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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07

the city. Year after year the hotel and
club life of our large cities is increas-
ing enormously. President Roosevelt
has recently advocated large families,
but unless there is change in the
mode Of life in our large cities the
smaller the families remain the better.
Home! In days past what halIowed
memories were not revived by that
word! 1t stood for the best days Of
mans life and for all that was best in
him. Now it is too often an empty
pretense. AS place where the family
occasionally eat and sleep, it is the
home, but all of the most beautiful and
sincere features are being eliminated.
After dinner, if the family happens to
have dined together, they separate and
each goes to his favorite haunt. The
children are left to their own devices
to wander at will among all that is
dangerous to young manhood and
young womanhood; or if they are
youngsters they are left to the care of
strangers.
On the other hand, home in the coun-
try is a real home. After supper is
cleared away tie family gather togeth-
er and there is an interchange of tender
and sympathetic interest from which
each member of the family der ives no
small measure of encouragement and
good cheer.
Ours is great and rich country, but
the nucleus of all our large fortunes
was the result of the courage, foresight,
prudence and thrift of country lads.
The bait that lures men from the
country to the city is the thousand and
one inventions and appliances that
make life in the city one of compare
tive ease and luxury. But there is
inst where we take the wrong road, fol
luxury gives no pleasure when the
novelty has worn off and bodily ease
can never give happiness. Every ounce
of ease costs a pound of responsibility
and anxiety, and every week Of luxury
costs year of care and worry. If then
we would be successful in our quest
for happiness let us avoid the grasping
scheming throng where gold is god
where the right hand of friendship il
seldom extended save to those who
succeed, where the smiling face only
too often serves as a mask for the
passions beneath; let us avoid all this
and 60 back to Nature, back to the
music of the running stream and sway
ing tree, back to the fields and pastures
and woods and mountains where the
birds and beasts and even the very in
sects bespeak the joy that comes from
Nature alone. Give up the chase fol
the dollar, the feeting recognition o.
men, and all the mockery and sham o.
the artificial city life and 60 back wher'
the pure air, blue sky and green field
impart health and vigor and there b.
content to battle in Natures swee
simplicity. F. I.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07

a button by giving button. Some
times you were offered a pretty poor
button, and you did not feel like trade,
but half the time you got the best of it.
And you got string of buttons. Get
a string of friends. You have as good
a right to friends as anyone else. Get
out and claim them. Call everybody
John and Jim and Joe. Don't wait ten
years to call man Joe. It doesn't
take an order of the court to call man
Joe. He will like it all the better if
you call him Joe on the second meet
ing. He will think there is something
free and friendly about you. Call some
body Pete and have someone to call
Jake. Don't be backward with the
capitalist him Mack. Call the
banker Hank. Everybody will chime
right in and call you Dave, like those
good little synchronous telegraph in
struments that always answer to the
true note And always be glad to see
people. Don't hand out an exact form
al greeting to man as if it were an
accurate segment of cold pie. And be
full of glee, uneounterfeited glee. Have
it about you in tens and twenties. "It
is merry in hall when boards wag all;
jog on, jog on the foot path way, and
merrily hent the stile-a." Be j0cular
and gay, and if you can not be any
thing else, be noisy. Sing songs, old
ones or new ones, good ones or bad ones,
only sing them loud. Dance step,
and the worse it is the better it will
show your good will.
''Life is wine from the world-old tun
night together, and all is DONE"
Dance and sing and make merry, you
win like everybody and you will be sur
prised at the result. And you will have
on your monumental the sculptor
will design the scroll and Bill the
handy man will write the rhymes:
This is the lesson and this is the creed:
When that he lived he lived indeed;
| When he was dead as kit of smelts
He was no deader than anyone else.
| A. r. S.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07
evening Song.

The night wind murmurs in the poplar tree.
The white moon sails in deeps of cloudless sky;
The nightingale is singing, all for thee,
Her lovely lullaby.
Are sleeping nOw-as thou, my bird, shOuldst be;
The spell of night lies soft on everything
On all the flowers and thee.
The lawn is gray with dew; the river flows
With ceaseless murmur by the willows gray;
Soft sleeping now, the lily and the rose
Wait patiently for day.
The daisy buds are sleeping-sOftly curled-
Soft sleeps my flower at last, upon my knee;
And the Almighty Love holds all the world,
AS mothers love holds thee.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07
Dare not, IF DesoIatt.

