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The Charlotte Democrat. H. E C. BRYANT, Editor. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Friday. April 3, 1896. We are in receipt of an article well written and to the point in reply to 'Town Girl," but the name of the writer did not accompany it. Wo do not care to publish the name of the writer, but only wish to know it ourselves. Wo will keep the name secret. Will the writer please send his or her name to the Edi tor to we can use the articlo in next week's issue. It is a good article, signed 'A Plowboy's sister." Wo will take this occasion to say that wo will publish arti cles with pleasure that are sent in if the name of the writer is given to the Edi tor. Of course if any article is no' fit to p'o in the naner we will not use it under o tr r any condition. The New South. Under the above head the Kansas City fMo.) Journal writes thus about tbe South : There are some newspaper writers who are unwilling to admit that there is any such thin? as a new bouth, or that tn general conditions there are materially different from what they always have been since the war, except for the fact that the negro vote has been largely earn inated from all consideration in the deter mination of local political control. This is the ODinion ot those who can not brine; themselves to an acknowledg ment of the fact that outside influences can have anything whatever to do with building up Southern industries and in torests there. It is beyond dispute, how ever that a vast amount ol capital has been taken South during the last five years and many industrial institution have been started there, where there was an almost total absence of them before The emigration from the North and par ticularlv from the Northwestern States has been continuous, growing into such proportions during the past year as to create no little alarm, especially among the railroad interests of the sections from which the farmers are leaving. The Northwestern farmer has found out that he can sell out his high priced land for enough money to pay his debts and enable him to buy good cheap land in a less rigorous climate, with a surplus still left to start him in business there Colonies of considerable size have heen located in Alabama, Georgia and Tonnes see. made up ot industrious, lrueal and progressive Northerners, and thousand have gone there on their individual ac count. These changes can not help but materially to alter conditions in the South. It may not at once be apparent to those who never think of looking be yond tbe sentimental atmosphere in which they have always lived, but thei posterity will have the benefit of the im proved condition of things that the ins lection oi new blood, new energy, and new ambition will bring about. Another generation will witness the benefits that will come from the assimi lation which must naturally follow this infusion of hard-headed, practical idea? We do not say that tho South is a New South, for it is the same South beginning to rank where sho deserves in the indus trial world. The natural advantages are here and time will show it to be the greatest section in the world. For fifteen years after the war the South struggled for existence, since' then she has been slowly but steadily progress ing. Iler natural place in the industria world began to attract attention and today'her rank is recognized. Asa farming section she can not be surpassed, tho greatest variety of crops in tho greatest quantities can be raised here at a small cost. The South is endowed with all the gifts that nature can give. Why then should sne lag behind any longer; we need some of these thrifty, frugal, industrious farmers from tbe north with brains and money to put new life into the farming business. Mecklenburg county is blessed with a class of farmers that she should be proud of. They are honest, straightforward, bard worn ing tillers ot the sou. $ut many of the old families have died out or moved from the farm. We need hundreds o good families to fill the places once filled by native families. The day seems to be at hand when the large farms will be di vided into many smaller ones. Every foot of land will be pushed to its greatest capacity. North Carolina would gladly welcome 10,000 or more ot these north western farmers that have money to buy lands, and are good law abiding citizens mt A MILLIONAIRE'S MONEY. In the Contemporary Review (Feb.) the eminent Socialist George Bernard Shaw finds an answer in the single sen tence "never give the people anything they want; give them something thev ought to want and don't." lie says in pari : it A . I - a. man who an income oi jlzs a year can muifpiy his comlort beyond all cal culation by doubling his income. A man with JL50 a j'ear can at loam ouadruple his comiort by doubling Lii income. Probably up to even 250 a year