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ANDERSON C? H., S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1873.
VOLUME IX.?NO. 7.
From the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
Bill Arp on Female Snierajre?Trial of Soo
san Antny, &c
Rome, Ga., August, 1873.
Mr. EDmJB-:j?)osan Antny aint- nuthin to
me?that is nuthin pertikler. No woman ain't
exsep Mrs. Arp, but when I heard they was
a-tryin her for votin, my feminiue instinks
carried me straight to the court house. I was
on her side before I got there, and I'm on her
Bide yit. Women in genral is my weakness,
and espeshually a woman whose name is Soo
san. 1 always envied a man who could fondle
over his wife or his sweetheart and call her.
"Soosy." It sounds so melier and soft. So
when I seed Soosan Antny arrained before the
judge like a konvict I was mad?mad with the
whole Yanky nashun. They raise a helly
billoo over the old broken Konstitution, and
mend it up so as to let. the black babboons vote
in the rebel States, but if a white woman of
sense and spunk dares to do it, it shocks their
pewritan modesty. The old judge tried to look
tierce, and said a woman shouldent undersex
herself. I have seen a heap of men who, when
they got sorter old, took up a sour-grape spite
against good-lookin women. But Soosan looked
at the judge as strait ?s &n egul. She stood up
square on her paster joints, and remarked that
she was free-born aud nativ-born and had prop?
erty of her own, aud had. a right to vote for the
law-makers of her choice.' She said that wo?
men done as much for the country as the men.
and if thoy dident fi^ht in a battle, they raised
the boys that did. That havin em and nursin
em and tendin to em in sikness aud in helth
was a harder job than titin, and if the men
dident believe it jest let em try it awhile. She
sed if the judge could name one good reesun
why they shouldent vote, she wanted to know
it.
Soosan's eyes flashed a little angelic fire
when the judge fined her a hundred dollars,
and she remarked that every advance in sivili
zation had to have its* martyrs, and she was
reddy. She throwd a hundred dollar bill over
to the clerk, and sed she would bet another
hundred that the money never reached the
State treasury. She dident mind that old judge
no more than if he was a monky. She told
? him that if they would base the votin bisness
on morality, or property, or intelligence, or all
three put together, the women would be satis
tide; out they based it on wearin britches, and
drinkiu whisky, and chawin tobakker, and
keepin one wife at home and another sum
where else. She declared that she had as much
rite to Choose her politikul masters as the
Suthern niggers or the hethcr. Chinee. That
if the women could vote there wouldent be a
drunkard, nor a thief, nor a fool on the bench,
u?r in any other ofiis, and whiskey would be
harder to get than arsenik. An old, red nosed,
swell faced man winked one eye at her and
hikkuped "the h?he?hell you say." When
the court adjourned the crowd cheered Soosey,
and one man sed he'd pay the fine; another sed
he'd see her a fair fite with the judge; another
sed the law dident say whether the britches
must be worn outside or inside, and another
sed he'd rather risk the women to vote than
thousans of them drunken furriners and fools
who elected John Morrissey.
Now I've been thinkin a heap about this
votin bisiness myself and my opinyun ar that
Gov. Jinkins is a mity smart man. The first
time he run for Govnor they beat him bekaus
he sed he dident think that every fool and
every vagabond ort to be allowed to vote. He
was for drawin in the lines insted of Jetten em
out, and the melaukolly sequel hav proved that
he were right. If I was a king I wouldent let
anybody vote who couldent tell whether Gen?
eral Jackson was dead or alive, or who took
more than three drinks a day as a regular
thing, or who chawd tObaker after he had gone
to bed, or who was a meaner man than his
daddy, or who beleeved in gosts and witches,
or who dident put on a clean shirt oust ? week,
or who dident earn 50 cents a day at sum re?
spektable bisness, or who shouted at nite meet
ins more than two hours on a stretch. I heard
a blind freenologist say that the way to test a
man's sense was to draw a straight line from
the top of his upper lip to his forrerd and an?
other from the lower corner of his nose to the
hole in his ear, and if the angle between was
less than 60 degrees he might be smart for a
monky but he was a fool for a man. He sed
that this test would rule out nearly all the
idiots and Africans from votin, and if it dident
their faith in witches would. I wouldn't let a
furriner vote until he had lived here and be?
haved himself for ten years, and he shouldent
vote then unless he had married an amerikan
fal or was a raisin children on amerikan soil.
wouldent let no unmarried man vote who
was over 80 years old; though I would lec all
sich justify by swearin that they had tried, but
nobody would hav em. I'd make em name the
gals in their affidavy.
I would let every married man and his wife
and every widder vote if they wasent cut off
by the foregoin*exseptions. They should have
one vote apiece for themselves and one for
every child they had. This last would elevate
the Arpian family about elektion times, shore.
