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CHARLOTTE, N. 0., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1892.
FOLUMfi XXXIX. NUMBER 1407
THE
CHAK JL, UTT JaJ DEMOCRAT
rUBLISUKD EVERY FRIDAY BY
J. P. STRONG.
Terms One Doller and Ffty Cents in advance
for 1 year Two Dollars on time.
Enkrcd at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C,
&9 second class matter, according to the rules of
the P O. Department.
J. P. McCOMBS, M. D.,
yflt-rsiiis professional services to the citizens of
t'Airiotte and surrounding country. All calls
both aight and day, promptly attended to. '
Office in Brown'B building, up stairs, opposite
Charlotte Hotel.
Jan. 1, 1892
DR. M. A. BLAND.
Dentist,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
No. 21 Tryon Street.
Jan. 3, 1S92.
H . DAVIDSON. II. L DAVIDSON.
DAVIDSON & DAVIDSON
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING AND LOAN AGENCY,
Prom-rlv boiiirbt. sold and rented. Col
lections made and loans negotiated
Office, No. I, over Reese's Drug Store.
Charlotte, N. C, Oct. 1G, 1891. ly
l. BUKW2LL. P D. WALKER.
BURWELL & WALKER,
Attorneys at Law,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Aill practice in the State and Federal Courts,
Office in Law Building.
Jan. 1, 1892.
f. I. OSBORNE. W. C. MAXWELL-
OSBORNE & MAXWELL,
Attorneys at Law,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Will practice in the State and Federal Courts
ZW Offices 1 and 3 Law Building.
July 3, 1891. y
HAMILTON C. J0NE9
CHARLES W. TILLETT-
JONES & TILLETT.
Attorneys at Law,
Charlotte, N. C.
Practice in the Courts of this District and in
Richmond county. Also, in the Federal Courts
df the Western District.
Aug. 12. 1891.
HKTllOT CLARKSON.
CHAS. H. DULS.
CLARKSON & DULS,
Attorneys at Law,
Charlotte, N. C.
Prompt attention given to all business ln-
irusted. Will practice in all Courts of the
i?tate.
H&Office No. 12 Law Building.
Oct. 7. 1891.
Ilt'OII W. nARRIS W.M M. LITTLE,
Formerly of ltichmond Co.
HARRIS & LITTLE,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
ClIARLOTTE, N. C.
Practice iu all the Courts Special and
prompt attention to collection of claims, Con-vi-yanciuir,
Negotiation of Loans and Settlement
of Estates.
Office, first door west of Court House.
Jan. 29, 1892.
Office XIcAden building, over First National
Bank, opposite Central Hotel.
Fib. G, 1891.
BOYNE & BADGER,
LEADING JEWELERS,
SOUTH TRYON ST., CHARLOTTE, N. C.
:o:
DEALERS IN
Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver
and Plated Ware.
Special attention given Repairing Fine Watches.
March 6, 1891.
JAS. ARDREY BELL,
Attorney-at-Law.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Careful attention' given to all legal business.
Office Law Building, No. 6.
Jan. 10, 1892.
JOHN FARRIOR,
1,0 3 NOKTll TRYON STREET, CHARLOTTE , N. C.
watchmaker and jeweler,
DEALER IN
diamonds. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Sil
ver and Silver Plated Ware.
tW Special attention given to Fine Watch
Kepairiug.
March 28, 1891.
Q. F. BASON. O. N. BROWN
BASON & BROWN,
Attorneys at Law,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
tW Will practice in the State and Federal
Courts. Office Nos. 14 and 16, Law Building.
Jan. 17, 1892. y
HUGHES'
Quinine Hair Tonic,
The best preparation made for the Hair. It im
Parts Viirnr in lh Malr rionnnno ;t orA thnr.
ouirjily eradicates Dandruff, and stops the Hair
lull', ., a. .rt.
mug. t-rice zo ana ou cents. irTeparea oy
H. U. .1 OR DAN & CO., Druggists,
Springs' Corner Charlotte, N. C
nv. 14. 1891.
Bibles and Testaments.
,Tlie ecklenbnrg County Bible Society keeps
Association Building, (J. H. Hood, Depository,)
well selected stock of Bibles, Testaments,
alrns and Gospels, which can be had at actual
J-ost ; and will be furnished to persons unable t
Purchase, gratuitously.
ct. 1, 1891.
ISf When the wheat crop was bar
vested in Kansas last year the leaders of
the Farmers' Alliance raised the cry.