The broken stair of love winds round your house.
I say,
If friendship set ladder in its place,
And climbing, lift to you quiet face,-
Stay not, nor parley. Turn your own away.
Servant to him who hath, shall JOY on joy attend.
Who hath not, misseth ever all his own.
For this is craven, being law, on stone:
''Dare not, if desolate, to need a friend.'
Mary Adams In the Century.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07
You and coday.

With every rising of the sun.
Think of your life as just begun.
The past has Shrived, and buried deep,
All yesterdays; there let them sleep.
Nor seek to summon back one ghost
Of that innumerabIe host.
Concern yourself with but today.
Woo it, and teach it to obey
Your will and wish Since time began,
Today has been the friend of man;
But, in his blindness and his sorrow,
He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.
You, and today! a soul sublime,
And the great pregnant hour of time,
With God himself to bind the twain!
Go forth, say, attain, attain!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Century
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07
Samuel.

Gated hogs and your Intelligent
dogs, also your horses and cats.
There is nothing strange that
pets and domestic animals should &C
quire certain degree of intelligence
after years of domestication. 1t is only
natural. But when you find an animal
fresh from the primeval forest or some
denizen of the mighty waters showing
more intelligence to the square inch
than street car conductor; you have
really turned trump.
1t was some years ago that became
possessed of pet of this description
that was a marvel of concentrated en-
ergy and intelligence. One day as [
was taking stroll near one of the many
Shoots" that connect with the Mississ-
ippi River, CHANGED upon very large
specimen of the mossback turtle max
ing it's way overland to neighboring
slough. Upon my near approach, l
was greatly astonished at the peculiar
behavior of the reptile. He Immediate
ly sat up, resting on his rear fippers
and tail, and after gravely saluting he
drew my attention to an inscription on
his breast. It read as follows: "This
is Sam, treat him kindly and he will re-
ciprocate." Now I was greatly sur
prised at this unusual mark placed up
on so homely creature; and especial
~ was 1 surprised at the remarkable
sagacity displayed by creature whose
very nature and appearance is any
thing but intelligent. After so novel
an introduction, I determined to take
"Sam" home with me, but as he was
very heavy, being large specimen of
his kind, was somewhat at loss how
to accomplish my purpose. However,
/ grasped him firmly by the tail and
started for home, where finally arrived
after great exertion. had large cask
in which constantly kept a quantity
of milk, water, bran and table refuse
In this I placed him. 1 already had
several of the same species captive in
this place, so Sam would have company
Imagine my surprise when few
hours later discovered all my pets out
in the yard, and all except Sam max
ing for the river as fast as they could
travel. After short chase recap
tured them and again placed them ir
the barrel. 1 could not understand The
mode of their escape and so determined
to keep close watch upon them, from
position where they could not see me
1 had not long to wait. Soon beheiC
the head of a turtle, which afterward'
proved to be Sam, appear above tn
chime of the cask and peer cautiousl!
about. Then the entire body made it,
appearance. They had, under Sam
instruction, built a ladder out of thei
own bodies, over which he mounted tx
the top. AS he reached the top h
paused to allow the one next to hin
get firm hold of his tail with his jaws
then he toppled over the edge, hi
weight assisting in drawing the other
up. Thus, forming living chain, the
successfully made their escape. San
Immediately set upon them with all tn
viciousness of bull dog and LITERAL,
drove them from the place, after whicl
he quietly took up his position near tn
cask.
Sam soon got so tame that he woul
follow me about the farm and becam
quite convenience to me. For ir
stance, if happened to be on one sid
of stream and the boat on the Othe
Sam would take small strong cord
his mouth, swim the stream, climb int
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-07
City and Country Life.
Paper Read Before the ChaatauQua Circle.

Paper Read Before the ChGatGuQuG Circle.
"HE constitution of our coun-
try guarantees to every man
the right to "life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness"
Life and liberty all men do enjoy
and it is presumed that all men are
actively engaged in "the pursuit
of happiness" The trainers of that
great document hit upon happy
phrase when they wrote "the pursuit of
happiness" for il is indeed pursuit
A pursuit which begins at the age of
reason and ends very often at the day
of death in failure. And why? Cen
erous Nature has FILLED the world with
her treasures aPd has given man the
mental and physical capacity to utilize
them. For all Abt is grand and good
and pure we are indebted to Nature.
alone; and it would seem that nothing
remained but for us mortals to settle
down to the enjoyment of life in its
truest sense. Why is it that happiness
must be pursuit and one that so often
ends in failure? Even the most con-
firmed pesslmist must admit that the
world abounds in all the things necessa-
ry to happiness and yet man, the su-
preme creation of Nature, is often the
most unhappy and is so because he
makes happiness pursuit.
Human happiness is not dependent
upon riches or power, but it is state
Of mind more often obtained in the
cottage than in the grandest palace. 1t
is state of mind which dollars will not
help one to secure, and yet man in his
supreme egotism has decided that the
road to happiness is paved with riches,
and so rushes into the mad whirl after
the almighty dollar, the very possession
of which means the Punishment of his
hopes and the death of all that is
purest in life.
Look around you moment and see
where are the happy ones. If you are
in the city, you will find very few;
and yet a large number of these city
people left behind them farm and ranch,
pure air and green fields, blue sky and
crystal streams, in short left all Ma
lures grandest creations to dwell here
amid the mad passions of the strug-
Cling mob where the sum total of mems
existence is envy and greed. 1t would
be amusing we're it not so pitiful to see
thousands and thousands of young
men leave the true road in their pur-
suit of happiness and come to the city
to enter upon a career which when it
does not end in vice leaves them poorer
in faith, poorer in hope and poorer in
charity in all but gold, the
very possession of which is very often
a guarantee that happiness has fled
forever.
Go then unto the country and speak
to yonder laborer in the fields. You dc
not see that anxious frown, that care
worn expression or the trembling hand
To be sure his clothes are worn and his
speech is dramatically incorrect, but
his face bespeaks health, vigor anG
contentment in every line and his voice
rings true with the hearty good will o.
man at peace with his fellows. HI
lives no strenuous life but is conten
!, with an honest, peaceful existence
fearing God and loving his neighbor
And inasmucA as he enjoys that which
so many pursue in vain, he is truly
prince among men.
| Let us look again at the home life Q
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-26
VITAL STATISTICS.

The following deaths were reported to the office of the Sanitary Department during the week ending yesterday: July IS, Frank Page, age 19 years. mala- rial fever; body shipped to Columbus, Ga.
 July 1s, Mrs. Kate Burton Powell. age 27 years, nephritis.
 July 20. Mrs. Caroline P. Anderson. age 42 years. malarial fever; body shipped to Greenville, Ala.
 July 21, child of Marcus Reeves. age 2 years. burned.
 July P, w. W. whittle. age A years. typhoid fever; body shipped to Fort De- posit. Ala.
 July 25. Miss Lula Johnson. age 25 years. tuberculosis
 July 25. infant of A. B. Berry; body shipped to Warrior Stand, Ala.
 Negroes. July IS, child of Adam Gary, age Is months. dentition.
 July IS. William Taylor, age years, typhoid fever.
 July IS. child of William Foster, age 1 year. diarrhea. July 19, child of William Dodson, age 2 years, entero colitis.
 July 19. Jessie Dudley, age ss years. bronchitis
 July 1s. Anderson Davis. age 6s years. peritonitis.
 July 20, child of Herman Richardson, age months. pertussis.
 July 21, infant of Louisa Knox. July 21, Minerva Wlnbush. age 50 years, paralysis.
 July 2i. unknown man, about 50 years. cause unknown.
 July 22, infant of Andrew Stephens. July 9, Oscar Fielder, age 30 years, malarial fever.
 July 2S, infant of Arthur White, age ' days, cause unknown. Births.
 The following births were recorded dur ing the past week:
 To MT. and Mrs. c. O. Bomar. a girl. To Mir. and Mrs. William J. Foster, a boy.
 To Mir. and Mrs. Charles s. Adams. a girl.
 To Mir and Mrs. Pat McGauly, a boy. To MT. and Mrs. G. W. Smith, a girl. To Mir. and Mrs. Charles P. Mann, girl.
 To MT. and Mrs. Paul Moses, a girl. To Mir. and Mrs. R. A. Haden, a girl. To MT. and Mrs. P. J. Minderhout. girl.
 To Mir. and Mrs. J. H. Butler, a girl. To MT. and Mrs. William l.. Vickers, girl. To Mir and Mrs. w. T. Hlx, a girl. To Dr. and Mrs. T. c. Thorington, boy.
 NnnrAaa
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-26
You Are Real Smart You Will Read This Advertisement Yer, CarefuIy...Perhaps There is Some Clew
 to the Answer of the Rebus

