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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28

TIME this truth will be more fully realized than at
present All over this land of ours endless chain
of men being sent to Jails and warehouses; for
trivial oenses, many of whom had never before been
imprisoned. It will not be strange if these men
hereafter the struggle to be honest and drift
into the criminal ranks AS imprisonment has
placed blot upon their reputation, they henceforth
are Indifferent to what they do or become.
In England they are beginning TO realize that it
is less expensive to keep out of prison than it is
to attempt to reform them after they come from
there We quote from the latest report of the How
ard Association: ut is recognized that OH the
whole prisons do not reform men, and the
is not far to seek. Character, courtesy, virtue the
love of truth, and all that goes to make
not be developed under the conditions of prison life
No matter how excellent those conditions are, how
perfect the discipline rigid the routine tho
the prison officials wise, humane and tactful-
nay, tho they may be possessed of tender pity and
love for those under their charge manhood can.
not be developed in prison.
When probationary laws become thoroughly
tablished perhaps there will be less recruits to the
ranks of professional criminals. These laws also will
have tendency to reform young offenders without
placing upon their character ndelible mark of
shame.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28
Uniform L01US.


FOREIGNERS often express considerable surprise
at the complexity of our laws But what astonishes
them most is the variation that exists in the various
states. To the native born this condition is quite
obvious However, the outsider requires some time
to understand that each state has it's own govern
ment passes it's own laws, and prescrbes the penal
ties for an infringement of these laws Sometimes
these penalties for certain crimes identica again
no two states will agree to the minimum or maxi
mum sentence
Some time ago it was proposed to have the pen
alties more uniform but it is impossible to inaugu-
rate such change. For instance, many fthe states
have abolished capital punishment, while others be-
lieve that it would be very unwise to make such
departure from existing conditions. This side of
the judicial system has always caused dissatisfac-
ton It is recognized that justice is not nfallihle
When two men are arrested for a similar crime and
gets eight years while the other gets only two it
causes many people to wonder how this inequality
was arrived at. Perhaps this would under any
form of government, in fact does occur; no uni
formity of laws offers satisfactory solution. With
all it's faults the judicial system of today is vast
improvement from what it used to be. In time the
present procedure will become scientific in it's
application and eventually the dissatsfyng features
will disappear entirely.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28
Cot Cemeteries.

A NEWTON, MASS, woman has asked the legisla-
ture of that state for permission to start cat
terry. This simple request almost staggered the dig
n6ed members of the Old Bay State 1t is strange
how sensible persons engage in such fads. How
ever, it is we'll known that certain class bestow
affection upon pet dogs and cats than they do
upon their children but no presumed for a mo-
ment that this absurd fad would reach such stage.
Hospitals and sanatoria for dogs and cats are
very ridiculous proposition. They not needed,
unless these animals are looked upon fetish. AL
tho the Egyptians looked upon cats sacred beings
they did not permit their worship of them to go to
such length to maintain cat cemeteries This
idea should be frowned upon.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28
Where JudSe Must Go to Jail.

II SPENT week in Jail before entered on my
judgeship,o says New York jurist Il ate hepris-
on food. | slept in cell L conformed with all
the prison rules. [ wore the prison Clothes did
the prison work. Thus learned the value of the
sentences [ was to mete out later 1 got to know
what week, month, year, in Jail meant. AS a
result am more merciful than most judges.
Il think it would be good thing if every judge
before taking Office would spend little while in
Jail as I did. He then would know the value Of
prison sentences thing he doesn't know now. Now
he is like cashier who attempts to pay out money
in coinage of which he is ignorant.
"In Baden this thing I speak Of must be done.
Every judge in Baden, before he takes his seat on
the bench, is required by law to pass two weeks
like common prisoner in jaiL"-Utica IN. ~
Saturday Globe.
If the foregoing qualification obligatory in
this country, few high-minded men would aspire to
judgeshp tits we'll enough to be conscientious
in the performance Of ones duties, but it is not
necessary to disgrace the bench in doing so. One
ascertain the routine of Jail life without becom-
ing make believe prisoner.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28
CUrin6 DrUNEUrds.

