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' r> , - n&r. fHE DARLINGTON NEWS, iff PUBLIS ID. ID. EV-A.3STS, PROPRIETOR. JLnawk In Ad ranee.’ On* Square, drat insertion 91.60 One Square, second insertion 1.00 Every subseqent insertion.., .50 Contract adrertisements inserted upon the most reasonable terms. Marriage , and Obituaries, not exceeding sin lines, inserted free. DARLINGTON NEWS. -e=vr- “POR US PRISCIPEE IS PBIKOIPLE—RIGHT IS RIGHT—YESTERDAY, TO-DAY. TO MORROW, FOREVER.’* VOL XIL NO 26. DARLINGTON, S. 0.. THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1886. WHOLE NO 599. ATTENTION l S u er Bargains A large lot of desirable white goods, consisting ot plain and figured Lawns, r g ^ 'M a «x »i T ' » 1, Organdie lace stripes Lattice Checks, Piques, Nainsooks, French satins, Ete.*x Etc.. • Will be sold w ’ '» 9 ' * . v*. V within the next 60 days ■ -’lAi- H rypmm '*-* *. v - • ^ AT COST! J, H. EARLY, Ati Oar Hardivlie^Sto^e is agent for Steam Engines, Cotton Qins, feeders. Cen^ensers, Cotton Presses—repairs for same. Stoves, EngipeerV supplies, such as Belting, Packing, Pipes. All kindf of Steam Fittings, in Iron and Brass. Repairs Engines, Boikos, Ac. * Sewing Machines: White, Weed, Household, Hartford, Amer- ean and Howe ; Needles, Oils and Attachments ; Repairs all kinks of Sewing Machines. • ft Stoves, &11 the belt EQtikes. Furnish repairs for all Stoves sold by us. Cucumber Pumps, Farr patent Sand-box for Buggies, Wa- gona, Ac. Thomas Smoothing Harrow, Deering Cultivators. April 8,1886. ly 'em FREE TUITION AND THE SO. CA. COLLEGE. Criticisms and Unanswered Objections. (B. W. Edward*, in Baptiat Courier.) Another specious appeal is made in behalf of the free tuition policy, by classing it with free education. This will not bear analysis, for the young men who have proven it can testify that free tuition is not 'free education. 7 ' And if ‘‘free education is the latest ot the many blessings which Christianity has conquered from stubborn selfish ness for the people,” it has not yet reached college education, in Chris tian lands. The Imperial College of Japan, {ichere it ha* been in con templation to send Buddhist mission aries to America and other Christian countries,) gives education free of charge; but it is not so in the State colleges iu Germany, or iu the English colleges, or the American colleges, generally. The mle is just the other way. In forty-oue of our States and Territories, includ ing the District of Columbia, there are three hundred aud seventy universities aud colleges, exclusive of theological, agricultural, scien tific aud industrial colleges; aud the annual receipts trom tuition fees, iu these, is more than tuo mil lions of dollars. Not more than oue eighth pf them give tuition free of charge Amongst them there are about thirty State institutions, less than half ot which give tuition free, and only three or foor of the whole number supply the means of free education—aflord such facilities as to cost the pupil nothing—and they are each a part of the public school system of their respective Stales. In a few of the States, where tuition fees are required, the law provides for the exemption of a specified number from each coun ty from the payment of tuition, as it does in South Carolina, and that provision is carried out, and all other students are charged tuition fees, in all of those States except in South Carolina. At least tbree- fourthsof the colleges ol the United States are denominational—the con tribution of Christianity to educa tion—aud almost all of them charge tuition fees. True Christianity has never so far forgotten herself as to relax the t-inewa of individual re spousibility.or suppress the heroism ot human nature, and sow broad cast the seeds of communism. The free tuition policy iu college education is not only limited, but the experiment is of sboit duration aud brings no support to the argu ments in its favor. Its tendency is to injure the institutiou aud the students. The Virginia Univer sity, which has been cited by a dis tinguished member of the board of trustees as an illustration of the benefits of free tuition for a century, may be taken as an example. Tne provision for tree tuition iu this mstitutiju was u- ver made until 1870, when the appropriations for its support were doubled And, iu eight years, the number of students 1 iu the academic department, for which the provisiou was ma le, reg ulaily decreased from two hundred and six to oue hundred and forty, as shown by the catalogue. New legislation was then considered necessary ; and the age for admis sion was reduced from eighteen years to sixteen (aud of course the standard must be lowered), and ten thousand dollars was added to the appropriations. The policy, theu, it appears, invites youth at an age whctrtfiey ought to be under home influences, and, “like the daughter ot tlve horse leach cries give, give,” and the addition of artificial stimu lant to artificial stimulant is re quired. A distinguished professor of the Virginia University, however, says