The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-06-22
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- Every man can tame shrew but
he who hath her.
- Every man can please fault.
finding husband but she that is blest
with his growlings.
- Retraoe your steps whom you have
done wrong; it 10 nobler to rctract than
sustain bad cause.
- He who would thrive mus. ask
leave Of his wife; yet some impractical
bles fail with that.
- Weare never so near great changes
as when We feel ourselves comfortably
settled for life.
= It is ours to SOW and digit is
Gods to give the sunshine and send
the rain thus comes the harvest,
The moaning Of the tied-.a husband 8
grumbling.
An unpleasant sort of arithmetic
division among families.
Strive to do right because it is right {;
shun the wrong because it is wrong.
An exchange is not far from right in
saying that sour.faced wife often helps
the liquor trade.
Some married men go out like can
dies, leaving their wives in the dark
as to where they spend their evenings.
The lack Of faith in the efficacy of
the gospel is as destructive to holiness
Of heart as it is to peace of mind.
While mother was brooding over
her poverty, hor little son said: "Mam-
ma, l think God hears when We scrape
tho bottom of the barrel |"
If men were as careful Of the
rights of God as they are of their own,
stealing from Him would look as black
rs docs stealing from one another.
A man recently attempted to hide a
quart Of poor whiskey at standing -
His vito has been appointed administra.
trix on his estate.
AN observer of human nature re-
ports that ho has seen some people pos
sessing the popularity of three hands
right hand, left hand, and q little
behindhand.
Among the articles announced for
sale at an auction we perceive ga ma.
hogany ohild's chair" The father Of
this wonderful infant must have been
of the Wood family.
"A female amendment was lately
seen ploughing her field near Atlanta,
with big white man hitched up in.
stead of . mule.
Habit is cable. We weave q
thread Of it every day, and at last we
cannot break it.
The most bashful girl ever heard
of was one who blushed when she was
asked if she had not been courting
sleep.
Politeness almost invariably requires
agentleman to agree with lady, but
when shc speaks of the great beauty Of
some other lady it is always safe for the
gentleman to say there are other STYLES
Of female loviness that he admires much
more.
A young lady being told by friend
that silk dresses wero very much worn,
replied that she knew it, for hers had
two or three holes in it.
The young man who was "lonely since
his mother died" is all righ. now. His
father married the "head" of a large
party of girls, and they keep house
for him, and give party nearly every
night.
An Irishman that was very near
sighted, about to fight duel, Insisted
that he should stand six PAGES noarer
his antagonist than the other did to
him.
1t is undcniable,. said Prentice, that
in America it takes ;.three to mako
couple, he, she, and a hired girl. Had
Adam been modern, there would have
been hired girl 10 Paradise to look
after little Able, and to "raise Cain"
~ m cant to have told you of that
hole," said man 70 his friend, who
stumbled into pit full Of water.
ono matter now--no matter now"
said Tho other, blowing the water out of
his mouth, "I've found it out"
A young man was arrested in New
jersey few days ago for dese,ting his
wife. When ho was brought before tho
judge, he said "that he had nothing
against his wife except that he Thought
she spent too much money for candy
and trash"
"A negro baby has been born in
Kentucky with ten 6ngurcs on eacb
hand, and every man who has hen
roost 10 that neighborhooa intends to
emigrate just as soon as evor that freed,
man arrives at years Of discretion.
---"The fact is, said an elderly wife,
n man does not know how to straighten
up things. He does not know where to
commence. don't wonder" sho con-
tinuod, THAT whom God made Adam he
went right to work and made woman
to tell him what to do"