The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-11-27
ST. CROIx
Bum"

times is forced to eat the husks that swine
are fed upon.
[ knew him as city bum. l did not
give him that name, but took him on his
accredited valuation nd-discarded it.
A city bum-one of those queer con-
glomerate mixtures of humanity with the
devious iniquties of composite people,
All the vices ola metropolis would seem
to have concerted to infest this product of
birth and princely lineage. Have you
ever met him, this superhuman cynic, and
who yet often possesses those finer qualities
belonging to the most royalty quixotic-a
gentleman and man of honor after his own
fashion?
My usual line of talk is prisons, and
from this present sketch, since our bum
was the direct means of saving near rela-
tive of prominent and powerful news
paper man, living in the city of Wach on
der Rhine, from term behind prison
bars, in the consequences of which he won
for himself place in the heart of the
great man that money could not buy.
He has been mixed up with the white
slavers as well, only the case in which he
figured happened about like this
Overhearing a conversation, he strolled
in the vicinity where closed carriage was
to be stationed With dollar and fifty
cents as the sum total of his cash posses
sions, he ordered another jehu to wait in
the shadow short distance up the street
and who, following given signal, was to
drive up to the spot vacated. The counter
plot worked Mr.. Bum, scouting around
the premises, dotted hat and coat leaving,
under shadow of night, fairly presentabe
''white 'front.' Walking briskly forth
from an apparent side door entrance,
straight out through the front gate he &C
costed the driver of the closed carriage
with, "Boss, Mr.. -- says, drive slowly
once around the block and stop on return at
the door above. Driver No. 1 had gone
around the corner when driver No. 2 was
signalled and pulled up at the curb.
''White Slave and escort came out to the
waiting vehicle. Escort handed the young
lady in, closed the door giving directions
where to go to find the lady advertising,
and babe the driver to go ahead.
Mr.. City Bum, from the near by
shadow, directed cabby to move on slowly
then joined him, stopped the carriage, re-
spectfully raped on the carriage door, re-
quested the young lady not to be alarmed,
informed her that he had heard the plot of
which she was the victim, and then tells
her the woman advertising is a keeper, or
landlady, of a brothel. Apologizing, he
directs her to drive to certain well-lighted
corner where she will be able to catch an
interurban car for --. He then gets
on top with the driver and rides until they
come to the corner. The car arriving, the
young lady is put on board, with direc-
tons where to get off the car in the other
city.
We have the sketch with the added
poet S estimate: ''There many a noble
heart beats meath the coat of rags and
after our own formula: Many bright
gem is found in the gutter scum of great
city
The old saying, There's many slip
betwixt the cup and the lip doesn't
bother the horse.
An appreciation: That the Mirror print
shop boys path is not primrose path l,
for one, mildly appreciate. If it were only
the Mirror that is gotten out and the eight
hour schedule of union shop where the
fellows might drop in with copy or to yarn
and perhaps run off line or two of ems and
the rest of such mysterious processes incl
dent to the carrying on OF newspaper
work, we would not feel our little appreci-
alton were quite of so sympathetic a nature
as it must appear to be. But the fact the
Mirror is minor, or a very minor Incl
dental in the weekly output of the print
shop, makes us sit up and says We most
heartily commend the work turned out in
the Mirror columns performed by the print
shop boys.