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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-01-06
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AN ALABANHA HOME HOUSE.

After q quick ride of three or
four miles through tho prairie, says
a correspondent of the New York
Times, we reached n small collec.
ton Of log cabins which surround
ed an imposing but dilapidated-
looking structure enclosed with q
fence which had fallen down in
many places. The garden in front
of tho houses: was overgrown with
weeds, through which rare flower
occasionally forced it's way. Clus-
tering roso vines clung to the
moldering pillars which supported
tho broad balcony of the house /;
pointers and deer. hounds ran un-
molested through lockwood hodges
that must once have been kept with
scrupulous ncatness, and funny
looking little black boys and girls
tramped at will through the orange
groves which tlanked the dwelling.
This,- DR.. Armstead informed me,
had once been the "home house of
one of tho richest planters of tho
South. Since the war the seasons
had been bad, the crops had
failed, and the house was occu-
pied by an ovorseor who had charge
Of the estate. This aftcrward dis
covered consisted of no less than
eleven thousand acres of rich land,
which, on account of the change
Of labor and other causes, was now
for tho most part lying waste and
uncultivated. Entering the house
q novel scene presented itself. We
wore met at the door by Mr.. Chr
tor, the overseer, who had been
expecting us, and were at once con-
Quoted through u large hallway into
q wainscoted apartments in which
three bedsteads were standing
They were great, massive pieces of
furniture, made of the finest mahog.
any, and having four immense posts
of polished wood. These support
cd canopy of light carved oak,
which, though old and worm eaten,
gave evidence of beauty and .artis-
tic taste. The fine feather beds
were covered with q promiscuoua
assortment of torniarmy blankets
and worn linen sheets. 4 On. the
wall sone. or two rare and costly
steel engravings were hung. This
was. all that remained of tho former
appointments Of the chamber. The
modern improvements were quite
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WORK a BLESSING.

Many young men have fathers
that ore we'll off and they have no
ambition, and no particular prospect
They scorn trade. A man that is
too well-born for trade is very well
born for q gallows! Thousands of
parents, who, by industry, have
gained position which enables
them to destroy their children, take
the surest means of accomplishing
their destruction by encouraging
them in idleness, and allowing
them as they grow up to feel that
it is disgraccful to work at whatcv-
cr manual labor best suits his tai
ents, no matter whether his father
is minister, or n lawyer, or if sen
ator, or the President of the United
States. Many young men arc look
ing forward upon life with the gen
cral idea that they arc going to en-
JOY themselves. They arc provided
with all needful physical comforts,
and they mean to be happy. They
have no trade. They slight their
profession. Their whole governing
principle in life is to shirk anything
like work and they expect to have
enjoyment without industry. But
no man in this world will be happy
who violates the fundamental law
of industry. You must work if you
are going to be ahappy man. I know
you think tits hard; but if God had
meant that you should be butter
fly, you would be born butterfly
And as you wore not born q moth
or q miller, but man, you must nc
cept the conditions Of your man
hood. And if there is one principle
that is more important at the very
threshold of life than another, it is
that man is born to work
TRWat NeW YORKER.
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as striking. In ono corner q rude
pine table bore cracked water ia1
and basin, a huge lump of common
brown soap, and n torn, rough towel.
This completed the toilet appara
tus. A great fire of oak logs was
burning in mammoth fire place,
and round this u number of broken.
down chairs and stools were placed.
While waiting for supper our party
gathered around the fire, and 1 soon
discovered that their conversation
was far from being i'll keeping with
their rough appearance. The man
with the torn hat was familiar with
three or four languages, had travel
cd eli ensively in Europe, and spoke
easily Of his former acquaintance
with French counts and German
barons. He of the boots and trou.
scrs proved to be a brilliant con.
versationalist, who in choice Ian
guage spoke sensibly Of the condi-
ton Of his own and other Southern
States. DR.. .Armstead himself, hay
ing oil the appearance Of q careless
Southern farmer, was not long in
displaying depth Of learning and
thought which is seldom found in
tho so.called "best- circles of North
ern cities All the gentlemen pres
ent had before the war been rich
and prosperous. Now all of them,
except perhaps the docter, are in n
condition of poverty that would be
distressing were it not for the sen
sible way in which it is borne AT,
ter We had rested from our ride the
ovcrseor conducted us through the
old house. 1t INSISTS of twenty five
, or thirty rooms, which gave evi-
dcnce of having once been magnifi-
Gently furnished. In one large
apartment there are not less than
two thousand rare and valuable
books. They ore now moldy and
unopened. In what was once the
drawing room Of the mansion old
oil-paintings, and faded carpet in
keeping with the frescoed walls,
speak plainly of "tho days that are
gone" Nor is the condition of the
house 1 have described al excep
tional one. I am credibly inform
that just such places to be found
in all the rich planting districts OF
Alabama.
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ROMANCE AND REALITy.-A lady
read the following paragraph in a
paper: "a young wife once cured
her husband of q disposition to ab-
sent himself from home atnights by
providing good dinner, and say
ing to him afterward, George, if
you find n swector spot than our
home describe it to mo, and T will
rival it if I die in tho attempt. A
kiss and q few tears completed the
victory This lady tried tho game
on her husband. He wasn't melted
bit; he merely said, "Whon you
can get the boys to come here and
smoke cigars and talk politics, and
you set up keg of lager, you can
count nc in. ] like the company
of the boys. [ do" Our lady saw
that sentiment had no effect on
him. So sho didn't throw horself
on his mock and hug and wot his
paper collar with tears; but sho
took a saucer and fred it at his
head, and followed it up with cup,
and ended by singing q dish Of
strawberries on his shirt BOSOM
Since that time he has been an OK
emplary husband. Yet he does
seem very anxious for her to visit
her dear mother as often aa four or
AYe times @ week.
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.>&D y

A CHASTITY PuN.-Somc years ago,
when cannibalism was in vogue
among the South Sea Islanders, an
English man-of-war put into one Of
the Fiji group. Among the par
ty who went ashore was IN assistant
surgeon named Ben Jonson--a fat
and pcrvcrsod person, who was al
was quarreling with a midshipman
named Manners. There were two
boats and as the surgeon who had
wandered off from tho party when
they landed, had not rcjoincd them
when they were ready to return to
tho ship, they put off without him,
but left one Of the boats so that ho
might follow Tho captain was
annoyed and q little alarmed at
their roappearancc without Jonson,
and instantly dispatched d boats
crew, under Manners, in search of
the missing officer. They found
his body in the midst Of q number
of savnges who were just preparing
to devour him, but who hcd at the
sight of the sailors. The poor fellow
was not half cooked. A grave was
soon made for the undcrdonc re,
mains Of unfortunate Jonson, while
Manners set up board to mark
the spot, upon which he managed
to cut single sentence with hif
pcnknifc unobscrvcd. The captain
was shocked on hearing Of the
dreadful occurrence, and determined
to go ashore and take last look al
the resting place OF the ill.sturrcd
officer, but when he got glimpse
of the epitaph or inscription on tho
board ho was constrained to turr
away to hide his face from al pres
ent; for there in largo letters
and deeply cut, stood the sentence
30 rare Ben Jonson!"
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preston when widow Spriggins
turned her mellow, blue eyes art
lessly up to his and said in the
faintest possible VOICE
81 havo hcarl, dear Dobsy, that
you have uttered solemn VOW that
you will never get married, but will
remain respectable colibato."
fla gun had gone off in the i'm
mediate rear of Dobbs, he could
not have been moro astonishcd. He
stared blankly around. What an
swer must he make? He was
afraid if he informed her that such
was tho case, she would leave him,
which he would not have happen
for worlds. For the fact of it wns,
Dobbs was extremely happy in the
presence of the fair widow, though
an avowcd celibate.
IIo made no answer to the ques-
ton addressed to him, but went on
long retrospective journey back
through the misty years hcd-and
before he was cognizant of it he was
in some such frame of mind regard
ing matrimony and the widow, rs
is the would-bc temperance incbri
ate just before raising the fatal
glass to his lips.
Dobbs began to be strangely i'm
pressed with the belief that if ho
did not succeed in getting out of
the presence of the widow in short
period of time that his celibatc
vows would not stand much Of a
chance. But after. repeated at-
tempts to free himself from tho
web Thrown around him, he gave it
up and settled down to busine eBs,
and before he was specially struck
with what he was doing, he had
proposed!
The widow aggravatingly remark
ed that it would not do, since he
was an avowcd bachelor.
"Blast the VOWS" was Dobbs ex-
clamation, and in desperation he
demanded
"NVill you have me?'
"Ccrtainly; but I do SO hate TO
see q man break his honest VOWS.
The "breaking of his honest VOWS"
failod to affect the happy Dobbs.-
He was too overjoyed to heed such
thing.
He looked at her, she smiled. He
asked her to set the day. She OBJ
jectcd and he set it, and dear read
er, without troubling you with
further dry details-they were mar
ried!
Dobbs afterwards found out that
"his Mrs. D." had purposely gone
to the woods with the intention OF
soaring him, and had furthermore
daubed her face with elderberry
juice-which gave him the idea that
sho was wounded. BUB.
DanJury Ne'os.
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A Scene Nor ON THE Bills
There was little scene at tho Wind.
sor Hotel tabie d'hotc the other even,
ing. A newly married couple enter,
ed. Augustus,in endeavoring to sent
his bride, didn't push the chair in
far enough, and Emmclina fell. She
is fat, and her fall made dishes and
windows rattle throughout tho no
tel. Of course she became angry,
and called Augustus awful names
in French. ~ never saw lady 90
down in life so soon after marriage
as sho did, said the head waiter,
in speaking of the affair afterward.
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Selected Storg.
D0BBS MAKES A vow.

