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CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1896.
VOLUME XLIII. NUMBER 2234
THE
CHARLOTTE DEMOCRAT
PUBLISHED KVBEY VBIDAT
Tebus One .Dollar and Ffty Cents in advance
for 1 yeer Two Dollars on time.
o
Entered at the Post Office iu Charlotte, N. 0.,
as second class matter, according to the rules ot
the P. O. Department.
DRS. McCOMBS & GIBBON,
DESIRE TO INFORM THE PUBLIC,
That they have this day entered into a copart
nersbip for the
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE,
AND
SURGERY.
March 1, 1895.
March 15. 1895.
JOHN PARRIOR,
HO. 4 SOUTH TBYON STREET, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
DEALER IN
Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, -Jewelry, "Sil
ver and Silver Plated Ware.
ty Special attention given to Fine Watch
Repairing.
Jan 25, 1895.
BURWELL, WALKER & CANSLER,
Attorneys-At-Law,
IEOOM8 NOB 5, 6, AND 13, LAW BUILDING,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Jan 4, 1895.
DR. E. F. KEERANS,
DENTIST,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
'Office 7 West Trade Street.
Nov. 2, 1894
HUGH V. HARRIS,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Office, Nos. 14 and 16 Law Building,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
July 6, 1895:
, , -
F. I. 08B0RNE, W. C. MAXWELL, J. W. KEERANS.
OSBORNE, MAXWELL & KEERANS,
Attorneys at Law.
Oil ARLOTTE, N. C.
t3f Offices 1 and 3 Law Building.
Will practice in the State and Federal Courts.
Oct 20, 1895.
DRS. M. A. & C. A. BLAND,
Dentists.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
No. 21 Tryon Street.
Jan. 3, 1896.
ittRlOT CLARKSON. CBAS. H. DULS
CLARKSON & DULS,
Attorneys at Law,
Charlotte, N. C.
Prompt attention given to all business m
. justed. Will practice in all Courts of the
itate.
Office No. 12 Law Building.
Oct. 7. 1896.
H. N. PHARR,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office No. 14. Law Building.
Prompt attention to all business intrusted.
Special attention given to claims. Practices in
State and Federal Courts.
Jan. 6, 1895.
THE ACKNOWLEDGED
' Leading Seeds Are
BUISTS! - BUISTSII
We open ours today, fresh from the grower
Plant only "Buist's Prire Medal Seeds," and
you are sure or a crop.
R. H. JORDAN & CO ,
Jan. 19. 1S95. Retail Druggists
GO TO ALEXANDER'S
DRUG STORE,
NO. 216, NORTH TRYON STREET.
Seeps 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
lotot PERFUMES in the city. Rick
seeker's best in FANCY Bottles,
Cases, Flasks, etc., in GOOD shape
for an EL KG ANT PRESENT. It
RECOMMENDS ITSELF. IT
WILL PAY YOU TO SEE IT
R H. JORDAN & CO., Druggists
Dec. 28, 1896
E. NYE HUTCHISON.
FIRE INSURANCE.
Offices 16 East Trade Street ; 4 North Tyon
Street, up stairs.
Feb. 19. 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.
KT" Mail orders will be promptly attended to
R. H. JORDAN & 00.
Sent 20, 1895'
The Use of Horseflesh in Paris.
The statistical bulletin of the French
Ministry of Agriculture, dealing with the
consumption of horseflesh in Paris 1 tet
year, gives the number of horses killtfi
for consumption as food at 23,186 thi? be
ng exclusive of 43 mules and 383
donkeys. The total weight of meat sold
was 5,130 tons, and this was sold at 186
shops or stalls, which are not allowed to
sell any other kind of meat. The maxi
mum price ranged from 18 cents a pound
for the fillet to 4 cents a pound for the
necks and lower ribs. The report adds
tbat not more than a third of the meat
is sold at the stalls, the remainder going
to make sausages.
TRUSTEE'S SALE.
