The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
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From Our EXCHANGES


Patience, perseverance and prayer will
overcome the greatest difficulties. With.
out these you will scarcely succeed at any,
thing worthy the name.
-Yola County Calf, is the richest
county per capita in the United States and
probably in the world. Although the
population is but $4,000 the combined de-
posts of the saving banks total more than
1000, 900.
The wine crop of France this year, de-
spite the war, is estimated to amount TO
nine hundred million gallons, which is
double that of year ago and forty million
gallons In excess of that of 1913, the year
before the opening of the war.
"A psalm which cuItivates the spirit of
gratitude is psalm which we ought often
to read. If we were more grateful both
our Joy and our strength would be increased.
Gratitude is born in hearts which take time
to count up past mercies.
"A moral young mans characteristics
are honesty of speech, respectability of car
rage, industry of mind and consideration
for others. With these young man is as
model as it is given for an earthly being
to be.
Practical duty enriches the fancy and
the heart, and action clears and deepens the
directions. No one can have true idea of
right until he does it, any genuine reverence
for it till he has done it often and with cost.
any peace ineffable in it, till he does it Of
ten and with alacrity.
| There is no sort of wrong deed of
which man can bear the punishment alone:
you can't isolate yourself and say that the
evil that is in you shall not spread. Mems
lives are as thoroughly blended with each
other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as
necessarily as disease.
The happiness of life is made up of
minute fractions, the little soon-forgotten
charities of kiss, smile, kind look, a
heartfelt compliment in the disguise of
playful raillery, and the countless other
infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and
genial feeling.
| Man is no better than leaf driven by
the winds until he has conquered his lonely
duties. This makes a man-the habit of
confronting great things in solitude, and
chiefly the habit of conversing with God
alone, and of filling the soul with His
strength.
is there anything that pleases you more
than to be trusted-to have even a little
child look up into your face, and put out
its hand to meet yours, and come to you
confdingly? BY so much as God is better
than you are, by so much more does He
love to be trusted.
Education does not mean teaching peo-
pie to know what they do not know, 1t
means teaching them to behave as they do
not behave. 1t is painful, continual and
difficult work, to be done by kindness, by
watching, by warning, by precept, and by
praise; but above all, by example.
The House Committee of the United
States Congress on Military Affairs has re-
ported In favor of buying the battlefield, or
rather the battleflds, of Bull Run, to be
used, as are the fields of Antietam, Gettys-
burg and other great conflicts of the war, as
a national park.
AS might be expected, the carriage
building industry in the United States has
been hit hard in the last four years by the
advent and growing popularity of the auto
mobile. According to recent census the
number of carriages. and wagons manu.
featured in 1914 was 397, 269 less than in
1909, the decrease being ISL per cent. In
value the decrease in FIVE years was $21, 754,
200, or 23.1 per cent.