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CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1882.
VOLUME XEL NUMBER 585
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THE ; '
Charlotte Home and Democrat,
Published kvxbt Friday bt
J. P. STRONG, Editor & Proprietor.
Terms Two Dollab for one jear.
One Dollar for bIx months.
Subscription price due in advance. -
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"Entered at ihe Post Office in Charlotte, N.
C.. as second class matter," according to the
rules of the P. O. Department.
ROBERT GIBBON, M. D.f
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE,
Fifth and Tbyon Stkeets.
residence,
Sixth and College Streets, Charlotte, N. C.
March 17, 1882. tf
DR. T. C SMITH, :
Druggist and l&armacist;
Keeps a fall 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.
DR. A. W. ALEXANDER. DR. C. L. ALEXANDER.
SURGEON DENTISTS,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Office, up-staira in Irwin's corner building.
S3T OHce hours from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M.
July 14, 1882. yr.
A. ncnwELL.
P. D. WALKER.
BURWELL & WALKER,
Attorneys at Law,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Will practice in the State and Federal Courts,
Office adjoining Court House.
Nov 5, 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 Limited to the
EYE, EAR AND THROAT.
March 18, 1881.
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, uesidence opposite W. K. Myers .
Jan. 1, 1882.
J. S. SPENCER. J. C. SMITH.
J. S. SPENCER & CO.,
Wholesale Grocers
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Trade Street, Charlotte, JV. C.
May 10, 1882.
WILSON & BURWELL
WHOLESALE AND KETAIL
Druggists,
Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C,
Have a large and complete Stock of everything
pertaining to the Drug Business, to which they
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,
SvrUDS. Markere). Koana Starrh Moat T.ar1
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
gest, uuyers.
Jan 1, 1883.
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 Counsellor
CHARLOTTE, N. J
Practices in Supreme Court of United States,
Supreme Court of North Carolina, Federal
Courts, and counties of Mecklenburg,
Cabarrus, Union, Gaston, Rowan,
ind Davidson.
1ST Office, two dooraeast of independ
onaa square. junel-tf
English Tooth Brushes.
5 Gross just received at
WILSON & BURWELL'S
July 7, 188? Drug Store.
8ST" EniOV the hWainora nf iMa Aa if
God " sends them : and the evils bear
patiently and sweetly. For this dav nnlv
la oars'; we are dead to yesterday, and we
are not born to-morrow.
Ias'" Lately in 'London. England.
medical society obtained evidence of a.
Vere lead-Doisoniner havincr heen nsmaorl
by the use of fashionable "hair-washes."
MORTGAGE SALE.
Bv virtue of a Deed of MnrtrraorA miui
me by Martin Orr and others, and duly recorded
vuiuo oi me ivcKisier oi ueeas ior iiecK
lenburg county, I will offer for sale to the high
est bidder, for cash, at the Court House door in
Charlotte, at the usual hour of sale, on Monday
iuc vux oi uctooer proxuno, tne uuuoJS AJNJD
LOT now occupied by said Martin Orr.
1. xv. JttUUJiKTBUJJ,
Sept. 8,1882. 5w Mortgagee.
SHERIFF'S SALES.
I .Will sell for flash. t th f!mirt TTnna
in the City of Charlotte, on Monday, the 2d day
nf rWsiHn 1 COO ..t!.r . :
hands, the following City Property, viz :
Two LOTS, Nos. 1087 and 1088, Square 132,
in tlia Ciiir sf fhartntta ..A;;X .1-
of J. N. Grav and others, as the nrnnertv nf .f
B.Sykes. J
M. E. ALEXANDER, Sheriff.
Sept. 8, 1882. 4w
- NOTICE!
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 Welfe Lauds.containing
inree nunarea ana sevenry-iwo acres, situated
two miles from Charlotte, lying on both sides of
the public road leading from Charlotte to Monroe,
and also, on both sides of the Carolina Central R
R. Said lands are well improved with a good
residence, fine apple and peach Orchards and
Vineyard.
