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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-10-01

| Goodness only knows what woulc
have been the outcome, but We
went away and at the next build.
ing had better luck. Then Jack
said he had borrowed the tools as
much as I had SO I'd have to &C
and buy some hinges.
The hardware man said he had
hinges of all sizes, but didn't be-
lieve he had any big enough to let
down and put up the top half Of
the front Of a house. I said: "Give
me three of the biggest you've
got" And Jack said they were
barn door hinges. But we used
them.
Well, sir, we got the top half OF
the front part Of our building
sawed out and hinged and propped
and then we went across the street
to see how it looked. It looked
pretty tough, but as we we're to ca
ter to crowd of foreign workmen
till the fair opened we didn't care.
l forgot to tell you that there was
a door at one end of the house
about as wide as foot and a half.
We closed up and locked our
"Oasis' and went down town and
bought ham and a coffeepot and
cups and saucers, etc. We bought
q stock of tobacco at fire sale and
bought pipes and bread and some
mustard and some matches (Jack
said workmen always wanted
matches) and then we took the
plumber to the COASTS" all except
the ham. Our landlady said she'd
cook that for us.
We opened up at noon the very
next day, and dog my cats if we
didn't sell Java to beat the band.
We agreed to fill any old utensil
with coffee for ten cents, and all
was we'll till one fellow brought
wash boiler. In the afternoon we
had a nice quiet trade, very quiet.
I think we sold a fve-cent cut of
Horseshoe" tobacco. Jack said
we were doing a rushing business,
that is, the people we're rushing
by. We couldn't sell ham for few
days and then passers by all wanted
ham after it had gotten moldy.
After awhile we commenced get
ting a steady trade. One old fell
low put us wise. He said: "Sell
soup, that's the secret So our
overworked landlady started a soup
factory and we made heavy de-
mands on same. From soup to
nuts is a far cry, but later in the
spring we added stock of peanuts
and then the fur commenced to fly.
Visitors came by the dozens all
through February and March.
About March 18th one day came
a large and elegant windstorm.
The Cyclorama of Chattanooga tried
to buck it, It only tried, for the
Cyclorama came tumbling down
and struck the COASTS an awful
slap. The COASTS" fattened out,
Jack and I looked for a cyclone
cellar. Not finding any we climbed
telegraph poles. Then when the
storm was past, a dreary wreck lay
the COASTS A lawyer told us we
had no redress against the Cyclic
rama because we were "squatters."
Heavens, what drop! From prop
erty owners to squatters! We
walked sadly away and the once
magnificent COASTS" became a
dream of the past, shall I say a
"pipe dream?" HARLEY.
M ~ n -
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-10-01

-
=@@@ me Of that
==: great and only
worlds fair at Chicago in 1898.
In the fall of 1892 I was living
in an Eastern city and had very
good position with mercantile
house. One of the employees was
my particular chum. I'll call him
Jack Mc(4ee, because that wasn't
his name or anything like it, be-
sides I want to spare his feelings
in case these lines should meet his
eye. It was all Jacks fault. After
ten years one certainly can think
calmly and without prejudice about
an affair. And so I still say it was
his fault, for he came to me one
day and told me his plans; said he
was tired of working for somebody
else all the time; said he wasn't
going to do it much longer; said
he had saved some money and all
he needed was a partner, and he
would strike out on his own hook;
said he knew [ had saved some
money too. Now if that wasn't a
broad hint l don't know thing.
So I did just what you or any
other young fellow would do;
asked him the wherefore and the
why, and that's how it happened
that we took an express for Chicago
in October, 1892.
Talk about hope and fattering
prospects! Huh! Well, sir, we
talked clear to Pittsburg, and from
there we talked to Fort Wayne,
and when the brakeman called out
= ''Polk Street Depot, Chicago" we
were still at it. The only thing
that worried us was what use we
would put our fortune to after
and making it,
Ever been in Chicago on a
windy fall day? Ever go around
the Masonic Temple corner and
catch the breeze off the lake? We
had fall overcoats; Chicagoans wore
bear skins. Our coats were very
thin and the wind didn't do a thing
to us. We walked up State Street
and nearly stretched our necks off
by "rubbering" at the sky scrapers.
Jack counted twenty stories of the
Masonic Temple. Then he quit or
he would have performed back
somersault. Yes, we were Rubes
all right-and came from city at
that, but then the city we we're
from thought ten-story building
masterpiece of architecture.
After sightseeing a whole after
noon, we went to our room on the
north side and then came some
more talk and plans. To hear Jack
talk most anyone would have had
confidence in him. We had about
$3.50 apiece and of course we we're
too we'll off to think of working
Just yet, and so by the time we
we're ready to begin accommodating
untold wealth our finances we're
getting low. It was just after
Christmas when we decided to look
up something. We made many
trips to jackson Park and saw the
workmen busily building the
White City. Jack said his idea
was to rent a few hundred feet on
Stoney Island Avenue near 57th
Street, close to the main entrance
of the fair and put up refresh
ment stand. He said no lunches
would be served under 80 cents,
Acoffee 10 cents. plain old ham
sandwich 10 cents, etc. Yes, in
deed. But when the real estate
owner said he would lease us thir-
ty feet front for six months at $50
a foot, Jack and I sidled out Of his
office and never spoke to each other
until we we're some distance down
the street. Then Jack said, $3.50
eIv, r Lo1;ox,o bo cold ofhor
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-10-01

