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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-02-15
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ner to retaliate with sneering invective
for sneers are only used by those
people who have nothing substantial
to back up their arguments and are
only resorted to to impress ignorant
minds, as learned man never pays
any attention to sneers and remember
no matter how Indifferent a person
may be in dangerous occupation, it
does not in the least lessen the exist
ing peril of their position beyond the
fact that it helps them to overcome
their dangers. NJ. j.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-02-15

brought together as a nucleus for a
rehabilitation OF their former self,
modern society would soon realize that
brotherhood of man" and not religion
is the fundamental principle of
universal unit of morality. Men are
growing more and more convinced
that they owe it to their fellow men to
be more considerate of their needs; and
so we see the mighty evolutions taking
place each year to lessen the burdens
of mankind and to save human
being.
These signs and evolutions are slow.
ly but most certainly bringing men to
the idealistic principles of socialism.
The modern mind will not embark in
anything that reveals to it no material
benefit. for the mind must be assured
first that the bulk of legitimate society
derives benefit from the substitu-
tiOn of more humane punishment
upon evil doers than the present
methods. And so it is men do not
quickly eradicate pronounced evil to
society while the proper means of
eradicating the evil has not yet de-
veloped This has great deal to do
with the non-success of modern So
cialism; and when combined with the
fanatical assaults upon society by the
anarchists and nihilists, all legitimate
society will hesitate to embrace such
teachings.
But the anarchists and nihilists are
not the only ones to oppose socialism;
you will find them in the most exalted
positions among mankind, catering to
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-02-15

One department of our great modern
newspaper which plays no small part
in the affairs of the country is that of
the cartoon. Who is it that has not
seen cartoon which tells a whole
story in itself, much better than two
column article? The power of these
cartoons is fully recognized: note the
bill introduced in the New York legis-
lature some years ago, providing that
cartoon of a public man could not be
printed without his consent.
The broad freedom of the press is
no doubt carried too far at times.
That old Kentuckian who threatened
to shoot the editor of his paper for
presuming to describe the wearing ap-
parel Of his daughter at ball, would
require considerable "Old Bourbon" to
carry him through a description of a
society event in these days
To cite one instance of the power of
the press in politics, it is probably that
the Democratic candidate for governor
of Ohio, in the recent election, owed
his defeat as much to the opposition
and work against him Of the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, a Democratic newspaper,
as any other one thing.
No doubt the most of us have
learned by sad experience in our indi-
vidual cases that the editor wields a
mighty pen and that what is generally
termed "pubiic offenses" can mostly
be traced back to editorial opinion.
Taking as whole the power behind
our American politics is better by far
than the power behind the throne in
other countries. KIsMIT.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-02-15
Written for The Prison Mirror.
An Answer,

The pertinent question of F. r. R. in
a recent issue of THE MIRROR and
pertaining to socialists-"will the peo-
pie have their doctrines at any price ?"
In the first place, what is meant by
the philosophy of socialism? Does it
mean that all mankind must adhere to
one doctrine in order to enjoy the
truth of the philosophy? No, decided
ly no; for while socialism is doctrine
fundamental in itself, it is the philosO-
ply dating back ages before Christ
was born, composed of many natural
facts land not theories) the very laws
of human nature, personifed and au-
thenticated-if divine history be true
by the life and teachings of Christ.
But we must not necessarily take
Christianity as the Fundamental basis
of socialistic philosophy; but, on the
contrary, legitimate socialism is the
natural parent of Christianity.
This being true, it confounds the
moral laws of all Christians in that
they advocate Christianity first and
believe socialism will then become a
reality. Be that as it may, socialism
means universal brotherhood: belief
that man is at all times obligatory to
his fellow man in the inculcatiOn of
the natural laws Of moral nature: 70
eliminate the brute nature from man;
to cast into oblivion race hatred and
all of its evil tendencies by the COM
mon consent of the Individual and, at
the same time, prevent intermarriage
among them. Now, had man in his
original state refrained from this evil
Of intermarriage, he would have been
morally better being than he is today;
for that was the foundation of the
ideal man This constancy to his own
blood. The modern ethics of socialism
are not those promulgated by Owen,
Simon and Fourier; but the original
laws promulgated by the ancient
Hebrews and strangely enough, re-
jected by them.
1t is from them that all mankind of
today get their ideas of what mans
destiny originally was intended; and
while modern civilization has become
more complicated problem to solve,
it nevertheless retains its original con-
victions as regards socialism In fact,
the Hebrew race today is nearer the
solution of socialism than any other
race of people and could they be
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-02-15

