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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-06-25
SsIseteo Story.
Saved by q Child.

It was commencement al IT,
College. The people were pour
ing into church as l entered it,
rather tardy. Finding the choice
seats in the center Of the audience
room already taken, | pressed
forward, looking to the right and
to the left for a vacancy. On the
very front row of seats l found
one.
Here little girl moved along
to make room for me, looking into
my face with large gray eyes,
whose brightness was softened by
very long lashes. Her face was
open and fresh as & newly-blown
rose before sunrise. Again and
again | found my eyes turned to
the rose.like face, and each time
the gray eyes moved, half smiling
to meet mine. Evidently the
child was ready to make up with
me. And when, with a bright
smile, she returned my dropped
handkerchief and | said Thank
you!' we seemed fairly introduced.
Other persons now coming into
the seat, crowded me quite close
ap against the little girl, so that
we soon felt very well acquainted.
There's going to be a great
crowd she said to me.
Yes 1 replied people always
like to see how schoolboys are
made into men,
Her face beamed with pleasure
and pride as she said
My brothers going to gradu-
ate; he's going to speak I've
brought these flowers to throw to
him.
They were not g. greenhouse tav-
oritcs just old-fasbioned domestic
flowers. such as Wo associate with
the dear grand.mothers; but |
thought, they will seem sweet
and beautiful to him for little
sisters sake
That is my brother,' she went
on, pointing with her nosegay.
Tho one with the light hair ?
| asked.
Oh, no. she said, smiling and
shaking her head in innocent re-
proof mot that homely one,, with
red hair that handsome one with
brown wavy hair. His eyes look
brown, too; but they are not
they are dark blue. There! he's
cot his hand up to his head now.
You see him, don't you p
In an eager way she looked from
me to him, and from lin to me,
as if some important fate depended
upon my identifying her brother
Il see him. l said. He's d very
good-lookiug brotber.'
Yes, he is Beautifully she said,
with artlcss delight; and he's so
good, and he studies so hard. Lie
has taken care Of me ever since
mamma died. Hero is his name
on the programme. He is not the
valedictorian, but he has an hon,
or, for all that
| saw in the little creatures IA
rniIiarity with these technical col
legc terms that she had closely
identified herself with her broth
crs studies, hopes and successes
He thought, at first she con
tinued, that he would write or
the Romance Of Monastic Life
: What a strange sound these
} long words mad, whispered from
: her childish lips! Her interest II
Iher brothers work had stamped
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on bis knee, and slipped her hand
in his.
could not keep my eyes from
her sweet, plying face. | saw
her whisper 10 him, he bending &
little to catch her words. Later,
| fonnd out that she was asking
him if he new his piece now, and
that he answered yes.
When the young man next On
the list had spoken, and while the
band was playing, the child, to
the brothers great surprise, made
her way up the stage steps, and
pressed through the throng OF
professors and trustees and dis
tipguished visitors, up to the COL
lege president.
If you please, SIR she said with
little courtesy, will you and the
trustees let my brother try again ?
He knows his piece now
For a moment, the president
; stared at her through his gold-bow-
cd spectacles, and then, apprecia.
ting the chiid's petition, he smiled
on her, and went down and spoke
to the young man who had failed.
So it happened that when the
band had again ceased playing, 1t
was briefly announced that Mr.
would now deliver his ora
tion-'Historical Parallels.
amid the permutations and
combinations Of the actors and the
forces which make up the great
kaleidoscope Of history This
the little sister whispered to him
as he rose to answer the summons
A ripple OF heightened and ex'
pectant interest passed over the
audience, and then all sat stone
still, as though fearing to breathe
lest the speaker might again take
fright. No danger! The hero in
the youth was aroused. lie went
at his piece with set purpose tc
conquer, to redeem himself, and
to bring the smile back into the
child's tear-stained face. | watch
ed the face during the speaking
The wide eyes, the parted lips
the whole rapt being said that
the breathless audience was for
gotten, that her spirit was NOV
ing with his.
And when the address was end
cd with the ardent abandon OF
one who catches enthusiasm In
the realization that her fighting
down q wrong judgment and con
euering a sympathy, the effect
was really thrilling. That digni
fed audience broke into raptu
rous applause bouquets intended
for the vaIedictorian rained like
tempest. And the child who hac
helped to save the day-that one
beaming little face, in its pride
and gladnoss, is something to be
forever remembered.
TSt. Nicholas for June.
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The old man, in a playful mood,
threw down the spade which his
wife had given him to dig up a
geranium bed, with the remark,
preposterousIy unintelligiole to
her as he supposed: Il turn
down a spade, mako it you"
"Look here, Barnabas, you take
that up and play it like a man, or
II! make the trump next, and 50
it alone for the rest of the gar
dening season." Barnabas took
it up.
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Y'aEE2 1s.sS'Tz;.s MULE.
An Animal Which Honored Piccle By His
Presence.


