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OHAELOTTE, N. 0., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1884.
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THE
Charlotte Home - Democrat,
Published every Friday by
YATES & STRONG.
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Terms Two Dollars for one year.
One Dpllar for six months.
Subscription price due in advance.
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"E:iti red at the Post Office in Charlotte. N.
C., as second class matter," according to the
nl'es of the P. O. Department.
ROBERT GIBBON, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE,
Fifth and Teton Streets,
residence,
Sixth and College Streets, Charlotte, N. C.
March 17, 1882. tf
T. 0. SMITH & CO.,
AY HOLES ALE
RETAIL DRUGGISTS,
CHARLOTTE, N . C .
M:.y 11. 1383.
J. P. McCombs, M. D ,
OtLrs his professional services to the citizens of
Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls,
both nif,'ht and day, promptly attended to.
Otlkc in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite
the Charlotte Hotel.
Jan. 1, 1884.
A. UL'HWELL. P. D. WALKER.
BUItWELL & WALKER,
Attorneys at Law,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Will practice in the State and Federal Courts,
Office adjoining Court House.
Jan. 1,1884.
DR. M. A. BLAND,
Dentist,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte
llt.tel. .
Gas 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.
Jan. 1, 1884.
HOFFMAN & ALEXANDERS,
Surgeon Dentists,
Charlotte, JV. C.
Office over A. II. Nisbet & Bro.'s store. Office
hour3from 8 A.- M., to 5 P. M.
Dec. 14, 1883.
J. S. SPENCER.
J. C. SMITH.
J. S. SPENCER & CO.,
Wholesale Grocers
AND
C O M M I S S I O N M E R C II A N T S ,
College Street, Charlotte, JV. C.
AGENTS FOR
Rockingham Sheetings and Pee Dec Plaids.
Special attention given to handling
Cotton on Consignment.
April 13, 1883.
W. H. FARRIOR,
Practical Watch-dealer and Jeweler,
Charlotte, N. C,
; Keeps a full stock of haadsome Jewelry, and
Clocks, Spectacle?, etc.. which I will sell at a
fair prices.
Repairing of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, &c,
.lone promptly, and satisfaction assured.
(Store next to Springs' corner building.
July 1, 1883.
SPRINGS & BURWELL,
Grocers and Provision Dealers,
Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses,
Syruys, Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard,
Hams, Four, Grass Seeds, Plows, &c, which we
oiler to both the V holesale and Retail trade. All
are invited to try us, from the smallest to the lar
gest.
Jan. 1. 1SS4.
LEKOY SPRINGS. E. B SPRINGS. E. S. BURWELL
LEROY SPRINGS & CO..
Grocers and Commission Merchants,
Lancaster, S. C.
Jan. 11, 1884.
E. M. ANDREWS,
Charlotte, N. C.
FURNITURE,
Coffins and Caskets,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Feb. 9, 1883- yr
HARRISON WATTS,
Cotton Buyer,
Corner Trade and College Sts., up Stairs,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Oct. 14, 1883.
A. HALES,
Practical Watch-Maker and
DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEW
ELRY, SPECTACLES, &c, &c.
Fine and difficult Watch Repairing a Specialty
Work promptly done and warranted twelve
months.
A. HALES,.
Central .Hotel Building, Trade street
Sept. 7, 1883.
TAILORING.
John Vogel, Practical Tailor,
Respectfully informs the citizens of Charlotte
and surrounding country, that he is prepared to
manufacture gentlemen's clothing in the latest
style and at short notice. His best exertions will
he given to render satisfaction to those who pat
ronize him. Shop opposite old Charlotte Hotel
January 1,184.
J. E.
CARSON.
CARSON
C. II. CARSON.
BROTHERS,
Storage and Commission Merchants
Fourth St., between Tryon and College.
Prompt attention given to the purchase or
sale of
COTTON,
TOBACCO. FLOUR,
BACON
AND GRAIN,
And consignments of above for Storage solicited.
Terms reasonable and as low as any other
house in the city.
Oct. 12, 1883. 6m
A Problem Solved. Blobbs who has
large family thinks of eroiner to the
country and living on a farm. Among
other advantages there is the important
consideration of cheap living. Oar meat
bill is immense " said he to his ?ond wife
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the other evening. "On the farm wh
could slaughter a yearling and the veal
would last us a month." "That it would."
said Mrs Blobbs. "The onlv trouble."
continued Blobbs reflectivelv. "would he.
that in warm weather the meat would
spoil before we could consume it all."
