The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-05-27
,sOCIETY'' SWELLS,- :
CHAINS, 49, Humbugs and
"Rotten Spots. -
Where They are
Found.

: AnA Ip,s never meant any more than
Vas Society SANDER. ~
IS II. I Simply because we don't belong
"Sa ;, the sort to whom people would
'U at ,sn either SANDER or town gossip
thing No gentleman has ever mistaken US
ne fra sgil tub or sewer.
To rehash SANDER or gossip is
ef Oh beues.h our calling, and would lead
cons. away from certain great principles
igoroq ,dvocl'ea Dy US , aD' years VIZ
little should govern Offices or paoplc-but
ut the nrinciples sound, moral, social and
brol., business principles, whether we have
and ,iM said or will say, will be, aud have
"a 81 been controlled by these principles
If any individuals have read or
,u"ec'F apparently stood in the way then the
'emHW fault was not our own.
OF any There is a great touch. stone OF
Il follow right reforms "are simply the putting
If p., up Of niger boards, pointing to this
touch. stone Of right made dim often
.',' by abuses
!" 10 We deny tho propositions that
9elarl peope or that society is worse today
-oat and tnsn it used to be- pon the whole
a the world is better than ever before,
as we think The two extremes In
"socie,y" are the places where
Err MON orotten spots" are found The top
,.-, and bottom of society.
a m This question was put to an eminent
Neu 'hi student of human kind: "Where do
'elnS aH YOU find the mos! rotten?' The Prof
cham placed vessel of fluid to boil; after
extern Hboiling, he allowed to cool, then
turdav kemarked The impurities are the
who u scum on the top and the sediment at
uthe bottom; the best in the middle -
~ |1 that is society Avoid the top aud
W per the bottom. If you desire to fad
guar swels, humtug, and "roiten spots"
IN all 60 among the upper tens from the
not dt3 sma,l town to the city for seuseless,
JRNIN Aippaut, empty set, whore mernness is
? let i bred and born Go among these self
l.. .r,. HconStituted aristucrats, cod fish In
, ''' origin and as mean as the devil wants
them in practice
More deeds Of darkness are done,
smorc embryo lives destroyed, more
Law kfrauds perpetrated more men default,
20 rs sAess value is placed upon real merit
va s&S sir>ue Or Intelligence, more playmates
MaS1re found for the devil more idle
rteNGyM *f2hHuo IOI utNuS WON pa dcCr- iOS
novs kStituon, murders and thievery are
main sic habitation Of idIeness, Top or
pam -, Ebot,om
An, ,s E This applies also to the other
&c GIN &eStreme gredation, loss of self
one 3respeo', caused by idleness, at the
5 is Hbottom at society, plays the other half
Ms shy SOt the scene.
mos The longest, strongest, and best
- II step which any charitable disposed
81 Eperson can provide for the needy is
o's' something to do, and the best prevent.
j hau i've of all crime in higher or lower, top
in tai or bottom, is something to do work.
Mrs I'm my visit to the jackson street
as "a, nursery, asked Mrs. Mcdonald the
4hs,s queston: "From the history of the
H.. women whose babies you have here,
, NV ", what is the GREATEST evil producing
II Wv the results we see?"
eratloa The reply was: Girls raised in
on idleness, and when grown, found they
: NJ did not know how to cook biscuit or
,ar. tr make a garment, and when children
Dat were born, they soon became dis
.h,,1 gusted and fell"
'm Nv. Take girl or boy, raise them in
-" idleness, and the devil always takes
'H'i lne ldie IN as playmate. ne ron
rrh 10 keep their children from work like q
OF h wal around tree, take the wall
nc sor down and the first breeze blows over
ooths the tree it falls. In this particular,
Tsv, the bottom and top are alike, one
's above work, aud the other below work,
Hs either producing the same, differing
lal' only in enormity -Humbugs, swells,
tn on and rotten spots
H. m We conclude then-that, the peo
lblir, pie who by labor, -work of some
instr klnd-provide competency-a living
cd ID are the only safe, reliable and happy
hi; peaple, living by work is the only
safeguard" to our citizenship. Says
agreat writer There is wisdom in
pam our vagrAncy laws and they should be
e w ngldly enforced There was great
Jas Il wisdom in the dying father who told
used j his sons sin certain piece of ground
..d; 4 gold was hid" They diligently dug up
-. Tue held, found no gold pieces but
III made an abundant crop, by earnest
n, cultivation and habits of industry. 1t
pl Al ~ !,