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VOLUME 8.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1874.
NUMBER 20
The Husband's Lesson.
The ringing of the door boil has n
pleoBnut sound to mc, more particularly
in my idle moods. Like an unopened
letter, there is a mystery about it, and
oue waits with o pleasurable excitement
to pee who ?r,what is'eotniug.
Returning home one-day earlier than
usual, I found that my wife had gone
out; and while idly waging her return
the door-hell rang. I waited expectant
until Mary appeared with a note, con
taining a request from my old friend,
Gcoige I-:?, to rido out to his
residence in the country tho uoxt day,
and to bring my wife with mo. I was
much pleased, not so much on account
of any pleasure which it might give my
wife, but because I thought I needed a
day's rocreation, and in the lovely sum
nicr time, the country has peculiar
charms for mo.
But tho next morning everything
seemed to go wrong. Alice could not
jiccompany me, aud I could not get off
as early as I wished ; consequently 1
wuh fretful and peevish, aud Alice
seemed to reflect my humor, for she
ucver seemed to be so unnmiuble. A_t._
^^'--feWWvor." 1 drovu awav. thottgil
not in a very pleasant mood. It was a
lovely day; and as I rode along, noting
the beauties of the landscape, my memo
ry went back unbidden to the tiuic when
1 wooed aud won my bride. Oh ! how
lovely Alice was theu ! I thought.
And Oh ! how happy we were S But
that- was long ago. No : Is it possible,
we have been married only three years >
And I felt otharp pang as I contrasted
the past with the present, to think that
?we could settle down into the common
place lifo wc uow led.
We had no serious trouble ; we did
not quarrel; though wheu 1 felt cross,
or thiugs did not suit mc, 1 t mk no
paine to ennceal it, aud often spoke
harshly to Alice, who sometimes replied
iu tho samo spirit, and sometimes with
tear?. Yet wc wore generally goo 1
friends. Still, the charm, the tender
ness of our early love had imperceptibly
vanished. I had become careless about
my personal appearance at home and
Alice was almost equally ue^ligjot.
Her beautiful brown hair, which she
used to wear iu the most becoming curls,
was now usually brushed plainly behind
her ears, unless she was going out or
expected company.
I dismissed the subject with a sigh,
ns I drew up at my friend's gate, with
the rcflccth n that it was the same with
all married people?must be so, iu fact;
for how could romance and sentiment
find a place among so many prosy
realities? I suppose we ate as happy
as any body; aud yet it was not the
kind of life that I had looked forward
to with so many bright anticipations.
My friend {.routed me with great
cordiality. In the hull we met Mrs
I--, looking fresh aud lovely in
her pink muslin wrapper, with her jetty
huir iu tasteful braids. Sho reproved
mc playfully for uot bringing my wife
Tvith .uio, chatted a few minutes, and
ihen flitted away, while my friend led
itlho -way to the library. As we entered
ithe room I noticed a vase of bright
flowers on the table, impartiug an air of
?taste and cheerfulness to the apartment.
I mado some remark ubout it, tu which
my friend responded:
'Yes, 1 urn very fond of flowers, and
liko to see them iu the house; and as 1
spend much lime here, my wife always
keeps a vase of them ou the table as
Jong us they last.
After dinner we walked out into the
grounds which were quite extensive,
and most tastefully arranged. There
VrM o greut variety of flowers in bloom,
*nd I noticed thatL- soloeted
'here and there tho finest, until he had a
handsome bouquet.
When wc reached the house Mrs. L.
was on the Bteps. Her husband, still
?continuing our conversation, gave her
k; (lie flowers with a smile ; and holding
up a rpruy of crimson Lcirics, which he
had broken off, the bent her head while
he fastened it among tho dark braids of
lie* huir.
, It W?B a trilling incident, yet their
I manner arrested my attention. Had I
I been a stranger, I would hare pro
ft nounced them lovers, instead of sobor
H married people. All through tho day I j
M noticed the IE fine delicate attention and
refcrciico ia their deportment to each
other. There was nothing of which
the most fastidious guest could complain;
yet, while showing me the most cordial
attention, they did not ignore each
other's oxi3leuce, as married pcoplo too
often seem to do.
I had never before visited my frioud
at his eouutry home, ami was very much
pleased with it. I Raid so, alter dinner,
as wc strolled out into the woods.
'Yes,' he said, 'I think it is pleasant ;
'and,' ho added, I believe I am a con
toLted man. So far, 1 am not disnp
pointed in life.'
?How long have you been married ?'
I asked.
'Ten years.'
