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fir fl;l IP ! i" CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1894. VOLUME XLU. NUMBER 1434. VTL TO W AyOU AlfcM This Paper is 42 Years Old fc THE CHARLOTTE DEUOCBAT PUBLISHED EVKET FEIDAT BY J. P. STRONG. -o- rgK8 One Dollar and Ffty Cents in advance for 1 year Two Dollars on time. Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C, utecoad class matter, according to the rales of the P - Department HUGH W. HARRIS, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Office, Nos. 14 and 16 Law Building, CHARLOTTE, N. O. July 6, 1894: T, i. OSBORNE, W. C. MAXWELL, J. W. KXERANS. OSBORNE, MAXWELL & KEERANS, Attorneys at Law. CHARLOTTE. N. C. 0T Offices 1 and 8 Law Building. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Oct 20, 1898. "DRS. II. A. & O. A. BLAND, Dentists. CHARLOTTE, N. C. No. 21 Tbtok Btbeet. Jan. 8, 1894 J. P. MoCOMBS. M. D., Oflers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. Office in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Jan. 1. 1894 P. D. WALKER. E T. CANSLER WALKER & CANSLER. ATTORNEYS AT LAW Charlotte, N. C. Offices, Rooms Nos. 6 and 7, Law Building. Jan. 6, 1894. AKRIOT CLARKSON. CHAB. H. DULB CLARKSON & DULS, Attorneys at Law. Charlotte, N. C. Prompt attention given to all business in mated. Will practice in all Courts of the time. lyOfflce No. 12 Law Building. Oct. 7, 1893. H. N. PHARR. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office No. 1, Law Building. Prompt attention to all business intrusted. Special attention given to claims. Practices in State and Federal Courts. Jan. 6, 1894. JOHN FARRIOR, NO 3 NORTH TRTON STREET, CHARLOTTE, M. C. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. DEALER IN Diamonds. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Sil ver and Silver Plated Ware. (W Special attention given to Fine Watch Repairing. March 28, 1894. GO TO ALEXANDER'S DRUG STORE. NO. 216, NORTH TRYON STREET. Keeps a well assorted stock of all articles usualy kept in a Drug House J. B- ALEXANDER. The Poor prescribed for free. April, 8, 1894. BOTNE & BADGER, LEADING JEWELERS. OUTH TRYON ST., CHARLOTTE, N. C. :0: DEALERS IN Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware. Special attention given Repairing Fine Watches. March 6, 1894 E. NYE HUTCHISON & CO., FIRE INSURANCE. Offices 16 East Trade Street ; 4 North Tyon Street, up stairs. Feb. 19. 1894. NEW DRUG STORE. A. fresh line of Medicines, Drugs, Paints, Oils Toilet Articles, Garden and Flower Seeds and U articles usually found in a well regulated "rug Store like the white front on College street J. B. ALEXANDER. Feb. 26, 1894. THE ACKNOWLEDGED Leading Seeds Are B UISTS! - BUISTSI1 Wp r , r.u t .v- riant only "Buist's Prise Medal Seeds," and j"u oicbure 01 a crop. R. H. JORDAN CO, Jan. 19,1894. Retail Druggists CROWEfcL MILLING CQ. Charlotte, N. C. farmers can have their Corn made into choice el (either bolted or unbolted) at the old "S,tar iils Saturday is. regular mjll day, for custpp Mafch 10, 18?4 Manager CHOICE FRESH CQRN MEAL. Crowell Milling Company East Trade 8treet, Charlotte, North Carolina. Jutj 88, 1883. 7BSSH GRITS. 9L8e11 Choice Prefln wlKe Pearl Grits, at 20 CENTS PER PECK, our own make. CROWELL MILLING CO. March 30, 1894. The age at which pupils are al lowed to enter and continue in the public schools differs greatly. Of the 49 States and Territories six admit them at four years of age, 19 at five, 20 at- six, three at seven, and one at eight, The State? admitting them at four are Maine, Con necticut, Florida, and Montana. The schools of Alabama and North and South Dakota do not receive them till they are seven, and those of Texas exclude them till they are eight, and only allow them to attend till they are sixteen. Twenty five of the States and Territories allow pupils to attend the public schools till they arrive at the age of twenty-one. Of the remainder the "school age" tor minates at twenty in 9, at eighteen in 7, at sixteen in 3, and at fifteen in 3. Trustee's Sale. By virtue of a Deed in Trust, made to me by T. L. Frelaad and wife, duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Mecklenburg County, N. C, Book 88, Page 91, 1 will sell at the County Court House Door, in the city of Charlotte, N. C, on Monday, August 20th, 1894. at 12 o'clock M., for default in the payment of the debt therein secured, all that lot in the city of Charlotte, N. C, being in Ward One, and ad joining the lots of Jno. W. Miller and others, facing 50 feet on "C" street, and running back 185 feet. Terms Cash. R. M. MLLLER, JR., July 20, 1894. 