The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10


but has issued a proclamation that if
necessary he will call out the Louisville
Legion TO prevent pugilistic exhibit
ton next Monday. Pug fights are out
of date, and will not be tolerated any,
where in this country much longer
St. Louis (Mo.) Post Dispatch.
Memory fails because it is unused.
The heart grows old because the life is
not kept in touch with the young. Last
years are full of dark forebodings, be-
cause there has been cultivated no fond
anticipations of the bright beyond. Dis
appointment clouds the mind, because
the past life has based it's enjoyment
upon mere outer possessions and envi-
ronment, instead of upon inner harmony
ofsoul with truth and eternity. A calm,
sunny old age is earth's last, best gift.
-Winona Republican.
The last act of the grand jury of the
District of Columbia was written
recommendation to the court for legis-
lation to establish whipping post in
Washington for the punishment of
wife heaters and petty thieves. There
may be crimes that call for the whip.
ping post, but the National capital is
not the place to set up such a relic of
Io Io, ~ no1
pertinent with it before Uncle Sam is
forced to acknowledge that he cannot
govern the District of Columbia with
out resort to old barbario methods of
punishment Chicago Inter Ocean.
The ChoctawS, an Indian nation that
knows not the glories of white mans
prize fight, seem to feel that if Texas
can do business without this institu-
ton they can too; while Mexico, through
itsprogressive President, wants no prize
fighting in hers. Nothing left now but
postponement to 1896, when the princi-
pals may request the government of
Greece to let them appear in the pro-
posed revival of the Olympic games,
armed with the ancient leaden cestus.
One or both would then be smashed to
jelly, and everything would be hunki-
dori. On to Athens! Hurrah for civil
zation!-Chicago Inter Ocean.
When a Chinese editor writes aud
prints something objectional to the en-
peror, that dignitary doesn't go around
to the printing office and demand re-
traction. He has more satisfactory
and expeditions plan, and that is to Or
der the offending editor turned over to
the 'High Executioner," who proceeds
to chop off his head. The Pekin (China)
Gazette has been running 1000 years,
and during that brief time seventeen
of the G0zette's editors have been be-
headed. An American editor would
not be permitted to run newspaper in
China hardly long enough to read the
proof OF his salutatory.-Nobles Co.
Democrat.
Bad men are generally such because
of their youthful surroundings. Most
of them have not had the advantage of
good moral training and example, and
are therefore devoid of the proper
kind of feelings in reference to the
rights of person and property of other
people. In nearly all such cases their
parents have set them bad examples,
and taught them that it is "smart" to
cheat and defraud, if they can by so
doing escape the penalties of the law.
From cheating it is a short step to
stealing, and from stealing to personal
violence. "Train up a child in the
way he should CO." and there is no
fear that he will help fill the jails, re-
formatories and prisons.-Jamesburg
IN. j. Advance.
Two young clerks were caught steal
ing in large hardware house in Chi
cago. The proprietors gave them their
choice between going to Jail and wear
ing large placards bearing the words,