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Herald and
Newnan, Ga., Friday, June 29, 1888.
THE WEIGHT OF WORDS.
Some Great Orators and the Marvel
ous Force of Their Speeches.
Philadelphia Press.
“I would give a hundred guineas,
slid Garrick, “if I could say ‘Oh’ as
Whitfield does.” But Garrick’s own
power was in the immense weight he
could put into words. He was as much
an orator as he was actor; and as great
an actor as he was orator. It is said
that when Jonathan Edwards preach
ed on “Sinners in the Hands of an An
gry God,” his auditors screamed, and are
some fainted. It is not to be wondered ]ements pow
at, for never had the English language | ,,.;n
for to them genius consisted in a com
mand of language. But Emerson
could not use one word unweighed. In
conversatien his words were compelled
to move slowly and soberly, in the rear
of his thoughts. Bayard Taylor never
forgave himself for the voluminous
ease of his earlier works. He died de
spising them and thoroughly devoted
to a style ofj intense care and labor.
The peculiarly narcotic character of
Tennyson’s latter work is explainable
bv a remark he once made, when a
friend said of one of his lines that it
must have been a spontaneous leap of
genius. Said Tennyson: “I smoked
a dozen cigars over that line. He
has smoked too much. His words
still the same words, but they
ht. An author who
er with narcotics or
will fail of permanent
have lost weigl
stimulants
will lose weight. Indeed,
been called on to hold so much of dia- Qr
bolical wrath in the name of infinite j® ^ t t j ie rebv a temporary value
these days the audience ^ theauthor> an ‘inconsistent worth.
roodness. In
would tear the man from the desk and
„ 4 .. „ I believa that habits of thoroughness
fling him into the street. But it was cannot CO exist for any length of time
word of itself has weight. I once had
an eccentric pupil who informed me
that he spent every forenoon in the
study of Webster’s Unabridged, copy
ing and repeating the most ponderous
words. His recitations and essays were
loaded down with the most astounding
cromlechs of words. But, poor fellow,
they only constituted a tomb for what
little mind he had. I put him on a
milk diet of monosyllables. Words
get their weight out of the mind of
their employer.
pretty clothes in the tender, priest
ly hand, we thought that there was
but one thing better than this, the
saying, “Suffer little children to come
unto me, and forbid them not.”
the theology of 1700, and it was utter
ed by the greatest pulpit orator of the
age. When Bossuet. in his funeral ora
tion, pronounced the words, “The
Princess is dying—the Princess i»
dead,” his listeners broke into such a
wail of sobs and groans that he was un
able to proceed.
The same words might have been ut
tered so as to fall flat, and awakened
not even attention. Bossuet weighed
his words; and he made his words
weigh. How was it—only that into
words he put himself? When Whit
field said “Oh,” it was not with his
tongue, but with all his soul. Fox said
of Pitt that he “not only had a word
always at command, but the word that
best conveyed his meaning.”
I remember when John B. Gough
said to his audience, “I will tell you
now what will happen; 1 will tell you
the silliest story in the world. There
is nothing in it to laugh at, but you
will laugh.” Then he told the story,
and we all laughed till we were sore.
Voluminous authors are not always
men of light words. I do not believe
English literature contains the work of
any voluminous author any way com
parable to Walter Scott for uniform
value. Notwithstanding the compara
tive excellence of “Old Mortality,
“Ivanhoe,” “Heart of Midlothian,” and
two or three more, there is not one of
his novels ranks as less than a classic.
I fully sympathize with Buskin that
we should read “every word of Walter
Scott.” And as for his poems, we can
say quite as much—they are all worth
reading, are all beautiful, and among
the everlasting classics of English liter
ature.
If we study the ancient classics it is
clear that they have retained their
hold because their words were weighed
in the balance till not found wanting.
Virgil used up three years in writing
ten shoid eclogues,y ears on
the" “£fneid.” Yet he is said to have
been so. dissatisfied with his work that
lie tried to rise from his deathbed to
burn the latter work. It is well for us
that he did not succeed; but it is equal
ly grievous for us that thousands of
other authors have not in charity to
the world burned theirs. The curse of
our age is a thin flow of words—a habit
of verbal laxity. There are few au
thors who polish or revise. This is ow
ing in part to the demands of our age
for an enormous amount of reading
matter, and in part to the confidence
we place in the twang and ring of
words.
