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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-08-27

CURIOSITY OF BoYs.-A lady
who had much experience in
teaching both boys and girls,
speaking of the extraordinary OBJ
tuseness Of a certain pupil, said {:
In a physiology class this young
lady of fifteen inquired with Ian:
guild surprise, is there not a
straight passage through the head
from one oar to the other Pa
somewhat natural conclusion, the
teacher commented dryly, if she
had ever watched the processes Of
her own mind 3:
(Which would you prefer teach
ing, asked a visitor,-'boys or
girls
Boys, infnitely,'was the prompt
reply. No boy, for instance, would
ever have asked such a question
as that. He would long before
have investigated the subject with
lead pencil. Not, probably, in
his own ears she added medi-
tatively, but in his younger
brother's.'
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-08-27

A FIRE WoRsH1PPER IN NORTH
CARoLINA.-About three years ago
the Observer reported the case Of a
citizen of this county who, having
married in l843, lighted a fire on his
hearth-stone as soon as be carried his
bride to his new home, and had kept
it burning ever since. The citizen
was IN town yesterday, and being ques-
toned about the matter, stated that
the fire was still burning, and that
throughout all these thirty.siz years it
had never been allowed to go out.
Questioned as to whether or not it
made the house uncomfortably hot in
torrid weather, he said the extra heat
thus generated was not perceptible.
In reply to another question, he said
that in summer weather, when it was
necessary for comforts sake, to keep
the fire burning very low, be had to
get up frequently at night to replenish
it slightly, but that he counted this
as nothing when he contemplated the
idea of that fire going out. He has
evidently formed for it strong at
tachment, and yet one wonld not take
him for q sentiment man. But this
fire is to him a constant reminder OF
the day when he first brought home
his bride. Around it his children
have grown up into manhood and
vomanhood, and their children have
gazed into its light. It was the last
light that fell upon the eyes of his
wife, and he hopes that it viii be the
last that will fall upon his. Viewed
thus his sentiment in the matter can
be understood, and so strong is this
sentiment that with the old man it
amounts almost to passion.
lCharlotte, N. C. Observer.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-08-27
JOE PREyV'THVNS
OCCUPATION A BOON.

A Western journal, moralizing
over the recent su. of two
maiden ladies who nailed up their
house and then hanged them
selves, attributes their insanity to
the fact that they were beyond
4e need of engaging their minds
in any occupation, and thus had
nothing to do but brood over their
imagined wrongs until their rea-
son became dethroAed and they
committed the sad deed which
plugged their once-loved relatives
vand friends into misery. It remarks:
A man with a grievance may keep
himself in tolerable mental health
by keeping himself constantly oc-
cupied. But these women had moth
ing to do. They were not even
obliged to; do their own house
work, for they kept servant.
They had no work to do-no real
anxiety on that point. Things had
not turned out as they had hoped.
They were single, in moderate cir
cumstauces, and comparatively
unknown, whereas they had hoped
10 be- married, rich and the OBJ
served. Of all observers. To make
things worse their sister was
married and rich, and rode in her
carriage. They had little, to do
all day but t9 contrast their con.
dition with hers, or with come i'm
aginary condition which might
have been theirs. They grew in
to the idea that all the world was
against them, and; having injured
their mental vision in one respect,
it speedily became untrustworthy
in all others. Not content with
breaking up their fathers house,
they charged him with criminality,
and undoubtedly they believed
that all the world was trying to
rob and disappoint them. They
withdrew from society, and sat in
their house brooding all day long
over their troubles, real and fc-
titious, till those troubles became
in their eyes the chiefest things in
the world. They imagined every
body knew all about their affairs,
and that nearly everybody was
hostile to them. That tragic self
conceit -which-led the older two to
decide that the youngest should
live, lest an anxious world should
Rever know what they died for,
characterized all that they did. .
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PRAYERS Z DON'T LIKE.

