The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-12
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS
by MEMO.


Copyrighted.
Timely and discriminating praise is the
very essence Of hope at the moment Of
deepest depression. 1t enables one TO add
that extra ounce Of effort just as the load
Of purpose is hating a few inches below
the crest Of the hill Of difficulty. 1t turns
faint-heartedness into faith. But beware,
you, whose trials are many and whose
purposes are high. OF the friend who la
bells everything Of yours as well done"
lie IS your most serious enemy. He leads
you by his constant approval to a feeling
Of dissatisfaction, and then. like some
fair appearing, but fated tree, the decay
at your heart commences. Not every act
Of yours is well-directed; not every judg-
ment is sound; and he who tells you other
wise is not friend, but foe
Give dog a bad name. and he might
as we'll be hanged; and a s,san in like case
is not much better Off Dead, a wreath
may even be found on his grave. but alive
the ghost a murdered reputation keep ris-
ing in his path. An old Quaker. with his
sectarian observation-disclosures strong with
in him showed the door to a growing cur
and said: I will not kill thee, but I will
give thee a bad name" The moment the
dog left his doorstep he called down the
street, Mad dogv' and then watched
the neighbors kill the poor brute.
| reckon the Recorder of Deeds above has
| blood-guiltiness marked against many a
man whose hand has never been raised
10 smite his brother.
A good father Of high social Standing
/ once said to me regarding his children:
| others are just as good as they are but
/ no better. II reminded me of Theodore
| Parker's Interpretation of what consti-
/ tuted true democracy. He said II was:
| NOT 1 am as good as you are; but YOU
/ are as good as l am" If we enter fully
mo me spirit of freedom and liberty.
we shall not like anarchists, try to level
/ people down. but rather in the spirit of
| christian socialism, level them up A
| democracy, in which every mans voice
| is as powerful as every other mans is a
| menace TO itself, unless there is a constant
| upward tendency of the whole body pol-
| ltlc. our social edifice cannot be reared
to grandeur or, if reared, cannot be per-
| petual, unless it be founded on the solid
rock of an intelligent, patriotic, progress
sive people.
| Why is the modern purpose" novel
| raining INTO disfavor with the great mass
| or readers? Because neither men nor wo.
| men like to discover themselves in a
temple or q crypt, when they set out
| with the. intention of entering a theater
| - - NHO same pIlNclple at work that
| Coihpels an angry exclamation when we
| reach the foot of a column of romantic
| anu starting reading, and discover we
nave been led Interestingly on, only to
| nave ourselves brought face to face with
| the merits of a porous-plaster or a tootn-
| wash. The purpose" novel if well ana
| interestingly written, is rather apt to de-
Leat its own ends. The youthful reader
VIII pass over the dry parts so long
as he can keep the thread of the story
unbroken. while the mature turning the
weary mind to fiction as a refreshment.
| gets impatient at this capsule method of
administering moral and physiological and
| psychological truths
To generalize freely, it is safe to saw
tnat the most serious obstacle in the wav
OF the moral redemption of a woman is
| woman herself The moral dsreIictions
that she has been apt TO condone in a
man. she condemns in a woman She viii
straln at the gnat of a trhing indiscre-
ton on the part of a girl friend and vet
swallow the most preposterous droYna-
dary in the behavior of a man. The one
mls-step of woman is recalled with whis-
pers ana shrugs, while the notorius lbe~-
tine is received in society with smirks
and smiles. Woman too often will theo.
| rlze on Gods forgiveness of sins, but her
feeble imitation of Him will be extended
| toward man and not woman
The homely old saying, Sauce for the
goose IS sauce for the gander," comes
| in here very appOsitely. Not one wor5
should be said in favor of lowering in the
| nina or woman the moral standards
| she has helped so strongly to maintain
but the barbed-wire defenses must he
| nlgh enough to stop trousers as well as
| petticoats. When she reaches the divine
| perception that shrank not from tbe
| washing by penitential tears while a re-
| Duke was administered to the sacrosanct
| Pharisee, when she understands thar vvo-
| man may really reform, and when she
| insists that man must, there will then
be fewer fallen men, and as consequences
! fewer fallen women
1t is hardly possible to find a be++er
| concrete example of the progress in rro.
| pulsion since the days of the Caesars
| than by comparing the galley q vessel
| propelled by oars, with the modern At
| lantic liner. In a vessel 600 feet lone IL
| would be practically impossible 10 find
| room for more than 400 oars on q si6s
| Assuming now that three men work each
| oar and six men exert one-horse mower
| there must need be 2,400 men working al
one time to exert 400 horsepower Al
least, as many more men would
| nave TO be in reserve to rem
der progress continuous. The trif
| ling result is almost lost to sigbr
| when We bear in mind the fact that the
largest ocean steamer exerts 10. 500 horse
| power; or, If represented by man-power
| would require rowing crew of III OO1
| with the same number in reserve Even
| If possible TO carry this number of men
| in vessel, by no means could their
| power be so utilized as to develop a speed
of 20 knots an hour.