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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17

upon the common jails. prisons and re-
formatories of the Province of Ontario.
Canada, has been received. 1t is very
exhaustive report. There was large de-
crease in crime throughout the Province
during 1891. the number of cOmmittals be-
ing 1887 less than during the preceding
year. There seems to be an evil practice
in the Province that we believe is unknown
in the United States and the inspectors
protest against it in the following emphatic
manner:
1t is a disgrace to the people of this Province to
allow their aged poor, who have committed no
crime against the laws of the land. to be incarcer.
ated within prison walls. clothed in the distin-
gushing prison garb of criminals. In most cases
these people have lived honest and respectable
lives. and. perhaps. have reared and educated
large families but from circumstances over which
they had no control, have lost children. property
and health. 1t is inhuman, unchristian, and un.
patriotic and should be prevented by the most
stringent legislation. if not Immediately remedied
by the authorities of the various counties.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17
IndiSestible.

Young Farmer Medders lat supper):
Ouch! WOuark! Kah! Jeeminy- jeeswax!
What in Heavens name is the matter with
this cake, GlOriOsa?
Bride Ia city girD: Why, darling. there
can surely be nothing the matter with it.
followed the recipe exactly.
TASTES as if it was made of clam shells.
Kah!"
"Oh. dearest! May be it was the fault of
the eggs. [ always thought eggs were soft
and yellow inside; but these were white and
brittle all the way through, and l had to
powder them with the flat irons, and
"Where did you find them?"
''In the hen house. darling. There was
only one egg in each nest. and"
"Gloriosa, you have used my new China
nest eggS!"-Puck.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17
TOTAL ABSTINENCE PRINTERS.

The Inquirer can boast on this New Year
morning of not having member on it's
staff or printer in its employ that gets in
tOxicated by the free use of intoxicants.
How many printing offices are in the state
that can boast observation-disclosures
Inquirer.
There is no employe or any one in any
way connected with the Enterprise who
touches intoxicating liquor. 1t is under
stood in this Office that any attache who
enters it under the influence of liquor will
be invited to take a walk-and keep on
walking. Enterprise.
Me, tOO.-LOuisville journal.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17
THE PRISON LIGHT.

II was in prison and We came unto me-
is the motto of new paper, The Prison
Light, just issued from the Waupun wis.
state prison. Its purpose is set forth in the
following: 1.-The Prison Light is published
the first and third Saturdays of every month,
by an inmate of the Wisconsin state prison.
1t is the only paper of the kind devoted ex-
clusively to the reformation of the fallen -
The paper is the same size as THE PRISON
MIRROR and has very neat appearance.
1t seems to be the enterprise of an individ-
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17
A Battered Old War Eagle.

On last Thursday T. w. Landers shot and
wounded gray eagle, near the Dresback
bridge on Big Pine, and after considerable
trouble he succeeded in capturing and car
rying it to r. Dresback's store. A strip of
sheet brass was discovered cOiled around the
birds neck and made fast by brass wire.
The strip of brass measured two and half
inches in width by thirteen in length, with
letters stamped on which said: memphis,
Tenn, Aug. Is, 1864. Samuel c. BOils.
Co. G, 57th o. V. L." The bird is savage
looking monster. One wing measured over
three feet. A portion of the other being shot
away they could not get the exact dimen-
sions. He is now confined in cage.-Ohio
Democrat.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17
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
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. It's objects 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, 1892-03-17

Governor Boies of Iowa seems to be the
most popular statesman available for first
place on the Democratic presidential ticket
Hill seems to have hardly friend in the
West and but few in the East outside of
his own state. While Cleveland has hosts
of friends everywhere they seem to feel
that he could not succeed with Hil's sup
porters opposing him. The Review of Re-
views. non. partisan reviewer of the
political outlook, says that ''unQuestionably
in Democratic circles Mr.. Cleveland is re.
garded as the man who stands for princi
piles and policies of craftsmanship and for
honesty and honor in political methods,
while Mr.. Hill is regarded as the prince of
caucus workers and machine manipulators.
Mr.. Hills success in tactics that give the
Democrats majority in the present state
senate in face of the indisputed fact that
the Republicans actually elected a majority,
appears to be reacting against him in the
estimation of his own party throughout the
country. The Cleveland men are out
spoken, and it would now seem very prob.
able that they cannot prevent Mr.. HIPS
nomination at Chicago, while on the other
hand Mr.. Hilps following will probably
block the denomination of Mr.. Cleveland.
The situation renders the selection of a
Western man altogether likely" On the
Republican side there is little doubt ex-
pressed that Mr.. Harrison will be renom.
mated. The name Of Gen. Alger is being
put forward quite prominently as possible
rival to the president.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17

ual, and there is nothing to indicate on
what terms it will be furnished to the in.
mates. The Prison Light is what may be
called a religious paper, and. so far as we
can see, makes no pretense whatever OF CIV
ing either local or general news. We learn
from the announcements that the prison has
Christian EndeavOr society, Prison
Yoke Fellow band and night school. and
that the prison has population of 515, of
whom 10 are women. We do not wish to
discourage the publisher of the Light, but
we do not believe that he can make his pa.
per Ego" as strictly religious organ. still
he may. We think his purpose could be
carried out more successfully by publishing
a prison newspaper with Christian princi.
pies. Even the church people will not ap.
preciate such matter as appears in the
"Prison Society of Christian Endeavor''
department. The matter reads too much
like page of patent medicine testimonials.
81 love the Lord. 1 cannot speak much
English. but o. could tell you in my own
language; pray for me.-G. K" Such ex.
pressions are exhilarating and appropriate
in an Experience" meeting of brethren.
but in cold print they are like yesterdays
waff1es. You will find, Editor Baker, that
the class of readers who appreciate such
matter will have more congratulations and
''well done brothers" for you than cash for
your Golfers. We wish The Prison Light
success, and hope to see it develop into a
first class prison newspaper. Our readers
are invited to send fifty cents and try it for
a year.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17

State Agent Chambers has succeeded in
finding situations tor all those who have
made application to him. Thus far the ap-
pllcatiOnS have been few. not more than
five or six. but the agent will be called upon
more frequently, no doubt. when he has
demonstrated his ability and earnestness in
the work. The situations thus far secured
are with men of the highest standing in the
state-prOminentc itiZens-and they will pay
the ex convict the same wages and accord
him the same treatment in every respect
that they do their other employees. 1t is to
be hoped that the men accepting these
places will show themselves faithful in the
performance of whatever they are put to
doing. They owe it not only to themselves
but to others who may be placed in similar
circumstances to make good record.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17

If the following from 1.-The People" is
true our multi milliOnaires are tough lot
of citizens: mo one of the princely fort
unes of America was rightly gained. 1t
could not be. for it is not possible under
heaven. to honestly earn million dollars
within the life time OF man. How was the
money accumulated? By industrious hab-
its. sobriety and honest dealings? Not So.
1t was accumulated by sharp practice. by
assassinations of character. by wrecking
other mems hopes and fortunes. by MUIR
ders, and prostitution of men and women -
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17

The success of the big wolf round up in
the neighborhOod of Pelican Rapids. Mimi.
suggests that st. Paul or Minneapolis
might rid themselves of that other sort of
wolves by like means. But probably the
result would be that the larger and more
dangerous "varmints" would be allowed to
break through the lines and escape while
the weaker wolves and rabbits would be
mercilessly slaughtered just as they were
at the Pelican Rapids round. up.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17

