News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-17

young man to handle, and the white
haired attorney is hunting up previous
decisions and making out brief fol-
the boy.
''Down at the bank l heard yester
day a 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
merchant is the difference between
bankruptcy and success in business.
And in our street is an artist who had
fine picture of the Rapids of Niagara,
and he could not sell it, and his family
were suffering, and they were them
selves in the rapids; and lady heard
of it and said, 4 do not need the
picture, but for the encouragement Of
art and helping you out of your dis
tress I 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 al
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 IL
gathering the harvest, and for thai
farmer who is sick the neighbors have
made 'bee,' as they call it, and they
have all turned in to help him get hi
crops into the garner9
AN ALMOST INCREDIBLE INSTANCE.
'And they tell me that the older anC
more skillful reporters who have perma
nent positions on papers are helping
the young fellows who are just begin.
ing to try and don't know exactly how
to do it, And after a few erasure:
and interpretations on the reporters
pad they say: Now, here is a readable
account of that tragedy. Hand it il
and 1 am sure the managing editor
will take it, And l heard this morn
ing of a poor old man whose three chill
dren were in hot debate as to who
should take care of him in his declining
days.
1.-THE oldest son declared it was his
right because he was the oldest, and
the youngest son said it was his right
because he was the youngest, and Mary
said it was her right because she better
understood fathers vertigo and rheu
matism and poor spells, and knew bet
ter how to nurse him, and the only way
the difficulty could be settled was by
the old mans promise that he would
divide the year into three parts, an6
spend third of his time with each one
of them.
'And neighboring stores in the same
line of goods on the same block are act
ing kindly to each other, and when one
is little short of a certain kind Of
goods, his neighbor says, 4 will helr
you until you can replenish YOU
Shelves 1t seems to me that those
words of Isaiah are being fulfilled when
he says, The carpenter encouraged the
goldsmith, and he that smooths with
the hammer, him that smote the anvil,
saying, it is ready for the soldering.
What is the matter2 1t seems to me
our old world is picking up. Why, the
millennium must be coming in. Kind
ness has gotten the victory"
My hearers, you know and 1 know
we are far from that state of things.
But why not inaugurate a new dispen-
sation of geniality2 If we cannot yet
have a millennium on large scale, let
us have it on a small scale, and under
our own vestments Kindness! If this
world is ever brought to God that is
the thing that will do it. You cannot
fret the world up, although you may
fret the world down. You cannot sco1d
it into excellence or reformation or god
illness.
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
power9 Why, when l start they hail
me by storm signals all along the coast.
l can twist off a ships mast as easily as
a cows hoof cracks an alder With
one sweep of my wing l have strewn
the coast from Newfoundland to Key
West with parted ship timber. 1 can
lift and have lifted the Atlantic ocean.
| am the terror of all invalidism, and
to fight me back forests must be cut
down for fires, and the mines of con.
tinents are called on to feed the fur
naces. Under my breath the nations
crouch into sepulchers. Don't you
wish you had my power2" said the east
wind.
The west wind made no answer, but
started on its mission, coming some,
where out of the rosy bowers of the
sky, and all the rivers and lakes and
seas smiled at its coming. The gardens
bloomed, and the orchards ripened,
and the wheat fields turned their silver
into gold, and health clapped its hands,
and joy shouted from the hilltops, and
the nations lifted their foreheads into
the light, and the earth had doxol-
ogy for the sky, and the sky an anthem
for the earth, and the warmth, and the
sparkle, and the gladness, and the
foliage, and the flowers, and the fruits,
and the beauty, and the life were the
only answer the west wind made to
the insolence of the east winds inter
rogation.
JOHN HOWARD, FLORENCE NIGHTIN-
GALE AND IDA LEWIS.
Kindness to all! Surely it ought not
to be a difficult grace to culture when
we see towering above the centuries
such an example that one glimpse of it
ought to melt and transform all ma
tions. Kindness brought our Lord
from heaven. Kindness to miscreants,
kindness to prosecutors, kindness to the
crippled, and the blind, and the cata-
leptic, and the leprous, and the drop
steal, and the demoniacal characterized
him all the way, and on the cross,
kindness to the 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 Towards,
and the Florence Nightingales, and the
Grace Darlings, and the Ida Lewises
pale before the transcendent example
of him whose birth and life and death
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
horizontal timber of the cross with that
cruel thumpl thumpl now stretches
down from the skies those same hands
filed with balm for all our wounds,
forgiveness for all our crimes. rescue
for all our serfdoms.
And while we take this matchless
kindness from God, may it be found
that we have uttered our last bitter