North Carolina Newspapers

? V ::U- I f. ' . :j it 1 rip wax- OLD SERIES: VOLUME XXXI. CHAKLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 154 1882 VOLUME XII. NUMBER 584 M Y U HI If THE Charlotte Homo and Democrat, Published ktkbt Fktdxt bt 4 J. P. STRONG, Editor fc Proprietor. o Terms Two Doiaabs for one year. One Dollar for six month. Subscription price due in advance. o . "Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C as second class matter," according to the rJes of the P. O. Department ROBERT GIBBON, M. Physician and Surgeon. D., OFFICE, Fifth AND Teton Streets.! RESIDENCE, Sixth and College Streets, Charlotte, N, C. I March 17, 1882. tf 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, 1881. J. P. McCombs, M. D., Offers 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 Charlotte Hotel. Jan. 1,1882. Dfc. A. W. ALEXANDER. DR. C. L. ALEXANDER. SURGEON DENTISTS, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office, up-stairs in Irwin's corner building. EfT Office hours from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. July 14, 1882. yr. A. BURWELL. P. D. WALKER. BURWELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C." Will practice in tbe State and Federal Courts, Office adjoining Court House. Nov 5, 1881. JOHN E. BROWN, Attorney at Law, Charlotte, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office on Trade Street, opposite the Court House, No. 1, Sims & Dowd's building. Dec 23, 1881 y DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Oas used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb 15,1882. DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice Limit EYE, EAR AND March 18, 1881. e d to the THROAT. DR. J. M MILLER, Charlott6, N. C. All calls promptly answered day and night. Office over A. J. Beall & Co's store, corner of College and Trade streets, enterance on College street. Residence opposite W. R. Myers'. Jan. 1, 1882. J. S. SPENCER. J. C. SMITH. J. S. SPENCER & CO., Wholesale Grocers AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C. May 19, 1882. WILSON & BURWELL WHOLESALE and retail Druggists, 1'rade Street, Chaklotte, N. C, Have a large and complete Stock of everything pertaining to the Drug Business, to which thev invite the attention of all buyers both wholesale and retail. Oct 7, 1881. HALES & FARRIOR, Practical Watch-dealers and Jewelers, Charlotte, N.C., Keeps 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. July 1, 1881. 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 and Retail trade. All are invited to try us, from the smallest to the lar-1 gest ouyers. Jan 1, 1882. TORRENCE & BAILEY, Commission Merchants, College St., Charlotte, N. C, Handle Grain, Hay, Flour, Bran, Cow Peas, &c. Agents for the "EUREKA" GUANO. March 10, 1882. HARRISON WATTS, Cotton Buyer, Corner Trade and College Sts., up Stairs. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Oct 14, 1881. Z. B. Vance. W. H. Bailey. VANOE & BAILEY, Attorneys and Counsellors CHARLOTTE. Nt J Practices in Supreme Court of United States, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Federal Courts, and counties of Mecklenburg,' Cabarrus, Union, Gaston, Rowan, rod Davidson. VST Office, two doors east of independ one Square. junel7-tf English Tooth Brushes. j 5 Gross just received at ! ' WILSON & BURWELL'S" July 7, 188? Drugstore. S7"" An excellent medicine it sunshine. The world requires more of it, morally and physically. It is more soothing than morphine, more potent than poppies. It I is good for liver complaint, for neuralgia. for : rheumatism, for melancholy for everything. Make your rooms sunny and cneeriui; omid your house so as to com mand the sunlight all day long. ' m m WC!rf Al 3 ... m .... ss? via age is toe night ot lite, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence : and.for man. ii is more Druiiant than the day. ' MORTGAGE SALE. Bt irtue of a Deed of Mortgage executed to me uy jnanm vrr ana others, and only recorded in the office of tbe Register of Deeds for Meck- lenDurg county, I will offer for sale to the high est bidder, lor cash, at the Court House door in Charlotte, at the usual hour of sale, on Monday! the 9th of October proximo, the HOUSE AND JLUT now occupied by Baid Martin Orr. T. R ROBERTSON, Sept. 8. 1882. 5w Mortgagee. SHERIFF'S I will sell for Cash, at the SALES. Court House door. in the City of Charlotte, on Monday, the 2d day oi ucwoer, lcez, 10 satiBiy executions in my uanoe, meiouowing city iToperty, viz : Two LOTS, Nos. 1087 and 1088, Square 132, in the City of Charlotte, adjoining the property of J. N.Gray and others, as the property of J. B. Sykes. M. E. ALEXANDER. Sheriff. Sept. 8, 1882. 