Incisiveness, the cutting quality of
words, is esteemed above weight. Of
our living authors in this country,
Lowell has shown great discretion in
the use of words, and has, while turn
ing with versatility in many directions,
always avoided out writing his genius.
His essays do not equal his poems,
however, simply because as essays,
mostly critical, they do not surpass the
general run of critical essay writing
with which English reviews and Scotch
reviewers have made us familiar. Dr.
Holmes has sustained a remarkable
evenness of pewer because he has made
no attempts at vastness. His words
are charged with a geniality through
out that has given him quite as much
popular love as honor.
Plato is said to have rewritten many
of his sentences nine times. Livy is re
ported to have turned and returned his
words. Gibbon rewrote three times
some of his chapters. Tasso was a
hard worker. Petrarch, in his diary,
tells us: “I began this under inspira
tion at dawn of Sept. 10. I must make
these verses over again; singing them
and transposing.” His diary runs on
continuously in this strain. Evidently
with the use of the cigar and pipe.
The aid is temporary and deceptive. I
have in mind one of the most popular
of Boston preachers. He has ability oi
a high order, which he sustains freely
with tobacco. But he has never writ
ten a line that will outlive him. Every
word needs his presence to give it
weight. He produces nothing inferior
and yet nothing great. He relies moie
on his cigar and inspiration than on
close study. He knows a good deal
about great topics, but he knows no
science or philosophy to the bottom.
I believe this class of writers and speak
ers is of great detriment to their hear
ers and readers.
A book that compels you to doubt,
and yet does enable you to solve your
doubts, is an intellectual pest. I have
this same fault to find with the pon
derous Robert Ingersoll. He is a fear
less iconoclast. He is marvelously
quick to see a weakness. He is gifted
with wit and sympathy, and scorn of
lies. But the fact is, ten thousand
Robert Ingersolls would do nothing
but rain dust and laughter. He
does not rebuild, or study the facts
of science with sufficient, thorough
ness to enable him to build. He
remains a mere destroyer, and is hated
as such by all who dislike to be disturb
ed. Nor is there the least value in the
orations that are aimed at his over
throw. It is verbiage, and these men
might as well be engaged in throwing
cabbage-heads at each other as words.
Their words weigh with hate and scorn,
but not as permanent contributions to
truth and knowledge.
Of all hard workers in journalism
Horace Greely was the one who best
knew the weight of a word, whether it
was “Go West, young man,” or “D—n.”
There is no mistake about the precision
IB
Regarding the Folding-Bed.
Folding-beds have their advantages
and disadvantages, also their rise and
fall. They are more especially affected
by people who desire to economize in
room, and for that reason, in small
rooms, especially in the flats and thick
ly settled portions of our large cities,
the folding bed is becoming a power in
our social economy, which threatens
to upend some of our great minds.
Folding-beds' seem to fit into some
home lives first-rate, while in other
cases they are different.
In Washington the folding-bed is
greatly in favor with the girls who are
in the Government employ, I am told.
A typical American girl in Washington
will take a hall bedroom at $4 per
month, furnish it with a richly-capari
soned folding-bed, which acts as a book
case during the day, and with a diguis-
ed washstand, fifty cents worth of
chintz, eighty-five cents worth of cheese
cloth, a paper of tacks and a bunch of
violets she will make the establishment
look more like home than the $30 room
of a great coarse man, who tries to fur
nish his apartment by means of a hair
cloth lounge and a meerschaum pipe.
There are many varieties of folding-
beds now claiming attention, several of
the manufacturers of which have asked
me to speak a good word for their in
struments; but, without naming any
special one, let me say that the clinker-
built bed with fore and aft braces and
patent cut-off is a good machine. Be
careful not to select a thickset or asth
matic bed if your room. be small.
Nothing is more annoying than to have
your fokling-bed suddenly extend it
self and beg for air while you are en
tertaining friends at your apartments.
