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A Family Companion, ]Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture Markets &c Vol. XV. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1879. No. 35. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry, B. C. BY T P. GRENEKER, Editor and Proprietor. Terams, $29,0 per junnum Invariably in Advance. gtmj.,he paper is stopped at the expiration of time for which it is paid. : -?1'e k mark d:notes expir"*ion of anb criptionl. Clothing. HEAD -QUARTERS FOR CLOTHING. .Oar stock of Men's, Youths' and Boy's O LOTJLTNG AND FURNI1SEING GOODS, For SPRING and SUMMER, is now com plete, and is sfcond to no establishment of the kind in the State. No paims is being spared to keep it first class in every reect. ,In aition to uReady-Made Clo ifing, &C., we are prepared to get up suits, or any garmcnt, to order, guaranteeing satisfaction in eiery particular, furnishing several hun dred samples of different fabrics from which to select. We respectfully solicit a trial of our skill in-thisidirection, feeliag sure that if those of our people-who are wontto send abroad for their Olothing will give asAn opportunity we will secure to them eqftl satisfaction, and save them money. We- call- attention to our Furnishing Goods Department, especially to our Laun drieX and UfliiYndied Sirts f the -atter we claim to sell the best $1.00 Shirt to be found inpy m*ket. Al^ to our stock of Men's andgo's Hats, enibfaciog Stiff and Soft Cassimeres, Mackinaws, Leghorns, &c., all of the latest styles. .e invite examma tion of al; if yon-are not pleased do not dIlell4toUObl R6w, NEWBERRY, S. C. W latches Clocks, Jewelry. WVTIIggS 4NI JIEWIUM At the New Store enHteIe L*t. I have now on hand a large and elegant assortment of WkTCHES, CLOCKS, JEWEL.RY, Silver and Plated Ware, 1IOLIN AND -GUITAE STRINGS, SPECTACLE AND SPECTACLE CASES, WEDDING AND BIRTHDAY PRESENTS. IN ENDLESS VARIETY. All orders by mail promptly attended to. Watchmaking 'and Repairing Done Cheaply and with Disaatch. Gadasrl e'xamine my stock aiuL prices. EDUARD SCHOLTZ. RCHI TAILORING, COLUMBIA, S. C. The undersigned has the best appointed exclusive TALORING ESTABLISHMET IN TH E STATE. FRENCH ANO ENGLISIf ?OTKSCi AN ASSMEE8 ILITRY TRIM. Nne but First Clas Work men Employej(p W.C. SWAF,IFIELD, ACElyT. Apr. 16, 16-Sm. BRIAL CASE. Respectfully announce that they have on hand the largest and best variety of BU-. RAL CASES ever brought to Newberry, consisting of Fisk's Metalic Cases, E.mhb.1ming Cases, 4Wiscellaneons. YUTT'S PILLS! INTRODUCED, 1865. A TORPID LIVER i3 the fruitful sour e of many diseases, promi nent amiong which are* DYSPEPS!A, SICK-HEADACHE, - COSTIVENESS, DYSENTERY, BILIOUS FEVER, AGUE AND FEVER, JAUNDCE, PILES, RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY COM PLAIN'r COLIC, ETC. SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. lcss of Appetite and Nausea, the bowels are costive, but sometimes alternate with looseness, Pam in the Head, accompanied wifh a u in the baqk part,Pain in ~te ightide and under the shoulder blaie, fallness after eating, with a disin. clination to exertion of body ormind, Irri tability of~temper, Low spirits, Loss of memory, with afeeling of havingineglected some duty, General wearines;Dizzines, Fluring -agt~the Heai, Dots before the eyem, Yel Sln Headache generally iiir-tiright Wye, Restl .n-1 =12*i4 with ~dtful drams, bigly cooIe~drrIs, IF 1THESE WARWINGS ARE U)l'EEDED, SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED. TUTT'S PILLS are especlally adapted to such oases, a single dose effects such a change of feeling as to astonish the sufferer. *TUTT'S PILLS a"s comupounaed from substances that are fre4i'from any properties that can iWjare the most delicate organleation. They Search, Cleanse, Parify, and Invigorate the entire System. 