Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, May 15, 1856, Image 4
Jimtsing grating. ;
SUKEY SSIXTH.
MIsr Sukey Smith hud tlaxon hair,
Her daddy had the pewter.
Her eyes were gray, and looked serene
Upon her favored suiter.
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That suiter was a jolly youth,
So nimble, lithe and brawny,
The yellow fever took bim off
Away to Californy.
And when I heard that he was gone, j
"It's now," said I "ornever?"
I shav'd myself and grenscd my shoes
And tried to look right clever.
I rigged myself from top to toe
And caught and mounted Dobbin,
But all the way I rode along
My heart it kept a tbrobbin'.
And when I reached her daddy's house,
It still kept up a thumpin',
But when I saw the lovely maid
It kinder stopped a jompin'.
'Twas half-past ten, whenat her feet
I knelt, and yet, ere dinner,
With honeyed speech and winning ways,
I had contrived to win hee.
11 ' eke. rloTT
Some montn? eiapseu?m act. mc
I now began to press ber :
I urged, cutreated, plead in vain?
In vain did I cares* her.
While matter? were thus cross and pile,
My clothes all growing seedy,
My rival from the mine? returned,
Still for Miss Sukey greedy.
I saw him kinder sidle up
And slip his arm around her
When, heaven and earth ! she let him kiss
Them precious lips! Confound her!
I told her that I was surprised?
My eyes had sure deceived me?
And asked her to renew hev vows,
And from suspense relieve me.
When, don't you think, the tarnal gal,
Her thumb up to her smeller,
Her fingers wriggled, as she said?
44 Can't come it, little feller."
HOW TO BEHAVE IN CHURCH.
The Schenectady Star gives the following
hints on church etiquette :
For Gentlemen.?Fancy, upon opening
the door, that every body will look at you
aud bear yourself bravely till you get to your
seat. Theu pass your baud over your hair
to see if the hour's labor that you spent on
it has not been in vain, then take a good
long stare over the congregation to see who
is there. If you chew tobacco, blaze away
in the seat behind, if unoccupied, or else let
drive at your neighbor's patent leather.?
Scratch your name on the back of the front
seat, with the likeness of a one-eyed hippogrifl';
stare frequently at the pretty looking
girl behind you, and if possible send her a
note assuring her that she has the prettiest
hand or the most exquisite eye of blue this
side of Paradise. After having exhausted
all reasonable amusements you may shut your
eyes, open your mouth, and favor the congregation
with an extempore snore. After
the service is over, do the agreeable, if possible,
to some divinity j there-after write yourself
a brick.
For Young Ladies.?Spend four hours
in tixiug out before starting, for it is every
young lady's duty to look pretty, bearing in
mind that ladies were created for the especial
purpose of being worshipped by gcutlemen,
and attracting their unqualified admi-1
ration. Step daintily and gracefully up the !
aisle, seat yourscif, straighten up, seat yourself
again, and repeat this six consecutive
times. Pull the outer garment a little way
over the left shoulder, then back on the right,
and after doing this a few times leave it where
you found it. Straighten down your collar, j
then straighten it up, pull out a highly per-!
famed pocket tiandkercmei, pass it over your
lips and return it, smoothc down both sides
of your dress, and thrust the toe of your exquisite
foot n little out, and then after rising
up and sitting down again, you will be prepared
for further developments. Being
properly fixed, you will rise up again and
ait down, and then, after rising up and sitting
down once, it would be well to repeat
it. If the gentleman in front sends you a ,
note, hide it under your prayerbook, or fan, j
and read it when he is not looking ; you need
pay no particular attention to the preaching; i
that will be for the benefit of sinners. If:
you have blue eyes, turn theni upwards once j
in a while, if black, partly close- the lids and |
look dreamy. It there is a gentleman at j
church you particularly fancy, don't look ;
but once at him and then drop your glance
immediately* After church dou't accept a j
gentleman's company unless he proffers it, j
and let your judgment guide you thereafter, j
WATCH YOUR TONGUE.
