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The Original "Dixie."
The New Orlenos Tim**-Democrat frives the
following us the correct original of the fam?
ous "Dixie:"
**I wish I was in de land of cotton,
Oid times dar am not forgotten;
In Dixie land whar I was Dawn in,
Arly on a frosty mawnin*.
"Ole missus marry Will do weaber;
Will he was a jray deceaber;
When he pm s his arm around her
He looked as fierce as a forty-pounder.
"His face was sharp as a butcher's cleaner,
But dot didn't seem a bit to jrreab 'er;
Will run away, missus took a decline.
Her face was de color ob de bacon rine.
"While missus libbed she libbed in clober.
When stie die<t she died all ober;
How could >hr act de foolish part
An* marry a mau to broke her heart?
"Buckwheat cakes an* cawn-meal batter
Makes you fal, or little fatter;
Here's a h? alta to do nex* ole missus.
An* all de gah? as wants to kiss us.
"Now if you want to dribc awry sorrow
Come an' bear dis son*r to-morrow;
Den hoe it down ur.' scratch de grabbelt
To Dixie land I'm bound to irabbel."
CHORUS.
"I wish I was in Dixie, hooray, hooray!
In D xie's land
We'll take our stand.
To live nn* die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down Souf in Dixie:
Away, awjiy, aw ar down Souf in Dixie I"
A ROMANCE OF BROADWAY.
..I have earned t&rce shillings,
York, this blessed afternoon!" I ex?
claimed, with ill-suppressed exultation,
as I threw down my pen, which I had
been diligently using for four hours (I
was pennin? "an article" for a certain
"monthly, dear reader), pushed my
closely-written manuscripts from rae,
and took a yellow cigar from my hat,
j which I have made my chief pocket
since my fifth year, the time, I believe,
when my discriminating parents ex?
changed my infant cap for tho manly
I castor. Three York shillings have I
I made this blessed day, heaven be thank
j ed, and now I can conscientiously take
! a little "ease in mine inn!' Whereupon
j I ignited my cigar with a self-enkmd
I ling apparatus, a gift from my consid?
erate landlady-pray heaven she
! charges it not in her bill-to save her
candles, and ascending the three steps
to my window, I scated myself in my
accustomed chair, and forthwith pro?
ceeded to speculate on things external.
It was that calm, lovely time, which is
wont to usher in the twilight of a sum?
mer evening. The roll of wheels in
Broadway beneath me was ceaseless.
Bright forms flashed by in gay car?
riages! The happy, the gallant, the
beautiful, were ail forth to take thc
air on tho fashionable evening drive!
Why was I not with the cavalcade?
Wir?re was my Kosinante? Where was
my "establishment?" Echo answered
.*whoro?" I puffed away silently and
vigorously for a few seconds, as these
mental queries assailed me; and, bless?
ed soother of the troubled, oh, in?
comparable cigar! my philosophy re?
turned.
Diagonally opposite to my window
stands one of the proudest structures
on Broadway. It is costly with stone
and marble, lofty porticos and colon?
nades. The edifice first attracted my
attention by its architectural beauty,
and eventually fixed it by a mystery,
that seemed, to my curious eye, to be
surrounding one of its inmates!
A lady of dazzling beauty was an in?
mate of that mansion, and, for aught I
know to the contrary, its only inmate.
Every afternoon, arrayed in simple
white, with a flower or two in her hair,
she was seated at the drawing room
window, gazing out upon tho gay spec?
tacle Broadway presents of a pleasant
afternoon. I saw her the first moment
I took possession of my dormant nook,
and was struck with her surprising
loveliness. Every evening I paid dis?
tant homage to her beauty. Dare a
poor scribbler, a mero penny-a-liner,
aspire to a nearer approach to such a
divinity, enshrined in dollars and
cents? No! I worshiped like a publi?
can, afar oft "Tis distance lends en?
chantment to the view." But she was
not destined to be worshiped by alL
One afternoon she was at the window,
with a giit-leaved volume in her hand,
when a gentleman of the most grace?
ful bearing rode past my window. He
was well mounted and sat upon his
horse like an Arabian! He was what
the boarding school misses would call
an elegant fellow! a well-bred man
of the world, a remarkably handsonio
man! Tall, with a line oval face, a
bla?k. penetrating eye, and a mustache
upon his lip, together willi a tine figure
and the most perfect address, ho was,
what I should term, a captivating man.
His air, and a certain indescribable
comme il faut, bespoke him a gentle?
man. As he came opposite her window
his eye, as he turned it thither, became
fascinated by her beauty! How much
lovelier a really lovely creature ap?
pears when seen through 'plate glass!'
