Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-09-14


stepping stceds. by paving and neigh
ing. the only language they can speak.
asking FOR harness saddle and
a short turn down the road.
Then we 60 back to the house.
light and show me the Kensetts
take me into the music room and show
me the bird cages. the canarics in the
bay window answering the robins in
the tree tops. Thank you, l never
enjoyed myself more in the same
length OF time. Now. why. 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
a filthy cellar. and guess under that
hedge there must be "A blaclxsnalxc.
Come, and let rs for an hour or two
regale ourselves with the nuisances. -
Oh, my friends. better cover up the
faults and eNtol the virtues; and this
habit once established OF universal
friendlincSS will become as easy as IL
is for a syringa to food the air with
sweetness. rs easy as IL will be further
on in the season for n 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 baleful
story against that mans character
Will take off from it - per cent
for the habit of eXaggeration which
belongs 10 the man who first told the
story; then | will take off 10 per cent
for the additions which the spirit of
gossip in every community has put
upon the story; then will take off -
per cent from the fact that the man
may nave been put into circumstances
of overpowering temptation. SO /
have taken of 80 per cent. But have
not heard his side OF the story at all
and for that reason take off the re-
manning % per cent Excuse me- sir.
don't believe word of i'll
But there comes in detective max
i'm, SO often quoted; Where there is
so much smoke there must be some
fire. - Look ut all the smoke for years
around Jenner. the introducer of vac
cinatiou; and the smoke around Co.
around Martin Luther, and Savona-
rola, and Galilce, and Paul, and John.
and tell me where was the fret That
Is one of the satanic arts 10 make
smoke without fire. SANDER like the
world, may bc made out of nothing.
If the Christian, fair-minded. common
senSical spirit in regard 10 others pre-
dominated in the world we should
have the millennium in about six
weeks, for would not that be lamb
and lion, COW and leopard lying down
together@ Nothing but the grace of
God can ever put us into such a habit
OF mind and heart as that. The ten
deucy Is in the opposite direction.
This is the way the world talks: |
put my name on the back of n mans
note. and / had to pay it, and Il will
never again put my name on the back
of any mans note. / gave a bergar 10
cents, and FIVE minutes after saw
him entering a liquor store To spend
1t will never again give n cent TO a
beggar. l helped that young man
start in business, and 10, after a while.
he came and opened a store almost next
door TO me, and stole my customers. |
will never again help young man to
start in business. l trusted in what
my neighbor promised To do, and he
broke his word, and the Psalmist was
right before he corrected himself. Cor
all men are liars" So men become
suspicious and saturniuc and selfish.
and at every additional wrong done
them they put another layer on the
wall of their eNclusivcnesS. and an
other bolt TO the door that shuts them
out from sympathy with the world.
They get cheated out of thousand
dollars, or misinterpreted. or disar-
pointed, or betrayed, and higher
goes the wall, and faster goes an
other bolt not realizing that while
they ,ock Others out they lock them
selves in; and some day they wake nm
20 find themselves imprisoned i'm a
dastardly habit, No friends to others.
others are no friends To them. There's
On island halfway between England.
Scotland and ireland called the Isle of
Man, and the seas dash against all
sides OF 1T. and ! am told there is no
more lovely plnc, than that Isle of
Man; but when man becomes fnsular
in his disposition, and cuts himself of
from the main land OF the worlds
sympathics, he is despicabic. and all
around him is an Atlantic ocean of
scltishness. Behold that Isle Of Man.
Now, supposinr that Won have. bv a
Divine regeneration. got right toward
God and humanity and YOU start out
20 practice ms test "a man that
hath friends must show himself friend
ly.' Fulfill thi, hy an forms OF appro.
pirate salutation Have YOU noticed
that the mead is SO poised that the eas-
lest thing on earth is % give "a nod of
recognition? To swing the head from
side 90 side. as when 10 is yvaprcd in
deri-ion. Is unnatural and unnlcasant.
60 throw 10 back invites vertigo: but
to- drop the chin in greeting is az.
compauied with SO little cvertion
that all dav long and every dav.
you might practice itwithout the least
semblancc az fatigue So. also. th
structure OF the hand indicates hand
shaSIul; the Nnuclsics not made So
that the fingers can turn ont. but so
made Chat thc fingers can turn in. a.
in c'aspinr HANDS. and the thumb di.
vlaeu from and SGT aloft from the fn-
gers. So that while The fingers take
your ncighbor', hand ou one side. thc
thumb takes 30 ON tho other and.
pressed together. all tine facilities ~
TIE hand give emphasis Co the saiuta-
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