The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-01

cattle and the Gordon settlers. and the high
stepping steeds paving and neghing,
the only language they can speak, asking
for harness or saddle, and a short turn
down the road. Then We 60 back to the
house, and you get me in the right light
and show me the Kensetts and the Beers
tadts on the wall, and take me into the
music room, and show me the bird cages,
the canaries IN the bay window answering
the robins in the tree tops. Thank you!
never eniOved 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 a1d
fountainsl No. We say come along and
lot me show you that mans character.
Ilere is a green scummed frog pond, and
there's a filthy cellar and | guess under
that hedge there must be a black snake.
Come and let US for an hour or two regale
ourselves with tho nuisances. Oh, my
friends, better cover up the faults and eXtOl
the virtues, and this habit once established
81 universal friendhness will become as
easy as il is this morning for a syringa to
flood the air with swee ness, as easy as 1t
will be further on in the season for a quail
10 whistle up from the grass. When
we hear something bad about some
body whom we always supposed
10 be good. take out your lead pencil and
say: Let me seel Before l accept that
l2aleful story against that mans character,
I will take of from it = per cent. for the
habit of exaggeration which belongs tokthe
,nan who first told the story; then | will
take off % per cent for the additions which
l.he spirit of gossip in every community has
put upon the original story; then | will
take OF 25 per cent. from the fact that the
man may have been put into circumstances
of overDowering temptation. So | have
taken off IS per cent. But / have not heard
bis side of the story at all and for that
reason l take off the remaining % per cent"
Excuse me, sir, don't believe a word of it.
But here comes in detective maxim, s
often quoted: Where thore is so much
smoke there must be some fire" Look at
I'LL the smoke for years around Jenner, the
introducer Of vaccination; and the smoke
around Columbus, discoverer; and the
smoke around Martin Luther, and Savona-
Iola, and Calico, and Paul, and John, and
Christ, and tell me where was the fires That
is one of the satanic arts to make smoke
without fire. SANDER like the world, may
be made out of nothing Ii the Christian,
fair minded, comm0n-sensical spirit in re-
gard TO Others predOminated il the world
we should have the millennium in about six
weeks, for would not that be lamb and lion
cow and leopard lying down togetheri
Nothing but the grace of God can ever put
us into such n habit Of mind and heart as
direction. This is the way the world talks:
put my name on the back of a mansnOte
and had TO pay it, and | will never again
put my name on the back of any mans
note. | gave a beggar ten cents, and five
minutes after | saw hi n entering a liquor
store to spend il. ! viii never again give a
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 Gus
toners | will never again help n young
man start IN business. | trusted in what
my neighbor promised to do, and he broke
his word, and tho Psalmist was right before
he corrected himself, for ''all men are
liars" So men become suspicious and sat
urnine ard selfish ,..and at every additional
wrong done them they put another layer
on the wall of their exclusiveness, and an
other 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 BETRAYED, and
higher goes the wall, and faster goes
another bolt, not realizing that " bile they
lock others out, they lock themselves in;
and some dav they wake up to find them
selves imprisoned in a dastardly habit. No
friends 10 Others others are no friends TO
them There is an island half way between
England Scotland and Ireland, called the
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 mainland of the worlds sympathies, he
is deSpicable, and all around him is an
Atlantic ocean of selfshness. Behold that
Isle of Mani
Now, supposing that you have, by
divine regeneration, got right toward God
nd hY,v,n INIT stv,A rel,,N
practice my text "a man that hath
friends must show himself friendly" Full
fill this by all forms Of appropriate saluta-
tion. Have you noticed that the head is
so poised that the easiest thing on earth is
to give nod of recognitionl To swing the
head from side to side, as when it is wagged
in derision, is unnatural and unpleasant
to throw it back, invites vertigo; but to
drop the chin in greeting is accompanied
with so little exertion that all
day long and every day you might
practice 1T without the least semhlance of
fatigue. So, also, tie structure of the hand
indicates handshaking; 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 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 man or woman does
well, tell him so, tell her so. If YOU meet
some one who is improved in health, and it
is demonstrated in girth and color, say:
How well you look!N But if, on the other
hand, under the wear and tear of life. he
appears pale and exhausted, do not intro
duce sanitary subjects, or say anything at
all about physical conditions In the ca q
OF improved health, you have by your
words given another impulse toward the
robust and the jocund; while in the case
of the failing health you have arrested the
decline by your silence by viii ch he con
cludss: IF | were really SO badly off he
would have said something about it, We are
all, especially those Of nervous tempera-
ment, susceptible to kind words a d dis
coUraging words. Form conspiracy
against US, and let ten men meet us 81
certain points on our way over to business
and let each one say: "How sick YOU look.n
though we should start out well, after meet
ing the first and hearing his depressing
salute, we would begin TO examine our
symptoms. After NEE ing the second
gloomy accoSting, we would conclude we do
not feel quite as well as usual After meet
ing the third, our sensations would be
dreadful, and after meeti O the fourth nm