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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10
gbautauqua Injecting.

The meeting held on January 6,
proved to be an extremely happy
augury of satisfactory work in the
new year. After roll had been
called in the secretary's usual
nervous manner, members whetted
their appetite with a little private
business which left the circle
about where it found it.
After this the solid matter of
the day-the turkey and the cram
berry sauce, as it were up
for digestion Tin opposition to the
usual course of solid matter, which
generally goes DOWN, in the shape
of the following program:
"Race Prejudice. Member Glass
wells Street: Its Inhabitants" ...........
Member Glass G
Piano SOlo-"POlish Dance No, L." Scharwencka
Secretary
"The Formation of Thought. Member Glass
making and Destroying Money!. ,............
Member of Glass A
The opening paper dealt with
the very delicate subject of race
prejudice-a subject on which
most men have, to say the least of
it. decided views-in a clear and
comprehensive manner. An in
teresting discussion followed and
brought into notice several rem
edies or palliations of the evil.
"Wells Street: Its Inhabitants
proved to be a well-written de-
scription of little-known corner
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10

house there were cats on the floor,
upon the table and windowsill,
and about everywhere else. You
couldn't step without almost walk
ing on their handles.
After supper we retired, and I
was just dreaming that [ was at a
circus listening to steam calliope
when there was an awful crash.
My lovely music consisted Of ten
tomcats fighting on nearby roof.
Hank got up and throwed the first
thing he got his hands on, which
happened to be Bills boots. We
kept throwing things at them
felines all night, and next morning
the room looked as if it had been
bumped by a cyclone.
After breakfast we started to
put up hay, and the way Bill
spanked the widow was a caution.
He helped her wash the dishes,
and would 60 with her to church.
Bill was sure in love, and
he was the funniest looking cayote
I ever clapped eyes on. When we
got done putting up the hay we
were going to town. "Don't be in
hurry, boys" says Bill; "there is
going to be wedding and dance
here tonight" Bill and Hank
held confab, and Hank heads for
Milk River for skypilot, and Bill
went to town for a license. They
stopped at all the ranches on the
way and invited everybody to the
dance, and every cowchaser for
miles around was there.
Well, it was grand wedding
and a mighty fine dance. That
same night there was a bunch of
horses lifted, and we took the trail
at daylight. We got two of the
men at Fort McC Cloud, Canada,
and horse stealing stopped for al
spell. 1906.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10
Don't Look Back.

climbing troubles embarrass
Tho clouds disappointment mortal skies,
hidden harass
reardng dust
plOddng
should track;
it,
The shining summit
Tho sometimes vanish certain
will distress.
adversely lairs
And clngng mercessly
smiling
Towering
The longest lane of will have turning
Be not appalled, when obstacles confront
weaed blow Bit then strike the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10

OF London by new member and
was evidently not composed from
the viewpoint of the gentleman
OF Little Flockley-in-th Hole
who tells you what the matter is
with the United States without
setting foot in the little district.
Another new member-no less
parsonage than Count Muldoon,
who had evacuated his "shato" for
the occasion produced master
piece in "The Formation of
Thought" Subject and treat
ment alike were so obstruse that I
observed one member-member of
class q forgot the class on second
thought) behaved precisely as if he
was at Beethoven recital; that is
to say, vainly endeavoring to catch
the rhythm with his foot.
Making and Destroying Mon
ey" dealt in a thorough manner
with a very fascinating theme.
Several members were seen to pat
the place where the pocketbook
should have been when the author
got to the $1,000 and the $4,000
bills.
The meeting as a whole was
characterized by serious and intel
ligent discussion and, tho I says
it as shouldn't, proved that the
circle, as an organization, is living
up to it's traditions as an educa.
tional factor.
j. O., Secretary.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10
Bills Matrimonial
Venture.

