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A DISTRACTED PARENT.
Five daughters-four of them engaged
I think I shall go mad !
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No parent ever had.
The very atmosphere is charged
With it; no matter where
I go about the house, I trip
Upon some whispering pair.
At evening when I take my pipe
And seek a quiet nook
To sit and read my paper, or
Some new and tempting book,
I ope, perhaps, the parlor door,
When a familiar sound,
Quite unrnis.takable, suggests
It is forbidden ground.
So then more cautiously I tnrn
? To our reception room ;
But, lo ! again upon my ear
From its romantic gloom
Comes softly, yet with emphasis,
- That warning; when I start
And leave as Lady Macbeth wished
Her guests would all depart.
My nest resort is then the porch,
Where roses trail and bloom ;
Ha! is it echo that betrays
The joys of yonder room ?
Ah, no ! a startled change of base
Reveals the presence there
Of Cupid's votaries, and alasl
There's still another pair.
"Bot sure," I think, "my library
Will be a safe retreat."
So ?here at once with quickened step
I take my wearied feet.
Vain hope-that warning sound again,
Breaks on my listening ear ;
Thank heaven ! my youngest hath not yet
Attained ber thirteenth year.
Hark ! there she is 1 and bless my heart,
That popinjay, young Lunn
Is at her side-I do believe,
That she, too, has began.
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Of future married joys,
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THE STEW TEACHER
'That is tbc new school-house, is it ?'
inquired Miss Alice Ray, the 'new
teacher,* as the farmer's plodding little
team passed by a little white house
standing endwise to the road, inclosed
in a rather dilapidated fence.
'Yes, that's where you'll hold forth,'
remarked Uucle Zeke Woodburn, 'but
I'm afeered you won't hold out long,
far we've got the toughest set of boys
in the State, and Uncle Zeke gave a
kind of chuckling little laugh as he
thought of the timid, demure little dam?
sel at his side controlling the boys of
Bear Creek school.
'But don't the directors expel them
when they are beyond the control of
the teacher?' asked Alice, her heart
beginning to sink at the prospect before
ber.
'Expel 'em ! no, we never expel no?
body ; if a teacher can't boss the school
we just let it boss him ; it ain't our
fight, an' the school herc generally
bosses the teacher, an' thar's been some
pretty good men licked in that school?
house by the boys.'
*I did not know the school was so
unruly,' said poor Alice, wishing hear?
tily that she had hired out as a washer?
woman instead of trying to teach the
savages of Bear Creek.
'Oh, well, m eb bo it won't be so bad
thiswiuter; thar's Jim Turner, he's
one of toe toughest of 'cm ; he'll bc
tweoty-one in a mouth nnd you'll get
rid of him ; but thar's the Brindley
boys, they're mighty uigh as bad.'
Poor Alice listened with a sinking
heart. The cold bard duties before her
were dreary enough at best ; but; to go
alone and unknown into a strange
neighborhood to teach her first school
and to be met at the outset by such
dark prophecies made her feel homeless
indeed. She was naturally a timid,
shrinking little thing, and if she had
possessed anywhere cn the whole broad
earth a roof to shelter her she would
have turned back from Bear Creek
schcol even then. But she had no
home. Her mother had died when she
was but 14, and she bad kept house for
her father two years when he died,
leaviug her all alone. Before he died he
advised her to spend the little sum he
would be able to leave uer in fitting
her herself for a teacher, and Alice had
fulfilled his directions so literally that
when she had completed her course of
study at the normal school she had
barely ten dollars left, and when she
paid Uncle Zeke for hauling her and
ber little trunk from thc nearest rail?
road town to the district where she was
to teach, she had but five dollars left.
On Monday morning as she started
for the school-hcuse she felt as if site
was going to the scaffold. Her course
of pedagogics in the normal institute
had included no such a problem as this
school promised to be, and if it were
not for very shame she would have
given her single five-dollar bill to any
one to take ber back lo the railroad and
pay lier fare to L., the town where she
had attended school.
When she arrived at the school house
about twenty or thirty pupils were
grouped around talking, but a spell of
silence fell upon them as she walked up
and saluted them with a 'good morn?
ing,' which was more like the chirp of
j a frightened bird than anything else,
i As she unlocked the door and entered
I what she had already begun to regard
j as a chamber of torture, two or three
j slowly followed her into the room, and
I depositing their books upon thc whit
] tied desks took seats and fixed their
i eyes upon her with a stare that did not
I help to strengthen her nerves
AU the rules and regulations of her
'Theory and Practice of Opening School
upon the First l)ay' seemed to vanish
j and leave her brain whirring in dizzy
j helplessness. She tried to think of
? some cheerful remark, but her brain rc
I fused to form the thought and her
j tongue clove to thc roof of her mouth,
j She could see in the faces of her pupils,
j most of whom were now in the school
! room, that they wore aware of her
fright and enjoyed it thorougly. By a
strong effort she partially recovered
herself and bravely resisted the tempta?
