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CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1881.
I TWENT-NINTH VOLUHE-MttBEBtMOT;
THE
Charlotte Democrat,
PUBLISHED BT
WILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor
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Terms TWO DOLLARS for one year, or
One Dollar for six months.
Subscriptions must be paid in advance.
" Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C,
as second class postal matter," according to the
Tules of the P. O. Department.
ROBERT GIBBON, M. D.,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
Office corner 5th and Try on Streets)
Tenders his rrofessional services to the public, as a
practical Surgton. Will advise, treat or operate in
all the ct'tterer-t departments of Surgery. '
March 5, 1881 ly
Dr. JOHN H. McADEN,
Wholesale and Retail Druggist,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
H as 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 determined
to 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.,
i Jffers 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, oppositethe
Charlotte Hotel.
Jan. 1, 1873.
DR. J. M. MILLER,
Charlotte, N. O.
All calls promptly answered day and night.
'Office 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
x- Hotel.
Gas used for the painless extraction of teeth.
Feb. 15, 1878.
R. GEO. W. GRAHAM,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Practice limited to the
EYE, EAR AND THROAT.
'March 18,1881 ly
- A. BUKWEIX. P. D. WALKER.
BURWELL & WALKER,
Attorneys at Law,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
"Will practice in the State and Federal Courts.
Office adjoining Court House.
T. M. PITTMAN,
Attorney at Law,
(Opposite the 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, Chablottb, 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 & FARRIOR,
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.
T"ly l, 1879.
SPRINGS & BURWELL,
Grocers and Provision. Dealers,
Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses,
Syrup3 .Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams,
Flour, Glass 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 fn
Groceries, Provisions,
College Street, Charlotte, N. C,
Sells Groceries at lowest rates for Cash,
and buys Country Produce at
highest market price.
B Cotton and other country Produce sold on
commission and prompt returns made.
Nov. 1,1880.
HARRISON WATTS,
COTTON BUYER,
Vomer Trade and College Sts., up Stairs,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Oct 24. 1880 ly
DR. A. W. ALEXANDER,
Dentist.
Offlr.ft over T. T Wriaton & Cos Drusr Store. I
urn workincr t orieea to suit the times, for Cash.
With 25 years' experience I guarantee entire
atisfaction.
Jan. 18, 1878.
Notice of Dissolution.
The firm of J. McLaughlin & Co. is this day dis
solved by mutual consent W. W. Grier having
withdrawn. The business of the firm will be set
tled at the office of J. McLaughlin.
j. Mclaughlin & co.
Not. 1,1880.
Prohibition Convention.
At a -meeting of the central committee
held in this city on the 22nd of March, which
was largely attended, it was resolved to call
a State prohibition convention to meet in
this city on the 27th day of April next. A
motion was adopted requesting the pastors
of the varions churches in the city, white
and colored, to ascertain who and how
many of their several congregations would
entertain delegates to the convention. A
motion was also adopted authorizing the
executive committee to secure prominent
speakers for the convention. The meeting
was very enthusiastic in support of and very
sanguine of carrying: the prohibition bill be
fore the people. Raleigh Observer.
House and Lot
FOR SALE.
I offer for sale the House and Lot located on the
corner of Graham and 9th streets, known as the
Col. Ben. Alexander premises. The House is two
story and contains six rooms and a kitchen, with a
good Well of water. For further information
apply to E. C. DAV1USOJN,
Or F. H. Glover.
March 25, 1881. 3w
Sale of City Property.
By virtue of a Decree of the Superior Court of
Mecklenburg county, I will sell at Public Auction,
on Saturday, the 16th day f April, 1881, at 12
o'clock M., at the Court House door in the City of
Charlotte, that HOUSE and LOT, situate on Tryon
Street, adjoining the property of John Wilkes, Dr.
Bratton and others, being part of Lot No. 68, known
as the Fullings property.
Terms of Sale One-third of purchase money
to be paid on day of sale, balance in two equal in
stallments at six and twelve months, with interest
on deferred payments at the rate of eight per cent
per annum. Title reserved until purchase money
is paid. S. M. HOWELL,
March 18, 1881 4w Commissioner.