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ASTON DINNER HOUSF, Passengers on both the up and down trains have the usual time for DINNER .at Aston, the junction of the G. & C. R. 1R., and the S. U. & C. R. R. Fare well prepared, and the charge rea sonable. MRS. M. A. ELKINS. nt 9, a.1-t PRAYERS I DON'T LIKE. I don't like to hear him pray Who loans at twenty-five per cent., For then I think the borrower may Be pressed to pay for food and rent; And in that Book we all should heed, Which says the lender shall be blest; As sirefs I have eyes to read, It does not-say, 'Take interest.' I do not like to hear him pray, - On bonded knees, about an hour, For grace to spend aright the day, Who knows his neigh'66r has no flour, I'd rather see him go to mill, And buy the luckless brother bread, And see his children eat their fill, And laugh beneath their humble shed. I do not like to hear him pray 'Let blessings on the widow be,' Who never seeks her home,to say, 'If want o'ertakes you, come to me.' I hate the prayer so long and loud, That's offered for the orphan's weal By himn who sees him crushed by wroug, And only with his lips doth feel. I do not like to heari her pray With jeweled ears and silken dress, Whose washerr'oman toils all day, And then is asked to.'work for less,' Such pious shavers I despise! With folded hands and face demure They lift to heaven their 'angel eyes.' Then steal the earnings of the poor. I do not like such soulless prayers; If wrong, I hope to be forgiven; No ange's- wing them upward bears They're lost a million miles from Heaven! LETICE. A bitter day. Not a pleasint day to travel on, by any means; but then Lettice Mainwaring was one of' the sort that makes. the best of every tbing. 'It's a long journey over the hills, miss,' said the wife of the landlord of the little one-story tavern that was perched on the crest of the highway, 'and the srte'w's powerful deep.' '1 think a winter landscape is the prettiest thing in the world,' said Lett ce, cheerily, as she wound her fur round and round bey neck.. SAnd old St.okes's stage -is aw Fully uncomfortable,' added the lan diady. 'I ,like stage riding,' asserted Letty. 'You'll not get there till dark.' 'Oh, that is sooner than I ex pected.' And Letty climbed up into the tage-coach which stood creaking and groaning at the door, having ust rumbled n from the next village, a mile or so down the hill. One solitary passenger occupied ~he opp-site corner-a tall, dark aan, with a Spanish sort of comn lexion and1 clear, dark eyes, who wore an odd sort of olive-green loak or mantle, heavily tEimmed with sable fur. He nodded briefly in return to etty's smiling recognition. Our little heroine would have alked with a polar bear, had a polar bear chanced to be her braeling companion. Lettice arranged her bags and er basket- and her bonnet. strings, nd wondered secretly how far Lhe tall man was going. 'Can I be of any assistance to you?' courteously queried the gen bema'n, as Letty searched in the straw at ber 'feet for a dropped glove. 'Thanks-no,' said Letty, com ing up again with very red cheeks, and curlesa little disheveled. 'Are ou going all the way through ?' 'As far as the stage goes-yes.' 'Oh,' said Miss Main waring; 'so am I.' The gentleman nodded interro gatively and went back to his paper. 'Cross thixng,' thought .Lletty, involuntarily pouting her eherry lips. 'Why can't he talk anid mae himself agreeable ? And he knows very well that we are to be shut up here together for eight long hours.'. But the wild landscape, as it flitted by, white, gleaming with sows, and darkly fringed with te waving boughs, was, after all, nearly as- good a study as the 'human face divine.' Letty soon forgot her tempora ry annoyance and chagrin in the mitu, eletnn.like wall ot a de sertod old paper mill, long since disused and fallen to ruin. '1 wonder if it is haunted ?' said she aloud. The stranger smiled and laid down his paper. 'Do you believe in such things?' he asked. Lettice Main waring laughed and colored. 'Of course not. And yet-. Are you much acquainted with this part of the country?' 'I have lived hQreabouts a good deal.' 'Oh ! then perhaps you know Easterbam Hall?' His face brightened. 'Oh yes. You are going there?' 'Yes. I am going to be gover ,ness to the little children,' said Letty, making haste to enlighten him as to her true position, in order that he should fully com prehend that she was no elegant young. lady coming' to the Hall to make a visit, but a humble little working- girl, who was obliged to toil steadfastly for the daily bread she ate. 