Condon globe., June 29, 1905, Image 4

Topics of
the Times
It it too late now for the war to
take a count In Jlu Jltsu.
When tbe Igorrotes returned to their
native land they put on clothe. Prob
ably they quit eating dog meat, alio.
Their contract had expired.
Mr. Carnegie say the wealthy man
la a Blare, While we are pretty buay.
we are willing to take a day off and
help emancipate Mr. Carnegie.
Russell Sage and Mrs. Hetty Qreen
can point to the fact that no college or
missionary board baa ever rejected
any of their $100,000 donation.
Now that Ella Wheeler Wilcox has
concluded her autohlography, there
will be some mean folk to Insinuate
that he Is at the chloroforming age.
No, William, there will be no official
celebration in Cuba over the pension
with which Spain proposes to honor
General Weyler for his past ervlee
on the Island.
A Frlneeton man recommends reli
gion as a cure for trusts. Once start
tbe trusts In that direction and they
would soon have all the religion there
la la the country.
That hen-egg-sized diamond was sent
through the ordinary registered mall
at a cost of 75 cents. Such things
are awfully discouraging to the Indus
trious and hard-working train robber.
King Alfonso of Spain Is credited
with a desire to marry an American
girl. But thafa nothing. There are
plenty of young men right around here
who are entertaining a similar desire.
Mrs. Craigle, the English novelist,
says women are unfit to sit on Juries
because their nature does not contain
the element of Justice, Every man
who has been caught In wickedness by
his wife will Indorse Mrs. Cralgle's
declaration.
Dr. Wiley, the government chemist,
ays there is no reason why the av
erage man should not be useful until
he la 90 years of age. It Is not dif
ficult to guess who would be elected
If Wiley and Osier were running
against each other for the presidency.
Suppose the newspaper man, every
time he hears anyone crltcise him or
his paper, should retaliate by holding
up to the public gaze all tbe faults
and shortcomings of said faultfinder,
what would be the result? The editor
may not know It all, but he does not
live In a community long before he
knows a great sight more than be publishes.
Perhaps no species of villainy Is
more cruel and reprehensible than the
adulteration of drugs used In disease
and which may murder the Invalid
they were supposed to benefit. It Is
fortunate that the Washington authori
ties have taken the work in hand and
have succeded In unearthing a gang
of these scoundrels In , Chicago by
making raids on tbe places where
bogus drugs were made, confiscating
four patrol wagon loads of "medicine"
and arresting five persons for misusing
the mails.
By observing the laws of health an
Ohio doctor assures man that he may
live to be 150 years old. That may be
true, but the trouble Is to find out Just
what are the laws of health. There
are so many lawgivers on the subject
that the layman Is bound to be puz
zled and wonder If the old methodless
plan la not as good as any. While It
may be of no use to the present gen
eration, doubtless it will attract some
attention from tbe second or third suc
ceeding ones If some man will give a
practical demonstration of his theo
ries. When truhtful persons can write.
"I have used your system for ISO years
and never felt better In my life," the
rest of the world doubtless will be
gin to sit up and take notice.
When Monsieur Coppee was shout
ing insults at the authorities in Paris
not long ago In one of tbe petty politi
cal crises which frequently occur In
the French capital, be declared that he
waa ready to sacrifice his liberty and
even his life In the defense of tbe prin
ciples which he charged tbe govern
ment with disregarding. At the cli
max of his obstreperous denunciation
of the powers that be he felt a hand
on his shoulder, and, turning, saw tbe
prefect of police. Instead of arresting
him and hauling him to a dungeon,
deep and dark, the prefect said, with
amlllng face: "Shout whatever you
like and smash windows if the fancy
takes you. You can even, if you like,
attack the police. My men have strict
orders from me never to arrest you,
no matter what you may say or do."
The French have evidently discovered
the best way to destroy the effect of
attacks on the government la to re
frain from making martyr of th at
tacker. A government ha to be pret
ty sure of itaelf before it ha th cour
age to pursue this court.
