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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
| Don't Know

One of the healthiest exercises for tn,
soul of man is the habit of saying 81
don't know
like those words. They smell of in
tellectual honesty. They smack o
courage. They connote a refreshing
absence of egotism.
| When man says he doesn't know you
can tell him. When he says 81 know,
you can't tell him. And the man 20,
can't tell anything is one of the hardes
people in the world to get along with.
| A teacher once said to me when was ir
school. Don't say you know, but cam
tell it. For whatever you can't tell ypr
don't know. You may have a vague ides
of it. faint memory, an indistinc
familiarity with subject, but unless you
can put it into words you have no right te
say you know it,
| Most minds are full of shadowy i'm
pressions which are supposed to be facts
These ghosts of facts are of value as giving
US certain atmosphere of knowledge but
they are not knowledge itself.
All vain persons shrink from saying 81
don't know" They fear it is an admission
of weakness and do not know that tc
sensible people it is sign of an accurate
mind,
like my physician to say 81 dom,
know" when he does not know. He need
not pretend omniscience with me, for
know the limitations of science, and thai
all present knowledge is as yet but a small,
small planet flowing in a sky of nescience.
l do not want any theological adviser to
come at me with his theories dressed up a.
Festivities. l know the spiritual value o.
fancy-let it 60 at that, and do not seek
to give it force by calling it fact
'Maybe'' and "perhaps'' and possibly
are as nearly food for my soul as sureties,
SO long as they are frankly taken to be
what they are.
The ancient philosophers took pride in
saying 81 don't know These word:
were often upon the lips of Socrates, who
was perhaps the wisest of men.
Democritus said, 'But we know nothing
really: for truth lies deep down.
| And there is every indication that one is
humbug when he bristles with dogmatie
assertions; either humbug or fatuou:
devotee who has bound his mind and
delivered it over to somocult. AS Mon
taigne observes: "Nothing is so firmly
believed as what we do not know. DR.
| Frank Crane
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
-. P o EFT RY =.
From Oar Exchanges.
The Test

The test of man is the fight that he makes,
The grit that he daily shows;
The way that he stands on his feet and takes
Fate's numerous bumps and blows.
A coward can smile when there's naue hit to
fear,
When nothing his progress bars,
But 1t takes man to stand up and cheer
While some other fellow stars.
1t isn't the victory after all,
But the fight that the brother makes;
The man, who, driven against the wall,
Stands up erect and takes
The blows of fate with his head held high,
Bleeding bruised and pale,
Is the man who'll win in the by and by,
For he isn't afraid to fail.
It's the bumps you get and the iots you get
And the shocks that your courage stands,
The hours of sorrow and vain regret,
The prize that escapes your hands,
That tests your mettle and prove your worth;
1t isn't the blows you deal,
But the blows you take on the good old
earth
That shows if your stuff is real.-Selected.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
The Best Firm

A pretty good firm is Watch & Waite.
And another is At,it, Early & Late.
And still another is Doc g. Dairit;
But the best is probably Grim & Bairitt.
If you think you're beaten you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't
fyou' d like to win, but you think you can
It's almost cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost,
For out in the world, we find
Success begins with fellows will.
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you're outclassed, you are;
You've got to think high to rise;
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You ever can win prize.
Lies battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins.
Is the fellow who thinks he can.
The Beduin.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
Heat of the Sun

Probably the most puzzling problem we
have in connection with the sun is to
account for its tremendous output of heat,
which we are told has varied no more than
few tenths of degree in so, 900, 900 years,
the period generally given by geoIoglsts for
the duration of life upon the earth.
If we accept the theory, most generally
advanced in the past that the sun was
formerly vast nebuIa extending at least as
far as the planet Neptune and that its heat
was maintained by slow contractions, COM
putation shows US that only 5000, 900
times the present output would be main
tanned from this scurce-that is, if its heat
were supplied by contraction alone it would
have lasted only half as long as life has
been known to exist upon the earth.
This is plainly impossible, and though
contraction undoubtedly supplies part of
the solar heat, there must be some other
source of supply as we'll. The discovery OF
radio-activity in recent years may have
much to do with explaining this mystery.
1t is interesting to consider that if the sun
were composed of coal and its heat were
kept up by the process of combustion more
than a ton of coal would be required pei
square foot of surface per hour to supply
the present output of heat. The sun would
be entirely burned up in 5000 years il
made of coal.-Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
Life on the Mexican Border
CONTINUED from LIST Page)

