The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, July 17, 1875, Image 6
TiHE FREE CITIZEN.
PUBLISH KU AT
ORANCEBURG, S. C.
A. WEBSTER, ... - Editor.
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Ami I will como near to you to Judgment; and
I will be a a ?ii t witness against the sorocr
erB, and against thc adulterors, and against
false swearers, and against those that op
pres? the hireling in his Tragos, the widow
and the fatherless, and that turn aside the
stranger from bia right,, and fear not mc,
saith tho Lord of Host?.-MALACHI, lil, s.
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SATURDAY, JULY" 17, 1875.
Rast Due School Claims.
It seems that our unfortunate
county is still in for its full share of
misfortunes. It seems that our
county treasurer was one of the num
ber who did not get his share of the
funds appropriated to pay past due
school claims in our county, not at
the time the same fell due, and has
not got said funds as yet, and most
likely will not for six months to come.
Many of the other counties got their
funds, but those for our county, it is
now claimed, arc locked up safeley in
the suspended bank, and no doubt
there will be a long suspension be
fore our old claims will be paid. We
must still hear the old cry of no
money in the treasury to pay school
claims. But it will be asked, who is
lo be blamed for this? We know of
one party who is not to be blamed,
and that is the poor teacher who has
earned the money, and still holds an
unpaid certificate, unless he has been
under the painful necessity of selling
ing to the speculators for fifty cents
on the dollar. Those who purchase
old claims will still have a chance
to drive their business, only they
say it ia not quite so thriving as be
required ine approval of
the county commissioners for their
payment. To say the least, our county
finances seems to be rather a slow
eu.v.li ; but we are hoping for better
times. When ahall we find the
'.nimbia sixpence" floating among
our publie funds ?
Conscience In Politics.
This may seem to many of our
readers a singular and rare combina
tion. We must confess, it is by far
too rare, at least, in our section ol
thia country. Wo arc pleased at
least with one drift in South Carolina
politics, and that is an ardent inten
tion, on the part of many of our citi
zens,, to have good men elected to
office. An honest? reliable man of
either political party ia botter worthy,
and can be more safely tusted in of
fice than n dishonest man of whatever
political party or creed. If we get'
men. in office who simply serve them
selves? and il VI their own poekei?,
and bleed the public,, it doea not
make much difference in name of
what political party the pilfering is
done, the publie ia equally depleted,
and injuired.. If the public is really
feerved, ia a favor, let it be done by
whomsoever it may. We want men
?lio will do right if tho heavens fall..
After all, there ia nothing like the
conscience, and bringing, things to
hear upon it. And if .we, cap. find a
response in this inner- shrine of the
noni, we are in tho way tc right all
wrongs and to secure all rights.
Therefore; we shoe?d say. that the
the very first quality in a public man
ia a sharp, clear conscience. Doubt
less he ought to have experience, sa
gacity, comprehensiveness, knowl
edge of human nature--the capacity
to take.in all the facta and to adjust
things in the beat way possiblo under
existing circumstances. But, when
all ja said, commend nf, to the man of
thorough conscientiousness-by which
we .mean the man. of clear moral dis
cernment, and who intensely loves the.
rjghtand aa io ton pp ly hates the wrong.
Such.a raan, supposing there ia a cor
responding dearness and,vigor of in
tellect, will? he a moving power, and
he will have plenty of business with
al. We shall always ha.vo public
men enough whose conscience follows
them dog-like and cringing men,
whose consciences ate fl.exj.hle to
llie touch of interest, and. who get
ofllce simply to opake it pay, and will
make it pay regardless of thu means
used, and, therefore, there is the
greater need of men whose conscience
takea ihe lead, and who go st things
straight and sure, and with regard
for nothing except the right of ihings.
Honesty even in political malters, as
well as all others, is the best policy.
Balky People.
Passing along a country road quite
.eceutly, we found a man, a horse
ind wagon, in trouble. The vehicle
.vas slight, and the road was good,
hut the horse refused to draw, and
his driver waa in a bad predicament.
He had already destroyed his whip in
applying inducements to progress in
travel, lie had pulled Ihe horse's
ears with a sharp string. Ile had !
balked him into thc ditch. Ile had
built a Gre of straw underneath him
-Ihe only result, a smashed dash
board. The chief effect of Ihe vio
lences and cruelties applied were to
increase the divergency ol feeling be
tween the brute and his mauler. We
said to the besweatcd and outraged
actor in the scene that the beet thing
for him to do was to let Lis hot se
stand for awhile unwhiped and un
coaxed, setting some one lo watch
him, while he, the driver, went away
to cool off. We learned that the plan
wirked admirably ; that the cold ait,
and the appetite for oats, and the sol
itude of the road, favorable for. con
templation, had. made the horse move
for adjournment to some other place
and time, and when tho driver came
up he. had but to take the reins, and
the beast, .erst so obstinate, dashed
down the road at a perilous speed.