A Tal profoesor, th statistician of
th Institution, ha mad a compare
tlv study of student xpenditur and
reached result that rich and toad
parents dealroua of giving their tons
th great advantage of a liberal edu
cation should carefully consider. After
all, the most important function, of th
college 1 moral. The mere Informa
tion supplied by lecture and txt
books can be obtained at home; It Is
the discipline, the atmoapher of cul
ture and learning, the associations, th
traditions and historic background,
th personal lufluence of professor,
that combine to give "college dura
tion" the value and utility It possess.
In the familiar phrase, the mlwrton ot
the college Is to encourage plain living
and high thinking. But in every col
lege there are students who tacitly re
verse the formula and proceed on the
assumption that the right Ideal is high
living and plain thinking, or no think
ing at all and very little work even of
tbe routine sort. There are not many
of these, It Is true, but If any course
or practice on the part of parents
tends to increase their number it can
not be too persistently discouraged.
And the Yale statistician shows that
au extravagant allowauce to a student
la a source of moral danger. Poverty
la bad for a student; it means, of
course, extra work outside and little
recreation and opportunity for assim
ilation and reflection and beneficial
associations. But luxury Is even worse
for the student, because it is more in
sidious and demoralizing. It Is a tru
ism that "as the amount of total ex
penditures Increases the percentage
spent on necessities decreases!" But it
1 certainly disquieting to find that
"the wealthiest' class of tbe Yale stu
dents "spend more for drinking and
smoking than for their room rent and
furniture," and that while "under
pleasure the highest (wealthiest) class
spends more than twice the proportion
J hat the lowest do," on music and
charity the order is reversed. Th
parent who makes too generous an al
lowance for bis college-at tending sou
does him a disservice and an injury,
lie expose him to temptalion of a
kind destructive of the essential mis
sion of the college. The Yale professor
says that "the men who take time to
spend $807 a year on pleasure and to
bacco and Intoxicants do not bars
time enough left for their regular
work to rank high in their class." Bnt
this is not the whole of tbe mischief,
nor even th greater part of It The
effect on character, on mental and
moral discipline. Is of infinitely great
er moment. At college enough Is better
than a feast
A 8INGULAR EXPLOSION.
An Iron Rail Twisted AVoand the
Trunk of a Mar Tr.
That an ordinary steel rail can be
hurled high In the air-and twisted Ilk
a piece of wire around the trunk of a
big tree seems incredible, yet such a
thing recently occurred at Nanalmo, B.
C. The explosion from which this cu
rious thing resulted was disastrous in
EFFECT or AN EXPLOSION.
Its general effects. Twelve men lost
their lives as a result of It. Great
havoc was wrought and tbe big rail,
which was lying on the ground fully
twenty-five feet from tne spot at
which the explosion occurred, was lift
ed In the air and wrapped around the
trunk of a tree twelve feet away, as if
It had been mere wire.
Tbe'exploslve that did this Is known
as "gelglnlte." It is one of the most
powerful of the various preparations
from guncotton, composed of blasting
gelatine, collodion cotton, absorbent
nitrate, sodium carbonate and wood
pulp.
So tightly was the rail wrapped
about the tree that it cut deeply Into
the green wood of the trunk and
caused big splinters to start out on all
sides.
Wanted to Compromise.
Judge Lueders You are charged
with loitering. What have you got to
ay for yourself?
The Hobo Nawthln', Jedge, only I
don't want youse ter be too bad on me.
Dat's all.
Judge Lueders Well, how will thir
ty days and a bath strike you?
The Hobo Say, Jedge; can't youse
make it sixty day an' cut out d
wash?
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A BOY'S VISIT TO MIS OLD HOME.
a.r r. ftussrll If. Coil. IX O.
"The Spirit of the Urd Is upon m."
I.uke lv.. IS.
