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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-08
Appreciated.

The generous patronage beston ed up
on me by myif;iends Of Newberry and
Laurens Counties and the State, since I
have been with Messrs. j. L. Mimnaugh
& Co., OF this city, is gratefully appre-
ciated. My customers already include
persons from every section Of the State.
Our stock OF Dry Goods, Notions, Nilli-
merry. Clothing, Gents Furnishing
Goods, Hats, ETC., is the largest and
most varied in the State above Charles
ton, and is being daily replenished with
new and seasonable goods for the winter
and holiday trade. Come and see me,
or send me your orders.
A. C. JONES,
With J. L. MIMNAUGH s. Co.,
l2l and 1913 Main Street,
Columbia, S. c..
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ATLANTIC COAST LINE.

PASSENGER DEPARTMENT,
Wilmington, n. c., Nov. u, 1887
Fast Line between Charleston, Colum
bia and Upper South Car olina and Wes
ern North Carolina
Condensed Schedule
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Steam Power

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which we put in last spring.
1t is a small beginning, and
should not be despised. The
first steam printing ever done
in Newberry was in our estab-
lishment, and it's still going
on. You know that steam
power is much more satlsflc-
tory than hand power in any
enterprise where power is to
be used. Our power is pro.
duced by a novel piece Of
mechanism in the shape of an
engine nc bigger than stove!
Come in and see it in opera
tion. We take delight in
seeing you about as we'll as
skiing you to
and anything else YOU need
that we have not mentioned.
We guarantee satisfaction in
every particular. We put
Stationery in Pads
at a small .trife extra over the
ordinary loose sheets with or
without blotters. The pads
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SHAM ST.

If the American male ever succeeds in
wrestling his rights from his companion
of the other sex, there is one institution
Of the American home that will surely
be abolished. 1t is so purely feminine
in it's origin, SO absurd, SO superhuous
so exasperating, 80 fraudulent in charac-
ter, that men instinctively revolt against
it. No man ever did, ever will conde-
scend to argue about it. He simply con-
dennis it totally. Dear, though it be, in
it's monstrosity, to the whole female sex,
there are men whose sublime courage
has banished it from their homes by
ruthless destruction or superior constitu-
tional combativeness. But these notable
characters form rare exceptions to the
vast herd of enslaved husbands. With
true feminine inconsistency and audacity,
the dear wives, while claiming it's indis-
pensability, consent, nevertheless, to ex-
actly define it's character in it's name and
unblushingly call it a sham!
The pillow shaml
Who has not been confronted by this
ghostly, CHASTITY, stsrched nuisance, as he
YEARLY sought his pillows in the late
hours of the night Is it suggestive of a
prayer of Thanksgiving? What shall he
do with it? Where put the cracking,
fiimsy fraud? When did pillow become
Objectionable to the eye by day or by
night? What honest, clearly motive can
there be for it's concealment. None
while soap and water are obtainable.
Is the sham merely to conceal rumpled
pillows, which are as yet unsoiled? Grant
it-but where is the man that ever touch
ed sham and left it less ruffied than the
pillow on which he tossed in high fever,
after vainly trying to find place of de-
post for the great starched thing with its
stiff, fancy edging?
Vainly he tries to fold, or hang, or lay
it over or upon anything within the
room.
Wrestle with it in his weary solitude
as he may, it crackles and cracks through
ont its entire length and breadth, and
accusingly meets his dismayed gaze in
the morning a limp, wrinkled, unsightly
mass.
Who was the superhuous woman that
invented the sham? What her race, ma
tionality and social status? Was it the
cunning device Of man haterP Surely,
it is truly feminine instrument of real
torture so innocent, SO immaculate, yet
SO diabolicall
But men will not always consent to
merely execrate the sham. This is an
age of utility and common sense. and
the day is not distant when the soft
Establishments or hysterieal protesta-
tions of women will not save the pillow
sham from RELOCATION to the limbo of
things utterly useless and without right
to recognition.-Ajar, in Boston Tran
ea9si9lt
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JAPANESE AND ENGLISH BOOKS

