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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-10

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Mr.. James T. Perry of the Mes
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CDntlnued next week
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25

the wishes of individuals. It is but short
time ago that patron informed the editor
that If any more of certain writer's arti-
cles appeared in the paper he would with
draw his and his friends patronage. Of
course the threat of the individual was ig-
nored because his dislike was not shared in
by the public or the great body of support
ers. But supposing it had been the public
that demanded the suppression of the
writer, he would have been squelched i'm
mediately. A paper, no matter how bravely
it boasts of its independence. is an arrant
coward before the frOwn of the public, for
all papers are dependent on public favor
for existence. This being true of all pub
locations dependent on the public for sup
port how very true it is of THE PRISON
MIRROR, paper just creeping along on that
thin and wavering crust above sea of
burning prejudice. A little jostle and our
paper would fall through and be consumed.
Such paper cannot expect to drag people
along in the way it would have them 60
the best of them cannot do that-it can only
persuade by reasoning with them. The
foregoing views of the editor will explain to
some why their contributions have not ap-
peared. and it is hoped that they will take
new heart and try again. DO not hang
back waiting for personal invitation to
write, but just sit down and write out your
best thoughts. and as you write keep in
mind the circumstances under which the
paper you are writing for is published. Do
this and there is little danger of your matter
being rejected and in short time others
will follow your example. and then we will
have a brighter, better paper. Lend a
hand.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25

Whatever men know or do not know,
they must live; living they must seek to-
work out personal character. The spirit
ual nature cannot and will not wait. God
illness is transcendant and an abiding
necessity. Nor does it matter if one says
that the demand of the Christ is too large
for human strength. 1t is precisely because
He commands that which seems impossible
that He is the worlds permanent teacher.
He reveals God. A God who is father.
loving, forgiving. healing beyond human
dream. He not only reveals God; He bids.
us to be like Him. Because this is unat-
tainable it is therefore a perfect and a
permanent ideal. 1t can never be exhausted
or outgrown. Christianity therefore finds
itself upon eternal foundations. The
Christian. conscious of weakness, struggles
towards strength; conscious of sin, strives.
after holiness; content with God. he has
divine discomfort with himself; forever sat-
isfied with his aims. he is forever dissatis-
fled with his achievements. The Christian
is perpetual paradox. mot as though Z
had already attained or were already per-
feet" he cries. but press forward toward
the mark unto the prize of my high calling
IN GOd."-Rev. S. G. Smith.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25
TO THE PUBLIC.

THE PRISON MIRROR is a weekly paper pub
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 as 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-
vsncement and prison reform.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25

reformation. No wilmer makes headway
in an institution OF that kind. 1t is only
those who accept their confinement and
consequent deprivati0ns as just punishment
for their sins and set about working man
fully to redeem themselves that win promo
ton and, finally release by parole. The dun
geon. the lash, penal labor. and all the harsh
methods of old, never inspired the prisoner
with any other ambition than to be re-
venged. Man, good OF bad. is self-loving,
self-sympathizing creature, and no matter
how much he may deserve it he will resent
any indignity to himself. We are with
Father Mahony in his dislike of whining
man, for we never knew one such that
could be depended upon to act manly
part. and during our editorial management
of this paper we have endeavored to exclude
from its columns everything that savors of
whining or se!f-tenderness. The MIRROR
will uphold any system that will turn man
out of prison better and more capable
person than when he went in, and it has
been proved that the modern reformatory
system does that and that the old system
was worse than a failure. That this is true
it is only necessary to look in the book
before us for abundant proof. We have
here the report of last years proceedings of
the National Prison Congress aud in it are
recorded the sense of many of the leading
prison managers of the country. They all
speak in favor of the reformatory plan.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25
Speaking OF his life's experience. a nit

Speaking OF his life's experience, a mid
die aged prisoner said: ''Well, this makes
my third term in prison and if know my
own mind it is my last term. The first
time got in thought my whole life was
ruined and that had just as we'll get all
there was in crooked life and when should
get out was going to be terror. But l
had not we'll started in the terror bus
mess when was again settled. This time
was much ashamed of my failure and
would have given up crooked ideas only
that hated to acknowledge myself de-
feated. So when 1 was again free began
at once trying to prove to my own satisfac-
ton that l was not failure; but here am
in prison again and no nearer success than
when l began. have given up the fight,
acknowledged myself fool. and have
said to myself for the first time since !
started on the crooked road. Il will 20 to
work when 1 get OUT" We believe in the
mans sincerity. and there is but one stun
blingblOck between his resolution and its
consummatiOn. and that whisky.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25
A FEW WORDS TO INMATES,

