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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17
THE MIRROR is a weekly paper published

THE MIRROR is a weekly paper published
In the Minnesota State Prison. 1t was founded
in 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and man
aged by them. Its objects are to be a home
newspaper: to encourage moral and intellectual
Improvement among the prisoners; to acquaint
the public with the true STATUS of the prisoner
to disseminate pathological information and to aid
in dspelling 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 support If at any time there should
accrue a surplus of funds. the money would be
expended in the interests of the prison library.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17
Literary Nofcs.
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There is very realistic and rather
pathetic story by Miss Mary Meyrick
in the San Francisco Argonout of Oc-
tober I4th. 1t is entitled Ellis First
Free Ride: A Tale of a Tramp" and
gives bit Of the experience of a young
Englishman, little cockney clerk who
has come to California with all the
money he and his poor old mother can
scrape together, and, after splurge in
society the unhappy fellow is set
upon by land-sharks and reduced to
the condition of the common tramp.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

IF THE man who is always fretting
and grumbling about the affairs Of
life only made himself miserable, it
would not be so bad. But, unfortu-
nately, one morose, disagreeable man
will affect the spirits of a whole COM
pany, and he should be isolated from
with CONTAGIOUS disease,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

THE st. Louis Humorist says, ''Do
you know that because a man is tried
for some crime and discharged that it
does not necessarily follow that he is
guilty." Neither is it absolute proof
of innocence, for it is an old saying of
lawyers that "the ways of Providence
and petit jury are past finding out. -
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17
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THOSE receiving copies of THE MIR
ROR who are not subscribers will
please consider them as sample cop
les. If, after reading them, you should
conclude that THE MIRROR is
worthy Of your patronage, send one
dollar to this Office and we will enter
your name on our books for a
years subscription.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

JUDGE BIGELOw, in the circuit court
at Monmouth, ILL.,, has rendered the de-
cisiOn that, in case a man was treated
to drink by another man who paid for
it, the responsibility for the sale of the
liquor was transferred from the saloon
keeper to the man who stood the treat.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

ABOUT the handsomest paper which
comes to our table is THE PRISON MIR
ROR, printed in the Saltwater, MINI.
Penitentiary. 1t contains many arti.
cles which are gems, and it is pleas
ure to read them. Because a man has
transgressed the law, and is paying the
penalty in prison is no reason why he
should be looked down upon. There
are better men on the inside than many
who are on the outside. This neat and
ably edited little paper shows that no
man is so far degenerated but that
there is great good left in him.
Cresco Iowa Public Opinion.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

THE Minnesota editors who went on
the excursion to Atlanta are writing
up their impressions of the South for
their respective papers, and it makes
very interesting reading.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

THE Sank Centre .4caz0nche and
the Mortified independent came out
all home print last week, which shows
that the merchants of their respective
towns understand the benefits of lib
eral advertising.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

WE HAVE received Vol. 1, No. l, of
Our Neto humanity published at To-
peka, Kansas. Those interested in the
"basic problems of human life and
character found in heredity, ante-natal
influences, etc.," will find these subjects
ably discussed in the columns of the
magazine. Subscription price, one
dollar
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

THE Grand Marias (Mich.) Herald
has come to this office marked please
ex." The Herald is edited by A. De
Lacy Wood, formerly of Minnesota and
founder of the NIilaca Times, and it
will be welcome addition to our ex-
change list.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

THOSE gentlemen p who have been
making large fortunes by following a
profession that requires only muscle
and brute courage, will soon be on a
level with the common herd. if all gov
ernors follow the example of Culberson
and ClOuph
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

IT is reported that New Jersey man
has been struck by lightning seven
times without serious results. One by
one the sayings that we were wont to
accept as indisputable truths are turn
ing out to be myths. We supposed the
effects of Jersey lightning was fatal in
all cases,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

A NEW YORK paper says that Cham
pion Corbett doesn't drink DROP 1t
is too bad that he cannot say in excuse
for some of the bad breaks he has made,
II was drunk when | did it."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

