CHARLOTTE MESSENG
VOL. I. NO. 17.
What She Thinks of the Drummer*.
First in the crowded car is he to offer— .
This travelling man, nnhonored and unhung—
The seat he paid for, to some woman yonng,
Or old and wiinkled. He is first to proffer
Something, a trifle trom his samples maybe,
To please the fancy of the crying baby.
He lifts the window and he drops the curtain
For unaccustomed hands. He lends his case
To make a bolster for a child, not certain
But its mamma will frown him in the face.
8c anxiously some women seek for danger
In every courteous act of every stranger.
Well versed is he in all those ways conducive
To comfort where least comfort can be found.
His little deeds of thoughtfulness abound :
He turns tno seat nnasked, yet unobtrusive;
Is glad to please yon, or have you please him.
Yet takes it very calmly if you freeze him.
He smooths the Jove-like frown of the official
By paying the fare of one who cannot pay.
Tr;n in odestv he knows from artificial;
Will flirt, of coarse, if you’re inclined that way;
And, if you are, be sure that he detects yon;
And, if you’re not, be sure that he respects
you.
The sorrows of the moving world distress
him;
He never fails to lend what aid he can.
A thousand hearts to-day have cause to
bless him,
This much abused, misused commercial man.
1 do not strive to cast a halo round him,
But speak of him precisely ae I’ve fonnd him.
GOLDEN BROWN. ALL SHINING.
Perry Dayton eat in his stuffy little
office, bns'ly glancing over a heap of
letters which that morning’s mail had
brought for the large' dry goods estab
lishment of Park & Haily. He came to
cne addressed in a peculiarly dainty
feminine band, and opened it with a
little more cariosity than he had deign
ed to bestow upon the others.
“Inclosed please find invisible
hair net color of hair sent. Address
Miss Ella Terrell, Oak-haven," etc.
“Miss Ella Terrell has very lovely
hair,” thought the young man. examin
ing the long carl attentively. It was
golden brown, and ehone radiantl' in
the beams of snnlight which at that par
ticular moment came pouring in at the
little window. “Perhaps, though, it is
only a part of her switch."
However, he laid the letter and soft
coil aside, resolving to match that in
visible net himself.
It was very strange, bat a vision of a
young lady with golden brown hair
would keep intruding itself between his
eyes and the remaining letters. Some
times brown ever accompanied the hair,
sometimes bine. Now it was a petite
figure—again “Divinely tall and most
divinely fair.”
Having skimmed over them all he be
took himself to that compartment of the
establishment devoted to such articles
as the one required. Box after box he
examined, and turned away dissatisfied.
He began to despair. Here was the
identical one at last. He carried it in
triumph to the office and began to
write, —
“I have, my dear Mies Ella, at last
fonnd one to match your beautiful curl.
I hope—What bosh I am writingl Why,
Perry, old hoy, you’re cleat, gone!” he
exclaimed, tossing the offending missive
in the waste basket.
Enclosing the article in a wrapper, 1 e
addressed it, and laid it with similar
parce’s on a shelf, at the same time
consigning the cnrl to his vest pocket.
«*** **.« ...»
■'Of course you are aware, Mr. Day.
ton, that some one most go West shortly
to attend to that bn.-iness in Kemo; and
as we have found yon faithful in the
discharge of jonr duties, and place the
utmost confidence in yonr judgment,
Mr. Haily and myself have docided that
yon are the one to go."
Tbns spoke the senior partner, oom
ing into the office where Perry was sit
ting. This happened a few months later.
Perry’s beaming face fully expressed his
appreciation of this mark of esteem.
He was to start in two days. This
was Thursday. The next Wednesday
morning fonnd our friend taking break
fast at the Volcano House, Kemo. The
business would probably keep him there
a month or so. He had plenty of leisure
time, and devoted it to viewing the
sights of Kemo.
One evening he entered the chambers
of a yonng fellow connected with the
business bonse of Park A Haily. and
found him making an elaborate toilette.
“Why this nnnsnal and nnnatnral re
gard for thy appearance, O Trevelyn?”
he exclaimed, advancing into the room
where his friend stood.
“I am going to a party. Don’t yon
want to come?”
“Tea Where ia it?’
