The Orangeburg democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, November 07, 1879, Image 1
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An Example to be Followed.
In one of the towns of central Iowa
Iherc resides a wealthy banker whose
'eldest daughter has but recently be
come engaged to be married. As would
be expected from the position of her
family this young lady has had the
benefit of the best social and intel
lectual advantages at home, besides
having been a student at Vassar for
some time, and traveled considerably,
from all' of which she has attained
quite an unusual degree of culture
for a lady of only twenty years.
To an ordinary observer it would
seem that her training had been all
that could be desired ; but her father
thought differently. When he found
that she had decided to take upon
herself the duties of wifehood, he,
knowing how greatly the happiness
of families is affected by the house
wifery qualities of the woman at the
head, declared that the marriage
should be delayed until she had made
herself thoroughly acquainted with
the duties of a housekeeper.
To be thorough, he knew required
moro than mere theoretical knowl
edge, so with wise thoughl/ulncss he
was careful to provide the means
whereby the practical worth of all in
struction received could be fully test
ed ; and to this end the mother was
requested to retire into the back
ground for a season while the daught
er should assume the responsibilities
of housekeeper. The mother consent
ed and the young lady undertook the
duties of her novel position with a
will to do her very best. Several
months have elapsed, yel her interest
is never known to Hag, although her
position is no sinecure. The family
is very large, and being exceedingly
hospitable, the house is seldom with
out the presence of guests from
abroad ; but inspired by the ambition
to acquit hersctf creditably in the
present, asTwcll as b'y the sweet hope
in lue 'future, when she shall preside
over a home of her very own, her zeal
und enthusiasm increases from day
to day as experience adds to her pro
ficiency.
~y>~ln order l^U^^e4^v+H^^4iW^f?-!Je--3y?s-?
tcmalic, she is allowed a certain sum
of money each month with which to j
supply the table, and as a special in
ducement to the exercise ol economy j
all that can be saved therefrom is
placed to her private account for in
dividual nse. The monthly allowance
being by no means large, she is
obliged to exercise care in the ex
penditure ; therefore the minutest de
tails are studied, and hot a dish
.makes its appearance upon the table
without the cost having been fully cs
ti mated previous to its ordering. In
tins manner she is learning many
things that may be of great value to
her in the future.
Not long since she was heard to
remark that it is really astonishing to
discover the many w ays of economiz
ing possible to woman ; and as an in
stance of her own experience, said
she frequently found, for some expen
sive dish desired, that something else
equally as wholesome and fully as
palatable, could bo furnished at halt'
the cost.
The father often accompanies her
to market and instructs her in the se
?lection of vegetables, the cutting of
meats, etc., showing such as arc suit
able for different purposes, and how
to avoid wasteful and unwholesome
purchases.
Does not this little sketch contain
a valuable suggestion for the benefit
of'other parents? This young lady
will gain in less than one year, at an
expenditure of probably one-third the
vital energy required in the school
room, knowledge that will contribute
n thousand fold more to the happiness
of those depending upon her in the
future, than any amount of school
training could possibly do ; yet how
few think to give daughters similar
preparation for the home catcs and
home dutios so sure to form a part of
every woman's life. Were parents
more thoughtful in this respect, the
burdens of young wives would be
greatly lessened, while the amount of
money which would be saved to young
husbands would oftentimes be sufli
cient to lay the foundations of great
wealth. The thought is worthy of
consideration on the part of those
who may hold in their hands the
shaping of a young girl's future.
