The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1858-01-29
Rising in the world.


| and necessities of the world, born to gain
our livelihood 10y the sweat of our brow.
what reason have we. then to presume that
our children are not to do the samea IF
they be, as now and then one will be, en-
dowed with extraordinary powers of mind,
those powers may have opportunity of de-
veloping themselves, and if they never have
that opportunity, are always to be laborers,
the harm is not very great 10 us or them.
Nor does it hence follow that they are the
descendants of laborers. The path upwards
is steep and long, to be sure. Industry,
skill, excelcncy, in the present parent, lay
tile foundation of II rise, under more f,vo.
raIle circumstances, for the children. The
children of these take another rise, and by
by the descendants of the present Iaborer
become gentlemen. This is the natural
progress. 1t is by attempting to reacl, the
top AT r single leap that SO much misery is
produced in the world, aud the propensity to
such an attempt has been cherished and en-
couragcd by the strange projects that We
have witnessed Of late years for making the
'"horers virtuous aud happy Ly giving them
what is called education. The education
which speak of consists in bringing chill
dren up to labor with steatliness, and with
skill to show them how to do all in the
best manner; to set them an example in
industry, sobriety, cleanliness, and neatness
to make all these habitual to them, so that
they shall never he liable to fall into the
contrary; to let them always see good liv-
ing proceeding from labor, and thus to re-
move from them the temptations to get at
| the goods of others by violent or fraudulent
means.- William Goblet.
A MELANCHOLY PnED1cAMENr.-To be
in strapped" condition is undoubtedly to
be in a bad" phix." The STRAP" thus un-
derstood refers to peculiar condition Of
the pocket Of ones pantaloons, and not to
the legs thereof. as in this instance of being
strapped. Most Of our readers are aware
that an old fashion fastening ones legs on
by straps to his pantaoons, passing under
his feet, is about to be revived. This fash.
ion is not now so absurd as it used to tc, for
Linton, Of the Amphitheatre, having inau-
gurated the new style Of walking with the
feet up, it becomes necessity that people
so walking should have suspenders on that
end OF their pantaloons which is uppermost
to keep them from slipping down. So
straps in this wise are wise. We don'tsay
that the party who was in the following
"melancholy predicment" was in the habit,
of walking feet uppermost; but we do say
that on the occasion in question he was in
clined to feel up for tile ground !" that he
walked home "feeling up for the ground"
and not exactly knowing which end he was
standing on. These are holiday times.
lie has a wife or, wife has him, and
she told us the story. He. came home in
the small hours aud fonud his wav to his
apartment, his wife's apartment, and began
to make preparation for retiring, by stick
ing his foot into bootack with the design
of removeug his boot-no, leaving his boot
immoveable and removing his foot from it
his nightcapped spouse watching the
operation and his eccentric movements about
the room with indignant regards. With
some ado he succeeded in inserting his foot,
into the bootjack' and made sdesperat.
pull. The effort was utterly abortive, and,
with the same no result, was several times
repeated. He became desperate, jerked and
pulled himself into a fever of excitement
and finally turned TO his wife with:
See here-hio !-old lady, I'n-hic!-
coming to bed with my boots on-hic, !!
I am, certain-hic! -see.e If don't-hic !!
old iady,r.' -,
You're. coming to bed with your boots
on, are you, Mr--.! You areT' scream.
ed the indignant lady, who had been apxi.
*ously awaiting his coming, thinking some
thing serious had happened to her absent
lord, and found that lie was only seriously
inebriateds : and that. her anxiety forhis safe.
| ty had been wasted. -
"You are coming to bed with your boots
on, are you'll You sare intoxicated, .siF |!
You have been off on q SPREE sir Take
off your boots, sir! You cant come into
vthis bed with them on .,sir." :
"I'm c.coming tobed.with my boots on
-hic, nfadamlf. Iaust! c-can't get them
E-hicof,ss was'tbesxpIana.ion Of tho af:
! ficted benedict. ~.
"Yor are tight--you are drunk, sir!
Yop ought 70 sbe & ashamed Of yourself for
looming sheme .ink that condition" and; The
Esifs arose to see ifsbe. couldn't do some
Ethihg 70 relieve the embarrassed circuni.