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The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20
cnly Pour Of These Now.

Who wants one Of the remaining four
beautiful regular $3.50 styles that are
nov offered 10 close out quickly for t21s:
Other fine brand-neT uprights. in mod
erateIy plain cases. worth S275, 1925. $3.50
and Up 10 sf0b. instruments that cannot
De sold regularly by any dealer OF agency
for less than those figures are now
marked 70 sell for slzs. 3l37. sls4, tlss.
and I'D u 82z7
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20

Only SIX mere days 70 sell the remain
trg handsome rev and used pianos
uisne-DIsrers- organs. suto-pisnOs and
electric self-piaying pianos that were Of
fered for sale az the P0nmer-Ellers
removal sale a. such ridiculOusly low
prices
There are not 70 exceed sixty-Hve in
strUneufs alt0gether. and AZ the rate
We have been selling them during tn
pest week everything viii be closed out
before the end q the week
People living out u town should tele-
graph write OF phone is az once. Re
quests 70 hold 2 particular style Of piano
tilI letter can arrive vii not be hOnored
after wednesday next
Tire sale thus far amounts 70 over
$40. 100. and Wen surely reach the $50
oo0 mark before II closes To say that
We thank the purchasing public for the
splendid patronage and the confidence
reposed IN our house and IN our an
Touncements Of this great sale does not
begin % express Our fun appreciation.
for the business done during the past
few days exceeds by far our most san
guine expectation
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20
BRIDE OF TEN DAYS
LOSES YOUNG HUSBAND
Accidental Discharge of Shotgun Ends
the Honeymoon of Ventura
Farmer

VENTURA, Dec 1s. - Claude
Brown, a young farmer. of Santa
Paula, was killed by the accidental
discharge of a shotgun. While hunt
ing Brown pulled his gun toward him
over a barbed wire fence. 1t was dis
charged, the charge of shot entering
his body and causing his death a few
hours later. Brown was married only
ten days ago. He was 25 years of age.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20
New York Life PolicyhoIders

Should read the analysis of the New York
Life financial methods in the current
numbers of the Era Magazine; 10 cents,
all news stands
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20

Customs Collector Stratton has been instruct
ed 10 notify shipping men to keep twenty miles
away from Pescadores because Notifications
are being erected at Suwo. The information
came from the American Minister at Toxic.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20
Thts Is what Does It.

T IS the fine pianos st the greatest
nlarh-down prices ever offered that has
accomplish this result and no one can
b happier than We are over the fact
that we ere in a position 70 save our
patrons 50 mach money.
Vow as 10 prices In q general way
We can state that nearly every make
of prominence IS stfI represented II this
sele. Nearly ali q them are the latest
and choicest specimens Of the great
American pianO-mskers. and some Of
them are Used-slightly used only; but
al are IN every way as fine as new.
We ofer regular $500 style Of the
famous Knabe piano. in choicest ma
hoganv fo- s3z8 An elegant s525 style
Of the steinway make for even $500 now.
and another Steinwav. also good. but
somewhat older for $3.50.
A most beautiful slightly used Decker
for $500 and an elegant mottled walnut
largest size Kimball that could not be
told from new for s275. These mean vir-
tualIy half-Drice
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20

Special sale Of souvenir shaving mugs
and shaving outfits. Deckelman Bros.
1o6 Ellis street
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20
State senator Guilty of Bribery

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 19.-The con-
viction of State Senator William p.
Sullivan for soliciting a bribe was
affirmed to-day by the Court of Ap-
peals. In the Circuit Court Sullivan
was convicted and fined 800.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20
Napa Burglars Sentenced.

Fall hats 1904. just arrived. nobbier
than ever. Tom Dillon & Co, opp PaIace.|
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20
THE LAST WEEK
OF POMMER=EILERS
REMOVAL SALE

Many Of the Best Known Makes and Choicest Styles OF
Pianos and Organs Still Left to Choose From. Get
One for Xmas. Open Evenings.
Regular S4OO Styles Are Now S247. $3.50 Styles
S2I8, Others Also New and Warranted for
Sl86 and Down to SI23 All
Easy Payments.
Brand New KimbaIls. Deckers HazeItOns. Testers and
Numerous Other High Grade Makes. Slightly Used
Knabes and Kimballs and SteinWays and one Deck
er. at Less Than Half Real Values. Everything
INST Go Now. Note Prices of Good Square
Pianos and for the Remaining
Few Organs.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20

Losses Incurred during the year. -se79.5s7 ls
Risks Premiums Fire Risks Premiums
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20