It always takes the sunshine out
of a man's soul to put on his winter
uudcrclothes and then the first day
turn out to be warm enough to justi
fy a small boy in going swimming
Story of a Woman's Devotion. I
The Indianapolis Sentinel relates
this : Twenty years ago there was a
wedding. The bride was of good
family, and sho loved her husband
witb the characteristic devotion of a
wife. But she found herself grievous
ly disappointed, for in time ho inllliot
ed a series of studied injuries that
eventually ended in the loss of her
character and a separation. She
diiftnl to this city and became pro
prietress of a house of bad repute, in!
which terrible business sho remains
to the present day. For years there
bus lingered in her heart memories of
what she might have been but for
this wretch whom sho owned at one
1 tituo for a husband i and she had noth
ing but curs s lor the irreparable
ruin he had wrought. '1 he husband
contiuued at his old home, and pros
pered, and the world treated him as
an honorable man. He surrounded
j himself with new domestic tics, and
apparently prospered, but the old
saving, "the mills of the gente grind
slowly, but they grind exceedingly
small," had illustration in his case,
for with reverses in business came
disease, ami disaster followed so
swiftly that in a few years thero was
none so poor as to do him reverence.
Consumption incapacitated him from
making a living, and the public hos
pital was his only resort. Then it
was thai the cruelly treated wife,
whose life of degradation had been of
his own making, sent for him, and lie
was brought here, and is now lying
on his death bed in a residence
apatt from her own, but surrounded
i with every luxury that can possibly
smooth his descent to the grave. One
of the leading physicians of this city,
a gentleman high in the profession,
is his constant medical attendant,
and there is hardly an hour of the
day or night but this woman is
watching over him with the lendercst
solicitude. This is no fiction.
Just Sentiments.
Kx-Gov. Chamberlain, of Maine,
recently delivered a speech in that
J^jA'r, at the -t!ejJUialiou-ol'-a-me?&
ment to the memory of Union sol
diers, that is a just and lilting rebuke
to the men who aic laboring to keep
up the war feeling in the county,
lie said : 1'There are some w ho will
not have it that the wards over till
they have their own way. From
much of the talk of late one would
think that all the toil and trial of the
Mi
war was in vain; that these soldiers
and sailors of yours did nothing of
lasting value ; that the glotions war
and God-given victory must count for
naught, and that the real way to save
the country is to keep certain politi
cians in ollice, and that servile follow
ing of them is the only test of loyalty
to the Union. For one, I resent this
perversion of our motives and this
belittling of our achievmcnts. Iam
indignant at this insult to that great
company of noble souls who ate mar
tyrs in a sacred cause and a triumph
ant cause. Do not mistake the issue.
Your sons will not have died in vain
because rebellious Slates are brought
back into the Union and send their
heat men to represent them in Con
gress, even though they had the cour
age to wield the sword instead of the
pen in the time of mortal struggle.
Men who freely poured out their
heart's blood for their convictions,
though wrong, arc loss to bo feared
than those who skulk in the rear and
gloat over the strife so long as they
can fill their pockets with plunder,
snatched alike from foe or friend."
A Married Pair who Never Scold.
An cx-mayor of '61. Lhuis asked
his wife to convey some real prop
erly that he desired to sell, and she
surprised and angered him by refus
ing. He swore that, unless she com
plied, he would never speak to her
again, and she was still obdurate.
That was sixteen years ago, ami al
though they had been a loving coup
le and have since lived in thi same
house, they have never exchanged a
word directly. They roomed apart,
but sat at the same table, and were
never guilty of any disrespect toward
each ollur, save that, of silence.
Wlun circumstances made communi
cation between them adsolutely ne
cessary, they respectively abdrcsscd
their daughter, and she spoke for
both. Their questions, so put, wore
always framed in the third person
The daughter died a short time ago,
but the parents arc said to still decline
to become reconciled,
'kit
Niggers.
The ridiculous fancy of niggers for
the word "colored" is one of the
strangest phcnoininn of the times.
You may kick a nigger from New Or
leans to St. Paul and back if you on
ly call him a "colored gcnlleman."
