The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1878-03-29
JACKSON COUNTY, MISS, MARCH 20, 1873,

SdN =. uHUCHhHtiN you cHouSh
to do with your own affairs, and he
will not suffer you to add your
neighbours load to your own.
Forthwith your sick friends house
hold IL informed that you are de-
faulter, and that the well-constitut.
ed substitute must take your place;
that you cannot receive the chill
dren; that yon cannot do this or do
that as Won had offered-w hen you
come to consider it your strength
was not sufficient, and your hus.
band would not allow it. From
that hour you have lost your stand.
ing am0ng them, and are ranked
with those who make grand pro
tessions, then throw over the
wretched dupes who trust to them,
and ut the eleventh hour back out
of the agreement,
Nothing can be more untrue
way of putting it. You neither of
fered for brag nor drew back for
seltishness. The first was honest
sympathy, and the second incapa-
citv; and the sole fault you com
mittrd was letting your kindly i'm
pulse run away with your Judge
ment, and your desire to he of use
Obscure your power of calculation.
These are kindly impulses deal.
ing with insufficient working power,
consequently always sharing the
late of Incarus and coming to the
ground because of defective "at-
tachments." And of the two, the
people who offer and cannot fulfill,
and the people who trust IN that
offer and are disappointed, we con
fuss we pity the former the more
always pre-supposing absolute sin
cerity and the simplicity of desire
They must suffer divers torlnents
of which the humiliating confession
that they have grossly nllscalcnlat
ed their resources on the one hand
and the pain of having still to Sc,
the SORROW, the misery, the priva
| ton they have started forward tt
alleviate on the other, are about
equal III grievous intensity. Both
together, they may be certainly
taken to outweigh the annoyance
of having to go on again, after We
had thought to have made plea
SAINT little halt in the wearlsomt
tourney of lisaSter--rof having tt
carry ones heavy burden unreliev
ed, after we had hoped to have
shifted it tor a spell to friendly
shoulders voluntarily offered fol
the portcrage. Doubtless this an
noyance, this disappointment, II
bad to bear; and for that reason
the impulsive should be more care
ful than they are to restrain thei
flights of charitable fancy, and b
less prodigal of their offers OF rcl
and loving help grounded on &c
sire and not on power. 1t is Il
asking u hungry man to nake
board, but all the goodwill III til
world will not cover it with foo
when there Is no food in the cuI
board. 1t would have been Sut
stantially kinder, then, to hav
left the poor tamiShed creature t
the elastic mercy OF chance than t.
bring him as you have into ban
rem certainty. though backed b.
the most luxuriant setting of bene
VIOLENT intentions. Benevolent in
tentions are like the fine words OF
fercd in lien Of batter when pars
nips abound; and the Barmccld
who gave a feast quenched NJ
thirst aud satisfied no hunger 10
all his verbal array OF sparklln;
wines and luscious TODD,
If impulses of loving generoslt!
are apt to come to grief, the IN
pulses of untriendly wrath are stil
more sure to find evil issues. 1t l
strange how often an unkind in
pulse proves itself untrue. Th
Suspicious fear, the passionate dc
nunciatiou, the vague abhorrence
if acted on are almost certain to b
found wrong before the thing i
done with, and many an impulslv
hater, hitting hard, aud thinkIni
he or she is hitting righteonsly, ha
had cause TO regret to the last da.
of life the incautious acceptance o
belief as truth, and the unfriendl.
sincerity which gave utteranc
to the same. Without being senti
mental or sickly, there is no ques
ton the more generous the Jude
ment the more likely it is to b
true, and the fewer the hard word
} we have uttered the less we shal
have wherewith to reproach ouT
selves when we come TO measnr
the amount of unmerited mischle
we have done our fellow men. Un
doubtedly, the less we yield to ull
friendly impulses, the more saiel.
we shall walk and the more surel.
We shall be right.-The Queen,