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The Breckenridge news., 1905-03-22
Copyright, 1901, By
Mcclure, Phillips g. Co.

reality they teach, Country, religion,
law-we are all these" Such teaching
fosters fanaticism. and if fanaticism is
not the sole antsocial ferment it is sure
ly one of the worst and most energetic.
If simplicity of heart is an essential
condition of respect, simplicity of life
is its best school. Whatever be the
state of your fortune, avoid Verythlng
which could make your children think
themselves more or better than others.
Though your wealth would permit you
to dress them richly, remember the evil
you might do i'm exciting their vanity.
Preserve them from the evil of be-
lieving that to be elegantly dressed
suffices for distinction, and, above all,
do not carelessly increase by their
clothes and their habits of life the
distance which already separates them
from other children. Dress them sim
ply. And if, on the contrary, it should
be necessary for you to economic to
give your children the pleasure of fine
clothes. | would that | might dispose
you to reserve your spirit of sacrifice
lily recOmpensed You dissirate your
money when 1t would much better
avail to save 1t for serious needs, and
you prepare for yourself, later on,
harvest Of ingrattude. How danger
Gus it is to accustom your sons and
daughters to a style of living beyond
your means and theirs! In the first
place, it is very bad for your purse in
the second place, it develops a con-
temptuous spirit in the very bosom OF
the family. If you dress your children
like little lords and give them to under
stand that they are superior to you,
is it astonishing if they end by dis
daining you? You will have nOurished
at your table the declassed-a product
which costs dear and is worthless.
ANY fashion Of instructing children
whose most evident result is TO lead
them to despise their parents and the
customs and activities among which
they have grown up is a calamity. 1t
is effective for nothing but to produce
a legion of malcontents, with hearts
totally estranged from their origin,
their race. their natural interests-ev-
erything, in short, that makes the fun
| damental fabric of a man. Once de-
tached from the vigorous stock which
produced them. the wind of their restless
ambition drives them over the earth
like dead leaves that will in the end be
heaped up to ferment and rot together.
Nature does not proceed by leaps and
bounds. but by an evolution slow and
certain. In nrenaring a career for our
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well deve1ons his modesty as 10 see ris
father and mother on all occasions pre-
serve toward an old grandfather. often
infrm. an attitude of respect. 1t is a
perpetual object lesson that is irreslst-
ible. That it may have its full fol e
II is necessary for tacit understanding
TO obtain among all the grownup mem
bers of the family. To the child's eyes
they must all be in league, held to mu-
tual respect and understanding, unCer
penalty of compromising their educa-
tional authority, and in their number
must be counted the servants. SerV-
ants are big people, and the same SEN
timent of respect is injured in the
child's disregard Of them as in his dls-
regard of his father or grandfather.
The moment he addresses an impolite
or arrogant word to person older than
himself he strays from the path that
n child ought never to quit and If only
occasionally the parents neglect to
point this out they will soon perceive
by his conduct toward themselves that
the enemy has found entrance to his
heart
We mistake if we think that a child
IS naturally alien to respect, basins this
opinion on the very numerous examples
of irrevercnce which lie offers us. Re
spect is for the child fundamental
need. His moral being feeds on It. The
child aspires confusedly to revere and
admire something, but when advan-
tage is not taken of this aspiration it
gets corrupted or lost BY our lack OF
cohesion and mutual Difference we. the
grownups, discrcdit daily in the childs
eyes our own cause and that Of every
thing worthy Of respect We inoculate
in him a bad spirit whose effects then
turn against us.
This piufu truth nowhere appears
with more force than in the relations
between masters and servants as we
have made them Our social errors,
our want of simplicity and kindness.
all fall back upon the heads Of our chill
dren. There are certainly few people
Of the middle classes who understand
that it is better TO part with many
thousands of dollars than to lead their
children to lose respect for servants,
who represent in our households the
humble, yet nothing is truer. Main
tain as strictly as you will conventions
and distances, that demarcation of So
eial frontiers which permits each one
to remain in his place and to observe
the law of differences-that is q good
thing. am persuaded-but on condi-
ton Of never forgetting that those who
.,-' % v' "-" "'"p ond women like our
The Breckenridge news., 1905-03-22
6be Simple Life
BY Charles Wagner.

