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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, ByCHAS. W. HANCOCK, | VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Yenr - - -$1 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 KTPayable in AdvanceUEJ All advertisements eminating from public offices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising: Kates. One Square first insertion, - - - -81.00 Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .50 tggr.TEN Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. 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She lias also FRENCH CHIP HATS IN WHITE AND BLACK. mayl7tf Macoa Commercial College, Macon, Ga. First-class Business School. Send for Uircu ars. (]une2l-ly) Piof. IV. McKAY, Prin. TO RENT. A comfortable dwelling on College Street, Possession given on the first of September. Apply to S. P. BOONE, julylOtf Americus. Ga. MITE SNUFF for the destruction of mites on chickens, can bo had at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. INDEPENDENT AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA; WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1882. “IIE’LLSEE IT WHEN IIE WAKES.” At the battle of the Wilderness a gallant Mississippian had fallen, and at night, just before burying him, there came a letter from her he loved best. One of the group around his body—a minister with womanly tender ness-broke the silence as he laid the letter on the breast of the heroic soldier, by say ing, “Bury It with him. He will see it when he wakes.” Amid the clouds of battle smoke The sun had died away, And where the storm of battle broke A thousand warriors lay. A band of friends upon the field Stood round a youthful form, Who, when the war-clouds thunder pealed Had perished in the storm— Upon his forehead, on his hair, The coming moonlight breaks, And each dear brother standing there A tender farewell takes. But ere they lap him in ids home, There came a comrade near, And gave a token that had come From her the dead held dear. A moment’s doubt upon them pressed, When one the letter takes, •And lays it low upon his breast— “ He’ll see it when he wakes.” Oil, thou who dost in sorrow wait, Whose heart in anguish breaks, Though thy dear message came too late, “He’ll see it when he wakes.” Ne’er more amid the fiery storm Shall his strong arm be seen; No more his young and manly form Treads Mississippi’s green. And e’en thy tender words of love— The words affection speaks— Came all too late; but oh! thy love “Will see them when he wakes!” No jars disturb his gentle rest, No noise his slumber breaks, But thy words sleep upon his breast, “He’ll see it when he wakes.” •\\ \ S CY/i/UVft YaOY S THE WRONG PICTURE. “A pretty face—a very pretty face indeed!” I turned the little photograph upside down, held it off at arm’s length to get a prospective view, and scrutinized it closely with my eye glasses. Darwin Wallis looked pleased; a man naturally likes to have \\'w finance duly admired and appreciated. “So this is the Bessie Armitage I have heard so much of; really, Wallis, she does credit to your taste. A blonde, I suppose?” “Fair a3 a lily leaf, with blue eyes and the sunniest golden hair!” “Ah! well, I must say I prefer the brunette style, so far as rny individual taste goes; but then, fancies differ, you know.” It was all very well for Darwin Wal lis to go into ecstacies'about his pallid, fair-haired little Bessie Armitage; he had never met, the glance of Cecilia Vernon’s magnificent dark eyes. What did he know about the true type of feminine beauty? “As you say, fancies differ,” Wallis returned lightly. “But I wish you would select a handsome frame for it when you go to R next—blue vel vet, with a gold rim on the margin, or some such tasteful arrangement.” “I’ll see to it,” I said, depositing the picture in its envelope, and returning it to my inside breast pocket. “Y ou’ll he very careful of it?” “Careful? Of course I shall!” I smiled a little loftily at Wallis’ solicitude, and we parted. After all, Darwin Wallis was better off than I was, for he was securely en gaged to the dimpled, yellow-tressed little object ol his affections; while I was yet as it were in outer darkness, whether my peerless Cecilia returned my ardent devotion, or whether she secretly inclined toward that unprinci pled scoundrel Fitzhugh Trefoil. A score of times I had resolved to settle the question; a score of times I had gone to the old Vernon house with the very formula of declaration on my lips, and as often had the words died away unvoiced and unspoken. If fate had oniv gifted me with one thousandeth part of Fitzhugh Trefoil’s off-hand audacity! I don’t think any thing short of the Deluge could check that fellow’s cool self-possession; an earthquake wouldn’t, and I don’t think that the millennium could. However, love inspires the feeble heart with a sort of fictitious courage, and I was anew man since Miss Ver non had smiled upon me. What was the use of doubting, hesitating and trembling? Why not decide my fate at once? Darwin Wallis’ serene content exercised a stimulating influence upon me. I would fain have been even as he was. “There is no sense in procrastinating matters any further,” I said, half aloud, as l walked up and down the rather limited domains of my little law office. “I