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The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1879-09-19

TO TIE SOLDIERS OF
THE SOUTH"
On Tuesday we learned that Gen.
j. B. Hood had his life insured dor
$50, 900, and this amount would come
to his children at once. Desiring to
be perfectly assured upon this point,
and feeling that if the report were
true, there was no use collecting funds
for the children, we telegraphed to
the New Orleans Picayune for precise
as TO their condition.
The following dispatch was received
in answer:
"NEw ORLEANS, September p
General Hood left absolutely aothiDg.
The benevolent association, the army
of Northern Virginia and other par
ties here are at work preparing to
raise o fund for the support Of the
children. With his dying breath he
bcqueathcd his children TO the SOL
diers Of the South
"And with his dying breath he be-
queathed his children to the soldiers
Of the South !" The strong man turn
cd in the agonies of death towards his
helpless little ones, his great hear. al
most broken over their bereavement.
His life was spent, AMI they were 10
be left penniless and alone. There
was not even q mother, to whose ten
der care he could consign them.
Their bereavement was absolute.
There was no strong and helpful gov
ernment to which lie could appeal,
Tor his sword had been drawn and his
blood spilled in failing cause
When death had chilled his poor
shattered frame the little ones would
be helpless indeed. How his fathers
heat must have ached as he thought
Of their dreary and dcssolate future.
But at last, with one Of those
glimpscs Of hope that come to tighten
death, his face Enlightened and he
said ~ bequealh my children'to
the the soldiers of the South !" And
conso!ed at last in having found
fathers for his little ones, he died.
And shall this pracions. legacy be
disregarded2 Heor mnn:t lie gave
his sword 10 his country. He gave
the flower of his life ITO its service.
He gave leg to Georgia. He gave
an arm to Virginia. And now, dying
in honorable poverty, he gives to
his cd soldiers all that lie has left
his children! Will not his soldiers
be proud Of this trust? Will not
their hearts grow tender over the care
of their little ones? Shall the old
hero who died, trusting his darlings
to his best and only friends, have his
trust betrayed? Never! These chill
drcn are the chldran of the South
and the old soldiers will take care Of
them.
Now, there will be five thousand
soldiers, Or the sons Of soldiers, who
will read this article to-day. Let
every man who reads it sit down
and send something to the iund.
One dollar from each man will be
enough! That will make liberal
fund. Then let every man who was
q soldicr-lct every man whose heart
went out to the soldiers-let every
man who loves the brave or pities the
helpless-scnh at least one dollar To
the fund for General Hoods children
Send at once. Let every man res
pond The Georgia fund must reach
$40, 900 !-Allonta Constitution.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1879-09-19
GIRLHOOD'S PERILS.

SAFE RULE FOR YOUNG LADIES INTHEIR
RELATIONS WITH YOUNG MEN.
We copied yesterday, says the Ro.
chester Herald, brief article from an
exchange, warning young ladies to
beware of favoring the attentions of
men who cannot, with reason, be ex-
pectcd to marry them. Men, whose
intentions are honorable, WOO gi:ls at
their homes, and not by stealth and
in out-of-the-way places.
1t is difficult to persuade an Amer
lean girl that she cannot take care of
herself. The customs Of our society
throw her early on her own resources.
While still in her teens she enters So
ciety and associates with persons of
the opposite sex OH walks, drives and
excursions. Her mother seldom thinks
Of providing female companion for
the daughter, but trusts wholly to
the purity and modesty of the latter
to protect her from advances in the
company Of men which will compro-
mise her good name. And it should
be remembered that the girls of no
other country are so worthy of this
confidence. Thrown upon their own
responsibility the vast majority of
them pass the ordeal unscathed, and
when they marry are as chaste in
thought and life as though they had
never passed the precincts of their
homes without the companionship of
their mothers. They become the best
Of wives and mothers, true as steel TO
their personal honor and to that of
their husbands.
But among the millions who stand
unLarnished, there are scores and
hundreds who fall into thesmire. De-
lighted with their Ireedom, Ha,tercd
and fascinated by the attentions OF
well'dresse,l and agreeably appearing
men, these arc gradually thrown of
their guard, and in an evil hour, by
false and insidious promises usually,
but sometimes through the fire and
recklessncss caused by wine and
drugs, take the fatal step which for
ever separates them from their con-
sciousness of purity, and robs them
of their right to rank among the
chaste and honorable women of socic-
ty. There is but one safe rule for
girls to adopt in their relations with
men, and that is TO encourage no adj
vances which cannot be witnessed
and approved at home. This rule, if
observed, will save infinite sorrow
and trouble to many who even now
are trcading dangerously near the
precipice. Those chance acquainl-
ances which American girls are ac-
custolned to make on the cars, at cx.
cursions, in stores and elsewhere
without any guarantee of the stand
ing Or responsibility of the men intro
duccd, should be avoided. And in
all cases the judgment of q discreet
mother or some woman Of discern
ment and observation should be
sought respecting the propriety Of en.
couraging such acquaintances; but
above all, under no circumstances
should promise, however solemnly
made or likely of fultlllment, suffice to
persuade maideu to surrender her.
self, with all such surrender implies
until the law has pronounced her a
wife. No circumstances whatever
can justify such action, and in nine
ty-ninc cases out of every hundred it
is followed by life time of bitter re.
morse, if not by immediate suffering
and disgrace.
Smallness Of the World.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1879-09-19

The virtue of man ought to be
measured, not by his extraordinary
exertions, but by his every day con-
duct.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1879-09-19

A man seldom improves who has
no better model than himself.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1879-09-19

SAFE RULE FOR YOUNG LADIES INTHEIN
RELATIONS WITH YOUNG MEN.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1879-09-19
GEN. HOODS CHILDREN.

"BEQUEATItED TO TIE sOLDIEtS OF
THE SOUTH"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-01-18
The Secret Revealed.
Burlington Hawkeye

Florence De Laigne, who recently pub.
lished some verses on "Autumn"i in these
columns, writes to ask, Who is respon-
sible for the typographical errors in the
Hawkeye?' Lean down here, Florence,
while we whisper in your ear: ''-sh ;
nobody is. The editor writes SO plainly
that even blind man can spell out his
words; the competitors are college men,
who have edited papers of their own, and
they set up the matter exactly as writ
ten, and correct what mistakes the editor
makes; the proof-reader is professor OF
rhetoric and philology in an Iowa college;
and never made a mistake in his life,
and he corrects what lew mistakes the
compositors may make; the foreman is a
Gottingen graduate, who has nothing to
do but to see that the matter is perfect
when the forms 60 down. There isn't q
mistake in the Hawkeye when it reaches
the press. But Well tell you, as a pro-
iessional secret, Florence, how the mis-
takes creep in. The pressman told the
manager, and the manager told US; it's
the ink, Florence, it's the ink. We pay
out thousands and thousands of dollars
a year for good ink and we can't get an
article that won't fairly measle the paper
with typographical errors"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-01-18

