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THE WORKER TO THE
DRE&MYER.
Fling away idle fancies,
They but weaken heart and brain
Break the pleasant dreamy fetters,
Of romasnce's shining chain.
Come out from the mysty kingdom
Tbou bastUlDgered there too long,
Come out girded as for battle,
Armor true and spirit strong.
Sit no longer by the waters
Harken to their murmurs sweet
Up! while yet the morning shineth
Then go forth With earnest feet!
Cast away the idle dreaming!
Work with ardor, willing, brave,
For, oh, dreamer! life is actiori;
Aid to act-a duty brave.
Ste*p and ragged is thvemountain,
Yet the faithful toilers say,
Wben they gain its hallow'd summit,
"Blessed was our weary way."
So to thee, when thou hast battled
Bravely, nobly, for the right
Will they labor, though a burden,
Seem, with sweet content, but light.
Truth and error wage a warfare,
ODaustt In this world of ours;
We have need of champions fearless
Ome from dreamland's rosy bowers.
Cast away the Idle fascies,
They will camber thee in life,
Be henWeorth a warrior mighty
Earnest in a glorious strife!
HE WANTS A MOTHER-INO
LAW.
ated by clawing out her antagonist's
eye, without Susan being present, I
as in duty bound, to prevent hos- I
tilities. In revenge of the injury
sustained by the feathered biped, E
the luckless expectant plumeless
one was smnmarily dismissed and i
disinherited in favor of me, her i
lawful and "beloved nephew," as
the old lady styled me in her will. s
May be, some thought of old love t
for marrying my father, came back, t
as such thoughts often do, and visit I
those in death who in life have a
sternly repelled them. Be this as
it may, I suddenly found myself a r
rich man, just when, I felt that
riches, without Mary Somers, were c
valueless. I pensioned poor Susan, I
and also the cat and the parrot, 1:
who, being annuitants, lived, I need v
not say, to a good old age. My v
aunt's-legacy, still invested in the t
funds, formed a comfortable pro
vision, and removed the spur of ne- v
cessity from my professional efforts. o
One day I received a letter from v
John Tolmer saying- that he felt b
very uneasy about his only daugh- s
ter's state of health. "She has had v
a severe attack of scarlatina in the
spring, and, probably from wanting a
a mother's watchful care," these t]
words were written very tremulous- si
ly, "had never since properly re
gained her strength." He had i
sent her to town under thecare*of;g
her aunt, Mrs. Willis, whoresided in I
-street; would I call to see her, w
and give my opinion of her case I? v
"Of course I will!" said I to my- I
self. "Poor little thing !" She's o:
about ten years old I suppose.- k
Better have to deal with a girl of s]
that age, who knows nothing of o:
nerves, than with a fine grown up d
young lady-I hate young ladies- t
and then Mary's child !" b
So without waiting even to finish al
reading a debate on the medical h
charities' bill, I set off to go to Mrs.
Willis'. She lived in a nice com r<
fortable house, and was a nice, com
fortable looking lady herself, with li
a matronly but not a motherly ex t<
pression of countenance; for al- e
though a widow she had no chil- h
dren. And mother-joy, as the Ger- al
mans beautifully call it, gives an n
expression to the dullest face, to i
plainest features, which no other b:
emotion can ever produce.
"My niece,'' she said, "I fear, doc
tor, is very ll; her strength has 10
failed so much lately. And yet she ej
has been brought up in a very ni
healthy retirement-she has never ki
even been at aball." 'i
"A ball !" I exclaimed. "Why, N
madam, how old is the child ?" pl
"Seventeen, doctor." - t
"Is iL possible that John Tolmer it
can have a daughter so old?i I.t i
seems but the other day-" ol
The door opened, and there en- 'w
tered, walking feebly and slowly, 0
in touching contrast to her extreme n
youth, the prettiest young creature
I had ever seen, since-well, no s
matter. When she saw me she ~
started with real agitation-not ~
with nervousness. No, no ; Annie, P
though she was seventeen, knew k
nothing about nerves. t4
"This is Dr. Torrens, your papa's "
friend, my dear, who is so kind as
to visit you," said Mrs. Willis, as
she arranged the sofa cushions.
