The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-09-23


man-and he read it this way:
"DEAR FArHER-I am very sick; send me
some money. Your son. john"
..Ahr' says the father, eff that's the
case. send him all he wants" GGreat
laughter and applause. 1t is all in the
way you read it. You can take almost
everything in life in the same way. 1t is
the resolution to always look at the
bright side of things that brings us hap
piness and cheerfulness and peace o
my friends, let us stand up and listen for
the sweet sounds, instead of straining
our eyes and ears to detect the discords
of life. Let us cultivate thyme and ane-
mones and roses, and have vines and
Towering plants around the house; have
the windows arranged so that we can
hoist them to let in the sunshine. God
has planted paradise of bloom in lit
tie child's cheek, and adorned the pillars
OF rock by hanging tapestries of morn
ing mist around them. The lark says,
II viii sing Soprano" and the cascade
says, 81 will carry the bass; let us leave
it to the owl and the croaking frog and
the surly bear to do the grumbling and
the fault-finding.''
/ have no respect for the theory that
fine clothes will make a gentleman.
have no liking for Lord Chesterfield
All the fine clothes that tailor's goose
ever pressed cannot make a gentleman;
l don't care how large diamond flashes
in his cravat or how elegant the cut of
his garments or the materials from which
they are made. A bootmaker, a halter
and a tailor got together one day and
resolved to make a gentleman of man
il it could be done by fine clothes. The
bootmaker said: II win make gentle
mans boots" and the halter said: IL
will make him fine hat" and the
tailor: 81 will make him fashionable
suit" They did it, and their gentle
man Went out. Before night he did
something so perfectly contemplate that
everybody said he was not gentleman,
and a neighbor said: .Sir; you cannot
make agentleman. God only can make
that large-hearted, generous, magnan-
imous being that we cali gentleman.
Applause. A very little thing will
tell you that a man is a gentleman.
You can tell that in five minutes. One
lays visit to his home will reveal all his
domestic history as well as if you had it
IN half dozen volumes.
Neither can all the arts and skill of the
or perfumer make lady.
Here is the history of woman's work |
during the late civil war of ours. Her
dress was very much faded, and she |
came out from an humble home with a |
of little delicacies on her arm.
She had boy in the army that was
Missing after one of the battles. She |
wanted to do something for others, be-
cause she couldn't do anything for him.
She went into the hospital, Strengthened |
he bed-clothes, wrote letters, and |
when she found poor fellow shot
through the arm, brought ice for the
hattered limb, turned the hot pillow,
md offered up the silent prayer: 'sGod
10 so to me and my soldier boy that is
Missing if l neglect to care for these
Door fellows" A man hearing the whis-
Der, after she had passed shoves up the
'andage from his eyes and says: s'God
less her! may she get back her soldier
10Y that is missing" The great tall
'aptain wounded in the foot whispers
'ver to a lieutenant wounded in the head
md says: 'sAh! no sham about that;
he's lady," That vision of kindness
myers in the Western soldiers dreams,
md that very night he thinks he is home
'eyond the prairies and hears the cattle
oming down the lane, and hears the
caves rustling in the wind and bidding
i'm a welcome. His children appear at
he door and his wife calls to him to look
his boy strutting the floor with his
sther's knapsack on. All the house,
old work stops to hear of his advent
res. All! they shall only meet again
4 Heaven!
Now, compare such Christian lady
4 the hospital with woman saw in
treet car in Philadelphia. A poor ragged
oldier came in and sat near her. She 1
OF up with show of indignation and I
,ok seat opposite and said: "What
irty fellow" and said to myself there I
as probably more nobility in the mean '
IT patch OF his clothes than in that /,
oman. Two rough boys were riding ]
own hill and they couldn't steer the /
ed as they wanted to, and ran against ]
lady and tore her dress. They ex- f,
ected perfect volley of abuse, but the a,
dy said: 'Boys, boys, you have torn '
y dress very much; but see you didn't Q
can to. Go on with your fun One +
~ said to the other: my ewes, Bill. t
MT she beauty?" She was a lady. a
A man of good manners G
ways has the faculty of making YOU f
Ell good; while on the other hand.
hen you are in the company of one of
g ill-natured kind, you feel uncom- '
rtable and unhappy. b
reat accomplishments and learning Q
ay often be dignified by gentleness. Il
ither's directness would have been p
lghtily helped by Melanchton's suavity. u
,ciety will bear anything sooner than p
bore. In a former pastoral charge C
ere was minister that had one or two "
ensive characters in his congregation. a
he OF them was a man who was given ii
sneezing at some of the most awkward a
q embarrassing moments. When the W
urch was particularly silent and SOL "