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VOL. (>. CON
, i. I,. ? The
Hood Mellon .
\\re wonder it' "The Hood Follow" :
over mistrusts liis goodness, or real- '
izes how selfish, how weak, how 1111- j
primapled, and how had a lollow ho '
truly is. Ho novor regards tho e<mofjitoncos
??! his acts as thoy relati to
others, and especially those of his i
family friends. l.itlle fits of generosity
towards to in are supposed to 1
atone tor all his misdeeds, while he
infliota upon them the disgraces, inconveniences
and hardens which at\
tend a selfishly dissolute life. The in- |
vital ion of a flit lid, the taunts of good- 1
Matured boon companions, the temptations
of jolly fellowship, these are
enough to overcome all his scruples,
it he has any scruples, and to lead j
him to ignore all the possible results
to those who love him best and who
must care for him in sickness and all !
tho unhappy phases of his selfish lite, :
Tile Hood Fellow is notoriously j
careless of his family. Any outside
friend can lead him whithersoever lie J
will?into debauchery, idleness, vagabondage.
He can ask a favor, and J
it is done. He can invite him into
disgrace, and lie goes. Ho can direct
him into a job of dirty work, and he
straightway undertakes it. He can
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may suit his vicious whims, and regardless
of wile, mother, sister, who i
may he shortened in their resources
so as legitimately to claim his protecting
hand,?regardless of honorable
lather and brother,?ho will spend his
money, waste his limw, and make himself
a subject of constant and painful
anxiety, or an umitgaled nuisance to
those alone who care a straw for
him. What pay does he reeeive lor
his painful sacrifice? The honor ??I
being considered a "(rood hollow,''
with a set of men who would not spend
a cent for him if they should see him i
starving, and who would laugh o\er
his calamities. When he dies in the
ditch, as he is most likely lo die, they
j breath a nigh over the swill they
drink and say, "alter all, he was a
Good Fellow."
The feature of the Good Fellow's
case, which makes it well nigh hopeless,
is, that he thinks he is a (Jood
Fellow, lie thinks that his pliable
disposition, his readiness to do other
flood Tel lows a service, and his J?> 11 y
ways, atone lor all his laults. His
love of praise is led by bis companions,
and thus his sell complacency is
nursed. Quito unaware that his good
fellowship is tlie result of his weakness;
quite unaware that his sacrifice
of honor, and the honor and peace of
his family, for the sake of outside
praise is the offspring of the most
heartless selfishness; quite unaware
that his disregard ol the interests and
feelings of those who are bound to
him by the closest ties of blood, is the
demonstration ol his utterly unprinci- |
pled character; he carries an unruf- i
tied, or a jovial front, while hearts ]
bleed or break around liiin. Of Jill (
the scamps society knows, the trndi- <
tionnl good fellow is the most despic- 1 <
able. A man who for the sake of his j 1
own selfish delights or the sake of;]
<l> '
the praise of careless and unprinci- |
pled friends, makes his home a scene I
of anxiety and torture, and degrades i
and disgraces all who are associated {
with him in his homo life, is, whether j
he knows it or not, a brute. If a man <
cannot be loyal to his home and to ]
those who love him, then he cannot he <
loyal to anything that is good, j "*'&
is something mean beyond dc scrip;.*.,
in any man who cares more for any- 1
thing in this world than the honor, j
confidence and love of bis family, i
There is something radically wrong in t
such a man, and the quicker, and tho i
more thoroughly he realizes it, in a >
humiliation which bends him to the 1
earth in shame and confusion, tho bet- (
tor for him. The traditional good fel- j
low is a bad fellow from the crown of ?
his head to the sole of bis foot. Ho 1
is as weak as a baby, vain as a pea- c
cook, sellih as a pig, and as unprinci- c
pled as a thief. Ho has not one re- c
deem able trait upon which a reasona- r
ble self-respect can bo built and c
braced. i;
Give us the bad fellow, who stands t
by his personal and family honor, f
who sticks to his own, who does not f
"treat" his friends while his home is If
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11 Iiulopc
WAYHORO, S. C., ft A
in need of tho money ho wastes,
and who gives himself no indulgence
ol good fellowship :it the expense
of dulv! A man with whom
the approving smile o( a w ile, or mother,
or sister, des not weigh more than
a thousand crazy braves of boon companions,
in just no man at all.
