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fp liMifi' iff1 Ifi qly Vvy AT Aj aJ1U tLI XW His Papke is 43 Ybabs Old CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1896. VOLUME XLitt.NUMBER;!228 THE CHARLOTTE DEMOCRA.T UBLISHKD EVERY FRIDAY BT J. P. STRONG. Tsrs One Dollar and Ffty Gent in Advance for 1 year -Two Dollars on time. 0 Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C, as second class matter, according to the rnlea oi the P. O. Department. DRS. McCOMBS & OIBBON, DESIRE TO INFORM THE PUBLIC, That they have this day entered into a copart nership for the PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, AND SURGERY. March 1, 18b5. March 15, 1895. JOHN PARRIOR, SO 4 SOUT3 TRTOH STREET, CHARLOTTE, H. C. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. DEALER IN Diamonds. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Sil ver and Silver Plated Ware. tSP Special attention given to Fine Watch fHepsfc-ing. Jan 5,1805. BUR.WELL, WALKER & CANSLER, Attorneys- At-Law, KUOMS HOB 5, 6, AND 13, LAW BUILDING, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Jan 4,1895. .DR. E. F. SEE RAN S, DENTIST, .CHARLOTTE, N. C. West Trade Street Nov. 2, 1894 HUGH W. HARRIS, A ttorney and Counsellor at Law, Office, Nos. 14 and 16 Law Building, CHARLOTTE, N. C. July 6, 1895: V. I. OSBORNE, W. C. MAXWELL, J. Vf . KEEBAN8. OSBORNE, MAXWELL & KEERANS, Attorneys at Law. CHARLOTTE, N. C. jy Offices 1 and 3 Law Building, will practice in the State and Federal Courts. -Get 20, 1895. DRS. M. A. & C. A. BLAND, Dentists. CHARLOTTE, N. C. No. 21 Tbtoh 8treet. Jan. 3, 1896 SKKlOT CLABKSON. CHAS. H. DULB CLARKSON & DULS, Attorneys at Law, Charlotte, N. C. rirouiga tC.tention given to all business in trusted. .WiW practice in all Courts of the tdtate. JtyOf&ce-ai-G.tf Law Building. Oct. 7. 1896. H. N. PHARR. ATTORNEY ,AT LAW. OQoe No. 14. Law Building. Prompt Attention to all business intrusted. Special attention given to claims. Practices in tate and -Federal Courts. Jao.C, 1805. THE ACKNOWLEDGED Leading Seeds Are BUISTS! - BUISTSI! We open ours today, fresh from the grower. Plant only "Buisfs Prize Medal Seeds," and you are sure of a crop. R. H. JORDAN fc CO r Jan. 19. 1895. Retail Druggists GO TO ALEXANDER'S DRCJG 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, 1895. FINEST LOT ' Ever brought to Charlotte. This is no idle boast We have the finest Jot of PERFUMES in thecity. Rick laecker's best in FANCY Bottles, Cases, Flasks, etc.. in GOOD shape for an EL KGANT PRESENT. It RECOMMENDS ITSELF. IT WILL PAY YOU TO SEE IT R. H. JORDAN & CO., Drafts Dec. 28, 1896 E. NYE HUTCHISON. FIRE INSURANCE. Offices 16 East Trade Street j 4 North Tyon Street, op stairs. Feb. 10. 1895. QUEEN CITY HOTEL. In visiting Charlotte, Don't fail to stop at the Queen City Hotel, Corner East Fifth and College 8ts, Everything first-class. RATES, $100 PER DAY. July 6, 1895. W J MOORE, Prop'r. Surgical Instruments. A full line of Surgical Instruments at Manufac turer's prices. Call and examine them. iy Mail orders will be promptly attended to R. B. JORDAN & 00. Sept 20, 1895- M& For the middle mullioo above the entrance to the new church of St. Mary, the Virgin, in New York. J. Massey Rhind has comple'ed a large figure of the Madonna and Child. It will be cast in bronze. Mr. Rbind has not departed from the lines of medieval art in respect to the Virgin. She wears a crown, the worldly sign of her spiritual rank as Queen of Heaven. As in the paintings and sculptures of the early Italians, she and the Child are represented with au reoles. Thus it is in keeping with the interior architecture of the church, which revives many forms and ornamentations that belong to the bouse ot the Roman Church on the Continent rather than to those of the English Chnrcb in England. Sale of Land. y virtue of a mortgage deed made to Jane R. Wilkes by W T Croom and wife, registered in Book No. 101. Page 621. ia the office of Re gister of Deeds for Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, I will Bell for cash, at Public Auction at the Court House door in the city of Char lotte, N 0. at 12 o'clock noon, on Monday the 17th day of February, 1896, that Town Lot in the Town of Matthews, N C, described as fol lows: Adjoining the Lands of Dr. I. S Oribble and Cyrus Wilson, being a lot in the town of Mat thews, East of C. C. R'wy and North side of Trade Street Bounded as fellows: Beginning at an Iron Stake corner of Dr. Gribble's lot on Trade Street, and runs with Trade 8treet 50 ft. to an Iron Stake, Cyrus Wilson s corner; thence with his line One Hundred and Seventy-five feet to