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f A ( A A A M . 1 : .Tr;To.i;f.u ,t Tins Paper is 35 Years Old CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDA Y, AUGUST 26, 1887. YOLUME XXXVI. tiMBER.gg Oil! tu hiU U :.J -.yt i1-ATHa ' tt Jtdt u k iy l II I II I, 11 . U I J : I II III. TT I I 111 i II I. II I II I II I C .. . lly I II Ml r I I I 1 1 THE CHARLOTTE DEMOCRAT, Publish kd kvxby Fsidat by YATES & STRONG. ' Terms One' Dollar and Fifty Cents for 1 year. One Dollar for 6 months. Subscription price due in advance. o Entered at the Poet Office in Charlotte, N 0 as second class matter," according to the rales of the P. O. Department. H. U. ECCLES. GEO. W. BftYAN. CENTRAL HOTEL, CHARLOTTE, If. C. The largest and most centrally located Hotel in t he city. Newly painted and refurnished. Electric Bells and Electric Lights. The Central and Belmont nnited. ECCLES & BRYAN, Aug. 5, 1887. Proprietors. J. P. McCOMBS, M. D., Oiler. his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. Office in Brown's building, up Btairs, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Jan. 1, 1885. Dr. Annie L. Alexander, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice limited to diseases of WOMEN and CHILDREN, and attention to Female patients. Office, at Mr3 Latham's, 214 South Tryon street, nearly opposite the Post Office. Charlotte, May 27, 1887. tf 1. BUB WELL. P. D. WALKEB. BURWELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts Office in Law Building. Jau.l, 1884. HUGH W. HARRIS, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office, First door west of Court House. Oct. 17. 1885. HERIOT CLARKSON, Attorney-at-Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C, V ill practice in all the Courts of this State Prompt attention given to collections. Nov. 7, 1885. tf f. I. OSBORNE. W. C. MAXWELL. OSBORNE & MAXWELL, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. tg Offices 1 and 3 Law Building. July 3, 1886. y HAMILTON C. JONES. CHARLES W. TILLETT. JONES & TILLETT, Attorneys at Law. Charlotte, N. C. Practice in the Courts of this District and in Richmond county. Also, in the Federal Courts of the Western District. Aug. 12, LS87. G. P. BASON, Attorney at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office No. 16, Law Building. Jan. 14, 1887. y DR. M. A. BLAND. Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Hotel 'D Brown'8 buill3iDg. opposite Charlotte 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 & ALEXANDER, Surgeon Dentists, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office over A. R. Nisbet & Bro's store. Office hours from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. Jan. 1,1880. E. B. SPRINGS. E. S. BURWELL. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Grocers & Commission Merchants, Con. College anp 4th Sts., CHARLOTTE, N. C. Ian. 1, I887. JOHN FARRIOR (No. 3, Tryon street, near WrutorCi Drug Store, Charlotte, N. C. Practical Watch-Maker and Jeweler, Keeps a full stock of h-indsome Jewelry Clocks. Spectacles, &c., which he will sell at a fair price. Dealer in Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jtwplry, Silver and Si vtr-Pit, w d. ' v - alCj tzf. Repairing of Jewelry. Watches, Clocks, Ac, done promptly, and satisfaction assuied repliuDg ntioii glven to fine Watch Aug. 19, 1837. FINE SHOES. Complete Slock and Lowest Prices Shoes, Trunks and Valises. ' PEGRAM & CO, Jano24.1837.- ,.' 16 South Tryon street. GROCERIES, ETC THE BEST STOCK Am Heavy and Fancy Groceries, JU JN ECTIONEROS. I1-..: 1- j-. iu.w, vanned ioods, etc, can be found at A. R. & W. B. NISBET The shortest reiffn'mer monarch is the Emperor of China, who is only 5 feet high. Emperor William, of Germany, is the tallest, being just 6 feet in height. Prince Albert, of Germany, nephew of the Emperor, is 6 feet 6 inches high, and the Emperor of Russia is 5 feet 11 inches. Ths tallest man among Eastern nations is Chang, the Chinese giant, who is 7 feet 8 inches high. The tallest European is Winckelmeier, a young Austrian, who measures 8 feet 9 inches in stature. SALE FOR TAXES. By virtue of authority conferred upon me by law. I will sell at the Court House