The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-30
OLD PRISON NEWS NOTES
Breezy Pickups From Our Contributors
UNCLE JOHNS SAYINGS

UNCLE JOHNS SAYINGS
Steward Deragish wa visitor at the old
prison last Saturday.
| April gone and no spring poem yet.
How about it, Beau Esprital
Mr.. Dessantels escorted party of visitors
through all the departments last Sunday
afternoon.
State Agent Whittier escorted party of
| friends around the institution last Monday
afternoon.
Guard Arsenault returned from his vaca-
ton last Monday and reported having had
fine time.
The man who talks the loudest is gener-
ally the man who does the least when the
| time for action comes.
Mr.. Malone of Minneapolis was visit
or in the school room last Friday in COM
pany of Supt. Holland.
Well, how about it, Mexico. Do you
still cling to the delusion that your Uncle
Samuel is only bluffing3
Hugo has gone to the new place, and
you fellows wont need to complain any
more about the tobacco.
Guard Plante, the man with the keys, is
away on his vacation, and Guard Chaser is
between the gates at present.
House Steward Westlund has been sick
for several days, and Guard Thompson
was looking after the kitchen department.
The stewards department has moved
and it wont be long before the tailor shop
will follow, but not before we get our
| summer uniforms.
Soapy Toms successor, little Frenchy, is
all to the good, he doesn't drop so queit
much soap, nor use so much lip, but he
knows how to handle razor.
We note that the Saltwater Messenger
takes fall out of the Tracy Herald, and a
the same same time hands the bouquet to
the Mirror. Thanks!
Herr Otto Mobile has moved his office to
the aristocratic gallery and occupies cell
126. He will sling out the hash in the cha
pei dining room at present.
Tailor Nelson returned from his vaca-
ton last Thursday and said that he spent
most of his ten days in the Twin Cities,
and enjoyed them to the fullest extent.
Now that the shot and shell are scream
ing we long for daily newspaper. Won
der if we can't persuade the editor to issue
a daily bulletin of news from the front.
We have it from good authority that the
band boys will be fitted out with new uni
forms, regular military uniforms, the best
that can be made and that money can
buy.
You just bet your life that the boys here
are patriotic. If you doubt it, Just send
in call for volunteers for the firing line
and then note the decrease of the popula-
ton around these diggin's.
Speaking about the aristocratic gallery,
we have now Little Willie, Pendennis,
Boobies, Uncle John, Otto Mobile, Beau
Esprita, Hienie, and the famous Helliogram
very close and might break in any time.
Now if we had Blackstone and Marco
Polo, we sure would have full house.
Who says that we don't feel proud of our
avenue.
A matter of some moment, worthy of
note, is that ''Mickie'' will wake things
up in the circle, and the members are all
looking forward with great pleasure to the
treat of his paper now under construction,
which he will read at an early meeting.
His delivery somewhat resembles that of
Cy Young and he mixes some slow ones
with his splitter and his high fast ones are
unsolvable. His control is good and his
change of pace remarkable. He says you
can't hit 'em when you can't see 'em.
When interviewed he spoke in sweeping
terms of the Mexican question, and adj
vanced some good ideas all his own, as to
how things could be summarily handled
by shipping about ten carloads of ham
sandwiches down to the seat of war and
trading them to the Mexcans for their guns;
then chasing them all into the gulf. We
are not in position to advance further de-
tails until we hear his paper.