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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture Markets &c Vol. XII. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876. No. 39. 1S PU.3LISnBiD F,VERbY WEDNESDAY ROPUNING2 it Newberry., S. C. BY THS F, GRUKEIRt Editor and Proprietor. Ternts, $2.50.per Jnnunt, Invariably in Advaume 7The .aei stopped at the expiration of iime for wiitis paid. [OF The >~ Tnar denotes exp1ration of sa?b , cription. BE CAMEFUL WHAT YOU SAY.1 In speaking of a persdn's faults, Pray don't forget your owia; Rc,.member those with homes of glass, Should seldom throw a stone. If we have nothing else to do But talk of those who sin, 'Tis better we commo~nce at borne, And from that point begin. We. have no right to judge a man, Until be's fairly tried; Should we not like his company,( We know this world is wide. Some may have faults, and who has not? The-old as well as young; Perhaps we may, for aught we know, Have fifty to their one. I'll ,tell you of a better plan, -.And find it *'iorks full wall; To try myown defectsto care Before of others' tell; And though I sometimes hope to be No worse than some I know, My owni shortcomings bid mae let The faults of others go. Thent let us all, when we commence, To slander friend or foe, With a heavy heart John agreed ,o all Mrs. Alleyne's demands. Lfargaret's love was the only >rightness left in his life ; but of ourse if she could be happier viLh her mother he could sacrifice t. His stern, pale face and con trained manner affected Margaret ainfully when he told her he de ired her to accept her mother's nvitation. "He no longer loves me-he vishes me to leave him," the poor bild cried afterwards, in a passion f tears. But before him she pre ented.a calm exterior, and John Traham thought that his young vife, like the rest of the world vas ready to desert the ship. So Margaret returned to the Louse of her girlhood, calling all er pride to her assistance to en ,ble her to appear indifferent; at her heart was rent by bitter angs, for she persuaded herself hat her husband no longer loved er. Whole nights spent in tears aave traces ; pretty Margaret grew ale and thin, and Mrs. Alleyne egun to fear that, after all, her enderness could not constitute er dar-ing's happiness. Still, the irl never complained, but bore er burden in proud silence. One night Margaret was at a all given by an intimate friend. Ie had danced a great deal, and eing very tired sat down near an pen window ; a heavy curtain ntirely concealed her. Two gen lemen were standing near, and he could hear their conversation istinctly. "So John Graham is bankrupt. am sorry to hear it, he is a most onorable fellow," said one. "Yes," answered the other; "I w him last week; he looks rretchedty. You know he mar ied Miss Alleyne, a pretty little oll without an idea, and what is orse, without a heart; now she as deserted him in his adversity. t is rather hard when a man's wn wife wvill not aid him to bear is trouble." Margaret's heart gave a great ound. How she had misjudged im! How true and tender he gas ! HIe was alone and in tron ile; surely her place was at his ide. T hen, heedless of comments, he left her hiding place. The next day John Graham's tately mansion was to be sold. le had taken great pride in his ome; a thousand tender associa ions were connected with every oom. Now, with a heavy heart, 1 wandered through the deserted ~partments. Here was Margaret's >iano ; the harp he had given her ; ,he ictures and statues they had :hosen together ; every article ap eared like an old friend. Then a eeling of intense desolation crept ~vor him-he was so utterly lone y. The strong spirit was almos t rushed. He threw himself upon he bed and wept like a child. A Luiet step upon the stairs, a rustle f silken robes, a glad cry, then :linging arms were twined about is neck, a soft cheek was pressed o his, tangled golden curls mingled vith bis dark locks. Was it a Iram ? He pressed her close to nake sure of the reality, and issed her with such passionate *ervor that Margaret wept for "Margaret, my wife-Margare t !" 1 sobbed. "Oh, John, how cruel you were :o send mec away ! I'll never eave you again, darling." When they both regained calm. ess, John Graham explained to 2is wife that the next day the ouse was to be sold-he could ot take her into lodgings-per laps she had better return t.o her nother. But Margaret firmly re used. "Any place that is good enough or you is good enough for me. My place is with you. I can as sist you miore than you think," he~ said. Tfhen Margaret commenced the battle oflife in earnest. It is not easy to turn from a life of pleas re, luxury to one of comparative poverty. Margaret at first did ot find her path strewn with roses; there were difficulties to be ecountered ; slights to be en ared ; ease to be sacrificed , but se h.a a brave heart and love had changed the gay, careless girl into the tender, self-sacrificing woman. Sho