The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30
COUNTRY EDITOR S PHILOSOPHY.
Paragraphs from E. w. zzowe of the
Atll e n Globe.

Paragraphs from E. w. lowe of the
A.tlic n Globe.
/ have a horse / do not need, and /.
man offered me 500 for it. said ] !
would take that sum, but insisted ON |
telling him all 4 knew about the subject. !
This action broke up the trade.
couldn't afford, for 500, to have that
man going around the neighborhood |
saving ! had deceived him. In being |
fair with this man, | was not actuated
by principle, but by selfshness; it is
uncomfortable and Improbable to tell
a falsehood, or do a mean act: can
not afford to make dollar that canses
me more than dollar S worth of annoy
ance or humiliation. / want to be fair
and square as matter of comfort.
In the last hundred years there has
been wonderful progress. We have had
big decade after big decade of accom-
plishment; important and useful discov
cries one after another, have stalked
into the world S history. Let these
things be remembered as an offset to
the little meannesses of which the men
may be honestly convicted; for / take
it as admitted that women s clubs have
not accomplished the big results to
which l point with pride.
Preachers say the people fight reli-
gion. 1t isn't true. The attitude of
men toward religionyis naturally friend
ly. Men not only think faverably
about religion, but millions Of athem
think it sin to become hypocrites, and
pretend to believe when they do not.
Theories and opinions are as numer-
GUS as the sands of the sea, but Fact
is always worthy of attention.
Before the Mexieans can be greatly
helped they must be t'bred up, - as we
breed up scrub cattle. The problem in
Mexico is more intellectual than physi-
cal. sS
Everything in Iife-morals, health,
business-is a matter of simple common
sense. a lie disagrees with you, and
renders you uncomfortable, as does a
radish; you viii hear from a dishonest
action unpleasantly, as you will from
a cucumber. We are as healthy as we
arc sensible, and it is said eighty per
cent of the people have stomach trouble,
4 to soy nothing of other disagreeable
complaints that might be avoided.
/ The radish has no feod value what
ever; not only that, but it is dangerous
when introduced into the stomach. Yet
every spring you will find radish bed
back of nearly every house and the
/ n .u "a nrnn1 Of ba Sc sDfb "a
i belief.
/ Occasionally l hear a mean thing
4 that has been said of me behind my
back. And how it startles and humil-
something in the criticism. You can t
t fool people; they are free takers, but
they also give credit, not in as full
measure as they should, perhaps, but
they give credit when it is actually
due.
The renl questions of moment arc
/ hidden in the crime Of overpraisc or
| oycrahuse; the real news is covered M
by means of sensationalism or preiu-
fdice. Formerly an American, when pol
rites became so bad he could no longer
stand it, might call his dog. put out his
fire and move out West to make a new
start; but the free land in the West
has been taken up; the only thing to
do now is to reform public affairs.
We only know that the good rule,
ihelp everyone; if they helped jaime;
~. TFill more than they helped Joe, his
gardener, we must find consolation il
the fact that Hill helped others more
than Joe did. A half loaf is better thar
none; perhaps we all eat too much, any
way. good gardener is better than an
idler, and l will hoe Ely row as best ]
can.
We might as well call our children :.
school ESSAYS Literature as to refer Il
their piano playing as Music. A grea+
many people say they do not greatl'
care for music because they neve
heard any; never actually heard musi
until ] was a man grown, member o
a country brass band, and an offende
fon the piano and organ whenever oppof
tu1fity offered.
I How universally we wear clothes
I And "clothes = mean certain wel!-tes
ed forms of utility we always carry cut
| collars, underwear, shoes, hats, stocl
f ings etc. All arc matters of expcriene,
: Whatever is better will appear in cours
y of time, as a result Of further expo
. rience. So it is with our morals, Gu.
i toms, laws; they are the best we co
f do. In the main there have been n
r different styles, but in the end
It coat will afford so much protection an
no more, as a law will afford so niue
: protection and no more.
q AT present it costs $4,000 to kill
man in.war, as against two dollars an
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