Dodge City times., 1889-07-18

but I have mot heard his side Of the
story at all, and for that reason take
OF the remaining IS per cent Excuse
me, sir, don't believe q word OF It.
But here comes in . defective maxim,
20 often quoted: Where there il 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
discoverer; and the smoke around
Martin Luther, and Savonarols, 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 fire. Slander, like the world,
may be made out of nothing. If the
Christian, fair minded, comm ION sensical
spirit in regard to others predominated
| in the world We should have the millen-
MUM in about six weeks, for would not
that be lamb and lion, COW and leopard
lying down together7 Nothing but the
| 3 habit of mind and heart as that. The
whole tendency is in the opposite direc-
tion. This 10 the way the world talks: I
put my name on the back of a mans
note. and had to pay it, and will never
again put my name on the back Of any
mans note. gave beggsr ten cents,
and i've minutes after I saw him enter
ing liquor store to spend it. I will
never again give q cent to beggar. 1
helped that young man start into busi-
ness, and 10, after q while, he came and
opened . store almost next door to me,
and stole my customers. l will never
again help young man start in busi-
ness. I 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 ad
ditional wrong done them they put an
other layer ON the wall of their eIclu-
siveness, 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 betrayed, 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 them
selves imprisoned in a dastardly habit.
No friends to others, others are no
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 l
am told that there is no more lovely
place than that Isle Of Man; but when q
man becomes insular in his disposition,
and cuts himself off from the main land
of the worlds sympathies, he is despica-
BILE, and all around him is an Atlantic
Ocean of selfshness. Behold that Isle
of Man!
Now, supposing that you have, by
divine regeneration, got right toward
God and humanity, and you start out to
practice my text, A 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 derisicn, is unnat-
ural and unpleasant; to throw it back,
invites vertigo; but to drop the chin in
greeting is accompanied with SO little
eIertion that all day long and every day
you might practice it without the least
semblance of fatigue. So, also, the
structure of the hand indicates hand
shaking; the knuckles not made SO that
the fingers can turn out, but so made
that the fingers can turn in, as in clasp |
ing hands; and the thumb divided from
and set aloOf from the fingers, SO that
while the fingers take your neighbor's |
hand on one side. the thumb takes it on
the other, and, pressed together. all the |
faculties of the hand give emphasis to |
the salutation. 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 i'm
proved in health, and it is demonstrated |
in girth and color. say: How we'll you
look!' But if on the other hand, under !
the wear and tear of life he appears
pale and exhausted, do not introduce !
about physical conditions. In the case |
of improved health, you have by your |
words giver another impulse towards the |
robust and jocund; while in the case Of |
the failing health you have arrested the |
decline by your silence, by which he
concludes: If were really SO badly
of, ne would have said something about |
it, We are all, especially those of
nervous temperament. susceptible to
kind words and discouraging words.
Form conspiracy 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 look" though We
should start out we'll, after meeting the
first and hearing his depressing salute,
we would begin to examine our symp-
toms. After meeting the second gloomy
accosting, We would conclude We did
not feel quite as we'll as usual. After
meeting the third, our sensations would
be dreadful, and after meeting the
fourth, unless We expected conspiracy,
We would go home and 60 to bed, and
the other six pessimists would be a use
dear sir, my dear madam, what do YOU
mean by going about this world with
Is not the supply of
gloom and trouble and misfortune
enough to meet the demand without
your running a 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. 1 never saw a
black flower, and there's only here aud
here blue bell or violet; but the
blue is for the most part reserved for
he sky, and We have to look up to see {
hat, and when we look up no color can
DO us harm. Why not plant along the
paths of others the brightnesses instead
,f the glooms? Do not prophesy mis- '
fortune. If you must be prophet at
I'll be an Ezekiel, and not jeremiah. l
n ancient times prophets who foretold I
,vil were doing right, for they were
iivinely directed; but the prophets of
vii in our time are generally false pro-
,hets. Some of our weather wise peo- ,
de are prophesying We shall have