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The Washington times., 1904-12-13
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
SAVED IN BURNING HOUSE

KINGSTON. n. Y. Dec. 13-Mrs. sa-
rah Vantasse1 and three children were
rescued In their nightclothes from IRE
which destroyed a building occupied by
Dunham Reynolds as A saloon.
Policemen broke into the house after
the fire had cut on the occupants es-
cape. and carried them from their beds.
The Washington times., 1904-12-13
ONCE ACCEPTED CHALLENGE
MAN MAY LOSE HIS JOB

TOPEKA. Kan. Dec. 13.-Enemies Of
l. L. Dayhon. State superintendent Of
public instruction, threaten TO prevent
him from assuming the duties g his Of
nce for another term, as he once ac-
cepted a challenge 10 fight a duel
The alleged violation OF the cOnstitu-
tion took place in 1889
The Washington times., 1904-12-13
CONCERNS INCORPORATED
UNDER DISTRICT LAWS

Certificates Of the Incorporation Of the
following named enterprises have been
recorded:
The Peoples Magazine Company:
capital stock. 100000; incorporators,
Kepler Hoyt. Marina Mitchell Hoyt, and
John W. Hoyt.
The Calumet Canning Company: capt
tai stock. s20O. 900: incorporators. Claude
+. Towner, c. \. Swami, r. c. Good
rich.
The California Buckeye Zinc Com
pany; capital stock. S250, 900: incorporat-
ors, G. A. Swami and X. c. Goodrich.
The Washington times., 1904-12-13

PEKIN, Dee 1S.--The ''Pekin Gazette
publishes "a special report of Niceroy
Yuan. concerning anti-foreign societies
In Honan province. The leaders have
al been arrested.
An edict removes the local, civil and
military mandarins at Hsinh-siang for
negligence, and orders the governor II
Honan TO reform the administration Of
the province.
The Washington times., 1904-12-13
Antt-FOreign Uprising
In China Suppressed
Leaders of All Societies in tOnan Province
Under Arrest = Administration Reform
ViCerOys to Assume Duties as Governors

An impe. iaI decree has been issued
abollshing the gOvernOrship OF two
provinces. Hu-pei and Human. The
viceroy of Hu-pei Is directed 10 assume
tho duties Of governor of Hu-pei. in adj
dition 10 his own duties. The viceroy OF
Human and Kwei-chan likewise as
sumes the duties OF governor OF Human.
These important measures of economy
are in harmony with recent edicts re-
uuiring the abolition of useless offices
and the reduction OF expenses.
The Washington times., 1904-12-13
STOLE CONvENT's PICTURF.

KAZAN. Dee. 53.-Stojan alias Tschai-
via, who stole The famous picture OF
Our Lady OF Kazan" from the cob
vent here, has been sentenced 10 twelve
years penal serVitUde.
The Washington times., 1904-12-13

elaborated for the benefit of the law
makers.
Railroads Interests.
The railroads are vitally interested IN
adding 10 the population Of the South,
as IL means new cities. more Industries.
and a consequent enlargement Of the
transportation business. Attention was
directed today to the demand for for
eign labor in the Gulf States. and to
the fact that a rev line OF steamers
carrying immigrants is now landing
at New Orleans
Southern people declare that negro
labor Is IN many respects inadequate
and that If the desirable classes from
Europe can be induced 70 go 20 the
Southern States q will give an I'M
petus 10 the industrial revival mani
Tested in the South in the past few
years
The Washington times., 1904-12-13
Distribution OF Aliens.

Commissioner GenrraI Sargent gave
some ideas on the distribution OF the
army OF aliens that annually arrive in
the United States. He declared that the
failure of the Government TO provide
for the distribution of aliens through
out the country. as well as the efforts
Of foreign countries combine 10 main
tain alien colonies. This, he declared,
must be broken up.
II was only by proper distribution that
the evil could be corrected. He added
that the practical question was, What
shall be done with the hundreds of
thousands OF immigrants to avoid dam
gers that now Ihreaten2
The Washington times., 1904-12-13
CONGESTION in BIZ Cities.

