Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1880 — Not Growing Worse. [ARTICLE]

Not Growing Worse.

Is the world growing worse ? We do not think so. All observing intelligent men know that the world, however appearances contradict it grows steadily better. One reason of the contrary seeming true is that we liave facilities for gathering all the news in the world — au evil makes news while good does not —and presenting it in a single day. When we take up the journal, the villiany of the entire civilized globe is thrust upon our attention; whereas, only a few years ago, we got it in fragments, at intervals, and often but a small portion at most Another is tliat, duingthe periods of commercial d” t and momentary pressure, men, d.- ’ ro ther wits’ end to avoid failure in business, are tempted in a hundred ways that thev would not be in prosperous times. Moreover, their irregularities are hidden by subsequent success, while, with continued strain and stagnation, their misdeeds are forced into light—there is no method of covering them up. Sinners are “found out” now-a-days, and cannot lead wicked lives undiscovered.

Candor. —There is nothing sheds so fine a light upon the human mind as candor. It was called “whiteness” by the ancients, for its purity, and it has always won the esteem due to the most admirable of the virtues. However little sought for or practised, all do it the homage of their praise, and all feel the power and charm or its influence. ‘LLe man whose opinion makes the deepest mark upon his fellow-men, whose influence is the most lasting and efficient, whose friendship is instinctively sought where all others have proved faithless, is not the man of brilliant parts, or flattering tongue, or splendid genius, or commanding power, but -he whose lucid candor and ingenuous truth transmit the heart’s real feelings pure and without refraction. There are other qualities which are more showy, and other traits that have a higher place in the world’s code of honor; but none wear better, or anther less tarnish by use, or claim a deeper homage in that silent reverence which the mind mast pay to virtue Cure for felon : When a finger pricks as though there were a thorn in it, and throbs intolerably when held downward, and* yet there is no external sign of mischief, the probabilities are that a felon is in prospect Go at once to the batcher’s and procure some of the spinal marrow of a beef creature. Take a piece, say about two inches in length, and, having cut it open lengthwise, wrap it around the affected finger, covering, of course, with doth. In a few houre change the piece of marrow for a fresh one, and continue to keep the finger encased until all the pain has ceased and there is no discomfort when the marrow is removed. The finger will look stoangoly white and porous, but the care iscomplete. This remedy ought to become professional. It is vastly better than the surgeon’s knife, and more effectuah

Anybody can soil the reputation of any individual, however pare and chaste, by uttering a suspicion that enemies will believe and his friends never bear of, A puff of idle wind can take a million of thistle seeds and do a work of mischief which tlie hasbandman must labor hard and long to undo, the floating partides being too fine to be seen, and too light to be stopped. 2acL are the seeds of slander, bo easily sown, so difficult to be gathered up, and yet so pernicoas is their fruit Slanderers well know that many a wind will catch up the plague and become poisoned by their insinuations, without ever seeking the antidote. No reputation can refute a sneer, nor any human skill prevent mischief Cimdbrs ix the Eve.—Having noticed two communications in your journal lately under the above heading, perm fl me to give you a simple remedy I have used for years with success: A small camel’s hair brush dipped in water and passed over the ball of the eye on raismg the lid. The operation requires no skill, takes but a moment, and instantly removes any cinder or particle of dust or dirt without inflaming the eye.