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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13

We have. each of us, within us that will
force which will make our future just what
we would have it.
Look not mournfully on the past it comes not
back.
Enjoy the present. it is thine
Go forth to meet the shadowy future
With q manly heart and without fear"
II we are sincere and really wish to make
our future what it might have BEEN" we
can make it so. Remember no one can
make our life and character but ourselves.
Friends, and associations are only condi-
tons given us to use for the greater adj
vancement of ourselves if they are good
but to the greater detriment if they are bad.
So let us before using them make sure for
which cause they will contend in the end.
whether for good or evil. Self will is q
power that will conquer nations if only ex-
erted in the right direction.
When we 60 out to meet the conflicts of
the world again we must expect that we
will find the way rough and thOrny at first,
for there is dark blot upon our characters
which will have to be rubbed off and it
may take great deal of rubbing and pol
ishing before it is entirely removed, but if
we only keep up our courage and use this
will power of ours. together with a life of
doing good to our fellow men, making the
most of every opportunity given us, thus
carrying out the great principal of life. it
will come off, and our characters will shine
in all their former luster and brightness and
leave the world to say of us that truly our
last days are our best days-and not that
requiem of a miSSpent life
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 1t might have been.'"
G. w. K.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13
Brace Up.

"Our place is kept, and it will wait
Ready for us to fill it soon or late;
No Star is lost once have seen;
We always may be. what we might have been. !"
have been asked to contribute some
thing for THE MIRROR; and as 1 took up
my pen to write in answer to the request
those words were singing in my ears.
Now if [ can say anything to encourage,
to lift up fellow being in distress, the un-
fortunate within these walls, shall only be
too glad to do so. for that is one of the
greatest and highest aims of life to help our
fellow-man. We are here brought to
period in life when everything connected
with our being with the outer world has
stopped; we are separated from it and are
in little world by ourselves. with time to
look back upon our past life as we could
look upon it from no other standpoint.
Thus we have golden opportunities for
weighing our past character, separating the
good from the bad carefully weighing
each-thns heing able to answer the 0nes.
tons with all candOr, HAS my life thus
far been failure?" and when answered.
"What will we do with our future?"
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13

Reader, do you know what it is to be
poor-so poor that to your emaciated mag
inatiOn nickel seemed the cOnsummation of
your earthly ambitions? You have. Very
well. Then, with all this refinement of
poverty. did you find yourself in the heart
of great city of million souls, of whom
you knew not one, with feet swollen and
blistered from tramping over the burning
pavements, soiled and melted shirt collar.
fortnight's growth of beard adjoining your
grimy, grim face a la porcupine? You did.
You trudged YEARLY and aimlessly on not
knowing why you kept going nor whittier
your steps were carrying you? \ es. In
this hour of deep loneliness. gnawing hun
ger, and physical distress you could not
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13

The Superintendent of the st. Cloud Re-
formatory has originated a new scheme for
giving employment to the inmates of his
institution. He will, with the approval of
the board of managers, utilize the land be-
longing to the reformatory by turning it
into seed garden and raise vegetable and
flower seeds. This would not interfere with
any industry In the state. He said to re-
porter of the Minneapolis Journal: ''Our
present quarry work is all right, of course.
but many of our cOnvicts are not fitted for
the hard labor it entails. We are auarrying
right along. and we have already disposed
of about Sc, 600 worth of dressed stone, and
have contracts on hand for $50. 900 worth
more But this new plan. while it will not
interfere with the success of our quarrying
operations, would meet a difficulty which
has faced us ever since the refOrmatory has
been opened"
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13
Sheriff, Swift Co

A new paper has been started in st. Paul
called The Humane Journal, and it's motto
is. I'VE Speak for Those that Cannot Speak
for Themselves" The paper speaks for the
better treatment of dumb animals. es.
pecially the horse, the victim of so much
cruelty at the hands of brutal men. 1t is
published monthly under the management
of Mrs. Ella Gilkison. and the subscription
price is 81. so year.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13
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 a paper without cost. 1t is published in
the interest Of the prison library and after paying
for the printing outfit, contributed $3.50 to the
library fund the first year. Its objects are to en-
courage individual intellectual effort, provide a
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 cause Of moral ad-
vancement and prison reform.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13

