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7& ii'i oo in o CI -'. ....ri ( ;. Kew Series VOLUME XVI. CHAELOTTE;;N;Cii''FR .12, 1886. , ' i . . i i. :! I . I J.. -r. t! . .! i .it ii ' ! 1 . ' . ; . , , .... s. 1U-' OLD SERIES: VOLUME XXXIVr-NtJMBEB lfe2 ? it U S.U -II . , . -,..' . ..... .... - ."r , ,V7, i--y .aii': JlMJl .Wil 7 j;W?K ! , V J . m : v "i iA ' "'"'''I - - ' ' ' " " ' ' .....,,.,.!,, -.,.1 .; . ..' : fcZ-f ' fV f T s. 1 IfU-s.ilW ; 7.- Vni;t.il Sd 1 Jtli . . . - ' ' -'! : - - v t;. ?'; t; I.. "if -f ? f t .1); . .t, ' - J i -Jl.i ,U ....!,..... 1 ,1 , i!l - s .:i 11 THE Charlotte Home - Democrat, Published eveey Fkiday by YATES & STRONG. o- Terms Two Dollars for one year. One Dollar for six months. Subscription price due in advance. o Entered at the Poet Office in Charlotte, N C., as second class matter," according to the ues of the P. O. Department. T. O. SMITH & OO., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, CHARLOTTE, N. C. May 11,1884. CENTRAL HOTEL, ( Under New Management CHARLOTTE, W. C. Newly Furnished and Equipped in me best style. Hot and Cold Baths. Patronage solicited. Give ii'i a trial. Rates, $3 and $2.50 perday. SCOVILLE & BROUKENBROUGH, Proprietors. Feb. 26, 188G. y J. P. McCOMBS, M. D.f OHeii bis professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, botu nigut anuaay, promptly attended to. Office in Brown s building, up stairs, opposite Charlotte iiotei. Jan. 1, 1835. 4. BURWKLL. P. D. WALKER. BUR WELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts Office in Law Building. Jan. 1,1884. HUGH W. HARRIS, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office, First door west of Court House. Jan. 1, 1880. HERIOT CLARKSON, Atlorney-at-Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Will practice in all the Courts of this State. Prompt attention given to collections. Nov. 7, 1884. tf F. I. OSBORNE. W. C MAXWELL. OSBORNE & MAXWELL, Attorneys at Law, C II A R L O T T E, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. IS" Offices 1 and 3 Law Building. July 3, 1885. y HAMILTON C. JONES, Attorney at Law. Charlotte, N. C. Will practice in the State Courts, and in the Federal Courts in the Western District. Jan. 8, 183G. y all DR. M. A. BLAND. Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Gas used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb. 15. 1884. DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice Limited to the EYE, EAR AND THROAT. Jan. 1, 1884. HOFFMAN & ALEXANDERS, Surgeon Dentists, CHARLOTTE. N. C. Office over A. R. Nisbet & Bro's store. Office hours from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. Dec. 14,1883. , W. H. FARRIOR, Practical Watch-Dealer and Jeweler. Charlotte, N. C. KeeDs a full stock of handsome Jewelry, and Clo3ks, Spectacles, etc., which I will sell at fair price. Repairing of Jeweliy, Watches, Clocks, S done promptly, and satisfection assured. Store opposite to Central Hotel. July 1, 1894. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Grocers and Provision Dealers, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Have always in stock Coffee, Suear, Molasses, Syrups, Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams, Flour, Grass Seeds, Plows, &c, which we offer to both the Wholesale and Retail trade All are invited to try us, from the smallest to the largest. Jan. 1. 1884. R. A. LEE. SPRINGS & BUUWELL. R. A. LEE & CO., Cotton Buyers. Office in the Chambers Livery Stable Building, Lollege Street. Sellers will do well to sec us. If we do not buy our last Did snau be tne value ot the cotton. Jan. 30, 1885. HARRISON WATTS, Cotton Buyer. Corner Trade and College Sts.,up Stairs. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Oct. 14. 1884. THE CHARLOTTE (DTmVlMI PRODUCE BXCUANGB Corner Trade and College Sts. Charlotte, N. C. S. H. PHELAN, Proprietor, mem-1 ber NewYork Cotton Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade. ) J. F. LYON, Dec. 4, 1885. Manager. JUST RECEIVED, New Lot of Ladies' and Children's BIACK HOSE, LACES, etc., at ELIAS & COHEN'S. Dr. Shaw. Times from Water Gap, where poisonous snakes abound, says that during the past jcaro, in wnicD ne has followed out a method ot cure for snake bite, he has not lost a case. He gives sixty minims of aromatic spirits of ammonia hvnru1rmi. jcally and an ounce of whiskey every two uours. a large poultice of bruised raw onions is applied to the wound and renew: ed every hour. The whiskey and onionB are continued nntil th which is usually on the third day. SALE OF LAND. By virtue of a Mort?a?e Ded nutria w w H. A. Klutts and wife, and registered i 39, page 580, in the office of the Reeister .of Deeds, on the 8th dav of Januarv. 188S. we will sell at the Court House door in the city of Char- lime, on oamruay, April sa, at 18 o'clock M., to the highest bidder, the Tract of LAND conveyed by said Mortgage, containing 51 Acres, in Mecklenbunr count v. one mile from the tnn of Matthews; on th4 Carolina Central RaHrdad. l erms of sale, Cash. J. B. WILLIAMSON, , J. W. HOOD. March 5, 1886. 