Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-09-24

the l~uEg man 70 handle, anu the Nhlte T
haired attorney is hunting up previous de |
cisions and making out a brief for the boy. |
Down at the bank | heard yesterday a
note was due, and the young merchant |
could not meet IL, and an old merchant
went in and got for him three months ex
tension, which for the young merchant is
the difference between bankruptcy and
success in business. And in our street is
an artist who had a fine picture Of the
Rapids of Niagara and he could not sell it,
and his family were suffering, and they
themselves were in the rapids; and a lady
heard of it and said, L do not need the
picture, but for the ercouragement of art
and helping you out Of your distress will
take it, and on the drawing room wall are
the Rapids of Niagara
THE AGE OF HELPFULNEss.
do you know that strange thing has
taken place in the pulpit and all the old
ministers are helping the young ministers,
and all the cid doctors are helping the
young doctors, and the farmers are assist
ingeach other in gathering the harvest,
and for that farmer who Is sick the neigh
bors have made 'bee,' as they call it, and
they have all turned in to help him get his
crops into the garnerf And they tell me
that the older and more skillful reporters
who have permanent positions on papers
are helping the young fellows who are just
beginning to try and don't know exactly
how to do it. And after a few erasures
and interpretations on the reporters pad
I they say: Now here is readable account
of that tragedy; hand it in and l am sure
the managing editor will take it.
rl DO iY,rr Of old
man whose three children were in hot de-
bate as to who should take care of him in
his declining days. The oldest son declared
| 1t was his right because he was the oldest,
and the youngest son said it was his right
because he was the youngest, and Mary
said it was her right because she better
understood fathers vertigo and rheuma-
/ tism and poor spells and knew better how
to nurse him, and the only way the diff
Guilty could be settled was by the old mans
! promise that he would divide the year into
three parts, and spend third Of his time
/ with each one of them.
"And neighboring stores in the same line
of goods on the same block are acting kind
ly to each other, and when one is little
short of certain kind Of goods his neigh
Dor says, 4 will help you until you can re-
plenish your shelves 1t seems to me that
those words of Isaiah are being fulfilled
when he says, THE carpenter encouraged
the goldsmith and he that smooths with
the hammer, him that smote the anvil,
saying 1t is ready for the soldering
What is the matteri It seems to me our
old world is picking up Why, the mil
lennium must be coming in. Kindness has
! gotten the victory"
My hearers, you know and l know we
are far from that state Of things. But why
not inaugurate new dispensation Of ge-
niality five cannot yet have millennium
on large scale, let us have 1t on a small
scale, and under our own vestments Kind
nessl II this world is ever brought to God
that is the thing that will do it. You can
not fret the world up although you may
fret the world down. You cannot scold it
into excellence or reformation or godliness
FABLE OF THE WINDS.
The east wind and the west wind were
one day talking with each other, and the
east wind said to the west wind: Don't
you wish you had my powerf Why, when
start they hail me by storm signals all
along the coast. | can twist off ships
mast as easily as a cows hoof cracks an
alder. With one sweep Of my wing have
strewn the coast from Newfoundland to
, Key West with parted ship timber. | can
lift and have lifted the Atlantic ocean.
; am the terror of all invalidism, and to flght
me back forests must be cut down fol
fires, and the mines Of continents arr
called on to feed the furnaces. Under my
breath the nations crouch into sepulchres
: Don't you wish you had my power" sale
: the east wind.
. The west wind made no answer, bu
y :, started on it's mission, coming somewhere
out of the rosy bowers of the sky, and al
the rivers and lakes and seas smiled at it,
= coming The gardens bloomed, and thu
orchards ripened, and the wheat field
turned their silver into gold, and healtl
! clapped its hands, and JOY shouted from
: the hill tops, and the nations lifted theil
;, foreheads into the light, and the earth hat
i doxology for the sky, and the sky an an
= them for the earth, and the warmth ant
- the sparkle, and the gladness, and the foil
age, and the flowers, and the fruits, AM
t. the beauty, and the life, were the only an
swer the west wind made to the insolenc
! of the east winds Interrogation.
:. Kindness to alll Surely it ought not t.
| u
towering above the centuries such an ex
: ample that one glimpse ought to melt ant
=. transform all nations. Kindness brough
i our Lord from heaven. Kindness to mis-
creants, kindness to prosecutors, kindnes
: to the crippled and the blind, and the cat
! aleptic, and the leprous. and the dropsical
: and the demoniacal characterized him al
;, the way, and on the cross, kindness to tn
= = bandits suffering on the side of him, an
= kindness to the executioners while ye
. they pushed the spear, and hammered tn
: spikes and howled the blasphemies.
y y All the stories of the John Towards an
, - the Florence Nightingales and the Grac
:; Darlings and the Ida Lewises pale befor
- ;. this transcendant example of him who's
~ birth and life and death are the creates
= story that the world ever heard, and th
i, theme of the mightiest hosanna that heave
- ever lifted Yea, the very kindness 'ths
: allowed both hands to be nailed to the hor
I zontal timber of the cross with that crue
= thumpl thumpi now stretches down frol
le the skies those same hands filled with bali
p for all our wounds, forgiveness for all OF
= crimes rescue for all our serfdoms.
=, And while we take this matchless kim
= ness from God, may it be found that "
:. ~ have uttered our last bitter word, write
= our last cutting paragraph, done our las
10 retalatory action, felt our last revengefl
=. heart throb And it would not be ba
- epitaph for any of us If by the grace
y God from this time forth we lived sue
u ), benefcent lives that the tombstone's chis
:, could appropriately cut upon the plai
- il