The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-07-28

in stature, but to those little because OF
their meaDness)do. Henry nj. Stanley
tells US tha when he was going through
the Dark Continent, the thing that more
than anything else came near defeating
his expedition and causing him to turn
back was the race of Wambutti dwarfs.
They were people so diminutive in size
that their arrows seemed more like chill
dren's playthings than real weapons Of
war and yet each tiny arrow mad on its
tip drop of poison that made the wound
ing of the arrow deadly. They could as
certainly bring down an elephant or q man
as bird from the sky. They would hide
behind the trees of the forest, lie in am
buscade, and before their lurking-place
was discovered, let fly their deadly ar
rows. They dug trenches In the ground,
or buried spikes, carefully covering them
with branches and leaves. and in this
way they caught many OF Stanley'R men
Stanley could never forget the little peo-
pie, the Wambutti dwarfs, and the mis-
chief which they did. A gentleman, once
going through the fields Of the country,
saw a golden eagle circling In it's fight
toward heaven. He watched the bird
with delighted wonder and admiration.
Upward and further upwardit flew, fear
| ing not the full blaze of the sun out sud-
denly it stopped and seemed able to fly
no higher. What was the matter? Soon
it lay lifeless mass at the gentleman's
feet. But no human hand had harmed
| it; no shot from sportman's gun had
reached it. Investigation showed that
the eagle had carried in its upward flight
} q weasel. The little creature had dis
( engaged itself from the talons of the
bird and had eaten its way to the noble
| eagles heart. Beware Of little sins they
| will find the heart at last.
| What are some of THESE little sins
| What are the names Of these little foxes
L mention few of them almost at hap
hazard. The first of these is gossip.
| Gossip ia a good thing believe in gos-
| sip. Man is the only animal that laughs
and talks and weeps, and you ought to
| expect man to exercise his rights. Mar
has got to talk; what shall he talk about
The weather. The poor old weather
1T GETS BLAMED FOR ABOUT ES ERYTHINe,
tor our staying away from church, for
the failure of our crops, for our rheuma-
tism, for our diRgruntled disposition.
What shall we talk aboutP The aspects
of nature but some Of us do not know
very much about them, and so our talk
would soon run out. We might follow
the example of the schoolmen in the Mid.
die Ages and discuss the question as to
how many angels can dance on the point
of q needle without iostling each other,
but there's nothing very practical about
that. We might do as the Athenians did
ever be striving to mud something new
for the theme Of our conversation.
There Ia enough that Ia new that
Is coming up sll the while; but we
dare say that even this age Of novelty
could not make brisk conversation for us
long, If something new were all we had
to talk about. s-
Then what shall we talk about? Let
us talk about our neighbors, for such
talking is right. Imagine, IL you can,
a community where each one worked Sc
thoroughly for himself and thought &C
completely about himself alone that he
had no mind or thought for any enc
else. Would you enjoy living in com
munity like that? This is what we are
complaining about to day, selfishness
which expresses itpeh in the form oil
passing by on the other side and giving
one's neighhbor the absolute go-by. You
might as well live in 8 desert or ON 81
uninb abited island, such as that TO which
Dreyfus was sent, with malsrial dampi
hanging over it with dripping blanket
u as to live In such community. Thou
art thy brothers. keeper; it is your bust
ness to be interested In what your brother
: says and does. Motives center In per.
sons then why not our conversation?
You might great deal better tall
about your neighbor than good many
other things that people do talk about
/ A little seyen-year-old girl surprised hel
father recently by hurrying TO the door
for the evening paper, saying that che
wanted TO read the rest of that murder
case. The father was surprised, yet
that murder case had formed the topic
of conversation ct the evening meal for
several days. We parents must expect
that what we talk about our children
will talk about too. What terrible
record ID spread before US by the crimi.
nal columns in the paper during one
week Shall we make this record the
substantials for our mental diet? Shall
we air it In q II its horrible phases before
our children? Shall we diiate upon the
evidence of this clue or the relation OF
that mysterious thing? Let MS rather
talk about our neighbors. Let us rather
talk about those things which make for
straightforward living. Let US rather
! speak the agreeable thing, the edifying
!, thing, the thing which afterwards we
shall not wish unsaid.
4 But talking in the right way about
your neighbor is quite different from
!, prying curi0usly into his affairs, saying
such things about him az will be very
disagreeable when they cometn his ears
and they surely will reach his ears II
they are disa greeahle. remember once
hearing DR. n. n. Meredith say, tour
people are plain sort or folk who make
their living by mfnding their own busi-
ness ~ and have never been In that
II church since but have curioualy looked
Inpon that peculiar people who made
a their living IN peculiar way. interest
81 IN yonr nnigh5or Won must pc Il ron
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