This morning q couple OF mlnerS
were seated on boWIder along
side the road to Sutro, discussing
the kicking powers OF the mule
One bad just returned from Sutro
and the other WAS or the way
there. and having met near the
rock they sat down for talk.
Have You quit over thore?
said the one who was eastward
bound.
Yes
why?
Mules
'trald OF 'em !?
You bet. L saw one yesterday
alongside an old boiler klcken OH
: the rivct-heads one by one. Never
missed one, L was just soin OH
: shift, and when l saw the mule
and heard there was more Of 'em
i inside, [ weakened and threw up
my job. I've got a wife and three
children dependin' on me, and l
dons take no chances !
'Ihe worst mule ever saw,
said the other, was in Pioche
some years ago. 1t was one |
owned. One day it rubbed against
some nails sticking out Of a post,
and it turned square round and
drove those nails in one by one,
using q single blow OF the hoOt
with tie iron shoe on for each
nail. 1t never missed its lick and
always drove 'e!n just into the
head. Then ne saw few tacks on
the pos, a little lower down.
which were only half driven IN;
and he drove them in, too, with
light taps Of the hoof, just as gen
tie and easy as could be. One day
q man came along and set ont a
can Of nitro glycerine and giant
powder. He wanted to get the
mule to kick itand then get Killed
L saw him aOout the corral with
the can ana kne" "hat was up
At hrst L was gong 10 stop nlm'
but then l thought II my mule
was any kind of a mule at all be
could take care OF himself. SO l
just watched Wen, the mule sa"
the can and walking up smelt OF
1t, and then squared hlmsell lol
the kick. The man was sneaKlng
off: and just as the mule was going
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Two country attorneys over
taking d wagner on the road.
thinking to break . joke with
him, asked him why his fore
horse was so fat and the rest sc
lean. The wagner, knowing
them to be limbs Of the law, re.
piled that the fore horse was
lawyer and the rest were his
clients.
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"
SSCL&ADs
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sg}7sSSx:Es AND WINTER.

sg13SSzS;Es AND WINTER.
In the mellow month OF June
When the lawny thruShes sing,
And the yellow cowslips spring
From the meadows by the brooks,
When in dusty forest hooks,
Elfin hun;smcn wind the horn
And the cloycr-scented morn
RipenS into cloudless noon,
Then love to lie alone
In the grass On some cool hill,
While the mcadow-larks all shrill
Life is music" Care and pain
Fare but i'll in summers reign.
When the hills are wrapped in sheets,
When the snow whirls on the leas,
And the icy-fngered trees
Sparkle in the moons cold light
When the clouds in the long night
Weave pail for the dead year;
And the keen wind hurls its spear
Right at every one it meets,
Then nv heart is never sad,
For think of breezy spring,
And the joys that it will bring
Of the robins on the lawns
Piping in the dewy dawns.
w. F. Smyth, in Scribner.
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The path Of duty is near, yet
men seek it afar off. The way is
wide, it is not hard to find. Go
home and seek it, and, you will not
lack teachers.
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Let an independent thinker
show fearless fidelity to his con-
viclions, ard the shafts of bigotry
and envy fall helpless and harm
less at his feet.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-06-25

Who is wise? lie that is teach
able. Who is mighty? lie that
conquers himself. Who is rich :?
He that is contented. Who is
honored ? He that honoreth
others.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-06-25

Life is state Of embryo, a pre-
paration for life. A man is not
completely born until he has
passed through death.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-06-25

Spirituality is not a growth OF
earth. Our lives are only desert
spots till a heavenly spring is
opened to our hearts.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-06-25

A mans temper is most Valua-
bic to himself, and he should keep
it.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-06-25

A sweeping reform - Spring
cleaning.
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cleaning.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-04-10
onrlosItles ofthe Eartn.


