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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-09-10

The abortive attempt to assassinate President
Roosevelt last week may perhaps be productive of
some good. It will serve to remind the public of
the constant danger menacng the chief executive of
the United States whoever he may be, and will I'M
doubtedly increase the vigilance of the secret service
officers who are detailed to defend the President
against such attacks. The danger from cranks and
degenerates is present and too much cannot
be exercised to Illustrate their designs Unfortu-
natey all dangerous madmen are not SO crude in
their methods as was this man Weilbrenner
The occurrence may also serve to test the laws
enacted after the assassination of President McKin-
ley, providing for the punishment Of persons at
tempting to injure the President. There seems to
be no disposition to prosecute Weilbrenner. It is
generally admitted that he is insane. But are not
all insane who plot against the life of the head
of our nation9 On the face of it, they must be- if
not quite mad, then at least very abnormal Conse-
quently these laws will be imperative unless actual
injury Of the President is effected. In the latter
event. the public will demand the punishment of the
offender be he or insane At any rate, it is now
obvious that no amount Of legislation will prevent
cranks from formulating and attempting to execute
such Crimes and the surest and safest plan is to have
sufficient body Of trained and efficient guards al
ways in attendance upon the President
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-09-10

The Powers Yutsey mix up in Kentucky prom
ises to be one Of those interminabe affairs that go
on indefinitely creating disturbance and discussion
without arriving at any satisfactory conclusion Even
since the conviction Of Powers the testimony Of
Yutsey it is as chaotic as it was The country
is divided IN its opinion to the mans guilt, but
united in the belief that dirty work and politics had
good deal to do with convicting him. and it he is
executed it will be another dreary travesty Of Justice
to the dscredit Of Kentucky But much as his en-
eies desire to see him put out of the way for good
it is probable that he will either be granted new
trial or receive communication Of sentence.
All the evidence adduced in the Goebel murder
case SO far has been prejudiced. Witnesses have
either gwen every indication Of trying to save their
own necks or have made it plain that they were bit
ter political enemies of the trial, and, as is
well known, in Kentucky your political enemy lays
for you with a gun and shoots you up whole lot.
Powers may or may not be guilty; that is for time
to decides but it is certain he convicted evil
dence so-called that ought not to condemn yellow
dog Political capital has been made out of the bust
ness at every turn and for the state to take human
life in such cause would put it on the level
with the man or men who from behind barricade
shot William Goebel
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-09-10

GENERAL CHARLES KING is responsible for the
statement that soldiers from the Eastern states in the
Philippines we're towards; but no one will take the
matter seriously. The general has dealt in fiction
long that he cannot be held strictly responsible if
he mixes it with history and then To label
the men from any section of the United States as
towards is absurd, and comparison such as the
general made before the Society of the Army of the
Philippines is ridiculous. The West was settled by
men from the East. Over half the present popula-
ton of the West at large was born on the Atlantic
coast or sprang from parents born there. To say
that the West produces drawer soldiers than the
East is tantamount to saying the East produces
drawer men than the East, for they all come from
the same stock Gen. Kings comparison was gal
lery play and was indiscreet.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-09-10

The conviction of the twelve participators in
the attack on the Danville ILL.,, Jail vindicates the
city and the sheriff who swore out the warrants
against them It will have salutary effect on lynch
ers all over the country. All that is necessary to
check mob violence is to have it become generally
known that law exists for the punishment of those
who band together to commit crimes as we'll as for
those who Individually offend After two or three
experiences such Danville has provided, men will
be likely to think twice before joining mob to at
tack Jail It is up to the city to prosecute the
prominent citizens who broke into the city lookup
and lynched the negro on the same day the Jail was
attacked.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-09-10

published in the Minnesota State
Prison. edited and
aged by objects to
prisoners cquaint
pathological
information prejudice which
The paper entirely
dependent public If time there
surplus would
of the prison library.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-09-10
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-09-10
ODDS AND ENDS.
..BY...
81. J B.

IOI @4O d tOu. III SOu0 PAdOcc OH
the Yukon, potatoes have yielded
$50 bushels to the acre and sold
for Is cents per pound, or $500 q
ton. Peas, wheat, barley, rye, oats
and fax are successfully grown in
Alaska.
Most men think they would be
content if they had reasonable
amount of money or an easy, lucra-
tive position, but, almost invariably
let men reach their original dreams
and they want more. Give them
$4,000 and they want a hundred
thousand; give them hundred
Thousand and, they want to double
or treble it or get million. Make
a man councilman and he wants
to be mayor; make him mayor and
he wants to ex-governor or senator;
give him one of these Offices and
he wants to be president; give him
the presidency and he wants to be
president again, or to run the
world, or own it.
A law exists in Nebraska making
invalid marriages of divorced per-
sons within six months. Is not
this rather farfetched? According
to the laws and customs of all
countries all single persons Of
manageable age are eligible to
marriage and all ordinary rites are
universally recognized and ac-
cepted as valid. Hence when
marriage ceremony has been per-
formed in accordance with the pre-
scribed form, what person or body
of persons can undo that marriage,
except by regular divorce proceed
ings? When a couple Of marriage
able age have undergone the pre-
scribed ceremony and taken the
VOWS accordingly, they are just as
much married as anybody, even
if they had only been divorced
twenty mine minutes prior thereto.
When we come to consider that
the vast majority Of deaths are the
result of disease, when we think
of the millions who daily suffer
from disease and sickness we are
reminded that there is something
radically wrong with the entire
machinery governing the laws Of
nature. The world has always
been more or less filled with dis
ease, and when we mediate on
some of the greatest wonders
wrought by nature and science We
are reminded that there is no good
reason why disease could not and
should not be permanently eradi-
Gated from the entire face Of the
earth. Scientists and doctors have
pursued and arenow pursuing inves-
LEGATIONS and are making occasion
Ial discoveries. Sanitary conditions
Of the more advanced countries
are improved from time to time,
but the health machinery Of the
whole world was either poorly con-
structed in the first place or else
permitted to get out Of gear thou
sands of years ago, and as result
millions upon millions of mis-
guided, helpless, ignorant, inno-
cent, harmless, deserving, good.
well-meaning, striving people OF
all ages have been compelled TO
suffer all kinds of misery and pain.
And all for what2 What is the
reason or excuse for this terrible
flaw in the most essential element
of the worlds machinery OF
course people must die or ssout,
or whatever you please to call it,
some time-that is if they don't
lget killed; but death is not due
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-09-10

with looking-glass they are more
two than one.
The average weight Of an Amer
lean man is 1413 pounds; of a
woman 1241 pounds.
A Missouri editor has discovered
q new political party in that state.
called the Boodlecrats.
"What we really need in this
country" says the editor of the
Snagtown TorcAlig1u, lis less law
and more livin'.
Alaska cost the United States
seven million dollars and the value
of salmon shipped from there last
was eight million dollars.
Some of the Kentucky politi-
clans are in favor of a quiet cam
paign in that state this year. A
quiet campaign in Kentucky would
spoil the undertakes harvest.
The race problem in this coun-
try has developed into all kinds of
races, but the one which has at
tracted the most attention during
the past few weeks is the yacht race.
A considerable portion of the
inhabitants of this world are SO
close to the edge of insanity, says
an exchange, that they are liable
to step over the edge at any min
ute.
In 1880 the population OF New
York City was 100000 and today
it is about 100000, having dou-
bled itself in the past % years
That city is now second only to
London.
The Los Angeles Herald OBJ
serves that if the Missouri politi-
clans had as good records as the
celebrated Missouri mules there
would not be SO many of them in
the penitentiary.
All the retail merchants of this
country having become SO oharita-
BILE in recent years as to sell their
goods below cost, it's wonder they
don't all become bankrupt, and re-
| tail stores cease to exist.
The engineers who preside over
the two big engines that supply
/ the power to run the Irvine and
|shoe factories seem to enjoy life
All these gentlemen have to do is
to chew gum and watch the big
wheels go round. But somehow
their machinery is kept in such q
condition that it looks clean enough
to eat.
Some people think it looks bad
for man to have several aliases,
but there are very many instances
/ in which the best of them change
their cognomen from time to time
Even that great Englishman. Lord
Salisbury who died recently, was
once known as Lord Robert Cecil
and for number of years he called
himself Lord Cranbourne. It il
|also common occurrence fol
princes and kings to change thei1
names with their elevation. But
what's in a name, even tho they
sometimes come high and 60 high
= s
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
The Review of Reviews for September

