The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-01-28

Lots of people who boast of their
conscientiousness wreck their con
science in trying to make good their
boast.
The Typographical journal has IA
vored us with an artistic calendar and
with it the advice that in case of fire
''wring the office towel
Confession is good for the soul, for
the prosecutors, for the state and in
fact for everybody and everything but
the man who does the confessing.
There are many ways by which we
can cure our faults, but the best way
is to give them the same attention we
give to those of the people we don't
like
Monday morning the mercury was
Jolly gagging with the thirty below
zero mark and it was chilly, very chilly:
almost as chilly as the look of high
school girl.
There are various methods of testing
memory, but the best is sudden riches.
If you can remember your friends af-
ter coming into possession of large
fortune your memory is good.
Those fellows who are convinced
that the editor has a snap can enjoy
some of the luxurious life of the edito-
rial position by sitting up in the cold
cells these wintry nights writing for
the edificatiOn of the rest of us.
The drain pipe of the laundry froZe
Monday and caused partial suspen-
sion of work in that department. If
you fail to receive your clean clothes
this week, you may attribute the cause
to the drain pipe, or the weather.
No chronic kicker, who values his
reputation for making nuisance of
himself, should fail to embrace the
grand opportunity this month presents
for growing about the weather. 1t is
not every month that can drag the
mercury down into the twenties.
Among the inmates who have ar
rived within the last few months, there
must be some able to contribute first
page articles. Don't expect the editor
to do it all. Write up your ideas and
we publish them if they have any mer-
it whatever
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When you look at the thermometer
these cold days, you need not sigh for
the balmy breezes of the South. 1t
showed yesterday in New Orleans, and
| it must be said to the credit of our
climate that it behaved itself in this
particular
\ narrow-minded man who refuses
to admit defeat in argument is foolish,
but whoever would undertake to argue
with him after learning of his obsti-
macy, is more foolish still. Admission
of wrong is the highest expression of
intelligence, refusing to admit it, the
lowest form of ignorance.
Editor Manchester has introduced a
bill in the legislature providing for the
closing of Sunday theatres. The wild
Herb" of Lake Benton seems to be
suffering from the jogging of mem
DRY overburdened with images of alb
breviated pants once borrowed from an
OdiOus contemporary
Strolling through the corridors Of the
saltwater penitentiary on New Year s
day when the prisoners had the free
dom of the building for their holiday
frOlic, seemed to us just like walking
along Superior street in Duluth we
met so many people that we knew. and
so few of them had any money
Bede's Budget.
Can it be possible J. Adam was out
on the borrow?
Warden WOlfer, in his report, truth
fully says that prisoners should receive
sentences that will expire in months
other than those of winter. This is an
excellent idea, as employment is hard
to find in the winter months, but the
judges should accept this as meaning
that sentence should be so shortened
that it will end in the fall and not
heightened so that it will carry the
prisoner into the spring months.
Prisoners received during the week:
Harry De We're, Yellow Medicine Co.,
murder second degree, life imprison-
ment.
Joseph AIelsna, Brown Co., assault
second degree, two years and four
months.
Alayan6Qr Moore RrOxun "a rrou6