The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-31

their trousers, going into blind pig
or saloon and paying ten cents for
a thimbleful of conglomeration of
cheap drugs called whisky, which bites
the throat, burns the stomach, ruins
the liver, reels the brain, wrinkles the
brow, sallows the complexion and turns
the hair prematurely gray, without a
protest. And some of these fellows
pretend to know all about how to run
the government.-Milt IS. d. Globe.
When the state deprives helpless
family of their only bread winner for
a long term of years during the infancy
of the children, who are left without
compensation or help to shift for them
selves, the law probably makes more
criminals than it reforms. Anything
that tends to mitigate this wrong and
restore the labor of father to his
family, with proper precautions and
conditions, will develop and strengthen
any germ of good there may be left in
the criminal. Better still, it may save
those dependent on him from lives of
crime. We have yet much to learn in
prison management in this country
Minneapolis Times.
Wilhelm II. has caused the imprison-
ment of another editor for criticising
one of his speeches. Vain Kaiser!
foolish man, who requires every
German editor to shout his praise
when he makes speech. He not only
misses lots of fun, but he loses all the
advantage of criticism. He would
certainly make better speeches than he
has ever made if he gave the critics a
show, permitted them to point out the
faults in his oratory, and carefully
studied all their utterances. BY so do
ing his voice would be tempered, his
presumption reduced, his swagger
modified, and his rhetoric improved.
Every Kaiser ought to keep squad of
critics in his pay.-New York Sun.
Few people know, or would realize if
they did, the vast volume of copy that
has to be raked up by the editor of a
paper, even if very poor one. Every
year the unfortunate individual writes
enough so that if put in book form it
would make respectable library. This
would be all very we'll if the editor
aforesaid were genius, which, as q
matter of fact is seldom the case, con
sequently readers should be indulgent
if every line of every paragraph OF
every column of every page is not &
literary gem, sparkling with wit, humol
or pathos, as the case may be. 1t is
hard enough to get up the required
amount in any shape, laying aside the
question of literary polish. The labor.
of Hercules were summer picnics b.
comparison.-Al Advance.
A subscriber called on us last weel
and settled for the Republic to date
and said he didn't want the grOwle
paper any longer. He thought WI
would get mad, but we didn't-jus
pocketed the $3.50, cut his name off ou
list, and smile flickered all over tn
office, and finally settled on the stove
Had he designed to make us angry, h
should have said, 'stop my paper AM
failed to settle for it. Two or thre
have done this within the last tw'
months, and they don't seem to realiz
that they are thereby lessening thei
chances for future bliss. They ar
though. 1t has been verified by scien
tiic principles that man who doesn'
pay his subscription to country pa
per when he orders it stopped, vii
never become an angel.-Jackson Re
public.
How densely ignorant were our fore
fathers and foremothers, poor things
They lived in serene oblivion of tn
beauties of modern science, of microbes
bacilli, germs, and all the rest of tn
grewsome army. They didn't kno'
that the water they drank, the air the
breathed, the very bread they ate, wer
full of microbes and germs; that tn
door knobs, the straps by which the
sheld on" in the street cars-or woul
have done if there had been any stree
cars-were full, absolutely chock-ful
of hungry, green-eyed bacilli, waitin
their chance. Didn't know that ever
dirty, crumpled bank note, aye, an
every scrap of silver harbored a grin
ming, greedy battalion, drawn up i
, line of battle; didn't know it was dal
gerous to send children to school b
cause the monsters have a reguls
+ corner on school books; that it we
, the height of presumption to have