5w Mortgagees. Administrators' Sale. On Fridav. March 12th. 1886. at the Residence of the late E. C. Grier. in Providence Townshio. we will proceed to sell the following Personal Property, viz : One-half interest in a 12 horse power Talbot Engine.ooe-taalf interest in Georgia Cotton Gin, one-half interest in Liddell Cotton Press, Shafting, Belting, &c. Also, 2 Mules, 1 Phaeton, 1 Piano and other household furniture. Terms made known on dav of sale. J. S. & S. R. GRIER, Administrators of E. C. Grier. Feb. 19, 1886. 4wpd LAND FOR SALE. Re- Advertised. On Saturday. March 13th. 1886. bv virtue of a Decree of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg county, I will sell at the Court House door in Charlotte, a Tract of LAND lvine in Berrvhill Township, on the waters of Rocky Sugar Creek, adjoining me lands or w. JJ. Bpratt, JT. llovis, and others, known as the "William Kerr place." The place contains about 50 Acres, and is in a good state of cultivation. Terms One-fourtb cash, balance on ten months credit. W. K. BYRTJM, Administrator of Win. Kerr. Feb. 12, 1886. 5w Administrator's Notice. Having qualified as Administrator of A. B Springs, deceased, notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against the sai i Estate to present the same at his Office in Charlotte, N. C on or before the 6th day of February. 1887, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persons indebted to tne instate are notmed to call and settle their indebtedness. E. B. SPRINGS, Adm'r of A. B. Springs, deceased Feb. 5, 1836. 6w SPRING HATS. 1886. The latest Styles of Spring Hats just received Call and see them. PEGRAM & CO. Feb. 19, 1886. FARMERS. READ THIS. We are still in the Fertilizer business, and sell the following reliable brands : Navassa Acid Phosphate and Navassa Guano, Pacific Acid Phosphate and Pacific Guano, Pure Raw Bone Meal and Genuine German Kainit. We have just hough 100 Tennessee Wagons, And will sell them on as good terms and as low as any standard Wagon is sold. This is a good time to buy a Corbin Disk Harrow For Duttint in Oats on clean land, without plowing nrst. it is tne nnest implement ever put in the field, and we are willing to let any good reliable farmer put it to any test. We are Headquarters for Implements, Seeds, Wagons, Buggies, and General Farm Machinery Fresh Seed for Spring Sowing. J. G. 8H ANNON HOUSE & CO. Feb. 5,1886. For sixteen years we have been telling every body in Charlotte that Pratt's Astral Oil was the best and safest Lamp Oil in existence this btat- ment has been verified many times since it was made insurance companies all over the land recommend its use as the be9t safeguard to life and property, where lamps are used. T. C. SMITH & CO., Agt's for 16 years. Imitations and substitutes for pure Mentholine have injured its reputation and destroyed confi dence in its virtues. As a result of thi3 we now offer a smaller pure article at 10 cents, called "Mentholette" it is a little wonder relieves headache, toothache, earache, &c, in a few minutes. T. C. SMITH & CO., Druggists. Aug. 21, 1885. A fresh barrel of Wolfe Trap Lithia Water just received at T. C. Smith & Co.'s sold by the glass or by the gallon. - Victory Corn Plasters remove Corns after five days application easily and comfortably worn with shoe. T. C. SMITH & CO. Pure Vaseline in 10 cent bottles best prepara tion known for the skin and scalp. T. C. SMITH & CO. When we sell a man a Tansill's Punch Cigar he invariably comes back for more Scents each. T. C. SMITH & CO., Agents. WE HAVE RESUME D USINESS AT OUR New Stand Opp. Central IJotel, Where we will be pleased to seo our customers and friends. ' Respectfully, THOS. REESE & CO. June 12, 1885. PATENTS. C. M. ALEXANDER, YOO g Street, Wasbingrton, . C. Successor of the old firm of Alexander & Mason ) 29 years in Patent practice. Have secured more than 10,000 Patents. Refers to Hon. Robt B. Vance of N. C, Assist ant Commissioner of Patents; Hon. H. L. Muldrow of Miss., Assistant Secretary of Interior, Hon. J. C. 8. Blackburn of Ken tucky, TJ. S. Senator, Reference given anywhere. Send for terms. Jan. 22, 1886. 