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THE FREE CITIZEN. PUBLISHED AT OR AN CEBU RC, S. Ci X. A. WEBSTER, - - - Editor. A. WEBSTER, PUBLISHER. MB_I_J-'.l_ . - GnnCOPT, OHE YEAR, - - - ?2.00 Invariably in Advance. And I will come near to vor to judgement; and I wilt bo a swill witness against tliu sorcer er*, and against thc adulterers, and against tylse swearers, and against those thal op press the hireling in tiis wages, thu Widow and thc fatherless, and ttiat turn aside Hie stranger front his right, and fear not me, saith thu Lord of Hosts.-MALACHI, lil, 5. NOTICE. We aro not responsible for thc.views of our Correspondents. Advertisements to be. inserted in Hie CITIZEN taust bo received by Thursday evening. Advertisements inserted nt One. Dollar per Inch, for the llrst insertion. Further terms eau bo hud on application to thc Editor or Publisher. Communications on matters of Stnte or Local Interest, respectfully solicited. All orders for Job Printing left at this oHlcc Will receive prompt attention. Agonts and Correspondents wanted in all Towns of tho County. SATURDAY, OCT. 0, 1875. Suggestions for our ?ounty Board of Examiners. The following resolutions have been adopted by the board of exam iners for Williamsburg county, and were promulgated for tho benefit of the township trustees, as it is desired tha.Ua general system shall prevail ip the county. We hope the board of examiners of this county will not hesitate to avail themselves of some of the practical suggestions therein offered : 1. That a full school shall consist of not less Dian 25 pupils. If4*That when.a school is established containing less than thc number provided tor ii) section 1, the pa j' proper of the teacher shall be reduced in proportion, >lz: 1? That when the number of pupils lo not exceed 10. a deduction of one-iifth tho teacher's salary shall be made, pr 2. That when the number of pupils do mot exgt'fcd l? a deduction ol* two-fifths .--^ieTteaebers salary shall be made. III. That the-trustees shah not estab lish any school where the attendance ducii noi "8b ns ist bf fifteen scholars, IV. . That the true iutentand meaning Of the preceedhig .section is not intended for the monthly average attendance of scholars, hut must be a bona fide daily attendance of that number. V. That before establishing schools ?e trustees shall give notice to the school commissioner, so as. to avoid the creatlon of more sqhools than there arc funds to compensate teachers. VJ. That under no consideration shall the trustees go onside of the regular grade pay in the employment of teachers -that is, the pay as now provided by resolution of the State board of educa tion. An Idol of.Christian Lands. Tobaco, the amount of $250,000, 000, ie used in this country annually. This is about seven dollars to each person, or thirty for each man. And what does it mean. One drop of nicotine-extract of to bacco-placed on the tongue'of a dog, will kill him in a minute ; the hund redth part of a grain picked under the skin of a man's, arm, will produce nausea and fainting. That which blackens old tobacco pipes is cmpy reumatic oil, a grain of which would kill a man in a few second. The half-dozen cigars which most smokers use a day, contain six or seven grains-enough, if concentra ted and absorbed, kill three men ; and a pound of tobaco, according to its quality, contains from one-quarter to one^and a quarter ounces. Is it strange thea that smokers und chewers have a thousand ailments? that German physicians attribute one half of the deaths among the young men of that country to tobacco? that the French Polytechnic Institute had to prphibit> its uso on account of its erffects on the mind ? that men grow dyspeptic, hypochondriac, insane, delirious, from its uae ? Ono of the direct ef fects of tobacco is to weaken the heart.. Note tho multitude of ?