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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-07-11

In the Jackson, Michigan, penitentiary
the prisoners are given the liberty Of the
yard every Saturday afternoon. During
this time they indulge in all kinds of ath-
letic exercise, and in conversation. They
have schools. debating societies and other
the moral, mental and physical condition
OF the inmates. Their Fourth of July pro-
gram shows that they had good time on
that day. They played base ball. ran all
kinds of races, jumped, climbed the creased
pole and caught the creased pig
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-07-11

tracing the most attention at the present day. is
the resurrection from the dead There is not a
fact so well rredicated by history. This is the
doctrine on which Christianity is based. If it is
proved that Christ did rise from the dead, Chris
tianity must triumph. 1t will interest you to take
up the life of Christ. Read and study it and ask
yourself. What do think of Christ? Whose,
Son is He
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-07-11

Major T. NJ. NewsOn has the sincere
thanks of all here who had the pleasure of
listening to him speak on the Fourth. A
grander Grafton was never heard inside the
walls of state prison. He had been in
vited elsewhere, but like a true lover of
mankind he came where he was most
needed. and could do the most good.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-07-11

Superintendent Myers and local Manager
Cooper, of the St. Cloud RefOrmatory, were
here yesterday. They arranged with
Warden StordOck to have l2S wire beds
made for that institution. Also to select
100 men to be transferred from here to
definitely decided. but in all probability
100 suits of blue clothing will also be made
! here for the ReformatOry.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-07-11
In looking over the editorial columns of

In looking over the editorial columns of
our exchanges we have seen this assertion
several times: I'VE do not believe in par
dOning criminals" If those same writers
were asked if they believed in fOrgivng
injuries they would say they did. Yet. of
what avail is forgiveness unless followed
by pardon, which means the remission of a
penalty. The man who forgives an injury
and then exacts penalty, does not forgive,
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-07-11

and whether he means to be or not, is a
hypocrite. 1t is mockery to say. Il for
give" unless you give free pardon along
with your forgiveness. 1t would be more
Christian like to say. Il pardon you. but
cannot forgive YOU Others say they do
not believe in granting pardon except in
cases where the applicants are clearly inno-
cent. The abSurdity of such view is
self evident. Pardon is for the guilty: the
innocent cannot be pardOned. The persons
who do not believe in pardonng criminals
relative or friend in prison for long num-
Der Of years. and probably think that if
they had they would inst let them stay
there. But if brought face to face with the
mind, and if possessed of feelings worthy
the name of friendship, would go before
the governor and plead with faltering voice
and moist eyes for pardon. We believe
men possessed of humane feelings and Or
binary understanding, are made without
due consideration. No man with a drop of
the milk of human kindness in his heart
vations and withstood the rigOrs of ten
or twenty years imprisonment that he
should not look with hopeful confidence of
finding mercy in his fellow beings. You
.,t hnx, into,
and behold the same relentless look that
you would see were you to look implOringly
into the eyes of all unreaSOning beast about
to devour you? If you would be thus re-
lentless in your punishment of crime, what
can you expect. seeing that all men are Sin
ners, when you stand up to be judged by
your God? You despise a man that is
dumb to the appeals OF women and chill
dren for mercy, yet you stand ready to
condemn governor because he takes COM
passion upon the Sutferings Of wives chill
dren, parents. brothers and sisters, and
pardons their loved ones. You condemn in
him what you would do were you in his
place. You say, we should be firm in the
punishment vi crime, that others may see
and be warned. Study the methods of
Furnishing crime in those countries having
the largest proportion of criminals, and
you will find that the methods of Furnishing
m a efactOrS are the most cruel that ingenu-
ity can devise. If human laws were infal
lible, and justice let no guilty man escape,
you might more consistently say, let the
criminal have no quarter. But so long as
the majority of criminals the greatest
ones at least, escape the consequences
OF their crimes you should not be so relent-
less toward those who have suffered, re-
pented and shown willingness TO refrain
from ever offending again. Who is SO much
master of himself that he can say with
certainty tIat he will never have to retract-
II will never need any mans PARDON? No
wise man would make such a rash asser-
ton. No truly great man ever ia
rCred punishment beyond what was neces-
S. ~ bring repentance, nor dreamed that
a Pc. uon Aas for any but the guilty.
The greatest villains that ever lived were
the most unforgving.
sunday Services.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-07-11