The September Review of Reviews is
notable for the number and variety of
topics of worldwide interest included in
its survey. The Irish land bill, the British
tariff debate, the Macedonian revolt, the
crushing Of liberty in Finland, the COM
merclal progress of Germany, and the
Panama Canal question are among the
subjects of editorial discussion while
various other matters of current interest
are Illustrated in the cartoon department
and special contributed article deal with
the new Pope and the Conclave, with the
denomination of President Diaz of Mexico.
with the late Frederick William Hollis. of
The Hague court, and with The Cotton
Crop of Today" DR.. Lyman Abbott's
discussion of The Race Problem in the
United States is supplemented by an in
teresting exposition of The Negro Prob
lem in South Africa from the pen of an
English writer, Mr.. Arthur Hawkes.:
Dean Sanders, of Yale University, out
lines the program of the new Religious
Education Association, of which ne is
PRESIDENT Mr.. Clarence H. Poe describes
the rural school libraries of North Caro-
lima; and the social and religious condi-
lions OF modern London are clearly set
forth in review of Charles Booths re-
Gently completed work 1t would take
more space than we have at command
to enumerate the additional topics
treated in the departments of Leading
Articles of the Month" and The Periodi
calls Reviewed, and the magazine as a
whole may be described as veritable
encyclopedia of current history.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
The Farmers Will Get $600,000,-
600 Any Way You Take it.


The Southern farmer seems to have
the bird more nearly in hand than i'll
the bush. The cotton farmer, and
not the tobacco farmer, is here
meant. 1t seems probable that if
100000 bales are made, the price
will be 10 cents a pound, and the
Southern farmer will receive for the
crop 10 cents a pound. This means
100000, 900. If the cropis 10, OOO,-
900 bales, it will be - cents pound,
which means the same 5000, OOO,O 900,
besides saving of $1O,OOO,OOO cost
for not having to pick she deficiency
of 100000 bales. If the crop is
more or less, the price will be in in
verse ratio more Or less, which means
any way you take it S6OO,OOO,OOO
for the crop.
Something like five years ago, the
crop was sold for $500, 100000 The
crop has not very materially in
creased in five years. The crop Of
1903 and 1904, September to Sep
TENDER, may be a little more or less.
The interesting fact is that, for ap-
proximately the same crop in the
year 19O3-19O4 the purchasing price
will be $6OO,OOO,OOO instead of
$3OO,OOO,OOO. Farmers used to
argue whether at the old price, viz:
$500, 100000 for 100000 bales
of cotton, there was a profit or loss
Perhaps some made a little profit
and some made a little loss No
matter. At S6OO,OOO,OOO for the
same crop, or any other crop, all
hands ought to make Il profit.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
JOHN WISE, jim HAYES.
Look Upon the Two, Take Your
Choice.

