The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-12-19


geance upon the miscrea nts. should they be dis
covered who maliciously tempered with his
"smoov e.hide" catchers last Monday.
1T is rumored that two of the inmates, seeing
the great success of Pears soap.have made all
rangements to start in the manufacture of new
brand of toilet soap that will Guido Pears and
Cashmere Bouquet. One of the gents in question
has already had experience in the soap business.
having been first assistant in public bath.
The Thresher company disposed of their old
engine that sat along side of the states engine
The purchasers have been busy the past week
taking it to pieces and shipping it up to Hinckley
where it will be used in mill. The ponder
GUS fly wheel will have to be taken to pieces a
portion of the wall of the building be removed be-
fore it can be gotten out
Mr.. j. NJ Young. who used to work in the
company's shops. met with painful accident last
Saturday while doing some work for the Electric
Light Co. down in the city. He was at work upon
a scaffold which gave way throwing him to the
ground, disjointing his ANIL and breaking one of
the bones. This accident is made all the more
serious by the fact that Mr.. Young is poor man
with family.
While speaking with an inmate one day this
If we could retain present experience and
live our lives over againhow differently we would
view the world" The point is that this particu-
lar Individual is yet very young and to all intents
aud purposes. can live his life again with the
experience he has accumulated to guide him.
The same is equally true with threefourths of the
inmates. We who are yet young can do what we
so often wish if we can only master vim enough
s.~fa1
points out our weaknesses.
You may think our "poet-devil' has taken his
flight seeing that more of his handicraft APP
pears in these columns: but he has not. although
he is Eighty enough at times to fly away to that
land beyond the bourne revealed to the eyes of
poets only. The truth is he is sadly changed
young man. We made him chief inspector of tex
changes which work has completely knocked
the song out of his gentle soul that he is become
the most prosaic OF mortals and sits and signs all
the day long for the hour when his debt to the
state will be liquidated and he may 60 hence to
execute his scheme for the EXTERN ination of the
writer's of patent medicine and railroad advertis-
ing editorials.
Quite innovation has been wrought in the
laundry during the past two weeks. The drying
room has been moved upstairs to the newly added
room Immediately over the old drying room. The
state carpenter shop has been moved elsewhere
and the room cleared, and a door cut through into
the storekeepers Office thus connecting all the
rooms of the second floor. The steam mangle
will be taken from below and placed in this room
which will also be used a mending and clothes
storage This will greatly relieve the
crowded condition of the tailor shop and the
laundry and will add greatly to the convenience
of Mr.. Brannan's department. Give him more
room to throw himself in. as it were.
-supt Covell is pushing things in connection
with the tub and pail factory with all the speed
that the nature of the work and the newness of
his men to the trade will allow. The machinery
is all in perfect working order and it will not be
many days now before ma terial will be ready to
set all the machines to performing the work for
whick they were designed. The dry kiln being
pretty we'll filled Monday the large fan was set
to work forcing current of hot air through the
kiln. We were up there Tuesday and the Supt.
opened the door and invited US to step inside the
kiln and see how we liked the temperature. We
stayed long enough to get out and catch breath of
fresh air in time to save our life. The material is
all green and about 40 per cent water. 1t will
take about two weeks to take all the moisture
out of the material, until which time nothing can
be done but saw out slaves and bottoms, but there
will be pals made before 1890.
The most interesting objects connected with
the prson-in our estimation-are the books of
record of the men who have stopped at this port
the journey of life. What tales they could
unfold. What memories of bitter sorrow and
blighted lives clasped within the leathern
covers. If young men who are ambitious to be
two foof hat
tiers of these books they might be saved from form
ing link in the chain of the silent witnesses of
human frailty. Where is the man who would not
give double the amount he has ever gained by dis.
honest methods to have his name erased from
these m ute records of his folly? But why talk