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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XV. WEDNESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 15, 1879. No. 42. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MO1NING, At Newberry, S. C. BY THO. F. GRENRKER, Ediror and Proprietor. iuvariabiy iu Advance. . ne paper is stopped at the expuation of tiwue for which it is paid. .7 The >< mark denotes expiration of sub cription. .?tiscelaneous. MERCHANT TAILO RING, COLUMBIA, S. C. The undersigned has the best. appointed exclusive TAILORING ESTABLISHENT IN THE STATE. FRENCH AND ENGLISH CLTHS.-AN CASSIMERE?, MILITARY TRIMMINGS, TAILORS' THML1MINGS. None but First Class Work men Employed. W. C. SWAFFIELD, ACENT. Apr. 16, 16-4m. BURIAL CAR~ llIJ. IIrMAN & 8ON Respectfully announce that they have on hand the largest and best variety of BU RIA L (IASES ever brought to Newberry, consisting of Fisk's Metalic Cases, Embalming Cases, Rosewood Cases. 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For, seated in thy heart as on a throne, The ancient Judge and Witness liveth still, To note thy act and thought: and as thy ill or good goes fiom thee, far beyond thy reach, The solemn Doomsman's seal is set on each. -John G. Whittier. Nellie's Leap-Year Propo sal. -0 'Really, Catherine, I do not wonder at Mary's surprise at your behavior. You forgot that you are Frank's widow. You are too forward.' I hesitated a moment, really nxious to keep my temper; for I was Frank's widow, and the speaker was his mother. 'Forward!' cried Mary. 'In leed, you would have been shock 1d, last night, mother. There was Mr. Vance urging her to sing, ind she hanging back, as if she were a young, bashful girl; and icting as if Herbert Halstead was ier old friend, when it was only is a married woman- ' 'Yes,' interrrupted Julia, 'I think, mother, if you can't make Kate realize that she is a married wo man, with a daughter nearly six vears of age, you had better-' 'Send me away,' I broke in, un ble longer to control myself, 'it's aot the first time that hint has been thrown out; and, if it were ot for little Nollie, poor child, I would go away to earn my living it once. You drive me desperate. [ declare I will marry again, and get rid of all this-' and then I burst into tears. -Marry again ! How will you d o t? Oh, yes ! A good joke !' cried ulia, with a shrug at my tears. Don't you see, Mary, it's leap year !' and she laughed, derisively. 'Who'll you ask ?' sneered Mary. Herbert Halstead ? Julia, you'd etter look out !' 'You may sneer,' I cried, check ng my tears ; 1 was no w thorough y angry. 'But I tell you, if no yn would ask me to marry him, I >elieve I should ask Mr. .Halstead, and-he'd have me I' I had fairly taken up their own weapons of personalities, which I scorned. The moment after, shamed of myself, I ran to my 'oom, to put on my bonnet and et out of thouse. I[ looked . the glass, as I put the crape >onnet, with its widow's cap and eavy veil, on my head. I saw a ace to which black was certainly secoming, though it was not a 'emarkably pretty fatce. It looked aot more than twenty-five, some aid not more than twenty ; but I was, really, a little over twenty cur. Married at eighteen to rank Stevens, I had been a petted wife for four years, and now a widow for two. The thought of he happiness of the four, and the toneliness of the two, as I looked it the face sur rounded by crape, made the tears come again; but 1 brushed them away, resolutely, nd went out, knowing that a brisk walk would do me more ood than anything else. I went ut without my darling, my in. separable companion, my little baby girl, Nellie. This alone showed how troubled 1 was. Truth to tell, I was too angry to trust myself with the little one, who might have asked to have our uonversation explained, for she bad been in the room at the time. I could only hope that, at five years old, a child did not under stand me. Soon after I left, my mother-in law and her daughters went out for a drive. They invited Nellie to go; but she, feeling, pr baps, that they had not treated mamma well, refused. Soon the ront door bell rang, and, like all children, Nellie must needs run to see who was there. She managed t open the door herself, and there stood her prime favorite among the gentlemen that visited the house, Mr. Halstead, or, as she had called him, since her babyhood, Uncle H6rbert. He had been her father's chum and dearest friend, and loved the child for Frank's sake. 