by the name of Patagonia, that was about
fifteen miles. The third day from
Patagonia, to Bloxton, took up about
eighteen miles,
"Then from Bloxton we liked to Stiwall' s
Ranch, and that was about nineteen miles.
The last day we hiked from StiwalF
Ranch straight to Fort Huachuca, which
was about twenty. one miles. On the hike
about twenty dropped out, and they were
picked up by the ambulances. At Fort
Huachuca we rested ten days, then marched
back again. We liked about ITO miles all
together, an average of about seventeen
miles a day, for ten consecutive days.
When we landed back at Nogales, the First
Regiment of Connecticut, had orders to 60
back, and say. we were all wishing that we
were going with them.
A Welcome Hike
"About week later we liked again to
Bloxton. and while at Bloxton, Col. Til
son received orders from Gen. Pershing for
the Second Conn. Regiment to entrain back
to our homes. Say you ought to have seen
US hike back to Nogales, why we simply
ran, not walked. We sang and yelled on
our last hike, we couldn't believe that we
were going home. Down in Nogales, we
packed our tents, and our clothes, and
after everything was in readiness we boarded
the trains, which were regular sleeping cars.
1t took us ten days, to get back to New
Haven, and we stopped almost at every
large town. In Buffalo, and New York
we stopped whole day and took trip
across the Falls. We had pretty rough
life out on the border, but we didn't mind
that much, because after all, for our
troubles, we saw part of the United States,
without having to pay a cent. Before
close let me say, that while we were out on
the border we never had any real fighting,
only once did we have trouble with the
Mexicans, and that happened while we
were on duty down at the pumping station
About dozen Mexican bandits fired at us
and we fired back, but no damage was
DONE"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
The Art of Living

10 touch the cup with eager lips and taste,
Not drain it;
10 WOO, and tempt, and court bliss, and
Not attain it.
To fondle and caress joy, yet hold it lightly,
Lest 1t becomes necessity, and cling too
Tightly;
To smother care with joy, and grief with
Laughter;
To hold the present close, not questioning the
Hereafter.
10 see the sun sink in the west without
Regretting;
10 hail its advent in the east-the night
Forgetting.
To have enough to spare, to know the Joy of
Giving.
10 thrill response to every sweet of life,
That S living. -Unkn0apn.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
What is Failure?

What is failure? It's only a spur
To the man who receives it right,
And makes the spirit within him stir
To go in once more and fight.
If you've never failed, its an even guess
You never have won high success.
What is miss? It's practise shot
Which we often make, to enter
The list of those who can hit the spot
Of the bulls eye in the center.
If you've never sent your bullet wide
You never have put a mark inside,
E. c. NJ, in The Chronicle.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
Try Once Again

Turn round that's not the way to go,
The past is dead: tomorrow grow
All opportunity. The fare
To Better-Luck-L Land is a dare.
You are not poor SO long as will
Persists within your being still
With capital of hands and head
A myriad of men have led
Themselves to fortune. Pluck and prid,
Gave answer when their fellows lied
And told them that their chance had died
Try once again-the world is new
Each day. Your chance? Your chance
is YOU. Herbert Kaufman,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
He Remembered Them.

One of the most common characters in
current newspaper fiction is the self-made
man, who makes point of hunting up
his early benefactors. But the Chicago
Post tells the old tale-with difference,
''By the way said the man who had
stopped at farmhouse to water his horse,
Fifteen years ago poor boy came this
way and you took him in
"Yesa' queried the farmer, some-wha,
surprised,
"You were kind to him. went on the
stranger. ''You fed him, gave him words
of encouragement and an old suit of clothes,
put dollar in his pocket and sent him on
his way rejoicing. He told you at tina,
time that he would never forget your kind
ness Am rightl''
II reckon you are, replied the farmer.
''He said that if he prospered he would
see that you never had occasion to regret
your kindness to poor struggling lad
"Land's sakes!" exclaimed the farmer:
wife, excitedly, cit sounds almost like a
fairy tale, don't it, Why, you must have
seen him!''
81 have" said the stranger, ''and he
sent message to you
"What is it," they both asked expec-
family.
"He told me to tell you that he is still
poor
AS the stranger drove away, the farmer
went out and kicked the pump, while hi
wife threw a rolling pin at the chicken
l-Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
Fly Little Bird

