davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-11-08

Another fifteen minutes were
deducted from the working hours
last Thursday evening on account
of darkness. The whistle now
blows fifteen minutes after five
o'clock.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-11-08

A man should never pirate too
much about what he is going to
do. If he doesn't accomplish it
he is liable to be looked upon as
humbug.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-11-08

Total population for the week
ending Nov. 7, 466.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-11-08

A persons tongue is capable of
drawing more trouble than a
tongue on a vehicle.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-11-08
CHURCH NOTICE.

CHURCH NOTICE.
Services in the Prison Chapel at 500 O'Clock
every Sunday morning. Protestant and
Catholic services every alternate Sunday.
Rev. S. j. Kennedy. and Rev. FIR. Corcoran
chaplalns.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-11-08

The governorship in this state
is very close and still in doubt.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-11-08

PRISON OFFICIALS.
MANAGERS.
B. F. NELSON, President Minneapolis
EDWARD w, WING Breckenridge
F. W. TEMPLE, Blue Earth City
A. G. WEISS, Duluth
DAVID BRONSON, Saltwater
RESIDENT OFFICIALS.
G. Nee. REEVE, warden
T.W. ALEXANDER, Deputy Warden
j. w. LAWRENCE, Clerk
B. j. MERRILL, Physician
MISS MARY MCKINNEY, MatrOn
8. j. KENNEDY, Protestant Chaplain
CHARLES CORCORAN, catholic Chaplain
PRISON AGENT.
F. A. WHITTIER, st. Paul.
The age-herald., 1900-06-17
General Buffers Success.

General Butler did not avenge Majuba Hill on the spot, but neither did he give Boers opportunity to repeat that victory on the spot. Without considerable loss he forced his way through the defiles of the Drakensberg mountains, and is now safely in the open country of the Transvaal itself awaiting there the reopening of the rail road tunnel and the forwarding of supplies
 The chief gain will consist not so much in the addition of General Buffers 200OO Free State, as in the opening of a short line to the The present line of communi- cation is a thousand miles long, and al- most every mile of the distance is domi- ban to Johannesberg is less than one-half the length of the line to Capetown and be held with a comparatively small force.
 This fact, together with the fact that Bullers advance completely sewers the Free State and the Transvaal, greatly simplifies the situation, and renders Lord Roberts task much less formidable. The Free Staters and Steyn are now isolated, or soon will be, and the.r treatment can be attended to while Lord Roberts pushes the followers of MT Kruger further into the mountains or into Portuguese territory, or to terms of surrender, which should have been sought before Lord Roberts entered Pre- toria
The age-herald., 1900-06-17

Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for this day, Sunday, June r, 1900
 Ask favors between and o'clock in the afternoon
 Beware of quarreling and law; in thy business thou wilt have rather a successful year, but avoid speculation and risk "A child born on this day should keep in employ, in which it will be very success full. If a female unfortunate in marriage"
 Spirits are much more injurious to the constitution than any other form of stim ulant, and should only be taken as medi- cine This opinion of Raphael is quoted in view of the prevailing hot weather
 "I see in the newspapers the familiar statement tht Belle Boyd, the famous Con- federate spy is again dead" said a vet eran. This time the brave woman died in an obscure town in Wisconsin, where she had been lecturing. Many and many a time has she died since she was killed deaths occurred in Texas the first in the early sos and the second about ten years ago. Each was very tragical, but l don't TememDer any or the clTCuInStdnceS or either just know they were tragical The numerous deaths which Belle Boyd has died during the past thirty-siX years have been due to many different causes, including assassination, runaway teams, upsetting of boats, boiler explosions, heart disease, con sumption, wasting away, and seven rail- road wrecks Her Wisconsin death, just reported was suddenly of heart disease For several years after her Kentucky death in 1864 there were two of her, one of whom travelled in Alabama about twenty years ago. The impression was that both of her finally passed away, but that seems to have been erroneous Yo1 may look for an interview with the real original living Belle Boyd in an Atlanta newspaper with in a week or two That Wisconsin story is a fake Belle Boyd lives somewhere in
The age-herald., 1900-06-17
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

