The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-08-20

ing q word. At breakfast he would
say nothing, and not seem to wan
anybody else to consequently tht
whole family would sit and MUNICH in
silence thea he would rise from the
table ard walk out Of the front dool
as ifhe was dumb although it wa:
a relief when he had gone and made
matters something better, still chill
ing influence remained behind hin
the whole morning.
Peter had been wearing these glass
es a good many years, when it occur
red to him one day that things never
looked very cheerful in his eyes, thai
he was never very happy, and that
perhaps his spectacles had something
TO do with it. =
81 wish I could get another and q
better pair" said he. Then he re-
membered that his neighbor, Samuel
Seebright had to wear glasses also.
but he always appeared to see well
and to have a pleasant face Oh. Meet
ing him the next morning he said
sNeighbor, if it is not making too
free, may 1 ask you where you get
your spectacles?'
Certainly replied Samuel. i
am glad to tell you. They are good
ones, and I wish every man with poor
eyes had a pair like them.
Il would be willing to pay a good
price for a pair, said Peter.
"That is not needful,' replied
Samuel, "they are the cheapest glass
es you can get
"Pray tell me where l can find
them, said Peter.
"I got mine,' said Samuel, "by the
help of certain Physician whose
house you pass every day; and if
you are truly anxious to get them, l
know he will tell you how you can
get a pair for the asking.
II don't want them in charity,
replied Peter. :.
"Then you can not have them,
said Samuel.
"Well," replied Peter in a humber
voice, "I'Il take them for nothing, or
I'll pay big price for them, for L
want them above all things.
"Ah," said Samuel, "that sounds
more like getting them. You go to
him and tell him how you feel, and
he will attend to your case"
Then Peter did as he was told.
The Doctor looked at his eyes, said
that the disease in them was one
which kept him from seeing the good
in things about him all he could see
was the evil.
''And those glasses you have been
wearing" he continued, "have only
made them worse, till there is dam
ger of your getting beyond cure.
"And is there no hope for me"
asked Peter.
"Oh yes" replied the doctor, "if
you will follow the directions.
Il will do so,'' said Peter.
ain the first place, then" he con-
tinued, "you must wear those glasses
no more. Throw them away or put
them in the fire, so that you will new
er see them again"
81 promise to do sO,' replied Pc
ter.
':In the next place, when you are
given a new pair" continued the Doc
tor, "you must always wslk in the
way which they show you to be
right"
II will try not to depart from it. a
said Peter.
At this there came an invisible
hand that took off his old smoked
glasses aud put on new ones, made OF
pure crystal, which let the light
through just as it came down from
the sky. But oh what change they
made to Peter! He went home, and
as soon as he entered the door his
house seemed like another place to
him; it seemed filed with blessings.
"Is it possible" he exclaimed,
"that those glasses have kept me
from seeing all these before?"
The next morning when he got up
he told his wife what had betallen
him and how he felt in consequence.
But" said she, with loving
smile, chow about those badly-irOn-
ed collars and the pins and the weak
coffee?"
"Oh,'' he cried, show could L eV-
er let such trifes trouble me2''
"And then,'' she continued, 'here
is the carpet wearing out, and the
boys shoes and the girls dresses.'
"As for them," he said, eve will
hope to get more when they are gone.
But even if we should not have half
our present comforts and indulgen-
ces with you, my dearest, and my
precious children about me, | trust L
may feel too rich ever again to utter
one complaining word.
So the sunshine came into Peter
Crisp's house, and he and all his fam
lily led a happier life because of his
new glasses, which were thankful
heart.-LippincOtt's Magazine.