The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-06-08
Following is the grade report for the month

1Lliu II
Last Fridays saltwater Gazette says: This
is Friday. Warden 'WOlfer reports that it was
unnecessary to buy any fish to feed the cOnvicts
to day-he caught enough at Lake De Montrevie
yesterday Yes, we had fish for breakfast last
Friday-codfish.
We regret to announce the fact that Rev. M
E. Murphy. for several years chaplain here, lies
PROSTATE with sickness at his home in West Su-
perior. His many friends among the inmates
will join us, we feel certain. in wishing the good
father a return to health.
Guard Forester went to Minneapolis last
Saturday afternoon to visit his wife who is
patient in st. Barnabas hospital. Mrs. Forester
has been an invalid for a long time, and lately
has suffered great deal, having been confined
to her bed since last January. The hospital ply
sicians now hold out cheering hopes of speedy
recovery; this good news will be jOyfully re-
ceived by the many friends of Mr.. and Mrs Will
Forester.
The monthly report of the population of the
different state institutions. submitted by Secre-
tary Hart is as follows: st. Peter hospital, 9S7:
Rochester hospital. 1,121; Fergus Falls hospital
pa. Total insane. 1889. Soldiers home III .
Deaf. 2O5; blind, 81; feeble minded. 1892 State
public school, 142. Reform school, $685. Reform
atOry. 1885, State prison, 343. Total in all nst-
tutiOns 4.OSS; increase of 249 over the cores
pOnding month of last year.
Last Monday Warden Allen of the Joliet pris-
on, accompanied by B. j. Durfee and D. Heenan
of the board of prison inspectors, visited our
prison for the purpose of obtaining pointers on
the binding Irvine industry as carried on here. 1t
is their intention, we understand to inaugurate a
similar plant at Joliet to be worked by the prison
inmates. Should their plan materialize, they
propose to use sisal as we'll as MANILA in the
Irvine manufacture. and their machinery will
nsequently differ somewhat from ours.
This paper should be suppressed" said
Engineer Jones last Thursday, as we handed him
a copy of THE MIRROR. and his usually good-nat-
ured face was distorted with malignant scowl
that was fearful to behold. We tremblingly asked
what we had done. bone? why you are getting
out such good paper that if forget to carry it
home my wife will give me no peace until
l return for it, Mr.. Jones had had his little
joke; the assumed frOwn disappeared, and a
smile as bright as the midsummer sun glancing
over pebbly beach irradated his handsome
cOuntenance.
Our eX-devil was the meekest. mildest-man-
nered imp of satan that ever entered printing Of
fee, but since his promotion to the case, and from
second to first grade he has strutted and swag-
gered around the office with the air of a veteran
sport who had played winner at the races.
He insists that the one thing necessary to make
our paper the most popular publication in the
country is sporting column, and he modestly
hints that his vast knowledge in the field of sport
would pre-eminently fit him for the position of
sporting editor. We have promised to give him
issue.
Chaplain Albert, who is also critic and one
of the most active members of our local Chautau-
qua society, has in preparation paper on " Chau-
tauqua Work in Prison." which he will read at
the Worlds Fair, Chicago, on the 18th prOx
The work could not. we feel confident, have been
entrusted to ADLER hands, and the Pierian circle
may rest assured that it will be worthily repre-
sented at the white city, We have secured half
promise from Mr.. Albert-whO, by the way is
singularly averse to appearing in print-that he
will furnish THE MIRROR at some future day
with copy of his paper, SO that our readers may
enjoy the treat, at least at second hand.
We have heard and read of various devices
resOrted to by the genter sex. in order to escape
the attentions of a too persistent wOOer. or to
hurry his departure, SO that she may catch at
least an hour of "beauty Sleep" but the way the
Blue Earth City girl "got gait on the editor
of the Paramount Sentinel, one evening last
week, is certainly cOmmendable for its original
ity. In his own wOrds:-She gave him pencil
and paper with one of her sweetest smiles and
said: Now make a row of eleven ciphers now
make perpendicular mark, One-half inch long,
downward on the right of the first cipher; up
ward on the right of the fourth: downward on
the right of the fifth; upward ON the right of
the seventh and eighth; downward on the right of
the tenth" She asked him to read what he had
written. The effect was electrical.
The Causes of the Present Financial
Distress.
What then, have been che chief factors in pro-
ducing that disturbed condition of the money
market, that loss of business confidence and that
sharp collapse of credit, which filled the news
record of May with long list of business failures
and suspensions, and which has inflicted sort
of paralysis upon the commercial and industrial
life of the country?
First and foremost, in our opinion, this state
of affairs must be laid at the door of our polit-
cians Their failure to settle the silver question
in one way or in another is of itself sufficient to
account for much of that Oversensitiveness of the
money market which has checked the flow of