The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-08-29

- Inc sell-leeulIlS tuTcSuluS IudCulno Is u DOOu
both to the quck-tempered farmer. and the care
less bandcutte who sometimes mistakes a
''hand for band" The threshing season is
already far advanced but we have yet to hear of
a victim of the wrathy feeder"
Father McCarren received a letter from Rev.
NJ f. Murphy. this week, from which we learn
that Father Murphy in Tacoma, Wash.
The letter goes on to say: Cannot say at pres
ent where will turn up next. Hope all are
well. will try to be back towards the epd of
September"
No, thank you. we do not want any of DR..
Brown-Sequards rejuvenator at present. Try it
on some of our delinquent subscribers, and If it
gives them sufficient energy to drop their dollars
in the slot within one year from date, shall
feel confirmed of its good qualities, and try some
of It on our local reporter
The ques ton that is of the greatest import
ance to a large part of community at present
is, When are going to the reformatory?' We
can give definite answer to this question at
present, but we have good reason to believe that
the transfer will be made during September
possibly about the middle of that month.
Some good work has been done around the
outside of the big brick shop The retaining
have been raised above the level OF the street.
and the space between the block pa ing and the
building has been flied up until the water
will be conducted away from the building instead
of to it, of old.
We received letter this week from Dr. Mary
A. McMath who now resides at Pacific Grove
Monterey Co.. Cal. The lady says: Il could not
think of being without TIE MIRROR; it is more
anxously looked for and more thoroughly read by
me, than any other paper And to prove the
sincerity of her appreciation three dollars
incosed for subscriptions.
We thought we had seen all the parapher-
MALTA and fXngs. necessary to or connected with
hay, having viewed in day hay
rcks hay mounds, hay carts. hay stacks, heighos
and hey there's, but one of our number has added
more hay to our knowledge by dissertation
case of hay fever he possesses, and which he
sures properly belongs in -des.
The following was given us rs a fresh bon
mot. and we publish it for the delectation of
| readers, albeit we can see where the brine has
crystalized on it: The locomot We is par excel
lence the patriarch and high chi eff of the aborig-
inaI Americans, as it is not only the feetest
"Injun," but has sent more white men to the
happy hunting ground than any tribe of red
men.
There is popular fallacy that Heber does not
like Schweitzer cheese. We have received posi-
tive evidence to the contrary from the night
guard de cuisine: who it seems. distracted the
| ordinary cheese from the plate and with wilfu
premeditation on, malice and forethought did sub
stitute therefor some genuine Schweitzer and be
| it known that Heber enjoyed the latter in bliss
| full ignorance of its Teutonc origin. So
runs the tale.
This is very fine prison, and all that. but
somehow or other in one respect it does not come
up to the mark. We have no ideal martyrs such
as phanthropists of romantic turn of mind de-
! light in finding. very careful canvass of the
prison has revealed the fact that there are none
here who would strenuously object to being
pardoned. We thought we had struck our man
when we reached the dizzy height of 342. but we
came away sadly disappointed Take ii pardon?'
he repeated after us. Guess not. young feller
This is my fourth trip.
| "A very pathetic and even painful sight in our
prison life is to note the haired members of
our colony as they trudge about doing the light
work that is given them merely for exercise
| Some OF them sorely bent and stopped from
the combined weight of years and trouble, and
'he1 Aor" Sau plcture' as tney go ABOUT with
faltering step, wearing away what should be the
calm even-tde Of their life, in the dreary confines
of a prison, without friend to soothe ills or
loving child to guide their hating footsteps If
these men deserve their present punishment they
must feel in all truth that the wages of sin is
DEATH" and death in its most horrible FORM
The board of Managers met here on the 23rd
inst to open bids for the labor of one-half of the
prison inmates; but not bid was received The
board adjourned to meet again at an early date
when some arrangement will probably be made
with the Thesher company for the employment
of the prisoners. but this is only superstition as
the cOmpany does NOT saan, q, ,ro,t .h :..