The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-07

man who first told the story; then l Will
take off twenty-five per cent. for the addi-
tions which the spirit of gossip il every
community has put upon the original story;
then. I will lake of twenty i've per cent.
from the fact that the man may have been
put into circumstances of overpowering
temptation. Sol have taken off seventy
i've per cent. But have not heard his side
of the story at all, and for that reason [
take off the remaining twenty-five per
cent" Excuse me, sir, don't believe 3
word of it.
But there comes in defective maxim, so
often quoted: where there is so much
smoke there must be some tire" Look at
the smoke for years around Jenncr, the intro
ducer of vaccinations; the smoke around
Columbus, the discoveref; and the smoke
around Martin Luther, and Savonarola, and
Calico and Paul, and John, and Christ, and
tell me where was the fire. That is one OF
the Satanic arts TO make smoke without IRE.
SANDER, like the world, may be made out OF
nothing. If the Christian, fair minded, com
mon sensical spirit in regard to others pre-
dominated in the world we should have tho
in about six weeks, Tor would
not that be lamb and lion, cow and leopard
lying down together. Nothing but the
grace of God can ever put US into such
habit of mind and heart as that. The whole
tendency is in the opposite direction. This
is the way the world talks: l put my name
on the back Of mans note, and had to
pay it, and will never again put sly name
on the back Of any mans note. l gave a
becgar ten ccuts, and five minutes after l
saw him enter liquor store to spend it.
will never again give a ccnt TO u bcgga:. l
helped that young man start III business,
and 10! after while, he came and opened q
store almost next door to me, and
stole NY customers. I will never again
help a young man start i'll business.
I trusted in what my neighbor promised to
do, and he broke his word, and the Psalmist
was right before he corrected himself, for
sail men are liars" So men become sus-
picious and saturpine and selfish, and at
every additional wrong done them they put
another layer on the wall Of their exclusive
ness, and another bolt 20 the door that shuts
them out from sympathy with the world.
They get cheated out of thousand dollars,
or misinterpreted, or disappointed, or be-
trayed, and higher goes the wall, and faster
goes another bolt, not realizing that while
they lock others out they lock others in;
end some day they wake up to find them
selves imprisoned in a dastardly habit. No
friends to others, others are 10 friends to
them. There's an island half way between
England, Scotland and Ireland called the
Isle of Man, and the seas dash against all
sides of it, and I am told that there is no
more lovely place than that Isle Of Man: but
when man becomes iusular in his dis
position, and cuts himself off from the main
land of the worlds sympathics, he is de-
spicable, and all around him is an Atlantic
ocean of selfshncss. Behold that Isle Of
Man.
Now, supposing that you have, by q divine
got right toward God and hu-
manitv, and you start out 10 practice my
text, "A man that hath friends must show
himself friendly" Fulfill this by all forms
Of appropriate salutation. Have you no.
ticed that the head is so poised that the
easiest thing on eart!4 is to give a nod Of
recognition. To swing the head from side
8 SIDE, as WEen nssIESagsed in derision, is
unnatural and un 5;SEnt: to throw 1t back,
invites ve~11::s@, but to drop rhe oai.sS S-ia
reetinc is accompanied by so little exer-
ion that al day long and every day you
,iybepractice it without the least sem
lance of fatigue So, also, the structure OF
he hand indicates h2nishaking; the
nuckles not made So that the fingers turn
ut, but so made that the fingers can turn
n. as in clasping hands; and the thumb di-
.ided from and set aloof from the fingers, so
hat while the fingers take your nelghbor's
Iand on one side, the thumb takes it on the
ther, and, pressed together, all the faculties
# the hand gives emphasis to the saluta-
ion. Five sermons in every healthy hand
lrge US to handshaldng.
Besides this, every day when you start
,ut, load yourself up with kind thoughts.
lind words. kind expressions, and kind
,reetings. When man or woman does
veil, tell him so, tell her so. II You meet
ome one who is improved in health, and 1t
S demonstrated in girth and COLOR, say:
How well YOU look" But if Oh the other
,and, under the wear and tear Of life he
appears pale and exhausted, do not intro
luce sanitary subjects. or say any thing at
IL about physical conditions. IL the case
II improved health, you have by your words
yivcn another impulse towards the robust
md the iocund; while in the case OF the
.ailiny health you have arrested the decline
" your silence. by which he concludes: '1t
were really so badly off, he would hare
,aid something about it.'' We are all,
especially those Of nervous temperament
susceptible to kind words and dlscouraslng
words Form conspiracy against US, and
ct ten men meet US at certain points on
our way over to business, and let each one
saw: '.How sick you look" though we
should start out well, after meeting the
first and hearing his depressing salute, we
should begin to examine our symptoms.
A After meeting the second gloomy accostlnS,
we would conclude we did not feel quite
IS well as usual. After meeting the third
,ur sensations would be dreadful, and after
meeting the fourth, unless we expected
VIC would go homo and go
to bed, and the other SIX pesslmlsts would
be useless surplus of discouragement.
NV dear sir, my dear madam, what DO
YOU mean by going about this world with
dishcartenments! Is not the supply Of
gloom and trouble and misfortune enough
TO meet the demand without your run
ming factory of pins and spikes! why
should you plant 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 plant black or blue. l never
saw black flower and there's only here
and there blue bell or a violet; but the
blue IS for the most part reserved for the
skv, and we have to look up TO see that, and
when we look up no color can do US harm.
Why not plant along the paths Of others the
brightnesses instead of the slooms? Do not
prophesy misfortune. If you must be
prophet at all be IN Ezekiel, and not & .Ierc-
miah. In ancicnt,timcs prophets who fore
told evil We're doing right, for they were
diyinely directed; but the prophets of evil in
our time are generally false prophets. Some
of our weather wise people are orophesylng
we shall have summer of unparalleled
scorch. 1t will not be that at all. think
we arc going to have summer OF s''eat
harvest and universal health; at any rate
know as much about it as they DO. Last
fall all the weather prophets agreed in say
incwe should have winter OF extraordln-
ary severity, blizzard on the heels OF b!lz-
zard. 1t was the mildest winter l ever re-