The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-03-21

sE1I Antukss fEfn1EMr HUE nakhis
Of himself than be ought; thinks
peration the question were asked IN
his presence, aWho then shall be
saved ?" he would look the ques-
toner In the eye aud say, 81 shall
be saved" How true IL Il, that all
the ways Of Q man are right In bis
own eyes!
But IL is generally believed OF Mr.
Daniels that beyond the admirable
self control which some Of his friends
seemed TO mistake for cowsrdice. be
IL not Ia the habit Of dealing with
others a. divinely as he breaches 10
us Of himself in his personal state
ment." Hear him /; IL IL good enough
for Q morning tonic:
Thee 10 no living man
would injure. There Is no liv-
Ing man standing 70, wrong
that I would uphold.
have but one thing Of value.
1t Is my good name. IL cannot
be furnished, unless am false
TO truth, 10 clean living, to fair
ness, to duty. II cannot be ia
ken away from me unless ! for
felt 1t by slandering my neigh.
Dor or forgetting the obligations
owe to my fellows. No mat
ter who assails it, either by mis-
understanding or misrepresen-
tation, my true character will be
known by those among whom
/ live.
These do be precious words they
are like apples Of gold In pictures of
silver. There Is a saying in the
country, however, that "Talk ID
cheap, but it takes money to buy
land" Though he Processes COM
polling regard for the man who min
listers at holy affairs, in the same
issue of the paper in which he
printed his sanctimonious appeal for
the sympathy of the brave hearted
men in his apparent cowardice, ii
will be found that he ridicules the
man for whose calling his respect
was 40 great.
What minister of the gospel OF
man of clean life, has he not SLAM
dered and vi!ified if such q one
dared to oppose bis party or his pol.
icy? He has persistently sought, as
his files will show to misrepresent
disgrace and damn in the public
mind honora BILE men who dared op
pose him. For the character of Da
vid M. Furches, a clean man fol-
the character Of Robert M. Douglas
a clean man for their right to Office
from which he sought to impeact
them, what neighborly, Christian
care had this sanity printer OF
"Morning Tonics," this spontaneou;
censor of morals, this lashing auto
crat of his party, who can no more
than look brave man in the eye
But let us deal with him kindly
he may really think that he is al
good as he pretends to be; that he
is as brave as he would have US t.
think him morally courageous. Hi.
real self he Is not conscious of; sell
is too mean for him to know. VIZ
that are outside see and know what
he is like; a bald headed man can
not see his own badness, nor a red
headed man the glow of his hair
unless occasionally the mirror be
held up to him.
The Jimson weed is az naughty
and self:satisfed as a fragrant Pau
Neron. But let not the rank-smelline
Jimson bloom consider it defect ir
my lady that she prefers the rose
And certainly Mr.. Daniels will need
hardly to look US in the eye if We
tell him that there are good people
in North Carolina inside as we'll as
outside of the party, who really dc
not think so we'll of him as he
thinks of himself.
Centuries ago there were saints, II
is said, so filled with godly thought
and life, that their perspiration emit
ted an odor as of violets; it was
called the odor of sanctity. But the
saints, if sensible of the odor, die
not proclaim it; it was perceived
only by those that came into theil
presence.