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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-08-30

AN Aoc1DENT.-While Mr.. Maner
y. Izlar was standing by large iron
wheel belonging 10 some machinery that
was lying at the depot, in some way, he
touched the wheel and caused it to fall
upon his leg. He was fastened to the
platform for some time by the weight OF
the wheel, and his leg so badly hurt that
ne was confined 10 his bed for two
weeks. It is thought that the bone was
slightly fractured. We are glad, how
ever, to see that he is out again and
rapidly recovering from the injury. :
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President Arthur and Senator Vest
have been afflicted with chnlera-morbus
from eating TOO many fish on their Wes-
tern jaunt,
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Shcri&s.,m's Classical School,

ORANGEBURG.S >. u.
THE exercises of this School, for boys and
! girls, will bc resumed on Monday, Sep
tcmbcr 3, 1888.
TERMS PER MONTH.
First Grade. :....' S3.UO
Second Grade. 2'U
Third Grade ZoO
Fourth Grade. Observation-Disclosures. 80
Latin and Greek, cach................"... 80
Music on Piano or Organ for beginncrs,
with two lessons per wcck...."...... 2.jO
Music for advanced pupils with three
lessons per wcrk.....".................. 400
A contingent fee of ~ cents per month
vii be charged for fuel. &c.
Children OF ministers are charged hall
tuition rates.
4 liberal deduction is made where three
or more pupils attend Of the same family.
Board 81 per month, including washing.
fuel and lights. or $500 per month where
students come Oil Monday and return on
Friday. ,
The school rooms have been rcmodelch
and are now we'll appointed in any respect,
The Faculty consist Of Hugo Sheridan,
PriuriIal II. e.. Sheridan. .Ir.. Assistant in
Male Departments: Miss Mary MrMcharl,
Assistant, and III charge nf Female Depart
mrnt, and Prof. Anton Ecr:t, Instructor III
Music.
ri For further particulars send for cata-
log,c. Ii. &. SnEElnAS, Jr.,
Secretary.
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THE RURAL EDITORS TRIALS
People with a high appreciation of their
beloved dead will pay the undertaken
well for the coffin and the use of his
ilearse; they will pay the sexton for dig
ging the grave. and generally the minis
ter for preaching the sermon-and then
VIII come to the country editor with a
tong piece rehearsing the many virtues
ofthe deceased, which they expect to
have republished free. This is what
they call the fitness Of things. We find
il impossible to make people believe it
eostsmoneY TO publish even g country
nl -. Ee.-sse.l.l.s
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The Mutual
A ID A SIS CIAT O y
N ID IN IS CT y L y y
IS TIE
Most Reliable and Cheapest llSNr.
alCG Company,

Having amended the Charter We
are now prepared t" issue policies &"
any citizen. male or female. who can
furnish good physicians : certificate
as 10 the health.
The Board OF Directors meet the
first Saturday in every month, at
which mcriinGs applications Iormcn
bcrShip will hc considered.
For further particulars apply I" or
address i. j. SALLEl, President. or
KIRK ROBINSON, Treasurer, Or
angabur". :. G.. May l7-lyr
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| At PATRICK'S PHARMACY,
Russell ST, Near R. R. Avenue,

TN7ill be found choice and well selected
Wv Stock of Pure Drugs, Patent Medi-
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Thanking my customers aud friends for
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merit continuance OF the same ljy far and
honest dealing, handling none but the Pur-
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Local politics in. Charleston are begin
ming to warm up. Colonel Joseph W.
Barnwell, Chairman of the City Demo
cratic Executive Committee in the
municipal campaign, has announced
himself as a candidate for Mayor against
the present Mayor, Courtenay. Courte-
nays friends have begun an active can
vass ofthe city, and are securing signers
to paper stating that his administration
for the past four yearsshas been eminent
1y satisfactory to tile tax payers Of that
city and requesting him to take the field
for reelection. The Democratic prima-
ry election will be held on September 25,
when the campaign will assume aposi-
tive shape.
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Deep Rock in Syphons at Patrlck's.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11

