The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-03-24

will make inquiries of their keeper
about what the Warden spoke of last
Sunday after chapel services. 1t is not
matter directly connected with our
prison life but it is something that all
the boys will gladly respond to when
the matter is brought to their atten-
ton.
"Coal Oil' Dick is now busily en-
gagged on an improved index for bibles,
dictionaries and other high class refer
ence works. He expects to create
furore in the publishing world and
says that his invention will be the
greatest mOney-maker outside of the
United States mint.
A number of the residents of this
city will receive sample copies of this
weeks issue of THE MIRROR. We
hope that each family receiving one
will read it carefully and then note our
subscription rates. Your reading THE
MIRROR may inspire you with thoughts
worth a hundred times the yearly sub
scriptiOn.
Bishop Whipple of this state tells
good story of his early days in Mime
sofa. Being among the Indians over
night he left number of his belong
ings scattered about in a tepee. Upon
asking the chief if they were safe, the
Indian replied, eyes, perfectly safe;
there is not another white man within
hundred miles,"
Mr.. G. w. Robinson and Miss A.
Alexander, of Minneapolis, were visit
ors to the institution Monday after
noon. Mr.. Robinson is Minneapolis
business man, and will be remembered
by the boys here as the gentleman who
drought down the house, by his rem
dition of "My Gals Highborn Lady,"
at our entertainment last Thanksgiv-
ing Day.
A horse thief in a town near Bir-
mingham, Ala, who was being chased
by the police ran into an undertaker's
warehouse and jumping into coffin
had a negro screw on the lid for fur
ther safety. The negro did so but
failed to return in time to open it after
the police left. The coffin was on
skids and the entombed man in his
efforts to open the lid for air tumbled
it face downwards on the floor. The
man was found smothered to death
when the coffin was opened within an
hour after he had entered it.
A session of the Washington County
Teachers Institute is being held in this
city the present week under the
conduct of Mrs. Jaques of St. Paul
and Prof. Koehler of Mankato Nor
NAL school, state institute instructors.
The members of the institute, under
the lead of County Superintendent
Mcintosh, visited the prison in body
yesterday afternoon, and also inspected
the workings of our night school in
the evening. Mrs. Jacques, Prof. Koch
Ter and w. G. Smith, editor Of ''School
Education" were the guests of Prof.
Weld in the evening, and spent the
greater part of the time in our school
rooms.
One of the single-spindle machines
in the spinning room of the Irvine
shops attempted an extra stroke of
business Tuesday afternoon that al
most put white face on one of our
darkest residents. BY the breaking of
a burr on the capstan roller on which
the Irvine is stretched, the bolt was
thrown with indescribable velocity
against the partition door between
shops and within a foot of the back of
Keeper KenyOn's head. A small wheel
of the roller passed with like speed in
front of his face and struck the side of
machine tended by colored man.
The latter turned so pale he did not
recognize himself in the glass when he
came in for dinner. The only damage
was the scare received by Keeper Ken
yOn and the cOlored inmate.
10 the men who have reached this
vale of tears within the past six months
and to all inmates in general who take
any interest in their own or the general
welfare, we wish to again state that
they have the privilege of contributing
original articles to the columns of THE
MIRROR. The front page of this paper
is always open for that purpose. Many
of the men here nOSSeSS ability in ex.