The PRISON MIRROR, published by the
Saltwater. is one of the unique papers OF
the age. 1t is model Of typographical
neatness and is edited with marked ability
This paper has been the recipient Of enco-
miums from the press in every state. but we
doubt if the Importance OF the good which
it is doing has been fully appreciated. No
field needs the attention of the refOrlner 50
urgently as the prisons of our land. and
none is more impregnable to his efforts. A
state prison is little world of it's own and
its tendency is to precedent rather than
progress, thus the dungeon and other meth
DDS of punishment OF the dark ages still
hold sway. Instead of reforming their in
mates, by their methods they harden Them
and then turn them back into the world
W it'll out dollar, and the inevitable cOnse-
quence is a dropping back into former lines
Of crminalitY. New methods for the treat
ment of convicts must be adopted. Our
humane societies are doing a grand work
prison walls, and similar movements are
needed inside. Criminals are but incorri-
gibe children and not one whit more re-
spOnsble. 1t sounds we'll to talk about the
man can tel-it is faliacy. Conditions of
birth and subsequent surroundings decide
the career of most men. Here and there
one rises superior to his environment. but the
great mass move along in the channel pro-
vided at birth. No man is a criminal from
choice but from force of circumstances.
Then why not study the cause which pro-
duced the effects, and by proper education.
and unfoldment in the individual. remedy
the evils whic h false conceptions of life
have brought about? Discipline aud firm
ness are undoubtedly necessary. but should
be tempered with kindness and the spirit
OF love. Every inmate OF a prison should be
made to feel that his keeper is his brother
and that all those in authority are interested
in making him an honest man. He should
work at that for which he is best fitted and
SCt pay DIV lllo lullIlS wages VI Tue country
so that he shall not be turned out at the end
of his term pauper. This is a department
in our civilization crying for reform and we
know of no better avenue for that cry than
the prison paper. Inmates certainly know
their needs better than those outside, and
if they could voice them freely through the
columns OF their own publication in every
prison in the United States, new era in
prison methods would soon result. The
Minnesota state prison. where THE MIRROR
is published. has national reputation for
reforms in prison methods, and we doubt
not but that brilliant little paper has been
instrumental in bringing them about. -
Modern Thought, Kansas City, Mo.
In looking over tha editorial columnS of
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-07-11

New York is preparing to put all her
convictS to work manufacturing on the
piece price plan. The convcts are to re-
ceive ten per cent of their net earnings
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-07-11

Unless new means of employing the in
mates are found there will soon be another
siege of ideness in this institution.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-12

Our OF an annual appropriation of S54,-
100000 for postal service, we expend
$4,000 for carriage of the foreign mails.
But nearly S228, 900 of the sum, or seven
eighths, are paid to foreign steamship
owners, and only about S47 900 to Amer
lean carriers. Thus we pay to a German
line 81 80 mile for the service, and only
ten cents to an American carrier of the
mails to South America. With less mail
service than the United States, England
pays nearly 100000 for carriage of her
postal matter. Germany has just appro-
priated 81 100000 to German steamer
line to carry the mails to Australia and
Asia, but we haggie over the grant Of less
than half a hundred thousand dollars for
the carriage of our foreign mail matter.
We allow but Sl1 600 for the carriage of
our mails to Australia and Brazil, and
$4,000 for mail transportation by Amer
lean ships to Japan. We do not pay
cent for the transportation of our mails
across the Atlantic in our own steamers,
but we spend half hundred thousand
dollars for their carriage on small rivers of
the West. The English believe that trade
follows the flag, and hence they make no
faces at the expenditure of some millions
in subsidies for ocean mail carriage. 1t is
not surprising, therefore that our com
merce with other nations is so meager on
the routes where it should be gigantic. 1t
is not surprising that our trade with South
American States should be so limited.
when it is known that in more than one
case the American mails are carried to
England and shipped thence to South
American States contemporaneously with
mail matter writes or prepared week or
more later. We pay to stages in one small
State Of the Union just twice what we pay
to American ships for carrying our mails
to foreign parts, and yet we puzzle over
the question why we are commercially cut
of from the very ports where our trade !
should be the largest, forgetting that the
English Government makes her mail sub
sides the entering wedge for the opening |
up of trade with any foreign section. If
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-12
Concerning the Holy-stone.

