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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-09-23

A rich man may get bald-headed but he is
never short on heirs.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-09-23

one third the space which should be
provided for this number. Good beds
were provided, with two sheets, and
mattress made of India fibre.
The prisoners were employed mainly
at unskilled labor, sorting coffee, sew
ing sacks, making prison mattresses,
and removing husks from store nuts.
Prisoners having trade are allowed
to work at such for the balance Of
their time. No difficulty is found in
providing work, but there is bitter op-
position to work which completes with
mechanics. The prisoners are allowed
IS pfenig az cents) per day out Of
their earnings-the remainder goes to
the city.
Many prisoners are sentenced for 5
and 10 days. The inspector in charge,
like all workhouse officers whom 1
have met, declared that such SEN
fences were worse than useless.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-09-23

Grade standing September %: First grade,
$780, second grade, 119; third grade, ID.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-09-23
Prisoners Received During the Week:

F. w. Fiske, st. Louis Co., forgery second de
gree, one year.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-09-23

As there is this Come in and make your selection
early to have your SUIT ready to put when the
cold weather comes.
North Second M. A. THON.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-09-23

Prisoners received during the week ending
September %, l.; Discharged, 4.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-09-23

PRISON OFFICIALS.
MANAGERS.
JAS. S. O'BRIEN, President saltwater
EDWIN DUNN, EyOta
JOHN F. NORRISH, Hastings
F. w. TEMPLE, Blue Earth City
n. o. HALL, Duluth
RESIDENT OFFICIALS.
HENRY WOLFER, Warden
F. II. LEMON, Deputy Warden
GEO. BIXBY, Clerk
B. ]. MERRILL, Physician
MISS MARY MCKINNEY, MatrOn
j. H. ALBERT, Protestant Chaplain
CHARLES CORCORAN, Catholic Chaplain
PRISON AGENT.
F. A. WHITTIER st. Paul.
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Local,
risOnettes Lucid
y Logical.
Patients undergoing treatment in hospital 2.

Prison population September %: Males, 473;
females, 8; total, 4S2.
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maintained. All prisoners, however,
have one hours exercise per day in a
large exercise yard arranged in cOncen-
trio paths. Prisoners are required to
walk three to four yards apart, and at
tempts to communicate with each other
are punished.
A considerable number of convicts
are sent first to the Norwood Scrubs
prison, where they are only kept
short time; they are then transferred
to another prison, where they spend
nine months of their sentence in sepa-
rate confinement, after which they are
transferred to "public works pris-
on" where they work with other pris-
oners. The governor of the Worm
wood Scrubs prison, Gov. Price, is an
earnest advocate of the separate plan
as deterrent for misdemeanants. He
thinks that about half of the first Of
Tenders sent to his prison are never
in prison again and are presumably
reformed.
The discipline of the prison is strict,
both as to prisoners and officers. Tri-
fling offenses are punished by restricted
diet, depriving the prisoner of exercise
etc. For more serious offenses, the
prisoner may be sentenced by magis-
trate to confinement in punishment
cell. For still more serious offenses,
the magistrate may order twelve to
eighteen blows with the cat. o'-nine-
tails, which consists of handle IS
inches long with nine thongs of Irvine
about the size of wool Irvine. The Off
Ger who conducted me through the
prison stated that the number of cor
poral punishments would not be more
than one per month.
The prisoners are divided into four
grades, or stages. Each stage runs four
weeks and it takes twelve weeks to
reach the highest stage.
The women's department is under
the charge of a matron. 1t is kept en-.
tirely separate from the mems depart.
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Story of a Scarecrow.

There is an honest Swede employed as
a gardener in the East End, and his DELHI
crate speeches are a source of much delight
to his employer. He has been much an
noyed by thievish birds, and few DAYS
ago suggested that "a scarecrow would be a
good thing. 1t took him some time to
make the empower understand what he
meant, but finally he realized it was a
dummy bird scarer, LAX in OF country
The employer fell in with the idea and
told the Swede to rig up frame When
this was completed the latter was given a
bundle of east-off clothing to deck out his
dummy. He looked askance at the gar
ments as he put them on the sticks and
was evidently much impressed by their ex-
cellent condition. He glanced down at his
own clothes from time to time and seemed
to be making a silent comparison. Present
ly he put the scarecrow in the garden and
returned to his employer, who stood at
some little distance. He looked at the work
of art with his head very much on one side,
and finally said:
Say, mister.
We'll, John?'
"Ay tank maybe it was better I change
clothes with scarecrow, or else stand myself
in his place
He couldn't bear to see the dummy wear
ing better clothes than he did.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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CURING hICCOUGhS.


