n - OLD SERIES : VOLUME XXXI. CHARLOTTE, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1882. it VOLUME XII. NUMBER 598 a : . fa ...... WWW' fflW Wiy Cfrfr THE Charlotte Home and Democrat, Published every Fkiday by J. P. STRONG, Editor & Proprietor. o Terms Two Dollars (or one year. One Dollar for six months. Subscription price due in advance. o "Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte. N. C.. as second class matter," according to the rules of the P. O. Department. ROBERT GIBBON, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. office, Finn - and Tryon Streets. RESIDENCE, Sixth and College Streets, Charlotte, N. C. March 17, 1883. 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. Mc Combs, 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, 1883. DR. A. W. ALEXANDER. DR. C. L. ALEXANDER SURGEON DENTISTS, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office, up-stairs in Irwin's corner building. 2T Office hours from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. July 14, 1882. yr. A. BUKWELL. 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. Residence opposite W. R. Myers'. Jan. 1, 1882. J. S. BI-ENCEK. J. C. SMITH. J. S. SPENCER & CO., Wholesale Grocers AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Trade Street, Charlotte, IT. C. May 19, 1882. WILSON & BURWELL WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Druggists, Trade Street, Charlotte, 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 ana retail. Oct 7.1881. HALES & PARRIOR, Practical Witch-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 oiler to both the Wholesale and Retail trade. All are invited to try us, from the smallest to the lar gest Duyers. 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. B. Vance. W. H. Bailey VANOE & BAILEY, Attorneys and Counsellors CHART OTTJS, N. Practices in Supreme Court of United States, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Federal Courts, and counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, Gaston, Rowan, ind Davidson. tQT Office, two doors east of independ ence square. June 17-tf English Tooth Brushes. 5 Gross just received at WILSON & BURWELL'S July 7, 188? Drugstore. Sometime aero we saw this savin? by Dr. Deems. "Of two evils choose neither.11 Recently we have seen this thought thus put by Dr. Hall : "If I am oetween two moral evils, 1 will not have either. A man is not to lie to save from the necessity to steal, nor to break the Sabbath less he should not be able to pay ma aeDts. tdHT" They have a queer sort of tree in Australia, which stings like a wasp, and with quite as fatal effect to animals and human beings. SALE OF Valuable Land. By virtue of a power contained in a Deed in Trust, made to the undersigned by E. C. Fesper- man, and IN. J. J) eeperman his wile, wfiicn said Deed in Trust has been duly recorded and regis tered in Mecklenburg county, I will offer for sale, at public auction, at the Court House door in the City of Charlotte, for cash, on Monday the 8th day of January, 1883, that Tract of Land situated in Mecklenburg county, about two miles East of Matthews, adjoining the lands of P. C Yandle, M. L. Harkey, the late Egbert Griffin and others, and known as the "I. A. Campbell Land," containing about One Hundred and Thirty-Four Acres. Ibis Land is valuable lor farming purposes,! and contains a uweiiiDg House and necessary out-buildings. UJU. tt. W1LSOJS, Trustee. Dec. 8, 1882. 4w LAND SALE. By virtue of the authority granted to me by Frank Sloan, in a Mortgage dated January 17, 1881, and registered in the omce of the Register of Deeds, in Book 25, page 276, 1 will sell at the Uourt House, In Charlotte, on Saturday, the 6Ui day of January, 1883, the Property known as the "Frank Sloan Place," being a part of the 8adler Lands, adjoining the lands of M. A. Wilson, Dr. T. T. Sandifer, M. M. Sloan and others, contain ing, by estimate, Twenty-three and two-thirds (23) Acres, more or less. 1 erms casb. J. P. BEATY, Mortgagee. J. A. McLURE, Agent. Dec. 8. 1882. 4w LAND FOR SALE. By virtue of a Decree of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg county, I will sell at public auction, on the premises, at 11 o clock A. M., on loth December, prox., a valuable TRACT OF LAND, in said county, adioimng the lands of Capt. JU. A. Potts. J. L. Jetton and others, near Bethel Academy, containing 161 Acres, enough of which is cleared for two-horse Farm, balance well tim bered. Terms One-half cash, remainder six months credit with note at 8 per cent interest with ap proved security. Title retained till purchase money is paid. W. P. WILLIAMS, Commissioner. Nov. 16, 1882. 