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I IV, J. YATES, Editor and Peopbietor. Term of Subscription $2. 00, m advice. .CHARLOTTE, N. CM FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1878. TOENTY-SIXTn VOLUHE NHnnER 1339. if,-. . - T II E Charlotte Democrat, PUBM8HED BY WILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor o Terms TWO DOLLARS for one year, or One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents for six months. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. o Advertisements will be inserted at reasonable rates, or in accordance with contract. Obituary notices of over five lines in length will on charged for at advertising rates. , , , Dr. JOHN H. McADEN, Wholesale and Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Has on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE DRUGS Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Family Medicines, Paint3, Oils, : Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Fancy an I Toilet Articles, which he is determined to sell at the very lowest prices. Jan 1, 1875. J. P. McCombs, M. D., Hers his professional services to the citizens of t harloUe and surrounding country. A 11 calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. otlice in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite the , hurlotte Hotel. Jan. 1, 1873. . DR. J. Iff. MILLER, Charlotte, N. C All calls promptly answered day and night. Office over Trailers' National Bank Residence (opposite W. R. livers'. 1 Jan. 18, 1878. " . Doctor D. STUART LYON, Charlotte, N. C. Office : Corner Trade Street and Cemetery Avenue (next to residence of Mrs Fox.) Residei.ee with Rev. Theo. "Whitfield ,'D. D. " Calls from City and country will receive prompt attention. April 19, 1878 y DR., M. ..A. BLAND, " D e n t i s t CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Gas used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb. 15, 1878. CENTRAL HOTEL, Charlotte, N. C, Located on one Corner of the Public Square. Re cent Internal improvements have been made for accommodation of guests. Jittes$Z, $2.50 and $2 per day, according to lo cation of Rooms. II. C. ECCLES, July 5, 1878. tf Proprietor. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. E. J. ALLEN, I Near Irwin's corner, Trade Street,! ClIAKLOTTE, N. C, PRACTICAL WATCH-MAKER, 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 fac t, all kind of Groceries in large quantities always 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. tT 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. 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. HTJRAVKLL. ' 1878. E. SPRINGS BTJRWELL & SPRINGS, Grocers and Commission Merchants, Charlotte, N. C. Jan. 4, 1878. LEWIN W. BARRINGER, Son of the late Hon. 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. II. Smith ; Raleigh National Bank ; 1st National Bank, Char 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 - Central Hotel BARBER SHOP. GRAY TOOLE, Proprietor, keeps thcbest workmen employed, and guarantees pleasure' and eatisfaction to customers. June 8, 1877. The French Exposition. Mr Richard Whiteing, the Paris correspondent of the World, writes in relation to the financial attitude of the Exposition, that its total cost, from first to last, is estimated at $9, 000,000. Its probable receipts at-the same time were estimated at $0,900,000 leaving a deficit of $2,100,000. But the receipts promise to considerably exceed this sum, and it is now thought that the deficit will all be covered by the increased revenue re turns resulting from the Exposition. 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 5th of August, 1878, at the Court House, in the town of Monroe, the following valuable mining property belonging to the estate of Hugh Dowsing, deceased, 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 195 Acres. Also, the "Lemmond Gold Mine," tying on the waters of Gfoose 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 in valuable for Mining and Farming purposes ; also, a FINE MILL SITE is on one of the Tracts. Tekms-10 per cent cash ; balance on a credit of G months, with bond and approved security ; no title to pass to the purchaser until all the purchase money is paid. G. W. FLOW, July 12, 1878 3w 1 Commissioner. LAW SCHOOL, Greensboro, N. C. For information as to Term9, &c, apply to JOHN H. DILLARD, May 10,1878. ROBERT P. DICK. STRONG'S LAW SCHOOL, Raleigh, N. C The next regular Session of this Institution will begin on Monday, the 2d of September next, ' and continue till the first day of June following. Ap plicants will, however, be received at any time, and Lectures will be delivered during vacation to those remaining in the City and wishing it. Occasional Lectures will be delivered to the School by distinguished members of the Raleigh Bar. The advantages which this city offers in the con venience of access to the best Libraries, in oppor tunities for attending the Courts which are in ses sion more than half the year, and in meeting mem bers of the Bar and other prominent gentlemen, sur passes those of any other locality in the State. Fee One hundred dollars, for which the stu dent can attend as long as he may choose. Good board can be had for $16 to $18 permonth. For further particulars, addrets, GEORGE V. STRONG, July 12, 1878. lm Raleigh, N. C. 