sent most of~the others aft, where the
conflict was still going on. He was in
the act of giving them orders to answer
the fire from the Chesapeake's main-top
when three treacherous Americans, see>
ing they were superior to the British,
then ne ar them, had armed themselves
alresh. Captain Broke parrled the mid
die fellows pike and wounded him IN
the face; but instantly received from
the man on the pikeman's right blow
with the 'butt.end of a musket, which
barred his skull and stunned him. DE
terminei to finish the British COM
mander, the third man cut him down
with his broadsword; and at that very
instant was himself cut down by one OF
the shannoh's seamen. Captain Broke
and his treacherous foe now lay side by
side; each, although nearly powerless,
struggling to regain his sword, when a
marine dispatched the American with
his bayonet, Captain Broke was severely
wounded by this affair, and, while a sea-
man was tying handkerchief round his
commanders head, he called out, point
ing aft, "There, sir, there goes up the
old ensign over the Yankee colors." The
Captain saw it hosting, and was in
stantly led to the quarterback, where
be seated himself upon one of the car
ronade slides.
Even after the British colors were fly
ing on board the Chesapeake some OF hel
men kept firing up the main hatcbway
and killed British marine. 1t was then
and not till then, that Lieutenant Faux
liner, who was sitting on the booms, very
properly directed three or four musket
that were ready to be fired down. Cap
tain Broke told him to summon them t.
surrender if they desired quarter. Ill
did 80, and they replied, owe suuender,
and all hostility ceased. Between tn
discharge ofsthe first gun and the perio'
of Captain Broke's boarding eleven min
utes only elapsed, and in four minute
more the Chesapeake was entirely his.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-01-18
WOman's Progress.

Lucy Stone says that, although VIC
men have not secured the ballot, they
have in her time vastly improved their
condition. She remembered when
woman was thought competent to teach
onlv the small children in the summer
schools, when her pay for such teaching
was dollar week, and she was expect
ed to board around. Now women are
professors in colleges. with good salaries
In four States they vote on all school
matters. Teaching, sewing and keeping
house were the only occupations regards
ed a. suitable for women. Now the census
records seventy. one occupations that are
omen to women. No woman was pub
lie speaker out of the Quaker church.
Now, all platforms are free to them. Inc
lvceum offers to the woman lecturer the
same open field that it does to man :
The pulpit and the bar are both occu
pied by women. The woman physician
did not exist Now they have a success
full practices in every large city and many
of the smaller towns. There was not
college in the world that admitted wo~
men. Now there are not only distinctive"
ly colleges for women, but largo number
that welcome women to all their advan"
tages. 1t is not many years slDce
married woman could own nothing that
she earned could not make will tt
anything she possessed; could not sue or
be sued COLD not carry on business
had no lawful right to her children ana
, could not be their guardian; nor had
she the right to her own person. Now
in most of the States, all this is changed
or very much modified.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-01-18
California Extravaganza.
San Francisco Alta.

The evidences of California extrava
gance are to be seen On every side. The
dwellings, furniture. tables, and dress of
the people indicate very liberal expendi
ture. San Francisco has the reputation
of buying the most costly wines, cigars,
and silks. A saying, not deserving to be
dignifed as a proverb, declares that
New York dresses better than Paris
and San Francisco better than New
York" The magnificent hotels and the
palaces OF dozen millionaires are un-
surpassed, if equalled, by anything short
of Royalty in the luxury of their ap>
pointmeuts There is large demand
for the best that can be had. California
consumes twenty thousand dozen of
genuine sparkling wine annually, and
the Atlantic slope, with fifty times as
many people, does not consume seven
times as much champagne. California
uses sixty pounds of sugar to the person
in year, the Atlantic slope twenty-five,
Great Britain forty, France and Hol.
land each twenty, and Italy seven. Cot
fee is sold to the extent of one pound
each for the inhabitant in Great Britain
and Italy, three in France, seven in
Holland, ten in this State and seven in
other States. Of tea, the average Cali
fornian drinks SIX pounds in twelve
months, the other American two, the
Britain four, the Frenchman and Italian
less than a quarter of pound. The
figures Tor the consumption of many
other articles of comfort and luxury are
incomplete, a large proportion of our
imports coming through New York and
paying duty there, and being forwarded
to California under circumstances that
leave opportunity to ascertain their
value or amount. Though it consumes
largely of foreign goods imported at
New York, with one>fifth of the popu.
lation it pays one thirtieth of the Gus.
toms of San Francisco; and the average
consumption of foreign products is at
least twice as great here as on the At.
lantic slope. The extravaganza of which
we have just spoken is not confined to a
few: it is characteristic of the community
generally, and is wore, relatively, among
the poor than the rich. Many of the
wealthy families owe their wealth to
simplicity of life more than to large
gains.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-01-18
Curious Way of Collecting Money

