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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-07-26

Never allow yourself to be beat
en-, never fall down and say, ooh,
it's all over with me-" If you are
beaten in one instance, up, and
again resume your struggle. Fight
as long as you live. Fight dying
even, and it may be that your
death will be a victory. Even if
you lay down your life for duty it
will show the world that you are
conqueror. Wheneve you are
tempted to be cruel, whenever you
are tempted to be dishonest, when
ever you are tempted to be foul
and licentious, then fight against
temptation. Bishop Brooks.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-07-26
PIGEONS AND MATRIMONY.

There is something beautiful in
the idea of Gretna Green clergy
man in Michigan, resulting in his
employment Of carrier pigeons to
notify him that clipping couples
are headed in his direction and
thus enable him to have a marriage
license ready for them upon their
arrival so that they may be made
one in less time than you can count
it.
Few poets Of the true lyric
temperament will be able to resist
the temptation to sing Of this
hymeneal pigeon cote in Ella
Wheeler Wilcox's state and to i'm
mortalize the sentimental divine
who established it. The concep-
ton is Greek in it's exquisite
dalntlneSS OF aeSthet1clsm. 1t is
consoling to know that such things
are possible in the world of the
present day.
One of the most certain results
of this carrier-pigeon service in
behalf of true loves course is that
its originator will be swamped
with a rush of business. The
sweet thought that a snowy bird
precedes you on the way to the
altar, notifying the Priest of Hy-
men to hustle into his robes and be
ready for the splicing act, should
cause many young girls heart
to futter for joy. It'll draw the
custom of every truly soulful twain
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-07-26
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-07-26
From Other "Pens'
THE WAY OF HAPPINESS.

The secret Of the joy of living is
the proper appreciation of what
we actually possess. That king
dom of unpossessed for which we
SO foolishly thirst is not half SO
good as this of what we have. A
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-07-26
Written fOr The Prison Mirror.


''Say, doc, did you ever hear
about the time [ had with the
hawk when I was young kid?'
mo, Bud, l don't believe you
have ever told me about it, and
now that we are all alone think
you might tell me the story just to
pass away the time"
"All right, doc. This hawk
story I am going to tell is dead
true story and 1 can prove it, too"
"That's all right, Bud. l believe
it is true all right"
"Well, doc, it happened when l
was living at home down on pap's
farm. One morning when [ got
up heard the chickens all max
ing a dickens of a noise. 1t put
me in mind of rooster trying to
cackle and a hen trying to crow,
and I'll bet four-doller cat or a
seventy-five cent pig that [ could
do better than the whole herd of
them put togather. Well, [ want
ed to see what was the matter any
how and so [ went out and looked
around, but I couldn't see cussed
thing. Just then my brother he
come out and asked me what [
seen. I told him l seen. the
craziest lot of chickens that [ ever
seen in all my life.
Say says he, do you know
what makes them crazy?'
NO says [.
"'Well, l do. Say, just look
over there on that old brush fence
and when I looked | seen the
darndest biggest hawk | ever did
see, and he had his eye on them
chickens too. So [ sed to my
brother: What be we goin' to
do about this anyway? We got to
ketch that hawk some way.
"Well,' says he, there is only
one way to do that, and that is to
shoot it.
CIV. u, what are we goin' to
she it with? We amt got no
gun and we amt big enough to
handle the gun if we had one
"Now my old man was soldier
when he was young and when he
come home from the army he
brought back a musket, and say,
doc, that old musket was about
seven feet long. 1t was whoopen
big Teller
"Well,' says l to my brother,
1'll tell you what we will do. The
old man amt at home and we are
here all alone. We will get that
old musket down and load her up
and kill that darn hawk
"'Say, Bud, do YOU know how to
load the gum? says he.
":Well [ reckon [ do and so
we went upstairs and got the old
gun down, and it's the first time
it was taken down for a good
many years. Well as l was say
ing, we got her down, and Dick
lthat's my brother) he got big
bottle of powder that the old man
had for BLOWN out stumps with.
Then he got big sack of buck.
shot that was upstairs and another
sack of fine shot, and [ gobbled
one of the old mans papers and
then we started to load the old
gun. Well first we put in cup
full Of powder. | didn't think it
was worth much because it was
SO coarse, SO | put in pleanty.
After I got the powder in we put
q lot of paper in and rammed it
down. Then we put in half cup
of fine shot and more paper. Then
we put in another cup of the pow
der and more paper and then
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-07-26

within a days flight Of any part
of Michigan = and, curiously
enough, the name Of the sagacious
carrier-pigeon clergyman is Fox
Elk.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-07-26

