The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 07, 1887, Image 1
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VOLUME I.
\ 11 Vhlc I Mssmmii'SI'.
We have just linislu'd reading e\
. .overnor ('hamhorlHin's address 1 ??*fore
tin* I'hi I?'>t:i Kappa Soeietv ni
I --Vale Ivlucati-in at the South." It
is a masterly disco irso, and most uiisoarino-lv
exposes the meretricious
nt>ss of t!i" Blair bill. eonecrnino'
which tin.' orator says:
' I >!ial! not attempt to conceal tnv
want of respect even for this scheme
ami it* authors, for it is the product,
almost alone, of puritans the most arr.int
and shallowest demaj^ojriie who
no-..- allli' ts our national councils."
After pointinnf out the provisions
of th<* hill, appropriating as a whole
s?the sum of -H"!7,001),()()() to he -dis
linrsed on die warrant of the Commissioner
of I'M nation, eountersi?,,<-M'
hv tli" Secretary of the Interior Mr.
('liainherlaiu savs:
"This hill presents at once tlio1
orave a constitutional and practical
<pie tio:i.
"It marks a distinely new depart
ure in our system or national idea o'
popular education. It proposes
!u>> to in ike the work of popular education,
or common schools, a national
work, a Federal function. By the
proposed hill not only tire laio'' sumto
he oi\ am out of the Nat it ma! Treasury
to the States, hut of necessity.'
the conditions and restrictions upon
the i^'ift are to he enforced and indeed
ol hv designated I nderal oHi.-ers.
I iii- is and must he supervision t?i
some evteut hv th<? Feder l oovern
.......t ,.r . ,.i t 11.;..
foroicrn to ail ?. tr history and practice
as ran lie cnneoiv<vl of. All former
Lfifts i>v tin- nation to the States for
schools have hern absolute, and neither
iint-lird nor carried national super\
ision to anv decree.
Hoi thr gravest objection is not
tin* novcltv of tfi1' nieasnre. lint its
demonstrable incompatibility with
the (^institution. I need not remind
yon that the must precious product
in a {lolitiea' or civie sense, which
Amorica '..as jriven to the world,
th" most precious political <rift in nt\
mature judgement, ever devised by
the wit of man is the ('(institution of
the ( oiled States. Nor need I in
si<t that the Inchest civic duty laid
upon us, and each of us is obedience
to that ('.institution, not merely obedience
to positive laws made under
its sanction, lint obediences to it in
our wishes, in the laws in which we
seek to Irame. N'-.tlcr does the fact
that, like all other written documents,
its expounders differ in its construe
ti.?.i, le .sen our obligation to obey i'.
The commands and precepts of even
the Sermon on the Mount are different!)'
in'e 'preted and applied !>y different
minds."
As \vo read we ask ourselves with
vvoiider, can this be our ('hatnberlain
or some new I hmiel coino to iudj/e
i
MiiMit? N overt lielosfj, sav wo in ail i
inmost heartiness, all honor to such
teaching and such sentintents. it mat
rors not from whom (hoy < 01110. There
is absolutely no other hope for the
people of this oreat country than a
self-rest rati 11 i 11 ur. conscientious. scrupulous
<(liotlicnoo to our supreme Federa!
law. The political virtue en
rendered I>\* audi conduct lias in itself
a saving ^rraco which lifts a free
people far above brute force and
liazhylous impulses.
In diseussino the question of the
constitutionality of the educational
bill Mr. Chamberlain takes as a cardinal
principle of our Federal system:
That the ('onstitution has created
a oovernnient of strictly delegated,
defined and limited powers, and that
no nower not so delegated, can be
constitutionally exercised !?\ the jrovcrnnient
of the I nited States, or by
any branch t hereof."
'(tie constitutionality of the bill is
then discussed at some hmoth and
with convincing force.
Mr. ('hatnbcrlain concludes that
if ('engross can assume the support
of these common s>< liools, it can oiiiv
do s(, :m its appropriate function and
so conferred l?v the Constitution on
the oovorninent of tlm I "nited States
y in ( ontradistinction of the fjinotions |
of the several Stales. And it is maintnii>*d
tl^it if tli(t clause 'Mo lew ta.ves,
to provide for the general
welfare,'' leaves it to the simple disereti
at of ('undress to sav what is
the general welfare, and thereon to
appropriate the moneys of the Kedora!
Treasury for any purpose that it
mioht deem for the general welfare,
thi- would roach Congressional absolutism.
At this point attention is
called to the clause, which provides*.
The. ('engross shall have power
to make all laws which shall l?e necessary
and proper for carrying into
execution the foro^oinpf powers, and
all other powers, vested hy this Constitution
in the government of tho'
muSSHt.