5w Davidson College, N. C. SHERIFF'S SALE. I will sell for cash, at the Court House door in the city of Charlotte, on Monday the 1st day of January, 1883, to satisfy Executions in my hands, the following described Tracts of Land, viz: Tract of Land in Huntersville. adjoining the lands of J. N. Hunter, Ellen Hamilton and oth ers, as the Property of V. Q. Lee. Also, the in terest of Wm. Campbell in that Tract of Land known as the "Campbell Lands," in Steel Creek Township, adjoining the lands of S. L. Hoover, A. L. Thomas and otbers. M. E. ALEXANDER, Dec. 1, 1882. 5w Sheriff. VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE. Under and bv virtue of three several Mort gages executed by T. B. Elliott as follows, viz : Mortcaee of T. B. and S. H. Elliott to Rufus Barringer, dated January 14th, 1873, recorded in Book 8, page 280; Morteaze of T. B. Elliott to R. M. Miller & Son, dated Feb. 1, 1879. recorded in Book 20, Daee 243. and Mortgage of T. B. Elliott to R. M. Miller, dated March 15, 1882, recorded in Book 30, nacre 326. The interest of T. B. Elliott in the several Tracts r,r Parcels of Land described in said Deeds the same beinff the interest of said 1. U. El iott n the Tract of .Lands conveyed Dy d. xi. Elliott. Sr.. to his sons: and also in the lraci which descended to said T. B. Elliott and his brothers and sisters as tenants in common from his mother, Will be sold at the Court House door in the city of Charlotte, on Saturday, 30th December, 18S2, for cash. Said Lands are situated in anaron lownsuip in Mecklenburg county. KUFUS jsakkijnuhjk, R. M. MILLER & SONS, R. M. MILLER, Dec. 1, 1882. 4w Mortgagees. SALE OP CITY LOTS. Bv virtue of the authority granted to me by Jas. H. Henderson, in a Mortgage dated January 14, 1879, and registered in the office of the Regis ter of Deeds, in Book 20, page 443, I will sell at the Court House in Charlotte, on Saturday, December. 23d. 1882. that valuable City Property at the corner of Church and 4th streets, wnicn is fully described in said Mortgage, being two Lots and the improvements thereon, lhe iroperty will be sold in four oarcels. on each of which there is a Dwelling House. Mr. Jas. 11. Henderson will snow tne rroperiy to anv one desirinsr to purchase. Terms of sale will be announced at sale. They will be made so as to accommodate those wishing to buy Houses. ti. u. simujnuo, Nov. 24, 1882. 5w Mortgagee. Valuable Farming, Timber and Mining LANDS FOR SALE. 6,000 Acres Farming and Timber Lands, (Bot tom and Up Lands,) and Iron Ore Bank, belong ing to the Estate of J. W. Derr deceased, in Lin coln and Catawba counties, will be sold in any quantity and on favorable terms to suit pur chasers. Also, will be sold one-half interest in the Big Iron Ore Bank of 200 Acres, said to be inex haustible. The Lands are North and East of Lmcolnton from 2 to 7 miles, produces Wheat, Corn, Cotton, Tobacco, Grasses, and all kinds of Timber. We will also rent, until sold, the inadison Furnace and Forge. The works are in good working order, and any person wishing to ex amine the Lands wiil call on the undersigned and they will take pleasure in showing the same. JAMES MULLEN, Chronicle P. 0 ,N. C, A. J. DERR, Cowan's Ford tf. U., IS. u., Executors of J. W. Derr. Nov. 10, 1822. 6w FARMING LANDS For Sale and for Lease, On the West Bank of the Catawba River, near Craig's Ferry. 15 miles from Charlotte, improved and unimproved, of the best quality for growing the Grasses. Grain, and Cotton, and in Tracts of from One Hundred to Twelve Hundred Acres. Can furnish Purchasers and Lessors with full outfit of Implements, Working Stock, and Provender. Similar Tracts as to size, duality and outfits same distance North of Charlotte. Long leases for clearing and improving small tracts. Also, several finely located Building Lots, as well as improved uity neat Jitate, for sale on favorable terms. For further particulars apply to RO. D. GRAHAM, Attorney, Nov. 3, 1883. Charlotte, N. C. "If My Bark Sinks, 'Tis To Another Sea." O soul affrighted ! striving through the dark That like a huge black cloud surrounds thy bark- To override the gale, so conquering fate, What matters it, I ween, if soon or late Thy ship goes down, since other seas are nigh On which thy storm-tossed bark can safely lie ? O weary hands that to the rudder hold 1 Powerless to help as maddened waves are rolled About thy bark, why not in faith let go Since other seas where peaceful waters flow Are thine for aye f Rest now from thy despair : What if thy ship go down, if home be there ? O eyes grown blind in vain attempt to pierce The blackness of the nights, and days made fierce By night's despair t O ears that hear no cry Because of wind and tempest howling by ! Why strain a voice to hear, a light to see, When God on other seas will answer thee? There on a sparkling stream thy bark shall glide, And neither storm, nor gale, nor changeful tide, Can drive thee from thy course. There milk- white sails With heavenly breezes fill, and love prevails To keep the waters blue, the heavens fair, What if thy ship goes down, another sea is there. Eleanor Kirk, in 8. 