became her hus baud's closest friend, his best ad viser, the sympathizing confidant of all his plans, ever ready to cheer in moments of depression the first to rejoice in his success. John Graham is a wealthy man again now; success has crowned his efforts, but he ever blesses the adversity which taught him to know the real value of his wife. So Margaret found her mission as a devoted wife and mother, much to her mothers amazement; and John found that he had not married a pretty butterfly of fashion, but an earnest, loving woman. The following is an extract 1rom a letter of Manton Marble to a Libe ral Republican. After viewing the whole political situation he comes to the conclusion that there is NO HOPE FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Is it from such a party that you hope for better things ? Is it from the party which in National Convention on a second ballot nominated Samuel J. Tilden, that you dread a darker day? Do you hope for reform from the party that, as represented in National Convention at Cincin nati, voted down the resolution in which it was proposed by Gov. Davis of Texas that the conven tion should declare it "the duty of Congress to provide measures for carrying out the provisions of what is termed the Resumption Act of Congress, to the end that resumption of specie payments at the time fixed by said act cannot be further postponed?" Do you hope for specie pay meuts from the party which, after having repudiated the pledge of 1869, and after having by the act of 1875 repudiated until 1869 the notes of the United States which are payable on demand, finishes by repudiating all that kept the promise to the hope, in the act that made a promise to the ear, of resumption of specie payments two and a third years hence ? Do you dread and distrust the party that may have erred as to one item in the long catalogue of hin drances to resumption which, as such, it denounces-and that item, one which never by its authors was intended to be, and never has been, made a help to resumption ? A party retained in power re tains its character and its control of its highest officials; wvhereas a party newly charged with power which it has obtained by the pledges of its platform, and the character of its nominee, must ac cept his leadership and be faithful to its pledges in his interpretation of the samo. in the former case you have a popular condonation if not a popular endorsement of the past; you have no inducement to reform since its necessity has not been affirmed, and since all official rewards have been conferred without that price. Where, then, goes the influence of every office holder, high and low ? In the other case the selfish in terest of every aspirant and every appointee concurs with the high est aspirations and the best pur poses of the leader by and under whom they have achieved victory. The steady progress of the Democratic party which you have witnessed during the last decade you may look to see continued hereafter, and continued in the direction of a success that has een so signal. The leaders in that progress are the captains in this fight. TlE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO SUCCEED. We shall succeed. Ohio and In diana, hitherto -repeatedly lost upon false issues, will probably both be carried i October by the Democracy. Ohio will cer tainly be lost to the Republicans, though it is the home State of their candidate. The Democrats cannot but be victorious upon the sound issues of the St. Louis plat form and Gov. Tilden's letter of acceptance. 1 venture the pre dition. Observe that the soft-money Re publicans have never failed to rule their party, and impress their wishes upon every item of its affirmative legislation. Sherman's sham is the monument of the cow ardice of the hard-money Repub licans, who did not dare "fight for a funeral" with the soft-money Republicans. But our soft-money Democrats have been squarely defeated in National Convention, and have promptly and manfully wheeled into line. Perhaps they are themselves suspicious of the cause of the repeated defeats which have followed their most gallant struggles. Perhaps they are con vinced of their own misapprehen sions regarding the hard-money men of the East. Anyway, as faithful Democrats, they have wheeled into line, and they will be as loyal as New York itself to the declared will of the party, and to the work of resumption with which Gov. Tilden will make his administration illustrious. Shall we begrudge them their side-arms and the honors of war? They have already melted into the swelling ranks of the Democracy, and follow the flag. After victory will come the bar vesting of its fruits, will come the construction of a new and better public policy. This wAill be a work as great, as far-reaching as that of Jefferson at the dawn of the century, but more difficult and affecting ten times as many hu man beings for weal or woe. From that, too, will you with hold