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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-23
Women Should Be Taught
The Science of Work


E HE fact that do do their share in the PRO
DUCTIVE industries is the serious problem
~ nation have to face today.
There time when be found at all
kinds of work Why do they do now The world wake
up to this and HUSBANDS MUST CEASE TREATING THEIR
WIVES AS DOLLS Daughters be taught fewer accomplish
ments and of the SCIENCE of work.
WIVES MUST BE LOOKED TO FOR COOPERATION AND NOT
AMUSEMENT
The lack of income often advanced against marriage
While realize that this condition offers disadvantages believe that
where both the and the IN INDUSTRIAL DE
VELOPMENT they will at the same time develop in CHAR
ACTER.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-23
Low Rates West Via H. V.
Railway.

Wnrch Ist 10 May I5M and
Sept f5ih W Oct 3ist the Hock-
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rag coionfSf Hckets 10 CoIUOrpid,
North Pocifc coast POINTS, Non.
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CoU On g W. ISchwenke, 4 gent,
Logan, for rates and further inJor-
JuufiOU
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-23

" DO not to dogmatize theological matters DO
understand the terms that using from that point of
view The highest and finest thing in is love, sym
@ pahy tenderness pity hepfuncss No what your
The Washington times., 1905-07-23
Cheese VS.. Punk.

They do queer things in New York
city. 1t is not necessary to hunt for
them in the Bowery, either; they are
to be found all the way from Battery
Park to the very northernmost limits
OF the city, and from the Hudson river
to Brooklyn, or He'll Gate, or wher-
ever the city's spraddling eastern
confines may extend, New York is
a queer place
Miss Mcnamara and Mr.. Bolan are
neighbors in an apartment house in
East Seventy-seTenth street. Their
proplnquity has not bred affection
between them; on the contrary it has
been productive of Limburger cheese
and stogie smoke The cheese seems
TO have been fully ripe and the sto-
gies had long punk filters with skunk
cabbage wrappers.
The testimony produced before the
police magistrate OF the Yorkvtlle
district establishes the following state
of facts: Mr.. Bo1an used rank sto-
gies in the hallway and blew the
smoke therefrom IN Miss Mcnamara s
face There was expert testimony to
the effect that no gentleman would
do such a thing. The evidence furth-
er showed that Miss Mcnamara with
malice aforethought sought a delica-
lessen shop and bought the richest.
Iipest. and most aromatic Limburger
10 be found in all New York. and that
armed with the aforesaid Limburger
and instigated by its spirit and not
having the fear of its odor in her
nostrils-becauge of a bad cold-she
did then ard there smear the afore-
said cheese upon the door Of Mr..
BOlan's apartment.
Before that incident the place had
been known as a fiat 1t is an apart
ment now.
The judge told the Bolan man and
the Mcnamara lady-there was no
testimony or decision on the question
whether a lady would smear a gentle
mans door with ripe Limburger or
not, and so that point IS left open in
New York-the judge told them to go
home and behave
If the eternal fitness Of things is to
be observed, the cards may be expect
ed in a short while. May they live
happily ever after.
The Washington times., 1905-07-23
The ateTmel0n

The watermelon has been celebrated
in song and story; chiefly in coon
song and medical story. but still the
celebration has been genuine and EN-
phatic. Like most fruits and all peo-
pie it is tasteless and in the way
when green, and when over-ripe cum
bersome and poisonous. To be bru-
tally frank, there is small excuse for
the waSermeIon's existence save when
perfect. just T.pe, and very cool.
There are many old customs and
superstitions connected with the
watermelon concerning which. though
il may not be the part of wisdom to
ignore them. philosophers may exer-
else the right of private judgment.
One of these is that the proper way
to pluck the melon is by bruising the
vine between two stones. and the
right time to do this is while the dew
is on it just before dawn Many
ancient authorities see in this super
stition a survival Of an aboriginal
African custom, but the later ones
incline to the belief that while the
method OF cutting the vine is crude.
the time to gather it is correct and
should be scrupulously observed.
Another bit OF watermelon lore is
to the effect that the only way prop
erly 10 cool the melon is TO bury it
i'm the icehOuse Immediately after
p!ucking and TO let it remain there
undisturbed for at least twelve hours.
Those who have combined these meth
DDS are generally satisfied with the
result.
But the very first thing 10 do is to
select your watermelon Your un-
guided Judgment may lead 10 serious
mistakes in this matter, if not TO in
ternal disturbances of some magni-
tude. Here the guidance of the melon
The Washington times., 1905-07-23
The Country for Children.

