The Greensboro patriot [July 12, 1883]

              THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT.
ESTABLISHED IN 1825. GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1883. NEW SERIES, NO. 8(54.
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JOHN B. HU8BKV,
Editor and Proprietor,
liii. ,N. r.. JULY it, un,
liter a life time of pemirious-
Bnocb Pratt turns philan-
Ihropisl ami presents Baltimore
illy with a million dollar library.
——The Philadelphia /Vr-M steals
the PATRIOT'S account of the child
anil balloon episode at Morehead,
ami palms it off on it* readers as a
i i.i!" We now have some
iloitlri aboal the genuineness of the
.n the old LoveP is the
title of a novel That's generally
tin- way of it. They can the old love
in a> it becomes the least bit
old and put it away to keep, while
something a trifle fresher is broaght
>int I'm daily nse.
Himy A. Damm won the
first prize in mathemttics and
lies at the Episcopal Military
Si li.iu] at Heading, 1'enn. As us-ual
in America, the victor's name
is on everybody's lips. Especially
ii t ni weather.
■Juror Horrigan broadly in-ites
that the star-roate jury
■might. He is quoted as say-ing,
that since the verdict, he has
lii-en told by a friend of one of the
defendants, that he could have
made two thousand dollars if he
had not been to bud to approach,
and Horrigan remarks that it is
us that one of the jurors, who
IH a day laborer, not supposed to
have any money, has commenced
to build himself a house, while
others have money enough to take
trips to the watering places.
lb* country is in a flurry
over the trade dollar. It must go,
saj the money manipulators of
Wall street, ami ii looks like go it
will. The trade dollar, though
containing more silver than the
standard coin of the same denomi-nation,
is not a legal tender. It
* as made for the commerce of Chi-na.
Probably the great bulk of the
coinage has secured the Chinese
■tamp, and is not likely to return
to this country. The amount in
circulation in the United States is
estimated at W.OW.OW to 8,000,000,
It is a pestiferous quantity in our
llation, subject to the sudden
and embarrassing fluctuations. The
most business like proposition yet
lnaile to rid the country of the an
uoyanee is for Congress to provide
for the redemption of the trade
dollars srith standard coinage, the
silvet thus redeemed to be melted
and made into money that will "go."
—It is (eared that editor Klam
i. dangerously, if not fatally
wounded. We should be sorry in-deed
II see a fatal termination of
the tragedy. We trust that he
ma] speedilj recover, and if the
incident shall demonstrate to him
that the pen is mightier than the
nl and the press more potent
dun the revolver, the duel will not
have been fought iu vain. When
people were mii no learned as now,
and consequently less able to rea-son,
brute force, assisted by such
appliances as were then in exis-tence
was commonly resorted to as
a menus iif settling disputes: an-olhei
era came, which more nearly
equalized conditions in human life
bj creating the small sword and
lustol, thus eliminating something
ofthe brutal part of the transac-tion;
still a m it her —nor—ago conies
on. ami the thinking faculties, the
lit..in, ami the application of mind
to mailer steps in, sweeping aside
>\itb resistless force all that re-mained
nl thai kind of barbarity
and chivalry. The days of the
"rode" an- about over.
—Mr. Randall's attention be-iug
called t" charges recently made
public that a~ Speaker of the
House he was responsible for the
failure of Mr. Tilden to secure the
dency in 1876, because ho re-
1 tu allow Democrats in the
House in filibuster in order to car
ry the counting of tin- electoral
beyond the 4th of March, he
t'.i s he has nothing toexplain con
cerning his official action during
the trying ordeal of counting the
electoral VOteof the States whose
returns wen- in dispute. He fur-ther,
says the creation of the Klec- i
toral Commission was the work of
a Democratic House ami Bepubli
can Senate, ami in framing that
commission it was made mandato
T> that there should be no delay in
either body in making the count.
It washisdutj to obey, not to de
ly the law, ami no matter how
Strongly the sympathies of his
heart wire with his parly during
the performance of an act without
precedent in the history of the na-tion,
his must solemn judgment
taught him that no error, nodevia-
PRACTICAI. Kill CATION.
We wish the space was at our
command to print the literary ad-dress
of Hon. Charles Francis
Adams at Harvard this year. It
was a uotable and admirable ex-ception
tocommencemeut addresses.
It was almost a protest against the
conventional themes, and was a di-rect,
manly earnest appeal for the
expansion aud vitalizatioii of educa-tional
methods. The weak spot in
what is called liberal education is
pointed out in the following ex-tract:
"Thirty years- ago, as for
three centuries before, the gram-matical
studies of two dead langua-ges
was the basis of all liberal ed-ucation
It is still the basis
of it. Hut in pursuing (ireek and
Latin we ignored our mother tong-ue.
