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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-23

sand miles of tempest
driven ocean straight to
one little speck Of an
island on the almost
boundless waters. With
the same unfaltcring as
surance a skilled and sci
entiIc physician seeks
for some undiscovered
remedy In the wide
ocean of mdfe,-id mediea.
He knows that when
the nature Of a disease is
once thoroughly under
-
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-23

Connections at Columbia with Southern
North Carolina. Solid trains between Char.
lesion and Asheville. Connections from
points on Southern Railway to Augusta
Line"; at Charleston with Clyde Line Steam.
era to New York and Jackson ?!lle. $50
L. A. EMERSON Traffic Manager
E. 8. BOWEN, General Manaeor
General Ofnces: Charleston s..
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-23
Mvstea's Sales.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, |
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY--IN
COMMON PLEAS.

ID. Il. Thomas, Plaintiff, against Hugh
Thomas ct al, Defendants.
Partition.
pY ORDER Or THE COURT
.D her.in, will sell before the court
house at Newhesry, during the legal
hours Of sale, on the FIRST Monday In
December, 1897, at public outory to the
highest bidder, oil that piece, parcel or
tract of land lying and being situate In
the County and State aforesaid, con-
tanning Thirty.Six t36) Acres, more or
iess. aud bounded by lands of Mike
Werts, jacob Crouch, and the public
highway.
"HRMs: One.third cash, balance In
one and two years, with interest from
day of sale, the credit portion to be Sc.
cured by bond OF the purchaser and
mortgage Of the premises sold. with
! ave To tho purchaser to anticipate
payment In whole or In part. Pur-
chaser to pay for papers.
w. d. HARDY, Master.
Masters Office, Nov. Q, 1897.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-23

Nancy l.. Merchant, nee Schumpert,
ct al, Plaintiffs, against Chicora
Werts, ct al, Dnfendants.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-23
THE CaAARLEsrON LIME.

Double Daily Trains between Charleston
Columbin and Augusta.
QUICKER TIME.
SOUTH CAROLINA & GEORGIA r. r q
PASSENGER DEPARTMENT..
CHARLEsToN. y. c., Jan. "a, 1897.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-23
Take yOHINSOIVS
CHILL G FEVER
TONZCaassgsE
(Philadelphia Times }

Manual Labor and Professions.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-23
Atlantic Coast A.inesl.

= 'U.-' ! ~ N III ~ y, - -
BStwoen ChnrleHton and CoFauabnn
Upper South Caroline, MORSh Csr<ss
Aina, Athens and Atlanta. 2Zia
PASSENGER DRPARruRHT.
WILMINGTON, N. o., Jan. 10th 1865
CON NDENSED RCHEDUIE fIttE
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-23

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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-22
Written for The Prison Mirror.
THE DISCHARGED PRISONER.

A man released from prison should
seek employment the first thing he
does. His prison money cannot hold
out long, and he must not remain idle,
for idleness leads to crime, and will be
effective in bringing him back to the
dingy cell he has just left. Therefore
he should be thoughtful, and have in
consideration plan by which he may
regain the reputation and citizenship
he lost at the time he entered prison.
He was branded then as felon and
this disgrace was the worst punish
ment possible to give him.
He is free man now; he can 60 out
into Gods free air now with new pur-
poses and ambitions to regain his for
mer social standing. The question up
permost with him is: how can 1 best
regain my standing? He can do it;
he must work, but he should not go
near the larger cities to seek employ
ment, unless he has relatives or friends
whose Influence will procure him sit
uation; otherwise, he had better keep
away from the big cities. AS surely
as he goes to the city from whence he
came, he will come in contact with
old associations and questionable re-
sorts. Let him seek work elsewhere.
The country is the place wherein he
can make progress in life-why not
work on a farm?
At all events take the first work Of
fered and keep it until something bet
ter turns up. If you find good en-
ployer stay with him. Do not be
afraid of work, do not try to avoid it
it will not hurt you, but idleness will.
Try to gain the goodwill of your en-
ployer and your fellowmen by worthy
deeds and irreproachable conduct. Be
kind and considerate; show good will
and you will have true and sincere
friends.
Do not stay out late at night. Above
all, avoid the company that bitter ex-
perience has taught you to shun. Men
miss the right oftenest in the company
they keep. They sometimes think they
may associate with corrupt compan-
ions just little, and that no harm
will come of it. But to associate with
such just once will soil the character
as surely as leaning against charred
post will soil ones white coat. A man
must be thoughtful in what kind of
associates he chooses, and not let them
choose him. L. H.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-22

