CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
VOL. I. NO. 6.
Ballade of a Coquette.
She wears a most bewitching bang—
Gold curls made captive in a net; •
Her dresses with precision hang,
Her hat observes the stylish sot;
She has a poodle for a pet,
And drives a dashing drag and pony:
I know it, though we’ve never met—
I’ve soon her picture by. Sarony.
Her phrases all are fraught with slang;
The very latest she can get;
She sings the songs that patience sang,
Can whistle airs from “Olivette,”
And, in the waltz, perhaps, might let
You squeeze her hand, with gems all stony:
I know it, though we’ve never met—
I’ve seen her picture by Sarony.
Her heart has never felt love’s pang,
Nor known a momentary fret,
Want never wounds her with his fang;
She likes to run papa in debt;
She’ll smoke a slender cigarette
Sub rosa with a favored crony:
I know it, though we’ve never met—
I’ve seen her picture by Sarony.
ENVOY.
Trinces, beware this gay coquette !
She has no thoughts of matrimony:
I know it, though we’ve never met—
I’ve seen her picture by Sareny.
CHARLIE’S FATHER.
"Cock-a-doodle-doo!” called ont
chanticleer at earl; dawn, and Hattie
Hairis awoke with a start, remembering
that this fair Jnne morning nsheted in
their bridal da;.
"Jessie t Jessie I” she oalled, turning
her bright, bine e;es npotf the calm
face of her sleeping sister. "Awake,
;on slnggard ! Think of the oceans of
things we have to do." .
Jessie’s black e;es opened slowl; and
smiled fondl; npon her little sister’s
excited face.
"Your bridal morn ! so it is. Ah me,
how strange it seems that ‘onr baby’ is
going to be married.”
"I’m the happiest girl in all the
world—or I wonld be if papa Singleton
wonld onl; be sensible and kind.”
"What a cross old curmudgeon he
must be,” snapped Jessie, "jnst because
;on are not wealbv, and all that, to be
so severe npon Charlie. I'm afraid ;ou
will bate him cordial!; all ;our life ; I
know I shall.”
“But Charlio save he has been the
kindest, most indnlgent father, alwa;s
consenting to all his wishes nntil this
most important one in all his life, and
he calls it a ‘bo; freak’ and ‘a piece of
foil;', and nrges that we wait five vears
—the old bear 1”
"I can not forgive his refusing to be
present at the wedding. Bnt tr; to not
mind it, dear, even onr brightest da;s
are clouded sometimes.”
Such a pretty wedding as it was, the
little village chnrch had never
known anything half so imposing.
Flowers in magnificent profnsion, sun
shine and sweet music and the prettiest
little bine-eyed bride and handsome
;oung bridegroom, whose boyish lace
was full of grave ;et happ; earnestness.
The elegant Singleton carriage, with
its liveried footmen, awaited outside to
bear them away to the distant city.
When all was over and Jessie wan at
home once more, with a dreary little
sigh for her lost sister, was about to
close the door, she perceived a shawled
figure hastening toward her.
“What is it, Mary?” she inquired,
seeing the agitation in the woman’s
face.
"It’s an accident, Miss Jessie, that
happened this afternoon. A gentleman
was driving by when his horse became
dreadfnliy frightened from some cause
or other, and ran away, turning over
the buggy and flinging the gentleman
out upon,a heap of stones. We carried
him in, and James went for the doctor;
his arm was dislocated, and I fear he is
hurt otherwise, bn'the doctor is gone
now, and James and me’s alone and I’m
that nervous, if you would only walk
down with me and stay a bit, I should
be monstrous glad.”
"Did he tell his name?”
“No, Miss Jennie, and we do not
like to ask him, he seems to desire not
to tell any thing about himself. But
he's a gentleman, you can tell that
quick enough.”
"Wait nntil I get my hat and I will
return with you, I trust he is not hurt
as badly as you think.”
He was a gentleman and ne mistake,
Jessie saw that at a glance, and noted
how calmly courteous he was to Mtxy
and her husband, albeit he seemed suf
fering severely.
"Miss Hams, sir, who visits siok
folks a good deal, and I fancied might
cheer you up a trifle and send word to
your friends if you wish.”
