The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-15


pulling down Cretan homes is at
tracing widespread admiration.
She brings down the house in
every act-Cleveland Plaindealer.
Men and women ought, perhaps,
to enjoy equal rights, and yet if
we saw men wearing millinery and
kissing each other on the street we
would throw bricks at 'em. Bede's
Budget
Mamma, teacher told us to say
a bible text when we dropped our
pennies into the plate
"Well, what did you say?''
Il said that one of papa's- Put
up OF shut up Chicago Record.
The benighted denizens of Albert
Lea saw that mysterious airship
careening athwart the sky last
evening. All of which argues that
this town needs one of two things
prohibition or high license st.
Paul Dispatch.
Judge-What is the complaint
against this man?
Officer-Cruelty to bicycle.
your honor. [ caught him riding
it when both the tires were almost
out of wind.
Judge Thirty dollars and costs.
-Philadelp hia North American.
A Joplin, Mo-, paper says that a
woman preacher at that place re-
Gently stopped in the middle of
discourse, and picked up Bible.
and said she was going to throw it
at man who was unfaithful to
his wife. And thirty-seven imme-
diately ducked.- Centralia MO-
Fireside Guard.
And now the Riff mountaineers
in Morocco have again attacked
the Spaniards at Melilla on the
Mediterranean coast, and, it is said.
inflicted severe losses upon them.
Poor old disintegrating Spain seems
to be getting cuffed in all parts of
the world where it yet claims do
minion.-Utica On. W Herald.
The New York judge before
whom a 16-year-old girl testified
that she had read a questionable
book without in jury to her morals
was not entirely convinced, SO he
read the book himself and found
it harmless. Trying doubtful lit
erature on young girls is hardly
commendable practice, and in some
cases the judge himself may be
marred.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
You may talk Of the signs Of the
weather, Of the coming days you
may sing, but sitting down on a
red-hot stove is the sign of an early
spring.
It is common remark for some
men to assert that such and such a
woman is as homely as sin, and yet
man is ever prone to embrace sin.
homely as it is.-Orange (Va.)
Observer
A Sunday school teacher handed
to her scholars little slips of paper
on which was printed the question.
what have | to be thankful for?"
Among the replies that were given
on the following Sunday was this
pathetic sentence, written by a
little girl who had learned by bitter
experience probably the painful
truths it implied: Il ain thankful
there are no saloons in heaven. .
Backbone.
E. V. Debs recently visited a
furniture factory in Michigan
where children work on saws and
knives driven by steam. The
children get tired and careless, for
they ought to be playing or at
school. Mr.. Debs asked them to
hold up their right hands in favor
of some proposition, and out of
fifty-six hands, there was not a
whole hand. One or more fingers
had been cut off by the whirring
blades. Legislators do not need a
better argument than this for the
enactment of laws suppressing
child labor.-Little Falls Herald.
Evanston men, women and chill
dren stood out on Davis field last
night, and, with mouths agape,
gazed into the heavens. Men, re-
nowned for sobriety, looked aloft
through strong telescopes and field
glasses, and people who had passed