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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

A. Ksar Ben was discharged on
expiration of sentence yesterday.
He was valuable member of our
local Chautauqua Circle, as he
always took deep interest in it's
welfare. To his untiring energy
the CIRCLE owes the excellent con-
stitutioa and bylaws which were
adopted short time ago. The
many papers which he read before
that organization were considered
far above the average read before
similar circles on the outside, for
he always put his whole soul into
his work. We hope that the new
leaf he has turned over in his life
will always be fair to look upon,
and will never contain any demerit
marks.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

An unusual exhibition of heart.
lessness and disregard for another's
feelings was given in the dollhouse
Saturday evening when some of
the men began to mock man who
has severe cold and was cough
ing. This is very thoughtless
and foolish thing to do; for the
man cannot help coughing. as he
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

may be in the first stages of that
dreaded disease consumption. No
doubt the man himself knows that
his coughing is annoying to others,
but we ought to show a little feel
ing by refraining from adding to
his misery. The poor fellow is
suffering enough as it is without
others mocking him when he
coughs. Surely you would not
want anyone to do this if you were
in his place.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25
Prison Population.

Three arrivals, one returned
from parole because of sickness,
and one discharge on expiration
of sentence, were the movements
in the prison population during
the past week.
The population of the prison is
666, distributed as follows: First
grade, 536, second grade, 119 and
third grade IL.
The last register number is 1858.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25
me- says Hank. Look at him.

me- says Hank. Look at him.
$50 I united the sack and bent
down to look in. My face was all
puckered up into please-to-meet-
you smile, but it could not have
tickled him. I seen him all right.
Most affec4ionate cat l ever saw.
He reached right up and socked
them half-inch spurs of his right
in clean up to the toes and pulled
four ways at once. He yanked
the bark off of my face in chunks,
and the hide on my neck looked
like the loose strings on a busted
fiddle. He tried to open my shirt
front to see if I had something
that belonged to him. I couldn't
make him understand that I wasn't
SO loving as that. Shure, I was
tickled to see hira, but not so
tickled as he was to see me.
"Well, I had one eye closed,
parted with the most Of my face,
and my shirt was in ribbons.
Hank says [, why didn't you
tell me he was bob cat? What
did [ ever do to you that you
wanted to get me eat up?'
Hank couldn't talk; he was lay
ing over the pummel of his sad
die laughing fit to kill rattle
snake Well, I gets that cat by
his guxzle after awhile and when
l let go he was disinterested.
Hank, says [, solemn like, 4 was
ALFRED mad to think you are a |
measely kiote to play trick like
that Then I said things and
Hank gets off of his horse and we |
started in to arbltrate. Well, II
nit him small kick on the eve
brow, branded him with the butt
If my gun and Jared a few teeth
oose. The way he treated me af-
er being chawed by that bob cat,
vas scandlous. He walked around
m my feelings like they belonged
o him, kicked all the wind out of
ne, and expected me to say huff.
"After we got cooled off some
ach of us tried to convince the
ther that he was to blame, and
Ve came very near to going at it
gain. Finally, the foolishness of
he whole thing struck both of us
bout the same time, and we
aughed like kids stealing water
,elons. We then shook hands. ]
Ike good cowboys that we were. {
nd forgot our differences" II
1906. !
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25
Banks Cat.

