Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-05-28

we'll, but would go out OF HI
way to do us a kindness; Or wht
would, it he stood alone, defend
our name and reputation from
the assaults of others. Many
men would have fallen under the
blows given but for the hand 0.
a friend upl;fted to help them
Many a heart would have burst
with grief but for the sym pathy
poured cut to it by a true friend
And while we rush for riches
and pull for power and gallop III
! our greed let us stop a moment
and get our bearings and see
how we stand related to those
about us. We have we'll nigh
thrown aside the social features
which foster friendship We
visit too little at each Others S
houses. Many long winter
nights we could spend two
hours pleasantly with a neigh
Dor and win him a closer friend.
Many times we pass idly by
without the warm hand>shake or
a kindly word to us in some
coming emergency. We cannot
afford 10 sacrifice everything to
political prejudices and selfish
greed. We must have friends
We cannot do without them. If
every man whose eye scans these
lines will stop a moment and
think how little he has done to
foster friendship and win in his
neighbor in the last few years he
would right about and deter
mine to look in another direc-
ton for while.
In the political world we see
it frequently asserted in the
press, "tnis political aspirant has
a knife in his sleeve for some
other aspirant," or this one has
stabbed that one in the back. In
the commercial world one man
has undermined another III bust
ness. In the social world one
person has slandered the other
out of deCencY in the commune
lty 50 far as their ability to do
such a thing would 90. The
man who goes around with a
knife or a pistol in his pocket is
a bad citizen, and deserves the
rate SO many Of them receive.
The man who undermines and
takes advantage Of his fellow
man III a business transaction
deserves to spend the remainder
OF his days within the penitcu>
tiary walls clad in the stripes of
a felon. He whose tongue
would smirch and hurt the
good name of his neighbo de-
serves to have his tongue taken
out by the root. We are not
careful enough to mind the
golden rule, "DO unto others as
you would be done BY" No
men have really prospered long
who did It without principle and
without due regard to the feel
lings and fortunes Of others. I
am sorry for any man who adj
Opto wrong methods and prac-
tiCes rascality that he himself
may rise as lie rots. Pat truly
said: "If we had a little more
of the milk Cf human kindness
i'll this world wat bright world
we would have" Let's do some
good thing for some one every
day we live.
If we are not able to do a
good thing, let's speak a good
word for some one every day
Soon it will become q habit
with us; and what a blessed hab-
it it is to do good or to speak
helpful of another. Such a hab-
it would gather abont us III sick
ness and IN health, i'll poverty OF
wealth, in living, or dying a
host Of friends who would be
worth more to us than the wealth
of the Vanderbilts or the re-
noWn Of kings or generals. No
man liveth who can get where
friends cannot help him or ene~
mics hurt him, and he who sur
rounds himself, living or dying
with good friends all about him
has lived above the sell.:h life OF
him who dies at last ;'-e Mike
and pat did. When Mike told
his friends that Pat was dead
they asked him what was the
complaint. No complaint at
all, he said, everybody seems to