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Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-23
Be SeIF.SuppOrting.

Girls, first make up your minds
that you Will do something. All the
rest will follow. What you shall be
will come more easily and clearly in
due time.
A girl of thirteen cannot decide,
with any discretion or assurance,
whether she will be sculptor or a
wash-woman, farmer or a poet; but
she can decide distinctly whether it
is her wish or her duty, after leaving
school or college, to remain depend
ent upon her parents or to fit herself
for self-providing life.
The education by which you mean
to get your bread and butter, your
gloves and bonnets, is a very differ
ent affair from that which you take
upon yourself as an ornament and
an interval in life.
The chemical experiment which
you may some day have to explain
to pupils of your own is quite anoth-
er thing from the lesson You may
never think of again.
The practice in bookkeeping,
which may some time regulate your
dealings with flesh and-blood Gus
toners, becomes as interesting as a
new story.
And the very sawdust of the
French or Latin grammar becomes
ashes of roses to the stout little fancy
that dreams Of brave work and big
salary, in some foreign department
at Washington or tutoring girls or
boys for college.
All over the terrible ocean, among
the lawIesS sailors, the men with
wives and children to work for are
those who lead the gentlest and
cleanest lives.
SO, on the great ocean of school
life, the girls with aims to study for
are those whose labor is the richest
and ripest.
l fancy that l can select in a
crowded street the busy, blessed
women who support themselves.
They carry themselves with an air Of
conscious self-respect and self con-
tent which a shabby alpaca can not
hide, nor a bonnet silk enhance, nOr
even sickness or exhaustion quite
drag out.-St. Nicholas.
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Girls in Southern Colleges.

How rapid progress the women
of the South are making IN the
matter of education is well shown
i'll the University of Mississippi. 1t
was but few years ago that this
university was thrown open to girls !;
but in that time they have forced
themselves to the front, and this
year they won all the prizes. A
young lady takes the first honors,
and will consequently be the vale
dictorian. The senior class will be
represented by young lady among
the speakers as will also the
juniors; while among the competi-
tors for the sophomore prize declam-
alton is still another of ''the fair
SEX"
The experiment tried at Oxford,
of admitting girls to the university
with the same privileges as the
male students can, therefore, be
pronounced a success.-Times- DEM
ocrat.
And yet when the co-educatiOn o.
the sexes was agitated in OXFORD
some years ago, it was argued thai
the girls could not stand the currlc
ulum, and it would have to be low
cred.
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Fayette, Miss.

