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- pSSgsg5gS5g^?g~E_5g}^S~^~^~^yfi5B "Vol. TX ORANGEBURG, S, 0., FRIDAY, MAY 14, I88O. 2STo. 20. I_ SHERIDAN ;& SIMS, Proprietors. SUKSCKU'TIOH. One-Year....SI.DO Six Months.:.1.00 Ministers of tho Gospel.1.00 A?:VEhT1SEMENT8. First Instortlon..,.$1.00 ?Euch Subsequent Insertion.GO Liberal c?utracts uiatlo for 3 month nncl over. J 033 18. rBEl'ABEI>,TO.DO.ALT> KINnKOF , . ?? .,n;>V? i?'fj ;a?'M Job J?x?iriti ng Denominational Railroads. In a i?Uvf io tue Burlington UaiuJc ,eyc Burdotto says : On the road once ,raore, with .Lebanon fading away in tbo distance, the fat passenger drum ming ;idly ou the window pane, the .cross passenger sound asleep, and the tall, thin passenger reading "Gen. .-Grant's Tour Around tho World," nnd wonocring why "Green's August .Flower" should he printed above the doers of a Budhist temple at Benares. To me comes the brakcinau, and seat ing himself on the arm of the Beat, says: "I went to church yesterday." "Yes?" I said, with that interested Inflection that asks for more. "And what church did you attend ?" "Which do you guess?" be asked. "Some union mission church?" I hazarded. "Now;" he said, "I don't like to run on these branch roads much. I don't often go to church, and, when 1 do, I want to run on the main line, where your run is regular and you go on schedule time und don't have to wait on connections. I don't like to run on a branch. Good enough but I don't like it." -"Episcopal?" I guessed. "Limited express," he said, "all palace cars and 82 extra for a scat: fast time, and only stop, at the big stations. Nice Iiuo, but too exhaus tive for a brakeman. All train men in uniform; conductor's punch and lantern silver plated, nnd no train boys allowed. Then, the passengers are allowed to talk back at the con ductor ; and it makes them too- free and easy. Itich road, though. Don't often boar of a receiver being ap pointed for that line. Some mighty nice people travel on it, too." ''Universalist?'' I suggested. "Broad guage," said the brakeman ; ''does too much complimentary busi ness. Everybody travels on a pass. Conductor doesn't get a fair or.ee in fifty miles. Stops at all flag stations, and wont run into anylning but a union depot. No smoking car on the train. Train orders are vague though, and the trainmen don't ge'. along well with the passengers. No, I don't go the Universalist, though 1 know some awfully good men who run on that road." |jjj^*^resbyterian ?'* 1 asked. brow gauge," said the brnke BfctLytraek, straight as a rule, fiStoul) a mountain ralh I^HHbJI ; spirit level IHffi to show their Rfeacr train. jjHH^'loiars . are ?pPflBB^flSrVto sit one/n ^R^Tind no room in the aisle to dance. Then there's no slop over tickets allowed; got to go straight through to the station you are tiekcL ed for, or you can't gel on at all. When the car's full, no extra coaches ; cars built at the shop to hold just so ?many and nobody el c allowed ou. But you don't often hear of an acci dent on that road. It's run right up to the rules." ."Maybe you joined the Free Thinkers?" 1 said. "Scrub road," said the brakeman, "dirt road bed and no ballast; no time and no train dispatcher. All trains i tin wild anil every engineer makes bis own time, just.as he pleases. Smoke if you want lo; kind of go as you please road. Too many side tracks, and every switch wide open all the time, with the switchman sound asleep and the target lamp dead out. Gel oti as you p ease and get oir when you want to. Don't have lo show your ticket, and the con ductor isn't expected lo do anything but amuse the passengers. No, sir; I was offered a pass bul 1 don't like the line. 1 don I like to travel on a road that has no termi: us. Do you know, sir, I asked a Division Superin tendent where thai road run to, and he hoped to dio if he knew. 1 uske-i kiin if tbc General Superintendent eould tell me. He ?aid he didn't be lieve the}' had a General Stipe fin ten dent, and if Ihcy had he didn't know no more about the read than the passengers. I asked who he report ed to and he said "nobody." 