'Indeed !' he said. And Letty was vexed at herself fbr noti*bg the Polite indifference into which his tone subsided. 'I suppose it is a very fine old place,' she went on. 'Very-for those who fancy 'fine old places.' To my taste they are apt to be overrun with rats, full of draughps and picturesquely in convenient.' 'And haunted, perhaps?' mis chiovously put in Lettice, - the roguish sparkles coming back to her eyes. 'So far as I know, Easterham Hall is free from any supernatural occupants.' 'I am sorry for,that,' said Let ty. He arched his eyebrows. 'You would like to share your room with a gi)ost or two?' 'No; bur I do like a little tinge of romance about the place-some thing to set it above and beyond the level of the comimon-place.' lHe did not answer, and talka tive Letty once more set the con versational' ball rolling. 'The Easterhams are very rich, I suppose ?' 'Yes.' 'I never heardof them until last week,' said she, musingly. 'And now-how strangely things are ordered in this world-I am going to cast my lot among them.' 'How does that happen?' said the gentleman, lHe could not very well say less, in ordinary polite ness, and yet Letty felt triumph ntly that she had 'drawn him ot.' 'They wrote to Madame Mol gny, tny old teacher, to select a overness qualified to teach two ittle boys; and madame knew hat I wished for a situation, and so here 1. am. I wonder how they will like me ?' 'I hope you will like.Lhem,' said the gentleman, stifling a yawn. 'That isn't the question,' said Letty, imperatively... 'Mr. Eas terham is a dreadful bear.' 'You are acquainted Ath him ?' 'Oh, no; only what I have leard,' answered Letty. 'You are a neighbor?' said Letty, doubtfully. 'Perhaps I have said too much already.' He laughed with more atdima tion than she had yet seen~in his manner. 'Depend upon it, I shall not be tray you to Mr. Easterham. So e is a bear. Well, I have thought so sometimes myself.' 'But he won't bite me if I am a good girl and do my duty to the little oness; and they tell me-they are very nice boys,' persisted Let tice. 'They are very like their fa ther, I believe.' 'Oh,' said Lettice, laughing~, '1 can tame young bears; it is,sonly the full-grown specimen, with sharp :teeth and long claws, I am afraid of. Only think,' and a de mure, apprehensive expression came over Letty's round, bloom ing coun tenance, 'he goes allround the house, all day rdhg, and never says a word to any one.' 'He must be a savage, indeed,' observed the gentleman. 'And Miss Electa Easterham, the old , maiden aunt who keeps house for him, has quarreled suc cessively with every governess they have had,' went on Letty, patting her .little foot on the rustling straw on the stage floor; 'but she shall not, quarrel with me. I won0let her. I am too good-natured and too accustomed to humoring people more especially old ones. Madame'Moligny wrote me word that she disliked young and pretty governesses particulai ly. Now I'm not young-hot very young, you see.' 'No ? '1. was twenty last week,' said -Letty, solelhnly, 'and I am not pretty enougb to disturb her mind. I am only tolerably de cent looking. Now if madame had selected Olive Daytors,,who used to be in the same class with me-she was a regular beauty, with great shady eyes, and a com plexion all pearls and roses-there would have been danger then,' The stranger began to look in terested. 'Tell m more about your school,' said he. 'I have a sister whom I think of placing in some desirable testitution, and I should like to judge whethei your Mad ane ,otigny's would be a good home for her.' Lretty's eyes brightened, her cheeks' reddened, and her little tongue was loosened at once. Her tr#veling companion was social and chatty, and the time fieeted swiftly away. 'You are going?' she cried, as at a lonely glen ibn, overshadowed with silver stemmed birches, a light chaise drawn by two white horses was waiting: 'I have 'reached the end of my journey,' he said, courteously touching his fur cap. '1 had in tended to keep on to the end of the route, but I see they have sent to me here. I wish, you every success and happiness in your new task of bear-taming.' And, as the chaise rolled away, Letty felt herself flushing deeply. 