The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-01

come here from week to week we wish to say, if
Won want TO send THE MIRROR to relatives or
friends, YOU will be allowed the privilege by
complying with the following rule: Send to this
office YOUR name register and cell numbers also
full address of the person to whom you desire to
have THE MIRROR sent. Do not write address,
cell number or any other matter on your paper;
keep them perfectly clean and place them IN your
cell door every Friday evening. Those who do
not send THE MIRROR away will confer FAVOR
by sending them to this office.
Through the kindness of Deputy Warden
Lemon we were permitted to look over collec-
ton of Knights Tempar cards and badges.
There were number of beautiful specimens OF
the printers art in the collection, some being IN
three and four cOlOrs. OF course we could not
understand the cabaliStic designs on the CARDS.
but there was one card which had famlllar
look and reminded us of our sinful past when we
INDUCED in little games of chance. 1t was the
five-spot of hearts with name written on IL.
gentleman having mislaid his cardcase, and
wishing to leave his name with MIR. Lemon, USED
the card for that purpose.
On the day the w. C. T. U. visited us, our fore
| man was detailed to wait on table. we knew ne
would make an admirable waiter, for hel young
good-lookng quick and intelligent. We feared
however that he would not have the firmness to
resist eating the broken bits of tOothsome but in
dgestible cake and pie which might fall TO ms
! lot so we took him aside and warned him OF the
evil consequences resulting from gluttony, and
succeeded in getting his promise to bring por-
ton of the good things he might lay hands on TO
u.s. Alas, for the fraility of human promises!
He forgot us and the fatherly advice and care
we have bestowed On him all these years. and
%l.,% l,oI ioly
grooming foreman the next day to dose with the
bitterest drugs we have in our medicine chest.
Moral: Be temperate in all things.
AS our reporter returned from st. Paul on the
evening of the 25th, he overheard the following
conversation on the train between Deputy War
den Lemon and prisoner he was bringing back
to the pententiary for violating the terms OF his
conditional pardon. The prisoner had been TAX
ing an antdote against mosquito poisoning and
his speech was somewhat thick.
Prisoner-"I shay, Deb-hic, Deputy is that
little pap-hic, er running yet?"
Deputy-"If you refer to THE PRISON MIR
RoR, can assure you it is still Notwithstanding
1 so vigorously that the editor has been annoying
me to death by his persistence in asking for more
clerks in the subscription department"
Prisoner-"We-hic-el do you think he'll
shay anything about me?'
S Deputy-"Oh, he's pretty obliging fellow; he
u will probably announce your arrival"
Prisoner-"Thansks, awfully.''
, Secretary Hart of the state board of correc
- lions and charities. has completed his seminar
nual prison census of the state. and the result
is in harmony with the statement that the section
o of the country comprising Minnesota and the
il surrounding states has a smaller percentage OF
e criminal population than any other district II
4 the world. The total number of prisoners in al
prisons of the state June 80 was 1O63, anlncreas'
of ouly "A per cent since 1885, when the tota
IL number was lob. The number OF prisoner
~ awaiting trial throughout the state has steadi
Re diminished during the past three years. Jun
ty 80 1S93 the number was 1885, in 1884, 1856; in 1885,
169 The number of felOns in the state prisO
and reformatory, on the other hand, has show
" a steady increase of per cent year since Jun
.A 30 1890 when the number was IA, as against 81
'. for the present year. The number of prisoner
~ in tails and warehouses has diminished sine
June 80, 1885, when the number was 1863. In
nd year the number was 329, and last year 1t wa
he but 243, but the highest point in the six veal
as was reached in 1898, when the number was 90
he The big decrease since June 80 1898. shows Jul
the opposite result from what might have bee
-. expected of the hard times The decrease, hoy
~ ever has been in the cities, where they mad 4
.' prisoners in 1898, and but 236 in 1895. On tt
~ outside the number in 1893 was 10, and in 1895
~" had increased to 90, or 20. Another fact is TIL
during the two preceding years Ramsey coun
of had 20 more prisoners than Hennepin and tn
lis. year this is reversed, Hennepin having 20 mo
B. than Ramsey in her Jail and workhouse.
~ One day last week as we passed through q
Irvine factory in quest of the local we never fin
we received an order to report to the Depu
ter Warden's office. This summons made us tremb
St. We knew the court over which Judge Lem
tn. presdes was then in session, so the perempto
,er. summons could mean but one thing-we were
en- be arraigned for the infractlon of some OF t
rules by which our model institution is governe
so We recalled every incident of the day, but cot
~ not remember an act not in strict accOrdan
w with the established rules of our home govel
30 ment. We could say in all truth that we h
49, done nothing absolutely nothng-the whole d;
,n" Now on the day before. we-but, no matter, tt
has nothing to do with the present case.
i walked to the solitary and stood with fold
re- arms and face to the wall awaiting our turn to
oer called to account for the deed we had not co
We mitted. How wretchedy shameful we felt
ant the thought of our ignOble position. An edit
the of reform paper in the criminal dock! Coz
the we ever again look our brother recluse in
, I'M face and exhort him to abandon his evil wa!
,rry Would not our Drethren III SIN point as Us
his finger of scorn and say, "go heal myself" VIII