The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, August 11, 1881, Image 1
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k la vrtUai to tbU eflw on ba^n^n
alwty* I«f* yoar oum and Po« oAoa
1. Ba«iB€wt totiato and oonannkja-
}na to be pubdtoed ibould be writlnn
on aeparate nheeU, and the ohj*«t of each
dearly indicated by neceaaarj note when
required. .
S. Artidea for publioation ahould ^
. w ritten in a c ear, legible hand, and oa
( only one aide of the page.
4 All change* in adTertieementa muat
reach ns on Friday.
ins--"'
TWm HIGHWAY COW.
The hurt tor hid* w^aduAyfeowa, t r *
H*r body wm ton end hw n*ck we* alto;
On* ton tamad np end the other tuned down.
She waa lean of rtoon and lon« of limb;
With a Homan noa* aed a abort atemp tail.
And riba ilk* tto hoapa «e a hoaaa aeede pell
Many a mark did tor body beer;
8to had bean a target for all things known ;
Oa may a eear the dnaky hair
Would grow no more where It onot had grown;
Many a paaalonate, parting ahot
Had jeft upon tor a laattng spot
Many and many a well-aimed ■to*
Many a hrlokbat of goodly dae,
< And many e cudgel swiftly throws.
Had brought the tear* to tor loriag eye*,
THh a aoiaa Uk* the eound of a rid* ereek. "* -
Many a day tod dh* M|a*d In the pound
Tor totplng toreefTAo tor nelghtor’a torn;
Many aeowardly ear and hound
Te drtea tor eut ef hie growing grataL
Sharp wan the presto aba seed to play
T« i** tor dll and to gal away.
YOL IV. NO. 48.
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BARNWELL Oi HtjSrC. THURSDAY. AUGUST U, 1881.
C/ntrsot etHi
day* after lr*t Ini
wide •Upulnte't.
4»o eontoi«dicrt*o«4m! NfpuhWtoA; in
unlew nec inipatiled by the nimr ••<» *4-
dren of the irrtier, naf neceetoftty^T
ibticdli >a, bat d«d gutranty of ge*d
iih • - w-
$2 a Year.
'* And you think that little women’e
face could be made beautiful ?”
'lAknow tW".r v J . ,
“Tryit, then. Here id jronr copy of
'fctian’d ‘Belle,’ all fioiahed but the
face. Make an ‘ apothosi* portrait of
your neighbor, and, while it harmohizea
with the body 1 of Titian's beauty, still
leave it recognizable aa the portrait, and
m give in to jour theories—believing
in all other miracles, if yon like, at the
same time I”*
Tngarde laughed, as he went back to
his own picture, and McDonald, after
sitting a few minutes lost in reverie,
Coined his easel so « to grPE painter’s
view of his fetenfle neighbor. He thonght
she oolorod slightly as he fixed big eves
upon her; but, if ao, she apparently
became very aoon unconscious of his
gaze, and he. was soon absorbed himself
in the tank to ''frkioh his friend had so
mockingly challenged him.
[Excuse me, dear reader, while with
two epiatlea I build a bridge over which
you can cross a chasm of a mouth in ay
story.]
To QBAITS McDonald—.Vtr .• I an
intrusted with a delicate ccuaaiestna,
which I knew not bow to broach to you
except by simple propmeL Will you
forgive toy abrupt levity, if I inform
you, without further preface, thud the
Oountesa Wychrtom, a Potlah lady of
high l .rUi mi dto|4> fortune, doee you
v yuur band. If
dith, in the original from which she
copied—end promised to be at his wed
ding, and to listen sharply for her mur
mured name in his vow at tits altar. He
chanced to wear at the moment a ring
of red cornelian, and he agreed with W
that she should stand where he ooold
see her, end at the moment of his putting
the marriage ring upon hie bride’s fin
ger that she should put on this, as a to
ken of having received his spiritual vows
of devotion, j ifKiVS
Thu day seme, and the splendid equi
page of the Grantees dashed into the
square of the Santa Maria, with a veiled
bride and a cold bridegroom, and depoa-
itftd them at the steps of the church. JOTP
they were followed by other ooroneted
equipages, and gayly-dressed people
dismounted from each—the mother and
* is ter* of the bridegroom, gayly dressed,
among them, but looking pale with in-
certitude and dread.
The vailed bnde was small, but she
moved gracefully up the aisle, and met
her future husband at the altar, with a
low courtesy, end nude a sign to the
priest V> proceed with the ceremony.
