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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XTTT. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 187. No. 47. THE KERALC IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry, S. C. BY THOS. F. G~RE NEKHA, Editor and Proprietor. Terms, $2.00 per Jztnum, Invariably in Advance. tP The paper is stopped at the expiration of time for which it is paid. C The ?4 mark denotes expiration of sub scription. MPatches, clovks, Jewelry. Watchmaking an~d Jewelry. EDWARD SCIIOLTZ (AT A. M. %ICKEL''S OLD STAND.) respectfully informus the public of New berry and vicinity, that he has purchased Mr. John 0. Peoples' stock of Jewelry, to which he will ADD A N~EW STOUX OF WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, AND FANCY ARTICLES. A specilty made in REPAIRING ALL ARTICLES IN TIS LINE. Thankful for the patronage conferred on him in the past, he respectfully solicits a continuance, with the assurance that every effort will be made to give satisfaction. Sep. 26, 39-tf. Drugs SV Fancy .Irticles. BILUE GLASS! Dry Goods, roceries, Sc. Fo wo U. So CHICK Respectfully call attention to their full FALL AIDWINTER STO(Ii, IN THE FOLLOWING LINES: Domestic and Dress Goods" Notions---Shawls -- Skirts --Blankets -- Ladies' and Gent's Un derwear Shoes Hats-- Clo thing--Saddlery, Harness and Leather --Woodenware- Cutlery --GROCERIES, &c.,. AT REDUCED PRICES FOR CASH, A full line of DOMESTIC GOODS, consist ing of Jeans, Cassimeres, Brown and Bleach-' ed Shirtings, Sheetings, Osnaburgs, Drill ing, Checked and Striped Homespun, Bed Ticking. Linsey, Flannel, Alpaca, Prints, &c. LADIES' WORSTED GOODS AT A.D BE LOw COST. A full and well selected line of Notions, Hosierv, Stationery, Ladies' Shawls, Boule vard Skirts, White and Colored Blankets, Ladies' and Gent's Underwear, Laundried and Unlaundried Shirts, Umbrellas, Trunks, Clothing and Hats. A full line of Men's, Ladies', Boys', Misses' and Children's Boots and Shoes. We make e, specialty of Cable Screw Shoes, which is the best Shoe for the money made in America. A full line of Saddlery and Harness at Factory prices. We have the agency for a larce Manufactory and, therefore, can fur nish anything in this line that our custom ers may desire. Sole, Harness and Whang Leather. Woodenware. Hollow-ware, Hardware, Nails, Table and Pocket Cutlery, Table and Tea Spoons. GROCERIES, consisting of Flour, Bacon, Lard, Hams, Sugar, Coffee, Rice, Soda, Starch, Ginger, Pepper, Tea, Molasses, Sy rup, Soap, Tobacco, Bagging and Ties. P. W. & R. S. CHICK. Sep. 26, 39-tt. Miscellaneous. J. B. LEONARD & 0., Corner of Pratt & Nance Streets, NEWBERRY, S. C. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 1obacco, Se rs, pes, &c1, Together with Of best brands and warranted. French and American CON FEC TIONE RIES, IN LARGE VARIETY. Together with SHELF GOODS for FAMILY USE. Mar. 28, 13-ly. BUGGIES, CARRIAGES AND HARNESS. Will keep a full supply of Single and Double Seat .BUGGIES, DOG CARTS, &c., on hand, And will PUT UP TO ORDER any in the latest styles and best material AT LOWEST CASH PRICES. Will also keep a supply of good and cheap HARNESS. OLD BUGGIES.and CARRIAGES REN OVATED and made to appear equal to new. Repairing done with neatness .and .de spatch. Fronting Jail, at Webb's old stand. J. TAYLOR & Co. Oct. 10. 41-3m. BARNARD'S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, 263 KING STREET, CHARLESTON, S, C, This is one of the largest and finest, galle ries in the South. New and costly imstru ments have been obtained; also, fine pho tographic furniture and scenic backgrounds. The work turned out of this Gallery cannot be surpassed either in finish or faithfulness r. arnard has had thirty-four years ex perience in the art, and is now prepared to do all styles of work. He attends personally to all sittings, and is determined none shall go away dissatis RICES HAVE BEEN REDUCED 25 PER CENT. A large assortment of frames and fittings for photographs on hand. Sep. 19, 38-6im. ELECTION NOTICE. OFFICE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Newberry, S. C., Nov. 6, 1877. An election will be held at Maybinton and Jalapa on the 18th December, 1877, for Townships Nos. 3 and 5, on the Fence Law, according to the terms of the Act of the General Assembly, approved June 7, 1877. The following managers are appointed : For Township No. 3-W. D. Hard;, Benj. Aughtrv and W. B. Oxner. For Tiownship No. 5-W. W. Riser, T. L. Reeder and John P. Kinard. L. B. MAFFiETT, Chairman. Z. P. MosEs, Clerk. No~v. 7, 45-5t. NOTICE. REDO CLOVER SEED for sale by 