The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-01-25
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Promises are cheap; be there when your
friends need you.
| Only fool will try to sail straight
against the wind. A sailor will take the
| trouble to cruise.
AN old man in New York village,
who never had SIS before in his life, recent
ly fell heir to $60,OOO and said: Ono one
ever knows how many friends he has until
he has fortune left to him. have received
| ten invitations to dinner already from
people who hadn't spoken to me in thirty
years"
my DEAR called wife to her hus-
band who was in the next room, "what are
you opening that can within "Why," he
said, with can opener. What did you
suppose?" "Well," replied his wife, 81
thought from your remarks you were about
to open it with prayer
The Laird-"Well. Sandy, you are
getting very beat. Why don't you stand
up like me, man,
Sandy-''Eh, man, do you see that field
O corn over the1e?'
The Laird-"T do
Sandy-"A' weel. veil notice that the
| full heids hang doom an the empty ones
stand up
-"Hello, Dopson, any luck yesterday,
when you went ishing?"- was
away when six bill collectors called!''
81 Hicks-"That hired man of yours
is all fired lazy" Jed Higson-"Yes,
had to 60 and sharpen up all the stumps on
the place to keep him from sitting down.
Doctor Ito Patient)-''It's a wonder,
you are alive. Only your strong constitution
pulled you through" "Well, doctor, re-
member that when you make out your bill.''
Fat man in tram car-"Why don't one
of you young men get up and let one of
these ladies sit DOWN. Young man
"Why don't you get up and make room
| for them all?'
One morning Perkins looked over his
fence and said to his neighbor: "What are
you burying in that hole?"
m just replanting some of my seeds.
that's all, was the response.
"Seeds!" exclaimed Perkins angrily, cit
looks more like one of my hens
"That's all right" came from the man
on the other side of the fence. "The seeds
ale inside
doctor, my brother stepped in hole
and wrenched his knee. and now he limps.
What would you do in case like that?''
''I'm afraid l should limp too!''
AS country physician was driving
through village, he saw a man amusing
crowd with antics of his trick dog. Ac-
cording to "The Presbyterian the doc
tor pulled up and said, "My dear man,
how do you manage to train your dog like
that! l can't teach mine single trick.
The man said with simple rustic look:
swell, you see it's this way, you have to
know more than the dog, or you can't
learn him nothinn'
In arranging our accounts with our
fellow men, we are prone to permit single
debit to counterbalance long line of cred
its that have gone before. If an individ-
ual commits one reprehensible action, all
his former creditable performances are lost
sight of. In passing judgment upon him,
we have forgotten the equity. We permit
ourselves to become blinded by the passion
of the moment, and fail to render just
balance. A little federation, little SYM
patty, little forberance would do WON
ders in Tightening each others burdens and
in smoothing our own way through life.
Let us remember, in censuring the man
who has offended or injured US, how many
times prior to this he has befriended or
helped US. Let us remember the equity.
As things are today, once man has vio
lated the penal statutes of the state, no
matter what his past life may have been,
he is nevertheless placed beyond the pale of
consideration. He is regarded as fair
game. Society, like Nero, inverts her
thumbs, and he is incontinently given JUS
tice.-E4.