Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
kAsPEskA ANN RlcHLAND.
This and That.

This and That.
New here, folk, perhaps there i
so9ethfng in this sentiment whicI
was expressed by a gentleman in GU
presence not long ago. This frient
with wife and family have lived here
Tor q goodfy Number Of years; the.
Z indeed "old timers" They are
worthy people, and the years. tn,
sains and losses, the joys and sor
rows. the drouths nor billiards., have
not taken from their hearts the thirs
we call sentiment. What a valuable
what IN inestimably valuable thina
is sentiment! What power, whsi
beanty. what JOY, what glory. what pa
hence, what heroism, what nobility
Whist splendor is there found in sent
ment. real sentiment! How rich a
life that's rich in sentiment; how
poo-, how fearfully destitute is a life
devoid of the same thing. Gen. Lew
Wallace once wrote, He that defn-
9th the difference between love and
sentiment writes with a pen might
fne." Henry Drummond declared
that love is the greatest thing In the
world.
What did this gentleman say? It
was this: He and others, too. he
declared, dislike to hear over the
phone or in conversation, or in print.
II beautiful name Kampeska
abbreviated to Kan" We say, per.
haps it is well to think OF this. Is
there not something in it. No doubt
that our splendid lake and our little
burg possesses n OF the prettiest
names to be found in the world, 1t
may be that We don't appreciate 1t as
ought.
DO you know there are a lot OF be-
lngs, members OF the genus homo, that
take delight in looking for evil, the
~unbecoming, the undesirable in others
especially in the one who is a little
cleaner in habits and thoughts than
is the average person or especially
themselves, or n who is doing a
little more in the accomplishments of
their life than the rest of the com
munity Or the average fellow. Fave
not you heard it many times, $50 and
SO thinks he is above the
herd" so and SO takes q chew once
in a while" II heard so and so tell IL
smutty story the other night OF per-
maps 1T was a glass ir beer or wine.
so and 30 was a boy with the BOYS
when he was young all right oh.
how many gloat in that some neigh
DORIS girl stepped astray, or that they
learn from some like-minded mate
that Mrs. So and so, wife Of some
line maa, q splendid mother and mis-
rtess of a lovely home, once wnen
young committed some overt deed that
in her heart she has bitterly regretted
all the years. All! that beastly. lech-
erous spirit, the world has SO much
of it. How unlike, how at extreme
variance, with the spirit of the Christ
Do You know that we were glad
when we read that a young man who.
made certain assertions CONCERNING
George Washington was arrested, fined
and imprisoned. Same spirit, you.
see, trying to undermine the estima-
ton of Washington. What a fine, an
exalted A~mericanism. Such fellows.
imbued with such a spirit would i'm.
deed make a powerful, patriotic army
TO pit against the Germans, or most
any other people.
My boy, you need not fear to be-
lieye that Gen. George Washington,
Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield,
William Mckinley, yes, Robert e. Lee
or "Stonewall" jackson and many
others were not fne manly fellows
they were. OF course, they were once
boys and young men just like you are.
We include the following editorial
from Farm, Stock and Home, as one
of the best we have yet read dealing
with this subject:
The German Situation.
With regard to foreign matters what
may happen from day to day is un-
certain. The best guess at this writ
ing Is that the country is irrevocably
plungfng into war. Unless it were to
play the part OF the coward and desert
the principles of humanity for which
lit has stood these many years It
could no nothing else; unless Germany
shall see fit at the last moment to re-
scind her orders and wage war ac-
cording to the standards set by civil.
lied nations. The barbarism that has
characterized the present conflict has
no equal unless we go back to the
religious vars OF the Middle Ages.
Breaches OF international law may be
charged against all the warning ma
tions. but it has remained for Prussian