"Did [ ever tell you about
Hanks cat?" said Bill, the twister,
as we lay lounging around the
camp grub wagon. I was rolled
up in my blanket, and was using
my saddle for pillow, when Bill
made the foregoing remarks. So
I sat up, filed my pipe, and got
ready to listen. Bill was not a
bad story teller, and the boys were
always ready to listen to his stories.
"Well, it was in 49," remarked
Bill; Il had been twisting for the
Lazy F outfit. We had finished
up at Baltic, done some culling,
branded a few steers, and herded
up the rest. We got our dust and
heads fer town, riding a hole
thru the atmosphere to get there.
"Of course, we owned the town
fer few days, had an argument
with the marshal, stirred up the
residents some, and had a good
time all around. Well I hired
out to Hank to feed his stock that
winter. Nobody knows what it is
to feed stock in that country until
he tries. The wind whistles thru
a mans alders down there. I had
been at Hanks about a month
when one morning he commenced
to slick up. Gal? says I. 'Naw,'
says Hank, 4 am going over to
Curly Bears on business.
"Curly Bear was the chief of
the Piegans, and he had mighty
fine looking gal, too. Well, 1 says
nothing knowing he was stuck on
her. While he was primping up
l goes out and puts a crease in
his back cinch. Hank finally
came out looking like sky-pilot,
and mounts his cayuse. That
cayuse shure did a few stunts be-
fore Hank got HIM stopped. |
Hank, says I, if you come back
as quick as you left, you will be
back soon. Hank said nothing,
but he was very wroth.
SWELL, he came home about four
o'clock carrying sack. He car
ried it as if he had something he's
afraid he'd break. What yeh
got9' says I. Cat says Hank.
Good says I, she can keep CON-
pany with the pup, and neither
Of them will be lonesome. Where
lid you get him?' says I
The chiefs son gave him to
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25
TO INMATES.

For the information of new arrivals
and all others desiring to send THE
MIRROR to friends we wish to say that
the privilege will be granted by COM.
plying with the following rules: Write
out your own name, register and cell
number and send to this Office with name
and address of person to whom paper is
to be sent. Each paper must be kept
clean and folded in the same manner as
1t is when you receive it and placed in
your door every Friday night. All In
mates are requested to comply with this
order whether sending out copy or not.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

A carload of vegetables was re-
ceived last Friday from Superin-
tendent YAM, of the Hastings
Asylum. It contained parsnips,
cabbage, squash, onions, carrots,
and rutabagas. The vegetables
were in fine condition and of ex-
cellent quality.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

The following transfers we're
made during the past week: 492
to 295; $50 to 1O2; los to 357.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

In order to make up forthe time
allotted to the show given last week
the men worked overtime q half
hour for four days. They went to
work at half past six instead of
seven.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

Our local street commissioner
is always busy repairing the
wheels on his carts when he is not
otherwise employed. The two
principal things uppermost in his
mind, is being presidentand mend
ing wheels. Even his ideas re-
volve on wheels. Notwithstand.
ing this handicap, old Russ acts as
tho he was supremely happy.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

The occupant of cell 378 would
like to exchange the Seattle
Times, for the San Francisco Ex-
aminer, or any other good Western
paper.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

The occupant of cell 81 would
like to exchange the Louisville
Courier Journal and the Argosy,
for the Cincinnati Enquirer and
McClure's Magazine.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

Usher Clapperton returned from
his furlough one day last week.
He had a pleasant time while away,
and said that he never knew that
ten days could pass 80 rapidly.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25
CHAPEL Service.

The following is the program of
the service held in the chapel
Sunday, October 21st, Rev. s. J..
Kennedy officiating:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

Guard Whelan, who recently
left the employ of this institution,
is now working for Swift and
company. From the columns of
the Saltwater Gazette we learn
that he is travelling salesman.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

There was no marching lastSun-
day morning on account of the in
clemency of the weather. This is
the first time marching wasomitted
during this summer.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

The chief engineer visited the
printing Office Tuesday in COM
pany with his electrician for the
purpose of putting in electric
lights. The chief talked for
twenty minutes and seventeen Sec
onds trying to convince us that we
needed only four lights instead of
FIVE. When we suggested that one
of them was to be placed in our
Office, he simply could not see the
necessity, and limited that we
should move into the composing
room whenever it got too dark to
work in the Office. He talked
very convincingly, but his argu-
ment failed to carry conviction.
"Why," said the chief, give been
here three years and you've never
had any lights during that time. .
''That's true" replied the devil,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

A canopy was placed over the
new range in the officers kitchen
during the latter part of last week.
It was made IN the state repair
shop and is very neat piece of
work.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25
CHURCH NOTICE.

