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I i if. .. "T ., T 'r , . WAX jyju Ay-". Hq. arJ ror sold IV. J. YATES, Editob and Pbopbiktob. rr o Subscription $2. 00, b advance. , CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, I TWENTY-SIXTH TOLUME NPIlSEH-HiS to (7, Q (20 J fj VCJ"C - X m i of old ar- alj ar- L. o. THE Charlotte Democrat, , PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor Terms TWO DOLLARS for one year, or One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents for six months. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Advertisements will be inserted at reasonable rates, or in accordance with contract. Obituary notices of over five lines in length will ne charged for at advertising rates. LAW SCHOOL. We purpose opening a Law School in the city of Greensboro on the first Monday in March next. Our object will be to prepare young men to prac tice law in the State and Federal Courts. Our terms will be the same as those of the late Chief Justice Pearson, and we will endeavor to pursue bi3 plan of instruction. We think this city is well suited for our purpose, as it is healthful and easily accessible, and a place where Courts are frequently held. Boaid can be obtained at very reasonable rates. JOHN H. DILLARD. ROBERT P. DICK. Feb. 8, 1878. tf Dr. JOHN H. McADEN, Wholesale and "Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Ji'Iaa on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE DRUGS, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Family :Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Fancy and Toilet Articles, which he is determined Ho sell at the very lowest prices. Jan 1, 1875. J. P. McCombs, M. D., Offers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. Office in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite the Charlotte Hotel. Jan. 1, 1873. DR. J. M. MILLER, ' Charlotte, N. C. All calls promptly answered day and night. Office over Traders' National Bank Residence opposite W. R. Myers'. Jan. 18, 1878. DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Gas u&ed for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb. 15, 1878. - Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. E. J. "ALLEN, Near Irwin's corner, Trade Street,! Charlotte, N. C, PRACTICAL WATCH-MAKER, tW Repairing of Jewelry, Watches and Clocks done at short notice and moderate prices. April 17, 1876. y R. HI. MILLER & SONS, Commission Merchants, and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Provisions and Groceries, College Street, Chablottk, N. C. Flour, Bacon, Sugar, Coffee, Salt, Molasses, and in fact, all kind of Groceries in large quantities Blways on hand for the Wholesale trade. Jan. 1 1875. j. Mclaughlin, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Groceries, Provisions, &c, College Street, Charlotte, N. C, Sells Groceries at lowest rates for Cash, and buys Country Produce at highest market price. 'Jt5F Cotton and other country Produce sold on commission and prompt returns made. D M. RIGLER Charlotte, N. C. Dealer in Confectioneries, Fruits, Canned Goods, Crackers, Bread, Cakes, Pickles, &c. tW Cakes baked to order at short notice. Jan. 1, 1877. B. N. SMITH, Dealer in Groceries and Family Provisions of all sorts, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Consignments of Produce solicited, and prompt returns made. Families can find anything at my Store in the Grocery line to eat, including fresh meats. Jan. 1, 1877. E. S. BUKWELL. 1878. E. U. SPRINGS BURWELL & SPRINGS, Grocers and Commission Merchants, Charlotte, N. C. Jan. 4, 1878. LEWIN W. BAR RINGER, (Son of the late Hon. D. M. Barringer of N. C.,) Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 43 Walsct Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Prompt attention to all legal business. Best references given as to legal ana financial responsi bility. Commissioner for North Carolina. Rkfekesces. Chief Justice W. N. H. Smith; Raleigh National Bank ; 1st National Bank, Char lotte ; Merchants and Farmers National Bank. March 15, 1878 ly-pd DR. RICHARD H. LEWIS. Raleigh, N. C. (Late Professor of Diseases of the F.ye and Ear in the Savannah JVIeiiical College,) Practice Limited to the EYE and EAR, Refers to the State Medical Society and to the Georgia Medical Society. Oct. 12, 1S77 y Central Hotel BARBER SHOP. GRAY TOOLE, Proprietor, 1 keeps the "workmen employed, and guarantees pleasure satisfaction to customers. Shop immediately in rear of Hotel office. Jane 8, 1877. best and Thousands of good people never half enjoy even enjoyable home, because