I approached her, took her little,
hot, transparent hand, and led her
to the sofa, on which she sank ex- a
hausted. Twenty years, seemedito
have rolled back ; the child wasb
very like her mother-so like in the
expression of her soft gray eyes
that I had to close mine before~ I
could dispel the illusion.
WhenfrstlIsaw the childlI did5
not think she could recover. Her
cheeks were so thin, her eyes so a
bright, with that suffering, anxious
expression outlooking from their
depths, which is seen in goung dy b
ing persons. She was very gooda
and patient, submitting with the
utmost sweetness to every needful
remedy; and after a time I saw her
revive, and begin to grow stronger a
every day.
It often surprised me to see with s
what pleasure the child used to lis
ten to my long stories of adventures o
in foreign lands; and while Mrs- a
Willis' knitting or netting, or cro- ?
chet, or whatever the work might g
be, continued to progress quite
regularly, Annie's embroidery was
sure to fall from her fingers, and r,
lie unheeded on her lap, while I a
told her of my adventures in the a
deserts of Africa or in the wilds of r
America. '
At length she became quite well ; s
her father-no wonder !-was long- ,
ing for her return, and I felt a cu- ,
rious kind of sinking sensation a
when one Monday morning I
knocked at her aunt's door, and
thought that the following Wednes
day was fixed for their departure for
the north. I was ushered, as usual, 1
into the drawing-room ; Annie was I
not there, but Mrs. Willis soon
cme in. -
"Well, ma'am," I said, after the
isual salutations, "how is my young
riend to day ?"
"Indeed, doctor, I have just been
.colding her."
"Very wrong, ma'am," I said
estily. "Exceedingly imprudent,
ndeed, she ought not be agitated."
"Oh, doctor! it was not exactly
colding, in the common accepta
ion of the word. I was merely
rying to prevent the dear child
rom giving way to excessive grief
t parting."
"How? I don't understand; are
Lot y,ou to accompany her home ?"
"Oh, yes; but you, doctor. The
nly reason she would assign for
er excessive grief (she has done
ittle else but cry since Saturday)
7as that 'Doctor Torrens was so
ery kind she could not bear to
hink of leaving him."'
Forty-eight and seventeen! it
ras a fearful disparity! And yet,
ld fool that I was I felt something
rithin my bosom give a sudden
ound-something that had not
tirred there since that gloomy day
rhen I bade farewell to Mary.
."If I thought, Mrs. Willis," I
aid; "if I could have thought that
ie dear child would marry me, I'm
ire I' have asked her long ago."
Mrs. Wiilis blushed, and was go
ig I believe to say something an
ry, when Annie herself came in.
he sQft gray eyes were indeed red
ith weeping, but ere that inter
iew was over they smiled again.
[rs. Willis discreetly took herself
f, and if Annie's aunt did not
now exactly what I said and what
3e answered, I do not think any
ne else has a claim to do so. In
eed, all that I can recollect dis
netly is, that the blushing, trem
ling little thing said a good deal
bout papa, and- sent me away the
appiest man breathing.
"Papa," John Tolmer, my own
al old friend, did not say "No."
As soon as he found that his dar
ng and mine was really so silly as
> love, for himself and his old
-orld stories, him who had loved
er mother, he gave his consent;
ad I think, nay, I am sure, that
ty Annie does not repent the day
at made her th~e old doctor's
ride.
DON'T QUARREL-People talk of
>vers quarrels as rather pleasant
;isode-probably because they are
>t quarrels at all. She pouts, he
sses ; he frowns, she coaxes. It
half play, and they know it.
[atrimonseriously if married peo
le ever truly forgive each other af
r the first falling out. They gloss
over ; they kiss and make it up ;
ie wound apparently heals, but
ay as some of those terrible
ounds given in battle do-to break
ait again at some unexpected mo
tent.
The man who has sneered and
id cruel things to a sensitive wo
tan has never her own heart again.
he woman who has uttered re-.
roaches to a man can never be ta
an to his bosom with the same
mderness as before these words
ere spoken. The two people who
Lst never quarrel are husband and
ife. One may fall out with a kins
tan, and make it up and be friends
am.
