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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-03-06

At very successful seance in Gin
cihnatl, the, other, night. a man burst
into tears when the medium describ-
ed very accurately tall, blue-eyed
spirit standing by him, with Ii ight
side whiskers and his hair parted in
the middle. Do you know him?"
inquired man at his side, in sym.
pathetic whisper. Know him? I
guess l do" replied the unhappy
man, wiping his eyes. HE was en-
gagged to my wife. If he hadn't died,
he would have been her husband in
stead of me. 0, George, George /"
he murmured, in a voice choked with
emotion why did you peg out ?"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-03-06

DON'T Be Too SENsIr1vE.-There
are some people, yes. many people,
always looking out for sights. They
cannot carry on the daily intercourse
of the family. without some offence
is designed. They are as touchy as
hair triggers. If they meet an ac-
qraintance in the street who happens
to be pre-occupied with business, they
attribute his abstraction in some
mode personal to themselves, and
take umbrage accordingly. They
lay on others the fault of their irrii-
liability. A 6t,of indigestion makes
them see impertinence in everybody
they come in contact with. limo.
cent persons, who never dreamed OF
giving offence, are astonished to find
some unfortunate word, or some mo-
mentary taclturnity, mistaken for on
insult. To say the least, the habit is
unfortunate, 1t is far wiser to take
the more charitable view of our fell,
lsv beings, and not suppose a slight |
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-03-06

T. The following letter.fr from a bereav-
ed widow to a lady friend is said to
have been recently picked up in
Brooklyn: Darli ,g John died last
night. Congestion of the lungs. Our
loss is his gain. l will join him on
the other shore fhaye ordered the
ioveIiest mohair for the funeral. made
with polonaisa, and trimmed with
real point lace. Loss covered BY in
surance on the ten-year plan; will be
paid in sixty days. l know you sor-
row with me. We had four doctors
at tw" dollars a visit. Aunt Mlria
will not 60 into mourning, because
she has Just bought her fall and win
ter things. Her boanet is a straw.
There is a balm in Gilead /; but my
heart is nearly broken. Send me a
cut paper pattern Of that sacque oil
yours.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-03-06
LITTLE CHATTERBOX.

They cali me "Little Chatterbox'-
Nv name is little May;
I have to talk so much, because
I have 80 much to say.
And oh! 1 have 50 many friends
So many! and you see
can't help loving them. because
They every one love me-
love papa and my mamma {
love my sisters, too;
AMI if you're very, very god
guess that I'll love you.
But love God the best of all
He keeps me all the night; -,
And when the morning comes again.
He wakes me with the light
I think it is 30 nice to live;
And yet if should die, ao,r,
The Lord would send his angeas oo"'
To take me to the sky.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-03-06

AS rill from fountain increases
,,s it flows, rises into a stream, swerls
into river, so symbolica!ly are the
origin and course ola good name.
At first, its beginning is small; it
takes its rise from home, its natural
source, extends to the neighborhood,
stretches through the community, and,
f. ally takes a range proportioned to
the qualities by which it is support
ed; Its talents, virtue and usefulness
the surest basis Of an honorable replu,
tahon.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-03-06
T:-.aodI ,,,loe. 4be neglect is open

is intended, pqless Fhe aeglessIc e.. IS ~. oRsl =
and direct. After all, too' iife taxes
its use in a great degree f from ON the the
color Of our own mine - Il, we 90. o.
frank and generous, the world treats ats
u. kindly. If, on the contrary, We w
are az suspicious, men learn to be cold
and cautious to us. Let a person get
the reputation of being touchyane
| everybody is under moreNor- kss. re.
ssra;nt,: and in this way the chances
of ari imagihary offence are vastly IN
creased
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-20
FROM MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