AZ the city Of Medina, In Italy, and
about four miles around it, wherever
the earth is dug, when the workingmen
arrive at a distance of sixty-three feet,
they come tOa bed of chalk, which they
bore with m auger five feet deep. They
then withdraw from the pit before the
anger is removed, and upon its extrac-
ton the water bursts through the apart
ure with great violence, and quickly
fills the newly-made well, which is al
fected neither by rains nor drought.
But what is the most remarkable in this
operation is the layers of earth as we
decend. At the depth Of fourteen feet
ar found the ruins of an ancient city,
paved streets, houses, floors and differ
ent pieces of mason work. Under this
is found a soft OOzy earth, made up of
vegetable matter, and at twenty six
feet large tress entire, such as walnut
trees, with the walnuts sticking to the
stem, and the leaves and branches In a
perfect state of preservation. At TWEEN
ty-eight feet deep a soft chalk is found,
mixed with a vast quantity Of shells,
and the bed is eleven feet thick. Under
this, vegetables are found again.
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A Little Girl FascInates Birds.

There resides in the vicinity of Har-
risburg, an out-of-the-way place in
Hancock county, Ohio, about three
miles west of Mount Blanchard, a very
remarkable child only five years old,
who seems to have the power to charm
birds at will. Her mother first noticed
this strange fascination that the child
possesses about a year ago. The little
girl was out playing in the door-yard
among the bevy of snow-blrds, and
when she spoke to them they would
come and light upon her, twittering
to her. On taking them in her
hands and strOking them, the birds
Instead of trying to get away from their
fair captive, seemed to be highly
.pleased, and when let loose would fly
away a short distance, and Immediately
return to the child again. She took
several of them into the house to show
her mother, who, thinking she might
hurt them, putthem out of doors, but no
sooner was the door opened than the
birds flew into the room again and lit
upon the girls head and began to chirp.
The birds remained about the premises
all winter, flying to the little girl when
ever the door was opened. The parents
of the child became alarmed, believing
that this strange power was an i'll
omen, and that that much-dreaded Wis
itor, death, was about to visit their
home. But death did not come, and
during last summer the child has had
numerous pets from the birds. The
child handles the birds so gently that
a humming-bird, nee in her hand,
does not fail to return. This winter a
bevy of birds has kept her company
and she plays with them for hours at a
time. Every morning the birds fly to
her window, and only leave when the
sun sinks in the west. The parents of
this little girl are poor, superstltious
people, and have been reticent about
the matter until lately fearing that
some great calamity was about to befall
them.
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A Poisoned Valley.

Near Batten, in Java, is a poisoned
valley. 1t is know by the name of
Guevo Upas, or Poisoned Valley; and
following a path which had been made
for the purpose, a visiting party short
ly reached it, with a couple Of dogs and
fowls, for the purpose of making ex-
periments. On arriving at the noun
tain, the party dismounted and scram-
bled up the side of the hill, at the dis
lance Of a mile, with the assistance of
the branches of trees and projecting
roots. When at a few yards from the
valley, a nauseous, suflocating smell
was experienced, but on approaching
the margin, the inconvenience was no
longer found. The valley is about half
a mile in circumference, of an oval
shape, and about thirty feet in depth.
The bottom of 1t appeared to be flat,
without any vegetation, and a few
large stones scattered here and there.
Skeletons of human beings, tigers,
bears, deer and all sorts of birds and
wild animals lay about in confusion.
The ground on which they lay at the
bottom of the valley, appeared to be
hard, sandy substance, and no vapor
was perceived. The sides were covered
with vegetation. 1t was proposed to
enter it, and each having lit a cigar,
managed to get within twenty feet of
the bottom, where q siekening smell
was experienced, without any difficult
ty of breathing. A dog was now fast
ened to the end of a bamboo, and thrust
to the bottom of the valley. AT the ex-
piratlon of fourteen seconds he fell of
his legs without moving or looking
around, and continued alive only eigh-
teen minutes. The other dog now left
the company, and went to his compan-
ion. On reaching him he was observed
to stand quite m%otionless, and at the
end of ten seconds fell down; he never
moved his limbs after, and only lived
seven minutes. A fowl was now thrown
in, which died In a minute and a quar-
er,
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The ancients made springs of bronze.
The Pet Boy in College.

