The Delaware herald., 1854-04-05
Communications.
Correspondence of the Herald.
BL1zzARp's y RoAps. Anril 3. ls

Correspondence Of the Herald.
BLIzzARD's x ROADS, April 3, 1854. i
To Mr.. sEPpUs SEE A. Frss: t
My Dear Friend Though | have not the Z
pleasure of your acquaintance, you must excuse
the liberty have taken in calling you "my Z
FRIEND" for ga friend in need, is friend in
deed" L happened to see piece in the I
Smyrna Herald, which my son, Joe, brought {
home with him last week, (for, of course, I
don't take it, with your name signed TO it and
cant help writing to you, to tell you, am
much obliged to you for it. You can'y tell how
much good II done me. | had been, for some
time, troubled in mind about selling liquor.
saw several of my neighbors, who had nothing
but what they got by their daily labor, coming
TO my store, day after day, and spending the
money for strong drink which knew they had |
better lay ont in clothing and prov sions for
their t3lniLes. saw them getting less and less |
able to support themselves dccently, and al |
thuGrh their wives (poor women,) tried to do |
all they cJ2ld by mending and patching, saw
the childrcn's clo;.1Cs week after Wees, getting
worse and worse for wear; Cnd almost every
time any one of them come TO the store for a
quart of whiskey, | saw 4 new patch had been
put Oh, till it was hard to tell what the chlds
dress was first made Of
Now, though am what these tectotal-tem-
; perance men call a rumseller, haye got some
, feeling and tcll You what it is, friend Sephus
sights of this kind like have seen, are calki-
lated to bring fellow hat-footed, to his sensi-
; bilitics. l have thought of these things many
a NIGHT, after had gone to bed, when nobody
!. knew anything about ii, and had pretty much
:, come to the conclusion that it was baG business
?, and had better quit it.
n My mother was a mighty good sort Of a wo-
maj .ltIil u
2 was a boy, she used to read to me out of the
Bible, and tell me how 81 ought to DO as
/ would he done bye" and every night, when
T. was little fellow, she used TO make me i.reci
|: down alongside OF her, and say my pravers,-
1, and used to say TIE one that has in it lead
US not mt temptation, but deliver us from evil
j. mcrc than any other. Now, friend Scphus,
/; though lhaint though tmuch about these things
Z. since | have been grown up, could not help
II, thinking that it was what | heard my mother
s; say when | was bcy and what she read to
y me out o. the Bible, that made me have such
lg queer feelings after went to bed, and kept me
e awake when everybody else about the house
s. was fast asleep. But since read your piece
r. in the Herald, | find that the old woman was
b. altogether wrong-iu fact. that she didn't know
G. anything about the Bible, for all she Ivas read
". ing it whenever she could get spare minute
from taking care Of the things about the house
Il. L WOlQcI now lHC Olu lazy COuiI nave Deen 81
Ia much mistaken! But, it is plain she was; anC
lth since you have set my mind to rest on that sub
tie icct 90 to bed and sleep as sound as top
lp- That verse in Deuteronomy settled the business
r. with me. 1t didn't trouble me lit, whel
;s ni n;i Williams wife come to the store, day be
rth fore yesterday, and begged dme not to &C. Bill hav
+. any more liquor, because, she said, he had com
IN home drunk and drove her and the children ou
ar ofdoors and she was afraid he would do her som
ch- mischief. Says /, to her: " Go home. woman
ly- and read the 26th verse of the I4th chapter O
w. Deuteronomy. 1t says, man may give hi
INT money "for strong drink or whatsoever his sou
IN, desireth and if Bill has got right to buy hav
RS, got right 70 sell it to him,-go home and min
l.. your own business, and don't come here bother
rly ing me with your complaints" So she wen
home, and Bill asked her where she had beer
- and she wouldn't tell him a lie-so he foun
nb- out and struck her with chair, and broke he
T. arm; but that was nothing to me,--when
er- heard it, | Just went and read that verse
y Deuteronomy
bo- Now, friend Sephus, when anything got
al wrong, and begin to feel like fused to, all Iy
on, got to do is to say that verse over tc mysel
E. I've got it by heart, and put a cross-lnark O
B. the side of the page in the Bible, opposite to
lth- and mean to have it wrote of, in large ham
J. and put it up in conspickyous place in II
Ter. store, where everybody can see it.
ord, But there isanother verse in that same cha
, l. ter that ! never saw before, till you made me-
zap ton of the 26th verse; and it strikes me that
i = is first rate | was looking up and down th
'ur- chapter to see if couldn't find something ell
+, S. suitable to the purpose, and | came across Il
w. 2lst verse, Just before it, and it says We sha
A. not eat of anything that deth of itself; tn,
Ad- shalt give it to the stranger that is in thy gat
rll, that he may eat it." Thinks ! to myself, til
ner- is the very thing, and I Will write tS~frei
Jor- Sephus about ie,--though didn't need to a
:, C. anybody, for it speaks for ITSELF II says,
au- plain as it can say, that if one of my cattle
3ue- hogs should happen to die, of its own accoI
of any sort of disease, shall give il to al
4 in stranger that happens TO stop at my house a.
wants something to eat. 1t needn't have tc
me not to cat it myself--and always thoug
ap- until ! read that verse, that it wasn't fit
cies anybody to eat, and when anything died ii
way used to have it hauled out,-but, than
to you, friend Sephus, | know better now, a
and, you wont ma me guilty OF such waste aga
Mr.. tnLng ooHndEo penny, cay !, anu II
she'd - SS,'hI;o rloeo .nS of,ar stss o,sersl sto,,
and poor people that have no place 10 stay
rnaI sometimes come to get meals victuals, q
lodi my my, wile uSeo 70 nave sohethng COOKED r tne
edge anvtbipe abost ;ts heing wrong TO give neo
TT. such kind Of meat, I'll tell her 10 go and II
4 the 2IsS verse of the 14th chapter Of d
hool teronomy i remain,
nday iou' 'o'i"s r'epu,
the
% Mr. don't intonj 10 have that last We
r posted up, so you must not say anything ab
il TO anybody. Itmight get out what ! me
= = =, 70 do, and as the people here amt used 10
"0N' vet il might hurt my business.