The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-11-05
A Calendar of Fire-Side Saints. Z.

ever, are oftener heard of than seem:
ST. BErsEY.-St. Betsey was welded to
knight who sailed with Raleigh and
brought home tobacco, and tho knight ,s=
smoked. But he thought Betsey, like other
hne ladies IN the court, would fain chat he
should smoke out Of DOORS nor faint wjti,
tobacco the tapestry. Whereupou. the
knight would seek his garden, his orchard. 4
and IN any weather smoke sub love. Nov.
1t CHANGED rs the knight smoked. ST, Bet
sey came to him and said: Ny Lord, sprav
ye come into the house; and the knight
went with st. Betsey, who took him into =
newIy-cedared room, and said: | pray. INV
Lord, hencefor,h smoke here. for is Il not q
shame that you, who are the chief prop of
your house, should have no place to put
your head INTO and smokel Aud ST. Bet
sey led him to chair, and with her, own
hngers filled him pipe; and from that
TIME the knight sat in the cedar chamber
and smoked his weed.
Sr. SALLY.-St. Sally, from her cIilJ.
, hood, was known for her intermost love Of
truth. 1t was said of her that her heart
was crystal shrine, and tina, all the world
might see 1t. Now, once when other wo-
men denied or strove to hide their aoe. 81.
Sally said am FIVE and thirty. Where.
upon, next birthday. ST. Sallv's husband.
at feast Of all their friends, gave her
necklace OF six and thirty opal beads; and
on every birthday added bead, until the
beads amounted to four score and one. And
the beads seemed 10 act as charm: for St.
Sally, wearing the sum of her age about her
neck, age never appeared in her face. Such.
IN the olden time was the reward of sim.
plicity and truth.
ST, PHrLLrs.-St. Phllis was virgin OF
noble parentage, but withal as simple as a
shepherdess Of curds and cream. She mar.
ried Lord and had much pin money. But
when other ladies wore diamonds and
pearls, st. Phillis only wore red rose in
her hair. Yet her pin money bought the
best Jewe'ry in the happy eyes of the poor
about her. st. Philis was rewarded. She
lived until four score, and still carried the
red and white rose in her face, and felt their
fragrance in her memory.
| Sr. PHGBE.-St. Phoebe was married
early to wilful, but withal good.hearted
husband. lie was merchant and would
come home sour and sulen from CHANGE.
Whereupon, after much ponderinp. ST..
Phoebe, in her patience set to work. and
praying the while, made Of dyed lambs
wool, a door mat. And it chanced. from
that time forth, that never did the husband
touch that mat, that he didn't clean his
temper and his shoes, and he sat down by
fhteoe as mild as the lamb whose wool he
mad trod upon. Thus gentleness makes
miraculous door mats.
ST. LILLY.-St. Lilly was tile wife OF z
poor man, who tried to support his family
and his children were many-by writing
books. la those days it was not so easy
for man to find publisher as to say his
palernoster. Many were the books that
were written by the husband Of ST. Lilly.
but to every book St. Lilly gave at least two .,
babies. However, blithe MS a cricket was
! tue spirit that ruled about the hearth tof
81. Lilly. And how she ehelped her fiepmate!
ohe smiled sunbeams iato his ink bottle.
and turned his goose pen into the Quill Of !
dove. She made the paper he wrote OF, AS
white as her name. aud as fragrant "a her
soul. And when folks wondered how 81, ILL.,
y managed so lightly with fortunes trou.S
bles, she answered that she never needed
them' Tor troubles were like babies, aud
only grew bigger by nursing.
The Boston Courier is of opinion that
aoolItlonism is disease. 1t expresses its
notions of the disorder AS follows: s.
| Zone of the most Interesting and instruc-
tive facts in The history Of the human race
Is the recurrence, from timeto Time, of dis
eased conditions Of the public mind, consti-
tulng moral epidemics. which infec. socie-
ty with moral delusions, just as lis physical
condition is occasionally distorted by infec.
i'ons or contagious di>tempers Wheneyer
one OF these moral epidefnies seizes upon
the public mind it becomes sinorhilry sensi-.
tive IN some particular wav, or ON soma
specific subject; 1t runs into the most pitia.,
BILE exirayagances; it seens TO lose ali sense.