doubled income means doubled comfort. After that the increment of comfort grows less in proportion to tho increment of in come until a point is reached at which the victim is satiated and even surfeited with everything that money can procure. "Is it a luxury to have more money to take care of, more begging letters to reac, and to be cut off from those deli cious AInascbar dreams in which the poor man, sitting down to consider what he will do in tbe always possible event of some unknown relative leaving him a fortune, forgets his privation? And yet there is no sympathy for this bidden sor row of plutocracy. The poor alone are pitied. Societies spring up in all direc tions to relieve all sorts of comparatively happy people, from discharged prisoners in the first rapture of their regained lib erty to children reveling in the luxury of an unlimited appetite; but no band is stretched out to the millionaire except to beg. In all our dealings with him lies implicit tbe delusion that he has nothing to complain of, and that he ought to be ashamed of rolling in wealth while others are starving. "And it is to be observed that this plight of his is getting constantly woree and worse with the advance ot civilization. The capital, the energy, tbe artistic genius that used to specialize itself forj the supply of beautiful things to rich men, now turns to supply the needs of the, gigantic proletariats of modern times. It is more profitable to bo a nineteenth! century ironmonger in Tottenham Court Road than it was to be a Florentine ar-j moror in tbe fifteenth century. The very millionaire himself, when he becomes a railway director, i9 forced to turn his baoH on his own class, and admit that it is tb third-class passenger who pays. j "To be a millionaire then, is to bav more money than you can possibly- spend on yourself, and to appreciate at thp same time the inconsiderateness of these persons to whom such a condition appeart to realize perfect contentedhess." j Mr. Shaw asks, what is he to do witl his funds? j i Mr. Shaw says : "The usual reply is; Provide for hi children and give alms. Now these twt resources, as usually understood, are exactly the same thing, and a very mischievous thing too, From the view, of society, it does not matter a straw whether the person relieved ol the neces sity of working for his living by a millionaire's bounty is his own Bon or merely a casual beggar of no kin to him. The millionaire's private feelings may be more highly gratified in the former case but the mischief to society and to the recipient is the same. Even private feel ing in this matter is changing, and chang ing rapidly." The writer says the millionaire tries to found a family, his aims will be defeated by the means of an inheritance tax. All that society, all that his children, require is a first class equipment not an indefen deuce. The writer continues : "The extremities to which the million aire is reduced by this closing up ot old channels of bequest are such that he sometimes leaves huge sums to bodies of trustees 'to do good with,' a plan as mis chievous us it is resourceless; for what can the trustees do but timidly dribble the fund away on charities of one kind or another ? Now 1 am loth to revive the harsh strains of the Gradgrind political economy; indeed, I would, it 1 could, place in every Board school a copy of Mr. Watt's picture of a sheet profiled by the outline of a man lying dead underneath it, with the inscription above, 'What I saved, I lost; what 1 spent, I bad;. what I gave, I have.' But wo to the man who takes from another what he can provide for himself; and wo also to the giver I There is no getting over the fact that the moment an attempt is made to organize almsgiving by the entrusting the funds to a permanent body of experts, it is invaribly discovered that beggars are perfectly genuine persons; that is to say, not 'deserving poor,' but people who have discovered that it is possible to live by simbly impudently asking for what they want until they get it, which is the essence of beggary. The permanent body of experts, illogically instructed to apply their funds to the cases of the deserving poor only, soon become a mere police body for the frustration of true begging, and consequently ot true almsgiving b inally, their experience in a pursuit to which they were originally led by natural benovolence turns tbem to ar. almost maniacal individualism and an abhorrenue ol ordinary 'charity as one of the worst of social crimes. This may not be an amiable attitude; but no reasonable person can tail to be impressed by the certainty with which it seems to be produced by a practical acquaintance with the social reactions of mendicity and benevolence.", Having laid down for charities the rule that a millionaire "is never to do anything tor tbe public any more than tor an in dividual, that the public