McDonald was colorWv but firm, and.
« AMAXHVMA AMD MDTTOMS. i
c . r * ' jT.-* --s V ' j, i a,- . •, * i’i
Amateur* are very apt to look upon
uditora as their most implacable foes.
The cool persistence with which they
dedin* to avail themselves of eontribo-
tiona which the contributor is convinced
would maketbe fortunes of the Journals,
if they only knew it— »uch blindness to
self-interest—rouses pity in the breast
of the worldly-wiaqgamateur. He indites time ha took from his pants pocktt a
a letter of remonstrance to the misguided horse-chestnut, end displayed it with an
editor, and is promptly crushed. In air that seemed to imply, “This is the
aome a lees-tender emotion than pity is little joker that did the business.” But
aroused by such conduct. Bag* very no sooner had solid citizen No. 1 dis-
often agitates the bosom of the rejected played has aheetaut charm with a con-
poet Smarting under a sense of pwt tented air,:
THH HOMSM-CHMSTirUT.
A couple of oar solid dtizeot-eoiy
in aveMapris as well a* in their bef
uounto—were oa a hone ear a day fk
two sinoe, when a man came limping
aboard apparently suffering from rheu-
Latism. One of the solid men re
marked, ‘Tve never had a twinge of
rheumatism in my life,” and at the same
cept byaa asmoua 1
todo.'Td the alter.
tow* with a steady votes, bed, whs*
t. i- put oc. he arc
at the
his
ill-usags, he poors oat the vials of his
wrath upon that incarnation of fraud,
injustice and wickedness, the editor.
Why should his poems be rejected, when
so much trash is inserted ? Why ft* no
reaeon for rejection vouchsafed to him ?
He hysterically demands
The smoont of tibia sort ef
eoo* that goes on is
trassing. It is dirtnaaing because it
■hows each a lamentable want of I
the part of the contributors. Mo
~ to
If he war* to do eo^ every
article would be sent in half a
naa, each time with a
than solid citizen No. 2 also
drew from his pantaloons pocket a horse-
chestnut. Said the first ettfeen, “Tve
carried that for thirty yean.” “Ho
have I carried this for more than thirty
yean,” replied the other; but I don’t
carry min* for rheum*tUa*. I carry it
for goat" —
A passenger, who had been an inter
ested listener to the for^ri*, rather
timidly asked oa* if he really behaved
than was say virtue in u auapl* bone-
• No,” aaswersd the man.
why do you curry tbs thiag
eaa do a* harm, if it
L" M It atone a Little au-
<>•*.” M Yary wall; fB
keep oa carrying tt. Fve oarrtod a
thirty ywasB,aad baea as* baa
Aadlhaa
WMTt OKI
Why do women with red or yellowish
b ur wear “deed” gold, and greens that
remind the beholder of badly cooked
vegetables ? Why do pale-faced, brow*-
haired women wear the deep red and
orange hose which can “ go” only with
the olive and pomegranate tints, and the
blue-black hair of the South ? Who is
accountable for the terra-cotta garments
in which aonm otherwise harmless maid
ens pervade fashionable crowds, inspir
ing the observer with wonder, totally un
mixed with edmirattoot slender girls
arrayed in ehapelerf clothes, made ap
parently of tlioee of the wtHot the new
Natural History ^ua<-u' at South
Kensington; strong-minded young
women in sggreseive cloaks, so uo-
spoakahly hideous that wa sigh for the
ulster of last season, which we then be
lieved eould not be turpeased in odioos-
asae; awful things mad* of
tweed with blue frills, or goaliag
stuff tipped with pink! The <
A Id re**,
i TilE PEOPLE,, t
Rarnwell 0. H., •.'O.
^ fLEASAXTRIEa.
Jowns calk his wife’* hair-dresser
' t* r
«wit<h-tender.
A matosumm story—On* in wbiah
there are no weddings.
Tnn is a ehap who calk his beet girl
Revenge, beeanse “revenge k sweeA"
Plump girl* are said to be going out
of fashion. If this k true, the plumper
th« girl the slimmer her ohancee
” Mr Darling’s Shorn” fc the name of
anew ballad, but "the old man’s pool”
k generally asotodared mot
^ " mnmtoiitiifc
^^ you call it'
ilk
ton
with *
be toe i
ie\ from wbieh the ekirt haage g^toa.
