Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-02

Rev. P. A. Cool, pastor OF the First
M. E. church officiating.
The newly married couple will re-
side on their farm near Providence in
this county. Mr.. Doughty is well
and favorably known in this county
and has been identified with educa-
tional matters and school teaching in
this vicinity for several years. The
News extends to Mr.. and Mrs.
Doughty the compliments OF the sea-
son and best wishes for their married
life.
In yesterdays Oregonian appeared a
pathetic account Of the closing days
OF Oscar Wilde. He bemoaned his
life failure and said: Much OF my
moral obliquity is due to the fact that
my father would not allow me to be-
come Catholic" These are not brave
words, but they are exactly OF sort
with which countless thousands use to
excuse their crimes and follies. "My
father would not allow me to become
a Catholic" Few men, probably,
have used this apology, but myriads
have used others like it. My father
brought me up too strictly" "My
mother put brandy in her mince pies"
"My wife was sco!d." ~ was born
with weak nerves." 81 lost sweet
heart and it embittered me-" al fail
ed in business and lost heart" "My
father became q criminal and l lost
my self respect" These and other
incidents OF early life are brought for
ward by the erring in extenuation of
their deliberate choice OF evil. But
they are vain. Every man must
answer for himself. Every man must
bear his own burden. In that hour
when the individual looks back upon
the life that has gone, no early envir-
onment, no temptation, no defect in
the laws or unfriendly attitude OF
society can avail. One must choose
the right. No circumstances, no
shortcomings OF others excuse the will
for its weakness. Wilde chose the
lower when the higher was within
reach, and abject pitifulness OF his ex-
cuse serves only as warning.
The following passage by Eden
Phillpotts is an example OF really fine
writing that is worth remembering:
Humor she still possessed, for it is an
inherent faculty that sticks closer than
spouse to the heart that holds it
from puberty to the grave. 1t wakeDs
with the dawn OF adult intelligence,
and neither time nor chance, neither
SCATTERING reverse nor unexpected
prosperity can rob the owner OF it.
Earthly success it brightens and earth
ly failure it sets in true perspective; il
regulates mans self estimate and per-
sonal point of view; enlarges his SYM
pathies, adjusts the too staring splen-
dor of sudden joys, helps to dry the
bitterest tears humanity can shed.
For this humCr is an adjunct divine
and as far beyond the trivial word for
it as love or Charity. No definition
nor happy phrase sums it correctly, or
rates it high enough; it is balm OF
life; it makes for greater things than
clean laughter from the lungs; it is
the root of tolerance, the prop OF pa
thence; it suffers long and is kind;
serves to tune each little fe-harmony
with the world-harmony about it;
keeps the heart of man sweet and his
soul modest. And at the last, when
the light thickens and the mesh grows
tight, humor can share the suffering
vigils OF the sleepless, can soften pain,
can brighten the ashy road to death.
]. Lou Hallet, OF the plains OF Cali
fornia, in bidding adieu to his friends
made these feeling remarks: "Gen-
tlemen-I mean ranch men, big and
little, cowpunchers and ALL bid you
farewell and when Gabriel blows his
horn aud we are all gathered in on
the general roundup, we hope there
will be no brands missing and that
we hand in hand can journey on to
that great free range beyond, where
all COWS have twins, mavericks are
thick as grasshoppers, and beef ten
dollars per hundred pounds.
Complaint has been made in Walla
Walla that young lady was kissed
on the south side. The News asks
what difference it makes whether she
was kissed on the south side or on the
north side? Yes, or on the right side,
left, or front sidef The Walla Walla
girls can't establish any set rules as to