The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25
CHAUTAUQUA.
"Look up and Lift up"
1--WE study the Word and the Works of God"
<'Let us keep our Heavenly Father in the midst
''Never be discouraged"
The Chautauqua Meeting.

circle OF the &. IL. s. q. which TOOK place IN the
chapel attached to this institution on Sunday last
most interesting and profitable one. The
president occupied the chair. and the chaplin-the
Rev. Mr.. Albert TO whom the circle is much in
debted-occupied his usual position in the critics
chair which has not been vacant since he first
honored it with his presence. Mr.. Seward the
popular editor and proprietor of the saltwater
Messenger present. and it being the first meet
ing of a Chautauqua circle that he ever attended
was deeply interested in the proceedings. The
rollcall which was responded to in the usual man.
ner by each member giving quotation from his
current studies showed very large attendance.
In connection with this portion of the regulations
permission granted the members to quote
from any other literary work outside their current
studies. it being understood that all quotations
will be in strict accordance with the high and
holy object which the founders of the great Chau-
tauqua University have ever in view. When the
order of business called for reports from the
several divisions Mr.. John Gilbert who for the
first time in his not altogether unchequered
appeared on the boards public speaker sub
mitted on behalf of division his report The
subject was political Economy The aptness
of the theme to the present political turmoil of
the state at once caught the attention Of the rep
resentatve of the press present, and as he nestled
in his chair he all attention. The speaker
entered into an elaborate review of the different
stages of this great and all-important study-how
the wants of man produce industry. and how in
dustry is the mother of political economy; how
our wants and industry increase with the eco.
nomic activity of social and political economic
organism etc. and while the Chautauqua students
were drinking deeply from the stream of knowl-
edge with which they were being supplied. the
countenance Of the respected wielder of Fabers
No. 2present bore many traces Of disappointment
Not word had yet fallen regarding the DEM
ocratic, Republican or Alliance platforms After
very instructive discourse the speaker retired
leaving it to outsiders to say whether the pres
ent state campaign should be fought out on
estate issues not
The old reliable Hibernian "Patricio" for divis-
ion took for his subject "Roman History which
he presented in an able manner although when
he came to describe the careers of Publus Cor.
nelius Scipo Africanus. Tiberius Gracious Scipio
Aemilanus Sempronius Gracious and Appius
Claudius he evidently opinioned that if the ages
past knew Murphys. Muldoons and
McCarthys they would be shining with brighter
light to-day inasmuch the success attending
pronunciation from Irish point of view would
be far more brilliant. The report was both in
teresting and instructive and was an improve
ment-if that were possible-upon the speakers
last effort. Professor Cross represented division
ID and delivered from notes an excellent dis
course on "Physics," subject of which he is I'M
doubtedly master. He was listened to with
marked attention by all, but by none more than
by the kind visitor and it would not be at all sur
prising to see at early date the columns of the
Messenger adorned with treatise on the weight
dimensions, and thickness of soap bubble The
Rev. critic in dealing with the reports submitted
and other business matters connected with the
circle dwelt upon the peculiar aptness of one of
the quotations given-"The Holy Alliance" 1t is
exactly that feature of the mind catching hold of
thing 30 apt wherein lay the beauty of the de.
velopments Of study. He illustrated Mr.. Seward,
Guard Bordwell and himself as representing the
three great political parties present struggling
for supremacy in the state and said that if instead
of lifting the curtain upon anothers errors all
would make one grand effort in the interests of
suffering humanity, how soon the channels of sin
and vice would cease to be. He strongly urged
the members to study that part of Roman History
connected with Caesars life. He suggested to the
members in submitting their reports to throw off
their temerity and to shorten up and fire up"
Mr.. Seward having been called upon, expressed
the great pleasure he felt at the success which
had attended the organization of the Chautauqua
circle in the prison. He had ever at heart the in
terests of the inmates of this institution and he
was more than pleased, within the past couple
months especially, to listen TO the praises of
the prison Chautauqua every side outside
these walls. He hoped that the success which
had attended the circle in the past would con.
tnue in the future and that long every in
mate would be a Chautauquan. He promised to
'call again." not once but many time. An
amendment to the bylaws by which the annual
election of officers will take place at the first bust.
ness meeting of the circle in October of each year
submitted and adopted unanim ously, after