The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-04-26
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Mass was held in our auditorium last
Sunday morning, Father Barry officiating.
ITO B would like to exchange Green
Book and McClure's for Baseball Magazine.
Several cars of binder and mower wheels
were received during the week and stored
away for further use.
DIR. Merrill, from Saltwater, was at the
institution last Friday to shake hands with
old friends in passing along the corridors.
What the world calls genius is but the
final result of hard work and intelligent
persistence.
Someone in the park made the remark
last Saturday, that our boys could beat the
St. Paul Association team this year. That
may be, but not with the present umpiring.
Music has charms, and if you tell
woman that she has a musical laugh, you
can 90 ahead and tell her any old thing you
want to, and she will believe it.
Take things as they come if you know
what to do with them when they come.
If not, make them come in the manner or
quantity that you can handle them.
The M. S. P. ball team were asleep
last Saturday-especially the regulars--twice
they had a chance to even up matters with
tbo h,,oe full hut failed RI hit
We are glad to hear that our noted ten
or singer is improving day by day and will
soon be out of the hospital again. The
Choir has missed his voice on more than
one occasion.
We thought the snow was all gone
around this section, but it is not. There
are big piles of it all around us, and it will
take several weeks of good hot weather be-
fore it goes away.
The Board of Parole finished their
monthly meeting last week, and we just for
once wished that they had kept at it for
few days longer. Generous? Well we should
smile.
ALI those who have sent papers to the
dormitory or cottage, should watch The
Mirror, as all the men are now sleeping in
the cell halls. Reading matter marked that
way will be wasted.
Occupant of cell 361, hall B, will be
pleased to receive Independent in exchange
for Outlook; Scientific American for Col
lier's; Saturday Evening Post for Path6nd
er; Review of Reviews and Atlantic Month
ly for Current History.
Avoid talking of illness as much as if it
were something that cannot be mentioned
in polite society. You know, without being
told, how much worse you feel after you
have been comparing symptoms with some
fellow sufferer.
The best business that is done to- day
in this country is done by the farmers. The
dairy feature especially shows good results
in Minnesota. Stock breeding is another
good feature that will bring benefits to the
live and industrious farmer.
For the benefit of those who receive
papers from the library and the Prison Mir
ror, we wish to say that you are not per-
mitted to add numbers after you have read
tkem-unless you don't want them. Get
the ideaa
Work has begun on the cement road
between the machine shop and the power
house, it will take at least a week before it
is finished, and it will greatly improve the
walk; as many visitors pass through there
every day.
If a man loves any one thing--say, rare
books, or pictures, or objects of art of any
kind, or music or science--so we'll that for
the sake of the one thing in which he
would be rich he is willing to be poor in
everything else, no matter though his choice
be an unwise one according to the best
standards of choice, he will yet have mo-
tive which will help to keep him upright.
But 70, those who love none of these things,
but simply desire them because it is the
habit of the time-because, like pampered
children, they must needs cry for whatever
they see lust out of their reach-for them is
needed the self-dicipline which shall teach
them to let alone whatever is not theirs
And the beginning of this self-dicipline is
in the home. Parents must teach their
boys and girls the great lesson of going
without whatever cannot be ftly theirs.
"A bar at which you can keep perfectly
sober--the crow-bar
always appear what you are and a
little below it,