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HY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 5, 1884. VOLUME XIX.-NO. 47 Currefpondmce of the] Intelligencer. Tho result of our deliberations at Lausanne was a Blight change In our jiiogranime, we deciding to go on to Home at once, by way of Geneva, Genoa and Pisa, and to leave Mt. Blacc, Milan, Venice and Florence until our return from the Eternal City. The city of Lousanne has little to detain the tourist, but the attractions o? the lake near which lt is located aro too great to be passed by fMlkout notice. "Lake Lemon wooes me with its crystal face," wrote Byron, and from the time of Caesar until now, It has charmed all who have visited its shores. It Is about 50 miles in length with an extremo width of only nine miles And a depth of 1,800 feet. Its waters are a most lovely blue color, dif fering fiom the other Swiss lilies, which haven greenish Ungo. The cultiw'tjoe of thc viue is the principal agricultural utterest of ibo people along its shores and its gi apes and vines aro famous and ionio of the viuey.irds along its Northern boundaries aro valued nt not less than ?8,000 per acre. At the Eastern end of thc lake is tho Castle of Chillon ; whoso stern wulls, rising from the waters, were immortalized by tho genius of Byron. Tlie steamer from Lausanne lantli us at Chillon and a walk of about a mile brings uVto tho castle, which is built upou a rock in the ?uko and is reached bj a drawbridge. After a few moments delay the attendant conducts us to the dimly lighted dungeon, whoso outer walls rise from below tho water and whose inner wall is composed of the native rock. It ie hero wo find .'There aro seven pillars of Gothic mould And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there ls a chain.'' The column to which Bonnivard is suie] to have been chained bas, like tho rest, deep endentations worn in tho rock around it and the massive ring to which his cliniu was attached is still seen. It is a gloomy spot. Among the rooms exhibited to visitors is ono with a huge rock upon which condemned prisoner? parsed their last night. Adjoining this is the execution room which formerly had an opening into the lake, by which tho bodies of the victims could bo easily disposed of. In one of the upper rootus is a wooden pillar to which prisoners were suspended and tortured by apply ing fire to tho soles of their feet. Another contains a deep well or opening leading down to tho depths of the lake, through which prisoners were sometimes iuduced to try to escape, only to drown them selves in the blue water? below. Largei rooms are fitted up for reception balls, council chambers, etc., and the entire building (which is now used as an arsenal,] is an excellent specimen of tho castles ol the early times in which it was built, it having been originally erected more thar 1,000 years ago, but strongly fortified bj Peter of Savoy in the thirteenth century It arouses no pleasant memories however and we wore not unwilling to leave itt damp, noisome dungeons and its forbid ding council chambers, with their fou and bloody history, and go out agair. into the broad light of the Summer sut aud tho civilization of tho nineteentt -century. It is not true that Byron'i "Prisoner" was the Bonnivard who wai so long imprisoned here, and in fact wc believe Byron himself speaks of his poeu as "a fable;" but in spite of this, os wt go out over the drawbridge we find our self repeating, almost involuntarily, thosi familiar lines: "Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, A-,d thy sad floor nn alter-for twas troi ? Until his very steps have made a truce, Worn as if thy cold pavement were a sod By Bonnivard. Let none those mark efface ; For they appeal from tyranny to God." Geneva, at the opposite end of the lake is a flourishing city of over 60,000 inhab itants and is reached by rail from Laus anne in about two hours. It is the larg cst and most prosperous city of Switzer land and although possessing little o interest in itself, is associated with man] distinguished names in history. Calvin ? Rousseau, Madame de Stael, Sismond d'Augbine and many others resided here On Champel Hill, Michael ServetUB, i Spanish physician, was burned at tb stake by Calvin's order, for having darci to write a treatise on the Triuily, ii which he differed from the - bigotei reformer. The city is a favorite resor for Americans and in fact is quite cosmo politan In its character, almost all nation being represented on its streets. Early one morning we take traiu fron Geneva for the Mt. Denis route into Italy We pass through a mountainous region abounding in lovely views aod wilt scenery and after riding 125 miles read 19 on the Italian frontier. Jue Modane we enter Mt. Cenis tun ich was completed fourteen year ir thirteen years of work, at a cos 00,000. It ls eight miles l 'eogth high, 26 feet wide and about 4,00< ove the sea sod 8,600 feet belo* unit of the mountain. Our trail d just 27 minutes in passini i its gloomy, depth?. Beyond tb innol, the wild, barren mountain igh above the narrow talley dowi we speed, and uumarous spurs o ige necessitate doisnB of amalle i. We leach Turin late in tb m and after a few hours ?pent ii ?dem Italian city, which was th of Italy from 1859 to 1865, we g 3enoa, where we pass the nighi "Ita Superba, is fa nu lin y American school boy as th r Columbus, j It wes sn importan i der tho Rom an?s a strong cona 1 republic in the middle ages an w a population of 17,000. It i n the seaward slope of the billi the harbor sod from some poi m ervation its marble palaces an location seem td merit its title < Proud ;" but seen from .withfa. i I streets and crooked 'sod deviot ?re rather disappoioting. Bein : to accept Mark Twain's stat, bat there are many school boys I ? who caa write better tbso eve sat Christopher Colombo," we <j nt up th? autograph of tho fa mot tor, which ls to bo seen at tl s del Municipio, near the oeott city. The churches of Genoa ai special interest to thepasslortra he cathedra], with ito facade ?nd white marble being the mo ff, md San Annunziata, the chu rr Capucbi?s, noted for ita gorger* r decorations. Only s few of tl are of even tolerable width, af :an bs passed through only on foe io cases tho walla almost meetli o?? tho heads of the pasaiengei ke many of the cities of/Ital ancient glories have Isded-TOcr* h>g rapidotrldcs toward rccovcrii on st least of ita former grealoei Genoe to Pbs the road Iles t 100 miles along the shores of tl "ranean, and the delightful vie' j ?? ,nVu Bna 8ea ar<> only interrupted by tb? innumerable tunnels. We pass numerous and valuable marble quarries aud fir ally reacb the city, the fame of I whos? "leaning tower" is world wido. I In the