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. 4 poxneCT orfT 1 Vf. J. YATES, Editob ahd Pbofbi Termtof Subscription $2, 00, la advance. XTOR. CHARLOTTE, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1881. TWE?mr-NIKTII.fOiUDE.ND2IBER 1489. . - ? - a . - i , - SSY- ft ( ': ft) Wfjv miMrp '- 4- . r iki it .hi ir i' .- i . II? k t . m m i r rii 1 1 . ii 0 THE Charlotte Democrat, PUBLISHED BT vVILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor. o Terms TWO DOLLARS for one year, or One Dollar for six months. 3 ubxcription must be paid in advance. " Entered at the Tost Office in Charlotte, N. C, as second class postal matter, according to the rulea of the P. O. Department. ROBERT GIBBON, M. D., CHARLOTTE, N". C, (OJfice corner 5th and Trytn Streets,) Tenders his r rofessional services to the public, as a practical Surgi on. Will advise, treat or operate in all the (Trtnre: t departments of Surgery. March 5, 1881 ly - - - Dr. JOHN H. McADEN, Wholesale and Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C., lias on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE DRUGS, Chemicals, Patent Medicine, Family Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs. Fancy and Toilet Articles, which he is determine! t sell at the very lowest prices. Jan 1, 1879. DR. T. C. SMITH, Druggist and Pharmacist, Keeps a full line of Pure Drugs and Chemicals. White Lead and Colors, Machine and Tanners' Oils, Patent Medicines, Garden Seeds, and every thing pertaining to the Drug business, which he will sell at low prices. March 28, 1879. J. P. McCombs, M. D., ffers 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 harlotte Hotel. Jan. 1, 1873. DR. J. M. MILLER, Charlotte, N. C. All calls promptly answered day and night. Otlke 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 used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb. 15, 1878. DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice limited to the EYE, EAR AND THROAT. March 18, 1881 ly A. BURWELIi. P. D. WALKER. BURWELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office adjoining Court House. Nov. 5, 1880. T. M. PITTMAN, Attorney at Law, Opposite t?ie Court House, Charlotte, N. C.,) Practices in the State and U. S. Courts, and gives prompt attention to business. Will negotiate loans. May 28, 1880. y WILSON & BURWELL, Wholesale and Retail Druggists. Trade Street, Chablotte, N. C, Have a large and complete Stock of everything per taining to the Drug Business, to which they invite the attention of all buyers both wholesale and retail. Oct. 8. 1880. HALES & PARRIOR, Practical Watch-dealers and Jewelers, Charlotte, N. C, Keep a full stock of handsome Jewelry, and Clocks, Spectacles, &c, which they sell at fair prices. Repairing of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, &c, done promptly, and satisfaction assured. Store next to Springs' corner building. Tnly 1, 1879. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Grocers and Provision Dealers, Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Syrups .Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams, Flour, Grass Seeds, Plows, &c, which we offer to both the Wholesale atd Retail trade. All are in vited to try us from the smallest to the largest buyers. Jan. 17, 1880. 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. t2T Cotton and other country Produce sold on commission and prompt roturns made. Nov. 1, 1880. HARRISON WATTS, PQTTQtf BUYER, Vomer Trade and College Sis., up Stairs, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Oct. 24, 1880 ly DR. A. W. ALEXANDER, Dentist. Office over L. R. Wriston & Co.rs Drag Store. I am working at prices to suit the times, for Cash. With 25 years' experience I guarantee entire atisfaction. Jan. 18, 1878. John VanLandicgham, Cotton Buyer : ad General Cccimission Merchant In Sunders & Blackwood's Building, North College St., Charlotte, N. C. March 26, 1880. Thk Sun Never Sets on United States. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Times says "that the sun never sets on the posses sions of the United States. When the sun is about expiring on the confines of Bearing's Sea it is already beaming brightly in Maine, and in the Eastern part of that State is an hour high. From the farthest Eastern point of oar conntry, at Eastport, Me., to the far thest of the Aleutian Isles, the distance is 197 degrees of longitude, or seventeen more than half way around the globe." NOTICE. Sheriffs Sale. I will sell for cash at the Court House door in the city of Chorlotte, on Monday, the 4th of July, lotsi, to satisfy .Executions m my hands tor debts and State and County Taxes, the following de scribed Tract of Land and City Lot, to-wit : One Tract of Land in Charlotte Township ad joining the Lands of James P. Irwin, W. R. Myers, H. L. Creighton and others, known as the property of Wm. F. Davidson. Also, one House and Lot in the city of Charlotte adjoining the property of Miss Sarah Davidson, A. B. Schenck and others, known as the property of S. A. Chambers. M. E. ALEXANDER, June 3, 1881. 