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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

And Mclean, visiting the City
,Morgue in the round of his duties,
'chanced upon the aged apple woman
who had come to claim her long lost
babe, redeemed from what is to her
kind the plead of all prayers, the
only though an empty hope the
river.
On the eve of a doubtful election
the editor Of party paper has no
time to more than glance at the story
of a miraged soul, and coming from
a man who had filled his space regu-
.larly for years it went to press with
the names un-noted.
That Insignificant little chap on
the Daily said a friend of the
Cub (who, by the way, had found
that there was much more to be de-
sired than the desk to the right of
the city editor's) in answer to an
inquiry. Oh yes, something about
that row over the election last
spring. He failed to get hep, or
something, an was squelched.''
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

A Living Without Boss" by
an anonymous author, is brought
out this week by Harper's. It is
a message of hope for the unsuc-
cessful professional man growing
old in the city, with the fear of the
future always before his eyes. The
book is human document of ex-
periences of a man who left behind
the slavery Of a city life. He
trained his mind, found overlooked
opportunities in the country,
where his activities met with little
competition. The author points
out in a helpful, practical manner
paths of independent living in the
country.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21
Says Herr Limberger:

Goot efenning ladies and chenille
mems. | take de pleasure Of intridu-
cling unto you de best dot ever hap
pened- namley de Kangaroos.
Where vas de famous Roustabouts
now? / don't know. De last What
| saw of dem dey vas under de shade
of de maple trees und l dink dot dey
will stay dere for some dime.
Amt it schust awful fellows to see
d EN- dake de prize alreaty dree
dimes!
Sometimes ago / heard dot de
Deputy vas going vas going to get a
punch of fellows from de city to come
in und show us how to drill, Now
dot wouldn't be at all necessary.
Schust put de famous Roustabouts
und de Kangaroos out in de field
und let de band play i don't know
where | vas going but vas on mine
vay," und den you SEIZURE will see
some good drilling, dink dot de
famous Capting, Herr Nelson would
hafe to 60 some to get out of de way
Of Colonel Binker.
No danks you Mr.. Beau Esprita,
| will not be SO mean as to dell of
mine lofe affairs NIT mine dutch girl.
Dot all right if she vas only Won
servant girl, but here let me say dot
she vas all right und dot che still
lofes her darling poy, What? No
don't annoy me in mine dreams; as
SEIZURE as Won hen scratches so seizure
will Won frog croak.
A. +. B., says dot his name vas
Won handy ding. He claims it will
stuck to und ryme NIT any ding.
May be dot vas SO, but be SEIZURE dot
you don't forget me when you hand
vas giving out dot cabbage.
Oh yah, Isee dot Mr.. Bloom got
his too, no wonder he vas schmiling
und looking SO happy, Now I von-
der if he vas going to do de same
stunt as Mr.. Nelson hafe done.
Bully for you Soapy Tom, und de
rest of your crew-but say! don't
get pigish und vim -.efer day, gife
some vone else show!
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

The PERsIANs, have a belief that
every man has two angels, one at
his right shoulder and the other at
his left. When he does any good
thing, the angel at his right shout
der writes it down and seals it, be-
cause what is done is done forever.
When he has done evil, the angel
at his left shoulder writes it down.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

SOMEONE inquired of us a short
time since why Truth is spoken of
as Naked Possibly the follow
ing explanation will satisfy him:
Truth and Falsehood who we're
out walking one fine day, met at a
river, and both went to battle at
the same place. Falsehood, COM
ing first out of the water, took his
companions clothes and left his
own vile rags, and then went on his
way. Truth, coming out of the
water, sought in vain for his clothes,
disdaining to wear the garb of
Falsehood. Truth started all naked
in pursuit of the thief, but not be-
ing SO swift of foot, has never
overtaken the fugitive. Every
since he has been known as Naked
Truth. .
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

If it should ever fall to the lot
of youth" said Sir Walter Scott in
his autobiography, TO puruse
these pages, let such reader re-
member it is with the deepest re-
greet that | recollect, in my man.
hood, the opportunities of learning
which neglected in my youth"
If such man as Scott thought he
had neglected his opportunities,
what must the feelings of the re-
ally ignorant man be!
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