4w NOTICE! i Valuable Lands for Sale. By virtue of the power vested in us as Execu tors of the last will and testament of John Wolfe, deceased, we will offer for sale, at the Court House door in Charlotte, on Monday the second day of October next, all that valuable tract of land known as the John Wolfe Lands,containing tnree nunarea ana seventy-two acres, situated two miles from Charlotte, lying on both sides of the public road leading from Charlotte to Monroe, and also, on Doth sides of tbe Carolina Central lv R. Said lands are well improved with a good residence, fine apple and peach Orchards and Vineyard. The Lands will be offered in three lots. First lot containing ninety-four acres. . Second lot con taining one hundred and forty-eight acres on which is situated a residence and other improve ments, also a valuable mineral spring. Third lot containing one hundred and thirty acres. These Lands will also be offered as a whole. Terms One third cash, balance in two equal installments at tbe end of one and two years,with interest at eight percent. Persons desiring further information apply at residence of the undersigned, or at the Law Office of Hemming as Kobertson. C. H. WOLFE, L. W. WOLFE, Aug. 18, 1882. 7w Executors. Insure Your Gins, Cotton, Farm Property and Stores in the N. C. HOME INSURANCE CO. Losses promptly paid. Rates low. Call on or address THOS. H. HAUGHTON, District Agent. IS" Office on Tryon street, opposite the Post- office, Charlotte, N. C. Aug. 25, 1882. 3m BROWN & WEDDINGTON Keep the largest Stock and best assortment of General Hardware, Cutlery. Guns, Nails. Iron. Rubber and Leather Beltine. Woodenware. Hames. Chains, and Gen eral Farm Supplies; Tanners', Blacksmith's, Carriage and Wagon-Makers' and Carpenters' Tools and Supplies, that is kept in the State. Call and see them and you will be con- vinced. Aug. 4, 1882. 3m Call and see the Celebrated TELEGRAPH Straw Cutters and Smith's Lever Cutters &t BROWN & WEDDIN GTON'S. Aug. 4, 1882. Bny A Rotary Peach and Apple Parer and White Mountain Apple Parer, Corer and Slicer. They can be had at BROWN & WEDDINGTON'S. Hardware Store. Aug. 4, 1882. HARDWARE, Iron, Nails, Horse and Mule Shoes, Cutlery, &c, cheap for cash, at BROWN & WEDDINGTON'S. Aug. 4, 1882. P. C WILSON, College Street, Charlotte, N. C, Dealer in Bug- j fies, Carnages, hsetons.Spring Wagons, &c. Louis Cook Manufacturing Company, Wa tertown Spring Wagons, Col umbus Buggy Company Courtland Spring Wagons. P. C. WILSON, Opposite Sanders & Blackwood's Building. Sept 1,1882. 4m ALABASTINE, A natural material for finishing Walls, Ceilings, rough plaster, new smooth sand nmsn, a sonea hard finish, painted Walls, wood Ceilings, wall naner. bricks, rouen Doara. canvass, eic, eic. Superior to Kalsomine. Ready for use by adding hot water. Can be mixed by any one. Any Honaekeener can sddIv it without the aid of skilled labor. Alabastineia a Valuable Discovery. Itconsti tutes a permanent finish for Walls, assimilating wnn tne plaster, and will hot bub off. xi does not deteriorate bv ace : in this respect it is uuiuc ait uuier piEpuBViuos ui m buiuiu wuuw- t- ter. Alabastme is a disinfectant, and renders apartments healthful. Cracks in the Walls can be filled by mixine the Alabastine thick, which cannot be done with Kalsomine. Five pounds oi AiaD&Biine wm cove ou square yarus, or au square feet, two coats. Sample Cards furnished, showing vaariety of Beautiful Tints. C3 For sale by DR. T. C. SMITH, Druggist, Aug. 4, 1885. Charlotte, N. C. The Boys. . There come the boys ! O dear, the noise, The whole house feels the racket ; - Behold the knee of Harry's pants, i The elbows of his jacket. ' ' ' But never mind, if eyes keep bright, And limbs grow straight and limber ; We'd rather lose the tree's whole bark Than find unsound the timber ? Now hear the tops and marbles roll ! The floors ob, woe betide them ! And I must watch the banisters, For I know boys who ride them 1 The very chairs are tied, in pairs, And made to prance and caper; What swords are whittled out of sticks ! And brave hats made of paper 1 The dinner-bell peals lo.ud and well, To tell the milkman's's coming ; And then the rush of "steam car trains" Sets all our ears a humming. 