The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-09-17
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A dollar only weighs an ounce,
That is Il silver one;
But when YOU try to raise 1t, CAD!
You think it weighs a ton.


The girl who loves William never
asks her father to foot the Bill
Topeka Weekly.
1t is an old saying that "a lawyer
who pleads his own case has a fool
for a client '-Yankton IS. d.
Press.
Many men in the world are pos
ing as temperance men who would
not be hurt by course at a Kelley
institute.-Peck's Sun.
The man who can mind his own
business successfully is a good
man to engage for other business.
Pontiac Gill; Pioneer.
Some people can make fools of
themselves SO quick that you Won
der if they haven't been rehears-
ing in private all their ives.-Up
To Date.
If there is any one man who de-
serves to be loved for the enemies
he is making, it is the author Of
that once popular phrase.-Alma
(Wis. Journal.
A young Massachusetts, couple
have made a desperate wager. If
Bryan is elected, she will marry
him, and if Mckinley is elected,
he will marry her. Bad business,
this gambling in matrimony.-
Lakeville Arbitrator.
There is a Kansas editor who
takes the right view. Recently,
under the head line, eve Are
Thankful" he published the fol-
lowing editorial note: 1--WE fell
on the sidewalk the other day and
peeled our shin and nose. We
feel grateful that we did not break
our blamed neck Kansas Mail.
No man can be happy if he
seeks illegitimate means to secure
it. The happy man is not the one
who depends upon horse race. a
ball game, a night with the "boys"
or regular outing. He is hap
piest who is content with his daily
life and finds in his home some
thing more than a place to eat and
sleep.-St. Peter Herald
For those who want that which
is free, are hankering after a some
thing that is permanently bene-
fetal, constant, Interchangeable and
immutable, we can positively rec
ommend salvation. It will be a
possession of value in this and in
the future life, and there have
been no serious questions raised
as to it's being desirable and adj
vantageous possession. - Morris
Sun.
Newspapers that record the deeds
Of the good and true in preference
to hunting up the depraved deeds
of society to parade before their
readers are papers that are encour-
aging good deeds, and are valuable
factors among the institutions of a
town. A person that speaks of the
good traits of his neighbor and
fosters peace is peacemaker;
while the person who has no good
to say of any person and is frequent
ly in a quarrel with his neighbors
is no promoter of good citizen
ship.-Kasson Republican
The older we get, the more we
see of the world and the more we
have to do with the human race,
the more we feel like excusing the
mistakes, the follies and the blum
ders of others. We have lived long
enough to learn that all the Chris
tianity in the world is not confined
to our church and that all the
rascals do not belong to some other
party than our own. We have
also found that abuse never wins
an opponent, but that he can be
won to our way of thinking only
by kind words and sound argu-
ments.-Centralia Fireside Guard.
It must have been an old maid
that wrote this: "A boy can sit
on a sled six inches square, tied
to sled moving eight miles an
hour, but can't sit on a sofa five
minutes for dollar. A man will
sit on an inch board and talk poll
tics for three hours; put him in
church pew for forty minutes, he
gets nervous, twists and turns, and
goes to sleep. Man will pouch his
cheeks with filthy tobacco, juice
runs down his chin, feels good;
but hair in the butter kills him.
He stays out till midnight, wife
don't know where he is comes