The Lands will be ottered 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 the end of one and two years,witb
interest at eight percent.
Persons desiring further information apply at
residence of the undersigned, or at the Law Office
of Flemming & Robertson.
C. H. WOLFE,
L. W. WOLFE,
Aug. 18,1882. 7w Executors.
GOLD MINE
For Sale.
In obedience to a resolution of the Stockhold
ers of the Rudisill Gold Mining Company of
Hartford, Conn., I will expose to public sale on
the premises of said Company near the city, of
Charlotte, N. C, beiDg the place known as the
Rudisill Mine,
On the 11 th day of September next, all the Pro
perty Real and .Personal belonging to said
Company, including all Machinery, Mills, Ap
pliances, Tools, Ores, and Choses in action.
Terms cash. JAS. H. CARSON,
Aug. 11, 1882. Agent for the Company.
JggP The sale of the above pro
perty is postponed until the 25th September, at
11 o'clock, A. M. JAS. H. CARSON,
Sept. 15, 1882. 2w Agent.
FOR SALE,
Five Hundred and Ten (510) Acres of desirable
.Land, near liocky Mount, in airfield county,
S. C. For information, apply to
Mbs. J. C. MOBLEY,
Winnsboro, Fairfield county, S. C.
Aug. 25. 1882. 5wpd
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
tW 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
Belting, Woodenware, HameB, 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. 8m
Call and see the Celebrated
TELEGRAPH Straw Cutters and Smith's Lever
Cutters, at
BROWN & WEDDINGTON'S.
Aug. 4, 1882.
Buy
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 Bag-
fies, Carriages,
'h83tons,Spring
Wagons, &c.
Louis Cook
Manufacturing
Company, Wa
tertown Spring
Wagons, Col
umbus Buggy
Company,
Courtlacd Spring Wagons.
- P. C. WILSON,
Opposite Sanders & Blackwood's Building.
Sept 1,1883. ; 4m
I Shall Not Want. ' :
- BT REV." CHARLES F. DEEMS, D, D. '
I shall not want, In deserts wild
Thou spreadst Tby table for thy child ; .
While grace, in streams, for thirsting souls,
Though earth and heaven forever rolls."
I shall not want ; my darkest night '
Thy loving smile shall fill with light ;
"While promises around me bloom,
. And cheer me with divine perfume.
I shall not want ; Thy righteousness ' ;
My soul shall clothe with glorious dres,
My blood-washed robe shall be more fair
Than garments kings or angels wear.' i
- . I shall not want; whate'er is good,
Or daily bread or angel's food,
Shall to my Father's child be sure
So long as earth or heaven endure.
TTeU.&ur Mothef. Girls. ; . !
We wonder how many girls tell their
mothers everything. Not those "young
adies" who, going to and from school,
smile, bow, and exchange notes and pic
tares with young men, who make fan of
them and their pictures, speaking in a
way that would make their cheeks barn
with shame if they heard it. All this.
most credulous and romantic young ladies,
they will do, although they will gaze at
your fresh. young iaces admiringly, and
send or give you verses or bouquets. No
matter what other girls do, don't you do
t. bchool-girl flirtation may eud disas
trously, as mauy a foolish, wretched young
girl could tell yon. Your yearning for
gome one to love you is a great need of
every woman's heart. But there is a time
for everything. Don't let the bloom and
freshness of your heart be brushed off in
silly flirtations. Render yourself truly
intelligent. And above all, tell your
mother everything. Never be ashamed
to tell her, who should be your best friend
and confidant all you think and feel. It
is strange that many young girls will tell
every person belore "mother" that which
it is most important that she should know.
It is sad that indifferent persons should
know more about her lair young daugh
ters than she does herself.
A Perilous Ride. Miss E. F. Cole
man of New York, who is spending the
Summer at the Mount Pleasant House, N.
H., accomplished Tuesday evening a feat
which scarcely any ladies have ever be-
ore attempted sliding down the Mount
Washington Railroad track from the sum
mit to the base on one of the boards used
by the railroad men. She was escorted
by two of the most experienced sliders on
the road, and made the perilous ride of
three miles in thirteen minutes, being de
lighted with the trip.
NEW GROCERIES.
BROTHERS. HENDERSON & McGINNIS
are now receiving, at their Store opposite the
Charlotte Hotel, a fresh stock of
Groceries and Family Supplies,
Which they offer to the public at fair prices.
Best grade of Flour,
Coffee, Sugars and Molasses,
New Mackerel, Superior Hams,
Cheese, Pepper and Spices generally,
' Salt and all sorts of Heavy Groceries.
trss- nio-ftrs and Tobacco of all erades. and
Lorillard's Snuff in bladders of from 1 to 5
pounds best article.
vrlVO US a Call uiutuwu a uuuuiug, uppuoitc iuc
Charlotte Hotel.
J. L. BKOTHJSKS,
E. T. HENDERSON,
Aug. 25, 1882. E. D. McGINNIS.
A fresh stock of Warner's Safe
Liver and Kidney Cure ; Iodia; Bromidia; Scott's
and Bakers jumuision uoa Liiver un, jusi re
ceived by
May 19, 1882. Druggists.
FIRST ARRIVAL
or
Fall Goods !
We have just receive : a beautiful line of
Foulards and Sateens.
A Ida o rocp nf Calicoes in new deslsms.
Something new and nice in Ruchings, &c, &c.
.It t T. RTT.TfJT.'R ia now in the Eastern
nitipa' mirrhasine our Fall Stock, which will
commence arriving in a few days.
Whan nilT Htno.fe in received, we will show vou
the handsomest line of Goods ever displayed in
the South. ,
1. JU. BJBlULiiiJ ce w.
Aug. 25, 1882.
COME AND SEE
THE
Finest Sets
Of
BED-ROOM AND PARLOR
FURNITURE
Now in the city.
A Large Stock of Furniture
At Wholesale and Retail.
E. M. ANDREWS,
Next door to Wittkowsky & Baruch
Sept 8, 1882. -
Astral Oil
Is ahead of all other Lamp Oilsit gives the best
lieht it burns longer no accidents ever happen
from its use T. J. oml id. nas soia n ior years
Sept. 1, 1882.
All Drugs
a a lfSAinoa naiiolW fcpnt in Dniff Stores, can
ffc f iiivuivuiva ijMM- " O
be found at T. C. SMITH'S, opposite the Central
. . i rw - s
Hotel. Close buyer, Close sewer, lry mm.
Sept. 1, 1882.
Shoulder Braces
And Trusses to suit all ages. T. C. SMITH has
a full line of them.
Sept 8, 1882.
We pay special attention to Re
tun Trade. PrescriDtioDS Direnared at all boors
day and night by reliable Druggists of the best
material ana at reasonaoie pneea.
WILSON & BURWELL,
July 7, 1882. Druggists, Trade street.
Administrator's Notice.
Having qualified as Administrator on the
estate of Samuel Knox, deceased, notice is here
bveiven to all persons having claims against
said estate to Dreseni wem on ur uciurc uc
" . . it l 1 A
day or August, isoo, or uus nouce ww uc picou
ed in bar of their recovery.
W. C. MAXWELL,
Aug. 25, 1882. 6 w Adm'r.
Hourning.
4 BY ATHALIA JAIGH.
The custom of outward mourning
means intended to express the feelings of
sorrowing frienda for their lost relatives
extends, we believe, almost as far back as
history reaches. The custom of the Jews
in ancient times, was to adorn themselves
in sackcloth and ashes, and during the
period of mourning, which was generally
seven, bat sometimes protracted to thirty
days, they would; tear their clothes, lie on
the ground or walk barefoot, cut off the
hair and beard, and abstain from washing
and anointing themselves, weeping all the
while. I
Black is the color used for mourning in
Europe and Rome, and was also used in
ancient Greece. ,It is expressive of the
deepest, inconsolable grief, and pining for
the lost friend. " , '
The-usages regarding mourning have
varied much at different times and in dif
ferent countries ; but in America, the
custom of wearing black for the dead, is
now becoming more extensively practiced
by a general class of people than ever be
fore ; and at the same time, the ladies of
our country, are becoming feebler and
more unhealthy every year. If they could
be made to feel and believe the vanity and
foolishness of such customs, the country
yea, world, would be largely benefitted
by it.
