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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

The exchange editor on the Mime
apolis Journal recently took occasion
to roast THE PRISON MIRROR editors
with the exception of Grimes who
is far, far away-which was rather an
unkind and unfair thing to do. The
editors of THE MIRROR are not given
full swing and do not get out around
with the boys to any great extent,
being necessarily confined to linn
tied territory. 1t is not square
deal to those who move only linn
tied distances east, west, north or
south. When man does the best
he knows how and is obliged to saw
wood until removed by those in au-
thority, he should not be jumped on
by a metropolitan newspaper. Give
the boys chance. Possibly that ex-
change editor never wore striped
suit.-StillWater Gazette.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

every contingencies as we'll as in
every church, and are being slowly ap-
pretended by mankind. There is less
of corruption and dishonesty today
than there was yesterday, and there
will be still less tomorrow. For it is
being slowly recognized that the only
condition upon which human society
can prosper is that of obedience to the
laws Of God. "Thou shalt not steal"
was not uttered with any more en-
phasis from Mount Sinai than it is in
the business centers of the modern
world.
1t may be proper, however, to sug-
gest that there is danger that the moral
and religious instructions of the times
need to be given more emphasis.
Young men and women should be
warned more earnestly against the
subtle and powerful temptations that
beset youth and should be made to un-
derstand the nature of the penalties
that inevitably follow yielding to them.
Religious society should feel pang
of remorse that so many young men
and young women 60 yearly to destruc-
ton with so little effort to warn or re-
claim them. The public opinion which
allows gambling dens and low saloons
and vile places of amusement and re-
sort and vicious literature to be COM
mon on every hand and lure their
victims to certain doom, cannot pride
itself upon it's Christian or humanita-
rian feeling. If the youth were ade-
quately taught in their homes, both by
precept and example, the virtues of So
briefly, honesty, fidelity, kindness and
courtesy-if they were made to under
stand that the laws of the moral uni
verse-the laws of GOd-are unchange-
ably on the side OF these virtues, and
that punishment is inevitable and
never long delayed for faithlessness to
them, perhaps we should not so often
be distressed with the sight of rdined
manhood and womanhood. Over the
ruins of careers which promised we'll
we shall moralize to no profit, if it does
not result in more systematic effort
to provide the instruction that alone
can prevent the frequent recurrence of
ruin and disgrace Minneapolis Times.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

The rector of one of the most
fashionable churches in New York
city, which numbers among it's men,
bers many millionaires, is boldly accus-
ed of having plagiarized his Easter
sermon. A prominent member of the
clergy published a card in which he
advised his co-laborer in the Lords
vineyard in the following forcible Ian
guage; eff you haven't brains enough
to write good sermon yourself, 60
out of the business. Better be an hon
est teakettle tinker than dishonest
sermon tinker. However great may
be the temptation to pilfer, resist the
devil-not the printers devil, but the
other one-when he calls out more
copv.'"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

IT is really nice and eminently proper
that newspaper should be edited by
the editor, but criminal and notori-
Gus liar and blackmailer ought not to
be permitted to edit newspaper. The
state laws ought to regulate this mat
ter, by requiring that to lawfully entitle
a person to edit a newspaper he must
be possessed of moral character, be
strictly honest and reliable, the same
as principal of school, to the end
that education may be in the right di-
rection.-Big Stone Co. Journal.
This is a hard hit on prison editors,
but perhaps Bro. Kaerche was not aim
ing at us. We can plead mot guilty
to the charge of ''liar'' and "black-
mailer" but to the more serious charge
of criminal-well, we were duly con-
victed and must abide the consequent
ces though we would gladly avoid them
if we could by resigning our position
on THE MIRROR to engage in some
business less combining.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

worst tenement buildings in the city,
which return large rental. Yet so
niggardly is the policy of the church
that it has persistently refused to erect
modern tenements in place of these
fretraps although attention has been
repeatedly called to their unhealthy
and dangerous condition. If some
private citizen had been the owner of
the building the matter would not
have ended with simply censure.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

