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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

This is the last day of 1891. Tomorrow
we enter upon new year. 1t will be as
the opening of blank book. every page of
which must be written full. At the end of
1899 it will contain complete record of
every thought. word and action. good and
bad. of the past year. If it were to be a
real book and the writing such that those
who run might read, would you not be ex
tremely careful of what went into it?
You would not have the world read
your book of the past year for all the
wealth of a nation; there are things re
corded in it that no earthly eye save your
own will ever see. yet there may be much
written there in which you can feel honest
pride. 1t is only the things that you would
not be afraid to have the whole world know
that you now take any pleasure in recalling.
Remember that fact while filling up your
book for the new year. The time is coming
when Death the great binder, will gather
together all the year. books of your life and
bind them in everlasting covers for the
''library" OF the Great Critic.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31
Youth and Crime i'm Great Cities.

A very large proportion of the criminal
Offenses brought to the notice of the courts
consists of those committed by boys, or
young men under the age of twenty. five
years. In many cases the crimes are the
result Of the influence of elder criminals,
or are committed without realization of
the great wrongfulness of the act. Some
times, however. the criminal instinct is
strong in even immature youths. A boy of
fifteen years of age, who was brought be-
tore me few years ago, was convicted of
high degree of robbery. and it appeared
that in other cases he had been guilty of
similar offenses, but on account of his ex-
IRENE youth had escaped punishment. He
took part with older men in assaulting cit
liens on the street and taking property from
their persons. The managers of the house of
refuge, to which institution [ committed
the boy. refused to receive him. because of
his previous crimes and the bad influence
which he exerted upon other inmates. l
was unwilling to send him either to the
penitentiary or the state prison on account
of his youth. and because felt certain that
association with older criminals would only
roDu0T nlln more UaTuoncu III Ills VICIOUS
career. He was detained in the city prison
for many months and finally discharged.
Other instances of the early depravity of
members of the criminal class have come to
my attention.
The fact that so many crimes are COM
mitted by persons of immature years, how
ever sad it may be. proves that, to some ex,
tent at least. the penalties of the criminal
law are effective in preventing crime. Young
men who have had their first experience in
a reforming or penal institution either learn
caution. and do not again expose them
selves to conviction of serious offenses. or
become convinced that honest employment
at some labOriOus occupation is, after all,
more profitable than the criminal career.
with its liability of detection and severe
punishment. Some. of course. of the young
offenders continue their lives of crime and
become professional criminals. The num-
Der of professional criminals is. however.
smaller than is ordinarily supposed.-Re
cOrder Smyth, in Scribner's.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

of crime was in consequence of the excel
lent work there by the large army of Chris
tian men and women who went down to
the bottom of the matter and lifted the peO-
pie up. The great body of workers are
drawn from the middle classes of society.
The upper classes have little or no influ-
ence. The middle classes are gradually
absorbing the lower strata and bringing
them to higher condition of things. and
from these efforts result the diminution of
the volume of crime.'"
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

The report of Chautauqua work in
state prisons, as at Lincoln. Nebraska.
and Saltwater. Minnesota, adds new and
who are interested in criminals and the
management of them. The use of books
after the student fashion will reveal new
world to one another in prison. and will
determined to attempt new and honest
life. 1t is never too late to begin to do
right. There is nothing in prison that
should deprive man of hope.-Minneap-
oils Spectator.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31
TO THE PUBLIC.

THE PRISON MIRROR is a weekly paper pub
lished in the Minnesota state prison. All matter
uublished In its columns is contributed by the
inmates except that properly credited Its sup
mort must come from the outside every inmate
il 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 of moral ad-
vsncement and prison reform.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31
The attention of our free readers is called

The attention of our free readers is called
to two articles in this issue of THE PRISON
MIRROR; one. lex Convict" is taken from
a great daily. the Chicago Evening Post,
and the other. over which we have asked
the question. Good People. Is 1t True?'
is from the pen of convict. We are glad
to be able to bring the two articles together
in the same paper. because the former is a
case in point bearing out the assertions of
the latter. Read the two and then say if
you can that it is strange the ex convict
does not stay reformed.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

Michael Dunn, the ex convict who has
started Industrial homes for ex-cOnvicts in
most of the large cities of this country, has
undertaken to start one of his institutions
in Brooklyn, N. Y. This man has had a
remarkable career. Before he turned
over new leaf" he had served about IS
years in the prisons of Europe and Amer.
lea. Judged by his picture in the New
York World he is noble looking man and
does not appear to be past middle life. He
has established such reputation for integ-
rity, and ability as an organizer, that
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

philanthropic people are ever ready to lend
him hand in his work. He does not sim
ply ask others to supply the funds to carry
out his designs. but puts his own time and
earnings into his good work. In starting
the Brooklyn place he will use all his own
savings ($SOO) to fit up building and put
in machinery and material for broom fac
tory. Earnestness nearly always succeeds.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