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 show, 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. Just Received at D. M. RIGLER' S, A fine lot of Florida Oranges, Lemons, Apples; fresh Crackers, Soda, Butter, Oysters, Cream, Nic Nac; Candies, Chocolate, Burnt Almond, Gum Diops, Crystalized Fruit, and a large assortment of fine Cream. Also, our own make of plain Candies, fresh Cakes and Pies. ., D. M. RIGLER. Jan. 18, 1878. BUYERS OP DRY GOODS, Ready-made Clothing AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Will find at the old established house of ELI AS & 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 purchasing. , Our stock of Dress Goods, White Goods, Alpac cas. Embroideries, Kid Gloves, Sun Umbrellas, Fans, Ties and Fancy Goods arc 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 33, 1876.-. NOTICE. A petition has been presented to the Board of County Commissioners asking that a change be made in the line between Deweese and Long Creek Townships as follows, to-wit: Commencing at a large rock, one mile West of Hunteraville, running a South course to Montieth's Mill Site, thence up the Branch to the old Cotton Gin, about one and-a-fourth miles from the beginning-, thence East about one mile to the Wallace Saw Mill Site. Persons objecting to a change in said Township will make the same known to said Board on the first Monday jn August next,, ojher wise thgm prayer of the peti tioners will be granted. By order of the Board of County Commissioners. WM. MAXWELL, Clerk. July 5,1873 : 4w Guano, Super-Phosphate, &c. J. C. BURROUGHS Has now in store a hteh grade of . Ajfid Phosphate, Soluble Pacific Guano, Whan'ns Raw Bone Super Phosphate, Merryman's Ammoniated Dissolved Bones and Peruvian Guano. Feb. 15. 1878. ;- ' Dixie Pumps for Sale. I have a large lot of well seasoned Pumps on hand, for sale. The Pumps have been made about 4 years, and are fully seasoned. Any one desiring a good Pump can be supplied cheap, by June 28, 1878. B.N.SMITH, The way Money goes. Did you ever know a boy, when he be gan in earnest to work for a living, who ever had wages enough? Somehow, sala ries and wants never do keep up with each other. There are not many, who, like an old philosopher, can walk along the streets of a gay city, and note the tempting wares set out on every side, and yet say, "How many things there are here that 1 do not want." Yet if you can get a little into his way. of looking at the luxuries of life, it will be a great help to his peace of mind. And it is a very singular fact that most fortunes have been laid on very small foun dations. A great merchant was accustomed to tell his many clerks that he laid the foun dation of his property when he used to chop wood at tweuty-five cents a cord. When ever he was tempted to squander a quarter he would say "there goes a cord of wood." He learned in very early years a good leg son in practical economy. An old woman had been seen for years hanging about the wharves, where vessels were loaded and unloaded in New York harbor, intent on picking up grains of coffee, corn, rice, fcc, that ' were by chance scat tered on the piers. The other day she was badly hurt by some heavy bags of grain falling on her. The kind merchants took up a purse for old Rosa and gent her to her home in Hoboken, in charge of an officer. What was his surprise to find that the neat and handsome furnished cottage was the property of the old grain picker. She had literally "built and furnished it, as the coral workers do their homes, grain by grain. Do not be discouraged though your profits are small. If you cannot increase the in come, the only way out of the difficulty is to cut down the wants. Turn every claim to the best account, and as prices go, you will be able to get a vast amount of comfort out of even a small income. The habits you are forming are also of the greatest impor tance, and may be made the foundation stones of a high prosperity. i 1 1 w ' Ax Editor Declines Senatorial Honors: Mr William Hyde, editor-in-chiel of the St. Louis Republican, positively de clines to be a candidate for United States Senator from Missouri. Mr Hyde says to accept an office, under the rules of the print ing office establishment, is to quit its ser vice, and that no person but the proprietors have the right to require him "to abandon a place of more usefulness and higher rank than a Senator's." Cdgf A cynical old practitioner says : "A lady who practices medicine commits two faults she