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" BErTJVR THAN GOLD. Better than gr..:. ?eur, bettor than gold, Than rank and title a trrousand fold, Is a, healthy body, a mind at ease, Aaxl simple pleasures that always please; A heart that can feel for a neighbor's woe And share his joys witk a genial glow, With sympathies large enough to enfold > All men as brothers, is better than gold.^/ Better than gold is a conscience clear>' ?. Though toilingfor bread in an humb/aPfiers-' Doubly blest -with content and hps*?' Untried by the lust of cares or wAltn. Sowly living and lofty thoug*f f. Adorn and ennoble a poor n^0 ? , ? For man and morals, or N^;e 8 Pian? Are the genuine test of gentleman. Better than gold is tl^weet repose Of the sons of toil v^en their labors close; Better than gold if?Q poor man's sleep. And the balm thsrfdrops on his slumbers deep, Bring sleeping draughts to the downy bed, Where luxv<y pillows his aching head; His simpld opiate labor deems A shorter road to the land of dreams. Better than gold is a thinking mind That in the realm of books can find A. treasure surpassing Australian ore, And live with great and goodt>f yore. The sage's lore and the poet's lay, The glories of empires past away; The world's great drama will thus unfold And yield a pleasure better than gold. Better than gold is a peaceful home, Where all the fireside charities come; The shrine of love and the heaven of life, HaUowed by mother, or sister or wife. However humble the home may be, Or tried by sorrow with Heaven's decree, * The blessings that never were bought or sold, And centre there, are better than gold. The Secret of Yankee Prosperity. Under this head the veteran editor of the Mobile Bcgistert Hon. John Foreyth, has this to say; A Southern man, after having made a flying trip through the New England States, comes back filled with astonishment at what he has seen, and perfectly discouraged with his own section of the country. There he saw little villages sticking in the midst of barren and uninhabitable mountains, with no surround? ings to support them, evincing a spirit of life and prosperity unknown to our large towns? the recognized trade-centres of onr best agri? cultural regions. And in the country he saw little farms producing like first-class English Erdens, though on soil originally too poor to ve grown bear-grass, and in situations that a Southern man never would have thought capa? ble of being converted into a goat pasture.. The people, as a general thing, seemed conten? ted and prosperous; and if he had inquired into their circumstances he would have found, strange as it may appear, everybody in these little villages well off and making money, and the little farms, with their stone piles here and there, and their stones constantly working to the- surfe** to be carried off into other piles, and their annual calls for fertilizers to the ex? tent of one hundred and fifty dollars per acre, actually clearing their owners from one to three hundred dollarslSh every acre enclosed. No wonder that he is discouraged when he looks from this picture upon our favorably located towns, and notes their inactivity, their poverty and general dilapidation, and upon our broad and fertile acres, and reflects that they are re? ally, iu very many instances, not paying the expense of culture. One would naturally conclude that there must be some secret connected with all this, and so there is. At the village station the close observer would notice piles of cotton bales, a circumstance calculated to create no particular interest in the South, but there, thousands of miles away from where cotton should be grown, it would take the form of mystery; Stepping upon the platform in quest of a solution, his ears would be greeted by a sound as of a waterfall, having a peculiar hum? ming accompaniment?spindles. The case would be made plain?the strange little vil? lage would be recognized as a manufacturing point, and then he would know that we in a far off section.were digging its prosperity from our soil?feeding-it into a vigorous life upon the very food for which our towns were starving, and asking it nothing in return ; actually ship S'ng our cotton at our own expense, and then, order that it might grow fat on its business, Boving its fabrics at its own profitable figures, ana paying transportation on them to our homes. What a kind-hearted people we South - erners must be ! Then for the secret of success among the farmers. Passing through the country with his eyes open, the close observer would at the proper season soon have his attention arrested by an improved mower sweeping over the meadow under the exclusive management of a youth of, say sixteen, and accomplishing more in a day that could in that time be wormed out of a dozen freedmeu with their scythes. A little later and he would see the younger broth? er of the youth turning the hay; and then in due time would come a still smaller boy with a rake, followed by a trio of little fellows having all sorts of fun as they, with a hay fork, stored