The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03
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If things get much hotter Cleve-
land may conclude to stop fishing
and begin to edit a literary bureau
to explain matters. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
A southern minister who was
tried for heresy in not believing in
hell put in the counter claim that
he still believed in housekeeping.
Minneapolis Journal.
A Sank Center man who had
married three wives all about the
same time was released from jail
and sent to Polk county where he
was wanted upon the much more
heinous charge Of stealing horse.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The cost will soon be eliminated
as a factor in war. About the next
one that comes along the news
papers will pay expenses if the
generals will act as correspondents,
and the governments can have the
kaleidoscope earnings as clear
money.-Chicago Record.
An exchange tells us that Tai
lack Tangleson suicided by hang
ing himself with a rope. OF course
when a man makes up his mind to
suicide he has a right to choose
the weapons, but it seems as if
Tallack might have saved expense
by just tying a knot in his
name.-Bede's Budget.
Schrader, the "divine healer"
didn't exactly get the marble heart
at suburb Of St. Louis, but he
was stoned by a mob, and there
wasn't anybody, not even a cop
per, to take his part. He is one Of
the many frauds who are floating
around the country, living we'll and
doing little.- Saltwater Daily Ga
zette.
A weather bureau enthusiast
wants to put up thirty kite-hying
stations on the theory that the
shifting of the wind can be noticed
in the upper strata from twelve to
sixteen hours earlier than on its
surface But the main trouble
with weather predictions now is
that they come about ten days
ahead Of the weather itself.-St.
Paul Dispatch.
Major Ginter, the Richmond to-
bacco king, has resigned his posi-
ton as director Of the American
Tobacco company, and will soon
retire from active business, worth
SS,OOO,OOO. When he laid down
his musket at AppomattoN he did
not have a dollar. He walked to
Richmond and rolled a truck for
six months for 81 a day.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
We should not be too severe
upon the Spanish authorities in
Cuba. Didn't General Obregon
scold his soldiers real hard the
other day when they dragged a
wounded Cuban officer to death at
the heels of a horse because he
claimed American citizenship?
And didn't he give the mangled re-
mains decent burial ?-Minne-
apolis Tribune.
You cannot go through life, no
matter how humble your sphere,
without being called upon many
times to decide whether you will
be true or false to honor and duty.
Duty and honor must go hand in
hand-there can be no divorce be-
tween these words. You can make
your lives useful, beautiful. and
noble. You can make them worth
less and contemptible.-The Phil
adelphia) Saturday Evening Post.
There is now hardly profession
or trade into which women have
not forced their way. Philanthro-
pists are greatly pleased with this
state Of things, and tell us it is
convincing proof of our growth in
civilization. The real truth is
that the intrusion of women into
the trades and professions that
belong by right to men is, per-
haps, the most fruitful of all
sources of crime. Every woman
who usurps the place Of a man
deprives that man of work. The
man who is out Of work is COM