The Mahratta mode of recovering
debts is curious When the creditor can
not get his money, and begins to see the
debt as rather desperate, he sits dhurna
uro1 his debtor that is he squats down
at the door of the tent and becomes, in
certain mysterious degree, master of it.
No one goes in or out without his appro-
baton. He neither eats himself, nor
suffers his debtor to eat; and this fam
fishing contest is carried on till the bebt
is paid, or the creditor begins to feel that
want of food is a greater punishment
than the want of money. This curious
mode OF enforcing demand is in uni
ersal practice among the Mahrattas:-
cindiah, himself, the chieftain, not le-
ing exempt from it. The man who sits
the dhurna, zoe to the house or tent OF
whom he wishes to bring to terms, and
remains there uutil the affair is settled ;
during which time the one under re-
straint is confined to his apartment, and
not suffered to communicate with any
person but those whom the other may
approve Of The laws by which the
dhurna is regulated are as well defined
and understood as those of any other
custom whatever. When it is meant to
be very strict, the claimant carries a
number of his followers, who, surround
the tent, sometimes even the bed Of his
adversary, and deprises him altogether Of
food in which case, however, etiquette
prescribes the same abstinence to him
self, the strongest stomach, of course,
carries the day. A custom of this kind
was once so prevalent in the province
and city of Benares that Brahmins were
trained to remain 8 long time without
food. They were then sent to the door
of some rich individual, where they made
VOW to remain without eating till they
should obtain certain sum of money
To preserve the life Of Brahmin is q
absolutely duty, that the money wa
generally paid, but never till goot
struggle had taken place, to ascertain
whether the man was staunch or not, 10
money is the life and soul of all Hin
docs. -t.. .
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-01-18
Ancient AnatOmiStS'.

The ancient anatomist must have felt
a zeal for the science which makes the
imagination shudder 1t reached to
nothing less than 3issecting men alive;
for this purpose the bodies of criminals
were devoted. Herophilus, Greek
physician of Chalcedon, who fourished
270 years before the Christian era, is
said TO have been one Of the first who
dissected human bodies. Tertullian
says he dissected them alive but Cocchi,
who published a Dissertation in 1886
denies that he was guilty of this barbar-
ity. Herophilus, by an unprecedented
spirit of investigation, discovered, as
some report, the lacteals, the nerves,
with their various uses, the glands, the
pulse, etc, and gave to the different parts
of the human frame the names which
they sti bear.
The dissection of dead bodies was, at
no very late period, looked on as a sac.
rlege; and the Emperor Charles V.
ordered consultation of the theologians
of Salamanca to determine whether, In
point of conscience, body might be
dissected in order to obtain knowledge
Of its structure.
In the month of January, 1874, the
physicians and surgeons of Paris repre-
! sented to Louis XI. that several person:
of condition were afflicted with the
stone, collie, pains and stitches in thu
F.! side; that it would be proper to inspec
the parts where these disorders wer,
engendered that the greatest light the,
could receive would be from pertormin.
an operation on living man, and there
fore they begged that franc archer
condemned to be hanged for robbery
who was frequently afflicted with thes
complaints, should be delivered to them
Their petition was granted, and tn
operation, the first in lithotomy eve
made, was publicly performed in S,
Severin's Churchyard. After the ope
rators had examined and made thei
experiment, the bowels were replaced il
the body, which was sewed up, and 8
we'll dressed that in fortnjght's tim
the man was cured and pardoued of hi
crimes.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-01-18