will do (because it must) for itself without bis interven tion," Mr. Shaw declares : "The intelligent millionaire need not hesitate to subsidize any viligence so ciety or reform society that is ably con ducted, and that recognizes the fact that it is not going to reform the world, but only, at best, to persuade the world to take its ideas into consideration in re forming itself. Subject to those condi tions, it matters little whether the millonaire agrees with the society or not . . . Our whole theory of freedo m of speech and opinion for all citizens rests, not on the assumption that everybody is right, but on the certainty that every body is wrong on tbe point on wbich somebody else is right, so that there is a public danger in allowing anybody to go unheard. Therefore any propagandist society which knows how to handle money intelligently and which is making a contribution to current thought.whetb er Christian or pagan, Liberal or Conser vative, Socialist or Individualist, scien tific or humanitarian, physical or meta physical, seems to me an excellent mark for a millionaires, spare money. ''Bat suppose a misguided billionaire, instead of founding this library, or some thing cognate, were to take on him self the cost of paving and lighting some .London parish and set on foot a free sup ply of bread and milk ! All that would happen would be that the competition for houses and shops in that parish would range until it had brought rents up to a point at which there would be no advan tage in living in it more than any other parish Even parks and open spaces raise rents in Lnriqon, tho , strange to say, JLondon statues do not diminish them. Here, then, is the simple f irmula people anything they want give tbem something the nnrht to wn-unrl Hon't. ! for the public benefactor. Never give tho ? 'lhus we find at the end of it all. ap positely enough, that the great work of the millionaire, whose tragedy is that he bas not needs enough for his means, is to create needs. The man who makes the luxury ot yesterday the need of to morrow is as great a benefactor as the man who makes two ears ot wheat grow where one grew before. Mr. Kuskin has already set a handsome example to our rich men. He has published bis accounts with the pub'ic, and shown that he has taken no more for himself than fair pay or his work of giving Sheffield a valuable museum, which it does not want and would cheerfully sell for a fortnight's holiday with free b6er if it could. War not that better than wasting it heartlessly and stupidly on. beggars, on able-bodied relative, on hospitals, on rate payers, on andiords, and all tbe rest of our social absorbents V He has created energy nstead of dissipating it and created it in the only fundamentally possible way. by creating fresh needs." I Us iivXjpttjfc gjiujpcraly BY A SHARON SCHOOL GIRL. Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The story below was written by a lit tle school girl in Sharon township. The teacher has bad ber studying tbe Legend of Sleepy Hollow." She has written it wel'. Before long we want every school in the county to furnish us with an essay from some of the children. We will take great pleasure in usingeuch matter, when we fan. Sleepy Hollow is a quiet valley in the greus, state of New York. It is the quietest place in the world. People who gi there, however wide awake they may have been before tbey entered that sleepy region, in a little while, grow drowsy, dream dreams, and see apparitions. Tbe dominant spirit, that haunts this en chanted region, is an apparition of a headless horseman. It is said by tome to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper whose head had been blown off by a can non ball. His haunts are not only in the valley, but aUo in tbe vicinity of a church yard not far away. In sleepy hollow lived or tarried a man named Iohabod Crane. The cognomen of Crane was applicable to his person.' He was tall, with narrow shoulders.Iong arms and long legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and bis whole frame was most loosely put together. His bead was small and flat at the top, with huge ears, large green eyes, and a long snipe like nose that looked like the weathercock perched upon a spindle (his neck) to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along on a windy day with his clothes fluttering around him, one might have mistaken him for a scare crow just eloped from a corn field. He was the school teacher of that vicin- mi i i i . . iiy. iuu scnuui doubb consisted oi a large room with windows partly glazed 1 I J L 1 i. ana paicnea wun leaves or an old copy boon, it stood in a lonely place at tbe foot of a hill, with a brook running near by. Tbe low murmur ot his pupils study ing their lessons sounded like the bum ming ot a bee hive, interrupted now and then by tho authoritative voice of the teacher urging