He was dark as ebony, and the
ragged straw hat that gravity
barely kept on his woolly head
and the broken shoes of mems
size on his sockless feet were ex-
tremes of habiliments in the same
degrees Of dilapidation. He was
probably s years old and when he
shuffled into Small's flower store
at Fourteenth and G streets it was
evident he was not in search of
orchids or American beauties or
Brad carnations.
Approaching Miss Brooke the
youngster said, bashfully:
Miss, kin you glib me er mousse"
Miss Brooke was both astonished
and amused.
"Why," she exclaimed, ''this is
not mouse store, little boy"
'But dey's er mouse in yo'
windy" returned the lad.
Leading the way out the boy
pointed to the corner of the dis
play window on Fourteenth street,
and, sure enough, there nestled
under the ferns, was round, sleek
little mouse. 1t was caught with
out difficulty and given to the
boy, who received it with hearty
"thankee.'
When asked what he was going
to do with it he replied:
"Dat leetle dorg Oh mine git er
chanst ter play wild i'm. Eve
ming Wisconsin.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-07-26
BUDS STORY.

half cup OF DucksnOt anu a hall
of the newspaper. Then Dick
said the gun was loaded all right,
but 1 said I was doing the loading
myself, so I told him to get me
cup full Of fine sand and dust and
he wanted to know what [ was
going to do with it and says, I'm
going to put it in the gun, of
course He got the dust and [
put it in and then some more
paper. Then we put cap on the
gun and started out to see if the
hawk was there yet. Well he
wasn't where he was when we
seen him last. He was settin' on the
hind wheel of the wagon and
when he saw us he flew down on
the ground, and Dick he says that
we had fine shot at the cuss.
Well, we had to fix things so we
could get the gun pointed right.
You see we wasn't strong enough
to hold it like Teller does, so we
got q barrel and laid the gun on
the end of it and when he had her
all fixed [ sed to Dick to go ahead
and shoot the hawk. He says:
You are the oldest, Bud, and I
think you orter shoot the hawk
Well I wasn't afraid and so [ got
my shoulder up to the butt of the
gun and when | was all ready to
shoot, [ looked around to see if
Dick look scared. Well [ didn't
see him no where, SO | was goin'
to hunt him up, when [ heard him
say: Let her go. Bud;' and there
he was peaking around the corner
of the house. Well | just shut
my eyes and pulled the trigger,
and that hawk he turned about
fourteen summersets and so did [.
Gee! but that was an awful jar |
got. When [ got up, things was
sorter changed. [ looked for the
gun, and say would you believe it,
there was not gun or barrel to
be found on the whole farm.
When [ seen the gun was gone l
looked for the hawk, and sure
enough, there he was laying on
his back. [ ruined up and
grabbed him, and he grabbed me,
too"
What, Bud, do you mean to
tell me that you didn't kill the
hawk with that big charger"
Nope, doc. It's mighty
strange. but it only stunned him."
"Well, we'll. Say, why did you
put in such a load as that and
why did you put in the sand and
buckshot?''
"Well, doc, I'll tell you. You
see [ put in the sand on the end
so it would get in the hawks eyes
and he couldn't see to fly away.
Then | had the buckshot to come
next and if the buckshot didn't
hit him, you see the fine shot
would come next and there was so
darn much of it [ don't see how [
could miss him"
"Well, Bud, you are corker.
Now where do you suppose the
gun went top
Il asked Dick and he said the
last time he saw it, it was goin'
down through the woods and the
barrel sorter went to pieces like.
We couldn't find darn bit Of it
nowhere. But say, doc, we killed
every chicken and sheep there
was on the farm and you orter see
how bad we felt when the old man
come home and we had to tell him
all about it. I'm sore yet. and
that's been, we'll, about nine years
ago" Roxy.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-07-26

