Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-13

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rub your own eve q little more vigor-
Ously you would find a mote in it, the
extraction of which wonM keep you SO
busy you would not have much time to
shoulder your broadax and 90 forth 10
split up the bean in year neighbours eye.
In a Christian spirit Keep On exploring
the characters Of tho5e you meet, and |
am sure you will find something in them
delightful and lit Cor Il foundation of
frieRdliness. You irvite me 70 come -
youc county seat ard spend & few days.
Thank ycll | arrive about noon Of a
beautiful summer day. WHAT do YOU
do? As soon as ! arrive yOa take me
out under the shallow Of the great eims.
You tax me down to the artificial lake,
the spotted trout fisatinC IN and out
among the wi.te pillars Of the pond
lilies. You take me TO 'the stalls and
kenntls where you keep yocr fine stock,
and here are the Durhem cattle and
Gordon setter, and the high stepping
steels by paving and neighing, the only
language they can speeK. asking for
ha' ness or sst die, and q short turn down
the road. ten we go beck TO the house,
and you get me IN the right light
and show me the kensetts and
the Bie-tsdts OF the wall,
end take me into the music room, and
show me tte bird cagef, the canaries in
the bay window answering the robins IN
the tree to De. Thank you. l never en-.
joyed myself more iR"he same length OF
time. Now, why do we not dc that way
in regard TO the chSnccters Of others, and
show tho bloom and the music and the
bright fountainsf No. We say come
along Cd let me 81 ow you that mans
character. Here is a green Bcummea
frog pend, and there a tllthy cellar, and
| guesf under that hedge there must be a
black snake. Gene and let Us for an
hour or two ra2ale oursel-es with the
nulsM:ces. Oh, gay friends better cover
up tn faults and extol the virtues, ard
this habit ono established Of universal
~friendliness viii became as easy as il is
this morning for a syrir"a 10 food TIE
air with sweetness, az easy as il will be
further on liz the season for q quail 20
whistle up from the grGes. When we
hear something bad about somebody
whom We always supposed 10 be good,
tske out your lead pencll-Gnd say: "Aet
nc see! Before | acc3pt that baleful
story against that mans character, | viii
take off from il % per cclt. for the habit
of eXaggerstiOn which belongs TO the
man who FIRST told the Etory; then | will
take of "a per cent. fer the additions
which the spirit of gossip in every com
muni'y hiss put upon the original etory
( then will take off - per cent. froE the
fact that tie man may have been put into
circumstances Of overpowering teEpta-
ton. So have taken of Is per cent.
But | have not heard his side of the story
at all, and for that reason ] take o. the
remaining % per ceEt." Excuse re, sir,
| dent believe q woTC OF il.
But here comes lRG detective nGXim,
so often quoted: Where there IS 60
much smoke there must be SOM Are. -
Look at al the smoke for years around
Jenner, the introdrc0r Of vaccination,
and the smoke around Columbus, the
discovefer; and the smoke around Martin
Luther, n SavonG ola, and Calico, Gnd
Pau, and JOHN, and Christ, and tell me
where Y IS the hre2 That is one Of the
satanic rrts 10 mailc smoke without FIRE.
SANDER, like tie wCrld may be made Out
of nothing. If the Christian, fair minded,
common sensical Ecirit in regard 10 otberE
p~redOHinated in tie world we sho2ld
have the millenniuri in about six weeks,
for wog.d not Ia al be lamb and lien,
COW am leopard lying down together
Nothing but the grace Of God can ever
put rs 5lto euch z haoit of mind and
heart as that. The whole tendency is ~
the opposite GirocGon. This is the way
the word talks ! put my rame or the
back Of q man'e nee, and | mad IS pay 1t,
and WI never again put my name or
the bact Of any man note. | gave {
beggarl - cents, and five minutes later
saw hin entering 4 liquor store u ,epend
ii. | vii never 0gGin give 2 cen: 10 q
beggar. ! helped hat young mar STAR
in business, and 10, after a while, he came
and OI@T ed a st0;e almost next &.0or t.
me, add stole ny customers. ! Will
never again help 6 young man &c start
in busipess. trusted in whCt my
neiGhbo- promised, and he broke his
word, AZ. rhe psaAl;st was right before
he c,raec:CI himself, for ali pcl are
bars 80 men become suspicious ana
alturninc a0d sr'&6b, and at every add
( tiona. w az owe taem they put another
layer OE the N4l1f their eXciUeivenese,
and aRosat bolt TO the door that
shuts al en-. from sympathy
witt s,orld. TLey get cheated out
~ Z /. uU&. or mi~Slnt&rpreted, or G:tap-
.solnted, g. betrayed and higher goes the
rWall and ir6tcr g0es the bolt, not zeal
izing that while they ock others out ;Ley
f.Dck themselves out; and some day they
wake up 90 find theE9e!ves imprisoned
IN ii dastaglIy habit. No friends u
{G.hers. Others are no friends 10 theg2.
There's AZ iglGnd half way between En-
a,and, Scotland and ireland called the
Isle of Mac. and the seas dash agains. al.
SIZES Of it and | am told that there ig no
1aore lovely place thsn shat Isle of Man
pvt when 8 man becomes ilsular io bis
deposition, ard cuts himself of from TIE
main land OF The worlds sympathies he
is &Sspicable ald al arO9E3 him is an H..
lapt.c ocean OF sel1shnesa. Behold that
Isle,of Man!
New, ~supposi1g that yor,Aave by a Iii.
vine regeneration, got rigEt toward God
and hlmanity, and you start out to prac,
tice ny text, "A msn that hath friends
must show him&elf friendly" Fulfill
this by ell forms Of appropriate saluta,
ton. &aye you Eoticed that the head is
SO poised that thc.2asiest thing e9n earth
is TO give a nod of recognition? To
swing the head FROM side to side, as when
il is waggot' in derision, is unns;rnal and
! unpleasant to throw it back invites YER
! tigo; but to drop tLe chin in greeting
is accompanied with so little exertion
tia: all day long AMI every dag you
night practice ii without the least sem
b.8nce Of fatigue. So elso the structure