There is nothing on earth will rile a
niygor quicker or more clteclually
thau to call him n nigger. The lite
rary niggers are worst of all. We
get several nigger newspapers in ex
change, and the fellows talk about
colored papers! The darkey editors
are talking about holding a conven
tion of colored papers 1 Just think of
it! Colored papers] And we read
about colored bands, colored schools,
colored votes, and all kinds of color
ed things, meaning at the same time
nigger papers, nigger bands, &c. II
Sambo, after getting his eyc-tccth
cut, had insisted on calling himself a
negro, all right; but he is nearly as
much ashamed, or at Least he gels as
mad, when called a negro as when
dubbed a nigger. He must be color
ed or nothing, though the word is
meaningless. Colors vary from that
of a frozen pumpkin to that of a brin
die steer; and a ''colored individual"
may be any lint from H ydUcr dog to
a black snake. Negroes, Mulattoes.
Quadroons and Octoroons arc specitic
and well known names that mean
something. Nigger ii. a generic name
is short, expressive and sociable.!
There is an aroma of hail-fellow-well-1
met and even tenderness in the de
spised word, "nigger," that is dissi
pated by the Flora McFlinsey affecta
tion "colored." How man)', many
millions of us in our youth have been
touched with the song "There was
an old Nigger, and his name was Un
cle Ned," and mourned over the
good uncle's departure? Tin! word
nigger is immortalized in a thousand
songs that awaken kindly and tender
thoughts ol the darkey. The plain
tive melodies dwell in our cars,and the
nigger lives on their sympathetic
strains. If we were black we would
insist on being called a "nigger."
? ^. P^Lt^lie Hear^rrom.
The Slimier Watchman publishes
the following extract from a letter re
ceived by a Republican in that town
from a colored man named Stuart, re
cently removed from that place to
Kansas: "C. P. Leslie, Land Com
missioner, and sorre lime boss of
Harn we'd County, is here, lie has
been enjoying perfect obscurity till 1
found him out . He was veiy no voua
on the subject of being carried back
to South Carolina for trial 'till I men
tioned tj him the infamous compro
mise that took place in Charleston in
April. That intelligence threw him
in convulsions of joy. 11c says the
only thing lie is sorry for is that he
did not steal the whole God damned
Slate of South Carolina, and that if
he had to do it again, lie would try
his level best to steal it all ; that none
but a fool would suppose a man was
going to risk his life in the South
without stealing whatever he could
<iel hold of. ''Taint human nature,'
said the old veteran thief as he warm
ed up with his theme. He has been
here near two years." The people ol
Kansas bad batter keep their eyes on
the old scamp, as he may take a no
I tiou to steal that state.
The Partner for Life.
Many a man has seen his choice for
a partner in life in the humble girl
far beneath him in the opinion of the
world, and although lovo and pride
might have struggled with him for a
while, yet pride triumphed, and he
sought one from the higher walks ol
life. In all the vicissitudes of social
existence, there is nothing capable ol
inflicting more certain misery than is
sure to follow such a course. It dis
tracts the general harmony of our
days, mis-shapes our ends, shortens
the length of lifo, lessons the stature
of manhood, and is contrary to the
divine instructions of the Hilde ; for
it declares where love is there is
peace, plenty and thriftincss. Every
thing is sure to follow a happy union.
Let not pride interfere in this matter.
Last week a Wisconsin Judge was
shot down in his doorway, and on the
next day his assassin was walking the
stieets unmolested. Three foul mur
ders were committed in the vicinity of
Jancsville, Wisconsin, within a short j
time, which somehow or other have!
been overlooked by tho Republican
press of the North. The stalwarts
have of late been hunting up Southern
horrors. The North bus no outrages
to speak of.
Goods Aro Going Up.
Wo have information from business
houses tit the North that all classes
of goods have gone up from 10 to 10
per cent, on early fall prices* This
is always so. As soon as cotton goes
up and the business circles at lite
North are pretty well assured of it,
goods are at once put up to lake in
the extra profits of the planter. The
same plan is pursued with reference
to Western producers.