have been a doubting fool quite long enough.” I’m afraid I wasn’t a very amiable member of the domestic circle that afternoon. “I think Paul is growing crosser every day,” said my sister, shrugging her little plump shoulders. “Mother, I wish you’d speak to him!” But my mother, bless her wise old soul, knew better than that. She ouly looked at me over the rims of her spec tacles and went on darning stockings. “Paul is worried about business mat ters, I suppose,” she sa : d apologeti cally. “Paul will do well enough, if you only let him alone.” I went up to my room after supper and made an elaborate toilet, hut all the pains I bestowed upon it, served only to heighten the general effect of awkwardness! “I’ve two minds to wait, until to morrow night,” quoth I to myself, ab ruptly stopping, my cravat half tied. “No—l might he a coward, but I w|B not such an unmitigated poltroon as that. 1 had begun the enterprise, and I would carry it through, if it cost me the last drop of my heart’s blood!” Moreover I had had an inspiration! An entirely new and original method of putting the momentous querry— “popping the question” is a vulgarism that I, for one, could never tolerate— had occurred to me. “Hang Fitzhugh Trefoil!” I ex claimed gleefully, half aloud, though there was no ear to hear my ejacula tion. “I’ll win the dark eyed treasure yet in spite of all he can do!” I opened my writing case and care fully took out a little carte de visite wrapped in tissue paper and carefully laid away with a pink silk perfume Bachel that Minnie had made for me once. It was Cecilia’s picture, she had allowed me to steal it away from her, with scarcely a remonstrance, a week before. Then was the time I ought- to have proposed, but like a timorous, doubting moon-calf as I was, I had left the golden tide of opportuni ty slip unimproved away from me! I drew Bessie Hermitage’s vacant, doll-like face from its envelope and compared the two with a thrill of tri umph in my heart. ‘Colorless water beside crimson sparkling champagne! a pale violet in the shadow of a royal rose! pearls eclipsed by the fiery flash of diamonds!’ I exclaimed. “Darwin Wallis’ taste may be very correct and classical, but give tne my radiant brunette! These hleached-out -beauties do not corres pond with my ideal of perfection.” It was a lovely spring night as I en tered the wide gravelled path that led up to the wide porch of the old fash ioned Vernon mansion. Squire Vernon sat there smoking his meerschaum. “.Won’t you set down and have a smoke?” he demanded hospitably. “It's a real luxury to take a whif out o’doors, after bein’ shut up in the house all winter. Or may be you’d prefer goin’ in to see Cecilia.” Sensible old gentleman! he had for gotten his own young days. I inti mated, not without considerable awk wardness, that the special object of my visit had been to “see Cecilia.” “VVal, she is in the parlor, all by herself,” said the squire good humor edly, motioning mo in. “Walk in; she’ll be glad to see ye.” Cecilia Vernon was sittin in the par lor alone, as her father had said, the bright centre of a cheerful circle of lamplight. A bit of crochet work was lying in her lap, and an open volume of poems—poems I had sent her— was on the table- Cecilia Vernon was always fair to look upon, in my sight; to-night, how ever, she seemed more than ordinary beautiful. I sat down, and began hesitatingly upon the never-failing topic of the weather. A proposal had seemed the easiest thing in the world as I walked along the dewy edges of the peaceful starlighted road, contemplating it from afar off; but now that I was face to face with it, Alps upon Alps of difficulty and perplexity seemed to surround its accomplishment. I would have given all that I was worth to postpone the evil day but twenty-four hours—all but my self-respect, and that was im periled now. Cecilia tried her best to keep the ball of conversation in motion; she in introduced new subjects, asked leading questions, and feigned deep interest in the most abstruse or politics. But even Cecilia couldn’t talk on forever, and presently, with a little sign of des pair, she subsided into silence. Now was the eventful moment of my destiny. “Cecilia!” I said softly. She raised the liquid brown eyes to mine. “I want to confide in you to-night— have I your permission to speak?” “Certainly, Mr. Markham!” “I am very much in love, Cecilia; in fact my heart has long gone out of my own possession into that of—” I stopped, with the fatal husky feel ing in my throat. Cecilia was blush ing divinely! I drew my chair closer up to hers, with the sensation of a man who has just pulled the string of a cold shower-bath. “Who is the lady?” faltered Cecilia —as if she didn’t know perfectly well already. “Shall I show you her picture, Ce cilia?” Miss Vernon inclined her head al most to the level of my shoulder, to look at the little carle de visite I drew from my pocket. I skilfully stole one atm around her waist. “See, dearest!” But, to my horror and dismay, she snatched her hand from my clasp, sprang up, and started away, like some fair avenging goddess! “How dare you insult me thus, Mr. Markham?” “Cecilia how—what—” “Don’t presume to call me Cecilia, sir!” sobbed the indignant girl, burst ing into tears and sweeping from the room. I sat like one palsied. What had I done? Why