"At Oakhaven, seven miles away. We
will take a back at eight precisely."
The hop was to be given in the hotel.
Trevelyn was well known and liked at
Oakbaven. He had lived there several
CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG CO., N. C., OCTOBER 14, 1882.
years, and so it was that Perry was pre
sented to some of the nicest people in
the room.
Ho was talking with Mrs. Langdon
when he discovered that Trevelvn was
dancing with a very pretty yonng lady.
She had dark eyes, a small oval face,
and was dressed in some airy, floating
material. But her hair attracted his at
tention particn larly. It reminded him
of a onrly lock which he had carried
abont for several months. And then she
wore an invisible net. that waß proba
bly what cansedhim to remember that
other lock.
“Don’t yon agree with me, Mr.
Dayton?"
• Ob. yes, indeed!” he said, having
not the slightest idea of whut Mrs.
Langdon was talking abont.
The waltz came to an end at last, and
ihe two fonnd their way to where onr
friends were seated.
• Won't yon introdnoe me to the fair
dancer?’’ Dayton asked at the earliest
opportunity.
“Was Miss Terrell engaged for the
next dancer" A glance at a dainty pro
gramme proved the contrary. “Might
he Lave the pleasure ”
“Tea.”
What a delightful tnm that was!
Dayton bad never enjoyed anything so
mnch. He had some thought of telling
Miss Terrell that a lock of that mass of
wavy hair was at that moment lodged
in his pocket. A propitious fate per
mitted him to dance again with her
during the evening, and even to accom
pany their party to supper.
The next day Trevelyn and Dayton
called to pay their respects at the Ter
rell mansion. This was not the last
time. And then Perry fell into the
habit cf going without Trevelyn. The
weeks slipped away qnietly, and a:
length Perry discovered that he was
madly, wildly, hopelessly in love with
the fair owner of the fateful net.
One day there was to be a picnic.
They would go in wagonettes to the
thickly wooded hills lying to the north
of Oakhaven. Nature exerted herself
to the utmost on this particular occa
sion. No one had ever experienced a
more delightfully pure atmosphere.
How fresh everything looked! How
sweetly the birds sangl A winding road
throngh the trees led them at length to
a spring on the hillside. Here they
would camp. Then came the bnstle of
alighting and collecting the baskets,
and all sat down for a general chat be
fore going off in exploring parties.
The delights of picnics were being
warmly discussed, when a gray-clad
gentleman on horse back was seen ap
proaching throngh the trees at the side.
He seemed in no wise discomfited by
numerous pairs of eyes bent upon him.
“Why, Reggy, where did you come
from?” cried Miss Ella, prettily, while
the pater et mater shook him warmly
by the hand.
“I fonnd myself able to be with you
earlier than I expected. They told me
at the hotel that yon were all booked
for the day, so I determined to follow
suit"
“It is so nice that yon happened to
come on this partionlar day! We are
going to have snch a nich time,” said
Mrs. TerrelL
“I’m not sosnreof that,” soliloquized
Dayton, gloomily, remarking how
pleased Ella Boomed at the advent of
this stranger.
“Mr. Dayton, Mr. Greydon,” came at
last, and onr friend fonnd the keen gray
eyes giving him a searching look dur
ing the process of a graceful bow.
“I think Princess would thank me
for a drink of that water the heart;”
and Greydon proceeded to lead the
handsome animid to the spring a few
steps off.
Ella, excusing herself graoefnlly, ac
companied Mr. Greydon. Already dag
gers of jealousy seemed pieroing Day
ton's heart.
“When is the wedding to oom© off?'
he heard some one ask Mrs. Terrell.
“It is not quite decided yet; not be
fore August”
“Then they are engagedl Why didn’t
some one tell me before I made snch an
utter fool of mysell?” he groaned.
Everyone thonght this preoise mo
ment a suitable time for exploring tours,
and separated into groups. The poor
fellow wandered off by himself, he did
not care whither. His brain seemed on
fire. He was desperately in love. Why
had she always seemed so pleased to
see him? He bad thought so differently
of berl What an idiot he was to go on
loving the girl! One who ecu Id act ao
falsely was not worthy of hia affection.
These were some of his excited thoughts.