'Boys will be boys" but not for long ; Ah, could we bear about us This thought how very soon our boys Will learn to do without us How soon the tall and deep voiced men Will gravely call us "Mother" Or we be stretching empty hands From this world to the other More gently we should chide the noise, And when night quells the racket, Stitch in both loving thoughts and prayers, In mending pants and jacket ! Sometimes. It is a sweet, sweet song, warbled to and fro among tbe topmost boughs of tbe heart, and filling the whole air with such joy and gladness as tbe songs of birds do when tbe summer morning comes out ot the darkness, and is born on the moun tains. We have all possessions in tbe future, which we call "sometimes." Beau tiful flowers and singing birds are there, only our hands seldom grasp the one or our ears hear the other. U, reader, be ot good cheer, since for all the good there is a golden "sometimes:" when the bills ana valleys of time are all passed, when the wear and fever, tbe disappointments ana sorrows of life are over, then there is the place and rest appointed of God. O, homestead ! over whose roof falls no shad ows or even clouds, and over whose thres- built upon the eternal hills, and standing with the spires and pinnacles of celestial beauty among tbe palm trees of the city on high, those who love God shall rest under thy shadows, where there is no sorrow or pain, nor the sound of weeping sometimes. Some time since we passed along a road and saw a young lamb standing by the side of its dying mother and with seeming human sympathy was crying out its woe. A few days afterwards we passed the same spot again, and there was tbe little lamb, still faithful, fighting away the vultures from the dead carcass of its mother. Alas ! if mankind would only be as true to each other, what a happy world this would be. No wonder the angels in 11 c V c 11 ate uuujuaicu umuvnuij fu.v, innocent little lambs. tUT Air is food. To have good health j human beings should live more in the open air. FOR SALE, Five Hundred and Ten (510) Acres of desirable Land, near Rocky Mount, in Fairfield county, . u. a or lniormauon, appiy 10 Mks. J. C. MOBLEY, Winnsboro. Fairfield county, 8. C. Aug. 25. 1882. 5wpd Blacksmiths' Tools. We have a complete stock of Blacksmiths' Tools of the best quality and at prices that will put them within the reach oi every jrarmer. Nov. 1, 1881. KYLE & HAMMOND. Rubber Belting. A complete Stock of Rubber Belting, Rubber and Hemp Packing. Also, all sizes and kinds of Rope at bottom prices. Nov 1, 1881. KYLE & HAMMOND. WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT OF ELIAS & COHEN. ALL NEW GOODS. Havinff dismsed of our old Stock, we now O A offer an immense Stock of Fresh Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, Gents' Furnishine Goods. Carpets, Boots, Shoes and Hats. All new and the latest styles. Don't fail to examine our goods and prices before buying. ELIAS & COHEN. Aug. 25, 1882. FOR SALE. Red Rust Proof Oats, pure and good. Two Mules t4 years of age, matches and good size. Three second hand two-horse wagons. One second hand Fifty Saw Needle or Scat tergood Gin. One second hand Utley Cotton Press. Mules, Wagons and Plows to hire. Apply in person or through the mail to J. S. MYERS, Aug. 11,1882. Charlotte. N. C "VVe pay special attention to Re tail Trade. Prescriptions prepared at all hours dav and nieht bv reliable Druggists of the best material and at reasonable prices. WILSON & BURWELL, July 7, 1882. Druggists, Trade street, Administrator's Notice. Havine Qualified as Administrator on the estate of Samuel Knox, deceased, notice is here by given, to all persons having claims against said estate to present them on or before the 25th day of August, 1883, or this notice will be plead ed in bar of their recovery. ,i . : W. C. MAXWELL, Aug. 25. 1883. 6w . Adm'r. The Moral of the Garland Duel. It is not often that we find in tbe Sew York Tribune, in these days, advice which is sound and well considered,and when we do so we are disposed to celebrate the oc casion. What the Tribune says about the Garland murder trial is timely, wise and suggestive. -'is - The Tribune bids young women like the i one whose coquetries provoked the light. to read carefully the story of - Garland's trial, and the mothers of such women should do the same. Here was a girl, be-J trothed te one man, corresponding and exchanging locks of hair and photographs with another, whose moral character she herself declares she thought to be atroci ous. But "letters and locks of hair," she says, go "for nothing." : The Tribune con tinues : "In what other civilized country where wives and sisters are honored would 'let ters and locks of haif count for nothing' with an Innocent 'maiden ? Where else would a decent girl be left by her mother to make herself common . and cheap by such gifts to any stranger with whom she chooses to flirt ? Yet this hint is an index to the