Why drape yourself for so long a time
in snch gloomy attire? Do you not feel
e ii ough of sorrow, and experience sufficient
suffering because of your loss, without a
constant' reminder always before you?
Why not weep quietly when you so de
eire, and laugh when you feel disposed ?
It appears like mockery to see a lady
heavily draped in mourning, laughing
gaily, or taking part in any lively affair,
and especially dancing ; but still it is not
well to assume a grave and sanctified ex
pression, as is frequently done by persons
in crape, for months after the loss of a
friend ; and as nothing else is becoming
to such gravejeostumes, it is far the wisest
plan to put aside the vain custom altogeth
er, and conduct yourself at all times ac
cording to your feelings. Of course you
eel sad and melancholy more frequently
than otherwise, but if some kind friend
should cheer you; giving you consolation
or the time being, or causing you to for
get your sorrow, do not attempt to drive
away the gay feelings "for the sake of the
dead," and assume a grave air, but forget
your sorrows as much as possible, for the
sake of the living ones around you, as well
as for your own good. It is strange in
deed, that so many will persist in contin
uing such injurious habits, in spite of the
repeated entreaties in their behalf. The
custom of gentlemen to wear only a small
band of crape around the hat, is,of course,
no harm to health, but it is quite as foolish
and vain, as that of the ladies. May the
day yet come when the people will aban
don all such idle practices. Southern
World.
Boys and Thimbles.
No man can, like the writer, live sixty
years, without often wishing he had learn
ed to use a sewing thimble well in his
early boyhood, especially if he has gone
about the world much. Buttons will come
off, stitches will break, and how handy it
is for boys at school, for men at a hotel, at
a friend's house, indeed anywhere away
from home often at home to be able to
whip on .a button, stop a starting rent,
and do many other little sewings, without
oalling on a woman, or perchance sending
for a tailor, before being able to appear at
a hotel table. One seldomTtf ever, learns
to use a thimble, if this part of his educa
tion has been neglected in small boyhood.
The writer has traveled a good deal, and,
at a rough guess, he has broken threads at
least five hundred times in attempting to
work a needle through a button or gar
ment without a thimble. Boys, take our
advice, and every one of you learn to nse
a thimble well belore you grow up. Lo it
this very winter; it is not feminine to do
so. Do it, and, if you live long, you will
many times thank us for this advice.
American Agriculturist.
Alcohol from Acorns.
It is said that alcohol equal to that
made from grain can be produced from
acorns. The acorns are freed from the
shell and ground finely ; then they are
mashed with malt, and allowed to ferment.
Acorns contain about 20 per cent, of
starch, and 18 per cent, of gluten. They
would be a valuable article for human
food if it were not for the tannic acid
(about 3 per cent.) which they contain.
Vast quantities which go to waste every
year, where hoes are not fed in the woods,
might be gathered by boys and converted
into alcohol for use in the arts, thus free
ing an equivalent amount of gram for use
as food. Or some young student of practi
cal chemistry might make a good thing
for himself and for the world by devising
an economical process .of separating the
starch, gluten, and tannic acid, the last
for technical uses and the others for food
Scientific American.
Able to do it if They would Think.
The New York Globe, negro organ, re
marks concerning tbe colored voters in
the South, that, Whether they do it now
or in the future, the colored people of the
South will turn to the Democratic party
for the protection which the Republican
party has shown itself powerless to extend.
Surrounded on all hands by Democratic
sentiment. Democratic interests, they wil
certainly see it to their interest to break
an alliance which proves a draw-back to
them, as a whipped general will make the
best terms possible with his victorious
antagonist.
