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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-04-07
Prisons in Russia.

With Russian and European armies sepa-
rated by mere imaginary boundary. every
thing relating to the great empire and it's
population aggregating IS. 6s5, 900, assumes
new interest on account of the critical state
of affairs. Perhaps in the last few years
we have heard more about Russian prisons
and prisoners than any of the other institu-
tions and classes of that unhappy country.
The Russian Penitentiary Administration
in its report just published for the year 1889,
shows that an effort has been made to trans
form the prisons from 'living tOmbs." which
they were formerly, and organize work
shops and schools for the cOnvicts. During
the year 1889 the product of the work
made in the St. Petersburg prisons
amounted to $51. 076, of which sum SIG, 900
was absorbed by the purchase of necessary
material. According to articles 338 and 24O
of the penitentiary regulations sum of
$13, 584 has been reserved for the benefit of
the prisoners. The principal trade con-
nected with prison work in st. Petersburg
lis weaving. Thus more than 1914, 446 yards
of linen were woven on $50 looms. The
quality of the linen was excellent. and the
price was inferior to that of linen produced
in private mills. Up to January 1, 1889,
the different penitentive prisoners of the
male sex formed in most of the localities
from 20 to 40 per cent. The cOnvicts formed
Is per cent of the tOtality of the penltenti.
airy population of the empire. The exiled
by judiciary sentence, opposed to those ex-
lied by administrative measures. constituted
60 per cent. The number of exiles by ad-
ministrative means, including those expelled
by commune sentences. has increased per
cent during the year.-Illustrated Christian
Weekly.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-04-07
why Not Call 1t Stealinge

1t is a matter of wonder to most people if
the eminent scientists who spent so much
time in inventing the society disease known
as kleptomania ever paused to consider the
fact that they were creating term for
theft merely adjusted to the grade of the
thief. A bank president of religious repute
never steals; he defaults or embezzes. A
refined woman dawdling over the glove
counter and slipping an extra pair into her
muff without payment is not thief: she is
kleptOmaniac.
Doubtless there is such disease as KEEP
tomania just as there is such disease as
hOmicidal mania. But why is the Offense
committed by poor and under paid girl
who violates trusts and steals to support
her helpless mother not covered by the
cloak of disease? Why is not the theft of
potatoes by poor woman not the result of
disease aside from that known as starva-
ton? KleptOmania in inelegant detective
technique is ''shop- lifting" and ''hoisting."
If kleptomania were dropped out of the
vocabulary and plain shop lifting substi-
tuted, there might be fewer cases like that
reported in our news cOlumns.-St. Joseph
Gazette.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-04-07

Appetite Waddlings: Me good Teddy. dire cir
cumstances have driven me to the embarrassing
necessity OF imposing upon your graciousness to
the extent Of asking of you little something
wherewith to stay the pangs of hunger
Mrs. Prudence Thrift: Why, certainly. my poor
man. You will find the woodpile behind the
house.
Appetite Waddlings: Thank you, me angel, but
when decide to turn my digestive apparatus into
a wood pulp mill will call at a lumber yard.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-04-07
The Review of Reviews for April.

The principal article in the April number of the
Review of Reviews is an elaborate discussion by
DR.. Albert Shaw. editor of the magazine, of the
most current phases of municipal problems in
New York and London, illustrated with a large
number of very fine portraits of distinguished
men in the two great capitals of the English.
speaking world. The article is divided into six
parts, as follows: l. London's New Government,
its Framework and its Results. 2. New York's
Present Government, and How to Reform It, g.
The Proposed Greater New York. 4. London's
Municipal Statesmen and their Programmes S.
The Tammany Statesmen. and How they Run
New York. 6. On Land Taxation and Municipal
Monopolies. For the purposes of his article Mr..
Shaw interviewed Ex.Mayor Grace, Ex.Mayor
Hewitt, Mr.. Erastus Wiman. Hon. Andrew H.
Green, Mr.. Horace Deming Mr.. Henry George,
Mr.. Robert Graham and Mr. John H. Finley. each
of whom has been able to bear expert testimony
as to some phase of municipal matters in New
York. On the English side of the article, there is
much interesting information regarding the cleo.
ton of Londons great Municipal Council, with
quotations from the platforms of the successful
candidates. The article is very finely illustrated
with portraits of Lord Rosebery Sir John Lub.
book. Ex.Mayor Grace, Ex.Mayor Hewitt, Mr.
Deming, Mr.. Andrew H. Green. Mr.. Erastus
Wiman, Mr. William Steinway, the Rev. Dr.
Charles II. Parkhurst, d. D., Dorman B. Eaton,
Henry George. and such representative members
of the London Council as John Burns, Sidney
Webb. w. II. Dickinson, R. M. Beachcroft and
John McDougall. There is also map of the pro-
posed Greater New York. The article is full of
information of a timely char act er upon municipal
problems in general.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-04-07
Familiar With 1t.

