The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-02-26

money fail to supply his nceds--patient toll
does not suffice, and grand speculations
must be advcntured. The show of prosperity
IS necessary to the bold speculator; and
money is spent by husband and wife with
out stint. Fortune does not smile upon the
adventurer, and often, i'll these cases, n dcs-
perate game is played, in which moral
character is stallcd against the chance of
gain and is lost. How many forse and
defaIcation can be traced precisely to this
source. How many husbands curse tho
day they ever began to indulge the extrav;,-
giant tastes of their wives. How manv
wives, when failure, poverty and dcgrada-
ton come, would gladly have forgonc their
folly, could they have predicted the cnd.-
Let lis hope that the evil has reached its
height, and that society will soon Lc re-
stored TO its senses by the misfortuncs and
crimes that attend its madness.
This is no trifling subject to the mothers
of tins generation. 1t is with them TO
shape the tastes and habits of their daurh-
ters. The husband often succeeds in ac-
JnlrnS competency which the father
fails to retain. The wife may add to u
prosperity which the daughters exhaust be
fore the Oldest gets out her teens, or strikes
some other vein for gold than the paternal
pocket. Look TO it, ye mothers, that you
teach other and wiser arts than those of
show and dress. Look TO it, or there NAV
| bc such a decline in the demand for walk
ng millinery blocks, that Il few years hence
! YOU will see only bcvy Of fading spinstcrs,
! where you had hoped to sec your grand
children ut play; You wondering mca,,-
while if the matrimonial market vii! ever
rise so high us that they may vet become
mercl,ntab!c articles
Il -Nysitrtous PcrSonau. Under this
caption contemporary tells story, says
the n. \. 'S"n, Of an elderly gentleman,
elegantly dressed, and carrying gold
l'eadcd cane, who gave an order ut res
taurant in Park row, on Il slip of paper,
three years ago, for dinner composed of
certain dishes, and two small bottles Of
clarct wine, to be prepared for him at II
stated time every day. The guest and
the dinner are there at the appointed hour.
lie proceeds to the particular box arpro-
pratc'l to him, draws down the curtain,
and discusses his dinner. Two wine eli; ;scs
are always furnished. After dining, he
turns out two glasses Of wine, the contents
ct one he drinks, and pours the other on
the floor, and thus continues till the two
bottles Of wine have been disposed of, and
the same thing is repeated day after day.
During the whole period he has not been
heard to utter word 1t has been said
that to a greater or less degree, every man
and every woman is mononanc but
the gentleuan III the above case, from some
hidden cause, certainly seems TO possess IN
unusual share.
BedntyW Sentiment beautiful eX-
tract below is from the pen of Hon. S.
IIl!iarL:
81 confess that increasing years bring
with them IN increasing respect for those
who do not succeed in life, rs those words
are commonly used. Heaven is said to be
a place for those who have not succeeded
upon earth and it is surely true that ccles
tia gaccs do not best thrive and bloom in
the hot blaze of worldly property. III sue,
cess sometimes rises from superabundance o'
qualities in themselves good-from con
science too sensitive, taste too l;,stidious, n
self-forgctfulness too romantic, Il modestv
too retiring. l will not so so far as to say,
with living poet. that the world knows
nothing Of its greatest men," but there arc
forms of greatness. or at least excellence,
that I" die and make no sign." there arc
martyrs that miss the palm, but not the
stake; there are heroes without the laurel
and conquerors without the triumph"
Startling Occurrence.-At a church in
an adjoining county, Sunday or two since,
just rs the congregation were about to knecl
down to prayer, lady, in a tone Of horror,
raised the cry of snake! Great excite
ment prevailed, a!l there was a mighty rush
from the dangerous locality. At length a
gentleman advanced to the spot. gazed a
moment upon the coiled monster, and,
pouncing upon it, held up to tho view of
the startled crowd a whalebone hoop, which
had wriggled itself out Of lady's petticoat
and quietly coiled itself upon the floor
This is fact, and ought to admonish tho
ladies' Of the danger Of not securing well
tho snake like circles which encompass