The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1848-03-15
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BE KIND TO TtIE OLD. ,is IS s.
Oh! be kind Is those who a re in the aii..a
tufnrl Of. life, for thou knoWest + not what
ssufferings they Iidy Have endured, how
much sit may still. be their portionto bedr.
Are they qqernl lons and unr rensonable2 al.
low not thine anger 10 kindle against
them; rebuke them infot, for doubtless,
many iand severe have been the crosses
land trials of,earliers years, and sperchance
dispositions in the s'springtime of life,'f
were more gentle and flexible 'thon thine
own, Do they require aid ofthee2 then
jrenderi it cheerfuIly, and forget not that
the time may come, when thou mayest de-
I sire the same assistance from others, that
now thou renderest unto them. i2a
:IHE WIFEr--ltt is astonishing TO see
how well o man may live on small in,
come, WHO has q handy and Industrious
wife, Some men live and make q far
better appearance onsix or eight dollars d
week than others do OH fifteen ar eighteen
dollars. The man does his part well; but
the wife is good for nothing. She will
even upbraid her husband for not living
! in as good style as her nneighbor; while
the hult'is entirely her own.---His neigh
Dor has q, neat, capable and Industrious
wife, and that makes the difference, His
wife, on the other hand. is a whirlpool into
which great many silver cups might be
thrown, and the appearance Of the water
would remain unchanged. No Nicholas
thedriver is there to restore the wasted
treasure. !. It is only an insult for such
woman to talk to her husband about her
love and devotion.
NoLAND LIKE AMERICA. The Hon.
Mr.. Winthrop, Of Boston, who has recon-
tly returned from Europe, addressing
political meeting in Faneuil Hall, last
week, said: fg 4s4 lrr-s
"He had recently returned from other
and distant lands. He had stood in the
halls Of widc.renown; he had stood
in the hall where Chatham fell dead, while
vindicating, in burning words Of elo-
quence, the cause Of the American colon.
les ind of American freedom. He hud
been at Runnymede, where the bold bar
ons wrung from King John the Magma
Charta---iha eonst tu;on Of. England. He
had stood on the field or Rannockburn,
where the Bruce won the liberty of Scot
land; and on the 4th of July last, amid
the wild hills and mountains of Switzer-
land---the land Of Tell---he had in COM
pany with companion and countrylnan,
toasted once again his native and beloved
land. But, amid all his wanderings,' he
had seen no land like his own land.--no
hull like Fancuil Hall---no plains like
those of Lexington-.-and no rock like that
ofPlymouth." ts .l Y, T,
AMERICAN HuRRY.-A writer thus dis
courses very sehsibly, and to the point;
''Look q, the ctheatrcs-thc people come
rushing in the middle Of piece; and be-
fore the curtain begins to fall, or the tag
TO be spoken, or the moral explained, up
starts a hundred people in tremendous
hurry TO &c, out, us if their lives depend
ed on being somewhere else in two min
utes and n half. Howl ny fine effects
in play---how many chef d'gupcrs
in concert have we seen utterly destroy
ed by this ill-mannercd and Indecent haste.
"Cross'a forry, and long before the boat
arrives, two-t thirds of,he passengers are
crowded at the head ofthe boat, ready to
jump ashore, risking life and limb to save
ten seconds Of time---a child is knocked
.overboard---a boys foot smashed, or q
young man in the first bloom crippled for
life. What matter! That man now
walkingly lcisurely up the street got n
shore nearly half a minute earlier than he
would have done had he not run the same
risk and caused perhaps the accident.
"Gct into an omnibus, and with one foot
on the step and the other inside, the driver
pulls the door to, whips his horses, and
You are pitched head first into stout old
gcntleman's diaphragm, or settle down
into sentimental lady's lap.
Now, what in the name Of wonder is
the cause Of all this---do we gain any
thing? No! Do we enjoy anything in
this everlasting rush2 No! Do we live
longer or die more happy2 No!'
How A MAN FEELS WHEN he s Drunk.
----"Never was drunk but once in my
life" said chap once in my hearing,
Sand lnever mean 10 be again. The
street seemed to be very steep and Lifted
my feet at every step as was getting up
stairs. Several cart wheels were making
revolutions in my brains, md at one time
| fancied my head was large carving
and turning establishment, the lathes Of
which was keeping in motion with my
own feet. wouldn't conceive what was
the reason the town had turned into such
IN enormous bill; and what made it worse
was that it seemed all the time to be grow
ing higher and threatened TO pitch over on
me. Stop, stop! said |, and III head this
old hill yet, or nj least, it shan't head mol
| turned round to go down and get at the
bottom: tell mo: if il didn't turn rinht