The Hon. Bob Dunn, editor of the
Princeton Union. who was candidate for
representative from his county, was buried
by the heavy fall Of 1.-THE beautiful that
overlook so many of his brethren on the
4th inst; but he managed to dig his way
out in time to yell. 1.-THE Democrats have
captured the earth"
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13

Benson, Mimi, Nov. 10. 1890. To
THE PRISON MIRROR, Stillwater:-I enclose
you my check of $1.75 so as to keep your
collector at home--I don't want him to call.
This is the last of my campaign fund. The
democrats of this county sat down on me.
Yours, etc., JOHN M. BERGsTROM,
Sheriff, Swift Co.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13
Prison Labor.

At the late meeting of the National
Prison Association, Warden Brush, of the
state prison at Sing Sing, made an address
which was full of practical suggestions con-
corning the best methods of treating prison.
ers. He held that the true cause of the
great mass of crime is the lack of discipline
in childhood. Demoralzed family relations,
resulting in an absence of family training,
fills the jails and pententiaries of the coun-
try with victims of parental incapacity,
neglect and over indulgence. Next to this
Warden Brush puts defective prison dis
cipline. The first offender" after work.
ing out his sentence. is too often discharged
worse than when he was imprisoned.
Prison systems are not generally planned to
secure his refOrmatiUn and Warden Brush
holds that reasonable prison system-to
say nothing OF humane system-Ought ta
be planned from beginning to end for that
special purpose.
First of all, therefore, he would have
every illiterate prisoner taught to read and
write. not only for the sake of the direct
benefit OF such teaching, but for the sake of
its mental discipline, and because to be able
to read and write makes the prisoner feel
more like other people, and to that extent
less like an Outcast and enemy of society.
Next Warden Brush would have every
prisoner taught trade. and that. too, both
for its educational and disciplinary value.
and because the prisoner, when discharged
without handicraft by means of which to
earn his living. is almost foredoOmed to a
life OF crime.
Warden Brush takes open issue with that
bad element among the labor agitators,
which would doom prisoners tn invOInntarv
idleness. He maintains that the prisoner
has natural right to compete with free
labor. He had 1t before he became a pris-
oner. and when in prison the taxpayers
who support him have claim upon his
labor The reasoning is sound. The right
to work as free man, when forfeited,
must be forfeited to some one; and that
some one is the society which is compelled
by his misdeeds to charge itself with his
maintenance. Society. therefore, has an
absolute right to employ the prisoner at it's
own discretion. This, however, is not the
only reason, nor the strongest reason, for
the employment of prisoners. Society
might have the right to employ them, ana
yet it might be inexpedient for society to.
exercise that right. Warden Brush settles
the whole matter when he declares that the
state may spend millions for the reforma-
ton of its cOnvicts. but that without intelli.
gent labor every effort will fail Prisoners.
he declares. cannot be reformed without
work; it follows without further argument
that genuine reform work among the pris.
OnerS OF the state must include regular and
systematic work, unless. under the guise of
punishment, the state itself would make its,
prisons nurseries of crime.-The Church.
man.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13

think of one person. of all the millions on
earth. to whom you could appeal for help?
Not one. Well then. all we have to add is,
that you know what it is to feel the pinch
of real poverty, and that if you are now
possessed of wealth you know how to APP
preciate it's worth.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13
Carl Pretzel,s Pbtlosonhv

Der Teller dot looses his condolences IN a..
world vas not much worth.
vas Poo'y goot idea enuff to been sharitoble-
to efery one except your own self
Der teller dot Good see fault in der odder fell
Ter dot ne don't got himself, vas freak among
der hooman famlies.-The National Weekly.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13

Gen. H. H. Sibley is dangerously ill. He
has been nearly unconcious for several days
and the end is looked for at almost any
moment.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13
True 10 Life.

