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The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-12-30
FINIST SKY SCRAPER.
Ono IL to Re rut up at Chicago 70 Cost
Four MILTON Dollars.

Chicago, Dec. 3O.--The First Ma
tional bank Of Chicago has perfected
plans for the erection at Monroe and
Carbon streets of an Office building
much larger than any heretofore con
structed in Chicago. At an expense OF
ST coo, coo the bank has purchased two
properties adjoining its present site.
The cost of constructing the ne"
building viii be about 81 600 900. The
ground area of The new structure VIII
be 1870 by 30 fee, or more than twice
the urea of Chrcagos great Masontv
temple The frontage on Monroe
street will he an entire block to jii7
west Of Monroe street. with the eXce''-
ton OF 50 feet on the Clark street cor
ner. Sixteen stories will be the AelEai
o! the structure. Work ON the oui'n-
ing will begin next May. The Mon
tauck building, the first Of CHicaEo 5
slly-scraperS and valued in the last as
sessi.leat Ut over 500, 900 WIZ be "nt
of the buildings torn down 20 ma SO
Way Tor the new structure
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-12-30
Lord Ho~-b--y Declines.

London. Dec. 3O.-It is asserted npon
good authority that Jne
Liberal lcadcr. Sir Henry Campbell
Banuerman. has written = letter 10
Lord Rosehsry in the hone OF TeTtoT-
ing unity among the Liberals. but shat
Lord Rosehery declines tu join his for
tunes to tnosa Of the party il She
present circumstances. Should THIS
statement prove to he correct ii vii
be considered further proof Of G5ogae-
ity OF Sir Eenry's efforts Tor olr-E
union and will give him a new c. -
to loyalty OF Liberals. and ..-#
strengthen mis- position as .e2lG: al
effectiveness 81 opgJs3t.yJ.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-12-30

New York. Dec 2O.-While drawing
his pay at the storeLeeper's depart
ment at the Brooklyn navy yard. Ed
gar S Maclay said in an interview:
Now that / have read the letter OF
President Proctor of the Civil Service
commission ! shall let the whole mat
ter drop. The third volume of my his
tory has been revised, and so far as
am concerned the Sampson-Schley in
cident is closed
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-12-30
NEW York postoaioe Receipts.

New York, Fec 30.-The receipts
from stamps, poatal cards and envel-
opes at the New York postoffice have
more than quadrupled in less than 80
years For 1901 they will aggregate
about S13 900. 900. In 1873 they aggre
gated So ,oGn coo in round mum berA
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-12-30
VIII ArnIn Try 20 Cell

Paris, Dec. Bon. Lampre. secreta-
ry-general Of the Panama Canal COM
pany has sailed for New York from
HavIe He will confer on his arrival
in the United States with q number of
Panama companys American represent
tatives and overtures will be made for
the sale OF the canal property to tho
United States.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-12-30
Four burglars Captured.

Baird Tex, Dec 30.-The hardware
,tore .f Harry Meyer of this place was
broken open Thursday night and about
$3.50 worth OF guns. pistols, knives and
razors taken. Sheriff Irwin and depu-
ties arrested four men about three
miles west of town and lodged them
in Jail. Most Of the stolen property
has been recovered and all Identified.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-12-30
.yusnpr,i to sSis Death.

ST Paul, Dec. 30.-John Dempsey
printer. while frightened by IRE
Ieaped from fourth story window OF
the Washburn building on Fifth
street, near Wabash avenue, and re-
ceived injuries from which he Died
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-12-30

New YorE, Dec. 30.--George Fl. En-
elick, the writer OF Irish vaudeville
sketches. is dead as a result Of inju-
ries sustained on Thursday when he
fell from broadway car. limerick
wrote "FirneEans Ball" shooting
the Chutes.' McSorley's Twins" and
mnnN other SkttCheS.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-12-30
Governments Purchases BoaAa

