The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-04-07

Episcopal services will be held in the
chapel on the afternoon of Easter Sun
day. Bishop Gilbert of st. Paul will
preach. This is the fourteenth success
sive Easter that the bishop has ad
dressed the inmates of this prison.
Five dollars is Il pretty heavy fee for
a Hudson splice, and it also calls to
mind that certain we'll worn phrase
would be more appropriate to this Sec
ton of the country if it read "Marry
in Hudson and repent in saltwater"
''The man who fights and runs away
will live to fight another day." but the
man who does not fight never has to
run away, and he is about the only one
who treads on peaceful velvet under
certain conditions of worldly seclusion.
The French court of appeals has
quashed the findings and sentence in
the case of lola, the novelist, who was
condemned to pay a fine of 5000 and
serve one year in prison for his noble
attempt to secure a new trial of the
Dreyfus case.
An eminent Spaniard," at present
in Paris, told newspaper correspond
emf that "Spain can wreck if she can
not capture American vessels If the
voluble Spaniards are left alone long
enough they will eventually confess
their own treachery in the Maine dis
aster
The Ramsey county authorities have
recently discovered that there are other
things nearly as difficult as driving a
camel through the eye of a needle, not
the least of which is to convict thief
who for ten years had fattened on his
share of the blood money of metropoli-
tan immortality
On Tuesday the government pur-
chased three frst-class torpedo boats
from Italy. The Italian government
had previously refused to sell these or
any other war vessels to Spain. Three
cheers for the Italians. Well never
pass another hand organ professor
without dropping him or the "monk" a
nickel
Sam Jones, the sensational evangel-
list, evidently Topped off more than he
could handle gracefully when he at
tempted to roast Gov Taylor of Ten
nessee for exercising the pardoning
power in way that did not suit the
evangelist's ideas. The governor in
replying to the attack said if it had
not been for the pardoning power Sam
Jones would have been in hell long
ago; and Samuel appears satisfied with
the logic of the situation.
Eyes, SIR" muttered the fOrger as he
leaned back on his stool and tapped
lightly on the boiler iron carpet of his
lime papered boudoir, II once tried to
stop the mad headlong plunge of the
ongoing world. All. yes, in the full
ness of my heart | placed check on
the world, and now they put check
on me. Thus we note the cruel ALTER
alive repetition of history" Then he
sank abaft on the backless stool, as he
conned DER the pith of the golden rule.
Buffalo Bill with his Wild West
show is now in New York city and
has veritable gold mine in dozen
battle-scarred Cubans who fought under
General MaceO. Their appearance at
Madison Square Garden is said to
cause the widest Outbursts of enthus-
iasm from the crowds that daily throng
the garden. The Hon. VIM. F. Cody
comes as near being well acquainted
with his job as any Snowman on the
pike since the palmy days of the late
Phineas T. Barnum.
The value of advertising has received
strange boost by the experience of a
widow in Virginia. Accompanied by
her three small children she had to 90
over the hills to the poorhouse in
Tucker county, Virginia While there
she conceived the notion of advertising
for husband and was overjoyed last
week when she received $4,000 from
man in Webster City, Iowa, to pay the
fare of herself and children thither.