Connecticut western news., 1900-01-25

tions against them. The bad work may not have been done so much by words, for they would be libelous, but by twinkle of the eye or a shrug of the shoulder or a sarcastic accentua- tion of q word. ''Yes, he Is all right when he is sober'' Have you inQuir- ed into that mans history" Do you know what business he was in before he entered this?' Il move that the application be laid on the table until some investigations now going on are consummated." It is easy enough to start a suspicion that will never down, but what n despicable man Is the one who started 1t!
 Slain by Interrogation Points. There Is not an honest man in Wash ington or New York or any other city who cannot be damaged by such in- fernalism. In village where I once lived a steamboat every day came to the wharf. An enemy of the steam boat company asked one day, Il won- der if that steamboat is safer The man who heard the question soon said | to his neighbor, 'There Is some sus- | picion about the safety of that steam boat" And the next one who got hold | of 1t said, "There is an impression abroad that there will soon be an acci- dent on that steamer" Soon all that community began to say, "That steam CT Is very unsafe" And as conse- quence we all took the stage rather than risk our lives on the river The steamer was entirely sound and safe, | but one interrogation in regard to her started suspicion that went on until the steamboat company was ruined. Precisely so noble regulations and | good enterprises and useful styles of | business are slain by Interrogation 1 points, Can you imagine any creature so loathsome as the one who feels himself or herself called to question all integrity, all ability, all honesty; all character? Buzzards looking for car rion.
 While I believe enough in human depravity to be orthodox, I tell you that the most of people whom I know are doing the best they can. Faults? | Oh, yes: all people except you and l | have faults. But they are sorry about | it, repentant on account of it and are l trying to do better About all the mar ried people I know of are married to | the one person best suited. Nearly all | the parents with whom I am acquaint- ed are doing the best they can for their children. All the clerks in stores, so far as know, are honest, and all per sons In official position, city, state or nation. are fulfilling their mission as | ne, lP who have failed in business, so far as | I know, have failed honestly. The singers are singing their best songs, the sculptors chiseling their best stat ues, the painters penciling their best pictures, the ministers preaching their best sermons. Take any audience that assemblies in any church, and If there are 800 people assembled l think at least 45O are doing the best they can, | and if there be 5000 assembled at least 4,500 are doing the best they can. Hunting For vultures.
 All people make mistakes = say things that afterward they are sorry for and miss opportunity of uttering the right word and doing the right thing. But when they say their pray CTS at night these defects are sure to be mentioned somewhere between the name of the Lord, for whose mercy they plead, and the amen that closes the application. That has not been my observation says some one. Well, | am sorry for you, my brother, my sis ter. What an awful crowd you must have got into! Or, as is more proba- ble, you are one of the characters that my text sketches. You have not been hunting for cartridges and quail, but | for vifltureA You have been micro scopizing the worlds faults. You have been down in the marshes when you ought to have been on the uplands. have caught you at last. You are "a busybody in other mems matters" How Is 1t that you can always find two opinions about any one and those two opinions exactly opposite? I will | tell you the reason. It is because there are two sides to every characteristic best side and the worst side. A well disposed man chiefly seeks the best side. The badly disposed seeks chief ly the worst side. Be ours the desire to see the best side, for 1t is healthier
 for us so to do and stirs admiration.
 which is an elevated state, while the desire to find the worst side keeps one
 in a spirit of disquietude and disgust and mean suspicion, and that is pull
 ing down of our own nature, a disfig-
 urement of our own character. I am afraid the imperfections of others will
 kill us yet.
 The habit deplore Is apt to show itself in the visage. A kindly man who wishes everybody well soon dem onstrates his disposition in his looks. His features may fracture all the laws of handsome physiognomy, but God puts into that mans eyes and in the curve of his nostrils and in the upper and lower lip the signature of divine approval. And you see 1t at a glance, as plainly as though it had been writ ten all over his face in rose color:
 .This Is one of my princes. He is on the way to coronation. l bless him
 Eow with all the benedictions that in
 fnity can afford. Look at him. Ad- mire him. Congratulate him."
 The Slanderer.
 On the other hand, if one be cynical about the character of others and chiefly observant of defects and glad to find something wrong in character the fact Is apt to be demonstrated in
 his looks. However regular his fea- lures and though constructed accord ing to the laws of Kaspar Lavater, his
 visage is sour. He may smile, but it is a sour smile. There Is. sheer in the imitation of the nostril. There is a
 mean curvature to the lip. There Is a
 bad look In the eye. The devil of sar- casm and malevolence and suspicion
 has taken possession of him, and you see 1t as plainly as though from the
 hair line of the forehead to the lowest
 point in the round of his chin it were