Dodge City times., 1888-04-19

Go ahead and do it. Mind your own bust.
ness In all circles. in all businesses, in
all professions there is room for straight
forward successes jealousy entertained
will not only bedwarf your soul but it will
fatten your skull, bemean your eye. put
pinchedness of look about your nostril,
give bad curl to the lip and expel from
your face the divine image in which
you were created. When you hear
man or woman abused drive in on the d.
fendant's side. Watch for excellencies in
others rather than defects, morning glo-
ries instead of nightshade. II some one is
more beautiful than you, thank God that
you have not so many vanities to contend
with. If some one has more wealth than
you, thank God that you have not so great
stewardship TO answer for. II some one Is
higher up In social position, thank God that
those who are down need not fear fall. II
some one gets higher office in Church or
State than you, thank God that there are
not so many to wish for the Fastening of
your obsequies.
The Duke of Dantzig in luxurious apart
ments was visited by PLAIN friend, and 20
keep his friend from jealousy. the Duke
said: "You can have all have if you will
stand twenty PAGES of and let me shoot ut
you hundred times" mo, no." said his
friend. "Well,' said the Duke, ''to gain
all my honors faced on the battle field
more than a thousand gunshots fired not
more than ten PAGES off,"
A minister of small congregation COM
planned to a minister OF large congregation
about the sparseness of his attenda,cc.
'Ah," SAID the one of large audience, my
son, you will find IN the day Of Judgment
for
to be held accountable"
Substitute for jealousy an elevating emu.
lation. Seeing others good let US try to
be better. Seeing others Industrious, let
US work more hours. Seeing others benev-
olent, let us resolve on giving larger er-
centage of our means for charity. May
God put congratulations for others into our
right hand and cheers on our lips for those
who do brave and useful things. Life IS
short at the longest; let 1T all be filled up
with helpfulness for others, work and sym.
pathy for each others misfortunes. and
our arms be full Of white mantles to cover
up the mistakes and failures Of others II
an evil report about some one come to US,
let US put on it most favorable construc.
tion, as the Rhone enters Lake Leman foul
and comes out crystalline.
Do not build so much on the transitory
differences of this world, for soon it will
make no difference TO us whether we had
$4,000, 900 or ten cents, and the ashes into
which the tongue of Demosthenes dis
solved are just like the ashes into which
the tongue Of the veriest stammerer went.
If you are assailed by jealousy make nc
answer. Take it as a compliment, for peO-
pie are never Jealous Of failure. Until
your work is done you are invulnerable.
Remember how our Lord behaved under
such exasperatlOns. Did they not try
to catch Him in His worda Did they
not call Him the victim of intoxicauts!
Did they not misinterpret Him from the
winter of the year l to the spring of the
year 80; that is, from His first infantile cry
to the last groan of His assassination We,
He answers not word. But so far from
demolishing either His mission or His
good name, after near nineteen centuries
He outranks every thing under the skies
and is second to none above them and the
archangel makes salaam at his foo ST. oil.
Christ's bloody antagonists thought
that likely they had finished Him
when they wrote over the cross
His accusation in three languages,
Hebrew and Greek aud Latin, not realizing
that they were by that act introducing Him
to all nations, since Hebrew is the holles,
language and Greek is the wlsest oil
tongues and Latin the widest spoken. You
are not the first man who had his faults
looked at through microscope and his
virtues through the wrong end Of u tee-
scope. Pharaoh had the chief butler and
baker endungeoned, and tradition says that
all the butler had done was to allow a fly
In the Kings cup and all the baker had
done was to leave gravel in the Kings
bread.
The world has the habit Of making
great ado about what you do wrong and
forgetting to say any thing about what you
do right, but the same God will tahe care
of you who provided for Merlin, the Chris
tian martyr, when hidden from his pursu
ers in hay NOW in Paris, and hen came
and layed an egg close by him every morn
ing, thus keeping him from s'arvaton
Blessed are they that are persecuted
although persecution is a severe cat
aplasm. Ointment may smart the wound
before healing 1t. What soft pillow tc
die on if, when we leave the world. we can
feel that, though a thousand people NAV
have wronged u.s. we have wrongsd o"ne:
or, having made enviouS and j "a Gus at
tacks on others, we have repent Il If The
SIN and as far as possible made rei'arafion
The good resolution of Timothy Poland N
his quaint but exquisite hymn. et't led,
Most Any Day." we might wer uninS
mously adopt:
Wen keep all right and good with.
Our work win then be free from -
Upright we'll walk through thick a d tam
Straight on our way.
Deal just with all; the prize well win
Most any day.
When He who made all things just right
Shall call Us hence TO realms Of iI-ht,
Be il morn. or noon. or cen or MINT
We will obey.
Well be prepared TO take our fi2ht
Most any day.
Our lamps we'll fill brimful Of Oil
That's good and pure, that would not spoil.
And keep them burning all the while
To light our way;
Our work all done we'll quit the soil
Most any day.
PERSIAN EQUESTRlAniS SM.
Inveterate Horsemen Who Don't Know