Rev. w. j. Lhamon, a Minneapolis min
lister. is reported as having said in his last
Sundays sermOn:
The saddest thing about saloonkeepers is that
they are so depraved as to be saloonkeepers and
the saddest thing of our boosted civilization is
that it is so barbarous to breed such thugs and
so vllainous as to license their thuggery.
Perhaps if the reverend gentleman were
better acquainted with the subjects of his
denunciatiOn he would be less vituperative.
There certainly are many depraved villains
and thugs in the saloon business. men that
should be hunted out as moral pests, but
the same might be said of men in every
other calling. But this being the case does
not condemn all the members of all callings.
That there are many honest, truthful, vir-
tuous, peace loving, law abiding saloon
keepers every one will affirm who has be-
come acquainted with any large number of
them. The saloon may be nuisance, but
it is legitimate, and those who make their
living by it are not deserving of intemper-
ate abuse from those who do not approve of
the traffic. If the saloon is a cause of evil,
and we think it is. it can be sooner reasoned
than cursed out of existence. There is an
intemperance of speech that is more harm
full than intemperance of appetite.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17

At last it has dawned upon us why the
ministers are opposed to the Worlds Fair
being open on Sunday. Sunday is their
chief working day-preachers work every
day in the week, and being unable to go
themselves on Sunday. they object to the
Fair being open on that day. Our -ex-
changes will please copy this short chronicle
of grand discovery made in the midst of a
Minnesota blizzard. HencefOrth. we are
famOuS.--PrOgressive Age.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17
Making Jewelry in Prison.

The authorities have decided to begin
manufacturing pearl buttons and pearl
jewelry in the southern Illinois penitenti-
airy. Warden Murphy has returned from
Auburn, N. Y. where he engaged three ex-
perts to superintend the work. Arrange
ments have been made for the sale of the
entire product, and the manufacturing will
be done on the states account. One hun
dred convicts will be employed in the indus
try, which. it is claimed, will not antagO-
nze the free labor of the state.-Jewellers'
Weekly.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17

The ST. Paul Daily News came out Mon.
day evening in new dress. and enlarged to
double it's former size. Mr.. Sherin, the new
proprietor. purposes making the News a
first class paper in every sense. 1t is in,
comprehensive how such paper can be
published at four dollars year.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17
Two New Children.

'.Did you like to 20 to Sunday school?''
asked Uncle George of little Tommy.
Eyes: an dey sang about two funny little
children"
''WhO were they?"
.Cherry BIN and Sary Finn. Puck.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17

HOnorables A. R. McGill. Gideon S. Ives,
Knute Nelson and John Lind are each be-
ing spoken of as the possible Republican
nominee for governor of Minnesota.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17

David: "Pm the biggest gun in New
York and don't you forget it," Grover:
Eyes, yes; machine gun. of course"
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17

The twenty fourth annual report of the
inspectors of prisons and public charities
Arizona republican., 1892-09-24

lowed as pastime. l have yet to meet
one who failed to respond to my eager
search for facts relative to the fish in
their home waters with less eagerness
and enthusiasm than evinced by myself.
have talked and queried with the I'M
couth and unkempt and with the pol
ished and cultivated anglers of the
brooks and the-books, and have found
them, each and all, to be possessed of
valuable information as to the byways
if not the highways of the art recrea-
tive.
have been taught by the clodhopper
Of the streams; have gained invalu-
able points from the bushwhacking boy
who snatches 'em out; the cowboy fisher
of the gulch holes, the ''wum" baiters
of the Mississippi sluices, the Canadian
half breeds of the Laurentian streams
and the malaria saturated dweller "away
down on the Suzanne river" have all
dropped angling pearls along my path
way, and last, not least, have gathered
consolation and enthusiasm from an in
genuous remark made by an old but il.
literate angling rodster friend when he
was first told of Sam Johnson's slur.
"Well," said he, tell old johnson for
me that, rather than not go a-fshing at
all, I'm willing to be the worm"
Could self abnegation go further in sac
rifice or Observation-Disclosures Angler
Arizona republican., 1892-09-24
WHAT MAKES THE SWELL.
Some Interestlag Points About Two Ap
parenily Well Dressed Men.