! franchise was a mistake. First
} because nearly all of them were
utterly unfit to discharge it's obi.
, cations; second, because it aroused
!, the ambition for Office holding
, which, to their simple minds,
meant drawing salary without
doing any work and third, because
it gave them an exaggerated idea
OF importance, which, with dense
Ignorance, made them very obnox-
!, ious to the whites. In asserting
their political rights they attempt
ed to lord it over the whites with
a swagger and a buncombe that
deepened the hostility growing out
OF bestowal of the suffrage and
a clamor for office-holding. For
nearly forty years the bitter antag-
onisms arising from these condi-
tons have been kept alive in the
states where the races were nearly
evenly divided, and have been de-
plored by the people of every Sec
ton and of all parties, That the
whites were compelled to pursue
such course was borne out by the
fact that republicans of the North,
even the most extreme representa-
tives of the party, who afterward
settled in the South, while not abat-
ing jot in their fealty to repub-
licanism, sympathized with, sus.
tanned and acted with the whites in
the treatment of the negro and
saw in it the only possible course
to follow.
This was the situation when
Booker Washington appeared upon
the scene. It was discouraging;
it was appalling; enough to dis
hearten even the stout-hearted.
But the plucky man did not de-
spair. He began his labors at
Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
and branched out upon new lines
for the uplifting Of his people.
He saw their defects and set in
motion the forces to remove them
Education, industry, upright liv-
ing, economy, temperance, home
building and home comforts,
wealth, abstention from active pol
itics, stunning of ofice-holding
and no attempting to get in the
society of the whites. A dual CIV
ilization with opposite races living
by themselves yet on good terms
with each other, both aspiring to
the best in humankind, was his
dream to end the squabbles, the
lynchings, the hatreds and the
other repellant features which kept
the two in perpetual warfare. Pro-
ceeding upon these theories Mr..
Washington had the support of
thinking men of the South. He
believed that a knowledge of trades
combined with a familiarity with
letters would work transformation
in the negro. It would overcome
laziness, lead to a cultivation of
the soil and the enhancement of
virtue in the home.
He has succeeded. Tuskegee and
the surrounding country is proof
that the colored question has been
solved to the satisfaction of the
American people. The houses, the
farms, the happiness of those who
build, cultivate and occupy them
are evidence that what seemed an
impossible propositions problem
which would go On for cent
uries defying solution-has not
only become possible but has start
ed fairly in the way of final and
complete settlement. Tuskegee, it
is true, is only just the beginning;
h,.E .u;kl Tho foct cofi cfo oforx1 ORC
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-10-01

