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to assume [ do not pretend to say.
Perhaps those who have acted like
swine will be reincarnated as swine on
earth as is taught by the Buddhist re-
llgion, and those who have been treach-
erous shall be reincarnated as serpents:
and so on, each assuming the form he
loved best to initiate when he was on
earth as mortal.
If [ thought God was such God as
is described by the old doctrines, a God
who condemned all sinners to hell fire,
not discriminating between he who has
only sinned once and he who sinned all
the days of his life; God who is
vacillating, vengeful, demanding His
own son as a bloody sacrifice on
the cross. If thought He was this
kind of God, with all reverence,
should hate him with all my soul.
But we know better. We know He
did not demand Christ as a bloody
sacrifice, but because it was His des-
tiny to show He could die for His
faith, thereby setting an example for
all the martyrs from the days of Nero
down to today. 1t was His destiny to
set a model which all mankind could
look up to and strive to attain. We
all have our destinies. Live up to the
ten commandments and the teachings
OF Christ, and that is your destiny, for
then you are working with God in
stead of against Him, and every time
you do a good act, or speak kind
word to despairing brother, you are
casting your mite into the ocean of
human happiness; you are pushing for
ward the chariot of human progress.
And if you continue to do this you
will get to heaven if there is heaven:
and you will reap Immortality if there
is an immortality. Even if there is
neither heaven nor an Immortality,
you will at least die respecting your
self and knowing you have fought the
good fight.
II live to learn their story
WhO've suffered for my sake,
To emulate their glory,
And to follow in their wake.
Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,
The noble of all ages,
Whose deeds crowd history's pages.
And times great volume make.'
LEO
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-05-17
The Governor of Puerto Rico.

1t is easy to see that, as governor of
Puerto Rico, the same kind of work,
and in the same spirit, that has made
Mr.. Aliens two years in the Navy
Department so successful, will, barring
unforeseen circumstances, give him
great success. Mr.. Allen already knows
something of Puerto Rico through a
brief visit last year and careful study
OF what has been written about it, and
is entirely sympathetic with the best
aspirations of its people, and desirous
above all things to give them good
government and to promote their pros
perity. "My efforts will be-" he said,
when his appointment was announced.
''to administer the government pro-
vided by Congress in such manner as
to command and hold the confidence
OF the people; to help them, so far as L
may, to realize the best there is in them
and to assist them in the development
OF the island along the lines which
have made us such a prosperous ma
tlon." And everybody who knows Mr..
Allen knows that he was as sincere in
this as in saying, "My own inclina-
tion and my personal interests urge me
to decline the appointment; but one
should not always choose the easy way:
there is patriotic duty somewhere to
be performed"
The very fact that he has under
taken this patriotic duty in a patriotic
spirit, and at the sacrifice of personal
feelings and interests, will impress the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-05-17
American Women in Eng
lish Life.

The American woman, however, has
never really become acclimatized in her
conjugal capacity here; she is beauti-
full, charming, affectionate, a good wife
and good mother, tolerant of our pred
udlces and broadminded as to our
opinions, but she is always an Ameri-
can, about her own home is the subtle
atmosphere of her American antece-
dents; and her influence is strong and
unmistakable. The American woman
in England-that is to say, the woman
who has "Americanized" our life-be-
longs generally to one set in society,
one that is considered the smartest,
because its members have nearly all
large fortunes which they spend with
great lavishness and generosity, and so
give tone to the society in which they
live.
In hasty generalization one complains
that the extravaganza and luxury of
English life is due to American in
fuence, but we are not prepared to
admit that it is more to blame than the
Jews and Anglo-African millionaires,
who now also form large and power
full element in English social life. One
often wishes that some of the exclu-
siveness of real American life could be
engrafted here, and that money was
not one of the most potent passports
into English ociety.-Saturday Eve
ming Post.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-05-17

