Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-14

| a fine picture OF the 'ItSDldS Cf 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, I do not need the
picture, but for the encouragement Of
art and helping you out .of your dis
treSs will take it, and on the drawing
room wall are the Rapids of Niagara.
do you know that "A 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 garnerl
AN ALMOST INCREDIBLE INSTANCE.
And they tell me that the older and
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 erasures
and interpretations on the reporters
pad they say Now. here is a readable
account of that tragedy. Hand it in
and | ain sure the managing editor
will take it. And 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
I days
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-
matisIn 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, and
spend a 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 certain kind of |
goods, his neighbor says, 1 will help
you until you can replenish your
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 matterl 1t seems to Inc
our old world is picking up. Why, the
millennium must be coming in. Kind
ness has gotten the victory"
My hearers, you know and know
we are far from that state of things.
But why not inaugurate new dispen-
sation of genialityl If we cannot yet
have a millennium ON a large scale, let
us have it on a small scale, and under
our own vestments. Kindnessl If this
world is ever brought to God that is
the thing that win do it. You cannot
fret the world mp, although you may
fret the world down. You cannot scold
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
power1 Why, when l start they hail
me by storm signals all along the coast.
can twist off 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 invalidisn, 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 powerl" 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 n 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, ani the tiowers, and the fruits
and the beauty, and the life we're the
only answer the west wind made 10
the insolenee Of the east winds inter
nogarion.
JNuN HOWARD, FLORENCE NIGHTIN
GALR AND IDA LEwIS
Kindness TO ALI Surely il ought NOT
10 be dihieult grace 70 culture when
We see towering above the centuries
such an example thar one glimpse Of it
ought 10 melt and transform all ma
tons Kindness brought our Lord
nom heaven Kindness 10 miscreapts
kindness 60 Prosecutors kindness TO the
crippled, and the blind, and the eata.
leptic. ana the leprous. aud the drop-
sicai. and the demOniacal characteriyei
him all the way. and on the eross
kindness 70 the the bandits suffering on
the side Of him, and kindness 10 ths
e1ecntioners whils yet they pushs.a ~.
spear, and hammered the snikes. and
hoNla1 the hlnzphemieA