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UTLER HERALD.
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W. N. BSNN3.
|a weekly democratic newspaper,devoted to industry and civilization, j
Terms,
OXE DOLLAR A YEAR.
In Advance
Volume 3.
BUTLER) GEORGIA. TUESDAY, JULY 1879.
WHOLE NUMBER 1«».
THE BUTLER HERALD.
W. N. BKNNS.
Kdltor and Pulislier.
Subschiptxon Prick Sl.UO. Pm Annum.
TUESDAY JULY 15!h 1879.
“If We’d Tliouglit.”
If we’d thought at our Inst meeting
With the friend we loved so dear
By hie grave we’d soon be Handing,
Dropping down the Htlent tear.
Wonld that word we apoKe so lightly
Have been uttered by cs then ?
Would that in our silent sorrow
We could call it back <igaiu !
If Wd thonght that soon a parting
Would us sever far and wide,
That some ct tLe gladsome faces
Wonld be sooc across the tide.
Would the hasty word and action,
Would the satire sharp and keen,
From our lips have ever t'alleu
Or the actiun e’er bieu seen ?
If we’d thought the friendly counsel
Was the list we e'er should hear
Would we then have scoffed so ligbtly—
Let our heedlesHuuss appear V
If we'd thought tile kiud inquiry
boon would ceuht forever tucro.
Would It then have becu n tr*ub>e.
Wonld we then have wibLed it o’er?
If Wf’d thought that act ol' kluducss
Win the last our friend should seek.
\S Duld we have by cruel harsLiurs
Broil gut the blushes to bin cheek ?
If we'd ihou> ht our hi artless Mly
Wonld have left so deep a ‘-ore,
Would we tuen lm^e spoken rudly ?
Would we theu have wished it o'er ?
If we’d thought—alas! the sorrows
That the words awaken now;
If we thought, ah, tln-n the wrinkles
B on'd he lew r </u the brsw.
•If we’d thought that death wuscomiug,'
Will that be our kt.st cry?
God forbid ! we know he’s coming,
Let ns think—hi. drnwc'b nigh !
Saved From Death-
A Story 4 nf Hie Knit.
One or two young men came nut ot
the Academy of Music when the opei-q,
was over, anti lingered in tlie lobby t,o
watch the passing of the crowd.
Young Fred Suulter came up to them
while putting bis pearl loignette iu its
case.
‘‘Nice bouse, eh ?” he said, languid
ly, “Very well dressed. She Fanny
Swann? Wretched taste for young
girls to wear diamonds! What d’ye
think of the new tenor, eh? Misera
ble, I say.”
The older man answered him civilly
and Walked on, leaving him with some
lads of his own ngn.
“What would Miss Swann say if she
heard that cub criticizit g her?” said
Dr Pomeroy. “The most insufferable
creature in the world to me is a con
ceited boy, assuming the tone of a man
of position, when he has not yet proved
bis right to be alive.”
“I thought young Saulter had mon
ey,” said one c.f the party. “He
drives a fino horse, wears clothes made
l v a bette r tailor than I can afford,
and lunches at iho best restaurant.”
“Money 1” said the doctor, angrily.
“Why, his father is head book-keeper
for Smile &. Son, with a family of six.
JLe strained every nerve to educate
this boy, who now looks upon every
practical way of earning his living as
plebeian. I’ll warrant you the fellow
never has 20 cents in his pocket of his
own earning. His restaurant aud liv
ery-stables bills come in to his poor
old father at the end of the months.”
Meanw hile young Suulter Stood com
placently twisting his opera hat and
watching the pretty girls as they pass
ed. He caught a g impse of his dap
per little figure in a great mimr—the
waxed mustache^ lavender gloves, wir
ed rosos in his button-hole, and look
c d pityingly after the doctor and his
friends.
‘•How iho«»e old fallows must envy
im I' 1 he said. “Wine, with life in its
sparkle, and drcgS; <*h? Ghj bv the
I way, I saw a curious thing to-day.
Dick Knight—you remember Knight
in our class, who took the scientific
course to fit him for a civil engineer?
