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Medical Testimony.
w. Thornton Parker, NJ. D., Recorder,
Association of Acting Assistant Surgeons
of the U. S. Army, writes:

Association of Acting Assistant Surgeons
of the U. S. Army, writes:
"SALEM, MASS, March %, 1891.
when at Stuttgart, Germany, during
the winter of 1SSlS2, L was suffering
from a severe attack of bronchitis, which
seemed to threaten pneumonia. met,
at the Hotel Alarquardt, Commander
Beardslee, OF the United States Navy.
In speaking of my sickness, he remarked:
Doctor, you can cure that chest trouble
of yours by using an ALLCOCK'S Porous
PLASTER That may be true,' L
answered, 'but where can got the plas-
ter?' Anywhere in the civilized world,
and surely here in Stuttgart. Whenever
L have a cold, L always use one and find
relief 1 sent to the drug store for the
plaster, and it did all that my friend had
promised. Ever since then l have used
it whenever suffering from a cold, and
have many times prescribed it for patients.
1.-The ALLCoCK's PLASTER is the best to
be had, and has saved many from severe
illness, and undoubtedly, If used
promptly. will save many valuable lives.
Whenever one has severe cold they
should put on an ALLCoCK's PLASTER as
soon as possible. 1t should be placed
across the chest, the upper margin just
below the neck; some hot beef tea, or
milk, will aid in the treatment.
This is not patent remedy in the OBJ
iectionable sense of that term, but a
Standard preparation of value. The gov
ernnent supplies for the L. S. Army and
Indian Hospital stores contain ALL
COCKS PLAsTERs, and the medical pro-
fession throughout the world are well
aware of their reliability and excellence.
l shall always recommend 1t, not only to
break up colds, but as useful in allaying
pains in the chest and in the back. 1t is
a preparation worthy of general conf
dence,p
The record-union., 1893-02-13
RUSHING THE FILE.
First Reading Lists We're Finished
Up Saturday.
The Sherifrs Fee Bill Beaten Again
Resolutions on the Death of As
semblyman Price Another Batch
of New BiIls-A Reform Resolution
DaIactad

Gesford made another "fght' in the
Senate Saturday to reduce Sheriff S fees
by taking from that Office the receiver
ship perquisites. on Friday he made an
imprisoned speech against the substi-
tute bill, which leaves these fees with the
Sheriff and he declared in stentorian
tones that Sullivan and Dwyer of San
Francisco were behind the scheme TO rob
the City Treasury of that city. He had
been approached, he said, by the new
Sheriff of San Francisco, and told to
come off" with his objections. he
made just another sort of speech Sat
urday i'll support of his motion to recon-
slider the vote by which his pet measure
was defeated. He had an amendment
providing that the law should not go
into effect until 1695-hoping thus to quiet
Sheriff McDade of San Francisco, who
has been lobbying against the proposition
like Trojan. But the Senate rejected
the amendment, and then reiterated Its
vote of the previous day.
The joint committee appointed to draft
resolutions on the death OF Assembly
man Z. b. Price of Butte reported to
both houses Saturday. Their resolu-
tons were as follows:
Resolued, By the Senate and Assembly oil
the State of California, that in the death OF E.
Is. Price, late q member OF this Legislature
the people of the State of California have lost
diligent, faithful and patriotic public ser
want; citizen who in public, as well as in
private life, buried self lar out OF sight and
wrought Tor the good of others. No faint OF
gain ever touched his hand, no surrender OF
principle ever marred the colors of the banner
he bore. The great purpose of his life was
just planned out, but he was stricken down IN
the midst of duty, before his ambition could
be realized or the aspiration of his life full
filled.
Resolved, That his career furnishes a shining
example OF one who, choosing his life werk
loved IL with an unwavering love, believed IL
ii with an unalterable and tireless devotion
and attained to eminence before he had
rounded two-score years.
Res0tved That 10 the bereaved family Of the
deceased we tender our deep and heartfelt
sympathies.
Resotped, That copies of these resolutions
be transmitted to his family and be entered IN
full in the journals OF the Senate and Assem-
bly,.
The resolutions were adopted by rising
votes.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