Jessie fanoied he was smiling a little
behind his moustache at Mary's, quaint
introduction, as he bowed and answered:
"Good evening, Mias Harris, this un
fortunate accident is nothing danger
ous, thanks fcr your kind intentions,
bnt I think I shall be able to return to
CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG CO., N. C., JULY 29, 1882.
my friends in a day or two, therefore
will not needlessly alarm them.”
Thns be turned aside the evident
wish to know who he was, and, al
though he talked but little, Jessie' no
ticed that he seldom removed his gaze
from her, and his handsome gray eyes
told a story of admiration and interest.
He was a man of probably forty years,
large, fine looking and possessed of ex
ceeding grace of manner.
The day or two’s illness lasted over a
week. Jessie called a few times, bnt
noting iris increasing admiration, pru
dently forebore to go longer, and he
went away one day without more ado
than a good-by and good wishes left
with Mary for her.
Jessie wondered why she felt so lone
ly, and tried to believe it was all owing
to Hattie’s absence. Long, bright let
ters came from Hattie, full of love and
admir.tion for her husband and her
beautiful home.
"Paf>a Singleton is jnst splendid, he
kissed me tenderly when we came home
from the lakes, and called me little
daughter, and bade me a glad welcome
home. I cannot tell you how happy I
am, dear Jessie. Bnt papa Singleton
said something so queer this morning,
he asked Charlie if he would not prefer
a handsome new house all to himself.
Charlie told him this was q -ite good
enough for him, and the old gentleman
only smiled and said no more. I hope
he isn’t tired of ns so soon ; he is very
kiud and I can not believe it. We are
coming down soon, and the old gentle
man is coming with ns ; you need not
feel bitter against him now, and I know
father will enjoy his wise, pleasant
talk.”
"So we are to have a visit from ths
old bear himself, are we?” laughed
Jessie. "Well, mamma, we will enter
tain him the best we know how for
Hattie’s sake, and try and forget how he
clonded onr wedding day.”
With a little cry of raptnre, Hattie
flnng herself from the carriage and
rushed to Jessie at the gate, and thence
to her mother in the doorway.
With a warm clasp Charlie took Jes
sie's hand, and in his boyish, friendly
voice exclaimed:
“Delighted to meet yon, sister Jessie.
This is father I ” and he too passed on
to her mother.
Jessie started back with a little cry of
surprise, for the tall, handsome gentle
man who was regarding her with such
merry, admiring eyes, she recognized
instantly as the sick gentleman whom
Mary had cared for.
“ Will it make my welcome any the
less kind becanse 1 am Charlie’s father V
I wonld have acknowledged at once who
I was, only I knew you were prejudiced,
I had behaved so badly toward Charlie
and his bride—but I could not bear the
thought of my idolized child drifting
away from me. Bemorse overtook me,
and I was just going to the wedding
when the accident occnrred. That is
ill.”
But Jessie knew that was not all, and
blnshed furiously when, before they
parted for the night, Charlie’s father
found her alone a moment and asked :
" Won’t yon like me a little for Char
lie’s sake ? ”
Certainly,” she replied, trying to ap
pear nonchalant.
" And a good deal more for my
own ? ”
And somehow, before she knew it,
almost, he had drawn her into his arms
and kissed her with exasperating assu
rance.
With hot oheeks she fled up stairs’
but with a happy, beating heart.
" Going to get married I and to our
Jessie. Hurrah for the governor I ” and,
Charlie tossed his cap to the ceiling,
and gave Jessi? a rough embraoe as he
kisspd her and called her "little
mother.” “ You oan build the new
bouse now, father, I object no longer.”
" And you’re to marry the ‘old cur
mudgeon ’ after all," langed Hattie,
"and you don't hate him a mite, either.’
Anti-Malarial Plants.
Another plant possessing anti-malarial
properties, as alleged, is receiving pnblic
attention. This is the jussiena grandi
flora, or floating plant of the bavons
and lower lakes of Louisiana, which has
been long observed to prevent the de
velopment of malaria in regions peculi
arly adapted to ite generation. The
olalm is put forth for it that it purifies
all stagnant water in which it grows;
that the lakes and bayous inhabited by
it are singularly pure to the sight, taste
and smell, and that to its presence and
ita undoubted hygienic or health-pre
serving qualities is to be attributed the
remarkable exemption of the people of
lower Louisiana from malarious or mias
matic diseases. It is also stated that
in the region thus reputedly preserved
from such diseases there are more stag
nant waters and swamps than in any
part of the oonntry.
