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The road is straight and clear, And round about on every side How bright all things appear ! The dullest music charms us then, We laugh and know not why ; The very flowers upon our path, t They look too bright to die. When hearts are old and weary. The road is twisted sore, And there is little to be seen 1 Beyond our cottage door ; The flowers we thought would never 1 fade Lie dead upon the sod ; And then we sigh for peace and rest Within the arms of God. -Matthias Barr. C~ONCJERT OF WAR SONGS, -- Friday, August 24, Union and t Confederate war songs were sung I by the great choir in the aniphithe- e atre. Judge Abion Tourgee re- E sponded in behalf of the North; I Atticus G. Haygood in behalf of the South. ADDRESS BY REV. DR. HAYGCOD. Dr. Haygood was received with the Chautauqua salute, and coming forward took two of the toy flags, from the stand and held them in his hand, which act was greeted with rounds of applause, He said : I am glad that Georgia is on that t flag, [Applause.] I have seen the t day that I would have died under t the oMier, and if you cannot take 1 me into the Union on that basis,, # count me a heathen and publican. [Applause.] There are many differences and yet many resemblances. I saw out I there-and I will not look that way i now-a woman crowned with the g glory of gray hairs. When the first i battle-song was sung, she quivered c with memories, the tears coursed I down her. cheeks, Johnny did not t come marching home to her. She was strangely like a mother who t lives in my town, abopt the same r age, with one boy shot through the head on the Potomac, the other I buried from a hospital in Richmond. s Both of these women love God and s the Lord Jesus Christ, and I know would help one another and love I each other. So we are alike as t to many things, in our heart-aches ( and griefs . t I am very much obliged to the s Professor and these admirable sin- 1 gers for trying to sing a reb'el war- e song. They can't do it. [Ap plause.] But if there were a few of I Stonewall Jackson's men here and it was the year 1862, they could1 sing it. But we don't sing it now. t I have not tried to sing that song1 or any other army hymn in a longc time, hardly since Appomattox. 1 But nobody who has got the heartC of a man in him will ask me to-day to be ashamed that I did sing them once, [Applause.] But we do t not sing them now. We have . buried there for the most part with I that flag we followed for four long years fighting for what we believed I was the right thing. I said th,ere 1 are also differences. 0, if we c9914 put ourselves in each other's places ! Sometimes when I read t your papers that don't understand i us, or read our papers that don't 1 understand you, I am reminde4 of a short speech made by an old < Frenchrna~n in Atlanta. We had been organising horne guards and made him surgeon. One night we] had a meeting and called on himn for a speech. He said.i "Fellow-citizens, I agi in one bad< fix to make a speech, fdr last night< a storm come and blow down my stable, and soigie one steal my bug gy and my cow run away. I tell you we must whip this fight. I have been in my own country in two revolutions; in one I was the 1 conqueror and in the other I was the egnqutered. There is a great] deal of difference in those two leetle lettares, d and r." When the wise men and women] of the North have learned the diffe rence between the two letters, D and R, we will not need to explain to each other. There will be so many grounds for patience, and toleration, and broad manliness,i that by that time we will forget the war, except in the good things that 4 in the providence of God it broughta to this whole country. [Applause.) ] I will tell you how I do my chil dren I do not know whether I represent a class, for I never asked. I teach them that this flag repre sents our Union that is God's gift to us, that is worth dying f<r. Then if they ask me who Robert Lee or 1 Stonewall Jackson was, what we mean in April when we strew fowers over the humble graves of our dead soldiers, I tell them who] they were, that they were brave, I ttrue men. I do not teachimy chil- I dren to despise their kindred who fought and died. You would hate I me if I did. [Applause.]i IHardly anybod is mad now] about this matter. [Lughter) We I iave got one one old man in Geor. ,ia, and you may have one or two n New York, for all I kuow, who ;et madder the farther they get rom the war. " [Laughter.] They emind me of an old countryman in ny State who started to market vith a load of apples in a cart with is wife. They crossed a little erry. and coming out the hind. >oard of the cart broke loose and he apples all rolled into the river. Che old man was mad, but for a ime he said nothing. He sat down o contemplate the scene. His wife ren to the house. He did not come, Lnd, after awhile, she said to her >oy, "Go down to the ferry, and ee what has become ofyour daddy." -le came back without his father. 