The Russellville Democrat., 1890-04-03
 WHAT SYMPATHY IS.
The Grandest Emotion and Yet tho Or
 Least Understood.

The Grandest Emotion and Yet the One
 Least Understood.
 Sympathy is one of the divine gifts to the human soul; ono of the gifts that grows richer by the dispensing. Per haps of all the emotions that move the soul, sympathy is the one least under stood. We seem to think, many of us, that sympathy is a matter of tears and signs, of frantic hand-clasps and super lative expression. We term the woman who is moved to tears by tale of woe, by the history of an incident beyond the reach of remedy, a woman of sympathy. This condition is state of nervous dis ease that should be treated by physi- clan who administers medicine with knowledge of psychology. Sympathy is not water-eure. It is strong, active, fofceful element in soul power. It is not confined to shadows; it works ben eficently in the sunlight It meets the face reflecting great inward joy, and gives to it added brightness be- cause of soul set aflame by the light of another. It stretches out guiding hand to soul groping in thousand perplexities, trying to find it's way, to get it's bearings, in the maze that in wolves it. It helps the sorrowing, not by adding tears, but by finding new in terests. Is there condition in life where this divine gift can not work miracles? How often it's magic reveals to those who have before been strangers the inner light that is the ego, the world will never know. We gladly give our selves to the people in tatters, and spend hours of thoughtin devising bath ing facilities for the great unwashed, while we do not think to extend the hand of fellowship to the woman whose surroundings denote pos sessions of material things. As though the soul were clothed and fed with vel vets, and fruits served out of season The pity of itl What is fellowship with our kind? It is seeing beneath the sur face, it is finding the ego behind the mask which the world calls face We know we live two lives-one the world sees, and the other life revealed only to love, which is the essense of sympa- thy; and to those who see behind the mask we give the right of sympathy 
 weep with us, the right to point to us pathway where we see no outlook. Sym pathy is not one-sided-an emotion that moves but one. It is thought only until moved to action. The river grows richer who gives in love, and the gift is not aims. Aims are the coins of duty, sympathy is the coin of love. It circulates in all classes; it does not shut out the possessors of wealth, for it sees, it feels, that there are things" that can not be deposited in safe deposit vaults Every friend who finds us, every friend we find, makes this world new heaven. Is not this wealth. this joy, worth striving after2 For does not friends sympathy make our weakness strength7 Does not sympathy double our joys, and send a gleam from Heaven into our deepes | sorrow? That which we receive is ours to give. Life grows deeper, fuller, not as we shut the world out, but as VIC open our hearts to receive tho best in it, give the best in ourselves. Christian Union.
 Travellers in Spain are often aston- ished at the snortness of the Spanish cigarette. Tho smoker never seems to enjoy the luxury until the fire seems to burn his lips or singe his mustache, Frequently Spaniard is to be met who win completely exhaust his cigarette in