The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-09-18

above husbands rights 1t has become
so common that many men who do not
happen to marry until they have earned
the ways OF the world, dare not venture.
One woman asked another if her husband
ever lost his temper. The reply was he
lost 1t soon after they We're married and
he had never had any since. The loss of
temper is good thing if it is merely re-
placed by reason, but if its disappear
ance means abject submission to the will
OF another, it is not so commemorate
There is nothing so vital to the happi-
ness OF the world as the home. In manv
cases children nave been overworke ed.
but when g set of cranks harp on the
subject until children feel justified in
taking their fathers business out of his
hands as soon as they are old enough to
work, they are developing a quality of
human nature not unlike that found in
the professional highwayman. | once
tried to hire a man who was beating his
way over the country. He replied, "a
good looking man need not work for a
living That human form which would
subslst by the labors of another is not
worthy the name of man.
When a man has strained every nerve
to feed large family and improve a
forest home, who would think that evil
influences enough could be thrown around
those children so that they would get Of
tended at their father because he did
not see tit to educate them in idleness?
When such children allow their father
letters to be returned to the writer
marked "refused,' they are doing eX-
actly what the majority of mankind are
dong In their attitude toward God, our
Heavenly Father. They are constantly
refusing His messages of love.
When John Adams, our second presi-
dent. asked his father to excuse him
from Latin grammar, his father replied
Certainly, you may dig some bitches in
the bog, it needs draining" After one
days work John begged for permission
to resume his Latin or the morrow. If
John Adams had been an up-to-date
modern boy like, we have in some locali-
ties, at least, he would have told his
father he did not have to do either and
his mother would have told him Il ad-
mire your spunk, Johnnie" but it is
very doubtful whether he would have
huences.
1t is said of Cy US w. Field thai when
he first left home, though he was with
his brother in New York, he was 50
homesick as to attract the attention Of
DR.. Mark Hopkins, who remarked q
would not give much for boy if he were
not homesick on leaving home Here
we see the finer sentiments of human
nature, as exhibited and appreciated by
two of America greatest men.
When John Wanamaker began in the
business world he walked four miles to
Philadelphia every day and worked for
dollar and quarter a week. 1t is a
fault Of this age of the world that young
women earn as much as men and spend
it all as they go. When a young man
marries one of them she expects money
to be just as plentiful. But how can
two live on one salary in the same style
that they did when both were drawing a
salary?
Years ago | knew widow who lived
on government land with a large family.
remarked that she should file on that
land and have it for her support in old
age. No, the youngest son was to file
on that land as soon as old enough. They
were far remote from settlements or
land before the favorite son was old
enough. 1T is noticeable fact that the
mother did not make her home with the
baby boy, but with her daughter.
1t is fad in some families that if
man does not want wife enough to take
her parents, too, he may look elsewhere.
That is fair enough, if so understood at
the start, but decidedly dishonest to
throw such burden on him years after
wards. To the common laborlng man,
it means simply to work like a slave
through life and be destitute in old age.
1t is Just as honorable for man to live
on his own earnings as it is to give 1t
away and become an object of charity
when unable to earn more. The dlsa-
greeable features of these and many
other cases would be obviated by old age
pensions, which were advocated by at
least one man prominent among the
founders of our nation.
Neither old age pensions nor laws can
regulate the growth of the human soul.
When man has given relative farm
with a water system on 1t furnishing
thousands Of gallons OF water every day.
what will righteous judge say when he
learns that the benefactor's horse is be-
gruQgeQ Drink Oh water! LlCIie lHleVeo
are usually punished severely, but those
who steal the dearest treasures of earth
often go free.
| IA professor from one of our colleges,
who had worked his way through college,
recently remarked what he might have
accomplished could he have been favored 9!s
with his present experience in early life.
Thus it is, those who have made the
greatest success in life see in looking
back how they might have done better.
The harbor must be charted and the
dangerous places marked. One young
man delights to introduce his poor moth
er to his fashionable classmates in COL
lege. Another, under similar circum.
stances, is ashamed of her bent form and
shabby clothing, largely the result of
her untiring efforts to aid him in his col
lege course. Of such Marden says: II
have never known man who was as
named of his mother to make real
man." eff you want to know young
mans character, find out what he does
with his spare minutes.