away the crop in the hay loft. In everything done on the farm in New Eng? land this same plan is resorted to. If the soil must be prepared, instead of setting a dozen freedmeu at it with their mules and plows to sweat through a week, as we would do, out comes a machine managed by a boy or two, and ib an incredibly short space of time the job is done, and well done. A lot of seed is to be sown that would give our hands a long, tedious task; but there a stripling with a seed sower puts it down exactly right and in very short order. And when the crop is ready to be hoed, instead of charging it with a black army ready to play for pay, a boy harnesses his nag to a horse-hoe, takes his seat as in a sulky, and rides about over the field hoeing several rows at a ?ime. In short, New England works by machinery, and therein lies the secret of Yan? kee prosperity. She has simply changed places with us?she owns her labor. If it were other? wise, or, in different words, did she have to work on our plan, and depend on our kind of labor, and did we not in the goodness of our hearts give her the profits on our products, a few years would find her entirely depopulated, a happy hunting ground, upon which the red man might pitch his wigwam, never to be dis? turbed by any encroachment of civilization. There is no reason why we in the South should not own our labor in the same way, and set our spindles going, thus giving prosperity to our towns and villages. We can never be a success till we do it. Let us think the matter over. Reunion op Hampton Legion?At a meeting of the Hampton Legion survivors, held in this city on February 24, 1875, it was resolved to have a reunion of the Legion in Columbia on the fourteenth anniversary of the first bettle of Manassas, the 21st of July next. The objects of the reunion will be, first, to col? lect the necessary records for compiling a com? plete history of that command ana its offshoots, from its organization in 1861 to the close of the war in April, 1865, and with this view officers and men are earnestly requested to prepare complete rolls of their companies, with full Ksts of the killed and wounded in all the en? gagements in which the Legion and its mem? bers took part; also of those who died from disease, and to furnish copies .of all official re? ports- or other documents concerning the Le? gion that they may be able to obtain ; second, to take the intiative towards erecting a suita? ble monument to all the dead of the Legion ; third, to form an association for the purpose of earrying out the ends above indicated. Lieut. Gen. Wade Hampton will preside. Gen. T. M. Logan will deliver an oration. Addresses may by expected from other prominent officers who were members of the old command.?News and Courier. Should Criminals be FuhP^ ?cato?*f rrii ? _,. , , ^fced upon our at v? has h*?>of recent executions . .entioB by the acW^om different parts of ?Ibach have reacj^e t0 convict an/pun;sh 1 tne ?tate, Jgfifae 7arioua gra(jes of murder tnose gou^j. six or seven vears undoubtedly vS'out great demoralization and contempt IKelaw. And unquestionably a vigorous jtfo". impartial execution of the law against that class of criminals will be required to re? store things to their normal condition. We are of the opinion, however, that the public execu? tion of criminals does not assist in accomplish? ing this end, but, on the contrary, both di? rectly and indirectly, retards its accomplish? ment. We are aware that in stating this opinion we run counter to the opinions of many excellent people, and it is only because we have a clear conviction that the present mode of executiug criminals is demoralizing in the extreme that we venture to say anything on the subject. Without referring to experience at all, we think that it might be shown, from a con? sideration of the nature of mankind, that the classes who are expected to be awed and re? strained by the public execution of criminals are really affected in quite the opposite way. The punishment by death of criminals is justi? fied on the ground that it is necessary to the protection of society. This protection is se? cured, first, by the removal of one who has proved himself to be dangerous to the rest of the community, and, secondly, by the deterrent influence of his punishment upon others of like tendencies.' If the element of revenge upon the murderer is allowed to enter into the question at all, surely his private and swift execution will more certainly serve that pur? pose than will the parade and excitement of a public execution. We think, however, that it will be denied that the law which takes the life of the criminal is based upon a feeling of re? venge. The question resolves itself, then, into one for the protection of society merely. If, as we have already stated, this protection is se? cured by the removal by death of the criminal, it can make but little 'difference whether his death is public or private. But we conceive that, to secure the deterrent influence of the death of the criminal upon persons of like