GIVE us neither poverty nor riches
anyhow, not any poverty.
DEs MONIES has four brass bands, and
in some parts of the city all the cats
have left Iowa State Register.
THERE il no good substitute fur wis
dun, but silence is the best thing that
has been discovered - Josh Billings
IT may add to the interest which is
being revived in Down on the Suwanee
River" to know that it has aligators
eleven feet long,
IT is asserted that of those who learn
to play on the piano, only one in
thousand ever acquires correct know
ledge OF the Use of the pedals.
THE Engli,h Government pays out
$50, 600 year FOR repairs on insuators
and telt graph wires damaged by stone
throwing boys.
GEN. DUCRoT, of the French army
says that 10 man is fit to be a soldier
| in the ranks until he realizes that he
| knows no more than horse.
"WHAT does Good Friday mean p
asked one schoo'boy of another. You
had better 60 home and read your Rob-
insen Crusoe," was the whitening reply.
IT is singular that no one drops in
upon us any more who "has been to the
centennial" These people used to be
thicker than sutumnal leaves that strew
the brooks of Valparaiso, Indiana.
Surely thew can't all be dead.--l Hawk
eye.
THE boy who, when his father was az
ter him with cowhide, hid himself be-
hind haystack, where he disturbed a
nest of hornets, on rejecting over the
MATER while his eyes are recovering
thinks it was a case Of mistaken identity
r Yonkers Gazette.
A YOUNG fop said to an Academician
"Ought l to say Fetch me the water,
or Bring me the water if [ wanted
, drink?' Neither" responded the phi
lologist, With sweet smile; "you ough
to say, Drive me to the water or 'Leat
me to the water."-- Paris Paper.
a MAN in Troy, Kansas, publishes tn
following notice in the LEGAL newspaper
"Whereas, when am intoxicated, an
not competent to make contracts ant
, whereas, have been taken advantage
on several occasions recently in suc
contracts, hereby notify all persons tina
I shall not f1lfl any contract made b.
me when drunk"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-01-18
Do WE WE'LL TO MOURN?-

a.
Yes grieve 1t can be no offense to Him y e p
" no m" de us sensitive our loss to know;
Inc hand that takes the cup filed to the brim
May well with trembling make it overflow.
VINO 81 nts us sorrow meansit should be felt;
Nhogave us tears would surely have them shed
And metal that the "furnace !" doth not melt,
May yet be hardened all the more inste. d.
Where love abounded will the grief al ound;
10 cae, our grief is but to chide our 1--we;
With with. lei leaves the more bestrewed tn
ground. :
The fuller that the rose hath doomed above!
Yes. grieve! tits Nature's- that is, Gods behes
If what is nature called is Will Divine!
Whof ain would grieve not cannot know how bles
1t is to sorrow, and yet not regime.
-TheSpectdtor.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-01-18

half wild horses which Craze in vast
herds on the pampas. To the tails of
four OF these the wrists and ankles of the
miserable half. breed were bound. Then
the animals were started and urged in
different directions, with shouts and
furious blows. For nearly an hour they
struggled Then the tough sinews of the
victim parted, and
HIS LIMBS WERE TORN FROM THEIR
SOCKETS.
Such was his tremendous vitality that
he was still alive when the bleeding
trunk dropped on the ground and was
trampled to jelly under the hoofs of
Giro Chico's cavalcade.
The approach Of party from neigh
boring rancho, to which some of Carna's
followers had escaped, put the avengers
to fight. They made at once for the
mountains, carrying the woman, who had
been forced to witness the dreadful fate
of her brother and accomplish, with
them.
Next morning found them in barren
valley among the hills, far beyound the
reach of pursuit. Here Giro Chico
caused the slaughter of a couple Of their
exhausted horses, and the reek of the
fresh blood soon attracted flight of con-
doris to the carcasses. While the hideous
birds were contending for the feast, the
condor hunter calmly blinded and mutt
lated his wife as he had seen her blinc
and mutilate his mistress; after which
ne tossed her naked and writhing body
to the carrion bird'. The vengeance h
had sworn by the light of the burning
cabin was complete.