THERE was a time in this land of
the free and home of the brave when
labor was considered honorable, but
that time has passed, and nowadays
to be connected with a laboring
man or one occupying somewhat in
ferior social position is shame and
reproach. Matters have come to a
pretty pass when an army officer is
compelled to resign on account of be-
ing bOycotted for having married the
daughter of a sergeant, although the
lady is educated and refined; and when
Yale compels each member Of it's boat
crew to give an affidavit that he has
never performed manual labor, in Or
der to be eligible to participate in AN
international race. Nothing more I'M
American could be thought of.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

OVERwORKED editors are not the
only ones who mix their metaphors. A
clergyman in an eastern town warned
his hearers lately mot to walk in a
slippery path, lest they be sucked,
maelstrom-like, into its meshes. On
another occasion clergyman prayed
that 1.-The word might be as nail driven
in sure place, sending it's roots down
ward and it's branches upward,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

The Indiana legislature of 1895
passed law which practically forces
every man that is discharged from it's
penal institutions into life of crime,
unless he has means and friends. 1t is
beyond comprehension how any body
of intelligent men, as lawmakers
are supposed to be, could enact such
law. According to it's provisions, ev.
cry convict upon the expiration of his
sentence must be returned to the coun-
ty jail from whence he came and be
discharged at it's door; the law requires
that the county officials perform this
duty, thus making fat fees for the
sheriffs. The state and counties are
forbidden to pay the convict any money
whatever, thereby leaving the poor un-
fortunate, after years of toll, perhaps
without the means to purchase meal
or nights lodging. Formerly every
inmate was allowed the sum of fifteen
dollars upon his release, for the pur-
pose of purchasing clothing and to
enable him to pay his railroad fare to
the point of his destination, but the
new law repealed this. Stunned and
scorned by everybody as the ex-con-
vict will be and in all likelihood hound
ed by the police, he must inevitably
become veritable Ishmael, "his hand
will be against every man, and every
mans hand against him." The Indi-
ana state board of charities, in it's an
nual report which is now being pre-
pared, will, we understand, call the at
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

On EASTER morning four persons
were suffocated in a fire which occurred
in miserable tenement building in
New York city. A coroner's jury
brought in a verdict censuring the
owners, the Trinity church corpora
ton, for not providing fire-escapes as
the law requires. This corporation is
the richest Protestant church in the
United States, and the owner of the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

"a jameson Troopers Tale in the
San Francisco Argonaut of April 18th,
is review, with long quotations, of
Captain Frank Thatcher's "Jameson's
Dash into the Transvaal." Captain
Thatcher was one of Jameson's aids
de-camp, and he is the man who es-
capped after the surrender at Doornkop
and carried the news of the defeat to
the Reform Committee at Johannes
burg
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16
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The pen is mightier than the sword
and pistol when it comes to robbing a
bank.-Eden Valley Journal.
About the only thing the daily press
can agree upon is selling 50 dictiona-
ries for SIG. There is money in this
st. Louis Critic.
Some gentlemen who pose as reform
ers would not be permitted to play in
a square crap game.-St. Louis HUI
mOrist.
An employe at brewery in Milwau-
kee fell into tank of beer, and was
drowned. This goes to prove that
beer in large quantities is Injurious
Middletown Conglomerate.
Edison has discovered a way to see
through hand fifteen feet away. All
the poker-sharks in Bloomington are
putting themselves in communication
with the wizard of Menlo Park
Bloomington Eye.
If you would make a man a thief
treat him with suspicion; if you would
make thief man let him know that
you trust him. There is a spark of
honor in every human breast which
may be kindled by kindness.-Od
Fellows Review.
1t was discourteous and ungenerous
for the Journal Press to palm off a
portrait of one of the convicts for the
new superintendent of the reforma.
tory, upon his first day in his new po-
sition. Mr.. Houlton is good looking
gentleman. The alleged likeness was
horrible.-St. Cloud Times.
There's no such thing in life as COM
plete satisfaction. If man has no
money, he is miserable, and if he has
lots of it, it is next to impossible to in
vestit remuneratively. There is no bust
ness which is sure to pay, not even
the business of stealing, but that's be-
cause there are so many persons in it,
and there would be many more in it if
the penitentiary did not prevent it
from being open to everybody, and so
be utterly ruined.-Centralia Fireside
Guard.
While some of our citizens, probably
those who have no boys of their own,
are advocating the passage of curfew
and other laws for the protection of
others boys, we find them offering So
900 and even $500, as is recently
claimed New Y ork paper did, for the
autobiography of H. H. Holmes. Such
literature as that and the alleged life
of Harry Hayward, denied by his father
as being pack of lies, to furnish the
public to read. This thing has gone far
enough and it is high time that people
quit reading such publications. Let the
truth alone prevail.-Buffalo Journal.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