JUDGE CLELAND of Chicago, is meeting with
great success in his new method of handling the
many cases of drunkards that appear before his
court. Instead Of imposing the regulation workhouse
sentence, he gives the man sensible talk and sus-
ponds sentence providing the signs the pledge.
Withfew exceptions, this improved form ofjustcehas
been very successful It is decidedly improved be-
cause it neither impovershes the family nor i'm
pairs the mans standing.
In the majority Of cases these are in poor
circumstances fathers of families and hard workers
Their only weakness is liquor To give them a
workhouse sentence is only adding to their poverty.
Judge Cleland is to be congratulated his policy Of
treating this problem for his innovation contributes
to the of human happiness and approaches
mans ideal of justice.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28
SALT AND SUPERSALT.
by ANGLICUS..

|CASTRONOMY. The writer of this column has
without the gates to whom he very much indebted
gentleman out Of the bounty of his heart sends from
time clippings which detail but all bound
geher by te-that they all the
fascinating subject of asronomy One week that
hundred turtles consumed the
hangers Unon while the next week informed that oshoot
from the S. P G. has been established with the special purpose
investigating the method Of boiling Holsters Then follow detailed
of Mrs Vandevesters dinner
Creat Slump in Eggs
title GLOW to Cool Vines and most unkndest cut Of ALL
from harte cookbook illustrating gorgeous hues
Of dishes Strawberries arre and every other
kind Of fruit that ever in Eden Already
IRRESPONSIBILITY When unusually appalling railroad
catastrophe avanzes that deunct individual named Public opn
ion into temporary activity he his looks around and
finding nobody whom the blame sensaona
time ust6aby be fixed back to his mouldng When
Der Of captains of industry least have
pahy with each ohero form u.s. soidify the
industry the interests of it's development
hen objects to the manner in which his friends hair
parted and sends him poison by Tin esson he
responsible In view of all these facts deity should be added
the modern Pantheon the god responsibility Certainly
his honor that thousand victims killed by the railroads
1906 He who shields grafter-I should say daring
manipulation of who induces the anstorm
the place where no brains exist.
INWRITTEN LAW The unwten law, having indorsed
by the leading journals the United including ghost
of 7o 7 be considered the law ofthea
law books will probably contain such records the owng
estate Mceoghan SO N J. In this the
charged with wang George Harris cellar for speaking
specy of defendants deceased we grandfather Held notguy
under the unwten law Estate Cooke II ILL., In this the
defendant accused Of shooting John Munsen brakeman asgh
boxcar the Illinois Central It having been offered
that defendant belonged the Hoboes Union held guilty
ground the privacy his been invaded
written laws may follow ustng decisions in this
estate Guicciardni 81 Utah Defendant accused Of boiling his
motive to w.t. the improvement Of the quality of
Fiat JashAa.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28
HELIOGRAMS.
--------BY r. 49,


The booze fighter is not bown.n- bottle hero
Most would wrong than to be dead right
1t is better cold feet than your gers burned
The robes of righteousness develop divorce suit
The easiest in this world fellow who knows II
all.
Trying to drown Of beer like trying
actress in the matrimonial
The who steps into the presidential brogans South
American republic puts his foot in it.
Now that the dog catche working all our large
cities the ought pound
The courtroom in which Harry Thaw being should be-
thoroughly fumgad before burglars tried in
If rich would kill the goose lays golden eggs in
stead OF the ated calf would have fewer progas
Thaw.
Just before he died bedside that he would
long raise another suckers like
delegation of American dairymen the Phil
ppines Of inspection They probably bring with
them herd Of buaoes the Jersey and
the pump.
Mr. Seens who brides legislature sending him
the United States Senate should be
enough buy his the United States Senate
enough arrested to employ experts who would
convincing jury that he ambtiousy insane
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28
The Criminal Question.

