4fPB-pgBI'',lw mm I llllf I 5 r w vv wJiw iy 4 y This Papkr is 43 YkabsOld CHARLOTTE, N..C, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1896. VOLUME XLIII. NUMBER 2238 THE CHARLOTTE DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED TKXY FRIDAY -O- Tkrmb One Dollar in advance; Two Dol lars on time. , Entered at the e Post Office in Charlotte, N. C., j matter, according to the rules oi as second class the P. O. Department. DRS. McCOMBS & GIBBON, DESIRE TO INFORM THEUBLIC, That they have this day entered into a copart nership for the PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, AND SUBGERY. . March 1, 1895 March 15. 1895 JOHN FARRIOR, 4 SOUTJ TRYOH 8TBEBT, CHABXOTTK. H. no WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. DRALKK IN Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Sil ver and Silver Plated Ware. tW Special attention given to Fine Watch Repairing. Jan 25, 1895. BURWELL, WALKER & OANSLER," Attorneys-At-Law, ROOMS NOB 5, 6, AND 13, LAW BUILDING, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Jan 4, 1895. DR. E. P. KEERANS, DENTIST, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office 7 West Trade Street. Nov. 2, 1894 DR. GEORGE W- GRAHAM. 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A full line of Surgical Instruments at Manufac turer's prices. Call and examine them. $y Mail orders will be promptly attended to R. H. JORDAN A GO. Sept 20, 1895 THE PROMISE OF EaSTER. BY LISETTE CLAYTON HOOD TheLuthern Visitor 80ft o'er the Judean vale g'eims the day dawn. Bursting in splender o'er bill topi and plain, Gilding the tomb where the Savtoar, once earth born. Loving bands gently his pierced form had lain. Scarce had the s in, on that first Lord's Day morning. Touched with his bright rays the tomb of their Lord, When the two Marys, at the firjt glimse of dawning, Hastened to wep at tbe grve of th Adorned. Gazing with eyes that with sad tears are stream Low to the ea th ia kp socrow they bow, 8ee ! from the tomb a bright radiancs is beam ing, Empty the rock riven sepulchre now. Clad in white raiment of heavenly splendor ! Lo ! tbe two Shining Ones lingering near I List to their accents, melodious and tender : "Go, 9eek ye elsewhere ; your Lord i9 not here !" Vain were the rock vault, the watcb, and tbe sealing, Locked were the their senses in slumber's deep Spell ; Bursting His bonds, and His Godship reveal ing. Rose he triumphant o'er Sio, Death and Hell. "Why seek ye thus 'mid the Deid for the Liv ing ? Tell ye the nations this message we leave : Death had no power, while Christ still is giv ing Life everlasting to all who believe." Thus, when the waves of affliction surge o'er us. When from our firesides a loved form is borne Let us but list to the- angelic chorous : "Jesus the grave cf its terror hath s born !" When the bruised heart in deep sorrow U bend ing O'er tbe green mound where mortality lies, Let this sweet promisj give comfort unending : ' I am not here but above you blue skies ! " When hopes lie shattered, and false love de ceives us, Ingratitude wounds, like the stiog of the asp, Eirthly joys ease not, and health and wealth leave us, Like apples of Sodom, turn to dust in our grasp, Then let us look from this world up to Heaven, Seeking for cheer where alone it is found, List to the whisper the angels have given : "Rest is above ; it is not in the ground !" Whatever the burden, or whatever anguish Bows the torn heart of the Christian below, Iu toil, or in care, or in sorrjw we languish, Haste the same shining Oues whispering low; "Peace, troubled heart ! Here's the rich balm of healing Making the wounds and the scars disappear ; Look still above where Heaven's joy bells are ' pealing: Lo ! He is risen ! your Lord is not litre ! " Pinevillle N C. LOOK AT THIS. TABLES AT $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 omy $8 50 1 That is just what you get at E. M. ANDREWS'. The grandest display of FURN I TUBE! ever shown in our history. The pricts, 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 ! -.Of- 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 mutt see OUR LEADER IS COUCHES : 10, 12, 22.75, 15, 18, 22.50. 25 and $50 They are WHAT YOU WANT 1 E. M. ANDREWS, Largest Furniture Dealer in the STATE. Feb. 7, 1896, CIAL. -:o:-S PRING HARDWAR E-:0:- We are selling tbe only RIVETED COTTON HOE on the market, and it would Pat you to examine our stock, THE GENUINE DOWLAN COTTON PLANTER always gives satisfaction and is tbe one for all farmers to buy. TURN PLOWS OF ALL DKscnirnoKs, Plow Shapes, Sweeps, Single-Trees, Back Bands, Trace Chains -:o:- and a complete stock -:o:-of HARDWARE. Call in and see us. J. H. WEDDINGTON & Co., Old Stand, 29 E. Trade St. March 13, 1896. m BOYCOTT ON YOUNG MEN. Washington Women, Taki a Stacd for a Single Standard oi Morals. 