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About Weekly Gwinnett herald. (Lawrenceville, Ga.) 1871-1885 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1882)
The GWINNETT HERALD " '#• * ruBI.IMIIfCD KVRRT WKDNBSDAY BY PEEPLES &. BOWLES. SUBSCRIPTION RATE 3 : 1 copy 12 mos., $1.50 in advance. 1 copy 0 mos., .75 ia advance. 1 copy 3 mos., .50 in advance. Low Enough for Everybody MISC-EI-Ij ANY* ELNORE’S SCHOOL. ‘Hark a moment, Toddlekins 1 I want to read my letter aloud for the benefit of the family. Lis ten r Ootober 11, 1881. ‘My Dear Niece:—l am school commissioner in enr district this year We are to have a large school the coming term, the major ity of the schollars being young men and maidens. They are not rough, uncultivated boors, requir ing to be geverned Ly brute force, but thinking, earnest students, who need an edacated teacher. I notice your name in the list of Vassar graduates, and if you are half as capable as your mother was a( yeur age, you will suit ms capi tally. W ill you come and teach 7 We shall pay a salary of S4O per month, and if you “board round” the school will be longer; if you prefer to remain with us, we shall be only teo glad to have you, and I need not tell yon that you will be welceme to all I can give. We are all well, ana all join in leve to yon and your family. Tell your father a hearty welcome awaits him and his family here at the old homestead. Please let me hear from yon as soon as possible. Tour Uncle, Jakes O. Gregory. ‘Of course yon’ll wiite and tell him no,’ from Mrs. Gregory. ‘Tate me 7' from Toddlekius, ‘The idea ’ fro n Mabel. But papa said nothing, only looked over the top of his paper waited for Elnera to speak. She said nothing, however, but a fun ny smile played around her mouth Soltis very evident Uncle James thinks we are not very well off in this world’s goods,’ observed Ma bel. ‘Forty dollars a month ! Why that would hardly pay your beot and glove bill!' ‘I am ashamed, Emma, when I think how we have neglected writ ing to James, and bow little I know of his circumstances, and he still less of mine,’ said Mi. Grego rj ‘l can tell him all about it, fath @r, for I am geing.’ * To the backwoods V ‘Why, Elnore !' ‘l’se doin' too !’ •Yes; I’to felt for some time that since my school days were finished I certainly was not a use ful member of the family circle ; and after much deliberatien, I h»ve reached the conclusion that Mabel is decideily the more orna mental; besides, I want to be sure I’m not a sieve.’ Papa smiled, and nodded his head in token of his entire spprov *l. A few days later, a dainty mis sive informed Mr. Gregory that Elnore was coming. Still she went. Her Unci# was waiting for her at the station, and went dashing home through the crisp, dim, air, behind a span of black horses which Mr Gregory guided with a werd. A hearty welcome greeted her at the farm house, and her cousin Lois went up stairs with ter to her room As they reached the landing, Lois epsued the door of the guest chamber, and said: ‘This is your chamber, and mine opens ont of it this side.’ Elnore puueed at the doer of tho cheerful room, and then said : ‘Why may I not ahare it with y< uT I have always slept with my sister Mabel at heme, and I shall make yon nay sister in her place.’ •I should like it so much!’ cried Lois, s flush of pleasure stain ng her face. So Elnore s trunk was breught to Lois' room, and the two girls were soon busily engaged in unpacking. Elnore studied her new relatives during the evening, and found her self agreeably disappointed in them The family consisted in Mr. and Mrs. Gregory, their three sons— aged respectively, 24, 20 and 16. and the only daughter. Lois, a dainty maiden of 18 ; all but the eldest to bo Elr ore's pupils. She Weekly Gwinnett Herald. TYftKR M. PEKI’LES.I KdITOR A.VD PROPRIETOR. | laved Lois at once, and her affec tion was as warmly returned. School commenced Monday,and Elnore was escorted to the scene of her labors by George, Clarence and Lois. She—Elnore—had en tered crowded ball rooms, where wealth and fashion were congre gated. without ever experiencing the tremor which seized her as she entered the school room to be con fronted by some four score pairs of dancing eyes, brimmiDg withcu riosity. The forenoon was spent in ar ranging her classes, and she was surprised te find that some of