Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-10-27
A Short Patent Sermon.
BY DOW, JR.

At the request of brother s. M. Kerr, (Phoe- nix Rancho near Bangor,) l will meddle with the following:
 :" W here de hen scratch dare she spec to find de bug"
 My Hearers: 1 am inform Ted that dark com plexion preacher, in Columbus, Ohio, once took the above for his text, and proved from it that our first parents fell out of an apple-tree into a mud hole which caused their first born to be as black as your hat. am afraid that my colored co-laborer has made much more out of it than l can; for, turn it over. set it upon end, lay it down and sprawl it open--after all, this old rooster don't find great deal to pick at
 In the first place, my brethren, I will pro- pound plous conumbrum: Why are men like watches? Because we must look inside of them for their good qualities, and iudg of them by their "works"
 Well, my brethren, the work of men and women Tn general consists, for the most part, in scratching, and the prospect of bug is the incen tive. You may notice, brethren, that whenever hen makes d scratch, she always gives peck: but whether she gets bug at every dip is very uncertain imagine not. Nevertheless, where the hen scratches there she egpects to find bug
 "A PoCoiuS 10 OuC yOu hllOW, my Irle0uS. and finding, another You may turn over many stone in this precious world, and find no buy. alter all. Phrenologically speaking, the human head is one vast bump of expectation and noth ing else.
 There are various sorts of bugs. brethren. in this buggy sphere. There are biz. bugs. little. bugs, tumble bugs, stra1dle-bugs, hum-bugs and bug bears. But you needn't scratch about mnch tO find of tbava. f,r | where thicker than shippers in seven year old cheese
 To find the bug you so earneslv desire. re- qures diigent scratching; and if by so doing youe don't happen to catch it, you can comfort yourself with the reflection that YOU put in the
 cks for it and it ought to have been yours. If young man takes girl about to see the shows, feeds her with bits, and buys her pretty cali coes, his title to kiss is clear and indisputable for "where the hen scratches, there she ex poets to find a bug"
 The bug that you are all after, my brethren, IS the gohl-b4g; but, alack-a day, how many of you scratch in valu yet it IS found in manure heaps, as well as in aariferous places. The far mer turns 1t up with his blow, and the car dener with his spade; and vet thousands keen scratching here and there without finding 'ary bug
 A few years ago hundreds of you fell to scratching at Kern river, expecting to f,d . mighty big-bug. We'll, you scratched and scratched; and what did you turn up at la,t?- m 'nstrous humbug! Got frightened and scrabbled for home vast si ,ht more buggv than you went-for" where the hen scratches there she expects to find bug"
 And now you all want to % the Frazer river bIt fbara ar | get there, you are in a quandarv which to choose. IL is like getting to heaven. The CathollcSinslst upon going straight through Pur gatory-the BApists % a round about wav but keep where there is pleuY of water. IS they belong to the class know as amosibe--the Pres byterians think their road the safest. althoa,b rather hot-the Universalists declare theirs to be the most pleasant--while the Meth ,dists shout haIieluyah," and scare up rabbits. as they journey upon the good old Jordan route. but when you are once there, Cat the dig5ing,, mean, for am not sure that you will ever reach the other place,) one stands just as good l chance as another-and don't know but little better. You all have about an equal amount of hope, if not pluck, and each will probably pitch in and dig with all the energy ut a terrier at gopher hole-for 'where the hSti oS ftoOllcN t'ltle sue eApet CO ma Ouy.'
 Let me make another application of the text, my brethren. Beware of an oily -thogued, svco- phant'c irend-who is ever too ready to do you small favor-who protesses willingness to serve you at all tmes-who praises you as the fox did the COW; for, while he is thus "sauiz- zllng" himself into your good graces, he has sly eye upon your purse- yourself forgetting for the moment that z where the hen scratches. there she expects to find bug"
 My friends, how uneasy is the immortal mind lnslts pent-nP prison of clay How it seems to exult in its freedom while winging its way to you azure field of light and glory, or wandering amid the green old bowers of the past, where none but itself is permitted to roam, What, then, must be its delights, when forever releas ed from its thrawldom of flesh, and no longer dependent upon bread, beef aud potatoes. The dly ooW come when liberty such as mortals have never yet known, will be biss(ullv reAliz- ed n an eternal sphere, where- where the hen scratches, there she expects to find bug" 5 mote 1t bel CH.jorHia GI{ea Era.