The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, July 07, 1881, Image 1

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

— — ftpeeial Heouo«t«. ^ ..A ^ • ' l 1 1. la writing to thi« cffioa oit butinf* alwkTi gm your lurae and Tout (flier address. . 2. Business letteit and eommunics- lions to be publishtd should be wriuet on semtatrCMieeta, and theo>j;ot p'eacL clearly indiotucd by neoessary note when required. 3. ArUc’"* for publication should br writtrn u} ij. c'ear, iegiblrs hand, and or. only one side of the psge. , ' —- _ ‘ ■ y. -iV 4 All changes in advettii'emeiitfl njjlBl reach ui on Fifdsy. ' " TBK FA/tMBlt’a m 001X9. I [ ■ ' fh# dalsle* noditod tn th* (nas, th« bnttoreupa were Blwplna, ~ .j And Jti»t acroM the rirer ung the farmer# at theli f r< *P>nr Cpon the htlla, ao bln# and far, th# maple learee were showing 4 rbalr aoft white beanty In tte breeze that from the *ea wee blowing. * 'title maid came through the lane, with eong and rippling laughter; The buttercup# made way for her, the delates nodded mflw. ".••• - ••• ' •• -i 1 rtrong young farmer eew her pause beetle the parting rirer; •he draw a Illy from Ita depth# with golden heart e-qiitver. “Thou art morn fair than UUaa are,” atld he with head uplifted, A ad threw altoppy, ea the stream toward the maiden drifted. •h" art the a..were In her hair, the red and while to- vether; A ekmd grew black before the eon, end rainy was the weather. We came acroaa the rirer then, the fanner from hie ■■owing; , ■e minded not the water's depth, ha eared not f.» us nmmsT **0 lore! ” mid he, ** If gleaming ann end elnudleaa The n»«r a herring width may aeD uapaaeed, aatrled hitweea ea; »han loud thunder Silt the air, aad alewda and rale mma orer, rn emaa the eeaa* h> yaw aide, I am Be fatrday the !■ Aas m M# day the rdlege belle dear; an •ne drew e ITy from lbs s^wtrer. WhUa aome era drew Mnhafy B'etrg. And plucked e hi*4-red ywyyy tbel •ee grawlat; The am dee art ■ela hta I ?«•#• wana by. ml JO HIT 9 (tt> up |d ||m city Mh#l b>— ayaal tmt ei * saA girt, b* (hmld hsaw bmt jtmt his |acA at •nM Haatiarrux. tUa Myra N< aba )m id <bd t i« U» asda tabiag ptttsa at I "Ataa aad jaihea, i ImWaW kwhiag, too, fallow baaga owar hra mao haul it hack off ha« ap la s bard kaol that slaad. Joha a butbelay oakr, aad kail b«m B aad awwrrbody Uaraghl U • ■Mk'h. bwt Joha «id ha d>JaA Lka her arra aaasaayM, toay tdaa, and yo* throogh aad Ummgb, lhay that cImv aad hnghl; b«t dbd yoa awrr know a aaa to taka adroa? “ Marry that IrTrat,** aaid Joha, “ aad bar# aay pamm o« ay Ufa; wall, I not!" aad with that off UagoM to town and tolagrapha hark, ** Expect ma and ay wtla.” Dear t such a shook as it gsra ma, and oar spring alcamng ad done, and th* minister mining to brmrd with ns while bis wifa went home on a nail—it waa a trial, yoa may be sore I And when she did come, it was more Ilka haring a wax doll in the way than anything else, with ^er big wondering eyes, and childish ways, and silly ques tions, and hanging on John’s arm, and leaning orer John’s chair, with two lit tle insignificant feet in the rungs at the back, and her clothe# I Such fallals, jnst like a doll’s rigging, and I just set my foot down.that if she wu to tire with us, she must conform to oar ways. I hadn't been forty years in this world for nothing. If she wanted to wear fine white laces and ruffled aprons, she had to wash and iron them herself. I wouldn't be her slave. And such silly guestions as she asked, they just made ne sick : When did the cows shed their horns ? Wliich cow gave the but. termilk ? Were there any dear little fellow chicks ?” Dear little yellow chicks, indeed I Ihey were dear enough before we raised them and got their heads off and we had them ready for market, and if that silly fhild didn't sit down and cry because they were killed ; said she had named •''■u *pG?U*m ^ 4L. VOL. IV. NO. 44. BARNWELL C. H. S. C. THURSDAY JULY 7. 