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Moreover, there is no climate to which ii has not proved itself to he well adapted for the oi euro of considerable variety of diseases ; it is \i admirably situated for every race, it has lost none of its good name by repeated trials b;tt continues to occupy a prominent, position in every medicine chcsi; and is still receiving tho most umptalilied testimonials to i'.*- vir- (i toes, fro in persons of the highest character ! j| and responsibility. IMiy.sk ions ot lirst rospeo- ! ^ lability reeoinend it as a most elfectwal prcpa. | ration for the extinction of pain, ll is not only the best remedy ever known for It ruses, ' Cuts, Hums, Ac., but for Dysentary or Choi- ' cm a, or any sort oi bowel complaint, it is a p remedy unsurpassed for cllieiency and rapid jj ity ot action. In the groat cities, it. has he- y come the standard Medicine tor all such complaints, as well as for Dyspepsia, Liver N Complaints, and other kindred disorders " For Coughs and Colds, Canker, Asthma, and 1> Khcntnalic dMHculties, it lias been proved by the most abundant and convincing teslimonj ? to l>e an invaluable medicine. No article ever atta'ned such unbounded popularity. 1 As an external medicine, the Fain-Killer ^ stands unrivalled. v Thirty Vcars are certainly a long enough 0 I time to prove the ertlciency of any medicine, }, j and that the PAiN'-Ktf.l.KU is deserving of all j ; its proprietors claim for it, is amply proved by the unparalellcd popularity it has , attained. It is a sure and effective remedy., It is sold in almost every country in the world and is becoming more and more popular every f year. Its healing properties have boon fully t, tested, all over the world, ami it needs only j to too known to lie prized. Ho sure you buy none hut the genuine, manufactured by Perry ^ Davis ?v Son, Providence, 11. I. i Sold by all Druggist. dan, Hth, t87'1-lm -mil i . ... ( T2EMPSS EiHCte. PR M > *i " *i.ne Liccioi uiass. i ?0 wad some power the giftie trie us, To see ourselves as others see us, 1 "I'would from many a blunder free us, H And foolish notion." I once knew a man, who was a very cleaver sort of a fellow, remarkable lor t he kindness of his heart and \vil? r lingncss to do a Iriend a favor. But like many ethers, he was in the habit of taking a social glass. At first, it was mainly to please his friends, and to keep from seeming unsociable, lie had no fears of becoming a drunkard ( or even of liquor injuring him. Alter ' awhile he began to like it; as he ' drar.k at first to please his friends, he ( soon began to drink to please himself. ' r r 1 i < .*iii -* % % I no loveci n, sun no am not think of t * | its hurting him. lie was a business man, and quitw prosperous. In a little while he began to lose his customers, business became slack, and this gave him more time to be with his "friends," and of courso he drank more frequently. Soma ot his Jtriend* saw that he was *9 V JL \jJL .An Indepon* AY BOKO, S. C., TUK iftincr toward the vortex of ruin, and 1 t . I mc of thctn began to talk to him of | \ Hul ho could see no danger; and n id he drank on. Having lost his istomors, ho began to lose his friends. t no and another shunned him, until 1 1 > and his boon oo/npanions were left * most to themselves. 1 His clothes became dilapidated and j 1 read-bare. His face was red and j oated, and his whole personal ap. ; aranco was disgusting. One Sabbath morning he? stood, fill ftr>vnt*n.l <*mintrv nlVicinlsJ in :t on. Knoh held a glass in his ha ml tady to drink when tho word was vet!. .Tnwt, a* our hero was turning I s glass up, he espied his imago in j 1 io looking glass that stood back of | . 