The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-11-09

gift ov God, as it kan be cultivated q !it-
tie, but i is hgrd tew acquire. Kontent.
ment is said 10 bs the same as KappinssS,
th;s aoAkounss fer Tie ! small mi ahoahs ~
happiness laying around loose. without
emmy owner. I don't believe that man
waz made tew be kontented, nor happy
in this world, for if he had bin, he
wouldn't hav hankered enuff for the
other world.
When man gifts perfektly kontented,
he and clam are fust couzins.
Kontentment iz kind ov moral lazi-
ness; if there want ennything but kon-
tentment in this world, man wouldn't be
any moro ov a suckcess than an angle
worm IL.
When man gifts SO that he don't want
onnything more, he liz like rackcoon,
with his intestines full ov green corn.
Kontentment il one ov the instinkts,
i admit it tcw be happiness. but it liz
kind ov spruce gum chawing happiness.
We oil find fault with Adam and Eve.
for not being kontented, but if they had
bin satisfied with the gardin ov Eden,
and themselfs, they would have been liv-
ing thare now, the only two human be-
ings on the face ov the nrth, az innocent
as couple ov vegetable oysters.
They would hav bin two splendid spe-
cimens of the handy work of God, ele-
CANT portraits in the vestibule ov heaven,
but they would not hav developed rea-
zon, tho only God-like attribute in man.
When man is thoroly kontented, he
IL either too lazy to want ennytLing, or
too big phool tew enjoy it.
hav lived in naberhoods where every-
boldly seemed to be kontented, but if
the itch had ever broke out in them no
berhoods, the people would have skratch-
ed to this day.
am in favour oy all the vanitys, and
petty amblshums, all the jealousys, and
backbittings in tho world, not bekauze
think they am hansome, bekause thine
they stir up men, and wimmin, get
them onto their muscle, cultivating their
venom, and reazon at the same time, and
proving what brilliant cuss man may
be, ut the same time that it proves what
q miserable cuss he liz.
had rather see two wimmin pull hair.
than tew see them set down, Thoroughly
satisfied with an aimless life, and never
suffer eney excitement, greater than
bleeding tears together, through their
nose, for parcel of shirtless heathen, on
the coast ov Madagascar, or, once in
while, open their eyes, from dream of
young hyson kontentment tea, tew sarch
the allminkak, for the next change in
the moon.
Kontentment in this age of the world,
either means death, or decay, in the
days ov Abraham kontentment was SIM
ply ignorance.
The world liz now full oy larning, the
arts, and sciences, and all the Thousand
appliances ov reazon, these things make
ignorance the exception, and no man
haz right tew cultivate kontentment,
emmy more than he haz tew cut oph hiz
Ehum, and Get quietly down and nuss tho
stub.
Show me thoroughly kontented per-
son, and will show yu an useless one.
What we want liz folks who won't be
kontented, who kant be kontented, who
git up III the morning, not simply to hav
their bed made, but for the sake>oy git
ting tired; not for the sake of flourish.
ing kontentment. but for the sake oy put
ting turpententine in sum ded place, and
stirring up the animals.
kontentment was born with Adam. and
died when Adam ceased tew be an AZ gel
and bekum man.
l don't say that man couldn't be
hatched out, and, like a young owl, set
on dri limb, awl hiz days, with hiz
branes az fast asleep az I mud-turkles.
and at last sneak into heaven under the
guize Of kontentment, but do say, that
lO generashuns oy sich men would run
most of the human race into the ground,
and NJ base as q currency made out ov
puter ten cent pieces
would like, jist az we'll az the next
man, tew crawl into hole, that list fit
ted me, he'd fust, and thus shutting out
out all the light, be kontented, for
know how awfully unsoothing the aims
and ambishuns ov life are, but this
would only be burying mi few talents,
and sacrificing on the dcd alter ov kon-
tentment what war given me to make
fire or smudge with.
Thare aint no sich thing as kontent-
ment and reazon existing together; thoze
who slip out ov the crowd into sum al-
ley, and pretend they are chawing the
cud of sweet kontentment, the very
best specimens ov them, nre no better
than pin cushions stuck full.
They have jist az menny longings az
ennybody, they have jist az many vices;