Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-22

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 it 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
now with all the benedictions that in
finity can afford. Look at him. Ad-
mire him. Congratulate him"
The SIanderer.
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 I\aspar Lavater, his
visage is sour. He may smile, but it is
q sour smile. There is sheer in the
imitation of the nostril. There is
mean curvature to the lip. There is
bad look in the eye. The devil of sar-
casm and malevolence and suspicion
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: "Minei Mine! I, the demon
of the pit, have soured his visage with
my curse. Look at him! He chose
diet Of carrion. He glOated over the
misdeeds of others. 1t took all my
Internal enginery to make him what
he is-'a busybody in other mems mat
ters.'"
But there is a worthy and Christian
way of looking abroad upon others,
not for the purpose Of bringing them
to disadvantage or advertising their
weaknesses or putting in great prim-
err or paragon" type their frailities,
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
people who have made great mistakes
and put big plaster of coincidence on
their decorations. Such people are new
er sympathized with, although they
need an infinity of solace. Domestic
mistakes. Social mistakes. Ecclesi-
astical mistakes. Political mistakes.
Weep With Woe.
There is a public man who has made
a political mistake from which he will
never recover. At the next elections
he will be put back and put down into
a place of disapproval from which he
will never rise. Just go to that man
and unroll the scroll Of 100 splendid
Americans who, after occupying high
places of promotion, were relegated 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 a man or woman who has
made a conjugal mistake, and a vul-
ture has been put into the same cage
with a dove or lion and a lamb in
the same jungle. The world laughs at
the misfortune, but it is your business
to weep with their woe There is
merchant who bought at the wrong
time or a manufacturer whose old ma
chinery has been superseded by new
invention or who under change of tar
iff on certain styles of fabric has been
dropped from aff1uence into bankrupt
cy. Go to him and recall the names of
so business men who lost all but their
honesty and God and heaven. Let
them know there are hundreds Of good
men who have gone under that are
thought of in heavenly spheres more
than many who are high up and going
higher. All will acknowledge that
good and lovely Arthur Tappan, who
failed in business, was more to be ad-
mired than William Tweed in posses
sion of his stolen millions.
Go to that literary man who is starv-
ing with a brilliant pen in his right
hand, his literary position lost, his
books unstable, and tell him of the
mightiest of the past and the present
who suffered from nonappreciation.
Show the discouraged author whose
manuscript the publishing house will
not take that among the rejected man.
uscripts of the publishing houses for
awhile were paradise Lost" and
"Jane Eyre" and Thackeray's vanity
Fair" and "Vestiges Of Creation" and
''Uncle Toms Cabin" and that Shakes
peare was comparatively unknown in
England until Germany acclaimed it's
appreciation of the greatest of drama
lists. Unroll before that discouraged
public man the cartoons in the time of
Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lin
coin and James G. Blaine and show all
the misinterpreted and pursued the
fact that they have 1t no worse than
many who have preceded them and
that in most cases it is jealousy at sue
cess that has caused the assault
Lift the Fallen.
Hear 1t! The more you go to busy
ing yourselves In other mems mat