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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

The st. Paul Pioneer Press of Nov.
Bird argues that workingman stricken
down and paralyzed by the negligence
of an employing corporation, should
not get exemplary damages because the
corporation is a new concern lately
established and beneficial to the city.
A more gross case of special pleading
than the following, is rarely seen in
jOurnalism: Enormously excessive
damages are often given by juries; but
they are rarely so heartless or so stupid
as to give them when their effect is pal
pably ruinOus to valuable business
enterprise in the success of which the
whole body of citizens take interest -
1t is true that $4,000 is excessive, and
that $4,000 would assure more than
his natural annual earning capacity to
any day labOrer. Yet, something is due
also to the enjoyment of life which he
is bereft of. Justice should not be gov
erned by expediency. Corporations or
any other kind of employer should be
forced to exercise due care for the well
fare of their servants.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

O,r Prison Missionary Light speak
ing of the Joliet prison says: son
Thanksgiving every prisoner is given
two cigars. This we strongly condemn
and is the only criticism we can make
concerning the prison." And again
prisoners are divided into classes ac-
cording to their crimes; every class has
great contempt, it is said for those of
each other class" These excerpts put
side by side are almost on par for
absolute stupidity and lack of insight
as those made in a late issue concern
ing President Cleveland's papal jubilee
letter. If prison is reformatory,
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09
THE PRISON MIRROR is weekly pa

per published in the minnesota State PrlSOn. IC
was founded in 1887 by the cOnvicts and is edited
and managed by them. Its 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
prisoners to disseminate pathological informa-
ton, 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 sur
plus of funds the money would be expended in
the interests of the prison library.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

The Boys Industrial School Journal
Lancaster, Ohio, of Oct. 28th., comes to
us with an elegant cover, designed, en-
graved and printed by the inmates. 1t
does the boys great credit and is worthy
of the interior brightness.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

The Summary, published at the New
York State Reformatory, issued it's
5OOth consecutive number NOv.5th. Its
efforts are to enlighten and reform and
should be successful.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

The Rochester Post has started on
it's thirty fourth volume and is more
potent for good year by year.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

Starting in on it's eight volume the
Austin Democrat appears on our ex-
change table with ever increasing
brightness.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

Patti has arrived with NicOlin two maids and
twenty-eight trunks full of gorgeous costumes
The latter will exc out the waning voice to take
up its collection for the support of Craig Nos
castle.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

Speaker Crisps thorough knowledge of parlia-
mentary tactics and prompt grasping of an op-
portunty shut out fiibustering on the silver bill
when presented to the House. 1t was passed
while the opposition were mapping.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09
CURRENCY.

Robbers tried to elope with Ada Rehar-in
silver.
Kentucky's first experience with secret bal
lot will probably a tale unfold if the count is
honestly made.
The empty shoes of ChicagO's murdered mayor
caused rivalry and free fsticuffs in the Windy
City's common council.
San Francisco for its winter exposition secures
most of the best side shows of the Worlds Fair.
as well as all the naughty ones.
-- ~ q
Silver bullion did not go to the "demni ton
bOw-wows.'' On the first burst it sank ~ cents
but has recovered and now stands at SO cents an
ounce. u.
Silver will not be longer purchased. 1t is not
even known or expected that that which is now
on hand, enough to make some $4,000 600, will
be coined.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

congressman, like school boys released, are
lavish in the last moment and appropriate
enough money to give New York a little side
show of the Worlds Fair pickings.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

Is the Russian Mediterranean squadron now at
Piraus after Thanksgiving Turkey? Would it
not be possible for the "Great Bear'' to surprise
COnstantinople from both sides and be in posses
sion before England or the Dreibund could move?
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

The country simply reeks with robbery, muir
der and suicide. undoubtedly the joint outcome
of hard times and unrest.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

Gladstone'S official crown is lined with thOrns.
Redmondite rebellion and reported detection
within his cabinet leaves him no bed of roses to
lie on. His tenure of office is by no means sure
and any petty skirmish may develop Waterloo.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

