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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-02-27
LOCAL PICKINGS.


-"Im holy" says the sponge.
-Palmistrv is a very handy business.
Sec. II. h. Hart was here last Friday.
-In.specters are sometimes found in pandsmo.
MUM halls.
NO arrivals and only two departures during
the past week.
Time travels fast. yet Prof. Rhoades beats
time occasionally.
1t is better to be black on the outside. than
black on the inside.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Connors looked through
this institution Monday.
"A telephone somewhat resembles a Ounce. as
it is in one ear and out the other.
Steward Benner visited his daughters in Min
neapols for few days last week.
Mr. Meehan's duties are fast developing him
into master of elegent department.
Take things as they are and make the best Of
them" is the philosophy of prison life.
I'm case of another flood where would all the
people go7 They'd go for Cork. of course.
Mr.. s. Nerley. of winona. paid his first visit
to the Minnesota state prison last Tuesday.
Mr.. A. L. Andrews. and Miss Jennie Parsons
of saltwater, visited this benighted community
Sunday.
Rev. c. d. Andrews. of st. Paul. was shown
the inside of this institution Monday by Rev. A.
d. Stowe.
Manager Norrish came up from Hastings
Monday. and remained here over night and part
of Tuesday.
He who can master himself In a mastery way
has succeeded in finding the masterkey to the
masterpiece.
Warden Randall arrived home Thursday
morning of last week from his visit to Chicago
and other points east.
Mrs. Jessie n. Pomeroy of Minneapolis in
the prison for a short Tins last Sunday with the
Matron and Mrs. Reyes.
We have some enemies here in prison, and
among them may be found old Constipation and
his neghbor Indigestion.
Deputy Langum spent a few days of the
past week ut his home in Preston. He returned
to duty Tuesday morning.
Tho choir singing was exceptionally good last
Sunday The solo by Bonnen was especially
pleasing to every one present.
The messroom boys are before hand with the
flies this year They now have the messroom
decorated with fancy fly roosts.
Arthur E. Hall and W. x. Read. Of Preston.
were shown through the prison last Thursday by
their townsman Deputy Langum.
Statement of population. Feb. 26th: Working
for Thresher Co., III; working for state. 1872 sick
and infrm. II. Total population, $40.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Echart, Of saltwater, and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Warner. of St. Paul, spent
some time in the prison one day this week.
The wife and daughter of Editor Folsom. of
the TayIors Falls Journal, visited the prison Mon
day and took peep at our newspaper foundry.
Mrs. B. Heidenreich. Mr.. Stephen Heiden.
reich. of st. Paul. and Miss Lbbie Grady Chad.
wick, of Illinois, went through the prison last Sat
urday.
We should all be moro careful where we spit
when out in the cellroom Sundays. 1t is great
privilege to be ont and We should guard against
abusingit
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-02-27

According to a careful calculation all the peo-
in field ten miles square, and by the aid of
telephones could be addressed by single speaker.
Exchange.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06
Two Ways of Reading.

A little boy came home one day from
church service, from which his parents
had been detained, and asked his father If
he ever read the twenty first chapter of
Revelation. ooh, yes, Often" said the
father. "But did you ever read it aloud
to us here at homer" IL think So" "Well,
father, I don't think ever heard it. The
minister read it to-day, and it was just as
if he had taken pencil and paper and
pictured it right out before u.s." So much
is there in good reading. have often
wondered how Jesus read the old prophets
the day he went into the meeting and took
up the Scriptures and read them before
the Congregation. The eyes of every one
were fastened upon him." and all "won-
dered at the gracious words that proceeded
out of his mouth" If we could read the
Bible as He did, what power it would be
in our homes. 1t ia worth mothers
while to study elocution, to some extent,
as well as to study into the spirit of the
Word, if she would make her Bible read
ing effective on the hearts of her children.
A monotonous way of reading takes much
of the life out of the sweetest portions. A
conversational tone and manner is much
more instructive than the "Bible twang.
-Gelected
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06
Played it on Alliance Buyers

