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BY . L. RAINBEYX,
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DAWSON, GA., DECEMBER 14TH, 1915.
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1t is figured that 2,000,000 automobiles are in
the United States. Anyway, Terrell county has her
share of them, whether the figures are really accu
rate or not.
A Lesson Hard To Learn.
Perhaps carelessness is the outstanding human
characteristic. At any rate, color is lended this
theory when we counsider that persons who go out
in quest of game still Kkill themselves and kill
each other in spite of each preceding season’s dread
example.
The newspapers of Chicago kept account of such
casualties up to last Tuesday, and their figures
show, in eighteen states, fifty-nine killed and sixty
six wounded. Most of the victims lost their lives
because they insisted in dragging their guns
through and over impeding fences; and a feat
are that would be ludicrous were it not so serious
4s that a score of individuals were shot by fellow
hunters who mistook them for zame.
The encouraging statement is that fewer were
slain and hurt than during the last season, and it
may be that those who a-hunting go are really
learning a few things except how not to aim
straight.
We, The People.
Although it was business-like, with no more fuss
than if it was coming together after a week’s re
cess instead of nine menth’s absence, the opening
of the sixty-first congress, when We, the People, as
sembled for business, was marked with ecertain
solemnity.
Perhaps it was best voiced by the gray haired
chaplain when he uttered the opening prayer, call
ing for ‘‘peace with honor.”” Not a man there
but knew that the nation’s fate may rest on his
action in the mnext few weeks, for the President
is calling for $363,872,323 to defend our land. The
enormous sum of one and a quarter billion of dol
lars is the total appropriation that the government
requires. When we attained the burden of a
billion-dollar congress the country thought the
limit of endurance had been reached; but here is
a billion and a quarter, and a big chunk of it for
national defense from war.
The only bit of color at the opening of congress
was the appearance of about 2,000 suffragists, with
a giant petition asking that the Susan B. Anthony
amendment to the constitution be adopted. This
amendment has come up so many times and as
regularly defeated that it is worn threadbare.
All in gold and purple, buff and blue, the wo
men of the suffrage propaganda made a brave
showing as their line stretched far down the
capitol steps, carrying the petition signed by
thousands as it unrolled like a scroll, and they bore
it proudly in and laid it at the feet of the represent
atives of suffrage states.
Aside from the suffrage coloring the day was
dull and drab. The 96 senators and 435 represent
atives, assembled in the matter-of-course manner,
were sworn in, went through routine business,
chose presiding officers and settled down to work.
Almost the only notable was Uncle Joe Cannon,
former speaker of the house, who came back as
an ordinary member of the lower house. The new
leader of the majority. Representative Kitchin,
of North Carolina, came on the floor for the first
time in his capacity as leader and the country waits
his action. The majority he leads is but 27, in
stead of the 162 of the last session.
It gives promise of being a momentous session
of congress, pregnant with great possibilities, whose
outcome no man can see, since the war still leaves
all the world in doubt of what the next day may
bring forth,
Checking The Drug Habit.
The federal restrictive law against th'e use of
drugs is proving successful in checking the drug
forming habit.
A government report states that officials have
received the hearty co-operation of druggists every
where in stamping out the terrible evil, and that
now it is a comparatively easy thing to prevent
the sale of injurious druss. One of the largest
distributing wholesale drug houses in the world
says that its trade in opium and cocaine has de
creased 75 per cent since the passage of the law,
and wishes ‘“to bear testimony to the beneficial ef
fect of the efficient enforcement of the law.”
The hLorror and suffering brought to the sur
face, expecially in the large cities, by the early
enforcement of the law are passing away. The
task of uprooting the traffic in drugs has not been
accomplished without dreadful scenes of misery
and torment among the wretched unfortunates who
were driven to madness by the deprivations of ac
customed drugs. But their ravings, in most cases,
have ceased, and they have profited by their suf
fering.
The concern for the future is that the law shall
cortinue to be enforced.
