The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-09-18


succeeded. but there are a few EaliG-
nants whom I am get pursuing, and
shall not be content until have in
some wise helped them or benefited
them or blessed them. Let US ali pray
for this spirit of kindness. 1t viii set
tie q thousand questions 1t win change
the phase of everything. 1t viii mel
low through and through our entire
nature. It viii transform lifetime.
1t is not feeling gotten up for Occa-
sions. but perennial That IS the reason
like petunias better than morning
glories. They look very much alike,
and If / should put IN your hand
petunia and q morning glory you could
hardly tell which is the petunia and
which the morning glory; but the morn
ing glory blossoms only a few hours
and then shuts up for the day, while
the petunia is in as widespread a glow
at twelve o'clock at noon and six o'clock
in the evening as at sunrise. And this
grace of kindness is not sPasmodic,
is not intermittent. is not for little
WHILE but it irradiates the whole ma
ture, all through and clear on till the
sunset of our earthly existence. Kind
nessI ] am resolved to get it. Are you
resolved to get it? It does not come by
haphazard, but through culture under
the divine help
The king OF Prussia had presented to
him by the empress of Russia the root
of a rare flower, and It was put in the
royal gardens on an island and the
head gardener, Herr Fintelmann, was
told to watch it. And one day it put
forth its glory. Three days of every
week the people were admitted to these
gardens, and a young man, probably
not realizing what a wrong thing he
was doing, plucked 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: ''Shau 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 a favor some other time "
Now, want you to know that kind
ness is a 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 1t on the outside of our
nature, but wear it in our soul and
wear it forever, its radiance and aroma
not more wonderful Tor 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 un-
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? o, 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 4 dangerous power.
There are those if they know a good
fsthing about you and a bad thing will
mention the bad thing and act as though
they had never heard the good thing.
Now there are two sides to almost
every ones character, and we have
the choice of overhauling the virtue
or the vice. We can greet Paul and
the ships crew as they come up
the beach of Malta with the words
What a sorry looking set you are!
How little Of navigation you must
know to run on these rOclEsI Didn't
you know better than to put out on the
Mediterranean this wintrY month? 1t
was not much of a ship anyhow, or 1t
would not have gone to pieces so soon
as that. Well, what do you want? We
have hard enough work to make a Hv-
ing for ourselves without having thrust
on US 276 ragamuffians Not so said
the Maltese. I think they said; Come
in! Sit down by the fire and warm your
selVesi Glad that you ali got of with
your lives. Make yourselves at home.
You are welcome to all that we have
until some ship comes in sight and you
resume your voyage. Here, let me
put a bandage on your forehead, for
tin "a is az sTg71vr he,
floating tim bers, and here is a man
W it'll q broken arm. We will have a
doctor come to attend to this fracture. "
Ard, though for three months the
kin dness went on, we have but little
mo re than this brief record: THE
bar barous people showed us no little
kindness"
Oh, say the cordial thingl Say the
useful thing! Say the hospitable thing!
Say the helpful thing! Say the Christ
like thingi Say the kind thing! I 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
erything. Il is a 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-dayP" Good wealth
err; this is only fog and will soon scat
ter" The absence OF umbrella and alb
sence of waterproof OvercOat show il is
an honest utterance. On your way at
noon to luncheon you meet an Optimist
merchant and you say; What do you
think of the commercial prospects?H
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 seem" On your way back to
your store you meet a pessimistic mer-
chant what do you think of the com
merciaI prOspects?" you ask. And he
answers; well, 1 don't know. So
much grain Will surfeit the country.
Farmers have more bushels but less
prices. and the grain gam blers 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 a hailstorm and our
business is as duh as il ever was" You