an individual selfishness that has for
its object the pleasures of. a sensual
enjoyment of all they can procure at
the expense of others, regardless of the
moral laws of nature. Centuries of
gradual degeneration among men has
been the means of engendering dis
sentions among them, that today
mems minds are crowdets with useless
theory instead of facts; each individ-
ual, firm in his Or her belief that they
are the moral superior to their fellow
man. Once this conviction can be shat
tered by material and practical results,
the. individual becomes by instinct a
disciple of the better results accruing
to the majority.
Yes, socialism will prevail regard
less of Christianity; for if Christianity
has not been a success, it has been
because doubt as to the veracity of the
promises it holds out to the average
mortal. While men live to enjoy no
benefit from teaching that to them
seems vague in the extreme, you must
expect them to embrace "fact" that
gives them hope for the future of their
souls. Men are gradually permitting
their minds to dictate their moral obIi-
cations to their fellow man regardless
of religious creeds and yet respect the
Christianity as preached by Others So
we see each year more and more class
of freethinkers who recognize the
rights of men to worship the invisible,
while they themselves hold aloof and
yet are morally pure. Yes, socialism
will prevail. J. c. D.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-02-15
Written for The Prison Mirror
An Answer for Yorktown.

My irasciblp fellow-mortal in trouble,
you have noGs 'tis true, waxed very
eloquent in defense of your fellow
seamen's bad treatment; but you have
waxed yourself into very irritable
and unenviable frame of mind over
nothing though, as the article wrote
was not written to disparage your
articles in the least. Did 1 not say at
the beginning that you had written
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-02-15
Vol. XIII.-NO. 80.
Written for The Prison Mirror ,.s-
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes!


