The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-14
"B.'s" OBSERVATIONS =.


s. were registration days in here. All inmates be-
tween the ages of 81 and 80 years, inclusive. were
registered under the Selective Draft Act as passed
by Congress recently
Monday evening about o'clock we had .one of
the heaviest showers of the in this vicinity.
The water came down in such quantities that for
short time the Irvine shop nearly invisible from
the windows of cell hall B; in fact for several
ments it looked as though experiencing an
equatorial coudburst; but it was nothing more than
what is known in Minnesota June freshet."
If some of the Shakespeares. Bacons, Millions
et al, prancing around in the ball park Saturday
afternoons took up business at our Prison
Night School this coming fall and winter they might
be able to get REAL education, far as their stom
achs are concerned Brain food is all right in it's place.
but it necessary to know how to feed the stomach
too, if you would continue to enjoy the blessings
of life outside of prison.
Two cars of hemp. which had been partially
burned somewhere between here and the place of
production, were received by the Irvine department
last week. In savagpg it, to get that which can be
used in the manufacture of Irvine separated from the
worthless, it was strung up on twelve ropes. each
about twenty-five feet long, just outside of the north
railroad gate. 1t arranged in such a manner
that to the passer by it appeared like decorated
entrance to a carnival celebration.
Quite few visitors passed through the nstitu-
ton last Friday June 81, amongst them being
confirmation GLASS; from a church IN Scandal, under
the escort of the First Asst Deputy Warden. The
sun being out for the first time in week, most of
the visitors took advantage of the nice weather to
come dressed in their cool summer suits. For the
week preceding Friday visitors
than we have noticed for time, which was
ed no doubt, by the ncessant rains combined with
the unreasonable cold weather.
We have heard the roll and rumble of many
fierce thunder storms during our residence in Min
nesota, but the that burst our institution
last Sunday night (June 3D. the worst we have
heard in many years. The crashes of thunder were
deafenng and followed one another in such quick
succession, that it could only be compared to what
continuous discharge of modern artillery must be
like The cell house, heavily as it is constructed
fairly rocked to it's foundations, as each successive
blast of thunder it's vibrations through the air.
According to the Minneapolis North East Argus,
in Minneapolis has at last discovered means
to do away with the hated submarine boat. Just
now the Argus says, he is at Lake Minnetonka
trying out his invention, and from radograms re-
ceived from him it is working fine. 1t seems that
the main idea of his invention is to equip a very
large scow with huge pumps worked by gasoline
engine electric motor, and when submarine
shows up in the immediate vicinity the pumps
started and all the in that part of the is
pumped away, leaving the submarine foundering
helplessly on the bottom, where it can be easily
initiated like any ordinary fish.
Besides knowing how to keep the sidewalk in
ship shape condition and the stone stairway shiny
and bright cell hall BIS expert sidewalk polisher has
another art Of which we were not aware-that of
knowing how to rake up grass into nice neat little
piles Last week the lawn-mowe pushers got busy
and gave the grass on the cell hall side regulation
hair-c After they through, the sidewalk
polsher left off his never-endng task of sidewalk
inspection and brought forth a rake, with which he
Immediately proceeded to rake up all the grass in the
vicinity Of the stairway and built neat and cute
little haycock you would see any to date
farm 1t looked for all the world like of those
bonnets the ladies used to wear.
Last Wednesday (June % the American Film
Company presented Lord Loveand Discovers Amer
ica,'' in five acts The play comedy-drama
and the acting of high order throughout the
entire piece; fact, it be cassed one of the
best that has been produced at our Auditorium for
time. The play was of that class that is espe
cialy interesting to our movie fans in this insti-
tuition, showing an English lord who had never been
put the task of getting the necessares of life,
irving in America practically broke and finally kick
ed of his high class hotel with but forty in
his pocket. There being a doubt to his identity,
he finds himself in the unpleasant position where it
| is necessary for him to find something to eat and
place to sleep. But he proves himself to be man