The country is the place where
things grow, the city is where they
are consumed. Children are mainly
growing animals and they need room
for development; the city will eat
them up soon enough; turn them
loose in the country for awhile.
In the city a child is cramped for
room; its activities make it a nuis-
ance in the house. and the street is
hardly the place for a child when the
thermometer gets into the nineties.
But in the country-do you recall the
country as it was thirty years ago?
1t was strange that. try as you
would, you never could wake up until
the sun was we'll started in the east
ern sky. Somehow the sun and the
dominique rooster always got the
start on you in the morning, and how
that rooster used TO crow over your
laziness. But once up and your
simple toilet made, there was some
thing to interest you and to keep you
busy all day long.
You have never since had such
breakfasts as old Aunt Rose used to
cook in those days: nice, white, hot
rolls, beautifully golden corn gems.
fried eggs that were laid only an hour
ago, and sweet. foamy milk that had
been all night in the spring-house!
PAnd the butter. Plenty of it and all
sweet and fresh.
There was always so much to do
on that farm. There were the cows
TO lead TO pasture. the horses to ride
TO water, load of produce to take
10 town, the wheat to store in the
barn. and hundred other tasks at
which your presence. if not your help.
was welcome. When everything else
failed you could slide on the hay
ricks or sneak off with the other BOYS
to the swimming-hole just beyond
the sycamore that leaned half over
the creek. All, well. you lived in
those days. You lived and you grew.
How about that boy Of yours? It's
true you can't get away very well. and
Uncle Ben has been dead these twelve
years, and Aunt Kate is crotchety and
doesn't like children, but there are
places in plenty where for a few dol
lars week the boy can have good
care. good food, and a time that he
will remember as well as you recall
yOur trims tn the country thirty yaa re
ago. Let him go
The Washington times., 1905-07-23

ible for the waning OF the honey
moon?' American papers largely
avoid these popular discussions,
though a few of the New York dailies
have become sufficiently anglicized
to indulge in these exciting but futile
spaee-fIllers.
Nevertheless, we also have our silly
season. With us it comedies with
the long recess of Congress and the
advent of the heated term 1t is
dependent upon the mental exhaus-
ton of our purveyors Of wisdom and
the stoek-taking of our epigram huclE-
sters. 1t is the pons asinorum of
newspaper men.
Anyone can write enterta;ningly of
interesting events or indulge in deep
philosophy concerning matters that
appeal strongly to personal sym
pathy. But in summer, when all but
the vegetative functions in man are
dulied, it takes purpose. power, and
persisteney to write convincingly on
anything
The Washington times., 1905-07-23
The Sillu Season.

The silly season is upon us. II
reaches through the columns Of the
daily press and becomes emphatic in
the more staid and philOsophic week
lies. Even the monthly publications
are not exempt from its ravages, but
by reason Of their preparation long
in advance of issue. the disease is
not so apparent in them.
The silly season is a phrase that
originated in England to denote the
paucity Of IDEAS that there leads to
such discussions as is life worth !iy-
ing?" How old must An unmarried
woman be before she can be called
an old maid?" and Who is respons-
The Washington times., 1905-07-23
In Spite of Low Salaries.

In commenting upon the self-sacri-
flee OF the new Secretary of State, who
lays down law practice estimated at
$4,000 year for a salary of $4,000.
one of the London weeklies observes:
Surely Congress cannot long delay th4
revision of official salaries a Washing
ton. including those of the Judges of the
Supreme Court If tie state were To
act solely on business considerations. and
/ had to pay the full ma -ket price for men
iitke Mr.. Root. ct would be astOnished a {
the salaries bill.
The state would be indeed surpr!s-
ed. The earning power of the present
Cabinet, for example, would amaze
the whole country. Mr.. Root, Judge
Taft, Mr.. Moody. and Mr. Bonaparte
are great lawyers. Mr. Shaw is a
successful banker. Mr.. Metcalf and
Mr. Wilson are capable business men
in an age when business capability
nets unprecedented returns And Mr.
Cortelyou. the one member who has
not achieved unusual success outside
the circle of official life, is in the eye
of the whole world as the possesso-
OF precisely those qualities which
make man valuable to the business
world, and is said to have refused a
salary of 100000 a year.
At an average of $50, 900 a year
each, members of the Cabinet would
be rated low. Yet they are paid only
$4,000 each
Here, then, is an indication of the
high esteem in which public offices of
national Importance are held among
Americas best men. The pay ought
10 be increased, of course. But the
fact that capable men are found to
serve the country even at the salaries
now paid is surely a sign that we
Yankees are not so mercenary as we
seem.
The Washington times., 1905-07-23

