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Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-06
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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17

days, and I may be gone. There
are but few of my old comrades
living. Those that are will remem-
Der me when they read the name I
bore in the brave days of LATTE.
They will remember the best gun
ner Laftte and Chauvet ever had,
the best oarsman. and the one
whom they nick-named .'lEcolier.
If you publish this in your paper:
please correct the English and put
some polish to my rough sentences,
for I have some pride yet in main
tanning the reputation for scholar
ship I enjoyed among the brave
tilibusters of our loved Laftte.
Adieu, messieurs,~
JEAN BApT1sTE CALL1sTRE.
Calcasizu, La, Dec. %. 1874.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17

TIE S0NG OF SIXpENcE.-Mr.
Tyler: in his "prim;tivc Culture"
thus applies to this work the law
Of the Interpretation Of myths -
"Obv;ousiy, the four and twenty
bIackbircs are four and twenty
hours, and the pie that holds them
is the underlying earth, covered
with the ovcr-arching sky: how
true a touch Of nature it is, when
the day breaks-the birds begin
to sing! The king is the sun, aud
his counting out his money is
pouring out the sunshine, the gold
en- shower Of Dame. The queen
is the moon: and her transparent
honey the moonlight. The maid
is the rosy figure drawn, who rises
before the sun, her master, and
hangs out the clouds, his clothes,
across the sky. The particular
blackbird who SO tragically ends
the tale by shipping off her nose
is the hour Of sunshine.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17
ROADSIDE COLLOQUY.

''And so, Squire, you don't take a
country paper"
NO, Major; I get the city paper
on much better terms, and so 1 take
a couple of them"
But, Squire, the country papers
are often a great convenience. The
more we encourage them the better
the editors can make them
"Why, I don't know Of any con-
verience they are to me"
The farm you sold last fall was
advertised in one of them, and
thereby you obtained customer,
did you not?"
Very true, Major, but I paid
three dollars for it,
"And you made much more than
three dollars by it. Now if the
neighbors had not maintained and
kept it ready for use you would be
without the means to advertise
your property.
"But I think T saw your daugh-
ter's marriage in one of those pa
pers. Did that cost you anything
"No, but"
"And your brothers death was
thus published, witha long obituary
notice. And the destruction ot
your neighbor Briggs house by fire.
You know these things are exag-
gerated till the authentic accounts
of tbenewspaper set them right"
Eyes, yes, but these things are
news to the reader. They cause the
people to take the paper"
No, no, Squire Grudge, not il
all were like you. Now I tellyou the
day will come when some one will
write very eulogy Of your life and
character, and the printer will put
it in type with a heavy black line
over it, and with all your riches
this will be done for as grave is
given to a pauper.
"Your wealth, liberality, and al.
such things will be spoken of:but the
printers boy, as he spells the words
in arranging the types of these say
ings will remark of you:
::Poor, mean devil, he is even
sponging an obituary! Good morn
inc. Squire"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17
gsIsetsn Story.
INTELLECT IN RAGS.

Il was a black wintry day
Heavy. snow drifts lay piled up in
the streets of New York, and the
whole appearance Of the city WAS
cold and dismal.
Seated upon the steps Of one Of
thelarge dwellings on Fifth Avenue,
was boy apparently thirteen years
of age. He was literally clothed
in rags, and his hands were blue,
and his teeth chattered with cold.
Laying upon his knee was news
paper which he had picked up in
the streets, and he was trying to
read the words upon it. He had
been occupied thus for some time
when two little girls clad in silkand
furs came towards him The eldest
one was about twelve years old, and
so beautiful that the poor boy rails
ed his eyes and fixed them upon
her in undisguised admiration.
The child of wealth stopped be-
fore him and turn ng to her com
panion, exclaimed, Marian, just see
this man on my steps. Boy what
are you doing here?'
4 am trying to learn to read up
on this little bit Of paper, answered
the boy.
The girl laughed derisively and
said:
Z. well, truly! I have heard intel
lect in rags, Marian, and here it is
personiied.'
Marians soft hazel eyes filed
with tears as she replied:
oh, Louise, do not talk so; you
know what Miss Fannie teaches IN
school, The rich and poor meet to-
gether, and the Lord is the Maker
Of them all"
Louise laughed again and said to
the boy:
Get up from here, you shall not
sit on my steps, you are too ragged
and dirty
The boy arose and blush Grim
soned his face. He was walking
sway, when Marian said:
Don't go little boy, you are so
cold, come to my house and get
warm. Oh, do come, she continued,
as he hesitated; and he followed
her mo a large kitchen where a
bright warm fire was shedding it's
genial warmth around.
=. We'll, Miss Marian, who are you
bringing here now, asked the ser
want woman.
"A poor boy, who is almost perish
ed; you viii let him warm, Will you
not, Rsssel9'
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17
->O$-

