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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30
THE NIlRROR 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 ano man
aged by them It's objects are to be Il home
newspaper; to encourage moral and intellectual
Improvement among the prisoners; to acqualnt
the public with the true STATUS ofthe prisoner
to disseminate psychological information and TO AID
In dispelling that prejudice which has ever been
the bar sinister to a fallen mans Selfredemption
The paper is entirely dependent Oh 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, 1896-01-30

A WRITER says, when i'll doubt. tell
the TRUTH but would it not be better to
speak the truth at al times and thus
avoid the mistake that many men make
better accomplish the purpose in view ?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

A CONTEMPORARY says that the
Christian nations are aroused and the
slaughter of the Armenians will soon
stop" but from this distance it looks
as though the slaughter would cease
only with the death of the last Of the
ArmenianS
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30
Literary Notes.

In most invitingly dainty cover,
seasonably typifying midwinter-lts
frost and snow-the February L01les'
Nome Jotun0i, respondent with Illus
trations by the best artists. and attract
lively varied in its literary features is
unique.
Venezuela, country about which
everybody is talking just now, is the
subject of an interesting article by
Albert Claypool White i'll the San Fran
cisco Iygono,H of January 18th. The
author has lived in Venezuela and
knows the country and its inhabitants
thoroughly. and his pictures of social
customs and the political. industrial,
and educational conditions are very
graphic.
NcCI1t,e's Mag0zine for February
takes its first grasp of the readers at
tention with eight portraits Of Lincoln
several of them very rare) some TWEEN
tv other Lincoln pictures, and an &C
count, Astounding in vivid personal
details, of Lincoln's misfortunes as
a country merchant; of his entrance
into the legislature, and the begin
ming of his acquaintance with Doug
las: of his work as village postmas-
ter and deputy county surveyor; OF
his study of Shakespeare and Burns
and a copy of Blackstone found by
chance in barrel of refuse: and OF his
romantic courtship Of Ann Rutledge
and his affection at her death shortly
before the time appointed for then
marriage.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

The State Board Of Health of Miss
ouri has imposed hard conditions on
the young men Of the State who wish
to become disciples of Esculapius. In
the future none will be admitted as
students of the medical colleges ''unless
they present diploma from a high
school, an academy or college, or first
class school teachers certificate
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

\ CONTEMPORARY says that "One
great difference between the men who
are in palaces and those who are III
prisons, is that the last have stolen a
little and the first good deal If this
be true it is discouraging to the prison
thief and ought to convince him that
ne can never master the higher science
of roguery practiced by those who dwell
in nalaceS
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

THE Badger Herald, published by j..
w. Nonotny, is the latest newspaper
venture to reach our exchange table.
The He7u7d is neat seven cOlum folio,
and the generous advertising patronage
given it by local merchants augurs
we'll for its future success.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

lT SOMETIMES happens that men adj
vocate reforms through mercenary mo-
tives. An Arkansas paper that had
two of its subscribers lynched in one
night is now bitter in its dennnciation
of mob rule
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

TIE Legislature of Mississippi has
elected Hon. H. ID. Money to a seat in
the United States senate. 1t is case
where "MOneY wins"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

POOR CORBETT, to suffer the humilla-
ton of being pulled down flight Of
stairs, bumpety-bump, by a little fire.
man only about half his size
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

IT l. said that one of the induce
ments held out by Chicago to secure the
convention, was that three drinks of
whisky could be had for ten cents.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30
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form" is the employment of children
by the New Y ork police to gather evil
dence against saloon keepers.-St.
Cloud Times.
Some one has dubbed Laureate Aus
tin the bad, grey poet" This is really
unkind, for, as we understood it, it is
not Austin himself that is bad only
his poetry. St Paul Pioneer Press.
There seem to be a few people in
New Y ork who are afraid that the en-
forcement of the Monroe doctrine
would cut them out of business for a
few days. Cincinnati Ohio Enquirer
News that Commander and Mrs
Booth are to be recalled because they
have Americanized their army brings
the first intimatiOn that salvation is a
distinctly British institution.-New
York World.
The house chaplain introduces large
fragments Of the Monroe doctrine IL
his daily prayers and is wildly ap
plauded at the close. Some statesmen
think the chaplain shouldn't make
Fourth of July speeches to Jehovah
Minneapolis Journal.
There ought to be a law prohibiting
profanity on the streets or anywhere
in public. if not altogether. The vile
epithets which ladies are compelled tt
listen to whenever they find it neces
sary to appear on the streets are dis
gushing, to put it mildly.-Red Wing
Republican.
The Cincinnati papers boast that the.
have ''the coming new woman in Mis-
Frances Hulls of LinnWOod, who ha
Just been sworn in as a city coal weigh
er." Two to one she will weigh ever.
ton accurately, and won't be bribed b.
glass of beer or a good cigar Chicag
Inter Ocean.
France has penal colony worse THAI
Siberia and just as bad as the Russian
hell of Saghalien. 1t consists of thre
small islands just Off the coast o
French Guiana and very near the equa
tor. The heat often rises to llo degrees
then to stand bareheaded in the Ope
means instant death. The soil
marshy, the atmosphere fetid, an
black with swarms of nOXiOus an
er-present insects. The convicts al
put to the most severe and repugnal
tasks, the object being to break thei
spirit Escape from this living intern
is impossible.-M Tribun
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