Involuntarily he drew in tis spirited
horse, and raised his hat! The action,
tho manner, and tho grace, were in im- ?
itable. At this unguarded moment the j
'hind wheel of a rumbling omnibus
struck his horse in the chest. The an?
imal reared high, and would have fall
en backward upon his rider, had ho
not with wonderful presence of mind ;
stepped quietly and gracefully out of |
the stirrups to the pavement, as tho
horse, losing his balance, fell violently
on bis side. The lady, who had wit?
nessed with surprise the involuntary
homage of the stranger, for such, from
her manner of recoiving it, ho evident?
ly was to her, started from her seat
and screamed convulsively. The next
moment he had secured and remount?
ed his horse, which was only slightly
injured by the fall, acknowledged tho
interest taken in his mischance by tho
fair being who had been its innocent
cause (unless beauty were a crime) by
another bow, and rode slowly and com?
posedly onward, as if nothing unusual
had occurred. The next evening tho
carriage was at tho door of the man?
sion. The liveried footman was stand?
ing with the ?teps down, and tho han?
dle of thc door in his hand. The
coachman was on the box. I was, as
usual, at my window. The street door
opened, and with a light step the grace?
ful form of my heroine came forth and
descended to thc carriage. At that mo?
ment (some men are surely born under
the auspices of more indulgent stars
titan others) thc stranger rode up and
bowed with ineffable grace, and (bless?
ed encounter that, with thc omnibus
wheel) his bow was acknowledged by
aa inclination of tho superb head, and
a smile that would make a man of any
soul seek accidents "in the cannon's
mouth." lie rode slowly forward and
in a few seconds tho carriage took tho
same direction. There arc no infer?
ences to be drawn from this; reader. I
All thc other carriages passed tho same
route It was thc customary one! At
the melting of twilight into night, the
throng of drivers and riders repassedi
The "lady's" carriage (it was a lan?
dau and the top was thrown back)
came last of all! The cavalier was
riding beside it! He dismounted as it
drew up t 'ore the door, assisted her
to the pave, aid took his leave. For
several afternoons successively, the
gentleman's appcaranco was simulta?
neous with that of the lady at her ear
strange*: ivo! He dismouDted, open?
ed the door of the carriage, and the
gentleman and lady descended! The
footman had rode his horse, while he,
happy man, occupied a seat by the side
of tho fair one! I watched thc progress
of this amour for several days, and
still the stranaer had never entered the
house. One "day, however, about 3
o'clock, I saw him lounging past, with
that ease and self possession which
characterized him. He passed and re
passed the house two or three times,
and then rather hastily ascending the
steps, pulled the bell. The next mo?
ment he was admitted, and disappeared
from my sight. But only for a mo?
ment , reader! An attic hath its ad?
vantages! The blinds of the drawing
room were drawn, and impervious to
any glance from the street ; but the
leaves were turned so as to admit the
light ol heaven and my own gaze! I
could see through the spaces directly
down into the room as distinctly as if
there w?s no obstruction. This I give
as a hint to all concerned who have re?
volving leaves to their Venetian blinds.
Attic gentlemen are much edified there?
by! The next moment he was in tho
room, his hand on his heart-another,
and I saw him at her feet! Sir-would
that I had language to paint you the
scene! Lady-I then learned the "art
of love!" I shall have confidence, I
have h io so good a pattern, when I go
to make my declaration! Tho decla?
ration, tho confession, tho acceptance;
all passed beneath me most edifyingly.
Then came the labial seal that mado
his bliss secure. By his animated ges?
tures, I could see that ho was urging
her to some sudden step. She at first
appeared to be reluctant, but gradually
becoming more placable, yielded. The
landau was at the door in ten minutes.
They came out arm in arm and entered
lt! 1 could hear the order to the coach?
man: "Drive to St John's Church!"
"An elopement," thought L "Having
been at the breaking cover, I will be in
at the death!" and taking my hat and
gloves, I descended, as if I carriod a
policy of life insurance in my pocket,
the long t?isrhts of stairs to the street,
bolted out bf the front door, and fol?
lowed the landau, which I discerned
?ust turning the corner of Canal street
followed full fast on foot. I eschew
omnibuses. They are vulgar! When
1 arrived at church the carriage was
before it, and the "happy pair," al?
ready joined together, were just cross?
ing the trottoir to re-enter it! The
grinning footman who had legally wit?
nessed tho ceremony, followed them.
The next day, about noon, a capa?
cious fnmily carriage rolled up to the
door of the mansion, followed by a ba?
rouche with servants and baggage.
First descended an elderly gentleman,
who cast his eyes over the building, to
see if it stood where it did when bo left
for the Springs. Then came, ono after
another, two beautiful girls, then a
handsome young man. 4*How glad I
am to get home again," exclaimed one
of the young ladies, running up tho
steps to the door. "1 wonder where
Jane is that she docs not meet us?"
The sylph rang tho bell as she spoko.
I could see down through the blinds
into tho drawing room There was a
scene!
The gontleman was for going to the
door, and tho lady, his bride, was try?
ing to prevent him. "You shan't!"
"Twill!" "I say you shan't!" "I say
I will!" were interchanged as certainly
between the parties as if I could hoar
the words. The gentleman, or rather
husband prevailed. I saw him leave
the room, and tho next moment open
the street door. The young ladies
started back in the presence of the new
footman. The old gentleman, who was
now at tho door, inquired as he saw
him, loud enough forme to hear. "Who
in the devil's linnie are you, sir?"