tion to lean her head on the desk and
have a good cry. She felt that she
must do something or faint, so she rang
the bell, though it lacked fifteen min?
utes to nine. She then began taking
down the names and ages of her pupils,
and by the time this was completed she
began to feel more at ease. She then
began examining the pupils in the dif?
ferent branches in order to assign them
io their proper classes. She had finish
e^heex|a^'itioD in all the branches
ina i m?i mum III mn ? wifcf ?? imiiiii iwn^'Jica
grown girls and young men, amor
whom was the terrible Jim Turner,
whom she had been warned.
Several of the members of the cia
had read, and it was now the turn
Moses Bradley, a huge, heavy-set fe
low, with small, malicious eyes and
general air of ruffianism. When 1
was called upon to read he did not ri:
from his seat, but began to read in
thick, indistinct voice from a book bi?
den in his lap.
'Mr. Bradley, will you please star,
up when you read ?' asked Alice.
'I kin read just as well settin' down
replied the fellow with a dogged air.
'But it is one of the rales in a rea<
iug. class to stand up and read,' sa:
Alice, her heart quaking with fear \
she foresaw the incipient rebelliou.
'I reckon you will have to make
new rule for me theo / impudently ai
swered Mose, glancing sideways at h
compaoions with a grin of triumph.
'if you do not obey me I shall I
obliged to punish you/ said Alic?
bravely, though she could scarcel
stand up.
'I guess all the punishment yo
could do wouldn't break any of m
bones,' replied the ruffian, leering t
her impudently.
'But I can break your bones for yo
in half a minute, and I'll do it if yo
don't stand up and read as thc teaehc
asked you to,' said a voice at the othc
end of the class, and Alice looked i
that direction and saw Jim Turner ste
from the class and face the astonishe
Mose.
Mose's insolent manner abated in a
instant, his face turned pale and h
muttered something about not bein
'bossed by other boys,' but he stood u
as he was commanded.
Alice could have kissed her youn
champion for very gratitude, but sh
mustered all the dignity she could com
marni and said :
'Mr Turner, I cannot allow you t
interfere in the management of m
school ; take your seat.' .
The youth obeyed without a word
but kept his eye on Mose, as if watching
for any delinquency. After this Iittl
episode the exercises proceeded withou
interruption till noon.
Alice had no appetite for dinner
She leaned her throbbing head upoi
the desk and wondered wearily how lon?
she could endure this.
She was aroused by one of the littl
girls running up to her, exclaiming
'Teacher, teacher, the big boys ar?
fighting !' She followed the child, ex
claiming. 'Oh, why did I ever com*
into such a den of wild beasts?' At tin
rear? of thc school-house stood Jin
Turner engaged in a hand-to-hand com
bat with Mose Bradley and his tw<
brothers, both of whom were grown
As Alice stepped around the corner Jin
sent Mose reeling to the earth and thei
turned like a lion upon his remaining
two assailants. They rushed at biu
from two sides, but Jim was as activ<
as a panther, and Bill Bradley fell, ai
if shot, from a left-handed blow, ant
his brother Tom followed him in an in
stant. By this time Mose had secure*,
a ball-bat acd rushed upon Jim, bu
the latter evaded thc blow, and wrench'
ing the bat from his hand knockee
Mose headlong with a blow of his fist.
As the discomfited trio arose Jin
laughed lightly, and asked them 'how
they liked it as far as they had got,
picked up thc bat he had taken from
Mose, and called out, 'Como on, boys
let's have a game of ball.'
Thc combat ended so quickly thai
Alice had no chance to interfere, bu
she felt that it would not do to let this
open violation of school rules pass un?
punished, so she rang the bell. Whet
the pupils were assembled she calico
the culprits up to thc desk, and asked
what the fight was about, and who be?
gan it. Thc Bradleys stood sullen and
silent, but Jim answered, 'I would
rather not tell what it was about, but 1
began it by knocking Mose Bradlej
down ' Alice knew thc fight was thc
result of Jim's espousal cd* her cause in
the reading class, and her voice falter?
ed as she said : 'Then I shall have tc
punish you ; hold out your hand.'
Jim obeyed her instantly. She took
up the ruler with a trembling hand and
began the punishment. Jim's face
never changed a muscle. Thc look
upon it was one of quiet obedience, in
which there was no trace of either bra?
vado or sullenness. As Alice inflicted
the blows upon the hand so quietly
held out to her, the thought rushed
upon her mind that she was smiting the
only hand that had been raised to be?
friend her in that lawless region.
lier face grew pale, tho blows fell
falteringly, thc tears began to run
down her cheeks, thc ruler fell from
her hand, she sank into ber seat, buried
her face in her hands, and burst iuto a
storm of sobs.
