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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
Trouble A Dime Made.

Once in a great while one Of the
thirty odd bank clerks who are daily
delegated to render into the Providence
clearing house the accounts Of their
respective banks makes an error in his
"fggers." Usually the session is over
in twenty minutes, but Tuesday it
required an extra hour for the finding
of a lO-cent mistake in 81, ,l52, 100, says
the Providence Journal. AS there is
money fine, which gathers double
compound comminuted interest, so to
speak, as the minutes are piled up by
the clock, each young gentleman of the
thirty odd is on pins and needles until
the fellow who Is to blame is discovered
At noon the clearinghouse telephone
which is that Of the Roger Williams
bank, began to ring, and from that
time until the session was concluded
bank after bank called up to know if
its emissary had gone to Canada and
had left everything but balance
against the bank. Officials and clerks,
who go to dinner in rotation, stood
watches in hand and saw their cars 60
by and felt an increasing and aching
void at the "belt.', About l2:45
o'clock the s1.152,l0Qhad been squared
up toa cent and the l0-cent fellow
who had shaken the banking COM
munity to the pit of its stomach was
landen with a crop of fines as thick as
flies at the bunghole of a molasses
barrel
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
A Six.Year.OId Cowboy.

The Youngest cowboy and herdowner
in the world is said to be Logan Null
hall, who lives in Indian Territory, and
who has lately passed his sixth birth
day. He owns herd of over a hun
dred head of cattle, which are distin-
guished by his private brand, and the
brand is fully registered as his, in ac-
cordance with the laws ofthe territory.
The little cowboy became herdowner
only few months ago, but he is a
bright and energetic little chap, and
seems to be well acquainted with his
business. He has his own bunch of
horess and hires his own help, though he
does a good deal of the work on his
ranch himself. Not day passes but
he rides at least three miles about his
herd. He is reported to be worth
$1,000, and "persons who ought to
know" estimate that his profits will not
be less than $500 a year; which would
be fabulous wealth to most 6-year-old
boys. In order to live up to his char
acter of cowboy he has had a little
Winchester rife and revolver made for
him, with both Of which arms be IS very
expert.
The cowboys and cattle-men in his
neighborhood are as proud of little
Logan Mulhall as musicians are Of
Josef Hofmann, and think he ''can't be
beat"
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
The Time To Advertise.

There is nothing on earth so
mysteriously funny as the way IN
which many business men treat an
advertisement.
The prime, first, last and all-the-time
object of an advertisement is to draw
custom. So the merchant waits until
the busy season comes, and his store
is so full that he can't get his hat off,
and then he rushes to the newspapers
of his town and goes in for advertising.
When the dull season comes along
and there is no trade, and he wants to
sell his goods 50 badly that he can't
pay his rent, he stops advertising. 81
can't afford it," or sit is too expensive" J."
he says; that is, some of them do; but
occasionally a level-headed merchant
does more Of it, and scoops in all the
trade, while his rivals are making mort
cages to pay the gas bill.
There are times when you couldn't
stop people from buying everything in
the store if you planted couple Of
cannon behind the door, and then is
the advertisement send out on its holy
mission. 1t makes light work for the
ad, for chalk sign on the door could
do all that was needed, and be able to
take a half-holiday six days in the
week; but who wants to favor an
advertisement? They are build to do
hard work, and should be sent out in
the dull days, when customer has to
be knocked down with hard facts,
kicked insensible with bankrupt
reductions and drugged in with
irresistible slaughter of prices before
he will spend cent.
That's the aim and end of advertising
and if you ever open store don't tr!
to get them to come when they s:e
already blocking up the doors aud
windows, but give them your ad,
right between the eyes, in the dull
season, and you will wax rich and own
a fast horse, and perhaps be able to
smoke a cigar once or twice year
Write this down where you'll fall
over it every day.-Printers Ink.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
The Subject Of Feeding.

The vast majority of people are abb
solutely wrong on the subject of feed
ing; they think that rich and luxurious
people, feedingo on the richest and most
luxurious foods, are the most fortunate
and healthy people. l assure you it is
Just the reverse. l am the Director Of
an insurance company, and am obliged
often to form an estimate of the COM
mercial value of life; if, then, t&o per-
sons Of the same age and constitutional
build come for calculation as to the
monetary value Of their future lives,
and if one be rich and luxurious, and
the other be competent and frugal,
frugal even to abstemiousness, I would
value the life of the frugal person as
90 per cent. at least better than that Of
the rich and luxurious person.
Dives dies in plenty, Lazarus IN
poverty. Do not die like Lazarus if
you can help it, and do not die like
Dives if you have the opportunity; but
find the happy condition, easy enough
to find if you determine to learn how
on least food you can do the most and
best work. Never eat until you are
satiated; never eat in the day one
heavy meal, but divide your food into
three light meals, equally distributed
as to time and quantity; eat slowly,
take small mouthIuls; masticate, or
chew, your food well; touch your food
with your fingers as little as possible;
do not cry out for animal food mora
than twice day at most; have all ami
NAL food well cooked, and do not for
get fruit as food.
In Queen Elizabeth's time the
orange, the golden fruit of the Hesper-
ides, might find its way to the Queens
table; but such fruit was indeed scarce.
Joints of meat were cut up with the
frill of paper round the end of the joint
to hold by, forks being unknown, and
her loyal subjects, short-ived race,
knowing little how to make the most
of life in the matter Of feeding and
drinking, suffered from diseases which
were of the most avoidable as well as
Objectionable character. We, fortu-
nately, live in different reign; we
have fruit galore, and have clean forks
instead Of dirty fingers to raise ourfood
with, two advantages equally sweet
and wholesome, though so different in
|kind.-Sir B. W. Richs {. son, in Long
mans Magazine.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
AN ALLIGATOR ON FIRE.
It Cost His Tormentors Ten Crops Of
Boxes to See the Sight,

Boxes to See the Sight.
An alligator which beats the recoco
comes from Early County. Some ne
groes were at work in a turpentine
farm, near Pamascus, cleaning the
trash and straw away from the boxes
preparatory to burning off the woods,
when they came across an alligator,
who had crawled out during the last
warm spell to put on his new spring
suit, but who was knocked back into a
state of dormancy by the recent cold
snap.
The old fellow was lying there stiff,
hard, motioniess, and crusty, and the
negroes decided they would make an
end of him by burning him up; so they
dipped turpentine out of the boxes and
covered him over entirely with that in
fammable substance, and then heaped
pine straw on top of him, and then
poured more turpentine on that.
When the fire began to blaze his
alligatorship suddenly awoke from
dreams of icebergs and hear folsts
into what he supposed was the land of
perennial summer, where the bad
gators 60. Nevertheless, instinct was
stronger than intellect, and Old Crusty
decided that, even though he were in
hell. he would split for a pond. He
splitted, and through the pine woods he
went, leaving long streak Of fire.
His rapid flight to the pond gave him
the appearance of gorgeous meteor
floating away, leaving behind it tail
of fame.
A minute later (the trail Of fire was
mile long,, the gator was rolling over
and under the cooling waters Of a cy-
press pond, but the woods were burn
ing up. The festive darkies, who a
minute before were waiting and watch
ing in unfeigned glee to see the gator
burn, were now busy fighting fire.
After long while they succeeded in
putting it out, but ten crops Of boxes
lad been Observation-Disclosures Consti-
rtiOn
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
The Nobleness Of Honest Toil.


The people least to be enyied In this
world are those who do not know the
Joy Of earning their bread, and are
provided for without the sweet sense
Of providing" There is, as Carlyle so
often assured US, perennial nobleness
In honest toll. The bread for which
we have worked Is the only bread that
IS sweet to US, and by 1t the soul Is
fed not less than the body. If we can
not altogether agree In the aphorism OF
a French writer, who IS himself an
example Of amazing industry, that
"the man who works Is always good"
we can at least agree that he has be-
come possessed of the elements Of self.
reverence and self-control, and treads
a path which makes for goodness, and
aids In Is its development. For the IDLE
youth is always the Vicious youth. 20
have no work to do, or to take no In
terest in our work, is to lay ourselves
open to the assault Of every vice, the
seduction Of every sin. Those of US who
have never known the day when we
had no work to do, do not know how
much we are indebted to the law OF
drudgery for such virtue as we possess.
There Is a worse hardship than drudg-
cry; the hardship Of Incidence. The
youth who Is intent on making the
best use Of life will recognize that prln-
ciple, and will learn to be grateful to
that invisible taskmaster who has
made his life consistently labcrious,
and permitted no bread nor leisure
which he has not earned.-The Young
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
Good.bye Feminine,