"I have the honor to be your son-in
law."
"Thc devil you have! and who may
you have thc honor to be?"
"The Count L-y," with a bow of
ineffable condescension.
"You are an impostor, sir!"
"Here is your eldest daughter, my
wife," replied the newly made hus?
band, taking by the hand his lovely
bride who had come imploringly for?
ward when the disturbance reached
her ears. "Hero is my wife, your
daughter."
"You aro mistaken, sir, she Is my
housekeeper!"
A sceno followed that cannot be do
scribed. The nobleman had married
the gentleman's housekeeper. She had
spread thc snare, and like many a
wiser fool he had fallen into it.
Half an hour afterwards a hack drove
to the servant's side door, and my he?
roine came forth, closely veiled, with
bag and baggage, and drove away.
The Count, for such ho was, I saw no
more! I saw Ms name gazetted a day
or two after ns a passenger on a packet
ship that sailed for Havre. How he es?
caped from the mansion remaincth yet
a mystery.-Every Other ?Saturday.
Short Taits With the Boys.
Come, now, my lad, but you want to
run away. No boy ever yet reached
the age of 15 without having several
times firmly resolved to leave home.
When a boy has made up his mind to a
thing of this sort he ought to carry it
out by all means. The first step in the
programmo is to begin saving up bread
and meat When you have a bushel or
so of provisions hidden in tho barn or
under thc wood-shod you aro ready for
tho battle with tho cold world. Make
your start at night This will prevent
thc sun from tanning your complexion,
and you will be quite cortaiu of tho
company of a tramp or two.
Some boys leave a note pinned to tho
pillow of their bed. This note goes on
to say that the boy has been jawed,
bulldozed, starved, pounded and
knocked down and dragged out, until j
he has made up his mind to sever the
connection. Ho will never be heard of
more.
When you havo packed up your little
bundle and are off it will bc well to
settle upon some plan for tho future.
Perhaps you want to be a sailor? Noth?
ing is easier. Make your way to porno
lake q?r seaport, and most any captain
wili take you. If he cruft disgust you
with tho sailoring business in about a
week, tar buckets, sea-sickness, poor
provisions and a rope's end will be
called ujjon to assist him.
Perhaps you want to become a
mighty hunter? Mighty hunters are
not made in a few days or weeks. You
want to begin by letting your hair and
finger nails grow, sleeping in a swamp,
and wasting $2 worth of ammunition
to kiil a ten-cent chipmunk.
ii you have decided to become a
bank clerk, well and good. Make
tracks for the nearest city, and the first
bank you enter will jump at tho chance
of employing you at a salary of ?200
por month. If it should so happen
that the bank didn't do any jumping as
you mado application, you eau cousole
yourself with tho reflection that it is
about to bust
But, speaking in all seriousness, my j
boy, if 1 had a dozen sons I should bc
glad to have each and every one of :
them take his turn at running away j
from home, lt is the jijtsTcure in the j
world for 0that dweaso-- called "swell- i
?g^!^^?2Sita????? ?* romance in |
BHrW Y?u th'ak
of the sparkling sea, the green prairies,
coral strands, robbers1 caves and pi?
rates' treasures. You feel that you
know so much more than your father
that it is a waste of brains for both of
?ou to remain in tho samo house. You
ave been forced to go to school, and
have been ordered to split wood and go
to the grocery after butter liko a com?
mon slave. Don't stand it any longer!
Pick up your duds and leave the house
and go forth into the world.
What! Come to a full stop in the
road before you are a mile away!
You've got a peek or more of sour meat
and moldy bread in a pillow-case, sev?
enteen cents in your pocket, and just
think how your father and mother
have missed you at home! The ro?
mance begins to wear oft, oh? You don't
care half as much about mermaids and
palm-groves and pirate ships as you
did an hour a^o. You hate to leave
mother after all, and perhaps father
isn't so much to blame for bossing you
around. Come to think it all over,
perhaps you'd better return home and
try and stand it for a few more weeks.
Ah! my son, but we've ali been there!
All these wrinkled and dignified and
bald-headed old men you meet on the
streets have had about tho same expe?
rience. We've had that samo period
of "swell-hoad," and eiirhtoutof ten of
us have packed our bundles and slid out
to escape parental tyranny. Eight out
of ten- of us have slipped back again,
too, and tho experience was tho right
sort of medicine for the disease. Any
time you come to feel that you are a
poor, overworkod and downtrodden
boy, and that ii you only liad a fair
show yoitd know more in a minute
than your father doos in an hour, just
skip. Thero's nothing like it.-M.
