The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-02-05
OLD PRISON NOTES
UNCLE JOHNS SAYINGS


Mass was held in che chapel Sunday
morning, Father Corcoran officiating.
Father Corcoran was visitor at the in
stitution several times during the past week.
| On account of the ice and severe cold
weather the drill was cut short last Sunday.
s'Love thy neighbor as thy SELF was
surely meant for you as well as for your
neighbor.
| Mex, ought to be satisfied at present, he
sure gets his three sqnare meals day even
if he doesn't get any pie.
Steward Deragish is away on his vacation
| and will be absent for several weeks. A
little rest will do him good.
They say love laughs at locksmiths
Well would like to see a pair of lovers
laughing at our locks. See!
The foreman in the blacksmith shop has
resigned his position and will go out west
to start similar business of his own.
Guard Husting with a crew Of men
painted about three hundred hay rake
wheels up in the yard one day last week.
Soapy Tom says his time is getting short,
yes, but the days, are getting longer-at
least he will find it SO before his time is up.
We see by last weeks issue that Rev.
Budlong has turned policeman, well, well,
how times have changed, but what's the
use?
Guard Talley with crew of men has
been working overtime in the blacksmith
;rh< 9 ,cla for <hol
week.
State Agent Whittier held his monthly
interviews last week. interviewing quite
number of the inmates who are looking for
a parole.
The first shipment of machines for the
year 1914 was made last Friday, five now
ers and one hay rake were shipped out in
the country.
There is no gain in trying to give the
other fellow the worst of the deed. "Chick-
ems come home to roost, and bad penny
always returns.
Did it ever occur to you that in trying
to lighthen the burdens and labors of your
fellowmen that your own labors take on
aspects of lightness?
Our next holiday will be Lincoln's birth
day, and he was the greatest statesman,
patriot and gentleman that ever lived in this
or any other country.
My how time does fly. January of 1914
has gone already and the February month
is so short that one hardly has time to say
Robinson Crusoe, before it is gone too.
Deputy Warden Sullivan showed Mr..
Nf
Lincoln, Neb. and Miss M. Olinger, of
New York City, through the prison Mon
day.
There are two sides to every transaction
the right and the wrong. Be sure you
are on the right side and you cannot go far
from the path that leads to eternal happi-
ness.
The president of our Chautauqua Circle
is making preparations for a first class
quarterly meeting to be held in the near
future and some outside talent is expected
at this meeting.
The Mirrors suggestion that we inmates
take up the go-to-church idea and turn out
enmasse next Sunday, has struck the boys of
the old prison favorably, and everybody is
going to be in chapel line sure.
Heinie, our chief librarian came very
near meeting with a serious accident last
Friday while lifting heavy box of books
to the wagon for the new prison. He slip
ped on the ice and turned complete sum-
mersault without hurting the ice or himself,
it was the finest acrobatic stunt we have
ever seen.
Guard Husting with a crew of ten men
cut ice for day and half for the new pris-
on last week. The ice is eighteen inches
thick, and 1880 cakes were harvested for the
baby institution. Some ice WHAT Next in
order is cutting ice for the mother institu-
ton, but he doesn't know yet when he is
going to start. Maybe soon.
Talk about Sand Rats, our friend the
Sand Artist wants to make us believe they
are the only sand rats in the foundry, when
in reality the core room is the only
place where the sand rats live. Guard
Bloom has only six men, and they are kept
so busy handling sand that they see moth
ing else, dream of nothing else but sand.
How about it Mr.. Sand Artist