The irregular nature of the weather during late
August and early September is now explained.
The assistant weather juggler at Duluth was
careless and incompetent, got indications mixed
up and switched cold waves in wrong directions
He has been dismissed.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

In some places politics and the jury box are
now so closely related that trials of politicians
or those having political pull go by default of a
jury after repeated eXhaustOns of the venire.
The new trial of Coughlin in Chicago and the
nOlle pros of the Memphis sheriff indicted for
neglect Of duty, are indications of this con-
clusOn.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

Boston Judge and jury have practically
found the Minnesota Title Insurance company
to have obtained $4,000 by Misrepresentation.
Is that kind of confidence game above reprOach
and the law. There are men here doing con-
siderable time for rObberies of less than one
dollar. They made no breach of trust nor did
they weaken confidence in the honesty or stabli-
ty of wealthy community and its collateral Sc
curities.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

Besides one deed of guilt, how blest
is guileless woe!-.BuzaCer.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

Robbers tried to elope with Ada RehaE-ir
silver.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-09

The great and warlike tribe of Matabili Zulus
has learned by this time the folly of mere savage
courage, however we'll disciplined, hurting itself
against modern war machinery. The reports
come that over 5000 have fallen in the various
fights against the British columns now in their
country to nict reprisals for outrages by the too
confident savages They are race of magnf-
cent humanity; but shield and assegai cannot
cope with MaXinm guns and Martini rifles.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-28
DAINTY work For Feminine Hands.

On North State street there Is a bright
and happy young woman who has made a
success of herself as an assistant to fash
ionable house decorator She thinks the
employment q capital one for girls and
wonders why more of them are not to be
found unrolling wall papers and coaxing
undecided clients to let her suggest schemes
of coloring for their rooms. She says she
began as n bookfeeper, but was advanced
as soon as her employer found that not only
she could as well as any man persuade the
customers who did not know their own
minds TO take precisely those goods which
the establishment wished TO get rid of, but
also had on eye for color and patience to
find just the thing more determined people
had in mind.
1t is pity some other Chicago girl isnot
doing the taking little pastel dinner cards
which are brought TO this town from Phil
adelphia. A certain artistic maiden there
found that her graceful and apparently
careless sketches of children's heads OF
flowers or butterflies had caught. the fash
ionable fancy, and her hands are full doing
orders for this and other dinner giving
towns.
And there IL Miss Mary ID. Bates, the
now famous "illustrative designer whom
the California commissioners asked TO pre-
sent TO them her idea Of the illustrative
work that would best represent their state
Mt the Worlds fair. She began her now
important business rs n designer Of decors-
tions with stock I'm trade, rs she herself
put IL, OF "a pair Of scissors and reel O,
wire" Now she has seven yseng women
TO assist her in making houses gorgeous
with flo-. ers aud drapery for weddings and
balls. She lends money to other women TO
enable them to raise the sorts Of flowers
she most needs and in many other ways
finds the power OF helping less happy sis
tiers. which is the brightest reward success
ful women know.--Cbicago Tribune.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-28