Quad
BILL ARR
The harvest has begun. The har?
vest sun is shining by day and the
moon by night. Our Burt oats that
were sowed in March have come in
ahead, of the wheat, and are now fall?
ing before the cradle blade. It is a
charming scene. The good old-fashion?
ed way is not a bad way after all. I've
got a reaper, and shall use it in thc low
grounds on the wheat, but the everlast?
ing rains this spring made too many
little ruts and furrows on the upland,
and the cradles are better. Thc ma?
chine jolts aud bumps around so that
Ralph could hardly keep bis seat. But
the oats are good. I have never seen
a better upland crop. Carl and Jessie
follow aloDg iu the wake of the cradlers
and tie up their little bundles, and when
they get tired of that they pile them
into dozens and set them up into shocks,
and are proud of their work. What a
pity it is that we caut all make play of
our work. How fond the children are
of trying to do grown folks work. Carl
wauts a little cradle to reap with, aud
thinks bc could do it splendid, but it
most kills him to take a bucket of water
to the field. That sore on his foot
where he snagged it on a nail harts
awful bad then, and he limps all the
way to the spring and back, but he can
trot to the dewberry patch or the mul?
berry tree as lively and gay as a colt in
the meadow. Grown folks are that way
too. I've known some mighty nice
girls to get tired and most broke down
cleaning up the houee, and cooking,
and sewing, and the like, but they
could wake up to the music that night
and dance till the rooster crowed for
morning. We can all do what we want
to do, aud we go at it with alacrity.
It is easier to go to a picnic than it is
to chureh. But labor and toil has a
sweet reward. We will never reap if
we do not sow. The harvest that is
now at hand is one of the great lessons
of life, for our life is like a field and
our years like the acres, aud our months
and weeks aud days and minutes are
the roods aud rods and yards and feet
which subdivide the whole. Some por?
tions are well sown and tended and
some are not, buta good man will make
an average crop. We may fail here
and fail there, and have our little sins
and weaknesses, but at the last a man
must be measured by his average crop
Character is not made or lost iu a day
or a week, but it takes a life and we can
never write a true epitaph until the life
is closed and wc write it ou thc tomb.
But a few days ago the fields were beau?
tifully green, and the grain bent its
proud heads gracefully before the gen?
tle breeze and seemed conscious of its
life and health aud consequence. It
rcmiuded me of mau iu his prime mov?
ing to and fro upou the earth acquiring
wealth or fame or pleasure, and all un?
mindful of tho reaper. But soon he
ripeus and must fall and make way for
another crop. If the proud head has
boruo fruit, golden fruit, it is well, and
his mission in life is accomplished, but
if clogged and tangled aud corrupted
with cheat and cockle and smut and rust
and brambles tho crop is a failure and
ought to have been cut do wu while it
was green.
I had worked hard all thc morning
helping Mrs. A rp take up her carpeta
for the summer. Thc hay aud dust
that was under had to be swept up ever
so gently-yes, gently-that was the
words she used-'gently, now, Wil
Iian ; you are raising the dust, and it
will bc all over the house. Don't be in
such a hurry--gently.' I got it all up
after a fashion and put out of the wiu
dow in thc wheelbarrow, and put lite
carpets on the feuce ready fur beating,
and then I took lier long handled broom
and swept the walls, and the ceiling,
and the corners, and behind the pic?
tures, and then our chunk of a darky
brought water and washed up thc floors,
and the girls worked un the bedsteads
with kerosene and turpentine and cor?
rosive sublimate and rat poisou and
damnation powder, and 1 dont know
what all, and this morning when my
wife was making up lier bed and lifted
up the corner of the mattress she discov?
ered one of thc biggest, fattest ones you
ever saw, aud lier heart sank down
within her and she reclined on a chair
in despair, i wa.> sorry for her, I was,
for the pesky varmints are her eternal
honor, and if I was rich I would build
her a braud new house and till it. with
brand new furniture, all made of china
wood or camphor wood. 1 care noth?
ing about these silent, perambulators
myself, and it has been hinted to me
on more that) ono occasion that it. is be?
cause I am tough and old and alligator
ish, which I reckon is so, though I
do know some womcu who are uo spring
chickeus themselves. But
from the varn?ij^^?nvhoJH
my sleep broken?
for them, and when found I assume a
theatrical attitude and exclaim in the
beautiful language of Mr. Shakspeare :
'How now, ye secret, dark and mid?
night hags ! What is it ye do?'
Well, I took Mrs. Arp down in the
low land wheat this evening, where it
is thick and green and tall, and I ex?
plained to her all about, wheat being
first in the boot and then in the milk
and then in the dough, and as we walk?
ed along in a water furrow I said that
it reminded me of the old song of 'Com?
ing Through the Rye,' that I would
change it a little, and say :
:'If a body meet a body coming through the
?wheat,
And a body kiss a body, wouldent it be
sweet."
And she smiled and said thc rye of
the poet was not a field but a rocky
branch named Rye, and the lassie was
wading through it when her lover met
her on the rocks and kissed her. So
that knocked all the poetry out of thc
situation, and ? said no more ou the
subject, but I've seen the day when
that wheat field would have been as
good a place for the business as a
branch, and if anything better. While
wc sauntered along old Bob White was
whistling to his loving mate, and we
talked over thc days of our childhood,
when wc used to follow the reapers in
the field and get the partridge eggs
from the nests, and have a big frolic
over them wbeu they were boiled, and
how wc caught the young rabbits in
their nest, and how everything was so
fresh and bright and rosy, and now how
serious and earnest everything had be?
come. Such is life and we cannot help
it, and I dont want to help it. No
matter how old or how poor, there is
sotuo happiness for us all if wc will find
it. The trouble with most of us is we
search for it too far away-away off
yonder somewhere when it is right near
us. Yes, within our reach, if we will
only see it 'Carpe diem/ says thc
poet-'enjoy the day.' Enjoy to-day
and every day as it comes, and dont
let old father time cheat us out of a
moment. BILL ARP.
