The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-07-11
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
Written for the Democratic Advocate.
BY MEMO.


deepest depression. 1t enables one to add
that extra ounce of effort just as the load
of purpose is hating few inches below
the crest of the hill of difficulty 1t turns
faint heartedness into fai h. But beware,
YOU whose trials are many and whose pur-
poses are high, of the friend who labels
everything of yours as ''well done. He
is your most serious enemy. He leads you
by his constant approval to feeling OF
dissatisfaction, and then like some fair
appearing fated tree, the decay at your
heart commences Not every act of yours
is we'll directed, not every Judgment is
sound; and he who tell you otherwise is not
a friend but foe.
tive dog bad name and he might IS
well hang; and man in like case Is not
mnch better off Dead. a wreath may
even be found ON his grave bu, alive, the
ghosts of murdered reputation keep rising
in his path. An old Quaker, with his
sectarian -combativeness strong within
him showed the door to a growing cur and
said 81 will not kill thee but | will give
thee a bad name. The moment the dog
left his doop-step he called down thes street
Mad dog, and then watched the neigh
bors kill the poor brute. reckon the
Recorder of Deeds above has blood guilt
ness marked against many man. whose
hand has never been raised to 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. - 1t reminded me of Theodore
Parker Interpretation of what constituted
a, true democracy He said it was '.Not
am as good as you are; but you are as
good as | am. If we enter fully into
the 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 man voice is as powerful
as every other man 5, is menace to itself,
unless there is constant upward tendency
of the whole body polite. Our social ed
ifice cannot be reared to grandeur or if
reared, cannot be perpetual, unless it be
founded on the solid rock of an intelligent,
patriotic, progressive people.
Why is the modern purpose novel
falling into disfavor with the great mass
Of readers ? Because neither men nor
women like to discover themselves in
temple or a crypt, when they set out with
the intention of entering theatre. 1t is
the same principle at work that compels an
angry exclamation when we reach the foot
of a column of romantic and startling read
ing, and discover we have been lead inter
estingly on, only to have ourselves brought
face TO face with the merits of
porous plaster or a tooth wash. The 'pur-
pose novel, if well and Interestingly
written, is rather apt to defeat its own
ends The youthful reader will 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 fic-
ton as refreshment gets impatient at this
capsule method of administering moral and
physiological and psychological truths.
To generalise freely, it is safe to say
that the most serious obstacle in the way
of the moral redemption of woman is
woman herself The moral derelictions
that she has been apt to condone in man,
she condemns in a woman. She will strain
at the gnat of triiing indiscretion on the
part of girl friend, and yet swallow the
most preposterous dromedary in the be-
havior of man. The one mis-step of a
woman is recalled with whispers and shrugs,
while a notorious libertine is received in
society with smirks and smiles. Woman
too often will theorise on Gods forgive
ness of sins, but her feeble imitation of
Him will be extended towards man and
not woman.
The homely old saying Sauce for the
goose, is sauce for the gander, comes in
here very appositely. Not one word should
be said in favor of lowering in the mind of
woman the moral standards she has helped
so strongly to maintain, but the barbed-
wire defences must be high enough to stop
trousers as well as petticoats. When she
reaches the Divine perception that shrank
not from the washing by peuitential tears
while rebuke was administered to the
sacrosanct Pharisee when she understands
that woman may really reform, and when
she insists that a man must, there will then
be fewer fallen men, and as consequence
gewer fallen women.
1t is hardly possible to find a better con-
crete example of the progress in propulsion
since the days of the Caesars than by GEM
pairing the galley, vessel propelled by oars
with the modern Atlantic liner In 600
feet long it would be practically impossible
to find room for more than 400 oars on
side. Assuming now that three men work
each oar and six men exert one horse power,
there must need be 2, 400 men working at
one time to exert 400 horsepower. At
least as many more men would have to be
in reserve to render progress continuous.
The trifing result is almost lost to sight
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, 900
with the same number in reserve. Even if
possible to carry this number of men in a
vessel, by no means could their power be
so utilized as to develop speed of 20
knots an hour.
Station d. Nep Fork.