A private dispatch from Paris states that
Sarah Bernhardt is not only playing the,
part OF Cleopatra, but of her needle as we'll.
Puck.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13

Gov. Merriam has proclaimed November
9th Thanksgiving Day.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-11-13

"Our place is kept, and it will wait
Ready for us to fill it soon or late;
No Star is lost we once have seen;
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-10-01
STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET
HOUSE BUILDING IN CITIES.

HOUSE BUILDING IN CITIES.
A summary of house building operations
during the past year in the principal cities
of the country reveals some interesting
facts. Philadelphia, the "city of homes,"
has erected II ,965 houses, New York, with
several hundred thousand more people, has
built only 6,722. The cost of the New
York houses, however, has averaged s11,-
293, while in Philadelphia the average has
fallen as low as 50, 172. Boston ranks Sec
ond in the matter of expenditure, having
built 4, 431 houses at an average cost of
$7,312, while Chicago, though she built
five hundred more buildings, spent con-
siderably less, the cost being $5,0S3 per
house. The new homes of Minnea-
polls were built at an average cost
of $4,000, and those of Cleveland
at only 81 ,098. OF six other cities where
the number of new houses erected during
the year runs from 1000 to 1000 st. Paul
has built the most, with st. Louis, Pitts
burg, Denver, Omaha and Cincinnati fol-
lowing in the order named. Somewhat
surprisingly, Denver's houses are the most
costly, the Colorado capital standing sixth
on the list of all American towns in the
matter of expenditure and spending an
average of 5000.
Philadelphia's plan is the best one.
Probably there is no city in the world
where it is SO easy to get home instead
of tenement"
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-10-01

jectionable, unequivocal, undiscoverable
and vexatious A short search through
the dictionary might bring several others
to light.
A negro is to be nominated for alderman
in the Eleventh assembly district of New
York, and it is regarded as sure that he
will be elected. This is Charles w. An
derson, native of Oxford, o., thirty
years old, who earned his own education,
was graduated from Miami university in
1882, and read law for a year and a half
with Judge Weed w. Cleveland, but for
lack of money gave up the notion of prac-
ticing, came East and established Glitter
ary bureau" in New York, reporting, writ
ing songs, making minstrel jokes, trans
lating from the French and German, etc. and
moreover, getting to be political power
in his district, SO that he is now gauger in
the internal revenue and president of the
young colored mems Republican club of
New York.
A new Massachusetts law makes new
crime, that of writing, printing, posting or
distributing anonymous circulars or. post
ers designed to injure or defeat any candi-
date for nomination or election Such
documents, in order to avoid the penalty
of fine not exceeding one hundred dollars
or imprisonment in jail not exceeding six
months, must bear the names of the
chairman and secretary or at least two
officers of the political or other organiza-
ton which issues them, or of some voter
of the commonwealth as responsible for
them. The author or publisher is pun
ishable, apparently, though the state
ments of the circular may be exactly true,
may concern only the. candidates public
| acts, and the substance and language of
the circular may be wholly .unobjection-
able. This is and will be highly ridicu-
| lous law.
The Christian Register of Boston says
that Unitarian church without a pastor
recently received the following; communi-
cation: 'I offer you my services as Sci
entifc Christian Clergyman of thirty-three
years labor. I have formally been or,
dained and authorized to preach in foul
denominations; but for the last twenty
seven years have been independent, and
now intend to unite myself with the Uni
tartan society shortly, and will preach fol
you free on trial for hotel expenses and
railroad fare from here to your place and
back again. 1 can furnish you with
ample credentials of my devotion to the
cause of Christ, Truth, Nature and Ma
ture's God, and am wide-awake, active
worker can deliver sermon or lecture
upon any topic on Theology, Christianity
Law, Medicine, or Human Affairs gener
ally, on three minutes notice. have de
livered over 5000 sermons and lectures
shall be glad to hear from your at YOU
earliest convenience. Faithfully"
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-10-01
STREET RAILROAD TRAvEL.