Well, it appears that, times beings'*
hard he could find no proper work to
do, he hns taken to improper. In
stead of laying bv, as I have done,
wailing quietly for an opening for an
educatedftnan to step into, he actually
is— I’m ashamed to tell it.”
“What? What is he?” asked his
listeners.
“Driving an engine on the Central
road! Fact! I saw him all grimy
rith smoke iu his little caboose to-day.
Good heavens!” I said. “Knight,
are you mad?”
‘Not mad enough to starve,’ he said
laughing.
‘1 asked hitn why his father did not
support him and keep him from such
degradation.’ Then he was mad.
‘Do you think I, with my strong
body, will be a burden on an old man?’
he said, aud began to talk nonsense
about laziness being dt gr- ding; that
man was ever degraded by honeRt
work, with inure of tliesume sort bosh,
a’.l very ridiculous and very disgra
ful. You’ll sue hitn to-night if yol
take the 11 p. in. train.
‘Tut! tut!’ the lads said, and ‘Pi
Knight, he was a good fellow!’ pre
cisely us if he were dead.
Indeed, from the light aud brilliancy
of the scene about tlye.ni—the music,
the beautiful, b»w voiced women,them
selves daintily attired,that gay and hap
py part of the world—there was a gulf
like death to the grimy engiuesdri er
in the daik depot—a gulf which none
but a madman, they thought, would
willingly orosH,
They sauntered out of the opera
house, and a few minutes before 11
reached the depot, in time for the
traiu that run off to the 6nrlmrl.nu
town where they lived.
“There he isl” whispered Saulter*
“He took our traiu out; but the ens
giiiH is not put to it.”
The engine was oh a siding, puffing
aud spitting littlo jrts of steaui, and
Dick Knight, a tull, manly young fel
low, was coining at the moment from
the Superintendent’s room.. He caught
night of his old classmates, laughed
hesitated aud raised his hand to his
hat.
“Going to speak to him, hey?” said
little Billy McGee, anxiously.
The young tuen grew red and em
barrassed. Some of them nodded to
Knight awkwardly, ami seemed inclin
ed to go and meet him.
“I say no!”said Saulter peremptorily.
“If ho chooses to leave the companion*
ship of gentlemen, I shall not follow
him. I talk to him. I talk to mechan
ics and all that sort of people who
never had a chance to he anything
better, but Kuiglrt is a social suicide,
“That'* true,” said McGee. “How
well Saulter puts things!” he added,
aside. “.Social suicide! Well, I shall
not bring him to life.”
Knight saw that the young men
wished to avoid him, and turned aside
with a bow and heightened color,
while they hurried into the train.
It was just five mi antes until
the t ime of starting.
The train of passenger cars was
on the mail track—the engine
still being detached—and the
peop'o were hurrying in, most «•!
them coming d r„*(t from the thea
ters and other places of amusement
Inside of the rare and in the depot'
there was a good deal of jesting
and gayety between acquaintances
meeting ou their way home, the
•rain being rt locul one,and tunning
only through surhurban village*.
Just then, a short distance up
the track, there was a hiss and a
voice shrieked out in horror: "A
nm at 10 to-morrow, ho said to the 1 Livn within your mean* and Dil
atation ransier. ' body will know how much you
“Whoin that?’ naked Fred Saul- have ahead; but the moment v„u
ter, breatbleesafy, ol tho official, j borrow a cent pen,de know how
“The President of the rood j |jC10r y0 n are. On it while you
Dick Knight, if ha live*, has an are y()UOgi fho duties ofahouas
open mad to fortune now, and ho j a ,„l f HID jjy will come soon enough,
deserves it.' j Tnke it easy white you may in vour
Fred Ranker crept into the car | early married life,
to go home. His lavender gloves j Be puiient, and wait and watch
were soiled, nml the wind rose to j aD d—pray. Just, previous to the
his button Tide was falling to j birth of your first child you will
pieces with a sickly, deoay.-d smell. 1 possibly find your wife fie'tul cross
Life itself was sickly and decayed, 1 peevish, pnuty
j runaway train on the main track!