selves. xou require of your domestics
certain formulas Of speech and certain
attitudes. outward evidence of the re-
spect they owe you. DO you also teach
your children and use yourselves man.
ners toward your servants which show
them that you respect their dignity as
individuals as you desire them to re-
spect YOU? Here we have continually
in our homes an excellent ground for
experiment in the practice of that mu-
tual respect which is one of the essen
tial conditions Of social sanity. | fear
we profit by 1t too little. We do not
fail to exact respect, but we fail to give
it. SO 1t is most frequently the case
that we get only hypocrisy and this
supplementary result, all unexpected
the cultivation Of pride in our children.
These two factors combined heap up
great difficulties for that future which
we ought TO be safeguarding. | am
right, then, in saying that the day when
by your own practices you have
brought about the lessening of respect
in your children you have suffered Il
sensible loss.
Why should | not say it? 1t seems to
me that the greater part OF us labor
for this loss. On all sides. i'm almost
eyery social rank. | notice that pretty
pad spirit is fostered in children. a spir-
It of reciprocal contempt Here those
who have calloused hands and working
clothes are dislained: there it is all
who do not wear blue jeans. Children
educated in this spirit make sad fellow
citizens. There is I'm all this the want
IF That siw1.icitv which makes il pos
HDle Tor men OF good intentions, OF
however diverse social standing, to col.
labolute without any friction arising
from the conventional distance that
separates them.
If the spirit of caste causes the loss
of respect. partisanship. of whatever
sort, is quite as productive of it. In
certain quarters children are brought
up in such fashion that they respect
but one country their own; one sys-
tenn of government-that of their par
ents and masters; one religion n-that
which they have been taught. Does
any one suppose that in this way men
can be shaped who shall respect couD-
try, religion and law? Is this proper
respect-this respect which does not
extend beyond what touches and be-
longs to ourselves? Strange blindness
of cliques and cOteriHs. which AFRO
gate to themselves with so much in
gcnuous conplacence the title of
schools of respect, and which. out
side themselves. respect nothing. iii
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influence OF CAIN anu superior win.
The true quality of the Office of edu-
Gator is to represent this will to the
child in a manner as continuous and
as dlsinterested as possible. Educators,
then. stand for all that is to be re-
spected in the world. They give to the
child impressions Of that which pre-
cedes it, outruns it, envelops it, but
they do not crush it. On the contrary
Neir will and all the influence they
transmit become elements nutritive of
its native energy. Such use of au-
thority as this cultivates that fruitful
obedience out of which free souls are
born. The purely personal authority
of parents, masters and institutions Is
to the child like the brushwood be-
meath which the young plant withers
and dies. Impersonal authority, the
authority Of a man who has first sub
mitted himself TO the time honored
realities before which he wishes the
individual fancy Of the child TO bend.
resembles pure and luminous air. True,
it has an activity and influences US in
its manner. but it nouriShes our indi-
viGuality and gives il hrmness and sta
bility. Without this authority there Is
no education. To watch, 10 guide, to-
keep a firm Laud-such is the function
of the educator. lie should appear to
the child not like q barrier of whims,
which. if need be, one may clear pro
yided the leap be proportional TO the
height of the obstacle but like trans
parent wall through which may be
seen uncLanging realities laws, limits
and truths against which no action is
possible Thus arises respect which is
the faculty Of conceiving something
greater than ourselves-respect, which
broadeus us and frees us by making us
more modest This is the law Of edu-
cation for simplicity. 1t may be sum
med up I'm these words: To make free
and reverential men, who shall be in
dividual and fraternal.
Let Us draw from this principle some
practical applications.
From tie very fact that the child is
the future he must be linked to the
past by piety. We owe it to him to
clothe tradition in the forms most prdc-
tical and most fit to create a deep i'm
pression whence the exceptional place
that should be given in education to the
to the cult Of remembrance
of the past and by extension to the
history of the domestic rooftree. Above
all do we fulfill duty toward our chill
dren when we give the place of honor
to the grandparents. Nothing speaks
to child with so much force or so
The Breckenridge news., 1905-03-22
Translated From the French by
Mary Louise. ..Hendee.

