The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-26

after awhile cried to his horses, "Ho"
and said to the gentlemen, 81 must go
back and help that hog out of the
mire." And he did go back and put
on solid ground that most uninterest-
ing quadruped. That was the spirit
that was manifested by my departed
friend. Hon. Alexander H Stephens Of
Georgia-and lovelier man never ex-
changed earth for heaven-when at
Washington. A 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; l could not look at the poor thing
without crying" That is the spirit
which last night ten thousand mothers
showed to their sick children coming
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 make
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
matter? 1t seems to me that the world
is getting to be better place to live
in. Why, life after all is worth living.
Why, there is Shylock, my neighbor,
has withdrawn his lawsuit of foreclos-
ure against that man, and because he
has had SO much sickness in his family
"a G 10
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
attorney is hunting up previous de-
clslons and making out brief for the
boy Do you know that strange
thing has taken place in the pulpit
and all the old ministers are helping
the young ministers, and all the old
doctors are helping the young doctors.
and the farmers are assisting each
other in gathering the harvest, and
for that farmer who is sick the neigh
bors have made 'bee,' as they call it,,
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
posltlons on papers are helping the
young fellows who are just beginning
to try and do not know exactly how to,
do it. And after few erasures and
interpretations on the reporters pad
they say Now, here is readable ac-
count of the tragedy; hand it in, and 1
am sure the managing editor will take
it,"
New Dlspensation of Geniality.
My hearers, you know and l know
we are far from that state of things1
But why not inaugurate new dispen-,
sation of geniality. If we cannot have
a millennium on a large scale, let us.
have it on small scale and under our
own vestments. Kindness! II thisi
world is ever brought to God, that is;
the thing that will do it, You cannot.
fret the world up, although you may
fret the world down. You cannot scold
1T into excellence or reformation or
goodness.
The east wind and the west wind,
We're one day talking with Zach other
and the east wind sad to the vest
vino Don't you wish you had nv.
power? Why, when l start they hail,
me by storm signals all along the,
coast. can twist off q ships mast,
as easily as cows hoof cracks an.
alder. With one sweep of my wing /
have strewn the coast from Newfound-,
land to Key West with parted ship
timber. | can lift and have lifted the
Atlantic ocean. l am the terror of all
lnvalldlsm, and to fight me back for
ests must be cut down for fires, and the
mines of continents are called on to
iced the furnaces. Under my breath
the nations crouch into sepulchers.
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
rosy bowers of the sky, and all the
rivers and lakes and seas smiled at its
coming. The gardens bloomed, and the
orchards ripened, and the wheatfields
turned their silver into gold. and
health clapped it's hands. and ioy
shouted from the hilltops, and the ma
lions 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 the
beauty, and the life were the only an
swer the west wind made to the in
science of the east winds interroga,
ton.
And while we take this matchless
kindness from God may it be 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 it would not be bad epitaph for
any of us if, by the grace Of God. from
this time forth we lived c,oh Ao,,os