The Washington Landlady. The
srovernment clerk is her stand-by. She
can count on him. summer and winter,and
off him she makes her living; from the
Congressman she wins her sealskin sacque,
her diamonds and her daughter's trous
seau. The clerk who eats at the table
with the legislator pays 20 per cent, less
for his meals ; and for apartments which
he would get at $25 to $50 per month, the
M. U. pays from $50 to f 200.
God keep you from "It is too
late.'
From the Raleigh Visitor.
A Peep at Infidelity in A.- D. 3.000.
On the Kansas Pacific Railway several
years ago a locomotive broke through the
bridge over Kiowa creek, and sinking
through the quicksand at the bottom, has
never since been heard from, though re
peated soundings have- been made for it
ouch a quicksand, apparently without
bottom, may be the result of the percola
tion of the water through the disintegrated
strata of earth, down into some small sub
terraneous stream ; : and the locomotive
breaking its way through small rocks and
earth sufficiently strong to uphold tbe
sand above, and these rocks and earth
closing np as it passed, it finally lodged
perhaps between two large bodies of gran
ite, two hundred and fifty feet below the
surface.
Now, let us forecast the year A. D.
3,000. First, the water, percolating from
the creek, carrying dowu even limited
quantities-of certain acidp, will have dis
integrated the earths and softer sandstones
until the subterraneous stream shall have
been closed or its coarse diverted, so that
the bed of the creek and. down to. the
ocomotive will have become solid earth.
Secondly, by the year 3,000, the narrow
creek will have broken up for itself springs
of water, and become confluent with other
streams until it has swollen into a large
river.
Thirdly, by the year 3,000, the present
ystem of railway construction will have
been superseded by such improved rails
and road bed; and such locomotives and
cars will have been constructed and run
with new motorB, as to make our present
magnificent railway appointments appear
crude and puerile in the extreme.
t ourthly, in the year 3,000, one of those
great railways, run with new motors,carry
ing millions of freight and thousands of pas
sengers on a single train,is to be construct
ed over this river just where our locomo
tive of 1880 went down. At this point.
with their improved machinery, it is found
necessary to go deeper than usual for a
foundation. But lo! in the rock two hun
dred feet below they find something that
ooks like it might have been used as a
ocomotive. Ihe learned say that it must
have been U3ed at a very remote antiquity
for drawing loads on rude rails by the old
customary power of water under great
heat, and which power had long since
given place to concentrated solar rays,
electricity and magnetism.
But stop. Ihe scientists of the year
3,000 must have a showing. There is an
old Book called the Bible which says some
things that they have been trying a long
time to disprove; among others, that the
age of man upon the earth is only 7,000
years. Now this unearthed locomotive
lrom two hundred feet below a rivers bed
must have been built by man, however
much the crude structure may indicate his
tialt-tormed intellect and feeble bodily
powers, it is comparatively easy to cal
culate from the earth's strata very nearly
the time when this strange and crude piece
of iron machinery was left in the position
n which it was found.
From the time of the convulsions which
broke up the crust of the earth, and
heaved the stratified granite, mica and
other earths into skeleton mountains and
hills, by floods of fire and shoreless oceans
of water, the present stratified earths were
precipitated, and time required for their
formation may be measured!
Grand finale The man who built the
ocomotive taken in the year 3,000 from
the bed of a river two hundred feet below
the surface must have lived on the earth
75,000 years ago! Ergo. The Bible is
false! Quod erat demonstrandum.
But just at this juncture, a simple heart
ed man steps up and asks, "But how can
you demonstrate that all stratined earths
where fossils are found absolutely required
such long periods of time for their forma
tion; and may it not be possible that this
crude locomotive is not more than eleven
hundred years old?"
"Hush," says the learned man, "such
questions would spoil much science."
K. A. Yates.
Raleigh, N. C, Sept. 1882.
The Youngsters of Long Ago.
