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7 . 11 fi Mfl fill l fi xxieCI QilT IV . J. YATES, Editor and Propbietor. Term of Subscription $2. 00, n advance. CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1878. I TWEmIXTir.rTOLUIIENIJMBER 1336. fffl I Tnrlc A"A A. -srv w Ao 3 sum t rann ' ; mwm I III I I I C ' I I I I I I . i I 1 I 1 I I I . I I I VI I I THE Charlotte Democrat, PUBLISHED BT WILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor o Terms TWO DOLLARS for one year, or One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents for six months. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. o - Advertisements will be inserted at reasonable rates, or in accordance with contract. Obituary notices of over five lines in length will fie charged for at advertising rates. Dr. JOHN H. Mc ADEN, Wholesale and Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C, JIas on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE DRUGS, Chemicals, Patent Medicine, Family Medicines, Paints. Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stnffs, Fancy and Toilet Articles, which he is determined to sell at the very lowest prices. Jan 1, 1875. J. P. McCombs, M. D., fcjffers his professional services to the citizens of K liarlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both tiiitf ht and day, promptly attended to. Office in Brown's building, up stairs, oppositethe i liarlotte 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. Mvers'. Jan. 18, 1878. Doctor D. STUART LYON, Charlotte, N. C. Offic e with Dr. Battle, over Dr. McA.den's Drug tftore. (Residence at Rev. Theo. Whitfield's.) Call9 from City and country will receive prompt attention. April 1J, 1878 y DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Gas used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb. 15, 1878. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. E. J. "ALLEN, I Near Irwin's corner, Trade Street1 Charlotte, N. C, PRACTICAL WATCH-MAKER, 8ST Repairing of Jewelry, Watches and Clocks done at short notice and moderate prices. April 17, 1876. y R. M. MILLER & SONS, Commission Merchants, and wholesale: dealers in Provisions and Groceries, College Street, Charlotte, N. C. Flour, Bacon, Sugar, Coffee, Salt, Molasses, and In fact, all kind of Groceries in large quantities nlways 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. 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. gT 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 Urocery line to eat, including fresh meats. Jan. 1, 1877. E. 8. BURWELL. 1878. E. B. SPRINGS BUR WELL & SPRINGS, Grocers and Commission Merchants, Charlotte, N. C. Jan. 4, 1878. LEWIN W. BARRINGER, Son of the late lion. D. M. Barringer of N. C.,) Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 436 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Prompt attention to all legal business. Best references given as to legal and financial responsi bility. Commissioner for North Carolina. References. Chief Justice W. N. H. Smith ; Raleigh National Bank ; 1st National Bank, Cbar otte ; Merchants and Farmers National Bank. March 15 1878 ly-pd DR. RICHARD H. LEWIS, Raleigh, N. C. Late Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear in the Savannah Medical College,) Practice Limited to the EYE and EAR, Refers to the State Medical Society and to the Georgia Medical Society. Oct. 12, 1877 y TAILORING. John Vogel, Practical Tailor, Respectfully informs the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country, that he is prepared to manu facture gentleman's clothing in the latest style and nt short notice. His best exertions will be given to render satisfaction to those who patronize him. Shop opposite old Charlotte Hotel. January 1, 1877. Glass. $00 Boxes American "Window Glass, at lowest prices. WILSON & BURWELL. May 3, 1878. 23F"The wheat crop is already being harvested in many parts of the country, and it is estimated that the yield will reach 400,000,000 bushels, or ten bushels for every man, woman and child in the country, if the population be forty millions. SPARKLING Catawba Springs, Catawba County, N. C. This desirable watering place will be open for select visitors 20th May, 1878. The Springs are situated near Hickory Station, on the "Western North Carolina Railroad. The bracing mountain atmosphere, with the health restoring properties of their waters, renders these Springs a most desirable resort for invalids and pleasure seekers. The mineral waters embrace blue and white Sul phur and Chalybeate. It