Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-16
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James Russell Lowell SAYS:

James Russell Lowell says:
The longer on this earth we live
And weigh the various qualities OF men.
The more we feel the high, stern-featured
beauty
OF plain devotedness to duty.
steadfast and still. nor paid with mortal
praise,
But finding amplest recompense
For nfe's ungarlanded expense
In work done squarely and unwasted
days"
And IL seems to me that most Of US
have also learned by observation, II not
by experience. that God is not Knocked
Whatsoever a man soweth that also ne
shall reap
Looking over the past l can now see
that the tine OF reconstruction days
was time when God was sorely mockeo-
Crime and trickery were rampant and the
survival OF the trickest seemed all there
was TO be looked for. 1 remember that
my grandmother used TO be afraid that
j would put false values on power and
money and luxury. she often talked TO
me about the green bay tree that would
not thrive in good localities. OF the
mushroom that grew upon decay and beg
red me to look well to the foundations
and make nobody's heart or future a
stepping stone to my success
For several years there have been so
many exposures. so much graft and cor
ruption. cheating and stealing. brought 10
light that one lifts ones hands and ex-
claims who next?'
God Is not mOcked.' these things are
bound TO come TO light and II seems 10
me that I would rather dig in the road
side TO make an honest living than pile
up money dishonesty. will not stay
in the family be We never so SMART
Did you ever talk 10 criminalg do
YOU ever find one that did not go into
crime gradually All the men In con-
grexs. in any public life. who are To-
dav fighting for their regulations COM
rrenced in early life Their character
was not laid on a proper foundation.
knew a man to give his boy most
thorough th-ashing. and the most scatn-
b ins .roidfna Won ever heard HIS wife
didn't know anything about IL until she
heard the boys wailing and promises 10
do SO no more Like sensible woman
she did not interfere. simply went INTO her
roor, and on her knees asked God TO De
MIR bota Of Them. The boy was left in
4bs harm 10 think it over and get calm
ard the father went about his business
,,ntu he vas calm enough to talk ABOUT
e Then Re told his wife that Henry
ft.d not only cheated smaller boy Out
actually Dragged about 1t.
IF he hod cheated on the tempetation
Of the moment IL would have been pau
enough. but 70 actually gloat over II ana
thfrt< Il smart was too much. tolu
him that Re had entered the PAIN Oh
thieves. and e. lie should ever 90 SO
aqofn I'd send him 20 a refOTmatory-
T don't believe that lesson will ever
h. forcof-en by Henry The parents
had gone along teaching the cnlioren
that stealing was sin. that Goa hateu
. lie ard that decent people were polite
AT ali times, so when this boy IL years
old thought IL smart TO get ahead OF
his pIaymates he was checked up with
shock that made his back ache
Courtesy is the flower Of good sense
and WREN I see Young people at coun-
try CHURCH tusseling and saying things
thfv think ere smart. but are really only
coarse ard rude. I feel like picking
them I'D ard putting them down in
really we'll bred group Of young people
IT some other country church. and let
ting them see how really nice people
behave. II a young man or girl has
never rad the training at home, has
never been taught that a loud laugh
shows a vacant mind. or no mind; that
the last word may sometimes be so
rude that the other party is too polite
20 reply to it; that getting acquainted
too quickly shows a lack Of good judg-
rent: that really polite men take their
cigars or cigarettes out Of their mouths
when ticking TO ladies then IL seems 10
me srcS things should be one Of the
teech0r'S duties
Fr7v mn who thinks he is climb
ing right up the ladder OF success. and
- crsr~.. TO Alberta and is in a real
estate Office. He has learned to put his
coat CT. but he has vet 20 learn that a
Eertleran takes off his hat when he
taIks to a lady. Not long ago he went
IN a certain ONCE to talk real estate TO