Elk CRY, june 20, 1873.
EDITOR NEWS: We have had
plenty of rain this spring and are
having plenty yet.
Wheat looks well. Corn is look
ing splendid. The heavy rains have
injured the oats some, but the crops
look well considering the late spring
and the wet weather.
We have a beautiful prairie here
in this portion of the county. 1t is
gradual slope to Duck creek west,
and as beautiful country as any
man ever saw, with springs run
ming out now and then so stock
could get nice, cool water if they
were permitted to go to it, but this
thing called the herd law, is a
PERFECT NUISANCE
to this county, and l think, to any
other county, and the men that
made it, ought to herd cat
tie for five years for living, and
then go 10 splitting rails and chop
ping cord wood until they can go
up to the legislature and make bet
ter laws than herd laws for the peo-
pie. But there was some people
thought it was a good law, but they
are sorely tired of it now. If man
comes from the east, and he inquiries
if we have got the herd law here,
we have to tell him yes. Well, l
don't want to invest my money
where there is herd law. So we
are doomed TO stay and live where
we are, in fifteen miles west of the
BENDER SLAUGHTER PEN,
and ten miles northwest of Inde-
pendence, and six miles northeast
of Blk City, on the garden prairie
of Southern Kansas.
Well, reckon the Plymouthites
are about gone up. We do not hear
very much from them now a days.
Mr.. j. f. L., We would like good
letter from Plymouth every week
or two, for it does us good to hear
from our old friends. We have had
few cases OF spinal meningitis
in this part of the county, mostly
children. All fatal, with the ex-
ception of one little girl,
More anon. ID. l.. &.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-20
A PRINTERS DREAM.

One of the typographical cores
pondents of the Missouri Democrat
processes to have had prophetic
vision of a revolution in the mode
of printing newspapers, thus:
entering the splendid compos-
ing room l looked around for the
printers. Lo and behold not a
print was in sight; not stand nor
q type case not an oath nor Vul-
gar word was heard but about
dozen intelligent-looking gentle
men were sitting, each with mar
ble-topped square table before him,
on which was o pile of finely poll
ished zinc plates, the width of
column and of various lengths.
Each man likewise had stationary
cutting knife beside him, TO use as
he required. l inquired what had
become of the typos, and was told
that their occupation had long since
departed that they had engaged in
other occupations, many of them
having chosen the profession of the
law, for which their previous eX-
tensive practice at the bar eminent
ly fitted them, and that the gentle
man sitting before me wrote the
newspaper on those zinc plates, that
as fast as one finished an article. he
TODD a proof from it with q peculiar
ink, between cylinders as a copper
plate does and that afterwards the
plates were arranged as the types
used to be between column rates
/ Just as high ga the plates. That then
a roller passed over them repeated
/ ly, containing q varnish which ad-
i hered to the writing on the plates,
but not to the plates themselves,
until the letters were high enough
/ from which to make q matrix, and
| that from this time the process was
Substantially the same rs when type
was used.
I But how ased, did the readers
I of the paper like manuscript news
paper!
Obi many objected to II, bat
they soon became accustomed TO it,
and now would not exchange it for
the old style. Besides, practice has
made the writers so perfect that the
paper looks like copper-plate.'
4 Are there any other advantages
connected with the new system 2
i very many, prominent among
/ which are economy in wages and
al increase of reading matter-the
new system saving one thousand
dollars q week, at least, for type
setting, and giving st least one
third more matter
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-20
BETSY AND 1 ARE OUT.

Mr.. VIII. NJ. Carleton, in whose
professional troubles many pep
pie have a friendly and personal
interest, is sore beset by certain
Miss or Mrs. Nannette Snow Elmer
son, who asserts that she is the au-
thor of the Original "Betsy and /
are out" and that Mr.. Carleton is a
literary thief. Mr.. Carleton, in re-
ply, sets forth in words and figures
that Miss or Mrs. Nanette Snow
Emerson is q liar. These declara-
tions being made, the friends of
both parties rush into the field with
their surmises, and what they are
pleased to call proofs.
eli Perkins" who is saddest
when he jokes, has interviewed
Miss Emerson, who states that
Betsy and I Are Out" was com
posed in 1869, and is the true story
of her great uncle, Eliab Pratt,
deacon of the First Baptist church
of Reading, Mass, and his wife,
Betsy Flint, and that Parker PraGt,
now residing in Reading, remem-
bers the old quarrel of Eliab and
Betsy.
To make out a case against Mr..
| Carleton, the existence of Eliab and
Betsy must at least be proven, and
some evidence must also be adduc-
ed on which to base reasonable
suppositon that they got "out. -
Both these facts Emerson ayows
can be testified to by Parker Pratt.
But now comes the Boston Adver-
tiser and states that Parker Pratt
affirms that he never knew any
Eliab Pratt, that no person of that
name was deacon of the Baptist
church in Reading, that it was
William Pratt who married Betsy
Flint, but that William and Betsy
never were "out' in all their lives
! Among the witnesses in the case
is Mr.. r. III. Newell ("Orpheus c
Kerr" He afiirms that he saw the
poem, Betsy and / are out" in
the Toledo Blade in 1871; that he
| (NewelD made some changes il
| it, and published it in his paper
the New York Sunday World
Miss Emerson's poem, now givei
to the world as.the original, differs
In some respects from Bfr. Garlic
toms version, but, very singulary
contains ali the changes made b,
Mr. Newell, showing conelusiYel,
. that the Emersonian version wa
constructed after the troubles O
az aad Betsy" had appeared i
! print in the Sunday World.
Under these circumstances "
are forced to the conclusion tha
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-20
THE DRY ONE.

On q certain voyage out, I'm ex-
quisite summer weather, we had for
cabin passengers one beautiful
young lady aud ten more or less
beautiful young gentlemen. Light
winds or dead Gains prevailing the
voyage was slow. They had made
half their distance when the ten
young gentlemen were all madIy in
love with the beautiful young lady.
They had all proposed to her, and
bloodshed among the rivals seemed
imminent, pending the lady's deci-
sion. In this extremity the beauti-
full young lady confided in my
friend the captain, who gave this
discreet advice He said, ST your
affections are disengaged, take that
one of the young men whom you
like the best, and settle the ques-
ton" 81 can't do that, because
like them all equally we'll" My
friend, who was man of resource,
hit upon this ingenious expedient |:
said he: Tomorrow morning,
when lunch is announced, do YOU
plunge boldly overheard head fore
most. l will be alongside In boat
to rescue you, and take in the one
Oh the ten VINO rushes to rescue you,
and then you can afterwards have
him." The seautifuI young lady
highly approved, and did accord
iDgly. But after she plunged in
nine out of the ten more or less
beautiful young men plunged in
after her, and the tenth remained
and shed tears, looking over the
side of the vessel. They were all
picked up and restored, dripping
to the deck. The beautiful young
lady, on seeing them said: @What
am 1 TO do? See what plight they
are in. How can L possibly choose,
because every one of them are
equally wet?v "Then,1 said my
friend, the captain, acting under q
sudden inspiration, @take the dry
ONE l am sorry TO say that she
did SO, and they lived happy ever
Observation-Disclosures Dickens.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-20
n...,.s s. ,''a''

of the heroes who have been less
fortunate than you. The flag of
your country, so often rent and
torn in your grasp, and which you
have borne to triumph again and
again Ger the auaking earth, or
through the hurricane of death in
river and bay, unfurls its peaceful
folds above you, every star gleam-
ing with the glory CT your deeds,
in token of a nations gratitude.
And together with you, we yet re-
member your mothers, wives and
children, to whom you were COM
PEELED to give the parting hand,
who were left with desolate homes
and aching hearts, with nought to
cheer them through those long
years. How anxiously We waited
for our daily mail; with what
breathless silence we waited for
an answer to the oft-repeated ques-
ton, SIS there a letter for me?"
And when the reply came in that
short monosylable, "No" how oft
have we seen wives and mothers
wipe away the silent tear as with
slow and solemn tread they left
the place whittier they had repair
ed in hopes of hearing from their
far off loved ones. Pen can never
portray the anxiety with which we
watched the newspapers of our
country, alter hard fought bat
tie, With feelings almost too in
tolerable to be borne, we read
down the long list of killed and
wounded to learn, if possible, the
fate of our husbands and sons.
But time will not permit me to
dwell longer on this subject.
hasten to close by again repeating
that we hail you as men instru-
mental, in the hands of God, in
breaking the shackles from the |
slave, and giving the nation power
to save its flag and union in the
hour of gloom, and lay rebellion's
spirit in the tomb.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-20
EMPORIA News S.
FRIDAY. JUNE 20, 1873.
GRAND.