1831. $2 a Year, | inch, one insertion , . $10) " each subsequent inesrtkm. Mots Q mte’ly, semi-annas! or yearly cmh tracts mads 01 liberal toms. v ' Clftptrsct advartlelog it payable SO iaya alter first in»rlion, aotots other- wi« btipulatsl. No communication wH! be published unless acorn panted by the same aad ad* Jreesof the writer, not neceeaoilly for | publication, bat as s gnsranty of food I faith. Aidress, T JE PEOPLE, ' Btrnwell 0. H., 8 C. Ji U. »nd told her what f thought of it after tie went out to his work. She looked tind of frightened, and pretended she was going to cry, and then she spoke up quick like and said: “ Sister Janet, it’s a triumph of mind aver matter. You can waah now, and apk - be all tired out, and sick and nerv ous, and—and—John can afford iL”. Perhaps if I had known that she had paid for it all. and it hadn’t cost John a ant, I might have been more forgiving, bnt I just straightened up and said : “ Mrs. Elliot, yon may go on and rniii four husband with your boarding-school ideas, but, as for me, I’ll never touch the thing*. I can work, thank good ness, while Tve got my health. I wasn’t brought up in idleness.’’ She never took it to heart a bit; tha next thing I knew she waa at th* little parlor organ she had, singing and play ing as if that was all there was in life. And that silly old minister—men never do have a bit of sense, bnt yon expect more of a preacher of the gee pel—bnt he just at and talked to her as if she was a companion for him, and they walked about the fields and stayed down where John was working, ami all mound em souls a-perishing for want of the bread of life; such a sinful waste of time I never saw I ** Janet, do yoa love the hills F* she asked, oo* day when I was eeounng th* knives outside th* door. Hh* had of fered ta do them for me. bat law I her srtntr hands war* no' fit (or anything ao naefnl * L v# the hill* I Wail, 1*4 like to know what there is to low* about I goras if yoa climbed them a a..aids'! Iowa'« They’re M high ■aid, loahiag op at them; ** they ■a sear tha eoai. Car off beeves I 1 •* sCfeah tn tha tap and dnnk in fraah air; N dam ma good hs ,«* heart, aad i stnnga ev id 1 thonghl and Itotdher Stnel In drag off with #« her fern, I He didn’t MY anything then, but a few days after he cam* to me and aaid Janet, get a girl as soon as you can, and let Aunt Betsy com* over and stay with Myra; ah* is nervous and low spirited, and needs company.” “Well, I suppose you’ve upshot of it all; a boru te John, fe miracle was-morhed in the house. Per haps 1 had never really loved John's wife- she was so different in her ways from me—but when I heard that baby cry, I felt thrilled to my very soul, and I just threw my work-apron over my head and cried for the first time in year*. Myra didn’t get strong, and the days went on and still she didn’t get np, and I felt it waa my duty to go and tell her that she mustn’t favor herself that way, that she couldn't lie abed and* let stran gers take care of her child, and that ahe’d never get strong till she’d got out, bnt I made up my mind to speak in a gentler sort of way. I had beeif think ing it over and about concluded to let Myra lire her own way and not try to make her over, especially since John seemed so well satisfied with her, and I went np-atain and opened th* door wfftly aad stepped insula. John ■landing at oo* window looking oat at the sunset—it was all red and gold, aad the room was ta a flam*. He tamed as I cam* in, aad the tears war* mihag iIowa hie cheeks, 1 never sew John cry before since he was a grown mao! •• What la itri whispered, going op ctrae to him. Ha mad* a motion with the bark of kis bead ta th* duwetsoa of the bed. I went over there. A sat Betsy was la a ttwkar by tha tads of it, Myra was looking at the bar baby's sfeeptag face. T act doll to we Uuaga. aad I aew e fist made my the velfey of the shadow nf death ! That all ton tkb tmxatmknt OF WOMX\. It fell In the way of Malthus in his celebrated work on population to search in the accounts of travelers for