St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-22

sarcasm ana retOrG not Tor laWfu
purposes, but to sting and humiliat,
and hurt! didn't take him down 2
"Didn't I make him wince?" didn't
give it to him?" That is the spirit
of the devil, while the opposite is the
spirit of Christ.
| Alexander the Great won the love OF
his soldiers on foct by calling them
fellow footmen. Rehoboam lost the
ten tribes through his discourtesy.
More thoughtfulness for others-let III
all cultivate it. That spirit was well
illustrated when the Birkenllead was
wrecked on the rocks and all knew
she must go down. Many soldiers
were on board. The drum sounded,
and the soldiers fell into line. The
women and children were got off in
the boats. Then the commander of
the ship said: "Let all those who can
swim strike out for the boats" NO."
said Capt. Wight, of the Ninety-first
Highlanders; ''if you do that, you will
sink the boats in which the women
and children are.' The brave men
kept to their post, and just as the ship
| was about to make it's last plunge
they fired salute to those in 'he
boats. What sinking of self in thought
fulness for others!
Many years ago two men entered the
largest locomotive workshops in Phil
adelphia. They were treated in very
Indifferent way and were allowed to
depart without any show of courtesy.
They went into other shops, and no
especial attention was given them.
After awhile the two men entered a
smaller shop, and the overseer took
great pains in showing them every
thing and how they wrought and on
what plan the shops were run. The
two visitors We're agents of the car of
Russia, and these shops were trans
ferred to st. Petersburg, and that po-
lite man that bestowed such attention
was called to build the locomotives for
all the railroads of Russia and had for
tune after fortune roll in upon him.
Courtesy is mighty force in temporal
things as well as in spiritual things.
Let us start each year. each month,
each day, with the question, What can
I do to make others happy? On onr
way to office or store or shop or rail
train let US be alert for Heaven de-
scended opportunities.
The time must come when the world
will acknowledge international cour-
tesy. Now courtesy between nations
is chiefly made of rhetorical greeting,
but as soon as there is difference of |
interest their ministers plenipotentiary |
are called home, and the guns of the
forts are put in position, and the army
and navy get ready. Why not cour-
tesy between nations that will defer |
to each other and surrender little
rather than have prolonged acrimony,
ending in great slaughter? Room for
all nations of the earth and all styles
Of government. What the world wants
is less armament and more courtesy,
less of the spirit of destruction and
more of the spirit of amity. This CEN
fury has opened with too many armies
in the field and too many men-of-war
IN the ocean. Before the century closes
nay the last cavalry horse be hitched
% the pillow and the last warship be-
ZONE merchantmen.
There is nothing worthy in the
bought that the earth will get too
with populat ton if vast multi
udes are not destroyed by war. When
ur old world is full of inhabitants
t will have fulfilled it's mission, and IL
will be put aside like an old ship turned
nto navy yard and dismantled and
he worlds inha bitants transferred to
ONE other constellation. The angels
4 the song celebrated this coming in
irrational courtesy when in the Beth
chem starlight they chanted: "Good
rin to men,"
If others lack courtesy that is no
eason why you should lack it. Re- +,
pond to rudeness by utmost affabili-
y. Because some one else is boor
no reason why you should be a boor.
tut how few show urbanity when bad
7 treated! Human nature says: IAN
ye for an eye, tooth for tooth, re-
ort for retort, SANDER for SANDER,
for maltreatment." But
here have been those you and have q
nown who amid assault and carica- q
Ire and injustice have maintained the {
'veliness of blossom week in spring.
me. Nothing but Divine grace in the t
cart can keep such equilibrium. That :
not human nature until it is trans
,rmed by supernal influences. To put
on the lowest ground you cannot at
I'D to be revengeful and malignant. =
aired and high indignation are stages
unhealth. They enlarge the spleen;
Iey weaken the nerves; they attack
e brain. Rage in man is one form =
apoplexy. Every time you get mad \
~ damage your body and mind and =
ul, and you have not such a surplus
vigor and energy that you can af- d
I'd to sacrifice them. b
So I applaud Christian courtesy. I r.
ould put it upon the throne of every
art in all the world. The beauty of
is that you may extend it to others b
ID have just as much of it-yea, more "
it-left in your own heart and life. Ia
is like the miracle of the loaves and W
hes, which, by being divided, were E,
ultiplied until IL baskets were
led with the remnants. It is like q
rch, with which so lamps may be o.
hted and yet the torch remain as %
light as before it lighted the first ";
mp. "a
But this grace will not come to it's 81
ronal until it reaches the heavenly
here. What world that must be a
lere selfishness and jealousy and IT
ide and acerbities of temper have
yer entered and never will enter!
struggle for precedence. No rival
between cherubim and seraphim.
mbition as to who shall have thu II