'Ladies home, Nell ?' 'I'm home,' she said, 'and I dess mamma'il be in soon.' 'Very well. Let's go in the parlor, and have a chat.' Nellie sat in his lap, discussing the merits of cocoanut cakes and sugar almonds a little while; but suddenly, dropping her candies in her lap, she asked, 'What's leap leap-I fordet. Do you kuow what's it ?' 'Leap ? Leap frog? Leap year? Is that the word ?' 'Yes. What is it ?' 'Why, its a year when you la dies can ask the gentlemen to marry you. But you see, Nellie, you're too young-or, wouldn't you ask me ?' 'Oh, no! I wouldn't ask you. Mamma's going to ask you.' The young man nearly dropped the child, and then folded her close to him, lost (perhaps) he should forget her again. 'What do you mean, darling ?' he asked, 'Now think, Nellie, but don't tell Uncle Herbert anything 'make up.' . 'Oh, no I Really, truly, bless me, sure's alive-isn't that what you say when you'se true? Well!' the little tot gave a long sigh, and pausod, Herbert not daring to in terrupt her, lest she should see his anxiety, and, miniature wo man that she was, should refuse to satisfy him. 'Well!' she repeated, 'you see, they does scold my mamma, so they does. To-day morning, they maked mamma cry, and to-morrow morning.' (she vtould call yester day to-morrow), 'they scolded her again, because she wouldn't sing, and then they said she was for dard. What's fordard ?' 'Forward, indeed !'. ejaculated Rerbert, under his breath. 'If it had been some others now. But Nellie, how about leap year ?' 'Oh, yes ! I most fordot, didn't [ ? Well, you see, mamma said but, oh, Uncle Herbert, I never showed you my two wveenie, new little kittens! They's only little sings, wivout eyes. Come out to the piazza, and i'll show you.' It was no use to be impatient. The young man knew the child too well for that, and so they went out and inspected the kit tens. Then he tried to coax Nel lie back to the subject. 'Oh, I fordet !' she said. 'Only they madle mamma cry.' 'What did they say, darling ? I'll give you a big doll--' 'With real hair ?' 'Yes, yes ! Real hair and eyes, and-oh, anything. But did they say 1 wanted to marry-' 'They said mamma wasn't a girl, and she was old ; and mamma said -oh, there's mamma. Mamma, didn't you ask Uncle Herbert to marry you ? He wants to know.' I had come in, looking for the child, and that was the speech I eard. I felt ready to sink witb mortification. 'Kate, darling; can't I hope you'll let me ask!I You must know that I hoped, when these' (touch ing my veil and black dress,) 'were put aside, that I could ask you to let me care for you. And from what I hear, I think Frank, even, would wish me to care for you, and at once. Come, dar ling,' as I hid my face in my hands. 'You've asked me to mar ry you; and I must name the day ; and I say now, at once. Let's give them a good thorough sur prise. 1 can guess how they've treated you. Come, now, get ready this fairy, this blessed little darling that has brought me my appiness, and we'll go to your own minister.' I tried to refuse, but I was s o weary of living with my mother in-law, that at last we three slipped out of the house ; and dear Dr. S.--, who had baptized me, married me to Frank, and knew Herbert well, married us. WVe drove back, and reached the frnnt doone na the family were re turning. Julia, who would appro priate Herbert, stopped forward. 'Good evening, Mr. Halstead. So you met Kate on the steps ? Strange ?' with a glance at me, as if'I had planned to meet him. 'Not at all, Miss Julia,' said Herbert. 'My wife and I just called in to receive your congrat ulations, and to leave little midget here for a few days.' No tableau I have over seen was half so comical as the'one those three made. I really felt for Julia; for I knew she cared for Herbert. She gained her self possession quickly, however, and congratulated me, whispering, as she kissed me, 'So you asked him ?' My husband heard, and an swercd. 