was the gracious mood of my enchantress thus suddenly trans formed to gall and bitterness? Surely she would presently return and apolo gize for her capricious exit! But she did not return; and after waiting long in vain, I sneaked out of a side door and crept dejectedly home, my heart burning with wonder and re sentment. I had no mind to meet the assembled family group, so I admitted myself with the night key and stole noiselessly up stairs, whore my lamp still burned— the lamp I had lighted with such high and bounding hopes ! I threw off my coat viciously; as I did so the forgotten carte de vistie drop ped from my pocket. I stooped to pick it up. It was the portrait of Bessie Armitage! And there on the mantel, where in my heedless haste I had left it, was the divine countenance of my queen Cecilia! I had shown her the wrong photo graph. All was clear now! Her indiguation and resentment —the whole tangled web of mystery was unraveled now! I caught up my hat to rush back to her, but at that moment the clock sttuck eleven! It was too late now. All apology and explanation must be deferred until the morrow. ,And with a discontented spirit I sought gay couch. Early the next morning I walked over to the old Vernon mansion; but, expeditious as I was, Trefoil had been there before me. I met him coming w-histliug down the walk as self-pos sessed as ever. “Good morning,” I said briefly, en deavoring to pass him, but he detained me. “Congratulate me, my dear fellow. I am the happiest man in the world. Cecilia Vernon has just promised to be my wife!” I stared blankly at him, and’with one or two unintelligible mutmurs,turn ed short round and walked home again. My rival had improved the propituous opportunity and caught Cecilia’s heart in the rebound. Well—so goes the wot Id, and lam a bachelor yet. There is but one Ce cilia, and she, alas! is married to Fitz hugh Trefoil! Moral. —When you go courting, he certain, be certain whose picture it is you are carrying next to your heart. The Minister Ceased to Wonder. New York Dispatch. Apropos of the Egyptian trouble, we wish to relate a little story, the circum stances of which occurred during our trip to the Holy Land several years or more ago. He was a devout Christian, and had made the study of the Bible and a prop er understanding of the Big Book the highest aim in life. When he arrived at the Sea of Gali lee his heart was filled with awe, and he felt enervated and cleansed by the thought that he was gazing on the very spot where his Savior once stood. Approaching the boatman, he ad dressed him in his choicest Arabic, and with Bible and commentary in hand awaited an answer. “Ah! what ’smatter ’th yer? Why don’t jer talk United States?” asked the man contemptuously. He was a real live Yankee who was picking up a living by ferrying tourists across the sea. “So this is the Sea of Galilee,” de voutly murmured the searcher after knowledge. “ Ya-a-s.” “And this is where our Savior walk ed upon the waters?” “Ya-a-s.” “How much will you charge to take me to the exact spot?” “Wa-al, you look like a clergyman, an’ I won’t charge you nothin’.” The devout one boarded the boat, and at last was pointed out where the mira cle is said to have occurred. After gazing at the waters, and dividing his time between the glances at his books and devout ejaculations of satisfaction, the searcher signified his willingness to return. “Charge you .S2O to take you back,” said the speculative Yankee. “But you said you would charge nothing.” “Naw, didn’t. Nothin’ to bring you out. Twenty to get back.” “And do you charge everybody S2O to take them back?” asked the aston ished searcher. “Y r a-a-s. That’s abeout the figger.” “Well, then,” said the devout one, as he went down into his clothes, “no wonder our Savior got out and walked.” Ben Hill’s Visit to the Portrait of His Mother. “In all his life, Ben Hill never did a more graceful thing,” said General Evans in his funeral oration over the late Senator, “than when he made his last visit to the portrait of his mother, “which hung in ane of his rooms. When President Garfield placed his manly arm around his venerable mother in the presence of the vast multitudes that witnessed his inauguration, and kissed her lips fresh from pronouncing the obligation to the Presidential office, he drew into himself the warm heart of American motherhood forever. So when the great Senator went as a child to gaze upon his mother’s pictured face, and murmured, ‘I will soon see her,’ he left the sons of this State and the Union a lesson of filial love they should never forget. The portrait shows a dear old, good face, well traced with marks of intelligence. The wrinkles are there, the stoop of age, and other signs of failing life. Long since she went away. But the wasted statesman became a boy again in feeling, gazed with a true, adoring love upon the por trait, and then above the faded picture looked with eyes that saw Home and Heaven and Mother, all in one vision of transcendent glory.” Personal To Men Only ! f The Voltaic Belt Cos., Ma-ishall, Mich., will send Dr. Dye’s Celebrated Electro- Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality and Manhood, and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete destoration of health and manly vigor. Ad dress as above. N. B.