The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-03
Howe About:
Your Servants
Handling Lawsuits
Meanness

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MOST people, when they wish to
Iva give man a present, give it to
his wife, An incident in recent d.
vorce case in my neighborhood was
that the wife took all the wedding
presents. although certainly half Of
them were intended for the husband.
I object to lot of things, and re-
ceive little encouragement but when
! like man, and have present for
him, give it to him.
was once making journey on an
ocean steamship, and an idle fellow
estimated there were seven servants
to wait on every passenger.
l have often wondered how many
servants are necessary to supply the
wants of the ordinary citizen.
To attend him when he is born and
when he is buried; to teach him his
letters, and later details of education;
to bring him luxuries and necessities
from near and distant place; to preach
to him; to doctor him; to regulate his
conduct at street crossings and at
other dangerous places; to supply his
clothing, food, fuel, and entertainment
in love, literature, art, and beverages;
to pump water for his bath; to build
his house and keep it in repair, etc.
Probably the average man has two
or three servants in his private en-
ploy, if we count the seconds, min
utes or hours thousands devote to him.
A farmer waits on himself a good
deal. I saw statement lately that
there are thirty million persons in this
country earning their living from the
production of food supplies, as against
fifty million earning their living from
supplying the various wants of the
farmers. So even every farmer has
two servants to feed and pay, and
fuss with because they do not earn
their money.
These servants we all have are
Working Men SO much heard about;
particularly in connection with twelve
million of them being out Of jobs at
present.
It is charged against writers that
there are very few good ones. For
nine hundred years, from the time
when Augustine wrote his "City Of
God' until Dante wrote the "Divine
Comedy" not single writer appeared
in Europe whom any person reads to-
day or should read.
The fallow period was longer, so far
as / am concerned. I have been q
reader many years without seeing
copy of Augustine's "City Of Cod" or
hearing anyone mention it. So far as
Dante's Divine Comedy" Is concerned,
I know what it is about, and have tried
to read it, and failed.
There is excuse for Shakespeare; he
Is an undoubted genius no one has neg
lected to appreciate. have heard the
commonest men quote him all my life,
as he wrote about real things real men
can understand and may benefit from,
but millions of his imitators deserve
the fire. The ancients burned worth
less books; If the present winter Is q
hard one we might initiate them, and
use our worthless books for heating
and cooking instead of more useful
corn.
would not be meanly suspicious so
frequently if my suspicious did not 50
frequently turn out well founded.
I am of the opinion that lawyers,
judges and courthouses combined make
up one of our, greatest ills. Lawyers
probably rank highest as the class pro-
ducing our smartest average men, but
they have built up system that has
become very burdensome, and in most
cases unnecessarily so. The system is
specially mischievous in that it en-
courages and cultivates our. natural
habit of quarreling.
Is there any remedy? / once found
one. A man said / had damaged his
adjoining lot with a building / was
erecting. / thought he was unreason-
able, and made this proposition to him:
We would ask the judge of the district
court during the noon hour to walk
over the ground. I would present my
side of the case in five minutes; my
neighbor to do the same. He agreed,
and the Judge walked over the ground
with us as proposed. The judge said
that in his judgment there was no
cause of action. We thanked him;
and case that might have cost thou
sands of dollars, much i'll feeling and
loss of time, was settled in five min
utes.
The Judge was a good man; he Ia
ter became chief justice of the Su-
preme court of Kansas.
Every man is fool, and very few
know what to do about it.
The most prominent characteristic
of men, women and children is mean
ness; am sorry to admit it, but long
experience has forced me to that con-
clusion. Still, our constant
olouor that all Shonld he good nice