IN the story.
why don't you stop that hiccoughing:"
said one business man to another as they
met at the corner of Fourth and Vine
streets at the neon hour. The man ad-
dressed was all but in commissions.
Stop nothing" said he. I've been try
ing every old remedy l ever heard of and
every new one that every fool friend was
kind enough to suggest I've held my arms
over my head for Is minutes and extended
them like a sign board until they ached. |
held my breath until was all but ready to
drop from apoplexy. I've drunk nine swa!-
lows of water nine times over, guess, and
two or three chumps have tried to scare me,
and did it, too, but to no good. Then an
other enthusiastic amateur physician hit me
in the middle of the back when l wasn't
looking and escaped before l could land on
him. | would not have done a thing to
him if l had caught him. But the hiccoughs
are here. and to stay, fear
Set EN- up if ] cure you:
will i? I'll set em up for a month and
throw in big cold bot besides if you cure
EN-
Then they adjourned to a moistening es-
Enlistment. ard the good Samaritan said
to Dan: Dan. give this gentleman lump
of white sugar"
He took it and dissolved it in his mouth,
and the hiccougns went as if by magic,
probably because their stay was over any
how, and not on account of the remedy, but
it cost the cold bottle just the same and
some drinks besides. Still, he thinks he got
out OF it cheap enough.-Cincinnat Tribune.
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a bray came from their pen on the bank
of the stream. Lambert had received
the assurance of his sergeant that the
missing men would surely turn up be-
fore breakfast on the morrow, and had
given permission to that harassed and
evidently disguised official to go to bed.
Then. after turn around his sleeping
camp, the young fellow went to his
lonely roost ''to think things over
In the first place, as he lighted his
candle, there was the tin pail which had
rolled out from the Walton hedge row,
and which, on inspection, he had found
to contain about two pounds of fresh
butter, very neatly packed in lettuce
leaves. That proved that the Waltons
still had something of their old garden
left. Lettuce could surely be raised
only under glass at this inclement sea-
son. He had hitherto had no time for
close inspection of the contents. Now
as he turned over the leaves he found
little slip of paper on which. in a girlish
and somewhat "scratchy" hand, were
penned the words: please send small
currency. It's hard to get change. You
can have buttermilk tomorrow night if
you'll bring pitcher. Due, $50. You
must pay it this time. l must have it,"
Now, who on earth is this young
lady's customer" thought Lambert
surely not Close. He never spends
cent on butter. Nobody else lives nearer
than Parmelee's to the north or town
to the south. Can it be that some of the
sergeants have been buying supplies
from this quarter and running up but
ter billy" Burns had spoken of trouble
between the captain and the old lady
and of all hands being forbidden to
enter the Walton grounds on any pre-
text whatever. That, of course, did not
prohibit the men from buying what the
Walton servants offered for sale outside
the fence, and if they were so straitene1
in circumstances they might be glad to
find a market for their surplus produce
even among the Yankee invaders, pro-
vided Nine. Walton were kept in ignor-
ance of the traffic. She was uncom-
promising. No intercourse with. no
recognition of, the barbarians, was her
rule to kith and kin. and the few negroes
who still hung about the crumbling old
place repeated her words with the fear
born of lonS-continued discipline under
her roof and rod in the days of thei. en-
forced and unquestioning servitude.
These and other items of information
as to his surroundings the young lieu
tenant had obtained from Sergt. Burns
in the course of their evening watch to-
gether. He had no other means of
studying the situation, and was but one
of many new and comparatively mex
perienced officers thrown upon their
own resources at isolated posts among
"the states lately in rebellion" Not yet
"a hours on duty with his company, he
had been ordered to proceed with an
armed force to the succor of officers of
law supposedly besieged by rebellious
mob. and now, at midnight, in the heart
of . strange country and far from the
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CTo BE Continued
A Timely Present.