is the beet and most ex tensively fitted up watering place in the State, and can accommodate three hundred persons. A good band of music will remain at the Springs during the season, and all the facilities afforded for amusements usually found at first-class watering places will be offered to visitors. A good supply of ice constantly on hand. Conveyances will meet the trains daily at Hickory Station to convey visitors to the Springs. Board : $35 per month of 28 days ; $12 per week ; $2 per day. Half price for children and colored servants, and liberal deduction for families. Dr. E. O. ELLIOTT, May 3, 1878 2m Owner and Proprietor. "Down by the Sea" Season of 1818. OCEAN VIEW HOTEL, Beaufort, N. C, GEORGE W. CHARLOTTE, Proprietor, (Late Proprietor of Atlantic House) Was opened for the reception of guests on the first day of May, 1878. The above Hotel is situated immediately on the water front, in the business centre of the town and offers special inducements to commercial travelers, and has a view from its promenade on the roof un surpassed by any other building in the town. BALL ROOM. This Hotel has a splendid Ball Room attached, and a Band of Music has been en gaged for the entire season. BATHING HOUSES. Commodious Bathing Houses have been erected on shore and beach, for the benefit of the patrons of this Hotel. CROQUET GROUND. For those who delight in this innocent amusement, provision has been made. BOATS. Fast sailing and well managed Boats will be in readiness at all hours to convey passen gers about the harbor, and will connect with all trains. The United States mail boat lands and sails from the Hotel wharf. FISHING. Beaufort offers superior advantages to those who delight in catching the finny tribe. THE TABLE will always be furnished with the best that this and the adjoining markets afford. THE SERVANTS will be required to be polite and attentive. THIS HOTEL will be second to none. REDUCTION IN BOARD. Per Day $1.50 ; per Month $30.00. Beaufort, May 17, 1878. tf WARM SPRINGS. Western North Carolina, Is now open for the reception of pleasure seekers and invalids. This delightful place is situated in the beautiful Valley of the French Broad, within eight miles of Railroad. We have a fine Band of Music, attentive Servants, and all accommodations to be found at a first-class watering place. The Bath-House has recently been remodeled and now has all the modern improvements, such as Tub, Showei and Plunge Baths, hot or cold, or any tem perature that may be desired. Excursion Tickets will be sold to Warm Springs and return from the places named below at the fol lowing rates, viz : Via Salisbury and AsheviUe. $30 95 28 00 23 15 22 90 Via Danville, Lynchburg fe Morristown. $33 60 30 65 25 80 26 85 28 70 From Goldsboro, N. C, Raleigh, Greensboro, Salisbury, Charlotte, ft Excursion Tickets will also be sold to Warm Springs at all of the principal Cities in the United States. For further particulars apply for descriptive pamphlet. W. II. HOWERTON, May 17, 1878 6w Proprietor. Money Wanted. Three Thousand Dollars wanted for three years on Bond secured by Mortgage on land worth double the money. Liberal interest paid. Address K, Lock Box 80, May 3. 1878. tf. Charlotte, N. C. BUYERS OP DRY GOODS, Ready-made Clothing AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Will find at the old established house of ELIAS & COHEN The largest, best assorted and cheapest Stock of Goods ever brought to this market. We are prepared to prove upon examination of our Stock that we make no vain boast, and solicit buyers, both Wholesale and Retail, to look at our Goods and prices before purchasi g. Our stock of Dress Goods, White Goods, Alpac cas. Embroideries, Kid Gloves, Sun Umbrellas, Fans, Ties and Fancy Goods are complete and will be sold at astonishing low prices. Carpets, Oil Cloths and Mattings very low. Fair dealing. Polite and attentive Clerks. Call and see us and judge for yourselves. ELIAS & COHEN. - March 22, 1878. . COTTON YARN. KCi BUNCHES COTTON YARN from Glen--'vroy Mills, N. C, manufactured from seed Cotton by E. C. Grier & Son, for sale by j. Mclaughlin & co. March 29, 1878. LAW SCHOOL, Greensboro, N C. For information as to Terms, &c, apply to JOHN H. DILLARD, ROBERT P. DICK. May 10,1878. ICE CREAM. C. S. HOLTON, at the "Rising Sun Store," is prepared to furnish Ice Cream by the plate or gallon. Call, or leave your Cash orders and they will be promptly filled. The attention of families solicited. May 31, 1878. G- S. HOLTON. American Competition in Europe From