We rejoice to know that the gamb-
ling devil did not quite succeed in drag
ging ex-state senator Whiteman of Du-
luth into his insalubrious domains of
crime. OF his timely escape from it's
clutches he says:
have been careless and reckless and
have lost a fortune in speculation and
gambling. have brough hit ruin and dis
grace on myself and on heartbrOken
wife and mother; l have been most hap
PLY married: an unkind word has nev-
er passed between us. When the troub-
lie in New \ Ork was settled and every
thing paid l was in such an agony of
spirits that l determined to end my ex-
istence, but some still small voice said
to me: "Don't; there is yet time to un-
do the wrong you have done, to begin
again and profit by the past" l have
rich and influential friends who are able
and willing and anxious to help me if
show them that am sincere in the SOL
emn oath / have taken never again to
speculate or gamble in any way, shape
or manner, and with the grace and help
of Almighty God 1 shall keep that vow.
We can echo every word of this self
accusatory denunciation. The accursed
habit of gambling and the Elusive belief
that luck must turn has been the cause
of bringing us, and many better men,
here to chew the cud of repentance and
reflection. 1t is the most demoralizing
habit, it asks something for nothing: it
destroys the temper and breaks up the
family circle, it drags man down to
evil associations and prepares his mind
for crime which on some i'll turn of the
wheel he hastens to commit; he bushes
his conscience, even if he has the sense
to hear it's pleading, by fattering tales
of success and repayment
Laws against gambling are numerous
and strong on the statute books of every
state, but the money power of the pro-
fessional gambler is too much for blind
justice who grOpes around in vain
search for an honest, resolute man to up
hold and enforce the will of the people.
There is no question but that large
majority Of the people are against gam
blers and gambling; yet the unity of
the minority defeats the ill organized
opposition of the majority. There is
wanted Gideon to WELD the sword
of the Lord and lead resolute chosen
band against the enemy.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

In an article in or Prison Mission
arg of Feb. %. 1898, on the convict who
has served his time and is out in the
world again, we read as follows:
Now he begins life in earnest He
goes to work, he saves money, he at
tends church. Soon he finds some peO-
pie are reserved, uncOrdial, unfriendly
to him: they shun him and he knows
only too well it is because he has been
in prison. He hears the remark, "There
goes an ex-convict," and he sees the
speakers finger pointed at him. He is
discouraged. Why must people recall
his past? Has he not paid his debt
to society? He may in utter despair
return to the old companions of former
days. And then, amid his associates of
vice and crime, he finds his friends.
Our contemporary must suppose:
First, that the world is entirely peopled
by Pharisees: Secondly, that the man
has no courage, self-respect or will-pow-
er to overcome obstacles: Thirdly, that
a man who has been a criminal and in
prison has not learned that friendship
that noble fruit of true lOve-cannot
be found among willing criminals. No
man is friend who will reach out to
drag an enfranchised fellow back into
the pit of vice.
He who has wronged society must
know that obloquy from certain quar-
tiers is the sure supplement of his GRIM
inal acts. But only coward gives way
at the first repulse; let man attend to
his business in quiet, unpretentious,
upright manner and the fellowship of
men worth knowing will surely come
to him.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

One of our correspondents of this
issue advocates paternalism which is
adverse to the human demand for in
dividual liberty and the divine law Of
personal responsibility. Upon the hui
man being has been bestowed the knowl-
edge of good. 1t is his to choose his
lot, whether to be the slave of finite
intellect, or to be the humble but free
and happy follower of the infinite crea-
tor in whose image his immortal soul
is moulded. The complex man has
both intellect and divine inspiration to
guide him through the shoals and
quicksands that his animal desires have
made for him. They are plainly visible
to the understanding mind and instinct
lively avoided by the shrinking soul.
Surely he who makes his intellect his
god-his ultimate court of appeal
should have no fear of trusting to it's
guidance in so we'll charted an archipel-
ago as the sea of sin. The soul ruled man
is safe, for he has within him the COM
pass of conscience which infallibly
points to the POle-star of right. The
self ruled man sails gaily and safely
as long as the breezes of circumstance
blow as he would they should. But
with shifting or adverse winds he relies
on his false god, himself, and is wrecked.
He then, having been self betrayed in
to the hands of the law, desires not to
stay where he is harbored from temp
tation and crime, but would again
launch himself onto the fretful sea:
and he would restrict the unalienable
rights of others so that his unreliable
god should not again strand him on
rock or shOal.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20
Hebrew and Chinese.