Joe Spanish, son of Many White
Horses, full blooded Indian,
brought word to town that several
thieves were stealing horses from
the widow Blivings, who lived up
near Sweet Grass way, and wanted
to know if us boys would help
run them down. The widow was
a mighty fine looking woman.
She owned ranch and it was we'll
stocked, too. Most of the cow
men around there had tried to
make her think it was nicer to
trot double than single, but not
one of them could make her see
things that way.
We got our cayuses and started.
We ran races most of the way and
had good time all the way out.
We arrived about four O'Clock in
the afternoon, and of course we
stopped to hear what the widow
had to say. She knew Hank, hav-
ing met him at two or three
dances. She started to tell what
them lifters had done and kept on
talking until after dark. Hank
got up, kicked the dog across the
room, larruped his broncho, said a
few swear words, and then headed
for the corral. We turned our
horses loose and Hank called Bill
over and says: "You go over to
the house and tell the widow that
we want supper, and that we are
going to stay all night and will
trail those thieves in the morning.
Bill came back in about half an
hour. "Boys," said he, ;sthe Wild
ow wants to hire us to put up her
hay; will we do itw We answered
yes. The widow was a great hand
for cats. When We went into the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10
ribrarian'$ Register.

The report of the prison librari-
an for the month of December
shows that the total number of
books drawn during the month
was 2,31S. AS usual, fiction is the
most popular among the inmates.
The books selected last month
embraced the following branches
of literature: Fiction, 1874;
Magazines, 1868; History, 151;
Science, 252; Biography, 81;
Travels, 81; Poetry, 25; Religion,
*
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10
TO INMATES.

For the information of new arrivals
and all others desiring to send THE
MIRROR to friends we wish to say that
plying with the following rules: Write
out your own name and register num-
Der and send to this Office with name
and address of person to whom paper is
to be sent. Each paper must be kept
clean and folded in the same manner as
1t is when you receive 1t and placed In
your door every Friday night. All in.
mates are requested to comply with this
order whether sending out copy or not.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10

For the benefit of the new ar
rivals, we wish to say that the
library slips are taken up by the
night guards on the following
evenings: On galleries one and
two. Wednesday and Saturday.
On number three gallery, Monday
and Thursday. On number four,
five and six galleries, Tuesday
and Friday. The slips should be
placed upon the crossbar of your
door, on the nights designated. be-
fore the gong rings to retire.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10

Last week we unavoidedly pub
lished an article that should have
been credited to the Chautauqua
Circle. We always endeavor to
give this admirably conducted or
ganization credit for the papers
received from it, as we know that
each of them take pride In the work
OF that society. We shall try and
not overlook the proper credit in
the future.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10
LOCAL NEWS.

The following Transfers we're
made during the past week: 189
to hosp; 1O6 to 1856; SO to 1877;
SO to 10.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10

Foreman Henderson, of the
Irvine factory, was about the var
lous departments one day last week
with a party of friends.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10
CHAPEL Service.

The following is the program of
the service held in the chapel,
Sunday, January 9th, Father
Corcoran officiating:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10

The catholic members Of this in
stitution were given an opportun-
ity to attend confession last Sat-
urday afternoon. Sunday morn
ing they attended communion.
There were sixty-one on the list
who requested to 60.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10
Wise and Otherwise.

