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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12
DON'T CROWD.

Don't ererd, this world is broad enough
For yos sS we'll as me;
The doors Of srt are open wide
The realms Of thought are free,
OF = Il earth places you arc right
10 choose the best you can,
Provided that you do not try
TO crowd some other man.
What matter though you scarce can count
Yvar piles of golden ore;
Tliie be can hardly strive to keep
Ga,-ut families from the door?
O: willing hands and honest heart
Alone should man be proud;
Then give him Ill the room he needs,
And never try to Crowd.
Dsn't crowd, proud Miss; your DAINTY SILK
Will gli>ten none the less
Because it comes in con:ac: with
4 begear's tattered dress;
This lovely world wss never made
For You and alone;
A paaper has right 10 tread
The pathway to throne.
Don't crowd the good from out your heart
BY fostering all that's bad
But give to every virtue room
TIE best that may be had,
Be eack day record such one
That YOU may we'll be proud;
Give each his right, give each his room,
: And never ny to crowd.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST IL, 1874

1T isn't Tom but don't 60, he
pleaded. Stay with me, Mrs.
Camcron--dcar Kate. Tom don't
love you half as well rs / do
How do You know" whispered
Kate, shyly.
Because Tom only loves you as
a cousin. and 10. Kate, [ love
yon bctter than my life
But You have known lac such a
little WHILE"
..Ivs; and might ncvcr have
known YOU at ali if Tom, tic blessed
o. boy, hadn't deceived Inc, and
mlt!e me believe it was an old lady
who was to come down with rs.
- mow-Tom told me all about
it" laughed Kate.
Did he: But you will forgive
me, Katy darling, because I love
you 50. and learn to love me a lit
tie: won't you?'' pleaded Frank,
boldly throwing one ann around
her, and drawing her down by his
side.
I'm afraid I have learned that
already" whispered she, frankly.
And then-but neither you nor I,
dear reader, have any business lis
tening to love secrets in the
tre-lighted library. so I wont tell
you what, then. But 1 will tell you,
that when the next New Years
came. Frank and the bewitching
widow were visiting at Toms sagain;
but she was a widow no longer, and
they called her Mrs. Worthington.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12
THE MODERN MAIDEN.

Ifear thee modern maiden,
With thy lean and lengthy shape,
For know thy slim proportions
Are Of wire and of rape;
Yet surely there is something,
A-So to speak-per Sc,
But what that something is remains
a mystery to me.
Tight gloves pinch up thy little hands,
And boots thy feet distress,
Though small thy head, 'tis smaller made
By fashions last compress:
Thy skirt is drawn so snug by bands
That thou canst scarcely walk,
Thy redingote does fit so close
marvel thou canst talk.
Ijndge that thou hast bones and blood,
And flesh to keep thee warm.
But hidden are they now in that
Attenuated form.
How .dost thou shrink upon thyself,
And so diminish all,
That thou shoulds from massive maid
Become exceeding small?
So, I fear thee, modern maiden,
With thy lean and grewsomc shape,
And wonder how walking-s:ick
So closely thou canSt ape.
But seeing thee, thus lank and long,
~Aad thinking on thy state,
grant at once, in foolshncsS,
Thou canst be very grest.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12

I can wait for you. But T wish I
mad a match.
I said, Take my place, and Ill
60 and get you one.
He declined. This lack Of conf
dence on his part created a co >lness
between us. and from that time for
ward | avoided him. It was my
idea. in case any thing happened to
me, to so time tie occurrence as to
throw my custom into the the hands
Of the opposition coroner over on
the American side. At last a police
man came along and arrested me
for disturbing the peace by yelling
at people on shore for help. The
Judge fined me, but I had the ad-
vantage OF him. My money was
with my pantaloons, and my
pantaloons were with the Indians.
Thus I escaped. l am now lying,
in very critical condition. At
least I am lying, any way-critical
or not critical.
I am hurt all over, but I cannot
tell the full extent yet, because the
doctor is not done taking the inven-
tory. He will make out my mani
fest this evening. However, thus
far, he thinks only six of my wounds
are fatal. I don't mind the others.
Upon regaining my right mind, I
said:
1T is an awfully savage tribe of
Indians that do the bead work and
moccasins for Niagara Falls, doctor.
Where are they from
I shall not be able to finish my
remarks about Niagara until I get
better.
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though not unexpected, have excited

though not unexpected, have excited
the deepest interest in the phenome-
nal character Of the boy. AL his
cruelties to other children, his fend-
ish murder Of the Millin boy, are re-
called, and new cases, where he en-
deavored to entice children away with
him. have been discovered. It will
be a long time before the boy with the
eye like marble will be forgotten in
South Boston. When he was first
examined two years ago on charges Of
mutilating little boys in Chelsea and
East Boston, he said, in reply to a
question Why he did it: II don't
know, your honor, only I could not
help it; I had to do it." 1t has now
come out that directly after this in
7estigation, party of three we'll
known physicians, who were anxious
to learn all they could about the boy,
called upon his mother and had a very
pleasant interview with her. They
told their errand, and she gave them
all the information in her power
Among other things she said that her
husband was butcher, and that
short time before the birth of the boy
she was in the habit of going daily
to the slaughter-house to witness the
killing of the animals, and that. some
how, took particular delight in see-
ing her husband butcher the sheep,
the calves and the cattle, and not un-
frequently she assisted him in this
bloody work, She also said that af-
ter Jesse was born. and became old
enough to have knife in his hand,
he was all the time, when opportunity
offered, sticking knife into pieces
of meat, and when little older and
about his father in market, he did the
same thing. He was simply marked
by his mother just as other children
have been. only in different way.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12
PROVERBS FOR LOVERS.

Love knows hidden paths.
Love makes labor light.
Love makes time pass away,
and time makes love pass away.
French.
Love me little, love me long.
English.
Ami moi IN pen, mais continu-
ed-Love me a little but keep it
up.
Love one that does not love you,
answer one that does call you, and
yon will rnn a h.uitless race.
Love others well but love thy
self the most; give good for good,
but not to thine own cost.
dutch.
Love rules his kingdom with
out a WOrd.
Love subdues everything except
the felon's heart.
Love teaches asses to dance.
French.
Love, kuavery, necessity make
men good orators.-English.
Love, thieves, and fear make
ghosts.-German.
Love without a return is like a
question without on answer.
[Gmman.
Love your friend with his
faults.
Love your neighbor, but don't
pull down the fence.-Gern1an.
Lovers purses are tied with cob
webs.
Lovers quarrels are love re-
doubled.
Lovers think others have no
eyes.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12
PENANCE.

He kissed me, and knew twas wrong,
For he was neither ki,h nor kin;
Need one do penancc very long
For snch tiny little sin?
He pressed my hand-that wasn't right;
Why viii men have such wicked ways
It wasn't for miuute-Quire-
But in il there were days and days
There's mischief in the moon, know;
I'm positive I saw her wink
When requested him to go:
meant it, tool almost think.
But, after all, Pm not to blalDe;
= He took the kiss; I do think men
Arc quite without the sense Of shame
Iwonder when he'll come again,
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12
"
3oetrp.
CHALMED.

How l won my darling?
This is all the lale:-
On the broad Atlantic
We were under sail.
Wide outspread, the water
Rippled in the light,
Swiftly on the quarter
Hove a sail in sight.
. In its onward speeding
We, with eyes intent.
Ev'ry movement needing,
Watch'd itas it went.
Soon it pass'd and teetly
Rosa darling flew,
"To the bowl" cried Sweetly;
"Therc the better view"
Luckless victim! Smartly
Jack was to the fore,
Quick for fun, though partly
Bent on grog galore.
All abso.b'd he found her
Lost 10 fee or fne;
Knelt, and deity round her
Chalk'd a magic line.
Ey the circle bounded,
What might set her free?
Coin or kiss? Surrounded,
Smiled she then on me.
Like the prison'd startling,
Causst and i'll at ease,
"Do." she cried-the darling
"Do un-chalk Inc, please"
obey'd and woa her
Mine to have and hold
In DETER circle,
In u ring of gold.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12
5aiseeLt1l:rous.
%
4 DAY .A'T NIAGARA.
BY MARK TWAIN.

