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The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-29
On the Home Stretch.

The Democrats have recovered
from the temporary repulse in Indi-
ana, anil are taking fresh and de-
termncd grip. just as the loss of
Maine stimulated the Republicans in
Indiana, SO !heir victory has nerved
the Democrats in the East, and both
parties are setting in with despcra-
ton. While n few Republicans are
hurrahing over the result, the more
thoughtful are counscling their fol-
lowers not TO crow too soon. Secre.
tary Sherman himself in q speech
says: "The Presidential election is
transferred from the October States
to each and every State in the Union.
The drift and current Of public opin-
ion, though very hopeful for tue Re-
publican party, arc not SO decisive
but that the people must now dill
gently and actively take their part in
the great canvass this fall, which in my
opinion is Of greater Importance than
any since the election Of Abraham
Lincoln in 1860"
The Democrats OF New York are
registering every voter and are de-
tcrmined to hold the fort. New Jer-
sey has not gone Republican in a
Presidential election for long time.
Connecticut swings in the balance.
California, Nevada and Maine are all
fairly doubtful, and Sherman is right
in saying that the contest is not de-
cided.
The Radical National Committee,
while claiming decisive results, show
by their action that they do not feel
confident. They sent speakers and
moucy to Virginia, North Carolina
and Florida. Why send monev down
here without need for it! They arc
too shrcwd to waste cent.
This is year OF surprises. Yer
mont surprised everybody by giving
an increased Radical majority. On
the heels ol this came Names thun.
dcrbolt to surprise the Radicals. Then
came lndiana's surprise to. the Demo-
Gratis, and Ohio's surprise to the Re-
publicans, who barely held their
own in the home Of Garfield. Some
body is going TO be surprised in No
vembcr. Who it is remains TO he
seen. In the meantime push things
lively .-NcaUs and Herau.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-29
Badly Confused.

A Southern paper tells the follow.
ing: Soon after the battle Of Prairie
Grove, Confederate officers of rank
went into the Union army to negotl.
ate for an exchange Of prisoners.
Three Union officers were detailed to
negotiate with them. One day, while
the commission was in session, an'old
gray-lleadcd, gray-bearded Arkansas
farmer walked in and asked:
'sIis this the provo's onis:'
Some one attempted to explain,
bnt the old fellow being quite deaf,
did not understand, and said
"Yes, I'm good loyal citizen !;
Eye got my protection papers I've
been and got paid for my forage. It's
oil right"
"Look here" said Col. W., Of the
Union Amy, "you had better be care
iul about what you say about your
loyalty; don't you see those gentle
men over there?' pointing across the
table TO where The Confederate ofli
GERS sat in their gray uniform.
The old man took out pair Of di-
lapidatcd spectacles. and fitting Them
on his nose, closely examining the
gray uniforms with their velvet collars
anl brass stars. His hands trcmblcd
Violently, and ge seemed quite fright
ened, but he collected himself and
SAID TO the Couredcrates
swell, gentlemen, l meant no Of
fence. don't know-fact is, I've
allus been Southern man. I've Jess
gotone son, and he is with Marina
duke. The only other man grown in
my family that's fit for sarvis is my
darler Sallic's husband, and he's with
Rector, and
stsHold on, old fellow!'' clicd Col.
W..,"what about your being loyal
citizen
He looked al the other side Of the
table. Then lie readjustcd his spec
taSs les, scanned The blue coats, tool,
DIV his handkerchief from about his
neck, blew his lose, leaned both
handa on the table, and said:
"Wcll, gentlemen, this is little
mixed, but you just 90 on and fight it
out among yourselves. l can live
nndcr any government.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-29

Jupiter and Venus are splendid,
these evenings. One hardly knows
which to admire most, the setting'
"star OF love" as she goes down in
undimmed splcndor in the west, or
the rising king, as he move" up from
the eastern horizon in all his regal
glory. Behold them in tIcir beauty;
and then consider how 'slhe hca-
ven declare the glory of Cod"
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-29