10th inst see that the CHlTchman correc S
the United States Magazine as to the origin
Of the nautical term 'holy-stone." Xvi l
state that my personal knowledge corrobo-
rates the magazine, as also the following
quotation from the nautical version of the
Ten Commandments :" six days shalt
thou work and do all thou art able, and the
seventh thou shalt holy stone the deck and
scrape the cable"
The "holy-stone" is square block set in
an iron frame provided with long han
die, to enable the operator to shove it To
and fro on the deck. The cabin BOY usually
sits on the stone during the operation.
No member of the ships company is ex-
pected to go Oh his knees-not even in q
storm. NOBLE FISHER
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-12

dence, is there one-half so much personal
mention in the journals of America, as in
those of England. There is perhaps more
of criticism of public men here-and
vast deal of it is mereiless and unjust
there is perhaps more debate of the ambi-
tious, and of the political and business
movements of foremost men with us, but
there is not nearly SO much Of personal
mention for the sake of the person alone
In fact, it may be said to our discredit, that
there is not among US sufficient respect for
persons and hence it is that the inter-
viewer is in disrepute among self-respect-
ing people.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-12
Dorney in the Field.

P. IS. Dorney, formerly of this city, was
evidently very active in the late campaign
in Washington Territory. The Seattle
Sunday Star says of him.
Among those who deserve special mention
for telling work in Republican ranks in King
county appears the name of Major p s Dorney.
Wherever he went his speeches were argu-
mentatiYe. clear and fOrcibe. He is sman of ex-
cellent ability, quick and telling debater. and
walking encyclopedia of political facts
Especially worthy of note was the work done
by the Major in the mining districts. His ap-
telling efforts of the campaign, as the vote at
Black Diamond Franklin and other places
clearly prove. A man of honor of congenial
disposition, and free, open nature, he makes
friends wherever ne goes.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-12

AN English writer in the Forum insists
that the American people love notoriety to
such an extent that no one dreams Of OBJ
jecting to being interviewed" That
while in England people are interested in
persons mainly because of some great work
or movement with which they are con-
nected, in America the people are inter
ested in persons for the sake of the person
that is, we interest ourselves in move
ments because of the people who lead
them, rather than for the sake of the
movements themselves The writer was a
superficial observer while in America, as
Stunning that she visited the United States.
Her statements are erroneous, as all we'll
informed people know. As a matter of
fact, the interview is avoided-though not
always successfully-by all cultured Amer
leans, and is submitted to only when their
position is such that to refuse would create
an antagonism they cannot afford to pro-
yoke. There are more instances-if there
was only record TO demonstrate the fact
in which the Paul Prys of the press are
snubbed and told to go about their busi-
ness, than there are of submission to their
inquisitiveness. The fact is, also, that
very few Englishmen visit America who
do not yield to the interviewer. In short,
the Englishman is the easier prey for the
prying reporter, as all practiced reporters
well know. And we submit, that with all
our vanity there is not one-tenth the bow
ing and scraping before names in this
country, as in the mother land Nor if
we take the English press records as evil
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-12
The Best Position.

''Now, Maggie, let us understand one
another thoroughly before we are married
You, of course, viii recognize NE as the
head of the house?"
eyes, Clarence, you are to be President,
provided you grant me my wish"
There, it is granted"
"Thank you, darling. Then am
unanimously elected Treasurer" -Ameri-
can Commercial Traveller
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-12

II cannot be said that the butchery of
the fifteen-year-old girl Cormier, nor the
beating with clubs of Mrs Garnett at Blk
ley, nor the shameful assault upon the
Louisiana delegates to the Baptist Conven-
tion at indianapolis, nor the merciless
whipping of the negroes at East Point,
were caused by these people ''meddling" in
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-12

The RECORD UNION, SUNDAY UNION and
WEEKLY UNION arc t&s only papers on the
Coast. outside Of San Francisco, that receive
sic full associated Press dispatches from all
port, of The ecorld. Outside Of San Francisco,
saey hare no competitors either isa influence
Some and general circulation throughout The
STATE.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-12