the British Mercantile Gazette. The American exports of hardware from the port of New York to Europe , for the quarter ending March show a considerable increase over the corresponding period of , . mi ? i r 1 iasc year, xne lucrease is mainiy in nouse hold and builders' hardware, mechanics' tools, saws, cutlery, &a, which in some in stances are being offered in England at quo tations so low as to make it impossible that the manufacturers can derive but the barest margin of profit. A letter from New York states that advices then in hand from' Eu rope were encouraging, and that dealers in one or two lines were quite sanguine of their efforts to create a European trade. Travelers are now in England representing American bouses, and there are American merchants in Sheffield who are prepared to take orders for hardware and deliver the goods in three weeks. In Canada, in a few special lines, the Americans are having it pretty much their own way. No steel rails are being sent from Sheffield to America, though once this was one of the best mar kets. These figures show how the Bessemer steel rail trade in America is growing : In 1973 the manufacture in the United States was 129,015 tons; in 1874, 144,914 tons. This increase continued each succeeding year until 1877, when the total was 432, 169 tons. John Randolph. "II." the N. Y. correspondent of the Raleigh Observer, says that a volume of "Some Reminiscences of John Randolph" has just been published. Among his noted eccentricities he was profane and yet a re ligious man. lie was particular in his at tention to the religious condition of his slaves, of whom he owned several hundred. He frequently employed ministers to preach to them, and often would emphasize the ser mon with a few remarks ot his own. One of these homilelic supplements is thus des cribed : "He dwelt on the gratitude that was due to God for his kindness, and illustrated by his own kindness to his servants. He spoke of the ingratitude shown to the Creator, and illustrated by their ingratitude to him. 'My ancestors,' said he, 'have raised all ot you, save one, whom I bought from a hard master lor sympathy's sake. I have cherished and nourished you like children ; I have fed and clothed you better than my neighbors have clothed their servants. I have allowed you more privileges than others have been allowed. Consequently any good heart would have shown gratitude even to me. But, oh ! the ingratitude of the depraved heart I After all my superior kindness, when I was, in very feeble health, sent a Minister to Russia, you all thoughtl would not live to return, and you and the overseers (damn you, God forgive me,) wasted and stole all you could, and came well nigh ruining me. But come back, and I will forgive ; come back to God and He will forgive,' " IKltF0 Everybody has heard of Glauber's salts, but how many know whether Glauber is the name of a place or a man. He was in fact a famous chemist of Amsterdam in the sixteenth century, who invented the pecu liar preparation bearing his name. THE "RISING SUN." According to the command of Joshua of Old, although repudiated by the "Jasper Philosophy" of the New, is now standing still, at the Old Place, on Trade Street, opposite the Market House, plus Hornet Fire Engine Hall, where the light of reason illuminates the surrounding atmosphere, which in vests all things with the glow of inspiration, and the world no longer seems "A fleeting shew, For man's illusion given." For right here you will find C. S. HOLTON, Who has in Store Oranges, Lemons, Candies, Cakes, Pies, (The Great Washington Pie included,) Corn Starch, Sardines, Pickles, Fresh Bread, Canned Fruit and Vegetables, Sugars and Coffees, Tobacco, Cigars, Snuff, Toys. In fact, everything found in a Confectionery, including Ice Cream and Lemonade. June 21, 1878. C. S. HOLTON. FRUIT TREES, &c. T. W. SPARROW is now taking orders for Fall delivery. Those he may fail to see can leave their orders at the Store of J. H. Henderson, stating the number and kind of trees they may wish and he promises to give them the best assortment he can make out. T. W. SPARROW. P. S. He will furnish the best kinds ot Straw berries at low figures. May 31, 1878. 