-'suddent deaths," and sec how many are smokers and chewers. In a small country town seve^of these rnyster .flious providences" occurred within eireuuit of a mile, all directly tracea ble to tobacco; and any physician, ?? a few moments reflection, -^an .match this fact by his own observa tion. Ar.d then, such powerful acid rt produce intenso i rr Ka ti on and thirst -thirst which water does not quench. lenee a resort to cider and beer, .'he more this thirst is fed, thc more nsatiate it becomes, and more fiery rink is needed. Out of seven hundred convicts ex mined at the New York statcprison ix hundred were confined for crimes ommittccd under thc influence of j iquor, and five hundred said they lad been led tu drink by thc usc of obacco. The ?Vibre! Effects of Hurry. To the thoughtful the moral conse quences tension and hurry are every saddening, to the physician their physical results are matter of pro found concern, for their grave evils come under his daily observation. No evolution of force can take place willi undue rapidity without damage to the machine in wich the, transfor mation is effected. Express railway stock lias a much shorter term of use Llian that reserved for slower trailie. Tile law is universal, that intensity md duration of action are inversely iroportional. It is therefore no mat er of surprise to find the human ner 'ous system is no exception to the aw. Thc higher salubrity of. rural >ver urban life is not entirely a mat ,er of fresh air and exercise. Rural iifc involves leisure and pause in work which arc very essential to thc mainte nance of thc nervous system in a state of true nutrition. Unremitting spasm soon ceases altogether. The high tension of life produces weakness at thc very place where strength is most needed. The damage \\onc to health oi the most valuable part of the com munity, thc best trained thinkers, most useful workers is incalculable. Work and worry, though not propor tional, arc closely connected, and an excess of the former soon entails an increase in theMatter beyond Hie lim its which the nervous system can bear with impunity, especially, under thc conditions under which work has lo be done. Thc machinery for organ izing the work of a community has to bc rigid and inflexible and in the strain involved in bringing a chang ing organism into harmony with a machine, the former must inevitably sn tier.-Loudon Lancet. Away With? lt. Carefully viewing the matter from the standpoint of the chemist, physi cian, and artisan, we unhesitatingly, declare that the world, in its present advanced stage, has no need of alco hol ; its simpty convenient, not nec essary. Alcohol is a poison ; it acts inharmoniously with vital "processes in tho anrmal organism. In its pur est and best form it slowly undemln 3S the constitution ; in its vile associ ition, as presented in these modern imesj ils kills with the eerlointy, ind sometimes with thc rapidly, of if strychnine and arsenic. Why not, hen, arrest its production, and thus trike a blow at the root of the evil? There is virtue and moral force :nough in the country to compel Con 51 ess to pass laws prohibiting it im portation ; there is virtue anti moral force enough in most, if not all the itates, to compel legislatures to en act laws prohibiting its manufacture. This is the point to which we must come, sooner or Infer. Alcoholic tlrinks must cense to be, before the Lhc world will bc released from their terrible thraldom.-Journal of Chem istry. For.r.Y ARD PRIDE.-The very witty ind sarcastic Rev. Sydney Smith .luis discourseth on the folly of pride n such a creature as man : "After ail, take suiue quiet, auber noment of life, and add together the two ideas of pride and of man ; be hold him, creature of a span high, 3t,alking through infinite space in all ! the grandeur of littleness. Perched Dn a speck^ of tho universe, every wind of heaven strikes into his blood the coldness of death ; his soul floats from his body like melody from the string ; day and night, as dust on the wheel, he is rolled along thc heavens, through a labyrinth of worlds, and all thc creations of God aro flaming above and beneath. Is this a crea turo to make himself a crown of glory, td deny his own flesh, to mock it his fellow, sprung from that dust ,0 .which both will soon return? Does Mic proud man not err? Does ae not suffer? Does he not die? When he reasons is he never stopped by difficulties? Wlien he ucj^ is lie never tempted by pleasure? When he lives is he free from pain ? "When he does can he escape the common grave? Pride is not the heritage of man ; jmility should dwell with frailty, and atone foi? ignorance, error and imperfection. MOODY'S ILLUSTRATIONS.