Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-09-17

The vouno man 20 handle, and the whlte
haired attorney is hunting up previous de-
c,.ion. and making ont a brief for the boy
Down at the bank | heard yesterday
note was due and the young mercnant
could nor meet il, and an old merchant
vent in and got for him three months ex-
tension. which for the young merchant Is
the difference between bankruptcy and
snccess in business And in our street Is
an artist who had fine picture OF the
.Ranids of Niagara and he could not ut,
and his family were suffering, and they
themselves were in the rapids; and LADY
heard OF il and said, Il do not need the
nicture but for the encouragement OF art
and helping you out OF your distress VIII
take il. and on the drawing room wall are
the Rapids of Niagara.
THE AGE OF HELPFULSEss.
do you know that strange tnlng mas
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 assist
ing each other in gathering the harvest,
and for that farmer who Is SICK the neigh
bors have made bee. as they call IL, and
they have all turned in TO help him get his
crops into the garners 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 10 try aud don't know exactly
how 70 do it. And after a few erasures
and interpretations on the reporters pad
they say; Now here is a readable account
OF that tragedy; hand it in and | am sure
the managing editor will take it,
and heard this morning of poor 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
il was his right because be was the oldest,
and the youngest son said il was his right
because he was the youngest, and Mary
said IL was her right because she better
understood fathers vertigo and rheuma-
tisrn 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 j. little
short Of a certain kind Of goods his neigh
Dor says. i viii help you until you can re-
plenish your shelves II seems to me that
those words OF Isaiah are being fulfilled
when be says. The carpenter encouraged
the goldsmith and be that smOoths with
the hammer. him that smote the anvil,
saying it is ready for the soldering.
What is the matter' It seems to me our
old world is picking up. Why, the mil
| lennium must be coming in Kindness has
gotten the victory"
Ny hearers, you know and ! know we
are far from that state Of things But why
not inaugurate 4 new dispensation OF ge-
niality five cannot yet have millennium
on large scale, let us have it on small
scale, and under our own vestments. Kind
nessi 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 II
into excellence or reformation or godliness.
FABLE or THE wISDs.
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 power' Why, when
/ | start they hail me by storm signals all
along the coast I can twist of a 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 fight
I me back forests must be cut down for
/ fires, and the mines Of continents are
called on to feed the furnaces Under my
\ breath the nations crouch into sepuchres.
I Don't you wish you had my powerY said
/ the east wind.
/ The west wind made no answer. bu.
\ started on its mission, coming somewhere
4 out Of the rosy bowers Of the sky. and all
| the rivers and lakes and seas smiled az its
/ coming. The gardens bloomed, and the
/ orchards ripeued, and the wheat fields
turned their silver into gold. and health
/ clapped its hands, aud joy shouted from
the hin tops and the nations lifted their
/ foreheads into the light, and the earth had
4 a doxology for the sky, and the sky an an
them for the earth, and the warmth and
/ the sparkle, and the gladness, and the foil
age, and the flowers, and the fruits, and
the beauty, and the life, were the only an
i swer the west wind made TO the insOlence
Of the east winds interrogation.
4 Kindness to ALI Surely il ought not TO
\ be a difficult grace to culture when we see
towering above the centuries such an ex-
/ ample that one glimpse ought to melt and
4 transform all nations Kindness brought
4 our Lord from heaven. Kindness 70 mis-
creants. kindness to prosecutors, kindness
TO the crippled and the blind and the cat
aleptic, and the leprous. and the dropsical,
and the demoniacal characterized him all
the way, and on the cross, kindness to the
bandits suffering on the side of him, and
/ kindness TO the executioners while yet
they pushed the spear. and hammered the
spikes, and howled the blasphemies.
All the stories of the John Howards and
the Florence Nightingales and the Grace
Darlings and the Ida Lewises pale before
this transcendant example of him whose
birth and life and death are the greatest
story that the world ever heard. and the
theme Of the mightiest hosanna that heaven
ever lifted Yea. the very kindness that
allowed both hands TO be nailed to the hori-
zontal timber Of the cross with that cruel
i thumpl thumpi now stretches down from
I hat,fe ff1ad with hahn