Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-06-17
TTEE OLD MAN ann HIs GRAND CHILD.

There was once very old man, whose
ewes had become dim, his ears deaf, and
whose knees trembled under him. When he
sat at the dinner table, he could scarcely
hold his spoon, so that sometimes he split his
soup on the cloth. His son and daughter
ip.law were much displeased at this, and at
last thew made their old father sitin corner
behind the stove, and gave him his food IN
a little earthen dish.
He never got as much as he could eat, and
he would often look towards the table with
wet longing eyes. ,,., -,
One day his shaking hand let his little dish
fall, and it was broken. The woman scoid-
ed, but he said nothing; he only sighed.
Then they bought wooden trough for him.
Once, as he was sitting thus in the corner,
his little grand child, about four years old,
was playing on the floor near him with some
pieces of wood.
"What are you making!" asked the ia
ther, smiling.
"I am making little trough" answered
the child, "for father and mother to eat
from when they are old and | growing
big"
The man and his wife looked at each other
in silence, and their tears flowed fast. They
brought their old father back to the table,
gave him as much food as he wished, and
they never again spoke an angry word when
his trembling hand split soup on the cloth.
CoSJUGAL ArFEcrIoN.-A woman went
into an apothecary's shop the other day,
with two prescriptions, one for her husband
and the other for her COW. She inquired
what was the price of them, and the apothe-
cary replied it was so much for the man and
so much for the beast. The woman finding
that she had not enough money, reflected
for moment, and said: "give me at all
events the medicine for the COW; can send
for my husbands tomorrow"
Mrs. PARr1NcroN AND Ghosts" Do
you believe in Ghosts, Mrs. Partington 7"
was asked of the old lady, in somewhat of
a timid manner.
"To be sure do" replied she, Z" as much
as believe that that bright fulmanary there
would rise in the east tomorrow morning,
If we all live and nothing happens. Two
arprehcnsions have sartainIy appeared in our
family. Why, saw my dear Paul, a fort
night before he died, with my own eyes, just
as plain as l see you now, and though it
turned out afterwards to be 4 rose bush with
night cap on it, shall always think, to
the day of my desolation, that it was FORE
runner sent to me. And one did come in
the night when we were asleep, and carried
away three candles and pint of spirits, that
we kept in the house for embarkation. Be-
lieve in ghosts, indeed! guess do, and
he must be dreadful skyptic who dosen't."
ExTRAvAcANT people are always penu-
rious. Show us woman who pays hun.
dred dollars for shawl and we will show
YOU woman who will run all over town to
get her husbands shirts made "sxpence
cheaper"
EMERSON is rather down on travelling
He says men go abroad because they are
nothing at home, and they come back be-
cause they are nothing anywhere else.
A GENTLEMAN in one of the interior towns
is so much opposed to capital punishment,
that he refuses to hang bis gate!
"WooD is the thing after ALL" as the man
with pine leg, said, when the mad dog
bit it.
"CUErEE, is that the second bell"
"No, Massa, dat's de second ringing OF
de fuss bell. We hadn't no second bell in
dis here hotel"