The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-06-13

appetizer after breakfast to enable them to 60 to
work; before dinner for Appetizer after dinner
to aid digestion; before supper for appetite and
to strengthen them; after supper for socabilty at
bedtime to make them sleep; in the morning TO get
awake; when he is cold he drinks to make him
warm; when warm he drinks to make him
cool; takes drink with friend in misfortune
and with the friend in good fortune; drinks when
lie is well to preserve his health; when he is sick
to make him WELL On all these occasions he is
dallying with dangerous appetite until he has a
well-developed blossom, and he will take drink
as often as the opportunity occurs The appetite
Is the master, he the victim and slave. We can
DO no greater service to men than to advise them
against the destroyer of all that pure and sacred
in life The boy goes out into the world with
fathers blessing, mother love- and meets with
bad company. He sees the open door of the sa-
loon and is ured by the attraction there goes step
by STEP on and on toward the lowest condition of
man, and perhaps finds himself behind prison
walls. He has forgotten the tender teachings of
home; mothers blessing that followed him into
the the world is forgotten; he thinks more Of the
instruction and guidance of his youthful life; all
is lost through the influence of drink and drink
ing company.
go and talk to the young man who stands
the scaffold with the moose around his neck, and
he will tell you that ntemperance the cause
OF his downfall. prominent judge of Chicago
has written a book in which he claims a million
and half Of young men are initiated into
criminal experience every year in the United
States
Nov the question, what can be done for you to
prevent you from leading a criminal life when you
go out into the world again? You have made
good resolutions, but you know what place is said
to be paved with them. There is but thing
that will defeat your resolution and that is in
temperance. Go out from here to live lives of
sobriety. Make half the effort to keep out of
the saloon you did to keep out Of here and you
will be in no danger of doing criminal acts. The
saloon is the nursery of crime and no honest man
can justify it. No man can tell of one good deed
it has done. 1t is the place where the obscene
man is made welcome where human character is
blighted. Every man is better off total alb
stainer than he is dallying with strong drink.
Live temperate lives that you may be happy in
this world and the world to come God has not
forgotten nor forsaken you.''
A WORD FROM THE WARDEN.
After the address of Father Cleary, Warden
Stordock took occasion to caution the few of the
inmates who inclined to take advantage of
every privilege granted by the officers and ex-
planned fully the difficulties which lie in the
way of more liberal management of the prison.
He asked the cooperation of all inmates in the
effort to abolish all the brutalizng discipline. and
make the penitentiary practically reformatory.
He called especial attention to the ignorance OF
the general public OF the condition and manage
ment of prisons, and the prevalence Of the idea
that they are places for punishment only. Hence
the necessity of educating the public to the needs
and requirements Of the penitentiary, and the
which from necessity arise under the prevail
ing stern discipline. He assured us that it would
be the effort of the present administration to do
what was best for the inmates and best for the
people Of the state. and he believed sufficient ad-
vance had already been made to justify the belief
that it is best to treat humanely and that the
many evils resulting from Imprisonment can be
attributed to brutality.
The services we're interspersed by excellent
singing by the choir and congregation.