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Show 1111 SO EASY TO CRITICISE (Auburn, California, Journal.) It is easy to criticise one's neighbor neigh-bor who has gone wrong in morals, or made a failure in business, says an exchange, and so hard to give credit for the effect of the influences impelling him to disaster, over which he has no control, that our criticism of others is often very 'Uncharitable. Men often say how good they would have been, or what they would have accomplished had they been in the clher man's place. They do not stop to ask why the fellow that was in the other shoes did not succeed. If they did they would often find the man who went , wrong or who failed, was entitled to great credit for standing us so bravely brave-ly under forces and burdens that might easily have overthrown his accusers. ac-cusers. .Sometimes the man who- fails is a greater hero than another who wins. 'i If you can't find anything good to say about your neighbor, then for .goodness sake keep quiet. |