Niagara Falls is one of the finest
structures in the known world. |
have been visiting this favorite wa
tcring place recently, for the first
time, ana was we'll pleased. A gen
t!eman who was with me said it
was customary to be disappointed
in the Falls. but that subsequent
visits were sure to set that all right.
He said it was so with him. He said
that the first time he went the hack
fares were so much higher than the
Falls, that the Falls appeared in
significant. But that is all regu-
lated now. The hackmen have
been tanned, a,r,,nhorod, and l,lanarl
ell. and blackguardcd, and brought
into subjection to the law, and
dosed with moral principle till they
are as meek as missionaries. They
are divided into two clans. now the
Regulars, and now the Privateers,
and they employ their idle time in
warning the public against each
other. The Regulars are under
the hotel banners, and do the legiti-
mate at two dollars an hour, tie
Privatecrs prowl darllly on neutral
ground and pick off stragglers at
half price. But there are Nd more
outragcs and extortions. That sort
of thing cured itself. 1t made the
Falls unpopular By getting into the
newspapers: and whenever q pub
lie evil achieves that sort Of success
for itself, it's days are numbered. 1t
became apparent that either the
Falls had to be discontinued. Or
the hackmen had to subside. They
could not dam the Falls, and so
they did the hackmen. One can be
comfortable and happy there now.
T drank up most of the American
Falls before I learned that the Wa
ters were not considered medicinal
Why are people left in ignorance
that way? i might have gone on
and ruined a fine property, merely
for the want Of a little trifing infor-
nation. And yet the sources of in-
formation at Niagara Falls are not
meagre. You are sometimes in
doubt there about what you ought
to 90, but you are seldom in doubt
what you must nat do. No, the
signs keep you posted. If an in
FAINT Gun read. that infant is measu-
rably safe at Niagara Falls. In your
room at the hotel you will find your
COURSE marked for you in the most
convenient way, by means Of pla-
cards on the wall like these:
Pull, the bell-rope gently, but
don't jerk
"Boltyo1lr door"
Don't scrape matches on the
wall"
Turn off your gas when you re
lire"
Tie up your dog
"If you place your boots outside
the door they will be BACKED but
the house will not be responsible
for their roturn." (This is con-
fusing and tanglesome proposition,
because it moves you to deliberate
long and painfully as to whether It
will really be any object to you to
have your boots blacked unless they
are retunned)
"Give your key to the omnibus
driver. if you forget and carry it off
with you
Outside the hotel, whenever you
wander, you are intelligently assist
ed by the signs. You can not come
to grief as long as you are IN your
right mind. But the difficulty is
to stag in your right mind with so
much instruction to deep track of.
For instance:
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12

4 Piqua girl who had quarrel
with a lover remarked to a conf
dant that she wasn't on squeezing
terms with that friend any more.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12
BABY'S FIRST TOOTH.
BY PRCDy.

BY PRUDy.
Cope. look at the dainty darling!
As fresh as ! new-b lown-rose
From the top Of his head so golden,
To the dear little restless toes;
You can tell by the dancing dimples,
BY the smiles that come aud 90.
He is keepi" q wonderful secret
You'd give half Your kingdom 10 know
Now kiss him on cheek and forehead,
Ank kiss him on lip and chin;
The li,tie red mouth is hiding
The rarest of pearls within,
All, see! when the lips in smiling
Have parted their tender red:
Do You see the tiny white jewel,
Set deep in its coral bed?
Now where are the sage reporters
Who wait by hamlet and hill,
To tell the listening nation
The news OF its good or i'll?
Come weave with your idle gossip
This golden blossom of truth
Just half year OLD this morning,
And one little pcarly ooih!
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12
SOME MODERN SAYINGS.