5w Sheriff. King's Mountain Gold Mine FOR SALE. By virtue of a Deed in Trust executed by the King's Mountain Mining Company to me on the 25th day of November, 1879, which Deed is re corded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Gaston county, N. C, Mortgage Book 2, pages 419 to 422 inclusive, I will sell at public auction for cash, at the King's Mountain Gold Mine in said county, on Saturday, July 2d, 1881, all those valua ble Tracts of Land lying in Gaston and Cleaveland counties on the head waters of Crowder's and King's Creeks, containing about 485 acres of land and known as the "King's Mountain Gold Mine" for a full description of the same see the record of said deed ; together with all the Mines, Shafts, Buildings, Mills, Engines, Pumps, Machinery, Tools, Wagons, Carts, Horses, Mules, and other property connected with and used thereon. A. G. CURTIN, Trustee. R. W. Sandifer, Attorney. Dallas, N. C. June 3, 1881. 4w FOR SALE, Valuable Real Estate. By virtue of a Decree of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg county, made in the matter of Walter Bretn and T. L. Alexander as Executors of Thos. H. Brem, deceased, against the heirs at law of the said Thos. H. Brem, I will expose for sale, at pub lic auction, at the Court House door" in the city of Charlotte, on Tuesday the 5th day of July, 1881, that valuable Real Estate situated in the city of Charlotte, N. C, and described as follows : The BRICK STORE-HOUSE AND LOT now oc cupied by H. Morris & Bros., situated on Trade Street, and adjoining the property of Mrs. M. A. Osborne, C. Dowd and others. Terms made known on day of sale. T. L. ALEXANDER, May 27, 1881. 5w Commissioner. Western N. C. Railroad. NOTICE. The Private Stockholders in the old Western North Carolina Railroad Company are hereby noti fied that $212,500 worth of stack in the new West ern N. C. Railroad Company has been set aside and reserved for them, in accordance with the pro visions of Section 8 of the Act of the 28th of March, 1880, and that the same will be issued to them on presentation of their certificates to the Secretary and Treasurer at Salisbury, N. C, as soon as the same are passed on by the Committee ap pointed to examine and report upon them. A. B. ANDREWS, President. Salisbury, N. C, June 2, 1881 4w Z. B. VANCE. W. H. BULKY. VANCE & BAILEY, Attorneys and Counsellors, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Federal Courts, and Counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, Gaston, Rowan and Davidson. tp Office, two doors East of Independence Square. June 3, 1881 6m SPARKLING CATAWBA SPRINGS, CATAWBA COUNTY, N. C, Near the Western N. C. Railroad. Opened on the 20th of May for visitors. White and Blue Sulphur and Chalybeate. Best Medicinal Mineral Waters in the State. Good accommodations, Baths and all the amusements usually found at first class watering places. Terms moderate. Address Dr. E. O. ELLIOTT, May 20, 1881. lm. Proprietor. HARDWARE. brem & Mcdowell, (Successors to Walter Brem, Agent,) Have a full and new Stock of Hardware for the Wholesale and Retail trade and invite an inspection before purchasing elsewhere. Corner Trade and Tryon Streets, Charlotte. Oct. 8, 1880. CONFECTJQfJPIE GROCERIES, fcc, Cakes and Bread. C. S. HOLTON, at the Rising Sen Store, oppo site the Old Market, still keeps a large assortment of Confectioneries, &c., and a good selection of choice Family Groceries all of the freshest aid best quality. Bread and Cakes. His Bread is considered superior by all who use it, and his assortment of Cakes is fine. tT Wedding Cakes and Cakes for Parties pre pare in the best stile at shorf npjjse. Give Wa trial wbn jftu need anything in my line. C. B. HOLTON. Jan. 14. 1881. Oils! Oils!! Machine, Engine, Straits, Lard, Kerosene, Safety and Linseed Oils, for sale in quantities to suit cus tomers. Ask for prices. May 20, '81. L. R. WRISTON & CO. Just Received. OKA BARRELS C. WE8TS KEROSENE w wr wqil, for Wholesale trade. 