One day last week man walked into
one of our Chicago jobbing houses and said
he wanted to look over their stock with q
view to purchasing. He would pay spot
cash and he wanted the lowest cash dis
counts. The customer was very ordinary
looking man, with flavor of hayseed in
his appearance, and something about him
that told the observer that he was better
Judge of turnips than of cslicoes. But he
wasn't as guileless as he looked, as we
shall presently see
After he got started in and got his blood
to circulating little, he beg'n to make
some very fair purchases. The statesmen
observed that they were mostly goods that
20 well among farmers. the cheaper cotton
goods, calicoes, Kentucky jeans, etc. When
the whole bill was footed up it amounted
to something like $4,000 Then it was that
the buyer addressed himself to the head of
the house.
You see, I come from -" he ex-
planned, land out there the farmers alli-
ances run everything. Of course you
mustn't give me away, but they made me
agree to sell them goods at 10 per cent
above cost. Now, the - chumps won't
know any difference, and l II just have you
Ike out two bills One of them make
out with the cash discounts and I'll pay j..
The other want you to make out at l5Ter
cent above the cost I'll take that along to
show tho - FOOLS Fifteen per cent and
10 per cent make IS, and that's more han
decent profit
Now, as matter of fact, if the farmer
alliance man had been as good in figures
as he was in scheming, he would have
known that Is per cent added to the cost
of an article and 10 per cent added to that
makes a total profit of 264 per cent and we
imagine that the luckless farmer would
kick very vigorously if he fully realized
the fraud played on him. - Dry Goods
Ro1arter
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06
MiSCELLANE A.

The Roman Catholics have organized
society called Josephites. who are to work
among the negroes of the South and seek
| 10 make Catholics of them
In the first four weeks after the Disa-
bility Pension Act became law. nearly @
quarter of million of applicants put In
their claims.
Over $50, 100000 new capital has been
| invested in the electrical industry in this
country during the past year, and in Eng
and during one week twenty one electrical
companies were formed. This shows how
rapidly the industry is growing.
| The whole number Of postoffices in oper-
| alton on July 1890, was 62, 400 as against
| S. 500 in 1889. 57,376 in 1888, SIS, Isl in
1887, and 43012 in 1880, the increase
during the last year being 340l, the largest
n the history of the country. The increase
during 1888 was 1923.
New Jersey has 3749 miles of railroad.
| By accidents of all sorts during the last
| year, TAO persons were injured, 1858 Of
| them fatally. Two thirds of those in iured,
but less than one third of those killed,
were employees This seeming anomaly is
explained by the statement that many
ramps walking along the tracks were
| struck and killed by trains.
There are 1883 children In the
municipal or State schools of Paris 6l,-
294 in schools directed by religious orders;
and 81, 900 in free day schools where re-
| iigious instruction is given. 1t is also
stated that attendance at municipal schools
| has increased by only about 700 in the last
three years. The annual expenditures
! for the municipal schools is 90, 500, 900
francs.
The peoples party of Kansas, composed
of representatives from the Farmers Alli-
ance, the Citizens Alliance, Union Labor
party and the Knights of Labor, met In
convention in Topeka, August IS. W F.
! Wrightmore was nominated for chief JUS
lice of the Supreme Court; J. F. Willetts,
| of jefferson county, for governor A. G.
Shinn, of franklin, for lieutenant gov
ernor.
| Twelve thousand baskets OF peaches
seem like good many until one comes to
| divide them up among million and
half of people: then they begin to
dwindle. The President of the Delaware
| Railroad. however. thinks that there will
not be more than 1888 baskets from the
State of Delaware, the smallest yield,
| With two exceptions, Known to the history
of the peach crop in Delaware.
Fourteen months after the flood, the
Johnstown local paper printed what it
claimed to be correct list of the dead.
The total number was given at 21S7, which,
| if correct, leaves over 200 bodies not yet
recovered The list varies considerably
from Secretary hremer's report, and the
names are given of thirty four persons
that were lost from the day express.
Within the years 1s7O-S9 the increase
in population in Eogland has been IL per
cent, the increase in the number Of letters
carried 70 per cent, and the increase in the
number of kilograms 455 per cent. Ia the
United States, in the same time, the in
crease in population has been 80 per cent,
and the increase 10 the number of mes
sages $50 per cent. In the ratio Of increase
of messages to increase OF population, tie
English have beaten us three to one.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06
The Boy Martyrs.

