The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-14

seldom made prominent. Our trials by jury
are often really nothing more than trials by
oratory.
THE proportion of early marriages is yearly
diminishing. The principal reason is that
young men are afraid lest they chain them
selves to women who would ruin them by
costly indulgences. But here they err. There
is no woman but can accommodate herself
uRconsciously to the position Of her husband
if she love him, while but few indeed are ca
pable of accommodating themselves to
higher social sphere than that in which they
moved previous to their marriage. The mar
ket is open. Do not be in hurry. Yet do
not put off the time because you are unable to
enter upon matrimony with your pockets full
of money. OF course one should be careful
that he is not making sacrifice that will re-
suit in sem-starvation, but why, as gentle
Robbie Burns pathetcally sings, should "sae
sweet flower as love depend on Fortunes
shining?"
INNUMERABLE are the SINISTER predictions
which have been made as. to our existence.
Aeromancy and meteoromancy, oneiromancy,
nomancy and arithmancy, even chromancy
and stitchomancy have been resorted to in
order that soothsayers, wizards, astrologers,
mathematicians and others might scare some
of us out of our wits by telling us the end of
the,world was close at hand. We have heard
the prophetic warnings of these persons and
we still live; but now listen to statement
that will make you shudder: "a scientist in
Nature calls attention to the pollution of the
air by the burning of coal, and calculates that
in the year 1900 all animal life will cease TO
exist on the globe, from the amount of carbonic
oxide thus produced. He extimates that Ioo,-
ooo, 900 tons of coal gas have escaped in the
air during the past 80 years" But in 1900,
Notwithstanding the assertion Of the scientist
we shall probably be as numerous as ever and
as happy, provided such croakers as he do not
bob up serenely more often than at present.
A REMARKABLE struggle has been termin-
ated by the dismissal of the libel suit brought
by Prince Bismarck against Professor Momm-
sen. 1t arose over discussion in the ReiChS-
tag, ia which Mommsen declared BiSmarck's
political system to be "Schwindelpolitik,"
which, he subsequently explained, meant con-
in understanding. But the
true cause was Mommsen's belief that Prince
Bismarck had an anti-Semitic bias. The con-
test was one of might against right. might
goes before right" said Bismarck, and all the
rest of the civilized world wondered that any
one, claiming to be as intelligent as he, had
the audacity to make such a, declaration. But
Bismarck encountered formidable opponent.
The man of iron met his match in the man of
brains. The one stood surrounded by thou
sands of cringing persons ready to do his bid
ding the other stood on the firm ground of
reason, almost alone and unaided. The
statesman and warrior, the foremost man of
the day, though he himself had long engaged
in making the history of the present, learned
simple truisms from the renowned scholar
who laid before him the history of the past.
Prince Bismarck acknowledged his error, and
thus did much to augment the peaceful secur-
ity TO be found in the homes of the German
nation.