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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26
CHAUTAUQUA.

The Pierian Circle met in chap
ell hall at 1890 Sunday April 22nd.
Pres. Rose presiding. Owing to
the fact that our secretary had de-
parted for wider fields of work a
special election was necessary in
order to fill the vacancy. It was
held Immediately upon the open
ing of the Circle. After the new
secretary had been duly elected
the regular business was taken up.
Roll-call showed full attendance
and the following program. was
rendered:
Song .Pierian Quartette
moonlight on the Lake,
Glass RepOrt-The Effect of Finance and Morals
.........................M Member of Glass D
Glass Report-The Growth of Socialism ........
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Member of Glass {
Vocal Duet Member of Glass and T
"Santa Luira."
Special Paper-Great Trifles. ................
........................M Member of Glass D
Glass RepOrt-LoOking Backward....... ........
................. ...... Member of Glass E
Special Reading-Are We Degenerating?. $500.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Member of Glass
Chorus .......................P ierian Glee Club
Nancy Lee."
The time usually devoted to
Mock Congress was used in dis
cussion as to the causes of the
lack of interest manifested in the
Congress by the members as a
whole. It was evident that if the
members were as brisk in taking
the floor in the Congress as they
were in discussing it, it would be
decided success. Further dis
cussion of this matter will be
brought up and plan definitely
settled upon.
The critic handled the program
in a most able manner, paying
merited tribute to the various
numbers, but not hesitating to
point out corrections.
The circle is one of the most
potent educational factors of our
life here and the interest evinced
by all the members clearly shows
their appreciation of the privilege
of belonging to it.
G. W. L., Secretary.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

cat last I ran into debt and had
to foreclose my business to liqui-
date the amount. Then [ found
out through overhearing CONVEX
sation that [ had been the dupe of
several scheming milk dealers, and
that when had left my bottles of
milk at a customers door their
agents would come and empty half
the milk out and replace it with
water and made my customers
think was cheating them.
$50 you see, through the bad
ness of my own worthless son and
the per6dy Of my fellow milkmen
I have been reduced to poverty in
my old age. Can you wonder now
that [ am so cross and ill-natured
in my ways?"
The old man had spoken so pa
thetically and so earnestly that
many Of the rough fellows in his
audience were moved to tears and
when he was done speaking, every
one of them shook his hand and
promised never to modest him
again. The story soon spread
abroad through the neighborhood
and everybody's thoughts under
went a change toward Mr.. Frank
lin, and from thence forth every
one had a smile and kind words
for him and each one Wed with
the other in showing him respect.
M. j.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

The dollhouse looks much better
and brighter since the flowers have
been placed around the walls.
Now one and all can admire these
beauties of nature and enhale their
fragrant odor. Flowers are some
thing that compells one and all to
love and to look upon their beauti-
full shaped leaves, finely colored
petals, their various shades and
stately appearance that represents
goodness and purity in every twig.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26


Considerable discussion was
given the "Mock Congress" at
last Sundays meeting of the Pier
ian Chautauqua Circle. The con-
sensus opinion was for continuing
this feature of the educational
branch of Chautauqua work with a
few notifications. While, some
contended that there were only a
few capable Of making speech,
others maintained that the basic
principles which prompted the
introduction of the "Mock Con-
gress" was for the sole purpose of
learning how to deliver a speech
and gain knowledge of the tech
nical points governing parlimen-
tary rulings. With a few altera-
tons that will have a tendency
to eliminate Objectionable features,
it will certainly accomplish all
that it was intented in the line of
instruction. In order to make the
"Mock Congress- practical sue
cess each member should prepare
himself on the various bills intro
duced. It lie only the experienced
polished speaker who is capable of
making an extemporaneous speech
and then it frequently happens
that he culls apt quotations from
former speeches delivered years ago
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26
Written for The Prison Mirror
AN OLD MANS STORY.

Mr.. Franklin was an old man
that lived in our town. He was a
wien, dried up piece of humanity
and as garrulous and Grabbed as
he could be.
For many years he had been
looked upon as mysterious per-
son that committed some wrong
and had come to Ripleton to escape
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

The sewer back IF the dollhouse
has been undergoing extensive re-
pairs. The shed that enclosed the
opening was in the last stages Of
decay, and there was great danger
of it caving in most any time.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

No doubt the men in the shops
are glad that the weather again
permits the opening Of windows,
especially is this so in the Irvine
shops where the dust from the
Irvine is very thick.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

Stillwater's city health officer has
notified the citizens to clean their
yards and back streets. They
should visit our commonwealth
and thus see a high standard of
cleanliness in up-to-date streets.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

The new cook in the officers
kitchen is rapidly catching on to
his new duties. His nose, how
ever, appears as though it couldn't
stand much heat.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

Mr.. J. A. O'Shaughnessy, of
Saltwater, was showing party of
friends about the various parts of
the institution last Monday.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

Another large consignment of
sisal fiber was received at the
prison last Friday.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

A carload of old scrap iron was
hauled out of the prison yard dur
ing the past week. Most of it was
the accumulation of several years
past.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26
Written for The Prison Mirror.
O'RURICK TURNS POET.