On Monday, May 11th, We had a
further impetus given to the good
cause Of temperance and Prohibi-
ton here and through our county Of
jefferson. Brother J. ii. Gambrell
came here to appointment-Circuit
Court was just opening, but our
honored Judge, J. B. Chrisman, gave
recess Of ample time to allow us to
get things in better shape than
heretofore. Our temporary presi-
dent, Dir. P. X. Whitney, called the
mass meeting to order and introduced
Mr.. j. Ii. Gambrell, State Lecturer.
His speech was unusually clear and
forceful, bristling with fine points.
lie asserted, what we believe to be
worthy of note by all concerned !:
that if this question of Prohibition
be ever thrust into ordinary politics
it will be the work of machine poll
ticians, who by their Indifference or
opposition force it in. We all
greatly desire to keep it high above
such complications. But our reas-
enable demand must be heard, if the
certainty of disrupted party is to
be .lvolded. After the speaker
closed, the roll of membership was
increased greatly by the addition Of
names from all parts of our county,
representing the very best class Of
Democratic, Independent and Re-
publican citizens. A noticeable fea-
ture of the meeting was the presence
of FIVE ministers of the gospel. The
religious element still predominates
as it should in so holy a cause. A
permanent organization was effected,
with all needful officers, including a
vice president from each supervisors
district.
Six delegates were elected to rep
resent US in the approaching Con
vention in Jackson. They are apt
to be heard from there. We are en-
titled to but three votes, but We
want to show our goodwill and tC
take plrt in the discussions. We
have much to contend with here
but ours is Goods side Of this ques
ton" and he will carry us through
j. P. DRAKE.
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In the first example there are six
ty-nine syllables and two hundred
and twenty-one letters in the Sec
ond, eighty syllables and two hum
dred and sixty letters. If the second
sentence had the same average as
the first, there would have been but
eighty-seven syllableS and two hun
dred and forty-seven letters. But
the difference is not great. The
truth is, English is a language made
up Of words drawn from many sourc-
es, and can be adopted to the need
of the writer. If he wishes his style
to be forcIble, or musical, or precise,
lie chooses words accordingly. But
no one is to be blamed for resorting
to Latin words, There are certain
ideas that cannot be impressed at all
in words OF Saxon derivation. For
example, suppose one wishes to say
that he had been holding an argu-
ment, or discussion, on a certain sub
iect, what Saxon word could he use?
Our sturdy ancestors had words for
fights, brawls and feuds, but they
left US nothing in their language to
describe the collision Of minds. Their
disputes were carried on with fists and
clubs.
The literary offence that is most to
be avoided is affectation in writing.
A style in which long Latin words
abound, AND one from which Latin
derivatives are carefully expelled,
are equally unnatural and labored.
The writer who makes use of the
words employed in ordinary speech,
from whatever tongue their root
came, goes nearest to the hearts and
the minds Of his readers.-Houth's 5
Companion.
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and when he tried to speak, out
would come an oath.
That may seem strange, but have
found out that all who build such
monuments as johns prefer oaths to
any other word
Now, come with me, and | will
show you Johns monument. 1t
stands in a beautiful par. of the city
where five streets meet. Most men
put such things in a cemetery. But
John had his own way and put it in
one of the finest lots to be found.
"Does it look like Bunker Hill
monument ?" asks little Amy Arloot
by his side.
Not at all. John didn't want to
be remembered in that ways lie
might have taken that fifty thousand
dollars and built an asylum for
the poor little children that have no
home, and people would would have
called the asylum his monument.
But here We are at the front door
1t is grand house! 1t is high and
large, with great halls and towers,
and velvet carpets, elegant mirrors
and a piano, and | know not what
all ; so rich and grand.
This is John Jones monument !.
and the man who sold John nearly
all the whisky he drank lives here
with his family, and they all dress in
the richest and finest clothes.
Do you understand it Eli Per-
kins' "Wit and Humor of the Age"
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EDJCATIONAL-
Good English.

The school-boy who writes in his
composition that Excellence in any
vocation is only attained BY unremit-
ting labor and perseverance, { thinks,
no doubt, he is much more skilled IN
the use of words than is the rough
fellow who blurts out, eff you want
to get on, work hard" Which of the
two boys has the better command OF
English!
This is not question that can be
answered off-hand, for while the
shorter sentence, composed Cf shOr-
er words, states the same principle IN
more general and in stronger terms
than are used n the composition
sentence, we do not always wish to
state general principles SO broadly,
or to state them so strongly. 1t is
fact that tho words used by the young
and the uneducated are, for the most
part, of Anglo Saxon, or, as we us
ually say, of Saxon origin. But this
is only generally true, for many of
the short, simple, direct words of the
English language come from the Lat
in. The boy or girl who is acquiring
an education falls unconsciously into
the habit Of using long words derived
from the Latin. When the raw pc
Rod ofyouth has passed, the tendency
among sensible people is to drop the
earlier affectations, and to use words
which express the thought, what
ever may be the source from which
those words came. 1t is as great a
mistake to avoid the use of word
because it came from the Latin, as it
is to seek out words simply by their
length. One can write IN exceed
ingly rough and disagreeably false
stl lle of English by using only Saxon
derivatives.
The framework Of every good En-
gIish sentence must be Saxon words.
Latin nouns, adjectives and verbs
are indispensable to express nice
shades of thought; but when a Sax
on and Latin word are equally
good, the Saxon is to be preferred
and short word rather than long
one.
From the above sentence we have
carefully omitted every word of Lat
in derivation that could be spared
that is, unless we we're TO use several
words instead of one and there art
these Latin words: sentence, nouns
adjectives, verbs, indispensable, ex
press, equally, preferred, and long
nine words out of fifty. Let us nov
put the same idea into other words
Every weIl-formed sentence Q
strong, nervous English is founded
upon a Saxon basis. Latin supplle
words to describe things, acts ant
traits. which the accurate writer cal
net spare. Saxon words are better
because more simple and in NOR
common use, if they express the idea
and short words add to the force o
the sentence.
Here are hfty-slx words. I'M
idea is little more developed thai
in the other sentence, as will b.
seen. The Latin words, are these
formed, sentence, nervous, founded
basis, supplies, describe, acts, traits
accurate, spare, simple, common, use
express, idea, force, and sentence Gre
peated) nineteen Iii all.
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Liberty, Miss.
NIay2O

