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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

have you DrOKo OIL j Cd. lHOS6
New Year resolutions, I mean.
The Russian undertakers are
buster than setter pup with an
old gum shoe.
An expectant and breathless
public is impatiently waiting for
"Plain Filters to inform us
whether a highly embeilished
black eye possesses a shade or a.
tint.
An Oshkosh humane officer has
been arrested and fined for whip
ping his wife; this is a natural
circumstance under the same rule
which accredits barber with be-
ing urshorn, and a shoemaker's
children with going about bare
footed.
Jimmy Hazen Hyde says he
hopes he won't hear the word
insurance" once, during the next
SIX months. jimmy has trekked
to Paris again where hundred
thousand-dollar dress balls don't
attract unfavorable comment.
[ do not believe that a down.
right rascal can pose as an honor
able man. Somewhere, can be
detected the false note that betrays
his weakness, and the shrewd stu
dent Of human nature silently
labels him and places him in his
proper niche.
In my talks two weeks back II
tried to say that "a guide in Mil
waukee brewery informed me" etc.
and the honest, Woodworking
typos made me say ga girl in a.
Milwaukee brewery" etc. There
are couple Of hundred buxom,
smiling German girls working
there, but [ never got near enough
to one of them to have her tell me
anything.
Inside of sixty days wireless
messages will be fitting between
Winona, Duluth and the Twin
Cities. The De Forest system is
being installed, this being far
more speedy than the Marconi.
It will soon be dangerous to eat,
drink or breathe. Foods are adult
terated, liquids TEEN with bac-
terra, and now one hardly dares
draw full breath for fear of in
hal1ng telegram conveying infor-
nation of great smallpox.
epidemic. Better be vaccinated
at once. .
Bob Fitzsimmons ought TO be-
able to secure job as a diplomat,
now that he has successfully
rounded up his young, light-footed
spouse. He and his Julia are one
again. Which one, is obvious.
!
Well, perhaps it is wise and then
again, may be, it is equally foolish.
To me it looks like a truce, and
that war will break out again in a
short time. After all, I can't help
but feel that he is getting about
what is coming to him. He who
sows to the wind reaps the whirI-
wind; had he stuck to the little old
blacksmith shop in Kangarooland
he would have been happier and
less notorious.
President Roosevelt has the lum-
bago. SO the papers say. Well, he
has my sympathy and if that will
help him any [ will gladly dish
out large slabs of it. Of all the
condemned ills to which human
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25
CHAPEL Services.

The following is the program of
the services held in the chapel,
Sunday, January 21st, Father
Corcoran officiating:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

Mr.. 81. @. Sargent, Of Waupun,
Wisconsin, accompanied by Super
intendent Williams, was about the
prison last Saturday.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

Twelve large mess pals were
made during the past week. They
will be used in the diningrooms
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

Seventeen prisoners will be dis.
charged from the institution dur.
ing the month of February.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

To the occupant of cell 374:
The Sun is the only weekly paper
we know of that is published in
the town you mentioned.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25
It was seven degrees below zero
last Monday morning.

A junk man was at the prison
last Friday afternoon buying old
brass and iron.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

March-''Siver Heels" Orchestra
WaltZ-"Let's All Go Up to Mauds". Orchestra
Hymn-"Hear Us, y SAVIOR. 80. Congregation
QuarCet-"Nearer to Thee. Members of Choir
Prayer .........Fr. Corcoran and Congregation
Hymn-"O Glorious Fountain" :. Congregation
March-"A Whispered Thought" . Orchestra
PARK PROGRAM
March-"PretOria". ..........L l.. P. Laurendeau
March-"Blue Bell" TheO. F. Morse
March-"COl. Ramsay D. Potts. . A. BugliOne
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

Superintendent Williams, of the
Irvine factory, was confined to his
home last Friday on account of
illness.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

Guard Parent was absent few
days during the past week. He
attended the funeral of a relative
at Somerset, Wisconsin.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

