The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-03-07

canine mOnStrOSity in the engineering depart
ment Trix has jumped everybody else; it is
now dog eat dog. and their wrestling matches
are sights to be seen.
And the man who cannot hear the signal bell,
nowadays. is deaf indeed. The signal bell in
the cell house has been removed. and placed
upon a new sounding board. very artistlcaly
arranged and makes much noise as fog
horn at sea- Well. it's got to make noise to
the ears of some of our boys'
Here is an example in arithmetic recently sent
out by a school commissioner to an applicant as
teacher; perhaps some OF the advanced schoiars
can solve it:
IF one horse can run a mile III one minute anu
fifty seconds. and another mile in two minutes.
how far would the first horse be ahead in
match race of two miles?'
AS far as the human eye can see. the torn OF
our assistant Deputy can be recognized: but as
he crawled out of the large boiler in the bath
room. a few days ago, where he had been using
his old time SKILL as boiler maker. i'll stopping
a leak. nothing but the bertillion system would
have made his identity possible. or perhaps a few
turkish baths might have removed the disguise
The following members of the state farmers
institute were visitors at the prison last Thurs
day. Miss Ida TillsOE West Salem Wis. of the
poultry committee. Miss Eliza Cary of Mime |
apos. of the cooking committee. and Mr.. Wal |
ter Welch of st. Anthony Park. stenOgrapher of !
the association; escorted by Turnkey Taylor |
they visited the various departments including
THE MIRROR office.
DIR Curyer of Mankato accompanied by \. A.
Nelson of the Washington County J0nrndt. paid
the prison visit last Saturday. spending few
pleasant minutes in THE MIRROR office where
he deposited his subscription tor our paper.
The Doctor is an extremely pleasant gentleman.
and delivered one of the most interesting adj
dresses at the state farmers institute last Fri
day. on the management of horses. Among
other things he said He objected to the word
''breaking'' when applied to the training or cat
tie in the sense that it is generally used. and
says that little kindness is much more effica-
cious than blows. To succeed with the animal
YOU must commence early to win its confidence.
at the same time letting it know you are its mas
ter, and the rest comes easy. There is never
necessity to beat horse or punish it if you only
| treat it right yourself.
! The following gentlemen members of the
Board of Control of Wisconsin State Prison.
! were the guests of Warden WOlfer last Tuesday:
j. f. Jones of Portage. H. b. Warner of ELS
worth. J. w. Oliver of WaupOn and P. B.
LamoreauX. Warden of Wisconsin State Prison.
The gentlemen. accompanied by Warden Wolfer.
Manager John. F. Norrish. of Hastings. and n.
A. Nelson of the Washington County Journal of
saltwater. made thorough inspection of the
different departments of the institution and
were most favOrably impressed with the grading
and dining room service in use at the prison:
and the object of the visit of Tuesday was to
study the working of these systems with view
of adopting the same at the Wisconsin state
prison at Waupon. The entire party including
Manager O'Brien. and State Secretary Hart.
of theBOard of Corrections and Charities.
were in the dining rooms during dinner service.
and the quietneSs. order and cleanliness with
which each man is served fully demonstrates
the superiority of this method of feeding SO large
a body of men.
The grading of prisoners is certainly one of
the greatest incentives to good conduct and dis
cipine ever introduced in penal institution
and when once a man is placed in the first grade
it becomes matter of pride to remain there and
, lapses are few. 1t is but question of time when
all prisons will pattern after Minnesota's model.
< Complying with a resolution recently issued by
| the legislature for report on the Irvine plant
t Warden WOlfer has submitted. in part. the fol
lowing figures and views:
The total expenditures in four years have
been $312,921. while the total assets now are
$1Sl, $780, against total appropriations of $ls1 067
The cash receipts from the sale of Irvine in the
four years have been $685., 1916. The management
: has been obliged to sell a large proportion OF
. the Irvine manufactured Oh time. A refusa
e would have necesstated the closing down of the
Irvine plant long ago. with a large stock of I'm
sold Irvine left on hand. An unusually large
~ amount of Irvine was sold on time this last sea
son, consequently our uncOllected balance at this
time of the season is much larger than in former
years. but we have collected fairly we'll. Thu
= whole amount of bad debts on our books from
o the beginning of the operation of the Irvine plan
Il up to the present will not exceed 81 800
The uncOllected balance outstanding from las
years sales is in such shape that the percentage
II of loss from bad debts will be very small. Som
IS of Them however. will have to be carried owe
until next fall
}! If it IS the policy of the legislature to contnu
the manufacture of Irvine at all, there can be N
o question but that the interests of the state viii
be best subserved by putting in system of hare
=, fiber machinery. We have been obliged to com
l. pete with hard fiber twines under great disad
vantages for the past three years. The price 0
hard fiber has steadily declined. while the mar
k ket price of hemp is higher than it was thre
Is years ago. This condition bids fair TO continue
e A good system Of long line machinery woul'
E. enable the state to manufacture Irvine unde
conditions equally as favorable with outside fac
tories. There is an uneXpended balance o
" $l5,6S3, 80 of the old Irvine plant appropriation
~ still available. 1t would require an additions
y appropriation of not more than SO 900 to put in
- system of hard fiber machinery sisal an
MANILA Irvine, with a capacity of from 1000 t.
r, O,OOO pounds per day. We cannot manufactur
e hemp Irvine and compete with sisal and manll
III without an increasing loss to the state. This
d, the only soft fiber factory now in operation il
Of the United States.
The manufacture of Irvine does not furnish tn