j Passengers in the dr*pot! Out of
| the oars! Out of the car**!
j A runaway freight train was on
i the track The firemau had etart-
jed it for the purpose of taking it
j into the freight depot. By some
.accident, before it had left the
main passenger track, the man
had stumbled as he was at his
woik, and had fallen nearly upon
the ground. Half stunned, he
had jumped up, but could not
catch the moving engine, which u,,,< ,f<,el1 vvail s,( -K , y and decayed, peevish, polity and troublesome,
was gaining speed every second, bought, w nh a yawn, and he 1 Just, ag many good kind, amiable
and he had shrieked out hia warn-1 ^* reW ^ ,e w iB«d rose out of the and loving women have been be-
: n , r . [window. Yes; and to a 1 ! conceit
It so happened that the switch- «««»»»nate natures like his it
tender, through freight or sotm
: urn xplained cause, did not move
his switch to run tho train off the
main track, and now the huge ma
chine, with its train behind, was
rm-hing toward tho train in the
depot witli a speed tlml promised
fatal disa-ter.
The new officials who were near
had time to but gasp with horror.
At the moment when the ciy ol
danger was elir eked out upon the
night air Dick Knight was attach*
ing his engine to the passenger
train. From the cats and platform
rose »\ yMI of Iraniic terror, in
which Saulfet’s voice was tho high
est. Death seemed rushing upon
the people, who had not time to
get .out of tli»* cars befoto the dry
ing train would he npon'fhem.
The office s in the depot watch
ed Knight with Hatched facet.
“He’ll he crushed to atoms! mut
tered one stout old man, standing
by Dr Pomeroy,
But Dick had put up steam up
on his engine. Apparently he did
not. think of leaving Ins post.There
he stood with his hand on the le
ver, calm and determined,
Ills huge machine sprang for
ward. It met the coming locomo
tive with u crash that threw both
monsters forward, as it they hud
risen to wrestle and throw tucli
other.
Then Dick’s engine was thrown
one side, hut the force of the run
away train was overcome, and the
machinery of the engine so injured .. , , . .
... ° A . allow a quarrel to last over night
that all movements was stopped ,...
i i "he
is likely to prove what Sun Iter's
imagination pictured it that night
1V Added Idle.
Advice to a Newly Married Man
From an Expkiu enced Benedict.
Friend: —It. is to he presumed
that you have chosen a wife after
mature ri flection, and not alone
from selfish impulses. Neverthe
less, do not imagine that you can
possihiy have foremen all the du
ties, responsibilities, an*l ev*n tri
als to which married life may ren
der you liable. In your intimate
relationship and eomp.iniomdiiji
your wife will appear to each
other in an entirely new light
You will find defects in her and'
she in yon, which can only be prop
♦ rly ra-'t hy one course, and tint
is mutual conciliation. Strive
*■(’0 which can exetciee the greatest
leniency toward e«ch other. Th
secret of happin ss in married life
is mutual confidence. Trust one
another. Have no secrets from
one another. By nil menus, n* ver
call in n third party to interfere
iu any way in any family j us
You will be more than human if
you and your wife nan always per
fectly agree; but while you cm not
prevent differences, you can in
vent any evil consequences arising
from them. If you hove trouble
keep it to yourself and wife. Com
promise will secure you undoubted
happiness. By all means never
re is mischief in brooding and
pouting. Don't be ashamed by
yielding when youaro iu the right.
There is no sacrifice or self denial
in yielding only when you are in
the wrong. You must consult
your wife’s whims and caprices us
well as her reasonable desire. Man
kind is generally governed by the
passions not hy the reason. There
is no excuse for trampling upon u
wifV-’s desire because you think
them unreasonable. Women have
at times the privilege of being un
reasonable.
Dick* was hurled uenseless, several
feet from the place of collision.
Tho stout old mnn arid Dr.Pom
eroy, with all the other men in the
depot, ran to Knight, picked him
up and carriid him into the wash
ing room, where he was left with
the physicians.