Any solve the Rebus The only condition that with each guess One o Dollar for which will give receipt shape credit check with which time buy dollars thing the sore desiring to buy dollars worth you this credit check for One (oo Dol lar as part This that there to vo-no cost try prize. We simply desire that these hundreds shall be distributed tomers-hence the simple condtion
 Send your plainly written, giving your name and will be received before noon Monday July 2h The postar of will be counted time of their receipt be fair to everybody and that all have an equal received day July 3oth
 July 3Ist.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-26

Since then the Kearsarge has met the
 Tate of so many other ships, having been
 wrecked on a reef in the Carribean Sea.
 But the old Hartford, in commission.
 with her officers and crew on board and in their distinctive and fascinating uni
 forms, and the ship with her lofty and
 symmetrical masts and spars and her sails furied, and every rops in place. has
 been most interesting to visitors during her escort visit to the navy yard. She is now on the records as doing duty in the Coast Squadron, and has left the navy yard and gone to Annapolis.
 The old ship is a different looking ves- sel so far as the interior is concerned. from the one which Farragut command ed at the battles on the Mississippi River in 1882, and at Mobile Bay in 1884. And yet. although there is little left of the old ship beyond her keel and frame and name. she has not lost her outward ident- ity, and any of those who were familiar with her in the days of the Civil War would recognize her now. She was orig inally a steam vessel. or sloop-of-war. of 2900 tons displacement, and was built at Boston in 1858. She has the same grace full and symmetrical lines that she pre- scented on that hot summer day when she led the wooden fleet past the guns of Fort Morgan. in 1884. at the battle of Mobile Bay. when Farragut won another of his great victories and coined the phrase that has gone down into history, when he called out to the commander of the Brooklyn (who had hauled his ship out of the line when he saw one of the moni- tors go down by an explosion of a tor pedo "D-n the torpedoes; so ahead!" The famous old ships have all gone ex- cept the Hartford, and she is destined to remain afioat so long as she can be kept in a seaworthy condition, so as to remind the present and future generations of the kind of ships and the manner of men their ancestors were in the days when men and ships were needed to preserve the nation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-26

Mrs. F. s. Wool. Troy. President Ala M esma Division; M 1 7; p. G Editor rin-Chlsf, AfSs j. Asa h'1esGsa aes Ea,,sn ssm'nshA'l' @hAp- Mra Harvey E lSass. % Historian. His
 toricai Editor.
 Our Fallen Heroes: The manner of their death waa the crowning glory of their hves. "-Jefferson Davis
 DIRECTORY.
 President-Mrs. F. s, Wood. Troy. - Honorary fresident-Mrs- sailie C. Jones. First Vice Pr, ,sident-Mrs. Rose Garianl
 Lewis. Birmingham
 Second Vice Presidont-Mra c. W. Tay- Recording Secretary Mira B. B. Ross. Corresponding secretary-Mrs. James Aii- Trsasurei-Mr. ]. N. Thompson. rus- Hist9rian.Mrs. Harvey E Jones. Spring Registrar-Miss Elma Holland. Scale.
 CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES. 'fonumentai ccmmirtee-drs. L. e. paw- Children of the Confederacy-Mrs. AL
 berta Rumph. Union Springs: Chapter Extension Committse-Mre '. H.
 Elmore. Montgomery.
 The feasibility of accepting Clark and Warmsley's contract for the Lyceum course has been questioned. hence the
 
 State coffers U. D. C.. is indeed every daughters. But, the Lyceum course meth- cd seems to have greater drawbacks than encouragementS.
 The following lett& to the State Treasu- Ter U. D. C., will doubtless be of interest to the different chapters in the State. For 'tis the real desire and happy intention oi the State division to give to the old sol diers, through this medium, the home. AS Al ta. .xl~r all .1ho ters U. D. c. throughout the State con tribute to both the home and the division pension, thereby causing a greater tax, perhaps, than if we could consolidate this work.
 Capt. Falkner says he hadn't the room nor the requisites for an infirmary, the in digents therefore are barred admittance Must we see them neglected? The heart answers no. Then let us have a union of the work.
 Suggestions from the co-workers be greatly appreciated by the Daughters.
 Montgomery, Ala,
 June 25, 1903 Mrs. J. N. Thompson, Treasurer Ala Div, U..D. C., Tuscumbia, Ala: Dear Madam: Yours inclosing $10 from the Pelham Chapter (Birmingham). for food and clothing for the old soldiers at the Home. received.
 No one knows how much the contribu- tions are appreciated by the old soldiers, as well as myselr. Just at this time we are needing every dollar we can get. and these contributions from the different chapters of the U. D. c. are gratefully appreciated and are a great help to us. We hope to be able in the next few weeks to take in at least fifty old soldiers in the home.
 Again thanking you and the Pelham Chapter, I remain, Yours Very Truly,
 J. Nj. Falkner. Chairman Committee on Ways and Means and Building Committee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-26

