The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1871-01-18


Where no child goeth away"
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= Life is half spent before we know
what it is.
-. He who sends the storm steers the
vessel.
No nan has right to do as he
pleases except when he pleases to do
right.
- Transported for life-the man who
marrics happily.
Why is young lady before mar.
4. riage never right? Because she is all
a miss.
- Wisdom is the olive which springs
from the heart, blooms on the tongue,
and bear fruit in the actions
- EIo who sins against man inay fear
discovery, but he wis sins against God
is sure Of it.
-Learu to make the most Of evss'
humble resources, and you will be str-
prised how FAR they may be made to
expand.
Educate the whole man-the
head, the heart, the body; the head to
thirk, the heart TO feel, aud the body to
act.
Abiding to chignons, Mrs. Clever
said: ga girl now seems all head"
eyes, till you talk to her." groWled
Clever.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars have been raised in San Francisco
fer the establishment of 6rst.class
Democratic paper.
A gentleman the other evening
objected to playing cards with lady
because he said she had such winning
way about her.
In answer to correspondent who
wrote to country editor, asking if he
might send him something to Eli up
WITH" the editor replies,-"certainly-
let it be a barrel Of -four and quarter
Of beef"
What more appropriate New Year
gift can be made to friend at distance
than to send good weekly newspaper,
which will keep the donor in constant
remembrance throughout the year?
The family is the school FOR heaven.
How dear is every word in the house
hold vocabulary. Parent and child,
husband and wife, brother and sister,
lover and friend-a virtue is in each.
They are steps in the heavenly ladder.
-lnqu.etudes Of mind cannot be
prevented without first eradicating all
Jour iucliuations and passions, the winds
and tide that preserve the great ocean
Of human life from perpetual staguation.
Il physician said of a quack that che
was such an ignOramus that, if he could
take lantern aud 60 down inside his
patient, he couldn't 6ud out wha: the
matter was"
Life is book of Which we have
but one edition. Let each days actions,
as they add their pages to the inde
structible volume, be such as we shall be
willing to have an assembled world to
read.
An Illinois grocer had an empty
kerosene barrel which he wished to
clean out to pack pork in, so he Ii, a
match aud put it in the bung-hole.
That was the last public act Of bis life,
as he was blown clear out of the coun-
try.
y philosopher who had studied
out almost everything, says he is salts
fed that the reason why girls are inihe
haiti CT poutins out their lips is because
they are always willing theirs should
meet yours half way.
"A Western editor, on entering his
ofice, aud seeing his apprentice boy
cutting some queer capers, called out to
him, "Jim, what are you doing on the
Aoor?" "Why, sir, l have had shock"
"A shock p Yes, sir" "What kind
Of shock ?" "Why, sir" said the lad,
gaspius, zone of your subscribers came
in duriG. your ab<ence-said he owed
for two years subscriptiou-paid it
and also paid another year 10 advance"
Never be sorry for any generous
thing that you ever did, even if it was
betrayed. Never be sorry that you
were magnanimous, if the man was
mean aiterward. Never be sorry that
you gave. 1t was right for you to give,
if you we're imposed upon. You canrot
afford to keep on the safe side BY being
mean. Yoa had better many times in
your life, for the sake OF keeping your
self iii the practice oi bcnevolcnce, do
things that are questionable, rather than
SO narrowly that you will always be on
the side of culd calcula.. Give your
heart some head way, anc iu the long
run it will be safer for you.
The Oldest stove prubably in the
United States is the one which warns
ths hall of Virsinia's capitDl, iu Rich-
mond. 1t was made 10 Eagiand and
sent to Richmond in 1870 and warmed
the House of Burgesses for sixty years
before Il vas removed to its preseut
location, Where it has been for thirty
years. 1t kas survived three British
monarchs has been coD:emp0aneous
with four kingly mGnarchies, igo re-
g.ubi;es and two Smpe7ial governments