People are often subjected to extreme mortification
by indulging iu disparaging re-;
marks of strangers, and learning subsequent-1
ly that the persons themselves, or some of'
their intimate friends were within hearing
of the remarks Such unpleasant occurrences
rarely have so pleasant a termination a?
the following singular recounter between Dr
Dwigbt and Mr. Dennie:
As Dr. Dwight was travelling through
New Jersey, he chanced to stop at a stage j
hotel, in one of its populous towns for the j
night. At a late hour of the panic, arrived
also at the inn, !Mr. Denriie, who had the ;
misfortune to learn from the landlord that '
the beds were all paired with lodgers, except
one occupied by the celebrated Dr.
Dwight. ''Show me to his apartment," exclaimed
Dennie; "although 1 am a stranger;
to the R^v. Doctor, perhaps 1 can bargain i
with him for my lodgings." The landlord
/wniflincrk* awaited on him to the Doctor's
- r-'j - room,
and there left him to introduce him- S
self. The Doctor, although in his night i
gown, cap and slippers, and just ready to j
resign himself to the refreshing arms of
Somnus, politely requested rho strange intra
der to be seated. The Doctor was struck :
with the literary physiognomy of his companion,
unbent his austere brow, aud com-,
meueed a literary conversation. The names
of Washington, Franklin, Ritteuhouse, aud
a host of literary aud distinguished oharac-.
ters, for some time gave zest and interest to j
their conversation, until Dwight chanced to !
mention the name of Dcnnie.
"Dennie, the editor of the Portfolio, (says
the Doctor, in a rhapsody) is the Addison of
the United States?the father of American
Belles Letters. Put, sir," continued he, 'ds I
it not astonishing that a man of such genius,
fancy and feeling, should abandon himself
to the inebriate bowl, and to bacchanalian
revels?"
' Sir," said Dennie, ' [ have been inti-!
matelv acquainted with Dcnnie for several
years, and I never knew nor saw him intoxicated."
"Sir," said the I'octor, "you err; I have
my information from a particular frieud; I
am contidcut I am ri?rht, at id you arc wrong."
Dennic now ingeniously turned the conversation
to the clergy, remarking that Doc
toAbercrombie and Mason were among 5
the most distinguished divines; nevertbe- i
less, he considered Dr. Dwight, President of i 1
Yale college, the most learned theologian? 1 i
the first logician?and the greatest poet j i
America has ever produced. "But, sir," |1
continued Dennie, "there are traits in his 11
character undeserving so great and wise a ]
mau of the most detestable description?he :
is the greatest bigot and dogmatist of the
age!" 11
"Sir," said the Doctor, "you are grossly
mistaken. I am intimately acquainted with
Dr. Dwight, and I know to the contrary."
"Sir," says Dennie, "you are mistaken.
I have it from an intimate acquaintance of
of his, whom I am confident would not tell
me an untruth."
"No more slander," says the Doctor, "I
am Dr. Dwight of whom you speak I"
"And I too," exclaimed Dennie, "am Mr.
Dpnnift nf whom vou snoke !"
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The astonishment of Dr. Dwight may be |
better imagined than told. Suffice it to say,
they mutually shook hands, and were extremely
happy in each other's acquaintance.
A DOCTOR'S LIFE.
The following are some of the sweets of a
doctors' life. If he visits a few of his customers
when they are well, it is to get his
dinner; if he don't do so, it is because he
cares more about the fleece than the flock.
If he goes to church regularly, it is because
he has nothing else to do; if he don't go, it
is because he has no respect for the Sabbath
or religion. If he speaks to a poor person,
he keeps bad company ; if he passes them
by, he is bettor than other folks. If he has
a good carriage, he is extravagant; if he uses
a poor one on the score of economy, he is
deficient in necessary pride. If he makes
parties, it is to soft-soap the people to get
their money; if he don't make them, he is
afraid of a cent! If his horse is fat, it is because
he haB nothing to do; if he is lean, it
is because he isn't taken care of. If he
drives fast, it is to make people think somebody
is very sick; if he drives slow, he has
no interest in the welfare of his patients. If
he dresses neat, he is proud ; if he does not,
he is wanting in self respect.
If he works on the land, he is fit for nothing
but a farmer; if he don't work, it is because
he is too lazy to be anything. If he
talks much, "we don't want a doctor to tell
everything he knows;" if he don't talk,
"ire like to see a doctor social.1' If he says
anything about politics, he had better let it
alone; if he don't say anything about it, "we
like to see a man show his colors." If he
TMoifti tijo ndtiontc r.vprv flnv. it is to l'Un UD
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.1 bill; if he don't, it is unjustifiable negli- |
genee. If he says anything about religion,
he is a hypocrite ; if he dou't, he is an infidel.