|
have it we stopped on Stoney Is.
land Avenue near 59th Street in
front of little Oklahoma house
Ever see one? It's about eight
feet long, four wide and ten high
Only one story. It's jointed and
bolted so fellow can take it down
and put it up again, (that is, if he
! wants to-. The particular Okla.
bona house [ speak of had a sign
on the front which said: "This
building for SALE" Jack said the
nucleus of all fortunes was real
estate and other property. What
he meant by "other property" I
don't know, but [ do know that we
bought that Oklahoma house! We
we're property holders now, and
the man who sold it to us said we
could let it stay where it was un-
til May LIST.
Well, we were tickled to death
about our purchase. We actually
owned Chicago building. Jack
said the proper thing to do was to
saw out the top half of the front
and put it on hinges SO we could
let it out and by propping it up we
would have lunch counter ready
made. He said he'd borrow a saw
and hammer and nails if I'd do the
work. [ kicked and said I'd do the
borrowing, because [ was left hand
ed and couldn' t saw board straight
to save my life. He agreed. I went
over to where they were building
the "Cyclorama of Chattanooga"
and said to carpenter, evidently
a foreigner: 'Lend me saw and
hammer for few minutes if you
please. I'll take good care of them
and bring them right back" He
looked suspiciously at me and re-
marked in a dialect which Weber
Fields alone can initiate: "Vat you
do nit hirn?''
why, we want to saw out the
front of our house."
"Saw out the front of your
house, hey?"
"Yes, sir"
"What for?'
"Why. to make lunch counter"
each, gott, he must be crazy
gone, he's got so many minds on
his brains he's gone bughouse."
This he said to fellow work
man who spoke up to me:
"Where's this house?"
"Why, right down on the other
end of the lot, close up to the
pavement"
He shook his head sadly and
murmured, "Kankakee!' Just then
the foreman came up and said:
whats the matter, do you want
a job?"
mo, SIR I said, Give got a job,
that is, I will have one if I can get
a hammer and a saw and some
nails for my partner to work with"
ooh. he replied, "then it's your
partner who's got the job, eh?"
mo" I said, mot yet he hasn't,
not till we get the saw"
The foreman commenced to look
funny at me, and l said: 'These
fellows here think I've got wheels,
just because [ want to saw out the
top half of the front of our build
ing to make lunch counter.
"What building are you work
ing on, is it the Manitoba?'
NO" [ said, "we haven't named
it yet, but we thought we'd call it
the Oasis because it will be a sort
of haven of rest in this wilderness,
that is, after it's done" The fore
man backed away and waved me
off, and I'd have gone only Jack
came up to see if [ was ever COM
ing back.
"Jack," I said, "these men don't
L
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-10-01
; The Oasis.

!, FADING an &C.


count of the
coming worlds
fair at st. Louis
has reminded
me of that
great and only
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-11

able and satisfactory man. Nothing else is
quite so serviceable in promoting the full
flment Of her destiny and her content while
1t is in the process Of fulflment. Nothing
else If she is normal-and there are very
few women who are not considerably normal
quite takes a mans place with her. One
Of her most valuable privileges is that of
selecting her man, Of picking and choos-
ing and taking her time about it, and pos
sibly even of changing her mind after she
had begun to think she knew 1t. 1t is OBJ
served that women who are good, and have
the luck to be charming also, have great
advantages in carrying this important pro-
cess of selection to a successful issue. More
men are available for such girls to choose
from, and once the choice is made the re-
sulting contentment is more apt to endure
and TO wax, instead of diminishing. The
most that legislatures can do for married
women is to protect them from bad hus>
bands. Choosing good ones is a matter Of
personal enterprise which laws can do lit
tie to promote. But of course a woman
who has few rights and is in complete pos
session of a satisfactory and competent hus-
a is better off than if she had more
rights and no satisfactory means OF real
izing her destiny. If the American girl
ever has to choose between her rights and
her Notwithstanding the privilege OF
being charming, and this invaluable privi-
lege of selecting a man that suits her-she
will undoubtedly do well, as Miss Daskam
advises, to hold on to her privileges and let
her rights go. But she will hardly have to
make such a choice. She will retain her
privileges, anyway, and all the rights she
can make up her mind to want, besides.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-11
EriIIH of