New York. Dec. 30.-The New York
subtreasury has purchased a block OF
s.. 500 600 OF United States govsfDmsm
short term 4 per cent bonds
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-05-30

an end by arbitration. This process
is often useful in adjusting differences
which would produce strikes if left to
60 on; but when once begun, they are
seldom settled until one or the other
party cannot hold out any longer.
There has been improvement in the
lots Of almost all classes of workmen.
The advancement of wages was all
along the line, and spread over the
entire body of work-people. These
facts are in large view for the good
of the country. They mean that more
comforts, better food and amusements
are within the reach of all. While it
is true that some Of the items of ex-
penditure in the working mems budget
cost more than they did, the increase
in wages far more than makes up for
it. The laborer is enabled to dress and
live better, which means better health
for himself and his family.
There has been such a demand for
men as has not been known for many
years. Although it is often said, that
conditions for the laboring men are
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-05-30

getting worse, because of the revolu-
tions in the methods OF production,
rendering his services almost useless,
but on the contrary, things for him
have gone on steadily for the better.
There are doubts, however, whether
the prosperity which the laboring
classes now enjoy will continue. The
possibility that there will be a check
presents itself to many. 1t would be
well that some preparation be made
for bad times should they come again.
1t would indeed be prudent to always
look for the morrow, and have some
thing laid by for maintenance in case
of idleness. And also to fit and pre-
pare oneself to meet such difficult
ties as may arise, and adopt oneself
to and keep pace with the new modes
of production. For if one keep on
jogging along in the old way. he will
be affected by the rise of new needs,
and his services rendered useless.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-05-30

mattress, no books or papers, and if
there were there would be no light to
read by, as the door is of solid boiler
iron, save for about eighteen inches
square, made of lattice work, placed
in the center.
The cells are arranged in central
block, 100 cells to each tier, and three
tiers in height, and are lighted by fifty
windows consisting of one pane of
glass eight by fourteen inches. Thus it
will be readily seen that very little
light or air can penetrate to. the cells
twenty feet distant. No other means
of ventilation is provided. No work,
or very little, is provided for the
inmates, as under the state law no
contract or work that can compete
with outside labor is allowed, all labor
being wholly for state institutions.
The majority of the inmates are, when
the weather permits, employed in
storing away coal or in pottering about
a make-believe stone quarry. When
it rains, halls, SHOWS or is foggy, the
prisoners are compelled to lay up in
the cell and, consider how delightful it
is to be shut in where the space is too
contracted to stand or walk, and to be
compelled to either lie down or sit on a
bunk for days together, as the writer
has known the men to do for five days
at a stretch, never leaving the cell
except to 60 to meals.
Now listen tc the bill of fare: For
breakfast each day you receive a
delicious hunk of bread and pannikin
Of coffee. For dinner comes pannikin
of beef stew and bread. Supper brings
the breakfast back again, bread and
coffee. The fare is the same every day
except Sunday, when you are regaled
with bean soup for dinner. These
meals are taken in the corridor just in
front of the cells, and we assure you
the air is not the best in the world,
especially when the inmates have been
confined to the cells for day or two.
The discipline is very strict regarding
everything but talking in the cells, two
men being confined in each cell. The
punishments consist of a dungeon
called black hole-which we assure
you is very little darker than the
regulation cell-and in being stood
against the wall without your dinner.
Anything in this institution like that?
No, and yet there are those who feel ill
used here. PHILOSOPHER.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-05-30
The Prosperous New
Century.

TIME working classes the past
few years had a large share
of the prosperity enjoyed
throughout the country. Ad-
vantages we're theirs, such as they
probably never had before. In the
year 1900 there was few labor disputes,
and the number Of persons involved in
strikes and lockouts was small. Only
very small per cent of the working
population was effected by them. The
results of the strikes were, on the
whole, in favor Of the employers.
There were, however, a considerable
number of compromises, containing
some concessions to workmen, but the
victory was not decisive for either
side.
There are seldom any remarkable
instances Of strikes being brought to
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-05-30
Patriotism.