DO you ask what you can do to
help keep an honest and economical
government in our State? The first
duty is 10 so to the polls and vote on
the day Of election. You. sacord
duty is to stir up your noighbors who
Ilay not he much Interested in the
election. Many Of our people do not
read the papers. They feel too poor
to lake them, or else they live far
from post' tlicc and cannot get
them. Go and visit such ncighbors
before the election and urge upon
them the great Importance of turning
out ON The second day Of November.
1t is the imperative duty of all good
citizens, whether white or black, to
vote for good and honest men to man
age our State Government.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-29

THE Charlotte, n. c., Press has
discovered a tree in Northampton
county which last year bore berries
simlarin shape and color 10 buckle
berries, bnt q little larger, aud this
year has three we'll mature,l, perfect
ly formed pears.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-29
Have COURAGE.

Have courage to discharge debt
while you have the money in your
pocket.
Have tie courage to do without that
wE:cli you do not need, however much
your eyes may covct it.
Have the courage to speak to a
friend in Il secdy coat even though
you are in company with rich one,
and richly attircd.
Have tic cou,. ge to speuk your
mind VIXEN it iS .,ccSsary that Won
should do so, and hold vonr tongue
when it is prudent that you should
do so.
Have the courage to own that YOU
arc poor, and thus disarm poverty Of
its sting.
Have the courage 10 cut The mo t
agreeable acquaintance when you are
convinced that he lacks principlc-a
friend should bcar with friends in
firmitics, but not with his vices.
Have courage to show your re-
spcct for honesty, in whatever guisc
it appears, and your contempt for
dishonesty and duplicity by whomso-
ever exhibited.
Have courage to wear your old
clothes until you can pay for new
ones.
Have the courage TO act with con-
sistcncy regardless Of consequences.
TIE Republican campaign is being
fought on two issues the chief issuc
being scctionalism. The other issue
Is the tariff question. The Rcpubli-
can platform is thoroughly committed
to n protective tariff, while the Dem
ucratic platform advocates a tariff for
revenue only. The manufacturing
States want protective tariff, to pro
tcct their manufactures from compeli-
ton with European manufactures by
high import duties. Indiana was
carried principally on the sectional
issnc-aidcd by money. The Repub.
llcans expect to carry Connecticut
and New Jersey on the tariff issue
aided by money.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-29
The House and Senate.

The House of representatives now
stands 11G Democrats, $50 Republi-
cans, and 1G Grccnbackcrs. The
Grecnbackcrs are classcd as Z Demo-
cratic and 8 Rcpubican-making the
House: 1853 Democrats 10 139 Rcpub-
licans-a majority Of II. The Re-
publicans gained G Congressman in
Ohio on the l2Lh instant, and in IN
diana. The Democrats will have all
they can do to hold their majority in
the House; and we see how important
it is that South Carolina should send
back 4 solid Democratic delegation.
The Senate stands 42 Democrats,
33 Republicans and l Independent.
The Republicans will get Senator
from Indiana in place Of McDondald,
another in place of Herman, Of New
York. another in place CT Thurman,
of Ohio, and another, Very likely, in
place OF Wallace, Of Pcnnsy lva,a-s
in all, making their number 81, with
chances III Connecticut and New Jer-
sey. The Democrats will gain one
in Mississippi, in place OF brace. The
Senate therefore will b. close.
THE best sign we see for the Demo
Gratis is the position Of The New York
UcIuid. This paper is notorious for
getting on the side that does not win
1t gave Maine TO the He,nblicnrs,
and was mistaken. Incn it placed
Indiana on the Democratic side, and
lost again. Now it comes out arains,
the Solid South, the Democratic plat.
form aud everything Democratic. 1t
urges crusade in the South and i'm.
vites the intelligent and property
holding Southcrncrs to fall in The
ranks OF the victorious party and
share the power and spoils.
( The New York ,SuM Of Sunday
said Jay Gonld had bought the New
/ York World The lVorM of Monday
/ says Gould has secured controlling
interest in the SIN. The truth
seems TO bc that Jay has made
| mp his mind to own the universe and
so bought tho Void with the .Sun tc
| Lcat and illuminc IT,.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-29