The more gossamer the sleeves the more
fashionable.
The newest tortoise shell comb resembles
a twisted Louis bow. 4H
Lattice work Of chenille forms the trim
ming for some separate waists in satin.
Spanish shaped turbans of the same ma
teriai as the gown, relieved with a band of
sable, are modlsh.
A white satin striped gauze for evening
has autumn leaves painted upon IT and a
thick ruching of flowers borders the skirt.
Rich embroidery in pale green silks and
rlDDon work upon a somewhat darker green
satin, combined with fine lace, makes "a
most effective trimming.
Some of the newest and prettiest gauze
leaftess blooms forming a border at the hem
Of the skirt and around the neck of the
corsage.
An example of the elaborateness that dis
tinguishes the newest wrist bag is one OF
biscuit colored embossed suede embroidered
Is a pink pearl encircled by chenille petals
outlined with faint tan threads.
The clover leaf is a favorite design in
the Jewelry of the moment An exquisite
trefoil brooch is set with three big dia-
monds with an emerald I'M the center, while
clover pattern. A sapphire brooch in trefoll
effect shows one leaf sage green, another
red as a ruby and the third in the familia
deep blue tint.
Necklaces have come INTO such universal
employment as ornaments that a woman
is not the proper word. Chains of precious
semi-precious and Valdeless stones and
oeads are wound twice, three times, a doZe.
times around the neck, and then the slack
falls, perhaps, TO the ground.
The newest way of wearing a chain is
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-11
IN THE DOMAIN OF WOMAN.
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are in loose box shapes and almost in,
variably lined with white.
Cluny is a lace just now much in favor,
and in dead white, cream and string color
II is seen on the most elegant Of the French
importatlons.
queer opera Raiment.
Not the least charming features Of opera
almen is the mufiing in which fair woman
envelopes her head for the short street
run.
This, to ensure the safety Of the elab-
crate couture as we'll as becomingness,
must be Of some airy textile, such as lace
chiffon, tulle or net, though many box
owners wear fur-trimmed hoods, whose
| solidity is no drawback to their charm.
These are attached to long circular capesi
with wadded silk or fur Innings or, II the
wearer Is a young girl, the hood may be
separate from the wrap, with the wadded
lining turning over to form a simple face
border.
The gauzy head mufiings are commonly
in squares. in the dimensions OF the usual
liberty neck mufler. Feather and flower
edges appear on the chiffon ones, which
coquettlsh borderings frame a pretty coun-
tenance seductively and add something to
the warmth Of the ends, which are wrapped
around the throat.
Other thin head scarfs display silver OF
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-11

% Bits of embroidered trimmings and
galoon and braids in many decorative
varieties are seen among the bargains of
lesser consequence. These decorations in
more OF less quantity embellish the gowns
Of the hour and with careful selection one
may make even such fragments do stylish
duty. For example, wide and narrow braids
are put together, fancy and plain, round
and fiat. Then the tiniest bits Of tinted
embroidery or heavy lace will do for a
fancy stock, this detail rarely matching
the bodice with which it is worn.
Buttons, too, provide charming ornamen-
tation, II too many are not used, and some
Of the handsomest Of the seasons buttons
can now be bought for a song. Smoked
and white pearl are desirs Die sorts, espe-
cially II they are large aid ~shanked, as in
limited numbers such kinds are put on all
the new s~hirtwaists.
For a smart bodice in silk, lace or vel
vet the gaily lowered pompadour buttons
are most embellishing, but at the most six
only should be used-two fastening the
postillion to the belt at the back, two
closer together at the front of the belt
and two on the stock or vest.
MARY DEAN.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-11
For anu About women,