Mr.. j. II. Gambrell was here yes
terday, and met the friends Of Pro-
hibition, and delivered an able and
eloquent address, which was well re-
ceived. Immediately after, Prohi-
bitlon club was organized, with the
following officers: Elder w. w.
Bolls, President; w. B. Raiford,
Vice President; w. w. Brashears,
Secretary; J. r. Galtney, Cores
ponding Secretary; w. z. Lea,
Treasurer.
Executive Committee T. w.
Stratton, r. S. McLain, w. +. Love,
r. J. Cansey, I. J. Roberts.
Delegates to the State Prohibition
Convention: W. B. Raiford, J. E.
Lea, r. S. McLain.
Representatives.: j. r. Galtney,
r. D. J. Smith, S. S. Faust, 7. n,
Jackson, w. A. Gill.
j. r. GALTNEY.
May -.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-23
The ''StubbOrn States"

Judge Billings, in the case OF Hans
vs.. Louisiana suit brought on her
bonds, by citizen, n the Federal
court-recognizes the society of peO-
pie called Louisiana, as above suit,
except with her consent. lie cites
Madison as holding, in the Virginia
ratifying convention, that ''it is not
in the power of individuals to call
any State into court" lie might
have cited George Mason and John
Marshall, as then and there giving,
as the reason OF it, in the language
Of the latter, that the State is "the
sovereign power"
Judge B. also citessthe celebrated
Webster letter To the Barngs, IN 1889
to the effect that States can not be
sued on their bonds, except as above
because the bond-holder invested in
plighted faith only, and because, as is
said in another of the Judges cita-
tions, viz, 81 of the Federalist: ''lt
is inherent in the nature of Ofsovereign-
ty not to be amenable to the suit of
an individual without its con-
sent.
Free, selfexisting, stubborn
States" said William Il. Seward ;
''indestructibIe States" said Salmon
p. Chase-both speaking after the
war. And, indeed, these facts
called States must be the most stub
born of things. Why? Because
God made them and endowed them,
as sentient beings, with the instinct
which, of course, implies the
right and duty-of self-pretervation
and, as moral beings, they are
charged by Deity with the highest
moral and political duty-that of
preserving and protecting, in their
blessings of liberty, the precious
souls of His creation. Samuel Ad-
ans, of Massachusetts, said in her
ratifying convention, and wrote to
Richard Henry Lee: s'The State in
the Union is to be free, sovereign
and independent. Her sovereignty
is the palladium of the private and
personal rights of the citizen"
Said Roger Sherman, of Conneti-
cut. '"The government is instituted
by Sovereign States to secure their
rights and advance their inter-
ests, meaning of course, the right
and interests of the people who COM
pose them.
Alexander Hamilton, of New York
was, ifpossible, more pronounced, es-
pecially as to the rights and means of
self-defense of Statcsagainst Federal
danger.
We must keep it in mind that the
preservation Of the blessings OF liber-
ty, and the protection of the people
by themselves against menace and
violence, involve the yine-and-fg-tree
idea of the Bible-''domestic tran
guilty." being the divine intent as
to the family and to the State, as
we'll as the necessary result.
Again, the State is a stubborn fact,
because it is living, moving, think
ing, judging, voting, fighting and self
defending fact; and as long as llber-
ty lasts this sentiment and sensitive
being will see, fear, forefend and re-
pei danger and wrong, ana try to pre-
vent recurrence. This exhibits its
only reason for existing-its only
use and it is an excellent omen
that our federal judge recognizes the
State as the primal organism Of peo-
pie; as, indeed, the only form in
which they exist, or have capacity TO
act in government. Will We ever
again have the union or association
Of republics or self-governing peoples
as the prevailing idea.-Times- Dem
ocrat
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May 19.
How to Vote.