240 Dozen Toilet Soap, fine English and American. Toilet and Laundrr Soa. 1Q.0QQ Pounds St. Louis Southern White Lead, at j. a. uc xj-jvs, Feb. 4, 1881. Wholesale and Retail Druggist Useless Studies. The other day a young girl of our ac quaintance, who is pursuing a select course of study in one of the collegiate institutions of the city, was examining the printed cur riculum with reference to deciding what study she should take up the next term. While consulting about the matter, she read over a list of text-books on science, language, literature and mathematics, when suddenly she exclaimed : "I'll tell you what I would like to study-l would like to study medicine. I don't mean that I want to be a physician and practice, but only to know what to do at home if anybody U hick or anything happens. I am sure that it would be more useful to me than" and she turn ed to the prescribed course of study ;"than spherical trigonometry and navigation. What is the use of my studying navigation? But we can't run for the doctor every time any body sneezes or coughs, and I would like to know what to do for any one who is a little sick." Here is a matter concerning which young women need some simple but careful instruction. But who gives them any ? As daughters in the family, they can repeat the dates of the Grecian and Roman wars, work out an intricate problem in al gebra, and give the technical names of all the bones in the body ; but if the baby brother left in their charge burns his hand or is seized with croup, how many of them know the best thing to do while waiting for the doctor? And when, as wives and mothers, the duties of life increase, how many of them have any practical knowl edge which will help them to meet calmly and intelligently the everyday experience of accidents and illness which are inevitable in every family ? Harper's Bazar. One of the largest and most fash ionable dressmaking establishments in Ber lin has come to grief in a singular way. The proprietor, instead of destroying his old order books, sold them with penny-wise economy to the nearest grocer, who used the paper for wrapping up his sales. Thus the most personal notes and embarrassing statements concerning the wealthy and noble ladies of Berlin society have become public gossip. One of the grocer's patrons receives with his sugar, the assurance that the Princess A. measures thirty-seven inches round the waist. Another package contains the startling announcement that the Countess N. requires her dresses padded in front, and the Baroness L. insists that all her dresses shall set off a fine arm. One poor countess is written down as "exacting, stingy, and bad-tempered, but a large pur chaser, and so must be handled with velvet gloves," and so on through the list. Sev eral ladies are recorded as adepts at "mak ing over" dresses that pass for new, while numberless little personal vanities are ruth lessly expressed to the laughter of a much amused public. mm 82r See here said a fault-finding hus band, we must have things arranged in this house so that we shall know just where everything is kept. With all my heart, sweetly answered his wife, and let us begin with your late hours. I should dearly like to know where they are kept. He let things run on as usual. aF A little girl who was sent to the pasture to drive home the cows, fell and was severely scratched and bruised. On returning home she was asked if she cried when she fell. "Why, no," she replied, "what would have been the use ? There was nobody to hear me." JAS. P. IRWIN, At thb old Post-office Stand, Hear the Court Souse, Offers to the public, at lowest prices, a fine stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Including various grades of Flour, Sugar and Mo lasses, Corn Meal, Bacon and Hams. A fine selec tion of Teas, Coffees and Spices. Choice Soda Biscuits and if amily Crackers. Canned Goods, Jellies, Pickles, &c, &c. Chewing and Smoking Tobaccos and Cigars. Just received choice Buckwheat Flour. Just received, finest quality of Oatmeal. Also. 10 pound Kitts of best Mackerel. Also, Bran, Mill Feed, Corn and Peas always on hand. NOTICE. The Rudisill Gold Mine having been leased to Messrs. J. D. STEWART and EDWARD MC DOWELL, the undersigned deem it proper, as on the occasion of the former lease, to give notice to the public that no one is authorized to contract debts on account of the Rudisill Gold Mining Com pany, and that no debts contracted in the name or on account of that Company will be valid unless specially authorized by the undersigned. R. M. MILLER, President, JAMES H. CARSON, Tfli&surer. J. W. WADSWQRTH, Share Holder. Charlotte, N. C, June 3, 1881. tf Attention Farmers! Call at