Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-09-19

DAVID showed TO Mephiboshetn for his
father Jonathan's sake. That is what
Onesiphorus showed TO Paul In the Ro-
man penitentiary. That Is what Will
liam COwper recognized when he SAID
he would not trust man who would
with his foot needlessly crush q worm.
That Is what our assassinated Presi-
dent Lincoln demonstrated when his
private secretary found him In the
capitol grounds trying TO get bird
back to the nest from which II had
fallen, and which quality the illustri-
Gus man exhibited years before when
having with some lawyers in the car
riage on the way to court passed on the
road swine fast in the mire, after q
while cried to his horses "How and
said to the gentlemen, Il must go back
and help that hog out OF the mire." "
And he did go back and put on solid
ground that most uninteresting quad
ruped. That was the spirit that was
manifested by my departed friend,
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens OF Geor-
gia land lovelier man never exchanged
earth for heaven) when ut Washington.
A senator's wife who told my wife oil
the circumstances said to him: Mr..
Stephens, come ana see my dear canary
bird" And he answered, mo, could
not look at the poor thing without cry
ing" That is the spirit that Grant
showed when ut the surrender OF Appa-
matox 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 confeder-
ate who can claim horse or 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 as at the first call. Suppose
all this assemblage, ard all to whom
these words shall come by printers type,
should resolve TO make kindness an
overarching, undergirding and all'per-
vading principle OF their life. and then
carry out the resolution. why, in six
months the whole earth would feel it.
People would say, "What is the matter?
1t seems to me that the world is getting
to be better place to live in. Why,
life after all is worth living. Why,
there is Shylock, my neighbor, has
Withdrawn his lawsuit OF foreclosure
against that man, and because he has
had SO much sickness in his family he
is going 10 have the house for one year
rent free. There is an old lawyer in
that young lawyers office, and do you
know what he has gone in there for:
Why. he is helping fix up case which
is too big for the young man to handle,
and the white-haired attorney is hunt
ing up previous decisions and making
out brief for the boy.
Down at the bank heard yesterday
note was due and the young merchant
could not meet it, and an old merchant
went in and got for him three months
extension, which for the young mer-
chant is the ditfesence between bank
ruptcy and success in business. And in
our street is an artist who had fine
pictureSof the rapids OF Niagara, and
he could not sell it. and his family were
suffering, and they were themselves in
the rapids, and lady heard OF it and
said: 1 do not need the picture, but
for the encouragement of ar: and help
ing you out OF your distress l will take
it, and on the drawing room wall are
the rapids of Niagara 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 old doctors are helping the young
doctors. and the farmers are assisting
each other in gathering the harvest,
and for that farmer who is sick the
neighbors have made bee as they
call it. and they have all turned in to
help him get his crops into the garner.
"And they tell me that the older and
more skillfI. reporters who have per-
manent positions on papers are help
ing the young fellows who are just be-
ginning to try and don't know exactly
how to do it. And after few erasures
and interpretations On the reporters
pad they say: Now here is readible
account OF that tragedy; hand it in and
l am sure the managing editor will take
it, And l heard this morning OF q
poor old man whose three children were
in hot debate as to who would take care
OF him in his declining days. The old
est son declared 1t was his right because
he was the eldest, and the youngest son
it was his right because he was the
youngest, and Mary said it was her
right because she better understood
fathers vertigo, and rheumatism, 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 OF them.
And neighboring stores in the same
line OF goods on the same block are
acting kindly to each other. 1t seems
TO me that those words OF Isaiah are
being fulfilled when he says: The
carpenter encouraged the goldsmith,
and he that smoothes with the ham
mer, him that smote the anvil. saying,
it is ready for the soldering. What is
the matter? 1t seems to me our world |
is picking up. Why. the millennium
must be coming in. Kindness has got
ten the victory"
NV hearers. you know and l know we
are far from that state OF things. But
why nOf inatiot1pafa nm now dicnapco-