Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-31

fine fellow p but want you to go and do
likewise 1t is not enough for the heart to
beat and the eyes to swim in tears, when
generous action is recorded: If it makes
proper impression you will not be happy
until you have done 'likewise.'"
Geraldine looked straight on. She har-
dened her heart sometimes, and when she
did, she saw it in the expression of eyes
turned almost to stone-eyes hard and tear
less. She had long time believed that
she was very generous in giving her money;
her aunt's observations had nearly convinc-
ed her that generosity was something more
than giving what she did not care for or
want, and it made her very uncomfortable !;
but she was so stubborn to confess she was
wrong, God had not yet softened her heart.
She knew but little of prayer, and had very
seldom proved how prayer was answered
when it was laid before the footstool of the
Almighty in pure and humble spirit
"Aunt Jane" loved her dearly, and the
more dearly she loved her the more anxious
she became that Geraldine should conquer
the evil and cultivate the good of her dispo-
sition; but that is thing the young are
slow to understand. They think-silly
things-that those who love them most will
indulge them most
Il will tell you,'' continued aunt Jane,
after pause-for she was so wise that she
paused to let one thing sink into Geraldine's
mind before she spoke of another-sI will
tell you of boy who had very aggravat-
ing temper-it was not so very violent, but
it was willful, obstinate, unyielding; if he
was told to read at one clock, write at two,
and do his Latin exercise at three, he would
argue that it would be better to do his Latin
ct one and read at three Half of his time
was spent in contradiction. He was absurd
enough to suppose that he knew better than
his teachers he would not of course sag he
did, but he would act as if he did. He
knew nothing of the generosity which yields
will to the will of others-he had not
''Its advantages 2" questioned Geraldine.
eyes, its advantages. Is it not an ad-
vantage to have everything, provided every
thing thought of, everything prepared, eve
rything that the experience and knowledge
of age can suggest, done for youth-the
thorns removed from their path, the whole
business of life arranged so as to prepare
them for the future with the least possible
outlay of trouble to themselves-anda all that
is required in turn being attention and obe-
dience p
Geraldine's eyes were growing less stony,
and she muttered in low tone, "that is
true"
''This boy, like many girls, wanted to
learn only what he liked and it would have
been difficult to teach him even on these
terms, for what he liked this week he did
not like the next; and such was his spirit
ofopposition, that if it were wished he should
like this, he would be sure to rush at the
belief that he liked that.'
"If you are so contradictory said his
father, mo one will love you
's'I don't care for being loved, said the
boy.
"'Oh, very well, said his father.
''The next morning, when he came down
stairs, he looked round, and offered his
mother his morning kiss. She turned from
him, and he saw that she had been weeping
Y ou do not care for being loved, said
his father, 'and so, as you do not care about
being loved, you must try to live without
love- Love has hitherto toiled for you love
has clothed you, love has fed you, love has
educated you, love has had patience with
yon, love has watched over you, love has
cherished you, love has found fault with you
love has wept for you, love has prayed fol
you-from your cradle you haye been min.
istered to by love; but you do 1St care fo,
being loved-so now live without love-
"The boys heart was hard, and so he
thought he could live without his fathers
work, and his mothers blessing; he thought
he could live without love. He had no ge-
nerosity in his nature-if he had, he would
have curbed his temper; he would have
yielded all he had to yield-his will-to the
will of those who loved him. He had no,
thing but that to give in return for the years
of love, of labor, of thought, of prayer, he
had cost his parents. It never entered his
heart to think, or entered his heart to feel
that his obedience, his docility, his curbinS
himself, would have been generous"
ssAunt Janc!"- !"-exclaimed Geraldine
bursting into a food of tears though not
boy I am that boy Oh, pray with me
pray with me-this day pray that I may
feel, and practise, and believe, that giving
up what we most cherish, is the only true
generosity"
It is related of one of the Chippewa In
dians, now at Boston, that being asked why
the Indians do not dress like the whites he
replied: We started your fashions: your
men now wear blankets, as we do, and your
women paint their faces and wear feathers. y
The latest case of Incidence is related in
one of our exchanges. 1t is that of man
named John Hole, who was so lazy, that in