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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-11
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-11

In State issues the business covered sales or SS
Virginia 6s,deferred receipts, at i-?as = az
city bank stocks, Western National SOFA 'i'' -
1903. uo,;,..
The general bond market was unusually ecI t
and developed the hand OF a manipulation h'o md
son. Topeka and Santa Fe As were oil 10 81, anu
the income IS declined to loal0 IA. Missouri
Kansas and Texas As declined To ~ Lac -
and the incomes were of 10 80 l-?a4o. MI, no
delphia and Reading issues were all loWer- ,,ns
4 Der cents down to ~ l-2a70, the first incomes
to So Ia. the seconds to 80 ID, and the thirus
TO - I-2a2o. Texas and Pacific second incoai ms
were unusually active between 80 Il; ana; ama d"l
clned 10 ~ 3-4. Wabash seconds Were on 70 -, l.
Reference is made to full report of bond sales
MONEY AND EXCHANGE.
The Treasury purchased 100000 ounces OF me
silver at 81 .0299aSl .0313, making total purchases
for this month 2,ls0,sS0 ounces l..
The money market naturally was disturbed ~
the semi panic in stocks and there was genera
shifting Of loans, which i'll turn aggravated ,"1 Z
situation Rates ruled from per cent up 10 ~
per cent per diem and interest, and closed AT the
highest rate. 80.
The Clearing House statement to-day, was rs
follows: Exchanges, S0O,99o,t3d; Dalahce''
The Snb.Trcasury was debtor at the Clearing
House to-day $226.253. Its net gain on balance
Saturday and to-day was 81 1879, made up ~ ",
coin gain of S9S0,'3s, less currency ioss y.
S26O7Sa. The two days operations lncluu'u
Receipts s. A62. $40; payments, SI,1A2,1'V' re-
snlting in general balance OF ~ i5O21,3l?, con
sisting of $17O,Gsl,371 coin and S4,343,9ll cur
rcncy.
The United States Treasury at Washington re-
ceived to-day $227,324 National bank notes ior
redemption. E.
The customs receipts were $55o,76o The n
ternal revenue receipts Ss34,g and the miscel-
laueous receipts sol ,3l2.
TO-dsy's Washington Treasury statement VI
cash on hand and deposits in banks compares WIN
the figures Of the last previous statement as iol-
lows:
My Nay.
Net gold on hand 81 OO5 1856 $j1 j07 jij Inc siO2 y
Set silver hand 10 l9l S7i 12.iOl924 Inc -loo''
Net legal tenders ,.o.o,
hand ........ i.1Jl il0 f,9O42 Inc. lo-'oV'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-11

Net cash 500 SIG III s2O2 s9I 957 Inc s375is0
The forc,yu exchanges were drmoralized by the
money market and business practically sus-
pc ended without change in the quotations for actual
business rs follows: Bankers bills al 81 80 ana
SIs1 "a for long and short sterling respectively;
French francs at j.23 "a and $50: rechmai rs
al "a 80 and % IA, and guilders at 80 IL and
40 IA
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10
ONLY CONVICTS.

The New York World prints one of the
darkest pictures of prison life it has ever
been our misfortune to look upon. Never
in the dark ages of the world were human
beings subjected to more ferocous treat
ment than are the convicts under the con-
vict- lease system in Georgia. Why rail at
the Car of Russia while right in this glo-
riOus LAND of the Free" are permitted to
flourish penal institutions whose brutalities
are only limited by wretched humanity's
power of endurance? And not always that,
for the hand of merciful death often grasps
the miserable wretch from the clutch of the
more than inhuman lash master.
The citizens of Georgia have not the ex-
cuse that they cannot prevent this disgrace
full state of affairs existing in their midst.
1t exists by their will, for they are the SOW
ereign power. They cannot say that the
tales of horror periodically sprnging from
the convict camps are fictions, for the states
superintendent of prisons and the governor
admit they are true.
The ''ring' that controls the convicts of
Georgia is more powerful than the legisla-
ture, and no politician with aspirations to
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10