1 asked a conductor who he got hia orders from and ho said be didn't gel order from any living man or deatl ghost. Aud when I asked the engineer who he got bis orders from, lie said lie would like to see anybody give him orders; he'd run that train to suit himself or he'd run it into the ditch. Now you see, sir, I'm a railroad man and 1 don't care lo run on a road thai lias no time, makes no connections, runs nowhere, and has no Superinten dent. It may be all right, but I've railroaded too long lo understand it." "Did you try the Methodist?" 1 said. "Now, you're shouting," he snid with some enthusiasm. "Nice road, eh? Fast time and plenty of passen gers. Engines cany a power of uteain anil don'lyou lor etil; steam gauge shows a hundred, and enough all the time. Lively road ; when the Conductor shouts ell aboard, you can hear him to the next station. Every train lamp sbines like a headlight. Stop over checks given on all through tickets; pass, ngeis can drop oll I ho train as often as he likes, do the sta tion two or three days and hop on the next revival train that comes thundering along. Good, wholc sou'ed, companionable conductors; aiu't a roatl in the country where tho pnssengors feel more at home. No passes; every passenger pays full tralhV. rates for his ticket. Wesloy an-hou80 air brake on all trains, too ; pretty safe road, but I didn't ride over it yesterday." "Maybe you went to tho Congre gational Church?" I said. "Popularroad;" s dd the brakeman : uAn old road, too ; one of tho very oldest in this country. Good road bed and comfortable cars. Well managed road, too; directors don't interfere with division Superinten dents and train orders. Road's mighty popular, but it's pretty inde pendent, loo. See, didn't one of the division superintendents down East discontinue one of the oldest stations on this line two or three years ago? But it is a mighty pleasant road to travel on. Always has such a splend id class of passengers." "Perhaps you tried the Baptist?" I guessed once more. "All, ha?" said the brakeman, ''she's a daisy, isn't she? River road ; beautiful curves ; sweep around any thing to keep close to the river, but it's all steel rail and rock ballast, single track all the wa}' and not a side track from the round house to the lenyinus. Take a heap of water to run it through ; double tanks at every station, and there isn't an en gine in the shops that can pull a pound or run a mile with less than two gauges. But it runs through a lovely country, these river roads always do ; river on one side and hills on the other, and it's a steady clime up the grade all the way till the run ends where the fountain head of the river begins. Yes, sir, I,II take the river road every time for a lovely trip, sure connections and good time, and i.o prairie dust blowing in at the win dows. And yesterday when the con ductor came around for the tickets svilh a little basket punch, I didn't ask him to pass me, but I paid my fare like a little man ; twen ty-live cents for an hours run, and a little concert by the passengers throwed in. I tell you pilgrim you take the livcrroad when you want."? But just here the long whistle from the engine announced a station, and the brakeman hurried to the dour shouting "Zionsville: Tins train makes no stops between here and In dianapolis." Resuscitating the Dead. John Hall and OutTcll Smith, hang ed at Murfreesboro, Tcnn., recently < were handed over to the physicians for experimenting purposes. Both men were pronounced dead within seventeen minutes, cut down, placed in collins, und hurried as speedily ae possillc to a house three hundred yards distant, where Drs. Byrne and Murfree, of Murfreesboro and Dr. Sieger of Nashville, had arranged instruments and appliances for the purpose of resuscitation. In the presence of a large number of physi cians, thirty minutes after the rope had been cut, the experiment was tried. The clothing ol the dead mur derers was quickly torn from the bodies, which were wrapped iu hot blankets, the dislocation of their necks reduced, and artificial respira tion kept up. Electricity was then applied to dilfercnt portions of the brain and spinal chord, and other stimulants used. Muscular move ments scon ecemed to be apparent, the pulse beat feebly, temperature was raised to 10.1 degrees, the eyes opened and appeared to be directed to different objects in the room, with the regular breathing and muscular contraction. There was a peculiar! expression of face and eyes, a sound with each inspiration and expiration, the bodies presenting life like ap pearance. Dr. Sieger