0ct4,43-f.J. N. MARTIN & CO. cotrn. THE STORY OF LIFE. An old farm house with meadow wide, And sweet rich clover on each side; A bright-eyed boy who looked from out The door with woodbine wreathed about, And wishes his one thought all day: "Oh! if I could but fly away From this dull spot the world to see, How happy, happy, happy, How happy I would be!" Amid the city's constant din, A man who around the world has been, Is thinking, thinking all day long, "Oh! if I could only trace once more The field path to the farm house door, The old green meadows could I see, How happy, happy, happy, How happy I would be!" xziginaz (for . FOE THE HERALD. The Way Jack Ridgel Made a Start; OR, The Curousness of Mankind. -0 BY -0 Many years ago, during ante bellum times, clustered together in the little room of a restaurant of one of our citiee, on a certain evening might have been seen a half dozen or so of lively young fellows, rollicking, sportive, frolic some chaps. There were book keepers, mechanics, clerks, &c., who had met together for the pur pose of passing away a few listless hours. It was at that season o: the year when business in the South has seemingly almost stop ped. Their hearts were light, and their pockets were empty. Mer rily sipped they their sherry cob blers and mint juleps, talking on as flippantly as if each had a mint of dollars. " Confound it, " said Harry Thomas, "I can't conceive why I was born so poor. Here I have been working for lo! these many years, and haven't saved a penny. hat the devil can a man do with ut the dollars? The. question ith me, however, is, how can I anage to make as much money s I want ?" "Make money," spoke up George icey. "I would like to know ow you would expect to make oney, except you go to work nd economize. Why, if you were o present a speculation, clear as he light that streams from that as fixture, who would pay any ttention to such a scapegrace as ou. No, man, to make it, you ust economize."~ "Suppose again," said Edward isher, a mechanic, "you were to nvent something of importance, wat would it be worth without the means of putting it before the orld ? I have now an invention f wonderfuil value, yet it is worth othing to me unless I could get ome one to aid me in bringing it efore the people." "Well, right here," chimed in Bill K6nnedy, a clerk, "I can say, have tried my best to get a raise n my salary.' I. have been atten tive, industrious, and yet there's oung Simpkins, a cousin of one of the firm, not half as competent s myself, and they've raised his salary $100. What do you think ld Thingumbob told me when I asked for higher wages; he could get more clerks than he wanted for less .than half he was paying me." "That's the way of the world," said Jack Ridgel, a young archi tect. "Well. come what may," ex claimed Charley Rogers, turning p a glass of' sherry cobbler. 'Here's to the better days that are coming," and he broke forth: "Let the world wag as it may, I'll be gay and happy still; Let me drink all night and drink all day, And the world can wag as it will." "0, my father had a noble house, He drove a coach and four; But he spent it all befose he died And left me deuced poor; But come it weal, or come it woe i'll float with every tide." "Hurrah ! for Rogers," chimed in Bill Spizer; "but all I have to say, boys, is, poverty's no crime, but its a confounded great bore and I'd like to get away f-rm it." "Yes," said Pete Havard, "whole families would like to do the same; but you see a chap can't reasona bly get away from it, and t.he best way is to look rich, walk rich and try to make people think you are rich." - "That's the idea, Pete," said Pat Donan. "To be considered rich without the trouble of bother ing about your riches. In other words to be a rich poor man." "Oh! that's all humbug," said iRidgel. "I would not give you a nickel for the shadow without the substance that it represented." "I've been thinking, boys," said -n who ha nlv been a listener up to this time-Mike Grilkins "that if a fellow- could get up a credit-for instance, the credit of being heir to some rich aunt or uncle, or that he had inherited some fortune coming to him from 1 away off,. and so spread it through the newspapers as -to make a sen sation, that he might probably take the advantage of it and make a fortune before it could be found out. My word for it the fools are not all dead yet." "Good idea! capital! for a little fun !" spoke up several. . "Now, boys," said Havard. "Lets get up a hoax. Lets get up a story and put it in several pa pers of character that Jack Ridge], our dignified young architect, has