provide relief-a relief more impor-
tant in the true view than the par
ticular work of Mr. Keeps bureaus.
or Mr. Garfeld's corporations, or Mr
Pinchot's forests, or Mr.. Murray's 3
immigrants, or Mr.. Hitchcock's post
Offices.
The question now is: How is this
work to be done?
1t can be done we'll only by giving
it abundant time No twenty minute
sessions and after-hours inquiries viii
suffice. Mr.. Keep, Mr. Murray. Mr.
Garfield, Mr. Hitchcock and Mr.. Pin
chot are equal to the task-aithough
It might be wished that the Presi-
dent had included one representative
OF the corps of experienced clerks.
If they can get the time, then, the
work will be well done. and the cause
will be better. served by giving them
the time than by choosing some other
officials less in demand
What they must do before next
fall, therefore. is to arrange their
work in consultation with their SUI
periors, so that they may have the
time. They will probably say that
this can be accomplished without
difficulty. But that view is not sus-
tanned by their experience before the
Keep Commission was created, and IL
is assuredly not sustained by their
experience since. This is too impor-
tant matter to depend upon chance
Unless the commissioners and their
'superiors realize this, the whole move
ment, from which so much was ex-
pected and which might yield so much
practical benefit. will fail
The Washington times., 1905-07-23
Bennington Heroes.

The things that try mems souls are
those that develop latent heroism.
If anything could redeem such catas-
trophies as those of the Maine and the
Bennington from utter horror, ii
would be the splendid courage and
magnificent heroism they make evi-
dent.
When the Maine was blown up Cap
tain Sigsbee's orderly announced that
fact in the usual calm tone. Yester-
day with the dead and dying all
around them; with a crippled ship
ready TO sink. those who were unin-
jured gave aid to the scalded without
an unworthy thought for their per
sonal safety That is the stuff Amer
lean sailors are made of, the harder
fate hits them the clearer rings their
metal.
There was danger and death in
that steam-pelluted air. there was
also perfect discipline and heroic
courage. Perhaps the bravest act of
all was the plucky message Of En-
sign Perry to his wife: Keep a
stiff upper lip, little girl; I'm all
right" Yes, he was all right He
was scalded and in dreadful agony
but the thinking part of him and the
heart of him were sound and in the
right place. He could stand pain
himself. but he would save his sweet
heert-wife from even a tear.
The Washington times., 1905-07-23
Goethe and America.

contributor to the New York
Evening Post quotes an epigram COM
posed by the great Goethe in the
course of his first Italian visit,
about ten years after the Declaration
OF independence. Freely translated
it runs in this wise:
America. thou farest better
Than Than our Contin3t OF ages,
Thou hast no ruf1Sd castle, no weather
beaten prison cages
In tbs present thou Invest.
And Carest not. nor giyest
Needless thought to the past.
or things that do not last
Enjoy the present, and If IN time
Thy children take TO writing prose or
rhyme.
God save them from writing much
OF tales of knights, robbers, mysteries,
and such,
How like Rn Indictment OF the
modern historical novel this reads.
Well-we have taken to writing
prose and rhyme Knights, robbers,
mysteries, and such. fill the pages of
all our magazines. We have a new
name for this spirit, to be sure. We
call it strength" or 'tviri1ity" But
Goethe, with his unaffected superior
ity to such truck. had more strength
and virility than the whole school of
modern historical noyelfsts. That is
one reason why Wilhelm Meister will
live when Richard Carvel with ali his
prowess will live only among the
literary antiuuaries.
Nothing is easier, as a literary task,
than to feed the Imagination of the
reader with a tale Of mystery. Only
little harder is the task of creating
a hero who mops up the earth with
all his adversaries. But it is a real
undertaking to invest the types of
ordinary humanity with such SYM
pathy that they appeal to the readers s
heart instead of his horror It was
in this that Dickens excelIed, and
Thackeray walked contentedly be-
hind. And it will not be until our
American writer's learn the lesson
Goethe expresses so tersely in this
epigram. the lesson so wonderfully
exemplifled in the novels of his great
English followers, that our literature
will take on the quality Of immortal
Itv
The Washington times., 1905-07-23
THE TIME IS COME.