ceive that distinction, while the rest,
''the swallows of SCIENCE" the butter
flies of genius, may futter for their
spring, but they will soon pass away,
and be remembered no more. No en-
terprising man, therefore, and least of
all, the truly great man, has reason to
droop or repine at any efforts which
he may suppose are made with the
view of depressing him. Let the tenn
pest of envy or of malice howl around
him; his genius will consecrate him,
and any attempt to extinguish that
will be as unavailing as would hu.
man effort to extinguish the stars.
w. j. H.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-22
Written for The Prison Mirror.
THE TYPICAL FRENCHMAN.

The average pure descendant of Rev.
olutionary France may properly be
called bunch of nervous pOliteness
and good nature. He may not always
have his stock of good nature on tap,
but he never forsakes his politeness
under any circumstances. He may Ee
your deadly enemy, yet will give you
thrust of politeness at the same mo-
ment that he gives you sword thrust,
and then exclaim: 'Pardonez moi, mon
ami-the blood flows from your wound
VOuleZ-vous my handkerchief have
for make re bandage for your wound"
The Frenchman is noted for volubiI-
ity. And when he talks he not only
puts his heart and mind into the SUBJ
ject but also adds his hands, legs and
other movable portions of his anatomy.
When he does speak, no matter how
commonplace the subject, the entire
body proves his sincerity by contem-
pOraneOus movement in unison with
his voice.
The French are natural comedians:
yet they are not inclined to the humor-
Gus as we understand it. His humor,
like the balance of his mental diet,
must be based upon something exist
ing in fact, as we'll as in the writer's
brain. Cant is the Frenchman's bette
noir; he detests hypocrisy with as
much zeal as the devil is supposed to
hate certain brand of water. And
this hatred extends to his lighter liter
ature. Thus we do not find the i'm
possible or improbable even in the
Frenchman's anecdotes although it
may be truthfully addedj that he is
never wanting in bright repartee. The
French are sometimes called a tickle
race. This is probably due to the en-
ergy and dispatch they have displayed
in making history; by the rapid man.
ner in which they have ridden their
country of bulldozing sovereigns and
obsequious politicians. And yet, We
must give the French due credit for
being intensely patriotic. Their pa
triotism sparkles with realism. 1t is
based on an unalterable love of Father
land first, last and all the time, regard
less of what particular form of govern.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-22

ment may be in vogue. Thoroughly
imbued with a fervid reverence for
their natal soil they possessed in times
of need that added strength which sim
cerity of purpose alone, inspired by
native affections, can give.
Take the average French peasant of
today. Give him task far above his
strength. Scorn him for not being
able to do it: but let some one start
the stirring strains of LIE Marsellaise
and he will do it or there will be dead
Frenchman lying in the field. The
martial air is suggestion from France
more effective than the arrogant COM
mand of a master.
1t has been said that the French
mans panacea for all governmental
diseases is revolt. The effective quail
tiles of this cure are thoroughly appre-
ciated by the law-making powers of
that country; so much so, that France
is at the present day credited with be-
ing high among the best-governed ma
tions of the world.
When the French solon is tempted
by gold to aid in the passage OF a law
that may be oppressive, he needs but
look down the aisles of history where
misty visions of self-seeking politi-
clans marching to the guillotine at
once bring him to a comprehensive
study of the benefits of death in nat
ural form. We see therefore that the
French lawmaker has stern precedents
to remind him of the beauties of right
eous living aside from the innate quail
tiles he may possess.
In conclusion, let me say that the
Frenchman of today is the product of
centuries of arduous strife and pos
sesses in high degree the better
strains of preceding generations who
had to fight for personal liberty almost
as regularly as they ate. 1t is this clar-
flied strain of blood that now makes
him so intensely patriotic and thor.
oughly in earnest in his pleasures and
pastimes as we'll as in the ordinary
duties of life. J.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-22