Do not use a patent pillow-sham holder
at the head of your bed, for it is apt to
fetch loose in the middle of the night
and smite you across the bridge of the
nose while you are asleep. Never fool
with this invention unless you want to
wake up in the morning to find your
counterpane deluged with your rich,
warm brains. Yours confidentially,
Bill Nye.
“My dear madam,” said the chair
man of the committee of the Maine
Benevolent Fraternity calling on the
Widow Gushington, “allow us to in
trude on your great sorrow so far as to
say that your lamented husband”
(Burst of tears from Mrs. Gushington.
She has an attack of faintness. One of
the committee supports her.)
“That your lamented husband was
insured in our association for $2,000,
and” •
(Mrs. Gushington exclaims: “Poor,
poor Charles,” and bursts into tears
again. The committee greatly affect
ed.)
“And that the money will be prompt
ly paid to vou in sixty days.”
Mrs. Gushington (in another burst of
tears)—“Good gracious,I thought you’d
brought it with you!”—Lewiston Jour
nal.
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worse cases of Dyspepsia.
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Against Other Remedies
Putnam Co., April 29,1887.
I have been suffering for most thirty
years with an itching and burning all
over my face and body. I took eigh
teen bottles of one blood medicine and
it did me no good. I commenced last
January to use B. B. B., and after us
ing live bottles I felt better and stout
er than I have in thirty years; my
health is better and I weigh more than
I ever did. The itching is nearly ceas
ed, and I am confident that a few more
bottles of B. B. B. will cure me entire
ly. I am sixty-two years old and can
now do a good day’s" work in my field.
I consider it the best medicine I have
ever seen, for it certainly did me more
good than all the medicine I have ever
taken. I had, in all, nearly a hundred
risings on my face, neck and body.
James Pinkerton.
THOMPSON BROS.
NEW NAN, GA.
FINE AND CHEAP FURNITURE
and point of wliat he.
. B 1 tur tuts sake oi saying it.
He will be quoted for a thousand years.
Baymond was even more voluminous
as a writer, and was capable of great
force and often used words of full
weight, but his writings will not live.
He has left no nuggets nor any current
coin. I do not know of a finer tribute
to close and careful application than
that which Webster paid to Jeremiah
Mason.
“I am bound to say that of my own
professional discipline and attainments,
whatever they may be, I owe much to
that close attention to the discharge of
my duties which I was compelled to
pay for nine successive years, from day
to day, by Mr. Mason’s efforts at the
same bar. I must have been unintelli
gent, indeed, not to have learned some
thing from the constant displays of
that power, which I had so much occa
sion to see and feel.” Here Webster
plainly shows one prime cause for that
superb power in the use of words which
placed him at the head of all orators
that America has produced—Phillips
alone excepted.
Turn to Phillips, and you discover
again a discipline of words that is mar
velous. I have seen him face a vast
audience that was almost a mob and
hurl one word at it as a cannon ball
might strike a solid wall. Waiting till
their howls or curses lulled, he hurled
again that word, and then again, him
self calm, firm, but now defiant, fully
knowing his ow r n power, never having
a fear ! And he whipped the whole of
them. This land never saw such a
sight before nor since as Phillips facing
the Boston mob. Then he was fully
roused—fully mad with power.
Sentence after sentence flew from
his moHth, every word stinging as it
hit. They howled, and strove to get
him in their hands. His life would not
have been worth a frosted vine; but
he did not write for the press under 1 the sentences flew faster and stronger,
contract, like Beecher, who would nev- j and more terrible. The mob was aet-
er finish an article until compelled, and i ually terrified. No other orator ever
Trouble in Arizona.
“It may be a fact,” says an Arizona
exchange, “that the Western Union
Telegraph Company is a a^nt, gra sp
ina- -o charged in sonm gar
ters, but it nevertheless remains that
the building of a line of this company
to Bob Cat City has broken up one of
the worst monopolies that ever infested
our city. We refer to Colonel Bolo,
who, possessing the only tree in town
with a large, strong limb at the proper
distance from the ground, has been in
the habit of renting it out to lynching
parties at. five dollars per meeting. It
has, of course, been an inspiring sight,
and one that spoke volumes for the get
up and get off our citizens, to see the
Colonel standing on his well-kept lawn,
and when business was brisk hear him
shout: ‘Cut down the gentleman!
