The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-27

Tue COuIcc tDtsS eaaa huihoACi w tits.
For 1t is these merits Which make up the
duties are the quarr'/ from which We do
it, and as. daylight can be seen
little hol IS little habits will illus.
trate IT. A celebrated Russian writer has
exquisitely expressed the idea
when obser. wing that good habits
are q necklace of pearls;
unite the Knot and the whole string scat
ters." After all,
MA,S as But A BUNDLE OF HABITS,
and they are his best friends or his worst
enemits s. They come at first like a spider
web, then increase in strength as a thread,
then become cord, and then a cable. And
they come, too, like a thief in the night.
They approach us when We are dreaming
of no danger from them, and ere We know
it We are bound hand and foot, as the little
Lilliputians enwrapped the giant CULVER,
only We weave the thraldom Tor ourselves,
Wherefore it has been said that THE wisest
habit OF all is the habit OF care In the FORM
alton Of good habits" You can even
habituate yourselves to being happy, TO
the looking on the bright side OF things
and people. and perhaps, after all, this Is the
happiest OF education, in school or out oil It,.
There was once a beneiicent law
those eating peaches on the road
side to plant the seeds, so that
eventually the highways we're as refreshing
orchards, and their fruits and shade in after
years much aided the weary traveller. One
of the most impressive lessons ever had
taught me, was by an honored old friend,
once an associate Justice of the supreme
court of the United States, and now living,
the Hon. John A. Campbell, of New Or
leans. He, in response to my question,
what can we young lawyers ever do to re-
turn your continued kindnesses and liber'
alities in the use of so valuable a library,
and so freely extended counse. and aid in
these our early eflorts2" said: "Oh, you
can return all" How" queried l. why,
by so aiding the young men when you
shall be older, and can advise them correct
ly. | should esteem this as full payment
TO me" 1t was a beautiful sentiment
beautifully expressed, and showed
the continuing and contagious power OF
kindness.
Then start Alright, form the matrix and the
mould Alright, and the product will be true.
Dovetail all these habits and duties so as to
present one captivating mosaic. Did you
ever cut your initials into the bank of Il
tree, or those of iairer one and dearer
one, whose lace and form and voice tloated
along side Of you day and night with indie
scribable sweetness? so, you must have
observed, II seen later on, how those letters
have widened with the suns. Just SO with
the habits we cut into our personalities;
they will expand with the running years.
Did you never notice how a drop here and
drop there will come together and form a
capitalization compound of strong and
stout dimensions? Just so with the
nucleus of habit about
which accumulations cluster. One little
habit formed, and all our after lives may be
tinged with the original color. From it
may radiate all the numberless rills of
good or Ill. For thus we may trace back
to some one source or basis, the multipli.
city or multiiariousness ofanything in the
mental, moral and social world just as in
the physical. Why, only yesterday even
ing read on the railway train to this, your
city, that the renowned philosopher, Mr..
Norman Lockyer, is now about t. success
fully prove by the bands of the spectrum
THE UNITY OF NATURE,
by showing that all the elements are in
some modification, our tamil
lar hydrogen, thus making
this the era of light and lightning. And
has it never occurred to you what close
parallelsm there is In the matter of mu-
tual dependence, even In the midst of ap-
parently the widest divergence, between
the human system and the socialp Mr..
Spencer has somewhere illustrated this
about as follows: When we see that in
brings the heart to q stand that if the
stomach fails absolutely in its office, then
oil the other parts of the body eventually
cease to act; that paralysis of the
limbs entails on the body at large
death from want of food. so,
when in q society we see that the workers
In iron, for instance, stop If the miners do
not supply material; that manufacturers of
clothing cannot carry on their business In
the ahseice # those who spin and weave
the textile fabric that the manufacturing
community will cease to act unless the
food-producing and food-ds.rbu'ins agen.
cies are acting. Fail to furnish The essen.
tials and the controlling powers judicial
officers, police, etc., must fai 10 Keep order
in the body polite.
And again, while on the subject, has II,
never struck you how ia very many re-
spects is
THIS GLOBE SIMILAR TO YOUR OWN BODY?
Let us see. It's motion is continuous, so
are the workings of your body. 1t is COM
posed of solids and fluids; so is your body.
There is the bone to represent the rock, the
flesh the soil, and the blood the water.
Mountains ridge and valleys depress the
general surface, correspondent protuberant
or depressed features characterize the body.
The deeper you 80 through the surface of
the former the warmer thetemperature be.
comes; so with your body, as you proceed
from cuticle to interior tissues. Note map
OF the world, and observe that seas and riv.
ers and streams traverse 1t; just so through
the body the veins and arteries, flows the
blood, until 1t reaches the great lung reser-
voir, where II is certified to undergo the
same routine again after the manner of the
oceanic exhalations that | spoke of few
moments since, to be taken back to be
again precipitated as rain to renew the
streams. On the mountains and on the
prairies grow the trees and the grasses, 80
on the head and on the body grow the
hairs. The pulsing of your heart is repre-.
sented by that Of the waves in their ebb
and flow. And thus might continue TO
illustrate the grand centrai idea of sim
plicity and unity of design where originate
the subsequent complexities Just as the
complex aggregate character grows out OF
the early habits formed.
LlfE's LITTLE THINGS,
hhu 81 We nave seen hlterh ll IL IS the little
things that so to make up this life inst as
was showing you about the units, or your
individual selves making up the aggregate
OF the social sphere. Little drops OF water
make the ocean, little grains of sand the
earth, little seconds of time the centuries,
little. pennies the dollars, the growing little
shrubs the forest. And how great il
the power Of some Of these smaller thi rs
The wasp may enrage the lion. The coral
reef piled up by that tiny insect sailor OF
the sea may ruin navies. The smalles,
cambria needle tooth nerve may drive mar
to distraction. The cackling of a goose
saved Rome from the Gauls. From a III
tie frogs leg inductive though.
wove out the realized Atlantic cable, Inc
invention OF the telescope found its origin
through some children Of a spectacl O. m aEer
placing. several pairs Of spectacles before
each other and looking through them al a
distant object. Christ was born In a little
stable. The little house-iies fastened the
birth Of American independence, as con.
gress held the meeting 10 determine on this
very near livery stable, aud the honora.
BILE gentlemen with short brooches and silk
stockings were SO annoyed by the insects
that they hurried to vote and the fixing
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