Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-03

Do what you can to make sun
shine in the world. Lift up the cur
tains. We do not mean the curtains
Of the room, but the curtains which
darken'the spirit Of your brother,
your neighbor, or even OF a strang-
er, If the curtain strings are within
your convenient reach.
Lift up the curtains, and let tho
sunshine in. Light is better than
darkness, and how cheap it isi A
kind and cheering word TO one who
Is in trouble and is perDlexed, and
almost discouraged; a word OF heart
felt sympathy to the afflicted; low
ing word of counsel TO the young; a
word OF assurance to the doubling;
a ''soft word which, though It but
ters no parsnips, turneth away
wrath" TO the.prejudiced and unrea-
sonably provoked; all such words as
these are sunshine to whom they
are spoken.
''I have never found anything else
so cheap and so useful as politeness,"
said an old traVler TO us once
He then went on to state that early
in life, finding how useful il was, fire.
quently, to strangers, TO give them
some information Of which they
were in search, and which he pos
sessed, he had adopted the rule al
'ways TO help everybody he could in
such little opportunities as were
constantly offering in his travels
The result was, out Of the merest
trffies of assistance, rendered in this
way, had grown some Of the pleas
ATTEST and most valued acquain-
tances that he had ever formed.
How many great men have testi-
fed that their whole lives have been
Influenced by some single remark
made to them in boyhOod! And
who cannot recall words spoken to
himself in his childhood, to which,
perhaps, the speaker attached no Inn
pOrtance whatever, but which sank
deep and immovable into his memo
~; and which have never lost their
power over him? 1 ~ ans
Make sunlight the world at best
is dark enough. Do what you can
TO mako il more cheerful and hap
pier.-Erchange.
A REASONING HoRsE.-"A re-
markable instance" says the James
vile (Wis.) Gazette, "of equine sa-
gaeity was exhibited recently. This
horse story comes to us testified by
several reliable witnesses. Thomas
Drummond, teamster in our city,
owns q horse which has been affiiet-
ed with lamen0ss for two or three
weeks past. This morning Mr..
Drummond turned him out upon
the common, hoping that fresh air
aud exercise would benefit the ami
NAL. Upon gaining his liberty, the
crippled horse hobbled along on
three legs direct 10 the blacksmith
shop of William Eager, entered the
shoeing department, and stood there
holding up his injured foot, with
his head turned and his eyes iRtelli-
gently fixed upon Mr.. Eager. The
peculiar act on the part OF a brute
attracted Mr. E.'s attention, and in
duced him TO examine the foot held
invitingly up for inspection. The
result of that examination was the
discovery OF a long nail driven into
the frog, which was the cause Of the
lameness. OF course Mr.. Eager re-
moved the nail. There was some
thing more than instinct In the act.
IL was good horse sense. Mr..
Drummond generally has his horses
shod at Dir. Eager's shop, aud the
suffering brute undOu btedly reason
ed that this was the place for him to
90 for relief. Equine intelligence,
according to the common accepia-
tion of the term, is not so rare, but
when a horse deliberately cOncocis
and executes \ plan for relieving his
injured foot OF "a rusty nail, he GER
tainly can lay claim to a small por-
tion of the reasoning faculties which
are supposed TO elevate the human
race above the level of brutes."