Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-09-06


crime. Inquire into the character of
those who depart from ytttfue. With
out single exception you will find
them to be prorane. Truth lis one of
the rarest gems. Many youth has
been lost to society by allowing it a
way. If this gem still shines in your
bosom, suffer nothing to dispiace it
or dim its luster.
Xxx
This has been a great year for Ian
ding, SO called, great men behind
prison bars Mayors of metropolitan
cities, supervisors, bank presidents,
cashiers aud even senator's, 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 to be dis
Outraged nor his ambition to be
dampened by the present common
outcry against wealth. The opportu-
mites which riches afford the posses
sor for doing good in this country
are SO numerous and ample that
wealth, properly used, may be the
means of making up the most admir-
able characters, while those who are
inclined to depart from the path of
rectitude would do SO as quickly in
one condition as in another. To save
money and amass a fortune, if done
with a.proper motive, is not only a
laudable ambition, but a duty 1t is a
duty to ones self, ones family and
the community in which one lives.
1t is providing for old age, for calam-
lily in business, or sickness, for the
means of helping the poor and reliev
ing the oppressed. There can be no
better. instruction given a young
man than that which impresses a
zhassae appreciation. of the worth of mo-
ney. Such an early impression would
have saved many a man and many a
family from serious misfortune, dis
comfort, unhappiness and. even
crime. The making of money and sa-
wing of money, as distinguished from
the miserly1love of money which is
said to be the root of all evil, should
be the aim of all young men who
start out in life for themselves. They
include habits of industry that lead
to contentment and often ward off
dissipation, swant and future misery.
1t was not the gathering of wealth
that has sent so many leading men
to prison, it was the unlawful man
ner in which they endeavor to reap
their harvest. All the wealth a young
man can honestly accumulate will do
him more good than harm.
II we were asked a recipe for cheer
fulness, we would say, hunibly enjoy
the good gifts of God, love those a.
round you realize tcnderly, that am
ability is a binding virtue, and that
we are bound to diffuse joy around
US III our homes. But there is just
one more item in our prescription:
we must be willing to unbend, even
to stoop to little harmless folly. A
love for animals will encourage this;
the very presence OF these true but
unassnming friends will do our heart
good. We may talk nonsense to them
they introduce an element of intel
lectual repose. Dogs, cats. horses,
poultry, are SO many contributions
to the gaiety and simplicity of our
daily life, We cannot enjoy them
without loving them. We are not go
ing to enter into the ranks of those
who contend that they have souls;
still we hope our readers hold in e.
|qual adherence with ourselves the
systems of Descartes and Malebranch
which would make them out to be
fTfere machines. We have but to con
template the dog that follows us,
watches our homes, shares our ia
ltigues and perils voluntarily, either
to sink at our side, or perhaps follow
Iussto the grave and die there, to re-
| bly, TO. the, theory of mere mechanism.
Animals arein some sort, members
| OF the family. They are the friends of
young and old, and old and young a.
Like enjoy and benefit by their glee-
| full, irrational society.
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Number three is a wonderful mascot
for Geo. H. Paris, of Cedar Grove, Me-,
according toa letter which reads At