The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-28
PANTASCOPES
Practical PHILOSOPHERS and Pertinent Points in the Pantascope
Of Passing Events geographically Portrayed
By "Optimo''


Eloquent, though silent, token
Of thy wish to rift the shadows with a ray of
friendly cheer.
Stern and hooking around u.s.
Grim, relentless walls impound us,
Weary is SOUL broken is our spirit
meath lies load
Every transient CLEAN of gladness
Dissipaes weight of sadness,
Robs the hemlock Of its poison, the steel
Of tempered goad.
Oft Despair, like raucous raven,
browns Hymn of Hope with
Croakings of the dark and dismal years the
future holds in store
Friendship yet and friendship ever,
Strength ndues 20 make endeavor
To attain the heights where never comes this
fend of evil lore
Little kndnesses will soften
Harden'd hearts, and if more often
Words of cheer and deeds of kindness be-
slowed O weary souls
Faith would be in the ascendant,
Clad in regal robes respondent,
Bidding us make journey upward from the
mire of errors shoals
Book. give you royal greeting,
Though, forsooth place of meeting
Is not such worthy, but bid you
bde Vice."
Long the lane that has turning,
Fate will not for aye be spurning
Our endeavor attain the kissed Land of
Liberty
Though we know not who twas thee
Thou wilt he to us nepenhe
AS the twilghts and the gloamngs mark the
close of many days.
In our lonely ucubrations,
In myriad meditations.
O'er thought world thou wilt radiate the
light OF Wisdoms
few days (June H. be exac) received from
end unknown translation by Mrs. Humphrey Ward
AMEs JOURNAL the being philosophers recorded Henri
Ame in his Diary and which, after his DEATH selected and
On former OCCASIONS during the first century
in this city of received anonymously,
pieces of mail matter But the Anonymous family being
but twothe Smith family the Jones fam
take it that although the tokens aforementioned
Identical Our belief this confirmed by the
that each of the former known
sender whereas in this latter be known by
only that being the of the address.
In the onward of the nations have, by mis-
genaton become meded into other nations that
and difficult find whose blood there
So ALSO it with the Anonymous family Some.
of virgin stock hooughbeds of OF
class friend of the instance neither
owing evidently being known by Our friends of the
instances but hafbeed They knew but
in the dark their identity.
The receipt of gift, Friend Anonymous has made the
nosphere with interogaves Why? Why? And
am-Why? What the parentthought of the deed? What
impelng motive? Why to supposed Ishmae Ancient
end has that when who earth had erred consigned
dabca inferno Mercy withdrew the hand of hepuness and
fused drop of cool the parched But
works. DONE Anonymous for in this hour of dire
soul in sad exe fully merited though be by
you thrown the lifeline of kindness; and of such kn
that will the soul
the maelsrom of folly in the of the rmer
,ng of Wisdom's higher shores
Books we love and books we cherish,
Treasures theirs that ne'er will perish.
richest will grow DID, faded and insight
fragrance be forever gold
the but leave the
of hna and book
thoroughly digesed enriches the mind and influence
be or the silver cord be oosed the golden
wi be broken a the fountain"
Friend Anonymous wisely selected and appropriate gift
deeply Not for its intrinsic value alone
literary surely for paltry
send usbut for the spirit the mponderabe equation that
mpted the gift But that enemies Eyes, have
and consider oursf compmented that such us
openly likewise. do desire that friends be openly
ndy The pleasure that the unworthy object of
kindly bepefaciop would feel assured be eaeped but