We were no more competent
to pass a really searching examina-ation
in ICnglishliteratureaudEng-lish
composition than iu the langua-ges
and literature of Greece and
Koine. We were college graduates,
and yet how many of us could follow
out aline of sustained, close thought.
expressing our selves iu clear, con-cise
terms V Hut he would not
part with what the classics give us:
"The atmosphere of a university
is breathed into the student's sys-tem—
enters by the very jKires. I
would not, therefore, narrow the
basis; on the contrary, I would
broaden it. No longer content with
classic sources 1 would have the
university seek fresh i --tiration
at the fountains of living thought,
for'liocthe I hold to be the equal
to Euripides, and I prefer the phil-osophy
of Montaigne to what seem
to me the platitudes of Cicero." If
an educated man would take the
trouble to get the opinions of other
educated men, he would undoubt-edly
be astonished at the large
number of those who regretted the
time they had spent upon the lan-guages
and literatures of the past
at the expense of the language and
literatures of the present.
What the world really wants
to-day is not so much men of in-formation,
crammed with tradition
and formula, but men of convictions
based on actual, practical, elemen-tal
truth.
Knowledge is inestimable. Hut
it must be turned into character.
Life itself is the best university.
Experience is the great Alma Ma-ter.
The object of the college
should be not to make gentlemen
—but Men
IT Ml - I III . NOI.lt.
The affairs of the Atlantic &
North Carolina ltailroad are speed-ily
culminating in the direction of
a sale of the road. The stockhold-ers'
meeting at Morehead last week
demonstrated this much, if, indeed,
it was not plain enough before.
Like the Western North Carolina
road, as long as the State owns an
interest iu it, it will bo the subject
of bitter contention and disputa-tion.
In the meanwhile its money
value is deteriorating. Anent
this phaze of the matter the
Newberu .hmrnul, discussing the
difference between "watered" and
"split" stock in voting the stock
of the road, says:
Auy one familiar with the scale
of voting laid down by the charter
can readily see how a man owning
one hundred shares which would
give him 10 votes can split up by
transferring the stock to his friends
and procuring their proxies so as
to cast one hundred votes. It is
"split" stock then and not "water-ed,"
and is the difficulty which be-sets
the Governor when the ques-tion
of allowing the will of the pri-vate
stockholders to govern pre
gents itself. We learn that the
Governor gave notice at the annual
meeting in 1882 that such practice
had to stop or he would not allow
the State's proxy to sit in a meeting
controlled by votes transferred for
the pui pose The Governor is un
questionably right in trying to cor-rect
this evil. The county of Le-noif
owns .">00 shares in this read
that have beeu paid for, dollar for
dollar, yet she has only ">ti votes
while less than a hundred shares
owned by an individual have beeu
known to cast more than that. The
counties of Craven and l'amlicoare
iu the same condition. It is not
just to these counties to allow the
meetings to be governed in such a
manner, but how is the Governor
to help himself ! When a man's
name appears upon the list as a
stockholder what right has the
Governor, or anybody else, to say
he is not the boim .ftVfr owner of said
stock t
What the Journal says forcibly
demonstrates the necessity of asale
of the road, ami to that it must in-evitably
come.
Watermelon*—A New Kemrdy fur (lull-.
[Corroepondenee Daily Patriot.]
WASHINGTON, 1). C., July 2d.—
As the melon season is close at
hand I will for the benefit of the
iuexperienced, offer some sugges-tions
relative to selecting aud using
this most excellent fruit, aud thus
enable them to discard green ones,
as well as those that have been
pulled before ripe, both of which
are alike unfit for use. High prices
are a great inducement for getting
them to market early, consequent-ly
they are generally pulled several
days too soon. It is true they af-terwards
ripen, but they are never
so good. Thn pulp becomes tough,
and if catcu iu any considerable
quantity is liable to produce cholera
morbus. I ouce knew a person who
had to send for a physician double
quick in consequence of having
eaten a melon that had doubtless
been pulled before ripe. If such
melons lie eaten at all the pulp
should not be swallowed, but mere-ly
chewed up for the water it con-tains.
Many people having no cer-tain
way of telling when melons
are ripe, have them plugged. If
they contain ''red meat and black
seed" they pay their money and
take them along when, iu all prob-ability
they were, when pulled, "as
green as gourds.'.' Thumping can-not
be relied on for selecting a good der to successfully pass this point
melon, for they are frequently pull I it will be necessary to exercise con-ed
and left several days iu the sun I siderable care, especially in regard
to wilt aud ripen before being car- to diet. BRYAN TYSON.
ried to market. They thus acquire
the necessary dead sound when
thumped, such as will deceive the
best of judges. As the growers of
melons appeal to resort to every
artiticee for palming off their un-ripe
fruit, will now give some sim-ple
rules for selecting a good melon.
be conclusive proof that they will A very Pinewureirai operation. The Hmn.
not produce chills, if eaten regular- . charlotte ohmrver.] liMrj Puriat-o.]
ly- Dr. A C. Post, of New York The seven jurors of the panel to
I afterwards spent much of my Uity, assisted by Dr. J. Parks Mc- , try ex Treasurer Polk at Nashville
time during several melon seasons | Combs, of this city, last Monday | Teun., were discharged yesterday
in Marysville, a city much addicted I evening performed a remarkable j and a new panel ordered.- Thos
to chills, by reason of adjacent j operation on the leg of Mr. J. M.
swamps and low lauds. I ate mel- Roark, who was injured by the ex-ons
regularly and had no chills, plosion at the St
whilst many who were afraid of
them had chills. I have never
been in any place where chills ap-tieared
to be so prevalent as in
Marysville, and I will give it as
my opinion that melons, regularly
eaten, would do more to eradicate
them than any other means that
could be devised. They would
doubtless lie cheaper than doctors'
bills, to say nothing of the comforts
incident to avoiding sickness.