The time. Is come that judgment
must begin upon the land
Which has broken the commandment
that the Lord declareth good,
Which in pride and utter blindness has
allowed the felon's hand
10 paralyze the effort that in vain
for honor stood
For if God spared rot the angels that
had sinned, but cast them down.
And delivered unto judgment those
who broke his holy Laws,
Snail the flaming fire OF vengeance be
DETECTED from the crown
That has robbed its heroes dying in
the tottering empires cause?
Though We know not that This down
fall doth the hand Of God reveal.
Yet one thing clear as daylight we
may know and understand
Condoning to the feIon Gods command
'"Fhou shalt not steal
Is 2 national dish0nor. were he high
est IN the land.
America. our well beloved. thy birth
right was achieved
In wearIness and paInfulness, in hung
er and in cold;
Thy blood bought dover OF freedom
from coTruption's grasp retrieved
Doth, like the Almighty's glory, thy
majestic form enfold.
Thou splendid one. Arouse lhce in thy
grand, reststless power
We love thee in thine honor, in thy
glorious liberty!
Fer the gadfies wound thee sorely in
the crisis OF the hour
Thou art weary OF forbearing! Strike
them down, and be thou free.
-SelrahC. in New York Sun.
The Washington times., 1905-07-23
SHAH AT THE PHONE.

The Shah OF Pcrsir-. now at ContreXc
vile. had q trifiing misadventure en- ar
irving In France, His ma jesty expressed
A wish to test the telephone, and. open
ing the address book al random. rang up
a wealthy "a acemaker n Mirecourt. some
miles from Contrexevfiie, The conveFsa-
ton WAS follows: Are You there
What sort OF weather arc you having in
Mirecourt?" What the dickens is that
to your Is that ali you rang me up for?''
My dear sir, don't suppose ! desire TO
bother you. But the fact is. / am the
shah of Persia" "Oh. ara you. indeed
1en that TO another. and do me the IA
vor Of leaving me 20 my business. and
10 O. aterWauling elsewhere Whereupon
the connection was cut or. Onluck1ly,
his ma ies;y Is acquainted with French
enough to know that chat means ca
and is pronounced exactly like Shah
London Telegraph.
The Washington times., 1905-07-23

expert-there is at least one TO every
farm-is Invaluable. The true melon
expert can walk through a patch dis
courslng of many things. but his eye
is unerring and the melons seem to
know it. for at the pressure of his
hands or the rap of his knuckles they
always answer truthfully as to their
fitness for the table.
The astute will infer from the fore
going that the only melon worth eat
ing is the one that is just matured.
plucked before dawn, and cooled in
an icehouse. And this is the exact
truth.
The Washington times., 1905-07-23
MARRIED FATHER, THEN SON.

CINCINNATI, July =. - Fred -.
EreutZ. tuenty-eight years old, Obtain
I'd a license today for his marriage 10
Miss Margaret Herman, aged thirty. who
a short time ago was married 10 the
vonng mans father. T. q. Kreutz. the
father. believing that his former wife,
who had applied for divorce. had been
set free by the court, was married Heyer-
al weeks ago to Miss Herman fIe then
learned that his wife had not obtained
her divorce. ana he and Miss Herman
separated. Mrs. KreutZ continued the
proceedings and subsequently obtained
her freedom. The final step il the matri-
moniaI tanglc vas taken when Miss
Herman consented to marry the man
who would have been her snn-in-ia "
had her former marriage been legal,
The Washington times., 1905-07-23
7 TARIFF AGITATION
CENTERS IN CHICAGO
Reciprocity Congress Assemblies There August 5-CauSe
Is Dead Believe It's Friends in Washington
John A. Kasson Resigns Hope.

