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The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26
The Craving for stimuIants.

This question has lately attracted great deal of attention from the medical profession. The use ot stimulants seems to be increasing This clearly shows an exhausted condition of the nerves and blood, which may be reme. died only. by strengthening the stomach. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will do this for you; It brings all the energy of stimuant with no injurious effect. It cures dyspepsia, constipation and nervousness
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26
Fatal Railroad Wreck.

In wreck on the Little Rock & Hot springs railroad near Benton, Walter Davis was instantly killed and James Douglass received serious injuries. Both men were brakemen, and had been in the employ of the road but a short time.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

LOCKWOOD, is   the legal Peruna Medicine Company, she
 haDe used Puna both for myself and mother. Mrs. annah Bennett new her sSM and find drvalaabt remedy for co caa hay Kindred dsease also for feeble and old people ose don and fh unung
 Yours tuy Befva A. Lockqood  of
 
  and Coumbus
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26
Crusade Against Blind Tigers.

The Anti-Saloon League has adopte2 the following plan for prohibition dis sricts; Each county which will con tribute the sum of s100 will be furnished Tree detective and attorney services to hunt ont and prosecute all blind tiger ,ases
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26
Smallpox in Scott.

0ov Jones has declared smallpox . nnisance in Scott county and appointed .he following board of health: A. J. stephenson, Dr. J. w. Hinlle, Dr. R. n, m Bowen, Judge J. N. Craig and W W. Edmonson.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26
The old Mans Query.

"'So you want to marry my daughter?" "Y-es, sir"
 "Do you smoke?"
 "N-o, sir"
 Take. her! I've married of six daughters, and all the husbands have particular fond. ness for my brand of cigars. You're nov. elty."-Syracuse Herald.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

Gorgcnzoia cheese is Italian, and is made from goats milk. It comes from near Milan. and needs to ripen two os three years
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26
Murderer Beg. for His Life.

w. B. Lane, under sentence of death Tor the murder of his wife in North Little Rock November 25, 1898. has written a pathetic letter to Gov Jones asking that his sentence be commuted to life imprisonment
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

Nippon Hear about Clark being in a rail road accident? Badly hurt, too" Tuck Will he recover?" Nippon-"Well, don I tor says he can't 't."-Town Topics.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

Athletic Ardor. - Bertie-"M Mother, vii you take me to see the football game thi afternoon" Mother-"No. darling; but i you are a good boy mother will let you hen her clean her bicycle" Fun.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

Sunday School Teacher (in Chicago)- Why did the wise men come from the easty" Bright Scholar-"B Because they were wise men. n."-Philadelphia Record.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

If most men were as apt at starting bank accounts as they are at starting arguments the world would be full of capitalists.-Chi- cago Dispatch.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

Antiquated wise saws do not turn to saw. dust, but 1t would be good thing if soms of them did.-Chicago Daily News.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

It is doubtful if anyone ever had a real friend, therefore be your own friend. and take care of your interests and your reputa tion.-Atchison Globe.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26
4 ci.izen of Hot Springs Arrested on .hc Charge of Executing
 Unstamped Notes.
EVENTS cf 4 WEEK BRIEFLY CHAONlclED,
p.,ort of State Capitol Commission, Show ,n~ Amount Expended and Work Done IT, 10 the First of January Young White Men Murdered by . Thief Near 0aieun.
n..o,, of .,a,e Capito, Commission.

In compliance with the act of the legislature, providing for the erection d new state house, the board of com nis,ioners appointed under the act have mbmitted their report of expenditures ,o the work up to December S1, 1899 The statement shows that the amount .redited to the capitol fund from land ,ales to January 1, 1900, is S27.670. 92. r.iio,,;po arc the expenditures.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

Whats the matter with your head Blk by! Been bucking the line" What At your age?" Yep. Somebody let it out all night in the back yard and didn't SC, it."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

Points of Vew.-"The soil," remarked the economist, lis what supports us." Here the lawyer admitted that land is the cause of three efourths of the litigation, while the doctor did not deny that effiuvia from the ground leads to much sickness.-Detoit Journal.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

It IS mistake to mark the silverware with the family name. An Atchison man eats pie with his fingers because when he uses hi, fork, he is reminded that his wife's second husband was named Burris, and when he uses knife, he sees Smith, the name of her first husband, on the handle. = Atchison Globe.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