JAPANESE AMI ENGLl9r BOOkS
Before concluding this yer y short pa
per on Japanese book illustration, says
Heromich Shugio in the February Book
Buyer, it may not be quite out of place
to point out some differences to be found
between Japanese and American books.
All the Japanese books in the first place
are read from the right hand side instead
of from the left-hand side, and the lines
run from the top of the page to the bottom.
In word, Japanese books commence
where American books end, and end
where American books commence. And
who knows which is right in this case?
Again in Japanese books, all the notes
are found on the top or the upper margin
and we naturally call them head notes,
while in American books we find all the
notes at the bottom, and they are prop
erly called foot notes, but am glad to
know that we agree in commencing with
the first page of the first chapter in a
book instead of one beginning at the
last and the other at the first chapter.
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NAPOL CONS ARMY BEFORE
WATERLOO,

The army of Napoleon was compos-
ed!entirely of veteran troops. 1t was also
in excellent order and condition. It
was homogeneous army; all the men
were Frenchmen. The troops were eager
to fight, to retrieve the reputation of the
French arms, to recover their lost re-
nown. 1t was prepared for desperate
struggle. The Emperor in his address to
the army, dated at Avesnes on the four
teenth of June, had reused the spirits
and determination of the soldiers to their
highest pitch. He had reminded them
that this was the anniversary of Marengo
and of Friedland; he had pointed out that
they we're about to encounter superior
numbers; he had told them to conquer
die. Nevertheless it is a mistake to call
this army, as many writer's have done,
the finest which Napoleon ever took into
the field. I'm two points, especially, this
army was not the equal of that, for exam
pie, which he commanded at Austerlitz.
In the first placeit had not the inestimable
advantage of being led by those brilliant
officers, then in the early prime of man
hood, who had been brought to the front
in the turmoil to the Revolutionary strug-
gle. OF the two who we're at Waterloo,
Ney and Soult, one, Soult was perform
ing the functions of chief-of- staff; Ney
was the only one of the marshals who
commanded troops on that fatal field.
Not that the corps commanders lacked
experience or devotion. They were un-
questionsbly excellent officers, who had
seen many years of faithful service. But
Nspoleon's earlier exploits had been to a
large extent rendered practicable only
by the exceptionally able men who were
his own contemporaries Massena, Ian
mes, Dsvout, Murat, and the rest. Sec
ondly, there was in this army of 1915,
and there could not but be, certain
amount of distrust, of lack of entire con-
fidence, on the part of the soldiers toward
their superiors, the result of the SO re-
cent overthrow of the empire in 1914,
which had been associated in their minds
with suspicious of reasonable conduct
on the part of certain officers of high
rsnk.-Scribner's Magazine for March.
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thy comforts delight my soul

