The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-05-02

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Another: Il want you to know how
our class feels about the Christian part
Of this Chautauqua work. If there is
any one in or out of our class that is
trying to be Christian, we propose to
help him. l want to ask you to help
us in this, and help those who wish to
become better men to do SOP
Another: Il have resolved that my
life shall hereafter be one of useful
ness, and that with the help of our
Heavenly Father, will Look up and
lift up no far as l am capable of doing
so. Success to the c. L. S. c. May its
light so shine that the remoteSt corner
of the darkest prison in the land will be
penetrated by its rays
Another, on leaving prison wrote:
"Fellow Chautauquans, let us clasp
hands in a cheerful good bye; and let
me urge you to continue the efforts you
have made in the past in promoting
your minds to standard of better ex-
cellence. Convicts, though you are,
and wearing the garb of degradation,
many there are among you with loyal
hearts and true, beating beneath your
striped jacket. The same aspirations
high and noble, governing your daily
actions. and the same department sur
rounding you in the outside world,
would make society the loser by your
absence from it.
Let us hope for joyful reunion in
that better world of the Christians
faith, and where the gates for us may
stand ajar. May God bless you ALL
Another: ''The Chautauqua Circle
has opened more clearly and wider to
us, that priceless and inexhaustible
treasure of books; it has brought it's
members face to face with the spirit of
the greatest writer's of the world, eS-
pecially those of the English language y
Another: "The reading 1 did last
year in the Chautauqua books, did me
more good than all the preaching
heard in the last ten years.
1t is sound sense: not dime novels ]
don't think there is one novel read
here now where there were ten before
the organization of our c. L. S. c."
Another: "Many thanks for youl
, friendship. Am glad to hear of the
, Chautauquans. Surely they have done
much good and will continue to. Bt
assured that / was much benefited b!
them. | often refer to the circumstan
ces under which, in the darkest days O.
. my life, was brought under their in
tluence For some of those | left il
= prison. | have not much to live fol
My greatest aim is to prepare for
, country where there are no prisons
y My mother is there
:, Another: IL am like boy with
Il new sled. Am to happy to be stead
minded. Don't know what words t
O use nor how to express my JOY.
~ thank our Heavenly Father this da
% that l have employment and that
,c have my wife with me again. She
T as happy as the day is long. [ hay
10 not yet taken up my work systemat
% cally, but shall soon do so. Hav
"a loaned one of my books to one of tt
6 men at our station, and hope to g
10 others so that we can have circ
H. here"
e. Numerous other quotations, of sir
Id liar and no less interesting characte
rv might be given, but these must sutfic
he 1t would be interesting to give
~ some length, sketches of the person
ul experience of some of these men, tt
ad hindrances and obstacles in their wa
he the courage they have shown und
RS trying circumstances, and the chara
ce ter which these experiences have de
in eloped, but time will not permit.
es. 1t would be no less interesting to
We count some Of the instances, whe
Ter father, mother, wife, sister, brother,
in friends have been made to rejoice on
,m the fact that "somebody cares for I
me boy Some of these cases are ten(
d I and touching in the extreme.
nat There are, in our Lincoln pris
len nine women, serving sentences
yer crimes comitted; three for murd