tendencies, it is of the utmost importance that everything which conceals or diminishes, in the minds of those sought to be influenced, the crimioality of the act for which he suffers should be carefully eliminated from the scene. The more ignorant and degraded the people are the more likely they are to be swayed by passion aud feeling rather than (judgment. In the midnight murder it is not the death of the individual that appalls us so much as the sudden and mysterious swiftness with which death comes upon him. So we think that if it were possible to conduct the execution of criminals in absolute privacy, the deterrent effect upon the minds of the people at large would be infinitely greater and more appalling than as now conducted. We are aware that absolute privacy cannot be secured, but certainby comparative privacv may be; and the scenes that were witnessed recently at Orangeburg and Beaufort, and more recently at Camden, may be avoided. Is it possible for any one think that the ex? ecution of Josh Fr?ser, on Friday last, in the town of Camden, in the presence of six thousand persons, as described by the reporters, had the slightest deterrent influence upon persons with similar temptations or tendencies to his own ? He acknowledged having killed Cooper, and he also confessed the murder of his wife's child and a negro woman in Camden. He also ac? knowledged having set fire to gin honses, mills, etc. He said he was ready to meet death, as he had been washed in the blood of his Saviour, and j feared no harm to his soul. "The wildest re? ligious enthusiasm prevailed." It seems to us that if the ingenuity of man had been deliberately set to work for the pur? pose, it could not have invented a spectacle better calculated to plant the seeds of ruin in the minds of the six thousand people there assembled than the one described above. A blasphemer, hypocrite and murderer borne up to heaven by the shouts of an excited crowd oi religious enthusiasts is not a spectacle likely to impress men of his own class with the ex? ceeding siufulness of sin. To us the spectacle is disgusting and frightful. And if, as we be? lieve is tbe case, there is no law on the statute book regulating the execution of criminals, we trust that one may speedily be passed that will prevent in the- future such terrible exhibitions of human depravity and fanaticism.? Union Herald. Advice to the South. The white property holders in the South who complain so bitterly of the disorganization of labor and the ruinous effects of negro rUle, will find the surest remedy for these evils in concil? iatory and persevering Efforts to educate the blacks to a proper understanding of their own interests, which are plainly identical with those of their white neighbors. In some sections of the South this may require a great deal of pa? tience and forbearance, since in many commu? nities where the colored element predominates, the negroes under the teachings of their carpet? bag leaders have become excessively aggressive toward the whites. But this should be ascribed to the bad influence of their political teachers, who for their own selfish purposes endeavor to create strife between the races, rather than to the disposition of the blacks themselves, who belonged to an affectionate race, who still nat arally look to their old master for assistance and advice when they are in difficulty, though the terrorism exercised over them by the secret leagues of the politicians, and the lies that have been told them regarding projects to re? duce them again, to slavery, may have made them unyielding supporters at the polls of can? didates for office who are the worst enemies of both races. That such a policy as we have in? dicated can be successfully pursued even under the most unfavorable circumstances, experience i plainly shows. The Natchez Democrat points to the result of conciliation in that city, and contrasts with that effected in Vicksburg, where a different policy was adopted, both cities being in the same State and each having a similar class of population to deal with. In Vicksburg the municipal election last August was fought on what is called the "color line," and although ! the whites won by a large majority, for weeks the city and surrounding country were kept in constant apprehension of violence and blood? shed. After the election was over further dis-) turbances occurred, leading to loss of life and j a general feeling of insecurity, which was made the pretext for the interference of Federal troops toreinstate in office a dishonest negro official. Tfa Natchez, on the contrary, first in \ 1872 and afterward in 1874, the Conservatives declined to adopt the color line, but counselled with, persuaded, conciliated, and utilized the colored voters. The consequence was that they achieved quite as signal a victory at the polls aa their Vicksburg neighbors, while there was no strife or apprehension either before, during, I or after the election. The more intelligent ne? groes are beginning to find out the character of their political leaders, and