CARL LIVERPOOL, neWsdealer of
Iowa Falls, Iowa, will have whole
some respect for the new woman in
the future. He kicked dog be-
longing to Miss Libbie Reynolds which
she resented and proved herself the
better man by giving him an unmerci-
full smuggling with her fists.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17
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What a satisfaction it is to a poor
over-worked editor to spend half days
time writing up something he thinks is
awfully cute, and then have some chump
clip the thing bodily the next week and
runit his own original matter.-Adair
News.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

There is scheme on foot to bring
about reunion of the veterans who
attended the convention when the Re-
publican party was born forty years
ago. What record of victories and
beneficial measures these men will have
to revieW.-PrincetOn Union.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

This paper will be forwarded to subscribers
until ordered discontinued and all arrears are
paid.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

Entered at the Post Office at Saltwater, Mimi,
as Second Glass Mail Matter.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

An old soldier at Pittsburgh fell
dead when he learned that his pension
claim had been allowed. It is due
the administration to say that it has
guarded against results of this sort
by withholding pensions whenever
there was any sort of excuse for doing
so.-Kansas City Journal.
The execution in Chicago on Friday
of a young man of twenty seven years,
who began his career of crime at the
age of nine and has been under SEN
tence no less than one hundred times
in his short life is striking and pain
full example of the force of environ
ment. He was the child of drunk
ard and had nothing but evil in
fluences about him from the start.
He is said not to have had abnormally
vicious tendencies, but simply to have
drifted from one offense to another
until murder completed his round of
crime and gave the state an opportunity
to rid itself of a life which she had
not succeeded in saving. Such careers
are warnings to every community.
Butch Lyons was the pupil of the
streets and the jails.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
The Dubuque Herald has struck the
right gait when it says now that about
every state in the Union has corralled
the prize fighting business, but there
is another matter of equal seriousness
that needs legislative attention, and
that is the Infamous and criminal prac-
tice of hazing in schools, colleges and
universities. 1t is true that public
opinion and college rules and regula-
lions have done something toward the
abatement of this brutal and savage
custom, but too often we still hear of
its revival in all its revolving and Op-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

Should THE MIRROR fail to reach subscriber
each week, notice should be sent to this office,
when the matter will be attended to at once.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

Edited and Published by the Inmates
of the Minnesota State Prison.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-17

Contributions solicited from any and all sour
ces. Rejected manuscript will not be returned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24
WANTED. sToRY-TELLERs.

People tire of the analytical novel. the
pathological and the erotic novel, the
novel with any purpose whatever, be it
moral, educational, socialistic or relig-
ious, but they never yet have shown
signs Of WEAKNESS over a story told for
it's own sake by a master of the art.
They turn away in sheer disgust from
he morbid books of hysterical women,
they lay down half read the introspec-
tive studies by Howells and James, they
flee from the social essays, miScalled
novels, of Ibsen, Tolstoi, Humphrey
Ward and their host of small-fry imita-
tors. What they a is the story pure
and simple-not a moral lesson dis
guised in a thin veneering of narrative.
In very self-defense they retreat from
the flood of diluted fiction poured from
the press in these days and take refuge
with Thackeray, Dickens, Lever, Bull
wer, Dumas. Hugo and other old-time
favorites. Even in Gaboriau they find
sweet relief from the high-keyed litera-
ture of the modern would-be reformers
who call themselves novelists. The de-
Tense has been made for this school Of
fictionists that the time of wild adven-
ture, of physical of exciting
occurrences, is over. and that psyche
logical study belongs to this period of
human development. That this is lard
ly true is proved by Stevenson, Kipling.
Barrie, Doyle. Weyman and Du Maui
rier. They ia had stories to tell, and
h have told them as artists should
the narrative first and foremost. and its
embroidery of human pathos and philoso-
ply incidental and secondary. The adj
high order Of literature perhaps, but
they AFFORD agreeable entertainment
where Tolstoi and his class are = weari-
ness 10 me flesh and . burden III NJ
soul: III. too. not only merely = ne
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24