The New York Sun tells of the many
brilliant qualities of young man of that
city. and then gives him the following
sound lecture. which good many young
people of the present day would do well to
take to themselves: "With all these merits
he entertainS the dOlOrOus notion that he is
a 'pessimist.' by which is meant a person
who suffers under the chronic sulks, who
views things with wOful eye, and who
does not think much of the world or life or
ligiOn or pictures or the fair sex or sunshine
or football or viands or anything but his
own pessimism. We would not refer to the
case of this untutored soul but for the fact
that there are good many other souls of
the kind in these times. who labor under
the delusion that they are pessimists, and
who try to mix up jeering with whining
while they cultivate their boards. They are
nothing of the sort. They lack experience
in life; they don't know the world we'll
enough; they don't understand the ways of
mankind. and they haven't yet learned how
to look at things. 1t is a. solemn business
to be pessmist, and they have not the
solemnlty or even the grumpiness. much
less the blearedness of vision that is re
quired for real. genuine. solid, chronic. I'M
utterable pessimsm. Let them give up the
absurd whim which they think they enter.
tain. and take glass of plain soda"
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

The vengeance of the mob upon the Sims
desperadOes may not be defended by those
who wish to see proper vindication of law
and order, but it has effectually disposed of
troublesome gang.-St. Paul Dispatch.
That is so. Now if a cyclone would
mob to its bosom ChOctaw county might be
a decent neghborhood to live in.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

The Christian Register. paper which
takes the deepest and most commonsense
interest in pathological subjects, has to say
this week, editorially: eff we are to seek a
real decrease in criminality, it is not to be
found simply by reforming those who have
already been criminals, but rather by pre-
venting the criminal class from being re-
cruited. 1t is not English prisons that have
effected the decrease in crime in England,
as might be inferred from Mr.. Andrews ar
ticle. but other influences which have pre-
vented the manufacture of criminals. A
hundred years ago, when deterrent laws
were far more severe than they are now,
and the system of treating prisoners in
England before the days of Howard was so
severe as to be inhuman, there was vastly
more crime than there is now. At the Ma
tional Prison Congress Mr.. James Massie,
warden of the Central Penitentiary of
Toronto. gave some valuable testimony on
this subject after hearing the paper of Mr..
Coffin, which we recently published. Mr..
Massie has made tour of the prisons of
England and Scotland. to which he had no
difficulty of access. He made special ef-
fort to learn the causes at work in prOduc.
ing reduction in the volume of crime. In
describing the results of his investigations,
he says: 1 received the almost unanimous
answer from all the superintendent of DO
lice. from the governors of prisons. and
from the chief warders that the diminution
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

useful if they printed half as much. our
newspapers twice as good if they were half
as large and our reading twice as valuable
if there was half as much of it. and that
half more intelligent and purpOseful.-
Crosby.
THE PRISON MIRROR fills the bill ex-
actly: subscribe tor it.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

A man was hanged in North Carolina the
other day for stealing syringe from
dwelling house. Had he carried off the
house with all its contents he could not have
been given more than few years in prison.
Who ever heard of man being hanged in
bloody Russia for stealing squirt gun?
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

At Lebanon. Tenn. last week. George
Dunnaway was sentenced to serve two life
imprisonments besides two terms of eight
and ten years for minor Offenses. That
looks very much as if the earthly judge had,
in his zeal. attempted usurping the preroga
tive of the Judge of Judges.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

Attendant: The Gar wishes to know
what there is for dinner.
Chef: PURGE of bullets, roast turkey, bay
Onet sauce; English peasant. sass au Bull
garia; cooking school biscuit. etc.. etc.
Attendant latter dinner): Hello! hellot
CentralOffSky. give ME the chief of police
sky.
Chief of Police: Well?
Attendant: The Car says. Transport.
the cooking school to Siberia. "-Minneap-
oils Journal.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

Once upon time they used to pitch
scOlds into the water on a ducking- stool;
but now they pay them for writing satirical
paragraphs.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

The worst sinner as well as the best saint
can wear the Shiniest hat.--Texas SiftingS.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-31

All trees are evergreen in the tropics.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
Changes of Climate

Kill more people than is generally
known. Particularly is this the case in
instances where the constitution is
delicate, and amoung our immigrant
population seek ing new homes in those
portions OF the West, and where ma
larial and typhoid levers prevail at
seasons of the year. The best prepar-
alive for change of climate, or of
diet and water which that change
necessitates, is Hostetter's Stomach
Bittcrs, which net only fortifes the
system against malaria, variable
temperature, damp, and the debiitat-
ing effects of tropical heat, but is also
the leading remedy for constipation,
dyspepsia, liver complaint, bodily
trouble specially apt to attack emmi-
grants and visitors to regions near the
equator, mariners and tourists
Whether used us safeguard by sea
voyagers, travellers by land, miners. or
of agriculturists in newly populated
districts, this fine specific has elected
the most favorable testimony,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
Round the Earth by Steam.