prevailing social custom in a' large class of our young men and women, a class who are in intention and act innocent and respectable. The consequences are that the girl who is 'given her fling' by her pareuts to enjoy herself while she is young, goes to her husband, if not with smirched reputation,at least with calloused sensibilities and a heart more like the old wilted plant which has been exposed all day in tbe street for sale, than the dewy flower which he fancies it. - "Women, too, and especially young women, know nothing ot the attections and passions of men which they provoke. They are children playing with fire. Now and then there is an outbreak like ibe present, or the murder of Jennie Cramer, or the disappearance of the pretty child who was complacently suffered to visit a camp to flirt with the soldiers, now many thousands of American mothers now are turning their pretty, silly girls loose, unwatched and unwarned, to ride, flirt and correspond with men of whom they know nothing ? We hear much of the boldness of innocence in this country, but it is one of those virtues which are as dis astrous as vice." The carelessness and freedom which the Tribune criticises are not confined to any part of the country, and are far more rare in the south than any where else in tbe United States. But there is too much freedom and coquetry in the South, and particularly amougst the young girls who are now growing up. lhey expect more liberty than their mothers and grand mothers had, and see no barm in it, be cause they are as yet too innocent and un suspecting to know the necessity of watch fulness acd restraint. ' JLach girl thinks that she is well able to take care of her self, and does not find out her mistake until too late. If no worse befall her, she at least loses the exquisite freshness and purity which are woman's highest charm Jbalzac said that "the mistakes ot woman "result almost always from her faith in 'good, and her confidence in truth," but neither faith nor confidence will save her. if she do not watch over herself. Char leston Courier. Curious Facts About tbe Mormons. It will sound strangely in the ears of tbe people in "the States," and yet it is actual fact, says a correspondent, writing from Salt Lake City, that there is not a common or free school in the Ter ntorv. In the city of Salt Lake and at other points there are schools where pu pils of all denominations are admitted, but a small tuition tee is charged. 1 he teach ers are ail Mormons, and the exercises every day begin and end with reading from the Book of Mormons. The Gen tiles. I need hardly say. do not care to send their children to these dens of fanati cism, and latterly they have established a few schools of their own, but they are all sectarian the Catholics have one, the Episcopalians another, tbe Methodist another, and so on. If it be true that common schools are essential to a republi can form of government, then Utah has not a republican form of government, and o it is about the only Territory which has not. and the want of common schools ia bv no means the only evidence of this fact. What is called the "perpetual emi gration' fund" is one of the chief agencies in keeping up and increasing tbe numeri cal strength of the church. It is estimated that 3.000 people are brought from Hiu- rope every year through this instrumen tality. There are agencies of the fund in New York, Liverpool and the principal cities of Denmark, Sweden and other coun tries likely to furnish recruits for the grand army of fanaticism. Missionaries are sent abroad every year to solicit en listments. The emigrant is furnished with transportation across the water and across the plains, and when be arrives here he is settled on a small farm about ten acres is the average. I believe. He gives his note for tbe grand total at ten per cent per annum. This note is hardly ever col lected, because it is almost impossible for the emigrant to . pay it off after settling with the tithing master twice a year and complying with tbe numerous exactions of the church in other respects. It is held simply as a mortgage upon the man and his family, the non-enforcement of which is conditioned upon his "good behavior" to the church. If he chance to fall into disfavor with the hierarchy bis lot is a bard one. He finds himself without home or friends. He cannot go back whence he came there is no lund tor -that pur pose and to stay where he is is tbe worst kind of slow torture. The emigrants are carefully instructed upon their arrival here that their first allegiance is due to the church, and their second and- only