thy comforts delight my soul
"'Miss Huldah, 1 said timidly, for I've
always been tongue tied so far as my in
ner life is concerned, though you W on
think SO this morning, I'm afraid, tell
me, do you find Gods comforts a constant
delight?'
"She paused moment, then her face
lighted, and that rare smile came into
her eyes.
"I haven't words to describe the
peace and joy she said. The sense of
my dependence never leaves me, but the
strong arm never fails me either. You
have seen little child lying softly in the
hollow Of the fathers arm-thet's the
way feel since I've just let myself go,
and have learned to give myself up to
him, doing his will so far as see it, and
never resisting it even in thought
eve talked little longer, and she
quoted that stanza which we all know,
'Tn a service which thy love appoints,
There are no bounds for me-"
ST ventured to ask, Miss Huldah, do
you never feel anxious about the future?
Are you never afraid Of what may hap
pen in days TO Gomez
"Why, no. she answered, laughing.
There are no ifs and mays in my
Heavenly Fathers pledges. just &C
cept what he promises, and he that be-
lieveth hath everlasting life,' you remem-
Der. It's just glory begun below you
see.
Somebody called the dear little wo-
man away, and 1 watched her white gown
and the tall crutch as she walked down
the broad path between the lilies. I
made up my mind that her religion was
the right kind, since it kept her from
needless worry, and made her strong
when others would be weak, and sweet
when some would be bitter. made up
my mind to ask Gods help to let his
comforts delight me too, and [ hope I'll
have grace given not to fret SO much il
my dividend fails, nor to be SO disappoint-
ed that my boy prefers business to col
lege, nor SO vexed that Edith is going to
marry poor man when another who had
a fortune wooed her with so much ardor.
The fact is Mrs. Hilbert, my religion has
never done much for me in my every
| day life. 1t hasn't had fair chance.
I've been such worrying soul. But"
and the worn face grew younger in the
smile which illuminated it, "Pm just
going hereafter to believe that the Lord
knew what he was about when he said,
Take no thought for the morrow, your
father knoweth what things We have need
of before ye ask him."
Dear friends, are there not more of us
who need an everyday religion, in which
no, 'tifs" nor "mays" disturb the even ten
or of our faith?-C ongregationalist.
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each other the two sections of the Wing
party. he continued for a while to carry
his point; and had he succeeded in over
coming the American resistance, and call
ing into England well-trsined army of
victorious ercenariee, the political quar-
rel there could hardly have failed to de-
velop into civil war. A new rebellion
would perhaps have overthrow George
III. as James ii. had been overthrown
century before. As it was, the victory of
the Americans put an end to the personal
government of the king in 1884, so quietly
that the people scarcely realized the
change. A peaceful election accomplish
ed what otherwise could hardly have
been effected without bloodshed. March
atlantic.
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WHERE THE MONEY GOES.

Ithas often caused wonder why one FAM
lily lives in respectable and tidy comfort,
while another with equal health and in
come at the start, instead of improving
in circumstances from year to year, seems
never to make the financial ends meet.
With disregard of vigilance, pain stalking
and frugality, poverty is an easy achieve
ment.
These are some of the ways Of throw
ing away money without any return in
convenience and comfort: Keeping stoves
CRATES, and furnaces crowded with fuel
without reference to the temperature out
OF doors, or the amount or kind of work
to be accomplished within. The kitchen
stove or range is greatly injured by be-
ing kept red hot. The cook and laundry
help, and the house are needlessly over
heated; food is burned, or cooked at
too high temperature; garments are
scorched in the ironing, the teakettle,
granite and ironware boil dry, and uten-
sils of every kind need often to be repair
ed or replaced; water in the reservoir is
allowed to get low or boils, sending its
steam through the house-all the fuel
used in excess of what is necessary being
an agent Of destruction in addition to its
first cost.
Another waste is in lighting more
lamps and burners than is necessary for
the cheerful illumination of the house
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-10
THE HORSES OF NORWAY.