Don't you wish you had an airship,
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes!
So you could give Dom Paul the slip?
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes!
That balloon you have's no good,
You can't dodge them if you would,
For the Beers will shell it good
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes!
1t seems to me you've made your play,
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes!
You and Joe C. have had your day,
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes!
But cheer up; see the thing through.
wouldn't funk if were you.
To be sure, you must feel blue,
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes!
hear your friend is ausgespielt,
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes!
How must his erstwhile friends now feel
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes.
To be sure if it comes to that,
Why I'll bet my last years hat,
He's got more lives than cat,
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes.
Oh; by the way! about that gun,
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes!
They tell me serving it's such fun,
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes!
Is it true you've pulled the string
Thinking pain and death 'twould bring
With the Beers 'twould leave its sting?
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes!
That you and Joe are naught but friends,
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes!
The tendency to think now leans,
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil Rhodes
Gold has been the curse of man,
And you fell beneath its ban.
Now deny it if you can?
Cecil Rhodes! Cecil RhOdes
- YORKTOWN,
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thick end in ones mouth, or it might pre-
fer the thin. But whichever advice it
gave it always gave a wrong reason for
it.
On the subject of cigarettes tradition
has also much to say to the young Smok-
err. After teaching him hat Egyptian CT
garettes are a product of Egypt it passes
on to the equally trustworthy information
that the most important part OF a cigar
cite is the part that you do not
that is, the tip. The manufacturer was
on in that act, too. Nothing could have
suited him better than hat his cigarettes
should be purchased. not for the quality
of the tobacco contained in them. but for
a scrap of foreign matter wrapped around
one end. He tipped with cork, with silk,
with the vulgar and objectionable gilt
paper. Nay, he went so far as to provide
a cigarette of which one end was Waxed
or creased. The young smoker put it IN
his mouth and sucked it without a qualm.
Unfortunately this fancy for tips spreads
to those who should have known better.
Good manufacturers committed the Jolly
of putting tips on really good cigarettes.
OF course, unless you smoke cigarettes
with a dry lip you should not emoke CT
garettes, and if you do smoke with IA dry
lip the tip is useless to you.
1t were long to tell all that tradition
arm-in-arm with the manufactures. does
for the young smoker in the matter OF
pipes. 1t is worth while, though, to say
a word of the patent pipes. These de-
lights are prepared specially for the
young smoker. He loves their metal cool
ing chambers which make the smoke sc
much hotter. and their intercepting
chambers which do not intercept. Ht
goes about for days with an abominatior
that might possibly anuse a child as {
puzzle, but is of no use as a pipe. Ever
if he escapes the patent pipe, he become:
a friend of the amber mouthpiece and tht
, silver band. Amber is too fragile to make
a good mouthpiece. n any metal on {
pipe tends to make it hotter. Or he may
become the serf and property of a meef-
schaum; and then he will believe ant
maintain that it colors from within unit
he breaks it and can see for himself.
His own coWardice is shown in his fea
of the opinion of others. For this reason
he will smoke more than he requires, o
a stronger tobacco han he likes, Whel
assured that the cigar cost a quarter h
will find it good. Within a week of hi
: first pipe, before he has mastered eve
!, the first rudiments of perfect smoking, h
! speaks as one who is devoted to the Wee
. and understands it. He describes hi
> pipe as a habit when it is only an adven
ture.
And experience will make him WISER
; Cincinnati Enquirer.
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though they have accepted the new
teaching of astronomy and biology.
Others draw a curtain over the dogmas
and declare that action is more inn
portant than belief.
But in the latter case the dogmas
are only kept in the background, not
abandoned. Again, the ministers of
too many churches take their ideas of
good from the mere surface of things.
They preach socialism to-day n inn
perialism tomorrow. In fact. the pull
pit tends to become in too many cases
just the echo of the newspaper.
We are told by DR.. Briggs that the
great aim is to reconcile science and re-
ligion. But is this readjustment pos
sible to religion as additionally de-
livered?
What we must nave is a clear ra-
tional basis for our goodness. 1t is not
true that the deed is independent or
the creed. Every false idea we hold
materially a1lectS our Onduct
We must constantly be prepared to
receive new ideas and entertain new
outlooks. The contribution which Jesus
made to the moral teachings of the world
is invaluable. but it is not final. There
is room on the ethical tree for a higher
branch.
We cannot get sufficient help In our
optical or c%onjugal or industrial duties
from the teaching of the New Testament.
The doctrine of brotherly o v in the an.
stract is not enough. The whole social
problem is how to properly app the
| principles of brotherhood. How sinai.
love express itself? That is the crucial
/ question,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
NEW Y0Rk'S
MAY FESTIVAL
Gotham's Only Glimpse Of Rural Ma
ture in All the Procession OF
the Months.

New York's only touch of suburban
life is the May party, which is a Satur-
day event, beginning with the first Sat
urday. in May and continuing through
the Saturdays of that month. So Gag
erly is this looked forward to by the
children and adults of New York that, II
the Saturdays in May be stormy, the pc
1iod is extended into the Saturdays OF
June.
On the Saturdays OF May the park
commissioners of New York city throw
open Contra park to the children. Ihey
can romp upon the lawns anu eat .nelt
mncheons under the trees. Grown peo-
pie can them. May poles
can be erected: and. for a Whole day.
the children of New York can enjoy
themselves like the children of the coun-
try.
Not only this, but the park commits
sioners stand May poles for the convent
ence of the Mayors: and provide labor
ers to furnish the poles with such orna-
inents as the children may bring along.
These men are in attendance all through
Saturday.; and the little ones, from the
richest to- the poorest, can play and be
waited upon like real queens n kings.
Those who have never seen a May
party can have no idea of it's unique
prettiness. Strangers in New YORK
stand all day at the windows watching
the MAY parties wend their way to the
park. At five o'clock in the morning
they begin. nor does the last white-robed
party trail it's way through the streets
until too late for the GROWING of the
May.
In London they have now no such gen
eral May festival, though it was origin
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The remaining three stones were hur-
riedly lifted from the bar top n placed
in an upright position against the coun-
Ter, and each one bore an inscription to
the memory of some one, showing plainly
that the bar top had been composed Of
marble headstones taken from some
grave yard, but by whom and when and
Where the stones were obtained no one
knew. For years these silent mementoes
OF the dead, rudely torn from the heads OF
graves. had graced the bar of the White
House Varieties; ribald songs had fOated
through the air and drunken men had
laid their aching heads upon the cool
marble to ease the ~throbbing pain. The
stones. Mr.. Cogan stated yesterday,
We're sent up to the brewery with a wag-
on load of other fixtures, and are no |
doubt stored away and forgotten. The |
names on the tombstones We're all of ma
tives of Ireland or of Irish Americans.
Johnny Ryan's financial transactions
with the jackson Brewery are best told
by an old attache of that concern.
1t is stated that Ryan applied to the
brewery in 1890 and stated that he wished
to open a saloon on Vine street, near
Fifth. He gave his name as John Rion.
and, although the brewery people had
frequently heard of Ryan, of White
House theater fame, they had no idea
that this was the man. Mony was ad-
vanced ~ the brewery for the Dow tax,
and Ryan transferred the papers to the
brewery to secure it from loss. A few
months later Ryan appeared and said
that he wished to remove to Pearl and
Pike streets, and wished the license
transferred. No objection was made,
and he was told the matter would be at
tended to the next day. The northwest
corn n of Pearl and Pike streets was then
owned by the widow Of a German saloon
keeper.
That afternoon the widow in question
called at the brewery office, and with
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WAS AN EXPERT MARkSMAN.