Northwest corner of Pisa is "a : group of buildings without parallel." j Tho Cathedral, the Campanile, or Beli I Towtr, csually known as the leaning tower, tho Bptaistery and the Campo , Santo, are all located here. The Cathe : dral, built in the eleventh centuiy, is of j white marblo with most elaborate orna ? mentation in black and colors. Its ioto I rior still contains the bronze chandelier whoso motion suggested to Galileo tho ! ,deft of a pendulum. In the rear of the cathedral, although nearly opposite tho j door by which entrance is usually mad? : is the famous leaning tower, from whoso summit tho belb of the fuwiedra? are souuded. The tower is 179 feet in height and inclines nearly 14 feet from tho per pendicular. This being much less than its diameter, ita stability is not affected in the least. The causo of the inclina tion has been much discussed, but no satisfactory explanation has ever been given. The fact that leaning towers are found in other parts of Italy and that this bas stood for over 700 years without I reaching a dangerous point would seem j to indicate something more than acci dental results; while tho spongy naturo of the ground which has thrown many of the lines of the Cathedral "out of plumb," together with the fact that the upper stories of tho tower have tho columns on the lower sido somewhat lengthened, as if to remedy tho inequality caused by the inclination, would favor the theory that the settlement bad occurred after the *viilding of the tower had been com menced. Whatever the cause, it is a wonderful structuro and as we ascended its winding stairs and looked out over its inclined walls, we felt again the.pleasure which comes from the realization of boy ish anticipations. The Baptistery is is situated directly opposite ibo facade of the Cathedral, and is a circular marble building of great architectural beauty. The pulpit, by Nicolo Pisano, 1260, is most elaborately carved and its reliefs, representing tho nativity, tho adoration, the crucifixion, etc., have been the sub ject of admiration for over six centuries. The echo of tho Baptistery is oue of the most marvelously beautiful in the world, its circular form and dome shaped roof repeating the Rounds with a peculiar sweetness. North of tho Cathedral and Baptistery is the Campo Santo, an inclosed corridor containing on its inner walls many quaint frescoes of the early schools. In the eyes of the faithful this is peculiarly "holy ground ;" aa when the Crusaders finally abandoned Palentino in 126*0 they brought with them over fifty ship loads of earth from Mt. Calvary fur this cemetery. Within the enclosure are monuments to many noted men of Pisa, as well as several Greek and Roman sar cophagi. Among the frescoes, the "Triumph of Deatu," of the fourtceuth century, is of especial interest as show ing tho crude ideas of those early ages. At the base, the bodies of the dead lie in heaps, including kings and queens, princes and popes, tho lowly and the proud ; while their souls, represented by nude infants, isa.ue from their mouths or bodies. Above is a horde of demons, grotesque and hideous forms, who seize the greater number of the souls and hurry them away to a furnace which appears on the surami1 of a bill in the distance. Angels too "are hovering near," and occasionally select one, who is borne away to eternal bliss. Some are claimed by both angels and demons and the struggles are represented in a mannet certainly not calculated to impress the modern beholder with the solemnty ol the subject. From Pisa, the railway lies for a long distance along tho old Roman road buill by Scaurus moro than 100 years before Christ. We pass many places famous ir history and after 220 miles of trave! reach the Eternal City. TRAVELER. 1) "a twice, to the Stars. Astronomers have ascertained the dis tance from the earth to many of th< stars. If we measure these spaces bi miles, they amount to millions and mil Hom), still multiplied by millions, anc hem.J convey no adequate idea to th< mind ; thereforo some other mode o measurement munt be used, and th? velocity of light is considered the mos convenient. It has been proved tba light travels at tho rate of 192,000 mile a Becond-that is, between the ticks of i watch a ray of light would move eigh times round tho globe. It comes fron the sun to us, a distance of 90,000,00? miles in eight minutes ; thus the spac covered over by a ray of light in tba time could not be travelled over by ou express trains in less than 250 yean With this immense velocity it require three and a half uara for the light o the nearest star to reach our earth. 1 requires 46 years for light to reach u from the North Star, and to night aa w loofcatjthe northern luminary, these ver rays ot light which m.*.ke it visible to m started out oa their journey forty-si years ago. The light from stars of th twelfth magnitude requires 3,600 yeai to reach the earth. And ii tbat beauti ful constellation of the Pleiades wer this moment blotted out of existence, i would continue to be visible for 70 years, for such is the time required fe light to travel from that group to us. ] a star of the twelfth magnitude wei now destroyed, it would continue to b visible for 3,500 years. Or if such a Bta were no? created, 2,600 years woul elapse before it would be perceptible t the inhabitants of the earth. And som of tho more distant Btars are so far awa that their light, moving with a velocit of 192,000 miles per second, requires 60 000 years to roach our eyes. These gre? distances are not imaginary, but astron) mers have ascertained the distanc motions and sires, and even the weigh of the celestial orbs, with as much ce tainty as they have foretold eclipses. - At Troy, O., a few daya ago an ol man, aged ninety-two years, was picke up Bick and kelpie** ia a coal yard < tho outskirts of the city.. He was reco, cited as a miser snd beggar who was i the habit of begging eggs atJarra nous until he had collected a sufficient nur ber to dispose of at neighboring towt When bU clothing was removed, at tl hospital lt vas found that be bad sew opio his pockets packages ?ontaioit $4,000 in money, $4,000 in United Stat bonds and $8,000 in promissory noU ?be'miser proved to be John ar/ims, hampaigo County, O., and the owner real estate in several counties. - A good wife ia Heaven's last, h gifttontaft^sif angel of mercy-mi n ter of graces innumerable-his gem many virtues-hie casket of jewels Toico his sweetest music-her smiles 1 biightest dsy-her kiss the guardlao innocence-ber arms the place of J iafctr, the balm of his health, thebajei ht his^Ifer-ber ?"JT*?