'No, Miss Julia, she did not ask me. Through other means, thank God, I learned the one I loved was unhappy ; and, as I had hoped, for more than a year past, to soon ask her to be my wife, I persuaded her to marry me at once. Leap year privileges are still open ror those who choose to use them.' We are quite an old married couple now ; for three years have passed, but Herbert and I still often laugh over Nellie's leap-year proposal. BRIDGES. A Few of the Highest in the World--The East River Bridge Comparatively a Dwarf. Brooklyn Eagle. The immense height of the tow ers for the support of the Forth bridge has created some surprise and no little wonder, when it is taken into account that when com pleted they will be the highest building of any kind in the world. Science will, therefore, wait with some anxiety their completion. The height of the towers on the sland of inch Garvie, midway be tween South and North Queens ferry, will be 560 feet, to support a bridge 150 feet above high-water mark, but the reason for this great altitude is that in the generality f suspension bridges the towers are built on the land on either ide of the span, and were this the ase in the -Forth bridge towers f 150 feet less height, or 410 feet, would be sufficient ; but this is impossible, from the great length f the bridge. It seems that by natural laws here is a limit to everything on his earth-that is. that men can go to a certain length and no further, as, for instance, in tele scopes not.hing larger than Lord Ross' having been perfected for many years. In reference to cer ain buildings, a correspondent the. >ther day quoted St. iRollox stalk 130 feet high. St. Paul's cathe ral is about 460 feet to the top of he dome, St. Peter's at Rome 80 feet, the pyramids of Egypt, t least the great pyramid, is 180 feet at present in its imperfect tate, but by calculation would each 500 feet in height when fnished. When it is remembered hat this structure only reaches bis height with a base of about 26 acres, it will be a very difficult matter to raise the Forth bridge owers to 960 feet with a small base. These towers are to be formed of solid masonry to a cer tain height, and then by groups f iron pillars girded together in layers upward. The Niagara suspension bridge has one large span of 821 feet; the railway track above the water is 245 feet, or 95 feet higher than the Forth bridge ; the towers are nly 60 feet high, being built on ither side of the shore. The Al. legany bridge has two large sans of 344 feet each, and the towers are 45 feet high. The ovington and Cincinnati bridge as a span of 1,057 feet ; its height above lo w water is 103 feet, and the towers 230 feet high. The bridge seems to give the best pro portion to the Forth bridge, which s 1,680 feet for two spans, 150 igh, and towers of 560 feet. Those we have mentioned are fin shed and in working order; and we may mention also the East River bridge, connecting New York to Brooklyn. The towers of this bridge are also built upon the land, and are 278 feet high. The single span is 1,595 feet long, or only 85 feet less than the Forth bridge, while the total length is 5,989 feet. There, is, therefore, no doubt that the Forth bridge, when completed, will be an engin eering triumph. The tomato is an excellent ar ticle of food, not withstanding the assertion of many who claim that it is not healthy, produces cancers, etc., etc. Now I believe it to be one of the healthiest of vegetables. Note its ruddy hue, its fine smcoth skin, and its plump, well-rounded form ; surely there is nothing to indicate disease, and there is every reason to believe that its general health is equal to, if not better,, than that of any other vegetable I that exists. Take, for instance, the beet; mark the fatality that at. tends their growth! Dead beets can be counted by thousands in every community and in every cli mate,, who have been nurtured under the most favorable circum stances-as regards sanitary meas ures-for their healthful growth. Even the potato has its almost yearly epidemic which carries off countless numbers, causing bitter sorrow and leaving scarcely a dry eye in the whole Murphy com munity. They have other troubles also; 'tis the early potato that catches the worm-or rather, that is caught by it-and no vermi fuge, however powerful, has yet been discovered that covers the ground sufficiently to protect it from the fell destrover. Cucum bers and onions are very far from being immacculate. The former are cut down-or rather, cut up in the heyday of their youth, as it were, and seldom live to a green -i. e., a yellow old age. Ever in their infancy, they are continually yetting in a pickle, and are no comfort to themselves, nor to any body else. The onion is a con firmed invalid, and if it leaves its bed it is sure to get in a stew. It prides itself, somewhbat upon its rank in society, but it is in bad odor among its fellows. But I digress. It was not the intention to