—No risk is incurred 1 as thirty' days' trial is allowed; SAD OLD ISSUES. .I?he Sins or Some of our Early Poli- Arp Decides to Elect Anyhow, Notwith standing ms War with Old Issues —Morals Drawn From Some of the Dead Schemes of the Fathers— Educated Hog. Atlanta Constitution. I think Mr. Stephens will make a good Governor, and I am for him for the sake of peace at home ami his con servative influence in the nation, I don’t care anything about his peculiar views on the sin of secession and the know nothings and reconstruction and who saved the State, for these things are all barred by the statute of limitations and won’t come up before him. The speech with which he opened the campaign was a very good speech for vote mak ing and will suit most all the people I reckon for I believe all the original se cessionists are dead or have left the country, and it is just as hard to find an original know-nothing now-a-days as a Greely man or a member of a kn klux klan. A man of such foresight as to know in 1843 that the junction of two railroads in a passel of chinkapin bushes would make the great citv of Atlanta and to know that secession would bring on a terrible war and we would get terribly whipt is the kind of man wo want to govern us and to keep us out of impending trouble. I never read those kind of speeches but what I feel my insignificance— sorter like I was ou trial for a great crime and there was the bill of indictment, and the prosecu tor had me arraigned at the bar and made me to stand up, when he said: “Juror, look upon the prisoner; prison er, look upon the juror,” and sometimes I am about to plead guilty and throw myself upon the mercy of the court. For you see, I was about everything that Mr. Stephens wasent, and now I stand almost alone in mv glory, for I was a secessionist, and I was a know nothing, and I was a Greeley man, and worst of all I belonged to the infamous ku-klux klan. Lord help me, and I reckon if the great fight between states’ rights and consolidation comes on as Mr. Stephens predicts, I will make an other blunder and get on the wrong side of that. But sometimes when 1 get to ruminating over the past I can’t help wondering how long the war would have been put off if we hadent seceded, for when one people hate another people for half a century it has always ended in a war, according to history, and al ways will I reckon, and it looks like we had to give up the niggers or fight sooner or later. Jesso! And then, again, I get to ruminating over the possibility that if all our peo ple had stood up to tho war like some of our people did how easy we could have conquered an honorable place. But this is ALL A DEAD ISSUE, and nobody but the Lord and two or three men can tell anything about it. Then, again, I was a know noth ing and thought it a right good insti tution at the time, and I’m fool enough to think so yet, for its principles were handed down to ns by general Washing ton in his farewell adifress, hut I reck on the old gentleman was in his dotage when he wrote it. He said beware of foreign influence, and I recon it is that same influence Mr. Stephens is fearing will bring on an empire now, for Gen eral Grant is at the head of that party and they say he traveled all over the foreign empires to prepare himself for the kingdom. There was only one thing against the know nothings that I never liked, and that is because they didn’t succeed and this country is now over run with the scurf and offcasts of all nations till we have hardly got a na tionality of our own and are fast los ing our identity as a people, and if that consolidation comes at all, it will be because we can’t manage these mobs by any other kind of govern ment. I was a Greely man because I thought he was a good man and a safe man for the South and never wanted to fight ns, but said: “Erring sisters go in peace;” and thought we could elect him, but' you see I was mistaken, as usual, and they elected General Grant, Mr. Stephens’ man, I recon, for I know he wasent mine and never will be, and I can’t help rumi nating how smoothly our reconstruc tion would have gone along if Mr. Greeley had have been elected instead of Grant. But after we lost our liber ties it was very necessary to find em again, and so there was a number of patriots and statesmen who came to the front to tell us exactly what to do in order to save the state. Mr. Steph ens told us one thing and Ben Hill anothsr and .Toe Brown another and they all had conservative views, and somehow or somehow else the state wa3 saved and I don’t know who saved it, only I have an opinion, and that is that it was the conservative views of the ku-klux that saved the state; leastways I will say that the kuklux kept down lawless niggers and plundering carpet baggers, and there was no other power at the time that could save our wives and children from their outrages. But it was all wrong I reckon—all wrong, and I’m a poor sinner because I can’t help it. The great trouble is we can’t all see alike and feel alike at the same time. When one man is ready to fight another ain’t. Judge Wright was op posed to fighting in 1861, but in 1870 he came ont in a ferocious and bellyco cious letter and wanted to fight all by himself, and had like to have tore his shirt. So it seems there is a time in every man’s life when he wants to | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. shoulder