The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1853-08-23

lars!' The riddle IS thus explained:
When the sofa reached the house, it
was found necessary to get chairs
"to match" then sidcboards, carpets,
and table, ''to correspond" with
them, and SO on through the entire
stock Of furnitarc, when at last it
was found that the house itself was
quite too small and old-fashioned for
the furniture, and a new ono was
built "to correspond" with the sofas
and ct ceteras;; "thus,' added my
friend, s'running up an outlay Of
$4,000 caused by that single sofa,
and saddling on me, in the shape Of
servants, cquipagc, and the neces
sary expenses attendant on keep.
ing up a fine establishment" d
yearly outlay of eleven thousand dol.
lars, and tight pinch at that;
whereas ten years ago, we lived with
much more real comfort, because
with much less care, on as many
hundreds. The truth is he con.
tinucd, "that sofa would have
brought me to inevitable bankruptcy,
had not a most uncxampled tide Of
prosperity kept me above it,"
10th. DO not depend upon others.
Your success must depend upon
your own individual cxertions. Trust
not to the assistance Of friends, but
learn that every man must be the
architect Of lis own fortune; and with
proper attention to the fore going
rules, and such observations as a man
of sense will pick up in his own
experience, the road to competence
will not, think, usually be found a
difficult one.
P. Il. BARNUM.
Bridgeport, Conn, June 2S, 1852.
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ClIIIpREN.--Thc part that chill.
drcn play in the economy of families
is an important one. But important
functions often deyolye upon crca.
tpres trivial in themselves. That
j i, IN the case of children. The
child ias great Ger than tho man.
I y, an is himself, and That IS
>often a Shabby enoI II ] concern: m:
but tho child is thing Eof
hope and anticipation; we know not
what it may become. The arch lauph
ing glance of those eyes, which
fash npon US when the bushy nut
brown hair is thrown back by a
toss of the head--what lovely crea,
ture that nay become, to make some
honest mans heart ache. That boy.
with tlaxcn hair, slightly tinged with
the golden, while his clear, rcso,
lutte eye looks fearlessly at every
thing it cncountcrs--what may he
not accomplish in after life! To
US there is more Of terror in the
passions Of children, than of grown
men. They are SO disproportioncd to
their causes, that they rudely draw
""NN t!ic 'Sii from our own hearts,
reminding us "what shadows we are,
and what shadows we pursue" of
all expressions of pain, We can least
endure the wall Of an infant. The
poor little innocent cannot explain
its snlferings; and if it could, SO lit
tie lies in our power to alleviate
them. There is nothing for it but to
have ones heart rent by its com
plaininss andpray in ones helpless
ness that its dark hour pass away.
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Several years ago, in North Car
olIna, where it is not customary for
tavern keepers to charge ministers
anything for lodging and refresh
mcnt, q preacher prcsumingly stop.
ped at tavern one evening, made
himself comfortable during the night
and in the morning entered the stage
without offering any pay for his ac.
commodations. The landlord soon