l had not been home many hours;
the female members of the family had
not exclaimed more than a thousand
times, "Why, Fred, how you've
changed! / hardly knew you'll" my
younger brother had only just succeed
ed in smashing my first cane, when
word was brought that "Your father
would like to see you in the study,
Mr.. Fred"
''Ah, Fred, my boy, sit down and tell
me how you are getting on at Har.
vardP"'
"oh, first rate! 1 played foot ball in
the fall, am training this winter for the
crew and think OF baseball in the
spring"
"Yes, yes; but Fred, how about the
Greek and Latin ?"
"Oh, they're all right, Pm in the adj
vanced section of both studies"
s'I'm very glad to hear it; for Fred,
Pm a little worried by two notices ! re-
ceived from the college, something about
your doing poorly in Greek aud Latin
examinations"
"Dld you really get such letters faith
err That's immensel Why they're
Deturs!"
"Ehy"
"Why Deturs, gifts from the college.
From the Latin do, dare, dedi, detum,
to give. The college gives them only
to the twenty best scholars in the class.
It's a great honor to get one; fellows
that get Deturs hang them up in frames
You hardly ever get more than one, my
having two is superb, equal to getting
a double first at Oxford"
"Indeed, l always thought you were
bright, Fred; but what does 1t mean by
saying if you don't do better you will
have to sever your connection with the
c~ollegeH"
"Pooh! That's nothing, father, only
a mere form; relic of an old custom.
You see, about a hundred years ago the
twenty best men of the class used to
contend In an examination for the first
place. The nineteen who didn't win
were told that they might go away into
the country, that is, sever their connec-
ton with the college for awhile, study
up and try their fate again. The GUS
tom has died out, but the notices re-
main, and now they are sent around to
show that you are in the first twenty of
your class. A great honor to get one, |
assure YOU"
81 am glad of it, you have taken quite
a load off my mind, for l feared that
you were in danger of dismissal. Well
Fred, / wont detain you longer; your
sisters are dying to know all about col
lege; but before you go here's a speci-
men of specie payments from me as a
Detur for your good work In Latin and
Greek.
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HUMOROUS.

SUCH is LIFE.-Ah, yes, fond youth !
Ii may be very nice TO court a girl In
the far-northern countries where the
nights are six months long; but Just
think Of the vast amount Of peanuts and
gum drops the young man, when going
to see his girl, must lug along with
him TO kill time, and induce her to be-
lieve that his affection for her Is as
warm as ever. And then the sad leave
taking a few weeks before sunrisel He
whispers Goodnight love-" and she
softly murmurs, Goodnight, dear.
When shall | see you again. "To-mor-
row-night," he replies, as he kisses
her upturned face. To = morrow
night" she repeated, with a voice full
of emotion. "Six long, weary months !
Can't you call around a few days before
breakfast, Charles? 2" Finally Charles
tears himself away, with a promise to
write her one hundred and sixty letters
before the next day draws to a close.
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" What are you Going to do About 1t ?

