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OLD SERIES : VOLUME XXXI.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1882.
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THE
Charlotte Home and Democrat,
Published every Fkiday by
J. P. STRONG, Editor & Proprietor.
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Terms Two Dollars (or one year.
One Dollar for six months.
Subscription price due in advance.
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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'
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1 ly drawn oat until they have been pat in
inotwaier.
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