F. @. VOsS. United States Manager
subscribed and sworn to before me. this 22d
day Of January. 1904
EDWIN f. COREY
Commissioner for California IN New York
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04

GOVERNOR CHARLES N. HERREID of South Dakota
says that the divorce laws of the commonwealth of
which he has the honor to be chief executive are
misunderstood by the public. He says they all
right and that there is no disposition in the state to
alter them A person must be a bona fde resident
of the state in order to secure divorce in South
Dakota, he says
If this is true, and none will question the
ity of Gov. Herred, the climate of South Dakota
must be peculiarly insalubrous the business
outlook of the state very dscouragng for the "bona
fde residents" decamp in large numbers to other
chimes after few months residence within its
borders. But of course it would not do for Gov.
Herreid to defend the divorce laws on the ground
that South Dakotans need the money. That would
be sordid and mundane
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04

Mr.. LEoNoR F. LoREE, the new president of the
Rock Island railway, refreshing celebrity COM
ing he does after the succession of Napoeons and
meeoric geniuses that have astonshed and ilumined
recent years. His formula for attaining success in
the financial and business world is work-just plain
work. This, he says, is better than speculation
'There plenty of powerful men in the world who
are seeking for useful men to help them," he says.
when the who wants assistance meets the man
who assist him, success is usually the result"
The useful man." according to Mr. Loree, is the
one who knows his business thoroughly in all it's
details and who is interested in it, not the who
has brilliant schemes for getting other peoples
money through stock manipulation The solid men
of America today are the men who have earned their
wealth by hard work The mushroom millionaires
the product of night and will wilt before they
learn how to behave themselves with decorum.
The day of the captains of CUFF and brag and
puff is passing. The public is getting heartily sick
of them and their methods. The phenomenon who,
unaided worked himself into the millionaire class by
his genius and native shrewdness isn't getting quite
as much promiscuous advertising and adulation as
was given him few years ago. People don't take
as much stock IN him as they did, because ex-
perienoe has proved that he will in all probability
abuse and lose his wealth. because it is obvious that
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04

WAS not MI. TT. P. Hall speaking in Pick
wickian sense last week when he told the st. Paul
bank clerks that men over fifty years of age of
no earthly consequence to this world?' There is a
good deal of talk about there being age dead line
beyond which none can 60 in the business world,
but still men fifty years old and over continue to
apply for jobs and get them and manage to hold on
to hem doing the required work to the satisfaction
of all concerned. The numerous cashiers book
keepers clerks and statesmen in the twin cities who
have reached the other side of fifty must have derived
some amusement from Mr. Halls assertion. Young
men may be brighter and may catch on more quickly
than men advanced in years, but the latter likely
to be experienced, reliable and sure, the two
classes stand about on the same footing with the
employer.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

There's queer suit at Los Angeles Ca in which in
junction demanded by the plaintiff The Sentous Packing
Company declares that putting the fair list the la
Dor council actuated by desire ue its business
revenge failure the plant company
that the device has proved successful The business of the
ttoner has fallen off $500 day the Endorsement of
made public The retail butchers Los
Angeles nearly all and they accepted the
r circular of the labor council evidence that the
pany business walking delegates
other of the unions The retailers
resented the supposed action by transferring their trade
competitors of the Sentous News Tribune
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04

IF WHITAKER WRIGHT committed suicide in
order to atone for his misdeeds, his act. while it
accords with the accepted standard of ethics. was
entirely abortive. Alive, he was possibility for
good; dead, he is worthless lump of clay. For
notwithstanding the fact that our civilization
to be founded the gaows, the worst possible use
to which any human being be put is DEATH
However it is not very likely that Wright killed
himself as an atonement; the chances are that he
thought that life purchased by years of penal
servude is not worth the price, and in that surmse
he was correct.
1t is impossible to read the story of this mans
career without feeling the pity of it ALL If ever
anyone lacked all sense of the relative values of
things, Wright did He endowed with extraor-
binary talents and abilities and might have lived
out his allotted span of years respected by himself
and loved by his friends honest and prosperous but
instead of graspng the real things at his command
he pursued the veriest illusions to die suicide and
felon, deserted by those whom he had befriended.
He wanted to be the associate OF princes and dukes
and "belted ears," and they took him in. He was a
dupe as much as any of those whom he swinded. 1t
is evident that his exalted acquaintance never re-
garded him anything but an outsider-one
designed by benefcent providence to be bled by
them And so this modern Merdle went the way of
his innumerable predecessors
AS to the noble gentlemen who shared Wrights
prosperity and his partners in yllainy, they
temporarily inconvenience by the scandal his trial
and death have aroused-nothing It is their
prerogave, evidently, to divide the swag and shirk
the responsibility They have done it before; they
will do it again; and this exposure is merely an
unpleasant incident in their career of gentlemany
brigandage. Wright was thief and aswinder, and
deserved punishment, but he did all anyone can dc
to make atonement and he is respectable today
than the whose reputation he SO carefully
guarded His temptation was greater than theirs
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04

