Show anecdote we quote from the manchester times an anecdote of the late william grant of the firm of grant brothers a man remarkable for the great liberality of his nature amany many years ago a warehouseman published a scurrilous pamphlet in which he endeavored but very unsuccessfully to hold up the house of grant brothers to public ridicule william remarked that the man would live to repent what he had done and this was conveyed by some talebearer tale bearer to the libel led who sald said oh I 1 suppose he thinks I 1 shall some time or other be in his debt but I 1 will cake voil god care of that it happens however lio wever that a man in business cannot always choose who shall be his creditors the I 1 pamphleteer became a bankrupt and the Erot brother heri hell an acceptance of his which had been indorsed endorsed indor sed to him by the drawer who had also become a bankrupt the wantonly libelled men inen had thus become creditors of the li beller they now had it in their power to make him repent of his audacity he could not obtain his certificate without their signature and without it he could not enter into business again he had obtained the number of signatures required bathe bv the bankrupt law except one it seams folly to hope that the firm of the whit what they who had cruelly been made the lau laughingstocks laughing 11 hiew I 1 stocks of the public forget the aront aroa and favor the wrongdoer wrong doer ho fie despaired ired but the claims of a wife and children an forced him at last bast to make the application humbled by bv misery he presented himself at the counting house of the wronged mr william grant was wag there alone and his hig first words to the delinquent were shut shat the door sir sternly ernly it uttered the dow doir wag wa shut and the li beller stood trembling bling 11 before the li belled he told his tale and produced his hig certificate which was in instantly clutched by the injured merchant you wrote a pamphlet a against us once exclaimed mr grant the supplicant expected to see hia big parchment thrown into I 1 the fire but this was not noi its destination mr grant took apen a pen and writing some thin upon the document handed banded it back to the bankrupt he poor wretch expected to see Iro rogue crue scoundrel li beller inscribed but there was in fair round characters the aien aign signature altare of the firm we make it a rule said mr grant never to refuse signing the certificate of an honest tradesman and we have never heard that you were anything else elge 1 the tears started into the poor mans eyes eye 3 ah said mr grant amy my saying was tru I 1 said you would live to repent writing that pamphlet I 1 did not mean it as a thre threat tt I 1 only meant that some day you would know us ii better and be sorry you had tried to injure us I 1 see you repent of it now 11 1 I 1 do I 1 do said the he man 11 bitterly repent it well well my dear fellow vou voa know us now how do you got get on what are you going to dot do the poor man stated that he had friends who could assist him when his certificate was obtained but how are vou off in the meantime and the answer was war that having given up every farthing to his hia creditors he had 1 been compelled to stint his hia family of even common necessaries that he might be enabled 11 to pay the cost coat of his hia certificate family I 1 my I 1 dear fellow aliis will not do your family 11 ji must not suffer be kind enous enough h to take this thia ten pound note to your wife from me there there my dear fellow nay dont cry it will be all we well 1 I with you vou yet keep up your spirits set to work like fike a man and you on will raise your h head among us yet the he overpowered man endeavored in vain to express his thanks the swelling in the throat forbade words he put his handkerchief to his face and went out of the door I 1 erving crying uke like a child there was never yet an instance in I 1 which kindness has been fairly exercised but that it has subdued the enmity opposed to it its first effort may not succeed any more than one shower of rain can reclaim the bur burning bernina nina desert but let it repeatedly shed the dew of its holy influence upon the ta revengeful soul and that soul will soon become beautiful with every flower of tenderness an individual can no more oppose tho the kindness which is continually and steadily manifesting itself towards him than he can fan the flame of violent anger in his hia soul when the most pure pare and charming arming cn music sic is flooding his senses with its ricahar rich harmony mony he will as certainly submit to its winning power as the compass needle yields to tao the influence of magnetism it is not in human nature to wit withstand h stand a long course coarse of kindness kind nem pride and stubbornness may for a time stay the tide of better feelings like the waters of the stream pent up by gathering masses of ice but those better libatter feelings will accumulate and in they break do down wn pride and stubbornness born ness and cause the repent repentant int to exclaim like one of old thou that I 1 love thee let any person put the question to his soul whether under any circumstances he can deliberately resist continued kindness and a a voice of affection will answer that good is omnipotent in overcoming evil if the angry and revengeful person would only govern his passions pu and light up the lamp of affee affection tion in his heart i that it mig might lit stream out in his features and I 1 actions hi he would soon discover a wide difference I 1 in his communion with the world the gentle would no longer avoid him I 1 friends would not approach him with a frown the weak would no longer meet him with dread children would no longer shrink froni from him with fear he would find that his kindness wins all by its smile giving them confidence and securing their friendship verily I 1 say to yon that kindness is mightier than the conqueror for the conqueror subdues on only ly the body kindness subdues the soul |