What a little big word. 1t is
little of itself but big in it's rela-
tions. 1t is high, or deep, OF wide.
1t gives altitude to many low
things; depth to things which are
shallow, length and breadth to
contracted things, and gravity to
lightness itself 1t sometimes
covers shame as with mantle.
We have known it to flourish
trumpets in the face of death. 1t
is brave, daring word, sometimes
reckless. 1t stands at the head of
many a column, and marches be-
fere host of words. 1t always
goes before.
But Am orleans use it freely.
We do and say everything on
grand scale. Our country is
grand-grander than any other
grandest On the globe. Our peo-
pie are grand, and like grand
things. They use this big word
on all occasions This magic
word gives strength and beauty
to everything they do and say.
Politicians have grand caucusses,
grand rallies, grand professions,
grand speakings, grand elections,
grand victories, grand defeats.
Churches have grand concerts,
grand festivals, grand fairs, grand
suppers, grand organs, grand ser
mons, grand successes, grand fail
ures. The "gay and festive world
has grand shows, grand circuses,
grand troupes, grand feats, grand
balls, grand hops, grand masque-
rades, grand parties, made up of
grand fellows and grand ladies.
A few days ago we saw a placard
headed like this: "Grand Open
ing of the French Bakery" Two
days after the grand opening we
had a grand blow, and the chin
ney of the bakery went down
across the oven, making a grand
Just so with a great
many of the grand men and things
of this world, they ego up like a
sky-rocket and come down like q
stick" C.. r. r.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-20
sLAuGHrER-H HOUSE BUTTER.
From the New York SUN.

a company has been organized
with a capital of 100000 for the
manufacture of butter. At pres
ent the demand is so great that it
is beyond the capacity Of the COM
.pany to supply it. The profits are
expected to be over 100 per cent.
As this city-made Orange county
butter is used in many of the most
fashionable hotels and restaurants,
both for cooking and for the table,
1t may be interesting to the read
ers of the Sun to learn something
of the method in which tits made.
In the first place, agents are en-
ployed to visit the slaughter-hous-
es and to buy up all the beef fat
usually styled suet. This suet is
carted to the butter factory and
cIsansed. Then it is put iuto or
binary meat-choppers and minced
fine. 1t is afterward placed in a
boiler with as much water in bulk
as itself A steam pipe is intro
duced among the PARTICLES of suet
and they are melted. The refuse
or membrane goes To the bottom
of the water, the oily substance
ifoats and is removed. This latter
Consists of bntter-matter and
'istearine. A temperature of eighty
/ degrees melts the former anG
leaves the stearIne at the bottom
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-20

ENGLISH LAWYERS AND JUDGES
The number of barristers in
actual practice has, though the
extension of local courts, greatly
increased of late years, and it is
probable destined to go on in
creasing. But the men in prac-
tice, in steady, regular, continuous
practice, are still few compared
with the number of men who have
qualified for the profession. There
are many reasons why barristers
fail in their own line. They may
not possess the requisite amount
of ability or industry, or they may
have allowed themselves to be dis
tracted by literary or other occu-
pations, or they may have been
unable to procure good introduce
tions at starting. The ordinary
work of the profession makes very
slender demands either on the in
tellectual capacity or learning of
those who follow it. There are
few really good lawyers-that is,
lawyers who know the law-now
at the bar, and still fewer good
takers. The great run of lawyers
are content to scramble on with
mouthfuls of law picked up from
day to day as occasion requires,
trusting to textbooks and luck
for getting up the necessary infor-
nation when call happens to be
made for it. The common ora
tory at the bar is q depIorable ex-
hibition. 1t has reached a high
average standard when it is just
articulate, and does not too VIC
lently outrage the rudimentary
laws of grammar. With the eX-
ception of the Lord Chancellor
and the Chief Justice, there is
hardly Judge on the bench who,
to say nothing of elevated thought
and literary subtlety, can even
turn & decent sentence; and at the
bar Sir John Carslake and the At
torney General stand almost alone
in preserving the old traditions of
forensic eloquence. 1t seldom
happens that if a barrister has u
fair chance of getting into prac-
tice he has not sufficient ability to
take advantage of it. But many
men break down through want OF
application, or allowing themselves
to be drawn aside during the dull
years of waiting, into other
grooves, and many more through
want of the necessary introduc
tions at the outset. The key to
the profession lies after all with
the attorneys. When a man has
made n name, and taken up a po-
sition, he may be independent OF
the attorneys, but in the first in
stance it is to them he must look
for an opening. The chances are
terribly against 4 man of only
average ability who starts without
the open sesame of their support
An English barri ster can not, like
American, advertise in the news.
papers. He is forbidden by Ell
quette to tout or solicit briefs
Touting no doubt is practiced, and
in the lower criminal courts to 6
sea ndalous extent, but it carries
a faint with it, and seldom pays in
the long run. A barrister can dc
little else than take chambers al
an inn, have his name painted NJ
at the foot of the stairs and pub
lished in the Law List, and Their
sit in his room waiting for briefs
with an occasional visit to thu
courts to air his wig, and shake
the creases out of his gown
Saturday Review.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-20
A KANSAS LADY ORATOR.

