The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-08-15


ners are now covered with clean white cloth as
soon as filed thus protecting them from the army
of flies which hover around the table.
MIR. Goldsmith. the guard de cuisine. accepted
the additional duties imposed upon him last night
with his usual sang frod and that his good nat
ure was not disturbed we are abundantly able to
testify.
Mr.. Frank Berry requested us to say to the
boys that owing to his being very much crowded
at present with his Office work he cannot find
time to figure up good time. many request
him to do.
Mr.. F. w. Meehan. son of Mr.. Meehan of the
bridge of sighs.' was here Monday. He will go
to Mllbank, Dakota in a few days to take charge
of general merchandise store recently pur-
chased by him.
Miss Ethel NJ. Bruce of Red Wing and NJ ISIS
Cynthia Pennington of saltwater were shown the
sights of the prison Saturday by Mr. l.. B. Castle,
formerly connected with the sash and door bust
ness in the prison.
MIR. +. j. Dieterich of st Louis, Mr. A. SIN tn;
saltwater: Mr.. a. c. Booth, Toronto, Canada,
David Little, Howard Mimi; Miss Annie C. HART,
Oak Park; and Mrs. Charles Bordwell, city, were
visitors here Tuesday.
A party com posed of the following named
saltwater ladies inspected the prison Tuesday
under the escort of Prof Rhoades: Mrs. ID. Powers,
Mrs. NJ. B. Brenn m, Mrs.D Brennan. Misses Julia
Burns, Mollie Burns and Matte began.
We wonder ifthenew good time law cannot be
interpreted not to turn our poet out in frigid
February. We feel sure that his delicate consti-
tuition will not be alb to withstand the severe
cold and it will be but little short of murder to
release h i'm at that time.
Steward Benner and his chef, Henry were
the busiest men about the prison yesterday. 1t
is not every day that such large number of
hungry editors strike town in bunch, but il
is safe to say that none went away without having
their long felt want satisfied.
MIR. and Mrs Jas. J. Green. and Oliver Green,
of lie Sueur, among our pleasant visitors
yesterday. 1t would not be proper to repeat all
the kind words they said of THE MIRROR, but
they were of such nature as will stimulate US to
renewed exertions to keep up and elevate the
standard of our paper
Our devil extraordinary was the only member
of THE MIRROR force whom circumstances per-
mitted TO attend the circus Monday. But we will
refrain from telling how neatly he was taken in
by the irregular ticket sellers. George is good
boy and he has our sincere sympathy.
Guard Goldsmith was in the chair undergoing
party of visitors passed by and little girl said to
her mother. Look. ma, they shaving one OF
them" MORAL: Never judge a man by what
you see of him left uncovered by the BARRIERS
winding sheet.
MIR. c. NJ. Barnes editor of the Daily News
Aberdeen OAK. and his sisterin-law, Mrs. DR.. Var
Waters, of this city. were visitors at the prison
yesterday. VIII lie in our quarters Mr.. Barnes
made close inspect on of the composingroon
towel and giving sigh. remarked, That's not
printers towel
We receiv ed postal card from Mrs. FL zabetl
Wheaton, the prison evangelist, last week, from
St Joseph Mo- She has visited since leaving here
the prisons at Joliet, Ill; Fort Madison, Iowa. the
Chicago Bridewell and jail She sends kind wishes
to all here. The next prisons visited will be in
Kansas and Nebraska.
-Rev. p. A. McCarren Informs Us that Rev
Father NJ. f. Murphy left Portland Or. July 80 on
the steamer Columbia for san Francisco where he
arrived on Aug. 2. He expected to remain in San
Francisco till the 5th when he would go do wn the
coast as far Los Angeles. He is enjoying good
health and says the weather is cool
We dropped into the soap factory the other
day to examine into the process OF manufacture
ing the saponaceous compound. We found the
elderly proprietor makng-soap? Nav, canes; and
be would not make us one either. and conse-
quently his factory W Ii go thout the elegant
notice we had intended to favor it with.
"A few days ago, while down around the cIli-
nary department on tour of inspection. Warden
Randall was heard to say. that the boys (mea
ing of course the prisoners d;dn't come here to
starve This is perfectly true, for it is wel-knowr
fact that goodly per cent came here to fatter
Impending the period of inactivity and scarcity