The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-08-18

IF FRIDAY was day of rejoicing for the Rus
sian people, what must have been for the czarina?
She is rehabitated. At last she is the equal of the
poorest peasant women her lords estates At
last she can look them in the face and feel envy
She has fulfilled her destiny, and longer will the
empress of Russia be distrusted and disked by the
Russians.
AS for the helpless and unconscious bit of hu-
manlty whose advent has wrought such change in
national feeling; the purblnd handful Of pink flesh
and potentialty that came into the world bearing
score of titles and screaming like the commonest
brat; the child in whose honor bearded men cheer,
cannon detonate and banners salute-well may there
be gathered about his cradle seers sages and sooth-
sayers. He will need their advice and wisdom. He
arrives at time when his future subjects begin
ming to realize that a czarevltch is merely man
child born in palace It is possible that before he
attains maturity the full realization of this fact will
have come and-in that case the car will have to be
something more than man to be a car.
Will the child be the Moses Of his people? That
lis the question millions of men asked when his birth
was announced. Probably he will not. When a
man is accorded power and reverence, not for any,
thing he has done, but simply for being born, it is
hard to lead others to whom birth is merely an in
cident Of life But this is the dawn of new GEN.
tury time when the world is unconsciously i'm
bibing new IDEAS and it may be the babes destiny
to slough his ancient heritage of force and
and to be man, free and untrammelled. That is
what the world hopes he will do. At any rate, if he
does nothing else, his birth has made czarina.
In ORDER to free himself from the whisky habit,
one Alfred Zimmerman has set out to walk from his
home in Cincinnati to San Francisco distance of
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hardship upon himself because having tried all the
so-called cures for the habit it is the only thing
left
| Here we have another example of a man making
the old, old mistake of trying to away from him
self. It can't be done Many have tried 1t, only to
fail hopelessly. When. man is slave to habit,
not his environment, but himself is lacking. Go
where he WILL temptation exists; opportunity to graf
lily his passion is never wanting.
1 This man Zimmerman fleeing from his old haunts
and associates imagines that new world is before
him. wordln which cause and effect are divorced
But in every town, IN every roadside inn his bad
angel awaits his coming Fresh air, exercise and
change of scene are invgorating, but in time they
become monotonous and commonplace; and unless
our traveller realizes that his fight is with himself
and himself alone, he can burn his bridges twenty
times day without doing himself the least good.
To stop drinking is the only cure for the liquor
habit 1t is obviously the first STEP that can be
taken in Cincinnati just easily as in San Fran
cisco. To conquer habit of years is difficult in
one locality in another. It means fight in
which there be truce and from which there is
no escape. 1t requires monumental fortitude and
perseverance. And while we may sympathize with
those who like Zimmerman seek to postpone and
eyade the issue, we are sure they must ultimately
fail retreat is said to be sometimes good gen.
eralship but it is a maneuver that never won a
battle.