The Newtown bee., 1891-12-04
The Bee Buzz.

physician OF great reputation, says thal
the large majority of those who drink
alcohol in any of its DISCUSSES are injured
by it. As d cause of disease, it gives
origin to great populations of afflicted
persons, many of whom suffer even to
death without suspecting from what
they suffer and, unsupported, some of
these live just short of the first stage OF
natural old age; others only to ripe
adolescence.
This is the perfection of manhood and
the glory of wOmanhood, what one is in
spirit and in truth, in qualities of mind
and heart. In our admiration of a great
picture, it is not the pigments and details
Of the painters brush which absorb our
attention, but the grand ideal of the
whole, the spirit and the truth, the thought
and sentiment of the artist. So God
looks on our lives and so should we.
''The costume of the noblest art is al
ways the plainest drapery." The per-
lection of the most beautiful character
is the simplicity of the eternal life. How
sad it is that the feast of the world is Of
ten more than the fellowship; and the
dress delights one more than the wearer
Is a certain book good or bad? How
can we tell? What shall be our standard
of Judgment? Shall we estimate by what
there is in it simply? or by the general
effect it may be found to have on its
readers? or by the particular lessons it
aims to inculcate? The judgments Of
critics and readers are like their watches,
no two of which may be alike, yet each
will go by his own. Haphazard reading
is attended with dangers. What would
be safe and profitable for one might mis-
lead another. Some people call the BIZ
BILE an immoral book because the devil
and bad men and bad women are pictur-
ed on its pages. But why are they
pictured there? Not to approve their
lives, but to condemn them. A know
ledge of good and evil, side by side and
in fearfully mixed relations, is a neces-
sary part of the experience of this world.
How we receive this knowledge is an i'm
portant consideration.
The president of the Ohio State for
estry association says: There is scarcely
farm of 100 acres in Ohio and the
originally wooded States but from 20
to % per cent of its surface can be more
profitably devoted to tree culture than
to anything else. In fact, there is much
of the best farming country that is use
less for crops, as the farmer knows and
yet is we'll adapted to the growth of
trees. These comparatively useless
tracts should be planted to the right
kind of trees and the whole farm there
by made productive, while the influence
of such planting and nurture, in beauti-
flying the landscape, in rendering the
country more salubrious, the climate
more equable, the fruit crops surer and
the vegetable product larger, would
greatly enhance the moneyed value of
the land and render life far more enjoy
able.n
We must confess that the study of the
motives which lead to political action on
the part of a large per cent of the men
who hold the sovereign power of the
ballot is not encouraging to the man
who is devoted to the principles of good
government. One citizen votes for his
man because the man wants very much
to go. Another votes as favor to a
friend of the candidate. Others vote as
they do to pay an old score. Some vote
for their neighbor or for the man in their
part of the town. Others act on the
ground of self interest in the way of
trade. One candidate wins votes on the
promise of a supper and some men who
are in financial trouble will go for the
man who gives them lift. And so the
balance of power is in the market and
the government is in the hands of brok-
ers.
There is nothing that this country
needs more than real Christian Conn
munism. We would rather leave off the
s'ism.s could we be as well understood
by saying Communes. Our social and
political divisions are too conventional.
Government by towns, cities and States
is too arbitrary. Community Of inter-
ests IS the natural basis of local self
Sometimes atown is also
a commune; the people all know each