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Pp #wii?clbiitg Illettf0jcrat.' _ A, V Vol. I. ORANGEBURGr, S. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1879. ISTo. 38. _ I SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietors. SUU3QHirTION. One Year.SI.CO ?Six Months.1.00 wlhilsterg'of the Gospel.1.00 Advertisements. First Instertlon.$1.00, Such Subsequent Insertion.60 Liberal contracts made for 3 month \ and over. I JO33 O'JJ'JFXCJE 19 I'UErARKDiTOOOvAJLL KIKDSOK Jkxb JPinritirig BR?HEN HEARTS. .-A DISEASE THAT IS SOMETIMES DESO LATING IN ITS EFFECTS. It, is a common practice with those who have outlived the susceptibility of early feeling, or have been brought up in the gajr hcartiessness of dissi pated life, to laugh at all love stories, aud to treat the tales of romantic passion as more fictions of novelists "hud poets. My observation on hu man nature have induced tnc to think otherwise- They have convinced me, that however the surface of the char acter may be chilled and fro/cned by the cares of the world, or cultivated into mere smiles by the arts of socie ty, still there are donnaut fires lurk ing in the depths of the coldest bos om, which when once enkindled, be come impetuous, and are sometimes desolating in their effects. Indeed, I am a true believer in the blind des tiny, and go to the full extent of his doctrines. Shall I confess it! I be lieve in broken hearts, and the possi bility of dying of disappointed love. I do not however, consider it a mala dy often fatal to my own sex ; but I firmly believe that it withers down many a lovely woman into an early grave. Man is in the centre of interest and ambition. His nature leads him forth into the struggle and bustle of the world. Love is but the embel lishment of his early life, or a song piped in the intervals of the acts. He seeks for fame, for lorlunc, for space in the world's thought and dominion over his fellow man. But a woman's whole life is a history of the affec tions. The heart is her world ; it is there her ambition strives for em pire ; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless?for it is a bankrupt cy of the heart. To a man the disappointment of love may occasion some pangs; iL wounds some feelings of tenderness; it blasts some prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being?he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl ol varied occupation, or may plunge in to the tide of pleasure; or, if the scene of disappointment be too full of painful association, he can shift his abode at will, aud taking as it were the wings of the morning, can "fly to the uttermost parts of the earth, and be at rest." , But woman's is comparatively a fixed, a secluded, and a meditative life. She is more the companion of her own thoughts and feelings ; and if they are turned to ministers of sor row, where shall she look for consola tion? Her lot is to be wooed and won ; and if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and aban doned and left desolate. How many bright eyes grow dim ; how many checks grow pale; how many lovelj' forms fade away into the tomb, and none can tell the cause that blighted their lovliness ! As the dove will clasp its wings to its side, and cover and conceal the arrow that is preying on its vitals, so it is the nature of woman to hide from the world the pangs of wounded affec tion. The love of a delicate female is always shy and silent. I.vcn when fortunate, she scared}' breathes it to herself; but when otherwise, she buries it in the recesses of her bosom, and there lets it cower and brood among the ruins of her pence. With her the desires of the heart has failed. The great charm of existence is at an end. She neglects all the cheerful exercises which gladden the spirits, quicken the pulses, and send the tide ot life in healthful currents through the viens. Her rest is broken?the sweet refreshment of sleep is poison ed by melancholy dreams?"dry sor row drinks her blood," until her en leobled frame sinks under the slight est external injury. Look for her, after a little while, and you will find friendship weeping over her untimely grave, and wondering that one who but lately glowed with all the radi ance of health and beauty, should so speedily be brought down to "dark ness and t|ie worm," You will be told of sorao wintry chill, some casu al indisposition Unit laid her low; but no ono knows of Hie mental mal ady that previously sapped her strength, and made her so easy n prey to the spoiler. She is like some tender tree, tho prido and beauty of the grove ; grace ful in its form, bright in its foliage, but with the worm preying at its heart. We 11 ml it suddenly wither ing, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant. We seo it drooping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by loaf; until, wanted and per ished away, it falls