'He won't come." "What is he loing?" "He is sittit,' there cuss n'." [Great laughter and ap )lause.] For the most part that sort did iot fight much. What are you go ng to do about them? I will tell rou what some papers do. If it appens to be one of our men, your >apers take him to be a represen ative of the South, and if it hap. >ens to be some one in the North, ome of our papers are foolish nough and mean enough to call Lim a representative of the North. What are we going to do with these nen sitting down there at the ferry ursing twenty years after the ghting? Let them curse on. Laugher] But go on raise more apples. [Long continued applause nd laughter.] I pity a Southern man whose con ictions of honor and sense of his oric position are so feebly based hat he gets into a rage every time hat a Northern man disagrees with tim. And I pity a Northern man rho must explode every time some ;outherner chances not to agree rith him. Our people would be un rorthy your respect if they should pretend to change their convictions n a day. But there are changes oing on. I might give you some llustrations of the gradual change f opinion, an honest change, where nen and women are doing their est. But time forbids. People rho always stay at home generally [ave veri #zed ideas, with deep oots. but they are not wide ones. I am much obliged to Judge Courgee for the many strong and dmirable points made in his peech'. I want to tell you; if these states in which I have lived are to me counted in this Union, you ought o ask of us this: Fidelity to the ,onstitution and its amendments, to he Declaration of Independence nd this flag, and no more. [Ap lause] There is in the Citadel quare at Quebec. a beautiful mon gment, that coqld nqt have been muilt by Pagan nations. It is in ight of the fields of Abraham, rhere brave Englishmen, following he flag of St. George, and brave ~renchmen following the lilies, went own in the blood and storm of attle. The brave leaders died that ay and that monument in the Cit ~del square at Quebec has on one ide the namt of Montcalm, and on he other of Wolfe. What would ou think of an Englishman and a frenchman to day who should meet t the base of that monument, and all out with each other about the >attle on the plains of Abraham? f it would not be right for the Englishman and the Frenchman to o have heartbuxpings to-day', stand ng in such a place, hop is it with is twenty years after the baple? tre not heart-burnings as much out >f place? Last night I was at a little seg ig ja Ohio waiting for the train. was reading a gQod booki. I will ~ive you one sentence from it. "It s often said of men when they ome to die that they become re onciled to their enemies-" The uthor added, "They ought to do it ow." I stand on that basis. [Ap. lause.] I will not keep you much longer. ['iere are some circumstances >rought up to-day that I under tand much better than the choir. 'or instance, that "Marching brho4gh Georgia" business. I ell you, the historic truth is in it. ?oetry has written history; for you ~ot mighty near all the gobblers Applause and laughter], and the nost of the sweet potatoes [Ap >lause and laughter]; and if ever mn army had an easy time march. ng 300 miles on fair roads in dry weather, you had it, [Laughter.] 1eorgia had sent out about 130,000 nen, but they were elsewhere. I iave got a piece of news to tell rou about that "Marching Through leorgia" that youd'ion't know. On he road between my house and Atlanta is a little towa near the tone Mountain. Two 'uonths fter you marched through, I went >ack, not marching much. I was ~etting along the best I could with ome very broken down mules hat had lost their ordinary vivacity. noticed in that little town not ess than a dozen chimneys. You mow what war does, it burns houses. [hat is what it means. War is ell. Pardon the roughness, that a what it is, war is hell. I saw as came along to Chautauqua, that :he last ne o these chimneys had a house built to it., It