other allegiance to tbe authorities of tbe Territory. ' Ammonia to Separate Fighting Dogs. An Andover lady writes us that in several cases she has found ammonia effec tive to separate fighting dogs. We think snuff, as recommended in our July num ber, safer. But" where snuff cannot1 be had, ammonia, used with great care, so as not to injure the eyes or nostrils, may answer a good purpose. It is worth j re membering. . : H Newspapers as a Means of Culture. In an article published not long since in one of our magazines, Mr. J. P. Quincy sayB a true worn ana a good word lor newspapers as a means of culture, as fol lows: - "Uoubt any one s good Bense who speaks scornfully of newspapers; There is much in them that is trifling, and, per haps, demoralizing : but. in the best of them, how much that is wise and noble ! I have a few choice volumes on mv shelves, among them an Olivet Cicero and a folio Shakespeare ; but I would save my newspaper scrap books before either of them. 1 have no volumes that contain so much sound thought, good English, good sense and important knowledge. If vou ask for wit, I will agree to match every jest and sarcasm in "The School for Scan dal" with something from my scrap-book quite as good in the way of epigram, and flashed upon some mischief which it is important should be seen. Here are full reports of lectures on history, Hedge poe try by Lowell, science by Agassiz and Tyndall. Here are Mills' speeches in Parliament, his free-trade letters to New York admirers, and Mr. Greeley's reply to tbem. You will find copious extracts giving the heart of the best modern books, and intelligent summaries of the systems they advocate. Here are occasional sermons into which leading American divines have put their most earnest thought. Here are vigorous expression of the best politi cal intelligence clipped from the leaders of the best newspapers. And, quite as importaut, here a little crisp criticism of blundering political work from indignant citizens whose daily duty has brought them face to face with absurdities of leg islation. Take the best newspapers by all means as many of them as you can af ford and then take nine-tenths of their reading matter for granted. Some of it is good for nobody ; much of it is good lor somebody ; but only a small part of . is it is wantea Dy you. uut now precious are these fragments, if wisely chosen ! If you are interested in the investigation of any political subject and every Amen can citizen should have some study of this sort you will find in almost every news paper an illustration of some aspect of it. Remember that it is better to subscribe to a tew nrst-ciass newspapers, that you may read at home with the scissors in your hand, than to glance over a score of them in a public reading room. Advice to Young Writers. William Cullen Bryant once gave the following sensible advice to a young man who had ottered him an article lor his paper: "My young mend, 1 observe that you have used Beveral French expressions in your letter. 1 think, if you will study the English language, that you will find it capable of expressing all the ideas that you may have. 1 have always-found it so, and in all that 1 have written. 1 do not recall an instance where I was tempted to use a foreign word, but that, on search ing, I have found a better one in my own language. Joe simple, unaffected ; be hon est in your speaking and writing. Never use a long word when a short one will do as well. Call a spade by its name, not a well known oblong instrument of manual labor; let a home be a home, and not residence ; a place not a locality, and so on of the rest. When a short word will do, you always lose by a long one. You lose in clearness; you lose in honest ex pression ; and in the estimation of all men who are capable of judging, you lose in reputation for ability. The only true way to shine, even in this false world, is to be modest and unassuming. Falsehood may be a thick crust, but in the course of time, truth will find a place to break through. Elegance of language may not be in the power of us all, but simplicity and straightforwardness are. Write much as you would speak, and as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superior, speak no finer. Be what you say, and within the rules of prudence. No one ever was a gainer by singularity of words or in pronunciation. The truly wise man will so speak that no one will observe how he speaks. A man may chow great knowl edge of chemistry by carrying bladders of strange gases to breathe ; but one will enjoy better health, and find more time for business, who lives on