y
Don't it make you mad?
Up-to-date farmers in South
Dakota are paying $14 per bushel>
or at that rate, for special variety
of tested seed corn; and then they
try to tell us that South Dakota ia
famine and drouth-stricken
land.
It is said that the wives and
daughters of trust and transport
tation magnates who have beenin-
dicted are forming an exclusive
social set all their own, and the
pity of it all is that the ''set" iH
daily growing larger.
I am greatly pleased to be able
to say that our genial young friend
who presides so ably over the des-.
TIMES of Views and Reviews is to
depart hence ere the month rollH
round. Here's hoping that all the
good things. which he deserves
shall come his way, and that never
again shall his smiling features
grace another institution such. as
this.
1 was told Christmas Day of q
man who boasted Of having held a
magazine week and still had it.
[ was not told the mans name and
1 don't want to be told; [ dcnf
want to know any such man, but Z
do want to say that any man who
holds paper more than one day,
or magazine more than two days.
excepting over Sundays and holi-
days is supremely selfish, and de-
serves to be cut off the list Of any
self-respecting man who may find
such person on his list. There
is whole lot more [ want to say,
but a wholesome regard for the
editors blue pencil compels me to
content myself with relieving my
feelings to this extent only.
1t is said that beer and light
wines are driving absinthe from
first place as a beverage in France.
Of two evils it Is perhaps wiser to
choose the lesser, but it occurs to
me that the substitution is good
deal like jumping out of the frying
pan into the fire. Prohibition, by
statute, of the selling of intoxicants
does not prohibit, so perhaps the
next best thing is to substitute
beer and light wines for the fiercer
whisky and absinthe. 1t seems
to be as hard to legislate morality
into man as it is to get him into
heaven by shooting him over the
ramparts. About the only way
to get man to heaven is to lure
him in at the gate, and perhaps the
better way to induce him toabjure
whisky is to lure him into drink
ing beer.
AAabsns ealanti, or an ALTERATION,
if may be permitted to use this
word in this sense, is always ANUS
ing when found in another's writ
ings; it is not SO funny when it
appears in ones own. Whenever
[ run across one Tin another's
writings) am reminded of good
old deacon l knew in the long ago.
He dearly loved the sound of his
own voice, and his strong suit
was red-hot temperance lecture.
In his favorite one he had man
made helpless by the demon rum
lying on railway track, as firmly
bound as tho steel bands gripped
him to the rails. After getting his
man in this awful fix, he would
raise his hands to heaven, and roll
ling is eyes dramatically, exclaim.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10
CHURCH NOTICE.

Service in the Prison Chapel at nine
O'Clock every Sunday morning. Pro-
testant and Catholic service every
alternate Sunday. Rev. s. j. Ken
nedy, and Rev. FIR. COrcOran chap
lains.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10

State Parole Agent Barncard
was at the prison one day last week
interviewing those inmates whose
sentence expires during this month
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10

Death again visited our lit
tie community last Tuesday, and
claimed Mr.. Joseph holden,
colored, who has been an inmate
of the prison hospital since last
summer. He was received Feb
ruary 26th, 1908, from Hennepin
Co., on a seven years sentence for
robbery in the first degree. He
was a single man and formerly
lived in Missouri.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10

Our local fire department made
very creditable practice run last
Saturday afternoon. One of the
boys slipped and fell, but the cart
kept right on going.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10

There is a paint book somewhere
in the dollhouse belonging to the
occupant Of 269. 1t is published
by Heath and Milligan. Anyone
finding the same would confer a
favor by handing it to the cap
tain of the dollhouse with the
above number placed thereon.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10
ole Mirror
Thursda y, January 10, 1907.
PRISON OFFICIALS.
BOARD OF CONTROL.

o. B. GOULD, Chairman Winona
s. w. LEAvETT Litchfeld
LII ROSING - Cannon Falls
M. c. Cutter, Secretary
RESIDENT OFFICIALS.
HENRY WOLFER, Warden
]. S. GLENNON, Deputy Warden
M. c. COLLIGAN, Asst. Dep. Warden
H. w. DAVIS, Clerk and Acct. Officer
ROBERT M. COLES, Steward
b. ]. MERRILL, Physician
MISS MARY MCKINNEY, = Matron
s. ]. KENNEDY, Protestant Chaplain
CHAS. CORCORAN, Cath. Chaplain
PRISON AGENT.
J.Z. BARNCARD, st. Pail
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10

The Deputy Warden has in his
possession letters addressed to G..
d. Winkel, sent from Plattenburg,
Anthem, Holland; and one adj
dressed to Thomas E. Moran, from
Littleton, n. Fl. For further par
ticulars, see the Deputy.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10


For the first time in several
weeks there were no arrivals. Two
prisoners were discharged on ex-
piration of sentence.
The population of the prison is
7O2, distributed as follows: First
grade, 553, second grade, 1876, and
third grade IA.
The last register number is 2O3l.
The State Board of Pardons met
at the capitol last Monday. There
were about eighteen applications
on file for consideration. Mr.. H..
B., 1893, serving reformatory
plan sentence, was granted full
pardon. The following cases were
denied: M. M, 1859; j. H., 2255;
A. L., 1928; F. K, 1474. We are
unable to state what action was
taken on the rest of the cases.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-22
ONE WHO HAS ALWAYS KNOWN
MR.. WATSON.

