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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-04-18
GoinSIBack to the Pillow.

utterly absorbed by tine punctual
landlord and the exacting store
man.
The farmer is certainly master of
his own time, and his vegetables
in season are fresh and wholesome.
No money passes, only sweat for
sweat. One is led to inquire
what per cent of the farm CON-
munity is comprised by this
class, the poorer class, for
there are some INDECENT farmers
only at rare intervals. The farm
er employs himself, pays himself,
is never discharged, bosses him
self, works, OF goes a-fshing, suits
himself, and pities everybody in
general and particular whose lot
is not as fortunate as his own.
Nor is the farmer apt to be an
optimist; rather the opposite. He
is generous where he wishes to be,
but ordinarily if you get anything
out of him without paying what
he thinks it is worth, you are like
lv to be smarter than I have ever
been, for no man knows the value
of thing better than the farmer
whose energies have produced
it. When he buys, it is with the
same shrewdness, whether law or
groceries. He invariably counts
his change; in fact he is very in
dependent.
AS to capital, there must need
be some, the farm is to be pur-
chased and stocked, manufactured
fertilizers are but temporary expe-
dients, the upturned acres must be
fed solidly with composted OF green
manures, for one must be generous
with mother earth with SO many
rotating crops; after these, the
timothy and red-top for the hay
mows. In fact, were one a Ma
poleon to vanquish all the enemies
Of his acres, visible and invisible,
even then our farmer would meet
his Waterloo. The elements OF
risk are never elimated.
The discipline which comes with
the acquiring of a liberal education
is no disadvantage on the farm
vet I have in mind a learned man
who took to the farm by reason OF
a threatened breakdown of his
health, and for all his erudition
lost sight utterly of the physical
truth that friction is the tax which
force is inevitably bound to pay
from the moment inertia becomes
motion until motion is again sup
planted by inertia. His first
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-04-18
gjYriften for The PRISON Mirror.

written for The PRISON Mirror.
Life on the farm is enchanting;
but to the fountain whence springs
this solid comfort and evident indie
pendence the urban pleasure-seek-
~er has never found the way. His
soft muscles have never felt the
soreness of the arduous labor,
early late and continuous, the
cares and perplexities and the
,untoward losses Of crop and stock
from devouring insect pest,
drought climatic variations or
disease, which no human fore
sight could PREVENT 10 the un-
initiated all this is language I'M
transferable, but which to child
of the soil has trenchant meaning.
The summer visitor comes and
goes like a bird of passage, and
these stray glimpses Of rural life
are honestly inspiring, and if, for
a moment, urban humanity lifts
it's eyes from its never-ending
round to look out and over the
grimy barrier that hedges it about,
should one wonder or question
when the unspoken wish for larger
freedom of action and independ-
ence points SO naturally to this
land of promise, where a patch of
soil, a humble roof somewhere
within the restful shadows Of the
everlasting hills seems like a bit
of paradise regained!
So the toiler dreams at his work
and the years fly, while the frui-
tion of his desire is as far away as
ever. The hired man was a
wanderer among these people, a
foreigner probably, whose home
or employment was uncertain, and
who was in most cases willing to
labor for his "keep." 1t was out
of these fortunes that others still
more magnificent have been built
as they have been transplanted to
the city in whole or in part, for
the farm-boy of those days was a
born trader, and with his thrifty
habits and his sturdy independ-
eaence and honesty could hardly
fail of success wherever his for
tunes might be cast.
The farm family rarely averages
more than three individuals, tax
ing the community on the run
If. there were more, they have
Joined the exodus, cityward'
handwriting, such, but their lots
are easy from comparative view
with that of their brother human
ity in the city whose wages are as
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-04-18
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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-20