your hand ? Yours, respectfully, MANTON MARBLE. SNOW-SLIDES IN UTAH. In summer, Cottonwood Dis trict is the most delightful of cool retreats; in winter, a lofty snow bank, with here and there a gray projection. In the winter sun shine it would, but for the occa sional patches of timber, present a painfully dazzling expanse of white ; and as it is, serious snow blindness is not uncommon. When a. warm south wind blows for a day or two, there is greater dan ger of snow-slides. In January, 1875, the snow fell there without intermission for eight daye, filling the deepest gulches, into which the few stray animals plunged and-floundered helplessly. In the circular mountain hollows, with a good growth of timber, the snow drifted from ten to forty feet deep, leaving the largest trees looking like mere shrubs. Distant settle ments were quite isolated, and the narrow passes thereto stopped by snow. However, in the best-de veloped mines work went on un - der-grou nd, all the side chambers and vacant p)laces being stacked full of ore as fast as it was mined. In a few more days the sun came out bright and clear, and though the thermometer rarely rises above the freezing-point during the first two months of the year in the higher camps, yet the warmth seems to have been sufficient to loosen the snow not yet tightly packed, and in every place where the slope was great and the tim er not sufficient to bind it, avalanches of from one to a hun dred acres came thundering into the canons, sweeping all before them. One of the largest swept off that part of Alta City, Little Cottonwood, lying on the slope. Six persons were killed outright, either crushed by the timber of their own cabins or smothered in the snow, and many more were buried five or six hours, until re lief parties dug them out. One woman wvas found sitting upright in her cabin w'th a babe in her arms, both dead. The cabin had withstood the avalanche, but the snow poured in at the doors and windows, and they were frozen or smothered. Thirty-five lives wvere lost in Utah that winter by snowv slides. Six men were buried in one gulch a thousand feet under packed ice and snow. Search for them was useless. But at length the breath of June dissolved their snowy prison, and the bodies were revealed, fresh and fair as if they had just ceased to breathe.-J. H. BE ADLE, in Jiarjpers Magazine for cter. TE CARNIVOROUS PITCH ER-PLANT. Early in March the new leaves of the pitcher-plant (Sarracenia variolaris) begin to make their ap pearance, and soon after, the large yellow flower, with its drooping petals, is very conspicuous every where on the damp pine-barrens of Florida. It is one of the most remarkable of all our insectivorous plants and destroys by far a larger number of insects than any car. nivorous plant with which I am acquainted. The leaves are from six to twelve inches in length, hollow, and trumpet-shaped; they itand very erect, and the opening is covered by a rounded arching hood. Just below the hood the leaf is spotted with pure white, and these spots are surrounded by bright scarlet veins. The inner surface of the hood is lined with brilliant co!ors: finely reticulated veins of scarlet run over a yellow ish ground. A broad wing ex tends .along one side of the leaf from the base to the opening at the summit; the wing is bound or edged by a purplish cord, which also extends around the opening. This cord or edge of the wing is one of the most wonderful features of the plant. From observations taken on the ground where the plants grew, I found irnumerable insects were attracted to them. The flaunting yellow flower may lure many m.oths and butterflies to the plant, but the flower is not the attrac tion after they reach it. This cord that runs along the edge of the wing secretes a sweet fluid, and as the wing reaches to the base of the leaf, insects that crawl on the ground as well as those that fly are attracted to this sweet secretion. I noticed on some of the plants a line of small ants ex tending from the base of the leaf to the summit, feeding on the se cretion ; so numerous were they that they crowded each other, but all steadily advancing to the op en ing, down which they disappeared. All persons who have observed ants feeding have pro bably noticed the regular order in which they move to and from their food. The aphides (plant-lice) produce a sweet secretion of which the ants arc very fond. Linnous, with his fertile imagination, called the ap hides the ants' cows. The ants are very friendly toward the ap hides, for they supply them with abundant food, on which they thrive. Now if we observe the ants feeding on this secretion from the aphides, we can also see that they form two regular lines, the hungry ones moving up the stem to take their food, and the satis fied ones returning down the stem; and very friendly and fraternal they seem, never getting in each other's way, but often greeting one another as they meet, putting