Most of us are too easily swayed by what
others say. A falIacious demagogue will
wheedle us into asserting to his sophisms
against our own better judgment. And
we are thus easily Influenced because we
are too cowardly to stand by the standards
which our own reasoning powers have set
up. If this were not the case the evils that
threaten the stability of our political insti-
tutions would soon be crushed by the weight
of sentiment which would be expressed
through the medium of the ballot box. It
is so in our government of our individual
selves. We allow the cynic's sneer, the
schemer's flattery, or false friends INVITING
to drive us into a course which our
judgment tells us IS not the one proper and
best for US to pursue. The dupe rarely if
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10

ever would hand his money over to the
confidence man if he would obey the warn
ing of his own judgment. 1t is species of
moral cOwardce that makes men dupes of
devilish propensities of their own natures.
If every sane man would be guided in his
conduct by what his judgment tells him is
absolutely the right and best thing for him
to do for his individual welfare, the dema-
gogue. the confidence man and the police
man would reap no harvest and ere long the
granaries- prisons-of crime and misfortune
would echo the cravings of starving rats.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10

state Office, dares to oppose it. The ''ring'
defes interference. United States Sem
ator Joseph BrOwn-of whom a Washing
ton lady once wrote, that as she looked down
upon his head from the gallery of the Sen
ate chamber, she could see the blood of
murdered convicts dripping down his white
harris at the head of the company that
has twenty years. lease of all the convcts
of the state. and it is said that he is deaf to
all appeals for the better treatment of those
wretched beings so absolutely at his mercy
What does he care for the welfare of lot
of degraded eOnvicts, while he himself has
wealth. an exalted position. and all the
earthly surroundings that make a man re-
spected by the great ones of the land?
The brutaltles practiced upon the Jewish
captives by the ancient Egyptian task
masters were no worse than those practced
at this day upon the convicts in the camps
of Georgia. That they are convicted felons
is no justification for thus grinding the soul
out of them. 1t is not spirit of revenge
that prompts the lessees to inflct such suf
ferings upon their helpless victims. 1t is
simply the manifestation of that spirit of
persecution which is found dominant wher-
ever man is given the power of life and
death over his fellows. But what is the use
of aggravating ones self about such matters.
One might heap maledictions upon those
lessees until he had exhausted the wrath of
the world, and still. so long as the great ones
of the earth remain Indifferent, it would not
move them to relax one iOta of their brutal
ity in behalf of humanity. Money. money!
What care they for aught but money!
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10
TO THE PUBLIC.

lished in the Minnesota state prison. All matter
published in its columns is contributed by the
inmates. except that properly credited. Its sup
port must come from the outside every inmate
is given paper without cost. 1t is published in
the interest of the prison library Ind after paying
for the printing outfit, contributed $3.50 to the
library fund the first year. Its objects to en-
courage individual intellectual effort provide
healthy journal for the inmates of this and other
prisons, and. above all. to acquaint the outside
world with the needs of the prison by rejecting
its inner life and thus aid the Of moral ad-
vancement and prison reform.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10
In personal letter received few day

In a personal letter received few days
ago the writer says: 1.-The prefix 'Ex' is a
terrible burden to carry about. Every time
1 see horse hitched with an iron weight it
reminds me of the mill -stone that my past
has placed about my neck; and as 1 see on
the streets daily aspiring candidates for a
stay at your hostelry, wonder if they ever
think for moment that by their actions
they are preparing to lose all that makes
life worth living Reputation. But know
they do mott did nOt.'
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10

We often wonder, of all men, how news
paper men and printers get behind prison
walls. Certainly there is something wrong
with the old saying that newspapers rule
judges and juries entirely, for enough news
paper men are behind the walls of the pen.
itentiary at Saltwater to wholly publish one
of the neatest papers that comes to this Of
fee. THE PRISON MIRROR is neatly
printed, ably edited four column QuartO, all
'hOme" printed. and published at one dol
lar year. 1t has for it's motto; 1T is
never to late to mend "-MankatO journal,
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10
Public Opinion.