A Tarheel's View of Colum?
bia,
[Correspondence of the Wilmington Review.]
COLUMBIA, S. C., June 7th, 1884.
Dear Review :
Dull times and depression in busi?
ness are not confined aloue to your city
nor to North Carolina. A few days on
thc wing iu South Carolina and Georgia
shows that the hard times and gloom io
business, occasioned mostly by last
year's short crop have been universal,
and never since the war have the peo?
ple boen so 'down-in-the-mouth' and
despondent. But the dark cloud that
surrounded us is being dispersed. From
every section wc hear the glad tidings
of good crops and hopeful prospects.
Especially is this true around Columbia.
All along thc railroads, and in sections
reached by iuquiring, the crops were
never better, and a smile pervades every
face.
Columbia, I fear, will never be what
it once was For an inland city it is
doing well ; but the pride of the place
dwells in tho pas!-. Take out thc Capi?
tol, the U. S. Court building and thc
Hampton mansion, and the city is void
of magnificent buildings, as it has never
replaced the damage of the Sherman
fire. Sherman burnt 1,430, houses by
actual count. Thc Sidney Park is au
honor to thc city. It comprises 25
acres, and costs the city about $G0 per
month. Its beautiful walks, fountains,
shrubbery, &c, enchants thc visitor
and enraptures him with fancy and de?
light.
I fear South Carolina's pride or am?
bition got the better of her iu the con?
struction of her^capitol. It has already
cost, the State three millions of dollar*,
aud eight hundred thousand is the esti?
mate to complete it. But *I havo come
over to tell you' that it is au elegant
building-'it's immense.' It is highly
elevated iu a square of eight acres,
beautifully and elegantly laid off, and
at the head of Main street. It is 294
feet loug by 192 wide aud about 60 feet
high. Within, it is a picture of grand?
eur. Huge, massive and beautifully
carved columns rise up on either side.
Us elaborately finished pillows and old
time lookiug clcgaucc of finish through?
out reminds ono of au old Roman
temple.
Gu tho left, as you come out, (I
don't know the course for the sun rises
wrong herc) there is a colossal palmetto
tree about 20 feet high, costing about
seven thousand dollars and erected to
commemorate the memory of tho sol?
diers of South Carolina in the Mexican
war. But the most beautiful picture in
Columbia is the grand monument to thc
Confederate dead, 40 feet high. It
stand about 100 feet directly in front of
the capitol, is made of snow white mar?
ble at a cost of ?12,000, and is mount?
ed by a 'Rebel' iu full uniform, with
gun and equipments. It has on it this
eloquent inscription : 'Erected by thc
Women of South Carolina.'
A gentleman of high official position j
told me to-day that Mr. Tilden had no
love for the Souih, as he heard him so
express himself in this wisc : That the
South defeated bim (Tilden) and not
the Republicans in 1870. That is, iu
order to put Hampton of South Caroli?
na, Nicholii, of Louisiana, aud Drew i
of Florida in the gubernatorial chairs ul' j
those States, a compromise was made
by the Democrats in Congress with
Mayes & Go., looking to this cud, and
tn the sacrifice ol' Tilden as president j
There is truth iu this, but st) tai as I ;
can interpret public opiuion, Tilden is i
the man, and the nomination of tho '
.old ticket' will cause ah uprising uu- j
known before in the country.
Aa I stepped oft thc traiu here I ob- j
served some forty hack mou at tho j
station with accompanying vehicles.
Yet not a world did they say-only
keeping up an incessent motioning and
popping of whips : it. surprised me, but.
1 became contented when informed that
the city prohibits any ono soliciting
baggage or passengers to open his
mouth in that behalf. A good law that
saves annoyance to travellers. Let
Wilmington adopt such a law.
LUNG CREEK.
?If you have conic of age'siuce the last
Hrcctiou or will be of age 'by the 7th of
Ktovewber. you have ajjght to register.
What Our Editors Say.
The Sin of Cheapness.
Columbia Register.
Dr. Donald Macleod, a Scotch clergy?
man, recently preached a sermon on j
'The Sin of Cheapness.' He said that j
the 'craving for cheapness and hunting j
after bargains is not only economically i
false, but a cause of great suffering to
thousands of men, women and chil?
dren.
This Scotch divine is a level-headed j
man. This is the age of cheapness aod j
humbug, and lots of poor people are i
being imposed upon in consequence. ?