The days when people are called upon
to die for Christ have not yet passed away.
From the interior of Africa came news, not
long ago, of the terrible treatment wicked
men bestowed upon three boys simply be-
cause they had accepted the white man s
God and been baptized.
The cruel officers of the more cruel king
of Uganda had arrested several Christians
under the false charge that they were
going to leave the country. Some of them
were released or bought off by presents,
and few escaped. But three lads had
been retained, and the blood thirsty officer
ordered them to be tortured. Their arms
were first cut off. aud then they were
bound alive to scaffolding under which a
fire was made, and thus they were slowly
burnt to death.
AS they were suffering these cruel tor
lures the officer and his soldiers Knocked
them. and cried out : "Pray now if Jesus
Christ will take you out of our hands I"
But the dear boys chung to their faith in
Jesus, and in the midst of the flames sang
q hymn they had learned, "Daily, daily
sing his praises"
Thus these black boys in the heart of
dark Africa did SO love Jesus that they
could die IS Christians and sing his praises
in the fire as the martyrs of old had done
Their heroic testimony was not in vain, for
after this greater numbers would come to
the missionaries to hear of Jesus, some in
the darkness of the night to escape arrest.
One OF the very men that had helped tor
ture the boys was SO impressed with their
behavior under the sufferings by the knife
and the fire that he had determined to
learn to pray also.-E. d. g., in Good
Words.
Rev. 81. T. Cheever, D. D of Worces-
ter, Mass, says: ''The working of mo-
license here in Worcester with mixed
population of IS. 900 as yet Is admirable.
Prohibition is well enforced and does
prohibit
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06
Founder of the Alliance.

Was not Milton George originator of the
Farmers Alliance3 Please give particu-
lars, ETC., and also state how far politics
may enter into it. How can we remedy
public evils otherwise7 We may meet and
pass resolutions from now to judgment
day and it will amount only to 80 much
wind unless we act. M +.
The Western Rural first suggested the
Farmers Alliance. The first Alliance
Cook County No. 1, which until the organ
ization of the National Alliance acted as
the chartering b,dy-was organized in the
Western Rural Office by farmers invited for
the purpose by the publisher of the Ru'nS
The National Alliance was organized by
farmers assembled in convention called by
him. The Alliance can act politically as
far as it chooses.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06
French Justice.
4 CHILD SENT TO PRISON FOR ELEVEN
yEARs FOR STEALING COOKIE.

