Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-02-11
Society,s Teachings.

Lille bad numbered among her admir-
ers many lights of the Church. She
had Hirted with bishops, priests, and
deacens--who, none OF tbem, would,
for the world, have been TO nngallant as
TO quote to her such dreadful profession.
al passages as "Sle that lyeth in pleas
ure is dead while she lveth."
In fact, the clergy, while off duty, are
no safer guides of attractive young wo-
men than other mortal men and Lille
had so often seen their spiritual atten-
tions degenerate into DOWNRIGHT, tenn
Poral love-making, that she held them in
as small reverence as the rest of their
sex, Only one dreadful John the Bap-
tist of her acquaintance, one of the cam
ePs-hair-girdle and looust-and- wild-honey
species, once encountering Lille at Sarq-
toga, and observing the ways and man
ners of the court which she kept there,
took it upon him to give her a spiritual
admonition.
Miss Lille he aid, j see no chance
for the salvation OF your soul, unless it
should please God to send the smallpox
upon you. L think l shall pray for
that
oh, horrors don't, I'd rather never
be saved Lille answered, with a fervent
sincerity,
The story was repeated afterwards, as
All amusing BON mot, and specimen of
the barbari,y to which religious fanati-
cism may lead and yet we question
whether John the Baptist had not the
right of it.
For 1t must appear at orce that, had
the smallpox made the aforementioned
change in Lilies complexion at sixteen,
the whole course of her life would have
taken another turn. The whole world
then would have united in letting her
know that she must live To some useful
purpose, or be nobody and nothing
Schoolniasters would have scolded her if
she idlcd over her lessons and her
breaking down in arithmetic, and mis-
takes in history, would no longer have
been regarded as interesting. Clergy
men, who consulted on her spiritual state,
would have told her freely that she was
miserable sinner, who, except she re-
pented, must likewise perish. III short,
all those bitter and wholesome truths
which strengthen and'invigorate .he vir-
tues of plain people, might possibly have
led her long way on toward n,ship.
As it was, little Lille was contessedly
no saint ; apd yet, if much of sinner,
society has as much TO answer toy as she.
She was the daughter and flower of the
Christian civilization of the nineteenth
century, and the kind OF woman that, on
the whole, men of quite distinguished
sense have been fond of choosing for
wives, and will go on seeking to the end
OF the chapter.-Mrs, Stosce,
HEN PERsUADER.-'The Springfield
Republican, in speaking of new lnv.n-
ton ior hens nest, whereby the eggs
drop through trap door, and so deceive
the hen that she keeps on laying, is re
sponsible foi the following:
"Blobbs met with loss, however.
with one of the persuaders, Blobbs had
lively young Shanghae pullet of bound
less ambition, Bluhhs bought persua-
per and his lone Shanghae used it. She
went upon the nest in the morning.
Blobbs saw her go and his heart bound.
ed within him. Alas he never saw her
come off again. AT night he visited the
persuader. In the upper compartment
was handful of feathers, few toe-mails
and bill, IN the lawer compartment
were three dozeu and eleven eggs
Blobbs saw it all Her delicate consti-
tuition had been unequal to the task she
had lain herself away,