The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-08-10
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Han VINO commands the best respect:
IN oath never trembleS on his tongue.
Read the catalogue Of crimes. In
Quire into the character Of those who
from virtue. Without a
exception you will find them to
be profane. Truth is one Of the rare
est gems. Many a youth has been lost
to society by allowing it to tarnish
and foolishly throwing it away. Ii
this gem still shines in your bosom.
suffer nothing to displace it or dim 1t
or dim its luSter.
This has been a graet year for land
ing, so called, great men behind pris-
on bars. Mayors Of metropolitan
cities, supervisors, bank presidents,
cashiers and even senators, are TODAY
wearing prison CARDS, who one year
ago were leaders Of men. A desire
for wealth is commendable. No young
man should allow himself tobe discour-
aged nor his ambition tobe dampened
by the present common Outcry against
wealth. The opportunities which
riches afford the posSeSSor for doing
good in this country are so numerous
and ample that wealth, properly used,
may be the means OF making up the
most admirable characters, while those
inclined to depart from the paths OF
rectitude would do so as quickly IN
one condition as another TO save
money and amaSS a fortune, If lone
with a proper motive, is not only a
laudable ambition, but a duty. 1t is
a duty to ones self, ones family and
community in which one lives. 1t is
providing for old age, for calamity in
business or sickness, for the means OF
helping the poor and relieving the
oppressed. There can be no better
instruction given a young man than
that impreSSeS a true appreciation OF
the worth of money. Such an early
impression would have saved many a
man and many a family from serious
misfortune, discomfort, u~nhappiness
and even crime. The making of
money and saving Of money, as dis
%tinguiShed from the misery love of
money which is said to be the root of
all evil, should be the aim of young
men who start out in life for themSelv-
es. They include habits of industry
that lead to cOntentment and often
ward off dissipation, want and future
misery. 1t was not the gathering in
of wealth that has sent so many lead
ing men to prison, il was the unlawful
manner in which they endeavOr to
reap their harvest. All the wealth a
Young man can honestly accumulate
will do mere good than harm.
II we were asked a recipe for cheer
fitness, we would say, humbly enjoy
the good gifts of God, love those a
round you tenderly, realize that
amiability is a binding virtue, and
and are bound to diffuSe joy around US
in u homes. But there is just one
more item in our prescription: we must
be willing to unbend, even to stoop to
a little harmless folly. A love for ami
mails will encourage them;the very pres
ence of these true but unaSSuming
friends will do our hearts good. We
NAV talk nonsense to them: they in
troduce an intellectual repoSe. Dogs,
cats, horses, poultry, are SO many con
tributions to gaiety and simplicity OF
our daily life. We car not enjoy them
without loving them. We are not
going to enter into the ranks of those
who contend that they have souls; still
we hope our readers hold in equal alb
horrence with ourselves the systems
Descartes and Malebranche, which
would make them out to be mere
machines. We have but to cOntem-
plate the dog that follows US, watches
our homes, shares our fatigues and
perilS voluntarily, either to sink at
our side, or perhaps follow us to the
grave and die there, to reply to the
theory Of mere mechanism. Animals
are in short, members of the family.
They are the friends Of young and old.
and old and young alike enjoy and ben
eft by their gleeful, irrational Socie-
tY.
There is only a card in the envelope
that a friend sends US "a little card
edged with black, and bearing a few
sad words, saddest of which is died..
Only a card, but two fond hearts
wept over it., and it has come to us h
message CT sorrow. Only a card OF
much white as black, possibly a little
more. 1t is fitting so. 1t was a
pure spirit that winged its way heaven
ward when this little bud was plucked
on earth to bloom in heaven; a pure
spirit, white and unSullied. The
black shadow Of grief should seem less
to us than the sweet purity which
will never be furnished. Only a few
days upon earth. just a little work
day week of life, with no strength for
labor, and then a Sabbath at it's end
ing that shall know no end forever
and forever. Only a narrow edging OF
biz cx: for could such a little being a
broad shadow back as it went sunward?
IAN. yes, 1T might" the heart says,
until it stops to remember. Remem-
pering, it hears the echo of a sweet
word long since uttered: Suffer
little children to come unto me-" and
the shadow lessons, lessons, until we
see it not all, but look straight on to
.-h+no that shall never grow