The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-01
TERMS

MlN NEOOIA, dOhSDAY Al
with his recent record as United States
senator and his great oratory.
We do not approve of the methods
by which Mr.. Carnegie accumulated
his vast fortune, which he is now
giving away by the millions. He should
have made more liberal division by
paying better wages to the poor
laborers, by the sweat of whose brow
he was enabled to accumulate his vast
fortune, as is the case with too many
milliOnaires. It is a deplorGble state
of affairs, but since his fortune exists,
we approve of Mr.. Carnegie's policy of
investing goodly portion of it in in
structive literature, whereby tens of
thousands of the toiling masses may, if
they will, be aided in the attainment
of knowledge and the improvement of
their conditions. Mr.. Richard LEGAL
lienne writing in recent issue of one
of the weeklies says: "There is no
purpose which a library does not serve.
Above all, it may be called the poor
mans paradise. Think of all the
strength, joy and consolation Mr..
Carnegie's libraries will mean to men
and women of narrow opportunities,
scant pleasures and aching sorrows,
who cannot afford to pay for the
training necessary for their aims, nor
can they afford to buy book as oc-
casional alienation of their dreary
existence. In these libraries the am.
bilious will be able to train themselves,
the friendless will find the best of
friends, the lonely the best society and
the sorrowful come upon wells of ever
lasting laughter"
Within these walls
Are faces pale and sorrow-haunted
Clouded as the midnight sky;
Others that are proud and naughty
Tell of better days gone by.
But even here, under the intense
strains of anxiety and disappointment,
wrestling with grief and loneliness,
when the present seems so purposeless
that sunshine turns to biackest night,
living and working silently, automatic
ally, as if in state of somnambulism,
journeying down the checkered aisles
of time, it may be possible for us to
throw our painful memories and
thoughts behind us. Present troubles
are often more imaginary than real
and troubles of the future are seldom
as black as their shadows indicate.
Let us seek comfort and knowledge
from our literature, turn resoluteIy to
the future, resolve to redeem the past
by the future, resolve that the years to
come shall more than cancel those
that have gone by. Let US try to keep
mp with the world though so far out of
it in all material circumstances. Wide
as the universe and free as its winds
should be the range of human minds.
ALI cannot attain to vast knowledge,
power or wealth, but all may make
efforts toward training themselves for
making some degree of advancement
along these lines. We should try to
prepare ourselves to perform any duty
which may devolve upon us, remem-
bering that he who waits in idleness
until something suited to his particular
talents presents itself, often finds those
talents gone when the opportunity
finally arrives to use them, if indeed
he ever had any talents.
We should not attempt by assumed
or artificial efforts to display superior
knowledge; we should not attempt to
pass for more than we are worth. In
social intercourse we cannot as rule
say too little, but we can easily say too
much. 1t is better to say too little
then too much, for we thus avoid pos
sible mistakes, and those who make
too free use of the tongue are likely to
be regarded as shallow, all surface and
no depth. B.
EYES," said the Spanish statesman;