If men would cease trying to get some. thing for nothing the bunko man would be exs oi 8 job,--Ehieago Dispatch.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

Lots of young men get into bad deals be cause their fathers have lots of money t. help them into them. = Washington ua. Democrat.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

The great objection to hypocrisy is, that il Is not necessary. No man ever practiced il successfully. Globe.
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

The Best Prescription for ChiIIs and Fever Is a bottle of GRovy's TAsTgLEss CHILL ToNIc. Itis simply iron and quinine in atasteless form. No cure-no pay. Price sor
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26

The value of the work done up to De- .ember 3l, 1899, is estimated as follows: Yards of dirt removed in general ex-
 cayations {. 900. at i5c per yard ....s 200 % French excavations, 2, ,750 yards, at COG $50 % Concrete put in foundation, 1, 900 yards
 atE................... 1000 % Sand on hand, GOO yards at soc. ...... 900 co Stripping and opening rock quarry. 800 % Machinery, etc. on hand .............. il75 co Lumber used and on hand. ............ 400 co
  Total otal....................... .Sl2 s25 co
The Forrest City times., 1900-01-26
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 Safe, Sure and asy to Take.

ur. Geo. W. Moss, with Ayers | Co.,, wholesxis
 Hardware, says;
 I have been sufferer from Headache ark Neuralgia for nearly % years: have had the best medical attention here and in the EasS. but have never found a med cine as satisfactory as Dixie Powders in giving me relief
 Sold by all First Glass Druggist@, 28 Gents a Box.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01
WASHINGTON''S BIRTH
DAY.

The exercises on this the ami
versary of one of the grandest and
noblest of men in our country's
history, George Washington. was
perhaps not distinguished by
pomp and dramatic flights of the
fowery orator, but it was peculiar
ly marked for the feeling of good
fellowship that prevailed between
the entertainers and entertained.
Warden Reeves address to the
prisoners, while short and con-
else, contained sentiments that
will long be remembered. His
proposition in regard to rewarding
his charges for cheerful obedience
to the rules, should be met in the
same generous and manly spirit in
which it was extended. As in
mates we each have it in our
power to see the realization of
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

these hopes. The inducements
are to our own advantage and are
worthy of our best endeavors to
win these privileges. It will not
only demonstrate that we are
worthy of confidence and trust,
but that we possess the manhood
to appreciate kindness when it is
extended to us in an ungrudgingly
manner.
Mr.. Nolan, of Minneapolis, was
the leading humorist of the day
His selections were of variegated
nature and embraced the whole
gamut of witology in Dutch, Jew,
Irish, Swede and English. Each
rendition was keenly enjoyed and
Justly applauded. We hope to see
him again with us. as his vocabu-
larry of wit is almost as acceptable
as pardon. An orchestra from
the outside and our prison choir
contributed toward completing an
excellent program.
After the short time allowed in
the dollhouse for renewing old
acquaintance the bell sounded
for dinner, which, some of our
connoisseurs have pronounced, as
being an unusually good one.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01
Written for The Prison n sYOr
O'RURICK'S SPEACH.

The Spud-club had assimbled,
an Denny Morphy took the chair,
an after putin the jug in safe
place, called the house to order.
Redy Kavanaugh thin rid their
doin's an COINS at lasht matin',
an thin sat down. President
Horphy thin rose up an saiz he:
"does any af yez call Redy loir?"
An divil q man said q wurd.
Thin, jintilmen," saix Morphy,
well listen to suggistings from
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01
TO INMATES.

For the Information of new arrivals and all
others desiring to send THE MIRROR to friends
We wish to say that the privilege will be granted
by complying with the following rules: Write
cut your own name, register ana cell number
and send to this office with name and address
of person to whom paper is to be sent. All
papers must be kept clean and folded in the
same manner as it is when you receive it and
placed in your door every Friday night. All in
mates are requested to comply with this order
whether sending out copy or not.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