Then Jim's countenance changed.
His lip quivered, he dashed his hands
across his eyes to clear them of unnatu?
ral dimness, and the great lump in his
throat seemed to choke him. A chuckle
from Mose Bradley recalled his self
posscssion, however, and he took a stop
ur two toward the latter with eyes that
fairly blazed with hut indignation.
Mose rapidly retreated a step or two,
j and his chuckle died an untimely death,
and for a full minute silence reigned
over the school-room. At last Alice
raised her head and in a broken voice
dismissed thc pupils to thc play?
ground.
As t^gj??hildrcn passed out. she heard
some say : 'So you got. a whipping after
all, Jim,'and Jim's reply: 'Yes, and
I got. enough to pass some of it around
if anybody is anxious about it.'
At 1 o'clock Alice rang the bell with
a feeling of utter despair ; but no school
ever moved more smoothly than did lier
school that afternoon. Quiet obedience,
study, good lessons and respectful at?
tention were universal. But Alice had
determined to quit the school ; she felt
as if she would rather bc thc poorest
washerwoman than to bc badgered, bul?
lied and tortured for months at a time
by a set of brutal ruffians, whose pa?
rents employed her for tho sole purpose
of enduring this martyrdom.
So when Alice locked thc school?
house door that evening it was with a
mingled feeling of relief and humilia?
tion that she started to offer her resig?
nation to th? ?*rectors. As she left
toward home. She called his Dame,
and he stopped and respectfully waited
until she had overtaken him. 'Mr.
Turner/ she said. 'I am going away in
thc morning, and I wish to thank you
for your brave defense of me at the
school to-day, and to ask your forgive?
ness for the punishment I so unjustly
inflicted on you,'and in her earnestness
Alice held out her little trembling hand,
and Jim instantly grasped it.
*I have nothing to forgive,' said he ;
'you could not do otherwise and neither
could I ; but you are surely not intend?
ing to quit the school ?'
'Yes,' answered Alice, 'I would
rather die than pass through three
months of such scenes as I have to?
day.'
'But you will have no moro trouble ;
there is no one in the school that would
be at all likely to give you aDy trouble
except the Bradley boys, and as long as
I am there I will answer for their good
behavior.'
At last Jim's eloquence prevailed
and Alice finally consented to teach a
week longer, and at the end of that
time she decided to stay, for never did
a school move along more smoothly.
At her request Jim was allowed to re?
main during the term and as soon as it
closed he weDt to college.
Alice taught the Bear Creek school
successfully for three years, but in the
end Uncle Zeke's prediction was veri?
fied, for Jim Turner came back and
broke up the school.
He married the teacher.
The Love of Money.
Money is a right gocd thing and no
sensible man will turn up his nose at
it. Money brings comfort aud leisures
and Solomon says in leisure there is
wisdom. A man who has to be digging
away every day for a living don't have
much time to read aud reflect and
ruminate. It don't matter whether he
is a merchant or mechanic or farmer or
a professional man, if he works hard all
day he wants to rest at night.
Money promotes domestic tranquility
and that is the biggest and best thing I
know of. But money ought to be hard
to get, so that its real value may be
appreciated-money has to be earned to
be prized. If it is inherited or drawn
in a lottery or won at game of chance
or found in thc road or obtained by
lucky speculation in stock or bonds or
cotton futures, it goes at a discount. It
is undervalued and dont stick to a man
long. A fortune gained in a year
rarely sticks to anybody. Luck is a
right good thiog whoo it follows along
with labor and honesty, but luck by it?
self is a deceiver. 'Trust to luck' is
the devil's maxim. I knew a hard
working man who was so anxious to get
ahead that he stinted his family and in?
vested part of his earnings in the
Louisina lottery for five years and never
drew but ten dollars Ile told me he
had lost five hundred dollars that way,
aud every time he saw the list publish?
ed of thc lucky numbers and read about
thc lucky men who drew the prizes it
fired him up aud he tried it again.
Sometimes I wish Uncle Jubal and
General Beauregard would tote fair and
publish a list of them fellows who dident
draw anything. But I reckon that
would be so long and occupy so many
columns in the newspapers they couldent
afford it.
lt is just human I know to want more
moue}- than we have got especially if
we are hard ruD and living ou a strain.