The following Receipt for max
ing every day happy" was clipped
from an exchange:
When you Use in the morning.
form resolution to make the day
a happy one to fellow-creature.
1t is easily done: left off garment
to the man who needs it, kind
word to the sorrowful, an encour-
aging expression to the striving;
trifies in themselves light as air
will do it, at least for the twenty
four hours; and if you are young,
depend upon it it will tell when you
are old; and if you are old, rest as
sured it will send you gently and
happily down the stream of time to
eternity. By the most simple arith-
metical sum, look at the result: you
send one person, only one happily
through the day; that is three hun
dred and sixty-fve in the course of
the year; and supposing you live
forty years only after you COM
mence that course Of medicine. you
have made 1900 beings happy,
at all events, for time"
Now, interested reader, is not the
above simple? 1t is too short for
sermon, too homely for ethics, and
too easily accom- plished, for you to
say, / would if. | could. 2
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

THERE was great comfort to a
Responding man in the answer he
got from a friend to whom he was
confding his gloomy apprehensions
of the future.
Il don't see," said Mr.. Blues to
Mr.. Bright, how ] shall ever get
through the world"
Did you ever hear" asked Mr..
Bright, of one who got stuck by
the way?"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

A SOLEMN and beautiful thought
is expressed in the following:
1t is related of a well-known di-
vine, who when on his death-bed,
was debating his last message to
his friends, stopped his secretary
who had written:
! am still in the land of the liv-
ing"
Correct that said the dying
man, land say, / am yet in the
land Of the Dying, but hope soon
to be in the land Of the Living
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

A CERTAIN humorous party !,
doubtless by way of satirizing GER
tain schemes for money making in
these s'get-rich-quick" days, re-
Gently inserted the following in a
daily paper:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

THERE are several small villages
in the 'cane-brake'' region Of Ar
kansas, where the church bell is
rung every day at twelve for the
people to take their quinine, as
they have the chills and fever all
around.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21
EDITORIAL REMARKS.

To CAPITALISTS Wanted, Five
Hundred Dollars, to goona spree!''
THERE was a chance for some
one who might be DESTROYS of maxi
ing a permanent Investment"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

MUTr AND JEFF have made their
appearance in the Duluth News
Tribune, much to the delight Of it's
multitude of readers. It is to be
hoped that they will make their stay
indefinite.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

IT seems as if no one is to be sat
isfied these days, no matter how
well off they are. Evelyn Arthur
See, who's Absolute LIFE cult
puts even the Mormon doctrines in
the shade, has applied for a new
trial.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

A PATENT medicine company adj
vertising for competent person
to undertake the sale of their goods
states that it will be found profit
able to the undertaken" No doubt
of it!
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21
Lost Songs
By ARTHUR STRINGER

n ROO but there's singn' I've struck up
n Wild never note to be heard,
When me heart Widout stirrin' the silence
Stood by me and sang like bird
So if all ould dreams that escaped me
Were sung to the chunes that got free,
I'd be weavin' We rainbows av rapture
And shamin' the thrush, ma-chree /!
But och it's the birds that are ailin', s
Bide close by our coaxin' and sing;
lis tie music a0o,zi housin' and keebiu'
Fo,i0ey makes off on lie Sclngi
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21
Andrew Carnegie's Spelling

If school children took to spelling
according to Andrew Carnegie's
rules, they would never get out Of
the primer.
Here are examples of his spelling
taken from the manuscripts of
speech he delivered in Baltimore,
Maryland, on May 5 last:
He'd for head hart for
heart" 'stund'' or stunned
'thot'' for thought . 'honr" for
honor mesures'' for measures
Scaus'' for cause"
And, what's more to the point,
the steel king expects to have his
spelling methods adopted sooner
or later. The Twice-a-month Pops
ular Magazine.
Briggs: "Kipling gets dollar
word. That must be the record. .
Riggs: No, here's select coun-
Gilman who got twenty thousand
dollars for saying, Aye .
Lippincott's.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21
TO SUBSCRIBERS

Blue in the otherwise blank signifies that subscription
marked will be fill the subscription blank
surely afford The MIRROR!
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

