and fir timber on un-
surveyed public lands within the Lewis
& Clarke Forest Reserve, lying at the
junction of the South Fork of Dupuyer
creek and Magee creek, being south and
cast Of saidcreeks, respectively, andwhat
Will be, when surveyed, as heal as can
be Appropriated, the W y of secs. 10,
80 and 81, tp, q H., +. 8 W, and the @ Is
of secs. "A, rs and 36, tip. q H., +. 10 W.
The timber will not be sold for less than
the appraised stumpage value of one
dollar ($1.00) per thousand feet. board
measure. A deposit of one hundred (S1OW
dollars with the Receiver will be required
with each bid, and payment in full must
be made within thirty days. after notice
of award. The timber to be cut will be
marked and designated by the Forest
Supervisor under whose supervision it
will be cut and removed. No green
timber less than fifteen Q5) inches in
diameter at the base can be cut. All
tops, brush and refuse must be piled for
burning under the direction of the
Forest Supervisor. No timber can be
transported out the state of Montana.
No timber can be cut Or otherwise dis
posed of until after payment in full.
Purchaser failing to remove all timber
within n year forfeits purchase money
and right to timber unremoved. The
right is reserved to reject any or all bids.
BINGER Hermann, Commissioner.