his musket and blaze away, and the mistake we secesh made was that our time didn’t suit some othej folks’ time. Maybe Mr. Stephens would fight rather than consolidate,that is if he justifies fighting at all, and if he don’t then the revolution of *76 was wrong, and we would have been living under a monarchy now,and maybe that is not so badafterall for there are some good monarchies and some very bad re publics, and vice versa and so on, but I reckon we will all do the very best we can. Mr. Stephens has given a good many reasons why the people, and especially the niggers, should vote for him, and I’m going to do it but not exactly for his reasons. The laith that is in me is that onr good people who have got estranged can bury their animosities and harmonize on him as a go between, a peace maker, a balance wheel, a tog gle join and I know he is a safe man and a patriot. I don’t appreciate his zeal for the poor darkey and he may have ’em all tor his pets so far as I am concerned but to my opinion the more ho stains ’em on books the more he weakens ’em on muscle and takes away their inclination for work and increases the number of candidates for the chain gang. There are but few of ’em any aecount now except the old time dar keys and they don’t get in the chain gang. The new set get some schooling and then lie around town and go to stealing and doing devilment for a liv ing. Of course there are a few of ’em who will make a good use of an educa tion and so I knew an educated hog that was mighty smart and could tell the time of day on a watch and add up the spots ou A DECK OF CARDS, And so on, and its a wonder to mo that some of these northern philan thropists did’nt find anew field for their sentiment, and go regularly in to the business of educating all the hogs in the country. Jesso! I know I have some peculiar views, which you do not indorse, but I can’t help think ing that races of people differ just like races of animals, and you can’t make a good literary citizen out of a negro, any more than you can wean an Indian from the woods. So let ’em alone, I say, let ’em learn to read and write and figure a little if they want to, but don’t spoil ’em with book learning. The plow and the plane and the trowel anvil suits ’em better and makes ’em happier. There are enough poor white children in the land who need attention, and they are not getting as much of it to-day as the negro, and it is all because politicians are playing for the colored vote, or else are trying to please the Yankees with zeal tor the nations pet. There is another thing that I don't believe. I don’t believe that Dr. Felton is trying to break down the democratic party any more to-day than he was two years ago when Mr. Stephens was patting him on the back and saying, “go it my friend, I’m betting on you.” I think that Dr. Felton’s mission as a party purifier has ended and his time is ont and he ought to retire, but he and Emory Speer have been following some illustrious exam ples in toting their own skillets and taking more thought for themselves than for party or consistency, and no body needent rise to explain on this matter. It is not harmonizing our peo ple in the seventh to denounce Dr. Fel ton for he made a good representative and has got a host of friends in these parts, and the only mistake he made was in not coming back to the fold at the right time when he was invited. But he raised a powerful rumpus, I tell you he did. And now we have got a nice kettle of fish in this county, for the independents have played the same game on the organized that the organ ized played on them when they stole Mr. Stephens from ’em. They got Dr. Baker nominated for the senate by the democratic convention and he has been a Felton man all the time and wont say now that he is for Clements and so there is another rumpus going on, and there are _ SIX CANDIDATES for the house and one of ’em is a dar key and they say that all the darkeys are going to single shot him and so here she goes and there she goes and the devil is turned loose again and its all because there ain’t many offices as peo ple who want ’em. But the hair ot the dog is good for the bite and I reckon onr people will learn some sense after a while. When a man’s candidacy em barrasses the people and puts the party in peril, if he is a patriot he will with draw and he is the truest patriot who does it first. We have had no county nomination for the house but we ought to have and the organized and the in dependents ought to join in it rather than have old Bartow represented by a darkey. And as to tho senator for this district it seems to me that if Dr. Baker would come out and declare for Clements for congress we ought to in dorse him and elect him for he is a capable and a fearless man and wants the office mighty had. Bill Anp. Scull Shoals, Ga., Greene Cos., 1 August 3, 1876. J Mu. W. PI. Barrett, Augusta,Ga.: Dear Sir—l have sold Dr. GILDER’S PILLS for the past two years, and find that all in this neighborhood ap prove them. The physicians have recommended them, and the people will have none other. They are better LIVER PILLS than any I have any knowledge of. Very respty, __ Henry Moore. Teethina (Teething Powders) is fast taking the place of all other rem | edies for the irritations of Teething I Children. NO. 5.