It was the azure time of June,
 When the skies are deep in the stainless
 noon,
 And the warm and htful breezes shake
 The fresh green leaves of the hedgerow
 briar,
 And there were odors then to make
 The very breath we did respire
 liquid element, whereon
 Our spirits. like delighted things
 That walk the air op subtle wings, FlOated and mingled far away,
 Mid the warm winds of the sunny day. And when the evening star came forth
 Above the curve of the new-bent moon, And light and sound ebbed from the earth Like the tide of the full and weary sea To the depths of it's own tranquility, Our natures to it's own repose
 Did the earth's breathless sleep attune.
 It is given to few spirits in the world to experience any sense of actual joy in the hour of physical pain. The soul must of necessity respond to any assault upon it's tenement; and whilst it may taste com fort, joyousness is beyond it's reach. Thus comes the pitiableness of humanity's cor poral ailments. That which robs of animal comfort denies spiritual happiness Hu- man pain in itself cannot grieve those of us who witness it's effect upon the human frame: it is that effect upon the spiritual quality which causes us unhappiness. So in times of greatest rejoicing the mo- mentary thought that some one loved of ourselves is subject to the world-empire of pain disturbs the calm flow or the riot ing rush of our ioyousness. That is sym pathy, the quality which lifts the animal man above most of the other animals in many essential particulars. That person who is of a cruel nature and is without the spirit of sympathy belongs to the common CT class of the lower animals There is nothing else in animal life so contemptible, so despicable, repulsive as the human being who is without the spirit of sym pathy. The dog and the horse are sym pathizing creatures and therefore superior to a large element of the general human family. They may or may not have souls no man upon the earth has authority to declare they have not-but it is a false proposition to maintain that they are in nately inferior to all men. The man who would deliberately and wantonly torture any dumb and helpless animal is capable of any vice, any sin forbidden of the
The age-herald., 1900-06-17
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE BEST
 INTERESTS OF CAPITAL. AND LABOR

A meeting of the coal operators of the Birmingham district has been called for the 18th The operatives and the miners and other employees about the furnaces and the mines are to meet on the 20th. The op- orators are to discuss the matter of wages they are to pay, and the miners are to dis cuss the wages they shall demand for the next twelve months, beginning July 1. Laboring men naturally want all they can get for their labor and the owners of prop erty naturally want to operate their plants as cheaply as possible. There is, however no good reason for serious conflict. l hope there will be none. If both parties will eX- ercise a degree of common sense and be just with one another the prosperity which has held forth in the Birmingham district for the past twelve months to both labor and capital will continue and both sides will reap a just reward.
 
 Iron has been high. The price of coal mining is based upon the price of iron. But the coal miners wages have been linn tied to a maximum price. There have been times within the past six months when the furnace people could have paid even higher price than the maximum for mining coal, for, from the iron reports, that day seems to have passed. There has been material slump in the iron market and no man can tell where the price is going to. Some of the small furnaces which went in- to blast with extreme high prices now barely navigating in a rough sea They are struggling to make ends meet. If coke and ore keep at high prices and iron continues eli ( blast
 Birmingham is rapidly becoming the iron center of the world. Capital has been freely invested here because capital and labor have heretofore been candid and free with one another and worked to each others mutual interest. Let this continue.
The age-herald., 1900-06-17
Concert of Action in China.

