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ilocking'liam llocket. """"Tjy h. c. wall. Office : EVKKETT, WALL & COMPANY'S. OVER SUBSCRIPTION RATES : $1.50 .40 One year, Six months, Three months,....; AH subscription accounts must be paid in advance. v : .- Advertising application.. , - rates furnished on imsG saints. No calendar .enrolls these sainte, 1 No cloistered walls have shut thcn in; Hedged by no garb of sanctity . Tney walk amid life' 8 pain and sin . YVe touch their garments ag they pass, The power of healing near them lies : Their smiles like benedictions are, . r Their speech the language of the ikiea. Their hopes and joys close gulfsVf wrong Like Curtius in the legend old ; And with Love's alchemy they change ' The dross of earth to purest gold. , ' ' No niche in some cathedral grand Will shoAV their names engraved in stone, But they arc stamped on hearts of flesh, And in the Book of Life are known. So' thin the veil between the saints And those whose robes are white as snow; They dwell in God's own atmosphere, j Tlmen 'cnint e nhnvft and thnsa helnw f w ' - THE AMERICAN WOMAN. Extracts from tlie Address of the Hon. XV, C. Benet, at Sumter, S. C. From the News and Courier, . When I ask that the reign of the young girl should terminate, and that the h ueendom of the matron and the chaperon should be restored, I know that I am pleading for the - hiffheat - and best interests both of matrons' and maidens ; for the puri ty arid stability 'of society. No social gathering of both sexes can be com plete or perfect unless it be graced with the presence of our mothers and our wives, whose dignity and reserve of manner tend to hold in check the feverish vivacity and hi larity of impetuous and thoughtless youth, and they, by restraining and mod'erating, add a pure zest to those dear? delights of social intercourse which, when indulged in without stint or limit,- pall upon the taste from ' Tery satiety. It has always seemed to me that nearly all the evils charged against our social life Jby the pulpit, the press and current conversation, would be remedied and removed by a restoration of -the wholesome system of chaperonage and matronly supervision This suggests to me the propriety of 'advocating at this time -and in men of which some men in the pul- pit and the press seem zealous to deprive- her. I mean her inalienable right to be society's sole law-giver. I hold that under our Anglo-Saxon civilization - and our Christian dis pensation woman alone should give lawytb v society alone should be .the guardian 01 our manners and- our morals: woman alone should say what is ri'dit and what is wrbnir' in social life ; what is proper and what is, improper in conduct, costume, usages and requirements. : . Wnmnn cK'rwnlrl Ko iW crlo Inrl'rro ' because she; is the best judge of all ' that pertains to society. She: has most At-stake.;, and her fine nature, her' delicate perception, her quick sensibility, give her warning of ap proaching danger before the duller : nature of man can be aroused even to suspicion, arid yet, ever and anon, i we see man presuming to invade the Jurisdiction of woman -here an edi tor, there a clergyman thunders his aenunciation oi woman s dress, or fulminates, against the social dance. Quite recently Carolina society . and society in Georgia have had to- : listen to or read sermons and arti cles on the subject of -dancing. It is not my purpose, nor is this the place, to discuss the question . of dancing. I only desire, in the name of pure girlhood and pure woman hood, to. protest against this invasion of the rights of woman by either clergyman or, editor. I only desire to emulate the example" qf the Atv lanta clergyman "who said that when iits jtuew mat uooiy matrons were to bo patronesses and chaperons "'at a certain ball he was content to leave the matter in their hands ; that did not become him to look for harm where pure-minded, God-fear ing women saw none. Surely those imen -who think oth erwise, and preach ''Thou shalt not -dance" to woman, forget that we are living under an Asiatic or Eastern civilization, not under a Mohamme dan dispensation, nor even under stern laws of Moses. ' They should II. C. .WALL, Editor and Proprietor. Vol. III. remember that we are living under an European, American and West ern civilization, enjoying the glorious liberty of the gospel .of Christ. Let them reflect that the Oriental--ism which they seek to impose upon us. with its veiled women living in the seclusion of the harem, means for wornan slavery arid degradation ; for man tyranny and immorality. Theif efforts Are as' mischievous as they are vain. Whenever they med dle they mar. ' History shows that whenever and wherever r man gives law to society immorality prevails ana manners are rude. Pure morals and gentle manners can only flourish when wo man reigns. The recent sermon and subse quent discussion . on dancing in the "News and Courier" did more harm to the pure minds and hearts of youth ithan the balls and dances therein denounced. I am reminded of what was told me by a holy man of God. who ministers at the altar! He said that all the impure writings of Bron had injured his moral na ture less than had a sermon on dancins. which he once heard preached by adistinguished divine of his church. And when I read such prudish articles and listen to such susDicious sermons I think of what was said by Dean Swift, when meant by "nice people" said Ik "Nice reoDle are those who have nasty ideas." Men and bre thren, whether cler gymen or lawyers, let us leave this social question, as we should leave all social questions, in the clean hands andpure hearts of our moth ers, wives and daughters. It is their right ; it is their prerogative.. . It is their safety and ours. Where these angels of our hearts and homes ruih need not fear to tread. For their sake, let us not seek to subject them who were, born under the Star of the Occident to the trammels and tyranny of the Orient. Let us humbly learn of them their sweet philosophy which is the phi losophy of Christianity that "to the pure all things are pure." Then, and not till then, may we hope to share with them the blessing prom ised on the Mount by the Son of Marv : "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." My desire has not been to preach to the American woman, lhou shalt" and '"thou shalt not" not to say, ao mis or aon i uo mai, 111 il 11 T ?x ' 1 il 1 )t preaching the dreary religion of "Don't," as the manner of some is. I have not said to her, "don't be a iayer 5 "don t be a doctor ; cton t Seek tO fiO tO CoilgTeSS l" "don't TUn for the Presidency ;" "don't preach from the pulpit ;" "don't harangue from the stump." If ever she choos es to fill these positions " she will do so in her own good time. She is as capable to perform these duties as a man is to rock the cradle or to' trim a soring bonnet. As woman-warn- or, Joan of Arc "has led to war, as man-milliner, , Worth leads the wo men of fashion. i But my endeavor has been to show that woman reigns in home and in society, and to cherish the hope that she will never seek to re nounce her sceptre, to descend from herthrone and depart from her do minions. The eternal verities are against her abdication, although some the ories of to-dav would favor it. But she will not mistake the brief spark ofjhe-merfly of amght for the steady of God's eternal stars. - The progress and perfectibility of man depend on the purity jihd ele- vation or home. Civilization, re- solved into its primal elements, con- sists, ,m nomespi. pnrity ana iove, and the- anchors of ? our faith i in an ultimately . perfect ; civilization ;is in woman, the mistress of the home The cold commercial statisician says; that- the- test of-.civilization is tne consumption oi iron : -say we .rather, it is tho position of woman Young lad lesjL you, standing on the hilltops of girlhood's fairy-land, will, see the twentieth century. Your eyes will -benoid the America ot Rockingham, Richmond County, K C, those days,' and your hearts and hands will have to do withmould- and fashioning it. The future of America depends more upon- the American - woman than the Ameri can man. If her standards are high, pure and noble,: then may we ex pect her husband and her son to q noble, pure and high-minded. If the American woman of" the twentieth century is to be of the mannish type, more fond of publici ty than jof fireside joys, bartering home for professional and political rewards then the decline and fall of the Roman Empire was not so speedy, complete, and awful, as will be that of the American Republic, hurrying amid lurid light into "hid eous ruin and. combustion." If this great country is to lead the van of I civilization, to be the exemplar of morality, the home of purity and of piety, it will be because America shall have taken, as her type and woman, the gentle, homc-loving wo man of the South One View of the Subject. Whether the education of the peo ple, if we regard education simply as the key of knowledge, which is the popular view of it, is to prove a, ben efit to the people, and consequently