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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XIII. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAINUIARY 17, 1877. No. 3. THEHERALD~ IS 2BBLIBBBD EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry, S. C.. BY THOSI F. ORKNHKB, Editor and Proprietor. Termns, $2.50 per .lnn-unm, Invariably in Advance. 9lY- The paper is stopped at the expiration of tAiefor whiit ispaid. Q"? The M mark denotes expiration of sub ssrption. Fottrn. ONLY SIXTEEN DRESSES TO WEAR. BY JOE JOT, JR. She had only sixteen dresses, The poor, unfortunate thing! And most of this scanty wardrobe Was purchased and made in the spring. She gazed upon it with sorrow 'Twas a terrible thing to bear; And her heart nearly died within her Only sixteen dresses to wear! She thought of Eve in the garden, And said that she never could see Why she should got all of the pity She deserved as much pity as she, Was any one ever so needy? She felt on the point of despair, And thought there was no use of living With but sixteen'dresses to wear! She was not an extravagant woman, And I never would intimate so; If she was, she would have had fifty, And be better supplied long ago, But being excessively humble, Her lot had been better to bear, If a very few more had been added, And she'd thirty dresses to wear. Her povertyl worie hera reatly, I had not come to a path full of] soft, fragrant flowers. It was to a be a fearful, if not a long struggle I -likely both ; for, either I must i turn the current of my darling's t life, or we should go down togeth- 3 er. No earthly power could sepa- c rate us now. But I was strong in the great love I bore him, and my e heart never once faltered. C For a month after our marriage t he came home regularly-his ap- z parent occupation was head clerk 1 in a well known firm; but I knew, E oh, pity ! that his real employment i was far enough removed from any thing as honorable as that-but y then he began to return later, until a one, two, three, and sometimes four t o'clock would strike without bring- g ing him. i: I had resolved at first that I v would always remain up until he a came, thinking that I might thus I have more hold upon him. My c business was to save him. Nothing I was too hard to be done if I might I but reach that goal at last. c As I said, he began to return la- t ter now, and there grew to be a s haggard look upon his face which c it wa. dreadful to see, since I knew, s only too well, what brought it e there. But I tried to be patient and whenever he came was careful c not to make the slightest allusion c to the lateness of the hour. It z would not do with him. We sat c down to supper, for I persisted in having it invariably at his return ; - and though I have seen his eyes fill t many and many a time when he t looked at me steadily as he had a way of doing, he did not tell me his I thoughts, and I pretended not to F notice them while I attended to his wants. i It is an awful thing for a woman 1 bo see the husband of her love go- j ing down steadily, but surely, be- E fore her frightened eyes, and she powerless to save. I had wondered once how miserable, ill-treated wives, whose husbands were scarce ly fit to live, could still cling to them; but though Allan was ten der and kind when with me, I could understand now, by my own heart, how it was that they bore every thing rather than separation. A year went by and no visible 1 hange came ; but the constant anx iety told upon my face. I wanted to keep the signs back, but I eould< not. Friends noticed it, and among them the aunt who had taken my dead mother's place. She had never liked my husband ; and at the an niversary of our marriage she came, in solemn state, "to inquire into 1 matters," as she termed it. "You are looking poorly, my child," she said, opening the sub ject at once. "Your marriage is, perhaps, unhapppy?" "There could not be a kinder husband than Allan," my face flush ing in a moment. "He has never spoken a harsh word to me." "But something has worn you to 1 a shadow," she~ went on, ignoring my indignation: "and we all know that Mr. Starr is not what he ought to be."4 That was more than any wife should bear tamely. I rose at once. "Such words must neither be addressed to his wife, nor spoken under his roof," I said angrily. "My home is open to you never-1 theless," she urged with her keen1 eyes,which Ihated, because I feared them, upon my fgee. "My home is here where my heart is," I retorted ; "I desire no other"-.and with that our inter-1 view closed. Allan heard in some way that my aunt had called ; and he would not be satisfied until I had told him1 her exact words. "She is right," he said bitterly ; "you would be far better off under her roof than under mine." I know he did it only to try me,1 for he had not the ghost of a fear that I should choose my home away from him. "I did not think fit to tell her so," I replied. "But you believed it ? You be lieved it, then ?" His breath seemed to stop with te intensity