Dobbs finally abandoned his mat
rimonial intentions and resolved to
live the secluded life Of bachelor
Nevermorc would ho droam of
matrimony, and nevermore of the
widow Spriggins.
He was going to be q bachelor
misanthropo in the future and not
be pestored to death by the fair sex,
and the narrowing thoughts caused
by dreaming Of them. So long as
ho dreamed of matrimony, just so
long was lie in trouble.
Ho was not going to have it any
moro.
He would be as free and uncon-
fined as tho winds Of the field,
with undisputcd power to 60 and
come when he choose without be-
ing bedeviled by some imaginary
picture of q fair maid of sixteen
summers who might possibly be all
in all to him in tho misty future.
No!
He had made up his mind. The
future should sec him IN honorable
celibate Of great responsibility.
There is not tho slightest doubt
but that Dobbs was worry earnest in
his resolves but like n great many
others ho was not specially struck
with tho magnitude of them. BE
it to his praise, however, that he
kept them for number of days,
and stayed entirely sway from the
widow Spriggins.
A short time subsequent to his
avowal of nevermore mingling with
the fair sex, he resolved to 60 hunt
ing and for that purpose, strapped
on. his game bag, shouldered his
gun and sailed forth.
The morning was unusually pleas
ant, and Dobbs being in an enyia
bic franc of mind whistled away ns
he strollcd along.
Dobbs was not, in the common
acceptance Of tho word, skilled
sportsman, hence it was some min
utes before he sighted game. HI
had no sooner "sighted" than h'
carefully approached the place
placed the gun to his shoulder, tool
deliberate aim, and pulled the trig
ger. The lock flew down, but ther,
was no report. What was the mat
tor? He scrutinizod the gum
There were no cap on the tube
Adjusting one no again raised tn
gun to his shoulder, took aim blazet
away. Other than the sharp nois
of the cap there was no report
Dobbs iwas puzzled, he took out tn
!. ramrod and thrust it into the ba1
. rel. It. went in the whole length
a. "W6ll, I declare, muttored Dobbs
glancing around to see if any on
Y had been looking, 81 believe tn
thing isn't loaded"
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TELL YOUR WIFE'-Yos, the only
way is to tell your wife just how
you stand. Show her your balance
sheet. Let her look over the items.
You think it will hurt her feelings.
No, it won't do any such thing
She has been Taught to believe that
money was with you, just as little
boys think it is with their fathers,
terribly hard to be roacho |, yet in.
cXhaustiblc. She has had her sus-
picion already. h,hassuossod you
were not SO prosperous as you talk
cd. But you had 50 bcfogged your
money affairs that she, poor thing,
knows nothing about them. Tell
it right out to her, that you arc liv-
ing outside your income. Take her
into partnership, md I'll warrant
youth never regret it. There may
DC II s'lght shower but, that is nat.
ural. Let her see your estimate,
and when you come home again she
will show you that you have put
her bills too high. True, she has
had an expensive bonnet last win
ter, but 1T is just as good rs ever
u few shillings will provide it with
new strings. and reft it % little; the
shape, she says, is almost exactly
as they wear them now And you
will be surprised to sec how much
less expensive she con make your
own wardrobe. She will surprise
you with a new vcst--not exactly
unfamiliar somehow, looking rs if in
another shape you had seen it bc.
forc-yet now as vest and scarce
ly costing five shillings, whore you
had allowed twenty.
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"A SMALL GIRLS WHSLE Esss.