Fly, little Birdie. fly, fly. fly;
Fly up in the air so high;
Fly up in the clouds so white,
Till you are quite out of sight.
Then fly down in yonder tree,
Where your little brides three
Are sweetly sleeping in their nest,
And sing the song that you like best.
Selected,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
N IR R 0 R Ell ES
By Uncle John

Mass was held in the auditorium last
Sunday morning with Father Barry officiat-
ing.
On account of the weather being so fine
last Sunday morning, we enjoyed good
long drill on our main street.
Last Saturday was another lucky day
for our baseball team. They got even with
South Saltwater for once.
Several cars of hay-rake wheels were
received during the week for the machine
shop and stored under said department for
further use.
The two last reels of moving pictures
"Bathtub Perils''-last Wednesday, were
by far the best we enjoyed for long time.
A good laugh is the best medicine for the
soul.
-''Are you in favor of this dayIight-sav-
ing scheme!'
swell, yes, you might say so,' said the
cabaret bug. "You see, l don't use much
of it,
We have nice big park in our walled
in-city and also fine big Band-but where
is the band stand that was to 60 with the
park for the Band? 1t is no fun to play in
the hot sun without some shade.
"A goodly number of visitors were
present in our baseball park last Saturday
and as the weather was ideal they all stayed
until the finish and they sure had chance
to see fine game of ball.
That rain last Wednesday was worth
good deal of money especially for gardens
and pastures which needed the rain more
than anything else. We could notice the
effect last Sunday by the bountiful supply
of green onions.
Several cars of hard coal were received
in the yard for the Stewards department to
be used in the bakery. 1t kept the yard
crew busy for several days to transfer it
from the back yard to the basement under
the bakery.
Here is another good exchange list.
Cell liza will exchange Saturday Evening
Post, Popular and Sunset magazines; Nov
ing Picture World, and Ell Paso Weekly
Herald, for Life, Judge, Peoples, Baseball
and Railroad Mans magazines. Numbers
about third on Magazines.
When one of our Band boys came back
last Friday from registration, he was so
excited and absent minded that he actually
tried to 60 back to the shop with his
instrument hanging around his neck, and
did not even know that it was there,
although it was heavy enough, until the
professor reminded him to leave the instru-
ment in the Auditorium.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
The Futility of Hate

Sidney Smith said it was his idea of hell
to hate somebody. Hate, malice, envy,
hard thoughts of any sort poison first the
heart in which they originate. They form
brackish, unhealthy pool where all sorts of
foul mental conditions generate.
1t is only in our loves that we really live.
What we hate is dead to US. The wider
the range of our hates, the narrower are our
lives.
1t is beautiful belief that every kindly
act, word, thought or impulse continues in
influence forever, Frightening and sweet
ening the world, and that every evil deed or
thought permanently destroys part of the
sum total of human happiness.
Certainly this is the effect upon the life
in which the thought originates. Every
thought elevates or lowers, puriies or
debases.
Love thoughts are wings. Hate thoughts
are weights.
Your own feeling is detected back to you
from others. Ifyou give love you get love-
1t is one of the things the more of which
you give the more you have,
1t is your own attitude that attracts or
repels others. According as you love or
hate you surround yourself with an at
mosphere of inviting sweetness or you
hedge yourself in like the quilted porcupine.
Love is the light in which we see and live
Hate are malarial mists in which we
blindly grope and miserably rot.-Altoona
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07

