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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-14
ODDS AND ENDS.
BY.
81. j. B.

ness for positions Of greater i'm
portance and responsibility. Every
corporation that employs large
number of men has some men
who are capable Of discharg-
ing the duties of the position next
higher than the one they occupy.
Thousands of employers 60 a thou
sand miles from home to employ
strangers for important positions,
when they have men in their en-
ploy who are more capable and
worth more money to the employer.
Once upon a time, while as
ISOLATED with a corporation en-
ploying several thousand men the
writer was asked to name two or
three men of a certain similar cor
poration who would make good
superintendent. Three men were
recommended accordingly, but our
company had scores of men who
were fully as capable and who,
being on the ground and acquaint-
ed with the situation would doubt
less have brought about better re-
suits than did the new men, Most
large corporations have few
officials who are qualified to fill
the highest executive positions of
their respective corporations, but
the executives themselves, in very
many cases either make little or
no effort, or else they have not
the breadth and depth, to deter
mine the real qualifications of
their employees and thus the best
that is in these subordinates is
never brought out, recognized or
appreciated. It is true that sub
ordinates should seek or make the
opportunity to demonstrate their
qualifications, and in many cases
they do so, and in many instances
also it is an easy matter to deter
mine that men have nothing in
them to recommend them: but
there are tens of thousands of men
who are kept down simply because
Of their seeming inability to find
the right conditions for making
their real worth understood, how
ever hard they may strive.
Sunstrokes in the east and snow
blockades in the west, in the same
day, make it appear that the. wealth
er clerk has not very good control
of his machine.
A man being asked how old he
was, replied: "The united ages of
my son and myself are 100 years;
those of my son and grandson are
Sc years; my grandson and myself
together number IS years. How
old was each?
An old inscription may be found
in a church in Wales, which is
apparently unintelligble. The ad-
dition of single letter, repeated
at proper intervals, makes rhym-
ing couplet which is quite appro-
pirate:
P RSV RYP MN
V r K PIT H S PRCPTSTN
= =
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-14

ONE of the conditions under which the state
magazines circulated in the dollhouse is that they
shall be kept clean and not mutilated. That this
condition should have to be attached does not speak
very highly of the recipients of the states favors
but it is necessary. day or two ago copy of the
May Cosmopolitan sent out by the state turned
in to the Deputys Office with some of the pictures
cut out, the leaves dirty, the torn off, and
generally mutilated so badly that it longer fit
to read It had been in circulation only few days
and more than half the men whose
the list will have to do without it this month.
Of the six hundred-odd prisoners here, fully
two hundred are so circumstanced that they cannot
afford to subscribe for magazines themselves while
their friends cannot afford to send any to them. 1t
is to this class that the Deputy sends the majority
of the state magazines The easiest way to lose this
privilege is to abuse it, and the who, to crafty
the whim of moment will deliberately run the
risk of having the magazines taken out OF circulation
in the dollhouse deserves than he will get when
he is located by the authorities.
AND now comes Mr. John G.. Shedd of the firm
of Marshall Field and Co., Chicago, with new
recipe for Success "Am high and pull the trigger,
says Mr.. Shedd. "My advice to young men is to
aim high and shoot There is charm about that
sentence. It is of those delightful epigrammat
cal remarks that are capable of being interpreted
any way you see fit. Taken literally, young man
and why is it always to the young man that the
royal road to Success is pointed out? Heaven knows
there plenty of middle-aged men and even white
haired old dodderers searching for it! However,
taking Mr.. Shedd literally, young man might lie
on his back the ground and with $3.50 shoot
into the zenith of the blue, blue sky and if he shot
straight enough the bullet losing its momentum and
being attracted by gravity would descend in
straight line and bash him in the head, metamor-
phosing him in single instant into an angel. It is
evident that Mr.. Shedd did not expect his remarks
to be accepted literally.
There narrow-minded persons who will deny
that The MIRROR is qualified to discourse Success
but nevertheless we have formula which if con-
scientiously followed will enable the young to
attain that goal. Here it is: Find a line of work
that is more attractive to you than play or pretty
girl a summers evening; master it in all it's de-
tails then if you are gifted with unusual acumen,
persistency and health; if you are capable of sus
tanned endeavor and possessed of unfagging opti-
mism; if you have character, and strength of pur-
pose and honesty and good luck-why then it will
be tough lines if you fail to accumulate million or
two. But if you find you are lacking in these
qualifications you may yet succeed if you can per-
suade Mr.. Carnegie, some other philanthropist to
believe you have them. Above all things, be chesty
and talk Success with capital s. People will &C.
cept you at your own valuation and if your vocabu-
oil horp1 &,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-14