wants n piece Of calico,
TO make my doll dress;
doesn't want big piece,
A yard'll do, guess.
wish you'd fred my needle,
And find my fimblc, too
has such heaps sowin',
don't know what TO 10.
My Hcpscy torcd her apron
A tum lin down the stair,
And C@ Snr's lost his pantaloons
And needs anozzer pair.
wants my Maud n bonnet,
She hasn'tnone at all,
And Fred must have Il Jacket,
His ozzcr ones too small
| wants to 60 to grandma'S,
You promised me might;
know she'll like to sec nc
wants to go tonight.
She lets me wash the dishes,
And sec in grandpa's watch
Wish Id free, four pennies
To buy some butter-scotch.
wants some newer mittcns-
wish you'd knit mo some,
Cause most my finger freezes,
They leak SO in the fun.
worc'd 'cm out last Summer,
a pullin' Georges sled;
wish you wouldn't laugh So
1t hurts Inc in my head.
I wish had cookie
I'm hungry's can be;
If you hasn't pretty large ones
You'd better bring ME free.
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The Buffalo Express dospairing-
ly asks "Shall wo havo female
hotel clerks to rulc over us p
Why "not2 A woman who is
born to command would bo infinite.
ly loss dangerous to the happiness
Of man, jerking ink bohind hotel
counter, than in tho rolo Of tho
CANCEL oftho hearLhstono," with a
grid.ion in ono hand and d rolling.
piu in the othor.
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A Long Branch beauty was re-
Gently weighed in hor promenade
costume, and turned the scales at
lG5 pounds. In her bathing dress
she Weighed 105 pounds.
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FEsE YOUNG MAN AND T4HE
FARM.

The following extract from re
cent address by Prof. Wickson. 0
Utica, is noteworthy:
"With the advance of farming as
Il Silence will come II better opinion
Of the farmer 5 position among mt II
Every year intelligence and true
success are winning wi,lcr rccogni
tion in social circles. Among ole
! opinions which must vanish is tho
| popular view that Il farmcris outside
the line of social and political ud
vnnccment. This opinion, although
1T has been widely held, has always
, been fnllacy, Il mistake Of narrow
minds. The young men are blind.
cd by il. They have left farms lc
cause this cross eyed view of life
has been forced upon them by fool,
ish people. They have been pr.
suadcl that drscrtion of the farm
was an entrance to glory. How
great III error this has been. All
history gives the lie to such belief.
a man upon Il farm is not out OF
the world, us some would think.
How far an occasion can reach to
grasp it's hero, I do not know. But
L believe that when the saving of
his country demanded the strong
arm Of Cncinnatus, he WAS just rs
near, when behind his plow, rs
thoug', q graduated farmer, he had
been sporting purplod robes in the
forum. And | believe that when uc
old Contincntals of New England
called their leader, Putnam heard
! their called just as distinctly upon
his farm as though ho had been
serving for twenty years behind q
counterin Hartford lido not bcliC> {
q man is buried upon n farm II
seems to me all history teaches us
that the promptings to duty and
tho call to greatness arc no loul, ,
in crowded thorouyhfnrcs than il
country lanes fringel with ,laisrs
"Thc young man AMI the furm
on the one hand a duty, on the
other an opportunity; here IN oh
legation, there way to discharg,
it. And in thinking of the duty o
the young man, is it not cncour
aging that he need not leave the i'll
dusty where he finds it, and tina
he himself, Us he fits himself for ,
better farmer, becomes also bette
man ? This the labor; This The nc
ward. The better the man tn,
more noble his calling. The youne
men can make agriculture wha
they will it offers full returns 70
their best efforts. The comtr,
needs better men, and the bcs
men will be honorcd in its service
The best man in tho end will win
and he will reach the reward for Iii
eXccllcnco-it matters not whc
thcr departing, he puts up the bar
behind him, or whether he come
from marble doorstep. The you'll
may become n man upon Il farm i
he will. Hc cannot do moro else
where"
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No.. /.