~ =. A.
There never was another man with
such a scarcity Of eyebrows q 8
Mclean.
Superficial? Not at all, for Me-
Leans eyebrows were typical Of
Mclean both were made conspicu-
GUS chiefly by absence. Chiefly, be-
cause the mild, blue-eyed little man
did arouse some interest by his ex-
treme lack of self assertiveness. And
he was reporter!
He hasn't got any human ma
ture, summed up the city editor and
he blue penciled a misuse of the
verb Of acquisition in the copy be-
fore him.
So Mclean covered the ''hu-
man interest" stories, having half
column regularly, fixed salary, and
the desk to the right of the city ed
TORS; all Of which looked like the
desired of this earth to the cub, as
he told his friends. Everybody
about town knew Mclean as that
little, insignificant chap on tn e
Daily y
Even the society editor, grinding
out the latest scandal, noticed when
Mclean entered the city room. He
didn't even beg Copy's pardon,
though that promising young speci-
man took great pains to collide for
chilly with him as he crossed the
floor. The entire staff sat startled
Wondering if this were the proven
bal turning) for Almost a minute;
then as nothing more happened it
returned to it's robberies, it's scan
dals, and most important of all, it's
eulogies of the administration ticket
in the election coming tomorrow.
Mclean pulled up a clean pad
and began to write.
It was the story Of young girl
who had loved where love was UNI
known; W b o had honored where
honor was not. And it was the
story of the politics of city.
The man was one Of those higher
up, power in the administration
with deceptively hearty Irish way
about him, and incidentally a wife
and children.
The girls mother had run a little
fruit and news stand in the corridors
of the City Building, which the girl
had often tended.
To him the fresh face and figure
were something not commonly seen
mot to be found in the life which
he lived; and he was the one bright
ray Of sunlight III the drear shade of
her work. a-day life. She did not
know of the wife and children.
Though new to the press it was an
old, old story in the city, in detail
too sordid to repeat. The trips to
the ten-cent theatres, the cheap res
taurants and wine rooms, were to
this girl, whose pleasures had for
merly consisted of Sunday after
noon stroll in the block-square City
Park, as new Paradise. And was
it strange that she should go with
trust where this strong, handsome
man, who was SO much older than
herself both in years and knowl-
edge Of the world, should lead?
Must, then, the beautiful theories of
trust in God and fellow-man" be
for those only who are rich and
therefor well protected? Must the
Christian belief of the poor man and
woman, the last surface-ward strug-
Cling bouy Of the submerged
TENTH" be pierced by the arrow of
distrust or they sin? The girl came
trustingly to the visit with his
Aunt" on his invitation to get ac-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21

INMATES
of
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-09-21
CHURCH NOTICE

in every morning
Catholic Sunday E.
chaplans.
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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-02
MIXSEL[WIUE|
e"dme Soopbo Babe,
by r1ARIF THOMPSONDNIESS
MISStf fsfsR 1sokk.> III e ssssss ,,$ g. KFt t6sssry
ire! 1919 By TIoENNS INSIINsr

to her damp forehead. Her violet
eyes were wide with admiration at
Miss Selma Lue's generalship. but
were given q desperate cast by O huge
smudge on the side of her nose which
had by accident tried conclusions with
that of the vocally strong Clementine.
Her hat had been pulled to q rakish
angle and the starch was out of her
linen blouse. She had the appearance
Of n who has fought a losing fight.
Now, Miss Cynthie, honey. they
was jest hungry. They's as good as
gold most times; but babies is like hu.
nan beings-they can't always be
counted on to do the best they knows.
It's time they was fed, and I better
be about It Want to stay and see EN-
feed?"
Miss Cynthia had q number Of times
In her life heard invitations issued
from various tented sawdust rings of
which she was instantly reminded by
Miss Selma Lue, and 1t was with some
thing o. the same feeling of trepi.
that she accepted.
Now" said Miss Selma Lue as she
rolled Up her sleeves and cleared the
deck for action by drawing the boxes
into q close semicircle around a three.
legged milking stool. you can see how
good I've got 'em trained. the darlings.
| cook up this bowl Of oatmeal outen
ttat as spills outen the packages what
bust. and | pour on a good dose of
Charity's new milk, which Is that OF
real human kindness, If she is just
a spotted COW"
AS she talked she seated herself on
the stool and dipped out a spoonful of
the sticky porridge dripping with milk.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-02
ITO BE
Lacked Length Of Legs.