in time the colored vote in the South will be almost entirely con? trolled by the old white citizens of the several States. This consummation may be greatly hastened by judicious action upon the part of I the whites.?New York Sun. ? It is becoming the style now to wear the bridal veil draped from the shoulders instead of the head. It is arranged to envelope the form like a court train, and the trains of dres? ses are independent of the skirts, and are very narrow and long, while the skirt proper is short and clinging. I ^ ? A young lady, engaged to be married to a j rich fellow of a roving disposition, wrote a sweet letter to her beau. It followed him 17, 000 miles. The letter finally came back to the writer, and then she was married to the man, who got home in advance of so much literary j Improve Live Stock. The day when the majority of farmers be' lieve that the improved breeds were no better than native stock, ha3 long since gone by. We do not now find intelligent men who are ready to argue that the pure Short-horns are no im? provement on the native cattle, or that the Essex is no better than the old-fashioned hog. Careful breeding has wrought wonderfuf im? provement with all classes of domestic animals, and the progress which has been made is now very generally recognized and applauded. Still, thoroughbred stock has not been very extensively introduced. Go into any farming community, and the men who have full-blood? ed stock of any kind are the exception, and not the rule. But high grades are not at all uncommon. More or less of the blood of im? proved breeds is in the veins of nearly all farm stock, except where old prejudices root deeply and are very hard to remove. As the case now stands, both the thorough? breds and natives are comparatively scarce,, while the country is full of grades of various degrees of merit. As a general rule those sec? tions which are best supplied with blooded stock, or the high grades, are the ones in which the various departments of live stock business are the most profitable. There may be excep? tions, but we always expect the dairy business to pay the best where the best cows are kept. Sheep husbandry does not pay well wheu only inferior animals are kept, and the pork busi? ness pays the best when the best breeds of hogs are grown. The better the stock the greater the profit. The inquiry then arises why thoroughbred stock has not been more extensively dissemin? ated. One reason may be found in tbe fact that farmers, and many dairymen, do not real? ize how much superior to the stock tbey now have the thoroughbreds are. Aud many of the grades which are kept in good locations are very meritorious animals. They have so much of the improved blood, and are so productive, that the owners are very well satisfied with them, and have little desire to change. But the main reason is to be found in the immense cost of blooded stock. The ordinary farmer may bo fully convinced that thoroughbreds are very much better than the stock which he has, and wish that he were able to change for the improved breeds; but he is met at once by the insuperable objection that he has not the means with which to do it. He cannot pay from two to five hundred dollars each for cows, twenty, to one hundred dollars apiece for sheep, or ten dollars each for sucking pigs. He cannot pay the market prices. But if the farmer will take time, have patience, and use proper care, he can, with no great outlay, greatly improve his farm stock. If he cannot have thoroughbreds, let him do the next best thing, and get just as good stock as he can. Let him watch the market. Occasionally first class animals are for sale very low. The owner has a surplus stock, or does not want to breed in-and-in too much, and buyers not being plenty he will put in prires low. It also frequently happens that stock which is very good, almost full-blooded, can be bought at reasonable figures. The only proper way to improve stock without breeding pure is to cross full-blooded males upon the best common cows. If dairying is the business which is to be carried on, two or more really good cows, well formed, hardy, and in perfect health, should be obtained. They should be selected with reference to the particular depart? ment of the business which is to receive atten? tion. If nice butter is wanted, the Jerseys ; if milk is to be sold, the Ayrshires ; while if but? ter, milk, veal, and beef are each and all de? manded, the Short-horns will answer the pur? pose well. These cows should be well fed, and receive careful attention. If there is no op? portunity to hire one, a good thoroughbred bull should be obtained. Having good cows and a pure-bred bull, the calves ought to be fine, and the heifers should be raised. Al? though not absolutely certain, yet it is highly probable that they will inherit the good quali? ties of both parents, and with the sole excep? tion of breeding purposes, be almost or quite equal to thoroughbred stock. If any of tbe heifers should not prove to be good milkers, they should be turned into beef, and other trials made. By following this course for a few years, keeping only the best and breeding from them, a splendid lot of cows can be ob? tained. Or if a little more can be invested, the result can be somewhat improved aud con? siderable timed saved. By buying one or two thoroughbred cows, and breeding from them in? stead of from grades, a herd of pure-blooded animals can soon be obtained. The same principle applies to the other classes of animals as well as to cows. When hogs are wanted, two or three thoroughbred pigs are enough to start with, if the owner will take time, and use care and skill. With sheep, the case is equally simple. Two or three first rate ones, with which to commence, and with proper care the owner will have a fine flock in a few years. Of course, it is not claimed that this is a better way than to buy thoroughbred stock, if a man has the means with which to do it. But the hints thrown out may be useful to some farm? ers whose means ars quite limited, yet who are very anxious to improve their stock. Rightly managed, the stock department is one of the most profitable in the whole line of the farm? er's business; but to insure success, good stock is an absolute necessity.?Live Stock Journal. A Qneer Mistake. There are newspapers and people in various parts of the country who make a business of proclaiming that in order to restore universal prosperity we must have more money. Make lots of greenbacks and bank notes, they tell us, and everything will revive as if by magic. There are even men of ability and learning who advocate this doctrine, and newspapers of considerable circulation preach it as a funda? mental article in their political creed. The fact is, however, that it is not an addi? tional supply of money that we want. There is already in the country a great deal more money than is required for all the present op? erations of manufacture, agriculture and trade. It lies idle in every large town, waiting to be used. Give us securities that are known to be good, and we can borrow a hundred millions in Wall Street in half an hour at three per cent, interest. Instead of having too little money, there is too much of it. What we really need is more business, more activity, more demand for goods, aud more consumption of them, with more enterprise, more confidence, and more life. The addition of a thousand millions of paper money to our resent stock would not produce any of these ; ut what will produce them in due time is that spirit of rigorous economy and prudent living which, we are happy to say, now pervades the millions of our agricultural population, and is felt among every other class of the people. We are saving up what we earn and paying our debts; and when we,are ready agaiu, wo shall begin to build new nouses and buy new clothes,' and to increase the products of our farms and our mills, and set the wheels of commerce once moro in motion. The country is getting into a sounder condition every day; and tbo manufacture of whole stacks of irre? deemable paper tokens would only delay and not hasten this process of restoration.?New York San. ? Three English steamers are at Gakeston loading with cattle for England. This is a new outlet, and may become one of immense im ortance to the South. When Georgia and outh Carolina were British colonies cattle and beef were sent from Savannah and Charleston to London. In recent times, King Cotton has ruined the stock raising business temporarily in the best climate on the continent for that industry?a mistake that will be remedied some of these days. ? Mrs. Gaskins, of Carteret county, North Carolina, "weighs G40 pounds, and one of her stockings holds a bushel of shelled corn." ? Home stretch?the stretch across the ma? ternal knee. I Raisin? Bananas in Florida. The most perfect banana plantation in the United State? is that of Col. Whitner, near Silver lake, over two hundred miles south from Jacksonville, and practically beyond the region of killing forests. A daily line of steamers renders it easy of access from Jacksonville and other points upon the river. This plantation covers an area of several acres, and contains over ten thousand plants, most of them in bearing. The plants are of different varieties. Some of them are huge trees, twenty feet high, with a trunk from six to eight inches in dhune ter, while.others, and probably the largest num? ber, are of the celebrated dwarf species, stand? ing from six to eight feet high, with a trunk from four to five inches in diameter. The banana, as cultivated in this climate, bears no visible seed, but it is propagated from slips or cuttings which bear transplanting well, and grow with great rapidity. These slips are generally planted about eight feet apart; if it is the dwarf species, an acre of ground will contain from GOO to 700 plants. They require a deep, rich soil, and considerable moisture. It has no season, but the fruit matures gener? ally in from eleven to thirteen months from date of planting, and by properly timeiug the planting, ripe fruit may be obtained