they are always looking ahead, and never learn the beauty and value of to-day. They go through life expecting enjoyment by and by, but without the art to take it as it comes. They learn too late that they passed happiness on the road without recog nizing her. That's true. Lands for Sale, Rent, &c. Mortgage Sale. By virtue of a mortgage made by Wm. R. Sears and wife Eliza J., Registered in Book No. 7, page 316, for certain pui poses therein mentioned, I will sell at the Court House door in Charlotte, on Mon day the 8th day of April, 1878, a portion of the Tract of Land on which said Sears now resides, containing five acres more or less, on which is a small Dwelling, and out houses and a Grape Vine yard, adjoining the lands of V. F. Phifer and Dr. M. 11. Orr. Terms, Cash. ROBERT GIBBON, March 22, 1878. 3w. Mortgagee. A RE-SALE Of Lot No. 3 (129 Acres) of the Jno. P. Patterson LANDS, near Davidson College, will take place at the Court House in Charlotte, on Wednesday, the 10th of April. Teems Cash and balance on 6 and 12 months credit, with interest, and title reserved until full payment. H. P. HELPER, RUFUS BARRINGER, March 8, 1878 5w Commissioners. GOLD MINES For Sale. By Virtue of a Decree of the Superior Court of Union county, made at the Fall Term, 1877, I will proceed to sell on Monday the first of April, 1878, at the Court House in the town of Monroe, the fol lowing valuable MINING PROPERTY, belong ing to the Estate of Hugh'Downlng, dee'd, viz. : The Stewart Gold Mine, Machinery, and all the Fixtures belonging thereto, lying on the waters of Goose Creek, containing 495 Acres. Also, the Fox Hill Gold Mine, lying on the waters of Goose Creek, containing 193 Acres. Also, the Lemmond Gold Mine, lying on the waters of Goose Creek, containing 734 Acres. And also one other Tract known as the Long Gold Mine, lying on the waters of Duck Creek, containing 50 Acres. The aforesaid property is valuable for mining and farming purposes ; also, a fine Mill Site on one of the Tracts. Terms 10 per cent cash ; balance on a credit of six months, with bond and approved security; no title to pass to the purchaser until all the purchase money is paid. G. W. FLOW, F;b. 1, 1878 2m Commissioner. 1878. HARDWARE. 1878. KYLE & HAMMOND, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. DEALERS IN Hardware, Cutlery, Nails, Iron, Steel, BUGGY AND CARRIAGE MATERIAL. A large and well selected stock of first-class Goods and the lowest prices will tell. The steady increase of our business is positive proof of this assertion, and after thanking our customers for their liberal patronage during the past year, we would say to all, Merchant, Farmer, Mechanic, That we are determined to sustain our reputation for low prices and fair dealing, and to keep the best Stock of Hardware in the State. Don't fail to call on us. KYLE & HAMMOND. Jan. 4, 1878. FRESH GARDEN SEED. We have just received a full supply of Fresh Garden Seed, which we are offering at both Whole sale and Retail prices. WILSON & BURWELL. Jan. 25, 1878. Druggists. Garden Seed. A full assortment of Buist's Genuine Garden Seed, just received. We warrant allseed to be fresh and genuine from the crop of 1877, at J. II. McADEN'S Drug Store. Feb. 15, 1878. The Rising Sun's Attractions. Tlie Earth held in its orbit by the attractive powers oj the SUN, And bathed in the light of its controlling Lumin ary, sweeps onward and upward in its swift career, until it comes back to the point where C. S. HOL TON has laid in a fresh lot of Fruits, comprising in part Bananas, Oranges, Apples, Canned Peaches, Pears, Pineapples, Blackberries, &c. Also, a lot of Canned Vegetables, Fresh Candy, Cakes, Pies and Light Bread, Coffee, Teas and Spices. Soda and every other variety of Crackers. Toys for all sized children, without regard to sex. All kinds of GROCERIES to meet all demands of the general housekeeper, put down to equalize the coming remonetized Silver Dollar, a bright luminary of "Ye Olden Time." Feb. 15, 1878. C. S. HOLTON. E. G. ROGERS, FURNITURE DEALER, Next door to the Post Office, CHARLOTTE, N. C. I have opened a full stock of FURNITURE, comprising all grades, Common, Medium and Fine, In the building next door to the Post Office. This stock is entirely new, and bought at bottom pi ices. I will sell low, and all goods will be found as represented. Special care will be taken in packing in connec tion with the Furniture Business. Charlotte, N. C, Dec. 14, 1877. FERTILIZERS. Manufactured by the long tried PATAPSCO GUANO COMPANY, Baltimore. No Company has a higher reputation, and no