her pupils studied Latin, othsrsFrench and there was a class in astronomy —her oldest cousin belonging to this—who spent two nights week ly in star-gazing and had purchas ed by subscription a fine telescope, which was kept at the home ofMr. Emerson, he having furnished a room for that purpose. Elnore began to be secretly afraid they kne wmore than she did, and determined to send at once toNew York for many books she had left at home, not thinking she would need them. It is not my purpese to tell you of her school; suffice it to say that she filled the position of teacher to the satisfaction of all concern ed. Monday night being particular ly fine, the class in astronomy met at Mr. Emerson’s; and Elnore. writing to Mabel a full account of the evening, affirmed that she never spent an evening in her life which she enjoyed better, and nev er one in which she got clearer views of what life meant. */ wish,’ she wrote, ‘you ceuld have seen those earnest students, doing the very best they could with what they had to do with ; accepti g vo gladly any in forma tion, and making the most of their epportunities ; you would have been utterly disgusted with all the young men yon ever knew. I could not help mentally contrast ing our cousin Selwyn with Clyde Carroll, and a dozen more es- his set; and oh ! how pittifully small hey looked in comparison ! I tell you, Mabel, thoy raise men here instead of simple eggs and butter, as we have been led to suppose.— Did yen ever think, that almost without exception, our most sue cessful public men *were country bred V Wednesday evening Elnore made one of a coasting party.— The girls wore short dresses and snug hoods, and the sleds were made by nailing a long- board to two sleds—one at each end, and a young man sat at each end to guide tho sled, and the merry, bevy of girls were cloiely cuddled between. The first time they went down the swift motion made Elnore faint and dizzy ; but she soon grew to like it. Up and down, up and down, till the bleed was bounding in her veins; then home to slumber such as Elnore ceuld never remember having en joyed before; and how strange it seemed to go to a merry making and be in bed by ten o’clock ; the tea parties, given in honor of “the teacher,” where quaint old china figured, and the old fashioned sil ver shene, brightly polished for the occsion ; the sleigh rides and sled rides, en sleds drawn by oxen; the house warming at the home of a young bride,—all these were new and novel experiences to Elnore, and she enjoyed them heartily,but the evnings spent at home were best of all. •O, I iova the country, aunty !' she would cry, ‘people see* to life for something here 1’ ‘Don’t they in the city, dear *' laughed aunt Hulda. ‘ Yea; they live to make money, with which to make a more splen did failure of life than A. B. & C., have dene before them.’ ‘O, yen don’t mean all that, El • Lawrenceville, fi-a. Wednesday, July 26, 1882 nore.’ T do, anutie! Why, taking my self for an example, I have certain ly thought more since 1 came here of what can be made of life, of what we are in the world for, than ever before in my whole life. I have had more to call out such thoughts, and enlarge ray vision. We don’t have time to think, in the city; wa hire a few te do our thinking for us. and let the mat ter rest there; and as to reading or study, if one reads the last sue cessive novel and can glance over the reviews in Little's and Har - per’s, why, that is all that is nsoss sary.’ ‘But you miss the culture and refinement here, Miss Gregory, do you not V queried Earnest Ross, the son of a neighbor, and Bel wyn’s dearost friend. A flush stained Lois' cheek as she awaited Elnore’s reply, and re vealed that she, too, had been thinking on this point. ‘I find no lack of truerefiaement Mr. Ross. There is a csrtain sash ional polish ‘missing, but in its placs I find tbs aid fashioned courtesy, which scorns to speak ill es the absent; the chivalrous re spect for all womankind, which is ever tendered by men whose moth ers aid sisters have been women worthy of the highest respect.’ ‘And yet a little of the f.-isbional polish would be very pleasant,’ said Mr. Ross, half musingly, half bitterly. ‘Why, Miss Gregory, I doubt if I could wrap a shawl around you withoat ‘musing your back hair,’ and tearing your train, perhaps.' ‘Perhaps, though, Ido not con sider you awaked, but you could tell me not that life is not alone in holiday for balls and parties, but a working day as well, which is more than any of my gentlemen friesds ever did for me, even tho’ thoy might be able to wait on mo in the most elegant manaer as pos sible.’ The young man gave her a grate ful look, and Lois silently patted her mother’s hand and smiled.— Aunt Huhla smilledalse, but with the smile was a doubting look which Lois did not understand. As the weeks and menths went on, and the time drew near far El nore to return to her city home, aunt Hulda’s face wore often its doubting look, and Lois question ed with her eyes in vain. At last on Saturday, when Elnore had gone driving with young Ross, she asked her mother if she did not think they would make a no ble ceuple. ‘Child,’ 6aid aunt Hulda, ‘I fear she takes his attentions just as she would Selwyn’s, and thinks no more of them; but he—his is man hood’s love, no boyish fancy. What kind of a farmer’s wife would she make, Lois? it is folly to dream of such a thing!’ ‘But think what she has said, mother. ’ ‘I know, but tbs country lias the charm of novelty, and is not her settled home: when it palls she can ruturn to her father's.’ A few days later, Rosa and El noie were trimming the school house with evergreen, preparatory to “examination day.” assisted by Lois and George. The latter was obliged to ge home at three, and Elnore wai to come with Ross, when they shonld have finished. The last sprig fastened in its place, Elnore stepped to the plat form to note the effect, unconscious ly pushing a book to the floor.— Earnest picked it up, and saw it was a volume of Whitter s poems. Opening it slowly he laid his hand lightly on Elnore’s, which rested on the table, read : ‘You tempt me with yonr laughing eyes, Yoar cheeks of sundown’s blushes A motion as of waving grain, A music as of thrushes. The playing of your summer sport The spells you weave’ round me You cannot of your will undo, Nor leave tne.as you found me. Yon ge as lighty as you come, Your life is well without me ; What care yon that those hills will close Like prison walls around .ns 7 I dare your pity or your scorn, With pride your own exceeding; I fling my heart into your lap Without a word of pleading.’ As his voice, tremulous from deep feeling, pronounced the last werd, he laid the beok on the ta ble. and stood quietly beside her. She lifted it, and with down droop ed eyes read clearly : ‘No frock nor tan can hide the man; And see yon not. my farmer, How weak and fond a woman waits Behind this silken armor 7 I love you; on that love alone, And not my worth presuming, Will you not trust for summer fruit The tree in May day blooming 7 The dear old Quaker poet—may God's blessing follow him ever ! sums up their iivssinhisown sweet words thus : ‘And so the farmer found a wife His mother found a daughter, There looks no happier home than hers On pleasant Bear camp water. He sees with eyes of manly trust All hear s to her inclining ; Notlesg for him his beti.seheld light That others share its shining. Some Tilings I H.ivo Noticed I have noticed that when ahorse gets up he gets up forward first and jerks his hind parts after him, while a cow will get her rear half up all right and draw her forward half up in place ; also, when drink ing, a horse will draw in water rap idly with every breath ; the cow, on the contrary, will suck in one continuous draught as long as she can hold her breath. I have noticed that sheep and goats are both butters, yet a sbeep has to run a few steps backward before he can butt, while the goat has to raise himself on his bind legs to execute the same move ment. One is called aback sheep the other a battering ram. They ara the only two animals I know of whose butt ends are in front. A squirrel can run down a tree head first. The cat aud the bear must get down tail first (if left to themselves.) If your dog finds his way into your cellar and sees a nice steak he will steal it and run out, but if your ci-t gets in and finds a steak, she will sit right down by it and eat what she wants (if not surpris ed befere). I have noticed that a leather strap buckled about the height of yourself around a young tree in a few years will be away beyond your reach, but if nailed at the same distance will never get any higher (only