he has still left him the use Of his
limbs. It is an excellent suggest
ion, and to be taken in all serious
ness. In our moments of spleen
there is no better exercise than to
reckon up as against our losses the
things that remain. When we
have fairly understood the worth
of our personal gifts. what it
means to be able to swing along
in careless freedom of limb, to
open clear eyes upon the worlds
beauty, to eat with appetite, to
reason. to remember, to imagine,
instead of being reduced to the
privation of these things, we find
we are rich where we thought our
selves poor. The worst is where
we lightly value our wealth in love.
Multitudes of us are Tuning in a
false sense of poverty when close
at home are faithful hearts that,
if taken from us, as they might be
next week, would leave void that
not the wealth of Indies would
fill. We are only poor by think
ing ourselves so. It is, in fact,
our perverse thinking that every
day makes fools of us.-Christian
Register.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-07-26

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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-05
BURIED THIRTEEN DAYS.

thirteen days ago Tom. the net cat
of the Price Hill Fire Company. dlsap-
Aeared. says the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The firemen husted high and low for
him. asked all the people in the neigh
borhood, and finally came 10 the conclu-
sion that Tom had been stolen or kill
ed. steve Dugan and Charles Thomas.
the two drivers. were especially con-
cerned as they were particularly fond
OF Tom. ON the day that Tom ddsap-
peared big load OF hay was put In the
engine house loft, but that fact was not
thought TO have any connection with
Toms mysterious disappearance.
But yesterday one OF the nremen.
while I'm the hay NOV. heard what
seemed TO be a plantive cry coming
from under the hay. lie thought of
Tom right away and notified the other
members OF the company. rescue
party was at once organized and the
hay was shifted. II had been packed
i'm very tight and the task WIS not an
easy ono. hut when the bottom OF the
pile was reached the searchers were
rewarded by finding poor Tom hone
lcssly entangled IN a lot Of hay.
The cat bad been I'm this place for
thirteen days. and had been without
food or drink all that time. lie was
very thin and very weak. but with good
nursing Will undoubtedly recover. The
firemen are inclined to believe thar
Tom dissipatcd about seven Of his lives
during his confinement and that he
only had two TO go on when the res
cuing party got 10 him.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-05
DOG MAIL fkRRIEn.

Out in Kansas, where so many things
are different, there Is a big ST. Bernard
mail carrier. He lives in one OF the
little cross roads" towns, where the
only store. which Is also the post Of
flee, Is thirty rods from the railroad
track. The train always goes whiz-
zing by at a good rate OF speed. whist
ling as IL approaches. Nep hears the
whistle and hurries TO the crossing and
waits for the coming OF the mail. The
mail clerk kicks the leather bag out OF
the car door and IL falls somewhere in
the vicinity OF the road. Nep at once
goes to the sack and carefully taking IL
by the middle. so that neither end will
drag on the ground. walks sedately to
the store. where he deposits his burden
I'm safe place.
He does.this every day. In spite Of the
weather. and the whole country knows
and Is proud OF the dog mall carrier.
Nep il years old. IL . feet Inches
In height and weighs go pounds. lie
has no difficulty I'm carrying the sack.
though the mail is often very heavy
with the weekly papers from the coun-
~ seat. for his teeth arc strong and he
has carried over 100 pounds as a test Of
his strength.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-05
White CAPS.
Their Warnings Drive Men and
Women Out Of the Town.
Of Bridgeton.

Bridgeton June 5.-Three men are
fugitives from Bridgeton's White Cap
band-Smith Afford, who was tarred
and feathered: Charles Honeker and
John Peterson.
Honeker declared to asreporter yester-
day, after showing the warning he had
received, that he would barricade the
house and defend IL with his life. The
White Caps had tar and feathers in
readiness and he would have suffered
Affords fate last night but for his pre-
cipitate flight. He drove out OF town
wItn Peterson and two colordd women,
both of whom had received notices to
quit town. They are in hiding in the
lower part OF the county. near Green
w4cn. All efforts TO locate them were
fruitless. Afford said he would come
home to pack his goods today, but did
not appear.
This afternoon a man residing in the
Third ward received word that he
would be tarred and feathered unless
he mended his ways. He is not to be
found and AZ is said he has left town.
layor Hampton promised arrests tn $
afternoon, but not member of the
Citizens committee has been appre-
hended. Mrs. Georeg Green said:
They say I will be arrested for
part / took In the Afford affair. Well
II going to Jail is the price of the peo-
pies vengeance On Afford, / am ready
TO CO."
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-05
GARRET- ANCIENT, MODERN.