Kyle & Hammond's Hardware House and examine their "Dexter Corn Bhellers" and "Feed Cutters" the latest and .best out. Also, new stvle adjustable Iron Foot Plow Stocks, a great improve ment on those sold in this market last season. We have a heavy Stock of Steel Plows. Clevises Single Trees, Steel and Iron Harrow Teeth, Heel Screws, Grass Kods, c, which we can and will sell to the Farmers at prices lower th.a,n, th.ey CftP possibly afford to make tem,. ' ' J,an. 1, 188V KTjjl $ HAMMOND. TRY FERRY'S Crystal Ioe Cream, The finest ever introduced in thi3 section. Sup plied to families at the rate of TWO DOLLARS PER GALLON. Together with Strawberries and Cream. Special orders must be handed in the day before the Cream is wanted. May gO. 181. Oats! Oats!! Q00 BUSHELS OF OATS at May 13, '81. SPRINGS & BUR WELL'S. A Volcano in Western North t Carolina in 1812. From an old file of the Raleigh Register of 1812, the following letter is found ad' dressed to the Editor, Joseph Gales, giving an account of a Volcano that bunted " out of one of the Mountains in Western North Carolina: ; BuBKE County, N.C., Jan. 10,1812, ., I herewith communicate to you a brief account ot the cause of those dreadful shocks which have lately shaken ' these mountains to their base, whose foundations were laid when the : Almighty Architect first reduced chaos to-order. - On the morning-of he 16th nhimo, a great smoke was seen to issue from tBtf top of "Spear's Mountain," which is detached from that range that extends from , the Blue Ridge to Swannanoa River, and ends some miles below its junction with the French Broad. The great noise that was heard through the day and continued smoke left no doubt but it was a volcano that had burst forth during the earthquake. The mountain is conical and insulated ; its base is washed on . the west side . by . French Broad River, on the east side it is separated by a narrow valley, overhung in some places by large rocks, from that ridge called French Broad Mountains ; their bare rocks, stunted vegetation and arid surface show that they long have felt that subter ranean fire which probably gave heat to the Warm Springs, and has at last burst out with such dreadful fury. It still con tinues to burn with great violence, and throws off lava, scoriae, ashes, calcined stones and vitrified matter, in great quanti ties and with the most tremendous noise. The quantity of lava discharged at the beginning of the eruption was immense; it ran down the mountain in a stream of liquid fire for more than three-quarters of a mile, and has formed a dam across French Broad River so high as to overflow about two hundred acres of prime bottom land, to the great injury of the owners. In the night time the ignited . stones, cin ders, i&c, which are thrown two or. three hundred feet in the air, present a grand ap pearance, and have a great resemblance to artificial fire works, such as rockets, &c. During the day a column of whitish smoke issues from the crater; at night it has a flame-like appearance, and where it has been driven with the wind has whitened the small dwarf pines which had taken root in the barren soil of this and the neighbor ing mountains ; their bark and leaves are incrusted with a yellowish powder, which has an acrid taste and a strong sulphuric smell. No person has had courage suffi cient to approach the crater, but those who were acquainted with the top of the moun tain before the eruption say that it was un even and very rocky. The crater appears (judging by the smoke) to be twenty yards in diameter, and is growing larger. Yes terday a large mass fell in, with a greater noise than the loudest artillery ; it shook the country round, and was echoed from the mountains and Tallies. The lava, when cold, has the appearance of vitrified basalt. The stone on the mountain is hard and coarse-grained, with an uneven couchoidal fracture, but no appearance of basalt. " The scoria? are sonorous, have a ferruginous ap pearance and show strong magnetic attrac tion. Notwithstanding the terror which seized me on viewing this awful sight, I could not help smiling at the credulous simplicity of the people who inhabit the mountains. They view it with as much awe and terror as the children of Israel did Mount Stnai. Some say the end of time is arrived, and think the crater is the mouth of the "bot tomless pit." The fantastic appearance of the electric fluid, which is seen darting in various shapes through the smoke after night, by the help of fancy they transform into spirits, devils, &c. These wild ideas have been increased by