When boy becomes utterly incorrigi-
bic in China his parents have perfect
right to put him out of the world The
punishment however of a parricide is
not only death, but slow and lingering
death. In these two aspects of social
life the Chinese laws are like unto the
Mosaic laws. The decalogue lays en-
phatic stress on the duty of children to
their parents, and further on in Deuter-
onomy, 21st chapter, it says "the stub
born and rebelliOus son" may be stoned
or drowned without reference to the
authorities. Are these pecularities
common to the Hebrew and Chinese
races an indication of common des-
cent from some stock less remote than
Adam, or did the great minds of Moses
and COnfucius each see the true key to
moral and social life-the honoring and
obeying of parents.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20
Respite.

browsing on Sunday afternoon, lay
in that sweet interlude that falls be-
tween waking and sleeping time
when all beings are seen of one COM
plexion and the vague dreams play
among the thoughts and the though
60 astray among the dreams. My
mother, who has been dead almost half
my life, appeared to lean over me in a
house far away that once was home.
All the troubled years that have lapsed
were as if they were not. The voices
that are hushed in death were in my
ears; the looks and motions that 1 had
forgotten were in my eyes, and they
disowned the tears that once again be-
meath their lids are hot. LIBERTY.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

teach those whose habit of writing was
diffuse to condense; and lastly, to en-
courage the difident to come forward
with the crowd; and, leaving melancholy
behind, to forget self torture in plain
of wider thought. Our idea has result
ed so successfully, that we intend con-
tinuing the series, treating weekly on
some subject of outside interest or
moment.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20
moment

The passing of the German army bill
whilea great qualification to the EN-
peror, is not at all re-assuring to those
fighting for popular liberty. There
must have been a certain amount of
treachery or corruption to so rapidly
change decided majority. The friends
of liberty can 10 longer be sure that
any apparent majority will withstand
those magic wands of autocracy, cajol-
cry and corruption.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

In copying our decapod Worlds Fair
article, the st. Paul Daily Neaos very
fiatteringly encourages us, saying:
The editor of THE PRISON MIRROR
has perpetrated unique piece of jour
nalistic enterprise in gathering from
his contributors, now behind Stillwa-
ter's gray walls, lot of opinions rela-
tive to the Worlds Fair.
Our idea in inaugurating this style of
article was: First, to show the outside
world that prisoners can think reason
ably: Secondly, that their thoughts
were in various directions: Thirdly. to
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

The confessions of Gallagher and
Davidson who now swear that they
wrongfully swOre away the freedom of
Dempsey and Beatty in the Homestead
poisoning case, can have no real weight.
Men so base as to swear away the liber-
ties of fellow-men for bride, and not
save themselves, are just as likely to
swear to another lie to help themselves
out of a hole or for bride from the
other side.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

There are apparent two little clouds
on the horizon of European peace aris-
ing not out of the sea of European poll
tics but from the intercourse of Eu-
rope with outside nations. CIashing
interests of the great powers in Siam
and Egypt, unskilfully handled, may
precipitate war, or series of wars,
which close diplomatic attention to
European affairs has so ably averted.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

Mr.. Storer, congressman from Ohio,
had a prophetic inspiration or keen
foresight when on April 23rd, he pre-
sented bill to provide for an interna-
tional ratio between gold and silver
and to suspend the purchase of silver
bullion from and after July 1, 1893.
Will he be like the scriptural prophets
mot without honor save in his own
country
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20
THE PRISON MIRROR is weekly pa
a,,hliShnd in the Minnesota State Prison 1t