a benefit to society, depends entirely on the use that is made of it. There are circumstances under which fire arms are decidedly bene ficial to society, but in the hands of a violent mob who are at war with society and are seeking to overthrow it, they are a very bad thing. Dynamite is a very useful compo sition in a quarry of stone, but in the blinds of aNihilist whose watch word is indiscriminate destruction, it isa scourge and a terroi. To teach a man to read may. be a good ;thmg or-itinay not That de nends entirely on what he reads. If he reads the Bible, why then the bility to read is likely to prove a ood thing. But if he reads those books which take away the fear of God, and plot out moral distinc tions, and corrupt the heart, then the abilty to read is a bad thing. Power is a good thing when used to defend the weak, to protect the in nocent, to promote the virtue and happiness of mankind. But if used to grind the poor, to oppress the helpless, to destroy the good, and to corrupt the pure, why then it is a very bad thing. Liberty is a good thing if a man uses it legitimately, but when he turns it into license it becomes a very bad thing bad for him and bad for the world. These simple illustrations sugges- the duty' of society in the matter o educating the people. Education increases the power of a man for good or evil. He is armed in pro portion as he is educated. The man who learns to write has learned to wield a weapon which is mightier than the sword. Whether this skill is to be a gdod or bad thing in his hands depends1 upon the use he makes of the pen. If he is going to commit forgery if he is going to in dite treason against the govern ment if he- is going to fill the world with licentious books if he is soinsr to teacn men now to Dias . i i -i ll pbeme then it is a very bad thing What then is to be done? Shall education be withheld, from all men because some will abuse it? Cer tainly not. It is an instrument for good as well as evil. Therefore i: possible let all men have it. But they must have something else A ship must have something be sides sail, compass andchart, must have a good captain and a strong rudder. A steady nand mus rest constantly yox the helm and a clear eye on the compass.' So the educated; men must be under the control of moral principle. This is the condition which determines the question whether education in a giv en case is a good, or bad thing. Any v community which educates the people without reforming their morals is doing the world a positive damage. We would rather contend with an ignorant knave than an cd ucated one. Mctnodist Advance, . . ; MSTTER FROM GEORGIA. Some of the Vholesnme Laws of the State and Their Good EffectThe Crops, &c. Correspondence of the llocket. letter from jthis State would not be entirely without interest" to your readers, I concluded to give you a few "dots." ''-,.' . As a' reader of your paper Jnd great interest in its weekly perusal, as it gives me all the news from my native county and State. I am glad to see Rockingham supporting so good a newspaper, and hope you will meet with sufficient success to i continue; its high standard as a news gatherer. iNothing is so good for the advancement of a town as a live, progressive and independent journal. 1 notice in your last issue detail ed accounts of an excursion from Bennettsville to iFayetteville,' in which you give the casualties inci dent to such 'occasions. I think North Carblina would do a popular hiner to enact laws similar to Geor- gia against the selling of liquor and carrying concealed weapons on pub ic occasions, and in fact on all occa sions. Uur last legislature passed a aw making it a misdemeanor for ' - i i carrying concealed weapons, and put a tax of $150 on every establish ment offering for sale cither pistols or cartridges' The wholesome ef fects of this law is seen on every hand. While we used to hear a hun dred pops from the little deadly pis- ol, you n0w hear one. There is not a pistol or cartridge onered tor sale in this county to-day, and only one institution of the sort that I hear; of within 75 iniles of us ; and the charge of one dollar per box for cartridges practically amounts to their disuse among the classes , aimed at by the aw. Wouldn't North Carolina do l well to enact such a law ? And we are doing what we can, oo, for prohibition. Out of 137 counties in the State 80 of them do not sell liquor at allv and only 15 or 20 sell without restriction. The leg islature which met in Atlanta this week will act at once on the local option bil andydoubtless this will pass which .gives each town or county the right to call an election at any time for the suppression of li quor selling. We are going to drive whiskey from this State, with per haps the exception of the cities, where it doesn't make so much dif ference as they have ample police protection. It is the drunken men in the country and in the railroad trains that kick up the deviltry so objectionable to law-abiding people. I hope North Carolina will soon fol low Georgia in her precautions against lawlessness and liquor sell ing. Our crop prospects are not bright at present. We are threatened with a drought, and if rain tarries many days longer, in this vicinity, at least, there will not be more than a half crop of corn gathered, as it is suffer ing severely. Cotton will soon be in need of: rain almost as bad. This plant is small- much smaller than usual for the time of year. The spring rains and the extraordinary efforts put forth by the grass to gain supremacy stunted it so that it looks more like a June than aJUly cotton field, in point of size There1 seemstcfbe a panic in the saw mill business here just now, which bas had the effect of shutting down all the mills of large, capacity. Some of the mills doing a local bus iness ae still running but making no money. There is a slight improvement' in the turpentine business over the last two seasons, which supplies a sorely felt want. The turpentine men were getting exceedingly "blue" overetr4ugbt one and all to join in the de continued failure to meet expengesf The cause assigned for the improve ment in prices is the smaller quanti- i .j i - .i i j- jty oi ooxes worKeu ami a conse quent decrease in the supply. Yours respectfully, , I A Tar Heel. Tcnnille, Ga. i Minister Phelps is said to be the best bird shot in Vermont, and when it comes to driving lour-in-hand no body can beat him. TERMS: July 23, 1885; WOMAN'S RIGHTS. The Right Kind of Rights for Women. It is the opinion of many eminent men of to-day that woman's sphere is entirely within the domain of the household, and while I do hot dif fer froin them so far as woman's re lation to domestic life is concerned, still I must enter a protest against confining woman to this only'field of usefulness. 1 Life opens urj too many avenues of activity for woman t be restrict ed from traveling but one, and she is often so situated that her necess ities drive her to enter some door that will lead her to a more profita ble field than simple domestic, du ties. '' In treating of this subject I do not want any one to imagine that I am an advocate of woman's suffrage as sought for by certain agitators of the country, neither am I an admir er of what are; known as strong minded women (in the general ac ceptation of that term), which seems to signify a w6man ruled by her passions and prejudices, a woman desirous of notoriety, seeking to de stroy the gentleness of her character by entering the arena of politics and there assuming positions intended only for the men. The woman most- to be encouraged is one who by pa tient toil and study cultivates her mind and faculties to such a degree as to command the respect of all with whom she comes in contact. Having thusddfincd our position .as to-woman's rights let's further con sider to what her rights entitle her. No true mail would desire the Christian v orld to be revolutionized to that extent as could result in the dethronement ?of woman as the queen, of our household, but when the father or brother or son of a household has been removed by death or incapacitated by disease, it is iust as noble for a man to re- ceive woman into active life as it was for him toi respect her as queen of the household. It is to provide for such an emergency that makes the education of woman imperative. Women can) be educated to fill positions of bookkeepers and are far more suited for such positions than men as they do not use. tobacco, nor drink intoxicating spirits, neither do thev pass their leisure hours in billiard rooms 'and other question able resorts, and as a consequence their nerves are steadier, their brains clearer, and the result is inevitable, that they will keep a heater and more accurate ;set of books than the majority of nien and certainly will be as expert as any man. As a phj' sician for vonien she would prove a most valuable addition to the medij cal jurisprudence of pur countrybe-1-cause her sympathy for her suffering sisters would render herespecially watchful of and gentle with her pa tient, and she coulcl obtain more readily the