I'llold your wheat," and prophesied that
its price would rise to an unparalleled
height this spring. Now the Secretary
of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture
is lecturing to the farmers on the subject
in a melancholy tone. He says that he
wishes he had sold his own wheat last
fall, that he did not know as much
then as he knows now, that it was worth
more in Osborne county last October than
it is worth to-day, and that he now ex
pects to sell it for what it will bring. It
is truly hard to tell in any one year what
will bo the market price of wheat in the
next year.
MORTGAGE SALE.
, By virtue of the power of sale contained in the
mortgage given by John Hoagland, to Springs &
Burwell, and registered in this county, in book
39, page 447, I will sell to the highest bidder
at the Court House door, in Charlotte, at public
auction, on Monday, the 7th day of March, 1892,
the lands described in said mortgage to wit:
One tract of 85 acres, adjoining the lands of
Samuel Capps and others, known as the Hoag
land home place, and described in a deed from
M. Hoagland to said John Hoagland, registered in
book 14, page 531.
Another tract, of 65 acres, adjoining the lands
of John Walker, S. R. Capps, and the first men
tioned tract and known as the Strange land,
and occupied by John Hoagland.
Terms of sale cash.
E. B. SPRINGS,
Surviving partner of Springs and Burwell.
Feb. 5,1892. 5w
SALE OP CITY PROPERTY.
By virtue of a power vested in me by a Deed of
Trust made by L. S. Middleton, and others, on the
24th day of December, 1890, I will sell at public
auction, at the Court House, in Charlotte, on
Saturday, the 5th day of March, 1892, a lot of
land, situated on South D. Street, in the city of
Charlotte, the same being a part of two "lots
known and designated as lots 612 and 613, on the
map of said city, particularly described in said
deed of trust, registered in book 73, page 186, in
the office of the Register of Deeds for said
county. W. C. MAXWELL,
Feb, 5, 1892. 5w Trustee.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue of an execution issued to me from
the Superior Court of Mecklenburg County, in
the case of R A Beattie vs. Jas. E Collier, I will
sell for cash, at the Court House door, in Char
lotte, to the highest bidder at public auction, on
Monday the 29th day of February, 1892, a lot in
the City of Charlotte, in square 130, between 9th
and 10th and D and E Streets, and adjoining lots
of the late Jas. F Davidson and C. A. Frazier,
and known as "The Collier lot."
Z. T. SMITH, Sheriff.
January 29, 1892. 4w
Commissioner's Sale of Land.
By virtue of a decree of the Superior Court of
Mecklenburg county, I will sell, on the 20th dav of
February 1892, at the court house door in the
city of Charlotte at public auction to the highest
bidder, all that valuable tract of land lving in
Mecklenburg county, adjoining the lands of
Margaret Cathy, A. li. McCombs, T. F. Walker,
the Beatty lands, and others, containing about
187 acres, and being the place upon which the
late Henry Cathy resided. Said land will be sold
subject to the dower of M. E. Cathy, therein, to
make assets to pay the debts of the late Hecrv
Cathy. Terms cash.
H. D. STOWE.Adm'r,
and Commissioner.
Jan. 15, 1892. 4w
FILL AND WINTER SHOES
Our Fall and Winter Trade is upon us, and we
are prepared with the best stock of serviceable
Shoes we have ever carried for our country
friends. This immense stock was bought with
the greatest care, and the prices put on each Shoe
was lower man we nave ever sold them
But, owing to short crops and low prices, we
will not sell the Shoes we expected unless we
offer
EXTRA INDUCEMENTS.
That is just what we are doing, we have gone
over our entire stock and haye lowered the prices
to suit tne time3.
Come and see our
Farmers' Broeans, Our Oil Grain Shoes,
and Our Home made Shoes.
There are lines that we are making a specialty
of, and they are truly the best Shoes we can buy.
See our LADIES HOME-MADE SHOES,
they are the best Shoes a lady can wear for out
door work.
DO YOU WAR BOOTS?
If so, you should see our stocK.
We have bought largely and are determined to
close out the entire stock if low prices will
do it.
So you should come and inspect our stock be
fore you purchase. See what we are selling for
$2.00 and $2.50.
A large stock ot ltuboer lioots ana Mioes.
Correct prices on everything in our line.
Don't forget the place.
GRAY & BARNHARDT.
Nov. 20, 1891.
BOYS' SHOES.