I want more myself, and if I was to
find a huodred dollars in the road I
couldent help hoping that the owner
would never miss it, aud never call for
it. Just like a boy who finds a pocket
knife and feels like it is his, but that
sort of money is not as solid and satis?
factory as money we work for. I know
an old preacher who had ten dollars
and his son had ten dollars and the
young man went down to Atlanta and
took all the money to buy some things
aod he came across a wheel of fortune
and saw a fellow win ten dollars just as
easy, aud so he was pursuaded to try
his luck, and shore enough he won ten
dollars, and it hope him up mightily
and he tried it again and won some
more, and he kept on until he had won
fifty dollars and become a fool, for right
tuen his luck changed and he lost itali
and his ten dollars and his daddy's ten
besides, and had to borrow a dollar and
a half to get home OD, and like to have
perished to death in the bargain. Well,
he belonged to the church and they had
him up and tried him and he made a
clean breast aud told how lie was over?
taken and tempted and how he went on
and ou until he had made fifty dollars
clean. 'Aud right there' said thc obi
man 'is whar John's sin begun. If he
had stopped right there it would have
been all right but. like a fool he went
on and on to destruction. Well, John
wascnt such a dreadful sinner after all,
for he wanted thc money to buy some?
thing to please thc old folks. But
mouey dont come that easy very often.
I know a man who has been kept on a
strain for five years working out. of his
losses on cotton futures. Sometimes
luck runs along with a man for ten
years and more, and that makes him
vain and he thinks his judgment is in?
fallible and suddenly he collapses like
Seney and Kn o and Keene. No money
is safe except that made by honest
men.
Thc rewards of laborare mighty good
and sure. Here I set in my piazza and
look over my farm and sec the wheat
and the oats all in a strut and waving
so beautiful in tho breeze and 1 foci
proud and sereno for I sowed that
wheat myself aud helped to prepare thc
land, and it is my wheat and my oats
and come honestly and wascnt made out,
of somebody else, and it does me good
to cut a few choice heads and bunch
'em and take 'em to towu and show the
folks what. 1 ean do. lt boats money
made by luck all to pieces, and so does
j walking in my garden and digging the
potatoes 1 planted and working them
ever so nice and bringing them in the
house to show to my wife and hear her
.?ay, 'they are very fine.' She never
says much on that Hoe, she dont, but a
I little goes a great ways with me. She
! never indulges in rapture, she never
! uses adjectives to any excess,, such as
]""a1T iYiftfli0i?lfl? T10"^'^ ancl tn0 ^e.
going to get ber a mess of raspberries
to-day, the first of the season, nod I'll
I surprise her with 'em at dinner time.
She likes that. Women like these lit?
tle thoughtful attentions. They arc
like oil on the axletree, and makes the
machinery run smooth. But then
there ought to be a little money to mix
up with such things. Money is a good
domestic lubricator itself. A man feels
more like a gentleman with some change
in his pocket, and he ought to always
have a dollar or so just to feel of. It
I stiffens him up and keeps him from
feejiug like a vagabond.' And woman
wants some too When a pedlar comes
along with tin ware or a wagon load of
jugs, or the Gypsies come along with
lace, or the book agent comes along with
pictures, and besides it is such a digni?
fied comfort to have a little hid away
for the children when they are just
obliged to have something to wear and
dont want to ask papa for the^moncy,
for he is so hard ruu and talks so poor
all thc time.
This is thc kind of money that goes
for all it is worth-money that conies
hard, money that is earned. Even
woman doe* not prize monev when she
has oodles of it and has every want
supplied. Folks must be cramped to
bc happy. They must have something
to stimulate them. Something to pro?
voke economy and industry, and Tm
thankful we've always had these stimu?
lants at my house BILL A?L?.
A Word to the Colored Peo?
ple.
Now that another election is ap?
proaching, thc question naturally arises
before thc colored people, What shall
we do? What action shall wc take,
what course shall wc pursue? To tiiose
who are contemplating these questions,
and wh) arc trying honestly to decide
what is best to do, wc offer a few words
of advice. That the day for thc color?
ed man to hold office and rule.in South
Carolina is passed docs not admit of a
a single doubt. That intelligence and
honesty must reign supreme in every
land over ignorance and corruption is a
fixed principle that has predominated
ever since the world was. That white
people will and must mle this country
is a fact fixed beyond controversy.
That the Democratic party, through a
determined effort wrested thc govern?
ment of this State from the hands of a
thieving, carpet-bag crew, and arc
equally determined to hold it forever
against such a set, is matter of history,
and could well have been embraced in
the statutes of thc State. That there
is not thc least shadow of a chance for
the success of thc colored vote, led by
a republican, independent or green
backer, their futile efforts of the past
eight, years is sufficient proof. What
then ought thc colored people to do iu
the matter ? lo view of their ignorance,
io view of the fact that pol?tica! cam?
paigns wherein thc diverse sentiments
of th'c two races come in contact, en?
gendering and fostering enmity, and
teudiog to increase instead of diminish
the prejudice between the races, and in
view of the fact that there is no possi?
ble chance for the colored people to ac?
complish anything let whoever may
lead them, we think that thc best thing
for them to do is to romain at home,
look after their work, the interest
of their families and the educa?
tion of their children, Wc don't sug?
gest even that you stay away from the
polls, go there by ail means if you de?
sire to, and vote for whom you please.