Eminent Physician: You have the grip.
Old Gentleman: Well, well! That's what it is. chi
Eminent Physicians: Yes. sir. You never had ii
before. presumed
Old Gentleman: Never had it before? Land
sakes I've had this sort of thing off and on every
winter for the past eighty years.-Puck
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-04-07
For The Mirror.
1OAs
Gems.

Gems
Failure is the front door to success.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to
guilt.
But few things are impossible; he can. who
thinks he can.
Hope is like the cork to the net, which
keeps the soul from sinking in despair.
Straws show which way the wind blows,
and trif1es indicate the bent of character.
Abuse is the argument of bad heart
calm reasoning is the logic of good head.
Our character is revealed, our neighbors
find us out to be genuine or spurious, by
what we say without thinking.
The essence of true nobility is the neg
lect of self. Let the thought of self pass
in and the beauty of great action is gone.
Iron becomes magnetized by the magnet
against which it grinds; and the soul be-
comes assimlated to that on which it thinks
continually.
Life is a book of which we can have but
one edition. Let each days actions, as they
add their page to the indestructible volume.
be such as we shall be willing to have an
assembled world read
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-04-07

Oculist: There is nothing whatever the
matter with this eye. 1t suffers only through
sympathy with the other eve.
Sufferer: wouldn't mind its sympathiz.
ing little. doctor. but it makes me tired to-
have it shedding tears over it all the time.
Chicago Tribune.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-11
SMILES AND sNowFLAKEs THE FAD.
An Odd Mixture Of April Weather Dealt
Out to Piitsburg Yesterday

The Weather Bureau is being moved from
the Schmidt building TO its permanent home
III the new Government building. As a re-
suit nature was neglected and hence the
pOte DOurTi of sunshine, shadow and snow
storm dealt out to Pittsburr and vicinity
yesterday. 1t is also averred tha5 as the
weather had spiritualistic tendencies it
was kicking because its Headquarters were
being taken so far froG the great source of
spiritual nourishment. At ali events Aprfl
with his alternate smiles and tears had been
left out in the cold and his tears became
snOwnakes. The thermometer started off
yesterday with register OF 302. Soon after
II lumned TO 350 and varied between there
and 81 all day. 1t kept within the snow
limit al! the time, and nature showed and
smiled just as il suited her fancy. 1t would
blow for time like Dakota blizzard, and
the snow WAS binding. a few minutes later
all would be calm and the sun would smile
like Gay in june.
1t WAS n duh day in Allegheny and De-
tectlNe FRED zimmerman put in the time by
making bets on tie weather. His bet was
on sunshine and snow every IS min
u'C-. and curing the day he won IL bets ont
O. Il. Another intcrestia. feature OF the
day was the women who, iured by the sun,
VcutGrcG out in their new Easter bonnets
4 snow storm would catch them and tney
could be seen huddled together in door
way waiting for another CLEAN of sunshine
When 1t came they would proceed until the
snow again overlook them, when they
would find another doorway and repeat the
waiting operation until they regained their
homes
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-11
INDIANS ON THE ALERT.