Fertilizers more popular than the brands now offer ed to the farmers of Mecklenburg by JOHN A. YOUNG, Office in the Court House. March 8, 1878 6w Family Provisions Of all sorts Sweet Yam Potatoes, Eggs, Dried Fruit, Fish, &c. at low cash rates. Saur Kraut a nice article. March 8, 1878. B.N.SMITH. Warm Winters and Gold Summers. An aged resident remembers that the Winter of 1829-30 surpassed the past on in mildness; farmers ploughed every month of the season, and no snow fell until Feb ruary 2d. The Winter was followed, how ever, by a cold backward Spring with a snow storm in May, which killed the re turning swallows. As an offset to the above story, another one of the old residents tells us the year 1816 is what is known as the "year without a Summer." Old New England farmers refer to it as "eighteen hundred and starved to death.' January was mild, as was also February, with the exception of a few days. The greater part of March was cold and boisterous. April opened warm, but grew colder as it advanced, ending with snow and ice, and winter cold. In May ice formed half an inch thick, buds and flowers were frozen, and corn was. killed. Frost, ice and snow were common in J une. Al most every green thing was killed and fruit was nearly all destroyed. Snow fell to the depth of three inches in New York and Massachusetts and ten inches in Maine. July was accompanied with frost and ice. On the 5th ice was formed ot the thickness of window-glass in New York, New Eng land and parts of Pennsylvania, and corn was nearly all destroyed in certain sections. In August, ice formed half an inch thick. Corn was so frozen that a great deal was cut down and dried for fodder. Very little ripened in the New England and Middle States. Farmers were obliged to pay four and five dollars a bushel for corn for seed for the next Spring's planting. The first two weeks of September were mild ; the balance of the month was cold, with frost, and ice formed a quarter of an inch thick. October was more than usually cold, with frost and ice. November was cold and blustering, with snow enough for good sleighing. December was quite mild and comfortable. lagf" A new sword has been introduced in the English army. It is described as a combination of the ordinary regulation sword (cavalry and infantry), with a six chamber revolver at the hilt, the hilt of the sword answering for the stock of the revol ver, the chambers of which take the Boxer cartridge, regulation pattern. The steel scabbard is wonderlully utilized, being cut in sections, with stop hinges, and folding up in the form of a rifle stock. This is attach ed to the hilt of the sword by a slot and catch, the whole forming a short repeating carbine, or, without the scabbard attach ment, a sword and revolver in one and the same weapon. It is sighted up to one hun dred yards, the foresight being taken from the point of the sword. ZST The Iowa Legislature has repealed the railroad tariff law, which was enacted a few years ago under the impetus given to the Granger movement. The repeal does not affect the passenger rates of tariff. A bill to repeal the granger railroad tariff is also before the Wisconsin Legislature, with the prospect of an early passage. NOTICE. The late Board of Trustees of the several Town ships in Mecklenburg county are requested to furnish the County Commissioners with the name of each public road in their Township, the name of each Overseer, the distance assigned him and the Plantations on which the hands live that are as signed to each section of the road. WM. MAXWELL, Clerk Board County Commissioners. March 22, 1878 2w County Surveyor. Having been appointed County Surveyor, I beg to announce that I am prepared to execute work in any part of the county. v I can generally be found about one mile from Charlotte on the Providence road, or parties can leave any message with Wm. Maxwell at the Court House. A. SHOKTER CALDWELL. March 15, 1878 lux German Millet, Clover Seed and Orchard Grass, for sale by March 8, 1878. BURWELL & SPRINGS. Absconded. Cyrus Vance, a white bound boy, left my premi ses, 4 miles from Charlotte, on Wednesday the 13th inst., and so conceals himself that I cannot get possession of him. He is about 15 yeara old, spare built and rather small for his age. I am entitled to his services until he is 21 years old, and therefore forewarn all persons against harboring or employ ing said boy. Any information concerning him will be thankfully received. March 15, 1878. WM. ELLER. NEW BUGGIES. At my Shop in the rear of Wadsworth's Stables, 1 have a few nice new Buggies for sale at low rates. . I also make and repair Wagons, Buggies, Car riages, &c, and do all sorts of work in my line. Give me a call. W. S. WEARN, In rear of Wadsworth's Livery Stables. Aug. 81. 