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


eral days of the past week on account of his sol
Frank being seriously ill with scarlet fever.
Ere many weeks glide by the summer poet
will dilate upon the mazarine hue OF the autumna
| sky and the chromatic grandeur of the scarce
leaf.
"A large number of the inmates are afflicted
With o peculiar ailment of the eyes superinducel
by s.raining them to get a sight of the new war
den
1t is pleasure to stand on the prison wall ant
glance across the blue waters of the lake and lie
your eye rest on the green slopes of the Wiscon
sin hills.
Mrs. Parker and niece and Miss Margery Well
ington, of Adams. Mass. visited the prison or,
day last week accompanied by Clerk Frank Berr!
and wife.
The prison was visited Monday by Mrs. w. j
Mcclure, of Winona; MRS. H. Simmons of st. Paul
Mrs. Myron Shepard and Miss Hernia Shepard, O
Saltwater.
An inmate working in the back yard fell in al
epileptic fit Monday morning and had to be car
ried to the hospital where he lay several hour
before recovering.
The clanking of chains is no longer heard with
in the precincts of the prison. All the boys wer
relieved of the r burdensome balls and chains
during the past week.
We interviewed the superintendent of tn,
mortar manufacturing establishment to-day. H
said that he intends joining the hodcarriers uniol
soon as he gets out.
Asst Deputy Cover was busy for several lay,
of the past week taking inventory of the state
property. This was necessitated by thu
change in the wardenship.
MIR. Frank Berry, prison clerk, went to st
Paul Tuesday with the list of names from whom
are to be selected the seventy-tive prisoners tina
are to go to the Reformatory
-Ex-Warden Stordock will probably remain
here until the last Of the month, but Mrs. Stor
dock and the children will go to their old HON,
at Rothsay some time next week.
We met about twenty men to-day who ex
pecting to get pardoned this month. We hate t,
discourage you. but don't hope too confidently
the executive lightning can't strike all
The Warden happened in the other day a
noon and took look at our midday meal. W,
haven't heard yet that he gave any orders to tn,
Steward to provide pie for US hereafter.
forna convict was pardoned for having written
poem about the President, we tremble in antici
patton of the flood of that will pour in upol
US.
The shady grove on the bluff in the rear OF tn
prison is favorite resort for ladies and children
and every day there is group or two there. gaz
ing curiously on the secluded communt y below
them.
Warden Randall visited THE MIRROR offic
yesterday for the first time since taking up his OF
fetal duties here. He expressed his approval O
our paper, and may be counted upon as stron
friend of it,
The gloom of the prison dispelled 70
a while one day this week by the presence of Mis-
Eva Hall and her friends Misses Gertrude Cowan
Jennie Ellcot. Nellie E. Emerson. Rosa Turnbul
and AIDA Slaughter.
The Thresher company must be doing a rush
ing business judging by the way they are clean
ing out the stock of old engines and threshers
This indicates that the harvest will be bountifu
in this section of country.
There is no place SO we'll fitted in which t.
cultivate misanthropic prejudices badly con
Quoted prison: and there is no power more capable
of dispelling misanthropy and pessimism thai
kind, considerable treatment.
Managers Dunn and Norrish accounted
temperate men, but how they explain the
cause of their mistake in coming to the prison OF
the 9th to attend meeting that was announced tc
take place in st. Paul on the eth inst.
Those scintilating sparks of wisdom WIN
have been prophesying that this would be the las
issue of THE MIRROR ought. we think. profit By
their past miscalculations and take time to thinl
awhile before clinching their assertions.
Foreman Mcclellan of the wagon shop, says il
the boys in his shop would throw the same energ,
into their work they did into the eating of
watermelon he provided, he could get out hi
work with half the number of men now required