The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-06-15

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smiles and rubs his hands and bends his
bead, and the Aurds szuds from his
mouth as ifshef wers actually viscous.
But who, + say. likes hima To women
he is all soft Hattery--so ineu BE s. all
gentle Difference; he acquiesoss With an
obsequiots bow before you, have said
what you mean; and Mrs. General, who
devoted her life to cultivasiug 10 others
q 'stewed prune'' expression of counteu.
ance, could haye been taught by
Palinurus. The difficulty is. tina. The
sugar is sanded. You have to recsive
the nanners of Palinurus as the boys bit
Deacon Truss's candy-with the con.
scious possibility of eneounseriug a
boulder. All this sugar is sauded with
ins'ncsrity. The boulder against which
you might break your teeth is falsity.
Aud why, l say, as read in the news.
paper the report about the grocers-why
should not sugar be sanded, if manners
are? ss
Does it 20 beyond manners? t asked
myself the question because I CHANGED
to sec Felina tripping by in the morn.
ing sunshine. A bright, pretty, pleas
ant young woman I believe that you
think her, appareutly equable as the
mild breeze aud gentle as the ideal May
1 know her we'll from old family associu.
tion, and ! shall not deny that she has
great attractions. 1t is cheerful, buoy
ant temperament. She is gay, aud
makes others 80. Feliua is sweet wo-
man, is the general remark and dow
ager ladies' tap Whisker, her husband,
with their fans as he brings them stewed
terrapin at supper, and say to him, "Do
ycu know yeur blessings2 Do you
know what il is to have such womau
as Fsl'na US the sugar in your cup 2"
Whisker thinks that he does. He
imagines that he knows all about it, She
is pleasant and gay, but she is not au
angel. She is, indeed, "a sweet little
thing but the house is untidy, the
children are slatternly. Felina is very
lovely, but v@y lazy and shiftless.
Certainly, dear madame" he replies to
Mrs. Terrapin "certainly Felina is the
sugar in my cup" sAudibly he says no
moro, and stands grinning before tho
dowager. But ifhe does not say it to
himself, he feels always, Sugar! oh,
certainly, sngar; but it is sanded."
When .Feifua had passed did not
take up Thy paper. | was thinking of
certain friend of ours who, as he says, is
also the friend of all unfortunate causes.
1T IS my glory" he adds, .'to be ad-
dicted to philanthropy. What is more
elevating than philanthropy ? Hail
philanthropy, aud al! the oppressed
peoples and unfortunate causes |" What
charm that call has Our friend has
not spared his, tongue or his peu in ad
vocatfng the projees off, balloon express
tothe moon, which he declares will be
boon to suffering humanity. Give us, :"
he cries, 20 perverse and dckle genera
ton, give us but arballoon express to the
moon, and humanity will cease to suffer.
10 the name Of humanity l demand this
and every other kind of express" Here
are honest synpathy aud sincere hope
There is no reason for doubling shat our
frieud lfieans what he says He over
flows with sweetness toward his kind
He is eloquent, devoted; aud when we
call the roll Ut those whom progross and
reform delight to honor, we do no. for.
get his name.
In Tact, to very many of US his name
stands for an exceptional character of
fidelity aud simplicity and seifsacrifice
and those of US who are 30 lucky as til
huve children mediate the propriety Of
giving them his uame. But what is thitI
lnslnratiou OF Hosts, chat in our friend 4
case honesty is the best pciiey? There
is something anpleasantly suggestive i'd /
his tone. Aud when it appears tha,
our friend has invested large sums
money in the chance OF a lunar express
when we discover that our friend of hu
'ifrt'Aty is Intensely selfish and vindictive
that tire aepetee of the rights OF opi {
pressed peoples has umde huge for
tune by blockade running into their !
ports, aud that the champion Of all unfor +
tunate causes has had an eye upon tht
support ct the rest Of their friends, W,
do rot say That he is false aud "a scound {
rel, tor he ls not; but we do say that
the reported is evidently correcl and