A large pompous person, wear
ing a high-hat, a long coat, yellow
spats and a congenital sneer. for sew.
eral days made himself obnoxious
around a Washington hotel a bit ago.
He announced he was from New
York. nagged the bellboys. 1awed the
clerks. cussed the service, roared at
tho food, complained about his room
and tho elevator and the telephones
and the bar, and everything else.
One afternoon he walked over to
the porter and said: Here you, I'm
going to quit this town and 90 back
to New York. where l can get some
decent service | want you to buy
me two seats in a parlor car on the
4 o'clock New York train. Get me
two seats now, and meet me at the
station with the tickets. l want one
chair to sit in and one to put my
feet in"
The seats were delivered at the
train just before 1t pulled out. One
OF the seats was in car No. 3 and the
other was located in car No. 4.-Clsve'
land Leader.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-02

Ing to give conference to a thought
Miss Selma Lue had heard voiced be.
fore,-'if you were being mother bird
to your own you couldn't"
Miss Cynthie, honey" said Miss Sc
lima Lue as she ocraped the last drop
Of milk into the spoon and skillfully
administered II to the nodding head
of Flarity, the brother Of Carrots. II
think the good Lord intended that a
mother should come into this world
with every child, but sometimes she
don't git horned when 1t does; and
sometimes-sometimes the mother Is
horned and the child amt there. The
mother job Is one that amt cut out
to suit everybody and them 1t fits have
got q duty laid on 'em strong. even II
it Is Jest being a kinder soul.mother.
Don't let Clemmie fail and cut her
head on the edge OF her box! She Is
nodding 80 and | have to ease down
both the Flarities, who is plumb gone.
Thanky, child, they are all safe now
and | can git to work. Seems like my
heart is at rest when I've got EN-
asleep In the soap boxes. | sometimes
wonder if the Lord don't feel the same
way about us %grown.ups when he
sends the night down to kiver us up
in our beds. But then when he's got
us all safe asleep the folks over in
Chiny wakes and begins they devil.
tries, SO l reckon the Bible is true
when 1t says he neither slumbers nor
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-02

Instantly five small. rink, toothless or
partly toothless mouths popped open
an6 hve bobbing heads became rigid
and fve roly-poly necks craned. The
moment Of suspense was keen. Pres
to! the spoon descended into the
mouth Of Blossom. the explorer. Her
ecstatic gurgle had four anticipatory
echoes. Again the pink caverns
yawned and again the poised spoon
descended. this time into the rosy lips
OF Clementine. who swallowed her
portion with the remnant of her last
sob. The echoes gurgled again and
presented open mouths at attention
instantly.
Seems like" said Miss Selma Lue,
they all swallows n another's din.
ner and gifts jest that much more pleas.
ure outen 1t all. II grown.ups would
Jest chaw one another's good luck,
they could git a heap OF satisfaction
from it, / say. Now amt they good.
and jest as patient, awaiting their
W turn?"
Indeed they are just q cunning nest
OF baby birds, Miss Selma Lue, and
you are the mother bird with the
worms, the incest sort OF worms. You
-you."-Miss Cynthia hesitated. try.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-02

Selma Lue?" said Miss Cynthia, as
she stood smiling before the grocery
door where Miss Selma Lue sat, bus.
lily engaged in sorting over a basket OF
June apples.
Child. can't always help but have
more respect for a great big, sinful
camel than 8 mean little, busybody
gnat that pops in your mouth and does
you o injury before you know he's
there. And Of the two ! choose the
camel to swallow, II swallow | must
But. dearie one. I've got TOO much to
think about to watch out for either
one, and reckon them as keeps good
and busy 's protected from wrong.do.
ings, big or little. Set down, honey.
bunch, and tell me what you've been
ADDING"
How are the babies, and is Ethel
Maud's thumb well AGAIN." said Miss
Cynthia as she seated herself IN the
door for s chat.
THE babies are blooming fine, ex.
cept Clemmie ct something that al
strange to her and was sick day before
yesterday. / hope 1t wasn't a cock.
roach, but ! have my suspicious from
seeing two legs of one on the floor
by her. Ethel Maud's thumb 10 we'll
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-02

The monkey is not only more in.
telligent than the parrot, but is even
more initiative. 1t is excepting man)
the only creature on earth that is
capable Of %articulate speech. Prof.
Bell believes that apes can be taught,
at all events, to say a few words
at first by manipulation OF their
mouths and throats. as Is done with
the deaf born. We may live, he thinks,
20 hear chimpanzees talk. and with
some degree Of understanding OF their
own remarks.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-02