One OF the many instances illustrat-
ing that the fashion of this world
changeth ia in the new estimate set
by those who build houses on the gar
ret. In modern houses. the garret Is
made mu0h OF ani-is as carefully fin
isned off as any of the rooms in the
house. while IN the old-time the garret
was the unfinished part OF the house.
the remainder. IL was the farthest
from the living. and grand rooms OF the
house. IN tenement houses K was the
cheapest part Of the house. unless the
cellar or basement be excepted, says
the Kansas city Star.
The garret in private houses was the
receptacle OF things worn, wasted and
retired from active service. 1t was
refuge for human creatures who might
come under the head OF disused and
left. 1t was in those poor and ancient
days OF the garnet that IL made its great
name. for associated in the garret were
poverty and genius. In the days OF
Pope authorship became closely linked
with the garret. DR.. Johnson. Dick
Steele and Goldsmith had their garret
days in Grub street. and the high liv-
ing" associated with high thinking"
existed in other days and other CAPT
tails. else the world would not have
known Beranger and his song OF The
Garrett" with it's melodious refrain Vt
Give me my garret and my twenty
years
The garret in the city will be found
spoken OF i'm literature generally as as
sociated with poverty. sometimes with
crime. but not so in the country. The
garret OF the village ard OF the farm is
another sort of place. This has no dark
or sordid or painful memories. Ii was
rude and unfinished. one large room.
divided only by such partitions as
IN ght be made of carpeting and the
La mn cG
privation. Boys who slept in garrets
slept well, even though the stars shone
through the roof and in winter the va
grant snow sifted through on the coun-
terpane. The sleepers in the garret had
the great advantage OF hearing the
music OF the rain on the roof, supported
by the heavy bass OF the thunder.
The rural garret was the storehouse
OF things past the place where the
relics OF the last generation were hid
away. To children-the latest comers
in the world-it was therefore a Her
culaneum or Pompeii. or even longer
secreted Troy. In IL were the uniforms
of militia which long sgs crossed a
stream darker than Washington's Del
aware: dresses short in waist and mar
row and long in skirt. and even
bruised arms" were hung up there.
Books which had lost their covers and
interest t. a former generation were
consigned to garrets, TO be read again
with glowing or filling eyes by young
discoverers.
The garret has lost its old tenants.
the authors. They have descended to
the first floor and The front room. Per-
haps they are not as near heaven now
as in the former days. Literature has
grown a greater and more profitable
trade. The change is good one, but
somehow greater names do not rise
than those made famous Of yore in
close proximity TO the rafters. The old
garret. however i'm memory grows a
brighter place than u was I'm fact.
Some garrets fiji UP with golden glow
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-05
FINANCIAL NEWS
BULLS AND BEARS.

Wall Street June 5.-IIigh prices In
London caused advances I'm the inter-
natiorai stocks at the opening mere and
other stocks responded i'm sympathy.
Gains were very small in nearly all cases
and small number OF gains showed
slight losses. Sugar rose about point.
The volume of business was small and
the market hesitated after the open
is'g. >
The tendency OF prices was governed
hsthe operations in a few leading stocks.
When the opening rise I'm Sugar was
lost the market reacted beyow yester-
days close. Metropolitan Steel Railway
losing one and Lackawanna points.
BUSINESS then became dull, but the mar
ket lccame a steadier one.
There was no response from the gem
eral list which fell away toward mid
day on two point break I'm Sugar on the
announcement of the li2 per cent, diVid-
end. Western New York and PennsNl-
yania generals rose per cent To ~
Otherwise bonds were dun.
The market hardened after the noon
hour. Sugar, Southern preferred ana BAL
timore and Ohio were most enected.
Dealings were on a very moderate scale
at the advance
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-05
PEOPLE EXCITED.
Residents Of Manchester, n. H.,
Greatly Disturbed Over tho
Outbreak Of Smallpox.