an Iron Stake on North Alley; thence with said Alley 50 feet to an Iron Stake. Gribble's corner; thence with his line 175 feet to an Iron Stake on Trade Street, the beginning corner. JAN K WlUiKS. Jan 17,1896 5w Trustee's Land Sale. By virtue of a deed of trust Executed to me, by John M. Blankenship on the first day of December, 1BD3, ana recorded in the register s office for Mecklenburg County, in book 94. page 190; I will, on the 17th day of February, 1896, sell to the highest bidder, at public auction, at the Court House door, in the city of Charlotte, all that tract of land, described in said deed of trust, situated in Steel Creek township, said County, adjoining the lands of Wm. F. Boyd and others, and beginning at a stone near the public road on the state line and runs witn said line s. 53 West, 96J poles to a stone on said line, Thence North 88 W 49 1-5 poles to a stone, Thence N. 3 West 71 poles to a stone, near a branch. Thence N. 78 E 106 poles to a stone near the public road, Thence S. 14 E 40 poles to a stone William Boyd's corner, Thence S. 37 poles to the beginning, containing sixty four acres more or less Terms of Bale Cash This 14th day of January. 1896. P. D. WALKER, Jan. 16, 1896. 5w TruBtee. Administrator's Notice Having qualified as administrator of the es tate of W P Carpenter, deceased, this is to no tify all persons having claims against said estate to exhibit them to the ander signed on or be fore the 8th day of January, 1897. or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. Al per sons indebted to said estate will please make me payment. This the 8th day of January, 1896. JNO. W MILLER, Administra or's Notice. Having qualified as administrator of Mrs. Minnie A. Alexander, deceased, late of Mecklen burg County, N. C, thls.is to notify all persons , ' i - . .i . . u n : , naving ciaiins against me eauue ui iuc sum deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 28th day of December 1896, or this notice will be dead in bar lor tneir recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This, the 19th day of December, 1895. J. H. ALEXANDER, Dec 26, 1895. 6w Administrator. ACROSTIC. T homas & Maxwell for Furniture are renowned. H onest goods at their store are found. O riginators of novelties they are. It's true. M oney on Furniture ihey can save to you. A parlor, a bedroom, or a kitchen set; S myrna rugs and lambrequins you here can get. A nd furniture, bric-a-brac, novelties, too. N ew styles Thomas & Maxwell have for you. D on't make a mistake on "The Hustlers" call M ost for the least money they ffer all. A n enviable reputation they have won. X celled in Charlotte they are by none. W ondr's bargains in all department bear in mind E very thing for a home you here will find. L ook where you will, go where you may. L eaders Thomas & Max welfare to-day. We also keep stoves, That will bake the finest loaves. C HARLOTTE COLLEGE OF MUSIC AD ART. 18 SOUTH TRYON STREET, THE LEADING SCHOOL FOR MUSICAL TRAINING In the Southern States. THE MOST IMPROVED EUROPEAN METHODS. Many free advantages Modern Languages taught only by native teachers ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE- SPECIAL KINDERGARTEN. GERMAN METHOD BO ARD I N G Accommodations for Non-resident lady students IN COLLEGE BUILDING. Every modern convenience. Special course in PAINTING. DRAWING, and ELOCUTION Catalogues sent on application, Tbbms Moderate. Call or address, CARL S. GAERTNER, Sept 20. 895. Director Warm Over Shoes Men's High Buckle overshoes, wool lined, bes in the world. PRICE, $1.50. Ladies of same make. $125. EThese are good, and will last longer than three pairs of any other make sold in Charlotte. We will stake our reputation on this. We know what we are talking about. Dec. 20, 1895. GILREATH & CO, Only a Tramp. Only a tramp, from Heaven knows where, Prone in the empty box car there; Friendless and homeless, hungry and cold, Weary and worn wiih woes untold; Brush off the death dews cold and damp. He was a human if only a tramp. Only a trump, but in some far land Once the soft touch of a tender hand Lay on thit matted and tangled hair, With the mother's fondness, rich and rare. Tenderly brush off the death dew's damp, He was a brother if he was a tramp ! Only a traop, when his eyes grew dim, Who knows what a light was revealed to him ? Out of a realm, where he'd grown so low, Into a sphere where the sunbeams glow, Born in his Maker's God-like stamp, He was remembered if only a tramp ' ' M M V I2T"Some of the new women, under the leadership of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, have gotten out a Woman's