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THE FREE G9TSZEM. PUBLISHED AT ORANGEBURC, S. C. E, A. WEBSTER, - - - Editor, j A. WE li STE li. PUBLISHER. WHBC! JJ ". ! Tl?Jt?.3l!-i : OK? Corr, OSE TEAK, - - - $2.00 Invariably in Advance. J- '-'-- i Anrt I will come near to you lo judgement; and I witt bc a swill witness against Itu; sorccr- j ers, arni Rgnipst thu adulterers, ami against Cslec swearers, ami against tlioso thal op j press the hireling in his Wilges, tlie widow | mut the fatherless, and Unit turu aside the ru runner from his right, amt lear nut nie, i saith the Lord ol' Hosts.-.MAI..vein, ill, r>. | NOTICE. Wo aro not responsable for tho views c f our Correspondents. Advertisements to lio inserted in thc; CITIZEN must he received Ly Thursday evening. Advertisements inserted at One. Hollar per Inch, for tho first insertion. K?rllier terms can bo hud on application io the Editor or Publisher. Communications on malters of Slate or Local Interest, respectfully solicited. All orders for Joh Printing loll at this oflicc will receive prompt attention. Agents nml Correspondents wanted in all Towns of the County. SATURDAY, OCT. 0, 1875. Suggestion? for our County Board of Examiners. The following resolutions have been adopted by thc board of exam-1 iners for Williamsburg county, and ?were promulgated for the benefit of the township trustees, as it is desired thaha general system shall prevail in the county. Wc hope thc 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 lesB than 25 pupils. If. That when .a school is established containing less than the number provided ?yr ii) section 1. :li?.: nay | rope! of the Jsaciier shall bo reduced in proportion, ?. Thar vvhen tho number <-t pupils 0 not t : . iei ? a ; dlictioil Of Olie-Jlftll lie teacher's salary shall he undi'. Jfr 2. flint when thc number ot pupils do mot execet?'15 a deduction nf two-lift hs .--IhiTtenehevs salarj .-hall bo made. III. That the trustees -'.mil not estab lish arty school where the attendance im,. . cTnodst nf llft.eeii scholars, tv. i hat the true intent and meaning of Ute preceeding section is not intended /or thc monthly average attendance of scholars, hut must he a bona tide daily attendance of that number. V. That before establishing schools tije . istees shall ?rive notice to the school commissioner, .so as.to avoid the creation of more schools than there are /niels :.o compensate teachers. VI. That under no consideration shall the trustees go onside of the reculai grade pay in the employment of teachers -that is, the pay as now provided by resolution of the .State board ol' ?duca tion. An Idol of.Christian Lands. Tobaco, the amount of 6200,000, 000, is 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 thetongue'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 crapy reumatic oil, a grain of which would kill a man in a few second. The half-dozen cigars which moat smokers use a day, contain six or seven grains-enough, if concentra ted and absorbed, kill three men ; and a pound of loLaco, according to ils quality, contains from one-quarter to one^and a quarter ounces. Is it strunge then that smokers and chewers have a thousand ailments? that German physicians attribute one half of thc deaths among the young men of that country to tobacco? that the French Polytechnic Institute had to prphibifc its use on account of its eifects on tho mind ? that men grow dyspeptic, hypochondriac, insane, delirious, from its use ? One of thc direct effects of tobacco is to weaken the heart. Note tho multitude of '.'suddent deaths," and sec how many ore smokers and chewers. In a small country town seveftof these myster ious providences" occurred within circuuit of a mile, all directly tracea ble to tobacco; and any physician, on a few momenta reflection, *can match this fact by his own observa tion. And then, such powerful acids produce intenso irritation and thirst -thirst which water docs not quench. Hence a resort to eider and beer. Tho more this thirst is fed, thc more insatiate iL becomes, and more fiery drink is needed. Out of seven hundred convicts ex amined at the New York statcprison six hundred were confined for crimes com mi ticed under thc influence of liquor, and live hundred said they .had been lcd to I rink by thc