The Monmouth inquirer., 1865-11-23


are running into the wrong way now"
Well, WELL" replied the. young man,
with light smile. let me ask you some
thing. What has Mr. Smith done :"
"I'll tell you what he has done. !" said
Ellen, quickly Last Sunday morning
he wouldn't LET his wife come to meeting
She got all ready to go and he locked the
doors upon her and would not let her outl
There Rf
Why did he do this 7"
"Why. because he didn't happen to
want to 90 himself. so he was determined
she shouldn't go And only think; she
had made arrangements to take dinner
with her sister. and he knew it. What
dye think of that ?"
"Bnt how do you know this I"
"Why. I'll tell you She told Mrs.
Arnold about it. aud Mrs. Arnold told
me"
"And now, Ellen. let me tell you
something, said George, hetraying by his
look and to- that what he was going to
say had worked upon his feelings "Mr:
Smith joined the Free Masons the same
night | did His wife don't like il. She
doesn't like anything of ENJOYMENT for
him whichs she cannot directly and per-
sonally share. Last Saturday evening.
when he came home from work. his
clothes were quite soiled He had been
overseeing the getting in some hundred
and fifty loads of charcoal which he uses
in his establishment about the tempering
of bis cutlery. OF course his shirt was
very black and dirty. He went fer q
clean one and could not find it All the
shirt bosoms and collars had been taken
from his drawer. He asked his wife
where they were. She asked him if he
intended to go to the Mason meeting. He
said he did Then she said he could not
have clean shirt. He expostulated with
her, but to no effect. She declared that
he should not have stitch of clean linen
to wear TO a Mason meeting. Then he
said he should go as he was. Go if you
dare to do it!' she replied. If you do go
you shan't have clean shirt for week =
And she meant jnst what she said.
Mr. Smith came TO meeting, and no
ticed that he kept his coat huttoned up to
his throat, and that he had no collar on
l noticed it because he il generally SO
neat and precise. Well. Sunday morning
came. and. With all his power. Smith could
not get word from his wife. She saw
him searching over the hous :, and yet rot
a syllable would she utter And to make
it worse still, she allowed the seryant'gir
and others to zee it. OF course the stores
were shut up, and the poor man had to 20
sbirtless Finally Mrs Smith pref AIRED
for meeting, and when she was all dressed
she TUNED to her husband and said:
=" Perhaps you'll go to a Mason meet.
ing again
"Th,n it was. and rot till then, that
Mr. Smith resolved that his wife should
not go out Aud she did not Now you
can Judge for Yourself 2" q N
E leu was surprised at the recital She
asked her husband where he got his infor-
mat on, and he told her he had it from
one of the young m-n who lived with
Smith and who heard it all
And now" he added. +" The truth is,
Mrs Smith is a perfect Xantlppe Sac
wears smile in company, but her hns-
band sees nothing of the kind at home
He suffers much. EI'en, Once l prevent
ed that young man from taking his own
life. The perfect ngliness Of his wife had
driven him mad!''
q" Surely never dreamed that she was
such woman," said the young wife,
thoughtfully
You see how dangerous it is to jndge
of such matters before you hear both
Sides" returned George, earnestly. "In
all cases of this kind, when there is diff
Guilty between two or more persons, we
should not allow our sympathies to bp
enlisted until WE have heard both sides
Of course We must have certain sympa-
,hies from what We hear; but we have no
right to give our ord against person
ill we know. And we can never know
but hy hearing both sides, and then judy
'rg calmly and candidly Bur even hen
it Is the safest way not to give our opinion
uni s. it is needed" s& 'tR #3
Ellen said she understood it row, and
that she world be more careful in future
She was like great many other people.
She forgot that there acre two sides to
every story OF human faults, and thus al
lowed herself to be imposed upon very
often by false statements Of the facts; or
more likely, by one-sided statement
And how much evil resulted to the social
world from this one failing.
Mrs A tells her story Of suffering, or
the story Of her wrongs; and striigiitway
her friends sympathies are enlisted and
they denounce Mr. A in unmeasured
terms. Or perhaps it is Mrs. B who has
done all the wrong to Mr.. B.. and if 10,
then Mrs b. comes in for the blame; Mrs.
B of conrse, has her friends, so war.
fare commences By and BY, after the
parties come together, because they can
no longer remain apart. they find they
have been under q mI>apprehension; aud
all the ill-lerling they nave harbored has
been without cause. in fact. Had they
at first only heard both sides, all this
would not have happened.