Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04

sure you will find something in them de-
lightful and fit for foundation of friend
illness. You invite me to come to your
country seat and spend a few days.
Thank you! I arrive about noon of a
beautiful summer day What do
you do? AS soon as arrive
you take me out under the
shadow of the great elms You take me
down to the artificial lake, the spotted
trout floating in and out among the white
pillars of the pond lilies. You take me
TO the stalls and kennels where you keep
your fine stock. and here are the Dur
ham cattle and the Gordon settlers, and
the housekeeping steeds by paving and
neighing, the only language they can
speak, asking for harness or saddle, and
q short turn down the road. Then we go
back to the house, and you get me in the
right light and show me the Ken
sets and the Bierstadts on the wall,
and take me into the music room
and show me the bird cages, the cana
ries in the bay window answering the
robins in the tree tops. Thank you!
never enjoyed myself more in the same
length of time. Now, why do we not do
that way in regard to the characters of
others, and show the bloom and the mu-
sic and the bright fountains? No. We
say come along and let me show you that
man s character. Here is green
scummed frog pond, and there s filthy
cellar, and l guess under that hedge
there must be black snake. Come,
and let US for an hour Or two regale our
selves with the nuisanees. Oh, my
friends, better cover up the faults and
extol the virtues, and this habit once es-
70 of frip
will become as easy as it is this
morning for a syringa to flood the
air with sweetness, as easy
as it will be further on in the season
for quail to whistle up from the grass
When we hear something bad about
somebody whom we always supposed to
be good, take out your lead pedcil and
say: "Let me see! Before 1 accept that
baleful story against that man s charac-
ter l will take off from it % per cent. for
the habit of eXaggeration which belongs
to the man who first told the story; then
l will take off rs per cent. for the addi-
tons which the spirit of gossip in every
community has put upon the original
story. Then l will take off % per cent.
from the fact that the man may have
been put into circumstances of overpOw-
ering temptation. So, have taken off
IS per cent. But l have not heard his
side of the story at all, and for that rea-
son I take off the remaining % per
cent. - Excuse me, sir, 1 don It believe
a word of it.
DEFECTIVE MANN.
But here comes in defective maxim,
so often quoted: Where there is so
much smoke there must be some fire. -
Look at all the smoke for years around
Jenner, the introducer of vaccination;
and the smoke around Columbus, the
discove1er; and the smoke around
Martin Luther, and Savonarola, and
Calico, and Paul land John, and Christ,
and tell me where was the fire? That
is one of the satanic arts to make smoke
without fire. SANDER, like the world,
may be made out of nothing If the
Christian, fair minded, common sensical
spirit in regard to others predominated
in the world, we should have the
millennium in about six weeks, for
would not that be lamb and lion,
COW and leopard lying down to-
gether? Nothing but the grace of
God can never 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: 81 put
my name on the back of man IS note, and
had to pay it, and 1 will never again put
my name on the back any mans note.
gave beggar ten cents, and five min
utes after 1 saw him entering liquor
store to spend it, | will never again
give cent to beggar. I helped that
young man start in business, and 10,
after a while, he came and opened
store almost next door TO me, and stole
7 mil hoIy
young man start in business. l trusted
in what my neighbor promised to do, and
he broke his word and the Psalmist was
right before he corrected himself, for
'ALL MEN ARE LIARS.
So men become suspicious and saturnine
and selfish, and at every additional
wrong done them they put another layer
or the wall of their exclusiveness, and
another bolt to the door that shuts them
out from sympathy with the world. They
get cheated out of a 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 themselves in; and some day they
wake up to find themselves imprisoned
in dastardly habit. No friends to 9TH
ers, others are no friends to them.
There's an island half way between En-
gland, Scotland and Ireland, called the
Isle of Man, and the seas dash against all
sides of it, and am told that there is no
more lovely place than that Isle of
Man: but when man becomes insular
in his disposition, and cuts himself off
from the mainland of the world 5 SYM
pathies, he is despicable, and all around
him is an Atlantic ocean of selfshness.
Behold that Isle of Mani
Now, supposing that you have, by
divine regeneration, got right toward
God and humanity, and you start out to
practice my text: GA man that hath
friends must show himself friendly. -
Fulfill 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 nod of recognition? To
swing the head from side to side as when
it is wagged in derision, is I'M
natural and unpleasant; to throw
it back invites vertigo; but TO
drop the chin in greeting is accom-
panied with so little eXertion that all day
long aud every day you might practice it
without the least semblance of fatigue.
So also the structure of the hand indi-
Gates hand shaking; the knuckles not
made so that the fingers can turn out,
but so made that the fingers can turn in,