The check exercised at present by the internal
revenue office upon all who buy, =ell or furnish
drugs, whether druggist or physician, must be main
tained. The first let-up will make easy the descent
to the limbo of dead letter laws, where so many
statutes repose unhonored and unsung.
He Began Wrong.
‘The New Jersey farm hand who slew four mem
bers of his employer’s family, his friend and him
self began at the wrong end of his intentions. If
he had killed himself first there would have been
a great deal less of a tragedy. About the only
thing commendable regarding his act is that when
he finished hig wild debauch of murder by com
mitting suicide he saved the state of New Jersey
the expense of a criminal trial and the probable ne
cessity of having to commit another legal homicide.
The man who commits murder and then suicide
if not rational. He is crazed and mentally.incom-
Petent, no matter whether his insanity arises on the
spur of the moment or has been present for vears.
But it would help considerably, when such a
man contemplates taking the lives of others and
his own, if he would become mixed up as to his
programme and begin on himself.
| What Is The Answer ?
! According to Dr. L. J. C. Flament, who has been
serving as a surgeon in the Congo, the native
|i troops of both the Belgian and German forces are
' practicing cannibalism. When they kill their oppo
-5 nents in battle they eat them afterwards.
! “The see us killing each other ’ says Dr. Fla
; ment ‘‘a thing we try to stop them from doing,
! and they say we are not different from them. So
i when they want to eat their enemies we cannot
| argue with them.”
] And what is there to say to these nesroes? We,
| the superior white men, self-appointed guardians
i“f civilization, boasting of our refinements and
l culture, have a way of deprecating as horrible the
! savageries of Africa, but how far removed are we
| from those excesses? We do not eat our enemies
‘ when we slay them, but we do practice barbar
-5 ities of which the black Africans never dreamed.
| We send missionaries among them to teach civil
ization’s niceties; and yet, even while the mission
aries are thundering the doctrines of peace and
good will into their ears, there is another thunder
in the distance. White men are slaying other
| white men by millions, and in the effort are em
| ploying forms of ghoulishness which outdistance
! all conceptions of African depravity.
i And if the Africans, then, say that we are in
| consistent and that we do not follow in the tracks
of our own teachings what shall we say to them
what is there for us to say in. contravention?
The Deserter.
His father and brother slain as they fought by
his side in the trenches, the marks of which clung
to his trousers when he landed in New York, a de
serter from the German forces has reached the
United States.
Desertion is a particularly reprehensible offense
under military laws. It is a crime punishable by
death.
Perhaps this is as it should be. No nation at
war can afford to leok lightly upon the offense of
the man who lays down his gun.
And, yet, there will be an exculpating thought
for the man who, wearied in body and soul, sick
ened at sights which met his gaze interminably as
one day succeeded another, his heart wrenched at
the sight of a dead father on one side of his posi
tion and a dead brother on the other, casts can
teen and what the world calls patriotism to the
winds, and departs for new scenes where he may
witness something besides the steady flow of human
blood.
America’'s big army of investors will fairly roll
in wealth in the next few months. A Wall street
house estimates that December and January divi
dend and interest disbursements will reach the
enormous total of $350,000,000, and on top of that
the profits to be divided, including wholesale and
retail firms, are roughly put at $300,000,000. Much
of this will go out in the Christmas and New Year's
mail. Two million shareholders and partners will
get slices of this great melon.
The French military authorities have just issued
a circular warning nurses not to flirt with their
patients. One hospital has gone a step further—
discharging all young and attractive nurses amd
replacing them with elderly maidens. The tem
perature of the patients of this particular hospital
certainly no longer rises at the sight of their nurses.
That’s taking a mean advantage of a sick and help
less fellow.
The United States deputy marshals of the North
ern district of Georgia were placed on salaries on
December first. This means that the federal fee
system, which has been operative for years and
which has been condemned and abolished in all but
a few districts, is a thing of the past here. It is an
example that Georgia could well follow. The evils
of the fee system are well-known to every informed
person.
The big newspapers are predicting that more
republican than democratic congressmen will vote
for the president’s policy of preparedness. That
remains to be seen. Congressmen always ought
to do what they think is best for the country, but
they usually proceed upon the theory that what
is best for the party is best for the country.