If American lives or American property or American trade go down in the Boxer movement it will not be because American troops and American ships are not close at hand for they are almost on the spot, and cable connects them with the exeeu- tive power at Washington. The means are ready and at hand, and if heavy losses oe- eur, President Mckinley will alone be at fault
 The protection of American interests does not necessarily call for independent action. It may be that ready cooperation is the better policy but inaction in the face of mobs certainly is the poorer policy. h. action not restore law and order. It or stop the burning of property. All that we do should be directed towards the preservation of American lives, property or trade, but this does not mean that we should distrust the other powers, or that we should act with a want of promptness or vigor.
 This involves no entanglement beyond the object in plain sight It does not involve an acceptance of Russian or a Japanese or an English view of the situation. It does not commit the United States to a dismem- berment of the empire and it does not com init us to a contrary policy The rebellion may be of d sham nature; it may com mand the sympathy of the Dowager Elm press; it may be the result of Russian in- trigues but even then we are justified in taking steps to protect American lives, property and trade. Will the admnistra- ton act with vigor and promptness? Pro- lection for Americans and equal rights for all, are what we desire, and we have right to use force to secure the former. We not only have a right to do so, but it is our duty to bring to bear all the force that may be necessary. Supineness or dila- tory action on the part of the administra- ton will be condemned by the people, es- pecially if it result in loses of earnest men who went to China trusting to American protection.
The age-herald., 1900-06-17

l am not an expert. I do not know what the scale of wage should be, but I do know that there are no better set of men on this continent than the men who have operated and worked in the mines and about the furnaces of the Birmingham District, and who have jointly made it the most prosperous section of this broad land, and I want to see them continue 10 work for each others interest and for the great development of this section. An ex- ercse of common sense, justice and dis cretion will bring this about. Let the laboring man ask for nothing but a just scale and let the operator deal out justice to the man who is his best partner in the enterprise.
 If the miners organization is founded up on the same principles of justice as the printers union there will be no difficulty There are lazy and mouthy fellows among printers, like among all classes of men. They ask for and demand their rights, but they invariably give full value received.
 Among the miners and the operators let both sides be just and charitable to one another and the great growth and pros perity of Birmingham will continue
 
 Speaking of the exercises of common sense, l have noted with the greatest de- gree of pleasure that the former petty jeal- ousies which have existed in hard times between the merchants and leading men of money of Birmingham have been entirely obliterated and that the people are pulling together to the general good. The two new hotels are an evidence of this. There is for hnth tahI hoe and each company seems pleased with the sue cess of the other. The Atlanta spirit of fin unity there is strength is rapidly talk ing possession of the Birmingham people, and in that lies the growing strength and greatness of Birmingham.
 Even among the laboring men and those
The age-herald., 1900-06-17
Ie351oea

ance and the record closed with the seal that may not be broken It were sharp fanged ingratitude not to comprehend the joy of living through days like these when the sunlight is elixir, when every breath is draught of beaded wine, when every dawn is a promise fulfilled in every dusk, when every midnight whispers to every noon, and every noon speaks to the joyous earth in blessed benediction! O splendid days! O perfect days. joy of life! He has not dwelt upon the earth vainly who turns from such a seedtime to such har- vest
 LuXuriant vines a-bloom and redoent of indefinable odor hid the trellis, and shad- owed the white balustrade upon which woman in white balanced herself insecure ly, as if inviting the restraining touch of the man who stood by. The hour was late. but from the distant drawingroom came the subdued murmur of that well-bred stiffness common to the meeting places of society. She had been punishing him through the hours of the evening, and he, mindful even in his madness, of the proprieties, had given no sign, had not besought her to the indiscretion of seeking a hiding place in dark corner or elsewhere. By and by she beckoned in her own way, observed by him alone. When he had approached she looked at him, and they passed out without speech or cheap touch of arm. At the balustrade she said he good, and he assisted her to the insecure seat She struck his shoul- der with her folded fan and said she did not know how to dispose of him. He ob- served that it was time she were determining She laughed in tender merriment She was young, exquis- ite, rarest flower of the ages, and in the shadows there she was abso- lutely radiant. There was about her the breath of June, warm, throbbing ravishing sweetness of June. He felt his own life tingling even to the tips of his fingers. He drew close to the swaying white figure upon the white balustrade. Few words were spoken by either; but she laughed softly, almost demurely; and at last suddenly as lightning in darkness he knew she loved him. His crazed impulse was to cry joy! What he really did was to tremble, and that was instinct. She was reehng, sway ing, unsteady white figure upon the white balustrade. She seemed if falling. He thrust his arms out with almost violent impulsiveness to stay her
 S"Your coat sleeves are black,2 she said by and by, as if she had made a great dis covery in chemistry. And they passed in out of the night.
 THE MURMURER.
The age-herald., 1900-06-17
BaCcaIaureate Sermons.

