Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-30
GRIN AND BEAR IT.

oohs your PROV Is clOuded; SOme-
ming has happened that didn't and
doesn't agree with you. Were you
neglected in the invitations? Didn't
you get on any OF the committees?
Were you overlooked in the conven-
ton! Hasn't the secretary written
you personal letter asking your ad-
vice upon the campaignp Have you
boon coldly passed over for men OF less
ability DO you feel that an intention
al slight has been put upon your Can
you see clearly that every thing is
going wrong because you have not
been consultedP Have you been d.
rectly snubbed by inferior people? /
thought as much. At your time Of
lie such things are very liable to oc-
cur 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 fool
ish, and there is only one cure for an
old fool, my boy--that is, death. Or
binary death won't cure him. either.
Though thou shouldest bray him in a
mortar among wheat with a pestle,
yet will not his foolishness depart
from him." See how awfully dead he
has to be killed! Smashing him only
makes him worse.
But now, If any or all OF these sights
have been put upon you, listen TO me,
my tender Telemachus. Don't show
your sores. Oh. don't show your sores.
They are not pleasant things to look
at, nobody wants to see them and they
will heal much more rapidly and nat
urally and beautifully, If you don't
expose them. Keep them covered.
Don't show them to any body but your
surgeon, and don't show them to him
unless you have to. And, don't look
at them yourself Leave them alone
under the healing plasters of time and
the cool congresses OF forgetfulness,
and you'll be surprised some day when
you do happen to think Of them, to
find that they have healed by the first
intention without scar Don't tell
people when you are hurt; don't tell
every body how keenly you feel
slight when, perhaps, there
was no slight intended. Don't
get yourself snubbed by people
who never see you, and who
don't know you and never think
of you. And If you really are hit,
and hit hard, it belittles your manhood
and it drives away human sympathy
when you lift up your voice and howl
on the streets. Keep quiet about it.
Don't whine; don't yell. One day, at
the investment of Vicksburg was
on the memorable 22d 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 | coulG get q little closer to it,
we heard a tremendous bowling and
shrieking, and down the dusty road
from the front came blue acketed
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, have nc
doubt, but 1t was only thumb after ALL
and how the fellow was bowling about
it. He was brave man or he wouldn't
have been where he could have lost
that thumb. But you would think it wa:
the only thumb in the whole United
States army and that no one else or
the skirmish line had been hit thai
morning. So the soldiers saw only
the funny side of the picture, and 1
perfect chorus of bowls, in vociferou
imitation OF the mans own walls
went shrieking up from the sarcastic
line of the men who were waiting
their turn to face death. In minut,
another soldier came walking bacl
from the skirmish line He was walk
ing slowly and steadily, never moal
fell from his compressed lips, though
they were whittier than his bronze'
face, and he held his hand against hi
uredSb no sliCuCc vi tliO uodtl
chamber fell upon the line in an in
stant as the figure OF the soldie
moved along tho road with the air o
conqueror. Half dozen men spranI
to his side. Tenderly they laid hin
down in the shadow OF great oak
bis lips parted to speak mes
sage TO some one a thousand mile
away, and the line was short one ma
for the coming assault He died of hi
hurt; but he died like king. oh
my boy! don't yell the lungs out c
you over mashed thumb, when onl
three files down the lines soldier So
lutes his captain before he faces abou
to 60 to the rear with death bullet i
his breast You can't help gettin
hurt. There isn't safe place in tn
whole line. There are cruel people /
the world who love to wound us; Their
are thoughtless, needless people VIII
don't think; there are people who den
care, and there are thick-skinned pee
pie. who are not easily hurt then
selves. and they think mankind is
thick-hided race; in fact the air
full OF darts and arrows and singin
bullets all the time, and it's danger
Gus TO be safe anywhere But whe
you do get hit-as hit you certainl
will be-don't "holler" any loude
than you have to. Grin and bear il
the best you may. There are som
people so badly hurt they must moar
do you forget your own hurt in lool
ing after them. -Burdette, in Brookly
Eagle.
Muslin frames for protecting youn
plants can be made at very little COS
A few melon plants, IL protected 4
night with such coverings, can be mad