6m pd The Girl of th& Periods! : : She'd a great and varied 'knowledge,! picked '. op - at a female college', of quadratics," hydrostatics ; and Dneumatics very fast. " u" " I She was stuffed with erudition as you stuff a leather cushion, all the plogiea of the' colleges ' and the knowledges of the past. v t ,7. J, She had studied the old lexicons of . Peruvians and Mexicans, their theology, anUiropology and eeology o'er and o'er.. : ,:!.. .f- She knew all the forms and features ' of the pre historic creatures ichthyosaurus, plesiosaunts, megalosaurns and many more. ' ' : She'd describe . the ancient Tuscans, and the Basques and , the , Etruscans, , their griddles and their kettles and the victuals that they gnawed. She'd discuss the learned harmer--tbe theology of Bramah, and the .scandals, of the .Yandate and the sandals that they trod-i She knew all the wighff gianU "and 'thd niasiet minds of science, all the learning that was turn ing ia the burning mind of man; i ! ' But she couldn't 'prepare 'a dinner for a gaunt and hungry sinnerVdr get up a decent ' supper for her poor voracious papa, or sew buttons on his pants, for she never was constructed pn the old domestic plan. And she never knows much about the Geography and Geology or her native State. J . Sleeping in a Cold Room. - Most people, even many 'intelligent reformers, have the idea that to sleep in a cold room is good essential, to health. It is an error. It is belter to have an open tire in your bed-room. The atmos phere is not only by this means constant ly changed, but you will keep the window. open, which will add greatly to toe needed ventilation. But more than this, with the fire you will have fewer bed . clothes over you, which is a gain,' as a large number of blankets not , only interferes somewhat with the circulation and respira tion, but prevents the escape of those gases which the ekin is constantly , emit ting. Even furnaca. or. stove heat, with an open window, is. better than a close, cold room. JJio .Lewis. A he tv ashington juomtmenl sways with the bun. -At .the meeting of the Washington Monument Society Jast.week, Col. Casey made some very interesting statements to the members in regard , to his observation of the habits of the monu ment, ior it appears that the great obelisk is a moving, ii not a living, .thing, and that it has a regular swaying motion when the sun is shining upon it. , On every bright day the apex ot the monument moves at least one inch westward in the morning when the sun's rays first fall upon it, and eastward again in the after noon when the suu reaches the western side. The heat of the sun's rays have an expansive effect upon the masonry, and the plummet that is suspended in the in terior of the monument registers this movement from day to day. To the Farmers of Mecklenburg. THE PETERKIN IMPROVED COT TON. Excellent Staple, large Bolls, small Seed, easy to gather, prolific, stands dry weather better than other varieties makes from 40 to 43 lbs. of Lint to the 100 lbs. of Seed Cotton. Price of Seed $1.60 per bushel delivered at Charlotte. Testimonials sent on application, Send cash with orders. Address, 8. R. WILLIAMSON, Agent for North Carolina, Feb. 19, 1886. 2m Monroe, N. C. ty Mr. John Vanlandingham is Agent for the above Seed in Charlotte. Guns. Pistols AND AMMUNITION. We are headquarters for these Goods. Have just opened np the finest and most complete line . of Sporting uoods ever orougnt to tnis market. Double and Single Breech Loading Shot Guns, all grades. London Fine Twist Mnzzle Load ing Guns. Breech Loading Rifles, all grades. raner and Brass sneus. ureecn JLoaamg imple ments, Shot Pouches and Belts, Powder Flasks, &c, &c. We guarantee our retail prices on these Goods against New York or Baltimore. Call and be convinced. HAMMOND & JUSTICE. Oct 16, 1885. DISSOLUTION. The firm of A. HALES & SON was dissolved on the 1st dav of February, 1886, by mutual con sent. A. Hales retiring." ' The business will be continued at the old stand on Trade street by J. H. Hales and J. S. Boyne, under the firm name of HALES & BOYNE. A. Hales, -. i .-.r'. J.U. MALES. ' Feb. 5,1886. Notice. In retiring from the Jewelry business, I desire to express my thanks for tne lioerai patronage l have recelzed at the Hands ot many customers. I have been in the Jewelry business in Charlotte for many years and have endeavored to please my customers. I congratulate myself that in a large measure, if not entirely. I have succeeded. The young gentlemen who succeed me one of whom is my son and a fine watch-maker I de sire to recommend to the people as in every way worthy of the public patronage. Very respectfully, A. HALES. Copartnership Notice. We have this day formed a copartnership un der the firm name and style of HALES & BOYNE to succeed the old firm of A. Hales & Son in the Jewelry business. We will occupy the same stand on West Trade street, opposite Wittkoweky & Baruch. . By strict attention to business, honesty, and lair dealing ana prompt ness in our obligations, we hope to merit a con tinuance of the natronage bestowed on the old firm of A. Hales & Son. Very respectfully, ' HALES & BOYNE. Feb. 5, 1886. : - ' Surgical Instruments. TobudoIv a need long felt by the Medical Profession of this section, we have now and will keen constantly in stock, a full line of SURGI CAL INSTRUMENTS, which we warrant, We are also Drenared to give any and all dis counts in any of the New York Instrument Cata logues. Give us a call. R. H. JORDAN & CO.. Nov. 13, 1885. Druggists, Springs' Corner. NOTICE. Dissolution of Partnership. The firm heretofore existing at Mount Holly, Gaston county, N. XJ.,' under the style oi Lenu, Rvne & Co.. is this day aissoivea oy mutual con sent All parties having claims doe against the firm are requested to present them at once to the undersigned, and claims not due are reouestea to be presented to the undersigned within 30 days from now. . . . r D. E. RHYNE. March 5, 1886. 