V:-. .4 tr. lOflfeJMimflL! wPvMR Usually it is age rather than wisdom that establishes a man as the oracle of a rural neighborhood. But some times it is a sort of quaintness, a readiness and an aptness in the ex pression of opinion, and often it re quires more judgment than is likely to be found in most communities to detect the difference between facility of speech and that intellectual virtue which the ancients regarded as sa pience. One night at a social gather ing to celebrate the golden wedding of a justice of the peace old man Brizintine had for more than half an hour held forth on the beauties of un compromising truth when Lim Juck lin remarked: "Yes, there are very few things more beautiful than the truth some times. But I don't know anything that has given the vicious better op portunity to vent their spleen than truth at all hazards. The man that don't know when to tell the truth or to sidestep a trifle from it hasn't enough judgment to be trusted with a dangerous article." "Do you mean to say," said Brizin tine, "that truth is a dangerous ar ticle?" "Yes, j-ir, sometimes as dangerous s gunpowder in the hands of au Idiot. That is, when truth is re stricted to its narrowest sense, and that is the way that some men insist upon using it. Mack somebody I came across him somewhere wanted to know if there was such a thing as administerin' to a mind diseased. There is. and it is the withholdin from that mind the true state of its own condition. A good deal of the sickness of this world is in the mind only. Tiiis don't make it any the less real, for the mind is as real as the body and a good deal more so. "We see that a man's mind is diseased. He asks our opinion, and if we tell him the truth it confirms his own belief and makes him worse, and maybe a few doses of our truth will finish him. No matter bow big a liar a fel ler may be. we believe him when he tells us we ain't lookin' well." "1 don't exactly follow you." replied Brizintine, "but wouldn't you rather know the truth on all occasions?" "Well, not perhaps until afterward. I recollect that one time 1 went on three notes for a man. When the first one fell due the feller that held all three came to me and said that the man 1 had accommodated had signed over property enough to meet the other two, but that I would have to pay the first one. It didn't amount to enough to wairant me in sellin' my farm, so I went to work with extra force and made the money and paid T was the night be fore Christmas." i ... .. J' J j write those I I words. How much literature has been started by that phrase! but it didn't all turn out to be literature. Yes. that phrase was a good starter; i. is the locomotive that draws a long and ofttimes heavy train of thought along 33xsr'"" ways covered with CrS ?-Va. icp and snow nast the homes of the rich and poor; and the inevitable destination of each train is Merry Christmas. It is easy to get up steam and start your train along the rails rails at the heartlessness of the rich; rails at the Insincerity that accompanies the giv ing of presents: rails at the helpless condition of the poor, with so much money locked up in safes. You can get along on the rails all right for a time. But after the engine has gone a few feet particularly if it be verse you are writing the wheels i evolve on the slippery track (and in your head) and it sometimes takes a heap of sand to get her a-going again. You are approaching a crossing now. It is time to ring the bell. "Ring l happy bells, across the snow." Your i Christmas story wouldn't be the real thing if you didn't work that in. It ' is now about time to stop and let your hero or heroine, or both, get aboard. And while the train waits pluck a few holly berries and mistletoe, for these are indispensable. Now you're off again. Is your hero going to be rich or poor? If poor, make him barefoot and have him wonder what he'll hang up in lieu of stockings for the visit of old Kris Kringle be sure to call him by that quaint title at least once. If he be rich, clothe him in golf stockings, and it will puz zle the old saint how to fill them. The train is slowing up again. It is here that the consumptive mother and the rich and surly uncle come aboard. Make the old man a Grad grind. Buy a copy of Christmas car ols from the train boy, so you'll be able to get the right atmosphere for your story. Also open the window and let in a whiff of frosty air. You'd better stop pretty soon for rfH 'Mm l ' " iwljj,n' 7'. f JPl it. Well, about six months afterward here came the feller again and said a mistake had been made and that it was the third note that was to be taken care of and that I'd have to pay the second one. This shocked me a good deal, but he declared by all that was good and bad that the third one would give me no trouble, so I strained again, doubled the forces of my energy and soon met the other note without sellin my farm. Then I knew I was all right; but, sir, in due time here came the holder of the notes and said that he was sorry to have made .such a mistake but that the property set aside was worthless and that I'd have to pay the third note. This hit me between the eyes, but I strained again and paid the note." "But I don't see where the virtue of all that lyin' come in," said Brizin tine. "Well, I do. If it had been made known to me at first that I had to pay the three notes I would have let my farm go at a forced sale and would have been worse than home less; but as it was, believin' that I could meet the small amount, I went to work with a vim and when I got through I found that the surplus of