He would go book. He would show
her that this stranger's presence made
not the slightest difference to him. He
turned hastily, and discovered that he
had wandered some distance from oamp.
Arrived at the spring, he fonnd Misa
Elia, evidently mnch fatigued, alone.
He approached and made a remark
about the weather. O commouplaoe
young man)
“I was jut wishing for some one to
come, and had a vagne idea that a
nymph might venture to show herself
if no one else appeared,” she said, lan
guidly fanning her flaming cheeks.
“I will retire in favor of the nymph.”
“No, I would rather see you now,
having no energy left for the contemp
lation of naiads.”
Dayton's face lighted np for an instant
and then resumed its gloomy expression.
“Mr. Greydon has gone, and I sup
pose everyone else is off enjoying them
selves,’’ continued Ella.
"I thought Mr. Greydon was a fix
ture; had come on purpose to see you—
that is—”
“Dear me, nol” laughed Ella. “He
is on his way to my aunt Hattie's, who
lives at Kemo. He is to marry my
cousin in Angnst, and only stopped
hete to consnlt papa abont something.’’
“Miss Terrell—Ella—dear Ella—l
have been snch a fool!”
Os course no right-minded person
would like to intrude on the conversa
tion which followed; suffice it to say
that two weddings came off in Angnst
instead of one, and one happy pair con
sisted of Miss Ella Terrell and Mr.
Perry Davtou.—[ Waver]y Magazine.
A Day Ashore at Madeira.
’Twas the morning us the seventh of
July, 1878, that the “St. Mary’s” the
New Tork nantical sohoolship, while on
her annnal ernise, dropped her heavy
port anchor and swung lazily around
with her bows pointing directly toward
the little, nestling town of Funchal,
Madeira.
In explanation to those who have
never heard of the above vessel, it may
be stated that the “St. Marv’s” is the
training school for the yonth of New
York city, established by the Board of
Education of that metropolis for the
pnrposo of eDconraging the growth of
the mercantile-marine, by supplying to
it annually a large number of yonng
American seamen. These young men,
after a thorough course of instruction
on the ship, are graduated and granted
diplomm certifying to their proficiency
in the art of seamanship.
Daring the summer of each year a long
ernise is made, generally to the eonth of
Europe and the island of Madeira,
whioh affords the bovs much praotical
experience in their chosen profession.
It is of a visit to the above island, in
the year I had the pleaßnre of being
numbered among these embryo sailors,
that I am about to write.
The schoolship had made a most
pleasant and speedy run aorose the
Atlantic to Lisbon, and after a week or
ten days’ stay at that historic oity had
sailed for Madeira, the island that
Marryatt pronounces the prettiest on
the globe.
Bhe had been beating to and fro off
Fnnohal for nearly twenty-fonr hours,
on aocount of the light and variable
winds met with, and it was only by the
merest chance that she succeeded in
creeping in, jnet at daybreak that beanti
ful Sunday, to our anchorage within a
mile or eo of the town.
Scarcely had the thundering splash of
the anchor into the dark bine waters
died away, when the boatswain’s whistle
echoed shrilly through the ship, calling
all hands to furl sail, square yards, trice
np awnings, and in general to render
onreelves comfortable and show their
foreign community how really ship
shape and neat a New York naval ship
conld be.
By fonr bells (ten a. m.) the huge ship
was in perfeot order; every deck as
white as snow, the hrasswork gleaming
like gold nndsr the fervent sun, and
the ropes flemishing down in true
nantical style aad hang in graceful fes
toons everywhere.
After a thorough inspection of these
preparations by the officer of the day,
the word was passed:—
“All hands go below, shift and master
in bines;" which jargon, translated into
respectable English, was now intended
to express a desire on the part of onr
officers to behold ns in onr best ap
parel.
Instantly all was confusion. Grimy,
tarred habiliments were exchanged for
the shoddy although neat bine noiforms
passing as “fall dress” amongst us
bine hats with nice gold letters re; laced
the canvas abominations worn at sea,
and an unprecedented demand for soap
and black silk neck kerchiefs led to the
ransacking of inunmeiable “ditty boxes”
and elothes-bags, with most beneficial
and pleasing results. We were prepar
ing for the morrow.