here staled the desired object tiad been accomplished, which was to show the action of electricity and other modes of stimulation upon the nervous and muscular systems. The stimulants were then removed when the bodies (teased to show any signs of life. The bodies weie given to the doctors at the request of the murderers for dissection. A Fiend. Boston, May 5.?A shocking case of cruelty was reported from Law rence, in this State, the victim b? iug a woman twenty years of age named Etta Wood, who it is staled, was for some lime confined in the cellar of a boarding house in that city, kept by a Mrs. Lennon, deprived of all proper clothing and other comforts, terribly beaten and otherwise ill-used. The discovery was made by a woman, who, while passing the house, was ap pealed to by the girl from the cellar window. The police were informed, and the girl was taken from her pri son and carried to the slalion house, where site was attended by the city physician. She charges that she was frequently beaten by Mrs. Kennon with the meat mallei and potato | masher, and that tdie was kept all work almost constantly. The affairI has caused great excitement, and Mrs. Kennon, who denies tho stories, i has been arrested. Take that buckeye out of you pock-j ct. and make an application of Tcb-| let's Buckeye Pile Ointment, if you arc Buffering with piles. You will certainly be cured. Price ?Oc. For sale by Dr. J. G. Wunnuumkcr. 1 A Slap at the Bloody Shirt. Mr. Talmngo directed his congrega tion yesterday to sing, "My country, 'tis of thee," said his text?Judges i., 15? and continued as follows : "To meet engagements in nine Southern cities and to catch a glimpse of the South land in the sprng time, I mado a trip two weeks long below Mason end Dixon's line. I went equipped with questions and hungry for infor mation on moral and religious and political subjects. I had a grave to visit in Georgia, that of my uncle, Dr. Samuel K. Talmage, for twenty years President of the Oglcthorpo University. When the war for sla very broke out he lay down near the scene of his usefulness. He was one of those who arc the adornment of the Southern pulpit. Such men as Jas. II. Tbormvell and Smyth and Duncan and Pierce are to be mention ed with him. I went resolved to sec and make a report of what I saw while South. I had no political rec ord to look after or guard, for the ca reer of my usefulness has opened since the war closed. My admiration for the Democratic and Republican parlies, as parlies, is so great that it would take one of McAllister's most powerful magnifying glasses to catch u glimpse of it. American publics are rotten. That party steals the most which has the best chance. [Ap plause] I found while Souih the most perfect proof that the bulk of the sto ries we get here in the North, distill ed by special correspondents, arc sheer fabrications and most persis tent attempts to misrepresent the real character of a large section of our people. There is no moie need of governmental espionage at Charles ton or Savannah and the other South ern cities than there is in New York or Boston. Some, people have an idea that the sentiment in the Soulh is the re-establish me nt of negro sla very. Ah! the people are all hearti ly glad to get rid of it, and the plains are now placed under a better system of cultivation because it is gone. Old planters told me that the worry and anxiety and the care and looking af ter a plantation of negroes is all gone, and now all they have to do is to pay the wages at the end of the month. Put it to ballot in the South whether or not you would have again the system which prevailed before the war and you would get a thuudering negative. The fight for slavery closed sixteen years ago and those Norlbci n politicians who keep the subject of American slavery still rolling might as -ifcll try\to make the Door rebell ion*'in'Rhode Island or the attempt of Aaron Burr to found an empire a test for our fall ( lection. The whole sub ject of American slavery is dead and damned. The negro loves his work and his South. When we hear of riv ers dragged and lakes to fish out col ored men who have been Hung in we get but sample stories of what the North is expected to believe of the South, but they are so ridiculous as hardly to need contradiction. There is no maltreatment of the colored peo