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WOMAN AND RACE SUICIDE
Another Phase of the Mooted Question Pro
tenttd by Woman.
OBLIGATIONS ENTAILED IN MOTHERHOOD
Bis Families Not So Mifk to Bo De
sired Chlldrea Properly
Equipped to Mako the
Race at Lite.
OMAHA. Nov. 21. To the Editor of The
See: If all your readers were to Inflict their
views of race suicide upon you and the
public you would be deluged, and In the
end It would be as profitless and unavail
ing' as the Darling Ella McKlltlp contro
versy, "la Marriage a Failure," and kin
dred subjects.
Moot of the articles I have seen upon rare
suicide have been the product of mascu
line pens and convictions. There are al
ways two sides to every question, and per
haps the other side may not be obtrusive.
One mother has already presented one
very obvious consideration In your col"
umns.
Mr. Roosevelt's unguarded remarks on
this subject started the ball rolling, and
every one wants to give It a kick. But
Mr. Roosevelt cannot constitute himself
umpire tor all who are in the game. What
might be right and commendable In him
might be nothing short of criminal for
someone else differently situated. If Mr.
and Mrs. Roosevelt are agreed that from
ten to twenty pffshoots from ths family
tree are none too many for them well ahd
good. Doubtless they will be well trained
and equipped for good citizenship.
True, children In moderation are a bless
ing, but when mind and body are strained
and racked unceasingly In the problems
how te feed and clothe them, to say noth
ing of tbeir education, then they become
a burden with-which parents have no right
to tax themselves or their communities.
Father Doiellas; nisquallSed,
Neither is Father Pnwllnsr. whv T am
told, is a good man and a brainy one. In
a position to dictate or censure or sit In
judgment, for, as a Catholic priest, his
preaching and ids practice are not In
accord. Ills statement that this country
is capable of supporting a much larger
population ' than the pfixent Is undoubt
l!y true, but 'tis no lees true that "nature
yield her secrets and her substance
grudgingly. Her gates must be stormed
before Hhe opens them." Multitudes of
men are incapable of storming them, other
multitudes can but won't. Then there are
still ether multitudes in the slums of all
eur great cities who never did an honest
day's work and never Intend to. Nebuchad
nezzar's furnace, heated seven times hot,
would hardly serve to purge them' from
their own tilth and that of their surround
ings. Yet these travesties on manhood and
womanhood are the class above all others
who literally and lgnally carry out the
Injunction to multiply and replenish the
oarth. Is the world any better or hap
pier for this great army of waifs thus
brought Into existence, handicapped from
the beginning, defrauded of a clean and
wholesome birthright, but dowered with a
heritage of poverty, disease and degener
acy, entailed on succeeding progeny to ths
third and fourth genera I Lin? Here more
than in any other conceivable situation
does quality versus quantity count. The
more Intelligent and respectable classes
are all the time providing workhouses, re
formatories, Jails and penlteutUrUs for
protection against this replenishment.
Father Dowllnif says If ths Lord provides
for I tie aiultlpiieauon ot atoms as small
a an animalcuTe, how much more does he
desire the multiplication of those created
In His divine Image. Tes, If they were
an Image of their Creator, that would be a
very different proposition.
It may be the animalcule and all ths
ascending scale of germ life were Intended
to act as a check against overproduction
of the human "pedes. At sny rats :
scientists agree that disease and death are
constantly induced and propagated by these
inflnltesmal atoms, and the larger mos
quito, house fly and rat scatter yellow
fever, typhoid and bubonio plague. Our
greatest students are devoting the best
years of their life to discovering and ex
terminating these pests, and every one
who succeeds is called a benefactor to his
racu. Yet they were created with an in
stinct to reproduce themselves, which they
do In myriads and swarms. Insects and
animals have no Intellect or reason to
restrain and control them.
Not the WABiaa's Sins.