1877. Cigars. selected for the retail trade, just WILSON & BURWELL. 10,000 Cigars, received by -Feb. 22. 1878. J. S. MYERS Has for sale Cedar and White Oak Posts for fencing ; Cedar Posts for Grape Vines, fine Grade Cattle, Berkshire Hogs, Pine Cord Wood in large or small quantities ; Cheatham Cotton Seed, the earliest and best of the improved kinds ; and the best native Cotton Seed, partly mixed with the best varieties. Feb. 22, 1878. 6wpd. To the Wholesale Trade. We desire to announce that our large Spring pur chase of DRY GOODS is now open for your in spection. We have purchased a large Stock and will offer greater inducements to the trade than ever before. Having an experienced resident buyer in the market, our facilities for oSering bargains are unsurpassed by any firm in the State. Give us a call, or send us your orders, and we promise satisfaction. ; ELIAS & COHEN. March 22, 1878. Visiting the Pope. (The Hon.; Horatio : King, writes from! Rome to the Washington Chronicle an ac count of a : visit he and other Americans made to Pope Pius in December last.' He ... ; .i.f-., Y --, "We found no difficulty., in gaining ad mission to the officjating priest whose duty it is to examine the passes, "and, guided by ushers dressed in, scarlet 'velvet,, we were soon seated in the . reception room, where we Jbad to wait .over , an -hour .before, the Pope made his appearance, 6 wing; as . we have since learned, to his having previously to receive a delegation' of students from South America, who read to him an address, to which he responded. . The reception room is a kmg corridor,, with space for two rows of chairs, about one hundred, on either side, and for two or three persons abreast to pass between them. On the outside are large arched windows the ;whole way. At the further end is an . arm-chair for the Pope, with his bust in marble and coat of arms over it. At the opposite end is an iron rail gate with curtains thrown across, and this is the end at which the Pope as well as the visitors enters. The curtains were not en tirely drawn aside until just before he made his appearance. He came in accompanied by about a dozen cardinals or priests, among them our friend, Father Chatard, who stopped and spoke to us, as he passed down the corridor in the traiu of the Pope, who, on entering, saluted the, company with a lew words, which we did not exactly un derstand, but took to be a salutatory wel come. Immediately on his appearance in side the curtained gateway, we all rose from our seats, and the line of visitors op posite to us commenced kneeling and knelt as he approached them on the whole line. When he reached the end they all rose to their feet, and as he came back on our side the same ceremony of kneeling was ob served. All took his right hand, or put one hand under is and kissed or raised it near their lips, while some of the more de voted did not stop at kissing his hand, but prostrated themselves before him and kissed one of his feet. Some of the women, evi dently humble Italian or French women, j were affected to tears. WThen he came to us, Father Chatard was at his side, and, kneeling also, introduced us. After we had shaken hands, Father Chatard informed him more particularly who we were, when his Holiness again took our hand and expressed his gratification at seeing us. Of course we reciprocated the compliment, which we have every reason to believe was sincere on his part, as it certainly was on ours, for we regard him as a very kind-hearted, good old gentleman. When he was through with his separate greetings and blessings, he breathed a short blessing on each one as he or she was presented to him, and also blessed beads, crosses, and other small ar ticles which many of the guests brought for the purpose he faced the audience and made a short speech in French. He com menced by invoking the blessing of God on all present, individually and collectively, and upon our countries respectively, repre senting as we did several nationalities. We were not able to comprehend all he said, as he spoke quite rapidly; but referring to his morning interview with the South American students, he said it had fatigued him, and he must therefore be excused from addressing us at length. In conclusion he said he earnestly hoped and prayed that we might all meet in heaven as we had met here. When he said this he raised his eyes toward