The man who thinks he can oiioos entered
a Washington sporting goods store fecen.iy
and looked with the critical, examining
glance which at once stamps one as peans
a sportsman of experience at a new modei
shotgun, says the Washington Star. He
deftly raised the weapon to his shoulder
and sauinted down the polished barrel with
a regular ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
hundred sauint. He tossed 1t at different
angles, dropped it in the hollow OF ms L arni;
fingered the safety lever with a skllieo
hand and lovingly snapped the triggers.
He opened the breech and held the barrel
dow and said something. about The advan-
tage of using barrel refectors' for ciean-
The clerk was much impressed. But he
The learned gunner talked Of the choke
being inferior to the old and tried double.
s efrGsl sun;~ q q o shs rf iaminste aHaan.s,ds eea Of
bombed, fine three blade. and other bar.
riasiors Of a .h1lf t.s pifdol st ffips,s "f He eNpaa
tiated on "nitro-powder, guarantees" low
circular hammers, and explained to the
ee9nent about Fiat. AND .,ls ether "irais :,
b Hs Ens% "b S' a'G sna I5"1 pssp" si sights, knife
admiring clerk of ''how to stand when trap
shooting without muscular strain or
tremor." He demonstrated the Importance.
where aperture front sights We're used, OF
having the aperture in the bead ring the
bulls eye"
Then he bought the gun.
A week later he returned to the store as
mad as one of the hares he had hunted.
"Here. YOU" he cried to the clerk. an
grily. Here, take this gun back! You have
cheated me; 1t won't shoot. l have tramp
over the fields of Virginia for six days and
banged away at all ranges at everything
from a chippie bird to a COW, but never
once have l brought down the game. have
shot until my arm aches and my shoulder is
numb. | have sworn until I can swear no
more, Take 1t back or l will have you ar
rested for obtaining money under false pre-
tenses.'
What kind Of shells have you been
These"
"Oh. that's all right. Keep the gun; it's A
ALL '""' .
1t was enough.
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INTER MOUNTAIN: BUTTE. MONTANA.