The tie of blood is a strong one,
id affee;tion may return after it
as flown away; but love, once it
as been banished, is a dead and
ried thing. The heart may ache,
u.t it is with hopelessness. it
ay be impossible to love any one
se, but it is more impossible
>restore the old idol to its
apty niche:. For a word or two,
>r sharpening of the wits, for
moments self-assertion, two peo
le have often been miserable for
fe. For whatever there may be
efore, there are no lovers' quarrels
fter marriage.
A short time ago, a man in Leeds,
ngland, died from the effects of
rinking nineteen glasses of rum,
hich were paid for by a chimney
weep, on condition that the man
!Quld drink them all one after an
ther. The keeper of the place was
rrested and fined two hundred and
fty dollars, and the chimney sweep
ed from the city.
One morning lately, a young man
eturning from St. Louis to :Rich
iond, with his mother, suddenly
prang through a window of a rail
oad car, after leaving Washington.
he train, which was going at a
peed of thirty-five miles an hour,
ras stopped, and the young man
ras picked up fatally injured. It is
pposed he was insane.
"Why, Ichabod, I thought you
ot married mor'n a year ago."
'Well, Aunt Jerush, it was talked of,
>ut I~ found out that the girl and all
ier folks were opposed to it, and so
:just gave 'om all the mitten and
at the thing drop.
~inelaneons.
A CJIINESE SOLOMON.
An unusual case, showing the
fertility of resource and the quick
ness of thought of the bettex
classes of Chinese is reported b3
the North China Herald from Na
kin. During the Teaping rebellion
a married Chinaman resident in the
city, joined a regiment which was
ordered for service against the re
bels. He did not return at the close
of the struggle, and nothing being
heard of him for several years after
ward, his wife believing herself a
widow, listened to the advances of
another man who professed love for
her, and who pressed his suit so
ardently that she consented to join
her lot with his. They wont before
the proper authorities, were made
husband and wife, and lived to.
gether in conjugal happiness
at all events they were happy.
This continued for a year or two,
when the first husband presented
himself, alive and well, and demand
ed the restoration of his wife..
"Oh, no," said No. 2, "you left
her, remained away for years, no
body heard of you, she thought you
dead and mourned for you. We
are married.now, and here are the
papers.
No. 1, not having lieard of the
example of Enoch Arden, probably,
still clamored for his wife, and it
was ultimately decided to take the
matter before the Chensien. The
magistrate listened attentively to
both sides of the story, and at first
appeared puzzled what course to
take. The papers produced by the
second husband were legal, but the
first husband was obdurate and
would not yield. At length the
magistrate told them to leave the
wife in his hands for ten days, and
then both to come back again for
his decision. This was agreed to.
About the fifth or sixth day the
magistrate in great haste sent for
the two men, and with a mournful
countenance informed them that
the wife had been suddenly smitten
with an illness which had proved
fatal, and that she was dead ; and
he asked the first husband whether
he would take away the body and
provide for the funeral. This man
demurred, said he wanted a living
wife, not a dead one, and should
have nothing more to do with the
matter. Turning to the other, the
magistrate put the same question to
him, saying -that one of them must
remove the body. The man said
he was very poor, but the deceased
had been agood wife to him ;they
had loved each other dearly, and,
cost what it might, he would raise
the money and pay for the burial.
"Very well," said the magistrate,
"then here she- is-take her away
with you."
And drawingaside a curtain show
ed the.astonished men, the wife,
standing and living and in good
health, before them. It being clear
that the first husband really cared
nothing for her, she willingly abided
by the magistrate's method of set
.tling thie compli~eatdn. The only
drawback to this stoiy is, that we
are unable tb hand down to pos
terity, in plain English, the name of
this Chinese Solomon.
