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THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER VOL. IV. NO. "Sn. II THE , Charlotte Messenger IS PUBLISHED Every Saturday, AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. In tht Interest* of the Colored People of the Country. Able ami well-known writers will eontrib me to its columns from different parts of the country, and It wUI contain tbejrtest Gen eral News of th = < j a y_ The Messenger is a flrstclass newspaper and nil) not allow personal abuse in its col isnot sectarian or partisan, but ndependent—dealing fairly by all. It re serves the right to criticise the shortcomings of nil public officials— commending the ortliy, and recommending for election sucha'' tenb *es e wmen es in its o pinisuited to scr“ the interests of the people. It is intended to supply the long felt need SIAifSSW* 1 ”’ *° ttrfvo ‘ at « the rights end Ideciillv e i| lnf fr S t,le Ne Bro-American, CaraUms ,he Fledmont action of the SUBSCRIPTIONS: (Always in Advance.) 1 year - . . $1 M 8 months - - - 100 K months - -75 3 months - - - ?K) V. months * . . 35 Single Copy . - 5 Address, W.C. SMITH Charlotte NC* . The Great Krnpp Works. • One of the most curious features of the great Krupp wosks at Essen, Germany, is the monster steam hammer which bears the name of "Unser Fritz.” It is nearly two hundred feet high, and the hammer, which weighs one thousand tons, falls on a block of metal weighing no less than twenty thousand tons. It has a steam engine of its own. On one of the cross pieces may be seen the following inscrip tion in large gilt letters: “Fritz, nur immor d’ruff!” (Fritz, strike away!) It commemorates a visit of the Emperor in 1877. Mr. Krupp presented the mechanic in charge of tnc hammer to the Kaiser, and stated that his skill was so great that he could bring down the enormous mass of metal on the most delicate and fragile object without break ing it. The Emperor thereupon drew his watch from his pocket and placed it un der the hammer. The man hesitated for a moment, whereupo 1 the Kaiser, with a view of encouraging him, exclaimed, “Nur immer d'ruft, Fritz.” The experi ment succeeded, and the Emperor pre sented the watch in question to the man as a reward for his skill. All access to the Krupp gun works by strangers is strictly forbidden, and even when foreign royalties visit the domains their aides-de camp and gentlemen in attendance are not allowed to accompany them. When completed, the smaller guns are experi mented with in a wonderful underground tunnel to insure Every three months the heavy wooden framework supporting the roof and sides of the tunnel have to be renewed so great is the effect of the concussion of air. The great guns are tried in an immense inclosed space at Dummeln which is over seven kilometres long. The Krupps em ploy • force of twenty-live thousand workmen, and besides the immense es tablishment at Essen, own works at Neuwied and Bage in Germany and enor mous iron mines at Bilbao in Spain. The firm possess, moreover, four large and splendid steamships, twenty-nine locomotive engines, eighty miles of rail way, ninety miles of telegraph, eight hundred and eighty railway cars, four hundred and thirty-uinc steam boilers, four hundred and fifty steam engines sup plying a total of nineteen thousand horse power, and which consume daily three thousand one hundred tons of coal and coke. It may he added that no guu or dered by foreign government leaves the establishment without the express per mission of the German Government. Electric Lights as Crime Rcstralners. Electric lightning is no longer an ex periment in this city. Its advantages over gas are so many and so manifest that even if the electric lights cost a great deal more than they do, it would be eco nomical to use them. They are great rrime restrainer*. A dozen electric lights and one policeman will take better care of a given extent of territory than half a dozen policeman without the electric lights. A long step has just been taken in providing for an extension of electric lights to all the avenues, all the street s leading to ferries, and all the principal streets. It is only a matter of time when all pel Is of the city will lie lighted in the new way. —New York Epoch. Bnnml In llare tile Hist. Mrs. Moneybags tto her hitslrtnd “Now understand me, .Mr Mo.,e-i»i unless I can sit on the tight-h-iirl - li the ship I don’t want any in* .* ■ *: no Mr. Moneyling-—“Why. in ilc > Mrs. Money lw » I hun l > > say the slat hoard w...