at all sea? sons of the year. The cuttings once planted, first develop two leaves tightly rolled together, which grow to a height of three or four feet, when the blades begin to unfold one after another, iuto great broad leaves, the stems forming a smooth trunk, which grows to the size of a large apple tree, composed entirely of these concentric leaf stems or petals. In about eight or nine mouths, according to the warmth of the season, a deep purple bud peeps out just at the point of divergence of the upper leaves, and soon pushes itself into full view, its lengthening stem bending under the weight of a purple blossom, shaped like a pointed egg. Soou|a leaf of this blossom opens at the point? ed end, and rolls back to the base, disclosing a row of five or six tiny bauanas, nestled close together, as if hiding under the shelter of this protecting leaf. Each miniature fruit has a waxen yellow flower at the end, with a stigma projecting through it. Other leaves of the blossom unfold one after another, in the same way, until twenty or thirty clusters of fruit are developed, all clinging to one stem, when these leaves wither and fall, and the fruit swells and lengthens to maturity, which requires generally about three or four months. The great stem on which the fruit grows bends under its weight until the long-finger-like fruit hangs down in graceful clusters. Each plant bears but a single bunch of fruit, and then withers and dies, but while the fruit is maturing there springs up from the base of the trunk several offshoots, which take the the place of the old plant when that has been removed, and go on growing to the full size of the parent tree. The fruit, when grown full size, begins to show streaks of yellow upon its deep green skin, when it should be gathered for shipment to market, as it is easily and quickly ripened after cutting by wrapping the bunch in straw or in a blanket, ana keeping it in a warm place. By cutting the bunches at the right time they can be shipped to New York with perfect safety. Col. Whitner has upon his plantation to-day thousands of bunches, in all stages of develop? ment, from the little miniature buds to the well matured fruit six or seveu iuches long. Many of those bunches contain 125 bananas, which sell readily to shippers at two cents each, from which may be inferred the great profits of ba? nana culture. An acre of ground will readily support GOO plants. Suppose the bnnches to average 75 bananas each, and we have an annual income of $900 from a siugle acre. The cost of pre? paring and enriching the ground and setting the plants the first year, including the cost of the slips, will average, say, $1 per plant leav? ing a profit of $300; but they perpetuate themselves after the first year, and require but little expenditure. Besides, the shoots that spring up from the bulbous root stock will sup? ply plants enough to double the ground each year; or they may be sold for more than enough to pay for all expenses after the first year, thus leaving the $900 net for the second and succeeding years. Humboldt states that an amount of land that will produce 1,000 pounds of potatoes will yield 44,000 pounds of bananas, and a surface bear? ing wheat enough to feed one man will yield bananas enough to feed twenty-five men.?At? lanta Herald. German Betrothals. A Berlin correspondent of a San Francisco paper says, in speaking of German marriages and betrothals :?"After the announcement of a betrothal, it is en regie for all who have re? ceived it to call and congratulate the lucky young lady and her fortunate parents. In this case I had a slightacquaiutance with the young lady?a fresh, fair, handsome German blondd ?but I thought my intercourse with her hac been too limited for me either to take the lib? erty of calling to congratulate her, or even do? ing this when I met her on the followiug Sun? day coming out of the church on the arm of the bridegroom. But the next time I met her, in a private circle. I found that such scruples on my part had been quite uncalled fir, since, in the frankest manner, though v?ith great modesty and simplicity, on my saying a word on?the subject, she began to rclato to me the history of the whole love affair from its begin? ning to its crowning point?the betrothal?a few days before. "We met each other several times," she said, "in the Society for Social In? tercourse here, but had not much opportunity to speak to one another. Last week the socie? ty cave its anniversary festival and a little dance afte the ceremonies. We danced togeth? er a great many times, and at the end of the evening felt ourselves quite well acquainted. The next Wednesday he paid his first visit, and the following day our betrothal took place." Such a rapid march of events quite took away my mental breath, and I ventured to make some remarks as to the different fashion of do? ing such matters in Germany and America. "The ladies with us," I remarked, "generally make their admirers wait a while before they give their consent." "Why do they do that?" innocently