A CHILD SENT TO PRISON FOR ELEVEN
YEARS FOB STEALING A COOKIE.
Three stern men are seated behind sort
of counter up on q platform, all wearing
the robes Of French magistrates. Back OF
them on he wall, in large gilt frame.
hangs an oil painting of Him who said !:
"Suffer little children to come unto me,
and forbid them not, for of such is the
kingdom of heaven" There are men In
black gowns in the room, these are law
yers and many idle spectators are also
present. Now the magistrate in the mid
die says: Bring in the prisoner |" and
two tall gendarmes push small boy into
the place. The little fellow is not yet ten
years of age he Is frail and timid and
rolls his cap about with tiny fingers. Un-
doubtedly he is guilty, though, for at the
very first question Of the Court he bursts
into tears and says: "Oui, m'sieu, which
confession is quite convincing to every
body. Certainly he has committed the
crime for which he is being tried by three
solemn gentlemen-butlt listen to the indict.
ment Along with some other children OF
his own age he was passing through the
streets of Bourges, and saw at the door OF
a pastry cooks shop cake which tempted
him. He had no money, the cookie was
wi hin reach, he took it and ran away
Then he commenced to eat; but the pastry
cook went in pursuit, arrested him and
placed him in the keeping of two police
men. Now he il in the police court, and
hence he will be sent to prison, for the
case is dead against him, and the French
Justice will see about boys stealing plum
cakes. Stay. There is yet hope, for the
prisoners father is present in court, and
he pleads and implores. He offers to pay
for the cake ten times over, promises in
future to look after the boy better, and
says that 1t was childish act which could
be forgiven.
Jean, JEAN" hs cries, you'll never do
it again, will you, my boy, Jean ?" and In
the cold, solemn hall the father and the
son can be heard sobbing. Now the judges
consult, though that is hardly necessary
for it is clear to the commonest mind that
the lad pilfered the cake, and as 1t was
worth FIVE cents, therefore he is crimi-
nal. So they give their verdict, and it is
that the child must be locked up In the
bouse of correction until his majority.
That meant nearly dozen years imprison.
ment, and only for cookie. Men commit
burglaries and attack persons with fire.
aims, garrcters rob passers by of night,
trusted cashiers cal millions. and scoun-
drels are murderers, but these never get SO
many years of Imprisonment. SLili this
boy of ten was guilty SO they took him
back to his cell-and an hour later he was
dead, for he had hanged himself.-N. 0
parnnuDe
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06
The Apple in the Bottle

On the mantlepiece of my grandmother's
best parlor, among other marvels, was an
apple in vial. 1t quite filled up the
body of the bottle, and my childish won
derment constantly was, "How could it
have got theref" By stealth 1 climbed a
chair to see If the bottom would unscrew
or If there had been joint in the glass
throughout the length of the vial was
satisfied by careful observation that neither
of these theories could be supported, and
the apple remained to me an enigma and
"a mystery. One day, walking in the gar
den, saw it all. There, on tree, was a
vial tied, and within it a tiny apple was
growing within the crystal. The apple
was put into the bottle while it was little
and it grew there. Just so we must catch
the little men and women who swarm our
streets-we call them boys and girls-and
Introduce them within the influence of the
church; for, alss it is hard indeed to
reach them when they have ripened into
carelessness and sin.-Spurgeon.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06
A Tatooed Woman.

"Here is tattoo that is hard to beat, !"
said the professor, as he exhibited pho
tograph of tattooed lady's back, contain
inc what he declared to be the most deli
cate and elaborate designs ever pricked
into a human form. It represents St.
George mounted on plunging charger,
with his lance appraised, in the act of sub
DUNG his old enemy, the dragon.
The young lady, who gets salary of
1900 a week in Partisan circus for carry
ing this piece of art around between her
shoulder blades, is enjoying the best of
health and claims to have been greatly
benefited instead of injured by the opera
tion.-OmahG World Herald.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06
A Fight With a Big Snake.

James Nugent. and two sons, who own
farm near Lockport, N. 7 had thrilling
experience with huge black snake. They
were going to the barn with load OF hay,
when suddenly one of the boys espied the
serpent moving along path. The snake
was a giant of its species, and when one OF
the sons iabbed q pitchfork through Its
head a hot fight ensued. The snake curled
its huge body aroundlthe boys leg. and so
tightly did it squeeze that it caused the
flesh to swell up in ridges. The boy held
its head with the fork, however, and the
father, getting q Matched, inflicted such
injuries as to cause the reptiles death
Philadelphia Ledger.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06
The Mocking Bird.