8. Times. Simple Facts about Brick's. The Carpenter's and Builder's Journal gives the following facts : An average day's work for a bricklayer is 1,500 bricks ou outside and inside walls ; on facings and angles and finishing around wood or stone work, not more than half of this number can be laid. To find the number of bricks in a wall, first find the number of square feet of surface, and then multiply by 7 for a 4 inch wall, by 14 for an 8 inch wall, by 21 for a 12 inch wall, and by 28 tor a 16 inch wall. LAND FOR SALE. I offer for sale that Tract of LAND near the city of Charlotte, N. C, containing about 132 Acres, and known as the home of the late Dr. Asbury. This land adjoins the Wadsworth farm and the land of Capt. Syd. IS. Alexander. Un the place are about 600 Fruit Trees, and eight acres planted in Grape vines. The place will be sold on reasonable terms. B. f. ALiJ!iA.AJND13;U. Nov. 24, 1882. tf PAY YOUR TAXES. A large amount is due me on Taxes for 1881 and 1882. I have indulged the Tax-payers as long as I can. I must have money to settle my accounts with the State and county, so I now give notice that I will be compelled to advertise ail property, on January 1st, 1883, on which taxes have not been paid. PAY YOUR TAXES. No further indulgence can be given. Save Cost and trouble. I can not indulge longer, and I urge payment before January 1st, 1883. M. E. ALEXANDER, Sheriff. Dec. 15, 1882. 2w NEW NOTICE. Guano and other mortgages and notes must be settled at once, or somebody will have to be dealth with in law. I am obliged to have a set tlement. I have just received 300 sacks genuine Kamit, and parties wantiDg the same will please calt early. J. G. SHANNONHOUSE, dec. 15, 1883. Agent. FOR RENT, Two good One Horse Farms, near Davidson College. See R. BARRINGER, Charlotte ; or, W. R. SMALL, Clear Creek, N. C. Dec. 15, 1882. lw NEW FALL GOODS. We have iust returned from the Northern markets, and are now ready to show the BEST STOCK OF GOODS In this City, embracing everything new in Dress Unndn and Trimmings, such as Cashmeres, Shoodahs, Satmes, Ottomans, French .Novelties, Satins, Silks, Surahs, Moires, &c, sc. Our Stock of Cloaks, Dolmans and Jackets, is immense. Balmorals, Shawls, Neckwear. Ribbons, rassamentnes, fringes. Velvets, Velveteens, Plushes, &c. We have a large and handsome Stock of Boots and Shoes, Clothing, Overcoats, Hats, Caps, &c. Wt have the best 4-4 Bleached Domestic ever offered at 10 cents. Ask to see it. PEARL SHIRTS. Call and examine our Stock before buying, and if we den't sell vou it will not be because our prices are not low enough. UAKUUAV XiO ec wxijriii-jjfli, Sept 15, 1882. Smith Building. THE CHARLOTTE WAREHOUSE FOR THE STORAGE OK Cotton. Fertilizers and Genera Merchandise, SPRINGS & BUR WELL, Proprietors. Having put in good order the building formerly I known as the "Rock Island Factory," we are now prepared to do a general Storage business. Thi being the largest and most conveniently located Warehouse in the City, we can furnish Storage and Insurance at reasonable prices and can receive and deliver on short notice. SPRINGS & BURWELL. Sept. 22, 1882. The Old City Butchers Near Wadsworthys Livery Stables. I. W. & 3. J. ADAMS have again opened their Meat Market at the old stand opposite the Methodist Church, whre FRESH MEATS of all sorts can be had daily. Long experience in the business justifies us in the belief that we can give satisfaction. Old and new customers are invited to give us a call. Wanted. We want to purchase Beef Cat tle, Sheep, Hogs, &c., for which we will pay the highest market price. J. YV . OS ai . d &UUO.S. Charlotte Nov. 10, 1882. lm Christmas Symbols. The popular custom of decorating the houses and churches at - Christmas with evergreens is very ancient, and it is be- teved to be derived irom Druid practices. t was an old belief that sylvan spirits might look to the evergreens and secure among them protection from frost until the return ot spring, xue various evergreens n use from early times are