The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-06-06

Charlie Carlgren tells good story on himself
When he first came to this country he went to
work with will to master the English language
He was attentive and was soon able to carry on
very Ineligible conversation with his fellow
workmen. After time he journeyed to another
neighborhood and was surprised to find that he
could not understand their language. Wondering
at this he began to investigate and soon learned
that his late stopping place German settle
ment
When our waste-basket made its last trip to
the freroom, the amateur stonecutter who has
charge of that department was greatly perplexed
at the nOn-combustion of an innocent looking roll
of manuscript that lay as calmly link of as
bestos am the roaring flames. His curiosity be-
ing piqued, he drew the document out and found
it to be a sixty-degree below-zero. trampish look
ing essay on the feasibility of reaching the north
pole on an iceberg with the word rejected
plainly written in blue pencil on the upper right
hand corner
No more II we hear the plant We yell of
"empty bott es." The hospital factotum has
struck bonanza in Doc Ha l let canine. Fan"
He sends her around ahead of him as a sort of ad
vance agent to warn the sickly of his approach,
ordinations after glassware. Still he is not salts
fed as Fan has not yet mastered the art of dis
tributng pills in proper doses. But as she is
learning rapidly, do not be at all surpr sed if you
should see her trot up to your cell evening
with a saddle on her back and an interrogation
point in each eye.
AS specimen of the men that IN sfortune
will ofttimes cause to be imprisoned, we would
cal attention to Mr.. Campbell. an old gentleman
who, after serving six years of lite sentence
was pardoned out. Though he lives one hundred
miles distant from the prison. he visits quite
often and always has kind word of hope for
those with whom he passed so many years. The
old gentleman went back to his life on the farm
as though he never had had the bitter experience
of being convict. We ARE pleased to say that he
is now prosperous and that the lines of sorrow in
his fatherly face not so marked when he
was one of us.
Mr.. Albert Garvin, late warden of Joliet prison.
was here several days of the past week guest
of Warden Stordock, Deputy westby and Steward
Benner. The Steward and Mr. Garvin were fellow
officers for many years at the Joliet prison. Mr..
Garvn has spent several months visiting var ous
prisons throughout the United States and will. te-
fore returning, inspect the reformatory now in
course of construction at ST. Cloud. Among the
prisons he has thus far visited the Elmira On.
W and Huntington (Pa.) reformatories and the
prison at Detroit Mich. He and the Steward left
here en- Tuesday to spend few days in st. Paul
and Minneapolis
The new Solitaire has been opened for the re-
cepton of guests. On last Friday afternoon the
men who have been confined in the extemporzed
Solitaire were removed to the building for
the seclusion of those whom it is considered un-
safe to allow to minge with their fellow prison
ers. At present there eight of these unfOrt u
mates, who if they know enough to appreciate a
change for the better must be we'll pleased with
their new quarters. They have been domicled
in the large. airy cells the lower
floor. These cells are about double the size of
those in the main cebu liing and have windows
which make them much lighter. Mr.. Amos Rowe
has been detailed as day keeper, which position
nently qualities him to fill. Nels ID. Carlson, who
has been on duty nights in the yard has been
assigned night keeper. Much better
care now be given to those men who, if not
crazy. too great fools to regard their own well
fare, and therefore to he pitied The old Sol
itaire has been torn away and the cells cleaned
and refurnished. The cement floors of some OF
these cells has been down in places more
than an inch by the trampng t. and fro of their
solitary inmates.