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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-09-07

A PLEASANT PIcTURE.-'There
is man. said a village carpenter,
'who has done more good: l really
believe, in this community, than
any man that ever lived in it.
He cannot talk well in prayer.
meeting, and be doesn't often try.
He isn't worth $4,000, and it's
very little he can put down on a
subscription paper for any pur-
pose. But q new family never
moves into the village that he
does not find time TO give neigh
borly welcome and offer any little
service he can render. He is
usually on the lookout to give
strangers a seat in his pew at
church. He is always ready to
watch with a sick neighbor, and
look after his affairs for him, and
I've sometimes thought be and
his wife kept houseplants in win
ter just for the sake of being able
TO send little bouquets to invalids.
He finds time for a pleasant word
to every child he meets, and you
will always see them climbing in.
to his one horse wagon when be
has no other load. He really
seems to have genius for helping
folks in all sorts Of common ways,
and it does me good every day
Just to meet him on the street.
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FOLLOWING THEIR MAsTER.-It
is we'll known that geese and gan
ders become attached to persons
who habitually feed them and
treat them kindly. But the at
tachment is seldom so great as
that manifested toward az En-
glish miller who keeps a flock.
The faithful creatures had re.
peatedly follow ed him a mile TO
the village on week days when be
went to attend TO business. 1t
did not occur to him that possibly
some day they might want 10 fol-
low him to church. But on re-
cent Sunday they seemed to be in
a devotional frame Of mind and
marched behind him as be went
to the sanctuary. arriving al
the door, they wanted to follow
him in, and probably would have
occupied his pew had be consented
to let them do so. He undertook
to make them understand that he
wanted them to 90 home, but the
innocent and awkward creatul es
failed TO grasp the idea. Finding
it impossible to make them re-
turn without committing violence
on them, the miller was compelled
to abandon his religious privileges
for the day and proceed home
ward at the head of the file of his
feathered pets.
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Original Story.
WRITTEN FOE THE NEWBERRY HERALD
AFTER YEARS.
BY CLYDE WAYNE.

Ten years this very night! All,
well, the years have left their
traces on brow as we'll as heart.
The speaker, a tall, slender wo-
man Of some thirty summers, drew
u deep sigh as she glanced sadly
in the mirror before which she
was fastening a tiny white rose
bud into the luxuriant, dark hair
that was wound low on the white
neck. Eyes of deep chestnut,
small mouth of exquisite proper
lions, aud a row Of even, pearly
teeth that glisteped between the
ripe, red lips.
This is Amy Hart at thirty.
With wealth, and surrounded with
all that could make her young
life happy, we can guess Of her
fresh beauty ten years ago when
she stood the acknowledged belle
of Clinton.
But the years have left sad
achings in that young heart. Lett
an orphan at the early age of two
and twenty, she learned the first
sad lesson of. sorrow, and only a
few months later she learned that
she was penniless. Sadly she
turned from tho dear old homo
that had so lately sheltered her,
and with two Of her true and
tried friends she had since found,
found a welcome home.
Two proud to accept charity,
even from them, she earned 8
comfortable support as governess
| in the neighborhood. 10 Nellie
and Rosa alone she has told the
sad story Of her heart; of the
long, sad months when she watch
ed and waited in vain for tidings
that never came.
In The new life she leads she
feels quiet contcntment and on
| ly occasionally a shadow passes
over the fair brow and the dark
eyes grow tender with 4 memory
Of what might have been.
Rosa has lately married Il rich
banker in n, and has written
Amy TO visit ber III her new
home.
Aud she is to leave on the nor
row, and busies herself in prepara
tions for her visit.
CHANGING across packet tied
with a faded ribbon, a few hot
tears course down her cheek, and
she pauses as it is taken from its
long, close confinement.
One by one the letters are .lald
aside till one tiny pink note is
reached and then, perhaps for the
for,ieth time, Amy reads it slow
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MiscelIansons.
%
HOW a MAN GOES TO BED.