PUBLIC SALE.
By virtue of a decree of the Superior Court of
Mecklenburg county in the matter of J. A. Wil
liams, et al., exparte, I will offer for sale at the
Court House door in the City of Charlotte, on Mon
day, the 4th day of April, 1881, one-half of LOTS
No. 1528, 1529 and 1580, in Square No. 186.
The property will be sold in one or two lots to
suit purchasers. Terms, Cash.
THOS. M. PITTMAN,
March 4, 1881 5w Commissioner.
N. C. Railroad Stock for Sale.
Will be sold at public auction, at the Court House
door in Charlotte, at 12 o'clock, M., on Monday the
4th day of April, Twenty Shares of Stock in the
Nortli Carolina Railroad Company. Terms, Cash.
M. M. McAULAY,
Adm'x of Hugh McAulay, deceased.
March 4, 1881 5w
OUR SPRING STOCK
Is now coming in daily, and by the 15th of March
will be complete. It will be unusually large and
attractive. We have a nice line of
Clothing, Shoes and Hats
A large Stock of
DRESS GOODS, WHITE GOODS,
Pant Goods, Shirtings & Sheetings.
Drive up to our front door, get out and come in,
and make our house your headquarters when you
visit the City.
ALEXANDER & HARRIS.
March 11, 1881.
E. J. HALE & SON,
PUBLISHERS,
BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS,
17 Murray Street, New York,
Invite orders for School, Miscellaneous and tan
dard Books, and for all kinds of Staple Stationery.
WRITING PAPERS Cap, Letter, Note and
other sizes.
BLANK BOOKS, of all Grades.
ENVELOPES, all sizes and colors and qualities.
SCHOOL SLATES, best aualitv. all sizes, s
Slate and Lead Pencils, Pens, Inks, Mucilage. &c.
E. J. HALE & SON.
Feb. 18, 1881.
1881. SPRING STOCK. 188L
We are daily receiving our Spring Stock of
BOOTS AND SHOES,
Which will be more complete than ever before.and
comprises the best brands and latest styles. '
Ladies', Misses', Childrens', Gents', Boys' and
Youths' fine Boots and Shoes a specialty.
Lower grades of all goods in our line in variety
and all prices.
Full stock of STETSON HATS, and soon to ar
rive a pretty line Straw Hats. Trunks, Valises and
Satchels, all sizes and prices.
Call and see us. PEGRAM & CO.
March 4, 1881.
CONFECTIONERIES, GROCERIES, &c.
Cakes and Bread.
C. S. HOLTON, at the Rising Sun 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 and
best quality.
Bread and Cakes.
His Bread is considered superior by all who use
it, and his assortment of Cakes is fine.
tF Wedding Cakes and Cakes for Parties pre
pared in the best stile at short notice.
Give me a trial when you need anything in my
line.
C. S. HOLTON.
. Jan. 14, 1881.
Just Received !
1 CAR LOAD White Corn,
1 m White Virginia Meal,
1 " " Silver Drip Syrup,
1 " " N. O. Molasses,
2 " " Flour,
1 " " Bacon,
1 " Choice Apples,
1 " ' Vinegar,
1 " u Mott's Genuine Apple Cider,
5 Cases Bananas and 10 Barrels Oranges,
And a full stock of everything else in the Heavy
and Fancy Grocery line.
We resDectfullv solicit the inspection of both the
Wholesale and Retail Trade to our stock before
purchasing elsewhere, as we are sure we can make
it to your interests to do bo.'
UAYiuaun ok. .
Feb. 4, 1881.
' The Oxford Orphan Asylum.
Our people (says the Raleigh Observer)
take a lively interest in this noble charity,
and the increase of the State's appropriation
from $3,000 to $5,000 gives pleasure to alL
We notice in the Orphans' Friend that Mr
H. F. Grainger, Grand Master of Masons,
has made an official visit to the Orphan Asy
lum. He arrived on Saturday and remain
ed until Tuesday. He closely examined the
entire premises, and thoroughly inspected
the buildings. He became personally ac
quainted with a large number of children,
and noted how they kept their rooms.- lie
regularly accompanied them to the dining
rooms and watched them as they ate their
meals. Having with him a majority of the
building committee, he selected a site for
the new building for the boys. It will be
erected (as soon as possible) on "Jaw-Bone
Hill," which occupies the north corner ot
the asylum grounds. It will be a brick
building, covered with slate, and three
stories high. It will accommodate seventy
five boys. The programme is to take care
of a hundred boys in the new building and
"the hotel" (a house already full), and a
hundred girls in the main building. The
story that a gentleman of Buffalo, New
York, had recently given $10,000 to the
Asylum is false. ;
What Mormonism is.
There is a paper in the North American
Review for March from the pen of J udge
Goodwin that ought to be considered by
members of Congress. What he says is
well calculated to arouse the attention of
thoughtful Americans. Our people gener
ally know so little about the monstrosities
of Mormonism that they have no proper
conception of what a dangerous power is
being developed in our country that is
charged with elements that will work great
trouble a generation hence if not destroyed
now. In our country there is a people who
have erected a Kingdom of their own that
is unlike the States, that is at war with our
institutions, and that is subversive of moral
ity. Mormonism is practically opposed to
our laws, our faiths, our interests. It is a
cancer eating away and spreading its fibres
of disease as it grows.
Judge Goodwin presents some facts that
are alarming. He says that only one twenty-fifth
of the people of Utah are not Mor
mons, and that in Arizona and Idaho they
hold the balance of power. They are also
colonizing Colorado, Wyoming, Washing
ton and Montana. They are even saying
now that they expect in the end to control
this country and that such is their present
"temporal aim." They expect to have the
balance of power in Montana and Wyoming
very soon. They all vote solid and always
obey the Mormon Church (?) however base
the command.
The Mormon teaching in many respects
is peculiar and corruptive, aside from its
views concerning marriage, it is ai enmity,
with the civil government which it declares
to be illegal. The Mormons say their gov
ernment is from Heaven, and that their
spiritual rulers are God's vicegerents on
earth and infallable infallable in religious
and civil matters. They regard the Con
stitution oi the United States as nothing
as so many cobwebs when it stands in the
way of their Church. They obey the law
of their Church always before the laws of
the United States. Any defeat of the latter
when the Church is to be served is regarded
as a virtue, even if it be perjury in the witness-box.
Polygamy is the foundation of
the Church, and the Church constitutes
their sole rule of faith and obedience.
Such in brief is Mormonism. It stands
grasping and defiant. The country looks
on and does nothing. The Congress appears
powerless, and the gangrene grows apace
in the meantime.
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Two Good Hands.
When I was a boy, I once became especial
ly interested in the subject of inheritances.
I was particularly anxious to know what
my fathers inheritance was; so one day, af
ter thinking about the matter a good while
very seriously, I ventured to ask him; and
this was his reply: "My inheritance? I will
tell you what it was; two good hands and
an honest purpose to make the best use in
my power of my hands and of the time God
fave." Though it is now many years since,
can remember distinctly the tones of my
father's voice as he spoke, . with both of
his hands lifted up to give emphasis to his
words.
Many a boy does not receive a large in
heritance of money or lands; but every one
has a pair of good hands which are better
than thousands of money. And the good
purpose to make the best use of them is in
every boy's power. Remember this wise
injunction, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth
to do, do it with thy might." Interior.
in
ttTUrbrella flirtations are now fashion
able. Here are the rules: To place your
umbrella in a rack indicates that it is about
to change owners. An umbrella carried
over the woman, the man getting nothing
but the drippings of the rain, signifies court
ship. When the man has the umbrella and
the woman the drippings it indicates mar
riage. To carry it at right angles nnder
your arms signifies that an eye is to be lost
by the man who follows you. To put a
cotton umbrella by the tide of a nice one
signifies, exchange is no robbery.? To lend
an umbrella indicates "I am . a fool." To
carry an open umbrella high enough to tear
out men's eyes and knock off men's hats sig
nifies "1 am a woman."
