Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1905-11-24
BE GOOD TO YOUR FRIENDS.
"sermonette" on Loyalty, Friendships
and Being Square.

and Being Square.
There are so many misunderStand-
ings among friends; so many enemies
without any apparentreasou; somany
Jealousies, and so much trouble gener-
ally without cause, that the following
from the Sioux City journal is worthy
of space:
Life is too short to devote any consid-
cradle part of it to worry because of
enemies. The best that can be done i S
to put forth all possible effort to de-
serve friends; and it is altogether
more wholesome to stay with friends
than to run after enemies.
Glove me-, love my dog" is a policy
with many, and though it frequently
happens that the dog is the preferable.
much not can be said of the policy. No
one has the right to insist that goo d
relations shall be at the price of shar-
ing all the enmities, the petty jealous
les, the business rivalries. likes and
dislikes of whatever kind, that the i'm
dlvldual may have put in storage.
Every one has enough trouble of his
own without being pack horse for
like luggage that belongs to other peo
Pile.
If man promise to make job lot of
hatred in his desire to furnish balm,
the chances are he is either a fool or
insincere. To an extent men come to
gether according to their kind, and
men that are foreign it is we'll to leave
to their own ways. Men are often mis-
taken, prejudiced by their own inter
ests, and they are wise if they can take
this into account. They ought not to
insist that others be like them, or as
sumo to be like them, il they are to be
in favor and if under any circumstance S
there is to be what may pass for gen,
eroslty between them. No man can
we'll afford to stunt himself to meet
the stunt to which some one else has
subjected himself.
Life ought not to be wasted in run
ming after enemies; life is amply full
OF work if the right thing is done to-
ward friends. The right thing towards S
friends is the right thing toward self:
and this is the thing to keep in mind
That is what is involved in buildin Q
gooh character; and that is what is
involved in being worthy of friends
of their confidence, of their helpful
ness, and of such reciprocity in associ
alton as to keep open the door for fair
and honorable exchanges. A mau can
not be mean to himself, mean in his
Thought, narrow in his purposes, selfish
in all his protfers of help. aud have
good to his credit in large churks.
1t is prudent and altogether compen
sating 10 stick to ones friends, to be
loyal to them, to be grateful to them.
and not backward i'm a good turn. 1t
is mean thing to sell them out: to
count them as so much stock aud re
serve activity and recognition for
other men whose influence is on the
hisifhet. III is poor business to do that
and it is poor morals as WE'LL
1T is we'll to know that one canno t
Shift himself to this position and tina t
to meet the whims and schemes of mon
and at the same time make himself a
better and more deserving man. 1t
doesn't pay to Cry. The friends a man
gets honestly are his true friends. and
he is false to himself and to them if he
deserts for what may strike him as an
immediate advantage If mau is
square with himself he is not unlikely
to be square with other people. At
any rate, it is the basis of friendship
that is worth anything.
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