'i'm afraid I have been talking too much,' thought Letty ; 'but what is a body to do, shut up all day long in a stage-coach with a conversable gentleman ?' SAnd the rest of Miss Main waring's journey was just a little tedious. It -was dark whren she arrived at Easterham Hall-a snowy, chill dusk which "made the glow of lights through scarlet moreen cur tains and paved hall, as-- seen through the half open door, most delightful and welcome. Miss Electa, a tall, prim old lady, in snowy cap ribbons-and a brown satin dress stood ready to welcome her. And just behind her,Letty saw a tall gentleman, with two litgc boys clinging about him. 'This is my nephew, Philip,' the old lady said. - And Letty felt as if the blood in her veins was turning to fire as she recognized her traveling companion of the day, 'Do I look very much like a bear,.MissMain waring ?' he asked, laughing, as she stood trembling and tongue-tied, before him. 'No ; don't color. I promise you to allow myself to become very tam able. And you must not cry, either,' as the tears came Into Let ty'seyes. 'There's nothLing for you to cry for.' 'Why didn't you tell me who you were ?' she asked piteously. 'Because you never asked me.' Letty resolved within herself that she would leave Easterham the very next day. *But she did not keep the resolu: tion. At the year's end she had neither quarelled with Miss Electa nor Mr. Easterham, and the little boys thought Miss Letty was per fection. S3o did their father. 'Letty,' said hbe, 'the year for which I engaged you is over.' 'Yes,' she responded, softly. SWill you stay aretbor year? Wll you stay with me always Let ty ?' And so, within the yellow shine of a wedding ring, Letty found herself a prisoner forever at Eas i.rham Hall. A NEW SUMMER RESORT. The Ijetroit Free Press has dis covered a new summer resort, and allows the . would-be host thus to describe its attractions: He came to this office to see about getting out an illustrated catalogue. He was a nice old man and honest in his convictions. He lives out from 1 the city about eight miles on Na poleon Creek, and it suddenly oc curred to him the.other day that ,his place was a beautiiful Summer resort, and that his facilities for taking a few boarders should be published. 'Fust,' he began, as he removed, his ancient tile, 'Na poleon Creek,. flows right by the door, and there's allus at least a foot o? water in it all Summer long. Nicest place in the world for women to learn to swim. No sharks, alligators, or snakes to bother 'em, and they kin splash around iu harmless glee.' 'Any fish in it?' 'Yes, sure there be. They are small, to be sure, but all you've got to do is to catch more of 'em in a day. Napoleon Creek can't be beat, sir, for an attraction, and it furnishes the best kind of water for washing clothes. We save six bars of soap every week by using this water.' 'Well?' 'Wall, then there's a hill in the distance-over Squar' Fuller's farm. I tell ye that hill looks lovely to a boarder sitting on the back verandy ! It's kinder bold and defiant, and kinder soft and plead in', and. the sight makes a man feel sort o' awed and humbled. The hills's a big thing, sir, and it's going to draw.' 'Yes.' 'TIen there's the medder aid a white school house beyond. ,Then, on 'tother side is the big stub that was struck by lightning. Boarders can take home all the splinters they want to, and my boy Dan can tell 'em all about-how the pieces flow. 'This stub is goin' to git 'em, sir-can't help it. It com bines romance and the power of lightning together, and boarders will stand around thar with their mouths open and tongues hanging out.' 'Anything else ?' 'Anything else ?' he repeated, in an injured tone. 'Well, I should say. ther'e was! T,here's sheep gambling o'er the lea, and they are going to draw ;. there's cows wading through Napoleon Creek, ~ and that will fetch 'em ; there's a an old fanning-mill which the children kin turn, and they'll cry to sit up all night ; there's a grove with more'n forty birds in it, and boarders kin take the kitchen chairs right out thar; then I'm I going to break two,colts this Summer and have a lightning rod put up, and 'tween me' n the old woman we'll make it a perfect paradise around thar.' 'And your prirces ?' 