Whereas John M. Hanna and Rosa J. Hanna
did on the 10th day of i January, 1890. execute
and deliver to Albert R. Shattuck, Trustee, a trust
deed on certain lands in Mecklenburg County,
State of North Carolina, therein vtscribed, to
secure liie eum of $1,100, due by taid John
M Hanna and Rosa J. Hanna to the British &
American Mortgage Company, Limited, which
said trust deed is recorded io Mecklenburg
County, in Deed liook btf, .rage atw, to which
reference is hereby made; and whereas default
has been made in the payment of the moneys se
cured by said trust deed; and whereas the under
signed has been duly appointed substituted trus
tee io the place of said Albert R. Sbattuck, as
provided in said trust deed, and has been duly
equested to execute the trust tnerein contained;
Now therefore notice is hereby given, that un -
der and by virtue of the power contained in said
trust deed, 1, the undersigned substituted trustee,
on Monday, the 6th day of April, 1896, at 12
o'clock M., at the Court House door, in the city
of Charlotte, N. C, in Mecklenburg County, will
by public auction sell to the highest bidder for
cash the following described property, viz:
One hundred (lOU) acres more or less adjoining
the lands of Mary Barnett, George Elliott and
others, and bounded as follows, to wit: Begin
ning at a Spanish oak on the branch, and runs
Dorth 44 dee E 43 poles to a stone, thence north
52 deg W 54 poles to a stone, thence north 61
deer W 5 poles to a stone pile, tnence south oi
deg W 33 poles to a Black Jack, thence south 29
deg W 114 poles to a sour wood, thence south oo
deg E 216 poles to a poplar stump on the branch,
thence with the meanderings of the branch to the
beginning.
said land will be sold to satisty the debt se
cured by said trust deed, and such title will be
given as is vested in said trustee.
a. m. t;AJNLiii;K,
Substituted Trustee.
Mch 7, 1896 5w
TRUSTEE'S SALE.
Utder and by virtue of a Deed of Trust ex
ecuted to me by Isom and Jane Torrence. and
registered in Book 86, page 512, etc , in the office
ot the Register of Deeds for Mecklenburg
county North Carolina, I will sell for cash at the
County Court House Door, in the city oi Char
lotte, North Carolina, on Monday, the 30th day of
March. 1896. at 13 o'clock; M., that louowine lot
of land in the city of Charlotte, bounded and
described as follows : Commencing at a stake,
B. Kerr s old corner, 300 feet from the inter
section of Myers and Eighth streets on 8th street,
and runs with Eighth street in an eastern direc
tion fifty feet to a stake; thence parallel with
Myers street in a northern direction nioety-nine
feet to a stake; thence in a western direction fifty
feet to a stake in Kerr s line; thence ninety-nine
feet to the beginniDff same being part of the
Englehard lot and same being house and lot now
occupied by Isom and Jane Torrence and being
conveyed by J. H Wearn and wife to them,
deed dated November 2nd, 192. and duly re
corded. HERIOT CLARKSON,
Feb. 28, 1898. 5w Trustee.
Administrator's Notice.
Having duly qualified as administrator of the
estate of John G. Miller, deceased, all persons
having claims against the estate of said John G.
Miller are hertby notined to present to me tor
payment on or before the 1st day of March, 1897,
or this notice will he pleaded in Dar oi tneir re
covery. All persons indebted to said estate are
notified to make immediate payments to me.
H. N. PHAKlt,
Administstratcr, Estate, J G. Miller, dee'd.
Feb. 28, 6w
LOOK AT THIS.
TABLES AT
$8 50 8 50 $8 50
$8 50 !
Wnnld not he bad on & table. esDeciallv when
you can get a $12 50 Table for oniy $8 50 ! That
Is just what you get at a. ai. jxluij vv o .
The grandest display of
FURNITURE!
ever shown in our history. The prices, not
withstanding the advance in many lines, are
lower than ever before in our history.
Buying in 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 I
-.o:- BEAUTIFUL -:o:-
For the little folks. Useful, Ornamental, Ap
propriate ! The display is ready. See them
Doll Carriages. Doll Sets, Doll, Bedsteads
Velocipedes, Express Wagons, Childrend's Desks
Rocker?, Chairs, Music Racks and an endless
variety that you must see
OUR LEADER IS COUCHKS
10, 12, 22.75, 15, 18, 22.50. 25 and $50 They are
WHIT YOU WANT 1
E. M. ANDREWS,
Largest Furniture Dealer in the
STATE.
WARM OVER SHOES.