don't like to hear him pray
Who loans at twenty-five per cent,
For then think the borrower may
Be pressed to pay for food and rent;
And in that Book we ali should heed,
Which says the lender. shall be blest; ~.
As sure9s have eyes TO read,
It does not'say, Take interest
do not like to hear him pray,
On Bonded knees, about an hour,
For grace to spend Alright the day,
Who knows his neigh6or has no -four,
I'd rather see him 60 to mill,
And buy the luckless brother bread,
And see his children eat their fill,
And laugh beneath their humble shed.
do not like to hear him pray
Let blessings on the widow be-
Who never seeks her home to say,
IF want o'ertakes you. come 70 me-
hate the prayer so long and loud,
That's offered for the orphans veal
By him who sees him crushed by wrong,
And only with his lips doth feel.
do not like to hear her pray
With jeweled ears and silken dress,
Whose washer woman tolls all day,
And then is asked to work for less,
Such pious skayers I despise!
With folded hands and face demure
They lift to heaven their sangel eyes,
Then steal the earnings Of the poor.
I do not like such soulless prayers;
Ifwrong, hope to be forgiven;
No Angels wing them upward bears
They're lost million miles from Heaven
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LEIvEICE.

n DlICer uIy'
Not a pleasant day to travel on,
by any means; but then Lettice
Malnwaring was one of the sort
that makes, the best of every
thing.
Its a long journey over the
hills, miss said the wife of the
landlord of the little one-story
tavern that was perched on the
crest, Of the highway, 'and the
SHOWS powerful Deep
4 think winter landscape is
the prettiest thing in the world,
said Lettuce, cheerily, as she
wound her fur round and round
her neck.
.sAnd old Stokes's stage is aw-
fully uncomfortable added tho
landiady.
Il like stage riding. asserted
Lefty.
You'll not get there till dark
oh, that is sooner than | ex-
peoted.'
And Lefty climbed up into the
stago-coach which stood creaking
and groaning at the door, having
just rumbled up from the next
village, q mile or so down the hill.
One solitary passenger occupied
the opposite corner-a tall, dark
man, with q Spanish sort of COM
plexion and clear, dark eyes, who
wore an odd sort Of olive-green
cloak or mantle, heavily trimmed
with sable fur.
He nodded briefly in return to
Letty's smiling recognition.
Our little heroine would have
talked with q polar bear, had a
polar bear chanced to be her
travelling companion. &"
Lettice arranged her bags and
her basket and her bonnet. strings,
and wondered secretly how far
the tall man was going.
Can I be of any assistance to
you?' courteously queried the gen.
tleman, as Lefty searched in the
straw at her feet for o dropped
glove.
'Thanks-no,' said Lefty, COM
ing up again with very red cheeks,
and curls-a little disheveled. Are
you going all the way through ?
AS far as the stage goes-yes.'
'Oh,' said Miss Mainwaring; so
am l.
The gentleman nodded interro-
gatively and went back to his
paper.
Gross thing thought Lefty,
involuntarily poutin9g her cherry
lips. Why can't he talk and
make himself agreeable? And he
knows very we'll that we are to
be shut up here together for eight
long hours
But the wild landscape, as it
fitted by, white, cleaning with
SHOWS, and darkly fringed with
the waving boughs, was, aftor all,
nearly as good a study as the
human face di7ine.'
Lefty soon forgot her Temporal
ry annoyance and chagrin in the
! white, skeleton-like wall OF de-
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-08-27
THE ATLANTIC-PACGFGC-CA-
NAL...THE NHCARAUGAN
SCHEME.