he is held by Impressions or the pres
ent. Who. then. shall give him the
first enlightenment and put him in the
way he should go? The parents. the
teachers. And with very little rehcc-
ton they perceive that their work does
not interest simply themselves and the
child, but that they represent and ad-
minister impersonal powers and inter
ests. The child should continually ap-
pear to them as future citizen. With
this ruling idea they will take thought
for two things that complement each
other - for the initial and personal
force which is terminating in the child
and for the social destination of this
force. At no moment of their direction
over him can they forget that this lit
tie being confded 10 their care must
become himself and a brother These
two conditions, far from excluding
each other, never exist apart. 1t is i'm
possible to be brotherly, to love, to give
oneself. unless one is master of him
self; and, rcciprocal.y, none can possess
himself comprehend his own inoiFid
ual being. until he has first made bis
way through tie outward accidents %.
his existence down 10 the profound
springs Of life where man feels himself
one with other men i'm all that is most
intimately his own.
To aid q child TO become himself
and a brother il is necessary to protect
him against the violent and destructive
action of the forces of disorder These
forces are exterior and interior Every
child Is meudced from without not
only by material dangers but 10y Le
mcddlos0uguo of alien wills, uud
from within hy au exaggerated idea
Of his own personality and an Tie fan
cles it breeds There is great out
ward danger which may come from the
abuse of power in educators Tie
right of might finds itself place in ed
ucati0n with extreme facility To ed
ucate another one must have reuounced
this ri-lt-that is 10 say. made abne-
cation of the inferior sentiment of per
soual Importance. which transforms us
into the enemies of others. even of our
own children. our authority is beneh-
cent only when it is inspired by one
higher than our own. In this case it
is not only salutary, but also indis-
pensable. and becomes in its turn the
best guarantee against the greater per
il which threatens the child from with
in-that of eXaggerating his own i'm
portance At the beginning of life the
vividness of personal impressions is 50
great that to establish an equilibrium
they must be submitted 10 the gentle
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children let us initiate her. Let us not
confound progress and advancement
with those violent exercises called
somersaults; let us not so bring up
our children that they will come to
despise work and the aspirations and
simple spirit of their fathers; let us not
expose them to the temptation of being
ashamed of our poverty if they them
selves come to fortune. A society is
indeed diseased when the sons of peas
ants begin to feel disgust for the fields,
To be Continued.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-03-22
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The Breckenridge news., 1905-03-22
Wakeful?
S1eeple essness Is a
Sign of Nerve Trou-
BILE and Should
Be Looked To.

There are three different manifesto
tions Of sleeplessness.
First, hardly to sleep a wink all night,
second. to lie awake a long time before
falling asleep; third, to fall asleep soon,
waking up after several hours and then
find it hard to sleep again.
They mean that somewhere in the
nerve fbres. somewhere in the brain
cells, somewhere in the blood vessels
that carry blood to the brain, something
is radically wrong, and must be righted,
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To right It, take Dr. Miles Nervine.
Some other symptoms OF nerve trou-
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Melancholy Lack of Ambition.
They Indicate diseases which may lead
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'Nfy husband had been sick for weeks.
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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1905-11-30
A Neat Retort.

In certain street in the East-end
of London is three-story building.
On the ground floor is a public house;
on the first floor lived son of Erin,
whom for conventions sake we'll call
Pat; on the second floor resided
true son of Israel. Whenever the last.
named gentleman felt thirsty he would
lower can by piece of string down
to the ground floor, and the publican
would extract I'd which the Jew had
placed there, and ill the can with
beer. AS the Jew was hauling it up
one day. Pat caught sight of the can
slowly ascending outside his window.
Like flash he grabbed hold of it and
drank all the beer at one dlaught, let.
ting the empty can go on it's way
towards the top floor. The Jew
quickly perceived his loss, and lean
ing out of the window he erccun-
tered the face of the Ir:shu:an grim
ming up at him. HIS rage knew no
bounds.
ooh, you Irish theft" he yelled;
"you miserable Irish thief!"
"That's all right" -aid the smiling
Pat. "A good job for you am an
Irish thief. If I'd heen Jew you
wouldn't have got the can back
London Answers.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1905-11-30
LEFT THEM BOTH GUESSING.
Trick Of Traveller That Caused Cool
ness Between Companions.