The Georgia congressmen all got good commit
tee assignments. This was due very largely to
the efforts and influence of Congressman Crisp, of
this district, who is a. member of the ways and
means committee, the most important committee
of congress, and which has the appointment of
members on the other committees.
The citizen who owns property in this town or
who expects to continue to make his home here
and then indulges in knocking reminds us of the
fellow who invented the kicking machine to use
on himself. He goes about cussin’ and kicking,
and is damaging his own interests as much as any
one’s.
Uncle Andy Carnegie again rises to announce
his conviction that the world is getting better. Per
haps Uncle Andy’s optimism, which is commend
able enough, is partly because he is not getting
any poorer as he marches down old age's deep
declivities.
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Georgia will soon be dry, and the Atlanta saloon
keeper who tacked up a sign on his place of busi
ness reading, ‘“‘Don’t ask us what’'we are going to
do after January Ist; what are vou going to do?”
has at least asked a pointed question.
Editor R. Y. Beckham is now in charge of the
Laurens County Citizen. Mr. Beckham is one of
Georgia’s best newspaper men, and has already
made decided improvement in the Citizen. We
more than wish him well.
The scientists having now averred that there is
no doubt regarding the existence of ecanals on
Mars we are patiently awaiting the intelligence of
a few slides. Even canals must be consistent.
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Lines To Be Remembered
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If T can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Intn bis nest again
I shall not live in vain.
—EMILY DICKINSON.
THE DAWSON NEWS
The Georgia delegation in congress, according to
a Washington dispatch, are lukewarm toward tlte
administration’s preparedness programme. They
evidently believe that there can be too much of
even a good thing.
Even in “dry” states the concoctors of Christ
mas cakes will very likely manage to secure a lit
tle of the famous ingredient without which no
Christmas cake is entirely respectable.
The trenches in France are now equipped with
steam heat and electric lights; but, at that, we are
glad that we may exercise our right of remaining
here in grand old Southwest Georgia.
The girl who packs her little powder rag along
with her wherever she goes may know but a min
imum of war and politics, but she is an indefati
gable exponent of preparedness.
THE TRAGEDY OF JUDAS
AND IMMOLTALITY OF HIS TYPE
Editor Dawson News: In every age Judas ap
pears—might almost say in every organization.
The trouble with Judas is that he thinks he is a
match for Caiphas—for every Judas there is a
Caiphas. They are eternal partners. Judas had
ambition, stupidity, confidence in his Master’s abil
ity to take care of Himself. And the thing that sold
Judas was his confidence that Judas, a common
every-day peasant’s association for three years with
a God, could enable him to cope in chicanery with
the descendant of Levi, reared in the atmosphere
and drinking in diplomacy as one takes water. He
had heard the Christ say if necessary “I can call
twelve legions of angels to my aid.”’ He knew of
the ministry of the angels during the forty days’
fast, he had seen Lazarus called from the tomb,
though putrefaction had set in; he had seen lep
ers cleansed; had seen bread multiplied; he knew,
as every Jewish child was taught, of the com
ing of the Messiah, who should restore and build
again the kingdom of David, and Caiphas believed
the same things. He did not think the Romans
would ever take the Christ—grant that he, unlike
Judas, had never associated with Christ—yet he
knew, as Judas did not, the prophecies, and he
believed while professing ‘‘that it was needful that
one die for the people, and that the whole nation
perish not,”” that once a clash being brought about
between the Roman and David’s son the Roman
would be overthrown, but he was careful for his
own safety, if peradventure he was fooled in this
prophet and the Roman should once come off con
queror he could say to Rome, “I bought this fel
low's betrayal by one of his followers for thirty
pence.”” Caiphas was playing a safe game, Judas
staked his all on his confidence that his highest
ambition was going to be accomplished—that he
would have the seat on the right hand that Christ
had refused to give to Zebeddee's ambitious sons
by placing his Master where to save Himself from
an ignominious death He must call on His angels,
and having called them events would drive Him
to use them for Tlsrael’s restoration, and when he
failed he did as his prototype often fails to do—
hanged himself—for he saw himself crucified along
with other traitors when Caiphas to save himself
should hand him over to the Romans for conspir
acy to commit treason. Judas preferred suicide to
crucification—most of us would. Remorse did not
kill him. He was born, as his prototypes are, with
out conscience and with fear of bodily harm or
bodily want.