some lazy fellow along the flowery path of knowledge. Ichabod bore in mind the golden maxim "Spare the rod and spoil the child;" his scholars were certainly not spoiled. He boarded among his scholars. He spent a week at the time with them, always car rying with him his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief. Ichabod was also the singing master of tbe neighborhood. Me would always station bimselt amid tbe cbosen singers in the church. Among his pupils was, Katrina Van- tassel a blooming lass of eighteen ; fresh and sweet as ber father s peaches in the orchard. She was the only daughter of a wealthy farmer, that lived in sleepy hollow. Ichabod called often on that pretty girl. Brom Bones, a noisy young man. was bis rival. V benever a row oc curred in - the neighborhood every one nodded their heads and thought Brom Bones at tbe bottom of it. One afternoon when Ichabod's scholars were busily engaged on their lessons, a negro stepped in, handing him an invitation to a quilting frolic at Yan Tassels. Lessons were hurridly recited and school was out an hour earlier than usual. Ichabod spent an extra hour, at least, at his toilet, brushing up and put ting on his best and arranging his locks before a piece of looking glass that hung in the school bouse, lie borrowed an old plough horse from a neighbor, the horse had almost out lived anything ex cept its own viciousne3s. It had an ewe neck, and a head like a hammer. Icha bod was a suitable figure for such a steed He rode with short stirrups, wbich brought his knees almost to the pommel of tbe saddle ; bis elbows stuck out like grasshoppers, and tbe motion of his arms was like the flapping oi wings. Ibus he rode until be reached bis destination The people had assembled at the home, and after supper th y danced to music played by an old negro musician, whi would stamp his feet whenever a new couple were to start. Ichabod prided himself upon bis dancing as well as his vocal powers. Not a limb on him was idlo when he danced. The lady of his heart was bis partner in the dance. Brom Bones with love and jealousy ,sat by him sell in tbe corner. When the dance was over, Ichabod lingered behind to have a tete a tete with the heiress, fully con vinced that he was on the rifht road to success, .lie soon stole torth with an air rather than a fair young lady's heart He was riding along slowly looking neither to tbe right nor the left. He rode on until he came to the woods, then all tbe ghost stories he bad heard came crowding upon his mind. On entering the woods something huge and black ap peared from behind the trees, Discover ing that it was the headless horseman.be was very much frightened and the bar rose on bis bead. He harried his horse up, and as be did so the goblin hurried bis too. Ichabod said to himself, "If I can but reaoh the bridge, I am safe." He cast a look behind bim to see if his pursuer had vanished but as he did so tbe goblin threw a missel tbatstruok his cranium with a terrible crash knocking him from his horse to the ground. The next morning the horse came home with out oaddle or rider. At the bridge his hat was found and near by it was a t roken PumpKin. very one wi mumping j i - what hfl harin m A iw IfhAhiyl l!rn4 fin the next Sabbath there were crowds of people standing here and there talking about the strange eynt that bad happen ed. As be was a bachelor, nobody troub led about him any more. The oountry wives maintain to this day. that Ichabod waa spirited away by supornatural means. Tbe school house being deserted soon fell to decay, and was reported that it was haunted by the unfortunate pedagogue, and the plough boy loitering home on a summer evening, has often fancied Icha Dod's voice at a distance chanting a psalm tune among the tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow. Buckle q'8 Arnica Salve, The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all "kin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles or no pay re quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 I ctniA per box. For sale by Burwell $ I jjunn, wnoiesaio ana retail, I WASHINGTON LETTER Washington, April 2, 1896. From Our Correspondent ' . . The Senate is still talking Cuba. It seems to bave merely rssolved itself into a debating society upon tbe question. Impatience with tho delay is general. From all sides comes a solicitation to the Senate to please stop talking and act. There is'no further doubt as to theatti tude of any Senator in the matter, no reason why this gentleman or that need wish to add anything to his "record." Surely the question has been discussed enough. it is difficult to enter into tbe motives of these Senators who, while tbey profess the most profound sympa thy with .the Cuban revolutionists, still continue to delay the adoption of the con current resolution formulated by tbe conference committee