The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-10
WIT DOES UNSELFLsH nEANa


the room one evening while their moth
er was busy ironing JOHNNY, and Fred
and Louise. JOHNNY was nine years old,
and he read aloud to his brother and
sister. Whenever they came to any
hard word tha5 they could not under
stand, their mother would tell them
what it meant.
Louise held up her hand for atten-
ton. ed like to have mother tell us
what unselfsh means. Maybe I do
know, but want her to tell it her way,
said the child.
81 Will illustrate it by little story
when JOHNNY is through reading, and I
am done ironing" said their mother"
Then after while she told this story:
Gone time there were three little
children, and their mother told them
she would give each one penny for
every six eggs he brought into the
house. The Oldest child brought in
six or eight eggs day, but the youngest
couldn't find any. The nests were all
low down in quiet places easily reached.
But the hens liked the best to lay up in
the fragrant mows.
The eldest of the three little ones
thought of plan that pleased him ex-
ceedingly, and he put it into execu-
ton.
g He would peep into the other nests
silly, and see if there were no eggs in
them, would take those eggs out of his
nest and putin theirs, and let his little
brother and sister think they had been
lain there.
"That is what one calls an unselfsh
act. He was glad to give his own
pleasure to make his little brother and
sister happy, though I believe his de
/ light was greater than theirs I want
you all to seek to be unselfsh-study
the comfort and happiness Of others be
fore your own. If there is anything good
and enjoyable, try and have some one
else get it. Never fear you'll be happy
enough. An unsefsh person is rarely
unhappy.
just here the mothers eyes fell upoI
JOHNNY. Little fellow he was appear
ing unspeakably full OF some kind OF
an emotion. His hands were thrust
down into his pockets, and he looked
right into the CRATE, just as though he
thought the red blaze was something
new and beautiful. His face was red,
too, but then the reflection of the glow
idg fire might have done tina. H,
twisted his head around uneasiIy
when his mothers eye fell upon him.
''That boy in the story was ouI
blessed little brother JOHNNY, wasn't i
mother? Say, wasn't it, Fred ? Say, al
of you? Oh oh I thought my her
pitied me, and laid lots of eggs Just t.
please me, and there it was our Johny
all the time !" and Louise few to tn,
little hero, and pulled his head about
and Rugged and kissed him and tickleC
him, and there he sat, looking just a
ashamed as though he'd stolen some
body's hens eggs, and had been caugh
at it.
80, who told you that, ma, - said he
looking down modestly, q didn't wan
'em to know it ever"
20, maybe little bird sung it t,
me, " said the mother, laughing.
Nobody can do anything that OH
mother won't find out, said Fred laying
his hand on Johny's shoulder.
''Now we know what unselfsh means
don't we ~ said Louise, " and Imean t.
try and be just as unselfsh as I can ;
and she few at her little JOHNNY, and be
gan fuzzing up his hair and patting hi
cheeks, and all the while proud of tn
kind, shy brother who had set such
sweet example of unselfshness befor
them.
EVERY MIND HAS ITS SPECIAL CT
PACITY
am of the opinion that every min,
that comes into the world has it's ow1
speciaIity-it is different from ever,
other mind; that each ofzyou bring
: into the world a certain bias, a DISPOSE
: ton to attempt something of its own
something yOur own-an aim a littl
different from any of your companions
and that every young man and ever
young woman Is a failure so long a
each does not find what is his or her
own bias; that just so long as you ar
l influenced by those around you, so lon
5 as you are attempting to DO thos
things which you see others do well IL
stead of doing that thing which you d
| well, you are so far wrong, so far fail
1 ing of your own right mark Ever
body sees the difference in children
} They very early discover their tastes
One has a taste for going abroad, al
} other for staying at home; one 70
p books, another for games; one wishe
to hear stories, another wants to sc
things done one is fond of drawing
the other cannot draw at all, but ca
make a machine. This difference, a
you advance, becomes more pronounced
You are more distinct in your concep
ton Of what you can do-more decide,
ia avoiding things you cannot and d
not wish to do Now [ conceive tina
success is in finding what it is that yol
yourself really want, and pursuing it
freeing yourself from all importunitie
of your friends, to do something which
they like, and insisting upon that thing
which you like and can do.
MADE FOR fBMORTALTTY.
1t cannot be that the earth Is man
only abiding-place. 1t cannot be tina
our life is a bubble, cast off by tn
.-.no.- e .,A-,---.t-- u. - .