common air." Sidney Smith once remarked : "After you have written an article, take your pen and strike out half the words, and you will be surprised to see bow much stronger it is." Household Rights of Woman. No one who has not been tried can imagioe tbe discomfort and inconvenience that results from irregularity in regard to meals. The whole business of the day is broken up by tbe tardiness of part of tbe members of the family, and it is unjust to practice it ; and yet many men who would chafe and fret if their business was de layed never give a thought to the fact that it is just as inconvenient for their wives to wait for them. Order is the first law of nature, and it should be the same in families. A regular day and hour for especial purposes make housework easier and far more pleasant, and this order should be recognized by eacb in dividual in tbe family, and it is the mis tress's privilege to Insist upon her rights in this respect. Again, the various contrivances and improvements, for making housework less laborious, and thereby saving both time and strength, should be considered as great a necessity in tbe house as upon the farm. A woman does not grudge the money expended lor machinery in carry ing on the business of the farm, and if she did it would probably make no difference, and it is just that she, too, shorld avail hsrself of the help i that lighten tbe labors of her department. Spirits of ammonia is useful in expediting the tiresome business of house-cleaning. And it does not cost but little, yet how very few housewives ever tbink of ' availing themselves of ; its assistance, because, forsooth, it costs so much ; andust the same with other arti cles of utility, and a wife will make a martyr of herself by scrubbing and . work ing. even unto death, to save a little ex pense. Lightning Rods. Of late years so many buildings have been injured by lightning, that were sup posed to be fully protected with lightning rods, that publio opinion is becoming some- wnat cnanged in regard to the emcacy of iigntning rods. we apprehend that in many, perhaps the most of cases, where damage has been done, it has been caused Dy the rods being imperfectly constructed, or put up wrong, or perhaps permitted to get out of order after being put up. Dome men who put up rods do not un derstand their business; others finding the owner of a building unwilling to pay the price that it will cost to fully protect his building, will put up half rods enough to protect it and assure the owner it is fullv protected. If an iron rod is put on a building with points to attract the electricity from the passing clouds, it is of the highest im portance that is should : be so put up that it will carry off all that it attracts, or it had better not be on the building. If the end of the rod does not reach the ground. the charge of electricity will leave the rod. and in all probability enter tbe building and greatly injure it. : This is a well nn derstood fact, yet many buildings have rods on them that have been broken off. and so do not reach the ground ; in many cases the owners know this but do not take the trouble to repair the break. It is also well known that to carry off the electricity safely, the end of the rod must desceud to moist earth; but notwitbstand mg this well known fact, many rods are put up so that the rod descends into the ground so little depth, that the ground at tne ena oi toe rod is dry most ot the sum mer. "It is laid down as a rule, that a point of a rod will protect only a circle twice the diameter ol the height of the point above tbe building, yet how many endeavor to protect a thirty feet building, with one or two points only five feet above the build ing, thus protecting less than two-ninths ot the building. Sometimes we see rods run ning across the roof in different directions, with little pents every foot or two in length, but with only one, or at most two rods descending to the earth, thus invit'ng a large amount of electricity, without making the proper provision to carry it oil. Those who have rods on their houses should carefully examine them every year and see that they are put in proper con dition; or if not, to remove them altogeth er; for it is always dangerous to have lightning rod on a building that is not properly put up, and always kept in good order. Mass. I'loughman. The Hedgehog's Mode of Defense. 