EDITOR MARION p. SATTERLEE. of
the Atwater Republican, has sold the
paper to Prof. L. E. Covell.- That the
future may have in store for Bro. Sat-
terlee even more success than the past
has had, and that his successor will
have smooth sailing on the journalistic
sea is the wish of THE MIRROR.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16
THE MIRROR is a weekly pa,

THE WLRROR IS weekly paper published
in the Minnesota State Prison. 1t was founded
IN 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and man.
aged by them. Its objects are to be a home
newspaper: to encourage moral and intellectual
Improvement among the prisoners; to acquaint
the public with the true STATUS of the prisoner;
to disseminate pathological information and to aid
in dispelling that prejudice which has ever been
the bar sinister to fallen mans self-redemptiOn
The paper is entirely dependent on 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, 1896-04-16
N 0 TIC E.

THOSE receiving copies of THE MIR
ROR who are not subscribers will
please consider them as sample cop
les. If, after reading them, you should
conclude. that THE MIRROR is
worthy of your patronage send one
dollar to this office and we will enter
your name on our books for a
years subscription.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

The sheriff of Hennepin county is
evidently a practical joker. Having
placed in his hands a writ of attach
ment for the amount of eighteen dol
lars, against the city of Minneapolis.
ne levied upon the patrol wagon and
the "coppers" now walk.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16


GOOD juries both grand and petit
have always been considered one of
the bulwarks of liberty and any meth
cd that can be devised that will raise
the standard of these bodies should be
welcomed. The universal method of
obtaining juries is to prepare a list of
persons qualified to serve, which is
done either by local board, jury COM
miSsioners, or the board of county
commissioners, and from this list
names are selected by lot to serve.
This method, while theoretically an
ideal one, is far from being perfect in
its practical operation. The state of
Louisiana seems to have solved the
problem of selecting men to serve as
jurors; and law that gives the negro
equal justice in southern state cannot
but recommend itself for adoption in
other states. The Jacksonville (Fla.)
citizen, in speaking of the law, says:
AT time when complaints regard
ing the system for administering JUS.
tlce are very common, everyone will
be glad to know of a state whose peO-
pie are congratulating themselves
upon the possession of a good jury
law. This is the happy experience of
Louisiana, and the improvement is
ascribed to the good sense of the last
legislature, by which the law was en-
acted.
Formerly the names of the men who
were to act as grand and petit jurors
were drawn out of boxes containing
three hundred names taken at random.
Under the present law jurors Of both
classes are selected and appointed by
jury commissions, specially designated
to act as either grand jurors or petit
jurors. The commissions are appointed
by the Judges OF the parishes, and are
composed of discreet citizens, who re-
side in different sections of the par
ishes, and from their knowledge of the
people in the various localities are en-
abled to pick out the best citizens.
The results of the change have been
most beneficial. A newspaper pub
lished in Catahoude parish says that
under the old system of drawing jul
rors some of the greatest farces ever
enacted in a judicial tribunal occurred
and white man could not be convict
ed of any crime. During the recent
term of court, on the contrary, thirty
three true bills were found by the
grand jury, and every man received a
fair trial and just verdict.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

tention of the next legislature to this
most unwise law. 1t is to be hoped
that it will be repealed, and that some
law more in keeping with the modern
spirit of reformation will be enacted
by the next legislature. The present
law in that state is the worst to be
found in the statute books of any of
the states north of the Ohio river.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

This paper will be forwarded to subscribers
until ordered discontinued and all arrears are
paid.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16
Edited and Published by the Inmates
of the Minnesota State Prison.

