The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-04-21
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1t is not the fellow who earns.
lots of money who gets rich, but
the fellow who earns more than
he spends st. Peter Herald.
It is announced from Madrid
that perfect tranquility prevails
in Cuba. A graveyard is always.
a reasonably quiet place.-St.
Paul Globe.
It is not the usual season for a
Southern outing, but the United
States troops take to the idea
with alacrity. Cincinnati Com
mercial- Tribune.
There's mighty little interest
manifested in the fellows who are
looking for the North Pole. Most
of us are looking in the other d.
rection.- Saltwater Gazette.
If Spain sends her warships over
here she will discover America
again-the way man discovers a
gas leak when he goes hunting
for it with a lighted match. -Bos-
ton Globe.
It is a pretty healthy man who
can read a patent medicine alma
nae without suddenly discovering
that he is afflicted with about $50
of the 200 diseases described there
inst. Louis Humorist.
The messenger boys Of New
York want to form regiment for
the war. If they could kill Span
iards as successfully as they can
kill time they would surely prove
very effective in the field.-Denver
Post.
A detective now follows and
guards Farmer Letter, whose ex--
istence has been endangered by
his heavy investments in wheat.
What is the good in being long on
wheat and short on life?-
Louis Post-Dispatch.
The strongest man in Chicago
is said to be saloon-keeper, who
lifts full beer barrels, to the ag-
gregate weight of a quarter of
ton, with his teeth. The brewers
who lift mortgages for saloon
keepers Guido this feat with SIM
pie twist of the pen.-Chicago~
Inter Ocean.
A New York audience the other
evening cheered "Dixie,'' when
Sousa's band swung out Of other
national airs into the full flush
and glory of this stirring old tune,
until through sheer exhaustion the
enthusiasm died. Now where is the
imbecile who fears that this is not
a Nation with a big N?-St. Louis
Republic.
It seems a shame that American
dealers are now selling coal to-
Spain and enabling her to stock
up and get ready for war. Such.
an act on the part of a citizen Of
the United States at the present
juncture is moral treason, but as
this country and Spain are NOM
inally at peace, there is no law to.
prevent it. Minneapolis Tribune.
An English newspaper accounts.
for Spain's backwardness with the
discovery that not more than one
Spaniard in a thousand has ever
been out of his country. From
the maneuvers of the Spanish
navy at present it seems that this.
same proportion of Spaniards are
going to stay at home in the emer-
gency now confronting Spain.-St
Louis Republic.
The objection raised to Gen..
Gomez not being native Cuban,
but an alien and a carpet-bagger
is not we'll taken. Gomez was not
born in Cuba, but he has been as
ISOLATED with the misfortunes of
that country too long to be looked
upon as an alien. He has fought
through two wars for it's liberia
tion-one Of them lasting ten
years. There were many splendid
soldiers in our Civil War who.
were not objected to because they
were naturalized citizens.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer
In half an hour after the arrival
at Havana Of British schooner.
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