We think much, of, the. opinion of
the old Quakeress, when asked her
opinion of war; sho replied thal she
thought it quite unnecessary thus to
kill and butchei people, that they
would die of themselves, if-you would
only let them alone. Some of' our
South Carolina politicians will die
politically soon, if the people, will
only wisely let them alone. Not a
small amount of labor and whip.Josh?
J ci are* often washed on balky horses
! as well as men.
"My wife ?3 the cause of it."
It is now more than forly years
ago that a man whom we will call
Mr. Lord, called at the house of Dr.
Bush, one very cold morning, on his
way to Hanover. ..Sir" said the
Doctor, "The weather is very frosty ;
will you not take something to drink
before you start ?"
In that early day ardent api i ii s
were deemed iudespensable in Win
ter. When commencing a journey
and at every place along the road,
the traveler always used intoxicating
drink to make him warm.
"No" said Mr. Lord, "I never
touch anything of the kind, and I
will tell you the reason-nay wife is
the cause of it. I had been in the
habit of meeting some of our neigh
Itors every evening for the purpose of
playing enids. We assembled at
each other'? shops and liquors were
introduced. After awhile we met,
not 20 much for playing as for drink
ing, and I used to return home in the
evening more or less intoxicated.
My wife always met me at the door
diectionately, and wtun 1 chided her
for sitting up so late for me, she
kipclly replied, 'I prefer doing sc, for
? cannot sleep when you are out.'
"This.always troubled me. I wish
ed in my. heart that abe would only
scold me ; for then I could have re
torted'and, relieved my conscience.
But she always met me with the same
gentle and loving spirit.
uThi ogs passed, on th nu for some
time, when at last I .resolved that
I would by remaining - very late and
returning much intoxicated, provoke
her displeasure so much aa to cause
her to lecture me, when I meant to
answer ber with severity and thus
by creating another issue between us,
unburden my bosom of its trouble.
"I returned in such a plite about
four o'clock one morning ; sho met me
at the door with her astin) tender
ness and said, .Come in husband ;
I have just been making a good Are
for you-because I knew you would he
cold. Takeoff;your boots and wann
your feet, and/here, is- a- cup,. of; hot
coffee/
"Doctor Hi al waa too much. 1 I
could not endure il any longer, ami
1 resolved from-that moment I would
never.touch another drop while 1 live?!,
ami I never, did."
He never did. He lived and died
practicing total abstinence from all
intoxicating drinks.
That man was my father, and that
woman my mother. The fact above
related I received from the doctor
himself when on a visit to my native
village, not long since.
Were thero more wives like my
blessed mother there would be lewer
confirmed drunkards.
Woman's Influen?a.
We women have much to answer
for. Many among us have choseu
husbands ill, rather than not marry
at all ; many have brought up sons
badly, from weakness or self-imjul
geuce. Abuses and degrading prac
tices have crept into the life of a
once healthy nation-abuses and bad
practices which no executive govern
ment, no legal enactments, can pos
sible reach ; but we women have^the
lever in our hands that can raise the
community to healthy and social re
forms. Our inthience can arrestfdie
Hood of infidelity, of luxury, of idle
ness, of despising wholesome labor,
irreverence to elders and superiors.
Our influence can check tho grovving
appetite for pestilential novels,-, for
licentious plays and poems, for im
modest dress. Our influence can re
verse the law which excludes a peni
tent, erring woman from a sisterly
hand-claap, and warmly welcome a
bad man who has not repented. Our
influence can correct the riotous ex
travagance in expenditure, wether" for
personal adornment or house deco
ration, or tables groaning with un
wholesome food.-Fanny Aikin Kort
right* j
POISONOUS DRINK.-Tho N. > Y
Southern Tier Leader, in noticipg a
movement in Nebraska for prohibit
ing the adulteration of liquors, and
the law of Kew Jersy, enacted a year
ago, for a kindred purpose, say st:
"It is not known that a single
prosecution .has been made under
this law.. It has been a dead hkter
from ihq njpmout.tif Un ? BM^jMfc
And so it will prove in Nebraska, or
wherever else the experiment is tried.