Ladies wool lined plain rubber oveiohoe,
price 50 cents, less than you can buy than any
where in America; Ladies plain overshoe
"gold seal" brand every pair warranted,
PRICE 50c.
This overshoe will wear longer than two
pairs of any other, ever made, comes high up all
round, affording more protection from mud,
rain; or snow, than any of the fancy styles oust
ing as much, and not near so good.
LADIES RUBBER BOOTS,
for working garden in early spring, every lad
should have a pair With rubber boots you will
not mind the weather "so the wind dont blow.'
PRICE $2 00.
Best stock of shoes in the State.
Jan. 24, 1896 GILREATH & CO.
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 under signed on or be
fore the 8th day of January, 1897. or this notice
will be plead in bar of their recovery. All per
sons indebted to said estate will please make me
payment.
This the 8th day of January, 1898.
JNO. W MILLER,
Thy Wife.
Companion ? counselor T most precious friend ?
O vapid terms ! O blind or sordid man Reflect !
She lives tbv secret life with true.
-The world beholds thy face and thinks it reads
inmost thoughts. It studies well thine
eyes
And thicks it sees emotiocs mirrored there.
It calls thee good and true, and praises thee;
Or quick condems thee for thy seeming sins.
It does not know thee. Therein only one
(Beside thy Maker) to whosjsfme thine own
Is like ah- open, book &adwith whose heart -Thine
own"' isjoined as with a vital cord.
Ay, more; to wrong her is to do thyself
Most grievous wrong; and when thy fervent love
Sends but its light through kindly acts and
words,
Her joy sweet smile completes thy happinses.
Inspired by her thoul't stand the cruel test .
And win the prize which thousands sought in
vain;
Or, following fast her siren urging, piunge
Headlong, deep down into disgrace, despair,
Ah, yes, she lives thy secret life with thee .
Thy conscience she thy heaven or thy hell.
Otto FPeder, in QreenvMe Reflector.
Scientific Enthusiasts.
It is a common error to think of science
as opposed to all the poetry of life and
scientists as the most cold and matter
of fact men. In reality the true scientist
is almost always a poet at heart, and the
greater he is the more certain is he to be
a pure enthusiast and of a deeply reverent
spirit, Kepler, exclaiming in the
moment of bis great discovery, "O God,
I think thy thoughts after thee !" is a
type of this.
Professor Farrar, who occupied the
chair of natural philosophy at Harvard
University two thirds of a century ago,
was a man possessed of this enthusiasm
tor his work, and was beloved by his
pupils, whom he inspired with something
of his own spirit.
One day the class entered the lecture
room and found the professor walking
backward and forward with kindled eye
and working face, holding a ball in his
band. Presently he stopped and con
fronted ths class and exclaimed, suiting
the action to the word :
"I toss this ball into the air: the earth
rises up to meet it and the stars bow
down to do it reverence !''
Probably no meaiber of the class who
heard these words ever forgot their
absolutely accurate lesson that action
and reaction are equal; that the apple
which falls to the earth at the same time
draws the earth to itself in the exact
ratio of their relative weigh, and dis
turbs even the course of the planets and
stars. Still less could they torget tne
grandeur and unity so vividly expressed
in that brief imagery. Youth's Com
panion.
GET YOUR-
H ARDW ARE HERE
WE CARRY THE LARGEST
Stock of Silver-Plated Knives
and Forks, 'lea and Table
Spoons, Carving Sets, Brass
Dog Irons and Brass Fire
SETS GUNS, AMMUNITION,
AND ALL
KINDS OF Kitchen UTENSILS,
In The City ! .
J. H. Weddington & Co.
Dec. 20, 1895.
OLD MAN'S
WIDE, SOFT, EASY, CONGRESS SHOES,
sewed ard warranted, best grade satin calf, fine
Dongola top, good elastic, the best you ever saw
at such a price-;-
$2 00
Young Ladies, Married Ladies and Old Ladies
extra fine kid. button. Philadelphia make, price
$2.00; guaranteed the best grade ever offered at
this price. The best of people make the great
mistake of allowing themselves to be fooled into
buying trashy shoes, thinking they are getting
something for nothing. We are here to serve
the people with eood value in footwear and will
save you money. We have grown up In the
business. Are young, yet old, and seem to Know
what we are talking about, come to see us.
Feb 13 If 96 GILREATH & CO.
