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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-23

Nine Hours Work for Ten Hours Pay.
Have you ever realized" said bust
ness man recently, what nine hours
work for ten hours pay means? Sup
posing factory employs fifty hands at
two dollars day, which is twenty dol
lars an hour for ten hours work. There
fore nine hours work means giving each
man twenty cents day, the fifty men
ten dollars day, or three thousand
dollars for the three hundred working
days in year. But that is not all. In
order to turn out the same amount of
output, the manufacturer must make
up this one hour by hiring one new man
for every nine men, or five new men for
the fifty men. The five new men, at
two dollars a day, cost ten dollars day,
or another three thousand dollars for
the three hundred working days, a total
of six thousand dollars, or twelve per
cent extra cost on an output of fifty
thousand dollars. If the manufacturer
does not make up the lost time by hir-
ing the new men his payroll has, never
theleSS, increased three thousand dollars
a year, while his output will have de-
creased ten per cent. because of the one
hour in every ten granted the men. 1t
means again additional space or addi-
tiOnal machinery for the five new men.
which represents another three per cent
at least. Thus you see that the demand
for ten hours pay for nine hours work,
which looks so innocent on it's face
amounts to fifteen per cent. extra ex-
pense on the cost of the goods. when
the average profit is only about six per
cent. Therefore, except this is made
a universal rule everywhere any monu-
facturer granting it will simply be
wiped out by the competition, having
this fifteen per cent. disadvantage. :
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-23
What Next?

Telephony and telegraphy are to be
revolutionized. That is the declaration
of number of gentlemen who applied
for articles of incorporation in Chicago
for company with a capital of $780,
100000. The concern is known as the
Harrison International Telephone COM
pany. The telephone will comprise
what will be known as the long distance
typewriter, a system of telegraphy
which is calculated to abolish the dot
and dash and render the art of the oper-
atOr devoid of commercial value. The
blessings of the telephone itself will be
explained later on. The typewriter will
be more or less of the ordinary charac-
ter. For example, one is placed in an
office in Chicago, another is in an office
in New York. Each is connected by
an electric wire. The owner of the ma
chine at one side or the other wishes to
send message to the corresponding
house. He hands his communication
to typewriter. Each word is spelled
out and an exact fac simile produced
on the machine with which it has been
connected. This machine adjusts itself
automatically, requiring no lever to lift
the paper for the new line. 1t is in
tended to bring it into use in sending
newspaper dispatches. The typewriter
can be used in short distances as well
as long, and one set of words can be
sent on a regular circuit as by the pres
ent Geographic methods. The cost, it
is said, will be One-third less than tele-
graphy. The chief advantage of the
telephone is that it does away with the
necessity of the central operator. The
cost, too, it is said, will be less by at
least One-third than the present rate
1t is intended to charge $50 for an in
strument in business office and $50 in
a private Chicago Herald
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-23

The PRISON MIRROR was founded in
1887 by the cOnvicts and is edited and
managed by them. It's objects are to
encourage moral and intellectual i'm
prOvement among the prisoners; to &C
quaint the public with the true status
of the prisoner; to disseminate penolOg-
ical information, and to aid in dispelling
that prejudice which has ever been the
bar sinister to a fallen mans self-re-
demption. The paper is entirely de-
pendent on the public for it's financial
support. If at any time there should
accrue surplus of funds the money
would be expended in the interest of
the prison library. The subscription
price is 81 per year.
The Prison MIRROR is topographic
ally almost perfect, and is printed with
good, clean type on a cream-tinted pa
per. Its first page contains original
contributions in verse and prose from
the prisoners; the second page contains
editorial comment on pathological mat
tiers and digest of the Geographic news
of the week; on the third page is the
local news Of the prison and more orig
inal contributions, while the fourth
page is devoted to the Chautauqua class
papers, miscellany and few ADVERTISE
ments. Among the convicts writing
for THE PRISON MIRROR there have
been from time to time bright, erratic
fellows, whose work has been sought by
outside papers, and at no time has there
been an absolute dearth of literary
genius. In fact this paper printed in a
prison and produced by the prisoners
would take high rank among the
country papers of the state if it was
published by free men in free com
munity.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-23
GIVE US INTELLIGENT JURORS