1 he hedgehog is one of tbe best pro tected of living animals. "Marching se curely under the guardianship of its thorn spiked armor, its recks little of any foe save man. 1 he formidable array -of brist ling spines with which the back is more or less covered offers a cheval-de-frise o sharp spikes toward any animal that may present itself as an enemy. Another peculiarity is tbe power possessed by these creatures of rolling themselves into a round ball, by placing tbe head on the, breast drawing up the legs, and curling the body firmly round tbe members. By this post ure the hedgehogs render themselves in vulnerable to almost any animal that may attack them. When in this curious atti tude, the hedgehog cannot be unrolled by main lorce, as long as any me remains in the body, for there is an enormously de veloped mnscle, with a very thick margin which spreads over the back and round the sides, and which, when contracted holds the creature in so firm an embrace that it will be torn in pieces rather than yield its point." mt ' t ine spines oi mis animal are aoout an inch long, acd naturally lie flat on the back, directed toward tbe tail. Butlby a peculiar arrangement they are erected when tbe owner coils himself. In shape the spine "is not unlike a large pin, being sharply pointed at one extremity, fur nished at the other with a round, bead-like head, and rather abruptly bent near tbe head. If the skin be removed from the hedgehog, the quills are seen to be pinned as it were, through the skin, being re tained by their round heads, which are acted upon by the peculiar muscle which has already been mentioned. "Jfrotected by this defense, the hedge hog is enabled to throw itself from con siderable heights, to curl itself into a ball as it descends, and to reach the ground without suffering any harm from its fall. "A hedgehog has been seen repeatedly to throw itself lrom a wall some twelve to fourteen feet in height, and, to fall upon the hard ground without appearing to be even inconvenienced by its tumble. On reaching the ground, it would unroll itself and trot off with perfect unconcern." IT. L. Fairchild, in Popular Science Monthly. Mrs. Surratt'a Daughter. Annie Surratt, the poor girl who suffer ed so terribly as to make her old while yet young in years, lives near her brother John. She is the wife of Prof. Tonry,who is now the leading chemist of Baltimore. After her mother had been hanged, and her own mental faculties had been shat tered by the agonies she had undergone, the innocent girl was ostracised and perse cuted to an extent that is a disgrace to our socailed Christian cizilization. Years after, when Mr. Tonry then a govern ment clerk dared to marry her, he was dismissed from office for the offense. For a time they were very poor, but being turned out of the government office prov ed to be the making of him after all. They are now prosperous enough in a worldly Eoint of view, but the once blithe and eautiful Annie is a wreck, both mentally and physically, with hair as white as the driven snow, though bnt little more than 36 years of age. She never recovered from the shock of that awful day, the last oi her mother's life, and is subject to fits or extreme nervousness, bordering upon de lirium. Cincinnati Commercial. The; banana "tree" is a shrub. But one bunch of fruit is produced on a stalk, which is usually cut with the fruit ; the latter is rarely permitted to ripen. If the stalk is left it dies ; but the root throws up new ones the next season. Tbe fruit grows in a single season from the root. Responsibility. ' - The wave that dashes against the shore is pushed by following waves, and so in endless succession from shore to shore. - The race pushes forward, generation fol- owing generation, breaking and dying away on the shore of time. - Our children sin because we their fathers sin. O mothers, fathers, we share tbe guilt of our children 1 They would be better were we , better. Tbe sheet of ice of Greenland's mountain s pushed forward and down by tbe weight ' behind it till it breaks off into the ocean. - Tho words and deeds which we leave may - be a power to invite our children's chil dren into sin, until they are forever lost on that ocean, the limits of whose shores the human mind knows not. But we need not draw on tbe distant centuries to find ex amples of our responsibility for others' sin . in our failing to interfere to prevent sin. To-day wickedness .riots in consequence ofonr silence or our inaction. To-day filling publio stations are bad men, be cause we fail - to vote. Tolay ; are lives sad, because we fail to . speak. To-day wrong and evil are powerful, because we fold tbe hand and close the lip. The tempted are yielding, because we stand by tbe tempter. The pure are tried because we oner no sympathy. Lives tender are broken, because we stay not