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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-10-03
DYING OF VDLENESS.
HOW the Great Empire State is Com.
mitting Murder by Wholesale.

DR.. T. E. Quimby, of Fayetteville, who
on. says: ''The convicts have been idle
since about August 6, and have nothing to
do but lie in their little, dark cells and
brood on their condition. The late special
session of the Legislature was called by
Gov. Hill to provide employment for the
prisoners but it did nothing. To show the
importance Of exercise upon the health of
prisoners. need only say that when they
are at hard labor, there were sent to the in
sane asylum only one patient during the
two months l was there. AT present three
insane cOnvictS are sent to that hospital
every week. Lately there have been several
assaults made upon the Jail officers and /
have no doubt they were because the con-
vcts who made them were losing their
reason. have often received letters from
the unfortunate beings begging that l do
something to get them out of the awful hell
they were in. for they would go crazy if
their solitary confinement was continued.
Yes. undoubtedly lust now there is a state
of things at the prison that ought to be
remeded. aid that. by giving the prisoners
exercise and something to do to divert their
minds from their present condition." The
doctor was asked why he had resigned his
position at the prison. Because" he
said. Il knew the consequences of those
1. 200 prisoners being placed in solitary con-
tinement. knew how they must suffer-.
how soon their health would be under
mined. even if the reason of many did not
give way. 1 knew also that it would not
be possible for me to alleviate their painful
condition. and rather than witness it [ re-
signed. The sanitary condition of the pris-
on could hardly be improved. During my
two months service, there were only five
deaths occurred. Three were from con-
sumption. another from emphysema of the
lungs-a disease allied to cOnsumption-and
the fifth was suicide. ."-Ex.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-10-03
THE SOURCE OF CRIME.
Close the Saloons and You Close the
Prisons.

Close the Saloons and You Close the
Prisons.
AS l am to graduate from this school OF
reformation in few days, and be returned
to the tender mercies of a cold and dis
eliminating world. offer this to my fellows
and readers as a valedictory address. L.
NJ. has cast one of his bright 'Refections"
on some of my former efforts by clubbing
me 1.-The Prison Obituarist." so it is with
some misgivings that venture to handle a
live subject for my parting talk-the very
vital one of temperance.
While shall speak of the relation that
the liquor traffic bears to the prison prob
lem, wish to dwell particularly upon it as
stumblng-block in the ex-convict's way
to reform. The advice 1 would offer for
his future guidance is addressed, reflexively,
to myself. as we'll as to my comrades
Divorced from the watchful guardianship
of state institution that has preserved me
for term of two years from all the sins
md follies of society. am to begin anew
his great conflict, called life, on my own
account. My painful penitence endured,
and my venial Otfense eXpiated, shall re-
ceive from the state diploma" or
writing, restoring to me certain rights of a
citizen. But this is a passport that the ex-
student of reform is more apt to view with
alarm than point to with pride, for it bears
on its face the story of his fall, and is not
always safe conduct to honest employ
ment. And so the state. aware of socety's
distrust of the made-over citizen, wisely
provides him with the means to reach his
home and friends. if he have any, if not,
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-10-03
Five Gents.

be positive and firm in our good intentions.
Some of us. with the best of resolutions.
and promises. have so little fOrtitude. and
are So fond of the pleasures of the world,
that we yield to every temptation; while
others possessed of determination, hold out
firmly to the last, and succeed. But don't
become weak-hearted because you have
been unable to keep good resolutions.
Breaking resolves is to be deplOred. for it
weakens the will. and damages the soul,
but. alter all. a resolution for virtue has.
good Oh its side. Resolve to keep them, and
make right beginning. and all will be well.
Let us emancipate ourselves from the slav-
erv of drink. and CELEBRATE ourselves from.
the bondage of prisons. Ten Nights in
Bar-room." are quite apt TO be followed by
ten years in prison. There are quite a
number in here who can affirm the truth of
that assertion. The threshold of the saloon.
is but the entrance to prison. c. H. r.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-10-03
For The Mirror.
Helpful Thoughts.

Reach up as far as you can through the
darkness and God will reach down all the
rest of the way.
Nothing but infinite pity is sufficient for
the infinite pathos of human life.
Do the duty that lies nearest thee. The
next will already have become palmer.
No good that has been truly meant,
though in the midst of mistakes, shall be-
utterly lost. In the end the angels always
come and gather the wheat from the tares.
For God who sees each separate soul,
Out Of commonplace lives makes His beautiful.
whole.
Because HE careth for you." He is sure
ly looking down through the future, and,
all unseen to you. is preparing to supply
your needs, whether of soul or body.
You and your burden are one; so take
both to him and leave them in His hands.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-10-03
Selected
THE JUG OF WHISKY.

