Show POLITICS AND PRIVATE LIFE in our recent elections wo leave had occasion to observe that there are not a denand by no mean the worst of our citizens who keep themselves aloof from active politics their profession or private business satisfies then and at most they will participate in work of public benevolence this abstinence from the agitation of the rostrum and the ballot box has something modest and solid in it it is no despicable wisdom to keep ones forces together to con contrato cen ones energies on one point it is even the first commandment of morality art to fulfill one nearest duties to himself and his kith before angain en gain on the outside still we may venture to say that in a community like ours the voluntary abstinence of every and all political activity the lack interest for public affairs includes within itself a wrong a grave wrong against the follow citizens the whole community the aim and purpose of every or men into communities and slates is the welfare of tho whole which includes and insures the welfare of alto individual specially is this the case with communities organized and founded on the wide democratic basis of equal and universal rights in euch the participation in public aal oira becomes a duty as well as it right or the citizen this duty is ot deep rooted moral import it follows from the general principle that man shall not live to himself exclusively alt the pattern of the act and men of all times shall also devote his life and energy to hh fellow men charity this sublime and supreme principle of all morality and faith requires that we have H warm heart and an open liand for everything that influences and promotes the prosperity of our kind dunlin the degree that politic al activity legislation constitution election of officers influences tho wei or woo of the community just in alitt degree it becomes our duty to lake an interest in politics and to cooperate according to our best knowledge on this field if some feel disgusted by the inevitable petty annoyances the little mean nesses accompanying the turbulent agitations of politics this ought to be an additional incentive for them to aid in cleansing and purifying the public affairs far be it from us to divert at continually from his workshop his counter his field or his fireside and have him become a professional fess ional politician wire puller office seeker lobbyist or such like this is the unhealthy side of politic but while we believe that these engers aro needed in very limited numbers however wo are of the opinion that every one can spare enough time from his bread and butter avocation for the study and consideration of public affairs and public and thus manifest that he realizes that no community stake or set of men can permanently manent ly prosper unless they work all for one and cne for all SUICIDES SELDOM have a comic element in them A diverting exception to the general rule is afforded by tho suicidal enterprise enter prize of a hungarian engineer resident at teme avar of whom a correspondent of the london telegraph reported that he being a steadfast votary of bacchus had drunk himself into so unsatisfactory a state of mind that he determined to put an end to his existence having provided himself with a pistol and locked himself up in a private room of a hotel in the town which apartment he lad specially hired for the purpose ho pressed lie muzzle of the weapon against his left breast and hufled the trigger the usual explosion followed and the would be suicide fell to the ground where ho lay patiently for several minutes waiting or death dissolution however failing to set in as i promptly as he biad expected he presently arose lot the hotel and walked home with a view to dying comfortably in his own apartment A little later on perplexed by his unaccountable vitality he tent for a surgeon o examine the wound beyond a light scorching of tho skin ao injury could bo detected and while tho burgeon was vainly searching for a mortal hurt Impatient anxiously inquired where the bullet had lodged I auncy was tho reply that you hausl have forgotten to put id iulo tho pistol giveron Gi veroo chiy waistcoat llie intended self slayer and sure enough safely in the watch pocket of that waa found the missile with which ho designed to extinguish his vital park emco this discovery he has Temes var in which town ho found that his rah attempt to kill with a of powder and a wad had rendered him the object of more public notice attended by ancon hilarity alian wai alto gether agreeable to him is no doubt ft joLer ho entertained hla friends recently with a cinneri and on in sees at ita close the alio ciul al houtos with abo playful antic of abo lly and in the sugar bowl ami bodeo cupac well ats tho daoro biou rea lillea ofa Jott or so wietti wie ot roillie roi clie winch iafrat tho gioi ani tho mcclure moro anu better afler a faill meal upon an empty we custom arill not too I ellof solemnity even for a full lolmauh lom auh boux joux MAV i about to take the stump for garfield and arthur on the of this month he mill deliver A at cincinnati and then SO through ohio the civil aser order no frodi bi livo ral ha long liucc been forgot |