may file on the land first. After q
claim has been selected it is necessary
to make a few permanent improve
ments. Sections 10, 16, 33 and 36 in
each township Will be reserved for
school purposes and will not be home
steaded.
The plan for establishing the towns
by fat of government is a novel one.
1t has never been tried before in open
ing public lands and promises to do
away with many of the unsatisfactory
features that have attended past open
ings. After the sites for the county
seats have been designated by the
president it will be announced that on
the day of opening Of the country the
lots will be sold at auction to the high
est bidder, and the money derived from
this sale will be set apart to establish
courthouses and schools and will tend
to tighten the taxation which is always
burden to new country. This plan
is set forth by Delegate Flynn and
meets the approval of all the author
tiles.
The law provides that the president
may issue proclamation at any time
after the allotment to the Indians, and
it also vests him with the authority to
designate the manner of the opening.
The usual plan is to have run for
the land" but owing to the small num-
Der of claims that will be left, as well
as the unsatisfactory features that
have attended these runs in opening
up former lands, iG is considered ad-
visable to adopt some other means. A
great many schemes have been set
forth, the most practical, doubtless,
being the plan of drawing, but this is
all speculative, and the matter Will
doubtless not be decided until near
the time for the opening, which will
probably be in the late summer or
early fall.
Concerning the taking of claims the
law says any citizen of the United
States or anyone who has filed dec
laration to become a citizen, male or
female. and who is at the head of a
family, or who is Il years of age, or
a deserted wife or a widow, regardless
of age, can file on quarter section of
land provided they have not made
previous entry under the United States
law, or, having made such, have COM
muted their entry to cash payment, or
are already the owners Of 100 acres.
Ex-soldiers or their widows or minor
children, under these conditions, can
enter by filing either in person or
through an agent and have six months
in which to commence settlement.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-20

Anadarko, Oklahoma, is the center
OF activity in the preliminary work
necessary to opening the new Indian
lands for settlement this summer. The
administration building in this place
presents busy scene as the time OF
the opening draws near. Thousands
of prospective homesteaders are al
ready camped along the border and
long trains of wagons are winding
along the roadways that lead to this
beautiful garden spot of the south
west.
The lands involved consist of the
large tract known as the Kiowa, Com
anche and Apache reservation and the
smaller section occupied by the Wichi
tas and affiliated tribes. The first
named is bounded on the north prin
cipally by the Washita river; on the
south by Red river, and on the west
by the north fork of Red river
In this strip there are 2,96s.s93 acres.
It is a little larger than Connecticut
and about three times as large as Della
ware. The Wichita reservation is
bounded on the north by the South
Canadian river; on the east by Indian
territory on the south by the Washita
river. and on the west by the Chey-
enne and Arapahoe Indian lands,
which are now marked on the map as
Custer and Washita counties, Okla
homa. In this tract there are 743,610
acres. The Washita river separates
the two reservations. A line drawn
through the center of the two, from
north to south would measure IA miles,
and from east to west 81 miles.
The law provides that each Indian
brave and squaw and each papoose
that was thirty days old when the bill
was passed shall be allowed to select
a quarter section of land before the
opening. This allotment Is now in
progress. AS soon as it Is completed
the Indian Agent at Anadarko will no
tify the Secretary of the Interior at
Washington. After that will come the
proclamation of the president opening
the lands to the public for settlement.
When these allotments have all been
made 464,000 acres of the large slice of
100000 acres will be set aside to be
held by the Indians in severalty as
pasture lands One-ninth of the total
number of acres will be set aside as
school lands, and there are $4,000 of
pasture land for cattle raising pur
poses.
Colonel Randlett, the Indian agent
who has entire control OF the affairs of
the two reservations to be opened and
who knows every foot of the ground,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-20
Veterans Bet ON Death.