If he uses any popular remedies of
the day, if is to cater to the whims and
prejudices of the people to fill his pockets ;
if he don't use them, it is from professional
selfishness. If he is in the habit of having
counsel often, it is because he knows nothing
; if he objects to having it on the ground
that he understands his own business, he is
afraid of exposing his ignorance to his superiors.
If he gets pay for one-half his services,
he has the reputation of being a great
manager. "Who wouldn't be an M. P.?
Xashvilfc Journal of Medicine.
One day, at a fashionable dinner party,
there happened to be a son of Hibernia present.
In the course of the conversation he
made a bull very naturally, at which the
company very good naturedly laughed.
''My dear fellow," said the host, "make
no apology. We all know your natural
privilege of speaking twice."
"Oh," returned he, "don't be uneasy at
all; surely I know my privilege, and I
mean to retain it; but even here,ns in everything
else, you English have the advantage
over poor Paddy."
"How so ?" enquired the host.
"Why, you sen," said the young Hibernian
; with a serious drollery that would not
have disgraced Tyron Power, "that an Irishman
is only allowed to speak twice, but by
faith, you English i re allowed to speak until
}/ov are understood.
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^ l Jiviintactuii was uiuiug at a nuiei, a
few weeks, ago, while tho New Vork Legislature
was sitting where man)' of the membere
were boarding. The members were
employing freely at the table the terms by
which they designated each other in their j
debates thus:
'Will the member from Oneida have the !
goodness to pass the bread?' 'Will the mem- ]
ber from St. Lawrence please hand the .silt ?' j
u
The Kentuckian was not a little disgusted, j
as he is apt to be with anything that savors j
of atfectation ; and in stentorian tones he >
called to one of the waiters.
'Will (he mnuhrr fi-ym A/Va'u be So good |
as to hand me that dish of ham V
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A Grammatical Pupil.?A School mas- |
ter, after giving one of his scholars a sound 1
drubbing for speaking bad grammar, sent j
him to the other end of the room to inform
another boy that he wished to speak to him, (
and, at the same time, promising in repeat
the dose if he spoke to him ungraminatical'y
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The youngster, quite satisfied with what,
he had got, determined to be exact, and j
thus addressed his fellow pupil:?
"There is a common substantive, of the ,
masculine gender, singular number, nominative
case, and in an augry mood, that sits j
perched upon the eminence at the other side j
of the room, wishes to articulate a few sen- '
teuces to you in the present tense."
Holskiiold Tkkasi u?. A treasure of i
a husband?Carries the baby.
A treasure of a wife?Never asks for
uioney.
A treasure of a son?Has money in the
funds.
A treasure of a daughter?Looks the same
age as her mother?if anything, a trifle old- j
er.
A treasure of a servant?Huns to the post
in less than half an hour.
A treasure of a cook?is not hysterical:
whenever there is company to dinner.
A treasure of a bahy?Doesn't disturb its
dear papa in the middle of the night.
An Editor.?At a recent festival given
by the printers in Boston, the following
truthful and sensible toast was made :
Tiik Editor.?The man who is expected
to know everything, tell all he knows, and
guess at the rest: to make oath to his own
good character, establish the reputation of
his neighbors, and elect all candidates to office
; to blow up everybody, suit everybody,
I and reform the world ; to live for the benefit
t of others, ami have the epitaph on his tomb-,
'tone, " Here he lies his last;" in short, he
s a locomotive running on the track of pubic
notoriety; his lever is his pen, his boiler
s filled with ink, his tender is his scissors, c
ind his driving wheel is public opinion; j
whenever he explodes it is caused by the :
non-payment of subscriptions. He is ex- j'
pected to work for nothing and board him- jl
self?and if he is uufortunate enough to :1
have a family, he will either have to run in
debt for their support, or take lodgings in
the almshouse. Poor fellow ! he is nothing
?nothing but an editor.
THE SAILOR'S RETORT. 11
A sailor was called upon the stand as*a j i
witness. j i
"Well, sir," said the lawyer, "do you |
know the plantift'and defendant?" ! |
"I don't know the drift of them words," j!
nnswerod tb<> sailor.
