The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-09-06

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daughter and that, in order to get even,
she Immediately ran away and got mar
ried should not set a precedent to fathers.
The girl that is "spanked' into mar
rage is apt to get husband who will
have it out with the old man sooner or
later and serve him right into the bar
gain.-Rosa Pearls Paper.
Girls ought to be warned of the fearful
danger to be incurred in marrying rail
road men, especially brakemen. 1t is
said that member of that hardwork-
ing fraternity at Patterson on being
aroused from the dream of an impend-
ing crash, was found by the neighbors
sitting up in bed holding his wife by
the ears, having nearly twisted the ter
rified woman's head off in his etfectual
exertions to "down brakes Fargo
Argus.
When hindoo gets religious he
leaves the world and seeks some Sc
Guided spot where he can stop med
ling with other peoples business and
mediate himself into heaven Sitting
day after day in one position, he grad
ually loses the use of his limbs, his body
becomes covered with hair, his nails
grow to claws, and he becomes bear
We have known some people here in
America to get religious, come into the
church, sit down, and remain sitting
until they were overtaken with the
same fate.-Free Baptist.
An editor who has been pounding
away at his delinquent subscribers for
some time finally brought them to
their sense of duty with the following
poetical parody: "Lives of great men
oft remind us, honest toll don't stand a
chance: more we work we leave behind
us bigger patches on our pants. On
our pants once new and glossy, now are
patches Of a different hue; all because
subscribers linger and won't pay up,
what is due. Then let us be up and
doing; send in your mite be it e'er so
small, Or when the snow of winter
strikes us, we shall have no pants at all. -
ICollins Qowa) Clipper.
A regrettable mistake, that has led
to tragic consequences, has been made
by amember of the police DIES m9urs"
at Marseilles. France. He arrested a
respectable dressmaker, aged 10 years,
on suspicion Of being an improper
character. AS it was not until she had
been in the prison cells for whole
night among criminals, that she sue
ceeded in establishing the fact that she
was of unblemished reputation, that
occurrence preyed upon the young girls
mind II cOuldno bear my parents to
hear of my misfortune" she said more
than once to friend. In the end she
committed suicide by suffocating her
self with charcoal fumes. In a pathetic
letter, written, before the deed was
committed, she said, the "police are
the cause of my DEATH North Bay,
(Ont.,) Dispatch.
The declaration of the pope's legate,
Mgr. Satolli, that large number of
the Catholics are engaged in the liq-
uor trade is doubtless; but, in justice to
the Roman Catholic Church, we ought
to add the statements made recently at
a meeting of the Protestant clergy at
Sartoga. Mr.. Daily of the Public Led
ger is reported as saying that, during
a six months investigation of the llq
uor traffic, he found that Of sixty thou
sand signers of applications for licenses,
very large number were officers of
government. Presbyterians and Bap-
lists were mentioned by name; and in
the Protestant Episcopal Church, ''Sun-
day-school teachers. trustees, and thirty
seven vestry-men signed for from one
to five times each," From this it will
be seen that the Protestant churches
have work to do among their own
members, as we'll as the ROmish Church
among THEIRS Christian Register
An interesting story of an Indian
girls determination to gain an educa-
ton and lift herself up above the ig-
norance and degradation of her race is
printed in the Buffalo Commercial.
Her name is Louise Grouse, and she is
a full blooded Indian, 20 years of age,
and is working her way through a
course at the Normal School in Oswego
by scrubbing, washing, sewing-any-
thing she can find to do. Her life has
been unusually sad full of discourage
ment, her mother dead and her father a
drunkard, but she is pluckily Flooding
on and enduring all sorts of privations
to accomplish her object. She has yet
two years of labor and study before her.
and, not content with serving herself