holly, ivy, rosemary, bays, laurel ana mistletoe, whicb, excepting the latter, retained their place in both houses and churches from Christmas until Candlemas. Holly and ivy still remain in England the most es teemed Christmas evergreens, though at the two universities the windows of the college chapels are decked with laurel. Many of the rites and Symbols attach ing to the observance- of this season may be traced to a period long prior to the time when Julius Cfesar first landed in Britain. The drawing of the "yule log" comes from a very ancient Scandinavian custom when, in the winter solstice, du ring a certain feast, large bonfires were kindled in honor of the god of Thor. The bringing m and placing of the ponderous og on the hearth of the baronial hall was among the most joyous of ceremonies ob served on Christmas eve in feudal times. f the charred remains of the log were preserved to light its successor of the fol- owing Christmas,it was considered a sure safeguard against fires in the interim. The custom among the juvenile portion of the English people, at one time, . was called "The burial of the Wren,", on St. Stephen's day,December 26. On that day parties of boys went from door to door,the eader carrying a fresh branch of ever green decorated gayly with ribbons and leces of colored paper, to which was at tached a bird. At the door of each housu visited, the party joined in singing the ollowmg lines in rhyme: "The wren, the wren, the king of birds. Was caught on St. Stephen s day in tne firs : Although he is little his honor is great, So rise up, kind madame. and give us a treat Up with the kettle and down with the pan, A penny or twopence to bury the wren ; Your pocket full of money, your cellar full of beer, We wish you merry Christmas and happy New Year." One of the prettiest Christmas customs is the Norwegian practice of giving on Christmas day a dinner to the birds. Ou that morning every gable, gateway or barn-door is decorated with a pheai ot corn attached to the end of a long pole, rom which the birds are iuvited to make their Christmas dinner. Even the poor peasants will contrive to hare a handful at leaBt reserved for this purpose, and what the birds do not eat on Christmas day remains for them to finish at their leisure through the winter. Vampire Bats in Brazil. Probably no part of Brazil is more af flicted than a portion of the province of Bahia with the scourge of vampires. Whole herds of cattle are sometimes de stroyed by this venomous bat. It was ong a matter of conjecture how the ani mal accomplished this insiduous and deadly work; but scientific men have now decided that the tongue, which is capable of considerable extension, is fur nished at its extremity with a number of pipallse, which are so arranged as to form an organ of suction, the lips having also tubercles symmetrically arranged. Fas tening themselves upon cattle, these dreadful animals can draw the blood from their victims. The wound, made proba bly from the small, needle-like teeth, is a fine round hole, the bleeding from which it is very difficult to stop. It is said that the wings of this deadly bat fly around during the operation of wounding and drawing blood with great velocity, thus fanning the victim and lulling while the terrible work is in progress. Some ol these creatures measure two feet between the tips of their wings, and they are often found in great numbers in deserted dwel lings in the outskirts of the city. The negroes and Indians especially dread them, and there are numerous sunersti tions among the natives in regard to them. The Squirrel's Winter Habits. In a delightful sketch in the December Century of the "Hard Fare" the birds and small animals have to put up with when the winters are unusually severe, John Burroughs speaks as follows of the cunning of the red squirrel : I have said the red squirrel does not lay by a store of food for winter use, like the chip-munk and wood-mice; yet in the fall he sometimes hoards in a tentative, tem norarv kind of way. I have seen his sav ings butternuts and black walnuts stack here and there in saplings and trees, near his nest ; sometimes carefully insert ed in the upright fork of a limb, or twice One day, late in November, I counted dozen or more black walnuts put away in this manner in a little grove of locusts, chestnuts, and maples, by the roadside. and could but smile at the wise forethought of the rascally squirrel. His supplies were probably safer that way than if more elaborately hidden. They were well dis tributed : his eggs were not all in one bas ket, and he could go away from