even in the still ness of the forest; and, as we muse over the beautiful ruin, wo strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunder bolt that could hav ? smitton it with decay. Couldn't Stop Her. The gates at the passenger depots which shut out all people not having tickets for the trains were yesterday closed at the Union Depot against an elderly woman wearing spectacles and using a.i umbrella for a cano. "Can't pass without a ticket," said the man at the gate as she ctunc. "I want to sr-c if there's anybody on that train going to Port Huron," she answered. "Can't pass without a ticket, mad am." "I've got a darter in Port Huron, I have." "Can't help it, please. My orders are very strict." "I tell you I want to send word to my darter !" she exclaimed, adjusting her spectacles for a better view of the official. "Yes, but wc cau't help that, you sec. Please show your ticket." "I want this 'ere railroad to under stand that I've got a darter in Port Huron, and she's got a baby four j weeks old, and I'm going tosend her up word in spite of all the gates in this depot." "Please show your ticket, uiadam." "I tell you once more"? "Please show your ticket, madam." She gave the old umbrella a whirl and brought it down on his head with the vim of an old-fashioned log-rais ing, and as be staggered aside she passed him and said: "There's ?13' ticket, sir, and I've got more behind it! Af ebbe one man and a gate stop me from sending word to my darter to grease the ba by's nose with mutton tallow if the weather changes cold, but I don't be lieve i' IV And she walked down to the train, found some one going to Port Huron, and came back carelessly humming the melody of "The Three Blind Mice."?Free Press. What Makes Home Happy. If home is the kingdom of God, and the kingdom of God home may he, it is because the spirit of God is there. It is because the woman who is the queen of that home makes homo the centre of her thought, her hope and her prayer. It is because the man who hay sworn to love her, to honor her, and to cherish her, knows that he best keeps his oath by making her home and his home glad, cheerful and beautiful; because he does not neglect it and desert it. To them there grow up children next their hand ; who are glad to surprise their mother with a new pleasure, or to relievo her from some old care ; children who find their father their best companion, and who have no secret from him from boy hood's and girlhood's joys and sor rows. The original trinity, the trinity from which all scholastic and ecclesi astical trinities were formed, is the sacred triuity of the father, the moth er and the child, one in three and three in one. It is a life individual; a life only perfect when each share with each, each is intertwined with each, and each sustains all.?Edward Everett Hale, Good News for the Girls. \Vre learn that a club is being form ed in Beaufort by the young men to he known as the "Yum Yum Club." The object of the club will be for charitable purposes; and, judg ing from the young men who have already joined, the object will be suc cessfully carried out. One article of their constitution provides for the protection of old maids. Another imposes a fine on any member who jshull visit a young lady three times without being successful Id kissing. her goodnight at the door ; another makes it a fine of 85 on any member who takes over twenty-four drinks a day. A*, the next regular meeting permanent oflleors will be elected.? Augusta Evening Nctos. Thk virtue of a man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, b.qt by his every day con duct. Hateful. The death of the Confederate Gen ejal, J. B. Hood, removes from the domain of tho perceptible another leader, in the State sovereignty rebel lion, and another obstacle to tho Norlhernization of Southern society, so essential to the unification of the national character and the prosperity of tho Southern section. Gen. Hood was not, however, so great an obsta cle as many other conspicuous chiefs of the rebellion that are still alive, for he was not a politician, and took no active part in political affairs. His death is, therefore, not an event of the same benefit to the South, or tho country, that tho death of Jeff. Davis, or Joseph K. Chalmers, or C. E. Hooker, or Governor Blackburn, or Ben Hill would be.?Chicago Times. If anything answering the form of a man can sink lower than this mis erable piece of ignoble malice, we have failed to reach it in human I history. Hero is a maimed soldier literally hacked in a hundred fights, Jone who had retired from the field for ever, seeking the support of his large family as best he could, in no way interfering with public affairs, simply I living the life of a good citizen, as he promised when paroled, who falls a few days after Iiis wife, swept away by a pestilence, leaving a large fami