We have cheap nostrums to poison the j
blood and impair thc vital functions;!
adulterated food producing the same re- j
suits ; shoddy clothing that looks well j
enough when it is brand new, but that
cannot stand the test of usage ; cheap
books and cheap papers, full of trashy
stuff, poisoning the minds aud corrupt?
ing the morals of the youth.
It may be safely accepted as an
axiom that whatever is worth having
at all is worth a fair price, and that it
is in thc nature of things impossible
that any article that is ridicuously cheap
can bear any favorable comparison
whatever with good aud useful articles ;
aud yet such is the rage for cheapness
that thc Cheap Johns in trade, in the
art?, in literature or in journalism
obtain a degree of patronage that dis?
courages the men who have some pride
about them, and are desirous of giv?
ing the public a good article that is well
worth the money invested.
This truth is well exemplified in all
branches of business and as much so
in the newspaper profession as else?
where. Thc proprietor of a newspaper
who puts himself to extraordinary trou?
ble and expense in order that his
patrons may have the latest news of the
day, and who endeavors to make his
paper as attractive as possible in every
department, is expected to come down to
thc cheap rates of some rival journal; and
those who mako the demand never stop
for ono moment to institue any compa?
rison between the respective papers.
One is well printed and pays living
prices to its printers ; the other as a
specimen of typographical work, is ?
about as poor ar the pay that is given j
to its printers. One pays for its news j
service ; the other cribs from its cotem
porarics. In short, thc oue is really a
newspaper; the other merely a shabby,
Cheap John imitation of a newspaper.
And yet the latter too often obtains a j
patronage far beyond its deserts, j
enabling it to eke out a sickly existence !
-one that is, perhaps, not sufficient j
to withdraw from the more deserving j
claimant for public patronage a goodly |
portion of thc support which the latter
has fairly and honestly earned tn the j
service of thc public.
Look at what a good newspaper docs
for thc community whereiu it is located ; I
how many enterprises it takes hold of j
in their incipiency, brings to the attcn- :
lion of the public and keeps before .
them until the matters take shape and I
become actual and accomplished facts, ? !
and yet it too often happeus that thc '
very men who have, through newspaper
influence, succeeded in thc accomplish?
ment of their schemes, turn right
round and take their advertising and j
other pctronage to those who have not I j
helped and cannot help them to any >
appreciable cxteut. Aud so it goes*; ,
Cheap Johns, cheap goods, cheap ,
work, people humbugged sind not find?
ing it out until it is too late.
Tho Negro and the Hule.
Lexington Dispatch.
You begin to notice thc union that
exists between the negro and the ?
mule, the two inseparables. 13c it !
tho cart with one, the truck with two, or i
the wagon with three, it is all one, on i
thc box is a negro invariably. You ? ?
shall not see in the streets of a city a j i
dozen vehicles bearing burdens and I
drawn by mules that thc motive power, ]
so far as the whip goes, is not a i
negro. I
It would be an interesting study, i
this connection of the mule with the
negro. This inseparability of the i
most docile of the races of men with
thc most stubborn and obstiuate of ?
brutes is a mystery which no fellow
has ever yet found out. Probably it
is that thc gentleness of thc ono may
be balanced by the ugliness of thc ?
other. A mule will kick thc head off
a white man but he never so abuses <
a negro. With mules a negro may
safely rush in where white men fear
to tread. And there is another simi?
larity between them. You eau 1
never tell from appearance the agc of
cither negro or mule. Tho mule I
is born with an old expression which
never changes, and when the South- i
ern ne<?ro has attained a certaiu
number of years he never grows older.
Thc only difference is negroes do <
die, and mules do not, naturally.
No one ever saw a dead mule except :
from accident, and seldom tlscu, for
a mule will live and do well after a
railroad express train has gone over '
him.
Anyhow the mules are all driven
by negroes, aud they evidently love \
each other. After the war every
negro wautcd forty acres of laud j
and a mule. If he could have but
one he invariably chose the mule
whether he had any use for him or not.
A Bitter Pill.
Newberry Herald.
A great many prominent Itepubli- !
cans cannot swallow the Chicago nomi- i ?
nation without making wry faces, while { 1
others pronounce it au unclean iliing i '
and refuse to touch it. Thc New V?.rk J
Tutus, the gr at Livpublican daily |
says, 'There will be nothing ambiguous .
in the defeat of Mr Blaine, lie who ]
runs may clearly read che verdict in |
advance: *A candidato unworthy of
confidence and a party t?o cardos of
its own honor to Iv longer trusted with ;
the nations. One word as to the p??si- |
tiou of the Times, lt will not support. ,
Mr. Blaine for thc Presidency, lt will i
advise no man to vote for him.' (
Tile Boston Advertiser, a prominent <
Republican paper, says, 'With una- ,
bated devotion to the giv>ut purposes for i
which the Republican party was organ- ?
ized and has been maintained, we de- i
clare our inability to support the nomi- |,
nation, either in thc present aspect of ! i
the political field or any which now
seems likely to present itself.' Other
Republican papers speak in the same
vein.
