The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-09-13

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St. Peter Journal.
If few of the kind words which are
often spoken at the grave of friend
had been spoken while that friend was
alive, they might have eased many
heartache and lightened many burden.
1t is one of the peculiarities of our
frail natures that we do not appreciate
the virtues of our friends until they are
dead and gone Montevideo CONNER
cial.
Benjamin Murphy, the sensible and
efficient Chief of Police of Jersey City,
has written to the commander Of the
Salvation Army forces in that city that
the members of the Army need no per-
nit from him or any one else to march
where they will in that city. That the
good work it's members are constantly
doing is great help to those who
have the care of the city in their hands.
Correct. Advance Thought.
Home and freedom sweeten existence
outside the prison walls, but the con-
ditiOnS of success are routine labor and
discipline. Will and desire must be
governed. Inside these walls the same
conditions prevail The essential diff
ference between these two spheres of
life is that in the one the system is self
imposed, in the other it is involuntary.
Outside we must choose this yoke: in
side we must submit to ito. p. News.
Noted daughters of society of New
York have raised a subscription of
several thousand dollars for the relief
of the suffering Pullman employees and
sent the list of donors to the duke him
self, but have not received any reply.
The doors that in the past have always,
been open to Geo. Pullman's family are
now closed and he cannot open them
again even with his millions unless he
does something to help the ones he has
ruined Swift Co., Monitor.
Sing the praises of heroic James Root
who stood by the throttle of his engine,
never wavering, never faltering, while
a hell of smoke and flame Tapped at the
engine cab. Two hundred passengers
depended upon James Roots unf1inch-
ing nerve. Two hundred people came
through the Valley of the Shadow of
Death because the engineer kept his
post. Had he been less hero 200 in
stead of dozen passengers would have
persisted. Let us not forget the man
who beneath the plainest of working
mans garb has such a heroic nature
Toledo Blade.
1t is remarkable fact, though not
easily accounted for that Imprisonment
at Yuma for any term not less than
five years of an Apache or any noun
tain Indian is equivalent to imprison-
ment for life, and the cause of death is
invariably consumption. This is dis
Apaches under normal conditions of
climate and habit. The change, how
ever. from the high attitudes of the
mountains and the bracing mountain
4 air to the lower level of Yuma, with
it's more than semi tropical heat, wears
, away what mountain storms and ex-
, posture cannot even indent-San Fran
cisco Examiner.
The mayor of Peru, ILL.,, got drunk
$ the other day and abused the law and
. order league of the town. Apoliceman
J., tried to make him 60 home quietly, but
2 he would neither go home quietly nor
:. otherwise, so the policeman ''ran him
r. in as the commoners say, and he spent
: the night in the lookup. With the,
J. mayor of Minneapolis giving orders to
i the police to arrest aldermen found
r drunk around the city hall, and the
! mayor of the Illinois town in the Gala
/ boose for being drunk, there is some
n encouragement for those who believe,
e in the decadence of the political pull
and the advancement of civilization
across the woOlly wilds of the corn and
e wheat Minneapolis Times
: There was deacon in certain church,
l. says an American paper, into whose
r. peWs, one Sunday, drunken man stag
O gered and sat down. The preacher
S was discoursing about prevalent pop
Il ular vices. Soon he exclaimed: "Where
). is the drunkard?" The drunken man
Y was just far enough gone to think the
IS call personal, so rising heavily, replied,
n ''Here [ am and remained standing
e while the drunkard's character and fate
s were eloquently portrayed. A few
= minutes later the preacher reached
e another head Of his discourse, and
10 asked ,"Where is the hypocrite p Gent
II ly nudging his neighbor, the drunk
st ard said in an audible whisper, "Stand
j, up, deacon, he means you this time.