The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-12

The Lexow investigation appears to
have done some good work for New
York. How about the appointment of
such an investigating committee for
Minneapolis and St. Paul? A few
things would then be unearthed which
would be decided eye-openers for the
people. Here is a suggestion for some
budding legislator Minneapolis Penny
Press.
We have a great many good and just
judges who are ready to find for the
right and public good. And we have
a few judges in this land who seem to
think it their sole duty and mission that
no crank or anarchist shall come to
grief. These judges can be classed with
those who would oppose the killing of
mad dog that had bitten and would
bite again.-Aurora, Qll.,) Blade.
This is the best and greatest country
IN the world, after all, and although In
dependence Day is sacred to liberty and
we are not free, yet our condition is an
envlable one to our brethren in bonds
IN every other country in the world.
bondage to them has most of it's primi-
tive meaning and everything resembling
a Tree holiday is vain dream, while
prison newspapers are like angels, heard
OF, but never seen. Ohio Penitentiarv
News.
The wages of common laborer is
now below the wages of a common
horse, with the wages of the laborer
still going downward. When the horse
is improperly cared for, the Humane
society arrests and Furnishes it's owner.
out when the laborer is commpelIed to
suffer from cold and hunger he is ar
rested and punished as a vagrant
nder the present constitution of soci-
ETY. it is better to be a horse than
n.-Sovereign.
III a horse is Improperly treated the
humane officer will arrest and punish
he owner for it. If the public improp
'rly treats man by refusing him work
Until ne is compelled to suffer for the
accessories of life, he is arrested and
punished as vagrant. One of these
has an immortal soul, the other
las not, but neither is able to protect
llmself against the oppression of his
'osses. The government interferes in
'ehalf of the horse, but arrests and
the oppressed man. What
makes the difference? Be charitable
the poverty stricken portion of
umanity.-Duluth Press.
II you would increase your happiness
nd prolongyour life, forget your neigh
ors faults. Forget the Islander YOU
ave heard. Forget the temptations.
orget the fault-finding, and give
tile thought to the cause which pro-
oked it. Forget the peculiarities of
our friends, and only remember the
BOD points that make you fond of
lem. Forget all personal quarrels or
stories that you may have heard bv
'cident, and which, if repeated. would
EN- a thousand times worse than they
e. Blot out as far as possible ali the
sagreeable of life they will come: but
ey will only grow larger when you.
them, and the constant
ought OF the acts of meanness, or
)rse still, malice, will only tend to
AXE you more familiar with them.
everything bad from yes
rday, start out with clean sheet for
lay, and write upon it for sweet
sake only those things that
2 lovely and lOvable.-Lutheran OBJ
yer.
1t a new character could be put on as
idly as one can don new coat, many
he we'll clad rutfian who would be a
ntleman. But nature does not pros
lite her work upon such lines. She
lids character from within and it is
Ways sterling, and the world of man.
I'd seems to be employed in her secret
vice for the detection of all counter
is. The ring must be true and the
ut weight can not be concealed. The
n who has amaSsed a fortune by
estionable business, by the power of
money may crowd himself into the
iety of his superiors as goat may
ade the sheep fold, but no amount
can affiliate them. Man
tally is compelled to take the place
lch his moral worth assigns him, and
can no more rise above that than
water rise above the level of it's
rec. "A natural law marks the alti-