The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-10-01

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! Itinerary tom cats; with children
which come a visiting with people
who know your business best: with
long-winded sermons; WITHOUT
why 60 on?
H Somebody else draws the prize
in the fair where we have a ticket
somebody else gets the ssbeauti-
lful moss-roSe tea set valued at
500" which is given away to pur-
chasers of "our superior teas and
coffees; and the stocks we pur-
chased in that wonderful silver
mine 60 down to nothing after we
get the certificates.
II We have oft been there and we
know just how it is. We know
that very little of the machinery Of
this world runs to suit our own
taste. ltrains when we want to
have a picnic; it shines when we
lhave set out our tomato and cab
bage plants; it thaWs and spoils the
sleighing when that genteel Mr..
Jones has invited us to ride; it
freezes when the fire goes out in
the furnace. and all our plants are
ruined, land it rains, pouring. the
first time we wear our new summer
silk, and that silk is reduced to
/ the condition of a mere dish rag.
We have aches and pains, and
"ologies, and "minies," and dis
organization generally, and we get
out of patience, and wish we had
never been born, but we can't help
lit, and, after all, the most afflicted
and heaviest cross-bearing man in
the world had rather bear on little
longer, in the hope that something
better may turn up.
Courtesy to woman, young and
old, should be part of every
boys home training. Without it
he is likely to be boorish and sell
fish, and rude, over-bearing
brother and son is in danger of de-
veloping into an exacting, dis
courteous husband. He will be a
sort pr despot that feels his person
al comfort should be the chief aim
of his Wife's life. A delayed din
ner is an unforgivable offense, and
a missing button brings on an
. acute attack of that disagreeable
me ntal disorder known as "the
SulkS. -
There is nothing in the world
more upathetic than the meek,
timorous, shrinking ways of GER
tain old people-We have all seen
them who have given up their
homes into younger hands, and
subsidized into some out-of-the-way
corner of it. to sit by the fireside
and table henceforth as if afraid of
"making trouble" afraid of being
in the way afraid of accepting
half what is their due, and going
down to their graves with pitiful
| depreciating air as if constantly
apologizing for staying so long.
There is no scorn so deep nor sharp
for the sons and daughters who
will accept this attitude on the part
OF those to whom they owe so
much.
If you wish your church to pros
per, keep it clean. See that the
plank walk leading to it is. safe.and
pleasant to walk over. Be sure to
fill the stove with fuel and your
minister with food. Give what
you give without grumbling, growl-
ing and gruntimg. The Lord loves
a cheerful giver. The giver who
worms and squirms and hangs onto
a dime till it is hot, don't get a
particle of credit for what he gives.
Give money. Give fuel. Give
food. Give labor. Give some
thing of what is the best and what
is useful when you give; give it and
let it 60. Give kind words. Give
help to those weaker and worse off
than yourself. Give sunshine to
lyour brethren, your neigh5or and
above all to your home. To your
wife who is growing old while you
are growing cold, give words that
are pleasant and thoughts that do
not corrode and depress all within
Your gates.