Entered at the Post Office at Saltwater, Mimi,
as SecOnd-claSS pail matter.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

Should THE 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, 1896-04-16
HISTORICAL GLEANINGS.

The constitution of Cuba, modelled
on that of the United States, was.
adopted Sept. 23rd, 1885.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

Contributions solicited from any and all sour
ces. Rejected manuscript will not be returned.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

Some gentlemen who pose as reform
ers would not be permitted to play in
a square crap game.-St. Louis HUI
mOrist.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

An employe at a brewery in Milwau-
kee fell into tank of beer, and was
drowned. This goes to prove that
beer in large quantities is injurious
Middletown Conglomerate.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

The pen is mightier than the sword
and pistol when it comes to robbing a
bank.-Eden Valley Journal.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

About the only thing the daily press
can agree upon is selling 50 dictiona-
ries for $40. There is money in this
st. Louis Critic.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

The manuscripts of the fifth and
very good black ink, which has not
shown the least signs of fading or OBJ
liberation.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-22
Notes and Personals.

Mrs. Enzabeth kifEuan .t tbo rhlrI
ward was bufisl yesterday. SYr hls
boeu nu invalid iUI Wauf ytaH Auu
death was o welcome ,oiU zee, sac was
about seventy yoafs Oi e..
Sheriff Brown brought JOSEPH
Stevens, n tramp, over from America
Fork, whoIu the Jubligo sentenced b %
TO Ninety days In thu county jsIl .or
stealing sliit from $50 CO.. =. ore.
John a. Law swil have heAfllt
before Justice 5sxcy tomorrow CA q
charge u assault anu battery IrUf.r.o D
by hrs hired man, Is. o, Drinll.
Mrs. q. T.. Murphy boo b.ru paid
s., 900 by Vac A, O.U.'Y., Of NI|cu zee
ISOLATION Itf uu.ut.. yaaa iIclu.s
Yesterday Mis AuH Pike WIS pro.
tuutUd wish n beautiful SILVER ueual
for the Fourth o. july .Hzl pOum.i
Misses ROlu and Daisy Moore leave
tom Tfuw tor Tacomn, W-HsIugtlu,
whore they VII visit irluJa,
The following Salt Lokorl are NJ the
hotol Ryaofs: j. al. banner, ~. G.
Simon, a. y. Russell.
Judge Hatch will open a Term Of the
Fourth district court in N.fual hb Jt
TIE let o' August.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-22
AFTER THE $4,000.
CITY Council Wants an Accounting
from Treasurer Nay.
cry ATTORNEY WILL DEMAND
1h roney tf Mr.. May aud lie ronis
mpu-Wallicc is Water UOrLs
sup rlat,nd vt Row

The CITY Ceuaoil last night took &c.
ton ohich all citlzens win commend
iu psssing unanimously the following
resolution Of rtspcct
whereas, This body has received with
rlucoro sorrow lidiugs " tho death Of
oar respected and distinguished citizon,
Abrahsm a.. Cannon, who NO lately
walked thn-o streets Ia tho perfection 6f
manhood. aud whose towering abilities
weru W eatneauy devoted 10 enterprises
aud Prospects pregnant with prosperity
to this ci,y and tao material good OF
every cl ION.
Whereas, Death, Ia removing him,
has sirlCsel down ono who for many
years pat has boon, aud who but Tor
MS unumuly onu Tor msny years In tho
future would have boon central figure
among those who nave and will labor Tor
tho advancement u salt Lake Ciiy's
material Interests; therefore be- II
Resolved, That As q mark OF respect
for the dead, and as evidence Of our siu.
cnro regard and admiration Tor the la o
Abraham II. Cannon, thas tho ilag ON tho
city building be carried nt halt mast tor
period Of thirty days from this date,
and that shis C0inCil attend his funeral
iites Ia u body.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-22
FOR BRACKET LAMp5.