Some Intersstlag Points About Two APP
parenuy Wen Dressed Men.
| was standing in the lobby of the
Adams House in Boston. A New York
club man came in and stood talking
with some one in the lobby for several
minutes.
After he had gone ont the man he had
been talking with came over to me-he
was friend of mine-and put this qUcs-
ton: How does Hicks Yardly dress so
well? He has only 5000 a year, and
yet he manages to dress himself so as to
look much better CARRIED than any Bos-
ton man know. Strange, isn't III"
Not at all.
The Boston man dressed on cash &C
count and an eye to color. The New
Workers. dress was not only an art, but
science-an art because he had an eye
to harmony; a science because he had a
comprehensive knowledge Of means to
ends.
Any one knows enough not to wear
red cravat and bottle green coat; but
how many men know how to have their
coats cut or their shoes shaped? They
leave it to their tailors, and most tailors
cut coat the same for a STRIPPING Of
twenty as they would for an alderman.
Hicks Yardly would have informed
the Boston man that his hat was too
broad brimmed, his collar was too high
in front and too low in the back; that
his cravat was blue and his violets pur-
ple-Oh, horror of horrors!-that his cut
away had one too many buttons on it;
that his waistcoat hung down like an
inverted V, whereas it should bind about
him like a belt; that his trousers were
tight to the knee and loose from there
down, whereas they should have been
the reverse; that his shoes turned up at
the toes-tho sole of the English made
shoe touches the ground from tip to
heel; that his gloves were russell, whereas
they should have been brick color; that
his hair was short on top and long be-
hind, whereas it should be long on top
and short behind; that his mustache
should not be waxed; that his topcoat
was loose in front and tight fitting in
the back, whereas TIE reverse should be
the case: that his stick was buckhorn,
in the face Of the well known fact that
no true man of the world would carry
nowadays any other than an all wood
cane.
Mr.. Hicks Yardly would then pause
for want of breath and leave the lobby,
while the Bostonite drew out his Brown
ing and turned to "Home Thoughts
from Over the Sea."-Frederic Edward
Mckay in Kate Fields Washington.
Arizona republican., 1892-09-24
nscently Discovered Medaliions.

Lovers Of literature will be interested
in the recent discovery in small house
of the buried city Of Pompeii Of two me-
dallions representing respectively Hor-
ace and Virgil. The death Of Horace
occurred eight years before the Chris
tian era aud that of Virgil ten years
earlier, while the date of the destruc-
ton of Pompeii by the eruption Of Vesu-
vius is A. d. 70.
Hence the portraits are not contem-
porary, though they cannot be placed
very long after the age of the poets.
But although they are in that respect
only fancy portraits, NJ. CASTOR Bots
sier has pointed out to the French Acad-
emie des Inscriptions that they have a
distinct resemblance TO the miniatures
of Horace and Virgil given in the manu-
scripts of the Twelfth and Thirteenth
centuries.
The Pompeiian medallions are only OF
a very mediocre character when regard
ed solely from an artistic standpoint.
This very fact strengthens the idea OF a
continuous artistic tradition as to the
bodily presentment of the two poets.
The Pompeiian artist and the monastic
scribe could have had no direct connec-
ton, but they may easily have derived
their figures from common source.
Another point of interest is to see the
popular criticism within less than a
century after their death, linking to-
gether Horace and Virgil. How endur-
ing their fame is may be realized if we
remember that now, after the lapse Of
nineteen centuries, they have more
readers and admirers than at any pre-
ceding period. 1t is to be feared that
few of the literary regulations of modern
ages will withstand so successfully "tho
cankered tooth of time. Manchester
Guardian.
Arizona republican., 1892-09-24
ABDUCTION CHARGED.
Cashier Hersey Of the Coleman House
Accused of the Crime.

