Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-05-23
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The School OF Experience-A Chapter on
Dogs-New York Docks, etc., etc.
THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE.

IhE SCdOOL OF
A judgment has been granted by Judge
McCunn of the Superior Court against
the Geneva Watch Company in the suit
In which the American Watch Company
We're plaintiffs. The Judgment forbids
Elias and his associates from selling watch
movements not made by the plaintiffs,
''unGer the denomination of VIM. Ellery
or John E!lery," or whereon is engraved,
pressed or in any manner made apparent
the words "Wm Ellery" or "John FL
lery," or any colorado imitation of the
same. The defendants are further direct,
ed to pay Over to the plaintiffs all the
profits made by the sale of such watch
movements, as are forbidden by the judg-
ment, and referee has been appointed
by the court to ascertain the amount.
Thus ends the series of suits and legal
proceedings that have so completely un-
earthed and exposed the saw-dust swindle,
the Emigrant Protectory Association, the
bogus S6snish Lottery and all the kindred
games by which the nest of notorious
confidence operators have feeced the
country. and it is to be hoped for the
good sense and dearly bought experience
of the country that such operations will
cease to be profitable to the fraudulent
consprators who set them on foot. Ex
perience is dear school, but fools will
lean in no other" and for every class
thqr has graduated in this school the teach
ers have filed their pockets with the
dollars of their former ignorant dupes !;
but in many cases the fools never take
their degrees of common sense, but like
nsuldle headed catfish at the hook they
bite and bite and bite again, or like ounces
at school they hold the spelling-book Of
experience up side down, and never learn
to read the ways of the slippery world.
The full course in this school is very
thorough some tin trumpet concern, first
teaches the scholar to read some sawdust
establishment teaches him arithmetic,
the Salgrebraical significance of X minus
7 equals nothing. The geometrical pro-
portions of the box containing the saw
dust and the wonderful art of surveying
what he has received for his ten dollars.
Next some Emigrant Association or Land
Company teaches him geography; then
from some cure-all whose "sands of life
are running out" he takes his degree in
medicine and when some philanthrOpist
kindly offers for five dollars to prosecute
the swindlers, he studies law and at last
investing all the money he has saved dur
ing whole season in the tickets Of some
grand, benevolent gift enterprise, re-
ceives his diploma and becomes pro-
founder philosopher than ever passed
matriculation at his little country school
house.
Some operators in New York have only
been teaching the primary branches, but
this grand saw-dust combination have
been teaching all branches in their eStab
lishmeut and have graduated more than
Yale or Harvard or all the colleges in the
country combined The next session
opens again when the farmers have sold
their crops. Who wants to go to school
next don't all speak at once.
NIB. No playing hockey in this school.
Scholars must bring their own fools-caps
and dunce-bloCks.