"Oi say, Dan, did ye liver WROTE
poatry?''
"Well yis, Jan, OF wanct troyed
me fhist at it whin OF war courtin'
Nora. And bechune you an OF,
OF behave it's what wun tina auld
CURL. But she saiz now it we're
me job. But ply do ye ak Jan?"
"Well, Dan. olive been lawn me
hair grow lately, an havin' t'uch
of the spring favur OF thot old
thry me fhist at it, an be the
powers OF begin to behave Dim
bhorn poat.'
"Wurra, Jan, OF niver. thot We
wud come to SIGH an ind, but it's
no tellin' whin insanity will
brake out. But old loike to hear
bit of it, Jan, if ye have it with
ye."
"Well, Dan, OF have a poam ridy
for tina priss, but as OF haven't got
it copywrited yit OF hope ye won't
give it away or stale it yersilf. Ye
see OF had in moind Prof. Mark
hams Man wild tina Shovel whin
OF got tina muse an me, an faith
saiz OF to mesilf, saiz OF 'phat's tina
matter wild tina gurls that he laves
thin out intoirly?' So it's to tina
gurls OF didicate me poam:
Bowed be tina waite of swateniss she lanes
Upon her bike an gazes at her Charlie;
There's imptiniss fur dice crane in her face,
And in her purse there's divi clint at all, at all.
Musha phat caused her to stop so near,
This swate colleen wild tina dice crane look,
Who stands an peeps into tina windee?
Look how she pOutS her pritty yum yum
AS she shakes a curl on her alabastur brow,
An smOOthes erase in her panjamees,
Wurra is this tina way to trate tina crature
Ye hard-hearted divil of man?
Must she stand fOrninst We an look so sad,
Whn she fales tina passion to ate?
Is this tina ind of her drame of love fer We,
We wooden hided, thurty clint Amadawn?
Arrah down all tina stritch of Cass Ave,
To tina ind of O'Fallon strate
There's not swater calleen thun this
Wild foot more nate or an ankle more trim
Wild chakes more rosy or DYE more broight-
Or wild lips more ladden wild honey dew.
Musha Charles. Jims an bys bys-
30 OF say Jan, hould an fur tina
Lords sake. Sure thot amt poa-
try. Plat tina divils ailin' ye ony-
how? Sure if ye take that to an
iditur thay'd kill We sure"
'Arrah, gawan wild ye, it's ja-
lous ye are. But niver moind ye
will be sorry ye insulted me muse
whin ye see me name in tina Oirish
Wurld, an tina sind me that harp
frum Tara's halls
"But, Jan, sure there's nather
rhine nor mater in thot poam."
"Mate her, did ye say. Well
bejob if liver OF mate her DILL have
tina price of tina dice crane wild me
We can bet. But come down to
Casey's an af he don't say that
it's burd of poam DILL buy tina
sitter water" JAN O'RURIoK.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

Sinbad and his assistant are
now busily employed in arranging
the flower beds on the various
lawns. They will soon be looming
up with some of the best flowers
that Sinbad has in stock.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

Father Corcoran held comics.
sional services Saturday evening
in the prison chapel.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

Our prison manipulation Of the
lawn mower is again gathering up
the long green.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

The flower beds along Main St.
are already beginning to give evil
dence of future splendor.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

The new engine has been under
going complete change during the
past few weeks. The painters in
charge have done very neat piece
of work.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26
the penalty Of his misdoings, be-


