The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-11-14
amid the palms and the crosses until tho re.
surrection day.
Before the Flood

of 960 and nine years before him, man coul
do much. He could bo his own soldest in
habitant" and "never remember any thing !;
ifa Shakespeare, he could celebrate his owl
torcentenary; he could look back with prid
upon at least 200 constitutional crises ant
900 successive seasons which brought tn
green pea of the spring and the fresh oyste
of the fall. In those blissful ages, whel
time was reckened by the months instead o
by the hours, aud men set their eight yea
clocks by the sixty three year comets, fcl
low could. flazily inclined. lie in bed til
Septcmhor or 90 on a ten years drunk
When he went out to make friendly call
he could say to his family: "So-long; Tn
just going to drop into Mothuselah's for I
couple Of years don't wait dinner for mo );
or, addressing his toddling infant of eighty
ho might give him permission to go out and
play till 1895, but insist on his coming home
then, so US not to keep his fond parent sit.
ting up for him. Life assurance would be
cheap under such asyston., and tho rate Of
interest, whom man gave notes at GOO
yoars, renewable for 900 years more, must
necessarily have been proportionately low.
The peculiarities Of pre-Noahic existence
would have been made most strikingly mani.
fest had three or four Of these old sinners
padded their own osnoo through tho food,
survived, increased and multiplied.
$780," would observe q hale old man of 900
to his companion, jolly, middls-ascd
septcentenarain. "they arc at it again, pratt
ing Of reforms and amendments, and con-
stitutinnality, To liz, who remembered the
Ifcptarehy. Alfred died the year ] Twas born,
but remember William as well as if it was
only yesterday. I was only child then.
We'll, wcn, Bill was good fellow, Onoe---
"Ycs," might intcwart hura beordless
youth 'af $50, ''ny n1cle often told Inc
that"
"Little boys" would intcrposc the senior
in tones of dignifed rebuke. ''must be SEEM
not heard. Ifyou cannot keep still whils
your elders are speaking, ElOm, NY ron, the
h4ssa, 'napt put you to bod. Woll. as l was
aay|ng-" ~
''Truc, true" here would observe Lamech,
sand, what snobbishness it is in folks to talk
of their long descent and Norman or kuiok.
crbockcr aneestnys, Wa ru.namber all that
doat wes Woll, well, everybody had ances-
tors then, only they can't all trace them.H
"Parvenus, Lamech, parvenus, all Of them.
Talk of your old families to me, whose
grcat-grand. father remembera Adam, We've
seen thina ar IVA siB our century. Con.
| RNnd tho rheumatism; I caught cold sitting
In draft about the end of the fifteenth GEN.
tury, and every hundred years or so I have
twinge Of it "
THAT was about the time christopher
Columbus sailed to discover Amerloa,
HThe sano year, Poor Chris l knew
him woll You knew Smith 9"~ ~.
"Kirby~y ',.
"No; John, the fellow that PocahoDtas
got struck With. But you were only d boy
at that time" And so these o ID fdgias
would prattlp aa. II Ia perhaps Just as vol
that Noah had no spare state rooms in the
ark, as surviving antediluvian would have
been as Fly in precious ointment. A man
sitting ut yaur table whose memory went
back to 1900 odd-wha commenced hls
anecdotes BY moralialng' '1t was just 700
ysars ago today, when T'-who had handled
the founder Of one atistocratic family on his
knee in = 1872, and distinctly recalled the
author Of another noble line in the juuk hnsi,
ness-with such man athrgS: souloty would
be Vnsafa. j..
The manners and customs of that age
would pceuliarly impress US. Fancy blush
ing and awkward girl of 200: in pant.lsts,
listening to the ayoWal Of . promising young
lawyer Of 41o, or clever young sophomore
Of 375, or an antedluvian "old family"
Into what insienifcancs would shrink the
purpled centuries of Nassau, Hapsburg,
Guelph OF fiaurbon! And asfor an antedilu-
vlan Susan B. Anthony, the mindrecoils ut
the thought as of something entirely beyond
conception.
The revival of these hanpY days has, how.
eyer, not yps tonie II ii tho arrOr, not tho
fault, Of many truly great and good men and
women that they discount the future, and
are abused for laboring under what appears
to the vulgar and unscntimca.al halucina.
tion. To play the anted;lrvian under =
postdi!uvian disprnsniiau IL Eansouse. 1t
would TO woi TOR rcw-hoider and preacher,
reader and writer, could all rciScmber that
there has been food, and the duration Of
human life is dwindicd to Il span.-,M Lo"i>
| DcMOcrat.
| :t-T H..-i:
Cu,Wcu hluSlu.--Wo like good music
we like good singing, but we like to hear the
words sung. We clip the following from III
exchange:
A friend attended one of our churchc:
last Sunday, took down hymn ha lie heart
it, and aitcrShrds roterred TO the hymn
book for a translation, with the following
result:
WHAT HE SAW.
"Waw kaw, swaw de vaw raw,
Thaw saw thaw law aw waw,
r Waw kaw taw thaw raw yaw vaw Draw,
', Aw thaw, raw law saw NV"
THE TRANSLATION.
"Welcome sweet day Of rest,
That saw tho Lord arise,
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes"