The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-14
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An exchange seriously asserts that since the in
crease in price of foods milk 2Oc, soc. per
quart would be true economy"-we have tried to
figure how much economy" there is in milk at sc.
per quart and have come to the conclusion 1t would
not serve economy if il could be had gratis.
Firing big gun on one of our battleshlps Is
costly proposition" says exchange. and a four
teen inch shell weighs 400 pounds and cost $500
"A twelve inch SHE'LL already considered one of
our smaller Shots costs $500. Fourteen inch guns
throw projectiles fourteen or sixteen miles They
will pierce an eleven inch Krupp steel plate at seven
miles Twelve inch guns will shoot just as far, but
will pierce the eleven inch plate only at five miles,
When big guns are fired every the battle
ship has to stuff his with cotton and touch the
deck with his toes and finger tips keeping his mouth
omen. This is to prevent broken bones and lost
teeth.
In an analytical article under the caption The
Test That Tells" writer in NEW ERA makes
parsons that interesting, in the following:
There are ways of measuring money and ma
chinery that are accurate the decimal point One
Judges fruit tree by fruit and horse by it's
speed Men have established. and abide by certain
fixed standards, with which they compare the things
that they would measure. So it is all strange
that from time to time the phllosophzing mind of
men comes back to that fascinating subject, the
measure Of man.
some people Judge men by birth or education.
Some substitute for the questions who you? and
who your grandfather? the questions, what do
you know? and what can you dol? Some set up
standards of wealth and of culture. Some
make religious moral ethical distinctions And
every and then some attempts to system
atize these various criteria Of personality.
Then they formulate their rules. They would
Judge man by what he is was or will be; by
what he has or had or will have; by what he does
or did or will do perhaps by what he can be, can
have or can do They make other and various sug-
gestions.
But, whether they are psychologists or DOCTORS
teachers, preachers business men, they never sue
coed perfecting universal abiding accurate stand
ards. For is machine; a man is more
than mind; man is a being with desires and will
And the real test of a man, the test that tells
is a test that takes in what he is aud has and does
and what he do. be, test that takes into
account every of nerve and will and brain and
blood and emotion, and at the time is the sim
pest that could be made.
But one man can really make tpis test and that
is the man himself. But one man can get the great
est profit from it. But can understand it,
The thing it concerns is fundamental. 1t is
the motive power of ages. impelling force of
tiers. 1t is almost too sacred to put thus in cold
type. For every it includes the things that in
his iunermost heart he to be, to know have
do. 1t includes the thing things that he wants
80 much that nothing else matters For he usually
can have such things. The test that tells is not SO
much what knows what he wants. That
tells just what he is and governs what he does.
Sentimental, this, yes. But practical, intense
ly practical Talk it with yourself and you
will see."