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1917 FEBRUARY 19171
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 11117
MISGUIDED REFORMERS.
Rev. Paul Smith, of San Francisco
like many other earnest clergymen,
has spent some years in trying to abol
ish human frailty and weaknesses by
verbal assault, and with the usual re
suits. Recently he opened a cam
paign against the fallen women of
the city. San Francisco was to be
"purified” and relieved of their "con
taminating presence” and the city up
lifted to where it would need a halo
and a quart of Dutch Cleanser.
There was no suggestion on the
part of Mr. Smith to drive out the men
of the city who were responsible for
the fallen women, or who made it
possible for them to live there. Th* re
were no steps taken to give these fn 11
tn women a chance to live clean lives
and earn a respectable living. ?.Ir.
Smith’s theory, which is also :he
popular theory, was to destroy the ef
fect of human weakness and allow the
■ ause to thrive and produce more un
fortunates.
Instead of a church full of amiable<
and horrified hypocrites called togeth-l
er to listen and be thrilled by his rt-,
cital of horrors, Mr. Smith was faced
1 y five hundred of the women of the
restricted district whom he was try
ing to drive out without thought of
what was to become of them or of re
moving the cause of their unhappy
condition.
"What are you going to do about
it?” they asked the leader of this “re
form” movement. “We are against
the lives we lead; we want to get
away from it. You would cast us
out; where to? There is not one of
us who would not quit <hia life if you
will show us where we cu make a
living by work. How man., of the
women in your church would give us
a job in your homes? You say ‘I do
not want these women in my church.
What would you do in our position?”!
It was a moment of enlightenment.
He explained tbat he was not attack
ing them but the ‘‘system." They
askhd him to attack the men who were
responsible tor the "system” ahd ho?
their being In their position. But he
said, “If I have dohe you any harm
I am willing to make it good. My
heart goes out to you.” And the
meeting ended. But th* next day, the
clergymen withdrew from his can
paign and suggested that It was r.
matter for the police to attend to
ns it is—for God’s police; not tin
civic grafters who live off the earn
ings of these women by collecting
systematic rake-off from their earn
ings.
Rev. Smith is like thousands of olh
er well-meaning and worthy men who
waste their lives trying to abolish evil
by proclamation; fighting the poor ef
fects instead of the rich causes; the
orizing in their comfortable and well
fed lives, instead of going down into
his pocket and helping them out of
their slough of despond. Christ not
only faced tlie causes and reached a
helping hand to the unfortunate, but
He had something to say to the hypo
crites—to the smug, complacent phar
isees who advised morality and prac
ticed sin.
Vice campaigns should not begin
with the poor victims, but deep down
in the human heart,—with the pred
atory male of the human species, win
is responsible for these unfortunates
in the first place.
The women, whom these misdirect
ed moralists would drive from ont
city to another, had mothers—most
,of them probably as good mothers as
you and I—and the rest of humanity
They were reared in innocence, and
at some time in their immature years
they fell to the strategems of the hu
man spider; or tp bleak want.
There are tears and broken hearts
end blasted ideals in the lives of these
lost children of humanity, the victims
of human hypocrisy—not themselves
criminals that you who have never
been tempted wot not of. And the
only remedy the reformer can sug
gest is to kick them farther down the
social scale. “Go anywhere, but do
not stay here." Is this Christlike? Is
it humane? Is it even decent? It is
not.—Exchange.
NOW tlial guns and munitions are
being parceled out to the Cubans and
to American shipping interests, >t
might be a good time for the people
along the border to make a demand
along the same lines.
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AT any rate we are sure that the
recent heavy fall of snow is not the
result of plotters.
IF you want to ascertain the true 1
definition of “mush” watch two wom
en who have not met for three or
lour weeks.
MANY women imagine that the
tool men are worrying a lot over
what they wear. So far as our
knowledge goes we have never heard
of a man kicking if women wore no
clothes at all.
DO NOT imagine that because the
grass is green that a grass widow is
that way.
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ANOTHER tragedy in life is when
a budding genius develops into a
blooming idiot.
IF you really want to find out whas.
war is step on your wife’s best brooch
when she is dressing for a party.
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SOCIAL ^ANNOYANCES.
•smsWhst fcinAlar 'ft* the Tenth Can
tury W itfflat They Are Today.
Tbit there wire ‘Objections In the so
cial amenities of life In the tenth Ceu
tury similar to tli<>ie observable at the
present day is sho^n in a remarkable ,
book. "Makiira h6 Zbshl," which wu»
the work of Sei Shongon, a poetess of
the ancient Japanese court. One of her
chapters she devotes to “Detestable I
Things," and these Included:
“A visitor who sits down to regale
you with a long toie when you are in a
hurry. If by chance he is an intimate j
friend you can pack him off until an
other time. But those whom you can- !
not summarily dismiss are detestable •
indeed.
"Babies who cry or dogs that bars
just when .vou are trying to overbear >
something. <
"A dog that barks at visitors. I have j
often wanted to kill such dogs.
"People who interrupt your story to 1
show off their own cleverness. All in- !
terrupters. young and old. are very de- •
testable.
"People who when you are telling a i
story break in with ’Oh. I know.’ and
give quite a different version from j
your own.
