The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-22

a child. The value of the ideas tina
enter into human life is chiefly to b.
learned by watching their evolution an(
workings in that great workshop called
yesterday. Take the idea of the liber
ty, and no dreamer who looks into thu
future can behold its length anC
breadth, but he alone can measure the
import Of the term who hears the cr7
OF the slave from the days of the Ro
mans down to the career of our owl
land, and who sees the prosperity Q.
freedom from Athens to Florence, anG
from Florence to England and America.
Take the idea of home, and ii yor
would feel the import of the word, looE
not forward into poetic haze, but bach
into human experience, in the tears Of
sadness and JOY that have fallen by the
feet of any exile going away or coming
back or look into your own childhood
| and consult its memories and then the
term unveils itself with no light OF
shadow left out. Beyond the unfold
! ing Of truths, yesterday possesses an
other power, that of softening and mod
ulating the mind and heart. Egotism
/ draws its vanity from perfect forget
fulness of yesterday. Self conscious
ness and coming greatness erase all else
from the mind, and the egotist stands
great in his possibilities. He is lust
about to conquer a world or greatly sur
prise one. And deep study of his own
or the worlds yesterday would drain
his heart of the last drop of personal
vanity, for there was an arena and he
did not conquer or astOnish a world,
and there all those who were more
highly endowed are sleeping in forgot
ten dust. If the past ;utters anything
that is of value it is thatsall seIf-wor-
ship and glorifcation are the weakest
shape human nature can assume, and
that there is nothing worth living for
except the general mental and moral
progress of self and of mankind. The
great graves are those which cover the
dust of hearts that did some work that
entered after them into the public well
fare and happiness -DaVid iSlOjng.
"He Lost His Money by Indorsing. 4"
When [ became twenty-one, my ia
ther began occasionally to divide around
among his children a nice little sum in
cash, always accompanying the gift
with the assurance that if we ever in
dorsed for others, or in any way become
responsible for shortcomings, it was the
last money we should ever get from
him. This condition during his life
was of great value to me, and since
then I have been accustomed to view
the invitation of my friend to indorse
for him in it's true light, and my refu-
sal rarely fails to be properly received.
My neighbor is in active business, and
am only farmer out of debt, with
little at interest, bringing up and edu-
eating a family of children. He comes
to me, holding out a note for me to
sign, saying 90 I wish you would Just
write your name on the back of this; I
need the money very much; it will be
an accommodation to me, and you will
only have to write your name" My an
swer is : My friend, do you really I'M
derstand what my position would be be-
fore the world and the law, if I were to
do this ? I should instantly proclaim
that from a state of complete independ-
ence, and without the slightest reason
for a similar favor from you, and for no
consideration whatever except friend
ship, I had agreed to take upon myself
the risk of your business, with the diff
ference against me that if you lose I
lose, and if you gain I do not. I share
in your loses and not in your profit.
Now, if this is true, ought I not first
to ask the consent Of my wife? Her in
terest in the risk is the same as mine !;
her judgment is as good, and her friend
ship for you is the same. But not only
this I should affirm before the public
that you are responsible, when I really
know nothing of your circumstances,
and in so far help you to deceive others.
T give you a false credit. In short, I
should do that which no honest man,
true to himself and to his family, can
do and be blameless. VIII any right
minded, real friend, with this view of
the case, ask of me such possible sac
rifce ?"- Country Gentleman.