ple, and as for American slavery, look lor it in your Northern cities among the army of employees, bee your female clerks. They need your sym pathy far more than the workei8 of the rice swamp or sugar plantation. Find them on Fulton street, Brook lyn ; Broadway, New York ; Washing ton street, Boston ; Chestnut street, Philadelphia. We want reformation in all these places to protect the weak from tyrannical employers, and we bad better begiu our charity at home. .Another impression is that there is a hostility to Notthern men who come to the Soulh to setile. The im pression is that they are to be ku kluked or otherwise made uncomforta ble. It is a lie. They want all the help they can gel from the North. They want the cotton spindles near the cotton fields and Northern men to manage and Northern girl* to tend them. Of course, there is no more ad miration for fools und hraggers there than hero. Aman may go down to a Southerner as he works in the Held and begin Ins self-exultancc, "I'm from Boston, I am ; yes, I marched through this very section with my regia cnt; 1 remember kill ing a heifer on your front sloop. What a good thrashing we gave 3'ou, didn't we, now?" Such u man as that, to suy the least, would not get a very hearty welcome. lie would not be chosen a deacon in a Church and it would not be, surprising if he moved oir on the mtst mobile section of a fence and coino clown without much attendance to the landing place. Yea, and 1 should be inclined to say be deserved it. (Applause.) A Brook lyn man is as good as a Mobile man if he behaves himself. There is not a more hospitable people in the world than the people of the South. (Ap pluusc.) J bring to-day a general invitation to you all and n'l the North to goto the'Soulh and settle down. Horace Greeley'a cry of "Go West," must he changed to "Go Soulh," or rather added, for I here is room enough all over. There nw fortunes by the hundred to be made by the first men who go in io take possession of the riches of Ihc South. You Northern workers, go down where you can breathe. The fare is only $15, if you aie not too particular how j-ou travel. Afraid of heat? You have hotter da\s here than ever aro there. Of fever? Wherever you go West or Sou'.h, \uu have un acclimation at tack, and it is only a different kind of a shake, (Laughter.) Stop cursing the South, and stop lying about her and go South und develop her im menso resources of mining and for ests. (Applause.) Let your Northern young men settle down with the Southern young women, and under tho magnolia grovo and the orange tree put your political feuds asleep in tho cradlo of a generation half North and South. (Applause) I hate to see these stories of the South ern people gotten up and kept up for base political purposes. (Applause.) Another wrong impression is that the people of the South are antagonistic to the United States government. The people of the South submitted to the settlement of the sword and aro submissive, if they "eat fire" they keep a private platter of coals in a private room. I sat down with them and the forks did not look as if they had stirred hot coals nor the spoons as though they had ladled liery pap. The men of the South arc working up, and you can see ihero.'meu of forty and sixty years starting afresh in life. It is devilish in us lo caJLthe temper of the South saturnine. Xhavc trav eled a good deal and I have yet to lind a man North who has a fair ground of complaint against the South. (Ap plause.) I wish thai what I say may be received in silence. I sometimes almost wish for an invasion of foreign arms, to let Ihe world sec what u united people wo are at heart and how the forces of Gran) and Lee would march together and not against each other. If a half dozen politicians North and South would only consent J.o die there would bo no more sectional ac rimony, It would only be ncase then for the undertakers. Wo would glad ly lit up the catafalque and play the "Rogues March."