The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-07-04

light and show me the Kensetts
end 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 music and the bright
fountains2 No. We say come along
and let me show you that mans char
acter Hero is a green scumnred frog
pond, and there's a filthy cellar, and
] guess under that hedge there must
be black snake. Come and let us
for an hour or two regale oursel YES
with the nuisances. Oh, my friends.
better cover up the faults and extol
the virtues, and this habit once estab-
lished Of universal friendliness will
become as easy rs 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 ont your lead pencil
and say: Let me sect Before | ac-
cept that baleful story against that
mans character, / will take off from
it 25 per cent for the habit of exag-
|. geration which belongs to the man
who first told the story; then | will
take off % per cent for the additions
which the spirit of gossip in every
community has put upon the original
story; then | will take off 25 per cent.
from the fact that the man may have
been put into circumstances of over
| powering temptation. So have taken
off rs per cent But / have not heard
his side of the story at all and for that
reason | take off the remaining % per
cent Excuse me, sir, don't believe
word of it,
A DEFECTIVE MAXIM.
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
| discoverer- and the smoke around
Martin Luther, and Savonarola, and
I Calico, and Paul, and John, and
| Christ, and tell me where was the fire2
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, common
sensical spirit in regard to others pre-
dominated 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 together2
| 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: ! put my
name on the back of mans note,
and / had to pay it, and will never
| again put my name on the back of
any mans note. | gave beggar ten
cents, and five minutes after | saw
him entering liquor store to spend it.
/ l will never again give cent TO
| beggar. j helped that young man
| start in business, and 10, after a while,
he came and opened store almost
next door to me, and stole my Gus
| toners. | will never again help a
| young man start in business. | trusted
in what my neighbor promised to do,
and he broke his word, and the Psalm
ist was right before he corrected him
| self for ''all men are liars" So men
become suspicious and saturnine and
selfish, and at every additional wrong
done them they put another layer
on the wall of their exclusive
ness, 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 an
other bolt, not realizing that while they
lock others out, they lock themselves
in; and some day they wake up to find
themselves 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 am told that there is no more
lovely place than that Isle of Man;
but when a man becomes insular in
his disposition, and cuts himself off
from the main land of the worlds
sympathies, he is despicable, and all
around him is an Atlantic ocean of
selfishness Behold that Isle of Mani
Now, supposing that you have, by
|
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 appropri-
ate salutation, Have younoticed that
tho head is SO poised that the easiest
thing on earth is 10 give a nod Of rec
, ognition2 To swing the head from
i. l. . - .tsn
derision. is unnatural and unpleasant;
to throw it back, invites vertigo, but
to drop the chin in greeting is accom-
| panied with so little exci'tion that all
day long and every day you might
/ practice it without the least SEM
blance of fatigue So. also, the
, structure of the hand indicates
7 handshalling; the knuckles not made
, so that the fingers can turn out, but so
made that the fingers can turn IN, as
in claSping hands; and the thumb
, divided from and set aloof from the
fingers, so that while the fingers take
+ your neighbors hand on one side, the
/ | thumb takes il ON the other, and,
pressed together, all the faculties Of
/ the hand give emphasis 10 the saluta-
I ton. Five sermons in every healthy
hand urge us to handshalang.
7 BE KIND TO EVERYBODY.
Besides this. every dag when you
start out load yourself up with kinl
thoughts, kind words, kind expires
sions and kind greetings. When {
, man or woman does well, tell him so
tell her so. If you meet some one who
; is improved III health, and II IS de
! monstratod in giIth. and color say
l How we'll YOU look)" But if ON tbs
= other hand, under the wear and tea
1; of life he appears pale and exhausted
Q do not introduce sanitary subjects, O
i say anything at all about phvsica
!, conditions. in the case of improved
y health, YOU have by your words giyel
: another impulse towards the robus
Y and the jocmd while in the cas-
). of tho failing health you have al
II rested the decline by your silence
J. bv which he concludes; IF ] wer
II really SO badly off, he would hav
II said something about it. We are all
& especially those of nervous tempera
20 ment susceptible 10 kind words an
le discouraging words Form a cor
h spiracv against us, and let ten me
d meet us nt certain points on our wa
p over TO business. and let each one say
sc How sick you look" though W
d should start out well, after meetin
ii the first and hearing his depressin
N saInte. we would begin to examine on
al symptoms. After meeting the secon
~ gloomy accosting, we would conelud
al Ne did not feel quito rs we'll as usaa
Ss After meeting the third, our sensation
er would DO dreadful, and after mectin
'u the fourth, unless we expected a COZ
a ! ..,.s.nn,r 40 would On hnIne and po