the destroyer. Lives are lonely because we show no friend ship. "It's none of my business, we say . " he is his own man." It is your business to keep men strong and noble. The light house keeper who fails to hang out his lamp is directly responsible for the human lives that lie the next morniirg on the beach with seaweed tangled in their hair.' Bat the fisherman who, knowing there is a ship hear the shore; places not even a candle . in the window of his cottage, is also, guilty of their death. Men are going wrong; men are go ng down; you do not go with tbem; - you do not push them down. But you Btand by and see them, and you offer not a word of rebuke. You are your brother's keeper. Every night soul's we cannot be sure but that some eternal destiny has been . spoken ' by our lip and stamped by the seal of our deed. Charles Jf. Thvsina. An Alphabetical Anecdote. A B that could C far over the D with " great E's, F allowed bo to do, tried one day to extract honey from a piece oi jr s, liberally sprinkled with snuff. II-oo 1 Ait-choo, sneezed tbe bee; "I would sooner be a J, and be .as the poet says, 'happy, free and K,' than try to exiv&ct honey, from such snuff." So he buzzed to his home a nice house with an Ia to it, where M (his wife) 'N all the little bees were taking, O such a nice meal ft om a sweet F ! The old bee arranged his Q, and said, "You R a nice lot, ain't you ?" One little bee, not seeing- the sarcasm, ' answered, " 'S, sir!" This put the old bee in good humor, and he said he'd take some T with them ; and then he said, "IT may have this V ' for pin money, if you promise you won't go near tbe cucum ber vines. They'll W up if you touch em!" "Give us and X' and we'll promise," said the little ones. "That would be as bad as the cucumbers," said the old bee. " Y?" asked the little one. "Pshaw ! can't you Z ? It would be doub ling up." Good Cheer. BSf A young married woman down in Kentucky being asked if she did not have a sort of uncontrollable hankering to march to the ballot-box and cast her vote for law, and liberty, and freedom, and equal rights, both civil and military, as viewed from a womanly standpoint, said : "Ballot-box be smashed. I'd rather rock a cradle with a good, baby in it, than rock the throne of every principality on earth by my suffrage." That's the kind of a woman to have around the house, accord ing to tbe anti-woman's suffrage idea. It is claimed that such a woman lays over tbe thin-faced, dyspeptio novel reader of history, who demands the ballot, bv an - overwhelming majority in both houses and the mind of tbe young man looking for some one to split the kindling, build the fires and fry doughnuts for him. Exchange. The Teeth of Southern Womeit. James R. Randall, tbe poet, writing to his paper from Washington, gossips as follows: "Remarking that the teeth of Southern women . were generally much better than those of the women of the North, I asked a curious smart friend the reason. He said tbe people of the Gulf States preserve their teeth by the use of Louisiana sugar, while, the people of the North injured theirs by glucose and other adulteration. In bis town tbe ladies had wonderful complexions, clear and rosy. This was attributed to artesian wells, the water of which was strongly impregnated with' arsenic." If you shake up a basket of fruit or of gravel, the smaller portions will go toward the bottom ; the larger will come toward the top. This is the order of na ture. There is no way of evading it. And the same order prevails in the basket of human life. The world's shaking will send the smaller characters downward, and bring the larger ones toward the top. The larger characters are not to blame for this. The smaller ones have no right to complain of it. It is the shaking that does tbe business. " " ' 8iF" Veneers of wood are now cut by machinery, : varying in thickness from one-ninetieth to one hundred and seventy fifth of an inch, and requiring to be backed with paper. The catting apparatus weighs thirty tons, and with every revolu tion a knife twelve feet long comes in contact with the log, rolling the veneera off in sheets. gdSJ In Spain an old custom among the rural people is never to eat fruit out of doors without , planting the seed. The roads are lined with trees, whose fruit ia free to all. An old proverb says, :The man has not lived in rain who plants a good tree in the right place." ? ? -Ids? Every one of our: actions is re warded or punished, ; only we do not admit it. ; " , . - ; - - A single . weed allowed to go to seed may become five hundred the nexl year and ten thousand the year after.