heaven, and was very animated,' as he was in fact throughout his speech, fre quently bringing his cane down to the floor more fully to express his earnestness. His cane, the handle of which was of ivory, he carried in his left hand. . He wore a white silk cap, an inner robe of white cashmere, with a silk sash, and his cloak, or exterior robe, was scarlet merino or broadcloth. His hair is very white, his countenance be nignant and very pleasant, and his whole appearance commanding. He has the shufflling walk of an aged person, but he does not show so much of the feebleness of age in his face as mo9t men do at his age, now 84. As soon as he had concluded his address, he retired with the members of his court, and the gratiBed visitors dispersed to their respective domiciles. The State of Texas publishes a book en titled the "List of Fugitives from Justice." The latest edition contains 4,402 names, from 108 counties, leaving 40 counties to hear from. Of the fugitives, 750 are ac cused of murder. The Adjutant-General of Texas thinks that within the past two years great numbers of the most dangerous fugitives have fled from the State, and it is probable that there are not half so many such characters at large in Texas as two years ago. Leading outlaws have been killed, and organized bands broken up. The book in question contains the names of three hundred criminals for whose arrest rewards are offered, ranging from t50 to $1,000, and aggregating $90,000. The list is placed in the hands of every Sheriff and detective in the State, and has been the means of bringing hundreds of law-breakers to punishment. Black silk may be cleaned by mix ing one large spoonful of soft soap, one pint of water, half a pint of alcohol, one tea spoonful of molasses and washing the goods in it. Rub the ' silk with a piece of black cloth till quite wet on the wrong side, and iron it until quite dry on the same side. If it makes it too stiff add alcohol ; if the reverse, add molasses. : "Which is the roost valuable expe rience or instinct ?" was the subject up for discussion at a debating society recently. One member said experience teaches us to back op to a hot stove when we are cold, bot when our coat-tail catches fire instinct is boss. I ; : fIshbp .Marria on the Sabbath. TlieSwp lni(itUtions---the family and thV Sabbmh-caine out of the gates of Eden linked together; they cannot be dis jointed. ' -In lha Jamily "the Sabbath has its chief i expressions Teven more than in the house Kil od for in the sanctuary there is often,-1 pn ocoasaion; -the same worship on other days as on .that ; but in the home there is no day like'lhis one. No birthday nor holiday .resembles it. It is an unseen but felt presence .in -every chamber .and opdn'every heart; its touch is upon every face and its tone'iri.every voice ; its light is purer than; the light of common day, as if celestial beams were braided in with the rays that stream through the window or lie upon the threshold." The man-servant and the maid-servant Vest ; and even the horse sind the b toanlln "the 'pasture or Bleep in the stall ; the plane and the ax lie idle in the shop; the court-house is closed; and every plaice of merchandise is still ; human life has retreated from its contests. Men emerge from the door-way of home only to visit the house of God, and then return to commune with the Invisible at the domestic altar, and to rest. Here and now the heart gathers all its treasures together, and esti mate them by a standard of values that finds its definition in such words as God and holiness, eternity and heaven. Thus home and the Sabbath belong to each other. There can be no home, in the highest meaning of the word, without the Sabbath ; and without the family and the home there could scarcely be a Sabbath at all upon the earth. mam The Horrid Women of Europe. 'From the N. Y. Tribune. The gush of women suffragists, the drivel of prairie financiers and the rant of work ingmen's demagogues, all tend to promote a spirit of political pessimism on this side of the Atlantic ; but, Heaven be praised ! the female socialists have not yet undertaken to save their country by their gabble. A number of these women have recently as sembled in Berlin to attend a socialist con gress, and there has been unending chatter about the manifold evils of society and the century. One of the leaders exhorted hu manity to revolt en masse against ecclesias tical restraints and every form of Chris tianity. The presiding harpy of the con gress, Frau Halm, cried with a loud voice that the Christian Church, deformed