5w Trustee Mortgage Sale. By virtue of a Mortgage Deed, made to R. Barringer, by Henry Torrance and wife, Henrietta Torrance, and duly recorded in Register's office of Mecklenburg County, N. C, in Book 57, Page 241, and . assigned to me, I will sell at public auction, at the Court House Door in Charlotte, to the highest bidder for cash, a lot in the Northern part of the City, adjoining Chinquepin Mountain Gold Mine described in said Mortgage Deed on Monday, July 80th, 1894, at 12 o'clock M. This June 29, 1894. W. M. KIRK, Mortgagee. June 29, 1894. 4w Administrator's Notice. Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Dr. Jno. P. Irwin, dee'd, this is to give notice to all persons indebted to the said estate to make immediate payment. All persons having claims against the said estate are requested to present them to the undersigned for payment on or be fore June 25th, 1895. This June 20th, 1894. JAS. P. IRWIN. Adm'r of June 22, 1894. 6w Jno. P. Irwin, dee'd. Administrator's Notice. Having qualified as Administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of George Locke Gibson, deceased, late of Mecklenburg County, N. C, all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent are hereby notified to present them to me for payment on or before the 18th day of June, 1895, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons in debted to said estate are notified to make im mediate payment to me. This June 14th, 1894. 11. JS. fbAKK, Adm'r of the estate of Geo. Locke Gibson, dee'd with the June 14. 1894. 6w Will Annexed. OUR IMMENSE STOCK OK BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, PHAETONS, FARM WAGONS, ETC., We will sell at Prices Never Before Made In This community. DO NOT BUY Before coming to see us, as you can get the BEST BARGAINS HERE. FOR CASH, We will sell you anything in our Repository AT COST ! ! AT COST ! ! ! This is not idle talk. Come and BE CONVINCED!!! J. W. Wadsworth & Son. Oct. 27, 1893. THE LEADING CHINA STORE! Nothing but the highest GRADE ADMITTED HERE. We have a large Variety of Fine China Plates, Salad Bowls, Cake Plates, Cracker Jars, etc., that we desire to close, and to do so, will sell them below cost all new goods of the nignest standard, x our aiienuon w uireuicu TO OUR Twenty - Dollar Dinner Sets We have four patterns. Such sets never sold under $30 before. An as sortment of fine thin decorated China Tea Sets, of 56 pieces, only 6 G. S. READ & CO. April 13. 1894. GREAT BARGAIN! PRIVATE SALE ! ! 200 Bbl. Roller Corn Mill, new Pearl Hominy Mill (never been used), Complete modern Cot ton Ginnery, substantially new all in first class running order, for THIRTY CENTS On the dolar, or will sell part interest in same Apply to W. M. CROWELL June 22, 1894 CANVASS BALS. Men's Canvass Base Ball Bals, with leather most comfortable sujniner shoe ever made, and rv iKTvirpfthl" Munir linlnc them for a Eow shoe, and getting excellent satisfaction, oth in comfort, and wear. Every kind of shoe or ail purposes. GILREATH OO. Jan. 2g, 1894. Ladies' Pebble Grain. Button shoes.with heel or springheel. A strong serviceable shoe, especially desirable for a young ladies' school shoe, or an all round iieat shoe for rough wear. This shoe is made expressly for our trade, and is possibly the best value ever offered at this price. Everyone will do well to examine our styles, we can serve youweii. 3 GILREATH & CO. Jan. 5, 1894. The Poor Little Toe. "I am all tired out," said the mouth with a pout, "I am all tired out with talk." "Just wait," said the knee, "till you're as lame as can be, And then have to walk walk walk." "My work," said the hand," is the hardest in the land." "Nay, mine is harder yet," said the brain. "When you toil," said the eye, "as steadily as I, Why, then you'll have reason to complain." Then a voice faint and low of the poor little toe Spoke out in the dark with a wail : "It is seldom I complain, but you all will bear your pain With more patience if you hearken to my tale. I'm the youngest of five, and the others live and thrive, They are cared for and considered and ad mired. I am overlooked and snubbed, I am pushed and rubbed, I am always sick and ailing, sore and tired. ''Yet I carry all the weight of the body, small and great. But no one ever praises what I do. I am always in the way, and 'tis I who have to pay For the folly and the pride of all of you." Then the mouth and the brain and the hand said : " Tis