had stood for eighteen years or more, but this spr:ng a house had been built to it, and I was gl4d. We are raising boys there that some of these days, should there be occasion for it, which God forbid if it please Him, would fight under the flag, as the Highlanders whose ancestors fought under Bruce, fight' for the flag of St. George. I did not come here for gush, but I am 'glad in my soul, as I said in the beginning, that.Georgia is on that flag. [Applause.] I love this coun try, I believe in it, that it has a mission to the nations of this world, and that it will accomplish more than statesmen understand. But in the prophetic heart of the church there is a deep feeling some how that the deliverance of every nation from bondage, the evange lization of the world largely belongs to this people. It could not have been done with a' divided union. [Applause.] I say it with rever ence in this place, it would have marred the stupendous plans of Divine Providence. But now, after all that God has done in set ting men free in this country, we can go on, working out by his great help the noblest problem ever given to a civilized nation in this world. Now. God keep us in the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, and this Book which is the magna charta of the world's inteligence and the world's free dom. [Prolonged applause.] THE NEGRO PROuLEM. FROM THE STAiDPOINT Og A COL ORED AND EX-CONGRESSMAN. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Bishop R. H. Cain, ex-Congress-, man from South Carolina delivered an eloquent lecture last night at Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church on "The Negro Problem." The Bishop presented many of the characteristics of his race in this lecture in such a ridiculous light that the audience laughed con tinually. The following is the substance er his remarks: 9 I regard it as essential to the ne gro that he shall seek to establish his race, his quota of dignity among the nations of the earth. He has a problem, a place, a dig nity. It belongs to him per se. It belongs to each nation to have a problem of its own. All nations should have an idea to make their race work up to. I believe ther are distinctive places in g94u economy, Nations of men are dis tinctive in place and complex in, their dispositions. All nations have clannishness. The Scotch, the Irish, the French are clannish, and we have peculiarities among ourselves. The negro problem is distinctive and peculiar. The German has a problem of his own-the English, the French have theirs. HOW THEY CAME HERE. The Europeans came to this cogn try knowing sornething of the arts .somne pf the European nations camne highly cultured-but the ne gro came to this country unlike them. He came chained, outraged, wronged-a crouching slave chain ed to everything that pertains to manhood, chained to everything that pertains to womanhood. He was chained 250 years. There seemed to be no sunlight no beacon light to cheer him on He was made the galley slave. The school was closed to him. Educa tion~ was a sealed book. The church was closed against him. Thus, for 250 years this face 'wa solving the problem of the negro. Yet with all of this he has thriven. There was not bondage enough in the system to crush out all the manhood of the negro man-not bond1age enough to crush out all the womanhood of the' negro wo man. Simultaneously with the tramp of the warriors he has emerged from bondage. The South found him an integral part of the Government. I find him as I find all other nations, bringing wealth and power to the country. Democrats and Repub lieans are in fierce contests as to to w'.o shall have the negro's vote. He is becoming the balance-wheel, as it were, in the politics of the country. The same is true in the financial and the commercial rela tions of the world. It seems the army could not conquer the South until the negro had put his big black foot into it, if you please. He had become a warrior and a sailor before the nation acknowl edged him as an integral part of it. The German, the Scandinavian and every nation, what not, are part of it, and it could not be a true mon grel nation without the negro. You say it was a great blessing to come here; we learned the arts which we could not in Africa. Ah ! we never learned to lie till we came here. We did not steal. You could drop your gold dust anywhere and no danger. BLACKS VS. WHITE. Professor Gillman in the Popular Scieac Moantuy says ha in afraid the negro will