do you remember the cruel and
unnecessary suspension of the writof
ha6eas corpus in several Of the upper
counties of this state eight years ago
by that drunken tyrant, U. S. Grant?
The horrible condition of affairs re-
snlting from that act of oppression
ought 10 forever damn the das.ardlv
party and policy which represented
that infamy. But hard-hearted and
brutal as that act was, it stands out
Sublime and radiant rs twilightsplen-
dor when compared with Garfield's
proposition that ct is clearly the
right of the victorious government to
indict, try, convict and hang every
rebel traitor in the South" for engau-
ing in the late war. Will you con con!
sent by yonr Indifference and apathy,
to the election Of sucl, an implacab.c
tyrant to The Presidency. Far worsa .sia
than Gran. and Graatis,n womb !at
the domination Of this South hating
tyrant. 'o'' ;''
LET the Democrats cf South Cara-
lima and the Union now adopt the gall.
liant words Of Paul Jones "a tleir'bat.,
Tic cry. When his ship, in the, Reyo.
lutIonary war, the Bon Homme Riebt,
ard, was riddled with the shot of 4,I,e
Scraps and her consort and the Brit
ish captain asked if she had struck,
her colors, Jones answered through
the smoke of battle. "Ye have not
begun our part of the battle Let us
commence-opcn and keep up our lirc
until the victory is won. Hancock
will he elected and we must hclp 10
put the great general in the White
House.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-29

COnfOund that rat that stole our
paste prush; we hope that the bris-
ties may get crossways in his throat
md give him chronic case Of whoop-
ng.cough.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-29
Sensible.

The following sensible talk, from
the Rome (GaO Tribune, we COM
mend to our boys: "Nearly every
day the merchants Of Rome arc ap-
pliod TO by young men for cycrkships.
and other situations, in vain. for
nearly everywhere they are told that
every place is fillca,' and still every
day applicants continue 10 pour in.
On the contrary, however. nearly
every exchange we read contains ad
vcriiscments Tor various kinds Of me-
chanics, including carpenters, masons
painters and others. Would it not,
therefore, he good idea for some OF
these discouraged young men to learn
some useful trade, by which they can
earn an independent living? Work of
any kind is honorable and good
trade never goes amiss. 1t is frc-
qucntly ones hest friend and is a staff
on which the rising generation can
lean with confidence. Good mcchan-
les rarely ever 60 begging for work,
and they usually earn much better
salaries than clerks or statesmen.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-09-02
The workIngman in Portugal.

In the most civilized countries of
tourist haunted Europe, the beggar and
the professional Snowman are prominent
figures in the landscapes. In Italy the
mendicants swarm in every gorge, re-
placing the banditti who have been
hunted down by the bersaglieri. In
Switzerland they beset you at each pass
and col, whining at your heels as you
enter the villages and leave them. Even
in Germany, where begging Is strongly
forbidden, they make silent appeals
while the carriage changes horses, and
limp nimbly along at the side of the
forewheel, where they have you at an
advantage when pulling up a steep. In
the rural districts of Portugal there is
no nuisance OF the kind. There is an ex-
cellent system of voluntary relief. The
country is decidedly underpopulated,
and the peasants, for the most part, are
well-to-do. In some provinces they are
worse off than in others; but everywhere
they are well fed and comfortably
clothed; while in the more fertile and
POPoAodo pal 70 va blC uOI I'LL tiCJ IlhJ DC
said TO be relatively rich. 1t is not un-
usual to see q laborer's wife wearing
gold ornaments on her person on Sunday
of the value of from twenty-five to one
hundred dollars. And the good man
himself has his gay fiesta clothing, with
buttons of silver on glossy velveteen,
and rejoices in the dandyism of a spot
less white shirt front, lighted up by a
gold stud in the central frill. He works
hard. to be sure; sometimes hig toll, in
the long days of midsummer, ,wf1l extend
TO sixteen hours; but then he lives un-
commonly well. He can even afford TO
be something Of an epicure, and he re-
joices in n variety OF diet that laborers
might well envy. His bill of fare in
cludes beef and bacon, dried Goldfish
which is the common delicacy OF all
classes-lard. bread and rice. olives and
olive oil, with luxurious profusion of
succulent vegetables. He is allowed
gourds and cabages at discretion, nor
can anything be more suitable to sui
try climate. And, like the Frenchman
and his nearer neighbor, the Spaniard,
he is always something of q cook. Not
that he has studied refinements of cui-
sine; but he can dress the simple ingre-
dients of his banquets in a fashion that
is inimitable so far ns 1t goes. The be-
lated wayfarer who is asked to sit down
to the stew that has been slowly SIM
mei ing in the pipkin over the embers-
II is, in fact, the Spanish ola podrida-
Has, assuredly, no cause to complain
drper's Weekly.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-09-02
Later Effects OF Sunstroke.