Oh, but," said the dear woman innocent
y and earnestly, "in warm weather we
wouldn't kill a whole calf at a time."
WANTED.
I wish to buy two Good MULES.
J. S. MYERS.
March 7, 1884. 2wpd
SALE OF LAND.
By virtue of a power contained in a Mortgage
made to us by C. L. Adams, and registered in
Book 31, page 49. in the Register's office in Char
lotte, we will sell at public auction, on Thursday
the 3d day of April. 1S84. at the Court House
door in Charlotte. N. C. a valuable Tract of
LAND known as the Dunlap place, lying about
one mile South of the citv. adjoining the lands of
Mrs M. E Wriston, J. S. Myers and others, con-
taming aaift .a.cres.
TERMS EASY.
S. J. TORRENCE.
W. C. MAXWELL,
Feb. 29, 1884. 5w Mortgagees.
THE
HIGH SHOALS LANDS
In Market.
The High Shoals Lands, about 12,000 Acres
have just been surveyed and laid off into some
SIXTY-ODD FARMS of convenient size, a Map
of which, with the location and boundaries of
each Lot, may be seen by calling on Mr Thomas
liner, Charlotte, JN. (J., who will inform buyers
of the price of each Lot and terms of Sale. A
like Map will soon be hung tip in the Court
House in Dallas, for public inspection.
The High Shoals WATER-POWER, the
GOLD MINE, and two ORE, BANKS, are re
served and will be sold separately.
W. P. BYNUM,
THOS, GRIER,
Feb. 15', 1884. 4w Trustees.
THE
PEOPLE'S HARVEST!
Wittkowsky & Baruch
Have this day commenced the greatest CLEAR
ING OUT SALE ever attempted in the Caro-
linas.
They are now offering the greatest bargains ever
shown in this city in Dry Goods, Millinery, Car
pets, Clothing, lioots, buoes, 3cc.
Everything marked away down to prices that
must sell them.
WITTKOWSKY & BARUCH,
Feb. 22, 1884. Charlotte, N. C.
Just received, a fine stock ot
Hicks' Patent Magnifying Fever Thermometers
and W. T. & Co. No 3 nickel-cased Hypodermic
Syringes.
It. H. JORDAN & CO.,
Druggists.
FOR
Blank Books, Stationery, and all Office Supplies,
call at
TIDDY & BRO'S.
Feb. 22, 1884. Book Store.
State of North Carolina, Mecklenburg Co
Superior Court.
W. C. Maxwell, Administrator of John A. Wil
son, deceased, Plaintiff, against Benjamin D.
Wilson, John R. Barks and wife Elizabeth
Banks, James T. Whitehurst and wife Sarah
Whitehurst, and James B. Wilson, Wm. J.
Wilson, Cornelia Wilson, John A. Wilson,
Sarah A. Wilson, Mary T. Wilson, Luther M.
Wilson, Kate M. Wilson, George K. Wilson,
Frank C. Wilson and Everett W. Wilson,
Heirs at law, Defendants.
Petition for the Sale of Land for Assets.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court
that the defendants, Benjamin D. Wilson, John
R. Banks and wife Elizabeth Banks, James T.
Whitehurst and wife Sarah Whitehurst, and
James B. Wilson, cannot, after due diligence, be
found within this State, and sre non-residents
thereof, and that they are proper parties to this
proceeding, which relates to Real Estate, in
which they have an interest,
It is therefore ordered that publication be
made in the Charlotte Home-Democrat, a week
ly newspaper published in the county of Meck
lenburg, for six successive weeks, notifying the
said non-resident defendants to appear before the
Ulertc or me bupenor Oourt of Mecklenburg
county, at his office at the Court House in Char
lotte, on the 1st day of May 1884, and answer or
demur to the petition filed in this cause. This
the 15th day of February, 1884.
JOUJN It. JSUWIN,
55 Gw Clerk of the Superior Court.
First National Bank of Charlotte,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Paid up Capital $400,000.
Officers.
R.Y. McAden, President. M. P. Pegram, Cashier
John F. Orr, Teller. A. Graham, Clerk.
Board of Directors.
R R McAden, J L Brown, Wm R Myers,
R M Oates S B Alexander, a A Cohen,
R Barringer.