IT is hard to believe that the attempt made last
Saturday to dynamite. the Cunard pier and the
steamer Umbria lying at her moorings in the North
River the work of the Malta of any organized
body of Anarchists. The whole business looks like
the work of one man, or at the most of two men.
The leaders of the Anarchists are unsurpassed in
demoniacal cunning and would be most unlikely to
warn police official of an impending outrage. The
affair has every appearance of being the work of
single mailman full of his plot that he could not
await its contamination. And the odds that
when he is discovered he will be found miserable,
crngng, -witted whelp that will break down and
weep under the cross-examination of the police-a
legitimate offspring of the years of oppression the
Latin has undergone, sinister, blind, puny and
deadly dangerous
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-14

youngsters 1t costs money to keep children clean
money or time, which when both parents work
ing to keep the family together mean the same thing
The average child has no more idea of keeping him
self and his clothes clean than puppy has In fact
if he is normally constructed, he takes to dirt a
duck does to water; and as he has done through
countless ages it's safe to say that dirt doesn't do
him any permanent injury The child of well-to-d do
parents manages to keep person busy all the
time looking after him the poor youngster must
shift for himself.
Most large cities have come to realize their respon
sibilty toward the children, and public baths the
result But the baths are open in the summer months
only and during the rest of the year the children
of the poor are washed at such times their
worked parents can make the opportunity. In order
that they may be kept clean all the round baths
should be instituted in the public schools and bath
ing should be as much part of the curriculum as
reading or writing Then-and not till then-the
children of poverty stricken parents will be habit
uay clearly instead of being habitually dirty. And
until the schools do provide baths, the parents
should not be held entirely responsible.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-05-14

Some young people economize
for years to lay up a few dollars
for their marriage, while others
just get spliced when the notion
strikes them, money or no money.
A Georgia justice recently married
a couple who drove up to his house
and went through the ceremony
without descending from the buggy.
When the ceremony was over, says
the Atlanta CONSTITUTION, the groom
fumbled in his pockets and said,
"Judge here's Sc cents, all the
mon ey I have in the world. If you
want it take it, but I was going to.
use it for my honeymoon"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The reelection of Senator ii. NJ.
Teller of Colorado, was practically con-
ceded Yesterday by the seeding rePuoh-
can State Senators returning to the re-
gularly organized Senate controlled by
democrats.
Between ~ and l o'clock yesterday
morning Edward Mitchell was taken
from the county Jail, at Madison, Boone
county w. ", where he was awaiting
trial for the killing of Lee Swords, by a
mob and lynched.
BENJAMIN Oney, Sheriff of st. james
Parish. Louisiana, was shot and IN
stantly killed by Joe Thomas, a negro
Yesterday. Last night Thomas's ashes
were hidden beneath the smoulderIng
embers of the cabin which was his home
Retaliation was swift and horrible.
Sir Hiram Maxim in his latest letter
on the Bank of Monte Carlo, says
"The bank collects a fixed and well
defined percentage on all moneys which
pass over its tables and no system OF
combination of systems can IN the leas'
influence this percen tage."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-27
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate yesterday resolution
offered by Mr.. Morgan. of Alabama
questioning the credentials OF Dr. Her
ran. the Columbian charge fafialres
who signed with Secretary Hay the
canal treaty, caused the Senate to go
into a long executive session. AT Its
conclusion the diplomatic and consular
appropriation bill was passed. The
Lodge amendment, providing for re-
organization of the consular service,
was ruled out of order and debate there
by cut off.
Yesterday was District of Columbia
day in the House, but as Chairman
Babcock had not completed his report OF
the $40, 900, 900 loan bills that measure
went over. A number Of bills of minor
importance were passed. The Indian
appropriation bill was next mp, but 1t
was not completed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-27
Fifty-Seventh Congress.
Washington, d. c., Jan. 81.
SENATE.

