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. 7:1 ^':ij/IAHO SHX TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. J GOD TViST? OUR COXnST^RY. ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. )? VOLUME 8. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1874. NUMBER 20 The Husband's Lesson. The ringing of the door boil has n pleoBnut sound to mc, more particularly in my idle moods. Like an unopened letter, there is a mystery about it, and oue waits with o pleasurable excitement to pee who ?r,what is'eotniug. Returning home one-day earlier than usual, I found that my wife had gone out; and while idly waging her return the door-hell rang. I waited expectant until Mary appeared with a note, con taining a request from my old friend, Gcoige I-:?, to rido out to his residence in the country tho uoxt day, and to bring my wife with mo. I was much pleased, not so much on account of any pleasure which it might give my wife, but because I thought I needed a day's rocreation, and in the lovely sum nicr time, the country has peculiar charms for mo. But tho next morning everything seemed to go wrong. Alice could not jiccompany me, aud I could not get off as early as I wished ; consequently 1 wuh fretful and peevish, aud Alice seemed to reflect my humor, for she ucver seemed to be so unnmiuble. A_t._ ^^'--feWWvor." 1 drovu awav. thottgil not in a very pleasant mood. It was a lovely day; and as I rode along, noting the beauties of the landscape, my memo ry went back unbidden to the tiuic when 1 wooed aud won my bride. Oh ! how lovely Alice was theu ! I thought. And Oh ! how happy we were S But that- was long ago. No : Is it possible, we have been married only three years > And I felt otharp pang as I contrasted the past with the present, to think that ?we could settle down into the common place lifo wc uow led. We had no serious trouble ; we did not quarrel; though wheu 1 felt cross, or thiugs did not suit mc, 1 t mk no paine to ennceal it, aud often spoke harshly to Alice, who sometimes replied iu tho samo spirit, and sometimes with tear?. Yet wc wore generally goo 1 friends. Still, the charm, the tender ness of our early love had imperceptibly vanished. I had become careless about my personal appearance at home and Alice was almost equally ue^ligjot. Her beautiful brown hair, which she used to wear iu the most becoming curls, was now usually brushed plainly behind her ears, unless she was going out or expected company. I dismissed the subject with a sigh, ns I drew up at my friend's gate, with the rcflccth n that it was the same with all married people?must be so, iu fact; for how could romance and sentiment find a place among so many prosy realities? I suppose we ate as happy as any body; aud yet it was not the kind of life that I had looked forward to with so many bright anticipations. My friend {.routed me with great cordiality. In the hull we met Mrs I--, looking fresh aud lovely in her pink muslin wrapper, with her jetty huir iu tasteful braids. Sho reproved mc playfully for uot bringing my wife Tvith .uio, chatted a few minutes, and ihen flitted away, while my friend led itlho -way to the library. As we entered ithe room I noticed a vase of bright flowers on the table, impartiug an air of ?taste and cheerfulness to the apartment. I mado some remark ubout it, tu which my friend responded: 'Yes, 1 urn very fond of flowers, and liko to see them iu the house; and as 1 spend much lime here, my wife always keeps a vase of them ou the table as Jong us they last. After dinner we walked out into the grounds which were quite extensive, and most tastefully arranged. There VrM o greut variety of flowers in bloom, *nd I noticed thatL- soloeted 'here and there tho finest, until he had a handsome bouquet. When wc reached the house Mrs. L. was on the Bteps. Her husband, still ?continuing our conversation, gave her k; (lie flowers with a smile ; and holding up a rpruy of crimson Lcirics, which he had broken off, the bent her head while he fastened it among tho dark braids of lie* huir. , It W?B a trilling incident, yet their I manner arrested my attention. Had I I been a stranger, I would hare pro ft nounced them lovers, instead of sobor H married people. All through tho day I j M noticed the IE fine delicate attention and refcrciico ia their deportment to each other. There was nothing of which the most fastidious guest could complain; yet, while showing me the most cordial attention, they did not ignore each other's oxi3leuce, as married pcoplo too often seem to do. I had never before visited my frioud at his eouutry home, ami was very much pleased with it. I Raid so, alter dinner, as wc strolled out into the woods. 'Yes,' he said, 'I think it is pleasant ; 'and,' ho added, I believe I am a con toLted man. So far, 1 am not disnp pointed in life.' ?How long have you been married ?' I asked. 