On August Is and is there will be a
reciprocity congress in Chicago Much
effort has been expended. according to
reports which reach this city, to make ii
au impressive occasion.
Some indications are noted. too, that
the reciprocity movement is taking hold
on the business sentiment of the coun-
Try. Put on tha other hand there is
no denying that here IN Washington the
men who have made the fight long and
dreary years for the reciprocity cause
are discouraged and disheartened.
John A. Kasson. special envoy of the
State Department for the negotiation 81
reciprocity treaties. named by Mckinley,
and retained under Roosevelt so long
as he would consent To 1t. will not at
tend the Chicago gathering. He is sum
mering in the Lake George country.
When he left Washington for the sum-
mer 1t was with the frank confession
10 his friends that he considered the
reciprocity cause dead. at least for his
own lifetime. He had devoted, he adj
mitted, n number of the best years of
his life to it; but his experience had
convinced him that the Senate would
not. in any reasonable period that can
now be foreseen. consent to ratffy treat
rs VI reciprocity.
French Treaty Defeated.
Mr.. kasson. who probably is the great
est mine of tariff and reciprocity in
formation in America, considered his
treaty with France a masterpiece. II
gave away practically nothing of value
to America, and secured immensely val
liable opportunities for this country ir
France.
Yet it was pigeonholed In the Senate
committee because it made some modest
concessions in the rates on certain
classes Of knitted goods that are not
produced in this country. on which the
tariff is now very high. and would still
have been excessive after making the
proposed concessions.
There are annual importations Of q
very small amount Of these goods, these
being of articles Of luxury which sell
at very high prices. Yet, because thE
general knitting interests of the country
Gid not understand all this, and assumed
that it was an attack ali along the line
on their industry, the measure was
smothered to death.
The friends of reciprocity agreed that
if so good 4 treaty as that could nos be
ratified it was useless to continue the
effort And they have dropped it.
so far as the enthusiastic. earnest
hopeful support Of its Oldest and wisesi
The Washington times., 1905-07-23
A Work Which Needs Time

Nine Executive Departments and
0.000 Government CLERKS look to the
Keep Commission for the improve
ment of the departmental service In
personnel as well as opportunity, the
organization OF the commission war
ranted that expectation. Yet, when
the organization is only a month old.
there are already conclusive signs
that the whole cause is In danger.
The difficulty lies in the absorption
OF the commissioners in other work.
Every one of them has exacting re-
sponsibilities to carry in his own bu-
reaa. Most of them, Mr. Keep, Mr.
Garfield and Mr.. Pinchot especially,
were chosen 10 head their bureaus
because of an intense personal inter
est in that particular work. Now, at
the end of a month. they ind them
selves fighting TO keep their hold firm
on their chosen tasks.
In three summer months, with their
service as commissioners suspended
they will get even again. But what of
the fall? Is there any one of them
who can serve his bureau as he hoped
to serve 1t when he took the oath
of office and give half a day besides
to this extra duty? That is much TO
be doubted. Every one Of the five is
so constituted that all his time would
be too little for the doing Of the
bureau work he would like to do
Bad as the situation is normally. it
has been made worse by the assign
ment OF these commissioners TO inves-
tigate the type setting muddle in the
Government Printing Office There
was a task which not only precIuded
their new work as commissioners, but
excluded nearly all OF their work as
bureau chiefs. The organization was
too convenient Il was too we'll suit
ed, when that crisis arose, to just
that kind Of a task. And so il was
sidetracked If any other such con
tingencies arise-and il is fair TO say
they are not unexpected-this body
will be TOO convenient again and then
more delay.
There is probably not q single pro-
gressive clerk in the whole service
who does not know, as every official
knows. that the purpose Of the Keep
Commission is Of extreme importance.
For 400 years custom and growth
have been adding to the intricacy and
confusion OF departmental meth
DDS. The bulk today is enormous.
The means of handling 1t are in many
respects cumbersome. wasteful. inu-
Tile Without commending this par
ticafar body es perfect, it may al least
be said that its personnel has en-
couraged everyone Interested in The
departments TO hope that it might
The Washington times., 1905-07-23
Paul Jones.

After more than a century Of neg
lect the body of Paul Jones comes
back to America with all the honors
to which he was entitled. The United
States honors itself in thus honoring
the mortal remains of a great sea
captain.
Paul Jones is honored because he
was of those who do things and do
them we'll It is well to have his body
in the land he served so faithfully,
and it will be we'll for the rising gen
Grafton to pay honor to his tomb, for
he had true courage.