ANY fair, sunny morning in early April
If you could take walk through the greer
country of our Southern States, you would
find the m acking bird hard at work build
ing himself nest.
The nest is a modest looking little
dwelling, made of sticks entwined witt
straw, hay and wool The bird, himself
is very handsome little fellow, light arC
graceful, and clad in pretty, but modest
feathers of pale ash brown, darkening al
the tips of tail and wings.
In May or June he ventures to come
north to our colder Middle States, anc
though he enjoys our summers very much
he always spends the winter in his warn
Southern home.
really think that the mocking bird is
one of the happiest creatures IN existence
and his greatest delight seems to be in his
own exquisite song. His voice is SO rarely
sweet, that even were he ugly, we would
consider him our favorite bird but he is
really so dainty formed, and his colors,
though not brilliant are SO pleasing, that
he is by far the choicest songster of oul
country. His voice is q constant revela.
ton of melody, and as he stands on the
topmost spray OF some tall tree, or scars
high in the sky. he pcurs out such food
of melody that it seems as though his little
heart must barss with it's own rapture
But his song is not always like this.
You would be surprised, at times, to hear
what hard discordant notes that sweet
voice can utter; for the hooking bird is
what it's name implies great mimic CT
mocker. He can initiate the note of any
bird-shriek like parrot, scream like an
eagle, bark like dog and new like cat
Indeed, he is SO fond of vsriety, that, be
will often stop in the middle of his sweet.
est strains to bark or new. He also imi-
tates other sweet singers, and can easily
be Taught to whistle tune.
So great is his skill iu imitation that he
often misleads hunters, who take long
tramps, following the voice of some bird
which is miles away, but which the mock
ing-bird is initiating. Even birds are Of
ten deceived by it, and will scatter in great
fright when the mocking bird boots like
an owl, or shrieks like hawk.
The American mocking-bird is about
nine and one-half inches in length. 1t
loves to build its nest in gardens near
houses, and lays four or five eggs of q
pale green color, spotted with brown.
His food consists of insects, worms and
berries.
Although, at any time. the song of the
mockinging- is charming, it is most
exquisitely sweet at night, in the soft
moonlight, when the very silence seems
to thrill and tremble with liquid melody
that divinest of bird songs.-M. in TIKI
Fountain.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06
No Evidence to the Contrary.

A young Catholic priest, shortly after
beginning his labors in his first parish,
received visit from one of the older
fathers. Anxious to show the progress he
had made, he called up class in cate
chism FOR questioning. >,
''Biddy Maloaey," he began, 'stand up
A sup of gill, with blue eyes and
brown freckles, arose in her place.
"What, Biddy." said the young father,
sis meant by the howly state Of matrl-
monyf'
"shure," began Biddy, glibly, "tis
sayson of tormint upon which the soul en-,
tiers to fit it for the blissid state to come :.
"Och |" cried the questioner, angry and
mortified, "to the foot of the class wild ye,
Blddy Maloney. It's the naming OF pur-
gatory ye're afther givin'."
But here the old priest interpossd, with
a quizzical smile. mot too fast, me
Young BROTHER he said, restrainingly-
mot too fast. Fer aught you and know
to the contrary. the gurrul msy be per-
fectly right" -Harper's Magazine.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06

The Natchitoches Democratic Reose"
thinks that the final outcome of the farm
ers' movement in the South is of less con-
sequence than the impress 1t VIII leaVe er on
farmers insist on discussing economic
issues instead of the war and the negro,
and have thus thrown political thought
INTO a new channel, and the pigheeadea
statesmen, who spell self with big ana
reform with big R, are dumotoqnae 4,
over the situation, says the Rsose'' but IL
thinks the result will be "amazlngiy
s t0oa completes etc change ia southern political
me b dss and especially in qualification
for suffrage based on inte ligence. SO .has
''our property, our blood and elviliaa 'asa
may be preserved from oeoaoe :ie d; E
ouent on a contest between the dlvioeo
White vote and the negro as pu1chas.
able factor" holding the balance OF power
between the white factions. =
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06
Syrup OF Figs,

Produced from the laxative and nutritious
juice Of California figs, combined with the
medicinal virtues of plants known to be
most beneficial to the human system, acts
gently. on the kidneys, liver and bowels.
eftectually cleansing the system, dispalling
colds and headaches, and curing habitual
constipation.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-06

The tricks and manners o + the ornsdo,
like the ways of the heather Chinee, are
peculiar" One in New England recently
took the form OF big round black cloud
and pranced across farm in the town OF
Lisbon.-Neu York Euangelia So the
town of Lisbon has farm in it.