He called attention to the congestion
of population in New York. Chicago,
and other cities; the enormous expen-
diture for the support OF INDECENT aliens;
the records Of the lesser criminal and
police courts; the alien inmates Of hos
pitels, jails and reformatory institu-
uOns; the crowded habitations OF for
eigners in the cities. the struggle for
bare existence by which the sweat
shop system has passed from one alien
race TO another; the introduction into
this country OF the Malta. the vendetta
the BLACK Hand" and Anarchist socie-
ties, and on the other hand the millions
OF untitled acres and the unsatisfied
demand for agricultural and other man.
ual labor.
Secretary Metcalf has returned from
New York. having spent Saturday and
Sunday at Ellis Island. He is giving
some consideration 10 the question OF
diveFting immigration from the cities,
where IL is now largely centralized. He
said that the New York station is well
managed, and that there is little room
Tor improvement
The Washington times., 1904-12-13

for the benefit of the law
II
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

In ONE of his essays, Schopenhauer says that
humankind never be much more intelligent than
it is at present. because with increased intelligence
would the certainty that the pleasures Of life
are not commensurate to it's misery, and therefore
the race would voluntarily annlhilate itself The
statement might be true if men governed by
reason and intelligence, instead of by something
quite distinct from ether-by feelings and emotions
Twenty-Five or thirty years ago many persons
thought that when education should have become
free and common to all classes of society, crime
would decrease or cease to exist entirely Today tho
we have compulsory education, as many crimes are
committed ever; and those persons that formerly
demanded compulsory education laws now demand
their repeal. From thinking education wholly good,
they think it almost wholly evil from insisting that
education be free to ALL they would have it free
to Believing as they do, that man is crea-
ture Of reason Pope's warning that "a little learning
is dangerous thing" seems to them prophetic.
In reality, most men first determine what they
want to do, and then, if they DESIRE find reason
for doing it. This applies to the college graduate as
well to the illiterate Georgia negro It seems to
that education has about much relation to crime
as music has to physical culture. If mans instincts
are antisocal he is likely or later to in
conflict with the law If he is more selfish than the
average and believes that the desired end justifes
any to attain it, he is a criminal If educa-
ton has augmented and sharpened his native
ness and cunning, perhaps he eludes detection more
readily than his uneducated fellow criminal but ed
ucation is not to blame for his moral delinquencies.
Many men who get into Jail are not criminals,
however; they forced to crime by social condi-
tions. Compelled by hunger to steal or to beg an
honest man will sometimes choose the former alter
native. Such man might be saved by education,
because he would have several strings to his bow,
and might find work when the uneducated, unskilled
laborer could find none But education does not
stimulate crime any than intelligence and rea-
son stimulate suicide.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

under the indeterminate sentence prisoners con-
fined for longer terms than under the time sentence
Itfurther says that he prison population has notony
not increased in proportion to the population Of the
state but in the of the prison has actually de-
creased This can partly be attributed to the bene
fetal results of the new laws whereby are led
to better lives Others the confirmed criminals, with
whom they are not popular have avoided our state.
To some extent, also, doubtless the good business
conditions have been helpful"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

AT THE coming session of the state legislature
an attempt will be made to have bill passed pro-
hibiting the indscriminate sale of cocaine in any
form. Such bill was discussed in the papers two
years ago, but as concerted action was taken by
interested parties the movement got beyond
the talking point Next winter, however, the legis.
lation will be requested by the druggists of the state
who Notwithstanding the large profits they make on
the drug, still unselsh enough to insist that its
sale shall restricted The druggist knows better than
anyone else how widespread is the cocaine habit and
how demorallzed its victims become. It is constant
ly adding to the population of insane asylums work.
houses and prisons, and altho the same is true of
whisky, the difference is that the drunkard may be
cured while the cocaine fend is incurabe. In their
attempt to limit the sale of the poison the druggists
should receive generous support from the public
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

BoR1C ACID and borax when mixed with food
tend, says DIR. Wylies latest report Of his expert
ments with food preservatives, ''to create dislike
for the food in which they found due large
ly to the mental attitude than to any bad taste.
This is an Illuminating sentence It makes plain
for thing why the mental attitude of Americans
is antagonistc to cats article Of diet Cats are
pleasing to the eye grateful to the touch soothing
the but considered food they arerepusive the
mind. Yet in France they are highly reshed by cpl
cures. 1t is evident that the American cat is mixed
with borax.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

In THE opinion ofPresdent Schurman of Cornell
a bachelor is sort of social leper outcast upon
whom education wasted and with whom the cele-
brated educator has patience. He found occasion
to say this in his address to the Cornell graduates
last week. Being married himself, he should know
whereof he speaks; but something about his sentl-
ments recalls to mind the words of the fox that had
lost his tail.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