Mr.. Beverage had read resolution
of endorsement of the Nelson single
statehood bill, adopted by the CONNER
cial club of Bristow, Indian Territory.
As he was addressing the Senate in con-
nection with it, Mr.. Aldrich declared
that the injection of speeches into the
routine business was contrary to the
rules of the Senate. He objected.
Several private measures were given
immediate consideration, and passed
without objection, one being the print
inc order presented yesterday by ilr.
Platt IN. " and objected to by Mr..
Quay which resulted in an acrimonious
colloquy. :.
The House operating under special
rule, gave consideration to bills reported
from the committee on judiciary, the
LittleHeld antitrust bill excepted. This
bill will be given Especial rule for
future day.
A number of judiciary bills were
passed. The bill amending the Wilson
law so as to give the States jurisdiction
over liquors imported into the territory
upon arrival before or after entry was
next considered The purpose of the
bill is to enable the States, having pro-
hibition laws, to prevent the violation OF
these laws by the importation of~liquors
from another State and their distribution
in original packages by agents. The
Supreme Court of the United States has
held that the law was defective and that
liqsors entering in the original package
we're exempt from the State laws.
Mr.. Bartholdt opposed the bill on the
ground that it would spread the pro-
hibition laws over the whole country
and for that he was not prepared.
Mr.. Clayton said that the bill had the
unanimous support of the full committee
on judiciary.
Mr.. Smith referred to the opposition
of Mr.. Bartholdt and said that there
we're many men like him who demanded
their liquor and they always found way
to get it.
Mr.. Kleberg said he opposed the bill.
''Its prohibition measure before Con-
gress in disguise. believe in personal
liberty; am nm anti-prohibitionist," he
said.
Mr.. Bartlett said he was against pro-
hibition, but he thought the bill good
one, as people who elected to have pro-
hibition should have right to enforce
their will.
The bill was passed without further
objection.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-27

