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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18
river and started teams hauling

river and started teams hauling
posts to the camp.
All this time jackson wondered
what was the matter; he was go
ing to drive out to the timber and
see, what was wrong. He made
ready to go one morning WREN ne
saw Barnes ride into town on one
of Evans horses. He camestraight
to the depot. got down and walked
into the agents Office. Looking
jackson in the eye Barnes told
what he had done and why he had
done it, then calmly, walked out,
mounted the horse and rode out OF
town. jackson disappeared that
night and was never seen in that
part of the country again, but it IS
said. that man was found wan
dering about the Panhandle in a
demented condition looking for a
hole to drop into and insisting
that he was fence post. The
authorities sent him to an asylum
where the popularity of his mania
attracted much attention.
Barnes and Evans made a good
stake out of the fence post deal.
Barnes soon left the neighborhood,
but the farmers talk about him
yet and say he did not go into the
fence post business for what mon
ey he made out of it.
PENDENNIs.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18

the prison. Il can be done and it
has been done by men and women
in the past, and you and i can do
1t by the simplest expedient.
How? Remember you must bear
it inevitably, do it nobly." The
contempt, prejudice and ignominy
that is hurled at you after you
leave prison is boomerang. And
you will be surprised to see the
change in those the boomerang
hits on its rebound. If there is
spark of manhood or womanhood
in those who WELD it, they will
come forward and apologize and
turn out to be your best friends,
while if they have but con-
science, they will keep aloof, but
will tell every body that you are
a very nice man, quiet and quite
popular, and never mention you
as an ex-convict. The remedy is
SO simple, it's effectiveness so GER
tain that it is pity more ex-
prisoners fail to appreciate it's
true worth. Don't ask or expect
too much; take what's coming to
you, and take it quietly. If you
are not too utterly victim Of the
visions associated with the name
of an ex-convict, then-to express
myself in the vernacular -'you
have cinch' on the future.
julius.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18

The illustrated special sporting
section of the Sunday Chicago
Record Herald thoroughly de-
serves the attention of every one
interested in sporting news. It is
always beautifully illustrated. and
embraces four full pages, covering
with the thoroughness that sat-
isles to the utmost the whole
realm of sports. Baseball news,
racing news, bowling news. cycling
news, pugilistic news, golf news,
yachting news-ail the sporting
news is given with the greatest
degree of fullness and interest.
The sporting page of the daily
issues is also exceptionally popular
Ia self-evident fact to those who
have noted the general vogue of
the Record Herald among sport
ing men.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18
Help Wanted--J. 4. D,

A'few weeks ago in an unguard-
ed moment I was foolish enough
| to relate in The MIRROR rather
peculiar bona fde dream. I asked
the aid Of some learned student OF
the occult for it's Interpretation.
My pursuit of knowledge of the
mystic met with ridicule and sar-
casm.. One member of our frater-
nifty iintimated that my departed
friend was in the saloon business,
because he used his slate as a
means of communication. I fail
to see any humor in this insinua-
ton, never having met saloon
keeper myself who owned slate.
Another space writer rushed into
print to find fault because I had
this dream at night. Numerous
friends and acquaintance have
wanted to know if I was getting
"daffy." Finally to add to my
humiliation a gentleman who is
not a member of our fraternity,
but whose power and advice is
held in high esteem, frankly told
me I was venderer of "hot air.
It is a great satisfaction to me,
however, to be able to publish in
full letter I received from very
learned Hindoo who was attracted
by my statements and who un-
doubtedly places great confidence
in them-or as you can see
yourself:
New York, n. Y,
Aug 21st, 1902.
Mr.. J. H. D.,
Care THE MIRROR,
Saltwater, Mimi,
My most secluded friend
Called to my attention was recently
your writing in published paper,
THE MIRROR of Saltwater. OF a
visit spiritual manifested by dream.
1t is easy.
To cover expense of time spent in
study of consultations and other phe-
nomena send $5 Give Dollars).
Surprised you may be when you re-
ceive the word.
Yours most respectfully,
New York. Ilovi Hibali.
l have no doubt Ilovi Hibali
needs the money. I sincerely
hope he may read these lines and
feel the gratitude I intend to ex-
press to the one and only being
who has been interested and SYM
pathetic.
But / can't reach myself.