2w . Stay 'Where YoV Are. iJ Ooe of the greatest j drawbacks fo prop jpenty, is , restive, jroyu proving idu , unpe.ue4 spirit ol the people. Une. imagine there is .an l JLJorad o where, or, that some section is. more prosperous than, 'bis own, ana inai ne mast get to it wiure db caq accomplish anything, ihe.jdea unr settles him, and if he ' does' not ttpull up" aaf migrate at once be Is forever lhinkBg abbttt 11,'ahd neglects to lmprdvehispreB ent home and farm.' 'meJ treraaion-has beeti 'wide-spread since th war! ad much tnd!idaat; disaster has been' the 'resnlt.'- Tbecarwe of Reuben' seems to- rest'Tipon the people.1 Thef tenriMe Texas1 feyer,'" which so raged a few ' yeSfs ago, caused untold families ' misfortunes?' and raiowd many excellent farms and ood fsrmcrw fit is a ereat 'mistake. "Contentment is f the great ' secret; of life:5'1 Old d Horace I irBCK ioe Tigoi ur irutm.'uts Buiui climate, but . upon the state , of f one's mind." "Rolling stones gather no moss,- and the experiment of selling oat and moving in the hope of bettering('( thej'con idition often ends in bftter disappointment and irretrievable loss. Thousands' can testify from experience, to ' the 1 truth of Better stay where you ate. if you are in a good community, aia your lanas have bottom:, dHve ddwn your pegs Ttnd locate. Remember that ' "ihere's'inore in the man than the land," as old Jones said .on returning from, Texas, after terrible failures, to the old worn-out homestead he had sold, and ' found it blooming like a garden. Right up j the old dwelling, rer new the ouUbuildings, palir.gs, fences and barns: spend a few. dollars in. white paint, and give the premises an air of cbeerfuL- Peas. Cultivate less ground, and make ,it richer every year. , Make, plenty . to ;eat and some to sell. Turn over a new leaf and begin anew. Fear God, love jr our neighbors, your, wives and children j and don't try to. get rich' in on,e year. , . Teach your little ones .to 7 love,, their phones There is a world of melody and sentiment in that immortal old ballad : , .- 'Mid pleasures and. palaces, where'er wet may roam. , .4 - 1 1 Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home." Our Race in Life. "Go ahead" was only half of David Crockett's motto and not the j most im-. portant half. - VBe sure you are: right" precedes. The faster a ship goes ahead the greater the danger, if there is not a good watch Ion the bow and a strong hand on the wheel. To run well is of im portance; to start right is of prime im-r portance.. Let us ran with patience the race that is set before as, 6ays the sacred writer. A great many men lose the prize by dropping out of the text altogether the clause which we have put in italics. Every man must find bis own race before he begius to run; and a great many spend their strength in trying to ' find some one else a race, and a great" many more in making false starts in one race after another, and so getting nowhere. The jack of all trades is generally master of none. I he world is tall of square men in round holes, and round- men id "square holes; and though it is true that a man can whittle himself off a little to fit: the place be is in, the energy so spent cannot be spent in life's legitimate work. ! My watch does me no service while it is in the repairer's hands. Blessed is the., boy. that has a bent; wise the parent or teacher that can either find one in him orgivebne to him. God has a work for every, man that no other man can do quite as well ; and he succeeds best who quickest finds what that work is and sets himself to do it. Many a good writer has been spoiled to make an insolvent merchant; not a few good, housekeepers to make execrable poets; now and then an excellent me chanic to make a poor preacher. ; A race has been set before me; and it is my duty to hod out what that race is, and , ran it, and not waste life in regrets that I can not run a different one, or life's energies in unsuccessful attempts to do so.- Christian Union. ., .. . . 1 i . "My Smoke-House." ' 1 . A. man who lives in Albany, and whose business isthat of a clerk, said that he had lately 'built 'a house-that cost him three thousand dollars. 'His 'friends ex pressed their wonder that he could afford to build so fine a dwelling. ' f'.". Why," said he, "that is . my smoke house." "Your smoke house ! : What do you mean?" "Why, I mean that twenty years ago I lef : off smoking-, and I have pat the money saved from smoke,' - with the inter est, into my house. Hence I call - it - my smoke-house." ' . Now, boys,: we want you to thiqk of this when you are tempted io take your first cigar. Think how much good might be done with the money you are begin-, ningto spend in smoke.