The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-25

SILENCE is golden" and is good
motto for those who have no con-
fidence in themselves.

MAN greater than his. misfor-
tunes shows that he was not
deserving of Them" The way to prove
it is to keep them to ourselves.
THE other day heard man say
that self-sacrifice was nothing but
living up to the Golden Rule. This
can hardly be true, for when a man
risks his own life to save another, he
is doing more than he would expect to
be done for him. History tells US of
many heroes who have surrendered
their own lives for the good and happi-
ness of Others That is sacrifice and it
is more than the Golden Rule which is
but simple justice. mean the original,
not the modern version Of that ancient
maxim.
m AN possesses many qualities both
good and bad, some that he is born
to, some inherited and some that he
acquires. But there is one trait of
which every one is his own master aud
that is being faithful to his friends.
It is typical American quality too,
for as q rule, he cares not for right or
wrong but is always disposed to be
loyal to his fellows. We may have trod
the path of crookedness or staggered
beneath the load of adversely but we
can still be faithful to those who have
befriended us.
AN Eastern paper says that Mr..
Carnegie has now proffered his one
thousandth library and asks if this
record Of wise philanthrophy can be
matched in the worlds history. No, it
cannot, for no other man has ever
erected thousand marble monuments
to himself and made the people pay a
part of the cost. Still, in the face of
this gentleman's great benefactions it
would not do to question his motives or
his Americanism any more than we
would those of Willy Wslly Aston. By
steel-making process he has coined a
great many dollars in this land of the
free, but is he not giving them all back
to us in the shape of buildings with a
carved stone or bronze tablet bearing
his name, to be gazed at no doubt with
reverential awe by future generations
who will have forgotten how he OBJ
tanned his money?
ISOME fellow who can never see the
good side of anything recently
remarked that it was rather incongru-
GUS for anyone in our condition to do
any moralizing. Well, of course it
does seem kind of hypocritical, especial
lily as our presence here indicates that
we have not been practicing what we
preach. 1t is good deal like Sam
Small preaching temperance when he
was full of booze. But it reminds me
of what the editor of the st. Louis
j Mirror said in one of the most beauti-
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He stated that the value of a mans
utterances are not lessened by the fact
that he Is not saint, even tho he
be a hardened sinner. That is the way
we should look at these things, especial
| ly when our words are intended to
appeal to the better part of human
nature. So, of those who read this
column would ask that they consider
only what is said and forget the source
from which it comes. Or as the
preacher said who was caught going in
at the side door, "Don't do as 1 do, my
friends, but do as tell you"
III HAVE looked in vain through
i several histories of the United
States for some data concerning the
life of Robert Morris, one of the noblest
characters in the early history of the
republic. In all of them he is passed
over. with one or two lines while
whole chapters are devoted to such
traitors as Arnold and Lee. Morris
|, financed the Revolution and without his
laid Washington's army would have
developed into lawless mob, and
what the consequences would have
been we can easily infer. impoverished
as he was by that great war, this man
was allowed to die in debtors prison
He rendered great public service, and
in view Of his treatment it is moi
strange that he could say so bitterly on
his Gath birthday: perhaps it is right
that should be fretted and vexed or
this, the anniversary of the day or