The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1848-01-12
NUMBER 45.

he will find his labor a most difficult one.
Every subscriber thinks the paper printed
for his especial belit, and If there is nothing
in it that suits him, it must be stopped, it is
good for nothing. Some people look over
Tie marriages, and deaths, and actually COM
PLAIN OF the editor if but few people in the vi.
cinlty have been SO unfortunate as 10 die, or
SO unfortunate as to get married the previ-
Gus week An editor may have, so many
different tastes he has to consult. One
wants stories and poetry another abhors all
this. The politician wants nothing but poll
ties One must have something smart, an
other, something sound. One likes anec-
docs: fan and frolic, and his next door neigh
Dor wonders that man of sense will put
such stuff in his paper. Something spicy
comes out, and the editor is q blackguard.
Next comes something argumentive, and the
editor is a dull fool And so between them
all: you see, the poor fellow gets roughly
handled. And yet to nincty-nine ont ola
hundred these things never occur. They
never reflect what does not please them may
pleas: tho next man, but they insist that if
tic paper does not suit them ii is good for
nothing
We only wish that every man, woman
and child who reads a paper were compelled
but for one sinylc month, to edit It,
Vermont Patriot
A SINGULAR INcIDENr.-A few years
ago several men in this city or vicinity,
were gambling with cards with the usual
accompaniment of liquor In the dealing
out Of the pack, one OF the cards was thrown
in such il manner, that it struck, with its
edge, one Of the tumblers and cut 1t IN t,oo,
as square and smoohe us though it had been
some sharp instrument. The incident was
SO unusual and startling, that the gamblers
were greatly frightened. They thought it
might be omlnous of some approaching ca
lamity. They were unwilling to continue
the game, and under the influence perhaps
f: supcrstitious feeling mingled with
concionsuess of guilt, they ceased playing.
In less than II week from that time, tie one
| acho dealt out the c~rd qchicA cut the glass,
dsc@! The incident at the time produced,
as might be expected, great excitement.
Some who were engaged in the game are
| now living g.-Bosto@ Traveller.
WHAT \ MERCHANT SHOULD BE.-A
merchant should be an honest man. Al
though man cannot be an honorable man
without being an honest man, yet a man
may be strictly honest without baing hon.
orable. Honesty refers to pecuniary af-
fairs; honor refers TO the principles and
feelings. You may pay your debts pune
tually, you may defraud no man, and yet
you may act dishonorably. You act dis
honorably when you give your correspon-
dents a worse opinion of your rivals in
trade than you know they deserve. You
act dishonorably when you purchase at
higher than the market price Ill order that
you may raise the market on another buy
CT. You act dishonorable when you draw
accommodation bills, and pass them to your
banker for discount, as if they arose out of
real transactions. You act dlshonorably if
when carrying on prosperous trade, you
do not allow your servants and assistants,
through whose exertions you obtain your
success, to participate in your prosperity.
Y on act dishonorably, if after you have be-
come rich, you are unmndful of the favors
you received when poor In all these ca
ses there may be no intentional fraud. 1T
may not be dishonest. but is dishonorable
conduct.-Gil6crt. a..,..-
TIE To1Ls OF A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
paperlerature is link in the great mira
Gle which proves the greatness Of England,
and every support should be given to
newspapers. The editors of these papers
must have a most enormous task. Ills
not the writing ofthe leading articles itself,
but the obligation 10 write that article every
week whether included or not, in sickness
or in health, in afliction, disease Of mind,
winter and summer, year after. year, tied
down to the task, remaining in one spot
1t is like the walking of thousand miles
in thousand hours. have fellow feel
ing, for know how periodical will wear
nothing. The labor is not manifest, nor is
it the labor; it is the continual attention
which it requires. Your,life;becomes, asst
were, the publications. One week is no
sooner corrected and printed, than on, comes
another. L is the stone of Sisyphus, an
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