When I read Ihe chapter of Christ's
home-coming It seems to express clear
ly bow Christ. In His sensitive home
sickness. Ills love tor III home, a part
of His character, ami Ills appreciation
of all that win uoiueauc and boly In
life He must have felt that day when
He was going home to Nasareth for
the first time after hi mother bad
taken her family and moved away
with thorn year before.
Oh, to think of Hint walking up to
wards that old home alone, forgetful
of the past few years and unconscious,
In a measure, of the change that must
have come to the old people, thinking
of the old folks who had grown up
and married, and hardly realising that
a new generation had grown up nearly
to niarrl.iKO Mime He left. Yet He goei
in to It with an Idea somehow that thi
years amount to nothing, and that He
would find them all the same that
those who loved him. those who cared
for him, those who sang for him lu
the old days, would do the same again.
The year had gone )y and the boy
was returning home.
As he entered the synagogue he win
noticed by every one. There was so'iie
thlng aWmt his manner and his face
which they recognized, and he became
at once the center of attraction. Whit
perings went around the synagogue,
"Who Is that?" "That Is Jesus, the
man who has performed so many mir
acles; the young man who turned the
water Into wine at Cans; the young
man who healed the sick at Caper
naum and is now the Idol of all peo
ple." As the whisperings went around
they stared at Him still tbe more.
8eelng Jesus present, the minister of
the synagogue who had charge of the
ark In which the scrolls were placed
went to Him and asked Him, as a
stranger, to take the roll of Isaiah and
read. When He read tbe text He gave
the scroll to the custodian, who put it
back in tbe ark; and when He sat
down all the eyes were fastened on
Him, expecting Htm to say something
strange. They heard such great things
about Him from Capernaum that they
were curious. He could perform great
miracles and they wished to aee ono.
They looked at Him to see what He
would do. But He still kept Ills seat
as Ills custom was In the synagogue.
Then He went on with His sermon:
"This day 1 the scripture fulfilled In
your ears." He preached a sermon
altogether too brond for those sensa
tion seekers. He snid to those bigoted
Israelites in Nazareth that when tbe
prophet Elijah was sent by the Ixrd
he was sent out to Serepta, unto a
woman that was a widow. And many
lepers were In Israel In the time of
Elisha the prophet, and none of them
were cleansed snve Naaninn, the
Syrian, who lived In far off Damascus.
He said unto them that no prophet wan
without honor save In Ms own coun
try, among his own klu, and then he
said: "I can do no mighty works here
because of your unbelief." And when
they found out thnt He would not per
form any great miracles, and that He
hnd practically spoken against Nazar
eth and His own people by saying that
the Lord bad people outside of Nazar
eth whom He loved as much as He did
tbe iHraelltes, then Indignation too
place of their admiration and bate suc
ceeded love. They a roue In a mob and
replied with angry words, and finally
drove Him out of the synagogue.
I wonder If one, In that great con
gregation, still retained respect for
Him and a recognition of His heaven
ly spirit and still retained love for
Illm. I think the subsequent historic
events are confirmatory of the local
tradition that there were two In that
synngogue in that day who still bold
their faith in Him, who sympathized
not with the rage of the populace and
who felt that in Him was the divine,
and who followed Illm to Capernaum
to become afterwards the founders of
the great church In Nazareth which
Influenced the age from the time of
Christ down to the time of tbe Cru
saders. To them, as He should be to
all, He became that day a citizen of
the whole world.
FRIENDSHIP AND BUSINESS,
By Rev. frank C. Brunei;
Friendship is born in adversity. Its
motherhood know the sorrow of the
world. Much of the so-called friend
ship Is merely whitewash. In theology
it will show it white urface, with a
heart as black as hell. Take a Cor
dovla with domestic love, dead in Its
coffin, ready for interment See it In
bunches of men in black cloth with a
top of silk hat, flrst-cltss hypocrite, to
conferences, convention and minis
terial gathering, talking mor denom
inatlonallstu than Christ.
