Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-12-10
ACE. Then she added in a tender

| BrlDg nome your trouble, dear. DON'T
hide anything. Let me share with you the
good and i'll of life. Do you not know that
hearts draw nearer in suffering than they do
in joyp
"Bless your kind heart, Alice!" said Mr..
Landell, broad smile creeping over his face
as he caught her round cheeks between his
hands and kissed her. "There isn't any
thing in the case so serious as all that comes
to. I'm not going to fail in business; haven't
lost nytbing worth speaking about; haven't
cheated anybody and don't intend to; it's
only this hasty, impulsive temper of mine
that is always leading me to say or do some
thing that leaves sting.'
The cloud passed from the face of Mrs.
Landell.
"You will overcome that in time, Ed
ward"
81 cant sec that / make any progress. -
Yesterday spoke sharply to one of my
young men, when a mild reproof would have
been more just and of more salutary effect.
He is sensitive, and my words hurt him Sc
verely. The shadow that remained on his
face all day was my perpetual rebuke, and
felt it long after the sun went down. Ny
punishment was greater than his. But the
lesson of yesterday did not suffice. This
morning l was betrayed into captious Ian
guage, and wounded the same young man,
aud threw him off his guard so much so that
be answered me with feeling. This | re-
garded as impertinence, aud threatened to
dismiss him from my service if he dared ven.
ture a repetition of his language. When
feeling subsided and thought became clear
again, | saw that l had been wrong and felt
unhappy about it ever since. / wish that
l had more self-control: that | could bride
my tongue when feeling it suddenly spurred.
But temperament and long indulged habits
are against me"
Mrs. Landel encouraged and soothed her
husband, aud SO won his mind away from
its self-reprOaches
On the next morning as Mr. Landell was
leaving for his store, his wife looked up at
him, and with meaning, said to him
Don't"
There was the slightest perceptible warn
ingin her tone.
Don't what?" Mr.. Landel seemed a
little puzzled.
Don't forget yourself"
"Oh ~ Light broke in upon his mind.
"Thank you, l will mott" and be went forth
to meet the trials of the day
Almost the first thing that fell under the
notice of Landell was an important letter,
which after writing, he had given to a clerk
to copy and mail. Instead of being in Bos.
ton, as it should have been, it lay upon bis
desk Neglect like this he felt to be unpar-
donabe.
John" he called sharply to young man
at the further end of the store
Don't p it seemed to him like the voice
of bis wife in his ear-"don't forget your
SELF"
This mental warning came just in season.
The clerk came quietly towards him. BY
the time he reached the desk of Mr.. Landel
the latter was under self-control.
"Why was not this letter mailed, John?"
he asked
The tone was neither imperative nor cap
tious, but kind; and the question was asked
in way that said, of course there is a good
reason for omission; and so there was.
81 think, sit" answered John, "thot there
is mistake, aud thought it not best to
put the letter in the mail"
"a mistake? HowW and Mr.. Landell
opened the letter.
at reads, says the clerk, "three hundred
cases of shawlS."
"Oh, no; thirty cases." replied Mr.. Ian.
dell. Butas he said this his eyes rested on
the three hundred. $50 it is. How could
have made such au error! You did right
John, in not sending the letter at ALL"
The clerk went back to his place, and the
merchant said to himself, Glow glad am
that was able to control myself. If | had
spoken to that yonng man as felt, would
have wronged and alienated him, and made
trouble for myself all day"
Not long after this case of goods fell
through the hatchways, crushing down up
On the landing with a noise that caused Mr. !
Landell, whose temperament was exceeding
y nervous, to spring to bis feet. To blame |
some body was his first impulse. "What
careless fellow has done this?" was on his
tongue.
Don't |" the inward monitor spoke in
Time. Mr.. Landell shut his lips tightly, and
kept silent until he could command himself |
He then inquired calmly into the cause of
The accident, and found that special blame
attached to none. Opening the case of
goods, the damage was found to be triaing |
Another conqest," said Mr.. Landell, as
be turned to his desk Selfcontro is easy
enough if the trial is made in earnest.
A dozen times that day was the torch ap-
oled to Mr.. LandelPs quick temper, and as
'fteu was he in danger of blasting out. But
he kept his temper till the sun went down,
Ind then he turned his steps homeward, feel
ng more comfortable 10 mind than he had |
'or several weeks. There was no. shadow
IN his conntenance when he met his wife, but
smiling good humor
"YOu said Don't as left this morning"
"Welln
"And / didn't"
"You are hero" said Mrs Landell,
angling
''Not much of one. The conquest was
'asy enough when | drew the sword in ear
lest."
"And you felt betterp
"Oh, a thousand times. What curse of !
mes life this quick temperament is. am
Ishamed of myself half dozen times day
N an average. But have made a good
and l mean TO keep on right un-