The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1855-12-14
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. WHEN we-go out on Sunday afternoons
to- moralize and see the new houses. we
usually take our youug ones by Aladdin's
Palace. Aladdin started 10y swapping jack.
knives then, putting the halves of broken
marbles together and passing them offAas
whole ones. When he had gathered some
brass he went to school AL tho summer to
learn the golden rule of arithmatic-addi-
tion for hiinselfand subtraction for his neigh
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AT an early age Aladdin was considered
to be good alta bargain, which meant that
he could always succeed in changing a worse
for a better always keeping the blind
eye of q horse to the-wall when l's had to
sell it, and looking right at it when lie
bought it; and the village said that Aladdin
certainly would succeed. When he left "lie
will be rich, said the village, with more ap-
proyal than it would say, "he will be. gener-
GUS and true" To Aladdin the world was
but a market in which to buy cheap and
sell dear. For him there was no beauty,
no history, no piety, no heroism. yainiy
the stars shone over him, vainly the south
wind blew, In the wake of the great shin
Argo, and which Jason and his companions
sailed for the Golden Fleece; over the gleam-
ing Mediterranean, where the ships, of Tyre.
Rome, and of the Crusaders had been before
him; through the pillars of Hercules, through
which sailed Columbus to find fame in a
new world, now sails Aladdin to find fortune
To him all lands we're alike--no Honor sang
for him in the lEgean; he only curses the
wind that will not blow him to Odessa. No
syrens sing for him, but he loves the huge
oath of the lively boatswain. With Bible
in his hand and a~quid of tobacco in his
mouth, he goes about the holy places in Je-
rusalem and calculates" their axact site
He sees the land of Rameses and Ptolomies;
and the reverend records Of the Lybian des-
ert whose echoes have slumbered since they
were trampled over by Alexander's army,
are now awakened by the shriil whistle of
Old Dan Tucker He insults the Grand
Llama, hobmobs with great Mogul, turns
his back upon Emperors, and takes pinch
out of the Pope's snuff box. He ckews with
the Arabs, smokes opium with the Turks.
and rides for a bride with the Calmuck Tar
tars. asfr ~ aif .s IS. ..- -s .,5..
Aladdin comes home again, and the ad-
miripg village points him out to the young
er generation as successful man: "My son,
look at him; he began with nothing. and
now see" My SON. does see, and beholds
him owing million of dollars-of all socie.
ties ofwhich he is not president director.
His name is good as gold. He has bought
pictures and stautes. He has also bought a
Mrs. Aladdin and housed her in luxury, but
he picks his mouth with silver fork. He
has a home for a poet, but he makes it his
hat ha ls b,,G Al
per. He goes to church twice on Sundays,
and only wakes up when the preacher de,
nounces the sinners of Sodom and Gomor.
rah and those "touch old Jews" of Jerusalem.
His head is bald and shiny with sermons
which have hit it and glanced off. He
clasps his hands in prayer, but forgets to
open them when the poor-box is passed
around |; and he goes home like successful
man, thanking God he is nota other men
are, and after dinner he sits before the fire
in his easy chair, lights large cigar, and
looks languidly at Mrs. Aladdin through the
thick smoke. t"1
BY and by old Aladdin dies. The con-
ventional virtues are told over as the mourn
ing carriages are called out. The papers re-
gret they are called upon to deplore the loss
of reverend parent, generous friend, public
spirited citizen, and pious man. Then the
precocious snapper of jack knives, and the
model set up to the young generation. is
laid in the dust. Above his grave the stars
he never saw now burn with soft lustre
which no lamps about kings tomb can en-
nlate and the south wind, for whose breath
npcn bis hot brow he was never grateful
strews his last bed with anemonies and vio-
lets that his heel crushed in living; and we
who are to be formed upon that model, care
lessiy remark, as we stir our toddies, "So,
old Aladdin. has gone at last and, by -the-by,
how much did he leayeg" 3 tE Sp-H -
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The Louisville Times estimates that at
least one hundred thousand more hogs will
be killed in that State this season than were
killed in that State last year, with an aver.
age increase in weight Of about 90 per cent
Up to oSaturday evening last, $3.50 had been
killed in Louisville, where the price then
were 81, so $3.50 net. The same paper
notes purchases of 10000 or $4,000 hogs,
by dealers at $5 gross, equal to about $685. |
from the hooks. On Green river, in Ken.
tueky, extensive Preparations are made for
At Rowling Green alone il is
expectsdthat 10000 will be killed and about
10000 at others point on the river. The
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