In this woodworking age, when
the steam.engine rides over mountains,
and steamboats, defy the power Of
oceans's winds aud waves, when the
telegraphic wire encircles the globe,
and the regular "thing" for the veal
thy is voyage round the world, it is
needless and out-of-date to be sur
prised at any thing. Should We hear
next week that by the help Of the
telephone Brown of New York can
talk with Jones of Hong.Kong, and
that both can hear Robinson of Lon
don when he laughs;-should we
hear that Mr.. A. of Boston took his
family in his private balloon to dine
with Mr.. B. of Philadelphia and re.
turned the same evening ;-sboufd
we even hear that "Old Probabilities"
has got the wind and rain completely
under his thumb and can supply rain
in quantities to suit purchasers, can
cause gentle cooling Zephyr to blow
where he listeth, and can also if need
be direct terrific cyclone to the Gen.
fusion Of our enemies should we
hear Of these wonders or of even
greater things than these, it would not
be becoming in US to express sur
prise. Things as wonderful and ap-
parently as impossible in tho eyes of
our grandfathers have become COM
monplace in our day, and nothing is
more likely to happen than the i'm
probable and the unexpected.
A few years ago the scientific world
and the capitalists laughed at NJ. de
Lesseps and his Suez Canal scheme.
Now the laugh is on the other side,
and ships Of the deepest draught pass
safe from the Mediterranean to the
Red Sea. The Suez Canal, like the
Mont Gents Tunnel, has ceased to be a
wonder. Lack of money alone pre-
vents the perforation of the bed Of the
English Channel. With the Franco
English Tunnel. Just the other day
Capt. Eads turned the laugh ON the
unbelievers Whenhe placed the hither.
to intractable currents at the mouth
of the Mississippi under his mastering
hand and by jetties Of willow baskets
compelled the "Fathers Of Waters" to
clean his own threshold of its OBJ
structing sandbars. A similar feat he
will soon accomplish in Charleston
Harbor.
Another grand scheme is on foot
the junction Of the Atlantic and Pa.
cifc by a canal cut across the Isthmus
Of Pans ma. The advantages of such
a canal are many aud great. Naviga-
tion round Cape Horn and by the
Straits of Magellan is proverbially
perilous and tedious. Both time and
space would be saved by an inter-
oceanic canal, not to speak Of the dan
gers avoided. The great French en-.
gineer, NJ. de Lesseps, Of Suez Canal
fame, has his scheme on foot in the
market and stock is now being pur-
chased which it is Lcped will by-and-
by yield the amount deemed necessary,
namely eighty million dollars. He
proposes to cut canal through the |
narrow part Of the Isthmus. Simul-
taneously, the Nicaraugan government |
yravely and practically considers the |
feasibility of utilizing Lake Nicarauga
in similar scheme at a more North |
ern and a wider part of the Isthmus. |
The Nicaraugan plan seems to COM
mend itself by its naturalness and its |
,heapness.
GAbbeviWe Press and Banner. |
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-08-27

Celebrated as is England for it's
high farming there are yet 10000
900 acres of waste OF uncultiVated
land in that country.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-08-27

It is a noticeable fact that the
man who eats the smallest meal
will invariably take the most
tootbpicks.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-08-27

The amount ef coffee consumed
annually has increased during the
past forty years from 1910, 600
pounds to 85O,OOO,O0O pounds.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-08-27
TUFTS HAIR DYE,

GRAY HAZE OR WHISPERS changed to GLOSSY
BLACK by single application Of this Dye It i'm.
parts Natural Color, acts Instantsneousy, and is
as harmless as spring wster. Sold by Druggists, OF
SAINT by express on receipt OF 81.
Office, 35 Murray ST., New York.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-08-27

He submits to be seen through
a microscope who suffers himself
to be caught in o passion.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-08-27
Following many vocations has
ruined the life Of many man.

Believe not i'll Of o brother un.
til it is proved beyond doubt.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-08-27

6S' GCN VIZ P@POA sA1'ii, ioH ''AiN
disused and fallen to ruin.
Il wonder if it is haunted p said
she aloud.
The stranger smiled and laid
down his paper.
DO you believe in such things%
he asked.
Lettice Mainwaring laughed and
colored. =,
OF course not. And yet.
Are you much acquainted with
this part of the country -.
4 have lived hereabouts good
deal
oh! then perhaps you know
Easterham Hall 2
His face frightened.
oh yes. You are going there ?
Yes. I am going to be Cover
ness to the little children said
Lefty, making haste to enlighten
him as to her true position, in
ordor that he should fully COM
prehend that she was no elegant
young lady coming to the Hall to
make a visit, but a humble little
working girl, who was obliged to
toll steadfastly for the daily bread
she ate.
Indeed !! be said.
And Lefty was vexed at herself
for noticing the polite Indifference
into which his tone subsidized.
4 suppose it is q very fine old
place. she went on.
'Very-for those who fancy fine
old places To my taste they are
apt TO be overrun with rats, full
of draughts and picturesquely in
convenient
And haunted, perhaps? ? mis-
chievously put in Lettice, the
rogulsh sparkles coming back TO
her eyes.
so far as I know, Easterham
Hall is free from any supernatural
occupants
4 am sorry for. that said Let
ty.
He arched his eyebrows.
You would like to share your
room with a ghost or two?
No; but | do like 4 little tinge
Of romance about the place-some-
thing to set it above and beyond
the level Of the commonplace
He did not answer, and talka-
tive Lefty once more set the con.
versational ball rolling.
The Easterhams are very rich,
I suppose
Yes
Il never heardof them until last
week. said she, musingly. And
now-how strangely things are
ordered in this world-I am going
to cast my lot among them
How does that happen?' said
the gentleman. He could not very
we'll say less, in ordinary polite
ness, and yet Lefty felt triumph
antly that she had drawn him
out =;
sphey wrote to Madame Mol
igny, my old teacher, to select a
governess qualified to teach two
little boys; and madame knew
that [ wished for situation, and
so here / am. | wonder how they
will like me ?;
I hope you will like. them,' said
the gentleman, sitting a yawn.
That isn't the question: said
Lefty, imperatively... Mr.. Eas-
terham is dreadful bear
You are acquainted with him ?
oh, no; only what l have
heard answered Lefty. You
are a neighbor?' said Lefty,
donbtfully. Perhaps I have said
too much already
He laughed with more ANNA
tion than she had yet seen in bis
manner.
Depend upon it, I shall not be-
tray you to Mr.. Easterham. So
he is a bear. Well, l have thought
so sometimes myself
But he won't bite me if | am a
good girl and do my duty to the
little ones; and they tell mo'they
are very nice boys persisted Let
tice.
'They are very like their ia
ther, | believe
Oh said Lettice, laughing, L
can tame young bears; it is only
the full-grown specimen, with
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-27
National Millers Associa ton.