Did you ever hear two married wo-
men take leave of each other at. the
gate on mild evening? This is how
ihey do it-"Good-bye" "Good-bye!
Come down and see us soon" 81
will. Good-bye!" "Good-bye! Don't
forget to come up" Il won't. Be
sure and bring Sarah Jane with you
next time" II will. I'd have brought
her up this time, but she wasn't very
well. She wanted to come awfully."
"Did she now? That was too bad! Be
sure and bring her next time" ~
will; and you be sure and bring the
baby" 81 viii. forgot to tell you
that he's cut another tooth" "You
don't say so! How many has he now":'
Five. 1t makes him awfully cross" }"
81 dare say it does this hot weather.
Well goodbye! Don't forget to come
down" "No, I won't. Don't you for
get to come up. Goodbye" And
they separate.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
Facts About the Forest King.

The tongue of a lion is so rough that
a close look at it will almost take the
skin off the locker. 1t is not safe to
allow a lion to lick your hand, for if he
licked the skin off and got taste of
the underlying blood, supposing it to
be there, he would want the hand and
everything adjoining thereto. Moth
ing more perfect in modern machinery
exists than the mechanism by which
lion works his claws. He has FIVE toes
on each Of his forefeet and four on
each of his hind feet. Each toe has
claw. Nothing about lion is without
reason, and the reason he has more toes
and claws on his fore than on his hind
feet is that he has more use for them.
If this were not so the majority would
be the other way. The lion is nocturnal
by choice: He has noQarticular obiec-
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
Resnect Due to Wives.

Do not jest with your wife upon a
subject in which there is danger of
wounding her feelings. Remember she
treasurers every word you utter. Do
not speak Of great virtues in another
mans wife to remind your own of a
fault. Do not reproach your wife with
personal defects, for if she has sensi-
bility you inhict a wound difficult to
heal. Do not treat your wives with in
attention in company, it touches her
pride and she will not respect you more
or love you better for it. Do not up
braid your wife in the presence Of a
third party, the sense of your disregard
for her feelings will prevent her from
acknowledging her fault. Do not en-
tertain your wife by praising the beauty
and accomplishments OF other women.
If you would have a pleasant home
and cheerful wife, pass your evenings
under your own roof. Do not be stern
and silent in your own house, and re-
markable for sociability elsewhere.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
but as it would not relinquishits hoio

But as it would not rellnquishits hoio
on its victim, swimming was lmpossl-
ble, and Leigh continued to strike un-
Ill all the arms were slashed Off and
Uncle Rare released, just as the
tender, which had been hastily lowered
reached the spot.
The wounded sea monster brand
ished the bleeding stumps of It's severed
limbs, and elected a stream of black:
inkv fluid full in the red face Of Uncle
Rare, as they were helping him, more
dead than alive, into the boat.
The dismembered calamary was per.
mitted to escape after this lastfea and
Leigh climbed into the boat, and with
his own handkerchief wided the reek-
ing face of Mr.. Tempest and forced a
few drops of brandy between his purple
lips.
81 thought it was his Satanic ma
iesty HIMSELF gasped the tempestuous
old gentleman, when he was safe IN
the yacht once more, with mis-
niece bending over him pityingly.
What did you say it was, Smith,
ga squid," answered the skipper,
his eyes twlnkling. "Or, as sailors OF
ten call them, a 'pen-and-ink' fish.
You know you we're rather warm on IN
that very subject just before you fel'
overheard"
sEh' eh?' queried the bewildered
old fellow, staring with all his might:
'What in the thunder do you mean?'
1.-The pens are inside" was the skip
per's lucid explanation. ''Ihe ink yon
will find you have already received II
you just take look in the glass"
"Shade of Old Nick! Is this lunatle
asyum!"
Half-choked with laughter, Zoe I'm
ally macaged to make the matter clear
to her uncle's understanding, and
brought MIN hand-mirror.
At the first glance he shrunk bacs
dumbfounded.
link! Is that Ink" hegasped. "1t's
enough to last me a lifetime. l sup
pose you woulG call it a judgment on
me-, eh, my little niece? And rightly,
too, by the blue blood of the Tempest
family! I'm an old brute, Zoe. III
never make another will won't by
Triton. Where's young Kingsford? 1
owe my life to him, and ia like to
shake him by the hand, Zoe, wash
my face and hair, and then call HIM
in. By George! he's fine young tel,
low! Wait a minute, Zoe. If you, II
solemnly promise never to say pen
and ink to me, no matter what hap
pens, III let you marry Leigh Kings
ford"
This was coming down to humble
pie, with vengeance.
Zoe gaze The required promise, and
is now the happy little wife Of Leigh.
As for Uncle Rare, he always does
his writing with an indelible pencil.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
Too Much for the Lawyer.