newed subject to the life which the
real man has lived in the past. AS an
apple seed will always grow an apple,
so will man seed lin this instance
called the souD grow a man form; and
again, as an apple may be either sour,
sweet or bitter, so may the man be
good or evil according to the life he
has developed in the past. So man the
soul and man the body are natural ex-
pressions of the inner thought or con-
sciousness of the immortal ego or life
principle. If the apple is sour we
cultivate it until we change its nature
and make it sweet. So can we also
cultivate our habits from worse to bet
ter, until that better nature will show
in our acts and in our faces, so that
while for few who have heretofore
lived selfish lives the natural way will
be for them to follow the line of least
resistance and live unselfish lives.
Thus we learn by the many mistakes
which we make when we learn to make
our mistakes stepping-stones to more
helpful life. Then shall we live in an
atmosphere where we know that not
only we live forever, but that "Life is
JOY" both to ourselves and to those
which can be inspired with this old
and forgotten truth. But truth
which at the beginning of this new
century is again being pushed forward
in to the thought and consciousness of
man by the Masters of Wisdom.
RETFALS.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-05-17
Written for The Prison Mirror.
Mon Ami Larry.

Wan tonne oil had the misforchin to
be fOorsed to sojourn in place called
Cally, sumthin' or other in Boostin
county, not far frum Fiddler's Green
oi'm thinkin', and there wor a young
divil be the name of Larry Finnegan,
who wor locum tenens to Mr.. Jergen,
that kipt the hotill in the same place.
Well, OF Ioiked Larry, the spalpeen,
for he wor foine promisin' lad, and
OF think Larry TUX loikin to me, as
OF tould him OF wor at wan tonne a
surjin in the kulinary department ov
Her Majusty Duane Lily Wauk-A-
Lama, ov the Ham Sandwidge Ois-
lands; and be the powers, it's lily she
wor, ov the Opaque variety.
Well, it wor about Siptimber 6,899
A. NJ, which in Latin names on Num-
dy, and the Clan-na-geal (thim's the
Norwayjens) wor goin' to hould the
Calleybruk fair. So Larry invited a
friend ov his, from the divil bit me
nos WHARF, to shtop wild him joorin the
fair, and be the ghost ov poor Magnify,
that same friend wor the divils own
munky. Oh axed him what he had his
back up at, and he sez to me sez he:
eyer futs ashlape." Oi tould him it
ought to be, considerin' how long it
wor since the shark ct it.
Oh got so waxed, OF wor jist goin' to
hand him wan wild me fut whin Larry
whispered and toult me that his friend
had wanst bin rebbil, and afther the
rebillun wor bruk up, his back
wrinkled on him. So OF axqused him
and spoke civil loike and touId him
what foine bye Larry wor, and wud
yez behave it? the Omadhan sez to me
sez he, "Loike Kelly is"
Now DILL take me oath, that that
ixpreshun and wan bottle ov Hamm's
Export wor all oi got out ov him, bar
rim six or swim bottles ov Willyum
Penn, the whole tonne he wor wild
Larry. But to return till me narrative.
The fair begun, and what wild bilune
desenshun that didn't go up, fat pigs,
purity babies, horse raisin', rain deer,
shno deer, oh dear and Larry dear,
the exsoitmint wor more intints than
the tonne Mark Hanna axed the
Romans to stroke, bekas sum wan hit
ould Sayzer in the mex and calf him
skab for wantin' to discharge two ov
the Triumvir, which is Frinch for
straw boss, and do all the bossin hisself.
1t wor also promulgated, that Sir
Larry Finnegan, late pedygogg ov
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-05-17
Written for The Prison MaYTOr.
Does Man Live Again?