The president of the Fair Haven and
Westville Horse Railroad company said
the other day that the managers of that
company were studying the question of
rapid transit, and that as soon as they
could decide upon the best method it
would be applied to their road. This is
good news. There has been much fault
found with the horse railroad system, or
systems, of New Haven, and some of it has
been very unjust and unreasonable. But
there is no doubt that the time has come
when both the people and the companies
will find it greatly to their advantage if the
long distances which the roads cover can
be gone over more quickly than they now
are. Especially will such change benefit
the outlying districts, which can now only
be reached by an important part of "a
days journey" Many more people would
be glad to live in the suburbs if they could
get into and out of the city quickly. And
as everybody is now in a hurry, those who
move about on the cars in the city will
also be glad to move more quickly. If
precedents are good for anything the COM
panies will find increased profit in greater
facility of travel.
The great difficulty at present seems to
be that of finding a method of rapid tran
sit suitable for New Haven, and that can
be relied on. The companies of course can
not afford to make costly and futile ex.
periments. They must be sure before they
go ahead that they are right. One of the
companies, the Fair Haven and Westville
| is already actively at work to discover
what can be done, and will take action a.
soon as the way can be clearly seen. Il
will probably not be long before the horses
on this road are given a rest, and the othel
roads will undoubtedly take similar action
In view of this the talk about attacking
| the railroads in the next legislature il
foolish and unjust. The fact is that tn
railroad companies are wide awake to tn
situation, and realize that it is to their ad
vantage, as we'll as that of the public, t,
find the best and quickest method of run
| ming their roads,
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-10-01
AUSTRALIANS RABBIT PEST.


No Successful Plan Yet Found for
Putting an End to 1t.
From the New York SUM-
Rabbits are still the pest of Australia,
Notwithstanding the five million dollars
spent by the government, Notwithstanding
the efforts of individual owners of land,
and notwithstanding the offer of a small
fortune to any one in the world who would
outline plan whereby the great horde of
little nuisances could be abolished. A lit
tie over year ago R. w. Cameron & Co.,
of 90 South William street, acting as
agents for the Australian government, in
serted an advertisement in the papers tell
ing of the rabbit pest and Offering prize
for the presentation to the government of
scheme whereby the rabbits might be
destroyed. The conditions were that the
method should be one not previously
known in the colony, that its efficacy be
satisfactorily demonstrated, and that it be
not injurious nor involve the use of any
thing that may be obnoxious to horses,
cattle, sheep, dogs and other useful ami
mails. The same advertisement was in
serted in the papers of a number of Other
cities, and the result was the flooding OF
the Office of the commission appointed tc
examine the schemes with letters from al
over the world.
Cameron & Co. were not authorized t,
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-10-01

Some people have time to ''fgure" One
of them has found out that there are over
300, 900 people who walk about the streets
of London daily, and in SO doing they
wear away ton of leather particles from
their boots and shoes. ''This in year
would form leather belt six inches wide
and one-fourth of an inch thick long,
enough to reach from London to New
York"
There are but two words in the whole
range of the English language containing
all of the vowels in their regular order.
They are abstemious and facetious The
following words each have them in irreg
ular order: Authoritative, disadvanta
geous, encouraging, eficacious, instanta
neous, importunate, mendacious, nefarious
precarious, pertinacious, sacreligious, sim
ultaneous, tenacious, unintentional, OBJ
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-10-01
No. 233
A Ba.hfuI Man,. Experience.