10 counter. There he stood, ragged j 1 id dirty, his eager hand clutching tho ! randy-glass?a let ling of disgust imo over him. He turned, and along j io street went a troop of nicely-dreachildren on their nay to Sabath ( 1 hool. With a trembling hand he | it the untasted li<|uor down on the j ninter with the exclamation, "1 will j ' 3vcr drink a gain!" u\\ hat is t!ie matter?" exelamed | iveral at once. Pointing to tho looking-glass, ho i ' lid, "I now sco how I look." Then | ' Dinting to the street, he said, ."Seel] lore?those children are on their way j > Sabbath school. What sort of an cample are we setting them? Hero ' the county judge, and there is the ll'l'lll. Jllld llAI'O W I ! vv v .if fi.,1 l........ ' 7 - *V J \ I y UUV4 lltl V3 | in I, all on this holy Sabbath day in j public saloon |dnnk;ng brandy, entlemen, you may do as you please, ; ' ut not another drop will I ever take." i ' llravoly lias ho kept his pledge. His ashless is on the increase. His ' lends again respect hint and ho has . le appearance of a gentleman, instead fa bloated, seedy drunkard. No one is safe who ever drinks wine r strong drink as h beverage. rshun : as you would a pestilence. "I cc.n Novor b3 a Drunkard." 1 Tn our youth we had a very dear ieud who often used this expression, i le was a proud hoy and a prouder ! , tan. lie was lond ol what the world I abs pleasure, and finally rushed into j ui vortex that leads to rum. Social | i his nature lie was often tempted at arties to take wine, and berated his 'iends who rt f used when ho accepted. 1 tad when, in his calm moments, these , cry friends" would warn him of his i i i ? " iiugvi, iiu wuitui ri'P'y> "i can never! o a drunkard." The lribit grew upon linn, and after ; while lie commenced taking his dram ; egularlv. Ashamed of his habit, and earful that liis family, and friends I'oubl discover it he used cloves and j iher articles to destroy the smell ol : is breath. Often remonstrated with j iy wulchlul friends, he would deny !uit he had gone to any excess. The writer removed to Texas and eturncd to his old home where his liend lived, about seventeen years aflrwards, and the first time hv sawjiiin le was down on t he sidewalk drunk, aid a year afterward lie was found dead n the same street. Young men, beware! There is not mo in ten thousand that ean always >c moderate in drinking. If you touch it all you are m danger. The devlish ngenuity of man has truoly given you j he means of destroying the smell ol iquor upon the breath, but not of aving you from a drunkard's fate. m* ? *i?r>wiK.<,nwi?n<Miin i ^<11 ' TWO SINGULAR CHARACTERS. j rhc Author of the Little Hatchet Story and his Eccentric Son. [From Tli" Now York Sun. To thn Editor of The. Smi. Sir: 1 noticed in a recent number >f your pa]?or an extract from Weoms's 'Life of Washington," and quite a flattering account of the author. You lid not name his other productions, two of which were thought by Ins friends to surpass Ids history of Wash- j ington. I refer to his "Life of Mar- j ; ? i t.:? tin i 1>.. T . .1.: ? iu11, miii IIIJS j/i iniKiiiu n jjuumiij,', Glass." The latter is inimitable, and ought to bo republished by some of the temperance societies to promote their cause. Being intimately acquainted with the Weems family for the past iovty years, I have thought clent *1 ovinia 1. 1SDAY, FE THUJA UY I liat a lurilior account of Parson |? Yeems might he interesting to the nllion modern ot Thk Six. p Mason Lock W'ooins was born in j (> Mine Arundel county, Maryland, at i ?> lie old family mansion called Lock |> Cdt'ii. Lock .was the name of his i natornal ancestors, who emigrated (.j i'oin Scotland in tlio e arly set th tin nt >1 this country, during the reign of j .diaries II. Ills paternal ancestors migrated train Scotland at the Hume imo, :uul sallied in Anne Arundel ounty. Vinson L. Wooms being a j iOcond son, his father, who favored the . . . | 11 English notion ol urimogonituie, in ado ' . . j i] iitn a parson, and being intimate will) j he Washington lamily, he was through . hat means installed at i'ohick palish ..... r , i t' n \ lrguna. It was there ho wrote lis lives ot Washington and Marion, 'i ,, jo iiid !)is "Drunkard's Looking (dlus^- . . l?: t was customary with him to make | ung journeys through Virginia in hi* ! .'