There are now ty-fve men
occupying cots in the dollhouse
corridors. Three were added dur
ing the past week.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

It was seven degrees below zero
last Monday morning.
A junk man was at the prison
last Friday afternoon buying old
brass and iron.
Seventeen prisoners will be dis
charged from the institution dur
ing the month of February.
One of the inmates sent in the
following names for the home
madetobacco: "Convict's Delight"
for chewing, and "Coles' Ready
Mixture for the smoking tobacco.
Our local fire department made
a lively run to shop Ell last Satur-.
day evening. The alarm was
sounded by a quantity Of ice strik-
ing the wires as it fell from the
roof.
The following cell changes were
made during the past week: lO4
to 260; $50 to 48; 63S to At; 1928 to
40; 615 to so; 505 to cot %; SAT to
48; cot 18 to 636; 546 to cot IS; 60
to cot "a; $40 to cot Is; 25O to 62;
1913 to $40; 1897 to 39S.
Mr.. A. j. Haascl, of Ashland,
Wisconsin, and Miss Anna Meyer,
of New Richmond, Wisconsin,
were shown about the institution
last Tuesday by Mr. Kerby Glen
non, the enterprising stock man
connected with the Western Shoe
Go.
Bandmaster Hewitt added new
Missenharter French horn to the
band. He now has five instru-
ments Of this make, and they are
considered the most perfect instru-
ment in tune, tone, and workman
ship. These horns are much liked
by the boys who use them.
A gentleman of Saltwater on be-
ing asked by his host to respond
to the toast "Stillwater,' is said to
have replied: ''Half the people of
Saltwater are under lock and key,
the other half What the
dash stands for is best understood
by those who were present when
the toast was given.
1t is said that even the state
horses are fond of the new chewing
tobacco. We saw one of the
guards feeding them a bit of it,
and Mr.. Whelan thinks he saw one
of the horses wink his left eye
while contentedly chewing it. We
suppose that if horses can chew
tobacco they also can spit, but of
this we are not sure.
The bookbinder SAID that he
discovered a number of snow flies
near the crematory. This is the
first time he has seen any of them
around this place. They belong
to the genus cAionea vaIgu, and oc-
cupy their spare moments in run
ming about on the snow. He said
that they were quite common in
Sweden, but are little known in
this country.
When the men who work in
the library arrived at their place
of work last Monday morning,
a pretty sight met their view.
Everything was froze, including
the villain in the latest historical
novel to be received at the library.
The plumber was hastily sum-
moned and, after working over the
radiator almost all day, he brought
it to life so it could hold steam.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25
CHURCH NOTICE.

Services in the Prison Chapel at nine O'Clock
every Sunday morning. Protestant and
Rev. J. Kennedy, and Rev. FIR. COrcoran
chaplainS
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

One Of the inmates sent in the
following names for the home
made tobacco: "Convict's Delight, y
for chewing, and "Coles' Ready
Mixture for the smoking tobacco
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

Our local fire department made
a lively run to shop Ell last Satur-
day evening. The alarm was
sounded by quantity Of ice strik-
ing the wires as it fell from the
roof
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

When the men who work in
the library arrived at their place
of work last Monday morning,
a pretty sight met their view.
Everything was froze, including
the villain in the latest historical
novel to be received at the library.
The plumber was hastily sum-
moned and, after working over the
radiator almost all day, he brought
it to life so it could hold steam.
Several pipes had to be amputa-
ted, as they were hors de combat.
The blind man at the solitary
annex seems to work during the
night as easily as he does in the
day time. The other night he was
at work repairing clock, and as
Mr.. began passed along on his
rounds, he was much surprised as
he observed the man putting in
place little wheels, etc. At first
he did not know it was the blind
man, and as he continued to look,
his establishment grew proper
tionately. "May the powers take
me billygoat if the man amt work
ing in his sleep!" he remarked as
he moved along. Mr.. began was
told the next morning that a blind
man works at any time, day or
night.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