^" -her ecouomy his safest ?toward-J line his faithful counselor-her bosom I softest pillow of his cares-and I prayers the ablest advocate of Heave blessing on his head. DILL AHI*. The Philosopher Talk? on Every Day Subjects. Attnuta Constitution. The crops are laid by, but there, is no rest for the thrifty farmer, and it is a blessed thing that the thrifty farmer don't want any. A change of work is all the rest he wants. Some folks are constitu tionally lazy and work only when they are obliged, and they are actually glad of any excuse to stop. They like to go to mill and they like to go town, but they don't like to work. I know a farmer who is a good, clover man and behaves him self decontly, but he loves to talk so well he can't work. He will talk about the weather for half an hour without stopping. He carno to my house the other day to borrow a spade and said ho was in a powerful hurry to get back. Without thinking of the cons?quences I just asked him if tue s torm damaged his coru any, and that started him. He told mo about storms and hurricanes from away back to his boyhood, and how a man hung to a sapling and never got nary bruise, Dut the wind blew his breath away and didn't givo him time to draw another, and so ho died for want of breath, just like a cow dieu when she loses her cud. He couldn't work his bellows in such a wind. And he told how another storm blew an old cow bead foremost against a poplar tree and stuck both her horns in it so deep they couldcnt pull her out by tbc tail, and had lo saw her horns off and leave 'em in the tree, and they aro there now. And so he kept on and on until I told him 1 had to go, for I was in a burry too. That man hos lost half his Hfc talking. It always scares mo to seo him coming. Hut there ia plenty to do between lay iug by .the crop and gathering time. August is the best month to cut the winter's wood. It will burn freer, and even thc red oak, that sometimes burns black and goes out, will burn well if cut dowu in August and seasoned a while. I've got tho boys cutting my winter's wood now and will haul it up aud stack it. Two of the tire places want wood two and a half feet long and the others will only chamber two foot alicks, so I have the wood cut four feet and five feet, and then we cut it in two aa wo need it. Fifty cords will run us tbrougb a winter. Then lhere is the stove wood to get up, and that is a careful job for I never let \ my wife ortho girls have any cause of! complaint about wood or water in the j kitchen. Tho wood raUBt be dry and , split up fine and not too long. I saw up j hickory and ash with the cross cut and after Bplitting it up put it away under ! sheltor, and I haul up the chip.- from tho j woods to sprinkle in. It is not much ! able to prepare a frugal meal if every ..ling is handy. The boye catch the chickens and bx them all ready. I won't let ray women folks do that. It is not a sightly job, and nobody ought to, havo it to do but niggers uuhow, con lou nd 'eui. But I believe in independent ' I like to see&? family independent ano self-reliant. I know families who are always alarmed for fear their cook will quit, and they don't know where they j will get another. And the young mar ried folks nowaday* are in the same fix about nurses for their babies ; well, nursing is bard work, I know-uursing a fretful child ia the hardest work I know of. I've had a hand in that business for thirty years and I woulden? go through it again for a house fuii of gold. Many a night have I walked the floor in my < long, white garment with a baby in my arms singing a little monotonous song, while I was so sleepy I could hardly walk straight. Mrs. A rp bad done ber share over and over and when abe bad tried and tried to quiet the little thing, and worried over it, and patted it, and nursed it on both aides, and at last, in a fit of desperation, straightened up and said, "Here, William, take your child." I always understood her, and took her advice promptly ; she always said "your child" on such occasions, but whenever I ventured to punish one of'em she looked indignant and said "my child." She will let me own 'em sometimes. I am B?rry for these young folks who have about two on band and are just begin ning to get a fair taste of the cons?quen ces of connubial bliss. I saw one the other night trying to quiet a little two year-old aud after long and patient efforts, he exclaimed in mortal agony : "Oh please, Rosa, do please atop crying for the Lord's sake." I was sorry for him, I was, but I couldert keep from laughing to save my lifo, and I wanted to exclaim: "Stand up to the rack, my boy. fodder or no fodder, for its your child." There are inventions and inventions, but nursing children and raising them has to be done in the same old wayland happy are they who can go through it with a philosophic Miiilo. It is the great busi ness of life and can't be dodged, and it has its comforts and its rewards-rewards that are sweeter and purer and richer than any, for they come to a man when he is old and needs them. Good chil dren who honor and love their parents are treasures that gold cannot buy, and they make Bweet and pleasant the way that leads us to the grave. There is no prettier sight ia all nature than an aged couple who live in harmony and have their children and grandchildren around them to give them comfort. Burns never wrote a tenderer verse than "Now wc must totter down, John But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep together at the foot, John Anderson, my Joe. Woman's rights and man's rights bavo nothing to do with such partners. lu fact, all human laws are dead letters to tho good. They do not need them. Laws are made for the bad, and the frail, and the envious, and the jealous. I was thinking about this the other day io your town when I paid a friendly visit to a good man-a courteous gentleman away up in the third story where he kept his insurance office, so aa to have quiet and time for work. But he can't dodge the callers and importunera even there. I never visit him bot what somebody comes and want* something, for they know that he is g?nerons an t he is kind. Chere was a strong minded woman there who had come all the way from Chicago with a petition for woman's rights. She talked pathetically about woman's insig nificant condition before the law. She declared that woman wa* a nonenni ty, a creature without a ?oui, an incor poreal thing. ? slave, . aerf. ? nothing, and she had prepared a bill for tho legis lature to peas for woman's relief and pro tection. She talked about nonentity BO much - that the colonel stopped her for a moment and said, with emotion: "My ?ood woman, that may all bo eo ap in Jhicago, hi I it is not BO at my booie by no means. My wife is an entity-a veritable living, moving creatttro. She has all the rights she wau ts, and I have all I want. We are ft mutual protefcUoli society. It