4 New York Times. 1 Washinqtow, March 28 The es tablishment in thi.-t town of tbe Equal Standard Purity Club is designed by its ounders to be a notice to young men with social aspirations that they need to ive correct lives in order to secure recog nition by the young women who have set oat to institute- a single code ot morals. - This club had iu inception at the re cent meeting in this city of the Florence Crittenton Hope and Health Mission, and ta members, according' to report, have high hopes of making it- powerful en gine for good in the community. The society- is undenominational' and every member is required to sign this pledge : I solemnly promise, by tbe help of (rod, to hold the law of purity as equally bind- ng upon men and women, and to use my utmost efforts to obey tbe command. Keep thyself pure,' to discountenance all coarse language and impurity in dress, n language and art, and to lend a helping hand alike to men and women, giving tbe penitent of both sexes an equal chance of reform so far as my assistance and in fluence can do this." This statement of the purposes of tbo 1 olub includes tbe declaration that 'an effective method of ascertaining tbe pri vate lives of young men has been devised and will be put inn operation at once. Every young man whose private life is found to be impure of whose language in vulgar or unchaste will be in tbe bands of the Executive Committee, the members will be informed, and they are pledged then to refuse to receive tbo attentions of persons on tbe black list." Critical persons who read tbe sooiety pledge in connection with tbe statement just given may be pardoned tor assuming that tbe originators ot this movement forgot their logic in formulating the course to be followed by tbe members. Clearly, if a young man is blacklisted for reasons that seem good to tbe .executive Committe, be is immediately to be set outside tbe pale of tbe society. Thero is nothing at band to indicate whether be is to be informed of bis fate, the inference being that repeated snub3 by young women will indicate to him that be is a moral transgressor. How is be to be given a neiping nana, ana wnose win be tbe brat hand held out to him t lo the uninitiated it looks as if the good young women can make their club help ful only by admitting to membership men whose morals are above reproach and employing them as missionaries in cases revealed by tue blacklist. It is dithcult to conceive of an "euecUve method of ascertaining how young men conduct themselves which does not involve tbe employment ofspiep, and readers of the newspapers do not require to be told that tbe possibilities of evil growing out of such a method are, perhaps, as great as tbe one evil aimed at by the Equal Stand--ard Purity Club. It is claimed for the club that though it has been organized but a short time it already promises to be very successful, and tbe names of many new members are expected to be presented at the next meeting. In view of the incongruous features pointed out it will be interesting to know six months hence if tbe origiuators are a- en thusiastic as they are said now to be. ! Three little maids from school are we. Free from pains of all description; But once we were sick as sick could be Cured by the "Favorite Prescription." It is a certain panacea For all the ills of womanhood, Try a bottle with good cheer ; We know that it will do you good. Da. R V. Pierce : Dear Sir My daughter had been sick all 'her life, and tbe older she errew tbe worse she was until she was tbe picture of death: the physicians could not do her any good. I beard of your "Favorite Prescription," lor women, and I gave ber three bottles, and now sho is a perfectly healthy girl. Have recommended it to a great many sufferers from "female complaints," and it has cured them, I think it is tbe greatest medicine in the world: and I have never found anything to compare with it. Weson, Copiah Co., Miss. Mrs. M. J ..boyd MELLON & SHELT0N ED. MELLON. TOM. SHELTON. NEW, STYLISH, SPRING CLOTHING. ST7ITS, BY THE T H OUSANDS. HATS, UP TO DATE. New and Pretty. EL" I let T Socks, Collars and Cuffs. BEAUTIFUL SUITS. The Best Goods and Low Prices. COME TO SEE US. NEXT DOOR TO H. BARUCH March 27, 1896. ' PLOW BOY'S" WIFE "TACKLES" HIM- For Ths Democrat. Mr. Editob: Ever since reading that truthful (from his tttndpoiot) letter, written by "Plow boy" for your excellent paper, and its witty and till more truthful reply by 4 Town girl," I have felt "Calkd" to direct the afentlon of Mr Plow boy, and others of his "ilk," to both sides of the shield 1 hat rises to the vision ot that very im portant f ictor in tbe success of the "Plow-boy," namely his wife. Being iu reality what I .pro fess to be the wife of one of the numerous and substantial plow boys of this goodly