" 3E tirtxhE
I nitcil S atos or in nnv doiiarttnciit
tliorrof."
Mr. t'huiulmrlaiii failt'd ln?ro to
strike tlx1 key iintn of tlio ivsii?? whilst
ijuotino t!u> ali ivo, wliieh evidently
ami eonehi -i volv forbids to I'onoress
tli" i?? to make laws t'ot the e\erut
ion of mow mi s not \ ostei i !>\ I l?o t on stitutioii
in tln? o'ovi'rnn11m11 of In*
i uiteti >iaies. .\n<i : sins jioMcr i<>
provide for tin4 support of tin* niiiimoii
si'Ikm>is is iiiii> vested in tin' I nit
toil Stains, then it excludes tin' State
power in tiie premises, whereas the
lllair l?iil predicates t he support
trrauted l>\ the Federal tro\ eminent
on that >vliieli earli State should
e-ran' "Is ?>wn heliall" Tor its own
. cIk k ds.
Hut ( liatiilierhiin also shows the
pernicious effect which extraneous
help has had on the school system of
t (hinecticut. (piotiue- the statement
of Secrettirv Mice of the (Connecticut
Hoard of Kducution. in this hehalf
who concludes the statement with
the foliowint* strihinjjf sentence: "The
puldie sciiools must draw their sustenance
from the people who are directly
or indirect iv l/enetitml |>\
them.
We have only space to call att< nK
?
lion to the following letters written
to Mr. t 'hamlicrlain aniono main , all
leadino- to the same eoneliisious.
Mr. ?'Iiamlierlain says:
"I h hi in 111\ hand, from a Yale
graduate of my own eolleov camera tion.
an eminent citizen of one of the
old slave States, who writes thus:
"'! inn deeply interested in the
puldie school system, and hence opnosed
fo national aid \ on camt<>!
i ; *
plaster the South wtili this system.
It is it orowth. ami its certain and
healthy orouth ran only !> secure i
by com pel I i o ea It community to
provide for its own schools. Tim
Blair hill is simplx in an itluv form,
the old hallucination, of 'forts an s
and a mule,* which has caused more
briers and sassafras bushes to trrow
in Southern fields than all else."
Then, ainono other loiters I font
the South, we lind the following from
South t 'an>1 ioa:
"I' l'oni a colored planter and conntr\
inerehant in South ('arolimt, who
was a slave and or shiver ol
hi- owner's slaves before the war;
cannot read, and can only write his
nwii name, but owns &|(U)00 of real
estate, and has a bunk account of
oood size the year round. Mis h'ttcr
is written at his dietatiou by his
nfii'te clerk and bookkeeper;
" Polities are at a stand-till here.
Corn, cotton and sweet potatoes,
with a little Northern l?aco >, is what
we live on now. Politics did us no
?roo(t, and hero is this so.ncthino or
other they call tho 1 >1 air bill, which
our preachers and others say is eoino
to cure all our sores. I never knew
much about it until I cot your letter.
It's cnoticli to know that it is^uim'
to oiyc us darkeys' .something or
, - O
other. I don't want it. Wo darkies,
don't want it. Schools are poor and
short here so far. Init we're "jetting
on. I I tossed 'inifin'rs' once ;ind
worked line a 'nigger' myself. I
know 'em. NO inure bossing for me
nor . 'dping neither. Who said 'root,1
hog or die'? It's the (rod's truth,
hut we have said also,'eat hog or die.'j
If we can get corn and bacon, hog and J
hominy, we can get schools. 1 stand
just where 1 did when yon were here
work hard, save tnv money and
send the \oung ones to what schools
we have. When we get more money,
we'll have more schools.'
"From a colored preacher in South
Carolina a preacher in that State
before the war. and once a slave:
'The South is my home and the
home of my people. We must stay
here, or most of us must. Chinos
are getting better all the time. I'he
> T*>
white people are more contented, and
crops are getting good generally.
We move slowly but sure. We need
more schools, and are getting more
every year. Governor Thompson has
done nobly in this. Mv people only
know that the Blair bill is something
the North is going to give them for
schools. You know them well
enough to see they want it, and will
blame any of us who say 'No:* but I
tell them, in spite of that, it is not
good for them. \V? must help ours dves
Vlt/ttlA'.' < ?v lflti*!" iliwi 1W? l.??l I
beoin now, and keep on. Whites
and blacks here are bound together.
What hurts 0110 hurts both. Yon
told us so years ajro. hbnnncipaiion
Day, I WW, you said it in <'olumbia.
and spoke Wliittier's word:
'The laws of chnn#cl< - justice hind
Oppressed with oppressed,
And el >s" as sin and suffering joined.