ly of helpless children, aud this wretch in human shape, standing afar off, utters an anathema in the presence of these distressed, forlorn little children which would shock a a hyena. May God have mercy on you, mau, for surely judgment awaits you as it did Ananias aud Sap phira. If such a hell-born hale be "the Norlhernization of Southern so ciety" contemplated, we devoutly pray that we may, one and all, man, woman and child, sleep where Hood sleeps before it comes to us and ours. Such a chuckle over the death of Grant, or Sherman, or Sheridan from a Southern journal would put the brand of Cain on the brow of such a man in any patt of the South; but Chicago has a law unto itself, and this may be admissible among the Chicagoans, though we sincerely hope it is not.? Columbia Register. A Monstrosity. There is in Kaufman, Texas, a lit tle negro girl, about five years old, bearing in many respects a striking resemblance to a logger head turtle. The nose is hardly more than an idea, while the eyes have that peculiar and unintelligible stare as if looking eve. rywhere and seeing nothing. From the back of the neck downward an impression is easily distinguishable resembling the breast-bone of the tur tle. All the limbs are deformed, ending in web-fooled claws, as if drawn up by an application of hot water. This monstrosity, strange as it may seem, possesses the power of speech and shows a degree of intelli gence entirely at variance with all heretofore preconceived ideas of an intelligent countenance. With an appetite which is insatiable in its de mands, and a fondness for raw meats, especially fish ; a courage, or rather an incapability to appreciate danger ; a love for aquatic sports and a wild joy in the water renders the negio girl, if such she may be called, a phe nomenon unrqunlcd in this or any other country. Naughty Blue Jeans. Several years ago the ladies of Louisville, Ivy., mado a present of a suit of jeans to old "Blue Jeans" Williams, of Indiana. The other day Williams uttended the inauguration of the distinguished disseminator of yellow fever and small pox, who is now Governor of Kentucky, and Wil liams mado a speech. During his re j marks he said: "To the ladies of Kentucky he was bound by peouliar tics of gratitude and admiration, for he had come to the ladies of Louis ville naked, and they had clothed him." Blue Jeans never had a habit of putting things delicately. This is what Ilobert G. Ingcrsoll says of the women : "I tell you wo men arc more prudent than men. 1 tell you, as a rule, women arc more faithful than men?ten times as faith ful as men. I never saw a man pur sue his wife into the very ditch and dust of degradation and take her in his arms. I never saw a man stand at tho shore whore sho has been mor ally wrecked waiting for the waves to bring back even her corpse to his arms ; hut I have seen woman with her white arms lift man from the mire of degredation, and hold him to her [ bosom as though ho were an angel." GIRLHOOD'S PERILS. ?o? SAFE HULE FOR YOUNti LADIES IN THEIR RELATIONS WITH YOUSU MEN. We copied yesterday, says the Ro chester Herald, a brief nrtielo from an oxebnnge, warning young ladies to beware of favoring the attentions of men who cannot, with reason, bo ex pected to marry thorn. Men, whose intentions arc honorable, woo girls at their homes, and not by stealth and in out-of-the-way places. It is difllcult to persuade an Amer ican girl that she cannot take care of herself. The customs oj our society throw her early' on her own resources. While still in her teens she enters so ciety and associates with persons of the opposite sex on walks, drives and excursions. Her mother seldom thinks of providing a. female companion for the daughter, but trusts wholly to tho purity and modesty of the latter to protect her from advances in the company of meu which will compro mise ber good name. And it should be remembered that tho girls of no other country are so worthy of this confidence. Thrown upon their own responsibility the vast majority of them pass the ordeal unscathed, and when they marry are as chaste in thought and life as though they had never passed the precincts of their homes without the companionship of their mothers. They become the best of wives and mothers, true as steel to their personal honor and to that of their husbands. But among the millions who stand untarnished, there are scores and j hundreds who fall into the mire. De lighted with their freedom, flattered and fascinated by the attentions of well-dressed ami agreeably appearing men, these use gradually thrown of their guard, and in an evil hour, by false and insidious promises usually, j but sometimes thiougb the lire and recklessness caused by wine and I drugs, take the fatal step which for ever separates them froni their con sciousness of purity, and robs them of their right to rank among