The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-07-17

pond, and there's filthy cellar. and guess
under that hedge there must be black
snake. Come and let us for an hour or two
regale ourselves with the nuisances o, my
friends, better cover up the faults and extrol
the virtues, and this habit once established
of universal friendliness will become as easy
as it is this morning for 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 pencil and say:
LET me see! Before accept that baleful
story against that mans character, ! will
take off from it twenty-five per cent. for the
habit of exaggeration which belongs to the
man who first told the story; then l will
take off twenty-five per cent. for the addi-
tions which the spirit of gossip in every
community has put upon the original story;
then l will take of twenty five per cent.
from the fact that the man may have been
put into circumstances of overpowering
temptation Sol have taken off seventy
five per cent. But have not heard his side
OF the story at all, and for that reason
take of the remaining twenty-five per
cent" Excuse me, sir, l don't believe q
word of it,
But there comes in defective maxim, so
often quoted: Where there is SO much
smoke there must be some fire. Look at
the smoke for years around Jenner, the intro
Queer Of vaccination; and the smoke around
Columbus, the discoverer; 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 fire.
Slander, 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 the
millennium in about six weeks for would
not that be lamb and lion cow and leopard
lying down together3 Nothing but the
grace of God can ever put us into such Q
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 my name
on the back Of any mans note l gave a
beggar ten cents, and five minutes after I
saw him enter liquor store to spend it. l
will never again give cent to a beggar.
helped that young man start in business,
and 10 !! after a while, he came and opened a
store almost next door to me, and
stole my customers. l will never again
help 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
tall men are liars" So men become sus-
picious ami saturnine and selfish, and at
every add lional 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 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
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 am told that there is nc
more lovely place than that Isle of Man; but
when man becomes insular in his dis.
position, and cuts himself off from the main
land of the worlds sympathies, he is de-
spicable, and all around him is an Atlantic
ocean Of selfshness. Behold that Isle Of
Man
Now, supposing that you have, by a divine
regeneration, got right toward God and hui
manity and you start out to practice my
text "A man that hath friends must show
himself friendly" Fulfill this by all form:
of appropriate salutation Have you no
ticed that tho head is so poised that the
easiest thing on earth is to give a nod o.
recognitions TO swing the head from side
to side, as when it is wagged in derision, il
unnatural and unpleasant; to throw it back
invites vertigo; but to drop the chin il
greeting is accompanied by so little exer
ton that all day long and every day YOU
might practice it without the least sem
blalce of fatigue. So, also, the structure O.
the hand indicates handshaking; thu
knuckles not made so that the fingers turn
out, but so made that the fingers can turn
in, as in clasping hands; and the thumb di
vided from and set aloof from the fingers, 81
that while the fingers take your neignbor
hand on one side, the thumb takes it on tn,
other, and, pressed together, all the facultie
of the hand gives emphasis to the saluta
ton. Five sermons in every healthy han,
urge us to handshaking.
Besides this, every day when you star
out, load yourself up with kind thoughts
kind words, kind expressions, and kint
greetings. When a man or woman doe
well, tell him so, tell her so. If you NEE
some one who is improved in health, and i
is demonstrated in girth and color, say
'How well you look!" But if on the othe
hand, under the wear and tear of life h
appears pale and exhausted, do not intro
duce sanitary subjects, or say any thing a
} all about physical conditions. In the cas-
, of improved health, you have by your word
, given another impulse towards the robus
and the jocund; while in the case of tn
, failing health you have arrested the declin
by your silence, by which he concludes: 81
were really so badly off, he would hav
, said something about it." We are al
especially those of nervous temperament
| susceptible to kind words and discouragin
words. Form a conspiracy against us, an
let ten men meet us at certain points o
, our way over to business, and let each on
| say: "How sick you look" though W
: should start out well, after meeting tn
/ first and hearing his depressing salute, W
: should begin to examine our symptoms
: After meeting the second gloomy accostins
= we would conclude we did not feel quit
D as well as usual. After meeting the thir
t our sensations would be dreadful, and afte
a meeting the fourth, unless we expected
: conspiracy, we would 20 home and &
1 to bed, and the other six pessimists woul
I be a useless surplus Of discouragemen
, | Nv dear sir my dear madam what q
l you mean by going about this world wit