We Sell Buist's
GARDEN SEED
WARRANTED
Fresh arid Pure.
R TJ JORDAN & flQ
. rl, Jordan & Vo.,
Prescription is ts.
Feb. 7, 1896,
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 they 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 r 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 wm nnd.
L ooh where you will, go where you may. .
If eaders Thomas & Maxwell are to-day. .
We also keep stoves,
Tbat wiU bake the finest loaves.
Warm Over Shoes.
Men's High Buckle overshoes, wool lined, bes
in the worta.
PRICE, $1.50.
Ladies of : same make. ,
$1.25. '
These are eood. and will last longer than three
pairs oi any other mane soia in juarioue. w e
wiil stake our reputation on this. We know
what we are talking about.
Dec. 20, 1895. . GILREATH & CO.
Attractions, of Moscow.
St: Petersburg is of peculiar interest as
the modern capital of Russia, and the
place of residence of the imperial family;
but from a picturesque -and historical
point of view Moscow is the more strik
ing of the two, with its marvelous Krem
lin, the most curious building in the
world,oontainirig under oue roof a magnifi
cent palace, picture galleries, museum,
catheirals, and chapels. The view, too,
of the whole capita is beautiful, for it
stands in an eminence, the frozen river
below stretching as far as . the eye can
see. Then there are the quaint buildings
of purest white mingled with Oriental
colors, golden dome and innumerable
minarets, the Church of St Saviour's con
spicuous among till in the center of the
city, built of the whitest stone, shaped
like a Greek cross, erci"ed in memory of
the retreat cf the Grand - Army and the
deliverance from Napoleon in 1812. The
treasury is full of beautiful and interests
ing objects, including the crowns used on
all occasions in Russia, also the robes
worn by the Czar and Empress at their
coronation. From the treasury you pass
on to a large museum containing gold and
silver plate of all nations, rare porcelain,
ancient carriages of state, and a great
accumulation of gifts presented by rulers
of all ages and countries ot the East
and West to the Czars of Russia. Among
these there was a wonderful chariot from
Queen Elizabeth ot England, which was
sent to the Emperor John the Terrible
when he invited her to join with him in a
war against France, an invitation which
she declined to accept. History says that
she refused an offer of marriage from
him at the same time. Then there was
a fine collection of armor and weapons
and other relics of the past, Peter the
Great's bed, Napoleon I.'s tent left behind
him in his hurried retreat, innumerable
relics of John the Terrible, and- among
them more gifts from Queen Elizabeth.
We visited the cathedral where corona
tions take place; also another where the
coffins of the Czars up to Peter the
Great are arranged; and here we found
two priests praying for the soul of John
the Terrible, as there is a strong convic
tion tbat bis soul must still be in purga
tory, although he lived three centuries
ago. Correspondent Boston Herald.
--
Burdette's Sermon On Life.
Man born of woman is of few days and
no teeth, and indeed it would be money
in his pocket sometimes if he had less of
either. As for his teeth he bad convul
sions when he cut them, and as the last
one comes through, lo! the dentiBt is
twisting the the first one out, and the
last end of that man's jaw is worse than
the first, being full of porcelain and a
roof plate built to hold blackberry seeds.
Stone bruises line his pathway to man
hood: bis father boxes bis ears at home.
the big boys cuff htm in the playground
and the teacher whips him in tho school
room. He buyeth Northwestern at 110,
when be hath sold short at yb, ajia his
neighbors unloadeth upon him Iron
Mountain at ods and stragntway Drean-
eth down to 52J. He riseth early and
sitteth up late that he may fill his barns
and storehouse, and lo 1 his children's
lawyers divide the spoils among them,
selves and say; 'Ha I ha !" He groweth
and is in sore distress because it rainetb,
and he beateth upon his breast and say-
eth "My crop is lost ! because it ram alb
not. The late rains blight his wheat ana
the frost biteth his peaches. If it be so
that the sun shineth, even among the
nineties, he sayeth, "Woe is me, tor 1
perish !" and even if the north west wind
sigheth down in 42 below he crietb,
"Would I were dead I
If be wears sackcloth and blue jeans,
men say, "he is a tramp," and if he go
shaven and clad in purple and fine linen,
all the people cry "Shoot the dude !"