of tbe two houses of Congress. And the query now is why tbe Senate with a known large majority in favor of Cuban recognition does not proceed to recognize. It is known that a few Senators are opposed to the measure on the ground that the Cubans have done nothing to warrant it In this connection it is appropriate to recall that Eugland, Spain and other European powers recognized tbe bellig erency of the Southern. Confederacy before a battle had been fought, and yet some ot our august Senators are waving their togas and denying. the same status to tbe Cubans after a year of warfare against, powerful odds. The overwhelm ing sentiment of the people of this coun try unmistakably demands action by the Senate. Unless the gentlemen there who have been making all these eloquent and nobis speeches in favor of human liberty and free institutions were merely talking to conceal their real sentiments, in other words "talking through their bats," the time for them to vindicate themselves had come. Xbo rsayard resolutions ot censure adopted by the House meet with consid erable approval in various circles here. And it is considered proper that Mr. Bayard, who bad provoked the delivers ance, should be mentioned by name, as be is in the resolutions. Much was said during the debate on tbe resolutions about their partisan nature, but in this respect an analysis of tbe debate is held to show that partisanship was equally conspicuous on both sides. Tbe friends of Mr. Bayard elected to praise bim rather than to vindicate him. There were several eulogies of him, eloquent and sincere, but without direct reference to the matter in band. There was no denial of the charges. The very merits ot Mr. Bayard, as set forth in fervid eu logy his culture, bis high social standing and his large public experience were actually marshalled against him. He was held to be conspicuously not the man to have erred against so plain a canon ot good taste and official propriety as his unfortunate utterances did, and it was in this view of the case that severe action was urged. It is suggested that if he cares to notice tho act of censure be can return borne and put his critics to rout by entering the national can paign. None but a London newspapers could bave made this suggestion. Mr. Bayard as a national quantity is well known at home much better than in dear "Lunnon During his days of greatest. popularity he was never able to compete for popular favor with men like Tildeo, Hendricks, Thurman, Seymour, or Cleveland. But the unfortunate incident is closed and a lesson will at least be taught to all our foreign ministerial representatives. Uncle Sam's civil service employes throughout the country will be greatly interested in a meaeure soon to 09 re ported by the House Committee on Re forms in the Civil Service. This com-, mittee has agreed upon a measure pro viding a retired list for superannuated employes. Tbe general scheme eontem- p'ates the creation of a fund to be de- ducted from the salaries of clerks, from wbich payments will be made to retired civil service pensioners. It is estimated that an assessment of 3 per cent, on tbe total salaries will create a fund sufficiently large. It is not intended to confine the proposed law to the government depart ments at Washington, but it is deemed practicable by tbe committee, under the nrging of the , Civil Service Commission, to apply it to the entire civil service throughout the country. In order to obtain a good nucleus fund, it is proposed that the assessments, shall begin at once, but that there shall be no retirements before 1900. . There will be disability retirement, voluntary retirement after thirty years' service and compulsory re tirement at seventy years of age. Each person who may laave the service before eligibility for retirement, will be allowed to draw tbe amount wbich bas actually been deducted from bis salary with 4 per cent, interest. Tbe proposed measure has the support of the beads of tbe re spective departments, the Civil Service Commission, and advocates ot civil service reform generally. 1 have bad in the past to record many of the foibles and shams of the great national Vanity Fair in Washington. It is but fair to record the other side of the picture. The seething maelstrom of Vanity Fair at the National Capital may bave its worldlings, shams, tragedies, comedies, genius struggling with tbe breakers of adverpity, bustling adventu rcrs running rough-shod over everybody, hypocrites and sycophants galore' certainly has them all but i- has also its noble women ann meji whose refined and whole sr. i no homes sweeten and adorn life Here and there one finds brave souls leading clean, upright, kindly lives amidst all the pomp, unnoticed by tho revellers, nut towers f si rngih in ease of need. They are tb foupdation stones of society in ihoo QUAliiu-8 ihat tro to make uo a . r