"What! not know the meaning of plain- i
tiff and defendant !" continued the lawyer; !
"a pretty fellow you, to come here as a wit- j
ness. Can you tell me where on board the 1
whip it was that, man struck the other one?" j
"Abaft the binnacle," said the sailor. I
"Abaft the binnacle," said the lawyer; j
"whatdo you mean by that?"
"A pretty fellow you," rnsponded the i
sailor, "come here as a lawyer, and don't j
know what abaft the binnacle means."
m?i ?
Thk German for Plate?"Good gra
cious, Anna, what is the German for a
plate ?"
"Teller," I replied, leaning over the stair, j
"Tell her what?" returned my aunt, not;
supposing that she had heard aright.
"Teller," T answered back at the top of my [
voice.
"How cau I tell her, unless you tell me
what to tell her?" she retorted in a tone that j
betokened she was gradually becoming heated,
and, indeed, the weather was sultry.
"Can't you hear me tell you to tell her \
teller?"
"That'sjust what I want to do: but how
can I tell her unless T know what to tell
her?"
I was laughing so heartily that I could i
only shout out, "Tell her, teller." But fear- i
ing that my aunt might become exasperated,
I ran down stairs, and for her edification uttered
the magic word. Of course, the desired
plate was produced, to her great amazement;
but she good naturedly joined in ray
unrepressed merriment.?Autobiography of
an Actress.
More than a Match.?A Scotch far-!
mer, celebrated in his neighborhood for his |
immense strength and skill in the athletic i
exercises, very frequently had the pleasure j
of fighting people who came to try if they j
could settle him or not. Lord D., a great j
pugilistic amateur, had come from London j
on purpose to fight the athletic Scot. The ;
latter was walking in an enclosure, at a lit- i
tie distance from his house, when the noble !
Lord arrived. His lordship tied his horse j
to a tree and addressed the farmer :
"Friend, T have heard a great deal of talk j
about you, and I have came* long way to ,
see which of us is the best wrestler."
The Scotchman, without answering, seized j
the nobleman by the middle of the body, I
pitched him over the hedge, and then set j
about working. When his lordship had got
himself fairly picked up,?
"Well," said the farmer, "have you any j
thing more to say to me ?"
"No," replied his lordship ; "but perhaps ;
you'd be so good as to throw me my horse." i
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An exchange paper, the editor of |
which, no doubt, lately "set up" with a wid- .
ow, goes off thus :
"For the other half of a courting match j
there is nothing like an interesting widow. I
There is as much difference between courting j
a damsel and an attractive widow, as there is i
between ciphering in addition ana aounie :
rule of three. Courting a girl is like eating i
fruit, all very nice as far as it extends, but '
doing the amiable to a blue-eyed bereaved one j
in black crape, comes under the head of pre- j
serves?rich, pungent, syrupy.' For delicious
courting, we repeat, give us a live
fwidder."'
A chopfalleu victim of unrequieted love !
sings in this lamentable strain : I'll throw '
myself into?The deep briny ocean,?Where j
mud-eels and cat-fish?Ou my body shall j
riot,?and flounders and flat-fish?Select me !
for diet :?There soundly T'll slumber?Be- j
ueath the rough billow,?And crabs without j
number?Shall crawl o'er my pillow,?But ,
my spirit shall wander through gay coral ,
bowers,?And frisk with the mermaids?it.
shall, by the powers !
A man, <?a little the better for liquor," as
poor Mundeu used so have it, was gliding j
his way through Gower street, lately, the i
pavement being like apiece of glass. At
length he fell down just as a policeman was
approaching the spot, who said to him good ;
hnmoredly, "1 say, old fellow, 1 must take
you up for sliding ou the pavement." To
which ho that was floored said, with the 1
greatest unit//void, "I visit yon vould, for f
cannot get up myself."
When TVter the Great sojourned in Bondon,
he visited Westminister Hall during
term time, when the court was crowded with
lawyers in their wigs and gowns. Peter inquired
"who those persons could possibly
be ?" Being informed that they were all
members of the legal profession, lie exclaim-.
ed : "lawyers ! why I have only two in all ;
my dominions, and L believe I shall hang
otic ol them when L get ouck.
Extending tiie Time.?The Wesleyan!