increases the number of doctora and diminishes th number of women Notice to Trespassers. We have been greatly troubled by persons pass ing through our fields and injuring our crops and fruit trees, and therefore we must forbid all persons from going through our premises or in any way depredating thereon, such as cutting timber, carry ing off fruit, or hunting with guns or dogs. Our plantations are located near Huntersville, Mecklen burg county. S. B. HOLBROOKS. ELIZA HOLBROOKS. . July 12, 1878 lm Notice against Trespassing. As considerable depredations have been commit ted on my lands two miles from Charlotte, on the N. C. Railroad and old Salisbury Road, I forewarn all persons against cutting timber on the premises or hauling away leaves, brush or anything else, as the law will be enforced against all who so trespass. W. M. KENNEDY. June 28, 1878 5w NOTICE. The County Commissioners will meet at the Court House in Charlotte on the first Monday in August next, for the purpose of revising the Tax Lists, and to hear all persons objecting to the val uation of their property, or to the amount of Taxes charged against them, and will remain in session for three days if necessary. By order of the Board of County Commissioners, WM. MAXWELL, Clerk. July 12, 1878. 3w. TEN CENT COUNTER. From this date you may consider ALL our Counters BARGAIN COUNTERS, but to offer still greater inducements to ' Cash Buyers, We have this day placed upon our MIDDLE COUNTER a great variety of good GOODS, which we propose to sell at the common price of Ten Cents for Choice. .. The Ladies are requested to call soon, as these Goods are to be rushed off immediately. Call soon and secure the best bargains in Charlotte for the least money. BARRINGER & TROTTER July 12, 1878. DAWSON & Co's ' Carolina Real Estate Agency, CHARLOTTE, N. C. . We do a general Real Estate business sell Farms, Plantations, Grazing Lands, Mines and Mineral Lands, Stores, Dwellings, Vacant Lots, and all other Town Property. Sales made by Public Auction when desired. Loans negotiated on Real Estate security. We are constantly having enquiries for property, especially Farms of . 100 to 300 Acres. Those having such for sale, or Lands that would divide well, would do well to place them in our bands. We advertise all property put in our hands, free of charge, in our Monthly Advertiser, which is sent to all parts of the North. We make no charge if a sale is not made. Send in descriptions at once. DAWSON & CO. P. S. We now want several Farms and two Mills. f July 12,1878.. . FAMILY GROCERIES, . .:, ,. ,-, Cheap for Cash. : ; I have now in store a full "supply of Groceries and Family; Supplies, which will be sold at the lowest possible prices. : r Arriving .daily, fresh Watermelons, Wholesale and Retai ii. July 5, 1878. S. M. HOWELL. Look on the Brkht Side. ,1,1a there one of us who does not sometimes need this bit of advice ? Things are con trary. The people around its are not en tirely congenial. Our worldly affairs are not adjusted to oar satisfaction. The chil dren are fretful. Our favorite book has been borrowed, and the borrower is a no toriously careless person, so that we know thai it will come home despoiled of its fresh ness. The plan of life on which we have built seems very much like a failure. .We are in. some anxiety about some loved one, whose chamber of sickness may perhaps be come the chamber of death. Some other loved one misunderstands us, or opposes us with caprice and temper when we are in al most childish want of sympathy and sup port. Perhaps our. hardly-earned money, tire accumulationsof faithful toil and fru gal savings foryears are gone, like-a puff of smoke, or a breath. Look oa the bright side ! How can we ? We are ready to say that the heaven is hung with gloom, the earth obscured, the onward, path hidden from our view. We are in the condition of travelers in a mountain land, on whom, mid way in their journey, has descended a cold, blindiugand impenetrable veil of fog, A step either way may be perilous, for it may be over a precipice. It becomes to our thought almost aq impertinence.this sweet voice which bids us be of good courage, and count up the mercies, instead of mourning over the disasters. Yet, there is, if we but care to look for it, always a bright, serene aspect somewhere, always an element of cheer, and always the hope of better days to come. It is very seldom, indeed, that things are so utterly forlorn that they may not be worse. In our reasonable moods we recognize this, and however great our trouble, we can ac knowledge that it might be greater. This is true particularly with regard to calami ties and afflictions, such as visit us and con stitute events in life. These, it is true to say, are frequently encountered and borne with rare heroism by those whose fortitude fails them when small worries and cares an noy and distress. It is amid the trifling, fretful pin-pricks of