The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-09-13
MfCkcS NlaaOmcY.

Mickey NlafoERey.
| Was rather bad boy. He was
much given to night brawling, and
other gregarious past;rncs. In one of
these shndies, Mickey got injured in
the head with an axchelve, and :hat
so dangerously that his life was des.
paired of.
At the suggestion oftWiddy Donel.
ly, Mickey sent for priest to prepare
"for: long journey, |. .w +,
'"hiickey, you have stqen,s very
wicked.,man," said Father ,O'TooIe
after listening to detail Of Mr.. Ma
loney's exploits-"so very wicked
that it is almost sin to grant you ab-
solution. Have you never done a
single good action ?'''
NiYer, you rcverehce-hold | did
II converted Jew, the mmuurthcrn'
hathen."
Converted a cw-satisfy me that
you did this aid the church will no
longer hesitate about discharging your
enormities. How was it done my son?"
Listen and will tell you. Well.
you see | and Larry Blake went n
fishing once in the Mississippi, oppo.
site New Orleans, and while we were
sated in the boat Jew makes his ap-
.Pcaranee iii .. sl<ih> in front gins. We
invited him to cast anchor and he did
so. flc then got OFT bait AMI line and
threw out for bite, and by jabbcrs he
pot one. A cat fish seized his line,
aud with such force MS to Jerk the
hathcn overheard. 10. save. his life
plunged in after, and for a while it
was pull catfish, pull MaIoncy. At
last got up to tho old, siuner and
sased him by tho hair, just as'he was
going down for the third time"
And what then did you do2'
~ asked him, snys7l do you: believe
in the Virgin and he said ''Moses
forbid, | do not" At that I poked
him under the water again for the mat.
ter minute or two, when riz him
up again and asked him, says do you
believe in the Virgin, and he said,
again Moses forbid, dosh not and /
! dipped him under once more, and
! kept him there till he was as blue
about the gills rs all oyster, when
gave him'auotlier hist and asked him
"do You believe ii iIirst!lt(ee tie .virgin9" and
he said Moses is'wrong | does"
And what did you say then 2"
u replied die penitent, you old
thate, and save your soul while the
luck is on you and suiting the action
to word, ljust, let go my hould to spit
on my hand, and Ke went 10 the bot.
tom like u stone.''
Whether this sort Of conversation
secured Mickey absolution we cannot
say u,iti! %e see Bob Holmes, to
whom We are indebted for Mickey's
history. -.
MEMoRY,-W Whatever has once Civ
en-. us. pain Cr pleasure is remembered
! long, and rccurred to often rs we pass
down the journey Of lie to the grey
hairs and solitudes Of our last year
l.ovo has been to every one the source
of both. Every ono has treasured
away on the sacred pages Of memory
a thousand little. incidents, ever to be
revealed. in time, to which, as to some
fascinating fiction, it returns, whenever
a gloomy, or an idle, .unsocial hour
calls up the nusing spirit-and turns
tho mind upon the past. Life, re.
viewed through the mist Of by gone
years, seems rather curious wrought
fiction, or n feverish dream, than n
stern reality. We arc surrounded by
memGntoS Of the affection of friends,
bpt these friends themselves are gone.
We remember the council of wisdom,
the sage instructions of experience, by
which our minds are formod, and a
direction given to the current OF our
thoughts nid habits, but the lips from
whence they flowed have long been
mute as the still valley where they
lie mouldering. We haveydanced and
sung with the. gay and, giddy, end
been enraptured NJ the triling voice
and ksiinadqling eye of beauty, but we
are alone. The visions have passed
from US. In one grave yatd and lin,
other there are little hiIIocks, and
white stones bearing remembered
liameR, and this is all is left to us.-
But it Isl among the melancholy ruins
of the past that we gather Tie, richest
stores for future. 1t is there we learn
how very vain are earthly hopes
how fleeting ea, thIy friends how frail
even the strongest chords Of afattion.
1t is there. we learn to prepare for an.
other state of being
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YANKEE.-We Americans have
strange mode of salutation.. When 4
friend meets friend in the street, he'd