OF late several of the inmates have asked
the editor why he does not have more con-
tributions in THE MIRROR. And his usual
answer is, Why, because YOU don't send
them in. That answer nearly always ends
the inquiry. Now, the editor very earn
estly desires that the boys would contribute
original articles to the paper, but, as he has
learned by past experience. it is not policy
for him to make personal requests for con-
tributions. His past experience has taught
him that if he asks a man to write an arti.
Gle he has got to publish that article, no
matter how unsuitable it may be, or the
writer will be offended, and maybe, as has
often been the case, right down mad.
They do not stop to consider that the editor
does not measure their articles by his own
likes or dislikes, but by what to the best of
his Judgment he imagnes the general
reader will appreciate. 1t would be far
more agreeable for him to publish all mat
ter sent in. for any one who has had the
least experience knows that one If an
editors most disagreeable duties is that of
rejecting the fruits of writer's labor. But
short editorial experience would teach
any one that to make his publication sue.
cess he must please the public and ignore
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25
st. Paul. MIMI. Sent. g. 1896

St Paul, Mimi. Sept 8, 1890
Editor MIRROR: Another year has about
passed and gone and one more mile-post is
about to be established. That you may
press onward in the good work you are
doing it is necessary that all those who re-
ceive THE MIRROR should remember the
editor and publisher about the time of the
beginning of each volume. l do so now
and you can mark me paid. 1 cannot close
without saying that 1 have been well
pleased with the paper and hope that the
good it is accomplishing is commensurate
with its merits as newspaper.
Very Truly.
Gen. r. w. JOHNSON.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25

The smallest paper that we get among
our exchanges is THE PRIsoN MIRROR,
edited and printed by prison convicts at
Saltwater. but it takes US longer to read it
than it does some of our blanket Sheets
Cause there is so much worth reading. 1t
is dandy little paper and a good way to
invest dollar is to send it for THE MIR
ROR.-DOdge County Record.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25

as long as they had money to pay board, but
as soon as they were completely drained of
their prison money they were disposed of
by being turned over to the police as va
grants. The police finally closed the place.
Most prisoners aid societies are too ostenta-
tious in their good work to reach the better
class OF persons leaving prison. They are
inclined to treat the ex-convict more like a
poor little orphan than like an able-b bodied
man. Very few men leaving this prison
are in need of charity, of a financial char
acter, but nearly all are in need of the
moral support of friends, and place to
work before their prison earnings are con-
sumed. But not much supervision can be
exercised over men where the law has no
power over their movements. And the only
way this can be remeded is by what is
known as parole law such as is applied to.
the modern institutions known as Reform
ateries. This system should be applied to-
all penal institutions as it no doubt will be-
within few years. Ohio, so far as we
know. is the only state where prisoners are
paroled from the penitentiary as we'll as the
refOrmatory From the time the Ohio law
was put in force, July 1885. up to Oct. 1885,
535 prisoners were released on parole, and
of that number only 40 were returned for
violation OF their parole. The power to-.
grant paroles is in the hands of the board of
prison managers. A member of that board
said in report read before the last prison,
congress: 1.-The records show that we have
made some Mistakes but I honestly be-
lieve we have made more errors in paroles
rejected than we have in paroles granted, ~
and he says of the prisoner on probation, "if
he follows the rule of his parole he must
conduct himself even better than his neigh
bors." And he adds: IF any one within.
the sound of my voice should become in
toxicated this evening, the chances are that
he would be taken home in carriage, and
the morning papers would briefly refer to-,
a sudden Illness" Not so, if it be pris-
oner serving time on parole. He must 60,
back to prison cell. and the police report
an arrest. The papers and persons who
are opposed to the law report another
blunder' made by the board of managers of
the Ohio penitentiary."
Such plan is the only practical one for
aiding discharged prisoners.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25
PAST AND PRESENT.