There is undoubtedly a wide margin
for reforms in the criminal law. While
the laws defining crimes and the modes
and measure of punishment have been
revised and improved in all or nearly
all our states, those regulating proce-
dure, pleadings, and evidence in crimi,-
nal cases, have undergone but little
change, except what has resulted, says
a prominent lawyer, from the mere
lapse of time, in heaping precedent
upon precedent and rule upon rule by
judicial decisions, until the whole fab
ric has become a mass of bewildering
incongruities, which do but serve to
shield the guilty from punishment"
The modes of procedure and the law of
evidence in criminal cases are very ar
tificial, and, in many particulars, run
into extreme "subtleties," "technicali-
ties," and sophistries," which set COM
mon sense at defiance, disregard the
rights and safety of the community,
and operate as a shield to the viOlatOr
Of law. Look at the rule which, when
conspicuous crime has been commit
ted, excludes from the jury the most
intelligent men in the community, be-
cause they have read newspaper &C
count Of it. Now, the reading of such
accounts must necessarily make an in
voluntary impression upon the mind:
but if the person so reading has no
personal acquaintance with the prison
er, nor with the murdered man, nor
with the Immediate friends or relatives
of either, he can rarely have any such
prejudice, one way or the other, as to
unfit him for juror in the case. The
whole law in relation to the qualifica-
tions of jurors needs to be revised.
Not every man who is invested with
the elective franchise is qualified to
discharge the solemn and weighty du-
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-23
Curiosities of the Calendar for 1898.

A study of the calendar for 1893 will show that
the present year will have some pecularties. To
begin with it commences and closes on Sunday,
and contains all or part of So weeks. Each of the
seven days of the week has the honor of being
the first day of at least one month. Three of the
months begin on Wednesday, while Sunday,
Thursday and Saturday are each the natal day
for two months. There are three months, April,
July and December, that cover part of six weeks
each. Washngton's birthday comes on Wednes-
day and Decoration day and the glorious Fourth
fall on Thursday Thanksgiving will fall on Thurs
day, the last day of November, and will be the
latest Thanksgiving celebrated within the last
decade. In fact it can never be any later in the
wear. Old Santa will visit us ON Monday. AS
this is the Worlds Fair year, all these pecu-
iarities are excusable.-Er.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-23

ly retired from his personal memory.
The realm of fiction, as well as the de-
partment of philosophical and specu-
lative discussion are fully covered by
the publishers of our American maya
zines, SO that all the questions of the
time are treated from the American
stand point. If anybody prefers to inn
port either his fiction or his opinion, he
can easily do SO in English books and
magazines, which furnish the appro-
pirate vehicle for them.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-23

The detention of ex-convict" Char
lie Mitchell, the pugilist, at New York,
was an unexpected ~ whack to his
English friends. Funny no one as yet
has said that it was "a put up job"
But he was released. And Mitchell
must now feel like the boy when school
is out and he is on his way home.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-23
THE PRISON MIRROR is a weekly pa

per published in the Minnesota State Prison. It
was founded in 1887 by the cOnvcts and is edited
and managed by them. It's objects are: to be a
home newspaper to encourage moral and intel
lectual improvement among the prisoners; to
acquaint the public with the true status of the
prisoner; to disseminate pathological informa-
tiOn, and to aid in dispelling that prejudice
which has ever been the bar sinister to fallen
mans self-redemptiOn. The paper is entirely
dependent on the public for its financial sup
port If at any time there should accrue a sur
plus of funds the money would be expended in
the interests of the prison library.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-23

ties of a juror. Jury duty is most re-
sponsible and is really burden to men
fitted for its proper discharge 1t
should therefore be assigned to men of
intelligence and character, business
men and property holders, and not to
every common labOrer.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-23

A man with rights and no sense of
righteousness, is dangerous man. His
political power is easily bought and
readily sold i'll the market, he is led
with awful facility into unlawful COM
binations. he becomes a social curse in
every community. Look out for him.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-23

1t seems as if American readers must
be tired by this time of the ordinary
EnglishsOciety-nove procurable in any
quantity at cheap rate. 1t has to do
with form of social life more conven-
tional than our own, with scenery less
grand and attractive, with personalities
more feebly individualized, and with
events and incidents as much less in
teresting than those of American life
as the conditions of English life are
more artificial than ours. Men may
talk as they choose, or as they believe,
about age as being necessary to the
creation of an atmosphere of romance
We do not agree with them. A child's
age of romance is it's own childhood.
The life it lives, and the things it sees
about it, form it's romantic realm; and
the childhood of nation is peculiarly
its romantic age, not only to the age
which succeeds it, but to itself. There
is nothing more interesting to an Amer
lean than good story, either of his own
time or of the time which has hard
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-23

No American of ordinary habits of
observation can have failed to notice
that in those sects in which much is
made of religious emotion. and the pol
icy of powerful public appeals to feeling
is persued, the moralities of lite are at
a discount. The same fact is evident
in those communities where dogma and
doctrine form the staple of religious
teaching and religious life. If any one
will take up the early colonial records Of
New England, he will be surprised and
shocked at the amount of gross immo-
rality which he will find recorded there.
Rightly of doctrine, the illumination of
the most terrific punishments in the flu
ture life, the passage and the execution
of the most searching and definitive
laws against every form of social vice,
go hand in hand with every form of
vice. There was adultery in high places
and adultery in low. SANDER held high
carnival. Common scolds were almost
too common to be noteworthy. In brief,
it seems that religion which makes
most of it's orthodoxy, or most of it's
frames and emotions of mind, is a relig-
ion most divorced from morality. A
man who is told that the genuineness
of his religion depends mainly upon the
orthodoxy of his faith, or mainly upon
the raptures of his mental experience,
is either partly demoralized by his
reception of the statement, or specially
untitled to meet the temptations of life.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-11-24