in the city of Charlotte. N. C, for cash, on Monday, August 29th, 1887, at 12 o'clock M., the following de scribed Property for State and County Taxes, for the year 1880, due and unpaid : One Lot in the city of Charlotte, adjoining the property of T. H. Qaither and others, sold as property of Nellie Alexander taxes due 68 cents. One-half Acre of Land in Charlotte township, adjoining property of Frank Smith and others, sold as property of Nancy Davis taxes due $133. One-fourth Acre of Land in Charlotte town ship, adjoining property of Aaron Dixon and others, sold as property of Dorcas Murphy taxes due 66 cents. Two Lots in the city of Charlotte, adjoining property of Jas. Reid and others, sold as pro perty of J. Q. Thomas taxes due $4 39. Eighty-four Acres of Land in Paw Creek township, adjoining property of David Norment and others, sold as property of Thomas Kinney, returned for taxation by Ned Davidson taxes due $5.88. Thirty-six Acres of Land in Steel Creek town ship, adjoining property of J. A. Caruthera and others, sold as property of T. N. Alexander taxes due $3 80. W. F. GRIFFITH. Aug. 5, 1887. 4w Sheriff's Sale. I will sell to the highest bidder, for cash, at the Court House door in Charlotte, N. C, on the 29th day of August, 1887, at 12 M., one tract of LAND, 140 acres, more or less, lying in Mecklen burg county, adjoining the lands of W. P. Alex ander's homestead, G. W. Little, Frank Littleand others. The Land is sold as the property of W. P. Alexander to satisfy executions in my hands. T. S. COOPER, August 5, 1887. 4w 8heriff. MORTGAGE SALE. By virtue of a power contained in a Mortgage made to me by"W. F. Cuthbertson and wife J. M. Cuthbertson, on the 21st day of March, 1885, and duly recorded in Book 42, page 168, in the Register's office in Charlotte, N. C, I will sell at public auction, at the Court House door in Charlotte, on Monday, the 5th day of September, 1887, a valuable HOUSE and LOT in the city of Charlotte, situated on Fifth street in Square 90 and Ward 1, adjoining the property of Mrs C. A. Klueppelberg, Mrs M. E. Famw and others. Terms Cash. WM. MAXWELL, Aug. 5, 1887. 5w Mortgagee. Guns, Pistols AND AMMUNITION. We are headquarters for these Goods. Have just opened up the finest and most complete line of Sporting Goods ever brought to this market. Double and Single Breech Loading Shot Guns- an graaes. ijonuon a me Twist Muzzle Load" ing Guns. Breech Loading Rifles, all grades Paper and Brass Shells. Breech Loading Imple ments, Shot Pouches and Belts, Powder Flasks, &c, &c. We guarantee our retail prices on these Goods against JNew ork or Baltimore. Call and bo convinced. HAMMOND & JUSTICE. Rubber and Leather Belting. Just received, a large lot of Rubber Belting of all sizes. We warrant every foot we sell and guarantee our prices against any house south of Baltimore. HAMMOND & JUSTICE. Oct. 29. 1886. 100,000 Pounds OF RAGS WANTED. Paid in Cash or Trade, at ROSS & ADAMS' Book and Stationery Store, No. 17 S. Tryon St. July 9, 1886. HARDWARE! HARDWARE!! New Stock, Low Prices. We are rapidly filling our large and handsome New Store with New Goods to replace Stock destroyed by the fall of our building 14th May last. The Merchants of the surrounding country have only to give us a trial to be convinced that we are selling Hardware as low as any house in me aiate. HAMMOND & JUSTICE. Oct. 9. 1886. A. R. & W. B. NISBET, Wholesale and Retail Grocers and Confectioners, Dealers in Tobacco, Cigars. Musical Instruments, &c CHARLOTTE. N. C. The best stock f Groceries, Confectioneries Prize Candies, Toys, Musical Instruments Strings, Tobacco, Cigars, Snuff. Wooden-Ware Paper Bags, Canned Goods, Glass Jellies, Crack ers, Powder, Shot, bait, &c, in the city, wjll be found at our Wholesale and Retail Store. Call and see us before buying. A R.