The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-09-24

two months after Thomas Guard had as
cended. So you ran start word about
some one that will be on its travels and
vigorous long after the funeral psalm
has been sung at your obseqmes. Kind
ness! Why, if fifty men all aglow v ilh
1t should walk through the lost world
melhinks they would almost abolish
TOUCHING ANECDOTE OF ABRAHAM
LINCOLN.
Furthermore, there is Kindness of nc
tion. That is what Joseph showed to
his outrageous brothers. That is what
David showed TO Mephbosheth for his
father JOnathan's sake. That is what
Cnesiphorus showed to Paul in the Ro.
man penitcntiary. That is what Will
liam Cowper recognized when he said
he would not trust Il man who would
with his foot needlessly crush a worm.
That Is what our assassinated President
Lincoln demonstrated when his private
secretary found him in the Capitol
grounds trying to get IL bird back to the
nest from which it had fallen, and which
quality the illustrious man exhibited
years before, when having with some
court passed on the road q swine fast IN
the mire, after awhile cried to his horses,
"lIo!" and said TO the gentlemen. ii
must go back and help that hog out of
the mire." And he did go back and put
on solid ground that most uuintel estiny
quadruped.
That was the spirit that was manifest
cd by my departed friend, Honorable
n 1In Il 70 ,
lovelicr man never exchanged earth for
heaven), when at Washington. a sem
ator's wife who told my wife Of the cir
cumstanccs, said to HIM, "Slr. Stephens,
come and see my dead canary bird"
And he answered, mo, l could not
look at the poor thing without crying"
That is the spirit that Grant showed
when at the surrender at Appoplattox
he said to Gen aral Lee, las 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 Confederate 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 cheerfnily
and as tenderly as At the first call.
Suppose all this assemblagc, and all
TO whom these words shall como by
printers type, should resolve to make
kindness an overarchng, undergir,linG
and all pervading principle of their life
and then carry out the rcsolulion-why.
III six months the whole earth would
feel it. People would say:
"What Is the matter: 1t seems tC
me that the world is getting to be a bet
ter place to live in. Why, life after al
Is worth living. Why, there is Shvlock
my nelghbor, has withdrawn his lawsui
OF foreclosure agairs st that man. and be
cause he has had 30 much sickness il
his family he is going to have the hous,
Tor one year rent fee. There is an ole
lawyer i'll that young LAWYERS Office ant
DO you know what he has gone in there
Tor? Why, he is helping fix up Il case
which is too big for the young man tC
handle, and the white haired attorney
is hunting up previous decisions and
making out brief for the boy. Down
at the bank l heard yesterday note
was due, and the young merchant could
not meet it, and All old merchant went
in and got for him three months extern
sion, which for the young merchant is
the difference between bankruptcy and
| success in business. And IN our street
is an artist who had line picture of the
Rapids of Niagara and he could not
sell it, and his family were suffering.
and they themselves were in the rapids;
and lady heard Of it and said, Il do not
need the picture. but for the encourage
ment Of art and helping you out of your
distress will take it, aud on the draw
ing room wall are the Rapids of Mag
ara
THE AGE OF HELPFULNESS.
do you know that strange thing
has taken place in the pulpit and all the
old ministers are elpiny the young
ministers, and all the old doctors are
helping the young doctors, and the fa.-
mers are assisting each other IN gather
ing the harvest and for that farmer who
is sick the neighbors have made bee. ,
as they call it, and they have all turned
III to help him get his crops into the
garner? And they tell me that the
older and more skillful reporters who
have permanent positions on papers arc
helping the young fellows wno are Just
beginning to try and don't know exactly
how to do it. And after few erasurcs
and interpretations on the reporters pad
they say: Now here is readable ac-
count of that tragedy, nand II IN and
am sure the managing editor will take
| it,
"And heard this morning of a poor
old man whose three children were IN
hot debate as to who should take care
OF HIM IN his declining days. The old
est son declared it was his right because
he was the oldest, and the youngest son
said 1t was his right because he was the
youngest, and Mary said 1t 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 difficulty could be SET
tied was by the old mans promise that
he would divide the year into tn. ee.
parts, and spend third o. his time with
each one of them.
"And neighborine stores in tic same
line of goods on the same block are act.
ing kindly TO each other, and when one
is little short of certain kind ol.goods
his neighbor saws, Il will help YOU un-
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