The Boston Reform Ciub, an influ?
ential body, calls upon the independent
voters of the couutry to oppose the
Republican nominees, and says that it
'regards the nomination of Blaine and
Logan as an insult to the conscience of
the Couutry ;' and lienry Ward Beech?
er says that 'under no circumstances
would he support that man from
Maine.'
There seems to bc no doubt among
the most respectable men of his own
party that Blaine's moral character has
bceu smirched and that he is character?
ized by a high degree of personal un?
worthiness.
Greenville News.
Samuel S. King, Democrat, was
elected Mayor of Philadelphia by a
combination of Democrats and reform
Republicans in 1832. He did what
had never been done in Pbildelphia
before-appointed colored men on the
police force, making some of them
officers and treating them just as he
did white men. The result was that
at the recent election every negro in
the city, except two or three hundred,
worked and voted against Mr. King's
re-election and for tho Republican
ticket uominated by thc ring that had
been driven from power a year before.
Mr. King was defeated and a Republi?
can Mayor elected. Thc latter imme?
diately proceeded to cater to the white
vote by giving the colored brother a
back seat everywhere. Now the few
remaining colored men on the force
are being weeded out as rapidly as cir?
cumstances will permit, and Phila?
delphia is resuming her policy of idoliz?
ing the negro at the South ond gently
but firmely mashing him at home.
Good Advice to the Voters.
Do not vote for a mae simply because
be chances to be your friend-he may
be an enemy to your country. Do not
voto for a mau simply becauso he is in
destitute circumstances and seeks office
as a means of making a support. The
State is not an eleemosynary institution.
Do not vote for a mau simply because
he treats you to whiskey. The less of
that kind of treattneut may be the bet?
ter for you. Do not vote for a man
simply because he has never held an
office. There are not enough offices
for all of us. Do not vote for a man
dimply because he is now in ofiice.
Better men may be standing near, even
at the door. Do not vote for a man
simply to get rid of him. You cannot
get rid of every man that wants an
office. But vote for him because he is
capable ; because he has brains to fill
an office-the fairness to give every
man his due under the law, and the
pluck with which to back a sound and
honest judgment. Give him office
because he will benefit the country.
Give him office because he has kept his
garments unspotted, his character be?
yond reproach and his hands clean.
Try him in the crucible-measure him
-weigh him in the balance-sound
him to the core-sec that he has no
season cracks about hiai ; aud when
you have found such a man, work for
him like a beaver; fight for him like a
Turk ; electioneer for him like a can?
didate; talk for him like an auctioneer;
md vote for him like a democrat.
Williamsburg Tattler.
A Grand Army Post Against
Grant's Fension.
The various posts of thc Grand Army
of the Republic have becu engaged for
several months in preparing and send- j
mg to Congress petitions in regard to j
pensiou, bouuty, and back pay legis- j
lation. These petitions have been re?
markably uniform in tone, being main?
ly devoted to urging thc passage of the
pending measures designed to increase
the gratuities to those who served itt
the Uuiou army or navy during the
civil war. But Coleman Asbury Post
of Ohio has made a striking variatiou
iu the general style of Graud Army
memorial, lt forwarded to the House
of Representatives, the other day, the
following preamble and resolutions,
which its members had just adopted :
Whereas, Thc Seuate of the United
States has passed a resolution to place
Gen. U. S Granton the retired list
of the army, with full tank and pay of
General of thc Army ;
And whereas, Thc said Gen. Grant
has been highly honored by the people
of tho United States, insomuch that he has
been twice elected to the bouored posi?
tion of Prcsidcntof the United States, for
which services as President Gen. Grant
received thc magnificent sum of ?300,
000 ;
And whereas, Thc wealthy and gen?
erously disposed citizens of the cities of
New York aud Philadelphia have sub?
scribed and placed in trust a further
magnificent sum of ?250,000 for thc
benefit of said Grant, from which he re?
ceives an annual income of overol 5.000;
And whereas, The said Gen Grant
retired from the army of his own free
will, and in perfect soundness of body
?iud health ; therefore be it
Resolved, That we hereby offer our
remonstrance against tho passage of
said bill, aud condemn tho action of
each aud every Senator who voted for
it. bo bo Democrat or Republican.
The motive which urged these ex
soldiers of the Slate iu which Gen.
Grant was boru io take this action ap?
pears from a subsequentresolution that,
thc passage of the bill would be an
'outrage upon the memory of those gal?
lant comrades who fell in the front and
whose widows arc to-day ckeiog out a
miserable existence ou tho beggarly
rae J
?tiin of $S per month, and whoso small
pensions arc no just compensation for
?.ho loss they have sustaiued.'
?- - ? -? -
lion. Samuel Dexter, one of the
iblest. aud most distinguished men of
ids day, a mau whom Boston always
iclighted to honor, once said ; 'Give
me the money drawn from the pocket?
)f our countrymen Cor the support of
drunken paupers, and I will pay the
expenses of the State and National
Government and grow rieb on the
?urplus.' It is over six hundred mil?
lions that the liquor costs^at retaiUjto
Last in Bed Blows the Light
Out
Old Uncle Plowgit and his wife were
holding a sort of love-feast the other
night, recounting old times. As the
worthy couple slowly prepared to retire
(hey went over the days gone by in a
highly entertaining manner.
