The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-08-20
WEEKLY SPARKLES AND
- POINTERS
By General Stonesoall

Appearances are deceitful especially the
positively last farewell kind.
How beautiful to always be in touch with
the better things in life. 1t is just as easy
to be kind as it is to be the opposite.
Chicago policewomen carry their revolv-
ers in their vanity bags. Well, pistol
sometimes makes very effective powder
puff.
The man who is always anxious to start
something can find any number of willing
assistants, but he generally has to finish
alone.
Right you are Frank, Jane is the feminine
of John, and means the ssGracious Gift of
Cod Then Jane must mean the s.Pre-
cious Gift to Man. But we fear that
many of us John make awful poor gifts
of any kind
Too many of our present day sports and
athletes are like Milo of Crotona, they are
too ready to rend split trees in the forest of
the hayward, and thus get their fingers
| caught in the splinters of society, (laws)
and are firmly held until devoured by the
| wolves.
The index % should always point for
wards and not backwards sparks fly up
and not downward. However, many of our
index fingers Cives) may ere all we know
point to life of unworthy deeds. If so.
Presto! Start the sparks to flying upward,
and soon the index finger will be pointing
betterward.
We met few years ago two girls, their
names were Bessie and Mabel-they were
mother and daughter and yet they were Of
ten taken for sisters both from their ply
sique and amiable dispositions. Bessie was
the mother and one day Mabel was heard
to say: "Mother you are certainly sWor-
shipper of God,' and as Bessie clasped her
daughter in her arms said: ''Why Mabel
dear. how Lovable' you are. How nice
it would DE for all of us to be able to use
in our daily conversation the definitions of
our loved ones given names as this mother
| and daughter did. We wondered at the
| time if they knew, that Bessie means "Wor-
| shipper of God and Mabel 'tLovable.'
The Mind a Telegraph Office
The heart-mind of man is like
central telegraph Office and the man
himself is the operator; there are
many messages to be sent out each
day. some bear good and some bad
news forth each day from telegraph
office; but from the telegraph office
of the mind each one has it in his or
her power, to send out none but the
very best. Let none but the purest
and moet wholesome thoughts enter
our minds and then only the best
will go forth, for las a man think
eth, so is he." The mind is the CEN
ter of affection, of hope, of love, and
should be cultivated to entertain and
harbor only the true and substantial
things of life With ones mind the
inmost soul conmunes with the d.
vine and holy, with those we love in
all lands, to our friends we touch
the transmitter which kindles the
spark that flashes our thoughts across
wide expanses of territory and hold
sweet communion with those who
are very dear in life to us-and the
peculiar thing about this little tele-
graph Office which every human be-
ing possesses, it cannot be confined
to space or limited in boundary.
Locks and bolts, night or day,
awake or asleep. the wires of the
mind are seldom insulated. but are
ready at all times to receive and to
send forth the electrical sparks of
thought in every direction, whether
those thoughts be good or bad.
Thus seeing each one of us equip
ped with key and battery of light
ming transition, we should be very
careful of the use we make of our
most valuable apparatus; in sending
out or In receiving messages let us
be careful of all signals and signs to
make sure that they will stand the
last test of the last call from the
Great Telegraph Operator of the
Universe when He shall say: Are
you ready to give an account of thy
telegraph office (stewardship), and
have you assisted in the relays along
life's Journey"
What will the answer be, and
why do we know, that the heart or
mind, is great central telegraph Of
fee in to which runs innumerable
wires that are constantly sending
forth and are receiving messages?
Recause with onr mind wa 1isrotoh