fried cakes, and heard the cover on the
crock rattle. and just then heard the
old tin lantern rattle on the brick floor
of the cellar. The deacon said, 'Merciful
yoodness; Pa said, Helen Damnation. /
am stabbed and Ma yelled, Goodness
sakes alive and then there was lot of
dishpans on the stairs begun to fall, and
they all tried to get up cellar at once,
and they fell over each other, and, oh,
my! what a frowy smell came up to the
kitchen from the cellar. 1t was enough
to kill anybody.
''Pa was the first to get to the head of
the stairs, and he stuck his head in the
kitchen and drew long breath and
said: 'WhooSh! Hennery, your Pa is a
mighty sick man. The deacon came up
next, and he had run his head into
hanging shelf and broken glass jar of
huckleberries, and they were all over
him, and he said: Give me air. Earth's
but desert drear' Then Ma and the
deacon's wife came up on on gallop,
and they look tired. Pa began to peel
off his coat and vest and said he was go
ing out to bury them, and Ma said he
could bury her, too, and / asked the dea-
con If he didn't notice q FAINT odor Of
sewer gas coming from the cellar, and
my chum said it smelled more to him as
though something had crawled in the
cellar and died.
"Well, you never saw sicker crowd,
and felt sorry for Ma and the deacon,
cause their false teeth fell out, and
knew Ma couldn't gossip, and the deacon
couldn't talk sassy without teeth. But
you'd "a died to see Pa. He was mad
and thought the deacon had put up the
job on him, and he was going to knock
the deacon out in two rounds, when Ma
said there was no use Of getting mad
about dispensation of providence, and
Pa said one more such dispensation Of
providence would just kill him on the
spot. They finally got the house aired,
and my chum and me slept on the hay
in the barn, after we had opened the
outside cellar door so the animal could
get out, and the next morning / had the
fever and ager, and Pa and Ma brought
me home, and have been firing quinine
down my neck ever since.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-28
PECK'S BAD BOYS PA.
GEORGE w. PECK, WHO FROM FUNNY
MAN BECAME GOVERNOR.

How He Started In Life as Printers Devil.
The stove That Launched Hin Into
Prominence and Started Him ON His Ca
recr--His Personality.
1t is strange in this great, busy, eccen-
tric world of ours what trifing circum-
stances will redeem genius from obscure
ty and set it before an admiring audi
ence made up of the people of a great
nation. In no case does this find better
exemplifcation than in the career OF
George w. Peck, the governor OF the
state of Wisconsin. Twenty years ago
he was the publisher of an obscure coun-
try paper, with name and fame unable
to penetrate beyond the confines Of his
own county.
Depending upon the meager patronage
Of village proper trying to wear the
mantle of q city and sparsely settled ru-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-28

"Bu you'd "a dtcd TO sec Pa"
''Pa says it is malaria, but it is getting
up before daylight in the morning and
prowling around farm doing chores be-
fore 1t is time to do chores, and don't
want any more farm. thought at Sun
day school last Sunday, when the super
intendent talked about tho odor of sane
tity that pervaded the house on that
beautiful morning and looked at the dea-
con. that the deacon thought the super
intendent was referring to him and Pa,
but maybe it was an accident. Well,
must go homo and shoot another charge
Of quinine into me-" and the boy went
out as if he was on his last legs, though
he acted as II he was going to have lit
tie fun while he did last.
THE END.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-28

A pretty parasol top for a baby car
riage is made of point d'esprit lace. Over
the deep rufle forgetmenots are lavish.
ly embroidered. The cover is lined with
blue silk. Another designed for n most
nristocratic baby is Of white silk null.
over which punches of daisies are en-
broidered. This Is lined with pale green
elk.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-28
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-02

We observe that the thick and thin
supporters of the administration are
much displeased because Mr.. Stevens, in
his recent statement, attacked Paramount
Commissioner Blount.' They think it in
very bad taste, very wrong to say any
thing derogatory to the emissary of
Messrs. Cleveland and Gresham. Meme
of them however, expressed any disap-
pro baton when Mr.. Blount assailed Mr..
Stevens. When he alleged that Mr..
Stevens was a conspirator, when he insin-
uated that he tried to conceal the papers
of the legation from him, thoy had
nothing to say about personal attacks
But when Mr.. Stevens defends himself by
showing that the Paramount gentleman's
accusations were unfounded, when Mr..
Stevens convicts him of downright faisi-
fication then these servile adherents of a
jealous and unpatriotic administration
boil over with Indignation. Consistency
doesn't seem to be. among their virtues.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-02

