Peace Principles--a Capital Anecdote

We find this anecdote of William Ladd in the last nnmber of the Democratie Review: - It was not mere good nature, but the adoption of the peace principies, wbich made him thus gentle-hearted. A story which he had often told with peculiar relisb, will Ilústrate this moulding of his character- the gradual progre8s of his mind in adopting he Peace principies. '1 had," said he, "a fine field of grain, growing upon an farm tome distance from the homestead. W henever Irode by, I saw my neighbor Pulsifer's eheep in the lot deetroying my hopes of a harvest. These sheep were of the gaunt, long-legged kind, active a6 spaniels - they conld spring over the highest fence, and no wall could keep thera out. I compiained to neighbor Pulsifer about them, sent him frequent messages, but all without avail. Perhaps they would be kept out for a day or two, but the legs of his sheep were long, and my grain rather more tempting than the adjoining pasture. I rode by again - the cheep were all there - I becanie angry, and told my men to set the dogs on them, and if that would not do, I would pay them if they would shoot them, "I rode away much agitated; for I was hot so much of a Peace man then aa I am now, and I feit, literally, full of right. All at once a iight flashed in upon me. I asked myself, would it not be well for yonto try, in your own conduct, the Peace principies you are preaching to others1? I thought it all over, aml settled down my mind as to the best cour6e to be pursued. 'The next day I rode over to see neighbor Pulsifer. I found him chopping wood at his door. Good morning, neighbor. Noanswer. Good morning, I repeated. He gave a kind of grunt, like a hog, without looking up. I came, continued I, to see you about the 6heep. At this he threw down his axe, and exclaimed in a most angry nianner, 'Now aren't you a pretty neighbor, to teil vour men to kill my sheep! - I heard of it - a rich man like you to snoot a poor man's sneep!"' "I was wrong, neighbor scid I - but it won't do to let your sheep eat up all that grain; 60 I came over to say that I would take your sheep to my homestead pasture, and put them in with mine ; and in the fall you may take them beek, and if any one ia missing, you may take your piek out of my whole flock. "Pulsifer looked confounded - he did not know how to take me. At lasthe Btammered out, Now, Squire, are you in earnest?' Certainly I ani, I answered- it is better for me to feed your sheep in my pasture on grass, than to feed them here on grain; and I see tke fence can't keep them out. "After a moment's silence - 'The sheep shant trouble you any mote,' exclsimed Pulsifer. 'I will fetter them all. But VA let you know that when any man talks of shooting, I can shoot too; and wheo they are kind and neighborly, I can be kind too.' 'And my iriends,' he would continue, addressing the au dience, 'remember that when you talk of injuring your neighbors, they talk of injunng you. When nations threaten to fight, other nations will be ready too. Love will beget love - a wish to be at peace will keep you in peace. You can only overeóme evil with good - there is no other way."