?NcuT^York World April VM/t. A Big Disgust. The 2Tr.wsa.nd Couricvhas informa lion that D. T. Corbin,*A. S. Wal lace, W. E. Earlc, SJ W. Melton, John Ii. Cochran, Simeon Corlcy and others, "who rcprcseut the brain and courage of (he Republican parly in this State arc intensely disgusted with the composition and conduct of the recent Republican Convention held in Columbia." They profess sur prise that adversity lias-, taught the parly northing, and tkaWfhe the same old set of cut-throats au4. thieves is as rampart as ever. IuSua.no cause for?wsujrpiise ..easla^jJfae ^Couuty Conventions consisted ijBely of the old backs and thieves, a'-f the masses of the colored people were too busy preparing for a cotton crop to take any slock in the present meetings. The Slate Convention was made up of the worst material of the County Conventions, and as a consequence they could do nothing but sink to their former level. Doubtless some of the parties mentioned arc sincere in their disgust, but the rest have to > much of the gastric toughness of the ostrich to become squeamish on their own account. They have the sense to see that the Northern Republicans con not. stand such an incubus ns the Slate Convention would impose upon Ihe party, and that South Carolina will be severely let alone. No chance of preferment for Radicals in Stale politics. Hence these tears. Lei these gentlemen who are sincere in their denunciation of Rcdical wicked ness prove their sincetity by falling iu the Democratic column, which alone can stem the tide of corruption.? News and Herald. Now or Never. Let the Democrats of Ihe State have all their quarrels before the con vention meet to nominate the State ticket. As to policy or principle there is little difference of opinion, hut as to men we may expect pretty sharp sparring by particular friend of aspirants for office. It is belter to talk right out now and say tho worst as well as the best about candidates before the convention moot; but after the nomination have been made, let all the voters of the State move f?ic ward as one man to elect the ticket. Let all dissension and bitterness and personal prejudice die away with the sound of the gavel that dissolves the convention. Il may not be amiss to discuss the qualifications and moral character of our candidates for Stale offices. The people should be inform ed as to tho men who are to lake the helm of State. For the last six months Gary's faults and virtues have been brought out in strong nnd strik ing colors. The average voter begins lo know about what sort of man he is, and enn vote inlclligonly for, or against him. Hagood's friends and opponents are vcnlillating his charac ter now, und by ihn time the conven tion meet there will be no necessity for a man, who rends at all, lo vote. with his eyes shut either for or against Ilagood. The candidates for the other offices should be discussed In the same way, so that tho people may vole intelligently for tho men to fill iljeso offices.? Carolina Spartan. Can any thing be belter? 1 can't think so, r.s Cousson' Honey of Tar is the best cough remedy 1 have boon able to get. One dose alone is woi l.h f)Oc.; bul you can buy a wholo bottle at that price. For sale by Dr. J. G. Wannnmaker. 1 The Last of His Race. Senator Bruce, the colored Senator from Mississippi, in alluding to the time when ho should retire from the Senate said, somewhat pathetically : "I believe that 1 am the last of my race that will ever occupy a scat in this branch of the Federal govern ment." Most likely the words of the colored Senator will prove to bo correct. The Republican party, although still anx ious for the negro vole and always ready to make the most glowing promises to the colored voters, has ceased to nominate them for any im portant otlice. Once in a while, it is true, a sop is thrown to them in the shape of some little position, with a few hundred dollars in it. but the day for making them members of Con gress and United States Senators ha3 gone by. Never was a race of peo ple more cruelly disappointed. 1 heir brief dream of glory and power in this country has passed away, and all that is left to them is the bitter realization of their actual condition, as hewers of wood and drawers of water for the white race. It is true they are no longer slaves. On the contrary they arc citizens and voters, but aller all how much better is their social condition now than it was dur ing the long nigbt of slavery? When the administration of President Lin coln, as a war necessity and in older to conquer the South, declared that slavery should no longer exist, the Republican leaders saw their oppor tunity and at once embraced it. They promised the uegroe* not only