The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-01-16
Concerning Temner,


From the Saturday Evening Postl
believe in it! Wouldn't give Gift Enter
prise spoon for that human creature who
hasn't any temper. Control your temper!
Yes 1t might do up in heaven, where they
say there isn't any mulishness, nor any lying,
nor any laziness. 1t might be the thing in
that blessed world where the wicked cease
from troubling, and there are no insurance
agents. Nor any taxes, nor peddlers. Where
the weary are at rest, and you haven't any
relations. But folks weren't meant for angels
in this world. Not much. That little bit OF
Old Adam in every one of us was not put
there either TO be beaten out choked out, or
prayed out. A mysterious visitation of Prov
idence mixed it in to stay exactly where it is
For self-defence. Do you hear? For self
defence. The Almighty gave to other animals
their teeth and toe mails, but TO man He gave
tongue and temper.
There's nothing like a good healthy temper
for making folks stand out of your way here
below. 1t inspires all manner of sponges with
wholesome awe. 1t keeps your brothers
and sisters from imposing upon you when you
are little, and it keeps impudence at a respect
full distance when you are large. And moves
things before a man generally.
an angel. If an angel should aght down
just as he is, wings, temper and all, it would
be very bad indeed for the angel. Thieves
would steal from him, hack drivers would in
suit him, ragged boys in the street would pull
his wing feathers out, and the blessed in
surance agents would worrt him night and
day. Boarding house keepers would fleece
him, walters would let him starve, his land
lady would scod at him for being late, and
the washerwoman wouldn't half do his collar
All because he was an angel and wouldn't
dare open his mouth. But his worst plague
would be the insurance business
Be spunky. spunky man is never lazy
man. The man who conquers all obstacles in
his upward path is the man who, if occasion
demands, will fight people as well as things.
The springy, energetic, successful man in this
world is usually the man who would not swal-
low an insult from his own grandmother. The
driving, active, live man is always the man
who has fight in him, more or less, generally
more. He sends humbugs and spongers spin
ming out headforemost He works by the
rushing way of doing things, and accomplishes
more in single day than bettertempered
man will in a month.
On the contrary, the easy going, good
natured is most always the slow coach. He
does not become rich, and his relations don't
respect him. And in nine cases out of ten his
wife is a strong minded woman.
What is more, in nearly every instance
where you find an able bodied human biped
too lazy to earn his own living, he will be
"good -natured fellow" A good -natured fel-
low, to be sure, but with hardly ambition
enough to get him out of bed in the morning
Subdue your temper? Don't tell me! You
don't want it subdued. You want it to wake
up and shake up things occasionally You
don't want to absolutely follow the example of
the amiable wife who in a rage at her bigger
half, seized splendid old fashioned astral
lamp, and dashed it in a thousand fragments
on the velvet carpet. Didn't she make the
oil fly, though! You don't want exactly
to do that, but it must be confessed that even
this lamp breaking had rathera healthy effect
on her loving spouse.
Rail out on principle now and then Defend
your rights, for your neighbors will not do it
for ynn Find fault o your hearts content,
and make people mend their faults They
will respect you ten times as much if they
know you are capable of pitching into them
when they need it, And they will like you none
the less. A poor, pusillanimous sheep of
man, who lets everybody run over his privi-
leges, may not have any enemies, it is true,
neither will he have any friends. He is not
worth having for a friend. 'He makes no
friend who never made foe'
Subdue your temper? Nonsense. What |
do you suppose the good God gave it to you
for?
Make sheep of YOURSELF and the wolf will
eat you. There is hardly anything with quite
so much gospel in it as that old German SEN
tence. The person who tries to be an angel
here will end by being sheep. Every wolf
he meets will take bite at him. Moreover
he may expect to be sheared, and well shear
ed. That individual who sings: Il want to
be an angel" does wisely to add that he also
desires his boarding house removed to that
region wherein the angels dwell
Saints are not adapted to our climate.
A puny, spirtless soul who will not fight
for himself and those dear to him, has no
business on earth. If you have not temper
enough to take care of yourself, you might as
we'll be in heaven for all the good you do
here.
Be spunky, and if you can't be spunky, be
spunky as you can. ZIG.
Graveyard Philosophy.
They have grave digger at Spring Grove