necessary degree, never speaking
to anyone except he was forced to,
but as he was verging on the
biblical age of three score and ten,
no one thought it worth while to
investigate his past, beyond teas
ing and plaguing him about it.
This, everyone that knew him,
took pleasure and delight in doing,
because he always became irrasc-
ible and went off in a rage when
they did SO.
Thus matters might have gone
on until his Maker had summoned
his soul to better world and his
souls temple of clay had been de-
posted by unsympathetic hands
beneath the despised earth of pot
ter's field, but while passing
through the slum district of our
little town one day, he was going
past saloon in front of which
were lounging a gathering of the
towns rowdies.
The old man buttoned up his
coat, pulled his hat over his eyes
and essayed to pass them without
paying any attention to the sheer
ing taunts he knew would be
hurled at him. AS he had expect
ed, the group began to jeer and
make sneering remarks about him,
but seeing that he gave no heed to
their taunts, they became a little
exasperated and one of them
caught him by the arm, and when
he struggled to free himself, an
other took hold of his other arm
and between them they dragged
him into the saloon, and then
pushing him into a corner the
whole company began to mock
and deride him for an old repro
bate. In his desperation he began
to curse them roundly and swore
at them until he was purple in the
face. but this was just what they
wanted him to do and it only
made them tease him the more.
When he had almost exhausted
himself by swearing and in futile
attempts to escape from his tor
mentors, he shrank back in the
corner and began to sob, while the
tears coursed down his old weather
beaten cheeks. Then the boys had
compassion on him and tried to
make amends to him by ordering
some liquor for him and telling
him not to cry about it as they
we're only in fun. Then refusing
their proffered treat, he turned
upon them and said:
eyes, you are only in fun, but
l am an old man and very irritable,
because [ have suffered more than
my share of trouble in this world.
When l was your age l was looked
up to and respected. I had a good
business, happy home with allow
ing wife and little baby boy. I
was a milkman and had a large
custom, until about twelve years
ago, when my son. who had grown
to manhood and whom [ had as
ISOLATED as a half partner in my
business, became scapegrace.
Before [ was aware of his
tendency to gamble he had gam
bled his share in the business
awayand it took almost all the money
l had saved to keep him from 60
ing to prison for a foolish act he
committed while intoxicated. His
dear mother and l pleaded with
him then to break away from his
bad companions and leave liquor
and games of chance alone, but
our entreaties were of no avail, he
seemed to be possessed of a demon
and we had to turn him adrift.
''His dear mother from that
time forth was never the same
again and three wears after we laid
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26
MAIL BOX.

eler is person whose occupation
is to transact business as the ac-
credited travelling representative
of a trading house to other trading
houses. In this country he is
commonly styled drummer"
No. 1905 The first English
settlement on the present territory
of the United States was made in
Virginia by the English London
Company in 1907.
No. 45O8:-A state cannot ex-
ercise power which is vested by
Congress alone.
No. 4977:-When you wish to
distinguish between two or more
persons, say, (which is the happy
manY not who.
No. 48O8:- The greatest grain
port in the world is Chicago, Ill.
No. 1885, Caviare is the sailed
roe of the common sturgeon and
other fish of the same genus. It
is esteemed by epicures as a deli
cacy but the taste is purely an &C
quired one.
No. 5O97:-Glass paper or cloth
is made by powdering glass more
or less finely and sprinkling it
over paper or salico still wet with
a coat of thin glue; the powdered
glass adheres as it dries. Glass
paper is very extensively employed
as means for polishing wood
work.
No. 4856:-Price current is the
prevailing price of merchandise,
stock or securities.
No. 48O1:-Silver is only legal
tender in England to the amount
of forty shillings.
No. 5O58:-Black-lead Gin pen.
cils) is but the popular name for
plumbago, a mineral consisting
chiefly of carbon, together with
alumina, silica, lime and iron.
No. 3778:-According to the
theory of evolution, the lower ami
mails develop into higher animals,
so that the larvae of ascidiaus,
developed gradually into apes, and
probably apes are only one link
from man; but hitherto no trace of
that link has been discovered, un-
less, indeed, it is in the neander-
thai skull found in the Rhine
province of Russia, which seems
to be between the skull of an ape
and the skull of human being.
No. 46S3:-The phrase "blocks
of five" was alleged to have been
first used by w. w. Dudley in the
Cleveland Harrison campaign in
1888.
No. 1904 Chicago is but fifty
years old. It disputes with Berlin
the title of the fourth city of the
world.
No. 5192:-A brigade, in mill
tary affairs, is group of regiments
or battalions combined into one
body. In the United States SER
vice four or more regiments con-
stitute brigade, three brigades a
division and two or three divisions
an army corps. When British
army takes the field it is CUSTOM
ary for three battalions to form a
brigade, and two brigades a divi-
sion. 1t is temporary grouping,
which can be broken up whenever
the commanding officer thinks fit.
No. 355O:-Bulkheads, in ship
are the partitions of the interior;
whether to separate it into rooms,
or, as in the case of the modern
watertight bulkheads, to guard
against the entire vessel being
filled with water by combining a
leak caused by collision or other
wise to the particular compartment
where it originated.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

Deputy Warden Alexander has
left for the east on a vacation Of
three weeks. Mrs. Alexander &C.
companies him.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

Total population for the week
ending April 25, 499.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

The whitewashers are touching
up the dollhouse. The gentlemen
who are welding the brush are
artists in that line of work.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

The Chautauqua Circle elected
a new secretary at it's last meeting.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

Several of the inmates have
lately asked us if something
couldn't be done to the whitewash
that is used in the cells to prevent
the glare of the electric light from
effecting their eyes. The only
remedy for this is to shade your
light. It might also he obviated
by coloring the whitewash.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26
CHURCH NOTICE.