published the Minnesota State
Prison. the and edited and man.
aged by them objects to encourage
moral
psychological
dpeg that prejudice which has ever been
The paper entirely
public financial support II at time there
should surplus would expended
interests Of the prison library.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04
NO TI.cE.

ALL PERSONS receiving copies Of THE MIRROR who are
regular lists will please consider such as
IT, reading conclude that THE
MIRROR worthy of patronage send name to this
subscription at rates published above
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04

AN authority on things IasnlonaDo ana remit
nine states that the leaders of New York's "smart
set expend from SIS 600 to 900 year clothes,
exclusive of ornaments When one of the ladies
who annually devote the latter to garbng their
persons was asked how she managed to dispose of so
much money for clothes, her was that most
of it goes for real lace-whatever that may be-to
decorate her undergarments. 1t costs this lady's
husband more to keep her ttingy clad than it does
to keep his steam yacht in commission All the money
goes for things which-we may infer-nobody sees
but her own sweet sefits sole use is to crafty her
vanity.
The gentle Stevenson found pretty parable in
his boys with their il-smeling lanterns hidden be-
meath their greatcoas and possibly he might evolve
another equally refreshing and inspiring from our
grand DANES laces. but to less gifted it looks
like perverted humility, just plain osentation Can
it be possible that these fair DANES and matrons are
haunted by sneaking and aggravated knowledge OF
their mediocrty feeling that stripped OF their
gewgaws they are no better equipped mentally NOR
ally or physically than the shop girl who waits on
them or the seamstress who works for them? Such
knowledge usually results in ostentaon OF kind OF
another Do they seek to convince themselves OF
their superiority by possessing something that few
others can afford to own? Possibly they do Pos
sby too, they realize that the lace which gladdens
the hearts of themselves their maids and aundressef
represents the happiness the eyesight, the nerves
perhaps the very life and souls of scores OF thei1
luckless sisters in distant Belgium and Italy. This
knowledge u.s. perhaps, source of qualification te
them.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04

. ..-. - . ..-.-----...--
Germany has 227 lead pencil
factories.
Now that it has been demon
strated that black people can be
bleached white by means of X-ray
instruments, some colored person
has asked that machine be in
vented to bend the hair straight.
Why is it that about half the
men whose faces are soaked, dyed
and stepped in tobacco juice and
tobacco smoke or some other dis
ease, will place their muzzles with
in about seven inches of your nose
and then, aiming straight at you,
they proceed to blow off at the
MOUTH Is there no law prohib-
ting this vile act?
SIS
How soon will science reach the
point whereby it can demonstrate
why man who becomes a human
tank in his capacity for whiskey,
can go into a trance and see red
elephants playing leapfrog on the
lamp chimney, snakes without legs
doing buck and wing dances and
alligators with silk stockings and
embroidered nightcaps playing the
6ddles? -,
Why is it that so many cities
and towns are built on the tops
and sides of baby mountains when
there is ground more or less level
all around them? A few years ago
while occupying room in pri-
vate house at Lynchburg, Virginia,
a woman in house on the next
street extinguished my fire and
flooded my room by throwing a
tub of water down the chimney of
the house I was in. Richmond,
/ Kansas City and Seattle are just
about as bad, and in fact it is said
that the people of Seattle will
purchase no automobiles until
those machines reach the point OF
perfection whereby they will run
up hills without falling over back
ward.
The fact has reached my ears
that the Mirrors Devil, the young
man who favors us with such in.
teresting reading occasionally and
who used to write Kilograms, il
looking for a location to start 6
country newspaper. Indian Ter.
ritory is a good new country with
; a great future, and just at the
: present time there happens to b.
! a good opening for A. [. B. at Mil
burn, in that territory. He car
, read the following and judge TO.
himself:
with this ISSUE" says the, edi
tor of the Milburn Herald Banne,
8 'this paper folds its lily-whitt
: hands upon its bosom and turns
it's little pink toes to the daisies
T and Milburn, I. T., u. S. A., is with
( out a paper, having witnessed tn,
death of two. It has cost tn,
2 present firm 1858 to advertise tn,
town, the beautiful blue and fer
tile soil, and we now throw up th
0 sponge and vacate to make room
for another. Ia ia, au revoir, good
: bye. We are going to do some
thing for you that the devil vii
never do-that is, to leave you. y
l ~
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04


