The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-31

county for incest, years; two from Ramsey
| county. one on two indictments for grand larceny
| in the second degree. years and months; one
for grand larceny in the first degree years and
months.
Foreman Reed and Guard Parker have signed
articles for moral endurance contest. The
stakes are to be forfeited by the party who first
breaks his pledge to not take chew of tobacco OF
drink of any intoxicating beverage stronger
than st. Croix water, spiked with saw logs. be-
tween the time of signing the compact and the
first day of 1898. This is the first intimation we
have had that either of the gentlemen had be.
come victims of the liquor habit.
-Plim e. Bennett one of Stillwaters ablest
all.round newspaper writer's, has gone down to
Austin to do the city work on the Daily Herald.
Flim has reported at different times for several
saltwater papers and acted as the local corre-
spondent of the St. Paul dailies. but he has not
been regularly connected with any paper for some
time. His work will be a credit to the Herald as
it always was to the papers here. and his many
Saltwater friends. including those who in times
past he afforded entertainment within the prison
walls will wish him success in his new field of
usefulness.
Here is a question for the man to answer who
likes to "fgger." Suppose that man. under ten
years sentence. by gross misconduct forfeits on
the very day he would have been released all the
good time he had earned, and the board of man.
ayers should refuse to restore it. but in consider
alton of his previous good conduct they allow him
to earn good time. the forfeited good time
which he is serving out; but again he breaks the
discipline just his time is about to EXPIRE thus
losing the good time allowed him for serving good
time, and SO continuing to earn and forfeit good
time on good time. how long will he have to re-
main in prison? Figure the good time earned on
good time at ten days per month. OF course each
sentence will be shorter than the one before it.
Read and receive instruction. The Indus
trial School Courier, published at Kearney. Ne.
braska. says; ut is never too late to mend is
the motto which indicates the leading thought of
THE PRISON MIRROR, edited and published by
the inmates of the prison at saltwater, Mimi.
The revenue derived from its patronage is used in
purchasing library. All its contents. except
those properly credited, are written by the in.
mates. 1t has very interesting local page and
the editorials good. The mechanical work is
excellent. The inmates deserve great commenda.
ton for this mark of enterprise and desire to
better the condition of the prison by issuing q
good paper and supplying it with good library.
Let this excellent undertaking be encouraged.
THE MIRROR is a No. publication
The Elmira reformatary is enjoying a mild
state of excitement over the fact of there having
been received at the institution within the month
| a Detailed son of the Flowery Kingdom and an
untaimed child of the American forests. The
Summary says of the Indian. "both Arabic and
Roman notation are unknown to him; neither can
he read English. The only kind of labor he ever
performed is farming" Speaking of Indians. we
have had little experience with one here. Our
| John" was ''howlng'' savage when he arrived
| a few years ago; he could not speak word of
English and knew nothing of letters or figures of
any kind. Work he never did. 'Squaw work -
He was "big Injun. me-" and bad, bad brave. In
| the summer he decorated his headgear with guady
rags. chicken feathers. weeds and grass. To-day
John speaks good English. can read and write,
and is uncommonly bright in arithmetic. He
dresses well and marches with all the dignity of
Dutch colonel
Wall Guard Greenleaf Dorr had a mishap last
Saturday afternoon by which he came very near
losing his life. While walking his beat on the wall
at the southwest corner Of the yard his right leg
gave way and he fell from the wall. but fortu.
nately the outer side where the distance to the
ground is only about nine feet. Nevertheless he
was badly hurt about his head. No one saw him
fall and it was not until he had climbed back to
his place that the guard on another post discov-
ered by the blood running down his face, that
something had happened, and sent for assistance.
Mr.. Dorr was brought to the hospital where Stew.
ard Hall found it necessary to put six stitches in
large and ragged cut on the forepart of his head
He received a number of bruises and his wrists
were badly sprained. He sent to his home
where, at last accounts, he was doing we'll. Had
he fallen to the other side of the wall he would
have gone down fully 80 feet which would have
almost surely proved fatal.
The appearance of the chapel last Sunday was
a pleasant surprise to the inmates. We have met
in the chapel, looked at the same bare, white
walls, cracked and streaked, since it was re.
built after the fire of 1884, But last Sunday it
bloomed out in brand Easter turnout
The ceiling is painted in oil. light buff, trimmed
with SIENNA. The heavy iron girder in the center
is a shade lighter and relieved with small orna-
ments in gold bronze. The caps the columns
are dark brown, lightened up with gold. The
columns are finished in copper bronze and havea
rich effect. The side walls are done in fresco
colors light tawny yellow with a heavy lilac
border upon which is heavy scroll in snuff
brown. The border is edged with light fringe.