but we like ter had a time with her
n a pea in her nose what got stuck
up and wouldn't come down no matter
how she snorted. But put q clothes.
pin up above 1t to keep It from going
further up and coaxed 1t down with
a hairpin and a buttonhook. It swelled
some but she's all right today" q
Miss Cynthia laughed merrily at the
idea of Ethel Maud's nose, which was
q tiny, ~turned.up dot, supporting q
~ciothespin and a pea at the same time,
and Miss Selma Lue's chuckle showed
that she appreciated the humor of the
picture. When Miss Cynthia laughed
1t provoked a smile from everybody In
seeing or hearing distance, and Miss
selma Lue's mirth was ever respon.
sive to the slightest call.
Miss Cynthie, honey" she said aft.
er a Few minutes, i've got q new soar
Dox Daby and was mighty anxious for
awhile as to how it would be, but
now"
oh, Miss Selma Lue, with all you
nave to do!-another? Where is it?
In a box with the others? am GO
Ing back to see it," and Miss Cynthia
sprang up with alacrity.
"Oh, no! He stays in the barn with
Charity and he won't be home till
noon, so set down and let me tell you
about 1t, for l mistrust myself in do
ing 1t, though the pictures are beau
tiful. or course / oughter be willing
TO do something fer arts sake, which
1t looks like Is Jest his love of this
beautiful world put right own fer
others to see. And then, it's true they
amt another barn about here that's
as good as mine to paint in. Anyway,
amt he n stranger within my gates?"
Miss Selma Lue, what are you talk.
Ing about? At first it sounded like a
baby. then a calf"
You'd think it was both by the way
1t drinks milk, and the helplessness of
1t. but it's a man"
"A man?"
Yes, a man! And l amt sure l had
oughter done it, fer a strange man
might be a mistake fer a single won.
an like me to have about the house.
But he was that p%ersuading and nice,
and | couldn't see no good reason not
to take him; so what could | do?"
Miss Selma Lue," said Miss Gym.
thia, the dawn Of an alarmed wonder
showing in her big eyes, you don't
can't mean that you have
got married while T."
Child" said Miss Selma Lue,
don't never ask me that question
again! When they buried all of Adon.
IRAN Millsaps they could find to bring
home from the explosion, the marry.
ing part Of me went into the grave
with the fragmints and | amt seen fit
to ever dig it up again. Though there
is many a good woman as have done
that very thing after having been mar.
ried to they husband fer years before
they lost him. But | amt one to crit.
icize 'em for 1t, cause some seem to
think 1t compliments one good hus.
band to git another.--and maybe II
do"
CTO BE CONTINUED.)
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-02
CHAPTER II.
The New s~oap-Boxer.

VANITY In a man Is like a turkey
gobbler a-strutting in November"
Miss Selma Lue.
Miss Cynthie, honey. it's a good
thing you come down to see me this
morning first thing. When you are in
town on one Of them week-end-and-be.
gins with Miss Evelyn, sweet as she is,
| don't rest calm as | might. Seems
like, so to speak, | am afraid you will
turn over your soap box or bump your
head or swallow a fly or something. If
you are outen my sight"
You you are sure | will have
the strength of mind to refrain from
taking in the camel. but are uneasy
about my seeing the gnat in time, Miss
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-02
ECZEMA GONE, B0ILS CURED

MY son was about three weeks Nold
when I noticed a breaking-out on lhis
checks, from which a watery sub
stance oozed. A short time after, hiss
arms, shoulders and breast broke out
also, and in a few days became a solid
scab. / became alarmed, and called
our family physician, who at once pro-
nounced the disease eczema. The lit
tie fellow was under his treatment
for about three months. BY the end
of that time, he seemed no better. l
became discouraged, and as | had
read the advertisements Of Cuticura
Remedies and testimonials of a great
many people who had used them with
wonderful success, l dropped the doc
tors treatment, and commenced h
use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment,
and in a few days noticed a marked
change. The eruption on his cheeks
was almost healed, and his shoulders,
arms and breast were decidedly bet
ter. When he was about even
months old all trace of the eczema
was gone.
During his teething period, his
head and face were broken out in
toils which l cured with C%uticura
Soap and Ointment. Surely he must
have been a great sufferer. During the
time of teething and from the time I
dropped the doctors treatment, / used
the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Oint-
ment, nothing else, and when two
years old he was the picture of health.
His complexion was soft and beauti-
full, and his head a mass of silky curls.
/ had been afraid that he would never
be well, and l feel that l owe a great
deal to the Cuticura Remedies"
(Signed) Mrs. Mary w. Ramsey, 224
E. Jackson St, Colorado Springs,
Colo, Sept. "a, 1910.