We sell without doubt the best $1
BOYS' SCHOOL SHOES
ever made. These Shoes are high-cut, laced,
Made iu the MOST SUBSTANTIAL MANNER,
and FULLY WARRANTED.
We sell
ALL KINDS OF SHOES
to all kinds of people, and can give A BETTER
ARTICLE for a price THAN ANY OTHER
DEALER.
GILREATH & CO.
Jan. 22, 1892.
DON'T FAIL TO GO TO THE
CITY BAKERY,
Where you can get Hot Rolls for Supper.
Our Rye Bread is number one.
J." FA8NACHT,
35 West Trade Street.
June 19, 1891.
SEWING MACHINES.
If you have ever thought of buying a Sewing
Machine now is your lime, w e nave reuueeu our
$65 Machine to $40. and our $55 Machine to $30.
Don't loose the best chance in your life to buy
the best Sewing Machine ever made in the world
C. W. BRADSHAW, Mg'r.
Dec. 11,1891.
When I Go Home.
It comes to me often in silence,
When the fire-light splutters low
When the black, uncertain shadows
Seem wraiths of the long ago ;
Always with a throb of heartache,
That thrilled each pulsive vein
Comes the old, unquiet longing
For the peace of home again.
I'm sick of the roar of the cities
And of faces old and strange,
I know where there's warmth of welcome,
And my yearning fancies range
Back to the dear old homestead,
With an aching sense of pain ;
But there'll be joy in the coming,
When I go home again.
When I go home again ! There's music
That may never die away,
And it seems the hands of angels,
On a mystic harp, at play,
Have touched with a yearning sadness
On a beautiful, broken strain,
To which is my fond heart wording
When I go home again.
Outside of my darkening window
Is the great world's crash and din,
And slowly the autumn's shadows
Come drifting, drifting in.
Sobbing, the night wind murmurs
To the splash of the autumn rain ;
But I dream of the glorious greeting
When 1 go home again.
Eugene Field, in Cincinnati Enquirer.
jnHT'The extensive production of bricks
manufactured of coal dust and pitch in
Franca may be judged from the amount
stated to have been used in that country
in 1889, namely, 24,000,000 tons. The
coal dust is for this purpose most thor
oughly mixed, in a certain proportion,
with melted pitch and then pressed into
shape and afterwards dried. Leaving
out the cost ot the dust and pitch, the
bricks cost from 30 to 40 cents per ton to
manufacture; the pitch is in value thirty
cents per ton of bricks and the coal about
$2 per ton, carrying up the figures to
some $2.70 per ton. The bricks are
formed solid and perforated, about two
inches long, the solid ones being used on
railways and steamers and in manufactur
ing establishments, and the perforated
ones in houses, the article burning freely
and giving but little refuse.
Jflf The first book issued by the
Institution for Savings in Newburyport,
Mass., on the first , day the bank was
opened, April 2, 1820, was received at the
banking rooms recently to have the
interest added. The original deposit was
620. and no more deposits were made.
The interest to date amounted to $898.
It Should be in Every Home.
J. B. Wilson, 371 Clay St., Sharpsburg,
Pa., says he would not be without Dr.
King's New Discovery for consumption,
coughs and colds, that it cured his wife
who was threatened with Pneumonia
after an attack of "La Grippe," when
various other remedies and several physi
cians had done her no good. Robert
Barber, of Cooksport, Pa., claims Dr.
King's New Discovery has done him
more good than anything ho ever used
for lung trouble. Nothing like it. Try
it. Jb ree Trial Bottles at Burwell & Dunn,
wholesale and Retail, and at Jordan &
Scott, wholesale Drug store. Large bottle,
50 c. and $1.00.
SETTLE UP YOUR NOTE
OR ACCOUNT AS IT IS PAST DUE.
T. L. SEiGLE & CO.
We take this occasion to thank our patrons one
and all for their liberal patronage in the past
year, and ask for a continuance of the same.
We shall by strict attention to business, cour
teous and prompt attention, fair and honorable
decling, selling only good goods at a legitimate
profit, merit your patronage. January the first
is pay day. The settlement of accounts is an
important one. All who owe us a note or an ac
count will please call and settle at once. We
shall put all accounts and notes in the hands of
a collector, as we must have a settlement in order
to close our books for 1891. If you can't pay
us all, we want part, or we want you to come
in and see us, whether you can pay us or not
and let us talk it over with you. We have
now waited a year and must have money, and
our friends who owe us are the ones we look to
for it. Don't delay this matter as it is urgent
and important. If you don't call, on us, our
collector will call on you, so step in and see us
the first possible moment. Our shelves and
counters are filled with good, honest goods, and
they are to be sold at the very lowest possible
price. Be sure and come in to see us whether it
is to buy or to settle.