'he following is poem taken from the issu
the London "Star," of June IL, 1899, Zone OF
lection of newspapers rescued from destruction
ne years ago by an antiquarian) and goes t.
1w that the real contents of the whisky jul
re known before the days of total abstinence re
M.
Within these earthen walls confined
The ruin turks of human kind;
More mischiefs here united dwell.
And more diseases haunt this cell
Than ever plagued the Egyptian flocks,
Or ever cursed Pandora's box.
Within these prison walls repoSe
The seeds of many bloody nose.
The chattering tongue. the horrid oath,
The fist for fighting nothing 10th
The nose with diamonds glowing red,
The tloated eye. the broken head.
Forever fastened be this door
confined within, thousand more
Destructive fiends of hateful shape
Fen now are planning an escape.
Here only by cork controlled,
And slender walls of earthen mold,
In all the pomp of death. reside
Revenge, that ne'er was satisfied;
The tree that bears the deadly fruit
OF maiming. murder and dispute;
Assault that innocence assails;
The images of gloomy jails:
The giddy thought on mischief bent;
The evening hour in folly spent.
All these within this jug appear.
And-Jack the hangman. in the rear!
Thrice happy he. who, early taught
By Nature, ne'er this poison sought:
He. with the puriing streams content.
The beverage quaffs that Nature meant:
In reasons scale, his actions weighed,
His spirits want no foreign aid.
Long life is his, in vigor passed,
Existence welcome to the last
A spring that never yet grew stale;
Such virtue lies in Adams ale!
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
SUNDAY NEWS
A Bloody Minded Family Com
NIT General and FiendIsh
Slaughter.
Things Settling Down in Stevens
County, Kansas-Other
Sunday News.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, August 12.-Dispatches
from Shenandoah, Iowa, say that about
o'clock last night terrible row was heard
in the house occupied by the Gallup fami-
ly, consisting of Samuel Gallup, the father,
Frank Gallup, Charlie and the mother, and
Franks wife and some small children. 1t
seems that the two boys, Frank and Char
lie, were thrashing their father. On an
appeal from the children Mr.. F j. Pine,
being near at hand, and several other citi-
zens, went to the Gallup house and stood
outside the fence. Mr.. Pine inquired what
the trouble was, when Frank Gallup step
ped forward and, presenting a revolver,
said, "Take that, damn you" and fired two
shots, both of which took effect on Pine,
killing him instantly. As soon as the
alarm spread, the widest excitement pre-
vailed, and, knowing the desperate charac-
ter of the murderer, the Ballingall Rifle
company were called out to surround the
house and secure him. The mother of
the murderer invited those without to
enter the house and see for themselves
that her son Frank was not there. I'm
medately several members of the militia
company complied and entered the house,
when Frank Gallup, who was secreted in
the cellar, opened fire upon them, killing
one and badly wounding three others.
The names of the killed aud wounded are:
Bert Rice killed; Dave Campbell, L. H.
Winfrey and one other, name not learned
badly wounded.
In the fusiade that followed old man
Gallup was wounded and, as was afterward
learned, Frank Gallup was killed. After
recovering the bodies of their wounded
and dead comrades the militia boys formed
close Gordon around the house, when
Frank Gallup's wife appeared at the
window and informed them that her hus-
band was dead, but still fearing treachery
the utmost precaution was maintained that
no more valuable lives might be lost. A
rope thrown to one of the women was
placed around the body of Frank and he
was drawn from the house dead and
dragged through the streets of the city.
The officers are now in pursuit of the rest
of the Gallup family, who hastily de-
camped after giving up the body of
Frank
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
Golden Morsels,

A fool is always beginning.-French
Proverb.
A mans own business does not defile his
fingers.-Italian Proverb.
One ass calls another "long ears."-
German Proverb.
Done liar is sooner caught than the Grip
ple.-Spanish Proverb.
Change yourself and fortune will change
with you.-Portuguese Proverb.
When two quarrel, both are in the
wrong Dutch Proverb.
Dearth foreseen never came.-Italian
Proverb.
When the head is sick the whole body is
sick.-Dutch Proverb.
One hair of woman draws more than a
cart rope.-German Proverb.
The envious mans face grows sharp
and his eyes big.-Spanish Proverb.
For people TO live happy together the
real secret is that they should not live too
much ogether.-English Proverb.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
The Demand for Larger Horses.