"Honesty is the best policy"
unless you can get about $4,000:
and effect a settlement at fifty per
cent.
Honor thy father and thy mo,
ther, particularly about circus
time, when you don't know where
to raise fifty cents.
Never run in debt when you
can avoid it. It is much better
to go stumbling aroundin broad
cloth coat than to be in debt for
suit Of Scotch mixed.
Let your motto be, "Liberty or
DEATH" and if it comes to the
pinch, take the most Of it in liber-
ty.
Remember the poor. If you
know of a family who are out OF
provisions and fuel, keep them in
your thoughts until yoa meet
Smith or Brown, and then tell
them that they'd better make a
donation. If they hold off tell
them that "He who giveth to the
poor lenGeth to the Lord" It is
very easy to remember the poor.
lean remember cases twenty years
ago.
Respect old age. If you have
a maiden aunt forty years old,
and she is passing herself off for a
girl Of twenty-three, there is no
call for you to expose her. The
more you respect her age and keep
still about it the more she will re-
spect you.
Never marry for wealth, but re-
mem Der that it is just as easy to
love girl who has a brick house
with q mansard roof and silver
plated door-bell as one who hasn't
anything but an auburn head and
amiable disposition.
Love thy neighbor as thyself-
Borrow his plow, hoe, or horses
whenever you can: but if he wants
to borrow yours tell him that
you're very sorry, but you were
just going to use them yourself:
Be guarded in your converse
ton. There are times when you
may freely express your opinion
Of a political candidate, but you
had better wait until his friends
are over in the next county visit
ing.
Remember that appearances are
often deceiving. Many a pale
thin young lady will eat more
corned beef than a carpenter. Be-
cause you find her playing the pi-
ano in the parlor, it is no sign
that her mother is not at the cor
ner grocery running in debt for q
peck of potatoes.
Restrain your temper: particular
ly if a policeman is in sight. Fits
Of anger hasten death. If a man
should call you a borse-thief and
you should get highly indignant, it
would cut your life short by sever
al days; and if it was in Texas,
and there was a vigilance commit
tee handy it would cut it short al
together.
Rise with the lark. Thai is du-
ring cold weather, as soon as the
lark rises, waken your wife aud
tell her that it is time to build the
fire. If she makes any objections,
YOU can refer her to a dozen works
on the benefit ofearly rising. Any
man who cares a cent for his wife's
health will take pride in hearing
her around the house at daylight
Of winters morning getting up
q red hot stove and warming his
socks and boots.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12

A little boy of our acquaintance
few days ago, after attentively
watching a couple Of industriously
inclined bugs, remarked that even
the bugs had got to playing mar
bles.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12

A New Hampshire editor with
poetry in his soul asserts that
every tree is a festher in the earth's
cap, plume in her bonnet, a tress
upon her forehead wherefore plant
trees!
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12

One evening at home in study is
more profitable than ten loung-
ing about a saloon, tavern, or even
railroad depot.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12

DR.. Mary Walker has been lee
turing in St. Louis on the necessity
of a law compelling men to marry
before they reach the age Of for
ty.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12

An Illinois boy rubbed arsenic
on his teeth so that he could bite
his father in the leg and dose him
when the old man hauled him over
his knee.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12

The proposition to introduce Ia
diesas railroad conductors is frown-
ed upon in view of the fact that
their trains are always behind.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12

All the diference-A thief run
ming away is a scamp, but the po-
iceman's chase after him is a scam
per.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12

She is a wise washerTe&
knows her own twankay.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-08-12

An unpopular ':ism"-Tbe rheu-
maism.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-01-07
Before the Curtain.

A rather remarkable man died in
Vienna recently. It was the business
of Herr Panovetz, the celebrity in ques-
ton, to gain applause for the actors of
the theatre in which he was employed.
In order to do so, he stationed his
trained hirelings in various positions in
the body of the theatre, when they ap-
plauded at discretion. Herr Panovetz
left considerable fortune which he
gained in the exercise of his somewhat
singular profession. All the members
of the theatre, from the highest to the
lowest, were in the habit of employing
him, while some of them used to take
him on their provincial tours. OF late
years his success ir gaining applause
for his clients on the stage was so great
that he was paid very handsomely for
his services, especially at first perform
ances, when both the actresses and their
admirers loaded him with presents. He
sometimes had as many as forty young
men under him, when it was thought
necessary that applause should be un-
usually loud and vigorous but he gen.
orally employed much smaller num-
Der, preferring, as he said, equality to
quantity This bit of history has
rather tendency to shake ones faith
in the genuine nature of theatrical ap-
plause, has it not :? OF course we lost
faith in bouquets and presentations long
ago; but this is really too sad.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-01-07