the declarations of a preacher, who calls upon them to repent, not in the language of Jonah, "yet forty days," &c, but saying : "Behold the place of punishment for the wicked 1" In a few days I shall go and take another view of this Western JEtna. ..It is hoped that it will draw the attention of some geologist or man of science, who . '. will - be able to give a correct description of it. . I have seen but two pieces of pumice stone. Yours, i&c John Ck Edwards. A Mother's Love. There is no love on earth that so partakes of the unselfishness, the unfailingness and devotedness of the divine lore as a true mother's love for her children. Treasure it while she is with you as your great earthly blessing, and it will indeed prove to be your comforter now and your strengthener here after. Do not let her hands fall to her aide in utter weariness while you are idle; do not let her eyes grow heavy and dim with over exertion, or from the unshared sadness or weight of life's cares and trials; do . not let her bands grow hard and worn while yours are soft and white, but incapable; do . not be ashamed to help her; be ashamed,' rather, nftt to help her. T She, doubtless,;, will be willing to spare you, but do not be- willing to be spared; do not allow her strength and life to be as consumed that vou may live in eae, in pleasure, and fruitlessly. Quinine fbom Coil. Tar. The New York Commercial Bulletin, says: "There is considerable interest taken in- trade cir cles, over the report that Messrs. William Pickardt & Kuttroff, of 98 liberty street, have applied for a patent for a process to manufacture sulphate of quinine from coal tar. It is stated that the firm have been interested with a chemist to accomplish this for. several r years L with, favorable results. Of course, if quinine :. can be manufactured from coal tar, the factwill revolutionize a very large and prosperous trade." Th9 CUiretto -Vice. ' i From the Phfladelphla Times. ' No one who has a nose needs to be told that cigarette smoking is the most offensive form yet Invented for the consumption of tobacco. ' . There ia ' something sot alto gether unpleasant, even to delicate olfac tories about the fragrance of a choice Ha vana cigar. :'.,'"', The cigarette smoker, and he is generally a 'J0! pollutes the air wherever e moves with acquintessenoe of all nastiness and smells.1 'He is a public nuisance. Whether he is smoking or not you can smell him.' abb Bic-ening oaor seems to ana in many cases actually does exude from1 every pore' in his enervated and listless body. In the opera, the theatre 'the ; church and! la the' street his baleful presence" makes - itself known often before he is seen. The vice is Of very rapid growth. The, habit is con fined almost exclusively to boys and. young men, and the victim can be readily detected not only by the nauseating . odor, which hangs about him like a deadly miasma, but by his sunken eyes,; hollow cheeks, every! shade of color, except a sickly yellow, has departed ; by his puny limbs, flat chest, stooping shoulders and languid gait. The efforts of the confirmed cigarette-smoker is generally confined to lounging around the streets, "where he can be seen by the dozen at any hour of the day on any corner1 suck ing away at the nasty little rolls, drawing the smoke with a sort of gasp down ithe air passages of the lungs and forcing it out through the nose, and so absorbing nico tine and emphyreumatic oil of paper . and transforming himself into a walking ac cumulation of filthy smells. - There is a possibility that if a young man or boy ad dicted to this habit knew how: he ; was blighting his future life he would: stop it. Oi the effects of the 'habit upon . the eye, Dr. Samuel D. Risley, who is noted as a specialist in eye affections Baid: - '- have had two patients within a week who have been made blind by smoking. The 'eyes generally suffer the most,' but not the eyes only. I consider cigarette smoking a very great evil and have to stop boys constantly from doing it. 1 can smoke a cigar ; occa-t sionally, but a cigarette gives me a pain across the temples. I : have heard others complain of the same symptom.'" The Gates of Jerusalem. Speaking of the gates of Jerusalem, a correspondent of the Baltimore American says: Tradition mentions several that are not now to be found, such as the Old Gate! Ephraim's Gate, the Valley Gate, the Prison Gate, the Fish Gate and others. At pre sent there are but four that can be opened, although four others are distinctly ! seen walled up. The gates now open are those of Jaffa, of Damascus, of