vexation and daily em barrassment that we are modified by find ing that the soul's armor is not of proof. Then we are resolved to see no bright side, and we are angry at those who try to pre sent it to our view. The Earth not a true Globe. Norman Lockyer says, in Good Words : "The earth is not a true globe because of its former plastic condition before the forma tion and cooling of the surface. When the globe was soft, it was more or le93 yielding, and then the rotation ox the earth, iu wLidi I have referred, tended to drive off, as it were, the matter in the equatorial regions ; so that the distance through the center of the earth between the two surfaces as far as possible removed from the poles of rota tion, or those parts of the earth which the imaginary axis comes through, is rather greater than the distance between the two points where the axis comes to the surface. The reason of that fact, and that it must have been so, has been beautifully estab lished by several experiments. That the earth was once hotter than it is now is therefore proved, both by the irregularities of its surface and by its shape as a whole. We must not imagine, however, that there has been but one change. The minor ir regularities are all gradually changing by inner energies and the action of air and water, and it may be that even the largest ones are young compared with the age of the planet's surface. Nor does the change end here ; the equatorial protuberauce itself may but after all mark a point in a great cycle of change, which has compelled: the earth to rotate now about one axis and how about another.' Mathematicians consider it highly probable that the axis of the earth may nave been in ancient times very differ ently situated to what it is at present, and, indeed, that it might have gradually shifted through ten, twenty, thirty, forty or more degrees without at any time any perceptible sudden disturbance of either land or water. Thus it appears that nature prevents " catas trophes by the very hugeness of the scale on which she works. Luxuries of Life. Compilers of statistics sometimes come into possession of singular facts,, which not unfrequently indicate the peculiar hab its of the people. For instance, it is ascer tained that the amount of teas, coffees, and sugars consumed by the people afford a fair criterion to judge of the financial condition of the country. These articles are not necessaries of life, but luxuries, and it is fair to presume that people wean themselves from such luxuries in some degree at least, when times are so pressing that necessaries are difficult to obtain. Statistics show that during the year 1874 the importation of teas and coffees fell off and continued to de crease up to a few months since. A com parative statement for : the eight months ending with February last exhibits the fact that the purchase of teas was increased 12,000,0GO pounds over the import daring an eojual period of time in 1877. The value of this increased purchase is 112,002,126, against $11,175,596 in 'the former year. The item of coffees shows $35,554,676, against $29,341,772 in 1877J ' Sugars ; are reported at' 738,000,000 pounds : of imports, valued at $37,400,000. These figures man ifest a return to the free use of simpler luxuries a'good sign.' ' , Jdif Capital punishment went into force again in Iowa ' on the Fourth. The notion that a murderer shall' be well fed and well clad, warmed 'when he is cold, and1 healed when "he Is sick, has" been tested in Iowa and branded as a mistake. ' A murderer, file an Indian, is apt to be good only when he is dead. " Bad Water. Nothing' is better established .&an the in duction, from numerous, well investigated facts, that some of the most prevalent and fatal forms of disease, in civilized, countries, and especially in crowded communities, and old cities, are due to the use of polluted waters. Among the diseases which have been traced to this source are typhoid, dysentery, diphtheria, meningitis, fec. This is so well recognized that, in every town of England, by act of Parliament, a board of health controls absolutely the sources and supplies of water, and the dis posal of sewerage, abattoir and other offal, &c, and in this way this class of diseases, called zymotic, because traceable to fermen tative decay of organic matter, has been, within & decade, greatly reduced in fatality and frequency. -: - : In Massachusetts the Board of Health has done a similar work, and in the city of New York much has . been done in the way of collecting facts and tracing epidemic out breaks of such diseases to their sources, which might readily be removed were not the municipal government more corrupt than its sewers. In North Carolina almost nothing has been done, either towards calling public at tention to the subject, collecting and ascer taining facts, investigating the sources of epidemics, or procuring legislation for their