, 1905-01-07
S0L|L0QUY
S0L|L0QU|zED
A LITERARY LADY WITH A HEART
WRITES IN RELATION TO
MATTERS SENTIMENTAL.
Mrs. Cora V. Graves, Formerly Editor
of the Lander Mountaineer, Tells
Some Plain Truths in Relation to
Everyday Life-Do Not SANDER
Your Neighbor.

A reputation n C lost can never be
r%egained. Pause then, thoughtless one,
ere you cast the first insinuation of a
neighbours fair daughter, whose charms
are her only fault. Passing from lip to
lip, the reflection you cast upon her
character grows in magnitude until her
once fair name Is sullied beyond recall.
Has she erred? We are not here to
Judge. God in His initiate mercy shall
punish the erring according to their
misdeeds. Leave the work in His
hands and cast out the beam out of
thine own eye; II then shalt thou
see clearly to cast u the mote out
Of thy brothers eye We may impair
our neighbours property; it can be re-
placed. We may do him bodily injury;
medicine and time can heal the wound.
We may ridicule his poverty; industry
can replenish it. But when you attack
ais character, you are taking from him
he choicest gift of life, and one which
no power a replace. Once sullied,
there is no remedy. There is no crime
more cruel than the insinuation against
your neighbours character. Be careful,
mothers, who would cast a reflection
on some fair girls name. You may,
perchance, live to see your own daugh.
Ler's name dragged into the mire. An
~insinuat.on Is worse than the whole
story. If you must tarnish her fair
name, tell what you have heard or sus
%picion; then she might have the chance
TO repudiate the charge. Do not hint
and say if so and so only knew this or
knew that. Come right out and tell
what you know if you must try to in
jure anyone. The scandal monger is
ever on the alert. Shun such a reptile
as you would a plague. From the
venom of his or her fang no n es-
capes. They have no enjoyment but
ruthlessly dragging the innocent to
their owl level.
a anyone fancy a muchly married
woman being proud of the various nup-
tial knots II the many times she has
been an important figure in the divorce
court? One of the most disgusting
articles we have read in a long time
was thai of a woman welded to her
eighth husband. The article was in a
Chicago paper, and was written by the
woman of the many divorces, relative
to her means of entrapping the unsus-
pecting victims, and of how, in a few
months, she threw them over for a new
one. The seemed very proud
of her ability to catch on while not
the faintest suspicion of shame entered
her mind at her inability to make such
a wife and mother that she could hold
their love. The real ideal of woman
hood, to my mind, is the n who has
but II love, and has lived a lifetime
of sacred devotion to that love and q
home surrounded by the voices of
merry children, and who, when the day
OF eternity draws nigh, departs this life
leaving a memory cherished by a de-
voted husband and children, emblem
attic of all that is pure and holy, a
devoted wife and mother.
at serves him right" or "he should
have been hanged" vas the usual ex-
preston heard when it was learned
that James Dollard was sentenced to
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killing of Frank Bryant. Yes. undoubt
edy it was the proper thing that Dol
lard should be punished for his crime.
But what led up to the awful deed?
What caused Dollard's downfall? Ask
his poor heartbroken mother, who has
been one of those devoted, idolizing
mothers, who could deny no luxury or
comfort for her children which tender
love or money could provide. Thought
less ones, do you ever think of her?
After the awful deed Of her son, I saw
lher fade away, grow emaciated and wan
with a look Of despair upon her face
which caused me often to shun her
rather than face that h~eartbroken de-
5pair depicted in every feature. James
Dollard had a home which was all the
word implies. Joe WEIGH, his step
father. is n of the most honorable