usc of J tobacco. The \lor f Effects of Hurry. To the thoughtful the moral conse quences tension and hurry aro every saddening, to the physician their ' physical results arc matter of pro found concern, for their grave evils |come under bis daily observation, j No evolution of force eau take place j with undue rapidity without damage to the machine in wich thc transfor j mation is effected. Express railway j ! stock has a much shorter term of usc 1 i than that reserved for slower traille, j The law is universal, that intensity and duration of action are inversely proportional. It is therefore no mat ter of surprise to find the human ner vous system is no exception to the law. The higher salubrity of rural over urban life is not entirely a mat ter of fresh air and exercise. Rural ; life involves leisure and pause in work j which arc very essential to thc mainte- j nance of thc nervous system in a state 'of true nutrition. Unremitting spasm ;.soon ceases altogether. The high tension of life produces weakness at the very place where strength is most needed. The damage done lo health of thc most valuable part of the Com munity, the best trained thinkers, most useful workers is incalculable. Work and worry, though not propor \ tional, are closely connected, and an excess of the former soon entails an increase in theTaller beyond the lim its which thc nervous system can bear with impunity, especially, under thc conditions under which work has lo be done. Thc machinery for organ I izing thc work of a community has to I bc rigid and inflexible and in thc stra i involved in bringing a chan? I ing organism into harmony with Q max bili.-, thc former innot inevitably ! sillier.- Lcne/wH Lam-./. Carefully viewing thc matter from the standpoint of thc chemist, physi cian, and artisan, wc unhesitatingly, declare that the world, in its present advanced stage, has no need of alco hol ; its simply convenient, not nec essary. Alcohol is a poison ; it acts inharmoniously with vital processes in tlio animal organism. In its pur "est and best form it slowly undemin [es the constitution ; in its vile associ ation, as presented in these modern limes, ?ls kills with the certainty, I and sometimes with thc rapidly, of J of strychnine and arsenic. Why not, I then, arrest its production, and thus 1 strike a blow at the root of the evil? 1 There is virtue and moral force I enough in the country to compel Con giess to pass laws prohibiting it im portation ; there is virtue and moral fece enough in most, if not all the staves, to compel legislatures to en act aws prohibiting its manufacture. 'I ais is the point to which we must cone, sooner or later. Alcoholic dr'.iks must cease to bc, before the the world will bc released from their terrible thraldom.-Journal of Chem I i*try. Fpi.r.Y ANO I'll I DH.-Thc very witty and sarcastic Rev. Sydney Smith thus discourselh on the folly of pride in such a creature as man : "After all, take some quiet, sober moment of life, and add together the two ideas of pride and of man ; be hold him, creature of a span high, Stalking through infinite space in all thc grandeur of littleness. Perched on a speck of thc universe, every wind of heaven strikes into his blood thc coldness of death ; his soul floats from bis body like melody from the string ; day and night, as dust on the wheel, he is rolled along the heavens, through a labyrinth of worlds, and jail the creations of God aro flaming ! above and beneath. Is this a crea ture to make himself a crown of glory, to deny his own flesh, lo mock at his fellow, sprung from that dust to which both will soon return?j Docs thc proud man not err? Does be not suffer? Does he not die? When he reasons is he never slopped Away With? it. by dillieullics? When hi acLj is lie!? never tempted by pleasure? When J' be lives is he free from pain ? When bc does can he escape thc common grave? Pride is not the heritage of 1 man; humility should dwell with J frailty, and atone for ignorance ?or c and imperfection. MOODY'S ILLUSTRATIONS.