The ickleness of public sentiment has.
Just received vivid illustration in the case
of Father Boyle. accused of criminal as
sault at Raleigh. N. G. When arrested
for the alleged offense only with great diff
ficulty was lynching party restrained.
At his first trial verdict of guilty was
rendered and the court house audience
hOwled like madmen. On his second trial
he was acquitted. and the same yelled like
Hindoo dervlshes and wanted to carry him
home on their shoulders. Pioneer Press.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10
WHAT OF THE EX.CONVICTa

WHAT OF THE EX-CONVICTe
Chief Inspector Byrnes, of the New
York police, affirmed the other day that he
did not know of a single case of genuine
reformation among professional criminals.
Mr.. Byrnes might have thought of Jerry
Macauley if he had waited awhile before
making that remark, and he might have
named good many other notorious black
sheep who. under proper management,
have come out with white wool.
More male and female criminals have
been reformed than the world is aware of.
If Mr. Byrnes' experience were that of all
police officials and penolOgists the outlook
certainly would be very gloomy. Mr..
Byrnes, however, is right when he says
that men who serve term and end it in
dustrious and sober fellows, resolved to
lead new life, are met with such distrust
and GOODNESS, such shutting of doors of
employment, that. in despair, they go to
stealing again and become more devilish
than ever.
This, it is to be regretted, is the greatest
obstacle which philanthropists have to con-
tend with. The penologist is largely sue
cessful because he deals with the prisoner
within walls and under prison control. Out
side the penitentiary. having served his SEN
tence, or having been pardOned for good
conduct, the eX-cOnvict has to brave fearful
odds. Somehow the story of his disgrace
follows him persistently; meets him at every
change of base; wars against his chances for
taking his place again in the world as pro-
Queer and good citizen.
There is really more need for help at this
juncture from people who have hearts to
help the unfortunate to Brightness of living
than was needed in the prison. Many a
man can be saved to society by organized
effort to help him after he gets out of the
prison house. In few states, organized
effort to this end is made. In Massachusetts
it has been encOuragingly successful. The
eX- convict who sincerely desires to do right
is never helped in vain after getting his
freedom. The men and women who devote
themselves to securing steady employment
for such men are engaged in one of the
most benefcent works ever conceived by the
unselfish heart of man.
Reform of human life may begin in
penitentiary, but it doesn't end there. Out
of the penitentiary the most promising coll
vict may tumble back into the slough of
crime, unless the helpers come forward and
insist that he shall have his chance in life
Minneapolis Evening journal.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10

Outside of our own state the people of
ers of THE MIRROR. 1t seems that the
Bay State people are first in all reforma
tory movements. They have the best con-
Quoted prison system of any state in the
Union, and their prisons are all conducted
on refOrmatOry basis.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10
EASTER SERVICE.
Gin Prison and We Visited Me-,