Countess Salazar, an Italian writer OF
note, is receiving much social attention in
Boston.
Mary Johnston, the novelist, begins her
literary work at 4:3O in the morning. Per-
haps this may be the reason she leaves her
readers so much in the dark.
Dane county, Wisconsin, women have in
vaded the fields of industry regularly occu-
pied by men to a remarkable extent. The
information that Mrs. Frank Clapp, a bride
of six months, has taken her husbands
place as a carrier of a rural mail delivery
route comes as the last of a series Of
similar announcements. Several other
women, wives of mail carriers, have taken
their husbands places when they were
sick.
The countess of Aberdeen has accepted
the nomination by the Canadian and other
national councils of women as president Of
the international council, to succeed Mrs.
May Wright Sewall. She has done this on
the distinct understanding that the next
meeting Of the international council, which
will come in the year 1909, shall be held in
of the Canadian council, and she also
wishes It to be understood that when that
time arrives it may be impossible for her
to accept the chief office. Lady Aberdeen
was the first president of the international
Council of Women and women say that 1t
was her wealth, energy and social prestige
more than anything else which brought the
organization into existence.
Mrs. NJ. Agnes Garrett of Garrett, Wyo.,
asserts that she is the only woman justice
Of the peace in this country. She was
regularly chosen for the office at the last
election and has already had experience
in public service, as she was postmistress
of Rock Creek, Wyo., for five years. She
Is the mother of six children and has voted
for sixteen years. Jennie G. Keith of Gold
field, Ia, became the recorder of her
county on the first of the year, giving up
her position as editor of the chief paper
of her town in order to do so. Finally,
Miss Alice j. Manson has been nominated
by the republicans for the SUPPLEMENTARY
of the schools of Dane county, Wisconsin,
and for the past three weeks she has been
stumping the county making three and
four speeches a day in her own interests.
She is % years old and pretty, therefore is
likely to win.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-11

Carnegie is giving away his fortune for
Libraries DIR. y. La Motto Sage purposes
to put the most useful book in all libra
ries, free Of charge, right into the homes
of the people. For this purpose he has
just donated $4,000, and a big publishing
house is busy day and night turning out
the books for free distribution. The book
DIR. Sage wishes to distribute free of charge
is entitled THE Philosophy of Personal
influence 1t is heartily endorsed by the
ablest business men, ministers, doctors
and lawyers of two continents. 1t is beau
tifully illustrated with the finest half-tone
engravings, and every page is brim full OF
intensity interesting ana practical informa-
ton. 1t is a book which should be in every
home. 1t is by far the most remarkable
work of the kind that has ever been writ
ten, and it has truly created a sensation in
the book world.
It explains numerous instances in which
people have been secretly and instantane-
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tells you how to learn to protect yourself
from the use Of hypnotic power over you,
1t tells you how to learn to develop and
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Men like Vanderbilt, Morgan, Rockefeller
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teachings to their own profit and gain.
1t explains to you the power by which
you may cure yourself and others of all
diseases and bad habits without the aid of
drugs or medicines. 1t tells OF a secret,
instantaneous method by which you ma!
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any part of the body, so hat the teeth ma
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1t tells you how to learn TO induce sleep
in yourself or others at any time Of the
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Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-11

Matinee Girl and the First Nighter
in Fashionable ReRalin.

Matinee Girl ana the fiFHN NiHhNeE
In Fashionable ReRalin.
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-More and more
elaborate grow the winters cloaks, those
for theater wear especially resorting TO
every device for effectiveness.
Stole bands Of velvet appliqued with EN-
broidered edges, are seen on long cloth
coats. the velvet shaping at the shoulders
a collar Of some sort and often running
down on the sleeves in odd ways.
with the or~namentation, in itself ex-
tremely decorative, embroidered a%ppllca-
lions in separate flower sprays may be
used. They are Of the cut-out cloth, the
needlework done in silk Of the same color
and the ornaments placed wherever they
show to greatest advantage.
One elegant matinee coat OF pale bisque
cloth displayed a spray on the pun of each
sleeve, and another at the ends Of the
stole bands at the front of the coat. Vel.
vet in a deeper shade shaped the stole and
at other points heavy machine stitching
formed a smart decoration.
The most swagger of the theater coats
are in the palest colors or white, though
these last are usually reserved for even
ing use. However, a white coat is not ar
uncommon sight at the matinee and moth