The Criminal Question.
AT PRESENT much is being said about the in
crease of crime and the expense entaed to
guard society against this class of offenders When
the thoughtful reader in the daily papers
pilation Of what crime COSTS he instantly attributes
it to laxity in the administration of the laws. The
result is he crticses present systems and advocates
greater severity Perhaps undue severity is at the
bottom of the whole trouble and that therein lies the
cause for the tremendous increase and cost of crime
Some one has aptly said: "The extent to which
any country can, with safety keep its people out of
prison, is the measure of that countrys profit" In
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28

EVIDENTLY VIM. Dean Howells does not call
Mark Twain's writings literature when he says that
writing literature does not pay. Mark seems to get
pretty good pay for his writings only thirty cents
per word-Lake City MIMI Graphic Sentinel.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28

A FELLOW in Los Angeles, CAL, was convictedo of
stealing lone piece of mnce pie which he didn't
have time to eat and was handed out "a sentence of
year in state prison He got all that was coming to
him.-S Saltwater Gazette.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28
NOTICE.

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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28

JAPAN may think that it has discovered way to
make armor-p plate she'll proof but it will find out its
mistake if it should ever run afoul of champion
American gunner-Duluth Herald.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28
Among Our Exchanges.
~~~

GoD will not look you over for medals, degrees
and diplomas. but for scars.-Elbert Hubbard.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28

MIRROR weekly published IN the Minnesota State
prisoners and is edited and
aged by objects
moral
the prisoners disseminate pathological
information dspeg prejudice which has been
the bar sinister
dependent financial time there
would be expended the
of library
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-01-03
"THERE ARE SO MANYNOOKS"
al Have Been Bidding Goodbye
to Some Places To-day"

South Otselic, July 6, Thursday
Night-My Dear Chester: If you take
the 9:45 train from the Lehigh, there,
you VIII get here about IL. / am sorry
/ could not go to Hamilton, dear, but
papa and mamma did not want me to,
and there are so many things / have
had to work hard for in the last two
weeks. They think / am just going
out there to Deruyter for visit. Now,
once to the hotel, and / don't think
will see any of the people. If l do,
and they ask me to come to the house,
will say something so they won't
mistrust anything-tell them / have
friend coming from Cortland and that
We were to meet there to go to a
funeral or wedding in some town far
ther along. Awfully stupid, but we
were invited to come, and so had to
cut my vacation a little short and go.
VIII that be o. K, dear?
You must come in the morning for
have had to make you don't know
how many new plans since your last
letter. in order to meet you Monday
dislike waiting until Monday, but
now that have to. don't think 1t
anything but fair that you should come
up Monday morning. But, dear, you
must see the necessity yourself of get
ting here and not making me wait.
If you dislike the idea of coming Mon
day morning and can get a train up
SUNDAY NIGHT
up Sunday night and be there to meet
me. Perhaps that would be the best
way. All l care is that | don't want
to wait there all day or half day.
think there is train that leaves
the Lehigh at six something Sunday
night. I do not know what | would
do II you were not to come. am
about crazy. ] have been bidding
good-by to some places to-day. There
are so many hooks, dear and all of
them so dear to me- have lived here
nearly all my life.
| First | said good-by to the sprlne
| house with its great masses of green
moss; then the apple tree where we
| had our playhouse; then the bee
( hiNS' Sutc liltiS HouSS III the OF
chard. and, of course all the nelghbors
that have mended my dresses from a
little tot up to save me a threshing !
really deserved.
"Oh, dear, you don't realize what all
this means to me. know shall
never see any of them again, and
mamma. great Heaven, how / do love
mamma! I don't know what | will
do without her, She Is never cross
and she always helps me so much
Sometimes think II tell mamma
but can't. She has trouble enough
as 1t is, and couldn't break her heart
like that.
II came back dead, perhaps, IL she
doesn't know. she won't be angry with
me. will never be happy again. dear
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wish / could die. You will never
know what you have made me suffer-
dear. l miss you and want to see