plain. Though troubled be our lives with woe, The hardest lot of all does certainly befall The poor little humble little toe The rubbed little, s nubbed little toe." Ella Whee'er Wilcox. The Way of Long Twilight. On first thought it seems to be a rather paradoxical statement that the nearer we approach to the equator the shorter is that intermediate stage or transition from day to night and from night to day,which we call "twilight. This being the case, however, the period of duration of "the dim, uncertain light" in all tropical coun tries is very short when compared with that ot countries ot high northern or southern latitude. The explanation is this: On the equator the Bun's path is at exact right angles with the horizon. The last beam ol light fades from view when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon. lhis IS degree mark is quickly reached at the equator for reasons given in the first sentence of this explanation. The further from the equator we get the less becomes the angles, which the suns course makes with the horizon, and the longer the time required for him to reach the 18 degree mark; hence the longer the period of twilight. St. Louis Repub lic. See the World's Fair for Fifteen Cents Upon receipt of your address and fifteen cents in postage stamps, we will mail you prepaid our Souvenir Portfolio of the Columbian Exposition, the regular price is Fifty cents, but as we want you to have one, we make the price nominal. xou win nnd it a worR ot art and a thing to be prized. It contains full page views of the great buildings, with descriptions of same, and is exe cuted in highest style of art If not satisfied with it, after you get it, we will refund the stamps and let you keep the book. Address, H. E Buck lb k & Co., Chicago, 111. NEW REMEDIES OF GREAT VALUE AT DR. J. B. ALEXANDER'S DRUG STORE. Special Tonic Tablets, Postillers Woman's Friend, The Great Renovator. En quire of the Doctor about these Remedies. May 18, 1894 216 N. TRYON ST. HUGHE'S - DIARRHOEA AND DYSENTERY REMEDY. A soecific for the above troubles. We have a few sample bottles that you can have for the asking. R. H JORDAN & CO., June 9, 1893. Retail Druggists. ANTIMIGRAINE ! "I do not hesitate to pronounce Antimigraine the best and most effectual headache cure that I ever tried. It is quick, pleasant and permanent." Yours truly, Joseph Febst, Savannah, Ga. For Sale by R. H. JORDAN & CO., The Retail Druggists. June 22, 1894. FEED DEALERS!! CORN, OATS, PEAS. Mill Feed, Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls, Hay and Wheat Bran at BOTTOM : : PRICES! Crowell Milling Co. prillS, 1894 WE HAVE THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF Hardware. Cutlery, Guns, AMMUNITION, Carriage, and Wagon Material, Woodware, and Queenware in the South. Call and see us and buy from us any goods in pur line that you may need. We will promise to sell as low as any one else and as low as the lowest. B.ROWN, WEDPINGTON & CQ , 29, East Trade Street Oct. 2Q. 1893. THE OIJLT PURE READY MIXED FAINT. Harrison's "Town and Country," is the only ausoiuteiy ruruc Heady jaixea runi soia in this market. Gives the best results in house Endorsed by the Master House Painters' and Decorative Associations of the united states Satisfaction Guaranteed. For sale by R. H. JORDAN A CO., Druggists. April 88, 1893. Where the Ark Rested. Nothing But Snow Covers the Desolate top of , Mt. Ararat. Mt. Ararat has CwoVtopisa'few hun dred yards apart, sloping on the eastern and western extremities, into rather prominentbutments, and separated by a snow valley, or depression, from SO to 100 feet in depth, i : . The eastern top, on which we were standing, was quite extensive, and thirty to forty feet lower than its western neighbor. Both tops arc hummocks on the huge dome of Ararat, like the humps on the hack of a camel, on neither one of which is there a vestige of anything but snow. There remained just as little trace of the crosses left by Parrot and Gbodzko as of the art Itself. We remembered the pictures we had seen in our nursery books, which represented this mountain top covered with green grass, and Noah stepping out of tbJ ark, in the bright warm sunshine, before the receding waves ; and now we looked around and saw this veiy spot covered with per petual snow. Nor did we see any evidence what ever of a former existing crater, except perhaps the snow hi led depression we have just mentioned. There was nothing about this perpetual snow-field and the freezing atmosphere that was chilling us