citizen ship, but social and political equality, and even passed laws to bring about such a condition of affairs. But the result has proved that the Republi can party has promised more than it was able to perform. For what good result has grown out of all their pro fusion of promises? The social con dition of the negro is no better now than it was thirty years ago. They cannot associate with iho whites on the same level, not even with the very 'coders who promised them so much. Even Senator Bruce himself, a sensi ble, excellent and able man, wealthy and refined, and with a cultivated and beautiful wife, docs nob have the run of the best society at the capital of the nation, nor in bis own Stale of Mississippi. Simply because he be longs to au inferior race of people, who arc barred without tho pale of while association because of an im mutable law of God himself. It is true, everybody respects Senator Bruce, because he has raised himself above tho level of his race, but where is the intelligent while man who would want to intermarry his chil dren with the children of the colored Senator? Providence Himself has preserved the distinction between the races by giving a white skin to one and a black one to the other, and no law passed by any human authority can ever break down that barrier. Jt is the badge of master and servant, and will be to the end of lime. Thus, as we have said above, the words of Senator Bruce, that he will be the last of his race who will ever occupy a seat in the United States Senate will in alb probability prove true. The fanaticism and folly that led to the elevation of a few colored men to high offices have in a great degree passed away, and now even the party under whose management slavery was abolished, aud which promised the colored people of the Union social and political equality, no longer has the heart lo put lliora Ui for offices of public trust and emolument. That parly has broken its faith with the voters who made its success possible, and without whose support it would long ago have been crushed out of existence by the De mocracy. Let our colored citizens remember Ibis fact. They made and sustained the Republican par v, in duced to do so by its lying promises to them. They were to be in all res pects the while man's social and po litical equal. They were to be Sena tors, members of Congress, Judges, &e. How much of all ibis lias been realized? Let the sad words ol Sena tor Bruce, the best representative of the colored race who has ever sat in the Senate answer : "1 believe that I nin Ihe Jast of my ra3C that will ever occupy a scat in Ibis branch of the Federal government." The words are prophetic and a mournful commentary upon the bro ken promises of the Republican party. Let the colored voters of that party trust it no longer, because it has be guiled them inio direct opposition to the will of God, in leading them to believe that the time could ever come when they might take their places in the councils of the nation as the equals of tho ruling race. Far better cast their lot with a party that does not promise impossible tilings, but which never refuses to do Iho best it can for the colored citizens of the re public.?Bellefont (Pa.) Watchman. Lobrnz's Bj.lsii Fack Powder.? A harmless promoter of beauty, im paiting to harsh, pallid, and bronzed complexions the fresh bloom of health ami vigor. Being an article of such delicate fineness its skillfull applica tion produces a rich exquisite blush so true to nature that its use ccapes detection by the closest observer. Price 2?ct per box. For sale by Dr. J. G. Wannaroaker. Love Overcomes Everything. Elizabctli City, in. C, is in a state of great social excitement over tbe recent sensational elopement and mar riage of a gushing young couple. Jonathan Ivy has for some time been courting the handsome daughtor of a respected and well-to do oitizen. Tho young lady's name was Florence Sey mark. Her parents did not approve of young Ivy's advances, nnd finally forbade him their house. The lovers, however, managed to meet clandes tinely and made up their minds to an elopement. Old man Seymark, by some means or other, got wind of the proposed escapade, and went gunning for Jonathan. Coming up with the gay young lover, he blazed away at him, hitting him In the left shoulder, and inflicting a painful but