AT THE thirteenth annual banquet OF
the Confederate Veteran Camp of New
York held last night at the Waldorf
Astoria. Charles Francis Adams, OF
Massachusetts,, soldier of the Union,
responded to the toast of "Robert f.
Lee" Henry Watterson, a soldier OF
the Confederacy, paid tribute to the
character of Abraham Lincoln. The
third toast to Jefferson Davis was re-
sponded to by William Hepburn Rus
sell. formerly of Missouri and now COM
missioner of accounts of the New York
city government Among other things
Mr.. Adams said in the course OF his
response was the following
oSome six months ago in a certain
academic address at Chicago | called 10
mind the fact that a statue of Oliver
Cromwell now stood in the yard OF Par
lament House in London, close to that
historic hall of Westminster from the
roof of which his severed head had once
looked down. Calling to mind the
strange changes of feeling evinced by
the memory of that grinning skull anc
the presence of that image of bronze,
remembering that Cromwell, once traitor
and regicide, stood now conspicuous
among England's worthiest and mos
bonored, asked: Why should 1t not
Also be so with Lee? Why should not
his effigy, erect on his charger and wear
ing the Insignia of his Confederate rank
gaze from his pedestal across the Poto
mac at the Virginia shore and his once
dearly loved home at Arlington! lie
too, is one of the precious possession
of what is an essential factor IN tn
nation that now is and is to be. Crom
wells efigy is private gift, places
where it is by an act of parliament. 90
when the time is ripe, should it be Wit
Lee, and the time will come"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-27
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Prominent citizens of Madison county
are trying to secure an electric line to
run from Criglersville to Orange Court
house, 20 miles, where connection will
be had with three railroads.
John Hays, the negro lawyer who is
conducting the fight against the new
constitution. will go on an extended
trip through New York and New Eng
land to raise funds to keep up the fight.
Thomas Rife, apatient of the Western
State Hospital, was struck over the
head, it is alleged, by fellow-patient,
Wade Ferguson, Saturday, receiving
wounds from which he died Sunday
night.
Rev. w. II. Ballenger, of Warrenton,
has been assisting Rev. w. G. Ham
moud, at the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, Manassas, in a series Of
meetings. The revival is one of un-
usual interest.
George Holman, son of Judge Hol-
man, of Fluvanna county, was yesterday
pardoned by the governor, after having
served about three months of his year
sentence on the charge Of attempting to
criminally assault Miss Cora Lacy.
A call has been received by Rev. Ed
ward III. Ingle, rector of st. Barthol-
omew'. Protestant Episcopal Church,
Baltimore, to become rector of Christ
Church, Wildwood. The pulpit of the
latter church has been vacant since the
departure of Rev. Courtney Jones.
| Mr.. Harry Gordon, of Culpeper
county, who has gone abroad, was
heard from recently while he was in
London. 1t is now stated that he has
gone to South Africa to join Charles H.
Newhouse, who was of the same county
and whose disappearance in Baltimore
over year ago caused sensation at the
| time.
The commissioners appointed by the
courts of Fauquier and Culpeper counties
10 receive proposals for work to be done
on the bridge across the Rappahannock
river at Remington will recommend the
acceptance of the bid of the Virginia
Bridge and Iron Company, of Roanoke,
the lowest of the ten bids submitted.
The work will consist of the erection OF
a stone abutment, two piers, three steel
spans of 6s feet, replacing the wooden
trestles, raising the present steel struc-
ture and making approaches on both
sides of the river.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-27
a Trinartjte EIopement.

Madison, Wis, Jan. 2I--George
King, of Brooklyn, Wis, eloped with
three women from three different villages
in two days. King is married man, q
years old, and started on his relay
elopement Sunday morning at Mount
Horeb, by running away with his
brothers wife, a girl of l6. King de-
serted the woman, after taking the $3.50
she had appropriated from her husband
purse, and left for Columbus, with a
woman of Deforest. At Columbus King
left the Deforest woman and, with a
widow of that city, started for Fall River.
Since then he has not been seen. The
two deserted women are on their way
home and sheriff is hot after King and
the other woman.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs

Rob Fitzsimmons challenges Tommy Ryan,
Gus Rubin, kid" Mccoy, Jack 0Brien
and all the rest to meet MN at tne yen i..,,
Fitzsimmons show and agrees to put every
one of them to sleep inside of four rounds or
forfeit to each man $3.50.
Because of an order by American Tin Plate
Company, that workmen assert Will eliminate
one clause of their wage agreement, the
hmalgamated Association in all TIN piate
mills throughout the country are on the
verge of strike.
A bill has been introduced in the Kansas
House of Delegates TO tax bachelors $50 year
and all able bodied spinsters between the
ages of IS and so, who have no families to
support, S25 year, the taxes to go to the
school fund.
The condition Of Frank Mcdonnell the
boIer injured in recent bout in San Fran,
CISCO with "Spider" WEIGH, and whose skull
Is thought to be fractured, is so critical he
may die at any hour.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-27
THR VENEZUELAN AFFAIR.

