The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-01
LOCAL. PICKINGS.

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Statement of population Aug. 81: Working
for Thresher Co., IA; working for state, 1885, sick
and intirm, II. Total population, S14.
This has been red letter week with us,
three men pardOned and one parOled. The wish
of THE MIRROR is that God may speed them.
We have been pleased to receive from Mrs.
A. A. Misener "Bible Readings" hansOme
bound volume which will prove valuable adj
dition to our library.
The following table is the grade report for
the month of September:
First grade. 100
Second grade. 100
Third grade. ......... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 70
Guard Carlgreen is jubilant over the good
weather that is helping him to add feet on that
retaining wall. He has twenty-five "gOOd men
and true" under him who are making things
hum.
We were pleased to note how neat and at
tractive our new hospital looks. The windows
with their shades and plants. together with the
green turf in front gives a home-like appearance
to the surroundings.
Members of our ChautauQua circle will be
pleased to learn that the books pertaining to the
studies 1929 have been received. They cover
the studies on Grecian History, subject always
of interest to the student.
Chaplain Albert got home Saturday, and re-
ports himself greatly refreshed by the outing.
He says that Chicago is growing inward outward
and upward, and that the Worlds Fair is al
ready the most stupendOus thing on EARTH
THE MIRROR sent to C. H. Nelson and j. E.
Murray Minneapolis, and to j. A. johnson. st.
Charles MIMI, are not taken out and remain
dead in those offices. The paper addressed to
j. H. Strayer should be sent to Stockholm, Wis.,,
Engineer Jones took advantage of the cool
ness of Tuesday evening to make a test of the
remodled steam heating system. To use his own
enthusiastic language, g 1t works like bird with
ball bearings and pneumatic tres.'' There was
not a rattle in it-Only SOULFUL soothing "swOO-
co.
A beloved eX-assOciate handed us the follow
ing 'Song without music which will be ap-
preciated coming from the source that it does:
mo more We'll hear the whistles tOOt, or the
hash-pan gently scOOt beneath our chamber
door: no more We'll hear the changing gong or
that old Jays matn sOng saying, g Sinner, snooze
no more"
On Monday night one of our boys came very
near concluding that life was indeed but an emp
his cell he saw an object gliding nOiselessly
through the air, and was driven almost to mad
ness in trying to find out where the unknown got
his power of lOcOmOtiOn FROM i've got them
again it seems. but I'll try again." Shading his
eyes with his hands he at once solved what
seemed at first an intricate problem. 1t was
simply our Thomas Cat who was walking up and
down the steam pipes which run in front Of the
wOuld-be victims cell.
Guards Flannery and Murphy are feeling
out of sorts, caused, they say by the hOrrid
weather we have just passed through. But still
for all of that, "there was the merry twinkle in
the eyes," and we gathered ourselves together
to find out the thisness of the thusness. All at
once two silvery and golden rays flashed from
their immaculate bOSOmS. We raised our cap to
salute what at first we took to be the Order of
Cincinnatus ct cetera ct cetera, but after artist
ically forming our hands in the tubular shape of
a telescope, we beheld-twO campaign buttOns!
We exchanged the customary "yOu-knOw V" wink
and sadly leaning our head against the cold
grey wall yearned for liberty.
Things come to him who will but wait - is
a very wise adage handed down to us from an
tiquity, and Deputy Lemon took advantage of
the bad weather with vengeance by ordering
Guard Carlgrens gang, unable then to work on
the wall, to rise up in their might and make way
for our new Dining room. For couple of days
it seemed as if the 'dOOrs were being thrown
through the windows ''-beams flying through
the air-pandemOnium reigning supreme. The
Deputy claims that the Dining hall will be
thing of beauty and a JOY forever, and the boys
will wait with Impotence to see that he keeps
his word to the letter. The wall which separates
at present the two halls will be converted into