Detroit and $4,000 for benevolent pur-
poses. The total amount raised by the
church and all Its societies for the year was
%, 60334. The membership had been in
creased by 80 received by letter, from the
probationary list and IL others received on
probation, making the addition for the year
70. The removals were by letter. 2, and by
by death, 4, leaving gain OF 81 for the
year. The total membership now is sos
while there are also "a probationers.
The trustees report, given by DIR. Il. S.
Knapp showed, besides all money raised
| for other purposes, that $3, 594 95 had been
received and paid on the church indebted
ness. The doctor pointed out the very
happy contrast between the condition of the
church as 1t Is now and as 1t was few
years ago. when they deemed 1t impossible,
without calling on the ladies aid society, to
raise the minister's salary of $500.
The official board, through Louis Flick
niger, reported the amount of So, 293. 80 as
having been raised for current expenses
during the past year. The financial matters
were well kept up. A change in the per-
sonnet of the board has been made, ladies
being now allowed to be members. There
were now four ladies and nine gentlemen
on the board and Mr.. FlckinLer compli-
mented the lady members saying, that
judging by the way in which they had
worked. he thought it would not be long
before much larger proportion of the
board would be ladies.
Supt. ID. M. Christian reported the Sun
day school to be in flourishing condition.
The average attendance for the year had
been 80 and during that time they had
raised S3lO.79.
Pres. McElwaine Miner, of the Epworth
League, reported that body to be in grow
ing and prosperous condition. The junior
building society had during the year dis
banded and Its members merged into the
league. 1t had raised $432.97 of the grand
total.
Mrs. Belle Ash spoke of the growing
upon the home missionary society,
of which she is president. This society had
$12S.6S.
The woman's foreign missionary society
had raised SS6.15. Its work was presented
by the president Mrs. A. Sherman, illus
trated by the secretary's report. The ladies
aid society had raised more money than any |
other separate society had, their treasury |
showing additions amounting to $432.9S |
Its president Mrs. Ii. Ii. Daniels spoke of |
he large part the society had played in the
building of the church and of the other
work done.
In all, the exercises were of such q ma
ure, and the results of such character, as
o greatly encourage all to renewed efforts
o make the next year even more successful
han the past has been.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-11-24
TERRIBLE WRECK /,

Sales Begins Saturday, November 25th
p. ID. Geiershofer 81 Co., of New York,
one of the largest manufacturers of fine
clothing In the United States, shipped four
carloads of clothing to j. b. Talbot q Co IS
large wholesale house at Chicago, Ill. AT
Alpena. ILL.,, one of the worst freight wrecks
known in the history of railroading occurred,
and wrecked the entire train, scattering
clothing and other goods in all directions.
The cars took fire but the flames were soon
gotten under control with but slight damage
TO the fine stock of clothing which the cars
contained. j. b. Talbot Il Co. settled with
the railroad company and accepted the stock
consisting of fine tailor made clothing for
mems, boys and chidren's fall and winter
wear at Il less than the actual cost to manu-
facturers. Th stock, amounting to $72,-
10000, being but slightly damaged by
smoke and water only. j. B. Talbot 81 Co.
did not wish to place this stock in their
large wholesale house, and engaged Mr.. A.
ID. McAfee to dispose of this immense stock
for them. The entire stock has been ship
ped to OwOssO, Mich, to be sold i'm eight
days only at less than e the cost of manu-
facture. The entire building on west Ex-
change street in the new Dimmick block
has been leased for eight days only. Sale
begins Saturday, Nov. 25th, at 10 o'clock a.
M, and will positively close Saturday, Dec.
I'd, at 10 o'clock p. m. Do not fail to attend
this great wreck sale as an opportunity like
this may never occur again.
We mention few prices
Mems cashmere suits in
round and sacks and
three and four button
getaways, worth Sill 80, only $500
Mems suits in square and
round cut sacks in wor-
steds, tweeds, etc.,
xyortb 1G m only r QS
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-11-24

lots, tricots. etc., worth 100, only 7.9s
Mems suits In double
breasted sacks In chew
Mems suits, pure wool and
SILK mixed In different
Styles and patterns,
worth ------- 24.00, only 9.25
Mems finest dress suits in
imported clay worsteds
In all styles, WORTH $500, only Is. rs
Mems suits In Prince Alberts and other styles
the finest tailor made will be sold accord
ingly.
Boys suits at OIL cents and upwards.
$500 fine tailor made storm and dress over
coats In meltons, beavers, chinchillas, kerr
seys and imported whip cords will be sold
at S2.25. and upwards. And thousands of
other styles and qualities too numerous to
mention.
This sale will positively close in eight
days, ending SATURDAY, December ID,
at 10 o'clock p. m. Look for the large sign
on the building on West Exchange Street In
new Dimmck block. Make no mistake.
Look for the wreck sign.
j. ID. MCAFEE, Manager.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-11-24
owosso Talks with New York.