“Well, well," said the old gen
tleman, impatiently, as Dr. Pom
my came out, “how is he? will he
live?"
“I think so. God forbid that I
should have to take him home dead
to his old father !"
“You know him then? Won is
he? Do you know what I owe
him?" and his voice broke, “My
littlo girl is on that train.
Dr. Pomeroy told Kniclit’s sto
ry, briefly, informing the old gen
tleman that he was thoroughly
educated, but ho looked upon any
work us butter than independent
dlencss.
“He’s the true grit, sir,” was tho ani
mated reply. ‘There’s no work so hum
ble that he cannot show the best qual
ities of nia hood in it, ns we have seen
to-night. It is not the daring courage
l approve of in him so much as the.
I>reseucc of mind, the keen eve, to sec
what to do and how to doit. Request
Mr. Knight, if you please, to caM on * you above asking fav<
fore her. It such should be the
ca*e, don’t get mad. don’t expost
ulate, don’t rehnUe or reproach
her. The b> st thing you can do
is to grin and bear it. Tue first
smile of the baby will atop it aid
pay for all you have endured.
Don’t think yourself immacu
late and set yotirselfnp as a pat
tern for your wife. If she wants
to go to church and you don’t, re
member lhat it may not do you
uny harm to g > to church. Don’t
scold your wife, aud don’t beat
your children, if you have any.
Teach your children bv example.
Be a copy for them. Excuse t..ein
for such of vour faults as the in
herit. Don’t bequeath then a
hasty temper amt whip th«ru for
it. D*»n’t gossip before them and
punish them for gossiping. Dou’t
prevent their romping or having
minds of their own. Don't fright
en them with ghost stories. Don’t
lie to tlu*m Don't you nglect to
give them anything you promise
th RIB—even punishment. Don’t
forget that you were n child once,
d do as you would have others
do to you.
Don’t, get crazy if yi.n have a
w buttons off your shirts. Re
member all the time that you are
i poor, weak mortal, liable to err,
and in all probabil.ty no more
perfect than your wife.
Bathe often, look at your health
and never go home drunk.
Yours,
John.
“I’ll Never Marry You, Sir!*’
[Perry Home Jo&nal.]
In Crawford county, not far from
Fort Valley, last week, a young
;etii)eman was to have been mar
led to a very eriiwnb'e young la-
ly. The invited guests had as
sembled to witne e the certuuouy
and participate in the f e«t:vity- of
lie occasion; the clergyman who
was to make the couple a happy
pair was present ready to perlorui
part; the table was prepared
with the usual dainties; the bride
with a throbbing heart anxiously
awaited the arrival of her lietroth-
Avoid personal habits wldch are| ed. At a tardy hour lie came.
(Tensive to your wife, or, if you: IBs appearance told too well that
1 lie had broken the pledg; which
ho had seriously and &o sacred-
Keep clear of’your wife’s relations! more. The firm and resolute
and have her k*ep clear of yours, i young maid rose to her feet, and
in all business matters if possible^ w iHi au iuviucible detei mi nation
If either of von ehonld form nn »l'"ke i« worde too pla.n to be mis-
, . *, , . ... understood: -‘111 never marry
noathies to the relatione of 'hr yoH) .f r |- Consternation and oou-
other, those antipathies must U j f. non ensued. Friend*interceded
consulted, ani.if not removed) and earnestly besought the maiden
must he respected, or else your f&m- j to retract the words which wereso
ily jars will he numerous and itrn-, fatal to her conjugal felicity, the
concilable. ' bridegroom pleaded with all the
Let your married life begin witli j vehemence and en.queuge of a liope-
*yrtt»niatic frugality. Devote I. ful lover, but still the maid would
specific portion of your income fojhave her will, ami said nay. She
tiie 'uture ul vour family. Your, boaided the train a day or two l*.
savings will iu this way augment ter for south we t Georgia, anil
almost imperceptibly, and plait!' took her bridal tour without th#
would-be bridegroom.’