Deals in Bills of Exchange, Sight Drafts, Gold
and Silver Coin, and Government and other Se
curities. Jan 1, 1884.
NEW
Carriage Repository,
Tryon Street,
Next Door to WadswortKs Livery Stable,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
A full line of
Carriages,
Buggies,
Phaetons,
Spring Wagons, &c,
From the best factories in the East and West.
A. C. HUTCHISON & CO.
Dec. 7, 1883. 6m
A Pause by the Way.
A man, I stand upon the spot
Where, when a boy, I played,
And gaze upon the changed scene
Which passing years have made.
Oh, sweet, sweet time, what pain
It ne'er will come again.
What though I think of name attained,
Of wealth and fame achieved,
And ask myself, "have I not won
More than my hopes believed ?"
Oh, sweet, sweet time, what pain
It ne'er will come again.
Ah. vain, how vain ! the heart will know
No joys like those of youth,
And name and fame can ne'er restore
The soul once white with truth.
Ob, sweet, sweet time, what pain
It ne'er wilt come again.
Fond visions of those other days
Into my memory roll,
And all their wealth of hope and love
Pour full across my soul.
Oh, sweet, sweet time, what pain-
It ne'er will come again.
Ah, could I be a boy once more
Beneath these azure skies,
Where first my infant feet were set
And all my treasure lies !
Oh, sweet, sweet time, what pain
It ne'er will come again.
O, hopes and loves that have their graves
In far-off happy years,
My heart is sad and bows itself
Above your mounds in tears !
Oh, swt'et, sweet time, what pain
It ne'er will come again.
John C. Wallis.
A Word to Young Men.
There is just one thing that you can
take out of this world with you and leave
behind for your friends, and that is a good
name. And there is just one way in
which you can be sure of winning and
holding this one thing of imperishable
worth, and that is by cultivating with
ceaseless diligence the art of self-mastery
coupled with that faith in God and in
truth which self-mastery involves. What
ever the occupation you follow, you can
not escape the constant assault of tempta
tions to do those weak, trifling, self-indulgent
things that seem so insignificant
when viewed singly, but which in the end
break the grip of your will upon yourself.
To resist these requires self-denial, resolu
tion and true grit ; but what of it, these
are the qualities that distinguish the man
from the noodle and the knave, and no
true manliis ever existed without them.
If you have to earn your living (and most
young men not so circumstanced are to
be pitied) you may as well make up your
mind to start with that you caunot enjoy
every soft, pleasant thing that comes
along. It is not altogether innate de
pravity that is sending your companions
to the devil, but this contemptible, inex
cusable weakness that shrinks before hon
est self-denial. Then brace up, do your
work faithfully, have the fortitude and
the courage to live within your income,
whatever it is, and you can at least enjoy
the confidence of your friemls and leave
behind you the name of an honest, reso
lute man. And that is better than rubies
or anything else. Springfield Union.
SILK HATS, UMBRELLAS, &c.
Latest Style SILK HATS, SILK, MOHAIR
and GINGHAM UMBRELLAS, Gents' Hand
Made and Machine
Boots & Shoes,
Ladies', Misses' and Children's Shoes of
makes: Trunks. Traveling Bags, Trunk
best
and
Shawl Straps, just received.
PEGRAM & CO.
March 7, 1884.
HUNTER & STOKES,
(Xexl door to Dr. McAden' 8 Drug Store,)
Charlotte, N. C,
Dealers in FAMILY and FANCY GROCERIES,
Canned Goods, &c.
Piedmont Patent Flour and other brands of
Flour ; New Orleans Molasses and Syrup ; Coffee
and Sugar.
Roasted and Ground Coffees
A Specialty.
All kinds of CANNED GOODS, fresh and
pure, at reasonable prices.
E5p Give us a call and we think we can give
satisfaction. ..
C. L. HUNTER,
R. F. STOKES.
Feb. 22, 1884.
TO THE LADIES !
You are respectfully invited to call and exam
ine our stock of n e
Hamburg and Swiss
EMBROIDERIES and INSERTINGS. They
are very handsome and very cheap. "
Machine Torchon Laces 35a50c. per Dozen.
We are selling our stock of Children's and
Misses' Underwear at cost. Also, a full line of
Ladies' and Gents' Underwear at very low prices.
Call and be convinced.