write up the entire vegetable kingdom, but merely to defend our friend-the tomato-from his traducers. Lettuce return, then, to our subject. Find a greater delicacy to preserve-who among you can ? Rope you all can-can all you raise, and raise all you can of this healthful esculent. Then, again, how essential is the tomato for fixing catsup-not to fix cats up by tbrowving tomatoes at them, though even ~as missiles they would doubtless prove efficacious, The refuse tomato cans could be used with equal effect to fix dogs up, if-in the language of the ge nial Erratic Enrique-you wish to curtail your house rubbish. Whbat could better "pointer moral or adorn a tail ?" Finally, it is claimed that the consump tion of the tomato produces can cer and the like. It has been fully demonstrated that the tomato is a perfectly healthy vegetable, therefore,its consumption is a mere fallacy. It never has the con sumption. As was recently re marked to a prominent physician : "We defy you to prove it, or to prove that tomatoes produce can cers-we don't believe you cancer, in fact, we know you can't, sir !" Enough of the tomato-though we never-i. e. hardly-!!! (1 was going to say that we seldom get enough of them, when some thing struck me.) To conclude, let me hope all reasonable think ing persons will see the force of our plea for the tomato and enjoy them while the season is yet upon us. There is nothing that so refines, polishes and ennobles face and mien as the constant presence of good thoughts. The church, rightly ministered, is the vestibule to an. immortal life. To live without envy is a cer tain indication of great qualities. CLASSICALLY DRUNK. Providence (R. L) Journal. The lights were out, the streets were still, and all other presences were silent in the presence of the peaceful night. And at this time the soft but slightly unsteady tread of a man was heard ap proaching the station. He took a chair near the door, dangled his legs over the chair's arm, hung his peaked hat on the toe of his boot, and in a low voice addressed the officer: "I was here a year ago and listened to the song of your cricket under the mat there, and I want to hear it again. That cricket comes into my life exactly. He sings and all his green com rades sing of the dying summer. There Jare a million of these little. mourners under the leaves to. night, and they all have one song of pensive sadness. There is a cricket in my heart. There used to be summer there. I am a sort of an old cricket myself. I crawl into the natural formed grape grottoes on the highway and sing my own sad song there. Speak ing of cool, wild graperies reminds me that I am athirst. Say, Ser geant, can't you send a sleuth messenger to the Club of the Pur ple Cluster and tell the vinous triumvirate that are crowning their chaste and marvelous brows with beautiful chaplets to send me, not an old Roman punch even, nor a Grecian amaranthe julep, but a tod, a mere modern tod. Tell them I am always with them., and I often commune, when on my promiscuous pilgrimage, with their disembottled-pardon me, I mean disembodied-spirits; I see their faces rapt and purpling with the blood of the broken-hearted grape of the Garter stream. But say, Sergeant, my blood is turning in to the channels of melancholy. This must not be. Here are three coins I put one into wine, and the world flushes up for me-; a second coin, and I own that block there, I am mayor of Pawtucket, "I walk on thrones ;" a third, and I hear rapturous music, I float on fair rivers, my old coat becomes as the garment of a great ruler; I put my warm heart against the cold marble of the world, and I warm it with its generous glow. The world is no longer a marble tomb to me. It opens, and en chanting forms come forth and embrace me and bid me go'on. The gates of eternity open with a majestic welcome to the man who defies fortune and dares to grand ly live it out." "But those are not coins," said the officer, "they 1 are buttons." "Well, buttons, so let them be-ahl! that Bong again, the song of the cricket. Officer, let me sleep here under the mag netism of the mighty midnight heavens, and let the lady crickets serenade me." NOT GENERALLY KNoWN.