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Good Advice.

A young friend of ours, on leaving
Baltimore recently, where he had been
attending college, received from lady
friend the following admirable advice,
which, though intended only for his own
perusal, we take the liberty of presenting
to our young readers:
"It is easier to be good business man
than a poor one. Half the energy dis.
played in keeping ahead that is required
to catch up when behind, will save cred
it, give more time to business, and add
to the profit and reputation of your
work. Honvr your engagements. Ii
you promise to meet man or do a GER
tain thing at certain moment, be ready
at the appointed time. If you go out on
business, attend promptly to the matter
in hand, and then as promptly 60 about
your own business. Do not stop to tell
stories in business hours. If you have q
place of business, be found there when
wanted. No. man can get rich by sitting
around stores and saloons. If you have
to labor for living, remember that one
hour in the morning is better than two
at night. If you employ others, be on
hand to see that they attend to their du-
ties, and to direct with regularity,
promptness and liberality. Do not med
die with any business you know nothing
of. Never buy a thing simply because
the man that sells will take it out in
trade. Trade is money. Time is money.
Never use quick words or allow yourself
to make hasty or ungentlemanly remarks
to those in your employ, for to do so les
sens their respect for you and your in1u..
ence over them. Help yourselves and
others will help you. Be faithful over
interests confded to your keeping, and
in all good time your responsibilities will
be increased. Do not be in too great
haste to get rich. Do not build until
you have arranged and laid good foun-
dation. Do not-as you hope to work
success-spend time in idleness: If your
time is your own, business will suffer if
you do; if it is. given to another for pay,
it belongs to him, and you have no more
right to steal it than you have to steal
money. Be obliging. Strive to avoid
harsh words and personalities. Do not
kick every stone in the path many miles
can be made in day by going steadily
on. Pay as you 60. A man Of honor
respects his word as he does his bond.
Ask, but never beg. Help Others when
you are able; but never give when you
cannot afford to, simply because it is
fashionable. Learn to say no. No ne
cessity for swapping it out; but say it
frrolv and resnectfi,lly. Have but few
confdants, and the fewer the better. Use
your own brains rather than those of
others. Learn to think and act for your
self. Be vigilant. Keep ahead rather
than behind the times"
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BORROWING BooKs.-Nobody would
think of going into your parlor and pick
ing up mantel ornament or tidy, and
saving, "Can I take this for few days? ?
I will bring it back again." But they
frequently do so with your books. Now,
books are as much the furniture of a
room as anything else, particularly when
they are in the parlor. They are put
there to be looked over and promote con-
versation, and if they are carried off
their purpose is defeated: Besides, bor-
,rowers feel much less obligation to return
books than anything else. Very few
people keep more than ten or fifteen vol
lumes on parlor table, aud though one
might not be missed for a time, yet it
everybody who came in would apPro-
pirate one, the owner would soon be des-
titute.
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WORTH OF DRINK OF wArER.-In

WORTH OF DRINK OF WATER.-In
one of the terrible battles in Virginia, q
Union officer fell wounded in front of the
Confederate breastworks, and while cry
ing for water, James Moore, of Burke
county, N. c., a Confederate soldier,
leaped over the fortifcations, and crawl
ing up to the poor fellow, gave him
drink. The wounded man took out his
gold watch and offered it to his benefac-
tor, but it was refused. He then asked
for the Confederate soldiers name, and
the two men parted. Moore subsequent
" lost a limb in battle, and returned a
cripple to his home. The Raleigh Ne'os
now says that few days ago Moore re-
ceived from this Union soldier letter
announcing that the sum of ten thousand
dollars would be paid to him in four an
nual installments.
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A. WARD TO A LITTLE FRIEND.
Not by Any Means the Least Delight
full of Many Delightful Letters.
From the ElDlira Gazette.

FROM tHc EtHtUu Uu-CttSs
We have been permitted to publish a
letter written by Mr.. Charles F. Browne
(Artemus Ward to a young friend of his
"a little girl, then of the age of eight,
and now the wife of a prominent mer-
chant in neighboring city. The letter
never before has appeared in print, and
the original is in possession of gentle
man of this city. We vouch for it's gen.
uineness. 1t will at once strike the read
er as being eminently Characteristic
"true to life:"
"SALEM, MASS, June lS, 1864.
"MY DEAR AMELIA-I cannot tell
you how much / miss you.
eft seems as though I had lost all my
relatives, including my grandmother and
the cooking stove.
"Why didn't put you in bottle and
bring you down here with me? But l
am always forgetting something. The
other day I went off and forgot my Aunt
Sarah, and she's good deal bigger than
you are. Mr.. Ramsey is also very for.
getful man. He frequently goes off and
forgets his washerwoman. Mr.. Ramsey
is very fine looking man. He reminds
me of Mr.. Green, the Maiden murderer.
When Mr.. Ramsey goes to the peniten-
tiary, which will be very soon, we must
send him doughnuts, magazines, and
other literary documents. Mr.. Ramsey
can read print very well.
~ like you very much. I should like
you just as we'll if you were twelve years
older. I am very singular about some
things.
"You spoke to me about a boy who is
my rival. should feel very sorry to kill
that boy, but he may drive me to it. I
am in hopes that he will take himself in
to a premature tomb-that he may choke
himself with large slice of pudding, but
if he does neither, I shall feel forced to
load him with chains and read all my
lectures to him. His boots may remain,
but the rest of him will have perished
miserably long ere I have got through |!
"You must be good little girl, and
always mind your mother. Never let
your excellent mother feel sorry that she
is acquainted with you. If it hadn't been
for her you might have got drowned in a
soup plate long ago. And if you hadn't
ever had any mother you might row be
in Turkey with the other Turkeys. In
fact, my dear Amelia, SO conduct your
self that even on dark and rainy days
the bright sun may shine wherever you
are, and that the stars (which are next
to the sun in brightness) may never flash
so brilliantly but that you can always
look steadily and hopefully toward
them.
Faithfully, your friend,
A. WARD"
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Does it Pay ?

Does it pay to have fifty working men
poor and ragged in order to have one sa-
loon keeper dressed in broadcloth and
flush in money?
Does it pay to have one citizen in the
county Jail because another sells him
liquor?
Does it pay to hang one citizen because
another got him drunk?
Does it pay to have dozen intelligent
young men turned into thieves and vaga.
bonds that one may lead lazy life by
"selling the rum ?"
Does it pay to receive SIS for rum Ii
cense, and then pay $40, 900 for trying a
man for murder, induced by the rum sold
him?
Does it pay to have thousand homes
blasted, ruined, de6led, turned into hells
of misery, strife and want, that some
wholesale rumseller may build up larg-
er fortune?
Does it pay to have twenty mothers and
their children dressed in rags, live in
novels, daily famish, that one rum sellers
wife and children may live in ease and
afluence?
Does it pay to have hundreds of thou
sands of men and women in almshouses,
penitentiaries and hospitals, and thou
sands more in the asylum for the idiotic
and insane, that few heavy capitalists
of the whiskey ring may profit by such
atrocity?
Does it pay to tolerate a traffic which
breeds crime, poverty, agony, idleness,
shame and death, wherever it is al
lowed?
If these things are carefully considered
by every voter in the community, then it
behooves us all to organize Organize /
Be not fauatical, but firm; be not bigoted, }.
but bold. Proclaim your principles ev-
erywhere. Show your colors, and stand
by them. 1t only needs organization to
make the temperance movement felt in
every community throughout the land,
and be ultimately victorious.
Organized Restore the drunkard to
himself, his business, family, friends.
Put fire on his cold hearth, food on his
table, clothing on his ragged, neglected
children, peace in the heart of the wife;
give nerve to his arm, Joy to his. toll by
day, and repose to his mind by night.
All TINS is possible, if temperance men
will act in concert. Temperance men,
organized More are for you than against
you. Mothers, wives, daughters, sisters,
nearly all true women's hearts are with
you. Destroy the yoke of alcoholic des-
potism.
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DR.. TODD, OF BARNwELL, SHOT BY
GEO. DUNCAN.-An unfortunate difficult
ty occurred at Barnwell village, on Sat
urday, between DR.. G. R. G. Todd, DR..
J. A. Duncan and George Duncan, the
son of DR.. Duncan, a youth about ID
wears old. The accounts Of the affair are
conflicting. As the story goes, the two
older men Todd and Duncan) met at
Peachman's bar-room, and became In
volved in some dispute about profession
al matters, in which harsh words and in
situations were freely INDUCED in. DIR.
Todd went hurriedly across to Easter
ling's store, and, according to one ac-
count, requested Mr.. Robert Easterling
to lend him pistol. While in the store
DR.. Duncan entered, accompanied by his
son, and demanded retractlon OF the
language used in the bar-room. This
being refused, DR.. Todd was attacked by
DR.. Duncan, and general scuftie in
sued. George Duncan drew his pistol,
and DR.. Todd seized it and attempted to
wrest it away, while DR.. Duncan struck
him several blows with a stick and a
counter weight. During the struggle
George Duncan fired, striking DR.. Todd
in the breast, about an inch to the left Of
and just below the left nibble. DR.. Todd
then caught young Duncan by the throat
with both hands, and was only prevented
from strangling him by the efforts OF
persons who had by this time interterred.
It was found that the ball had struck on
a rib, glanced around and lodged in the
muscles under the left shoulder-blade
beneath the skin, inficting serious but
not necessarily dangerous wound. The
injured man was conveyed to his house,
where his wounds were dressed and the
ball extracted, and last night he was
doing very we'll. No warrants have been
issued and no arrests made. All of the
gentlemen involved in this unfortunate
affair are widely known throughout this
section, and the occurrence is deeply re-
gretted by every one. DR.. Todd was a
distinguished and valuable surgeon in
the Confederate army.-Barn'ce0 C0'res-
pondence Neaos and Courier.
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= This is an age of progress. James
Parton, the biographer, married his step
daughter; John Downs, of Nelson Coun-
ty, married his stemother; but it .wss
reserved res for Dode Chesher, Of .Walton's
Lick, Washington County, to outstrip
them all in matrimonial feat. Last
week he married his grandmother. Dode
Chesher is twenty-five years of age, son
of the we'll known Baptist preacher, and
grandson of William Chesher. Some
Years since the latter died, leaving q
widow of forty-fve summers, and now his
grandson has done probably what no
n man ever did before-married his step
grandmother Nelson (Ky,) Record.
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DR.. Tutt has been en-.
gagged in the practice Of
medicine thirty years, and
for a long timcwas demon
str:ltor Of anatomy in the
Medical College Of Geor-
gia, hence persons using
his Pills have the guaran.
tee that they are prepared
on scientific principles,
and arc freefrom all
quackery.
lie has succeeded in
combining in them the
heretofore antagonistic
qualities of a strengthen
mg,tnrgative, anda pnr.
itying tonic.
Their first apparent eff
feet is to increase the ap.:
petite by causing the food
10 properly assimilate.
Thus the system is nour.
ishcd, and by their tonic
action on the digestive Or
g;ll,s, regular and healthy
cvacuations are produced.
The rapidity with which
Persons take on fesh,
while under the influence
Of these pills, Of itself in
dicates their adaptability
to nourish the body, and
hence their efficacy in cur.
ing nervous debility, mel
ancl,oly, dyspepsia, vast.
ing of the muscles, slug
gishncss Of the liver,
Chronic constipation, and
myth to the system. Sold
lu' ray Street, New York.
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WANTED RA1N.-The colored people
held meeting, says the Lenoir IN. g.
Topic few days ago, in Caldwell county,
to pray for rain. One brother was called
on, who prayed after this manner: 20,
Lord God us poor niggers is perishin'
dis year, an eff you don't glib lis rain,
we will perish next year too. So, good
Lord, glib US rain. Don't glib us one ob
desc slippy.slappies, but do, glib us one
OBJ dem gully.wasbers and trash-moverS' :"
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The Cross III III CRESCENT.

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TuIu
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Facts for the People.

