The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-06-26
odds AND ENDS.


young ladies in Joliet, ILL.,, some
time ago took occasion to roast"
American schools on general prin-
ciples and made the assertion that
the American school system is a
rank injustice to religion.
Now that man has wheels in his
upper story and they need oiling.
As regards actual knowledge, where
is there country whose general
schools and school systems out
class the United States? And in
the matter of higher education the
great universities and colleges of
this country are not excelled by
those of any other country. Dan
tel Webster sounded the keynote
of American schools in the follow
ing utterance: knowledge does
not comprise all which is contained
in the large term of education.
The feelings are to be disciplined,
the passions are to be restrained;
true and worthy motives are to be
inspired; aprofoand religious feel
ing is to be instilled, and pure
morality inculcsted under all cir
cumstances. All this is comprised
in education"
! Is there anything faulty with
Mount Holyoke college for young
women, under the presidency of
Miss Mary Woolley, or with
Wellesley, with Miss Hazard as
president? Are there any great
faults to be found in Princeton,
Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Yale,
Columbia, Chicago University.
University of Michigan or the Uni
versity of Minnesota? What for
eign country can produce better
educators than Presidents Butler,
Harper, Angel and Northrop? and
we might add Messrs. Patton,
Elliott, Hadley and others. 1.-THE
schools of this country are not
good enough for Mr.. Smith why
doesn't he go back to his native
land, wherever that may be, and
drag along a few hundred years
behind the times?
The main and primary tests of
a country, religiously, are it's
morals and respect for the Sabbath.
The countries in which these traits
are the most prominent are Scot
land, Canada, except the province
of Quebec, and the United States,
where not tainted with foreign ele-
ment.
A week from tomorrow, the
Fourth of July and greatest day in
the American calendar for general
amusement and sport,
will be celebrated quietly butas en-
joyably as circumstances will per-
NIT, by the five hundred and sixty
odd inmates of this institution.
1t is to be hoped that none will
be confined to their beds in the
hospital and that the weather will
be such as to enable all to enjoy q
few hours as best they may in our
pleasant and CHEEKY park. Here's
hoping that all will have happy
time and that many of us may
spend next Fourth with our own
people under such happy condi-
tions that the memory Of this one
shall have lost it's vividness.
Very naturally it is much easier
for most men to spend money than
it is to make it, and to the average
man it would hardly seem possible
that it could be otherwise. Yet it
seems to be literally true that such
men as j. Pierpont Morgan, MI.
Carnegie and some others find it
easier to make money than to
spend it. Mr.. Morgan seems to
dabble in millions as easily as most
handle thousands or
hundreds. Wherever and when
ever he invests thousands be gets
hundreds OF thousands in return
hundreds of thousands yield mil
hons and millions yield tens of
millions to his magic touch. While