Tom was n colored boy about five. in
a southern town. and he was lazy and
careless, but not so much so that he
dill not manage to get along somehow
And Tom fell in love, for Cupid is no re-
specter of color or condition, but he
went up against his poverty at the first
move, and then he began to think a
way out. AS an experiment, he went
into the office of the clerk who pre-
sides over the marriage licenses.
Colonel" he said, IF Use gwinter
git married, would you give me we'd
din present?'
well, Tom," said the colonel, I'm
not in that business, but seeing that it
is You. think 1 might do something.
What would you like to have? Some
thing useful?"
deed, boss, doan' want no udder
kind of truck. 1 only wants what 7
needs, boss"
"All right. Tell me what you would
like, and I'll see if can stand it,
Tom hesitated, and then rushed in.
Il reckon, boss" he said, dat a mar
riage license wud do me more good
dan mos any udder present you could
seleck."
Nothing venture, nothing have, and
Tom passed over the first obstacle In
triumph.-Detroit Free Press,
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go on the mex trip" and he returned to
the can"
The Mascot went on her way with
out Charlie, and when she was opposite
Neligh's Landing she blew up, killing
most of her crew. So Gross is firm in
the belief that an all-ordering Provi-
dence gave him that remarka BILE ca
pacity for fiery fluid in order to save
him from the fate of the sober men,
Toers of the crew.
He has sworn off since a the empha tic
request of Capt. Burke, but what he has
lost in the way of accomplishment in
the line of Throwing beer into hisself"
has been the cause of anxiety on his
part. He is superstitious about the
cup that inebriates" and fears that
some day he will be punished. as I'M
grateful friends are likely to be, by the
blowing up of the st. Paul and all her
sober crew.
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TROPICAL TIPS.
Showing How to Make Hot Weather
Endurable.

a hint comes from India which is
worth using in the hot summer days.
Lassitude and loss of appetite are
among the first evidences of the effec;
of the suns heat upon the body, and in
hot weather many persons who have
never had sunstroke are debilitated by
what might be fairly called sun fatigue,
which, although not serious, renders
work of every kind more laborious than
it would otherwise be.
The influence of the sun varies enor-
mously en- different individuals. some
Of whom have to take special precau-
tons in order to be able to resist it. "A
spinal pad is used by soldiers in many
tro pical countries. 1t arrests the light,
which often works such injury, but IS
intentionally not, and soon becomes
Objectionable from its absorption of
pcrspiration.
In India the boon and blessing be-
yond compare with those who have to
spend part of their lives under trop-
icai sunlight is an orange-colered shirt.
An English engineer declares that he
frequently fell i'll after duty in the sun.
until he treated himself as a photo
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HUNGER AS A MOTIVE.
1t Is the AIaddin's Lamp of Cfvili-
ration.

The rowels of natures most powerful
spur, hunger, are continually reddening
the TANKS of the primitive community,
says the Monist. The apostles scath-
ing arraignment of the Cretans, whose
god is their belly" would literally ap-
ply to every savage tribe-and many
A civilized one. Hunger is one of the
lnainsprings of progress. AT its i'm
perative command the flint was Clipped
Tito the arrow head, the dart, the spear.
In its honor the net was woven, the hoe
was made and the soil broken. To ap-
pease it's cravings the wild bull is
broken to the yoke, the forests are
fclled, the ditch is dug through the
marsh.
On it's errands the ship is launched
on the perilous deep and the band sent
out upon the war path. Into its service
hove been impressed the winds of
heaven, the steam wreaths of the cal
dron and the glittering shafts of the
lightning. 1t is the real Aladdin's lamp
of civilization. The ceaseless westward
flow of the human stream and the
march of the "star of empire" have been
at the behest of its genii. Whether it
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county seat is in the strictest sense
country town. The inhabitants live al
most entirely upon the tributary coun-
try. There are no factories. The
money that the farmers of the county
spend for food. clothing. fuel and the
comforts of the farm home is the cash
capital upon which the town does its
business. This capital is passed from
the grocers to the clothing merchants.
to the druggists, to the furniture deal
ers, to the hardware sellers and to pro-
fessional men. In the older communi-
ties of the eastern and middle states
necessity has developed factories,
which convert raw material into fin
ished products, and money from the
outside world comes in. But Kansas is
yet hardly a generation old. and it has
not entered the manufacturing era of
industry.
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You forget. sir. that my moneys

