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About The Independent South. (Waynesboro, Ga.) 1860-186? | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1862)
I skill never forget poor Mary’s nrs: I shall novtr forget the sad )ice; they will haunt me to rn > ying day. Oh! take it away that atoful carpet; I have purchased it itli the death of my dearest friend, [ow could you ho so cruel? I ^ hall never he happy agaiii never— : lever. 1 Years have passed since tlicn, and i Mary with her husband bo together inder the green sod of the church yard. Jeannette has grey hairs mix- id with the bright brown of her losses, hut site lives in a home of j iplendor, and none know but to bless | her. There is a Mary, a gentlo Mary, in her household, dear to hoi - as her own sweet children—she is he orphan child of those who rested side by side for ten long years. Udtvaid is rich but property has not hardened his heart. His hand never tires of giving God’s bounty to God's poor; and Jeannette is the uardian angel of the needy. The jarpet, long since old, is safcrcdly preserved as a memento of sorrowful but penitent hours and many a weary heart owes to Us silent influ- nce the prosperity that has turn- id wants wilderness into an eden of plenty. JUNE 28, 1862. Good Iiumou—Keep in good t humor. It is not wreufc calamities that embitter existence; it is tin* . petty vexations, the small jclotisics . i |-' ' . ■ 1 .........i.J -^1 V:'j~ i nor. miseries, that make the heart heavy ami the temper sour." Don: j let them. Anger is a pure waste of vitality: it is always folisli, and al ways disgraceful; except in soriie ver’v rare cases, when it is' kindled by seeing wrong done to-another, i and even that nullle rage seldom ! mends the mother. Keep in good | humor! No om! does his best except when ’ cheerful. A light heart makes nim ble limbs, and keep- the mind free and alert. No misfortune is so great as one that sours the temper. Until cheerfulness is lo3t, noth, mg is lost! Keep in good humor! Good temper is like a sunny day; it sheds a brightness oper ev erything: it is the sweetner of toil and the soother of disquietude. ' : A Gextlkmen purchased a pony for his wife to ride upon, and the ! aninuii r ..„ving skittish, the lady | "as thrown olr, day, and broke ! her neck. Soou after Oh, funeral, a ; neighbor came and proposed topur- 1 chase the animal fpr iiis wife to ride | upon. The gentlemen refused, say- ling—Ko, I will not, sell the little j fellow, for I may get married again myself. A TE.vcnkuin hearing a definition lesson said—Spell Admittance.— ; Little boy—Ad-m.it-tancc. Teacli- (or—lfight; now for the definition. I Little hoy (who had been to .the cir cus the night previous)—Twenty- five cents; children half price. : ’ Two sailors Trent into a church- ' yard, and looking at one of the tomb-stones, rend this cpithap. I 1 am not dead, but sleeping here.— ^ “SVliat an infernal liar that follow I must ltavo been, (said Jack,) to bo 1 | trying to cheat the devil by a lie, ° | now that ho.’s dead and buried J”