After a person becomes accus-tomed
to eating melons they may-be
used to the fullest extent, even
becoming a substitute for water for
weeks at a time without producing
the least injurious effect. In fact,
if used regularly to this extent,
fevers generally would be consigned
to the background. At the close
of the melon season fruits, such as
apples, should lie eaten freely to
keep the bowels regular until the
time for chills pass. The principal
danger of sickness occurs after the
melons have given cut, and in or-
Crooked Hailroad oiurl.il-.
.1. E. Adams, who has been ticket
agent for the Air Line, Richmond
»Xc Danville and Charlotte, Colum
bia it Augusta ltailroads in Char-lotte
for two years past, and Capt.
E. O. Nesbit, who is well known to
a general observance of which I the traveling public as a conductor
would doubtless result in coinpell- | on the Air-Line road, were arrest-ing
them to permit their melons to
remain on the vines until they have
properly matured.
HOW TO SELECT A GOOD MELON.
The rinds of melous, when left
on the vines to mature, generally-become
hard and the pulp brittle.
If the melon be gently borne on
and you hear the inside crack or
give way it may be regarded as a
sure sign that ehe melon matured
on the vine, and consequently is a
good one.
Another good plan for selecting
a melon is to examine the side that
lay on the ground. If the melon
remained on the vine until properly
matured this portion will be found
to have chauged from a white to a
pale yellow, and upon close exami-nation,
numerous small pimples,
somewhat like the measles, as it
were, will be noticed on said sur-face,
particularly near the outer
edge. These pimples may be re-garded
as a sure indication that
the melon remained on the vine un-til
mature, as they never appear on
those which have been prematurely
ed iu Charlotte Monday, charged
with embezzlement. A detective
was employed to work up the case
and his labors culminated iu the
arrest aud trial Tuesday.
The railroad company charged
that Mr. Adams Imd issued tickets
without stamping them, that Capt.
Nesbit took them up without
punching them, and returned them
to the ticket agent to sell over
again and divide the money. The
prosecution offered evidence show-ing
that on the 14th day of April,
1883, Mr. Gco. Karrington bought
two tickets from Charlotte to At-lanta,
one numbered 2742 and the
other 2013, and 2742 was given to
a frieud who went with Mr. Far-rington,
and Mr. Karrington gave
the ticket 2912 to conductor Nesbit
who was in charge of the train. It
was further shown that a ticket I of the suicides in Germany are as-
Catherine mine,
in June, 1882. The explosion oc-curred
on the 11th dav of that
month, and Mr. Roark had an arm
and a leg broken. The fractured
limbs were set and the arm healed
all right, but the bones in the leg
failed to knit, aud Mr. Roark had
siuce been unable to walk except
by the aid of crutches. Dr. Post
arrived in the city Sunday, and
Monday evening he went to work
on the leg. The patient was put
under the influence of ether, and
remained so for the space of two
hours, the time occupied in per-forming
the operation. The flesh
was cut away from the bone at the
place where the fracture was made,
when it was found that the bones,
instead of uniting, had been turn-ed
down at the edges and gristle
had formed between them. The
ends of the bones were sawed off.
and the gristle taken out, when
the bones were carefully sponged
and dried and then drawn together.
Dr. l'ost then adjusted the bones
by means of iron wire, arranged to
hold the ends firmly together. The
wound is left open so that when
the bones become adhered, which
will l»e iu the course of two weeks,
the wire can be taken out and the
flesh sewed up. It was on the
whole, a rare and delicate opera-tion,
and was most successfully-performed.
Mr. Roark has suffered
long and intensely with his leg, but
his friends hope that the trouble is
now ended, and that he will soon
lie able to go about on good, sound
legs.
Item* ol" Interent.
—Robert Homier is nowthe own-er
of 170 horses.
—Though all patent medicines
are now untaxed, the price will not
come down.
—Texas now claims to have a
ten million sheep, many of them of
the fiuest grades.
—Monoganv is best, alter all. It
costs the Sultan *tr>,000,000 a
year to keep up his domestic estab-lishment.
—Henry Fielding Dickens, the
youngest son of Charles Dickens,
has been appointed to the Record
ership of Deal.
—At least twenty-five per cent,
numbered 2912 was afterwards
found in its proper place in the
| package in the depot in Charlotte,
I never having been stamped or
punched. It was tnrther proven
that the agent Adams never charg-ed
himself with the sale of ticket
pulled. Sometimes the desirable I >jo. 2012. Capt. Win. Clarkson.a
pale yellow is produced premature , conductor on the A., T. & (). Bail-ly
by turning this portion of the
melon to the sun for a day or two.
In this case the yellow is apt to be
too deep. This fact, in connection
with the absence of pimples, will
readily tell the experienced eye
how said color was produced.
MELONS A PREVENTIVE OF CHILLS
AND FEVEHS.