In last Thursdays MIRROR sKismit"
answers the question by concluding a
hopeless story with the equally hope
:ess words 81 don't know" Looked at
from the present method of so-called
orthodox thought, it is a natural con-
clusion. But is there no other and
brighter answer? Surely there is: So
many other methods that it seems
strange that they are so often over
looked.
A study of nature reveals the fact
that no particle of matter is ever
lost, but that it is forever changing it's
forms. The same law which governs
matter in it's dense form also governs
matter in those forms which are less
dense. This law we find operative in
all the realms with which we are fa-
miliar, and by analogy into those
which are to us at this time unknown.
Can it be possible that the law applies
to substance which takes it's form
from the expression of life and con-
sciousness and not to life and con-
sciousness itself?
We find again that in the realm of
nature constant renewals or remani-
festations of these principles of life
and consciousness are an absolute fact.
Can it be possible that the life of the
apple seed shall again renew it's form
and that the life of man shall 90 out
forever? The mere suggestion seems
absurd and the answer, viewed in the
light of reason, must be that if as we
know the life of the vegetable world is
again renewed, so must that which is
evolved from 1.-THE lower still-mani-
fest again upon the higher or man
condition.
What is man! Certainly not the
body; but that which causes the body:
the life, the consciousness, the soul.
Hence the true man never dies. 1t is
only the old worn-out form or body
which is cast aside like an old and
worn-out garment which is to be re-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-05-17
SALTWATER, MINNESOTA THURSDAY MAY IT, 1900

people of Puerto Rico as it will
strengthen him in the difficulties ahead
of him, and particularly in resisting
INSCRIPTIONS schemers who will try
to use the Government to exploit the
island for their personal advantages
From "Charles H. Allen, the First
Governor of Puerto Rico," by Henry
Mcfarland, in the American Monthly
Review of Reviews for May.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-05-17
"Git off the Earth"

You meet feller now an then
A mixin' with his feller men
That don't do nuthin' tall but kick
An never tries to win trick.
This life to him seems but a curse.
Mos things is bad an others worse,
An if you are that feller, say,
Git off the earth! Yer in the way!
You go around with scOwlin' face
A feelin' that yer out of place
Among people that kin throw
Inc knife o. pleasure into woe.
1t sort O. gives yer soul the gaff
10 hear a hearty, jolly laugh!
You sour-faced, pesSimistic jay,
Gilt OFT the earth! Yer in the way!
A CHEEKY. jolly, tongue-tripped word
From you nobody ever heard,
But when you talk you wear scowl
An snarl an show yer teeth an growl!
Go chase yerself clear out o. sight,
Hide from the suns clear smilin' light!
Break off from everything that's gay
Git off the earth! Yer in the way!
God made this world fur men that could
Appreciate an bless the good,
An face the bad with graceful nerve
AS somethin' that they must deserve.
To you the flowers all look tame,
Achild's laugh is a silly shame,
SO you had best, right now, today,
Git of the earth! Yer in the way!
God hates to see man He made
Go snOOpin' round like he's afaid
That somethin' good I'll meet his eyes
An rudely shock him with surprise!
If in yer wakin' hours you see
Sich things. what must yer Nightmares be.
You soggy lump o. mortal clay,
Git off the earth! Yer in the way!
DENVER POST
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24

Frank Donnelly returned Monday
evening from a vacation visit with
relatives and friends at New Rich
mond, Wis.
Mrs. J. Shanedling enjoys pleas
ant visit from her mother, Mrs. N.Y.
ers, and sister, Miss Dolly Myers, Of
Minneapolis.
Mrs. w. E. Hannaford and sons,
Gilbert and Demming, returned Mon
day from an extended visit with rel
atiVes and friends at New London,
Wis.
John Chesser attends to business
matters in Duluth this week. It is
not unlikely that Mr.. and Mrs. Ches-
ser may permanently locate in Du-
luth in the near future.
Mrs. Grace Woolcock and children
and Messrs. W. J. Moore, f. F. War
rem and John Costin, Jr, went down
to Bassett Lake Saturday to spend
a few days with the campers.
J. A. Blk left Monday for Spoon
er, Wis.,, responsive to a telegram
announcing the death of his aged
father, L. Blk, who passed away on
Saturday, on his 82nd birthday.
Deputy Sheriff Anderson Of Buhl
came in Wednesday night with an
octette Of aw-breakers, seven males
and one female, whom he took down
to Duluth yesterday to serve at the
! Hotel de Sargent.
D. H. Moon came up from Duluth
Tuesday. Mr.. Moon reports that
his son, who has been confined at
St. Mary's Hospital the past three
weeks with an attack of typhoid, is
steadily improving.
VIM. NJ Bohn went to Duluth on
Monday to meet President Frank
Bull, of the Sharon Steel company
in company with eastern associates
makes his initial visit to the range
this week.
Miss Mayme Rinnert left Monday
for the St. Paul and Chicago mar
kets for the purpose of studying the
latest millinery styles and effects
and purchasing fall and winter mil
| linery stock. Mrs. Rinnert went
with her to Duluth, returning the
following day.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24
DIR. S. H. BOYER.
PERI ECT HARMONY PREVAILS.

