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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agrieulture, Markets, &c. Vol. XII. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1876. No.2. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newbrry, S. C. BY TH09*. Ft GRNMKR, Editor and Flroprietor. Termaq $2.50 per .fMUnffl Invariably in Advance. t7T he Ite is"tped at the expiration of tim 10 WlIC ItIspaid. 07 The >4 mark denotes expiration of mub scriptioni. THE PE"K.ECO)MMUMOINMB The Molowing poem pres *he Wta - wgr~dnMe oF the Ind!=n policy: It was a pespe eommissiome, And bis garb was sober drab; His hair was long and white, and he Economhed his gab. In short, be was a reticent And inoffensive slab. His style was philanthropic, And he bore a carpet-bmg, In which he stored his tracts and soap And other peaceful swag Which Iad!ans patronime when war ADd cattle sftelbng lg. Long they sat in soleavn council, The agent and the red, Mildly talking AMby virthm, Till the Swc&em shook his head, As with daOt and dim suspicion: Then he grunted low and said * Not with eloquence of nature. Not in metaphoric style, But in alipler frontier lingo, Lingered with slang and grammar vile "a-ree-trow-zis; want some whisky; Injunl empty; drink a pile." Then that; meek and lowly Quaker Remonawedwith-a-tear; now. ney every possible kindness. My own brother could not have receiv ed more confidence and respect from him, and I was utterly unprepar ed for his refusal when we asked him to sanction our engagement. I am afraid I displayed too much of the Lintn pride and temper, for father grew very angry and sent me to stay. with grand mother, while Sidney should re main at our house,which you know was not long, We had one inter View. Sidney woald have-releas-' edMe, but I would not be' free. I said I would wait years, if need be, for my fathe's eonsent, feeling sure that consent was only with beld because of Sidney's pover by. "Sidney Darrel was too true to do anything clandestinely, and so we met only by chance. "Four long years of waiting, hoping and toiling. With each, my fondest dreams of his. success were realized. Competence was his at last, and such laurelsas he bad won might have graced a king's brow. We went to my fa ther on my twenty-second birth lay, -confidently expecing his ordial consent. Mine was Iot i patient heart, and I could hardly bear his co4 pitiless rejection of idney this-second time, when no reason wasapparent. The bitWer truth came at last. For months I had received marked attention r o m a reputed millionaire. I ad felt like a guilty creature in loing so, .for' hold human hearts oo sacred to be sported with, but ather had left me-no chance to void him, and I could not see #here I was drifting. Father was n the eve of bankruptcy, and Gil yert Morris would save his sinking :redit at the price of my, han d Don't blame poor old father for urg ng me to this loveless marriage [ know Le suffered infinitely more han Sidney or I. My step-mother ~as ill-dying, we thought, with OnsumptiOn. Sbe wais reared in uzury, and it was terrible to m y ather to think of her bearing pov ~rty. I could not sacrifice myself, ut I had some property left me by y own mother, and that sustain d my father's credit while 'my tep-mother lived, which was on y three months longer. "The morning before I gave Gil ert Morris my final answer; I 're ~eived a note from Sidney saying e would sail within an hour for urope-4hat,*as I was1;o bei the vife of another, he must~ travel o forget the past. "I looked for him to come to me hen the crash came and father ied-; buit he never even wrote. still, I believed he would come yaek, and in ,this belief lived and vorked. "There was no time to sit and mrse my grief. My young step ~iters, Essie and Daisy and my ,elf must be supported. This dear >ld place of grandma Kirks was eft me; I had uncle Bben,onr faith 'ul old gardener, so I commenced narket gardering for a living. [ tried teaching, too; but it was too confining, I gave it up after ne term. I then added a small airy to my garden, and by close aconomy was enabled to live com ortably, even- happily." "Happily ?" questioned an dis 3iplined Sadie. "Yes; I do think any one who cultivates a submissive spirit, and sonscientously performs each du y,can not fail to derive a certain de ree of happiness from such a life. 'his does not come all at once ; here must be many sad failures before the lesseo n is learned. trong to endure as I felt myself when the star of my love went :own, when there was no heart bo share life's good and ill with nine, I sank into such darkness o soul as 1 shudder to recall." "Did Sidney die ?" "To me. Two years from the day he left, I saw hi marage inl a foreign paper. That was the end. Hush, God only chastens in love. I can see the guiding han d in my whole life. Do you remem ber these linen in Phoebe Cary's 'Woman's Conclusions?' '"I would not make the path I have trod More pleasant or even more straight~ or wide; Nor change my course the breadth of a hair, This ay o that way, to either side.' Sadie broke the eloquent silence that fell on both in that hushed tone we involuntarily use when speaking of holy things. . "Mother said your life was a sacrifice, but I could not under stand why. But you must be lone ly now, the girls are married. What will you do when Walter comes for me; I am almost sorry to go." "I do not know. I have been thinking"-a terrific noise startled them. "What is it ?" asked Sadie, with white lips. "An explosion, I fear; it is just time for the evening train to come Ruth's surmise was too true; the train was almost torn in pieces;- how any one. escaped was a miracle. Ruth's home was close to the disaster and it was fast filled with the wounded. Not until every suff6rer had been made as comfortable as possible, and provided with a careful nurse, did Ruth think of rest. Too weary almost to move yet too sympa thetic to sleep, she drew an easy chair to her own bedside and pre pared to watch by the lovely young creature, who lay there white and still, is if the little white hands were folded forever. Presently the gregt dark eyes opened, and the sweetest of voices asked, "Are you at leisure now ? Will you please write a note to my husband and tell him where and how'I am? He will be so anxious. I should like -him to come at once." "Yes, certainly, with pleasure; what is his address ?" Did Ruth hear right ? Was the floor slipping under her feet, and the rush and roar of Niagara filling her ears? How sepulchral her voice sound ed, when she asked again for the number of his office ! All that long night, and the longer day that followed, as she kept her natiring care of his wife, Ruth was nerving herself for the coming, praying for strength to meet this Sidney of long ago. God' help her; human will is too weak to control human hearts. She was standing by the window when he came, outwardly calm only the shadowy, violet eyes anal sensitive mouth telling that she was suffering. "Miss Linton, will you please eome here so Col. Darrel inay see who has been so kind to me ?" Ruth turned, made one step to ward them then~ stopped. Was it the light of the setting sun that athed the white face with such radiant beauty ?. Colonel Darrel smiled as he took both hands in his own and listened to the low, murmured words of welcome. Out ofthe house, away from everybody, her' swift feet went. Down in the tangled or hard grass her joyful thanksgiv ing was poured out to Him who watches the sparrow's fall. There was a mistake somewhere ; this blonde-haired man was not the lover of her heart. A shadow fell before her as she rose from her knees, but she did Dot see it. "I believe he has been true all these sad years.". "He has, Ruth-my Ruth !" "Sidney! it was his very self standing there-the old light in his eyes the old smile on his care worn face ; his hands hiolding her own as in bygone days. "My darling, I never know until you wrote that letter to my cousin Sidney that you were not mar ried." Explanations followed inter sprsed with smiles and tears. We have nothing to do with these. But Sadie was bridesmaid soon af ter, and now there are two Mrs. Sidney Darrels. In the State of New York, the man who ties his horse or team under a shade tree also ties him under a penalty of ten dollars. Help somebody worse off than yourself; and you will feel better off than you fancied. When to look for the music of a hat--when the band buckles to "EARLY HISTORY." SOMETHING ABOUT THE FIRST DOC TORS WHO SETTLED IN MICHIGAN, AS TOLD BY THE DETROIT "FREE PRESS." Not more than five acres of Michigan had been chopped and logged off before a doctor arrived in the State, and they have con tinued to arrive ever since that hour. The first hundred or so didn't doctor after the set rules of allopathy or homeopathy. The grand object was to give a sick man his money's worth of medi cine,and a little over. Drugstores were few and far between in those days, and every doctor carried his medicines with him. Indeed, this rule was practiced up to fifteen or twenty years ago, when physi cians all at once got the noti6n that it was more convenient and stylish for the patient's friends to turn out at midnight and walk from one to five miles to'get a pre scription filled than it was for the doctor to sit by the bed and deal out the drags. The first doctors were very ec centric and ambitious. If a man fell sick they called it fever'n ague and pushed powders, liquids, and other things down his throat until a change occurred. If for the worse they gave the disease some other name and put on mustard plasters, gave the patient calomel, kept his feet warm, and doctored him on that theory until he ral lied or was still further reduced. If he got well it was a big card for the doctor. If he died the doctors for sizteen miles around would swear that the person couldn't have been cured nohow. It can't be ascertaiaed-that more than one of-these early practition ersevergave-up apatientin despair. That one was a resident of Wayne county, and was called to see a pioneer living seven or eight miles from Detroit. The man had some sort of a low fever, and the physi ian attended him for a month without noticing an improvement. On the contrary, the patient seem ed to besinking, and fearing to lose practice if the man died on his hands, the physician decided to abandon the case. Galling the wife out doors he said : "I can't come any more; I am going to Cleveland -to live." When she asked abouit her husband's prospects, he replied: "He is certain to die. I never saw such a case hefore. I com menced with 'A' in the alphabet of medicines and have run him down to 'and so forth,' and havn't moved him a peg." - The patient fell out of bed an d broke his arm the .next day, and in three months was able to carry a bushel of wheat to Detroit on his shoulder. The-doctors were just as polite and gentle in those pioneer days as they are now, and catching the spirit of the rapidly growing country they felt that time was the great desideratum. A doctor living in Macomb county, when called upon to set a broken leg for a laboring man, examined the limb andi said: "If I set this limb it will be five or six months before you can walk. f Isaw it off and make you a wooden leg you'll be out splitting rails in less than three months." The man declined the generous offer, and the doctor sighed drear ily as he rolled down his shirt sleeves. Those doctors, too, had warm sympathetic hearts. One of them killed a man in Washtenaw county by giving hiDa poison in place of calomel. UJpon discovering his mis take he rode out to see the widow, and after a few preliminary re marks said , "I'm very sorry, Mrs. Cotter, but it can't~ be helped now ; John was a pretty good man, but there's others just as good. I'm willing to do the fair thing by you being as it was my mistake. A brother of mine is coming from York State next week, and hs shall mar ry you inside of three months!" And he did. And it was just as' hard for'doc tors to collect their bills as it is now. A Detroiter who had doc tozed in a family for three or four years without getting any pay, started out one morning with the avowed intention of collecting something or raising a tornado. He returned after four or five hours covered with mud,, hat caved in and blood on his coat col lar. "Get any money of Jones ?" asked a friend. "No, but I squared up with him and left him a receipt in full," re plied the doctor, pointing to his left ear. Half of it had. been bitten off. HE WOULDN'T Go.-A farmer the other day was walking around the central market in Detroit, trying to find some chap willing to gointo the country and do a little work for good pay, when a colored. man. accosted him ask "Boss, does you want some one to husk corn?" - Yes; X've been looking all the morning for some one." "W'ba4's .dapay? S"'ll give a dlollar a day.. " And board.?" ud ohickens an' pudding for dinner ?" "Y yes." "An' Havana eigars to smoke ?" "I- es so, stammerod the firmer. "An' a coal stove right close aioun' dar whar de corn is?" "No, 1 never heard of a stove in a corn field." "well;,if dar's no stove out dar you cat .coax dis. chile along. Ize got p -take carebf my health, even if dere isi''t a bushel of corn raised in dis c6oatry." Female suffrage is not popular even in Wyoming-the "city of refuge" for aspiring womanhood. A letter in the Omaha Herald says: Candor compels me to say that the women 'of Wyoming seems- to love the ferocious male brute who tramples on their rights much bet ter than political freedom ; they do not seek offce ; have entirely abandoned -the .jury room and seem to be growing yearly more inifferent about voting. T h e rouble seems to be, that women as a mass are unwihng to take up the politcal problem, believing, as they do, that their fathers, broth ers, husbands and sweethearts will manage .it 'as well as if they all went into politics together. If they wanted the franchise all over the country, I don't see how. we could refuse-the dear ereatures; but they think more of pinbacks' than politics. CHALK.-MOst people looking at this substance would take it to be a sort of hardened white mud. Such is not the case, as the micro scope shows is nothing but the agglomerations of cr ea tuare s almost invisible. Bearing this in mind one is astonished at the pow er of organic life which can pro duce masses that form a rampart to the coast of England. -Their minuteness is such that a single visiting card covered with a white layer of chalk contains about 100, 000 shells. These are formed of carbonate of lime, and are so small that 10,000,000, are required to weigh a pound, and 150,000,000 to make a cubic foot of the same ma terial. How FoRTUNATE.-Barnum has been lecturing at Chicago, and he tlls the following story : In his museum, a gentleman and daughu ter stood-gazing at the Siamese twins. The showman said they were the most remarkable phe nomenon in the known world, were born in Siam, etc. "Brothers, I suppose-?" reniarked the gentle man, interrogatively, still looking with wonder at the twins. "Yes, sir, brothers; natural brothers, too," said the showman. "My dear," said the visitor, religiously, turning to his daughter, "think of the goodness of Providence in thus linking two natural brothers to gether. instead of two strangers." THE HEALTH OF CHIL DREN. The following letter has been addressed to the New York Times by a lady: Already I see with sorrow that diptheria, that insidi ous and fatal disease - has ta ken some young children. There have been several sudden changes in temperature during the past month, and again some very mild and bright days., The winter has not "set in." But is not such va riable weatheo more dangerous than the steady-cold? This is the .time to watch carefully those ten der little children; to notice if the temperature be mild or cool before seddingthm from 8"'heated house into the street' to clothe them comfortably, to cover the little fegs not only with stockings and gaiters, but with skirts Which will hang as near to the ground as may be without impeding the little feet. Whence came and what retains the fashion of leaving unclad or half-clad the lower limbs of -deli cate human beings? Adults are well-covered, so there is no use in habitaating children to be other wise. Oar men domot wear Scotch kilts. Why should young boys have their knees exposed -td cold, which if it do not produce promi. nent local 'disease, weakens the joi.ts and impairs symmetry.and strength in after life?- Do parents consider how damhp and clilly the ground becomes at this season, and how undesirable it is for the tiny feet to stand long in the park and squares, not' -circulating their blood by exercise, but only inhaling the somewhat frosty air, and receiving a chill from the grgund as they stand or sit by the benches on which their respective nurses eongregate ? Little ones need a short airing in the sunshine at this season. It is better to take two a day than one protracted lounge; and it should not be too much trouble for a mother to no tice which will be the least windy direction for the walk. A sensible unfashionable costume may save children suffering and parents sor row. But.who can 'expect care for the children's limbs, when wo men take none of their own heads? Who has a bonnet for winter that shields more than the crown of the head? Ask any physician what nerves are exposed to the keen air, on the temples, unshaded even by the hair ; behind the ears, un pro tected by a ribbon string ; on the brow and the top of the head, whence the hat is set far back. Men's hats are more protection than these-scraps of millinery, and even their short hair more cover ing to the temples and throat than is allowed by the present style of) headdressing. But our girls are brave, and will bear naaralgia, earaches, throat diseases, even paralysis of the brain, rather than clothe any precious organ which is decreed by fashion to be ancovered. Mothers and children will mourn the end, which they will not use the means to avert, and may find that a pound of cure does not compensate for an ounce of prevention. Each lady that prepares food for her family or superintends its preparation should strive to have it so inviting to the eye and pleas ing to the taste, and invigorating to the system, that no one will have any occasion to be fretful or dicon tented. Very much of the unhappy and disagreeable feelings of life are caused by iniproperly cooked food. Many a h.usband is called cross and fussy, when it is more the result of the food he receives from the hands of his wife than of his natural disposi tion. No woman should spend so much time in preparing something nice for her family to eat, that she gets too tired to meet them .with a smile and kind greeting as they1 gather around the table. A sweet smile and cheerful conversation during a repast till do more to aid digestion than any medicine can.1 What requires more philosophy than taking things as they come ? THAT KALIKER DRESS. One day, not long ago, an old ehap from the interior, accompa nied by his wife, entered