What a chance, however, for
some of the open handed, large
hearted philanthropists that are so
plentiful on this "piety bedizened
hysteria of hypocrisy" Yes
What chance to uplift the heath
en- Hindoo five dollars worth, to
say nothing of the appreciation
such conduct would receive from
me. / have his address and am
easily approached, especially on
money matters. j. 81. D. !
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18
The Future.

Let him set his heart firmly
upon this resolution: IT must
bear it inevitably, and I will, by
Gods grace, do it nobly.''
4 The antipathy that the average
discharged convict is forced to
experience; his exaggerated opin-
ion of the social conditions that
he is requested and expected to
conform to; the assiduity with
which the prejudiced show. their
brutal contempt for his new lease
on life, wounds him deeply and
brings him to a realization that he
lis not of this world, and that he
must create a world of his own.
Too often weakened in body, mind
and soul, he begins to grope in the
dark. Made desperate by an over
stimulated Imagination, he re-
signs himself to, fate by throwing
the last vestige of hope to the four
winds.
Romancers, writer's of fiction.
have depicted to the ex-convict an
idealism that even the most Wis.,
ionary hours of his prison life
could not have conjured. They
have held out to him the bright
hearthstone Of his youth; the
eager outstre.ched hand of a loyal
wife and the laughter and merry
ment Of children; the priceless
reward of an honest woman; the
hearty welcome of former friends:
the enter, without money and
without price, Of philanthropy;
the discovery of fabulous gold
and jasper mines; the hero of some
foolish story; the hero of a myriad
of human impossibilities.
AS a matter of fact, the only
."glad hand" the average ex-con-
vict ever grasps, is the hand of
some detective as he puts his feet
just outside the prison gate, and
the "glad hand' of the turnkey or
warden as he re-enters for new
'bit." And these are cold recep-
tions at their best. Worse still, at
the first opportunity he must face
and undergo the worst of humil-
iations, that of facing the gibes and
criticisms of his associates. They
accuse him of deliberately break
ing into prison again; they abuse
him secretly: they give him no
chance to explain; they refuse to
believe anything good of him,
because he failed to leave the.
state when he had the opportunity
to do SO; he is repeater and
runner" for the prison and is
forced to live under that stigma.
All ex-convicts do not meet this
fate to be sure. but many do.
To what extent is the convict
responsible for the future? That
depends largely upon the condi-
tons he encounters from the start.
If he leaves prison with the pre-
sumption that the world owes him
a living, and that the social con-
ditions are to be altered to suit
him, it's only matter of time till
his old cell will yawn for him
again or some new one bid him
welcome. If he goes out with the
resolution that it DOESN'T pay,
adjusts himself to new conditions,
tho he be forced to create them
himself-it's only question of
time until he receives his reward.
Your value may have deprecated
some by being in prison, but 1
have yet to learn of an honest
man or woman who would shrink
from meeting another honest man,
regardless of his past. There is
good reason to believe that honest
men and women, not biased by
prejudices, would rather go out of
their path to meet and welcome
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18
A CORNER in FENCE POSTS.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES w HW1
~~~~~.~.~o~~~~~~-~
I so often disappointed by passing
foot travellers that he would make
this one go to work and use him
to help further his own selfish
ends. After the posse left the
depot the agent gave Barnes the
choice Of going to work in the
timber or a sentence on the county
farm. Barnes dreaded the county
farm and its brutality and knew
that the alternative possessed some
promise. At the same time, he
resented the idea of being coerced
and resolved to get even with
jackson. He knew the agent was
not doing the right thing by the
farmers in this fence post deal.
Six dollars hundred was ridicu-
lousy small price for fence posts.
He saw them sell for twelve, fifty
miles below Williams and knew
jackson was doing the farmers
paying six dollars a hundred and
pocketing the other six allowed
by the company.
Barnes said nothing to Evans
that night, but when they were at
work in the timber the next day
he told Bill and Bill cussed some
and wanted to tell his neighbors
and raise a posse and go and take
it out Of Jackson's hide. Barnes
was too shrewd to introduce plan
to Evans that had any crooked
dealing in it. The old style
Texan is honest to fault and
Barnes knew this; but what
he did propose was alluring to a
poor man like Evans.