as it is by immoral ignorance, must be despoiled of its trophies and possessions ; that the priests must be turned out, the ornaments pulled down and removed, and the places tor worship transformed into dwellings for working people. The church ornaments, she suggested, could be sold at auction, and with the proceeds furniture could be pur chased for the dwellings of honest laborers ; and the cathedrals, churches and chapels could be converted into salubrious and cheap lodging-houses. A missionary, who happened to be pres ent, ventured to raise a timid voice in de fense of Christianity, but the women snubbed and suppressed him without delay. Missionaries, they said, could preach their religion to Hottentots and other savages, for whom it might be good enough, but civilized nations ought to be allowed to en joy the delights, the advantages and the moral beauties of socialism. Exportation of Wives. In the early settlement of Virginia, when the adventurers were principally unmarried men, it was deemed necessary to export such women as could be prevailed upon to quit England as wives for the planters. Accompanying the shipment of matrimonial exiles, dated London, Aug. 12, 1612, illus trates the manners of the times, and the concern felt for the welfare of the colony and for female virtue. It is as follows: "We send you on the ship one widow and eleven maids, for wives for the people of Virginia ; there hath been especial care had in the choice of them, for there hath not one of them been received but upon good commendations. In case they cannot be presently married, we desire that they may be put with several householders that have wives till they can be provided with hus bands. There are nearly fifty more that are to shortly come, and sent by our hon orable lord and treasurer, the Earl of Southampton, and certain worthy gentle men, who, taking into their consideration that the plantation can never flourish till families be planted, and the respect of wives and children for the people on the soil, therefore have given this fair beginning ; for the reimbursing whose charges it is or dered that every man marrying them give one hundred and fifty pounds of leaf to bacco for each of them. Though we are desirous that the mareiage be free accord ing to the laws of nature, yet we would not have these maids deceived and married to servants, but to such fieemen or tenants as have the means to maintain them. We pray you, therefore, to be fathers to them m this business, not enforcing them to mar ry against their wills." Jdgr The oak in the middle of the forest, if surrounded on every side by trees that shelter and shade it, runs up tall and sickly; put it away from its protectors, and the first blast will overturn it. But the same tree, growing in the open field, where it is continually beat upon by the tempest, be comes its own protector. So the man who is compelled to rely on his own resources forms an independence of character to which he could not otherwise have attained. E5T" A ten-year old boy boasting to a schoolmate of his father's accomplishments, said : "My father can do most anything. He is a notary public, and he's a pothecary, and he can pull teeth, and he s a horse doc tor, and he can mend wagons, and he can play the fiddle, and he's a jackass at all trades." Fashion's ahd.'Pfifoiaea.- Manv persons hare a fix'ed.lbelief that it is the most vulgar of vulgar things to have scent on the handkerchief j -other aeain, appear to think they cannot ess ioo much. 1 A French; author, a man of -evident ;taste and culture, declares that he distrusts the' Deonle who denonnnA t.h nun nf 'rwrfnino. - a " - r Hi. The ODnosite to a bad odor, he mvb tirl those who r have no: predilection for jjree- able odors will not at all obiect to bad odor. ' A child, , a student,, an austere, .and crave scientinc dignitary, an old man, may b$ cused if they use no perfume ; but a woman, Tonne and beautiful 'imacri native. r n1 aPP7i cannot forego the; luxury, the. r ele gance, the poetry ofperfuiae. ; Fashion has varied erreatl v in this matter. In Panl d& Kock'a day peppermint was, the rage, sweet dilutions were made of it. Ladies carried it in their 6cent bottles and in their bonbon boxes, in one form or the other. Then came the turn of what is termed aromatio vinegar, speedily followed by lavendar water, eau de Cologne, rose water, and patchouly. And since the extreme popu larity of patchoulv. the fashion of usmer ner. fumes has somewhat subsided. In these dajrs few ladies positively drop scent upon . their handkerchief; they prefer to