The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-30

and 1t were still reeking with the car mage of the battle. that rose needed to moral ancestors were cultured. c God, | implant kindness in all our souls and I then give us grace to watch it. to enrich
 Rare Flower from Royal Garden.
 The king of Prussia had presented to him by the Lmpress of Russia the root of a rare flower, and It was put in the froyal gardens on an island and the head gardener, Herr Fintleman. was told to .iory. Three days of every week the peo- pie were admitted to these gardens, and a young man. probably not realizing what I 2 wrong thing he was doing, plusHeu arris s l flower and put 1t in his buttonhole, and 1 the gardener arrested him as ne was | crossing the ferry and asked the king to l throw open no more his gardens 10 the to the thousands of good people of my country the privilege Of seeing tnas gar l den because one visitor has done wrong No; let them come and see the psautl.Sl ,.t grounds" And when the gardener wish 1 sd to give the king the name or the or l fender who had taken the royal hower ne | said. No; my memory Is very tenacious; and do not want to have in my mind l the name of the offender lest it should | hinder me granting him favor some otn. | CT ttfne." Now, want you to know that kindness is royal flower, and aes olessed dno oe by a divine gift. and not by purSining, l we may pluck this royal flower and not | wear 1t on the outside of our nature, but 1 its radiance and aroma not more won derful for time than wonderful TOT eter- 'nity.
 | of word. When you meet any one, do | you say a pleasant thing or an unpleas- ant? Do you tell nim of agreeable things | you have heard about him or the disa- feel better or does he feel worse? Oh, | the power of the tongue for the production l of happiness or misery! One would think
 the way the snt pnsus sS.t s s sss % | gerous power. First it Is chained to the I back part of the mouth by strong mus cie. Then it is surrounded by the teeth
 and tss tS.n r0Isr Ss teeth of the upper jaw more ivory bars. Then. outside Of alL
 are the two lips. with the power of com
 sssndiUs DresdiS nS these four imp tmpris snments or Limitations how many take no hint In regard to the dangerous power or the
 tongue, and the results are laceration, l those if they know a good thing about | you and a bad thing will mention the l had thing and act as though they had
 are two sides t, almost every cne's char l'neter. and we have the choice of over hauling the virtue or the vice. We can
 Paul hs and Seses es ssPi o Mass sss" wh as aS
 words: What a sorry looking set you
 are! How little of navigation you must know to run on thess rocks! Didn't you
 know better than to put out on the Med iterranean this wintry month? It was not much of a ship anyhow, or 1t would
 not have gone to pieces ns soon as that;
 enough work 10 make living for our
 selves, without having thrust on us NO
 ragamuffins." Not so said the Maltese,
 think they said Come in! Sit down AAA APA and
 that you all got off with your lives. Make
 yourself at horne. You are welcome to
 all we have uEtil some shtp comes In sight and you resume your voyage. Here. let me put a bandage on your forehead.
 the floating timbsrs. And here is man
 tor come to attend to this fracture" And,
 though for three months the Kindness
 went on. we have little more than this this
 brief record ,,tt,I Ths ,,Snsos Snsss rou' people
 Hopeful and Cordial Words.
 Oh, say the cordial thing! Say the use
 fui thing. Say the hospitaole thing: Say ! the helpful thing. say the Christllke
 thing Say the kind thing. l admit that for others Some are born pessimists,
 and some are born optmists, and that l demonstrates itself all through every.
 sh,ns pessimists nj and Sy you say. M What weather , today?" He answers, Its going tc atorrn'' and umbrella under arm and wa , terproof coat show that he Is honest h ]. that utteranoo. On the same block, 2
 minute after. you meet an opttmist, and
 you say, What do you think of the com
 mercial prospects?' and he says: "Glo, rious. Crops not 90 good as usual, but but
 foreign demand will make big prices. We are going to have such an autumn anc . winter of prosperity as we have never
 you meet a pessimist merchant. ''Wha , do you think of the commercial pros
 tcts?" yoL ask, and he answers: welt
 l don't know. Wheat ana corn ctSi M grain gamblers will get their fist in, and
 the hay crop is short in some places and
 in the southern part of Wisconsin they
 dull as it ever was" You will find the same difference in judgment of character
 A man of good reputation is assailed and
 charged with some evil deed. At the first story the pessimist will believe in guilt Down with him." The optimist will say
 T don't believe word of it. l don''
 think that a man that has been as use
 full and seemingly honest for twenty
 years could have got off the track lik' / that. There are two sides to this story
 before I condemn him." My nearer, fl
 you are by nature a pessimist. make a sDeciel effort by the grace ot God to OK
 cal from your disposition. Believe noth ing against anybody until the wrong i' . established by at least two witnesses oi
 integrity. And, if guilt be proved hnt : out the oxtenua ting circuTstances i
 there be any. Kindness! Let us morn
 ing. noon and night. pray for 1t until. w'
 When you caa speak 6 good work fol | some one, speak it. If you can conscie1 ; tiously give letter of recommendation give it. Watch for opportunities for do
 ing good fifty years after you are dead All my life has been affected by the let ter of introduction that the Rev. ID. Var Yranken of New Brunswick Theologica
 Seminary wrote fer me. a boy under htp j when I was seeking settlement in whic'
 to preach the gospel. That letter gay,
 me my first pulpit. Dr. Van Vranken ha
 been dead more than thirty years yet feel the touch of that magnificent olC
 professor. Strange sensation was 1t whel Thomas Guard of Baltimore. the grea Methodist orator. six weeks after hi, dHath! Bv way of the eternal world . Oh no; hy way of this world. did no meet the friend to whom he gave tn message until nearly two months afte can start a word about some one tha will be on its travels and vigorous loni after the funeral psalm has been sung a 2 your obsequies. Kindness! Why, if lift men all aglow with 1t should wall [ through the lost woild methinks the, would almost abolish perdltion.
 Kindness of Action.
 = Furthermore, there is Kindness of ac 2 ton. That is what Joseph showed to hi v | outrageous brothers. That is what Da r vid showed to Mephibosheth for his ia . ther Jonathans sake. That Is what One l. | siphorus showed to Paul in the Roma 6 nenitentiary. That is what William Cow 2 her recognized when he said he would no s | trust a man who would with his foo A | needlessly crush worm. That is wha