'Well,' I pursued, 'can you tell im?
whence is the bright atmosphere that
surrounds your home? Jell me how
you and your excellent wife manage to
retain the depth of jour early I ovo as
you seem to do? I should think the
wear and tear ol life would din.1 it some
what. 1 never before saw a home whore
my ideal of domestic happiness was
re.ili'/.ed. It is what I have dreamed of,
but have not yet been permitted to
enjoy.' _ t<
^Iy friend^ smiled, n^Vu^poi^i't**"'il'^T
thrifty grape-vine climbing over a ueat
lattice, and loa led with fruit, said :
'That viue needs careful attention,
and if cared for, it is what you see it,
but if* ueglected, how soon would it
bceouic a worthless thing ! So th? love
which to all, at s-pme porkd, is the
most precious thing in life, and which
needs no much care to keep itunimpuir
cd, is generally neglected. Ah ! my
dear fellow, it is little acts?trifles?
that eo often estrange loving hearts. 1
have always made it a point to tre.it my
wife with the same courtesy that ohar
uctcrized my deportment in the days of
our courtship; nnd while I am careful
not to offend her tastes and little prcju
dices, I am sure that mino will bj e<]u.?l
ly respected. Moreover, instead of
treating her as an iuferrior?as a mere
bluve, bound to obey my every behest?
I realize (he fact that she is my equal,
and, us such, has as much right to a
voice iu tlic management of our daily
affairs as I have. By this means, my
dear friend, we manage to live happily
together, aud to show to those around
us that there is still in tho world such a
thing as domestic linppihoss aud com
fort.'
That night I rode homeward ponder
iug over what I had seen and heard ;
and reviewing the yearn of our married
life. I was surprised at my owu blind
ucsh, nnd determined, if possible, to
recall the early dream.
The next morning, nt breakfast, I
astonished sweet Alice by a careful
toilette, chatted over tho dinner, and
after tea, hinted her out to take a walk.
When she came down, arrayed in my
favorite drct>s, with her hair in shining
curls, I thought she had never looked
lovelier. I exerted myself, as of old, to
entertain her, and was surprised to find
how quickly the evening passed.
I resolved to tost my friend's theory
perfectly, and tho result exceeded my
most sanguine expectations. For all
the little nameless at tensions, so gratify
ing to n woman's heart, aud so universal
ly accorded by the lover and neglected
by the husbaud, I find myself repaid a
thousandfold; aud I would advise all
who arc sighing over tho uou fulfillment
of their early dreams, to go and do like
wise; remembering that what is worth
using is worth keeping.
The report of some re marks of .lohn
Bright, at u temperance meeting in Lon
don, as givcu in our foreign telegrams
this week, contains some points that
may well be considered by the more
aggressive of the triouds of temperance
in this country. In a war against tho
use of intoxicating driuks publicopiu
iou is the only effective weapon, uud
this can not be orcuted by oppressive or
violent measures. I'utieuce, and earnest,
uucensiug work will be the means of
accomplishing the , results desired by
the temporaueo people, if those results
arc ever accomplished.
Excessive exertion ol'ton leads to a
congested state ol tho luugs, and deli
cient exercise is capable of produciug
tubercles in the satno orgnos through
nutritional alterations.
A Good Opportunity for Land
Owners.
Dr. Wm. F. Barton (he President of
the Orangeburg Agricultural and Me
chanical Association is now on a visit to
friends and relatives in tho west of Eng
land. At a meeting of the Hoard of
Directors held .shortly bofore his depar
ture, he introduced the suhjoet of obtain
ing additional labor, and kindly offered
to further any plan for the cueourago
nicut of foreign immigration that might
seem practicable- After a considerable
discussion, the Board resolved, in ac
cepting his suggestions and assistance to
reccommcud the plan sot forth in this
article to the planters and la:.d owners
of Orangeburg County,
Tho west of England teems with a
thrifty aud industrious farming popula
tion, such as would ho especially valua
ble in our sparsely settled County.
Many are actuated by a spirit of Enter
prise, and are desirous of trying their
foi'tuuts in the New World across the
waters.
In England, the average wages of a
common farm hand is about ??18 per
ytar^,gjy itn irur j:u rrcncyr ?^SJUlO^i, witli
loud and lodging lound: for a servant
waman, to attend to a dairy, cooking,
washing, &c, about XI2 per )'oar (say
Slit).); for a boy, or half hand, say 850
per year, aud found as above. They
live iu the same house with their em
ployer, have special sleeping apartments
and lake their meals iu the kitchen.
Their food consists principally of wheat
bread, cheese- beans "irish potatoes and
meat, with beer or cider. They seldom
use cither tea or coffee, a kind of light
beer which is made in that country
bring their usual beverage instead.