Conference, at its late sitting in London, so
altered their ecclesiastical regulations as to
allow ministers to remain five years at one
place, provided the quarterly conference of
the circuit make a yearly request to that ef- j
feet after the second year. A similar change
in the discipline of the Methodist Church in
this country has long been contemplated.
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"Ma, didn't the minister say last Sunday
that the sparks flew upward?"
"Yes my dear, how come yon to be thinking
of it ?"
"Because yesterday, I saw cousin Sally's'
spark staggering along the street and falling
downwards."
"Here, Bridget, put this child to bed ; !
she must he sleepy."
"1 have lost my appetite," said a gigantic
Irish gentleman, arid an eminent performer
on the ttvueher, to Mark Supple. "I hope"
said Supple, "no poor man has found it. for
it would ruiu him in a week."
? - . - . 'a
pa, have Mr. Jones' eyes got feet ?"
"Why, my son ?" "Because 1 heard mother
siy that at a party the other evening Mr.
Jones' eyes followed her all over the room." i
Interesting leading. ;
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EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE.
The following is the most graphic delinea- \
ion of the miseries and effects of intemperince
that we have ever seen?it is from the
lrguments advanced by certain citizens of
Portage county, Ohio, in a memorial to the
Legislature on the subject:
And yet, its march of ruin is onward still! J
[t reaches abroad to others?invades the
family and social circles?and spreads woe j
and sorrow all around. It cuts down youth i
iu its vigor?manhood in its strength ?and i
age iu its weakness. It breaks the father's |
heart?bereaves the doating mother?extin- I
guishes natural affection?erases conjugal
love?blots out filial attachment?blights
parental hope?and brings down mourning
nsvsi in (1A1IMAM. il.. TI n.Aj.lAAC
ngc in auuuw iu LUC jjiuyc. XL piuuuuca
weakness, and not strength; sickness, not
health; death, not life. It makes wives
widows?children orphans?fathers fiends?
and all of them paupers and beggare. It
hails fevers?feeds rheumatisms?nurses
gouts?welcomes epidemics?invites cholera
?imparts pestilence, and embraces consumptions.
It covers the land with idleness, poverty,
disease and crime.
It fills your jails?supplies your almshouses?and
demands your asylums. It engenders
controversies?fosters quarrels?and
cherishes riots. It contemns law?spurns
order?and loves mobs. It crowds your
penitentiaries?and furnishes the victims for
your scaffolds. It is the life-blood of the
gambler?the aliment of the counterfeiter
?the prop of the highwayman, and the support
of the midnight incendiary.
It countenances the liar?respects the
thief?and esteems the blasphemer. If violates
obligation?reverences fraud?anv* Honors
infamy. It defames benevolence?hates
love?scorns virtue?and slanders innocence.
It incites the father to butcher his offspring
?helps the husband to massacre his wife?
and aids the child to grind his parricidal
axe. It burns up man?consumes woman?
detests life?curses God?and despises Heaven.
It suborns witnesses?nurses purjury?defiles
the jury box?and stains the judicial
ermine. It bribes votes?disqualifies voters
?corrupts elections?pollutes our institutions?and
endangers our government. It
degrades the citizens?debases the legislator
?dishonors the statesman?and disarms the
patriot. It brings shame, not honor; terror,
not safety; despair not hope; misery, not
happiness. And now, as with the malevolence
of a fiend, it calmly surveys its frightful
desolation, and insatiate with havoc, it
poisons felicity?kills peace?ruins moralsblights
confidence?slays reputation?and
wipes out national honor?then curses the
world?and laughs at its ruins.
INDIAN CORN MEAL.
It is said that more people would eat corn
bread if they knew how to cook it. An "experienced
housekeeper" has furnished us with
some good receipts, which we commend to
unexperienced housekeepers. A bushel of
corn contains more nutriment than a bushel
of wheat. The latter is not generally considered
fit to eat unless ground very fine and
bolted. It is a mistake, however. Indian
corn treated in tBc same way is nearly spoiled
It never should be ground fine. Let
that be remembered. Fine meal may be eaten
when fresh ground, but it will not keep
sweet. The broken oil globules become rancid
and bitter.
Corn Cakes, made of meal and water with
a little salt, mixed into a stiff dough very
thoroughly, and baked on a board, before a
hot fire, or in a hot oven, or iu little cakes on
a griddle, till entirely done, are very sweet,
wholesome food.