Akkording to Solomon, all sich ought to hav a
heap of privileges, for it aint no picayune biBi
ness to raise a big drove of children. Jest let
any Jade-bound bachelor try it and see. I look
upon respektable children a? the hope of the
State, and if I had my way these stagnant old
rips who wont marry, but prowl around and
live easy and die rich and leave no sign, at
least none to speak of, should be taxed heavy
and the money appropriated to the orfins' fund.
What's a man worth to the State who leaves it
no defenders after he's ded and gone; who pat?
ronizes no Suudy-schools or Mundy-schools?
buys no caudy, or baby clothes, or balls, or
barlow knives, or long stockius, or jackonet
muslin, or hoop skirts, or galluses. What in?
trust has he got in perpetuatin great principles ?
Why, a chronick old bachelor can just turn
over in his one-horse bed and die and not keer
a darn if the world cums to an end in 15 min?
utes. He wouldent keer if the devil was to
break loose and eat up the women and children
alive.
Now I'm not sayin a word agin them mar?
ried foaks who sumhow or sumhow else haint
aksidentally been blessed with offsprings. By
no means. They showd a willingness to hav
em, and thats enuf for me. I've always apolo?
gized for peopul who done the best they could,
whether they suckseeded or not. I ain't jio
Bonyparte to chop a mans head off for losin a
battle whether he was to blame or not I'm
a friend to married foaks, children or no chil?
dren. Lawful wedlock is sonietys main spring
?its back bone?its life inshoorance. I'vo no
patience with these stingy old stags who wont
marry without they git a pile of pensbun
money, who want to be hired to do it, who
hang "around a town, waitin for sum rich gal
to turn up, while there's lots of poor ones,
purty and clever, jest waitin-to take shoogar in
them.
Now I don't want tobe misundcrstoo'd about
this votin bisiness. I ain't in favor of women
mixin up with scalawags and trash at the polls.
By no means. I want the moral strength and
influence of their votes bekaus they are better
and purer and honcster than the men', but I
would hav cm stay at home and let their bus
bans or their fathers or their next friend vote
for them as the case may be. If a man fooled
his wife out of her vote it wouldent be exactly
the clean thing, but it would be a family mat?
ter, and nobody's bisiness. It wouldent be the
only thiag that some men fool em about.?
There's sirong minded women and weak minded
men, and in such cases I would let the longest
pole knock down the persimmon. The time
used to was when a married woman dident hav
no voice in nuthin?cxsep makin baby clothes.
She couident own any property?she had no
8ivil existence. If anybody give her anything
the law lequired a man to keep it for her. If
she coulcent liv with a drunken husban, and
quit him, the law giv him all the children.
But as the world grows older she keeps a step
pin u'ojhigher. Sum of em are studyin medisin
and mak? the best sort of doctors for women,
and for children a half hour old and under
They de clerkin and book-keepin- and tele.
graph in and printin, and can keep a postoffis
euer than a man and never steal a sent. If
they do peep into other women's letters its only
out of kuriosity, and they always seal em up
again. Take it altogether, it looks to me like
the time has mity nigh cum when the men
have got to admit that a woman is just as good
as a man, if not better, in most everything
that requires more sense than mussel. I wont
say she ort to vote if she dont want to, but I
do say that no politishun could by her vote
with a drink.
Bill Aep.
Overt-ork axd Waxt of Sleep.?Over?
work causes a great deal of ill health in farm?
ing communities. Very many farmers/ in their
efforts to avoid idleness, which they consider a
sin and a shame, go to the other extreme and
and lose both health and happiness thereby.
While industry tends to health, overwork
breaks down the constitution and shortens life.
It injures both the body and mind, and if long
continued, results either in death or premature
old age. For this sin, and sin it is to over?
work, there is not nearly the excuse oh the
part of firmere which there was twenty years
ago. Now, one has machines to take, in a
great degree, the place of hand labor, and the
farmer who will use them need not break down
his health by working too hard. But it is not
the farmer who is most liable to overwork.
The farmer's wife is generally the greatest
sufferer. Every day in the year, Sunday not
excepted, she has much to do. Often there is
as much required of her as two women ought
to peri.brr 1. As the result of her overwork,
health Ulost; and she either dies long before
her time or lives only to suffer the penalties of
the law she has transgressed. For this course
there is no justification. No vornan ought to
work herself to death, and no man is justified
in requiring or allowing his wife to do so. He
ought to f irnish.her.with household machines,
and if her health is poor, either help her him?
self or hire a girl to help her. This killing
himself or his wife, which so many farmers do,
for the sake of laying up a few dollars which
they never expect to use, and which they can?
not carry with them when they die, is a miser?
able speculation as far as profit and loss are
concerned, and a sinful, shameful thing, for
any man to do.