ia my right and happy privi l?ge to keep my wile la D*OD?y, and it ia hers to keep me in a st ..to of Bwcct hu mility and devotion. Really, madam, we do not need your law, and you must exc?seme." The strong minded woman didn't sub? .Ide nor wilt, bat proceeded with her philautfophy rrlth more vigor than ever, and ber black eyes flashed as she expati ated upon her own unfortunate alliance with a preacher who imposed upon her and had her put into tho J ii t ii t ic asylum. Finally the gallant colonel hinted that his timo was precious and said he would take her pnmphlet and refer it to his lawyer, and if his lawyer said sign it he would sigu it. Then ?he turned her at tention to nie and Biked rue to sign it and I said I was away from home and didn't live in the country and never signed such papers until I gol Mrs. Arp's consent and so I look a pamphlet to look at when ehe opened her gripsack and pulled out two hooks on woman's rights and wanted tu sell them at (1.50 apiece, ' hut we respectfully declined. I didont want to be buying Chicago books from a Chicago woman without consulting Mrs. Arp about it, for Chicago is a baa place for such literature to como from, and I t was afraid that the book might work up i a divorce in my family. Lastly, she I asked us for a aime for the pamphlets, and we gave her a dime and a biessiug, and the colonel intimated that if she ! would depart those coasts she might find j moro congenial victims. What a comfort it is that we have not ?goteuch women down South, nor such preachers to marry 'em. When I told ' her that we did nut need Buch laws in : Georgia, that our wives were all happy j and contented, and when they did not I have laws enough they made them at I home, and when my wife wanted auy i thing she simply ?aid, "He it ouactcd," ' and it was enacted straightway and forth ! with. Thc woman looked astonished I and said : "It is not that way where I ! ; carno from." Maybe it aint. Aa she c.cuied reluctant to go Ihr I beneficent colonel t'-ukan idea that she ; was tired and sick, and needed refresh ment, aud so he rung n little bell and ordered a punch for tho philanthropic lady ; but she respectfully declined hy saying that she was by no means old enough to need a stimulant. She was smart, that womau waa-and aa reasonably good looking as a Chicago woman can bc. Sho would make a good wifo for John Jenkins, who said, "I want a wife old enough to have sense, and ugly onough to stay at home." Hut a Chicago woman won't stay at home. She is going to luke the war path anyhow. BILL ARP. HOW TO RULE HEN. A Lecture to Women liy . Woman who bas Studi. tl Mankind. If women only knew how sweet and i lovely they are, and how much they can 1 do with men, they would pay moroatlen lion to their personal cultivation than j they do. Why, if s woman only goes about it right she can do any thing with a man, and make him conform to her ideas in every particular. She has tact, skill, talent, beauty, refinement, and, combine her intuition with her faci Dat ing powers, Bho can change bia politics, reform his religious ideas, aller the whole : course of his life, and shnpe his career to ! suit herself. But she must not bea fool, I ca? tell you, nor must she forget for an instant the art and finesse by which she rules. Man is at best a brusque, selfish, im pulsive creature, full of conceit and vagaries, and auxious to rule nd con- | trol. He has strength and he wanta to I use it ; he han creative faculties and \ lives to execute. But whatever he is he j '.cots to a woman for pleasures, and tho one who can please him eau rulo him and do with him what she will. A woman j is young until she is 25, and a man retains his youth ten years longer, but after that there is nothing to live for hut home. Life has lost ita zest, and there is no charm in the toys and amunemeuta of yesterday. You must admit that a woman marries for convenience. She wants a home, protection, immunity from labor and the delights of compan ionship. Now, if tx min makes this home, if ho stands between her aud danger, if ho contribute-, the best interests of his life tor ber maintenance, he certainly is eoti'.led to his reward. He wanta hin home beautified, filled with friends and good cheer ; he wants to be petted, admired, respected,encouraged and loved. Ile wants to be king, in short, i Ob, yes, you may aay petting is all nonsense, but just let me tell you that ' you are mistaken, and if the husband cannot get loving affection at home he will get it Borne place else. Caresses can be bought like every other luxury. A wife must be a sweetheart all her ; life. She must never get too old to bo charming. She must cultivate a sweet temper and an affable manner, and her only anxiety must be a dread of offend ing ber husband. Another thing, sar casm won't work ; il is ac unpardonable offence in the home circle, and, no mat ter bow pertinent it may be, a woman cannot afford ever to say a harsh word to the man abe loves. Beautiful ? No woman need be any thing elae. If abe has a poor complexion, there are powders and cosmetics that defy detection ; she can have beautiful eyelaohes and eyebrows ; no matter how poor and coarse her bair is, it can be remarkably well kept and so becomingly arranged ts to be admired ; the most irregular teeth can be polished like so many pearla, and clean teeth and a sweet breath are not so common as to be despised ; white hands and tapering, pol ished nails will atone for a very ill-shaped hand. What if the feet are large, if they are well shod 1 If tho figure is poor, it can be so clean, so healthy-looking and so delicately perfumed that your presence will bo wholesome and refreshing, and, I tell you, clothes makes the refinement that belongs to a lady or gentleman. Indeed, the raiment is typical of much that is within. If nature bas meagerly bestowed her charms, that ia the very reason why a worn .in should have recourse to art. If she cannot shine in music, painting or the sciences, she can become a pleasant if not a. brilliant talker. She can read and observe and be an authority on current literature, and if ?he will but study the why and wherefore of things and the very, best points io her friends, abe will make for herself a circle that will be the very envy of ber pretti est'competitor.-Chicago New?. A Loving Couple. "Moe' married folks quarrels more or ? ss," remarked Uncle Mose: "but I know? * man an1 bia wife what hasn't had a foes fur de la?' five yeahs." "Ara dey libln togedder?" "Sartaiuly! Dey libs in de same j house. She goes off every tnawnin' and washea by do day." "But p'raps dey quarrels at night? How docs you know dey don't?" ('Dey don't bab a blt o' trobble, I tells Ter. . She,' tm ont, wash in' all day. and her husband he eu sight watchmau in a big sto' on Austin avenue. He goes off before abe comes home, and he don't git jit, Sifting*: - Among some of tho African, tribes | bride-d cn' their wedding day bare, thc! . froiit^eeBr ^tracted. The bridegrooms I know a thing or tiro if they are ?avag?s. AK APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY. Grover Cleveland*? Lotter of Acceptance. ALBANY, N. Y., August 19.