The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-08-16


fault; refuse to contradict others un-
less you are absolutely positive that
you are right and they are wrong.
Never be inquisitive regarding the af-
fairs of others; do not underestimate
or undervalue those things which you
do not possess.
The mau that will 60 to church and
spit tobacco juice ON the floor and
whispers during services is akin to the
fellow that sits on goOd's-bOx and
whites and cusseS the government
and calls everybody that has a few
Thousand dollars a thief, while his wife
and children cleans out their mortgaged
cotton crop. To say the least of it,.
either of such men is not much good to
the country.-COmmerce, Texas. u Jour-
nal.
A New York father undertook to
spank his groWn-up daughter the other
day. The effort was not attended with
complete success, and the stern parent
was brought into court, where he was
Informed that the form of striking had
no legal standing-or sitting. The
method OF chastisement, as applied to
females in long clothes, is old fash
Toned and ungentlemanly, and is re-
pugnant to those finer sentiments
which have been engendered by the
contemplation OF womans remarkable
development. 1t belongs to ruder
period, which the worlds progress has
unquestionably left Mime
apolis Times.
1t is human nature" Mayor Gilroy
says, to accept brides when they are Of
fered, and to levy blackmai upon
those who can be made to pay. This is
true in the same way that all vicious
and criminal impulses are a part of
human nature in its wild state But it
is the one function of civilization to
eradicate such impulses, the one object
of Judicial and administrative authority
to prevent and punish their manifesto
ton. For this purpose the complicated
structures of civilized society, with it's
courts, its police, its military, judicial
and executive power, has been built up
by what George Eliot calls 'the long
travail of mankind The executive
officer who folds his hands in the pres
ence of rampant wrong. upon the plea
that it is ''human nature betrays his
trust and is unworthy of his place.
New York World.
Is it hot enough for you, when the
whole earths in stew, when you sizzle
and perspire and swear and choke and
fume and rage? Which your clothing
sticks like glue, is it hot enough for
you, when moment of this sutry heat
seems close upon an age? When you
sWelter, when you melt, in this torrid,
tOrrid belt, where the sidewalk WarDs
from under you, spite of all you can do.
When your lips are parched and dry,
and you stand and wonder why that
the devil doesn't move here, is it hot
enough for you? When your shirt
front drOOps and willis, when your collar
gets on stills and crawls up close about
your ears to make you sweat and
freckles on the moon, and the
stars all put up sun-shades. is it hot
enough for you? In the blessed after
life, where there's naught of heat and
strife, for the ones who get to Heaven,
there's one thing [ long to do. 'Tis to
make trip below, ask the devil me to
show where the man is who on earth
asks. els it hot enough for you?" How
| long to see him sitting, with the fire
flies round him fitting, on gridirOn
with a nice warm fire to make him
sweat and stew. Then to taunt him
and to task him, and to stir the fire and
ask him, as prod him with a hot iron,
els it hot enough for you ?"-Bismark
Tribune.
In the present condition of society,
leisure hours to many people are either
a burden or a moral peril. To use
leisure lille we'll requires CoTGdlu
amount of moral and mental education
already. IdlenesS is never the kind of
rest which human beings in general
stand in need of. Where there has
been some Overwork, it may sometimes
be necessary as a medicine-necessary
for restoring the proper conditions of
health. But, in a normal, healthful
state of things, idleness, or the con-
dition of nothing to do, has no place.
Sleep is the natural mode of rest for
the faculties, when tired. But for the
faculties to be awake and yet not active
is something unnatural, mOnstrous. 1t
betOkens either disease or imbecillity.
The trouble is that in idleness, the fac