The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-30
CHARLESTON, C.. FRIDAY MORNING.

scramble the best way she can, with the loss
perhaps OF a little dignity and OF nore repute.
ut least in the locality where her SOLD sc1dl
cashed. This is the same woman who offers
an omnibus conductor q SovereiGDfOr three
penny fare; who gives the village srocer ten
pound note for Q sbilling's wor,l of sugar;
and who. when she comes u, to london for
davis shopping and has got heslast parcel
made up and ready to be put into h,r cab. finds
she has not left herself half enouh money to
pay for it-wlth o shopman whosefaith in hu-
man nature is by 10 means lvely. aud
who, only last week was biten by
lady swindler of undeniable Elnners and
appearance, md not very unlile herself
She has been alo~n. TOO. to go nto a con-
fectloner's, and after having made a, excellent
luncheon, find TO her dismay that sic has left
her purse in the pocket OF her other dress at
home. and that she has not q sixEence about
her. In fact there is not an equivo:al position
in which forgetfulness, want OF method, want
OF foresight, and all the other characteristics
which make up scrambling in tho concrete can
place her, IN which she has not been at some
the scrambler she has been; the scranbler she
ssr !!s Sts ii slI T.; l,ss, : s:-"' and fsea'ioe
scraublers are notoriously greas. s.in making
promises. and as notorlou, for noteiaerforming
what they promise. K,ndhearted Va they are
in gent raj, and willing to do their friends SER
vlce-gOing out OF their way indeed to proffer
k'ndnesses quite beyond your expectations
and the range OF their duties towards you, and
always undertaking works OF supererogation,
which ia fact lead to more than h.f their nor
NAL scramble they forget the next hour the
promise on which you have based your dear
est hopes. Or, If they do not forget it, they
find it is crowded out OF time BY multitude
OF engagements and PRO promises, Of all Of
which they We're 1nnocently obliVious when
they offered to do your business So frankly,
apd swore so confidently they would set
about 1T now at onces and get 1T out
of hand without delay. The oath and
the best chain cable you viii md on trial
to be only rope Of sand that could not biud
80 much as bunch Of tow together still less
hol the anch ,r Of life; and many heart
sick With hope deferred. and wath the dlsap-
pointmeut which might have been SO easily
prevented has been half broken now from the
anguish that has followed on the faii-
form the promise voluntarily made, end
the service freely offered aid. earnestly
pressed on q reluctant acceptor. This is
the tragic side of the soramblers career, the
shadow thrown by almost every one of the
GLASS. For all the minor delinquencies Of hur-
~ aud IN, unctnality In social affairs it is not
difficult to hnd full and ample forgive ness; but
matters, then the scrambier becomes ecuurge
instead ofyon!y an inconvenience. The only
safe way OF dealing with the class is to take
them when we can get hold OF them, ard to
accept them for what they are worth; but not
to rely on them, and not to attempt any NOR
ticlng OF ohe's affairs with their promises.
They are the froth md foam Of society, pretty
splash and splutter about the rocks, but they
ore not the deep waters which bear the burden
OF our ships, an by which the life Of the
world 10 malntalued.