you, but / wish l could die. ! am 60
ing to bed now, dear. Please come
and don't make me wait there. II
you had made plans for something
Sunday, you must come Monday morn
ing.
Please think, dear, that had to give
up whole summers pleasure and you
surely will be brave enough to give
up one evening for me. l shall expect
and look for you Monday forenoon.
Heaven bless you until then.
Lovingly and with kisses,
THE KID.
P. S.-Please come up Sunday night,
dear.
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ESTRAY NOTICE.

! have in my possession the follow
ing described animals imponded as es-
trays, for trespass:
One red yearling heifer, with swal-
low fork in left ear. No brands Wis
able.
One red heifer with swallow fork
in left ear and crop and under slope
in right ear. No brands visalbe.
If damage and costs on said ami
mails be not paid with ten days from
date of this notice, they will be sold
to the highest cash bidder at Span
ish Fork City Pound at 2 o'clock p.
m. on the 9Th day of January, 1907.
Dated at Spanish Fork. Utah Coun-
ty, State of Utah, this Goth day of
December, 1906
REES ID. JAMES,
Poundkeeper of said City.
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should happen l would always regret
1t for your sake. You do not know
papa as well as do, and / would not
like you to be disgraced here. We
have both suffered enough and l
would rather go away quietly. In a
measure / will suffer the more, but
will not complain If you will not get
cross and will come for me. l must
close. Write me Wednesday night,
dear, and tell me what you think
about everything. Let's not leave all
our plans until the last moment, and,
above all, please write and say you
forgive me for that letter l sent you
this morning. | am sorry and If were
there l know you would say it would
be all o. X.
Lovingly,
THE KID.
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Notice of Assessment No. 8.

The Blizzard Mining & Milling Company,
principal place of business ut Spanish Fork
City Utah County, Utah.
NOTICE is hereby given that at meeting
Of the directors held on the list day OF Decem-
Der, 1906, an assessment OF one ~ mill per
share was levied upon the capital stock of the
corporation, payable on or before the 9th day Of
January, 1907, to John j. Banks, secretary, at
Spanish Fork. Utah. Any stock upon which
this assessment remains unpaid on the 18th day
of January, 1907, will be delinquent and adver-
tised for sale at public auction and unless pay
ment is made before, will be sold on the 26th
day OF January, 1907, to pay the delinquent as
sessment, together with the cost OF advertising
and expense of conducting sale.
JOHN j. BANKS, Secretary.
Spanish Fork, Utah, Dec. LIST, 1905
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Bees Laxative Cough Syrup contain
ing Honey and Tar Is especially ap-
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poisons of any character, conforms to
the conditions Of the National Pure
Food and Drug Law, June 80, 1906.
For Group, Whooping cough, etc. 1t
expels Coughs and Colds by gently
moving the bowels. Guaranteed
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"COME AND TAKE NE AWAY"
"There Isn't Girl in the World as
Miserable as Am Tonight"

"There Isn't Girl in the World as
Miserable as Am Tonight"
South Otselic, June 2Oth 1906, Tues
day Night-My Dear Chester: am
back to Cortland. l simply can't stay
here any longer. Mamma worries and
wonders why l cry so much, and l am
Just about sick. Please come and
take me away some place, dear.
came up home this morning and just
can't help crying all the time, just as
did Saturday night
can't stay here, dear, and please
don't ask me to any longer. Do you
miss me much? I am so lonesome
without you. l don't know how / am
going to manage about going to Uncle
Charles. l presume I will have to
write you to meet me in Cincinnatus,
Chester, there isn't girl in the world
as miserable as l am tonight, and
you have made me feel so. Chester,
don't mean that, dear; you have
always been awfully good to me, and
I know you will always be. You just
won't be a coward, know. My broth
ers and sisters are at social recep-
ton tonight, but they can't get over
my crying.
| do wish you were here. l can't
wait so long for letters, dear. You
must write more often, please, and,
dear, when you read my letters. II
you think l am unreasonable, please
do not mind it, but do think l am
about crazy with grief and that
don't know just what to do. Please
write to me, dear.
Lovingly, you know whom.
South Otselic, June 10, 1906.
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Herkimer, N. Y.-Printed below are
letters which, within the past few
weeks, have become known almost
from one end of the country to the
pther as Grace Browns letters"
They need no introduction, save per-
