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THURSDAY, September 19. 1895.
PRISON OFFICIALS.
MANAGERS.
EDWIN DI'NN, President. - - - - Eyota.
JOHN F. NOURISH. ------ Hastings.
JAS. S. O'BRIEN. ------ Stillwater.
F. W. temple. ----- Blue Earth City.
M. O. HALL. - -- -- -- -- Dlllutll.
RESIDENT OFFICIALS.
HENRY WOLFKR, - - - - - - warden.
F, H. lemon. ----- Deputy Warden.
E. A. OBRIEN, - - -- -- - - Clerk.
B. J. MERRILL. ------- Physician.
MISS MARY MeKINNEY, - - - - Matron.
F, H. ALBERT. - - - Protestant Chaplain.
CHARLES CORCORAN. - - catholic Chaplain.
PRISON AGENT.
FRANK WHITTIER - - Minneapolis.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Prison Chapel.
Services in the Prison Chapel at 9:00 o’clock
every Sunday morning. Protestant and
Catholic services every alternate Sunday.
Rev. J. H. Albert and Rev. Fr. Corcoran
chaplains.
Methodist Episcopal.
Third street, opposite Pittman House. Rev.C. A.
Cressy, pastor. Services at 10:30 a. m.and
7:30 p. m. Sunday School at 12 m. Junior
League at 4:00 p. m. Epworth League at 0:30
p. m. Prayer meeting. Wednesday evening
at 7:30. Pastor’s class in Bible Study, Friday
eveuing at 7:30. Ladies’ Bible Circle. Friday
at 3:0o p. m. Mrs. S. B. Slocumb, teacher.
Pastor’s residence, 523 N. Second street.
Grace Congregational
Corner sth and Laurel streets. Rev. J. H.
Albert, pastor. Sunday services, preach
ing 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Sunday School
11:45 a. m. Junior Endeavor 3:o0 p. m.
Christian Endeavor 6:30 p. m. Children's
Mission Band the second Sunday of each
month at 3:oo p. m. Midweek and Prayer
meetings. Wednesdays 7:45 p. ni. Ladies’
Aid Society. Thursday afternoons. Ladies
Missionary Society, the last Friday of each
month.
4? LOG/\LjS.
Minnesota Hymn.
[ADOPTED BY THE W. C. T. U.]
Thou art decked in regal splendor
As a bride in fair array;
For thv gems, lo! lakes are gleaming,
For t’liy robes the cornfields sway.
Minnesota,
State where thousand waters play!
From thy breast the Mississippi
Rolls its jeweled tide along;
At thine ear sweet Minnehaha
Sings her never-changing song.
Land of Waters!
Shall we let thee suffer wrong?
Shall thy sons defile thy fairness?
Soil thy crystal purity?
To a curse turn gifts God given,
Pearls to tears of misery?
Bane or blessing
Shall thy beauty be to thee?
God of love! withhold thy judgments,
Thine we are. our work is thine;
Thine our country, its salvation
Resteth on thy heart divine.
Bless thy handmaids.
Fighting want, and woe. and wine!
Population: Males.43l; females, 2.
Keeper Forrester returned to duty on the 15th
Gen. R. W. Johnson was a caller at the prison
yesterday.
Prisoners discharged during the week. G
Received. 2.
Grade standing. Sept, isth: First Grade. 313
Second Grade. 103; Third Grade, 17.
Usher Kenyon visited the State Fair on the
12th and Keeper Colligan on the 13th.
Mr. Olaves Anderson and wife, of Willmar,
and Mrs. L. Olson, city, visited our oliice on the
12th.
Mrs. Clara Gish and her friend Mrs. C. C.
McCann, of Bloomfield, lowa, visited our office
on the 17th.
The receipts of the Kansas Penitentiary for
the labor of convicts for the month of August
amounted to sr>.ooo.
The painter has finished lettering the shops
and hereafter the shops will be known by letter
instead of by number.
The receipts from visitors’ fees at the Columbus
(O.) Penitentiary during the five days of the State
fair amounted to $1,855,65.
Mrs. Fred T. Yates, wife of Editor Yates of
the Washburn AYir.s, is visiting at the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. John s. May.
Jno. McDermott, serving a reformatory sen
tence for burglary, was returned to prison on
the 12th for violating his parole.
Mrs. F. £. Powers, of St. Paul, and Margaret
D. Lewis, of Chicago, 111., were among the num
ber to visit our office on the isth.
