The Russellville Democrat., 1889-07-11

taken of seventy-five per cent But l have not heard his side of the story at l all, and for that reason I take of tue re- maining twenty-five per ceat.D Excuse
 me, sir, don't believe a word of it. | But here comes in defective maxim so often quoted; "Bhere there is so much smoke there must be some fire. J ! Look at all the smoke for years around Jenner, the introducer of vaccination; and the smoke around Columbus. the 1 discoyerer; and the smoke around Martin 1 Luther, and Savonarola, and Calico, and | Paul, and John, and Christ, and tell me | where was the fireg Sander like the | world, may be made ont of nothing. If ! the Christian, fair minded, common | sensieal spirit in regard to otbers 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 togethers Noth- | ing but the grace of God can ever put us ! into such 0 habit of mind aud heart as that The whole tendency is in the oppo- l site direction. This is the way the ] world talks: I put my name on the back of mans note and had t3 pay it, and l 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 entering liquor store to spend it. will never again give a cent to Q bcggar.
 l helped that young man start in busf-
 ness, and lo, after awhile, he came and opened a store almost next to me, and stole my customers. l will never again
 help young man start in business.
 trusted in what my neighbor promised to d3 and he broke his word, and the Psalm
 naF Ia for 'all men are liars"
 So men become suspicious and saturn
 inc and selfish, and at every additional
 wrong done them they put mother layer
 on the wall of their exelusiYeness, 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 tue walI 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 themselves imprisoned in a dastardly habit No friends to others, others are no friends 10 them. There is 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 a man becomes insular in his dis
 position, and cuts himself of from the main land of the worlds sympathies, he is despicable, and all aroand him is au
 Atlantic ocean of selishness. Behold that Isle ot Man.
 Now, supposing that you have, by a 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 salutadOns. Have you noticed that the head is so poised that the easiest thing on earth is to give a nod of recognitionf To swing the head from side t0 side, as when it is wagged in derision, is un- natural 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 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 ont, but so made that the fingers can turn in as in elasping hands; and the thumb divided from and set aloof from the fingers. so that while the fingers take your neighbours hand on one side, the thumb takes II on the other, and, pressed together, all the faculties of the hand give emphasis t0 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 CT woman does fall 1f 4a1f hav. Fr-.r some one who is improved in health, and it is demonstrated in mirth 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 introduce sa1itary subjects. or say any thing at all about physical condi- tions. In the case of improved health, you have by your words given another impulse towards the robust and the jo- cund; while in the case of the failing health you have arrested the decline by your silence, by which he concludes: If l were really so bad off, he would have said something about it."
 We are all, especially those of nerv- ous temperament susceptible 10 kind words and discouraging words. Form conspiracy against us, and let ten men meet us at certain points on our way 10 business, and let each one say: "How sick you look" though we should start out well, after meeting the first and hear ing his depressing salute, We would be- gin 10 examine our symptoms. After meeting the second gloomy accosting, we would conclude we did not feel quite as well as usual. After meeting the third, our sensations would be dreadful; and after meeting the fourth, unless We ex- pected a conspiracy. we would go home and go to bed. and the other six pes simists would be useless surplus Of dis cOura cement. My dear sir, my dear madan, what do you mean by going about this world with disheartenments? Is not the supply of gloom, and troub le, and misfortune enough tO meet the de- mand, without your running factory of pins and spikes; Why should y0n 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 a plant black or blue.
 never saw a black flower, and there's only here and there a blue bell or a yio- let; but the blue is for the most part re- served for the sky. and We have to look up 10 see that, and when we look up no color can do us harm. Why not plant along the paths of others the brightnesses instead of the cloomsY Do not prophecy misfortune. + you must be O prophet at all be an Ezekiel, and not a Jeremiah. In ancient times prophets who foretold evil were doing right for they were divinely directed; but tho prophets Of evil in our time are generally false prophets. Some of our weather wise people are prophecy ing that we shall have a summer of unparalleled scorch. It will not be that at all l think we are going to have a summer of great harvest and universal health; at agy rate know as much about it as they do. Last fall all the weather prophets agreed in saying we should have a winter of Xtraosdiuary severity, biizzards on the heels of blizzard. It was