Bible. They have eliminated every passage that had in it any real or fancied teaching cons trary to their views on woman's sbere. They have revised the history of the crea tion and of the fall of mankind so as to make women the superior of man and to acquit Eve of the charge preferred against her through so many ages of being con cerned in the downfall of man. They have laid irreverent bands upon many other portions of the Word oi Truth and marred the perfectness of the Holy Scriptures for many personal reasons and self-aggrandizement. Rob Ingersoll would blush at their blasphemies. The Discovery Saved Hise Lij Mr G Cailouette, Druggist, Beaversville, 111., says : " To Dr King's New Discovery I owe my life. Was taken with La Grippe and tried all the physicians for miles about, but of no avail and was given up and told 1 could not live. Hav ing Dr King's New Discovery in my store I sent for a buttle and beean its use and from the first dose began to get better, and after using three bottles was up and about again It ia worth its weight in gold. We won't keep store or house without it." Get a ree trial at Burwell & Dunn's drug store. NOTICE OF ELECTION IN THE CITY OP CHARLOTTE On the Question of Issuing Bonds for Water Supply and Sewerage. Notice is hereby givan that the Board of Aldermen of the City of Charlotte, by an ordi nance passed by a three-fourths vote at two separate meetings of the Board, in accordance with the Act of the General Assembly of North Carolina, entitled "An act to allow the City of Charlotte to issue Bonds," ratified March 6th, 1891, has directed that an election be held in the city of Charlotte, on Tuesday, the 18th day of February, 1896, 8t which election will be sub mitted to the decision of the voters of this city the question whether the Board of Aldermen of this City of Charlotte shall be authorized to issue bonds to an amount not exceeding Three Hundred Thousand ($300,00L.00) Dollars, the proceeds of the sale of said bonds to be applied to increasing and cheapening the water supply of said city for both public and private uses and to enlarging and improving tne sewag-j sys tem of the city. The bonds so authorized to be issued will run for thirty (30) years and bear interest at the rate of not more than five (5) per cent, per annum, to be paid semi-annually, and shall not be sold for less than par. The said election will be conducted by Registrars and Inspectors appointed by the Board as follows ; Firat Ward Registrar, T K. Faulkner. In spectors, M. Donnelly, W F. Moody and T. L. Kitch. Second Ward Registrar, J. G Shannon house. Inspectors, W. F. Dowd, W H. Houser and Jeo. YanLandingham. Third Ward Registrar, W. M. Thomas. In spectors, W.A. Gresham, W, F. Buchanan and A- J. Sifford. Fourth Ward Registrar, D G Maxwell. In spectors, J B Sioan, W J Wiley and O E Asbury. The places for openlDg the registration books and registering voters have been designated by the Board as follows : First Ward Ritch's stables, College street be tween Trade and Fifth streets. Second Ward Joseph G Suannonhouse's store. East Trade Street Third Ward W M Thomas' store West Trade street. Fourth Ward D G Maxwell's office, next to court house. The registration books will be opened in each ward at toe places above named, on Thursday, the 23d day of January, 1896, and will remain open for the registration of voters until Satur day, the 15th day of February, 1896, at 12 o'clock m , when they will closed and not again opened for the registration of a voter, unless he shall become qualified to register and vote after the time fixed for the closing of the books. The Board of Aldermea further ordered that a new registrasion of all the voters of the city be made for the said election. The following have been designated as the polling piaces for said election : First Ward The City Hall. Second Ward The Market House. Third Ward Page & Medlin's Shop. Fourth Ward D G Maxwell's office. At the said election thosa who are in favor of giving the authority to the Board to issue said bonds will vote on a written or printed ballot "Approved," and those who are opposed to giv ing the said authority will vote on a like ballot Not approved " This, the 8ih day of January, 1896. J, H, WEDDEswas:, Mayor, ORDINANCE. "Whereas, the Board of Aldermen of the City of Charlotte is of the opinion that it will pro mate the general good and welfare of the city to have a purer, more abundant and cheaper supply of water for both public and private uses, and a correspbnding increase and improvement of the city sewerage; and whereas, to obtain such a supply and distribute the same throughout