'Wall, bein' that this is the fust year, .we shan't b'ar down very heavy. I want to gib folks in the ~ habit of comin' out there, and kinder advertise her up, and bime by we kin take sumthin.' Don't forget to say that we have family ~ prayers twice a day. That'll be t another big draw, you see. Dan E he sings bass, my wife sings a sort t of soprano, I sing awlto, and So phia Jane she accompanies us on 1 the melodeon, and I tell you it's a sweet. That'll git 'em hard ; andl 8 6n extra occasions I kin prevail f on the Edson boys to come over e and help us. One plays the.bass. t drum and the other a mouth organ, I and they can't help but draw. You jest orter hear 'em play 'Baby -Mine' once!l' 'Beautiful, is it.?' 'Beautiful! . Why, it just melts you right down, and you don't care whether there's flies in the milk or not ! Wall, good-by. Work 'er up strong, and don't for get Napoleon Creek and the wo men in swimiming.' Following many vocations has ruined the life of many a man. Believe not ill of a brother un til it is proved beyond doubt, t ruE ATLANTIC-PACIFIC-CA NAL--THE NICAR&UGAN SCHEME. In this wonder-working age, when -he steam-engine rides over mountains, nd steam-boats defy. the power of >ceans's winds aud waves, when the :elegraphic wire encircles the globe, ind the regular "thing" for the weal hy is a voyage round the world, it is needless and out-of-date to be sur prised at any thing. Should we hear aext week that by the help of the elephone Brown of New York can talk with Jones of Hong-Kong, and, that both can hear Robinson of Lon ion when he laughs;-should we bear that Mr. A. of Boston took his Family in his. private balloon to dine with Mr. B.- of Philadelphia and re turned the same evening ;-shodd we even hear that "Old -Probhbilities" has got the wind and rain completely under his: thumb and can supply rain in quantities to suit purchasers, can eause a gentle cooling Zephyr to blow where :he listeth, and can also if need be direct a terrific cyclolae to the ecn fusion of -our enemies ;-should we hear of these wonders or of even greater things than these, it would not be- becoming in us to express sur prise. Things as wonderful and ap parently as impossible in the eyes of our grandfathers have become com monplace in our day, and nothing is more likely to happen than the im probable and the unexpected. A few years ago the scientific world and the capitilists laughed at M. de Lesseps and his Suez Canal scheme. Now the laugh is on the other side, and ships of the deepest draught pass safe from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. The Suez Canal, like the Mont Cenis Tunnel, has ceased to be a wonder. Lack of money alone pre vents the perforationof the bed of the English Channel- - with the Franco English Tunnel. Jg9t the other day apt. Eads turned the laugh on the anbelievers when he placed the hither ;a intractable cbrrents at the mouth )f the Mississppi under his maste7ing aand and by jetties of willow baskets ~ompelled the "Fathers of Waters'? to ~lean' his own threshold of its ob tructing sandbars. A similar feat he ill soon accomplish in Charleston Ilarbor. Another grand schem-e is on foot he junction of the Atlantic and Pa ~ifie by a canal .cut across the Isthmus if Panc na. The advantages of such canal are many and great. Naviga ion round Cape Horn and by the traits of Magellan is proverbially >erilous and tedious. Both time and pace would be saved by an inter eeanic canal, not to speak of the dan ~ers avoided. The great French en ineer, M. de Lesseps, of Suez Canal ame, has his scheme on foot in the aarket and stock is now being pur hased which it is L .ped will by-and y yield the amount deemed necessary, amely eighty million dollars. He roposes to cut a canal through the arrow part of the Isthmus. Simul aneously, the Nicaraugan government ravely and practically considers the easibility of utilizing Lake Nicarauga n a similar scheme at a more North rn and a wider part of the Isthmus. 'he Nicaraugan plan seems to comn Iend itself by its naturalness and its heapness. ([Abbeville Press and Banner. CUROSITY o Boys.-A lady vho had much experience in eaching both boys and girls, peaking of the extraordinary ob useness of a certain pupil,-said: 'lb a physiology class this young ady of fifteen inquired with lan' :uid surprise, 'Is there not a traight passage through the head rom one oar to the other ?'