Melous are a.mild aperient, and
if eaten properly will keep the
bowels free aud regular, thus pre-venting
chills and fevers generally.
Hut, to insure these results, the
melons should be of good quality
and be eaten regularly, say twice
daily, at such hours as will least in-terfere
with meals. For a few days
at the first of the season they
should be partaken of sparingly,
gradually increasing the quantity.
If partaken of too freely at the
start they are apt to derauge the
bowels; but if you will stick to
them, eating for a while sparingly,
you will soon become acclimated,
as it wore, and will thenceforth be
all right for the remainder of the
season, provided they are eaten
regularly. Hut if eaten irregular-ly,
say freely for several days and
then none tor several days, the
bowels will be apt to undergo cor-responding
changes from an aperi-ent
to a costive state, and disease
may be the result. Of course, it
would all be laid to the melons,
when it was merely attributable to
the irregular manner in which they
hail been eaten. To prove that
melons, when regularly eaten, will
Hot produce sickness, especially
chills and fever, which are so often
laid to their charge, I will cite a
case where they were actually in-strumental
in effecting a cure :
A NEW REMEDY FOR CHILLS AND
FEVER.
Some years ago I was in a min-ing
town in California during the
melon season. As melons and
fruits generally had to be hauled in
wagons a distance of some twenty-miles,
I could not procure them
with the usual regularity. Upon
oue occasion my supply of melons
gave out, and 1 remarked to an ac-quaintance
that as a result I ex-pected
1 would have a chill. Sure
enough, one day while engaged iu
a mine I was taken with a very se-vere
chill. I spread out in the suu
with all the extra coats that
could be piled on, but of course
could not keep warm. Just about
this time a supply of melons arriv-ed
and I at once commenced eating
them heartily. I had a craving ap-
Alluding to this topic the Farmer I lwt\te for oysters and vinegar, but
little or no appetite for anything
else eieept melons. I procured
I rum an adjacent store some Haiti-more
canned oysters and consumed
about three cans daily, served with
strong vinegar, and between meals
ate heartily of melons- Strange
as it may seem, these two remedies
combined, without auy medicine
whatever, cured the chills as thor-oughly
as could have been done by-means
of quinine or any other
remedy. I had only oue chill. The
philosophy of the matter appears
to be this. The melons reopened
the bowels, which had probably
become costive, and the oysters,
being a strong diet, strengthened
road, was then produced as a wit-ness
by the prosecution, to prove
that some months ago Mr. Adams
made a proposition to him to do
the same thing on the A., T. & O.
road, adding that it was being done
by other conductors and there was
big money in it. Capt. Clarksou
indignantly scouted the proposition
and reported what Adams had said
to him to the authorities, the next
dav.
Sir. Nesbit was also i barged with setts, is generally credited with be
cribed to temperance, and twelve
per cent, of those in England.
—One of the best known of
Americancitizens, Orange Judd,
the good old time editor of the
American Agriculturist, is dying in
Florida.
—Commend us to the Washing-ton
woman who "switched" her 17-
year old son for getting married;
he was old enough to kuow better,
but he didn't.
—The Idaho legislature talked
of a law compelling every oflice
holder to wear a ring in his nose,
and the way the postmasters were
scared was a caution.
—Everett A. Stephens, the new
railroad comniissioiierof Massachu-collecting
fares in cash on the road
and not returning or accounting
for it to the company, and there
was evidence that on the 10th of
June, 1883, two fares were paid
him and he accounted for only one
in his return. There was much
more evidence but this is the sub-stance
of it all.
The defendants offered no evi-dence.
Adams was held in a bond of
$1,500 Nesbit, in default of bond,
was put in jail.
Of the parties the Charlotte Ob-server
says: Mr. Adams is a young
unmarried man, and came to this
city about two years ago from
Georgia, lie was considered a
most moral, upright young man,
and enjoyed the full confidence of
our people, all of whom are aston-ished
at yesterday's revelations.
Nobody has enjoyed a better
name than Capt. Nesbit, and those
who know him can scarcely realize
that such a thing has come to pass.
He was known by all to be a strict
ly steady man, never indulging in
drink or using tobacco and never
uttering an oath.
It. .i.l and ll.iiiin.il.
IWvhinfftiin Letter floMAom MceeMger.]
Geo. H. Everett, late internal
revenue collector for the 5th dis-trict
of North Carolina, has been
appointed land agent for Dakota.
His "guide, philosopher and
friend," Dr. J. J. Mott. says George
is perfectly satisfied, that the posi-tion
is every way better than the
collcctorship; but it is not in the
Mature of sane humanity to accept
mg the right man in the right
place. He began railroad life as a
freight breakuian.
—There is not a German news-panel
ordered. Thos.
Harris, a once wealthy Philadel-phia
manufacturer, died iu that
city Sunday from rum and starva-tion.
If no new complications
appear, it is expected Elam will be
in condition to be taken to his
home in a week or ten days. A
destructive hail storm passed near
Fort Collins, Col., Tuesday. Hail-stones
an inch in diameter fell to a
depth of five inches. Growing
crops in the storm's tracks were
destroyed. The temperature at
Pittsburg Tuesday reached 98 de-grees.
