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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-29
Courtship after Marriage.

There was much more than mere witticism
in the remark of the old bachelor, who had
paid attentions to maiden lady for twenty
years, visiting her regularly every night when
rallied for not marrying: "lf were married
should have nobody to court, and no place to
go at night"
He had felt deeply the contrast between his
own delicate and ethereal enjoyments and the
hard, discontented fretted life of too many
married people; and his answer was irony.
He saw there was something in courtship
which too often exhales and expires after mar
riage, leaving cold, dull, monotonous burden,
where all was beauty and buoyancy before.
Let us see what that something is. In court
ship nothing is taken for granted. Both par
ties are put on their good behavior. Love
keeps itself fresh and active by constant ex-
preston in word and act. But, strange to say,
courtship usually ends with marriage.
Very soon both parties yield to the sense of
possession, and the feeling of security robs
gallantry of motive, and extracts the poetry
from the mind. The beautiful attentions,
which were so pleasing before marriage, are
too often forgotten afterwards. The gifts cease
or come only with the asking The music dies
out of the voice-everything is taken for grant
ed, and the love, like the silver jet of the
fountain that leaped to heaven and denied its
natural outlet, ceases to flow altogether. Then
come dull, heavy hard days, with two unhap-
PLY tied together, and wishing themselves
apart, and not always content with merely
wishing.
This is unnatural and wrong. What married
life wants to give it new tone and sweetness is
more of the manner as we'll as the spirit of the
courtship, which comes from the constant at
tentions of the parties to each other. Their.
affection voices itself in all possible ways
every sentence is edged with compliment, and
spoken in tender tones. Every look is a con-
fession. Every act is a new word in the ex-
haustess vocabulary of love. Kiss and caress
are parenthetic clauses and gestures in the
dialect of love- Gifts and sacrifices are the
most emphatic expressions of the spirit, no
language can fully articulate and no devotion
declare. And it is the fact that affection con-
fesses itself continually, in look, and word, and
act making the voice musical and the fingers
poetic in their touch and doing, that makes
experience so beautiful, the only Eden many
woman ever has on earth.
Love must have expression, or it will die.
It can be kept forever beautiful and blessed, as
at first, by giving it constant utterance in word
and act. The more it is allowed to flow out in
delicate attentions and noble service, the
stronger, and more satisfying, and more blessed
it will be-
The house becomes home only when love
drops it's heavenly mama in it fresh every day,
and the true marriage VOW is made not once
for all at the altar, but by loving words, and
hel pful service, and delicate attentions to the
end
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A LETTER FROM, DR.. j. 2. BoYCE.-Ihe
Charleston News and Courier is permitted to
publish the following letter from the Rev. Dr.
Boyce. who had been accused of joining MI.
Reed, of Anderson, in the belief that the Con-
servatives should, as choice of evils, vote TOR
the Ring nominees:
LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. Is, 1874.
DEAR SIR: am in receipt of your letter OF
10th, enclosing report of the resolutions py,
Col. j. P. Reed at a meeting at Anderson, and
of his remarks thereon, and also of state
ment by the editor of the Charleston Sun that
from private sources they had heard that the
Rev. DR.. James P Boyce, or Greenvllle, had
taken the position with Mr.. Reed"
If had been in South Carolina lately, or II
had written or spoken to any person aoout
the present canvass for Governor, l might be
puzzled to imagine what, with my views on the
subiect. could have said or written which has
been misconstrued. But as it is, there is not
evey, this shadow of foundation for the state
ment made by the Sun. There is not a senti-
ment in the reported views of Mr.. Reed with
which / concur. I have never for moment
entertained the opinion that South Carolina
conld be redeemed through the party which
has nominated Mr.. Chamberlain for Governor
I do not believe that the State can ever secure
from it an honest administration. Its own ac
tions forbid any confidence in its promises, o
amendment, or any hopes that, even Tor PoilcJ
sake it will abandon the corruption which mas
so constantly marked it.