A legend of the Utes, for which I
am indebted to the perusal of Major
Powell's MS. notes, explains the cause
Of the absence Of woods in northern
Arizona. It is not long, and there is
something SO inexpressibly novel in it's
movement, as we'll as in the fact of our
drawing a new mythology and fresh
imagery from the very heart of the
continent, that gave 1t, as it IS re-
membered. It is called " The Origin
cf Fire. and tells how once upon a
time bright spark fell from the point
of reed upon the ground, and the
nightingale picked it up in it's beak and
found it was fire. and the mighty
chief of the Utes asked what it was,
and the nightingale said it was fire.
And the chief asked if there were any
more in the world, and the nightingale
said, that far off IN the south was
people dancing ever about
great fire, with songs and shouts.
So the mighty chief of the
Utes made ready, and put on fine
cap, with long eagle feathers upon it,
and started for the people of the South.
And, as he went, he stationed nimble
runners of his tribe all the way from
from the land of the Utes to the Fire
People, at intervals of mile. And,
journeying, he came, after many days,
to the Fire People, dancing with songs
and shouts about great fire. And he
mingled with them, but they saw he
was stranger and looked aslant at
him. But he danced and sang and
shouted with them, and suddenly
to oping, thrust the end of his eagle
plumes in the fire, and they blazed up
nightly. And the Fire People would
have caught him, but he leaped over
their heads and ran to the first man of
his tribe, and, falling exhausted,
handed him the blazing torch Of
plumes, and told him to run. And
he ran and fell exhauste,; by the
second man, handing him the plumes
And SO they ran, each man catching
the fire plumes from the hand Of the
runner, until the last man brought it
to the land of the Utes. And they
were so rejoiced, they put the torch to
the roots of a mighty tree on the edge
of the forest, and shouted as it burned.
But a great wind sprang up and car.
ried the fire into the forest, and it
spread in every direction, and all the
woods were destroyed. And the people
of the Utes prayed long and loud to
the god Tawotz, and at length he sent
a mighty rain, which quenched the fire.
But turtle sat upon a spark of fire
and kept it alive during the fire. And
this was the origin of fire. The myths
combined give a not uninteresting
barbaric history of the origin Of the
Grand Canon and river Of the Colorado,
and of the absence of forests in this
part of Arizona.-O Old and NeaU.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-01-07
The Death Agony.

Death is usually preceded by gro
Of phenomena that has received the
name of the death agony. In most cases
OF disease the beginning of this conclu-
ding period is marked by sudden i'm
provement Of the functions. It is the
last CLEAN springing from the dying
flame; but soon the eyes become fixed
and insensible to the action of light;
the nose grows pointed and cold; the
mouth, wide open, seems to call for the
air that fails it; the cavity within is
parched, and the lips, as if withered,
cling to the curves of the teeth. The
last movements of respiration are spas
modic, and wheeling, and sometimes
marked gurgling sound may be heard
at some distance, caused by obstruction
OF the bronchial tubes with a quantity
of mucus. The breath is cold, the tenn
perature of the skin lowered. If the
heart is examined, we note the weaken
ing OF its sounds and pulsations. The
hands, placed in it's neighborhood, feel
30 throb. Such is the physiognony of
a person in the last moments of death
in the greater number of cases; that is,
when death follows upon period of
illness of some duration. The death
struggle is seldom painful, and almost
always the patient feels nothing of it.
He is plunged into a comatose stupor,
so that he is no longer conscious of his
situation or his sufferings, and he pass
es insensibly from life to death, in a
manner that renders it sometimes diff
cult to fix the exact instant at which a
dying person expires. This is true, at
least, in chronic maladies, and especi-
ally in those that consume the human
body slowly and silently.
Yet when the hour of death comes
for ardent OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES great az
lists, for instance-and they usually
die young-there is quick and sublime
new burst of life in the creative genius.
There is no better example of this than
the angelic end of Beethoven, who, be-
fore he breathed out his soul, that
tuneful monad, regained his lost speech
and hearing, and spent them in repeat
ing for the last time some of those
sweet harmonies which he called his
" Prayers to God" ,r.Dt
Some diseases, moreover, are most
peculiarly marked by the gentleness of
the dying agony. OF all the ills that
cheat us while killing by pin pricks,
consumption is that which wears longer
for us the Elusive look of health, and
best conceals the misery and the hor-
ror of dying. Nothing can be COM
pared with that hallucination of the
senses and that livingness of hope
which mark the last days of the con-
sumptive. He takes the burning of his
destroying fever for heaIthful symp-
tom, he forms his plans and smiles
calmly and cheerfully on his friends,
and suddenly, some morrow of quiet
night, he falls into sleep and never
wakes. Popular Science Monthly.