On the afternoon of New Years day,
1901, Judge ]. w. Knowlton of Liberty,
Me-, rode down to the postoffice for his
mail and met Tolman Young, a vet
eran of the civil war, who had been
confined to his house with dropsy
They fell to conversing about old
times, and discovered that both were
born in 1907 and were in their ninety
fourth year After some bantering as
to what they were to do in the line of
physical endeavor, the judge remarked
that he was glad to say that he was
still vigorous and likely to live for
some years, at the some time express
ing sorrow that the aged soldier was
so feeble. Bet you $40 that I'll out
live you," cried Young, "and we'll put
up the money now, the one who lives
the longer to have a 500 wreath on his
coffin at his funeral as the result Of
this wager" The bet was accepted
and the money put in the hands of
trader. 1t was the last time Young
ever went outdoors alive. AS the win
ter moved along he grew worse, and
his doctor said that death could be ex-
pected at any time. In March, after
his pension money arrived, he sent
word to his friend, the judge. that he
was willing to double the bet, but the
condition was so hopeless that no at
tention was paid to the communica-
ton. Judge Knowlton continued hale
ana active until March 10, when he
was stricken down in his yard with
paralysis. Not knowing how serious
the afiiiction was, Young again made
overtures toward a bet, but the judge
was unconscious, and no heed was
given to the defiance Mr.. Young grew
worse until March II, when he died.
Judge Knowlton can not survive q
week. They were the oldest men in
waldo county. Among the soldiers
who attended Mr.. Young's funeral was
Lew Curtis of Dixmont, who served
through the war in the First Maine
neaVy artillery, the regiment which
noids the record for the number of
men Killed and wounded in action. He
10 o. and is crippled from a wound re-
ceiVeo at Cold Harbor, and paralyzed
On the left side. Yet he has during
.ne last winter sawed seven cords of
naru wood with one hand. making two
gus 70 stick, and has performed the
usual chores about his barn, caring for
neru Oh cattle and milking four cows.
Chicago Journal
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-20

OF all the tributes paid the president
of the United States in the course OF
his tour of the country none has been
so eloquent. and none other can be,
as that paid him by one woman. That
woman was his wife. At New Orleans
she, for the first time, allowed herself
to be interviewed.
do you know Major Mckinley"
she asked "Ah, no one can know him,
because to appreciate him one must
know him as | do. And / am not
speaking now of Major Mckinley as
the president. | am speaking of him
as my husband. If any one could know
what 1t Is to have a wife sick, COM
planning. always an invalid for twenty
I'VE years, seldom day we'll, and yet
never a word of unhndness has ever
passed his lips; he Is just the same
tender, thoughtful, kind gentleman
knew when first he came and sought
my hand
Il know him because / am his wife,
and 1t is my proudest pleasure to say
this, not because he is the president
but because he is my husband.
II wish that | could have seen him
yesterday: love to see him among the
people whom he seeks to serve so
faithfully. But read his speeches this
morning. / read all his speeches.
only wish that l could help him as
should
He is so kind, so good, so patient.
He gives me all the time he can; he
never forgets me, no matter how busy
he is. But I will be glad when he is
out of public life; l did not want him
to run second time. l thought he had
done enough for his country, and now
/ know that he has done enough, and
when his term expires he will come
home and we will settle down quietly
and he viii belong to me-"
AS tribute to Mckinley, the mar
and husband, nothing could be more
eloquent.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-20

in referring to the nature of the coun-
try and the opportunity for the home
seeker, said:
THESE lands constitute a vast, fer
tile area of several million acres ex-
tent. There are large sections of it
that are exceedingly well adapted for
agricultural purposes, that portion
known as the Washita valley, which
lies along the Rock Island railroad be-
tween Chickasha and Anardarko being
as fine farming land as can be found
anywhere"
Filing fees are $14 for 100 acres. At
ter five years residence upon the land
proof can be made at the land Office
and by paying SLIPS per acre deed
will be issued by the United States
government. This deed can be OBJ
tanned by paying s1.25 per acre any
time after an actual residence of four
teen months
Many people will desire to take min
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-20

Major c. P. Gearheart of Danville.
Pa, an officer in the Pennsylvania Ma
tional Guard, noted as the most noted
swordsman in the Pennsylvania milf
tia, during the inaugural parade at
Washington performed number of
feats calculated to sustain his repu-
tation. Many of the Pennsylvania
members of congress, including Rep
resentatives Polk, Green, Packer and
others are familiar with Major Gear
hearts history and his experience as
a manipulation of the sword and rapier,
and was prepared to put his skill to
the test in the parade. Messrs. Green
and Polk invited a number of friends
to witness the parade from their rooms
at the Driscoll. The company was all
primed for the occasion, and when the
Twelfth Pennsylvania. with Mr.. Gear
heart as major. came by, the major
riding fine bay horse, the visitors
were ready to lombard him. A long
cheer attracted his attention, and he
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-20
The knight of To-day.