The very air is full of baccalaureate ser mons and graduation addresses; and they are as near alike two peas. They are filled with the same old platitudes the same old appeals in favor of a high moral plane, and all that-the same old advice to young men to take up the task of purify ing politics, of uplifting society and re- forming a careless world.
 But such generalizing is outworn It has been annually dealt out throughout centu- ries. The addresses of this week are in all essential respects the addresses of fifty years ago, as the latter were likewise in essence the addresses of fifty years before Is this iteration to go to the end of time? In an age of changes and Improvements and specializing in other directions of eff fort, is the baccalaureate sermon to stand still?
 The fact is, sermonizer who will get down to details is needed, and sadly need ed, too. The specialist is needed on such occasions-the specialist who, when he de- mands the purification of politics, for ex-
 
 the hackneyed 'threshold' to aim high and not low but who will name acts and dates and remedies, and who will handle men and things as men and things must be handled in this world if they are to be ham died at all. Instead of speakers who deal in high but vastly indefinite ideals, speak CTS are needed who will discuss the Medley case with the bark off, who will probe to the inwardness of the armor plate busi- ness, who will strip naked the Porto Rican legislation, who can present military Rome and military Uncle Sam in parallel col umns
 In a word, tho baccalaureate speaker should begin to see that the high moral plane vein is worked out. It does not fit an age that accepts it as a matter of course What is needed is an application of the h. m. p. to particular caseu. The young man of today does not need the broad truth, for he drank that in as he went along But he needs, standing on that same old ''threshold," some application of it to
The age-herald., 1900-06-17

Georgia-everybody does who is dead-and her only help in her old age is George Washington's body servant This talk of the veteran recalls a story told and relished over the walnuts and the wine in England. Bishops of the State Church of England are officers of the law appointed by the crown. Each Bishop is presumed to make yearly visitation to every parish in his diocese. He is address ed by everybody as My Lord" One cer- tain Bishop visited country parish in the year blank, and whilst he slipped the Wears port after the Wears excellent dinper in the picturesque vicarage, the poor curate- all curates are ''poor''-ventured in to pay his respects.
 How are you?" the Bishop condescend- ed to loftily ask.
 .''I am very we'll my lord, I thank your lordship," the curate made humble an- swer.
 And how is your wife?" ''She is dead, my lord, I thank your lord ship"
 .Ah?"
 "Yes, my lord"
 The curate bowed himself out backward. and was forgotten. A year later the Bishop sat again in the country vicarage, and again the curate ventured to pay his re- spects
 How are you?' asked the Bishop
 'I am very well, my lord, I thank your lordship.'
 How is your wife?'
 "She is still dead, my lordv'
 The party of bright women to whom Mrs. Zack Smith of Birmingham is to be guide philosopher and friend in a tour of Europe will be fortunate ip the companionship of so experienced and widely informed a traveller. Mrs. Smith has made the grand tour'' twice, and she is therefore familiar with the most interesting, as we'll as the
The age-herald., 1900-06-17
MIR. rHoMPsoN's QUEER PHILosoPH,

From the New York Journal.
 MT N. F. Thompson, secretary of the Southern Industrial Convention, does not believe that labor has a right to organize. He suggests that labor unions be prohibited by law
 Mir Thompson's official position renders his utterances all the more silly. He says:
 Labor organizations are today the great est menace to this Government that exists inside or outside the pale of our national domain. Their influence for the disruption and disorganzation of society is far more dangerous to the perpetuation of our Gov ernment in its purity and power than would be the hostile array on our borders of the armies of the entire world combined"
 As a remedy for these dire evils the Thompson brain suggests the organization of employers in all lines of business. It calls for law that will make any killing or proselyting or interfering strikers justi- fable homicide, and declares that strikes and boycotts should be made felony, both by national and State legislation.
 Imperial Thompsonl Let us found a Krag-Jorgensen kingdom at once. Let us have a Thompson empire, with only two classes-the men who run the trusts and the men under the feet of the trusts-the men permitted by law to shoot, and the men set forth by the Thompson law to be shot at-the men permitted to incorporate a business and to close it at pleasure and the men working for a pittance who under the Thompson law cannot quit when they want to.
 One law for the employer, another for the employed. Truly the world breeds a queer philosopher now and then.
The age-herald., 1900-06-17