HARGRAVE3 & ALEXANDER,
Jan. 25, 1884. Smith Building.
L. R. WRISTON,
DRUGGIST, Charlotte, N. C,
Dealer in Drugs of the best quality, Paints, Oils,
Dye Stuffs, Combs, Brushes, &c. Everything
usually found'in a Drug Store will be sold at sat
isfactory prices.
Irwin's Old Corner on Independence Square.
Jan. 25, 1884.
jTt. BUTLER.
THE JEWELER,
Has just returned from the North with the
FINEST MOST SELECT. MOST COM
PLETE AND BEST ASSORTED
Stock of
WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY
Silver and Plated Ware,
Ever displayed in
NORTH CAROLINA.
tW Call and see him.
Nov. 8, 1883.
The Longevity of Doctors.
Judging from the great age of the sur
vivors of the battle of Waterloo partici
pation in that battle was the surest means
of longevity which an Englishman of that
day could take. Of course this resource
is no longer open to persons desirinsr to
live beyond three Boore years and ten, but
sucn persons can accomplish nearly as
much by becoming doctors. Twenty-six
eminent physicians and surgeons have
died in England during the last four
years, all of whom were over 80 years of
age, and nine of whom were over 90. The
two who had attained the greatest age
died at 95, and began their profession as
army surgeons. These two may possibly
have laid the foundation of their longevity
at the battle of Waterloo, but however
this may be, the fact that English medical
men live to a great age is sufficiently es
tablished. The popular idea of a doctor's
life is that he is exposed to dangers that
ought to cut him off at an early age. As
a medical student he is believed to under
mine his constitution with tobacco and
spirits and to run the risk of inflicting
fatal wounds upon himself with the dis
secting knife. When in active practice
he is supposed to be dragged out of bed
at all hours and in all weathers to attend
to his patients and to be constantly ex
posed to the danger of contracting in
fectious and contagious diseases. The
wonder is that a man engaged in such a
profession ever lives to middle age where
as, as the statistics above quoted show,
he has an excellent chance of living to be
80 or 90.
The facts undoubtedly are that in a
doctor's daily life there are conditions
which are eminently favorable to lon
gevity. First among these is the fact
that a doctor never takes his own medi
cines. Then, too, a doctor takes
a good deal of exercise. It is true that
he takes little exercise in the course of his
office practice, but his out-of-door prac
tice, compelling him, as it does, to hurry
from one house to another and to climb
innumerable stairs, gives him the exercise
which men of other professions fail to ob
tain. Then, again, he sleeps more sound
ly than other men. Knowing that he
may be called up at any hour, he goes to
bed with the resolution of compressing as
much sleep as possible into the briefest
time; and the concentrated sleep thus ob
tained does him more good than many
hours of light and uneasy slumber.
To these healthful features of a doctor's
life may be added the pleasures which his
profession yields. The surgeon meets
with a constant succession of delightiul
amputations, and is liable to be agreeably
surprised every day of his life with un
usual abcesses and novel tumors, upon
which he can exercise his ingenuity and
his knife. The physician meets with quan
tities of interesting diseases, and is al
ways hoping to be the first to describe
some new disease to which his name will
be forever attached, like the popular dis
eases discovered by Messrs Bright and
Cox, respectively. If the doctor is suc
cessful, as nearly all doctors seem to be,
there flows in upon him a constantly in
creasing stream of fees, and a lucky pesti
lence or a fortunate series of explosions
and railway collisions may at any time
make the physician or surgeon a rich man.
It is thus easy to understand why mem
bers of the medical profession live to a
great age. Almost as easy, in fact, as it is
to understand why their patients seldom
rival them in longevity.
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A Sensible Darkey. Last summer,
the Virginia Democrats in their State
convention at Lynchburg promised the
colored people the control of the schools
for colored children. To fulfill this prom
ise a bill has been introduced in the Vir
ginia Senate providing that the colored
people shall have their own directors of
schools and the whites theirs. The bill
however is antagonized by a colored Sena
tor, the only Coalitionist in the Senate.
This Senator seems to be more sensible
than we would have supposed a colored
coalitionist could be, for he contends that
the bill is calculated to do vast 'injury to
the present system of public instruction
(the Democratic system provided ior his
people in the State. So far as they are
concerned, he said, the colored people of
Virginia are perfectly well satisfied that
the whites should have the management of
this important branch of the government;
and as one of the greatest objections to the
proposities he urged that in many sec
tions of the State it would be impossible
to find colored men qualified to assume the
directorship of the school system. The
head of this darkey is as level as a billiard
table on this subiect. and we have no
doubt that his views are shared by many
of the wiser colored men throughout the
South.