-The fol lowing wno received today by Col. Latnout, the private secretary of Gover nor Cleveland, who is at Upper Saranac Lake, with instructions to make it public on its receipt : ALBANY, N. Y., August 18,1884. Gentlemen : I havo received vour com munication dated July 28, 188?, inform ing me of my nomination to the oflice of President of the United States by tho National Democratic Convention lately assembled at Chicago. I accept the nomiuatiun with grateful appreciation of the supremo honor conferreu and a solemn sense of the responsibility which in its acceptance 1 assume. I have carefully considered tho platform adopted by the Convention, aud cordially approve tho same. So plain a statement of Demo- I eratic faith, and the principles upon wine!) that party appeals to tho suffrages of the people, needs no supplemont or explanation. THi; D ANO EB OF THE HOUR. It should bo rcniombered that the oflice of President is essentially cxecutivo in 1 its nature. Tho laws enacted by the , legislative branch of the Government tho Chief Executive is bound faithfully ! to enforce, and when tho wisdom of the | political party which selects ono of its j members as the nominee for that office bas outlined its policy and declared its > principles, it seems to mo that nothing I in tho character of tho office or the | necessities of tho case requires moro from ; the candidate accepting such nomination than the suggestion of certain well known truths so vital to tho safety and welfare ' of the nation that they cannot bo too \ often recalled or too seriously enforced, j Wo proudly cali ours a government by tho people. It is not such when a class is tolerated which nrrogates to itself the management of public affairs, seeking to control tho people instead of represent ing them. Parties aro necessarily the ! outgrowth of our institutions, but the Government is not by tho people when ! one party fastens its cootrol upon tho i country and perp?tu?tes its power by cajoling and betraying the people instead of serving them. Tile Government is . not by the people when the reBult, which should represent tho intelligent will of free and thinking men, is, or can bo de- . tcrmiued by the SHAMELESS CORRUPTION OF THEIR SUP? FR AO ES ; when an election to oflice shall bo tho selection by tho voters of ono of thoir number to assume for tho time a public trust, instead of his dedication to tho profession of politics ; when the holdors ? of tho ballot, quickened by a sense of ?, doty, shall avenge truth betrayed and !, pledges broken, and when suffrage shall , be altogether free and uncorrupted, a full realization of government by the people will bo at hand ; and of the means to j this end not ono would, in my judgment, he more effective than an amendment to the Constitutiou disqualifying the Presi dent from re election. \\lien we eonsiel? , er thc patronage of this great oflice, the , allurements of power, tho temptation to j ? retain public places once gained, aud ' , moro than all the availability a party j find:. lu an incumbent whom the horde of office-holders, with zeal born of benefits j , received and fostered by bopo of favors yet to come, stand ready to aid with money and trained political service, we recognize in the eligibility of tho Presi- , dent for re-election a most serions danger , to that calm, deliberate and intelligent < political action which must characterize government by the people. "HONOn LIES IN HONEST TOIL." | A true American sentiment recognizer 1 the dignity of labor and the fact that < honor lies in honest toil. Contented labor is au clemout of national prosper!-' ty. Ability to work constitutes the cap ital and tho wages of labor the income of a vast number of our population, and this interest should be zealously protect ed. Our workingmen are not asking ti Treasonable indulgence, but us intelli gent and manly citizens th. y seek the same consideration which those demand who have other interests at stake. They should receive their full share of care, and tho attention of tnose who make and execute the laws, to the end that the wants and needs of employers and em ployed shall aliko be Bubserved, and the prosperity of tho country, the common heritage of both, be advanced. In rela tion to this subject, while wo should not discourage the immigration of those who come to acknowledge allegiance to our Government f nd add to our citizen popu lation, yet as a means of PROTECTION TO OUI WO It KING M EN a different rule should prevail concerning those who if they com j or are brought to our land do not intend to become Americans, bot will injuriously compete with those justly untitled to our field of 'abor. In my letter accepting the nomi nation of the office of Governor nearly two years ago I made the following state ment to which I have steadily adhered : "The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital, and all the statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil and be framed with the view of improving the condition of the workingmen, a proper regard for the welfare of the workingman being in separably connected with the integrity of our institutions. None of our citizens are more interested than they in guarding against any of the corrupting influencer which Beek to pervert the beneficent pur poses of our Government, and noue should be more watchful of the artful machinations of those who allure them to self-inflicted injury. In a free coun try curtailment of the absolute rights of. the individual should only be such as is essential to the peace and good., order of the community. The limit between the proper subjects of governmental control and those which can be more fittingly left to tho moral sense and self-imposed restraint of the citizen should be careful ly kept in view. Thus, laws unnecessa rily interfering with tho habita and cus toms of any of our people which are uot offensive to the morai sentiments of the civilized world, and which are inconsis tent arith good citizenship and public welfare, are un wiso and vexatious. THE IMPORTANCE OP COMMERCE. The commerce of a nation to a great extent determines ita supremacy. Cheap and easy transportation should, therefore, be liberally fostered within the limit? of, the Constitution. The General Govern* ment should so improve and protect ita natural waterways as to enable