ANECDOTE OF YMDERBILT.-Van
derbilt's own statement of his first
real success is this: He was a
young man on Staten Island. He
was master of rowing. He was
athletic strong and daring. One
night a stranger came to the land
ing, and wanted to be rowed across
to Gowanus. The night was dark
and stormy, and the wind blew a
gale. Not a boatman could be
found who would leave. The land
lord said: "There is nobody who
can row you over but Corn. Van
derbilt"-for so he was called. Van
derbilt was found, and in ans~wer to
the request, replied: 'It's pretty
rough; but if you'll give me ten
dollars, lie down in my boat and
not stir, or do just what I bid you,
I'll try it." .He rowed the man over
and back in safety. As soon as he
landed at Staten Island, the stran
ger said: "Young man, how would
you like to run an opposition steam
boat ?." "Nothing would suit me
better," was the reply. ''Have you
pluck enough to obey orders ?" "I
have," was the response. "Suppose
I should tell you to run into a steam
boat-what would you do ?" "Run
her down." The bargain was seal
ed amid the storm: that night on
the island, and Vanderbilt entered
upon his well-known career as a
steamboat mani.
A little boy, four years old, was
poisoned the other day in Williams
burg, by eating. a piece of bread
and butter with strychnine on it,
which had beeni prepared for th
,rats.
ALWAYS GOING TO DO.
A writer in the Rural New York
er, says some men are always going
to do great things, but never begin.
I once had a neighbor-and in fact
may have some of the same sort
now-who was perpetually telling
what he was going to do, conse
quently never had time to do any
thing. He would get up early in
the morning, draw on a heavy pair
of boots, with pants tucked inside;
then to see him start out for the
barn, making everything fly right
and left, one might suppose him to
be one of the driving sort. So 'e
was, for about an hour or less, or
until called to breakfast, after which
he would light his pipe, stroll over
to his nearest neighbor, or hang
over the fence and talk to every
passer-by respecting the same old
story of what he was going to do
to morrow, or next week. It is
needless to say that my neighbor
soon found out-that farming was a
poor business.
I can call to mind a number of
similar instances where the best if
resolutions failed to bring success.
It is well enough for a farmer to
get up early and "storm about," a
little in the morning; but if he lacks
the "sticktoitiveness," all his blister
will not amount to much in a longr
run.
Neat, cozy homes, good gardens,
orchards and other home comforts
are never obtained by these going
to-do-sort of folk. Of late, I have
read a little but seen a great deal
in my agricultural papers about
farmers' conventions held in various
Western States, and at which there
has been much speech-making and
stupendous resolves made to do
great things. Perhaps the time and
money spent at these gatherings
could not.be put to a better use;
but when reading the reports of
the same I cannot help thinki"g of
my old neighbor who got up every
morning with a good resolution to
do something the. next day, which
of course never.ame. -
The best wlnto ehance the price
of farm produettigto improve. the
quality; for a good--article never
goes begging a customer anywhere.
If|farming don'tpay,whynotquitand
try something else? There is certain
ly no compulsion in these matters
in this country. The same rule may
be applied to allikinds of business,
and ifa man cannot afford to unload
vessels at thirty cents an hour, step
aside and let somebody else who
wants the place take it. Talking
over one's troubles seldom makes
them lighter, but a little. extra ef
forts, in a m~uscular way, may enable
us to carry a good heavy load with
out being crushed.
RUNNIN A IIocoMoIv-"If you
could run an engine on this road
you could on any other.road, could
you not ?" asked a reporter of a
railroad engineer.
"Yes, run the engine, 'but I
couldn't make time."
"Why not ?'"
"Because -I wouldn't know- the
road. A stranger can't go on to a
road he has never run, over -and
make time till he has learned the
inns and outs of it. Didn't you no
tice how we ran when we came out
of town? Well, we didn't run so
fast after that at any time: That
was our 'race ground-' There are
spots on all roads where you have
to run like thunder to make up for
lost time at other places. When
we come up 'three mile grade' we
didn't go over ten or twelve miles
an hour, so we had to make it up
at other places. Did you never
hear a conductor say sometimes
when his train was late that he had
a new engineer who didn't know the
road thoroughly'? That's all there
is to it. In other respects one en
gineer is the same 'in principle as
another- But there can't be two of
them that'll, work alike; an engine
has as many tricks as a horse. Some
is as docile as a sheep, and others
just cuts up like thunder all the
while. Some of 'em will carry wa
ter as steady as a clock, others will
be a heavin' it up and down like a
sea-sick man- Some fire easy and
some light; others eat up all you
fling in, and then don't make any
steam. I'll take that engine we
came in with and run her forever,
just as she is. The next man that
comes after me can't do anything
with her, until he fixes her as he
wants her, and so it goes. He'll
swear the valves are set wrong, or
anything, so he can get a chance to
tinker at her-"
A hired girl in Delaware, in order
to get rid of the task of milking
seven cows, set the barn on fire, and
was sent to State prison for arson.