3ni BARGAINS. China and Fancy Goods at Cost For Cash. I offer for the next thirty days, my entire Stock of China and Fancy Goods at cost for cash. The stock consists of White and Gold Band China Tea and Dinner Ware, Bohemian Glass and China Vases. MOTTOED CUPS AND MUGS, Jewel Boxes, Glass Toilet Sets ; also, a large stock of Silver Plated Castors at cost Now is the time to supply yourselves with goods in that line cheaper than have ever been offered in this market. . I have also a large stock of Staple Goods, White Granite and C. C. Ware, which I will sell at re duced prices. The Ladies are especially invited to call and ex amine the stock, and see the difference in China and Fancy .Goods. t5T Mason's Improved Fruit Jars quarts $1.25 per dozen ; half -gallons $1.50. JAMES HARTY. Charlotte, N. C, June 21, 1878. Guano, Snper-Phosphate, &c. J. C. BURROUGHS Has now in store a high grade of Acid Phosphate, Soluble Pacific Guano, Whann's Raw Bone Super Phosphate,' Merryman's Ammoniated Dissolved Bones and Peruvian Guano. Feb. 15. 1878. '; . , Buy Kerosene Oil Of T. C. SMITH if you want the bottom price. .. " - - i .! - . " ' 1 1 .Words of. Wisdom. fGov: Colquitt of Georgia,in his' Address eipre the students Dl Trinity College, N. C-i on the , 12th V&st,, P??. in part as My young friefltfs, there is such a thing as truth unmixed absolute, superlative. To-day, at the outset of life, I . tell you em phatically and without -qualification, that to him who means well, who with' his light es chews wrong and vice,: who sets up; for his guidance and inexorably adheres to - the golden rule, there is not, will t not be, can not be any such' thing as failure; and' disap pointment. Material thinga tnay fail, ah ! will fail ; - the pride of ' intellect will su rely meet humiliation honors and acclamations may become of all things the most vapid, and miscalculations and misjadgments will bestrew the melancholy pilgrimage of our lives ; but of one thing the entire universe of God may rest assured, and that is that "Virtue is its own exceeding great reward," and Omnipotence is pledged to justify the practice of it. In no other departmeut of life, in no other field of endeavor could I dare to promise safety and happiness. Af ter the very best that many of you may do, your plans of life may be defeated. Strive as you may, honor and riches may elude your grasp. With the purest intentions and loftiest desires to be of service, at last you may have to say, "I have failed, and my name is written in the water." Thou sands before you have been overlooked, been misjudged, and passed by; but never yet since human probation began, never since conscience commenced its reign, has there been one instance in which a pure conscience has suffered ehipwreck and been forced to exclaim, "All is Vanity." Let us apply the correlated truth. It is this : Material good, a triumph over out side opposition and obstacles; in short, what is called worldly success cannot in any large degree constitute the happiness of men or nations. Ill-gotten power or wealth must at last pass through the toll gate of retribution, and how often is the ex action the bitterness of death. True it is that we are "of the earth, earthy," but Heaven demands that the immortal and spiritual element shall never be subordi nated to the sensual, which seeks its fruition in the things that perish. All systems of education, then, all aims of polity, all religions, all domestic train ing that does not place the moral life above the material or intellectual must end in disaster. The man who wishes well either to his people or his race would far prefer to see men good rather than learned, or behold the prevalence of virtuous habits than any amount of power or wealth. These are trite, if not threadbare reflections, and yet how true is it that the refractory pride of man's intellect makes eternal repetition of them necessary. At all times and every where presumptuous man has felt himself able to criticise and reform the conditions of human existence as God has decreed them. But mankind retires from every such collision with Providence worsted and sorrowful. No, we must accept the rule as God has declared it for the government of the world first the Kingdom of Heaven, and then all else that is good. Without virtue the individual fails, the nation is wrecked. Let education make a note of this, and let the statesman who per sists in doubts, calculate closely how much of treasure and glorious opportunity may still be wasted in the futile attempt to prove that text books may successfully substitute the Bible. iii ' A New Way to Retain Subscribers. An indignant subscriber to a newspaper went into the office a few days ago and or dered his paper stopped because he differed with the editor in his views on subsoiline: fence rails. The editor conceded the man's right to stop his paper, and