The following resolutions were adopted
on Change to-day and the following com
mittee appointed Geo. F. Gaull. ]. R.
Megrue. d. Keefer, E. II. Huntington and
Jas. Snodgrass.
Whereas, The Millers' National Associ
alton OF the United States have decided to
hold in connection with its regular
annual convention in June next
an international exhibition Oi
milling machinery and apparatus used in
the process of flour making, including
samples of the different grains grown in
our country, and the different products OF
our Towering mills; and
whereas, Tie Executive Committee OF
the Millers Association have not yet de-
cided where this grand exhibition is to be
held, hut have announced that it depends
upon the action which the business men
take in regard to the subject;
Resolved, That the members of the
Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati extend
to the Delegates of the Millers'
Association and to the millers
of the United States cordial
invitation to hold their next Annual Con
vention and Exhibition of Milling Macbin
cry In Cincinnati, and that committee OF
five be appointed to take necessary steps
to secure the meeting of the Association in
our city,"
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u

with the prospect that others will be ad-
ded within the next twelve months.
There is a great deal of complaint
throughout Georgia of too much rain.
A correspondent from Milltown, Berrien
County, writes US: eve have so much
rain that cotton is materially injured,
and much has been entirely lost. Much
corn has rotted in the field, and on ac-
count of the land being so wet there is
no chance to save it. The rice crop is
splendid, but all other crops will be very
short.
Sugar beets have been cultivated with
success on the Eschol Brook farm at
Pikesville, Maryland, from seed brought
from Germany. The beets yield II per
cent. of saccharine matter, and Ger
man manufacturing firm have offered TO
build m II for making sugar, and bring
skilled workmen, if guarantee is given
that at least 1000 acres shall be planted
yearly for their use. They will contract
for the whole crop at IS ton. Good
land will produce 80 tons of beetsper
acre, and the prospects are that the fac
tory will be in operation in time to use
next years crop.
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They ALI Knew 1t.
Hartford Times |

lHartlOTu INES
The season, on this side of the Atlantic
at least, has borne out in a remarkable
manner the prediction made in July by
Piazzi Smith, the astronomer royal of
Scotland, who at that time announced
warm autumn. He, it is said, ascribes
it to the approaching periheIion of the
four large other planets; conjunction
which has not before occurred at any
time at least within the Christian era.
However this may be, weather records
for the present century seem to show no
such October as this.
[Chicago Times.I
Richard Mansill, of Rock Island, ILL.,,
in letter dated May 20, 1878, on "pros.
pective eccentricities," said of this au-
tumn: "We shall move into hot, stormy
summer about the last days of August,
and these conditions continuing throu III
September and most of October. Be-
tween the autumn and winter months
cool droughts will likely prevail over
large landed countries in the temperate
zone"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-27

We call your attention to the advertise
ment of Simmons Liver Regulator, which
appears in the paper Of to-day, This stan
dard remedy tie only genuine Of which is
manufactured by J. Fl. Zelin & Co., and of
which they are the sole proprietors, does
not deserve to be classed with the many
"patent" nostrums SO literally advertised
throughout the country. 1t is one OF the
very best preparations in use, and is recon-
mended by the regular practitioners OF med
cine. 1t has large sale in this city, and
can be found at all our drug stores. bot
tie or package should be found in every
family, as its judicious use is almost sure
to prevent bilious attack If taken when
the symptoms first show themselves.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-27