It does not necessarily follow when the
family is small that the wife sins against
her vocation as she Is accused as if a
woman's only vocation was that of child
bearing and I would rather believe the
husband a high type of manhood than
otherwise. Then, too, man cannot feed
a family nowadays on locusts and wild
honey. Decency demands other covering
for their bodies than the traditional fig leaf
or even goat skins, and civilisation has
outgrown dens and cave In the mountain
side for habitations. Is it not more hu
mane and Just to provide comfortably for
three than to rob them In the effort to half
provide for twice that many?
There Is a great deal of humbuggery and
misinterpretation of scripture on this point
as well as some others and more than ap
pears on the surface. Those thst are con
tinually hauling out texts of scripture In
support of this theory and examples' In
the way of the old patriarchs with a regi
ment of sons and daughters generally omit
to add that nearly all of them were po
lygamlsts and supplied with a lot of con
cubines beside, so one woman was not ex
pected to do all the recruiting. And surely
a wife several times a mother has a right
to set a limit. If any mun holds contrary
opinions, would that Just ones he could take
her p!-ci tinuugh tne unspeakable anguish
and perils of that mysterious ordeal of
birth. After being thus enlightened he
would not expect or wish to see such an
expedience often repeated.
The phyrlclan with sympathetic heart and.
anxious fuce, with the experience and re
search of many years all that science can
reveal and man can master at his com
mandIs still Impotent and helpless before
that pitiless curse pronounced upon woman
In the Garden of Eden. Alone she must
go down to the gates of death many
enttr there no one can bear the agony for
her. That Inexplicable and fearful edict re
mains as forceful today as when first pro
nounced. There has been no mitigation of
the sentence.
And yet nearly all women are willing to
endure and suffer all this Jar the Joys and
blessings of motherhood, which can be
realized In r.o other way. but ths maternal
instinct docs not require ten or a dosen
offspring to satisfy, it. .A physician with a
large practice In this city told me he rarely
found a woman who remained childless
from choice.
What a Mother Feels.
The following verses from an unknown
poetess to my mind contain more food for
contemplation than any utterances I have
heard from President Roosevelt, president
of Chicago university, Omaha colleges or
any other high and mighty who haa es
sayed to teach woman hr duty:
There In his tiny cot he la sleeping a sinless
sleep
Here by his cradla side I at and watch
and weep.
Watch, with ths thought ef his future sear
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ing my weary i,raln,
Weep, for the toll It will bring him the
sorrow, the care and the pain.
Have I not done him a wrong in flinging
him Into the strife?
Will he thank me one day, think you, for
the thankless gift of life?
Calm Is his baby slumber, with rosy lips
apart;
AU mei to think of hint sleepless, tossing
with aching heart!
Deadly the struggle for bread fiercer and
fiercer It grows;
Will he stand or fall In the battle, my
darling one? God knowsl
Dreary the dull sad round, from morning
till evening litfht
Out to the desk with the day, horns from
the desk at night.
Will life have nothing better to offer my
dearest one?
Then better, a thousand times better, his
life had never begun.
Tet if success bs his lot, will happiness
come in its train?
Or is that but a phantom light we follow
but never attain?
Success! To bo fawned by some, reviled
and belittled by most.
Hated for winning the race by the crowd
who have struggled and lost.
The snares of the evil women are waiting
his feet to entwine x
And the rattling lure of the dice box and
the strong arch curse of wine.
His heart will be torn by ths cry of the
hungry he cannot feed.
While Dives rolls by In his chariot and
Lazarus dies in his need.
And the clash of contending creeds will
hurtle above his head.
But the world will be dark and cheerless,
as though goodness and God were
dead.
Have I not done him a wrong in flinging
him Into the strife?
Will he not pray for the rest that ends our
poor wearisome life?
There In his baby cot he is sleeping a sin
less sleep, ,
Here by his cradle side I sit and watch
and weep.
ANN TAGONISTIC.
