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Show THOUGHT FOR TO DAY. It seems to be the fate of men to get angry, but it Is poor business. One never makes by It. If God ever takes sides, it is with the victim of an angry tongue, says Ohio State Journal. There-are There-are few eternal things like candor, kindness and truth and getting mad hurts these. Emerson suggests that after ten years let a club or company of Intelligent men reassemble and what a confession of insanities would come up!" All our fierce words in behalf of the causes we have espoused, how like clatter they would seem. The sincere word is always temperate and kindly. The man who gets wild and brandishes his opinion with gesticulation gesticula-tion and vociferation thinks he is nressing the truth home, but he-is only scaring it away. To make a real friend of it, he must treat it gently, and those, too, whom he would impress im-press by it. Just as soon as the angry word is spoken, truth wanls to get away and roost off in some dead tree. Of course, a person may be earnest and vigorous of expression, but he must watch closely lest he let hate, prejudice, envy get into his earnestness earnest-ness and spoil it. There was a man who differed with another about politics, poli-tics, got mad at him and would hardly hard-ly speak to him. What a low kind of politics It must have been. ' There was another man who spoke in terms ol bitterness on account of another's religion, re-ligion, lie should be born again. That thrifty element which likes tc see the poor "work for what they get" will be gratified at the system in Frankfort-on-the-Main, where the Association As-sociation for the Poor contracts with property owners to clean their sidewalks side-walks and sprinkle the streets. Able-bodied Able-bodied men who are temporarily out of work are assigned by the relief society so-ciety to do this work. Last year about $12,000 out of the society's total bud get of $S0,000 was expended in wages for these street cleaners, while the contracts with the property owners netted the society about $20,000. The main difficulty with plans of that sort in this country is that such (employment (em-ployment of the poor would merely serve to throw out of employment quite an army of men who get living wages rather than relief wages for the work. |