of his desire to read what was really in my heart, and he would have wormed the truth from me whatever it had been. "N I did not beliee it A llan."i responded quietly, meeting and wnswering the questioning doubt vhich for the moment had leaped - nto his eyes. "Wherever you are aking me to, your own soul tells ou I am powerless, and must from hoice follow." "You are a good, true angel," he aid, with a strange tenderness up on his lips, but though I was cer- r ain he loved me with a strong ti aan's strength, he did not, alas ! ie ove me well enough to leave the b ambler's den which was fast draw- R ng him on to ruin. 0 Another year went by, another ti ear of anxious dread and sorrow, ie nd still another year was added b o it, and all that love could sug est or ingenuity invent, had failed t< a accomplishing my purpose. I 1 was forced to acknowledge this, t nd the admission made me trem- a >le. Was I indeed, then, to go n [own with this man to whom I was Y ound by all the ties which can )ind a human heart to that of an- t >ther, down to an endless perdi- " ion ? Or could I break the chord, tE nd let him drift on alone? Drift t on, out in the lonesome, boundless s ea which swallows up its victims a o piteously, and leaves no sign? P "No, no," I cried, with my hands ti lasped over my horror-stricken R yes, to shut out the picture which 0 ny imagination so wildly portray- f d. d The 4th year after my marriage r -four years seems like an eternity o travel such a road as I had been tV raveling-Allan came home at n tusk ; and while I wondered what ti iad come over him to bring up the c iew and astonishing exultation n hich I saw upon his face, he led fi ne into the library and stepped si >efore a painting of myself, which I iad been one of my wedding pres- e ints from him. C "Four years ago that was an ex- ' ct likeness of my wife," he said. i 'She has changed since then." o "But little, I trust," I answered. r "She became my wife freely," he o vent on ; "knowing well that I was d hat the world calls, truly enough, bJ wicked man." P "Always good to me," I said, il rough my tears, laying my hand V rustingly in his. o "Always cruel to you, my love, t ince he thought more of his own V ~hosen sins than of your peace and t leasure. But the wife who loved I ne, thank heaven, and who has a ~tood bravely by me, has conquered t last. For a year I have been a t' ree man, free and honest ; and p his is my new year's present to s rou, best and truest of all women." 8 I was sobbing in his arms, so e bankful and happy, I thought e ieaven itself must have fallen to a ny feet. Our little child, who is v ast getting towards his teens, t would never believe his father had 8 ~ver been other than the best of I nen, as, indeed, I hardly would L nyself. I am thankful, every day of my 0 ife, that I listened to my own ( ieart's promptings, instead of the i< ounsel of those who meant, I fl mow, to help me, but who would I iave ruined us both, .had their t ishes been fulfilled. C "I take my tex dis mornin," said d ~colored preacher, "from dat por 8 ion ob de Scriptures whar de Pos- ~ e Paul pints his pistol to de Fe- 8 ~ions." C Albert SnEoks, of New York, d lidn't like his name, and so voted ~ ider the name of Smith and was rrested.e _______ ___ e The housewives of Vermont con- C inue to use caraway seed in their ~ ~ookies, the same as when Thomas ~ fefferson was a boy. Election returns and returning C >oards don't bother Sitting Bull ny. The most he cares to know s how General Crook has gone. The women soldiers of Dahomey a year boots, chew tobacco and v swear, but refuse to talk politics. b Only a mean man would take ad. I rantage of this excitement to rob e is neighbor's hen roost. The essence of the beautiful is I FOR THE HERALD. ER WASHINGTON LETTER. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 3rd, 1877. Both political parties are al 3ady preparing for an inaugura on ball. This inauguration ball one of the afflictions it was oped a Democratic triumph 'ould rid us of. The one on the ecasion of Grant's first inaugura on was had in the then unfin hed North wing of the Treasury uilding. It w'as a terrible jam. ven Horace Greeley swore. That, )O, was the time when Senator Fye said to Mr. Greeley, when ze latter sat down on the Sen Lor's hat, "D-n it, Horace, you Light have known it wouldn't fit ou." Four 1years ago an enor Lous frame building was erected > hold the ball in. Luckily the 'eather was so cold that few at ;nded. On both these occasions ie bills were left unpaid and the :andal was National. These balls aswer no good social or political urpose, and the party first set ng the example of dispensing 'ith them will receive the thanks f the public. Here is a chance >r the reform President-elect to o good even before he is inaugu ited. With the meeting of Congress >-day we shall have the begin ing of the end of the Presiden al contest. It is not now a se ret that Democratic Congress en are just now in possession of tcts throwing new light on the tuation in South Carolina and 'lorida and are more assured than ver that both those States, fairly aunted, should be given to Gov. 'ilden. I do not speak of Louis tna, for there has been no doubt f that. Your readers will have ad the substance of the message f Gov. Robinson, of New York, elivered on the 2nd. It should e understood that the following ortions of it were written while s author was in possession of all he facts of the situation as it was a that day, that they were known :> M'r. Tilden in advance, and that hey represent the views and de armination of every Democrat in Vashington at this time, and of iany and influential Republicans: "I1 pause here in this statement a interpose in behalf of the peo le of this great commonwealth a olemn denial of the power of any tate government or of the Fed ral govern ment to vest such pow r as are claimed by the Louisi na Returning Board in any Can assing Board whatever. While hese things were going on in the outh a member of the Cabinet at Vashington was acting as Chair an of a partisan National Coin iittee, and with the co-operation f some of his colleagues in the labinet counseling and systemat ally stimulating these desperate 1easures. The people of the inited States will never consent Shave their representatives in ongress stripped of their powers, r tolerate this usurpation by a eputy of the Senate or by any ingle person, still less by an of cor who is frequently interested s a candidate in the result of the ount. In this serttiment and pur ose the State of New York cor ially concurs. Foremost among L our American common wealths 1 population, in the variety and xtent of her industries and inter sts, she has in every vicissitude f public affhirs put forth all her trength, moral and physical, to iaintain the existence and just uthorities of the UJnion, and she an never consent that the time onsecrated methods of constitu ional governmnent shall be supple iented or overthrown by revolu ionary expedients." New Year's day was generally berved here. The White House ras packed, as usual. The gold ice of the Foreign Ministers and ttaches, and of the Army and favy officers, all of whom attend d, must have been a gorgeous bing to look on, but would hard r compare with the "outfit" of 'resident Grant's grand-daughbter, ir months of ne, if the dclnrrip. tion of it given is correct. Your lady readers will understand and appreciate it. She wore "a white French lawn with lace insertings over blue silk with bows of blue ribbon down the back ; gold brace lets with pendents of turquoise ; gold necklace; solitaire diamond ring, with turquoise guard ring," &c. That is painting the lily. The Senate and House Commit tees engaged in preparing a plan for the counting of the electoral vote have made no report as yet. It is thought they will try to make such a report as will be adopted by Congress with Iittle~if any dis cussion. They have completed the examination of historical and legal data bearing on the subject. Senator Conkling, the member ap pointed in place of Logan, has met with the Committee but once. NEMO. WHY ADVERTISE? People sometimes ask why does Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., spend so much money in advertis ing his family medicines, which are so well known and surpass all other remedies in popularity and sale. It is well known that A. T. Stewart considered it good policy, and undoubtedly it paid him, to spend many hundred thousand dol lars in advertising his goods, yet nobody questioned the excellence of his merchandise. The grand secret of success lies in offering only goods which possess merit to sustain themselves, and then through liberal and persistent ad vertising making the people thor oughly acquainted with their good qualities. Men do not succeed in amassing great fortunes, establish-. ing thriving and permanent busi ness, and founding substantial in stitutions like Dr. Pierce's Grand Invalids' Hotel at Buffalo, which costs over two hundred thousand dollars, unless their business be legitimate, their goods meritorious, and their services which they ren der the people genuine and valua ble. Dr. Pierce does not attempt to humbug you by telling you that his Golden Medical Discovery will cure all diseases. He says, "if your lungs are half wasted by con sumption, my Discovery will not cure you, yet as a remedy for se vere coughs, and all curable bron chial, throat, and lung affections, I believe it to be unsurpassed as a remedy." The people have confi dence in his medicines because he does not over-recommend them, and when tried they give satisfac tion . 'His Medical Adviser, a book of over nine hundred pages, illus trated by two hundred. and eighty two engravings and bound in cloth and gilt, is offered to the people at so moderate a price ($1.50, post paid), that it is no wonder that almost one hundred thousand have already been sold. His memoran dum books are on every druggist's counter for free distribution. Gamx's HuMon.-When Garrick was in Paris, Preville, the celebrated French actor, invited him to his villa, and, being in a gay humor, he proposed to go in one of the hired coaches that regularly plied between Paris and Versailles, on which road Preville's villa was situ ated. When they got in Garrick ordered the coachman to drive on, but the driver replied that he could not until he got his compliment of four passengers. A caprice imme diately seized Garrick. He deter mined to give his brother player a specimen of his art. While the coachmuan was attentively looking out for passengers Garrick slipped out at the opposite door, went round the coach, and by his won derful command of facial expres sion, palmed himself off upon the driver as a stranger. This he did twice, and was admitted into the coach each time as a fresh passen ger, to the astonishment and admi ration of Preville. Garrick slipped out a third time and addressed himself to the driver, who said, in a surly tone, that he had "got his compliment." He would have driv en off without Garrick had not Pre ville called out that as the stranger appeared to be a very little man they would accommodate him and1 make rnom for him. AN EDITOR IN HEAVEN. I Just as if editors were not in the a] habit of going to Heaven ! We'll tl venture to say that a greater por- i tion of them go to that home of tl those who have performed their Pl mission of mercy on earth, than til a other profession or calling that fe poor mortals fill. ai An editor in Heaven ! There's ci nothing strange about that, at all. ai It's almost a moral as well as pro- tc fessional impossibility for them to le go anywhere else. w Once upon a time, after the de- ti mise of a member of the "corps edi torial," he presented himself at the gates of the Holy City, and request ed admission. The doorkeeper ask ed him what had been his occupa tion on terra firma. He replied B that he was an editor. Well, said S the watchman, we have a crowd of it your kind here, now, and they all ti came in as dead heads. If you can of pay your passage you can come in, it if not you must place yourself un- in der the control of a personage you m ruled tyranically below (meaning b< the Devil.) Not having the where t( with to go in, our brother of the it quill and scissors posted off and m presented himself at the entrance g of Clootie's dark domains. - A very N dark-complexioned gentleman stood o, sentry, and asked in a gruff voice, y, "Who comes ?" "An humble disci- ai ple of Faust," was the calm reply. h "Then hold on, you can't be admit- ii ted," exclaimed the gentleman in w black, evincing considerable agita- g, tion, and fiercely scowling on him. tj "Why not?" demanded the typo, B who began to get huiffsh, and look- ti ed around for a "sheep's foot," with li which to force an entrance. b "Well, sir," replied his sable.ma- a jesty, "we let one of your profession h in here many years ago, and he kept a up a continual row with his former a delinquent subscribers, and as we w have more of that class of persons si here than any other, we have passed h a law prohibiting the admission of y, any editors, only those who havep advanced our interest in their pa u pers on earth, and even those we keep in a separate room by them- si selves. You have published many o things that operated against us, a and always blamed the Devil for b everything that went wrong, so you t4 can't come in. We enforce this fi rule without respect to persons, for o our own peace and safety. You can fi just travel." Casting a droll leer at the outside a sentinel, our typographical friend a started off again, determined to get p in -up above. This time he took s, with him an old file of his paper I and presenting it to the guardian , of the Celestial City, requested that n it might be carefully examined, and h they would see whether he was en- h titled to a free ticket. In due course of time the conductor came around and took him in telling that n he published many good things and had been a martyr to the cause of a human improvement, and that reso lutions had been passed to admit all members of the "art preserva tive" who had abused the Devil while below. He further added a that they were punished enough by their being with the "devil" all theirt lives, their future punishment was commuted. He further stated that not one delinquent subscriber could be found in all Heaven. c Giv Hm A CHMcE.