But wc do say you can gain nothing by
leaving your work to attend thc meet?
ings of a set of sore-heads who for thc
past two or three years have attempted
to ride into office on the backs of thc
colored people of this section. These
independents or greeubackcrs so called
wc know carry sweet stories to thc col- j
ored people of tho heavenly future,
when by persistent effort, they
envelop them in the delusiou that the
day is not far distant when they and the
colored people can agaiu hold thc reins
of power. Listen to them no longer.
Fate has decreed the present generation
of colored people shall not rule this
country, lt is probably not your fault..
Unfortunate circumstances deprived
you of thc privilege of becoming good
citizens, as it deprived you of intellec?
tual training; wc advise you therefore
to submit patiently, aud resignedly to
this fate. Stay at home and provide
for your families, take advantage of the
opportunities now offered for thc educa?
tion of your children. Try to teach
them in thc ways of truth, and houesty
and obedience, endeavor to thc best of
your knowledge to make them good cit- j
?zens, traiuing them in that manner
that when they grow up to fill your
place they may bc worthy the respect J
and name of citizen. Wc write this
because wc feel an interest in thc wei- 1
fare of the colored people in their place.
As WC have often said, they aro thc
only laborers that can ever satisfy thc
South. And once this political preju?
dice now existing between the races is
broken up, thc work of tho laborer will
bo better and will command a higher
price, and the colored people will have
tho satisfaction of knowing that, they
and their posterity will have nothing to
fear from emigrant comp?tition. Just
so long as you persist in following un?
principled politicians and in trying to
overthrow good government just so long
will the white people treat you as an
adversary and do as little for you as
possible. Of course they make allow?
ance for your ignorance, still the old
feeling is there. Kud it, this year by
letting politics aione. Attend to your
duties. Listen not to thc oily stories of
corrupt politicians. Strive to win thc
confidence of those whoso interest is
yours. When you do this you will see
a brighter day dawn upon thc colored
firmament of this country. - Marlbf/ro
Democrat.
Not only has oxygen been obtained
in thc form of cystals, as was lately an?
nounced, but l'rof. S. von Wroblowski,
of Krakow, has also succeeded in
causing nitrogen to fall like snow
when subjected toa temperature of o<).'>
degrees below zero, and in solidifying
hydrogen. The extraordinary cold
measured in these experiments was
produced by the boiling of liquefied
oxygen on freeing it from pressure,
jgjgtej fe probably the lowest temperature
What Our Editors Say.
The Stock Gambler's Panic.
Barnwell Sentinel.
While the fascinating operations of
Wall Street sharks have been quite
liberally patronized by the people of
this section of the fjuion, it is very
gratifying to the South that the fewest
number of her people have been silly
enough to risk their all in the hands
of men who find business and pleasure
combined in stock gambling. It is
true that in many instances of a year or
so ago, where failures among busi?
ness men occurred in our Southern
cities, quite a large number of them j
j were traceable to transactions in Wall I
Street, which invariably weot against j
them. Occuring in rapid succession, j
these misfortunes may have been thc j
means of deterring many others who !
j would no doubt have been found mourn- j
fng over some very recent calam- !
tty. With all the experience that
the more venturesome have dearly J
bought, aud in the face of the strong- I
: est advice against ventures in stock
I speculation, there are numbers of peo
le who are barely earning enough to j
live on comfortably, always willing, at j
times when there is no dancer of a
j
panic, to place a part of their carn- j
ings in this hazardous business-in fact, |
many are willing to jeopardize a
business of profit to gain sad expert- j
euee, hoping that they will on some j
j fine morning wake up to fiod them- !
1 selves millionaires ; they are inviara
bly disappointed, just in thc same
manner that five hundred out of five j
hundred and ten of their predecessors j
have been. Ali of this docs'nt seem
to have tho tendency to check the
plucky boys who talk of the hidden
treasures in stock gambliug, and while
their losses are generally small, it is I
only because they eaunot afford to j
make their placings larger. The fall j
of bank cashiers, book-keepers treas- j
urers, bank presidents and old veter- i
ans, (who have weathered the storms
for years,) in less than three weeks
should prove enough to discourage the j
idea that a fortune in Wall Street i
awaits all who venture. These sharks ?
and their business have very little
bearing upon the truly legitimate ;
business of thc country, as has been i
shown in thc recent panic-it effects j
no business except, their owu, and only j
tiiosc banks whose stockholders and 1
managers placed too much con?- ;
dence in the system of gambling in ?
inflated stocks. Let every man who !
may have a few surplus dollars learn \
to bc afraid of Wall Street and his i
own judgment, for it is generally those j
who pride themselves on thc quality of ;
their judgment that are wounded j
deepest. ]
The Ghost of Tilden.