county of necaienuurg, ana Having watched up tbtse facts and pondered on them much, for years past, I linos x may justly ne allowed to write ot mat- -ii hat are thoroughly familiar to me from such long and close observation of the lives of the farmers and their wives, in this and other sec tions. - r I believe that, like the boet. -Aericola naacU tur, hon fit;" there are farmers and farmers and farmers ; and for some time past I have been, in my own mind, dividing tbe race of farmers into three great classes; you will generally find the average life and condition of a well disposed farmer 8 wife conforming to the conditions of that class of farmers into which she bai mar ried. The first class in it rathnr small nno aftar all for often when a young farmer's son just start ing out in life is born iuto thiaclass.by indolence vice mismanagement, or a preference for some other profession or business, he gradually allows Qimseu 10 do arawn out 01 me wen protected fold where he has so long grazed on the choicest blue gras3 in his father's "ereen Dastures." and rested "beside the still wateis" of contentment. This is the class made up of those fortunate far mers w no judiciously and scientifically cause to be cultivated the broad ancestral aeres that hare descended to them, sometimes from generations pasa, sometimes Dy careiuuy retaining, improv ing and adding to a small patrimony bequeathed by a shifty father or grand father. This is the farm I am thinking.of which "Plow boy" writes where tne smoke house Is always filled with choice sugar cured hams, shoulder, and sides. wher jars and cans of white, sweet lard rest disturbed from one "hoe kilhnir time" to an other, where the corn cribs are never empty, the barn loft is always packed with sweet smell ing clover and timothy hay, and bundles of well cured fodder, where there are some Irish and sweet potato hills, or houses that are nevir broken into until the time comes to select the choicest for seed, where green cabbage rest in wMiebeartedslumber.all in a row. in straw covered trenches, where cellar and pantry is full of "home-mde" syrups, bags of all varities of dried peas and beans, and great stone jars of the whitest kraut, where bales of reserved cot ton lies piled up in the sheds of out buildings where the hog lot is murmurous with the can- tented grunts of fat pcrkers with droves of lit tle gqu' alers following after, where the com fortable stables echo to the crunch of corn ground between '.he teeth of fat, sleek, "blood ed" hordes and mules, where the ,Dicanin- nies" drive home from the willow fringed pas tures, every evening alone crocession of mild- eyed Jerseys and Durhams, and the dairy sends iortn a sweet scent 01 tne sweetest gilt edee and the richest milk. where flocks of fat hens, Kuineas, turkeys, and duck?, and saucy little Irvine size strut around in the barn vard. Enter the house, and you will observe its luppy smiling, buxom mistress, moving briskly from room to room, wisely ordering her well appointed house hold, but with no drudgery to bend and aching back or rougher toil worn hands and she ran rest whenever she feels a little tired- or over heated , for a sable Phyllis reigbs In the wen ruled Ritcnen, and the mistress on this farm is simply like the superintendent of a busy mill or factory. These are the cheerful, rosy cheeked matrons that we see occupying the front seates in the synagogues," every Sabbath day .with their crowd of tastefully dressed healthy little ones at her side, and she herself attirtd in a comfortable stylish "town made" outfit. Happy indeed is the lot of such a farmer's wife; she is as free and independent as any bird that cleaves the sunny air; she is honored as a queen, worshiped as a cherished wife, consulted as an equal partner and treated with the same polite and courteous attention that her lover ac corded her in their courtship days, for he feeli himself a gentleman, regard her as a lady and realizes that be married her for a companion, and not a slave. She generally lives to a green old age,a bright eyed silver haired cherry grand mother as happy and beloved then as she was on the bright day she uttered her solemn mar riage vows. It is a pretty picture is it not? And I imagine 1 near some or my neighbor "flow boys" smile and call it merely a clever pen pic ture of the imagination. But indeed it is a true picture for I have met with it time and time again in my observation of the various home of tbe farmers in our land There U a middle class, to which belong most of tbe brawn and back bone of a general farm ing community. Thev are the small nronertv holders, who have by their own industry, frugality and good management, starting out in lifewi'h nothing as capiM.aud springing from tne Diimoiest circumstances 01 birth and educa