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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

IF the inmate who has the
american Electrician" (Novem-
Der issue) belonging to the &C.
cupant of cell 81, will return the
same it will be appreciated. If
handed to the dollhouse captain
the paper will reach it's destination.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

Guard Husting was absent a
few days last week on account of
sickness.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

A large number of new boxes
was added to the storeroom
during the latter part of last week.
They are used for the purpose Of
storing washed clothing.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

The following are the titles of
the papers which will be read at
next Sundays meeting of the
Chautauqua Circle: Industrial
Betterment;" Louisiana Pur-
chase;" Secretary Norton" and
Immigration"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

Guard Newman surprised his
many friends among the officers
and guards by getting married one
day last week. The happy event
was not known until after the cere-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

Ayers almanacs for 1905 were
distributed among the prisoners
last Saturday. They are very USE
full books and are highly appre-
ciated by the inmates.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

A new desk has been installed in
Steward Bordwell's Office. The old
one will be transferred to House
Steward Anderson's department.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

Deputy Warden Glennon took
one of the inmates to Minneapolis
last week. The prisoner was sum-
moned as a witness.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

The quarterly estimates for the
months of February, March and
April, are now being prepared by
Steward Bordwell.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15
AnEnOrlnouSFrogT Team.

MIRROR, with great deal of in
terest. I would like to tell you
something of pair of enormous
frogs cousin of mine once owned.
They were caught in the Skunk
River, near Oskaloosa, Iowa, sew
eral years ago. One of them tipped
the beam at twelve pounds.
and the other at ten pounds. The
larger one was gwen the name
of Croker and his mate was named
Red Spot, having large red spot
located on the center of his back.
My cousin, who had wonder
full knack in training animals and
reptiles, taught the frogs to walk
erect like human beings which
was an easy matter for them, as a
frogs skeleton is built upon the
same principle as human skele-
ton. After they had learned to
walk erect he had neat little har-
ness made for them and also
manufactured pretty wagon out
of wicker work and leather with
rubber tire wheels.
My cousin had small, golden
haired boy named Fred, and he
would place the youngster in the
wagon and with the frogs har-
messed to the vehicle, give him
many pleasant rides. The outfit
was great attraction in that To-
cality, large crowd always follow
ing the turnout. =
The frogs had a great antipathy
for dogs and cats and when in the
vicinity of those animals would
always below like pair of young
bulls, while the spots on Red
Spots back would glow like an in
candescent light. My cousin was
unable to wean them from their
natural love of water and when
ever they reached pool, in they
would plunge with sad results for
the driver. The frogs had a great
love for music and my cousin
would often take them down to the
park where Barnhouse's celebrated
band gave Saturday evening con-
certs. He would place the frogs
upon the band stand and it was a
great treat to hear their voices
sound deep and full, in perfect
time with the band when it played
"a Frog Would Wooing Co."
But, alas! these wonderful frogs
came to an untimely death. A ter
rife storm passed over the city
one afternoon, tearing down small
buildings, electric light poles, etc.
A short time after the cessation of
the storm the young driver and
his frog team started out for a
drive. While rapidly moving along
High Avenue the frogs stepped
upon live wire which had become
detached from it's support and the
shock instantly killed the pair
and stunned the boy. A large
number of people rushed to the
spot, one of whom was my cousin.
Tenderly lifting up the uncon-
scious form of the little fellow
he hurried into a nearby drug
store where restoratives were ap-
piled and the boy soon rega1ned
consciousness and set up wall for
his pets. In the meanwhile the
dead team and the wagon were
carried to the pavement. My
cousin called a hack and with the
sobbing boy in his arms he re-
turned home, having given orders
to send the bodies of the frogs to
a local dealer in rare and curious
animals, where they were prepared
for mounting and he afterwards
sold them for five hundred dollars
to the manager of New York
museum.
Never before or afterwards have
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15
Pertinent -
- Comment
By E. B. D.