tons improved. Efforts have been
made in times past in some of the
Eastern cities to effect changes
and improved conditions along
these lines, but in each and every
instance the efforts seem to have
resulted in experimental failures.
Instead of approaching fresh air
and heathful surroundings, the
beneficiaries seem soon to tire of
country life and insist on return
ing to their miserable haunts in
the crowded tenement districts Of
the cities. But If a feasible plan
could be evolved to bring about a
change as above suggested there
would still be another greater evil
to overcome, and thatis the con-
Eliminating influence of vast ma
jority of these people, and partic-
ularly of the youngsters among
the other country people. To take,
a lot of boys from the slums Of
cities and drop them down among
farmers children, would be to the
average farmer about like turning
a lot of wildcats loose among red
ribbon pet dogs, and in the ma
jority of cases the boys of these
slums are about as hard to tame as;
would be the task of demonstrating.
a lion. The average farmer would
no more think of mixing his chill
dren up with this class of city
boys than he would of mixing the
Texas boil wevil, or johnson grass,
or cyclones and foods with bis
wheat field. But it does seem as
if there ought to be some way of
colonizing lot of these miserable
misfts of the tail-ends of cities and
thereby make the world better and
healthier.
have always maintained that
people center too much attention
on past pleasures to the deteri-
ment of present and future pleas
ures. True, it is we'll to take re-
prospective views of the good
things and good old times, and
when seized with fit of the blues
one of the best remedies is to con-
centrate the mind as much as
practicable on one or more of the
pleasantest experiences we can re-
call. But we should not overlook
the fact that we see most of the
past pleasures through magnifying
glasses and that these pictures of
good old times are more or less
overdrawn and more imaginary
than real, while we may be able to
discount those pleasures and per-
chance we are doing SO right now,
but are not awake to the real, full
appreciation of the present mo-
ment. l don't mean to attempt to
convince men who are in prison
cells that they are now experience
ing the happiest times of their
lives, but the world at large can
and do find more happiness than
they are wide-awake to at the time.
Commenting editorially on the
comparison of pleasures. past and
present, the Mail and Breeze, To-
peka, Kansas, says: Childhood
may, in some cases, be time of
uninterrupted and unalloyed bliss,
but in our opinion the average boy
| has about as much grief and care
piled on him in proportion to his
capacity AS the full grown man or.
as he will have at any period of
/ his life. The wheels of Time need
mot roll backward for us, for we
are having better times now and
the world seems fairer to us now
than it did then. We have made
great many fool mistakes, but if
], we had life to live over again the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04

his influence and example does not make for good,
while almost everything he says must be literally
discounted The worker is going to have his inning
now Sane men, workers and thinkers men who
realize that without aid they would havo sue
ceeded and who DESTROYS of aiding others. will
receive attention in the future than the schwabs
and the Gatess. The day of gush is on the Wane.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04

# Mr.. Carnegie and other phi
lanthropists could get together and
devise some practicable scheme to
induce the poor jewellers of the
tenement house districts Of the
cities to change their habitat for
country environment with fresh
air and heathful surroundings,
what world of good would be ac-
oomplished morally, physically and
mentally; for then the very heart
of immortality, depravity and dis
ease would be reached and condi-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04

Should THE subscriber each week. notice
should sent this Office attended at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-18

