The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1858-08-13
From the Memphis Appeal.]
Who Welcomes a Sabbath Morning.

Who Welcomes Sabbath Morning.
The pale, haggard seamstress ; for it
brings with it rest-rest for the weary
limbs, her aching eyes and tLrobbing tenn
Piles. The weeks toll is over and she has
time to leave the dust and Loneliness and
equaiduess of her garrct home for walk
in the glad sunshine and the fresh, health
giving breeze; time to visit the graveyard,
where the daises blossom above her loved
and lost; time to look over the pressed
flowers, the locks Of hair, the bits Of faded
ribbon, the moth-eaten lett.r. and other
memen,oes Of the dear departed time 10
Eold converse with the memories they
evoke time to weep over the graves Of
buried hopes and pleasures, and time-God
be thanked to gain strength for the weary
morrow.
Who welcomes Sabbath morning a
The clerk, WHO all the week has been shut
up in brick and mortar walls, bowling and
scraping 10 hoops and bonnets, will, a
smile on his moustache, but "deuce take
her!" in his heart. How anxiously has be
looked forward to the Sabbath as day
on which be could venture to say tlatshe
was free man and no longer under the
feminine yoke! How gladly does he vel
come the OPPORTUNITY Of reading the last
paper, of proposing matrimonyto to pretty
black-eyed Nellie, or, better still, of indiling
letter home TO her, whose heart-true as
the pole to its star-is ever--slecping or
walking--with her absent boy!
Who welcomes Sabbath morniug?-
The little 81 children, who have had
the misfo, - Turing the previous week to
be domiciled in some "Do-the.boy's Halr'
with asecond edition of"Squeers" as teach.
er.HurraI !! you little pinafores Pile McGuf-
fery's readers and Webster's spelling books
on the shclf!-thcre are no lessons 10 both
er your little heads with to day. Hang up
the ferule! On the blessed Sabbath at least
you can wink without the dread of having
it applied to your little trembling outstretcb.
ed palms. HE away to the woods where
the birds are warbling their Makers praise
where the butterfly spreads its bright wings,
and the bee gathers honey from the wild
flowers where The blackberries sparkle like
jet iutbe merry sunshine; where the leaves
whisper music when kissed blythe gentle
zep6yrs, and where ths; brooks go ripping,
rippling over the smooth white pebbles.
Who Welcomes Sabbath morning =
Thseditor who has no Monday paper TO is.
sue. Reprieved from pen, ink and paper
observation-disclosures and printers $. from
boots, crayat and coat he is .free-in slip.
psss and dressing gown-to chew bis break.
fast tbefose s@allowingit, and to drink his
coffee beias the, boiling poiet free to take
aged look 1t his tidy little wife, to have a
.aiee pleasant chat With her in that cool
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