One of these days some Kansas
farmer will have the air ship prob
lem in nutshell.
Having returned from his south
polar expedition, we can now look
for DR.. Nordenskjold to write
book.
The idea of people loaning
money and accepting Carnegie's
note as collateral seems absurd.
Gold bricks are always for sale.
We have heard of thievery in
many forms, but the party or par
ties who deliberately stole that
farmhouse in the northern part of
the state surely deserve a medal.
ooeo
The latest method of a Jury
conniving at verdict is by throw
ing the dice. No doubt many
here would rather have had the
method in vogue at an earlier
date.
The Michigan man who pre-
ferred a 30 days sentence to fine
of $500 has a love for money that
is to be envied, but perhaps his
experience in saving it in that
way is limited.
We are just in receipt of an
almanac for 1905 and note with
great satisfaction, that that year is
not going to be as long as the pres
ent one. Years are too long any,
way.
The fact that deaths resulting
from railway accidents in this coun-
try are as ten to one in England, is
more evidence that here we are
prone to "Shoes soled while you
wait"
A recent report of the Immi-
grafton Bureau shows a material
decrease" in immigration for the
last fiscal year. This ought to
satisfy those restriction advocates
for awhile at least.
According to latest report from
the Far East, the Russian Baltic
squadron had better stay on this
side, as it is no doubt in better
condition to engage optical illu-
sions than to monkey with real live
things.
It may be all right enough to
advertise, but after reading a half
column article on how some man
miraculously escaped death and
then find it to be advertising John
Gund's Peerless, it is going little
too far.
A Mukden reporter says the
Japanese attacked the Russians on
the right, left and center. His
way of saying it reminds us of the
lawyer giving away an orange as
follows: I hereby present, give
and bequeath unto you this orange;
the seeds, juice, rind and all the
substance contained therein and
all the appurtenances thereunto
belonging, etc.
A country business firm offers to
furnish billiards. boiled, broiled
and blistered if, you'll only use
their coal and storm doors. Now
that does sound funny. Down
here we have openings in our doors
all but large enough to crawl
fhrouob ond dop,f fool &bo oo11 O
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15
CHURCH NOTICE.

Services in the Prison Chapel at 900 O'Clock
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, 1904-12-15

Guard Stark was doing night
duty in the dollhouse few nights
last week during Captain French's
absence.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

PRISON OFFICIALS.
BOARD OF CONTROL.
j. F. JACOBSON, Chairman Madison
8. W. LEAVETT, Litchfeld
o. B. GOULD, WinOna
RESIDENT OFFICIALS.
HENRY WOLFER, warden
j. S. GLENNON, Deputy Warden
NJ. G. COLLIGAN, Asst. Deputy Warden
q. W. DAVIS, Clerk and Accounting Officer
F. M. BORDWELL, Steward
B.J. MERRILL, Physician
MISS MARY MCKINNEY, MatrOn
8. j. KENNEDY, Protestant Chaplain
CHARLES CORCORAN, Catholic Chaplain
PRISON AGENT.
j. q. BARNCARD. st. Paul.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15
LOCAL NEWS

Guard Clapperton left last Mon
day on his vacation.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15
((JJIPS
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III. L. P

NJ E. l. ? Hl
Large patches on a mans trouser
knees is not always a sign of
piety.
A man seldom loses respect fora
woman until she shows she has no
respect for herself.
Fish is great brain food, but
we know lots of suckers who are
woefully lacking in grey matter.
A man named Dove recently
killed friend at Lemont, III. He
certainly was not a dove of peace.
Would you call a man doing his
second term in the pen a peniten-
tiary sophomore?
How shocked some of our mon
key ancestors would be if they
could view the lives of their
human progeny.
A married man may have mind
of his own, but it is dollars to
doughnuts the title is in his
wife's name.
All misfortunes have their COM
pensations. If you can't raise a.
mustache you won't be afflicted.
with hair lip.
Oftentimes the man who yells
"Amen!' the loudest at camp
meeting is the hardest to beat at
a game of draw poker.
Our progenitors, the monkeys,
had one advantage over their de-
scendants. They had no trouble
in tracing their family tree.
We read in a fashion column
that the best way to trim kids is
to haste on embroidery in soft
effects. The way mother used to
trim her kids was to haste them
with slipper.
Some peoples Boosting is like g.
young ROSTERS first attempt at
Growing; makes mighty racket
at the start but ends in dismal
failure.
That dust cough which has
made it's appearance at Louisville,
KY, isn't in it with the whisky
cough, also a native of the Bour-
bon state.
A man without even a place to.
lay his head may possess one treas
ure more valuable than all the
possessions of a Rockefeller-an.
unblemished reputation.
A Berlin expert says that there
are three thousand varieties of
sausage. What a hard time poor
doggie must have in keeping track
of his friends.
A device called Aeol1pyle, which
will cause great saving in fuel,
has been invented. We expect his
Satanic Majesty will place large
order with the manufacturers for
his heating plant in Hades.
It is sometimes better to receive
a cold douche from the window
when serenading you inamorata
than to marry her and forever after
be held under the hot water faucet
of family strife.
A prize fighter asked the editor
of query column how far it is to-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

