The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16

! And first | give a quotation from
| a lecture made by a temperance ora
| tor, who, when heard on the stump,
was equal to a Patrik Henry in elo-
| quence. Commenting on the use which
| liquor men made of Scripture, he
said in an article written for paper:
Just because Pawl tole timethy to
| TAX a little wine for his stummick' s
| sake, these Ticker men seam to think
! that every body who has a Stun
mick ort to do likewise"
| Suppose the printer had spelled
Paul with .w," and Timothy with
F! a lower-case st." and stomach and
| liquor as he wrote them, what a howl
| his friends would have made, in his
behalf, and how indignant he would
| have been!
Another Bible quotation, / remem-
| Der to have been made, once, by a
Doctor of Divinity, that l had to cor
rect to save his reputation was: "The
urth is the Lords and the foolness
their off, The quotation was all right
/ but the spelling was not strictly in
accord with the old blue-back spelling
| book
/ don't remember how his spelling
was, but l do remember that Judge
| Saunders wrote the worst hand / ever
| tried to decipher. The boys who used
| to try to set it up, would say to each
other: Guess at it the best you can;
set up anything you can think of, and
when you carry the proof to the
! Judge, carry his manuscript with it,
and you'll be all right, because he
can't read his own writing after it
| gets cold, and, SO, he won't know
| whether it's set up right or wrong"
| And | don't think he did. DR.. G. T.
| Bailey, while editing the Biblical Re-
corder, came near having a very ludi-
crous error in his paper. He had
| written an editorial on THE Faithful
| Men of the Bible" After writing the
article he was called away from Raj
| eigh to be gone several days But.
| on Monday morning, a day or two
ahead of time he put out for home.
| He said he had an impression that he
ought to reach home before the Re-
corder was put to press, lest the
! printer made some mistakes He said
when he entered his office the paper
| had just been put to press, and about
! a dozen papers were worked off.
Hold on" he said to the pressman;
| "let me look at the paper before you
work off another sheet" and the
press stopped. His eyes fell on his
leading editorial first, and there, in
black head type, as plain as the nose
on mans face he saw as the head
/ ing of said editorial, THE Faithful
said he thought it was a curious head
ing for an article, but that was all
he could make out of it. Mr.. Bailey
said if that heading had not been cor
rected every Baptist mule in the State
would have kicked at HIM by the
first mail. Speaking of it afterward,
he said: IF l can help it, l never
allow my paper to be worked off
until / have carefully read all the
h N IF
getting in bad order with a church
in Franklin county once. Just after
the paper had gone to press [ dis
covered that instead of Union Meet
ing at Corinth, the printer had put
in large type Onion Meeting. In
his jocular way he added: Would
not that have been an oderiferOus
meeting?"
While ! am on the onion question I
am reminded of a funny thing which
occurred right after the war. a mer-
chant wrote to a Richmond grocer for
bushel of onion buttons, and, in
about week after the order was
made the buttons arrived whole
bushel of them-all brass bottoms at
that, with the letters ~. s." on each
of them; and with the buttons came
the bill for them. The merchant kick
ed and swore he wouldn't pay the
and he wouldn't have Yankee but
tons in his store, ON no terms. But
the Richmond grocer produced The
order, and, sure enough, the order
was not for onion buttons but
union" buttons, and SO he had the
dead wood on him.
The North Carolina man said that
any fool ought to know that the let
ters, union spelt union, and
unions was what he wrote for" The
Richmond grocer said, in reply, that
any fool ought to know that u-n-i-o-n
spells union" and he sent union
buttons according to order" And so,
the bill had to be paid.
A gentleman told me that he saw
a tub full of union buttons at that
mans store, and the man said that
that onion business learned him to be
a little more particular when making
orders, especially when ordering
onions.
An advertisement which Messrs.
Ney e. Turk inserted in a country pa
per, went to the world with the firm
name of Nip & Tuck" in letters that
looked like a saw bench mounted at
it's head.
The most ludicrous mistake that
/ remember, occurred in an obituary
notice. The writer said: Gone to
that bourne whence no traveller re-
turns" but the printer had it: Gone
to that towne where no tattlers are
burned and, as it was never correct
ed the presumption is, the soul of
that departed one is safe where there
is no burning going on, because no
tattlers are there.
BY the way, tattling is very COM
mon sin, and st. James, doubtless had
been annoyed by tattlers just before
he wrote his Epistle on the tongue
What an awful thing is tattling
tongue! The mischief it can do can
not be measured, weighed or fathoIn-
ed No wonder the sacred writer
should say: 1T is set on fire of hell. .
As much as we condemn it, all of
us are, more or less, addicted to the
bad habit of tattling; by which
mean, we are too ready to repeat what
we hear about each other, and the
misfortune is we can't or rather, we
don't always tell the story just as we
got it. We will either enlarge or
curtail, so as to make it as we think
it might be or ought to be.
Two gentlemen met on the street
one day, one of whom was a young
man but lately married who was
noted for his black eyes, eyebrows
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