This rise in cotton will go far to
meet old scores, but if our planters
want to get the benefit of fu'l prices
for their crops, they must persistent
ly make their farms self-supporting
as far as possible. The business
edict is, and we cannot esc Ape it:
Diversify and live ; pursue one exclu
sive industry and die?and die in
debt at that. Let not, then, enhanced
cotton prices deceive our plantors.
Let them not neglect the bread and
meat question j for the Western pro
ducer has become a necessity across
the water aa well as we**- They will
be now the great exporters and they
will depend upon the market abroad
for their range in pri'ccalS The con
sequences will be, they will be forced
into the protective system of the
North and the business of the conn
try will be brought to a safe, business
like basis, in which producers will
get their own. It is a lung hire that
has no turn. Wo at the South can
no longer control the price of provis
ions. The only safe wnj' is to raise
them for ourselves and take a clean
advantage of the rise on cotton when
it comes,, without having to waste our
'earnings on costly Western provis
ions. A burnt child should dread
the lire, and it is lime our people
should have learned this tiling down
to the bottom, and as soon as they
arc foot loose from their old debts
turn over a new leaf in this regard.
Wc arc not in a hurry about the fu
ture of the South, and we do not care
a grot for the Bl?iucs, and Conklings,
and Chillendcns, and HHl^. Tlierc
ai"Ojw^tifiisTncsy---qiu^
'up ?hieb, if we have sense enoiT^h-'f^
wait for and heed, win take"enre of the
country and set aside issues that are
sprung upon us of the South with
clironio regularity. Let us be wise
our in day and generation, and put
our house in order, not for battle, but
for better things, and they will come
?very surely ihcy will come.?Co
lumbia Register.
Nobility of Farming
Ex Governor Horatio Seymour, ad
dressing the farmers at a fair in
Oucida county, N. Y.,the other day,
said : "I am not much of a farmer,
and have little right to stand before
you as such ; but" I brought over hero
for exhibition some potatoes that
certainly exceed my speech. In refer
ence to the depression of the times,
let mc iceall to you an ancient fable :
There was once a giant so powerful
that he could not be overcome. But
he derived his strength from his moih
cr-carth, for no mailer how exhaus
ted he might hoeomo, he regained his
powers the moment that he came into
contact with the soil. The way in
which he was finally overpowered
was by coming into contest with an
opponent so strong that he could lift
him Irom the ground and hold him
suspended in the air until he was
strangled to death. Now there is a
lesson in this for us. So long as this
people of ours can seek its support
from mother-earth, to long it cannot
be overcome. There never yet was a
President of the United States who,
when he left his ofiiec, did not seek
the country and retire to his farm.
Washington did this ; so did Adams
and JetTcrson. Our greater states
men have sought for rest, health and
peace in retirement to their farms?
witness Webster and Clay."
Death by a Cotton Gin.
On Wednesday last, while working
at a cotton gin, Mr. Calhouu Hull', a
young man well and favorably known
throughout the lower potticu ol
Greenville county, and sou ol tlio lale
Louis Hull, met with a sudden death.
He was operating a gin ul the resi
dence ol his cousin, Air. F. L. Hull',
being the oltl homestead of the hue
L'hilemau Hnll, and in endeavoring
lo push seed down and out of the way
of the lint, one of his hands became
entangled and severely cut remov
ing the thumb. From this wound pro
fuse bleeding set in, which, with the
great shock he had received, produced
his death early the next morning.
Why is It?
Editor Orangeb?rg Democrat:
"Will the. Democrat hu bo kind as
to answer a few simple questions:
Why is it that the Orangeburg Times
is so mild in its sayings about Mr.
George Bolivcr? I noticed in the
last municipal election he seemed to
have been a popular candidate on one
side, but the Times had but little to
say about it, whereas your paper
came out in full blast and gave us all
the desired particulars. Why was it
that the Times didn't do likewise.