no such thing as a celebration Of the
opening of the floral season. For this ID
what he May party is.
The very first May party took place
in England during the reign OF Queen
Elizabeth, when that royal lady, firing
of the long, cold winter, ordered a fete
for spring. Many new games were IN
vented for the ladies of the court. but
none for the children. The ehtldless
Queen Bess noticed this and ordered
them to dance for her. Some one with
rare wit erected a pole and attached long
streamers to it which. the children
handled as they danced and sang. When
the pole was twined with the ribbons the
| game was over The selection of a queen
did not take place for some time after
ward, when a May party was given in
great state in the grounds of the palace
in London
The May party, as you find it today&in
New York., is composed of little girls and
boys, the former dressed in white, the
latter in gala attire. There is a king
wearing a crown; there is a Jester with
cap and bells; there are little boys who
act as pages and carry the long white
tulle veil of the little queen, and there
are courtiers in black suits with blue
garters tied around the knee and arm.
The May dance is one that must be
practiced. h queen sits at the fook OF
the pole, upon a throne consisting OF q
cndlf with a SCaII OF CuIldll llioWh oNSi
it; or the chair may be trimmed with
green boughs. A crown of flowers and
leaves has been previously made; and
his is placed upon the queens head.
while a May song is being sung. me
May dance then begins. Each cnlu
takes a ribbon and marches with 1t
around the pole. There is a knack IN
doing this. Part of the company marcn
in one direction and part in another; IL
this is lone properly the pole VIII pe
wound with Gibbons, crossing ana re-
crossing in the most beautifully symmet
rical way.
Tables are set up for luncheon, ana you
see all sorts of strange feasts spread
upon boards or upon the grass. II Is
New York's fete season and the entlfe
city turns out to be glad with the May
Saturday afternoon all the Fashionable
folk of the town drive up to Central parf
and there alight to watch the antics o.
the children of Gotham. many OF WnoH
inever play upon grass except on TINS on'
day.
S you must wake and call me early
call me early, mother dear;
Tomorrow'll be the happiest time 0
all the glad new year.;
Tomorrown be of all the year the mad
dest, merriest day,
For I'm to be Queen O. the May
mother,
TIM to be Queen O. the May"
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WHERE MICE ARE UNDER BAN.

The bureau of American republics has
Just received a report made to the gov
of Educator by Captain John
Remain of the exploration of Il re-
markable island. The island is known
as Chatham island, off the coas. of Ecu
ador. This island lies 600 miles west of
Guayaquil and the equator runs direct
ly through it. Captain Reiman, who was
sent by the government of Ecuador to
the Galapagos group of islands to in
quire into the proper grounding of a deep
sea cable. S opped at the island of Chat
ham and made a partial exploration. In
his report of his experience cc Chatham
island Captain Raiman
1T is one of the queerest corners of the
earth. It abounds in cats. every one OF
which is black. These animals live in
the crevices of the lava formation near
the coast and subsist by catching fish
and crabs instead of rats. Other ami
mails found on this island are horses.
cattle. dogs. goats, and chickens. all OF
which are perfectly Wild"
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ally an English custom and England's
most famous laureate immortallzed 1t IN
his May Queen"
..You must wake and call me early, call
me early, mother, dear;
Tomorrow'n be the happiest time OF
all the glad New year,:
OF all the glad New year, mother, the
maddest, merriest day;
For I'm to be queen O. the May,
mother, r>
I'm to be queen O. the May.
But London had no such convenient
place for the May party as New York,
and soon the new world had a pracll-
inally belonged to the oil. On the
Thames you still find the Maying party;
Cliveden, the home OF William Wall
dorf Astor was formerly the scene OIL
many a May festival. C!ivede1 has a
long, beautiful river front. and river
%;a1ties from London would put in at
one of it's inlsts and there d~isenbark
for a days pl ea.," This became such
a nuisance that the former oWner OF
Cliveden was compelled to forbid Il land
thai the present owner employs guards
to protect the grassy slopes and fine
flower beds hat slope so pictures1uely
to the Thames.
For many years the Princess of
Wa4es gave a Nav p,tr:.. eve:y spring
.Gt nel Eve chliU''n, to when tiev IN
vial ti.tir royal cousins ct CHRISTIAN
and Teck; ana it was at one of these
May parties that Prince George OF
Wales. now the Duke of York, fell i'll
love with his cousin, the pretty Prin-
cess May, now the Duchess OF York
Georges older brother, Clarence, also
fell in love with May and, being the
elder, he obtained her troth But on
the death of Clarence, GentEe renewed
his attentions and the Princess May Is
now the prospective queen of England
and the May parties which she former.
ly attended with her young cousins al
j Sandringham palace are now giveI
upon her own lawns, for her own little
children at York cottage.
A May party in the Klondtke Woula
be more welcome than a theatrical per
Torrance by Henry Irving. There il
no grass in Alaska worth dancing upon
no May poles woth erecting, for the tree!
! are short and ungraceful; no ribbons t.
, Irvine the pole. and no pretty children il
white gowns to dance around it. Neithe
are there May parties in the tropics, TO
here grass grows green all the yea
around and is no luxury: and there i