those causes which operate, in different coun tries of the world, to check the progress and to limit the numbers of mankind. Foremost among these is vice, and fore moat among th* vices is that-most un natural one, of the cruel treatment of women. “ In every part of the world, ” •ays Malthas, “ on* of the most general characteristics of the mvage is to de spise and degrade th* female sex. Among most of th* tribes in America their condition is so peculiarly grievous that servitude is a name top mild>tajl&. ■crib* their wretched state. A wife is no better than a beast of burden. While the ifian passes his days in idleness and amusement, the woman is condemned to incessant toil. Tasks are imposed upon her without mercy, and services are re ceived without complacence or grati tude. There are some districts in Amer ica where this state of degradation has been ao severalv felt that mothers have deatmyad their female infants, to de liver them at coo* from a life in which they were doomed to such a miserable slavery. ” It is impossible to find f<« this moat vicsoo* tendency any pi among the uni ties of nature. There w ■<’thing like it among th* beasts. With them the equality of th* sexes, as re gards all th* enjoymeato as well as all th* work of life, » th* uotwraal role. And among thoa* of them la which social laeunrta. hsv* been specially im- are like th* most emitted pnbtme of OUR JUFRNILES. Th* Emu’i Party. An indent maiden £mu Red e breezy country Till#, With an extenrire eee-rtew, On the aouth easel of Auetrnlln. Thte Emu’e teetee wen eooUI, s Ant her heart vne ynym end kindly; ,Bo eke gave n ehtS^^n party, And aant bar card# out blindly To tbe Dodoa, end the remote, - And the Vultuna, end tha Bee fnlle, And thoiifelillemly tnaf Ol—» • •IX tittle unfledged Eaglet. Then fbe relied on Modem Dnck-btU, At her borne bealde tbe water, ~T~~ Aad proceeded with of iut<m To tarite her Infant daughter. " I will take cere, my dear madam. If yoa will bo eo good A* to trwrt ao with y on r Pule, That eke e*ta th* plelnoel food— > elm pie Or oaly ante on toeat. With amotharod fllaa is Aad a Under lares roast; •Msehod eagle-worms aad Or, If yea think It bool, Orub soup with eorml Which la may to dl«oak H She ebon be el I Or aay hour yea nhiam.- Se.d Mrs. Doek-bill, sotoaialy. “ Ha-a jam aaked Ike XeogeroeeT" "Why, ao; Bad not aatorod la my I I here ha# eSgto i Thai | that was sufficient recommendation for his future speaking abilities, }ie was mined with th* greatest care, and now Polly Gonzalez can tell bis own story, and as well in English as Spanish. Parrots are quit* as vain iu Spanish as in English, for though they are not saying “Pretty Poll” all the tiya* they continually scream in Spanish, “ Royi bird,” and that ia quit* as donoeitod, I think. - ‘ ' , . ' Polly also says in Spanish, “ Royal birdl Royal bird! No one equals me. Yon for Spain, but I for PortagsL" When Polly Got) xalex i» obstinate h# is always obstinate in ftpanish. If wo sxclaim, “ Viva fe Cuba!" his *ycs grow red with anger, while h# shouts, " Viva CKapagnrt” but h* is just m patriotic for Cuba if w* t-vpress a pref- areuos for Bpain. Polly is devoted to Sailor, our great Newfoundland dog. He follows Sailor around, just a* Sailor follows his mis trees, and when Sailor takes hie after noon does on th* house-top, Polly will h* found roosting on on* of his paws and blinking guard over him. When w* sit down to breakfast, ** Pol ly wants hi* breakfast now." He seks if we want oar caffe* hat, b*o*a** " Pa). loudly that anmstlmea U baa tu b* poa- TMM MKAMXQ HAMIT. Charlsa Dudley Winter aaya, in tha CbrUtian Union, that th* extent of th* reeding habit is ererestimatod. Even ia th* United States, where thahabitof toad- lug ia most prevalent, few of tha popu lation read a book. In support of hia opinion, Mr. Warner faringa oo* tha W- lowingt A Nearly everybody takea a dally i at tha nawspapen, at tha news oa at tha telegraph oolnmna, th* baae-ball record, and persons follow