.oacli, which was generally filled with ! * IJ jooks which ho ottered for sale, lit.? lealt not only in his own works, bin j v ilso those ot many others, including I lie iulidel writers Tlmm is Paine and ' .... . a \ oltuire. tin one occasion lie was I . .hidden by a friend for selling such ! )oisonous literature, whereupon he redied: "If I sell the poison I sell the , intidolo too, for here is Baxter's Saints' Host.' " Parson Wcoins was and excellent Dictonnor on the violin, and ho alii ways travelled with his fiddle. When . idle 1 to marry a couple lie would af- j erward play for the daueo, and it WaS llis dl'licrlll 1(1 llm iriimiic ...... I pie enjoy themselves in innocent j imnscments. lie was ami exceeding, y handsome man, as is shown hy his portrait now in the picture gallerv o( , me of his descendants, a groat favor iii* i. (e with the ladies, and was welcome wherever he went. i 1'arson Woems's son, the member J . >t Congress mentioned in your article, | I knew personally. lie has been dead many years, lie was a greater oddity . than his father, and only served on term in Congress, being politically killed by John Randolph. Wee ma made every effort t<> be intimate with that recent ric. Virginian, but was in- " variably met with a haughty reserve. Finding his Iriendlv svdv lUlilo; in 111vi-i nl ]y rebuiled, bo made it a rule to oppose Randolph in debate, and to vote against cvvy measure ho brought be. lore 111o House. Ohm day Randolph offered some amendment to a hiil, and stated ho would withdraw it if op. postal by "either a Irk nd or an enemy." \Ycorns jumped to his lent, imincdi itely, ami in his usual impetous stylo opposed the measure. After he had exhausted himself, Randolph rose in his seat., and in his usual squeaking voice said, ".Mr. Speaker, J raid 1 would withdraw my amendment if opposed by a friend or an enemy. The gentleman is neither, sir?I shall there, tore let it stand." '1 his brought down the house, and effectually extinguished ? > o poor Wveins. After his term in Congress Wecrns thought he had a call to preach, lie commenced l>y preaching at the funerals ol his deceased slaves lie tried 1 his hand at the camp meetings, but being known as the hardest swearing man in the country he was invariably led out of the ground and ordered oil". 1 He spent the latter part ot his iile in quiet on his farm, preaching to his no groes, marrying them, and baptising their children. I lis manner of ilivor-j cing a couple whs peculiar. He would bland the candidates in the middle of the road, and 'n the presence ol Ids 1 ol'ner slaves order them to walk off in opposite directions untd ??>? . . - - * V v/? ni^nv I by the turn of the road. If neither looked back it wjih a perfect job, and the separation was declared complete.; but it there was a lingeiing look behind from either of the parlies they would have to come together again and try to bo reconciled. A good story was told told of the j ox-Congressman. One day he was l correcting one of bis negro men for j som offence. Ho had tlie offender tied up, and between the stripes inflicted 1 long lectures on the slave's misdeeds. 1 At last the negro got tired of the proces and petulantly exclaimed. "Mus.va, if you wihippy, why, whippy at once; if you preachy, why, preachy, and WSJ ?) 7, 1874. No. 7- ; i ! ! ii Wi i 111111 ii mmmmmmm**?