& W.B. NISBET Lanterns, &c. We have the Improved Tubular Lantern; also the Buckeye, with Double Olobes. R. H. JORDAN & CO. Dr. Scott's Electric Hair Curler immediately crimps, bangs or curls the Hajr to any desired shape, x or safe by R. H. JORDAN & CO. Dodge's CHICKEN CHOLERA CURE. A certain Cure for Cholera, for sale by W. M. WILSON & CO., Charlotte, N. C. BudwelFs Emulsion Cod Liver Oil at . W. M. WILSON & CO'S. Butter Color, For making Yellow Butter. W. M. WILSON & CO., March 18, 1887. Drnggista- PILES ! Water Closet Seat, a new and valuable device for the cure and prevention of Piles. No cure no pay. . i For further information apply to E. NYE HUTCHISON, M. D., Charlotte, July 22, 1887. Agt for Patentee. Toe Survival in Europe of a Barbarous Custom. A difficulty involving- a challenge to fight a duel has been pending between the two well-known French statesmen, Jules Ferry and Gen. Boulanger. It seems to have passed harmlessly by, how ever, after the manner of French auels. It appears that on the Continent oi. Eu rope this barbarous custom has a stronger hold on life than in this country. It lives in spite of law by the iOrce of public opinion which is above law. A (ew months ago Msj. Hiuze of the lierman army, bearing two orders won 011 the field of battle, was degraded, being deprived of the right to the title of Major and to wear the uniform of the army, because be omitted to challenge to a duel his political opponent in the Reichstag election, who daring the campaign aspersed his honor as an omcer. lhe boding of the (Jourt of Honor was approved by Emperor Wit-' Ham, althongh there is a law against duel ing. Is it not about time for civilized people to cast away this savage and senseless method of settling personal issues ? We have heard all the pleas which are urged in defense of it, but they are of no force whatever. It really taxes our confidence in the sincerity of its apologists to listen to the reasons offered for its continued recognition. We are glad it has fallen into disuse among first-class people in this country. There was a time when such a man as Hamilton would engage in such horrible combat. That time is gone. No one would expect men of that grade to perpe trate such folly and crime now. When any thing of the sort occurs iu the United States nowadays it is commonly the doing of some pompous little coxcombs who do not know how to behave themselves. Nashville Advocate. Advice to Young Housekeepers. The young housekeeper should avoid the temptation to spend money too freely upon her house. It is a hard struggle sometimes not to buy this or that trifle that would add to the beauty and comfort of the little home, but while the refusal to acquire it often brings a sharp pang, its purchase may result in regrets of a more serious character. An excellent rule for people with limited means is to buy noth ing for which they are unable to pay cah. Anticipating money is a sorry business. With judgment and economy the house keeper can generally save a small sum from her weekly allowance. A quarter here, a half dollar there, a dime perhaps in another place, may seem almost too un important to lay aside, but the aggregate proves very useful occasionally. "De spise not the day of small things" is a mot to whnh should be learned and put into practice by every housekeeper. Such sav ings should be put away for any additions to her household belongings that she may desire to make, and not thrown into the general fund. No one has a right to say what shall be done with such sums if not she who has earned them by her economy as truly as does her husband his savings by his labor. HULLING CLOVER. The Victor Clover Huller will thresh Clover for the public and is ready to start out at any lme. .Parties wanting to make engagement will please call on J. G. Or S. H. Aug. 19, 1887. 2w SHANNONHOUSE, HILTON. NEW GROCERY STORE, w. m. lyITes & CO., Charlotte, N. C, Trade Street, Central Hotel Building. We keep a supply of Heavy and Fancy Gro ceries of the best grade, such as Coffee, Teas, Sugar, Syrups, Bacon, Hams, bestgradeof Flour, Canned Goods, etc. One car load of SALT just received. We do a cash business, and therefore sell Goods at the lowest market rates. 5 We buy all kinds of Country Produce, Such as Wheat, Corn, Oats, Rye, Dried Fruit of all Kinds, Butter, Eges, Chickens, &c. We pay cash for country Produce, and invite a share ot patronage. W. M. LYLES & CO. Aug. 19, 1887. fun Dividend Notice. North Carolina Railroap Company, ' Secretary and i reamrer s Omce, Burlington, N. C, Aug. 4th, 1887. 