Huppj Incidents.
The cracking of a picture placed in
the sunshine set Van Kvck experimenting
t<> produce a varnish that would
dry 111 the shade, tie. found what he
sought, and found beside that by mixing
it wit!i his colors they acquired
greater force and brilliancy, and required
no subsequent varnishing; ami
so came about the discovery, or rediscovery,
ot the art of painting in oil.
Mezzotint o owed its invention by
Prince Kupert. to the simple incident,
of u sonny's gun-barrel being rusted
by the dew. Henry Sclent ward, a
N uremhorg glass-cut t or, happened to
let some aqua-fortis (all upon his spectacles,
and noticed the glass was cort'/Xilitil
n ml col I onoil \t l.iO'o t !tn t.iiia.
fortis had u.uche.l it. Taking (lie
hint, no made some liquid accordingly,
drew some figures upon a piece ol
glass, covered them with varnish, and
a|>|i!i<> 1 his cornming fluid, cut awav j
the class around his diawing, so that j
when he removed the varnish the figures
appeared mised upon a dark I
ground; and etching upon glass was
added to the ornamental arts. Alois
^enelclder, plavrighl and actor, thinkink
it possible to etch upon stone in
lieu ol copper, polished a slab for the
purpose. lie was distill bed bv his
mother coming into his small laboratory
with tho voqnusl that he would
jot down her list of things for
the wash, as the woman was waiting
to take the basket away. There being ;
neither paper nor ink handy, Senefelder
scribbled the items on his stone
with his etching preparation, that he
might copy them at his leisure. Some
time afterward, when about to clean
the stone, he thought he might as well ;
see what would be the effect of biting j
the stone with aqua-lbrtis, and in a
few minutes saw the writing standing
out in relief. Taking tip a pelt-ball j
charged with printing ink, he inked
the stone, took ofl* a few impressions
upon paper, and lie hud invented lithography.
The pelt-hall used I?y SeneIelder
was long indispensiblo in a
printing olliee. A Salopian printer, !
in a hurry to get on with a job, could
not find his ball, and inked the l'orin
with a piece of soft glue that had
fallen out of the glue-pot, with such
excellent results that he thenceforth
discarded the pelt-ball altogether, and
by adding treacle to the glue, to keep
it from hardening, hit upon the composition
of which printers' rollers have
over since hocn made.
Three very different discoveries are 1
recorded to have resulted from the
unintentional application ol intense
Ileal, l'liny attributes the discovery
>1 glass to some merchants traveling
with nitre, who stopping on the bank j
Dt a river to take a meal, were at a
loss lor stones to rest their kettles upon, j
Putting them upon pieces of nitre, they
cindled their fires; the nitre dissolved
jy the heat, mixed with the Band, and ,
he merchants were astonished to sec J
i transparent matter flowing over the \
ground, which was nothing else but
^lass. Charles Goodyear had for
(rears experimented in vain, hoping to
leprive indiarubber of its siisoeptibil*
to the action of heat and cold. Con.
I g with a friend*on tho subject,
le emphasized an assertion by flinging
i piece of sulphured rnbber aeroes the
com. It lighted upon the stove; and
vhen he picked it up, a lew days afteryard,
he found the intense heat to
vhioh it had been subjected had con
erred upon the india-rubber just the
quality ho had so long striven to irn>art
to it. According to some, ho
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immuicu upon tire discovery in a (ill*
omit man nor; but at any rate, vulcanized
india-rubber wok the creation
>f an accident. A Limerick tobacjonist,
looking dolefully at his poor
icighborA groping among the stnollering
ruins of his burnt-out shop,
loticcd that some of them, after trying
lie contents of certain canisters, earciilly
loaded their waistcoat pockets
roni them. IIo followed suit, and
ound the snuff had come out of thei
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ndcnt Jouvnnl.
