The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-01-16
Some Rambling Thoughts.


| NAL Keep him hungry Wnen ne
reaches home and there is peace nelth-
ef for God nor woman, for he finds
fault With both. To make man doc
lie and tractable you Must treat
him like a snake, gorge him. This
may be brilliant, but it is too severe,
particularly IS woman from the story
Iof Edeh ofiwafd has not shown great
Eskill in managing shakes; and posi-
bly, not much more in managing men.
The woman, to whom man is moth
ing more than thing to be petted
and pampered with this and that graf
ificatiohi will find her theory strongly
confirmed by the "affifnar' within
him. But the woman who believes
in other, grander possibilities in man
will find them there, because she ex-
poets and demands them. Men are,
after all, but plastic clay, and take on
readily the forms into which the gen.
| tlehands of woman mold them. This
| aIsohas been shown from the story of
Eden onward. At least that is what
"Nemo', thinks.
Never have any hesitation about
learning from Others. II we each were
held down to the knowledge we could
acquire by personal travel and inves-
tigation the amount we did not know
would be even more monumental than
| it now is. But beware, you omnvor-
Gus learners, of acquiring ideas and
then having them remain unassimi-
lated, like the food of an overloaded
stomach. AS to learning, / would
say, be in a skeptlcal frame Of mind;
reject the. things that you prove to be
Iuntriie; read, mark, learn, and in
wardly digest all The truths that you
prove and approve, or that reach you
from reliable sources, and let them be-
come part Of you; just as the steak
you eat and assimulate is no longer
steak, but has become part of you,
your blood, your brain, your power.
To be sincere in this advice as to
skepticism | should have to warn you
against accepting statements just be-
cause they are IN print; alas, this
would include even these Thoughts. !"
For them ask no hearing, no recep-
ton except where they interrupt 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.
1t is quite the regular thing to find
fault with the weather forecasts issued
from Washington and local bureaus.
Surely because we expect too great a
prescience from fallible men. When
we remember that observations in the
upper strata of air are still practically
unattainable, and yet that those high
religious are liable to exert sudden in
| fuence upon the lower strata, from
calculated, 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 given moment
| of general conditions in the most re-
mote regions, as well as in his own
immediate neighborhood. 1t works en-
tirely in the line with the cooperative
| instinct that thrills our age; the fee
blest aided and advised by trained eX-
perts. OF course, crops still suffer
from violent storms and ships are
wrecked. The farmer cannot go and
uproot his crops just becausea cyclone
is coming. But more than once in eve
ry 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
enthusiasts; and not all brave deeds
call for blood. With the hoarse pulls
alton of the drum in his ear, the rat
tie of musketry on every side, the fren-
w of martial music in his veins, swept
onward by the enthusiasm and shouts
and of numbers, the soldier will glory
in throwing away his life like flower.
But we are all called to a heroism that
keeps us quietly and unobtrusively
working for national and personal bet
terment 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
publicity to one such brave deed. at
least.
The newspapers from east to west
have contained casual reference to the
recent burning of toll-gates by mobs
in Kentucky. Right in the disaffected
region lives the editor of the Vance.
I burg Sun, terribly dependent upon his
local patrons as all country editors are
j Yet on his first page he places a no
nice two columns wide and surrounded
follows.
uThe SIM is. has ALWAYS been. anf
,,,,ovs viii no so 1ong DC tho nrasont
aa"ass W., Ias tha sa ~, IN its col
management. iae .ie s"y ~ ~ no wi
unhs' ah aoVocaue Vi ehe iiec ouin
pike system. III mas carried
and the result is assured. We nov
some OF the cltlzehs 10 superseae tn'
force in making them free at once
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