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CHARLOTTE, N..C, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1896.
VOLUME XLIII. NUMBER 2238
THE
CHARLOTTE DEMOCRAT
PUBLISHED TKXY FRIDAY
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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.
OFFICE, 7 WEST TRADE ST.
Practice limited to Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat.
April 3, 1896
JOHNSON & POPE-
-:o:-43 South College bt -:o:-
The largest stock of cotton gins, boilers.
presses. Saw mills, mowing machines. Har
vesters and pumps. Come in or write. All
kinds of machinery.
JOHNSON & POPE.
April 3 1896 2 m. 1
HUGH W. HARRIS,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Office, Nos. 14 and 16 Law Building,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
July 6, 1895:
r. I. OSBORNE, W. C. MAXWELL, J. W. KEERANS
OSBORNE, MAXWELL & KEERANS,
Attorneys at Law.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
fW Offices 1 and 3 Law Building.
A' ill practice in the State and Federal Courts.
Oct 20. 1895.
DRS. M. A. & C. A. BLAND,
r
Dentists.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
No. 21 Tbyos Stheet.
Jan 3, 1896.
IKRlOT CLARK SON.
CLARESON
CHAB. H. DULS
& DULS.
Attorneys at Law.
Charlotte, N. Cm
Prompt attention given to all business in
trusted. Will practice in all Courts of the
dtate.
ty 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 I
State and Federal Courts
Jan. 6, 1895.
THE ACKNOWLEDGED
Leading Seeds Are
BUISTSI - BUISTSI!
We open ours today, fresh from the grower.
Plant onlv "Buist's Prize Medal Seeds," and
you are sure of a crop.
R. H. JORDAN & CO ,
Jan. 19. 1895.
Retail Druggists
GO TO ALEXANDER'S
DROG STORE.
NO. 216, NORTH ,TRYON STREET.
Keeps a well assorted stock of all articles usualy
kept in a Drug House
J. B- ALEXANDER.
' The Poor prescribed for free.
April, 8. 1895.
QUEEN CITY HOTEL.
In visiting Charlotte,
i Don't fail to stop at the Queen City Hotel,
Corner East Fifth and College 8ts,
Everything first-class.
RATES, 00 PER DAY.
"July 6, 1895. W J MOORE, Prop'r.
E. NYE HUTCHISON.
FIRE INSURANCE.
Offices 16 East Trade Street ; 4 North Tyon
'Street, up stairs.
Feb. 19. 1895.
Two days were consumed in the Civil
Court of Augusta, Me., last week over a
cafee involving one dollar in the price
paid for building a cellar wall the ques
tion at issue being whether the wall was
42 or 42 feet long.
Women are forbidden to enter saloons
at Astoria, Or.,by a city nrdinacea passed
a few days ago. which also provides for
toe punishment ot
women
who violate
the ordinance.
Administrator's Notice.
Having qualified as Administrator with th
will annexed of Mary Jaue Giiffin, deceased,
notice is hertbv (riven to all nersona having
claims against the Estate of said deceased to
present the same to me for payment, properly
vertifled. oo or before the 13tb day of March
1897, or this notice will be plead in bar of their
recovery.
Ail persons indebted to the said Estate will
please make prompt payment.
mis March 12th 1896.
M. W. GRIFFIN. Adminstrator.
With will annexed of Marv Jane Griffin, de
March 12th, 1896 6w
Notice of Administration.
Having Qualified as administrator of the estate
of the late J. Q. Potts, deceased, all persons
holding claims against said estate are herebv no
tified to present the same to the undersigned ou
or before the 20th day of March, 1897. or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery
mis aiarcu ibid, lewo.
W. M. BARRLNGER. -
Administrator, of Estate of J. G. Potts, dee'd.
March 20. 1896. 6w
Administrator's Notice
Having duly qualified as administrator of the
estate of John Q. Miller, deceased, all persons
having claims against the estate of said John G.
Miller are hereby notified to present to me for
payment on or before the 1st day of March, 1897,
or tuis notice will be pleaded in bar ot their re
covery. All persons indebted to said estate are
notified to make immediate payments to me.
H. N PHAKK,
Administstrator, Estate, J Q Miller, dee'd.
Feb. 28, 6w
WHAT WE WANT.
YOUR WHEAT AND CORN.
Bring It Along!
What We Will Do.
Pay You the Highest Market Price at all
times, in cash, for Your Grain, or Exchange
You the Best Roller Flour and Meal for it.
What We Have.
The Best Equipped Mill in the State JgJ
Your Patronage is Desired.
THE MECKLENBURG MILLS,
Charlotte, N. C.
March 20. 1896.
FRESH MEATS, GAME.
FINE GROCERIES.
SEE ME
Eefore Selling Your Choioe
BEEF CATTLE. PORK. EGGS,
CHICKENS, &c.
Always in Market for above.
GEO. S. HALL.
Feb 28, 1896
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Ready for use by mixing with cold water.
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The Retail Druggists.
July 12, 1895.
WARM OVER SHOES.
T.nipa wool lined nlftin rubber oveiohoe.
p,. 50 cents, less than you can buy than any
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"gold seal" brand every pair warranted,
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This overshoe will wear longer than two
pairs of any other, ever made, comes high up all
round, affording more protection fro i' mud,
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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 tbe State
Jan 24, 1896 GILREATH & CO
NEW REMEDIES
GREAT VALUE
AT
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Special Tonic Tablets, Postillers
Woman's Friend. The Great Renovator. En
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about these Remedie
May 18, 1895
216 N. TRYON ST..
FINEST LOT
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no idle boast We have the finest
lot of PERFUMES in the city. Rick
seeker's best in FANCY Bottles,
Cases, Flasks, etc.. in GOOD shape
for an ELEGANT PRESENT. It
RECOMMENDS ITSELF. IT
WILL PAY YOU TO SEE IT.
R. H. JORDAN & CO.. Drugtfsta
Dec. 28, 1896
Surgical Instruments.
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.
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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.
!
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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.
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tbe older she errew tbe worse she was
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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
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medicine in the world: and I have never
found anything to compare with it.
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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.
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GREAT IN THEIR YOUTH.
Men Who Achieved Distinction ia Their
Youth.
Baltimore Sun,
Many of tbe greatest careen have been
made by young men. Washington was
but 43 when be was called to tbe com
mand of tbe American Revolutionary
Army. Henry Clay was Speaker of tbe
House oi .Representatives at 34. Stephen
Douglas was but 39 when be first be.
came a candidate tor tne rresiaenoy.
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.
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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."
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