;I I 11 DAY, .1 UNH <?. I
fiery ordeal very much improved in
' pungency and aroma. 1/iko :i wise
man ho said nothing hut took another
place, set up a lot of ovens, ami before
long I (lack Yard Suull---otherwise,
"Irish 1>I aokguard''?was all the rage
willi lovers of nn?ul lltillation; ami in
I few years Lundyfoot was a rich man,
owing to the acchlent he thought had
j ruined him. A would-he alchemist,
i seeking to discover what miature of
earths would make the strongest eruci;
ltles, one day found lie had made porcelain
Instead of t raiisinuliug 111 tals,
as he had fomlly hoped to do, l>oltg< r
transmuted himself; "as il lie had heen
| touched with a conjurer's wand, lm
was 011 a sudden Iranslorined from an
alchemist into a pot tor.
(.1/lumbers' Journu/.
Address to the I'airnns uf (be South.
11 I'om lis' llural < aroiinian.|
Tim under-igmd repnsonlativos ol
the Cotton States in the National
(irange, heg leave to present tiie Patrons
<11 I I nslm ii<! i l in I'.n ! <'<> i >ii I
mo section of 1110 I nion, t.iict follow icq
HiijjfgOKlloot*, whicli tlwy believe ( 1>
justified liy iliu present condition of
I lie Smith;
Durino the past seven years our
cotton fields haye added to inc wealth
ot the world v-,0u:)1u()0,0o0) and
caused prosperity to smile upon every
one who has handled our cron, save |
those who slruutfle l< r its product ion.
.Annually the energies o llie cotton
planter have lucn exhausted i?; nt- |
Lcir.ptino to product ;i maximum crop
of a single staple, while quite us frequently
ho has reduced his nuuns in
supplyiuo |,is nec< ssary wants. A |
system hased upon such a policy and
producing such results must he radically
NNouio, :iti<I it persisted in will i
lead to bankruptcy and ruin. We
propose to inquire into the cause ot
mis rum, and, it possible, present a
method ot rcmoviiiLC it. lias it been
that the supply <>l cotton has exceeded
\ he demand':' Slati-ti?*s do not show
this lael. Is it that our labor has
been unreliable and expensive? The
same labor inver-l incut has nowhere
yielded a creator market value ol products.
lias Providence indicted upon
us an agricultural disaster? lie has
often interposed lor our hen< lit.
What, then, has averted our anticipated
prosperity? -Arc not we responsible
lov our dirciul condition in ilnat]
wo have 11 jT-c 11?? ] too much the
growth o( hioa11stuI)s ami subMitulcd
therefor almost exhaustively the cultivation
of cotton?
No people can ever he prosperous
who are not sell-sustaining. Our tortile
soil, exliau tlc.-.s mineral wealth,
abumlaut water power and genial,
salubrious climate avail us nothing ill
annually we expend millions lor subsistence.
It is generally conceded that
home-grown bread is cheapen
than purchased supplies, and tin; observation
ol every planter is that t hose
Southern farmers who live within
themselves are more independent and
less incumbered with debt than those j
who have relied solely upon the cotton
crop. Were it otherwise, it is
hazardous for any people to rely upon
others for a supply of those articles
which are necessary for l heir daily
consumption. The horrors of'famine
which have more than once cursed
the people of India, in tlieir ellbi I . to
grow cotton to the exclusion ol bread*
stall's would have been repeated in our
midst but that we were able to supply
our necessities from the teeming loud iries
of the Northwest, Wo shrink
from the contemplation of what would >
he our condition should disaster d. prive
us of that resource.
During the past year certain portions
of Iowa, Minnesota and JJakoto
have been invaded by the grasshopper,
which has swept their fields like a
fire and destroyed every vestige oi
vegetation.
Imagine your condition should a
similar invasion become genera! in tie
North West. Couple with this idea,
the total failure ol a cotton crop, either
from the worm, from drought, 01 any
other unavoidable cause. Improbable
as such visitations may appear, we
have not the power to prevent them,
and is it wise to subject ourselves to
the possibility of becoming the vie
lima oihuich calamities? Depend upon
it, our wisest and safest policy is, an
Car an practicable, to prod ma; jit borne
our necessary supplies. is there a
farm in the fcinuih upon wha n ibis
cannot be done, ami at the name time
produce the average cotton crop as the
net result oi the farmer's annual labor?