I remember when we were little fellows,
in the early days ot Western backwoods
lfe, we used to peep out from under the
covers of the trundle-bed, and watch the
old folks, sitting about the large, open
fire-place, as they conversed in a low tone,
and occasionally cast suspicious glances
back into the shadows wherein we were
snuggled. It did not require very close
listening to learn that they were under
the delusion that we were all asleep, and
that we were the subject of tbe conversa
tion. It was not till we came to have
children and grandchildren that it all
came out how pleasant it was to sit by
the fire and con over the canning pranks,
the mischief and the prattle of the babies
Of course, you youngsters of hf ty, or un
der, do not know anything about good
living you were born in cities, or in hne
country houses of modern build ; so you
cannot see in imagination the trundle-bed
in the shadows of one large room, with a
back-log fire at the other end. Yon have
never graduated from a trundle-bed to a
"real bed" in the loft, xou never woke
up in tbe morning to find the coverlet,
where your breath fell upon it, frozen stiff
and solid from the condensation of the
vapor from your breath ; nor did you ever
find two or - three inches of snow as an
extra wrap, that had sifted in between the
clapboards at night; nor did you jump
out on the snowy floor with pink toes and
bundle down stairs, with a whoop, to
dress before the fire. No, sir, or madam,
you don't known anything about good
living. Luxury has robbed life of its zest
and sparkle, of its light and shadows, of
the contrasts which constitute the whole
sum of human happiness.
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Bd" Two scientific observers in Geneva,
Messrs. Dufour and Farell, have discov
ered a fresh proof of tbe theory that the
earth is of a globular form as taught by
modern science. They find that the
images of steamers and the surrounding
mountains reflected upon tbe surface of a
large lake invariably appear slightly di
minished in size. They conclude, there
fore, that the surface of the water must be
bent in a convex shape, so that it pro
daces the same result as a convex lens.
Natural Curiosities of East Tennessee.
A Knoxville correspondent of the Mor-
ristown Gazette of November 16th 1881,
in alludiug to the natural cariosities of
East Tennessee, says :
Ihe greatest natural curiosity in East
Tennessee is the great Indian cave, about
six miles ' north of New Market, on the
Holston river, and only a short distance
from Lea's Springs. This cave has -been
explored a distance of five miles, and is
filled with wonderful formations of rock.
Stalagmites rise from the floors, singly and
in groups. In one room stands the frozen
bridge, a stalagmite in the form of a lady,
with white veil, seeming a statute of Ice.
In another room, called the concert room,
stands the frozen organ, a group of stalag
mites, joined together at the base, and the
upper spears lost to view in outer dark
ness resembling the pipes of a great church
organ, all coated with ice. The "concert
room is about eighty feet wide and two
hundred feet long, ceiling fifty feet high.
studded with innumerable stalactites, some
of them reaching half way to the floor.
Millions ot diamonds flash in ceiling and
wall, and the echo from a Bingle musical
instrument is multiplied a hundred times
and becomes a continuous roll of -music,
as if from a score of hands. About a mile
from the entrance is the rotunda, with
carved ceiling reaching up more than a
hundred feet. No amount of torches cart
flash the diamonds in that ceiling; the
darkness cannot be pierced, and tens of
millions of bats swing there in festoons
undisturbed.
After leaving the rotunda, crossing the
creek several times and winding on
through fields of stalagmites, we come to
Devil s Chimney; we enter the arch and
above as far as torches can flash their light
stretches this smooth walled chimney
hundred of feet. The creek that winds
through this cave is a stream the size of
our first creek, of sufficient capacity to run
a mill, and traveling a distance of three
miles in the cave. We cross it several
times.
In some places it forms lakes in other
rapids and waterfalls, cascades and whirl
pools. !
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Bran Beds for the Children.