CHURCH NOTICE..
every Sunday morning. Protestant and
Catholic services every alternate Sunday
Rev. S. j. Kennedy. and Rev. Fir. Corcoran
chaplains.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

PRISON OFFICIALS.
MANAGERS.
B. f. NELSON, President Minneapolis
EDWARD w, WING Breckenridge
f. w. TEMPLE, Blue Earth City
A. G. WEISS, - Duluth
DAVID BRONSON, saltwater
RESIDENT OFFICIALS.
@. Nice. REEVE, warden
T. W. ALEXANDER, Deputy Warden
j. w. LAWRENCE, Clerk
BIZ MERRILL, Physician
MISS MARY MCKINNEY, MatrOn
8. j. KENNEDY, Protestant Chaplain
CHARLES CORCORAN, Catholic Chaplain
PRISON AGENT.
F. A. WHITTIER, st. Paul.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-04-26

No. 4997:-Rehtoric, as an art,
dates from 400 B. G.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-18
Reiished the pun,sbment.

An old Scotsman. Andrew Leslie by
name, always rode on donkey to his
work and tethered him while he la
bored on the road or wherever he might
be. 1t was suggested to him by a
neighboring landowner that he was
suspected of putting the animal to feed
In the fields at other peoples expense.
''Eh. laird, | could never he tempted
to do that, for my cuddy Wilma eat
onytbing but nettles and thistles."
On subsequent occasion, however,
the laird. while riding along the road.
saw Andrew at work. his faithful beast
mp to the knees in one of the laird's S
clover fields feeding luxuriously.
Hello, Andrew" exclaimed the
laird. II thought your cuddy would
eat nothing but nettles and thistles."
AYE, aye" was the response, "but
the brute mlsbehaved the day. He
nearly kicked me over his head: so
put him in there just to punish him."
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-18
Then He Felt Better.

In certain skirmish a Colonel -
general he came to call HIMSELF got a
slight scratch on the leg. The wound
was matter of great glory to him,
and he nursed it through after days,
growing lamer with every year, that
the memory of his bravery might ever
be near him.
one, day late in his life as he sat
nursing his leg and pondering the glo-
rious past n young man, visiting the
family for the first time, approached
and sympathetically remarked:
Lame, general?"
"Yes, SIR" after pause and with
inexpressible solemnity, II am lame"
"Been riding, sir?"
"No" with rehuked sternness. IL
have not been riding"
"Ah, slipped on the ice, general?"
"No, sir.' with actual ferocity.
Perhaps, then, you have sprained
your ankle, sirY'
With painful slowness the old man
lifted his pet leg in hoth hands set II
carefully on the floor. rose slowly from
his chair ond, looking down upon the
unfortunate youth with mingled pity
aud wrath burst forth In the sublimity
of rage:
60 read the history of your coun-
try, you puppy!"- New York Press.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-18
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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-18
Tame Ocean birds.

The tameness of some of the ocean
birds at Santa Catalina, Cal. is re-
markable as well as interesting. Ev-
cry day fisherman in his Venetian
boat with lateen sails brings in his fish
and cleans them on the beach, and this
is an open invitation for the gulls,
which approach within few feet Of
the fisherman and eight for the rejec-
tamenta Of the catch. Beautiful birds
they are. with harsh and dscordant
tones. At night they roost on the
wharf and boats and are extremely
tame-in fact SO tame are some of the
diving birds here that they at times
interfere with the fisherman, this be-
ing especially true Of the looms. They
float gracefully uDon the water. occa-
sionally thrustlng long snakclike
head beneath it to note the location Of
the food supply. then disappear, to be
seen again darting here and there,
now rushing into school Of sardines,
swapping up the small fry or turning
from it to course along the sandy bot
tom, 30 feet or so below.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-18
One of Natures wonders.

At the sacred village of Totatri
about 40 miles from Tinnevelly, India,
there is one of the most wonderful nat
ural curiositles in the world. It is an
oil we'll containing inexhaustible ouan.
titles OF the liquid. The we'll or spring
Is situated within the celebrated tenn
pie of Narayan, said to he about the
largest sacred edfice in India. At
Baku, IN the southeastern part of Cau-
casin, the"e are also wonderful oil
wells that spout petroleum high into
the air, In September, 1886, a well
tapped In the ordinary manner began
to spout with such extraordinary force
that II deluged the whole district For
eight days the outflow continued. final.
ly roach'nc an output of 1000 tons,
Another fountain broke out In March,
1887, and rose to height Of $50 feet,
leaving an enormous petroleum lake.