Gambetta's motive in veering about in
favor of general amnesty is ascribed
by his enemies to jealousy of Clemenceau,
whose popularity is increasing in Paris
and the main Republican centers of pop
ulation. As President of the Chamber
he will not be obliged to vote on the q ucs-
tion, and when he goes to Bellevlle To
meet his constituents he can offer the ex-
planation that his newspaper supported
amnesty and was sufficiently radical to
suit the most radical voting district in
France. IL is said that Clemenceau in
tends to start a newspaper of his own is
the organ of the Republican majority an
the Chamber Of Deputies.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-27

PHILADELpHIA. Oct 27--Flour: Minnesota
extra family. fair. Sc 10; choce. Sc 6214ta6 70;
at IS h0 Wheat: No. red winter, 81 IS. Second
Ca |: Wheat in fair demand: No. red spot and
October. 81 a715 bid. 81 3ss4 asked November,
81 80 bid. 81 40 asked Corn dull mixed, on
ond Call: Corn dull: Sail mixed spot and Oc-
tober. Sc bid, BIC. asked: November, SIC. bid.
65c asked: December. Sc bid. 5ic. asked. Oats
IN active demand: mixed. S7h@@1lc.; white,
0Qc
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The Ola ship gsesoiute.
New York Times. |

Never before was there vessel that
had more wondrous record than the
old Arctic exploring ship Resolute, fir m
the timbers of which piece of furniture
is to be made for Mrs. Henry Grinnell,
of this city. Early in 1854 court-mar-
tial sat at Sheenoss, England, to inquire
into the abandonment, Oh Sir Edward
Belchers Arctic expedition, of the Inves-
tigator, the resolute, and the Assistance.
These vessels, with two others, had been
sent forth to search for the lamented
Franklin and his devoted companions,
and their three Captains, Belcher, Kel-
lett, and Mcclure, had been obliged to
return, not only with no news of the
missing explorer, but without bringing
| back their vessels.
The Resolute, stalwart and powerful
sailing craft, had passed through many
difficulties, when she was finally fastened
in the foes Of Melville Sound and be-
licving that she could never get away
again, Sir Edward gave orders reluctantly
to abandon the ship. The crew made
everything snug below and aloft; then,
one May day in 1854, badc adicu to their
floating home, and returned safely with
their fellows to England. One morning
of summer, off the Labrador coast, an
American whaler named Hartstein spied
bark-rigyed ship, all taunto, but
strangely silent, lying aground. He
boarded her and found everything in per-
feet ORDER every brace trimmed, every
rope coiled, with colors flying at the
mizen peak, but not soul on board.
Presently he discovered that this was the
Resolute She had drifted for over a
thousand miles, without starting rope,
from Melville Island, through Barrows
Straits, through Lancaster Sound, round
bv Cape Liverpool. past Ponds Bay
down Davis Straits to the shoals Of
Labrador.
The ice had melted, the foes haC
opened, currents had taken charge of her
and the lonely ship, with none but the
forces of the sea for her pilot, and onl,
invisible hands on her wheel, had foatec
safely and soundly past all the reefs and
rocks which stud so long a course until
such time az this "seafaring man" made
her out. He brought this abandoned
British vessel into Boston Harbor as
sound as on the day when she started
from England. Our Government be-
haved nobly about the Resolute. We
paid Hartstein his salvage out of the
Treasury. Then the Washington author
tiles set riggers and ship-painters to work
upon her, uidied her up inside and out
side, and then sent her across the At
lantic under an eminent officer, with the
English flag at the main and the Stars
and Stripes aft, with the compliments of
"Uncle Sam" to her Britannia Majesty.
The people of England were greatly
pleased by this act of generosity on our
part, and Queen Victoria went herself
on board to receive from our officers her
ship, for which she thanked~them most
sincerely. 1t is pity that this old wan
derer should have to be broken up; but
it is eminently proper that some sort of a
memento should come out of her timbers
to the widow of the American gentleman
who, at great expense, searched so often
for Sir John Franklin.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-27

The MS. Of the speech which Abraham
Lincoln made at Indianapolis on his way
to Washington in February, 1861, and
which gave the first public expression of
his intentions in regard to the seeded
States, is about to be presented to the
Public Library of that Western city.