'Ten years.' 'Well,' I pursued, 'can you tell im? whence is the bright atmosphere that surrounds your home? Jell me how you and your excellent wife manage to retain the depth of jour early I ovo as you seem to do? I should think the wear and tear ol life would din.1 it some what. 1 never before saw a home whore my ideal of domestic happiness was re.ili'/.ed. It is what I have dreamed of, but have not yet been permitted to enjoy.' _ t< ^Iy friend^ smiled, n^Vu^poi^i't**"'il'^T thrifty grape-vine climbing over a ueat lattice, and loa led with fruit, said : 'That viue needs careful attention, and if cared for, it is what you see it, but if* ueglected, how soon would it bceouic a worthless thing ! So th? love which to all, at s-pme porkd, is the most precious thing in life, and which needs no much care to keep itunimpuir cd, is generally neglected. Ah ! my dear fellow, it is little acts?trifles? that eo often estrange loving hearts. 1 have always made it a point to tre.it my wife with the same courtesy that ohar uctcrized my deportment in the days of our courtship; nnd while I am careful not to offend her tastes and little prcju dices, I am sure that mino will bj e<]u.?l ly respected. Moreover, instead of treating her as an iuferrior?as a mere bluve, bound to obey my every behest? I realize (he fact that she is my equal, and, us such, has as much right to a voice iu tlic management of our daily affairs as I have. By this means, my dear friend, we manage to live happily together, aud to show to those around us that there is still in tho world such a thing as domestic linppihoss aud com fort.' That night I rode homeward ponder iug over what I had seen and heard ; and reviewing the yearn of our married life. I was surprised at my owu blind ucsh, nnd determined, if possible, to recall the early dream. The next morning, nt breakfast, I astonished sweet Alice by a careful toilette, chatted over tho dinner, and after tea, hinted her out to take a walk. When she came down, arrayed in my favorite drct>s, with her hair in shining curls, I thought she had never looked lovelier. I exerted myself, as of old, to entertain her, and was surprised to find how quickly the evening passed. I resolved to tost my friend's theory perfectly, and tho result exceeded my most sanguine expectations. For all the little nameless at tensions, so gratify ing to n woman's heart, aud so universal ly accorded by the lover and neglected by the husbaud, I find myself repaid a thousandfold; aud I would advise all who arc sighing over tho uou fulfillment of their early dreams, to go and do like wise; remembering that what is worth using is worth keeping. The report of some re marks of .lohn Bright, at u temperance meeting in Lon don, as givcu in our foreign telegrams this week, contains some points that may well be considered by the more aggressive of the triouds of temperance in this country. In a war against tho use of intoxicating driuks publicopiu iou is the only effective weapon, uud this can not be orcuted by oppressive or violent measures. I'utieuce, and earnest, uucensiug work will be the means of accomplishing the , results desired by the temporaueo people, if those results arc ever accomplished. Excessive exertion ol'ton leads to a congested state ol tho luugs, and deli cient exercise is capable of produciug tubercles in the satno orgnos through nutritional alterations. A Good Opportunity for Land Owners. Dr. Wm. F. Barton (he President of the Orangeburg Agricultural and Me chanical Association is now on a visit to friends and relatives in tho west of Eng land. At a meeting of the Hoard of Directors held .shortly bofore his depar ture, he introduced the suhjoet of obtain ing additional labor, and kindly offered to further any plan for the cueourago nicut of foreign immigration that might seem practicable- After a considerable discussion, the Board resolved, in ac cepting his suggestions and assistance to reccommcud the plan sot forth in this article to the planters and la:.d owners of Orangeburg County, Tho west of England teems with a thrifty aud industrious farming popula tion, such as would ho especially valua ble in our sparsely settled County. Many are actuated by a spirit of Enter prise, and are desirous of trying their foi'tuuts in the New World across the waters. In England, the average wages of a common farm hand is about ??18 per ytar^,gjy itn irur j:u rrcncyr ?