The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-09-16

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government, They intend to make their
republic hereditary affair, and keep the
office of president within the family of
President Yuan Shi Kai. A hereditary re-
public is new idea in self government,
but then maybe the worship of ancestors
had something to do with the new rule.
"The notion that mans liberty con-
sists in giving his voice at election-hust-
ling, and saying, "Behold now too have
my twenty -thousandth part of Talker in
the National Palaver; will not all the Gods
be good to me?'' is one of the pleasantest!'
Carlyle-From Past and Present,
The men of the "movie' west do not
appear to get the correct atmosphere of the
old west into their production. They can
not ''make up so as to look like old time
westerners. There appears on the screen
many innovations of the actor art such as
thoroughbred horses, good clothes, full
blooded cattle, up-to-date firearms and
barber-shop hair cuts. All of which were
unknown to the old time west.
The unusually large number of half backs
and other athletic heroes that are being fea-
tured in magazine fiction, leads Pendennis
to believe that perhaps the colleges are pro-
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ly adapted to magazine stories.
Pendennis has always maintained that
the peculiarities of our versatile language
have many advantages, which can be used
with good effect if one can manufacture ad-
jectives.
''The New York Sun says Carranza is
a cantankerous old curmudgeon. Sure and
FACILITATING old pinhead and ganderbrain-
ed old galoot. Sock it to him.-HoustOn
Post"
Certainly. He is an old rhinocerous-
hided incubus and Illuminating ungulate.
Toledo Blade.
NOW SupDOSC lildt NoiiohHA NO~ANA -
ply to that in Spanish and add few adjec-
tives of his own, but the scribes would have
the best of it for our step mother tongue has
more stretch to it than Spanish.
The man who possesses originality Is
genius. The mediocre individual does not
invent or create, he cannot, for he does
not have the faculty of originating. The
commonplace mind can aspire, endeavor,
and strive, but the genius has an intellect
uninAuenced by the news and ideas of ordi-
nary minds. The genius pioneers, discov-
ers, creates and builds. The ordinary in
dividual, follows, initiates, and aspires.
Nature has been very good in equalizing
the rewards for originality and mediocrity.
The genius usually has the fame and the
crown of laurels, while the ordinary indl-
vidual gets the riches and does the work.
The open spring, open well and the
old oaken bucket have been condemned by
the purity enthusiasts. They say that
germs and other things scientifically obnox-
ious, Turk in the exposed waters of open
drinking places, awaiting an opportunity to
attack those who come to drink.
What menace to mental equilibrium
these hygienic experts are getting to be!
They have criticized even the clothes peO-
Pile wear, they have found fault with the
air, people must breathe, and now ask us to
look with suspicion upon the crystal spring
and the old oaken bucket. 1t is wonder
that so many people really manage to exist
upon an earth that is so badly arranged.
1t is no disgrace for man to misspell
the portions of the English language he
happens to use in writing. There are
many words in the dictionary that are form
ed by letters being arranged horizontally,
so as to complete entireties, which are call
| ed words. Words SO formed are not in
| tended to bespelled correctly. They are
to be read by softly ennunciating their
novels and consonants. They are misspel-
led already and will continue to be mis-
spelled until permission is conceded to
writers to use their individuality in select
ing any set of letters that will stand for the
meaning they wish to convey.
photography can only be mastered by
those fortunate beings who are naturally a.
dapted to the skillful construction ofletters
| into words. Most of us cannot expect to
become any more than mere amateurs at
the game of placing the letters in their or
thodox alignment. 1t is no disgrace to
misspell words that the photographers did
not get the proper twist on when they COM