Tho Salt Lake and OsIen Gas and
Electric l.ight company asked per-
nissiOn 10 remove iis gio lamps from
tue cuutor % the street and place the IN
on tue corners % brackets, IN the i0l.
lowing l5cnt.Oni;
On Wcst rcmplc, at the corner Of
Fret, second aud ihltd South street,
on Third 5 Iuth, ut toe o0rntf Of Main,
on Ninth East, ut the corners OF Ninth
and Tenth south,
Tho requeet IN made on account Of
the present danger TO line men by
reason % the numerous wirgs ia thCsr
rlncts. Referred 10 tue committee on
imIrU vumUutg.
The same company pstllionnd Tor n
water malu on Floral avenue, IN order
10 make connection from their build.
Ing situated at the roar Of the Manilou
hotel.
The same company also asked Oh at d
sewer DO laid down. Tue petit i0nf
were referred to thu imprJyums nis
c0mmltlcr.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-22
Fourth District Court.

= rather unusual case, In this State
was hohrIb Judge Hatch yesterday.
Nels q. Err chfon VI. Chrl T.. johnson
was tho title OF toe casr. Plaintiff fuud
fOt IS, 900 dam gee, whiuA he ii ims by
reason OF de eudtn, having ailenatrd
the affections OF Mrs. Erioksun. The
complaint set forth that defendant be-
came acquainted with plaintiff and
was introduced 10 plnlntiii's home NJ a
friend, aud gradually became more
than a friend OF Mrf. Erickson, anu
charges thst ON July "a, 1895, \ crimi.
nal Intimacy c1mueuCIi between
Mts. Erickson M d uUftnjEut, aud has
been coniilued tilce thea. TIE
testimony OF plaintiff was e.
the effect that on one occasion
ho found his vito IN JUhnfon's house,
where sho was locked up ina olrsel.
Hs also found her once In the Luther.
an church, about I Gro O'clock In tue
morning; no u.d ult lLu Jnbnsnn, but
inspected no was there. A number Of
the rsirhboTs aisj testified % seeing
Mrs. Erickson and Johnson together,
but Jii u9t testify 60 any eliminating
tircunislaucoF.
To defendant denied that any
rnefu'riCiru8 relations hai existed 20.
tween himsolf aud Mtr. EgicssoD, an!
SAID that Ns. Lrlgkslu wHE lursatpU.
atty Jealous OF Mfs. Ellolgson aud
would often become angry with nis
vito aud threaten her,
M rad MrF, Erickson were married
ig 1856 and hsve four Uhillfoa. dt1.
Eylck.on alHn has three nUl.la n.u
uaby which plninUII aim isEC. its.
The court found IN pantin AMI a..
Il the damages Ia tho sun q
Sl,O.t. Iur.y csys' t,ay Of prO,o1t.
IuFs was lrsuroi,
Iuo o'so OF Edlo A. Elchs'n ~
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-22
PROVO.
County Commissioners.

The county commissioners met yoa-
ter1ay and transacted the following
buainost.
An ordinance was enacted redls,rlot-
Ing tho county Ia voting districts In
the following manner;
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-22

There 10 ono iruo specific Tor disdtso-
aitiug from impure blood aud dpuilI.
~ cd nervous TOM, and that Do Paine N
celery compound su EDuOru.ly prescribed
lY phyH."i.ua. Tits probably tlH mos q
remarkable r,unly tuu, tho HHIlnt.. G.
research NJ tIia uu ty has prod rsH
Pfuf ..i"Hri D. pHoIua. ". h.. LL. D..
of Dartmouth college. tat prgsurlhoi
WIN. d. now known mo world oyor as
l'H.uH c.iUrv compound. "a positive euro
inr dyspepsia, l.li1u-uCsa, liver com.
uilIut neuralgia, rloumhusm, all uor-
y1us U..vs. os HuI kidney troubles. For
Tho latter l'u.rU's c".u.v compound has
tuc-urdoi aRlin and usaiu whore oyory-
tilu. Ol.p has failed