^SJUlO^i, witli loud and lodging lound: for a servant waman, to attend to a dairy, cooking, washing, &c, about XI2 per )'oar (say Slit).); for a boy, or half hand, say 850 per year, aud found as above. They live iu the same house with their em ployer, have special sleeping apartments and lake their meals iu the kitchen. Their food consists principally of wheat bread, cheese- beans "irish potatoes and meat, with beer or cider. They seldom use cither tea or coffee, a kind of light beer which is made in that country bring their usual beverage instead. It is the custom of English farmer to employ one man, ono woman and one boy as servants, who live on the prcmi scs. The majority of tho laborers live in cottages near the farms where they work, for which cottage they pay j rent Irotn JL2 to ?? per year, according to size and convenience. This is in our money, from -"31 to $.'J par mouth. They hire thoir services to the farmers by the day or week, and during tho busy sea son command the following wages, viz: (rood hands iu harvest time from 10 to 2-1 shilling per week, say ?5 to ?7. Mowers get from 5 to G shillings per day say ?1,50 for a days work. Women du ring harvest get ab-<ut 13 pence per day about -15 cents. Those wages are paid ouly during the busy season;?after bar vest time, and during the winter there is very little demand for Agricultural labor. Undcrdruiuiug, hedging and ditching, and breaking up lands when the frost will permit are about all that can be done iu wintar, outside of tho regular work done by tho per ma - ment hands on the rurtn, who are gener ally a man, a woman end a buw, as above stated. A great deal of attention is paid to sheep raising, good shop herds pal stea dy employment at about 14 shillings a week, say 8375, with extras during lamb ing lime. The principal products are hay, wheat oats, rye barley, irish potatoes, turnips and beets. The forogoing sketch, from data fur nibbed by Dr Burton will give a general idea of tho probable oxpectiotis of such laborers, should they come among us to seek employment und homes. It is to be remembered that the cli mate of England like that of* the North ern States of tho Union, docs not admit of field labor but lor a part of the year; and it will be noticed that laborers are paid more or ioss, according as they are engaged for a singlo day, a week or |a longer period. The wages aro sotno times paid in money, sometimes partly in money, and partly iu so much beer or cidor; in othor respects laborers by the day or weok find themselves. It is to bo presumed that iu a climate such as ours, whereby steadier omployment for u longer scasou cu\y jjao assured, that tho wages would be proportionately loss per week or month. The Board of directors proposo to thoir ^follow citizens of Oratigoburg County to send ou to Dr. Bartou, any communication in writiug, signed by a reasonable party, making a distiuot pro position for tho employmout of laborers, j leasing of lands, sclliugof land'for cash or ou tim c, giving of lands iu cousidora tjou of tho sottletn eDt and mproviug of tho lands giving, work on shares, or, in fiuc, any proposition whioh any land owner or plauter may see fit to make. Dr. Barton offers to |submit tho propo sals sent on to suoh of the English labo rcrs as arc thiuking of coiniug to this country, to enlighten them as to mat tors they may desiro to know, and to make enquiries ns to the character and merits of such ns cvinco"a disposition to give South Carolina a trial. Ho will re maiu in England until about the last ol August and it is desirable that every oue, who wishes to embrace this oppor tunity, should prepare this opportunity, should propare his statements and pro posals by the first of July, so that thoy can be forwarded in good time. Dr. Barton himself expr>cts to ongago one or twot families: and the Board would suggest that it might work. ?*."U for two or three land owners in the same neighborhood to unite iu this en tcrprisc, aud oaoh offor to employ, or {rivide for the location of, at least one family. In this way, two or more fa mi lies will be near each other' aud there will bi more chance of their settling p. ruianently among us, as they will n? t [Sl?-?n^fia.iQaolatcd when they havo bo no of their own paoplo\noar by. The undersignod/will take pleasure in forwarding guy communications whioh may he han3 d tothje'". '?d ?Q B?V?"S any further iuformatV" la thoir V0?Qr concerning Jhe subject^ P. II. VY. Btf^rrr^XN t > eCnn n WT ........... .TT\jSsW MuitQAN J. KeMASII. jH laurence u. BeCKWITH, O. IfrRlLRY. SamH/kl Diiiule. What SRYoti Women Have Dono. A roceut English book, 'Facta, non Yerba,' coutnins the history of the philanthropic labors of seven English women. It is full of iotorost, not only for its facts, but for its inferences. Believers and disbelievers iu the en 1 t'rauchiscment of women can draw argil ments from it. It wii' delight the for mcr by proving?to their satisfaction, i at least?that women can plau and excute as well as men. It will convince the latter that the proper field for femi nine energy is philanthropy, not politics. The Athcmcutn : 'If the volume docs nothing else, it at any rate gives us a new notion of how much there is for women to do, and how much a woman can do it she is in earnest, about her j work.' Miss Bye bega i her efforts a few 1 years ago. She had a capital of ?700 I Its lasting capacity has been as miracul ? ous as that of tho 'Widow Crude's oil.'