-An illus tration used by Mr. Moody, to show that thc law after it has created the consciousness of sin cannot < l?anse the sinner, is pronounced by a writer in thc EvglisJt Independent very ef fective. Ile had promised his hoy a ride in a carriage, but the little fellow, niter having leen .suitably dressed, had soiled his dollies fright fully. "When Mr. Moody arrived," says the narrator, "he lound his son 'not lit to be seen,' and although tho little fellow clapped his hands with delight in expectation oi'hU rule, his father said, 'Why, my boy, I can't take you in that stale , you're so dirty! 'Oh, no, 1'se not. Mamma has washed me, and pul on "iii my nice clean things, and you promised to lake me!' My Moody told us that 'he just hitched lin h.: horse,' took thc little boy into th? house, and held him up before a looking glass. 'That slopped hi:* mouth,' and he did't say he was ul cnn any more. 'But,' said thc speaker, 'I'll tell you what I didn't un-J ilidn't take the looking-glass ti> eus/, his faxe I with !' " Freely." In the summer of 1JS(!T. when stay ing for a few days in a country town telling of God's love, rt l&ly :;.kcd me to visit a 3'oung man who was dying in. the workhouse infirmary. 1 accordingly went, andi found him in a room by himself, evidently dying of consumption. The nurse, tis she left me, told me that he could not live more than a few weeks, and that thc doctor did not wish visitors to rern?iinBfcmg as fatigue wot'ikV hasten his end. Ile beckoned me to draw a.y e|iair close to hts bedside. Ile could I scarcely speak louder than * whisper ; but what he said drew forth my hearty praise to God. After a few words of inxtiiry as lo J i his illness, I asked if he knew wheth er his sins were forgiven. His pale, worn face at once brightened np and beamed with heavenly joy as he told me that he blessed God he ever came into that workhouse ; for, from the time he came in, six weeks previous ly, a kind lady (the samo who had mentioned him to me) had visited him. She had told him about Jesus, thc sinner's Savior and tie sinner's Friend. "Ah !" said he, "if .Jesus had not been the Savior of the chief of sin ners, he never would have saved me. I have no friend on carib. My mother died when I was only four or live years old ; then there was no one left to teach mo and train nu: rightly, BO that from my very yon Lh i have bad none but evil companions, "who sought only to make mc still more wicked than themselves. F rom the J time my father died, about eighteen I months ago, ? have lived a course of unchecked sin and profligacy. I stopped short of nothing that my heart desired. And here 1 ara as the result ; for God has i aid his band upon me, and I am d3'ing. What Utile money my father left mc tit his death (for wo once lind iespectablc means) was very soon spent. Drink and sin ran away willi it all ; and then I was friendless, nnd many a night I had to sleep on the door-step. I was soon made aware that 1 was in consumption, and six weeks ago I was brought herc to die. I was very much afraid to die. The terrible prospect of meeting (?od in my sins; yes, steeped in iniquity as I was glared before my eyes ns nn awful re ality, I could get no relief or peace day or night until that lady carne and told me what Christ had suffered on the cross for sinners just such ns 1 am-even for the vilest-r-so that I might be pardoned and go to heaven. Sho told me that Cod lind laid on him the iniquity of us all}; so that, inhiml might (Ind a full salvation. She ?.old me that God havijig in dieted upon his beloved Son thef just pun ishment of sin, and that Jtjsus having taken the sinner's place nhd suffered punishment in his stead, i had opiy to accept him in order tp go free. Death was his, life ia mine. The cuise was Iiis, the blessing is mine. Tho sinless One suffered, and I, the sinner, at? saved." Here I interrupted him by asking bim if he was sure that what the Lord Jesus Buffered was quite sufli cient. "O5 yes !" he saidr (as he looked me well in the face, almost -at stielt ?