Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-04-30
The Duty offending.
b HExnY warn nEEcnEn.

PldlH bS WIlJiHB Cdl iudhe ~ NO
matter what you may think, there's
your duty. Do / hear you say
A man with any forecast, would
never need to borrow? What then ?
Do we owe no kindness to people
who are deficient in forecast2 Do
you say, ut encourages shiftless-
ness 7" Very likely. But would
not the refusal promote selfishness 2
Selfshnessin you is far worse than
shiftlessness in your neighbor.
First comes domestic borrowing.
A little tea, little sugar, a pint Of
milk, half-loaf of bread, a grind
ing of coffee, or a drawing of tea,
are severally the most common ar
ticles of that kind of interchange
called borrowing. Sometimes you
get as good back as you lent, rarely
better. What Them You should
consider that your loaf of bread is
a kind of mute missionary gone out
to inspire your neighbors with
higher ideas of bread making
Youl pound of best butter-yellow
as q dandelion, sweet as the breath
Of cows in clover pastures, the last
particle of butter milk worked out
do you not believe that it will work
emulation in your ncighbor? Will
he thereafter be content with poor
butter? When the millennium
comes, it will be known by the uni
versal prevalence of sweet, pure but
ter! But SO depraved are people
now, that myriad pounds Of execra-
BILE grease are patiently consumed
by people whose degraded taste
submits to this enormity, without a
gasp, resistance, or even an at
tempted reformation!
And so we may reason upon the
whole catalogue of groceries and
household Gates.
Next in order is the borrowing
Of tools, vehicles, and animals
Do you say that no cautious and
self-respecting man would ever suf-
fer himself to borrow a fine tool
at any rate, unless he was an ex-
pert; that it is an imposition on a
mans kindness to ask him for new,
sharp ak, or for his buggy and har-
ness, just brought home from the
shop, and shining with repair, as
good as new 1t is a trial to lend
a horse, unless it be one kept to
lend. Indeed, if one is before
handed, and lives in needy neigh
borhood, it is sometimes polite to
have lending tools, a wagon for
lending, and an old India-rubber
nag for lending.
But he is a good man, a good
almost Christian, who,
for the sake of kindness and good
will lend, cheerfully,
l good horse, and do it several
jimes. But, let no man take all
,hese compliments to himself, sim
1ly because he lends a horse. For
,ome horses there are that a man
night well lend, and keep lending,
or his own relief. Yet, even a
rood horse should sometimes be
ent, though l should be slow to
ldvise any one to borrow.
But now we come to the depart
nent of books and papers. Shall
We take from the shelves those fair
yolumes, or shall we suffer this
or this weekly paper to
70 on such perilous pilgrimages as &
borrowers too often lead them
Why not? What if the book is
yorn, the paper soiled, the newspa- :
,er torn and dilapidated? Nillyou '
Iot suffer as much as that in the t
ause of intelligenceH A book is a
andle. Will you put it under a
,ushel2 A good magazine was f
made for circulation. Shall it lie
.ead on your table, when hundred
ersons might be deriving pleasure e
rom it? When you have read c
our paper through, why not let 5
our profting appear by your kind |
ess2 Lend it out. Keep it 60
lg! Ifpeople do not ask for it, d
o you ask them to borrow i'll h
,on't scowl when it comes back ''
greasy, dirty. The very D
ind ofmen have had hold Of it that .
ught to read! can imagine no
-ay in which a man, who has the S
elfare of his neighbor at heart, t
an do so much with so little mon L
Y, as by keeping on hand a few
ell-selected weekly papers, and Sc P
lring an interest in them of men 9
no are inclined to find their en- Il
,yments in idleness, OF in rude and
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