Again. Why was it in the Boliver
Byas scandal the Times was so mild
in its comments. Byes in my esti
mation was perfectly justifiable in
what he did, and as a Democratic
people we should see that Byas gets
justice. Have we forgotten how in
strumental Byas was in the last two
or three campaigns? We will need
help again. Who would not have
acted as Byas did, especially with
such a man as Bolivcr, whose name
will be a disgrace on the pages of Or
angeburg's history. 1 think the Town
Council did wrong in making Byas
pay a line after he was followed to
his house and brutally assaulted by
two men. Who, Mr. Editor, would
not have acted as llyas did? We
must be thankful for what we have
I received and remember that wc will
need help again (tcmpora mulanlur
\>l nos mutumur in Ulis.) Mr. Editor
; hoping you may be able to enlighten
me on the above I remain yours re
spectfully.
II k A f TON 11M OK V, M en O.US.
How Ladies Kiss
Two ladies meet. They pucker
their mouths into an angular protub
erance, and cocking their beads to one
side, as a hen will before picking up
a grain of corn, two faces, full of un
speakable resignation ami indexible
devotion to duty, approximate, touch
and retire.
The school-girl kiss is a very dif
ferent affair. As unlike the kiss of
friendship as August is unlike De
cember, as fire is unlike ashes, as life
Jis unlike SeaTuT*^ "~
The two school-girls meet. Mouth
Hies to mouth and lips to lips.
Each would swallow the other, it is
well it is so.
The swallowing tendency of one is
oirscL by t!ie like tendency of the oth
er.
Thus arc both preserved for the
sons of man.
And they talk while they kiss !
Each says to each, "Oil, you dear,
ddrling creature I Where have you
been these ages? (since morning.)
I've got so many things to tell you !"
etc., etc., etc.
And this is all said contemporane
ously wiih.that kiss ; in the same in
stant of time.
Keep it to Yourself.
You have trouble?your reelings
aro injured, your husband U unkind,
your wife frets, your home is not
pleasant, your friends do not treat
you fairly, and things in general
move unpleasantly. Well, what of
lit? Keep it to yonself. A smoulder
ing (ire can be found and extinguish
ed ; but when the coals are scattered,
who can pick them up? Bury j'onr
sorrow. The place for sad and dis
gusting tilings is under trie ground.
A cut finger is not benefited by pul
ling oir the plaster and exposing it
under somcdody's eyes. Tie it up
and let it alone. It will get well it
self sooner than you can ci rc it.
Charity covcreth a multitude of sin.
Things '.bus coveted are often cured
without a scar ; but, once published
and confided to meddling friends,
there is no end to the trouble they
may cause. Keep it to yourself.
Tioublcs arc transient, and, when a
sorrow is healed and past, what a
comfort it is to say: "No one ever
knew it until it was all over."
No Objection to Womon.
The Harvard Lampoon publishes a
I speech made by Deacon Hardhead,
I of Podunk Farms, at a debate on fc
I male suffrage: "J dunno," said the
j deacon, "as there's nry objection to
i the wiminin's iiinnin' the decstrict
schools. But as to given' 'cm any
right to make laws, both .Scripture
an* common sense is clean agin it.
In the first place, how on ail'th are
they going to git 'cm hi forced? This
Gov'tncnt by majority is based solid
on the fact that of the the tyust comes
to the wust the majority can lick the
j minority. Kl* they can't lick, they
ican't iuIc." Tne speech created
j a great sensation,
You'll Never Guess.
I Know two eyes, two soli,brown eyCSj
Two eyes us sweet and dear
As ever danced with gay surprise,
Or melted with a tear;
In whose fair rays a heart may bask?
Their shadowed rnys serene?
But. little maid, you must not ask
Whose gentle eyes I mean.
