The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1898 Page: 8 of 16
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THE SOUTHERN MERCURY.
AS YE WOULD
If I should see
: A brother languishing in sore dis-
tress,
¡ And I should turn and leave him
comfortless,
.When I might be
A messenger of hope and happiness,
How could I ask to have, what I de-
nied
In my own hour of bitterness, supplied?
If I might sing
A little song to cheer a fainting
heart
And I should seal my lips and sit
apart,
When I might bring
A bit of sunshine to life's ache and
smart,
How could I hope to have my grief re-
lieved
If I kept silent when my brother
grieved ?
And so I know
That day is lost wherein I fail to
lend
A helping hand to some wayfaring
friend,
But if it show
A burden lightened by the cheer I
send
Then do I hold the golden hours well
spent
And lay me down to sleep in sweet
content.
| —Edith Virginia Bradt.
Mrs. de Temper—"I am not happy
■with my husband. Shall I drive him
away?"
Lawyer—"His life is insured in your
favor, isn't it?"
Mrs. de Temper—"Yes; I made him
do that before we were married."
Lawyer—"Well, don't drive him off.
He'll die quicker where he is."
ift
"Mamma, Aunt Julia is the most per-
fect lady I ever met."
"What makes you think so, Geor-
gie?"
" 'Cause you don't never have to ask
her for a second piece of pumpkin
^e."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
An Irishman went to a Scotch con-
tractor several times and asked him
for a job. The Scotsman, tired of the
man's perseverance, told him to go to
the devil and see if he could get a job
there.
"Ah shure, be mi sowl, I've been to
him," said the Irishman, "and he's tak-
ing nobody but Scotsmen."
"Can I change here for Bristol?" said
the old lady for the fifteenth time on
the journey to the guard.
"Can if you like, ma'am," said the
official, cheerily, "but you'd better not
If you want to get there."—Tit-Bits.
—
A small landed proprietor was tak-
ing a drive with his daughter and his
intended son-in-law for the purpose of
showing the latter round the estate.
The coachman drove at a smart pace.
"John," whispered his master in his
ear, "don't drive so fast; the estate
will look so small."
what is good and strong; honor that;
rejoice In it, and, as you can, try to
imitate it; and your faults will drop
off like dead leaves, when their time
comes.
The quick sympathy that under-
stands without words, the capacity for
creating a complete atmosphere of lov-
ing interest, the detachment from out-
side influences, the delight in every-
thing worthy—even the smallest thing
—for its own sake.
It is hard to personate and act a
part long, for where truth is not at the
bottom nature will always be endeav-
oring to return and will peep out and
betray herself one time or another.
The doors of your soul are open on
others and theirs on you. Simply to be
in this world, whatever you are, is to
exert an influence, an influence com-
pared with which mere language and
persuasion are feeble.
The line which separates regard and
love is so fine that the young heart
transgresses the boundary before it is
aware of having even verged upon it.
Good nature is the very air of a good
mind; the sign of a large and generous
soul and the peculiar soil in which vir-
tue prospers.
A thoughtful observer remarks that
there are two classes of people whom
it is hard to convince against their will
—women and men.
Great as heaven and earth are, men
still find things in them with which to
be dissatisfied.
SUBJECTS OF THOUGHT.
You will find it less easy to unroot
faults than to choke them by gaining
virtues. Do not think of your faults,
iUll less of others' faults; in every
M near you look for
>i. j , .V
GIVE THE GIRLS A CHANCE.
There are many farmers throughout
the country who are sufficiently liberal
to the boys, who think that girls'
wants should be supplied as they sug-
gest themselves, and with no regard
for individual preference, says a Phil-
adelphia Times. After harvest, the son,
who has driven the reaper or helped at
threshing, has his share of the profits
to control and do with as he pleases.
Certain of the stock have been given
him—a pig, a calf, or a colt, which
he will eventually sell and put the pro-
ceeds in his pocket. The farm offers all
sorts of opportunities for earnings
groat or small, to which his right is
never questioned. By and by, he drives
his own horse, joins a club, buys
books and goes to college—a right
which he has earned and to which he
is fairly entitled.