Want of sleep is one of the chief causes of
much of the physical and mental trouble of
farmers ar d their families. During the busy
season, when the farmer rises at four in the
morning r nd works until six or seven in the
evening, then eats hie supper, does his chores,
and sits i p an hour or two later, to read his
paper or mat with his neighbor, he does not
obtain sleep, enough to keep either body or
mind in perfect health and vigor. The evil
consequences of his course may not be apparent
for many years, but sooner or later they will
come. The waste of the brain is not fully
made up. Little by little it decays and insan?
ity or incurable disease is the final, result of
using the hours which should be devoted to
sleep, for o^her purposes. Farmers' wives, who
are often k jpt awake at night by the exhaus?
tion feaused by overwork or by the crying
and fretting of children, are the greatest suffer?
ers, and year by year, a vast number of this
class go to ;he insane asvlum or the grave. It
is slow but certain suicide to curtail the hours
of sleep, and no man, woman or child need
expect to long continue in good health without
taking the oiliest amount of quiet rest.? Work?
ing Farmer.
Noah'8 Ark.?The venerable subject of .the
size and model of the Ark is again discussed
by a writer in the Nautical Gazette, who re?
views both :he Bible account and that recently
discussed in Assyria. Certainly Noah built no
small ship when he proposed to ride out the
waves of the flood. Beckoning the cubit at
eighteen inches, the Ark was 4-50 feet long, 75
feet wide, aad 45 feet deep, and would register
about 15,000 tons, if measured as a sailing ship,
or about 12,000 tons if measured as a steamer,
by British r ales. It was thus smaller than the
Great Eastern. It had three decks, and was*
divided into numerous compartments by longi?
tudinal and transverse bulkheads for the safety
and order of its occupants. It was built of
gopher wocd, a species of evergreen timber
resembling -he pine in length and strength of
trunk, and the white cedar in tightness. In
model, says the writer, it was all that a great
carrier could be, chest like, with lines straight
and angles square; but* the bottom and top
were eliptic;.! in outline, presenting convexity
to the earth and to the sky. After giving the
dimensions and the mode of construction of
the several parts, this authority tells us, as if
he were equally certain on this point, that the
Ark "is now in a good state of preservation,
but lying ruder an eternal mautle of snow,
hundreds of feet deep, at an altitude of 17,500
feet above the level of the sea. Ever since the
Flood dried up, the climate of America has
been colder, and snow always covers the top of
Ararat, rendering it impossible for any of
Noah's deceudanjs to go up and find the Ark."
Perpetual Ice.?The Poughkeepsie Tele?
graph says that there Is a pass in the Catskill
Mountains, between Shandakin Centre and
Westkill, Ulster County, where snow and ice
can be found at all seasons of the year. A
road runs so ne five miles up a deep hollow,
bounded on she two sides by high mountains,
with a clear, ice-cold stream of water running
down its cenire. Strotchiug across the head of
thMMpllow is another mountain somewhat
higrrer than ihe others, that makes one think
the passage way had suddenly terminated in a
sort of cut do sac, but upon arriving at its base
the road turr s directly to the right and enters
a narrow pas3, hardly fifty feet in width. On
each side the mountains tower upward a thou?
sand feet from the roadway, not perpendicular,
but so steep that when the trees have shed
their foilage the top can be seen by a person
standing at the foot. There is snow and ice
during the hottest days of summer a few feet
from the roadway. There are large masses of
solid ice in some caves not further than five
feet from the road. Strange as it may seem,
the growth o.i' vegetation is very rank, the lich?
ens especially covering the rocks profusely,
though anirrals are very scarce, it being too
cold for their comfort.
The Choice of a President.
Senator Morton, chairman of the Senate Com?
mittee on Privileges and Elections, has ap?
pointed a meeting of his committee for October
to consider certain proposed amendments to the
Constitution changing the mode of electing the
President of th 3 United States.
The practicability of a fair and peaceable
election of the ohief executive of a great na?
tion has always been a question of doubt in
the minds of many of the nest political writers,
and it was one of the most difficult problems
presented to tie convention'that framed the
Constitution of the United States. The expe?
rience of the world has been that it was im?
possible to guard such elections from the mis?
chiefs of foreign intrigue and domestic turbu?
lence, and that the only escape from these dan?
gers was In having a hereditary Chief Magis?
trate. The framers of our Constitution,
however, determined to have an elective
Executive, and to guard against the dangers
most imminent in such election they devised a
mode of referrir g the selection of the President
to a small body of electors appointed in each
St?te under the direction of its Legislature,
and.to shut out as far as possible all intrigue
they declared that Congress should fix the day
for the election of the electors, and' that the
day should be the same in all the States. The
mode thus provided for the selection of a Pres?
ident was declared by Mr. Hamilton in-"The
Federalist" to bo "if not perfect, at least ex?
cellent," and it tvas the only important part of
the system of government devised by the con?
vention that escaped the censure or received
any mark of approbation from the opponents
of the proposed Constitution. Notwithstand?
ing this contemporaneous approval, no part of
our system has, perhaps, given so little satis?
faction, and Chancellor Kent, after many years'
observation of its operation, declared it to be
"the question which is to try the strength of
the Constitution." "If we are able for half a
century hereafter," says this eminent jurist in
the first edition of his commentaries, "to elect
the Chief Magistrate of the Union with dis?
cretion, moderation and integrity, we shall un?
doubtedly stamp the highest value on our na?
tional character, and recommend our republi?
can institutions, if not to the imitation.fyet
certainly to the esteem and admiration of man?
kind."
The original Constitution provided that when
the electors chosen by the people should meet
within their respective States they should pro?
ceed to ballot for two persons without designa?
ting which of tho two they voted for a3- Presi?
dent aud which for Vice President. It merely
declared that the person having the greater
number of votes should be President, if such
number were a majority of the whole number
of electors chosen; and if there were more
than one having such majority and an equal
number of votes, the House of Representatives
were to choose, by ballot, one of them for
President, and if no one had a majority, then,
from tho five highest on the list, the House
were, in the same manner, to choose the Presi?
dent. This provision was put to a severe test
in 1801, when, in consequence of an equality
in the electoral votes between Jefferson and
Burr, the selection was thrown into the House
of Representatives, and resulted in much riot?
ous and violeur, conduct. In consequence of
this disturbance the Constitution wds amended
so as to require the electors to name in distinct
ballots the persons voted for respectively as
President ana Vice President, and the precau?
tions thus taken will probably prevent a repe
1 tition of the dangerous occurrences referred
to.
. In order to obtr.in the sense of the people in
the choice of a President, the power of selec?
tion is committed by the Constitution not to
any body already established, but to mene lect
ed by the people lor the special purpose. The
idea of having an intermediate body to make
the final selection is that a small number of
}>ersons, selected by the people, would be most
ikely to possess the information and discern?
ment necessary to make a judicious choice, and
would in addition preclude the possibility of
tumult and disorder. The framers of the Con?
stitution hoped ab 0 through this machinery to
divest the election of a President of all party
and personal prejudice by referring it to a hody
of electors who should be unfettered by previ?
ous commitment and influenced only by the'
exercise of their own judgment and considera?
tion of the public good.
The theory is excellent, but it has never
been realized in its practical operations. In
fact the entire theory has been subverted in
practice, and the el ectors, instead of assembling
to exercise their own judgment in making
choice of a President, meet only to give a for?
mal constitutional sanction to the choice pre?
viously made by oue or other of the political
parties through a political convention.
[ It is reported that the Senate committee,
which will assemble in New York in October,
will hold public sessions and will invite a num?
ber of leading cons titutional lawyers and wri?
ters on this special subject to address them. No
doubt much valuable and interesting informa
J tioii will be thus elicited and many important
suggestions made. The. precedent of giving
full public investigation to proposed amend?
ments to the Constitution, and inviting discus?
sion and co-operation from those learned in
such matters, but not holding public office, is
an exceedingly good oue and ought to become
well established. As to some of the alterations
to which we have alluded, we presume there
will be not much difference of opinion, but as
to the mode of counting the popular vote,
whether by taking the consolidated vote of the
whole country, or the majorities by States,
much may be said on both sides and we may
expect some diversity of opinion.?Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Southern Manufacturers.?Commenting
upon the growth of tho manufacturing inter?
ests in the South, the Philadelphia Gazette
sayB:
And yet, while we apprehend that eventually
the Southern mills will be devoted almost ex?
clusively to the fabrication of yarns, it is cer?
tain that they have done far more than seemed
possible a few years since in the whole manu?
facture. They secure the staplo fresh, unin?
jured by baling and compressing, and free from
the cost of bagging, hooping and transporta?
tion. They have coal and they have water.
Some of their cotton mills have paid fifty per
cent, profit, and many twenty-five per cent.,
and consequently a very great interest has been
awakened. This hts flowed over into the pro?
duction of cotton. Last year's crop was the
largest raised since the war aud the most valu?
able ever gathered. It was so, indeed, in great
measure because tho colored people have found
that they must earn their own living, and at?
tempting this, have ascertained that eflVit will,
secure property in addition to bread ; and bn
cause both tho white employer and colored
laborer have learned that it is to their mutual
interest to keep the contracts into which they
enter. But this discovery was not weakened
by having other interests near that demanded
peace and industry, and the mills were aud arc
apostles of conciliation between the races, and
have done much, as they will continue to do,
iu increasing production.
Account of what a Newly Invented Press Can
Bo.
The New York Journal of Commerce says :
A remarkable exhibition of inventive skill
took place, on Wednesday, at the Standard
Compress Cotton Company's works in Morton
street. Here is an immense press, weighing
100 tons, with 1,600 tons pressure, costing $80,
000, calculated to squeeze a bale of cotton or
hay almost out of existence. Through the
desire of Mr. George McKenzie, agent of the
French Transatlantic line of steamers, to test
it, twenty bales of cotton that had been once
compressed in the South, and averaging 480
pounds weight each, were rolled to the press.
They stood averaging in width 33 inches, and
in a few minutes emerged one by one from the
compress, hooped and tied, in a width aver?
aging 18 inches. Mr. McKenzie had them
thrown into the hold of the Vi He de Havre,
and found that such pressing had saved to the
company 3* tons measurement of space in the
20 bales. This being the experiment with new
machinery, 175 tons per 1,000 bales as shown
is considered good, but it is believed that the
practical business working will save 200 tons
admeasurement per 1,000 bales. A description
of the working of this machine is interesting,
because it is an immense affair, and has never
been tried before, the patent having been
granted to G. W. Grader as late as September
28, 1871. It is a new application of the double
cylinder of the class of cotton press in which
a steam piston is made to act upon a rack
working between cog segments connected with
rods to the platen, or follower of the press, in
such manner that the leverage will be increased
when the follower is drawn up. A bale of
'cotton or hay is rolled in front of the machiue
and all but one hoop cut? It is then thrown
on a cog-edged bed-plate called the platen, or
follower, weighing ten tons. Another station?
ary plate weighing ten tons, and faced like the
other sets about six feet above the follower.
Both plates are concaved, so as to make the
bale highest in the centre when pressed.?
Above the stationary bed-plate is a 48 inch
cylinder, containing a piston which operates a
ratchetted post so as to throw two immense
cog segments or quarter circular pieces up al?
most to the end of th'eir stroke. To the best
leverage points of these cog segments are at?
tached the upper ends of immense rods that
connected the follower. And when it gets to
this point an automatic clutch seizes the piston
post and holds it. Then steam is run in from
properly adjusted and peculiarly valved pipes,
under another piston in another and larger
steam cylinder. This is fifty-six inches in
diameter, and gives five times the power of the
lower cylinder. By the operation of this pow?
er, enough pressure is brought to carry the cog
segments to the end of the stroke, and to
squeeze the bale, regardless of .size, into a nine
inch compass. The beauty of the thing, in an
economical phase, is that a bale of cotton may
be pressed without expending more steam than
is used, because by peculiar valve arrangements
the slack of the piston does not prevent the
expansive use of steam left in either cylinder,
and the steam may be used simultaneously in
both cylinders. The machine will press cotton
j or hay to any size required or desired, to 9J
i inches for an ordinary bale of cotton of 500
lbs., or two ordinary bales of hay of 250 lbs.
each. In applying the iron tics, it is almost
impossible to get them tight, and the result is
that the bale expands some six inches measured
at the thickest part, after withdrawal from the
f>ress. But once it expands the ties to their
imit, the size is fixed not to exceed eighteen
inches. This press has a great advantage by
reason of the uniformity in size of the bales
after they have been pressed. Iu railroad
packing, it has been found that a twenty-eight
foot car is entirely filled with 16,000 pounds of
cotton, while its capacity for weight is 22,000
pounds. If cotton can be pressed in this way,
care will employ all their capacity when they
carry cotton or hay, and be enabled to do it
cheaper than now. In regard to ocean for?
warding the custom is to pack cotton as light
bulky freight. By crowding it into half the
space the carrying capacity is doubled, and the
result will probably be a greater amount of
such forwarding across the ocean by steam
vessels instead of the slower method of for?
warding by sail. Two bales of bay, measuring
in width on top of each other six feet and two
inches, were unhooped and thrown together in
the compress. In a moment they were hooped
and taken out as one bale, and the whole mass,
after expansion of the ties, measured only
twenty inches at the thickest part. Cotton or
hay may be thus compressed at the rate of a
bale a minute, and put in such shape that a
sailing vessel, instead of ballasting, may with
perfect safety carry her full complement of
cargo in cotton or hay. The Standard Cotton
Compress Company is a joint stock association.
Mr. James L. Harway, President of the New
York Dyewood, Extract and Chemical Compa?
ny of Greenpoint, is also president of this
compauy.
The New Party Movement.?Panaceas
for the healing of our political ills are quite
abundant. Scarcely have the merits of the uni?
fication scheme ceased to be discussed when the
political atmosphere vibrates with the echoes
of another remedy. This last conies from the
brain of the Hon. Mr. Groesbeck, of Ohio.
While the unification scheme has its beginning
and ending in the darkey, free trade is the soul
of the Groesbeck remedy. The Ohio statesman
accepts the situation iu regard to the present
status of the negro, being, of the opinion that
while tho right of suffrage was granted him
prematurely, any attempt to deny or curtail
that right would be unwise and inexpedient.
The wholesale voting of the ignorant Southern
negroes he evidently disapproves of, yet in
despair of any escape he is disposed to accept
it as a necessary evil. The protective policy of
the government is a measure that ho does not
accept, and one upon which he takes issue and
calls earnestly upon the members of the new
party to take issue. He claims that it is
in direct conflict with the fundamental princi?
ple that should prevail in republican govern?
ments?that of according equal rights to all
the people. In other words, in his judgment,
protection is?a discrimination in favor of. cer?
tain privileged classes to the serious injury of
tho masses. Free trade will doubtless bo" re?
garded with great favor in the West. The
popularity in that section of the grange move?
ment, whose cardinal doctrine is death to mo?
nopolies and privileged classes, is good evi?
dence upon which to establish an opinion. The
Western farmers arc determined to creak down
the protective system, which has worked great
detriment to their interests. Mr. Groesbeck
suggests that the proposed new party be styled
the Liberal Democratic party, and invites into
ranks all opponents of the party in power. If
free trade becomes the prominent issue at the
next Presidential election the South will hold
tho balanco of power, for while tho West will
approve the Eastern- and Middle States will
oppose. If the contingency arises there cannot
be much doubt with what section the South
will cast hor destinies. She is decidedly in fa?
vor of free trado, for her interests will be great?
ly promoted by the carrying out of this policy.
?Chester Reporter,
Safeguards to Pnrity.
There are many parents who fancy that they
can bring up ttieir children, and especially
their daughters; in a large degree ignorant of
the evil tyat is in the world. As the king in
the fairy tale banished all spinning wheels
from his dominions, that his daughter might
not wound her fingers with a spindle, and real?
ize the prophecy of the spiteful fairy at her
christening, even so mothers withhold useful
and necessary knowledge from their daughters,
lest with it may be mingled something leading
to harm. And even as this charming princess,
notwithstanding every precaution, as by acci?
dent came upon the only spinning wheel in the
realm, was wounded by the spindle, and fell in?
to her hundred years' slumber, so often does
the young lady unawares, stumble upon expe?
riences of whose possible existence she never
dreamed and which are far more disastrous to
her than those that befell the sleeping beauty.
Boys and girls as they grow will learn the
ins and outs of this wicked world. If their
parents do not give them this knowledge, some?
body else will, and the manner in which the
information is given is in all moral respects
vastly more important than the matter. The
parent may instruct the child in everything it
should know, satisfy its curiosity within proper
limits, and thus preoccupy the ground that
otherwise would be sown by chance cultivators
more wfth tares of vice than with the wheat of
knowledge.
It is simply astonishing how soon young
children pick up slang words, vile words, pro?
fane words, and attach?to them meanings. It
is equally surprising how instinctively they
conceal all this knowledge from their parents,
and while the mother thinks her little girl a
model of innocence and purity, her neighbor
may know that such is very far from being the
case. Therefore it is not possible for the mother
to cultivate too great an intimacy with her
child. She should have the juvenile heart
spread out before her as a mirror, reflecting ev?
ery thought, every feeling, every passion of the
child. Thus she will be able judiciously toad
minister antidotes to vice and build up safe?
guards to virtue.
Girls are as a general rule brought up in ig?
norance of very much which it most concerns
them to know. Many a. young lady dances on
the verge of a precipice, not knowing her dan?
ger, and many fall from virtue because their
mothers had not the courage to warn them of
the pitfalls in their pathway and the steps lead?
ing thitherward. The love of purity, like the
love of knowledge and the love of fame, grows
by what it feeds on, and dies if it have not
suitable nutriment. The girl and boy who
have steadily held up before their eyes an ideal
of high and pure womanhood and manhood,
who are taught from early childhood that their
souls are alike sacred to purity, will hardly fail
to realize in maturity the highest wishes of
their parents in these respects. Heroic virtue
is never the result of ignorance in man or wo?
man. We who know the shoals along the en?
trance to mature life should build lighthouses
ou sunken reefs, plant buoys in dangerous
places, and build life-boats for the rescue of the
shipwrecked.
In his prayer for his disciples, Christ said, "I
pray not that thou shouldest take them out of
the world, but that thou shouldest keep them
from the evil." Purity is not inconsistent with
knowledge of evil, and as soon as a child is old
enough to wander from the right way, he
should be instructed in the dangers that are
most likely to befall him, and the way in
which they can be avoided.
When there is a perfect understanding be?
tween parents and children; when the daugh?
ter feels that she can confide every thought and
desire of her heart to her mother, and the son
is in full sympathy and counsel with his father,
.tnere is little danger that the happiness of the
parents will bo wrecked by the profligacy of
their children. Many grown people seem to
think there is no harm done in evading ques?
tions asked by children, or in giving such
answers as totally mislead and confuse them.
This is a woful mistake, and most~disastrous
consequences follow it. Truth never injures
anybody, and though it may be diluted, so to
speak, when given to children, any falsehood
mingled with it is deadly poison. The ranks
of fallen women in our great city are largely
recruited from the country. Barely does any
young woman knowing her danger become
identified with this unfortunate class, and
young men who have been forewarned by judi?
cious parents of the alluring temptations which
seek them out on every hand are too wise to
wander far from the paths of virtue.
Handling a Snapping Turtle by the
Wrong End.?A man named Grisley, who by
strict economy and severe industry has suc?
ceeded in getting his family a little place, free
from encumbrance, was fishing in Still River,
near the Beaver Creek Mills, on Sunday after?
noon. After sitting on the bank for a couple
of hours, without catching anything, he was
gratified to see, on a flat stone in the water, a
snapping turtle sunning itself. The butt-end
of the turtle was toward him, aud he thought
he wolud capture it; but while he was looking
for a place to stop, the turtle gravely turned
around without his knowledge, and when he
got in reaching distance, and stooped down to
take hold of what nature designed should be
f taken hold of while handling a snapping tur?
tle, that sociable animal just reached out and
took hold of Mr. Grislcy's hand with a grasp
that left no doubt of its sincerity. The shrieks
of the unfortunate man aroused some of the
neighbors, but when they arrived it was too
late to do anything for him; for they just
caught a glimpse of a bare-headed man tearing
over the hill, swingiug a small carpet-bag in
one hand, and they at once concluded it was a
narrow escape from highway robbery. How?
ever, it was not a carpet-bag he was swinging;
it was the turtle, and it was clung to him until
he reached the White street bridge, when it let
go; but the frightened man did not stop until
he got home. When he reached the house, the
ludicrousness of the affair burst upon him, and
when his wife looked at his pale face and bare
head, and dust begrimmed clothes, and asked
what was the matter, he said: "Nothing was
the matter, only he was afraid he would be too
late for church," and appeared to be much re?
lieved to find that he wasn't.?Danbury News.
The Month of August.?In the old Roman
calendar, August bore the name of Scxtilia as
the sixth month of the series, and consisted of
but twenty-nine days. Julius Ca?sar, in reform?
ing the calendar of his nation, extended it to
thirty days. When, not long after, Augustus
conferred upon it his own name, he took one
day from FcbruKry and added it to August,
which has consequently ever since consisted of
thirty-one days. This great ruler was born in
September, and it might have been expected
that he would take that month under his pat?
ronage ; but a number of lucky things had hap?
pened in August, which moreover stood next
to the month of his illustrious predecessor,
Julius, so he preferred Scxtilis as the month
which should be honored by bearing his name,
and August it ha3 ever since been among all
nations deriving their civilization from the
Romans. 1
Important to Distillers.
We have never believed that the people of
this portion of our State were more iuclined to
violations of law than those of any other sec?
tion of our country. Yet at every session of
the United States court in Greenville it has to
consider a very large nutnber of complaints for
real or alleged violation of Internal Revenue
laws. The present term of court is no excep?
tion to the general rule. Most of these cases
arise from fraudulent distillation, or "making
blockade whiskey." We do not propose here
to urge, in palliation of these offenses, the very
great and peculiar temptations to which our
?eople have been subjected in this particular,
he greatest occasion, and the only excuse,
which any one has had for these violations, we
are very glad to say, is now removed.
It has been the universal impression of all
classes of our citizeus that the laws and regula?
tions thrown about the manufacture of whiskey
were of such a charactor as to entirely prohibit
?so complicated and strenuous in their re?
quirements that no copper distillery could
comply with them. We now learn, from what
we believe is good authority, that under the
latest laws and regulations upon this subject
any distiller can comply with all the require?
ments and manufacture whiskey profitably;
provided, of course, as in every business, he
manages with proper care and discretion. In
other words: it is now possible for any man
who desires to make corn whiskey in a copper
distillery to do so legally, and to enter into and
prosecute the business legitimately. Even now
quite a number of copper distilleries, similar
to those our citizens would establish, mashing
from ten to forty bushels of grain and making
from twenty to a hundred gallons of whiskey
per day, are in successful operation under this
system in another State. It requires a small
additional expense in fitting up a good distil?
lery, but nothing worthy of a moment's con?
sideration by any man with capital enough to
run a distillery successfully. In actual expe?
rience it is found that compliance with the re?
quirements of the government works a decided
advantage to the distillers over the plan in use
before the war. ?
This is peculiarly a country of distillers, and
we are glad to know that the requirements of
the law are now such that' honest men can
prosecute the business legally. We hope to see
some of our distillers of olden time enter this .
field of industry the coming season. We know
their product will meet with ready sale at good
prices; and we have no doubt but when our
people come to understand that whiskey can
be made in compliance with law, the com?
plaints of officers and prosecutions in courts on
account of "blockading" will cease, because
that business will be abandoned for the legiti?
mate manufacture. Such would be very ad?
vantageous. It would renew what was once a
considerable business and produce a financial
improvement over the present condition, by
giving labor to our citizens and a better home
market for our corn. But more than that: it
would relieve our people of what is every day
proving an extremely unpleasant experience,
government officers of an unpleasant duty, and
this section of the State of a very undesirable
reputation.
We hope our exchanges will aid us in giving
publicity to these facts.?Greenville Republican.
Docs, Socially Considered.?Dr. John
Brown, Edinburg, of all the prose writers, has
written with the most hearty and delightful
appreciation of dogs. He says:
"I think every family should have a dog. It
is like having a perpetual baby ; it is the play?
thing and crony of the whole house; and then,
he tells no tales, betrays no secret, neyer sulks,
asks no troublesome questions, never gets into
debt, never comes down late to breakfast, is al?
ways ready for a bit of fun, lies in wait for it,
and you may, if choleric, to your relief, kick
him instead of some one else who would not
take it so meekly, and, moreover, would cer?
tainly not. as he does, ask your pardon for be?
ing kicked.
"Next to a merry child, we do not know so
good and healthful a companion for a melan?
cholic man as a dog. He does not call* over
tLe rolls of your ails, with dolorous intonation,
nursing and petting them by recital, nor does
he anger you by combatting your sponetic
fancies. He just ignores them so innocently
that you ignore them too.- If, after a convivial
evening, you awake with a pound of lead in
the epigastric regions, spiders in your eyes, and
mephitic vapors coiling through your brain; if
the day looks dark, cold and dreary, and you
feel half inclined to try the 'bark bodkin' rem?
edy, rather than grunt and sweat under a
weary life, just draw on your clothes and open
the door to your dog. See what a delicious
good morning he has for you. How he leaps
upon you. and sprinkles you all over with cool,
fragrant new, which he has brushed from lilacs
and violet borders. How his eyes flash, and
his tail wags like an excited pendulum, as he
winds up his welcome with a series of miscel?
laneous acrobatic performances."
That is one side of the question. Now let us
look at the other. How many valuable lives
have been sacrificed bv mad dogs ? It is esti?
mated that several millions of sheep are anuu
ally destroyed in this country by worthless
dogs. How many "nice" ladies adopt lap-dogs
instead of orphan children ? How mauy poor
people keep and feed useless dogs who cannot
afford to? How very pleasant to encounter
half a dozen yelping curs when calling on a
neighbor, or when quietly driving along a pub?
lic road. How pleasant on a midsummer night
to be kept awake for hours by yelding curs be?
longing to our "civilized" neighbors. Then
there are the cross, snapping, snarling, biting
creatures, which are alike pest to owner and to
stranger?"Get out 1"
Death of Mr. Johx Heart.?This gentle?
man, who was well known in this city in
former years, as counected with the Charleston
Mercurg, died lately on board the Steamship
Charleston, on her passage from this city to
New York, land was buried on Staten Is'ard.
Mr. Heart was a native of Pennsylvania, and
by trade a printer, but removed when young to
Washington City, where he was employed first
as a compositor, and afterwards as reporter and
editor. About 1845, he came to Charleston,
and was associated for some time with Colonel
John E. Carew in the conduct of the Mercury,
and after the retirement of Colonel Carew, he
became associated with Mr. W. R. Taber, and
later with Colonel R. B. Rhetc, jr., and con?
tinued his connection with that prominent
journal until 1858, when, having received the
appointment of Superintendent of Public
Printing, be returned to Washington. During
the war, Mr. Heart served as special agent of
Confederate Post Office Department. Since
1865, he has been engaged in journalism in
Memphis; was Private-Secretary to Governor
Scott, in Columbia, and more recently, has
been an employee of the Government Printing
Office, at Washington. During his recent visit
to Charleston, the terribly shattered condition
of his health was a subject of sad and general
comment among his friends. His age was
about sixty-hvo?Charleston fVeu-s and Couri?
er.