Speaking Of how a man goes to
bed, an exchange says There's
where u man has the advantage.
He can undress in a cool room
and have his bed warm before a
woman has her hairpins out and
her shoes united That is how it
looks in print, aud this is how it
looks in reality: i am going to
bed,my dear. ltis 1890 NorepIy.
Now, John, you are always late
in the morning. Do go to bed
Yes, in a minute he replies, as
he turns the paper wrong side
out and begins a lengthy article
headed The Louisiana Muddle.'
Fifteen minutes later she calls
from the bedroom John, come
to bed and don't keep the gas burn
ing hore all night and murmuring
something about the bill being
big enough now she creeps be-
tween the cold sheets, while John
sits placidIy on, his feet across the
piano stool and a cigar in his
mouth. BY and by he rises,
yawns, stretches himself, throws
the paper on the floor and pro-
ceeds 10 that vigorous exercise,
shaking the coal stove. Just at
this stage a not altogether pleas.
ant voice inquiries For PHYS
sake ain. you ready for bed
YETI? Yes, yes, I'm coming.
Why dou't you go to sleep and
let a fellow alone? p Then he dis.
covers that there is coal needed.
When that is supplied and ratified
into the stove be sits down to
warm bis feet. Next he slowly
begins to uDdress, and as be
stands scratching himselt, and
absentIy gazing on the last gar,
ment dangling over the back Of
The chair, he remembers that the
clock is not wound yet. When
this is attended to he wants a
drink Of water, and away he pro-
meuades to the kitchen. Of
course when be returns his skin
resembles that Of a picked chicken:
and once more he seats himsel;
before the fire for the last warm
up. As the clock strikes II he
turns out the gas and with flop
of the bed-clothes and few spas
modic shivers he subsides-no,
not yet; be forgot to see if the
front door was locked, aud another
flop from the bed.ciothes brings
forth the remark: Good gra-
cious! if that man amt enough to
try the patience Of Job!' Setting
her teeth hard, she awaits the
final flop, with the accompanying
blast Of cold air. and then quietly
inquiries if he is settled for the
night, to which he replies by NUT.
tering: If you amt the pro-
vokingest woman.'-Boston Post.
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EXPENSIVE DRUGS.

4 Milwaukee bald.headed man
told a doctor that his hair was
falling out, and asked him if he
didn't Anow Of something that
would stop it. The doctor said
he would fix him, so he wrote a
prescription, which was as fol-
lows:
Chloride or sodium = l or.
Aqua Dura --- OF.
Shake well and rub on ;he scalp every morn
ing.
The bald went to the druggist
and had the prescription put up,
paying 81 II for it. He asked the
druggist if it wasn't little high,
but felt ashamed W hen the drug
gist asked him if he knew how
much aqua pura cost gallon. He
said be didn't, but supposed it
come high. The druggist told
him that aqua pura was one OF
the most penetrating drugs in
the store, and as for chloride OF
sodium, there was nothing like it..
and the war in Peru had sent ii
up kiting. The bald man used
the medicine, and felt as though
il was doing him good. His wife
noticed little new hairs coming
out, and he felt good, 50 when the
stuff was gone he took the bottle
to the store and had it filled again.
The chap who filed it this time
was another chap, and when the
headed man threw down a
dollar the drugger said: %, never
mind. We won't charge you any
thing for that The bald. man
asked now that Was, when the
drugger said : Why, it is only
salt and water, anyway. The
salt is only 2 cents a pound, and
the water is pretty cheap this
year The bald man gave one
gasp, and said: We'll, by the
great bald-headed Elijah. paid
81 for filing that bottle before,
and l want my money back. 1t
is a bald headed swindle. |
thought that Peruvian story
didn't look plausible The drug
gist gave the man a box of cigars
to keep still about it, but he
won't speak 10 the other drugger
who charged him dollar.
Peck's Sun.
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JOB PRINTING
DONE WITH NEATNESs AND DISPATCH
TERMS CASH. -.
A CURIOUS COURTSHIP.
Charlotte Observer.