their antenno~ together as if com municating something, and then they pass on, each his own way. Mark the difference when the ants are found feeding on the sweet secretion of Sarracenia va riolaris: now they crowd and jostle one another, and s3em wild in their movements, and all are advancing in one line toward the summit of the leaf, on reaching which they disappear do.wn the wide throat of the insatiable Sar racenia. No return line hero. This I observed on the pine-bar rens where the plants grew. I now took a large supply of leaves to my study, and placed them in an upright position in vases of water to keep them fresh, and opened the windows to admit the various insects that are swarming in the air at this season. Soon the room was well supplied n ~ith the common house fly. I now returned the screens to the windows, and sat down to watch results. A number of flies were soon attracted to the plants, and almost as soon as they tasted the secretion they acted strangely. It was astonishing to see how uickly it affected them. They became stupid, and did not notice my hand in close proximity, and they paid no attention to gentle efforts to shake them from the leaf. If L touched one, it would fly a short distance, but invariably it returned to the leaf, and very soon was buzzing inside of the tube, trying to walk up the dry, smooth surface, and ever falling back. until it was exhausted and still. Ir was no use to liberate them. I repeatedly took a leaf and turned the opening downward, and gently knocked it until I lib erated half a dozen or more; but they were soon on the leaves again, evidently trying to straight en themselves. They would pass their legs over their wings, but they were unsteady on their feet, and seemed t be intoxicated. Every fly that I liberated even tually returned to the open mouth and walked in, as if fascinated by some spell. In about two hours the room was cleared of flies-all lured into the fatal traps. I re-opened the windows to admit more, and among the flies came two or three yellow-jackets-wasp-like insects. These yellow-jackets are very fond of any thin'g sweet, and very soon one found the tempting bait. It alighted upon a leaf, and com menced feeding about two-thirds of the way from the base. It seemed to relish the food highly, and ate eagerly and quietly for a few moments; but soon its wings began to flutter, and it proceeded hurriedly and wildly along the line of sweet until it reached the opening. Here it paused a mo ment to feed along the cord that surrounds the mouth of the tube, but its wings were still raised and fluttering. In a little more than a minute from the time it alighted, it was asafe prisoner within, buzzing and flattering and stirring up the imprisoned flies. On holding the leaf up to the light, I could see its frantic efforts to escape-trying to climb the smooth surface, but, like the flies, ever falling back, until it was powerless to move. -MARY TREAT, in Harper's Mag azine for October. BE ECoNoMIcA.-"Take care of the pennies." Look well to your spending. No matter what comes in, if more goes out, you will al ways be poor. Tbe art is not in making money, but in keeping it. Little expenses, like mice in a barn, when they are many, make great waste. Hair by hair, heads get bald; straw by straw the thatch goes off the cottage, and drop by drop the rain comes into the chamber. A barrel is soon empty, if the tap leaks but a dro p a minute. When you mean to save, begin with your mouth ; many thieves p'ass down the red lane. The ale jug is agreat waste. In all other things keep within compass. Never stretch your legs further than your blanket will reach, or you will soon be cold. In clothes choose suitable and lasting stuff, and not tawdry fineries. To be warm is the main thing, never mind the looks. A fool may make money; but it takes a wise man to spend it. Re member, it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one going. If you give all to back and board, there is nothing left for the sav ings bank. Fare hard and work hard when you are young, and you will have a chance to rest when you are old. The term "grass widow" is said to be a corruption of "grace widow," the former expression being merely a barbarism. "Grace widow." is the term applied to one who becomes a widow by grace of favor, not of necessity, as by deathb, and originated in the early ages of European civilization, when divorces were granted but seldom and wholly by authority of the Catholic Church. When such de cree was granted to a woman the Papail receipt stated "Viduca de gracia," which interpreted is "widow of grace." In the law of the French it would read, "Veuve de grace," which in English gives "widow of grace." or "grace widow," "veuve" being translated as "widow." In 1807, while Lewis and Clark were crossing the Rocky moun tains, a number of Indians followed them for several days in order to restore some articles that they had lot NEWSPAPER