removal or control. A year or two ago this Department made an examination of the potable waters of several of our older and larger towns, and published a few of the results ; but as the discussion was met with even more than indifference, the mat ter was dropped. There are Wells in nearly all of our older, (and some, not so old,) towns, which ought to be filled up by muni cipal authority. A few years ago, one of the most popular of the few remaining wells in the city of Loudon was found by analysis to be the source of an epidemic which had nearly depopulated the ward in which it was located. It was filled up at once, and the disease disappeared. In a small town in the mountains of North Carolina, not twenty years old, five cases of typhoid occurred in one family. The intelligent physician in attendance traced the trouble to the well, which was poisoned by the infiltration of drainage from a neighboring stable. These zymotic poisons do not reveal themselves to the senses. Often, in fact, the most sparkling and pleasant waters owe their popularity to that which makes them deadly. It is to be hoped that the Board of Health, recently organized, will take this subject in hand. IV. C. Kerr in Raleigh Farmer & Mechanic. Boys and Their Mothers. Some one has written beautifully to the boys in the following manner; here is a whole sermon in a few sentences : "Of all the love affairs in the world, none can surpass the true love of the big boy for his mother. It is pure love and noble, hon orable in the highest degree to both. I do not mean merely a dutifulaffection. I mean a love which makes a boy gallant and cour teous to his mother, saying to everybody that he is fairly in love with her. Next to the love of a husband nothing so crowns a woman's life with honor as this second love, this devotion of son to her. And I never knew a boy to "turn out" bad who began by falling in love with his mother. Any man may fall in love with a fresh faced gjrl and the man who is gallant with the girl, may cruelly neglect the worn and weary wife. But the boy who is a lover of his mother in her middle age is a true knight who will love his wife as much in the sere leaved autumn as he did in the daisied spring time." f3f "Rotation in Office" suits the men who arc seeking office, but it is a worse fraud on the people than the mischief-working "free suffrage" humbug of a.few years back. The people want their work well done, and when they have a man who per forms it exactly well, to rotate him out is running the risk of doing themselves a harm. Rotation is right when the public business is suffering in the hands of an incumbent. There are but few really successful officials, and when a man is found who shows a de cided talent and qualification for a particu lar place, it is to the interest of the people to hold on to him. There are some official positions difficult to fill, and require close application and hard study to make the in cumbent a good success, so that a constit uency that swaps off a fit man for one who is unproven commits a folly against them selves. Salisbury Watchman. t3FWhen Conger, a cantankerous Radi cal from Michigan, offered a Constitutional amendment to the effect that no claims upon the Government from the South should be paid, only two Northern Democrats voted against it. Save us from such friends. It matters not how just those claims, it is enough to damn them if they are "Southern." To this end their payment must, be pro hibited by a Constitutional provision. What sweet friends those Northern Demo crats are. Wilmington Star. -Cdgr" A dispute about precedence once arose between a Bishop and a Judge, and after some altercation the latter thought be should confound his opponent by quoting the following passage: "For on these hang all the laws and : prophets." . "Do you not see," said the lawyer, in triumph, "that even in. this passage of scripture we are mention ed first VJ' "I grant you," said the Bishop, 4ydu hang first." t 1 Ratiiee FAkh'cuti.B. The Mayor of Columbus, Ga., warns women not to go within sight of a certain part of the River on Mondays and Fridays, for he has given permission to the boys to go in swimming on those days. - - Curiosities in Breatbinjr. The taller men are, other things being equal, the more lungs they have, and the greater number of cubic inches of air they can take in or deliver at a single breath. It is thought that a man's lungs are sound and well developed in proportion to his girth around the chest ; yet observation shows that slim men, as a rule, will run faster and farther with less fatigue, having more "wind," than stout men. If two per sons be taken in all respects alike, except that one measures twelve inches more around the chest than the other, the one having the excess will not deliver more air at one full breath by mathematical measure ment, than the other. : ; :. The more air a man receives into his lungs