Bdf- To cure colds in the head: When
getting into bed take a pinch of fine salt
and snuff it well in both nostrils (it will sting
for the moment), and as the water starts,
keep snuffing till it goes down the back
passage of the throat. If taken when the
cold is first coming on, it will surely, be
broken np before morning. x
4 Things Money Can't Do.
. Some boys and girls have an idea that
money can do almost anything, but this is
a mistake. Money, it is true, can do a great
deal, but it cannot do everything. I could
name you a thousand things it cannot buy.
It was . meant for good, and it is a good
thing to have, but all this depends on how
it is used. If used wrongly, it is an injury
rather than a benefit. t .Beyond all doubt,
however, there are many things better than
it is, and which it cannot purchase, no mat
ter how much wo may have of it.
If a man has hot a good education all his
money, will never buy it for him. ' He can
scarcely ever make np his early waste of
opportunities. He may say, as I have heard
men savins : "I would give all I have if I
only had a good education and a well train
ed mind; but he will say it in vain. His
money alone can't obtain it.
Neither will wealth itself give a man, or
a woman, good manners. Nothing, next to
good morals and good health, is of more im
portance than easy, graceful, self-possessed
manners. But they can't be had for mere
money.
A man who is what is called "shoddy,"
who has not taste and correct manners will
never buy them though he would, no
doubt, like it. They are not to be had in
the market. They are nowhere for sale.
You might as well try to buy the sky, or
cloud, or sunbeams.
Money can't purchase a good conscience.
If a poor man, or a boy or girl any one
has a clear conscience that gives off a tone
like a sound bell when touched by the ham
mer, then be sure he is vastly richer than
the millionaire who does not possess such a
good conscience. Good principles are bet
ter than gold. All the gold ot (iolconda
couldn't buy them for a man who hasn't
them already.
A Woman's Wit.
A woman's advice is generally worth
having; so, if you are in any trouble, tell
your mother or your wife or your sister all
about it. Be assured that light will flash
upon your darkness. Women are two com
monly judged verdant in all but purely wo
men affairs. No philosophical students of
the sex thus judge them. Their intuitions
or insights are the most subtle, and if they
cannot see a cat in the meal there is no cat
there. I advise a man to keep none of his
affairs from his wife. Many a home has
been saved and many a fortune retrieved
by a man's full confidence in his wife. Wo
man is far more a seer and a prophet than
man, if she be given a fair chance: As a
general rule, the wives confide the minutest
of their plans and thoughts to their hus
bands. Why not reciprocate, if but for the
pleasure of meeting confidence with confi
dence? The men that succeed the best in
life are those who make confidants of their
wives. Independent.
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From the Goldsboro Methodist Advocate.
Dangerous Baking Powders.
The following brands of baking powders
have been condemned as containing alum,
and therefore, according to the testimony
of eminent nhveicians and chemists, very
injurious to health. Those who put confi
dence in the sworn testimony ot these ex
perts, and deem it a matter of any conse
quence, would do well to cut out this list
and save it for reference. Here it is :
Dooley's, Patapsco, Charm, Vieuna,
Orient. Amazon. Lake Side, Twin Sisters,
Superlative, King, White Lilly, Monarch,
jne poon, itegai, imperial, nonesi, .econ
omical, Excelsior, Grant, Giant, Queen.
A Scrap of History. In a letter to a
New York paper Thurlow Weed recalled
the fact that the commanders of the Rus
sian fleets lying at New York and San
Francisco at the opening of the late war
had sealed orders, which were only to be
broken if a certain contingency arose. A
correspondent of the New York Tribune
writes to that paper to say that a few
years after the war ended one of our minis
ters, lately returned from St. Petersburg,
told him that during an official call on
Gortschakoff, the chancellor sent for a book
and showed him an order written by Alex
ander IPs own hand at the very outset of
the civil war. This order was the tub
stance of sealed instructions sent to the Ad
miral of the Russian jleet, then lying in
New York harbor, that if either England
or France took any part favoring. the South,
the Admiral was at once to report to Presi
dent Lincoln for orders.
Some of our exchanges are discour
sing on sheep husbandry and the inevitable
cur. Propositions to protect sheep by law
from the ravages of dogs are constantly
made, but average human nature seems to
cleave unto the dogs rather than the lambs.
We know of no means so effective to accom
plish the desired result as that every sheep
owner who loses by his neighbors dogs shall
appoint himself a committee of one to look
after his own interest. In Pennsylvania
they pursue that practice, and the dogs die
as well as the sheep. One farmer in that
State recently deposited some poisoned
meat around his sheep fold, which had the
night before been invaded, and the next
morning gathered up eighteen defunct
curs.
. j 1 1 1
Kf"We publish the following rule for
calculating interest, as of convenience to
business men: Multiplying any given num-
. . . T .3 . I
Der ot aays oi interest requirea, separate me
right hand figure and divide by six. lne
result is the true interest for such a num
ber of davs at six per cent. . This rule is so
simple and so true, according to all busi
ness usages that every banker, broker, mer
chant and clerk should post it up lor refer
rm ' t ' 1 1 .t. : .
ence ana use. mere eiug no bucu iuiuu
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s iracuon in u, mere is scarcely any us
bility to error or mistake, Exchange,
The Working Girls of New York.
From the N. Y Examiner.
It would be hard to determine their num
ber. They are a vast and almost , countless
multitude. They are the mo6t poorly paid,
cheaply fed, and meanly lodged of all the
self-supporting class in this great city.
While sentiment, education and manhood
are supposed to yield women an honored
place in society and respectful treatment
everywhere, the working girls are not of
the favored circle. Labor is their necessity,
poverty their task master, abuse, hardship,
and frequently insult their reward. There
are all classes and grades. But life in the
store or 'shop is but a small part of what
the work girls see. As they crowd to their
places of business in the morning.. they are
pushed and jostled.
What they do. Almost everything which
their strength will permit. Much that men
did is now given to women. They are
cheaper aud more dependent. Indeed, they
are almost helpless, and injustice and im
position are their daily sorrow. Small girls
strip tobacco, and learn to chew it.; make
cigarettes, and learn to smoke them.
Thousands are in cigar factories, larger
girls and women, too. No advertisement
ever appears for "girls wanted," but what
women, and often those advanced in lite, at
tempt to get the same employment . driven
to it by misfortune and distress. 1 he ef
forts at rejuvenation are sometimes absurd
and ludicrous, lhink of a woman forty
years old in a very short calico dress, and
hair hanging down her back! Want cuts
short the skirt, and hunger lets down the
hair. Misery is pathetic. It is better to
cry than to laugh. They make tin toys
hard work and sore lor the flesh, lhey
make fringe and tassels, blank books, en
velopes; they feed printing presses and
ruling machines, are cash girls, stand be
hind store counters, they pack medicines,
make all kinds of garments, running heavy
sewing machines; they work in shade fac
tories, book binderies, box factories ; they
run looms, weave, stitch shoes and slippers,
make caps, make flowers, and space fails to
tell what all.
What they get. Much less than they
earn, in summers neat some ot tnem ma&e
Winter overcoats. For the heaviest, best
made ulster overcoat, an operator receives
the munificent sum of thirty-five cents.
She drives the machine with her tired feet.
In Winter she makes Spring overcoats.
For a fine coat with five outside pockets,
double-stitched, the girl operator gets
twenty-eight cents I Finishers of these
coats get $3, $4 and $5 per week. Possi
bly she makes "pants." She earns from six
to ten cents per pair for all the machine
can do upon them. If she makes calico
wrappers, she gets from seventy-hve cents
to one dollar per dozen. For shirts with
out button-holes, htty cents per dozen.
For hand-made button-holes, nine cents for
thirty-six. For ladies' drawers, tucked and
embroidered, seventy-five cents per dozen ;
for chemises the same. Jor ready-made
ladies' suits, $1.50 each. For child's silk
dress, seventy-five cents. There is about
sixteen hours' work upon one. Saleswomen
get from $3 to $7 per week, with deductions
for tardiness and for mistakes, with plenty
of cross looks and scoldings from the floor
walkers. Cash girls get from seventy-nve
cents to $1.50 per week. "Must come neat
ly dressed" is in the advertisement of "cash
girls wanted." To bottle perfumery and
to tie on the kid over the cork is to get $3
in six days. To learn to make artificial
flowers is to get $2 for the first month, and
after that $1 per week, "with advances ac
cording to ability." Young women and
girls are anxious to secure work in the bin
deries of the Bible House, Tract Society
and the Harpers. All of these are eminent
ly honorable, and only character is admit
ted. Service in the American Bank Note
Company is much sought. Sometimes
seventy names are. on the list of applicants
... rm i i 5
waiting a vacancy, ine piace is less ae-
sirable than is supposed. The work is with
men, and is dirty with ink.
Zabor'a Wrongs. The working girls get
cheated, outrageously cheated. They have
to contribute to presents for the foreman
and the bookkeepers. "The testimonials
from the employees," so boastingly spoken
of, are often the very bread from those who
sink under the loss. A little girl in a to
bacco factory who earns $1.50 per week had
50 cents deducted to buy the "boss" a
present. Two little girls, who together
earn $4, and supported a sick mother, a
widow, had $1.50 taken out of their wages
to help bury a man who had been employed
in the factory. They were not asked . to
give, the money was taken. The papers
reported, "the hands in factory generously
contributed to bury," &c. It was a sad
home, and tearful, when the three looked
into the next week, with seven days' food
to buy, house rent to pay, and fire to pro
vide against this biting frost. Two dollars
and filty cents on Saturday night! The
two girls sighed for suitable clothing,
longed for respectability in appearance, and
mother needed medicine and food. They
had been in ood circumstances. When a
girl earns $3.50 in six days, and pays $3 of
It ior Doaru ana louging, tmriv veuts ui it
for car fares, does her own washing at night,
seldom irons at all, how long before she
must be looking for clothing? Where can
she find it? God pity them, they walk up
and down the Avenues! People say as
they sit in their comfortable homes, "Better
die." Death is hard. All along the roaa
is hunger and want and cold and disap-
pointment ana numuiauon, ana unns w
drown sorrow yand the end is not yet.
Rich lady,Jwben you buy the astonishingly
cheap underwear so beautifully made and
iust marked down," know this for a cer
tainty you are buying the blood of your
sister, the underpaid and misused girl or
woman so unfortunate as to have been its
maker. And that is your "Immense bar
... . . . . . .
gam I" And Know, u man, that in inis ri
valry In trade, this heaping of ' fortunes in
haste, the working girls of this citystoUt
of heart, honest and true, thousands "upon
thousands of them who do the tasks you,
five them, are sinking into an appalling
ondage. It is a night that grows dark' as
it waxes. They see no star in it, ' nor ' any
hope. They toil for bread and lhey re
ceive a stone. Womanhood is depraved,
honest pride is sapped, and , sometimes vir-
iuu ia iusu
Concerning Bedrooms.
A physician was lately, called to pre
scribe for a young lady who lives in .one of.
the most charmiug villas. . -' t n rt .
"Nothing the matter with her," she de
clared, "nothing but terrible headaches."
Every morning she waked with a headache,
and it lasted nearly half the day. It had
been going on for months-7-ever since they
had moved into their new house. The doc
tor tried all the old remedies, and they' all
failed. Riding and archery were faithfully
tested, study and practice were cheerfully
given up. Nothing did any good. 4 ' ' ' '
"Will you let me see your bedroom?"
asked the Doctor one day, arid .he 'was
shown up into the prettiest little nest im
aginable. Nothing wrong about the ventilation.
The windows were high and broad, and
were left open every night, the patient said.
The bed "stood in one corner against the
wall. 7 .'
"How do you sleep !" says the doctor.
"On my right side, at the back of the
bed, with my face to the wall. Lou likes
the front the best." v '
"The dickens she does !" says the doctor.
"So do I. Will you do me ' the favor to
wheel that bed into the middle of the room
and sleep so for a week ? Then let me
know about the headaches."
Doctors are so absurd ! The middle of
the room, indeed ! And there were the
windows on one side, and the doors on the
two other sides, and the mantel with its
Macrame lambrequin on ' the fourth side.
There was no place' for the bed but just
where it stood in the corner.
"Never mind! Sacrifice your lambre
quin," urged the doctor j'ust for a week,
you know." ;' ' 'r"'
The lambrequin was sacrificed, tho bed
moved where it had free air on both sides,
and the headaches disappeared. . '
It may be only an exceptionally delicate
system that would be induced to actual
headache by breathing all "night the' re
flected air from a wall. Yet," , possibly,
some of the morning dullness we know of
may be traceable to a like cause. At any
rate, plenty of breathing space around a
bed can only be an advantage to everybody.
In visiting three or four newly built and m
beautiful houses recently, the lack of a good
place for the bed was the most striking
feature of the bedrooms. Some of theBe
rooms were finished in shining mahogany,
ebony or walnut. Some were hung with
rich modern tapestry. All were elegant
and a few were airy. But in the most of
them where was the bed to stand ? A bay
window, perhaps, would occupy the middle
of one side, another window another, a door
another, a mantelpiece another. 1
Society Events in Colorado.
The enaement between Polecat Jim
and Mush-and-Milk Suze has terminated.
Parental opposition on part of the bride. :
The Colorow-Shavana nuptials will be
consummated as soon as Granny Meacham,
the bride s guardian, returns from Den
ver. ' ... ;-:
Vat Charley has nronosed and been ac
cepted by Flap Jack Sal. , The . wedding
will take place in the gulch,., below
the old government saw-mill. -
The german tendered by Mrs Colurow on
Wednesday last was the event of the .sea
son. Miss Plumbago (Jook wore a : hand
some plum-colored overdress with jacket of
home-made carpet, large pockets, and bea
ver ornaments; Miss Sapaverno, seal
brown burlaysj made short with two deep
plaitings of seemless "A" very becoming;
Miss Unca Sam, blue denim overdress, with
lace collar, and government socks coolbut
striking; Miss Antelope, stylish gored red .
flannel made with tram, overdress of' sky1
blue musquito bar, with scalloped buttons)
hair scrambled; Mrs Pill Garlic Mose, demi
trained skirt of three-play canvas, with
jacket of plain corduroy plentifully supplied
with bows ot cottomwood baric, loopea up
with sprays of slippery elm perfectly rav
ishing. Denver Tribune.
UdE-p-Some people have a great penchant
for practical jokes, little thinking of the evil
that often attends them. Particularly ought '
they never to be practiced on children when
effect is calculated to unduly excite or alarm
them. The latest instance accompanied by
serious consequences that has fallen .under
our notice is one from Michigan, where . !
number of school children, thinking to have '
a little fun at the expense of a ' schoolmate) ;
Annie Sicable, a girl of 1 1 -yeaTS of age,
dressed np one of their number as a r ghost.
Stationing the crhostlv personator in the ad-
iacent woods, they conducted the child into
its presence, and crying .Tvihostr , tarnea
and fled. The little girl also fled, and her ;
fright was so great that she died the1 same
day. . ' " . u
A Stoky Vrra a JIoeil. A :,
few days ago a colored man l of this city
bought him a stove. There is nothing re '
markable about buying a stove, but when .
he went to pay for it he paid' cash down, $
and paid it all in five cent pieces. : lie had
been saving for a long time, every nickel lie ;
could spare, until he had enough to get him :.
the stove. George Perry, a sober and in
dustrious man, is the name of the saving
colored man, and he wishes all of his color ;
ed friends to do as he has donesave theif. '
nickels. Raleigh Viritor. -