The farm in Stockbridge, Mich, own
ed by the late Charles L. Lynch was bought
by his greatgrandfatber in 1853 from an
Indian named Salomonhhaunnauwaun
and has been handed down from father to
son in the Lynch family ever since then.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
Baseball Game
Continued from first. page. J

sUMMARY-.Left on bases-Visitors 4, M. S.
P.s6 First on Errors-Visitors /, NJ S.
P.s 6. Stolen bases-Dela. Sacrifice hits
Della. Two base hits-Herring, Lew.
Three base hits-Brad. Double plays
Berger, Dahlin, Rowland. Innings pitched
by Rowland 4, by Berger S. Hits-off
Rowland Z, off Berger 4. Struck out-by
Rowland S, by Berger 5, by Wells Is.
Bases on balls-off Rowland 1, off Berger
l, off Wells 1. Wild pitch-Rowland. Hit
by pitcher-by Rowland (Vos, Dela), by
Berger (Wells). Balks-by Berger.2. Pass
ed balls-Berger l, Herring l: Time of
game hours. Umpire-Carson.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
Win Alone

Our experience should remind US,
We can ne'er make life sublime.
If we let our passions blind US
And 60 on wasting precious time.
Everyone must learn his lesson,
For each crime he must atone;
And life knows no greater blessing
Than the victory won alone.
-RefOrmatOry Pillar.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
The Little Clock

There's neat little clock
On its high shelf it stands,
And it points to the time
With its two little hands.
May we, like the clock,
Keep face ever bright,
With hands ever ready
To do what is right -Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
"A hot temper needs cool treatment.

"A hot temper needs cool treatment.
Neither borrow nor lend without good
security.
-Collapsible towers, adopted by the Ger
man army for searchlight and wireless teleg-
raphy, are said to be so light and compact
that two men can carry tower that extend:
to 100 feet.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07

You can help make life one glad, sweet
song by letting the other fellow have his
way once in while.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
Chapel Yrngraiit
Sunday, June 3

The following is the Program rendered
in the Auditorium last Sunday, Reverend
Father Barry officiating:
March-Mt. Healthy ---- Orchestra
Berceuse- "Slumber Sweetly'' Orchestra
Hymn-Teach Me to Pray Congregation
Cornet Solo-Love's Old Sweet
Song Member of Orchestra
Prayer ----------------Fa Father Barry
Gospel Reading Father Barry
sermon -------------------F Father Barry
Hymn-Cast Thy Bread upon The
Water ----Congregation
March-By the Power of Right Orchestra
r. ]. Reichkitzer, Musical Director.
Population
Up to June,
Number of Inmates at Prison... 953
Number in First Grade.... 742
Number in Second Grade. 1885
Number in Third Grade. 26
Received During Week.. ............11
Discharged ......... .................. ........
Last oeriai Numoer..................
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
n 0 7 | c E

Before presenting themselves to the
dentist for the purpose of having
their teeth examined and treated, all
inmates should procure a tooth
brush and have their teeth as thor
oughly clean as possible.
C.S. REED, WARDEN.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-06-07
p o ET-T r e e
Leases From Our Poets.
Memorial For 1917

"
Again we come with fragrant flowers
In memory of our dead,
Flowers, from the morning dewy showers
With flags for every head,
We bring them with the loving heart
That never can forget
While in our eyes the tear drops start
And our old faces wet.
Tread lightly round their lovely beds
The ground is hallowed there,
With reverence we bow our heads
And bless them with prayer,
We deeply feel that we shall soon.
With them be laid away.
We've had our morning and our noon
And now the evening gray.
The twilight shadows on US fall
And soon the taps will sound
From the great bugle that must call
Us to our camping ground
When we shall with our whitened faces
With our comrades take our places,
There, there is no battle roar
There, our struggles all are Ger.
There where every one is given
The joyful soulfulness of Heaven
There, amaranths and lilies bloom
And never more is sorrows gloom
But while we live will make our way
Among our comrades old and gray
Marching on, still marching on
Until the last one of US is gone.
But with the breath of every May
Well not forget Memorial Day
But bring our tributes to the dead
And lay them on each lowly bed
And go with them as young and strong
Along the mystic ways
And sing with them the campfire songs.
AS in those old dark days.
Well fight our battles .er again
And hear the roll call made
And know the ones who have been slain
And in their graves were laid
And see their faces white and cold
Under the stars so bright
Well see the morning trimmed with gold
And still the fading night.
But first we'll 60 back home again
Where we said our goodbyes
And there was many broken chain
With sad and weeping eyes
While Mothers sent their sons away
And trusted them to God
They knew that some of them must stay
In the great tents of sod.
But it was for our country's life
However desperate the strife
And wives gave up their husbands too
In many long and last adieu
While little ones with wailing cries
Brought tears into the strongest eyes
And sweethearts said: we will be true
And if we could we'd 60 with you.
Well work at home to help you there
Well not sit down in our despair
Oh! you shall see what we can do
And day and night we II pray for you
Tho sometimes it may be with tears
And this they did for four long years
And sent us many needed thing
With heartfelt offering.
We hear the fife and war drum roll
That stirred the Utmost depths of soul
And we'll we knew what it all meant
The battle field and the white tent,
With the grave for many one
Before the dreadful storm was done.
We had offered up our lives
Upon our country's altar
Forsaken love and home and wives
And never would we falter
We found we had a stubborn foe
Who came with battle yells
And gave back to them blow for blow
With samples of our shells.
We climbed the battlements of death
And placed the old flag there
While, it seemed the cannons breath
Nord stern. [volume] (La Crosse, Wis.) 1856-1921, 1917-03-09