Corn and Wheat Bread is wholesome and
nutritious, and easily made, if you kuow
how. Stir two tea-cupfuls of white meal in
a pint of hot water for each loaf; free it of
lumps, and let it stand twenty-four hours.?
Boil two or three potatoes, peel and slice,
and mash it in a pint of water, which thicken
with flour till it is stiff batter, and then
add half a tea-cupful of baker's yeast.?
You will use about one-third as much meal,
scalded as above, as you do of flour; knead
the meal and yeast, and sponge, and add a
little salt with the flour all together, and
work it well, and mould in pans to rise moderately,
and then bake, at first, in a hot oven.
This bread will be moist, and more nutritious
and more healthy than if it were all
flour.
Buckwheat Cakes are improved by adding
corn meal, prepared in the same way, in about
the same proportion as for bread. A
little wheat flour maybe added to advantage.
Don't let your batter over-rise and sour, and
never use saleratus if it does.
Corn Meal Pudding may be made of yellow
meal stirred into scalded milk till as thick
as gruel, and, when cooled, add ginger, cinnamon,
nutmeg, salt, and sweetening to suit
the taste, and a little fine-cut suet, and some
raisins, or dried peaches, or a fine-cut apple.
It should bake an hour or more?according
to the size.
You who do not believe anything made of
corn can be good, will please try this receipt
Ibr a pudding.?A'. Y Tribune.
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TALES AND NOVELS.
(!corge W. Curtis recently delivered a
lecture, on literature, in which he took occasion
to speak in the following terms on
fiction :
Objection to fieture is objection to the
most instinctive play of the human mind.?
Fiction is no more to be explained or defended
than the sunset or the rose. If anybody
objects to novels in the abstract, he objects
to man. It is no more waste ot time to read
a good novels than to read a good poem, or
look at a fine sunset, or yield to a noble
instinct. I have heard sad-eyed clergymen
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puuueiy ueuuunce ucuuu u? jiuu iu juuug
nieu, and then preach croaking sermons on
the parables. Hut Sir Walter Scott himself
could belie his art. He says:?We arc
inclined to think that the worst evil to be
apprehended from the persual of novels is,
that the habit is apt to engender a distaste
lor real history or useful literature, &c.'?
But is it to be supposed that Scott sincerely
bcliev * that mankind were to be more improved
by reading the real history of Messaliua
or Cleopatra, or of Catharine, than by
reading the history of BebeecaBid he
prefer as a moralist that his daughters should
read the memoirs of the J Hie do (Irani Mont,
or Charles the Second, or any other King,
rather than the fictitious history of Sir Roger
de Coverly ? Bid he not know that the excellence
of a novel is the excellence of nature,
or any other great work of art, and that
his own Jennie Beans is as real in herself
and as influential on the human mind as
Judith or Queen Elizabeth ? All history be- ;
conies fiction in the advance of time.
IIow many characters have wc of Oliver ;
Cromwell, and which arc wc to accept as ; j
the true one ? Probably history is less true j
to nature, on the whole, than fiction. Clio !
is such a high-stepping muse that she goes f
over just what we want to kuow. Personal 1
memoirs, which approach much nearer to
fiction in their nature, always charm and in-:
struct us. There is no doubt that the history
of Robinson Crusoe would help a boy on his
way through life much better than any his- ,
tory of Oliver Cromwell. Gooducss is never
imaginative. History and fictiou arc only
two ways of putting a fact. We are just as
sorry to see Toga succeed as to see Leonidas
fall. For us, both Iago and Leonidas arc
real men.
Tlif* rrronf 'ivtiw + a rlonru ftiaii* nff hllfr. tnA ' i
art remains. What a man does seems in-j
j significant to himself, because his best work ^
he does inose easily. Raphael paints the : c
I Transfiguration, but envies the shoe-maker's |
| skill. The great artists decry their art, but, 1
I say, their art remains. And whether it be
painting, or poetry, or sculpture, or music, i
or fiction, its purpose is still the purpose of; j
all art?the moral education of the r^ce. I (
What Constitutes A Gentleman.? 'i
How many various ideas we have of a gen- j <
, tleman ! Every person aims to become a gen- (
tleman, and there is no one but would re- j <
i gard it as an insult to be told he wa3 not.? ,
: Every one, therefore, is a gentleman in his j,
own way. Some think dress is the only re- i
' quisite; some wealth, regardless of dress, j'
! mind or manners. Wealth is doubtless the J
i greatest sine qua non of gentility in our days, i |
| A perfect boor is transformed into a gentle-1
; man by its magic power; his power admits '
i him at once into the most refined (?) circles, , (
! and amongst the highest classes. He ap- i
pears with bold assurance where genius and ,1
true merit dare not come. But after all, is |;
he the real gentleman.