inquired the newly betrothed, "if they intend to marry them ?" "Ob," I replied, "we think it is the right thing to keep them in uneasy suspense for awhile and torture them a little, that they ma afterward better appreciate their good fortune." "Oh I I am sure you can? not meau that in earnest!" cried the kind hearted madchen; "no girl could be so unkiud and cruel to a man she really loved !" That was the German view of our super-refinement, you^ng ladies of America. My friendi, the la? dies of the house, who paid the regular con f^ratulatiou call, came back quite full of the ovely picture of family joy which they had seen. ''Such happiness," they said ; "the fa? ther, mother, the sister, the whole family cir? cle, so proud and pleased and joyful;" and they seemed to sympathize with this joy in a hearty, friendly, neighborly fashion, that was pleasant to see. "The formal betrothal is a family festival, to which only relatives or the nearest friends are invited. As soon as it takes place the lady is called a braut?that is, a "bride"?and the gentleman is her brautigam?her "bridegroom" ?and they always use these titles in speaking of one another. The lady, with all the quiet simplicity possible, introduces the gentleman to any new acquaintances as "my bridogroom," and he speaks quite naturally of her as "my bride." The marriage ceremony, instead of giving them a right to these titles as with us, deprives them of them forever, unless one of them should be so unfortunate as to be hereaf? ter left desolate and compelled to choose anoth? er mate." ? Why is a drunkard liko a bad politician ? ?Because he is always poking his nose into measures that spoil the constitution. What is an Old Maid ??Never be afraid of becoming an old maid. An old maid is far more honorable than a heartless wife; and "single blessedness" is greatly superior, in point of happiness, to wedded life ?/ithout love, "Fall not in love, dear girls--beware 1" says the song. But we do not agree with the said song on this question. On the contrary, we hold that it is a go?d thing to fall in love, or get in love, if the object be a worthy one. To fall in love with an honorable man is as-proper as it is for an houorable man to fall in Tove with a virtuous and amiable woman ; and what would be a more gratifying spectacle than a sight so pure, so approaching in its devotion to the celestial ? No; fall in love as soon as you like, provided it be with a suitable person. Fall in love and then marry ; but never marry unless you do love. That's the great point. Never marry for a "home" or a "husband." Never degrade yourself by becoming a party to such au alliance. Never sell yourself, body and soul, on terms so contemptible. Love dignifies all things ; it ennobles all conditions. With love, the marriage rite is truly a sacrament. Without it, the ceremony is a base fraud, and the act a human desecration. Marry for love, or not at all. Be "an old maid," if fortune throws not in your way the man of your heart; and, though the witless may sneer and the jest? er may laugh, you may have your reward in an approving conscience and a comparatively peaceful life. For well-to-do old bachelors we have no sympathy. They ought to be taxed nine-tentlis ot what they are worth, to support women and children. ? "Are you au Odd Fellow V* "No, sir; I've been married for a week." "I mean, do you belong to the order of Odd Fellows?" "No, no; I belong to the order of married men." "Mercy, how dumb! Are you a Mason?" "No, I'm a carpenter by trade." "Worse and worse ! Are you a Son of Temperance?" "Bother you! no ; I'm a sou of Mr. John Goslings." ? A traveler stopping over night with a Tex? as farmer whose estate was miles and miles in extent, said to hira : "You must have begun life early to accumulate such an estate as this ?" ?"Yes," replied the farmer, "I began life wheu I was a mere baby." ? A man came out of. the tax office the oth? er day, and exhibiting an empty pocketbook to his friend, gloomily observed : "Bill, where's the altar of our country ? I want to find it." "What for?" asked the other in some astonish? ment. "Well, I v. ant to lay that pocketbook upon it." ? A Minnesota editor received an anony? mous letter the other day saying that unless he quit abusing folks he would "get a bullet put into his dirty skin," and now when that editor hears anybody coming up stairs he crawls into an old cider barrel and stays there, thinking of one thing and another, until his boy tells the man that the editor has gone to the Black Hills. The Above Cut Represents Tozer's Improved AGRICULTURAL ENGINE! OF which there are now more than a dozen at work in Anderson County. . For further information, apply to N. K. SULLIVAN A CO., Anderson, S. C, or ad? dress tho undorsigned. RICHARD TOZER, Columbia, S. C. Dec 3,1874 21 ly WILHITE & WILLIAMS WOULD inform their friends, and the pub? lic generally, that they have bought out Benson ??