The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-10-05

oOy knew IL was comm w oJ,
said be, 'daddy's old jack was d
brayin', and he always brays jnst
before rain.'' So the king bought
the jack and took him TO bis roy
al stables and set him up as 4
weather prophet, and had him
fed high, and groomed, aud made
much Of him, and now, they say,
that ever since then every jackass
in the country wants an office.
Jesse!
1t ain't one man in q thousand
that knows bis own pedigree for
three generations back, for he has
got grandparents, and eight
great-grapd parents, and sixteen
great-great.grand-parents, and 80
on doubling everytime and some
of 'em were mean stock, and the
meanness. will crop out away down
the line in spite Of prayers and
preachin' and abundance Of fpunish
ment. Scrubs come from great men
and great men come from scrubs,
and there's nothing for man to
be proud of but his own good con-
duct. Let every tub stand on its
own bottom. There are two pit
itul sights in human nature. one
is proud old aristocratic family,
broken down in purse and posi-
ton, and the other is to see the
children of 3 scrub who has got
rich, putting on aristocratic airs,
and strutting around like they
were better than any body. The
first set back too much on breed
ing and the last too much oO
money. Tom Perry was the best
specimen of scrub I ever saw.
Tom was bound out when a boy,
aud worked barefooted all the
winter, and be was pigeon-toed,
and tongue-tied, and busby haired,
and pop eyed, but be had a big
heart in him, and a powerful will,
and be uever got tired of work.
Tom Perry was always doing
something for somebody. He
was the best friend the widow
and orphan had in the communi-
ty. He was the most unsel6sh
citizen of the town. and done
more for it than anybody accord
ing to bis means and bis capacity.
Old DR.. Benkmao said TO me one
day, mine friend, let every man
work up TO his capacity in dis life
and he will be prince in heaven
Well, Tom Perry did that. He
had but little learning and less
manners, but be made the very
best use of his limited capital, for
he lived to do good and be died
lamented. Rome never had a
better friend nor a more useful
citizen. Dick Wilson was a scrub !;
Dick used to haul wood 10 Gaines
vile and wore one gallus and 10
shoes, and the end of bis shirt
hung out, but be worked bard to
support bis poor old parents, and
one day Cincinaatus Peoples
picked him up and sent him TO
school and hired a boy TO work in
his place, and Dick rose forward
and upward, and DOW he o~ ms
two or three railroads and lives in
New York like a prince, but be
never was ashamed Of bis raising
and took good care Of his parents,
and helped out bis poor kin, and
that's the kind of a scrub l like,
and they are the best hope of the
country. But know scrubs who
have got rich, aud are spelling
their children, and setting EN- up
as far above the lire as they them
selves used to be below it. They
ride to church in a 6ne carriage,
and rent the finest pew, and live
in palace, and 20 to the springs
every summer for their delicate
health. Their fathers used 10
plow all summer barefooted iu
rocky fields over tread.safts and
dewberry vines, and scratch the
ticks and red-bugs all night, aDd
set on a puncheon slab in log
church on Sunday, and be amt
got used to riding in apbaton yet
for be don't know whether tc
lean forwards or back wards, and
when the phaton crosses a rise ir
the road be don't rise with it ir
graceful undulstions but bumps
himself awkwardly aud thinks