nATRIOTISM is not identified
r with any particular country or
people. 1t often flourishes
best in sterile soil, and some
times passes the palace of king to
inspire the humble tenant of cottage.
You will find in every land men willing
and ready to die fol their country's
sake. Sometimes the cause they ad-
vocate may not seem to the average
American just, nor their action pa
triotic, yet, nevertheless, they evidently
endeavor to serve their country as
they best know how.
The Boxers undoubtedly believed
they were inspired by patriotism in
their recent outbreak, and they prObab-
ly love their country as sincerely as
the Beers love theirs. There can be no
doubt of the patriotism of the Beers,
yet were you to ask Tommy Atkins if
the pay of his king was his sole motive
for fighting the Beers, he would in
dignantly deny the allegation. He
would tell you he was fighting for his
country and the honor of his flag.
Nearly every American is patriotic on
the fourth of July. It has been said
that on other days Americans are too
busy chasing the elusive dollar to be
bothered with patriotism. At any
rate, when the president in '98 called
for volunteers, more than ten times the
number asked for responded to the
call. We have plenty Of patriotism in
this country and the army does not
absorb it all-for in many of the private
walks of life men are daily serving
their country, and not making any
noise about it either. RENDENNIs,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-05-30
MUSIC AND ART.

were poor trees at that, mere daubs of
paint. This picture was pronounced
by art critics to be masterpiece. Of
course it required culture to see it.
Now my friends, 1 may be mistaken
in my views, but I want to ask you if
the successful artist is not he who
comes the nearest to initiating nature
OF course he is. That is what made
MessOnier famous. When he painted
grass or trees, it looked like grass or
trees; and when he painted a muddy
road after the cannon had passed over
it, it looked almost as natural as the
real road would.
Now, in regards to culture. Who
ever required culture to see beauty in
sunset? What culture is needed to
detect the music in the laughter of a
brook; in the trilling of the lark at
daybreak; in the passionate song of the
nightingale at twilight; in the whisper
of the wind through the tree tops; in
the far away murmur of the sea
What culture is needed to detect beauty
in the roseate hues of dawn; in the
weird lights of stormy sky; in the far
reaching waste of waters; in the
mingling of sunshine and shadow on a
distant hillside; in the grandeur of the
cloud-topped mountains; in the glory
of fair woman's face?
What culture is needed to detect
these? None. Even the rudest peasant
can perceive them and enjoy them.
Neither can he explain why he enjoys
them. They appeal to an artistic
instinct implanted in the breast of
every human being. IT'S not the
compositions of the grand masters that
thrill the hearts of the millions. John
Howard Paine has touched more hearts
with his simple little "Home Sweet
Home," than ever did Verdi's "Aida,"
or Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana," !"
or Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata"
San Juan hill was stormed to the
tune of "a Hot Time In The Old Town
Tonight" and "The Girl 1 Left Be-
hind Me" mot to the great compositions
"Il Trovatore," or ola Boheme."
Men are dying in the Philippines
today with songs on their lips; not
solemn chaunts or profound Te Deum's,
but Comrades" "On The Banks Of
The Wabash" and college Chums
Forever" Simple little street ditties,
born in an hour, and forgotten in a
month, are the songs that shape the
destinies of nations. These are on the
lips of the hosts going forth to battle.
And they do not require a cultured
ear to understand them. And they do
not require cultured heart to receive
them. LEO.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-05-30
A Comparison.

|COME weeks ago there appeared
in THE MIRROR an article
~ entitled "Roast," in which the
writer endeavored to administer
what he considered a we'll deserved
rebuke to the kicker element of our
community. In reply came protest
from fastidious, or rather an mex
perienced, but perhaps we'll meaning,
friend, who expressed the opinion that
the same end might have been obtained
by generous throwing of rhetorical
bouquets. Perhaps, but the writer
does not, and did not think so, or the
roast would have resembled an horti-
cultural exhibit-posies to burn in
fact.
Now as this article has the same
mission to perform, we shall try to
indulge the author of the "Protest."
Our object is to show the pessimistic
individual how much worse things
might be, by describing another institu-
tion of character similar to our own.
Please do not by that think that we
intend to delve in history ancient or
medieval, for we assure you that is
wholly unnecessary. Do not imagine
that we can truthfully picture to you
ways and means used in the inquisition
period. Though in these enlightened
and humane days the comparison
between our walled city and that which
follows is es great contrast as that
between day and night. Now, having
tortured you with this long winded pre-
lude, prepare to receive the kernel.
In the fall of 1893 there was finished
an institution, considered by the con-
structor to be model of its kind, for
the confinement of violators of the
law. Its exterior greatly resembles
fort, being low, oblong structure, the
walls of which are pierced by many
small porthole-like windows, and to
further enhance the fort likeness, may
be seen pieces of gas main entering
at intervals over the coping. This
structure contains 600 cells in which
are confined 1900 human beings, every
cell being inhabited by two persons.
These cells measure six feet in length,
three feet five inches in width by six
feet in height. In each one is found
two canvas hunks fastened on iron
frames fixed immovably to the
wall, two blankets, tin cup and
slop utensil. No table, no chair, no
electric or any other kind of light, no
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-05-30
Finklespiel's Corre=
spondence.