We judge onrselves by what we feel
capable of doing, while others judge na
by what we have already done.
RELIGIOUS READING.
Religious New* and Notes*
Joseph Cook goes from China to Aus
tralia, and thence home.
The Congregational General Associa
tion of Connecticut is 173 years old*
The London Missionary society
reoently sent twenty missionaries to
Central Africa and Madagascar.
The Chinese Sunday-school < f . the
Mount Vernon church, Boston, numbers
110, and is increasing so rapidly that it
is difficult to find teachers.
At the end of the first year Dr.
Sozinsky says that on an average a m ale
child should be thirty inches high and
should weigh twenty-five pounds.
Dr. Chalmers astonished Scotchmen
by declaring that the Free Chnrch of
Scotland must have an income of sl,-
500,000 a year. Its inoome -has since
then been as high as $3,500,000 annu
ally.
Rev. Dr. Hall’s church, New York,
(Presbyterian) gave last year $30,000
for mission purposes, 870,000 to the
ohnrch Board of Home Missions, $50,-
000 for foreign missions, $328,597 for
congregational work, and to the Bible,
tract and city mission causes, $227,984.
The Catholic Union having a few
weeks Binoe referred to their eighteen
institutions of learning in the state,
four being colleges, the Baltimore
Methodist calls attention to the work of
a Methodist college in that state, and
notes that the Protestants in the state
maintain but two colleges.
Cleraymen or Fhy>lclami.
The following extract is from an ad
dress of Rev., Dr. Biohard L. Storrs,
before the graduating class of the
medical department of the University
ofjtheCity of New York, at the Academy
of Musio. I wish that I might impress
upon yon the great trnth that every man
is a debtor to his profession. It lies
with him to enlarge its resources, to in
crease its usefulness, to multiply its
capacities for making the world better.
The man who places snch an ideal as
this before him can alone hope tor a
true and grand success. It does not
shut ou; a due and proper respect for
the past and its truths; bnt along with
that it is ever welcoming the spirit of
the new light. I know there are some
times men, in the medical as in the
olerical profession, who Bail away from
the practical world as in a ballon. In
their own estimation at least thiu bal
loon of theirs swings level and tranquil
in the air; and to their eye it is the
earth that seems to sink far down
below them. Now, there is often a
wonderful fascination in such theories;
but we must remember that their chief
and only constituent is gas. Not only
that, but they are environed with peril,
and they freqnently end in death. It
is in accordance with the highest laws
for progress to keep what is true, and
to advance from that to other truths.
We are impelled to recognize this in onr
lives. Gentlemen, remember, that
whatever may be your skill or your
learning or yonr reputation, you need a
firm, sweet, strong, moral spirit, by
means of which you will be abie to
bless your patients more than by all the
drugs in the pharmacopoeia. I have
known physieians—and justice requires
me to add, I have known clergymen
also—who answered a description which
Bufns Choate gave of one. "Stiff as
a poker did you say ? Why, he is a
terrible example to all possible pokers.”
Every such man, be he olergyman or
physician, is a depressing influence
wherever he goes. Let the physician
come to the siok room in a spirit of
sympathy, and an influence for good
will pass from him as real, tnough as
imponderable and impalpable as the
perfume that fills the air with its fra
grance. I once knew a physician of
Boston, who lived to be almost ninety,
snnny to the last. He never entered a
siok ohamber without giving a leap to
the pnlse—a man whoae smile was a
benediction, whose whole life was cast
in the highest and noblest mold.
Wheresoever he went it was at once his
duty and his priviledge to minister to
the body and spirit of man. The power
of suoh men as these reoohes to the very
roots of life. I count it a privilege of
your profession and of my own that we
have to be genial men ; the full chalices
of our own souls run over and bless
those around us. This sympathy and
this geniality most be realities in your
nature; they will not come by being
extemporized. The golden aureole ol
the saint is produced by a sway of the
brush; but it is only by patient eiffln
rance and toil that the highest charac
ter becomes ours. No physician or
olergyman will ever reaoh the head of
bis profession unless that spirit, ani
mates him. •
Small boys wesr scarlet costs of
hussar cloth over their white kilt suits
at the watering-places. There arefiogs
of bleok cord up the front of the jacket.
