The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-01-05

population to contain newspaper
man, and insinuate that [ am the
man. [ hasten to assure them
once again that had I been a news
paper man it should have been my
sacred duty to prevent that profess
sion from appearing in the crimi-
nal statistics. [ am also firmly
convinced that the fellow who sore
presented himself is liar. How
ever that may be he is not in any
way connected with the paper.
have made it APPOINT to acknowl-
edge all the kind things which
the editors have been saying, but
if any one should have been over
looked: [ wish again to say that
although [ feel most of the COM
pliments to be unmerited, [ yet
appreciate and cherish them as
very dear treasures
There are no teachers or preachers
in the state prison and but one
editor. He, however, we are sorry to
say, is one of the best in the state
Amboy Herald.
1t will doubtless be news to our read
ers when told that a weekly paper of
very good typographical appearance
and of an entirely respectable
houghtful-tone is edited and pub
lished in one of the states prisons of
the country and entirely by the con-
victs. Yet such paper is The PRISON
Naturalization (Sea Breeze, Fla.)
a person does not necessarily have
to be jailbird because he reads THE
PRISON MIRROR, and, by the way, The
MIRROR is at present one of the best
papers in the state.-Tyler Journal.
For a year The PRISON MIRROR, ed
tied by the inmates OF the Minnesota
prison, has come regularly to our ex-
change table, and is one of the most in
teresting of our exchanges. Aside from
the instructive reading it is devoted to
humorous sketches, which are alike en-
joyed by old and young. Most assur-
eddy THE MIRROR reflects much credit
on the inmates and management of the
Decentralization Gazette.
We suppose that it is our turn to say
something about THE PRISON MIRROR.
Everybody seems to think that it is
good, and is saying so. It is good But
we do not like to say that the editor is
the right man in the right place, and
vet it would seem sa.-Macalester Col
lege Monthly.
That we'll edited, well printed, we'll
published and very interesting little
paper, THE PRISON MIRROR, gets off
some very pertinent things.-Jordan
Independent.
THE MIRROR is published by the in
mates of the Saltwater prison, and is
one Of the best edited papers i'll the
state. The present editor has some
funny strings running through his
Uranium, and the paper abounds with
witty things that help to brighten the
lives of the unfortunate inmates of
the Saltwater penitentiary. 1t contains
articles that urge its readers to higher
standard of life, and, unlike the Ordi-
nary mirror, shows the inmates only
their good features and thus encOurag-
es them to higher ideals.-CottOnwOOd
County Citizen.
There are some mighty bright and
braipy men in the Minnesota State
penitentiary, and Warden Wolfer has
shown rare Judgment and discrimina-
ton in picking them out and putting
them at work on THE PRISON MIRROR.
1t is one Of the most entertaining pub
locations that reaches our exchange
tabie-Martin County Sentinel.
No person can peruse TIE
PRISON MIRROR from week to week
without being impressed with a sense
of Iife's strangeness. That paper, COM
ing as it does, from the souls of men
who are shut off from the world by
massive walls Of stone and powerful
bars of steel-Ostracised from society
and branded with stripes-has nothing
but its name to designate its birth
place Those who scan its columns for
the tragic: to have their backbone
chilled by the rattle of chains and the
chill of prison life will scan in vain. 1t
sparkles with humor, clean cut and Or
iginal, and its editorial columns are
filled with good common sense moral
ity. 1t is like rose rising out of the