-It has long been the boast of Britons that the sun never sets on the British empire. It may be news to many of our readers that the same boast applies with equal force to the United States. When the sun is giving its good night kiss to our westermost isle, on the confines of Behring's Sea, it is al ready flooding the fields and forest of Maine with its morning light, and in the eastern part of that State is more than an hour high. At the very moment when the Aleutian fisherman, warned by the approaching shades of night, is pulling his canoe towards the shore, the wood-chopper of Maine is beginning to make the forests echo with the music of his axe. From the farthest eastern point of our country, at Eastport, Me., to the farthest of the Aleutian Islands-acquired by our purobase of Alaska-the distance is one hundred and ninety-seven degrees og lontitude, or seventeen more thain half way around the globe. Practice economy and industry, t and success is yours. Kindness is the high tide of the t soul's nobility.c A good example is the best ser- I mon. ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1.00 per square (one inch) for first insertion and 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements ten per cent. on above. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tributes of respect, same rates per square as ordinary advertisements. Special Notices in Local column 15 cents per line. Advertisements not marked with the num ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid, and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adver. tisers, with liberal deductions on above rates JOB PRI.7VTLG DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH TERMS CASH. A ROMANTIC APPLICANT. A man with beer-eolored hair and a soft blue eye haloed by car dinal lashes walked into the office of one of the Boston steamship lines about two weeks ago, and approaching the cashier, said : 'I have traveled pretty much all over the world; I have dined in the golden cafes of Constantinople; I have sipped wine in the gayest salons in Paris; I have smoked rigarettes at the graves of Ho mer, and I have bathed my aching brow in the 4>illows of the blue Adriatic.' '+ 'Well, what of it?' 'What of it ' he said, reflectively. I want to go to Boston ; that's what of it.' 'Do you want a first-class tick 'Well, I think I do. Do you Eancy, my dear sir, that the off apring of an Austrian count, who an trace his pedigree back to the rebellion, would deign to travel >therwise than in a manner be itting his rank and social sta Gion ?' The cashier blushed and apolo ~ized, when the nobleman con inued: 'Do you set a good table ?'.. 'First-class,' responded the cash er, 'all the delicacies of the sea ion, as well as wine of every brand. Everything is cooked in abe best of style.' 'You delight me beyond mneas Lre,' responded the nobleman, with a smile, as he drew a tooth pick from his pocket to scratch. his neck. 'If there is a4y one thing n this vale of tears that I like mnore than another it is an asthetic neal. 1 suppose the waiters are polite and attentive?' 'Yes, my lord, they are.' 'Do you have flowers on the table.' 'We have.' 'I like that. My poor mother - he Countess of Hoganpaziok was ~lways fond of flowers on a dining able, and I inherit her commend. Lble weakness. Have you ever 2ad any elopements, or suicides, >r anythiog of a romantic nature n your boats ?' 'No, sir.' 'Do you ever race with other iteamers?' 'No, sir.' 'Then I shall have to say good norning. 1 am an old cavalry~ :barger, and I don't like none of roar easy -going religious naviga ion. When I said I want to go n a regular old-fashioned!, slay >ang, licketty rip fire-the farni ure-in-to - the furnace - and - line, hat's the kind of a Mackinaw traw hat I ami.' And then he drew himself up to is utmost inch and walked out. (Washington Star. NEWSPAPERS AND KNOWLEDGE. -Newvpapers of the present day, 'emarks a New York paper, con ain articles upon subjects in Lcience, literature and art, which ~wenty-five years ago no editor vould have ventured to publish. ['his fashion has its objectionable oints. it tends to encourage en >erficiality, to engender conceit, nud to lead incompetent persons o form opinions upon very in unficeient knowledge. But on the vbole its tendency is good. A ittle knowledge is not dangerous mnless it is misused ; and all know edge, however great, must be lit le in its beginning. The fashion f administering literature, science LDd art in small and simple- doses >rings great numbers. of people Lnder their influende who other vise would remain without a tine ure of any one of them. People vho would not touch any bound ook but a novel will read a little ~o,~,.ki~nnA nonir.hlAt or ft maoa.