We believe there is not, and you have
only to practice this policy for the
year 18*74, and harvest tune will proclaim
redemption to the South and a return
to wonted prosperity.
As our constitution expresses it, the |
prosperity oi a nation is in proportion
to the value of its productions. Then
how magnificently prosperous should
l>c the cotton -States of this i'nion?
Annually 4,000,000 of bales of cotton i
ws.
ST-!. NO.
aic jn'Oil i' -I 111><>ri i > 11 in soils. '
I Jut what propoi lion <>1 this vast
amount is retained t?? indicate our
prospci it \ ? Oiu half of it is oxp? nil- j
cd tor necessary supplies, while the
I l'ciiiaimlci* isi .ii? "? i ' 1 1 1
- ? ? mi > mi n iK'tw i i'H i:iuor
and luxes, 11 oil cu lin' cost 01 prodm- |
Hon exceeded the value ol t he article
produced. Shall this policy continue?'
hxlcnsi vc c >1 ton crops have rv inert I
our unity of purpose and entailed
poverty upon us. An equally uuiloiin '
adhesion to mixed husbandry won hi
secure our recuperation. I'attvns of
the South, do you appreciate your i
pnvtle?jr< .-? Kelicet upon your opp it u
t unity to exact tribute ot tbo vt rid. 1
Cotton is a necessity, <tud the extent j
J of that necessity can he calculated j
with exactness. It is eounlly known 1
what proportion ot that ncc< s-it \ must |
ho supplied by the eoltoii ."tales ol 1
Ainctie.a. U M,500,001) hales air grown,
they will be coc.su.u?d before another,
co?p can I?. gat here I, ; nu a renuiiu ralive
market, price will he HUsiaiued:
by t he consequent d? iiiand. it 1,000,otiOO,
b.a! ire grown, the J area mar
filial excess will control and di press
liie market. Is it not, within the power
ol'onr organi/. at ion to control t h i
j jcalurc ol our condition? Alternatives |
for success are l.uuuious, but we need I
it-ly ?tdy upon the single one ol coop
ralino' in the determination to sub- j
sist at liouie. \\ itb tins end nil'dncd,
t lie re is n<> reason why we should not
hi' the happiest, most independent and
prosperous people i>n earth.
1). W'y.Ul Aiken, S. ('. member K\.
('iiuunit 1 ee National (?range.
\V. 11. ('hainb a*', blaster Alabama
State (1 range.
A. .1. \ auo'uan, Master .Mississippi
St ate < ? range.
ilcnj. \V. Wardlaw, Master Florida
State tl range.
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. i . > "ii< .?i.( mm a vi k a 11 sas niau' I
liranoe.
II. \V. \j. Lewis, .Master Louisiana
Slate < Jran^e.
<i. .1. Smith, Master (Joorejia Slate
( I ralure.
\V. Maxwell, Master Tennessee
St ate ( 1 : au-re.
t'oininhus M ill--, Ma; t i N orth Carolina
St -ite (1 ratine.
j he A re {<> *rary el lite Hod.
| From the X. v, Tribune.]
This is the lust, country in III*
w or III for men who earn their living
hy matin il lal?or. This is for -tl! oj us
a snhjeot ol'e<mnratiilation ami piide.
1 he majority must in everv civilized)
f otnmnnit y he ( mi j)l ?vimI in this wav, 1
ami tin* political s.y -leni which heat secure.
their welfare, other things bcinj/
/ n r equal,
may he regarded as Lest adapt. ]
ml to the wants ot modern HoeuM y,
lint, on the other hand, i here are
men who would like to labor with
t heir hands iI their lellows would let
lliein, and w ho must starve if they do
not. A in I there ore men \rlio n'.nil.l
prefer to make their living in sonic
oilier way, ami find it very < 1 iHi?*u 11.