tion, each bought and paid for a mod eat little larm, have erected tbere on a neat little cottage and suitable out buildings, and have earned tbe means to give their families a comfortable living. To the same class, also, belong to the higher grades of "renters" and "croppers," hard woraiDg, honest farmers who yearly look for ward so that "sweet time a coming when they too snail own. "A little farm, well tilled, A littte house, well-filled. A little wife, well willed." if they do not already posaess the latter. And how fares the "plow-boy s wife, in this class ? Oftener than otherwise, she. also, is a happy honored mistress of her little home; some time, with her. "peace and plenty reign supreme." she is always busy, has nearly every moment of the day occupied, but she is given ber daily siesta, help is hired for the busiest seasons and the heaviest drudgery, and the daily tasks are sweetened by unselfish love and tender care She can sit very near to her still higher sister of the first class, in the little country church, and is dressed as neatly and tastefully as she desires ber ruddy, hearty boys and girls are by ber side, and they all attend "preaching" regularly in a very comfortable convenience; when wet day" prevents the regular routine of work for tbe horses, tbe "p.ow-boy" takes his little family for a day's "outing" among their neigh boring friends, and she and hers are generally to be round enjoying tbe camp meeting, picnics, and other general gatherings that afford he needed recreation; also, wnen the spring and lair shupping-fever" attacks; the community, she is given the opportunity t J take whatever sum her "plow boy" can spare her, and purchase wonder ful bargains for her family, at the Kacket Store or Bee Hive. But alas! too often the "Marthas" of this class are over worked, toil worn drudges, with countless burdens borne by hands and shoulders sometimes too frail to endure them so that their owntir one da quietly drops these burdens for ever; a neglected mound in the country church yard is all that is left of the one who began her married life with fond, bright anticipations; and the impatient 4 plow-boy" very soon brings home a secondhand often a third, household drudge, to patiently bear the eame heavy burdens and often meet with the same sad fate. Tbe ample barn is full of corn and "roughness"; but who cooked, washed, ironed, scoured, sewed, tended tbe babies, and performed the thousand ceaseless and unvarying round of dally duties, in order that her unappreciate "plow-boy" might be comfortably fed and clothed, and have nothing to do but make the food? Tbe garden is stocked with locious vegetables, the fruit trees are loaded down with delicious fruit?; but who often nlants and attends to this garden. gath?rj and prepares tbe vegetables, and puts up pre serves, jellies, jams, pickles, and fruits of every kind, dried and green ? The children are neatly and tastefully attired; but who cuts and makes those garments, yes, often having to save up all those "odds and ends" on a farm that a man would let go to waste, in order to buy most of ber and her children's clothing ? Tbe family cow is well tended, the piss are fat the chickens are plentiful, tbe milk and butter are sweet and Highest of all in Leavening clean; but who feeds and milks that cow, carries buckets of slop to those pigs, feeds and raises thoses beus. and ac's as stepmother to their young broods, churns the milk and mold tbe butter, renders the sweet, wholesome lard, and makes the sausages and other delicacies of that nature. Who but that willing slave the "plow-boy" wife? And often these many tasks are performed after a night's wearing virgil with n. ailing and fretful child. 8,c&,facmr a work is generally hard; but what of the lot of his wife, for it is true that , "Man's woik ends with set of sun. But woman's work Is never done." Never, until the toil worn hands are folded across the quiet heart that once ached to for a word of kindness and appreciation; never, until the "white rose of death" has blossomed on tbe faded cheeks; until the tired feet are forever at rest, and the weary brain is peacefully sleep ing beneath tbe daisies. And what does this class of farmers wives re ceive for all this mendiDg toil ? Food and shelter is accorded any servant, and then they are paid fair wages besides; but this "Plow-boy's" wife often has to ' make her own living," clothe her self and ber little ones, perhaps, by ways and means known only to herself; and if I were to divulge some of those ways and means, thit I know of, it would wring thi tear of pty from many a thoughtless eye. The consciousness of duty performed according to the best of ber knowledge and ability, tbe certainty that ber dear ones are well taken Cire of by her own lov ing haud. The sweet