that there has been no falling off in the number of Virginia students (and free tuition is only provided for them.) and adds: ‘‘In short, so far as 1 can see, the free tuitiou has done nothing tor us or against us.” But, if it costs the people annually twenty five thousand dollars (as it does), takes iu students of doubt ful age.aini diminishes the number usually in attendance from other States, it has done the institution and the people grave harm. An anonymous writer says there are not mere than half as many stu dents in all the schools of the University as there were twenty- seven years ago, The truth is the (m»1 icy is ra<lleal add destructive. The institution of “higher educa tion” is necessarily trammeled, aud its standard lowered, by the at tempt to adjust it to the public free school system, and bring it within IbelimUsol “fcreedncittiqu,” And paradoxical tin It Timy fiemtf, It omi • tains the germs both of centralism aud comipunjatp. Its tendency is to put everyCbfug In the bauds of the government, and the govern ment into the bauds of unrestrained majorities. It is socialistic, be cause it deals with social problems, aud induces reliance .on the State rather than self-reliance. It creates less respeet for tba rights of at tiers, aud iudividual selfishness. And the ground on which this policy is advocated (personal interest the motive aud measure of actions) is destructive of patriotism and stif- m ling to the most heroic principles of humanity. On the other hand, the best col leges and universities charge tuition fees—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, aud tbe rest. And, as a rule, those that are most highly endowed charge tbe highest tuitiou and maintain the highest grade. Har vard University, iu the State of Massachusetts, has an income based upon au endowmeut of four millions of dollars, and she stands with the highest grade, and among tbe highest tuitiou charging institu tions iu America. Ami Massa chusetts is in advance of any State in the Union in her school system, and in tbe general education and high culture of her citizens. Tui tiou fees are charged in all her col leges, not even excepting her agri cultural and scientific colleges; and a larger amount ot tuitiou fees is received iu her pieparatory schools than from those ot any other State, save the great State of New York. If South Carolina, then, is to “step abreast of her sister States’’ in tbe great work of educating, let her select the best examples ; and let her college be put along side those of which our country may well be proud. What a perversion it is for a State to provide a pre paratory department in her highest college 1 It brings it into competi- tiou with the public and prepara tory schools and checks their de velopment, and hence is prejudicial to the school system of the State. If there ever was a time when such a temporizing policy was necessary, tbe exigency has passed, and with it tbe exigency of free tuition. Let her steps be speedily retraced. Why should she leave tbe best examples, and depart from her own conserva tive glory, to take the front rank in the inarch of radical experiment aud keep step with the retrograde of attempted rejuviiiation f The Wooden Toothpick. The most potential idol breaker 1 know is the toothpick, especially the wooden toothpick—2,500 lor fiveoents is the drug store rate. Now, abstractly considered, the toothpick is not a bad idea. It enables a certain numerous class to cut a considerable figure iu the shadow of first-grade hotels It is also a familiar property of the alter-break fast horse car farce that is daily played by those who pub licly clean their finger-nails with i.bcir toothpicks and then clear away their teeth with them. The utilitarian may not always be politely bred, but lie is a prodigious economist and should therefore command our respect. Dr. Samuel Johnson is rememhered chiefly for his great intellect, though I sup* pose it is very well settled that his personal habits were perhaps as filthy as those of Socrates. In view ot such history what aiay we not hope that time will bring to the mau who gives his finger-nails precedence of his teeth in the office of the pick! Our education has so far advanced that we are not un forgivably offended by men’s man ipulations of that essential little instrument; but good God ! what shall I say of the woman who goes abroad chewing a toothpick of the 2,5(N)-for tive-cents variety f She afflicts me far worse than the wo man who h h-b-i-i-ks and spits in public. You who have not seen her, give your imagination a poke and see what an image you can conjure up. I wou d much rather Lear a Woman swear than see her sucking a toothpick; aud 1 am pained to observe that the latter habit grows on her. I am also curious to know, just as a treak of uature, the man who can look at a toothpick sucking woman and ever again feel for her oue touch of that exalted sentiment with which the chivalrous man is proud to regard womau as’ an institution. Yester day I was crossing a crowded pro menade. Ahead