Bishop Warren A. Gambler and
the brilliant Thos. E. Watson are
having controversy, the contention
apparently growing out of the bish-
ops charge of insincerity on the part
OF Mr.. Watson in the old time prohi-
bition campaign in McDuffie county.
The reverend gentleman is in our
opinion on the wrong track. AS a
boy, it was our pleasure to be pres
ent and witness the attitude of both
Bishop Gambler and Mr.. Watson
and we can vouch in a great measure
for the entire correctness of Mr.. Wat
sons experiences as detailed in his
recent newspaper articles. Knowing
Mr.. Watson from infancy, we unhesi-
tatingly say that he is the very high
est type of sincerity and we have
yet to find one iota Of proof to the
contrary.-The Byron County (Ga.l
Enterprise.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-22
THINGS WE WOULD LIKE TO
KNOW.

AS the time of Prohibition in Geor-
gia approaches, many seem to be trous
bled with great and consuming
thirst for booze. In like manner, in
view of the uncertainty of our in
formation in regard to some recent
happenings, many Of us have thirst
for knowledge, real, sure enough
knowledge, and here are some of the
things we would like to know:
l. When Mr.. Rockefeller of the
Standard Oil Company said, II am
harnessed to cart in which the peo-
pie ride" whether or not he did not
mean to say that it was a horseback
ride he was taking on the backs of
the dear people? Instead of a spike
team, composed of the Standard Oil
Trust, the R. r. Trust, and the Tar
iff manufacturing Trusts, attached to
a go-cart hauling the dear people ov-
er rough ways to the stars, would it
not be more appropriate to locate
the 1ruSC magnaCeS on the backs OF
the people with score or more of
pilfering hands in the pockets of ev-
cry man, woman and child in the
countryF The great masses of the
people feel that this is the proper fig
ure to illustrate the ride that Jpo.
d. is giving the people of America.
Of America.
2. We would like to know, when
Mr.. Rockefeller said in connection
with his "harnessed to a cart" con-
ception of his relationship to the peo-
pie, that whether I like it or not,
| must work for the rest" if he real
ly meant that he loved the dear peo-
pie so much that he was just natu-
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-22
wATsoNs WEEKLY JEFFERsoN1AN.

"He will deny that Roosevelt is re-
sponsible for the hostile attitude OF
States for railroads or for the pres
ent slump in Wall street, and will
charge that the railroads brought it
on themselves as retaliation for
their former illegal practices.
Detective Pinkerton Dead.
Robert A. Pinkerton, head Of the
Pinkerton Detective Agency, died at
sea aboard the steamer Bremen Aug.
II. He was on his way to Germany
in the hope Of benefting his health.
He had been ailing for some months
Robert A. Pinkerton was regarded
as perhaps the greatest thief-catcher
in the world. He came by his detect
i've instinct naturally. He was the
eldest son Of old Allan Pinkerton.
founder of the Pinkerton Agency,
and famous as the man who in the
early days Of the civil war thwarted,
slngle-handed, the first plot to muir
der President Lincoln.
When Allan Pinkerton died he left
his business and the bulk of his mon
ey to his two boys, "Bob," and
"Billy." Bob assumed charge of the
Eastern district, with headquarters
at No. 81 Broadway, New York. "Bil-
ly" has always lived in the West and
Chicago, and looked after the West
ern territory.
Together the brothers expanded the
business to bounds of which their
canny Scotch father never dreamed.
They organized and controlled an
army of men who are used in defend
ing property during strikes and la
Dor wars, who have surrounded banks
and large financial concerns with a
system of guardianship which has
made a lost art of expert safe blow
ing, and who protect all the big race
tracks from pickpockets and pool.
room sharps. G.. N.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-22