the outer shell runs up.) Although turkeys are much more swift en foot than geese, yet in a week’s drive a flock of geese will come in ahead ; for geese yon can drive at night, especially moon light, but when evening approach es turkeys will roost. A man can stand on one foot in the middle of a room and pnll on a shoe, while a woman must lean up against something to accom piish the same thing. A man holds the needle in his left hand to thread it, bnt a woman holds it in her right. In one thing I think every one will agree with moe : Dress a man as s woman and you will freeze him to death. I— • mm Not Easily Gulled. —“ Got any porpoise plasters V exclaimed a long youth in a hickory shirt. It was a hot day, and the clerk donated the questioner one glmst ly withering look, but he spoke en couragingly to the young man. “I presume you refer to porous plasters.’ “ f ThichV “You wantporons. not porpoise plasters.’ “There you go. Dad said you chaps 'ud try and palm off eeme thing else es yer didn’t happen to have what I wanted. I jist told dad it 'ud be a celd day when you caught me on a pin hook. I'm most eflle glad thers's another drug store in town.’ Then he stole out into the wide, wide world. The Fly. Much has been said of the fly of tho period, but few write about hiss who are b*ld headed. Hence we say a word. It is es no use any more to deny the hor rible truth. Although as beauti ful as peri in other ways, our tres ses on top have succumbed *o the inclemency of the weather, and our massive brow is slowly creep ing evir toward the back of eur neck. Nature marked all things even. If a man be possessed of such ravishing beauty and sacl. winning wsys that his power might become dangerous, she makes him baldheaded. That is our fix. When we have our hat on and go chasing down the street with that camel glide of ours every ens asks, who that noble looking Apol lo with the deep and melancholy eye is, but when we are at the of fice. with oar hat hung up on the French sideboard, and tho sun comes Boftly in through the rose wood shutters aud lights up the shellac polish en our intellectual dome, we are not so pretty. Then it is that the fly, with gen tie tread and seductive song,oouaes tnd prospects around on our bump of self esteem and tickles us, and makes ns mad. Whan ws get whers forbearance ceases te be a virtue, we haul iff and slap the place where he was, while he goes ever to the inkstand and sniggers at us. After lie has waded around in the carmine ink awhile he goes buck to the bump of spirituality and makes some red marks over it. Having laid off his claim under the new mining law, he proceeds te sink on it. If we write anything bitter these days, if wa say ought of our fellow man that is disagreeable or unjust, and for wbicb we after wards get licked, it is because at times we g6l exasperated and are not responsible. If the fly were large and weigh ed 200 pounds and came in here and told us if wo didn’t take back wbst wa said about him he would knock eat the window with our remains and let us 7*ll*loo feet in to the busy street, it wouldn't war ry us so much because then wc could strangle him with one hand, while ws wrote a column editorial on Coukiing with the other. We do that frequently. Bnt a little fragile insect, with no home and no parents, and only four or five million brothers and sisters, gains our confideuca and than tickles onr scalp till ws have to write with a sheet of tur roofing over our head. Then he comes in and helps us read our proof. We dou't want him to help, but he insists upon making corrections and putting punctuations in the wrong place, and putting fail stops where they kuock tho sense all out of the par agraph. If the fly could be romeved from our pathway we would marsh along in our journey to the tomb in a way that would be the envy and admiration of the civilized world. As it is, we feel that we are not making a very handsome record. A National Nuisance. —A nap kin ring—Ring what ? Exchunye. The above is the style of a joke that is making our beloved land the corral for a vast herd of idiots who ought to be poisoned and thrown int 6 the moaning sea. The class of facetious individu als who do not know enough to dio of romorae is gradually increas ing. The country is cursed at present with the vast epidemic of this kind of mirth that make per - ditiou yawn. Most any kind of a cr minal can be brained with a piano leg and thrown into the jielding bosom of a cranberry marsh, but how are you going to brain a man with head like a peanut, and who dou't know a wedgewood joke from a moss covered sarcophagus 7 How are you going to brain a lab de lab man who never knew what a brain was 7 ll**w can you knock a poor worm of the dust senseless when he hasn’t been any other way since he was born 7 About the only wav wo see is to drain Lake Superior and then col lect those gibbering idiots in the deepest place, spread about four serss of boiled iron over them, and then let the water back into the lake. ‘What won't a drunken mando? asks an exchange. ‘Well, he won’t put more water whisky in his drinks.' {Vol. XII.—No. 19. IliK li-ToiM'd. “How nauch will this co«t in yonr paper T’ aaked a quiet look ing mat, rh he handed in the fol lowing advertisement a few day* since: SMixn —Basted a trace in this city, Friday, just after dinner, Ma ry. wife of the undersigned, and daughter of old Sana Pratt, the leading blacksmith of Denver, Col orado. The corpse was highly respected by the highton'dest fats dies, bnt death got the drop on her, and she kicked the bucket with perfect confidence that she would have a square show the oth er side of the divide. The plant transpires this nfternoon at her boarding house on Willow street Cone one, come all. Dearest Mary, thou bust left as, Per joa on earth thsre isn't rjom : Bnt ’ tie heaven that bas herelt us. And snatched eui darling up the flume Denver papers please copy and send bill or draw on sight. By her late husband, P. Smith. “I don’t believe you want it just that way, do you V asked the clerk rubbing bis chin dubiously. “Wby not, stranger f asked the quiet man. “It don’t rsad quite right, does it ?' asked the clerk. “Was you acquainted with the corpse, stranger T’ demanded the quiet man. “Was you aware of the late lamented while she was bustling aroand in society down at that boarding house T’ “1 don’t know that I ever met her,’ responded the clerk. “So I reckoned, judge ; you waon tup to the deceased when she was in the liviug business.— Now, judge, the deceased wrote that oration herself afore she died and I want it published. Do you hook on, pardner ?’ “But it isn't our style of notice' objected the cferk. “Nor mine, either,’ acquiesced the quiet man. ‘1 was for having a picture of her, and a lot mere talk, bit she said she wanted to be quiet aid modest, so she whoop ed that up. Say, atranger, is it going inte your valuable space without any difficulty t’ “/ don't know,' said the clerk, dolefully. “I know, pardner. This eele bratien comes off to merrow after noon, and that's going in in tho morning, if it goes in out of a can uon’s mouth I've got grief enough on my brains now, stran ger, without erecting a fort on the sidewalk, but if you want war, I’ve got the implements right in the back part of these mourning clothes. What d’ye think, judge? “Does it make any difference where it goes V asked the clerk. “I want it in the paper,' said the mourner, “and its going in if it takes a pile driver. Think you twig nuy raoket, stranger V “All right.' replied the clerk, “I’ll put it in among the mourn ful remarks Four dollars, if you please ’ “That's business,' and the quiet man paid the money. “Ifrikou ain't busy, come around to morcow I'm going to give the old woman a send off, and if the gospeller don’t work a pretty good pre gramme before he gets to tbe dux olgy, bis folks will think he’s been doing considerable business with a saw mill. She was a good ene, judge, and she was pious from the back of her neck to the bnnion on her heel ; you can tell that from the notice,’ and the naonrning widower wiped his eyes on the sly and later in tbe day was lined ten dollars for thrashing the under taker. who had put silver handles ou the casket instead of gold. ■—— “Look here, waiter, there's a fly in this soup,’ said a well dressed bnt disgusted looking Btranger at a restaurant yesterday. The waiter looked at the fly critically and finally said : “I'd give five dollars to know for a certainty if that fly is the one that has been nibbling at my nose a!! tbe morning ’ The following marriage annouac meat appeared in a Lang Island paper recently : “Smith—Smith— —At Smithtown Branch, 0. W. Smith to Hattie