not dan gerous wound. Florence was over whelmed with grief by her father's hasty conduct, but her passion for her wounded lover was intensified a thousand fold. She sent him a letter telling him she would fly with him that night if he would come for her. So that night young Ivy put in an ap pearance with a close carriage about 1 o'clock. Miss Florence was in a terrible dilemma, for her cruel par ents, to insure against any escapade, had not Qwly locked the girl in her room, but also taken away every stich of her clothing. But she was not to be baffled. She made a rope out of the sheets of her bed and let herself down to the ground with no other garment but a night dress cover ing her blooming charms. She told the coachman to "look the other way," and, after her lover had helped her into the carriage and covered up her shivering form with tbe :Carriage robes, she made him sit on the box with the coachman. 'They drove to the house of a friendywherc Florence was attired in proper garments, and then proceeded to the house of the sympathizing^ preacher, some distance from town, where the lovers were speedily united in wedlock. Exactly. The New York Nation, referring to the Whittaker "outrage," truthfully says: "Throughout the length aud breadth of the North no white person makes a companion of a color.'d man if he can avoid it. The cases where coloied people are ever treated as so cial equals occasionally, by invita tions and the like, may bo counted on one's fingers, and have almost tbe character of a moral demonstration. Iy fact, the practice of the school faithfully reflects the practica Of American society." Any one who has travelled widely through the Northern Stales will recognize the truih of this observation. All Re publicans know it lo be true, and yet they keep up their demand that the contrary practice?which they reject themselves?shall prevail in the Southern States. An apt illustration of tho hypocritical and intolerant spirit which is diffused through the Republican party. "The Kissing Bush." One of the gentle customs that has bceu permitted to exist in English homes since the time of tho Druids, finds expression in the "kissing bush." It is generally a neat bough of mistletoe, and when tbe household decorations arc going up It is rarely over forgotten, especially where there are young men and maidens. It hangs in flic hall, nod the charm lies in leading your fair friend beneath it and kissing her. Among the middle class this feature of the holidays is never neglected, and at friendly and family reunions it occasions much merriment. In this country, howev er, the tree has been discarded. Tbe way to do is nqt to lead, your friond beneath a tree and kiss her there, but to kiss her where she is ; for nine limes out of ten, when she gels under the tree, she'll change her mind. Procrastination is the thief of many such an opportunity. Hn.r.'s Uki'atic Panacka. The Liv er is the king imperial organ of the whole human system, as it controls the life, health and happiness of man. When it is disturbed in its proper action all kinds of ailments are the natural results. The digestion of the food, the movements of the heart and blood, the action of the brain and nervous system, are all immediately connected with the workings of the jiver. To keep the liver in a health}' condition take Hill's Ilapalic Pan acea. Only 00 cents per bottle. For sale by S. A. Reeves. WriKN President Polk died ho left his entire cslalo lo his widow, at her death to go to the most worthy person bearing the Polk name, the Slate of Tennessee holding it in trust for the inheritor, and having to decide which it shall be. Mrs. Polk still survives, us is well know, in Nashville. God be thanked for books. They arc the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs, of the spirit ual life ol the past ages. Books are the mnslcrs that teach without scold ing, nnd chastise without stripes. Makes the same use of a book that a beo does of a flower, it steals sweets from it, but does not injure it. Sdbscribr for the Orakoerhro Democrat. 'Knights ?f;rionoi\ .,,/'11 The following statement is publish ed by Ornngeburg Lodge, .No. 1,-102, Knights of Honor, for the information of all who are in tose led in and desire cheap-insurance in u reliable, organi sation. , This Lodge was organized March .10, 1879, and twelve "assessments" have been paid by its members for the year er.ding March 10, 1880, as follows-: ? *W. P. Brunson.