Next!’ But, nevertheless, it has been
rather expensive, and he could have
well afforded to have rented the tree
as low r as twelve bits or $2. The Wes
tern Union Telegraph Company’s plant
has, however, done away with all this.
Last night One-Eyed Smith was adjust
ed to the crossbar of the pole in front of
the postoftice by the Willing Workers’
Vigilance Committee, while Yankee
Bunker, Pizen Pete and another gen
tleman whose name we could not learn
were suspending from the next three
poles to the north under the auspices
of the Western Improvement Society.
It is rumored that a prominent citizen
of Paradise Valley was seen securely
attached to another pole four miles
north of here. If it is true, the North
Side Higher Plane Association must
have commenced operations, as we
trust it has, there being a loud demand
for such an organization in the Valley.
This makes Bob Cat City independent
of the Colonel’s tree. He has put up a
fine swing for his children from the
historic limb, which, of course, pleases
them, though Mrs. Bolo, being fond
of society, finds it somewhat lonely at
the Hemp Retreat since the various
associations stopped meeting there.”
Joh« W. Mackay, the bonanza king,
had a dinner service worth $100,000.
The silver was furnished from his own
mines, and upon the completion of the
set, he bought the dies outright, in
order that the set might never be du
plicated.
Electric Bitters.
This remedy is becoming so well
known and so popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song of
praise.—A purer medicine does not
exist and it is guaranteed to do all that
is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure
all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys,
will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum
and other affections caused by impure
blood.—Will drive Malaria from the
system and prevent as well as cure all
Malarial fevers.—For cure of Headache,
Constipation and Indigestion try Elec
tric Bitters.—Entire satisfaction guar
anteed, or money refunded.—Price 50
cts. and $1.00 per bottle at- Lyndon’s
Drug Store.
For sale, also, by J. L. Askew, Pal
metto; G. W. Clower, Grantville.
A higher mortality, like a higher in
telligence, must be reached by a slow
growth
Is Consumption Incurable.
Read the following: Mr. C. H. Mor
ris, Newark, Ark., says: “Was down
with Abscess of Lungs, and friends and
physicians pronounced me an Incura
ble Consumptive. Began taking Dr.
King’s New Discovery for Consump
tion; am now on my third bottle, and
able to oversee the work on my farm.
It is the finest medicine ever made.”
Jesse Middlewart, Decatur Ohio,
says: “Had it not been for Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption I
would have died of Lung Troubles.
Am now in best of health.” Try it.
Sample bottles free at A. J. Lyndon’s
Drug Store.
For sale, also, by J. L. Askew, Pal
metto; G. W. Clower, Grantville.
A good day’s work at what you can
best do is the hard-pan to which all
must come.
Bucklin’s Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe
ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refund
ed. Price 25 cents per box. For sale
by A. J. Lyndon.
For sale, also, by J. L. Askew, Pal
metto; G. W. Clower, Grantville.
NEWNAN WAGON
• COMPANY.
often with the printer’s devil at his
elbow. We have been accustomed to
think of Emerson as an inspired writer.
It was because the light came into his
brain by the way of ideality. He was,
in fact, a hard worker.
His biographer tells us his sentences
were carefully revised again and again.
did the like, or could do it, except
O’Connell.
DuSkinner, himself a man with mar
velous use of words, used to tell with
glee of a young minister who boasted
of his power to dasli off sermons with
ease at a sitting. “There,” he cried.
“I can write a sermon easily in an
corrected, wrought over, portions drop-: hour and make nothing of it. “ln-
ped and new matter added. He was j deed,” said the doctor, "he did make
unsparing in his corrections; whole par-: nothing of them. oung men, i!
agraphs disappear. Indeed, I doubt if ; you wish to win your hearers you must
a less inspirational writer has ever at- make something of your sermons,
tained prominence in our land. 1 re-! Words may be strung from here to
member well how utterly helpless lie Washington and have no value. It is
became on a lecture platform before aH not chough to talk about dun ; you
company of college students, when lie
had left his manuscript, behind. He
could not extemporize, but was floun
dered completely. The college boys
looked on in amazement and disgust,
must talk duty. Your words must be
obedient to an end, and be drilled to
achieve.”