Doubtless some Of the smart remarks
attributed to witnesses in court by
conscienceless story tellers could
not be supported by afidav-
it's, but the following converse
ton actually occurred at Pittsburh last
week: attorney Reardon was defend
ing a client charged with illegal SELL
Ing, when Ruth Woodruff, a former
client of Reardon's, was called to the
stand. "You have been here before,
haven't you?" said the attorney. "Iou
ought to know, Mr.. Reardon," she re-
piled. "And you were sent to the
workhouse, weren't your "NEell, I
gave you enough money to keep me
out of it," retorted Ruth. "You were
innocent, of course" persisted the at
torney, sarcastically. well, you said
l was: replied Ruth. This ended her
Observation-Disclosures York Sun.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
MISSION OF THE STAGE.
It Should Amuse and Instruct, Thus Afford
ing Bealthful Diversione

It should Amuse and Instruct, Thus Afford
ing lsealthful DIVERSION
Those who most Of all decry the
drama are the very ones who love to
listen to its title -tattle. Those who
most admire it are sometimes apt to
give it more virtues than it is really
entitled to, says the Whitehall Review.
But when the stage is viewed in its
proper light-neither as something daz-
zlingly good nor hopelessly wicked-lt
passes as an instructor and educator.
Of course, its primary aim is to amuse.
Those who preach about its Dement'S
should never lose sight Of this; but in
the tempting dish Of amusement there
lies many sound maxim and decree
of virtue. Schiller deals very largely
with this idea the blending of amuse-
ment and instruction. He thinks it bet
ter for man who is oppressed by ap-
petites, weary Of long exertion," to 90
to the theater than to rush "lnto
dissipations that hasten his fall, and
ruin, and disturb social order" A
man of public business who has made
sacrifices to the state is apt to pay 1or
them with melancholy; the scholor
becomes pedant, and the people pant
for relaxation. So, says Schiller, they
find what they want at the play, ''the
stage combining amusement with
instruction, rest with exertion, where
no faculty of the mind is overstrained,
no pleasure enjoyed at the cost OF th'
whole"
This instruction must often take the
iorm Of mental relaxation. We dip
into history and annals of bygone days;
we relearn what we have forgotten as
those living pictures of men and
manners pass before us. The fields OF
fancy lie ahead and history repeats
itself; "great criminals of the past live
over again in the drama, and thus
benefit an indignant posterity. They
pass before us as empty shadows OF
their age, and we heap curses on their
memory, while we enjoy on the stage
the very horror of their crimes" 1t
is here that sight grows into bellet.
"Sight is always more powerful to man
than description, hence the stage acts
more powerfully than morality Or law"
The story of a play may wram as well
as impress. The theater should be a
school of practical wisdom, a guide for
civil life, and "a key to the mind in all
it's sinuosities."
Stray chapters read at random in a
book, stray scenes witnessed in play
may, and often do, leave lasting
impressions. The idea received remains
and acts silently. 1t makes US think
and we give it a frmer grasp if it has
been a stage representation, because
we have seen it. We need not go on
the housetops and cry out about what
we are thinking. The influence OF the
play should be felt. The theater has
the happy gift of blending intellectual
amusement with it's instruction. Steele
also said very much what Schiller has
said. Says Steele: "a good play, acted
before well audience, must raise
very proper excitement to good be-
havior and be the most prevailing
method of giving young people a
tnrn of sense and breeding"
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
Wild Birds Fly Low.