He carrieth insurance for twenty years,
until he had paid thrice over all his goods
and then he letteth his policy lapse one
day, and, that some night fire destroyeth
his store. He buildeth hira a house in
Jersey, and his firstborn is devoured by
mosquitoes; he pitcheth his tents in New
York, and tramps devour his substance.
He moveth to Kansas and a cylone car
rieth his house away over in Missouri,
while a prairie fire and .10,000.000 acres
of grasshoppers fight for his crop. He
settles himself in Kentucky and is shot
the next day "by a gentleman, a colenel
and statesman, "because, sah, he res
embles, sab, a man sab, he did no$k Ifke,
sah." Verily, there is no rest for. the
sole of his feet and if he had to do it over
again he would not be born at all, for
"the day of death is better than the aay
of one's birth.".
.
Cure for Headache.
Aa a remedv for all forms of Headache Elec
tric Bitters has proved to be the very best. It
effects a permanent cure ana the most areaaea
... . . . . . . . i . a
liaDituai sick neaaacnes yieia io its wuueuce
We uree 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
FRESH MEATS, GAME.
FINE GROCERIES.
SEE ME
Before Selling Your Choioe
BEEP CATTLE. PORK. EGGS.
CHICKENS, &c.
Always in Market for - above.
GEO. S. HALL.
Feb 2& 1896
DIXIE TIE.
c..
A Shoe for Farmers, neat, comfortable and
dnrahlWitir nrnnf and sirm ni nil for 111. SO.
These shoes are lined, no seams to rip, soles
warranted the best ever put on. Superior in
wearingiuality to anything ;
SOLD IN
CHARLOTTE
AT EVEN $2.00
Oil your 8hoes with Shining Light leather
preserver always ready for use whether cold or
hot, price 10c GILREATH & CO.
Feb. 22, 1895.
Possibilities of the Peanut.
The "Southern States" asks me to state
the grounds upon which 1 have ventured
to predict that there will be as great a
development of the peanut oil and meal
industry in the next fifteen years as has
been witnessed in tbe development of the
cottonseed oil industry in the last fifteen
years. I can give nothing but some very
genera' reflections and statements of fact
upon that subject.
The demand of the world for oils and
also for cattle food appears to be practi
cally unlimited. Tbe uses to which
oils are put are very numerous. When
ever a new source of oil is discovered tbe
world seems to absorb tho additional pro
duction without much effect on previous
supplies from other sources, for which
the demand continues unabated, subjeot
to no greater variation in price than that
which affects many other products.
The peanut vine, known as the Ara
chis, of different varieties,, belongs to the
tribe of leguminous plants which , derive
nitrogen from the atmosphere through
the intervention of the bacteria, which,
dwelling in tho little appendages between
the stalk and fhe root, dissociates the
nitrogen from the atmosphere, and living
or dying there converts that nitrogen to
the use of the plants, which, when turned
under or fed to cattle, serve to renovate
the soil.
Moreover, the seeds of these leguminous
plants beans, peas, lentils and peanuts
supply the necessary nitrogenous
element of nutrition in the food of man.
kind in the oountries where meat is either
very costly, or in hot countries where
much meat would be unwholesome.
Theee leguminous plants are produced in
immense and numerous varities in the bos
called "rice- fed" countries of the world
India, China and Japan, since rice only
would not supply complete nutrition.
The oil of these countries is 'derived
from these seeds, notably from the pea
nut, which is distinguished from most
other varieties in the great quantity of
tbe oil which it contains. Peanut oil is
the oil of China. The meal of peanuts
and beans is one of the great articles of
tbe coastwise and river commerce in
China.
These meals have been used to fertilize
the sugar cane on the Island of Formosa
for many centuries, yet until a very
recent time tbe sugar planter of Lou
isiana were wholly unaware of the ferti
lizing properties of the cotton seed meal,
which contains the same elements of
nutrition which the soil requires.
Regard being given to tbe fact that the
peanut can be raised on land which is
not commonly called very fertile, but
which, when nourished with the proper
proportion of alkaline fertilizers will
make great crops, it may become one of
the prime factors in the renovation of the
soil of many States which have been ex
hausted. by ignorant cultivation, while
adding vastly to the product in the value
of the plant and its seed. .