the city and provide fhe required sewerage, it will be necessary to issue bonds of the city, and use the money derived from their sale in providing the needen water supply and sewerage : "Now the Board of Aldermen does propose to the voters of the city that it shall be, by them, given authority to issue coupon bonds of the city, to be known as the Water Bonds of the City of Charlotte, to an amount not to exceed $300,000,00, said bonds to bear interest at a rate not to exceed 5 per cent, per annum, to be of the denomination of $1,000 or $500 as may best suit the purchaser thereof to run for 30 years, and the semi-annual interest thereon and the prin cipal thereof to be paid when due at such place as may be designated in the said bonds, which shall be in the usual form of such municipal obligations, and shall be sold for not less than par, and the proceeds applied to the purposes aforesaid. In order, therefore, to ascertain the will of the voters upon the subject, it is now. " "Ordained, that the question of creating tha debt and issuing the bonds, as proposed above, and for the purposes mentioned, shall be submit ted to a vote of the people at an election to be hold on the 18th day of February, 1896, ac cording to the provisions of the Act of the Gen earl Assembly of North Carolina, entitled "An Act to allow the City of Charlotte to issue bonds." ratified March 6th, 1891. which election will be held as in said act provided, and after due notice as therein requiren." Jan. 10, 1896. 6w, Spontaneous Combustion. . When charcoal which has been allowed to absorb as much sulphureted hydro gen as it can take up is introduced into oxygen gas, tbo charcoal will burst into name, owing to tbe energy of the action of the oxygen upon the sulphureted hy drogen. This fact ia slated in most text books on chemistry, but no description that I have ever seen of Ibis experiment is cal culated to bring about the effect with certaipty. Tbe following is a simple method lor illustrating this reaction upon tbe lecture table, which I have never found to tail : , , A few grammes (from five to ten) of powdered charcoal are introduced into a bulb which ia blown in the middle of a piece of combustion tube about twenty five centimeters long. . A gentle stream of coal gas is then passed over tbe char coal, which is boated by means of a Bun sen lamp until it is perfectly dry. This point may be ascertained by allowing tbe issuing gas to impinge upon a email piece of mirror, and when no further deposition of moisture takes place the charcoal may be considered to bo dry, and tbe heating may be stopped. The charcoal is then allowed to cool in the stream of coal gas until its temperature is so far reduced that the bulb can just be grasped by the hand, when the coal gas is replaced by a stream of sulphureted hydrogen. The sulphureted hydrogen should bo passed over tbe charcoal for not less than fifteen minutes, by which time the bulb and its contents will be perfectly cold, and the charcoal will have saturated itself with tbe gas. (In practice it will be found convenient to prepare tbe experiment to this stage, and allow a very slow stream of sulphureted hydrogen to continue passing through tbe apparatus until tne experiment is to be performed.) The supply of euljDhureted hydrogen is then cut off, and a stream of oxygen passed through the tube. Almost immediately tbe charcoal will become hot, and moists uro will be deposited upon the glass. The supply of oxygen should bo suffi ciently brisk to carry the moisture for ward from tbe charcoal, but not so rapid as to prevent it from condensing on the glass tube beyond tbe bulb. In a few moments the temperature ot tne char coal will rise to tbe ignition point, when it will inflame and continue to burn in tbe supply of oxygen. G. S. Newth, in Na ture. - 1 1 . Where Do Our Birds Winter? The robin in winter is sometimes seen in the latitude of St. Louis. He goes southward as far as into Eastern Mexico. Sometimes tbe meadow lark may be seen in Northern Illinois during the cold weather, but be is very plentiful then in the Southern States. Long before severe froats come, tbe orioles and bobolinks hie them south, and do not return until tbe grass and leaveB are expanding. Blackbirds also throng tbe southern States, and Some of them go as far as tbe table lands of Mexico. Of that numerous family, tbe warblers, the black throated blue warbler winters in Florida, while the yellow-throat and the palm warbler have been found to winter in southern Illinois The catbird goes as far south as Pan. ama and Cuba, and tbo mocking bird stays largely in tbe