FIRST LESSONS IN CRIME.
$4,000

Written for The Prison Mirror.
In the study of crime and Grim
inals very few criminologists, it
seems to me, give proper weight
to the part which society in gen.
eral should rightfully be held to
answer for in the first lessons
which it teaches it's younger men,
bers in the art of crime; for crime
has arrived at that stage, that it is.
today, an art if not science.
While I admit that some per-
sons may be, and undoubtedly are
born with criminal inclinations,
still, there must be something
more than this natural inclination
to commit crime before a crime
can be committed. There must be
an opportunity or opportunities
favorable to the commission Of
crime before the would-be crimi-
nal takes the step which makes
him criminal, and, there is no
truth more plain to me than this;
i. e., society is responsible for the
opportunities and incentives under
which it brings it's members until
such time as each member reaches
a stage of life where he or she is
mentally capable of grasping the
surrounding conditions and form
ing accurate conclusions.
Up to this point society is Who'll
ly and absolutely responsible; nor
does society's responsibility end
here, at least not in SO far as op-
portunity and incentive are con-
cerned. As long as society is
organized, as it now is, upon the
plan Of each member looking out
for No. One.
The very least that society
should be held to account for is
the conditions which it throws
around the individual, for it is the
conditions which surround us
which have the influence to warp
us; it is these which make crimi.
nails and not hereditary inclination.
You may ask the question,
wherein society is responsible?"
and my answer is, society Tin
this country makes the laws
which govern the individual and
also has the power to see to it that
its laws are enforced and obeyed."
Therefore society as a whole has
no excuse which it can reasonably
put forward why it should not
shoulder the responsibility for any
crop of crime within it's boundar-
les; for there is law of Nature
which forbids the production of
anything unless conditions are
favorable to the same. Sowing
the seed is the part which society
does first, and in order to insure
an abundant crop, the soil must be
suitably cultivated-and society
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

During the past week we have
placed quite a number of new
subscribers on our books. I'm
doubtedly the majority of these
we're indirectly procured by read
ers ofsTHE MIRROR who have lent
the paper to friends, and thus
eventually they have become
permanent readers.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

Our choir has been very fortu-
nate for the past two holidays in
selecting songs in keeping with
the occasion. When they use to
arise to sing on q holiday, the
boys would lengthen out their
faces automatically, knowing we'll
what was coming.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

does this part also. What the in
dividual does is simply to take
advantage of the conditions which
have been placed around him, and
if these conditions are such as to
favor crime the probability is that
the individual becomes criminal.
[ made the statement that soci-
ETY. sowed the seed, and in order
to make it plain, will state how
society sows it.
In the first place, society sows
the seed by the examples which it
sets before it's younger members.
There is hardly point in general
society into which you could stick
pin without pricking some GRIM
inality, either of omission or COM
mission.
The crimes Of omission are too
numerous to deal with in so short
an article as this; but few Of
those of commission I will men,
ton, and the first and perhaps
the greatest is the crime of teach
ing the young how to deceive.
This society does in a thousand
ways, running all up and down
the gamut of it's intricate existence
from packing a barrel of apples
to drawing up an international
treaty.
L remember once, when a bow,
asking a man why he put the best
apples on top when barrelling
them for market, he said: "Be-
cause they look nicer when the
barrel is opened" but by expert
ence [ have since learned that that
man lied to me. Those largest
apples were put there to deceive
prospective purchasers, and this
was officially theft, but the lesson
which it taught me made it a
crime about equal with murder in
the first degree. It was my first
lesson in practical swindling.
Children are proverbially in
quisitive, and they insist on
knowing the reason why a thing
is SO and so, or why we do it, and
when one of these senfant terri
bles' asks society why it puts the
best apples on top, or kills the
latest chicken when the minister
is at our house, or why it puts a
silver knob on it's front door and
an iron catch on the back one.
Society does not hesitate to
declare it does all these things and
hundreds of others out of respect
for the looks of the thing. Well,
the point is just there: society
practices deceit, and deceit is the
first step in crime; and I hold that
to educate children to deceive is
ethically worse than highway rob-
berry. Coal OH DIoK.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01
MAIL BOX.