A Part OF Tribe in Wisconsin Trying to
Beat Another Section-Having squan-
dered Their Patrimony, They Now Want
a Share Of the Land Remaining.
Albert Miller, an Indian lawyer, was at
the Union depot last evening going to
Washington. He was a fine specimen of
physical manhood, over six feet high, and
was as intelligent as he was handsome. He
represented the stockbridge tribe, who
live on reservation in the
Green Bay country, Wis. These
Indians are the descendants of the
Mohican tribe that J. Fenimorc Cooper has
immoriaized in one OF his novels. "The
Last of the Mohicans' is one of the most en-
tertaing in the Leather Stocking series, and
every school boy is familiar with the e1cit-
ing story. Mr.. Miller is very proud that
Cooper should have selected his tribe around
which to weave his famous romance.
The lawyers mission to the Capital IS to
protest against the passage of q bill intro
duced by Congressman Lynch, a Democrat,
who managed TO carry the district last fall.
In 1913 part OF the tribe separated from their
brethren, and asked the government to give
them their lands in severalty. This was
done, and having squandered their patri-
mony, they have since been demanding ad-
mission into the tribe an equality with
those that remained and claiming a share
of the land. Mr. Miller says the
outsiders succeeded in having introduced
this extra ordinary privilege. Lynch is the
author of such measure in the present
House, and the Indians sent Miller with full
power of attorney to Washington to pre-
test. They haven't much fear that the bill
will be passed. but tho kickers have always
been favorably received by the Democrats
on account of their political strength
Mr.. Miller states that the Stockbridye In
d1ans have always main tanned their tribal
relations. Thew have become civilized and
their land, consisting of two townships is
now very valuable. In the lengthy docu-
ment giving him the power of attorney it
says 1t was done by the action Of the Sacliem
councillors in convention assembled. Their
grievances are then unfoided in
detail. Mr.. Miller says those who
want to return to the tribe
are not full-blooded Indians. In the early
days they were picked up by the redskins
as proteges. Some of them are colored, and
the lawyer adds that nearly all nationali-
ties are represented among them. The mix.
possible to trace their descent.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-11
TURNER'S In CONVENTION.

Members of the Pittsburg District Hold a
Meeting in McKscsport - They Will
Convene Here Next-The Annual Turn
Fest Comes to the Southside.
Yesterday the twenty-eighth annual con-
vention of the Pittsburg Turner district
was held in the handsome new hall of the
local society recently dedicated at Nc
Keesport. The occasion was one of the
most important to the German element
ever held there. There were So delegates
present, representing 20 of the district socic-
ties, accompanied by many friends. The
most important features of the convention
were the election OF officers, passing resolu-
tions. and hearing reports from the several
districts. The delegates were met at $3.50
o'clock by committee and were
escorted to the hall at 9 A. NJ. The
convention was then called to order
by President G. Ishen, OF Pittsburg,
at 10 O'Clock. when the opening addresses
were made and the delegates credentials
were received showing that IS delegates
representing 20 societies or 5000 people were
on hand.
The officers for the year are as follows:
PRESIDENT, William Wartman, of Pittsburg;
Secretary, John Hohl, Pittsburg: Assistant
Secretary, August Zech, East Liverpool, o.
The Treasurer and other officers held over
for the year.
The Twenty-ninth District Convention
Will be held on the Southside one year
hence. The annual Turn Fest will also be
held on the Southside this year. running
from June q to 60 The convention adopted
resolutions fayoring the opening of the
Worlds Fair on Sunday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-11
BUSINESS HAS MOVED
As Predicted One Year Ago, and Market
Street Has Proved to Be tho Best Lo-

As Predicted One Year Ago, and Market
Street Has Proved to Be the Best Lo-
cation.
It is evident the time has passed when we
have to make our purchases in O few blocks
of the city OF Pfttsburg. on streets where
landlords have increased rents to such
enormous rates that every article Of mer-
chandise costs 2j per cent more than it
should. Market street in former time was
the best business street in the city, and will
be again. The useless places are giving
away to legitimate business, and there is
not a store Tor rent on that street at present
Its cellars, all being above high water mark,
makes it sure from losses by floods The
low prices Of property and rents on Market
street give business men an advantage Of
undersclling their competitors.
One year ago Stoughton & Stulen opened
fine wall paper and painting establish
ment under the style of house decoration
at l01 Market street, corner First avenue
formerly the well-known retail stand of
Porterfleld & Stevenson), and have this
year increased their stock of goods SO as to
make it the most attractive in quality and
prices in the city. The taste displayed in
their selections from their long experience
in harmony of colorings puts them away in
advance in the business west of the noun
tafns, being equal to the interior decoration
of any of the Eastern cities. The following
is the departments OF their business: Wall
paper, picture moulding and relief decora-
tions. house painting, sign painting. fresco
paintings, tinting, etc. Telephone SIG.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-11
THE BOYCOTT PREMATURE.