PERFECT HARMONY PREVAILS.
Upon his return from the con-
gressional committee meeting held
at St. Cloud on Tuesday, Chairman
Searle stated that the meeting was
replete with encouraging features.
Eighteen of the twenty counties of
the district were represented by
members of the committee in per-
son. The reports offered by the
members, who by the way are con-
servative class of men, were of the
most assuring character, said Mr..
Searle. An excellent feeling exists
among the republicans and other
supporters of Congressman Morris
in the district. Perfect harmony
prevails and there is nothing in
sight to occasion the slightest un-
easiness or apprehension regarding
the outcome. We expect to reflect
Congressman Morris by a larger
majority than in 1896 or 1898. The
NOul111Ilcc has SOuc over the uc1u
carefully and they are satisfied that
there can be but one result in the
district, and that is Republican sue
cess.
William Getty, of Duluth, is Sec
rotary, and Thomas Owens, of Two
Harbors, is treasurer of the Repub-
ican congressional committee.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24
BRIEF
PERSONAL
POINTERS.
Comings and
Goings Of our
NeighborS.

Martin Nelson was in Duluth yes
terday.
Neil McInnis was in from Eveleth
Wednesday.
Mayor Palmer went to Duluth
Wednesday.
E. w. Coons was over from BIZ
wabik yesterday.
C. NJ: Welland went to West Su-
perior Monday.
Thos. Dunsmorc came UP from
Duluth Tuesday.
W. c.. Boyd spent Sunday with
friends at Duluth.
H. S. Clark, the shirt man, calls on
Virginia patrons today.
Mrs. John Doyle spent Monday
with BiWabik friends.
Prof. Vim. Park made short bus
mess trip to Biwabik Monday.
E. Matheison attended to business
matters at Duluth Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Lang were Du-
luth visitors the first of the week.
Max Shapiro, of Tower, looked af-
ter interests in the city yesterday.
Max Shapiro, of Tower, looked
after Virginia interests yesterday.
H. Jaedecke, of Ishpeming cigar
fame, called on range patrons this
week.
Mrs. Geo. Lerch, of Hibbing visit
ed with Virginia friends the first OF
the week.
Rev. S. A. Jameson, of West Du
luth, was a guest of Rev. Harbaugh
on Tuesday.
G. A. Anderson was in Duluth
yesterday, proving up on valua BILE
timber claim.
O. H. Todd went to Hibbing Sat
urday spending the Sabbath with
friends at that point.
| c.. C. Christopher was a Duluth
visitor Wednesday, purchasing new
fixtures for his store.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Levin went tt
Tower Saturday for a short visi
with relatives and friends.
!, H. A. Sodergren was in the city
over Sunday, looking after his bus
mess and building interests.
Supt. Messenger, of the Sauntry
attended to business matters in Du
luth Tuesday and Wednesday.
w. w. Browne, of Biwa DIX, was il
the city between trains "Wednesday
morning, enroute for Hibbing.
E. J. O'Rourke, of the Virginia
Cash Grocery, was a business visi
tor to Duluth Monday and Tuesday
Mrs. VIM. McCullum returned yes
terday morning from short visi
with friends at Duluth and Proctor
. NJ. L. Fay returned yesterday from
Minocqua, Wis.,, where he had bee,
for some days with his family an<
friends.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24