|!.i i • • and I guess we tt li hn aigli t. .., hast. •— llarj+i '$ Jjrzai'. | THE SOUTH'S ONWARD MARCH A REVIEW OF INBUSfRIAL PRO GRfcNK EOrt THREE MONTHS. The Steady Advance of the tioiittiern Stair** nil Aloiiftthe l.tnr -A Coniiniioun Wonderful lleVrlopiiirnt In nil lirnnrlieA of .Mautitnctniinc Industry. The Tradesman, of Chattanooga, Tenn. in its quarterly review of the Southern industrial situation, says: The past three months, although em bracing the midsummer period, shows no cessation ih the wonderful industrial development in all sections of the South. While speculations have been rcstiicted, material growth has correspondingly increased, an 1 reports to the Tradesman from commercial and industrial centres of the South betoken the most gratifying condition of affaire. Crops everywhere in the South are above the average, and the general volume of business is in creased. Up to a fortnight ago money was easy, and, while collections are somewhat slower now, the movement of the crops will improve the financial situation. The industrial situation is very active and manufacturers are crowded with orders, and the largest iron Works are running on double time. Railroad build ing is inactive progress in many of the Southern states, and rolling mills in Chattanooga and Birmingham have or ders for mouths ahead. Returns from the Southern cotton mills ehow important improvements, the consumption of cotton having increased over 20,000 bales in the past twelve months, or nearly five and one half per cent. The number of mills up to September 1,1857, was 249; number of spindles 1,213,310; number of looms 27,- 903; cotton consumed per year 401,452 bales. New companies are being rapidly formed. In the past three months thiity two new factories have been organized, divided as follows: Alabama, 3; Arkan sas, 1; Georgia, 2* Louisiana, 2; North Carolina, 12; South Carolina, 3; Ten nessee, 2; Texas. 7. r lhe iron industry.—Southern iron masters have been greatly perplexed over the scarcity of coke, but this problem is being solved by important developments in this branch. In the past three months twelve coke com panics have been formed: Four in Alabama, four in Tennessee, two in Virginia and two in West Vir ginia, and many others are in process of formation. Work is rapidly progressing on new blast furnaces in proces* of erection in the South. In the pist quur te 1 eleven new furnace companies were organized: Five in Georgia, three in Mississippi, one in Virginia and one iu West Virginia. Gold and silver mines.—One of the features in the past quarter has been the lemarkable development in gold and silver mining. Much attention is being paid tu the industry, and vastly im proved methods of mining are being adopted. Jn the past three months fifteen smelling works have been erected in Arkansas and thirty-one mining and quarrying companies lormcd. Natural gas and oil.—l u all the South ern states much capital is being expend ed in the search ol natural gas. None has ixeu found in paying quantities, but prospectors are greatly encouraged. In the past quarter thirty-one natural gas and oil companies have been formed; In Alabama 3, Arkansas 3, Kentucky 9, Tennessee 8, Texas 5, Virginia 3. Woodworking mills. —ln the past quarter 83 woodworking establishments have been formed in the South exclus ive of saw mills: In Alabama 22, Ar kansas 10, Florida 1, Georgia 10, Ken* tucky 4, Louisiana 3, Mississippi 3, North Carolina 13, South Carolina 1, Tennessee 9, Texas 1, Virginia 3, and West Virginia 3. lirilroads. Eighty-seven railroad companies have been incorporated in the past three months, of which Alabama lias nine, Arkansas 12, Florida 0, Geor gia 21, Kentucky 4, Louisiana 2, Missis sippi 2, North Carolina 0, &outh Caro lina 1, Tennessee 10, Texas 7, Virginia 3 and West Virginia 3. Miscellaneous. —Among the general oempanies formed in the past quarter are 20 buck works, 20 electric light works, 31 street railway companies and 29 foundry and machine shops. They arc pretty evenly divided among all the States. Fve glass factories have been organized: 2in Alabama, 2 in Tennis see, and lin Georgia. A great diversi ty of other industries has been formed; among them are 18 flour and grist mills, of which 14 were in North Carolina and 11 in Texas; steel works 1, saw nulls 91, waterworks companies 29, coal and ore mines and quarries 133, miscellaneous, including land and development com panies and minor industries, 133. Surrendered Ills Stealings. A dispatch from Chicago, 111., says: Elisha A. | Robinson, wholesale grocer, whose testimony was of great value to the state in ti e boodle cases, made restitution to Cook county by handing over $15,000. This sum, according to calculations which arc satisfactory to tho state’s attorney, makes the county whole on account of commissions paid by him to the boodle ring, and his* own profits from short weights and measures on goods delivered at the insane asylum, infirmary and hospital. Several small contiaetors called on Mr. Grinned yester day and figund out what they will have to refund. The Mississippi river Is navigable 3,- miles and has 100 navigation tribu tarics. CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, OCT. 