A letter may be found in this number
from Rev. Father Martin MahOny which
we fear some of our readers will misunder-
stand and take it that he is opposed to mod.
ern prison reform. So intelligent man
as Father MahOny cannot help seeing that
there is more reformatory power in the we'll
conducted prison of to-day than there was
in the prisons of this country half century
ago. Here is picture of the prisons as
they were within the memory of men now
living; taken from DR.. E. G. Wines book on
1.-The State of Prisons and OF Child Saving
Institutions:
For more than fifty years (1773-
1927, Connecticut had an underground
prison in an old mining pit, on the
hills near Simsbury. which eQualed in horrors
all that was ever related of European
prisons. Here the prisoners were crowded
together at night, their feet fastened to
heavy bars of iron, and chains about their
neckS, attached to beams above. These
caves reeked with filth, causing incessant
contagious feverS. The inmates were self
educators in crime. Their midnight reves
are said to have resembled often the howl
ings of pandemOnium, banishng sleep
and fOrbidding all repose. In Philadelphia,
all ages and sexes were mingled-the
novice in crime, the hardened veteran. the
debtor. the wretch streaming with blood
from the whipping-post, the vagrant, the
drunkard, and the convict. Intoxicating
liquors were bought and sold at the bar
kept by one of the officials; acquitted
prisoners were kept for jail fees; the Gus
tom of garniSh prevailed. No instruc-
ton, religious or otherwise, was known
there. When the first sermon was
preached, man stood by with loaded
cannon and fuse during the preaching. In
the Boston Jail, in one year, thousand
debtors were confined in the same crowded
night-rOomS with thousand criminals.
Men. women. boys. idiots. lunatics, drunk,
ards. innocent and guilty, were mingled
pell-mell together. No restraint was put
upon gambling, foul conversation, or quar-
reling.
Institutions where the good were made
bad and the bad worse. Father Mahony
does not endorse such a condition of things
in prison. yet take away the modern re-
fOrmatory influences that have been in
trOduced in prisons since that time-such as
uniformed grades. schools. chapels, good
discipline. etc.-and retrogression would
soon begin. The modern prison is not a
playhouse except in the minds of those who
are not in it A prison conducted on the
refOrmatory plan is not ''rose- water'
dispensary by jugful, but it Is a place
where the mental and physical powers of
the inmate are forced into activity and the
spiritual nature is forced to accept whole
some food. A higher grade and better
apparel does not mean less labor, but they
mark degrees on the upward course to
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25

The National Prison Congress opens to-
represented by Warden j. j. Randall. and
Secretary H. H. Hart of the board of cor
rectiOnS and charities.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25

Elsewhere in this issue we print the sub
stance of Pioneer Press reporters inter-
view with Sec. H. H. Hart, of the board of
corrections and charities, on the matter of
providing employment for discharged pris-
Oners. AS he says, the last legislature
made provision for the appointment of a
state agent to look after the welfare of dis
charged prisoners. but owing to lack of
funds to pay salary no agent has been ap-
pointed. There should be an agent sta
toned in st. Paul and another in Min
neapOlis to look after the young men, many
of them mere boys, who 60 direct from the
prison to those cities. Many of them eX-
pect to find employment there. but most of
them 60 there just because they have no
other place to 60. They have an indefinite
idea that something will turn up that will
afford means of support before their good
time money is spent Their money is soon
exhausted and they are in situation where
they must have work or they will have to
steal or beg to keep from starvation. 1t is
only short time until such discharged
prisoners are either in Jail or workhouse.
1t costs an amount of money every
year to prosecute and punish this
class of offenders many times over what it
would cost to have an agent to look
after them. He would earn good salary
if he saved the state the expense of pros
ecuting only three or four men each year.
1t is case where an ounce of prevention
is worth pound of cure. 1t is true that
an agent could not do anything with a
great many who 20 to the cities from the
prison with the purpose of having good
time on their prison earnings. But there
are many who leave the prison with the
purpose in minds of conducting themselves
in proper and lawful manner, and if they
find employment they will 60 to work; but
they often find it extremely hard to find
job, in winter especially, before their cap
ital is exhausted. The majority of these
men have DO home where they can 60 and
stay until they find work. A local paper
remarked lately that, owing to the liberal
amount of money this state gives pris-
oner on his discharge. he is about as we'll
equipped to begin the battle of life as the
average young man is on leaving college.
This may be true as regards their financial
circumstances, but the great essential to
success-character, education and reputa-
tiOn-is all in favor of the college graduate
and against the ex-convict. It is nearly
impossible for an ex-convict to get fairly
good situation unless some man of good
repute vouches for him. Many states have
some kind of prisoners aid societies few
of which are said to be great frauds, those
especially that are conducted by private
charity organizations with government aid.
One existed in Chicago some years ago
where discharged convicts were given work
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25

Maiden Traveller: Quick. porter. There's
rat or something in my berth! Whang
Bang (of Chinese Embassy in next berth)-
Hey! Chasey lat in here. Glet dolla!''-.
Life.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25

The men who suffer most in prison are
not those who have least hope. but those
who have most hOpe-Of pardon.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25

"How does ShOuter stand before the
voters of his district this Fall?'
with his mouth open. generally
Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-17
TUPPER-GALPIN.
Two Well Known People Married
Yesterday at Santa Monica.