WRITING. In a country like ours, where everybody who can read at all reads newspapers, and a large proportion of the people have ao other literature than such as is furnished them by their local journal, the importance of good newspaper writing can scarcely be over-estimated. Journalists be come in a measure educators of the people. The moral tone of the articles which the papers con tain leaves its impress upon the readers, and their literary tastes are apt to develop into something akin to the- tastes of those who control the columns of the period icals. One who has taken this work upon himself can not be toc careful, therefore, in putting be fore his readers such mental food as will give a healthy tone to their minds. It is. the duty of every editor, so far as is in his power, to see that his paper is free from all that might tend to vitiate the taste or contaminate the morals of those who constitute the read ing masses; and it is much to be regretted that so little care is taken to make our journals what they should be in this respect. If our newspaper men would strive to lay aside the "blood and thunder" style, the "catch-penny" rhetoric, and tell their thoughts in a manly,. simple, straightforward manner, without much circumlo cution, exaggeration and gaudy dressing, there would soon -be a wonderful revolution in the tastes which some of our people now have for what is in derision called by the more intelligent "news paper style." There might soon be less traffic in dime novels, such as the "Lone Lovers of the Wil derness," "The Father Murderer," "The Demented Lover," and the like. * More substantial mental "pabulum" might then be sought after, and a finer moral tone in fused into certain orders of so ciety. This way of'giving every man in the country "a puff," and on the principle that "he who peppers the highest is surest to please," has -made newspaper praise and notoriety utterly valueless and ab solutely distasteful to all sensi ble persons. The habit some news paper men thave of over-doing everything,invariably saying mor e than they mean, and meaning pretty much nothing by what they say, has rendered it necessary to receive all that they say' with many grains of allowance. How much their writings reminds us of Hamlet's "robustious peri-wig pa ted fellow," who would "tear a passion to tatters, tc very rags," in order to make "the unskillful laugh." Let him who seeks the applause of the multitude, rather 'tha.n truth-who covets a clown's tal ent and wit, and envies the buffoon, who carries off the noisy plaudits of a "vulgar throng," resort to newspaper clap trap. But those who have a sense of the dignity atnd responsibility of thbeir position, as journalists, would scorn to de scend( to such low, degrading tricks.-True Southron. Troy papers say that the firing of cannon on the night of .Tuly 3d deafened the horses of Trojan hook and ladder company, and when the alarm sounds the horses have to be led to their places. An Indiana lady sent a letter to her brother in California, telling him that the family had smallpox, and in a few days he had it, too. The Missouri Pacific railroad has suddenly discovered that train conductors have robbed it of $80, 000 during the last twelve months. Two San Francisco butchers own 700,000 acres of land and emnploy 1,000 men. Both these capitalists are Germans. A horse committed suicide in Lake Village, N. H., the other day, by drowning himself. He was sick, and became despondent. Experience is a torch lighted in the ashes of our illusions. ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1.00 per square-one inch-for first inserticn, and 75c. for each subsequent insertion.* Dou column advertisements tenper cent on AboveN. Xotices of meetings, obituaries and tribu: c of respect, san.e rates per square as ordintoy adyertiemeq~ts Special noticesin, local column 15 cenis per line, Advertisements-notmuzked with the nm ber. of insertions will be kept tn Mil forbid and charged accordingly,. Special cortrzcts made with large adver tisers, u: ~I> al jmd-tions on aLnve rates1 D,jnt win., Neatjvs:. .iind-Dipatch Terna (W!. it. TIUE LOVE GONE, OUT OF FASHION. - The country never possessed s o many beautiful and marriageable young ladies as it does at the present- time. And %h3r -do we not have more marriages? We answer: Because *marriage fo r love is the exeeptioa -and not the -_ale. .IThe younig pe e f this age have gol3e fashion and money mad. If the dandy bank clerk, who pays one-half of' his income for board and the- other half for clothes cannot improve his condition he will. not marry. The shop girl who earns good wages aaid can not be distinguished by her dress from the banker's daughter certainly will not puiange into matrimony unless she -can better her- condition in life. If a man is fortunate enough to possess money,- it matters not how old or ag&,- he may be, hundreds of in telligent, handsome young wo men%r cnbefonv nnyto willing