Jan. 1, 1892. T. L. SEIGLE & CO.
FOR RENT.
A good TWO HORSE FARM four miles
South-East of Charlotte.
Apply to
I. N. ALEXANDER, SR..
Charlotte N. C.
Jan. 22, 1892.
Administrator's Notice.
All persons having claims against the estate of
William Lewis, deceased, are hereby notified to
present them to me, properly attested, on or
before the luth day of Feburary 183. All
persons indebted to said estate are notified to
make payment to me, without delay.
HUGH W. HARRIS,
Administrator of William Lewis, dee'd.
Feb. 5, 1892 6w
Administrator's Notice.
All persons having claims against the estate of
Mrs. M. E. Cherry, deceased, are hereby notified
to present them tome, properly attested, on or
before tbe 10th day of February, 1893 All per
sons indebted to said estate are notified to make
payment to me, without delay.
HUGH W. HARRIS,
Administrator of Mrs. M. E. Cherry, dee'd.
Feb. 5,1892. 6w
LADIES' SHOES.
Ladies' best Yeal Calf sewed lace shoes $1 50 ;
these shoes have good thick soles, every pair
warranted. This is tbe best medium coarse
shoe in the market. We always have a large
supply, all sizes 5 to a. Uive us a call.
GILREATH & CO.
Dec 11.1891-
RUSSIAN LEATHER.
RUSSIAN LEATHER NOVELTIES are
beautiful.
We have the finest assortment of these goods
m the city.
If you want something pretty come around
and see our goods. JOnUAi b tu,
retail Druggists.
Dec. 11, 1891.
The North Carolina State Flag.
Wo have received the January number
of the North Carolina Teacher, and a
glance over its pages shows it to be 'a
most valuable and interesting number.
Col. Harrell, the energetic editor, of the
Teacher is endeavoring to induce every
school in the State to have a North Caro
lina State flag displayed in the school
room and a feature of the current num
ber of the teacher is a beautiful colored
lithograph of the State flag which appears
as a frontispiece and which is given as a
design. Speaking of the flag the Teach
er very appropriately says :
"Many teachers have taken our advice
concerning the State flag and now this,
beautiful emblem of North Carolina
patriotism is proudly displayed in their
shool-rooms. We have received so many
applications for the design that we had
Mr. T. C. Harris, of Raleigh, to engrave
the design of our State flag expressly for
The Teacher, and we now present it to
you beautifully printed in its appropriate
colors. The flag is easy to make, and it
should be prominently displayed in every
school-room in North Carolina, and thus
teach your boys and girls the important
lesson of patriotism and State pride
The first duty of a North Carolina teach
er should be to teach her pupils to cor
dially love and believe in North Carolina."
iMr The gulf stream is still a mystery
to scientific men. We know well where
it is on the surface of the ocean, and in
many places its course. Tbe French
Government in 1886 assistod Prince Mona
co in making some experiments on the
French coast to determine this matter.
Six hundred floats in the shape of glass
tubes, copper balls and oak barrels were
provided and in July of that year 179 of
these floats W6re thrown overboard along
a line 170 miles to the northwest of the
Azores. A short time ago a glass tube
corresponding to a description of those
used was found on the Jamaica coast,
West Indies, at a place called Runaways
Bay. It contained the following message,
in nine different languages: "Any one
finding this paper is requested to remit it
to the naval authorities of his country, in
order to be forwarded to the French Gov
ernment." It is said to be one of the
floats set adrift by Prince Monaco in 1886.
$W The fact that plant lifd can be
promoted at night by means of an electric
light is an old story, but it will be news
to many that the Agricultural Department
at Washington has been experimenting
with the same agency in the field of
vegetable gardening, and has found that
lettuce is especially susceptible to the
electric light, by means of which it can
be grown for market in two-thirds the
usual length of time. That an article
thus forced can have all the flavor of tho
natural growth does not seem likely.
That, however, would not militate against
the sale of electrically grown vegetables.
The department's experiments, fantastic
as they might have been esteemed five
years ago, will now attract the attention
of many practical persons, and may
possibly be the prelude to something of a
revolution in the art of markot gardening.