No. 1916 Medicine was intro
duced into Rome from Greece 200
years B. G.
No. 4833:-From 1850 to June
80, 1891, there were 46,317, 266
acres of public lands actually con-
veyed to railroad companies, as
grants.
No. 1882 When we express a
principle very concisely we en-
plOy an aphorism.
No. 4745:- St. Augustine is
the oldest city in the United
States, founded by the Spaniards
in 1926.
No. 4346:-The present national:
colors Of the United States we're
not adopted by congress until
TIT. The flag was first used by
Washington at Cambridge, Mass,
on January l, l776.
No. 4691:-The term Bible
means book.
No. 47O3:-The word ''Khedive"
signifies lord.
No. 4693:-There are five orders
of architecture: the Tuscan, Doric,
Ionic, Corinthian and Composite,
of which the Tuscan and Com
posite are Roman, the other three
being Greek.
No. 5O4O:-There are $40 men,
bers in the British House of
Commons
No 5493:-An epigram is
terse and poetical expression Of an
idea.
o o o
No. 5l9l:-A sinking fund is a
fund formed by setting aside an
income every year to accumulate
at interest for the purpose of pay
ing off debt.
No. 4559:-Glass mirrors were
made by the Venetians in the
thirteenth century. Previous to
this polished metal had been used
for mirrors.
No. 4371:-The carat, which is
used to weigh diamonds, is equal
to three and one-f fifth Troy grains.
No. 4959:-Cork is the bark
taken from species of oak tree.
No. 47S4:-Puck and Robert
Goodfellow are identical myths.
w. anu
armed navies of the world have
1888, 900 seamen.
No. 377S:-The oldest church
edifice in this country is that of
San Miguel, Santa Fe, n. M.
No. 5O5S:-Your good, but YOU
must remember that Shakespeare
said '.the devil can cite scripture
for his purpose.
No. 48O1:-Caste is a term ap-
piled to the division into social
classes in India To each of these
classes certain pursuits are limited
by the laws Of Menu, 96C, B. G.
First The Brahmans or sacerdot-
al class, which issued from the
mouth of Brahma. Second-The
Chuttree or military class, which
sprang from the arm of Brahma.
Third Bats or mercantile
class, which sprang from the thigh
of Brahma. Fourth 1.-The Sudras
or servile class, which sprang from
the foot Of Brahma. The Pariahs
or Cbandalas are nobodies or
worse.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

Three prisoners arrived at the
prison last week who were loaded
down with enough steel to armor a
battleship with. They were in
charge of four deputy sheriffs.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

On account of a breakage in the
machinery Monday afternoon, all
hands were locked up for the
balance of the day.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

Thankin' yez wan an all for yor
elaborate condesintion in lishtnin'
to me few modest wurds, OF rilase
the fure to Sinitor O'Grady.''
JAN O'RURICK.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

Our devil says that the piece of
pie he received on Washington's
birthday was the best he has seen
since he attended Bryan's $l.OO a
plate banquet in Chicago.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

The prison butcher, who is a
member of our choir and a strong
Boer sympathizer, says he knows
all the Boer war songs, and can
sing them in good double breasted
dutch style.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

The street commissioner has
now got something for the wind
to blow through. He is now rails
ing a mustache that resembles
something like bullrushes which
surround our inland lakes.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

