The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-08-24
BEARING MALICE.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore SUM-
Some men are known as hot-tempered, others as
malicious There is a vast difference between them
The hot-tempered man may be troublesome ana
but he gets over his fits OF temper and
bears no malice. He u.s. in general, good natured,
but impulsive.
The malicious man. on the contrary seldom en-"
cages in an open quarrel. He is not frank enough
to fight in the open, but nurses his anmosltes ana
works out his revenge in secret. His methods are
those of the assassin who stabs in the back. But
his worst characteristic is that he bears malice
For weeks months, or even years, he treasures
up the wrongs, real or fancied, that he may have
suffered and seeks to revenge himself He is by
nature cowardly, Sinking from contest at the time
it rises, and thus preventing explanation OF what
is possibly an innocent misunderstanding. But ne
does not forget it as generous minded man should;
he broods over it until his wrongs become magnihed
in his imagination, and he cherishes at all times
desire for revenge. He is by nature cool, caculat-
ing and hypocritica giving indication of his evil
feelings until the time comes for him to strike. he
is essentially different from the generous minded
man, who is governed by his emotions and who,
though hot tempered and belligerent, may also be
warmly affectionate.
The generous minded man cannot bear malice.
siders that he has been wronged he seeks redress in
manly fashion at once and brings the episode to an
end. If his opponent has borne himself manfully,
the end of the battle may find them warm friends
They arrive at a good understanding, and the past
is dismissed from their memory.
The two dispotions finely sketched in "Othel-
lo and Shakespeare has rightly taught us to pity
the Moor and loath Iago. The tragedy carries the
expression of the different dispositions far beyond
our ordinary experiences, but nevertheless, remains
instructive The man of generous disposition, even
though posed of infirmites of temper, is immeas'
urably superior to the thin booded, calculating,
suave and apparently inoffensive man who avoids
an open conflict crnges humbly before an open adj
versary and yet bears malace, seeking his revenges
after the manner of an assassin in the dark.
Nor should we neglect to apply abstract ideas
upon this subject to our own conduct for the sake
of reflex influence that conduct has upon character
We should try to keep our tempers under good con-
troll, but not to suppress just Indignation wrong
ed, we should resent it, but openly, in manly FASH
ion and have done with the grievance and its result
ing anmosites. We should be especially cautious
against harboring malice, banishing it from our
Z minds as an unworthy thing. It is better even to
suffer wrong than to seek revenge especially in re-
mote ways. If we must fight, it is better to do SC
; openly than by underhand means. The bearing Of
malice is sign of cowardice it begets hypocrisy
Whatever else we may do, we should overcome any
disposition to malice, preferring to be quarrelsome
and ill-tempered on occasion rather than to main
tain rancorous disposition under smiling exterior