The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-09-28
- P A N T A S G. OPES
PERTINENT POINTS IN THE PANTASCOPE OF
PASSING EVENTS PARAGRAPH.
CALLY PORTRAY

The term "knocker'' may sometimes be applied
to person who is deserving of the appellative
only In so far he has failed to agree with the
appliers one-sided view of things
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This is an intensely practical age, and the
world demands of incumbents of office, or aspirants
thereto more than meo-dramatic emotional as
sertion of featy and willingness to serve
A person whose self-esteem Is abnormally de.
veloped, hnds 1t hard to admit fault; but when
confronted with indisputable evidence of error he
has no other alternative
Recently the old states prison at Saltwater was
sold. If for any reason the purchaser thereof
should become dissatisfied with his purchase we are
In position by virtue of which we are peculiarly
qualified to recommend to him a new up todate set
of buildings of like nature. Also we stand ready
to vacate moments notice Cor less) and give
him immediate possession.
n girl was drowned recently in kentucky
stream. boy companion with whom she was
boatrldlng has not been since. The concen-
sus'of opinion was, that there had been foul play.
But the mother of the girl asserts that her daugh-
ters spirit appeared to her in a dream and informed
her that the drowning accidental. This if
true, has the merit of clearing the boys name of
guilt and leaves us to one of two concusions either
the boy was also drowned or, fearful of being &C.
cused of foul play, he secreted himself.
But why, may we ask. did the spirit informant
conne itself to the revelation of the manner of the
girls death to the exclusion of the fate of the boy?
Also, in the interest of the myriad souls who are
wandering along winding paths of doubt in the will
derness OF uncertainty regards the future, why
not have given information as to the condi-
ton Of souls those mysterious spheres where es
brief day has merged into the long night of eternity?
The world has waited long and in vain for definite
knowledge of life and conditions in the neither
spheres. What an opportunity here presented
for the clarion note of certainty sound amid the
inharmonious jangle of conflicting con lectures!
But great is mother love and so real do
dreams sometimes seem, that, lacking substan-
tial evidence, prone to believe this to he but
dream vagary of overweight mind.
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Two of Eldorado Kansas upon return
ing home recently from shopping expedition,
found that the bathroom window had been jim
mied' and entrance to the house gained thereby
diligent search of the premises revealed the
fact that nothing beyond the bathroom had been
disturbed. The bathtub however, which showed
evidence of very recent and much-needed usage,
contained goody depth of sediment, consisting of
real estate, cnders, ct cetera. This sediment proved
to be pay dirt" for when the unpleasant task of
cleaning the tub essayed, it banned OUT
twenty-five cents Not in DUST" but an "honest-to-
goodness" ready to-spend twenty five cent piece.
The jokesmhs have long made capital of the
dryness' of Kansas, but in their widest flights of
imagination they have not heretofore made the
claim that it extremely arid that only in pri-
vate homes there to be found water in sufficient
quantities for bathing purposes
The fact that nothing beyond the bathroom was
disturbed gives rise to several questions Cd Must
the perpatetc wanderer he passes through Kan
sas, if of aesthetic nature have recourse bur-
glarious performances order to for himself
bath? Or CD did this "jimmie' manipulation en-
ter the home with the intention Of denuding it of it's
easily portable valua5les; and did he accidentally
fall into the bathtub, the shock sustained from
which, because of the infrequency of contact of his
body with water caused him to make so hurried an
exit that the twenty five piece (maybe his only
one) fell from his pocket? Or CD did he upon
entering the house with burgarious intent, upon be-
holding the bathtub evidence of higher CIVILIZATION
determine suddenly to mend his ways, and, remem-
berng that Cleanliness is next to Godliness,' did
ho uO1n foriIV hath fhrop o1>,nr