The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-08-14
Neighbors' Quarrels.


Most people thing there are cares
enough in the world, and yet many are
very industrious to increase them. One
of the readiest ways Of doing this is to
quarrel with neighbor. A bad bar
gain may vex man for a week, aud a
bad debt may trouble him for u month !;
but quarrel with his neighbors will
keep him in hot water all the year
round.
Aaron Hands delights in fowls. and
his cocks and hens are always scratching
up the flowers of his ncighbor, William
Wiles, whose misci,ievous cat every now
and then runs off with chicken. The
consequence is that William Wiles is
one half the day occupied in driving
away the fowls and threatening to screw
their long, ugly necks off; while Aaron
Hans, in his periodical outbreaks, inva-
riablc VOWS to skin his neighbor's cat, as
sure as he can lay hold of him.
Neighbors neighbors why can you
not be at peace? Not all The fowls you
can rear, and the flowers you can grow,
will make amends for life of anger,
hatred, malice, or uncharitableness.-
Come to some kind-hearteI understand
ing, with another, and dwell in peace.
Upton the re6ner, has smoky Chin
ney, that sets him and his neighborhood
by the ears. The people around abuse
him without mercy, complaining that
they are poisoned, and declaring that
they will indict him at the sessions
Upton ficrcely sets chem at defiance, on
the ground that his premises were built
before theirs; that his chimney did not
come to them. but they came to his
chimney.
Neighbors neighbors practice lit
tie more forbcarance. Had halfa dozen
of you waited on the refiner, in kindly
spirit, he would, years age, have SO al
tered his chimney that it would, not
have annoyed you
Mrs. Tibbets is thoughtless if it were
not so, she would never have had her
large carpet beaten when her mcighbor.
who had Il wash, was having her wet
clothes hung out to dry. Mrs. Williams
is hasty and passionate, or she never
would have taken it for granted that the
carpet was beaten on purpose to spite her
and give her trouble AS it is Mrs.
Tibbets and Mrs Williams hate one an.
other with perfect hatred.
Neighbors! neighbors! bear with one
another. We are none of us angels, and
should not therefore expect those about
us to be free of faults.
They who attempt To outwrangle "A
quarrelsomc neighbor go the wrong way
to work "a kind word, and still more.
a kind deed, will be more likely to be
successful. Two children wanted to pass
by savage dog, the one took a stick in
his hand, and pointed it at him, but this
only made the enraged creature more
furious than before. The other child
adopted different plan for, by giving
the dog piece of bread and butter, he
was allowed to pass, the subdued animal
wagging his tail in quietude. If you
happen to have quarrelsome neighbor,
conquer him by civility and kindness :;
try the bread-and- butter system, and
keep your stick cut of sight. This is an
excellent Christian admonition, GA soft
answer turneth away wrath but gricv-
Gus words stirreth up anger" Prov.
Is: l.
Neighbors neighbors live in love
and then, while you make others happy,
you will be happier yourselves.
"That happy man is surely blcst,
Who of the worst things makes the best ;
While he must be of temper curst,
Who of the best things makes the worst. :"
NELLY's TEMPTATION AND PRAYER.