What are you Going to do Abou it7"
Because the penalties of physiological
laws are not executed speedily, some
fancy they are void. But when the
system breaks down, and almost hope
less complications arise, which the
family physician, by reason of his
limited experience, fails to relieve, the
pertinacity of the above inquiry is APP
parent. Many remedies have been
specially prepared for these cases, and
many physicians are bidding for their
patronage. AS before making a pur-
chase of land, a "search " is required,
and the title carefully examined, so the
invalid should carefully investigate the
claims of any physician Offering to treat
chronic diseases. DR.. Pierce's Family
Medicines are we'll known, and have
effected many cures where eminent
physicians have failed, yet to accommo-
date surgical and complicated cases, and
those DESTROYS of being restored speedi-
ly, DR.. Pierce has erected an elegant
sanitarium, at a cost of nearly half a
million dollars. No institution in the
world offers advantages superior to
those found in this establishment.
Half a cor of physicians are In atten-
dance, several of whom have been
prominently connected with leading
American and European Hospitals.
Every imp owed facility for Fastening a
cure that a liberal expenditure Of money
could secure can here be found. BE
fore fully deciding where to 90, address
Invalids' and Tourists Hotel for circu-
lar.
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A new instrument to be used in level
ing surfaces is thus described in the
Eresden Gewerbe-V erein: Two glass
tubes, standing upright on feet, and
open above and below, and connected
below with an india-rubber tube of any
desired length. If water is poured into
one of the tubes it will naturally rise to
the same height in the other, however
neven may be the surface on which
they stand. When ground is to be lev
elled, the tubes should be set up at con-
venient distances and stakes put in the
ground so as to reach the height of the
water level. The more uneven the
ground is the higher the tubes must be (;
but the inconvenience arising from
this may be allie Waited in a measure by
the use of stone and other supports.
The chief adva ntage of the new instru-
ment is that dwelling may be perform
ed with it even around corners.
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is the most important question to-day with
suffering millions who, when looking at the
long list OF useless pile nOstrums feel as the
afflicted Bible Patriarch. like exclaiming IL
have heard many such things, miserable COM
forters are We all, how long will We yex my soul
and break me in pieces with words;' II Is not
recorded that job had piles, but he could not
have had anything more painful. and the same
question might have been asked then as since
for three thousand years can piles be cured
We believe that DIR. Sllsbee has solved the prob
lem. for nothing is mere certain than that his
"Anskcsis. )" does absolutely and promptly cure
the wCrstcases OF piles. When half a million
OF afflicted assert positively that it has cured
them aud in 20 years no one has used the doc
tors wonderful remedy without instant relief,
and by following hs simple instructions as to
habit and diet we're, benefited and over 90
per cent cured. all arguments and theories OF
those who havn't used them, 90 for naught.
Anskesis is now prescribed by physicians OF
all schools and has been pronounced as near
infallible as is possible. 1t is easily applied,
perfectly safe. instantly relieves pain and ul-
timately cures the most inveterate cases. 1t
has grandly solved the problem that Piles can
be cured. Samples Of "Anakesis" are sent
free to all sufferers, on application to p. Neu-
staedter & Co, sole manufacturer of Anake-
sis, Box 1916 New York. Also sold by drug
gists everywhere. Price 81 per box.
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1t would seem to be a truth appreciable by
all, and especially by professors of the healing
art, that to remove the disease, not TO alleviate
its symptoms, should be the chief aim OF med
ication. Yet In how many instances do we see
this truth admitted in theory, ignored in prac-
tice. The reason that Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters is successful In 80 many cases, with
which remedies previously tried were mad
equate TO cope, is attributable to the fact that
it is a medicine which reaches and remoyesthe
causes Of the various maladies to which it is
adapted. Indigestion, fever and ague, liver
complaint, govt, rheumatism, disorders Of
the bowels, urinary affections and other mala-
dies are not p~alliated merely, but rooted ont
by il. 1t goes TO the fountain head. 1t is really,
not nominally, a radical remedy, and 1t en-
dows the system with an amount Of vigor
which is its best protection against disease.
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N. de Beaumont, president Of the
Geneva Geographical Society, proposes
as a common first meridian-to be call.
ed the mediator" on the analogy of
eqHator-the l50th meridian west of the
old meridian of KerrO, or 30 Q east. He
maintains that it can be very easily con-
nected with works based on the prIn-
cipal merldians eff Ferro, Paris, Green
witch, etc. 1t touches the extremity of
the American continent at Cape Prince
of Wales; traverses, on the one hand,
the whole length of the Pacific without
touching any land, and, on the other,
all Europe, through its centre, from the
top of Spitzbergen, passing Copenhag-
ell, Leipsic Venice and Rome then cuts
the African continent from Tripolo to
Cape Frio, about IS south lat. M. de
Beaumont urges several advantages on
behalf Of this new meridian. 1t would
cut Europe into east and west, thus
giving emphasis to a division which has
been tacitly recognized for ages; it pre-.
sents about the largest possible terres.
trial arc, from 799 north to lSo south
lat, 97o altogether, thus giving to
science the longest continuous line Of
land as a basis for astronomical Obser-
vations.