Terrible. The opium habit is spread
ing in this country, and especially among
the higher classes and professional people,
savs a Uoston Jf hysician, Morpnine, wnicn
has six times the strength of opium, and
is extracted from it, is the favorite drug
used by these people.
NOTICE TO THE LADIES.
ELIAS & COHEN desire to call particular
attention of the ladies of Charlotte ana sur
roundiDe countrv to their large and varied as
sortment of
Black Silks,
Which for QUALITY and CHEAPNESS can
not be surpassed by any house in the city or
State. We would be pleased for the Ladles to
call before purchasing elsewhere.
Our stock of Towels, Damasks, Carpets, Rugs
and House Furnishing Goods is large, complete
and well worth inspection.
ELIAS & COHEN.
March 7, 1884.
Boarders.
The SHANNON HOUSE, under the manage
ment of Mrs. E. R. Dodge, is now ready to ac
commodate fifteen or twenty table boarders at
sixteen dollars per month. Transients also
solicited.
Feb. 22, 1884.
BUTTERICK'S
Metropolitan Fashion Sheet
AND
SPRING CATALOGUE, just received at
Feb. 22. 1884. TIDDY & BROS.
The Superstition of Raleigh Negroes.
In a small house in rear of a residence at
the corner of East Davie and South
Blount streets lives Celia Gales, a colored
woman some 55 or 60 years of age. Last
July she found that she was "hurt," that
word meaning in her lingo, "coniured '
She says that she felt movements just un-
" v
der the skin of her side and leers, these I
movemeuts she declares and firmly be- I
lieves, by a snake and a frog. The snake
startB from the sole of her ritrht foot,
waltzes up the leg as far as the knee, then I
goes back. The frog, starting near the I
nip, moves around in lront ot the body,
and then upward toward the shoulder,
(netting near the throat, it was formerly I
me irog s uaou io "oarK as tue negroes
say. Alter prancing around a little the
frog would return to his headquarters,
I no U7nm Q n cava aha t riari mndmn I A I
. uth,c,
uui, mai neiiner ine pnysicians nor all
ineir pnysio couia neai ner or chase awav I
the "conjure." lhe medicine only served
r.r;r." IT , ou?L "u"
ua w ia tu uci ucu, uuu it louneti as ii
she would soon put on "dera golden slip
pers." $ut at this crisis a deliverer ap
peared. This was none other than "Dr."
W llliam H. Moore, who brought all his
medical acumen to bear upon this knotty
case; knotty, really, since the victim of
ten was so contorted as to appear to be
tied up in knots. The woman declares
that the "Dr." has "reduced" the dimen
sions of the "animals" considerably and
that now she is able not only to sit up but
to walk about.
Yesterday a reporter saw "Dr." Moore.
He is a tall, coal-black negro, who in by
gone days served as a member of the Leg
islature from New Hanover county. With
a graceful wave of hia hand, and a smile,
the "Dr." admitted that he had been mak
ing things lively for the menagerie which
his patient carries around with her. lie
said her delusion was that the movements
were those of animals. He diagnosed
muscular contraction," and was treating
her for that trouble. He said that in Oc
tober last he was called to attend the
woman and found her in a very low state
indeed. The - reptiles galloped around.
and the woman had given up hope. The
skin, where these movements were in
progress, would wrinkle and swell out,
just in the way that apiece of cloth would
be moved if a mouse slipped along under
it. "Dr." Moore said the first dose of his
medicine made the supposed reptiles fairly
squirm, and figuratively speaking, howl
wit h anguish. He has a big medical book,
Ine Medical Light House," which says
that real frogs and real snakes occasional
ly get into people's bodies. Since Octo
ber, the steady use of the "Dr's." medi
cine has, he says, reduced the snake and
frog to about half their former size. For
a long time there has been a regular pro
cession of people to the house, the folks
going, says "Dr. Moore, as if it was to a
funeral. They look at the woman, feel
the snake and frog, and spread the news
far and near. Hundreds of colored people
and not a few whites have been to the
place. The "Dr." is confident that he
will soon cure the woman, and says his
medicine is "scaring the things out." In
addition to giving the medicine, he said
he "steamed her a time or two." Al
though the "Dr." spoke of the queer dis
ease as caused by excessive muscular con
traction, it will be noticed that he always
alludes to the snake and the frog as real
and not as purely supposititious creatures
whose sole existence is in ignorant minds.