The long distance telephone was formally
opened Wednesday afternoon, at quarter
past three, Manager Sprague, Division
Supt. Stacy and number of subscribers
and business men being present. Mr..
Stacy who will soon assume the manager
ship of the Owosso exchange had connected
nineteen extra ear phones to the long dis
lance circuit so that number could listen
to the conversation at the same time. De-
troit was first called up, 1t being by Detroit
the other connections were made, and the
voice Of Gen. Supt. Land could be heard
palmer than il he were talking in the room.
Port Huron was called up next and could
be heard by all more distinctly than the
majority of the phones in the city can be
heard at the central Office. After Port
Huron, Jackson was calleI and was also
heard distinctly.
Chicago was the next city to have the
privilege of talking with OwOsso, and the
listeners at the latter end of the line were
highly pleased with the dlstinctness with
which Chicago could be heard, there was
no buzzng and rafting, just the clear dis
tinct voice. The weather had to be resorted
to as a topic of conversation and 1t was
found that in Chicago. as here, 1t was
cold, cloudy day.
After finishing with Chicago, converse
ton was carried on for some time with De-
troit while waiting for the New York line.
The ticking of watch was very distinctly
heard from Detroit. Then the final test was
made and for the first time Owosso people
heard words which were being spoken in
New York city, over 1875 miles of wire.
The sound of the wire at this test was
still clear and plain though fainter than
at the other trials, and, though the weather
along the line was unfavOrable it was en-
tirely successful. The voice from New
York pronounced the day dark and cloudy
also.
Ii is needless to say the business men
were highly pleased with the successful |
operation and the long distance phone in
Owosso will undoubtedly do business from
the start 1t is expected that a night opera
tor will be put on soon and Sunday service
will also be provided.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-11-24
Anniversary Exercises at the M. E
Church.

Sunday was the second anniversary of
the dedication of the first Methodist church
in this city and the morning service was
occupied with reports from the presiding
officers of the various societies connected
with the church, summing up the work
done by them during the year just past.
The reports showed what was before evident
the prosperous condition of the church,
and its members may well rejoice at the
amount of work they have been able to ac-
complish.
OF the work in general, Rev. Bancroft re-
ported that $3l. so had been raised for the
Epworth church in Saginaw; $37.S5 to aid
in purchasing the bishops residence in
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-11-24
Marriage Licenses.

List OF letters remaining uncalled for al
the OwossO pOstoffice for the week ending
Nov IS, 1898: Libbie Sthral, John May
berry, s. Hubbell. Neva Smith, Sue Smith
K. K. Shaw, Fred Shook, Rev. K. ID. Hart.
ley, A. G. Barton, Ella Bell, Nellie Bird
w. ID. Church, Courtliu Carpenter, Jennie
Fairfield, Morey Rose, Richard A. Ralph
Mrs. Dana X. Bennett Drops: Henry j,
Wright, Chas. Bartz Mrs. Jas. Ellis, Mrs
Mary A. Allen, Mrs. Name Anderson.
Foreign, r. j. MARI. Third class matter,
Mrs. Dana X. Bennett. Fourth class mat
ter, Mrs. Dana X. Bennett.
Geo. Welte, the famous photographer OF
this city has something special to offer IN
photographs this week. His work has been
scattered all over the country and people
know that when thew go to his gallery for
photographs they get the best there Is made
and now he offers for short time only, and
for cash when sitting one doz. of his best
cabinets and one extra picture framed up
in nice large heavy gilt frame Sxl0 inches
In size all for So 90. Don't miss this chance
as it is for short time only.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-11-24
Florida on Wheels.

"Floridas Rolling Exhibition" is State Fair
on wheels, tenth wonder of the world. It is
has been entered by more people on the inside.
gaZed at by more people on the outside than
any car ever built In the history of railroading
and has done Florida more good than all the
fairs she ever held.-Charlotte N. CO. Daily
Observer Will exhibit in Owosso, Monday,
Nov. 27, day and evening, ut M. c. depot.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-11-24

Two thorough bred bull dog pups fol-
sale. Inquire at Banister's grocery.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1893-11-08
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