-a omewhat natural conclusion, the eaeber commented dryly, 'if she iad ever watebed the processes of ter own mind.' 'Which woulld you prefer teach ng, asked a visitor,-'boys or ~irls ?' 'Boys, infinitely,'was the prompt 'eply.. 'No boy, for instance, would ~ver have asked sueh a question ~s that. He would -long before ave investigated the subjeoct with lead pencil. . Noty probably, in is own ears,' she added medi atively, 'but in his younger >rother's.' He submits to be seen through microscope who suffers himself ao be caught in a Daseion. ADVERTISING BATES. 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A Western journal, moralizing over the recent sa. of two maiden ladies who nailed up their house and then hanged them sefes, attributes their insanity to the fact that they were beyond .je need of engaging their minds in any occupation, and thus had nothing to do but brood over their imagined wrongs nntil their rea son became dethrdhed and they committed the sad deed which pluaged their once-loved relatives nd friends into misery. It remarks: A man with a grievance may keep himself in tolerable mental health by keeping himself constahtly od cupied. But these women had noth ing to do. They were not egen obliged to do their own house work, for they kept a servant. They had no work to do-no real anxiety on that point. Things had not turned out as they bad hoped. They were single, in moderate cir cumstances, and comparatively unknown, whereas they had hoped to be.. married, rich and the ob served of all observers. To make things worse their ,sister .was married and. rich, and rode in her carriage. . They had little to do aJi day but tg.contrast their-con dition with hers, or with-eQrme im aginary condition which miag1W have been theirs.- They grew in to the idea that all the world was against them, and; having injured their mental vision iu one resipect, it speedily became untrustworthy in all others. 1Not content with breaking up their father's house, they charged him with criminality, and undoubtedly they believed that all the world was trying to rob and dis'appoint them. .They withdrew from society, and sat in their house brooding all day loDg over their troubles, real and fic titious, till those troubles became in their eyes the chiefest things in the world. They imagined every- . body knew all about their affairs, and that nearly everybody was hostile to.them. That tragic self conceit which4ed -the older two to decide that the youngest should live, lest an anxious world should 'lever know what they died for, characterized all that they did. A F.IRE -WoRsHIPPER IN NOaRTH CARoLINA.-About three years ago the Observer reported the case of ? citizen of this county who, having married in 1843, lighted a fire on his hearth-stone as soon as he carried his bride to his new home, and had kept it burning ever since. The citizen was in town yesterday, and being ques tioned about the matter stated that the fire was. still burning, and that throughout all these thirty-six years it had never been allowed to go out. Qu1estioned as to whether or not it - made the house uncomfortably hot in torrid weather, he said. the extra heat thus generated was not perceptible.. In reply to another question, he said that in sumamer weather, when it was necessary for comfort's sake, to keep the fire. burning very low, he had to get up frequently at night to replenish it slightly, b1t 'that he counted this as nothing when he contemplated the idea of that fire going out. -He has evidently formed for it a strong at tachment, and yet one wonld not take hidi' for a sentimental man. But this fire is to him a constant reminder of the day when he first brought home his bride. Around it his children have grown up into manhood and womanhood, and their dhildren have gazed into its light. It was the last light that fell upon the eyes of his wife, and he hopes that it will be the last that will fall upon his. Viewed thus his sentiment in the matter can be understood, and so strong is this sentiment that with the old man it amounts almost to a passion. [Cnharlotte N. C. Observier.