The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-17
Is MAN INFERIOR :?
LEARN FROM EVERY ONE.
ABOUT WEATHER REPORTS.
Some Rambling Thoughts.
BY "NEMO."
(Copyrighted.)

\OoPy AASAIOu'j
CThese s'Thoughts" by layman, are
read in five hundred thousand homes,
scattered in every State OF the Union.
In this county they will be found week
bv week in the columns of this paper
only, as we have made arrangements
with the author for their exclusive pub
lication.)
Each individual male reader will
have to judge of the justice of the fol-
lowing attack upon our sex. 1t is the
expression OF woman's opinion "The
verv eagerness of man for bis meals
shows him to be an inferior animal.
Keep him hungry when he reaches
home and there is peace neither for
God nor woman, for he finds fault with
! both. To make man doclle and tract
able YOU must treat him like snake,
gorge him." This may be brilliant,
but it is too severe, particularly as wo-
man from the story of Eden onward
has not shown great skill IN managing
snakes and possibly not much more
In managing men. The woman, to
whom a man is nothing more than
thing to be petted and pampered
With this and that qualification, will
find her theory strongly confirmed by
the '.animal'' within him. But the
woman who believes in other, grander
possibilities in man will find them
there, because she expects and demands
them. Men are, after all, but plastic
clay, and take on readily the forms Into
which the gentle hands OF woman
mould them. This also has been
shown from the story Of Eden onward.
At least that is what "Nemo" thinks.
Never have any hesitation about
learning from others. IT we each were
neld down to the knowledge we could
.cqulre by personal travel and investi-
cation the amount we did not know
would be even more monumental than
it now is. But beware, you omnlvo-
rous learners, of acquiring ideas and
then having them remain unasslmllat
ed, like the food on an overloaded
stomach. As to learning, l would say
he in skeptical frame OF mind re]ec
he things that you prove to be untrue
] read. mark. learn. and lnwardly dlges
III the truths that you prove and ap
d, prove, or that reach you from reliable
sources, and let them become part o
YOU; Just as the steak you eat and as
,imilate is no longer steak, but has be
} come part of you, your blood, you
brain, your power.
To be sincere in this advice as t.
,. skepticism, should have to warn yo
against accepting statements just be
cause they are in print; alas, th1
u would include even these "Thoughts.
1t For them ask no hearing, no recptlo
n except where they interpret some litt
n particle of the great universe OF Irut
divine and human, In which we nv
and of which we permit ourselves
a. nartake. some more and some less,
II we journey.
~
IT. It is quite the regular thing to III
'u fault with the weather forecasts lssu'
0? from Washington and local bureat
tn Surely because we expect too great
ore-science from falllble men. Wh'
" we remember that observations In t
y" upper strata of air are still practlcal
Oh unattainable, and yet that those III!
he requires are liable to exert sudden
on fluence upon the lower strata, tro
whose conditions the forecast has be
&c calculated, then we shall be ready
,as concede that the bureau does gre
no things. By means of its work the
,r,- erage farmer or coastwise mariner c
ns- gain knowledge at given moment
GENERAL conditions in the most REM
regions, as we'll as In his own lmr
81 diate neighborhood. 1t works entlr
in the line with the cooperative
stinct that thrills our age; the feebl
aided and advised by trained expe
y; Of course, crops still suffer from
lent storms and ships are wrecked. ]
49, farmer can not go ana uproot his CT
49, lust because cyclone is coming.
more than once In every year each
mer and seaman is greatly aided by
- knowledge of the probabilities OF tN
tv-four hours, and thereby are doi
and lives freely saved. The fateful
~ ~ ment of tbesseason is naturally oil
ent for every locality, so that e
hour throughout the year some
la gains immense benefit from his
49,. warned condition.
~ A really brave deed always arc
. - enthusiasm and not all brave q
call for blood. With the hoarse p'
tion of the drum in his ear, the I;