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.l . .......... iiThe Easley _ _ * rn4, ike If tprru, 'the norn ifa zskoa&,i Aihins._ VOL. EASLEY,.. SOUTH" OAROLINA 'RIDiYE ME5 4 .... ........ ..... ....... 14,"1883.'N".1 She V*leg Messenger. Entered at the Postoffie, at Easley, C 6., as Scond Class. Mtter. . J. R.. UAGOOD,:.Editor and Prop'r. WERMS, 9F SUBSCIPTION. One year, stiictly in advance......$1.00 Six mouths ...... 65 RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square (1 inch) 1 insertion...,.75c Each subsequent insertion.........40c Liberal discount on contracts or by the coluni., half or quarter c6un'. Mairriage notices free and solicitegl. Obituaries over 12 lines charged foi-, Correspondents, to Insure attention, must give their full address. We are not responsible for the opin "ons of our correspondtents. All coilnmunkmlAtions.- foe the paper must be addressed to the Editors;, business letters to 'the Publisher of the MFESSEU-NoER, Eatsley, S. C. Never Mind What " They" Say. Don't worry and fret, About what people think Of your ways or your means Of your food or0 your (rink. If you know you are doing Your best every day, With the right on your side, Never timmd what "thev" say. Lay out in the mor'ninglr Your plans for eadh hour, And never forget That old time is a power,. This also remember 'Mong truths old and new The world Is too busy To think much of yot. Then garner the minutes That make up the I.ours, And pluek in your pilgrimage Ihonor's bright flowers. Should grumblers assurc you Your course will niot pay, With coiscienice at rest, Never mind what "they" say. Too many have loitered, Until the ebb tide, While seeking ophdonsl From those at their sid", Too many good swimmers Have chosen to sink, Because they are martyrs To "what People think." Then letu, s, forgetting he insensate throng, That joistles us~ (ailly Widle nlarching~ along, Press onwar(d andi upwam 0, .And tnake no' dlelay And though people talk, Never mind 'a lht "s they "sy --The trial at Chairlotte, N. C., of Mr. J. E. Adams, late ticket a'went of th hid mchid .and Danaville Raflhtd, and1( Calpt. Oscatr Nsbit, hate conductor on the Air Line road, that was set for at hearing before the Inferior, Court n lIoZu kthh ian,. will not be hieard, having bep continued t~o the next terini of Cout#' hy reason of -a confesslon, an4 of a p~!lden stgr? ht urn..insthe aspect of the cagespiuyoJ'pg other liar ties besides Adams ani 4esblt .-New s --He was frnd 6f singing revival ei hymns, an dIhls die ,uamed theit, baby Fort, so thmt he m~ woul wa to hodt [From the Constitution.] ARP'S THANKSGIV1NG. A Day fullof Thanksgivings and Joy. Trhanksiving day Was bright and lovely. he* ' blessed stulgve us a warm-trd genial light all the day long. The fields so greei.with t entder-wiheat seemed happle' for the day and made a bealitifuil ontrast with the autmin leaves that still linger upon th :tre that adorn the hills and mountfthis around us. DAme Nature'is verylind to us.for even in midvintewislie spreads t carpet that does 'not fade and is.al ways griateful to t h3 sight. ~ It was .a good day to give thanks In the counti-y as well as the tOwn. We dident have any turkey at our house, but we h id a good dinner, nevertheless, and MMrs. Arp made an old-fashioned .sliced po tikto pie, with her own, little number two haids, and whn she makes a pie it is always fit for. a king.- At least- it is saluibriouis ain(d respectf II to say so, and I:Always doit.. Thanksgivingday is one of the tifle stones that ia:-k the joirney of life. Old father'Time don't stop. but he makes his mark-he cuts another notch and goes on. His tally sheet is never closed. Like the song of t he brook liecan say "For mnl may come an'd men may go, But I go on forever.". Thanksgiving day is th day for the nation to observe-for there Is n3o sect otr class or color who can reasonably re fuse to be thatkfil oncea year. Some folks do not respect the Sabbath, some have no revereiice for Christmas. some care notlihig for the 4th of July or St. Patricks day, or the passovoir, but ayiv