We might us well raise adders- aud
serpents, and presume th ut our child
ren will not be stung or bitten, QB to
legalize the sale of intoxicating
drinks, and expect that the people
will not be poisoned. The very
words are synonymous. To intoxi
cate is to poison. Docs it make so
much difference with what the deadly
work is done? When the people are
tully persuaded that the whole busi
ness is a curse and a.shaine, that burs
and saloons are simply poison shops,
and that brewers and distillers, as
Wesley said, are poisoners-general
then will they not arise in their
strength and majesty, and delegalize.
prohibit, and crush out tho aboodn
traffic?"
It may seem strange, but it is
nevertheless true, that alcohol, regu
larly applied to a thrifty farmer's
stomach will remove the boards from
the fence, let cattle into his crops,
kill hist fruit-trees, mortgage his farm
and BOW his field with wild oats and
thistles. It will take the paint oil
his hulding, break the glass out of his
windows and Oil them with rags. It
will take the gloss from his clothes
and the polish from his manners,
. subdue his reason, arouse his passions
bring sorrow and disgrace upon his
family, and topple him into a drunk
ard's grave. lb well do this to the
artisan and the capitalist, the matron
and the maiden, ns well as lo the
farmer ; for, in its deadly enmity to
the human race, alcohol is no respec
ter of persons.
A LETTER FROM PURGATORY.-"A
; rather amusing story," says Colonel
i Stuart, in his "Reminiscences of a
i Soldier," "was told to me some time
ago by an old lady who had aa an
cient servant that had lived with her
for many years, named Ann Brady.
One day Ann came in to her mistress
in the parlor, crying. 'Now, M^t I
the unfortunate woman? Och, what
will I do at all, at all?' ? What's the
matter, Ann?' said her mistress.
?Ooh, ma'am,* replied Ann, 'the post
man's outside, , and he's got, a. lotter
for roo from purgatory, and. Ii koow.
it's from my oujd mother, who's boon.
Lhere this lin yean?, und it's all about
me not paying tor the niasses 1 said
I would. Och?se !' but I am the
miserable-woman.' On the mistress
going out, she found the postman in ?t
of laughter, with a letter directed to
'Ann Brady,* from the Dead Letter
Otflce. Nothing could induce her to tl
touch it, the 'dead' to her meaning fl
purgatory, and nothing else; and
her mistress was obliged to open the
letter for her, and found it was one
Ann had written to a nephew in
Blare, bul as he had gone to America ,
the letter- had consequently been jo
returned."
Our Homes.
Our very existence is embodied in
the word home. It ts where our lives | j
are molded. Its adornment, there
fore, ian matter of great importance
to all. Let us s<? deon rato it that
life may he a blessing.. With what
shall we beautify our homes ? Flow
ers must certainly rank first. Equally
suited to palace or cot, they lend an
indispensable charm to the adorn
ment of our homes. Especially du- .
ring the long winter mouths, when *
nature herself.almost sleeps, then it
is that the pure white camellia, the
brilliant chrysanthemums, the hya-|
ciuth and crocuses, shed their loveli
ness on everything around, dispelling |
the monotony wilbla which, their ab
sence without causes. Decorate the
walls with pictures, arranging them
tastefully, and thereby engender a
love for art, as flowers do for nature.
Adorn the shelves and cases with in
structive books, that their study may
in turn adorn the minds of the house
hold, who, so beautified, are the
highest needful home adornment.
And thus our homes should be our
tutors, teaching humanity that love
for the beautiful which lifts up and
ennobles the race.
EVILS OF SELF-PRAISE.-There is
no surer soul-death, no more inevi- <
table paralizing of worth and force 1
than self exultation and self-pr-iise
The H had ow of self blights growth,
maims power, cripples influence
Tnere are men in some aspects al
most great, in others pitifully small
?llffiinmft tiny wit! tint uland, out 4jf]
their own shadow. There are men
who have the ability and the will to
perform the most valiant service for
une and another great cause, who are I ^
wise, brilliant, eloquent ; who have
yet been of little or no worth to their
fellow-beings, simply because they
are willing to do nothing without se- j ]
curing, full credit for it,, to rear no
column in the temple of? regenerated
humanity, unless they can iuscribe
their names on its capital.
?