TO SETTLE ALL LABOR STRIFE
Speaeer Would Abolish All I'nloas aad
Have Men Work for What
They Caa Get,
RANDOLPH. Neb.. Nov. 2L-To the Ed
itor of The Bee: I want to give you my
opinion of this striking business and. In
the first place, will say that If the entire
world would put their heads together and
not employ a union labor man of any kind
and freeze them out that way, they are no
benefit to the world, much less themselves;
they do not know enough to know that
forty pounds of wheat will not make as
much bread as sixty pounds pf wheat will
make; labor is a commodity, the same as
wheat. Eight hours' work Is not worth as
much as ten hours' work by 25 per cent;
the price of labor is governed by supply
and demand, the same as the price of any
other commodity. Read the third and last
chapter of Second Thesalonians; the tenth
verse says that a man should not eat that
refuses to work, and that busybodles (vis.,
Mitchell, Debs, etc.), that with quietness
they eat their own bread. Now it looks to
me as if this is a hard proposition on both
the strikers and the busybodles; we have no
use for either of of them, and I cannot see
what labor has to organize for if a man is
poor and has to work for a living; he must
work at whatever hs can get to do and
compete with other laboring men that are
compelled to work the same as himself and
supply and demand makes the price; all
men have the same privileges If they have
the brains to us them to advantage.' Look
back at Coxey's army; what was labor
worth then, and what is it worth today;
aad capitalists, farmers or speculators In
this way ef contractors cannot begin to get
nuy to do their work even at exorbitant
prites; labor unions are a bundle of tguo-
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ranee gotten up by those busybodles who
are pulling the legs, so to speak, of all
laboring men for the money that is in it
for themselves. My opinion is that that
sooner labor unionism is turned down by
the world the better off the world will be,
and if It will be better for the entire world,
It will surely be better for the laboring
man. No person or corporation Is going to
employ labor unless it Is to their Interest
to do so and they don't have to;-you can
not get up any law to compel them to.
Remember the husbandman that employed
labor at different hours of the day to work
in his vineyard; some commenced in the
morning, others later in the day, and at
night they were all paid the same wages
(vis., a penny a day); all received a penny
at night, and those that went to work In
the morning klckeu; thought they should
have more, but they agreed for a penny a
day, and the husbandman said he did them
no harm and that if he chose to pay the
latest ones the same that was his own
business; he claimed the privilege of doing
what he pleased with that that was his
own; see ths 20 th chapter of Matthew.
GEORGE O. SPENCER.
HUMANITY AND DUMB BRUTES
Needless Craelty Dally Practiced by
People Who Are Merely'
Thoughtless.
OMAHA. Nov. 20.-TO the Editor of The
Bee: It Is very disheartening in these
days of advanced civilization to read of
that case of cruelty on Farnam street (he
other day, when a brute in humtin form so
inhumanly beat his poor horses. I am
bound to confess that his punishment did
not mee all the requirements of such a
case. He should have been mode to suffer
In bis own person. Oh, for a revival of
the whipping post for ' wife beaters and
such savages as this man. He was fined
110 and it will be Just the natural thing
for him to deprive his family of necessities
to that extent. His poor hurses also will
probably suffer for proper food. But ths
wretch himself will suffer practically not
at all.
Most men are inclined to hs humans
toward their horses, if for r.o other reason
than self-interest, which forbids over
loading and underfeeding. It cannot be
denied, however, that there are soma peo
ple who in other ways still persist in abus
ing their horses. One way la by over
checking and another is by neglecting to
blanket them during wintry weather, when
they have to stand for any time on the
street.
There are other causes of needless cruelty
dally practiced even by people from whom
we ought to look for more intelligence and
kindness of heart. How many there are
who sit by the cheerful nre these cold
n lb'h ts, wholly at ease, and never dream
of attending to the comfort and welfare of
the faithful watchdog shivering out in the
cold! How little trouble It would be to see
that his kennel. If he is too big to be al
lowed In the house, la in a sheltered sunny
spot and well filled with clean. dry bedding.
There should be a piece of carpet nailed
over the opening to afford at least partial
shelter from the wintry winds.
If the dog is old, there is every reason
to take special trouble, If need be, for his
comfort. Ths old lov warmth, whether
man or beast, for then the blood flows
slowly. Give him a soft bed in a warm
room. Make the remaining days of his all
too brief span of life happy ones, as ha
has always been a faithful friend none
more so. And when the Inevitable prob
lem has to be faced when hs has grown so
old as o he no pleasure to himself or to
others, then follow the example of the
English those dear lovers of dogs. They
give the decrepit dog enough syrup of
chloral la water to put him to sleep, gad
then chloroform him while hs It Insensible.