home without any fear that his store-house would be broken into in his absence. The next week, when I passed that way, the nuts were all gone but two. I saw thesquirre that doubtless laid claim to them on each occasion. There is one thing the red squirrel know unerringly that 1 do not, (there are pro bably several other things) that is. on which side of the butternut the meat lies. He always gnaws through the shell so as to strike the kernel broadside and thus easily extract it, while to my eyes there is no external mark or indication, in the form or appearance of the nut, as there is in the hickory-nut, by which I can tell whether the edge or side of the meat is toward me. But, examine any number of nuts that squirrels have rifled, and you will find they always drill through the shell at the spot where the meat will be most exposed. It stands them in hand to know, and they do know. Doubtless, if butternuts were amain source of my food, and I were compelled to gnaw into them, I should learn, too, on which side my bread was battered. Independent Thinking. BY REV. DR. DEEMS. How little independent thinking there is ; and bow little real taste there is in that society which is ordinarily consider ed cultivated I There is a kind of fashion in books, as in bonnets. A person of information and taste has admiration for something say a picture; he has solid ground for his opin ion of the merits of the picture, and his pleasure in it is a pleasure created by a cultivated taste. The fact that he is arge authority makes thousands praise the picture which- he praises, although those thousands may have no apprecia tion of the merits of the picture; and so from mouth to mouth the verdict goes, and enters books, and is transmitted down generations of authors; and so it comes to be the orthodox thing to admire a pic ture whether one really takes pleasure in it or not. As an illustration of this regard, we might cite the admiration in which Ra phael's Madonna, at Dresden, has held everybody's express admiration, so that millions have obtained pictures of it. In how many houses we see photographs of the wild, scared looking Holy Child in the arms of its staring mother, with the two naked, fat-winged little imps in front, who look exactly as ll they had done something for which their mother would spank them, if cherubs had mothers ar.d any spanking place on their persons. Now, of the thousands who sit before that picture, with dropped under jaws and rapt expression of countenance, how many know why they admire it, beyond the tact that every one does r Would not a arge majority of those starers, if they told the truth, say that they had seen a thousand pictures in-Eiirope which really gave them more pleasure than Raphael's Madonna r One night in Rome we were sitting in our hotel writing our honest opinion of Michael Angelo's great picture in the dis- tine Chapel. It was as preposterous in a man who was not an artist to express an opinion upon such a work as it is for a ayruan to have, an opinion in theology ! Just aB we were completing our notes, a very distinguished sculptor came in, and we ventured to tell him how we were em ployed. As we had no reputation to lose n tnat line, we irankiy read mm our notes. lie broke into laughter, and said : 'Well, that is the opinion, probably, of nine-tenths of all artists in regard to these points, but there is not one of us who would have the moral courage to publish them." Then, again, there is ilr. Turner's wrote a most 'Slave ship." Mr. Ruskin elegant description of it. His father owned it. We are told that Mr. John Taylor Johnson of New York, paid ten thonsand dollars lor it. I he gallery walkers were enraptured over it. Even people of cultivated tastes gave glowing descriptions of it. None, now, probably would dare express his real opinion of this trageous daub. Skies such as God never made, seas sucn as winds never plowed, lloating iron sucn as never was dug from mine, make up this hideous mass of patches of pigment. It is not beautiful. There is no sense in it. No possible human sagacity could be expected to discover wnat tne painting was in tended to represent. The fact now comes out that it was painted at a time when Mr. Turner was crazy. It is a daub, but not every painter could paint such a daub. It required tne nand ot lurner; it re quired that he should be in a fit of insani ty to produce this horrid abortion, let Mr. Ruskin praised it in an elegant pas sage, and none of us dare gainsay it. If honest statements of opinions are ex pressed, then a few who assume to them selves a monopoly ot