mantil or womiian, or child,. who I out of jail and has eniouigh to ('at "nn afford to be thankful and ought to be thiikful. If a mian does not Ihelie've inl God or immortality lie canl still be thankfl-thankftul t" nature and hr beneficent haws -thankfil for sunight andtit air and water, and t h- seasons t iat come and go and bring us food and clothing. thankful for liberty of coi scienlce. and the capacity to think and plan mid enjoy. A poet wht loved pature sail "The world is very lovely; Oh, my GodI I. thank Thee th it I liv-..'' And it is lovely. It was made to please us as well as to sustain us. I don't know where in it I could be bet tered, unless we were better. It would ent exactly suit angels, who dol't eat anythtig nor wear store clothes, but it suits Its. I never see a rose or lily or a beautiful evergreen or a bird of br ight p)u~lmage, I never listen to the sweet trains of melody, but wh'tt F think' that all t hese t hinigs are extras, something thrown in and not down in the bill's, something we d1idebt deserve andl could hrive got along without. And than~ there are pear'ls andJ dia mond(s, and ile.. licious fruit-and oysters, and silks.-and satins and women, beautiful women, all extras an'd inade especially for mnt, that issatsfirst'. Bu Itiomnan was made, shn caine in for a shi tre, 'of course, aiui mnopQ~ised most all of the' prletty thigs aill'( edptnried nian bes1ies. A manti dlon't haive *to be: rich Lo: be thankful. A poor! man with goodl health is better og' thani most 'of 'the ri'ch men that I know. IIealthr is #Vdithi'mioi-e' tha'n 'rices, and(I the ate couint is prwetty .equally bgtlancd 'aill rotU(d.:...fliaAm vbo is aqueeding along and( mIaking ~cntfortable liinrmas'iy I~pise for g'run.jtng. I know a' oo inaldrigit-'at dmen ho wrk htir and don't get ahead anny. T11.10 hold theu'owii and raise up their ellldrej) and.keep pegi ng away An'd take life happily. .- net-a.man the other-day hIl your tqWE.n old friend, and I love t6 n1iee h in"Or his face Is likd a flill moon aid he.carriya weight yherever he goes, and when. he speaks yon can hearhin andif says. he. to ne-: - "Will iaOn. my old ,frIemnd, I wantt-yo to Come to see m.e and let us talk about the (old School day's 'and revive' thos old recollecti)is and resurrections an d interjections as it.: were. I am over here now with Maddox &. Rucker, working hi Cotton. King cotton; you never saw the like in your life, the big gest warehouse in the State and there's cotton in the ceilar and over the cellar anIl -der thl.cillr and up stairs and (own stairs , al(d in t h1. loft al(d aill over tlv plat'f'rmns, and i the street and oin the siiewalk, and I want you to see the aventues and revenles, and corri d(ors ald tuinnels, itnt NVestibules all(] Synagogues, as it vere, nn1ihinig all through ch~ length an( breadtli of t hit wareh mse. Tliey 'tell Us there is a short crop, but there is enough .cotton im that. wvarehouse to make it a full crop and Imlore too, as it were. . 've travele(d all over the wNorhl of late, plum froi )ahllonegia to Wost Point, and avay-down to McDonouigl and1 up to Big ShanI it'y antI about am1i aboit, as it were., and I tell youi th rc I, cotton (erywlehere. I hiavent seen the h1:1 if of it,' but I'e seen eniough to make a shirt apiece for all creation and have several yards left as it were. The onllltry is in a hopefuil state and con (litioni, and l'm 11 proul to See it, al(d this here city of Atlauta is progressing a(l exagerating, as it were, anld is likely to be the foremost iniand port folio of the world. 