Judge — February 17, 1906 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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DRAWINGS and alt contributions sent to the Art Devartment should hurve the sender's full name and address Yoritten plainly on each and every separate sketch. The accompanying fobe or descrivtive letter-press should in ébery instance be written upon its indiroidual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paper. Inciosure of stamps to the ful! amount of postage (8 also required. 10 insure safe and promot retarn of material not acceoted. MEMORY: ITS CONDITION AND PROSPECTS. T° THE earnest student of the times nothing is so pregnant with por- tent as the progressive failure of memory among our best people. A young Jersey woman was approaching the altar to meet her affianced, the other day, when she suddenly gasped and fell in a faint. She had forgotten until that embarrassing moment that she had already been wedded to an- other but a short time before. The most disheartening disclosure in the re- cent spectacular inquiries and investi- gations was the extent to which loss of memory had permeated the educated classes. Great financiers, compact and vital in all the other faculties, exhibited a pitiful lapse and subsidence in the recollective organs. Even such a bright man as Mr. Loeb, explaining low he supplied the President’s photographs for * Fads and Fancies,” falls into such apologetic sentences as “The whole business is indistinct in my memory,” etc. The thing for us to do now is to establish some sort of aids to weak and failing memories. Memory is the tap-root of the mental life. Why g0 on learning things if we cannot remember them? Of what isa rich and varied past if it is going to slip the leash of memory and fade from our minds? “I forget,” or “I can’t just remember,” are not the watch- words of a really first-class intelligence. Let us cultivate our memories, If memory is balky, or jerky, or flighty, or intermittent, or tottery, or col lusory, or too eclectic, let us carry a tablet and jot down things which ought to be remembered. Even if we would prefer to forget them, others may wish to remember them. wee LL EYES are turned toward the ceremony in the White House to-day, ind if the good wishes of the American people were gold our Miss Alice (soon to be miss no longer) and her husband-elect would be rich be- yond all the millionaires of earth. As it is, they are opulent indeed, since good wishes, after all, are finer than gold. PANAMA AND ITS JOYOUS ELIXIR. THE HOME-COMING of Governor Magoon of the Canal Zone brings further proof that an elixir of most happifying effect distills in some strange way out of the Republic of the Strip. Judge Magoon seemed to be full of sunshine. Everything on the isthmus looked rosy to him. If there is anything bad down there, like stagnant water, fever, mosquitoes, and official mismanagement, he saw only the glorious light that transfigured them. It will be remembered that Mr. Taft went down to Panama and he came back happy—so happy that he wrote a long account of his trip for the President. The President read it, and then he got happy. His report to congress was full of Panamanian joy- fulness and confidence. And there is Mr. Shonts, and he’s got it, too—this queer, brimming enthusiasm that every body catches who goes down to the “Strip.” It may be objected that Poultney Bigelow did not absorb any of this isthmian sunshine, and tha therefore it does not exist. We reply this elixir does not strike like lightning. Mr. Bigelow’s rapid-transit perform: ance was too swift. The real article ap- pears to ooze into the system and gently possess it by absorption. We do not stop now to inquire the how of this happifying transformation. We are merely calling attention to it as one of the curious canal phenomena, E VERYTHING’s to be investigated now. Let the band play on. ANOTHER wedding promised out of the Taft Wooing-bee.”” Next! THAT $25,000,000 Albany capitol was a good job. ‘That's the reason it’s got to be done over again. Good things are always encored. PITTSBURG Carnegie library has outlived its usefulness, itis declared. Some mistake. A Carnegie library is supposed to be useful forever. HAT with Cuba’s $25,000 gift and those big Kansas turnips, pump kins, apples, and that car-load of coal, the Longworths are pretty well fixed for the rest of the winter. THE WAYS OF THE AWAKENED CONSCIENCE, HE UNIT STATES TREASURY is furnishing daily evidence that the conscience of our people still lives. Several hundred dollars a month are pouring in to the “conscience fund.” The ways of thea ened conscience are truly marvelous. One woman sent in a postage-stamp. Some years ago she had mailed a letter with a penny stamp that called for a three-cent stamp. A poor man got religion and then began to consider the orchards he had robbed when he was a boy. The orchards and their owners alike were no more. He sent forty dollars to the government~and felt happier. A Canadian drove across the border into Dakota many years ago and sold his outfit. Time passed. Then the Canadian’s conscience began to hurt, and at last he sent this govern- ment thirty dollars, the duty he should have paid on the horse. More time passed, and one day along came ten dollars from the Canadian, the duty he should have paid on the bug; A longer wait now, but that Canadian conscience was uncompromising when once it got under way. The conscience fund heard from him by and by to the tune of seven dollars and a half, the duty he should have paid on the har- ness! Some day the treasury will get three dollars for the tallow with which that harness had been oiled. There is something very hopeful in all this. It shows how wealth is going to flow all about us one of these days when the bigger consciences begin to melt and moult and shed that which rankles them. aR se TOGO is coming over with his war-ships?_ Hope there’s no mistake about his intentions. we At LAST a hero has been found for the Carnegie medal and cash. Cap- tain Casto has saved the country. LA FOLLETTE and Spooner hug each other, says a head-line. But there's C. F. Murphy and W. R. Hearst. Queer. IERSIAN MULLAHS demanding a representative government! Next thing the whole world will be democratic and common. Oh, shah! oe OOSEVELT, we understand, is being boomed for mayor of New York next time. Can’t be president of Harvard, Chicago and several other universities, President third term, and mayor, too. ‘RAILING along after the Town Topics episode, we are now told that some big, new society scandals will shortly be aired. And there be those who are glad that the country is to have a chance at this promised social nastiness. It’s so interesting, you know.