taste, look patroniz ingly upon honest people, and explain their difference by takiDg the ground that these honest people have not been edit cated up to it. Nevertheless, it is a good and healthy thing for the intellect and for the soul, that men form their opinions upon careful study, and be ready to express them frankly. It was the bund following of Mr. Ruskin which made the "Slave ship" draw more than fifty dollars out of any body's pocket. In no sense is it worth tne price, except as an autograph ot a celebrated man and is priced high be cause his hand produced it. In such case the money is paid out in the indulgence ot a sentiment, rather than in procuring anything that is its equivalent. Atlanta, Ga., has a wonderful family of four brothers. These four boys started a few years ago selling newspa pers. They made ten cents apiece the first morning they went to work, and for two winters thereafter they went, bare footed, through the snow and sleet in the freezing dawn, on their morning rounds. From the very first they saved a certain percentage of their earnings, which they wisely invested in Atlanta real estate. l be oldest ot them is now eignteen years of age, and the youngest twelve. They have supported an invalid father and their mother all the time, and now have pro perty worth considerably over $5,000, houses from which the rent is $20 a month, and $200 stock in a building and loan association. What these boys have done, other boys may do. ra This is the record of good farming accomoliahed bv Mr. Reuben E. Mann, of Madison county, Ga., the past year : With three plows he has made and gathered -. . - 640 bushels of oat?, 165 bushels of wheat at a yield ot 35 bushels to the acre, 5 tons of Bermuda hay, 800 bushels of corn, with fodder in proportion, a large quantity of peas and pea hay, 400 bushels, of sweet potatoes, and 26 bales of cotton. He will make about 35, possibly 40, bales of cot ton. His farm, consisting of 300 acres, is only partially in open land, two-thirds of it being in woods or old pices. Savannah A Boston jeweler was puzzled by the failure of his chronometer clock to keep correct time. An investigation showed that a spider had found entrance to the case and had spun a web, one thread which was attached to the pendulum, thos snortening us swing. . i ; - i A Working Girl's Home. A young working girl in this city by exercising her own innate good taste, has achieved a charming room at compara tively small expense, seslhetio enough to please the most fastidious person. The floot," painted by her own hands, is a dark walnut snade, partly covered by a rug made of cheap ingrain carpet; in a small pattern of cream and olive, bordered by a oroaa Dana ot plain olive lelt. .The. inex pensive wall paper is pale olive, flecked with pink, finished by a ' narrow olive freize terminating at the corners with a cluster of four tiny pink fans.' One win dow faces a dingy brick wall, and the painted the window panes in bright water colors, following a pretty traced .pattern, I wmcn gives a bit ot stained glass quite effective in the pretty room. ,-The. . other window is draped gracefully with long full folds of sprigged muslin, depending from rings on a plain pine roll, to be re placed in the winter with a heavier cur tain of olive canton flannel. The furniture is light wood, and a lamp with a rosy tran sparency stand on a 5 o'clock tea table of unvarnished wood, and 6ends a soft light over the room, which also contains book shel ves of pine, a couple of second hand easy chairs and a small dry goods box for shoes, covered by her own hands with olive and pinkcretoiiue. A large clothes- horse on which she pasted the story of Cinderella, in Walter Crane's pictures over olive paper, shuts on the bedstead and washstand from view, although there is no cuecK aoove. me toilet accesso ries, set off with sprigged muslin over a pink lining, are a pink and white wash bowl and a large pitcher of the quaint shape that comes now in the cheaper grades of china; a second hand ward robe draped with a portiere of olive can ton flannel, contains the unaeestbelic dust pan, brooms and other homely articles necessary to neatness and comfort: all trifles of that description bought1 at the five-cent counters. A pretty willow rock ing chair, ornamented with olive and pinK riooon, and a knitted hassock to match the two latter are Christmas gifts and stand on the rug. On the olive draped- mantle are grandma's Nankin A. ' A. . A A-tl"t .. 