Service in the Prison Chapel at nine
O'Clock every Sunday morning. Pro-
teStant and Catholic service every
alternate Sunday. Rev. s. j. Ken
nedy, and Rev. FIR. COrcOran chap
lainS.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

Guard Wuderman returned from
his vacation last Saturday. He
spent the greater part of his time
in the Twin Cities. and says that
he seen everything worth seeing.
The only thing he missed
was the highway robber who has
been terrorizing Minneapolis.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

The titles of the papers to be
read at next Sundays meeting of
the Chautauqua Circle, are as fol-
lows: "Unionism;" "Poetry;''
"Elapse Into Barbarism;" and
"Government Employees, Their
Work and Their Pay"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

who was trying to make the towel
stand in corner; 1--WE have many
things in this world today that we
did not have three years ago" A
pause followed this bright obser-
walton, and the only sound to be
heard was the chiefs footsteps go
ing down the stairway back to his
Office.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

The occupant Of cell 4O6 would
like to exchange the Seattle Times
for San Francisco paper, or some
other coast paper.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25
LOCAL NEWS.
Guard Walsh left on his ten
days vacation last Monday.

Fifteen prisoners will be dis
charged from this institution dur
ing the month of November.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25
Shy G. A. Y.-G

OuI MdSdAIH06 anu papers d1O
filled with articles on the treason
of the Senate, the triumph of the
systems plan of frenzied finance,
of the iniquities practiced by the
trusts, and are crying loudly for q
remedy, for relief from oppression
for the downtrodden people. In
the last analysis, it is after all the
fault of the people that these
wrongs exist, and it is a strange
and inexplicable situation that we
witness; people suffering all de-
grees of oppression when they
have the remedy in their own
hands. We wonder why the trust
magnate who fools the people
out of millions is hopored and re-
spected, and held to be better than
the poor man who commits petty
larceny; yet when I say the public
is the only one at fault I am afraid
you will greet the reply with
smile of derision. It is sober,
solemn fact, nevertheless. There
is not a more powerful factor in
all the world than public opinion;
no man, no nation can set it at de-
fance. Witness how quickly it
settled the pure food question only
recently. Would we have Sc
cured even the scrap of trans
portation law we did had it not
been for the power of public opin-
ion? This fact being clear it is
patent that the public, which is
wronged, is alone responsible for
the escape of the plunderer as we'll
as for the public honors which are
accorded him. We have only re-
Gently been treated to CHASTITY
example of the power of public
opinion in the case of al Adams,
policy king. Adams came of good
stock, he began life a poor but
clean, honest man; he loved his
family, and sitting his better feel
: ings he embarked on his scheme
of robbing the poor, hungry, ig-
norant starving wretches of lower
New York to the tune of thousands
of dollars daily. As his wealth in
creased, his contempt for law and
public opinion (the two are not.
synonymous by any means) in
creased, until one day, much to his
! surprise, he landed in prison.
After being released he would
not live at home because he was a.
reproach to his family, for in spite
> of his millions the people would
have none of him, and at last i'm
desperation because he could not
understand why money would not
buy responsibility, he took his
own life, to remove a reproach to
his wife and family. In many
ways he was disgusting, despi-
cable man, yet none can help hon.
oring him for his noble and unselfsh
love for his family. Was AL
Adams any worse than our trust
kings? No. most assuredly not.
In fact he was more of man than our
Coreys, Yerks, ETC., yet an aroused
public opinion bounded him to
his grave, just as it should the
trust kings, who are today impos-
ing on the people of this nation.
1t is reproach to public opinion
that the laws cannot reach these
men, because an aroused public
opinion can put laws on our
statute books that will bring the
whole outfit to book. AL Adams
deserved the punishment he dealt
out to himself, but because of the
love which he bore his family, that
love which passeth understanding.
and because he has paid the full
| q I0k -
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

March-"SOldiers of Fortune" . go Orchestra
Doxology NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Congregation
Invocation Rev. S. J. Kennedy
Gloria Observation-Disclosures. Congregation
Scripture ................Re Rev. S. j. Kennedy
Hymn-"Let the Savior In".... Congregation
Prayer. Rev. S. j. Kennedy
Quartet-"Nearer to Thee".. Members of Choir
Sermon ....................Re Rev. S. j. Kennedy
Descriptive FantaSia-"In the Clock StOre''.....
Orth Observation-Disclosures ........... Orchestra
Hymn-"I'll Stand By You" Congregation
BenedictiOn .................Re Rev. S. j. Kennedy
March-"CreScent Queen" ........... Orchestra
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

