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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-24

"Anything over hundred will do"
"How many pounds pressure does
she blow off at ?" asked Jim.
"When the steam gets at two hun
dred pounds the safety valve opens;
but no one ever heard it blow off yet,
The captain has standing offer of
five dollars to the first man that pops
the valve"
Jim went and relieved his partner
and when he looked at the steam gage
he saw there was only 80 pounds of
steam, and the fires were to clean out.
There was jet of steam running in to
the smokestack to help the draught, and
the first thing Jim did was to shut this
off. Jim put in one or two fires, and
had the steam up to 10 pounds with.
out using the blower in the stack. He
then cleaned his fires, and while he was
putting them out, the chief was watch
ing him.
He hadIheard the blower shut off the
first time since he had been engineer
of the boat, Except in port.) He looked
down at Jimmie pulling hot ashes out
of the furnace to the tune of "a Hot
Time in the Old Town." and went back
to the engine room, wondering where
such little man got his strength
Thirty minutes afterwards there was
the sound of mighty rush of escap.
ing steam. The captain came running
towards the engine room, thinking that
steam pipe had burst. When he got
into the engine room, he found the
engineer dancing the can-can before the
steam-gage.
The captain looked at the register
and saw the 2O0tb pressure. "Well, I'll
be d-d" said he. "Who would have
thought it of that little whitfet? he
shall have that five dollars right now
and down into the fire hold the captain
went, and Jimmie got the money.
AS soon as Jim's watch was over, he
took a bath, put on clean suit of
clothes, and that was the care he took
of himself all the time. Always neat
and clean, whether working or not
The name of dude always clung to him
Well, he laid the boat up, and
through his ability, civility, and clean.
illness, he made such valuable friends
that today he is the commodore engi
neer of the largest fleet of boats on
fresh water, and they are owned by the
richest man and the largest railroad
system in the United States. MEMO.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-24
Written for The Prison Mirror.
Fever and Ague.

"Did ever tell you what time l
had with the chills down in east Texas ?''
asked the drummer of the country
merchant, who, with the usual crowd
of loafers, was listening in open
mouthed amazement to the drummer's S
wonderful yarns.
"No? Well, as have some time to
wait for the stage, I'll tell you. You
see I had been travelling down in that
country for Dallas house, and being
so much in the swamps of the piny
woods, (for you know along the rivers
it's nearly all swamp got the ague so
bad that had to quit my job. 1 was
just too sick to work, and to make
matters worse, 1 had no money saved.
But 1 had to live, and to live must
work. l wandered around Dallas for
several weeks looking for something
to do, but no man wanted a man who
was shaking all the time, and found
it much easier to ask for job than to
get one. Finally had spent my last
cent, or rather 10 cents, for a very cheap
meal in very cheap restaurant. Thus
reduced, was seriously contemplating
a quiet plunge in the Trinity river
when, as it always does, the unexpected
happened. Now must mention that
l had what is known in that country
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-24
ER, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, AUGUST "A, 1899.

as every day chills. That is, 1 had a
chill every day in the week.
"Well, as I was saying, 1 was walk
ing down Ervay street with one OF my
very worst chills and although the sun
was blazing hot I had my coat buttoned
and the collar turned up and was shak-
ing like sin. 1 had not gone. far when
[ heard some one call, and halting and
looking around 1 saw an Italian who
kept fruit stand on the corner beck
oning to me. Wondering what on
earth he could want, I retraced my
steps to his stand. Upon my asking
what was wanted, he asked in his brok-
en- English, which 1 will not attempt
here:
"'Have you got chills p
"'Yes,' replied, shaking harder than
ever.
"'You want a job? was his next
query.
"Somewhat puzzled replied that 1
did, whereupon he at once said that he
would give me one.
"Gentlemen, you can imagine my
feelings at that moment. There 1 was
on the verge of starvation, with my
pride struggling for the mastery over
my common sense which told me to
accept the offer. After few moments
of mental struggle I informed him
that [ would 60 to work, which did
at once. I worked for that dago every
day until fall, and never shall l forget
him."
"But," broke in his auditors breath
lessly, "what kind of job was it?''
The drummer smiled. Shaking lem
onade," he replied. J. S. B.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-24