We maivh to fate abreast,'
k'So we jo> now, and we don't
want this thinj/ done for us. Wo,
must uII stand together, and takntho
best eare we can of ourselves.'
"hYotn a ("barleston, S. nierchant
and factor, of line culture and
much travel, especially at the North
and West:
TO "TOXTE WOHD .
(/ONWAY, S
*( 'hiirli'ston wants (lie Itlair hill,
ami .so tioos the Stato, if von conni
iio.-os. \lan\ <-f' iiiir la'M moil want
il loo, inil noi Mil. ? iiivci'linr I 11?>!11i?
son thinks lie wants ii. anil s?? does j
I klWSOll of till' ,\ ' tlllll 1 'iH't'tl't', |
;uni ('ottrtenuv ( Mayor), who is a sjfen- .
nine friend of schools, s< von know. .
1 could name :i o-ooil imtnv llioiv, but. j
after all. in private almost every one j
of these will say they are for it lie- ,
cause the idea of recouping for ohl
. is ;> ?pulnr. 1 ant tlnail against j
it. M. t litiller win riifht wiien he ,
said in the Senate two years aoo that |
i? was a Mow at what is the best j
lliiny- auione- us liere the s|>iril of ,
self- lie 11>. '* I'm I
aein it too. because it is meddling ,
with, and will surely end in I'Vderal ,
en 'trul of. Slate affairs. There'* so
uiueli of State's ri?dit- |<?ft in me af |
ter our drubluu!/, anyhw, and I don t
aj)olojri/e for ii either. Scotch the
snake, I sa*, in the cradle, and pray |
excuse my lame effort to he lassieal. ,
Ii I were talkino- to you I'd use army ,
words instead.' L]
f
T'rom a mechanic, a master build vo
er o| t 'olumbia. S. t well known in ^
New York and New Jersey:
" d was a Hourlton till IS77. I v:|>
N an Winkle did ni sleep sounder
hati I. but when we ?fol you down
an I had (hitters ur own way, I *voke
u11. i am for education for all. i
pay m\ taxes, and would j>a\ move,
e'ladly, fo.' edueali'>:t. riiompsin is
our best (iovernor since the war of
IS.'I.! He's off in this tiiin?r, thotijrh.:
I tou t I remember the r'rec luian'Ibtreau
ami the eallino- for troops11
from Washington? This is it over
ue-ain, and iiobtino- short of it. I
l V <1 : I / ? I ? i * r
(toil I lliltllx OIUIIIOIU Wlllill! V< lie I'M'
tlie thin?r (tlie lilair lull). Iiut I sup- ;
11<?m.? ('iiarlestou would; i?<11 ?'hurle ton
is tin* under doe* in this State
now. I'Ik' darks want it of course,!
and lots <>l white uiooers, who want
anything th"\ can <n ' f? : n ?111in<_?
Let ns alone; let us lio-iii it out here.
Neither lilaeks nor h ' w! d In
the wall, lint hoth w :! ;"t cd a al< I
and know how to <u I il alone. I'lia1 !
is my policy, ami it is the ,ud\ poi i
ie\ in education, or in uuvtliino else. J
i> ir t he Soul h."
llojs uihI Mothers.
Sometimes hoys think mothers are
in the wa\; that thev would iia\e
more libertt if it were not for their
mothers. Mothers have sueli search
ino eyes, eves that seem to look riolit
into the heart, especially if there is'
anythiiio- liidiuo* ther" that mothers'
should know uhout; and this is
trotlhlesoine. If the boys would onl\
understam. that it is love that makes
the mother's eyes keen, her voice
so anxious, her (pe-st'ons so sea re hino;
|ove that knows all the tomptn j
tions that may come to a hov, and
the trouble if there i' tio wise eoiili-j
<lant about! It is not the anxiety of
a I'aul I'ry, but the lovino jjuardianship
of a mother. \ wise man said,
"(iod could not be /en where ,so lie
made mother." (iod may seem fari
off to us soaietinies but there is j ,
mother near, who will lead us back.!
The wisest and best men have honored
their mothers. I'ew men who
have accomplished a special work in
the world do not oive credit to their |
mother for the help and inspiration!
thut niaile their work possible. Inoivino
this credit to their mother's they
have In nored themselves for it proves
that as boys they honored her instructions,
were ouided by her ad
vice and made a confidante <>f her in
their hopes and desires. When the
lute ('resident (.{arfiehl was inane1uraled.
the first person he sainted
was his mother, showing plainly tieplace
she held in his hetirl. his
life.
