The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1855-05-04

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OF house cleaning, or an ironing, or an ex-
change ofservants or she had fixed on that
day for shopping excursion, or a visiting
excursion, and did not like TO be put off from
lit. She might have expected her husband
to dine at an eating house, as should have
been too happy to have dined. In short 1t
was evident enough that my intrusion was
enlinenllY inconvenient and that | was
looked upon as an incumbranee. and as a
spy upon the 'nakedness Of the land"
se So. after exhaustipg all powers of pleasing,
intellectually, Isucconbed to the,force Of cir,
c,instances subsided into sullen silence, and
so the dinner concluded and the lady, with
much ceremonious politeness, which might
have been spared, withdrew.
Tho atmosphere cleared little after that.
The wine and biscuits were tolerable !; and
the lines on Robinson's face relaxed and sof
tened. Nevertheless, he was by no means
perfectly at ease. He had committed an act
of gross impropriety, and he had not heard
the last Of yet. However, he family hop
ed Che said SO, the hypocrite y that would
take coffee with Mrs Robinson before left !:
and looked amazingly relieved when plead
ed business as reason for leaving his table
abruptly.
y 1t was nearly five o'clock, and had lost
the best part of "a day, when I turned from
his door
! did not see Mrs. Robinson before left +;
once ortwice since then Iliave met her ;but
she looks darkly on me, and understand
she speaks of me in mysteriously reserved
tones. lsee Robinson every time 90 to
London, which is twice year; but he has
never asked me again TO family dinner.
He may do itsafely, but perhaps he is not
aware of this.
Well, but" said ], 81 don't SEQ
Don't you ~ interposed my friend, rails.
ing his eyebrows; "then I'll enlighten YOU.
Yonafe a. young fellow" said ho, sand I
shall be an old one soon, if 1 live long
enough and take this bit of advice--never
fnind the philosophy of it, buttske it.: ney-
er accept gentlemah's invitation to fl,ni,
ly dinner, ifyou can help it; and secondly
being married man yourself never invite,
your friend to a family dinner, without your
wife's knowledge and consent And there's
good morality for home for you. Take it,
and make you what like of
FIRST STEr To RuIN.-"My first step to
ruin, exclaimed wretched youth, as he
tossed from side to side on his straw bed in
one corner Of his prson-house, "was going
fishing on the Sabbath. knew it was
wrong, my mother taught be better; my
sister taught me better; my Bible taught me
better; but would heed none of them. |
did not think it would come to this! am
undone am lost
What warning in the above lines to
Sabbath breakers The wanton desecreation
of that holy day, may be looked upon as a
light thing, by a thoughtlcss and frivolous
young man; but tits not so. God, in his
Word and in his Providence, makes it a Sc
rious matter. Itis more. eorruptng to the
heart than many suppose. 1t seems TO lead
directly away from God; and consequently
to crime, with strange facility! just
watch the course of the habitual sabbath
scorner, aud, you will most likely see him
come to some bad end Perhaps he be-
comes an infidel, and ''says in his heart,
There is no Godv Beware of the first
step to ruini"
AN EDIToR's RANcHE--A letter from
New Braunfels, Texas, to the Galveston
News, dated February ed, says:
Ipaid visit yesterday to the rancho Of
g. w. Kendall, Esq, of the New Orleans
Picayune, and found him busily making i'm
proyernents on the beautiful site he has eiec-
ted for his future home. He has already bnilt
a good substantial stone house, commanding
fine view ofthesurropnding country, which
extends for miles through romantic region,
interspersed with wild scanery OF the finest
character. His chief attention has been drec-
ted to the raising of sheep, in which he has
succeeded we'll since his removal to the val
ley Of the Comal. His stock is tue finest |
have seen in Texas, being composed mostly
Of pure-blooded Meriuoes, which produce
the finest and most costly wool.
A YOUNG wife demonstrated with her
spendthtift husband upon his conduct. He
lookup q New Testament, and pointing to
the text "Thsss, my love-" said he, s.'I am
like the prodigafs 5 son, | will reform by.and-
Eby." @Guessffuly there's something in the
text will suit me too: think, until you re-
form, il will be as well for me to eaFise and
Ego tony father" and off she started accor.
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