Assize prisoners have occasionally
but little faith in the ability of counsel
assigned for their defense. Not long
ago a prisoner was informed by the
judge that his defense would be un-
dertaken by X, 'and,' added his lord
ship, that will cost you nothing"
Prisoner, however, held different view,
and was heard to remark that his lord
ship hadn't done the straight thing,
nohow."
"What do you mean, sir ?" asked the
judge sternly.
"Well," said the prisoner, "you said
as the court would provide counsel and
it was a-goin' to cost me nothing. If
that's my counsel" he continued, in.
dicating the rather diminutive gentle
man who had been set apart for the
defense, "it's a-goin' to cost me ten
years, an no less."-Tit. Bits.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-24

U7ritten for The Prison Mirror.
Ward, as 1 realize, is a queer phe-
nomenon, which may be either animate
or inanimate; it may cover a 5x7 foot
space or an entire district-by chance,
sometimes, considerable more.
In this ward the animate wards may
partake of different characteristics:
some that of keeper or guard; the
others and majority that of prisoner,
both of which are treated by rules
rules to benefit the majority and such
that when sentences are finished that
evidence compliance, compositions
may be turned out fit for the public.
Now as Wards are subjects that can
be treated scientifically only by rules;
in keeping Herewith and in accordance
to popular English customs, comply.
Being cognizant that in the experience
of my readers, they have felt the
general adaptability and necessity of
rules; yet, in treating this subject, 1
am impressed that several objections
seem meet.
Under the caption "Rule for English
Composition" Prof. Bernard Bigsby
advises, first:
You must first acquire a perfect
knowledge of the subject upon which you are to
write.
Composition, i. e. it's significance,
here, needs no argument; and as to
acquiring perfect knowledge of the
subject upon which I am to write,
can certify that know it thoroughly:
know it's every constituent as also it's
elegant reflections.
Second:
When an artist wishes to produce an imagi-
nary sketch, he first pictures the scene in his
minds eye
With this practice l have unquali-
fedly conformed, for [ have most
necessarily pictured my subject in my
minds eye; and as to my being an
artist. for credentials refer you to the
Ward. superior.
Following, he says:
then in a few bold dashes he commits
| the design to canvass
This is where I may have erred: I
made the bold dashes before the imagi-
nary sketch and totally neglected the
design to canvass.
| Now, the good professor adds:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-24
Hq itten for The Prison Mirror.
A Tale With A Moral To It.

1 amt sayin' nuthin'. But when l
seed this fixin' up agoin' on, I'm mind.
ed of the Kansas farmer who kept on
temptin' providence. He first built
himself nice little log shack. And
the cyclone came. And it was there
after the cyclone left.
But the farmer got proud, and he got
real glass window lights, and green
shutters.
And the cyclone came, and took the
shutters and few shingles.
Well, the harvest was good and the
farmer concluded he would build a
wing to his shack. He did so, and it
looked so we'll he painted the whole
thing.
And the cyclone came again, and
took the whole blamed thing, and even
carried the farmer into the next coun-
try. He lives in storm cellar now.
The moral I draw from this, is that
the next cyclone that visits Washing
ton Co., is very liable to be attracted
by the bran new appearance of our
little shack down in "Battle Hollow
and invite us to a sail over the lake
into Wisconsin. But 1 aint sayin'
nuthin' I'm jest thinkin' whenever I
see those dark clouds asizin' up this
place. JAN O'RURICK.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-24
Tepme.J Shopper year, in advance
"o Six Months SO cents.