of me was a dain ty female figure atXired in the jaun tiest of costumes. Her skirts were coquettisbly raised in very proper horror of the mud that covered tbe crossing, aud her exquisitely shod feet dauct d along iu the way which every man uuder>tands, but which no man ever adequately described. She was such a picture of feminine grace, elasticity and flcwfng curves as poets and susceptible Old ‘Uiw’ catch iuspiration from. Filled with admiring thoughts of tbe genera! loveliness of woman—thoughts that were Unquestionably inspired by the poetic creature ahead of me—I obeyed tbe impulse to suatch a glance at her face. Ob, friends! She was cbewiug a wooden toothpick. Now Has Faith. I had been troubled all winter with cold aud pain in tbeobest aud got no relief from remedies recom mended by Druggists and Physi cians. At the same time 1 was advertising Dr. Bosaoko’s Gough and Lang Syrup. I bad little faith but thought to try it as a last re sort, now I believe even more than they tell me of its ourative quali ties. (From Tbe New, Elizabeth town, Ky.) Sold by Willcox A Co. . . a- t £ V- ' ; 1 H. . . . j JOB MPARTMIT. Our job department iisuppUe^with every facility necessary to enable us to compel* both astoprice andquality of work, with even tboee *f the cities, aud we guarantee satii. faction in every particular or charge nething for our work. W* are always prepared t* fill orders at short notico for Blanka, Bil Heads, Letter Head*, Cards, Hand Bills Poster*, Circular*, Pamphlets, ho. All jeb work murl be paid for ’ Cash on Delivery. Liens in the Low Country Some of our farmers think they are in the hands of the Philistines sometimes, but the following letter from “Dave Tucker,” printed in the Clarendon Enterprise, will be a rev elation to them: “Last fall after paying my debts and doctor’s bills, I had the money of two bales of cotton in my factor’s bauds. I bad thought I would let it stay thertvfo r any emergency, sor ter like the surplus fund of a bank, or the uet assets of a bankrupt es tate ; but it seems as if 1 was to be disappointed, as a hole was already dug in it for buying a sewing ma chine for Becky a u d clothes and shoes for the little Tuckers, seven all told. How strange, passing strange ’tis with mortals!—always hankering and striving foi money, and when we get it never at rest till ’tis spent. Con cluded as I had plenty of open land 1 would run another plow this year. I knew that the money I had left couldn’t buy it and the necessary things 1 would need during the summer, so 1 determined to resort to the farmer’s panacea, ‘Get my factor to advance it.’ I therefore made a trip to town and went to see him. He seemed mighty glad to see me and was as smiling as a ‘basket of chips,’ but bless you, when 1 told him I wanted him to advance me about one hundred and fifty dollars in addition to the bal unco he already bad uf mine, his countenance suddenly changed and he looked as if he had just come from his mother’s funeral. I felt sorry but I didn’t know whether for him or myself, anyway I was some what dowucasted. He quizzed me right smart about all the property I owned. >nd at last told me that as a great personal favor lie would let me have the money if 1 would secure him. 1 told him that I had expected to do that. Hu then said that if I would meet him again at liis office that evening he would have the papers fixed for me to sign. At tlie appointed time I went aud he had ’em sure enough. I took and read them over. If there was ever a binding paper this was one He had in the mortgage every thing I had or expected to have in the crop that I hadn’t thought of planting yet. I believe he would have put Becky and the children in too, but I leckoo they were too many for him 1 was to buy every thing through him and ship him every hale of cotton 1 made, con trolled or bought, not to be less than one five hundred weight bale of cotton for every ten dollars be advanced, and if 1 did not ship him the required number, I was to pay him two dollars aud a half as a commission ou each lacking bale. I was also to pay him oue per cent per menth interest on the money, besides two and oue hall cents com mission on everything he should buy for me. It was interest and c< mtnission up, down, crosswise and all through the paper. When I got through reading it I was as mad as a ‘marsh tackev-’ I asked him if that was the only let ms upon which I could get the money. He said ‘yes.’ I told him I was out. That I wouldn’t sign that paper if I never saw a dollar again, that 1 would return home, go ha’f naked and drink branch water before I would. He said lie was sorry but 1 didn’t believe it. I asked him for my money and he told me that he hadn’t sold the two bales yet, but would at once. W’e went our. to the warehouse to sample it. He car ried with him an old grey headisl yellow rigger mail whom he said was his ‘sampler.’ We soou found the cotton and the nigger cut a long gash in oue side of each bale clear across, and with a pair of pothooks gouged out great armfulls filling up a three bushel cotton basket. I asked him if it was necessary to have such a large quantity taken to sample it, that the samples I had seen in his office were only little handfuls. He said it was the cus tom. If such is tbe case I told him it was nothing more or less than pure stealing. I theu asked him what was done with the balance ot this basket full of cotton after tbe legitimate sample was takeu out. He said it went to where tbe ‘wood- biue twineth’ and I believe him. After this huge sampling the cot ton was rolled out and the ‘public weigher,’ set his big camp stool over it and grabbed up each bale and wheu it swung clear clapped the pea on the beam, aud called out tbe weights without any reference to the true weights of tbe cotton. This follow was the coolest swind ler of the whole crowd, aud when I told him that my cotton was uot correctly weighed, he looked at me and said, ‘Old chap, are you a nat ural born fool or oue by inherit- a nee f 1 told him Idid’t know, but that I had seen enough to know a rascal wheu be looked like him. I. was sorter riled at this and if I hadn’t been a stranger iu town I would have given him a good lick ing, aud 1 know I coaid have done it. Qa went off singing‘yum, yum,’ this dude robber under t he protec tion of iniquitous ‘customs.’ My ooitou was soou sold and account sales handed me, and after paying commissions, fire and mariue insur ance, sampling, weighing, patching, freightage, wharfage, storage, dray- age, «nd some other little ‘ages,’ what little money left; was paid me, and out of a lot of five bales sold it look within a fraction ot one to pay it. ‘Such is life,’ aud ‘what are you going to do about itf’ I left that factor’s offices sadder if not a wiser and poorer man. It seems to me by such conduct they are killing the goose before she lays the golden egg. After this rate the farmers will soon be in such a con dition that they cau’t make cotton to ship them. Now, my factor is a nice man; stands high, and is considered com mercially honest He is no worse than the others for I reckon they all do the same way. The great prob lem with us farmers is, how long can we stand this legalized oppres sion f What’s the remedy t Who will be oar Moses to raise us out of our bondage into that haven of peace and prosperity, the toiler’s just reward f Dave Tucker. They may not Drink. The Fall Brook Coal Company, which employs ovet 1,000 men iu its mines and ou its railroads iu tbe semi bitiuminous coal region iu Tio ga County, Penn., conducts its bu siness on the strictest temperance principles. In December, 1882, the company adopted a rule that any employee who was known to use in toxicating drtuks would be dismis- sod from the company’s service. The rule is known as “Rule No. 1.” Since theu tbe company has dis charged over 300 of its railroad bands, and uearly as many other employes for violating the rule At first the company re-employed dis charged men ou satisfactory evi dence that they bad reformed, but the trial wa#*tuade with but five men. Every oue of them broke the rule the second time. Theu no ex cuse would recover a discharged man his place. When an employe is detected in using liquor or beer, the money due him is placed in a blue envelope and banded him. The receipt of a blue envelope is notice that the man is discharged, and that under no circumstances can he ever again obtain employ ment of the company, even as track repairer. The strict enforcement of the rule has forced some of the oldest aud best men iu the service of the company out of its employ, but Rule No. 1 will uot be varied Irom to save the most valued man on the pay-ro'l. A person apply ing for work to the Fall Brook Com pany must present a certificate that he is a teetotaller, and must sign a pledge that be will continue to ab staiu absolutely from intoxicating drinks while in tbe service of the company, whether ou duty or nor. Since the rule was adopted by the coal company the list of fatalities iu its mines and on its railroads has decreased fifty per cent., and the employes all have money ahead. How A Woman Treats. When men go together they generally shake for the cost of the dinner. Girls generally pay their shares But 1 like to watch tbe conscious superiority, the bland importance a girl puts ou wheu she is going to pay the check for the feast. The affectionate attention she receives from the others is a simple and efficient guide for the purse of the party. If you have any doubt of it, watch the ostenta tious way in which the payer takes out her purse, takes up the check, examines it, or asks the waiter bow much it is. Watch bow they ail wait upou tbe one who pays. They show her a deference that is un mistakable, give place to her as they approach the counter and trot out gigling and langhiug,tbe guests holding ou most devotedly to tbe arms of the treater. It’s lovely. But, dear creatures, they are chuck full of humau nature, and that’s what’s the trouble with us all.— Han Francisco Chronicle. Core For Piles. Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of weight in the back, loins and lower part of the abdomen, causing the patieat to snppose he has some affection cf tbe kidneys or neighboring organs. At times, symptoms of indigestion are present flatulency, uneasiness of the stom ach, ete. A moisture like perspira tion, producing a very disagreeable itching, alter getting warm, is a common attendant. Blind, Bleed ing and Itching Piles yield at onoe to the application of Dr. BosankoV Pile Remedy, which acts directly u;K)n tbe parts affected, absorbing the Tumors, allaying tbe intense itching, and effecting a permanent cure. Price 50 cents. Address Tbe Dr. Boeauko Medicine Ou., Ptqua, O. Sold by Willcox & Co. “I am satisfied that ‘Hughes’ Touie is the best Ague Cure that baa ever been presented to the pub- lie. In 25 years’ experience in the drug business have not found any thing that gave such general aatia- faction.” Jos Atkins, Greensboro, Ala, Agricultural Encampment. At tbe last auunal meeting of tbe State Grange, a resolution was adopted looking to tbe establish, inent of a Grange or Agricultural Encampment iu thia State, solicit, ing tbe co-operation of Georgia,* . Tennessee and North Carolina. A committee was appointed to make the necessary investigations and inaugurate the measure as contem plated by the resolution. That com. mittoe met at Seneca City on the 10th inst., an . concluded to go for. ward in the selection of a suitable location for snob encampment, and immediately received applications for the * location at Seneca City, Oconee County, Greenwood, Abbe ville County, aud at Spartauburg. The grounds of the former was im mediately examined by tbe com mittee, which theu took an cess to meet for future examination and business atGreeuwood ou the 23rd, iust., and on the 24th at Spartan burg, for a similar puiqiose. In the meantime, tbe way was to be left open for applications from other favorable locations, from which ap- plicatious are res|>ecUuily solicited, A. P. Butler, Chairman of commit tee, to be addressed at Greenwood, Abbeville County, S. 0., on or by the 22d instant. The committee ara disposed to act very discreetly aud deliberately in this matter, aud by weighing the circumstances of ac- . cessibility, wood, water, supplies, Ac., endeavor to recommend a place thoroughly adapted to the purposes of a large encampment as the coun. try will afford. For the conveu* ieuce of the States invited to joio with them, they are inclined to lo cate iu the Piedmont belt of this 8 La to. — A nderson Intelligencer, Thousands of children die under the age of five years. Why t Physi. ciatis attribute it to various causes, aud have a vocabulary of infiantila diseases too nameroos to mention. Worms I Worms I Sbriner’s In dian Vermifuge will kill them and restore tbe child. ‘Bill Arp,’ the Georgia humorist, lives near Cartersvil e, iu Bartow county. Both town and oouuty have recently ‘gone dry,’ and, com menting ou the better treatment which dray mules, horses, and other aniinals receive from sober masters, Bill says: ‘Since Cartersville baa gone dry through prohibition, the animals have a better time, if they understood it I think they would hold a grand jubilee and ratifica tion meeting. The mules would bray, aud the horses would neigh, aud the oxen would low, aud the dogs would bark lor joy.’ Dr. Guuu'a Liver Pills. Removes Constipation, prevents Malaria,cures Dyspepsia, and gives new life to the system. Only ona for a dose. Free Samples at Will, cox k Co. At the dinner table: “Come, doc tor, you are very skillful. 1 will give you the houor of carving.” “With pleasure, madam,” iuitnedi. ately the doctor begins bis task. He is very absent minded, and wheu be has finally made a deep cut in the leg of mutton, he stops, takes a roll of linen and some Hut out of his pocket, and carefully bandages tbe wound. Then, after regarding it critically, be remarks with pro fessional gravity, while the guests are stupefied with astonishment: “There, with rest am' good care, there is nothing to fear.” It Was So Far Away. “I wish I were you star,” be said dreamily. “So do I,” she returned promptly, heroically swallowing a yawn. “And why, dear oue,” be asked impulsively, “why do you wish I were yorhrilliant orb P’ ' “Because,” she replied in cold, matter of-faot Bostonese tones, ‘‘be cause yorhrilliant orb is just It,- 760,971 miles away.” And be faded silently out like a mist before a summer sun.—Nme Haven New, Not only is liquor responsible for much crime, but for disease ns well. Sir Andrew Clark, tbe distinguish ed English physician, says that sev enty out of every one hundred pa tients in the Loudon Hospital are there through drink, including those afflicted with Inherited dinor- dors. Tbe good we can each accom plish in thia world is small. Tba good that all mao in ages oonld ac complish if tbay would is vast. Bat in order that this may be dona aaoh working being must serve bis own generatiou ami do bis part to ren der the next generation more effl- cteni. When you make a look baok at it h>ug. son of the tl ‘ mtstui Take ut0"3 don’t & , Hb