■S tri^l to to^Ltori ta a Aeeh we* laanafas
■ um II u hat t—She .. - *
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A m the l
to ad
lunwa
i eld
ms that 11
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^dgtotoff toindntoseun*<mn«ym
plum to to tote dsn l»*to#tttoJtoS
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ef u
eeyul ft*el
toto.
toeert* by the bapu«
fevtoebaa* to»y
I to e i
— ” 1 V " ■■' “ 7 V “ ■ V»
ef * espy ef “Tttowetoal
him slued the semi ef a
with the
r> wna a
rrrst
in wkieli ai
de. Mel ton-
aeigbber, end they
other’*
hi*.
el the
the
I art
he understood) t&eif oonvermtion waa in
French or Italian, neithe* of wltioh
an3 it was TTmlSl generally to expres
sions of courtesy or brief critickmi of
each other * laboss. a Mwt
pression ’ of a oeleatial *umtoer's morn-
maul-sGcz acroM his knees, drinking
from Titiaiifs picture. An artist, who
had lounged in from the next room, had
hung hjmself by the crook of hi* arm
over a high peg, on bis comrade’s eeael,
and every now and then he volunteered
an observation to which he expected no
particular answer.
"Ifhen I remember how little beauty
I have seen in the world,” said Ingarde
(this artist), “lam inclined to believe
with Baftnminn* that there to no resnr-
reetton of bodies, and that only the
spirit* of the good return into the body
of the Godhead—for what is ugliness to
do in heaven f
McDonald only said: “ Hm—hm !”
* How win this little plain woman look
fa the streets of the New Jerusalem, for
example? let she expects, ai we all
do, to be recognizable by her friends in
besvt-n, end. of course, to have the same
irreduapnably-plain too*- Do* *he un-
by the way-tor eh*
»7
Uia, ia any ceea,
cf some eeertl peesuin. tod
and pursued in the intuginatom only,'be
not the tousfnrdtte ueuumtt^ of a poetic
nature. For the Imagination k inoapa-
ble of being tiiatoerV twit 14 to at onus
disenchanted and set roaming by the
very peuittoo and omtainty which are
the charms of matrimony. Whether ex
clusive devotion of all the faculties of
mind and body be the fidelity exacted
in marriage k a question every woman
should consider before making a hus
band of an imaginative man. As I have
not seen th* Countess I can generalize
on the subject without offense; and she
k the best judge whether she can chain
my fancy as well aa my affections, or
yield to an imaginative mistress the de
votion of so predominant a quality of
my nature. I can only premise her the
constancy of a husband.
This inevitable license k allowed—my
ideal world and its devotions, that, k to
say, left entirely to myself—I am ready
to accept the honor of the Countess’
hand.
Tour Excellency may command my
time and presence. With high consid
eration, ete., Grant McDonald.
Rather agitated than surprised seemed
Mile. Folie when, the next day, as she
arranged her brushes upon the shell of
her easel, her handsome neighbor com
menced, in the most fluent Italian he
could command, 16 invite her to hk
wedding. Very much surprised was
McDonald when aha interrupted him in
English, and begged him to use hi* na-
Mm
ly - "
to to
»af ftl
4 SM Wbt to
*r%YS
’to to*
is within the reach of every popil
Ladd explained the intent of
iUomea who give the 1 beet-boy
* This does not mesa,’ add he, *
classical scholar, nor the most
Ok pitcher ft baue-baH, nor the
mathemarieian, nor the best-
nor the most elegant de-
• (attest runner, nor fhe
Shakspcarinn scholar, nor
pluckiest fellow at football.
'• ‘Toil, young boys, will do well to
for the person who seems nearest
your father end mother want
you to be—what you mean to be your
selves when you are in the first class;
and you, young girls, will do well to
vote for the boy who comes nearest to
be&g what your parents are trying to
have your brothers become.
“'The older scholars are tolerably
familiar with ancient and modem histo
ry. Vote for that one of your number
whoa* character comes nearest to the
noblest man of whom you have read.’