rally obliged to work for them, even
though he would have preferred to
work for himself? And if the dark
lantern methods he adopted to crush
out all competition in the oil business
by the secret rebate and commercial
thugism, furnish the evidence Of
that great love for the dear people
whom he is giving cart ride at so
much inconvenience to himself?
3. We would also like to know
when he said, Sometime, L believe
the people will be convinced that
they" ('the big men of the indus
trial world of today'O "are toll
ing for love of country" if this love
of country on his part is manifested
when he sells his oil to his own peo-
pie and country at much higher
price than he sells it in foreign coun-
tries and to foreign people after pay
ing the freight across the oceanf We
suffer from too much love. We had
rather be loved less, and get our oil
as cheap as the foreigners do.
4. We would like to know If the
oil produced and refined, according
to the Knox-Smith report, the lat
est, at less than one cent per gallon,
and sold to the dear people of his
loved country at ten to fifteen cents
per gallon, is proof positive of his
disinterested benevolence in giving
the people that cart ride over the
rough ways? and if he had been sell
ing it at few hundred per cent less
profit than he has, it would not have
made the way smoother for the peo-
pie he was giving pleasant trip,
and saved them many a jolt on the
waYq
5. We would like to know also
when, in his statement, he suggested
that he could have turned his wealth
into gold, and gone across the wa
ters to England or to some other
pleasant country, but that Yankee
Doodle was his favorite music, and
he loved home and country too we'll
to leave it, if the tax on incomes in
these pleasant countries of the old
world, and the absence of an income
tax in this country, had anything to
do with his lack of desire to emigrate
to fairer climes7 and if this love of
Yankee Doodle music by John D.
Rockefeller, like the great flag cam
paign of Mark Hanna, does not IL
lustrate the truth of that old saying,
that patriotism is the last refuge
of scoundrel"q
We have consuming thirst for
knowledge on these topics, as we'll
as on many others.
JEFFER SONTAN nENTOCDA
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-22


The company was forced to the
wall by claim of the McManus Kel-
ly Company, of Toledo, o., for only
$4,436. The company has plants at
Hartford, Thomsonville, Conn;
Westfeld, Mass; Syracuse, N. Y;
Hagerstown, Md; Chicago, Toledo,
and indianapolis. 1t owns the Cres-
cent, Rambler and Imperial plants at
Chicago.
The petition states there is now
outstanding 100000 shares of the
common stock, 23,9O9 shares Of the
first preferred and 86,251 of the Sec
ond preferred. The petition further
states that the total assets Of the
Pope Manufacturing Co. amount to
$23,678,25O. Of this sum $14,432,-
61S is credited to good will, trade
marks, etc., and $2,17O,724 to plants.
The liabilities include the outstand-
ing capital stock and its balance sheet
dated June "a, 1907, includes de-
felt of $345,873, to strike a balance
with the total assets Of $23, 3,638, ,230.
The petition says that in the past
the Pope Manufacturing Company
has had borrowing capacity Of
about $1,O0O,OOO annually but that it
has been unable to renew this in such
amounts as to enable the concern to
continue business. The Pope Manu-
featuring Company has cash on hand
amounting to $25, 1894, and notes out
standing to the amount of $1,008,-
542. Against the latter item the Pope
Manufacturing Company has notes
receivable Of $1,226,O26.
Albert Rathbone, Of Joline, Lar
kin & Rathbone, counsel for the re-
ceiver, in explanation Of the failure,
said: "The necessity for the pres
emit proceedings arises from the cur
tailrent Of credit, and from the re-
rction of loans on notes. In other
words, the receivership proceedings
are the direct outcome Of the present
rigid money conditions. Loans were
falling due and the company was
unable to raise funds with which to
meet them, so that the placing of the
company in the hands of a receiver
seemed to be the only alternative
which would conserve the rights of
creditors.
"We have every reason to believe
that the assets are worth many times
the amount of the liabilities if the
company continues as a going con-
Germ. We expect that such will be
the case"
Arabs Defy Machine Guns.
Fanatieal Arabs, riding superb
horses, swarmed around Casablanca
and necessarily swooped down on the
French forces camped outside the
town. Every charge was repulsed
with much bloodshed, yet the reckless
courage of the tribesmen was demon
strated by their constantly returning
to the onslaught in the face of
withering fire of rifles and machine
guns. The Moors made determined