typical American social organisation. I hey care little for the ''in society' booth in Vanity Fair, but they bave a peace and compensation in' their orderly lives and homes that the "mad set does not give its most faithful worshipers and followers. Senator Blackburn is back in town! resting from the famous political battle in Kentucky and looking remarkably well "considering," as be said, that for the last two months, bis political fate bas been pending on. the result of a single, vote. Joe Blackburn would be greatly missed in Washington. He bas been for years a picturesque figure both in tbe Senate and i the clubs here, and he is tbe central figure of the regular "set" at ChamberlinV Blackburn s friends think that he ban been left in good position by .the result of the Kentucky fight and they regard the situation an a victory for bim personally, The Secretary of Agriculture is taking his medicine like a man, and tbe depart- (&h&)clQti? j ment " busy again with free seed distri bution matters, but in all the bustlo Mr Morton wears a sinister expression wkicb seems to say that he will not be tbe least disappointed if the blamed seeds decline to grow.- . :; . DEFIANCE "OF FATE. Orison Swett Marden, in the II arch number of Current Literature write of "The Conquest of Obstacles : Defiance of Fate" as follows : ; i When God wants to educate a man, be does not send him to - school to tbe Graces, but the Necessities. Through the pit and the dungeon Joseph came to a throne. We are not conscious of tie mighty cravings of our half divUe humanity; we are not aware of tbe god within us until some chasm yawns which must be filled, or till the rending of oir affections torces us to become conscioas of a need. Paul in bis Roman cell; Jobn Hubs led to tbe stake at Constance; Tyndale dying in bis prison at Amsters dam; Milton, amid the incipient earth quake throes of revolution, teaching two little boys in Aldgate Slreet; David Livingstone, worn to a shadow, dying in a negro hut in Central Africa, alone what failures tbey might all to tbem selves have seemed to be, yet what mighty purposes was God working out by their apparent humiliations I "Stick your claws into me," said Men delssobn to bis critics when entering the Birmingham orchestra. "Don't tell me what you like but what do you like." John Hunter said that the art of surgery would never advance until professional med bad the courage to publish their failures as well as their successes. '-Young men need to be taught not to expect a perfectly smooth and easy way to th objects of their endeavor or ambition," says Dr. Peabody. "Seldom does one reach a position with whioh ho has reason to be satisfied without encountering diffi culties and what might seem discourage ments. But if they are properly met, they are not what they seem, and may prove to be helps, not hindrances. There is no more helpful and profiting exercise than surmounting obstacles." It is said that but for tbe disappointments of Dante, Florence would have had another pros Lord Mayor, and the ten dumb centuries continued voiceles, and ten other listen ing centuries (for there will be ten of them, and more) would have no Divinia Commedia to bearl It was in the Madrid jail that Cervants wrote Don Quixote. He was so poor that he could not even get paper during tbe last of his writing, and had to write on scraps of leather. A rich Spaniard was asked to help him, but tbe rich man replied : "Heaven forbid that bis neces sities should be relieved; it is his poverty that makes the world rich. A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements." "She sings well," said a great musician of a promising but passionless cantatrice, "but she wants something, and in that something, everything. If I were single I would court her, I would marry her; I would maltreat her; I would break ber heart, and in six months she would be the greatest singer in Europe." "He bas the stuff in him to make a good musician," said Beethoven of Kossini, "if be bad only been well flogged when a boy; but he is spoiled by the ease with which be composes." We do our best while fighting desperately to attain what the heart covets. Kossuth called himself "a tempest- tossed soul, whose eyes have been sharpened by affliction." Benjamin Franklin ran away, and George Law was turned out of doors. Thrown upon their resources, they early acquired the energy and skill to overcome dimculties. As soon as young eagles can fly the old birds tumble them out and tear the down and feathers from their nest. The rude and rough experience of the eaglet fits him to become the bold king of birds, fierce and expert in Dursuintr bis prey. Boys who are bound out, crowded out, kicked out, usually "turn out," while those who do not have these disadvantages frequently fail to "come out." "It was not the victories but the defeats of my life which have strengthened me, said the aged bidenham Poyntz. Almost from the dawn of history oppres sion has been the lot of tbe Hebrews, yet FERTILIZERS, TO OUR MANY FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS: As successors tc Messrs. E. B. Springs & Co. we eolict vour mm inner! you for past favors. Haviug large resources we are able 0r Stock of Vehicles In its assortment, styles and quality, is second to no concern in North Carolina. It will pay you to look through our stock before purchasing, not thai we are selling at cost or making any sacrifices, but that our prices are better than many merchants "cost" sales; better than others pay for them. Large quanti ties get best prices, best freight rates, and when discounts are. taken off, our cost price is away under the average. Here s where our success on Vehicles comes in. they bave given w - T. proverbs, its sweetest songs, ii vido,dv r ' . , music. With them persecution seems to cannon-ball struck inside tbe fort, crash ing through a beautiful garden; but from the ugly chasm there burst forth a spring of water which ever afterward flowed a living fountain.. From the ugly gashes which misfortunes and sorrow make in our hearts, perennial fountains of rich experience and new joys often spring. Don't lament and grieve over lost wealth. The Creator may see something grand and mirhtv which even lie cannot nnng ... o a nnnp wA<h stand in tne ' n tf ' ' ""I." .a way. lou must vnrow w - - OI riCUOS nuti ntnuu uv j r x i - ,tt.i unnn rniir iet3L. nuu Annnr. ika Inno unused niusles of man- hood. God may see a rough diamond in you which only the hard hits of poverty can polish. God knows where the richest melodies of our lives are, and what drill ri mhat. Hiamnlinfl are necessary to bring tbem out. The frost, the snows, the tempests, the lightnings, are the rough teachers that bring the tiny acorn to the sturdy oak. Fierce winters are as necossary to it a long summers. It is tho half century's struggle with the ele ments of existence, wrestling with the storm, fighting for its life from the move ment that it leaves ihe acorn until it goe? into the ship, that give it value. With out ibis struggle it would have been susceptible of high polish. The most beautiful as well as the strongest woods are found not in tropical climates, but in tbe severe climate, where they bave to fight tbe frosts and tbe winter's cold. Manv a man bas never found himself until he has lost his all. Adversity striooed him only to discover him. Ob stacles, hardships, are the chisel and mallet which shape tbe strong life into beauty. Tbe rough ledge on the hillside complains of the drill, of the blasting powder which disturbs its peace of ven turies; it is not pleasant to be rent with powder, to be hammered and squared by tbe quarrymen. Sut loot again : heboid the magnificient statue, the monument, chiseled into grace and beauty, telling its grand story of valor in the public square for centuries. The statue would bave slept in tbe marble forever but for tbe blasting, tbe chiseling, and the polishing. Tbe angel of our higher and nobler selves would remain forever unknown in tbe rough quarries of our lives but for tbe blasting of affliction, the chiseling of ob stacles, and the sand-papering of a thou sand annoyances. Many Thanks. Tar Heel. We always note with pleasure the sue cess of young graduates of tbe University. We are glad to see that Mr. 11. K. C Bryant, who graduated last June is mak ing tor bimselt quite a reputation as a news paper man. After leaving tbe Uni versity last year be was employed by the Charlotte Observer and showed himself to be well fitted for journalism. His name now appears as editor of the Char lotte Democrat, a paper of forty years standing and one ot tbe leading weeklies in the State. Mr. Bryant was one of the brightest young men in the class of 95 and we feel sure that be will succeed in his new field of labor. Tried to Poison His Father. News and Observer. Winston N. C, March 28. (Special) Dr. J. W. Ring, a practising physician and druggist, and one of the leading citizens of Elkin, Surry county, and several members of his family bave been critically in ior several days it is ans nounced to-day that the sickness was caused by an attempt of the doctor's sixteen-year-old son to poison his father by putting arsenic in a prescription wbich the young man, clerk in tho drug store, was given to fill. One of the State's leading physicians, who was summoned to Elkin to see Dr. Ring and his family says that an over dose of tbe poison is tbe only thing that saved their lives. The son's excuse for his ection was that be wanted to kill his father because he did not allow him such privileges as he thought he deserved To prevent bis arrest tbe father gave the son money and sent him to the far west. The affair has produced a lively sensation. 