SidIlOIle observer.
A somewhat interesting marriage
will soon take place in the city. The
bride is blind, but with that blindness
that does not impair the beauty of
the eyes the groom is deaf and
dumb, but has Withal handsome and
intelligent face.
They can be seen walking every
evening in the suburbs, the young
man carefully guiding her as she
hangs upon his arm and looks up
brightly Into his face with her sight
less, beautiful eyes
The two are next door neighbors on
one of the smallest streets of the city.
A gentleman who lives near and has
observed the courtship from its inccp.
tioo TWO months ago. gives some in
teresting incidents of its beginning
and progress.
The young lady is extremely in
dustrious and used to do fancy work,
to which she had been trained, at an
open window overlooking the mute's
piazza. She had most curious
taste, considering her infruity, for
the brightest colors, and the quick
eye Of the mute was attracted and de.
lighted. -.
He did not know at first, and in
deed no one in the ueighborhood did,
that the young lady was blind, and
the gentleman who watched them says
the unfortunate man seemed terribly
cast down when the expressive dem
onstratioDs of his pleasure were met
day after day with blank stares, or
were almost ignored after a grace. /:
ful listening pose or so, the reason
for which he was unconscious. But
6nally he found out in some way that
she was blind, and one evening he
crossed over and Knocked at the door.
| What occurred inside the observer
cannot say, but after this the visits
were regular, aud the young man
nearly always took bouquet from his
garden, in which he took especial de.
light 10 cultivatiug flowers. In
week or so the walks began and are
almost daily, and it is generally under.
stood that they are to be married
early in the Fall the families of both
giving sheir full consent
One evening lady who is familiar
with these facts met the couple on
one Of their walks near the city. She
addressed the man, making some in-
quiry as to point Of which she pre-.
tended to be in search. The young
lady answered as though the question
had been put directly,to her. The
lady desired the place to be pointed
out. The blind girl turned and
quickly spelt' on her fingers, and the
young man pointed to the place de-
sired. Thus does the blind receive
sight and the dumb ears.
The gentleman who related this
story extracted promise from the re-
porter to mention no names.
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q
aLESSON FOR MAMMA.

LESSON FOR MAMMA.
Dear mamma, if you just could be
A tiny little girl like me,
And your mamma, you would see
How nice I'd be to you.
I'd always let you have your way;
I'd never frown at you and say;
you are behaving i'll to-day:
Such conduct will not do
I'd always give you ielly-cske
For breakfast, and I'd never shake
Nv head, and say: You must not take
So very large slice
I'd never say: My dear, trust
You will not make me say you must
Eat up your oat meal or, The crust
You'll find is very nice
'I'd buy you candy every day;
I'd 60 downtown with you, and say;
What would my darling like! You may
Have anything you See.'
I'd never say My pet you know
IT'S bad for health aud teeth, and so
cannot let you have it. No;
1t would be wrong in me-
"And eyerv day I'd let you wesr
Your incest dress, and never care
If it should get great big tear;
I'd only say to you:
MY precious treasure, never mind,
For little clothes viii tear, find
Now, mamma, wouldn't that be ksod?
That's just what should do.
I'D never say: We'll, just few
I'd let you stop your lessons, too;
I'd say: They are too hard for you,
Poor child, to understand
I'd put the books and states away;
You shouldn't do thing but play.
And have party every day:
Ah-h-h, wouldn't that be grand!
s'But, mamma dear, you cannot grow
Into little girl, you know,
And I can't be your mamma; so
The only thing to do
I<just for You to try and sec
How very, very nice ',wou(d be
Eor you to do all this for me.
Now, mamma, couldn't you?
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Humanity is the particular
characteristic of great minds lit.
tie, vicious minds abound with
anger and revenge and are in
capable Of feeling The exalted
pleasure Of forgiving their enc
mics.
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Polished steel will not shine in
the dark, no more can reason,
however refined and cultivated,
shine eficaciously but as it re-
fleets the light Of divine truth
shed from heaven.
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How often is our dissatisfaction
with the world but dissatisfaction
with ourselves; ard the hands
that were turned against US, be-
ing grasped, prove our own two.
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A smooth sea never made a
skillful mariner neither do unin-
terrupted prosperity and success
qualify for usefulness and bappi
ness. The storms Of adversely,
like the storms of the ocean,
arouse the faculties and excite the
invention, prudence, skill and for
titude of the voyager.
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Say nothing respecting yourself,
either good, bad or Indifferent
nothing good, for it is vanity
nothing bad, for that is afecta-
tion; nothing Indifferent, for that
is silly.
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The human mind is like a
drunken peasant on horseback
prop 1t on one side and it falls on
the other.
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1t is as important that we
should have good books as that
we should keep good company,
as the one will! make the other.
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$1,000 REWARD