Its an undeniable fact that no article was ever
placed before the public with 80 much undis-
puted evidence of Its great medical value, as tie
VEGETIN E.
For every complaint for which VEGETIHE is
recommended, many testimonials of what it has
done is furnished to the public at large, and no
one should fail to observe that nearly all of the
testimonials are ii from people right at home,
where the VEGET1NE Is prepared, and as the
streets and numbers are given, there can be no
possible doubt about the matter.
B0sToN, Dec. II, 1872:
H. r. Stevens, Esq: Dear Sir-Nlay ask the
favor of you to make my case public?
In 1861, while on picket duty in the army,
was taken with fit, which lasted all night.
and Quinine. After this had fits every day, and
was taken to Newbern Hospital, and there
treated by the attending physicians, | grew
worse and was sent home. Remained in poor
clans and trying many remedies: Finally seTof:.
ula made its appearance on different parts OF
my body, and my head was so diseased as to he
frightful to look at, and painful beyond endur-
ance. After trying the most eminent physicians,
without improvement, change of climate was
advised.
twice, each time. giving their treatment a
discouraged, with no hope of help. Life was
burden to one in my situation. My disease, and
the effect of 80 much powerful medicine, had so
damaged my system that the action of my stom-
ach was apparently destroyed, and my head was
covered with ulcers which had in places eaten
into the skull bone.
The best physicians said my blood was so full
uf poison they could do no more for me. About
this time friend who had been an invalid told
meVEGETINEhadre restored him 10 perfect health,
and through his persuasion commenced taking
VEaETINE. At this time was having fits al
most every lay. / noticed the first good effects
Of VEaETINE in my digestive organs My food
sat better and my stomach grew stronger. I
began to feel encouraged. for could see my
renewed hope continued taking the VE0E-
TINE, until it had completely driven disease out
of my body. 1t cured the fits, gave me good,
pure blood, and restored me 10 perfect health,
which I had not enjoyed before for ten years.
Hundreds of people in the city of Boston can
vouch for the above facts.
VEGETINE has saved my life, and you are at
liberty to make such use of this statement as
pleases you best, and beg of you TO make it
known that other sufferers may find relief with
less trouble and expense than did.
1t will afford me great pleasure TO show the
marks of my disease or give any further infor-
nation relative to my case to all who desire 1t.
am, sir, very gratefully, JOHN PECK,
No. so Sawyer street, Boston, Mass.
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Gubernatorial Correspondence.

Governor Vance, of North Carolina,
becoming tired of the traditional conver-
sation with the Governor of South Caro-.
lima, opens up fresh correspondence,
and has sent the following peculiarly
phrased letter to the Governor of Ten
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Between new-made lovers: "Then
Adelgitha, you will be mine" eyes,
Ferdinand, if pa is willing. l always DO
what he wants me to-" "But will he give
his consent?" "He will. Pa always
does what / want him to-"
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Twenty.se Years AGO.

H.R. Stevens, ESQ.,. Dear Sir-This is to GER
tify that my daughter was taken sick when she
was three years old, and got so low that we were
obliged to keep her on pillow, without moving,
to keep the little thing together. She was at
tended by several physicians regular at
tending one being old DR.. John Stevens. They
all pronounced her case incurable. She had
Blood Remedy, VEoETINE, commenced giving
her that, and continued it regularly till she was
about seven years old, when she was pronounced
perfectly cured. During her sickness three
pieces Of bone were taken from her right arm
above the elbow, one of them being very long.
Several small pieces were also taken from her
left leg. She is now twenty-seven years old, and
was seven years old, with no signs of Scrofula
or any other blood disease. Her arm Is little
crooked, but she can use 1t almost as well as the
other. Her legs are of equal length, and she Is
not In the least lame. Her case was Scrofula,
inherited in the blood; and / would recommend
all those having Scrofula Humor or any other
blood disease, If they wish TO have perfect
cure, to try VEaETINE the reliable blood rem
edy, which does not weaken the system like
many other preparations recommended, but, on
the contrary, it Is nourishing and strengthening:
My daughters case will fully testify this, for
never saw nor heard of O worse form OF Scrofula.
HULDA SMITH,
10 Monument street, Charlestown, Mass.
MRS. SARAH M. JONES,
SO Sullivan street, Charlestown, Mass
April 10, 1870.
The above statement shows perfect cure Of
Scrofula In its worst form, when pronounced
three years ago. The lady, now twenty.seven
years old, enjoying perfect health.
VEGETINE is Sold by all Druggists.
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Why is coffee like an axe with a
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Partnership Notice.

TINE undersigned have formed Il partner
Il ship to transact a general Merchandise
Business in the Town of Anderson, unuer
the firm name Of A. b. TOWERS ~ w..
which business commenced OH the Zlst Oh
September, 1876. r>,,,,,no
]. w. TODD,
Anderson, S. G., July II, 1877.
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Its an undeniable fact that no article Was ever
placed before the public with 80 much undis-
puted evidence of its great medical value, as tie
The Morning herald., 1877-08-22

CONSIDERABLE unasiness prevailed in
different parts of the coal regions during
the close of last week. The Luzerne coun-
ty region wus particularly asitated over
the threatening movements of the miners
4 request was made Of the Governor not
to remove any of the troops stationed in
that vicinity. The arrest of nine strikers
on the Lehigh Valley, at Easton, satur-
day morning, and the action of the Gov
ernor in calling for volunteers to serve two
months, no doubt had a quieting efftc'.
The last news fIom the Summit district,
was to the effect that all was quiet around
the striking mines.