Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-21

you'll i arrive about noon OF Deautl-
tul day. What do you do? AS soon as
arrive you take me out under the
shadow Of the great elms. You take
me down to the artificial lake the
spotted trout floating in and out
among the white pillars Of the pond
lilies. You take me to the stalls and
kennels where you keep your fine
stock, ard here are the Durham cattle
and the Gordon settlers; and the high
stepping steeds, 10y paving and neigh
ing, the only language they can speak,
asking FOR harness or saddle and n
short turn down the road. Then we
go back to the house, and you get me
in the right light, and show me the
kensetts and the Bierstndts on the
wall, and take me into the music room
and show me the bird cages, the ca
naries in the bay window answering
the robins in the tree tops. Thank
you! / never enjoyed myself more in
the same length of time. Now, why
do we not do so with the characters OF
others, and show the bloom and the
music and the bright fountains? No.
We say: Come along, and let me
show you that mans character. Here
is a green-scummed frog pond, and
there's Il filthy cellar, and / guess I'M
der that hedge there must be a black
snake. Come, and let us for an hour
or two regale ourselves with the nui-
sances."
Oh, my friends, better cover up the
faults and extol the virtues; and this
habit once established of universal
friendiless will become as easy as 1t
is for syringa to flood the air with
sweetness, as easy as it will be fur
Their on in the season for u quail to
whistle up from the grass. When we
hear something bad about somebody
whom we always supposed to be good,
take out your lead pencil and say;
LET me see! Before accept that bale
full story against that mans character
i will take off from it 25 per cent. for
| the habit of eXaggeration which be-
lOIlpS W lHC ulun WIN hiob toib VIZ
story; then | will take off 25 per cent.
| for the additions which the spirit of
gossip in every community has put
upon the original story; then | will
take off 25 per cent. from the fact that
the man may have been put into cir
cumstances of overpowering tempta.
ton. So | have taken off rs per cent.
But nave not heard his side of the
story at all, and for that reason take
off the remaining 25 per cent. Excuse
me, sir, don't believe word of it,"
But there comes in defective max
i'm, so often quoted: "Where there is
so much smoke there must be some
fire." Look at all the smoke for years
around Jenner, tie introducer of vacci-
nation; and the smoke around Column
bus, the discoverer; and the smoke
around Martin Luther, and Savonaro-
la, and Galilee, and Paul, and John, and
tell me where was the fire! That is one
of the arts to make smoke without fire
Slander, like the world, may be made
out nothing.
Now, supposing that you have, by a
divine regeneration, got right toward
God and humanity, and you start out
to practice my text. "a man that hath
friends must show himself friendly
Fulfill this by all forms of appropriate
salutation. Have you noticed that the
head is so poised that the easiest thing
on earth is to give nod of recogni
ton? To swing the head from side tc
side, as when it is wagged in derision
is unnatural and unpleasant; to throw
it back, invites vertigo; but to dror
the chin in greeting is accompanied
with so little exertion that all day
long, and every day, you might prac
tice it without the least semblanct o
fatigue So, also, the structure of tn,
hand indicates Misunderstanding; tn,
knuckles not made SO that the fingers
can turn out, but so made that tn,
fingers can turn in, as in 'claspini
hands, and the thumb divided frou
and set aloft from the fingers, so tina
while the fingers take your neighbor'
hand, on one side, the thumb takes /
on the other, and, pressed together, al
the facilities of the hand give emphasi
to the salutation. Five sermons il
every healthy hand urge us to hand
shaking.
Besides this, every day when 20,
start out, load youself up with kin,
thoughts, kind words, kind expires
sions, and kind greetings. When a ma
or woman does well, tell him SO, tel
her so. If you meet someone who j
improved in health, and it is demon
itrated in girth and color, say: "HoN
well yO, look!" But If, on the othe
hand, under the wear and tear of lif
he appears pale and exhausted, do no
introduce sanitary subjects or say any
thing at all about physical condition
In the case of improved health, yo
nave by your words given another in
pulse toward the robust and iocund
while in the case of the failing healt
you have arrested the decline by you
silence, by which he concludes: IF
were really so badly off he woul
! have said something about it, w
, are all, especially those of nervou
temperament, susceptible to kin
9 words and discourag:ng words. ForI
a conspiracy against us and let tie
, men meet MS at certain points on on
way over to business, and let each on
r say: 'iiow sick you look!' thong
we should start out well, after NEE
| ing the first and hearing his depres
q ing salute, we would begin 10 eXamir
our symptoms. After meeting the Sc,
{ ond gloomy accosting we would col
t clude we did not feel quite as well &
/, usual. After meeting the third OF
a sensations would be dreadful, and a
+ ter meeting the fourth, unless we su
}, pected conspiracy, we would gohon
y and go to bed, and the other six pc
r simists would be useless surplus I
c discouragcment.