2 The wife of President Jackson is
said to have onco accounted for a bad
cold in the head by telling that "the Gin
eral had kicked the kivversoff" the night
before. But there seemed to be no longer
any excuse for people who "kick the kiv
vers off,'' us a clamp and a spring are now
patented for attachment to the bedstead.
By this simple device the covers are
fastened down. The spring gives suffi
cient play, so that there is no danger of
one getting choked in the act ot turning
over.
Practical Electricity announces
that a new electric carriage will soon be
exhibited on the streets of Boston that
will go up hill and down hill at a rate of
from 10 to 15 miles an hour. It is of
course run with storage cells, and the
prediction is made that it will be largely
used in cross country routes, off the lines
of railroad, for transportation, and also as
a private carriage, if the cost is not too
great. Electric transit is coming and
coming fast.
tf Among the remarkable women of
Clay county, Mo., is Mrs. A. C. Courtney,
of whom her admiring and devoted hus
band writes : "I want to say that my
wife has spun more thread, wove more
yards of cloth, dropped more corn, piled
more hazel brush and burnt it, bound
more bundles of grain, loaded more
wagons with tho same, and sat more
babies on a board while out at work than
any woman now living on earth."
Ve&T' One of the most recent novelties
is a house stovo introduced in Egland.
The grate is swung on trunnions and can
be reversed. After fresh coal has been
added at the top, the reversal is made,
and the green coal is thus brought to the
bottom, in an easy manner, to answer the
purpose in question, namely, the gases
from the coal, passing upward by means
of this arrangement through the red por
tion of the fire, previously at the bottom,
are almost consumed before reaching the
chimney.
GARDEN AND FIELD,
If you want fiesh and reliable SEED you will
find them at
R. H. JORDAN & CO.
- EVERY PAPER
has the DATE 1892 PRINTED on the back.
All the
NEW VARIETIES
ju3t Received, from Buist's celebrated farm
R. H. JORDAN & CO.
Druggists.
Jan. 29, 1892.
THE CITY BAKERY.
FASNACHT,
Opposite Court House,
KEEPS FRESH BREAD, CAKES, PIES, ETC
Send him; your orders.
J. FASNACHT,
35 West Trade Street.
Jan. 29, 1893.
A Phase of the Farm Change.
Recently it has been announced that
during tbe first three weeks of the present
year no less than sixteen country stores
in a single New England county stopped
business. They were for the most part
isolated and small concerns of the "farm
store" type, and their owners did not go
into bankruptcy, but only sold out, and
either went into other callings or into the
same calling in more populous places. If
statistics on the subject were obtainable,
there can be no reasonable doubt that for,
say, the last decade they would show
very large figures to prove the decline of
the country store in the remoter agricul
tural parts of our Eastern States. To the
eye of any traveller through a familiar
country region, the decrease in both size
and number of the little stores away from
the village is as palpable as are the rea
sons, connected with the general decay of
the farm, which have most caused it.
But, aside from those reasons, the change
has certain important suggestions bearing
on the economic and social order of things
in our Eastern farm communities.
The rise of the system of small country
stores was itself a secondary and devel
oped form of retail trade in rural places.
Preceding it was what our earlier Ameri
can writers have often referred to as the
"county-store" systeml A group of a few
"big" stores went before the little ones
and almost monopolized the retail trade of
the farmers. As applied to them, how
ever, the old title of "county" store was a
misnomer, for they seldom grasped the
trade of a whole county unless it hap
pened to be very thinly settled ; but they
did take in, usually, the traffic of several
of the nearer towns. Their proprietors
were ''cute" Americans, commonly Yan
kees, who, in the old phrase, "bought at
the rJung, but never wasted at the spi
got," or, in other words, were extensive
and sharp buyers in tho wholesale
markets, while in retail trade they
squeezed the cent like one of Balzac's
misers. They were the progenitors of
many a later family of station and cul
ture, whose wealth dates far back to the
thrifty ancestor who bought and sold in
his so called county store crammed with
"notions," from a wrought-iron nail up to
a fanningmill. In the "plantation
stores" of the more meagrely settled parts
of the South we may still see today this
old fashioned ''county"store of our
Northern States almost exactly reprodu
ced, buying and selling under very similar
conditions, owned by very much the same
type of merchant, and containing the
same amazing variety of stock in trade.
How these large and profitable county
stores came to break up during the early
part of our century each into its half dozen
or more little country stores, placed at
every small hamlet or important cross
roads, cannot be fully explained. It was
due most probably, at the first period of
transition, to the attraction of the large
eounty-store profits, which naturally
generated competition ; at a later time to
the beginning of what is now the perva
sive farm discontent. Whatever the cause,
the "little store" of the farm region came,
planting itself not only in the villages,
but at every toll grate or little clump of
dwellings where it could intercept trade.
Vast in its entirety, if small in its details,
it created not only a mercantile but a
social relation with the pigmy communi
ties around it. In its little way it
localized the market and gave a special
direction to the economic currents of the
farm and the household. It modified the
centripetal tendency towards the village,
and, as a social focus of convergence, sup
plied a weak substitute, chiefly on the
masculine side, for the village lyceum,
sociable, or sewing society. It has
lighted up literature in such works as the
novels ot Mrs. btowe or the 'Widow
Bedott Papers,' and with its bema of the
barrelhead has expressed not only an
educative force, but a powerful social
energy in tje dreary and remote com
munities which without it would have
had nothing but the neighborly gather
ing of the hearthstone, and not much of
that.
The passing of the little store of the
hamlet and cross-roads is not entirely due
to the drift of its patrons away from the
farm, though that cause is potential
enough. The agriculturist at the JSast
who stays still on the farm, with his
habits of increased luxury, doubtless buys
more than his father did, but he buys it
in a different way and place. That very
luxury, indeed, impels him to the village ;
he sends "orders to tho near city or tac
tory town, and the railroads faciliate the
exchange of his products with the large
places products of which the small store
keeper used at least to take a share in
the days when the farm wagon did most
of the carrying trade. Just as the little
factories and mills which used to be
planted along every Eastern water power
have become merged in the greater facto
ry and closer mechanical economies of
the big towns, so the little country store
has had to yield to the new and ampler
energies of mercantile life. But with
this decay of the little-store system there
goes out yet another of the institutions of
secluded farm lite at tne xast, ana a new
gap is opened in the sociability of the
sequestered farm communities. It is very
striking to see how what may be called
the old "meeting places" ot tne eastern
farmer are thus passing away. The
church is far from being the social nucleus
that it was once ; the village lyceum, the
sewing society, the donation-party, the
singing-school are things almost unknown
in the present tense ; the old town meet
ing, so vaunted as the "school of citizen
ship, is a mere phantom oi its past; even
election day, with its booths and
mechanisms of secret voting, has for the
nublic weal expelled the yoemen from
that ancient meeting-place, the town hall.
And now the little country store joins
them as at once an element and a symptom
of the farm change. Economist.
"How do vou like school. Tom
mv ?" "Pretty well, mother but's it's
such a waste ot my playtime."
Tea is very cheap in China : in
one province of the empire good tea is
sold at it pence a pound.
Save your cold tea : it is excellent
for cleaning grained vf ood.
Deacon Lee.
Published by request.
Deacon Lee was one day waited upon
by a restless, ambitious, worldly church
member, who was laboring to create
uneasiness in tbe church, and especially
to drive away the minister. The deacon
came in to meet his visitor, who, after the
usual greetings, began to lament the low
state oi religion, and inquired as to tbe
reason why there had been no revival
for two or three years. "Now, what do
you think is the cause of things being
dull nere r The deacon was not ready
to give his opinion, and after a little
thought frankly answered : "I don't
know."
"Do you think the churches are alive
to the work before them ?"
"No, I don't."
"Do you thik the minister fully real
izes the solemnity of his work ?"
"JNo, 1 don't."
"Then, don't you think we had better
dismiss this man and hire another?"
The old deacon in a tone louder than
his wont, said : "No, I don't."
"You talk so little, sir," replied the
questioner, not a little abashed, 'that no
one can find out what you mean."
"1 talked enough once, replied the old
man, rising to his feet, "for six praying
Christians. Thirty years ago I got my
heart humbled and mv tongue bridled:
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and ever since that I've walked softly
before God. 1 then made vows, solemn
as eternity, and don't tempt me to break
tnem.
The troubler was startled at the earnest
ness of the hitherto silent, immovable
man, and asked : What happened to you
thirty years ago ?"