Ther are well without wttr, trees
without leave, night without star,
flower without fragrance, field with
out harvest, pulpit without sermons,
garden without flowers, soldier with
out weapon, couutrlt without a
cause, furnace without a flr. singers
without a song, ship without a rud
der, a religion without faith, homes
without mother, meals without food,
a God without any heaven, a friend
without a country.
Such 1 a picture of a friendship,
which Is as pretentious th father
of hell, that Christ put In a das by
Itself.
There Is on who cam to th world
"the friend that sUcketh closer than
a brother." He touched with hi Influ
ence the perishing tu humanity and
cured It of It malady. It took tired
hearts and put their weariness Into
everlasting sleep; went Into th gar
den of humanity and killed th ugly
weed and left it blooming with the
blossom that will cast their fragrance
Into the centuries, never to die. That
Is the friendship of God.
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attributed it to a
ENVIRONMENT AND MORALS.
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Place an honest man among commer
cial rogues, or where business 1 gen
erally conducted dishonestly, and In
tbe m a J o r 1 1 y of
cases your bonet
man turn rogue or
Is beaten in busi
ness. Heredity as
tbe prime factor In
moral llf ha re
ceived great em
phasis. It Is un
doubtedly signifi
cant. But It has
bean overworked.
If man or woman
went wrong society
bad strain In ancea-
try somewhere. That settled th mat
ter. Society was guiltless. Th boy
or girl got badly born, tht was all,
and th matter was left to th Lord
and th child's ancestors. Society
washed Its bands of th whole respon
sibility. There ire signs of a wholesome reac
tion against overemphasis on heredity,
it Is becoming Increasingly apparent
that environment has more to do with
life, moral or physical, than heredity.
We are tbe victim of surroundings.
Where we live, how we live, the mani
fold Influences, circumstance are the
vital and effective forces in life-making.
Science baa shown that the struggle
for existence and th consequent sur
vival of the fltteat Is one method of
environment by which forms of life
are shaped.
Human being are equally subject to
the law and equally susceptible to the
Influence of surrounding. Place a
rogue where business la honestly con
ducted and lie turns honest by force
of circumstance or get beaten In tbe
game. All of which has Its signifi
cance In our social problems. We shall
have alum people so long a w have
slums. W shall have vlrlous people
so long as we permit vicious environ
ment their baleful Influence upon life.
The good folk grow up out of bad
conditions and bad people come from
good surroundings doe not vitiate the
general sociological proposition that
people are the result of environment
more than of native Instincts or hered
itary tendencies.
Institutions for wayward children
are well enough a a panacea, a make
shift an easy way to get out of social
responsibilities. But they do not go
deep enough. Note where tbe majority
of your bad boy and girl com from,
Ihe kind of home they have, tli.i
streets they live In, tbe kind and
amount of food they have, and then
change the conditions so that at least
the next generation of children from
the same sources will not need the
Bridewell. Scarcely a child that enters
your penal Institutions and graduates
a criminal but might have been an
honest citizen If his surroundings had
been better.
Clean out your moral cesspools of
one kind and another and the matter
of personal morals will largely take
care of Itaelf. Are we not spending
the most of our energy at the wrong
end of the problem?
SHQRT METER SERMONS.
All power Is born of ln.
No prayer 1 lifted on stilted phrases.
Love is the blossom of the tree of
life.
Tbe best way to pity a man ia to
pick him up.
The wealth of a church depend on
Its work.
A man should not bate hi call to
the ministry on the fact that hi mouth
water whenever he see a chicken,
PAJUBLt ABOUT CHARITY.
How th Twentieth Caatarjr DtvM
Olvs HI CrasitM.
One upon a time, and not so very
long ago, say th Nw York Press, a
certain rich man, whom w may call
Dive, received from a crtaln poor
man, whom w may call La tarns, an
application for th crumb that fell
from th former's tab!. And Dlts
aid: "Certainly. Ulp yourself."
And Latsrus thereafter waa a fre
quent applicant for crumb.