& Sharp?," and are "receiving a fresh supply of Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, etc., (Selected by the senior partner, who has an ex? perience of thirty years.) They expect to keep only pure and reliable Drugs." Also, LAMPS and LAMP FIXTURES, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, BRUSHES. DYE STUFFS, etc. Also, a full line of PERFUMERY and TOILET ARTICLES, CIGARS and TOBAC? CO. Pure BRANDIES and WINES, for med? ical purposes strictly, and other articles usually kept in our line. ?S3" Prescriptions carefully compounded. Jan 14, 1873 26 ly HENRY BISCHOFF & CO., Wholesale Grocers, and dealers in CAROLINA RICE, Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, &e., ?See, ?Jfcc, 197 and 199 East Bay Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. Solo Agents for South Carolina for the Sale of OLD VALLEY WHISKEY. Aug 20,1874 6 Cm STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CO UNTY OF ANDERSON. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. W. W. Orr, Adm'r. of James Orr, dee'd, Plain? tiff, against Georgiana Orr, J. M. Orr, and others.?Complaint to sell Land, Marshal As? set*, Relief, die. THE Creditors of James Orr, deceased, are hereby notified to present and prove their demands beforo me on or before tho 15th day of July next, on pain of losing all intorest or advantage under any decree made iu the above stated case. JOHN W. DANIELS, Clerk Court Common Pleas. May 13, 1875 43 S T. D. KENNEDY, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WILL practice in tho Circuit and Probate Courts of tho Eighth Judicial Circuit, and in Trial Justieo Courts of this County. Prompt attontion given to the collection of claims. Office?Second door to th6 left over A. P. Hubbard's Store. Ma/"*h 19,1874 86 NOTICE IS hereby given that application will bo made thirty days after dato to John W. Daniels, Esq., Clork of the Court for Anderson County, for a Charter incorporating the Welfare Color? ed Baptist Church, in accordance with tho Act of Assembly in such cases made and provided. By order of the Church. N. B. OAILLARD, Church Clork. May 13, 1875 43 5* Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned hereby gives notice that he will makeapplication to W. W. Humphreys, Judge of Probate for Anderson County, on Wednesday, the Uth day of Juno next, for a Fi? nal settlement of the Estate of Benjamin (Jas saway, dee'd., and a Final Discharge therefrom. JAMES S. OS ASS A WAY, Administrator with Will annexed. May (?, 1S75 4J 5 THE STJ3ST. DAILY AND WEEKLY FOR 1875. 'the approach of tli< L'reoidcJatial election gives unusual importance to the < ::' :id developments of 1875. 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To every new subscriber for 1875, who sends 84, the reg? ular subscription price, direct to the publishers, LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE, the best of Ute American Monthlies, illustrated, will be tent, postage paid for one year, and a premium .o be chosen from a selected list of over one kuddred a..d sirty popular books, will also be sent postage paid, to the address of the subscriber. To a club of twenty subscribers, tliis Magazine is put at 3:>.00 per year to each, and CHAMBERS' ENCYCLOPEDIA. the most complete and reliable work of general reference. illustrat*d, iu . royal Svo.,boundin sheep, is presented to person gi/ttim up the club. N. B.?Having beta obliged to print a second edition of the January and February numbers, back numbers can be supplied from the first of the year. Specimen number, with premium list, mailed on receipt of 2o cents. ? J B IAPPINCOTl & CO., Publishers, T15 and 7X7 Market St. Philadelphia. Kos. 3 Broad Street and 109 East Bay Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. First-Class Work OUR SPECIALTY, yet, by using cheaper grades 0? stock. we can furnish work at LOWEST LIVING PRICES. FINE FASHION?bLTsTATION ERY, Piries Paper and Envelopes. Redding and Ball invitations ON THE BEST STOCK AND PRINTED IN THE LATEST STYLE. Sept 10,1S74 9 ly E. W. Marshall. W. H. Snowden. Jos. T. Well?. 1875. SPRING TRADE. E. ?. MARSHALL & CO., DEALERS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS e NOTIONS, 9 and 11 Hayne Street, Charleston, - - So. Ca. "WE are now opening a large and well-as? sorted stock of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, which will bo completed by the 5th of March, and to which we invite the attention of th/3 Trade at our new Stores, Noa. 9 and 11 Ilayno Street. March 4, 1S75 33 8m M. GOLDSMITH. p. KI5D. PHOENIX IRON WORKS, COLUMBIA, S. C. GOLDSMITH & KIND, founders & machinists, HAVE always on hand Stationary Steam Engines and Boilers for Saw Mills, etc., Saw and Grist Mills, Cotton Presses, Gearing, Shafting, Pullics, etc. Castings of every kind in Iron or Brass. We guarantee to furnish En? gines and Boilers of as good quality and power, and at as low rates as can be had in the jSorih. We manufacture, also. the. Gaddy Improved Water Wheel, which w< recommend for pov/ cr,.simplicity of construction, durability and cheapness. We warrant onr work, and assure promptness and dispatch In filling orders. GOLDSMITH A KIND, Columbia, K.C. May '2?, 1*74 Iti Jy