remarked, cool ly, as he looked over the list : "Do you know Jim Sowers, down at Hard scrabble ?" "Very well," said the man. "Well, he stopped his paper last week because I thonght a farmer was a blamed fool who didn't know that Timothy was a good thing to graft on huckleberry bushes, and he died in less than four hours." ;-, "Gracious I is that so ?" asked the aston ished farmer. "Yes ; and you know old George Erick son, down on Eagle creek ?" "Well, I've heard of him." "Well," said the editor, gravely, "he stop ped his paper because he was the happy father of twins, and we congratulated him on his success so late in life. He fell dead within twenty minutes. There's lots of similar cases, but it don't matter ; I'll just cross your name off", though you don't look strong, and there's a bad color on your nose." "See here, Mr Editor 1" said the subscri ber, looking somewhat alarmed, "I believe I'll just keep on another year, because I al ways did like your paper, and, come to think about it, you're a young man, and some al lowance orter be made," and he departed satisfied that he had a narrow . escape from death. The Mortgage or Chattel Lien Law. It is the general experience that no farmer can mortgage his crops, and buy provisions and fertilizers from the merchant at credit prices without being ruined. It is not ma terial what he plants, bankruptcy is sure to follow in the end. The proof, if necessary, is that those farmers that have gone on the old and only sure way since the war, raising their corn, hay and meat, and making their own fertilizers, are out of debt. - Those that have followed the opposite system, are largely in debt. We trust the next General Assembly will repeal the law, Many very important reasons can be given why 'this law should be repealed. Correspondence North Carolina Farmer. 1 '' Wilkes Booth's Crime. " f" JFxom the Baltimore Gazette. The announcement made of the comincr proaucuon ox onakespeare's great Koman play of Julius Ctesar recalls the great tra- geay m w asnmgton in 1865, when John Wilkes Booth assumed & role somewhat similar to that of Brutus, in the assassina- nun 07 me jrresiaent ot tne u nitea Estates. The actor's ereat crime startled the world. land although thirteen years have elapsed uie circumstances connected with the thril ling tragedy are still fresh in the miblic mind and the subject will never cease to ex- i . n ! 1". -1 . . T . . . , 1 viwc puuuui inieresi.. urutus, ii wm oe remembered, according to Shakespeare, struck down "the noblest man that ever lived in the tide of times." To those loyal then to government Brutus was but "an in grate and an' assassin, but Plutarch and Shakespeare made him the most perfect model of "a mild, contemplative and philoso- fhical yet heroic republican" "the noblest toman of them all" The striking similarity between two of the greatest tragedies that history records prompted a representative of the Gazette to revive the story of the Presidential assassi nation, and endeavor to ascertain the real motive of Booth in taking Mr Lincoln's life. The impression has generally prevailed that Mr John 1. J?ord, who was manager of Ford's Theatre at the time the tragedy oc curred, was familiar with facts in connec tion with the matter that had never ap peared in print, and he was approached by the writer recently and asked if such was the case. Mr Ford remarked that ho had frequently been requested to give expres sion to his views on the subject, but had declined. A general conversation on the subject, however, ensued, the substance of which, with Mr tord s permission, we print. It throws some new light on the great tragedy, and will doubtless be found of general interest. Mr Ford said : "John Wilkes Booth was trained from earliest infancy to consider the almost dei fied assassin Brutus, just as Shakespeare im mortalized him. His lather was named "J unius Brutus ;" his brother is now the bearer of that surname. The great Booth frequently appeared in the play of Julius Caesar, and not later than 1864 three of his sons acted the three leading characters of the play to an audience that applauded the sentiments of Brutus to the echo. Now trace the assassination of Lincoln. On the morning of April 14, 1865, Booth, who had conspired for six months previous to abduct President Lincoln and convey him a prisoner to the South, was the last guest at break fast at the National Hotel in Washington. The surrender at Appomattox had ended all chance for him to carry out his original con spiracy. He left the hotel