mony was over. The bride was
Miss Alma Hanson, a daughter Of
III. K. Hanson, of Saltwater. The
Rev. Mr.. Edwins performed the
marriage service.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

A man seldom loses respect fora
woman until she shows she has no
respect for herself.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

Faith creates the future.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

Would you call a man doing his
second term in the pen peniten-
tiary sophomore?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

How shocked some of our mon
key ancestors would be if they
could view the lives of their
human progeny.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

Some peoples Boosting is like q,
young ROSTERS first attempt at
growing; makes a mighty racket
at the start but ends in dismal
failure.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

Large patches on mans trouser
knees is not always a sign Of
piety.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

Fish is a great brain food, but
we know lots of suckers who are,
woefully lacking in grey matter
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

A man named Dove recently
killed a friend at Lemont, Ill. He
certainly was not dove of peace.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

That dust cough which has
made it's appearance at Louisville,
KY, isn't in it with the whisky
cough, also native of the Bour-
bon state.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

All misfortunes have their COM
pensations. If you can't raise a..
mustache you won't be afflicted
with a hair lip.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

A man without even a place to,
lay his head may possess one treas
ure more valuable than all the
possessions of a Rockefeller-an.
reputation.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

A married man may have a mind
of his own, but it is dollars to
doughnuts the title is in his
wife's name.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

We read in fashion column
that the best way to trim kids is,
to haste on embroidery in soft
effects. The way mother used to
trim her kids was to haste them
with slipper.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

A Berlin expert says that there
are three thousand varieties of
sausage. What hard time poor
doggie must have in keeping track
of his friends.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

Oftentimes the man who yells.
"Amen!" the loudest at camp
meeting is the hardest to beat at
a game of draw poker.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

Our progenitors, the Monkeys
had one advantage over their de-
scendants. They had no trouble.
in tracing their family tree.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15

Since Shalmaneser, king of As
syria in 72O B. c., captured several
tribes of Israel they have been.
called the missing tribe. But that
title is erroneous, for I never
knew an Israelite to miss anything,
If there was any profit in sight.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-22

This Association should make one of its purposes the procuring of books cheaper than an individual. Much lar ger supplies of books would be order cd and a distribution of them made through this organization.
 Governor Cunningham, continuing said: Tt is often charged that the realm of books strengthens the atheist. This is not true and 1t has been demonstra- ted that through books we get a ful- Ter idea of creation and a creator. In- stead of removing Him from us, read ing serves to bring us closer to Him.
 Tn this connection, would suggest that the Association choose for a large collection of books to be en- dorsed subjects of a scientific nature. Let man learn the great facts of life and broaden his mind to follow more easily whatever avocation he selects Huxley says that if every human were required to play a game of cness and his life depended upon the winning of that game. our teachers would ear- ly begin instrueting the children on this single issue. This illustrates that we have in reality a chess-board of life on which we play and the phe- nOmena are the oard-pieces. Nature should be revealed to man from all scientific standpoints.
 Education is q Remedy.
 "In my judgment the real remedy for the majority of our evils in this commonwealth is education. I do not mean by this the acquisition of the rules of reading, writing and arithme- tic. I mean that broad, enlightening education that carries hVi.h 1t pure literature. art and history
 If the Library Association. which Is about to be organized. partakes of the new life and receives the right impetus which this state demands I deem that it. will be the most impor- tant movement of It's kind ever under taken in the history of Alabama. But there must be energy. there must be enthusiasm among the prOmotersy be- fore highest success can be attained. l see before me representativ of A variety of walks in life, ministers, pro-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-22
THOMAS M. OWEN AT HEAD
 OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