For any case Blind. Bleeding, Itching. u
ceratcd or Protrudins PILES that DEB:HG,S
Pile Remedy fails to cure. Prepared byJ.
P. Miller, II. D., 9i5 Arch Street. Phlla', IA;
None genuine without his signature: SEND
for circular. All druggists or genera! stores
have it or will get it tor you. 81. Solo III
Sewberry by Dr.. S. F. FAINT, Druggist
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Music is the only sensual graf
fcation which men may indulge
in TO excess without injury 10
their moral or religious feelings.
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One should not dispute with a
man, who either through stupid
ity or shamelessness, denies plain
truths.
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A man is great just in proper
tion 20 bis superiority to the con.
di,ion of life in which be is placed.
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Beard at HenderSonyiI!e.

The undersigned respectfully informs the
travelling public that she can accommodate
persons with :,oari, at her house three
miles from the town Of. Eenlcr$onvllle, at
from Sis to $50 per month, with the best
the mountains can afford.
MRS. ". D. MILLER.
Aug. 10, 32-tf
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You will gain good reputation
If you avoid those actions which
you can censure and blame in
others.
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The man who feels certain that
he will not succeed is seldom mis-.
taken.
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Some men seem constantly turn.
ing an internal grindstone TO keep
their anger sharp.
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itatingly, 'the memories they
awaken are sad ones, and | will
not make long stay
She gave him a quick glance as
she replies:
You say time has dealt kindly
with me, but the scars left arc too
deep TO be seen with the eye
He gave her a searching look,
and noting the flushed face pro-
posed to 20 out on the piazza. As
they stood there in the moonlight
she felt that he was reading her
heart, and when he spoke she did
not look at him.
Amy, you say there are scars
that the eye does not see. Will
you tell me what has caused
them ? But, no, l will not seek 10
gain your confidence. Yet once |
did think my heart held a respon.
sive chord in your own
He came nearer, and she felt
that she must move.
Fred, do you know why l
wear this bud 2 she asked, taking
it from her hair.
Once | might have known, but
now do not. Will Jou tell me ?
be asked eagerly.
! wear it because it is a sad
reminder of u mistake that has
shadowed my life
What do you mean, Amy? he
asked leaning forward while his
face paled as he watched her
eagerly. 1t is long time ago,
Fred, but the memory is fresh as
on that night ten years ago when
l learned you had left for the
West
And you sent me away. Oh,
Amy, how can you SO calmly
recall the past that brings to me
only a shadow Of departed hope.
| see now that you pity NE. But
20 on, l am anxious to learn the
secret Of your little rosebud
II the apparent sarcasm was
felt she did not betray her feel
ings but calmly went on, first
choking down a rising sigh.
Il did not intend TO wear a red
bud that night, Fred
'Amy!'
No, 1 had received two boquets
for the occasion, one red the other
white. Laura, you remember, was
with me. | requested her TO tas
ten a Uhlte bud in my hair, and she
put in the other. She had seen
your note and was jealous, and,
yielding to an evil impulse, took
that way Of Furnishing us both.
She told me this atterward.'
oh, Amy! and | have been ig-
norant of this all these long years
WniIo thinking you had trifed
with my love l cared never to see
you again
Il, too, have suffered, Fred. But
l have hoped and prayed, and not
in vain,' she said as be come closer
to her side and clasped the slender
form in passionate embrace.
Yes; mine for always non,
Amy he said tenderIy.
Yes, Fred, | can even forgive
Laura the sorrow she has caused.
Her lite is q sad one. Poverty
and a drunken husband have
brought sufficient punishment for
her past life
Yes, darling, We can forgive
her cow, and through the coming
years we will blot out the mem
ory of that sad past
He drew her gently to him and
left a kiss on the pure white brow.
And Amy Hart feels not the
change Of years, but feels only
that Fred is near and her sad
waiting is over.
She turned to him presently,
saying: But, Fred, you do not
find me the fresh young girl you
left so long ago. l am getting
quite aged
The same to me, always, dar.
ling. The years have left no trace
on our hearts,
Rosa's voice Was heard eDquir'
ing. for them, and as she came up
Fred said:
See, cousin ; your game is no,
spoiled after all, Amy and | have
been making up
Like dear good chileren:' she
said, giving Amy kiss and a tar
on the cheek.
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We seduce ourselves into ewn-
right lying by slight proVoea-
tions.
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Yours, in suspense,
FRED MlXEN.'