Raleigh Observer.
And such heathenism exists among ne
groes where there are negro colleges and
negro theological seminaries. What good
does education do such people?
. -
- A Genuine Love Story'.
A young clergyman and his bride were
invited guests at a large party given by a
wealthy parishioner, in all the freshness
and elegance of her bridal wardrobe the
young wife shone among the throng, dis
tinguished by her comeliness vivacity and
rich attire ; and when during the evening
her young husband drew her aside and
whispered to her that she was the most
beautiful womau in all the company and
that his heart was bursting with pride and
love for her, she thought herself the hap-
piest wife in the world. Ten years later
the same husband and wife were guests at
the same bouse, where was gathered a
similar gay company. The wife of ten
years wore the same dress she had worn
on the previous occasion ; of course it had
been altered and made over, and was old
fashioned and almost shabby. Toil and
care and motherhood and pinched circum
stances had taken the roses out of the
cheeks and the lithe spring out of her
form. She sat apart from the crowd, care
worn and pre-occupied. Her small hands,
roushened with coarse toil, were un
gloved, for the minister's salary was pain
lully small. A little apart the ten years
husband stood and looked at bis wife, and
as he observed her faded dress and her
weary attitude, a great sense of all her
patient, loving faithfulness came over his
heart. Looking up she caught his earnest
gaze and noticed that his eyes were filled
with tears, bhe rose and went to him,
her questioning eyes mutely asking for an
explanation of his emotion, and when he
tenderly took her hand and placing it on
his arm led her away from the crowd and
told her how he had been thinking of her
as she looked ten years before when she
was a bride, and how much more precious
she was to him now, and how much more
beautiful for all her shabby dress and
roughened hands, and how he appreciated
all her sacrifice and patient toil for him
and for their children, a great wave of
happiness filled her heart ; a light shone
in her face that gave it more than its
youthful beauty, and in all the company
there was not bo happy a couple as this
husband and wife, their hearts and faces
aglow from the flaming up of a pure sen
timent that transfigured and ennobled and
glorified all the toils and privation they
had endured.
jgT" Japanese widows designate them
selves, and whether they wish to marry
again, by the manner of dressing the hair.
In this country after a widow has laid
aside the weeds of woe she wears no sign
of her intentions, but marriageable men
are pretty sure to find them out.
Trades for the Boys.
It has been suggested that the countrv
could be improved by the addition of in
struction m the various kinds of handi
craft by which men are enabled to win
bread in the battle of life. It beerins to
dawn on the minds of those who take time
to consider matters of this kind, that the
rising generation, while beiner better edn
cated in matters and things commonly per-
taming to school life than its predecessors,
is still lacking in a knowledge of how to
advantageously make a living in case of
failure in the professional and higher
waiKs ot lite, which inevitably cornea to a
great majority of the graduates of our
schools and academies. Whether the
Pce io matraei youin in ine mecnanicai
arts is in public schools may be a question.
piace to instruct youth in the mechanical
but that many of them would be infinitely
hPT.IAr rttt a t h a orr ain a mvnnf r maf ti t. I
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xor years ine tendency nas oeen to
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uujra wibu a. Durpiua ui wuai is commonly
a J 1 1 i ntt i .
termed book learning. The result is that
the country is lull of young men trying
to crowd their way up in fields that are al
ready overcrowded, in many cases not be
cause they are over-ambitious to shine as
great lights, nor because they are unwil
ling to work in other lines, as they are so
often accused of being, but simply for the
reason that they do not know how to do
anything else, and this through no fault
of their own. Their lives have been spent
in acquiring an education that fits them
for business or professional life only, and
then because all cannot-find room in the
field that has been mapped out for them,
the unsuccessful ones are condemned as
unwilling to work because they do not ap
ply themselves to a kind of work of which
they know absolutely nothing. This con
dition of things is wrong, and the question
is worthy the attention of our educators
ana an wno nave ine weuare ot the peo
ple at heart, lhe country cannot afford
to iguore this fact and go on swelling the
racks of educated but helpless men.
lhe peopla need lawyers, ministers and
statesmen ; they also need carpenters,
blacksmiths and masons; but in its educa
tional system the country entirely ignores
the latter lact and lends its whole energy
to supplying youth with an education.
which it it fails to bring success in a par
ticular line, leaves the possessor bankrupt.