Whereupon a rsprvsentatlv of one
of th organised charities, bavtug
heard of th cos, called upon Dive
and remonstrated with htm for hi in
Judicious conduct
"Why not do this thing properly?"
b said. "Capitalize the crumb and
tend us check for the amount. Then
refer this person Leisrus to us, end
w will Investigate him. We bar a
corps of th ablest and highest priced
Investigators In tbe charity busluts.
If tbey find I-aianis a worthy person
b will get hi share of whatever may
be left of Ihe crumbs after deducting
the expenses of the management It
will save you a lot of bother, and if
you have no objection to letting your
right hand know what jour left hand
la doing you will see your name In the
papers. Of course, If you prefer to
contribute snoiiymoiisly, that is your
own affair."
I lve thought It was a good scbetu
and sent a check accordingly. I.asaru
waa duly referred to the organisation,
and being Investigated was found
guilty of chronic aversion to manual
labor and turned down.
IMvr did not contribute anonymous
ly and in consequence overheard dis
cussions of his generosity tu various
public places. One plain citizen. In a
street car, pcrlmpi, would say to an
other plain cltlxen:
"I should think be would contribute
something! Why, be won't miss wbst
be gave any more than you and I
would miss a nickel. He's got so much
money that he doesn't know what to
do with It, and I suppose he has to
get rid of It somehow. And when you
consider how he got It!"
Tbe other plain citizen, fully free
ing with bis friend, would further pro
reed to criticise the manner in which
Ilvea had disposed of his money and
would state what he would do if be
had lots of money and waa going to
give away some of It
And Dives would go home In no
very amiable mood and say: "Ueel
You can't satisfy some people not
even If 7011 give away th crumbs!"
EXCITEMENT CAUSES JAGS.
Emotionalism I as Intoxicating a
Strong Drink.
"Yes; In my opinion. It 1 quit pos
sible for a man to become Intoxicated
tu moment of great excitement and
sometimes a man will become Just a
drunk as he would If be emptied th
content of a gallon Jug," said tbe ob
servant man, according to th New
Orleaus Times-Democrat, "though It
Is, from my observation, very rar to
find a man who will lose control of
bis legs In case of this sort
"Crowds, with the excitement that
go along with tbeso gathering, the
noise an1 hurry and all that kind of
thing, will make some men drunk Just
as readily as booze. We have known
the same condition to be brought
about by great heights or distances,
by some person In reaching the top
of high buildings. Sesslcknens, In my
Judgment Is drunkenness. Have you
ever stood close to a railroad track
while a passenger train whirled by at
full speed? If you have you can un
derstand fully what I am trying to tall
you. Tbe noise and swift motion of
the train Intoxicated you for the mo
ment and for the time being you are
Just about as drunk as you can be.
"Rapidly moving street car will
have the same effect on some person.
Tbe temperament of tbe person, of
course, bss much to do with the de
gree of drunkenness resulting from
these condition. The crowd 1 prob
ably the most prolific source of drunk
enness of the kind I have reference
to. Few persons can escape some sort
of Intoxication In a crowd. The moat
sedate persons Imaginable will show
the symptoms, and you will find the
condition to exist no matter what tbe
character of the gathering. Crowd
In the streets will cause It. We find
It in tbe ballroom.
"Church gatherings are not exempt
I have seen preadiers noted for their
sedate, courtly and dignified bearing
drunk with the excitement and fine
emotionalism of some big religiou
gathering. No doubt almost every
man can recall many Instances of the
form of intoxication I have been die
cussing." "Hoist with His Own Petard,'
The humorous writer h wrote
A poor Joke of a "fighter who fote,
But the gag was so old
That ths joker wss sold
There was no other biter who bote!
Cleveland Leader. ,
When a woman Is unable to say any
thing nice about a man she tries te
make up for it by saying that be come
of a good family,
, If the average man had his just de
Bert th sheriff's boarding house
would be overcrowded,