St. Stephen and of David one in each of the four walls. The Jaffa gate is northwest of Mount Zion, and is the usual entrance for pilgrims - from Christian, lands. It is composed oi tall towers -or buttresses, evidently of great strength, and easily defended against an cient modes of warfare. The gates proper Consist of two large folding-doors, in one of which is a wicket called "The Needle's Eye," which is just large enough to admit a camel without any load on its back, whence came, I suppose, the scriptural adage about the difficulty of a camel going through the eye of a needle. I asked what significance the natives attached to this, and was gravely j told . that, inasmuch as a camel cannot possibly pass through it while carrying any portion of a load, similarly a rich man cannot pass tnrqugn me wiCKei of the heavenly Jerusalem until he has en tirely unloaded himself of his riches and his other earthly burdens. . I The three other gates are of similar con struction, with turrets. But they are all wonderfully striking to the eye, in their quaint and now useless ponderousnest, al beit conveying a profound impression of the ancient strength of the city, and of the dif ficulty of its capture by Moslem or Crusa der. Nowadays one or two of our big guns would very easily effect a breach in a few minutes. i j i . . i Gf A remarkable case of voluntary, atonement is reported from Hanover. About five, years ago Mrs. Thormsehlen, the wife of a Hamburg merchant, was, on her confession, tried before a jury for hav ing poisoned her husband. Although firmly adhering to her confession during the trial, the jury acquitted her on account of certain signs of mental excitement plain ly manifest in her behavior, as well as for lack of positive evidence. She was released after a preliminary imprisonment of eight months, and left Hamburg to live with some of her relatives residing at Hanover.' At this latter city she died recently, after having made a circumstantial declaration to the clergyman who visited her during her illness, that she had not poisoned her husband, but had voluntarily taken .the onus of the crime upon herself in order to screen her husband from the odium of .his having committed suicide, thereby making atonement for what she had considered her guilt in not having been a faithful help mate to him in his business and family troubles. . An old lawyer was giving his ad vice to his son. who was just entering upon the practice of his father's profession.' fMy; son " said the counsellor: "if vou have1 a case where the law is clearly on your side,' but mstice seems acramst vou, urge pon the Court and iury the vast importance of sustaining the law. If on the other hand, you are in doubt about the law, but if rour client's case is foundedm justice, insist on the necessity of doing justice .though the Heayens falL" ; "Uut," asked the; son, "how shall! manae a case where both law and justice are dead against me !" "o to at ease, my son, iai rouna w. tais .... rouna it ' HnkXiynf fiwowrra xr-?-Qaite a largs.'Dumber pf . f orth. Carolina young men graduated thisrjear at 'our.se veral .obliges and thei Uiuyersity.,; ey termed A.ipgUegiate j education, and" the question arises what will they do "fwItH it ? Collegiate; graduates, for the r w?st-lpart, appear to think .that because ! they har e re ceived a diploma; -or, a degree, they,' are thereby separated Jrom the - grea, tj jxtass of mankind whose start in'Jifefhas'npbeenso fortunate. . They, .regard ' themselves in some measure, as set 'artfortpirltntel lectnal labor:- It is said that alafger majori ty study law: somefflUoir themiBistry, others try. medicine," some1 become ; journal ists, while butf very few! knuckle ' down to me ordinary Business pursuits ! me. -Yve lately said that the study of the" law weald prove '.no detriment;,' butf' uf service to a young man, no. matter; what occupation he might afterwards ,followj but beyond that we do not recommend it. . Success at the; bar brings only evanescect; fame-arid but. lit tle profit. Among" the, changes .wrought by the war at the South, is the potent fact that life to the ' college graduate1 is a much more serious business than it formerly was. In other days there, was but little hardship in life,' but little difficulty , in 'procuring, an easy, if not handsome living-for one's fami ly. Now the reverse is true.1 Work, hard work,: is essential,' and if one1 proposes to gain a competence and make a name for himself, he must have for his motto, action, action, action. We r are no .worshipper of money. ; We believe