the balloons could no longer carry the
weight OF the little floating angel, as she
was gradually descending, not in q
straight line but in a southeast direction,
towards Harker's Island-but whether
dead or alive none could tell. Down.
down, down she comcs-as gently as if
handled by human hands-andt to fall in
a cradle of sand. With fear and trem-
ping all ran up--Ben Piver in front.
"Gentlemen, says he, .sIwill be dinged
if she amt live and kicking" There
sat little Birdie playing with a lot Of
shells, and as she was picked up she
clung on to a handful, saying, Obese
sells for mamma"
With the prize all returned to the
boats. There sat Mr.. Voorhees, with a
death-like pallor on his countenance,
and when told that he had saved the
babe unhurt, his tender heart gave way
and he wept like a child. The little
darling came out as bright as a new pin
and seemed to look on the whole matter
as fun gotten up for her amusement.
Thus ended a day of the most intense
excitement that the oldest inhabitant at
this old North Carolina resort ever
dreamed or thought of, and may the
writer v again witness its like
Morehe0d m. CO. Cor. Greensboro
| Patriot.
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give instant help, or to provide some!
way of escape. When our duty leads
us through perilous paths-but only
then-we may intrust ourselves with
unwavering confidence to the Divine.
protection, assured of victory.
81 have known a timid traveller -;
says one, "whose route lay across the
higher Alps, on a path that, no broader
than a mules foothold, skirted a dizzy
precipice, where we saw the foaming,
river, far below, diminished to a silver
thread-find it safest to shut her eyes,,
nor attempt to guide the course, or
touch the bride, where a touch we're
fatal, throwing the steed and rider over,
to bound from shelf to shelf, and be-
dashed to pieces in the valley below.
And there are times and circumstances
when to be saved from falling . . the
believer must, if we may say so, shut
his eyes, and, committing his way to
God, let the bride lie on the neck Of
Providence, and walk, not by sight,:
but faith. When we are walking
in darkness and have no light, there is
nothing for it but to trust in the Lord
and stay ourselves on God" I
There come times in every life when
this is just the picture for us, when all
that we can do is to shut our eyes and
let God lead us through the peril. In
such cases He will never fail; and if we
are faithful in our duty, we shall not
fails. s. Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11
He Left It.

They told Lord Erskine that a certain
man was 'sdead, and that he had left
f2O0, 000." His lordship replied:'
'That's a poor capital to begin the:
next world with" What a failure was
that mans life! He got no good of his
f200, 900 in this world and did not get
himself ready for the next. What did
he do? What is the grand result of his
life, Of his toll, of his anxious days and
sleepless nights? He raked together
100000. What did he do with itP|
Kept it as long as he could. Why did
he not keep it for ever? He died. What
became of it? He left it! To whom?,
To those who came after andj to the,
%squabbles of courts If any good to the
world ever came out of this E2OO, 900 no
thanks are due to him. He kept it as|
long as he could, and left it only be-
cause he could not bring it with him.
There was not room enough in old
Charon's boat for him and his G2OO, OOO.i
If he had only converted it, as the
bankers say! And it was convertible
into the blessings of the poor, into the
sweet consciousness of having done some
good while he lived, into the good hope
Of perpetuating his influence when he
was dead and gone. But he did none
of these things. He raked it together,
kept it, died, left it, and made his last
bed no softer.-Dr. j. B. Thomas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11
The Midnight Trumpeter.