recently been informed that a large fortune has been left him in England, and that his counsel have left to investigate the matter. What say you ?" -Being considerably excited by the potent effects of mint juleps and sherry cobblers, and high up for sport, the party lost no time in concocting a sensational letter, of a fortune being left to Ridgel, and sent it to several respectable journals. In a short time a paragraph ap peared in a paper, of a great wind fall happening to one Jack Ridgel, residing in such and such a State. The editors of the home papers, like all other editors, eager for something sensational, happening to see it, picked it up, congratu lating the young man upor his luck. The news spread like fire in a prairie and became the general subject of conversition among Ridgel's acquaintance. "Have you heard the news?" said one mamma to certain visit ors one day. "No?" they simultaneously ex claimed. "Well, its in the papers that Jack Ridgel has fallen heir to a great fortune." "Jack Ridgel! Why be's a very nice man !" exclaimed the most of them. "1 don't much believe it," said a vinegar faced spinster of about 3 and 40, who was trying to pass for 3 and 20. "It's a trick in trade." "Well, it matters not," replied an interesting young lady in her teens. "I always admired Mr. Ridgel, and I hope it is so." In the meantime the band of jolly youngsters were enjoying the boax hugely, and aiding to spread it far and wide. The friends of Mr. Ridgel com plimented him on every side; but e honestly told them there was no truth in it; there was no foun dation for such a report. But the more positive he was in denying it-the stronger they believed it. In vain he protested. One day who should stop in his office but his bootmaker, to whom he owed a small sum. No doubt, thought Jack in a moment, he has heard of that infernal rumor and come to dun me. "Good morning, Mr. Ridgel good morning," said Roley, for that was his name. "Take a chair," said Ridgel. "I suppose you have come round for that bill of mine," while a smile rested on his countenance. "I beg your pardon," replied Roley. "You don't think for one moment that I would trouble you for so small a sum. Not having 'een you for some time, I thought as I was passing this way, I would stop and congratulate you on your good luck and request a contin uance of your patronage." '.'Well-really-my good sir," stammered Ridgel, "I am so hard up at the present, that it woul*d be impossible for me to patronize any body." "My dear sir," responded Roley; "I'm in no sort of a hurry for money now. So you see you can just call round and see my stock. Boots, shoes, gaiters of very finest material. At reasonable prices, too." Jack said nothing, but looked down at his feet, which reminded him that he did need a new pair of something. In a short time after this he met his tailor on the streets, who insisted with great importunity that he must call round and sup ply his wardrobe. Jack replied by saying that the rumor flying about was all a hoax, and that he had no money, not enough to buy the cheapest suit. "Never mind, never mind," said Walker, the tailor. "Come, go with me now and let me take your measure for a suit." Jack was aware of the poverty of his wardrobe, so he concluded to let fate take its course and complied with the request. One day, perhaps a month after the runwr got afloat, a gentleman blundered in his office appearing to be very much agitated. "Good morning, Mr. Ridgel." "Good morning, sir." Jack looked up at the man and wondered what he could wvant. "My dear sii," contined he, "I h.,,, from ood authority thal you have inherited a snug for tune, therefore you must have money ; and you very well know and should know that there is no thing like a good investment." "Yes, sir," replied Jack, "I am aware that if a man has money he should invest it with an eye to advantage." "Certainly, by all means, Mr. Ridgel. Now, sir, my name is James Hammond. I am hard pressed for money. I have been unfortunate in a cotton specula tion and I want $10,000. I could get it out of' the bank, but I pre for negotiating with a private in dividual for reasons. I own, my dear sir, in my own title, several houses and lots in this city. I must have the money. I propose now to sell you that splendid mansion on - St., give you a clean, good, valid title for it, if you will advance me $10,000 with in forty-eight hours." "I buy your house and lot ! I pay you down $10.000! Why, my dear sir, you must be dream ing. W-h-e-w ! I have not a, stiver in my pocket," and Jack fell back in his chair, passed his hand across