! She has helped 173 governesses to emigrate to the British colonies, where they have all, mainly through her efforts, found employment. She has put 1,500 English women into good places as do mcstics, ?u Australia and New Zealand. She has personally taken to Cauadu a.id placed iu rcspoctable families 1,200 children of tho London streets. Niu v tenths of them are girls,'who, but for their benefactress' efforts, were condemn ed inevitably to a life of the lowest degradation.' Miss Macphorson has done the same good work for 1,800 children. Miss Chandler decidjd, some years since, to found a charity for the par aly/.ed. There was then no such t ing in London. Sho began by taking care of a poor paralyzed carpeuter. As fust as she could, she assumed charge of more paralytics, one by one. She has now opened a hospital for paralysis au I epilepsy, iu Queen's square, London. It is not excelled by any of tho same sort in the world. She has also established u couvulosccnt hospital, which is doing great good. She has, moreover, scoured the endowment of forty-eight permanent unuuties for incurable paralytics and epileptics. She is now collecting a large amount of money to be applied iu this same way. Miss (jilbcrt, a blind lady, opouod a bliud school iu liolbotu eeller, for which she paid eighteen pence a week. Sho has uow a thousand pupils, whom sho has taught to support themselves. They maintain the institution that gives them a home, an educatiou, aud an occupation. Its maintenance costs ?'8,000 a year. This work of a poor blind woman may fairly bo compared with any of the marvels history records, as wrought by bliud men. Wcndmiro tho sightless Kiug of Bohemia, with his blazoned motto 'Ich Diem,' for his dauntless ride to death on the battle field of Crccy ; but here is a blind wo man who puts that motto into practice, and saves life instead of destroying it. Mrs. Hilton has built up a dry nursery at RatclifFe. It is one of the best ol its kind, and has served as a model for many. Miss Cooper has opened and managed a combined club, reading-room, and lecture course for costennongcrs. Miss Whately has organized great schools for Moharn modan children at Cairo. The author closes his account of the work these seven womeu have done in these words: 'It may bo snid that there arc many others who would have furnished mo with good types of the philanthropic K.nr,l.sh woman, quite equal in the magnitude of their labors to thd-o I have mentioned, but those whom I wish to take as my types arc those who have had to fight their way up against dim culties, frequently themselves in rc strictcd circumstances, and not those whoso position and wealth reuder phil anthropic eflbrts less onerous.' Thcso great works arc the fruit of purely feminine effort. They have been planned by women and wrought by wo men. The author of 'Facta, uon Verba' cousidors them as a proof that women can do bettor by themselves, unfettered by conventual rules j than when organ ized in masses. It is, he says, a simple HfcaLi-- of three sum. If Miss live, and M issiiMj^cphcrsou have cared for 3,000 children, fifry-^omen ought to care for 75,000. What fcr^eSrJiood, fifty strong, has done so ? The econo^^JiC^ho good is another strong point. If tho LrmSd^on .charities which are supported by tusN atiou were managed as well, tho lax payers of the city would save .?500,000 yearly. The fact is of moment here, in view of the damaging di:closures James Gordon Bennett has made in regard to | the charitable organizations of the Kast. Some of them pi)' S3 in salaries for every dollar spent in their nominal work. There is a Bible society in Virginia which is said to spend S'J in order to in duce its self denying agents to buy and distribute one dollar's worth of Bibles. There are few men who would be dis posed, save for fear of establishing a pre ccdent that might be abused, to deny the suffrage to the seven women whose work we have here outlined. There are few who would wish to deny it to a ferai nine lawyer who hail gained a suit for them, or a feminine doctor who had cured their wives when masculine skill had proved vain. The moral is not hard to draw. American women will find that the franchise is to be gained by Jirta, nut vertut?deeds, not words.? Chicago Tribune. Desperate and Fatal Fight Willi a Lunatic. John Nolan, a demented man who has been frequently arrested in West Kaltimorc ou account of his sarugj tern perament, committed a terrible assault of Officer James M. Richardson, of tho Northwestorn Police District, on last Saturday evening, and the officer is so seriously injured that he is not expected to recover. It