A French doctor has invented a new
bed for babies, which holds them safe in
its custody and prevents them from ever
giving any trouble at night to their at- j
tendants. Ibis gentleman has subjected
his system to the most trying of all tests,
for he has applied it to all his own chil
dren, and considers that the life of one of
them i3" entirely owing to its use. The
idea is to fill the greater part of the cradle
with bran, and immerse the legs and parts
of the body of the child in this nest cover
ing them over in the usual way,but fasten
ing down the counterpane tight so as to
keep him firm in his place. Why this
change of tactics should have the effect of
taking away from the infant the usual de
sire to howl during a part of every night
is a question which we leave nurses to ex
plain for themselves after they have tried
the system. In the meantime, until that
trial has been made, it is only civil to be
lieve the testimony of Drs. Bourgeois and
Vigoureax who in two French papers of
some authority declare that such is the in
variable result. This is not, howeverthe
only -advantage to be expected from: the
system. The bran is supposed to have a
warming and stimulating influence supe
rior to any sort of cotton or cloth and to
allow children of the more sickly kind to
develop more quickly and to be sooner
able to use their limbs. The inventor of
the system declares that they delight in
their bran beds and always "quit them
with regret," when removed at the age of
two to one of a different kind. London
Globe.
The Stars and Stripes Good Enough for
Him.
The ridicule cast upon the new-fangled
device the President's flag recalls an
anecdote concerning bluff old Ironsides
Farragut. When Vice Admiral Porter
was in high feather in the Navy Depart
ment, during Grant's earlier administra
tion, and had his eye on the possible suc
cession at some day to the chief command
of the navy, he brained out an ensign for
the Admiral, who at that time was the
hero Farragut. The standard was an odd
looking affair, and suggested the British
cross of St. George as much as anything.
The first time the new flag was raised on
shipboard over the head of the old sea
dog the victor at Mobile and New Or
leans the nondescript color caught his
eye at once. Pointing np to the flag, so
the story goes, he angrily demanded :
"What do you call that gridiron thing np
there ?" Somebody told him that it was
the newly devised Admiral's flag.
"Who ordered it to be hoisted ?" he
again, asked. He was informed that Vice
Admiral Porter bad.
"Take that rag down at once," he thun
dered. "The stars and stripes are good
enough for me."
Admiral Porter's gridiron came down
with a run, and that was the first and last
time it was ever unfurled. Philadelphia
limes.
Praise Tour Children.
Not a few boys have illustrated the
proverb. "Give a dog a bad name and he
will deserve it." The father of Dr. Adam
Clarke, the Biblical commentator, seldom
fraised him, except for his ability to roll
arge stones, lie thought his son a
dunce, and said so. Of coarse, the boy
had no faith in himself. But one day a
teacher called at tbe house, who knew
that a little judicious praise went a great
way towards making a man of a boy.
"That boy," said the father, is very slow
at learning ; I fear you will not be able to
do much with him.' Adam's heart sank
to a lower depth. Bnt the wise teacher,
aviner his hand on his head, said : "This
lad will make a good scholar yet." In
stantly the sympathetic touch and word
begot in the so-called dunce the hope that
be, too, could learn. The hope stimulated
the unused mind. He became conscious
of mental power. He learned his lessons
with ease. "I could have doubled the
effort,' he says, "had it been required."
That bit of judicious advice gave the
Methodists their famous Biblical com
mentator.
Old Fashioned Mothers.
"Thank God, some of us have an old
fashioned mother. Not a woman of the pe
riod enameled and painted,with all her soci
ety manners and fashionable dres8es,whose
white jeweled hands 4 never felt the clasp
of baby fingers; bat a dear old fashioned,
sweet voiced mother, with eyes in whose
clear depth the love light shone, and brown
hair, just threatened with silver lying
smooth upon her faded cheek. 1 Those
dear hands, worn with toil, gently guided
oar . tottering steps in - childhood : and
smooinea - oar piuow, in sickness, . ever
reaching out to as in yearniog and tenderness.-
Blessed is the memory of an old
fashioned mother. It floats to us now like
a beautiful perfume from aome wooded
blossoms. The music of other voices may
be lost, bat the enchanting memory of
hers yi echo in our souls forever. Other ,
faces may fade away and be forgotten, but
hers wiir shine on. When: in the fitful
pauses of busy life our feet wander back
to the old homestead, . and crossing, the
well-worn theshhold, 'stand once more in -the
room so hallowed by - her presence,
how the feeling of childish innocence and
dependence comes over us, and we kneel
down in the molten sunshine streaming
through the open window just where,
long years ago, we knelt by our mother's
knee, lisping, Oar Father.' How many
times when the tempter lured us.on, has
the memony of those sacred hours, that
mother's word, her faith and prayers,
saved us from plunging into the deep
abyss of sin. Years have filled great drifts
between her and us, -but they have not
bidden from our sight tbe glory of her
pure, unselfish love.