There is always something do
ing in Kansas, and while some
sections of that state have recent
ly suffered another attack of food,
less serious than the big one of
last year, however-still the peo-
pie down there expect some Won
derful things in the way of crops
this year. They say if there is
not another food or drouth, cy-
clone, grasshoppers or something
else, this will be the banner year
for hay, wheat and corn. Accord
ing to an exchange, grass in the
Saline Valley of Kansas IS already
q feet tall and still going up
higher. One man went down in
the valley to hunt his COWS and
got lost in the high grass. After
wandering about there for two
days and nights without seeing
the sun, he climbed one of the
stalks of bluestem, tied his hand
kerchief on stick and waved il
in the air until it attracted the at
tention of some men standing on
a high bluff and they came and
took him down. The same man
cut twenty acres of hay on the
same farm last year, and when he
came to stack his hay he found il
necessary to haul 800 tons of il
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

SAYS John Brisben Walker in the July Comzo-
bolitan There are those who think that success
means luck. Do not believe it. Opportunity always
comes to the combination Of integrity, of judgment,
of stamina and of health They are valuable quail
ites and are always sought for by those in charge
Of affairs-who give men and women their oppor-
tunity to prove what is in them.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

INTERESTING statistics dealing with the practl-
cal working of the indeterminate sentence law ap-
pear in the latest annual report of the Indiana Board
of State Charities. The law has been in force for
six and half years. within which time ,545 prs
oners have been paroed from the state reformatory
about nineteen each month-and 1853 have been pa
rolled from the prison-about eleven month. Of
the reformatory prisoners 359, approximately 232
per cent violated their paroles and escaped were
returned to the institution Of those released from
prison, $780, or 1877 per cent also proved delinquent
No definite information regarding the average term
of imprisonment is given, atho the report says that
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

weekly published in the Minnesota State
the and edited and
Its objects be home to encourage
acquant
disseminate pathological
aid dpeng that prejudice which has been
sredemptOn The entirely
time there
would expended
interests of the prison library
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

To SOME men, ordinarily sensible and well-be-
haved, wedding is the signal for an outbreak of
rowdysm that would disgrace Italian brothe sup
ported by the Malta. They make Of the occasion a
carnival of asininity, sometimes of cruelty To
transform themselves into bowling jackals and to
make their victims physically uncomfortable and
mentally unbalanced appeals to these as the
acme of facetiousness. It is not necessary to
say that beating tin pans, shooting revolvers and
bowling like drunken savages, is not particularly
funny at any time; when the noise is made for the
sole purpose of annoying neighbor, it loses all
tiges Of humor and becomes sheer devilment. In
this state there is law making the charivar mis-
demeanor punishable with fine or imprisonment. If
it were invoked once twice the charivari habit
would be cured
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

FAITH is often the winning element in fight
It has almost much to do with success as money
But to have faith in himself, must have faith
in others. Many in whom we have had faith have
betrayed it, but that is no reason for condemning
the rest of mankind. To lose faith in the integrity
of others is likely to make lose faith in him
self. On launching into some business enter
prise, many man has been told that he making
the mistake of his life; but with faith in himself and
in his plans he has out winner If you be-
lieve in yourself, if you believe in your plans
the chances are that others will believe in you ALSO
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

w by y.
Men seem to admire pretty WON.
en- and to marry the palmer ones.
It takes a well.heeled man to
support high-heeled woman.
Isn't it remarkable that one lit
tie scratch of the head will render
so much valuable aid to the think
machine when one is suddenly
seized with the desire to produce
deep thought on the moment?
Mars, June %, 1904.
Odds and Ends
[ see the papers down there on
earth are experiencing all kinds
of trouble, accidents, crimes, wars
and divers disasters. In one of
your newspapers of a few days
since, six out of the seven columns
on the first page had huge head
lines relating to bloodshed or other
calamities, one of which was that
horrible General Slocum disaster
at New York. 1t is difficult for
us up here to conceive Of the ter
rible state of affairs existing on
earth. [ am not going to attempt
to divulge in this letter our secrets
of correct living, the secrets of
getting the most and best out of
life, the fullest measure of health,
pleasure and happiness.
But when you people down there
on earth shall have advanced in
all the sciences to the point at
tanned by the inhabitants of Mars,
Jupiter and other planets you
should be able to avert all diff
culties, conflicts, bloodshed, fires,
foods, famine, drouth, disease,
death, drowning, poverty, laziness,
selfshness, greediness, cussedness,
drunkenness, collisions of trains,
automobiles, balloons, flying ma
chimes, winged people, and do
away with all Objectionable fea-
lures of life, including crime,
courts and prisons. You should
be able to sit in your room in
Saltwater and enjoy the concerts
in Chicago, New York, London or
Paris and eat strawberries and
cream 366 days in the year. All
these secrets are now covered by
copyrights up here, but I may
possibly in some future letter drop
a few hints as to how some of
these results may be achieved.
Yours,
Jim Star Starson.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30
N 0 7 lie E..
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MIRROR is worthy of patronage send name to this
trial subscription rates published above.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