his forehead, while big drops of sweat rolled down, and wondered "what next ?" "Never mind, sir, never mind, sir," said Hammond. "Keep cool, keep cool. That's the way men with money talk. Why, my dear sir, I tell you the house is worth every cent of $20,000, and in a year's time, with a little repair, will bring $30,000." Jack sat as silent as a statue, utterly dumbfounded. "Say done, sir," said Hammond, "and it's a bargain." Before Jack had time to open his mouth and say a word, Mr. Hammond had cleared the track and was off. But a brief time had elapsed and Jack was still sitting in his chair, laughing heartily to himself at the unprecedented effects of a boyish prank, when in walked a gentle man who seemed to be a little out of humor. "Mr. Ridgel," said he, stiffly bowing. "I presume you are the gentleman-" "Yes,- sir, that's my name," re plied Jack, rising. "Will you take a chair ?" "My name, sir, is Langley," re sponded the visitor, seating him self; and 'without any mnore pre liminaries, he continued, 'TI came to see you about a house that Mr. Hammond, wvhom I am informed has sold you. Now, I've been try ing to buy this same house for a full month back and could not suc ceed. I suppose, however, it's my own fault in not coming up promptly to Hammond's figures. I feei very much put out about it; but as I am to blame myself, and really want the property, I will give you $15,000 so as to insure its certainty now, and be done with it." Jack wvas somewhat of a fatalist and tolerably shrewd too. He saw that matters had assumed a shape, he had nothing to do with, and from which it appeared he could not escape. So he succumbed to fate; resolving to make the best of circumstances and put on as good a face as he.possibly could. "My dear sir," replied Jack, some what slowly, "you can have the house for $15,000. So far as I am individually concerned any other house will suit me as 'well. I am not ready to go to housekeeping yet awhile." "Very well, sir," replied Lang Iy, "I accept the propositionl." In the course of the day, Jack saw Hammond, arranged the pa pers, afterwards saw Langley, transferred over his claim, received his money and settled with Ham mond within the forty-eight hours. "Five thousand dollars clean as a whistle, made by a hoax!" ex claimed Jack aloud, as he sat in his own room, after the matter was all over. "Whbat strange events in human life," thbought he ; "to day a beggar, to-morrow a lord." "Well, well-the world must turn upon its axis. And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails; And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering wind shifts, shift our sails." Jack was not the man to be pampered up by a freak of luck. No, no-he was a cool, politic, shrewd fellow, withal reticent. Many folks, fastidiously honest, especially when things don't come n their wvay, could probably look at the mote in Jack's eye, forget ful of the beams in their own, and blame and censure him for what he had done. Jack was not to blame, he had protested most strongly against .the hoax; de clared it a humbug ; asserted that he had - no relatives in England ; yet the gullible world swallowed it and nevertheless his denials, pushed on to him credit. Like all mankind-say what may be said -when one of them is shrewd and keen, and the crank of fortune turns in his iavor, if be is sagacious enough to see it, he silently but atchfuly a.nd cautiously lets it turu, taking advantage of ever3 revolution, until the proper mo ment, when he suddenly stops, t< take a survey and see if it need greasing. Every day brought piles of let ters, suggesting this investmen1 and that investment. Among the number received was one from a large banking house, presided over by an old friend of his father's stating that if he would deposil the supposed fortune in their insti tution they would render it pro. fitable to him. Different kinds of stock was -presented before him. The letter was closed by a post script from the president, that he had known his father and family well and for this reason offered him his services. - Jack was overwhelmed and sur prised, and in the honesty of his heart wrote back to him imme diately that he had not heard of his fortune; that it was all a hoax and that he had no money to de posit. In a brief time he received an answer assuring him that they had no misgivings as to the ex pected fortune, and would willing ingly take the risk of it, provided he would transfer all his right and title in it. They mentioned a par ticular kind of railroad stock which required no deposit, but a small advance on shares at