to the bone to remined us that we were on the top of an extinct volcano that once trembled 'with convulsions of sub terranean heat. The view from this towering height was immeasurably extensive and almost too grand. All detail was lost all color, ail outline ; even the surrounding moan, tains seemed to be but excrescent ridges of the plain. Then, too, we could catch only occasional glimpses as the clouds shifted to and fro. At one time they opened up beneath us, and revealed the Aras valley with its glittering ribbon of silver at an abysmal depth below. Now and then we could descry the black volcanic peaks of AH Gbez, forty miles away to the northwest, and on to the southwest the low mountains that ob scured the town of Bapazid. Of the Caucasus, the mountains about Erzerom on the west and Lake Van on the south, and even of the Caspian Sea, all of which are said to be in Ararat's horizon, we could see absolutely nothing Ex. Sense of Smell in the Seal. "Among the many singular traits of character possessed by seals," said Oliver L. Mason, a retired sea captain, to a reporter of St. Louis Globe Democrat, "none are more striking; than the devo tion of the male to its offspring, contrasted with the apathetic attention paid by the mother. The latter will at the least alarm bolt away into the sea and leave his babies behind her, but the bulls mount guard over the swarming herds of young, . and nothing can exceed their devo tion and courage when called upon as protectors. The sense of smell possessed by the seals is very strong, will invariably wake them out of a sound sleep, even if you come upon tnem ever so quietly to the winward, and you will alarm them in this way much more tboronghly, though you be half a mile distant, than if you came up carelessly trom tne leewara ana even walked in among tbem. tbey seem ing to feel that you are not different from one of their own species until tbey smell you. The chief attraction in these ani mals is their large, handsome eyes, wmcn indicate great intelligence. They are a deep bluish black, with a soft glistening appearance, and the pupil, like the cat's, is capable of great dilation and contrac tion. f&Mr Pullman gets paid for each car just the same, it is said, whether it is standing sun or running iorty mnes an hour. I.f so, how long will it take the boy cotters to bankrupt Mr. Pullman by stopping the oars? The greatest desert is the Sahara. It is 3,000 miles. from oast to west, 1,009 from north to south, and has about 3,000, 000 square miles, or about the area of the United States. ' All Free. Those who have used Dr. King's New Dis covery know its value, and those who have not, . . . .. TJ nave now me opportunity 10 iry it r fee. umi ou the advertised Druggists and get a Trial Bottle, Free. Send your name and address toH.E. Bucklen & Co., Chioago, and get a sample box of Dr. Kine's New Lite fills .Free, as well as a copy of Guide to Health and Household Instructor Free. All of which is guaranteed to do you good and cost you nothing. For sale by Burwell & Dunn, wholesale & retail, and at Jordan a ecott, wnoie alae Drug store. E. B SPRINGS & CO AGENTS. CHARLOTTE" FERTILIZERS AND "PIEDMONT" WAGONS. To ouk Farmkb Friends qf North and Sopth CASQWHA We are now prepared for the Spring Trade, and can supply you with the well known and high grade Charlotte'Tertilizers, and respectful lv ask for a continuance of your patronaee. Our Fertilizers are well known to all as being the highest grade of any sold in this section, and we know what tney are mane oi ana. we assure you that they are honest, reliable and higher grade than any other. Where wisely used tney will pay you better than any other fertilizer, be cause tfrey contain jork plant food than any thing sold in this section. The guarantee as shown in Reports of State Chemists of both North and Soth Carolina bear us out in this asser tion. A great many of our customers who b&,ve tested and watched the results of the "Charlotte" Fertilizers bear witness to their value, in the fact that they will not use any other at any price. ' Qur prices are lover than the low grade stuff is sold at, because we do not have to pay freights and we give Toy in the quality of our goods the benefit of this advantage of FBXJGBTS. We could make cheap stuff and sell at f 2 00 per ton less, but prefer to make the better quality, believing that it will be better for the farmer who uses it, and therefore better for us. who expect the farmer to pay us for it. In addition to our Fertilizer business, we have the Agency for the old reliable "Piedmont" Wagons, and when you want a wagon, call and see us. We can make low prices, and sell you a waeon that is sound and serviceable. We also have a line of Buggies, Carts, Sur reys, etc. We receive Cotton on storage and issue our negotiable Warehouse Receipts on it. Yours truly, E. B. SPRINGS & CO. Charlotte, N. O. Jan. 9. 