The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1855-09-28

guards. revere Christianity, not because
1t Is the religion of my countiy--I revere 10,
not .becnuse it brings The emoluments of
office but irevere1it, because it is built up
on the solid foundation of iiupregnabe ar
gument; because it has improved The world
by the lessons Of ennohling morality, and
because, by the animating prospect which Il.
holds out, 1t alleviatcs the sorrows of our
final departure hence, and cheers the gloomy
dcsoiation OF the grave Chalmers. -.
+ ow ne W emf Down Stairs.
One evening Mrs. Sparrowgrass had re-
tired while. l was busy writing, when il
struck me thata glass of ice water would
be palatable. So took candle and a
pitcher and went down to the pump. Our
pump is in the kitchen. A. country punt,
in the kitchen is more convenient but q
well with buckets is certainly more picture
que. Unfortunately our well water has
not been sweet since it was cleaned out.
First, lhad to open a bolted door that let's
you into the basement hall, and then went
to the kitchen door, which proved to- be
locked. Then remembered that our Girl
always carried the key to bed with her. and
slept with 1T under her pillow. Their / re-
traced my steps; bolted the basement sr,
and went up into the dining room. As is
always the case, found when could not
get any water, [ was thirstier than I sun
posed was. Then [ thought would wake
up our girl. Then concluded not TO doit
Then thought of the well, but gave that nm
on account of the flavor. Then | opened
the closet doors-there was no water there.
| then / of tl,o4
lhe novelty Of the idea made me smile;
took out two of the movable shelves, stood
the pitcher in the bottom of the dumb wait
er, got in myself with the lamp; let rnvself
down until supposed was with ina foot
OF the floor below me, and then let 90
we came down SO suddenly, that was
shot out OF the apparatus as is had been n
catapult 1t broke the pitcher, extincuished
the lamp, and landed metin the middle Of
the kitchen at midnight with no fire. and
the air not much above the zero point. The
truth is, had miscalcuIateI the Distance Of
the descent-instea,l of failing one foot {
had fallen five. My first impulse Mas TO
ascend by the way came down. but 7 found
that impracticable. Then / tried the l;tcb. =.
en- door, it was locked; tried to force il
open, it was made of twoinch stuff. aud held
its OWN Then hoisted the window, and
there was the rigid iron bars. If ever felt
angry at anybody, it was at myself
for putting up those bars to please Mrs.
Sparrowgrass. put them ND. not TO Keen
people IN, but to keep people ont.
laid my cheek against the ice cold bar.
riers, and looked ont at the sky: not a star
was visible it was as Llack as ink oyarhoad
Then thought of Baron Trenck and ,ba
prisoner OF Chlilon Then made noise
shouted unnl l was hoarse, and ruined our
preserving kittle with the poker. That
brought our dogs ont in full bark, and be.
tween US we made night hideous. Then I
thought heard q voice, and listened--;t
was mrs. SParrowgrass calling me from the
top OF the staircase. tried to make her
hear me, but the dogs united with bowl
growl and bark, SO as to drown nv voice
winch Is naturally plaintive and tender.
BESIDES, there We're two bolted doors and
double deafened doors between us how
could she recognise my voice, even ii she
did hear it9 Mr.. Sparrowgrass called once
or twice, and then got frightened ;;tfe next
thing L heard was n sound as if the roof had
fallen In, by which understood that Mrs.
Sparrowgrass was springing the rattle. That
called our neighbor, already wide awake.
lie came to the rescue with bull terrier. n
Newfoundland pup, q lantern and reyoly-
er. The moment he saw me he shot at me.
but fortunately just missed me. I threw
myself under the kitchen table and began to
expostuilate with him, bet he would not lie
ten 10 reason. In the excitement had for.
COTTON his name; aud that made matters
worse. 1t was not until he had reused nm
everybody round, broken into the basement
aoor with an axe, got into the kitchen with
MS savage dogs and shooting iron, and seiz-
ed me by the collar that he recognised me
and then wanted me TO expluis it But
what kind Of an ex xplanation coald Imake to
him told him bet would have to wait