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
prisoner; to disseminate pathological informa-
ton. and to aid in dispellng that prejudice
which has ever been the bar sinister to a 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, 1893-07-20

The silver pot-pourri on our front
page shows that meditation and seclu-
sion within our monastery has not
evolved any more light onto this vexed
question than is possessed by the null
titude outside.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

Were it-not for a decided difference
in the color of the water you would
never know when the Atlantic is left
and the Rio de la Plata entered. The
high-rolling, white-capped pillows are
the same, and no land is visible. for the
great river which James DiaZ de Soils
discovered is 125 miles wide at it's
mouth, though with an average depth
of only fifty feet.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

Secretary Hart of the State Board
of Charities and Corrections has re-
turned from trip of inspection of
northern county jails. He reports them
much improved since the new Jail law
went into effect. From all accounts
there was room for improvement.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

They are making glass neckties at
the Worlds Fair. To make few of
hemp for the laundering idiots who
lately caused the death of so many
brave firemen would be far more to the
purpose,
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

Shade of Hiawatha! what vengeance
will thou not wreak upon the vandals
who have tapped the water supply and
caused the fairy falls of Minnehaha to
run drv,
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

The Pine Knot of ClOquet, Mimi,
put on it's tenth ring with it's last ISSUE
May it ever increase in volume as we'll
as volumes.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-20

A shooting star-Buffalo Bill.-Pack.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-07
PANIC IN AU ) TRALIA.
Business Is at a Standstill, and
Thousands of Men Out of
Work.
Unemployed Seeking Any Chance
to Leave the Mammoth
Island.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 6.-News
brought by the steamer Mariposa today
from Australia is of a discouraging
tenor. The closed banks are trying to
resume, and business is at standstill.
Strikes are imminent, and tens
of thousands of people are
out of work. A number of
coal mines have shut down, wages of
sailors are being reduced and omnibus
drivers went out on a strike because
their wages were reduced from $40 to
1915 per week. The unemployed swarm
along the docks, seeking a chance to
stow away On any vessel bound for the
United States, and Oceanic Steamship
company's sheds at circular Quay had
to be turned into place for the desti-
tute to sleep in. The Mariposa's sec
ond cabin andsteerage were crowded.
Nearly all those who came up were men
and women who were once well to do.
but who lost nearly all in the general
crash. They could not spare money for
a tirst-clasS passage, and consequently
had to come up in the steerage. Many
of them hoped to make a new start in
California.
The governments of Victoria, New
South Wales and Queensland are doing
all in their power to relieve the situa-
ton, with some degree of success. One
of the measures adopted by the govern
ment of New South wales is
the establishment of state bank.
a committee of six, appointed to take
testimony. made the following report:
That, after careful deliberation, they
are of the opinion that the establish
ment Of government bank of
issue is not only practicable,
but urgently Gacssssry, aud sug-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-07
THE HUMBUG OF INSPECTION.

A kerosene lamp left burning in the
kitchen of a Undertook tenement gener-
ates gas until it eXplodes and scatters
the fluid about, and the tenement burns,
and three, possibly four, human lives go
out in eXcruciating agony.
A dominant political party, controlling
the legislature and the executive, re-
Numbering the days when the campaign
treasury was replenisbed by the liberal
contributions of the oil inspectors, en-
acts an Oil inspection law, which this
time is court-proof; and the governor
appoints an inspector. ana he his subs,
whose duty it is to test every gallon of
oil brought into the state, and to con-
denim any that may flash at lower de-
gree of heat than that prescribed by
law.
The oil in the lamp which exploded
and burned the Bethel and sent three
lives into eternity, and leaves another
agonizing between life and death, was
inspected" There is an absolute pre-
sumption that it was, because the law
says it should be, and there is the in
spector and there are his subs, and
there are the fees. If it were Gin
spected," past experience shows US that
it might still explode. but if it were in
spected it could not explode.
Are the old tricks being played? Are
the inspectors stencils left with the oil
companies to be applied to the barrels
by their employees as of yore, while the
inspection of the inspector is confined
10 the bills which the companies pay
him for the inspection he did not make?
We know well enough how these mat
tiers went under the old law, whose pur-
pose was simply to gather campaign
funds; are they going the same way
nnW2
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-07
DENOUNCED IRBY.
South Cardinals Junior Senator
Attacked by an officer of
the State.
The Statesman Called a Liar and
Vulgar Bully and Brag-
CART.