4i)o yon know, 'Iliah, I feeljnst as
youug as I ever did V said Uncle Plow?
git exuberantly.
'So do I, Enoch,' sprily responded
Aunt '?iab.
^ Then a thought suddenly occurred to
Uncle Plowgit, aud wheeling on his
heel he cried out :
.Last in bcd blows out the light!'
and made a plunge for the side of the
couch. His wife though taken by sur?
prise, was nothing behind bim io
sprightliness, and their aged head? mei
about the middle of the bed with a
startling thump. Aunt 'Riah doubted
up on the floor, and Uncle Plowgit,
rubbing top of his head, muttered,
.What two durncd old fools we be.
anyhow V-Pittslurg Chronicle-Tele?
graph.
In His Wife's Pocket.
A fire broke out in a dwelling-house
thc other night, and after the man and
his wife had safely reached the street
the latter said that there was fifty dol?
lars in the pocket of her dress, which
was hanging in a secoud-storj back
room.
'I'll go for it,' said the husband, and
he plunged into the burning build?
ing.
The flames raged furiously, and the
man did not return. At the expiration
of an hour the fire was extinguished
and the back building saved. Firemen
groped their way up the rear stairs
through water and blinding smoke, and
found the man in thc closet still fum?
bling at his wife's dress, looking for
the money.
I/o was nearly suffocated with smoke,
but had strength enough to say that he
thought he would have fouud the pocket
inside of two hours. It never occurred
to him to seize the dress and rush ont
with that. Some men get so excited
and nervous in time of fire.-Norris?
town Herald.
'?mm mmm
The Countess Queen.
A notico appeared in the Neics of
Thursday stating that this famous cow
had yielded three pounds and two
ounces of butter from one days milk?
ing. An accurate account was kept of
her yield of butter for ss von days com?
mencing ML;y 29th and. ending June
4th During that time her yield was
eighteen pounds and three ounces of
butter. She is with her first calf now
four months old. This test is not con?
sidered a thorough one as ber calf has
not been weaned and has to be turned
in to the cow so as to make her give
dowu her milk. On one of the
seven days she yielded the three pounds
and two ounces of butter as reported.
She will undoubtedly rank among the
famous three pound cows. She is ono
of Mills & Walker's herd of Jerseys
now at Millsdale Farra near Greenville.
She is registered, number 14,519, and
her pedigree traces liberally into the
most popular Jersey strains. She is
from the noted herd H. D Parker, of
the Parker House, Boston, Mass, is
there another cow in the State that can
beat the above record?-Greenville
News. _
The italian Government offers?2,000
to thc inventor of the best method of
transmitting electricity to a distauco.
Thc Brooklyn Bridge was one year
old on Saturday. During the year over
six millions of people crossed it on foot,,
and thc total receipts were $391,770-.
The Governor has commuted to im?
prisonment for lifo the sentence of
Richard Jeffcoat, who was convicted at
thc Orangcburg Court of murder, and
sentenced to be hanged on the 6th of
June.
Chicago boasts of a lady now
04 years old who used to sit in
(ieorgo Washington's lap. The more
we hear about George the more we get
shocked.
If a man wants peace to reign in
thc household he simula count ten
before speaking at times when be
fcels as if his clothes don't fit him.
And on days when the kitchen.
stove doesn't draw bc should count 480^
Thc town of Chappels, in Newberry
county, which was destroyed by the
recent cycloue, is to bc rebuilt again.
On Thursday of last week a large num?
ber of lots wore sold there and many of
them were bought by Edgeficld men.
The salo of lots amounted to about ?S,
000, the price of a single lot ranging
from ?05 to ?400.
Thc Greenville Guards at a late
meeting discussed a proposed trip to.
Casar's Head and encampment there
during the summer. The expedition
was almost certainly decided on, but the
arrangement of details was left for the
future. If practicable, the company
will arrange to be in camp at the Head
at tho same time with the Sccoud Bat?
talion from Charleston. A proposition
is being discussed to fix a camp for the
Charleston aud Greenville companies,
on Paris Mountain for three or four
days before going to Ciesar's Head,
during which time a grand ball may
be arranged io the city.-Greenville
News.
]( we denude our hills and slopes of
tho forests which form their natural pro?
tection, in less lhau fifty years we may
expect to see half of the south Atlantic
states reduced to a sterile area. The
raitt will wash the soil from the hill-,
tops first and then from the tdopos. The
naked rocks now covered with loam
ami clay will be laid bare, and will re?
flect thc rays of the sun and
increase thc summer heat; storms will
blow unobstructed over thc country,
aud every change of thc wind will
cause an abrupt change in the tempera?
ture. Thc rainfall will bc diminished
and become irregular. Periodical
freshets will carry away the best par*
of the soil, eveu from the valleys.
These unavoidable results of thefurtne
devastation of timber are pointed?
by all writers of forestry, and &M