a Vicks burg dry goods store, and* after looking around for a moment he aid to the clerk: "Pile yer best:kaliker down here fore me for Mirandy wants a Iress." As the pieces were tumbling lown he continued:. "Mirandy's been party good this sammer, and she can have her pick Df the best kaliker in the store." The old man felt of ted.iereat pieces and his wife tossed them Dver, and finally, they settled on - particular piece and he said: "Cut her off nine yards o' that." "What. aine yards I" echoed the wife. "That's what I said, Mirandy." "I can't geta kaliker dress with % loop up behind to it out'n lio mine yard !" sh8 6xclaimed, turn ing pale witli dismay. "Who s a i d anything about oops ?" he inquired. "Havn't you iways got a kaliker dress -ot'n rine yards!" "Yes but the fashion has 65ag id. I'vegot to have fourteen _rds now.7, - "Have, eh? I'd like to see my*elf buying fourteen yards!" "Then you won't ?" "Not if I die for it." "You are an old miser " she hotly exclaimed. "Don't fo6r*ittWe alligator, irandy," he wardia. " pOh, I guess yo,d better buy he dress" put in the clerk, hoping to make peace. "Shan't do it !" growled tlie man. The wonan jaked down 4he store, looked into the back yarid turned and called out.: "Come here a minute, WiliaM." "What yer want ?" he inquired. "Come here, darling.. I want to whisper to you," she continued. He-followed tre'r among the box es. 'Her face wore a sniil,aad lie suspected nothing. When be was clear of the door she. turned. and seized him by the windpipe, rushed him baskward and flopped him -over a pile of boxes. "Mirandy, PIl. pound blazes ont'n you for this," hoarsely whis pered the man. "William, it don't lay in your backbone!1" she replied. "Take that,"- he. gasped, trying to kick her. ' He made a heavy struggle but she clung to his throat and flop ped him asoften as h0 partially rose. After realizing the fight was foul, he faintly inquired. "Mirandy, what is your;object?" "A kaliker dress," she prompt ly esponded. "Nine yardas"! 1iorasked. "PlumpTfonrteen," she respond d. "Say twelve, Mirandy." "Straight fourteen and no goug Lg," she answered. He made a great effort to throw her off, but she banged him down ad landed a blow on his nose in ddition. "Mirandy," he gasped. "Well,.William." "Tell that young man to cut off ~hat kaliker." "That's right, William; that's arty," she said loosening her ~rip and extending her hand. ',You won't say anything, Miran ly ?" "Not a whoop." - He scrabled over the biek; ence, and she went in and had ~he full number of yards cut off. When ready to go the old man' ~as at the door with the mules, nd said: "Mirandy took me by surprise, >t its all right ; charge that kal ker to my account" If children were well paid for tl the work they do from the .stant they begin going alone, h e y might accumulate large wealth before the age of -ten. Japanese offlials commit suicide hen found guilty of theft or em >ezzlement. American officials etire to their farms and receive he congratulations of friends. Snam-crhb for the HEBALD. L~. ADVERTISINC RATES* Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1.00 per square-one inch-fbr Ams insertion, and 75c. for each subsequent Insertion. Double column advertisements ten per cent on abo*c. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tributcs8 of respect, same rate per square as ordinary advertisements. Special nodiln local..column'U tets perline. Adverse=no&._'__.dI -the =M ber of insertions wll bliket in Iff' forbid and charged accordboy. Special contracts mude wit IrIge adver dser, with- Mwbda de&dmn on Abovrale oweswr~P Done with NeaMens and Dispatch Terms Cash TAmzD~ Jo0UN A Ls18 z- Mr. A. iWnhx'&"1 - -who is abalt- to start a-new5sape -at Oartary~fled, called the PlanWs.l. Vdoat~W literally borin in a pritig ofCe and cradled.on an: old.fa"iowed press. He told us the tale as rels ted to hirn-bylhis lparevWte& a man fi6ar 1ift years 0&M an exceNlntAPd.well educaed WJAe saysh-ffty-years ago.his,fAtA10"M a poor young man, just ~rei andliadgjoi holdot's-REde~tp and an'Old prss of't~ itive kindAnd got &4,tI.nm put it up iw- Huisw vies iu mie office with him, dfid the 13oib and 'Washing thereand nedim at the case andpress. tMo .other o~sstanos,Aod vetryh#tLfur.. nitare, one bed,aZ-Aoip eof &MAfk a skfllet and oven,' gzKf4,t k0 - ble furnitdre. Mrs. M,sbalT confinement wais rather preum"tre.: and the infant was wrapped in its swaddling clotbes and laid p - on the bed of the, press, as thre was no other place to pat it. The' boyv- was, ra,%ineftipAprue n e Corth with renewed vigor ureu..' conater the labor and tronl,leg4f Life. Bat if at home he~ firnis -n* restand there is th~t~ with b~a& (ernper, jealousy an4 loom o~ sailed-with c n4~laintsand censure, hope vanishes,~and h~Jink5 14o