feeling that soothes ber heart, when ber little children love her and cling around her neck, and in after years "rise up and call ber blessed' this is her omy guerdon. It is precious enough; but there should be more. There is maay a far an r s wif, within a radius of twenty miles from the city of Charlotte, who has relations and friends of her girlhood days living tbere, and yet has not visited that goodly town in ten, fifteen, and twenty years; and some few have told me that they have not seen Char lotte since tbe war, Many a Mrs. Plow-bov has the opportunity and means of attending church afforded ber but once or twice a year; and then her pale and haggard face, and thin, bent form is a living reproach; I know, for I have watched her sitting there, so quiet and seeming so glad to rest for and hour or two on the wooden benches Some rtfined and educated farmer's wives have so little time to visit, that when such a grand occasion arrives, they have almost forgotten how to act and converse intelligently. I know some of your rjaders will get angry and affirm that I am overdrawing the picture again this time on the other extreme; but facts are stubborn things and if the plow boys' wives who may come under this category would have tne courage to tell their stories as l am only try ing to tell them, it would "make Rome howl." Why is it that I so constantly read of the fact that by far th; largest percentage of cases that are sent to the various insane asylums for treat ment are farmers wives? And they tell me that if one were to examine tbe asylum registers. under the heading of "occupation" with the fe male, patients, is. in nine cases out of ten. a farmer's wite. Why is this thus? I cannot tell; some one wiser than 1 must answer the question think, though, that it is' partly due to the dreary monotony of their colorless lives, the unchanging round of the same duties, the ever- recurring grooves in which the tired brain must revolve, and their lack ot rest and recreation more than absolute cruel treatment. This, 1 hope and believe, is a rare crime among the farmers; they mean to treat their partners right, and aare say tney thins they are doing so, but it is thoughtlessness, the natural selnsuness of the genus homo, or a habit that they have fallen into of depending upon the women of the family for attentions and services that are often needless. On the third class of farmers I am comnlled to dwell very briefly, for 1 confess that I get quite wratby when my mind dwells on them They are the indolent, the vicious, the so called unfortunate, the shif'leas, the mismanager?, who live from band to mouth, and who never owned, and never expect to own, a rod of land except the six feet that will eventually hold their lazy carcasses. Thank Uod, their ranks are very slim. at least it is so with us 1 be least said about tbe wretched lives of toil and privation that their miserable wives and children endure, the better, It must be even worse than what I was reading not long ago in a Western journal, about how life is in Oklahoma Territory: and it ought to make all of us farmers' wives of Mecklenburg county say that the Old North State is a good enough place fcr us. A farmer's wife out there writes ihe letter and I will close my lett r with a few extracts from hers. ' 1 thought I knew what constituted woman a work on the farm until I came here If the sisters could spend a week in this neighborhood they could see tbe dark side of a farmers life as well as tbe bright side. Most ot tbe farmers' wives here make all their own fires, winter and summer, do the milking, go barefooted in sum mer, and a few of them cho their own wood and help their husbands do any kind of work on the farm My nearest neighbor, 50 years of pge. helped ber nusband and son put in tbe wheat; the son ploughing, the lather sowing and the mother following with the harrow. She has a daughter niteeo years of age, a good girl, who has gone to school very little, and does not know much about cooking. 'She milks, churns, draws water for the norses and cattle, feeds tbe bogs, cuts cane, car ries wood. etc. Another neigucor thinks a few of the women here have what she terms an easy time, compared with what she had been accustomed to She sij s where she lived tbe women all work in the fields She had worked in the cotton patch or field ever since she was old enough to do anything. She chops her own wood, and is a better chopper than ber husband. In speaking of ber native state she siid : "I would rather stay in Oklahoma and be blown away lhan live there again and work ss l used to do A man working for us said "Yes, the women there work in the fields too much. One family moving into that state met an old man and his wife coming out, driving an ox team. Ihey stopped and had many qucs tions to