The following cell changes were
made during the past week: lO4
to 26O; $50 to 48; 63S to At; 1928 to
40; 615 to so; 5S5 to cot %; SAT to
48; cot Is to 636; $40 to cot IS; 81
to cot "a; $40 to cot Is; 25O to g.;
1913 to $40; 1877 to 1893.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

A gentleman of Saltwater on be-
ing asked by his host to respond
to the toast "Stillwater," is said to
have replied: "Half the people of
Saltwater are under lock and kew,
the other half What the
dash stands for is best understood
by those who were present when
the toast was given.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25
Wise and Otherwise.
3-By G. A. "

Have you broke eu4 yots Those
New Year resolutions, 1 mean.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

Mr.. A. j. Haascl, of Ashland,
Wisconsin, and Miss Anna Meyer,
of New Richmond, Wisconsin,
were shown about the institution
last Tuesday by Mr.. Kerby Glen
non, the enterprising stock man
connected with the Western Shoe
Go.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

The Russian undertakers are
buster than a setter pup with an
old gum shoe.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25

Bandmaster Hewitt added a new
Missenharter French horn to the
band. He now has five instru-
ments of this make, and they are
considered the most perfect instru-
ment in tune, tone, and workman
ship. These horns are much liked
by the boys who use them.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-25
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
Three prisoners were transferred
from the st. Cloud reformatory to
this institution last week.
The glazier was in the dollhouse
last Monday fixing the windows SO
as to keep out the cold.
The state boiler inspector called
on the chief engineer one day last
week on business.
Twelve large mess pals were
made during the past week. They
will be used in the diningrooms.
Superintendent Williams, of the
Irvine factory, was confined to his
home last Friday on account of
illness.
There are now twenty-five men
occupying cots in the dollhouse
corridors. Three were added dur
ing the past week.
Guard Parent was absent a few
days during the past week. He
attended the funeral of a relative
at Somerset, Wisconsin.
To the occupant of cell 374:
The Sun is the only weekly paper
we know of that is published in
the town you mentioned.
Mr.. H. 9. Sargent, of waupun,
Wisconsin, accompanied by Super
intendent Williams, was about the
prison last Saturday.
A combination bench and wiring
or stand was manufactured in the
state repair shop for use in the
tobacco factory.
A load of very useful material
was received by Captain Alexan-
der last Friday for use in the cell
house. II was load of sand, and
fine sand at that.
Miss Marie L. Brookes, of As
bury Park, New Jersey, and Miss
Wanda Bee Kerr and Mr.. A. w.
hammers, of Saltwater, registered
in The MIRROR office one day
last week.
The Usher has in his possession
letter addressed to Mrs. Hannah
Lund, 3442 Smelling Ave. &c.,
Minneapolis, MINI, and signed
Oluf M. Lund. For further par.
ticulars see the Deputy Warden.
About twenty-five pupils from
the st. Paul High School visited the
prison last Friday. They were
shown the courtesies of the insti-
<,,k;oo -, G-o.l WI
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-25
personal NOTES.

Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin is said
to be the only vegetarian in the senate.
Former employees of Charles NJ. schwab,
in the Braddock, Pa, district have been
made happy by an invitation to go to New
York a few weeks hence and help MIR.
schwab open his new s6OoO,OOO house with
an old-fashioned party.
Prof. Baldwin of the Johns Hopkins uni
versity, has just returned from Mexico,
where, at the request of the Mexican gov
eminent, he has spent six years inspecting
the educational system of that country, as
a guest of President Diaz.
Captain Elmer Mikkelson, the Danish ex-
plorer, who took part in the Baldwin and
Amdrup Polar expeditions and who pro-
poses to explore the Polar regions west OF
those explored by Sverdrup, has started
for the United States. He expects to make
a start from San Francisco in June.
Congressman Olmsted of Pennsylvania
expresses this opinion: 1T takes man
about four terms in the house to familiarize
himself with his Office. A district that In
tends keeping a man In Washington FOR
only two terms might almost as well send
clerk here, because the member never
learns more than the performance of the
routine duties before he is called upon to
give up his Office to another, who will 30 in
the same way"
Mr. Balfour, the British statesman, who,
with his party, has gone down to defeat,
has marvellous self-control and was never
known to be even ruffled by the bores who
continually harrass public men. One even
ing when he was being terribly "heckled" at
a public meeting in Manchester a sympa-
thlzer called out; Don't lose your temper
Mr.. Balfour smiled easily as he replied
II have lost many things in my time, but
never lost my temper" Even on the golf
links he does not rise TO the mildest pro
family at a streak of bad luck.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-25
REASONABLE AND UNREASONABLE
REGULATION.

An ordinance has been introduced in
the city council TO regulate the tolls and
traffic of the Omaha & Council Bluffs
street railway. The ordinance provides:
First-That the fare for all passengers
provided with seats shall be cents, and
all passengers compelled to stand shall
pay only cents.
Second-That thirty tickets shall be
sold for 81 for use of school children
between I and a. m. and 3 and D p. III.
on school days. And twenty-fou tickets
shall be sold for 81 to all other passen-
gers.
Lastly-That the company shall grant
universal transfers from one line TO an
other at one fare per passage to the ulti
mate destination.
Now there is such thing as reasona-
BILE and unreasonable regulation OF pub
lie utilities, operated by private corpora
tions. II is reasonable and proper to
require the street railway company to
furnish ample facilities at all times for
the general public. and II would not be
unreasonable to require transfers for
passengers destined TO points within
certain limits.
1t Is unreasonable. if not preposter-
Gus, to impose conditions that do not
prevail In any city Of Omaha's popula-
tion and cannot be enforced in any
American city, 1t is common and
natural experience in all population cen
! tiers for street railway cars to be over
crowded in the morning and evening
hours and sometimes also In the noon
hours. and the larger the city the
! greater the overcrowded condition. For
example, in New York City, with its
! $50, 100000 subway, It's elevated rail
roads and great network Of surface rail
roads, the passengers in the street cars
! during the morning and evening hours
are packed like sardines in a box and no
legislation has yet been effected TO stop
and subway the fares are collected from
all passengers before entering the cars
and no one can tell in advance how
many will have TO stand and how many
will have seat While the fares are
collected inside the car in Omaha, no
conductor could tell in advance which
passenger will have TO stand all the way
or half the way, or a quarter of the way.
To provide an equipment that would
meet the most pressing demand would
require double, treble or quadruple
set Of trainmen for two or three hours
day, while they would lay on the bal
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-25
Inemciency of Consular service.

IOIlldHu OTeBOnlOn.
Secretary Root seems to be very we'll
Informed regarding the consular service,
and he gave the house appropriations
committee some pretty plain reasons for
its inefflciency. Under the spells system
We have occasionally secured the services
of some very good men. but they have
been the exception and not the rule In
far too many cases the consulates have
been used as special privileges at the dis
posal of the senators and representatives,
who,- according tooMr. Root, use them ''as
places in which to shelve estimabe and
elderly gentlemen whose friends find it
necessary TO take care OF them in some
way" 1t is unreasonable to expect any
thing but mediocre service from men OF
this type, and there will be no improve
ment of consequence until the system is
taken entirely out of politics,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-25
FOR GOVERNOR OF IOWA.