The man who is so conscious of the
rectitude of his intentions as to be
willing to open his bosom to the in
spection of the world, is in possession
of one of the strongest pillars of a de-
cided character. The course of such a
man will be firm and steady because
he has nothing to fear from the world,
and is sure of the appreciation and
support of Heaven. While he who is
conscious of secret and dark designs,
which, if known, would blast him, is
perpetually shrinking and lodging
from public observation, and is afraid
of all around and much more of all
above him. Such man may, indeed,
pursue his iniquitous plans steadily;
he may waste himself to a skeleton in
the guilty pursuit, but it is impossible
that he can pursue them with the same
health-inspiring confidence, and exult-
ing alacrity of him who feels at every
step that he is in pursuit of honest
ends by honest means. The clear, un-
clouded brow, the open countenance,
the brilliant eye, which can look an
honest man steadfastly, yet courte-
ousIy, in the face. The healthfully
beating heart and the firm elastic step,
belong to him whose bosom is free
from guile and who knows that all his
motives and purposes are pure and
right.
Why should such man falter in his
course? He may be slandered, he
may be deserted by the world, but he
has that within which will keep him
erect and enable him to move onward
in his course with his eyes fixed on
heaven.
The man who comes fairly before the
world and who possesses the great and
vigorous stamina which entities him
to niche in the temple of glory, has
no reason to dread the ultimate result
However slow his progress may be, he
will, in the end, most indubitably re.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-22

Work is the best safeguard of the
soul. The dangerous classes of any
nation are the idle classes, whether
rich or poor. The working people are
the foundation of country's morality.
Those persons who are trying to do
harm, are not so much menace to
the community as those who do moth
ing! To make beast of rich man,
or criminal of a poor man, give him
nothing to do. Other sins are produc-
tive of sorrow, but idleness breeds mis-
cry as prolifically as the aphides multi.
ply, whose children the second day
number millions. Idleness is the real
name of that devil who called himself
legion.-Rev. Frank Crane.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-22

If you live among wolves you will
learn to howl.-E. V. Debs.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-22
Written for The Prison Mirror.

written for The Prison Mirror.
BE CHARITABLE.
[BY LUCY SHERMAN MITCHELL
Life does not hold the same for any two,
For some have friends and homes;
And others covering scant for nakedness,
While gaunt-eyed Hunger roams,
And they his lawful prey.
Crime follows close behind to rescue them
From out the dangerous clutch;
With specous reas ming he proves, perchance,
But fools would bear so much,
And points an easy way.
Of change to better things that are their right;
Most angel-like he seems
In person, as some grand deliverer
Who human good esteems
A thing of precious worth.
O. ye, who had instead such different life,
Be not so quick to speak
Harsh words, or call all wrong wilful sin;
Ofttimes is conscience weak
Through circumstance of birth.
Go tread, yourselves, the way so fraught with
need,
So barren of supply;
See if body weak and frail and cold
Would choose for lack to die
Rather than strain the law
Man made when plenty filled to bursting O'er
His barns with golden grain;
Go bear all weight of i'll mankind has borne,
The sorrow and the pain,
Then O'er wrong actions draw
Gods mantle of fair charity.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-22

[ Paper Read Before the Chautauqua Cucle.]
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-22
DECISIVE INTEGRITY.

Written for The Prison Mirror.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-29

see Germany and the powers prepar-
ing to steal their country. They have
been told that man should not covet
his neighbours house nor anything that
is his neighbours, and yet they see the
nations that profess Christianity covet-
ing their house and all their belong
iIgs. They have been filled with pre-
cepts the best and most beautiful in
the world. And what example do they
see following these precepts? About
the worst in the world. Certainly none
can deny that the example bellies the
precept.
In view Of such facts as these, is it
at all strange that heather countries
do not readily embrace Christianity?
1t would be a miracle if they did. Have
the East Indians any reason in the
world for sJrrendering the religions of
Buddha and Mahommed and embracing
that of Christ when they consider
how they have been treated by those
who do profess it? And how inconsist-
ent must the Chinese find the teach
ings Of German missionaries and the
doings of German diplomats and SOL
diers. What grounds they have for
calling Christians hypocritesl
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-29
CHRIsTIANIZING CHINA.