| NJ ALL uI my cOllogo chumpS
and cOnfdenshul rittenings,
i sent greetings ant dree uf
dem dings vat makes Mil
vaukee faymus. Ihaf chust returnings
yet by my winter vaycashunings in der
Klonedyke, but L haf nuddings to
show for i'd bud my life. Der Wild ant
bitcheresk seenry vas dreem nf pewty
ant vas touched OF site pefore 1
alretty yet landings. L saw cold
nuggets everywhere; der hills ant
mounting vas coverings NIT dem, vich
is very commoning site to see.
left dat pewtiful Klonedyke to come
pack by my old college chumps ant to
devoshuning my time to reed the
rittenings ant gwestshuns uf my
female trends vat like my advicning,
amt id so?
Gwestshuns about matrimony, pewty
culshur ant soshul etikeit will pc
promptly anserning. No monkey
doodle pizness goes NIT me. Red
headed girls vat amt alretty yet bin
married can haf any ding dey want
free, ant dem vat is marriet can haf a
brace of lufing cups ant penshun.
Old maids vat sent fotografts uf DEM
selves will be binched for false imper-
sonashunings. Stage struckted girls
ant blonds two will haf to sent rite age
uf demselves ant not uf there baby
sisters. No humpugs about dat
gwesrshun NIT me goes. Dudes,
divorces ant lufsick Widows will haf to
talk there drubbles to my old college
chump, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, for
rebairs. Der first letter vat 1 haf
rceivedet alretty yet is dis. vich I
buplish NIT dis insertshunings, fresh
from the pen uf an ambitshuning
young girl:
Stillvatter-by -der-tole-pridge.
Tomorrow after today
My Dear Finkie:-
I am blond 18 years yung ant haf
pewtiful figgur. All uf me trends
tell me I am bilt for stage carear.
Last weak acted Saffo vile my barents
amt at home ant must tcoDfesshuning
I beet Olga Nethersole all two beaces.
do all uf my actings pefore large
look in glasses in our barler. I am
shure am an actresses. My emoshuns
are sumdings grand. Only Saffo
her lonely could thrill an awdiances
like shall du. I sent you fotograft
uf Suzanne Adams; but publish i'd as
me. Id is all der same dings NIT der
bublic any ways, amt i'd yet? Pc shure
ant say i'd is me, ant put id in as many
babers as you can, ant say am alretty
yet only 18 years young, ant be shure
and say i'd is me, me, me, be shure dear
Finkie.
Lufngly Yours,
Mile. Stagelette.
P.S. Be shure ant publish the foto-
graft ant say i'd is me; be shure Finkie.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-05-30
THE LEGEND OF EVIL.

This is the sorrOwful story
Told when the twilight fails
And the monkeys walk together
Holding each others tails.
"Our fathers lived in the forest,
Foolish people were they,
They went down to the cortland
To teach the farmers to play.
''Our fathers frisked in the millet,
Our fathers skipped in the wheat,
Our fathers hung in the branches,
Our fathers danced ia the street.
"Then came the terrible farmers,
Nothing of play they knew,
Only they caught our fathers
And set them to labor, too!
"Set them to work in the cortland
With ploughs and sickles and fails,
Put them in mud-walled prisons
And-cut off their beautiful tails!
snow we can watch our fathers
Sullen and bowed and old,
STOPPING over the millet,
Sharing the silly mold.
'Driving a foolish furrow,
Mending a muddy yoke,
Sleeping in mud. walled prisons,
Sleeping their food in smoke.
"We may not speak to our fathers.
For if the farmers knew
They would come up to the forest
And set us to labor, too.'
This is the horrible story
Told as the twilight fails
And the monkeys walked together
Holding each others tails.
-RudYard Kiplin
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-05-30
THAT I don't know about
AN/ music would fill large
Y Y number of books. What I