Southern States, al though it sometimes goes to the Antilles and tbe Bahamas during the winter. The swallows are to be lound in Florida, and tbe purple martins in Mex ico: the ruby-throat flies among the or ange groves of Florida, while the whip- poor-will may be found as far southward as Guatemala. The thrashers and the wrens do not go so far south as some other birds. The wood thrush winters in Guatemala, the hermit thrush alorjg the gulf coast, and tbo cuckoo passes to tbe highlands of Mexico. The rose,, breasted grosbeak visits Cuba, the indigo bunting reaches South ern Mexico, tbe golden plover flies as far as Patagonia, while the upland plover makes itself at home in Brazil or Peru. The more brilliant the plumage of a bird, the further south it migrates, and even those birds which are the most resident like the jay, the grouse and the quail move in winter to a milder climate. Golden Days. Cure for Headache. As a remedy for all forms of Headache Elec tric Bitters has proved to be the very best. It effects a permanent cure and the most dreaded habitual sick headaches yield to its influence We urge all who are afflicted to procure a bot tle, and give this remedy a fair trial. In cases of habitual constipation Electric Bitters cures by, giving the needed tone to the bowels, and few cases long resist the use of this medicine. Try it once. Fifty cents and $1,00, at Burwell & Dunn's drug store A Christmas Dinner ! $8 50 8 50 $8 50 $8 50 ! Would not be bad on a table, especially when you can get a $12 50 Table for oniy $8 50 ! That is just what you get at E. M. ANDREWS'. The grandest display of Holiday Furniture ever shown in our history. The prices, not withstanding the advance in many lines, are lower than ever before in our history. Buying ia such large quantities enables us to get THE BEST PRICE ! We do not buy just one of a kind, but 10, 20. 40. 50 and 1,000, if the firm has MADE AN INDUCEMENT J CHRISTMAS -.o:- PRESENTS For the little folks. Useful, Ornamental, Ap propriate ! The display is ready. 8ee them. Doll Carriages, Doll Sets, Doll Bedstead-s, Velocipedes, Express Wagons, Children's Dear i. Rocker, Chairs, Music Racks and an endless variety that you mutt see OUR LEADER IS COUCHES 10, 12, 22.75. 15, 18, 28.50. 25 and $50 They are WfliT YOU WANT ! E. M. ANDREWS, Largest Furniture Dealer in the STATE, What Ghlo Is. The Dictionary Has No Good Definition of the , Word. Chic, "knack, style," is all my diction ary gives. It might be supplemented with smartness, flick, piquancy, sauce. For chic is the untranslatable word, and I doubt but it would be difficult for the wittiest Frenchman to define it, even in French. Of all the likeliest words I have given it is the last word and the cream. Of a dress, it is the highest praise, and it has to stand for its own explanation for him to understand who can. All the same it is to be doubted if the word could be used with propriety of the greatest art in dress, if such art is to be conceded to the Greeks chic being such an entirely mundane attribute, while, since clothing was first invented by Eve, the Greek has seemed tbe likeliest in which the gods would appear to man. It has been said that every man's god is an enlarged self; but I doubt if it ever oc. purred even fo the boulevardier to imag ine Heaven as a concourse of smartly dressed angels, or to the modern pagan to nope lor any forgiveness for that in the days of his natural life he tied his bows like the gods. There is a reserve even beyond chic though in chic itself it is difficult to say bow much the artist has held his hand and bow much has been sacrificed. So far is chic, however, from being an at tribute ef the gods that it should, to be the best, partake even of the Mephisto phelean, the streets and booths of Van- ty Fair, indeed, being tbe likeliest place to find it. It is often of the exact weight of a feather, and oftener still, still lighter and as evanescent as a summer cloud. It is as difficult to attain as the Fata Morgana, and as deadly when missed. In a day's march through London and I always maintain that an .Englishwoman is us well dressed as any you will see, per haps, one who has it, and you will wonder whether it is a flake or no. It may de pend upon a ribbon, a flower, or a rosette. It sits in the tilt of a hat or the aigrette of a bonnet. Westminster Budget. Was Paradise at the North Pole ? In an interesting and highly instruc tive article. Edward S. Martin, in the October Ladies' Home Journal reviews tbe numerous theories advanced by scientists in tbe endeavor to solve the perplexing problem as to exact location cf the site of the Gaiden of Eden. After sifting the theories the writer concludes that tbe question is no nearer answered than it was 2,000 years ago, and that there are no present indications that the matter will ever be definitely settled by any man. lo one of tbe latest and most ingenious theories Mr. Martin thus refers: Ibe JNorth pole will seem at nrst thought to tbe average investigator tbe most un likely Bite on earth for Paradise to have occupied. Nevertheless several sober and thoughtful books and pamphlets nave been written in support of the North roles pretensions. Tbe North Pole nowadays is bitter cold, but it has not always been so. Geologists tell us that the earth was excessively hot, when it first began its course much too hot to admit of the presence of any living crea tures, except, perhaps, a salamander. As it grew cooler vegetation began on it, and then it began to be peopled, first with fishes, and then with birds and beasts; finally with man. The first spot on earth to get cool enough to use was the North Pole. In the process of time it got too cold, but there must have been a long period when the polar region was the most comfortable part of the world. Dur ing this period, many eminent geologists believe, there existed around tbe North Pole a continent now submerged, and that on that continent our progenitors were comfortable in their first home. It is known with entire certainty that the polar region was once warm enough for tropical vegetation to grow there. There was light enough, also, for such vegeta tion abundant light, indeed, for all uses, and plenty for primeval man. Geology tells us that man might have lived at tbe North Pole. A Bust of Louis XVII. Found. A valuable addition has recently been made to the historical collections in tbe Palace of Versailles. A marble bust of Louis XVII which has bean discovered has been placed in one of the rooms which formed part of the apartment where the Regent died beside tbe beautiful portraits by Nattie, Nargilliere, and Drouais, This little bust, says the Figaro is that of a child, and it would have remained unidentified had it not been for the dis covery of the following inscription: "This bust, horribly mutilated by the Vandals of August 10, was found and restored in 1816 by Jean DelaroysDelorme, of Niort, Deux-Sevres." On examination, and notwithstanding the clumsy manner in which the nose and chin, br6ken by a blow from a sabre, had been restored, there was no doubt the bust was that of Louis XVII. Inves tigations made by M. de Nolhac, director of the museum, prove that this work of art is by Deseine, sculptor to tbe Ling, and dates from 1790. iV. F. Herald. Woman a Woman is a conundrum most decidely Still we do not propose to give her up Let a woman have her health and spirits and she is tbe sunshine of the house. But suppose she is sick, what then ? Why, then there is a shadow over au tne house. Happily in thousands of homes, such shadows hav? been removed. Thanks to Dr. Piercea Favorite Prescription, the diseases and weaknesses incident to their sex have been removed, and with health restored, their bright spirits have come back, and the household has passed from tbe winter of its discontent to a glad summer of comfort. O. suffering women, for your own sakes, and for the sakes of tboae about you, use these simple means and be healed. The only remedy so ef. fect.ive in nervous and general prostra. tion. "Female Weakness," periodical pains, irregularities and kindred ailments, mat it increases iu oaij every year. Highest of all in Leavening Power. cQH-qjTrEE.y pure Eat Apples. The Practitioner says apples have many good medicinal qualities. Chemi cally they are composed of vegetable fiber, albumen, sugar, gum, chloropbyl, . malio acid, lime and much water. Further- more, the German analysis sav that the apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than any fruit or vegetable. The phosphorus is admirably adapted to renewing tbe essential nervous matter of the brain and the spinal cord. It is per haps, for the same reason, rudely under. stood, that all Scandinavian traditions represent the apple as the food of the gods, who when they felt. themselves to be growing feeble and infirm, restorted to this fruit, renewing their powers of mind and body. Ibe acids of tbe apple are of singular use for men of sedentary habits, whoso livers are sluggish iu action, those acids serving to eliminate from the body nox ious matters, which, if retained, would make the brain heavy and dull, or bring about jaundice or skin eruptions and other allied troubles. Some such experi ence must have led