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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. WEAK HEKyK?., „, Toole which never ihiig» yy***, . ntiirmlnil*, ^ Coc*. those wonderful epeedilr cure* *U nervous rheumatism ^ ItiB the true remedy for BheumAtiwn. KIDNEY COMPLAINTS Pair’s CM ? TCoifPOPXD^ckly«*^ deliver and kidneys to ^^S^t^nerve remedy 9 lor aU kidney complaints. dyspepsia Paul’s Ceuebt Compound «trem?toensthe stomach, and quiets the“ e ?7~i^L^ven^ tive organs. This is why it cures even worse cases of Dyspepsia. CONSTIPATION action to the bowels. Regrulant> surely fol lows its use. Nervous Prostration, Nervous Headache, Becommendedbygrofeemona^an nsinesa Neuralgia, Nervous Weakness, Stomach >00 . sold by Druggists, and Liver Diseases, Rheumatism, byi- oiruiRDSON&CO. Prop’s ia, and all affections of the Kidneys. WELLS, RICHARD^N & CU. rr p pepsia, A Remarkable Showing For B. B. B. 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. Hay, Oats, Corn, Meal, Bran, Stock Feed, 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 . age. Excellent facilities for the care of perishable goods. ° ’ rat -P ro °* stor- Judge Tolleson Kirby, Traveling Salesman. gen£Kv REFEEENCES: Gate City Xational Bank ’ an ‘ l merchants and bankers of Atlanta Insure your houses against Tornadoes and Cyclones, with Icon? Ctbuertisements. H. C. FISHER & CO.. Ao-’ts o ? Newnan, Ga. the BE! Spring Met -is— Tarrant's 8eltzer A per So] d by Tarrant & C ana Druggists ever; The safest Companies and! 7L’ u Lt Job U Yosk ' i llkadqx & Co.. N kuxan, G. lowest rates. t Al! Linds of Legal Blanks fo McClendon & Co., Newnan, g£1 °