The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-09-26

usage, is simultaneously sending the
earliest spikes of dawn into occidental
homes where the un-night- capped babies
OF our day are helplessly squeezing their
little ears into peculiar angles which a
LombrosO and Nordau have sapiently
hit upon as token of moral and in
tellectual degeneracy.-N Northwestern
Chronicle.
The government ownership of saloons
is making considerable Roadway in
Europe. In France, Germany, Austria
and Russia laws have already been en-
acted greatly curtailing the duties of
private saloons. In Russia an ukase has
recently been issued entirely abolishing
private saloons and placing the whole
traffic in the hands of the government.
This is done with the view of Iessening
drunkenness among the people. These
laws will be enforced by those govern
ments and the people will not dare to
complain much about it either. They
come over here to do their kicking
against the regulation of the liquor
traffic.-Slayton Gazette.
In many OF our exchanges we notice
editorial matter clipped from some city
daily and run as original. This is some
thing that should be condemned. and
really there is no necessity for it. If
you have not the ability to write an edi-
torial, why not credit what you clip
People will then respect you. When
you do otherwise it takes very short
time for them to find out that you are
a Journalistic pirate and they lose faith
in you and laugh at your editorial pre-
tensions. A poor original editorial is
preferable to good stolen one every
time. And again, if you are not able
to present your views on public matters
in a reasonably intelligent manner,
you should retire and make way for
some one who can.-Wabasha Herald,
Many an unWise parent works hard
and lives sparingly all his life for the
purpose of giving his children good
start in the world as it is called. Start
ing young man out with money left
him by his relatives is like tying blad-
der under the arm of one who cannot
swim. Ten to one he will lose the blad-
der and go to the bottom. Teach him
to swim and he won't need the bladder.
Give your child a good education. See
that the morals are pure, his mind cul-
tivated and his whole nature subservi-
ent to the laws that govern man, and
you will give what will be of more
value than the Indies. You have given
him start no misfortune can deprive
him of. The earlier you teach him to de-
pend upon himself the better.-Luverne
News.
Reverence is to be cultivated and IT.
reverence to be avoided. All our aspi-
rations after what is pure and exalted
have their root in reverence; if we have
little reverence for holy things we shall
have but little desire for them, and
there will be in us no upbuilding of a
noble character. [ have small hope of
one who does not profoundly respect all
that is exalted in thought, in sentiment,
in the nature of its being. The greatest
of all thoughts is the thought of God to
whom we are responsible in every word
and deed of our lives. If, then, you will
take the name of God out of all holy
associations, bring it into your CONVEX
sation upon ordinary and vulgar topics,
use it upon all sorts of trivial occa-
siOns, treat it as common and unclean
thing, you are smothering within you
the sentiment of reverence and making
it unlikely that you will rise to any con-
siderable intellectual, moral or religious
ight-Howard Times.
We have reserved the right to hate
the devils best friends and those are
these: The man who gets drunk, the
man who ISLANDERS woman the man
who gloats over another's misfortune,
the man that can tell you all about it,
the man who suspects everybody else,
an ungrateful woman, a liar and the
man who don't pay his newspaper sub
scription. If Christ came to st. Peter
he would say the same thing. So many
friends tell us that they sincerely wish
to see us succeed-that the Journal
will favorably correspond with any
other good paper. That reminds us of
a man whose horse was drowned. His
friends gathered ahOut him and OK |