The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-03-23

Last Saturday the genial face of eX-G Guard
John Noonan was seen around the prison. The
numerous friends of Mr.. NOOnan were delighted
to see him again. He was the guest of Asst
Deputy GlennOn.
Wayne" is an inveterate chess player. The
pawns, kings. queens bishops, ETC., he has manu-
featured out of paper. His opponent is himself;
and next week he expects to take part in soil
tary grand tournament.
The guards were paid off this month on st.
Patrick's day. That shows the confidence that
is placed in our guards. true Hbernian deco
rated the pay day notice with generous supply
of green ribbon. 'Rah for the G. o. M!
One of the boys who was telling very won
deHul story to a friend, said: "Why, my dear
fellow, / never would have believed it if hadn't
seen it myself ''Ah! just sO,' replied the
friend, but you mnst recOllect did not see it,
We never tire of looking at the great fly
wheel in the engine room. Eng. Jones informs
us that the wheel is 20 feet in diameter and
weighs Is tons, and that its revolutions in ten
hours is equivalent to its travelling distance of
4G7 miles per day.
The two HOratios at the gate have been kept
busy choppng the ice around their vicinity,
building canals. dams and rOadwayS to protect
themselves from any sudden floods. We notice,
however, that Guard Crandall is the fellow that's
doing all the chopping.
Prisoners received.-St. Louis Co. for Rape
Is years; 2 Robbery Sd degree. year 3 months
and year and months. Mobiles Co. 1 Grand
Larceny cd degree years months; for AS
sault I'd degree, years each. Morrison Co.
Manslaughter 1st deglee, years.
THE MIRROR staff. He is bashful; and he would
not say a word in his own behalf even were he
the only inhabtant of the earth. But his friends
are not built that way, and will insist on saying
that he is a true friend of the boys
That young man by the name of Harvey is ON
the hard side of his luck. His broken arm was
getting along nicely. but through his slipping
down the entire length of the outside steps of the
twine factory it has again been placed in sling.
We can only imagine what the pain must have
been.
Frank, the greatest hustler in the universe
and the greatest worker in this prison, took
charge of building the bonfres that consumed
the old straw that was used in time past for our
beds. The satisfaction that Frank took in the
work was positive answer to what he thought
of the entire affair.
just think of anyone getting ahead of a
matchmaker! But according to Guard Stilkey's
statement that's what. He has had four main
springs thus far placed in his watch, and his
friend the matchmaker says that he is running
behind on his bank account through the eXtraOr-
binary behavior of Mr.. Stilkey's watch.
The PRISONS contribution to the Worlds
Fair is now ready for shipment, and the articles
are packed in a beautiful glass case built under
the supervision of and painted by Deputy Lemon.
On the front of the case the words Products
OF THE STATE PRISON, SALTWATER MINI,
are painted. The contents are samples of hemp,
when ready for spinning and when ready for
drawing-and the Irvine manufacturedfrom the
same. A tub and pail, three dolls dressed in the
three different suits representing the grades,
together with samples of the cloth, completes the
case Sample copies of THE MIRROR were sent.
Teaching at the Concord Reformatory
Why did not John Howard put education down
on his programme for 1.-The ameliOratOn of the
condition of prisOners?" Probably he never
dreamt of such a thing ever forming part of the
purpose of prison.
Had he prOphesied the reformatores of today,
says the Boston Globe, with their schools and
libraries and a multiplicity of other advantages
for the mental and manual training of their in
mates, it is likely he would have come near to
receiving term in one of the terrible insane asy-
lumS of his time. Today education is the reform
atOry creed, and the prison school is gradually
forcing its way even into purely penal institu-
tons.
No more fallOw field can be found for the study
of criminal characters than the prison school,
In the Massachusetts refOrmatOry, where an
evening school has been conducted ever since
the inception of the institution, eight years ago.
the pupils who range in age from Is to 3d. present
a complex condition of mental development.
While one end of the institutions population,
about so in number are purely illiterate the other
end comprising not more than dozen men, have
been accidentally trained previous to commit
ment. Connecting these extremes is bulk of
over 7OOinmates, who betray peculiar educational
Inconsistencies.
A former teacher in this school referring to the
difficulties which the instructor is forced to over
come in guiding the minds of this latter class,
told the writer of the peculiar case of pupil who
was one night assigned to his class. The young
man could read easily enough, but he had never
learned to write.
The uniqueness of his case grew intense when