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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
If AN editor wants to advertise himself, he'll find
it cheaper to denounce "pert paragraphs than to
run for president. So says Col. Watterson.

The one person with whom it impossible to
get in touch is the man that agrees with you in
everything you say. He acquiesces in every view
you take Tell him black is white and he will think
SO too. He has the power of resistance of Jelly
fish. On the other hand we admire the fellow that
is always willing to start argument. He is worth
something He brings to light our unknown quail
ties and sharpens our wits The man who always
says Yes, might as well be wooden with a
putty head.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
ONE person certainly reads and enjoys The

ONE person certainly reads and enjoys The MIR
RoR-the editor of the arkansas Thomas Cat We
know he reads it, because each week he reprints one
articles from it; we know be enjoys it, be-
he invariably fails to give us credit for what
he copies. Imitation is sincere fattery, but pagiar-
ism denotes. a lamentable lack of energy initiative
and imagination The editor Of the Thomas Catought
to be deep diver or train robber. He is
wasting his superb nerve in the newspaper business
This puff is unsolicited by him, and if he chooses he
may print it without credit.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

WHAT is done spontaneously or rather what is
done without conscious effort is usually what last
ing in art. The great novel; the great poem, picture
or musical composition never labored, because it
is simply expression of the thoughts and feelings
of the that wrote or painted it, To him it was
the easiest and most satisfying method of expressing
himself He able to do SO only through mas
terry of the technical details of his profession but
accomplishing his masterpiece he had to forget tech
nique. Spontaneity almost excuses triviality. Many
charming works of art are the result of passing
whim fancy The vagrant thought came, was ex-
pressed and lived for the enjoyment OF Others tran
STORY eff1orescent mood fixed for all time.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

For the first time in 1874 years the Worcester
SPY has suspended publication. Fnancialdficulties
were the cause Established IN ITO, the Spy was a
living monument of colonial days. It was a power
at one time. During the Revolution it was fearless
in its denuncations Of the British while it's words
of advice, encouragement and cheer to the Cont
mental troops set fine example for its contempora-
ries. Fiske and other historians comment on it's
wholesome influence.
The SPY originally Boston paper, but the
utterances of its first editor Isaiah Thomas too
radical to suit the British, who compelled him to
move his plant out of Boston. He chose Worcester
for his new home. Under the direction of Mr..
Thomas and the talented and enterprising editors
that succeeded him. the paper prospered until 1898,
since which time it has been in financial straits It
was staunch republican in its politics
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

AGAIN Mother Mary Katherine, who was Miss
Kate Drexel of Philadelphia, has demonstrated her
devotion to the of the Indian this time by Civ
ing $4,000 for school on the Winnebago reserva-
ton. This is wealthy tribe and in few years,
when the guardianship of the government ends each
family will have fair sized fortune to dispose Of Ii
nothing is done to teach them the use of money the
Indians will soon fall prey to sharpers and human
wolves and in time will be stripped of their be-
longngs The new school will probably save some
of them. At least it will instruct the boys and girls
of the tribe and improve them morally and intellect
ually
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

ONCE more the age dead line appears Andrew
Mermilen. mechanical engineer temperate
and industrious in his habits having good references
from former employers, committed suicide last week
because in Chicago would give him employ
ment. He was As years old, and so, in spite of the
fact that his strong, his eye as true and
his mind clear when he was twenty years young
err he was disqualified for further usefulness.
Except in its fatal ending, this case is not ex-
ceptional. Business men, like society women, have
fads some of which are harmful. The fixing of a
dead line is one of them. A self-satisfed, "self-
made" man, of Fortunes tavorites from the era
die, said through his press agent that men hav-
ing reached the age of As years without having saved
a competency should step aside and make room for
their more progressive juniors The oracle having
spoken, men who ought to know better took up the
fad and it spread.
The truth is, a of IS should be, and gener-
ally is, more valuable than man of 3d. He has had
more experience, his judgment is reliable, he is
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09


SOME newspaper correspondents in Russia and
the Far East seem to delight in belittlng the brav-
cry of the Russian troops Ii of the latter
shows the white feather or if few macontents at
tempt to desert these writer's make as much of the
incident if such thing never occurred outside of
Russia. The paper printing such exaggerated stor-
les perhaps WINS the support of few bitter oppo-
nens of the czar of few Jews whose relatives have
been driven from Russia, for instance, but it dis
credits itself with those who have watched the oper-
atoms in the Far East So far there has been no
more cowardice in the Russian ranks than in the
japanese. In point of courage, the that op-
posed the Japanese advance at the Yalu River we're
the equal of any soldiers in the world They fought
like possessed OF the very essence of patriotism
and their bravery high praise from the japanese
officers. None of the fighting on the Liau Tung
peninsular has shown the Russians to be towards;
on the contrary they have been brave their
imies. Americans out of sympathy with Russia
IN this war; but they ought to be above circulating
|heSabout her.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

