Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-09-30


on solid ground that most uninterest-
ing auadruped That was the spirit
that was manifested by my departed
friend, Hon. Alexander II. stephens OF
Georgia-and loveiier man never eN-
changed earth for heaven-when at
Washington senator's wife. who
told us of the circumstances. said TO
him, "Mr. stephens. come and see my
dead canary bird" And he answered.
mo; | could not look at the poor thing
without crying" That Is the spirit
which last night ten thousand motheTS-
showed to their sick children cominRV
to give the drink at the tenth call as
cheerfully and as tenderly as at the
first call
Suppose all this assemblage and all
to whom these words shall come by
printers type should resolve to max
kindness an overarching, undergirding
and all-pervading principle of their life
and then carry out the resolution. Why
in six months the whole earth would
feel It, People would say. What is the
matter7 II seems to me that the world
Is getting TO be better place to live
in. Why. life after all Is worth living y
Why, there rs Shylock, my neighbsE
has withdrawn his lawsuit Of foreclos-
ure against that man, and because he &
has had so much sickness in his family q
he ) going 10 have the house for one
year rent free. There is an old lawyer
In that young lawyers Office, and do
you know what he has gone in there
for? Why. he is helping TO fix up a
case which Is TOO big for the young
man TO handle, and the white-haired n
attorney Is hunting up previous de .
cisions and making out a brief for the
boy. DO you know that a strange +
thing has taken place in the pulpit
and all the old ministers are helping Il
the young ministers. and all the old
doctors are helping the young doctors.
and the farmers are assisting each
other i'm gathering the harvest, and
for that farmer who is sick the neigh
bors have made a bee az they call il.
and they have all turned in to help
him get his crops into the garner? And
they tell me that the older and more
skillful reporters who have permanent
positions on papers are helping theeV
young fellows who are just beginning
to try and do not know exactly how to {
do 1t. And after a few erasures and
interpretations on the reporters pad
they say, Now. here is a readable ac-
count OF the tragedy; hand il in. and
am sure the managing editor will take
it,"
New Dispensstion of GeniaIity.
My hearers. you know and | know
we are far from that state of things
But why not inaugurato a new dispen-
sation OF geniality. If we cannot have
millennium on q large scale. let ms
have 1t on a small scale and under our
own vestments. Kindness, II this
world is ever brought to God. that is y
the thing that will do IT, You cannot Y
fret the world up, although you NAV (
fret the world down. You cannot scold
it into excellence or reformation or
godliness.
The east wind and the west wine y
were one day talking with each other
and the east wind said to the west
wind: Don't you wish you had my
power? Why. when | start they hail
me by storm signals all along the
coast. ! can twist of ships mast
as easily as cows hoof cracks an
alder. With one sweep OF my wing I
have strewn the coast from Newfound- |
land to Key West with parted ship !
timber. ! can lift and have lifted the
Atlantic ocean. | am the terror of all
invalidism, and to fight me back for
ests must be cut down for fires, and the
mines OF continents are called on TO
feed the furnaces. Under my breath
the nations crouch into sepuichers.
Don't you wish you had my power?"
said the east wind. The west wind
made no answer, but started on its
mission, coming somewhere out OF the q
rosy bowers of the sky, and all the
rivers and lakes and seas smiled at it's
coming. The gardens bloomed, and the
orchards ripened. and the wheatfields
turned their silver into gold. and
health clapped it's hands and Joy
shouted from the hilltops, and the ma
tions lifted their foreheads into the
light, and the earth had a doxology
for the sky, and the sky an anthem for
the earth, and the warmth and sparkle
and the gladness, and the foliage, and
the flowers, and the fruits, and thu
beauty, and the life were the only an
swer the west wind made to the in
science of the east wiE"'s interroga-
tion. !
And while we take this matchless
kindness from God may 1t 10 found !
that we have uttered our last bitter
word. written our last cutting para
graph, done our last retaliatory action,
felt our last revengeful heart throb
And 1t would not be bad epitaph for
any OF us IL, by the grace of God, from
this time forth we lived such benef-
cent lives that the tombstone's chissS I"
could appropriately cut upon the plx,u
slab that marks our grave a sugan
finn frnm the ipNf ole ahnmnd