Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-07-04
From The Ale1aalrid Goze0e.
"REMINISCENCES OF THE OLDEN
DAYS OF VIRGINIA.

Mecklenburg, and Colony OF Virginia,
some seventy and five years ago, Colo
mel Cabanis, q successful planter and
prosperous gentleman" Now, in those
ancient days of Virginia, the habit was
to export the Tobacco grown in the Colony
to the mother country, TO be manufacture.
ed, and there to be re exported to Virgin
ia. there to be masticaed and spuued upon
its ratiye soil.
Our worthy Colonel was the first TO
start domestic manufactures. in the South
on his own hook, by the erection Of a
private establishment for the manufacture
OF chewing tobacco on a small scale.--
And prime article was turned out from
this infant, and we may say. isolated
mandatory Of the olden time. And the
good Colonel who was a member of the
House of Burgesses. would at every an
nual visit to Williamsburg, put into his
saddle. bags choice twist for each Of his
brother members and chewers Of the
House and anxiously indeed, was his
advent, or rather, that Of his saddle-bags,
looked for, while many a smacking Of
lips, as well as shaking Of hands greeted
the arrival of the manufacturer of Meek.
lenburg at the Capitol.
Now The Cabans twist beat all compe-
tition; it had the taste, the twang, the
real game flavor, and many and earnest
were the enquiries as to the modus oper-
andi by which such an exquisite article
was produced. AT length the Colonel
divulged the mighty secret. lie Arrays
PRESSED HIS PRIME, THE REAL CABANIs,
IN AN OLD BEE GUM
Gentle readers, who are masiicators of
the weed, rejoice! After the lapse of
three quarters Of century, the truth, the
mighty truth, is out at last. So let us
hear no more of Cavendsh Tobacco, but
Of CABANIs No. !, REAL BEE GUM AND
NO MISTAKE!
CESAR AND THE RAZOR STRop.
ing the viceroyalty Of Lord Botetourt,
there lived and fourished in Williams
burg, a black barber named Caesar,
queer old fellow, and famed through all
the country around for the bluntness of
his wit and the keenness Of his razors.--
Now, Caesars shop was, in those ancient
days, as the BARRIERS shops are in modern
times, the focus of all the news and scam
daI oil the place. And lhither would the
then magnates of Virginia repair, to en-.
joy the gossip of the Capital, and to have
their "chins new reuped" by Casar's in
comparable sharps. Even Colonel Bird,
the mirror Of the taste and fashion of old
VIrginia's gallant and joyous day, would
discard his crown Of Wallets, and go to the
BARRIERS stop when he wished to indulge
in the luxury of a smooth shave.
The Colonel determined to enquire into
the MYSTERY of these superior sharps, and
said, Caesar, you old william, surely the
devil must strop your raizors for you, or
how do they acquire such an edge p
Here am importing year after year
sirops of great price and celebrity, my
rascals are continually stropping, and
yet we cannot raise an edge comparable
to yours. Here's guinea, come show
me your strop." The mysterious barber
took the gold, eyed it with great compla-
cency, pouched it, and then displayed his
ivory from ear 10 ear, observed: "Well,
massa Bird, go you send home for strop,
hey, and still Caesars rszors beat all he,
he, he. See here massa," and gong to
box, he produced an old bride rein nail
ed TO piece of rood. The astonished
Colonel cried, "what the devil, is this
Caesar. AS the boys say, sure you are
poking fun at me-" To which the bar
Der OF the ancien, regime ; making bow,
that Tor grace and dignity would no, have
shamed the vice.royal Cour. itself, laid
his hand upon his heart and remarked:
"'Pon my honor. dat is all my strop;"
then continued, "but mind, massa Bird,
it must be old plough bride rein, de more
Sweat and dust, de BETTER"
Colonel Bird took the hint. He ceased
his importation of foreign strops, while
his vast estate, furnished a great choice
of The domestic material; and often would
he relate to his visitors at Westover, the
story of the famed old Barber of Williams
burg, and the discovery of the Magic
Sirop.
ARLINGTON House., March 9Th, 1S44.
Which WILL You Dol-One or two
things must be done in this country. Pa
rents must expend money TO educate their
children, or they must pay taxes TO build
penitentiaries and to punish crime
There is a great mistake about what is
called education. Some suppose every
learned man is an educated man. No
such thing. That man is educated, who
knows himself, and who takes accurate
common sense views Of men and things
around him. Some very learned men are
the greatest fools in tho world; the reason
is, they are not educated men. Learning
is only the means, not the end its value
consists Of giving the means of acquiring,
in the dcpline which, when properly
managed. it gives the mind. Some of the
greatest men in the world were not over.
stocked with learning, but their actions
proved they were thoroughly educated.
Washington, Franklin and Sherman,
were of this class; and similar, though
less striking, instances may now be found
in all countries. To be educated, a man
must be able to think, reason, compare
and decide accurately. He may study
meta physics till he is grey, and languag-
es Til he is walking polyglot, and il he
is nothing more, he is an uIeducaed man.
There IS no class in the country who