The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-04-15
GOOD CHEER.
BY REV. T. DE WITT TALMADGE.

BY REV. II. TALMADOEs
Our disposition is much of our own
making. We admit there is much diff
feranee in natural constitutions. Some
persons are born cross. See that man
\ with a long face that never shOrtens IT,
to a laugh! Tell me, did not his moth
er have trouble with him when he was
small? Why, he never was pleased.
Did he not make riots in the nursury
among looking glasses and glass pitch
ers? Was his nurse ever able on her
knee to jolt down his petulance or
shake up his good humor! Did he not
often hold an Indignation meeting fiat
on the fioor-his hands, his head, and
his feet all participating in the exercise
Could not his father tell you story OF
twelve o'clock at night, with hasty toll
ct, walking the floor with the dear little
blessing in his arms? A story that
would be caution to old bachelors.
Some are from infancy light and hap
py-they romp, they fly. You can hear
their swift feet in the hall. Their loud
laughter rings through the house, or in
the woods bursts into a score of echoes.
At night you can hardly hush their
glad hearts for slumber, and in the
morning they wake you with their sing
ing. Alas if then they leave you, and
you no more hear their swift feet in the
hall and their loud laughter ringing
through the house, or IN the woods
bursting into score of echoes; if they
wake you no more in the morning with
their sweet song if the color go out of
the rose and its leaves fall if angels for
once grow jealous and want what you
cannot spare; if packed away in the
trunk or drawer there be silent gar
ments that once fiuttered with youthful
life, and by mistake you call some other
child by the name of the one departed
-ah me ah me!
But while we may all from our child
hood have a certain bent given to our
disposition, much depends upon our
selves whether we will be happy or mis-
cradle. You will see in the world
chiefly that which you look for. A far.
mer going through the country chiefly
examines the farms, an architect the
buildings, a merchant the condition of
the markets, a minister the churches /;
and so a man going through the world
will see the most of that for which he
especially looks. He who is constantly
watching for troubles will find them
stretching off into gloomy wildernesses,
while he who is watching for blessings
will find them hitler and thither ex-
tending in harvests of luxuriance.
LINZ DuOSI lIhC
pets, every thing in life has right side
and a wrong side. You can take any
joy, and by turning it around, find
troubles on the other side or you may
take the greatest trouble, and by turn
ing it around find joys on the other side.
The gloomiest mountain never casts q
shadow ON both sides at once, nor does
the greatest of life's calamities. The
earth in its revolutions manages about
never has darkness all over at
the same time. Sometimes it has night
in America, and sometimes in China, but
there is some part of the earth con-
stantly in the bright sunlight. My
friends, do as the earth does. When
you have trouble, keep turning round,
and you will find sunlight somewhere.
Amid the thickest gloom through which
you are called to pass, carry your own
candle. A consummate fret will, in al
most every instance, come to nothing.
You will not 90 to such a merchants
store, nor employ such a mechanic, nor
call such minister.
Fretfulness will kill anything that is
not in its nature immortal. There are
a large class of persons in constant
trouble about their health, although the
same amount of strength in a cheerful
man would be taken as healthiness.
Their digestion being constantly sus-
pected of unfaithfulness, finally refuses
to serve such master, and says, "Here-
after make way with your own lob !
sters!" and the suspected lungs resign
their Office, saying, thereafter blow
your own bellows!" For the last TWEEN
ty years he has been expecting every
to faint. His nerves make in |
and rise up against his head,
saying: Come! let us seize upon this !
His face is perpetually
drawn, as though he either had pain
or expected one.
You fear to accost him with, allow |
are gou to-day ?" for that would be the
signal for a shower of complaints. He
is always getting lump on his side, an
of the heart, or a curve in
the spine. If some of these disorders
did not actually come, he would be sick
of disappointment. If you should find
his memorandum book, you would find
in it recipes, in elderly female hand
for the cure of all kinds of dis
cas-, from softening of the brain in a
man, down to the bots in horse. His
is an apothecary infant
UNI, where medicines of all kinds may
be found, from large bottles full of
for diseased craniums, down
to the smallest vial, full of the best
for the removing of Germs
from the feet. Thousands of men are
being destroyed by this constant suspi-
cion of their health.
Others settle down iuto gloomy
state from forebadings of trouble to
come. They do not know why it is,
but they are always expecting that some
thing will happen. They imagine about
one presentiment week. A bird flies
into the window, or a salt-cellar upsets
on the table, or a cricket chirps on the
hearth, and they shiver all over, and ex-
hot haste to the front door, and rush in
with evil tidings.
Away away! with all forebodings as
to the future. Cheer up, disconsolate
onesl Go forth among nature. Look
up toward the heavens insufferably
bright by day, or at night when the sky
is merry with ten thousand stars, join
ing hands oflight, with the earth in the
ring, going round and round with
CLEAN and dance, and song, making old
Night feel young again. Go to the for
est, where the woodman's axe rings on
the trees, and the solitude is broken by
the call of the woodsparrow, and the
chewink starting up from among the
huckleberry bushes. Go to where the
streams leap down off the rocks, and
their crystal heels clatteP over the white
pebbles. Go to where the wild flowers
stand drinking out of the mountain
brook, and, scattered on the grass, look
as if all the breads had cast their crowns
at the foot of the steep. Hark to the
fluting of the winds and the long metre
psalm of thunder! Look at the morn
ing coming down the mountains, and
Evening drawing aside the curtain
from heavens wall of jasper, amethyst,
sardonyx, and chalcedony! Look at all
this, and then be happy.-Hedrth and
Home.
misunderstanding tells story that
exquisitely illustrates n mothers love.
In some spring freshet, river widely
washed its shores and rent away bough
whereon a bird had built a cottage for