Voters should never forget that
no man should be elected to any
office the duties of which he IS not
competent to discharge. A drunk
ard is not suitable for any office, Of
course, but a man may be a sober
man and still be unfit for office.
One bad trait may render a man un-
fit for office, but one good trait is not
sufficient to give a man a "claim"
on an office. Don't vote for man
solely because he is Prohibitionist.
Don't vote for block head or a
scatter-brain. Don't vote for man
who is loose in his own affairs, for he
will be lvoser inpublic affairs. Don't
vote for man who does not pay his
debts. If he is able to pay and will
not, he is not honest. and if he makes
debts he cannot pay he had better
stay at home and develope his abili-
ty to pay. otherwise he might make
public debts for you to pay. Dom
vote for a man who is dishonest II
private life, for he will be just as dis
honest IN public life. Don't vote tol
man who will take sharp turns or
YOU, or take cover under law to beat
you or your neighbor out of homes
money. No matter if he does try t
laugh it off or tries to get out OF !
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-23

The Romans had to contend with
the evils of enormous tenement
houses 20O0 years ago. Gibbon
mentions that Augustus and Nero
repeatedly enacted that the height of
dwellings within the walls of Rome
should not exceed seventy feet from
the ground. The space within the
Roman walls was necessarily circum-
scribed. Much of this was occupied
by the rich patricians and Senators,
with their palaces and gardens, so
that the body of Roman people were
crowded into high tenements, and
the different floors and apartments
were divided among several families
of plebeians, who suffered cOnse-
quently in health and comfort. Juv-
email, recognizing the unfortunate
condition of the poor in this respect,
advised them to leave the city and
seek homes in the small towns
Times-Democrat.
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HarperYille.

We had Prohibition meeting
Saturday evening last. and after sew
eral speeches, We enrolled SO names.
Next Saturday we expect to swell
the number to 100 or more. Will
then elect officers and send in their
names. Please write me at once
how many delegates we are entitled
to at the Convention. Feeling that
success is ours, / am, &c.
q. G. HARPER.
May %.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-23
TIE RHYME OF 4 ROSE.

Down the dusk the star-beams simmer,
While the noisy night-wind veors,
And within the gas-lights glimmer
Golden from the chandeliers.
Sounds of music, swelling, falling,
Charm the senses with the power
OF chime at dewfall calling
From tower.
YOnder IN the rose trees shadow,
Where the damask curtains fall,
Lost in fancy's Eldorade,
Sits the fairest rose Of all.
Cr9sus, who is wont TO hover.
Round her as she comes and goes,
vainly longs to be the lover
OF the rose.
Wealth alone has small attraction,
Name alone she holds as naught.
While rule of noble action
Governs her in every thought.
And the throng before her bowling,
Wooing with their empty art,
Never with their ardent vowing
Touch her heart.
Ere another suitor find her
will seek her there alone;
Spur my courage to remind her
OF day in summer flown;
How beneath the larelus lifting
O'er rivers ripping tide,
Long we sat in shadows shifting,
Side by side
How from twiXt thin vellum covers
My own halting rhymes read,
Tales of knight and minstrel lovers
How she sweetly smiled and said,
''ThOse who sang in ages olden,
Courtly bards and troubadours,
Had their loves with tresses golden,
Who is yOurs?"
How Carru not tnen reveal it,
All my loyal love for her,
How l Struggled TO conceal it
Meath calm exterior,
How my passion from that June day
Grew more potent, hour by hour,
How it now is at the noon day
Gifts power.
She has heard the secret tender
Long a captive in my breast,
And happy hearts surrender
Have her blushing cheeks confessed.
Love henceforth-- fond eyes show it,
In her skies will be the sun;
Rose and myrtle for the poet!--
He has won!
Clinton Scollard.
Miss
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-23
A Little child.

A little boz who was told the W.
C. T. U. women all pray every day
at twelve o'clock that the saloons
might be abolished, said "Can't the
children pray too? The little hands
on all the watches and clocks lift
their pointers toward heaven at
twelve. ."-Ex.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-23
8SS8yS !!:'! ze4IRIiEXSz
Meridian.

The moral and Prohibition triumph
is great. We are prayerfully bent
upon success.
l.. ?. Brown.
May 10.
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CarrOlltOn.

Carroll county will be represented
iL the State Convention. Prohibi-
ton is growing in this county. Ben
son will be here the 28th.
j. r. BINGHAM.
May 20
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-23

by saying it was "legal." He has
swindIed you all the same and he
will do it again. Don't vote for a
man unless he is sound.
N. G. STEELE.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-23

Local Option by counties !
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-23

May 10.
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May 20
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-01-24

THE LOCALN EWSPAPER-An ex-
change says correctly When you
hear a man sneering at the local
papers because they are not as big,
cheap aud newsy as other papers,
you can safely bet that be does no.
squander his wealth in assisting to
make them better, and that generally
the papers have done more for him
than he has for them. The man
who cannot see the benefit arising
to atown from the newspapers hasn't
the sense of an oyster and he is
about as much value to a town as a
delinquent tax list
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-01-24
a LNosI a
A STORY.

A few days ago a gentleman OF high
standing III Atlanta met Dr. j. Bratlfield
on the street.. and related the following,
in which nj adies are deeply interested:
10 the past eighteen months my
wife has bee b an invalid. caused from
wound trouhle lie. cessation Of menses etc,
and | have tried everything | could
hear OF III the way of medicine. and
have had several OF our best physicians
attending her, To one Of whom. calling
him hy namol | paid one hundred and
sixiy-thrce dollars. Instead of iuprov-
ing or getting any relief. she gradually
grew worse. and | had almost given up
hope. and really dido not believe she
could ever get up from an invalid's bed
but a friend Of mine who knew of the
case suggested the use of
BRADFIELDB FEMALE REGULATOR,
and although he stated that he knew Of
a similar case being cured by it, and en-
dorsed it highly himself. | was so dis
couraged | did not believe 1t would do
her any good but AS n last resort |
bought a large. bottle Of it aud she began
taking it, and from the very first Il
marked change took place. She begun
to improve rapidly. her appetite return
ed, her whole system was built up, and
td-da" she is as we'll and sound as ever
in her life, and am under lifelong OBJ
legations to YOU and your remedy, for it
undoubtedly saved her life - and he
added. Il wish every lady in the world
50 afflicted would try it, as | know It
will curektaem-%
We CLAIM AND CAN PROVE BEYOND
4 DOUBT,
BY the highest and most undoubted
testimony
That this Remedy will cuIe all womb
troubles.
That this Remedy will cure leuc0r-
r!oI or whites.
That thi. Remedy will restore the
menstrual tunctipns.
That this REMEDY will stop excessive
monthly flow.
That this Rem,dy will relieve painful
mrnsl!uation,
That this Remedy will build up tho
system IL i tonic.
That this Remedy will cure all female
disorders.
l"CHANGE OF LIFE"
1t taken during this period. So criti-
cal. il stands without a rital.
send for our Treatise on Woman.
Mailed free 10 any address.
TIE BRADFfELD REGULATOR =.
COMPANY. ATLANTA. GA. i,
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-01-24
Nov is the time to give your
boy SMITH'6 WORM OIL.

Uncle Bill Hobbs, better known
as Mexico" Of this county, who was
in Jeff Davis's regiment in the Mex.
lean war, says it don't make any diff.
ference what Hawley and the other
Yankee Senators may say about Jeff.
Davis, he is a better man than either
n OF them, and is as good a man
as ever lived. 1t is said that in the
army is the place to find out what a
maj is, and there's where uncle Bill
Hobbs knew JEFF. Davis. It wonld
be dangerous tor any man to abuse
Jeff. Davis ia uncle Bills presence
And we add Mr.. Davis may have
had a good many enemies in the
South in the last days OF the war
and at its close, but to day, all over
the Southern land, he is loved aud
respected more than any other living
a IT ought to be So, and
whether it ought to be SO or not, we
can't help it, and we don't care if we
can't.
We spent few hours in the
city of Durham last Monday. While
there we visited the printing office
OF the Daily Reporter. A new
power press and new type have re.
Gently been purchased by the Re.
porter Publishing Company. MIR.
ID. w. Whitaker, one OF the propri.
etors, told rs that he expected soon
20 have in connection with the news.
paper, n Of the LesS equipped job
printing offices IN the South. Tha,
clever and worthy gentleman, Capt
n. A. Ramsay, has bought an inter
est III the Reporter. These gentle
men will publish a live, tirst-clas'
daily newspaper. We wish theu
great success.