over-top e white man in this country; th in 1990 at the present rate of in ase of each race, the two will sta 190, 000,000 blacks and 160, ,000 whites. The Irishman comet here with a shilalah and soon lays it 'down for the shovel and the hoe. The Frenchman comes with police lit erature. They all have something to bring. But they change and be come Americans. The great ques tion is how to make Americans stand out in bold relief. I like the Americans. I like the sturdy tramp of the German. A good deal is said of him, but the German keeps on taking sourkraut and succeed ing. I like the Chinamen with his whing, whang, whung. I like the negro, for he makes the cotton and the sugar if you please. You could not have made the Englishmen do cile-and Paddy would have turn ed the field upside down if you had tried to make a slave of him. The redeeming quality in the ne gro character is his love of the right. You do not know one negro who struck his mistress during the war. Yet the slaves knew as much about the problem as did General Lee. They knew that the whites were fighting to keep them in slavery. I thank God to-day that my race were so true to their rusts. / The negro is coming in the South. He is becoming wealthy, refined, a philosopher. He has not yet called into question the exis tence of God. He is not so big a fool. He has had a practical dem Dnstration of His existence, He knew nowhere to go, If he looked oo the right there was but a lash, oo the left a rod. The old lady who mung, "Come near, dear chanot," hoped to ride away from slavery in that chariot. It was her only hope, anything to get away. THE NEGRO'S DESTINY. The negro has a destiny as far-reaching, as deep-sounding, and ap as high as any other race of men. The money spent in our ed ication and for us is simply the restoration of some money stolen from us. The negro must educate iimself, The white man cannot !ducate the negro. . To educate you must get down into the social structure. The negro has not be gun to think for himselt. He is fddling away and dancing away and picnicing, and some of them don't own the sand in their shoes. We throw away our money. We have not got to go where we under stand relationships. The aegro dresses himself, ppts a cigar in his mouth, and stand6 on the corner, arms akimbo, thinking he is a fine gentleman, and perhaps has a four weeks' unpaid board bill. You complain that you don't have a chance. If I wanted to be reporter, I would not ask these men for a chance. I would go down to that table and write. I don't think our black faces a hindrance. The cars go just the same. The nego must cope and gttin his position in the body social, in the body politic. I am alarmed it the in orease of the negro population my self. There isn't a log cabin in the South but can turn out seven, some fifteen, all rollicking, "sassy." The whites don't know how to stop it. It can't be stopped. -God has for the negro race a destiny. He is to occupy all the tropies. The white can't~ stand it down there. When the sun goes down he goes out. We inust educate, and when the negro problem is -solved the negro will take his place among the na tions of the world, knowing he has solved the problem himself. HER FIRST RAILWAY RIDE. THE EXPERIENCE OF AN INEXPERI ENCED YOUNG WOMAN IN IDAHO. A young lady well known on Wood river, who was born and raised in Idaho and who had never seen a steamboat or railway car, recently left for a trip south, and much interest was expressed here by her friends as to first impres sions of the outer world. She al ways evinced such an even demea nor that many friends believed she would pass as an old traveler, but a letter just received from her escort proves that a young lady, even one of Idaho's fairest, and one that can calmly regard the wild Indian on the warpath, is unequal to the oc casion of calmly passing through the surprises of modern progress. She became skittish at the ap proach of the evening lightning ex press, with its great bull's-eye head light, and actually pranced when the train neared the depot and blew a long, shrill whistle. Her friends could not quiet her or coax her, and finally, rather than be left, they blindfolded the young lady and by main force landed her safely on the train. The letter remarks it was fortunate the windows were so small, as she frequently attempted to get out, and could not be convinced that the telegraph poles, the hills and houses were not all whirling past her as she sat in the car, and