Two fads illustrating these points
have just coinj under our observation. ;
l\?r several months past the now
Tumi;>?ii'building has given cmplovinent
to a large niunbor ol skilled ami
unskilled laborers. To the lattor, it h is
been paying as wages two dollars a day,
about as much as two-thirds of tin!
school-teachers and clergymen of the
country receive. A lew days ago
they demanded an increase ol' lilly
cents per day. This was more than
was paid on other buildings 111 process
of construction in the city, and we declined
to yield to it, offering the
strikers an increase ol twenty five
cents, which they refused. They
thereupon left work, and appear L<? In;
in such comfortable circumstances
that they have passed their time since
then, lounging in Printing House
Square ami the Pity Hall J'ark, m
fresh paper collars and new-dyed
mustashes, taking an i?s111ctio pleasure
in contemplating the handsome
lacade of the new leiildmg, so far as
it goes, and diverting themselves by
throwing tin occasion brick nt the
do/en men who want to I tike their
places, and support their own families
l>y doing the work nt the n asonable
i
wager, these idlers have refused.
The other fact wc have referred to
is equally significant. A lawyer advertised
the other day for a clerk,
requesting applicants to stale age,
acquirements, and qualilicatioiKj. lie
received in one day over one hundred
replies to his adverrisoinent, from men
of 20 to JiO )ears of age, all of whom
wrote fair hands, some excellent; all
were acquainted with the routine
business of a law-oflice; some were
attorneys already admitted to practice,
graduates of colleges and universities,
and in several instances the applicants
were also accomplished stciio
grauhors. Ihtiu men <t<A<ul sctlries of
from ci>//it lo Ji/Xeen dollars a (/ </.*,
less than the strikers in front of our
building wore demanding lor eight
hours a day ol more labor of their
hands, requiring no intelligence whatever.
.Now, we have no objection whatever
to a man's Helling his labor for (
all he can get for it. It may be said i
to bo worth all it will bring in tho i
open market. If by making coiubina*' ]
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l?ll\ ci'D'i i'ov^.u'Ii ?ii|li^|iiM|te I iih'j: !i'? ?.
' 'lie ,i # v. Ml ?'?>hst|lut?? sriiiar**,
V h.'il,, i- u < t >1 .<! >. rvr> ' ?'#sthdt?
an lucb Will bfl clurgud lor its i -j |i,u .
Mam i . itIcos (r
i] | Kane- i| notice*
(>bitii<ni?-s . on vjimic f"i-? *?; nrflr n-iQ
i sua o i It . t uilviM'U.iiin; r.tt**v.
l.Olii,'. "? not ii </s of one v- i ir? fee.
A li:? mi ?!' ci'M! t Will t": to Hi >
whvse advertisements me t? )>? kej tin lor
lei in of three inoiitlis or Ion
*-? ? .
Hons with liis fello\v-w<,rkniet? le enn
raitm the ptieo of Ithor, hi** omj lovers
have no reeourHo hut to yield to f i^o
oru'i/.ations or look tor labor out-i-h* of
litem. !?ut In r?' live line must, he down
.. .?,.i.. "v* i? i
I mi-M V. .?'? WMIKIIKItl WOlll'l
rather be i'i 1?? than work for w 1 at Mh
lahor will bring, has right or law ><i
his side when ho trios to keep ? tin. ra
from working, either by I'ovco or :otituiilal
i<<n. The second fact we i?. i v
mentioned irt a stav'-ling one, : r d
worthy ot the widest publicity. 'if,
ought t<> bo known every\\ Inoe,
thro ighoiit the country, wlicr- \ <
there tire young men hesitating who
er they will trust to their hands <>r
their brains for a living, that at th.s
hour, in New-York, educated men are
demanding the highest and
arduous kind of clerical work at a
which a hod-carrier scorns. The men
of edin at inn have no organization, no
I'nions which will support them in
ii 1I c? less. They must work or go
hungry, and their labor will thercforo
bring ??nly what employers timl it
protiitablo to give. It is an awkward
argument to promt to advocates of
eoinpui ory edueat on, to show theni
that iearuiug to read and write drives
a man into less lucrative work than
carry iug t lie lied,
F<v the < hri.st ian Observer.
