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VO EASLEY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1884. fhs *asIe 5Messenger. J. B. HAGOOD, Editor and Prop'r. Enteed it the Postofflre at Easley AV. 0., " Second Clair Matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year, str!ctly In advance......$1*00 Six months " " ..... 65 RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square (1 ineh) 1 insertion......75c Each subsequent Insertion............40c Liberal discount on contracts or by the column, half or quarter colunn. Marriage notices free and solicited. Obituaries over 12 lines charged for. CorrCsponden ts, to Insure attention, nmst give their full address. We are not responsible for the opin ions of our correspondents. All communications for the paper must be addressed to the Editors; business letters to the Publisher of the MESSImNGER. Easley, S. C. She Would Only Love a Temperance Man. She loved him, but she saw him drink, Ah I fearful sight for her to see, And though it broke her heart,she said T hat n.irried they could never be. And other lovers crowded near To breathe their fond hopes in her ear; !t puzzled ine to see her smile On others while slhe loved him so, FVor none of them were half so brave, Or handsome,straight and tall as Joe, I think that that was strainge, Don't you? flut then they all wore badges blue. Joe went and took the pledge and said He'd never stain his honor more, And soon he on his mainly breast The badge of his redemption wore, And when his darlingr heard of that I [or faithful heart went pit-a-pat, She sacked her lovers all and f1ew To lay her head against the breast h'lat wore the blessed badge of blue. I think that that was sweet, Don't you ? Oh, bonny, bonny badge of blue. Were I a girl I wouldn't wed A man that guzzled rum, would yon.? I'd give the chances all to him - Who wore the little badlge of blue. And if he wouldin't wear it, I Would pin it on and tell him why. 'T would save bot h from grief and woe, And every misery cold and black. It made another man of Joe, And now he's got the inside 'r'ack, I think I'm talking sense, D~on't you? T1hen wvear the bonny badge cof blue. -Toronto Truth. --If we can spend a quarter of a million educating the -esteemedl negro, we should like to know why we can't give a pension to the dis-' abled Confedecrate soldiers, their widows and orphans ?-P'ress and lBanner. Wearing Moorning. We take the following sensible remuarki from the New Oileanis T]imes Demoeftit There is one old and long-estab lished custom that woman ought to possess moral courage and common sense enough to take into their rwn hands and settle for them selves on a simple and permanent basis. It is the custom of wearing mourning for departed friends. Putting on and taking off of black within a stated time is in itself, in stead of a compliment, an insult to blie dead. One does not put on And put off one's sorrow in this way ; there is therefore no reality to the fashion of symbolizing it. A loss by death is irremediable; the grief of it may he lhidden away, but it lasts forever. it is true that the desire when one has lost a near and dear friend is fbr silence and darkness, for neutral tints and for the presence and association with only that which harmonizes with our own sense of loss and bereave mnent. But we cannot often in dulge in this selfish absorption and exclusion-and it is doubtless good for us that we cannot. Our lives go out ; our duties remain. They must be performed. We put our griefs away. We do not intrude them u)on others. We lock them up and keep then as a sort of lux ury for quiet hours, when indul gence will not interfere with our obligations to the living, with ac tive participation in the duties of the hour. There is no reason, of course, why women should do vio lence te natural feeling and wear high colors and gay ornaments at a time when their hearts are sadden ed by a heavy loss. Let them lay aside what they no longer take pleasure in, and wear their sim plest, plainiest, darkest dresses; but why lay aside what is perfectly suitable and even in harmony with thei~r own feelings and incur much unnecessary trouble and expense in order merely to p~ut on garments a little dlarker, a little sadder and which oblige an entire change in the habits ot life, the avoidance of much that would be healthful and salutary, rather than hiarmnful, the adaptation of social conditions to the circumstances and accidmens of an individual, and the actual crea tion of a code of ethics, the observ ance of which depends on the pres ence or depth of a crape band. The most ardent suprorters of out ward and visible signs of woe are thosie who are least sensitive to grief, but who like the novelty of an entire change of wardrobe and the excitement of finding out exact. ly what ought and what ought not to be done under such circumstan-' ces. As there is no authorized code the rules extracted from self constituted authorities are often more amuing than practical or re liable. To many limited but well intentioned women the imagined; necessity for "doing as other peo ple do" in this regard is a source of exti eme embarrassment and per Plexity. Perhaps they cannot afford the outlay ; perhaps they have only re cently, by dint of much contrivance replenished their wardrobes; per haps it was not a near 'relative; perhaps the relative lived at a dis tance. All the facts are agitated' pro and con to make a case against assuming this new burden ; and thei only argument on the other side, the strongest feeling, is this, that if they do not conform to common custom they will be the subject of, cominon and impious remark. This is naturally much stronger in small neighborhoods and communities. It is therefore the duty of any wo man of position and influence in such communities to set an exam ple iu the right direction, and afford the moral support of this influence to her poorer neighbors. In cities women out of a certain exclusive circle are emancipating themselves from their tradition. Omw H TACKs 'TO THE FRONT .-Now that another Presidential campaign' is at hand we find all the 01(1 brok 'en down lead horses of the Repub lican party trotting about thme State' and attempting to control the pre cinct meetings and State Conver. tion. They all want to go to the Chicago Convention and figure there in the interest of certain aspirants to the Presidential chair, but more particularly for their own i nterest in the future, if a Repub lican President is elected. Rev. June Mobley has turned up in Uinion simultaneously with the Dall of the county chairman to ho!d precinct meetings. June has not been a resident of this State and county for several years, but had the Impudence to pretend to repre sent the 1tepublicans of Union at, the State convention in 1882. No doubt he will try the same gani hids year. In Abbeville, the notorious Lon Guffin has turned up again, after au absence of some years, and is making himself conspiciouis in or ganizing the party there for some particular candidate. If the Republicans of these coun ties are willing to allow such bro ken down leaders to conic in, when ever there are good positiotis to be had, and control them and their party, they have not the grit wet believed they had ; but it is none of our funeral.-Union Times. --The money which has been ex pended in public education since 1868 would have paid the public debt of South Carolina. If our in cerest account could be stopped, and the education of the nogro could be fiuished, our taxes would be less than half what they are now---Press and Banner. KILLED BY KItOSCNE.-On1 Thursday night at Central a kero sene lamp exploded. The oil was thrown upon a Miss Paine and att once ignited. She was so terribly burned that she died in a very short time. She was about 18 years old. -Says an experienced bachelor: The best thing to take when you kiss a pretty girl-take time. The more you take the better she likes it. What a fool he must be-(o take time. If he kuew what wasi good he'd take kisses and let the time go to thunder. --The Missisippi River off New Orleans has reached a height nev er before known, and the city is in gseat danger of being flooded. -Robert Smalls, colored, has been elected to Congress from the "Black District," in place of E. W M. Mackey, deceased. --The State papers are almost unanimous in the opinion that there should be but one Democrtitc State Convention thiseyear.