Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-06-04

esteem are great acts only few could do
them, and only once in awhile. But the
business which Mrs. Hannah Moore was said
to take for her life's task-taire DIES heureur,
to make others happy-is business at which
every man, woman, and child may work in
every place, every day, and every hour of
the day. A stone cutter or joiner might
say with truth of given day, Il have lost
it, for [ have let it 60 without one stroke
from my chisel;" but we would not frame a
rule conversely, and ordain one stroke of the
chisel as noticeable affair
We err by omitting cheap acts of beni6-
cence in .our daily walk and among our
hourly companionship. The web of mer-
ciful life is made up of these slender threads.
This is secret oftener learnt by woman
than by man.
The husband is used to wholesale business.
By the utterance Of a few sylables on Change
he finds himself richer by thousands. He
writes ten letters on slip of paper, and
goes home heavier by complete fortune.
He has done days work. He can make
long interval. So in his charities; he takes
a 1.-THE of the tithe of half his nett income
and builds an orphan house. His soul is
refreshed he has done great work.
The wife sits at home. She is employed
in series of continually repeated acts, any
one of which is almost inappreciable. Her
steps are many, up and down flights Of stairs.
Her sphere of housewifery comprises multi
form particulars. She layeth her hands to
the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
Who can keep the tally of all those quick
passes of her nimble needle? Her aggre-
gate of human activity is the sum of small
increments. She acquires habit of think:
ing that innumerable Titles will in time
amount to something great. She general
ICES her law and gives it a moral turn, hold
ing that thousand minute kindnesses 90 for
something in the sum total of benefaction.
If she cannot rear an ASYLUM, she can wipe
away tear If her lord comes home to
dinner weary and pettish, after some exhaust
ing deed of love, she can bear his glance
with meek and quiet spirit, which he will
remember by-and-by. ''In her tongue is
the law of kindness" Great men may learn
philosophy from good women. Our days
would be sad indeed if every one was lost
which did not contain some signal action,
fit to be written down in the book Of Chroni-
cles or honored by presentation of plate
with letters and dinner speeches. It is a
remarkable point in the awards of the judg-
ment-day that those who are to enter into
the joy of their Lord seem never to have
kept any diary Of their good works, Or di-
gested any statistical table of their visits, or
held any anniversaries whereon to ennume-
rate their works of mercy. "Lord, aohea
saw we thee an hungered or athirst % Yet
they had not lost their days. God remem-
bers what they forget, even to the minutest
good deed.
"'Tis little thing
To give cup of water yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drain by fever'd lips,
May give shock of pleasure to the frame
More exquisite than when nectarean juice
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours
1t is little thing to speak phrase
OF common comfort which byNday use
Has almost lost its sense yet on the ear
Of him who thought to die unmourn'd twill fall
Like choicest music"