to the custom of tak ing apple sauce with roast pork, rich goose, and other like dishes. The malio acid of ripe apples, either raw or cooked, will neutralize any excess of chalky mat ter en-gendered by eating too much meat. It is also the fact that such fruits as the apple, the pear, and the plum, when taken ripe and without sugar, diminish acidity in the stomach rather than pro voke it. Their vegetable sauces and juices are converted into alkaline car bonates by tbe chemical action of tbe stomach juices, which tend to counteract acidity. A Horse in the White House. A horse has his home in the White House. This is a literal fact which visU tors never discover, and which few Wash- ngton people know. The horse which shares the executive mansion with the President is not a thoroughbred. He has neither pedigree nor record. He is just a plain, everyday horse, with a white star in his forehead, a faithful com panion to Edgar R. Beckley. And who is Edgar R. Beckley? Tbe man who for twenty-five years, has carried to and from the White House all of the interesting and valuable mail re ceived and sent, and who has never been found remiss in his duty, says the Globe Democrat, lbere are men who seem bound to become monuments of fidelity to routine trusts. Beckley is one of them. Rain or shine, in all seasons, he makes hourly trips between the White House and thecity post office. He is the White House mail carrier. And the horse that has his home in the White House carries Beckley. The part of the mansion set apart for tbe horse is one corner of tbe conserva tory. A thin partition is all that sepa rates the roomy stall from the orchids. There is ju3t room enough for the stall and a temporary supply of feed, and the horse eats and sleeps under the si me roof with tbe President cf tbe United States. Her Lover a Tramp. New Brunswick, N. J. Jan. 16. James Higgins, a well dressed young man; who has been paying assiduous attention to Miss Agnes Williams who is known as the belle of Remsen avenue, bad bis love dream shattered by a policeman last night and is now in jaiL Tbe young man rep resented himself as being employed in an Elizabeth faotory, and whenever he came to New Brunswick he was welcomed by his Bweetheart. Last night Higgins met the girl with her skates. She asked him to go with her to Milltown and he ac cepted. The man had only eight cents, not enough for car fare, so he left Agnes in the waiting room, and walking down George street, tried to beg a little money from passersby. A policeman caught him in the act and led him to the police station. Tbe girl saw him go by the waiting room and ran out sobbing with excitement to learn tbe trouble. Higt gins assured her that it was a mistake, but she went home heart-broken. At the station Higgins was recognized as a tramp, known-as "Handsome Billy." In his pocket was found a ticket for lodging at the tramps' lodging house. Though a professional tramp Higgins managed to get money to dress well, and he easily deceived Miss Williams. When tbe girl learned today that her lover was a tramp she fainted. Higgins is now in jail await ing a hearing. The Nervous System Its Course of Dis ease. In the consideration of the problem oi disease, sufficient importance, tbe Char lotte Medical Journal thinks, is not attached to the nervous system as an etiological factor. It has been found by experimental analysis that the chemical composition of the perspiration varies greatly with the passions and emotions under which the individual labors. Reasoning by infer ence, may not the same be said of other secretions? Certainly we know that toxio changes occur in human milk as the result of great anger, and the depress ing emotions entirely check gastrin se cretion and render the month foul. The influence of fright in causing the hair to stand, tbe skin to assume the appearance of gooseflesb, and the musclar system to become generally paralysed, is well known. It Is also true that suspense and disappointment give rise frequently to excessive micturition and emotional diarrhoea. If, then, the emotions have inch power Latest U. S Gov't Report ajoil' 91 was : i v to influence bodily functions - and; -change the secretions, may not'the development of toxic es be traced to thiB source fc It would be interesting, in this .connection, to know whether the emotional' tempera ment is more prone to disease than, the phlegmatio individual. . . .i.'j " "1 . '. j t The Safest Place in Battle. ,yu Gen. Lee told an amu8ing8tOTyno a Charlottes ville'Chronicle reporter." When he was about to deliver his address at the Confederate reunion in Craig county, recently, some one came to him i and asked him if be would speak to an old colored man who wished to Bpeak to him. The General consented, and the old negro, whose name was "Sam," and who had fought throughout the war, came; and received the proffered hand. Gen. 