Are not the people of the Southern
States as intelligent and capable of den
veloping their resources as the negroes of
Senegambia in Central African ? If that
question is answered in tbe affirmative,
why should there not be as great a com-'
merce in peanuts as there is between
Senegambia arid Marseilles or Bordeaux.
I cannot give an exact statement of tbat
commerce but it is measured by hun
dreds of thousands of tons and hundreds
of passages of vessels to and from the
ports of Africa.
Assuming, then, that ther will be
sufficient intelligence to develop this
branch of inaustry, what are the facts ?
So far as I can learn, intelligent cultiva
tion in many States will develop an
average crop of sixty bushels of peanuts
to tbe acre. But these nuts, like
the cotton seed, may become tbe second
ary product of tbe plant. When the
plant thrives sufficiently to yield - sixty
bushels of nuts to the acre it also yields
two tons of the most nutritious forage
that can be discovered for the use of
cattle. Again, when tbe oil has been ex
tracted from the kernel the meal ground
with the shell, as the cotton seed is now
mixed with the hull, becomes one of
the most nutritious and valuable foods
for cattle tbat has ever been discovered.
This food mixed with silage made from
corn stalks may be so combined in a due
proportion as to make a complete and
perfect food for cattle, sheep and hogs.
In 1880 I stated to my hearers in
Atlanta that if the North possessed a
cotton-plant producing no lint and only
seed it would long since have been ene
of the most valuable crops. Now I say
tbat if the North could have produced
peanuts that crop would longince have
become one of the most valuable crops of
the country.
In fact, the peanut vine, could it be
cultivated in the North at the rate of two
tons to the acre, would be one of its most
valuable forage crops, even discarding
the nuts themselves as of no value. How
more would ibis crop be raised in
view of the fact that while it pays for
itself as a forage plant its secondary pro
duct, the peanuts, may become worth
much much more as time goes on than
tbe forage itself. The flax plant pro
duces flaxseed or linseed. No invention
has yet been made for saving the fibre
of the stalk except by very costly and
unpleasant methods of treating it by
retting or rotting on the ground and deal
ing with it by hand. This. worn can be
done so wtll by the semi-pauper labor
of other countries tbat we cannot afford
to save fibre itself from the great crops of
flax which are raised in this country.
This plant is therefore raised simply for
the value of what in other countries is
the secondary product, to wit, the seed.
It happens to be in the pow-ir of tbe
North to produce flaxseed, since lebO
tbe product oi flaxseed in the far North
west has risen from 500,000 bushels to
16.000.000 bushels in 1895. Flaxseed
oulture has largely supplanted wheat io
tbe older countries ot Minnesota. See tbe
recent report in Bradstreet's of Novem
ber 23d. Its meal product is said to sur
pass all other foods in the produetion of
. rw 1 . . . 1 1
beet, mutton, pors, miis ana outter wane
the value of fertilizers from animals fed
on it is $20 a ton as against $7 a ton from
corn fed animals.
Such are the facts in regard to a plant
Highest of all in Leavening
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which very rapidly exhausts tbe soil.
When similar intelligence and energy
are applied to the development of tbe
peanut, which renovates tbe soil," what
will be the effect? -
Again the peanut oil may be treated for
the separation of the stearine,correspond
ing to the cotton seed Btearine, which is
purer, cleaner and better than lard.. A
farmer whose name I unfortunately mist
placed and lost, whom I lately met at
Atlanta, informed me that acting upon
the suggestion which I made to him a
year ago, he had raised peanuts, con
verted them into oil and bad manufac
tured stearineaat a cost not. exceeding
three cents a pound, his intention being
to develop tbe product as rapidly as
possible.
I can add nothing to this goneral treat
ment of the subject. If these facts do
not speak for themselves no argument
would be of any value. Edward Atkinson
in Southern States.
March tbe Fourth.
One year from yesterday, on Maroh 4,
1897, the twenty-fifth President of the
United States will be inaugurated in' the
city of Washington. On March 4, 1797,
one hundred years previous, the second
term of George Washington came to a
close, and he was succeeded by John Ad
ams. This date forever afterward was to
be notable in American history as the one
when the idea of a third term for any
President of the United States was sealed
with the disapproval of tbe first Ameri
can Executive. Revived, furtively and
tentatively from time to time since, the
"third term'' notion, opposed by Wash
ington, has never obtained any popular
support since.
Ot the twenty-nve .Presidents ot tbe
United States, seven of the first twelve
were born in tbe State of Virginia. Of
tbo Presidents installed in office since the
)se of the civil war, four were born in
Ohio. President Cleveland is a native of
New Jersey.
Tyler who succeeded William 11 Har
rison, was a native of Virginia. Fillmore
who succeeded Taylor, was a native of
New York. Johnson who succeeded
Abraham Lincoln, was a native of North
Carolina; and Arthur, who succeeded
Garfield was a native of Vermont. . Tbe
youngest of the Presidents in office when
he died was Garfield. John Adams at
the time of.hia death was ninety, Thomas
Jefferson eisbtytbree, James Madison
eighty-five and John
Quincy Adams
Presidents have
all of them were
eignty. iviobi oi iuo
been lawyers, but not
good lawyers.
The liepublicans will convene to nom
inate their oandidate for President in St.
Louis on Juno 16, and the Democrats in
Chicago on July 7. Already tbe rival
ries of' the Republican candidates, of
whom four are conspicuous, are becoming
embarrassing to politicians; but on the
Democratic side there appears to be no
such rivalry, though we have a considers
able number of statesmen who would not
refuse the compliment.
Tbe uncertainty of political contests in
the United States has not diminished, as
the number of electoral votes has been en
largedi by the admission ot new States.
As for the Democratic conventions, when
they are attended by turmoil and acrU
mony tbe Democrats are usually success
ful; while the conventions are harmonious
and cordial the candidates are usually
defeated.
March 4, 1897, just one year off. New
York Sun.
Tiny Oxen.
One of the greatest curiosities among
the domesticated animals of Ceylon is a
breed of cattle known to the zoologists as
the "sacred running oxen." They are
the dwarfs of the whole ox family, the
largest specimen of the species never
exeoding thirty inches in height. One
sent to the Marquis of Canterbury in tbe
year 1891, which is still living, and is be
lieved to be somewhere near ten years of
age, is only twenty-two inches high, and
weighs but one hundred and nine and a
half pounds). In Ceylon they are
used for quick trips across .country with
express matter and other light loads, and
it is said that four of them can pull a
driver of a two-wheeled cart and a two
hundred pound load of miscellaneous
matter Bixty to seventy miles a day.
They keep up a constant swinging trot
or run, and have been known to travel
one hundred mile in a day and night
without either food or water. No one
knows anything concerning the origin of
this peculiar breed of minature cattle
They have been known on tbe island of
Ceylon and In other Buddhistic countries
tor more than a thousand yearn. lu Hits.
tSTNews comes to tbe Beauford Her.
aid of the drowning of the assistant,
light house keeper of tbe Gull Rock light
house in Pamlico Sound during the re
cent snow storm, lie started ashore in
a small boat and when be was returning
tbe wind disabled bis craft so that he
drifted about in it. He stayed in the
boat for two or three days until he be
came exhausted and could not bail it out.
The boat sank and the man was
drowned.
tThe average amount of sickness
in human life is ten days per annum.
Tbe Discovery Saved His Life.
Mr Q 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, bat of oo avail
and was civen no and told 1 could not live. Hav-
f ing Dr King's New Discovery in my store I sent
for a bottie ana began its use ana rrom tne nm
dose began to get better, and after using three
botttea was op and about again It is worth its
weight in gold. We won't keep store or house
without it." Qet s 'ree trial at Harwell & Dunn's
dng store. - -
Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
rr ii ii tiif
Goi. Oates' Suggestion Endorsed.
Col. Oates' article in the Observer of
tbe 4th instant for 'the improvement of
the roads of Mecklenburg has the right
ring. He has struck the key note and
its coming from a successful financier and .
one tbat na aone so mucn lor tbe pros- .
penty of the country certainly entitles
the article to our consideration. By
adopting his suggestions of issuing $200,
000 worth of bonds we ean do the work
in one half the time, thereby giving at
tbe benefit and profitable returns so mucn
m-m-m m
sooner. ' we are now paving in taxes an
nualiy about $20,000. One half of that
amount will pay the interest on tbe bond
and set apart tbe other as a sinking fand
and in twenty years the bonds are paid,
and our taxes not increased. Now we
have two divisions or squads.' Let us
double tbe force and work one in the
northern portion of the county, one south,
One east and west and complete one or
two of the most important roads in each
direction to the county lines as early at
possible, so as to bring our people in
closer contact and greatly improve trade.