ask. The woman said, "It is an easy country on men and horses but death on women ana oxen. 1 Know 11 is not me case an over that state, for one young man.'went there to work from this country. He came back and said they were tbe laziest set of women he ever saw that state. "Don't you think the men had to get up and make the fires, and do the milking! " I do all my own work, washing, ironing and sewing included, for four children, my husband and his father, and nearly always one or two farm hands I do not milk or make the fires in the morning, and yet there are times I am so crowded with my work I only have time to sit down to my meals or to take up my baby. We are so far from school, I have tried to teach my older children at home, but I can not hear them recite every day and have about given it up. am glad to know tbere are others who are strong enougn noin physically and mentally to carry ou; tneir plans. A Plowbot's Wifk The Ideal Panacea James L. 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John Jay was Chief-Justiceof tbe United States at 45. James G. Blaine was only 29 when be became speaker ot the noose ot itepro sentatives. Alexander Hamilton took hargo of tbe treasury at 32 Years of age. Martin VauBuren at 36 organized tbe famous Albany regency, and was Govs ernor of New York at 40. John C. Calboun in bis 42d year was rice President of tbe United States, obn C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, was Vice-President at 32 and a candidate for tbe Presidency at 35. George B. McClel. an wa9 only 38 when nominated for tbe residency. In military life especially younj men ave bson most conspicuous. Gen. Grant was but 40 years ot sire when be began winning a name for himself in our ivil war and was only 43 when tbe war closed. Napoleon was master of France and Europe before his 30tb birthday. Alex ander tbe Great bad conquered tbe world and left it bifore be was 33 years old. remont, tbe "pathfinder," had explored tbe Rocky Mountains before he was 30 and was running for tbe Presidency at 43. Columbus was in tbe thirties when be explained bis ideas of the western passage and enlisted tbe Spanish sovereigns in tbe proj'ect that led to tbe discovery of America. Richard Cobden was but 34 when be founded tbe Anti-corn Law League, which revolutionized the commercial policy of Great Britain. William Pitt, ranked by some historians as the greatest of modern British pre- miers, was practically ruler of England at 24. Wise Words. Rams Horn. Tbe way to get happiness is to give it. Only those who love . souls can learn bow to win them. A negative sinner is as sure to be lost as a positive one. Tbe slave is no less a slave whose chain is made ot goia. Tbe grateful heart has music in it tbat angels cannot sign. There is no greater commandment than lov one another. Td have no aim in life is to sooner or later fall into tbe ditch. A fool learns from no one. A wise man learns from everybody. Joy baa a new meaning when, we bare learned what sadness is. No man can be made rich whose happi ness depends on money. It is bard to believe that a sin will bite if it bas gold in its teeth. The day is coming when tbe man who gives little will feel little. Keep out ot tbe crow w ben vulgarity passes for wit and bnmor. What a mistake, to think we can be. come rich by keeping all we get. A word to tbe wise is enough, when it happens to be tbe right word. Contentment is an angel who teaches us how to be rich without money. It costs a groat deal more to be proud than it does to be generous. It is tbo same man who sows tbe wild oates who has to reap the crop. The man who minds his own business will always have something to do. The self-made man it always 6nding new ways to show that bo is proud ot his job. When tbe wolf puts 00 sheep s clothing, be is pretty sure to have mutton for dinner. No rich man was happy unless be need a part of bis money to make others so. Famous Folk Awheel Charleston News Lord Brassey and his daughters have caught the wheel fever. Among tbe London women who ride are the Princesses Bonaparte Wyte, Co lanni and Oreini and tbe Duchess Gak lesse'Belmont. Tbe Princess of Wales thinks plain black enamel and ordinary plating good enough for her tricycle a genuine exam ple of royal modesty. Prince Albert, the heir presumptive to the crown of the Belgians, is proud of the title lately conferred upon him, of high protector of cycling. Speaker Reed is quoted as saying, in response to tbe question what he cons sidered tbe most important problem now before tbe public, "How to dodge a bin cycle." aSB 9 tmm-m ... mi. A remarkable record has been made by Mrs. Luke Fish of Anderson, Mich. Last week she gave birth to twins, making her fourth pair of twins in five years. 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