It is this lact which has been too often
and painfully demonstrated, that is rous
ing some of the leading minds of the time
to the question of reform in this matter.
Whether the reform is to be brought
about by a remodeling of the publio
school system or in some other way is a
question to be determined; that it has
got to come is an established fact.
Nature produces men with natural quali
fication to nil the various walks in life and
it is useless ana wrong lor art to step in
and attempt to turn all of these different
faculties into a single channel. There are
many boys who desire, and would be bet
ter off with a mechanical education than
with any other, and where is the justice
ot taxing ine people to supply the one
while the other is totally ignored? The
more this question is agitated, the plainer
it will be seen that the present educational
system, while in many respects a thing to
be proud ot, still falls short of perfection.
The time is coming when the justice of
expending the public money in attempting
to drill music and mathematics into the
heads of those who are designed by nature
to wield the tools of the artisan will be
questioned.
Education is claimed to be the safeguard
of the nation, and it is; but till it is so
shaped as to supply the needed education
to the varied material awaiting its benefits
it will fall short of its full mission and be
responsible for many a failure in life. The
people are ready to hear from those who
can tell why one man's son should be fitted
tor the law or the ministry at public ex
pense while his neighbor's is denied any
assistance in developing skill at the bench
or the anvil. Jloosac Valley JVews.
An Easy Cure fob Hiccough.-
Hiccough is a convulsive contraction of
the diaphragm. It is only necessary to
allow an exceedingly long and. at the
end, forcible expiration to follow a long
and quiet inspiration.
The slow inspira -
it is chiefly per -
tion, especially when
formed by the wall of the chest, prevents
the phrenic nerve from being too power
fully irritated, while the long expiration
gives this nerve time to recover from its
over-irritation. A remedy which the
writer has tested many times jwithout a
failure can always be used upon a person
who has "the hiccoughs" by some one
else, and generally by the sufferer him
self. You say to your friend something
like this : "See how close together you
can hold the tips of your forefingers with
out their touching. No, keep your elbows
out free from your sides. You can get
your fingers closer than that. They are
touching now. There, now hold them so.
Steady. By this time you can generally
ask : "Now, why don't you hiccough ?"
The involuntary tendency to breathe
slowly and steady when the attention is
fixed on performing a delicate manipula
tion is here what counteracts the convul
sive action of the diaphragm.
Much lard is injured or spoiled by
overheating and burning some portions;
the smallest quantity scorched gives a bad
flavor to the whole. A bucket of water
in the rendering kettle prevents this, if
the fire is kept from raising too high
around the sides. The water is easily
separated at the bottom if not slowly
evaporated off during the rendering,
Cutting the leaf, etc., fine with a sharp
hatchet or cleaver facilitates the free ex-
traction of the lard.
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night. When both bad finished, the
younger of the two climbed on her
mother's knee, and said in a confidential
but triumphant whisper : "Mother, Clara
only asked for her daily bread. I asked
for bread and milk."
IST The latest remedy for the cab-1
bage pest is smartweed (pepper weed,)
which is thoroughly dried, ground to pow
der and sprinkled over the plants.
A New Motive Power Discovered that is
Alleged to Excel Steam.
The announcement is made of the dis
covery of a new and remarkable motor,
known as 'The Triple Tbermio Moter."
It has been in practical use in driving a
sixty-horse power engine for six months
past, in a cement paving manufactory on
West Forty-sixth street. New York. The
discoverer of the means of applying the
new power, and the inventor of the
machinery adapted to its use, is.W. S.
Colwell, formerly of Pittsburg, Penn, who,
it is claimed, has been at work many years
on an application of the same material
from which vapor is generated. Bi-sul-
phide of carbon is a discovery of the last
century, the force and power of the vapor
;n it. nntin.(mn v,. r
Bteam a J it8 application nd regulation
.
are already under more oerfect and sale
rnniml than Tu;nMmnn,.t;a.