FRED MlXEN.'
AS Amy folded it away her lips
assumed a stern curve: as she
recalled that night that had
brought such bitterness 10 heG
J heart. 'Ah, Lucy she thought,
you have blighted the hopes OF
two hearts. But I can forgive
you when | see your retribution
crushing you down. But>i is
bard to think that be does not
know. TO think be left me be.
licsing | had trihed with his love
Ah. Fred, if you only knew
But her voice gave back only the
answering echo, and she was glad
her anticipated visit was so near
at hand.
All was confusion in the elegant
home Of Mrs. Meyncr, and Amy
was locked in her own room hav.
ing good cry when that lady
knocked at her, door.
Get me in, child she cried as
the door was opened. Dear, dear,
been crying? What on earth is
the matter, Amy? Thinking
about yosr old lover? BY the
by, you never told me his name,
and | just want you 10 guess who
is down stairs. Quite a surprise,
too.' And the lively little lady
had Amy smiling directly
i really can't que. unless it
be Aunt Hettie. She generally
takes people by SURPRISE she said
laughing.
Not Aunt Hettic this timc, but
q cousin Of Franks. He is ust
handsome too, and | wish you
wonld not sentimeutalize so. Dress
and come down.
Very we'll, But what's his
namo. Or did you hear it,
Il believe Frank introduced him
as my cousin, Fred Mixen, not
sure, though che answered as she
reached the door.
AS Amy stood there in the dim
twilight the bud in her hair was
not whittier than the wearer's
face.
At last she is TO hear the voice
! for which she has so often lis,
tened ; to look again into the dark
blue eyes that have haunted her
dreams for ten long years.
She enters the drawing-room a
few moments later, and Rosa
comes forward to meet and INTRO
duced her to some of the guests,
and she is soon led out for the
| first dance.
A brighter glow burns on either
cheek, and she glances quickly
around as she takes her place.
Presently the music stops, and
she finds herself being led. TO a
cool seat; and shortly after she
hears Rosa enquiring for her and
feels rather than hears that Fred
is being introduced.
She gives him one hurried
glance and rises as he comes for.
ward 10 meet her.
4 am glad to meet you again,
he says as Rosa looks from one to
the other in mute astonishment
we are old friends, Rosa,
Amy explained, smiling; but she
felt a cold shiver pass over her as
she noted Fred's formal greeting
We'll. now this is too bad Why
did you not tell me you were ole
AGO uaintances, Cousin Fred ? the
hostess asked.
/ did not see the necessity. Be
sides did not know but that Mis-:
! Hart had forgotten me, bitterly
Oh, nonsense, you Two under
stand each other, | see. So II
leave you to talk up old times,
she answered gaily, waving be
band to them as she turned to 60
AS she did so Fred turned Il
Amy with the remark
Quite q long time since we hav
met, but I see time has deal
kindly with you. l had such
longing 10 visit the old hom
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This popular and conveniently located
house has been opened by the present Pro-
prietor, who will spare no pains to make
his guests comfortable. With rooms large,
airy, clean and we'll furnished, table sup
Piled with the best that can be had. polite
and ready attention on the part Of his ser
wants, he feels assured Of giving satisfaction.
Terms, 81 per Day; $3.50 per Month.
lime % 25-tf
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Alas! all music jars when the
soul il out of tune.
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Make yourselves honey and the
flies will eat you.
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