DoN'T CRITIcISE.--Whatcver you
do, don't set up for critic. We don's
mean newspaper one, but in private
life, in the domestic circle, in society.
1t will not DO any one any good, and
it will do you harm-if You are
called disagrecablc. Ifyou don't like
any ones nose; or object to any ores
chin don't put your feelings into words.
If any ones manner don't please you:
remember your own. People are not
all made to suit one taste, rccol!cct
that. Take things as you find them
unless you can alter them. Even .
dinner, after it is swallowed, caunot
be made any better. Continual fault
finding: continual criticism Of conduct
of tits one and the speech Of that one:
the dress Of the other. and the opinions
of t'other, will make home the un,
happiest place under the sun.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17

JOURNALISM AS A BUsINEss.-In
commenting upon the failure Of 4
newspaper manager, the St. Lou
is Globe tells plain truth in the
following words "The business
of journalism will continue to be
an inviting field for experiments
to those who have q large amonnt
Of money and large amount Of
egotism. ! man who, having ed
tied Z newspaper until he was for
ty, should suddenly announce him
self & lawyer, would be regard
ed as fool by the legal profession;
and yet we often hear Of lawyers
Of forty making sudden pretentlons
to journalism. There is an idea
that editing requires no appren-
ticcship: that editors come forth
from law Offices and colleges fully
armed !or the profession, like Pal
las from the brow Of Jove. It is
a mistake: there is not in America
to-day 1 single journalist Of nation
al reputation who has not devo-
! ted more time and more hard
work to his profession than, with
equal fitness and application would
have made him great lawyer or
q gool doctor. And yet ninety
! ont Of every hundred men you
meet on the street will hesitate
about carrying q hod or making a
pair Of shoes, whereas there will
probably not be one in the hundred
who cant. according to his own
judgment edit any newspaper in
the country better than it is edit
tied. no matter in what manner or
BY whom.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17

\ Michigan paper declares that "Dr,
Mary Walkers life is one continual
struggle to keep her pants hitchcd W
without the aid Of su$pcndcrs. -
Which, to all intcnts and purposes, Is
a slab-sided. knock-knccd and bandy-
legged not 50; and as mere act Of
Ju>ti:o. We should like hire somebody
to adj that if those saiutcd pants are
properly cut and made: YOU could NJ
more pull them of without disc2latins
horn button than You could pull a
camel through the eye Of a needle
without first swapping him of for 4
spool Of thread.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17

A gay and brilliant throng were
assembled in the city of Washing
ton. Congress WAS in session, and
the hotels were crowded with
strangers. It was an evening party.
The brilliantly lighted rooms were
filed with youth and beauty.
Standing near one of the doors
were two young ladies, busily en-
gagged in conversing together. The
elder of the two suddenly exclaim-
ed:
Oh, Marian, have you seen Mr..
Hamilton, the new member from
W?
no, but I have heard great
deal about him
On, I want to see him 50 badly.
Mrs. n is going to introduce
him 10 us. I wish she would make
haste, I have 40 patience.
Don't speak SO, Louise, 1 wish
you not be SO triiiing, said Marion.
4 singular smile played around
the mouth Of a tall, handsome gen
tlelnan Who was standing near the
girls: and as he passed them he
scanned them very closely. In a
short time Mrs. n came up
with Mr.. Hamilton, the new mem
Der, and presented him to Miss
Gardner and Miss Hayes. As they
we're conversing together, Mr.. Ham
lton said:
Ladies, we have met before
But Louise and Marian declared
their ignorance of the fact.
1t has been long years ago, yet I
have not forgotten it nor a single
sentence uttered during that meet
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17

