The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-31


THE MIRROR weekly paper published
founded 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and
prisoners the
public prisoner; pathological
dispeng prejudice which
the sinister fallen mans selredemption The paper entirely
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WEALTH to the rich spendthrift is as fatal to him
as it is to place fish in dirty puddle of water.
CAR REED has fourteen year old (not thirteen)
presidential bee humming around the preserves in
his head. Next
WHERE there is a brooding and melancholy
looking counenance there exists conscience that is
being ruined by uncongenial employment
WHEN you fail to encourage and awaken spirit
of pride and AMBITION but coercion in it's place.
you arouse the false instead Of the true nobility in
man.
prove second Dreyfus affair. You can't tell how
many bees hive contains until vigorous action is
taken.
WE HAVE received an invitation to attend the
State F4r. Thanks gentlemen. The only fair we
grace our presence with just at present. is the
bill of fare
WHEN passes wealth, social standing,
credit, honor and host of creditors does he truly
feel and experience the intensity Of what it is to
fall into prison
The GLENCOE REGISTER has just begun feeling
its way on it's 43 year Editor Pryor must have
several kegs of coin in the left-hand corner Of his
cellar by this time.
AT LAST Sampson is to be given a chance to
win immortal fame. The secretary of the navy has
decided to let him capture that enormous serpent
on the Atlantic coast
IT reported that Dewey had lost the. main
spring in his speaking apparatus. Perhaps this
accounts for that bottle of alcohol that Mckinley
purchased the other day.
The lock-step which has been in vogue in our
pententiaries for almost century, is being rapidly
abolished At best it was only crude SNOWY discip-
linary rule that had several grievous shortcomings
WHEN conscience is stified and the tender SYM
pathies of the heart which are budding and branch
ing out are ruthlessy shipped the rank under
growth which is the brute nature in man, will flour
ish and become all consuming.
MANY man in here who has the appearance of
being practically dead will, like the cyclone that
leaps from dark horizon, shake off their present
deep humiliation and degradation and again become
honest members of society.
The venerable blind chaplain of the senate
recently exclaimed that he would give one hundred
dollars for one look at Mckinley. There are great
many men who not blind who wouldn't sacrifice a
dead rat for this "honored' privilege.
We HAVE just received very fattering and
tempting offer from patent medicine concern.
Thanks gentlemen, we used to be in that business
ourself and like you, got careless when the
suckers began sending on their dough like fish
breaking for air hole after being almost sufocated
under three feet of ice all winter.