The republicans of Sioux City have
requested Hon. George ID. Perkins to
become a candidate for nomination for
governor of Iowa and that gentleman
has indicated his willingness to do so
should republicans In other parts of the
state regard the request with favor.
The republicans of Iowa could make
no better selection for chief executive
than the veteran editor Of the Sioux City
Journal, the tribute to whom by his
fellow citizens was a just and merited
recognition OF his long and valuable SER
vices as a journalist and public man.
Mr.. Perkins is a man Of ability, in
tegrity and the highest character. He
represented the eleventh district OF Iowa
in congress three terms and made an
excellent record. Prior to that he was
a member of the state legislature. As
an editor few men in the west are so
well known and his advocacy of republi-
can principles and policies has been
consistent and able. His paper earn
estly supports the national administra-
ton. No man in Iowa is better in
formed than Mr.. Perkins respecting the
affairs of that state. and as governor
there can be no doubt that his admins
tration would be such as to command
the appreciation of all good citizens. He
would be strong candidate. whose
election would be assured by an over
whelming majority.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-25
Literary Censorship In China.
altimore American

They have solved the problem of literary
censorship in China by Furnishing the reader,
as well as the writer, of an Objectionable
book. The latter is rewarded for his eff
forts by loo blows with a heavy bamboo
rod and Punishment for life; and, while the
punishment of the reader is not so severe.
1t is sufficiently strong to act as a deterrent.
The appetite for forbidden fruit is, appar-
entity under much better control in the land
of the Celestials than it is in this country,
where everybody is a literary law unto
himself, and where the suggestion that a
book is somewhat off color generally results
in its getting into the lists as one of the
seasons best sellers
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-25
TO IMPROVE CROP REPORTING.

1t is stated that the disclosure of the
defects in the crop reporting service In
the Department of Agriculture made
by the Keep commission, will probably
result in legislation designed to improve
that service. Such a suggestion comes
from one interest, while another pro-
poses that all the work Of crop report
ing should be consolidated in the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor. One
Of the suggestions by the commission
is that crop reporting other than cotton
be discontinued unless it can be in,-
proved. Government officials, it is said,
are quite generally opposed to any such
departure. The farmers of the country
and the commercial interests believe in
system Of crop reporting, notwith-
standing the criticism that has been
the Department Of Agriculture-some of
It, it should be remarked, unjustly.
There is no doubt that the system of
crop reporting can be improved and it
as earnestly DESTROYS of this as any
body and since the disclosure of defects
has been giving most careful attention
to the work Of the bureau Of statistics.
as to which there have been no recent
complaints or criticism. The proposal
to discontinue crop reporting, other
than cotton, should receive no serious
consid eration. What is needed is to
make it as accurate as possible. In
regard to the suggestion that the work
be transferred to the Department of
| Commerce and Labor, it is not OF very
much Importance, though there is no
good reason why it cannot be done Just
as well by the Department of Agricul-
ture, where it legitimately belongs.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-25
DOCS ADVICE.
Milwaukee Sentinel.

The doctor tells me l should be
More careful of my diet.
That / should shun excitement and
Seek harmony and quiet;
He says unless i exercise
I'll get to be a chronic
And / must throw away such things
As Buildem's pills and tonic.
He says I ought to rise at six
And walk a mile or two,
Then punch the bag and lift the weightA
Till / am tired through;
Then after breakfast l may work
For, say, about an hour
And after that repose and rest
Recuperating power.
After luncheon l may go
And take an easy walk,
Or find some good congenial soul
With whom to have a talk;
And then, II careful, may go
And work trifie more
But not too much-Some easy task,
That will not make me sore.
At six dine then rest again;
When ready 10 retire,
He says TO swing the clubs until
Ny arms begin to tire.
I'd like TO follow Docs advice,
But ! can't see my way,
For how the deuce can l find time
In which to earn my payf
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-25

ance Of the day. 1t would be even
more impracticable TO enforce a double
standard Of car fare; at the railway sta
ton. where trainloads Of passengers
come in at all hours of the day; and no
forecaster or hindcaster could provide
seats for all the passengers and space
for all their luggage until someone in
vents "A car built on the ACCORDION plan
that can he expanded and contracted to
meet the requirements OF each trip.