Lsing, in his travels in Norway, says
that the horses in that country have
very sensible way of taking their food.
Instead of swilling themselves with a
pailful of water at draught, from the
fear of not getting any again, and then
over gorging themselves for the same rea-
son, they have bucket of water put
down beside their allowance of hay. 1t
is amusing to see with what relish they
take sip of the one and mouthful of
the other alternately, sometimes only
moistening their mouths, as a rational
being would do while eating dinner of
such dry food. A broken winded horse
is scarcely ever seen in Norway.
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around it, compre ssing the door so tight
ly that fortunately could not remove
the book which was my sole means of
ventilation. Half crszed with fright 1
pulled and tugged at it without avail.
The perspiration rolled down my face,
my heart beat almost to bursting, and
even with the book holding the door
aiar seemed to be at the point Of suffo-
cation. Gasping for breath and utterly
nerveless fell against the door and slid
to the floor in q dead faint. How long
remained so l cannot tell-perhaps an
hour.
At last my senses returned, and, al
though dreadfully cramped by the posi-
ton into which I had subsidized 10 the ner-
row space, felt had not the power to
rise, and lay there gazing through the mar
row opening at the two folds which encir-
cled my refuge, feeling horrible fascin-
alton that 1 shall never forget. even
passed my finger out and touched one
feeling quivering movement that told
me the reptile had drawn its coils to their
utmost tension, in hope of crushing the
shell that held the precious kernel of
myself. By an effort l collected my IDEAS,
and, embering the box and the crush
ed end, could readily account for the
presence of the intruder. I knew that it
was customary to feed them to safety be-
fore shipping, send them off, and, as
rule, that they arrived here still in the
state of stupor. This one might have
had long passage, and coming out of
the sleep, wanted water, grew furious
burst the weak end of the case, and, find
ing me, attacked me by instinct. [ grew
calmer, and investigated my position
thoroughly. l rose to my feet, and as |
did so my foot rested on something I'M
even. picked it up and found it to be
one of those long ink eraseTs, having a
blade about four inches long, sharp as
razor, tempered like Damascus blade,
the handle being about five inches long
and fiat in shape. It must have fallen
out of the cash book, these knives fire.
DCtnk 5AuO LII p1AO OOOh5 w uAO
careless clerks. Taking the knife in my
right hand, thrust it into the thinnest
fold with all my strength. There was a
horrible, sickening, tearing sound, and
quickly Withdrawing the blade 1 thrust
it again and again into the folds, until at
the third or fourth stab saw the folds
relax and go sliding down the sides of
the safe to the floor, lying there squirm-
| ing and writhing in commissions. [
dared not move for nearly an hour, until
all seemed quiet; then opening the door
I dashed across the room into the outer
office, banged to the door, locked it, and,
hatless, rushed to the nearest police sta
ton. At first my story was discredited,
and [ was almost locked up as being
drunk, but eventually four officers arm.
ed with revolvers came with me- We
found the reptile nearly dead, but still
tremulous when touched, the cuts with
the keen knife, owing to the extreme ten
sion of the coils, having nearly severed
the body in half. 1t measured just thir-
| ty.three feet five inches from head to
tail.-Nea0 York Sun.
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TAKING A COFFIN ON A WE'D
DING JOURNEY


Concerning the death of Queen Caro-
line. the late DR.. Lushington used to re-
late the following anecdote: It was con-
sidered inexpedient doubtless for politi-
cal reasons) that her funeral should take
place in England, and to DR.. (then Mr.
Lushington was confded the task OF con-
veying her body to Brunswick, to be in
tered in the place whence she came.
The commissi ion was fattering one for
so young a man, and doubtless carried
with it some pecuniary advantages; but
it came at most inconvenient moment,
for Mr. Lushington was on the point of
being married! What was he to do? De-
cline the commission or ask leave to
postpone the wedding? 1t was delicate
question, and one on which he felt it
wiseto take advice. "By no means post
pone the wedding" said the friend whom
be thus consulted; "rather ask permission
to have it FASTENED on. The lady has
plenty of spirit; go and put the case fair
ly before her, and tell her my advice to
you both is to get quietly married at
once, and start next day for the Cont
nent, taking the coffin with you. Bruins
wick will be simply the first hating place
on your journey, and then, having safely
delivered over your charge, you can go
on and finish your honeymoon in Switz.
erland, or wherever else you please"
Mr.. Huntington acted on this advice, and
the suggestion was received favorably by
the lady. The marriage took place, and
the next day the young couple started
under these most original circumstances,
for their honeymoon. They Travelled post,
of course, relays being provided on the
road; but they had not gone many stages
when the sound of galloping hoofs was
heard behind. A messenger from the
king? "His Majesty had received in
formation that most improper inscrip-
ton had been placed upon the coffin. III
this were true, it must at once be remov-
ed. His orders were imperative" There
was nothing for it but to stop the hearse
and take out the coffin for examination.
Upon it was found plate bearing these
words: Caroline, the much ill-used wife
of George ~" This being evidently
the obnoxious inscription referred to, the
messenger at once produced his tools,
wrenched off the plate, and galloped away
with it to London. The coffin was then
returned to the hearse and the rest of the
journey was completed without any fur
Their interruption. Many years after DR.
Washington was called to the bedside OF
a dying man. "he had something on his
mind" he said, "and could not be easy
till he had made clean breast of it. He
was the messenger who had been sent to
wrench off the inscription, and as nobody
had ever particularly inquired after the
plate he had ventured to appropriate the
same, under the idea that it might some
day be of value as curiosity. OF late
however, his conscience had been re-
preaching him for this act of dishonesty
and he had sent for DR.. Washington that
he might restore the stolen plate to hii
hands.-PaU Nall Gazette.
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PRESERVATION OF LIVE FISH.