- What -would you think of a man who, to amuse- him self, should light a paper twenty-five cents and watch it burn ? . Is it any more sensible to take for your quarter a roll ef old dry brown leaves, light it, and see it smoke. Mxchanqe. NEW-. GOODS, WHOLESALE DETAIL, otwithslandipg the reports made by some of our kind friends of our going out of business and other 'absurd rumors, we are prepared ta offer to the trade a full assortment of . -. .' S'JEfelZ N G ! ASD ' 1 jammer Goods, : . " " . ; Purchased by our Mb. ELIAS, who is now in New York, and to offer to our friends and cus tomers bargains in every Department. .; We are daily receiving New Goods, which were bought low, and will offer Inducements to Cash Buyers. ELIA8 & COHEN,' March 5, 1886. . . ,j -; 1 Should you be" ' suffering with any of the following com plain (at Colds Coughs, 8ore-throat; Diphtheria, Frost Bites "or Chilblains, use MULLEN S HORNET'S NEST LINIMENT. j u; . l-i- j -.iti A.l.j.-.t. ...ti .1.1:1 , -iiLiL.!.' .' " t-jj.j BtU not mUeh expected from the Woman1 t- Ii . f ... i A WifWktfa motherrVoman can '''htaltf :th the forthtie'and'happlneSs of her Bosbaud nd'chr!dreVianf,if she'did nolhingelsd, I and petetce in;ofd 'agej'trb matter I how small 1 -v ." - w w.m thelf : ginning or h&vf ' adverse 1 a late mn-fcbWYWirn-1 Rv mr"iffrrnlriaaal aha' ean restore her hdsbandV spirit,1 .shaken by the anxiety of business. sV By1ieT',ten der.qare she can j of tea, restore , him" to health, if ,d"eBe has overtaeked; ,hia power, t By, be i counsel and love she can win him from bad company, it. temptation in an eyil hour has led .him astrav. Bv her examples, her breeentt).' and her sex's insight Into character, she cWmuld her iTunujou.uuweYor uer itueix umposi sioos.'into noble men add women. c Ahd.r by leading1 in all things a true and beauti ful life, she" cari refine!' elevate, land spiritualize all who come within, reach; so J lb a'", with others of her sei emulating and I oosioiiug uci, dud vau uu more iu regeuer- 1 ate the world than all the statesmen or re formers that ever legislated. ' i i-.' ' j She can do much, alas 1 perhaps more; to degrade man if she . chooses to 'do -it. .Who can stimate'tbe vils that woman has the power to do? .Asa wife she i can ruin herself by extravagance 'folly, or want ol affection.. She can make a demon or an outcast of a man who might other wise become a good member of society. She can bring bickering,, strife,, and dis cord into, what t has: been a happy home. the can change 1 the innocent 1 babes into vile men and even into'vile womeiu She can lower the moral tone of 'society itself,' and thus pollute legislation at the spring head. She can in fine, become an instru ment of e'vil instead "of an'arigel df 'gbod'.' Instead of making fid were (f truth, purity, beauty, and spirituality 'spring up in her foot-stepp,T till the, earth smiles with a loveliness thatis .almost celestial, she, can trapsform it to a, blapk aod arid t desert, covered with the scorn ot all evil passion and swept by the bitter blast of everlast ing death. . , This is .what .woman can, do for the wrong as well as for the right. , Is her. mission a little one ? Has she no worthy work, as has become the bry of late? Man may have a harder task to perform, a rougher road to travel, but he has hone loftier or more influential than woman's. , .' , i ., . In , Sale. Hands. , , n Not many years ago, in a small seaside town far away,; stood a cabin inhabited by a rough t sailor, his wile, and a boy whom they called Davy. The boy was a dreamy, quiet child, who loved to clamber among the crags and. jutting peaks, and to watch the white'gulls and swift-flying pelicans as they left their sheltered nests for the sea. Here he would sit for. hours, when not employed with hauling in the nets which old Sailor Jack used for bis fish. V Davy was fond of music, too, in his simple, way; and it was. probably the bright, pretty hymns . which first drew him into the Sunday-school, the steeple of which could be seen from the. .roadside. : Ouce having been within the. doors it was not. bo dicult to go again and again. Davy soon v grew accuBtomed to the Sunday-school rules, one of whi'ch was that every boy. and girl should .each punday learn, and strive to apply, some short text from (God's word. ,; if Not many,week8 had elapsed since the little boyj entered the - school, when one bright Sunday, as .usual, he shyly crept into the chapel, and. took his seat in that part of the. room' to "which " he bad been, assigned. The text which that day Awas selected by the young lady who had charge of the class was this-' one:'- "Hold tbotf -me up1, and I shall be safe.'7 ; ' One by one the boys 'repeated it, eaeh growing more