every time they crossed a bridge she shut her eyes, believing the cars were flying in the air across the A HOG STORY. It was at the beginning of the war. His regiment was marching through Louisiana by forced marches; for it is a solemn matter of fact that the first troops that went out from Texas were in very much of a haurry, because they feared that the war would be over before they could reach the tented field. They were afraid that the Virginians would swindle them out of their share of glory in taking Washington. While the Northern people were talking about a ninety days' war, the Texans thought it it hardly worth while to start odt, as the war would be over before they could get a chance to strike a blow. But to the story, which is best given in the language of the newspaper man himself: "Just before dark one afternoon, we passed a comfortable looking farm-honse, the owner of which was busily engaged, with a very anxious expression of countenance and a long pole, in driving a number of pigs under the house. The im pression that forced itself upon us, on observing this conduct was that he thought the pigs would be safer and last longer, as far as his selfish wants were concerned, un der his immediate supervision, than in any place where we could get at them. One of my comrades who was trudging along by my side, Bob Beasley, a proud, high-strung, sensitive fellow, but as honest, nevertheless, as the day is long, was stung to the quick by the ao tion of the farmer; and ia;rning to me, Bob said, "That is an insult to our sacred cause and to every hon est man in the regiment. Let us resent it. Let as teach this man to respect us. Let's go back there tA night and steal one of his darns old hogs, to show him that we won't stand any of his sinuations." -I saw that Bob's feelings were hurt by the ungenerous conduct of the rustic and endeavored to calm him down but in vain. His blood was up. I agreed to assist him in wiping out the insult, on condition that I should have one-half of the pork. We camped a few miles from the house, and that night, although we were very tired, we cheerfully trudged back to the house where we had seen the farmer trying to steal the pigs from us. We quietly called a councilofwar and agreed up on a campaign plan, It was thought best not to make any unnecessary noise, as It might induce the far mer to come out and still further irritate us. All we really wanted was the hog. Bob Beasley was to crawl through the hole under the house and drive the hogs out, because he was more familar with the habit of hogs than I was. I was to assume an offensive posi tion, with a club, at the outside of the hole, and as soon as a hog came out I was to stun him witha blow, after whiqhhe was to be despatched and carried to cap. Bob crawled in on all-fours and pretty soon I heard a hog scramb ling toward the hole. I drew back my club; and just as the porker came through the hole I gave him a tremendous blow. Bob Beasley gave a grunt for he was the hog. I had only dislocated -his shoulder instead of knocking his brains out. The farmer, it seems, had added in sult to injury by removing his hogs from under the house. He did not thnk they were safe even there. "hBob expressed himself very for cibly. He used language to me which no soldier should use to a comrade. He was evidently much disappointed at not finding the hogs under the house. In the excite ment of the moment I spoke em phatically in a low tone of voice of what I thought of the conduct of the fanner. I had a .'good notion to inform the colonel of our regi ment, and have the agriculturist im prisoned as a traitor. I should cer tainly have denounced his treach ery, but I was afraid that if I said anything about the affair our mo tives for trying to kill the hog might have been misconstrued. I volun teered to carry Bob Beasley to camp on my back, which was only two or three miles off. I would not have volunteered if Beasley. had not given me his solemn word of honor that he would assassinate me if I did not carry him cheer fully. When I got to camp I had ac quired a permanent curvature of the spine which Is one of the offerings I cheerfully laid upon the altar of my country. Our devotion to prin ciple was not appreciated by our comrades who would jeeringly call out r*How is your hog?" whenever we passed along the line. From that hour I instinctively felt that the cause of the confederacy was hopeless."