Now, the application of the lesson this eternal
tragedy teaches will be left to the reader with this
injunction: Examine yourself and see how much
of it applies at home, and pass the balance to your
neighbor. ANDREW P. RIVES.
WILL AIRSHIPS REVOLUTIONIZE
THE RURAL FREE MAIL: DELIVERY
From the Farm and Fireside.
That the tvpical tin box with a flag to indicate
the presence or absence of mail may be replaced
by a net to catch the letters and packages dropped
from above by swift flying aeroplanes is the gist
of an article entitled “Speed for Our Mails.”
“During a congressional hearing two or three
vears ago,”’ it says, ‘‘a witness brought down on
himself some ridicule by asserting that the airship
is likely to be used some day for transporting the
mails. But it is now seriously proposed that on
certain routes between offices separated by mount
ains or broad waters the aeroplane be used for
the purpose of saving time in the carrying of the
mails.
“Speed is more important on many routes than
the ability to carry weight.
“The light motor-driven vehicle must have the
preference in serving rural routes wherever the
roads are so mearly perfect that they can be de
pended upon to be passable every day. The motor
cycle must occur to use wpen this matter is con
sidered. It is swifter than any other carriage ex
cept the airship. It is cheap. It will earry more
weight than many rural carriers must bear. More
over, it is legal.
“Postmaster General Burleson has authorized
the use on rural mail routes of motorcycles with
side cars. With the creation of good roads gaso
lene and wheels will place us who live on farms
rather remote from town almost as close to the
postoffice as are those with offices in the tops of
skyscrapers in the city.”
FTOUND HER FURS, BUT—
IFrom the Richland News.
The South Georgia Progress reports that a young
lady in a nearby town recently lost her furs, and
her best fellow dreamed that they had been stolen
and hid under a certain barn. The couple decided to
20 to the barn and see if the dream was true. On
approaching the spot they saw something that indi
cated the furs, and the young man proceeded to
reach under the barn to get them. It was furs all
right, but the furs on a live ‘‘fumigating sort’ of a
“streakedy-stripedy’ cat. Guess that guy doesn’t
want to hunt any more furs seon. ’
A PITY 'TIS TRUE.
From the Washington Reporter.
Why the sudden conversion to the theory of
“bird” conservation? These little silver-throatasd
songsters have been making music for the world
since the dawn of creation, yet they succeeded in
making comparativly few friends until it was found
that they contributed service toward the world’s
material prosperity. Alas! people want profits, not
praise. People who give themselves to the service
of humanity are generally referred to as failures,
and until our ideals undergo a change the world
will demand coin—not musiec.
WHY WHEREFORE AND WHEREFORE WHY?
From the Elberton Star.
It is stated that gasoline, alias Ford juice, is
selling in Maryland from 8 to 9 cents a gallon, <nd
in Georgia from 18 to 22 cents per gallon. It is
alsc stated that Hon. Wm. J. Harris, member oi
the federal trade commission, has been in Georgia
for some time investigating the whyness of this
wherefore. Wherefcre the investigation? Alsc
why?
NOT PARTICULAR ABOUT THE DRESSING.
From the Walton News.
A lot of women are like some Thanksgiving
turkeys—too much white meat and not enough
dressing.—Dawson News.
And, still, you must bear in mind that a good
many folks are partial to white meat. When it
comes to turkey or chicken we’ll take it every time,
dressing or no dressing.
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Too Good 1o Live,
He never smoked, he never drank;
He never said, “How dry 1 am!”
The filthy weed he thought was rank:;
He never used the cuss word ‘‘!!!**!”