my extra exertion had put me beyond where I had ever been before. The holder of the notes was a wise man. He knew that the feller I had signed for had left the neighborhood, dis honest and broke; and he knew, also, that the full knowledge of it, told to me right off, would crush me. In a way he was a liar, but both him and me benefited by it. There is such a thing as bein' a professional truth teller just as there is a professional honesty. I recollect once there was a toll gate over here on the pike, and it was kept by an old man named Bowles. He and his son worked out in the field while his wife took care of the gale. On one occasion she went away to look after some young chick ens and left the gate open. Along came a man on a hoss. He hel loed and no one came ouL Then, lookin' across the field, he saw the old feller and his son at work hoein' corn; so he got down off his hoss and trudged across the clods of the field and came up to where Bowles was sweatin' under the br'ilin' sun. " 'There wan't anybody down at the house to let me through the gate,' said he. "'That so?' thefeld man inquired, lookin' at him sharp. " 'Yes, so I have brought you the five cents. " 'Oh, j ou have,' he said, takin the five cents and lookin' at it as if it ByChaclsVatteII Loomis refreshments. Whether you're going to feed your characters on stale fish balls and candle-ends or on a regular turkey dinner, a meal of some kind is absolutely necessary. The journey hasn't been so bad thus far, and you needn't make it much longer. Kemember that the en gineer and the reader are human and let up on them. If your hero be poor make it all right with him, just as those bells are ushering in the dawn of Christmas; I if he be rich, give him the usual change of heart, and from habitual and ingrained niggardliness and rasp ing ill-temper metamorphose him into a genial old philanthropist it'll go, in a Christmas story. Drop a few turkeys and cranber ries on the poor consumptive's bed; let some kind-hearted old Hebrew in the sock business donate a dozen of the useful articles to the poor little barefoot boy, fill 'em up with candies and the usual outfit, and then have the brakeman stick his head in at the car door and yell: "Merry Christmas. Last stop!" HERE are morn ings that invite women who live in or near the country to go out and take a walk. Those -are the very . mornings when stockings need to be darned or shelves need to be dusted, or perhaps floors need to be swept. Now there is no question but that a plain duty lies before these wom en thus early in the morning. Will the woman go out and breathe the morning air and fill her eyes with nature's paintings or will she reso lutely sit down to her darning or stand up to her dusting and sweeping? Women, learn to do your whole duty in this matter. Do not be swayed by foolish promptings; do not say: "It will not make any difference if I do it just this once. I can do the other thing later." It will make a great deal of differ ence to your children and to your hus band. It may be their stockings that you are darning or his desk that you are dusting. It makes a great deal of wTYuilb was a curiosity. 'Nobody ther. eh? But wan't the gate open?' " 'Yes, the gate was open all right' "'But you wouldn't ride through?' "'Xo, I didn't' '"And you come trudgin' all the way across this field In the hot sun to pay five cents? "'Yes, sir, I've done that because I'm honest' "The old man turned to his boy and called out: 'Jim, watch this feller. He'll steal somethtn' before he gits off the place.'" Some of the boys laughed and Briz intine said: "Well, but the man proved his honesty."' "Ah, hah, and that was the trouble: He wanted to prove it He was too particular, and a good many such lit tle things were brought up in his favor some time afterward when he was arrested for forgery, but they proved it on him and sent him to the penitentiary just the same. If hon- i esty hasn t become so mucn or a thoughtless habit as to be unconscious it will bear watchin. There ain't noth in' more beautiful than the principle of truth, and its highest aim is to benefit man. But when it is turned into a profession they make a sort of art of it, and, from what I can gather, art as art always goes a little too far to be real." "But you wouldn't teach a son to lie?" said Brizintine. "No, but I would teach him truth so sly as to make him belieVe it was born in him. One bit of inherent virtue is better than a hundred vir tues acquired. The constitution we are born with will stand more strain than the one we build up. You can fatten a razorback hog, mebby, just the same as a Berkshire, but give him a chance and he will run off his fat, because he was born that way. But keep on fattenin razorbacks, and af ter several generations they will lose their disposition to run wild. Gettin' back to truth, it ought to be an un conscious quality, like a health' organ in the body. A man don't begin to doctor his stomach until he feels that he's got one, and truth that needs medicine ain't of the best sort. You know what the Son of Man said when they asked him if he would pay trib ute to Caesar. He didn't say j-es or no, but he gave em a beautiful figure. A blunt truth would not have been any truer and not half so wise." "But, Uncle Lim," said a young fel low, "how about a 'possum dog that barks up the wrong tree jest to en courage a feller?" "My son." replied old Limuel, "I've been talkin' about men and not dogs." (Copyright, by Opie Read.) difference whether you do your duty or not ever' morning. 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