“All the school eat upright with mil
itary precision. Their officer* passed
the ballots, and each pupil prepared
hie own. -< ■
“At the head he puts hk own name,
and the number of yean he had bean
in the school; below, the name of hi*
choice for the priaa Each ballot conn ta
‘ _ to
at the
bar of Feb.
to 71 and steady." Whan
ruled over Germany, the old :
Journal, than already needy •
old, became Journal Official du .
meat dto Boutokn de C Elb*. Under
this regime the number of the 16th at
November, 1818, contains the official
account of the battle of Leipdo, twenty-
nine days after the event The official
account says that Napoleon had
battle, but retired to Erfurt for “ etrate-
getical reasons.” Among the contribu
tion* to the fenilleton are Schiller, Les
sing and Herr Goethe, “who to the
well educated and talented son of the
high-born, most respectable, moat wor
thy Herr Senator Goethe, of the tree city
of Frankfort” Heine was a frequent
contributor.
AffOTHttm MUBHTITUTH FOB CABTOR
OIL. H
A writer mentions black alder as a
substitute few castor oil. He recom
mends a fluid extract made from the
bark, each fluid dram of which contains
an equivalent of on* dram of the bark.
The extract to a dark brown thick fluid,
with a sweet end agreeabl* taste, and
ton dose varies from one to two drams
for a child. As an aperient it hue many
advantages over Bhamnus csthartMae:
it causes no nausea, no fruetattone, and
to have tonic
by wbieh the
the boweto to elightly
er favorable ctfenm-
stance*, to foolish. As lor the daily pa
pers, they have littk room, under the
constantly-increasing amount of tele
graphic and local news, for the misoel-
laneous topics, in which alone the out-
eider can hope to compete with the reg
ular staff Thus they offer very littk to
the amateur.—Cincisinati Gazette.
!—’ . .. .— •
VTTKRAVCXB 09 HOTHH
“ It looks like Plato.
“Pass the butter.”—Horace Greeley.
“Gold day, ain't itY-Martin Lw
ther.
“ You can atop my paper. ”—napoleon
Bonaparte.
“My head aches fit to split.”—Goorye
Washington.
“Is this hot enough for you?"—Car
dinal Richelieu.
"Here's another button off this shirt.”
—Daniel Webster.
“Bend me up two pounds4 steak.”-
Thomas Jefferson.
“These potatoes ain’t aeoce'n half
-Socrates.
“ You’re fuller then you we** bafnu
dinner. Confucius.
“ Gall around next week and HI pay
H". -Edgar Allan Poe.
'Can’t you keep your sold feet out 4
'—Brigham Yt
You Modal sit up tor mo; I ehaut
Iti
taathseeorrt 4 •]
sing of allij
immediately
and since then
kwtee are annually need by our home
manufacturer* or aaut abroad, princi
pally to London and Hamburg. At flirt
the akin* came toum Loukmna, and
New OriaaM was the center of the tnf•
tic. The wholesale manner in which
the alligators were slaughtered, how
ever, speedily rendered them aoaroe in
that State. Florida to now the great
source from which our supphee are ob
tained, and the trad* centers ia Jackson-
ville. The alligators are killed in great
numbers, both by passengers on board
the plying on the riven of
Florida and by hunters who follow this
pursuit as a means 4 livelihood. After
being killed they are flayed, and only
those parts which are useful for leather,
each es the beBy end flanks, are pre
served. They are the* peeked in a cask
containing a strong brine and sent
North tob# mode into leather. Hither
to alligator leather has been used chiefly
for men’s boots end shoe# ; now, how-
r, it
It to
pocket-books,
rthsr kinds of fancy
i th* wav to b*, th* adttus uf it* \
typapmlmdeoure
ta wood, others to
fur, and others jut who didn't pay
all. Od* of Ums* Utter oka* was Mmed
I, but to squeeze anything out 4
m neat to imp iwa tofu He hud
„ I at hk toT*u*b end lor not pay
ing, and the kmger the debt stood the
more reasonable hi* excuse* scented to
hk creditors. One day the editor met
him on the street, and, after a general
greeting, began on hire with:
“Mr. Lemon, you hare been owing
me foe two yearu" „ » # jfeU
“ Y«v but I had bad luck in my sugar-
bush.”
“But you might have brought wood.”
"Bo I should, but I broke two new
axes and couldn’t buy another.”
“I offered to take it out in turnips
andoora.3K
“I know, but the crows at* my corn
up and the Injuns stole all my turnip*.**
“Well, how are you getting along
now ? " asked th* editor. ’
" First-rate.”
“Hare you a good run of sugar T"
"Yes.”
"Oorn doing well f"
"Splendid.”
WhealaM right?"
"Yes, ill right"
"Well, if eorm wheat, potatoes and
tnnups tun oatguad» anl? 0 * hasp wtU