News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-03-01

BE klnd TO your enemies. be kind to
the young. Be kind to the old. Be
kind to your rulers. Be kind to your
servants Be kind to your superiors.
Be kind to your interiors. Be kind to |
your horse. Be kind to your dog. Be |
kind to your cat. Morning, noon and !
night be kind, and the effects of it will
be written in the language of your face
That is the gospel of physiognomy.
THE LION AND THE MOUSE.
A Bayonne merchant was in the south
of Europe for his health. and sitting on
the terrace one morning in his invalid
ism he saw rider flung from horse
into the river, and without thinking OF
his own weakness the merchant flung
off his invalid's gown and leaped into
the stream and swan to the drowning
man, and clutching him as he was
about to go down the last time bore him
in safety to the bank, when glanclng
into the face of the rescued man he
cried, My God, have saved my own
son!'' All kindness comes back to US
in one way or another; if not in any
other way, then in your own face. Kind
ness! Show it to others, for the time
may come when you will need it your
self. People laughed at the lion because
he spared the mouse that ran over MIN
when by one motion of his paw the mon
ster could have crushed the insignia
cant disturber. But it was well that
the lion had mercy on the mouse: Tor
one day the lion was caught in trap
and roared fearfully because ne was
held fast by ropes. Then the mouse
gnawed off the ropes and let the lion go
free. You may consider yourself lion,
/ but YOU cannot afford to despise mouse.
When Abraham Lincoln pardoned
young soldier az the request of his moth
er, the mother went down The stairs OF
the White House saying: They have
lied about the presidents hcing home
". He is the handsomest Clan l ever
! saw" All over that presidents rugged
I face was written the kindness which
he so we'll illustrated when he SAID,
"Some of our generals complain that }
| impair discipline and subordlnat1on IN
| fhe army by my pardons and respltes,
| Init it makes me rested after hard
| davis work if l can find some good ex-
| cuse for saving mans life. and L go
TO bed happier as think how joyous
| the signing of my name will make him
and his family Kindness. 1t makes
the face to shine willie life lasts and aft
| er death puts summer sunset between
the still lips and the smoothed hair that
makes me say sometimes at obsequies,
"She seems too beautiful to bury. .
Rut here comcF another ohisel, and
is name is hyroctisy. Christ with one
terrific stroke in his sermon on the
mount described this character, "When
We fast, be not as the hypoorites, of a
sad countenance, for they distgure their
faces that they may appear unto men TO
fast" Hypocrisy having taken posses
sion of the soul, it Immediately appears
in the countenance. Hypocrites are al
WAYS solemn. They carry several coun-
try graveyards in their faces. They are
fearful when there is nothing to cry
about, and in their prayers they catch
for their breath and have such general
dolefulness that they disgust young peo-
pie with religion. We had one OF them
in one of my churches. When he ex-
orted, he always deplored the low state
of religion in other people, and when he
praved it was an attack of hysteria, and
he went into paroxysm of obs and abs
that seemed to demand resuscitatlon
He went on in that way until we had to
expel him from the church for stealing
the property intrusted to him as admin
l istrator and for other vices that l viii
| not mention, and he wrote me severa
letters not at all complimentary from
the west, saying that he was daily
praying for my everlasting destruction
A man cannot have hypocrisy in hi
heart without somehow showing it II
his face, All intelligent people wht
witness it know it is nothing but ;
dramatization.
Here comes another chisel, and tina
belongs to the old fashioned religion
, | 1t first takes possession of the who'll
; | soul, washing out its sins by the bloc
of the Lamb and starting heaven RICH
. there and thea. This done, deep down
the heart religions says: Now let m
go up to the windows and front gate G
) the face and set up some signal that
! | have taken possession of this castle.
= | Will celebrate Lu0 f1SlOly ny al AAAuhil
nation that no one can mistake. haV
made this man happy, and now L vii
make him look happy. l will draw til
corners of his mouth as far up as the
: were drawn down. I will take the con
} | temLtuous curl away from the lip an
nostril. / viii make his eyes flash an
his cheeks glow at every mention
, | Christ and heaven. / will make eve
4 | the wrinkles of his face look like ful
} | rows pIowed for the harvest of joy.
will make what we call the crow
feet around his temples suggestive thu
3 the dove of peace has been alightin
there There may be signs of troubl
f on that face, but trouble sanctifiet
a There may be scars of battle on that face
= but they will be scars of campaign
: won.
POWER OF FACE.
: NOW, says some one, u know yer
r good people who have no such religio
: in their faces. My friend, the reaso
C | probably is that they were not converte
- | until Lotto in life Wor1d1inpSS and Si