The proXimate cause Of the bouncing
down upon China of the European ma
items, like an eagle bouncing down
upon its prey to rend it. is the deter
mination Of Germany to punish the
murderers of two German mission
aries. These men were spreading the
light of the gospel in China, and were
killed in their devotion. Their fate was
one common among those who go forth
among strange peoples who worship
strange gods. But Germany has seized
upon their fate as a pretext for Selling
Chinese territory, not merely until sat
isfaction is made, but permanently, and
for the purpose of gaining a foothold
and ultimately Of grabbing" Enore ter
ritory.
The Chinese, like the whole world,
cannot but perceive that satisfaction
for the murder of the two missionaries
is not even a flimsy excuse for the
course Germany is pursuing. The mis-
sionaries taught the Chinese that the
religion they professed is one of peace,
and not of war: that it lifts men up
with love: that it teaches that if a
man is smitten on one cheek he should
not strike back. but should turn the
other These missionaries told the Chi
nese that the religion which they pro-
fessed teaches that they should know
men by their deeds-"By their fruits
ye shall know them Yes, they
taught them this, and all the grand
precepts of Christianity; taught them
that we are all children of one Father.
And now what do the Chinese see?
That the religion which these German
missionaries taught them has no place
in the dealings Of the German nation
with their own. They have heard it
said: Thou shalt not steal.'' And they
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-29
FIXING THE PRICE OF GOLD.


1t is calculated that the output of
gold in Colorado this year will be $22,-
100000 Commenting on this fact the
Denver Republican says:
The total number of men engaged di-
rectly or indirectly in the production
of gold in Colorado prabably falls be-
low 10000, but put it at that number,
and the annual output per man is 50, 200
for 1897.
We are constantly informed by many
self-constituted financial authorities
that the only thing which fixes the
value of a money metal is the cost of
its production, but we would like to
know il they will claim that this rule
holds good in the case of Colorado's
gold output for the present year.
Probably 5000 of the 10000 men who
took SO 100000 or more of gold from
our mines in Colorado this year did not
average more than SO per day in wages
for their work, and the total wage fund
in that industry did not exceed SIS, 5OO.-
OOO
Nearly two-thirds of the total prod
uct remained to pay other expenses
than wages, and the bulk of it went
into the pockets of the mine owners as
net profits.
Free coinage is what makes the mint
] d
ways equal. and if silver enjoyed the
same rights at Our minis as gold does
the 10000, 000 ounces of the white metal
which Colorado will probably produce
this year would exceed in monetary
4 value the S22,000,OOO worth of gold al
ready assured.
The argument that it is the cost of
production which fixes the price of a
money metal is very popular one with
/ those who are opposed to the free coin
! age OF silver, and as fallacious as it is
popular. Recently Edward Atkinson
sent a long article to the papers Civ
! ing figures as to the cost of silver in
Australia, which is extremely low in
one or two places, and among the anti
silver people the article took like wild
fire" 1t proved nothing, except that
silver in some parts Of Australia is
produced at q very low figure.
! Early last summer a man who had
/ been in the Klondike a couple of years
came back bringing with him something
like $4,000 IL gold. Was the cost at
all commensurate with the value? In
! California last July couple of men on
Trinity creek dug out a nugget of gold
one day valued at $3.50 Was the cost
of its production at all commensurate
with it's value? Of course the produc-
ton of gold varies as to cost in differ
ent places, but this variation Of cost
/ does not affect its price; it affects the
profits of those who produce it. 1t would
/ be the same with silver if it had the
same mintage rights that gold has.
The Republican wants to know if
those who hold that the cost of produc-
ton fixes its value will claim that the
rule holds good in the case Of Colo
radios gold output for the present. year.
They will probably say that it may not
this year, but that it will year
in and year out; that the rule is a gen.
eral one, and that it's exceptions do not
affect it. They are adopts at laying
! down rules, and they never fail to lay
them down to suit themselves.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-29
ATHLETES OF OTHER DAYS.