-[From "On a Mexican Mustang through Texas," by Ed itors of Texas Siftingjs. IT is not exactly polite to refer to a deceased person as your warm friend. Write on your heart that e'sey day is the best day in the year. Love depends on the loving, and, notoan the loved. de m, each - 'r Debe olemaadvea3ei ee per ee on above. Nonees ofrmeetingp,oitaeiesaada.m_'a etrapee, sazerates per aqaare as ordbin"n_a adseosements. '?F-dIna 8peiINotes. in Localeona==Iseems Adver ntaso ms(tt m arked i k s aanm . bere ornsertions winibe kept insDin mi andeigd ety. Special contracts made with I sdier ti ers. with liberldedactioasonabove tes JOB PRIM'IXG DONE WITH NEATNES8 AND DIBPA TERMS CASH. CIRCULAR. COLVaciA, S. C., Spt. 1883. To the Sekool Commisner of Newberry County. SIR :-Copies of the Text Book adopted for use in the Public Schools of this State are sent you by mail. This a ->ption will re. main in force for five years from September 4th, 1883, unleschanged ' by authority of the Legiulature. Please distribute the lists the several Boarda of Truatees your County. Additional copie ' will be furnished on appliction By an Act of Legislature it is made unlawful to use, in the Publie rt Schools, any Text Books other than those adopted by the State Boeal of Examiners. School Commis sioners and school offeers generaly are urged, therefore, to enforce as far as practicable the use of the prescribed books. The followng resolution has been adopted by the State Board of Examiners: Resoltved, That the examinatia of Teachers before County Boards of Examiners shall include a see of questions upon the Theory and Practice of Teaching; and that; "Methods of Teaching,* by John Swett, and "Art of Sodool 3fanago. ment," by J. Baldwin, be recom mended as books of reference. In compliance with the terms of this resolution, the examinati n papers for January, 1884, will inw:V elude a series of questions upon hed Theory and Practice of Tea Please take sudh action .asuy 4 seem to you most effective to quaint the teachers of your C :o with this requirement of the State ., Board, in order, that they maybe - prepared to stand the ezaminatiea. Very respectfully, COWARD y, State Superintendent of Edna, tion. LIsT OF TEXT BOOEs Adopted for use in the Pabli - Schools of South Carolina for the term of five years from September 4, 1883: Readers - Appleton's, McGe. fey's, Reynolds', Swinton's. -Supplemental-Monteith's Psk ular Science Reader, Shepherd Historial Reader, Johonnot's4ieo graphical Reader, Appleton's Beud~ ing Charts. Histories-Davidsons Histor (" South Carolina, Derry'sUn~ States, Swinton's Primary Uis States and Condensed Uis States, Swinton's Outlines oftUn~ versal History (in two parts.) Geographies- Appleton's Stan' Qard Series, Maury's Revised&.K ries. Arithmetics-Robinson's Series, Sanford's Primary, Sanfords Inter- ' mediate, Sanford's Common Schoel Analytical, Venable's PracticaL7 Grammars-Sill's Practical Les' sons in English, with Whitney'.s Essentials (for highest Clase - Reed and Kellogs Series. . Dictionaries-Worcester's, Wb ster's. Writing Books - Spencerieser Reynolds'. Spellers-Swinton's Word Be y Swinton's Primer, Swinton's Weid Primer, Swinton's Word AnalMss Drawing-Krusi's, Bartholomie's~ Music-Song Bells, Song Wave, Wavelet. Agriculture-Lupton's Ele mea tary Principles of Scientific Agi culture. NOT A PIG. "Well, -sir, what'll you have?. said the waiter, as he brushed the< crumbs off the table with a napkin, "Tomato soup." "Anything else, sir?" "Some' blue fish." "With sauce?" "Yes; and a ir loin cooked rare and some fMed " potatoes." "Anything else, sir?" "Green' corn, baked beans, stewed toma toes, and-and-a cup of tea;-. slice of watermelon, a piece off gooseberry pie, some fruit cake, a f plate of ice cream and some nuts and grapes." "Any pudding, sir?" ."Pudding! Didn't I order pudding?" "No, sir." "Well, bring me some plum pudding." "Anything else, sir?" "Ay thing else! Do you take me for a plg?"-New York WYorkl His Rzvao.-They were riding up from Wall street ferry in a 'u He lifted his hat to her in aginger ly manner, and she bowed with the coldness of an iceberg. "Know her?" asked a man at his~ elbow. "Know her? Why, I was ,s. gaged to her lest fall!" "And What ?" "And she gave me the bounce She said she loved m,butah.sh could not endure the thuh of a straggle with a French etead tapestry Brussels carpets. I weal forth a crushed man, bat -eem is mine!" "How?" "Why, her father put $15O0@s in asummer hotel, and. the enam pany hasn't m~oenough to wages of the h seitu,f" Street News.