especially Egyptian. and all weak and
SeIps Cabbages arriving freely. and choice sell well
plenty low cucun6ers in liberal supply but
Ilg good outlet within ranges quoted Eplants steSdy
near by and Southern neglected Lettuce dull Lima
closing higher Peppers steady. Green peas have ar
slightly higher the last Nearby Tadishes lower
selling at fairly steady prices though some poor
o as sf R % sqg9s dun and G5s veSeaS
ads per bb IS SoSa DO Oufefn os a 5 DO
chill s49s4 50; common $2at8 So; do Maine per l68
buzz Per + s. osa do per ans iss n bsr s6
pc s s % 40 IN se e per les N 3o 500
Sc; DO G9s!ish and Irish; s. 25ss2 50: Ger
RaPian psS les Is 80 sack s2asa 40: swf p6rzoE
90 or'y per per n 1 s. 5o 2oaS sa & easff S
dS 0 lunches SEQ e SR E pa %
5g9?5s. $40 s.; CARRIAGES southern. per boi crate,
s.: DO savannah. 81 loss DO FloTidas siSsl 90
Ford per- Sda 81 3 @ dhnEN c oTd
GcE 0 nsaqb PER hi ST POI do Virginia and
FoTd peP Crate per a aoSoa
per 10, 1o@sse oKRA. Florida. per carrier 81 so q
vi as s6a'
So Do sfa0F For RsSr0g per .r 100 0snshs
n Pa4s sG p.4 10 per 5uSSs @
per s BE@N DO w per P 1o2
basket 81 759s2 do green s. So9:a %: DO sayan-
s! rs 5o % nat green sl9sl Is; do FloTIda way
green per basket 75cq 81 u.s. do per crate seed st;
BaltimoIs per Dbl s19s1 Is; do nearby per bbl 81
do yellow. crook-neck s1@s1 so; TOMATOES. Florida.
per carrier. 81 n So: TURNIPS white. 100
IbcN ~; do rutabaRa bbl SOS 25i WATER
CRESS 100 lunches 75c6 81 30.
SUNDRIES-BEESWAX- domestic wax quoted
at Sods1c per 70. MAPLE SUGAR-Supply larger.
demand moderate and tone easy at Sn 60 per n for
sugar and s5d75c per gallon for syrup. HONEY
Trade light and with quite free prices favor
buyers. We quote: Glover. comb. fancy.
do fair 70 good. II l2c; buckwheat comb 1O9I1c;
DO clover extracted. 95Ac: do California extracted
5l1 Sc; do Southern extracted per gallon 80 $50
NUTS-PeanutS held about steady but demand mod
crate and tone easy. Pecans firm. other quiet
and unchanged We quote: Peanuts. Virginia hand
picked. Jumbo per n. &c; do fancy 5%c; do extras
shelled, No l. $50; DO Spanish sheled No 1 s96&c.
do No 2. 81 q 40; pecans, round lots ungraded per
70. e≻ hickory nuts. per bush s1Gs1 rs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-18
STOCK ON HAND
LIVESTOCK MARKET.

New-Yors. May H. 1904.
BEEvES-Receipts only head for the market;
6sGsc per choice native sides. Gables
tust received London Liverpool quoted live cattle
cattle 1872 sheep quarters OF beef Tomorrow
the cedric 10 Liverpool Will take out $500 quarters Tor
various shippers
CALyEs.ReceIpts were los head ell TO be sold. The
market steady. and the offerings were all taken.
Common 70 choice veals sold $iQS6 25 100 n city
dressed veas In moderate demand and steady at 9c
10 Few choice 9ec; country dressed selling
saIes-G s. L. e Duenbacx: 70 veals 1o2 70 average.
a. 81 % per 100 70: DO. rs n, at 81
john !. Nelson: 20 veals. $50 70 at So
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Receipts were cars or La
head 20 be sold making with the left from
yesterday. the market, including 3 cars Of
southern spring lambs Clipped sheep ard lambs were
spring lambs and. quality considered the market
generally rated shade easier except for choice About
81 705s5 per 70: clipped lambs So 50s7 unshor
DO at SFS so Spring lambs at sass per hoad Dressed
9i9c: city spring lambs unchanged S3qS6 so
per carcass: country dressed AZ S2Gs6 so
saleskerns Conulission company - unShon BlIiao
s. 10 at 81: clipped Kentucky sheep 81 -
90 Kentucky spring lambs at 81 per head go virginia
o5in : shannon; 1913 Maryland spring Iafa6s at 81 70
d. Harrington: III oIippea state lambs - n a, 81:
u do Is 70. at 50 5o 10 clipped stats sheep 100 10 at
HOGs-Receipts were IS cars or 2I50 head Feeling
sold ate Yesterday az s. 25aS5 s5 per 100 10 western
hogs Country dressed hogs steady at TIsc per
lor heavy light weights.
Sales tali Yesterday: = c. Curtis & SOM 30 state
hogs 54 ID at IS IS 100 10 roughs ass 10
John P Nelson: 80 state hogs; I64 70. a. s5so
H H Hollis: 80 state hogs $50 ~ at s. IS: rough
600 n, a. 81 %. stag. 330 70. AZ s.
S. Judd & Co; Il State hogs. i54 ~ at IS soi So
Western do ISL 70, at 81 90.
S sanders 106 state hogs 176 10 IS %; 81 DO. 2o2
Tobin shannon II Stats hogs 17s 70. at IS 30.