Fairfield Sieze* and Herald.
The great hue and cry all over thc ;
country for thc renomination of Tilden !
aud Hendricks is certainly one of thc j
impenetrable mysteries of modern poli- |
tics. How it is that thoughtful men i
can honestly entertain she opinion for .
a moment, that the renomination of the !
'old ticket' is necessary to tho salva- J
tion of the party, is also unexplainable ?
upon any hypothesis, to us conceivable. I
Against Mr. Tilden, personally, per- j
haps no charge of a damaging charac- j
ter catt bo established, and he was ?
doubtless thc man for the campaign of j
*7G, (?hough this is denied by many.)
But the times and the surroundings j
have materially changed, and the I
issues before the American people dc- !
mand standard-bearers of a different ;
mould and type.
If Tilden were again placed in thc!
field, thc great fraud of 'Tu wouid j
dwarf all other questions, and ques- j
tiona too of greater moment and im- >.
portance. There was in 1880 a great j
and grand opportunity to tight thc bat- j
tie upon that issue, and perhaps it j
would have been wisc then to have j
placed Tilden and Hendricks iu thc lead j
again, but the Convention let the !
chauec slip by, and Hancock aud Eng- |
lish led thc grand old party to defeat j
and crushing disaster.
Tho issue before tho country is thc ;
tariff, and if the Democratic party j
would court victory, it must select for j
its standard-bearers men who have ?
been and are now prominently identi-1
fied with thecause oftariff reform. Mr. j
Tilden is perhaps sound ou this ques- j
tion, but he has taken no prominent j
part in its agitation and discussion and !
consequently would not bc thc proper
mau to lead a tariff reform party.
Delegates to tho National Cor.ven- j
tion.
Marion Star.
The Abbeville Medium has a very j
timely editorial on the election of dele- J
gates from South Carolina to the I
National Democratic Convention. ?
The editor contends that these dole- j
gates should be moro thoroughly in- ;
formed on political matters and free j
from any entangling alliances-men ?
who would go to Chicago free to vote j
for thc best and must available mau i
to head the Democratic ticket. Hr
thinks that possibly such men could 1
be found who are not members of Con?
gress, which should not disqualify them :
but official positions should not j
give them a right to bc delegates, j
General llemphill thinks that men !
who have long been iu public life are j
apt to have their favorites and feel i
under some obligation to support them, !
even if in their judgement other ,
men would be more acceptable to thc ;
people. There is truth in what Gen- i
eral llemphill says, and tho dangel?
lie points out is not altogether imagi?
nary. All nominating coo veinions
should bc composed of fresh male-rial,
and office-holders should be conspicu?
ous by their absence from Mich ;
bodies. The people should be left free ;
to select their rulers untrammeled
hy the influence of men who hold
public positions. I do mean to j
i ti ti mate that ofiice-holders exert a i
corrupt influence on conventions, they
certainly do not ?II South Carolina, but j
winn they are prominent in such places j
charges of 'ring rule' are more apt to be \
believed, and it is much harder to disa- ;
buse the public mind of the impression !
that some political wroug has been perpe?
trated if nominations are made by office
fore, always better to leave the |
selection of officers to men in private j
life, whose miuds arc entirely free
from prejudice cither for or against
any candidate.
Tho Public School Question.
Edgcficld Chronicle.
A few newspapers in the State are i
industriously making war on thc j
public school system, and we regret,
to see that these newspapers have j
some following among the people. A !
large majority of thc intelligent people !
of the S:aie are in favor of support- !
ing the public schools. There can bc j
no doubt about this if we are to judge !
by the utterances of the representatives
in the Legislature and a majority I
of the newspapers. Indeed we have I
not the patience to argue with those j
who arc opposed to thc public school?, ;
as we believe that thc opposition is in- j
spired by a deep seated prejudice that j
stands in the way as a barrier against i
a progressive civilization. Public j
schools arc supported by all the most j
enlightened nations of thc earth, j
and it is painful to see any number of j
people attempting to roi! back thc j
wheels of progress in South Carolina ?
and place thc State in linc with the j
half-civilized tribes of the world. Dut
as we have said we do not believe !
there is any considerable number of j
intelligent people opposed to the pub- j
lie schools, sind it is gratifying to seo j
thc press of the State almost a unit in |
support of the education of thc j
people.
Sliort Talks with t?ie Boys.
BY M. QUAD.
'Harry up-quick V
Now, my boy, you want to stop dead j
still ! They call this a fast a?e, and we i
arc termed a fast nation, but iu spite j
ofthat wc have plenty of time Take j
time to eat. Take time to dress. Take j
time to do whatever ta>k you are en?
gaged in to your complete satisfaction.