* mmmmmrn m l? :w do it quick!" j . Weoins was considered hy his noi^li- | Or* deficient in mental c iparil v. Ho | nterlained peculiar view*, ? specially :i religious matters, ami u as ! ndicrou... ( { aristocratic in manner and set,i menl, - .oinl)]inhis lathci (Mils in e< vntii- , i t V. * i m > riu'ws (N?t n i \, V a., .1. n. 2s, H74. , Tobacco at tho West. 1! ; i In n recent trip through tho W ist, ly atlention was eou.Munt'y drawn *o {4 he immense consumption ot tobacco , y chewing. This mode of using tho arcotie poison is more ilaiiin^iiig than my ot her, not hut because it s susceptible in this way ot constant ! iso. A man BinokcK two hours a day. 10 chows fifteen. hours. The sunken hocks and 11 nhu)>}>y rest hssnoss of the non of the West are hug ly sittril?neu to chewing. Leaving out for the moment the ipsmcared iips, beanl, ami clothing,) caving out the inconceivable filth vliich covers the lloor oi the car, hall, j >ew, sidewalk, everything, leaving nit the sickening odor of the breath, 11 brief tin? unparalleled mistiness Ot 'I' the indulgence, we cannot shut t>ur yes to the poisonous, destructive inlucnce ol the habit. Tobacco is an mmensly powerful poison. It a hoy en years ol age, who has never used ohneeo, take into his mouth a piece is large as a pea, and dimply chow it, vithout swallowing a drop, before lie ! las finished simply squeezing it he. j ween his teeth, he will break out into i cold, claimnv ncrsniration his im!m> , 1 I J I " I vill ll utter, ho will vomit, and fall | town upon the lloor, ho will seem, (01 j wo hours, as (hough ho wore going o <lio. You will havo to go lar in a irug store to find another poison j vhioh, in the size of a pea, hold in | '.nil hoy's mouth and simply squeezed letween his teeth, will produce fetich ?fleets as these. The men of the West, the most vital | it the world, having draltod not only | he great mass of the ohoiceflt voung . . . noil of the Ivist hut thousands of the noxt enterprising and determined : I'oung men ol Kurope for its servieie ' with opportunities which makes one lizzy to try to measure, are lilling not | >'dy themselves with this horrid puis- ' >n, hut in nit nherless way* are transnitting the deadly influence to llieir all'spring* llow anv man. wlinlimwi ?i?..t ....... j j "n ui.nvurrv , gondii,on of the parent, whether it he an animal or a man, must influence for good or ill the offspring, can consent j to become the father of children while his system is so dominated by this j powerful narcoetie, that an ,ih?tin>>ncc j of twenty-lour hours nearly sets liiin , era/.v I eau'l conceive. ' Only Cod can fully measure the j magnitude of thise\il, first, in its in- 1 llucnce upon the present men ol the West, but infiuetly worse in its iuilu enco upon the vast, teeming myriads ol the great West ot the future. Din fjCiois in To-D.nj. Tno Standing Array. Our slab men* tint the rank and lib' of the regular army dis ippcar ever* four years was within the sdaiis'ies o destruction. In tin debate W?t week on the proposed reduction ??i the arm . .Mr Wheeler, who had ch ir r** of tiv bill, astonished the House <?f Ib presen tatives by showing that the irin iff depletion of enlistment was 10,too men! This fact Strikes at the vtrry exiatanee of the army in its present proportions. (leu. Sherman, in Inlast report to the Secretary of W tr, in effect divides the object of the ovt* lance of t!ie army ii to "the fulfilment ot its arduous duties on the liontier,' and "the forming of the model on .. !.: a . . . i . > - - t 1 Willi I) III 311 l[IU UIO VOlHIilCIT ."III | nil i I m forces ot slit! I nited States." We too any that the duty of the army is on the frontier, and that its si7.0 tor the work of watching and j?un ishing hostile Indians should he limited to 10,000 men. lint the niaintonanoo ot 20,000 men in addition, to serve as a model tor iho militia of the States, is utterly preposterous in fane oi the fact that tbo entire rank and file of the army disappear every two years ami ten months. Translated by ^ every man who has knowledge ot mih " > VpjC .% II V K ItT ^ | Miirri.iii?? notices fk-*?o. Itenths <ind Funeral notice* free. Obituaries of one square free; ovdr ou?t inn- charged at advertising rates. Heliums notices of one square free. A llWml discount will bo made to Uh><* vhoso advertisements ate to t>e kept in t?