With the girl it usually very differ-
ent. It never occurs to any one that
she, too, would enjoy a small income
which she could count upon as her very
own, and invest as she saw fit without
restraint or objection. The butter and
eggs are sometimes her especial com-
modity, and from their sales she has a
limited supply of pocket money. But
it is extremely limited, and frequently
very uncertain.
Yet her labor in the home, "about
the place" has done as much toward
establishing the family prosperity as
the labor of her brother. She is up at
daybreak to get breakfast ready. She
prepares, frequently unassisted, three
meals a day for 365 days in a year.
She does the washing and ironing, the
sewing and mending, and is still at her
work long after her brother is in bed
and asleep, or away visiting the neigh-
bors. She, too, has an additional tax
during harvest, and at thoee seasons
when the work upon the farm is espe-
cially heavy, but she rarely receives
any reward for the extra service re-
. ... _sv. . in-
quired of her. It is a manifest injust-
ice. A good many overcareful fathers
excuse themselves upon the plea that
girls have no judgment in money mat-
ters. Well, they certainly will never
acquire wisdom without experience,
and they cannot gain experience if the
means for so doing are withheld.
The financial faculty in most women
lies dormant for lack of exercise, but
it has been marvelously developed
when it has been put to the test. There
are thousands of women in the coun-
try, widows, who have assumed the
management of affairs upon the death
of the husband, who have succeeded
brilliantly, when the better half failed;
the mortgage is paid off, stock im-
proved, modern farming implements
have been purchased and the crops cul-
tiavted according to modern and intel-
ligent ideas. Th^ profit-sharing sys-
tem should include girls as well as
boys, and there is no question but that
it will pay.
A WHITECAP RAID.
From the Detroit Free Press.
"Strangest experience I ever had,"
said the man who used to do a whole-
sale business in live stock, "was out
in Iowa, and not very many years ago
either. I had put up at a little country
tavern in a sparsely settled country
where it looked as though the inhabi-
tants were having a pretty struggle to
keep the wolf from the door. About
midnight there was a great hub-bub
about the place, and there came an im-
perative demand for me to show my-
self. I found a dozen masked men and
my first impression was that they
Were after my money. But they de-
clared that they were whitecaps, that
they were going to make a. raid and
that they wanted a witness. It was no
use to protest, and after they had put
me in one of their ugly disguises, I
rode with them some eight or ten
miles, when they routed out a poor old
couple who lived in the meanest kind
of a cabin.
"You owe $40 on this place and
haven't paid it," said the leader stern-
ly.
"I couldn't," was the old man's tre-
mulous answer. "Me and Beckie has
saved and scrimped and done the best
we could."
"You let one of your cows get killed
and that was another $25 lost."
"She was truck by lightnin', sir. Are
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Scott's Emulsion of Cod-
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Even when the disease is
farther advanced, some re-
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In the most advanced stages
it prolongs life, and makes
the days far more comfort-
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"I CANNÍ
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Do you know what it is to cravWi
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you goin' to punish us for that?" This
was from Beckie.
"You're lettin' this shanty go to
pieces. It needs patchin' and a new
roof. This is no way to liv«, and we
won't have it."
The old man only groaned, while
Beckie's eyes flashed and she wished
their son Jim had lived.
"Forty, twenty-five, we'll call it a
hundred," said the captain, and I made
up my mind to fight rather than see
the cruelty of 100 lashes inflicted upon
this good old couple.
"There it is," and the captain hand-
ed over $100. I promptly added $50
and we left the happiest pair you ever
saw.
" 'That's the kind of whitecaps we
are,' laughed the captain as we rode
homeward. We never let the people
like that suffer, though we do some-
times bring bad citizens up with a
short turn.' "
KIPLING AND THE ELEPHANT.
Certain naturalists assure us that
some and perhaps all, the lower ani-
mals have a language with which they
hold communication with one another
after the manner of men. This was
some time ago claimed to be true of
monkeys, and more recently it has
been ascertained true of fishes. This
animal language has never yet been
reduced to writing, nor has the dis-
coverer in any case been able to hold
conversation with his subjects by
means of the language supposed to be-
long to them. It goes without saying,
however, that the more intelligent of
the brute creation can understand
much that is said to them in any of
the languages of the world where they
are living, though they may not be
able to respond in the same terms, but
must use the universal "natural lan-
guage of signs," which is often very
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1898, newspaper, January 6, 1898; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185738/m1/8/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .