The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-12-16


resurrection, and blooms and blossoms
as tho rose.
-, t.s Self Education IThs Ear. r
The time to be somewhat more seri-
GUS hos now come. The truth is, that
nothing can confer Wgn,ty on tho im-
,portah6 but rathershomely Aubjeots Of
bodily cleanliness and comfort Of
which We have treated, It is useless
TELL q, man II Aetsdiic; ,v,erss to battle
his body wash bis face, and have
separate sleeping and sitting apart
ments for the different members of
tho family" A slight vein Of humof--
GUS ridicule is not inappropriate,
when bantering the rough buffoon
whose dress and mannors set etiquette
at defiance, Or the moon-struck poot-
aster whose vivid imagination secs
Hclen's beauty IN q brow Of Egypt,
but.who don't brush his hair, and who
carries his finger-nails in perpetual
mourning. But tho proper ase Of ones
ears, atet washing them, 10 a differ
ent NJ after, and deserves to be handled
in q. more serious vein. f,o 7!aUoD 8
We repeat, we would rather have q
clearing ear'' than tho oBodleian IL
brary. Sir Walter Scott. has earned
the title Of 'Fthe Wizard Of the
North by weaving his enchanting
tales out Of traditions and legends,
many Of them heard in early youth,
Others have surpassed him in other
respects, but in dramatic power, in the
ability to cause his characters to mako
their own impression on the reader,
no novelist is his equal, It is to be
accounted for, by bearing in mind
how keeply ho ever listened, and how
nninutely he always observed. He
heard, he ! listened, he understood,
and could, therefore, call up tho past
to life again, by u single waive Of his
enchanting wand. rmrj aHaqaoaI ,
ITO hoar we'll requires both consider.
ate. and, though it at first seems a con.
tradiction, COMMUNICATIVE manners.
We must show interest and sympathy
in that which most interests our COM
panions and acquaintance, and must
draw thom on to communicate by in
teresting them ourselves. 1t is whom
tho rudost mind is set aglow BY social
sympathy, that it sparkles with tie
flash Of wit, or limprcsses with the
force of truth. Treat your tello'u man
w'M respect, and you utN soon haze rea
son to respect h'm Frequently, though
uneducutod, he has had years. Of cx-
perienco in what is now to you. The
biographies Of celebrated preachers
abound in evidence, that they learned
how to preach the Gospel eloquently
III tho cottage of the poor, and at the
bedside Of the afflicted or the dying.
Wo have beon told that Wm., G. Pros
ton confessed, that the most striking
passage in one Of his most celebrate ed
flights Of forensic oratory, when de.
Tending tho cause Of poor woman
who had been brutally maltroated by
her husband, and at last resisted, in
order to protect her children, IA pas.
sage Of oratory, in which he said,
"but The opposite council asks, "why
did she submit so long Z? If her, testi-
mony be true, why, did she not sooner
resist Z God sir, even tba partridge
will start, when the foot of tho hunter
treads on its st"-was quoted, and
quoted literally, from the mouth Of the
poor woman herself. We delight in
just suoh illustrations Of the impor-
tance of practical rule of action,
and will subjoin the testimony Of an
other lawyer, destined to cnimisnl,c,,o l,,,fi in
our State. He said to us In con versa
tion, II have invariably found, that,
if wouH but quietly listen to my client,
no matter how illiterate and mother
respects stupid, he would give me, bo.
fore 'he'was done talking, the shrewd.
|, . No. aa- l-4 a.. n II
est view, and the strongest point, in
bis own case-the point that would
tell more forciblysupon a jury, and
even on tho judge, than any view I
could originate myself, Or got from
atndy 81 law-books." And who
would ecaa.r care for =, ,physie;an. who had
not learRed 70. listen patiently and at