keep their ' wardrobes well stocked with lavender, or orris root, or sandal wood, so that ther' clothes emit a pleasant fragrance rather than a distinct odor. A young American lady I knew in Paris had the cupboards and draw-; ers in which her clothes were disnosed' strewn with sachets of strong smelling violet powder, that cave a nameless deli cate, fresh perfume to everything she wdfe. irom ner nat ana veil to ner nandkercmet. For this mode of using perfume, nothing can be much better than lavender, which is , exquisitely fresh and wholesome, and has. a sweet natural scent mat art can never out do. A young Englishman, whose bachelor home in Paris, I saw only a week or two ago, has sturdy bunches of lavender hung ' to each of the pegs for his coats in his dress ing room. And vet neonle declaim about the extravagant coquetry of women, as i ine nanging up 01 tnose masculine coats over fragrant lavender did not equal any ol our harmless little devices. Evils of Gossip. Wc have known a country society which withered away to nothing under the dry rot of gossip only. Friendships, once as firm as granite, dissolved to jelly, and then ran away to water only because of this; loye that promised a future as enduring and as stable as truth, evaporated into a morning mist that turned to a day's long tears, only because oi this ; a father and son were set foot to foot with the fiery breath of an anger that would never cool again between them ; and a husband and a vouncr wife, each straining at the heated lash which in the be ginning had been the promise of a God blessed love, sat mournfully by the side of the grave where all their love and all their joy lay buried and all because of this. We have seen faith transformed to mean doubt. joy give place to grim despair, and charity take on itself the features of black malevo lence, all because of the fell words of scan dal, and the magic mutterings of gossip. Great crimes work great wrongs, and the deeper tragedies of human life spring from the larger passions ; but woeful and most mournful are the uncatalogued tragedies that issue from gossip and detraction ; most mournful the shipwreck often made of noble natures and lovely lives by the bitter winds and dead salt waters of slander. . So easy to say, yet so hard to disprove throwing on the innocent all the burden and the strain of demonstrating their innocence, and pan-, ishing them as guilty if unable to pluck oat the stings they never see, and to silence words they never hear gossip and slander are tho deadliest and cruelest weapons man has ever forged for his brother's heart. He got out of It. A colored preacher in Florida thus held forth : "My brudring, the Israelites went over the Red Sea on the ice. They got over all safe ; and dat's de reason why Mo6es sang de song ob praise. In de morning, when de sun was up, hot, Pharaoh and de 'Gyptians . come wid deir great lumbering chariots of iron. Dcy broke through de ice, and all went to de bottom ob de sea." "Stop dere 1" exclaimed a hearer, "I want to ask a question. I've read geo graphy, and Egypt's a hot country. Jt's under de tropics, it's near de 'quator, and dere ain't no ice dere. How could dey go over on de ice, an' dere no ice dere ?' To which the preacher responded : "I'm clad you asked that question. Now I can 'splain. That comes of reading g'ography instead of de Bible. My brudring, when the Chill en of Israel go over de Ked Sea, dat was a great, great while ago ; before dere was any g'ography, before dere was tropics, before dere was any 'quator. Dat's de reason dere was ice, my brudring." S5f When Abraham Lincoln was a poor lawyer, he found himself one cold day at a village some distance from Springfield, 111., and with no means of conveyance.' Seeing a gentleman driving along the Springfield road in a carriage, he ran up to bim and politely said : "Sir, will you have the good ness to carry my overcoat to town for me ?" "With pleasure" answered the gentleman. "But how will you get it again V. "Oh, very easily," said Mr Lincoln, "as T. intend to remain in it." "Jump in," said the gen tleman, laughing, and the future President had a pleasant ride. JS" For every week lost in a strike a certain number of week' work at the higher wages struck for is required in order1 to avoid positive loss to the workmen. Thus in the case of a strike of six months' dura tion for advance of ten per cent in wages, five years' labor at the high rates will be required in order to make up the positive loss incurred in the strike.
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