The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-12-13

metic--to the fraction Of a course or an en-
tree-the number ofdinners which Beech
Park was indebted to its neighborhood- the
compliment of laundry maids indispensable
to the maintenance of.its country dignity
the aggregate off pines by which it must re-
tain its horticultural precedence. She had
never retarded by day or an hour the ar
rival of the family coach in GrosvenorSquare
at the exact moment creditabe to SIR Rob-
ert's senatorial punctnality; nor procrastina-
ted by half a second the simultaneous bobs
Of her ostentatious Sunday schools as she
sailed maJesticay along the aisle towards
her tall, stately, pharisaical squire-archial
pew. True to the execution Of her tasks
and her whole life was but one labo.
rous task--and true and exact as the great
bell ofthe Beech Park turrct-clock, she was
enchanted with the monotonous music of
her own cold iron tongue; proclaiming her
self the best Of wives and mothers because
Sir Roberts rent roll could afford to COM
uand the services of first rate steward,
and butler, and housekecper, and thus in
sure well ordered household; and because
her several substantial children were duly
drilled through daily portion ofrice Pud-
ding and spelling book, and an annual distri.
button Of mumps and measles All went
well at Beech Park; for Lady Lilfieled was
the excellent wife of'a good sort Of mani
So bright an example Of domestic merit;
and what country neighborhood cannot
boast OF its uplicate?-was naturally supe
rlor to seeking its pleasures in the vapid and
varying novelties of modern fashion. The
habits of Beech Park still affected the dig.
nifed and prineval purity of the departed
century. Lady LiIfeld remained true 10
her annual eight rural months of the county
of Durham; against whose claims Kemp
town pleaded, and Spa and, Baden bubbled
in vain. During her PASTORAL seclusion, by
a careful distribution of her stores Of gossip
ing, she contrived to prose, in undetected
tautology, to successive detachments of an
extensive neighborhood, concerning her
court dress-her dinner partes-and her
refusal to visit the Dutchess d.;
while, during the reign Of her London i'm
portanco, she made it equally her duty to
bore her select visiting list with the history
of the new Beech Park school house--of the
Beech Park double dahlias-and Of the
Beech Park privilege of uniting, in an aristo-
cratic dinner party. the abhorent heads of
the rival political factons;the Biancha Nera
the houses of Montague aud CapuIet. of.
the county .paIatine Of fpurham.. By such
miDute sections Of the wide chapter of col.
loqual boredom. Lady Lilfeld acquired
the character Of being a very charming wo-
man throughout her respectable clan ofdin-
ner.givIng baronels and their wives; but the
reputation Of very miracle of prosiness a
mong those
Men of the world, who know tho world like men,
She was but weed in the nobler field Of society.
"T lE lsoLENcE OF OFF1cE.-The follow
lug Iron the N. Y. Journal of Commerce,
will find subjects in this latitude as we'll as
at the North:
"We find no complaint so universal as
that of ;mpoIileness, and even ilsoIcnce, in
persons who happen TO be IN a position to
forget propric,y and 60 unpunshed. 1t is
we'll to bear in mind that polIteness is exact
~ as cheap as rudencss, and in the long run
it is much cheaper. Clerks, in public Offices
arc especially remarkable in this respect, as
also officers of steamboats, and conductors
on railroads. 1t is capital metflnd TO- make
ones self unhappy, to treat every one. upon
whom he may confer favor. with rorgh-
ness and Il.manners. An official may re.
ply to a question which is asked with all po-
J tcncss--'I hagn't time TO answer questions,
as we heard one of this class reply few
DAYS since in public Office. In that reply
we're cnnta ined four words more than would
have answered The query; but the cle' chose
TO send away gentleman with intimatinr
that he was inpertneni; and to render HIM
self unhappy in the reflection that he had
been actually ugllentlemany Vs.,
The world won Id move along much more
easily than it now does, if the rules of polite
ness and genteness were better observed.
1t drags along heavily when, as too frequent
", the wheels lack the oil of kindness. 1t
will be found in general, that. except where
self-lntcrcst directly prompts. the other
course, men in public Offices, particularly
clerks and those dependent on individual
nomination and not popular. votes, for their
places, are the most habitual negectors Of
the ordinary rules of etiquette, We have
always chosen to regard their conduct in
office as fair test of their claim to position
out of it; and cannot regard any man as a
gentleman who finds any excuse in any time
or place for laying aside the name.
THE MAN WHO RODE THE GoAT.-1n q
quiet village in the sober State of Connecli-
Gu, fourishcs prosperous Division of The
Sons of Temperance. Much has been said
about its mysterious mysteries, and many a
quizzical story has been told in relation to
the curious antics of a certain goat said to
be connected Herewith. 1t is said that IN
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