1heire is tihe Kim ballhmouse and capitol. and -The con stitution" building and the Armorv gnimig ah'ad, and Maddux and Rucke'r h ive gotte n thin ..s ini a swinwg. Ir. Evens come tround here thev other day and peruised this vast concourse of cot ton hales all standing up on end( so or dIerly anid 'iform and lie sai I it re mindel him of a congregation of peo ple at c Inp ineetin-g, 1only they were more (julet, and there was more money Th-nksgivingday served a douibie ,Purpose at my h mse for it was the birtliday of one of our hopeful clill ren, and . urprised him with a new gun. an of course he wanted to go out and. kill something right away. Hie brought hme a partri(ge .and a y'aller-hil Umer and a rabbit, and omade the feathers fly out 'f - a big '.hawk. Th'lmse boys are always makhmig ths. feat hers fly a 1id thy kill more birds they can't dind than ehat they do fid. Give a'boy a dog and a gun anid he is thick in my~ family, andl Mrs. Ar. thnikg a .heap miore, of. em thm~ I do. Wedl, ii hit's natural. (bougI~ I reckon, fadhe 111d moi'e'To do withi em than I did,1 but poor' folks' chiIleiv ottght to all be born. om. the--. 29th.of.-Februmary and they. woI~ldeptL p.ome rtmd :soco tenm. Nevertheless, Wve must all do the best we aan for th'e offspring and be tlh:Unkffdi. ..BnL AiR, --ime~ijs mioney, but how little set storge I,.ydI. 4fline~'(trthe houirs wasted each~day..on trifle~s. or, iutoe.e.was.;de Voted to impro~'ement it won1l1 makm a TiE ALLEGED INFANTWCIDE' AT ClTNTRAL.-O1 Wedneslay "The Niews" published an acobunt of the 3isavery of the re ah1s of .auwinfant iii .e back yard of .i hluse at Cent rat. At the tine, of the pthticitibir6'a rests.hadtbeen- mv.eler 'The ifblioming 41 '-Olirlotte Observeor" Cot) trtnsdi he 4atement made by "The. ews" that proper. steps would be takeni to'arr'st the stispected parties "Considerable excitemenit was cia ted down the Air Line road TIursdav might over I he arrest of .iss Guntli), .It Rack's St'itioni on 1i charge of I fanticrie. She was carried to Octntril, on -the Air Line road, for trial.' It up itpears thlat Miss Gumthrop. who is a datightel of the, bridge builder of the Air Line road, resided %with hir mother at Central. Some weeks ago the fam ily moved from Centri l to Black's Station, and the house vacated by them Was nfIOve( into a few days qafte.rward hy another family, who at once beuai to Clean upl) the premises, and in doing so inade a sh!cking' discovery In a pile of rubbish In tlhe1 back yard they discovered the body' of an Infant in a partn ,I state of doComposition, sIhow Ing that it hl been there for several days. It was b)uried hut a, few inches 1nder1 th1 trash and its head was SpliI. en tiiely in two pieces, sh wing thstan infanticide had been committeil. The Iews of the discovery created a great excitement, - and suspicion at, once pointed to Miss Ginthrop as the moth er. of the child and the murderer. A nurnmber of sispicious 0cir cu1nnitanc(as were developed which led to her arrest at Bhcks station night before last. Her mother, Mrs. Gunthrop, was also placed under arrest and carried to Central to stand trial as accomplice." -Greenville Daily News. ARTEMUS WARD's TRIP TO Bos TON,-While a great observer of men, and one of the most keen readers of chracter. Brown took comlpara tively little notice of places and other objects of interest. A lady who knew hmn well said that had a befggar ii4 rags been seated by the most beautiful statute, he would have seen the beggar first. This neglect of places several times brought hin .to grief. Once, when going from Waterfora to Boston, lie vent on board a" Steamer at Port land late in the evening, and at once retired to his stateroom. A storm was threatening and the boat did not leave. le arose early in the morning and, going omit upon the landing, called a hackman and asked to be conveyed to the Revere house. And not until he had broke the secondl commflandmnent and had threatened to break the fifthm, could he be pers'uaded that he was yet in Poi tland.--Scribner. -There are nineteen railroadl Presi dents andl Directors in the new House of Representatives. One of these geni tiemen Is a Director of -eight railroad coimPanies.' Tven ty-four are either Presidents or Directors. of .national barsks 'ive are itne~sted in other lairge corp~orations. Ariinng two-thirds 6f the meibers of the House,"not In eluding any of the~ above, there are 145 Jawyers . --' -We eanunot Ib0pome liberal unless we Moid pett motives. ---onetyi of purpose; mustrnot be held .gs gyiden~co oft aiAity.5 s -Fols' Will ettion' in'akr sticcess where prudent neople fail.