J Keneratn beat in a generator.
and transferrin? it into a vessel contain-
ing bi-eulphide of carbon, the latent heat
of steam is utilized to convert the bi
sulphide cf carbon into vapor, only 118
degrees being necessary to produce this
vapor. A prominent engineer of Chicago,
giving the result of his examination of
the new motor, says : "I saw a fifteen
horse power boiler, with very little fire
under ft, generating steam which gener
ated the new motor, whioh in turn ran an
engine of sixty-horse power." A syndi
cate has been formed which controls the
invention and all its patents, with a capi
tal stock of 125,000,000 of which $3,000,
000 has already been realized on the
stock.
The Sort of a Girl to Marry.
From the Beidsville Times.
A couple arrived on the train at Milton
last Saturday night and applied at once to
Squire N. M. Lewis's office to be made
man and wife. They were from fecotts
burg, Va., and gave their names as Thom
as Franklin and Mary Walker. The bride
was very pretty indeed, and bright as a
dollar. But the marriage was fringed
with considerable romance they bad but
two dollars and ten cents, and lacked
enough to pay for the license. Capt.
Uuck Farley, and Mr. JN. J. iralmer were
aotive in getting up the necessary amount
and after they were spliced, Capt. r.,
with a true old soldier's gallantry, gave
the bride a Scotch kiss in token of a
stranger's welcome to the "Gretna Green"
of North Carolina. Other gentlemen then
engaged them a room at the Gordon Hotel
and paid for their breakfast in the morn
ing. The bride was asked how it was
that so pretty herself she should choose so
homely a looking man. "Ah !" she said,
beauty don t make the pot boil." bhe
was up in the morning and made up the
bed and then called a porter to fetch a
broom for her to sweep up the floor.
She'll guide that man too. That night
one of the boys tapped at the room and
asked the groom to come go out and have
a drink, but she sprang to the door with
him saying, "No sir, he goeB nowhere, he
don't leave this room!" and he didn't.
They left the town Sunday morning walk
ing, and crossed the narrow gauge treBtle.
She said she wanted to go . to Graham
county where she had a sister living.
The Bankrupt law agreed on by
the House Judiciary Committee, is identi
cal with the bill reported to the Senate.
It gives jurisdiction io bankruptcy to the
U nited states district courts, and author
izes any person owing over nve hundred
dollars to hie a petition for a discharge
from the obligation with a statement of all
debts and liabilities, and of all his estate
assignable under the act. His application
is then to be referred to a master in chan
cery. A person, bankrupt in a commer
cial 8ense,may be thrown into involuntary
bankruptcy on the petition of bis creditors,
whose debts would aggregate five hun
dred dollars.
tT" The strong-minded women ought
to feel a little proud of the record made
this week. Monday night last a drunken
hotel waiter was proceeding homeward in
Chicago when a ferocious woman, with a
1 revolver in ner nana, naited mm in an
1 out-of-the-way street and compelled him to
deliver his watch and the few cents that
he had neglected to spend for beer during
the evening. Tuesday, while Dr. Mary
Walker was at work in a committee room
in the capitol at Washington, a negro
messenger came in and took some liberties
with her sacred silk hat. bhe rose in her
rage and smote the impious negro under
the eye with her clenched fist. He fled in
dismay. Truly this a leap year.
1 1 1
SdP" According to the Atlanta Consti
tution the prohibition cause is making the
longest sort of strides through the rural
districts of Georgia. Last week the coun
ties of Whitfield and Cobb voted in favor
of prohibition by more than two to one,
the colored voters in both counties
going unanimously for the measure.
The Constitution says that within a
year it is doubtful if liquor will be sold
in ueorgia outside ot Chatham, iiibb.
Richmond, Fulton, Muscogee and Clarke
counties.
CSPA man stopping his paper, wrote to
the editor : "I think folks ottent to spend
tber munny for payper, mi daddy diddent
and everybody sed he was the intelligent
est in the country and had the smartest
family of boiz that ever dugged taters."
"You are now one" said the
minister to the happy pair he had just
tied together with a knot they never
could undo. "Which one?" asked the
i a enr mi . . .i . . m
o" wiu nave to setue inac xor
i t m ; a .i
I yourselves, saiu me clergyman.
I -
California farmers raise ' 62
bushels of sunflower seed to the acre,
and after grinding a gallon of oil from
each bushel feed the refuse to chickens
and cows.
tSfbe highest postage rate from
the United States is to Patagonia and the
Island of St. Helena twenty-seven cents
per half ounce.