Mr. N. S. Livingstone and C. McKenzie, of
Minneapolis, and Miss M. La Gorge, city, were
visitors at the prison on the 16th.
Mr, R. A. Smith and wife, of Sandstone, and
Mrs. Tim O’Neil, city, were among the number
of visitors to admire our wonderful clock on the
llth.
H. H. Richardson and wife, of Chicago, 111.,
Mrs. Col. G. S. Dana, St. Paul, and Mrs. C. H.
Carli, city, were escorted about the prison by
Asst. Deputy Glennon on the 18th.
Mr. Tony and Miss Theresa Wolf, city; Mrs,
L. O. Wessel and Leonilla Wessel. Little Falls,
Minn., and Miss Dora Dlsch, lona, Minn.,
honored our office by a visit on the 12th.
J. E. Darling, of Worthington. Minn., visited
the prison on the 12th. Mr. Darling will keep
posted on the progress of prison reform in the
future through the columns of The Mirror.
U. S. Marshall R. T. O’Connor, and Mr. Pat
Conley, of St. Paul, brought us two guests on
the 17th who will remain with us three years and
sixty days respectively for making money not
authorized by the government.
A new elevator has been put up at the south
end of the east wing for the purpose of carrying
up the new iron buckets to each gallery. The
•levator will he a great convenience to us in
getting our forms up and down.
The following gentlemen from Blue Earth city
were shown about the prison by Keeper Forres
ter on the 13th: M. B. Parker, W. H. Davis,
Chas, Aling, John Clark, Chas. Noonan, Ray
Dollober, Chas. Stewart, Doc Cooper, Chas.
Randolph, James Wllsob, John Hill, Ole Broten,
“Do you know. Jay,” asked Mrs. Daisy Med
ders significantly, "that there are a great many
more single men than married men in the pris
ons? And do you know what that proves?”
"Mebbe it proves,” answered Jay Green,
diplomatically,'' that they’d rather go to prison
than get married.”—Puck.
Supt. Lee, of the St. Cloud reformatory, has
filed with the secretary of state a semi-annual
abstract of the record in the case of eacli pris
oner remaining under the control of the Board
of Managers of the reformatory on June 30,1895.
There are now confined at the reformatory 101
prisoners, several of whom have been returned
for breaking their paroles.
Engineer Richard Jones returned from his
vacation on the 13th. The game and fish markets
are not overstocked in consequence of his hunt
ing and fishing trip, as he admits that game was
scarce in the locality he visited. Mr. Jones also
attended the convention of National Stationary
Engineers at St. Paul before returning to duty,
and reports having had a splendid time at the
meeting.
The Misses Laura and Beal Frankenfield,
Zella Zee Sweitzer and Mr. Sanford Dodge, ot
Minneapolis, were escorted about the prison by
Editor Nelson on the 12th. Miss Sweitzer is the
lady who entertained us in such a charming
manner by her recitations last New Year’s Day.
Mr. Dodge also favored us with a recitation
from Richard the Third on the same occasion,
which was a clever piece of acting.
Last evening a number of Mr. Cover’s fellow
guards pleasantly surprised him by presenting
him with a beautiful terra-cotta pipe. The
presentation speech was made by Capt. W. H.
H. Taylor, and the enthusiastic applause of
those present attested their appreciation of the
captain’s eloquent and witty remarks. Mr. Cover
was so overcome witli emotion that he could
only respond briefly by thanking the donors for
their beautiful gift.
The Stillwater Gazette otters the following
inducements to delinquent subscribers to call
and pay up: “There’s a line opportunity for
our delinquent subscribers to come up and see
us now. Our celebrated lop-sided, lop-eared
and forlorn looking stairs have been razed and
a substantial and line looking substitute raised
in the place of the old settlers. Now is the
time to come and see us before the new wears
off. National bank notes taken at par.”
For the information of the new arrivals who
come here from week to week, we wish to say, if
you want to send The Mirror to relatives or
friends, you will he allowed the privilege by
complying with the following rule: Send to this
office your name, register and cell numbers, also
full address of the person to whom you desire to
have The Mirror sent. Do not write address,
cell number or any other matter on your paper;
keep them perfectly clean and place them in your
cell door every Friday evening. Those who do
not send The Mirror away will confer a favor
by sending them to this office.