I always feel like kicking a lazy mao,
and if I set out ou a journey I can't go
fast enough, but this impatience has
lost me days of time aud a good many
dollars. If I want to make a shelf or
bench I rush for the first handy board,
saw it oiT hap-hazznrd, pound in auy
sort, of nails in any sort of way, and
when the job is complete I have a shelf
which won't fit by a jug-full, or a bench j
which rests on three legs and holds up I
the other one as if it had a sere foot. |
I have taken the wrong street car, j
lugged off other men's bats, left my !
change on ?tore counters, bought sugar !
when I was told to buy butter, spoiled j
any number of boots, offended dozens of [
good mon, aud all because I wanted to j
save time. j
Don't rush The older I grow thc i
less I believe iu the man who leaves a !
cioud of dust behiud him. He will be ?
wrong half the time. Ile will botch j
his work, upset the best calculation,
and lose a dollar for every seventy-five
cents he makes. A petulant, impatient j
boy makes a man who can't keep a j
friend, ile will be obstinate, unrea- I
sonable, unforgiving and thoroughly !
despised. Don't argue that it is born \
ic you and you can't help it. A boy \
can help anything if he has any sand j
in his nature. Ho can exercise
patience or give way to fits of anger ;
which ought to bc boot-jacked out of his
nature to save him from thc gallows. ;
Viiii you hate to bc bossed, ch 1 j
Well, my boy, if wc could all do as wc I
pleased this would bc a (inc country to j
live iu. Our workingmen would get
to their labor at 10 o'clock in the !
morning and quit iu time for 5 o'clock j
supper. Our stores might open in the j
morning or wait until afternoon. Our j
mills and factories would bc run to suit j
thc convenience r?f teamsters and engi- i
neets instead of owners. Our trains j
and boats would leave to suit captains j
and conductors, and some days you j
would get one meal and other days
three. Wc must have bosses and stand ?
bossing. Don't start out with tho idea I
that you eau bc independent. Don't. ;
think you can sit with folded arms and !
bring men to you with fat offers. Don't !
imagine that you arc doing anybody a j
great, favor by calling upon them and ;
hinting around that you could bc coax- j
ed to take a situation. Do as your .
employer directs. If he doesn't know j
his business that's none of your affairs, j
Make up your mind that thc boy who ;
sets out to earn only three dollars per !
week will never get four. If bc is de- i
terminen to bc worth four bc will soon j
bc receiving five.
? eat dowu with a half dozen of you
thc other day. and thc opinion of thc '
majority was that employers didn't !
make any distinction between a smart, i
cuergetic boy and a drone. Don't bc .
foolish, rn}' lad. Nine employers out. ;
of ten had much ra liter advance a boy
than to discharge him. A boy may not :
bc watched as closely as a man, because ;
we make allowances for'his inexperience
and follies and trifling nature, but don't !
you forget that he is soon sized up. It j
he is respectful and truthful and honest
the employer who doesn't realize it. and
reward him is no mau to work for.
Now jet's talk a little further about
the flash literature I referred to a few
weeks ago. I went the other dav and
bought a stack of the stuff in order to
sec just what, it was. When one comes ;
to see thc wretched stuff written and
published in order to catch thc attention
of the boys of America lie must wonder !
if we have any fathers among our law- \
makers. There is a fellow in New j
York publishing a weekly sheet called
thc Young Men ol' An.erica. IP? must
think them a set cd'rascals or idiots. In i
??ne story ho has a hunter who catches
in his band thc bullets fired at him by
i dozen enemies, and it is no work at
ill for bim to put fifty enemies to flight
We want such a man on thc Detroit
police force, but the Superintendent .
will li uve a long hunt to lind him In
another he has a boy whip seven or
eight mountain outlaws. The boy has ?
probably died since. If this stuff was j
held out to you as pure fiction you ;
would be completely disgusted. These j
fiash publishers know this, and so they j
have these stories founded upon well- i
kuown facts aud events which are mat- ;
tcrs of history /
In the paper T have mentioned is a
Marion and bis scouts. The injury
herc consists in historic lying.. You
are asked to accept everything as a
fact, when not one single fact is stated^
as a specimen of what one of the scouts
did when he wasn't trying his best I
will mention that, being pursued by
two British dragoons, he let them fire
four bullets into him at close range, be?
fore it occurred to him that it was a
cold day. He then drew his sword and
cur a right arm front the body of each.