after 1 1 o'clock that morning and walked up Sixth street to II, and stopped at the Surrat House, where he met the widow who kept it, returning from the religious services of Good Friday, and then in the act of going to her former country place (the vehiole to oonvey her al ready at the door) to collect some money due her, so as to pay what was due by her to the Calvert estate. Booth, when in formed of her intended visit, requested her to get some articles belonging to him that he had left at the country tavern ; and then, bidding her adieu he walked up H street to Tenth, and down Tenth to the Theatre. When he reached there it was about or probably a little later than 12 o'clock mid day. There he heard for the first time that both President Lincoln and Gen. Grant were to visit the Theatre that night. The private box was in the process of decoration. The White House messenger had been there an hour before to secure its use. I believe, and all reliable, written or oral testimony confirms that belief that then and there the terrible thought of assassination first suggested itself. It came like this : "If I failed to serve the South in my conspiracy to abduct, I can now be her Brutus." This thought fastened on his brain led him to go from the Theatre toward the Kirkwood House to have a conference with some of his old conspirators. John Surratt was away, O'Laughlin was in Baltimore, and Arnold was in a sutler's store at Fortress Monroe. They knew the abduction con spiracy had been abandoned, but Payne, Atzerodt and Harold were in Washington. These latter he got together and conspired with them to kill the President, the victo rious General, and some of the Cabinet. He must have written between the time when he parted with his co-conspirators, and the hour he again appeared at the Theatre a lengthy statement for publication, excusing his intended crime by Roman precedent. When dying he referred to it for justifica tion. He gave on the evening of the 14th a package to an actor, directing its delivery the next day to the National Intelligencer. The actor confesses that he, frightened at the risk he ran, broke the seal, read the en closed matter, and at midnight burnt it. If that package had been preserved it would have revealed the declaration that until noon that day its writer had not premedi tated murder, but feeling deeply the humilia tion of the South, to the people of which he bore all the love that Brutus ever felt for Rome, be would strike down that night the leading men of the victorious hosts who were then shouting their poeans of triumph. When dying with his face lit up with the blaze of the burning barn upon the Garrett farm, just at the break of day on the morn ing of April 24, he muttered some words, a soldier bent over : him and caught them from his fast ebbing breath. First, a mes sage for his mother Tell her I did it as I thought for the best," and then he said, "Teliothers that the communication I wrote addressed' to the National - Intelligencer, will explain whyldid whatldid." During the conspiracy trial at the arsenal, the Hon. Joseph Holt; the 'Judge Advocate, called John F. Coyle, then the : publisher of the National Intelligencer, and asked if that I communication bad ever been received ? His reply ifras No.n 'It was, continued Mr Ford, burnt in the crate of a chsmber of a boarding house., and a Catholic priest now living in Washington had the fact confessed to him soon afterward. ; I had the occur rence revealed to me with the added infor mation of the cojafession by the party who was the custodian, of the paekage. This fully sustains my theory that John Wilkes Booth had not contemplated the assassina tion of President Liucoln when he met Mrs Surratt at midday, and he never met her again, : ... . In order to demonstrate that his brain was turned by the. poetic and dramatic glamour which transmitted the story cf the Roman assassination, said Mr Ford; it is but lust to describe him at this time. Tn person he was remarkably; handsome, with & i ace oi singular manly Dcauty, in perfect health, less than 26 years of age, and almost idolized by his friends. As an actor he could earn at least $10,000 per annum. He was so popular in iioston that daring an engagement at the Museum hundreds of ladies have waited to see him leave the stage to go to his hotel. The facts and opinions will. I think, show the creat dan ger of glorifying assassination under any . f T rt . t viruuiuBtauceB. duiius uresar was to ivome "the union of the scholar, soldier anil the