A COOPERATIVE HOUSEHOLD
| have heard, writes a London
correspondent, an amusing account
of the failure of a recent attempt
to establish a acontederated homo in
London. Five families possessing
small incomes united in the estab-
lishmcnt Of q common home. A
large house in the Bloomsbury re-
gion was taken for the purpose,
and the arrangements for the rcgu-
lation Of the household were made
with the utmost care and precision.
There was to be a common dining,
room, in which all the meals Of
the household were to be taken
and each family had q set of rooms,
which it was to furnish and ar
range as suited its own convent
cncc. There was to be one cook
for the whole household, and q
couple Of servants 10 do the other
work. The experiment was COM
menced, and for the first day or
two matters wcnt we'll enough.
Before week had passed, how
ever, it became evident that to
govern a confederatcd home would
be nearly as difficult as to manage
an Irish Parliament. The five
families could never agree upon
what = ~ should eat and drink.
The dinner especially was stand
ing subject Of dispute, and the COR
sequence WAS that the kitchen be-
came u scene Of constant wrang-
ling between the unfortunate cook
and her five mistrcsses. Five
bells would frequently be ringing
ut the same time, and one family
would complain that they were
neglected and that another was
receiving undue attention. Then
the children of the different tami-
lies would quarrel, and Of course
each mamma was sure tat her
darlings were not the cause Of the
disturbance. Before few weeks
had passed the confederated home
became what the person who told
me the story called a contedera-
ted discord, and had to be broken
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17
BGetrp.
QUESTIONING THE NEW
5s YEAR.

New Year, would that I might read
Your purpose through!
Iwonder if yonr promise
To ne is true
But while your fa.tery receive,
In truth hardly dare believe
Or trust in you.
For al! the Year whose hoary head
80 Now lieth low,
Came in with smiles like yours widespread,
Twelve months ego.
And obi the hores so rich aud rare,
That with his promises so fair
He help me SOW!
But when at last the harvest came,
Igs:hered naught,
No golden treasure met my claim,
Tho long I sought.
And we are glsd-my heart and /
To see o. last this Old Year die.
For all he brought.
And now You come! what do you hold?
What do you bring?
What blessings are for me enrolled?
What songs to sing?
Al, WELT New Year! from day to day
Whste'er you give or take away
Still, Hope is king!
From TIE ALD1NE fer February.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17
No.. I.
HE FINALLY WENT.