Many persons are killed every year by
improper exposure TO the heat of the
sun. We are all familiar with this sad
fact. But it is not so we'll known that
those who apparently fully recover from
sunstroke, are liable 70 future ailments.
as n consequence of the attack.
The Inflammation of he ner7e-centei 8,
caused by the heat. generally results in
permanent changes of their structure or
oil their substance. l,ence, however
well the person may be even for years
these tissue changes may. at later
period, give rise TO impaired health and
even 10 death.
But what is still worse, is that the
most frequent consequence Is insanity !;
an insanity, too, of the more violent
type. occasioned By an acute infamma-
tion Of the membranes OF the brain.
The Inflammation directly affects the
gray matter of the cerebral convolu.
sions, on which intelligence depends.
This is calamity worse than to have
been stricken dead at once.
We would not unnecessarily alarm
any person who has suffered from coup
de soleil. But we would impress on
such persons the need of taking great
care of their health; the necessity of
avoiding whatever lowers its tones
especially all excess and passion, and
whatever tends 10 disturb the cerebral
functions.
We would also let the facts empha-
size the need of guarding against an ex
posure to attack. Parents should teach
their children the dangers OF undue ex-
posure to the suns heat. We would
also remind those who indulge in alco-
holic drinks, that they are specially
liable to sunstroke; and that persons
who use such drinks seldom recover
when they have been attacked by this
serious disorder. Youths Companion.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-09-02
PunctuaIity.


Some one defines punctuality to be
fifteen minutes before the time" At
any rate, 1t Is not one minute after the
time.
must tell you an anecdote OF the first
Marquis of Abercorn. He invited a
number of friends to dinner. The hour
for dinner was five, and all those invited
knew 1t, of course. Well, the hour ar
rived and but one of the guests had
come. Down sat the marquis and this
one guest to table. The marquis was
punctual, If only one OF the Others was.
By-and-bye another guest dropped in,
and was very much mortified to find
dinner being eaten. And one by one all
the rest came, and were likewise morti-
fed. But the marquis had taught them
all good lesson, and venture to say
that the next time they were invited
none of them got in to the coffee only,
but were on hand for soup.
General Washington was 80 very
punctual that, on one occasion, some
friends who were expecting him at a
certain hour, on finding that he had not
arrived, all concluded that their watches
must have got wrong; and sure enough
they had. for Washington soon came,
and was not minute late. No doubt
his habits of punctuality helped to make
him the great man that he was.
knew a clergyman once throw him-
self into the Mississippi river and swim
eighteen miles down stream to keep an
appointment for afternoon service. /
travelled through the Upper Mississippi
region shortly after, and for hundreds OF
miles from the place where he lived, out
toward the border, heard OF his great
feat. The border men respected such a
man, and called him "the minister who
made the big swim"
Nor is any one too young to begin the
cultivation of habits of punctuality.
The boy who is on time at school, on
time in class, on time when sent on an
errand, and 80 on, is apt to be the punc-
tual business or professional man. The
habit Of promptness is likely to cling all
through life.
Some persons, on the contrary, go all
through life in a slip-shod. down at-the
heel way, and never prosper. They get
to wedding as people are coming off.
They are late at church; don't meet
their notes, go to protest, and are in
trouble generally.
Washington's way was the best. The
Marquis of Abercorn was in the right.
That Mississippi clergyman did nobly.
And these three are good examples for
our boys and girls TO follow. Never be
behind time, and IL you can be little
ahead of 1t. and you will never repent
of the habit of punctuality. - Golden
Days.
An "anxious inquirer" writes too
know If we can advise q young man to
settle In the West" Yes, we can but
we first advise him to settle at home (ii
he has anything to settle) and his friends
will not hate TO part with him SO bad
MiddLetotCn Transcript.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-09-02

