Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-14

much grain VIII surreit the country. rarm-
ers 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 I'm the
southern part of Wisconsin they had q
hailstorm, and our business is as dull as it
ever was" You will find the same differ
ence in Judgment Of character. A man Of
good reputation is assaulted and charged
with some EVIL deed. Al the first story the
pessimist will believe in guilt 1.-THE papers
said 50, and that's enough. Down with
himp
oPTINlsT AND PEssIMIsT.
The optimist will says 81 don't believe a
word Of it. don't think that man that
has been rs useful and seemingly honest
for twenty years could have got off the
track like that. There are two sides to this
story, and l will wait to hear the other
side before ! condemn him" My nearer,
II you are by nature a pessimist, make a
special effort by the grace of God to extir-
pate the dolorous and the hypercritical
from your disposition. Believe nothing
against anybody until the wrong is estab-
lished by at least two witnesses of integ-
rity. And If guilt be proved, find out the
any.
And then commit to memory so that you
can quote for yourself and quote for others
that exquisite thirteenth chapter of First
Corinthians about charity that suffers
long and is kind, and hopeth all things
and endureth all things BY pen, by voice,
in public and in private, say all the good
about people you can think Of, and if there
be nothing good, then tighten the chain Of
muscle on the back end of your tongue,
and keep the ivory bars of teeth on the
lower jaw and the ivory bars of teeth on the
upper jaw locked and the gate of your lips
tightly closed and your tongue shut up.
What place Brooklyn would be to live
in, and all the other cities and neighbor-
hoods to live in, If charity dominated
What If all the young and old gossipers
were deadl The Lord hasten their funerals
What If tittle-tattle and whispering were
out of fashionl What If in cipherng out
the value of other peoples character, in
our moral arithmetic, we stuck to addition
instead of subtraction Kindness Let us
morning, noon and night pray for it until
we get 1t. When you can speak a good
word for some one speak it. If you can
conscientiously give letter Of commenda-
ton, give it. Watch for opportunities for
doing good fifty years after you are dead.
All my life has been affected by the let
ter of introduction that the Rev. DR.. Van
Vranken, of New Brunswick Theological
seminary, wrote for me, boy under him,
when ] was seeking settlement in which
to preach the Gospel. The letter gave me
my first pulpit. DR.. Van Vranken has
been dead more than thirty years, yet 4
feel the touch of that magnificent old pro-
fessor. Strange sensation was it when l
received kind message from Rev. Thomas
Guard, Of Baltimore, the great Methodist
orator, six weeks after his death. BY way
of the eternal worldP Oh, no. by way of
this world. ! did not meet the friend to
whom he gave the message until nearly
two months after Thomas Guard had as
cended. So you can start word about
some one that will be on its travels and
vigorous long after the funeral psalm has
been sung at your obsequies. Kindnessl
Why, If fifty men all aglow with it should
walk through the lost world methinks
they would almost abolish perdition.
TOUCHING ANECDOTE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. |
Furthermore, there is kindness of action.
That is what Joseph showed to his out
rageous brothers. That is what David |
showed to Mephibosheth for his father
Jonathan's sake That is what Onesiphor- |
us showed to Paul in the Roman penten-
tiary. That Is what William Cowper |
recognized when he said he would not |
trust man who would with his foot need |
lessly crush Il worm. That is what our |
assassinated President Lincoln demon
strated when his private secretary found |
him In the Capitol grounds trying to get a !
bird back to the nest from which it had |
fallen, and which quality the illustrious |
man exhibited years before, when having |
with some lawyers in the carriage on the |
way to court passed on the road swine |
fast in the mre, after awhile cried to his |
horses, "Hol" and said to the gentlemen,
~ must go back and help that hog out of
the mire." And he did go back and put
on solid ground that most uninteresting |
quadruped.
That was the spirit that was manifested |
by my departed friend, Honorable Alexan,
der II. Stephens, of Georgia land lovelier
man never exchanged earth for heaven), |
when at 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 answered,
mo could not look at the poor thing
without crying" That is tho spirit that
Grant showed when at the surrender at
AppomattoX he said to General 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
winter, let each Confederate who can claim
n 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
rs at the first call.
Suppose all this assemblage, and all to
whom these words shall come by printers
Type should resolve to make kindness an
overarchng, undergirding and all peryad-
ing principle of their life, and then carry
out the resolution-why, in six months the
whole earth would feel it, People would
say; .,.,
that the world Is getting to be better
place to live in. Why, life after all is
worth living. Why, there is Shylock, my
ieighbor, has Withdrawn his lawsuit of
foreclosure against that man, and because
ne has had so much sickness in his family
ne is going to have the house for one year
'ent free There is an old lawyer in that
7oung lawyers Office, and do you know
what he has gone in there forP Why, he
S helping fix up a case which is too big for
Ine young man to handle, and the white
haired attorney is hunting up previous de-
cisions and making out n brief for the boy.
Down at the bank | heard yesterday a
note was due, and the young merchant
could not meet it, and an old merchant
'cnt in and got for him three months ex-
eusion, which for the young merchant is