7 have not said these things lately, but only
because have been far away from the Staee !a!
and have not written or spoken ABOUT poiltlcS
at all. but trust that my old friends IN South
Carolina will ever hesitate to give credenGe 70
don;nr PRINCIPLES which / have so persisteutly
maintained. and to which have 81 frequently
a;ven utterauce. Yours truly,
S0 JAMES P. BoYCE.
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f. J. MOSES, JR.,
Governor S. @.


GERnYMANDER1NG.- Elbridge Gerry,
after being twice defeated, became governor of
Massachusetts in 1910, he planned, or at least
sanctioned, a law for carving the State into
acute-anged districts, the majority OF which
could be depended upon to return democratic
legislators. One of the means used to oppose
the measure was the publication and circula..
tion of sketch of the long-drawn, distorted
districts of eastern Massachusetts. A copy of
# was posted on the wall Of Newburyport
newspaper office. a casual visitor added head
and claws to it, and said to the editor: "See
this salamader." The lattder, filled with sudden
inspiration, replied "I'd call it a Gerryman-
der.n and Elbridge Gerry was damned to ever
lasting fame. When he died, two years later,
as vice-president of the United States, he know
that perrymandering was already a common
word and that the practice it denoted was rap
idly becoming common. The efforts of him
self and his descendant to shake off the odium
of the invention, though they resulted in con-
yerting the later editors of Webster's Dictlon-
ary into the belief that he was innocent (p'de
the Dictionary were of no avail with the pub
lie. Such safe method of stealing the votes
of helpless minority was sure to be practiced.
1t was already named and the name stuck.
All parties rerrymandered whenever they got
into power. 1t is only very recently that pub
lie morality has reached such high pitch that
protests against the practice have had any
weight. Even now it would be hard to lind
anv politician sufficiently snless to cast the
first stone at the idea.- Chicago Tribune.
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Washington News and Gossip.
WASHINGTON. October 19,

The result of the Ohio and Indiana elections
| has aroused the administration party to the re-
alization of the great peril in which the Radi-
cal cause is now placed. 1t is impossible to
conceal that the most serious misgivings are
now entertained as to the success of the party
next month in New York and Pennsylvania.
If the Radical party should lose its hold on
those two great States, it is admitted that its
chances of success in the next Presidential
election are worth veIy little. Conscious of
this, there is renewed activity at the head
quarters of the Radical Congressional Cam
paign Committee in this city. The indications
are already very plain that the Radical mana
gers here, in New York and Pennsylvania, and
indeed throughout the whole country, will
work with all the energy of despair from now
until the ides of November
When Attorney General Williams gave up
the famous landauet which brought his over
weenng ambition to grief, it was supposed
that, in due course of time, all other Govern
ment officials, who were sporting handsome
equipages at the public expense, would follow
his example. Since last winter, attention has
been several times call to this matter, but there
are number of high officials who continue to
defy public opinion by drawing money from
the Treasury to keep up carriages for their
families. No less person than Senator Conk-
ling, of New York, has remarked that Senators
have as much right to keep carriages at the
public expense as any of the department ofli-
cials. This view seems to be rapidly coming
in favor, and several members of both Houses
now say that they are determined either that
the department officials shall stop this practice
or that Congressman shall enjoy the same
privilege.
To-day the Secretary of the Treasury COM
menced the active Inauguration of his policy
of having but one of family in his depart
ment. Twenty-Five clerks, who were found to
have relatives in the department, were notified
that their services would be dispensed with
after the first of November. In connection
with this policy of the Secretary, the knotty
question has come up for decision as to whether
mother-in-law is relation. All the en-
ployees who have mothers-in-law in the de-
partment contend most vigorously that no re-
lationship exists. The Secretary has not yet
been able to make up his mind. When he ar
rives at conclusion on this point he will then
be confronted with the question as to whether
sister-in-law is a relation.
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DOn't-Please Don't.

Don't tell the little one, who may be slightly.
willful, that "she black man will come out OF
the dark cellar and carry it off if it does not
mind" Don't create needless fear to 60 with
the child through all the stages of its exis-
tence.
