Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-07-07


or disappointed, or betrayed, and
higher goes the wall and faster goes an
other bolt not realizing that while they
lock others out, they lock themselves
in; and some day they wake up to find
themselves imprisoned in dastardly
habit. No friends TO others, others are
no friends 10 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 II,
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 main land Of the worlds
sympathies, he is despicable, and all
around him is an Atlantic ocean Of
selfishness. Behold that Isle Of Mani
Now, supposing that you have, by
divine regeneration get rghttoward
/ God and humanity, and you start out
| 10 practice my text, ~ man that hath
friends must show himself friendly"
Fulfill this by all forms Of appropri-
ate salutation. Have you noticed that
the head is so poised that the easiest
/ thing Oh earth is TO CIV, "A nod OF rec
ognitionl To swing lie head from
side TO side, as when il IS wagged in
derision, is unnatural ant unpleasant;
10 throw il back, invites vertigo; but
TO drop the chin in greeting is accom-
panied with so little exeItion that all
day long and every day you might
practice il without the east sem
blance of fatigue. So. also. the
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 sci aloof from the
fingers, so that while the fingers take
your neighbors hand on one side, the
thumb takes il on the other, and,
pressed together, all the faculties OF
the hand give emphasis TO the saluta-
ton. Five sermons in every healthy
hand urge us TO handshaking.
BE KIND TO EVERYBODY.
Besides this, every day when you
start out, load yourself up with kind
thoughts, kind words, kind express
sions and kind greetings. When a
man or woman does well, tell him so,
tell her SO. II you meet some one who
is improved in health, and it is de-
monstrated in girth and color, say:
How well you lookl' But if on the
other hand, under the wear and tear
Of life he appears pale and exhausted,
do not introduce sanitary subjects, or
say anything at all about physical
conditions. In the case Of improved
health, you have by your words given
another impulse towards the robust
and the jocund; while in the case
of the failing health you have ar
rested the decline by your silence,
by which he concludes: IF | were
really so badly off, he would have
said something about it, We are all,
especially those of a nervous tempera-
ment, susceptible 10 kind words and
discouraging words. Form a con-
spiracy against us, and let ten men
meet us at certain points on our way
over TO business, and let each one say:
How sick you look" though we
should start out well, after meeting
the first and hearing his depressing
salute, we would begin to 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 expected con-
spiracy, we would 90 home and go to
bed, and the other six pessimists would
be a useless surplus of discourage
ment. Ny dear sir my dear madam,
what do you mean by going about this
world with disheartenmentsl Is not
the supply Of gloom and trouble and
misfortune enough 10 meet the de-
mand without your running a factory
of pins and spikesl Why should YOU
plant black and blue in the world
when God SO seldom plants themi
Plenty Of scarlet colors, plenty Of vel
low, plenty Of green. plenty of pink,
but very seldom a plant black or blue.
| never saw black flower. and there's
only here and there a blue bell or a
violet; but the blue is for the most part
reserved 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
brlghtncSses instead of the gloomsl
Do not prophesy misfortune. II you
must be a prophet at all be an Ezekiel.
and not jeremiah. In ancient
times prophets who foretold evil were
doing right, for they were divine
ly directed; but the prophets of
evil in our time are generally
false prophets. Some Of our weather
wise people are prophesying we shall
haveR summer of unparalleled scorch.
Ii will not be that at all. think we
are going 10 have n summer Of great
harvest and universal health: at any
rate know as much about as they do.
Last fall all the weather prophets
agreed in saying we should have
winter Of extraordinary severity, bliz-
zard on The heels Of blizzard. II was
the mildeSt winter ever remember 10
have passed Indeed. the autumn and
the spring almost showed winter out
of the procession. Real troubles have
no heralds running ahead of their
somber chariots, and no one las any
authority in our time 10 announce
their coming. Load yourself up with
helpful words and deeds The hymn
once sung in our churches is unfit 10
be sung, for il says
We should suspect some danger near
Where we possess delight ~
In other words. manage 10 keep
miserable all the time. Tho old song