11 ! - mapoi, iwo tan suver canaiesticKS and a large ginger jar, not decorated and spoiled wun gummed-on-pictures, but lelt in its pristine blue and white beauty, filled with white daisies, gathered on Sunday after noon walks. Hartford Times. How Dressed Beef is Prepared. An article decribing how dressed - beef is prepared m large Western packing houses for the shipment to the East says: Aiier arriving in tue yards the cattle are allowed to reBt for two days, during which time they are carefully fed and watered, V ben ready for killing they are driven into an enclosed alley, from which open ten stalls. As they stand in these stalls a man shoots them from above with a Remington rifle. They are then attached to a chain and a in few moments are cleaned, dressed and ready for the cutting depart ment. One day s supply of slaughtered cattle is kept in advance of this depart ment, bo that cattle killed and dressed one day are cut up the next. In the cut ting department the carcasses are cut into various shapes and sizes needed for ship ment and are put into the ice house or chill room. This room has a capacity of 100 tons of meat, aud there is another of the same capacity, and a third which holds 50,000 pounds of drosscd meat. The temperature in these rooms is kept at twenty-eight degrees Fahrenheit, but has been on occasions reduced to sixteen de grees and maintained at that point for iweniy lour nours. inis temperature is . r mi produced by the circulation of "salt pickle through inch iron pipes, which seem to be everywhere, and are covered with an inch and a half of pure white frost- This arrangement is in strict ac cordance with natural laws, as the cold pipes attract the moisture which contains whatever impurities there may be in the air of the room, and renders the air dry, which is as essential as to have it cold. lhis method ol relrigeration is equal to the presence of fifty tons of ice in each room, and its superiority in point of space J : i - anu convenience can De reaauy seen. When ready for shipment the meat is ta ken from the hooks in these rooms and put into the refrigerator cars. One Point of Argument. On one point, then, all are agreed. Unfortunately it is only one point. For it is very certain that when Mr. Kelly says that he favors a revision of the tariff at the coming session, he means a very different thing from that which most of the other Republicans wish ' to imply in the nse of the same formula, and that Mr. Carlisle has a standard of action different from both. under such circumstances what is to be done r it eacn member in sists npon the adoption of his own plan, every plan will fail inevitably. Moreover, if any tarin scheme be made in an of fensive sense a party measure, nothing will be done. For the Democrats will in that case unite against it, and they will have the support of enough Republicans, who will fancy that the special interests in their charge are likely to be injured, to constitute a majority. Consequently, all the members should prepare themselves to accept a measure which does not com- mend itself altogether to their respective I iudgments; and they should also resolve i -. . ..- .... that in this matter the country shall be preferred to party. Boston Advertiser. 1 'm EST" The great need of the black peo ple in this country is 6ound moral and religious teaching, not the sort of practical politics taught him by either political party. It is the duty of every Christian man and womac to aid in supplying this want. jMgf lbe werman empire has now about 34,000 000 acres of forest, valued at $400,000,000, and appropriates $500,000 every year to increase and maintain the growth of trees. . ofl Montana has, over 1,000,000 I head of cattle grazing on its fertile pas - i lures. . Trade at Home. ' Because, in the first place, we aro one ' community, one family, and the success of one is the success of all. Wc . stand in a measure banded together, to share each other's profits, to divide each other's roes . in business. You men that buy, not merchant fails or is crowded out of busi-' ness but your real estate depreciates in value. You will all agree that your valu-; ation depends on the prosperity of the town. - Yon should do your share in mak ing that prosperous. By helping your neighbor you help .yourself. Again by trading at home you can usually save money.' liood goods can be and are sold as cheaply here a anywhere. 