THE hardest work a man can under
take, is that of working" some other
fellow.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

Entered at the Post Office at saltwater. Mimi.
as second class mail matter.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

Should TIE MIRROR fail to reach subscriber
each week. notice should be sent to this Office.
and the matter will be attended to at once.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

This paper will be forwarded to subscribers
until ordered discontinued and all arrears are
paid
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Edited and Published by the Inmates
of the Minnesota State Prison.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

News that Commander and Mrs.
Booth are to be recalled because they
have Americanized their army brings
the first intimation that salvation is a
distinctly British institution.-New
York World.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30

There seem to be few people in
New York who are afraid that the en-
forcement of the Monroe doctrine
would cut them out of business for a
few Cincinnati Ohio Enquirer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-19
POSTED.
'LoRETTE

You can see I'm we'll posted said the fence to the Philadel- phia Record.
 Aequaintance-And does your wealthy father-in law foot all your bills, count2 Count Shavyernek--Well, he kicks at 'em. Wave.
 "Clarence,' she sighed romantically, "do something true, something brave, something heroic, to prove your love for me-" Well" he faltered, but calmly, T have offered to marry you. New York Herald.
 A deacon will pass around the plate and get more buttons than dimes, but highwayman can hold out a gun and collect everything a man has got. This goes to show that a man will give more to save his body than to save his soul. St. Louis Humorist.
 Tn Arizona Reporter--Scorpion Sam has shot man. Sam paid him quar- ter he owed him, and the fellow bit it to see if it was genuine. Sam got mad and pulled on him. Editor-All right. Fix it up and head it: He Bit the Dust. Philadelphia Record. Johnny-Id hate to belong to your church. You can't dance, or play cards, or go to the circus. We can have all the fun we want in our church, and you can't. Tommy-That's all right. We're going to heaven, and you ain't, dog-on ye!--Chicago Tribune. A noble lord asked a clergyman at the bottom of his table why the goose, if there was one, was always placed next to the parson? Really" said he, q can give no reason for it; but your question is so odd that I shall never see a goose agan without thinking of your lordshp.-Answers.
 A lady of this city, who is far more particular about her husbands appear ance than he is, was surveying him with evident disapproval. What is the matter?" he inquired That suit of clothes You've had it only three weeks, and it looks as if you had slept in it"
 "I have" he replied candidly; q wore | 1t to church. h."-Washington Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-19
When the Moon is Red.

Mawson was the quietest man in the company; lazy and easy-going, and as gentle of speech and manner as a wo- man. Therefore, what am about to tell seems all the more inexplicable.
 The troops had just been paid at Fort Bolord, in New Mexico, and the detail to escort the paymaster to the next sta- tion already announced. It consisted of Sergeant Calson, an ex-English sol. dier, who had seen service in India, and six privates, of whom Mawson was one.
 On the morning of July IT, the day following the payment, a four-mule ambulance, containing the paymaster and his clerk, and one escort wagon, containing the enlisted contingent, pulled out of Bolord for Fort Newgate, sixty miles across country. As after ward verified by official observations, it was the hottest day the regiment had ever known in the territory. After the sun was few hours high, even those tough and hardened veterans, the quar- termaster's mules, showed signs of it.
 By noon both men and animals were well nigh maddened. by the heat; there
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tidiously dainty evening gown and yet it will serve to give touch of color to a demure at-home cloth frock The petticoat that is really extravagant is the light silk all lace and frills, Pretty, yes, for one or two wears, but not more; such a petticoat won't wash and it even takes chances at the cleansers s.
 More sensible are petticoats of ging- ham, and they can easily be made very dainty They come in all sorts of plaids and stripes, are ruftied to the hearts content of the most exacting woman, and are finished with wash braid. Altogether they are as much daintier and more satisfactory for street wear than either silk or white as one can imagine, besides it is so nice to feel that to get them a bit muddy or marred means only the wash tub in stead of ruin and that if they become soiled they are neither as untidy as a white skirt under the same circumstan- ces, nor as vulgar as silk one.
 Japanese komonos is what they call the lovely negliges that are being made out of soft art and taffeta silks, but if ever little Japanese lady saw these stock colored and belted garments she would have fit. She wears her komo- no over skirt that reaches only to the knee, the komono being drawn very close about the knees outlining the fig ure. We do all the tight drawing about the upper part of the figure and insist on the flow of skirts below.
 FLORETTE.
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Is Ir Al MUsICAL INsrRUMENrg