fullest confidence of the stricken one-thus enabling her to prcscribe4nose remedies most likely i . .BP.iii to prove eueciive. As the maiiagerof a manufactu ring establishment, her wonderful powers of application would soon enable her to master all the intrica cies of machinery and ere long she could direct equal to the most suc cessful man of the day. Iniact she need not hesitate to prepare' herself for any of the honorable vocations of life now trod by riiants she is equal in all things and his superior in many; all she wants is the op portunity to provo this fact. . The crying need of the hour for woman's rights is not that they'be franchised, and, instead of! petitioning- foe .powers that be to' grant this ' right of -wTomen to vote they mand, that each State Legislature would pass a- law requiting alfem ployers to discontinue the unjust cus tom of paying women less wages than men when they perform the same services. It is argued by many that the en trance of woman into active compe tition with man would result mo disastrously to the female- sex, in that the universal respect and cour tesy now shown her would Ve jeop- $1.50 a Year in Advance. No. 30. ardized by her efforts to capture the strong holds so long held by man. This the future , would prove to be r talse as instead of arraying men against her and causing them to insult her, it will have an oppo site effect by. infusing into business a refinement of commercial intercourse that men are now. strangers to. It will yield to woman's, good influ ence like all other, obstacles raised to stop her onward march alone life's highway. History records the indisputable fact, that of whatever woman has been a part, progress forward has ever been noted from the ,date of woman's connection therewith,' therefore do not hesitate" oh Ijwomanj prepare thyself for fu ture advancement in life, so if yoU should be so unfortunately situated as to have to enter the arena of worldly affairs, you could do so with: honor to your sex, and profit to yourself: . "Iu the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of life Be not like dumb driven cattle, Be a hero in the strife." " Cor. Advocate. The Pie Habit. Thousands of our .American pop- fulation, of various ages and of both 'sexes, are confirmed victims of the pie habit, and it is a matter of press ing importance to societies like ours to consider whether or not some thing cannot be done to discourage the insidious advances of this de stroyer of health and prime factor in swelling the bills of mortality. Some might ridicule the idea of the pie being of . such tremendous im portance to the medical fraternity and the undertaking profession, and to say that there was nothing in it; hut these pereons' acquaintance with pie, no doubt, is confined to the boarding-house variety, and their opinion, in a largaand general way, is not to be weighed as against those who have eaten of the pie in its full est and most tempting form. These latter are well aware, though them selves wedded to the inexorable hab it, that the pie is a hard master, from whose domination there is little hope of escape save through the cremato ry or the grave ; and while it cannot therefore be hoped to enfranchise those who have been utterly van quished by the crusty demon, there may still be hope for suckus areriot completely enthralled, andcvery reasori to; believe that by timely ac tion those hoveringupon. the brink of piedom, andespecially those whose palates had never been con taminated by the toothsome destroy er, maybe prevented from falling victims ,to the ubiquitous monster. There can be no doubt that the pie is a far more powerful ally of death than the cholera, yellow fever or any other epidemic can possibly be; next to John. Barleycorn, there is not, perhaps, a more potent one. Therefore does it behoove us all, as1 members of a great society whose prosperity is so largely de pendent upon the smallness of its mortality rate, that the pieshall be exorcised from the tables of our brethren. Nay, more; we must go farther. The pie habit, though re linquished before death ensues, has a lasting sanitary influence ;upon the reformed one, and though he may have spent many pielegs years, yet is he never safe from, the effects of his sometime thralldom, and when he appears strongest and healthiest, he may suddenly be struck down by the poison .which . has been en gendered by the .remorseless pie of lang syne, , .,. . r . ; , ,: : It being shown, then, that even the reformed pie-eater is not a safe risk, it follows henceforth