III w ouotueI uolu III OrO0I TO ger
room to stack what there was left
on that twenty acres. The butts
OF that grass were too coarse for
feed, SO he sawed them off and
used them for stovewood. He got
2OO cords of butts from that hay,
kept two heating stoves and a
cooking range going all winter
and sold enough butts to four of
his nearest neighbors to keep them
in fuel all winter.
In recent issue Of The MIRROR
somebody said: "The most useless
thing in the world is the negative
man. If you have a mind or a.
will express it. Don't be she'll
fish. Be positive force" Now,
there are negative men and mega
tive men. Or, we may say, there
are two kinds of negative men
one of whom it may be said that
he is always negative, while the
other is negative in his attitude
toward one class of individuals.
but easily affirmative and declara-
tive with another class. About
two years ago the writer intimated
in the Odds and Ends columns that
when man who is half a gentle
man is thrown in contact with a
man who is half man he will be
reciprocal and meet the other half
way. Again, about two months
ago an intimation in these columns
that too many men are only half
men, brought forth verbal and
written requests from readers of
The M1RRoR-as did my former
hint of two years ago-to "come
again." to follow up these brief
utterances with more lengthy
comments along the same lines.
But there has been no time, no
particular incident, no occasion
which seemed to Justify or seemed
ripe and rife for further utterances
along these lines, until the ap-
pearance Of the few lines quoted
at the beginning of this article.
Now, there are men and men.
Some men are men all the time
and others are men only when the
qualities of manliness can be made
to comport with their convenience,
or when duty or necessity compels
them to be men, and the balance
of the time they are themselves.
Some of the latter can really and
easily become gushy and extraor--
dinarily punctilious and can
slop over very much when they
happen to be placed where they
want to use you in their business.
But the real manly man, the man
who is possessed of truly manly
qualities, the man whose friend.
ship has some reality, some stabil--
ity, the kind that is worth Guilt
waiting, doesn't make practice of
being excessively demonstrative;
neither will he make practice of
carrying his eyes averted or to-
ward the ground to avoid recogni--
ton of his acquaintance or asso-
ciates. It is not necessary for one
to be very high up in the science
of Misunderstanding to discern
these and other little qualities.that
distinguish the unmanly fromisthe
manly man. When the so-called
negative man is brought into asso-
citation with the man who only as
sumes manly qualities on Sundays
or on other occasions which make
these qualities seem necessity
in his business, it doesn't always
pay for the former to waste un-
necessary time or words in an en-
deavor to entertain, in a display of
his knowledge, in an attempt to
tell all he knows and a good deal
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-30

GOOD deal is being said just about the
autocratic rule Of the of Russia but he has not
as much power the King of Kerosene. If the
should attempt to advance the price of bread it
would result in revolution that would wreck his
empire. But when the spirit moves Sunday School
John to give away few Millions he puts price of
oil and plays the good Samaritan at the expense of
the people, The orders Of this plain citizen must be
obeyed. No matter how unreasonable his orders
may be- the people must submit with abject humility.
He is king in this sweet land of liberty and the
only difference between HIM and the average sover-
egn voter is that the has the power to enforce
his will while the other lacks it.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-08-30
POr los bOmberOS
Gesti0mes de la Acadia
UNA REUNION EN- Ell kYUNTAEiIENTO

DadO Ell entuSjasmO que Sc ha deS-
pertado en- todas las classes de este
buen pueblo de San Juan y de sus i'm
portantes barrios de Santurce, Puerta
de TERRA y Marina, es necesario sean
secundados los eementos que compo-
nen el cuerpo de Bomberos, pues para
su completa reorganiza cion, hacen
falta principalmente, los medios nece-
sarios para la ayuda material, va que
la personal es sufciente aumenta
cada vez mas.
De todos es sabido la falta de par
que 6 Immediate necesidad, por 10
menos, de reparar el existente, que
puede conside1arse hoy, POGO menos
que nulo
Al fin de completar en- el mas breve
tempo possible la organization del ser
vlcio y siendo exigua la partida con
que Sc cuenta en- ell presupuesto del
ayuntamiento del corriente ejercicio,
trata Ell senior Alca1de de San Juan, de
allegar los recursoS necesarioS, acu-
diendo al comercio. propietarios y de-
mas organlSmos que Con su pequeflo
esfuerzo puedan preStar valiosa ayuda
a la buena obra emprendida, convocan-
do una reunion que tendra efecto en-
los Salones de esta Acadia y para Ia
que Sc cita hacienda hoy las comuni-
caciones de invitaci6n necesarias al
objeto.
Es de esperar y no 10 dudamos que
todos los habitantes de la culta ciudad
respondan plidamente coayuvando
al plausible prop6sito de que tengamos
Ell mejor servicio de incendio en- la
Isla va que TN POGO esfuerzo, con una
pequefla suma de voluntad, puede al
ca nZarSe.
Daremos cuenta oportunamente del
resultado de la indicada reunion que
promote ser de resultados verdadera-
mente practicos
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-08-30
Desde Vieques
Sr. Director del BOLETIN MERCANTIL
Agosto Is de 1904

Sr. Director del BOLETIN MERCANTIL.
Agosto IS de 1904.
Sehor: Los que suscriben esperan
MERCER dc V. que publique en- su illus
trado periodico la manifestation si-
guiente:
Los abajo frmados, haci6ndose ecs
de la mayoria del pueblo sensato, in
cluso de la poblacion del campo de
esta Isla de vieques, quieren hacer
taciGn que han vIsto con pena ell tras-
lado del distinguido y pundonoroso
ca bo senior Aidea, el cual en- los cuatro
meses que estuvo al mando de la tuer-
"a de esta Isla supo impartir garan-
tias con entera parcialidad, captain
dose por 10 tanto las simpatias de todo
un pueblo que lealmente lamenta la
partida del funcionario citado.
Anticipandole las gracias nos sus-
cribimos altos. y S. S.
Luis Amedel Bonet, Luis Antouma-
they, Pedro Marin, Luis Corle, Fran
cisco Brignoni, Antonio Melado, Anto-
Mo Martf, Francisco Ruiz, Zeno Yubbe,
Rafael Rodriguez, Miguel Benitez, ,lRa :
miro Rodriguez. Bernardo Manchefio,
Fernando Hernandez, Fernando Cadix,
Francisco Vidal, Rafael Rivero, Eleu-
terio Marin, Alexandra Dixan, Fran
cisco Ortiz, Ventura Carrasquillo, An
tonic Santos, Francisco Sarria.
Siguen infnidad de firmas.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-08-30
La retreta de nnahana

En- la noche de mafIana verifcara
refreta en- la Plaza Baldorioty, la ban
de de la Pelicia Insular con arreglo
al siguiente programa;
1-Marcha ben Hur Charert Race,
PAUL.
2-Sinfonia "Oberon", Weber.
3-Zarzuela ola Gran Via, Chueca
y Valverde.
4-Polka de fautfn The conquest"
Richie.
5-Cuarteto de la Opera "Rigolet-
to-, Verdi
6-Capricho Characteristic eel sue,
no del Sultan, Rosy
7-Danzs "Se acabo el melao," Pa
sarell.
The Star Spangled Banner.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-08-30
mos disfrutado antes del Gamble

mos disfrutado antes del Gamble
de SOberan1a.
Esto vale la pena de ocupar
la atenc1on ptblica; pero las fu-
tilezas de que sc nos habla en-
estos d1as, no.
Las nimiedades personalistas
que pueden dar patentes de ha-
bilidosos y de escurridizos a
ciertos y determinados politi-
COS, no son triunfos esplendidos
para el pueblo que va Sc va can
sando de servir de ANNA viIi,
sin escuchar nj siquiera por
mera COrtesIa, p0r atenCion ST.
quiera, una invocation a su in
discutible soberania, de recono-
cimiento de su poder, que han
llegado a poner en- tela de juicio
nuestl os pol1ticos.