He then rode away in search of roott
beer or something else to cool his
tongue, but hadn't cooled over half of
it before six other dragoons pitched
into him. The first move he made was
to draw that same terrible toad-sticker
and cut o?? two heads. The other four
fired at him, but his brass turned the
bullets aside, and he lopped of the head
of thc third. The remaining three
thereupon rushed into thc woods, and,
the scout was kind enough not to
pursue. Having cut off three heads
and two arms inside of half an hour he
felt tired. Think of such bosh ! We
all like a brave man, but even a boy o(
7 isn't green cuough to believe in such
statements.
In a detective story, in which auine
ty-pound woman is the detective, she is.
made to capture robbers whom three
meu dared not tackle, and to change her
voice twenty-four times per day and her
disguise almost as often. She always
entered robbers' dens by a sewer with?
out, being bitten by rats or getting her
feet wet, and if any one fired a revolver
within a foot of her head, she could
dodge the ball.
Drop 'em, my lad ? There's more
morai poison in one such story than you
will get at, thc circus or theater in five
years. Better be unable to read at all
than to imbibe such stuff. You hate a
boy who lies to you. Then why pay
these men in money and time to deceive
and poison you? If you were told thdt
a boy of 15 had captured six or eight
Detroit burglars you wouldn't believe
it. Then why believe m ihese wretch?
ed exaggerations ? Shut right down
ou that class of men and their publica?
tions, and in three years-they'll have to
earn their dollars in an honest manner
or you'll hear of 'cm behiud the bari.'
Detroit Free J'ress
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News and Gossip.
A Presbyterian Church called
Beulah bas been organised in the
Waxhaws, Lancaster county.
Emma Brown, colored, has been
committed to jail in Greenville, charge
ed with the murder of ber husband, in
December, 1880. ,
In Georgetown, last Saturday, John
Ford, a negro, was shot and instantly
killed by Deputy Sheriff R. C. Davis,
while resisting arrest cn a bench war?
rant issued from Charleston.
An exchange says that a portable oif
mill has been invented that will prove
very useful. Farmers can express the
oi! from thc cotton seed without haul?
ing them away from thc plantations.
This will save much labor and valuable
refuse for fertilizing purposes that oth?
erwise would be lost.
31rs. Lewis, thc wife of the noted
Dio Lewis, figures in thc New York
newspapers as a heroine. A tramp,
finding Mrs. Lewis alone in thc dwell?
ing, walked into the dining room and de-,
manded that he bc served with a meal
like a gentleman. Mrs. Lewis ran for
a revolver, levelled tuc weapon, seized
the tramp by the car and propelled him
into the cold, cold world.
John Swinton has found out that
five cents doubled thirty-five times,
would pay thc National debt. Tho
New Bedford Standard proposed to
donate ge first double and thc Boston
Globe thl second. The other thirty
three doublers have not spoken out.
As tho amounts increase in arithmetical
progression the opinion strengthens
that a national debt is a national bless?
ing.
The new Brighton Hotel, thc grand
Summer hotel which has just been com?
pleted on Sullivan's Island, near
Charleston, at a cost of some ?50.000...
is to be thrown open on tho eveniug of
June 18, with a grand concert by thc
largest and most famous military band^
in tho United States. Thc services of
the band have been engaged for two
weeks and the railroad? give excursion
rates. Tho new hotel is fitted with
every comfort and luxury.
A mulatto girl with a remarkably
pretty but peculiar face wascugaged by
a shrewd Western showman, lie had
a tooth extracted from each side of her
rnou'h, and inserted a pair of long
tusks, covered her cars with false
ones like a beast**, bleached and tan?
gled her abundant hair, and instructed
her to utter an unintelligible jargon.
Tims she was transformed into a valu?
able curiosity, ami her wages of ?15 a'
week did not satisfy her. On the ar?
rival of the show in indianapolis she
attempted to quit, it, nod a row resulted
in an exposure of thc fraud.
.Limes Coward, who was accidontly
shot, by B?ggan Cash when he killed
Richards, died June 2d Iiis death,
from thc first was a certainty, t?nd his
last days were most fearfully spent.
From long confinement to his bed,
owing to total paralysis ofthc lower ex?
tremities, the immediate effect of the
wound, iris body has been iu a terrible
condition. .Vcr some time past thc
flesh has sloughed away from around
thc left hip joint, and exposing to view
the arteries and muscles which alone
connected that member with thc trunk
of Iiis body.
Our sister republic of Mexico is run?
ning too rapid a schedule. She has
ctn barked in an ambitious scheme for
establishing lines of steamers to Eu?
ropean ports on the subsidy plan, and
concessions have been made to another
company with a view to establishing a
Pacific service. At a time when the
Mexicali treasury is empty, and the
government is moving heaven and earth
to borrow a few millions abroad to en?
able it to keep out of bankruptcy and
meet its subventions to the new lines
of railway, it is folly to recklessly
I pledge its credit for the promotion of
visionary speculative projects. With
! out mon economy our neighbor will.be
I compelled to make an assignment, and