The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1867-10-03
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o: earthly possessions-' Shrouds have
no, pockets"
awe see." said Swift, IN one Of his
most ,sarcas stic moods, "Sha, God thinks
of riches by the people be gives them to. ,
Women may be content, may even be
gay, without love; but she cannot be
happy. Man ditto.
Feeling is truer oracle than thought:
hence women are oftener right than men
"Ma, If you will give me a peach !
will be good boy" "No, my child, yos
must not be good for pay; tha, is no,
right" you don't want me to be good
for nothing do you Z"
A man in Maine was recently asked 10
subscribe for chandelier for the church
Now, said I've. whats the use of chan
delier After you get it, you cant get
any one TO play on it,"
Somebody who writes more ,iuthfuiIy
than POLITICALLY, says: "An angel with.
out money is not thought so much Of now
a'days as a devil with bale of green.
backs"
A sentimental yonng man thus feeling.
ly expresses himself: Even as nature
benevolently guards The rose will, ,horns,
so does she endow women with pins"
Slander is more accumulatve than A
snow-ball. 1t is like salad, which eve.
~ one will season to his own taste, or the
taste Of those to whom he offers il.
You might as we'll expec, to drive a
PIoughshare through wasp's nest in
open day, and not TO be stung, as 10 be
truthful wisbou, giving offence. ...
"Wife,' said a married man, looking
for the boo,jack. after che was in bed, az
have place for all things, and you ought
to know it by this time 'Yes,' she re.
piled, 4 ought to know where you keep
your late hours, but ! don't" .
A colored man, who is all right on the
goose. abont being marched off to Jail for
sterling, Indignantly remarked that:
"lf de didn't let nigser steal little
10 dis dam country, Use cwine back 10
Tennessee where Mr.. Brownlow III see
niger git his rights sure"
A correspondent Of the vicksburp
Herald gives an account Of a mixed"
meeting at Bolton. He says. ..
The conclusion WAS few imp.ompsu
remarks from DR.. Burt Walton, colored, /,
who said 81 tell you, you are all a ss.
Of d--n fools. you havn't got much
cotton to pick, no how. and you had let.
ter be In the field picking out whs. little
you have, than here trying TO learn poIi.
tics." .,........- ..... E,.. ..
A Juvenile whose mother was a wo.
man. sends US the following, bis opinion
10 good: .... ~
Woman heavens best elf: 10 man
bis Pandora, or basket Of jewels bis
confectionery shop, or sticks Of sugar
candy; bis otto Of roses. or sugar coated
pills; her presence bis best company -
her voice bis swsetest music; her kiss
the guardian Of bis Innocence; her arm
the pale Of his safety her bosom the
softest pillow Of his cares" Girls, d'ys
bear thatf .f
"Wbar," asked a reno wbed stonnp o,.
ator, who wss running for the Office of
constable, "shsr, my enliehtepsd friends
OF the sixty sixth militia district, was An.
drew jackson in the battle Of New Or
Ieansi Wur be thsri He war. He,
was ridin' up and down on a bobta;lsd
Arsbisu. wsvin' Of a cracked sabrs. uo
to the srmpits In blood aud mud, and =.
Rivin' Of the British thunder /; the pepin.
Of bis eountry iioldip' Of her aqi. over
bis head. cotton bsles pavenssripg in from,
to protect him from every danger. and
the American eagle, with the Stars and
Stripes in i,s beak, q sosrin' aloft id the
blue empyrsap, cryin' 'Hsii coluubisl''