Now one mile from Evans was
the Pine river and some twenty
miles below it ran past the city of
Bremen. Barnes plan was to- raft
the fence posts down the river to
Bremen. Three railroads passed
through the town, and he reasoned
there would be greater demand
and a. better price than at the
small towns along the neighbor-
ing railroad. "But, pardner, we
can't get 'nough posts out to pay
US, just me and you a working
objected Bill. "Bill, we've got a
chance to make stake. You
know the people around here; ride
around to each house and tell
them you can get them a better
price for their posts than Jackson
pays; invite them here tomorrow
and we'll talk it over with them, -
replied Barnes. Bill never had
been of much prominence in the
neighborhood, but the plan ap-
pealed strongly to his self-esteem,
and that day, smiling with in-
portance he visited each home in
the vicinity and secured promises
of attendance from nearly every
farmer.
When they came, Barnes adj
dressed them briefly, going straight
to the point. He didn't abuse
Jackson said he was to be pitied
rather than blamed. They liked
the plan and as il promised good
returns were eager to begin the
enterprise. The next week there
were more fence posts turned out in
that neighborhood than in all the
rest of the county. But the
stranger didn't cut any; he went
to Bremen to ''spy out the land.
He was possessed by-an idea, and
for two days was very busy. He
talked to newspaper men about
his scheme and they made quite
story of it, but he never once men,
toned the name of jackson. He
visited the railroad Offices and
looked up the fence post market
and contracted to supply one road
with posts at twelve dollars and
holf bupIro1 HI b.roJ Ef@,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18

il ~ thing better than Will
Jams station, and had
the general manager heard him
plead, admonish, expostulate. and
.eloquently lecture upon the SUBJ
ject of fence posts he would have
given jackson a better position.
jackson was conscious of his own
true value and made his conscious
ness apparent in loud clothes that
rather astonished the natives and
now and then called forth hu-
morous remark from passing
drummers. The trainmen even
tually became accustomed to his
vanity and grew tired of asking
him where she got that hat.
jackson was shrewd, in spite Of
his personal appearance, and when
the Range Law went into effect
compelling all lands to be fenced,
he saw a chance to make some
money and at the same time score
a hit at the general Office of the
road which employed him.
Fence posts were in great de-
unand along the line of the T. w.
and were very hard to get; the
road sent urgent orders to it's
agents to induce the farmers along
the line to clear their timbered
lands and bring the posts to the
stations. Northward from Will
Jams there was large tract of
''post oak" timber. jackson drove
out among the holders of this
timber and succeeded in getting
some of them to work up their
4'post oaks and bring the posts to
the station.
Bill Evans had not cut any tim
Der nor delivered any posts at the
station as yet. Bill told jackson
he could get no help and that
every ''rigger" in the neighbor-
hood had been hired by his neigh
bors. jackson promised to send
him any stray ''hand" who CHANGED
through Williams, but those who
scame through the town heretofore
were either going somewhere or
Just looking for work and trying
very hard not to find it. But to-
day jackson was elated-he had
secured hand for Bill, and Evans
being IN town he sent for him and
after delivering lecture on Bills
shiftlessness and the urgent neces-
esity of early deliveries of fence
posts introduced Bill to the hand.
The hand surprised Bill. He
>was not niger, but white, tall,
muscular and fairly we'll dressed.
"He IS all right, Bill-says he
wants to work." recommended the
agent. Yes, I'll do mans work.
said the hand. Gall right I am
going right out home now. thanks
Mr.. Jackson" announced Evans.
Bring some posts in soon; re-
member 1 pay six dollars hun
~dred, spot cash for all delivered"
was Jackson's farewell shot.
On the way to Evans farm the
stranger said little, and as Bill
was somewhat awed by the hands
fine clothes and intelligent face he
asked few questions. He intro
-duced himself as John Barnes and
said he was from the north, but he
did not tell Evans how he became
acquainted with Jackson. How
jackson had found him asleep in
a box car and collected a posse of
citizens who took him in charge
and after tying his hands behind
aim made him a prisoner in the
baggage room of the depot-these
things he kept to himself. The
town had no lookup and seldom
amy need of one.
jackson, when he found the
stranger asleep in the car, was
struck with an idea. He had been
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18

Ill EVANS became am
bilious when the station
agent finished talking
with him. The agent
was deserving of some
thing better than Will
Jams station. and had
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-08-29

1t must be gall and wormwood to a
state senator TO have his own little
precinct refuse to send him to a county
convention. and then have the county
convention ignore him in making up
the lists of delegates to the higher con-
veEtions. 1t certainly shows no
bright future ahead for our own sena-
tor who finds himself in just such a
plight
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-08-29
---------77--- 7---7---
GLORIOUS COLORADO.