This little planet is about $4,000
miles In circumference, and in score
of years we shall probably be able to
make 10000 miles OF the journey in a
palace car.
We shall start, say from Boston, and
follow the sun TO San Francisco. There
we shall be switched off on the line
which will run through British Co.
lum bis 10 some port in Alaska line
which ever so conservative railroad
man as Charles Francis Adams proph-
estes will be in operation before the
baby who is now chlting his first tooth
celebrates his twenty-frst birthday.
Al Alaska we shall take short trip by
water and reach the eastern terminus
of the Siberian Railway in few
hours. Fran that point we shall skirt
10 the northern boun laries of China
and India, just Craze Afghanislan, and
entering Russia in Europe, stop over
at ST Petersburg for nights rest.
Then will come Berlin, Paris and
London
The Car is pushing the Siberian
Railway with great vieor. Halt the
distance to the Pacific has already
been covered When paying mines
are developed in Alaska, as they will
be, we shall connect the territory to
the States by the continuous whistle OF
locomotives. With these two lines in,
we can do the 81 900 miles with ease
and comfort and the other 5000 acrsss
the Atlautic by steamer in five days OF
possibly less.
That is something 10 look forward
to.-[N N. Y. Herald.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22

Now is the time to provide yourself
and family with a reliable remedy for
bowel complaints. 1t is almost certain
to be needed, and no family can afford
to be without it.. 1t costs but a trifle
and may be the means of saving much
suffering, if not life. There are many
different remedies in use, but Cham
berlain's Collie. Cholera and Diarrheea
Remedy is undoubtedly the best. %
and 80 cent bottles for sale by R. M.
King and Knapp & Laws Co.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
Timber Privileges.

Mining companies doing business in
Nevada, incorporated under the laws
of other States, will be considered as
having the same timber privileges as
companies incorporated under the laws
of Nevada The Post says this is the
decision of the General Land Office,
made IN response to letter addressed
to the office by the Eureka Consolda-
ton Mining Company, regarding their
right to take wood from the public
lands of Nevada, the same as citizens
and residents OF the State.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from prac-
tice, having bad placed in his hands by
an East India missionary the formula
of simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and permanent cure of Con
sumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma
and all throat and lung affections, also
positive and radical cure for Nervous
Debility and all Nervous Complaints,
after having tested its wonderful eura-
tive powers In thousands of cases, has
felt it his duty TO make it known to his
suffering fellows. Actuated by this
motive and desire to relieve human
suffering, / will send free of charge,
to all who desire it, this recipe, In
German. French or English, with full
directions for preparing and using.
Sent by mai by addressing with stamp,
naming this paper. W. A. Moves, $50
Powers Block, Rochester, N. Y.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22

PARIS 10 laughing over joke about
IN American inventor who is said to-
have patented an electric corset that is
TO bring about the reign Of morality
ct once Ii one of these articles is
pressed BY lovers arm it at once
emits q shrek like the whistle Of u
railway engine; and the inventor
claims that he has already married
three of his daughters, owing to the
publicity thus thrust upon backward
lover.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
lKNNIa WILLIAM FORSYTH.

DENNIS WILLIAM FORSYTH, the
Fresno hobo who didn't think it was
worth while to become citizen of the
United States until $4,000 office was
offered to him, has been rejected by the
Board of Control. and will not be the
Chisf Of the horticultural Department
Of tho Worlds fair. That is right. 1t
would be better for California to have
no representative at all than to have
such fellow as Dennis Forsyth mis-
represent her.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22

HENRY WATTERsoN has level head
when he has mind to use it. The
ether day In an address to the students
Of the Usiversity of Virginia, he said:
"Our country is not getting worse; it
10 getting better, and we are masters
Of the greatest country on the globe.
We have the most perfect system Of
government. We have nothing from
without to fear, and within we have but
two great dangers--the taste for money
and the devil of party spirit
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
A Surprised Creditor.

j. NJ. Rosenberg, of Oakland, was
rather surprised last week to receive
from the Warden of San Quentin n
letter enclosing check for $50. The
Warden explained that the money was
sent by prisoner named Tom Kim
ball, in payment of a debt for goods
bought of Rosenberg in Plumas county
more than 20 years age. Kimbal
among other miners, had been given
credit by Rosenberg, and before he
paid the bill he had quarrel with his
partner and killed him. He went to
the ponilentiary for life, and is NOW
trying to get square with the world
before dying. He is rs years old.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
one Glance covertea Him.