A SOFT ANSWER.-How a soft an- I
?wer can turn uway dissatisfaction,
as well as wrath, is illustrated in the ]
following anecdote of tho- late Presi
dent Waj land : Deacon Muses Pond {
wenl to Dr. Wryland once with the \
complaint that the preaching didn't 1
edify him. "Pin sorry," said thc
pastor ; ''I know they are poor ser
mons. 1 wish I could make them
better. Come, let us pray that I may
be able to do so." The deacon tell
ing the slory used to say, "Dr. Way
land prayed, and I prated ; he cried,
and 1 cried ; but I have thought a
hundred times that it was strange
that he did not turn mo out of the
house. I tell you there never was a
better man nor a greater preacher
i han Dr. Wa} lund."
Napoleon said thal "war was the
burliness of barbarians."
Don't let your wealth inflate you.
Rich men sometimes die of small-pox.
Kindness, like the gentle breath.of
spring, melts the icy heart.
One act of charity is worth a cen
tury of eloquence.
Thero is no substitute for thorough
going, ardent and? sincere earnest
ness.
Wm. M. MUD & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND? MANUFACTURERS OP
Oils, Whita Lead,
Zinc, Gators*
Window-$lass, &a,|
201 East* Bay,
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CONTINUES to sen hts LIQUORS
mdSEGARS
.A.T (DOST,
He keeps on hand and is reciving
daily, tres li supplies of
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
TIN WARE,
CROCKERY,
And a general supply of merchandise.
AUU BEFORE BUYING.
C D. KOTJOHN,
!. H. WILSON. J. T. WILSON.
SAM'L H. WILDON & BRO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers
mm mww.iM t
TEAS.
WINES;
ALES.
AND
LMPORTED SEGARS.
308 King St., Charleston, S. C.
May loVtf.
jQU. A? C. DUKES,
Dealer in all kinds of
Drugs and Medicines.
Dr Dukes has had Nine Year* Experi
mcehi Drugs and Medicines and thorouh
y understand* ills business. He keens
tonstHiitly on n large supply of Good*1
isuully found 'in a
First-class Drug Store,
K^nareful attention paid to thc com
lonuding of Prescriptions and all orders
jromplly attended to. Call on him tit
ils Popular Drug Store.
Orangebur>i. Keb. 13. 1875
Rare Bargains
-AT
KOHN'S.
T. KOHNft BRO.,
Having removed to their
Kiew Brick Store, are now
setter prepared to meet the
(vants of their customers
dian over.
Their elegant sfcook of
SPRING AND SUMMER
CIL?TKliN? cannot be.aur
gassed anywhere.,
Gall at the old st and J
Theodore Kohn & Bro.
A D V ? Ii T I S i<, M E N T S.
M lsC K I. L AN KOUS.
f^lRAND OPENING I
1 will open this morning a lot of th?
Finest eas,
ever offered in this market, consisting o
UNCOLORED JAPAN OOLONGS.
SOUCHONGS,
YOUNG HYSONS,
and
GUNPOWDERS,
And iu order to cultivate a trade for
these fine grade* I will noll them
VERY LOW.
I have also received this morning another
car-load of
Solomon's Fancy Flour
Freeh ground and Made especially
for me from tho
Finest Selected Wheat,
I have never had ? complaint ot
this brand of flour.
IMPORTANT NOTICE 1
Inferior KEROSENE OIL it do dan
gerous and so many accidents h ?ve oe
curred from its use, 1 have been induced,
at the repeated solicitation of ny custo
mers, to purchase a supply of puro Oil
for their use. I have just receive ten
barrels ot i
'PUEE WEITE mnosEmr^
Of 124 fire test. I will sell thia Pure
Oil cheaper than the same grade of Oil
can be sold at lu this city. Families use?
lng this Oil are safe. The use of the
common Oils now
FLOODING THE MARKET
is equivalent to bringing Into the family,
destruction and death !
I have also received :
10 Tierces Fresh Cured Davin' Hums*
10 Boxes Cream Cheese, direct frota,
the Dalry.,
25 Firkins Goshen Butter, direct from
the Dairy, which has all the
freshness and flavor of the Howl
ers.
5 Tierces of Baltimore Sugar-Cured;
Strips,
10 Barrels of Extra Mess Mackerel;
averaging twenty ounces..
25 Sacks LagRAvra Coffee* eqgal t?
Java.
50 Sacks ?# Assorted Rio, by last Rio?
ileaattr.
With a thll supply of
CHOICE QRO?P???SS%
Fresh and? Good-.
My stock Is full,, with. Ptrices low. and.
good.tupes coming.
II m.
Thanking the pupHc for their very llb,
eral patronage, and soliciting I?s .contin
uance, I.will. do.. my best, to merit. ?h<\
m.a..
Columbia, Bo.. 0?,