"Well, sir, I'll tell you. I was drawn
nto a scheme just like this of yours, to
uproot one of God's servants from the
held in which He had planted him. In
my blindness I fancied it a little thing to
remove one of the 'stars' which JesuB
holds in His right hand, if thereby my
ear could be tickled with more flowing
words and tho pews filled by those who
turned away from the simplicity of the
gospel. We flattered ourselves that we
were doing God service when we drove
that holy man from the pulpit and his
work. We groaned because there was
no revival, while we were gossiping about
and criticising him, instead of upholding
his bands by our efforts and our prayers,
the very instrument at whose hands we
harshly demanded the blessings.
"well, sir, he could not drag on the
chariot of salvation with half a dozen of
us hanging as dead weight to the wheels.
He had not the spirit, as we thought, and
could not convert men; so we hunted him
ike a deer, till, worn and bleeding, he
fled under cover to die.
"Scarcely had he gone, when God came
in among us by His spirit to show that
He had blessed the labors of our dear
rejected servant. Our own hearts were
broken, and our wayward children con
verted ; and 1 resolved at a convenient
season to visit my former pastor and
confess my sin. and thank him for his
faithfulness to my wayward sons, which
like long buried seed, had now sprung up.
5ut tiod denied me that relief, that He
might teach me a lesson that every child
of His ought to learn that he who
touches one of his little ones, touches
the apple of His eye.
"1 heard my pastor was ill, and taking
my eldest son with me, set out on a
twenty-five mile ride to see him. It was
evening when I arrived, and his wife,
with the spirit which any woman ought to
exhibit toward one who had wronged her
husband, denied me admittance to his
chamber. Sho said (and her words were
like arrows to my eoul): 'He may be
dying, and the sight of your faoe may
add to bis anguish.' Had it come to this,
said to myself, that tbe man whose
labors had through Christ, brought me
into his fold: who had consoled my spirit
in a terrible bereavement, and who had,
till designing men alienated us, been to
me a brother that this man should not
die in peace with my face before him?
'God pity mer I cried; 'what have
done ?' 1 confessed my sin to that meek
woman, and implored her, for Christ's
sake, to let me kneel before His dying
servant, and receive his forgiveness,
What did I care whether the pews by
the door were rented or not? As
entered tbe room of the blessed warrior,
whose armor was falling from his limbs,
ho opened bis languid eyes and said
'Brother Leel Brother Lee!' I bent
over mm and soDDed out : 'my pastor i
Then raising his white hand he said, in
a deep, impressive voice: Touch not
Mine annointed, and do My prophets no
harm.
"I spoke tenderly to him, and told him
I came to confess my sin and bring some
of his fruit to bim(calling my son to tell
him bow be bad found Christ). xJut he
was unconscious of all around him ; the
sight of my face had brought the last
pang of earth to his troubled spirit : I
kissed his brow and told him how dear
he had been to me. I craved bis pardon
for my unfaithfulness, and promised him
to care for his widow and fatherless little
ones ; but his only reply, murmured as if
in troublesome dream, was: "loach not
Mine anointed, and do My prophets no
harm.
"I stayed by him all night, and at
day break I closed his eyes. 1 offered
his widow a house to live in tbe remainder
of her days ; but like a heroine, she said :
'I freely forgive you ; but my children,
who entered deeply into their father's
anguish, shall never see me so regardless
of his memory as 'to take anything from
those who caused it. He has left as all
with his covenant God, and He will care
for us.
"Well, sir, those dying words sounded
in my ears from that coffin and from that
grave. When 1 slept. Christ stood Detore
mv dream, saying: Touchhot Mine
anointed, do My prophets no harm.'
TIiasa words followed me till I fully
realized the esteem in which Christ holds
these men who have given up all for His
sake, and I vowed to stand by tbem ever
more for His sake, even if they are not
perfect.
"And since that, dear sir, I have talked
less than before, and have supported my
pastor even if he is not a very extraor
dinary man. My tongue shall cleave to
the roof of my mouth and my right
hand forget its cunning, before I dare to
pat asunder what God has joined together.
When a minister s work is done in a
flace, 1 believe God will show it to him.
will not join you in the scheme that
brought you here. I would give all I
own to recall what I did thirty years ago.
Stop where you are, and pray God, if
perchance the thought of your heart
may be forgiven you.
This decided reply put an end to the
newcomer's efforts to get a minister who
could make more of a stir. Christian
Messenger.
Cultivate Rice.