A man went into a crowded store to
buy some stockings for his wife.
" want striped enes,n he SAID to
the clerk.
I'VE have very few stripes, sir" the
clerk replied, they are not SO much
worn now.n
"Are you sure?'
"Oh, yes, quite surel | will demon
strate the fact to youS
Then he leaned over the counter and
shouted, Rats! See,' he added.
YES" said the customer; give me
plain colors.'
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
GAZETTE: Nevada asks nothing at

GAZETTE: Nevada asks nothing at
the hands Of the rest of the world but
. fair deal, and If the laurels don't
fall our way we will not complain.
Capital seems to think there is nothing
here wsrth having, and for this con-
dition Of things we can thank the men
whom We have honored with the high
eat offices within our gift, and those
who have grown rich at the States ex-
penss. As long as our own rich men
turn q cold shoulder to US, what can
we expect from the outside, A State
teeming with undeveloped resources,
however, carnot go great while Ion
ger without something being done to
develop them. All that is needed is
to get our condition before the worl1,
and the rest will come. The Board Of
Trade is doing good work in that
direction. and If our people would but
lend helping hand prosperity would
Do eur lot.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22

TIE Dominion lias good thing Of
II In collecting duty Of 81 II pound
on crude opium and then allowing the
refined product to be smuggled into
the United States, where il should pay
. duty Of $12 a pound. 1t is alse as
coed . thing as collecting $50 head
o. coolies and then turning them over
% 10. British Columbia, as a part Of
the Dominion, is bad neighbor. In
beginning a vigorous crusade against
this opium smuggling the Treasury
Department Is only doing what 1t
should have done long ago.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22

THE time has gone by when the
people Of the West can afford to allow
loyalty to override their own material
interests and what they believe to be
for the Interest of the country At
large. The silver question in the West
should be. and we believe 1t is, larger
than party. Are the mining regions
going to cast their votes for an enemy,
II il 10 possible to put up friendS
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
He'd Known Better If She Was
Alive.

+" | want to contest my wife's will
said countryman, breaking into a
lawyers office early Monday morning.
rs she dcad?' inquired the lawyer,
for want of something better to say
"You bet,' blurted out the visitor
- wouldn't be contestin' it if she
wuznt. You never knowsd that wo-
man, guess"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
Expensive Emulation.

Dashaway- That was beautiful
dress your friend, Mrs. Wickstaff had
on the other night.
Bihgo-Yes. 1t cost me 500.
"How so?"
my wife saw it,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
Lily Cot Good Figures.

Not long ago Mrs. Langtry had a
row in Lendon with man named
Baird, who knocked her down and
kicked her In the face. She brought
suitfor S150,000 damages. He prompt-
ly compromised with $125,000.
No use talking, that wnman's face is
her fortune.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
willing to Make 1t Right.

"Look here" said an excited man to
a druggist, "you gave me morphine
for qunipe this morning"
as that se?" replied the druggist.
"Then you owe me % cents. That's
the difference in the price"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
The Reporters Lot.

City Edltor-The street is all excite
ment. An electric wire has blocked
traffic, and no one knows whether it is
a live wire or not.
Editor-Detail two reporters to go to
the wire lmmediately-ene 10 feel Of it
and the other to write up the result.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22

MAJOR MCKINLEY was in Repuh-
lican district in Ohio, and Democrats
BY their gcrrymsader placed him in
Democratic district of 5000 majority.
When the vote was counted he was just
BOZ votes behind. Suppose now he
gains in the same ratio in the State,
whs will be Governor of Ohios
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
Mrs, j, Maney

Desires to inform the ladies of Haw-
thorne that she is prepared TO do dress
making, and fine sewing of every des-
cription for ladies and children, al a
reasonable price. She will guarantee
satisfaction and requests share of
the public patronage.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22

WITHIN few weeks petition will
be sent from Philadelphia to the Gar
that 10 five miles long. 1t praYs that
he will deal kindly with his political
prisoners. The Gar will very prob
ably never hear OF the petition and
will certainly never see it. Besides, it
Is quite likely that among the Cars
advisers are gentlemen who know
what very little value Is ever properly
stiachablc TO petitions. When Ameri.
can officials themselves are so general
ly regardless Of petitions from their
tellow-countrymsn, what is 10 be ex-
pectsd of the Car?
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
Degrees of Comparison,

Mrs Dimling-I wish you would
tell me the difference between a
fiddler, a violinist and virtuoso.
Dimiing-I will. A fiddler plays
for nothing, a vielinist gets SIS for an
evenings work, and virtuso gets $50
for enc piece.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-22
Not the Same.

Mamma Oearfully)-It pains me,
Tommy, just as much as it does you to
have to whip you.
Tommy (also tearfullyJ-Mebbe it
does, but not in the same place.