Nevada County picayune., 1889-10-09

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tional slight has been put upon You:
Can you see clearly that every
thing is going wrong? Have
You been directly snubbed by inferior
people! i thought as much. At
your time of life such things are La
BILE to occur. They used to happen
with me now and then. You will
grow wiser as you grow older, unless
you take the other chute; then you
will grow more foolish, and there is
only one cure for an old fool, my boy
that is death. Ordinary death
won't cure him, either. He must be
killed awfully dead. Smashing him
only makes him worse,
But now, If any or all Of these
Sights have been put upon you,
listen to me. Don't show your sores.
Oh, don't show your sores They are
not pleasant things to look at--no-
body wants to see them, and they
will heal much more rapidly and nat
urally and hcalthfully, if you don't
expose them. Keep them covered.
Don't even look at them yourself.
Leave them alone under the healing
plasters of time and the cool com
presses of forgetfulness, and you'll
be surprised some day when you do
happen to think of them, to find that
they have healed without scar.
Don't tell people when you are hurt;
don't tell every body how keenly you
feel slight, when, perhaps, there
were no slight intended Don't get
yourself snubbed by people who never
see you, who don't know you and
never think of you. And if you
really are hit, and hit hard, it be-
Titles your manhood and drives away
human sympathy when you lift your
voice and howl on the streets. Keep
quiet about it. Don't whine; don't
yell. One day at the investment of
Vicksburg-it was on the memorable
22nd of May-during lull in the
desultory skirmishing that preceded
the assault, while was lying close to
the surface of the great round globe
which we inhabit, and wishing |
could get little closer to it, we
heard a tremendous bowling and
4 shrieking, and down the dusty road
from the front came skirmisher on
the trot, holding one hand up in the
other, and the hand he was holding
up had no thumb on it. 1t hurt like
the mischief, l have no doubt, but it
was only q thumb after all, and how
the fellow was bowling about it. He
was a brave man or he wouldn't have
been where he could have lost that
thumb. But you would think it was
the only thumb in the whole army
and that no one else on the skirmish
line had been hit that morning. So
the soldiers only saw the funny side
of the picture, and a perfect chorus
of howls, in vociferous imitation of
the mans own walls, went shrieking
up from the sarcastic line of men who
were waiting their turn to face death
In a minute another soldier came
walking back from the skirmish line.
He was walking slowly and steadily,
never moan fell from his compressed
lips, though they were whittier than
his bronzed face, and he held his
hand against his breast. The silence
of the death chamber fell upon the
line in an instant, as the figure of
the soldier moved along the road
with the air of conqueror. Half
a dozen men sprang to his side.
Tenderly they laid him down in
shadow of great oak; his lips
parted to speak message to
some one a thousand miles away,
and the line was short one man for
the coming assault. He died of his
hurt; but he died like king, Oh,
! my boy. don't yell the lungs out of
you over mashed thumb, when
only three files down the line sol
dier salutes his captain before he
, faces about to 90 to the rear with a
, death bullet in his breast. You can
not help getting hurt. There isn't
a safe place in the whole line. There
: are cruel people in the world who
love to wound us; there are thought
, less, needless people who don't
: think; there are people who don't
care, and there are thick-skinned
: people, who are not easily hurt them
( selves, and they think mankind is a
: k-hided race; in fact, the air is
full of darts, and arrows, and singing
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