The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-09-28
P'INTS. FROM. PINET0P.

P'INTS, FROM P1NET0P. -
Personal and explanatory.
One man in, New berry has said there
was nothing in Pinetop.
Eh! what's that? "Ie gods and lit
tie ishes". What's the matter with
you anyhow?
Well, as Pinetop is purely imaginary
and Needle assumed, it is hardly worth
while to contradict the assertion.
Pm sail wool and a yard wide," and
don't you forget 1t. ,~ss
But good, bad or Indifferent, here's
| at you again.
Several months ago these paragraphs
| were started. One reason was, there
was nothing in the papers but politics.
As 'brevity is the soul Of wit" it was
intended that they be brief, and as iva
riety is the spice of life," it was also
the intention to make them "varlous."
Not necessarily connected, nor yet un-
! iuteiligibiy disjointed, pray.
! As l have no hobby TO ride, they can
be stopped at any time, and the patent
run out Of date. But not this week;
smother week.
They were begun suddenly without
regular salutatory lard can eud with
Iout formal valedietory-with the diplo-
| ma laid on the shelf with its possessor.
| They were designed to be natural,
simple, spontaneous, new, free and
easy, conversational, running little
comments So easy that be t..Who runs
| may read," and a''a man though s fool
need not err therein. ''-s5 - ., 49,.
There is not as much fun III writing
now as there was when nobody knew
where or who Pinetopor Needle was.
One has to be more guarded when he
| Is known. You know how it is your
self. The sound is entirely different.
It would make great difference ii
Needle lived in News York and his
Newberrg readers didn't know him
| from q ttside of sole leather" or if Pine
top was in Halifax and Helena. didn't
know it from a;flolein the ground. y
It is sorter Ikea new patented con-
cern.s A stranger could come mere
from Oklahoma and sell without trou-
bic, while native would die OF starva-
ton at the same business, his wife be-
comesa3faying sskeleton@andz his chill
dren's clothes drop for want of suspen-
| sion and the little ones thus he Kept
from the graded school. - -
It is all because "a prophet is not
| without honor save in his own eoai1aty.n
Italics mine. "Same thing.n) Try to
not let your prejudice get the better Of
your Judgment. =
| Now these said small itemized and
condensed but unterrified Democratic
paragraphlets were not commenced to
make a display of any knowledge
whatever, and / don't want to be mis-
understood in the least either!
I wish to make a common sense re-
mark to sensible people. It is that I
| try to write so that the unlettered
taIEoDg as can understand what is said
and meant at a glance.
generally practice what I,preach,
and having contempt-for the affected
attempt the unaffected.
Therefore, If I want to say the leaves
are falling, I say so atEonce aud drop it,
and do not put it thatsthe parti-colored
leaves, which have their, time to fall.
Mrs. Sigourney, are spasmo dically sew
lering their connection with the gnarled
oaks of the umbrageoGs forest.
Nothing Of the whenceness Of the
wherefore style for me: like simple
naturalness and natural simplicity. /
like to be quick and short.
In fact 1 am short-very short
sawed off as George Jones would say.
And shall be shorter still when John S.
G. gets through with me on the 11th Of
next month. e
EOh, if it wasn't for paying and pay
ing and paying, q fellow could sit down
and write a little better think, ah me;
but maybe he couldn't after all.
In writing tits as asimportant to know
what to leave ont as to know what to
put in. The public is intelligent and
discriminating, and ''a word to the wise
is sufficient" "A suggestive sentence is
all that is necessary; the enlightened
reader can carry out the thought -
Just as in the case of leaZes. When
zone saysthe leaves are falnng, Of course
they, are falling from the trees, and it
suggests the approach of fall, and it is
unnecessary tosay SO; and it is also pre-
sumptive and egotistical to bring Mrs.
Sigourney in in that connection just to
show that the writer knows that that
lady wrote "leaves have their time to
| fall. IS $3.50
That's what I'm driving at. I don't
want to have to make any more expla-
nations. So when you read an item
here take it for just what it is worth
nothing more, nothing less-thrown in
without care-and remember that it is
not a studied or labored attempt; not a
try-to-be-funny or you-thlnk-that-is-
smart effort; but 8 kind of on-the-spur-
of-the-moment, shot-on-the-wing es-
say, and that only enough is written
to attain the object and maintain the
point.
THE point may be broken off before
| it reaches the public-or it may be so
fine you can't see it; but if it reach
The public at any time and there be
J. some who can't see it, then wish it
Understood that / am only trying to
furnish the point and not proposing to
sppply the brains where needed.
| 1t is hoped no one is ignorant enough
to think these articles claim anything
I beyond their original face value. They
are not revised and finished literary
prize essays, or productions for the
4eRoyal Academy of Science, but some
thing that might pass before a local
| society for the prevention of cruelty to
animals or Wist. Higgins grey mule
clan for instance. IS
When write I don't 'elucidate.n y
I simply remark. IF I wanted to say
she who proves too much, proves
nothing I would say so in plain old
English, and not run to the Latin to
write down: "Qui sainaSatna e'ro6at, a'aiaS.
pro6dtn, Nor to the French to say:
1"QuS Maine, anne mon clsien," for
stlove me, love my dog.n
If wanted to describe an accident !
would not usurp the doctors place to
show my familiarity with his techni-