> erm of three months or longer. ary affairs, this fact means that wo taven't a real array?that wo can't tave one in a time of peace?that wo lavoonly 2,284 officers ami a constant lystorn ot recruiting, anil a constantly lisnppearmg mass ol untrained soiliers, who uever had a thought, of renainiug in the service, who enlisted inly to temporarily get lood ami clothing or escape the jail, and ?vho run iway or lawtully get hack to 1 i? life us fast as they can. The .A crioaa who can stand the recruit's p ysical Lixamination will not enlist links* ha is desperate with trouble. lie Cug. earn double and treble the pay of t soldier, and he will not submit o the restrain of his liberty. It. is not possible to have the United States army i time <d peace composed oi Am leans. It is a truth that the only pr ictiod result of our largo army is employincut and pay to 2,2s I commissioned officers. That is about all the country gets out ol it* No answer can be made to the decisive testimony tarnished by Congressman Wheeler, that nil' sill till. !i in i<i li.i i* ,1111? , i . 1 nirin'ir t wo wars ainl leu months-?tint th? roidicrs in t he ranks in lli.il um.i/.inglv short limn gut oil tor tho muster ami jray rolls and disappear. And ih it for this "m 'del to the militia and volun(oei'V lot thin model to the New York Seventh, Twenty-second, ami other admirable volunteer regiments, lliat the taxpayers oT the country aro called 011 to j?ay this year $34,k* 1 ,(51 s! The people now only demand il.ht the regular army he reduced. There is dangei that they will demand that it be abolished.? Af. Y. Sun,. Compv-iior? 2iuc.',tion ii. Illinois. A compulsory Education bill lis* just passed the Illinois House of Representatives hy a vote ol H7.?The hill provides that children between tho ages ( I b and I i shall h< sent < > sej.uol aa least thee months in the y ;aij of which H ' V Wl'clf.: ? h > 11 I .n rt.-.nj. .. ....... nim UUll that they shall by taught reading, wriing K'tgbsh grammar, geography, ami ar t'lincte; that School Dieotorsr shall hujm)1 \ bo ?ks, an 1 the Overseer of th? l\>oi clothes, to indig out children; that the Directors shall pr ?secutc parent* and guardians who fail to send their el ddivn to scln ol, and that they miy ho lined from $1 to $5 a week during L3 weeks. The Model Negro Farmer. The model negro farmer buys an oldl mule or blind horse on a credit, rent* laud either tor a part of the crop or many bales of cotton, procures tools a* best be can, buys corn, bacon, etc., for which he gives a li??u on his crop. Ami then, about April, he commences t? prep we for planting corn, either breaking or la. big off in r ?ws, to break out the middles alter the corn is up. Corn planting over, h proceeds, sometime in Mey, to prop ire tor cotton. "Cutr-e, gwine to ii-e juannarV No, bless your life, I' si- not gwine to buy juaiinur >.? put on other lolk-' Un'. " Well, alter > dinner, some sultry evening, ho sauntors IVoiii his hut., unci, utter surveying his prospects, he* says: Whew! ho? gettin hot; tunc 1 -c pbiiitin' inv cot-. Lou." iiitc.heH up his mule to his onehorse curt, unci otV he goes to hunt cot" ton seed. Well, alter cotton planting then for a fish and limit. Some June Monday morning ho wakes tip about one or two hours bv tho sun, and, after brakctust., he hitches up his rnulo to run round his corn; after treating his cotton in smili* whftt till* tlnni W-Uff V>J? - ? - ""V? ' " proceeds 'jO chopping. Then t??r Another >>i^ frolic, to say nothing about going to his meetings and to town every Sat unlay. Alter thisiasiiion h? gets through the year. He then take# what little cotton to market he make? ami sells it for provision bills, return? his mule to its former owner, and goe? home broke, consoling himself by saying "If I didn't git my money, I'se ha?| a heap of freedom." He take# down his plank and tire coal, and figure? thus: 0 is naught, ft is a figure, All for de account, none for de nigger. lie lays his plank back up in t.h? crack, and while reaching out for th? poker to pn'.l out his potatoes from th? fire, he breaks out whistling his tovovite song? KPr^r work hard all ds year# W tnie uiau tote do monoyi eta,