Ironworkers suffered great-ly
tram the heat. There were three
cases of sunstroke at Indianapolis,
one of which was fatal. The 3
p. in. weather reiiort showed the
thermometer record as follows:
Baltimore W, Philadelphia and
Pittsburg 92, New York 87, Chicago
and Cleveland 90, Cincinnati 91,
Cape Henry 03, Indianapolis and
Keokuk 92, Lacrosse and Laven-worth
93, Memphis and Norfolk
94, Omaha 90, Shreveport 93, St.
Louis and Little Rock 92, Toledo
90, Hoston St. Duluth showed 55.
the coolest place in the country,
and Omaha, at %, was the hottest.
Nearly 100 lives are reported
to have been lost at Glasgow, Scot-land,
Tuesday, by the overturning
of a steamship which was being
launched. Traffic between Port
Said and Syria has been prohibited
on account of the cholera. The
people of Damiettahave been scat-tered
in tents. The Count de
Chainbord still lingers in a critical
condition. A steam train cap-sized
while descending an incliue
in Huddersfield, England,Tuesday,
and two persons were killed and
thirty wounded.
[Daily Patriot—&]
Rufus P. Marsh, city superin-tendent
of hacks aud trucks in
Hoston, was sunstruck yesterday
and died in the evening. Five
Hoston policemen were also over
come by the heat. The State
prison convicts at Salem, Oregon,
made a desperate attack yesterday
on the officers in an attempt to es-cape.
Three were killed and two
wounded. Eight arc at large.
The qualified voters in Philadel-phia,
as returned by the election
assessors this year, number 201,-
330, against 201,803 in 1882. The
vote for governor last fall aggre-gated
147,049. Gen. Gordon,
president of the Georgia Pacific
railroad company, has resigned
that position. The court mar
shal which tried commander Mnl-lan
for losing the I*. S. steamer
Ashuelot in Chinese waters, has
sentenced him to dismissal from
the service. Archbishop Purcell
whose death has been looked for
for the past several days died of
paralysis yesterday at Cincinnati.
lit. Rev. William Pinkney, D.
I)., LL. D., lti.sliop.of the Episcopal
Diocese of Maryland, and rector of
Ascension church, Washington,
died very suddenly aliout •• o'clock
yesterday morning at the rectory
of Sherewood church, Cockeysville,
Baltimore county. The cause of
his death was congestion of the
heart. The first bale ot new
crop of cotton was was sold at Al-bany,
Ga., yesterday at 251 cents
per "pound." It weighed 335 pounds
and was classed middling. It was
raised by Primus W. Jones, of
Raker county. The postoffice
department has beeu notified that
Charles E. Eggleston. postmaster.
paper in all Ohio that supports the j and Frank E. Eggleston, assistant
postmaster at Salmon falls, Idaho.
have both coi itted suicide.
The ballot for United States Sen-ator
yesterday resulted as follows:
Whole number 285, necessary for
a choice 138, I.add I, Smith I,
Hartlett 2, Hums 2. Hell 3. Marston
14, Stephens 15, Rriggs 30. Pat-terson
28, Rollins 86, Bingham 92.
The dead and wounded con-sequent
upon tin lebration of the
Fourth in Chicago is 38 casualties,
including three deaths, 5 fatally
wounded. 23 more or less maimed
for life and 7 slightly injured. The
chief instruments of destruction
wen- toy pistols and small cannons
Republican State ticket, nor
prominent German who can be in-duced
to take the stump for that
ticket.
—The late Governor Henry A.
Wise, of Virginia, is said to have
beeu the author of the phrase,
■•The oflice seeks the man, not the
man the office." By the way, who
was the mail whom the oflice
sought t
—The longest trestle in the world
is now building across Lake Ron-ehatrain
on the New Orleans anil
Northeastern railway. It will be
twenty-one and a half miles in
length and requires besides the > iu the hands of little children,
piles 15,000,000 feet of lumber.
—In India the wife cooks the
dinner, the husband eats all he
wants, and then, if anything is left,
the wife eats. In this country the
servants cooks the dinner, eat all
they want, and then, if there is
anything left, the family eat.
—A girl with singularly arched
eyebrows attracted attention, and.
Hlankie & Go's mill, Ainesbury,
Mass.. was struck by lightning
yesterday and burned The loss
is probably * 100,000. TbeJYwNM
in a second edition says that Count
DeChambord is dead. The mini-of
deaths from cholera at Damiet-ta
during the twenty-four hours
ending at So clock yesterday morn-ing
was 111. There were forty- i
three deaths at Mausourah, four
from her forehead, an observer
guessed that the taut skin was re-sponsible
for the peculiarity.—
■You're wrong entirely." said Ins
companion, '-she's wearing what
the girls call 'surprised eyebrows.'
It's done with a touch or two of
black pigment. That's going to be
the statement as an undiluted fact. -Ilie "»6e ,llls sl"'","'r-
A prominent official in another de- Evening up: Hotel clerk—
partment says Evans aud the I'resi- "There is a newspaper man who
dent "let him down easy, but Stuck has been stopping with us during
him away in a corner." the week and he has just called for
The consolidation of districts is I his bill. If we are liberal with him
much bepraised. It is, however, , perhaps he will give us a good
the grandest humbug iu the way | notice." Landlord—"A
capital
as her hair was pulled back hard ; at Shirbin and four at Sainonond
' and Mechanic savs the Catling com-bination
handled Gov. .Ian is pret
ty roughly iu the stockholders'
meeting, and intimates that the
committee of stockholders appoint-ed
to consider the propositions to
lease are favorable to the Galling
syndicate. Perhaps it is surmise
on the part of the F. & M. The
stockholders in question have not
been named, so far as the public
knows.
—A Philadelphia
preached on the text,
clergyman
"Thou'shalt
of reform ever attempted. True, a
show of economy is made in reduc-ing
the number of districts by one
third: but mark you. in every
chauge effected, so far as I can see.
the Arthur Stalwart Administra-tion
conies off more than conqueror.
There is one consolidation in Vir-ginia.
Brady, Maltose's man Fri- :
day, and a new Mahoiiile. between
them, take all the emoluments, and
power of the great machine, dis-placing
some collectors who were
known to be unfriendly or at least
not so available. So i! was with
North Carolina on possibly a small
er scale. Young and Wheeler with
Marshal Keogh will run the State
with such help as they can pick
up. The Stalwarts are in full con-trol,
and opposition is now dead
and damned.
—The latest advertising dodge
idea. Tell him there will be no
charge." Clerk—Yes, sir." Land
lord (calling clerk back)—•'Any-body
with him V Clerk—"i es, sir;
his'wife." Landlord—-All right.
charge her double rates."
—The huge group of sun spots
during the same time from the
same disease
C.ii a WUUUII Kce|i aSeci-ell
-Annabel Jane". Of course a
woman can keep a secret. A great
deal better than a man can. One
little recret will last a woman
through a two-hours shopping ex-cursion,
a mite society, a missiomv
arv circle, ten calls and a house
hold furniture auction, and there's
enough of it left to tell her hus
. band when be gets borne. Now. a
I man would forget three-fifths of
both ends of it before he could get
half so far with it. A woman,
can't keep a secret ! Annabel, she
can keep it on the dead run more
miles in more hours than a man
can make it walk.
jaffereea'i GraBataagMer.
Mrs. Septima MeiUelhem.
last surviving
the
graiidaughter of
which made ta-gM^| fi,-,,-,,„,™,,,: was tendered a
ago has now
the centre of the sun's disk, and
for several days has exhibited in-dications
of intense activity, ac-companied
at night by displays ot
the aurora borealis. This group,
like most of the great sun spots
which have been accompanied by-auroras
and magnetic storms is
evidently subjected to cyclonic ac-tion,
the effect of which is perceiv-ed
iu the changes of form it under-goes.
It is fully as large as the
group of spots that broke out on
reception Monday evening at the
house of Mrs. L Holloway. of
Brooklyn, N. Y.. whose guest Mrs.
Meikel'hein has been for some days
past. At the reception Mrs. Mei-kelhetn
was the recipient of many
cordial expressions of regard. Al-though
approaching her seventieth
birthday she is blight and lively.
eonvi nationalist. For some years
she has been living modestly on tin-small
salary earned by her daugh
ter as a clerk in the Treasury no-tion
from the rugged path of duty : not tempt the Lord thy God," and | nature, thus enabling her to throw | is to send boys uniformed as mes
I bed by law, must be made illustrated it with, "We pray to the oft' the disease and restore the sys-1 seugers to private houses deliver
by him, and he endeavored to per- Lord to give us health, nud tempt tern to its normal condition. The i ing imitation dispatches which set
form bis duty to his country as Him with filthy streets, sewer gas, fact that the chills were completely forth the advantages of buying
God gave him the light to see it. ! and bad water." '■ eradicated while using melons must I your goods at •our store."
ring
i ber last. session.
«liV She (.rirwd.
"You ueedu't take on so dread-fully!"
exclaimed oue of the group l
of ladies around the bride, whose !
husband had just been left at the |
last station: "he'll come on the next
train."
"I sup-suppose so," sobbed the
bereaved one; '•in-indeed I know he
—he will."
"Then what arc you crying
about t" said the sympathizer.
•You have only a few hours to
wait."
-Y-yes. 1—I know, but—but we
made such a fuss over e-each other
when we first c came aboard that
ev everybody knows we-we'ro mar
ried, aud there won't any- young
man ask me if—if this seat's en-gaged
!"
Home Made Ingrain tarpi-ls.
Charlotte Joareal'
At the establishment of Messrs.
Wittkowsky- *,- Haruch was yester-day
displayed a roll of carpeting
containing 128 yards .manufactured
at the new ingrain carpet factory
of Kramer IE Jacobscn. at King's
Mountain. Thecarpet is of a beauti-ful
design and the colors are bright
and well brought out. much more
so than is the ease with Northern
made carpets. This marks a new-era
iu the industrial enterprises of
this section of the South, and com-paring
this carpeting with that
made North, the fact is verified
that in this line, at least, our South-ern
factories undoubtedly excel.