The world honors and respects the
man who honors and respects his
mother. The neglect of a mother
stamps a man or hoy as heartless,
ungrateful, if not cruel. Tito truly
ureal men liaye never forgotten those
to whom they were most deeply indebted.
Many letters have been
written about mothers, but few tlint
shows the sorrow that romes if the
full measure of a mother's love has
received no return until too iate to
make it. The. poet (fray, in I7(V>,
wrote the following letter to a
friend:
"It is lono since I heard you were
ijniii' in haste into N orkshire on ae- 1
count of your mother illness, and
the same letter inform me she was
recovered. Otherwise I had then
wrote to you only to l>.-u- you wouid
take care of her, and inlorm you that j
I had discovered a thine1 very litl!" ,
known, which is that in one's whole
life one can never have any more than
a sinyrle mother. "t on may think this
obvious and (what you call) a trite 1
observation. Yon are a openn 1
ooslino' I v.as at the same awe (very '
near) as wise as von, and yet I never
discovered this (with full evidence 1
si in I conviction, I moan) till it was 1
too late. It is thirteen years a?ro, |
and it seoms hut sis yesterday, and 1
every day I live it sinks deeper into
my hart.'
Ifivery man thinks Cntesar's wife <
??njjrlit to be above suspicion, but lie i
is hir less particular a> to what
Orosar himself ou^ht to be.
?
^3ST3D WCE:
. C.. TMIHSDA V. A I'
Whiskey iiikI Tolmeo."
i
The .Maeon '/V'it//v11>h joins its 1
\uine la ami Alia* ta eontempoiarios j'
n lim orv tliat the South :ho|?im)simI to
he internal revenue system "almost' ;
Miliilly." There is no evidenee of
melt solidity outside of (ieoroih 1
However, and we doubt that it e\i.-js '
m 111 ( ire in, outside of two or tlirije
newspaper nOioers.
There are several l^ood r.iasojis
r<.?r this doubt, of whieh we nerd
Mention onlv it fi-\\ in tiio In'O 1
i dace lltcri' is no proof of the 41- '
iotred solidity, so far as we know,
xeept liio testimony of a few I'm
[eetion newspapers, whose wishes
louht ess largely affect their view
?f the situation around them.
In the seeond plaee, we do not
helieve that the people of (ieor^ia
would prefer to have the tax removed
from tohaeeo, for instance, rather
Ihan loan elothino, food, iron tnaniil?kLires,
and a thousand other
which all the people arc
while no one is
ironiBi) to us<> tohaeeo in any
A" lien 1 en t hose w ho use tohaeei?
W^ro ^S?Ttain:\ piefcr to pay a
vo.he hot tax on the article of lux
'irvVth* than to pay compulsory
tnxc&^Kcnunt less necessaries. 1 h
side-Tmjyl?:u*<ro is raised to a vcr\
small ^Rtent in (ieoroia, and the
people of that State have the ass i: anee
of IYoteelloti newspaper* in
\ iromia that it is the tohaeeo producer,
and not the consume), who 1
pa\ s tin' tax. They understand too.
as the i'liiladelphia AVeo/v/ says,
that lite advocacy of the repeal of
thi.-? la\ is not nut of solicitude for
the poor man's welfare, or for the
welfare of the people as a whole,
hut, in order to maintain war taxes
mi certain articles for the continued
hcnelW of those who are enonoed in
the manufacture of such articles.
\ proof of this may he found in the
fact that nearly every politician or
newspaper lav irino the repeal of the
tohaeeo lax is opposed t > a repeal
tic duties on wool, hemp, llax.
j ill*, iron ore, coal, lumber, sail
uitii i>tIh r raw materials of produ
(inn. I'Ih* more elTot lively to conceal
llieir real purpose some of tiiese
organs ami |>ulilieiai?s profess a
willingness to remove the duty on
1 in I ?er or salt, or "lioos" hripties,"'
or soii.e other article on the t rill"
list. Hut their real aim is to defeat
taritT refonn, first I?v ? repeal of tin*
tobaeco lax. ami then bv a repeal of
the whiskey tax.
11 is certainly sio-nihcant licit
newspapers published in a State
which has so little interest tin the
rul'ivat on and manufacture of tobacco
should devote themselves day
after day and veiir after year, ton
strenuous effort to secure the repeal
?f the tobaeeo tax, while tliCN up
hold or are silent in regard to taxes
which increase the cost of livino to
every man, woman and child in that
State, by about 10 per cent.
The assertion that (Jeoripa is
"solid" for the repeal of the tax on
whiskey is still more remarkable.