An old man recently appeared
before the Detroit and Lansing
Railroad ticket window at the Cen
tral depot, and asked:
"Nhat yoll charge for a ticket to
LansinS?'
'Two-sixty. sir; replied the agent,
wetting his thumb and reaching
out for the money.
Two dollar and zixty cents / ex-
claimed the stranger. pulling his
head out Of the window.
Yes, sir: that is the regular
fare"
Then I sthays here by Detroit
forty years = SAID the man, getting
red in the face. Il hat never seen
me sush'n swindle as dat
1.-TWO sixty is the regular fare.
and you will have to pay it if you
CO. replied the agent.
i shust gef you two dollar und
no more" said the stranger.
No; cant do it.
''Tell, den 1 sthays nit Detroit
till dies, growled the old man:
and he went away and walked
around the depot. He expected to
be called back as ne lett the win
dow, as a man is often called back
to ''take it along when he has been
chaing with a clothing DEALER
Such an event did not occur. and,
after a few minutes, the old man re-
turned and called out:
We'll, I gef you two dollar und
ten cents"
| ''No, can't do it., replied. the
agent.
'Vell, den I don't go, so help me
grashus! I have lived in Detroit
three yare, und shall bay bolice
tax, sewer tax, und want to grow
up NIT dis town: und I shall not be
swindlet."
He walked off again, looking
back to see if the agent would not
call him, and, after stroll around
he returned to the window, threw
down some money, aud said:
We'll, dake two dollar und TWEEN
ty cents, und gif men dickette.
My dear sir, can't you under
stand that we have a schedule o:
prices here, and that I must go by
it?' replied the agent.
"Vell, den, I sthays nit Detroit
Won dousand vare. exclaimed the
stranger, madder than ever. 4 bays
bolice taxes und sewer taxes, und !
shall see about dis by de Sheaf O.
Bolice.'
He walked off again, and as he
saw the locomotive backing up t.
couple on to the train, he went
back to the window and said:
! "Gif men dickette for two dollar
und thirty cents, rnd I rides on the
platform
Cant do it, said the agent.
"Tell, den, py golly, I spheaks t
you what I does. Here is den
two dollar und sixty cents. and
goes to Lansing und never comes
back. No, zur, l shall never come
back. OF I shall come mid de blanl
road! 1 bays taxes by dem bolice
and by dem zewers. und [ shal
show You dat I shall haf noddine
more to do nit dis town
He went on the train.
Detroit Free Press.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17
JOB ERENEERG
EEseS Ss.AEo GGAMNAR.

Tue IrijVHc has an article on
gramna"-not bad grammar but
very bad grammar-in which it
says:
We hear it on the street, on the
cars: in business Offices, in schools
and colleges, in private circles, and
sometimes in the pulpits and from
platforms. The ignorant and the
wise, tue uututored and the
scholar, are all more or less
guilty. Even when we know
what IS correct in expression
VIC are often betrayed by hab-
it or association or imitation into
some violation of the Kings En-
glish. The following expressions
in daily use among people who
think they are we'll educated may
perhaps call attention to this sub
.iect more efficiently than theori-
zing and phiIosophizing upon it
will do. They have I'll been gath
cred within the last few weeks
and arc The most frequent viola
tions, iI common parlance: Of cor
rect grammar at ain't." for it
isn't. Amt is a contraction Of am
not; lit am not" is evidently cr-
roncouS. Has the COWS been fed?"
Il laid in three ton Of hay = she
walked twenty mile;;" coats is best
for horsc"-thesc violate the rule
that verbs and nominatives must
agree in number and person.
The use of two negatives in the
same sentence is very common
They don't want no more" Il
don't know nothing about it."
"thcy havn'tgotno money" )" "apy"
and "anything' instead of "no"
would make these sentences gram
matical.
Advcrbs and adjectives are often
used amiss. No error of this sort
is more common than the use Of
the adjective "good" for the ad-
verb "wcll." "Is my hair combed
good p Verbs are frequently in-
correctly formed in their past
lenses, and the participle used
where the past tense would be
proper. He Was drowned" II
throwod it TO him." "thcy done it,
eve seen )" these expressions
one can hear any day.
The addition Of an unnecessary
proposition is . very common cr-
ror. THE way is opened up y
why not opened down? ? "Wecon-
tinuc on" "where is he at ?"
These and them are often used
instead Of this and those, "Thcse
kind" or "them kind Of things"
"them children" Other impr6p-
er uses Of prououns arc found in
cher and me went to school," "it
is him." "that's me-"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17

A newly-married man uptown
possesses such poor memory that
his loving wife has to tie a string
around his finger so he may not
forget to come home at night.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17
Miscetia1eous.
-
From tho Galveston News.
a STEA%GE STORY.

0yE OF LAFITvE $ 5IEN DESCRIBES THE
BATTLE OF NEW CHLEANS.-LiRON
GURRS DAUGHTER CAPTURED GT PI'
RATES AND BURIED on GALVESTON
ISLAND.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17
TEE RAIDS OF DEATH.