-An illus tration used by Mr. Mo? dy, to show that thc law after it has . -lie consciousness of sin can;.ni sc the sinner, is pronounced hy er inthc English Indepen 1 . r< de fective. Ile had prom -' >y a ride in a carriage, 1 1 tile fellow, alter having teen itably dressed, had soiled his 11 li?s it fnily. "When Mr. Mood j I," says the narrator, "he foi on 'not lit lo be seen,' and al thc he little fellow clapped hi- hands . ith delight in expectation of his ins father said, 'Why, my ho; I n't take you in that stat so I i dirty! 'Oh-, no, Pse : ' Vin ma . i has washed nie, and pul i di my nice clean things, and you iv, sed lo take mc !' My M ' us that'he just hitched se,' look the little bo}- in i th bouse, Ic and held him up bcfor< a ng-ll glass. 'That stopper' lita; noutb/ll and he did't say he was ti; any M more. 'But,'said thc spool . 'PH ll tell you what 1 didn't do- I u.idn't i i take the looking-glass t> isl his face with !' " ''Freely.' In thc summer of li" lay ing for a few days in : coi town telling of God's love : ked meto visit a young man who was dying in.thc workhousi infirmary. 1 accordingly went, and found him in a room by himself, evi I v \ lying of consumption. The iiur.se, ti she left ino, told me that hi kl not live more than a few weeks i tl that thc doctor did not wish lo remai nfeong a? fatigue wotikl hasten his end. Ile beckoned me lo tlrav y hair 1 : bedside lie could sparet ly speak louder than i whisper ; but what lie said drew Tenth my hearty praise l<. God; Aft?r a few words of in xii i ry a?- Lc? bia illness, 1 aske ! if he knew wheth er his sins were forgiven. Mis pale, worn face at once brighton al np and beamed with beaven ly joy as lu told me that he blessed God he ovci rame into that workhouse; f t, from the lime he came in, six v . i . -, ous ly, a kind lady (the san who had mentioned him to m li . i -ited him. ?She had told bim about J sus, the sinner's Savior and tie sinner's Friend. "Ah !" said he, "if Jesus had not been thc Savior of thc chief of sin ners, he never would ha? a ved me. [ have no friend on earth, My nothcr died when I wa i lily four ol ive years old ; then titer*: was no one eft to teach me and train mc : ; ditly, so that from ray very youth 1 ;iave had none but evil companions, who sought only to make .ne s;ill more wicked than themselves. From the time my father died, abouj eighteen months ago, I have lived ri course of unchecked sin and profligacy. I stopped short of nothing that my heart desired. And herd 1 am as the result; for God baa ?lill his hand upon me, and I nm dying. What jj lillie money my fatbci h fl nie ?it his death (for we once had i espectable means) was very soon -pen!. Drink and sin ran away with it. all ; and than I wat) fr ien dietii and many a night I had to sleep on the tl?or-stcp. I was soon made awuic that 1 was in consumption, and M.%. weeks ago I was brought herc to die. I was very much afraid to die The terrible prospect of meeting < tod in my sins ; yes, steeped in iniquity as 1 was glared before my eyes a.^ an awful re ality, I could get no relief or peace day or night until that jadj came and told me what Chi isl had suffered on thc cross for sinners jus) such ns 1 am-even for thc vilest -so that I might be pardoned and go to heaven. She told mc that < ?od had laid on him the iniquity of us all ; so that, inhirnl might find a full salvation. She told me thitGod haring iii lided i upon his beloved Son the just pun ishment of sin, and that Jesus having taken the sinner's place ajid suffered punishment in his Blend, I had only to accept him in order to go free. Dcnth was hie, life is minc. Thc ._ was his, the blessing is mine, rho sinless One suffered, and I, thc sinner, an? saved." Here I interrupted him by asking lim if he was sure that what thc "ord Jesus sutured was quite suili iient. "0> yes!" bc saidr (as he coked me well in the face, almost ?vondering at such a question) "O >'Cs ! He has done thc work pcrfeot y, and he has done it all. He bas lone what I never could do, Ile has icrfcctly and forever put away my ins and satisfied God. If I had to to anything now, as I lie on a death-1 jed, what could I do, even to help 0 save myself. "Then you can die quite happy low?" said I, "and you have no fear n the prospect ot' meeting God?" "Ko, no fear now" he replied. ".Thc doctor told me yesterday 1 .ould not possibly live more than ?bree weeks longer. Hut 1 would not mind if it were only three hours ; for L is all bright before, though I have lothing to trust of my own, for it is Ul darkness and sin as I look bask >ii my past life. Here 1 am dying at be age ol' nineteen in thc workhouse nUrinary ; but I would not wish it >lherwise, for 1 know 1 am going 'ionic. 