The weight of words piainn depends
on the hard work that they imply. No
When Japanese Children Die.
Japan Letter.
We stopped one day at a pretty and
rather modest temple shrine, where sat
a clean-polled, benevolent looking
priest, with big-rimmed sprectacles
astride his little nose. Before and
above and about the shrine hung little
children’s frocks, their tiny shoes,
pretty little belts, dolls and other play
things.
“What is this?” we asked our guide.
“When little children come to die
their mothers bring their dresses and
playthings here, and put a little money
in this box. Every day the priest offers
prayers that the little ones may be
happy a tier death, and have nice things
and prett-.i playthings when they go up
there to stay with God.”
As we talked, a heart-stricken moth
er came and tossed her little coin
into the box. and as she laid the
little bundle of her dear one’s
AT FOLDS’ OLD STAND,
DfiPOT ST., NEWNAN, GA.
We are now prepared to do
any kind of Wagon work, and
in the best and most workman
like manner. Nothing but se
lect material is used in the con
struction of our wagons, and
every vehicle of our manufac
ture is sold upon an absolute
guarantee.
All kinds of WAGONS,
(double or single,) DRAYS,
CARTS, etc., made to order,
with patent iron hub and axle
or otherwise, as purchaser may
desire.
Special attention given to
buggy, wagon and plantation
repair work. Buggies over
hauled and repainted. Horse
shoeing a specialty.
All work done by skilled
workmen, under the supervis
ion of an experienced superin
tendent, and WARRANTED.
Get our prices and give us
an order; we guarantee satis
faction.
D. J.- FOLDS, Supt.
- AT PRICES-
THAT CANNOT BE BEAT IN THE STATE.
Big stock of Chambei suits in Walnut, Antique Oajt, and
Cherry, and Imitation suites.
French Dresser Suites (ten pieces), from $22.60 to $125.00.
Plush Parlor Suits, $35.00 and upward.
Bed Lounges, $9.00 and upward.
Silk Plush Parlor Suits, $50.00.
Good Cane-seat Chairs at $4.50 per set.
Extension Tables, 75 cents per foot.
Hat Racks from 25 cents to ^$25.00.
Brass trimmed Curtain Poles at 50 cents.
Dado Window Shades, on spring fixtures, very low.
Picture Frames on hand and made to order.
SPLENDID PARLOR ORGANS
Low, for cash or on the installment plan.
Metallic and Wooden Coffins ready at all times, night or
day.
THOMPSON BROS.,
NEWNAN, GA.
FURNITURE!
I buy and sell more FURNITURE than all the dealers in
Atlanta combined. I operate fifteen large establishments. 1
buy the entire output of factories; therefore I can sell you
cheaper than small dealers. Read some of my prices:
A Nice Plush Parlor Suit, $35.00.
A Strong Flotel Suit, $15.00.
A Good Bed Lounge, $10.00.
A Good Single Lounge, $5.00.
A Good Cotton-Top Mattress, $2.00.
A Good Strong Bedstead, $1.50.
A Nice Rattan Rocker, $2.50.
A Nice Leather Rocker, $5.00.
A Strong Walnut Hat Rack, $7.00.
A Nice Wardrobe, $10.00.
A Fine Glass Door Wardrobe, $30.00.
A Fine Book Case, $20.00.
A Good Office Desk, $10.00.
A Fine Silk Plush Parlor Suit, $50.00.
A Fine Walnut 10-Piece Suit, $50.00.
A Nice French Dresser Suit, $25.00.
I respectfully invite everybody to examine my stock and get
my prices before buying your Furniture. I have the finest as
well as the cheapest Furniture in Atlanta. Write for prices.
A. G. RHODES,
85 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.
MICKELBERRY & McCLENDON,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
NO. 15 SOUTH BROAD ST., ATLANTA, GA.
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Onions, Feathers, Cabbage. Irish Potatoes,
Dressed and Live Poultry, Meat, Flour,
Lard, N. O. Syrup, Dried Beef, Cheese,
FRUITS AND ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS AND COUNTRY PRODUCE
Consignments solicited. Quick sales and prompt remitmhops .
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