the chaste and honorable women of socie ty. There is but one safe rule for girls to adopt in their relations with men, and that is to encourage no ad vances which cannot be witnessed and approved at home. This rule, if observed, will save infinite sorrow and trouble to many who even now are treading dangerously near the precipice. Those chance acquaint ances which American girls arc ac customed to make on the curs, at ex cursions, in stores and elsewhere, without any guarantee of the stand ing or respectability of the men intro duced, should be avoided. And in all cases the judgment of a discreet mother or some woman of discern ment and observation should be sought respecting the propriety of eu couraging such acquaintances; but above all, under no circumstances should a promise, however solemnly made or likely of fulllllment, sullice to persuade a maideu to surrender her self, with all such surrender implies, until the law has pronounced her a wife. No circumstances whatever can justify such action, nnd in niue ty-nino cases out of every hundred it is followed by a lifo time of bitter re morse, if not by immediate suffering nnd disgrace. Smaliness of the World. Dr. Motley, after three years and a half .spent in a voyage of scientific exploration around the world, says the voyage loft a deep impression of the smaliness of the earth's surface. Wo live in the depths of tho atmos phere as deep as the sea animals live in the depths of the sea. Like these wo can crawl up into the shallows or mount at peril in a balloon ; but the utmost extent of our vertical range is no greater than wo can walk horizon tally on the earth's surface in a cou ple of hours. If there were land the entire length of the equator it might be possible to run around the world in three weeks. A walk of about four mites a day would bring a man from Behring Strait to Cape Hope in about seven years. The earth as a component part of tho universe may be compared to a small isolated isl and Oil its surface. With tho Statp of California again in the hands of tho Central Pacific Railroad ring, and tho city of San Francisco given over to tbp tender mercies of Kearney's, gang, with Mayor Kalloch at their head, it is not probable that tho Chinese will need a j second invitation "to go." Critic's Farm. Editor Orangeburg Democrat: I think I met you on a "day out" ntul you brought up at Critic's. Well, as somebody enquires through the Times for Critic, I will just sny that I accidentally stumbled upon him, and to look at his crop was the next move. But first, let me say to Santco that he did not look well for ear marks or ho would have known that Critic is no other than? Let me give him one of the car-marks, "I promised to correct all errors published in your agricultural column. I must be as good us my word." Friend Critic is not an expert at hiding Iiis personali ty He says: "I have this class of lands (poor sandy) to contend with." This has misled some. Critic's place is A Iso. 1, with only a few sandy knolls on which he is experimenting. As said above, I came upon Critic ac cidentally. Ho with along face thus, "Fields white, with cotton going up aud bauds all lclt to pick in the fields for others?supposed for variety." I thought, is this one of the phases of farming which he finds so "pleasant" as to wish to teach others. Soon, however, the elongated face assumed its usual proportions as we weut by amber cane, black top, red top, &c, through the rows of cotton. So many cotton seed and straw, so many cotton seed and salt, so man}' of this, and so many of that. Don't you see the difference here? Don't you see the difference there ! Accus ing tho whole South with cotton on the brain; himself with another, though I may say counteracting and healthy weight thereon, i. e. peas. Peas on the left of us, Feas on the right of us, Fcas in front of us, Feus everywhere, Except on a sandy knoll; here Critic failed, and lie has been administering a medicine to Mr. Dukes that in this instance lie didn't take himself. The orchard?the tree ia the cor ner, "the Curtis," fill your pockets. A few trees were suggestive of the coming Fair, and a Tantalus cup to loitering juveniles. M. L. B. The Mania for Office Is increasing yearly?not only in our county, but throughout the Slate and the United Slates. It is a terrible disease, and when once it gets posses sion of a person it never "lets up" on him until the goal has been renched or death comes in mercy and claims the vi.tim as his own. V2or some time past we have felt strong symp toms of the disease stealing upon us, but our excessive modesty has en abled us to hold it in check pretty ef fectually up to this time. But we can do it no longer. Wc must speak oul. We want an ofllcc ! Wc want to be elected as editor of your family paper. Do you sec the point? Very well ; the polls ire now op:n, read) for the ballots. Send them along. They must be green, ami have en dorsed on them "Two Dollars," &C, occ. Or, if you haven't that kind of ballot, two of the "dollars of our daddies" will elect us just the same. We know you can find abler candi dates, but you cannot find one more willing to servo you. Our patriotism, right here, knows no bounds! Our love for the "dear people"?our cou slilueul8?