He came home early every night—
Of this fact I am positive—
And on his tombstone one might write:
‘“Alas! he was too good to live!”
A model man in all respects—
He even went to Sunday school;
Quite free was he from all defects,
He'd never heard of Kelly pool;
His hard-earned salary each week
To friend wife he would always give,
And those who would his tombstone seek
Might read: ‘‘He was too good to live!”
He paid subscriptions in advance;
He never knocked his native town;
He wielded no reformer’s lance,
He never sought for cheap renown.
1f you but pleased him he would write
And tell you how much joy you give—
(Not many persons soo polite)
Alas, he was too good to live!
Failure of Radicalism.
For several years past radicalism has been pre
eminent in the national life. The press has been
bombarded with all sorts of propaganda pro-this
and pro-that. Questions of vital importance to the
nation have been relegated to the rear to make
room for the fad of some politician or organiza
tion, and all kinds of governmental schemes have
spread over the country with alarming rapidity.
Not all of this propaganda has had the basis of
truth. PBig business organizations have been known
to bring on contests such as prohibition or wo
man’s suffrage in states which had not been pre
pared through a campaign of education to vote in
telligently on the adoption or rejection of such pro
posed laws. In the meantime the organizations
which brought about the contest, safe in the se
clusion in which the apparently more important
movement shrouded them, have been able to secure
legislation of tremendous importance to their spe
cial interest. But the people are no longer being
fooled by the radicals. Voters are going more
slowly about the adoption of laws that tend to up
turn their entire economic status. Thus woman'’s
guffrage, which had been adopted wildly by a num
ber of western states in the first throes of the de
mand for votes for women, was defeated in New
Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The women
of these states claim that they will adopt woman’s
suffrage eventually. In the meantime they will
continue their educational propaganda, and vot
ers will have a chance to study both sides of the
question. When the decision is finally made the
result will be a lasting and beneficial one. The
prohibition question likewise was slated for sev
eral states this year, but wiser heads prevailed, and
these states postponed the contest until Ohio pass
ed again on the question, realizing that the Buckeye
state held millions of dollars invested in the liquor
business and that the decision of the voters of the
state weould not be made lightly. This is as it
should be. Reforms must come slowly in great
bodies. No matter how desirable a law may seem
it should not be forced on an ignorant public by
fanatics or radicals. It is only through careful
study and step by step that we can make substantial
and lasting prosress.
Habitation Tax.
Victor Morawetz, a New York corporation law
yer, proposes a habitation tax as a means to force
each citizen to contribute to the government in
proportion to the luxury in which he lives and to
prevent tax-dodging. He would have every resi
dent assessed on the basis of the value of the
house and land occupied as a dwelling, and would
also assess the resident on the number of servants
employed. If the resident dwells in an apartment
or hotel he would be required to pay tax upon
his proportionate share of the valuation of the
entire building and the ground on which it stands.
Provision is made for having landlords and hotel
keepers make returns for their tenants. Mr. Mora
wetz suggests that provision should be made ‘n
New York for a $6,000 exemption. No one occu
pyving a dwelling costing less than that sum, would
be required to pay anything. Mr. Morawetz takes
the burden of taxation off the middle-class city
dweller and dumps it onto the shoulders of the
rich and the farmer. Every farmer would be re
quired to pay according to the valuation of his
house and lot, while the festive city dwellers would
find some easy means of getting within the exmp
tion.
Reading and Gum.
Reading is no longer an intellectual exer
cise, but a mere habit, like chewing gum.—
from a sermon.
In ancient times, when liter-chure was chiseled
on a stone, or worked in hierogdyphics on a tem
ple or a throne, folks read for mental exercise, for
culture—angd then some. Today we do our reading
like a shop girl chews her gum.
When monks with much painstaking care il
lumed the printed page initialed manuscripts so
rare were doubtless all the rage; as curiosities to
day those pages white we thumb, content to do our
reading like a shop girl chews her gum.
When Bibles were so valuable they had to chain
‘'em down, and parties who could read would act
as if they owned the town, to write your name was
looked upon about like Kingdom Come—today we
do our reading like a shop girl chews her gum.
