St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-10-19

| more need OF societies for prevention
| of cruelty to animals, no more need Of
protective sewing woman's associa
tions, and it would dull every sword
until it would not cut skin deep, anc
unwheel every battery till it could not
roll, and make gunpowder of no more
use in the world except for rock blast
ing or pyrotechnic celebration. Kind
ness is a spirit divinely implanted and
in answer to prayer, and then to be
sedulously cultivated until it fills al
the nature with a perfume richer anc
more pungent than mignonette, and
as if you put tuft Of that aromatic
beauty behind the clock on the mantel
or in some corner where nobody car
see it, you find people walking about
your room looking this way and that
| and you ask them: "What are you
looking for?" and they answer: 'Wheze
is that fower?" So if one has in his
soul this infinite sweetness of DISPOSE
ton it's perfume will whelm every
thing.
Let us all pray for the spirit of kind
ness. 1t will settle thousand ques-
tions. 1t will change the phase of ev-
erything. 1t will mellow through and
through our entire nature. It will
transform lifetime. It is not feel
ing got up for occasions, but perennial.
That is the reason like petunias bet
ter than morning glories. They look
very much alike, and if should put in
your hand petunia and morning
glory you could hardly tell which is
the petunia and which the morning
glory. But the morning glory blooms
only a few hours and then shuts up
for the day, while the petunia is in as
widespread glow at IL o'clock at
noon and six o'clock in the evening as
at sunrise. And this grace of kind
ness is not spasmodic, it is not inter-
mittent, is not for a little while, but
it irradiates the whole nature all
through and clear on till the sunset
of our earthly existence.
Kindness! I am resolved to get it.
Are you resolved to get it? 1t does not
come by haphazard, but through cul-
ture under the divine help. Thistles
grow without culture. Rocky noun
tain sage grass grows without culture.
Mullen stalks grow without culture.
But that great red rose in the con-
servatory, its leaves packed on leaves,
deep dyed as though it had been
obliged to fight for its beauty and it
were still reeking with the carnage of
the battle, that rose needed to be Gull
tured, and through long years it's
floral ancestors were cultured. OGod,
implant kindness in all our souls and
then give us grace to watch it, to en-
rich it. to develop it!
Still further, I must speak of kind
ness of word. When you meet any
one, do you say pleasant thing or
an unpleasant? Do you tell him of
an agreeable thing you have heard
about him or the disagreeable? When
he leaves you does he feel better or
does he feel worse? Oh, the power
of the tongue for the production of
happiness or misery! One would think
from the way the tongue is Gagged in
we might take the hint that it has
a dangerous power. First it is
chained to the back part of the
mouth by strong muscles. Then it is
by the teeth of the lower
jaw, SO many ivory bars, and then
by the teeth of the upper jaw, more
ivory bars. Then, outside of all, are
the two lips, with the power of COM
preston and arrest. And yet, not
withstanding these four imprison-
ments or limitations, how many take
no hint in regard to the dangerous
power of the tongue, and the results
are liberation, scarifcation and
damnation.
oh, say the cordial thing! Say the
useful thing. Say the hospitable
thing. Say the helpful thing. Say
the Christlike thing. Say the kind
thing. admit that it is easier for
some temperaments than for others.
Some are born pessimists, and some
Ire born optimists, and that demon
strates itself all through everything.
It is q cloudy morning. You meet a
oessimist, and you say: "What wealth
r to-day?" He answers: Its 60
ng to Storm" and umbrella under
lrm and waterproof coat show that |
1e is honest in that utterance. On |
he same block, minute after, you
meet an optimist, and you say: what
10 you think of the commercial pros
and he says: GLORIOUS.
crops not so good as usual, but for
ign demand will make big prices.
We are going to have such an autumn
md winter of prosperity as we have
never SEEN" On your way back to
our store you meet pessimist mer-
liant: what do you think of the
commercial prospects," you ask, and
le answers: "Well, I don't know.
Wheat and corn crop blasted in Kan
as and Missouri, and the grain
gamblers will get their fist in, and
he nay crop is short in some places,
nd in the southern part of Wiscon-
in they had hailstorm, and our
BUSINESS is as dull as it ever was"
you will find the same difference in
Judgment of character. A man of
'ood reputation is assailed and
harged with some evil deed. At the