This is the season when the eyes of
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-08-29
PROSPERITY ASSURED.
Twenty Thousand People at Least
to Visit Florence.

The citizens of Fremont county and
Florence particularly, hail with de-
light the coming of the great Elks
Carnival to be held at Florence the
last week in August. If the people
will stop moment and think what
the Carnival means to this community
in business way every business man
will join us, and expend certain mon
ey in advertising the Carnival, by
means of having their stationery print
ed to attract the attention of everyone
with whom they have correspondence,
or in anyway they may deem best to
call the attention of the outside world
to the greatest attraction Florence has
ever seen Large numbers of people
will come here from points hundreds
of miles around, some to remain the
manently in our thriving city, where
the best advantages can be had for
business enterprises of whatever ma
ture. The people having the Carni-
val in hand will leave no stone un-
turned to make ii an event long to be
remembered, and during the attrac-
tions the people are offered an oppor-
tunity FREE OF CHARGE to visit
the machine plant of the Oil Well Sup
ply Co., where everything can be
found in the way of machinery and
tools to drill wells for oil, gas or
water, tt
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-08-29
A Worm Killer.

j. A. j, Montgomery, Puxico,
Wayne Co., Mo. writes: Il have
little twin girls who have been
bothered with worms all their lives.
/ tried everything to relieve them
which failed until / used Whites
Cream Vermifuge; the first two doses
brought four worms from one of them,
the next two doses, twelve, one of
them measuring twelve inches; the
other child was only relieved of four
worms 1t is most excellent medi-
cine. Whites Cream Verimfuge is
good for children. 1t not only de-
stroys worms, il helps the child to
perfect growth, wards off sickness.
25c at A. A. Hull's.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-08-29

nations are turned towards Colorado
the Switzerland of America. Hun
dreds of tourists are standing awe
stricken before the grandeur of her
mountains, initiating their
lungs with the pure ozone waited on
the perennial zephyrs from her snow
capped sentinels or sitting by the
dashing brooktet assauging their thirst
from it's limpid waters.
No other state in this broad land Of
the free has made such wonderful
progress. First as producer of gold
and silver. first as to climate and
health, first as TO grandeur of scenery,
first as a tourist center. first in area
of irrigated lands, third in the pro-
duction of sugar beets, fifth as pro-
ducer of coal, iron and steel, sixth in
the live stock indu stry and eighth in
agriculture, the Centennial state is
becoming the envy CT the world.
Well did the old Spaniards name
the country Colorado the land of
roseate hues. Colorado is everything
tc all people: within her bounds can
be found climate and soil adapted to
the nrnductiou of everything that can
be raised in the temperate zone. Her
mountains are filled with gold and sill
yer, her streams are full of fish and
her hills covered with wild game.
But after all has been said of her
wonderful resources, her greatest at
traction is her health and scenic
values She is fast becoming the
tourist park and the sanitarium of
the world. Ranch and Range
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-08-29
Ready to Ream

Reaoy to Ream
Headquarters for the OIL EXPERT,
H, McDOUGALL. who for the past five
years. has made the locations for many
of the largest producing oil wells in the
Florence field, with his Instrument, and
recently in Ohio located and drilled six
producing oil wells, not a dry one in the
lot; also two gas wells now producing
ten million cubic feet of gas every day
Drilled May % and July Is, 1902 at
Chesterhill, Ohio. Mr.. McDougall will
be in Florence during the month of
September, and any one desiring his SER
vices, can find him at L. E. Spencer's.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-08-29
Cheap Excursions to Salt Lake.

Via Union Pacific from Denver,
sls 90 for round trip June oath, 25th,
July 10Th, 10Th and 25th, Aug. End,
25th, 3lst $25. 90 for round trip
daily July lst to Sept. 30th. Long
limit, stop overs, diverse route. Solid
vestibuled electric lighted trains,
quickest time. See your local agent,
or address E. r Griffin, general
agent, Denver.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-08-29
McFadden VS.. Hegarty.

San Francisco, Cal, Aug. 90
Kid McFadden, the California
featherweight who recently returned
from England, where he won one
fight and was beaten by Ben Jordan
in the last round of their fifteen round
encounter, goes against Tim Hegarty.
the Australian champion, before the
Yosemite Athletic club tonight. The
articles call for a 2o-round go at 1875
Both fighters appear to be in excellent
condition for the contest.