that unusual wealth entails cares and burdens hardly less oner ous than extreme poverty. J Not only is the middle way safest, but it is the happiest. But apprehensions of inordinate -gains are remote, and Ve may safely ' urge our ! new graduates to so use their ' education as to make money. : Turn it to practical account. If they possess advantages over those citi zens who have entered the great. world not so Well equipped,: let theniose .those ad vantages to achieve greater success in busi ness. A collegiate n education J is r. a tine thing, but, like many other: good things, it amounts to but little u not' properly used. In itself it is only preparation for higher literary pursuits, and. unless studies are kept up after graduation, only . half : of its real worth will be enjoyed. iNor will con tinued study interfere with: any vocation in life, no matter what it may be. f Many of the busiest of men. would be famous for their literary work were they not more cel ebrated for. their achievements in I business affairs. This is so at the South, still v more so at the North, and ' yet more observable in England and on the continent. So we recommend that our new graduates ; will not in any contingency divest themselves of their literary preparation as a useless en cumbrance. Let them rather seek .to per fect themselves by: self-culture, no . matter what occupation they may choose. And as to that, while the field is 'large, we shall hope that not a few will determine' to de vote themselves to industrial and -manufacturing enterprises. The : SouthNorth Carolina particularly is now on the verge of a new era. r This ; section is to become within the present generation the seat of targe manufacturing interests..: That j busi ness is very inviting. It is common ex perience that - one makes money gains wealth only i by having something to sell. If he manufactures the.: article he offers, so much the better,-but there is no: surer road to competency and fortune than by selling commodities which - other j .people need. Nor should any one be deterred from such a pursuit because it. is not. so highly es teemed as a professional career. . SVhat it lacks in glamour and splendor, it snakes up in substantial excellence on -reputation. We can call over a hundred' men of busi ness who stand as high,' not only: in their f particular communities, but in the State at arge, as any of the other sons of Carolina whose names are more frequently. trpon the public lips. Recently a gentleman, of dis cernment prepared for our columns a brief sketch of the life of Edwin M. Holt of Ala mance, and - we commend it to the careful perusal of our graduates and would make his career their pattern:. and example. . In other walks, of life ; they .may-1 make . more fame,' but wilt hardly .Teach, .superior excel lence; they may obtain still greater wealth, but will hardly retain a conscience i so. void of offense before man and the '. Creator ; they may pursue a more splendid . career, but when in the sere, and yellow leaf .will hardly.be, able to contemplate 'with 'such serenity, and satisfaction .the i; v Jciesitudes of a long and "eventful life,. ' exerting, s salu tary an influence upon the' action of fellow- mzy.RaUtih Observer, v, V, " The, men '.who ' leave .their native State and go West because their, level and once-productive lands are ' growbZop rwitb briers . and brooni-sedge because of. their laziness,' would-going, on. in, the 'same way, turn any garden into a desert' in two gen erations. ". They "will learn 'a lesson ' or two when they strike' the wave of, untamed en ergy rolling" n. upon "the mighty West Let them go. . . They, are .pipo nse where tney are now. ,. i . itSomVbf the seaeade hotels, "not satis fied mlib prohibiting Hebrew, 1 propose to banish the children Ss. well. ' At ; the; Cliff nouse,"at .Tarrytown, N. Y., the' sign fcon spTcously; deelarei.rAautts 0.nlj?f will ' be entertained. 7 geYeraliber;6t.elf V the vicinity' have Made similar ann'pniicements, arid "a generaV ' warfare, gainst children seems to have begun by ile'hotl' men. ' Aunt EmUymft1 Nellie, don't you know it it unkind to catch hold of your sister'nd ;pull j her hair V Nellie (who doesn't see it) Well, auntie,- I saw you holding couiin Frank round the neck' quite tightly yesterday, when ' mamma was out, and pulling his batr, and he didn't tay any thing," : "'' ' - H 1 !l
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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June 24, 1881, edition 1
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