\ rnrahle Not >Vti1tcu in the llihle.
nv in r. Kiev. .r. m. i?. o i is.
Man has but one soul, and he has
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which to s.ivo that soul. Whatever
elos ho may gain, il he loses his soul,
his liter is a failure; ai d, il the present
lite he a failure, il is a latluie to r?ll
eternity. To illusfrat this fact, hern
ye a parable thai i*< not written ill the
Ihhh; A man, going out ot tho right
pathway ot lile to gather lot bidden
Irute, fell over a precipice. lie caueiit
lit the hrauehea ol a tree that in
the side ot the steep declivity. There
lie hung, bet ween the light ami life
from which he had fallen, and tho
drkncsH ami death into which he was
falling, lie looked down and saw
two worms gnawing sit the root of the
tree, ami in- looked up and *:iv. 'thai
the (op of tho tree reached sis high :is
the preeinio", and bent over ihcfp'tnii
above. lie thus saw his only possible
chance of saving himself, and (hat
every moment ol delay was lull of
danger, ami brought liitn nearer to tho
I earful death to which he was most
inevitably doomed, if he remaieml
where he was. He began to ascend
the tree to make Ida escape, but found
a hive of honey in tho branches and
stopped to l< cd upon it.. W h?lo he cat
the honey, i?n lorgot his danger; and,
in the meantime, the two worms bit
asunder the roots; then down loll tho
tree, plunging the man and honey
into the deep and dreadful abyss
below, and as he fell, the bees swarmed
out ol i ho hoicy upon the man and
tortured him with the anguish of their
stings. rids represents the perilous
Condition of sinful man. Turing out
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or uk* punway ot oriciitence to oat tlie
forbidden t ru i r j he has la I Ion over ilio
precipiee, in ?\ hangs ovoir ho grave,
below which yawn* tire fathomless
abyss-'?1 eternal death. The tree .in
which he harms is 11?ipresent mortal
lite, with its i?ne opportunity of ealvaIion
tor the immortal soul, like a single
branch, reaching tip to he top ami
bending o\er the plain; ihe tow Wortu$,
gnawing at 'he root of this tree, lire
day ami in 'lit, which are the unceasing
and tiivlers consnmers ot time, li'ho
hive ol bono) is the sweet ami ensnaring
plea- I.Io of time, which too-often
prose a .1 ai toii-i atiou to men, du
tlie enjo) merit ami delusion ot which
they loi g< i tic m rnentary danger ot
losing titeir iinnio tal souls. In anunexpeeted
morm nt le t reo falls, and man
dies uinsi ...dust und ashes to asbep,
and the spirit lolh d who gATC it; mid,
a- t he until di* -s, must he .remain
forever and < % r. There are no changes
in eternity.
1 do not Unow who lirst related this
parable, nor in what hook it inny now
be louinl. i now rep at it as 1 he_ur.<|
it years ago, ami le>|? and pray tnat il
may make a- deep and perdue-tit
impression on the hemt and life ot the
reader as it h .s up? n mine. 'If yon
are an nii .-ou* ri? ?I man, you have in
it n picture ot vour own pn sent dangerous
and wretched situation. ?! o??k
up and see v our onlv hope and opportunity
Ot being saved. That winch
seems to he the top of the tree, rising
above and ex tending o\ ei the precipice,
is the a.in of t prist, rebelling itow ,
from heaven into tills mortal lilt" to
save sinneis. v ?.-o<n as you shall
begin tt? strive in eiriinsi to aftccicj,
I lis hand will take hoil n1 . .'thu .jmi 1
lilt,yon mil <>I dunj^<?\ and' ptn?e\>our
feet above the (iiveipiee, on itjje.le Jv
of Iii Christ their is hone I n*
the ta I Jon *ii * I In?| fur t he .sihn?*et ttml
salvation lor every soul that will b
in Hun, and lay hold of lit-, hand thai
is uvgv sin.-teiieil out to save.
Washing <>n, Ohio, whieh w.m the
L-radle of the temperance movement iu
that state, h is j ?Nt repealed the ordinane<
. pissed two month* ago, prohibiting
tin.' auic ol beer there.
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