rian Mobile Library; Miss Lucille vir- den, Assistant Librarian, Carnegie Li- brary, Montgomery; General John w. A. Sanford of Montgomery; Miss NJ Norman. Librarian Union Springs Ll- brary; Miss Sarah Callen, Girls Indus- trial School, MontevalIo; E. A. Holt
 of Montgomery; Mrs. Frank H Hap per, Librarian r. M. c. A., Mobile; Miss Hattie Bibb. Assistant. Carnegie Library, Montgomery; Mrs. Kate M. Jarvis, Librarian Selma Carnegie Li- brary; Miss Toccoa Cozart, of Mont gomery; Dr J H Phillips, Superintend- ent of Birmingham Public Schools: Miss Rose Steiner. Sunday School Li- brarian, Kahl Montgomery; Prof. C. c. Thach, President of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute; A. c. Harte. Secretary Y. M C.. A, Mobile: l.. D. Dix, Secretary Y. M c. A, Montgom- cry; F. L.. Mccoy, Secretary, Board of Trustees, Eufauia Carnegie Library; W. A. Mcleod, Superintendent De- mopolis City schools; c. l.. Floyd, Su- perintendent Montgomery public schools; George W. Duncan of Auburn. Prof. T. c. Dubose. North Alabama Conference College. .owenton; Mrs. John Bradford and Mrs. Eliza M. Little of Montgomery; Miss Eliza M. Bullock. Principal Girls High School, Montgom- cry; Dr. Edgar Gardner Murphy. Thomas H Carr, J B. Gaston, F. P. Glass, Ray Rushton, Alex Rice and pr. c. A. Thigpen, Board of Trustees. Montgomery Carnegie Library.
 The Constitution adopted provides for the aforementioned offices, opens the membership to any person desir- ous of promoting the objects of the Association declares that annual meetings shall be held at places desig- mated by the Executive Council or by the Association at previous meetings and fixes the annual membership fee at $1 and the life membership fee at S10.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-22

as ana of the great, if not the great ast ea,,oa ffonaI forces of the times, Lei ,s plan a campaign of education. to be persistently pushed, until ade- oaate library legislation is secured. and until every community in the State is properly supplied with good books, free to the use of all the people.
 f.overnOr Cunningham Speaks.
 After Rev. Dr. John A. Rice, pastor of fine Court street Methodist church, had spoken the invocation, calling for the blessings of God on the movement. Governor Cunningham was introduced to the meeting to deliver the States greeting.
 He stated in the beginning that his mind was throughly in accord with the purposes of the Association and was one of these present to become members when the call was made af- terwards for membership roll.
 "Mr. Chairman. Ladies and Gentle men," began Governor Cunningham" the purpose of this r-@sting is to orga- nize State Library Association, one of interest to the entire State. l am here as the Acting Governor of Ala bama to speak words of encouragement to you. do this as a member of the meeting and extend the greeting of the State to you.
 lin every movement of which we are aware, there are always two fac- tors essential to It's success: First the merit of the undertaking, and second, the character of the promoters. I see merit in this undertaking before us and we all hope that enthusiasm will be manifested by those who are going to carry this work forward. (. .f
 Those of us who have collected libraries of our own, know from the size and the cost of them, that they are. beyond the means of the average man, These individual libraries are used, too, by only one or two or as many perhaps. as constitute our families The idea of this Association if realized should extend the pleasure and the education of reading to larger numbers We become members of this body and by a new investment, instead of aecumulating individual libraries, we combine for increasing public lib- raries and thereby make common use of the books.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-22