COLUMBIA, S. c.. July 6.-Hugh l..
Farley, adjutant and inspector general
Of South Carolina under the reform
regime, has written an open letter to
j. l.. NJ. Irby, junior senator
from this state, Genouncing him
in very severe language. Senator Irby
is chairman of the Democratic party i'll
South Carolina and leader of the reform
movement. Gen. Farley charges the
senator with maligning and mis-
representing him, and with debating a
letter 10 his private secretary to be
sent to the Augusta Chronicle with the
Chronicles regular correspondents
name signed to it. Gen. Farley
charges the senator with trying to
crush every anti-reform man
VINO Will not do his bidding, and says he
would drag the state mo bl0OdShed 10
crafty bis malice and ambition, Gen.
Farley calls Senator IEby the cham
piOn liar of South Carolina, and
concludes his letter, which fills
three columns, by stlgmatizing him as
loW-mouthed, Vulgarmannered bully
and braggart, who has diSgraced the
state III Washington, and brought dis
cord INFO the reform ranks by playing
'i4~ WV " olSt"tOA anu " i1HA. lie says
Senator TROY has done nothing worthy
OF distinction except Ito strut around
Washington like big buck Niger OH
Emancipation day." and that he is
trying to make innocent and unsuspect-
Ing people believe that the bray of
Jackass is the roar of a lion"
Gen. Farley also says that Senator
lrby, by his course in Washington,
has made an ass of and subjected him
self to the Scorn and ridlcule of the
whole country and knowing that his own
power is gone, he attempts TO blacken
every man of whom he cannot make
tool. and does it by linking Gov. Till
mans name with his. The letter has
produced tremendous sensation in po-
iitical circles i'll South Carolina, and
developments are anxiously awaited.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-07

geSt that its functions should
comprise: First, the sole right of issue
of note currency upon gold and
fidueiary basis. in addition to govern
ment stock. Second. that 10-shilling
notes should be issued in addition to de-
nominations of the usual note currency.
Third, the business of all government
departments in connection with the re-
celpt and expenditure of revenue; that
the management OF such banks should
be entrusted to board of commission
ers, to be appointed by act of parla-
ment, and removable only by vote of
the legislature.
The government adopted the sug-
gestions, and when the Mariposa sailed
the formation of the bank was under
way. The government stood by the bank
of New South Wales and paid 9319,000
III gold into its treasury. Fro
ceedings were also taken TO restore
large quantity of gold in the closed
Australian joint stock bank into circula-
ton. The shareholders of the Bank of
Victoria held a meeting while the
MaripOsa was at Sydney and decided
to wind up the bank. The affairs
on the Mercantile Bank of Melbourne
are reported in a bad way, and the de-
positorS cannot get cent of their mon
ey. The Australian joint stock bank
is to be reconstructed, and nearly all
Queensland banks are getting on their
feet again.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-07
GIVES THE SNAP AWAY.

The silver miners have called a ma
tiOnal convention to meet in st. Louis
next month, TO which they invite their
fellow feelers from all over the world.
Lack of transportation precludes them
from extending their invitation further.
But what we started to note was the ex-
IRENE sim plicity of our conten. porary,
the Republic, OF that same simple old
town, which cautions the silver aggre-
CATION to be careful about making pub
lie in the convention the fact that they
want the purchase act kept at work if
they can't have free coinage, for the
market it will afford their bullion. Go
slow on the protection side OF your talk,
gentlemen, says the too frank Republic,
but lie down hard on the need of more
money under which everybody is groau-
ing. The Republic lacks cuteness, with
all its intelligence. Such suggestion
should have been conveyed in letters
marked confidential. or whispered to
the delegates in dark corners after they