y
Y number of books. What ]
don't know about art would
fill still larger number of books.
There is modern music, or perhaps
it is ancient, which requires culture
to understand and enjoy it. There are
few ancient pictures, and some
modern ones, that also require culture
to enjoy them. just what is meant by
culture do not know. was not
aware there was such thing on earth
until few years ago when friend of
mine invited me one evening to hear
some 'good music" as he expressed it.
He duly impressed the fact on me that
was going to hear one of the grand
masterpieces and was to be lifted up
on wings of flame to the seventh
heaven of musical delight. We arrived
at the opera. The boxes and parquet
were filled with the usual gathering of
aristocratic butterflies. My friend
and I practiced economy and took
seats in the gallery. The curtain rose
and disclosed the musicians sitting in
a semicircle facing the audience.
They began tuning up-as supposed.
After they had tuned up about fifteen
minutes said to my friend: "How
soon are they going to start playing p
He stared at me in amazement and
said: "They have been playing for the
last fifteen minutes"
"Is that the masterpiece? l asked.
at u.s." he replied.
II can't see any more music in that
than if they were beating a lot of tin
pansw exclaimed.
THAT'S because you have not a
cultured ear, musical ear" he retorted.
That is where l first heard of the
culture"
Now as regards art. It has been my
fortune, or misfortune, to see a copy
of the original of one of the old italian
paintings, by one of the so-called "old
masters" had heard so much of it
that went to see it. This is what saw:
A lot of slab shaped individuals with
wings, evidently doing gymnastic
performance in midair, totally ignor-
ing the law of gravitation. Below
them was a poor wretch groveling on
the ground, as if he were struck with
horror at their grotesque appearance;
or was looking for a lost ten cent
piece, could not make out which
probably the latter though. Whoever
it was that painted the picture had no
idea of perspective at all, for trees on
hill sides miles away were the same
size as those in the foreground, and
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-05-30
Lufngly Yours,
Mile. Stagelette.

IS. Be shure ant publish the foto-
graft ant say i'd is me; be shure Finkie.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-02-06
Hon. George Q. TlIIman Dead.


Columbia, s. o., February 2.-Ex-C Con-
gressman George d. Tillman died to-day
at his country home in Edgefeld. Mr..
Tillman was seventy.six years old; he
served in Congress from 1915 to 1892 and
made a record 40 authority on financial
questions, being an original free silver
man. His defeat in 1892 was due to the
political antagonism of his brother,
Senator b. r. Tillman, who had then
become the dominant power In South
Carolina affairs. George Tillman served
in the Cons. .tutional Conventions of 1865
and 1895 and previously in the State
Legislature. In early life he killed q
man named Christian in dispute over
cards, also had difficulty with Preston
s. Brooks, who caned Senator Sumner.
Colonel Tillman's eldest son is Colonel
James 81. Tillman, the present Lieuten-
ant Governor of this State; another son
is Lieutenant B. j. Tillman, United
States army. a
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-02-06
Letter to Mr.. T. E. Alexander,
Walhalla, s. C.

Dear Sir: It is liberty we take in ad-
dressing this open letter to you; we feel
thatyou will pardon us, for you are in a
position to quickly prove our sincerity
and good intentions through the Com
meroial Agencies, all of which rate our
capital and reputation highly. We wish
to make a present of "painH' to you or
any. other property owner who intends
naintioa THE spring Tell ns dimen,
sions Of buildings to be painted and how
many coats and we viii quickly advise
as to the number Of gallons @e can
donate; suggest some handsome combi-
nations of ,colors and explain why r.. g.
\ NJ. Paint ou5wears white lead. We've
been making this paint 80 years; sell
five million pounds annually; have $500
agencies; easiest way to secure new
agencies Ia to exhibit several we'll
painted houses in the merchants town
as lasting testimonials.
THIs EXPLAINS THE GENEROSITY OF
OUR OFFER. Trusting that you Will COM
amunicate with us,
We are, very truly, 81
Longnan q Martinez, Paint Makers,
2O7 Pearl street, New York City.