take too much tonne sayin' it, for
OF have to attind dog foight down
at Casey's at foour a clock
AS President Morphy sat down
Hinry Ginkleman, who wurks fer
Jerry Fruin, jumps up an saiz:
CAV you blase, Mr.. President,
George Washington's goms by dis
guntry sumdime alretty dis day,
und I would make a moot dat We
say sumdings mid de occashun
amt it..
Bully fer yez, dutchy, OF sicond
the motion, Mr.. Prisidentp'
'Mr. President" saiz Goat
Grady, ''oi move to amind that
the Roight Hanarably, Jan
O'Rurick, of Kerry Patch, make
the address af the suspicious &C.
cassion."
(Hear! Hear! Question? Cues
tion?) "'Order! Order! We divils!
or DILL throw the jug at yez,' saiz
the President. as he stands forninst
the ASSEMBLY,.
Now, jintilmen, it is moved an
Seconded, an aminded, an now OF
put it to yez. Have yez a moind
to reminder Gurge washington,
by heavin' the golden tongued
orator, Hon. Jan O'Rurick, tell
yez how it happened? (take down
yor fate Badly Blakin.) Those af
yez that think as OF do, hould up
yor mits, that'll do. Now those af
yez that don't think atall, atall,
hould up yor mits. Mr.. O'Rurick
yez have the fure, an more power
to yez.''
Ladies an jintilmen, to say that
OF am honored an SURPRISED at
bein' selected to deliver the overa-
ton on this ausspicious occasion,
is but inaddaquatly ixprissin' me
sintiments.
Ladies an jintilmen, when we
look down the long annuls af
tonne, we see but two grand an
glorious spaches in the wurld's
history, an those on the twenty
second af February, an the siven-
teenth af March," (Hear! Hear!)
"'Order,' saiz Morphy, take a
drop Jan to clear your whistle.
''Oi say whin we consider the
greatness at the men who we're
named Gurge Washington, an
Saint Patrick, it throws Mckinley,
Bryan an Mark Hanna so far
back from the standard af what
men should be, that you couldn' t
foind thin with microbe chaser.
(Hurra for Bryan, Saint Patrick
an Gurge Washington! Order!
Order!)
Ladies' an jintilmen, yez may
well cheer for the three gratest
men the wurld ever saw, barin'
Daniel O'Connel, an Dom Paul.
But olive no doubt thare are some
here who niver heard af Gurge
Washington. Ye all know Saint
Patrick, olive no doubt, so DILL tell
yez at Gurge an his winin' ways.
'Yez have all heard af Sinitor
Morphy's son, who knocked the
harms aft the billy goat an tould his
mither that he gessed billy wus
shedin' his harms. Gurge niver
done that, faith he up an tould
the auld man he did it with his
little Ratchet. Musha! if we only
had more af thin bys these days
the country wouldn't be goin' to
the republicans.
Ladies an jintilmen, whin
Gurge reached mans estate, he
took after the blessed Saint Pat
rick, who drove the snakes from
Oirland. Gurge drove the British
from Amerika an married the
daughter af auld Mither Briton
an raised as foine a family af
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

In the school supply department
can be seen some of the finest
work that is being manufactured
at. this institution. These sup
plies are a work of art and meet
with ready sale among the vari-
Gus school boards throughout the
state.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

One Of the boys attending night
school had slight fainting spell
last Friday evening. On recover
ing his teacher allayed his fears
by telling him that this was sure
sign of intellectual Improvement.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

Buy Windle's Gatling Gun for
March. 1t is a hummer. At
all news stands. Price ten cents.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01

\AfANTED@SEVERAL BRIGHT AND HON
wv EST persons to represent us as Managers
In this and close by counties. Salary 500 YEAR
and expenses. Straight bona-fide, no more, no
loss salary. Position permanent. Our refer
ences, any bank in any town. 1t is mainly office
work conducted at home. Reference. Enclose
sen-adressed stamped envelope. THE DOMJN-
ION COMPANY, Dep. 8, 0hicAg0..
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-03-01
CHURCH NOTICE.

CHURCH NOTICE.
Services In the Prison Chapel at 800 O'Clock
every Sunday morning. Protestant and
Catholic services every alternate Sunday.
Rev. S. j. Kennedy. and Rev. Fir. Corcoran
chaplaIns.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11
ladies' Union
Suits!

Our 4Oc cotton aeeced union suits 33C.
Our 5lceott6a Aeeced union suits Soc.
Our Gee cotton and wool feeced union suits 43C.
Our 33s cotton and wool fleeced union suits Soc
We have all sizes from 3 to also in and
drawers wool and ieeced lined. We going
to sell these before Feb. LIST 1900 Come before
g. the 81 broken.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11


the this At the linen and the muslin
stocks
o spen ermoney
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11

Dame Fortune, a mistress chary of her
smiles, cast her beaming countenance in
our midst and the ray Of pleasure fails
upon one of our fellow townsmen who
has struggled hard for many years to
attain the goal of his ambition. At last
the prize has been awarded him and he
settles back into the comforts of his
home and the res possibilities of his new
position with the satisfaction of having
fought a good fight. The past week
Peter E. Vail received notice from WASH
ington that he had been selected to as.
sumo the duties Of head clerk on the
division of the Railway Mail Service on
which he runs, the Chicago & Council
Bluffs railway postofice. 1t might be
we'll to state that in view. of the fact that
there were some forty clerks on the line
DESTROYS Of the place and that the posi-.
ton is one usually obtained only after
long years Of patient labor and then
only to clerks Of recognized ability, that
Mr.. Wallis success at so early an age
.elaa1ts volumes for his prestige and abil.
ity. His fellow clerks are st!e a asssas.lc
oyer his success and We, his fellow towns
men, Join them in congratulations
Charlton Democrat.