ssln Prison and e Visited Me.S
The Easter day service was conducted
according to the custom of the Episcopal
church. Rev. A. D. Stowe Rector of AS
cension church, had prepared a special form
of the Peoples Service for the occasion.
On entering the chapel door each inmate
was handed printed form of the service the
cover of which bore these words of Christ:
Il was in Prison and we visited me-" Rev.
Stowe explained the form of the proposed
manner of worship for the day and invited
the whole congregation to take part in the
service. The Ascension Church Choir was
present and rendered most excellent music.
The Prison Choir also sang several selec-
tons. 1t was known that Bishop M. N.
Gilbert would preach the Easter sermon
and there were nearly one hundred visitors
in the chapel. The Bishops sermon was
remarkably appropriate for the day and the
congregation. The following brief con-
densation will convey an idea of the SER
mon:
My Friends: l think this is the third
speak to you. This is always a day of hope
and peace and cheerfulness to this life. l
say it is the third time l have been with
you on this day, and l hope that | may not
miss coming on many such days in the fut-
ure. l am glad to see you come together
on this occasion and take part in the serv
ice. 1t is to worship Almighty God that
we are assembled here to-day.
All over the whole world messages are
ascending heavenward that Jesus is risen
from the dead. We are part of the great
congregation whose voices are mingling in
songs of praise and thanksgiving on this
Easter day. Whether it be from the small
and humble congregation or from the large
congregation assembled in the grand cathe-
dral it is the same for we are united, and
are all children of a common Father,
Father whose watchful care notes even the
ravens fall. l am glad to be able to preach
to you about that blessed Savior whose
resurrection on this day tells us of life
that never ends. Our life here is not all;
it is only the beginning of better life.
Never make the mistake of supposing that
your life ends when you lie down in the
grave: you only begin life then. 1t is only
the entering upon higher and better life
in more vast domain. Men as you are.
thinking men, never make the mistake of
supposing that all ends with death.
am not going to preach to you the doc
trine of fear. 1t is not for me to threaten
you with tOrments in the new life. l be-
lieve that as a man continues in this world
so will he be in the other world. If his
tendencies are downward and he has re-
jected the good and chosen the evil in this
life. simply believe that he will keep on
going down further and further from the
throne of God. But on the other hand, he
who has rejected evil and chosen the good,
and tried to live up to his highest ideal and
accepted the Lord Jesus Christ his life
will continue upward.
In the life of the immortal future 1t mat
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10

A talented Minnesota woman writes: Il
think great deal of your paper, feeling
deeply interested in the best words it
brings me weekly from your colony. May
increased rays of light come to all inside
and outside of your colony helping to dis
perse the darkness of ignorance from all
humanity. Yours for progress"
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10

There will appear IN our next issue a
very able article on evolutionary science,
contributed by an inmate of the Charles
town, Mass. penitentiary.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-10

The Ohio Industrial School Journal pre-
sents more inviting typographical make
up this week than usual. The Journal is
published by and for the boys of the In
dustrial School at Lancaster, Ohio, and is
a paper interesting to the old as we'll as the
young,
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-01-02
A Bright Uoy's answer.

A learned pedsgogue at Nantucket use'
ever morning to read passages in the Bibl
and expound the same as be proceeded, II
order that by asking questions as to how
much they remembered Of his comments
he might ascertain who we're the brigb
boys Of the school On one occasion bi
read from the book of job thus;
There was man in the land of Uz, AMI
his name was Job, who feared God and
eschewed evil
This means, boys said the master, that
he escbewed evil rs ! do tobacco; he would
have nothing to do with it.
With this very clear and forcible eluci.
dation OF the word "escbew" he proceed
o | and a number Of verses we're read and
commented on in a similar clear and intel.
ligent manner.
few days afterward the school com
mittee called TO make an examination. The
master called the boys up and began to
put them through an examination.
Who was that man who lived in Uzp
he asked Of one Of tho brieh'a9t little fel.
lows.
job.
Was he good mau2
Yes.
What did he do?
He chewed tobacco when nobody else
would have anything to do with it, was
the boys answer.
That answer ended the examination for
the day.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-01-02
VOL lUMIl Is.
siightls MIXED

