The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-22
i POWER IN NATURE.
The Strange .;oings OF Duisy Robinson
OF sumter. -. {.

The Strange .:oings OF Daisy iiobinso
OF sumter. =. {.
NY Commercial Advertiser.
Mss Daisy Robinson Of Sumter, i.
South Carolina, ought rather 10 b
looked upon as 4 centre OF force than /
hur.an being Of common mold
Wherever she may be, most mysteri-
Gus and striking events are apt <
occur, and it is not TO be n.arVeled al
that. as dispatch from sumter says
she seldom smiles. i person SC
dreadfu?ly apt TO have unear.hly
events attends attend her presence
must have small reason to smile The
people of her neighborhood are much
excited over Miss Daisy ana
DO net pretend TO understand
her. When she enters room the fur
niture seems to be aware OF her pres
ence, and at once begins 70 moVe
around and act in 4 way that shows
it to be laboring under the impression
that something must be done, and
dcnG al once. r a Ilate happens to
lie at case on a bureau thinking Of
nothing, and taking The world as it
ames, 10 sooner does it praceiVe that
Mis- Daisy is in the Immediate vicini,-
ty than It springs up Ike q guilty
thing surprised, and reaches the cell
ing at one bound, and then dashes 1t
selfto pieces or the floor.
A humble coal scuttle, sitting cui-
etly in the chimney corner and dream
ing, perhaps. Of the days when it WAS
bright and young, vii! try to get cut
Of the room as socn as this singular
young woman enters it. In lis haste
to escape it will forget even its own
contents and waddle to the door
when, fit had had but the forethousht
to empty itself On the heath, 1t might
as well as not have made its exit up
the chimney. And We have the word
Of local policeman icr Ii that a seem
ingly inanimate two-quart bucket,
which was dreaming away It's exists
ence on mantlapiece in fancled Sc
curity, ieaped he&dlong from the
dizzy height SO soon as the door open
ed and Miss Robinson pat IN al ap-
pearance. 4 shovei, also, that was
leaning in corner came Praucins
out" as though it had ,o;ne Important
business on haud which must be at
tended to without further delay, and
then, becoming aware of that awful
presence, fell Gathering and banging
to the ground in dead faint.
These are strange doings, and they !
not only recall the Rochester knock
ipes ard the work of Miss Lula Hurst,
but they remind us OF Orpheus and
and the days when the
world was young, and trees we're IN
the habit of pulling themselves up by
tie roots and dancing on the greens
ward of the music Of Pans pipes.
Poets haye dreamed Of such things, as
did that great singer to whose lofty
imagination it seemed that
The SOW came in with the saddle,
The little pig rocked the cradle,
The spit stood behind the door
And threw the dish-cloth on the floor.
"Odsriads,' said the gridiron,
Cant you agree?
I'm the head constable,
Bring II TO me-
1t must be- q terrible responsibility |
to have control over what in our bllud-
ness, we call ina1imate nature, az Is
possessed by Miss Robinson. That the |!
feels this responsibility !
is, we judge, the reason why she sell
dom smiles. It is to be hoped that
she will use her tremendous power
with what circumspection she may,
but if, as is possibly the case, she Is
but the centre of icrce and therefore
irresponsible, Sumter, in South Caro-
iua, has some heavy sailing before It.