The latent wrinkle in nautical dandy
ism was eagerly seized upon and im
proved to snit individual tastes; gaudily
colored handkerchiefs peeped furtively
ont of sundry shirt fronts, hats were set
with a more rakish air upon onrly beads,
and a general spirit of mutual regard
(for the benefit of the party regarded)
seized npoo this fraternal assemblage,
owing to the insufficiency of a fair hand
glasses,
Subjects for Thought.
Be silent and safe ; silence never be
trays yon.
Everyman desires to live long, but
no man would be old.
The man who never excites envy
never excites admiration.
Present evils always seem greater
than those that never come.
Some men cannot stand prosperity.
Other never get a ohance to try.
An evil-speaker differs from an evil
doer only in the want of opportunity.
Those days are lost in which we do
no good. Those worse than lost in
which we do evil.
Never let your zeal outrun your
charity; the former is but human, the
latter is divine.
Education is the only interest worthy
tbs deep, controlling authority of the
thonghtfnl man.
He who obeys with modesty appears
worthy of some day or other being al
lowed to command.
To the generons mind the heaviest
debt is that of gratitude, when it is not
in onr power to repay it.
The trouble and worry and wear and
tear that comes from hating people
makes hating unprofitable.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
capable of duing, while others jndge ns
by what we have already done.
As pare and fresh country air gives
vigor to the system, so do pure and
fresh thoughts tend to invigorate the
mind.
Many a small man is never done talk
ing abont the sacrifices he makes, bnt
be is a great man indeed who can sacri
fice everything and say nothing.
Good humor is the clear blue sky of
the soul, on which every star of talent
will shiue more clearly, and the snn oi
genius encounters no vapors in its pas
sage.
There is a secret pleasure in hearing
ourselves praised ; but, on snch occa
sions, a worthy mind will rather resolve
to merit the praise than be pnffed np
with it.
Tmth comes to ns from the past as
gold is washed down from the moun
tains of Sierra Nevada, in minute, bnt
precious particles, and intermixed with
infinite alloy, the debris of centuries.
As ships meet at sea a moment to -
gather, when words of greeting must be
spoken, and then away into the deep,
so men meet in this world ; and I think
we shonld cross no man’s path without
hailing him, and, if he needs, giving
him supplies.
There is bnt one thing whioh yon
have to fear in earth or heaven, being
nntrne to yonr better selves, and there
fore nntrne to God. If yon will not do
the thing whioh you know to be right,
and say the thing you know to be true,
then indeed yon are weak. Yon are a
eoward, and sin against God, and snffer
the penalty of your cowardioe.
Happiness or misery is in the mind.
It is the mind which lives, and the
length of life onght to be measured by
the number and importance of onr
ideas, and not by the number of onr
days. Respect goodness, find it where
yon may. Honor talent wherever yon
behold it nnassooiated with vice, bnt
honor it most when accompanied with
exertions, and especially when exerted
in the cause of truth and justice.
The Richest Man in Mexico.
The richest man in Mexico is proba
bly Patricio Milmo, whioh is the Mexican
for Paddy Miles. Ho owns an estate of
400,000 acres, and his plantation has a
reputation all over the country, A part
of it is cultivated for corn, sugar cane
and magney. Milmo’s residence is on
the summit—a handsome stone strno
ture, very large, and ornamented by
cornioes and pillars imported from
France and the United States. The
interior is like a palace, and so rich
with gold and silver and precions stones
thit the eye is dazzled with their splen
dor. Milmo is President of the Bank of
Mexico, an institution with powers and
privileges in the country as greet as
are the Bank of England’s in Britain.
His father-in-law, Santiago Vidarri,
was executed for supplying money to
revolutionists, and he himself narrowly
esoapsd a similar death, though be waa
connected in a monetary senee with the
opposing forces. Sinoe then brigands
bare oaptnred him several times, and
compelled him to pay from 810,000 to
825.000 ransom. These adventnres have
taught him preoantion, and he has
turned the mesa into a sort of citadel,
accessible by only a narrow path,
obstructed by an iron gate of enormous
proportions. He has distilleries and
several factories, in whioh goods are
manniaotnred for his own nse on the
mesa, and intends to retire to his man
sion whenever another insurrection is
imminent. It is said that when he
came to Mexioo he did not have a dollar,
and got hia start in bnsiness from his
father-in-law.—[St. Louis Bepnbliosn.