205 SOUTH COLLEGE STREET. VEHICLES AND STORAGE " & to be headquarters in all our lines. On Piedmont Wagons We aie also headquarters. Our Mr. Speixo3 being president of that concean, our prices must necessarily be right. We know that our "PIEDr,10NT"WAG0NS are made of selected material, dry T rm . seasoned, iney are nearer to per fection now than any wagon on this market. Try one. We are agents for the genuine COLUMBUS BUGGIES. State News. """" Miss Elizabeth Outlaw, daughter Col. David Outlaw, died on Sundav Norfolk, Va. ' : Bobbers seem to be in evidence l9in Salisbury from recent attacks in the papers from there. reP0rie(j A little colored girl lost both of fce legs by the train running over her .! University Station 'Saturday mc-ninj. Bray Bros . of Greensboro, letthecon tract, Friday, to build a tobacco warf houBe 30x50 to George W. Anthony. " At Salisbury, Monday morning, tj,e Plorida -pecial ran into a freight r,n ! came Deaf causing a serious wreck - . . damaffe wa8 doDe. . - Tbe Sheriff of Salisbury foiled a bird's scheme to deliver a number of prisoners from the Rowan jail last Satur day night. A piece ot steel from a corset had been used to cut tbe iron bars with. Miss. Maggie Davenport, of Rocky Mount, and Mr. James Portis of Winston were married at tbe latter place Friday' Mr. Portis is ill with consumption and he being too unwell to leave bis bedroom th, ceremony was performed there. This is an old old love affair, eon back to childhood days. Owing to Mr; Portis serious condition it wag then culminated suddenly. Mrs. Ned Thacker, a woman drummer of Raleigh, is doing the State regardiesi of tbe ordinances in certain towns against ber. She stops outside of the towns and does business in great style. Greensboro Morganton and Hickory have passed or dinance against her. Miss Lucinda Gray Briggs, the oldest inhabitant af the city of Raleigh is dead. She passed away Monday morning. Perl baps she was not tbe oldest person in point of age, but so far as is known, she bas li-ed in Raleigh longer than any other resident. She was born there 93 years ago Eats raw beef: and be not only can eat it raw but can eat a lot of it. Hit name is Avery Teague, and he is a son of tbe shoemaker Teague who was here a year or so ago. One day this week at Hanna's market. Mr. Hanna cut half hi two a beef liver that weighed four pounds and a half and gave one piece to tbe boy, He set to work on it right then and there and ate it raw without bread or salt They say be would bave eaten the other piece, but had it been engaged to a cub. tomer. Other gastronomic feats of like nature have been performed by bim, but we don't like to write about them. Young Teague is about 14 years old and looks to be healthy, hearty and strong. Gastonia Gazette. No Wonder ! 'His teeth be still did grind And grimly gnush." Spencer. For he suffered all the agonizing tor tures of dyspepsia. In tbe morning his eyes were dim and bloodshot, a horrible nausea was experienced, food was to him revolting and yet a gnawing craving for food pervaded his whole system. Ei heart palpitated violently after, the least exertion. Hope bad nearly left him. when be read of the marvelous cures ef fected by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical! Discovery. He hurried to tbe drue store, bought a bottle and tba affeotr were so satisfactory that be now gnasfte bis teeth when he thinks of tb agonies, he might bave prevented, and be used "G. M. D." Comparative Cotton Statement. The following is the comparative cotton statement for tbe week ending Mar. 28tb 1896. 1895. 116.460' 7,287,878 127.000 5,502.030 89783 129,193 1,816,000 Net receipts at Ail U.8. ports, 81.768 Total receipts to date. 4,720.893 Exports for the week. 110,214 3,649.514 628.889 121,710 1,164,000 Total exports to this date, Stock in all D. 8. norta. Stock at all interior towns. Stock in Liverpool, American afloat for Great Britain, 116,000 95.OC0- The Total Visible Supply of Co ion. New Yosk. Mcb. 28. Tbe total visible- supply of cotton for the world in 3,484,767 bales, of which 2,981,567 bales are Amer ican, against 4,620,393 bales and 4,302,193 ospeuuveiy last year. Keceipts of cotton this week at all interior towns 30,543: bales. Receipts from the plantations 41, 099 bales. Crop in sight 6,253,536 bales CHARLOTTE, N. C, January 7, 1896. ;n j t , nu nearuiy waa I On Charlotte Fertilize We are again headquarters. Har ing the agency for that immense con cern, The Charlotte Oil and Fertili zer Co., we are prepared to mate best prices, quality considered, of any firm. The immense trade on our Charlotte Fertilizers is proof or their high grade and good results We have hundreds of testimonials gladly furnished us by those who have used the Charlotte Fertilizers, and having used them, were bene fitted. Call and see us at 205 & College Street. . I
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