We might facilitate tbe work and reduce
the cost per mile by reducing the width
of the macadam from twelve to nine feet
after we get five or six miles ' from the
city and later the width could be increased
from tbe nine feet to twelve without ma
terially changing the original work, and
wherever practicable straighten tbe roads,
so as to shorten tbe distance, and it might
be better to do some or all of tbe work bj
contract.
Mr. Clifton, an experienced iron bridge
builder and representing a Pittsburg com
pany, informed me tbe other day that he
thought he could irive the countv a crood
0 o e
iron bridge over the Catawba at Roszell'g
terry, on the old pillars for $700. Col
Oates' estimate was $10,000, which was a
safe estimate.
I am not in faver of increasing taxes.'
and do not think Col. Oates' plan will, but
I regard it as a good business investment .
for our county, and one tbat will bring
immediate returns. W. 22. Ardrey m
Charlotte Observer. ; .
The Housemaid and the Dustpan
To those who know tbe true inwardness
of things the sight of a housemaid brush
ing a dusty carpet is suggestive of many
evils. Tbe death of Pasteur has reminded
the world of what is constantly present
in the thoughts of medical men namely,
that while micro organisms are the great
producers of disease, dust is the great car-
ner of micro-organisms. JNow that we
know these things, it is distressing to
find how little our knowledge is put to
practical use, and to see old customs still
unchanged old habits which we know to
be destructive carried on, and to find the .
housemaid on her knees, with brush and
dustpan stirring up dust to detriment
every one, and breathing germladden
particles to her own destruction. . It
needs but a small amount ot common
sense to see that if carpets must continue
an thing greatly to be deprecated, they
be rubbed with adamp cloth rather than .
brushed and that if.in deference to preju
dice, they must be brushed, thia should .
be done by a covered American sweeper
with plenty of damp tea leaves. Of all
ways of removing dirt from a carpet the
worst is by the use of the ordinary short
brush, which involves tbe housemaid
kneeling down in the midst of the dust
which she so needlessly creates, and
drawing it into her lungs with every
breath. For ordinary household use
something like linoleum,sometbing which
can be washed with a wet cloth every
morning, would seem, to be tho best
covering for floors; but if carpets must'
be and it is imposible to teach ths present
generation the evils of seeking present
comfort at the expense of future risks, at
least let us remember that carpets .may
be washed even where they lie; that till
the day. of washing comes, a closed
sweeper is far better than a brush, and
tbat the worst form of brush is on
with a short handle. British Med, Jour
nel. Bine and Gray Parade.
A movement has been on foot for some ;
time to have a joint parade of the Blue
and Gray in new York City on the ap
proaching Fourth of July. Owing, how
ever, to the opposition of the Grand Army
of the republic it has been abandoned.
We are sincerely glad of it. No good can
come of these dramatio demonstration!
of fraternity. Our esteemed - contempo
rary, tbe Memphis Commercial Appeal,
bits the nail on the head in the following ,
paragraph: "When the blue and Gray
fraternize it should be io citizens' clothes
and there is no need 'parade their frater.
nity. There is such a thing as protesU
ing too much. There is alway an air of
make believe about these ostenttatlous
displays of brotherly love, these slop
pings over of maudlin patriotism and -tbeatrial
handshakes across the bloody
chasm. If there has been a real ana
genuine reconciliation between North
and South, let us just take it for granted
and say no more about it. If a senti
ment of mutual respect and esteem hi '
sprung up, tbe proper thing is to just let
it grow. In the meanwhile there is
whole lot of bard work that may pro
fitably engage our attention." ivasAt
Christian Advocate.
You Can't Get Bleb
by gaining the $500 reward offered by
Dr. R. Y. Pierce to any person finding ft
mineral poison or injurious drug in his
"Pleasant Pellet" for there's no such
thing in them. But you ean get well
and health is the first step towards for
tuneby Uking the "Pellets" whenever
troubled with biliousness, constipation,
indigestion, jaundice and other derange
ments of tho liver stomach and bowels.