A quiet wedding was celebrated at
Santa Monica yesterday, Rev. S. H..
Weller officiating in the union of Crom-
well Galpin of Los Angeles, and Kate N.
L. Upper late of Reno. Nevada.
Mr.. Galpin has been resident of Los
Angeles for the past half-dozen years
and is well known in business and social
e-particularly to that portion of the
community living ON the hills, where
water is always dear and sometimes
scarce, and the conservator thereof
provokingly ubivuitous and being we'll
known he has correspondingly large
number of friends.
Mrs. Galpin, nee Upper, has long
been prominent in the educational cir
Giles of the coast, having been principal
OF the high school at Portland, Oregon,
Tor some years, and for the past two
pears professor of pedagogy in the
University of Nevada, at Reno. This
latter position she resigned in order to
devote her attention to home making in
the land of the orange and the apricot
the prunes and the pomegranite,
the peach, the plum and the apple
where the sun shines always on true
love, which is the best fruit of all.
The newly welded pair will imme-
dlately occupy their pleasant home on
the hills; and if the hearty good wishes
OF many friends are of any avail there
shall come to them both all the happiness
and comfort and joy vouchsafed to NOR
tails.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-17

At a musicale given on Friday evening
by Mrs. Mamie Catching at her home
$50 Spring street, the following pro-
gramme was rendered:
Piano Solo-Grande Valse de Concert.
Miss Pearl Roger.
Duet-Una Notte in Venezia,
Mrs. Catching and Mr.. Deity
Vocal Solo-Thy Seminal am |.
Mr.. l. H. Stephens.
Piano Solo-Last Hope.
Miss Willie Richards
Mrs. Catching and Mr.. Deity
Guitar Solo-La Traviata.
Mrs. Lenore Gilmore.
Mrs Catching.
Vocal Solo-In Old Madrid
Mr.. William Deity.
Duet-How Dear To Me the Hour
Mrs. Catching and Mr. Jeffries
Solo-Angels Serenade Violin Obligato-
Mr.. Catching and Daughter
Piano Solo-Spring Song
Miss Willie Richards
Among those present wereMiss C.Kin-
ney, accompanies Mrs. Mickey, Miss
Dora Mickey, Miss Entler, Miss DEVON,
Mrs Price, MI. Deity, Mr.. Jeffries,
Mr.. j. H. Stephens, Misses Mamie and
Kate Campbell Mrs. Angel, Miss Lulu
Angel, Misses Glare and Alice Macken-
zie. Miss Willie Richards, Miss Henry,
Mr.. Flournoy, Mrs. DR.. Fulton, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lane, Misses Nettie and Pear
Roger, Miss Former, Miss Mary Griffith,
Mr.. Griffith, Miss Carrie Kinney, Miss
B. Henry, Mr.. and Mrs. Grosvenor, Mr.
Catching, Miss Lucille Catching.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-17
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT,
SOCIAL EVENTS WHICH OCCURRED
DURING THE WEEK.

A Pleasant Observation-Disclosures Receptions
Personal Notes and Gossip Gener-
Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-17

course. He could walk little, but could not
get up II he fell down, and could not move
when in bed having no use of his hands. l i'm
mediately commenced with the CUTICURA REM
EDIEs, using all freely. One sore after another
healed, bony matter forming in each one of
these five deep ones just before healing, which
would finally grow loose and were taken out:
then they would heal rapidly. One of these
a dozen and half bottles he was completely
cured, and is now, at the age of six years.
strong and healthy child MRS f. S. briggs,
May 8, 1885. 612 E. Clay St, Bloomington, Ill
NV grandson remains perfectly we'll. No
signs of scrofula and no sores
MRS f. S. briggs,
February z, 1890. Bloomington, III.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-17
GOVERNOR WATERMAN ANGRY
And INDUCES in Sew eral Archaic Ex-
pres SlonS.

pres slons.
Governor Waterman is mad. That
is he is angry. The governor was in
tervlewed at Sacramento on Thursday
by an E1dminer reporter as follows:
I'm handsome Office on the main
floor of the capitol building today two
soured and disappointed men sat, and if
the report OF those who passed in and
out be true they sat and swore. They
were Governor Waterman and Secretary
Boruck.
San Bernardino,' roared Governor
Waterman, to gentleman who called
and spoke feelingly of the way in which
San Bernardino had gone back on it's
foremost citizen, - San Bernardino.
| declare that l will never set foot in the
place again except to go down there and
sell lot of worthless real estate | own
down in that place."
"And then he broke forth into
another stream of language that could
not be reported without exhausting the
blanks and dashes in ever printing office
in town. His anger was almost a
frenzy; it seemed to be uncomfortable,
and at times he was almost demented
with rage. Standing near the door of
his office yesterday he screamed out to
a caller, in the hearing of half dozen
people:
" Such thing never happened in the
history OF the United States before that
a Republican convention sat in a hall
and the Republican governor of the state
was in the same building and was
neither invited to take seat beside the
Chairman nor mentioned in the resolu-
tons
"'The cowards.' he con-
tinued; why did not they censure me :?
Why did they not repudiate my admin
istration? Why did they not blame me
for my official acts? They dare not do
that, the - ours. They do not even
name my name, and then they say that
none of them had gall enough to bring
up the subject of my administration
10 another caller he used very Rough
language about Colonel Markham, and
said that he would fight the Republican
ticket from top to bottom because the
Colonels name headed it,"