I know a voice of fairy tone,
Like brooklet in the June,
That sings* to please itself alone,
A little ohbworld tune;
Whose music haunts the listener's ear,
And will not leave it tree;
Hut I shall elever tell you, dear,
Whose accents they may be.
I know a golden-hearted maid
For w hom I have built a shrine,
A leafy nook of murmurous shade,
Deep in ibis heart Of'mine;
But in that calm and cool recess
To make her home she never came?
But. oh ! you'd never, never gtiess
That little mid?eu'ri name.
Not so rVluch of a Shower,
As the olllcial vole of Ohio shows,
tiie triumph of Foster was not such a
Waterloo as the Republicans hoped
for and the Democrats at first con
ceded. The total vote for Governor
is slated officially at GG8.337, of which
Foster, Republican, received 33G,2G1 ;
i IOwing, Democrat, 319,132 ; Stewart,
j Prohibition, 4,145, and Piatt, Nation
al, 9,12'.). Foster's majority over
Ewing, 17,129 ; over all, 3,805. We
lind therefore that, in a Republican
Slate, after prodigious exertions and
i he concentration of the wdiole Rudi
I cal machine, directed by the President
and his Cabinet, a beggarly majority
of 3,850 has been secured. The Au
gusta Chronicle adds : Bemove Irom
; the calculation all voters who oppos
ed Ewing simply because they could i
not endorse his financial ideas, and I
we venture to say that a clear majori
ty, or fully 300,000 Ohio men, do not
sympathize with the Stalwart idea as
to the South or State Rights. This,
we think, will be demonstrated in
1880, when Mr. Sherman ami his
money bags will have some other
work to attend to, end cannot he
dumped into a single Commonwealth.
The Democrats have much to mourn
over, but they need not grieve as one
j without hope.?News and Courier.
A Double-Headed WojrnarK__^
j* "Mdfiy Christino7~tfre""donblc^u-adcd
; woman, although not a particularly
I attractive person, has had five oirers
of marriage during her life. Count
Rosebud, one of the midgets, is in
I love with the nightingale on account
j of her winning ways and accomplish
J mcnts, and would marry hcrto-mor
bow if she would consent. One head
is willing, but the other is not,
it is asserted, and the two heads
have been disputing about this mat
ter for the last two years. It is, in
fact, about the only subject about
which '.hey arc not fully agreed. A
man who would marry a woman with
two heads and subject himself to the
raking fire from such a double-barrel
led gun as that whenever ho came
liomo late at night might elicit nd
j miration for Iiis valor, but not for his
discretion.
A Norristown Story.
An exchange tells of a man who
turned gray in an hour. lie slipped
from the side of a canyon, and catch
ing a protruding rock, his body was
suspended in the air a thousand feet
above the roaring waters of the Ar
kansas. Wo once heard of a young
woman who experience.I a similar
metamorphosis. She hod jet black
hair, all of her own raising, reaching
to her waist. She fell -in love.
The wedding day was named, and
that young lady, who manifested con
siderable nervousness during the
marriage ceremony, turned Gray as
soon a9 the clergyman pronounced
the couple man anil wife. The fact
that her husband's name was Gray is
supposed to have had something to
do with the change.
Sensible and True.
"Senator Bayard," says the New
York Herald, "is coming to the
Democratic front. If one state is as
good as another, according to Dem
ocratic doc line, why is sot a Senator
from Delaware or Rhodo Island as
good as a Senator from Colorado or
Texas? and if Senator Bayard is a
good man, why not Georgia give him
her vote as readily as if he were from
Illinois? This may not be politics,
, but it is common senee."
Tut: fact that two million years
from now the sun will have burnt it
self out and a six inch coat of ice
cover the surfaee of the earth, is
enough to strike terror to the heart
of the most stolid ice dealer and pro
duce a panic in the coal market.
