Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-01

 Ing war against the English novelists' habit of making the antipodes the dumping ground for their paper vil-a lains and other bad characters.
 Whatever may be said of tobacco and alcohol, there is little to be said in favor Of opium. It's use leads not merely to physical but moral degrada- 1 ton, 1t establishes tyranny of habit over its victim that is stronger ana 1 more cruel than that of liquor; it ruins intellect, blights the future and short ems life.
 It is now proposed to transform the Porto Rican from languid person, who seeks not labor nor longs for 1t, Into a strenuous hustler whose energy even a tropical sun shall not wilt. And after the Porto Rican population shall have been properly inoculated who knows perhaps promising field Is offered by the hobo army and the Newport idlers?
 A man told us the other day that we did not publish all things that hap pened. We should say we don't. In the first place, we have others who de- pend on us for a living. If we pub. lish all that happened we would soon \ w WALu SaxG 0u&SCIOs HI OftICT l0 pkEb6S people we must print all the nice things of them, and leave the rest to gossips. Yea It's fact, we don't print all the news, If we did, wouldn't 1t make spicy reading? But this would be for one day only. The next day you would read our. obituary and there would be new face in heaven. All the news' Is all right when 1t is about the other fellow HOlidaysburg Register.
 The great cause tol which we can attribute the existence of the hobo ! lies in an early lack of proper home I training. It Is sad fact, but, never theless, most painfully true one, that multitudes of parents imagine when they have fed and clothed a child properly that their duty to him, themselves and society is completed. Or course, they send him to school to be educated; but he is left free to se- lect his own standard Of what Is worthy and right. He is never taught that success is solely dependent upon faithful, consistent effort properly ap- piled and concentrated. He isn't urged to early discover his own talents and capabilities; nor to choose that brancn of the worlds work for which he IS aQhpted.--EIlgrims
 Combinations of capital and labor are tremendously powerful in an advanc- ing market, when men get almost any, thing they ask for their labor and their product. But when markets are sag, ging. and there is not quite enough business to 70 around. and cooperation is really important. competition IS not long in making itself felt. Laboa unions in Chicago confess to q de crease in membership within few months from 24O,O0O to 14O,O0O, and the strike of the butchers against h reduction failed. Tn spite of the prom. inent, and 1t was claimed predominant, position of the Steel trust competition in steel products began some time ago, and cut in steel billets has just been followed by one in tin plates, An in dependent concern has taken large order, with more business promised, at a cut rate.-Journal of Commerce. Mir Rockefeller has done something that arouses general approval and sympathy. One may not care for his usual mixture of business methods, piety and philanthropy, and yet may respond sympathetically to one of his latest charities because it springs , from the heart. His little grandson died of dysentery. MT Rockefeller then founded an institution, to be de voted to medical research, because he understood that the disease of which his grandchild died was of germ orig in, and he hoped that men of sclence might discover the germ and modes of cure or prevention Charity Is anu al. ways has been a proper subject for gifts of penitence, especially when it is practiced quietly, and charity which springs from sympathy and suffering, like MT Rockefellers latest institution, is human nature on one of it's fairest sides.--Coilier's Weekly.