1894. William E Gladstone. BESSIS JENKINS HTJTCHI80N. Some men are great by birth, some by circumstance, while to others the truest fame has come while walking steadily along the lowly path of duty, working, not for self, but for their fellow men. Of these is William E. Gladstone, who will stand out in the annals of future historians as one of the most remarkable men, the world has ever produced one who has been placed by his genius in the foremost ranks, not only as orator and statesman, not only as patriot and philanthropist, but as a profound scholar in the classics and a student of theology. Much stress is often laid upon the fact that it is to her middle class that Great Britain owes most of her noblest sons ; and William E. Gladstone 1b one of this class. Though through his veins courses the blood of the Plantaganets qf England with that of the Bruces of Scotland, it is his pride that he is one of "the people," having rejected an earldom to be called "England's Great Commoner." Even in his youth Gladstone gave promise of his future greatness. During his second term at the University of Oxford, as a member of the Oxford Union, he made a speech in strong opposition to a certain Beform Bill, brought in at that time, ot which Charles Wordsworth said ; " It was better than any speech on the subject he had heard during the five days' debate in the House of Lords." Its suc cess won him the next year, a seat in Parliament as member for Newark. Thus commenced that great public career of sixty years, which has been called "one long Parliamentary success." From the first, Gladstone was recognized as a brilliant debater, and has been pro nounced by a distinguished critic ('the greatest Parliamentary orator of our day." Faithfully has be toiled for his country and his Queen in many positions, under many titles, but it is as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Premier of the British Empire that he has done his greatest work. .harly in his public hie he stood among the conservatives, though always a staunch believer in reform ; but, by 1842, Gladstone's views had so broadened, that he felt compelled to join the ranks of the Liberals even knowing, as he did, that it meant a severing of the ties of friend ship, that it meant his being looked upon as one who was ruining his country. And when he became a Liberal he did not turn back, but went on from step to step, until at last the eyes of the most radical reformers turned to him as the future Minister of Beform in Church and State. Nor did William E. Gladstone disappoint them, for in' politics, as in everything else, he was "gravely, ter ribly, incessantly in earnest j" and though now and then his impulsive nature has led him into mistakes, he hag safely piloted England through many a diffi culty. The great Premier has always been opposed to war, which, be said, "stained the face of nature with human gore, gave loose rein to crime and took bread trom the people. Me therefore has endeavored to keep the peace with the nations, even when censured tor it. During the years of Gladstone's public life, England has, partly through his influence,boen opened to Free Trade. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, he devised a plan, by which in twq years, he reduced the National Debt more than eleven and a half millions sterling, and has proved himself, not only the greatest financier in in his country, but one of the greatest in the world. His watch word has been Reform I Reform ! ! not only in the Government, reform in the Bailway, through measures which, though, in troduced fifty years ago, still, to some degree, govern our travel of today re form in the Postal Department, reform in the Church. His greatest work, however, has been done for Ireland. Gladstone is the first English Prime Minister who has ever perilled office and popularity to serve that suffering country. For twenty years his highest aim has been to better its condi tion, and though his favorite plan of Home iiule, for which be fought to the last, has not yet been carried out, he has succeeded in securing for Ireland a greater degree of peace and quiet than it has ever