No man can snore IN a quiet, cOnserv-
alive way. When he begins to snore
he voluntarily forfeits control of him
self, and he does so as effectually as the
individual who insists upon being conviv-
ial, and accordingly a nuisance, all the
while. The man who shores is lost, and
this without consideration of the ques-
ton whether he snore small and at in
tervals or loud and continuouslylong.
There are sins and sins, but there are
no qualifying degrees in the matter of
snores. The individual with whom you
sleep must snore not at all, for the
gentler he shores the more he rasps
your nerves, and the louder he snores
the more agitated you become. There
are times when the chirping of the
cricket-and Heaven made the cricket
that there might be the most soothing
of all sleeps made void and of no
effect by the gentlest but in consequence
the most intermittent and accordingly
the most intolerable of snores, and for
that most sickly and sinful of noisome
nasal emission there can be no pardon.
There is no jury in the world that would
not convict a man of murder if the evil
dence of murder turned upon the fact
that he snored a little snore. That
wretched, ragged, willy, half serpentine
noise, lacking only length and sinuosity
to bGa snake but everlastingly raising
its head to say that it is there; those
snatches of yarn drawn through the
fingers whereat the blood curdles; those
gentle little snorts within each minute
or each two minutes for which you
| watch as Fernando Wood watched for
the bark of the dog that fastened his
| journey to the grave-what is there to
compare with that horrible maltreat-
ment of contemporaneous human
system that wants to go to sleep? One
can sometimes stand u large snore. One
can submit occasionally to the snore
that betokens health and avoirdupois
and has a suficiency of uninterrupted
volume to cheat the sleeping senses into
a suspicion of thunder, of the swash OF
the waves at sea, or Of the breaking OF
the same on a rock-bound coast. One
comes in time, providing one survives
to respect the swarthy and muscular
snore, OF even the limpid and tender
snore whose muscularity does not equal
its rotundity and which dies away in q
sickly swoon that reminds the feverish
person of much lard under o summer
sun; but for the effeminate start and
snort, the angular but subdued snore,
the thin utteranoes of the pere roof OF
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11
he mouth that. threaten 50 much In

the mouth that. threaten so much In
their beginning but die out in such
hopeless disappointment and after the
apparent manner of q lost soul, there.
can be no hope, no excuse, no pardon.
Your heroic cannon kills and you don't
know what hurt you; but your popgun
wounds and leaves you utterable misery.
We have said that there were no quail
Tying degrees as to shores. It appears
that there are. 1t must have been tho
feverish utterance of q June night in
tested by shores from some near apart.
ment. While, however, there are de-
grees of snore, there are no degrees
with respect to the man who perpetrates
1t. He, the miserable wretch! does his
work by way of driving his neighbor
crazy, whether he snore loud and long
or briefly and gentle. One can analyze
the shores SO as to extract some comfort
from it, OF at least to ameliorate his
horrible condition; but the man who
shores is w%retchedly bad and without a,
single exception deserves to be hanged
at sunrise-or rather and by all means,
ut shutdown. Why has he permitted
himself to live to the age ~ which the
snore appears to be inevitable Through:
what means has he educated his lar
ynxto that abominable consummation?,
Is not man a moral agent? Is he an
Irresponsible beingP It may be .r-,
gued that when he SHORES he is neces-,
sarily unconscious-but he lies like a;
a trooper anyhow, for he says in his
wakeful moments that he never SHORES!
at all. If he is unconscious, however,
does that fact protect the suffering pub;
lie, and is it not the safety of the public!
rather than the comfort of this misera7
BILE being that is to be considered? !
We observed that a drum major in,
the young army at Peekskill is about to,
be court-martialed for snoring andl
thereby giving the enemy notice of the
existence ahd the situation of himself;
and bis compatriots. Court-martials
are we'll enough, of course; but why.
was he not %bayoneted on the spotp.
Fancy On army made up of indiscrees
persons of this kind. Would it not
trumpet its existence and somnolency
to the very clouds? Would it not adj
vertise its helplessness and stupidity
N. 7. Graphic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11
The Preacher and His Sermons.

