The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-25
A MAN OF HONOR.
What are His Necessary Quail.
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More Priceless Than Gold Is Personal
Honor-It VIII Stand You in Need
When all Else Fails-Cul-
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s'Carry your honor high, this year,
my boy"
| was standing at a railway depot in
Boston, Near me was an elderly man,
in a rather shabby yet carefully kept
buffalo overcoat, such at we used to
see in Vermont twenty years ago. The
old gentleman was parting hands with
his son, who evidently, was a city
dweller, probably a young and strug-
Cling business man here in our town;
and l should not be surprised if even
yet he had some of the fathers farm
money as the nest egg of his capital.
''You amt much on r'ligion yet, Tom.
Wish you were. But even r'ligion amt
of much account 'nless it's made a Teller
a man Of honor. Keep it up high out
% the dust. Be mighty sensitive about
it. Be quick as scat about your honor
when it's involved. Il II pull you
Through this world any how. That's
the best [ can say for your new year.
Goodbye. God bless your
II among the hills of Vermont,
whittier perhaps, to cheer a winter S
Preside, that son sends the Ledger, that
honest, ancient yeoman of honor's guard
should chance to read these lines, do
him courtesy, and assure him that /
could not help it. His sermon should
be read by thousands. The preaching
farmers name know not. God knows,
and will give him all the credit, when
the great harvest is brought in, for any
added good his golden homily may do
hereby.
A delicate sense of personal honor
is certainly rare, if you take men by
the thousands. Wordsworth SAYS
tbs the finest sense Of justice known
TO man." 1t contemplates both your
self and others, and one may be the
soul of honor as regards the rights of
others, an upright agent, a keeper of
promises to the very letter, alive to
every detail Of the obligation imposed
by a contract, and yet not keenly SEN
sitive as to what is due him. The
man of honor feels the loftiest self
respect ever upbearing him. He is
not conceited, but he does say to him
self: tsMy muscles are not hemp, they
are silk. I can not carry a disgraceful
load. My soul is not of red earth, but
Of the texture Of the light of day. !
Can not forget who I am son Of a good
father, grandson OF a fair lineage. .
He thinks on his hopes, and he had
rather die than befoul them; on his
personal history thus far, and it seems
like suffocation to give it the lie now
by an i'll matching deed. He says: eff
were to do this base thing suggested
TO me, | might or might not be afraid
ito confront other men, but should be
afraid of my own mirror as dressed
the next morning.
"a man of honor is not easy to de-
fine. Words help US, but they elude
us; and yet we insist that we have the
idea. We say: He is d type OF manly
virtue. HE is of strict integrity
Such a person is ..of high moral worth .
These titles are useful; to repeat any
of them often during business day is
"a sort Of strange tonic. Try it, my
young reader. As you leave your door-
step in the morning tomorrow, take
any one of the above definitions on
your minds tongue, repeating it often
60 yourself. There is a charm, a prac.
teal spell for good, mean, cast over
the mind by such words as probity,
good faith, principle, man of his
word, a sterling fellow, the soul Of rec
titude. Something is gained by famil.
iarzing ones self with the very termin.
Dlogy of honor. One can hardly find
a sharper rebulSe than some Of these
descriptions made a predicate to his
own name. Am / a high minded man:
Am chivalrous-sp spirited to resent {
mean, craven selfish or lecherous sug
.gestionp Am unbrlbed, always, thus
far, unbought and incorruptiblep II
fact, we never get on very far in the
study Of any idealism without the USE
sof these old sign-boards by which man
kind have found their way in time:
past. a young person is to be con
graduated who knows the names O
things. A time-server, a fortune-hun
ter, mercenary sneak, a back bitter, {
BLACKBOARD, a slippery Dick, a para
site, an migrate, a sniveller, a fawnel
for faVors; these are like warning no
tees posted on a country highway
Dangerous. =
a world of trash goes under the name
of honor. Men boast themselves d
honor in the face Of the lie direct, ye
\ who are foul with lust. Men tip the