That State is held up as the model
temperance State in tiie I nion, and
;i ver\ laroe majority of its aounties,
we believe. ha\o imposed almost
prohibitory restrictions upon the
liquor trniliv. It is incouucivalile j
that the people who support this
temperance movement, should at
it,,. i... -i i- e
..... ..[inn nun- IM- ciiuiMHfnu" n?r
free whiskey; an<I yet free whiskey
wid free tobacco is precisely what
nu IVoted ion contemporaries dedare
t<> he the lirst desiro of their
hearts.
The Atlanta ('oHntitution not
lono ao;i wiih fn^iij?(!(l ina hitter'
i^lit aoaiiist the iiiii|iiitous IVoteelive
tariff, and now prides itself
upon having contributed at that
time to secure the repeal of the du(\ (
hi iiiiiiiine in the interest of the,
|?eoj>le. The tnosl it ti/iau has since ,
hanoed sides, however, and is now |
liohtino in he ha I f of the protected
manufacturers. We would he ^dud
to hear from it, or anv of our I'roleetion
eontenttioraries in (omri/ia, a ,
inole eood reason why quinine I
should he taxed aoain, in order toj
have tobacco and whiskev :,'n scot
free; and. if quinine should not ho
taxed anew for this purpose, why
iiiv other article of necessity should
'ontiniieil to he taxed for the purjiose.
A I'I Pit iiml ('on fit-1'.
Shoeless ('oil federates.
An 'id soldier recently talked ton
r-qiorter of the Atlanta ((ht.^ t'o/isfifn/imi,
his suhject brino- < <-rtain shoe
I'-ss ('onfederate soldiers:
If yon had been around ju?t after
[lie rout to Nashville you wouWJIuive
thought there were I < ,< M )(* elephant*
loose in the eountrv. The oround
was eovered with snow, and, as yon
iiiav iuiaj/ine, the air was eaoer ami
nipping. The routed Confederates] i
[nil out down the snow-eovered pikes
making for Corinth and thence to
Mobile, TK) miles distant. We were
idothed in nothing but shirts and
r>
r>i*oof hog, t'oiuparuti vol v ' fow owning
>!d hats, and only here and there a
fortnate man with a pair of shoes.
I'iie half-starved and half-frozen men
wrapped their feet in old sacks and
Ltlr
[c -sro-cr:re ccx
I'll. 7. IS87.
my sort ol* rajfs tli?*v eouhl ovt until
I ho t ranks tlioy uiado worn oroat
round holes in tho snow liko tin*
11aoks < >1' oloithants.
(ionoral Lowory (iod hloss Ins
sonl triod to do soiuothiiio for us.
No had snnio shoemakers, and at
no'ht would niako tho sohiiors report
it liis heado natters, whom tho shoo
>hop would ho iocatod. (iroou hidos
not an hour oil' tho cows* haoks
were used lor shooniakino. \ soldier
would plant Ins |o >t on tho hair\ sjd
>f tho hido. and tho shoemaker would
rut out a round niooo of skin, slit i.
in various directions, ami with a
coarse iwiiio oath r 111> tin' ends ami
literal I v sew tin* font up in tin* raw
hide with tin* hair inward. ' I * In shoes
worn eood for ahout t ventv-four
hours use, ami thou tlio\ warnM draw
our loot ami wo would ha\o to throw
thoin asido and oo IuiT-k to buoyine.
\\ lion I uror to Mnl.il.* with a lot of
tho follows wo took ouarters in a
warehouse. I hoodoro llamilton was
|dav:n.o * The \\ ifo" at tho Mobile
theatre, and I soulllod around and oot
a liokot. I wont to tho theatre bareheaded
ami barefooted and in inv
shirtsleeves. I thouohl it was the
host show I ever saw. After the
performance an old man carried me
home with liitn and oave in. a loe*
tailed coal, a luc and a pair oj sht\
\\ hen I not back to the warehouse
the ho\.- tore I he tails of the coat, hut
die was a double breasted fellow, and
I stuck to her. I looked like a ja\- j
hinI with his tail pul led out.
-?*- -o
I'scl'iiliu -s in Old Am1.
Suppose, then, we aoree to call
no man old till he is oast sixty-three.
Let u- so; down the names of some
of the illustrious people ol the world
who have prolonged their days of
usefulness after that a00. We sludl
make a table of tlsein, ami bejrm it
with those w 11.? have died at seventv
that is to m\ . with those in whom
the spl ine - "I lib have not stood still
till they have at I 'ast .-.event \ wars
o| old j|o": It will I e ioiiikI. howev
cr, 10 im inr in.in i Miauslivi , ami
every reader may lind pleasure in
aiidiiiir to ii I mm his own stock of
informal ion.
. \<jt nt
.'in'/,.
ill ('olinnhns; Lord t'hntham; IV-!
Irareh; < opernieus; Spallan/ani;
lloerhaave; (iall.
i I - I .innanis.
i('harloinajjoie: Samuel Kichard
s hi; Allan !imnsiv; .lolin
I a >cke; Xeeker.
o? ('harles l)ar\vin; Thorwalsden.
il Handel; Krederi d\ tin* (treat;
I )r. Jonner.
i.? Ilavdn; Illiquid Stewart,
i li ? I i< issuet.
"i "i I liotnas Telford; Sir Joseph J
lianks; Lord Heaeonsliehl.
i8 < ia 1 ileo; ( '<>rneillo.
10 Win. I larvev ; Uohert Steven- j
s<at; I lonry * 'avontlish.
Ml I'lato; WoidswortIi; I? a I p h
Waldo Kinorson; Kant; Thiers;
\\ in. ( 'illlen.
81 liuH'on; Kdward Yonn?*; Sir
IVI war* I ('oko; Lord Palmersion.
H'i -Arnanld.
sd Wellington; (Joel he; Victor
II nefo.
81 Voltaire; Talleyrand; Sir Win.
I lorsehel.
85 Catothe Wise; Newton; lionj.
Kranklin; Jeretnv linnthain.
8t> Karl Russell; Kdtmind llallev;
( arli.-le.
87 John Wesley.
80 Michael Auoelo.
i)(l Sopho.dea.
00- ?Titian.
100 Fontenello.
Wo mav (litesti(Mi the utility of the
lives of some of these people, hut'*
most of them furnish <o>od examples
of useful old nee. It- mav he said
that tiiev were exceptional in living
so loittr, but if what the best authorities
say be true, the exceptionsoueht
lobe the jieople who died VOUiijr,
inkI not those who prolong their lives'
and carry on their work till they are
old. Few of us mav find our greatest
vi?ror at seventy; or he able, like
Thiers, to rule France at eighty; or
have anv spirit for playing the author,
like (ioelho and \ iotor llujjo,
when over eighty; <?r for playiM" the
musician, like llandel and iiaydn,
when over seventy; but by oood
manaeemont we mav do wonders.
The wisest men and the best have
been conspntuou for working to the
end, not taking tio least advantage
of the leisure t i which one iui</ht
think they were entitled. Thc\ have
found their joy in pursuing labors
which thev believed useful either to
themselves or toothers. John Locke
henan a "Fourth Letter on Toiera
tion ' only a few weeks b< f<?r? lie
died, find tie' few pages in the oo.sthninvus
volumes ending i>> uu unlinishod
senfeuoo *om to luive exhaustlmI
iiis remaining siiength.1' The lire
id (iiiilileo's genius i/unied in the
very end. lie was engaged in dictating
t<: : wo of liin diseiides his latest
theories on a iavorito subject when
the slow fever seized him that
brought him to the grave. Sir ls? 1
ward t.'okc spent the last six years of
his life in revising and improving the
works upon whieh his fame now rests.
John Wesley, only a Near before he
died, wrote: "1 iihi now no old man,
decayed from head i i foot. * * *
However, III'';.sod ho (Jod! I do not
s'nok iiiv Inlio-s; i mil preach and
writo >till " Ariianld, ono of tlmi
oreatest French t heoloidatis and
|>11iIiisophers, retained, miy* l)i>nn'li,
"tlio vijr )|? of Ins jri'iims and tin'
command of his |?cn to hi < last day,
and at tin- atoi of eighty-two was still
tin* erect Annuild." It wan lie who, .
win*11 urocd in his old aye to rest
In >tn iiis labors, exclaimed, "I'est!
Shall we not have tin* whole of eternit\
)?> rest in?* ?/ourniif.
Kossip VI??>111 l*rett> 4?irls.