confident as it came to his turn. Miss' AinB worth' grew thoughtful as she' wondered on the minds of how many of her boys these words would leave any impression. - Wpald they forge tlhepa ere. aightfall? . ; I . , -... ( The service ended, Davy went1 silently home; but, before long he left the house and tamed to his . favorite hajunt among the cliffs. .. -v h' '1 . - ; How it happened, none-' can. ever: tell; but the oliffs were slippery: with seaweed and mist, andt although-his ; tread w as like ,that of a young antelope,' Davy's foot slipped; and' down, down he went,, until his fall .was arrested by a projecting ledge -df rock; .i .," n )''.. it 7 Late ia the day, as pwo gentlemen were walking leisurely along-: the upper .road, they heard, weakly! uttered, the words: "Hold Thou me up, and I shall be safe. I shall be safe," vL6oking over the rocks, they saw the Tittle form", weak 'and' faint with pain.' The call for help' was prompt' ly answered, .and menSvith' rope were soon on "the spot, " Tender hands " bore him to the cdttage, and gently laid him down. But alas for'Davy I his flickering life went out as he still murmured: "Hold Thoutoeup." , -: "That night,' as Miss Ainsworth listened to the sad tale, she felt thankfully, while her eyes were dim with, tears, that not in vain bad she' striven to , implant in the minds of her boys that .text which one of them. bad just taken as his prayer for eternity, & & Time. A lady had in her; employ; an ex cellent girl who had one fault her face was always grimy. Mrs. X, .wishing to tell her to wash her face without offending her, at last resorted to strategy. , "Do you know, Bridget," she .remarked, in a confidential manner, "that, ifyou wash your face , every day ( in hot soap and wa'ter, it' ' will .make .you , beautiful ?" MWirt. it ?" ; answered 'the wily "Bridget "Sure it's a wonder ye never' tried "it, ma'am ' A Pxbasant Commjmbnt. Minister's wife (looking over the paper) "Yon are referred to in " this morning paper, my dear, as a distinguished Clergyman." Itjinister -"H'm. 1 thought that my sermon yesterday would attract attention. Isrt pnblished in full or only ai synopsis given?"' X - !"i . --'': Wife "Neither. Ton are spoken of as a Mistineraished clergyman' in connection wiin. inai paieni mcuiniuw vcsiiuiouiat jvu seot toDn Qaack.' -'' , " 1 0 - . ?. .1 . ...... . - J i r : i.i!i.t.. What a Woman ' can D6.; i 2i One': coU" December morning; about I crossing ' fbV" Aln'-ad '. nrttv t,A party, too, fof there were several thousand ofj 'ihem together.'' Some were' riding. like many Alpine ing - sticks, they carried muskets and bayo ww... ...... uwa. wuw, U. M . . U U . W V v . W nets," and dragged along with them some fifty or sixty cannon. ! M In fact these tourists were DOthing less than a French army;" and a very hard time of it' they" seemed, to be having. Try ing ' work, certainly veri ' for the strongest man, to make four miles through knee-deep snow in this bitter frost and bit ter' Wind, JaloDg' these -narrow", slippery mountain paths, with precipices. hundreds bfi 'feetL deep all J round. 'The soldiers looked thin and heavy-eyed for want of lood and sleep, ana the' poof horses that were dragging the heavy' guns stumbled iatUirery sttfp."' ; i.-'- 5 " . But there was one among them who seemed quite to enjoy thoToagh marching suu tramp. ug aiong iuruugu mo ueep snow' and cold, gray mist, through which the great mountain peaks overhead loomed like shadbwy giants, as merrily as ' if be were going to a picnic' ' This was a 'little drummer boy of ten years old, "whose fresh; r6sy face looked very ! bright and pretty among the grim, scarred 'visages of the old 'soldiers. When the catting wind whirled, 'a shower of snow in his face he dashed'it away with a 'cheery, laugh,' and awoke all ' the' echoes with a lively rattle of his drum, till it seemed as if the huge black rocks around were all singing in chorus. '"' ' " r : ' "Bravo ' Petit Tambour I" (little drunv mer) cried a tall man in ' a" shabby gray cloak, who was marching at' the" head of the line with a long pole in his hand, "and striking it into the snow every now and then to see how deep it was. "Bravo, Pierre, my 'boy ! ' With such 'music as that one could march all the way to Mos cow. The boy smiled and raised hi hand, tol his cap in his salute, lor this rough-look- J ing manwasno other than the General 1 himseil, "Jigbting Macdonald," one 01 1 the bravest soldiers in France, of whom his men , used to say that one sight of ;his! face in 'battle was worth a whole regiment.' , ' "Long live our General !" shouted a hoarse voice; and the cheer flying from mouth to mouth, rolled along 'the Bilent mountains like a peal of distant thunder. : But its echo bad hardly died away when the silence was again broken by another sound of a very different kind a strange, uncanny sort of whispering far away up' the great white mountain side. Moment