St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-02-24

chiefly observant of defects and glad
to find something wrong in character
The fact is opt to be demonstrated in
his locks. However regular his fea.
lures, and though constructed accord
ing to the laws of Kaspar Lavater, his
visagc is sour. He may smile, but il
is q sour smile. There is a sneer in
the imitation of the nostril. There il a
mean curvature to the lip. There is Z
bad look in the eye. The devil Of
sarcasm and malevolence and suspi-
cion has taken possession of him. and
you see it as plainly as though from
the hair line Of the forehead to the
lowest point in the round Of his chin
it were written: mine! Mine! I,
the demon of the pit, have soured his
sisage with my curse. Look at him!
lie chose a diet of carrion. He gloated
over the misdeeds of others. 1t took
all my internal engineery to make him
what he is-'a busybody in other mems
Matters.
The slanderer almost always At
tempts to escape the scandal he is re
sponsible for. When in 1741 John Wes-
ley was preaching at Bristol and show
ing what reason he had to trust in the
Captain of His Salvation hearer cried
out: "Who was your captain when
you hanged yourself? know the man
who saw you when you were cut
down." John Wesley asked the audi
ence to make room and let the SLAM
dercr come to the front, but when the
way was open the slanderer, instead
of coming forward, fled the room. The
author or distributor of ISLANDERS never
wants to face his work.
On the day of Pentecost there were
people endowed with what was called
the gift of tongues" and they spake
for God in many languages. But there
are people in our time who seem to
have the gift of evil tongues, and
there is no end to their iniquitous CAB
bic. Every city, village and neighbor-
hood of the earth has had driven
through it these scavenger carts.
When anything is said to you defam-
atory of the character of others, imi-
tate Joseph John Quincy, of England,
who. when a bad report was brought
to him concerning anybody. asked:
"Dost thou know any good thing to
tell us concerning her? Since there is
no good to relate, would it not be
kinder to be silent on the evil? Char
ity rejoiceth not in iniquity."
But there is . worthy and Christian
way Of looking abroad upon others,
rot for the purpose of bringing them
TO disadvantage or advertising their
weaknesses or putting in great prim-
err or paragon" type their frailties,
but to offer help, sympathy and res
cue. That is Christlike, and he who
does so wins the applause of the high
heavens. Just look abroad for the peo-
pie who have made great mistakes and
put a big plaster of coincidence on
their decorations. Such people are
never sympathized with, although
they need an infinity of solace. Do
nestle mistakes. Social mistakes. Ec-
clesiastical mistakes. Political mis-
takes. The world has for such only
jocosity and gesture of deportation.
There is an unoccupied field for you,
my brother. No one has been there.
Take your case of medicines and go
there and ask them where they are
hurt and apply divine medicament.
There is public man who has made
a political mistake from which he will
never recover. At the next elections
Re will be put back and put down in
to place of disapproval from which
he will never rise. just go to that
man and unroll the scroll of 100 splen-
cid Americans who, after occupying
high places of promotion, were rele-
gated to private life and public scorn.
Show him In what glorious company
he has been placed by the anathema
of the ballot box.
There is man or woman who has
made conjugal mistake and vul-
ture has been put into the same cage
with a dove or . lion and lamb in
the same jungle. The world laughs at
the misfortune, but it is your bust
ness to weep with their woe. There
is a merchant who bought at the
wrong time or manufacturer whose
old machinery. has been superseded by
a new invention or who under change
of tariff on certain styles of fabric
has been dropped from affluence into
Go to him and recall the
names of 50 business men who lost
all but their honesty and God and
Let them know there are
hundreds of good men who have gone
under that are thought of in heaven
" spheres more than many who are
high up and going higher.
Go to that literary man who is starv-
ing with brilliant pen in his right
hand, his literary position lost, his
books unstable, and tell him of the
mightiest of the past and the pres
pnt who suffered from nonapprccia-
ton. Show the discouraged author
whose manuscript the publishing
house will not take that among the
manuscripts of the publishing
houses for awhile were Paradise
Lost" and "Jane Eyre" and Thack-
eray's "vanity Fair" and "vestiges Of
Creation" and "Uncle Toms Cabin"
and that Shakespeare was compare
lively unknown In England until Ger
many acclaimed its appreciation of the
greatest of dramatists. Unroll before
that discouraged public man the car
toons in the time of Andrew jackson
md Abraham Lincoln and James G.
Blaine, and show all the misinter-
preted and pursued the fact that they
have it no worse than many who have
preceded them and that in most cases
L is jealousy at success that has caused
the assault. trr
Hear it! The more you 60 to busy
ing yourselves with other mems mat
Lers the better, il you have design of
offering relief. Search out the quar-
rels, that you may settle them; the
fallen, that you may lift them; the
pangs, that you may assuage them.
Arm yourself with two bottles of di-
vine medicine, the one a tonic and the
other an anaesthetic, the latter to
soothe and quiet, the former to stimu-
late, to inspire to sublime action.