Charlottesville (va.) Progress.
See the difference between Hayes,
the negro lawyer and agitator OF
Richmond, and Booker Washington,
the negro's best friend and pacifica-
tor. While the latter, in an address
before a negro convention at Nash
vile, Tennessee, is admOnishing his
race to abjure politics and devote
themselves to industrial occupations
as the best means Of their elevation
and advancement, this creature
Hayes is giving them just the con-
trary advice, and is infaming their
passions and prejudices by appeals
to participate in politics and to con
tend for the unabridged suffrage OF
the negro race.
Bad as is Hayes, he is not half so
bad as is John S. Wise, his associate
in the suffrage case now pending in
the United States Supreme Court.
The one is a negro and the other a
white man; but the negro is the pref
cradle of the two, or rather the less
offensive of the two in the estimation
OF the people of Virginia. The one
is at most but the blind advocate OF
his particular race; the other is at
least but the slanderer and traducer
of his particular race. Put them
both up in a lottery to be held by
the free and enlightened suffrageans
of Virginia for an expression OF APP
probation on their respective ca
reers, and the negro will draw the
prize over the white man.
Yes, Mr.. John S. Wise, you were
by fortunate providence not born
in Virginia, as you were ushered into
this mundane sphere in the capital OF
one OF the small South American Re-
publics, to which your father was ac-
credited as consul.
And now as on the one hand you
have expressed yourself us being
prouder of your Northern line (the
Sargeants) than of your Southern
(the Wises), so we in Virginia are
more tolerant of the negro Hayes.
and his cO-wOrkers, than we are OF
you, degenerate son OF worthy
sire; the Ostracized citizen of Rich.
mond i'll her highest social club
the mathematical refugee from Nir
ginia in the opinion and the open
expression OF all the good people OF
the State. Look at the two pictures
and which is the blacklist; the one
which wears its plutonian hue by
chance, or the one which wears it by
choice?
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
The Farmers and the Trust.

Townsville Charity and Children.
The farmers may think they are at
the mercy OF the trust, but it is not
SO. With a soil that will raise any
thing that is planted III it, it is a
sorry farmer that is at the mercy of
anybody.-Durham Herald.
The Herald is famous for loading a
paragraph with wisdom but it has
not done IL bitter piece of work than
in the few lines quoted above. The
farmers can crush any trust they
please that attempts to control the
products they raise. Suppose the
tobacco farmers all determine to
plant cotton or grain in 1904, a
thing they ought by all means to do
under the circumstances. The Amer
lean Tobacco Company would soon
come to them with its hat in its hand
begging their favor. This will hard
ly be done, of course, for of all people
i'll the world the farmers are the most
poorly organized, but it can be done,
and with almost any other class OF
people it would be done in a jiffy.
We hope the day will come when the
farmers will realize their power and
exercise it, iudiciously but vigorous
ly, when occasion requires.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
is the Negro Race Decreasing ?
A WASHINGTON dispatch saws:

A Washington dispatch says:
'In view of the current discussion
OF the race problem it is interesting
to know that the vital statistics of
the twelfth census show that the
death rate exceeds the number of
births among the negroes in practi-
cally every city in the country to a
remarkable extent. In Chicago
there were $3.50 births and go
deaths among the negro population
in 1900, making the excess of deaths
300. Negro births in st. Louis in
the same year were 554. while the
deaths exceeded them by sci. In
New York City the excess of negro
deaths over the births was $40; in
Boston, 81; Washington, FOL; New
Orleans. 1.o1o. Out of fifty-siX cit
ies reported by the census in all parts
of the country, the death rate among
negroes is found to be greater than
the birth rate in fifty cities.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
Why the Governor Didn't Ride Horse.
back.

The Asheville Citizen, in it's report
of the Governors visit to the First
Regiment encampment, says:
1t was at this time that Colonel
Robertson asked the Governor if he
would review the regiment on horse
back. A shrewd twinkle came into
His Excellency's eye at this but he
preserved a grave countenance as he
replied, giving his reply as if he were
still talking politics: "No, as Gov
ernor | must not tahe sides, and if |
rode horseback | fear that Turner
would have to fill out my unexpired
term and that would give him an adj
vantage over the other candidates
for Governor. In the spirit of fair
ness | must remain on foot" Every
body laughed and Colonel Pearsall
declared that the Governor had
taken this reply from Josh. The lat
ter is a negro servant to the Cover
nor and when he was asked to take a
part in a hOtly contested baseball
game he replied: Holding the posi-
ton us do we can't take sides.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
RISEN FROM ITS ASHES.
The Willard Bag and Manufacturing
Company, One of WiImingson's
0ost important lndu stries.