1 have but one regret : ray ile has been wasted in sin, instead J jf being silent for Jesus, who I now inow loved me and gave himself for me. I would like to point everybody [ am acquainted with to a verse in Lhc book ol' Revelation in which I nive found such rest." lie then took ni}" Bible, and tuni ng over the leaves to Revelation <xii, read verse (5, repeating the lat ter part over the second time : ul will give unto bim that is athirst of Lhe fountain of the water of life free ly." His thin bony linger rested for 1 few moments on the word "/(.ec///." 'Tell them," said bc when yon speak Lo sinners, that it is freely-freely rreely. It is tho message from tuc lentb-bed of one who, though a greatj ?inner himself, has proved thc truth jf it." As we parted, expecting next to meet, not in "thc deep darkness of sartb's darkest place, but in Christ's la/.zling light" when lie claims bis )wn, he loft these words lingering on' ruy ears: "1 am Alpha and Dunga,1 Lbc beginning and I lie end. 1 wil! live onto him thai is athirst of the fountain Ol ibo water ol' life Jreety." Young man or young woman, Lhough you may have broken a moth ir's heart, and sorely tried, to the last ?xtremity a loving father's kindness, ?o that von arc left friendless ami brlorn in this cold woild, know that herc is yet One who loves yo? still, nul who is waiting to be gracious to ,'OU. It is Jesus-Jesus-Jesus, the savior and Friend of sinners. Thousands just as bad as you, like bis young man in the infirmary, have iroved thc troth of Jesus' word, "I viii give unto bim that is athirst of be water of life FREELY."-The 'Truth. ' Complete Pictorial History of the Times"-" The best, cheapest, and most successful Family Pa pe? in the Union Harper's Week ly. ILLUSTRATED. Notices oj thc J'rcss. The Weekly h Mn; ablest and most pow srfnl illustrated periodical published in Iiis country. Its editorials are scholarly md convincing, and carry much w eight. Its illustratious.of current events are full ind fresh, and are prepared by our bes! lesigners. With a circulation of 150,000. hu AV KKK I.Y ls rend by at. least half a iiiilllou persons, and its inlliicnee as an iiirgnn ot opinion is simply tremendous. I'iiu WEEKLY maintains a positive posi tion, expresses decided views on political and social problems.-Louisville Churitr /ournal. 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(1 KANU Ol'KN I NU I X I will open this movniug n lot of tho. Finest f" eas,, ever offered in this market, co ?ii UNCOLORED JAPAN OOLONGS-, SOUCMONGS, YOUNG IIYSOSSS, and GUNPO WIDERS, Atid iw order to oultivate a trade fonr these line grades I will sell them V E TL Y LOW, I have also received this morning-.inotheT cnr-lbnd of Solomon's. Fancy Elour Fresh ground and Made especially for nie from tho I have never had a complaint of i thio brand of flour.. IxtJORTAlNT NOTIOK? Inferior KEl?OSKN F OIL li?-BO dan gerous andi ?' -m H ny HI- idiots baTe oc curred from ii ? ivseifj^havebcimindaetd, at the repeated Mteitatiob .' : nate mers, to purchase > suppler, o? pure Oil* for their use. I baye : ;.f rwelw ten. barrels ot \. m ; PTJIIT; WEITE KEROSLT??$ ! Ol |i!4 fir* J*:?t, 1 will sri! iWia Par? Oil cheaper than1 Ike ?me grado of Oil) can bc sold at in Ubi* city. Familie? ase lng this Oil are safe. The use of t*? common Oils now FLO OM N G THE MARKTET is equivalent) to bringing into the family destruction a:td death !! I have also received ? 10 Tierces Fresh Cured Davis' Ham?, 10 Boxes Cream Cheese, direct from thc Dairy, 25 Firkins Goshen Butterrdirect from? the Dairyr which ha? ?ll the? freshness aad flavor ef tine flow ers. 5 Xreices of Baltimore Sngaet-Cure? Strips, IO Bawels of Extra Mess Mackerel, I averaging twenty ounces. 25 Sachs La/?uaypa Coffee,, equal to Java. ; 50 Sacks of assorted Rio, by last Rio steamer. Witto a. fidl supply ot CHOICE GROCERIES, Fresh iii >?>.!. My stock is full, with- jrlceB low andi good time? coming. T7?nfti?g the public for their rory lib eral patronage, and soliciting its eontia* nance, I will do> my best to me?a the me. HARDY SOLOMON, Columbia, 80, Ca,