Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-08-19
SAVANNAH, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY,

is content to owe nothing to any one.
To be self-made man, to owe his sue
cess to his own exertions, suits his soil
tary nature. He drives his pillow
through society, careless of what little
frail plants he uproots by the way.
He is a positive, self-asserting indi-
vidual, and acquaintances avoid discus
sions with him for the sake of a quiet
life. He will be no party to the little
harmless deceits by which polite people
render life pleasant to each other. He
calls a spade spade, Jones a bore,
and Smith fool. He has an unerring
eve for the detection of human weak
ness, and loves to lay it bare. To APP
preciate and commend virtue strikes
him as namby-pamby; to put his finger
in the hole which can be found in ev-
cry coat strikes him as more worthy of
man of intellect
Does Immature payP The boy or girl
who has the reputation OF having "a
temper" and whose behests the whole
house flies to serve for fear of a scene;
the angry man who, when he enters
his Office, sees every one cover and
shrink, and is sure that his orders will
be promptly obeyed through dread Of
the lash from his bitter tongue; the
poor timid creature who is buffeted
through life by DULLES, and groans at
his own incapacity to rebel; these per-
sons may have doubts on the point.
But when old Scrooge came face to face
with his own conscience he had to adj
NIT that he would have been far hap
pier man if he had been just little
better natured. Temper involves fric-
ton, which is terribly wearing. Moth
ing is so exhaustive as fit of passion;
and chronic Immature, venting itself in
continuous snarl and unkindness, is
almost equally destructive to the car.
diac machinery. Quarrelers lead mis-
cradle lives. They are constantly
choked with their own bile. Cantanker-
GUS men know no peace of mind. AS
he who has been for years sufferer
from acute pain misses an old compare
ion when his disease is cured, so 6
auarrelsome man is lost when he has
nobody to quarrel with; he positively
breads the idea of happiness. Hi
: doom is discomfort, and as age in
creases with him, like Timon, he CONES
to disdain himself
The misanthrope glories in hating
every body. Perhaps he does not maxi
7 sufficient allowance for the fact tina
every body is likely to return the com
9 pliment. And man being, in spite o
$ himself, a gregarious animal, it cal
/; not be pleasant to 60 through life with
! out one friend-to go home to find
I wife and children decked in hypocriti
a cal smiles, which scarcely vail thei
e hope that the tyrant will go out; to g
: to an office where every brow cloud
i over as he enters; to meet in the stree
people who are forcedly polite and in
: wardly contemptuous; to realize tina
$ if he failed or died no one would b
n sorry The cynic must at times fec
I terribly lonely. He knows that he ha
Il helped nobody, and that he can cXpec
c nobody to help him; that he has lost II
y opportunity of back-biting, and tha
S his own back has been dashed in turn
S that he has made enemies, not only {
n those whom he has directly assaileC
IS but of that great unknown mass {
I people whose blood poils at injustice
5 the weak and the helpless. All tn
G and more, as he sits alone, his cor
: science must tell him; and then, pc
S haps, it may occur to him that TIL
a charms of cyncism have possibly bee
overrated, and that it might have bee
# better for him, in a material and in
, moral point of view, if in earlier day
he had laid more stress upon his sol
r to crush out ill nature. San FranctSt
IT Chronicle.