the pro ducers of the country to reach a profita ble market. THE DUTY OP PUBLIC SERVANTS. . ! The people pay the wages of the pub* lio employees, aud they , are entitled to. the fair and honest work which money thus paid should command. It ii the duty of those intrusted with the man agemeat of these affairs to see that auch publie ncr vico ia forthcoming. The selec tion and retention of subordinates in Government employment should, depend upon their ascertained fitness and the value of their work, and they should bo neither expected nor allowed to do ques tionable party service. Tho interests of tho peoplo will be better protected, tho estimato of public labor and duty will bo immensely improved, the public employment will bo open to all who can demonstrate their Illness to enter it, un seemly scramble for place under tho Government with the couspquent impor tunity which embitters official lifo will cease, and tho public departments will not bo filled with those wno conceive it to bo their first duty to aid the party to which they owe their places instead of rendoring patient and honest return to the people. THE STATESMAN'S! IV THE I'KOPLR RE QUIRE. I believe that tho public temper is such that tho voters of tho laud are pre pared to support tho party which gives tho best proiniso of administering tho Government in tho honest, simple and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have loamed that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs covor tricks and betrayal. Tho statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, prompt responso to tho ueeds of the peoplo as thoy arise, and the vigi lant protection of all their varied inter ests. If I should bo called to tho Chief Magistracy of the nation by tho suffrages of my fellow-citizens I will assume tho duties of that high office with tho solemn determination to dedicate every effort to my couutry's f iud, and with on humble reliance upon .ho favor and ruppert of tho Supreme Jeing who I believe will always bless honest human endeavor iu the conscientious dischargo of public duty. GROVER CLEVELAND. To Col. Wm. P, Vllas, chairman, and D. P. llcstor and other* members of tho Notification Committee of the Democrat ic National Convention. The Education or Girls. That girl has tho best education who is ibe most thoroughly qualified to take care of horself in a hand to band fight with tho world, who bas a basis of good judgment, practical knowledge, and com mon Benso, in which to start in her self sustaining career, who is armed with tho able weapon of tiado or profession with which she in familiar, and whose conduct is governed by exacting principles of natural integrity. Such a girl possesses a fortune in hor own right which no fluc tuations of business circles can deprec? alo and who will never becomo a drag upon opulent and unwilling relatives. With health and strength and a fair ?tart in the race for life she will reach every mile stone of success ; nor wear out, or grow discouraged by tho way ; and not infrequently sha will out run her vaunting brutner, and even Btop to lend bim a helping hand. Th? properly-balanced, well educated girl is aware that sho can do one thing well and she benda all ber energies to wards its accomplishment. She concen trates her forces, instead of scattering thom, and has something to show for it. Sho is the best accountant, or tbe clever est writer, or the most successful sales woman, or the hardest worker of science -music, physic, law-whatever her tal eut destines her for. She studies with au aim, and understands what she learns. Her mind is a storehouse, not a Beive, and sho endeavors to absorb quality rath er than quantity, and comprehends to her own enlightenment what u'.io Studien. Tho wretched system of forced culture in which a girl learned a little French and Latin, a smattering of mathematics, a glance into polite literatura, and a great neal of poor piano playing, has been abandoned in favor of a more seusiblo curriculum commensurate with her valuo as a co-worker with her brothers. Sensible Gorman parents have always brought up their daughters to bo pro ducers as well as consumers in tho do mestic economy. It is only tho Ameri can parent who made the Kitchen unat tractive to his daughter, and gnvo her no possibility of employing her talent, except iii the few lady-like departments sanctioned by conservative custom. The time is coming, nay. has already come, when a sign reading "Smith ? Daughters," will merely indicate that ali Mr. Smith's boys wero girls, and be had educated them os be would nave done his boys. And tho Smith girls instead of dawdling around tho paternal mansion until some . 'lng men could be found for husbands, lia wisely gone into business with their fattu,.', and have never found time to be discontented with themselves. Wben Edison, genius and inventor as he is, bad given two weeks of his valua ble time to going up and down on the New York Elevated Railroad, trying to discover what caused its noise and a cure for it, he gave up the job. Then a little woman took it. Sho rodo on the cars three days, was denied a place to stand on the rear platform, laughed at for bei curiosity and politely snubbed by con ductors and passengers. But she dis covered what oaused the noise, invented a remedy, which waa patented, and she was paid a sum of (10,000 and a rovalty forever? Her nsme is Mrs. May Wal' ton, and she lives in New York City This is what she says of her education : "My father bad no sons and. believer] in educating bis daughters. He spared no pains or expense to this ond. Mj father's brother said to bim, 'Why dc iou waste so much money on your girls? o which my father replied, 'My boyi turned out to be all girls, and I am go iog to give them so good an o nd u cat io i that they may turn out to be as good ai boys.? " As g noil as boys aro. h ere used in gen eral sense ; aa good as tome boys wouh be a very poor recommendation. An; girl who understands her own capabili ties will do her work as well as it is pos sible to be done. No boy can do bette than that. Work is without BOX. Cei tai ti departments of labor are claimer exclusively by boys and men becaus they have a legendary riga* in then No competition bas entered the list against them. If a woman can make good horse shoe she can open a forge an make shoes. ' N J one has the right to sa she shall not. There are'men who ai milliners, dressmakers and who sell dr gx>da, and they do these things so we np enc diopn.te their right to them. The girl who bss educated herself I fill. some, niche io tho mercantile ?vori may marry and never carry ber know edge any further than her own nurser; What then? She is gifted to teach hi own sons and daughters the rudiments < commercial knowledge, to counsel ar advise with ber husband, and if left widow, to take care bf her own est?t There is no vaster heritage of ignorant and uselessness that the array of th rca. a nd-need lo accomplish m eat o which f generations bsa been considered the co red dower for lady-like yoong perso Consider your girls as responsible fsi lot citizens and educate them accordingly. ~ Try and not borrow your nc?ghhoi paper ; subscribe for it yourself. Yo neighbor doesn't like to bo -bother, with yon, no matter how pleasant 1 may seem. Tho South Carolina Negro. COMJMDIA, 8. C., August 18.