enjoyed. But not only for his own people has he labored, but for the oppressed wherever he found them ; for seeing the cruelties inflicted by the Government officials upon the prisoners in Naples, some of whom had been confined for purely imaginary offences, Gladstone sent out to the world such a strong protest that it proved to be, as Garibaldi sajd, "the first trumpet call of Italian Liberty. Into these busy days of public life has been crowded much study. Gladstone has given to the world the result of his researches in two volumes, " Studies of Homer and the Homeric Age." He has written much Theology and on his dis coveries about the Hittites, one ot the greatest nations of the early Bible times. He is an essayist, a critio, a dilettante in art, music, and old clusia. No one else could attempt so many things and not occasionally make himself an object of ridicule ; but Gladstone's intense gravity arid earnestness have saved him from this. So many years of incessant toil have brought weariness ; and at last at the age of eighty-four he has withdrawn into private life ; but in his last speech before the House of Commons his counsel to the neonJe was given in these words : "i do entreat you to oast behind you every recollection of by-gone evils and to oherish and love and sustain one another through all the vicissitudes of human affairs in the times that are to come." It is well for the statesmen of the nine teenth century to have had such a light. It is well that their ranks have produced such an ideal : that even in this degene rate age it might be shown that it was possible to occupy the highest public office in a state, and yet be honest and true that a man might be Prime Minister of the greatest realm on earth, and stiU be a Christian. Tennyson need not crv ''Ah. God, for a man, with heart, head, hand wao buuic ui me simple great ones gone Forever and ever tatr. One still strong man in a blatant land, n uaiever mey can mm, what care I, Aristocrat. Democrat, autocrat one Who can rule and dare not lie" For Gladstone has lived and still lives. UNCLE SAmVbIG LIBRARY. The Largest in the World a Tunnel to the Capital. The last stone on top of the new build ing designed to house the library of con gress will be set in place this week. This will finish the exterior, praoticaily. So much work remains to be done inside the structure that it will not be wholly com pleted for two and a half years yet. That will be within contract time, and the cost will be less than the- $6,000,000 esti mated. The book shelves are expected to ar rive within a few days. They are being manufactured in Louisville, of steel, 'and will cost 190,000. If they were put on the ground end to end in a continuous line, they would reach from Washington to Baltimore, a distance of forty miles. They are lattice-work pattern, beautifully smooth and are more easily adjusted than any other kind of shelf.' The tunnel that is to connect the new library building with the capitol will be three feet below ground. It will be lined with brick and made - waterproof somewhat like a sewer, in fact, but large enough for a man to pass through. This subteranean conduit will contain a cable railway of a pattern similar to that em ployed in dry goods shops for carrying bundles and change. It will be on a larger scale, however, so as to transport the biggest books and bound newspaper files. One terminal station of the railway will be close by the rotunda in the capi tol. At that point an assistant librarian will be posted, with messenger boys to carry the books that are called for by senators and representatives. Members of congress will be able to actually to procure volumes more easily and quickly than is now possible. The statesman in want of a work of reference will write the title on a scrap of paper which will be promptly fired over to the library. A moment later the book will be shot back. The underground conduit will also con tain a small pneumatic tube through which the orders for books will be sent. Through the same tunnel will run tele phone wires, one circuit communicating with the senate and the other with the house. Thus any member will be able to talk with Librarian Spofford at a mo ment's notice. The mechanism will not be like that of ordinary telephones. But 30 perfect as to render conversation over the wires a pleasure. A whisper uttered at the oapitol will be as perfectly audible in. the library as if spoken two feet away. A problem as yet unsolved ig the method by which the books are to