The poor scholar who racks his brain to
earn his bread?the artist, whose struggling j
genius earns him a bare subsistence? the ,
; teacher, whose miserable pittance but just;
! buys bread enough to satisfy the clamorous j
j appetites of half a dozen children, cannot of,
! course, be erentlemen ! These are the servants 1
/ O i
of the wealthy, and an insurmountable bar-! 1
rier keeps them away from the real gentle,
man, and walls them up in their own little
circle, their proper sphere.
We don't all think so, however?thanks ;
to American common sense ! There are ' I
some gentlemen in the world that money
never made, and a few that wealth never exalted
to such a dizzy height as to render 1
them completely oblivious of the fact that i
they were yet frail human creatures, and liv- j
ed in common brotherhood with the rest of i
mankind.
Gentility is not wealth ; it is not in dress, i
nor genius, nor any other attribute of man, 1
unless it go hand in hand with a cheerful j
disposition, an amiable temper and a philan- j
thropic will. There are real bona fide gen- !
j tleman in all classes of society, and he is the j
greatest gentleman who mingles with all,
and remains untarnished. Real gentility is
moral freedom; it respects no particular per- |
son, as a class beyond their merits; it does
not exclude one man because he is poor; but
embracing all who are worthy, it regards
them as kindred souls who should ever dwell
harmonious together. This constitutes a
gentleman.? Waverly Magazine.
A country fellow came to the city to see j
i his intended wife, and for a long time could |
think of nothing to say. At last a great 1
snow falling, he took occasion to tell her that j
his father's sheep would be all undone.? :
"Well," said she taking him by the hand, j
"I'll keep oue of them."
flhiv Better be the head of the yeomanry
than the tail of the gentry.
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IN THE COMMON PLEAS.
J. N. McElwee, Jr., vs. Jeremiah Howell.?Attachment.
"l?rHEREAS the plaintiff did on the Cth day of
M September, 1855, file his declaration against
the defendant, who (as it is said) is absent from
and without the limits of this State, and has neither
wife nor attorney known within the same, upon
whom a copy of said declaration might be served:
It is therefore Ordered, that the said defendant do
appear and plead to the said declaration, on or before
the 28th day of September, which will be in
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and fifty-six, otherwise final and absolute judgment
will theu be given and awarded against hiin.
JOHN 0. ENLOE, c. c. c. pls.
Clerk's Office, York District, 1
Sept. 27th, 1855. j 39-lyq
South Carolina?York District,
IN TIIK COMMON I'LEA 8.
Wylic & Smith, vs. E. If. Moss.?Attachment.
WHEREAS the Plaintiff did on the 8th day of
September, file his declaration against the
Defendant, who (as it is said) is absent from and
without the limits of this State, and has neither
wife nor attorney known within the same, upon
whom a copy of said declaration might be served:
It is therefore Ordered, that the said defendant do
appear and plead to the said declaration, on or before
the 28th day of September, which will be in
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and fifty-six, otherwise final and absolute judgment
will then be given and awarded against him.
JOHN G. ENLOE, c. c. c. rts.
Clerk's Office, York District. ^
Sept. 27, 1855. j $9 lyq
South Carolina- -York District,
IN TIIK COMMON PLEAS.
\V. K. Hamilton, vs. Green Nelson.?Attachment.
"llfHEREAS the Plaintiff did. on the twentieth
TT day of April. 1855, file his declaration agaiust
the defendant, who (as it is said) is absent
from ami without the limits of this State, and has
neither wife nor attorney known within the same,
upon whom a copy of the said declaration might
he served : it is mereiore urcicmi, mat xuc saiu
defendant do appear aud plead to the said declaration,
on or before the twenty first day of August,
which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six. otherwise final and
absolute judgment will then be given and awarded
against him.
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