The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-22
IndiCtinSs Of The Prison
ImbeCile.
Beau Esprita.

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Alone he sat
And pondered Ger the sins that he had done
The lesser ones in chidhood's early yeats.
But growing greater as he older grew.
Until at last he stepped acrost the bond
of man 1nade laws well as those of God.
And now he sat alone!
westward the course of empire takes it's way
And eastward too. and north and south.
But if man cen takes a loaf of bread
He gets it in the neck.
j Leap Year.
The sunlight pals. the the evening falls.
The night comes. grim and dark:
And Edward White says. Just tonight
| Mirandy Lou I'll spark"
But woe and rue Mirandy Lou
Had other plans in mind;
She got up steam, annexed the theme,
And hitched Ed on behind!
Now bachelors gay beware each day
When years divide by four;
Mirandy's wed to poor old Ed;
But there are many more
This one is real: A fresh fish ask
ed me, recently, how often The Mir
ror issued it's funny paper. Puzzled,
| / replied that the paper was issued
Ievery Thursday, but that / wasn't
aware that any one issue was special
! ly appointed as funny" paper.
Huh! Yuh needn't come any O.
that high brow irony on me, see?
seen it in the paper where it said
they had a comic supplement an [
amt got one yet. I'm going to kick. !"
The light dawned; he meant the
colored supplements! OF course l
explained to him that The Mirrors
colored supplements" were only is
sued to men in the first grade as a
special reward of clear disciplinary
records. You want to watch out,
Professor and Sam, when this man
gets his grade. He mustn't be dis
appointed!
/ Doctors say that insane persons
generally have highly developed
sense Of humor. Setting aside those
excruciatingly funny jokes, such as
stealing up behind a man and hit
ting him over the head with a chair,
to which all gentle rah rah people
are partial, the statement still holds
good. But even so, their hdmor is
apt to be strained. Here is speci-
men from the Printer published
in one of Iowa's State Hospitals:
We have no gun and our dog has
left us, yet we print this" and
follows commentator of the pa
per clipped from city daily. All
truly Bugs will recognize at once
that the editor is saying that he
doesn't baye to go hunting in order
to find praise of his paper;-but who
else would suspect it.
i Strand Magazine publishes an in
teresting article on the Ten Great
est Men Of Today" with VARYING
lists of from eight to twenty names
compiled by eminent men in Eng
land and France. Although | did
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not receive bid, here is the list as
/ I'd have made it: Uncle John; DR..
Cook; Old Hutch; Kilograms;
Davy; Nil Desperandum; Sinbad;
Lorimer; Percy and w. G. Van D.
Four of these men ought not to be
in prision; two Of them ought to be
4 in prison; and four of them are
doubtful. Now please do not all
jump on me at once for ana very
tall and thin as it is.
| 1t is certainly great incentive to
right thinking and right acting, when
man in here knows that someone
on the outside thinks of him with
belief in his sincere desire to do that
which is right, and trust in his abil-
ity to do so. A letter from such a
] friend indeed is as new stay fitted
into mans reconstruction of his will
power. OF this much we envy Herr
Limberger.
1t was at the ball game: Say,
Pop, soid little Willie Go it. Ty.