most needful features of European sight seeing and she has the added and higher advantages of generous knowledge of art. literature, and history, without which travel in Europe is a mere fad. offering no greater advantages than a journey to Chicago, say, or to some other place hide ous to the artistic, picturesque, and roman- tic senses. Mrs. Smith is a very bright woman of wide culture and generous en- lightenment; and there are very few in- deed of her class who ever enjoy the price, less advantages of extended travel in the old world The average American tourist in Europe Is positively terrifying, and to be avoided as one would avoid barbarians in a picture gallery.
 Many good women in Birmingham are said to freely believe in "fortune-telling. That is odd delusion of intelligent minds It is positive nonsense. Assuredly coffins in coffee cups, in palms of hands, in decks of cards or in the stars need not have any terrors for sane minds and fair women who look to such stiffness to dis cover their fortunes might as profitably guess the whereabouts of the winged sing CTS from last years birds nests.
 Birmingham people seem to be discover ing that Birmingham is the best summer resort in the country This years summer wanderers from the city will probably be fewer than usual.
 Robt. J. Lowe and John w. Tomlinson re- turned last night from Montgomery, where they stayed two or three days in attend- ance at the meeting of the State Bar Asso- citation.
 Dr. Grafton B. Grove returned to Bir- mingham last night.
 Ira H. Virgin, of Montgomery, is at the Moitis
 Dr. w. H. Blake, medical inspector of convicts, Is in Birmnoham.
The age-herald., 1900-06-17

decalogue. In his heart he is murderer and thief, and worse
 In the grammar of happiness there is no etymology, syntax, or prosody-just happi ness. There is nothing that jars save only spiritual unworthiness. There those to whom a false note in music carries pain; others to whom false syntax is an annoy ance; still others to whom varying and various shortcomings, suppositious or real, cause disturbance. But happiness is for every mind that seeks it along the way of truth. The qualification of mere animal desires may produce temporary comfort, and it is possible for comfort so created to promote happiness; but it is wholly inn probable. Happiness is a quality of the soul, and the soul is seldom nourished by physical grossness. Neither beef nor beer nor lust of any nature makes for spiritual purification. Gluttony may lead to dull amiability, but from from saintliness it is far away. Love in its real significance opens the way to happiness; but sensuality is the password to deep damnation. The winecup may be a chalce in the temple of joy; but to such as are not pure of heart it may be an accursed vessel out of which spring reptile depravities. The winecup is proper in it's place, is even essential in the highest refinement of society: but it sends many poor devil bowling to hell. Yet at it's worst it is maybe no worse, certainly no more vulgar, than other forms of in- temperance. The debauchee of the table is even more unlovely than he of the wine shop, and the hypocrite drunk with the spirit of intolerance is worse than the hap less creature who staggers under the bur den of intoXicants
 These truths may impress us the more worthiy, those of us who are happy in the splendor of the ripened springtime that now clothes the earth in superlative glory The high noon of June is but the dawn of sum- mers splendid sweep, and we are not wor- thy of the sunny hours and dreamy shades if we do not perceive in it all the world filling bountifulness of goodness, beauty and mercy. Every day is a day for glad ness; every hour an hour for thanksgiving every moment a moment for prayer. He who has laughted through one of these days of Junetime glory has laid up sto for happy memory through all the coming days, and owes a debt to goodness that even virtue may not fully pay before all the accounts of his life are called for bal