- question) "0 yes ! He has done the work perfect ly, and he has done it all. Ile has done what I never could do, He has perfectly and forever put away my ailis and satisfied God. If I had to do anything now, as I lie on a death bed, what could I do, even to help to save myself. "Then you can. die quite happy now?" said I, "and you have no fear in the prospect of meeting God ?" "No, no fear wow," he replied. "The doctor told me yesterday I could not possibly live more than three weeks longer. But 1 would not mind if it were only three hours ; for it is all bright before, though I have nothing to trust of my own, for it is all darkness and sin as I look back on my past life. Herc I am dying at the agc of nineteen in the workhouse infirmary ; but I would not wish it otherwise, for 1 know 1 nm going home. I have but one regret: my life has been wasted in sin, instead of being spent for Jesus, who I now know loved me and gave himself for me. I would like to point everybody I am acquainted with to a verse in thc book of Revelation in which I have found such rest." Ile then took my Bible, and turn ing over the leaves to Revelation xxii, read verse 6, repeating thc lat ter part over the second time : "I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of thc water of life free ly." His thin hon}' finger rested for a few moments on the word "freely." "Tell them," said he when you speak to sinners, that it is freely-freely freely. It is the message from tue death-bed of one who, though a great sinner himself, has proved the truth of it." i As we parted, expecting next to meet, not in "thc deep darkness of earth's darkest place, but in Christ's dazzling light"' when bc claims bis own, he loft these words lingering on my ears: "I am Alpha and Omega; the beginning and the end. 1 will give rmto him that is nlhir.-t of the fountain of the water of life freely." Young man or young woman, though you may have broken a moth er's heart, and sorely tried, to the last extremity a loving father's kindness, so that you arc left friendless and forlorn in this cold woild, know that there is yet One who loves yo? still, and who is waiting to be gracious to 3*ou. It is Jesus-Jesus-Jesus, thc Savior and Friend of sinners. Thousands just as bad as you, like this young man in the infirmar}', have proved the troth of Jesus' word, "I will give unto him that is athirst of the water ol life FREELY.''-The Truth. " Complete Pictorial History of the Times"-" The best, cheapest j and most swecessfid Family Pa per in the Union-' Harper's Week ly. ILLUSTRATED. Notices oj thc Press. Tho Weekly i* the ablest and most pow erful illustrated periodical pubtished in this country. Ita editorials are scholarly and convincing, and carry much weight. Its illustrations.of current events are full and fresh, and are prepared hy our best designers. With a circulation of 150,000, the WEEKLY is read by at least half a million person?, and its influence aa an organ of opinion is.simply tremendous. The WEEKLY maintains a positive posi tion, expresses decided views on political and social problems.-Louisville Cliurier Journal. 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OPENING I I will open this movniug & lot of tho. finest r"easr aver ofl&red in this market, co sit UNCOLORED JAPAN OOLONG ?, SOUCHONGS,. * ?OUNG HYSOSIS-, and GUNPOWDERS,, And KU order to cultivate a trade fry. these fine grades I will ?ell them VERY LOW, [ have also received this morningtnnother car-ibad o? Solomon's. Fancy Flour Fresh ground and Made especially for me from tho Finest Scrleotecl Wbca*, I have never had a complaint -of 'thio brand of flour.. IxrorrjMtr NOTIORT Inferior KEROSENE OIL Iff BO dan gerous an* so many accidenta hare oc curred from iba use.d*have been induced, at the repeated solicitation of airy ensto mers, to purchase n supply ol unr*. Oi? for their use. I have just rweW? ten. 0 PURE" WHITE KEROSLlSM O? VM fire test. I will sril th')? Pare Oil cheaper than'Ibo o ame grado of O'fJ can be sold at in fl bio city. Fauilioa aee in?r this Oii are ??fe. The use o? the common Oils now FLOOMNG THE MARKET is equivalent) to bringing into the family destruction and death! I hav* also received s 10 Tierces Fresh Cured Davis' Harn?, 10 Boxes Cream Cheese, direct from the Dairy, 25 Firkins Goshen Butterrdirect froira the Dairy, which ha? all the freshness ?ad flavor cf the flow ers. 5 Tie*ce s of Baltimore Sngao-Curetl Strips, 10 Barrels of Extra Mess Mackerel, averaging twenty ounces. 25 Sacks Lnguayia Coffeer equal to Java. 50 Sacks of assorted Rio, by h?t Rio steamer. Witlh a> Adi supply o? CHOICE GROCERIES, Fresh til } > > I. Ky stock is full, with- pri??? fcw a?dl good time? coming. Tfcrnfthig the public for their rzry .V? eral patronage, and soiieftmg ita conti?' nance, I will do> my best to me?? tit? m e. I % HARDY SOLOMON, \ Colurabio, Sd, Ca,