Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-05-04
EDGEFIELD, S. c., MAY 4, 1854.

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could afford, hut still he could not resign b
: own peculiar habits and enjoyments, al
: among the evils these entitled were late hour
. One night he returned home as usual abo,
f midnight. When, on opening the room doc
instead of the small bright fire, the trimmt
) candle, and the pale, patient worker he w;
accustomed to behold, all was darkness an
silence. He paused moment-an ind
cribable sensation crept over his frame; an
fear, like a paralysis invaded his heart at la'
he exclaimed:
"Susan Susan, my dear"
There was no reply: he stepped farthe
into the room, and repeated her name ye
louder--aIl was still! He CROPPED his wa
to the fireplace, on the manile.s shelf he foun
a box of Iucfcr matches, obtained light
and lighted candle. He now beheId Su
san, with her head resting on the table, seat
ed in her usual place. He approached an,
took her hand-O heaven its icy GOODNESS
He flung himself on his knees on the floor
and looked up in hec face there was a sweet
placid smile upon her lips-for a forgiving
gentle spirit had passed from them-hut the
eyes were fxcd-Susan was dead, had been
dead some hours The distracted man rush
ed down stairs, alarming the inmates of the
house as he passed. A medical man was
soon present, and the chamber in which that
young creature had almost lived and died
alone, was thronged by crowd. any one OF
whom, inspired by a better social system,
would willingly have sustained her to long
er life, or cheered the brief time that had
been allotted to her. All were horrors struck,
and one heartstruck /; particularly when the
child, awakened by the tumult, scrambled
out of his little bed, and rushed for protec-
ton to its lilcless mother. Not even that
voice, eloquent rs it had ever been to her,
could awaken her again The surgeon dc.
clared that her death had been sudden, and
from natural causes, but that it was case
which demanded an inquest.
An inquest was held. Among the evidence
was singuarly affecting memorial it was
The little journal which Susan had for some.
time kept, like the poor dungeon prisoner,
who daily noichcs a stick that he may mum.
Der the monotonous days of his captivity.
The angel Of death had arrested her hand
ust rs it had leebIy traced these words:
Z" 1t will not be long now--my chid--my
'oor little Philip. He who calls away your
mother will care for YOU. Philip Morris, my
usband, my DEAR husband, wish you were
eside me now. You have been good, and
ind, and generous, and was not the wife
on should have had BE a kind father to
ur child when am gone. You wiII--yes,
on surely will one day take another WIFE,
'hilip! that which you never gave to NE give
} her--your society, your counsel. If she
as been untaught, teach Iler--at least do not
ave her to continual loneliness. You never
new it, and therefore cannot tell how sad
ave been the long hours
AS the reading Of this little paper proceed.
i, Philip Morris struck his heart, as if he
ought to crush it within his breast. That
cart had not been fashioned for severity or
nkindness; on the contrary, much that was
lid and generous mingled in its formation
ut the second nature induced by habit had
,crusted his original feelings and faculties
he had grown up to regard women as the l
ere machines of domestic life, with neither {
ecessity nor capabity for higher things. S
I'd which to "spirts masculine" he deemed t
essential that he made much sacrifice to S
cnre cultivation Tor himself. ,
Too late, conviction dawned upon him, c
1t it came accompanied by a contrition that t
tended him through the remainder Of his h
e and if at any moment he felt the prompt. Il
gs Of self-coucentrated satisfaction which V
e self:taught and isolated man unable to a
mpare himself with the more gifted and en- p
'wed) is apt to do, he thought of Susan 0
ID felt humbled; he thought of her and a
oked around him with desire to partici. C
tie, not appropriate, the feast that has been C
rnished for all.--London Peoples Journal. G
A WESTERN ORAroR.-They have ora c
IS out in Illinois, if we may trust the de. G
ripton Of a certain military one furnished Il
by correspondent in that State: 1t was Fl
g-days and a great hue and cry raised Y
out mad dogs; although no person could Il
found VINO had seen one, the excitement S
i grew by the rumors it WIS led on.
meeting OF the citizens was called for the
rpose Of devising plans for the extermina- tc
n, not only of mad dogs, but to make safe. ST
doubly safe, of dogs in general. The il
rigader" was appointed chairman. After o.
ting the object of. the meeting, in not Il
y parliamentary manner. instead of taking h,
seat, aud allowing others to make some to
!gestion, he launched forth into a speech y,
nalf hoar's length, of which the following n
It of forensic splendor is Il sample :" Eel. b.
Citizens! the time has come when o're. "
lrged feelins of aggravated human natur W
no longer to be stood. Mad dogs are cc
idst Us. Their shrieking yelp and toamy ne
tx can be heered and seen>on our perra- in
follows in their wake shall we iii
here like towards while our lives and our so
shbor's lives are in danger from their &C
dful porashus hidropbobic caninety No! la
'us'nt be. Even.now my busom is torn te
h the confctin feelins of rath and wen. M
ce, funeral pyre of wildcats is bprnin to
ne {; have horses and catt 10 have sheep in
pigs; and have a wife and children fo
lrising higher as the Importance of the of
ject deepened in his cstimaion) have of
ney out at interest, all in danger of bein wi
by these cussed mad dogsp' fuj
he
IN ARTIFICIAL MAN.-The "Memorial wi
deais," states that not far from St Sevre, re,
e is living an old military man who has his
l.