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v L .EA E SOUTH C O N FRIDAY, A I 41 8 VOL. I*] IEASLEY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRILj.. 4, - 18 84. [O2 fkst 5asIeg aezzetger. J. R. HAGOOD, Editor and Prop'r. Ente-ed at the PostoJice at Eagley S. C., as Second Class Matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year, strlctly in advance......$1.00 Six months 65 RATFS OF AIWERTISING. One square (I inch) 1 insertion......75e Each subsequent insertion... 40 Liberal discount on contracts or by the column, half or quarter colunn. Marriage notices free and solited. Obituaries over 12 lines charged for. Correspondents. to hisure attention, must give their full address. We are not responsible for the opin. :ons of onr correspondets. All conn unications for the paper must he addressed to the Editors ; bmusiiiess letters to the Publisher of the ME!SSEi;NGER, Easley, S. C. She Would Only Love a Temperance Man. She loved him, but she saw hin drink, Ah I fearful sight for her to see, And though it broke hevr heart,she said That m.arried they could never be. And other lovers crowded near To breathe their fond hopes in her ear; it puzzled me to see her smile On others while se loved him so, For none of them were half so brave, Or handson,straiglt and tall as Joe, I think that that was straige, Don't Iou? iOut thlen they all wore badges blue. Joe went and took the pledge and said He'd never stain his honor more, and soon he on his manly breast The badge of his redemption wore, Anld when his (darlin1g hoard of that I for fait ifuil heart went pit-a-pat, She sackedl her lovers all and tiew To lay her head against the breast That wore the blessed badge of blue. I think that that was sweet, Don't you ? Oh, bouny, bonny badge of blue. Were I a girl I wouldit wed A man that guzzled rtum, would you? I'd give the chaices all to him Who wore the little badge of bilue. And if lhe wouldn't wear' it, I Would pin it on andi tell himt why, 'T' would save bot h from grief anoi woe, And every misery cold and black. it made another man of Joe, And now he's got te inside 'rack, I think I'm talking sen se, D)on't you ? Thent wear the bonny badge cni blue. -T'oronto Trth1. --If we can spend a quarter of a million educating the esteemed1 negro, we should like to know why we can't give a pension to the dis abled Confedecrate soldiers, their widows and orphans?-Press and Sa n ner . Wearing Mourning. We take the following sensible remarks from the New Orleans rimes Demoerat: There is one old anil long-estab lished custom that woman ought to possess moral courage and common sense enough to take into their own hands and settle for them selves on a simple and permanent basis. It is the custom of wearing mourning for departed friends. Putting on and taking off of black within a stated time is in itself, in stead of a compliment, an insult to the dead. One does not put on and put off one's sorrow in this way ; there is therefore no reality to the fashion of symbolizing it. A loss by death is irremediable ; the grief of it may be hidden away, but it lasts forever. It is true that the desire when one has lost a near and dear friend is for silence and darkness, for neutral tints and for the prosence and association with only that which harmonizes with our own sense of loss and bereave inent. But we cannot often in dulge in this selfish absorption and exclusion-and it is doubtless good for us that we cannot. Our lives go out ; our duties remain. They must be performed. We put our griefs away. We do not intrude them upon others. We lock then up and keep them as a sort of lux ury for quiet hours, when indul gence will not interfere with our obligations to the living, with ac tive participation in the duties of the hour. There is no reason, of course, why women should do vio lence te natural feeling and wear high colors and gay ornaments at a time when their hearts are sadden ed by a heavy loss. Let them lay~ aside what they no longer take plleasure in, and wear their sim Iplest, plainest, darkest dresses; but. why lay asidle what is perfectly1 suitable and even in harmony with~ their own feelings and incur much unnecessary trouble and expense in order merely to p)ut on garments' a little darker, a little sadder and which oblige an entire change in thle ha bits ot life, the avoidance of Imuch that would be healthful and salutary, rat her than harmful, the adaptation of social conditions tof the circumsntances and accidents of an individual, and the actual crea tion of a code of ethics, the observ ance of which depends on the pres ence or depth of a crape band The most ardent supporters of oul ward and visible signs of woe ar those who are least sensitive t grief, but who like the novelty o an entire change of wardrobe an the excitement of finding out exact ly what ought and what ought no to be done under such circumstan ces. As there is no authorize code the rules extracted from sell constituted authorities are oftei more amuing than practical or re liable. To many limited but wel intentioned women the imaginec necessity for "doing as other pec pIle do" in this regard is a soure of extreme enbarrassmient and pei plexity. Perhaps they cannot afford th outlay ; perhaps they have only re cently, by dint of much contrivanc replenished their wardrobes ; pe haps it was not a near relative perhal)s the relative lived at a dic tance. All the facts are agitatei pro and con to make a case agains assuming this new burden ; and th only argument on the other side the strongest feeling, is this, thq if they do not conform to commo custom they will be the subject c common and impious remark. Thi is naturally much stronger in sma: neighborhoods and communities It is therefore the duty of any wc man of position and influence i such communities to set an exan ple in the right direction, anI affor the moral support of this influenc to her poorer neighbors. In citic women out of a certain exclusiv circle are emancipating themselvc from their tradition. Oxw IITAcKs TO THIE FRONT.-No, that another Presidential campaig is at hand we find all the old1 brol en diown lead horses of the Rep~ut lican party trotting about the Stal and attemptinrg to control the pr< cinct meetings and State Conver tion. They all want to go to th. Chicago Convention and figum there in the interest of certai aspirants to the Presidential chaii but more particularly for their ow interest in the future, if a Reptl Ilican Presidlent is elected. Rev. June Mobley has turned ui in Union simultaneously with tL call of the county chairman to hohd precinct meetings. June has not been a resident of this State and . county for several years, but had - the impudence to pretend to repre e sent the Republicans of Union at, o the State convention 1in 1882. No f doubt he will try the same gane 1 this year. In Abbeville, the notoious Lom t Guflin has turned up again, after an absence of some years, and i4 making himself conspicuous in or - anizing the party there for some particular candidate. - If the Republicans of these coun ties are willing to allow such lbro I ken down leaders to comc in, when ever there are good positions to e be had, and control themi and their party, they have not the grit we believed they had ; but it is none e. of our funeral.--Union Times. --Fhe money which has been ex pende(d in public education since 1868 would have paid the public debt of South Carolina. If our in terest account could be stopped, and the education of the nogro could be finished, our taxes would be less than half what they are now--Press and Baniner. Kiuo nty KEnzosE.-- On1 fThursday night at Central a kero s sene lamp exploded. The oil was thrown upon a Miss Paine and at once ignited. She was so terribly 1-!burned that she died in a very n short time. She was about. 18 years. - old. e -Says an experienced bachelor: s The best thing to take when you e kiss a pretty girl-take tine. The more you take the better she likes it.' What a1 fool he must be---40o take time. If he kuew what was good he'd take kisses and let the time go to thunder. >- -The Missisippi Rivcr ofi' New eOrleans has reached a height nev .er bef'ore known, and the city is in -gseat danger of being flooded. -Robert Smalls, colored, has been elected to Congress from the n'Black District," in place of' E. W ' M. Mackey, deceased. - The State papers are almost unanimous in the opinion that there p should be hut one Decmocratic Stato ~e Convention this-vear.