rid candi date should be admitted, to .our or der until he (jan , prove beyond per adventure that he has never been a confirmed pie-eater -arid that there are no neaeniary xamia m nis system superinduced by the pie-eating pro clivities of any of his ancestors. Some might argue that a life of ab stinence from pic should be insisted upon ; but this would be; going too far, it seems to us, at least at this time.rj The day will corae,rio doubt, when such insistence may be proper Job Printing. , f r Having recently purchased a first,.. class. outfit, we arc prepared to do all kinds of PLAIN AND FANC1' : JOB PRINTING IN THE BEST. OF STYLE And at Living Pricesv-Q; lit and expedient, not to say indispen sable ; but for. the present, all that need be exacted is evidence of frees-a dom from hereditary traits and from ' comfirmed habits, .of, pie-eating. K, of H. Reporter. ' " 3 He Was Beady to 'Splaln. It was a big August meeting in Wake county N..jD,, andthe, were. . -"J acres of darkies present' Tlie'Crofes- ? ing of the Red Sea" was the subject ' of the -discourse, and the Rev. Mr. ' Dukes, a 'mancipated, minister, was A treating it,- in themdst; frigid man- '5' ' per. i j He had just .closed by saying, " ' "Moses and tne chiluri ofTsrae cross- ' , ; ed ober the.Red'S'ea'on't'h'e ice, hut "-i when Faro and'' liis ' lumbering big -chariots ' com e 'long, dcy ' broke fru ; ' : 'de ice and dey . was all drowned," ! v when a young ; man from town .arose ' and said : J' "Brer Dukes, will , you 'low me to ,' . ax you a question V I ; 'Sartinly ; what is it?" ' i , - "Well, Brer Dukes, I's bin study in' geogafry, an' geogafry teeches n:e. ; dat de RccLSea am in de tropics What'l want, to ax is dis : Whar dat ice cum frum wjhat Moses cros?- ' ed ober on ?'?.-:: r - Brer Dukes cleared his throat 4; moppedVhis brow, hesitated a ino- -ment and replied : , . , - "Well, I's glad you ax dat ques tion. It gives me an oppurtunity " to 'splain. My dear young brer, you musn't think 'cause you w'ar store close an' pin to school dat you know everything. Dig thing I'm preach in? 'bout tuk-place-long timq ago, 'fore dere was any geogafries an' 'fore dere was any tropics." Detroit Free rress. t, ;,. Mr. Davis on Southern Children. i'f Academy, elma, Ala., last week; a ' letter . from the Hon. .. Jefferson' Da-' ; vis to Miss & C. GTibbs, the princi pal, was read . as follows-: t "Accept my sincere thanks; for your letter of ' the 2d inst. It is gratifying to me x to know that, like a true daughter of " the South, you are teaching your chil- '' dren to lover the principles which' ' their ancestors embodied in our fun-: damentallaw, and for - which their sons sacrificed everything but hpn or,The worst fate that could -befall: us would Lbe that posterity should fail to honor the men who gave their' all that ths South might. retain the freedom and equality, the Rc,yolu- tionary fathers left them. In com pliance with your request the at tempt has been made, though t feel unsuccessfully, - to send, you some- thing for your children, whicn you will please , find jm the next page,". The next page contained the follow ing, address "For. my; Country wo- men, and signed Jefferson Davis: "Re you slow to anger, swift to. for give, and hold fast the charity that raises, the lowly, with the self-respect that stoops not to the haughty.", Sir. Gladstone. The following is :a verbatim extract from Mr. Gladstone1 letter read at the meeting of the Midlothian Lib eral Association : . ... r "I have never ; 'anticipated. Aft,, or sihec 1880 that. I shquld ; solicit ,at- ' your hands, when the existing Far- 5 liament; had done its wprk, thei re newal of the? commission at Mkl-. lothian generously gave me; mpfh less, I ; need hardly add, havr9.. I thought of iaskirigi a like Jiortojc else where, hut I am not at this , moment ' released, from-my duties.. to. ;tie porty, which trusted mey and. tlio . first of , these duties is, to.usc my strongest" and most sedulous efforts to prevent anything that can jnar the unity and efficiency of that grpat - V instrument which' under Providepoo has chiefly and almost wholly, made our country far the lagt half centa, r ry. '. -- ; . r . .- That settles it, we thinkj:thattho Tories j who laid the ;tlatterng;unc-. -; tion to their souls that Mr., Glad stone would retire !frpip active. poli-. tics at the the end of the. present -Parliament were a little too quick;. , . RicTimond Dispatch. '.. ' 1 The1 'early I cucumber-patches th'J r 1 4 r ' . ,'r
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