by moment it grew loader and harsher, tin at length it swelled into a deep, hoarse roar. ' : j ; "On your faces, lads "roared the Gen eral; "it's an avalanche !" ' " " ' i But before the men had time to obey, the ruin was upon them. Down thunder ed the great mass of snow,' sweeping the I narrow ledge-path like a water-iau, and crashing'down along with it came heaps of stone , and ' gravel and loose, ' and up rooted bashes, and great blocks of cold, blue ice. For a moment all Was dark' as night;' and' when the' rush" had passed,1 many of the brave fellows' who had been standing on the path were nowhere to be seen. ' They had been''carried down the j precipTfce' 'and either killed or buried alive j But the first thought of their comrades was n6t for them.' When it' was seen what happened, ode cry arose from every mdath: ' ,,il' " "! ' "Where's oar Pierre? 'Where's 'little drummer ?"" ' - ' oar t i Where, indeed? ' Look which way they would, nothing Was' to 'be 'seen 'of their poor little favorite," and when they shouted his' name there was no answer. Then there broke forth a terrible cry of grief, and many hard old 'soldiers, tr ho had look ed without flinching at a-line of leveled muskets,' felt the tears start into their eyes at the thought that the bright face would never be seen among them. ; But all at once! far below them,- out of the shadow of the 'black unknown golf that lay between those tremendous rocks, arose the faint' roll of a dram, beating the charge; ''The" soldiers started and bent eagerly forward to listen; then up went a shout that shook the air: ' ' : "He's alive, comrades! oar ' Pierre's alive, after all 1" ' " "And beating his . dram still, like a brave lad ! He wanted to have ' the old musio to the last!" " ' ' " 1 ' "But' we must save him, lads, or he'll freeze to death down there. He must be saved!"1 ' ''K U' ;-tl ' "" ' ' "He shall be 1" broke in a deep voice behindhand the General himself was seen standing on the brink of the precipice, throwing off his cloak.' s '"No,"' ho,' General,"" cried the 'grena diers; with, one voice; '-'"you mast n't ran such a risk as that. Let one of as go instead;- your life is worth more than alt oars put together." '. ' - - ; -;- "MMy 1 soldiers '' are my ' chillren," an-r swered Macdonald quietly, "and no father grudges his own life to save bis son." 1 The soldiers knew better than to make any mote" objections. - They obeyed in silence', and the General was swinging"! in mid-air, down, down, till be vanished at last in the ' darkness of the ' cold, black depth below. " ; ": Then every man drew a long breath, and all-eyes were strained to watch for the first sign of his appearing,? or they knew well that he Vould never come back with dot the1 boy; and that chance was terribly against him.- ' : - "'' ' '' ' ' ' ' Meanwhile Macdonald having' landed safely at the1 foot of the ! precipice was looking ' anxiously around in search of Pierre; -bat the -beating of the : "drum bad ceased, and he had nothing to - gaide him..- . .- -' : "Pierre I" shouted he as load aa he could, 'where are yoa, my boy?" , . "Here, General," answered a weak voice, so faint that he cold barely distin guish it.- At h, in!. ,,i ""J-; 'And tbere sure enough, was 'the- little fell6w's curly head, half-buried in a huge mound of snow,- whieh alone 'bad saved I L! ,1..!,. n!.... 1 uu num unug uhihu m- ngiu,n I the 'rocks as he felk Macdooald made TM j Drummer-By. ' m for him at once; Jan d.aith onsb. he sunK wijatrdeeRat everystep, resehed't i.i'.i: t v tne spo ' "AM, right now. my brave, , boy '' said til me general, cnetn . f nf. vnnr arma round my neck; and hold tight; we'll have' ; ? you oat of this in a minute." 1 " v The child tried to obey ; bat his stiffened fingers had lost all their strength; s and a even when Maodonald himself clasped the k; tiny arms about his neck their bold gave ul '' iWhat was to be dbne?' A few3 minutes ttia more, and the nambing cold 1 of that' dis msl place i would make the rescuer f aa o? pqwerless as him whom he came to resoaevc ... Bat General Macdonald was not the man to be so1 easily beaten. Tearing off his' Jl! sapb, and knotting' one end of it to the,ci rope; he bound Pierre and himself - firmly'?' together with the other,: and then j gave . V the signal to draw up.,. ;i Aaa when the two came swinging , up . into the daylight once more and-the sol diers saw their pet still alive and unhurt, oheer npon cheer rang oat, rolling far back along the line, ' till ' the very mountains themselves seemed to be rejoicing. A i i" We've been under firs and under snow u I together," said Maodonald, ehafing the,, j boy's cold hands tenderly, "and nothing; ., shall part us two after this, so long as we t- Ue."..T. ' f.-,..-r ,-.: f.i..'t l ti3 fs .