The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-02-18
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Eyes, my darling sonny.
Leave your arms and ribs at home,
And don't you bet your money"
-Harper's.
The Chicago stock exchange adj
journed at noon to bury director
He bought wheat at 85.-Minne-
apolis Journal.
David M. Clough is governor of
Minnesota. He halls from Min
neapolis, but he reigns at St. Paul.
|-Bede's Budget.
At this season of the year we are
frequently reminded that the age,
Of the hen bears no relation to the
age Of the egg.-Up-To-Date.
The Saltwater Wolverines call
their paper The PRISON MIRROR.
because they have so much time to,
reflect. -Bede's Budget.
The signature, Asa S. Bushnell,
governor Of Ohio, gives one the
shivers to think how easily a limo
type operator might mix that sig
nature up.-St. Paul Globe.
Mentally and, in some respects,
physically, the American man
comes dangerously near being
what his newspaper makes him.
Up-To-Date.
At last one honest editor has
been found, and he lives down in
Arizona. It is said that when he
leaves the office he hangs out the
following sign: 'Gone out to take
a drink. Will be back tomorrow.
Winona Times.
Here's pointer for the Lexow
committee. A Duluth alderman
had his memory completely re-
stored to him by few hours rest
cure in Jail, and is now willing to.
tell everything he knows about
municipal boodling. Minneapolis
Tribune.
Our theory is simply this-that
the burden inflicted upon this ma
ton by 100000 saloons and the
wasting in them of a billion dollars
year is crushing out national
prosperity and we must give up,
the saloons or the prosperity.-In-
dependent Citizen.
The prohibitionists have conso-
lation in their defeat that no other
party has; they have advocated
right principles, and have stood
for the protection Of the home.
They have not stopped to conquer.
Their cause being right it must
prevail Iowa Commonwealth.
The poor bicycle! A Phila--
delphia Judge, with the proverbial
shrewdness of Philadelphia law,
yer, has discovered that the bicycle
is responsible for an increase in
crime. He said that third the
business of his court was with per-
sons who had been lead into crime
by the bicycle Paul Saturday
Evening News.
Rev. DIR. Barkhurst of the Hard
Shell Baptist church created roar
of excitement last Sabbath evening
when he delivered his celebrated
prohibition lecture to a Snagtown
audience. To moisten his parched
throat he raised a tumbler of water
to his eloquent lips. At that mo-
ment he saw speck of dirt and
thoughtlessly blew it over the rim
of the glass. He was very much
annoyed by the ripple of laughter
that ran through the audience, and
looked like thunder cloud when
a hardened old eX-saloon keeper
ha-haed right out in the meeting
-Arkansaw Thomas Cat.
Some people when sober would
advocate the closing up of saloons7
when drunk they commit deeds,
and even crimes they would not
stoop to when sober. Some advo-
cate allowing the majority to rule>
and aid in getting men drunk and
voting then for license claiming
that you must not interfere with a
mans personal liberty, yet if he,
in drunken fit of anger knocks
man down he is arrested and
placed in jail, his personal liberty
taken from him. If he don't do
this he goes home, drives his wife
and children out in the bitter cold
and snow without food OF clothes