lpern elncm ore BuBe 5uldmmenges
bunoen ndren, Wlon lam tetnen
Oerniinftlgen S6ritt qebeu. pieI lpeni-
ger fpringen uno IauFan."
ngun. cines 2oges peroeu Sic Iit
ooran Qsip0bnt boben unb Damn
perOen Sic ibn ieIbi nitt mebr tyar
gen pollen, ben 8ubian3uo."
0obei blidte er nit einem Iettio.
men Nusbrud an ibrer 0eitaIt em=
por. Sic antportete niht, unb aIs
ie ben Bid bemertte, nit BEN er
lire 8eitoIt %itrcifte. bn mar ploBIid
Elm GefubI in ibr. has lie iid nIht
ertIdrsn touute. Gle empFono plDb
lid ocn Nunih, baB iie Iieber in benz
9eidoltenen Reittlei0 iteden mofte,
itott in ibrem 9eIiebtn 8ubion3uo
Stumm iebten fje ibren Msg fort,
limo nun modten iif bic Shmer3en
i'm SUB ipieoer iebr bemertbor.
pia febnts iid nod elmer tiibten
&omprene. sic melnte, cine Iol6e
miife ibr febr gut tun. 4ber ite
fprad es niht aug. tIngte aud nitt
iibsr Die Ghmer5en.
Gum 8Iiid batten ie nun ben
Berg binter iid unO uIs Iie iiber bic
Dolbli6tunq nod Dem GdloFe BIN
iber oiI9erten. faqte qin 30gerno:
sd motts Iieber bier fpar,sn,
6err b. Rieb, biz Sic Den Dager
boben onipannsn IoFen. Sd iiBs ia
gut ouf 0oubernantes Riiden. Sd
mag mid 70 nidt Dor Shrer Dieners
fdaft feben laFsn."
Gr fob gu ibr ouf. sic mar rot
gstporbsn unb fdisn perle9en.
Sofort idIang er @oupernantss
53u9el UNI einen Baum.
$50 pnrten Gle MIR sinige Winus
ten i'd bin gIei4 pisoer bier
iagte er fhnsu.
Nord stern. [volume] (La Crosse, Wis.) 1856-1921, 1917-03-09

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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-01-12
FOOD INSPECTOR
MAKES A REPORT
ING BROUGHT HERE THAN
EVER BEFORE.

Food Inspector Moeglan has made
2 report which shows cOnclusively
that the new law has been a sue
cess in every sense of the word es-
pecially as to the class of meats be
ing received in Brunswick Many
were of the opinion that wholesalers
and farmers. the latter especially,
would be afraid to bring their meat
here on account of the inspection but
the report shows puat more has been
brought here since the law went into
effect than for any previous length of
time and most of Il has been In better
condition. Inspector Moeglin told a
New representative yesterday that he
inspected a beef some days ago which
would compare fayorably with any
Western beer and il was raised right
near Brunswick
In October $50 inspections were
made and Of this number 10 hogs
were condemned. In the month OF
November 666 inspections and three
condemned. In the month OF Deem
Der S93 inspections and three hogs
condemned The total inspection
since October 3 10 December 50. was
2.lS9 and the total condemned was
l6 hogs.