The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1875-02-20
VOLUME 9. ..,,q s...
Extracts from one of "Jones,'
Humorous Letters.

"Jones" Of the Uuion. Herald tookEa
"trip up tho country short time ago.
At the depot in Columbia, he says he
"met patriot"
He was fine specimen of the deco
rum tribe. Out at the elbow, SO edy,
and unkempt, with deliberate indepen,
dence that amounted to impudeace, he
looked like t hat pusillanimous fuancial
snaa, San ppropriation exhausted" or
like q public officer who has done his
duty and proposes to do it again at the
same price. There was something in
the fellow. His threadbarc black coa
was buttoned up tight enough to keep
1t on, and, having few moments before
J theit N pursued its mad career, Tap
proae led him. He was too poor 4 TO do
anybody rev erence, as Shakespeare says,
and did not seem to be the least alarmed
atlmy advances. Indeed my advances
to theSividly poor, .!a"
EXCEPT WIDOWS,
had never alarmed then1-a beautiful
idiosyncracy which has always stood
out in bold relief-relief of nobody-ir-
my character for centuries He receiv-
ed me. pleasantly. Sir, said 1, your
name, residence and business, if you
I]ease? Said he: Sir, am native
by birth, patriot by profession, but as
pernanent boarder I am not pecu.
mary SUCCESS. What's that, said is,
it anything }like governor, oe an at :
torne y. y.peperab or state treasurer, or
Fvrn TRIAL JUSTICE? =
Oh, no, saws he ! patriot is one who
knows how sweat oand honorable it is to
die for ones country, and who SO lives.
thss when he dies aeverybody can see he
does il for his cotntry's good; man..
Ola, 49,, ,...- j; proieIs7 sS.rsaviun -
public Office in these radical days, but
who preiors public Office to anything
else" .
On the traiu "Jones' met Judge
Cooke. He says:
Everybody in the up-couutry knows
Judge Cook, and all who know him
like him. On the bench he is dignifed
courteous, learned in the law, and en-
tirely impartial in its administration.
OF the bench he is simply Mr.. Cooke
Full Of all the amenities of life and all
the rich virtues of nature overflow ing
With generosity and good honor. FL e
never forgets friend, and rarely for
gives an enemy. Strong in all his purpo-
en-,
FEARLESS AND REsoLUTE,
he is recognized everywhere as an eff :
oient public officer. He was then on
his way to hold court at Anderson, lit
tie dreaming OF the awful catastrophe e
that then and there overwhelmed his
juries. Since the death Of Judge
Graham he is knownoas the big Judge
weighing in his stocking feet nearly
! 300 pounds, and worth to the public in.
terests as much per pound as any man
an the State. just before parting his
shonor helped me toat ten cents out oil
the car to q poor blind orphan of eighty
Aummers, who had mistaken me for tn
[ president Of the national grange. 1t
was noble sight to see us two doing
that thing; and while we we're doing of
it most Of the passengers hung sus
| pended between smile and tear,
81 bile the engine blowed off steam in
gery possible way, to keep from burst
ing to pieces. Charity begins at home;
but what is home to an orphan without
d smother !! And besides, when it comes s
down to cash, tho grange and me
UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER.
A physician was on the train with
him. "Jones" says:
ct left the doctor at Aston, and as it
was very cold day, an eager and nip
ping air, suppose that in the four hours
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