With tin* \er\ latest ihmis on
fashion before im> and m\ pen suspended,
m\ eyes foil upon an article
whioh lies on in\ ilosk. ??ntit l???l "(???>sip
Ahonl I'rettv liirls."' It ^ivos
tin* iiioihis oporaiuli of inakine onosoif
beautiful, and noes on to toll
how a nnhl\ blonde of Washington
fastens hor fat little hands to the
headboard on retirinjr so as to roduoo
ila* supply of hlood and produce the
delicate complexion of an invalid
friend. To allow the mouth to he
open in sloop is simply outrageous,
so, as to assure an avoidance, many
a dainty miss woos Morpheus with
hor lower jaw nndoloseU hound with
a skatestrap. A narrow pillow placed
vertically under the hack ami l? t ween
the shoulders em oiiraeos a perfect
stature, so the ooo.i old holster is
consigned to the comfort of retired
hollos ami hoaux. I tisrooardiiijr the
fair, fresh skin, classical mold and
every law of proportion and in Ocferoiiee
to an arbitrary fashion, which
ran not hut prove fatal to heautv and
health, our wasp-wnistod helles claim
the ueeessitx of slumlier cornets to
retain their aeme of shapeliness. >'A
mask of moist rye Hour or coat in<r of
cold ereani is as regularly assumed
as the nijdit ro';e, and 11 *> feiuinine
head dtooped p Howard uiinu.s our I
papers or leads i- < xeeptional. Hot
i, Hit .'it li>_ ???* ? ft i * ?* t 1 ? ? f<ni tin*.. * ?t
the toilet. IS I h?'\ lend to 11 raw till'
li ood from hands ami face."
K v<tv girl knows the value of
I M'llIIt V an*! seek., to nmko herself
as attractive as possible, and should
strive to preserve till attractive ijualities;
but artificial devices only can
conceal the ravages of time and dissipation.
Still, "without true regard
to the laws of health, even the powder-box,
rouge pallet am) pencil
prove a shallow resource. Hie maid
with a spirituelie cast of features and
complexion clogs the pores of her
fail skin with paint, while tliev igorous,
plump, rosy bounty tortures her
digestive apparatus with acids and
chalks- Kadi persists in possessing
attributes foreign to her conditio
tion."
To niv mind all fresh voting faces
arc beautiful, and 'where neatness of
person and order in dress is preserved
with tile, natural graces given to
the maiden there is no occasion for
the "paint and powder" rage which
prevails amoi g our daughters. They
begin the use of cosinet ics so early in
life that before thov are middle-aged
the skin is ruined anil in tnaii\ cases
so yellow that it takes a thick coaling
oi powder to keep it from s|^>w~
iug through. Itnrtk'l;f)i A'</<///;.
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Tv|M?grujdiic Veenrnc.v.
Painstaking people who know next
to nothing of printing lind special delight
in searching out typographical
errors in newspapers, periodicals, and
hooks the detection of a blunder, in
their own estimation, putting a premium
on individual intelligence. Men
who write well, but not legibly, never
tiro of p: inting out mistakes of
.printers and the oveisights of proofreaders.
These self constituted censors
of typography mav lind food for
wholesome reflection in the fact that
just about one hundred years ago a
number of professors in the Kilin
buroh 1 niversity undertook the publication
of a book which should be a
perfect specimen of typoirruphic acotimcv.
I0ver\ precaution was taken
to piewnt ciTors of the types. Si.\
experienced proof-readers were cmployed,
who devoted hours to the
reading of each pa ire. After their
direful tns|< was completed, each
paev was posted in the hall of the
university with a notification that t'o<)
would l?e paid to any person who
should succeed in finding an e.r* fi?!
10 \ cry pa_jo reiuairie' I pel* si/e, heail
<'d f?.r two weeks before he, nttrac
turned to printing ollico. Tin dete
jc. t , of the work felt conlidtof i
that the ohjeul *0 diligently strivet
for had been attained. (treat, was
the discomfiture of the learned men,
when, on the work beine issued, scleral
errors were found, one oeciudno
in the lirst line of the first pa^e.
A curious application has recently
Imade of electricity to condense
dusts and fumes. II air tilled with
smoke is charged with electricity, the
smoke at once (lies it I lie sides of the
containing vessel in a \vnv that appears
almost magical. In (lie same
way,elootrioity will cause ^itie die's,
which are in suspension, and which
are often very dillicult to' remove
fmln the air; to condense, or coagulate
so as t<? lie easily removable.
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NUMBER 37. 1
Mark Twniii on I 'M neat i??n.
In ;i recent adoress, Mark Twnin
said: It is so common than an education
is within the jrrasp of every
one, ami if he does not want to pay
for it. why hern is the Stat" ready to
|?'iy for i' for him. Ilut soin -times I
want to iunuiro what an education is.
I remember myself, and all you old
fellows probably remember the same
of yourself, that when I went to
school I was told that an adjective is
an adverb ail-1 it must be- jrovemed
by third person singular, and all that
sort of thino- (lauirhter) and when
I ooi out of school 1 straightway foroot
all about it, j More laughter. | In
tny combined character of publisher
and author I receive a oreat many
manuscripts from people, who sav j
<i i : i...it...'.. V
I I - > vtiilll .1 v<III<ii<i < <| < 1111 < <11. ?ik:viivi
it is ?r?>?x 1 literature or not. Pint is
all a Ii ; what tin v want is a compliment.