Only few years ago 1900 to 1,40C
pounds was thought to be big horse.
Now our grade draft horses, 400 to l 800
pounds, are demanded by the city mar.
kets, and even heavier horses sell all the
better if they can be found Many of oul
best farmers have grand teams of grade
draft mares that money cannot buy.
Every one is worth fortune for breeding,
while tho amount of work they can per.
form is astonishing. The farmers all
want larger horses to work, and are Gag.
erly breeding to increase the size. The
dealers everywhere are actively looking
for the grade draft horses ali over the
west, and fortunate the farmers and the
communities where this popular horse is
found.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
On the Country Road.

To be thrifty our animal must be CON-
Portable. This is true in summer as well
as winter.
Better feed inferior fruits and vege-
tables to the hogs than send them to
market, is the opinion of many.
Have place in which to deposit what
ever will burn. A shallow trench of
proper size should be made to hold the
ashes. When burning has been made,
cover the trench with boards to prevent
the ashes from being blown away. By
care in gathering the rubbish, q supply
may be scured without outlay of ashes,
one of the most valuable of fertilizers.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
Butter MAKING.
description OF the Two Methods Now
Employed for Sailing Butter.

Much of the excellence of butter de.
ponds on the sailing, and while butter
that for any reason is really inferior can.
not be raised to grade of excellence by
the sailing, says The New York World,
that which otherwise might be classed as
good is often reduced to an inferior grade
by the manner in which it is treated at
the time of sailing A good deal of butter
is churned to DEATH that is, the churning
is continued to gather the butter so long
after the butter has separated from the
milk that it is pounded into creamy,
pasty condition, exactly the opposite of
what it should be.
piece of really good butter, explains
the authority quoted from, when properly
salted will, if cut apart with bright,
sharp knife, show two clean cut, smooth
and slightly moist surfaces, without any
sign Of MASKING down of the butter
particles, and none of them should be
found adhering in a sticky mass to the
knife. When a knife is drawn through a
piece of butter and comes out in such
condition that the blade cannot be seen,
no expert is needed to determine its
quality.
The two methods now in vogue for salt
ing butter are termed brine sailing and
dry sailing, each of which has its advo-
Gates. The former consists in making the
salt into a solution before it is used and
in the latter the solution is made by add
ing dry salt to the water that remains in
the butter after most of the buttermilk has
been worked out. So far as the result is
concerned the object of each plan is to
surround the grains of butter with brine,
until enough of the solution is absorbed to
make them palatable, AS the butter
itself contains about II per cent of water,
that must be taken into consideration in
brine sailing, otherwise the sailing will
be too light. On the other hand, if more
dry salt is used than the water in the
butter will turn into solution, the dry
sailing will be in excess and be shown in
particles of salt undissolved.
To get the best results from any kind
of sailing the churning should stop when
the butter has fairly granulated and be-
fore it has been beaten to salvy cOndi-
ton by the process of gathering At this
stage the buttermilk should be drawn off
and the butter be washed with cold water
or cold, weak brine until it runs off clear,
when either strong, clear brine may be
poured on to remain until the mass has
absorbed enough of the solution, or fine
dry salt, about one ounce to the pound,
be sifted on and be worked in so that it
will dissolve. After this light second
working should be given to clear it of
any buttermilk that may be drawn out by
the salt.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16

red cash, s25sGs3Ac; August, s2b1s2ssc, closing
at $3.50; September, Sl5sGS31sc, closing at s21s
October, S2SGs3c; December, S5S@S6hc, closing
at SEC.
Corn-Cash, easy. Options opened unsettled,
but later an active demand sprang up and offerings
being meager, prices advanced and closed H0So
above yesterday No. ?, cash, 41@414c; August,
4OA0405Sc, closing at Ale bid; September, 409s@
41l4c closing t4lAc; October 394d 40Ac, clio. ing
at 4OI4c; year, 33AG345sc, closing at 34hc bid;
MAY, 36Gl361sc.
Oats-Fraction higher; cash, 2414 65g4hc; August,
23Ac; ,eptember, 2315c; May, 2T1Sc.
Cornmeal-Dull, assoc 40
Whisky-Steady at LA
Provisions but only small lots sold.
Pork 400.
Lard Prime steam, $50; butchers, S.37h.
Dry salt meats-BOxed. Shoulders 7,251756;
longs S.25@S 3d. ribs, S25GS.37h short clears,
Bscon-Shouldere, SOO0s25; longs and ribs
9.2C09.35 short clear, 95G096O; hams, .5OG14OQ,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
Stall Feeding Beef.

