The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-24
Some Rambling Thoughts.
BY NEMO.n


II BY ''NEMO.n
/ Each individual male reader will
have to judge of the justice of the fol-
fpwing attack upon our sex. 1t is the
i IMPRESSION of a woman's opinion.
PThe very eagerness of a man for his
Meals shows him to be the inferior
uimal. Keep him hungry when he
j taches home and there is peace
Jdeither for God nor woman, for he
4, nds fault with both. To make man
docile and tractable you must treat
him like a snake, gorge him. This
kmay be brilliant, but it is too severe.
Hparticularly as woman from the story
4 IF Eden onward has not shown great
'sskill in managing snakes; and posi-
| bly, not much more in managing men.
| The woman, to whom a man is moth
ing more than a thing to be petted
and pampered with this and that
\ qualification, will find her theory
n trongly confirmed by the "animal''
iseithin him. But the woman who be
faeves in other, grander possibilities
IN man will find them there, because
lille expects and demands them. Men
. We, after all, but plastic clay, and
nike on readily the forms into which
] me gentle hands Of woman mold
them. This also has been shown from
the story Of Eden onward. At least
| that is what Memo thinks.
49,
Never have any hesitation about
learning from others. ii we each
were held down to the knowledge we
aseGgld acquire by personal travel and
investigation the amount we did not
know would be even more mOnu-
mental than it now is. But beware,
| you ominivOrOuS learners, OF acquir-
ing ideas and then having them re
main unassimilated, like the food on
an overloaded stomach. AS to learn
ing, | would say, be in skeptical
frame of mind; reject the things that
you prove to be untrue; read, mark,
learn and inwardly digest all the
truths that you approve, or that
reach you from reliable sources, and
let them become part of yOu: just as
the steak you eat and asSimilate is no
longer steak, but has become part of
yOu, your blood, your brain, your
| power.
70 be sincere in this advice as to
skepticism. | should have to warn
you against accepting statements be
cause they are in print alas, this
would include even these"Thoughts."
For them ] ask no hearing, no recep-
ton except where they interpret some
little particle of the great universe of
| Truth, divine and human, in which
we live, and of which we permit our
selves to partake, some more and some
less, as we journey.
~
II 10 S,,1i+n l., il b., 4;
! fault with the weather forecasts is
sued from Washington and local bu-
reaus Surely because we expect too
| great a prescience from fallible men.
! When we remember that Observa-
tons in the upper strata of air are
still practically unattainable, and vet
that those high regions are liable to
exert sudden influence upon the lower
! strata, from whose conditions the
forecast has been circulated, then we
shall be ready to concede that the
bureau does great things. BY means
of its work the average farmer or
coastwise mariner can gain Knowledge
at a given moment of general cOndi-
! lions in the most remote regions, as
Vel as in his own immediate neigh
bOrhood. 1t works entirely in the
line with the cooperative instinct that
| thrills our age; the feeblest aided and
advised by trained experts. OF course
crops still suffer from violent storms,
| ships are wrecked. The farmer can
not go and uproOt his crops just be
cause cyclone is coming. But more
than once in every year each farmer
and seaman is greatly aided by his
knowledge of the probabilities of
| twenty-fOur hours, and thereby are
dollars and lives most freely saved.
| The fateful moment of the season is
naturally different for every locality,
so that each hour throughout the
| year some one gains immense benefit
| from his forewarned condition.
%*'|
A really brave deed always arouses
enthusiasm; and not all brave deeds
call for blood. With the hoarse pull
sation of the drum in his ear, the rat
tie of musketry on every side, the
frenzy of martial music in his veins,
swept onward by the enthusiasm of
shouts and of numbers, the soldier
will glory il throwing away his life
like a flower. But we are all called
to heroism far transcending that,
heroism that keeps us quietly and I'M
obtrusively working for national and
personal betterment in our little
sphere unknown to the rest of the
world, uncheered by the applause of
men, unaided by the hoarse-throated
cannon. Let me give publicly to one
such brave deed at least.
The newspapers from east to west
have contained casual references to
the recent burning of toll-gates by
mobs in Kentucky. Right in the dis
affected region lives the editor of the
Vanceburg Sun, terribly dependent
upon his local patrons as all country
editors are. Yet on his first page he
places notice two columns wide and
surrounded by border. Abbreviated,
it is as follows:
The S9tn is, has always been, and
always will be, so long as the present
management has the say-so in its col
umns, an advocate Of the free turn
pike system. 1t has carried,
and the result is assured, We now