be trans ported from the old library to the new. What a job this is likely to be may be judged from the statement that the bound volumes placed side by side on a shelf would stretch eleven miles. You see, there are 635,000 bound vol umes and zdU.UUU pamphlets. Tne h brary of congress is the fifth largest in the world in respect to the number of books contained. It is a safe bet that library of congress will be the biggest in the world some day. The new structure pro vided for its accommodation will easily hold 6,000,000 volumes. When it is said that 25,000,000 bricks have been used in the building the mind fails to grasp the idea. The contract for granite alone called for a payment of $1, 250,000. Some of the blocks of stone weighed more than ten tons. No such library as this new one of Uncle Sam's was ever planned before. Tou must im agine, to begin with, two iron book-cases, each sixty-five feet high, 112 feet long and forty-five feet wide. Tbey tower up through the building story on story, in nine tiers. Eaoh bookcase will hold 80,QQO volumes. The metal frame work is made grid-iron fashion, to permit the free passage of the atmosphere, for books need fresh air as much as human beings, else they rot. The floors are sheets of iron, and fire could do no dam age worth mentioning, for books will not burn, they will only smoulder under fa vorable circumstances. The library has eighteen hundred win dows. Those which admit light to the great book stacks above described are single sheets of fine plate glass. Looking from the interior courtyards, the walls enclosing the book stacks appear to be almost wholly of glass. Thus the title on the back of every volume may be easily read. The shelves already pro vided will accommodate 1,800,000 books, twice as many as are now in the library. The building has been so constructed as to afford space for other stacks which may be put up at any time and will hold 2,700,000 volumes more. A million books in addition may be ac commodated in the courtyards, and there is room for more besides. The librarian of congress a century henee will not find himself cramped in the least. The reading room of the new library is the moat noble feature of the construction. Octagonal in shape and 100 feet indiame ter. it has for its ceiliner the suirarb dome of the edifice. In the center of this great octagonal room Mr. Spofford will have his desk, surrounded by assistants. Around, in concentric circles, will be tables for readers, while snug alcoves will afford accommodations for students who would be quiet and undisturbed. Ten thousand books will be exposed in open cases volumes of reference these which anybody may take and examine without signing a card or going through any for mality. Any other book must be ordered at the central desk. The card calling for it will be conveyed to the stack where it is to be found by a tray suspended from an endless chain. The chains will be kept running by a noiseless engine in the base- r . ... . . i 11 . . ment. They win place tne norarian tn direct communication with every shelf in the building. Each tray will be so arranged by a peg m ft . i A. A A. ana eaten as to empty ita contents auto- saaucatly at the proper floor ot the re quired stack. There an assistant will take the book from the shelf and 1 return it in the tray to the librarian's desk. Volumes will be sent back to the stack in the same way. When the library of con gress contains 6,000,000 or 6,000,000, vol umes, every dook will be accessible at a moment's notice. The mechanism will be invisible, and its working will suggest the magical lamp of Aladdin. In all mat ters which have to do with making read ing easy this library will be at least a century a.head of f ny other in the world. A room in the new library will be de voted to maps. The library of congress is particularly . rich ' in early maps of America. Some of them are very curi ous. For example, there are a number, printed in the latter part of the seven- teentn century, which snow the peninsula of lower California as an island, while all beyond to the northwest is a blank. It is said that this notion of the insular character of lower California was origi nally derived from an English traveler who claimed that be bad circumnavigated it Another man. published in 1685, shows the Delaware river under the name of South river, the Hudson being , desig nated as the North river. It is rather odd that this name for the Hudson has survived with New Yorkers even to the present day. Just now more