$15.00 ?D. E. Smoak.A2m *L. H. Wannamaker.12.00 fJ. C. Bell....,..l....'^36rp0 *VV. C. Bull.......xiw, fH. C. Wannamaker.JliJfi ?J. M. Brunson. 12,Qd *J. G. Wannamaker..12100, *C. It. Jones.ISfcW ?H. G. Sheridan...*.1.12.00 *J. L Sims.,....:12.0(T 'Robert Copes..;vh.12.00' ?F. DeMars.12-.00 *J.C. Pike.12.00 fJ. F. Izlar.i.v.;....13.20 *A. S. Ilydrick.......12.00 ?W. M. Sain..v...4...l?J0O' * W. II. Perryclear._h..r 12.00 M. M. Danner..?vidSM fB. W. Izlar'..:.24.0.Q, ?George Boliver.....;.X2.p0 *J. L. Heidtmau...,l2.0jd[ *H. Kohn.,?,..I'..^......MMi ?W. A. Edwards_.,12,00,, ?J. S. Albergotli....^lg.pO, fO. A. Darby.ri-^&ifni *S. A. Reeves.P2.?0 *A. Fischer....12.00 ?P. Gerlack.......12.00 fJ. Straus.:......-.42i00i ?Ii S. Cummings...,....:i2.00" *M. Albrecht........:.il2;00 ' *J. J. Street..:12.00 : *T. Kohn..,..12.00 ' *T. R. Malone.12.00" *G. W. Brunson.12.00 Note.?Those designated thus *;' are between the ages of 21 arid 45, '; uml pay $1 por assessment; thus f are between the ages of 45 and 53 'and pay from $1.10 to $3.50 per assess- > incut. ??1 i Add to this amount S3 dues and you have what a policy of $2,000 in a reliable association has cost at the ages above staled for twelve months*! ? The total amount paid by the tbir-: ly-seven above named Is $623.40^:1 which will be found to be about one : per cent, upon the amount,($74,000,).: of the thirty-seven policies. While we claim for this insurance associa'ion that it is the cheapest,, we know it to be the safest. We clafp^'V, to have the facility of knowing every , thing that isdotie by. those in charge . of its important nfi'uirs,. Those w?o^ are its recognised heads ate not,. sei re constituted?'hey do not place them selves in office and prescribe their own duties and powers,, (neither do they receive large salaries,) but ' are' ( put there by the po'icyholders them selves, who ulso prescribe their pow- ; ers and duties. They are subject to change every year. We employ no 1 agents, therefore no commissions arc ? taken out. Our annual dues aro smaller than those of any insurance organization (not excepting those ' who, after finding it impossible to'"'' "extinguish" by gross uiisreprcsento/J > lions Lbj Knights of Honor, have ' adopted as nearly as possible their plan.) These dues are no? seut out of the community as theirs are. Of the S3 paid, 25 cents goes to Supreme Lodge, SI to the Grund Lodge, leav ing SI.75 which is spent at home. . whereas in other of these cheap:(?) organizations the dues ,ar'e higher, , and every cent goes otf, we know.pot. where, besides 13 cents for\ postal'^jv j der and stamp on every amount of dues and every Hem ol' premium. The fees required to he paid to be come a beneficiary is small, and 1 in stead of being sent off to pay large salaries they remain in the subordi nate lodge to be disbursed' rfs the members may see Ol. Out of these funds we pay a brother who is unfor tunate and becomes d subled by. sl?k-" ncss or other dissability the sum of $3 j>cr week for each week (after the ? "nsi) he is incapacitated from at-' tending to and following bis usual vocation, I .lave you ever heard of charity in an insurance organization, before? Nevsr. Why ? Because they say charity begins (with them at least) at (The) home (office.) ? ??? Eugenie. The once beautiful Empress Eu genie, who in the bight of her glory reveled and reigrfed amid the splen dors of a French court, is now on her lonely way across the pathless ocean to Zululand to feed her morbid mise ry by viewing the place where the last remindful treasure of her heart fell pierced by the assegais of sav ages. The loss of empire nnd hus band centered all her ambition, hopes and affections in this ono life, and when that was gone, all earthly hopes anil aspirations went with it, and the once beautiful, proud' and powerful1 eroptess is a silent, brokenhearted and unhappy wanderer upon the shores of time, with no hopo of relief to her misery, except through life portals of death. What a commcnla ry upon the vaunting ambition of poor humanity. . :-_t-. , , y.,^' J. B. Merwin, editor of the Amw ican Journal of Education, sayfe : "It is easy to show that money paid, for schools becomes an investment at compound interest."