Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-04-04

THAT We BE NOT JUDGED"
There little old verse, worthy Of the name not
because of it's poetic value but because of the it
carries, which runs something like this
| There's 50 much good in the worst Of U.S. u
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it little behooves any of
| 10 speak i'll of the rest of us.
Maybe that is not the original text, but it will serve
the purpose for it is not the purpose here to quote it
as classic gem, but advice The fact is that it is
more truthful than most maxims and they nearly all
carry great kernel of truth.
No matter how low woman may sink, though
they stink along the pathways and devious turnngs Of
the underworld though responsibility, honor honesty,
VIRTUE hope be forever lost to them they
sink so low but that sometime somewhere, somehow,
their better natures long since sothered underneath
Overwhelming loads Of vice, weakness despair, rise
to the surface and display themselves in most
pected and surprising manner.
On the other hand, matter how high
woman may rise; matter to what pinnaces Of fame
they may attain matter how bameless and spotess
the lives they live, somewhere, somehow sometime
weakness passion inherent long-subjected vice
desire will get the better Of their higher natures and
they will commit crime or do evil which will
shock the world by the unexpecedness Of its source
| It was harlot who washed the feet Of Christ with
snbrought tears 1t of the chosen twelve who be-
trayed him and committed the supreme crime Of history
1t strange but true that hear little Of the bad
deeds Of good men and almost nothing Of the good
deeds Of bad However, those adjectves give the
lie to themselves There wholly bad men. There
are no wholly good men. There who have more
bad in their natures than good and there those who
have good than bad There are also men who have
the of being good and those who have the Of
being bad. It Of these two last classes that we
spoke in the preceding sentences.
One-haf Of the world knows but little Of the evil in
the life of the other half and practically nothing Of
the good the other half knows great deal Of the evil
in the lives Of the first half and nothing at all Of the
good. But the last half, he socalled underworld) tells
nothing Of the good part Of its life Of the evil part
Of the first hafs fe while it's own evil speaks largely
for itself. 1t has no one to tell it to.
There is inclination in the first half to willingly
almost boldly tell Of the good part Of it's own life and
of the evil parts of the life Of the other half while it
keeps soft pedal any chronology of it's weakness
and knows nothing to tell if it desired to do So
of the goodness of the underworld.
But the line is not distinctly drawn that we may
thus cavaerly speak of one-half and Of another By
gradual degrees pass from and women Of spot
less and good regulations to and women Of doubt
full and then into the ranks of and women Of evil
regulations, without crossing firmly drawn and
definite line of separation.
Of the true worth Of men and women, only the
which seeth beneath the surface that reads not
books and papers but the minds and souls Of humanity
II knows Some day the veil may be drawn away and we
may see clearly where there is naught but colored
windows and darkened glasses. Then we may know
men and women. Now we know but regulations.
! And all Of this but leads in the eternal circle
with no definite conclusion except an emphasis upon
the DID, old adnonition: "Judge not that We be not
judged"
bngb It all tried Good morning ,b. said h.