Though lots that’s writ today is trash there's
much that can be found worth reading; though the
price is cheap books and newspapers abound; and
for the many millions now the printing presses
hum, and reading is a habit—just the same as
chewing gum.
I The Human Heart '
From Collier’s Weekly.
The war has shown again the unchanging cour
age of mankind, and it has shown also their un
failing helpfulness. Behind the cruel meanness
of conquest-plotters, the muddling of demagogues
and the corruption of political parasites we gee this
fundamental background, this world of the human
heart. Aviators honor their foes and take pains to
send home news of them. Soldiers of all races
have to be held back from facing certain death
in trying to aid their wounded comrades. A cap
tive German officer may revert to his attitude of
trained insolence, but in the trenches his men are
his ““boys.” An Englishman in Red Cross work in
Gallipoli writes:
“The nurses are tiptop,.and the orderlies a reve
lation. They are so gentle and patient. The shat
tered and in many cases dying men cling to thein
like frightened children, and they comfort and
soothe them like any woman. I did not think they
had it in them. They are just an ordinary set of
ruffians in everyday life.”
Add to this the endless accounts of unselfish de
votion to others on the part of the home popula
tions now at war and you get a clear vision of
what people are. Not what they may become un
der some system of evangelism or method of edu
cation or hygienic discipline or economic Utopia,
but what they are now, today, with all their im
perfections that so vex and harrass reformers. If
a fairy godmother could give this sad old world
one gift it might well be a magic to turn this
dumb love into power, to establish the policies of
kingdoms and empires upon the unselfiish fairness
and the helpfulness-unto-death that even now is
warm in the hearts of common men.
PRCENMBRE 3e,. 104,
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‘ The Burglar and the Moo, '
“It might not seem m
burglar to the New York Sun, “that ap alninl,lred
would be of any particular use in our busif{@l\f“‘
but we always keep one in the house; we yo.
do any country work in the full of the mooy,
“In the city you can keep in the shadow of
buildings, but you can’'t do that in the countpy
Sure, in many country towns and villages v,
would find streets lined thick with treeg with ‘[iu
shade under them solid and dark, but they, vOe
might find spaces without trees, and plep;, .
trees in front, but none at the side. el
“Again you would find country roags With |
trees at all, and you know the light of , fulfi
moon on a night when the air is clear. 0 sue}
a night you can see a man coming along 4y Ol’Eli
country road as plainly as you could by day ang
of course, it would be foolish to take such ch’ancef
as that. But in my business, as in any other, y,,
have to learn by experience. £y
“When 1 was still a young man I walkeg one
day through a country town that I likeq the looks
of very much. There was one house in pal'ticula;
that looked to me very hopeful, and a day op e
later I went back at night for that house.
“The moon was full at that time, and evep, com
paratively young as I was then I think ] shmild
have had sense enough to keep away if the night
had been clear, but it wasn’t; it was dark ang
stormy. It had been clouding up all day, apg by
night it had come on to rain, with what lookeq like
a long, settled storm, and it was dark enough fop
anybody.
““But along about 1 o’clock, just before | struek
this town, the wind changed. It still raineq but
not quite so steadily; it would let up a little gpee
in a while, and the wind was rising and the trees
beginning to thrash. Of course, if I had beep 01(1‘111
I would have turned around right then anq there
and gone back, but a man has to have senge o
know when to give up. It was still dark g a
pocket and still raining, and I thought | could
get through.
“There were the big trees all along in front of
this house, and under them it was as dark as it
would be in a tunnel, but around at the side tjeye
were no trees at all. There it was all open, and
away off, far off, I could see, not an opening, but
a little thinner small spot in the clouds, but gver.
head and all around near it was still thick and
black, and so I went in, hearing the wind blow and
hearing those big trees thrashing around out iy
front.
“Just as I got into the room I was after insige
the house there came a gust that I thought was
going to tear those trees up by the roots, and then
came another gust that did break something that
split those deep black clouds overhead wide open
and let out what seemed to me the biggest and the
whitest and the brightest moon I ever saw.