1, 1887 WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. THIS PRESIDENT WILL STOP AT CHATTA NOOGA, i'ENN. Ex-lieJiißscntative Pettibone, of Tenn essee, bended a committee from Chatta nooga, waited on the President and urged him to stop at that city oa his coining trip to the South. The Presi dent informed the Chattanooga commit tee that he would spend one hour in that city on his way from Nashville to At lanta On Monday, October 17. COMMERCE WITH SPAIN. The President has issued a proclama tion removing ihe discriminating duties against Spanish commerce, he having been officially assured by memorandum Os an agreement between the American SMtetuiy of State and the Spanish minis ter at Washington that no such duties were enforced by Spain against Arrr ri can commerce. THE REVENUE WILL INCREASE. Collections from internal revenue dur ing July and August aggregated $20,950- 030, an increase of $1,601,280 as com pared with the first two months of the fiscal year. The receipts in detail were: v - From spirits $10,271,312, increase $198,654; tobacco $5,759,138, increase $941,818; fermented liquors $4,812,693, increase $400,396; oleomargarine $83,- 886, and miscellaneous $23,004. decrease $17,475. The only Bources of revenue taxation showing a decrease were special taxes on rectifiers, wholesale and retail dealers, manufacturers of cigars, retail dealers in leaf tobacco, brewers, special tax stamps for distilled spirits for exports and penalties. That cigarette smoking is not on the wane is evidenced by the fact that the tax of 50 cents per .thousand, collected on these articles during the months of July and August, amounted to $169,144, an increase of $39,259 as compared with the tax collected in the same months of 1886. A CITY OF TENTS. Ht. liOiiiM I'rrpniTH fnrtlip <■. A. It. n Camp Mi flic it* nt for (lie t T nltcri Motet* Army. A dispatch from St. Louis, 111., says; All day long the railroads have been pouiing into the city throngs of grey headed Grand Army men with grip sacks and rolls of blankets, a large per centage of them accompanied by their wives aud children. The feature of this encampment is the sheltering of a large number of old veterans in tenfs. Tried at each encampment before in small num bers, the plan gave such tatisfaction and pleasure that it was decided to thus house vast numbers, and the executive committee arranged to care for a greater concourse of people in the field than has ever before been attempted in any land, exteptin times of war. Perhaps no canvas city of such proportions has ever been built in so short a time. Within two weeks 3,500 tents with ample room for 25,000, soldiers more than there are in the entire United States army, have been put together, are now pitched in ten beautiful parks of the city, all within a radius of two miles Headquarters are connected by telegraph, and are con venient to dining halls. A bale of straw makes mattresses for each tent, the bed clothes the soldier brings, strapped on his knapsack or grip. Five hundred of tlies; tents are pitehed in Lyon Park, 300 in Coneordia Park, in Hyde Park 500, Washington Paik 550, Carr Place 700, St. Louis 300, Jackson Park 150, Forest Park 250, aronnd the Courthouse and other public places, in the heart of tb<* city 100, The doubt whether the boys would take to the tents has been dispelled, for this one drizzling aud rainy day more applications for such shelter have been made than tents are ready. But the neighboring hotels and boarding houses offer relief for the surplus. In many c.ists the veteran will stop in camp and house his family. Shot Dead by His Wife. A dispatch from Brainbridge, Ga., says: A frightful tragedy has just occur red two miles south of here. Mr. W. M. Brooks, a well to do farmer, was shot to death by his, insane wife, Nancy. From facts elicited at the coroner's inquest it appeared that he rose early, had a break fast and a quarrel with his wife, who, in addition to insanity, was under the in fluence of whiskey. He threatened to w hip her, but did not. He went out of doors and was hitching his oxcart, when his wife walked out of the house, gun in h ind, and tired into his face, killing him instantly. He had frequently recently told peisons that his life was in constant peril, that his wife was crazy, meant him mischeif, and her insanity was increasing They have four small children, the old • st, a boy, Iwing five years of age. Mr. 11. B. Ehrlichs, merchant friend of Brooks, has taken his children and prop* erty in charge until their relations can be notified. The woman spent eleven months in an asylum several years ago. She is now in jail jicrfectly frantic. The Long Range Dynamiter. A dispatch from New York says: Lieut E. L. Zalenzki, of Battery H, United States Artillery, lias made an official test of a long-range dynamite gun at Foit Lafayette, in the