Wheat bran is not proper ingredient
of ration for fattening cattle, as it is
not fat producing food. Corn meal is
the best fattening food for cattle. For
each 1000 pounds Of live weight mix
twenty pounds of best hay or fodder and
eight to ten pounds of corn meal Clover
hay is the best, but even corn fodder will
do, or you may give six or eight pounds
of corn meal, three pounds of cotton seed
meal and twenty pounds of hay. An oc.
casional change or addition of other food
promotes appetite and digestion, but corn
meal and hay should be the main reliance.
Southern Cultivator.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
In and In Breeding.

Judicious in and in breeding, says The
Southern Live Stock Journal, does not
run the stock out. The most perfectly
developed and conspicuously valuable
cattle in the world are those that have
been sllillfully and intelligently bred for
generations with no intermiXture of for
eign blood. In and in breeding, to attain
a high degree of success, requires the
liberal use of brains interviewer with
more than average judgment. Most of
the ills that are predicted by agricultural
writer's for stock bred in and in are more
imaginary than real.
The general principles of heredity and
the laws of breeding are subjects of spe-
cial interest to stocimen, and ought to be
studied more carefully and extendedly.
The only way we may hope to intensity
and perpetuate a desired quality with
reasonable assurance of success is by
means of in and in breeding. All our
prominent and most useful and valuable
breeds of domestic live stock and poultry
were nodded in this way, and it is the
only way to create new breeds that will
transmit their personal characteristics
and excellences to their offspring with
fidelity.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
CHICAGO

CHICAGO
CHICAGO, August 14.-The Drovers' journal re-
ports:
Cattle-Receipts, 10000; shipments, LOO; mar
ket strong for good grades, and common lower
steers, 3 eU06OJ; stockers and feeders 2006G3 90
COVE, Dulis and mixed, 1.30G3.l0; Texas cattle
l'90Io .4o; western rangers, 3.0G@495
ssI ;!oJ 2 Wy; shipments -; marke
$500. 40.
sheep-Receipts, 5000; shipments, 1000; msrke
steady: natives, 2756l450: western sborn. 2 5O6
800; Texans shorn, 3.0004. 20; lambs, 4 2505. IS
y KANSAS CITY.
KANSAS CRY, August IA The Live Stock In.
dirator reports:
Csttle-Receipts, 6,4OO; shipments, S,4O)
best fat steady, common not wanted
good to choice cornfed, 50005.55; common
to medium, 32504.75; grass range steers, so q
$40; stockers and good feeding steers, 1858 65
HOgs-Receipts, 3,4O0; market opened strong,
@Oc higher for assorted light, and weak for mixed
and heavy, closing dull and lower. Good to choice
625G16.35; common to medium, 5.500615
Sheep-Receipts, 3 2O0; shipments, 1000; market
steady; good to choice muttons, 3.25 L40O; com
mon to medium, l.5JQ3,00.
ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS August IA Cattle Receipts, 5000
shipments, 700; market strong; native steers
5O005.50; far to good native steers 440@
500; butchers' steers, 3.20G4 40; rangers, corn
fed, 3.50I4 3d. grassfed, 2.2OQ360.
Hogs Receipts, ?, Oh; shipments, 300; market
stronger choice heavy, 6. 006.5O; packing, 625Q
$40; light grades, 6.2O06.35.
Sheep-Receipts, 1000; shipments, 80; market
firm; fair to choice, 3 400470
Hor.es- Receipts 1875; shipments, $50; Texans
and Indians in carloads, 2O,00Q36OJ.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
VOLCANIC ERUPTION,
The Late Terrible Suffering in Japan.
Great Loss of life

