Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-09-24

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charged my billto Peter who was but TOO
glad 10 pay it:
| WHAT THEY SAID sees
| ss M VIRGINIA TowSsEnUs. @
anxious mind Is nsser = hcly aiIsss z,
81 woaldsnt hare heiieyed Mrs. Peck
would have saiA that about ne; l've always
trusted her like 3 sister. and believed she
was my friend. and now 10 think she stsculd
go and talk against Hse at the sewing socie=
/ tyi Well, FL never trust anybody in this
world again. fer dsn't believe there's any
truth or friendship in it;'' and hefe Mrs
Collins threw s6ewn the baby . apron she
was hemmrng. and burst into aood OF
Poor womans she eertaialg had cause to
feel acutely. for the blew had fallen unex-
PetedlY, dealt too By neighbor and a friend
one near whom she had lived in perfect har-
mony. and whom she had frosted as sis
ter. zssss,s.asse sssss ssss ssssFsszssss
1t was an insidious thrust, too, on tehat
she could neither parry nor resent and
though Mrs.sCellins wasin the main very
sensible woman, she was, for time, quite
everwhelmed; for the story was a lie, an ua-
founded malicious, though somewhat Plausi-
BILE lse.
| 1t was on this wise. Mrs. Collins had
| been married twelve years, and for ten of
| these her husbands mother had resided with
her. She had hesn smart, active woman,
but the infrmilies of age had crept upon
her, and imp aired her intellect, and secured
her naturally fne disposition.
For the last FIVE years she had been con-
fined to her room, with rheumatism and pa
raIsis, and during this lime Mrs, Collins ad
been the m ost unweary and patient of nur-
to the fretful invalid. t..as.
/ All she had done for and borne with her
would never be known or dreamed of until
the sweet voices of the angels read it from
the golden line of the book of Life, and the
swell done' of God pierced the solemn 81
lence Of the Judgement.
But Grandmother Collins grew more ex-
acting and fault-6nding every day la her
nervous irritabIlity, she would not bear the
sight or sound of the children, (there were
two boys and cae girl) and il seemed al
most impossible to please herj indeed ,atfs
old woman persuaded herself that she was
not fairly treated, and would often insinuaie
this TO some heighBor who dropped in 10 see
her, retnarking with a sigh, that hshe was
an cid yFuntan, aud she supposed she was ia
het way.
! Her daughtef-in-law paid no attention Il.
these remarks. not doubling bat her neigh-
bors would understand. the cause. and re-
ceive them accordingly, but alas for her ma
tnre. there is in il an Inherent love of evil
speaking proclivity to tell the bad, rather
than the good in the life conduct and ante
cedents of another; and to this evil procliv-
ity, every son aud daughsor OF Adam whetl-
or saint or sinner, has been at some time
the victim.
Talk Of it-philosophize over il as you
will, that dark element of our humanity still
exists, sfili works out is aatpsai- result .nt
social fermentation, mischief aud misery,
and will, till mems hearts learn the height
and depth, the length and breadth OF IN at
glorious line os Paul, the apostle, set like a
diamond amoag pearls, and all rare and ra-
dent Jewels, Tas greatest Of these, is Ciar-
uy"
+ TO that question, ssWho are they, and
what were their fathers before them" let
any half dozen men or women respond IN
social assembly, and the chances are one to
a million, they will tell the evil, rather than
the good, and sthis is human nature"
Poor Mrs. Collins! 1t appeared at the
last sewing society, her name, her main lille
aad coaduci, had been introduced for CON-
!
Il had been hinted that she was not sc
kind to her husbands mother as she might
be, and that sshe allowed the children to
drive over her rough-shod. %
Mrs. Peck had contributed her share tc
these animaGversions, asserting that the OLE
woman had limited to her more than once
she wac really abused, and hardly had tht
| comforts of life, all this being received &itl
various exciam atioas, comments, Panto
mines indicative of surprise, interest, horror
and the entire matter was the next day con
veyed to Mrs. Collins ears. by some well
meaning, but not very judicious individpa
, who was present.
Mrs. Peck ton, was, on the whole, a vel
meaning and kind-bearted woman. She
i would make almost any sacrifice for neigh
bor; but with her many good impulses sh
lacked principle, and sooner or later, such I
( friend will surely fail one.
!, Now you can very readily divine how
Mrs. Collins would be apt to conduct her
, self in this juncture, and how loug, as sh
was woman of good common sense, sh'
would require to recover her equanimity an
| regard these aspetasions for what they wer
worth. Of one thing | am certain, grea
degree of GOODNESS always existed after thl
between her and Mrs. Peck
But, reader remember that just SO long a
e you live such reports will be circulated abou
you more or less according to the communi
$ ty in which youlive, and the character c
the people with whom you are daily brougt
y in contact. These stories, malicious an
untrue, will come TO you in one form or an
other. SO long as you live among men, n
matter how inuoceat. how good, or high yo
are, and it is best to be prepared for then
and keep the soul in position that it sha
: not be disturbed by these things. The
!, they cannot harm you for lie has in it tn
: elements of death. II cannot live. Ju;
SO true as truth is immuta5le, eternal. Ii
must work out its own destruction, an
the raiment of your soul shall only gro
J, fairer as the dust OF scandal falls away with
: out pollutiDg it.
: Sharp lessons, of betrayed confidence an
- faithless friendship the world will teach /
= all and God have mercy upon us in the da
aud the honr when we learn them; for Iii
,, has no tie eachings SO sharp RHd terrible q