The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-09-17

lawyers in the carriage on the way tt
court passed on the road a swine fas
in the mire, after awhile cried to hi,
horses "Hor' and said to the gentlemen
ST must go back and help that hog out
of the mire." And he did go back and
put on solid ground that most uninter
esting quadruped That was the spirit
that was manifested by my departed
| friend, Hon. Alexander FL. Stephens, OF
Georgia, land lovelier man never ex.
changed earth for Heaven), when al
Washington. A senator's wife who
told my wife of the circumstances said
to him: "Mr. Stephens, come and see
my dead canary bird" And he an
swered: mo, could not look at the
poor thing without crying" That is
the spirit that Grant showed when at
the surrender at Appomatox he said to
Gen. Lee: "As many of your soldiers
are farmers and will need the horses
and mules to raise the crops to keep
their families from suffering next win
ter let each confederate who can claim
horse or a mule take it along with
him."
That is the spirit which last night
ten thousand mothers showed to their
sick children, coming to give the drink
at the twentieth call as cheerfully and
as tenderly as at the first call. Suppose
all this assem- blage, and all to whom
these words shall come by printers
type, should resolve to make kindness
an overarching, undergirding and all
pervading principle of their life, and
then carry out the resolution, why, in
six months the whole earth would feel
it. People would say: What is the
matter? It seems to me that the world
is getting to be better place to live in.
Why, life after all is worth living.
Why, there is Shylock, my neighbor,
has withdrawn his lawsuit of fore
closure against that man, and because
he has had so much sickness in his
family he is going to have the house
for one year rent free. There is an old
lawyer in that young lawyers Office,
and do you know what he has gone in
there for? Why, he is helping fix up
a case which is too big for the young
man to handle, and the white
haired attorney is hunting up pre-
vious decisions and making out
brief for the boy. Down at the
bank heard yesterday note was due
and the young merchant could not meet
it. and an old merchant went in and
got for him three months extension.
which for the young merchant is the
difference between bankruptcy and
success in business. And in our street
is an artist who had fine picture of
the rapids of Niagara, and he could not
sell it, and his family were suffering,
and they were themselves in the rapids,
and a lady heard of it and said: II do
not need the picture, but for the encour-
agement of art and helping you out of
your distress l will take it, and on the
drawing room wall are the rapids of
Niagara. Do you know that a strange
thing has taken place in the pulpit and
all the old ministers are helping the
young ministers, and all the old doctors
are helping the young doctors, and the
farmers are assisting each other in
gathering the harvest, and for that
farmer who is sick the neighb ors have
made bee as they call it, and they
have all turned in to help him get his
crops into the garner.
'And they tell me that the older and
more sl1illful reporters who have per-
manent positions on papers are helping
the young fellows who are just be-
ginning to try and don't know exactly
how to do it. And heard this morning
0F II
were in hot debate as to who should
take care of him in his declining days.
The oldest son declared it was his
right because he was the oldest, and
the youngest son said it was his right
because hewas the Youngest, and Mary
said it was her right because she better
fathers vertigo, and rheu-
and poor spells, and
knew better how to nurse him,
and the only way the difficulty could
be settled was by the old mans
promise that he will divide the year
into three parts, and spend third of |
his time with each of them. And |
stores in the same line of |
FOODS on the same block are acting |
kindly to each other. 1t seems to me |
hat those words of Isaiah are being |
fulfilled when he said: The carpenter
encouraged the goldsmith, and he that |
,moothes with the hammer, him that |
'mote the anvil, saying, it is ready for
he soldering What is the matter? |
t seems to me our old world is picking
lp Why, the millennium must be com
ng in. Kindness has gotten the
'ictory."
My hearers, you know and | know
We are far from that state of things.
But why not inaugurate new dispen-
alton of geniality.
Kindness to all! Surely it ought not
o be difficult grace to culture when
We see towering above the centuries
uch an example that one glimpse of it
'ught to melt and transform all ma
ions. Kindness brought our Lord
rom Heaven. Kindness to miscreants,
,indness to prosecutors, kindness to
he crippled and the blind and the cata-
optic and the leprous and the dropsical,
nd the demoniacal characterized Him
ii the way, and on the cross, kindness
o the bandits suffering on the side of