Manchester, n. H., June 5.-There
has been much excitement manifest
throughout the city today over the
smallpox scare, and the corporations
have come forward with a proposition
to care for all OF their operatives by
having them vaccinated at once. one
corporation alone having ordered TO-
200 vaccine points.
In response to the call of the board
OF health the police have been detailed
10 maintain strict quarantine over
the Orange street and McGregorvile
houses where the disease has obtained
a hold. and where the patients are i'm
proving. while all new cases are being
sent TO the pest house. There was one
additional case reported this noon, this
time on Pearl street and the health
officials deem IL probable that other
cases Will yet be reported. because OF
the going about of those afflicted prior
to the discovery of their condition
Warrants were today issued for the
arrest OF two persons. one for having
Violated the quarantine regulations
and the other for the arrest OF a ply
sician on the charge OF not having re-
ported the prevalence OF the disease.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-05
SILVER JUBILEE.
Bishop HsaIy Celebrates tho
Twsnty-Flfth Anniversary Of
His Conservation.

Portland, Me-, June 5.-The twenty
fifth anniversary OF the elevation Of
Rt. Rev. James Augustine Healy, ID.
d.. to the See of Portland. was cele-
brated at the Cathedral today. 1t was
the most elaborate religious ceremonial
ever held in Maine. There were pres
ent in addition to the venerable Arch
bishop Williams OF Boston, who officia-
ted at the consecratioU OF Bishop Heaiy
twenty-five years ago; Bishop Beaven
Of Springfield, Bishop Bradley of Man
CHESTER, Bishop Michaud OF Burlington,
VI, Bishop Tierney Of Hartford. Conn;
and Bishop Harkins Of Providence II.
l., and 100 priests representing every
state in New England.
Pontifical high mas as celebrated by
Archbishop Williams, assisted by Fr.
Hogan of Boston, as assistant priest,
and Fathers Hurley OF Portland and
Lyons of Manchester, as deacon and
sub deacon; Father Cleary OF Milli-
nocket. Me, cross bearer. Father Walsh
of Boston and Father Collins of Port
land, master and assistant of cere-
monies.
An address was delivered by Bishop
Healy, in which he reviewed the early
history and present standing OF the
diocese.
At noon a banquet was rendered the
visiting clergymen In Kavanuagh hall.
The bishop was rendered a testimonial
of $4,000 from the clergy, which is i'm ad-
dition To $4,000 in gold presented by the
Catholics OF Portland.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-05
Mr.. RIPLEY DIES AFTER
SEVERAL WEEKS ILLNESS

Joseph Ripley died at Greene yester-
ness of several weeks duration. He
was well known business man in this
city, being associated with l.. A. To
linghast of the l.. A. Tillinghast Com
pany for period of % years or more
until his retirement from active bust
ness life about three years ago, when
he removed to the country. He was
born I'm Easton. Mass, in 1929.
He was educated in the public schools
OF his native town and at the age Of
is years came to this city and secured
employment in the Fuller Iron foundry
He remained in this business until
shortly before the Civil War, when he
started in business for himself. at the
corner of Weybosset and Custom
House streets. Later this building was
torn down and Mr.. Ripley associated
himself. with Mr.. Tillinghast and they
transacted their business where the
Banigan building stands. Still later the
business was transferred to the stud
ley building where IL was carried on
until the date of MIR. Ripley's retire
ment in 1897.
Mr.. Ripley was twice married. His
first wife was a daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Barstow. who reside at
the corner OF Point and Eddy streets.
BY this union he had one daughter.
Hattie NJ. Ripley. Mrs. Ripley died
while their married life was still quite
young and some years later Mr. Rip
ley was united To Miss Emma Tilling-
hast of this city Four children were
born 90 Mr.. and Mrs. Ripley; Lena
who married 4. n. Cleveland OF this
city; Louise. who Is employed by the
L. A. Tilinshast Company Joseph. who
died at the age of three wears and
Marion who died at the age of six from
an attack OF scarlet fever.
wife and two daughters survive
him