The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1884-08-28

old age. Louisville has met city
after city in this season, usually to
keep her laurels safe if not green,
and a great excursion to Cincinnati
to receive the same courtesy re.
Gently extended to the young man.
hood of Porkopolis is now making
all of the boys wild. The chief OBJ
| lection so far made to this manly
sport is, that young men have no
! entire day in many. cases save Sab
bath, and closing stores, at 3 p. m,
of Saturdays does not give time for
q grand battle of skill. / hope the
time will come when by mutual
understanding business will be done
in FIVE days and a mid-week holiday,
such as is so common in Europe
under sanction of the church, will
be universal. Just as much can be
sold in FIVE days as in six, and
counting the increased power Of
health over a wearied body, just as
much can be produced. This is
the only way l see to prevent the
Sunday-school boys having to de-
eide between big muscles and re
ligion, with a majority of about ten
thousand in this city, for fresh air
and the game. The sermons against
Sabbath breaking, of which | have
heard several, do no good, as they
are only listened to by the old men
and women and girls. A less epi,
demic is that Of DR.. Carver's open
air show and its results. tits pain
full to think of the number of boys
who will try to ride old COWS or
bull calves as he and his men do
the very tame "wild buffalo," of the
dear little babies that will get their
eyes shot ont by the bow-and-arrow
practice in emulation. of his noble
Indians, who were all present when
Custer died-that is, they were on
this continent-and if his exhibit
tions of really wonderful skill do
revive the love for that noble Amer
lean weapon, the rife, some good
will be done.
This leads me to say that in my
acquaintance with persons pretty
much all over the Union. / find o
misapprehension of the chief event
Of the Ohio River Valley for 1884
by which l mean the great Exposi-
lion to be held as said in this city.
The fact of what is intended to be
an International Cotton Fair in
New Orleans about December, is
supposed 10 conflict with and rem.
der local and incomplete the event
of the upper river and the more
middle ground. This is all mis-
take, and q very bad one for those
states to make that need emigrants,
capital and the development of their
industries and productions. 1t is
just as bad a mistake for any one
to make who has q picture or
statue. a machine or an invention,
o coal mine or gold mine or a
track Of timbered land to be sold.
In the first place there is no rivalry
Of intention. The Louisville Expo
sition positively limits it's time to
two months and some ten days.
This is a matter of courtesy to the
New Orleans Worlds Fair, for
while the two are not the same there
is an entire understanding. This
courtesy costs Louisville sacrifice.
The Exposition of 1888, held for
one hundred days, and the profits
were on the last month. So it
would be again, for no newspaper
advertising DIES one half the good
that is done by the delighted visitor,
saying as each one did to every
neighbor, Il had no ideal it was half
what it is. 1 like it better than the
Philadelphia Centennial Of 1876.
You will be sorry for it all your life
if you don't 60 right over and see
it." This tongue advertising takes
hundred days to get well going,
and the management of 1884 knoa
this perfectly by experience; yet
they give way to make ample time
for the vast machines to 60 safely
to the rival city. This is not me-
cessity forced upon them by the
exhibitors, as may be supposed.
The rent Of space is small mat.
ter compared to the cost Of trans.
porting hundreds of carloads OF
machinery, vast Jumps of coal, Sec
tions of great trees that weigh by
the ton, and of erecting and furnish
ing the stands and beautifully or
nate pavilions that are for the small,
Ter displays. Once in place, the
owner of the engine or reaper or
the new plow, wants the longest
time he can get to either take or.
ders for future delivery or for ship
ment from the factory. The piano
and the organ, the wood carver and
the soap maker, the silk exhibitor
and the vendor of fine art china and
glass want the longest time posi-.
Bile. So Of people who sell con.
fections, toys or curiosities or who
keep places il which to eat and
drink. An extra month is worth
} more than the cost Of an extra dis.
play in another place. This cour
; tesy, however, insures the presence
of the best Of the New Orleans ex'
libitors. AS there is no conflict in
the intention, 80 there is none in
the scope and plan Of the two great
industrial displays Of the year
This monster Louisville display is
chiefly for the mechanic arts and
such Of the agricultural features ol
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