This magnificent piece Of poetry is from the
Rev. ". q. Platt, the Rector Of Calvary
Church, in Louisville.
On his phantom steed, with passions speed,
Death sweeps on his circuits wide;
Through every zone he rides alone,
With dread as his weird bride.
Pause and think
On the brink
OF the tide
Dim and wide
In the gloom
OF thy doom
Passing thee.
With mocking glee DER every sea,
He gathers his tracking storm.
And he hunts down life in its grasping strife,
In every breathing form;
With his mrfaed feet, his courser feet,
O'ertakes each flying man,
And summons him back, in every crowd,
To tramp in his caravan.
Il Ponder! sighl
Eacp must Qle
Vengeful death,
In each breath,
Conquers life.
To the laughing child and the savage wild,
To the maiden in the mystic light
To the rayless mind, in missions kind
To hope, with its bcamings bright
70 the proud and great in pomp of state
To all Of a vagrant's birth
To the heart Of grief, like sEittea leaf
: TO all of this moaning earth,
II $50 Hastens death,
Ponder DEATH
Inky waves,
Silent graTes,
All around
Thee abound,
Man! 0 man!
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Tie Chicago Times pats the sol,
emn conuudrum "Iiow can VIC
escape fire ?" y New York paper
answers "Thc Gospel offers you
every encouragement, but perhaps
your best hold is to get out Of
Chicago"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17
Vol. XII.

oh, he shall warm, sit here lit
tie boy and Rachel pushed chair
in front of the stove; she then gave
him piece Of bread and meat.
Marian watched these arrange
ments and then glided from the
room; when she returned she had
a primer, with the first rudiments
of spelling and reading. Going to
the boy she said:
Little boy here is book that
you can learn to read from better
than q piece Of paper. Do you
know your letters 2
Some of them, but not all. l
never had anybody to teach me-
I just learned myself but, oh, I want
to read so badly
Marian sat down beside him, aud
began to teach him his letters
She was 50 busily occupied in tl:;s
work that she did not see her mo-
ther enter the room nor hear RNch-
el explain about the boy; and she
knew not that her mother stood for
some time behind them listening
to her noble child teaching the
beggar boy his letters.
There were but few that he had
not already learned himself, and it
was not long before Marian had the
satisfaction of hearing him repeat
his alphabet.
When be arose to go he thanked
Rachel for her kindness and offered
Marian her book.
No, I don't want it. she said,
4 have given it to you to learn to
read from. Won't you tell me your
name?
Jimmie he replied.
i will not forget you, Jimmie,
you must always remember Marian
Hayes, was the little girls fare
well.
Louise Gardner and N ari a II
Hayes were playmates and friends.
Their dwellings, joined, and almost
every hour Of the day they were to-
gether for they attended the same
school. These two children We're
very differently dispositionel, ana
very differently brought up. Lou
ise was proud and naughty. Poverty
in her eyes was disgrace and q
crime, and she thought nothing too
severe for the poor sufferer. These
views she learned from her mother.
Mrs. Gardner moved in one exclr-
sive circle-bon ton of New York.
Without it's precincts she never
ventrued, d,for ali others We're beneath
her. Louise, taught to mingle with
no children excepting those of her
mothers friends, was growing up
believing herself even better than
they.
The teaching that Marian Hayes
received was totally different from
this. Mrs. Hayes was acknowl-
edged by Mrs, Gardner as one of
her particular friends; yet though
she moved among that circle, was
far from being one of them. Her
doctrine was the text her little girl
had used: The rich and the poor
meet together, and the Lord is the
Maker of them all Thusshe taught
Marian, there was no distinction
as to wealth and position that the
distinction was in worth alone
She taught her to reverence age,
and to pity the poor and destitute;
and that pleasant words were as
sweet as honey comb, sweet to the
soul, a little kindness was better
than money. Marian learned the
lesson we'll, and was ever ready to
dispense her gentle words to all,
whether they were wealthy and IL
fuential, Or ragged and INDECENT as
the boy she had that cold morning
befriended.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17

If your sister fell into a well;
why couldn't you rescue her? Be-
cause you couldn't be a brother and
assist her, too.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-17

A polite way Of putting it
Trouble with a chronic indisposi-
tion to exertion.