Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-07-30
w. G. T. Z. COLUMN.
Conducted by the Ladies of the W. C. 7.
Happiness: What 1t Is And What 1t Is Not,
AS Noted In the Books,

Happiness: What 1t Is And What 1t Is Not,
AS Noted In the Books.
Happiness lies, first Of all, III health
George William Curtis
Happiness is the natural flower of
duty.-PLiilip Brooks.
Man is the artiGcer Of his own happi.
ness.-Henry D. Thoreau.
Temperance in all things is requisite
to happiness.-B. r. Hayden.
The rays OF happiness, like those of
light, are colOrlesS when unbroken.-
LOngfe1low.
We are never Apply; We can only re.
member that we were so Once.-AleX-
ander Smith.
Religion is the basis of civil society,
and the source of all good and of all
comfort.-Burke.
Goodness does not more certainly
make men happy than happiness makes
them good.-Landor.
Happiness grows at our own firesides,
and is not to be picked in strangers
gardens.-DOuglas Jerrold.
Happiness is not found in self con-
tmplatlon, 1t is perceived only when 1t
is reflected from another.-JOhnson.
Tie happiness or unhappiness of
men depends 10 less upon their dlspo-
sition than their fortunes.-La Roche
| foucauld.
Happiness consists in activity; such
is the constitution of our nature; it is a
running stream, and not stagnant
pool-John M. Good.
| Happiness in this world. when 1t
| comes. comes incidentally. Make it the
object Of pursuit. and it leads wild
goose chase, and is never attained.
Follow some other object, and very
possibly we may find that we have
caught happiness without dreaming of
it; but likely enough it is gone the mo.
ment we say to ourselves, Here it isl"
like the chest of gold that treasure
seekers find
~
"a saloon that is too bad to be kept
open after midnight is too bad to be
kept or en- at all.'' Thus declares Mayor
Harrison of Chicago. And we quite
agree with that COZ clusion, though the
premises by which we arrive at the
same are quite different from his. Mr.
Harrison would recognize and protect
the respectable" saloon, and If 're.
spectacle" the public is in no danger
from all-night drinking places, which
be believes, are necessity to ID large
number of people who work ut night.
He would, therefore, repeal the present
midnight closing ordinance and enact a
new measure prohibiting the presence
of women of known disreputable char
acter in saloons at any time, nand PRO
hlblting the presence of men of known
disreputable character, such as hold
ups, burglars and thieves, in saloons at
any time" Just why disreputable
male characters should be qualified by
the clause''such as" is not quite clear. J
From our standpoint the sO-called re-
spectacle saloon is more dangerous to
| nuI hn ho
Not perhaps in its immediate effects
upon life and property, but because its
subtler allurements blind It's patrons
and many good citizens to everything
but the revenue it puts into the city
treasury. We believe that every saloon
is too bau to be kept open after mid
night and that every saloon is to bad to
be kept open after daylight. 1t should
be noted that in Mayor Harrison's
plans for the restriction of the saloon
evil, as in all plans for that purpose,
the remedial features are the prohibit
tive features. The more prohibition the
more protection for the public. The
saloon problem" will always remain a
problem until the policy of regulation
gives way for entire prohibition. And
all the signs of the times poiLt to that
| contamination.
~
The danger to the youth in the excess
sive use of cigarettes has again been
proven. AT a recent examination of 412
ed States navy recruiting officers in Pc
oria, ILL.,. only IA were accepted as fit
for the service. All of the others were
rejected on account of weak heart ac-
tion." from the cause above stated.