Guard Rutherford left on his
ten days. vacation last Monday
morning.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

In the Lyceumite for October
we saw an item stating that "Ron-
ey's Boys" were again to go on
the road. Mr.. Roney has a new
lot OF boys, new costumes, aud an
entirely new program. He believes
that his present aggregation are
capable of SURPRISING any of his
previous performances, and islook-
ing forward to a successful season.
If Mr.. Roney, in his swing around
the circle, happens to stop atStill-
water, he should remember that
the Warden has his latch string
hanging on the front door and will
accord him hearty welcome.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

"In the Clock Store" was played
exceptionally we'll by the orchestra
at last Sunday mornings chapel
service. The piece is discrip-
tive fantasia by Mr.. Orth, and is
a remarkably good imitation of a
clock store. The orchestra played
the piece so we'll that the librarian
is quite positive that he heard the
tick tick of his grandfather clock.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

The prices for binder Irvine for
the season of 1907, are as follows:
Standard, five hundred feet to the
pound, 81 cents per pound; White
Sisal, five hundred feet to the
pound, 81 cents per pound Stand
ard Manila, five hundred and fifty
feet to the pound, 81 cents per
pound; Manila, six hundred feet to
the pound, l0a cents per pound.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

Steward Coles now has charge
of purchasing the toilet soap and
other items for the inmates which
the Warden permits them to buy
at the interviews granted each
month. They say that Carl wore
a seraphic smile for two days when
he heard that change was to be
made.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25

Night Guard Pecure is now the
only bachelor on the night force.
There are hopes for him, however,
as the other night guards are look
ing for a winsome widow to intro
duce to him. Messrs. French and
Arsenault are giving him the ben
eft of their long experience, and
perhaps this will hasten matters.
With this issue, 1850 concludes
his idle Chat About Ocean Re-
Sorts" The description he has
given of these places is an accurate
one, as the information was gained
by personal experience. Several
of the inmates, who, in more pros
porous days have visited these
places, informed us that the writer
certainly knew what he was talk
ing about, as the conditions were
exactly as stated.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-04
THE HALL OF FAME

Senator La Toilette Of Wisconsin Is
said to be the only vegetarian in the
senate.
DE-. R. B. GriswoId has resigned as
choir leader in Z Stanwich CConn-)
crrrch after forty-nine years service
Joseph F. G1idden. who made for
tune by inventing barbcd wire. has
Just celebrated bis ninety-third birth
day at De Kalb, ILL.,
Samuel Lee, a grandson OF Major
General Charles Lee Of Revolutionary
fame. IS pauper in Chicago. He was
born in Philadelphia
a wealthy Norwegian has presented
King Haakon with 4 fine estate at
Orkedalen The donors name Is Thans,
and he is the richest man in Norway
Sir George SteSmann Glib. who sue
ceedS the late Charles YerkeS In con-
troll of the London railways. IS 6fE-st1
years old and first entered the service
OF the Northeastern Railway company In
1871 His appointment IS very popular.
living Collins OF Willimanttc, Conn,
Is one Of the best fox hunters In that
vicinity IN spite Of the fact that an
accident which cost him his right hand
has made It necessary for him to Learn
to shoot with bis left hand alone during
the past year
The Rev Stopford ". Brooke Is
among the Liberals recently elected to
the English parliament. Mr. Brooke
retired some time ago from the active
ministry and had been planning to Ell
ter public life he was pastor OF the
FRS, Church Of Boston from 1856 to
1895. Since the later date he has been
working among the poor OF London
Benjamin AZ Jennings Of Casey coun'
t.. Ky. has been presented with very
large diamond stud by King Edward
which Is said at ope time to have been
the property OF Paul Kruger The
present was sent to the doctor because
Of the many valuable pharmaceutical
preparations he has compounded. some
of which were used by King Edward
The man who beat Baifour." Us he
IS already known. is lawyer named
Horridse. stranger in Manchester
The Liberals thought little OF his
chances when they sent him down
there. but HorridSe IS something OF
fighter. He called Mr.. Balfour's divi.
sion the Port Arthur Of Conserva-
tisrn'' and asked everybody to initiate
the japanese and take the stronghold
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-04
EDITORIAL FILINGS.