-The speakers at the recent Blaine ratification meeting in this cit; attempted, aa usual, to impress the negroes with tlio idea that they wero an oppressed and downtrodden raco, whoso rights wero utterly denied and disregarded by tho Democratic party. They were told that they were virtually disfranchised, and so far as political and legal rights are concerned were no botter than slave*. Of course they were in formed that the election laws in this State were enacted purposely to defraud the illiterate voter, and that thoy were deprived of educational facilities, so that they had no opportunity to become in telligent voters. If any of their hearers wero modo to bolievo these statement* a few facta may undeceive them. I do not propose to arguo any of these charges against the Democratic party, but simply Lo state a few things in connection with them as I think that will bo sullicient inswor to tho accusations. First, as to their political rights. It in truo that there are several boxes into .viiich ballots must bu placed, and if de posited in tho wrong box they aro thrown jut and not counted. To illustrate : Thero is a box for all votes given for [lovernor and Lioutonant-Governor, and mother for the other State officers ; a roto deposited in tho Governor's box ivilh thc names of tho othor State officer* >n it would bo void, and so with a volo ror Governor put in tho Stato officers' lox. But in order that the voter may lot he misled thero is painted or poster!, n largo Roman letters, on each box, the }i!!CG? to bs filled, and any ons ??ho cia 'ead can certainly put his vute ip .Lc ?ight box. This would amount to an educational test but for another provis on in the law which requires managers >f elections, when so requested, to read o tho voter tho names ot the officers on ho different boxes, BO that the moat ig norant voter is fully protected. Ia the ast election a Qreonbacker, in a public 11 ? peech, said that his people could hardly | | ead English, and that tho Dem?crata tad ordered Roman letters put on the loxes so that they could not read them. 11 Ibis charge against tho party in power vas loudly applauded. So much for the lolitical rights of the negro. Every lawyer in the Stato knows that vhen a negro ia on trial bo will always eenie a wbito jury aud invariably dis ?ards all jurors ot his own color. This hov.?i in whom they trust when their egal rights aro in dangor, or their lives I B tr liberty in jeopardy. Tho most unjust charge-and it in out agcous-that tho Republicans mako 1 '? igainst tho Democrats in this State, is I < hat the State doos uot furnish tho ne-11 ;roes educational advantages. This tRtemeni is known to bo so infamously also that it is hardly noccssary to eon radict it, and I will only say this much, lint an appropriation is every year voted br Cl ullin University to give the negroes he benefits of higher education, and here are many moro negroes than whites I havon't the figures before mc) edu atcd by the two-mill school tax and poll ax, and tho white men and Democrats >f tho State pay nearly the entire two aili tax. Thin ought to be sufficient to nuke even a South Carolina Radical ?lent on this point. Coming down to other mattera bearing ipon the condition cf tho negroes in this State. I speak to tho negroes, because hey are supposed to coustltute the Re millican party in South Carolina. In his city they have every consideration bown them that tho whites have. The norchants treat them with just aa much _ ipurteey, they ride in tho ti rst-ol asa hacfes, j ind sometimes they occupy the beat scatu ' u the opera house. I mention these binga to show that thero \a no discrimi ion against them on account of their :olor, and a colored roan who would eave Columbia to go to nny other place n the world, expecting to enjoy any noro political, legal or business privf eges tuan he docs here, would bo desti tues of common souse. There is no proj idice whatever against a negro in South karolina because he is a negro, but when io undertakes to revive the old Radical >arty in the State there is a slight ob ectlon to him, and probably always will ie.- Cor. Augusta Chronicle. Hon and Ills Miseries, Man that is born of woman ia small lotatoes and few in the hill. He ri ne th up to day and flouriBheth ike a ragweed, and to-morrow or the lay after the undertaker bas him in the co box. He ffoeth forth in the morning warb? ing lise a lark, and is knocked out in >ne round and two seconds. In the midst of life be is !n debt, and he tax collector puraueth him wherever io goes. Tho banister of life is full of splinters, ind he slldeth down with considerable opidity. He wa walketh forth in the bright aun* igbtto absorb orono, and meeteth the! >ank teller with a sight draft for 1367. Ho cometh home at eventide and ne etc th tho wheelbarrow in his path, and .he wheelbarrow riseth up. and smiteth lim to the earth, and falleth upou him, ind runneth one of ita legs into his ear. In the gentle spring-time he puttetb >n his summer clothes, and a blizzard itriketh him far away from home, asd illeth him with woe and rheumatism. He layeth up riches in the bank, and .he cashier speculateth in margins and .hen goeth to Canada for his health. In the autumn be puttetb on his winter j trousers, and a wasp thatabidetb in them illeth himself full of intense excitement. He sltteth up all night to get tho' re* turns from Ohio, and To the end lcarneth that the other fellows have carried it. He buyeth a watch-dog. and when, he j jometh homo the watch-dog treeth hi m ind aitteth beneath him until rosy morn. Ho g?eth to the t ro t and betteth his money on the brown mare, and the bay gelding with a blaze face winneth. He marrieth a red-headed heiress with s wart on her nose, and the'next day her I paternal ancestor goeth under with few 15.7eta and great liabilities, add cometh borne to live with bia beloved son-in law. An Editor Insulted. Editors havo to put up with all mah; uer of taunts and i nan Its. Not so long ago. at a social gathering, an Austin lady said to a young man who is connected with a local paper : "You ought to belong to a church I choir? ' "But l can't slog. What put the ideal of my belonging to a church choir into your head?" .