The Late Terrible Suffering in Japan.
Great Loss of Life.
SAN Francisco, Cal, August 12.-The
steamer City of Sydney, which arrived
this evening from Hong Kong and Yoko-
hama, brings three Japanese journals with
the particulars of the volcanic eruption
of Bandai San, on July 10. The details
of the catastrophe came in a somewhat
disjointed form. The Choya Shimbun
dispatched special reporter to the
scene. According to his account the
villagers around Bandai San heard
a strange rumbling sound and
felt shocks of earthquakes from
| the 18th. Phenomena continued inter-
mittedly for two days and nights, but
not being attended by serious results, no
great dIsquietude was felt. On the morn
ing of the 18th, at about o'clock, the
smaller Bandai San trembled and roared
violently. Most Immediately afterwards
ashes began to fall, sky suddenly grew
dark, and the rumbling sounds con-
tinued, accompanied by violent earth
quake and flare of dazzling flame. The
crest of the smaller Bandai San appeared
TO be lifted bodily upward and then to
fall again with tremendous noise. Then
followed showers OF red mud mingled
with large stones, spreading havoc around
Such, indeed, was the nature of
nearly all the matter erupted-red mud
without small stones, but accompanied
occasionally by heavy rocks. Above the
mud fell a few inches of ashes. In the
five villages of Iwase, Yosan, Wakamiya,
Misato and Hibara, the greater part of
the houses We're buried to depth of from
seven to twenty feet The state of the
bodies recovered is terrible. Some are
literally cut to pieces, Others are parboiled
so that it is scarcely possible to distinguish
between men and women. few corpses
were found suspended in the branches of
trees, which had caught there as they fell.
Up to the 18th the number of bodies re-
covered is 476. 1t is believed sixty one
are still eutombed. The wounded number
forty.one.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
pTMPLES, black ,hea1s, chspped and oily skir
| lln prevented hy CUTICURA INDICATED SOAP
Catarrh to CONSUMPTION,

Catarrh in its destructive force stands next to
| and undoubtedly Lads on to consumption. Its
therefore singular that those afflicted with this
fearful disease should not make 1t the obj Of
their lives to rid themselves of it. Deceptive
RENE les Concocted by ignorant pretenders to
medical knowledge have weakened the confidence
OF the great majority of sufferers in all advertised
remedies. They become resgiL oil to life mis-
cry rather than torture themselves with doubtful
palliatives.
But this will never do. Catarrh must be met at
every stage and combaed with all our might In
many cases the disease has assumed dangerous
symptoms. The bones and cartilage of the nose,
the organs of hearing, of seeing and Of tasting SO
affected as to be useless, the uvuIa so elongated,
the hroat so intlamed aud irritated as to produce
a constant and distressing cough
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE meets every phase Of
Catarrh. from simple head cold to the most
loathesome and destructive stages. 1t is local and
constitutional. Instant in relieving, permanent in
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Each package contains one bottle of the RAD.
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an IMPROVED INHALER, with treatise; price, 81.
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
A TERRIFIC WIND.

The Storm that Struck the Town Of lyle
Yesterday Afternoon.
Special Telegram TO the Statesman.
KYLE, Tex, August ia terrific wind
and thunder storm struck this place to-
day about o'clock, and for about five
minutes it seemed that it would blow
every house from its foundation. The de-
pot is damaged more than any building so
far as heard from, it being so wrecked
and twisted on its foundation that new
house will have to be built no doubt. Two
box cars were blown from the track. The
awning of II. Hollis saddle shop was blown
down. w. L. Moor's wagon yard shed
was demolished, and signs, fences and
smaller things blown and wrecked all over
town. For at least a half hour before the
hard wind and rain came a stiff breeze
was blowing, and with it cloud of dust
so thick that one couldn't see across the
street.
The rain only lasted few minutes, and
will not do cotton much good unless it is
repeated very soon.
The large double doors at the depot are
blown out, and the building split in the
middle so that a man could crawl out
through the roof. The agent, R. B.
Webb, and his assistant, F. E. Roach, left
the building during the wind, and sought
refuge by holding to telegraph post.
Tucker d Co.'s lumber is also scattered
all over their yards, and much of it dam
aged.
The country has not been heard from
yet, and can't say what damage is done
out of town.
The track of the storm was from east
co west, and only few miles in width.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
Yellow Fever.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, August 1.-THE
latest news from Tampa is to the effect
that there are four suspicious cases of
sickness there and three cases of yellow
fever, being in the house In which Water
man died a month ago.
Manatee has two cases and Plant City
one. st. Augustine is still wildly alarmed
for some reason or other, and 1000 per
sons have left there in the last day or two.
The feeling here is better and quieter, as
the disease seems so mild.