The fight between Julia 0Connor and
Maggie Miller, in which the former was
killed, serves to show how dangerously
and firmly the craze for sl,gging matches
has taken hold upon the country. These
girls, aged about Ia, concluded to fight ac-
cording to the rules of the prize ring, to
determine their respective merits as chiefs
of the ward. Maggie, in eestifying to the
facts in her own defense, said that sonae
words had passed between the two as to
the character of the ward in which the
witness lived, and as 9 result challenge
passed, in 4 friendly way, and they met to
fight it out. "Julia squared off" said the
witness, and hit ne, and then ] sailed
into her and did her up; but did not
mean TO kill her" The incident is the
legitimate outcome of the rough boxing
mama of the day. 1t has seized upon the
children and de1noralized them, and has
so fastened upon a class of men that all
manner of disputes between them are now
submitted to the arbitrament Of the fist.
If the communities Of the country have
not yet reached the conclusion that the
time has arrived when the law should in
Itervene to put an end to this brutalizing
practice, it will not be long before that
Judgment will be reached. Only few
days ago we took occasion to observe one
Of these slogging matches that was ar
ranged originally to test the boxing skill
of the parties, and apparently was entered
into in a purely physical sense, with no
sort of feeling between the men. But not
five minutes elallsed until blood was up,
and the affair degenerated into one of the
most disgusting md brutal Of exhibitions
of cruelty, unfailness and animal passion
possible to imagine, and the police were
compelled to interfere to prevent serious
results. The dispatches almost daily give
US news of similar encounters. The fact
is, that while boxing, that teaches one
how to defend himself from blows and how
to assault, if necessary, to protect the
person, is physical art, and as practiced
in well-ordereG gymnasiums is not only
not Objectionable but advisable, and really
cultivates a skill that is a manly ac-
complishment, the arranged matches in
which endurance and the breaking down
and physical injury of one of the parties
to the contest is insisted upon, are but ex-
hibitions of brute force, and are in no
sense manly or skillful. All such should
be prohibited, and those who indulge in
them should be punished with severity.
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SAN FRANCISCO AaGNoIEs.

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Rs- Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
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GENERAL NOTICES.
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And breath of balm and lips of rose
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Who ever wisely, while they may,
Use SOZODONT by night and day.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-12

John W. Butler, of Atlanta, had his foot
amputated the other day, and had it
buried in his family lot in the cemetery.
In this cemetery there have been three
such interments beside that of Mr.. But
ler's.
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NEW TO-DAY.

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his head are inserted for cents per line the first
time and cents per line each subsequent time. Al
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THE dispatches announce the finding of
the remains of Lord Howe, with the
tombstone covering them, at some distance
below the surface in the village of Ticon-
deroga. 1t is strange, indeed, that in
place of such rare historic interest, the
burial place of so gallant soldier should
have been lost to memory, and that it
should now be discovered by workmen en-
gagged in digging a sewer, proving that the
burial site had been or was being built
over. That the grave of so brave a sol
der as Howe should be forgotten is amaz-
ing. The dispatches say that the remains
will probably be reinterred in the village
cemetery at Ticonderoga. But this should
not be; they ought to repose beneath the
monument to his memory in Westminster
Abbey. George Augustus Howe, Viscount,
was born in 1924. His father was the
second Viscount Howe of the Irish peer
age. The son entered the English army
at a very early age, and rapidly attained
distinction as a soldier. In 1857 he was
sent to America in command of the Six
tieth Regiment. He was subsequently
transferred to the command of the Fifty
fifth Infantry, and was soon made Briga-
adler General. In July, 1853, under Com
Abercrombie, he landed
at the outlet of Lake George. Two days
after, coming suddenly upon the French at
Fort Ticonderoga, he fell at the head of
his corps in the battle that resulted. He
was almost idolized by his men, with whom
he shared all hardships, faring as they did.
and abandoning all the luxurious habits
in which he had been raised, he dressed
and camped as did the common soldier.
He thus gained over the men q wonderful
influence, and among his officers he was
an example and an oracle. One of the
historians of the time wrote: with him
the soul of the army seemed to expire"
The General Court of Massachusetts, APP
propriated two hundred and fifty pounds
sterling for a monument to his memory,
and it was erected in Westminster Abbey,
where his bones should repose.
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weather FORECASTS for TO-DAY.

California = Fair weather; Rorthwesterly
winds; slightly warmer.
Oregon and Washington = Fair weather;
westerly winds; warmer.
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