A Printer onaciaI Thinks 1t L. Better to
Help the Compilers of the City Directory
The Publishers Are tho People They're
After.
The city directory boycott is being felt
on every hand by the compilers of the book,
but whether 1t is policy to work ban at
this stage of the game is questioned by some
printers
"I think the placing of a boycott on the
directory" said a printer official last night,
"was little premature. 1t would be better,
to my mind If the union people Of the two
cities would turn in and help the canvassers
as much as possible. I think it would be
better policy. 49,.
"J. F., Diffenbacher, the compiler of the
directory. has never placed himself on
record as being against union labor, and
that is one reason why think the book
should not be boycotted at this time. He
has contract with Stevenson b Foster, the
printers, which was made for five years. l
do not know how long the contract has been
made, but know it was drawn up long be-
fore the present strike, when Stevenson
Fostor were employing union labor. For
these reasons think we have no right to DO
Mr.. Diffenbacher and his assistants an in
jury,
"My plan is to give the compilers all the
help possible, and let them get the copy into
the publishers hands early. Stevenson &
Foster are bound by their contract to have
the book finished by certain time. If they
do not they will be the losers. I think we
can make them come out ut the short end if
different tactics are adopted. If we go on
with the boycott the publishers will get the
better OF u.s. The copy cannot be gotten in
at the required time under the present cir
cumstances, and II the contract is broken
by one party the other side will have the
same privilege.
III the boycott goes on, the city directory,
in the language of the prin ter, will be 'pf.'
The canvassers are meeting with trouble on
every hand. They go to the house OF q
union Ia boring man and when their business
is stated, are treated very coolly. The per-
son who is interrogated either blankly re-
fuses to give the Information or lies. The
latter method has been largely adopted and
great many people are giving fictitious
namea.n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-11
PHYSICAL CULTURE At THE FAIR
Col Parker Thinks q Home Should B.
Built to Train the Children.

Hu1lt TO lr21n the Cn1ldrCn.
Colonel Parker, President of the Cook
County Normal School. was on the limited
last evening going to Chicago. He had been
in Philadelphia attending the annual meet
ing of the American Physical Culture So
ciety. He says 4 number of valuable papers
were read, illustrating the various systems
in usc. Physical training in schools
has received a wonderful impetus in the last
few years. In the leading colleges for both
sexes as much attention is now paid to de-
velopiEg the body as the mind. At present
the Swedish system rs advocated by Lingg
has the call, but in Chicago, Kansas City and
other Western cities, the Turner system
of Germany has beer introduced. The
American or athletic plan has also a
number Of followers. Colonel Parker
says any OF the systems are good and there
is nothing in then: to inf ure the most delicate
constitutions as has been charged. In some
of the Eastern schools the girls complained
that the exercises were too violent and hurt
them, but the movements that caused the
trouble were eliminated from the daily
regime.
Colonel Parker is most interested in the
school exhibition for the Worlds
Fair. a gymnasium will be pro.
vided in which the various
systems of physical training can be Illus
trated by teachers. TO make the Fair as edu-
ucational as possible the Colonel has recon-
mended the building of a homo for children
in which all the youngsters visiting the Fair
could be taught by practice what physical
training means. Mrs Potter Palmer has in
dorsed the idea, and Colonel Parker thinks
such home will he established.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-11
KNOWN BY THEIR DOGS.