'Leo at once began to put questions to ' the old fellow,1 who answered ' with wonderful skill. Tbe General then asked 'him where he had seen the best time 'during the war. J "At Chickamauga," at once replied tbe darky, ''because I ran as soon' as the fir ing began." , . "But how did you know which way to run in such a hot battle?" asked Gen. Lee, with a merry twinkle in his eye.' '; ',' "1 went directly to the safest place, and the first I could find,'' answered !"3am,M coming to his climax. Again be was asked bow he could tell which place was safe. - , "I knowed it was safe, answered "Sam," "cause I skipped for de place whar de Generils was." . ' ' Gen. Lee enjoyed the joke and laughed heartily at the darky's wit. Charlottes ville Chronicle. ' ' m y i .12 , A . Royal Etiquette. "- On one occasion Queen Victoria, Louis Philippe and the Duke of , Wellington nftirl a. Tjiait. tn Tlfnn nllorr Ttiflw an invited to sign the visitor's book. rThe French king thoughtlessly took up the pen and signed his name at the top of the. page. Etiquette, however, forbade Queen Victoria to . sign her name under,, any other. She therefore signed on the top of the next page. She then took up the pen and banded it to the Duke ot Wel lington, who was so excited at the con tretemps that be actually signed his name "Weggington." And, by the way, it may be recorded that etiquette forbids the queen to converse with tradesmen. When a purveyor waits upon her,, the, queen addresses her remarks to an equerry, who in turn addresses the expectant merchant. tf 83T" At least ons grocer of : this town keeps brandied peaebes that profess to have been put up in the domestic article by a respectable old lady of the .Virginia peach region. As evideno of sincerity, the jars are labelled and dated in manu script, after the fashion of Onr grand mothers, as "Rrandy Peaches, '94." Tha average housewife no more writes "bran died peaches" than she would write Viced water." Peaches done in this style are no longer the expensive luxury i they were before California brandy was in vented. It is even cheaper than the ap propriate domestic peach brandy, of which a few thousand gallons are annu ally produced in Delaware. : Takis His Own Lifz. Morristowk, Tenn., Jan. 18. W.A. MathosoD," J rom Statesvillle, N. C, committed suicide here Wednesday night by taking twenty grains of morphine. Melancholy is supposed to be the cause. . His remains have been shipped back to his North Carolina home. Matheson was a young man and was popular with his associates. He was talks ing to a number of them when be took tbe drug, remarking as he did so, "Good-bye, I'll meet you all in heaven or bell.'j Cheered Th Prater Washington, January 17. There was a most unusual demonstration at tho opening of the ses sion of tbe bouse today. Tbe blind chap Iain, whose ardent Americanism bat fre quently occasioned remark, prayed fer vently today for "struggling Cuba" and the ?' success of her battle for . independ dence" and when he concluded, tbe senti ments he had expressed were 'given a hearty round of applause. , " But Joshua Holds the. Record.' Capt. Bassett was the first man offi cially to lengthen time by turning' back tbe hands of tbe Senate clock in, Wash iegton. He did it for the first time on March 4, 1844, by direction of Senator Wiley P. Mangam, of North Carolina, then President of the Senate pro tempore. This is history. Boston Daily Globe. A Curious Custom. A curions enstom still prevails at the coal pits on Hogmanay, in Scotland. The first man to come up the pit after his work is over is received with a shovelful of hot ashes, . which be ing prepared for, be dodges as 'best he can, while tbe last man gets a . bucketful of cold water thrown at him. dr'Pa, what is a trip hammer?" "It is the hammer, my son, that your in leaves on the carpet when ehe hangs np a picture." Exchanqe. . MitftnminPam4.tr "Much in little" this sentence means. It has almost become a proverb, because the expression can be used in so many in stances. In no instance, however, can this saying be used with greater propriety than in speaking of Dr. Pierce's . Pleasant Pellets. There is indeed much in a little vial of them there is a cure for. many headache relief from dyspepsia, billions- ness, constipation, colic, and piles and restoration to health,, and- happiness. Much good in little space.