presence of Hecretary of the Navy Whitney and representatives of th«* Norwegian, Spanish, French, Danish, Swedish and Japanese Governments. The test was eminently successful. General News Notes- Revolutionary movements are rife in Guatemala. The interstate railroad commissioners ate m session in Chicago. I Another big trial of nihilists is about to open in Russia. In a railroad collision near Canton, Dakota, six persons were killed. A sewer excavation at Mankato, Minn, caved in and buried two men. The George Weber Brewing Company of Cincinnati, has failed. Liabilities es timated at 1-500,000; assets $350,000, The well known New York banking firm of Prince & Whitley, of which the late William P. Travers was special part ner has gone into liquidation. A collision of freight trains occurred near Wilkesbarre, Pa. Three cars of dynamite exploded causing great dam age. No one was killed. An east bound train on the Texas Pa cific road was robbed at Bcnbrook, a few miles west of Foit Worth, thirty thousand dullars was the booty. The number of signatures on the peti tion for clemency in behalf of the Chica go Anarchists has reached about 8,000. 5,000 from Chicago and the remainder from other places in Illinois. In Chicago the conductors and drivers to the number of 1,200 in the employ of the West Division Railway Company, have decided to stiike unless their de mands for increased pay be granted. A fire in a four-story brick flat at the the corner of Lafayette and Lewis avenu es, in Brooklyn, N. Y., resulted in the death of one occupant, the fatal burning of a girl, aud the serious injury of a third person. The water in the canals leading from New Orleans into the Lake Pontchartrain has receded a few inches, but the rear part of the city west of Johnson street and between the old and new basins is almost entirely covered with water from a crevasse iu the embankment of Bayou bt John. At Baton Rogue, La., the jury in the case of Ex-Secretary of State Will A. Strong has returned a verdict of guilty as charged. Strong was indicted some months ago for the embezzlement of about $3,000 of the State's money during his term of office in connection with the sale of election ticket paper. The reunion of the blue and the gray opened under favorable auspices in Evansville, Ind. Several southern com panies, together with Governor Buckner of Kentucky, and Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, were present An incendiary who escaped from Phila delphia eleven years ago has recently been found publishing a paper under an assumed name in Millbark, Dakota, and has been arrested and sent to Philadel phia. A special from Canton, Ga., reports the arrest of a negro there named Du- Pone, who is said to be the real murder er of the Woolfolk family. It is said he was sent to the chaingang by Capt Wool folk and that he killed the family to wreak vengeance on Woolfolk. McGlynu and the Methodists. A dispatch from New York says: The Rev Dr McGlynn made an address before the New York Association ot Methodists Preachers which lasted an hour and a half, and was listened to by 500 ministers and others. McGlynn referred to his excommunication “for preaching the Christianity I was brought up in,” and after referring to the peculiar position in which he found bimsclf in facing a body so distinctively representave of the Prot estant religion, he presented llenry George’s land theories and defended them as representing the came of human ity. When the speaker had concluded, a gentleman offered a resolution of thanks to Dr. McGlynn for his “able, eloquence and instructive address,” and wishing him Godspeed in his efforts to diffuse the doctrine of “the fatherhood of God and i the brotherhood of man. ” This created great confusion, and, after a turbulent scene, which one clergeman character ized as resembling a beer garden, the xcsolution was amended by a clause that allowed members to reserve the right of individual opinion concerning land theo ries, and was adopted, Death Knocking at the Door. A dispatch from New York, Says: The steamship Alesia. which has arrived “In low” from Marseilles and Naples with six hundred passengers, has Asiatic cholera about d. Eight of her passengers died on the passage, and on her arrival at quaiantino the health officer found four cases aboard. He has sent the Alesia and her passengers to the wist bank iu the lower bay. The Alesia left Marseilles August 30 and Naples Septem ber 3. She is consigned to Jaim s W. Elwcll A Co. Sharp Goes to Slug: sing. A dispatch from New York, says: The Supreme Court in general term affirmed the judgement of coavirtion in the cane of Jacob Sharp, all four of the Judges concurring. The case can lie apjieAlcd to the Court of Appeals, but Sharp will lie tent to Sing Sing at once. WISE WORDS. Progress is born of experience. Sin is thought before it is acted. Do not scold, and never threaten. Even the weakest man is strong enough to enforce his conviction. Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion." As fire is discovered by its own light, so is virtue by its own excellence. If we have but a crust of bread we should insist upon serving it properly. The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean aud little. The world could not go on if people gave up labor whenever it became irk some. How many hearts are eaten out in long ing for what they have no power to reach. If you would never have an evil deed spoken of in connection with you, don't do one. Strength with men is insensibility, greatness is pride, and calmness is in difference. Grant graciously what you cannot re fuse safely, and conciliate those you can not conquer. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice. Take each man’s censure, but re serve thy judgment. People worry themselves ill ; they worry themselves to death. This is very foolish ; there are lot 3 of other people to worry. If you would find a great many faults, be on the lookout; but if you want to find them in unlimited quantities, be on the look-in. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong. which is but saying in other words that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. To insure long life recreation should be a part of our daily life. It makes the busy man thoughtful and keens the thoughtful man busy. It insures nealth. success and the accomplishment of more work in less time and better. Another Petition. A despatch from Chicago says: The committee h iving in charge the circula tion of the petition begging mercy for the condemned anarchists have conclud ed that the mild form of prayer, origi nally adopted will not meet the views of those who have “advanced” ideas on the subject and consider the convicted seven not as criminals but as martyrs. To ob tain the signatures of such, the following has bech adopted and will be circulated in addition to the first designed petition: To His Excellency, Richard J. Ogles- j by, Governor of Illinois: The undersign- j ed having watched with great interest [ the progress of events in connection with and since the trial in Chicago of the s>- called anarchists—August Spies, Michael Schwab, Oscar Neebe, Albert R. Parsons, Samuel Fielden, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg and George Engle—and believing that the sentence against them was and is unwarranted by the evidence, extreme in its seventy and induced by the view of a law never hitherto sanctioned by any well considered precedent, and that the accused were not shown to have been guilty of throwing or causiug to be thrown a bomb at the so called llaymar- j ket meeting, and being advised, in effect' by the statement of the prosecution in ’ said cause that these men were selected j and proc< eitd against simply because of their position as leaders in the general! labor agitation, which seems to us, un- j w arranted as it is, injurious and calculat ed to imbitter wage workers still further! against the present serial order; and be lieving that in a case of this kind, hu- ‘ inanity and the State are better served j by mercy than by a rigorous execution of ! a jud«:eineft, the justice of which is' qut stioned by a great many of our people respectfully protest against the execution ; thereof and bespeak in the name of jus-; tice, mercy and humanity the exercise, j by your excellency, of executive clemen cy in the case of these men. Helping to Hang Anarchists. A circular of deep red Anarchistic ten dencies is being circulated iu this city. It n btaded, “To the Workingmen of the United States of North America,'’ and it denounces the action of the Su preme Court in upholding the decision of the lower Court in the Anarchist cases The circular refers to Capt. Bonfield as “the notorious police bandit,*’ and villi ties Judge Gary without stint. The cir cular is signed “The federation of Trade Unions * and was print* d in New York. As soon as the information reached the ears of tho Police Capt. O’Donncl, he telephoned all over the city to have any persons found distributing the circular arrested. When Fruit Trees Grow. A German man of science (Dr. Krause of Halle) not long ago made some studies about fruit trees. He says that they sleep during the day, and do most of their growing by night. The fruit of the cherry laurel, for examnle, increases nine times as fast in the night as in the day. Apples, however, are not quite so lazy during the day, for their rate of growth at night is 80 per cent., and 20 percent, by day; that is to say, they toil only four times as quickly by night as by day. A Sea Shell Mission. Among the many curious missions to be found in London is the “Sea Shell Missions.” According to a statement in a London {Miner, this mission has dis tributed over 