The, preacher can hardly give too
much pains to the preparation of his
sermons. Let him dismiss from his
mind the canting temptation to imagine
that he renders himself liable to the
charge Of egotism if he makes much of
the business in which he is the sole
actor, or that sacred influence, timed to
fit his presence in the pulpit, will, if he
is earnest in the main, save him the ne
cessity of previous human trouble. Let
him rather encourage the thought that
when he breaches the interest and int1u-.
ence of his sermon depend upon the
serious and honest pains he has taken
in its preparation. A gardener who,
wants a good crop is not content with
He chooses the best seed he can get. He
takes the utmost car to see that it is,
sown under the most promising condi-
tions. He feels that his personal credit!
is at stake in the matter, and that the
blame for failure can not be altogether
thrown upon the weather and the soil.
And, in like manner, the preacher who
desires his seed to bring forth we'll will
neglect nothing which is likely to make
it wholesomely acceptable. And heI
can not do this in q hurry. He can not
do it when he has allowed his power Of
application to be frittered away by a,
multitude of petty Interruptions. He
must sit down to his work, whether;
he breaches what is called ..extempore''
or not, with a reserve of force. He
must have a good head of steam in his
boiler, which is hardly possible if he has
been whistling and shunting himself
about in sidings all day. Look at AM
engine waiting to drag a train. See
how it CLOVIS and bubbles with sup
pressed energy as it stands ready in the!
shed. We may be sure that thel
preacher will acquit himself best, and
make the best impression upon his
people, who deliberately assists the ac-
emulation of his power before he set!
ties himself down to the preparation of
his sermon, and who dares to resent the
pressure of other less important BUSH
ness that he may seat himself at his
desk with a clear head and a warm in
terest in the work to be done. He never
approaches that work without secret
prayer; but he locks his door, and does
his utmost to put his message into a
shape most likely to invite healthy at
tention and leave a wholesome result.
Whether he breaches with or without a
book, he uses his pen. He arranges,
his subject, he chooses his words with
care, and patiently reconstructs clumsy
or duh sentences, until he feels that,
according to his abilities, he has created
a fresh and original fabric. He will
then 60 into his pulpit with the encour-
aging reflection that he has something,
to say, and that he is prepared to say It
in the best way within his power. And
I would ask whether a higher influence
is not then most likely to accompany
his work.-CormhaW Magazine.
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RELIGIOUS.
"zHY ROD AND THY srAFF.n

Erstwhile I looked across the Valleys border,
Where lie Deaths shadows desolate and
And held strange parley with its ghostly
While one flowed to his domain drew near.
I trembled, in Life's twilight, as I pleaded
That he would spare the idol of nv heart:
That as my, stay and staff my boy was needed,
And my half-wearied feet should first de.
part.
The warder Of the vale in voice grew tender,
AS my ny wild prayer he answered with a
"'Twas hi%s-obedience to his Lord to render.
And the beloved lad's-not mine-to de-"
On the drear margin Of that valleys dark
ness,
felt amazed, my terror fainter grew;
And q soft veil fell DER the warder's stark
ness,
As, in his arms, I saw my darling go.
For the dread shape, less drear, had softly
spoken,
Or, somehow, to my tranced sense had
come,
Across the shadowy edge, a blessed token
mat ne I'd loved and lost was taken home.
''Thy stay and STAFF of which Death has be-
Were but ii.,chosen for thy coming stress:
And in their stead my rod and staff I've left
For comfort when thy feet the dark paths
press"
And now. I humbly say, or sing, with David:
Though l walk through the Valley of
Deaths shade,
From all its evils and its perils saved
Since God is with mel am unafraidl''
@. Richards, in Youths Companion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11
Preserving the Fertility Of Farms.

