The Advocate and news., 1898-02-16
PUBLIC OPINION.


soda fountain habit Is another evil.
must also mention cigarettes. These are
all small things, but II properly man
aged in youth will lay the foundations
which guard against the worst OF all
Vilsself-indulgenCe IL is a waste Of
money which in later years makes slaves
out Of our boys and girls II deprives
them OF self-control, the most imDOr-
tant and potent factor in opposing evil.
Let us cultivate In our children the he
roism which enables them to resist the
assault OF temptation.
Beloit CALI Man Is liable TO become
so accustomed to blessing that he fails
to appreciate It's value. A man will 90
home three times day, 365 days in "a
year, year after year, always finding his
wife there, and he gradually comes to
look upon her as a part of the house,
permanent fixture part of his per-
sonal property, and her individual worth
IS lost sight of. He looks at his sur
roundlngs in the aggregate, is dimly
conscious Of the fact that he is COM
Portable, but he fails to credit his COM
paniOn with her share in making him
9Os WO bNllCNG IL ONClY WIG Ill
tendon would pick up her duds about
once year-say right in the midst of
winter-and go away for q week or 80,
the result would be beneficial. After a
man has entered his doorway about a
thousand times, never once falling to
find his wife on deck, let him drop in to
dinner some day to find her chair empty,
the fire out and the house cold. Then, as
the empty rooms echo back his heavy
footballs as he clumsily gathers together
cold bite" and sits down to his cheer
less meal, the silence broken only by the
monOtonous tick, tick, tick Of the old
kitchen clock, he begins to think what
dreary thing life would be If home
consisted merely Of house and furniture.
ARnlIT J.W. Gleed The whisky
HANSAc traffic is to be fought
NH""hS' everywhere and at all
times; in the home, in the school, in the
church, in the press, in the city council,
in the State Legislature and in the
courts. Law can not do all, but law can
do much The contest must go on under
any form Of law, but the best form of
law is that form of law which is most
uncompromisingly hostile. With that
form OF law, though the soldier may
sleep, the weapon is always
at hand.
Chanute Blade: lola is now deeply
concerned over the public ownership of
gas. From Chanutes late experience
with the Forest Oil Company, 1T is very
evident to us that the city that owns it's
own gas plant is in big luck.
Kansas City Tribune (Rep.): A thing
that makes us a little weary is to hear
whole lot of fellows that we have seen |
cOaXing members of the Legislature not |
10 abolish certain boards or offices, howl
Ing to have the same abolished.
Pittsburg Daily Tribune: Business is
business. The fellows who are kicking
1t Webb McNall should do little fgur-
ing for the benefit of Kansas. Here's
something for them to ponder over In
1897 one fraternal organization, the A.
U. W., paid out to dts policy holders
nearly $4,000, while all the life insur-
lnce companies paid out an aggregate of
only $413,9OO, and the latter took from
he people three dollars for every one
paid out. This is fact, no fancy.
d. A. Valentine, in Mail and Breeze:
The (Republican) party needs broad
platform, good, clean, new candidates
ar removed from Copeland county and
he Blossom House, from Baker influ-
nee and Leland control as Extensively
Understood, and a new, bright, up-to-
late central management. This is what
$ needed and what will win, sure. Other
Methods may, but this will, for it re-
tores confidence clear from the slough
,rass in Cherokee to the short grass in
Cheyenne.
Medicine Lodge Index: The complaint
made by republicans at the time G. F.
Surgess assumed editorial charge of the
Harper Sentinel, that Chester /. Long