Don't tell the little five-year old Jimmy "the
school maam will cut off his ears"-"pull out
his teeth"- him up"-or any of the hor-
rible stories that are commonly presented to the
childish Imagination. Think you the little
one will believe anything you tell him after he
becomes acquainted with the gentle teacher
who has not the least idea of putting those ter
rible threats into execution?
Don't tell the children they must not drink
tea because it will make them black, while you
continue the use Of it daily. Your example is
more to them than preccpt; and while your
face is as fair as June morning they will
scarcely credit the oft-told tale. Either give
up drinking the pleasant beverage or give your
children a better reason for its non-use.
Don't tell them they must not eat sugar or
sweetmcats because it will rot their teeth.
Pnro sugar does not cause the teeth to decay ;
and surar with fruits is nutritious and healthy,
notwithstanding the cold saw" to the contrary.
The case of city children is often cited as ifthe
cause of their pale faces and slight constitution
were an over amount of sweetmeats with their
Diet when the actual cause is want of pure air
and proper exercise.
Don't tell the sick one that the medicine is
not bad to take, when you can hardly keep your
own stomach from turning "inside out" at the
smell Better BY far to tell him him the sm
for his health, and you desire him to take it at
once Ten to one he will swallow it with half
the trouble of coaxing and worry of words, and
love low YOU better for your firm, decided manner;
Don't teach the children by example to tell
white lies to each other and to their neighbors.
Guard lips and bride your tongue if you desire
to have the coming generation truthful. Truth
fulness is one of the foundation stones OF heav-
en-. Remember the old, OLD BOOK i. says, no
liar" shall enter within the gates of the beautl-
FIJI city There is no distinction between white
lies lie and those of dark hue. The falsehood
is an untruth, whether the matter be great or
small.-Rural Neao Yorker
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CASH INSTEAD OF CRED1T-People who can
buy for cash alwnys buy cheaper than those
who buy on credit.
carefully. Purchases which are paid for when
thev are made are limited more exactly to the
purchasers wants.
There is nothing like having to count the
money out, when the article is bought, to make
people economical. The amount ofindebtedness
incurred is not much considered when the pay
day is far off.
Persons who do all their business on a cash
basis know just where they stand and what
they can afford; consequently they find few
occasions for rcgrctting in a turn of times, that
thew have INDUCED in this luxury or that,
which they would have foregone had they seen
what was coming.
Real wants are few and can be gratifed for
cash; at all events they should be limited to
what can be paid for in cash.
How much of anxiety, how many sleepless
hours, how many heart burnings, lisappoint-
ments, and regrets would be avoided if this
rule were always strictly adhered to.
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Taking q Photograph.

He was a very pleasant spoken man-that
photographer. He said it was nice day, and
that we needed little rain, and that the Ar
kansas difficulty was bad thing, and that
photographs were three dollars per dozen /; no
orders booked without the cash in advance
He wanted to know if wanted full length,
half length bust, or what l told him "or
what" and he yanked his camera around,
flung the big screens recklessly about, poked
the skylight curtains this way and that way
with long stick, and then ordered me to sit
down.
"a triAe p' he said, giving me another
jerk.
Then he stepped back and closed the right
eye and squinted again.
"Shoulders up |" be said, as he gave them
switch which made the blades crack.
Then he went to the left and squinted and
cried "ha I" and went to the right and squinted
and shouted ''um !" and he came back, seized
nv head and jerked it up until saw stars.
"That's better !" he said, as he walked back
to the camera.
But it wasn't. He came back and told me
to twist the right shoulder round, hump up my
back, swell out my chest and look straight at a
butterfly pinned to a corn starch box, and be
as pleasant as I could.
"Capital! !" he cried, as he took squint
through the camera, "only -"
And he rushed back, jerked my head little
higher, pulled my ears back, brushed up my
hair, and said I'd better try to smile and look
natural.
elbow the deuce -" began, but he
waived his hand, and said 1 must preserve my
placid demeanor.
"Now sit perfectly still and don't move a
hair" he whispered, as he threw black cloth
over the brass bound end of the camera, and
made sudden dive into his little dark den.