When I allude to him as "the man
with the MISSION" 1 speak advisedly,
for I understand he considers his con-
viction and confinement here as part
of his destiny to bring sinners to saliva
tiOn.
am told the good man is at present
successfully engaged in the manufac-
ture of soap for the use of
the institution; and, as the Good
Book says cleanliness is next to
godliness, am firmly convinced
that the good man has found
his little niche at last. 1t is
amusing to the great unwashed to
notice how dexterous he has become
with his mitt in the dining room.
Anyone who may be under the i'm
preston that Barnum's fat boy over
looks any bets in the dining hall, is
away off.
trust, Mr.. Editor, that under your
management all the old contributors
may return. 1 have sadly missed
"Iconoclast," "M. j." ""D. w. K" "Dan
O'Connell," "The Yellow Kid" "Telep-
athy," "BiIl Sykes" "The Sweet Singer
of Otter Tail,'' and host of others
who collectively made THE MIRROR
one of the brightest prison papers in
America.
Wishing you all success in your new
field of labor, and confidently expect
ing to see the paper assume it's former
position among prison papers under
your management, remain with SEN
timents of great esteem,
The MAN WITH The HOE.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-24
Tvritten for The Prison MlTrOr.
What the Critics say.

Mr.. Editor:-Allow me to congratu-
late you on your appointments as editor of
THE MIRROR, and also on your concise
and practical salutatory in which you
engage to avoid the methods followed
by your immediate predecessor. Dur
ing my sojourn here several inmates
have occupied the editorial chair; but
for good, big, everyday, all-around
chunk of inanity, "the man with the
mission" easily takes first money.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-24
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and afterwards works out the body of his
piece. So should it be with theme making.
Ponder we'll upon your subject before you begin.
This is the most ticklish proposition,
and it has given me not little anxiety.
Further, he continues:
Decide upon your argument, and then trace
out the threads of your essay in salient points.
This 1 find infallibly only too true;
and since l hope to avoid essaying to
trace out threads in salient points
no arguments in mine!
And now he gives gibe about
sentences:
Having written a sentence, study it carefully
and try if you cannot improve its tone of ele-
gance and propriety.
In this, again l concur, yet, with
this ward its elegance depends only
on how long it will live; propriety, on
"board."
Prof. Bigsby's next rule seems un-
warranted and uncalled for. He says:
Do not aim at using fine words; for simplicity
is the perfection of composition.
My difficulty seems to be, falling
short of cuss words-even with my
seven languages. AS to simplicity I
need but submit.
He also states:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-24

'itten for The Prison Mirror.
WANT.
No place to stay
This bitter night,
In city gay
With temples bright.
No clothes to wear,
His coat so thin,
Why all our care,
Is this our sin?
There is one spot
That he may share,
A poor mans cot
Though little there.
Great God awake
And hear our call.
The nations shake
And save us all
From life for gain,
While others need,
And suffer pain,
With Thee we plead.
THOMAS MCCLARY.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-24

Express your meaning as freely as possible.
Long periods may please the ear, but they per-
plex the understanding. Therefore avoid too
long sentences.
About this subject, or composition,
it is hardly advisable to express your
meaning as freely as possible clerk
for certain Transfer Co. was unmer-
cifully cursed and berated for an error
that he was guilty of, retorted: "Why
you low, squint-eyed prodigy! the
blank with the job; and for cent I'd
wallop the earth with you, etc., etc"
But he never heard me say it, said the
clerk.
+ This I deem the only advisable
course in. respect to this subject; and
as to long periods, they might please
the ears of some, but they always per-
plex the understanding.
have applied the rules to the SUBJ
ject-for further information as to
composition, apply to the steward.
RUDOLPH.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-26
KLONDIKE OUTPUT.

WASHINGTON, May 16.-Consul
Brush reports to the State Department
from Clifton, Ont, respecting the Klon-
dixie output for 1899, as follows:
An authority whose estimates have
heretofore proved to be conservative
brings word from Dawson that the
wash-up from the Yukon this year will
aggregate $19OOO,0OO, apportioned sis
follows: Ell Dorado. $2,50O,0OO; b.
nanza, $2,5O0,0OO; French Hill, $780,
600; Gold Hill, $1,50O,OO0; Big SHOOK
UNI, $1,O00.00O; Little Skookum, 81, 900 :
900; Dominion, $4.O0O.OOO: Hunkcr and
Quartz. $5,0O0,OOO; total, $4,000, 900
The figures leave out of consideration
number Of important locations. in
Guiding Sulphur Creek, Stewart River.
Upper klondike and Scroggie Creek
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-26
Carnegie Seeks Refuge From the
People Who Want Money.

