The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-08-06

finer corn ii the country. I always
did tell those town fellows that what
you didn't know about farming wasn't
worth knowing.
The gloomy Jones smiled with evi.
dent pleasure.
tits my opinion continued the
Major thoughtfully, "that you will
soon have the best paying tarna of its
size in the country. just keep up the
lick, you knew
And with CHEEKY smile and
wave OF the hand, he drove off.
Turning to me he said
Nov, talk that way on principle.
Why call Jones'S attention to his
hillside corn2 Poor fellowl he looks
at that too much anyhow. | made
him look on the bright side OF things,
and whGofped him him Up is ri That its the
way to do it.
Throughout our ride this rosy smil-
ing old man stopped every man, wo-
man, and child, and gave them just
such racket as he had given Jones,
suiting his talk to the varying .cireum
stances of each case.
On our return to town | could not
help noticing that the Majors en-
couraging words had already produc-
ed an effect. At many of the farm
houses the women folks had been told
by their husbands of what had occur
red. They looked upon us smiling
from their doorways, and at several
places little children were sent to way
lay us with fruit and buckets of cold
spring water. Even at the cottage OF
the respondent Jones we saw that
gloomy individual laughing in high
glee and chucking his wife under the
chin.
Zones will come out all right, said
the Major with a grin, eff not this
year, then some other year. J"
Naturally / asked the Major how
he was getting along.
"Splendidly," was the answer. Eve
made about $4,000 since | came
here, and I'll clear SIS, 900 this year"
He said much more, but these figures
will do. Before leaving the village Ihad
an hour to myself, and improved it by
making few inquiries about the Maj
or. Ifound that all he had in the
world was a place worth g. few thou
sand dollars, and heavily mortgaged.
] found too, that he made only bare
living. He must have known that
would learn the utter falsity of his
statements, but his old habit OF lying
was irresistible. One thing struck me-
Every man in the town stood up for
the Major.
Hell never pay out oi debt" said
one, "but that makes no difference.
Nobody's going to press him.
"You like him?" said /.
1--WE love HING was the answer.
'The Lord don't give us many such
men. :"
All the testimony was to the same
effect. AS the train whirled me back
to the city my thoughts were decided
ly mixed. / said to myself:
"Here is q cheerful old fraud who
can't tell the truth to save his life.
He played double during the war;
He lives by false pretences. Heis lazy,
extravagant, and an old bag of wind.
Yet all these people love him. They
would fight for him, die for him, and,
most incredibleof all. they credit him.
What is the secret Of it all2"
Then | thought OF the talk with
Jones, and the other farmers and
their wives. 1t all flashed upon me in
a moment. With all his faults the
Majo.'s genuine love for his fellow
men made itself felt. 1t is invinclble.
and it won the devoted friendship OF
the very men who hated his besetting
sins. Human sympathy is a wonder
full thing. 1t will WIN spontaneous
return when everything else fails. We
cannot we'll spare such men as the
Major. We need them to whoop the
Joneses. Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution