The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-01-07

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the campaign against Jericho-said he
would just stand around and Josh
away, when he ought to have been
| fighting.
| A great many free silver men are
complaining because so many banks
are going republican. l am safe in
saying that to you, because 1 can see
by your whiskers that there are no
populists in my audience
It's the way of the world to stand
around and find fault. 1t the people
would only spend their time in some
useful occupation, there wouldn't he
All unclad or hungry man in the world.
1t is even carried into the churches,
and III tell you what's a fact, if the
ministers hadn't wasted so much time
in arguing petty differences of creed
they might have saved me long ere
this.
We have only one life to live, only
one little bit of life to live so let us
be as happy as we can. You know
Minnesota is called the Land of
Laughing Waters" on account of it's
many beautiful lakes and streams
Minnehaha means Laughing water
you knOw-so why shouldn't the people
have good time and avoid the curse
of fault-fnding. We should set an ex-
ample to the world.
My friends, God wants us to make
character. He does all He can to help
us, but we must do that for ourselves
| That one thing even God can not do
for us. If He could have, then the first
children in the garden of Eden wouldn't
have gone to stealing apples almost be-
fore the paint was dry. He made Adam
and Eve, you know, and when they at
tempted to convert their homestead in
to timber claim He banished them to
the suburbs, the outskirts of happiness,
although He gave them permission to
cut stove wood in the reservation; they
had to import canned fruit from Balti-
more. I don't believe in laying all my
own falling and will have to climb up
as best as | can.
You remember the Creator completed
| His work on Friday afternoon. named
all the beasts and set out all the hills
around st. Paul and leveled off the site
for Minneapolis. 1t was in the autumn,
for the apples were just getting ripe.
And when all was done He created
man, and Adam went around singing
chOruSeS with the angels, until they
discovered they were short a soprano
and woman was created to ill the Oc-
tave between the human and the Divine.
We cant pass her off as side issue.
sort of fifth rib attachment, even if she
was postscript and what post
script.
| You see we have to draft people to
keep the courts running. and the courts
are expensive bits of machinery so they
have to show some results for their
work. Il see some of the results before
me- | was sitting on jury the other
day-and good many juries ought to
be sat on. But before this jury there
was an action for damages against the
st. Paul street railway and we brought
in verdict for the plaintiff. When it
came to assess the amount Of damages.
| figured out that it should be about as
much as Tom Lowry would make out
Of ball game. That's the way to
equaize matters in this world
hope out of all this chaff you can
find grain Of sense. have been called
fool lots of times in this last cam
paign, SO when | was summoned on
that jury the other day | tried to get
excused on that ground but it
wouldn't work. They said that was
just the kind of men they wanted on
juries.
TO be happy you must work. There
isn't a real happy man on earth VINO is
an idle man. Wealth. Why, I'd rather
have my little children about me.in my
home than have ali the millions of the
ROckefellers, Vanderbilts and Goulds,
without them. | don't know that my
creed is strictly orthodox, but | believe
that eternity has begun already here
and that this life is just little chunk
Clipped off from it, so to speak.
Strive to live lives of industry and
honor, for such lives are the only lives
which bring happiness and the good
things of this life.
After the chapel exercises, the lib
erty of the dollhouse was granted and
the boys enjoyed themselves for an
hour or two in conversation and max
ing the most of the privileges extended.