Boys, if you Have uothing better to do here is
something with which you can pass away a few
otherwise tedious minutes in your cell: Open
a book at random and select a word within
the tirst ten lines and within the tenth word
from the end of the line. Mark the word. Now
double the number of the page and multiply the
sum by five. Then add twenty. Then add the
number of the line you have selected Then add
five. Multiply the sum by ten. Add the num
ber of the word in the line. From this sum
subtract 250, and the remainder will indicate in
the unit column the number of the word, In the
ten column the number of the line, and the
remaining figures the number of the page.
Frank Milan, a convict received at the prison
June 19, ’B9, to serve three years and three
months for grand larceny, and who escaped
August 23. 'B9. was brought back on the 12th inst.
Milan made his escape from the prison hospital,
he being under treatment at the time for granu
lated eyes, and was not heard from until a few
days before his return to prison. He was
arrested in St. Paul and Warden Wolferwas
notified by the police authorities that they had
a man in custody who had escaped from here,
but the detectives could not give the date of
the man’s escape, nor were they positive of his
identity, so Warden Wolfer, accompanied by
Keeper Alexander, went to St. Paul to see the
prisoner. As the escape was made during
Warden Stordock’s administration Milan was
unknown to Warden Wolfer. but Mr. Alexander
recognized him at once and he was brought
back to serve out his sentence.
There was a most interesting meeting of the
Pierian Circle held in the prison chapel on
Sunday i\ m. last. Both on account of the
excellent program rendered, and because of its
being the regular annual election day for
officers for the ensuing year. The president
occupied the chair, and roll-call showed a full
attendance. There being no unfinished business,
a member of class A was appointed critic pro
tern., and the following program was submitted:
Yocal Solo.
"There's No One Like Mother to Me”. ...Class E
Paper.
"What Life Is So Happy?” Class D
Paper.
“The Crime of the Age” Class E
Recitation.
"Thanatopsis” Class F
Poem (original.)
“Can I Go?” Class A
Taper.
"Independence of the American” Class C
Special Paper.
“Novel Reading” Class B
The critic’s remarks were very apropos, and
after the usual informal discussion the circle
proceeded to the election of officers fer the
coming year. Mr. Young, being the only
nominee, was unanimously re-elected by ac
clamation as presiding officer. Mr. Mills, class
F, was similarly honored by being re-elected
vice president; and a ballot resulted in the re
election of Mr. Dwight, class A. as secretary.
The election for class leaders resulted in the
choice of Floyd, class A; Kamp, class B;
Murphy, class C; Jones, class D; Thompson
class E; Mills, class F. Following an artistic
organ recital by member of class F. the meet
ing terminated
R. H.W. D.
Sec’y.
"Hello, there, Smith,” said Powhatan, as
Captain John of that name came pedaling a new
imported Columbus safety up the banks of the
James River one fine morning in 1598, "what
kind of a wheel are you riding now?”
“Oh,” said Smith, dismounting gracefully and
lifting his cap to Pocahontas, who stood by in
bloomers, ready to take her morning spin, “they
call this, in London, the ‘Columbus 1492,’ but
I’m led to understand that the repair shop
speaks of it as the Pudding.”
“Yes,” laughed Pocahontas, showing her
white teeth, “the repair shop men have in us
wheel people what the small boy hatf in the
ginger cooky.”
“And, prithee, fair aborigine, what might
that be?”
“Oh, a snap,” said the maiden.
And Powhatan breathed heavily and felt the
edge of his club, while Smith struck off for
Maryland overland.—Minneapolis Journal.
Smoking; Is Sometimes Beneficial.
Within the past six or seven years, “Notes for
the Curious” has been the receptacle of several
different articles, which proved more or less
positively that tobacco smoking is sometimes
beneficial. That tobacco juice and tobacco
smoke has anti septic powers, no investigator
will deny. Additional evidence on this point is
constantly accumulating. Prof. Hajakof Vienna
has declared that smokers are less liable to
diphtheria and other throat diseases than non
smokers in the ratio of one to twenty-eight. The
learned Dr. Scliiff also gives us to understand
that smoking is always positively forbidden in
bacteriological laboratories, because it is known
to hinder the development of the bacteria.—St.
Louis Republic.
A Discriminating' Officer.
The following good story is told in connection
with the Forty-Eighth Georgia regiment:
As the regiment was on the march to Gettys
burg some of the soldiers stepped out of the
ranks and cenliscated a couple of geese, and one
of the drummers unheaded his drum and put
the captured birds in it.
Shortly afterwards the colonel came along,
and, noticing the drummer failed to give his
usual drum whacks, rode up and said:
“Why don’t you beat that drum?”