-That hon- i est man who is hopelessly in debt. g An honest man's note never goes out of date. An exempt homestead 9 does not pay a just claim. This is ~ true, but it is evident that many men cannot pay all they owe, and if creditors press them they can pay 1 only a very small part of it, and c may be forced into bankruptcy to protect innocent creditors. Let every man find out exactly a what he owes. Let him find out ast nearly as possible what he can pay f this fall, and what the next, and C let him call all his creditors togeth- a er and make a proposition for set- J tlement. If he can pay five, ten, L twenty-five, fifty or seventy-five per e cent. in one, two or three years, 9 make the proposition and let the creditor accept it, and get out pf e debt.e It is evident that old debts can il not be paid dollar for dollar, and s becas that cannot be done there E e those who will pay nothing. here are creditors who will have I or no part of *the claim. When iese two meet there can be no set ement. How much better it is Lat there should be a mutual sym= ahy and a mutual effort to settle Le matter. Put the debtor on his et by showing him the way out, id in his future prosperity the editor will be as much benefitted he will be. Sometimesit is well forgive him all his debt and t him go free. This at least ould be christian like, and often nes would be wise. [La Grange Reporter. BROGGS' EXPERIMENT. Says the Yolo (Cal.) Mail: roggs, who lives in Elliott's )uthern Addition, ran across the em the other day that "at night iat a horse would refuse to step i or over the body of a man laying the road, but, as if impelled by. stinct, would stop and remain otionless until the matter should investigated." Grave doubts as the truth of the statement rose Broggs' mind, and to settle the atter for himself he resolved to ive the thing a practical test. ow Broggs has no horse, but does kn a very intelligent and frisky ung mule, so he thought it just well to try:the experiment with im. There-is a narrow lane lead ig from the clover patch to the ater trough, and he sent his little )n Bobby to open the gate and irn the mule out; meanwhile roggs lay down full length across ie lane, assuming an apparently fe!ess attitude? The mule had ren kept in the pasture all day, zd consequently was very dry, so e came waltzing down the lane at great rate, and everything denoted fair trial to the test. And so it as ; but not exactly as Broggs de red, although it confirmed him in is skepticism. When within a n-d or two the mule perceived the rostrate form of his master, and ith an explosion of sound which as a -compromisive between the iriek of a locomotive and the yell a frightened mania,~ he bowed p his back and flung his tail to the reeze, elevated himself about fif sen feet in the air, and, with all >nr feet in a bunch, lit on the pit Broggs' stomach. Then with a andish laugh, he spread out his set with a' scraping, lacerating >und, and was offlike a flash, not mnitting, however, to give the ex erimenter a parting kick in the nall of the back as he departed. he price of the mule did not near ay the doctor's bill, and Broggs is ow calculating how many post oles he will have to mortice before e will get even on his experiment. Publishers of newspapers-and iore particularly local newspapers, ave to depend mainly upon their avertising columns for their sup ort. Yet how many are there who 3em not to realize this fact. In bead of giving their paper a liberal avertising patronage, they perhaps ive it none; and if a levee or en 3rtanment is got up in the place, 2e paper is expected to notice it >r nothing. Now if all the patronage that a aper can expect is that of the lo ility for whose interest it works, ;would seem that every one should ive it the advertising that legiti iately belongs to it, and not try to et it without paying for it. There a class of people that seem to egrudge every dollar that goes to ieir local papers; and still borrow and read it, and are the severest ritics of its shortcomings. The publisher has to pay for Ia or and paper, and every notice of ny kind, in the nature ofan adver [sement he ought to have his pay r. He has got to get his living ut of his advertising columns, and ny society or individual can with :ist as much propriety beg five dol u-s of any other individual, as to spect it gratuitously of a newspa or. Any man who does not think nough of his town's paper; and very trader who does not believe 1 advertising, should move into ome town where they have no pa er.--GrTdner Journa1 ADVERTISINC RATES. Adverdsemefa eft l st aaO V Notices oftmeetings,oblt rletmd ~I of respect, same rates per sgaars as oW&W advertisements. Special notices in local eca''u 'i 5 "af per lins. Advertiseme.ntsa nt marked with tb nts ber of insertion, will be Lept In tWU"foeOI and charged accordingly. Special cun-sts msde with. lar'adree" disers, with liberal deducticns on abi ms &FOR Pi. dme' Done with Neatness and DlspIsiti Terms Cash. THE CAREFUL MOTHER AND THE MODEL BOY. The two- didn't belong to each other; and this very good bay may have been a little too -1aart and saucy. Little Mary was prettly dressed, and staading in front of the house waiting for her mother to.go out to ride. A tidy boy dressed-in eb rse clothes, was passing, when the lit. Use girl said : 'Come here, boy, ad isi hands wi'me. Idotaboydus'iMe you, named Joey.'1 The boy lughed, shook bands with her, and said: 'Ive got alittle girl.just Wo you, only she hasn't any little cioak with pussy fur on it!1' Here a lady came out of thedoor, and said : 'Mary, you miust not te& with bad boys on thestreet.. I hope you havn't taken anythingk froam her?I Go right along, and never stop here again, boy!I'