Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-02-01
"Man's inhumanity to man,
n l1p~ an, = ! Inso l.


JUST what inspired the illustrations
pJet to write the above lines does not ap-
pear upon the surface, nor is it necessary
to know in order to appreciate their full
force and truth. Burns was made to feel
the sting of critics more perhaps than
any other writer of the age in which he
lived because he had reached position
where envy always concentrates its
forces. Writers dread critics as they do
pestilence. 1t requires less ability and
brains to criticlse and pick to pieces the
studied efforts of writers than any other
literary pursuit. In referring to this sub
ject great poet says:
"Critics, appalled, I venture on the name,
These cutthroat bandits In the paths of fame. :
1t may have been the sting of these lit
terary bandits that msved Burns to give
expression to the couplet at the head Of
this article, but it will bear an appllca
ton to nearly all the relations and CIR
cumstances in life; to all ages of the
world and e, cry stage of individual exls-
tence from the cradle to the grave.
1t is an inherent selfshness in human
nature, that crops out in the infant in not
allowing any one else about the house to
sleep because 1t is restless, and expires
with the aged veteran only when he
launches his bark to cross the dark river.
1t manifests itself more or less IN diferen:
individuals. but it IS there in some shape
all the same. 1t is seen conspicuously on
the trains where young man will curl
himself up and occupy whole seat while
gray haired man stands in the
aisle waiting for the conductor
to come along, take the young
man by the ear and inform him that the
seat was made for two; or the young lady
who would be desply offended if the
newspaper should fail to say she was
amiable, who comes into the coach oc-
cuples one half of the seat herself and
ths other half with bird Gag, while
mother with one child in her arms and
another on either side hanging to her
skirts, stands waiting for some gentleman
or lady to offer her seat.
In business relations men would almost
invariably rather see their neighbors lose
than to lose themselves; and to this end
they unload upon each other stocks,
bonds and other property that are on a
decline. In social relations the lady sho
has worked for weeks upon her new dress
to outshine all others at the party or So
clal feels life to be burden
when she overhears such rem marks
as "what horrid 1T II don't
think it is bit presty-lt's old last years
goods" coming from those who, few
garments before, had fattered her with
the compliment that her dress was "too
pretty for anything This is likewise
the inhumlnity of human nature.
But woman, with all her foiblcs and
fau Is, who IN nine hundred and ninety
nine cases out OF every thosand is mo, e
sinned against than SHINING in the ordi-
nary conflict with human nature, as a
mother, with lew exceptions, can and
does rise to perfection of unselhshness
never attained by man. While in time
of sudden calamity the man will instinct
lively save himself firt the mother will as
,nst,nctIvely rush into the very jaws of
doath to save rcr children. The father
may have his pride wounded by the way
wardness of his children until he closes
his doors against them forever, but the
mother cllngs to themwith an unseldshness
that knows no bounds but the grave; and
We wish to impress 1t upon every boy and
girl IN town that all the restraints placed
upon them by their mothers is frem
more uuselfsh motive than any other in
huences they see around them, come
from what source they may. Your
mother may imagine there IS danger
or evil where there is one, out
not often is she mistaken, and you viii
never be any the worse of by obeying her
injunction even If she should be mista-
ken. The great Daniel Webster after he
had attained to honor and glory not sur
passed by any statesman, the American
nation or the world ever produced, paid
tuc IOnOWtuk CIO4ucus tIIoutc W uIS
mother. "All that am, whatever that
may be; all that l have been, whatever
that may have heen, and all that hope
to be in this life attribute to the influ-
ence of my mother" President Garfield,
At his inauguration into the highest Of
6c,al position in the gift of the American
people acknowledged before the vast
multitude, composed in part of the great
est and most renowned men of the ma
ton, aud through that multitude before
the world the influences of his neither
who was present. The young man or
young woman, boy or girl, who defies the
admonltions of his or her mother or will
speak lightly OF her in any respect is on
the road to ruin.
AMONG the recent changes in the Of.
ficials OF the Northern Pacific railroad
we are pleased to see . recognition OF the
ability, industry and services OF J. NJ.
nao0sfor5 and Char1ea q Fee Mr.