"Going to the Fair/'
Editor Orangeburg Democrat':
Beautiful and bright was the big
?lay of the Fair, and of course all
wanted to goi Our kind hearted
Professor gave his pupils the day
and expected all would attend. Tho
result of which was, that before night
had thrown her sable curtain over otft'
laud, fathers and mothers were sur
rounded by pleading hopefuls. Wo
ilrew a long breath and thanked kind
Heaven that such things do uot come
often. It is really an exciting time
when such things as Fairs, Camp?
meetings, etc... are to take place, even
in our country home. Fathers and
mothers, the feeble as well as tlra
strong, arc aroused by the yeungest
perhaps of the little brood, in older
that they may arrive at the Fair in
due time. Kaiiy breakfast must be
had,lunch baskets fixed,conveyances
mailc ready, clothes laid out, and
as the kind hearted mother is busy
ing herself in these essential prepara
tions, her cars assure her that she is
not alone in the great hub-bub for the
Fair. Coachman and nurses Are
warned that they will be left or are
too late. Self pride is seen, heard or
felt. One by one the young Ameri
cas sally forth from their apartmeuts,
all arrayed in their Sunday best, and
as proud as young roosters with their
first spurs; and you can judge how
important they feel from the manner
in which their shoe heels meet the
lluor. The young lassies and ladies
arc perplexed about this or that
dress, bows, curls, puffs, etc., and as
they often ask, "how do I look?" or
"bow doe? this suit you 1" they re
mi d some of that beautiful tamo
fowl that when the sun is bright they
delight to look at their gay plumage,
but to others they are as sweet as
transparent pics, and as fair as fresh
blown roses. All made ready now,
the where-wilb to get into the Fair
must be had, the last desire of the
youthful Fair-goer. Of course each
has his idea how much he niU9i have,
or what will be required to make th?
g ggi~ 'jirpni4" *1?i s<A)r?
plishc-d, fathers and mothers, having
been worked up to a high key, may
now gradually descend, and thank
God that their household does not
con ist of a baker's dozen. Parting
advices good-byes, and kisses are
given from their dear mother who
hopes the)' will spend a pleasant day,
and they are off. Mother may now
rest her weary and excited self, foe
well she knows what the night will
bring. Tins, Mr. Editor, is a fair
picture in some of our country homes
when the Fair comes off. The sights,
the awful or pleasing sights they will
see at the fair, a recital of which
each must give for themselves. Hard
indeed is the parental heart which
does hot delight in the sweet and in
nocent prattle and enjoyments of
their offspring. 'Tis then we forget
the bustle and weary excitement of
the morning, and almost regret that
these patttimcs do not come oftcner.
We are sad, then glad, wc are weary,
then rested, we sigh and then rejoice.
Such is life. And while our thoughts
delight to dwell on the fleeting enjoy
ments of earth, we sigh to think and
are impressed with these solemn
thoughts, how slolhfully some make
the great preparation for that fair
land of everlasting vest, where
pleasure never dies. A. M. R.
Oak Grove, Oct. 31st, 1879
The Theological Seminary.
The condition of the Presbyterian
Theological Seminary in Columbia
lias evoked a lively discussion in tho
Georgia Synod. An Augusta paper
says "certain - leading questions by
Mr. Gordon, of Savannah, and Dr.
Irvine, of Augusta, Gn., brought out
the sad information that the funds of
the Seminary had been wofully de
pressed by the loss of ten thousand
dollars, through the failure of a bo
gus and bankrupt factory in Alaba
ma, seventeen thousand dollars by
the failure of a commercial house in
Augusta, Gn., and very recently by
the failure of a house in Charleston
the Hoaid of Trustees had lost twen
ty-live thousand dollars, making, in
all, a loss of lifLy-lwo thousand dol
lars."
A sociable man is onb who, when
he baa ten minutes to spare, goes and
bothers somebody who hasn't.
Be magnanimous. If tho butter at
youi boarding bouse is stronger than
you are, dont' tackle it.
Sunscmni". for the Dkmocuat.