IS 1T 4 M CSLC1L L LRSTf ENTF Is the firecracker a musical instru-
 ment? It can be admitted that there
 is no sweeter music to the small boy
 than the sound of the firecraclzer as 1t
 rends the affrighted air on the night Fourth and the night of the Fourth But the small boy is not 8 judge of mu- sic, and probably the general consensus
 of competent opinion would now be
 that the firecracker is not 8 musical in.- strument. And yet it may possibly be legally decided in Massillon, Ohio, that
 under certain circumstances it may be
 musical instrument At any rate the
 claim that 1t is has been legally made.
 There is brass band in Massillon, and
 1t Is as patriotic as it is brassy It
 gave a concert the other day, and put
 the finishing touch on it by playing
 America And it put the finishing
 touch on America by exploding fire
 crackers at the proper time. There is
 no doubt that this resulted in more
 noise than the band could make un- aided, and there were those in the
 neighborhood who thought it added to the musical effect. But there was a
 policeman standing around, who had
 been trained to do his duty, without
 regard to music. When he heard the firecrackers go off he knew that a mu-
 nicipal ordinance had been violated and that rule required that he should take
 notice of the fact. He went strictly according to rule ' and arrested the
 band. The musicians took the matter calmly. They admitted the force of rule and the force of the policeman, but they contended that both the rule
 and the policeman were off, because their use of the firecracker had changed | it from an illegal instrument of torture and danger into musical instrument, | and they asked, when was the law so | that players upon musical instruments could be arrested as violators of a city
 ordinance while playing musical instru-
 ments for the public good?
 There are some very interesting ques- | tions in Ohio nowadays and this fire cracker question is one of them. If the
 court decides that the firecracker is not
 and cannot be musical instrument the Massillon brass band will be in trouble
 If the court decides that the firecracker 1 is musical instrument and that play | ing upon it is legal at any time we shall probably see many bands of boys form 1 ed, whose only musical instruments will | be firecrackers. Perhaps the musical l convention now in session here can throw some light on the question. I
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-19
FASHION NOTES.
Beneath Bodice and Skirt

oeuehlh AAoOlNe anu ShlFN'
 Women that have time, money and fanciful taste go in for the most whim- sioal elaborateness in underwear, and some of their pettieoats are so ornate that it seems a pity to hide them A dainty one is presented in this sketch, and was made of old rose satin broca ded with nile green in sprays aud bow knots, and trimmed with three flounces of ivory lace headed by a pinked rueh- ing of nile green silk Above this were corsets of nile green satin embroidered with old rose that had lace frills in back and front through which baby ribbon was run. Nile green satin rib bon was sewed to the corsets both back and front, too, and tied in bows on the shoulders.
 Women who don such outfits consider crimson silk pettlcoats as being just the thing. They are certainly very pretty and not so madly eXtravagant, after all, because such a petticoat IS voted dressy enough for the most fas-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-19
F. M. BROWN & co.

my trips last month came across a family of the same name, up in the mountains of this state (his birth place, you may remember), and by close, though apparently indifferent, ques- tioning, found out that they were cous- ins of his. They remembered him well; in fact, had a picture of him, taken in uniform when he was member of my old company
 Tt seems that his grandfather (who before drifting to Tennessee had been a sailor in early life) brought back with him from his last trip to foreign parts a dark skinned wife. She died in giving birth to Mawson's father whom his kinsfolk here speak of as "a sleepy, dreamy, worthless sort of cuss, very fond of hunting about at night.
 From the description of the woman (Mawson's grandmother), which is, however, almost entirely legendary, I have every reason to believe that she belonged to one of the tribes of Tiger people, quite common in India years ago"
 Queer, isn't 1t? Of course don't mean to say that this explains the nlys- tery, but it certainly establishes a con- nection; don't you think so?-San Francisco Argonaut.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-19
HE WILL EXPLAIN.