for days th* oolamn* da- vwtod toaom* singular aoaidaat or eori- oua m order—even women hava acqnirsd th* art of daftly akimming tha cream off th* moping journal; enmpanMvWy few of th* actir* population, swn tha *da- oated, read hooka. Unleaa a book by aocM good luck b*- cotnea a faahion, and ia raoommanded ia convaraalfen, few aaa it; tha number at people who riginaily sMk oat the read able book troM than habit of craving fe a everybody reads body f Why, a a if 10,000 omyb* al to g* tt I 1 ail of brv ; of them and watched them m* m if it was ray doing. Xnd she wm oar John’s ivory one grow np. wife! bah! 1 Then she did the silliest thing of all— went and bought a book called “ What ( Know About Farming,” and need to lit oat ander * trad ifa%ing it by th* hoar; and one night, when ah* went down to the ban to meet John, I heard her aak: “John, why don’t yoa get a washing machine and a wringer, and sav* your own fleah and blood. Look at th* blia- tera oa my hands I** And th* Brat thing it w* th* talk of th* neighborhood that wa Whnta, who •‘N.».“ ah* said. -I eaaaa* eat aay I hato thott 1 ” trav so ot<nto> **A Ea* feamper yoa has* ! th* answer I mad* h«r. bat I ao iaaalU-4 m all my Ufr. few a weak *v two | didn't ■*• mock with John it, ilahlding away al saaa* btta of paatabnard with a or up tt her fonm whers I A Hb- ram* down, singing sway, with a large package tt her hamd. and mam Joha cam* up with th* poowa, aad they drov* off to town together, Uughtag lik* two chHdruo. I hop* muM of th* awgkhmu notaced th—. Anyway* they n*wr saw him coodact himarlf in that way with m*. Wb*a they ram* horn* ah* wm all tired oat, and th*y had a big roll of stuff they dnm|>ed down in the entry. “ It’s mmaething f<r yoa, Janet," ah* ■aid, langhing hystencal-lik*. * “ 4 It‘s carpct-raga." ^ • I unrolled it, and thers w*r* twenty yards of bright ingrain carpet I k “ Myra," said I, " this ia wicked #x- travagano*," for I knew her money wm all paid out. “But it isn’t,” aha aaid, langhing ; “1 earned it myself by drawing and paint ing thoM bite of sketches. I sold them all, aad can sell all I can do. That wm my way of cutting oar pet rags.” Well, w* put th* carpet down, and it did look pretty—though I didn’t say so. - It isn’t my .way to spoil anybody with flattery, and I skw John’s wife waw get ting the npper hand too fast. The neigh bors were beginning to notice her, and that foolish old minister, when his wife came back, had been over there; and she led the singing in church and pre tended she had got religion, and all the time she never scrubbed a floor, or washed a dish, or put her hands to the churn. , “ John can afford to hire help,” she •aid to ms one day, “ and I’m not very strong, and my mother died of consump tion.” Then she began to ory like a baby, and John came in and looked at I must My she could succeed in doing all aorta of useless things—raising flow ers in every nook and corner, making pets of all th* animals, and painting, or playing on the organ. She wm real orna mental, and I suppose some folk* thought she wm pretty. John did for one. I don’t know tnet ah* mad* me much work eithei. She did her own ■ashing m long m John would let her, and kept her room neat enough, though it wm mostly littered up with flowers and bird* aad bar tkctchea, aad al first ahe saag (km marateg till Bight, •ad sh* did have a feis t mag aad didn't nd ahiepMs : tell how patfeel aad ffMile she wait, aad how Mm aBag aad played, aad how •hall do I - for I kaow, bow; that Sowers a— naaary to God's erealnei »• the anral a -1 gtmiu, aad th* W**t littfe thing that make* suMhin* tt the world m af •-due tt the Aaah pieesa, aad I *h*a I look ap tt tlial Myra betace ma. reshape—par haps, ahe will intercede tor m« rmiMD OTATKM MOHMMAMT LtMM The. northern boundary of Una oooe- try ia marked by some caima,ima pillars, wood ptllais, earth mounds aad timber petal A stnoe Mira ia 7| earth mound 7x14 feet, aa iron pillar ft feet high, 8 inches square at the