Great Britain and Germany have noti-
fed United States Minister Bowen, rep
resenting Venezuela, that they are will
ling TO accept the basis of his PROPOSE
tons for full settlement of the Vene-
zuelan dispute. A Rome cablegram
states that Italy will take similar action
today.
Minister Bowen in return for the
raising of the blockade, offers 30 per
cent. Of the customs receipts at La
Guayra and Puerto Cabello in payment
of the claims. These receipts, he pro-
poses. should be collected by joint
commission made up of one representa-
tive of each power having claims against
Venezuela. The methods of making the
collections have not been definitely set
tied yet. In Berlin it is suggested that
Mr.. Bowen himself might be the re-
ceiver
Part of the receipts at the two ports
named were already pledged as security
for Venezuela's foreign debt.
1t is stated in Rome that one of the
powers insists on 80 instead of 30 pei
cent of the receipts.
As soon as the details of the agree
ment are completed the blockade will BE-
raised. In official circles at La Guayrs
it is said that the blockade will END
Wednesday.
When the question of security is
finally disposed of commission, rep
resenting all the powers, will adjudicstt
each claim. 1t is expected that ever,
phase of the dispute will be settled with
out reference to The Hague tribunal.
New York banks, including J. 2
Morgan & Co. and ]. & w. SeligmaI
& Co., are understood to be willing t.
arrange for the preliminary payment
demanded by the powers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-27
FOREIGN NEWS.

The French chambers today granted
The government credit for OO,OOV
francs to cover the expenditure in con,
nection with the relief of the victims OF
the eruption of Mount Pelee on ine
island of Martinique.
The newspaper Nouvellisteu, OF kouen,
today proposes and international con-
ference preferably at The Hague to reg,
ulate the liberty of the Panama canai
before the United States begins work on
it. The paper says the neutrality re-
parding the Suez canal is assured be-
cause it is international property but
the Panama canal, exclusively controlled
by the United States, would become the
pretext for a general war unless the
question is settled once and for all.
Prince Ludwig, their TO the Bavarian throne,
in a speech at banquet given in the Kaiser :
honor at Munich yesterday evening, denied
the reports that misunderstanding existed Pc
tween the Kaiser and himself. There was the
greatest friendship between them, he SAID.
The escapade of the Crown Princess Louise
of Saxony has caused strained relations
between the King and the Crown frnce
Tho Prince urges clemency while the King
declares that the matter affects the dynasty
and demands the seyerest measures.
The sentence of Col. Arthur Lynch, th'
Irish member of Parliament, condemned q
London last week for high treason, was toda!
COMMITTED to penal servitude for life.
1t is announced today that the British gov
eminent has invited tenders for the construc
ton of 1900 ton battleships which vii
eclipse anything in the world.
Charles NJ. Schwab, President of the United
States Steel Corporation, has requested I
private audience with the Pope.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-27

A MINISTER WINS AT GAMBLING
Rev. w. ]. Holt, of Moundsville. FORM
erly pastor of the Elkins CIV. Va.)
Methodist Episcopal congregation, Gre
ated a sensation in the revival services
which have been in progress at Mounds
Vile for the past few weeks by making
an open confession from the floor of the
assembly room. He said he had fallen
from grace; had been drinking heavily,
finally passing to gambling, in which he
won IS, 900. He said he had accumu-
lated property and worldly goods, and
had led life he should have eschewed
and not even contemplated.
The young clergyman, after leaving
his congregation, took up the study OF
law. and recently acquired some property
at Moundsville. The manner and
methods of its getting he told openly.
and pledged his friends that he would do
better. The incident, his friends de-
clare. demonstrated true contrition, and
he is once more in the good graces of his
former religious associates.
The revival that prompted Rev. Mr..
Holt to take this step has been in prog
re.s Tor several days, and 300 have pro-
fessed conversion The church is the
scene of all-day meetings. Even the
saloons have closed in response to re-
quests from the church people.