Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-09-24

yellow boy. having found 1t, had, accord.
ing 10 the negro code of morality appro-
priated il to himself. If this, il seems
was mislaked and ask his pardon, as
the best amends can make him; and at the
same. TO relieve you and Mrs. NJ. from
the unpleasant feeling such suspicion
would occasion, | dispatch this note by a
special messenger, although | have GER
tain conveyance 10 IN orrow.
81 make no apology TO yourself anG
Mrs NJ. for the frank expression Of my
suspicion, because Truth is the goddess
at whose shrine worship; and no Hugue-
no; in France, or Morisco in Spain, or
Judaizing Christian in Portugal, ever paid
more dearly for his herelical schism, than
have done for leaving the established
Church of Fdlsehood and Grimance. !
am well aware that ladies' are as delicate
as they are charming creatures, and that
in our intercourse with .hem we must
strain the truth as far as possible. Brought
up from earliest infancy 10 disguise their
real sentiments (for a woman would be a
monster who did not practice this dis
guise), il is their privilege to be insincere,
and we should despise them, if they had
that manly frankness which constitutes
the ornament OF our character as the very
reverse does theirs. We. must, therefore,
keep this in view in our intercourse with
them. and recollert tha, as our point of
honor is courage and frankness, theirs is
chastity and diSSimulation 4; for as have
said before, woman who does no, dis
semble her real feelings, is monster Of
impudence. Now, therefore, 1t does so
happen las Mr.. Canning would say) that
truth is very offensive to the ears of la
dy, when to those Of a gentleman Cher
husband for instance), i. would not be al
all so.
ITO illustrate Mrs. R of B,
my brolher's widow, was beyond all COM
parison the incest and best housewife
every saw. Not one drop of waller was
ever suffered TO stand upon the sideboard,
except what was in the pitcher; the house
from cellar to garrett, ard in every part as
clean as hands could make il and every
thing as if should be TO tend 10 even my
faslidious taste. lived there from my
brothers. death, from 1896 TO 1910, ex-
elusive and never did see or smell any
thing to offend my senses of my magma
lions once. Except in Autumn. | would
defy one 10 find leaf or feather in the
yard. The poultry were permitted to
come into ii,but we had no dirty children,
white or negro to make litter or filth. A
strong enclosure of sawn plank eight feet
high fenced in the kitchen, smokehouse,
icehouse and woodhouse, in which the
wood for the house was stacked away un-
der lock and key. The Turkey and hen
houses were in the same enclosure which
had two doors, one next 10 the dwelling
house for the use of the mistress aud
house servants, and one large enough TO
admit a wagon on the back or north side,
beyond which was a well built quarter
with brick rhimneys, and two rooms with
freplaces and four rooms without, for
servants. There was also (what had
forgo0, a spinning and weaving house.
"Ai night the door of this enclosure
was locked up-not servant being al
lowed to sleep within in, although every
one of them was within sound of the la
dy's bell.
"On one unhappy day in n very damp
season Of weather Of long continuance a
piece of cold lamb, was brought to the Ia
ble ,ha, was spoiled-,he first and last in
stance in nearly fifteen years Of household
economy. ordered the servants TO take
! il away, il being spoiled, but Mrs. Il. re-
senied this, and flallv Conlradicied ME,
and although the lamb absolutely stunk,
she ate part of it to prove her woman
truth, and was affron,ed with me almost
past forgiveness. | dare say if had not
noticed the lamb, she might have given a
hint to the servant TO take il away; but
the honest naked truth was not 10 be
borne. We had no company but D
and her son, three school boys, and an
Engishman named Knowles who acted
as overseer or steward. and dined with US
until he took TO drink. Mrs. r. stou,ly
denied that the lamb could be spoiled, be-
cause il had been boiled only the day be-
fore and had been in the ice house ever
since. admitted her facts but denied
her logic aChich 'cas truly a 'cOm0n'S. |
maintained that the highest evidence was
,ha, of the senses; that we must reason
from,facts when we could get at them,
and i, was only when we could not get at
tha. i. was fair to argue from probablh-
ties i: that the lamb stuak. and therefore
was not sound. This she denied. and TO
prove her words, actually made shift to
swallow half mouihful. which. under
other circumstances she would not have