The Johns Hopkins hospital issued a
bulletin the other day in which was a
paper by a couple of Philadelphia
physicians on rudimentary medicine
and surgery as practiced in Great
Britain in the legendary days of
Arthur. One very interesting item in
the paper is the statement that the
knightly combats did not result in
more deaths probably than result from
football The authors of this paper
then proceed to say:
I'VE are not mindless of the exag-
geration of the hero-singer and the
mythology hut after all allow
ances have been made that a skeptical
science may demand, the central fact
remains that, physiologically speaking,
these men were narvels of energy and
endurance. What modern athlete
could don the helmet and coat of mail
these men wore, much less carry them
nay, fight with them on and WELD the
huge glayves they used so effectually?
The weight of the helmets is attested
by the blows they resisted; the
strength of the arms that handled the
swords is proved by the fact that the
blows frequently clave through helmet
and skull to the teeth. When one
thinks of men in hot August days
covered with these ponderous steel
castings, head and face solidly bound
with iron, and fighting all day long
with the fiercest activity, one can only
stand aghast at such wonders of bodily
organization"
Those old knights who fought clad in
heavy armor fought with far more
strength than activity. There was lit
tie activity in the joists when two
knights came together with their
lances. They were placed in rest and
the knights came together, he who
had the best seat and the most avoir-
dupois usually coming out best. Then
it should be remembered that while
the armor was heavy those who wore
it were a-horseback and that makes
much difference. Then, too, those who
wore armor were used to it from early
youth, and this of itself was training
Modern athletes would wear armor as
easily and do as valiant deeds as ever
did the knights of old.
The world has never seen better
athletes than those who participated in
the Olympian games, but the revival of
those games in Athens year and a
half ago proved that the participants
in them were the equals of those who
participated in them in classic times.
The men of modern times are the equal
of those Of ancient ones in all respects;
the conditions Of life are different and
this seems to some to make the differ
ence in the men of today and those of
former times. That is all.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-29
A vIRGINIAN VAGARY.

A very strange resolution was intro
duced in the Virginia house of dele
gates last week. 1t proposes the most
radical changes in the state constitu-
ton. The resolution would so amend
the constitution so as to strike from
it clauses ?, 8, 10, 20 and q of the bill
of rights. They provide in the order
named that this state shall ever re-
main a member of the federal union;
that the federal laws and constitution
are the supreme laws of the land; that
neither slavery nor involuntary servi-
tude shall exist. The other two clauses
declare that all persons have equal civil
and political rights, and that the dec
laration of the political rights is a part
of the constitution. The idea of the
author is to restore the constitution
to what it was prior to the war. The
bill of rights, sections of which it is
proposed to eliminate, was, says the
author of the resolution, Incorporated
in the organic law by the 'Black-and-
Tan" convention presided over by Judge
Underwood. So far as regards the dec
laration that the state and people are
now and will ever remain loyal to the
federal government, he says this was
pledged by Virginia before it was re-
stored to the Union after the war
This is very reactionary indeed, and
there is no probability in the world that
the Virginia legislature would adopt
any such resolution. It's adoption by
the legislature and the adoption of the
proposed amendments by the people,
would raise some interesting questions
in constitutional law So far as these
amendments would be in conflict with
the constitution of the United States,
they would be null and void from the
first.
1t is said the object of these amend
ments is to restore the state consti-
tuition to what it was before the war.
Vain, vain hope! That would mean the
adoption of the same theory of states
rights in Virginia that obtained in the
state before the war. That old theory
will never again obtain in the United
States, for it's foundation stone was
the right of secession. What possible
good could come to Virginia by con-
forming her constitution to what it was
in ante-bellum days it is hard to see. 1t
might bring some strife and turmoil,
and that would be about ALL The prop
osition to amend Virginia's constitu-
ton along the lines indicated in this
resolution is nothing but vagary.