The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-11
CLOTHING FIRED
BY STEPPING
ON MATCH
Mrs. ]. G. ShuttIeWOrth Painfully
Burned by an Unusual
Accident.

Mrs. ]. G.. Shuttleworth was very
PAINFULLY burned vest erday at the resi-
dence of her father, Capt. Dixon Reed
on West Intendencia street.
She lighted the gas stove and drop
ped match upon which she uncOn-
seiOusly stepped and stood over j..
until her clothes were ablaze.
She held her four-months-Old infant
in her arms, but laid it down ana
rushing to the faucet bent over and
turned the water on herself.
At that momert the cOlored cook threw
quilt over her and between them the
flames were subdued, but not until
her clothing was almost destroyed
and her side, breast. shoulder, side
of her face and neck had been scOrch-
ed.
Happily the physician pronounced
the burns not dangerous and though
her injuries age very painful they
might have been so much worse, and
Mrs. ShuttlewoTth's escape was so
narrow as was that of her child, that
her friends have much 20 I've thankful
for.
The lady's escape was due to her
own presence Of mind and TO the fac,
that her cook instead of becoming
panic stricken gave her assistance.
is of even more consequence to his
wife and children; for it is a hard and
cruel fact that in this life of ours the
sins or the maa are often visited most
heavily upon those whose welfare
should be his one special care.
For the dTunkard, for the man who
loses his job because he can not con-
troll O. will not control his desire for
liquor and for vicious pleasure, we
have a feeling Of an YER and contempt
mixed with our pity: but for his un-
fortunate wife and little ones we feel
Orly pity, and that of the deepest and
tenderest kind.
Everything possible should be done
TO encourage the growth of that spirit
OF self-respect, self-reliance, which if
II only grows enough is certain to-
make all those in whom il shows itself
move steadily upward toward the high
est standard of American citizenship.
It is a proud and responsible privilege
to be citizens OF this great self-gov-
erning nation; and each of us needs
to keep steadily before his eyes the
fact that he is wholly unfit to take
part in the work of governing others
unless he can first govern himself. He
must stand up manfClly for his own
rights; he must respect the rights OF
others; he must obey the law, and
he must try to live up to those rules
CT righteousness which are above and
behind all laws.
Applies to All.
This applies just as much to the
man of great wealth as to the man of
small means; TO the capitalist as to
the wage-worker. And as one practi-
cal point, let me urge that in the event
o. any difficulty. especially if it is what
is known as a labor trouble, both sides
show themselves willing TO meet will
ing 10 consult, and anxious each to
II eat the other reasonably and fairly.
each to look at the Others side Of the
case AMI to do 10 the other justice. II
only this course could be generally
followed, the chance Of industrial dis
lster would be minimized.
Now, my friends, want to read you
an extract from a letter | have just
from a Catholic priest whom /,
know well and whom / know
o be as stauncn a friend of the labor
ing man as there is to be found in this
Now and then-nOt too Of
tent is a good thing for all of us 10
hear what is not perhaps altogether