With bashfulness sorely afflicted
blush at the sound of my name;
criminal justly convicted
Could manifest no greater shame
Than in the presence of ladies,
Though why really don't know,
But all the tortures Of hades
Sometimes from this cause undergo.
fed for my summer vacation
To uttermost end Of the land,
Where Sol is pried up in the morning
And ladies are scarce. understand
Thought j, Now begone tribulation:
Brace up. You are safe here, young man.''
Alas for my fond expectation,
In three days my trouble began
stood on the shore in the morning
And threw out my bosom with pride;
That moment my bashfulness scorning,
danced and all females defled.
patted myself on the shoulder.
i let myself loose in my giee.
"Ne maidens.- cried, growing bolder,
Beware how you fool around mer
Ny challenge had scarcely been uttered
When down at my feet glove fell,
Like thunderbolt out of blue heaven;
1t was to my courage knell:
saw on the cliff bending DER me
A face fair as seraphs above,
And heard a sweet voice calling to me,
''oh, dear, viii you pick UP my gloves"
Why dwell on so painful q subjects
Ileave you to guess how felt
AS. awkwardly blushing, gave her
why tell how She made me her captive
To live on the crumbs Of her smiless
Its the same eternal old story
That seaside ennui beguiles.
1 blush when think how she led me
Around as If tied to a strings
Also when think how she lured me
Ny love for her fondly to sing.
But when had told her my passion
Ny actions leave you to guess
As laying her head on my bosom,
She whispered. sYou foolish boy, yes.''
WILLIAM EDWARD PFxSEr.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-10-01
WANTED.

"Buoy wanted Immediately" said the
man who fell acknowledgements
Bulletin.
Teacher-Freddy, how is the earth di-
vided, Freddy-Between them that's got
it and them that wants it.-London It'd
Bits.
Humorist-My output of jokes is now
100 week Friend-And what of the re-
turns! About ninety. Dollarss No:
jokes.-Harper's Bazaar.
'sWho is making all this talk." asked
the vinegar bottle severely at social re
past 81 am," said the champagne bottle
proudly from the head of the table.-New
Orleans Picayune.
Bloomer Ito ragged urchin)-Your pa
rents left you something when they died,
did they not? Urchin-Oh, yes, sir. Bloom
er-What did they leave you9 Urchin-An
orphan, sir.-Epoch.
''Do you believe in perseverance"
eyes, knew a man who lived to be a
| hundred. If he'd given up when he was 9
| baby he wouldn't have lived twenty-five
years. ."-Harper's Bazaar.
Gargoyle Showing his curiosities)-
is an Indian hatchet dug from a mound
in Ohio. Miss Fangle-How interesting.
| have read that the Indians were in the
|
| Bazaar.
81 hope you derived profit from the ser
vices this morning." ''Sir," returned
Bronson, inclined to be indignant, 81 as
sure you / drop business Sunday and at
tend church with no hope of profit. New
| York Sun.
Teacher Ito pupil in Juvenile history
class)-Now, Willie, you remember what l
told you about the battle of Waterloo, do
you!
Willie-Yes'm
Teacher-Who won the battle.
Willie-The Juke of Wellington.
Teacher-Who came to his assistance
and helped him to win its
Willie-Afeller named Upgardson Atom.
Chicago Tribune
"Has my train gomez he asked as he
know you, sir, replied the officer on duty.
"My name is Reames." "Ah, what train
do you own.n ''None, SIR" 'But you
inquired for your train" 81 meant the
one go on "Oh, see. Which one
do you go on?' ''On the 1856" "WhenF
Fright off" "Oh, no you don't That
train has been gone 10 minutes, If you
will come in here at $50, will see that
you go out on one of the company's trains
| at 4. 4.-DetrO1t free freSS.
| IN MEMoRIAA.
had a shaggy donkey once,
A patient, long cared beast,
| And ever since that donkey died
| My sorrow has increased.
| He was so imperturbable,
Il So calm amid the storm
OF angry blows daily had
To shower on his form.
He stood so patiently, stock-still,
Enduring transient grief
To rail at him was luxury,
To beat him a relief.
He never showed the least resent
ment when thumped him worst;
He always acted just as if
1t pleased him to be cursed.
All he would ever do amid
\ | The storm of blows and jeerS
Was to look round at me askance
And slope his listening ears,
. As if afraid that he might miss
, Some of my wild appeals,
And just as il he quite forgot
The lightning in his heels.
1t used to be great relief
To whack his shaggy hide,
And life to me has never seemed
The same since TObey died
miss him sol He was SO tough,
+ And oh, it makes me sad
To think I've no one now to wreak
My spite on when I'm mad.
. -Somerville Journal.