A red Turkish fez completes the
ooatume.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fanhlon No ten,
Vandyke red is in high fashion this
summer.
Chine snrahs arc counted with the
newest fibrics.
Colored veils are worn, but they are
unbecoming to most faces.
Dressing uniformly with bridesmaids
is getting to be out of fashion.
Lace mitts are in order; black mitts
for grown people and colored ones for
children.
A fancy of the moment is to have the
parasol, fan, gloves and hose to match
in color and decoration.
A bunch of artificial radishes appears
npon a new French bonnet of dark
green straw, faced with rose pink.
A new and pretty material for sum
mer dresses is a crinkly, silky crape,
called diamontine, which for evening
wear is made up over snrah and trim
med with Spanish lace.
Large white mull shawls with em
broidery in each coiner and some block
fignres of drawn work are worn by ladies
in the conntry at chnrch, on the piazza
and in open carriages.
Tinted satin skirts, with pointed front
breadths and lace tunics, drawn open to
show the tablier and held back by
sprays of French flowers, are very ele
gantly worn for balls and dinners.
Among other fancies is that of fasten
ing the corsage with tiny, bullet-shaped
buttons, set on less than an inch apart.
The buttonholes are madeby machinery.
Sometimes there is a doable row of
buttons.
A Cherokee ifelle*
There are some remarkable types of
beant; among the native Cherokee
women, says a correspondent, which will
account for the fascination which they
have exercised over white adventurers
from the earliest contact of the two
races, and whioh has caused the large
intermixture of white blood so notice
uble In the present condition of the
nation. One of these was conspicuous
among those in attendance upon a recent
gathering. When I saw her Bhe sat
with a companion upon the trunk of a
fallen tree engaged in the familiar oc
cupation of Pleasant Riderhood in
twisting her shining black hair, whioh
had fallen down. Mile was dressed with
great neatness in a white jacket and a
clean print gown, with a chip hat and a
red ribbon around her throat. When her
black looks were arranged they lay
Crisped like a war eteed’B inclosure
over a low brow, which they swept with
a natural wave. Tue features were of
barbaric beauty, and of a tropic mold of
contour, whioh tbe full lips and high
cheek bones emphasized, bnt did not
disfigure. The small, rather black eye
glowed with a steady fire, and the whole
aspect of the face might be described as
radiant and grave, yet fnll of animal life
and power of passion. Her complexion
was of a rich walnut color, with the
blood giving a red stain to the cheeks,
and showing so clearly as to suggest a
realization of the graphic Irish (expres
sion that "the point of a rush would
bring blood .to her cheeks." This was
Miss Eagle Brown, the daughter of
Hnnter Brown, Ihefull-blood Cherokee,
and one of the finest and most charac
teristic types of her race.
The I.ovrr»’ Teeth.
I performed an operation of trans
planting nnder romantic circumstances
on a certain occasion, says a Philadel
phia dentist. A yonng lady, as pretty
as a peach, and a fine-looking yonng
fellow came to see me one morning.
After no little hesitation they told me
they were betrothed and that he was in
the army and was geing away to the
plains for at least a year, hunting
Indians. "And we are very unhappy at
parting,” whimpered she. "Yes, we
are,” almost blubbered he. “We heard
of transplanting teeth, and want you to
take one ont of eaeh of onr mouths and
transfer them.’’ For a moment I was
transfixed with laughter and astonish
ment, and I attempted to reason them
ont of their foolish proposition—both
had excellent teeth, by the way—but
they insisted, so I extracted one of her
largest back teeth and one of his smallest,
and obanged them abont Hera fitted
in his jaw all right, and he went off a
few days afterward to his post with his
lady love’s molar. His tooth, however,
would not stick in, for within a week
the young lady came book with her face
dreadfnliy swollen. I reduced the in
flammation sad eased tne pain, but
oould not replant her lover’s fang, and
the went away with it wrapped up in
paper. Oh I the inconstancy of women.
Six months after she married a mau old
enough to be her father. Whej the
Young lieutenant subsequently returned
he indignantly told me of the manner
be had been jilted, and requested me to
immediately extract his false love’s
tooth, which I did, and he threw it in
the enspadore.
W. C. SMITH, PiMiiier.
Be Careful of Your Words.
Keep a watch on yonr word*, my darling*,
For words are wonderful thing*;
They aro aweet like the bees’ fresh honey—
Like the bees, they have terrible stings;
They esn blese, like the warm, glad sunshine,
And brighten a lonely life;
They can ent in the strife of anger
Like an open two-edged knife.
Let them pass through yonr lipe unchallenged,
If their errand is true and kind—
If they come to support the wesrv.
To comfort and help the blind;
If s hitter, revengeful spirit
Prompt the words, let them be unsaid ;
They may flash through a brain likelighthing,
Or faU on sheart like lead.
Keep them back if they are cold and crnel,
Under bar and lock and esl—
The wonnds they make, my darlings,
Are always slow to heal.
May peace guard yonr lives, and ever,
From the time of yonr early youth.
May the words that yon daily utter
Be the words of beautiful truth.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Spain, with a school population of
2,600.265,has 28,117 elementary schools,
instructing 1,410,476 pnpils.
The practioe of going to Europe to
travel and rest costs the United States
abont $125,000,000 annually.
The actual amount paid for pensions,
by the United States, on account of the
late war np to March 1, 1882, is $500,-
781,950. The present number of pen
sioners on this account is 250,000.
The Jspxneee government has one
hundred and sixty-four foreigners in its
employ, including seventy-three Eng
lishmen, thirty-two Germans, twenty
one Americans and sixteen Frenchmen.
The latest census gives the popula
tion cf Japan as 36,358,994 ; males, 18,-
423,274; females, 17,935,720, an in
crease of 3,000,000 since the last pre
vious census in 1873.
The census-takers appointed by the
board of education of the New York
city to ascertain the number of children
of legal school age, whioh is over five
years and under eighteen, return total
ol 47,552.
The Hon. W. O. DaPsuw, of New
Albany, Ind., proposes to give $1,000,-
000 to Asbnry University on condition
that the oitixens of Greencastle will
furnish one hundred acres of land
whereon to erect new bnildings.
Throw Up Your Hands.
"Gentlemen will please throw up
their hands.” Snch is the polite man
ner in whioh a Missouri train robber
usually addresses a car load of passen
gers as he appears at the door, playfully
covering them with a revolver extended
in each hand. Perhaps there is a party
engaged in a game of euchre or old
sledge: they promptly throw up their
hands without a murmur, no matter
how interesting a orisis there may be in
the game. Men partially paralized in
their arms have been known to throw np
their hands at this summons with an
alacrity surprising to themselves and
everybody else.
"Throw np my hands f” said a man
who was relating an experience with
train robbers that he had been through.
"I had SIO,OOO in a belt around my
body, all that I had made in six years
of mining life in California, and when
I. heard the command and realized how
useless resistance was, as the gang sur
rounding the car was armed to the
teeth, I not only threw np my hands,
but the thought of loosing my monsy
made me so sick, that I nearly threw up
my boots I”
The situation doea’t admit of a mo
ment’s hesitation, and every man knows
it A movement in the direction of a
weapon wonld not escape the alert eye
of the robber; and it wonld be the
immediate signal for a shot. Brave men
think and braggards boast of what they
wonld do nnder snch circumstances,
but when suddenly confronted by a
cocked revolver and the stem com
mand that signifies surrender, the hands
are very apt to go np, though the situ
ation be a humiliating one. Sseh at
tacks are generally made at night, while
most of the passengers are asleep and
off guard, and then there is the uncer
tainty as to the number of the gang.
Jesse James onoe said the bravest man
he ever knew he encountered in an si
te upt to rob a passenger train. Ths
fellow stood on tne platform of a car
and eooly exchanged six or eight shots
with the gang. Admiring his bravery,
Jesse shouted to him to cease firing and
tbdy wouldn't molest his ear. "I'll bet
von won't,” said he, “while I'm here.”
The robber captain said he would have
given $5,000 to have had that man be
come a member of his hand. But he
did not oonsider that a man. brave as a
lion on tßeside ol right, might prove
the veriest coward in advancing tbe
standard of violence and wrong.—(Cin
cinnati Saturday Night.