For Rent-Keller' hall Wednesday
and Friday nights 3ltf
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-08-29
SENATOR MooRE's UNIoNIsM.


commenting upon the unionism of
Populist Senator Moore, said:
''Mr. Moore had TO be waited upon
by committee from the typographi-
cal union, and threatened with having
the union label taken out of his office,
before he would put in a union fore
man. -
This statement was made on infor-
nation of members of the local typo
graphical union. But now comes
Moore with his old defense of calling
somebody liar. It's pet expression
of his. He says, in regard TO the
above quotation, AS this is an un-
mitigated falsehood from start to
finish. Ex Parta will pause long enough
TO brand the author of same as a con-
temptible liar. "
but he's got to take it back and
crawl into his cellar He stands con
victed Of attempting to scab, and by
denying it shows that that is his only
defense.
Here is the proof that shows up the
uniouism of the gimlet- headed sena-
the minutes of the meeting of Feb
ruary 10, 1902, of Florence Typograph
ical union No. 379;
''The executive board was instruct
ed to wait upon Mr.. Moore, manager
of Ex Parte, and ask him to place a
union foreman in his office. -
That alone would indicate that
there was some founadtion for The
Tribune's statement. But there is
more The following is an extract
from the minute book, recording the
proceedings of a meeting held on Feb
ruary "a.
IAN extra session of Typographical
union No 379 was held February "a,
for the purpose of hearing the report
of the executive committee who had
conferred with Mr.. Moore in regard
to placing union foreman in Elk
Parte office. -
'The committe reported that they
had waited upon Mr.. Moore and talked
CEIvED NO SATISFACTION FROM
HIM.
Upon motion duly seconded and
carried, the secretary was instructed
to write to Mr. Moore twho was then
attending the extra session of the leg
islature) under seal of the union, and
inform him that IF HE WISHED TO
RETAIN THE UNION LABEL In EX
PARTE OFFICE, IT WOULD BE
NECESSARY FOR HIM TO HAVE A
UNION FOREMAN IN THE OFFICE
BY MONDAY, MARCH 3rd g
The above minutes are signed by
the secretary and president of the
local union and the seal of the union
is attached
1t is an easy matter to call men
liars as means of defense, but the
records of the union can not be gotten
around
In view of these facts The Tribune
is safe in branding Mr.. Moore seal
at heart, pretender and hider OF
truth He was forced to put union
foreman in his office by the threat of
having the union label taken from
him, and still he poses as the cham.
pion of organized labor. And by the
way Mr. Moore poses AS the author OF
1.-The Employers Liability Bill, v
and unblushingly accepts compliments
for it, And yet it is no secret that
that bill was written in the Florence
Il Cripple Creek shops by big fat
man, to whom Mr.. Moore gives not a
word of credit.
These facts chow something of the
sboddy in the man whom a political
accident placed in the state senate to
represent the people of this county.
No wonder his only defense is the
one word. ''liar.
GTORIOUS COLORADO
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1902-09-29

No profession has advanced more
rapidly of late than surgery, but 1T
should not be used except where ab-
solutely necessary. In cases OF piles
for example, it is seldom needed. De.
Wits Witch Hazel Salve cures quick,
ly and permanently. Unequalled for
cuts, burns, bruises, wounds, skin
diseases. Accept no counterfeits.
"I was so troubled with bleeding piles
that lost much blood and strength,
says J. G. Phillips. Paris, Ill. DE
Wits Witch Hazel Salve cured me
in short Time" Soothes and heals.
A. w. Foreman. DIV
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1902-09-29


improved. 1t seemed to act like charm.
kept Up the treatment and the result
was most satisfactory. Words fail to OK
press my gratitude for the suffering that
Il now saved me. am Ia fine health,
physically and mentally. ! can only say
thank you', but there Is much more IN
my heart for you.'
T~7EARING-DOWN pains are the
kI worst that women know. 1t
IL youare suffering from this trou-
Bile you need not be uncertain
about it. The pains in the abdomen
and back that feel as if heavy weights
were pulling down on the nerves Of the
stomach are 'bearing-down pains !.
They may not be particularly severe at
present but they are growing worse.
That headache which nearly drives you
distracted now is caused by the terrible