You never hear 4 Wall street banker
predicting panic when he is long" on
stocks-BaIrimore Sun.
II women are going to study the "ar'
of spending" men will need to take
few more lessons in the art of earning.
Chicago Post
Engineers say that New York Is moi
d good fire risk That IS what tne
preachers have been insisting foc
!ors ttmc.-KanSas City Journal
a swoman.s magazine says, The
bridegroom IS generally the most de
pressing feature of the modern wed.
ding. But wedding is never consd.
erred success without one.-PfttsburS
Gazette IS ~
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-04
Railroad Evolution.

Philadelphia Press
Thirty and 10 years ago men like
Cornelius Vanderbilt. in New York:
Joan W. Barrett. of Baltimore and
Mr.. Chaplin, Of Massachusetts, treated
as If they were personal property the
railroads in which they owned a con-
trolling interest of the stock personal
ly. in their own right Twenty and
% years ago. when these and other
lines went into the hands Of corpora
lions, the president, the directors and
the officers of these corporations
treated the railroad as If 1t was the
sole and exclusive property OF the cor
poration. The railroad to-day has
reached its second stage OF evoiu-
ton Its directors and its officers arc
being brought under direct. public
responsibility as immediate. as con-
sc:ous and as well established as that
of a public official
What was done as matter OF
course by the men who had begun
with the staSe-coach period and look
ed on the railroad as a sort OF en-
larSed stage coach. which they could
drive at viii. became impossible
when the corporation came. What
has been done under the corporation
without question has become impossi-
bic under present conditions. Rail
road officials must accommodate them
selves TO the change. Many will suf-
fer Some men will be punished and
have already been punished by pub
licity for things which no one looked
upon as wrong When they did them.
But this is inevitable. 1t has gone
on before the public in the past year
IN insurance. It is going on now in
railroads.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-04
PUBLIC CPI ON


with the peddler.s. pack. Field with
tae brimless hat are national po--
traits The bare feet and the patch
ed breeches have got on so well that
they possess the earth They are now
the men with The dollar. Must the
patched breeches go TO the rear as
soon as it has earned its dollarc The
truth is that not all mea whose toes
have srubbed the sol! are capable OF
coming forward. nor can the man who
earned his dollar be 50 easily showed
to the-rear.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-04
COMMENT or LEADING NEwsPA-
~ PERS ON a VARIETY OF
TOPICS.
The trouble With Denver.

-It1e+rl FSCSie WIFI OCtISSF.
minneapolis Journal.
SDenyer Is very evidently an un-
Shappy town Its newspapers are at
swords points, its politicians make
mo bones of their conviction that ev-
zerythfng in the town is crooked Its
Business men cannot agree whether
TO boom the town or scuttle it If
IAN election Is held, it gives rise only
to- rumors and reports Of fraud. law
suits and recriminations. Everything
that Denver does is criticized by some
$one in the city, and they can agree
only on one thing Denver has a
glorious climate, which, fortunately
ford Denver cannot be mared by the
hand OF the cranky sort of men who
occupy the town. The difficulty with
Denyer;is not that it is not ambitious
enough. It seems to be suffering
from a superabundance OF ambition
and ambitious men 1t wants to be
"a manufacturing city. a jobbins cen
ter, health resort and state capital all
SatSonce The people who talk Denver
as manufacturing center are con-
Gfronted with the statement that Den
yer has neither fuel to permit cheap
manufacturing nor surrounding pop
ulation ready to take its manufac-
lures. The mayor Of the city is &C.
Scused OF having said something like
this the other day, and he is being
cursed roundly by one-haH Of the
press and mildly indorsed By the 9TH
ser half The News accuses tle rail-
roads Of exploiting Denver as
:health resort, rather than encouraS-
ling manufactu because there is
more money for them in carrying
goods than in bringing
Z IN the raw material. The difficulty
with Denver appears to be that it has
no settled and controlling public spirit
tits lively enough in debate. but it
does not sem to know when the de-
bate Is over and the time for united
action has begun