In March last the plant OF the Will
lard Bag and Manufacturing Company,
one OF Wilmington's most important in
dustries. was burned. Az soon as the
ashes cooled off the work of rebuilding
was commenced The new plant,
handsome three-story brick structure,
is now complete and again in operation:
The new building has a floor space OF
nearly 5000 feet. 1t is built OF white
compressed brick and has a very attrac-
tive appearance. Two elevators con-
meet the three floors and two stairways
lead from the bottom to the top OF the
building
The first floor is used for the printing
presses, bale presses and cutting tables.
The printing presses are used Tor stamp
ing bags. The plant is run by three 10
horse power electric motors, and 81
horse power gas engine is kept in re-
serve in case of accident.
On the second floor is the bag depart
ment Fifteen Union Special sewing
machines turn out 10000 bags a day.
The machines are high speed and have
velocity of 5000 stitches a minute.
Some of the workmen can make $500
bags in day Of ten hours.
The overalls department is on the
third floor The machinery manufac-
lures overalls, jumpers, pants, drawers,
etc The button holes are cut and
sewed by machinery. The double needle
and button hole machines are really
wonderful. This department has ca
pacity OF 400 dozen garments a week.
The whole building will be lighted by
electricity from the company's own dy-
namo in the winter when night and day
forces are worked.
Mr.. Martin S. Willard is president and
Mr.. f. Payson Willard is secretary and
general manager of this important man
ufacturing enterprise and they constr
tute the sole stockholders.
The business is one OF the most lmpOr-
tant in Wilmington, and very few peO-
pie have any idea of the scope of the
work done by the factory. The compa-
ny sells goods in Virginia, the Carolinas,
Georgia and Tennessee and the demand
for the goods is ever on the increase
Nearly all the employees are women.
Sixty white women are employed i'll the
overals department and eighty cOlOred
women on the second floor in the bag de-
partment The two races work entire
| ly separate. The entire force numbers
| about $50 people. TO give an idea OF
| the amount of work done, the plant cuts
| up nearly every year 4, 100000 yards OF
burlap and 100000 yards of denim in
manufacturing the different goods. The
company's pay roll averages the year
round about $500 a week or about SD
| 500 to employees All the hands are
paid by the piece and some of the white
women make rs or 50 a week.-Wii-
mington Evening Dispatch.
The above is chiefly interesting to
the GOLD LEAF from the fact that
Mr.. Willie j. Farrar, formerly an
employee in this Office, is superintend-
ent of the concern. He has been
with the Wizards about ten years,
going with them soon after he
stopped sticking type for us. Will is
a good boy and deserves all the good
fortune that may come to him.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
A Dangerous Tobacco Disease.

A very destructive tobacco disease has
recently broken out with extreme vio-
lence in certain portions of the State. 1t
is the desire Of the Station to accumulate
all information concerning the disease
which may lead to checking of it's raw
ages. The point now most to be desired
is to find out how widely the disease is
distributed over the State. To that end
we request that all people interested in
tobacco growing, who are troubled with
any disease of their tobacco plants will
send specimens consisting of the lower
part of the stem and the roots to the
Station. We particularly desire these
specimens if the disease consists of the
willing of the leaves, accompanied by a
brown color in that portion of the stem
just inside Of the bark. We urge upon
all tobacco growers the Importance of
notifying the Station Immediately after
this disease appears in the neighborhood
50 that we may advise as to the means
OF preventing its spread. Two diseased
stalks in the field this year may mean
the loss of the entire crop the next year
you put tobacco on the field.
F. l.. STEVENS.
Biologist