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

| AOO1. ne most eXhauSt1nE ana un
healthy and ruinous feeling on earth
2 revengeful spirit or retaliating spirit
The king of Prussia had presented t.
him by the empress of Russia the roo
Of rare flower, and it was put in thu
royal gardens on an island and the
head gardener, Herr Fintelmann, wa
told to watch it. And one day it pu
forth its glory. Three days of every
week the people were admitted to these
gardens, and young man, probably
not realizing what wrong thing hi
was doing. plrcked this flower and put
It In his button-hole, and the gardener
arrested him as he was crossing at the
ferry, and asked the king to throw
open no more his gardens to the public
The king replied: "Shall deny to the
thousands of good people of my
country the privilege of seeing this
garden because one visitor has done
wrong? No, let them come and see
the beautiful grounds" And when the
gardener wished to give the king the
name of the offender who had taken
the royal flower, he said: mo, my
memory is very tenacious, and do not
want to have in my mind the name of
the offender, lest it should hinder me
granting him favor some other time. y
Now, want you to know that kind
ness is royal flower, and blessed be
God, the King of mercy and grace, that
by divine gift and, not by purloining,
we may pluck this royal flower and
not wear it on the outside of our
nature, but wear it in our soul and
wear it forever, its radiance and aroma
not more wonderful for time than
wonderful for eternity.
Still further, I must speak of kind
ness Of word. When you meet any one
do you say pleasant thing or an I'M
pleasant? Do you tell him of agreeable
things you have heard about him, or
the disagreeble? When he leaves you,
does he feel better or does he feel
worse? 0, the power of the tongue for
the production of happiness or misery!
One would think from the way the
tongue is Gagged in we might take the
hint that it has dangerous power.
There are those if they know a good
thing about you and bad thing will
mention the bad thing and act as though
they had never heard the good thing.
Oh, say the cordial thing! Say the
useful thing! Say the hospitable thing
Say the helpful thing! Say the Christ
like thing! Say the kind thing! 1 ad-
NIT that this is easier for some temper
aments than for others Some are born
pessimists, and some are born optimists,
and that demonstrates itself all through
everything. 1t is cloudy morning.
You meet a pessimist and you say:
What weather to-day?" He answers,
ITS going to storm" and umbrella
under arm and a waterproof overcoat
show that he is honest in that utter
ance. On the same block, a minute
after, you meet an optimist and you say:
What weather to-day?" Good wealth
er; this is only fog and will soon scat
ter" The absence of umbrella and alb
sence Of waterproof overcoat show it is
an honest utterance. On your way at
noon to luncheon you meet an optimist
and you say: "What do you
think Of the commercial prospects?"
and he says, glorious. Great crops
must bring great business. We are
going to have such an autumn and
winter Of prosperity as we have
never seen" On your way back to
your store you meet pessimistic mer-
chant what do you think of the COM
mercial prospects," you ask. And he
answers: well, / don't know. So
much grain will surfeit the country.
Farmers have more bushels but less
prices, and the grain gamblers will get
their fist in. There is the Mckinley
bill; and the hay crop is short in some
places. and in the southern part of Wis
consin they had hailstorm and our
business is as dull as it ever was" You
will find the same difference in iudg-
ment of character A man of good
reputation is assaulted and charged with
some evil deed. At the first story the
3essimist will believe in guilt "The
papers said SO, and that's enough
Down with him" The optimist will
Jay: II don't believe a word of it.
lon't think that a man that has been as
Useful and as seemingly honest for
wenty years could have got off the
rack like that. There are two sides to
his story and will wait to hear the
,ther side before condemn him"
My nearer, if you are by nature a
,essimist, make special effort by the
race of God to extirpate the dolorous |
nd the hypercritical from your dispo-
ition. Believe nothing against any
'ody until the wrong is established by |
t least two witnesses of integrity. |
md if guilt be proven, find out the ex-
circumstances, if there are
ny. And then commit to memory so
hat you can quote for yourself and |
uote for others that exquisite thir- |
zenith chapter of First Corinthians
bout charity that suffers long and is
ind, and hopeth all things, and en-
ureth all things BY pen, by voice, in
ublic and in private, say all the good
bout people you can think of.
Strange sensation was it when / re-
eived a kind message from Rev.
homas Guard. of Baltimore, the great
orator, six weeks after his
cath. By way of the eternal world?
, no, by way of this world. l did not