Accused of the Crime.
New YORK, Sept. 23.- Associated
Press Max IL. Hersey, 26. chief
cashier of the Coleman house, was held
for examination at the rombs yesterday
on charge OF sbducting Jennie Christy
pretty girl OF 10, daughter OF Justice OF
the peace Walter j. Christy, of Chester,
Orange county, n. Y.
Jennie visited friends in this city
early in the summer, and in company
with young woman visited Coney Is
land, where they began a Irritation with
two young men. One OF them gave the
name OF Frank Hampden and he and
Jennie agreed to correspond with each
other after her return home.
She received several letters from him,
and on getting one in which he begged
her to come 10 this city and meet him
at a hotel on Sixth avenue, s he came
again to New York. To her surprise,
the man who greeted her was com.
plete stranger, but on his statement
that he was the man who had been cor
responding with her and that he had
plenty of money and could keep her in
luxury, she agreed to live with him as
Mrs. Frank Hsmpden. They went to a
boarding house at No. 81 Lexington
avenue, kept by Mrs. E. Frank.
Early in the week Jennie's father,
through letter from Hampden to Jen-
ME, traced his daughter to this city.
The girl was found Thursday and com
mitted TO the care OF the Children 8
Society, and Hersey, who was "Hamp-
den," whom Jennie tried TO shield, was
arrested today.
Arizona republican., 1892-09-24
BRIGANDAGE.
A System of Terror in
Force in Sicily.
Horrible Enormities of
the BrigandS.
Children ButChered and Given
to Dogs and Hogs.
The American Consul is Indignantly
Fired for Reporting the Con-
dltion of Affairs.

LONDON, Sept. %. / Associated Press. ]
The British consul at Palermo, in his
report to the foreign office, gives start
ling details regarding brigsndage. The
whole island OF Sicily, he says, is infest-
ed with bands OF robbers, who capture
large landed proprietors and rich mer-
chants and hide them in caves in the
mountains until they are ransomed.
Farmers are plundered OF horses and
cattle, while peasants who are suspect
ed of being informers are prosecuted,
tortured or murdered outright. Great
land owners living within four hours
ride of Palermo are afraid to remain on
their estates unless they are surrounded
by private mounted guards. The band
led by u brigand named Samauw is the
most terrible OF all. Even childrens
have not escaped the members OF this
gang Of thieves and murderers. They
have beheaded little boys and girls, cut
their bodies in halves, and then throw
the mutilated remains a bout the country
for dogs and hogs to eat. Many land
owners who have incurred the enmity
OF the brigands have been assassinated,
while others who have failed into their
hands have been condemned to death
by slow torture.
The difficulty encountered in trying
to suppress these murderous bands, is
due to the fact that q large number of
the people provide the brgands with
supplies at high prices, and are, there
fore, unwilling to give any information
that would lead to their capture. In
other cases, where the peasants might
give Information, they are terrified by
the threats OF vengeance made by the
brigands themselves and their friends.
Some time ago the American consul
at Palermo made report similar to the
above to the state department at Wash
ington. When it b came known that
the American consul had made that re-
port the Italian Cover nment Indignantly
denied his statements and privately de-
manded OF the United States govern
ment that he be recalled. This demand
was complied with. No one acquainted
with the facts had the slightest doubt
that the report of the American official
was correct in every particular.
Arizona republican., 1892-09-24

falo from British Columbia, and yes
terday the butchers knife touched it for
the first time. The meat will be re-
tailed at thirty cents a pound. Ten or
fifteen years ago buffalo meat was plen-
tiful here, and at the beginning of each
winter hundreds of Kansas City fami-
lies slowed away hind quarter in tho
cellar.
That was before the animals began to
be thinned out on the plains between
eastern Kansas and the Rocky noun
tains. The few that escaped the slaugh-
ter of the hunter and the plainsman
went north into the British territory,
and even there it is q rare thing for one
of them to be killed. The East Twelfth
street butchers buffalo was very large
specimen and was covered with a coat
of long and unusually fine hair.-Kansas
City Times.
Arizona republican., 1892-09-24
The Most Familiar Mineral.

If one We're TO ask his friends what
mineral we are most familiar with and
most commonly used as food the an
swers would probably be both varied
and amusing. Salt would, fancy, first
suggest itself to many, and to those
whose training in physiology and hy-
giene has not been neglected no doubt
the claims of lime and iron and carbon,
which in one form or another we use
with food to build up bone and Drawn,
would be amply urged. But, after all,
it is water, for water is a minerals
fused mineral. You will find it de-
scribed as such, along with quartz and
topaz and the diamond, in Dana's Min
eralogy" or in other treatises on stones.-
7. Mitchell Prudden in Harper's.