It is reported that the lake ie
at Lapoi-te, ind., is twenty inches
tick; and so clear that printoan be
read thmnugh f
DEWDROPS OF WISDOM.
Most people would succeed in
small things, if they were not
troubled with great ambitions.
It is far easier to acquire a for
tune like a knave than to expend it
like a gentleman.
Where true fortitude dwells, loy
ality, bounty, friendship and fidelity
may be found.
Never despise humble service
-when large ships ran aground,
little boats may pull them off.
If you are a coward, and friends
commend you for your courage, it
isn't of you they speak; they take
you for another.
In seeming opposition to the
natural course of things, some men
rise by their gravity, and others
sink by their levity.
Buy not,, sell not, where self-re
spect is bartered, for that once lost,
the mainspring of honor is rusted
and decayed.
It is so ungenial to the 'human
mind to do nothing, that if a good
occupation be not provided, men
will occupy themselves perilously,
as in gaming and drinking.
Plain men -think handsome wo
men want passion, and plain women
think young .men want politeness;
dull writers think all readers de
void of taste, and dull readers
think witty writers devoid of all
brilianicy.
If you love others, they wili love
you. If you speak kindly to them,
they will speak kindly to you. Love
is repaid with love, and hatred with
hatred. Would-you hear a sweet
and pleasing echo, speak sweetly
and pleasantly yourself.
Fortune and futurity are not to
be guessed at.
A wiseman aims at nothing out
of his reach.
A flow of words is no proof of
wisdom.
Begin nothing until you have
considered hiw1jshi~he'fnihed.
A CENsE BANQUEr.-The reports
of the last annual banquet *of the
Chinese residents of San.Francisco
make entertaining reading. The
perfection to which the Chinese
have carried their cooking was a
matter of surprise to the American
guests present. During the first
course an orange was laid at the
plate of each guest. The orange
itself seemed like any other orange,
but, on being cut open, was foun~d
to contain within the -ind five kinds
of delicate jellies. One was at first
puzzled to explain how the jellies
got in, and, giving up that train of
reflection, was in a worse quandary
to know how the pulpy part of the
orange got out. Colored eggs were
also served, in the inside of which
were found nuts, jellies, meats and
confectionery. When a Celestial
was asked to explain this legerde
main of cookery, he expanded his
mouth in a hearty laugh, and shook
his head and chucklingly said "Meli
can man heap smart ; why he no
findee out ?" Every luxury of the
"Melican. man's market," was served
-turkey, chicken, quail, goose,
duck, pigeons, prairie chicken, deer,
antelope, and numberless other
game were served, together with the
usual allowance of champagne and a
dozen varieties of imported 'and
California wines. Tea, coffee and
rice brandy were the principal
drinks indulged in by the Chinaman.
The tea was such as one seldom
gets outside of a Chinese restaurant.
The coffee was good and the rice
brandy particularly delightful. A
Chinese wine, resembling chain
pagne, was also introduced, which
bad a peculiar odor like the scent
of roses.
A gentleman owned a farm in
New Jersey. It had been long in
the family. Embarrassments com
pelled him to sell, and the farm
was put up at auction. He felt so
bad about the sale that he could
not attend it, but sent over his
head servant. On his return the
master said: "Well, John, was the
farm sold'?" "Yes, sir." "Did it
sell well ?" "It went very low."
"Who bought it?" "I did." "You,
John! Where did you get your
money'?" "I laid up my wages
since I worked for you." "Well,
John, Tfltell you what I will do.
As soon as you get the title to
your property T'll come and work
for you, and buy the farm back."
A man in Chicago got mad at his
horses and tried to kill them from
starvation. He starved three of
them to death, and nearly starved
two others before his barbarity was
discovered.
Michael McCorick fell from a
bucket in a shaft of the Delaware
and Lackawanna Tunnel, at Bergen
HiIll redently, and was kdied.