A rather curious discovery, in connec-
ton with the preservation of live fish,
forms the subject of United States pat
emit. A Mr. W. G Murphy discovered
that fish could be kept alive for consid-
cradle time if the vessels containing them
were only partly full of water, and were
Theoretically sealed. In one of the ex-
periments two vessels containing fish
were used-one being Theoretically seal
ed, the other left open to the air. The
fish in the open air died in torty-eight
hours; those in the sealed vessel were APP
parently in good health at the end of
three weeks. This discovery is of no lit
tie Importance in connection with the
transportation Of fish for breeding pur-
poses.-EHglish Mechanic.
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and neglecting to turn them down when
not in use, and delay in substituting day
light for artificial light.
A great deal more soap than is neces-
sary for cleanliness is allowed to dissolve
in dishwater, to the injury of silver, Chi
ma, and the hands; and pieces find their
way into the slop drain that should be
eaved for the boiling suds in the weekly
wash.
Printed fabrics and colored stockings
are injured in coler by soap, freezing
and sunshine. Flannels shrink and lose
their soft texture by being subjected to
the same processes used in cleansing
cotton goods.
Perishable articles Of food are left to
stand in a warm kitchen, which per-
haps came directly from cold storage,
ano should have small interval between
that and the ice-box or cellar. Meat,
milk, fruit and vegetables are quickly
sensitive to such treatment, and faint,
sour, wilt, or lose their crisp freshness in
the case of garden products, so that dis
appointment instead of satisfaction is
many times the outcome of careful and
generous marketing.
Neglecting tosregularly and thorough
ly and regularly cleanse crooks, jars,
cans or other receptacles, in which but
ter, bread or any food is kept is the orr
gin of stale odors and havors, and germs
OF mold that hasten decay, and render
what is in contact with them unfit for use.
Omitting to burn, bury, or remove spoil
ed fruit, vegetables, or anything ruined
by decomposition, is not only a source of
wasteful injury to other things in their vi
entity, but is also an element of danger to
the health of the household, the vitiated
air of cellar and storeroom reaching the
living apartments through floors, regis
tiers, and apertures for pipes. Diphtheria,
typhoid fever, and impaired vitality may
come from no more mysterious source than
this. In extreme cold weather the hab.
itual oversight of mother or mistress the
last thing at night has saved many a
plumbers bill, and outlay from breakages
and spoliation by Jack Frost.
Matron or maid who uses the best and
brightest of tinware for coarse purposes,
where the older ones will do, will prob
ably be careless about putting any of
them away thoroughly dried; and she
who makes no distinction between the
common and the best tureens and table
ware, exposing them recklessly to the
hot oven or to risk of breaksge, will al
ways be in need OF new croekery. Tubs
and pals exposed to dry atmosphere or
left to dry in the wind will soon drop
their hoops and need to be sent to the
cooper.
Flour and meal or sugar left uncover
ed, and crumbs not brushed from ia
BILE and shelves, are cards of invitation
to mice, ants, and flies, which the care
less housekeeper must always entert ain
Preparing great excess of food for a
given meal, and not keeping what is left
in good condition to use again is COM
mon source of waste. All these things
mentioned are triAes in detail, but the
aggregate makes the difference between
thrift and restitution with small in
come, and comfort and more to spare for
charity with the larger one NeD York
Advocate.
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Barr,t, 4orme and 6ardem.
LEGEND OF THE BLUSH ROSES

LEGEND OF THE BLUSH ROSES.
Little Love was running wild
In the garden of roses,
When some white ones he espied
Like snow green earth encloses.
"But color they need" said he,
For, oh, they are far too paleP'
And kneeling down beside them,
He told them a whisp ring tale.
Then all rosy did they blush
So loves story supposes-
The blush it still doth linger-
That's why they re called Blush-rose
Beatrice Crane, IN the Womdn's
World for March.