AS he ratified the glass and dashed the acids
about felt small pain in my chest, another
in my neck, another in my ribs; but l said
I'd die first, and l kept my gaze on that butter
"Ready, now p' he cried as he jumped out
and put in the glass. My head began to bob,
and the butterfly seemed to grow as large as a
horse, as he whispered, "Look out-keep per-
fectly still r'
braced for big effort. and he jerked down
the cloth. felt as if the fate of nation
rested on my shoulders, and I stuck to it: He
turned away, and heard him talking softly to
himself. After about an hour and half he
put up the rag, jerked out the glass and ran
into his den. He was out in moment, and, as
he held the negative up to the sun, he said
"Ah you bobbed your head-have to try 1t
again "-M Quad.
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Practical Advantages CT the 'sNo Fence" Law

The "no fence law" is in operation in four to-
townships in this (Nlecklenburg( county. me
law went into effect in March, when the people
Nearly all succeeded in getting sufficient pas
ture fenced for the stock kept on their prem
ises.
The law works admirably. The thought OF
never again having to scratch our hands with
briars and thorns, and tangle our feet with
grape vines while mending our old dilapldated
fences, is too good to entertain one moment
without almost shouting for joy. While those
who work on the old plan of fencing up their
fields. will be busy this winter making rails,
hauling and building them on their crazy fen
ces, we will be clearing up our rich fence rows
for luxuriant crop another year. And while
thew are paying out their money for these re-
pairs. we are spending the same in compost
heaps, clover lots, and fall and winter plough
ing.
Instead of being disadvantage to croppers,
it has proved the very reverse. The land
owner sees it is to his advantage to provide his
croppers with sufficient amount OF pasture
for all their stock. If, however, any one
should fail to do this, his more just and wise
neighbor will have the refusal of his hands.
When this law first went into effect, many OF
the freedmen threatened to leave Cne township )
but they are here yet, and until it can be clear
" shown that the negro has an unconquerable
desire to maui, haul and build rails, we thlnK
he will very likely remain where he's. Nearly
all the trouble we had was on the line. some
said the fence would be burned down others
that it would be thrown down and not allowed
to stand; but, as far as we know, not single
trespass on it has been made. Outsiders keep
up the fence to save their stock from the pen
alties of the inside law. Insiders keep 1t up
to save their crops from the depredations OF
outside stock.
Many persons feared that in fencing up pas
lures, country roads would be obstructed by
gates but, on the contrary, it has almost to-
tally annihilated the gate system. No wise
man will make his pasture on both sides OF the
road, knowing that the first careless traveller
NAV cause stock to run at large on his own
farm.
County roads can be so arranged by the gen.
erosity of land owners, as to shorten the former
routes of travel at least one-third. When a
farmer wishes to drive his wagon over his
premises, he is not troubled with the old sys-
tenn of laying down and putting up fences.
By cutting a few bushes along some of those
places we call glades (which before were not
worth fencing up,) he can NOV loads OF hay.
Hundreds of acres can now be cultivated, which
before could not be proftably fenced. A poor
man can now buy piece of land and live com.
fortaby on it, although there may not be a rail
tree upon it.-Charlotte (M C) Democrat.
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The LATE DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES IN THE
NoRTHWEsT.-Th result of the late elections
in Ohio and Indiana are indeed gratifying from
any standpoint but we rejoice mainly, not so
much because the number of Democratic Rep
resentatives upon the floor of Congress has
been increased, as we do because of the evil
dence we have thereby given to US that the
people of the North no longer give credence to
the lying statements circulated among them
by Radical emissaries about Southern "outra-
ges." The time has passed by in Ohio and In
diana, at least, when the public mind can be
deceived by Radical lies, even though put forth
under the auspices of so important parsonage
as the Attorney General of the United States.
1t is this truth, now demonstrated beyond the
possibility of doubt, that gives the inestima-
Bile value to the victories in Ohio and Indiana.
First, we had the attempt to fire the Northern
heart about the so-called Trenton massacre in
Tennessee then we had the Coushatta massa-
ere in Louisiana, then we had the overthrow of
the Kellogg government in the same State.
