The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-04-25

The influence of these things is ap-
parent in many little things about the
prison, which occasionally come to our
notice
One has before him at his bench a
little card with these words:
"Look beyond and never be discour-
aged
Another, this from Goldsmith:
"Hope, like the cleaning tapers light,
AdOrns and cheers the way;
And still as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray
The following is from letter ad-
dressed to the Nebraska class by one
of it's members, after his release:
"Let me kindly entreat you to con-
tinue your C. L.. S. c. studies. The
harder you study while there, the
stronger will befyour inclination and
endeavOr to resistevil temptations, and
the greater will be your reward when
you pass out into the sunlight of liberty
to enjoy its blessings. Your happiness
and we'll being in the future depends
upon yourselves, upon diligent self
culture, self discipline and self control;
above all upon the honest and upright
performance of your individual duty;
and when you go cut you will be strong,
not in your own strength but strong in
the help that comes from Him in whom
we live and move and have our being.
| have learned from experience that
the truest source of happiness, of enjoy
ment, is found in the path OF duty.
Life is of little vslue unless 1t be con-
secrated to duty.
II thank God fer the ordeal He suf
fered me to pass through rather than
strike me down while my heart was re-
belling against him.
This man is now respected Chris
tian citizen in Western city; estab
lished in a good business and active in
good works.
Another writes: 'The best way that
= l can express my regard for the noble,
life giving. upholding of a lost reputa-
,, tion in Chautauqua work, is to tell you
what it has done for me, and what it is
doing today.
"In 1888 | was sent to the penitenti-
ary at Lincoln to serve term of five
years and six monHhs; and l went in
J, there as hundreds of others do, to be-
come harder if that was pOSsible) in
}, nv way of living than when l fell into
the hands of the law.
"There was no way known to an out
S law, of avenging himself on those that
S had caused his downfall. that for nearly
e a wear did not study and plan to i'm
t prove on. in the line of cruelty of re-
> venge.
Il II was aware that | had to live up tC
the rules of the place. and governed my
=. self accordingly, but my object all the
- time was to get out as soon as possible
and get my revenge. Iplanned desper
ate and bloody crimes.
y So you can see what Chautauqua an(
kind members of the hall in the grove
-" of Lincoln had to overcome in m.
case.
"After | got to. reading Chancello
>. Vincent's Sundays readings in th
- Chautauquan l began to think.
. studded the pros and cons of tn
course l had mapped out. On the on
=, hand ! was leaving as sweet and true
- wife as ever a man had, for life O
~ crime. On the other hand l though
= ~ how l might reform and lead happ
- life with my darling; and today,
~ ~ thank God, and you, kind friends, tha
resolved to reform.
"Mr. -- can inform you of m
ID life since my release, Us months) as
ot was through his efforts in my beha
he that 1 am located today, where, in til
an course of time, l can have the comfort
at of life and be happy with my darlin
wife,
We A member of the Minnesota Circl
is in an address to his fellows, said:
ii GAS to the benefits to be gained fro
mt the systematic course we are followin
he I leave it to yourselves to judge.
;er "Some of us are going through pa
studies while following the course la