| One Way to Pick Out an Actress In q
Crowd-They Seldom Travel Without
Canines-Not Allowed to Stop In First
Class Hotels.
The average actress will not 60 on the
road these days without dog. 1t may be
an ugly pug, dainty poodle, or big New
foundland, but irrespective of the breed the
canine is obnoxious to frst-class hotel pro-
prietors, and a rule gets the players into
no end of trouble. Still the comely crea-
lures will have them, even If they como
high. Bernhardt and Patti have managed
to get great deal of advertising out Of their
dogs, and this is probably the reason why
they carry them. Indeed, the French ac-
tress has been refused admission
TO number of hotels on account
Of her menagerie. In Pittsburg
the Anderson is the only hotel where posi-
tive ban exists against animals OF all kinds.
Four-footed beasts in particular are not
wanted, and the rule would not be broken
for President Harrison.
Last Monday morning Rose Coghlan, with
poodle in hcr arms. had scarcely alighted
from her carriage in front of the hotel when
TIE eagle eye of Mr.. Bonneville, the clerk,
inform her that the little brute would not
be allowed to stay in the house. A parley
ensued, and then. with q tear and a sigh, the
actress ana poodle parted company for the
live at a cheaper hotel
Some actresses knowing the peculiarities
OF hotel men ADOPT shrewd devices to snug
Gle tho CANNES into the house. Beatrice
Cameron, leading lady for Mansfield is one
OF these. She stopped ut the Anderson
during the holidays, and was there for
half a week when the dog was betrayed by
accident He was small pup, and Miss
Cameron had prepared an innocent-looking
basket as kennel for him. 1t was lined on
the inside with wool, and when the lid was
closed the basket would pass the closest
scrutiny from lynx-eyed hotel clerks. 1t so
happened at the Anderson, and even Chief
Clerk Crosby, as sharp as he is, was fooled
by the clever actress.
- The basket was placed on the office
counter while she registered, and the clerk
wondered what kind OF fruit the lady car
ried in the receptacle. Visions Of grapes
oranges. peaches, etc.. loomed up before
him, and he mentally congratulated Miss
Cameron on her good sense in carrying q
lunch while travelling. But the animals
own friekiness gave him away few days
later He couldn't resist the temptation to
puns his head playfully out of the basket
while n servant was in the room. His indis-
cretton cost him his lodging in the hotel
and Mr.. Dog was promptly shipped with tine
maid to another hotel.
When Bernhardt's manager wrote to the
Duquesne for rooms for the great Sara, he
apologetically added thatnewspaper reports
to the contrary, she only had one doy,
and lie could stay in the baggage room. On
this condition Bernhardt was accepted, and
she gave the hotel people very little trouble
during the week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-11
TOOK TOO MUCH LAUDANUM.

Constable Robert Hughey, OF Allegheny,
Found Insensible on the Street.
Constable Robert Hughey, of Alderman
Drinkers Office, Allegheny, was found in an
unconscious condition early yesterday
morning lying at the foot of the East street
steps leading up Nunnery Hill. 1t was pre-
sumed that he was under the influence of
liquor, and he was removed to the Allegheny
Central station. When taken there Hughey
was rigid in every limb.
Stewart Hamilton, the turnkey, fearing
the man was dying, called DR.. Hazard. The
latter worked with the man for two hours
and consciousness was restored, but not
sufficiently to give the man freedom of
speech. He was removed to his home, at
the corner of Compromise street and Spring
avenue. An empty four-ounce laudanum
bottle was found in his pocket. DR.. Hazard
stated that the insensibility was due to
hughey's having taken this drug. No
thought of an attempt at snicide is enter
tanned, because it is said that Hughey is
addicted to the laudanum habit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-11
JARRETT COMING TO PITIsBURG.

He Resigns a Consulsnip for Position
With a Manufacturers' Association.
A vacancy exists in a fat consulate in
England by reason of the resignation of John
Jarrett of Pennsylvania, consul OF Birming-
ham. The salary is $2,5Oo year, but un-
official fees make the place worth about
900 more. Mr.. Jarrett, however, after
three years residence in the smoky city OF
Birmingham. has come to the conclusion
that he prefers the still smoker city of
Pttsburg and he will resume his old position
with the Tin Plate and Sheet Iron Asso-
citation Mt n guaranteed salary of s. 0C0 year
for l2 years. .
Folsom, consul at the neighboring city of
sheffield. fastened to put in his application
for promotion. 1t is understood, however,
that he has been notified that his application
was received too late, and that the appoint
ment of Cyrus Field, Jr, to the vacancy has
been practically determined upon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-11

DIR. W. G. BISHOP & Bro. announce to the
citizens of Pittsburg and vicinity that they
have opened their Odontunder Dental
Parlors at 70s Penn avenue, where they will
make the painless extraction of teeth a
speciality without the use of chloroform,
ether, gas or vitalized air or any dangerous
drug. Under their process the patient is
perfectly sensible of what is being done, but
suffers no pain in the operation. They in
greatest and only absolutely safe local
anaesthetic in use. DR.. Bishop & Bro. are
the sole owners of this anaesthetic for Alle-
gheny county, and the only dentists author
lied to use it. They will extract a tooth free
of charge for every person wishing it for one
week to demonstrate that Odontunder will
do just what is claimed for it.