Money can secure so much, and gives
IN many directions such freedom to the
will and so much concrete reality to the
fancy, that the man who possesses ii
frets when he perceives that his power
| will IN other directions do so little. He
feels like potentate who is stopped by
some object quite triaing, but quite inn
movable; or a magician whose genius
does not obey him except to secure ends
which he isjust then seeking to obtain.
Money, for example, will purchase
alleviations from pain, skilled attend
ance, good advice and soft beds, but 1t
will not purchase the dismissal of the
pain itself. Ifyou have cancer, mil
lions are no help. A millionaire may
have toothache, and in toothache feels,
On account Of the money which places
all dentists at his command, an addi-
tional pang.
Here am I, who can buy all the help
there Is, and Of what use Ii that to my
painP"
The sense that the money will aid
volition in so many ways deepens into
pain, when IL is of the kind In which
money Is powerless, as it Is in almost all
serious questions Of health. The Mar
quis Of Steyne Is not the less aggrieved
by bis liability to madness because he Is
50 very rich, but the more aggrieved, ~
q man who knows his own strength to
be unusual and finds 1t just insufficient.
That habitual complaint of the rich,
that money will not buy affection or hap
piness, or even immunity from pain, has
in IL something OF irritation as well as OF
pathos, and often from IN inclination to
contend, rs Of one who Is unjustly de-
prived of something.
The workers have need tn be solici-
tous about health. but It IL the rich who
coddle themselves; and the reason Is
not 30 much the passion for comfort, a.
the additional sense OF the value OF
health, which theirinability TO buy with
money brings home to them more
clearly than to other men. A rich man
who wanted water, say In shipwreck,
and could not get it, would feel In. his
riches, If ne thought of them 1t al, IN
addition to the pain of bis despair; and
thers are wants nearly as urgent as
water toward which money gives just
as little aid.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-09-02
A Sure Mosquito Killer.

The Pyrethrum roseum, or persian
chamomile." Is the powdered leaf of n
harmless flower growing in Caucasian
Asia In great profusion, where for CEN
turies It has been used to rid the natives
of unwelcome guests from the insect
world. It can be purchased at almost
any reliable druggist at about seventy
cents per pound, all ready prepared for
use.
With finely powdered dust made
from these flowers. the mosquito, the
house fly, the wicked flea, and the dis
gusting cimex lectudarius may all be
put to fight or murdered. 1t is only
necessary TO heap up into little cone
one teaspoonful of the drug pyrethrum,
touch 1t with q lighted match, and
watch the thin blue line of smoke as It
rises to the ceiling and Is waited through
the air, changing the busy drone of In
sect life into weak wall of insect voc.
Pretty soon down they come plump on
to the table and over your paper. pins
on their tiny backs, and then sheath
sNSA AoASNsSy SaAA uP hASA hAhk~Ikg
legs. and are no more.
Smoke from the Persian chamomile
or Is dusty powder, Is most efficacious,
but the purity of the drug must be as
sured. 1t must have bright buff color,
be light, readily burned. and give a
pleasant tea-like fragrance; one pinch
should kill dozen flies, confined in a
bottle. at once; where 1t fails of these
properties II has been adulterated.
In common use in large or breezy
rooms, where from great dilution it fails
to kill, It nevertheless produces on In
sect life, through It's volatilised essential
oil or resin, undoubted nausea, vertigo,
respiratory spasm, and paralysis. It
acts upon them through the minute
spiracles, the breathing tubes, that stud
the surfaces Of their little bodies, and
form the delicate network Of veins In
their tiny wings. To human beings It
Is entirely innoxious and not disagree
ble.-Hdrpcr's Bazar.