It is the custom of English farmer to
employ one man, ono woman and one
boy as servants, who live on the prcmi
scs. The majority of tho laborers live
in cottages near the farms where they
work, for which cottage they pay j rent
Irotn JL2 to ?? per year, according to
size and convenience. This is in our
money, from -"31 to $.'J par mouth. They
hire thoir services to the farmers by the
day or week, and during tho busy sea
son command the following wages, viz:
(rood hands iu harvest time from 10 to
2-1 shilling per week, say ?5 to ?7.
Mowers get from 5 to G shillings per day
say ?1,50 for a days work. Women du
ring harvest get ab-<ut 13 pence per day
about -15 cents. Those wages are paid
ouly during the busy season;?after bar
vest time, and during the winter there
is very little demand for Agricultural
labor. Undcrdruiuiug, hedging and
ditching, and breaking up lands when
the frost will permit are about all
that can be done iu wintar, outside of
tho regular work done by tho per ma -
ment hands on the rurtn, who are gener
ally a man, a woman end a buw, as
above stated.
A great deal of attention is paid to
sheep raising, good shop herds pal stea
dy employment at about 14 shillings a
week, say 8375, with extras during lamb
ing lime.
The principal products are hay, wheat
oats, rye barley, irish potatoes, turnips
and beets.
The forogoing sketch, from data fur
nibbed by Dr Burton will give a general
idea of tho probable oxpectiotis of such
laborers, should they come among us to
seek employment und homes.
It is to be remembered that the cli
mate of England like that of* the North
ern States of tho Union, docs not admit
of field labor but lor a part of the year;
and it will be noticed that laborers are
paid more or ioss, according as they are
engaged for a singlo day, a week or |a
longer period. The wages aro sotno
times paid in money, sometimes partly
in money, and partly iu so much beer or
cidor; in othor respects laborers by the
day or weok find themselves. It is to
bo presumed that iu a climate such as
ours, whereby steadier omployment for
u longer scasou cu\y jjao assured, that
tho wages would be proportionately loss
per week or month.
The Board of directors proposo to
thoir ^follow citizens of Oratigoburg
County to send ou to Dr. Bartou, any
communication in writiug, signed by a
reasonable party, making a distiuot pro
position for tho employmout of laborers,
j leasing of lands, sclliugof land'for cash
or ou tim c, giving of lands iu cousidora
tjou of tho sottletn eDt and mproviug of
tho lands giving, work on shares, or, in
fiuc, any proposition whioh any land
owner or plauter may see fit to make.
Dr. Barton offers to |submit tho propo
sals sent on to suoh of the English labo
rcrs as arc thiuking of coiniug to this
country, to enlighten them as to mat
tors they may desiro to know, and to
make enquiries ns to the character and
merits of such ns cvinco"a disposition to
give South Carolina a trial. Ho will re
maiu in England until about the last ol
August and it is desirable that every
oue, who wishes to embrace this oppor
tunity, should prepare this opportunity,
should propare his statements and pro
posals by the first of July, so that thoy
can be forwarded in good time.
Dr. Barton himself expr>cts to ongago
one or twot families: and the Board
would suggest that it might work. ?*."U
for two or three land owners in the
same neighborhood to unite iu this en
tcrprisc, aud oaoh offor to employ, or
{rivide for the location of, at least one
family. In this way, two or more fa mi
lies will be near each other' aud there
will bi more chance of their settling
p. ruianently among us, as they will n? t
[Sl?-?n^fia.iQaolatcd when they havo bo no
of their own paoplo\noar by.
The undersignod/will take pleasure in
forwarding guy communications whioh
may he han3 d tothje'". '?d ?Q B?V?"S
any further iuformatV" la thoir V0?Qr
concerning Jhe subject^
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MuitQAN J. KeMASII. jH
laurence u. BeCKWITH,
O. IfrRlLRY.
SamH/kl Diiiule.
What SRYoti Women Have Dono.
A roceut English book, 'Facta, non
Yerba,' coutnins the history of the
philanthropic labors of seven English
women. It is full of iotorost, not only
for its facts, but for its inferences.
Believers and disbelievers iu the en 1
t'rauchiscment of women can draw argil
ments from it. It wii' delight the for
mcr by proving?to their satisfaction, i
at least?that women can plau and
excute as well as men. It will convince
the latter that the proper field for femi
nine energy is philanthropy, not politics.
The Athcmcutn : 'If the volume docs
nothing else, it at any rate gives us a
new notion of how much there is for
women to do, and how much a woman
can do it she is in earnest, about her j
work.'