bottom, and 4 inches at tbe top ; timber pasta 5 f<vt high and 8 inches square. There are 882 of them marks between the Lake of the Woods and the bee* of the Rocky mountains. That portion of th* Itound- ary which lies east and west of the Red river valley ia marked by cast-iron pil- larw at even-mile intervals. Hie Hntiali place one every two miles and the United States one between each two British poets. Our pillars or markers were made at Detroit, Mich. They are hollow iron castings, three-eighths of an inch in thickness, in the form of a truncated pyramid, 8 feet high, 8 inches square at the bottom and 4 inches at the top, as l>efore stated. - They have at the top a solid pyramidal cap, and at the bottom an octagonal flange one inch in thickness. Upon the opposite faces are cast in letters two idles high the inscriptions, “Convention of London” and “Oct. 20, 1818." The inscriptions begin abont four feet six inches above the base, and read up ward. The interiors of the hollow posls are filled with well-seasoned cedar posts, sawed to fit, and securely spiked through spike-holes cast in the pillars fdr that purpose. The average weight of each pillar when completed is eighty-fiv«> pounds. The pillars are set four feet in the groand, with their inscription faces to the north and aouth, and the earth is well settled and stamped about them. For the wooden post* well aemoned logs are selected, and th* portion above the groand painted red, to prevent swelling and shrinking. ThsM peats do very well, but th* Indiana eat them down ter fuel, and nothing bat iron will feat vary king. Where the line ereeeM lakes, monument* of atone have been both, th* Mia HCOMWMU. O VKMTOytOWV. ia aot strange that ao oo* aympa- thiam with a lawyer whea he is over thrown by a wiUmm whom he ia croas- eiamlning, Ho many have eaffarvd from lawyers' sharp questions that they enjoy seeing on* of them fall Daniel O'Ooo- oell once received a witty reply that turned the laugh against him, from a witneM whom ha wm cross-examining. It wm a case of riot committed by a mob of beggars, and tha witness for th* pros ecution had represented the affair as very serious: “Pooh, pooh I” said O’Oonncll, “ now just tell the court how many there werei” “ Indeed, I never stopped to count them, your Honor, bat there was a whols tribe of them.” “ A whole tribe of them ! Will you tell us to what tribe they belonged 7” “Indeed, your Honor, that's more than I can do at all; bat I think it man have been the tribe of Dan 1” “ You may go down, sir,” cried O’Con nell, in a rage, while bench, bar and # pec ta tors laughed CHISF.HW WITTICISM*. Thu awful dignity of the Chinese gentleman will not allow him to manu facture his own witticism*. He appre ciates wit, and ia fond of tea; but he would as soon grow his own tea u make his own jokes. When he goes into socie ty, he carries in hia pocket a package of witticisms and repartees, which he pur- chases at the nearest joke-ahop. When conversation flags, and he perceives an opportunity for doing something brill iant, he draws a humorous remark from the top of his package and gravely hands it to hia neighbor. Th* latter aagravely reads it, and, aetootukg from hia handle of repartee th* oo* which ia appropriate, returns it with a bow ta th* original joker. The two then aoieatnly smite in a# to theta hwvtei •• th* lit* ftoflfek Thm much atterhfd te lua master aatd to Kaby boy, who wm tha pH of lb* • bote family. Oo* day sraktenly a fir* hrwka oat ta the boose, aad everybody runattg her* aad then fe pat it oat, white th* little boy ia hi# almost fargi<ttcu; and wb*a they thought af lam th* sUir oaM wm all in flasaea. What ouald bo duo* T Aa they were looking np and wondering, a large, hairy hand and arm opened th* windo^ and presently the monkey appeared with th* baity in his arms, and carefully rlimited down over th* porch and brought the child safely to its none. Nobody eUe could have done it, for a man cannot climb lika a monkey, and ia not nearly ao strong. Yon may imagine how the faithful ere*tars wm praised and petted after that. This is a true story, snd the child who wm saved wm th* young Marquis of Kildare.