(those who subscribe and pay iu advance)?amounts almost to i-dollar-try 1 Tho sacrifices we are willing to make cannot be estimated ! On this point it may be enough to say wo expect to devote our entire income, after paying expenses, to the support of the poor 1 There, now ; show us a candidate who has ever promised more. Your vote 1 your vote 1 wo want your vote 1 "Denr people," do you hear? Two dollars sent us, in advance, will Meet us for a year.?Edgvfield Monitor. The Washington Fost says : "The South will raise this year about fivo million bales of cotton, two hundred thousand hogsheads of sugar, and nearly six hundred million pounds of tobaceo. This will be a half million more bales of cotton, twice as jnuch sugar, and twelve million more pounds of tobacco than she ever raised before. Jf prices continue fair tho South will ho comparatively rich er when she markets the present crop than any other auction of tho coun try." A man seldom improves who has no bettor moilcl than himself. On the Birthday of a Friend. To-ihiy. some eighteen years ago. A little flower sprang from earth; Twas frail, and bright ami pure as snow, And spreading gladness from its birth. The parent blossom watched the bud With tender and unceasing lovo, And f'?r reward site saw it grow Tho sweetest llowcr in the grove. Perhaps, it eould not peer in grace, Those wondrous flowers of beauty rare; Or, nestling in its humble place, He seen by rhose who passed it there; But well sufficed it to engage Tho prtdse of those who cared to view Rather the flower of sweet perfume Thau those of rich and gaudy hue. Accept my verso, dearest friend; it is lor thee their measures flow; Be still a modest, gentle flower, Content to humbly live and grow; Fulfill thy mission faithfully; itcuiembcr, it is woman's lot To soothe, to comfort and to love, And render earth a blessed spot. More than Two Bales to tho Acre. Several times during the last four years we have taken occasion to call attention to the new process of cotton planting so succesfully pursued by J. J. Crump, of this county*. The result of this process was 1,310 pounds of ginned cotton to the acre iu 1877, 1,000 pounds in 1878, and Ibis season ti e prospects are good for the heavi est yield he has ever had. For the benefit of our readers and exchanges wo will again give Mr. Crump's form-j nla* lie prepares his land in Decem ber by digging boles thiee feet from each other, each eighteen inches square and eighteen inches deep; these holes he fills with manure to within four inches of the top and the remainder ot the way with top soil. At the usual season he plants with a view to having three stalks to a bill, and piles the clay from the bot tom of the pits as deep over their tops as the supply will admit of, with a view to keeping down the grass, and thon cultivates with band and hoe, never allowing a plow to be used. The preparation is made in December in Order to subdue the fiery qualities ! of the fertilizer, aud the boles when prepared will make at least three crops without changing their contents ?tho second crop generally being the best, and the first nnd third being about the same. This plan has gotten beyond the sphere of experiment and I there is no longer necessity for a man [ to scrape over a dozen acres when he can obtain more cotton and better cotton by Mr. Crump's process.?Ab erdeen (Miss.) Examiner. Poor and Proud. Young men out of business arc sometimes sadiy hampered by pride. Many young men who go West take more pride than money, and bring back all the piide and no money at all. A young man that "works for his board," no matter what honest work he docs, has no reason for shame. A young man who cuts the bread of idleness, no matter how much money he has, is disgraced. All young men starting in lite ought to aim?first of all?to find a place where they can earn their bread and butter with hoe, ax, spade, wheelbar row, curry-comb, blacking brush?no matter how. Independence first. The bread and butter question set tled, let the young man perform his duty so faithfully as to attract, and let him constantly keep his eyes open for a chance to do better. About half the poor, proud young men, and two-thirds the poor, discouraged young men, are always out of work. The young man who pockets bis pride, and carries an upper lip as stiff n9 a cast-iron doorstep scraper need not sta:ve, and stands a good chance to become rich. As he sat upon the steps, on Sun day evening, he claimed the