“Colonel.” said the startled man. “I want to
speak to you.”
The colonel drew close to him and said:
“Well, what have you to say?”
The drummer whispered:
“Colonel, I’ve got a couple of geese in here.”
The colonel straightened up and said:
“Well, if you are sick you needn’t play,” and
then rode on.
That night the colonel had roast goose for
supper.—Atlanta Constitution.
A Lesson of Gratitude.
A gentleman making inquiries in Russia about
the method of catching bears in that oountry,
was told that to entrap them a pit was dug
several feet deep, and after covering it over
with turf, leaves, etc., some food was placed on
the top. The bear, tempted by the bait, easily
fell into the snare.
“But,” he added, “if four or five happen to
get in together, they will all get out again.”
"How is that?” asked the gentleman.
“They form a sort of ladder by stepping on
each other’s shoulders and thus make their
escape.”
“But how does the bottom one get out?”
“Ah! these bears, though not possessing a
mind and soul such as God has given us, yet
feel gratitude; and they won't forget the one
who has been the chief means of procuring t heir
liberty. Scampering off, they fetch the branch
of a tree, which they let down to their brother,
enabling him to join them in the freedom in
which they rejoice.”
Sensible bears, we would say, are better than
gome people that we hear about, who never help
anybody but themselves.—Selected.
Lacked the One Thing Needful
It is told that ex-Congressman W. It. Mor
rison, of Illinois, was in the habit of giving his
friends in general, and Mrs. Morrison in par
ticular. frequent lectures on the necessity of
absolute coolness and self-possession in case of
fire. "There is not a particle of reason for any
excitement or even hurry, because it dosen’t
help in the least,” he would say. If an alarm
sounded at midnight, for instance, the best way
out of the danger would be to proceed cool and
deliberately, and find safe quarters in a leisurely
manner.” An opportunity to test his theory
offered itself at last. One night their hotel in
Washington suddenly burst into flames. At the
sound of the alarm gong, about 2 a. m„ the Con
gressman got out of bed with a brave show of
deliberation and self-mastery. While his wife
was hurriedly preparing for flight. Mr. Morrison
proceeded to dress in the most unconcerned
manner. He nut his collar on. and carefully
adjusted his cravat, not forgetting to put the
tie pin at exactly the proper angle. Then, with
his wife on his arm, leisurely sallied forth into
the corridor swarming with terrified fugitives,
and picked his way to the basement. When the
hurly-burly had partially subsided, he turned to
his wife with his features wreathed in a
triumphant smile.
"Didn’t I tell you, my dear, coolness is the
only means of safety? Suppose now I had lost
my head and fussed and spumed about. As it
is, here we are. clothed, calm, and collected,
and ”
“But, my dear!”
“But what?”
"You might have put your trousers on while
you were about it!”—Chronicle.
Worth a Licking
Some years ago. in Georgia, that sect known
as Ascensionists were having a great revival.
One day when the meeting was in full force a
storm came up. and a young gentleman who
was out hunting with his servant took refuge in
the church door. Being curious to see the
service, the two hunters crept up into the
gallery, and there hid in a place where they
could observe without being observed.
“Come. Lord, come; our robes are ready.
Come, Lord, come!” cried the preacher, while
all present gave a loud “Amen.”
"Marsa Gabe.” whispered Cuffy, lifting his
hunting-horn to his mouth; “let me gib dem
jist one toot?”
"Put that horn down or I'll break your head,”
replied the master, in a whisper.
The horn dropped by Cuffy’s side, and again a
brother cried: “Come, Lord, come; we are all
ready for thy coming. Come, Lord, come!”
“Do. Marsa Gabe—do jist lemme gib ’em jist
one little toot,” pleaded Cuffy, wetting his lips
and raising his horn.
"If you don’t drop that horn. Cuffy, I’ll whip
you within an inch of your life,” whispered the
exasperated master.
“Blow, Gabriel, blow; we are ready for his
coming. Blow, Gabriel, blow!” shouted the
minister,
Cuffy could no longer resist the temptation,
and sent a wild peal ringing from end to end ®f
the church; but long before its last echo died
away his master and himself were the only oc
cupants of the building.
“I’s ready fur de licking, Marsa Gabe,” said
Cuffy, showing every tooth in his head, “fur I
’clare to gracious, it’s worf two lickings to see
de way common farm cattle kin git ober d*
ground wid skeared ’Scensionists behind ’em.”
—Epworth Herald.
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