(I .auflditor.) Hut as to this
mutter of education, the first thinethat
strikes you is how inueh (rachitic
has already heen <lono titnl how
inneh is worthless crammintr. Yon
have all seen a little hook railed
"Knjrlish as She is Snoke.' Now, in
in\ rapacity of publisher I recently
rnceivi <1 a manuscript from a teacher
which embodied a immher of ans\\< rs
riven hy her pupils to questions j?r?>
pounded. These answers, show till'
the children had nothing Inn the
sound to ir<> I?\ ; tin* sense ?vas perfectly
empty. Here are sotntv ot
their answers to words they were
asked todeline: Ariferous pertain
ilij_r to the orifice, (hnip'ht r.) anim
nia the food of I lie irotls, (renewed
linn liter,| equestrian one who asks
questions, (roars of la e-iiteiq parasite
a kind of umbrella, (shouts ot
laughter;) ipecac H man who likes
rood dinner, (renewed laughter.)
\nd lien* is the definition of an ancient
word honored liy a rrcat parly:
Republican -a sinner mentioned in
the IJilile. (Shouts of laughter and
applause.) \itil here is an iutioeeiil
deli verillice of a /.ooloiriral kind:
''There are a rood many donkrx > in
the t heohin ieaI o'arden. (t ireat
laughter.) Here i> a delinition which
really isn't very !?ad in its way: I )< 'marorue
-ji vessel containitir l>eer
and other liquids. (I Volonj^ed lau;/liter.)
11 ere, too, is a sample of a hoy's
composition on rirls, which, I must
say, I rath ?r like;
"(iirls are verv stitoknp and dignified
in their milliner and hehayyo w.
They think more of dress lii u anything
and like to play with dawls
and rars. Th"\ cry if thvv see a
cow in a far distance and are al'raii1
of onus. They ^tn\ at home all the
time and go to lunch cyery St:n
day. 'They are dways sick. Tliex
are itlw.'ivs fili.iiv ami maLrino- I'nn
boys' hands in11i tIk;v Bay how dirt v.
They <1111*1 pla\ marbles.
I pity tli'Mii, poor tliinos. They make
f?111 of boys and th<<n turn round and
love them. I don belave they over
killed >1 cat or anythinu*. I'hev look
out. even luinuto and sav )h, tin t
tin) moon lovely !" Tliir is one thinw
I liavo not told fti.d that is tlu4v always
now their lessons hcttevn boys.*'
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(hits* Toes.
Sometimes it is the most commonplace
ouest'on which proves most
puzzling. A class of young rIs, in
takinir an examination in natural
history, stopped in despair, with uplifted
pens, at the ipiestion: "llow
many legs has a llv?" One of them,
however, was equal to the occasion,
and slyly counted the members of
one lly which had kindly alighted
near her.
\nother class was asked, during
an examination, a question whiclt
staggered every member of it:
"I low many too has a cat?"
In the emergency, die principal
was applied to for a solution; and he
also, with a good-natured smile, gave
it up, when one of the teachers, determined
not Ip be beaten by so siin
p)o a question, hit on the idea or
sending out a delegation of bo\s ' >
scour the neighborhood for a cat.
When this idea was announced the
whole ehiHS wanted t?? join in the
hunt. Several hovs went out, and
soon returned siieees.sful. A return
ino1 hoard oppointed. and the toes
counted, and thus it was learned that
mf it possesses eighteen toes, ten on
tlm<jyu>t fe.ot and ei^lit on the hind
'SCi*
\ , a, i/ijntlenian in eilv hall
ted the rilfc, * i t II p
i Ir>i-yau ktndlv allow ine to
rmined vj f
Viit paper foiva iik nieiii,
SO (Mill- v T . .1
Hi- Newiaus to see J he weatita
I Ins , i \,
U>uden<V
^ si IU cap iVndiflfr him the pa
e?-r " vijn fron\ Are you interns,
ted in tin- \v<*h?. i,Jk"
Tramp '-Yes, sir. I lave pviue
pally on wind, and i want to find out
what I'm to have for dinner to-day.
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The New Ycjjrk n^^esti->n thai.the
hen he made the national fowl instead
of the oaole is deserving of eon-.-ideralion.
There is no lighter lik? tht
rooster, which ts the son of the Si-mi,
u it, | !ioe n.iiiiijtMi' " o.-.-j !" " -
?? i?i II* k iiMinnu * in t" ^ " ill y (11I'i
wonderful. iMii4 lion, as the national
emblem, would represent industry,
firmness and eouwt^e, and would in*
dieute that we have much to each In
o\ ei. i '<>urn')'-Jon?'iidl. *
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