Smith, of Smith town." tm ... mm Young ladies now “do up’’ their hair so cunningly that it is impos sible to discern which is switch. Learning wisdom from experi ence—When a man wakes up his baby the second time to see it Jaugh. AS An*Advertising Mrrlium The HERALD is unrqitaled reason of its extensive circulation arid remarkably low rales, business men should remember this. BLANKS!BLANKS' BLANKS (am. KINDS NKATI.r J’RtNTKD) FOR SALE AT THE HEUALD JO It OFFICE Origin of Damp Meetings There are t iese who trace the origin of the camp meeting to Old Testament times, and refer to many passages from Genesis to the days of John the Baptist for proofs. We will, however, consul er its rise as strictly American, and make no ether mention of the Bible references that are suggest ed in the opening paragraph. The first camp meeting in the United States was held in the year 1799, on the banks of the Red river in Kectacky. The way it came about was semewhat pe culiar Twe brothers named Mc- Gee. one a Methodiet and the cth er a Presbyterian, were on a reli gious tonr from Tennessee to a place called in those days ;ho “Bar rens.” They stopped at a settle - ment to attends sacramental occa eieu with a Presbyterian minister, the liev. Mr. Mo'-reely by name. John McGee, the Methodist, preached on invitation, and his ■ervices are described as having been marked “with great liberty and power.’ McGee’s brother and the Rev. Mr. Hege followed with sermons, and their effects wero re markable, as they produced ‘tears of contrition and shoots of joy.’ Tne several Preabyterian minis tarn, the Rev. Messrs. McGrsely, Hogs and Raskins, left the house, but the Me' : ees were too power fully nffected to dspsrt. John was expected to preach again, but when the time cams he arose and informed the people that the over powering nature of his feelings would not allow of his preaching, and he exhorted them to surren d-r their hearts to God. 'llie ex citement is Bx?d to have been inde scribable. The reports of these wonderful services were heard by the people in the country 'round, and many rushed to the place to see the preachers and witness the unusual religions exercises, the meeting house was overflowed,and an altar was erected to the Lord in the forest. This added new interest to tbs movement, and people assembled frem far and near, with provisions and other necssarles for camping oat, and remained several days, living in tents. For the time do nominations! divisions seeuied to be forgotten, and the services wers conducted by Presbyterians, Moth odists and Baptiste. The results were so wonderful that another meeting of the sanao sort was suggested, and was bald on Muddy river, and still another wai held on what was called the li'dge both having been attended by gre*t crowds who came for many miles around. These Borvi oes were continued and extended with similar reeults, tbe Presbyte nans and Methodists conducting and directing them. It is stated that at one of these meetings iu Kentucky there were present at least 20,000 persons. The Presbyterians gradually re tired /rem tbe held, while the Mediodists carried the meetings to all parts of the country. Since then other denominations have adopted them, and they have con tinued with more or les* efficacy up to the present time. l>Uln*tCant wliat Shu Wauled M just got a raosqnito in my throat,’ murmured the fair Ange lins, as she leaned on her cruquet mallet. *1 am so Borry,' replied Tom ; ‘cough hard.’ And the fair creature coughed hard enough to break her buck. ‘/fI only bad something to drink.’ she sighed, as she glanced at a near by soda water sign. ‘All right!’ he replied, innocent ly, and tramped off to a pump and brought a pint of water, which the young lady, wbe had not swallow ed a mosquito, but bad tried to se cure eoda water under false pre tenses, was obliged to swallow. The moral of this is that too much modesty is sometimes b.ul for the health, and if yon see any thing yeu want don’t be afraid to ask for it. Man was made a little lowe r than the angels, bnt tho plug hat remedies the discrepancy. Shert wait is a good thing at the theatre, butitdosen't extend to the grocery business. Many a raau is uot satisfied to on the face of the eaith. He tries to live on hie own cheek. Let us see! Wasn’t it a son of Widiam Tell who had an arrow is escape ’
