St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-15

lou invite me 70 come to your cOuI
tryseat and spend few days. Than
yon! I arrive about noon of beaut
fnl day. What do you do? AS soon q
1 arrive you take me out under tt
shadow of the great elms. You TAX
me down to the artificial lake: tn
spotted trout floating in and ou
among the white pillars of the pond
lilies. You take me to the stalls an
kennels where you keep your fin
stock, ard here are the Durham cattl
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
short tern down the road. Then W.
go back to the house, and you get m
in the right light, and show me tn
ilensetts and the Bierstadts Oil tn,
wall, and take me into the music room
and show me the bird cages, the ca
naries in the bay window answerin:
the robins in the tree tops. Thanl
you! l never enjoyed myself more il
the same length of time. Now, VIII,
do we not do SO with the characters o
others, and show the bloom and tn,
music and the bright fountains? No
We say: Come along, and let lns
show you that mans character. Her,
is a green-scummed frog pond, and
there's \ filthy cellar, and guess un
der that hedge there must be black
snake. Come, and let us for an houl
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 il
is for a syringa to flood the air with
sweetness, as easy as it will be fur
ther on in the season for a 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
will take off from it 25 per cent. for
the habit of exaggeration which be-
longs to the man who first told the
story; then l will take off % per cent.
for the additions which the spirit of
gossip in every community has put
upon the original story; then 1 will
take off 25 per cent. from the fact that
the man may have been put into cir
of overpowering tempta-
ton. So have taken off IS per cent.
But have not heard his side of the
story at all, and for that reason I take
of the remaining 25 per cent. Excuse
me. sir. 1 don't believe word of it'll"
But there comes in defective max
i'm, SO often quoted: "Where there is
10 much smoke there must be some
fire." Look at all the smoke for years
around Jenner, tie introducer ofvacci-
nation; and the smoke around Column
bus. the discoverer; and the smoke
around Martin Luther, and Savonaro-
q, and Galilee, and Paul, and John and
tell me where was the fire! That is one
If the arts to make smoke without fire.
like the world, may be made
,ut nothing.
Now, supposing that ron have, by a
liviue regeneration, got right toward
3od and humanity, and you start out
% practice my text. "a man that hath
riends must show himself friendly"
Fulfill this by all forms of appropriate
Have You noticed that the
read is SO poised that the easiest thing
N earth is to give a nod Of recogni-
ion? To swing the head from side to
ide. as when it is waggcd in dcris;on.
5 unnatural and unpleasant; 10 throw
back, invites vertigo; but to drop
he chin in greeting is accompanied
With SO little exertion that all day
onR, and every day, you might prac-
ice it without the least semblancc of
atigue. So. also, the structure of the
land indicates hand-shaking; the
not made so that the fingers
an turn out, but so made that the |
ngers can turn in, rs in clasping
ands; and the thumb divided from
nd set aloft from the fingers. so that |
'hile the fingers take your ncighbor's |
and. on one side, the thumb takes it |
n the other, and. pressed together, all |
he facilities OF the hand give emphasis
. the salutation. Five. sermons in
very healthy hand urge us to hand
halking.
Besides this, every day when you
tart out, load youseh up with kind |
houghts, kind words, kind express
ions, and kind greetings. When q man
woman does well, tell him 20, tell
er SO. II you meet someone who is
improved in health, and it is demon
frated in girth and color, say: "How
ell yon look!" But if, on the other
and, under the wear and tear of life
e appears pale and exhausted, do not
ltroduce sanitary subjects or say any
hing at all about physical condition.
n the case of improved health, you
ave by your words given another i'm
ulse toward the robust and iccund;
lille in the case of the failing health
on have arrested the decline by your
lence, by which he concludes: 'IfI
ere really SO badly off he would
ave said something about it, We
re all, especially those Of = nervous
susceptible to kind
ortls and discourag:ng words. Form
conspiracy against us and let ten
en meet us at certain points ON our
ny over to business, and let each one
~: "Itow sick you look!" though
e should start out well, after meet
g the first and hearing his depress-
z salute. we would begin 10 examine
If symptoms. After meeting the Sec
I'd glo.'my accosting we would con-
ude we did not feel quite as well as
sual. After meeting the third our
nsations would be dreadful, and af-
r meeting the fourth, unless we sus-
.cted a conspiracy, we would 90 home
I'd 60 to bed, and the other six pes
mists would be . useless surplus of
scouragcment.
My dear sir, my dear madam, what
you mean by going about the world
ith dishcartcnments? Is not the sup
Y of gloom and trouble and misfor-
ne enough to meet the demand with
It your running a factory OF pins and
likes? Why should you plant black
ID blue in the world when God 50
ldom plants them? Plenty Of scar ,
colors, plenty of yellow. plenty Of