-..!.: nt 1 And the General kept his word-j Years w later, when the great wars were all over,: .! there might be seen walking , in the , gar den of a quiet country house in the South of France a stooping,white-haired old mao 'a who had once beep the famous Marsh t Ik Maodonald; t and he leaned I fori support h upon the arm of a tall, black-monstacbed.oj soldier-like fellow, who had onoe been iUr i tie Pierre, the drummer. .,i.--i:-.-s -j 1 1- i Ferrets, the Rat Catchers.' - The following, clipped from the Ameri can Cultivator, answers your, (quei-y,;9i, "Ferrets are of the weasel family. , They . ' rere j brought from", Africa j into Europe, y perhaps first to Rome, where they were ' iw -n:-d to tha nMMtor fitht. and th ' 11 hdm i.ri f-st 1 f-ri rtnn 11 I nn iprrprii r j naa. . Bkunk belongs to the same family. Fer-" " ret8 are a8e(j a England not only for"' killing rats, bat also for catchinor rabbits. When used for the latter purpose they are muzzled and turned into the hole of the rabbit; at the mouth of which, hole a purse net is placed; the rabbit quickly leaves it when the ferret enters,and toshes into the net,' which it draws tight and so-; oures itself. , When used for rats, the fer-' ret should not be muzzled, as it would be no match for the rat if brought to bay. Sometimes an old rat, when cornered by. . a young ferret, will make a most terrific ' fight. There are few animals so strong in the jaw, in proportion to their size, as'4 ferrets. One has been known to catch a rat by both jaws, and squeezing them fiat, force out both eyes. In England ferrets ; are employed by professional rat-catchers, who travel over the country with them confined io boxes and accompanied by ' quite a number of terrier dogs. - British''' farmers stack the greatest part of their ' grain in yards adjoining the barn, and which, at this season of the year, are more or less infested by rats. The farmers pay the , rat-catcher so much . for evei y rat , caught.. The professional places, the fer- rets upon the thatch of the stackj through which these little animals make their way, the ,, terrier dogs arranging themselves around the bottom of the stack. . . As ( th'e . fer rets. work their way down into the stack, they drive , the rats before them, which . leave the stack at the,, bottom, , and. are'. quickly caught and destroyed by 0e,dogs These terriers make short work of .killing 1 a rat; they give it, one bite) and, if. not, fully dispatched by the dog, when the rat-; catcher picks it up he strikes it with' his club. The ferrets will not leave the stack while there is a rat left in it. The dogs are so trained tbaUtheyjiever molest' the ferret. It would not be safe to trust them loose in the barn where they coold rua io , the walls of the . foundation, neither , will, they bear much exposure to the oold, com-? ing as they do from a warm climate, and being commonly kept in warm boxes. ' If ferrets can obtaia- acceia. to the poultry they will soon destroy the whole flock, as they kill them for the purpose of sucking their blood. If not carefully, watched, they would do the same with infant chil dren. The ferret' has pink eyes and a yellow far, its head ; and body is about fourteen inches long, the tail from, five to five and a half inches long. It has a long,, slender neck, with shorter legs , than .the: rat. , If a ferret; was turned loose in your barn the rats would sot remain long. Yoa cannot purchase any dogs io this country, that would , work with the ferret; they, would destroy the latter as quickly as they would the rat. It would, in all probability, take some time to educate a , dog . not to molest a ferret." " 4 - . Learn a Trade. - An item now floating about among the papers, says the Philadelphia Ledger, is sufficiently explained in its headline i "Spoke six languages and nearly starved." It tells of misdirected education. If the unfortunate linguist had understood six trades, or even one, he would have ' been In much less danger of starvation, and he could probably have learned six trades with less trouble and expense that six languages. Higher education is a very good thiog for those who can afford : the luxury, and is not incompatible with ' the kind of knowledge that enables one to earn . a , living, but for nine : tenths of humanity the important thine Is to learn. in early life, some trade or calling that will ensure support, so that, whether 'they afterwards learn six languages or not, they will not be in danger of starvation. Hk Always got Chkatsd. "X never mm m. mi saw such a man in all my corn days v exolaimed Mrs. Crimsonbeak to her hus band, who had been imposed . upon in parch tse she had requested him to make for her, , "I never knew yoa to get any thing without being cheated."; "What, never 7" said Unmsotbeak, cbestnntically. "No, never !" emphatically replied Mrs. Crimsoabeak. "Well, guess yon are right. I have always been suspeions of it fcince the day I was married.",: And then he opened the window to see how, far., he'd 1 have to jump to the ground, : ?f- r u Feb. 12, 1886. r