The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-08-25

rash experience, and her father gave
me the alternative of paying her funer-
al expenses or standing trial for MUIR
der. AS the verdict of an intelligent
American jury is one of those things
that no mathematician can compute
beforehand with any degree of approx
imation; no case-hardened weather
prophet ventures to predict; no bean
or hog guesser attempts to guess; no
born gambler will bet on unless given
great odds,-and that regardless of the
evidence adduced at the trial.
thought it better to pay the funeral sex-
penses, choosing rather to bear a pres
ent ill than fly to others that we
know not Of"
These few sentences will, hope, en-
| tighten you as to my good looks. If
ever you want me to marry you'd bet
ter find girl who is willing to marry
me as boys swap knives-that is, "sight
unseen"
Of course, if you and the hired hands
work hard to the end and purpose of
leaving few millions for your son to
spend when he comes home, it is barely
possible that even he may draw from
Beauty's lip "a favoring SMILE" Money
will accomplish wonders, father. l
have known men and women stepped
in sin and corruption from center to
circumference, and long way beyond
even the air they breathed was pol
luted-and yet were respected by
many because they were as rich as
they were sinful, and from a monetary
point of view they had made their
meanness pay. So, "put money in thy
purse" and save it for your son; it may
help him to win wife when his good
looks his talents, and his diversified
experiences leave him in the furch.
l will now correct few of your opin.
ions about the institution which is hon.
oring your son by forcing upon him an
education, and which is honored by
your son because he condescendingly
accepts, and makes use of part of the
education forced upon him. This is
the one place in the world, father,
where money is of no use. Here they
give to each according to his needs,
and demand service from each accord
ing to his abilities. Every student ur-
on entering this institution signs an
agreement to the effect that while he is
here, and pursues his studies along the
lines or rules laid down by the foun-
ders of this institution-and since
then augmented, or interruled (but
never overruled) from time to time as
special occasions, or unforeseen condi-
tions, or the marked heterogenity of
the ever increasing population de-
manded it-he will bid the world and
ali its frivolities goodbye. The state
furnishes everything we need, tho by
no means everything we want. Hence
the expenditure of money for private
purposes is unnecessary-al almost i'm
possible. The peculiar system of edu-
cation here in vogue has many advan-
tages. This is one of the reasons why SO
many men eminent in their professions
make this their temporary or perman-
ent abiding place. We have students
here who long ago acquired national
if not an International, reputation for
4 proficiency in their chosen professions
The desire for knowledge is here truly
the predominant DESIRE In some OF
our best known students this desire
has grown to such an abnormal degree
that they have not hesitated to forcibly
open vaults and safes in order to ex.
tract the much coveted knowledge
i slowed away in them. Nay, more, we
have students here who have openly
and in broad daylight searched persons
whom they suspected of having knowl-
edge concealed about them, while still
others have surreptitiously, and under
cover of the darkness, entered places
and searched everywhere, high and low
where they expected, and where they
did not expect, to find knowledge con.
cealed. And, generally speaking, II
seems they didn't find much. These
of course, are extreme cases, and on.
ly mention them to show that the stu.
J dents here are ruled by a spirit OF
earnestness that many men in other
walks of life fail to understand. The
students also impart knowledge to each
: other. Some at least are willing to tell