The suggestion of Messrs. Dan Tal-
mage's Sons & Co. to cotton growers that
rice be adopted as a crop on lands ' with
drawn trom tbe culture of the staple has
attracted widespread attention. En
quiries in regard to the matter have
grown so numerous that they have
printed a little pamphlet, giving hints as
to seed, planting, cultivating, harvesting
and marketing. The document is brief,
but full enough for the guidance of any
pratical planter and can be obtained free
of charge of cither of their respective
nouses in JNew lork, Charleston or New
Orleans. It is said that rice will yield
over $i0.00 to $75.00 per acre ; cost of
planting $20.00 to $35.00; the difference
in outcome is due to character of cultiva
tion or season. This year prices have
been high and results in many instances
far beyond the larger amount noted.
The fact that the production is far below
the requirements of the United- States
would seem to be an additional reason
for at least giving it a trial. It is near
tbe time of preparation for first planting
hence prompt action should be taken in
order to get full benefit of the season.
A Place Worn on the Wheel May Throw the
Car Off the Track.
"There's a flat wheel on this truck
under this end of the car," Baid an Erie
official who sat in the back seat of tho
rear car of a passenger train. "That must
be taken out. it might wreck tho train.
"What's a flat wheel ?" asked tho
scribe.
"Listen," said the railroad man. "You
hear that rapid pat-pat-pat of the wheel ?
That's caused by the flat wheel. On a
spot on the surface of tho wheel a flat
place is worn. It may be done, and is
generally, by Betting up a brake so tight
that the wheel slips on the rail. Let it
slip but the least, yet a small place no
larger than a silver dollar will bo worn
on the wheel. The next time the brake
is set up hard the wheel stops with that
same placo on the rail and it in worn
larger.
"By the time it is a conple of inches in
diamater it begins to pound every time
the wheel turns. Instead of running a
true circle as it revolves the wheel strikes
flat on the rail when the flat spot is
reached. The consequence is that when
the flat spot has grown to be three or four
inches across it is a very dangerous thing.
Every stroke against the rail by the flat
side of the wheel is liable to break the
wheel and ditch the train."
Around the shops and at nearly every
cripple track in the railroad world these
flat wheels may be seen. As soon as one
is discovered tne pair of wheels effected
is taken out and sent to tho junk track
to be cast into new machinery. The flat
spots are plainly perceptible, but they
would hardly be judged by the uninitiated
to be of sufficient importance to be one of
the most dangerous elements of railroading
yet such is the case. -Bradford Era.
Phrases and slang terms are fre
quently born of interesting episodes, as
witness the following : Peter the Great,
while off driving in the neighborhood of
Moscow on one occasion, was seized with
pangs of hunger. "What have we in tho
hamper? ' be asked of bis aide. "There
is but one candle left, your Majesty,"
replied the aid, "but I think 1 can ex.
change it for a fowl at the next farm-
house, if you wish," "Do so," replied tho
Czar, "for I am famished, and do not care
for a light luncheon." The aid laughed,
and as ho had surmised, managed the ex
change; but the bird was found to bo un
usually tough. "I do not think, Vobky,"
said the Emperor, later, "I do not think
the game is worth the candle." Ilarpefs
Bazar.
Late reports . from ' the Argentine
Republic say that tho wheat and wool
crops of the republio are the largest
ever known in the country's history.
Tbe railroad companies are preparing
for a very busy season, and they expect
to recoup themselves for their losses
during the financial depression. There
promises to be trouble in getting the pro
duce to market, no railroad company, it
is stated, . having enough rolling stock to
properly handle tbe businees. lnger.
neenng says , it has information that
wages have doubled and trebled and even
quadrupled,in some districts in Argentine,
and thousands ot agricultural immigrants
are arriving at Buenos Ayres.
One of the biggest of the insur
ance companies in the country pays to a
woman manager $10,000.
fP There are some patent medicines
that are more marvelous than a dozen
doctor's prescriptions, but they're not
those that profess to care everything.
Everybody, now and then, feels "run
down," "played out." They've the w:ll,
but no power to generate vitality.
They're not sick enough to call a doctor,
but just too sick to be well. That's where
the right kind of a patent medicine comes
in, and does for a dollar what the doctor
wouldn't do for less than five or ten. Wo
pat in our claim for Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery.
- We claim it to be an unequaled remedy
to purify the blood and invigorate the
liver. We claim it to be lasting in its
effects, creating an appetite, purifying
the blood, and preventing Bilious, Typhoid
and Malarial fevers if taken in time. The
time to take it is when you first feel the
signs of weariness and weakness. The
time to take it, on general principles, is
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