By the way August Furniture Sale that want to remind that in this sale you furniture for onerd off will least saving of onefourt and guarantee that
 There is S5oooooo worth furniture in this se including Bed Room Suites Paor Furniture Coners, Sdeboads Dining Room Tables Regeaors China Closets all kinds of Chairs and in fact everything that possibly need for housekeeping Our buyer has been to Grand Rapids and all other principal cesn the East and bought car loads urntuwhee by buying big quantities he could twenty-five cents the doarh is where saving We take at least that saving off of regular retail and still make fair profit During this sale send furniture free to part of Alabama the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-26
WATERMELoNs
Children at Play.

Overals for little boys and girls a- d creeping babies as well. strong waists and shoes. black stockings, sJnbonnets that will wash easily and hats that may be left overnight in the cherry tree or on the lawn without sensible injury will give the mother a chance to do something e,se than exercising an eternal vigilance over the clothes question.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-26
Here is a List of Prizes:

18th prize-One ladies' silk fan. 50th prize-One ladies silk fan. 51st prize-Bottle R. & G. extract. sgd prize-Bottle R. & G. extract. 53d prize-Standing work basket. 54th prize-Standing work basket. 55th prize-Importent beer stein. Seth prize-Imported beer stein. 57th prize-Cream pitcher. -. 18th prize-Cream pitcher. 5Sth prize-Set knives and forks. 60th prize-Pie knife. 61st prize-Reading lamp. 62d prize-Reading lamp.
 Sd prize-Silk waist pattern. 64th prize-Silk waist pattern7s ss5 65th prize-Shirt waist set. 66th prize-Shirt waist set.
 67th prize-Wrist bag.
 6Sth prize-Wrist bag.
 69th prize-Ladies' belt. roth prize-Ladies' belt.
 71st prize-Ladles' neck chain. 72d prize-Ladies' neck chain. 73d prize-solid gold stick pin. 74th prize-Solid gold stick pin. 75th prize-Automobile bag. 76th prize-Automobile bag. 77th prize-Fancy neck chain. 18th prize-Fancy neck chain. fStn prlze-LaQleS house slippers. S0th prize-Ladies' house slippers. s1st prize-Set of shoe trees. S2d prize-Set of shoe trees. Sd prize-Turkish bath slippers. s4th prize-Turkish bath slippers. r. S5th prize-Ladies' silver bracelet s6th prize-Ladies' silver bracelet. S7th prize-Ladies' fine handkerchief SSth prize-Ladies' fine handkerchief. S9th prize-Ladies' summer gloves. 90th prize-Ladies' summer gloves. 91st prize-Fancy neck chain. 92d prize-Fancy neck chain. 93d prize-One copyright novA. 94th prize-One copyright novel. 95th prize-z dog. mems handkerchiefs. Seth prize-h dog. mems handkerchiefs. 97th prize-Extra size hammock 9Sth priZe-EKtra size hammock
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-26
IMPRESSED BY OUR soBR1ETY.
Visiting Briton Contrasts American
 Men with Those of Alt on.

VlslIluR oI1IOA SOAILAoIS AAuOAASah
 Men with Those of Alt on.
 "When I get back home." said Mir. Hugh Ashford, former member of the British parliament. at the Hotel Barton. "I will tell my countrymen that, along with other points of superiority, the United States has an enormous advan- tage over England in the sobriety of it's people.
 Really. believe you will see ten in- toxicated men in Great Britain to one in America. I have been in this country now for about month. and have yet to see a man presenting visible evidence of inc briation. In our country the mechanics and wageworkers generally spend a large per cent. of their earnings for strong drink. From what I have seen of the Yankee workingman he Is sober and in- dustrious, traits that in the long run are bound to tell heavily in his favor."- Washington Post
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-26
Your Druggist win Buy 1t Back.

You assume no risk when you buy Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera and Dlar- rhoea Remedy. All druggists will refund your money if you are not satisfied after using it. It Is everywhere admitted to be the most successful remedy in use for bowel complaints and the only one that never fails. It Is pleasant. safe and re. liable. All druggists. adv.