MIRROR weekly published the Minnesota State
edited
intellectual acquant
public the pathological
aid dpeng that prejudice which has
The entirely
public its financial If time there
would
interests of the prison library
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
NO TIC {

ALL PERSONS receiving copies Of THE MIRROR who
regular lists will please consider such as
copies. reading conclude THE
MIRROR isworthy of patronage send to this
Office trial subscription rates published above
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

it great mistake to believe that.
any OF the Latin American coun-
tries, or even the Spanish islands.
brought under American rule will
In any great measure become
Americanized, even in the course
of a number of years. Those
Southern people cling most tena-
ciously to their customs, and the
Northerners who go to live among
them are the ones who, in gener-
alton or two, are notably altered
IN speech and customs. Young
men should learn Spanish; and
parents should realize the service
they can render their children by
having them begin the study Of
the language in their youth, when
any tongue can be acquired read
lily and quickly.
Americans are very independent.
people. They have unbounded ad
miration for their country, and
with commendable patriotism be-
lieve that it's customs and methods.
are the best to be found anywhere.
This attitude toward their own
country is all right, but when
Americans, or foreigners of any
other nationality, are in Spanish
countries they should remember
the old rule about Rome. AS hint
ed at in my series of articles on
Mexico between two and three
years ago, the foreigner who sue
ceeds in business in Mexico Is not
the one who persists in trying to
inaugurate the business customs
in force in his native land, but the
one who adapts himself to the
manners of his adopted country.
The Mexican people take life easy.
they do business more deliberately
than Americans, and are never
too busy to observe the courtesies,
of life. The foreigner who goes
to Mexico to do business with
Mexicans should go with a deter
mination to learn to deal with
them after their own fashion. He
should abandon at once any idea
he may have of educating them
up to American methods" If he
does not they will probably aban-
don him. It often happens that
representative of important in
terests goes to Mexico to arrange
business matters that he supposed
would occupy him for possibly
several days. His stay sometimes
lengthens into weeks before the
details can be settled. Impatient
as he may become, his principals.
at home are more restless at the
delay, and even begin to question
his explanations. Such occur.
rences should be avoided by al.
lowing plenty of time for business
to be done according to established
usages.
The opportunities for industrial
investment and trade expansion in
Mexico are many and varied in
character. There are many chances
for the investment of capital, and
Americans with money are going
to Mexico every day and most of
them are reaping big harvests.
There are plenty Of poor people in
Mexico and it is a poor country
for the American laborer, for he
cannot compete in wages or in the
standard of living with the native
peon.
Mexico is the land of pictur--
esque contrasts. To give any ade-
quate description Of the country
one would have to write lengthy
book, for it has all climates from
that of the torrid zone to the
snowy peaks of the great noun
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

II ~ BY +.
1t is easier to keep out of prison
than to break out, provided you
begin in time.
OF course it is easy enough to
figure out how a hen that eats
sawdust can lay eggs that will
hatch chickens with wooden legs,
but how in the world can fellow
figure out automatically, algebra
lcally or trigonometrically the
problem that a hen in Missouri
can lay hard boiled eggs, or that
other new problem of planting
liver pills in Phoenix, Arizona,
and growing healthy crop of as
sorted pills?
There are some curious facts
about our calendar. No century
can begin on Wednesday, Friday
or Sunday. The same calendars
can be used every 20 years. Octo-
Der always begins ON the same
day of the week as January, April
as July, September as December.
February, March and November
begin on the same days. May,
June and August always begin on
different days from each other and
every other month in the year.
The first and last days of the year
are always the same. These rules
do not apply to leap year.
My first Memorial Day in the
South was in a town that had been
destroyed by Sherman in his
march to the sea, but which, at
the time of my visit, had been re-
built into a beautiful city. The
intense interest displayed by SEEM
ingly every citizen, the sight of
breastworks and other marks of
battle, the vivid word pictures of
battle and pillage as described by
my father, who had been with
Sherman and who now rode with
me in the outskirts of the city, the
uniform gentleness and kindness
of the people, many of whom had
had fortunes swept from them by
our Northern army-all these
things,made it the saddest Memo
rial Day I have ever experienced.
In most cases the old animos1ties
have entirely disappeared, but
when we think, as some of us are
prone to do at times, Of charging
our Southern neighbor with
slight touch of lingering luminosity,
let us not forget that in addition
to losing brother, father or son, he
lost home and everything. Let
us remember the sentiments ex-
pressed by Edith Palmer Putnam
in recent number Of the Vol4u-
hefys' Gazette. She says in part:
f'sI never stand at q Memorial Day
service and watch the friends of
the buried heroes tenderly cover
ing their dead with the blossoms
of memory, but my mind turns to
those on the other side who are
mourning the boys in gray My
heart beats in sympathy with
Northern mourners, and weeps in
unison with their tears on every
Memorial Day, but nevertheless it
never fails to feel throb of pity
for the bereaved ones on the Con-
federate side, and to ache at the
remembrance Of those who yet suf-
fer the effects of Northern VIC
tories. I am a Northern woman,
but | am also human and hold all
men brothers in the great family
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