The carpet made by this linn, is not
only prettier, but is guaranteed to
outlast that made in the Northern
mills. Messrs. Wittkowsky It liar
uch are the agents for all the Carpet
made by Kramer A- Jacobscn.
lti-\olulioii In the l-'asliion-.
A complete revolution in the
fashions of ladies' dresses and fig-ures
is about to take place, and
many quite startling innovations
will probably lie observed at the
watering places this .summer, al-though
the new styles are not like-ly
to be established before next
winter. Hones, angles and length
without breadth are out. Itonnd-less,
curves and amplitude are
coming in. Anglicism in costume,
including iiianishness of appear-ance
anil .attire, are decidedly on
the wane, and the Honing skirts,
pauicrs and graceful draperies arc
increasing in favor every day.
Even a return to the Grecian bend
of a few years back is threatened,
but sound sense and good taste
will probably interfere with that.
Hair is to have an upward tenden-cy,
aud the classical knot iu the
nape of the neck is to be superset!
ed by putfs ami rolls on the top of
the head. In short, everything is
to be exactly as it lias not been.
and great are the lamentations of
some and the rejoicings of others
at the change that is certain to
take place. Caterpillar-green and
strawberry-red are the rather un-inviting
titles of the newest shades
of color.
A Merur rii|iarallrlril III the ll,iulil« nl
Mania.
N,» Vurk HenM-3.1
Mrs. Staver and her two daugh
ters, both grown and one an inva-lid,
occupy an upper suit of apart-ments
iu the sixth story Hat house
No. 121 West Eleventh street Ear-ly
yesterday morning the mother
and daughters were in their rooms
awaiting the arrival ofsome friends
who were to take the invalid girl
to a hospital for treatment. Sud-denly
she got up from her chair.
and, saying. "Mamma, dear, I can
not stay in this room: it is so close
—let me go for a little air," ran
lightly up the stairs and dissap-peered
through the attic door. The
younger sister followed some time
after, apparently not fearing any
danger. As she reached the roof
she was horrified to see the girl
sitting on the coping. She called
her mother, and as the hitler reach-ed
the roof, the girl, bending down
and catching hold of the cornice
with her two hands, swung her-self
over. The paved yard was
six stories below. The mother,
with a shriek, rushed forward and
caught the girl by the arm just as
she was relaxing her grasp on the
cornice.
The daughter straggled violent
ly. "Let me go! I want to die!
1 want to die !"
The mother, with a strength
that seemed supernatural,Still held
the girl, although her whole weight
now depended upon he mother's
grasp. Hut the sister came to her
assistance and both called hj I MI
ically for aid. Their cries—"Save
her! Help, help!" rang through
all the neighborhood. Some chil-dren
ill the yard below shrieked.
Men came to the windows, and af-ter
a brief look, rushed for the
stairs and to the street. Every-body
shouted for help.
A lady iu the apartment below,
with a gentleman beside her.leaiied
far out from a window directly un-der
the struggling girl. But she
could barely reach her. She could
secure a slight hold upon one of
Miss Stover's ankles, and this hold
she kept at great personal danger.
Somewhat checking the hapless
girl's efforts to get free from her
mother's frantic grasp. It was ev-ident
to the shuddering spectaoni
that in a moment morethe strength
of the women above must give out
ami that the crazed girl must
plunge down to death, earning
I the H»ith her, by her weight,
' brave lady below, and perhaps
. the mother and sister. In this su-i
preme moment of suspense, above
the cries of mother and daughter
and onlookers, the girl shrieked
loudly—"let me drop ! It will be
better for DM ! I want to go! Then
' a young girl rushed Oil the roof
and gave her feeble aid to the two
ladies, and then a head and shoul
, ders appeared through the trap
door and the first of the rescuers
! swung himself on to the roof. There
was a glad shout and then pro-found
silence, except for the ems
| of the maniac. In an instant he
was at the edge of the roof, anil,
leaning for over, had his arms
about the gill's shoulders. A sec-oml
stalwart man came to his as-sistance,
fhe mother and sister
fell back tainting. The two men
drew the still struggling girl over
the parapet and to safety.
Jul>.
The -iiiniiHT heneal day legtn,
With eloodtaei 'lawn and flaming ma:
Kipe B-raui llio -icUe fla-h,-i tlir..uifli:
rim *woeniit «-vihi-- in m.irtiinr .lew:
|h*» ni-iiuinc endaraeath ilu« tree*
Maili' cool by .-..ii ..r mountain breeH
rtio Itiun.l, r nnil ihi' flljailm -ki.
\II.1 -im-i-i Blewm «t Jul>.
[Jehu II. Whitrler.
il"-l Baada lln-o.iiiilry. -.ii.1 ill.- -.*,■.
Anil iiuu Im- nw.lc tbectxnnled town:
I ben be my future puaTtaaan
'MOM lorer-heMf and Invtle down:
Tu walk with naluro band in hand,
In ii.ilur.-'. pern and llmito way.
And 'IH-IIIII Un. elm and aaanle .-uml.
liinl .ilui.-l with breath "1 nen bora hay.
Prank .1 Ottaraoa
Tlie n-tiin .-inei. a- ..f old. from Ihe limlj I
Tin- eel bird nooni in the Mae-hnefa I
The rich milk tinged bntterettb
III ;m\ is.li-hed urn h.il.l- an.
