The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-26

baker, he will know how to read it -
So they took the letter down to the
baker-he was mild man, very mild
mainland he read it this way:
"DEAR FArHER-I am very sick; send me
some money. Your son, John"
''Ahr' says the father, eff that's the
case, send him all he wants" TGreat
laughter and applause 1t is all in the
way you read it. You can take almost
everything in life in the same way. 1t is
the resolution to always look at the
bright side of things that brings us hap
piness and cheerfulness and peace. o
my friends, let us stand.up and listen for
the sweet sounds, instead of straining
our eyes and ears to detect the discords
of life. Let us cultivate thyme and ane
mOnes and roses, and have vines and
towering plants around the house; have
the windows arranged so that we can
hoist them to let in the sunshine. God
has planted a paradise of bloom in lit
tie child's cheek, and adorned the pillars
of rock by hanging tapestries of morn
ing mist around them. The lark says,
Il will sing soprano" and the cascade
says, " will carry the bass; let us leave
it to the owl and the croaking frog and
the surly bear to do the grumbling and
the fault-finding."
/ have no respect for the theory that
fine clothes will make gentleman. l
have no liking for Lord Chesterfield.
All the fine clothes that tailor's goose
ever pressed cannot make a gentleman;
1 don't care how large diamond flashes
in his cravat or how elegant the cut of
his garments or the materials from which
they are made. A bootmaker, a halter
and tailor got together one day and
resolved to make gentleman of a man
if it could be done by fine clothes. The
bootmaker said: II will make gentle
mans boots" and the halter said: 81
will make him fine hat and the
tailor: 81 will make him q fashionable
suit" They did it, and their gentle
man went out. Before night he did
something so perfectly contemplate that
everybody said he was not a gentleman,
and a neighbor said: "Sir; you cannot
make gentleman. God only can make
that large-hearted, generous, magnan-
imous being that we call gentleman"
[Applause. A very little thing will
tell you that man is gentleman.
| LOU GILL lell Ulldu Ill i've minutes. One
days visit to his home will reveal all his
domestic history as well as if you had it
in half dozen volumes.
Neither can all the arts and skill of the
dreSsmaker or perfumer make lady.
Here is the history of woman's work
during the late civil war of ours Her
dress was very much faded, and she
came out from an humble home with
basketful of little delicacies on her arm.
She had a boy in the army that was
missing after one of the battles. She
wanted to do something for others, be-
cause she couldn't do anything for him.
She went into the hospital, Strengthened
the bed-clothes, wrote letters, and
when she found a poor fellow shot
through the arm, brought ice for the
shattered limb, turned the hot pillow,
and offered up the silent prayer: "God
do so to me and my soldier boy that is
missing if | neglect to care for these
poor fellows" A man hearing the whis-
per, after she had passed shoves up the
bandage from his eyes and says: Good
bless her! may she get back her soldier
boy that is missing" The great tall
captain wounded in the foot whispers
over to lieutenant wounded in the head
and says; "Ah! no sham about that;
she's lady" That vision of kindness
fingers in the Western soldiers dreams,
and that very night he thinks he is home
beyond the prairies and hears the cattle
coming down the lane, and hears the
leaves rustling in the wind and bidding
him welcome. His children appear at
the door and his wife calls to him to look
at his boy strutting the floor with his
fathers knapsack on. All the house
hold work stops to hear of his advent
ures. All! they shall only meet again
in Heaven
Now, compare such Christian lady
in the hospital with woman | saw in a
street car in Philadelphia. A poor ragged
soldier came in and sat near her. She
got up with a show of Indignation and
took seat opposite and said: "Whata
dirty fellown' and said to myself there
was probably more nobility in the mean
est patch of his clothes than in that
woman. Two rough boys were riding
down hill and they couldn't steer the
sled as they wanted to, and ran against
lady and tore her dress. They ex-
pected perfect volley of abuse, but the
lady said: ''Boys, boys, you have torn
my dress very much; but see you didn't
mean to. Go on with your fun" One
boy said to the other; "My eyes, Bill,
isn't she beautyP" She was a lady.
A man of good manners
always has the faculty of making you
feel good; while on the other hand,
when you are in the company of one of
the ill-natured kind, you feel uncom-
Portable and unhappy.
Great accomplishments and learning
may often be dignified by gentleness
Luther's directness would have been
nightly helped by Melanchton' suavity.
Society will bear anything sooner than
bore. On a former pastoral charge
there was a minister that had one or two
offensive characters in his congregation.
One of them was man who was given
to sneezing at some of the most awkward
and embarrassing moments. When the
church was particularly silent and sol
emn, he would give one of those awful
sneezes, that sounded as if all the inside
of the earth was being ripped away.
Now, man has certain inalienable
rights guaranteed to him by the Con-
sttution. Among them are that of life and