gentleman." "Mighty Ca?sar ! All Rome did love him once not without cause." Yet Cassius did say: How m&nv hp'ps hence Shall this our lovely scene be acted over, in siaies unuora, ana accents yet unknown y Was this, added Mr Ford in closing the interview, the incarnation of dramatic pro- pnecy, suggesting the crime that occurred 1909 vears after, "in states unborn and ac cents yet unknown" when Caesar died? What George Washington did not Know. We don't like to be irreverent, but would like to ask what did our forefathers know ? What, for instance, did George Washington know ? He never saw a steamboat ; he never saw a fast mail train ; he never held his ear to a telephone ; he never eat for his picture in a photograph gallery; he never received a telegraph dispatch; he, never sighted a Krupp gun ; he nover listened to the "fizz" of an electric pen ; he never saw a pretty girl run a sewing machine ; he never saw a self-propelling engine go down the street to a fire ; he never heard of evo lution; he never took laughing-gas; he never had a set of store teeth ; he never at tended an international exposition ; he never owned a bonanza mine ; he never knew "Old Prob." He but why goon? No;' when he took an excursion it was on a flat-boat. When he went off on a train it was - a mule train. When he wanted to talk to a man in Milwaukee he had to go there. When he wanted his picture taken it was done in profile with a piece ot black paper and a pair of shears. When he rot the returns from back counties they had to be brought in by a man with an ox-cart. When he took aim at the enemy he had to trust to a crook-barreled old flint-lock. When he wrote it was with a goose-quill. When ho had anything to mend his grand-mother did it with a darning-needle. When he went to a fire he stood in a line and passed buckets. When he looked at a clam he never dreamed it was any relation of his. When he went to a concert he heard a cracked fiddle and an insane clarionet. When he had a tooth pulled he sat down and never stopped yell msr. When he got out of teeth he cruramed his victuals. When he wanted an interna tional show he sent for Lafavctte and ordered his friend up from Old Virginia with the specimen carefully labeled in bottles. When he once got hold of a nugget of gold from an Indian chief he felt rich. When he wanted to know anything about the weather he consulted the ground-hog or : the goose bone. ' ' Palpitation op the Heart. There are probably few persons who have not at some .i ,T , , . r . j . ume in meir lives naa n not ior more man a moment palpitation of the heart. The disease is dependent on over excitement of the nerves of this organ. Usually it laBts but a few moments, but cases are on record of its continuing eight days at the rate of 160 beats to the minute. Where not caused by disease of the heart or its valves, it is not a dangerous affection. The best treat ment is perfect quite and composure in a re cumbent posture. To prevent their occur rence avoid over-exertion, tight clothing, nervous excitement, a crowded or unventi lated room, and above all loading the stomach with indigestible articles of food. We have known many instances of palpi tation cured by adopting plain, simple hab its of life. The following is a description of a young man in Little Ilock, Ark., written by himself : "You have no conception of what a wretched creature I am; put. into this world with a disposition proud and haughty as any one ever was, having that pride con tinually humbled ; being poor,. with inclina tions and desires which conld be gratified only by the wealthy ; lacking all the ele ments that assist the ambitions to rise talent, energy, perseverance, consistency, education I am indeed to be pitied J yet I should feel hurt did I know I was an object of pity; I am affectionate, sensitive and ignorant, despondent, weak, vacillating and altogether unfit to live, unfit to die." . , He seems to have decided, however, that he was more fit to die than to live, for he killed him self after writing the above to; his sister. tW "I have brought you - this bill until I am sick and tired of it,'- said a collector to a debtor, upon whom he had called at least forty times. ."You are, .'eh V? coolly replied the debtor. .."Yea -I am,"' was the response. "Well, then yon bad . better not present it again. There will be two - of us pleased if you do not, for to tell yon the truth, I am sick and tired of seeing that identical bill myself. . ; ; ? -:.f : .-
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