Miss Bye bega i her efforts a few 1
years ago. She had a capital of ?700 I
Its lasting capacity has been as miracul ?
ous as that of tho 'Widow Crude's oil.'!
She has helped 173 governesses to
emigrate to the British colonies, where
they have all, mainly through her efforts,
found employment. She has put 1,500
English women into good places as do
mcstics, ?u Australia and New Zealand.
She has personally taken to Cauadu a.id
placed iu rcspoctable families 1,200
children of tho London streets. Niu v
tenths of them are girls,'who, but for
their benefactress' efforts, were condemn
ed inevitably to a life of the lowest
degradation.'
Miss Macphorson has done the same
good work for 1,800 children.
Miss Chandler decidjd, some years
since, to found a charity for the par
aly/.ed. There was then no such t ing
in London. Sho began by taking care
of a poor paralyzed carpeuter. As fust
as she could, she assumed charge of
more paralytics, one by one. She has
now opened a hospital for paralysis au I
epilepsy, iu Queen's square, London. It
is not excelled by any of tho same sort
in the world. She has also established
u couvulosccnt hospital, which is doing
great good. She has, moreover, scoured
the endowment of forty-eight permanent
unuuties for incurable paralytics and
epileptics. She is now collecting a large
amount of money to be applied iu this
same way.
Miss (jilbcrt, a blind lady, opouod a
bliud school iu liolbotu eeller, for
which she paid eighteen pence a week.
Sho has uow a thousand pupils, whom
sho has taught to support themselves.
They maintain the institution that
gives them a home, an educatiou, aud
an occupation. Its maintenance costs
?'8,000 a year. This work of a poor
blind woman may fairly bo compared
with any of the marvels history records,
as wrought by bliud men. Wcndmiro
tho sightless Kiug of Bohemia, with
his blazoned motto 'Ich Diem,' for his
dauntless ride to death on the battle
field of Crccy ; but here is a blind wo
man who puts that motto into practice,
and saves life instead of destroying it.
Mrs. Hilton has built up a dry
nursery at RatclifFe. It is one of the
best ol its kind, and has served as a
model for many. Miss Cooper has
opened and managed a combined club,
reading-room, and lecture course for
costennongcrs. Miss Whately has
organized great schools for Moharn
modan children at Cairo. The author
closes his account of the work these
seven womeu have done in these words:
'It may bo snid that there arc many
others who would have furnished mo
with good types of the philanthropic
K.nr,l.sh woman, quite equal in the
magnitude of their labors to thd-o I
have mentioned, but those whom I wish
to take as my types arc those who have
had to fight their way up against dim
culties, frequently themselves in rc
strictcd circumstances, and not those
whoso position and wealth reuder phil
anthropic eflbrts less onerous.'
Thcso great works arc the fruit of
purely feminine effort. They have been
planned by women and wrought by wo
men. The author of 'Facta, uon Verba'
cousidors them as a proof that women
can do bettor by themselves, unfettered
by conventual rules j than when organ
ized in masses. It is, he says, a simple
HfcaLi-- of three sum. If Miss live, and
M issiiMj^cphcrsou have cared for 3,000
children, fifry-^omen ought to care for
75,000. What fcr^eSrJiood, fifty strong,
has done so ? The econo^^JiC^ho good
is another strong point. If tho LrmSd^on
.charities which are supported by tusN
atiou were managed as well, tho lax
payers of the city would save .?500,000
yearly. The fact is of moment here, in
view of the damaging di:closures James
Gordon Bennett has made in regard to |
the charitable organizations of the Kast.
Some of them pi)' S3 in salaries for
every dollar spent in their nominal work.
There is a Bible society in Virginia
which is said to spend S'J in order to in
duce its self denying agents to buy and
distribute one dollar's worth of Bibles.
There are few men who would be dis
posed, save for fear of establishing a pre
ccdent that might be abused, to deny
the suffrage to the seven women whose
work we have here outlined. There are
few who would wish to deny it to a ferai
nine lawyer who hail gained a suit for
them, or a feminine doctor who had
cured their wives when masculine skill
had proved vain. The moral is not hard
to draw. American women will find
that the franchise is to be gained by
Jirta, nut vertut?deeds, not words.?
Chicago Tribune.
Desperate and Fatal Fight Willi a
Lunatic.