It is cruel to send the timid old pet to
the pound, where he will suffer agonies of
fear and apprehension. Very likely he will
bs thrust in among a crowd of vicious and
quarrelsome dogs, and then, Indeed, his few
remaining days are most miserable. All
his life he has spent In devotion to some
human master, grateful for a kind word,
happy over a careless touch ot the band
on his head.
Freeze, freeze, thou winter sky;
Thou dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot.
E. O. 8.
QUAINT FEATURES OF LIFE.
Rev. Dr. Hubbard, pastor of the Bedford
Heights Baptist church, Brooklyn, hss
Jarred the young people of his church Into
his way of thinking by putting his pas
toral foot down heavily. These young peo
ple of both sexes planned a benefit dance
for the raising of funds for a church or
ran. Dr. Hubbard suggested some other
form of enterprise. The projectors ignored
the hint and went ahead. Then the doctor
said: "No, you shall not dance anywhere
In the official name of this church." All
the old people of the church backed him
up, and the dance has been called off.
Two tintype pictures of her husband ten
derly clasping ihs waist of a woman, a
stranger to her,, were too much for Mrs.
Lucy M. Terry of Chicago to bear. She
showed them to Judge Tuthlll, and she
was granted a divorce from William B.
Terry, traveling salesman. "I found them
In his grip, Judge," the plaintiff told the
court. "I don't see how he could tear to
put his arm aiound such a looking thing
as she is."
In commenting en a divorce case In his
court, a Toledo Judge said: "In hearing di
vorce cases I have msde up my mind that
in buying publlo utilities w have omitted
one thing a public spanking machine, with
a patrol wagon attachment, a sort of
'bring - 'em - up-and-spank-'em-whlle-you-walt.'
I would recommend such a device,
and I think it could be used to great effect
In the ease before the eourt. I'd have the
little child look on while the parents were
iwitkeu. About aii thai is neeaea in many
divorce oases and in many houses where
little frictions occur is Just a good spank
ing." William Cromwell of Vlneland, N. J., has
had a record-breaking run of hard luck for
ths past twelve months. A year ago his
wife was operated upon for appendicitis.
Two or three days after her return from
the hospital she fell down stairs aud has
been an Invalid ever since. Then his son
Oliaer, 7 years old, was hurt while cross
ing a railroad, and while he was In the
hospital a 13-year-old daughter broke her
arm. Later his son Melvln caught diph
theria, and tha head of ths house was
mangled by a savage dog. Just after he
had returned from ths Pasteur institute in
Baltimore ten days ago Melvln turned up
with a broken collar bone. Now the father
la wondering what next.
-During the presentation of "UncU Tom's
Cabin" at Logansport, Ind., by ths Al Mar
tin company, Frank Marshall, a burly
negro and son ot a former slave, rendered
Insane by the whipping of Uncle Tom by
Simon Ingres, leaped upon the stsg and
attemped to kill the actor. Uncle Tom
Jumped off ths block and took a hand In
the fight, but the negro was overpowering
both of them, aben a policeman suppressed
him. Ths performance was broken up by
the Incident. Ths negro said his father
had been whipped Just as depicted on the
stage, and the memory drove him to mad
ness. A recent order of the Pennsylvania rail
road that all employes should wear ths
regulation, uniform of blue cap, coat, and
trousers haa caused much embarrassment
for Miss Frances Miller, the station agent
at Norwood, a suburban station of Phila
delphia. She is now the only woman sta
tion agent on ths line, and many times It
has been suggested by townsfolk that a
in the position would fca mere con
venient, but the railroad people could not
be so convinced. The order provides no
exception In the case of women employes,
and it is becoming a question of public
speculation in Norwood whether Miss Mil
ler will don the apparel named or send in
her resignation. ,
Miss Dora Meek, the Centralla (111.) girl
who last winter had a sleep of several
weeks' duration, relapsed Into unconscious
ness again at Ardmore, I. T., last Friday
night, and the Indications are that she
has entered on another long slumber. All
day Saturday and night she remained un
conscious. Doctors and members of the
family who have carefully watched her
through two of these periods of sleep are
more fearful than ever before that she may
never wake. They are of the opinion that
these spells are so weakening that they
leave her each time with less resistive
power to undergo another. During her long
sleep last winter her attendants forced
nourishment down her throat to keep her
alive. The same method has been resorted
to again.