seems that Nolan, on Saturday ?; veiling went to market with his mother, and, after carrying the mar keting toM his father's house, on Uruid Hill avenue, near Preston street, ho went into the kitchen in the rear of the house and picked up a hatchet, which ho concealed under his ooat. He then returned to the dining room, |where tho family were at supper, and pulling tho weapon from underpins coat, struck n terrible blow at his father, who was sea ted at the head of the table. Fortunate ly the hatohct slipped in his baud, and tho edge glaticed^along by tho side of tho father's head, inflicting a painful but not scr.ous scalp wound, lloforo young Nolan could follow up tho blow, tho entire family lied from tho house. Young Nolau theu fastened the front door, and retreated to tho baok yard, where he sat down. In tho meautiino officer Richardson, who had jnst answer cd roll call at tho station houso, and was on his way home, hcaid the cries of the frightened family, at once hastened in that direction. He found the front door locked, and while he was endeavoring to foree an entrance, Sergeauf; Schultz and officer Hays 'arrived. L Officer Richard son was stationed at the front door, while Sergeant Schultz and officer Hays went to the back yard, and on climbing over the fence found Nolan sitting, in th? yard. He at once jumped up and com mcnocd an assault upon Sergeant Schult? with ? the hafohetr. ?? Schultz caught up a chair,that was standing ,in the yard and? succeeded b[,parrj?pg'?b_o blows until Qfifyer Hj^a camo .^b/yi [assistance. Nolau then'. ran into the house, and closed and locked tho door. Scrgeaut Schultz immediately1 returned to the front door, leaving Hays in tho rear. Officers Schultz and Richardson then put their shoulders to . the front do ir and burst it in, Nolan, who was standing ucar tho door, at onco struck n't Schultz, who, in attempting to ward off the blow, slipped and fell fron the stops, the hatchet striking his right wrist, inflicting a flesh wound. Immo diatcly Nolan turned savagely upon Richardson, and struck him upon the back part of the head, fracturing the skull nun inflicting a ghastly wound four inches in length. Straugc to say officer Richardson did not fait but suocosded in knocking down with his stick, aod before the mad man could rise from the ground, be was sccuroly tied .with, a clothes line, "By this time an excited crowd of some tour or five' hundred poo pie had collected around the he?ke,'?3d several persons were so muoh excited?as to propose the hanging of the man at once. Finally, however, ho was remov ed to the Northwester n police station, where he will remain until to day, and then be sent to the Bayview asyium. Officer Richardson was attendod by Drs l^Yiusloyv^a^^Ukinaorij after wjiich _hc I was removed lo his h'jine it No. 117 Druid Hill avenue* His 'physicians state that there are but slight hopes of his recovery. The Chicago Times publishes several columns of crop reports from various points throughout the States of Illinois, Towa, Wisconsin, Indiana. Minnesota and Kansas, from which it appears that, on an average of wheat sown is much in excess of that of last year, and that the yield promises to be quite up to the average.. In coru,o.its and barley, fully un average amount of land h is been seeded, and tho crop will be Iarg^. Fruits of all descriptions never looked better. Iu several counties in Iowa, Kansas und Minnesota, grasshoppers and chinch bugs have made their appear a nee. A year or tw.o ago W. D. Mitchell, a carpet bag planter near Macon, GaM boasted openly that he had seduced tho daughter of Dr. John Bull, of the same neighborhood, and, hearing of the boast, Dr. Hull sent Mitchell word that ho meant to kill him on sight. One day last week Mitchell was riding aloug, when a gun went off in the bushes and he fell dead in the road. Dr. Bull was arrested, but he needn't be scared. The Georgia juror who would convict a man for shooting another man for seducing his daughter was kicked to death by. a well educated mule more than forty years ago. hast Friday [an sged crippled lady named Donaldson, residing on her plan tntion near Island Tcnu, was brutally murdered by a young man named Mur phy, who went to tho house for the pur pose of robbing Mrs Doualdson, who was quite wealthy. Ho knocked her dowu with a club, and then took an axe aud split her head open. The Amoeba found among tho inuf soia, represents tho lowest form of ani mal life. It has no particular shape al tefing its form momentarily, and moves by this curious means of progress iou. The Vermont stato Agricultural So cicty has voted that a herd of oattlo shall consist of ono bull uot less than ouo year old, two cows two two year old heifers, two yearling heifers, aud two calves of either sex. In bowiug to a lady, three inches id the attitude to lift your hat*