John Nolan, a demented man who
has been frequently arrested in West
Kaltimorc ou account of his sarugj tern
perament, committed a terrible assault
of Officer James M. Richardson, of tho
Northwestorn Police District, on last
Saturday evening, and the officer is so
seriously injured that he is not expected
to recover. It seems that Nolan, on
Saturday ?; veiling went to market with
his mother, and, after carrying the mar
keting toM his father's house, on Uruid
Hill avenue, near Preston street, ho
went into the kitchen in the rear of the
house and picked up a hatchet, which
ho concealed under his ooat. He then
returned to the dining room, |where tho
family were at supper, and pulling tho
weapon from underpins coat, struck n
terrible blow at his father, who was sea
ted at the head of the table. Fortunate
ly the hatohct slipped in his baud, and
tho edge glaticed^along by tho side of
tho father's head, inflicting a painful
but not scr.ous scalp wound, lloforo
young Nolan could follow up tho blow,
tho entire family lied from tho house.
Young Nolau theu fastened the front
door, and retreated to tho baok yard,
where he sat down. In tho meautiino
officer Richardson, who had jnst answer
cd roll call at tho station houso, and was
on his way home, hcaid the cries of the
frightened family, at once hastened in
that direction. He found the front door
locked, and while he was endeavoring to
foree an entrance, Sergeauf; Schultz and
officer Hays 'arrived. L Officer Richard
son was stationed at the front door, while
Sergeant Schultz and officer Hays went
to the back yard, and on climbing over
the fence found Nolan sitting, in th?
yard. He at once jumped up and com
mcnocd an assault upon Sergeant
Schult? with ? the hafohetr. ?? Schultz
caught up a chair,that was standing ,in
the yard and? succeeded b[,parrj?pg'?b_o
blows until Qfifyer Hj^a camo .^b/yi
[assistance. Nolau then'. ran into the
house, and closed and locked tho door.
Scrgeaut Schultz immediately1 returned
to the front door, leaving Hays in tho
rear. Officers Schultz and Richardson
then put their shoulders to . the front
do ir and burst it in, Nolan, who was
standing ucar tho door, at onco struck
n't Schultz, who, in attempting to ward
off the blow, slipped and fell fron the
stops, the hatchet striking his right
wrist, inflicting a flesh wound. Immo
diatcly Nolan turned savagely upon
Richardson, and struck him upon the
back part of the head, fracturing the
skull nun inflicting a ghastly wound four
inches in length. Straugc to say officer
Richardson did not fait but suocosded
in knocking down with his stick, aod
before the mad man could rise from the
ground, be was sccuroly tied .with, a
clothes line, "By this time an excited
crowd of some tour or five' hundred poo
pie had collected around the he?ke,'?3d
several persons were so muoh excited?as
to propose the hanging of the man at
once. Finally, however, ho was remov
ed to the Northwester n police station,
where he will remain until to day, and
then be sent to the Bayview asyium.
Officer Richardson was attendod by Drs
l^Yiusloyv^a^^Ukinaorij after wjiich _hc
I was removed lo his h'jine it No. 117
Druid Hill avenue* His 'physicians
state that there are but slight hopes of
his recovery.
The Chicago Times publishes several
columns of crop reports from various
points throughout the States of Illinois,
Towa, Wisconsin, Indiana. Minnesota
and Kansas, from which it appears that,
on an average of wheat sown is much in
excess of that of last year, and that the
yield promises to be quite up to the
average.. In coru,o.its and barley, fully
un average amount of land h is been
seeded, and tho crop will be Iarg^.
Fruits of all descriptions never looked
better. Iu several counties in Iowa,
Kansas und Minnesota, grasshoppers
and chinch bugs have made their appear
a nee.
A year or tw.o ago W. D. Mitchell, a
carpet bag planter near Macon, GaM
boasted openly that he had seduced tho
daughter of Dr. John Bull, of the same
neighborhood, and, hearing of the boast,
Dr. Hull sent Mitchell word that ho
meant to kill him on sight. One day
last week Mitchell was riding aloug,
when a gun went off in the bushes and
he fell dead in the road. Dr. Bull was
arrested, but he needn't be scared. The
Georgia juror who would convict a man
for shooting another man for seducing
his daughter was kicked to death by. a
well educated mule more than forty
years ago.
hast Friday [an sged crippled lady
named Donaldson, residing on her plan
tntion near Island Tcnu, was brutally
murdered by a young man named Mur
phy, who went to tho house for the pur
pose of robbing Mrs Doualdson, who
was quite wealthy. Ho knocked her
dowu with a club, and then took an axe
aud split her head open.
The Amoeba found among tho inuf
soia, represents tho lowest form of ani
mal life. It has no particular shape al
tefing its form momentarily, and moves
by this curious means of progress
iou.
The Vermont stato Agricultural So
cicty has voted that a herd of oattlo
shall consist of ono bull uot less than
ouo year old, two cows two two year
old heifers, two yearling heifers, aud two
calves of either sex.
In bowiug to a lady, three inches id
the attitude to lift your hat*