HENRY TRUELsEN, ex-mayor of
Duluth, who seeks the Democratic
nomination for congress, was on
the ranges this week looking after
delegation possibilities. Mr.. Truel-
sen is most favorably known in Du-
luth and on the ranges, but it is
questionable if his strength in the
district at large equals that of C. O.
Baldwin, who is also a candidate
for the nomination.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24

nation if it were offered to him.
While it is impossible for the Dem
ocrats to defeat Mr.. Sargent, the
Republican nominee, it is generally
conceded that Mr.. Miller, who has
host of friends of all political faiths
throughout the county, would make
the best showing of any man now
known of in the fusion ranks.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24

Hibbing News: Chas. G. Miller,
of Duluth, representing the Duluth
Paper & Stationery company, was
in the city Tuesday and made The
News Office a pleasant call. Mr..
Miller has been mentioned" as a
possible candidate for sheriff on the
Democratic ticket, and when asked
the question point blank remarked
that he would not refuse the nomi-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24

THE Hibbing News and Me+calfe's
X-Ray are both losing sight of the
sympathy racket" judging from
the doses of "Devil's Hot" they are
pouring into one of our range ex-
changes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24
Terms, So Per Year, in Advance.
Official Paper, City Of Virginia.
Special Notice..

Persons wishing news item, change of
"ad." or anything in the line of locals. in
serted, will please have same in our office bv
Thursday noon of each week, if convenient,
as it saves time and trouble for both parties.
We reserve the right to positively refuse
any notice Of whatever nature after 2o'c]ock
D. M. on Thursday
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24

IT is said that A. DeLacy Wood,
the father of a whole family of
newspapers, contemplates estab-
fishing his sixty -seventh venture at
Biwa blk in the near future.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24

The "stall" would not work, and
it is loudly rumored that the village
of Eveleth is soon to have a news
paper. The people of the town de-
mand it, which assures to the pros
peCtive enterprise a liberal support
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24

THE Eveleth Star scribe, while in
the city Saturday evening, gave it
out that he was soon to launch new
papers both at this point and Hib-
bing. 1t must be his henchmen at
both ends of the line have gone on
a STRIKE
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24

HON. J. b. BOLIVAR, of Iowa, is
to open the Congressional campaign
in this district with speech in Du-
luth about September 10th. Con-
gresham bolivar addressed a Vir-
ginia audience two years ago and
is remembered as forceful, effect
i've speaker.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24

HIBBING must be spotted as an
awful wicked town. The Gospel
Tent selected it as their first camp
ing ground on the Mesaba.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24
TIMBER LAND ACT, JUNE 3, 1878.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

United States Land Office,
Duluth, Mimi, July 9, 1900.
Notice is hereby given that in compliance
with the provisions of the act of congress of
June 3, 1878, entitled AN act for the sale of
timber lands in the States of California, Ore
gon, Nevada, and Washington Territory"
as extended to all the Public Land States by
act of August 4, 1892, Peter Olson, of
Mora, county of Kanabec state of Mimi
esota, has this day fled in this office his
sworn statement No. 1883, for the purchase
the NWA OF Sec. 10. in Tp. Sc N. r.. ID. and
will offer proof to show that the land sought
is more valuable for it's timber or stone than
for agricultural purposes, and to establish his
claim to said land before the Register and
Receiver Of this Office at. Duluth, Mimi on
Thursday, the 18th day Of October, 1900.
He names as witnesses.
Nels j. Norstrom, of Mora, MINI.
Richard Walgren.
King G. Staples of Duluth, Mimi
Allen Mcdonald,
Edward J. Mclaughlin,
Any and all persons claiming adversely
the above-described lands are requested to
tile their claims in this Office on or before
said 18h day OF Oct. 1900.
VIM. E. CULKIN,
Register
lily 20 sept %
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