New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-17

You DO not know what g Brownie il
You do not care to know. 2gSdsf,eS
fear you despise science as humbug, hi
.. tory as old rubbish, literature as trast
Reader, we fear you are sfactor of othe
mems wares that you are content with
commission upon the production Of Others
' and.that solong as other men make con
modities BY their labor or capital, it ma,
: tiers not how they are sDade or where the
are sent to; you are here by your supt rio
acutenoss to mako living by conductin
this tranaer between production and con
sumption. We confess we do not reall
see why you need any sort of knowledg
except that of price current to know tn
rates to-day and tomorrow. with as mucl
of bookkeeping by single entry as viii
exhibit an honest statement of your trans
actions for your New England principal
who sends you hats, shoes, galvanized
jewelry, clothespins or beans to sell FOL
him. Reader, you are the carpet-baggel
Of commerce; you have no permanent
connection with the operations of trade
agriculture or manufactures. We will
admonish you that you sre middleman
that the exactions Of the middleman are
passing away everywhere, and that if you
read little more you would see that COM
nerce is now made directly between pro-
! duction and consumption, as is proposed
! by the farmer grangers and the foreign
manufacturers. If the bushel Of corn
was exchanged directly against the horse
shoe, or the pound of pork against the
pocket knife, it would be gain to the pro.
ducers Of each; but you, o middleman,
would he left severely out in the cold.
Curious that, after all, the nearest APP
proaeh to direct barter is the most
profitable commerce to the pro.
Queer. But We know your mind
wanders 10 that other fellow that must
have struggled his currycombs, so we will
let you up on the sublime subject of 20.
litical economy which NO many have ex.
pounded from SO many different stand
points that every statesman has to make
his own system.
You can't see the use of poetry or liter
AZURE: We did not expect it, but if you
will smoke like good sulky reader We
will tell you bout the brownies"
There is a distant country called Scot
land. You have heard of it. every.
body knows about Scotch plaid goods"
you growl out. Well, in Scotland and in
Ireland, too, there used to be a supersti-
ton that there were fairies, "good neigh
bors, /" or Brownies" who, instead of
showing photograph copies of the
obscure and aforementioned dead, or
the room to twang guitar,
would find an overtasked servant sleeping
from WEAKNESS and would turn in and
sweep the house, clean the kitchen, finish |
The knitting left across the lap of the
sleeper, and generally do the work Of some
poor domestic drudge, making her heart
happy, and extorting from her harsh mis-
;ress an admission that the drudge had
lone her work nearly as we'll as she could
,ave done it herself No wonder that in
he simple faith of superstitious people
hese invisible aids to human toll should
beloved by those whose labor they light
ned. No wonder that such patriots as
scott and Moore should have woven the
additions Of these sympathizing spirits
nto beautiful fiction. You would perceive
hat even poetry pays reader, if you
ould know the sum of money annually
expended in the Highlands of Scotland,
round the lakes Of ireland, and indeed
q every scene rem dered classic by the
ouch Of genius. We were about, reader,
0 shock your practical nerves by alluding
D great source of wealth in Italy or
Egypt, where ruins Of empires and
eniples, made known by men of literary
.lent, are exhi bited for money by natives
those counties who know nothing
bout the relics which they show except
hat they have been taught from the
uide book, but we refrain, and state to
le traditionaty "Brownie" who does all
lie work of household without even
cling known in the matter at all. II
Have We these Brownies" among us?
es. but they are to-day called ''Blackies.
e have class of planters with large
odies of land for culture. As the har-
'st season approaches this land teens 3
it'll the richest product known to the +
world. The cotton locks its c
anches across. the furrow which d. I
DIES the rows. Its luxuriant and bright
'wers are intermingled with the bolls {
om which-by that chemistry of nature
at man can never comprehend the
'ss and fibre that clothes the world are =
minated. The sugar natures its green o
d purple cane, redolent of those sweets =
aich have become a prime neces- "
y of civilization. Indian corn silks and o.
ssels, and carries the ear like bayonet y
ION its luxurfant Stalk, while the pea *
d potatoe vines run about as if in the =.
ubriant gladness of giving their part to '. ',
e reward of honest toll
All this, however, must have been the q
'rk Of the Brownies or good neighbour. ~
by do We think so? Because there is IL
newspaper evidence that a human ="
nd has touched this culture. The 20
ner of the land has received acknowl- a.
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