You forget. sir. that my moneys
gone"
Sure you hadn't anything but what
was in that pocketbook? Then, SER
geant. you do it. and keep account"
But, excuse me. captain" said Lam
bert. flushing. II myself will need
money. l must find some place to
board. Keep those mileage accounts
as security, if you like. but let me have
twenty dollars"
But you hain't signed them; they're
no good"
I'll settle that" said Lambert, sharp
ly; and, taking a pen. he drew a line
through the item for transportation for
servant and altered the figures of the
total accordingly, then, still standing
and bending over the desk, slashed his
signature with a suffering pen upon
the paper. Close carefully scrutinized
the sheet, compared it with its dupli-
cate when that. too, was similarly fin
ished, and slowed both away in long
envelope. Sure you've got to have
twenty?" he asked, as a soldier stuck
his head inside the tent door, retired
precipitately at sight of the junior lieu
tenant, and then, from without, an
nounced that the captain was served.
'Well, / guess | can get it for you
before | GO" Slowly he finished. slowly
signed, after close study of their con-
tents, the papers placed before him,
then slowly left the tent without an
other word Not until he had buckled
on his pistt belt--he carried no sword
and was about to start with his silent
and yawning squad. did he seem to wake
from his fit of abstraction. and then
only when Lambert appealed to him
for orders.
"Oh, yes. Well, just have an eye on
them mules, will you, lieutenant?
Everything else, almost, is under lock
and key. The quartermaster sergeant
is pretty solid"
But in case of disturbance, or de-
mands for more detachments, or men
wanting to 60 away?"
There won't be nuthin now fur a
week. Dos you like about givin' the
men a little liberty. They've had a
good deal. Everything around here will
be quiet enough, and you'll hear what
I'm after-well. when I've got it,
That night, though worn and weary
and downhcarted. Lambert could hard
ly sleep. At II the little detachment
had trudged away into the blackness
of the night, and the tramp of their
march was swallowed up in the rustic
of the crisp brown foliage and the creak
of overhanging branches. The men re-
manning in camp crawled back to their
blankets; the cook fire smoldered away.
only occasionally whirling forth re-
iuctant flight of sparks in response to
some vigorous puff of the restless wind;
the sentry yawned and dawdled about
the wagon and the store tent; even the
mules seemed SO sympathetic with their
recovered associate that no whisper of
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be born of barren soil and cruel sky
Or of the pressure of overpopulation, 1t
has played leading part in molding the
lestinies of the nations.
In the fall of every world empire from
assyria to Rome the conquering race
aas invariably come from the noun
famous or barren land, or from a stern
~ sky.
And still to-day the nations of the
pieakest belt f the temperate zone,
where the struggle with soil and eli
mate is severest, the Scotch, the Eng
lish, the Dutch and the North Germans,
are overrunning the whole of the in
habitable globe and bid fair to far out
do Alexander by more peaceable and
far more stable means.
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graphic sensitive plate. and surrounded
his body with yellow light.
All clothing. however thick. allows
certain rays to pass, and although thick
clothing would arrest all the injurious
ailments of sunlight. it would inter-
fere with the escape of bodily hear.
Tie yellow shirt. for sensitive people
who are much in hot sunlight. is an eN-
cellent protection. only inferior to that
sim plest and best of all India protec-
ti.es- white umbrella, which has not
yet been acclima ted in this country.
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GAPThIN CLOSE
BY CAPTAIN CHARLES KING.
Copyright. 1894. by ]. B L.pp.noots Col
V1.-CONTINUED.