OF calling on the Emperor Nicholas II
afterward proceeding to Berlin ana faIis.
A prolonged stay viii be made at the latter
city.
IN the twentieth century" says Miss
Florence Balgarnie. marriage will no longer
be a professionalism often a poor one at
that-in which women look to men to keep
them. No woman will marry unless she
4 love. the lfeht Of which is so dazzling
that all transient passion Is ecllpseo-
Joseph Cook has declined in intellectual
reputation, it Is said, while his audiences
have deteriorated in character He IS not
the prophet he was fifteen years ago, when
at the apex of his fame. Then he was as a
cloud OF smoke by day in leading the way
from ignorance to culture-a final arbiter
of all vexed questions. Some who went 70
hear him departed to scof, but everybody
listened. Now his listeners are few.
President Kruger. of South Africa, is
more anxious to be truthful than gallant, II
the following story told of him is true: At a
social gathering given in his honor some
time ago one of Bloemfontein's sweetest
lady singers gave an artistic rendering OF a
popular song. The lady of the house; turn
ing to .Oom Paul." who was probably PIN
ing for a pipe, asked. How did your honor
like that?' The president bluntly replied:
Il go into the weld when / want to hear the
she-wolf scream
1t is not generally know that Colonel Will
liam r. Morrison, of Illinois, was a Califor-
mia forty-niner. In a letter to a friend in FL
Paso, Tex, Mr.. Morrison says he was one
of a party which left Independence Mo,
in 1S49 on a wagon journey to the Paclnc
coast. 1T is now forty-six years ago, ne
writes, land my recollection is not very
distinct as TO many of those who composed
the party. / remember very distinctly that
we celebrated the Fourth of July at the
head of the Humboldt river
When the will of the late Lord Randolph
Churchill is read the amount of fortune he
left will prove a surprise to many. Though
he by no means recovered the heavy imam
cial reverses Of some years ago, his affairs
had of late been rapidly improving, His
South African investments. for one thlng,
turned out remarkably well, and in other
ways he had recouped himself not incon-
siderably. His eldest son. Mr.. winston
Churchill. who has just been gazetted to
ne Fourth Hussars, viii probably find him
self we'll provided for, as Lady Randolph
Churchill most undoubtedly is.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24

take a long journey, he orders soup. The
the morning is soup. The last thing he
takes at night before donning his nightcap
(ail Frenckmen wear nightcaps) is soup.k
This is a little exaggerated. and bears more
direct reference to thin bouillon than to the
soup of these soup women, thickened to
stiffness, as ii is, with bread and vegetables.
StiIl. the latter Is a favorite with working
men, who take a bowl of it (at 2 cents on
their way to work in the morning; and fire.
forenoon. / tried this soup a number OF
times. and found 1t both palatable and sat-
isfying.
Instead of cafe au Iait ] sometimes took
a 2-cent cup of black coffee-ideal cofee-at
a tiny coffee store, buying a roll to accom-
pany il at a bakery across the street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24

The sea is estimated to contain ESQ, o0o,-
900 cubic miles of water.
The saline matter held in solution in sea
water comprises one-thirtieth of its weight.
No part of the Atlantic Ocean between
Europe and Newfoundland exceeds 2,400
fathomS.
When the gulf stream passes out of the
Gulf of Mexico it's temperature is about
seventy degrees.
The Red sea takes its name from the
presence of great numbers of animalculae
of that color in the water.
Every tiny protuberance on a branch of
coral represents a living animal, which
grows from it like a plant.
1t is mi that two years are required
for the gulf water to travel from Florida
to the coast of Norway.
The banks of Newfoundland are formed
by the sand, earth and stones brought from
the north by the icebergs-
Sea water contains silver in considerable
quantities. 1t is deposited on the copper
sheathing of ships in amounts sufficient to
make it's reduction profitable.
The phosphoreScence of sea water In the
tropics is due to the presence of millions of
small animals, some microscopic, others,
like the jellyfish, of considerable size.
The sea has no herbivorouS inhabitant.
It's population live on each other, and the
whole of this immense expanse of water is
one great slaughter house, where the strong
forever prey upon the weak.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24
A NEW CONTENTION.