hama. to remove from farms into the cities and in conclusion said;
 'Our farms are being placed in the hands of the tenant class that worK them. not with view to improving them and developing the country but for the express purpose or revenue only. .. ,s tha nonulation of Alabama lived outside or rities of 4,0OO population or more. In 1900, ninety per cent. The chief cause of this loss from the rural population to the urban, is that of education.
 Would 1t not be well for our legis- lators to study this question: Couio not some provision be made in the iaW whereby school houses acould be bullt and eoufpped with the necessary ad- iuncts for the great business of educa- ton? Could not the planter who leaves his farm to seek educational advantages in the city obtain them at home by the expenditure of the amount of money incident to the change of habitationg Our people must be arous- ed on this subject. In every school district fin Alabama there should be com fortable school building equipped with maps, globes, charts. and a libra ry of choice literature. It will be in- possible for the school to perform its true function for the State until such conditions obtain.
 schools and libraries are indissolu- bly, connected. The one supplements the other, and neither can perform its true function without the other.
 "Over the door of the library of Rameses l. was placed this inscrption; .Dispensary of the soul How beauti- ful the thought! The library an in- stitution where the inquiring soul with out price may find pabulum necessary for tis true development. The wise and good of all ages have recognized the value of books, the progressive modern teacher realizes his impotency to do the work required of him without access by both his pupils and himself to choice selection of good books"
 Mrs. F. H. Happer of Mobile, whose subject was The Importance of Rigid Observance of Technical Regu- 1ations and Details in a Library Ad- ministration," waa next on the pro- gram.
 She treated the assignment in much detail. covering all things in the evo-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-22

lution of a library and it's administra~ ton from the placing of the responsi- billty on trustees and the librarian to the minutest classification of books.
 Mrs. Happer made the formation of a library catalogue subdivision of her paper.
 "A librarian of large experience.s read Mrs. Happer, "says so many and repeated are the mistakes of cata- Iogues that it appears as if the habit of lnaccuracy were inherent in the human race, Mfr. SpOfford says there is nothing in the world so easy as to be mistakeny
 A member of Congress from Penn~ sylvania." continued Mrs. Happers ''oHce discovered in a biographical die- tionary that he had been dead for sev~ eraI years; while another member found by the dates in the Congress sional directory that he must have ta- ken his seat in Congress at the age o& one year"
 Paper of pr. sayre.
 Mrs. Hopper was followed by Dr. Fl. A. Sayre, of the State University faculty, who read a thoughtful, and in teresting paper on "The development of the Library
 In the discussion of his subject pr. Sayre showed the result of inside re- search. He treated the history oA books from the stone age and pointed out every phase of evolution and de- veIopment to the present time.
 Concluding Dr. Sayre gave some in- teresting information about modern libraries. He said:
 Tn point of size and richness of cone tents, the library of the British Niue scum and the National Library at Par- is have no rivals. The British REu- scum was founded in 1735, and It's IT, brary contains nearly 100000 printed books and. perhaps, 100000 manu- scripts Some other large Eufopeau libraries are the Imperial Library at St. Petersburg, with about f,10Q, GOO books, the Royal Library at Berlin. with about 1.000.000 volumes. the Na- tional Library at Madrid with about 500 900 volumes. the Universitv ' brary at Vienna, with about volumes. and the National Libra Florence. with about 45O,00O vot Though not remarkable in poHE af size the Vatican Library at Rome and
 fContinued on Page Nina1
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-22


 BUY, sell and exchange iron eafes of every description; sman and second hand sates i1 stock Write c. J. Thrasher, Base- msnt Moses Building MoptgomeFy. Ala.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-22
MIsCELLANEOUs.

ART SQUARE to be given away Xmas Eve day; one chance with every soc purchass In Carpet Dept. A s. Knowles Dry Goods Go,
 ANMUNITION-U. NJ C.. Winchester and Pe- ters gun shells and cartridges Of all sizes can be had in our store. Montgomery Loan Co.
 tf-23 REMOVAL NOTIcE-Ross-E -Exchanre Bar Der Shop removed to No. IS Commerce St. enc door below the First National Bank Give us a-NcalL Rosa-Ezehange Barber @hoD aht