Killed with ripeawnuner t" Ihe adse,
The an in hi- own wine t.. pledge.
•laiiK- Unwell Lowell
Klhl.wi MeVilt)'a lii.nrr.
ChfcatoTraaw
■•it can never be."
Ethlyn McNulty's voice was hus
ky with pie as she spoke these
words, and in the luminous depths
of the soft brown eyes that had
witched so many men and made
their lives a wreck—men who oth-erwise
would have been good, hon-orable
citizens, a credit alike to
themselves and to the tailors who
trusted them—there was a wistful.
pleading, ifyou knew-how-tigbl my
slims -were you would get on .1
street car look that Harold Never
sink, man of the world though he
was. had never seen there before.
They were standing iu a little
dell, these two—a spot around
which clustered the hallowed mem
ories of a happy peaceful past,
when the days drifted by in a Ian
guid lashioii. mi trouble or grief
coming to mar the perfect harmo-ny
of a placid and beautiful exist-ence.
Hut now all was changed.
and as Ethlyn stood beside the
man she loved so well the 1 non
Of what had beeu came to her witii
cruel, crushing force, and up Ironi
the misty portals of a future that
seemed utterly dark and cheerless
there arose only the black wraiths
I of desolation and despair. It was
a soft, sensuous Chicago Juneeven-ing,
and as Harold adjusted Ins
ear mull's and took Ethlyn's hand
in his he felt that without the love
of this woman, without her pie-cine
to cheer and her counsel to
aid and guide him, his lite would
lie as blank, and dreary, aud deso-late
as a St. Louis paper. The
very thought was maddening, and
as it burned into his soul with cruel
force he looked out sadly over his
no-chance to get out-'less-you-jump
over collar and Ethlyusaw thai the
lip which held his don't tellpapa
mustache was quivering with pain.
And then, anil then, as then,
the crickets all about them were
singing, ami the murmurous breath
ing of a staccato cow was borne
away to the westward on the sigh
ing breezes of Ihe night, she pill
her aims around his neck, and as
he stood there. 11 willing prisouei
in the dimpled chains of hue.
spoke tn him us she had never
spoken before.
"You know I love you, Harold,"
she said—"love you with a death-less
passion that time can never a~
suage. ami as Ihe years go
wearily by with leaden feet your
image will ever be bright in 111 \
heart, your love for ine a shrine at
which I shall ever worship. I know
that you are good aud pure and do
not smoke cigarettes. I know that
your love would shield and protect
me forever and ever, ami that in
that love I should find the peace
and contentment that every girl
standing mi the threshold of wo
manhood so longs for—that indefi
nable. mysterious, l-dou'l know-wheiher
it is a new hat or caramels
that I want feeling thai throws
about the cold, Hal lads of life Ihe
glamour of a mystic dream laud
that we feel, bill eauinit see Hut
such happiness may not be. I love
you loo well. Harold,toever know
ingly cause you one instant of pain,
and therefore I say to you stand-ing
here with the stars thai deck
the heavens looking down upon inc.
with the voice ol nature saying ill
every budding fiower ami trembling
leaf and horse liniment almanac
thai summer has come again—I say
it solemnly, tearfully, and for the
last time, that I cannot he your
wife"—and weeping iu a mad, pas
sinuate way. as if all the chewing
gum in the world was gone, she
threw herself in a reckless, blind
staggers fashion 011 tin* grass at
his feet ami mourned pitifully.
Iu an install) Harold had jumped
over her seal ami was kneeling
beside her. "Why cm you mil
marry met41 he asked. "What is
the obstacle ol which you speak -o
tin stei iously I"
••llo not ask me," she said. "Do
UOt seek In make yolll sell nilsel.i
hie. perhaps for life."
"Hut I demand an answer," be
says.
liaising herself slowly, ami sit
ling there on one foot, Ethlyn Me
Nulty looked up ai him. The moon-light
stealing through the blanches
ol the linden lues above them is
not whilei than the face of the girl
upon which it falls so gently, and
iu her eyes then- is ;i look of haunt
ing fear that is pitiful ill its sad in
tensity.
"You shave yourself, she say"
looking at hilll .steadily.
"Yes," he answers. But cert
l\ thai can have nothing to do -
"Wait," says Ihe gill. "Il
be a son- trial to you were > •■ •
else In use your razor."
■•It would." is the uplv
'•It is ;i- I thought.
Ethlyn—"No 'spin,: .
herself)! could not rest
tation—110 woman could "
"What do you mean V
••I demand an answer."
"I Ilie.III." she replies III .1 •
mechanical way, -'that 1
hereditary corn."
nil'
ild.
What w ill cure the worst case nl
dyspepsia! What will insure 1
hearty appetite and increased di
gestion! What will cure general
debility and give a new lease ol
life I What will dispel nervous
depression and low spirits '. What
will restore exhausted mothers In
full strength} What will strength
en nerves and muscles f W hal
will enrich the bloodf What will
enable you to overcome weakness,
wakefulncss and lack of energj !
What wil prevent chills and lever
and ether effects of malarial poison!
Brown's Iron Kitten. It is well
to know this.