The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-12

| help q young man start in business. l
trusted in what my neighbor promised to
do and he broke his word and the PsaImist
was right before he corrected himself, for
s'all men are liars" So men become sus.
| picious and saturnine and selfish.
| and at every additional wrong done
them they put another layer ON the
| wall Of their exclusiveness and
another holt to the door that
shuts them cut from sympathy with the
| world. They get cheated out OF . thou.
sand dollars or misinterprsted, or disap.
pointed, or betrayed, and higher goes tine
wall and faster goes another bolt, not re.
| alizing that while they lock others out
| they lock themselves in; and some day
they wake up to find themselves impris-
oned in a dastardly habit. No friends to
others, others are no friends to them.
Now. supposing that you have, by a di.
vine regeneration, got right toward Gcd
and humanity, and you start cut to prac.
tice my text, "A man that hath friends
| must show himself friendly" Fulfil this
by all forms of appropriate salutation.
Have you noticed that the head is so poised
that the easiest thing on earth is to give it
a nod of recognition? To swing the head
from side to side, as when it is wagged in
derision. is unnatural and unpleasant:
| to throw it back, inv ties vertigo; but to
| drop the chin in greeting is accompanied
with so little exertion that all day long
and every day you might practice it without
The least samblancs Of fatigue. So, also,
the structure of the hand indicates hand
shaking; the knuckles not made so that
the fingers can turn in. as in clasping
hands divided fl ON and set aloof from the
fingers, so that while the fingers clasp
your neighbours baud on one side, the
thumb takes it on the other, and, pressed
together. all the faculties of the hand
give emphasis to the saiutation. Five
sermons in every healthy hand urge US to
handshaking.
Besides this. every day when you start
out, load yourself up with kind thoughts,
kind words, kind expressions and kind
greetings. When a man or woman does
we'll. tell him so, tell her So If you meet
some one who is improved in health, and
| it is demonstrated in girth and color. say:
How we'll you lookup But if on the other
hand, under the wear and tear of life he
appears ra!e and exhausted. do not intro
duce sanitary subjects or say any thing
at all about physical conditions In the
case of improved health you have by your
words given another impulse toward the
robust and the jocund; while in the case
of the failing health you have arrested
the dec inc by your silence, by which he
concludes III 1 were really so badly of.
he would have said something about it,"
We are all, especially those Of a nervous
temperament, susceptible to kind words
aud dscouraging words. Form a con-
spiracy against us. and let ten men meet
US at certain points on our way over to
business, and let each one say: "How sick
you lock" though we should start out
well, after meeting the first and hearing
his depressing salute, We would be.
gin to examine our symptoms.
After meeting the second gloomy
accosting we would conclude We did
not feel quite as well as usual. After
meeting the third our sensations would be
dreadful and after meeting the fourth,
unless We suspected a conspiracy, we
would go home and go to bed. and the
other six pessimists would be a useless
surplus of encouragement. My dear sir,
my dear madam. what do you mean by
going about this world with dishearten.
ment? Is not the supply of gloom and
trouble and m:sfoi tune enough TO meet the
demand without running a factory of
black and blue in the world when God so
seldom plants them. Plenty of scarlet
colors. plenty of yellow, plenty of green.
plenty of pink. but very seldom a plant,
black or blue. never saw a black flower.
and there's only here and there a blue.bsll
or violet; but the blue is for the most
part reserved for the sky, and we have to
look up to see that and when we look up no
do har
along the path of others the brightnesses
instead of the glooms? Do not prophesy
misfortune. If you must be a prophet at
all be an Ezekiel, and not jeremiah.
In ancient times prophets who foretod
evil were doing right. for they were di-
vinely directed; but the prophets of evil
in our time are generally false prophets
Some of our weatherwise people are
prophesying We shall have summer of
unparalleled scorch. 1t will not be that
at all. l think we are going to have a
summer of great harvest and universal
health; at any rate know as much about
it as they do. Last fall all the weather
prophets agreed in saying we should have
a winter of extraordinary severity, bliz-
card on the heels of blizzard. 1t was the
mildest winter ever remember to have
passed Indeed, the autumn and the
spring almost showed winter out of the
procession. Real troubles have no heralds
running ahead of their somber chariots
and no one has any authority in our time
to announce their coming. Load yourself
up with helpful words and deeds. The
hymn once sung in cur church es 10 unfit
to be sung. for it says:
We should suspect some danger
Where possess delight.
In other words, manage to keep miser.
cradle all the time. The old song sung at
the pianos a quarter OF a century ago was
right: "Kind words never die" Such
kind words have their nests in kind hearts
and when they are Matched out and take
wing they circle round in fl ghts that
never cease, and sportsman's gun can not
ruffie their wings, and when they cease
flight in these lower skies Of earth they
sweep around amid the higher attitudes
of Heaven. At Baltimore a few days ago
talked into monograph. The cylinder
containing the words was sent on to
Washington, and the next day that
cylinder, from another photographic in
strument, when turned, gave back to me
the very words had uttered the day be-
fore, and with the same intonations.
Scold into the phonograph ana it will
scold back. Pour mild words into
photograph, and it will return the
gentleness. Society and the world,
and the churches, are phono-
graphs. Give them acerbity and
rough treatment, and acerbity and
rough treatment you will get back. Give
them practical friendliness and they will
give back practical fr;endliness. A father
asked his little daughter: MARY. why is
it that everybody loves you:" She an.
swered: 81 don't know. unless it is be-
cause | love everybody" "a man that