Silence igthe fittest reply to folly.
A SCENE OF PATIENT SOR.
ROW.
In the town of Scranton, Pa.,
where the mills and furnaces -thih
winter are either stopped or rn
upon half-time, many minets and
laborers are out of work, and their
families suffer-as thousands of the
poor do this season from a similar
cause. One who visited Scranton
late last fall, and saw the destitution
in the miners'homes, speak of wives
and mothers cursing the names of
the employers, and rebelling re
vengefully against their fate. As a
moving contrast to these, he de
scribes one humble dwelling where
he found a calmer and more Chris
tian grief.
Poverty was here, and want and
woe; but it seemed as if the hand,
daily and hourly losing its strength,
was daily and hourly giving that
strength to keep it warm Pnd clean.
The fire that burned was faint and
flickering, and the room was miser
able and mean; but the presence of
a mother and the pure, white face
of her child wrought up a picture
which, despite its dreary coloring
and terrible background, was as
sweet and touching as it was painful
and sad.
There was no defiance on the
tender countenance of that poor
woman by the fire; it was upturned
to ours as we entered, and we learn
ed of its sad misery through its
tears. Poverty had destroyed her
comfort, her happiness, her home;
but poverty had not robbed her of
her womanhood; it was there as a
bright and holy spark, burning still
in the midst of her despair,
She was not altogether destitute,
nor was the house entirely without
food. - But she said, faintly raising
her thin hand and pointed finger,
as if the terrible thing existed to
her vision in tangible form
"The winter! the winter !"
"Have you any other children
save that little one?" I asked.
Without a word the woman tired
ly arose, and taking up the lamp,
walket into an adjoining room. I
followed her. There was- a bed
standing in the corner, a bed that
was old, but clean; she pulled down
the covering gently, as-if not to dis
turb the sleeper, and disclosed the
face of a little girl.
For several momenta there was
no sound, but I knew, as shie look
ed upon .the face of her slumbering
darling, she thought of the cold,
freezing wiinter yet to come. Her
feelinge were too strong for her to
resist; the lamp shook like an aspen
leaf in her haind and she burst into
tears.
A VERY NATmuL MISTAE.-Max
Adeler offers this: Always cork
up your-catsup bottles tightly. Go
ing out on the steam cars the other
.day, we observed a manplace a bot
tle tomato of catsup,neck downward,
in the rack above his seat. Pre
sently a friend came in, and in a
few moments the friend, who was
cleaning his nails with a knife, in
troduced the subjectof a third term
for Grant. The discussion gradual
ly became warm, and as thue excite
ment increased the man with the
knife gesticulating violently with
the hand containing the weapon, as
he explained his views on the ques
tion. Meantime the cork jolted out
of the bottle overhead, .and the cat
sup dropped down over the owner's
head and coat and collar without
his perceiving the fact. Directly a
nervous old lady on the opposite
seat, who caught sight of the red
stain, and imagined it was blood,
instantly began to scream "murder"
at the top of her voice. As the pas
sengers, conductors, and brakemen
rushed up, she brandished her um
brella wildly, and exclaimed: "Ar
rest that man there! Arrest that
willin! I see him do it. -I see
him stab the other other one with
his knife till the blood spurted
out Oh, you wretch! Oh, you.
willlinous rascal, to take human life
in that scandalous manner, I see
you punch him with the knife, you
butcher, you! and I'll swear it agin
you in court, too, you awdacious
rascal !" They took her into the
rear car and soothed her, while the
victim wiped the catsup off his coat.
But that venerable old woman will
go down to the silent grave with
the conviction that she witnessed
in those cars, one of the most awful
and sanguinary encounters that-has
occurred since the affair between
Cain and Abel.
A number of men, while hunting
in Alabama, drank too freely of
whiskey, got into a.fight, and one
of them was killed -and two others
were mortally wounded.
A landlady, in Jersey City, lately
bought-a piano at.auction -for-four
dollars; and sixty thee.cente "t
iteb~~m ires"
shefortlierbedsifi fing..i. rs
HOW MANUFACTORfES ARE
ESTABLISHED.
In a single small town in illinois,
a town containing, perhaps, twen
ty-five hundred dwelling houses,
there are at least six score mann
factories of all grades. Vast num
bers of agricultural implements
are annually made there, and are
shipped South to places that ought
to be able to make them them
selves. This busy Illinois village
makes machinery, f u r n i t u r e,
gloves and mittens; has whole
streets of fiouring mills, and sends
into the market all varieties of
paper. At the same time it is
prosperous in an agricultural sense.
It managed to ship more than
three hundred thousand bushels
of grain, nearly-a million pounds
of butter, and thousands of cattle
and swine, during the year just
past. It is needless to say that
nioney is plenty and circulates
freely in that town in Illinois;
that the streets are handsome, well
paved and lighted, and lined with
elegant residences; and that the
savings banks are numerous and
in good condition. And this town
would serve as an illustration of
the condition of thousands in
the Eastern and Western States,
and the incident is related by
an exchange to show that every
place ought to have its own
manufacturing establishments and
keep at home the money that
is sent to other localities for the'
articles. The paper tells us that
these establishments are generally
started on a small scale and grow
up to be important. It says that
a person begins by making a few
plows for his neighbors, year by
year his business assumes larger
proportions, until he has a mam
moth factory and supplies a dozen
counties. An industrious family,
desirous of getting on in the world,
makes clothing, or gloves, or hats.
The profits of one year are used
to enlarge the business, and in a
few twelvemonths another "mann
factory" is established. This is
the way in which prosperous towns
are built up. .It is because every
one works, turning his or her in
dustry into a hundred different
channe,is for the common weal,
that such thriving communities
as the Illinois town are springing
up by scores and hundreds. It is
very easy to build up such com
munities in every village or town.
MUCH ADO ABOUT- IT.-There
was lately an amusing example of
the red tape of bankruptcy in Pitts
burgh, Pa. The trustees of a bank
rupt estate were paying creditors
a dividend of ten per cent.,
amounting in all to $220,000.
John E. James was a workman in
the bankrupt mill before it closed,
and the firm was indebted to him
$50.11. As James was an employee,
$50 wa~s a preferred debt, and im
mediately paid, leaving eleven
cents as a claim against the estate.
James was therefore entitled to
ten per cent. of eleven cents, which
is one cent as nearly as our cur
rency will split. In order to set
tle this little balance according to
law, six cents were paid out in no
tifying Yames, and a two-cent
stamp was put on the order to pay.
The whole business was finished
up with strict legality, and the
check was worded so as to con
form with the bankruptcy act.
Eight cents were expended to pro
duce one, according to law, and
this is how the money goes when
a man is thrown into' the whirl
pool of the bankrupt court to get.
his rights.
WIVEs.-W hat -the true man
wants with a wife is her compan
ionship, sympathy, and love. The
way of life has many dreary places
in it, and man needs a companion
to go with him. A man is some
times overtaken by misfortunes;
he mueets with failure or defeat;
trials and temptations beset him,
and he needs one to stand by and
sympathise. He has some hard
battles to fight with poverty, en
emies and with sin and he needs a
woman that when he puts his arms
around her, he feels that he has
something to fight for; she will
help him to fight ; that will put
her lips to ~his -ear and whisper
words of counsel, and her hand to
his heart, and impart inspiration.
All through life, through storm
and through sunshine, conflict and
victory, through adverse and fa
voring winds, man needs a wo
man's love. The heart yearns for
it. - A sister's or a mother's love
will hardly supply the need.
Young la:dies' schooIs are often
places where females unlearn the
th,~e good they .bave studied and
practiced -at' hame, and learn
"thoseithings** which adds-neither
tbtheir hand heart nor hand '
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WHAT TiHE BIBLE 16AY15.
Who bath w.oe? Who hath swow?
Who hath,.Contentions? Who
bath -wounds without earn?
Who bath::redness of eyuu?
They that tarry1long #j
.the -winb. They that go
to seek mixed vime.
Look not thou.up'
on t he wine
when it isr,
when, itgi
e th itsco
or inthe
CUP;
when it ~
moveth itself.
AT
the lIit
*it bit.dh ice a
serpent, -and- stingt r&* ani"-idder.
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and thewn
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and th"aahte
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was seized with a somnambulistic
fit, and hefore his motions were