An interesting and important prece- dent in the political affairs of this coun- try is about to be established in New York city, where Assemblyman George c. Austin is soon to be catechised by Good Government club B on his course in the legislature At meeting of the club held last Saturday evening the committee which has been moving in this matter reported that the assembly, man had consented to appear before the club at any time, there to answer any questions the members might like to ask him about his votes and speeches as representative of the Twenty-first assembly district. MT. Austin is a. mem- Der of the club and his nomination came from that organization. He could not, therefore, very well refuse to sub init to the inquiry they suggested, but he expressed his willingness to stand the ordeal before he was invited to it.. As soon as he heard what was brewing he wrote to the Rev. Dr. John P. Peters and told him how he felt, and the cor- respondence between Dr. Peters and the assemblyman was put before the club along with the report of the com mittee.
 Dr. Parkhurst is credited with being the planner and chief promoter of this scheme. He saw the need of some check upon senators and assemblymen, some method of impressing upon them di- rectly their responsibility to their con- stituencies. When electioneering the candidates for seats at Albany were often abject in their declarations of in- tentions to represent as near as they could learn them the wishes of the vot- CTS. But after election these same men as often defied the voters and obeyed the boss. Or if they did not confess absolute obedience to the boss, they voted his way in the face of the objections of their districts. How was this to be broken up? Dr. Parkhurst had read somewhere of a practice in some parts of Scotland of catechization by the district of members of Parlia- ment upon their return from London, and he thought something like that might be done in New York. He made little progress in getting his idea acted ! upon, but now, with MT Austin ready | to answer questions, it is hoped that a precedent is to be established which other legislators will not like to ignore If this idea spreads and finds general favor it may not improve legislators and legislation as much as some think
 it will, but it will add much to the gay | ety of this nation.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-19
Professor stedman, entomologlst a

Professor Stedman, entomologist at the Missouri State Agricultural college, contradicts the statements that have been circulated to the effect that Mis- souri orchards were becoming infected with the pest which California has all ready spent millions of dollars in try ing to eradicate, known as the San Jose scab. Professor Stedman found but two trees in the State so affected, and they had been shipped in from New Jersey.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-19

Child workers, between the ages of ten and sixteen. are 2.4S per cent. of the whole, and workers over sixty years of age are S,S1 per cent. Female workers constitute about one-fourth of the whole number under tweaty-one years of age, but between that age and sixty years their proportion falls to per cent, dropping to 8 per sent, among those over sixty years of age.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-19

England may yet be beaten. It is an- nounced that the rivers of Great Britain annually carry down to the sea 6,500,0O0 tons of solid matter. At he present rate the whole island will be washed to sea level in Ii, ,OOO, 100000 years. While the rain will do this, the waves and tide will eat it away in half that time. Every year the Thames carries down sufficient solid matter to make twenty four acres of land six feet deep at it's mouth.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-19

Cawker-The goat is an impressive looking animal. Cumso-I don't think so. Cawker-Have you ever reflected what striking forehead he has?-Har- per's Enquirer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-19
Advertising Rates.

Situations, Wants, Rents and other small advertisements, One Gent Word each in sertion. Five cents word for full week (seyen times.)
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A prearranged railroad collision is to be one of the features at the opening of a pleasure resort near Coumbus, Ohio. The Columbus, Hooking Val ley and Toledo railroad has assigned two thirty-fve ton locomotives, which have outlived their usefulness for economical service, and to each of these will be attached three old gondola cars and g. caboose. A siding LOGO feet long has been laid, connected at each end with the main track, and the trains will be started from points about half or three quarters of mile from the middle of the siding A trial trip has showed that speed of forty five to fifty miles per hour may be ex- pected. The engines are to carry 120 pounds of boiler pressure, and are to have the throttles wide open. The event Is being advertised, and great crowds will in all probability witness the pre- arranged snashup.
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Truth is certainly as strange as fic- tion. Peter Faust and Mrs. David Bruner of Toledo, who have lived with in g block of one another for five years and have regularly attended the same church, have just discovered that they are brother and sister. Faust and his brother-i -in-law, Bruner, went to the war together, the latter dying in Libby prison. The former returned home and lived with his sister for some time, but for 23 years they have not heard from each other until in a church election each heard the others name as the roll was read. They met at the close of the meeting, and, as the recognition became a certainty, their friends were amazed to see them suddenly throw their arms about each others neck, while the tears streamed down from their eyes. Anoth- CT curious fact is that, while both were Methodists when they parted, they had Joined the Christian church after the separation.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-19

London has been aroused to the ne- cessity of having thirty-foot channel open into the Thames at all stages of the tide in order to compete with Southampton and Liverpool The Leigh middle shoals acts as a. bar to the river; through the channel in this no vessel drawing twenty-eight feet can pass at low water. Vessels drawing twenty-seven feet can pass only thir- teen days in the year, and those draw ing twenty-five feet on 125 days.