“It seemed fairly to jump out, and it shot into
that room a big broad moonbeam that fel] square
on the face of a man lying there in bed; it looked
like hitting him with a big white club. It never
moved him, but it did so startle me that I dropped
my jimmy.
“I got away all right, and so there was no harm
done, but that experience was a sufficient warning.
Always after that in all country work I went never
by the weather, but always strictly by the almanac.”
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Fom the Pittsburg Post,
“Up Salt River” was where all the defeated can
didates used to 80. Apparently nobody navigates
that difficult and unlucky stream today.
The term ‘“‘going up Salt river” is very nearly
obsolete, yet for upward of a century and up to a
few years ago it was the universal way of describ
ing defeat.
The real Salt river is in Kentucky. To get eighty
miles it winds around 160 miles. Onece it was
filled with debris and natural obstructions, mak
ing it very difficult for even a rowboat to get up
stream. A Kentuckian first coined the political
phrase ‘‘Up Salt river.”
A democratic Locoforo campaign hymn in 1840
directed against Tippecanoe Harrison ran thus:
“We are marching wup Salt river, a sad and
glooniy band.”
Voters gave the lie to that song at the presiden
tial election, when ‘‘Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.”
went bounding into office.
The next year Congressman Duncan of Ohio
said on the floor of the house: ‘The federal party
has been dead for forty years. For forty years
it has been rowing up Salt river.”’
|
i I'he Sunset |
What is a sunset? A few bunches of mist hap
pen to sag down toward the ground anywhere from
S to 30 miles away from where we stand; certain
rays from the sun, which intervening hills or fields
hide from our eyes, strike these piles of vapor in
such a manner that certain prismatic effects are
produced. That is all that science has to say about
it. What says the poet, the artist, the seer, the
saint, the child? They say that a new world is
being revealed; they say that the windows of
heaven are being opened; they say they behold al
luring beauties. They declare taat by looking at
the sunset they find true answers o hard problems;
that they get strength for life’'s work; patience for
its trials; that they find joy to offset life’s pain;
they say that they find love to conquer life's quar
rels; they say they find hope and peace and joy—
and God.
What can the sneering scientist say to these
seers? Nothing. The blessings they get from the
sunset cannot be measured and located by his tapes
and chains, his theodilites, his angles, his prisms,
his barometers, nor even his telescopes.
(e
l Tours Europe Yearly on $ll5 '
Soasoad eol s R S e e
From the Christian Science Monthly.
Attention is being called to the record of a Balti
more street sweeper getting $l2 a week who Visits
Europe annually. Earning usually about $5OO 2
vear he saves $ll5, with which he gets passage
and sustenance during a nine weeks’ outing. There
is no need of challenging the tale. It is possible.
assuming certain standards of living and travel
The record can be repeated by others, given the
same desire and the same acceptance of what the
experiment involves. Moreover, the case has d Cer”
tain symbolic value, preaching economy and Spal”
tan rigor to many tourists who journey in pomp
and luxury. But too much virtuous advice should
not be based on so exceptional a case. When more
street sweepers get nine weeks time off and f‘aT}
live, even as bachelors, on $l2 a week and save
approximately $lO a month, then it will be timely
to generalize.
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[ So-Called “Old” Whiskey |
bt st it s el A NN et S
Another blow to Colonel Bluegrass! The Ne¥
York health department, in one of its weekly bul
letins, recently held that ‘‘fine old whiskies and
brandies’’” were just as harmful as cheap bra“‘.is
of liquors. Age apparently makes no difference mn
the harmful effects of whiskey.
The health department bases its conclusions on
the result of tests to determine the effects of in.i
jurious substances in whiskey, such as fllS_9l ol
and fur-furol. It was found that cheap liquor
contained larger proportions of the two in.zredl;
ents, but the department declared that it is 10
fusel oil but ethyl alcohol that is injurious in whis
key.
High-grade brandies and aged whiskies con
tain almost as much of the deleterious ethyl alco
hol as do the cheaper brands of liquor. ;