w"man' exclaimed a corpuIcn,
female: affected with asthma. as
she pulled herself through the
door of tho Central station ycstcr.
day forenoon.
The police scrycanls arc mover
hasvy about expressing heir opin,
ION, and the one in charge Of the
station looked at the woman and
din even nod his head for her to
go on. The woman took chair,
pn!icd away like Il hack horse ior
several minutes, and then rs the
tears came into hor eyes, sho OK,
claimed:
"ill never forgive him, and if
he's caught you may sent tencc him
for life! TO think that we've livcd
together these five years and bet.
tor he should desert his own true
love and run away with girl
""'hco oarah
on REFER to your husband, |
suppose, said :hc sergeant, eau
I'o"sIF'
wv hat other womanN husband
would | be referring to 2" she dc
man"'d' "ot course It's my hus-
o"h"--'"S Johh Henry Polk :!
N"" l 'nlrr no has deserted
y"
"'l " "haI nc ) donc mt
W '''e '"" run OH with II Glrl
'''n'o o'r''h something or other,
"n" III 'e'' moro wit hout II
'''el''
'i' S'o""h hnVe ""ne that J.
'o'''"'"e" 'n' Ser5''hlat'cr II long
P'"Se'
NO, nc Sh'aldn SAH rrpil-
w. " NY WHAT WAS tie when
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"h'" nc was il Soollor-nolhlns,
,"s's s'''ic'"' "n''' "' sixteen anu
VI NY ''''. ~ o' "h"' h' Is: AND
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INV '''No" away 'or "h'le
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"Always W car standing collar
whom you 60 courting," was tho
advice of q Now Hampshire patri.
arch.
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Vol. XII.
}3oetrgp.
A NEW YEARS VyHSRk.

ask one little boon
or the New Year:
May | through all its days
Carry some cheer
TO those who sit in gloom,
Weeping for loss;
To hearts thnt slowly break
Under cross.
who have left my dead,
With none to care;
| who have wcpt alone,
Facing dcspair,-
Would gladly swectcn lives,
And make them dear
This little boon ask
OF the New Year.
They best can serve the gods
. Their crrnnds run,
Who call no love their own,
Under the sun.
ct.mc bear help to want,
And hopo to fear:
usi no other boon
or the New Year.
From HE ALDINE for January.
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Address, BENZ. u. liEklOI,
a Special Agent,
Mount Pleasant, near Charleston, s.. q.
The Piedmont & Arlington Life Insurance Co.,
r. or RICHMOND, VA.
Assets January lst. 1885, $l,76G,0i6 90
Dividends TO Policy Holders, 1872, $1,000 90
Reserve, bong amount ncccssn. -.
rytu re.insure all Risks, 1,i081 5G 90
BENZ. G. IIERIOT,
Special Agent
Mount Pleasant, near Charleston, S. g.
DGGc; Y; 49-tf.
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THE CHRISTIAN INDEX,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
ORGAN OF The BAPTIST DENOMINATION.

REV. d. SHAVER, DID,, EDITOR.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
REV. u. &c. BUTLER. DIR. j. S. LAWTON.