ER.
W. C. SMITH, Publisher.
Trusting Yel.
Heirt of mine, beat not eo wildly
O’er the hopee of fntnre years,
For the morrow’s sun may find me
Weeping disappointment's tears.
Have the lessons long and dreary
Has the earns delusive whisper
Won thy trust complete again ?
Thon hast known of woe and sorrow
All that human heart could know;
Yet thou wouldst throngh love, forgetting
Cling to those who struck each blow.
And thon still art bravely beating
Measured tunee of trust, and hope
For a happy, bright to-morrow—
That for thee may never ope.
But, oh heart, beat ever bravely
Bear me on throngh weal and woe.
Let no one but God—my maker—
,Of thy burthens ever know.
VARIETIES.
Farms of the United States are worth
over 810,000,000,000; fences over $78,-
000 000; live stock over $500,000,000;
farm implements and machinery, 8408,-
500,000.
Nearly all the creamery and other
first class bntter is shipped from lowa
eastward. Sionx Oity ships an average
of five carloads weekly daring the bnt
ter making season.
The president of the Booiety for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, id
Washington, caused the arrest of two
men for carding live chickens home
from market by the lege.
Cnioago complains of wife shooters
who are called insane. A man mast be
insane who will take the risks of shoot
ing his wife in Chicago, where divorce
is so easy.
The length of the submarine cables
in the whole world is estimated to be
64 000 miles and thtirValue to be $202,-
000,000. The length of all the wires in
the world would reach 48 times around
the earth.
The following conversation was .over
heard by a lady ou on one of the streets
of Lowell a few evenings ago. A col
ored man met an Irishman with three
children. “Am those your generation?”
asked the colored man. “ Yes,” re
sponded Pat; “thim’s my anoestors.”
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
hold that a ticket is not invalidated as
a title to a ride, by having been pur
chased from a person not an authorized
agent of the railroad; nor can a theatre
manager legally refuse admission on a
tioket because it has passed throngh the
hands ol a speculator. Stipulations to
the contrary, as printed on tiokets, are
of no account.
The Supreme Conrt of Jfew Hamp
shire has ruled that when a divorce has
been granted for a orime, the criminals
mast be prosecuted by the court officers.
This is calculated to stop the practice
of obtaining divorces by mutual agree
ment, a confession of guilt having here
tofore led to no serions results. A test
oase is being tried at Northwood.
Mr. Werdermann, whose electrical
discoveries have attracted much notioe,
has just patented a new incandescent
lamp. The peculiarity of this lamp
consists in the foot that the vacuum,
indispensable in all other such lamps, is
dispensed with. Mr. Werdermann em
ploys silicinm in place of carbon, and
he has sncceeded in procuring from it
better resalts than it carbqp were em
ployed.
Mrs. Stow, a Sin Francisco dress
reformer, haß informed the police that
on January 1, she will begin to wear
trousers in public, and she demands
protection in case street crowds insalt
her. Bnt the chief of police seems to
think that it will be his dnty to arrest
her, on the ground that her conduct
would be disorderly. As to the form
of the proposed garment, Mrs. Stow
says : “My trousers are made with a
plait, and descend jast to the line of
beauty in the calf oi the leg, jast where
the dresses of yonng girls oome; and if
yonng girls wear their dresses there,
why should not old girls adopt the
same fashion ?” She is advised by a
lawyer that Oalifornia has no law under
whioh she can be prevented from dress
ing in that fashion.
Shark Workshlp.
The inhabitants of many parts of the
African coasts worship the shark, and
consider its stomach the road to heaven.
Three or four times a year they row ont
and offer the shark ponltry and goats
to satisfy his appetite. This is not ail;
a Child ia once a year sacrificed to the
monster, whioh has been specially
fattened for this oocasion from its birth
to the age of ten. On the fete day,
the nnfortnnate little victim is bound
to a post on a sandy point at low water;
as the tide rises the sharks arrive. The
ohil i may shriek, and the mother may
weep, bnt it is of no avail; even its own
darent thinks that the horrible sacrifioe
will ensure her child's entry Into
h'-ivon.