For years scientists have been incul-
eating the theory of heredity. They
have done this with SO much ability
and have presented such cogent reasons
that most intelligent people have ac-
cepted the theory as a truth. Even
those who have not read the arguments
of the scientists ave a very positive
belief in it. Before the theorists and
the scholars taught it the fact that a
person belonged to a family which had
a good repute for two or three genera
tions was much in his favor if a stran-
ger. He is Of an old and honorable
family has helped many a man out of
difficulty, while a repute for bad
blood" has proved an obstacle in the
way of others. In recent years. Grim
inologists have made the factor of
heredity very prominent in the treat
ment Of crime and vice. 1t has been
carried so far by some reformers and
others engaged in the work of redeem
ing men and women from vicious lives
that heredity is an excuse for wander
ings from the path of rectitude. The
intemperance of many men is xcuse
on the ground that their fathers or
grandfathers were men of irregular
habits. Not a few men have made the
deviations of ancestors an excuse for
their own frequent lapses.
But, now that people generally have
accepted the theory of heredity as an
ascertained truth, either through the
teaching of the scientists or common
experience, one school of scientists has
come to the front to deny that heredity
has any Of the Importance which has
been attached to it by their predeces-
sors. Thos who have found the the
DRY of heredity in Darwin's works are
told by these recent scientists who COM
bat the Importance which has been at
tributed to heredity that Darwin taught
nothing of the sort when scientifically
interpreted, and they have written
~treatises to show that what they assert
is true. If there were any danger that
these anti-hereditary scientists could
change the current of intelligent opin-
ion upon this subject. one might look
for an entire change in the methods
of treating crime and vice. At the same
time, those who fall into intemperance
with little apparent attempt at self-re-
straint, or who plead in e~xtenuation
of other breaches of the moral code and
the statutes an inherited tendency to
~vicioIsness which they cannot control,
will find less sympathy than they now
receive. Still, there will always be a
large class, who know more of people
thar OF theories. who will insist that
..blood tells either for good or evil.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24
THE OWL AND THE JAY.
One a Devil by Night and h Othe n
VeritabIe ScOundreI i'm Feathers.


Mr.. Frank Bolles, who was a friend to
the birds and a close student of their
ways, has left US in his sketches a legacy
of vaule and profit in his close observation
of his feathered friends. He has given
us many an estimate of their qualities, and
viewed with his eyes, they more or less re-
semble humans. He made an especial study
of the owl, and he depicts the bird in his
Bird Traits in none too glowing colors.
1.-THE owl reminds me" said Mr., Bolles,
''of some men whom I have had the mis-
fortune to know-silent and sinister by day
or when exposed to the scrutiny of their
fellows; taking without reply or blow the
wronged; but by night devils in thought,
purpose and action. To the owl everything
which possesses the power of motion is,
presumably, fit to be devoured; q~uadruped,
bird, fish, reptile insect, moluSk, any or
all, unless specially protected, invited to
pure, too beautiful, too defenseless to be
sacrificed to their s~elishness. One owl is
enough for many miles of forest. For
t~unately for society, owlish men are similar
ly scarce"
Continuing his discussion OF the birds of
less attractive character, Mr.. BolleS thus
speaks of the Jay:
There are some birds of deServedly bad
repute who wear an attractive exterior and
maintain jaunty manners. The blue jay,
for instance, though somewhat 1ashy in his
dress and proud in his voice, passes with
the unsuspecting as a bird worthy Of conf
dence, if not of admiration. Yet, If there
ever was a scoundrel in feathers, he Is one.
He is my ideal pickpocket. shoplifter, snug
gler and confidence man. Most people
think his cousin, the crow. and undoubted
villain; yet he is considerably better off in
morals than his gaily dressed relative. This
is not saying that the crow is not a black
leo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24