uSSS Between OOnPdnlOnS.
Courtesy always pays" said Nine.
Rejane, the French actress, to an in,
terviewer. IF we are courteous to
people, they like us and they try to
he:n les. II we are discourteous to
them, they hate us and oppose us.
Two women occupied a compart.
ment in a railway carriage with one
man, stranger. They were extreme
ly rude to this man. In whispers that
he could overhear, they criticised his
costume, his figure and his manner.
He, to be revenged, did a singular
thing.
"The blackness of tunnel envel-
oped the car, and under cover of the
darkness the man kissed the back of
his hand loudly and repeatedly. Then,
when the train entered the light again.
he looked from one woman to the
other with & significant smile.
They exchanged glances. of sus-
picion. &
.s@'ss
No, of course not. Was it you?'
"And neither lady would believe the
others denial. and each, in her inmost
heart was offended to think that the
man had chosen her companion in
stead of herself to kiss. The man
looked cool and complacent. When,
finally, he rose to go, he said, lifting
his hat with jocular air:
Have no fear, ladies. shall
never tell which Of you it was.'"
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1905-11-30
Who Was BIuobesrd?

"Who was the original Bluebeard,
after whom the Chicago murderer SEN
fenced to death recently has been
nicknamed?" asks a writer in the
London Chronicle. He continues:
"We owe the familiar Blneheard of
the pantomime to Charles Perrault,
the Frenchman, who published in
1867 his immortal stories of Blue
beard The Sleeping Beauty Little
Red Riding Hood and Cinderella
But it is very uncertain who, if any
body, was Perrault's model for Blue
beard
Some have supposed that it was
our Henry VIII, others that the tale
is a lampoon upon the castle lords of
knight errantry days in general. Per-
laps the favprite candidate Las been
Giles de Rails, marshal of France. who
was hanged and burned in 4l0 for an
lwful series of crimes.
During fourteen years lie was be-
ieved to have kilnapal about $50
'hildren, tortured them, Facrificed
hem to the devil, burned their bodies
and buried their bones III his castle
rounds. But the resemblance be-
sween his tale and ElIc) ":d's is too
light to be convincing.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1905-11-30
CATCH FISH WHILE ASLEEP.
Hawaiian Method So Destructive That
Law Aqains: 1t Is Demanded.


Law Agains: It Is Demanded.
]. NJ. Herring Is the very appropri-
ate name of the fish inspector at Hi!o,
Hawaiian islands. In recent report
he says that the food fishes of Hawaii
are rapidly disappearing because of
the slaughter of those not fully grown.
1gnoran. natives and Japanese labor
ers are responsible. Besides using
small mesh nets they have method
Of making a catch which is thus de-
scribed h: Mr. Herring:
"The natives use mixture or COM
bination cI herbs known as auhuhu or
aka, a Et'; OF which when deposited
at the bo..':N OF pond frequented by
fish acts in the nature Of chloroform,
putting the fish to sleep. When the
fish rise to the surface the natives
gather them up, and they are sold or
eaten like other fish.
"There does not appear to be any
harmf"i effect from the use Of this
drug ae'er the fish are cooked, for the
Hawaiia.,s eat fish killed in this man.
ner wit, i''.irnity. But the action of
The 7r, s - same on all fish within
IN" ra<!iu: y. its influence, and the
young anf,c9 T.. IS we'll as the larg-
er FISH.
The r:;'"l:t law provides a penalty
for tish'r. Mi.h dynamite, but does
not cover tilis method of destroying
the fish,"
On Mr.. Esrrings suggestion new
protective law has been introduced in
the Hawaiian Legis lature.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1905-11-30
RIGHTS OF THE SLEEPER.
Cleveland Newspaper in Defense Of a
Bad Practice.