right to ! a kiss for every shooting star. She I at first demurred, as became a mo dest maiden, but finally yielded. She was even so accommodating as to call his attention to the flying melc oi? that were about to escape bis ob servation, and then got to calling him on lightning bugs* and at las* got him down to steady work on the light of a lantern that a man was swinging about the depot in tho dis tance, where trains were switching. Are you going to sow oats liberal ly this fall? Do not sit still arid talk about the dry spell, and tell your neighbors what you would have made if it had rained in time, but got up and sow a large oat crop, so that you may not have to buy corn next year. One aero of good Und put jo oats will make feed enough .for one horso or mule for three or four months, and if you make more than you wish, thoy are always ready sale. 4JKA'. MOOD'S CHILDREN. "J5EQUE ATHEJ) TO TUE SOLDIERS Ol TUE SOUTH." On Tuesday we learned that Gen. j. B. Hood bad bis life insured 41m: 850,000, and tins amount would come to Iiis children at once. Desiring to be perfectly assured upon this poinli and feeling that if the report woce true-, there was no use-collecting funds for the children, we telegraphed to the New Orleans Picayune for precise information as to their condition. The following dispatch was received in answer z "New Orleans, September 2.? General Hood left absolutely fKiibing. The benevolent association, the army of Northern Virginia and other par lies here are at work preparing to raise a fund for the support of the children. With his dying breath he bequeathed his children to the sol diers of the South." "And wilh his dying breath he be queathed his children to tho soldiers of the South!" The strong man turn ed in the agonies of death towards his helpless little ones, his great heart al most broken over their bereavement. His life was spent, ami they were to be left penniless and alone. There was not even a moihcr, to whose ten der care he could consign them. Their bereavement was absolute. There was no strong and helpful gov ernment to which he could appeal, lor his sword had been drawn and hia blood spilled in a failing cause.? When death had chilled his poor shattered frame live little ones would be helpless indeed* How his.father's heait must have ached as he thought of their dreary and dessolate future. But at last, with one of those glimpses of hope that come to lighten death, his face brightened J*nd he said: "1 bequeath my children-to the the soldiers of the South 1" And consoled at last in having found fathers for his little.ones, he died. And shall this ptaeious. legacy be disregarded? Vcos" man:! he gavo his sword to his country. He gave the flower of his life .to its service. He gave a leg to Georgia. Ho gave an arm to Virginia. And now, dying in honorable poverty, he gives to his o'd soldiers all that ho has loft? his children 1 Will not his soldiers be proud of this trust? Will not their hearts grow tender over the care of their little ones? Shall the old hero who died, trusting his darlings to his best and only fiiends, have his trust betrayed? Never! These chil dren are tho childran of the South and the old soldiers will take care of them. Now, there will be five thousand soldier.-,, or the sons of soldiers, who will read this article to-day. Let every man who reads it sit down aud send something to tho lnnd. One dollar from each man will he enough I That will make a liberal fund. Then let every man who was l a soldier?let every man whose heart went out to the soldiers?let every man who loves the brave or piths tho helpless?send al least one dollar to I the fund for General Hood's children ! ! Send at once. Lei every man res pond ! The Georgia fund must reach 810,000 1?Atlanta Constitution, Of course the Administration is "gratified" with the result of the Cal ifornia election. Wc do not consider it within the range of probability that anything will happen this fall that will not "gratify" tho de facto : President. We fully expect him to weep tears of joy when Kwing's elec tion to tho governorship of Ohio is announced on the 15th of ne\i. month. Don't live in hope with your arms folded. Fortune smiles on those who roll up their sleeves und put their shoulder to the wheel that propels them on lo wealih and happiness. Cut this out and carry it about with you in jour vest pocket, ye who idle in saloons or at the corners of thu ?dreets. An exchange says: "Kevoseno will make tea kettles shine as bright as new." "Yes," remarked another paper, "kerosene will do wonders; it will make a house shine so it can bo seen for miles but it is terribly de structive to paint." The numerical disproportion be tween the sexes is becoming greater every year. It is thought the census of 1880 will be so remarkable in ibis respect as to dishearten most singlo women under thirty.