The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-02-18

IAAhSS We WouiU hOOp OuG VI GIOu-
BILE.
1T is said that "justice is blind" and
that Figures cannot lie," but it all
depends on those who is dispensing
justice or handling the figures.
EXPERIENCE is sometimes costly
but always valuable. It serves as
guide to our future and lights the
way ahead; but to some men sit is like
the stern lights of a ship which illum-
inc only the track it has passed. as
Coleridge says.
THE man who coined the phrase ga
little learning is dangerous thing"
was fool. If there was a grain of
truth in this maxim crime would in
crease with education, but statistics
seem to prove the contrary. Men with
little learning get into Jail all right,
but the percentage is small as COM
pared with those of the illiterate class.
FROM the number of prominent
grafters being roped in all over the
country, it would seem that there are
great many men who are open to be-
ing bought. It does not mean, howev-
or, that all men have their price or pos
sess the qualities of rascal. To be-
lieve so is to have a pretty poor opinion
of mankind. But who is the greater
rascal, the one who is bought and
keeps mum or the one who won't stay
bought after he has got his price?
| JAPAN is small country and it's
people are small in stature, but they
will undoubtedly give good account
of themselves in the war with Russia.
A victory for Japan would be in
the interest of civilization and human
ity. They are the Americans of the
East, progressive people who copy all
our good points and leave out the bad
ones. On the other hand a Russian
victory would be a step backward.
| Wherever this beast of absolutism gets
footing, all hope of civilization must
| be abandoned.
| PLACED within view of everyone
nowadays is the magic word "Suc-
cess" Very few people, tho, think of
it as relating to anything but the &C
emulation of money. The American
ideal of today is he who has amassed
great fortune, by what means we do
not ask. To get money or its equlva-
lent is the height of ambition. He is
not success we are told unless he has
boarded gold. The man in shabby
raiment who spurns to do a dishonor-
able act walks unobserved through our
streets and we pay homage to the
millionaire. We have settled into the
conviction that life in this materialistic
age is not worth living without untold
wealth. The standard of life has been
changed but the value of our ideals has
| decreased.
1T seems strange, but tits true, that
| there are men in here who are so
selfish as to envy another his liberty.
They actually feel sore when someone
goes out and they must remain behind.
They do not want others to get what
they cannot have themselves.
l have heard several men express
such kindly sentiments toward their
fellow creatures and wondered what
kind of natures they possess. 1t
must be of the kind in which the nobler
sentiments and exalting emotions have
no abiding place. But we should pity
anyone whose mind is so dwarfed as
to entertain the wish of shutting out
the sunlight from another. They are
the kind of fiends who take pleasure in
the adversely of others.
THE celebration of Lincoln's Birth
day always brings with it recollec-
tons from the life story of a great
man. Born to an Inheritance of want
and trained in the school of adversely,
his whole career is the ideal of what a
good American ought to be. The les
son taught by his failures and ultimate
victories is an inspiration to all who
would win success. Fate often seemed
to be against him, but he fought hard
and triumphed in the end. His patient
sufferings, his devotion to his country,
his love for his fellow man and his rise
from obscurity to fame has served q
purpose in the world that cannot be