The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-25

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The subj CT is Temperate Language"
and I am ready to endorse ali the
writer's s5atemnts.
"Intemperance" she says, lis doing
a thing to excess, causing a hurt to
oneself or others. Temperance is doing
a thing in a reasonable manner. From
childhood we form ways of doing
things which we do over and over in
the same manner till they become a
part of ourselt. These are called habits,
which are good or bad. When we
carry these habits to an excess, we be.
come Incorporate. Intemperance does
not need to be confined to getting
drunk and whipping ones wife or
stealing something, but breaks out in
many forms. One form is a sort of a
breaking out at the mouth, acting on
the patient in this way. Some one
hears something not of the very best
on somebody. They brood over the
matter to themselves and in their
minds eye see this in its fullest details.
They feel duty bound to tell this to
their nearest neighbor, and for fear
they didn't have it all, they throw in
a little extra to make it sound more
weighty. This friend feels that he or
she should help the matter along by
telling his friend, etc., till every
body in town has had a chance to hear
it, magnifying it each time till it grows
from an ant hill to a very large noun
tain. The last person that hears this,
puts on an innocent look, and with
such round eyes wonders how Miss II.
could be so base as to do such a thing.
Sander and gossip is an intemper-
ate use of language that has been as
cribed to old women, though I think
all grades Of the human family, either
masculine or feminine gender, indulge
in this defaming pastime. If you are
temperate in your ideas Of the good
and bad that is in people, it will make
your fash creep to hear an old crOne,
be it man or woman, canvassing the
bad, never the good qualities Of their
neighbors. They never see wrong in
themselves, and those I's and mes
they bring in are large enough to
break down an elephant if they were
put on it's back The last is an intern
perate expression. I use il as a sample.
Exaggeration, is an Incorporate use Of
language.
"a small boy who was in the habit
of magnifying things extra large, was
reprimanded by his mamma, who ex.
planned to him the sin of exaggeration.
Hearing his mamma tell something a
great deal less than he knew it could
be-, he said, Mamma isn't it a sin to
smallerate toof"
Yes, dear Chatterers, / very much
fear that many Of us who never touch
strong drink are still very incorporate.
And if we have been enslaved by King
Anger, King Tattling, Of King Cuff.
ness we have a battle before us second
only in fierceness to that Of those who
must fight King Alcohol. Let US first
cast out the beam from our own eye
and then we shall be able to see clearly
and take out the mote from our broth
er's eye. Let the sister who has an in
temperate brother bring her own
anger, her own fretfulness, under con-
troll and she will then be able to i'm
press upon her brother the nobility of
~coDqIering his own foes. Lot US learn
something of the kingliness of self
control as we'll as Of the kingliness of
controlling a kingdom or an empire
something of the heroism of conquer
ing our own passions and weaknesses
as we'll as Of the heroism of c~onquering
armies and capturing forts.
1.-THE bravest trophy yer man OBJ
tanned
Is that which DER himself himself hath
gained"
mot in the clamor of the crowded
street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the
throng,
But in ourselves are triumph and de-
feat"
Rollins has called our attention to
some admirable traits which every
young man should possess. To me the
uoblest trait a young man a possess
seems to be bravery. L9t him be
brave-brave enough to conquer his
own passions and his own weaknesses.
L3g him be ~brave-brave enough to ap.
pear a coward if truth and justice de-
mand it. Let him be brave-brave
enough to take jeers and sneers rather
than yield to temptation brave enough
to frown down those whose language
is impure; brave enough to acknoWI-
edge an error; brave enough to Keep
love under control until he is able to
care for a wife; and brave enough, as