in ordinary , breathing the ; more healthy he is likely to be; because an im portant object in "breathing is to remove impurities from the blood. Each breath is drawn pure into the lungs ; on its out-going the next instant it is so impure, so perfectly destitute of nourishment, that, if rebreathed without any admixture of pure atmosphere, that man would die. Hence, one of the conditions necessary to secure a high state of health is, that the rooms in which we sleep should be constantly receiving new supplies of fresh air through open doors windows, or fire places. If a person's lungs are not well developed, the health will be imperfect, but the development may be in creased several inches in a few months by daily out-door running with the mouth closed, beginning with twenty yards and back, and increasing ten yards every week, until a hundred are gone over thrice a day. A substitute for ladies and persons in cities, is running up stairs with the mouth closed which compels very deep inspiration, in a natural way at the end of each journey. As consumptive people are declining, each week is a witness to their inability to deliver as much air at a single out-breathing as the week before ; hence, the best way to keep the fell disease at bay, is to obtain lung development. It is known that in large towns, ten thou sand feet above the level of the sea, the deaths from consumption are ten times less than in places nearly on a level with the sea. Twenty-five persons die of consump tion in the city of New York where only two die of that disease in the city of Mexico. All know that consumption does not pre vail in hilly countries and high situations. One reason of this is, because there is more ascending exercise, increasing deep breath ing ; besides, the air being more rarified, larger quantities are instinctively taken into the lungs to answer the requirements of the system, thus at every breath keening up a high development. Hence, the hills should be sought by consumptives, and not hot, low flat situations. 1 mm Qualification for Farmers. For farmers, the country wants the most energetic, thorough-going and wide-awake boys that can be found. Hence, if a boy is blessed with that crowning concomitant which moves the world brains let him become a farmer. Brains constitute the great desideratum in agricultural science at the present day. Fifty years ago, muscle was the essential requisite. Fifty years ago a farmer was expected to perform every manual labor of the farm by the exercise of muscular force, while at the present day he needs brains more than muscle to enable him to manage labor-saving tools and imple ments with skill and efficiency. When the labors of the farm were nearly all performed by the laborious and fatiguing application of human force, farming was irksome drud gery. But now, when teams and steam power respond to the bidding of the tiller of the soil, agriculture is the most agreeable pursuit one can desire. True, at some sea sons of the year farmers are required to labor early and late for several days. Then, again, perhaps for weeks, they will have easy times. A Mistake Oftkx Made. Boys and men sometimes start out in life with the idea that one's business depends on sharpness and chicanery. They imagine if a man is able always to "get the best of a bargain," no matter by what deceit and meanness he carries his point, that his prosperity is as sured. This is a great mistake. Enduring prosperity cannot be founded on cunning and dishonesty. The tricky and deceitful man is sure to fall a victim, sooner or later, to the influences which are forever working against him. His house is built upon the sand, and its foundation will be certain to give way. Young people cannot give these truths too much weight. The future of that young roan is safe who eschews every phase of double-dealing, and lays the foundation of his career in the enduring principles of truth. The almost incredible change which has of late been wrought in the feeling of religious denominations toward each other is forcibly illustrated by the fact that the State Conventions of Universalists and orthodox Congregationlists of Maine a few days ago exchanged Christian greetings. It is but twenty years since the Congregational cler gymen of Boston, at a meeting in their principal church edifice, prayed God "to convert or take hence " the Unitarian preachers of New England. Z3T A sulphur spring - is found every week and bottles of all sorts of tadpole water are passed off as the very cure for dyspepsia and liver complaint. Poor dying eonU are reading borrowed newspapers and halving their money on corn whiskey and mineral water to keep them alive. RtidroiUe Times, I3P A Chicago man has written ' to one of the Astors : "Send mo one million dol lars, or prepare to die." How gland it would be to die in defence of a million dollars,
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