long inter vals, and that they would take great pleasure in placing to his credit one thousand shares, ad vancing the amount required, by his acceptance of their proposi tion. That he could sell his shares at any time should he change his mind without having occasion to trouble himself. If he was surprised at the first letter, he was more so at this. He hardly knew what to write. He concluded, however, to Write that he acceded to the proposition, leaving the management of affairs to themselves- His position was embarrassing. Long notices came out in the papers. Friends came in upon him congratulating him. Ladies besieged him on every side, at his office, in the streets, by let ters to contribute to this and to that. Men with loig lists of sub. scription worried his life out of him. Little scented notes with invitations to parties, picnics, soi rees, matinees, and with the com pliments of so and so, fell around him thick as leaves in Vallambro sa's vale. To escape from his importuners e shut up his office and took his departure for a period. In the course of his travels he stopped for a day or two in the city where was located the bank ing house which bad requested him to deposit the money of his supposed fortune. He called on the President, as the old friend of his father, and was received in the most gracious manner. After a long conversation, in which the President gave a de tailed account of his acquaintance with his father, it drifted, by some means, to the rumors in circula tion, and before Ridgel had time to ma~ke an explanation, the Fres ident said he regretted exceed ingly that he had not placed t< his credit 2,000 shares instead 0: 1,000. "There has been," said he "a great rise in the stocks, and ] must say, apologising for what ] have done, that we have taker the liberty of selling your shares.' At this Jack was thunderstruck e started back, but he rallied ir a moment. "Oh ! you need not get excited,' exclaimed the President. "I as sure you, sir, you have been paic handsomely." "Would you have the pleasure sir, to let me know what th4 amount is that is credited to me,' exclaimed Jack, somewhat agita "Certainly, sir, certainly, sir,' said the President. "With pleas ure," and he stepped out of Lb< private room to the bookkeeper and in a few moments he brough in on a piece of paper $20,000. Ridgel had composed himself and was so far master of himsel as to return his sincere thanks t< the President for the great confi dence they had in him, and for th4 trust and kindness they had ex hibited in investing for him an< making such a handsome return. "Now, sir," said the President "would be happy to invest fol you again." "Certainly, sir," replied Jack "I have the greatest confidence iu your house, and you may rest as sured, my dear, sir, tbat you shal be favored with the continuanci of my patronage." Jack left the house with joyou feelings. iIe had become the mae ter of a competency by a strang concatenation of circumstances, ui which he had but little band. I fortune sufficient to satisfy a mod erate minded man was made with out a dollar of capital; grown U; like a mushroom from the grounc from a mere sportive, rollicksom' hoax. Rumors were no w afloat at horn of the speculations Jack had mad 'befor he left, as well as the larg profit he had made abroad on stocks. In the meantime his young friends began to be somewhat jeal ous and envious of his success. As soon as Jack returned they waited on him and told him they were very sorry of the little hoax they had perpetrated, and really did not mean that he or any one else should believe it. "I cannot say what you did it for," said Jack. "I protested against it, but you persistently persevered, and published it in the papers. It was your act with out my approval." "Well, that is all so," responded the spokesman of the party; "but you knew it was a hoax and should have treated it as such," "I have denied it all the time," said Jack ; "but I am riot respon sible for the consequences." "Well, we admit we were cul pable in originating such a thing. It was very foolish in us, Jack," continued the spokesman. "I am not here to discuss-wheth er it was foolish or not. But, be it as it may, gentlemen, I am un der great acknowledgments to you for your foolishness," replied Jack. "Well, to be plain, Jack," con tinued the spokesman, "we have come to tell you ; we feel it to be our duty to correct this thing and we intend to do so through the papers, not attaching any blame to you, but rather to ourselves." "You can do, gentlemen, just as you please," replied Jack. "It originated with you and