The Knight or To-Day
Brave causes numberless has time az
forded.
And drawer fights on many battle
field,
Where bravest men and heroes, unre-
corded.
Have dared their lives to yield.
In every age the willing crowds have
parted,
And strong their cry goes to clear
the way,
When giants, stout of limb, and stout
er hearted.
Have won the victor's bay.
But heed we well, far-discerning
sages,
That earnest youth in knightly,
brave array,
Who, with the strength and purpose
of the ages,
Goes forth to meet today.
Frank Walcott HUT in the Boston
Transcript.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-20
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The Porto Rico Puzzle,

From the latest batch of rumors as
to the United States Supreme courts
deliberations on the island tariff cases,
it is fair inference that the eminent
justices are having troubles of their
own. Some of them, it is said, have
discovered that in view of all the con-
ditions it will be found necessary 10
maintain the duties on imports from
Porto Rico At the same time, other
justices have discovered that Porto
Rican import duties against the Unit
ed States cannot be maintained, such
duties being equivalent to export du-
ties on United States products, and
therefore unconstitutional. Taking the
point of view of Washington and look
ing sou'east by SOU, Porto Rico is seen
to be foreign country; United States
commodities destined for San Juan are
seen to be exports, and United States
law against export duties prevails.
taking the point of view Of Porto Rico
and gazing nor'west by nor, the gov
eminent sees that it must respect its
own laws regarding tariffs on imports.
1t is not surprising that the Supreme
court should want to take time for
this battling task of figuring out how
the American law regarding tariffs
works when goods are going one way,
but not in the case of goods going the
other way. The required rapid changes
of the point of observation from the
American seat of government here to
the American seat of government yon-
der in the island would keep any body
of lesser jurists in condition border
ing on vertigo.-Chicago News.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-20

looked I'D to the windows. Down cams
an orange flung by Representative
Polk. With sweep Of his sword Ma.
ior Gearheart severed the orange in
two parts. Another followed, thrown
nv Representative Green. Again this
orange was cut in half. His crown.
ing feat, however, was when Miss
Green. one OF Mr.. Green's sisters
threw a banana, which revolved end
over end. He caught it on the point
of his sword, and, as the regiment
passed down the street, he calmly
peeled and ate it.
While the friends of Major Gear
heart were pleased with this perform
ance, they were not surprised in the
least, as they were familiar with his
skill with the sword. When quite a
small boy Mr.. Gearheart became ac-
quainted with French maitre d'armes
named Paul Desculine. teacher of the
sword in a French regiment. Mr.. Gear
heart took the weapon and practiced
for years with the rapier and broad
sword as a form of exercise and
amusement. He never thought he.
would have use for his accomplish
ment, but his interest in the weapon
led him into the National Guard of
Pennsylvania, and when the Spanish
war broke out he was commissioned
captain, with Representative Polk as
first lieutenant in the Twelfth Penn
sylvania Volunteer Infantry. The regi-
ment never went beyond the boundary
of the United States, but the expe-
rience in camp at Chickamauga was
almost as much as on a battle field.
The members of the Twelfth Penn
sylvania, especially Representative
Polk, tell many stories of Maj. Gear
hearts skill with the sword and rapier
In camp. Maj. Gearheart had a set of
rapiers of the most exquisitely tenn
pered steel. One night when the bSys
had been talking about his skill with
that weapon he was requested to give
an exhibition. He at first declined to
| do so, but when some doubt was ex-
pressed as to his familiarity with the
rapier he took the button from tine
| point of one of the set. He then took
dime and fastened it against a board.
Standing at guard he drove the
jagged point of the rapier through the
dime. Again he took a coin and again
he perforated it at the first stroke. This
was repeated time and time again,
until all the small coins in the peck
cts of members of the party had been
utilized. On the sixty-seventh coin he
missed the stroke, and Mr.. Polk says
he was so chagrined that he broke the
rapier in pieces. Baltimore Sun.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-20

history of the islands. He is native
of Honolulu, where he was born in
1874. His parents arrived in the is
lands in that very year as missiona-
ries. Young Dole was sent to the Unit
ed States for his education and entered
Williams college. After his gradua
ton thence he studied law, was admit
ted to the bar of Boston, and returned
Immediately thereafter to Honolulu,
where he began to practice law. In
1887 he became judge of the supreme
court of the kingdom. Mr.. Dole, as
member of the legislature, took part
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-20

It is the night of the I'd of April,
1865-Sunday night-in the confederate
army. General Robert E. Lee is even
more thoughtful than it is his habit
TO be. He has determined upon last
desperate resort to save the remnants
of his army from the union troops.
His plan involves the abandonment of
Richmond and Petersburg forced
marching to the south, the junction
with Johnstons force, the whipping of
Sherman and the maintenance of the
ill-starred confederacy for a year or
two longer. AS he thinks of these
things his weary mind takes in a
broader scope of subjects. He sees him
self again colonel in the United
States army-serving on the staff of
Lieutenant General Winfield Scott,
whose favorite he is. Supposing that
he had not resigned. He might have
been in command of the union troops;
his Virginia birth would not have stood
in his way, as is shown in the case of
George H. Thomas. But did he have
any choice? Nay, for his first duty
as he saw it, was to his state His
state-proud old Virginia, the birth
place of Washington-could ne forsake
her in time of trouble? Could he, for
the sake of food and clothing and
money and rank, have proved false to
the old dominion? Nay, Lieutenant
General Grant is in command of the
northern forces. Lee remembers him
way back in Mexico-where his
brother officer used to speak of him as
"Sam" Grant. He was a lieutenant
then, and Lee was a major Who would
have supposed that nineteen years
could have wrought such changesi AS
General Lee thus muses. he sees the
whole heavens lighted up with great
blaze. The cannon are discharging
around him; the musketry is rafting.
But the blaze is distinct from either
of these and it indicates the burning
of such records as the confederates
cannot take with them. This day he
has communicated to President Davis
his intention to depart. And the home
of the executive in Richmond has been
a scene of wild confusion ever since
Jefferson Davis received Lees dis
patch. In Richmond, too, confusion
worse COMPOUNDED reigns. The citizens
there are panic-stricken. Their capt.
tai to be abandoned, which they have
held through four years, and to Lin
coins hirelings. At last General Lee.
having directed the movement of his
shattered, starving soldiers, mounts
his horse and rides slowly out of Pc
tersburg toward the south. Even yet
he does not know what is coming;
how week from today he will sur
render to Grant, who will receive his
capitulation with every sign of delight
and give him the best terms possible;
how he will not leave Virginia now
or at any future time; how the patient
President Lincoln will walk through
the streets of Richmond today or to-
morrow; how his evacuation of Peters
burg is the first step toward a resto-
ration of the union; how thirty-three
years later his nephew, Fitz-Hugh Lee
shall be commissioned a general in the
United States army; how he and Joe
Wheeler shall both fight for the unior
which they have labored to destroy
and how the whole American people
shall honor the memory of Robert e
Lee.-Utica Observer
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-08-20

Clarence Bush went to Harvard uni
versity without dollar. lodged in an
attic at dollar week. and lived on
Cruel, milk and water But he had
the material in him of which million
aires are made, and, after years
starvation, saw his opportunity. He
managed to get hold of COW and a
churn, and began to peddle butter 81
his own make on the streets of Cam
bridge. While he was studying mathe-
matics. astronomy and chemistry, he
was also learning the business of but
ter-making. and now he is graduated
with a salary of $4,000 from great
New York creamery company await
ing him,