people come to the li brary of congress to look up . genealogies than for any other purpose. Mr; Spof- tord says that interest in family histories is rapidly increasing in this country, and in is is oniy partly aooountea . lor dj toe aotivity of sous and daughters of the rev olution. English county histories are es pecially in demand. One woman in Washington earns her living by looking up genealogies. Quite recently she found out all about the antecedents of Margaret Washington, . aunt oi the immortal George, which were not known hitherto. Many people come to the library to copy things from old newspapers all sorts of things not infrequently; births and deaths. Men and women are regu larly hired to do that sort of work. Of course such inquiries into ancient history cover every imaginable topic, but often the purpose is to transcribe reports of minor political conventions that have no printed records outside of the press. It may be desired to identify a resolution offered, to reproduce a political platform or to discover what was the action in a specific case of some man now prominent in political life. Atlanta Journal, July 13. Winning Votes. An amusing little tilt took- place be tween Senators Chandler and Palmer yesterday. "Did you say the price of fence wire has fallen under the influence of the pro tective tariff Y' Inquired Mr. Chandler, the Illinois Senator. "I did not say that.', "What did you say 7', Never mind." replied Mr. Palmer. "I am in the condition Mr. Lincoln told me he was once in on a campaigning tour. Some one in the audience asked him a question. He made no reply. Why don't you answer him?' said some one. 'i am alter votes,' replied Mr. Linooln, 'and that man's vote is as good as any other man's.' I am after votes on this proposition,! said Mr. Palmer, mak ing the application of the story, 4nd I want the vote or the Senator trom new Hampshire." "You will get it," said Mr. Ubanuier, amid laughter. Answer to Quirt. The people of Massachusetts were more violent and turbulent, but not more forward, than those of Virginia and North Carolina In the assertion of American rights in the troubles preceding the Bevolhtionary War. The Bostonians were not the only ones who made a row about tea. When the tax was imposed, in 1773, the Americans all swore they wonld not drink taxed tea. The Bostonians disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and tossed. a cargo of the stuff into the harbor. Ships bringing tea to Philadelphia and New York were compelled to turn about and carry it back to England, whence they had come. At Baltimore a ship m . . a . m. a il toaaea wun tea was taicen out into toe harbor and burned. At Wilmington a party of North Carolinians went aboard a tea ship and heaved tne cargo over board. They were not disguised as Indians nor in any other way. The first American blood shed in opposing unjust taxation was that of the North Carolini ans a the Alamance in 1771. The first declaration of independence was that of the North Carolinians, who met at Char lotte and declared Mecklenburg County out of the British Union, so to speak, on the 20th of May, 1775, the day after they got the news of the battle of Lex ington, which was ionght on the 19th of April. All the Colonies were of one mind in resisting the unconstitutional exercise of British authority in America. North Carolina and Massachusetts were the most aggressive and impatient, Vir ginia the most powerful and the most calmly determined. iBtemper&ne Among Women. There is much said about the growing habit of intemperance among women ; perhaps more than the facts would war rant. If this habit exists it is owing to the fact that women are often forced toper form domestic,and social dnties under great physical suffering, and by partaking of liquors for temporary relief or a little protraction of strength, the habit becomes a necessity. If all ladies who suffer with the complaints peculiar to their Bex, would take Dr. Pierce Favorite Prescrip tion, they would find nature's restorative, and the evil results of pernicious drugs and liquors would be avoided. For all cases of nervous and general debility, sleepl&sness,spasma, periodical pains, sup pressions and irregularities, it is the onrjr medicine so certain in curative aetion. that it can be guaranteed to benefit or cure or money returned. o
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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July 27, 1894, edition 1
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