Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-02


the parents from finding out their mis-
take, to take an empty head and ill ii ,
to meet the expectations of parents
who think their children at II years of
age ought TO he mathematicians and
mctaphy siciaus and Electricians, to
work successfully that great stuiiing
machine the modern school system, is
a very arduous work. Encourage them
by the usefulness and the everlasting
ness and the magnitude of their occu-
patton, and when your children do well
compliment the Instructor, praise the
teacher. thank the educator.
Encourage all inyalids by telling
them how many you have known with
the same ailments who got well and
not by telling them of their sunken eye
or asking them whether the color of
their checks is really hectic or men
tioning eases in which that style of
disease ended fatally or telling them
how badly they look. Cheerful words
are more soothing than choral, more
stimulating than cognac, more tonic
than bitters. Many an invalid has re-
covered through the influence of cheer
full surroundings.
Encouraging all starting in life by
yourself becoming reminiscent. Es-
| tablished merchants, by telling these
young merchants when you got your
first customer, and how you sat be-
hind the counter eating your luncheon,
with one eye on the door. Established
lawyers, encourage young lawyers by
telling them the time when you broke
down in your first speech. Estab-
lished ministers of the gospel, encour-
| age young ministers 10y merciful exam
ination of theological candidates, not
walking around with profundity and
Overwhelmingness of manner as
though you were one of the eternal de-
crees. Doctors established. by telling
young doctors how you yourselves once
mistoOk the measles for scarlatina.
And if you have nothing to say that is
encouraging, o man, put your teeth
| tightly together and cover them with
the curtain of your lip; compress your
lips and put your hand over your mouth
and keep still.
gentleman was passing along.
crossing bridge in Germany. and a
lad came along with a cage OF birds
| for sale. The stranger said: GLOW
much for those birds and the cage?''
The price was announced. the purchase
WAS made, and the first thing the stran-
ger did was to open the door of the
cage, and the birds flew out into the
sunlight and the forest. Some one who
saw the purchase and the liberation
said: What did You do that for?''
"Ah!' said the stranger, Il was a cap
tive myself once, and know how good
it is to be free" Oh, We who remem-
Der hardships in early life, but who
have come beyond those hardships,
sympathize with those who are in the
struggle! Free yourself, help Others
to get free. Gov. Alexander Stephens
persisted in having business matters
brought to his bedside. There was on
the table Il petition for the pardon OF
a distinguished criminal, the petition
signed by distinguished men. There was
also on that table letter from poor
woman in the penitentiary. written and
signed by herself alone. Dying Mex.
| andcr Stephens said: You think that
because have been III so many times
and got well shall get well now, but
you are mistaken; shall not recover
! Where is that letter by that woman
in the penitentiary? ! think she has
suffered enough. As near as can tel
she has no friends. Bring me that pa
per that / may sign her pardon" A
gentleman standing by. thinking thi:
too great a responsibility for the sicl
man, said: Governor, you are very
sick now. Perhaps you had better
wait till tomorrow. You may fee
stronger, and you may feel better
Then the eye of the old governor
flashed. and he said: 81 know what
am about" Putting his signature to
that pardon, he wrote the last word
he ever wrote, for then the pen fell
from his pale and rheumatic and dying
hand forever. Oh, my soul, how beauti-
full that the closing hours of life should
be spent in helping some one who had
no helper.
Encourage the troubled by thoughts
of release and reassociation. Encour-
age the aged by thoughts Of eterna
juvenescence. Encourage the herds
man amid the troughs of sin to go bach
to the banquet at the fathers home
stead. Give us tones in the major key
instead of the minor. Give us Corona
ton" instead of Naomi" You have
seen cars so arranged that one car
going down the hill rolled another cal
up the hill. They nearly balanced eacl
other. And every man that finds life
up hill ought to be helped by those who
have passed the heights and are de
scending to the vale. Oh, let us bear
one another's burdens!
A gentleman in England died leaving
his fortune by will to two sons. The
son that stayed at home destroyed the
fathers will and pretended that the
brother who was absent was dead and
buried The absent brother after
awhile returned and claimed his part
of The property. Judges and jurors
were to be bribed to say that the re-
turned brother and son was no son nj
ali. but only an impostor. The tria
came on. Sir Matthew Hale, the pride
of the English courtroom and for q
years the pride of Jurisprudence, heard
that that injustice was about to be prac
ticed. He put of his official robe. He
put on the garb Of a miller. He went
to the village where that trial was tC
take place. He entered the courtroom
lie somehow got empaneled as one o
the jurors. The briber came around
and the man gave ten pieces of golC
to the other jurors, but as this was only
poor miller the briber gave to hin
only five pieces of gold. A verdict wa
brought in rejecting the rights of thi:
returned brother. He was 10 have n,
share in the inheritance. Hold, m,
lord!" said the miller. Hold! We ar,
not all agreed on this verdict. THIS,
other men have received ten pieces o
gold in bribery, and l have received
only five" "Who are you? Where dC
you come from?" said the judge en- thu
| bench The raSDOnse was: :" am from