The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-05-10
GEARS FOR THE MILLION"

ordered all his deaf subjects TO nse it, and
there has not been single case of deafness
among 400,000,000 of Chinaman for 800
years. Price one dollar bottle
Now the world is full of such
fools and lots of 'em will send fol
that stuff. I think I see the heathen
Chinee catching them sharks in the
Yellow sea. Every drug store in
the land is crammed with just
such frauds, and every newspaper
gives 'em left-handed Endorsement
by advertising 'em. Our law ma
kers ought to pass law forbidding
it unless they were indorsed by the
medical faculty of the State. GU
ano and kerosene have to 90
through the crucible and be tested,
but these frauds and poisons go
free and take millions away from
our credulous people. All these
tricks are to dodge work and get a
living without earning it. Gam
bling is forbidden by law, but gam
bling is respectable and innocent
business compared with it, for gam
blers just swap one for another's
money and keep it changing around.
Sometimes brains get low down
and anxious, and goes to buying
lottery tickets as a last resort. l can
always tell how bad off a poor fellow
is when I see him investing in lot
terry tickets. He is hard up sure.
He wants something for nothing
mighty bad, and he gets nothing for
something. A long time ago I
bought quarter ticket for two dol
lars and a half. It was numbered
2401 and I saw it could be divided
by seven three times, and seven
was a mystic number. and SO /
thought / had the deadwood on the
lottery but it just went along all
the same and gobbled up my money.
Card players say there is luck un-
der a nine and over a deuce, but to
my opinion there is no lucky num-
Der to a man who does not give value
received for what he gets. Brains
are sly and restless, and have lots
of secrets, but muscle is open and
candid and content with the ne
cessaries and reasonable comforts
of life but brains are never satisfied.
The more they get the more they
want, and Cobe says there are
some men who, if they owned the
whole world, they would want a
tater patch outside. But brains
and muscle put together make a
good team. Educated labor makes
the best farmers and the best me-
chanics. Educate young man for
his trade or calling. There ought
to be a school for farmers, and one
for architects, and mineralogy, and
one for book keeping and so forth.
and the boy oughtent to be cram
med with two much Greek and
Latin and rhetoric and logic and
astronomy before he begins his
business education. He ought to
pick out his calling and bend his
energies in that direction. 1t was
all very well before the war to give
our aristocratic young gentlemen
an accomplished education, but
business is business and now the
average boy must 60 to work. If
he is to be a farmer he don't want
more than a peck Of belle letter
and syllogism and hyperboles and
calculus and Romulus and Remus
and charybdis and the like, but he
wants bushel Of lime and phos.
phate and acid and alkali and sand
and gravel and clay and subsoil and
grass and drains and implements
and such like, and he wants plenty
ofmuscle to 60 along withit. Brains
and muscle mixed make the best men
I know and the most useful to the
State. BILL ARP