Jones boueh, mare from a fa,m,, .hs
recommended the animal AZ scuile. slles.
ms that Jones siie for whom The animal
sas bought would have no d.lllcuhy In
driving her Nevertheless, the Ora, tim.
hts Jones tried TO drive The animal /, ran
away With ihe buggy and almo., broke
'ae lair drivers ueck. Jones. IN tn,,.
Gus mood hunted up tho farmer aud said.
anerily,
What do yon mean hy selling no that
Vicious bruitY ion told mo my wifc
could drive ber, but as soon AZ she was Ia
The buggy she shiej, aud taking the bi,
belsceu her teelh she
What your wifeg
No; That wre,ched orow bali of
mare with which sna have ssindIea me
She wcuIln't Be bella Ia. but ja., rrarca
mp
Your aiie reared upY
2No; the mare, you fool. She nearly
allied my wife She kicked up with ber
hind legs
fou don't mem TO say Your wiie kick.
sd?
No; the wretcbed mare. Ny poor wife
IS half dead with fright and anxiety. She
hasn't eaten bit aimee yesterday, but I,e.
IN the sofa with her eyes shnt, MOANING
and crying
The mare does that2
No; my wife, | have half a notion 10
murder you, We have TO give her tee.
spoonful OF brandy every half hour
The mare2
No; my wife, donkey. This bess, that
you have sold me should be killed. sbt IA
liable TO ran at any moment the ii,st
chance she gets,
loa mean your wife?
No; your dsrned old mare | want nv
money back
why didn't you say You wanted tho
mare for your wife. Yon merely said you
wanted the animal for lady. thought
perhaps you wanted something for your
mother in-law TO drive.
Now ] see how can make some money
ont Of the brute.
Out OF your mother n.law9
No. the mare I'll tell newsparer
reporter about the mare erunniue away, but
say that, Instead Of my wife, it was my
mother in'law who was driving. The
men OF my acquaintance will pay
any price for her. SO you see It's all right
Good morning
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-01-02

march or the wiscs, oi The doctors, and
so il happened ID this case, for Efuesi
Mslloek soon began 10 recover TIE way
TO health was LONG one and led through
many slierna,iohs Of hope aud despair, bal
nevcr was there an hour so dark thai
Aimee could not 10y soag charm away the
gloomy fantasies that Gre owdsd through be
weary brain. The time came when he was
pronounced on the hieA road 10 returning
health,
II was eYident 10 Mr. Mallork, who
anxiously watched Ernes,s every word
and movement, that no trace Of lasenily
remained Tue occurrences Of the past
ive yesr., however always remained =
blank in Ernest Malocks mind. Hi
nights sleep had indeed been long
one. but the morning dispellcd the shad
ows.
The story Of Ernest Mallock's rerovert
created considerable excitement in the
professional circles OF London. Some en-
thusiastic physicians we're 10 favor OF in
PRODUCING music as pathological trestmenl
into the retreats aud asylums for the in
sane II is doubtful, however. il this was
ever undertaken, or, II practiced, was at
tended with gratifying results Whether
in this isolated case the recovery was due
to the influence OF music, or whether
naturs would have brought about the same
, sult without any intervention, must be q
matter OF individual opinion.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-01-02
The Acme OF Valor.

The presentation of an American flat
10 the grammar schools Of Bangor remindi
me Of similar occurrence which tool
place in Maine village in the summer o
'63. A company OF volunteers, being
about to depart for the State Capital wer'
drawn up on the green TO receive flag
that had been made by the patriotic mem
bers Of the local sewing circle. The vii
Iage pestor made sensible presentation
speech, and the banner was received by
the captain of the company, who handed
it to the color bearer, witty Irishman
Then. facing the worthy pastor and his
fir flock, the EN- barrased captain proceed
ed to acknowledge the gift, as follows:
Reverend sir aud ladies; This beautiful
flag which see before me =
It's behind yfz, captain, interrupted the
cJor bearer.
Which ] soc behind me, amended the
clustering officer stands for some thing
more than the emblem Of powerful ma
tion. 1t is beauty's tribute to yalor, and
as such i, is doubly dear to the gallant
hearts around me In thanking you for
your gift, ladies, we pledge ourselves faith
fully 10 defend it. At the close of the
those Of us who are spared viii
bring ibis flag back to you. unless il i
blown to atoms by shot from the enemy.ip
which event well--well--
Well briak back the polel shouted the
enthusiastic Irisbman, TO the delight oil
the crowd and the relief OF the superior
officer.