LONDON, May 16.-Andrew Carne-
gle left London to-day for Skibo
Castle. In an interview he is quoted
as saying: Il am looking forward 10
protection in my highland solitude
from the army of mendicants that
every hour is importuning me for sub
scriptions TO every conceivable object.
Even were | disposed to accede 10
these applications for promiscuous as
sistance, my resources for philanthro-
ply have already been fully hypothe-
Gated, and bombarding me with fur
Their appeals is simply adding to the
postal revenues
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-26

-, pIouuce the coarse fodder and
part OF the grain for at least one horse,
one cow, and one or two pigs, and
some poultry, and possibly have some
thing left to sell"
The result of the last years expert
ment is a profit of S15S.87 This
amount obtained from four acres is
seldom equaled by the profits of the
farms in the South covering from fifty
to two hundred acres each. But it
must be said that the value OF the
white mans brains in experimenting
this small farming experiment has not
been estimated 1t is the purpose of
the school, however, to educate the ne
gro students so that they become in
structors throughout the South in
small farming 1t is conceded that in
struction will be useless unless this
fouracre farm is in operation wher-
ever the teacher is settled. Neither
the white or colored man will believe
until he, with his own hands, handles
the produce. That four acres may
al DeLItI IcIui IL than l"tilly 10 W
these men an absurd proposition. The
writer once stated in an agricultural
convention of white Southern farmers
the well-known fact that the French
farmers are the richest in the world,
and that the average size of French
farms is three and one-half acres. The
president of the convention said pri-
vately: Il know that is the truth, but
not one of our farmers believe it, and
you could not make them believe it
unless you put them ON these French
farms for year or two"
Although few not expensive eX-
perimentS made at the time. the
Americans assumed control here in
1893, would now serve as object les
sons in dealing with immigration, ami
perhaps would now remove some of
our difficulties in obtaining the right
bone and sinew'' for the land, it is
not too late to undertake@it now. And
it must be done if we propose to make
our grand proclamation of the profits
Of our soil anything better than the
usual yellow literature of the, Main
land. 1t was urged several years ago
that the profits of coffee cultivation
would be at least $3.50 per acre" and
he man who denied it was denounced
rs a pessimist and traitor" There
had been no demonstration of the
act. Why not? Because it was easier
% boom the land on prophecies than
% evolve the facts by slow and Ia
,OriOuS process.
We do not wish lot of intelligent,
worthy immigrants to be landed on
ur soil and then left to root. hog. or |
lie. 1t does not pay. We surely |
eed the immigrants, but those who |
re desirable ask for demonstrations |
OF prophecies.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-26
OBJECT LESSONS IN FARMING.

1t was said in these columns yeSter-
day that before the immigration of
small farmers was encouraged as a
body distinct from laborers on plan
tatiOns, the actual results of intelli-
gent farming should be exhibited in
stead of adding to the deluge of yell
low literature on the enormous posi-
bilities in farming IN nearly every
part of the Mainland.
This yellow literature showing how
easy it is for a laboring man to get
rich by buying and cultivating land,
always carrying with it some little
truth, does not now deceive those who
are proposing to immigrate. The
most tempting offers made to the
farmers of the Middle States by the
land dealers of California do not now
attract immigrants, because their mis-
representations have been discovered
But there is always steady immigra-
ton to places where the object lesson
has been satisfactory, and the repre-
sensations proved up.
In dealing with the colored man of
the southern states 1t was seen tnaJ
the idea was fixed in his mind that
farm of twenty acres was the least
area that one man could cultivate with
profit The white man, also, has the
larger idea that he must cultivate at
least one hundred acres in order to
make a living. No preaching can re-
move this idea. No showing of statis-
tics could do it. Twenty acres" was
the summing up of the negros judg
ment, and that judgment could not be
changed.
At the Hampton Agricultural Schools
in Virginia, it became apparent some
time ago that nothing but object les
sons would change the opinion of
either whites or negroes. In order to
furnish a convincing lesson, the facul-
ty Of the school have undertaken to
show what can be done with an area
of four acres, not under cultivation in
special crops, but in general farming
crops. 1t undertakes to show that
this four-acre farm will produce crops
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-26
INSURES
PURE

