The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-10-06

was decidedly German. The witnesses
were examined and the case gone
through with, and the attorney for the
prosecution arose and made strong
plea for conviction. He waxed elO
quent, and the Judge paid close atten-
ton.
care you troop" asked the Judge
when the lawyer stopped.
eyes your honor"
"You wins de case," said the Judge.
"But want chance to argue my
side of the case" said Peck,
"No, ne vins," stoutly asserted the
Judge. But Peck commenced to talk
and gradually his talk led up to the
case, and before the Judge knew it
Peck was arguing the defense. The
Judge listened attentively and when
Peck had finished he said:
"You wins de case."
"But you have already decided in my
favor" said the other lawyer.
"Dat's all right. l reverse my Wrist
decision. Dis man Wins" and the Judge
stuck to his last decision and Peck
won his railroad case.
O&O
DR.. D. of the West End accompan-
led his wife and Swear old hopeful to
church on recent Sunday. The minister
diated on the topic Heaven" and
grew eloquent in his revelations of the
"Rest that remains for the weary and
oppressed" Said the preacher:
cit will be a glorious time on that
Great Day when the chosen of Earth
shall gather round the Throne and sing
hosannas with the angels. My friends,
theu there will be no trials and vicissi-
tudes, no sickness: no death nothing
but eternal happiness"
Earl, the hopeful, who sat in the pew
with his parents, eyed his mamma
sharply as the minister uttered this SEN
tence, but kept silent. AS the lite
family drove home the doctor said:
"Wife that was a grand sermon"
Mrs. D agreed with her husband.
"Mamma,' said little Earl "we'll be
in an awfnll fix when we get to heaven,
won't we?"
"Why,my dear ?" inquired the mother.
"Well, didn't the preacher say there'd
be no death and no sickness up there ?"
Yes Earl, what of it,"
swell, papa Will be out of job then,
won't he?"
And papa thought so, too.
The story goes the rounds that Char
tran, the eminent Paris painter, was
lately commissioned to paint the por-
trait of the Countess de X, who some
years ago was famous beauty, but
who is now nearer her fiftieth than her
fortieth year. She wished the portrait
to be exhibited in this years Salon, and
gave the artist endless trouble over its
details. When it was finished however
she declared that she could not recog-
niZe her own likeness. The painter
said that she need not take the picture
if she did not think it faithful one,
and it remained in its atelier as his
own unsold property. Meanwhile he
was determined to have his revenge.
The cruel artist thinned the hair to
and placed in one of her
hands TWO long tresses of false hair.
Upon the table at her side, which he
had turned into toilet table, were ar
ranged number of bottles, labeled re-
spectively, milk of Lillies," "Beauty
Water" etc. The lady informed of the
outrage, called and protested that such
treatment was infamous. "YOu have
really no complaint, madam" said the
artist. "You have already declared
that the picture is in no sense portrait
of yourself. ] accept your opinion, and,
as | cannot afford to loose SO much
time, have treated it as fantasia and
as such | shall introduce it to the pub
lie as ''The Coquette of Fifty Years."
"Whatw exclaimed she "You mean to
exhibit it? "Certainly!" The lady
Immediately weekend and handed the
artist check. Mobile Register.
A New South Wales country school
teacher recently gave boy question
in compound proportion for home
work, which happened to include the
circumstance of men working ten hour
a day in order to complete a certain
piece of work,
Next morning the unsuspecting teach
er, in looking over the little pack of ex-
ercises, found "Jim's" sum unattemp.
ted, and the following letter enclosed
in the page:
"Sur: refuse to let Jim do his sum