Again the sound of the cheap and
despised tin. Lambert recalled it as
necessary concomitant of the street
boy and straw rides about the Christ
mas holidays, and its summons, he
thought, was never to prayer; it called
for many a lively malediction.
Send Sergt. Watts, if you think it
advisable" said he, briefly. I'm going
up on the road moment"
Again the blast of the horn, short,
staccato, imperative, and then an i'm
patient, querulous voice at the north
end of the porch-a voice calling: You,
Elinor, you wuthless black gadabout!
VIII ah you?"
And as Lambert scrambled up the
steep path and reached the road an
other voice, low, tremulous, eager, close
at hand. whispered: "Oh, I thought
you'd never come! Hyuh! quick! Leave
the money, shuah, and the pail,
t'maw'ow night"
And then, with a rustic of feminine
garments, bending low, a slender, girl
ish form shot across the beam of lamp
light falling from an east window.
Another form, also feminine, scurried
away from the hedgerow and some
thing came rolling out into the road
way, blinking against the stones. There
was sound of voluble reprimand and
fustered explanation at the north end
of the building, quick, kitten-like pat
ter of little feet up the rickety old steps
in front and in an instant the girlish
form seemed perched ON the window
sill. There a second or two it lowered,
motionless, until a door slammed
around at the north side of the house.
Then in popped the slender figure, out
went the light, and but for the sigh and
complaint of the night wind in the rus
Ting branches of the old trees about the
vera-sa all was silence at Walton hall.
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Some peevish. luerulous people seem
mere bundles of nerves. The least sound
agitates their sensoriums and rutties their
tempers. No doubt they are born so. But
may not their nervousness be ameliorateG,
if not entirely relieved? Unquestionably,
and with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. BY
cultivating their digestion, and insuring
more complete assimilation of the food with
this admirable corrective, they will expert
ence speedy and very perceptibe gain in
nerve quietude. Dyspepsia, biliousness,
constipation and rheumatism yield to the
Pitters.
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WHISKY SAVED HIS LIFE.
Mississippi Steamboat Man Preserved,
His AuatOmY lnfncf


His Anatomy Intact.
Charles Gross is white headed ne
gro porter on the steamboat St. Paul,
says the ST. Louis Republic.
Charlie has some very pronounced
opinions, which amount to convictions.
One of these is that, while whisky costs
some men their lives, it saved his.
Seven years ago Charlie was porter
on the Mascot, packet boat running
between ST. Louis and Cape Girardeau.
He had been imbibing a prodigious
amount of fire water when Il friend Of
his came into the saloon on the levee
where he was enjoying himself and
said: You mus hur' up. Charlie. Yoh
boats ringin' her BELL"
What # she tsp" said Charlie. iii
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On a TrOpic Strand.

"She is Just simply too sweet for any,
thing! King Mwptka looked annoyed at
his dusky consort's interruption. u wish
you wouldn't bother me with the details If
the kitchen, my dear he said, fretfully
"Set the jars out in the sun awhile till they
begin to work and you'll find acid enough.
Somehow, You do not seem as capable in
culinary accomplishments as mother used to
be-" And Mrs. Mwptka wept softly as she
stirred the firc.-N. y. Press
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Farmers Wife Ito tramp)-I will give
you a good meal if you will work at my
woodpile first.
Tramp olemnlv)-NIadam. / am sorry
to disoblige, but | was brought up not to
work on Sunday. and / read the other day
that some mistake had been made in the
calendar, and so any day may be Sunday for
al know 9I and until the tying is cleared up
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a Sick Church.

They dedicated a church in a certain New
York village a few days ago, and shortly
after the incident the daughter of a citizen
living over the way was heard to say to her
mother:
Il wonder what's the matter with that
church. Ma. do you know
No" replied the mother "Why do you
think there is anything the matter with il ?"
Cause" answered the child, Il heard
'em say it was medicated. Boston Courier.
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IN A KANSAS TOWN.
Differs from Other American Villages
in Many Respects.

Chiefly by reason of its newness and
of a certain cosmopolitan aspect the
Kansas town differs from villages else
where in the United States and presents
few interesting variations from the
common type. says Atlantic. The
largest town in the commonwealth has
hardly 10000 inhabitants. Most of the
county seats in the eastern half of the
state, where the rainfall is copious and
where crops are bountiful and regular.
contain about $500 persons each. The
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1t Was Taken AwheeI.

Mrs. .Tenspot-I am SO glad that you are
engaged to Harold Willoughby. Was it a
long courtship?
Miss Skidmore-Not very. My cyclone
ter registered about 700 miles-Judge
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| use Piso's Cure for Consumption both in
son, Inkster, Mich, Nov. 5, 1894.