Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-12-25

waters are moving-jump in, ye solitary beings.
while ye may, and make yourselves useful to your
country. Most of the weddings so far have been
made up by young people. Let those, more
stricken in years, bring up the reur. Hurry
hurry-for the propilious season may soon be
over. Be prepared with your mates oy Valen-
tines day, at the farthest, and then you may
chirp as gaily as the merriest bird Of them all.
CHRISTMAS IS HERE" CARPE DIEM."
THE joyous old season is upon us once again,
and we heartily wish for all our subscribers, and
the rest of christendom, merry and happy time
of it. There is sage line which says Christ.
mas comes but once year." This of itself would
be sufficient reason for the exhorla,ion we
have prefixed as a part Of our caption. " Cdrpe
diem''-seize the occasion-makc good use of the
day-the hours are heeting by, and in little
while this fcstivnl-week will have passed, not to
return until another twelve months Of hard work
and harder troubles, shall have rolled over our
heads.
"Carpe dicm" Embrace it rs a gracious ap-
poin,ment handed down from the olden lmes-an
universal jubilee, when The high and the low, the
old and the young, the master and the servant,
men and women should see in each others faces
the genial expression of cordial, sympathetic joy!
"Carpc diem :" Seize it for the many dear
associations which cluster around its hallowed
mention. Think OF the days Of your childhood,
when its long g-expected advent filled You with un.
utterable b!iss-and once more romp with the
sswe -todling bairns," upon your al-fours if need
be. Think Of the period of your boyhood, when
the unrestrained sports that began on Christmas.
eve caused every pulse to lrob with the ecstasy of
lend helping hand to the various gun-powder
plots" which crowd thick upon the fances OF your
halfdemented progeny. Think of the thousand
crackers you have joined in firing amid the
shouts of boyish rabbe-think of the kites
you have helped to hy-of the trees You have
assisted in bursting-of the rabbits you have cap
tured-of the ram.gonts you have s,raddcd-of
the stubborn mules that have pitched you over
their heads into briar- -patches--of the duckings
you have received from trusting too far 70 the
fragile ice of our Southern cime--of tho disend-
ed bladders you once stamped beneath your cncr-
getic little feet-of the paper-chapeaus and-st'ek-
guns with which you were wont to march in
mimicry of the great militia. Think Of the man.
iCold and vuri.colored delights which the privi-
legged ,ruants of Christmas day only can imagine
and invent-and hold the reins n little loose, as
did your fathers before you. 1t will not compro-
mise parental authority, and it will certainly af-
ford brief period of unaloycd enjoyment TO your
children. Remember with what pleasure you
rccur to the fun and frolic, permitted to you
on this occasion-and descend awhile from the
pedestal of your dignity TO encourage an innocent
rc-enacting Of those cherished pranks You will
see your former selves in your offspring, and, it
may be, will feel almostlike boys again. And
surely this is desirable, at least once year.
Carpc dem" 1t is emphatically the occasion
of general good will. Let neighburs be indeed
neighbors during these few fleeing days-let hos
pitality abound-lct the anstere man smooth his
brow and permit CLEAN Of sunshine 10 illumine
the rugged wrinkles of his forbidding face-lct the
miser dole out single hand-full from his boarded
heaps for charity's sake-let the good man check
the vagaries of his more volatile fellow-creatures
in accents of love and tenderness-let the pure
servant of God preach the merces of christianity,
and not the terrors of the law-let the statesman
turn for time from his higher labors, and foster
by word and deed, these Saturnalia Of modern
civiization-let the reviled Shareholder brand his
accusers with fasehood by noble exhibition OF
kindness and generosity towards his faithful SER
vants-and last (and some would say, greatest Of
ally let woman be radiant with her most bewitch-
ing smiles. And thus will call go merry as q
marriage BELL"
Carpc diem" Reserve a prominent place in
your thoughts for the sacred character of this oc
casion. To you, this day, was born Prince
and Savior" 1t is an era from which dates the
beginning of every thing that is "lovely pure
and Of good report" in modern times. gave birth
to the embodiment of all the christian virtues
upon which virtues as a foundation truth and
freedom must and will prevail. 1t witnessed the
rising of Star, which outshone all the "glitter-
ing host" of Hcaven-a-Star, which will guide
every faithful worslipper into the haven Of c,er-
nal peace and happiness-the "Star of Bethle,
hem!' And we cannot conclude this hurried
tribute to the joys of the season better than by
wishing we may oil pursue that Star with the
unerring' zeal which prompted the <'wise men
who came out of the East"-and that may we oil
vet find ourselves at the feet Of our Redeemer!
"Carpc diem" socially and relgiously, "carpc
diem"
MACKEY,S MASONIC MISCELLANY.