Spanish is certainly the most
useful foreign language that can
be acquired by the young men of
the United States today. Amer
lean trade with Spanish-speaking
countries will continue to expand,
and the man with a thorough COM
mand of the Castilian tongue will
be more and more in demand. It
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-10-27
pERILs OF LAND AND SEA

CAPTAIN WIiInefs Remarkable Ss-
cane Shows What 10 do in s.s OF
Trouble.
For many years, CAPITA. hillnef, says
the Times OF Gloucester, Mass, was one Of
the best known seamen in the Gloucester
Fleet. lhe catarrhal troubles with which
ne suffered for fifteen years made him
dread the nights al sea, being unable 70
lie down and sleep on account OF the con-
slant catarrhal dropping.
Captain WIllnef went to two different
hospitals for treatment, but could get no
lasting benefit. He constantly raised
yellow and green phlegm and his trouble
became 30 unbearable and Bauseating that
be was ashamed to go out in company.
When despairing Of ever getting relief, his
wife purchased Hyomei outfit for him,
and trying it before going TO bed, he en-
loved the first whole nights sleep for ten
years. Captain Willnei says:-"I have
used less than two bottles Of Hyomei and
have been cured by the remedy"
Hyomei kills the germs of catarrh and
makes lasting and permanent cures. +.
(. Bryan sells Hyomei under his personal
guarantee to refund the money II it does
not give quick relief. 1927
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-10-27
chamberlaIn's Cough Remedy.

No one who is acquainted with its good
qualities can be surprised at the great pop
ularity OF Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
IL not.only cures colds and grip effectual-
" and permanently, but prevents these
diseases from resulting in pneumonia. 1t
is also a certain cure for Group. Whoop-
ing cough is not dangerous when this
remedy is given. 1t contains no opium or
other harmful substance and may be given
as confidently to a baby as to an adult. 1t
is also pleasant to take. When all of these
facts are taken into consideration il is not
surprising that people in foreign lands, as
well as at home, esteem this remedy very
highly and very few are willing to take
any other after having once used il. For
sale by F. r. Bryan, Randolph.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-10-27
A Successful Sale.

A Successful Sale.
The ladies OF the Methodist church held
a sale OF fancy articles, candy and ice
cream at the White Front in Dubois q
Gays block last Thursday afternoon, with
an entertainment in the evening, and
cleared over $50. The Bachelor Maids
took $3.50 at their table, while the re-
ceipts of the older ladies amounted to
about $40.
Under the direction OF the PASTORS wife,
Mrs. Y. NJ. Fowler. an unusually attract
i've program OF music, recitations and liv-
ing statuary was presented. White cover
ed boxes formed the pedestals for the fig
ures that looked like marble in their clas-
sic draperies, with the green light playing
over them, and the effect was really beau
tiful.
The first number was q solo by Miss
Lettie Bailey, followed by group entitled
ssVictory," in which were posed Misses
Stella Morse, Esther George and lisa Man
chester. recitation was given by Miss
Carrie Manchester; then little Miss Ethel
Wyman appeared in "Playing Grandma,
and Master Nelson Kicker, absorbed in
newspaper. in "Playing Grandpa" After
a cornet solo by Glenn Bailey, came "Bon
Voyage" with Miss Julia Slack gazing IN
tently at departing sail, and "What are
the wild waves saying in which Miss
Eunice Slack listened to the murmuring
OF shell. Miss Lucille Grant recited, and
Miss Esther George, tied TO a stake, repre-
scented "The Martyr" A second solo by
Miss Lettie Bailey preceded Miss Anna
Eastman in the guise of Justice hold
ing scales and a sheathed sword. Miss
Carrie Manchester recited again, and Miss
Florence Oney, in the garb OF a sister of
charity, posed in Devotion Another
cornet solo, and Miss lisa Manchester pre-
scented Crock OF Ages" in two poses, first
to the cross and then reckoning.
wand drill was executed by Misses Let
tie Bailey, Ruby NJ iller, Beulah Hayes and
Edith Granger, who grouped themselves
for q ableau 81 the close. The final pic
ture was the '.Christian Graces''- Miss
Stella Morse looking upward as Faith,
Miss lisa Banister with heart as Love, and
Miss Lucinda Howard holding an anchor
as Hope.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-10-27
Randolph.
GEORGIA WHITE, Local Editor.
A Plausible Excuse.

