The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-12-02

COIlCIlDuCc Interesting TeduIuS W our
columns.
A prison is favorable place in
which to work out the truth of the
wise mans maxim about turning the
tongue seven times before speaking.
Y GU may turn it seventy times seven
times-yes, seven hundred times seven
times-and still have to conclude that
the time is not yet ripe to speak
We are sadly deficient in knowl-
edge of football, but as its name and
newspaper accounts clearly indicate
that an advanced quality of "kicking'
is the star accomplishment of the
players, we will guarantee that a
matchless professional team could be
organized among the occupants of
we'll filed county Jail just after grand
jury's report has been published.
Mr.. George Byron Browne, an oper-
attic singer from New York, who was
visiting with friends in this city the
past week, was present at our chapel
service last Sunday and favored the
attending inmates with two baritone
solos. Mr.. Brown has splendid adj
dress, and voice of remarkable depth
and flexibility. AS one of the inmates
afterwards remarked: ellis was
singin' as is Singin'.';
You may fail time and again in
efforts wherein you have used good
thought and foresight. If you look
deep into the matter you will find the
cause Of failure was due to your heart
not being in the work. The best brain
power and good intent will sometimes
be unsuccessful. But where the heart
as we'll as the brain enters into pro-
ject, success is practically assured.
Many person who is sincere and
honest at heart in making good reso-
luton becomes back-slider through
some slight unforeseen disappointment
that he should have been able to COM
bat. We pity such individual, but
cannot excuse him-even though that
one was ourself. The fact that mat
tiers do not 60 just as we would have
them is no reason why the dilemma
should be made worse by sorrow
drowning" If you stub the big toe of
the right foot it will not alleviate the
pain to drop a weight upon the big toe
of the left one. And yet that is what
good many of us have done, when
disheartened.
THE MIRROR is willing at all times
to give space to its contributors on all
reasonable subjects; sometimes it is
good politics to stretch the sense of the
word" reasonable in this regard. This
week we publish ''get back on "Does
Crime Pay?' The author of it is un-
doubleday correct in summarizing it as
threadbare subject. But he must
also recollect that occasionally it
takes some of us more than one term
to convince ourselves that it does NOT
pay. Wetherefore surmise that the more
fools folly is dinned into his head the
sooner he will become persuaded. If
there are any more men who have an
original thought on the same subject
part of our front page is always at
their disposal.
1t would pay any novelist in search
| of character studies to put in about six
months i'll prison where he would
have chance to pick out his material.
And he would find his most interest
ing model in the enforced resigna-
ton and suppressed feeling of the
''fresh fish," When one has been here
some time it is hard to remember-or
rather, to give expression to-what
were his real feelings on entering this
tomb as an animate nonentity. Judg
ing from what we have seen and heard
fresh from new arrivals it is safe to
aver that the state would increase it's
population of good citizens by turning
one-third of the new arrivals out again
while the memory of the never-to be-
forgotten ''lirst day. was the dominat-
ing thought of the evil-doer-before
familiarity with prison life could breed
Indifference.
The little things in life are the ones
we do not count, though they are the
ones that cut such a whoopla in the ag-
gregate. A story is told about a retired
Manchester merchant who purchased
house and estate from an embarrassed
ariStOcrat. The bill of sale infinitely
included every article of furniture.
On taking possession the merchant
noticed one cabinet marked in the in
ventOry that was not then in the house.