Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1853-03-23
that fearful New Years Eve-as they uu
this saddened heart Of mine
"THE WORLD OWES ME A LIVING"

No such thing, Mr.. Fold.ur.your.hands 4;
the world owes you not single cent! lcu
have done nothing these twenty ye,rs but
consume the products earned by the sweat
of other mems brows
"You have cat and drank, and slept: what then?
Why eat and drank, and slept agan"
And this is the sum total of your life. And
the world "owes you living9 For what I!
How comes it indebted to you to that fling
amount? What have you done for it What
family in distress have YOU befriended 3
What products have you created9 What
miseries have you alevated! What acts
have you perfected? The world owes you
Il living idle man! Never was there more
absurd idea !! You have been a taxa
sponge upon the world ever since you come
into it. 1t is your creditor in vast amount.
Your liabilities are immense, your assets are
nothing, and yet you say the world is owing
YOU. Go to The amount in which you
stand indebted to the world is greater than
YOU will ever have the power to liquidate !!
You owe the world the labor Of your two
strong arms, aud all the skill in work they
might have gained; you owe the world the
labor OF that brain Of yours, the sympathies
Of that heart, the energies of your being;
YOU owe the world the whole moral and in
teIIectual capabilities of a mani Awake,
then, from that dreamy do-nothing state Of
slothfulness in which you live, and let US no
longer hear that false assertion that the world
is owing you, until you have done something.
PoL1TEHEss AND CIvIL1rY DEFINED.-A
polite man is always civil, a civil "man is
not always polite. Politeness is in the mind,
in the temper. 1t is always the fruit of a
good education; it is the consequence Of
living with well-bred people. True polite
ness is not ceremonious. Civility on the
contrary is exceedingly so. Poiteness has
language; delicate, soft agreeable. Civiity
is uncertain in its expressions. Politeness is
simple, easy, soft, au's. Civiliiy is stiff,
awkward, and has little or no sincerity. A
polite person makes US perfectly at ease; a
civil one tires US, and fatigues our minds. A
disinterested person is Away polite, an in
terested man is but civil.
MARRIAGE.-"N No man ever knows when,
where, or whom he'll marry. It's all non
sense planning and specializing about it.
You might as we'll look out for a spot to
fall in steeple chase. You come smash
down in the middle OF your specuations." ;"
THERE is girl in Troy who wears such
sunshiny face that when she goes out of
doors the snow birds take her for summer,
follow her about as if she had apple BIOS
SONS in her apron. With such power in
checrfulness, isn't it singular that woman
ever allow themselves to have the sulks2
"SAMMY run to the store and get some
sugar." said mother to her son, a promis-
ing youth Of ten summers.
"Excuse me, ma; | am somewhat indis.
posed this morning. Send father and tell
him to bring me bunch OF good segars and
plug Of tobacco"
A FELLOW who was being led to exccu.
ton told the officers they must not take him
through a certain street lest merchant
who resided there. Should arrest him for an
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