George Davis, a member of on of Balti-
m .ie's old families, has recently been vis
iting In Denver. Ha was returning to his
hotel from a dinner when he was held up
by footpads. They went through his
pockets and wer much disappointed
at ths results 35 cents. "Where Is
your watch!" demanded one of the rob
bers gruffly. "My watch!" exclaimed
Davis, with his highly cultivated English.
"My good fellow, don't you know it Is
beastly bad form to wear a watch with
evening clothes?" "Well, I bs d d." said
the robber, as he calmly twisted the pearl
studs out of his victim's shirt front. "Taln't
a good form, eh? Well, let's see what
kind of a form you can show traveling
down the strest." Mr. Davis traveled,
aouDtiess well pleased to get away from
the company of such Ill-bred fellows.
Albert Lukachervaky of Orange, N. J.,
who was arrested on a charge ot desertion,
was brought before Police Justice Bray in
order that that official might decided which
of two wives who claimed him Lukacherv
sky should live with. Both 'claimants were
In the courtroom, and told the magistrate
they had been married to the man. He did
not dloput their allegations, although he
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Tki Brtdflsll Refilitir Ci., ASuti,
said shortly after his arreat that he would
dispute the claim of wife No. 1. The lat
ter was, previous to her marriage, Mary
Klmplnski and until three months ago ah
lived in Poland,
Justice Bray decided that wife No. I
should live with the man and that h
liouiu pay the other woman H a week.
This arrangement seemed to be perfectly
satisfactory to all hands and the man gave
bonds to Insure his csrrylng out the con
tract. In making his decision Justice Bray
called attention to ths fact that wife No. I.
who was married sixteen years ago to the
defendant in a Polish church In Brooklyn,
was the mother of three living children.
Wife No. 1 had born flv children, but only
ne was now living, a son 19 years old.
The first marrlsge took place in Poland
twenty-one years ago.
Wife No. 1 offered no objection to wlf
No. 2 living with her husband and th Jus
tic said he felt safe In making his de
cision. The latest novelty in th way of a penny-ln-th-slot
machine In London is a box
placed at th corner of the street contain-'
Ing a city directory. After a penny Is
placed in th slot a pair of little doors can
be opened and a shelf may be hauled out,
to which a directory Is fastened by Iron
clamps, as bibles used to be chained down
In churches before the age of printing.
When th patron has examined It as much
as he likes he lifts his elbow from th book,
shoves back th shelf, the doors close and
lock automatically and cannot b opened
again without the aid of another penny.
He must keep his hand upon th directory
as long as he is looking at it, for the mo
ment hs takes it off the shelf will return
to its position and the doors will close.
Five hundred of these machines are being
placed In the streets throughout London.
Probably the queerest Inscription ever
seen on a tombstone Is one on a monument
over a grave In Bethel temetery In Mont
gomery county, Missouri. It resds:
Kind friends I hsve left behind.
Cast your votes for Jennings lirysn.
II. P. Hudson, who has the distinction
of being the author of the Inscription, tells
how It happened "Henry Morris, tt wr.se;
grave the monument stands," he said, "was
one of the strongest diver men In th
country. Before he died ha said that If
nothing but a board were erected over Ms
grave he wanted a silver verae upon it.
1 am the tombatone maker at Montgomery,
and waa requested to act, with Mra. Judge
Oliver and 'Bud' Harrison, in thinking up
an appropriate verse. The shove cam
Into my mind.' and I said it over to th
other members of the committee, and they
said It was great. Bo I chiseled it on."
woman covet
i pretty figure, and
them deplore the
lots of heir eirlish forms
after marriage. The bearing
of children is often deitructive
to the mother's shapeliness.
All of this can be avoided,
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