Then we had Senator Patterson and his
budget of outrage lies from South Carolina.
Then we had Charles Hays and his budget OF
outrage lies from Alabama, and then we had
the Chattanooga Convention and its congrega-
ton of budgets of lies from every Southern
state, save only North Carolina. ana Wnat
was the result? Was the Northern heart fired
Not at all On the contrary we find that in
stead of being infamed by these stories of law:
lessness and crime in the South, as it would
have been at any previous election, the North
e-n heart remained calm and serene, and re-
sponded nobly to the appeals of the Democrat
ic party to discard passion for patriotism.
Verify, we have great cause to hope that we
have begun to see the beginning at least of the
end of all our troubles Wilmington Journal
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ACTIVITY AND INDIVIDUAL EFFoRT.-The
Chester Reporter makes the following sensible
observations upon the duty of every man to
vote and work for success in this campaign:
It is not very surprising that good men
should be disguised with politics when there is
so much trickery, chicanery and villainly, but
it is strange that they should be so dishearten-
ed because ofa few failures and stand aloot
from all participation in affairs so vitality affec-
ting the interests of their homes, their State
and country. Indifference and apathy on the
part of substantial citizens are just what Radi-
cal corruptionists want. In a country like
ours and especially at a time like the present,
politics is business of supreme Importance.
The effects of bad government are seen on ev-
cry hand are felt in every household in the
land and will continue to be felta tenfold great
er burden, so long as men with arms folded des-
pairingly ask what's the use of making any
effort or even voting against extortion or cor
ruption. The elective franchise is not mere
form or privilege to be exercised or not accor-
ding to fancy, whim or caprice, but a sacred
right held in trust partly for othcrs-a right
which the man can not disregard, in times like
these, without SHINING against his family, So
ciety and his God.
There is no remedy for the pillage, disorder,
riot and ruin upon US except in the union OF
active, earnest, honest and true men, who, by
their exertions and votes, may secure the
local government and administer it in accor-
dance with the principle of constitutional law
and Justice This remedy will be applied when
every man of character and honesty resolves
himself into avorking committee, when ne
realizes fully the great Importance, the prime
necessity of individual effort
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Hon. A. H. Stephens, with great, beauty
and force, says: "The true principle which lies
at aI the foundation of right, for which the mas
ses M have ever been struggling was first annonn. ,
ss ced BY by Him who spake as never man spake p K:
SDo unto Others as ye would have them 90 un-
IN vou." In that sublime utterance from the
Mount first and only promulgated there, we
find the perfection of human justice rightly un-
darstoo,, ind consciously practiced. 1t covers
ali the reciprocal rights, duties and obligations
of every member Of society"
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A youth asked permission of his motf

"A youth asked permission of his mother
to 90 to a ball. Sine told him it was PAD
place for little boys. "Why, mother didn't
YOU and father 60 to balls when you were
young?" eyes, but VIC have seen the folly OF
it." said the mother "Well, mother" eXcla'm,
ed the son, II want to see the FOLLY or II, too.
~ An exchange has an acquaintance who re-
marks that he has often heard the proverb,
"A friend in need is a friend indeed" but he
saws he can't see where the laugh comes in.
He has friend in need who is always borrow
ing money of him.
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: The Elmira New York; Adrertiser says

= The Elmira New York; 1drerl'seT says !:
"Mr Henry B. Fitch, of this city, contemplates
q M monument hume to the memory of the Confederate
dead to be placed at Woodlawn Cemetery, in
this CITY. 1t is to be of artificial stone, twen-
ty feet in height single shaft supported by a
plinth, base and subbase, not possessing much,
if any, ornamentations, but being of graceful
proportions and noticeable on many accounts.
On one face are the inscriptions "Requiescat in
Pace," "1S74," Erected by Union Officer in
Memory of the Confederate dead"
- Pickpockets are persons who take things
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- "Somebody has noticed that nineteen out
of every twenty newspaper men have straight
noses" says an exchange. Now every news
naner man in the country will be breaking
mirrors, trying to see if he is the twentieth
man whose nose is crooked.