* . "Oh, nothing, except that I waa read ing the other day that a San Francisco cbnroh proposes to introduce harp tottaia. into the choir, and thero is not arneb difference^ : you I k nor/, bot ween a barp and ? ly ro, BO I- thought I'd jost mako tho suggestion."-Sift inga. - Girls, if you do wed, marry astrong man. Just think how. nice it will bo to have a husband who comes up from tb cellar w i th a wash, tab 5n paco arwT a piled op ?cuttlo suspended from SOCIO. Tho Men With the Fl*. * A few days ago two men, who wero afterwards found tobe Detroiters,arrived iu a town about fifty miles to the west of this, leading a pig. It was perhaps big enough and heavy enough to bo called a hog, nut they termed it a pig and as they turned it over to the care of the landlord at whose ion they proposed to rest for the night, ono of the men explained : ? "Be awful careful with that pig, ho's a daisy-a mw breed just from Scotland. We've sold L im to a farmer out here for $50, and we i*on't want anything to hap pon to him." The landlord took the pig up, and then begau to think and cogitate and suspect. When tho strangers had gone to bed he called in some of tho boys, and said : "I've twigged tho racket; them two fellows aro sharpers and that's a guessing pig. To-morrow they will give you a chance to guess at his weight at ten cents a guess, and you'll bo cleaned out-only you won't. As tho follows sleep we will weigh their pig and beal their game." Nobody slept until tho pig was taken over to tho scales and weighed. Ho pulled down 170 pounds to a hair, and the villagers went home and hunted up their nickels and dreamed of pigs and jeales and sharpers through tho remain lier of the n??h*. Next morning the pig was led around in front, and, before starting off on bis lourney, one of tho owners remarked- to :he assen1'ded crowd: "Gentkuien, I'm going to weigh this [dg directly. Maybe some of you would Iko to guess on his weight? I'll tako il! guesses at ten cents each, and whoa?? ;r ?lit.-, it gets fifty cents." This provoked a large and selected stock of winks and smiles, but no ono ?valked up until tho' pig man said that any one person could guess as many dines as ne cared to, provided a dime iccompanied each guess. Then a rush let in. Three or four merchants put up i fi y guesses each. A justice of the >eace took thirty. A lawyer said about iweuty would do for him. Before there ?va* any let up in tho guessing about GOO isd been registered and paid tor. Every iou! of 'em guessed at 170 pounds. It vas curious what unanimity there was in he guessing, but the pig men didn't teem to notice it. When all had peen riven a ch'anco tho pig was led to tho icales, and lo I his weight was exactly 171 poundn I "You ace, gentlemen," explained the ipokesman, "while this animal only voighs 170 pounds along about ll o'clock it night, wo feed him about five pounds >f corn meal in the morning before veighiug I You forgot :o take this mat er into consideration 1" Then somebodv kicl.od tho landlord, ind he kicked tue justice, and the jus* leo kicked a merchant and when the )ig men looked back from a distant hill he whole town was out kicking itself ind throwing empty wallets into the Iver.-Detroit Free Pres?. What Death Does. It does not affect the moral character, t expends its force upon the body, but trorks no radical or real chango in the oui. It has no power whatever to revo* utionfco tho moral nature-to make it letter or worse. In itself it csu neither nake a good man better nor a bad man vorse. It can transfer, but cannot trana brm. "He that in righteous, let him be righteous still. He that is petty, let lim be," at death and after, "potty still." Sach person now living carries in him self at this and every moment tho essen* .?.?. elements of ?iibex heaven or hell. 3y the essential elements we mean, in loth cases, those moral qualities, thoso impositions and aifections of the soul, which fit it for the one or for the other. Were all at this moment snatched from :lrae to eternity, such are their moral characters that they would instantly drop into their appropriate places, what a bin partition separate? the saint on earth from the saint in heaven-tho sinner in imo from the sinner in eternity. Death is but the doorkeeper. He lifts he latch and lets the Christian through into the bliss of the blissful. Death lops iff the body and manumits the impns jued spirit. It dissolves tho Christian from this linful state and his sinful surroundings, akes bim away from all tho hindrances >f earth, and supplies him with all the lelps of heaven. It delivers him from 'this body of death." It is not the judge LO acquit or condemn ; only the jailor to re i cano. It puts the justified beyond the confines of sin and sense ; gives them absence from the body and presence with the Lord, but has nothing more than it ian do. It is God's porter to lift up the 'gates" at his bidding, and let tho "son >F glory" "come io." Why, then, should Ihe Christian fear the wing that trans, lates him from the state of the justified to that of the glorified ? "Death is yours." Keen Disappointment. The "rural roosters" of Arkansaw have an exalted conception of a Goy Brnor's magnitude. Borne time ago a barbecue was held at Grand Point, and among other distinguished citizens the Governor agreed to - attend. A large crowd assembled, and when it became known that the Governor bad arrived, the people were much excited in.their nu x ie ty to behold th? august ruler. Old Sam Fellers, who bad - walked fifteen miles to be present on the occasion, turned to. a friend, after an unsatisfactory learcb, and said :. "Has tho Governor got here vit, Bill ? " "Yes, thar he stan's, tallan' to the County Jedge." ' V "What I that feller with a red neos like a turk?y gobbler?" '"That's ?he man." . . "W'y dog gone bbl ugly piclurVhe oint aa i-.lg as I am. Been waitin' to see a Guv'nor all my life, an' now this is the way I'm served. T'other day I . was tuck down with a congestive phill, an? I was powerful afeerd that I would die afore I had a chance . to seo thc ruler o' tho State, but now I'll, bo blamed ef I dont wish I had died. Look at hin?, will y ei, ch aw i n' terbacker like a goat an* slobborin? like- a graeshoppe'r.. Fm a great mind to jolt him all over this town) fue gSvln' mo such a dUerp'lntmect. Wall, I b'leve I'll go home." . "8am, better stay an' git some o' the, barbecued shoat." : No, that feller has tuck myappertite? I'YO conto to tho conclusion that the country is a fraud., Governor H' ba said, contemptuously, nnd rolling up bia twua eM dnparatory to ? long journey, depart ed, and, without looking backt dUap peared in th? woods.-Arkansan : Tran* der*: