The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-08-24
ApE5slmlsT'o c3NFEsslon.
A Bit OF cnniia snt.o%pcctien Thn,
-ay be- 1srsai.

lie was bora q y s.ln~t an con; me ! .
prss mist to his ly,l. lay r.. sla SO m;ch
dsr6 sid, Of lie Ia, 100 II fus,I 10 bsi v,
tore ms a liz ts,le. IL hl .S,i an Ca.
tar,l h' m.ge,i s, r,sl an imi;iiar uaii
they grow $, az i1oy ~oyerppw1red lin en-.
tr,l.. More than tia he exhibited thca1
TO cverybJl ~, talked b,1s thon AL wrot,
long LIT, rs to his hi MS abpnt The
Now, ms res nre littls iici 81 at aie vocy
O. tly ~caticel into ms soIl, but tx r,m' y
d hicult to driveolt Hsn.vtr risi 10 drvI.
them oIt. He lis,l tao T. nosph r, OF wee
they cr,atel in his mill: - farIsh | Al tx.
cui' for has bowaii g; anl ~. hs vas +,
good fellow aud somethny OK a g,nils; hal
strength in Linn, but preicrrel TO tax, tht
attitude Of a stopped on %cr.atur, On,e ,
friend who received tn, srasnolic plckas
Of gloo.n whici the re-simlst exudcd uni
tho name of social zorro ,poai,lce turasl
upon him and said S mo hing tn wasn't
iiatierins. And this wa his answer:
to what you say about M dis os'tio
d, you imagine for a moment that YOU can
tell me anything nav in that directioni |
dontt know why-it was n lit.lc strargo-
but | read your showing up without getting
ruff. ID in the least. I'm afraid you've d H.!
me no good. If you'd made me hopping M j
by a new revelation there would have b,rn
II moral tonic in it. You cannot, by r.vers-
ing friendships telescope see me SO small II,
| sometimes sea myself.
''l}c-cher has said every friendship should
b. founded on the doctr ne OF total del raw
ity, then every excellence revealed is just 81
much more than you expected. II you have
got down to bad-rock-no, blue mu1, rather
in my case, may | not hope to become a
triflc lssi desorvins o. censure in the futuri
Every commonplace goo dy goodness vii
be 80 much clear gain.
81 have fallen iA:o the bad ha bit OF writ.
ing letters in exactly the spirit Of the m loI
l happened to be in, and moods are much u
matter of digestion, weather and innate Ill
aboli:m.
al shall not argue that it is best to he thus
frank in revealing ones s,lf. Tn, sin il not
in hiding mss littlsness un Ter the convol-
tional lions skin; it is in harlorins every
uncloan bird wlich chooses to roost on onc's
lcart-s.rings.
$50 long as |, Xix. other human beings,
repent Bit erly having ma 10 myself rid GU
loLs in the eyes of othars, yet 10 no. 90 mo
sack rlotl an ashes over the wa warln,ss
OF the inner, the spiritual man, there Is It'll,
hope OF my st in, bsyon tls sphlr e oi a
su~ppl- rnsitiv', 81 Irritating, other pcop,o
irritatn :, narrow, cranky, lop s.dod cgotisin.
sin, like Moses, ! can one: in Il While look
over into the Promised Land which shall lie
til Uncertain e O. tae ln1ro fat .lil.
"Tcnny,on says, We mn are a l.ttle
br1el.' Beng bora Of wom'n it ought NOV
TO be 81. Mcn nrc littly v.."n ycu flnl th,i
1J,. B.c,sol is thu iuan 10, y hen II L,s
f.ui's IL made manifest, i, sal roAouicci
Il cool .alIov.''
Dil "a" ps'in> ro'orln N beco,le al
o|ptiintst AZ tfi,} n ,ns t.4i Fla Drtv
i, sag. lhe u..:rl ,.nmJ4 IN II ~,
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