The day is dark and cold and drearv
II rains and the wind is never Wesrvs
The hunter Out on fruitless trim
nil ~ ~ ~ Az Gay long where the wet woods drip
III lis legs are stin and weary
The night u dark and cold and drearv.
NJ reaches his lodge both faint and weary.
win pork and beans his appetite blunts
~ liea 81 the meat he steadily hunfs
ana the supper, too, H. dreary
u spite q an his glowing ardor.
No feuison comes % 1ll BIS harder:
~ De obliged 20 consume canned goods
instead Of dainties In stream and woods
Makes the hunters luck the harder.
The sporisman's life Is dark ana dreary
lhe hines he pays on make him teargt
Win three-lnch horns and the sir-inch front
ne Z always taking his foot-rule out.
Ana 4 makes him very weary
be still. sad heart, and cease thy mourning.
The sun II still the sky adjoining;
Mhent Eameless you draw the village nigh
apu can tell the crowd the Game league IS
All the deer has been dehOrnlng.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-10-27

Murphy. Umpire Martin. Referee-Gil-
bert Phillips. Time-15 minute periods"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-12
THE CASH TRADE
BIG CORN REOEIPTs-RYE WEAKER-FLAX
HOLDING FIRM

BIG CORN REOEIPTs-RYE WEAKER-FLAX
HOLDING FIRM,
FIAX-The market hold around 81 % for No.
! seed and was active and firm.
Closing prices Minneapolis--Cash $1.22N {;
to arrive, 81 .22A; December, $1.22N.
Minneapolis received 81 oars, compared with
a6 year ago, and shipped 8 cars. Duluth re-.
ceived 20 oars
CoRN-Reoeipts heavy and lively trade.
food demand for choice lots, but not 80 good
for others, No, 3 yellow closed at seAc, Re-
oATs-No. white closed at At No, Receipts,
II earsj shipments, cars
FEED AND COARSE MEAL-cearse corn mel
and cracked corn, in sacks, sacks extra, S1b. 80
@16i No: ground feed, % corn and is oats,
so-lb SACKS sacks extra, S15 .7o9ie:25s No.
Sacks Sack s5tss' $is@1e soi No. ground feed, ls
MILLsFUFFs+ Steady and quiet, Bran in
bulk, s14.50i middlings, $3.50; red dog, $40;
all g b in Minneapo1IsI in 100-Ib sacks 81 per
ton additionally in 16o-lb sacks, 1.bo por ton Id.
ditiepal. Shipments, LOST tons,
30: ., eesl @714o' Receipts, cars: shipmsnts
BARLRT-Eesd grades, sb@s7e; maltina
grades, 41@45o, Receipts, III carsi shipments
HAT-offsrinss light and demand active 10,
good and choice stuff, Of which the bulk Of the
offerings are made up, is a slow sale, bringing
what the buyer is yelling to pay for it. Choice
timothy, $3.50; No. / timothy ss@s:5o; No.
land, choice, So; No. 1 upland, $7@7:to; No ;:
upland $6@650; swale, $4.5O@55O; midland, 81
@6.50; rye straw, $5@6; wheat and oat straw
$3.50@4.bO Receipts 872 tons. '-.-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-12
SLUMP AGAIN IN
STOCK MARKET
TROUBLE AGAIN CENTERS IN
AMALGAMATED COPPER.
Prices Fall, Then Feverish Rallies, Fol
lowed by More Drops, Then Re-
bound at Noon, Then Dizziness and
E Nervous Tone.