Simple Taste in Dress.
A great authority on ladies dress,,
speaking of his ideal dresser, says: "You
see her turn a cold eye to the assurance ot
shopmen, and the recommendation of mil
liners. She wears many a cheap dress,
but it is always pretty ; many an old one,
bat it is always good.. She deals in no
gaudy confusion of colors, nor does she af
fect a studied sobriety. Not a scrap of
tinsel or trumpery appears upon ber."
What natural good taste, indeed, may
accomplish in dress without extravagance,
appears from the anecdote told of. Mrs.
Carlyle's mother, who, as a surgeon's wife,
not having much money to spend on her
attire, got her daughter to sew on to it
some moss and ivy leaves, which excited
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universal aamiraiion, and were taken to
be a French trimming of the latest fashion.
The celebrated Duchess of Gordon is said
to have made tbe conquest which secured
her ducal . position by wearing some
wooden shavings round ber bonnet in lieu
of expensive ribbons she was unable to
purchase. The true principle of dress,
we repeat, is to Bnun vanity, ostenta
tion, and extravagance, and substitute for
these good taste and modesty. Sunday
at Home.
Mother' and 'Aunt.'
It might not be unedifying to ascertain
how the word "mother" came to have the
unreverential and reproachful significa
tion with which one may often hear it used
in country neighborhoods. Every such
neighborhood has its "Old Mother So-and-So,"
never spoken of without a peculiar
aim sugmauzing empnasis. we snail
find her either a shrew or a gossip, or,
more likely, a flagitious blending of the
two. She is not, necessarily of advanced
years; the adjective - "old" being used
purely in malam partem, as thought to
indicate a certain seniority in evil-minded-ness.
Now, "Old Aunt What's her name"
is quite another manner of person. We
may not have an acquaintance with her,
but we have received, through frequent
neighborly mention, the most agreeable
impression of her many virtues. She is
proverbial lor benevolence and practical
sympathy. In the rustio bestowal of tbe
title "aunt" there is no implied disrespect;
on the contrary, compliment and endear
ment are expressed. It is the nearer and
dearer word, strangely enough, ' that is
forced to do sinning and sarcastic service.
September Atlantic.
CST" A Hindoo mother, af ter listening
hoar after hour to the lady missionary as
she explained the way of free salvation,
exclaimed : "Tell me more." At last
when the long talk must close the. old
mother drew from under her veil the thin,
gray hairs, saying: "Ihese hairs have
grown white waiting for such words as
these.
If you are a farmer be a good one.
Farm well. Have a good orchard, good
garden, good stock and an intelligent
family. Be intelligent yourself, and thus
secure the respect of all who know you.
Ploughman. ' , ,
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J5Three thousand and five hundred
churches have been built in this country
daring the past fifteen years, and more
than one for every day in the year during
tbe last twelve months.
Sf As bees breed no poison, though
they extract the deadliest juices, so the
noble mind, though forced to drink the
cap of misery, can yield bat generous
thoughts and noble deeds.
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Mustard mixed with molasses can
be applied to the most delicate skin with
out causing a blister.
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c27 Keep your promise to the letter,
be prompt and exact, and it will save yon
much trouble.
I-HT" The mind has more room in it than
one would imagine ; if you would famish
the apartments.
ZzT The most important part of every
business is to know what ought to be
done.
ST The greatest of all faults, I should
say, is to be conscious of none.
living in shame and dishonor.
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82?" Adversity links men together;
prosperity is apt to scatter them.