We have it prepared in quantities to
supply any or all demands. We will
deliver to your home, if within the city
limits, trial bottle at % cents Don't
neglect to order bottle at once.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-26

HOOdsc Dill cure all Liver Ills and
sAOONa y hlo Sick Headache. 25c.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-26
Nj ARCHAND SAFE

PARIS, May 16.-At Cabinet Coun-
Gil held to-day the Minister for the
Colonies, NJ. Guillain. communicated
to those present the contents of te-
legram received by the Governor of
Iboutit from Major Marchand, saying
the mission was in perfect health and
would arrive at JibOutit on May 18th
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-26
AN EXTRA SESSION.

( II president MCKINLEY has decided
to call an extra session of Congress in
October, he has reached the conclusion
that the people have done thinking
about the relations of the conquered
lands. and are ready to adopt a de-
cisive policy towards them. He does
not intend to depart from his own
wise policy of making expansion the
peoples business. The Spanish war
was their war. The Philippine war is
their war. The disposition Of Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines is their
affair, because they are the real rulers,
and he, under the Constitution is their
agent
By the first of October the war
against the F'ilipinos will probably be
settled and some definite policy must
be quickly adopted regarding the
control of the islands, or by that time
it will not be ended, and some policy
must be adopted providing for pro-
tracted war.
If there is a session in October the
Hawaiian matter will be at once con-
sidered, SO that an organic law may be
passed, unless those hostile to our in
terests are strong enough to involve it
with the colonial schemes. If they do,
there may be much delay in pass
ing the organic act.
The general tone of the papers of
the Mainland is not as aggressive as it
was. The picnic of the volunteer So
RI &c nd
sitiOn on their part to carry the Flag
much further into the jungles of the
tropics. Enlisting to fight the Span
iards for the sake of humanity, and
lighting in LuZOn for the right to rule
the Fflipinos are widely different mat
tiers. Thinking bayonets" are willing
now, as they have been, to compel or
der in the Philippines and make the
Filipinos behave in spite of Senator
Hoar's fervent wish that they should
be let alone to enjoy the inalienable
right of governing themselves by cut
ting each others threats. But after
order is restored, what then? The |
President is only the Executive and |
not the law maker. His chief claim 30 |
reputation in the future Will be that he |
confined himself strictly to executing }
the will of the people, instead of pre-
ferring his own will to theirs
He will, therefore, naturally seek to
obtain an authoritative expression of
that will by Congress. If he calls an
extra session he is satisfied that the
yelling eXpansionists, the bubbling-
over patriots, who wish to see the Flag
planted in Asia, Africa and Europe, as
we'll as America, have been smothered
by the good sense of the people, and
the gloomy anti-expansionists have
taken less hopeless view of American
destiny, and are willing to concede
that political wisdom was not buried
with the makers of the Constitution. Ii
1t will be somewhat surprising if
the extra session is called, for it will
indicate more rapid working of the
national mind than could be expected {
in a nation of seventy-five millions of
people
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-26

Everyone enjoys it; your health de-
ponds upon it. You can just as we'll
have it as your prudent neighbor Old
and young alike endorse it,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-26
GERMANY WANTS MORE SHIPS

BERLIN, May S.-The Neuste Mach
richten of this city in an article urging
the immediate increase of tie German
naval power, confesses that Germany
is mot able to compete with the
United States at sea, quite apart from
English intervention.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-26
DISInFECTINE

With the heat of summer comes the
the cesspOol, vault and cellar. You
must be on your guard against the ac-
emulation of trash, garbage, etc.; it
is dangerous to have around.