—Chil dren'! Treaeury. Tally GanaaUa* Polly Gonzalez lived in Havana street; Havana. The house ia painted yellow, and the door, which is wide enough for a horse and carriage to enter, ia a bright blue, and the windows, nearly as large as the door, haven’t a bit of glass, but are barred with iron. Thestrect is so narrowthat the curious- looking vehicle called a volanle, in which we have arrived, cannot turn aronnd in it,,and tha sidewalk is also so narrow' that without moving from our seats we can announce our arrival on the big brass knocker on th# door, and can step di rectly from the volants into th* reception Over the ri HewtO feet tun* ami tune, blink ha John He css imitate the crying of a child, and hia sympathy for oo* in trouble is humanlike. Altogether, he is a wonderful bird, and if ever a parrot deserves a roost oa ths pinnacle of fame, Polly Goosates does. — Youth'! Companion. ’F*' room. Beyond ia tha courtyard, and this is Polly’s particular domain. It is paved with atone, ia open to the •ky, and has a small garden filled with the choicest tropical foliage, while from the larger garden, which is on th# top of th* hoaM (it being bnt on* atory high), the vines eling and festoon theouelvea over th* gray walla tt th* loveliest manner. oa oo* aid* of tbe wall ia a trumpeter, called by th* Mex icans a darttaa, a beautiful attgar. Near littte A GOOD DEED. There ia nothing eo noble and touch ing m a really spontaneous act of gen erosity, after alL The other day a rough, careless-looking stranger wm walking up Mission street, when he observed a lot of hoodlums clustered round the gate of a ■mail farmhouse, tt front of which a poor woman wm weeping bitterly, surrounded by her terrified children. A scanty array of household goods on the pavement showed that it wss a case of ejectment. “What are you abasing that woman for 7” demanded the “ man from below,” addressing an ill-favored individual who wm carrying out th* furniture. “I ain’t abusing her,” growled the landlord-j “ahe can't pay her rent, and I’m going to bounce the whole outfit, that’s all.” ' ‘ I’ve a good mind to bounce yon, said the stranger, indignantly; “ what’s the amonnt she owes ybti ?” “ Twenty-two dollars.” “ Hero, take it out of that,” and the angry man took out hia wallet and handed over a $100 greenback. The evicter respectfully turned over a receipt and the change. Forcing an ad ditional “ Y ” co th* happy woman, t! stranger walked rapidly away. - “ ’Citric COM, that,” aaid tha i .m owner, looking after the phitentL. <pist. . Bat the philanthropist antil ha tamed the eoraer. “tt A for • to him: ‘Year i dfetaetofal to me,’and I ta fet I did not approve of Mr. Bouton. The maa immediately fired ap retorted: ’He fe my brother, air, HI abuM him m much m I’ve a to. Bat I want yoa ta in i—taail I don’t allow any other maa to do it ’ Yean afterward, whea I beraan ac quainted with Mr Beaton tt the Hiatt, I told him the story to hie vary gnat amusement.” A quaint story sf Gen. Jackson fe told tt tha During the latter part of hia life he tt the habit of coming down to New Ob leans to ae* bis old friends and com rades tt anna aad participate tt fbe celebration of the glorious 8th of Ja ary. It happened oa one of that th* 8th oocurred ou Sunday. Gan. Plauche called apon the eld hero aad requested him to aoeompaay the mili tary to the battle ground on the anni versary of the great day. “I am going to church to-morrow,” mildly obaervad tha General. The military preperattoue for the oelebratio* went oa, and Sunday morning dawned bright and bmntifal. At 10 o’clock Gen. Planoh* called at th* Si Char 1m aad informed Gem Ja that th* military and orate war# ready to aoaae of hia glory, responded Old him th* gleane of hia kiadHag aya, “I told yoa I WMiattff to< softly to 1 m ha pat ea a *