Iron County register., 1890-06-05
ERRONEOUS JUDGMENTS
How to Look at the Character of Oul
Friends and Associates.

Not one man in ten thousand sees
those with whom he associates as they
really are. If the prayer of Burns
were granted and we could all see our
selves as others see us, our self-esti-
mates would IN all proba ability be much
more erroneous than they are now.
The truth is that we regard ca n other
through a variety of lenses, no one of
which is correct Passion and prejU-
dice, love and hate. benevolence and
envy spectacle our eyes and utterly pre-
vent us from observing accurately.
Many whom we deem the porcelain OF
human clay or mere pot metal, and u
still greater number of those we put
down in our ''black books" are no fur
ther off from Heaven, and perchance
little nearer, than the censors
who condemn them. We habitual.
ly undervalue or Overvalue each
other; and in estimating char
acter, the shrewdeSt of US only now
and then make true appraisal of the
virtues and defects of even our closest
intimates. If we all saw ourselves as
the world sees us, multitudes would de-
spise themselves without sufficient
cause, and not few be puffed up with
pride for which there would be no
honest foundation.
1t is not just or fair to look at char
acter from a standpoint of ones own
selection. a mans profile may be un-
prepossessing. and yet his full face
agreeable. We once saw young man,
whose timidity was standing joke
with his companions, leap into the Hud-
I'd ho, l.,
his tormentors stood panie-stricken on
the bank. The merchant who gives curt
answers in his counting-room may be a
tender husband and father and a kind
helper of the desolate and oppressed.
On the other hand, your good-humored
person, who is all smiles and sunshine
in public, may carry something as hard
as the neither milestone in the place
where his heart ought to be. Such anom-
allies are common. There is this COM
fort, however, for those whose misiudg-
ments of their fellow-mortals lean to
the kindly side-such mistakes go to
their credit in the great account.
He who thinks better of his neigh bors
than they deserve is seldom bad man,
for the standard by which his Judgment
is guided is the goodness of his own
heart. 1t is only the base who believe
all men base-or, in other words, like
themselves. Few, however, are all evil.
Public men are seldom or never fairly
iudged-at least while living. However
pure, they can not escape calumny.
However corrupt, they are sure to find
eulogists. History may do them JUS
tice; but they rarely get it while alive,
fro,, friends foes N. Y.
Ledger.
1t is estimated that, although there
are over 1OO 900 telephone talks day
in the city of New York, there are prob
ABLY 1000, 900 people living there who
have never yet talked over telephone.
The long-distance telephone service has
been made very efficient, as may be
gathered from the fact that the roar of
Niagara Falls can now be distinctly
heard in the city over its lines.
Opticians and oculists say that bel
fry and steeple clocks are absolutely
useless to at least third of those for
whose benefit they are set up. In
many instances such defect of the eyes
is unsuspected in children, and proba-
blv hundreds of children earn at school
regulations for stupidity when not the
in tellect but the eye is at fault.
"A Garfield (Ore.) citizen has learned
that the squirrels that are shot and left
on the ground are devoured by their fell
lows, and he has turned the knowledge
To account. When he kills squirrel
he cuts a hole in it and puts in strych-
nine. and in this way has killed large
number of the pests