In the case of the dairyman, it makes
a large difference what system he pur-
sues. If the milk is sold, then a large
amount of fertilizing matter is lost to
the soil, as milk is rich in nitrogen and
%phosphoric acid. 1.-THE milk is made in
to cheese, then the principal part of all
the fertilizing matter Of the milk is lost,
as that is contained in the cheese. But
if only butter is sold, and the skinned
milk is fed, and the drpppings all saved
and applied, very little fertility is carried
off. Dairying with butte' as a product
sold, is one Of the most favorable plans
of preserving the fertility of a farm.
Sheep husbandry is also equally favor
able, FOR there is nothing lost in this but
the fleece and the lambs grown. which
amount to a very small fraction OF the
fertilizing matter in the fodder eaten.
Sheep leave at least ninety per cent. OF
all the valuable clements Of the food eat
en- upon the soil. Animal husbandry is
che most desirable for perpetual fertility
Of the soil; but we must remind the farm
er that, even at this day, greater losses
occur from the want OF care IN saving
the anu made from stock than from
all other causes combiaed.-Natsomat
irc-Stock Journal, Chicago.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11
A Toy Balloon Story by a North Caro-
lima Munchausen.

At the still hour of midnight had the
trump of Gabriel summoned us all to a
final worldly reckoning, more excite
ment. CONSERVATION and weeping could
not have come over the many good peo-
pie who were present and witnessed the
most wonderful and miraculous escape
that ever happened in this or any other
country. Mrs. Robert Elliott, Of Texas,
has been here for the past ten days or
more, to restore the health of her child,
Birdie, a bright and sweet little cherub
less than three years old, who is much
emaciated from a spell of Texas fever.
This morning about ten o'clock a stroll
ing Italian made his appearance in front
Of the hotel with a large cluster OF those
red bladder-like toy balloons. Major
Hawkins, of Alabama, to amuse little
Birdie, who he at that time had in his
arms, tied the cord around her waist,
and then, as is so often done to amuse
%childyen, gave her q toss of five or six
feet Into the air and held out his hands
for her return. "Great God! she is
gone" cried the Major, as he saw her
rapidly going up, up, up, until she
had passed the house-tops. Floating IN
the clouds with outstretched hands, the
little angel could be heard distinctly,
calling: "Mamma, Mariana. mamma,
until her voice became drowned by the
whistling of the winds. All the men
at the hotel started out in boats, for the
little n was drifting to sea-.
BY an act of Divine Providence MI.
Charles J. Voorhees,, of the Southern
Express Company, with a party. OF gen
tlemen, was out. taking a sail. MI.
Voorhees, is one of the most expert
rlflemen in the country, and as God had
ordained it he had on board his Smith
D. Wesson rifle. He at once took in the
situation, r%emarking, ''Six miles out at
sea and going at the rate of ten miles an
hour, and now four hundred yards high
and every minute going higher, higher;
higher. I can cut those balloons n
will do it OF die"
"Bang!"wentthe ride-but no change
IN position. Again. again and again
the fifth shot one balloon disappeared
amidst the shouts of the boatmen. At
the eight shot it became evident that
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11
Gems Of Thought.

Christianity gave mankind the idea
and word humGn2ty. ;
There is no refuge from God except
in God.-Parsiam Pr0uerb.
Consolation is the dropping of q
gentle dew from Heaven on desert
hearts beneath; it is one Of the choicest
gifts of Divine mercy.-Spurgeom. F.;
Prayer is so mighty an Instrument
that no one ever thoroughly mastered
all its keys. They sweep along the i'm
finite scale of mans wants and of Gods
goodness .-Hugh Miller. !
If on our daily course our mind -;
Be set to hallow all we find,
New treasures still of countless price ~
God will provide for sacrifices; Sc
Old friends, old scenes will holier be,
As more of Heaven in each we see;
UGSome softening CLEAN Of love and prayer
Shall lawn on every cross and care. !
John Ksbla.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11

In Pennsylvania the Hessian fly, as
a wheat destroyer, is assisted by a small
green worm, the repetition and repre-.
Sentative of the same vermicular curse
that was so active in the same State
observation-disclosures ago.-Phitade!pha
Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11

The amount of gratuitous medical
service now received by the poor is pro
portionately much larger than ever be-
fore, and it is obtained not only IN 1he
hospital and the dispensary,' but III the
doctors private office and the patients
WI home. Nor do experienced physl-
clans expect much gratitude from their
pauper patients. -Harper's HeeGM