The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1876-07-19

Sewing Machine Company, VIII,
chartered six trains and took al
their four thousand employees. !.
Bniinlo firm has given every man ir
their employ a two weeks furlo,1rh
continuing their pay right along.
Concerns in Philadelphia, Camdc2,
Trenton and other near places, have
given single holidays in successive
wccks-and that is better than no
thing.
! The visitors, of whatever class
are apt to be there with u dclinito
purpose to learn something Curl
osity the sightseeing impulse,
counts its thousands people "do
the exhibition as thoy "do" the
! European tour, without any real
appreciation of their opportunities
but very largely the serious visitors
outnunbcr these. One corrc-
Spondcnt observes that very many
have their note hooks-not news
paper men, but people of every sort
of business and work, children. too,
from 10 to II, more or less intclli-
gently busy i'll using the great dis
play Of industry and art ~ at Il
school. 1t is school the most
magnificent aud profitable school of
object teaching that has been opened
ON this continent, or that is likely to
be, III our life time, Mt least.
Fourth OF July Orntory.
n month or so ago, u certain
lawyer WAS invited to deliver II
Fourth of July Grafton in an intcri.
or town, and having never delivered
one, and being anxious to distin-
gulsh himself, he commenced II week
ago to fit himself for the task. lie
lNn t man to stand up and read II
speech, and isn't the man who
would break down delivering one
lie planned to spend IN hour in II
grove near Harper Hospital each
morning, and he would have hit the
nail on the head if folks had let linn
alone. Everything passed off all
right the first morning. He made
half IL dozen good hits ut tyranny,
got i'll Il left handler on the pose of
monopoly, mh cutl'cu high taxation
nj! around the grove. lie praised
liberty, pattch Bunker Hill on the
back, eNtollcl Washington, and
sprinklcl sad tears on the memory
OF the rusting Pilgrim Fathers.
But the second morning brought
the boys. They had nsccrtnincd bis
object. and were there ahead OF
linn. Whcn he lno,lItcd II log and
asked IN imaginary audience to go
back with linn to the birth OF
freedom, u boy behind II brush heap
Eroancd.
The lawyer went on. With one
hand Oh the sacred old bell in
Independence Hall, and the other
on thc tomb OF Washington he
said
"Halk "ris thunder Of cannon
ut Yorktown. 'Tis the tread of
your patriot grandsirc* marching
toward the sunrise Of Freedom"
"raint ncithcr-it's II freight
train bcllcrin& for the Woodward
avenue crossin, yelled Il boy in Il
fence corner.
The lawyer couldn't get around
those boys, and he had to quit. Hc
went All hour later next morning
and avoided them, but whilo he
was getting OF II beautiful thing on
the happy household Of States, an
old woman came crawling through
the fence and wanted to know if
he had seen any stray geese around
there. and then intimutel that he
looked like man who would steal n
whole flock Of geese on the slightest
pr0vOcatiOn.
The lawyer was in the grove at
sunrise next morning, and for half
IN hour he hiel it all his own way.
Then n man with n big nose came
along and said he had lease of that
grove and wanted no lunatics hol-
lcring around there.
but I won't hurt your grove"
protested the lawyer
hh'N SoN Holi ultlb bllG
trees, answered the man, "but I
pasture my COW in here and your
talk disturbs her. She's lost fifteen
pounds CT fat since you began
coming here
1t isn't at all likely That the law
yer will deliver any Fourth Of July
oration. Ut wouldn't pay him to
"hirc II hall, and go where he will
in the suburbs some one will ask
him to wipe of lis vest, pull down
his chin, or suspect him of designs
against hen ,r"osts. The day before
the Fourth he will telegraph tile
committee that he has II congcstive
chill, and oratoIy will be left to
some chap who talks through his
nose and miScs Putnam's wolf den
and the sword Of Bunker Jill
into his hash. - UctroN |rcc Press.
Th" New York BN,, has some an.
ccdotcs Of II witty broker named
Trnvcrs. A man well known in 1inan-
cial circles rs II great operator in
puts, and not particularly noted
for the g"jiconl accuracy Of his state