“Either at home or in the palace to
he roused up to receive an unwelcome j
visitor In order to avoid whom yon ,
have been pretending to be asleep."
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INDEXING BOOKS.
The Custom le an Old Ono That Da
valopad Rather Slowly.
The custom of indexing boobs devel
oped gradually. Clefefr6 used the word
••Index," but In the sense of a table of
contents. Seneca provided some works
which he sent to a friend with notes of
particular passages, "so that be who
only aimed at the useful might be
spared the trouble of elaminlng them
entire." This was at least a partial
"Index” In the modem aense. Anno
tated. or at least explanatory, tables of
contents seem to have preceded the in
dex proper.
Such tables followed the order of ap
pearance of the subjects In the book it
self. Alphabetical arrangement which
was tbe beginning of the real index,
appears not to have been thought of
until tbe invention of printing, and
even then it spread but slowly. Eras
mus was one of tbe first to provide his
works with alphabetical indexes. The
custom did not become universal until
well.into (he sixteenth century.
The first Index to an English book is j
said to be that printed in Polydoro j
Vergil's “Angliae Ilistoriae" in 15-10.
An edition of this work published ten !
years later has an index of thirty-seven !
pages.
A Clausa In Napolaon’a Will.
Peter the Great is said to have made [
a will in which he exhorted his heirs to i
approach us neatly as possible to Con- !
stantinupie and toward India, but the 1
authenticity of this document has been
disputed, and it is shrewdly sus|>ected
to have been forged late In the eight
eenth century by August Kotzebue.
Of tlie genuineness, however, of the
last will and testament of Napoleon 1.
there can be no manner of doubt. One i
of its clauses was as vindictive as the j
testamentary injunction of Queen Aus !
trlgilda to her husbaud to have her two
doctors killed and buried with her.
The exile of Longwood absolutely be
queathed 10,000 francs to a fellow called
Cantillon, who had been tried in Paris
for an attempt to murder the Duke of
Wellington. The man was still surviv
ing in Brussels when Napoleon III. |
came to the throne, and Cantillon was i
duly paid his legacy.
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Queer Ads.
An English paper advertises for “a
young person who can cook and dress
children" and refers in its "lost and
found” column to "a doll belonging to
a little girl stuffed with rags."
This is tbe paper that contains the
following:
“A gentleman has a school- for sale.
Contains two schoolrooms which will
accommodate 300 pupils one above an
other." Also this: "A lady ofTers for
sale a baboon, three tabby cats and a
parrot. She states that, being now
married, she bas no use for them, as
their amiable qualities are all com
bined in her husband.”
Immune.
“Blacksmiths seem to have a reputa
tion for honesty."
“Deservedly so. but due partly per
haps to the nature of the business. No
body encumbers a blacksmith with
trust funds. There la nothing to adul
terate In his line. Compared with some
of us. a blacksmith has few temptd
tlous to resist."—Kansas City Journal
A Clean Record.
"What makes Jinks so proud of bis
ancestors? I never heard any of them
! did anything."
“Thut’s exactly the point. So many
persons' ancestors did do things which
got them into trouble with the police."
—Richmond Tlmes-Dlspatch.
Eaeily Settled.
.“Be easy," said a rich merchant to a
fault finding son-in-law. who was per
petually pestering him with complaluts
of his wife’s shortcomings. "As her
behavior is so Intolerable. I will alter
my will and cut her off with a shilling. '
The old man heard no more of hi*
daughter’s failings.
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Rise a Little Higher.
Those who live on the mountains
have a longer day than those who live
in the valleys. Sometimes all we need
to brighten onr day Is to rise a little
higher
A man ought never to quarrel with
a woman. He should bear her unrea
son In silence.—Napoleon
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GROCERIES AND OFFICE LOCATED IN THE FORMER KING GROCERY BUILDING
IT IS much better to give than to
receive, as the old bachelor remarked
when he purchased a wedding present
for a friend.
MANY people cannot spend an
hour in a church without coughing
every ‘.wo minutes; when he can play
pan a week and never wheeze once.
A WIFE knows what she would do
if she were a man and a man is darn
ed sure what he would not do if he
were a woman.
THE only difference between some
men and a mule is that the latter uses
liis feet instead of his mouth when
he has a kick coming.
GERMANS DEPORTING SERBS;
Pl'T THEM IN THE TRENCHES
PARTS, Feb. 7.—The following
statement from the Serbian Press Bu
reau is forwarded from Corfu by the
Havas correspondent:
“Todor Javanovitch, escaped from
Bulgarian slavery, has reached our
lines. He recounts that he with other
peasants, was deported by force be
fore the Bulgarian retreat, and com
pelled to labor in the trenches under
the artillery fire of the Serbians and
their allies. Every male above boy
hood was taken from all the villages
into slavery. Fifteen hundred were so
taken from Souhodol, under control
of German officers.”
Javanovitch complained of pooi
food and hard labor, and said num
erous deaths resulted.
J. L. Steele of the Standard Cop
per Mines Company came up froi ■
Landlock bay last evening for a short
stay in town.
Alex Singletary of the Sweepstakes
Mine at Avery river, is a visitor in
town.
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