'You go out 1 of town at an expense of time and ' money and then as often as otherwise find . chaff behind the high sounding advertisements which have attracted you, and to buy of irresponsible agents is risky business at 1 the best. This rushing out of town with every dollar is sure death to local pros- ; penty, and this prosperity is of as much moment to you as to your neighbor. Trade 1 at home remembering that as with our ' forefathers in state, bo in prosperity with 5 us: "United we stand, divided wc fall." Look further than the end of the year before you take your hard earned dollars . out of town, aud be sure vou do uot be both penny and pound foolish in so going. What are Clouds? Though the clouds are such familiar ob jects, very little is known about them, and the process by which they are formed and give back their moisture to the earth are unsolved mysteries. I hey cannot be classed as belonging to the solid, fluid or gaseous form ol mat ter.. Yet they are defined as beiug "a collection of watery particles in the state of vapor, suspended in the air." If they are ordinary vapor they must bo governed by the laws which affect vapors. Brande defines vapor thus: "When fluids and certain solids are heated, they become converted into elastic fluids or vapors. wh"ich differ from gases in this respect, that they are not under common circum stances perfectly elastic, but resume the liquid of solid form when cooled down to ordinary temperature. According to this definition, clouds cannot be composed of ordinary vapor, but under all conditions their temperature must be below the condensing point of water vapor. At the elevation at which clouds are often seen they are" in the regions of per petual congelation ; and as they float above the highest mountains they must bo exposed even in sunshine, and certainly in the night when the solar heat is not poured upon them, to temperatures colder than those of the frigid zones Popular Science Monthly. An Idea of Heaven. Rev. John P. Newman, of New The York city, on a recent Sunday preached on "Other Worlds" and gave his idea of heaven as follows: "The question is often asked, 'What is heaven?' I reply that it is a ubL The Bible is an unmeaning book if heaven is not a location. Where is heaven ? Probably somewhere in the center of the universe. A derman astronomer has designated Alcyone as the abode of the blessed God, which may bo true. Heaven cannot be a physical place, although there may be flowers, the tree of life, rosy skies and crystalline fountains. There will be intellectual development in heaven, which will be a great university with God as the president and the angels as instructors, where will be taught arith metic, geometry, trigonometry, natural philosophy, botany and history." Don't Expect Too Much. That is, just now. It is December; the darkest month in the year. All nature has gone, oris ready to go, to sleep. Therefore, do not expect your window-pets to flower as in the brightest month, June. Jbew people who cultivate window plants understand how very tired and sleepy all plants are at this time. The days are so very short, and there is so little sunlight, and the nights are hours longer than in the summer. Plants to thrive and bloom must have sunshine, and unless they have a good deal of it they are not inclined to grow. In view of these things we must be patient. No amount of attention will make up for the short days, and all the care in the world will not take the place of the absent sun. Good Cheer. JsrT" The receipts of Chicago dressed beef now daily arriving in New York amount to seven hundred beeves, con tained in twenty cars, and the retail prices are from two to five cents per pound lower than those killed there. Six ty different cities in New England and the Middle States are receiving this beef. About two-thirds of the beef now sold in Boston is Chicago dressed. Large ship ments to Liverpool and London are mak ing from New York, Boston and Portland. To supply the enormous demand enormous demand from rl,200 to 1,500 cattle are slaughtered daily I at Chicago, all for consumption as fresh I meat. C2T"In a cave at the summit of a high buff near Gridley, Cal., a colony of bees had been secreting hoiiev for fifteen year The only access to their treasure was an almost perpendicular wall of rock, and the difficulty of securing it had always been a sufficient protection until about a month ago, when a party of invaders de termined upon an assault. They reached the cave, and, after a three hoars' battle with the bees, came off victorious, though they all felt that another such victory would have been the ram of them. In the cave was found a solid mass of honey in the comb two and a half feet thick. .d?" Men are frequently like tea the real strength and goodness are not proper' 1 J i. iiri 1 1 ; 1 ly drawn oat until they have been pat in inotwaier. A