10,000 boxes or bags of •hells, which represent over 4,000,003 •hells, to as many poor, sick and invalid children in London and elsewhere. Terms. $1.50 per Aim Suite Copy 5 ceils. THE LAND OK LITTLE PEOPLE Faraway, and yet so near us. lies a land where all have bejn. Played beside its sparkling waters, danced along its meadows green. Where the busy workl we dwell in and its noises only seem Like the echo of a tempest or the shadow of a dream, And it grows not old forever, sweet ani young it is to-day. —Tis the land of little people, where the happy children play. And the things they know and see there are so wonderful and grand. Things that wiser folks and older cannot know or understand; In th*? woods they the fairies, find the giants in their caves, See the palaces of cloudland and the murmur of the waves. Know what all the birdies sing of, hear tht secrets of the flowers. For the land of little people is another world than ours. Once't was ours: tis ours no longer, for, when nurverr time is o'er. Through the land of little people we mar wan der never more. But we hear their merry voices and we are them at their play. And our own dark world grows brighter, and we seem as young as they. Roaming over shore and meadow, talking to the birds and flowers, —For the land of little people is a fairer workl than onm HUMOR OF THE DAY. Politics began when Joseph was sold out by his brethren.— Picayune. Al*>ut the first thing lost at sea was the sight of Land.— Carl Pretzel. There fa a striking resemblance be tween pugilists.— Merchant TWi refer. Borne of the l»est blood in the land runs through the mosquito's veins.— (t'ootiair* Stn. Why is it a crime for a banker to enter upon a partnership with a blacksmith) Because it is forgery.— Was&in/jton Critic. Curiously enough, the man who is al ways iu a pickle doesn't preserve his temper worth a cent. —Kurlingtan Free Press. Returns from summer militia encamp ments award the first prize to the mos quito for unerring accuracy m target practice.— lnter- Ocean. Alas how disappointment frowns. When hope most bright is gleaming; The stitches put in wedding gowns Are oft but idle seaming. —Merchant Traveler. “Hello, Jack, where you been?” “Col* lecting." “What successf* “Bad. Tve rummaged the city from one end to another, and I can't find a man that owes me a cent.”— Philadelphia Arn. All things are new—the buds, the leaves That gild the ehn tree's nodding crest. And even the nest beneath the eaves. There are no birds in last year's nest. All things are old—joke, incident. That till the papers East and West, And even the down beneath the tent. There is no fun in last year's jest Sun. The Great Metropolis. There are over 15,000 Italians iu New Y orK. There are forty-eight arches, tunneli ami bridges in the Central Park. There are twenty morning and ten evening papers published in the city. A prisou is attached to every police court in this city. They are six in num ber. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelly to Auimals has been organized since 1866. There are twelve domestic and half that number of foreign express companies in this city. Twenty separate and distinct railway companies send trains all over the country from this city. There are over 1,000 photographs of criminals in the Rogues Gallery at Po lice Headquarters. The largest number of emigrant! ar riving in this city in one year fa 476.086 and the lowest 54,000. Lost property when picked up by tho police can be found at Police Head quarters, 300 Mulberry street. The 90,000 Hebrews who reside in thfa city have twenty-six Synagogues and over fifty meeting houses. Bedloe's Island is about two miles southwest of this city. Boats run be tween it and the Barge Office hourly. There are over 100 asylums and homes for lunatics, friendless men and women ami incurables in thfa city Besides the bridge across the* East River the Only other bridges in New York are the ones across the Harlem and the Central Railroad track. Murray Hill, which is reputed to be ; the most fashionable portion of the city, extends from Thiid to Sixth avenues and prom Thirty-second to Forty fifth street*. The Fire Department of this city has ; 1*349 men in its employ, two floating en gine- or fire Uan, 277 horses and 159,» 503 feet of hose. The cost of maintain ing the Department fa over $1,000,000 annual lv.— Sew York San. A traveler in Holland noticed two heavy brass handle - pending lrom a high 1 chimnev board in a country houar. ! “What’are they for?" he asked, and the j Hollander explained : “Why, for old gentlemen to hold on by when lifting up one foot to warm their Our ances tors were heavy and could not stand long on one leg witnout support.** Knowledge of our duties fa the molt | meful part of philosophy.
Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.)
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