Thorne's lips were swollen and Butter
worth had some of the cuticle scraped
from his nose. Boards nose was cut,
aud SO it went through the entire list.
But the marvel to an onlooker was how
anybody escaped entire humiliation in
the mad, impetuous plunges 1t would
have been madness for any man whose
body had not been toughened by three
or four months of preparation to indulge
in such sport. 1t looked like one rush,
and then u doctor or a coroner. From
this time forward Yale was over
Swallowed.
(From the Herald's Report of the Har-
vard-Pennsylvania Match.)
The spectators see a mass of legs and
arms and shaggy haired heads, hear a
swlshing, smashing sound as the leather
and grimy canvas clash, and when the
mass is disintangled into two elevens,
Newell, Harvard's right tackle, is seen
on the ground, hurt Newell, Newell,
Newell, is the Cry around the field; and
Newell goes into the fray again.
Emmons of Harvard is hurt in the
scrimmage and borne off the tield,- lean
ing on the shoulders of two friends. Ar
thur Brewer comes in to take his place.
Wedges and flying interference cannot
break open the Harvard phalanx, and
kicking becomes popular with both sides.
After rush Brewer falls to the ground,
but he gains strength from victory, and
the battle wakes fierce as the crashing,
jamming, fumbling hills of flesh surge
down the field toward the goal of the
men from Qnakerdom. The jamming,
hammering game continues. The heavy
breathing of the men can be heard over
in the seats. Reese of the Pennsylvania
team is hurt, and another man comes in
to take his place. Brewer, the hero,
catches the ball as it is landing from
Pennsylvania kick, and straightway
starts with it for the goal. Twisting.
turning, lodging and bending. he glides
away from all until he is locked in the
unyielding arms of Quaker. Both fall
and tumble over. Brewers mighty
strength fails him and his sides heave
from exhaustion. Gray comes in to take
his place, and brewer limps off the field,
the one hero of all the heroes. In the
softening light Gray is felled in a scrim
mage, and he, too, is taken from the
field as he chol1es down the pain from
a fractured wrist. Gonterman takes his
place. Examination after the game
showed that Gray had broken his wrist.
E1nmons was found to be badly hurt.
The exact nature OF his injuries had not
been determined at late hour last
evening, but the attending physicians
fear that he received conclusion of the
brain. They regard ibis condition as,very
serious. EmmOns was taken to his home
on Commonwealth avenue after the game
in half dazed condition. After his
first injury he continued to play against
the wish of DR.. Conant, who was seen
trying Intellectually to persuade him to
leave the field 1t was only when COM
pletely knocked out that he was carried
from the grounds. He is one of the most
popular men on the team, and his injury
was deeply regretted by every one He
is likely to be chosen captain for next
year. 1t is most unfortunate that his
injury comes at this time, when an in
vestigation into the dangers of the game
overseers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-02

hao met with no essential Sgchange, that
the alleged change in them was only
clothes deep, and that sooner or later
they would retern to the wallowing in
the mire. 1t has devolved upon Mr..
Charles S. Fairchild to break the Mug
wump spell and to show that New York
Democracy is the same old tiger. In an
ago Mr.. Fairchild thus announces his
conclusion regarding the men who run
New York Democratic politics:
But it is not alone by their despotic
use of self-chosen and self-perpetuating
party committees to control caucuses
and conventions, in defiance and con-
tempt of the wishes of the majority, that
these unfaithfui leaders have brought
scandal upon the party.
They have prostituted the name of
Democracy to the vilest ends.
municipalities have been looted, and
have been denied the right of self gov
eminent
Offices have been bestowed upon I'M
worthy persons as rewards for disrepu ia
BILE political services and as tributes to
personal friendship.
The laws of the State have been vio-
lated, the mandats of it's course defied
and common adecency outraged. All
these crimes have been committed in
the name ofsDemocracy, by men whose
sole claim to power and consideration is
that they proclaim themselves to be
Democrats.
In view of Mr.. Fairchild's exposure the
alliance between the Mugwumps and New
York Democrats will probably be declared
off until the latter are reformed some
more.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-02
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