New York. Dec. 12-London prices Of Amer1-
cans this morning gave no intimation OF the dis
turbed tone with which the stock market opened
The trouble again conferred in Amalgamated Cop
per, which ran off rapidly ~ points There
were 10000 shares Of United States Steel I'M
loaded at 301a and 29A simultaneously, com,
decline of point on the first sale, and dropped
another point on the succeeding sale. Coiorado
Fuel and Sugar were down tx, and there were
declines Of to IL in Reading, Atchison, Erie,
Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania, Southern Pa
cifc, Union Pacific, United States Steel preferred
and Leather.
There were feverish rallies after prices had
fallen lower than the opening, extending to a
point more in Amalgamated Copper, Iennes-
see Coal Missouri Pacific and Reading. mere
were renewed breaks in other stocks, and Detore
States Steel. Smelling and Southern Pacific, ~
in United States Steel preferred, Az in Brooklyn
Transit, AZ in Colorado Fuel, in Consolidated
Gas, sh in Tennessee Coal, n in st. Paul; s1s
in st. Louis Southwestern preferred, 3A In Read
ing, 25s in Union, Pacific, 5& In Sugar and over
2 in Louisville & Nashville, Pacific Mail and
Erie first preferred. Amalgamated Copper fell
to 6b. The average level of prices was IL to
II points lower than on, Saturdays closing.
Prices were breaking badly at II o'clock.
With pause in liquidation came rebound II
prices, but the demand Immediately subsided a
to dullness with nervous tone On the break
Pacific Mail and Minneapolis. St. Paul & SAUL
Ste. Marie lost 315, Metropolitan Street Rail:
7 way 0A, feOp1eS GaS ~ anu 1AauJ auuAtiouo
stocks to ,2h. The rally reached in Sugar
sA after its 81 break, United States Steel pre-
ferred 21a, Colorado Fuel, Tennessee Coal anc
Brooklyn Transit IN, Amalgamated Copper
and Reading and Norfolk & Western rs. Over
dozen prominent stocks besides rallied to u
Bonds were weak at noon.
Further assaults were made on the market
and. altho prices yielded to within fractional
!! distance of the early low point and went below
in some cases, the decline was not so precipitatt
as in the first hour. Amalgamated Copper
broke again to 63A, and United States Steel
Pennsylvania, Reading, New York Central, Atchi
son, Canadian Pacific, Rock Island, Erie, Chesa
peake s. Ohio, Central of New Jersey, Louis
Vile & Nashville, Tennessee Coal and Leathe
| sold lower than before. The decline in United
States Steel reached 8 points and in Louisville
3M. --
Stock quotations reported for The Journal b
Watson & Co., brokers, Chamber Of Commerce
| Minneapolis. Closing figures are bid.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-12
CHICAGO GRAIN
WEAKNESS IN WHEAT, EASIER TONE IN
= CORN AND OATS, ON OPENING.

Chicago, Dec. 12-Lower cables and continued
liberal receipts in the northwest caused weak
ness In wheat here today, the May option sell
Ing on over cent from Saturdays closing quo
tat1ons. A partial break in the drought In the
southwest also had depressing influence May
opened B@Bc lower, at $1.09% LILO, and on
scattered selling declined to 81 .O9 al 091a. Min
OF LIZA cars, against 1859 cars last week and
654 cars a year ago. ...:..4-
Toward the miudle of the session the market
made quick rally on active covering by shorts.
May advanced to 81. 10h @11OA. Later the mars
ket again became weak, May closing with net
loss Cas Of w aE @lA So at s1e9 g
red 81 os@iia; No. Sard. sios@ii&; No No.
hard, $1.o2@1.1O; No. 1 northern, S1.l6@ ]. 20;
Nc; northern. S1.O7@1.15; No. 8 spring, $1.02
Close: Wheat, December, 81. o6h; May, s1.o9%
@l:09R; July, 98hc. -,
Exceedingly large receipts. lower cables and
weakness of wheat caused an easier tone in the
corn market: fair demand prevented any
to Ae lower, at 44Ac to 44% @44Ac, and held
contract grade
A frmer tone developed on a fair demand from
shorts. May sold up to 44Ac, and closed at
4e Gssh c ne5 gain Of e6A7no. n, Aon0
42hc. - y
Close; Corn, December, Also; January, 42Mc;
Weakness In other grains was the principal
cause Of an easier tone In oats Trading was
very quiet. May opened unchanged to nc low.
er, at 3oas @30hc, and held at 3Ohc. Local
| receipts were 1914 cars.
Cash Oats-No. 2. 29hc; No. 3, 29c.
Close Oats, December, 2s%c; May, sOMc;