We are requested to publish the
following synopsis of an address
delivered on Decoration day at
Westfield, Indiana, by Mrs. L. B.
Semans, formerly of Neosho Rap
ids, in this county. 1t is taken
from the Noblesville, Ind, Regis
ter:
Mrs. l.. Semans then delivered
in the most impressive manner
the following eloquent address to
the soldiers of the late war who
were present on behalf of the citi-
Zens of Westfield:
Soldiers once soldiers, but
now again citizens-we hail you
to-day as our bencfactors and de-
liverers, and while we welcome you
here, and also thank you for aid
ing us in decorating the graves of
your fellow soldiers, we would not
forget you, the noble boys yet liv-
ing; you who cheerfully eSchang-
ed the comforts of home for the
hardships Of campaign life; you
who have patiently borne the heat
of summer and the frosts of win
ter, through three, and some OF
you four, terrible years; you who
looked without quailing on the
CHASTITY visage of war; not only
the armed foe, but the wasting
malaria incident to camp life.
Well you know the agony and
transport of the deadly encounter
How many times standing, each
man ut his post in the. long line
of cleaning sabres and bayonets
every hand clcnched and every
eye distended, you have caught
the peal of the trumpet and sprung
through the iron storm to the EN-
brace of victory. But all that ha!
passed away. The mangled forests
are now clothed with verdure; tn,
fields once blackened by the fer
breath of war are now covered
with a soft bloom; and the YES
sells of commerce are riding OF
all our national waters; the car
mage, the groans, the cries for sue
: cor, the fierce onset and sullen re
, coil, the thunders of the artillery
and the missiles screaming lik
demons in the air, have given way
and to day we have the gloriou
i privilege of meeting beneath tn
shade of these stately trees, an
of strewing flowers ON the grave
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-20

The SENSATION OF DROWNING
Dr. Hoffman, of Dixon, H., who was
one of the victims of the recent
bridge disaster in that town, and
was very nearly drowned, thus de-
scribes his sensation while in the
water.
/ could feel the water running
down my throat and in my ears,
all at once I experienced the most
delightful sensation. / seemed to
be at peace with everything, and
perfectly happy. My whole life
passed before me like fash of
lightning, the events appearing in
sequence, the most prominent APP
pearing to be indelibly impressed
upon my MUD. Circumstances /
had forgotten appeared wildly,
and ] did not want to be disturbed.
I should have preferred to remain
where I was. While in the midst
of q beatifie reyerie, thinking
what my wife would do if she was
saved and I were drowned, / felt
a hand on my shoulder. l was
pulled out and placed on a rock.
I was almost insensible, but gradu-
ally came to myself Oh, how sick
and wretehed l felt. / was great
Iy astonished at the number oil
events that passed through my
mind while under the water
Nothing that occurred during
lchildhood was eyiaent, but every
thing since / was about ninteeI
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-20

/ OHe evening IN OctODeF,
Such business was to him quite new,
And he felt rather sober.
SO when he reached his eharmer's houst
He sat him in the corner;
His Dolly was 3 buxsm girl
BY no means did he seorn her
This maiden with her father dwelt-
She was her mothers daughter;
And as John gazed, he s.klnd o. felt
All over kind o. sort o'..'
All in her best she was arraYed,
For John was her first saitor;
He swore she was a 'scute as lie
s Perhaps little cuter."
That Is, unto himself he swoFe,
For ne'er word was spoken;
They sat for three good hours or more,
And silence was unbroken.
yt 1f
Her little heart went pit-a-pat,
And he felt dreadful eueery;
He scratched his head ana brushed hi
- hat,
Yet spoke not to his deary.
The ribbsns which adorned her hair,
He looked at and admired;
The crimson on her cheek so fair,
With love his heart inspired,
He hem'd and haw d, and tried 10 speak
For he was growing bOlder.
But still his courage was too weak
ellis love he never told herr
Impatiently did Dolly wait
For him to speak unto her,
Until twas growing rather late
And thus did Johnny WOO her.
AT length his Dolly fell asleep,
And John thought he'd be going
Il guess I'Il go and feed them Sheep
So ended Johns first wooing.