Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-09-22

OF treatment is needtul, and Sloth will
win Il race. The third time we consent
to drive him on cmergency--but fourth,
tor no conceivable reason, and on no ac-
count whatsoever
You may shake your head, Captain ;
you can do great many difficult things,
you can build a ship like a genuine Down
Easter, and when you have done it with
your two stout hands and skilful. con-
triving brain, you make take her from
New Orleans to Havre, and make money
by your trading; you can build fence
on straight line, and paint it lath ard
plaster house besides in winter time,
and, when you have done that, fill it, in
the summer, with "the best people going
up and down the face of the earth. You
can keep post-olfice moreover, and Sc
curciv hold the love and the respect you
have earned by seventy years Of honesty y
and goodness in the place where you we.
born-ail this, undoubtedly-but you can
never persuade luc to 60 a-charioting
again over your island roads aud wood
pat 3, with nat monster Of ingratitude
feeding on your bounty, aud max ng fair
promise to the eye" only to "to break it
to the heart"
touch upon experience for the benefit
of persons who would naturally suppose
that once in Eden they might "circuIato'
at will. Mount Desert, it is written,
will become one of tho most famous OF
our seaside places of resort, and the lack
alluded to is one easily remediei, if un-
derstood in time.
The house in which we abide is an in
voluntary inn. A year ago the little
.aotel, few yards distant, oyerAowed
with guests, and the Captains door was
helabored by strangers, who potitioned for
admission IN regular baggar fashion,
There was in this appeal Il manifest dec
laration Of the will of Providence, which
the cd chi.d,ess people, VINO were quiet
Iy walking down t bill OF life together,
were unable TO withstand. There they
were, and there their house was They
hadn't the heart to see folks perish in
their yard-"unkingel by foolish bread
and butter" They did indeed remons-
trate and expostulate after their fashion,
but their defence Was too unwaHike they
ended by opening their doors, and the
tide rolled in, and, if the house were
double It's present size, it would to-day be
filled to its remotest. darkest corner.--
One smiles to.think OF the CONSERVATION
which now and then, at unexpected mo-
mcnts, is manifest when the reflective
powers OF mine host and hostess lay hold
on the situation-- and they clearly COM
prchcnd it. Bat the serene dignity OF
brave and honest niaaliHess, and tender,
poetic wpmanliness, winch have been nu-
turod Into beautiful strength by u life-
times familiarity with the glory Of the
steadfast hills and the tremendous oceans
power, is not to be olerthrown in a day
by invasion oil Gotn or Nandal When
cue bears in mind that the fact that " all
cut doors, With lis sweet air aud day.
light may be h,led with gloom snd poison
by tao eYiI indoor life, gratitude becomes
the sometime ,iWcicr in the fair haven Of
rest found ut Bar iiarbor.
-, may the measure Of gentle chari-
ties there meted out to US and never 70
be ntjtl for be returned pressed down'an.l
funalra over. to the Can,ain and his wifi,
that unexiiol Adam and Eve , Nav
the echoes Of summer fun and laoahtrr
resoand their house ,lsrjpo All tine 1roary
winter nirhts, M,ytle merorv Of the
suusd;qe. whieh at tbs moment ius their
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