h he has earned, and
how much he has expended, together with a general statement as to his
surroundings and prospects, which must be indorsed by his employer."

"He shall in all respects conduct himself honestly, avoid evil
associations, obey the law, and abstain from the use of intoxicating
liquors."

"He shall not go outside the state of Minnesota."

The parole was unanimously concurred in by Messrs. B. F. Nelson, F. W.
Temple, A. C. Weiss, E. W. Wing, and R. H. Bronson, of the prison board
and urged by Warden Henry Wolfer.

The board of pardons, in indorsing our parole, said:

"We are satisfied that the petitioners in this case have by exceptionally
good conduct in prison for a quarter of a century, and the evidence they
have given of sincere reformation, earned the right to a parole, if any
life prisoner can do so."

And July 14, 1901, Jim and I went out into the world for the first time in
within a few months of twenty-five years.

Rip Van Winkle himself was not so long away. St. Paul and Minneapolis
which, when we were there in 1876, had less than 75,000 people all told,
had grown to cities within whose limits were over 350,000. A dozen
railroads ended in one or the other of these centers of business that we
had known as little better than frontier towns.

34. ON PAROLE

Our first positions after our release from prison were in the employ of
the P. N. Peterson Granite company, of St. Paul and Stillwater, Mr.
Peterson having known us since early in our prison life.

We were to receive $60 a month each and expenses. Jim was to take care of
some office work, and take orders in the immediate vicinity of Stillwater.
He worked mostly through Washington county, and with a horse and buggy,
but had not been at work more than two months when the sudden starting of
the horse as he was getting out of the buggy started anew his intermittent
trouble with the bullet that lodged under his spine, and he was compelled
to find other employment.

He then went into the cigar department of the Andrew Schoch grocery
company in St. Paul, and after several months there was employed by Maj.
Elwin, of the Elwin cigar company in Minneapolis, where he remained until
a few days before his death.

I traveled for the Peterson company until Nov., 1901, covering nearly all
of Minnesota. But the change from the regularity of prison hours to the
irregular hours, meals and various changes to which the drummer is subject
wa