it may end with you. It has done me no harm." In a few days afterward a no tice appeared in the papers that the great fortune which Mr. Ridgel was to have inherited was all a hoax and had been done by a par ty of young men at a hilarious meeting, in meresport. "Ah 1" said this one and that one, "I knew it was all humbug. I was satisfied of it." The bubble had bursted. Persons that had noticed him previously, now snubbed him. Jack cared nothing for this. He was perfect ly independent now, as indepen dent as a wood sawyer. Every day a dun in the shape of a letter came through the post office, or perhaps some young man called in at his'office with a com pliment to the effect that Mr. So and-so would be very much obliged to him for liquidation of his ac count, as he was sorely pressed for money. Jack did not owe much, but had been for reasons a trifle more extravagant than had been his custom. Jack settled the doubts of his solvency by paying off every bill presen ted. "Well, well, who would have thought," said Bill Kennedy, one evening when the party were as sembled together who bad perpe trated the hoax, "that things would have turned out as they have ?" "Yes, to think of it !" spoke up Charley Faber. "The idea of a man's making a fortune out of a simple hoax ! Such is luck, sucb is fortune." "Well, be it as it may, I am dis posed to- think," said Havard, "that Ridgel should divide what he has made with us." "Gentlemen," exclaimed Fisher, "Ridgel is not to be blamed ; we are to blame. The idea of his di viding what he has honestly made, through and by our foolishness, would be very foolish in him ; and more than this, he won't. Some of you call it luck ; I tell you now luck has nothing to do with it. We played into the hands of Ridgel in sport, as we thought, a hoax on the public; the public, as they do with everything, swallowed it ; and Ridgel, being bantered, took up the cards, played them well and won." Jack Ridgel betook himself to the Great West, married a woman who was not afraid to lay her hands to the wheel and ply the shuttle, purchased a fine farm and turned his attention to tilling the soil. Being a man of good com mon sense and fine, practical bus iness capacity, everything pros pered and flourished around him. To-day he is the father of seven children, the eldest of whom is Darned Hoax. MORAL. Hundreds of people are accus tomed to think and to say about men who have made fortunes, when they contrast their own cir cumstances i ith them, "It's all luck." Here we take the liberty of saying, that thousands upon thousands of persons have had better chances to make a fortune than the hero, Jack Ridgel-or Girard, or Vanderbilt, or Astor, Lorillard, Stewart or Peabody but they have played their cards badly and lost. In the plain lan guage of a country parson, "In tis life the making of money is just like a game of seven up: you must save your tens and look out fr game and never beg when you hold a good hand ; while playing manou hand recollect lowo counts as ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of S1.0O per square (one inch) for first insertion, and 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. Donble column advertisements ton per cent. on above. SNotices of meetings, obituaries and tributes of respeet, same rates per square as ordinarf advertisements. Special Notices in Local column 15 cents per line. Advertisements not marked with the num ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid, and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adver tisers, with liberal deductions on above rates. -: 0 JOB PIX TIXG~ DONE WITH -NEATNESS AND DISPATCH. TERMS CASH, woll as high, if it's only a trump. If the Devil stocks your cards, just play 'em honest, and when it comes to your deal always try to get a winning hand. If you should chance to turn Jack once or twice, call it "lucky,"' but don't forget to remember, turning Jack is un certain business and will never do to bet on. In a word, manage your own affairs-consult nobody. It matters not, what you hold, whether all trumps, half trumps or no trumps, always economise them, and play them well, and in the long run you will be bound to wvin. THE VALUE OF PRINTERS' INK. It is not only, as the poet says, ,leasant to see one's name in print, iut it is withal profitable, as is attest :d by the experience of all systematic tdvertisers. A striking illustration of ~his fact has just come under our own bservation in an authentic commiuni !ation from one of the largest, if not ac ually the largest advertiser, this coun ,ry can boast. And since he has ever