An evening paper takes the Journal to
task for answering truthfully the query of
a reader. 1t was in no sense an opinion;
but now that the subject is up the Journal
may venture to remark that q compensa-
ton of S2,874 for the monument commits
sioner, 81, il for his clerk, whom the
rest of the board tried to get rid of some
time since; $3.50 for a superintendent, and
over $500 for current board expenses"
paid to Mr.. Langsdale. is a very large
amount for the last two years, considering
the work done. An aggregate of 1927 is
a large sum for overseeing the expenditure
of less than $4,000. and. salaries deducted,
is doubtless double the amount a liberal
business man would expend for the same
service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24

Massachusetts has a law which pro-
hibits independent military companies
from parading in the streets under
arms. It seems to the Journal a very
sensible law. but certain companies in
Boston which were not permitted to
march the streets under arms think
otherwise n propose to test the con-
stitutionality of the law. Why should
armed bodies be permitted to march in
the streets? To carry muskets and
cartridge boxes conveys the impression
that such companies carry ammunition.
Suppose, in a season of excitement or
danger, such bodies of men, Independent
of the State or municipal authorities,
should use the privilege of parading
with arms to defeat the officers of the
law? The Massachusetts law is in the
direction of public safety. If the COM
panies of the uniformed militia are de-
MED the privilege of appearing under
arms in a procession without the con-
sent of their proper officers, why should
such a privilege be accorded armed
companies which are not responsible to
the civil authorities?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24
Trilby ON the Stage.
Philadelphia Record.


Trilby at last treads the boards. The
modern Athenians had the preliminary glory
OF witnessing the debut of Du Maurier's
heroine upon the stage at Boston on Mon
day evening last. OF Paul NJ. Potter, the
adapter of the novel, the critic declares:
He has, in a word, carefully selected from
the story all the good and left all the bad
One could wish that the critic had been
more explicit and explained whether all
the bad" was left in the novel or in the
play. THE result" the critic continues,
lis a Trilby, not Du Maurier's, but a Trilby
whose only faint is a vague imputation OF
sin made early in the play by the rascal
Svengali-a Trilby h rejects Little Bill
lees love simply because his mother says
she must do so-a Trilby who doesn't show
even her left foot, and a Trilby who dies
without making a confession tc any one"
This is, indeed, a Trilby to suit the Puritan
ical notions of the people who wished to
ostracize the strange French woman from
the libraries of the land. But 1T is. u%nfortu-
nateiy, similar praise to that which one
would bestow on MIR. Potter as a reviser
of Hamlet by saying that he had created
a Hamlet not ~Shakspeare's, but a Hamlet
who had never seen a g~host-wnose rather
had died of heart disease-a Hamlet who
disliked his uncle for not marrying his
mother-a Hamlet who doesn't even medi-
tate, and who dies without ever having
disclosed himself to Ophelia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL
SIXTEEN PAGES
a story by Cant. charlie. King.

A Story by Capt. Charles King.
In next Sundays issue the Journal will
begin the publication of a new novel by
Captain Charles King. 1t is a story of
army life in the Northwest, and is en-
titled Fort Frayne." Captain Kings
stories are very popular. His style is
spirited, the incidents are dramatic and
well handled, his climaxes strong. He en-
tered upon a practically unworked field
when he first began his tales of army life,
and he has done more to make the public
acquainted with the hopes and ambitions
OF the regular army men and with the
relation of that body to the rest of the
community than could be accomplished in
any other way. He does this simply by
picturing the life and adventures of the
soldiers in camp and in active service as
they actually are.
In Fort Frayne'' he is at his best. 1t is
IN exciting, even a thrilling, story, and
full of surprises. In securing it the Journal
feels that it is Offering it's readers q pleas
ure they will greatly enjoy and appre-
ciate. 1t will run about ten weeks.