The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-03-21

i yOu answer, LIZ uHS uOI. he ii not
Rufus Choate nor a William Writ no
an Edmund Randolph nor a Ptnckney
He is, however. a good, fair lawyer
But, above all, he is an honest man
On account Of his honesty his client.
leave their property to him as thei
executor, often without bonds. Whe1
men go to him with legal difficulties
they know his chief purpose is to keel
! them out of the law courts rather thar
! to push them in. Others lawyers may
be more brilliant mentally, but Judge
Soand-so holds his clients to him will
links of steel They all know he will
| look after their interests as though
they were his own"
| Why does your family physician have
such large practice? You trust him
not only as good doctor, but as an
honest man. You know when he is
called he will not put you to bed for
an attack Of grip and call it pneu-
monia and charge you 500 to cure you
of disease you never had. You know
he will not run up useless bills against
you, as some dishonest dentists do,
who. if they cannot find any cavities
in your teeth, will bore holes into them
just to send you bill to make you
support them and their families You
know that yonder merchant has a large
business not because he offers better
goods than his rivals, but because you
can believe his statements in reference
to those goods. Indeed, I go further
than my original assertion IN refer
ence to my text. A good name is more
often found in a comfortable home
than it is in a howell.
Where Good Names Are Found.
Seek We first the kingdom Of God
and his Righteousness, and all these
things will be added unto you" That
means clothing, food, home, education
AS rule, all these blessings accom-
pany the industry Of good name. In
order TO win good name, sacrifices
you will have to make. In order to
win the battle Of Waterloo, Wellington
had to make awful sacrifices. A short
time after his famous conquest the
English commander wrote to a dear
friend as follows: What do you think
of the total defeat of Bonaparte by the
British army? Never was there in the
annals of the world so desperate or so
hard fought an action or such a defeat.
1t was really the battle of the giants
My heart is broken by the terrible loss
have sustained, Of my old friends and
companions and my poor soldiers" In
the battle Of Waterloo, in which you
have to struggle for good name, you
will have to make many sacrifices, as
did Wellington. But, as rule, you will
not have to suffer poverty, hunger
homelessness and cold A good name
is won by industry, frugality, purity,
honesty and doing with all your heart
and mind what your hand finds to do.
These characteristics Of man, earnest
~ and faithfully followed through life,
will inevitably land man. in better
place than the poorhouse or potter's
field. 1t does not follow because you
are financially poor that you are holy;
it does not follow because you live in a
palace that you are rascal. Beau
Brummel died pauper; Peter Cooper
lived In a rich mans mansion.
But good name does more than pay
your butchers and bakers and grocer's
and clothier's bills. It does more than
give you a title deed to the house In
which you live. 1t offers to you the
most priceless gift on earth, next to
the gift of Jesus Christ, the love Of
your family and your friends and the
love and respect Of the community in
which you live. There is an old prov
erb which says: "a man cannot live
on love alone. When poverty knocks
at the door love flies out Of the win
dow Poor proverb that! The richest
home on earth where love is not is
poorer than the poorest mans howell
where love dwells. The love Of COM
munity is yours If you will earn it with
the deeds and loves Of a good man.
If you were a great man, truly
great man, could not say this. One
IF the heavy prices truly great man,
IS rule, has to pay for his greatness
Is to suffer Misrepresentation and SIAN
Ter and hate. Most Of the contempt
raries of John Milton never could ap-
oreciate the true worth of the blind
sage, who in the black exile of national
contempt had to 60 to his study for
comfort until his blinded eyes saw
more Of the glories of heaven than the
,wo eyes Of any inspired writer have
ever seen since apostolic times. Many
! soiled statue III Westminster abbey
could be washed as white as the driven
snow if it were only possible to col
ect all the tears which once fell from
he eyes of those whose bodies are now
,leeping under yonder cold marble.
Those tears were shed in the days Of
Neglect and ostracism and poverty.
only the other day ran across an ed
tol.ial written by one of the most. ia
nous of northern writer's, who after
ward became one of the greatest eulo-
lists of our martyred president Abra-
lain Lincoln. This editorial was writ
en- in the heat Of the civil war. ANY
nan who would go down to Washing
on and shoot the stupid fool in the
White House would be comforting an |
nestimable service on the American !
,eople were it not for the fact there |
vas bigger blockhead in the vice |
chair" All yes the bit