The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-07-18

That the inmates of this prison have deep
interest in THE MIRROR is attested by the
number who have responded to our request for
original contributions Their interest in our
''home" paper may at times wane but it never
dies out entirely.
During the past week a crew of men under
keepers Stilkey and McFall removed the three
hundred barrel iron oil tank from the upper to
the lower end of the railroad track near
the north gate. whereof will be more convenient
to the Irvine shops.
Mr. E. B. Hayford and wife, of Minneapolis,
were the guests of Warden Wolfer on the nth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hayford accompanied by Messrs.
Jas. Davenport and H. X. Cannon of Mime
apolis. visited the different departments of the
prison in the afternoon.
The sweet, familiar melody of the lawn mower
is completely senced this year, by the hum and
buzz of the busy spinners in the Irvine factory,
which grind out Irvine till eight O'Clock in the
evening 1t must be very embarrassing to the
lawn mower to be compelled TO silently play
second fiddle or shut up.
The Union Shoe & Leather Co., is still doing
business at the old stand. Stock received dur
ing the week; one carload sole leather one car
load upper leather one carload paper shoe
boxes. and two carloads wooden shoe boxes.
The average shipments for the week amounted
! to 165 cases of shoes per day,
| P. E. Bennett. formerly a reporter in this city,
died recently of typhoid fever at Ravenna Ohio.
When Mr.. Bennett was engaged in repOrtOral
work in this city he was frequent visitor at III
MIRROR office. and we shall always hold the
name OF p. E Bennett in grateful remembrance
for his many acts of kindness.
Prisoner at the bar, said the Judge, ''is
there anything you wish to say before sentence
is passed upon you?"
mo, iedge; there is nothn' care to say, but
if you'll clear away the tables and chairs long
enough for me to thrash my lawyer you car
give me year or two eXtry.'-Puck.
Last Tuesday the Deputy Warden's runner
entered our office, his good natured face beamint
with smiles In his hand he held large bOque
of beautiful flowers, fresh from the greenhouse
which he placed on the composing stone, saying
"Mister Debility Lemon sent desc to de printe
boys" Mr.. Lemon has the thanks of thu
printer boys" for his kindly courtesy.
Rev. Steiner of the Pacific Congregations
church of st. Paul, occupied the pulpit in tn
prison chapel last Sunday and delivered
mastery address to the inmates which was yer
attentively listened TO by all present. The uDjus
discrimination in the classification of crime b
severely Furnishing the trivial Offenders an
lightly dealing with those of high standing
formed the chief topic of his address.
: We may be considered somewhat patriot
1rn
fact whenever the opportunity presents itsel
But, when lot of highly enthusiastic citizen
gather on the hills surrounding our peaceful a:
f sylum five days after the Fourth of July, glet
e fully shouting, shooting off cannon sendin
roman candles and skyrockets. occasionally il
, termingled with bomb shell, toward our burs
- % we think it is high time to go to the hydrar
and attach a four inch hose.
We know that the the prolific soil of MinnesOt
. will produce everything from banana to pin
tree. but it remains for Guard Phiibrook, VIII
passes his leisure time in fancy gardening,
II exhibit clover bearing five leaves. We believ
e Mr.. Philbrook has discovered amethOd by whic
he can make nature produce any kind of veg
. table monstrosity he may desire, and it woul
>, not surprise us to hear of delegation of sciel
" lists visiting us to examine some hitherto Ill
known specimens of the vegetable kingdom.
~ Messrs C. E. PendetOn, of Minneapolis, w.
- Pendleton of Elmira n. Y, E. D. BuffingtO
City, were shown through the prison on the III
a by MIR. Alexander. Mr. w. L. PendletOn II;
ID been frequent visitor at the Elmira, n. Y,
in formatory. and spoke in enthusiastic terms
the we'll trained choir of that institution.
was favorably impressed with the cleanliness
~ the dollhouse and other departments OF the pr
Oh on and admitted that even the model reform
s. tory at Emra was not ahead of us in this respet
Secretary H. H. Hart of the Board of Chariti
Is and Corrections, escorted the following name
"a ladies and gentlemen from st. Paul through tt
a prison on the 18th: General and Mrs. Il. \
johnson; Dr. Eastman and Mrs. GOOdale Ea'
or man: Mrs. Baird. Miss Josephine Newton, al
~ Master w. Hart. 1t was a pleasure to meet &c
al Johnson-one of THE MIRRORS truest friend
man who never harbOred an evil though
but who looks down from the exalted purl
'r- of his life and beneath the sable mantle of S
In which enyelops the convict sees brother ma
Contributors in writing for THE MIRROR a
kindly requested to write their manuscripts
ct. plainly as possible and try to avoid writing t
re lines too closely. We (that means the push) a
his not mind-readers or spirituallsts, and notWl
standing the tact tnaC we are cdpdple VI tldl
lating Greek, Latin, Polish, Russian, Frent
~ German, Low Dutch and High Dutch in
~ English language while setting up your matt
wv we are compelled to draw the line at the Hors
Greeley style of manuscript.
THE above was run in during our temporal
cd absence by our office devil. AS it is TO the pc
he we will not Tip him off, to the Deputy this tr
,ur Ed.
,r' ,,h;+onbo,os tho onciant mu,e helonpi
tothe Minnesota Thresher Co., has gone the "
art of ali flesh Mephistepheles was philosopl
The and took things as ne 1oilno thehi we n0
T. knew anything quite so lazy as Mephistophe
I'M unless it was his driver They were inten(
by nature to be companions. The only time