haps the statement that these are the
letters which were read at the trial
of Chester Gillette.
They formed the most remarkable
feature of that case. The whole struc-
ture of the prosecuting attorney was
built upon them. 1t passes under
standing why the murderer of the
girl should have preserved series OF
documents which, 1t is safe to say,
spelled his doom from the moment
they were placed in the hands OF a
Jury of ~ men. It is inconceivable
that Gillette kept them for their
pathos, or the gentleness of charac-
ter which they revealed, for he Is not
the kind of a man to whom such
things appeal. 1t Is utterly improb-
able that he ever recognized In them
q simple literary beauty, although
such they do possess in an unusual
degree-the more unusual when 1t is
remembered that Grace Brown was
a country girl of plain education, who
had worked as factory hand.
Yet somehow Gillette kept them,
and the American public has come into
the possession of one of the most re-
tnarkable series Of documents that
ever appeared in a criminal case. AS
a revelation of character as the writ
ten record Of tortured soul, they
have already taken place unique in
the annals of real life tragedies.
Here are the letters:
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Hadn't the CAPACITY.

The baby of Maryland family had
been through a siege of chickenpox.
The infants sister, girl of ten years,
being met by the minister's wife one
day, that good woman naturally in
quired as to how the baby was get.
ting on.
Hes some better, thank YOU" said
the little girl, a shy and noncom.
initial child.
Very much better, / trust" said
the minister's wife.
"Oh, he couldn't be much better"
responded the child, because, you
see, he's too little.
Weekly.
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YOU COME TO NE ?"
"Chester, | Need You More Than
You Think | Do"

South Otselic, June &c, 1906, Monday
Night-Dear Chester: l am much too
tired to write decent letter or even
follow the line, but | have been un-
easy all day, and / can't go to sleep
because l am sorry sent you such
hateful letter this morning, so l am
going to write and ask your forgive
ness, dear. / was cross and wrote
things l ought not to have written. !
am sorry, dear, and l shall never feel
quite right about all this until you
write and say you forgive me. l was
Ill and did not realize what l was writ
ing, and then this morning mamma
gave my letters to papa before / was
down. | should not have had 1t posted
but it went long before l was awake.
| am very tired tonight, dear ] have
been helping mamma sew to-day. My
sister is making me new white Peter
Pan suit, and do get so tired having
it fitted, and then there are other
ried and tired. | never liked to have
dresses fitted, and now it is ten times
worse. Oh! Chester, you will never
know how glad | shall be when this
worry is all over. | am making myself
i'll over it. Maybe there is no use to
worry, but | do and / guess everyone
does. am quite brave tonight, and
| always feel better after | write you,
Chester. so | hope you mind the hate
full things ! say and / hope you won't
mind my writing so much. Where do
W.
from tonight? | wish you would write
and tell me, dear. all about your com
ing. am awfully afraid | cant go
to Hamilton. Chester.
Papa cant take me and | am nerv-
Gus about going alone. You see
would have to ride quite distance
before | could take the train and then
there is "A long wait, and, Chester, |
am, getting awfully sensitive. If
can't go mp there what shall do? Do
you think 1t would be wise TO come
back there? Could you come to Der
uyter and meet me? | have relatives
there. but perhaps | could arrange il
somehow | was pleased yesterday
morning You know have a lot of
bed quilts-siX, | guess--and ] was
asking mamma where they were and
saying | wished | had a dozen, when
my little sister said: Just you and
someone else will not need so many
OF course my face got crimson and
the rest of the family roared. Nam
ma is so nice about fixing my dresses
she has them all mp now IN nice shape
You remember the white dress | wore
and you once asked me why ! didn't
have a new yoke. Well, she has al
most made new dress out of that
| am afraid the time will seem awfully
long before l see you. Chester. l wisl
you would always post your letters II
the morning after you write them OF
the same night. They are day Later
here if you wait until noon. o.
course / will be glad to get them, only
| dislike waiting for them.
Or dear, do get so blue, Chester
Please don't wait until the last of the
week before you come. Can't you come
the first of the week? Chester, neet
you more than you think do. / really
think II will be impossible for me Il
stay here any longer than this week
want to please you, but ] think
Chester, il would be very unwise.
II | should stay here and anything