The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-11-26

Hon. Jared Benson. of Anoka. was visitor
in the prison Tuesday and, in the afternoon. at.
tended the funeral service held over the body of
Camille Roy.
-Chauncey Depew. who is perhaps as we'll
qualified any man living to tell how success
may be won. gives the key in these three words:
'Stick. Dig and Save"
Deputy Sheriff hamburg brought in a pris-
oner Wednesday evening who will spend six years
with us. This was mean way Sheriff swenson
took of saving Hennepin county the price of
Thanksgiving dinner.
The cooks and bakers have been looking wise
and working like nailers the past few days pre-.
pairing good things for the great national feast
day. May the good Lord double the blessings of
those who made the holidays.
Since the work on the new building is nearly
completed the boys gradually dropping shack
into their old positions in the shops. and most of
them glad to be back. for OF late it has been
little too sharp for outdoor work.
Some of the boys attending the night school
are surprising their teachers by the remarkable
progress they are making. They are the boys
who study their lessons in the cells, and that is
the only way you will be able to learn anything.
Whattlittle you can learn during the six hours q
week you spend in the school room will be of al
most no account unless you use it to help yourself
along with your studies in the cell. About all the
school can do is to teach you how to study-you
must DO the real work yourself.
when you are writing an article for publca.
pie to read what you say. If you insincere.
nntruthfn1 thew Wi
Always write conscientiously, just as you would
speak were you talking to person whom you
were certain was reading your thoughts before
they were expressed. OF course it is often not
advisable to tell all you know about matter. but
let what you do tell be true. False statements,
like base coins, may be detected by their ring.
One of the teachers in the night school has
been laboring faithfully to teach his class the
meaning of the vOwels. 1t is very dscouraging
work. ''Now." says the instructor "can any of
you tell me what the vowels are2 After a few
seconds Of profound stiffness a child of the forests
held up his hand and said, me know" Every
WE'LL John, please rise and tell us what the vowels
are." John arose and. patting his stomach, said,
'Um, him bowels" and sat down with a triumph.
ant CLEAN in his eye. The next evening the in
structor in arithmetic asked one of his pupils to
redO NUMBER Iuo pupIl was lltClo BACKWARD,
so the teacher undertook to prompt him. He
said, Nov, this first figure is called-what?
We call it units, do not? Now what comes
nextr' "Bayonets." came the answer as quick
as flash. 1t was entirely unprecedented. and
the pupil was 'paralyzed' at his own slip of the
tongue.
Does it pay to advertise? We should say it
does. Since advertisement appeared on the
Rowell & Co.'s Newspaper Directory we have been
in almost daily receipt of most fattering offers
for advertising space in our columns. Just the
other day we received a one cent. MANILA letter
marked "Private and CONFIDENTIAL" Such con.
fdence must be protected. SO we stole away to
the innermost inwardness of our sanctum sancto-
rum and there. with trembling hands and futter-
ing heart broke the seal and drew forth the
thrice sacred document. But we dare not reveal
more. 1t is no breach of confidence, however, to
say that were we so minded. we might to-day be
playing harp of thousand strings to the &C.
compartment of hurdy -gurdy. bass viol and vi
olin; flute. cornet and fageolet lutte. Tyre and
clarion; trombone. concertina and tambourne-
and all this celestial bliss for few inches of
space next to reading matter" Do you still
ask, "Does it pay to advertiser
Warden Garvin got home Monday after
week journeyng abroad in search of fiber for use
in the binding Irvine factory. His object principally
was to ascertain the quality of the hemp raised in
Nebraska. He speaks very highly of the quality
of the fiber produced in that state and thinks it
little inferior to Kentucky hemp. He bought
car load-lO tons-to experiment with in our fac
tory. Incidentally he visited the large fiber mill
at Fremont and was much surprised to find it
such'a large and complete plant. He also visited
Heron Lake. MIMI. and purchased all the hemp
they had there. which about 80 TONS The
warden says: 1.-The farmers in our state do not
know how to raise hemp yet though each year a
better grade is produced. 1 learned that to raise
good grade of hemp that great care must be
taken in the preparation of the ground and that
the crop must be watched closely. We have used
80 tons of hemp produced by j. T. Smith of Heron
Lake this year. and have no doubt but that it
would have been better than Nebraska hemp had
it been cultivated in the same manner"
Monday night Captain Hall, lantern in hand,
hurried into the cellroom, grasped the bell rope