A Observation-Disclosures in Mem.
phis, Tenn, recently fined church
member 500 for snoring in church.
He called it breach Of the peace and
treated it accordingly. And now there
is every evidence of profound dismay
among the brethren. They are for
the most part inclined TO assert that
sleeping in church is only a breach
of etiquette al the worst. AS for
snoring. that's something over which
the offender has no control. He srx,res
unconsciously and involuntarily. 1t
is the result of peculiar construc-
ton of his piping outfit a construction
that was carried to completion with
out his. supervision,s and certainly
without his consent. I From this point
Of view lie Judge was clearly wrong
in inflicting punishment upon the in
nocent vic..m of ar9lnfort,lnafe flaw
in construction. FsS
At the same timesthe members do
not show any. overwhelming desire to
carry the case to a higher court. They
are too much stunned as II were. to
do anyth;ng-excepthpa the fine. But
the time 'nay be cCM:ng in Memphis,
or elsewher when tie right of man
to sleep where he plgases and to gar
nish thet sleep by Atombon or other
nasal form of Accompaniment, will
be fully tested and defined-Cleveland
Plain Dealer. N
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1905-11-30
Japanese Students,

A British journal says that Japa.
nese students and schoolboys twenty
years ago had no appreciation of ath-
letics. They took too serious view
Of their duties to waste on games the
time that might he devoted to stud
les. and they had to be driven by their
early English profe> sors and teachers
into the Fairgrounds as though to a
disagreeablc TASK. Now they take a
keen interest in rowing, lawn tennis
and baseball. though cricket, with it's
long periods of enforced inactivity,
does not appeal to them. They have
acquired so much proficiency in the
American national game that a team
of players from the Waseda university
of TOXIC recently left Japan, taking
the long voyage across the Pacific for
the purpose Of trying conclusions with
the champion teams of the American
universities. We may yet see an
eight from TOXIC competing at Hen.
1a4,
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1905-11-30
Coed Old Game of Baseball.

Some app"ehensive party has ex.
pressed the opinion tli:i,, the Ameri.
can people will outgrow baseball" and
an editor has been ttoughtless enough
to print it.. Thoughijess. inconsider-
ate; yes, and unpatrlotc Almost i'm.
moral. How dare an editor give pub
lcjty to an insidious breath hostile to
one of our basic institutIvns! By all
the memories of "one-old cat" and
town ball." how can a man utter such
thing and an editor circulate it? The
American APPLE rise up in the grand
stand, so to speak, and resent it with
a mighty hiss. Life would not be
worth living to the gloriou-, free and
independent spirit without baseball.
We are nation Of rooters. We must
root or die. Baseball will live as long
as the nation. When the ghouls got to
dancipE o1 the diamonds there will be
none of us to witness it. Baseball will
be the last relic to crumble.-St. Louis
Republic.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1905-11-30
7RAMPs HAD FoyAL FEAST.
They Dined Off Goldand Silver Taken
from Ereiqht Car.

from a Freight Car.
According to- thes statement of a
railroad man who lives in Chester, Pa,
and was an eyewitness of the affair,
tramps and yeggmeni who frequent the
line of the Philadelphia, Baltimore &
Washington railroad1between Philadel-
phia and Baltinore,gheld royal ban
quet, with silver sets, valued al 100000,
says the Philadelphia Record
Solid silver was handled by the road
sters and outcasts asif it were nothing
more than ordinary tinplate and the
story of the night dinner rivals that
Of the Millionaire clpb
The scene of the midnight feast was
in grove near Peffyvllc. A freight
car had been brokensopen and some of
Tiffany's finest art gems in solid silver,
consigned by the New York house to
parties in Washington, were stolen
and carried to the grove.
Foraging par,:esH were sent out by
the nomads and saon4 silver chatting
dishes were used for frying chicken
and gold-linea goblet tsiwere utilized for
quafing the I ffcaWInat q min sser:
IN the height of fh O. lle police santl
detectives swooped down on the mer-
rymakers and made one or two ar
rests, but the majority OF tho Weary
Willies" made their escape. The rail.
road authorities have been Feering the
real facts quiet.