The occupants of more than fifty
houses in the central part of Railway,
n. Y, were called from their beds
little after midnight by the futtering
of wings and blows against the sides
of the buildings. The night was dark,
and a dense fog hung over the vicinity.
Men donned their heavy overcoats, and,
going into their yards, discovered that
they were filed with wild ducks.
II was surrounded by the birds"
said Lamplighter Thomas. "They
flew against me with such force that I
was nearly knocked down. / struck
at them with my stick, and succeeded
in knocking two to the ground. Think
there must have been thousands in the
flock.
They were flying as though they
could not see where they were going.
They struck the sides of the buildings
and dropped to the ground. The flock
did not get away for half an hour
New York Herald.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21

tion to daylight, but likes to spend It
in the bosom Of his family, or at least
adjacent to it. 1t should not be sup
posed that because he roams about at
night he neglec,s his family. Heroams
in order to I'LL the family larder. He
never bothers small game so long as
there is big game within reach. When
feeling fit he can take an OK in his
mouth and jump fences and bitches
like professional steeplechaser. ="
Westminster Budget.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
frrefutahle Evidences.

Police Commissioner-Sev citi-
lens swear that they saw Oifcer OToole
coming out OF a brewery. OToole's
Iawyer-But the defense submits that
it could not have been brewery.
Police Commissioner er-What proof have
you of this? O'Toole's Lawyer-Ihe
fact that he was seen to come out
Kate Fields Washington.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
HeaIthful ResDiratiOn.

In health and during exercise the aV'
erase man has about twenty resplra.
tions a minute and forty cubic inches
are inhaled at each respiration; in al
hour $4,000 cubic inches Of air will be
inspired; in twentyfour hours 1,152,'
600 cubic inches or about the contents
Of seventy eight hogsheads.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
PUTTING screens in the saloon doors
IS one OF the deviI's ways OF trying 10
hide his cloven hOor.
To Insure Peace.

81 hope things are more peaceful
q the choir than formerly" said the
pastor. "Yes SIR" replied the Or
ganist; sits perfectly calm now" "
'.Pm glad to hear it. How was peace
secured" Everybody except ng
myself res 'gned. Wa hington Star.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
a PHYSICIANS Fee in Sound.

doctor, aboudt dis bill; I am rudder
short de money. Viii you tage it oudt
in trade?" "Wel, Mr.. Einsteiner, per.
haps so. What is your businesS!"
"Vell, I blay me OH de trombone and !
serenade you more as dwenty times."-
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
Stars.

On a clear night an ordinary human
eve can discover about 1000 stars in
the northern hemisphere, most of
which send their light from distances
we cannot measure. How large they
must be! Round these 1000 stars cir
cles $4,000 other stars of various sizes.
Besides single stars, we know of sys-
TENS of stars moving round one an
other. Still, we are but short way
into space as yet! Outside of limits Of
vision and imagination there are, no
doubt, still larger spaces.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
In Secret Session.

"Papa," remarked the NJ. P.'s daugh.
ter looking at the clock. "What is it,
Lou?" asked papa, who had fingered in
the parlor with the young people. at
is 9 o'clock; at this time George and I
usually 60 into commissee.T Then
papa retired.-Tit-Bits.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
The Hardest Work Is Getting the Job.

at must be pretty hard work pound
il:g the pavement with that great ram
mer' said the idler. "Sure," said Mr..
Grogan, sit is not the droppin' av the
thing on the shtones thot is the har-rd
work. at all. 1t is the liftin' av il
up."-IndianapoliS Journal.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
A Different Case.

Old Gravely-If you do not care to
be my wife perhaps the prospect of be-
ing rich young widow might tempt
you. Minnie (eagerly)-Oh, Mr..
Gravely! If I were only sure L could
trust you.-Spare Moments.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
1T WAS a SNAP SHOT.

A Michigan Photographer Does Some
thing Unusual.
Richard Rea, q photographer Of Me-
nominee, Mich, recently succeeded In
catching photograph Of a bolt OF
lightning as 1t struck telegraph wire,
and his picture was reproduced In the
Electrical Review.
The picture was taken about 8 o'clock
o. N. The bolt struck the neutral wire
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
But uow:Abou. Getting 1t Up A-atne

Sammy Suburb-Whoop! Pop has
bought a new house on the bluff.
Neighbor Boy-Nice place? Sammy
just jolly. The lawn is so steep that
all III have to do will be to st:irt the
lawn mower at the top and ride down it.
Good News
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21

Mr.. Yale ought to come along next
and tell the men how to keep tobacco
iuice off Of their shirt fronts, and OUT
Of their whiskers.