387. J The second pavment of 3 per cent on Divi dead No. 25 will be due on September 1st to Stockholders of record at 12 o clock, M.. on Aueust 10th. The transfer Books will be closed at 12 o'clock M., August 10th, until September 1st, 1887. P. B. RTJFFIN, Aug. 12, 1887. 4w Secretary KING'S Blood and Liver Pills, Kine's Pills are peculiarly adapted to the fol lowing Diseases: Bilious, Intermittent and Re mittent Fevers. Sick Headache. Piles. Indiges tion, Costlyeness, Colic. Jaundice, Dropsy, Dvsenterv. Heartburn. Loss of Appetite, DyS' pepsia. Diseases of the Liver, Kidneys and Bladder. EruDtions of the Skin. Nervousness, and all Disorders that arise from a Diseased Liver or Impure Blood. For sale by BURWELL & DUNN. Druggists, April 15. 1887. Charlotte, N. C BAKERY. Having secured the services of one of the very best of Bakers, I am prepared to lurnisn ureaq Cakes, and everything in the naaery line. 3. M. HOWELL, Feb. 11. 1887. East Trade Street. I)r. Bragg's Lifer Pills, These Pills are peculiarly adapted to the fol lowing1 Diseases: Bilious, Intermittent and Remittent Fevers, Sick Headache, Piles, Indigestion, Costiveness, Colic, Jaundice, Dropsy, Dysentery, Heartburn, Loss of Appetite, Dyspepsia, Diseases of the Liver. Kidneys and Bladder, Eruptions of the Skin, Nervousness, and all Disorders that arise from a diseased Liver or impure isiooa. E8J Prepared only at the Laboratory of. W. M. WILSON & CO.. Trade BL, Charlotte, N. O. Feb. 11, 1887. The Orphans. From Mr J. H. Millsja Superintendent of the ( Orphanagv at Tbffmagville, N. CI ; ; "Finding homes for 'children!" v How easy and pleasant i the task! The Lord made such mistakes in withholding : chil dren from some whoso much desire them. Orphan houses must correct; these errors by supplying the children desired; Some poor people die and kave orphans. Some rich people live and adopt them. What a happy arrangement! .And so it really seems until you try it. - A clever couple in Charlotte adopted, a itlle girl, and were, delighted with . her, and she was delighted with her home. There were general congratulations. Time rolled on and a letter came' back from a heart-broken woman: ' "When my little boy waii.born they sent me away. Now, after several years of sorrow and suffer ing, have married poor but industri ous man and we are making a living.' The girl was petted and spoiled and mined by the man who pot himself in the place of a father, and claimed her as his adopted daughter. A childless couple in Hertford adopted an innocent little girl seven years old. She was good and in every way promising. The man was pious led in prayer and edng. Useful in the church. He sent the girl to college. There we saw her. She spoke freely of the kindness of her teachers her adopted parents, and ail her friends. - She even told of her ex pected marriage at the close of her term at 6C000I. Alas, another letter! The man has taken the girl to parts unknown. liuc such cases are the exceptions. So they are: yet some rules have so many exceptions! Adopted children are often good, usetui and nappy. Bull the mana gers of the orphan bouses sometimes whisper to themselves that the Lord knew what was best when he refused children to some who desired them. A man belonging to the amen corner. came for a boy. He was endorsed by his preacher, "Jnst the man to raise a boy." In a few months he wrote for another boy he could work him and drive bim witnout pay. rree negroes wanted wa ges, lhe orpnan had been given to him and had no protection. Time passed on. The boy was driven and wronged until, in his exasperation, he stole, lhe man who had neglected the boy's morals and had taught him no religion, denounced him as thief, and he is now in the penitentiary. A Baptist D. D., and the W. M. of a Ma- oonio Lodge highly endorsed a man who applied for an orphan, lhat man had hired an orphan boy for a year payment to be made at Christmas. When the pay day was near, he called in a lawyer to pre pare an indictment against the boy for stealing. At the same time he told the lawyer that the boy had not stolen; but his object was to scare him off without his wages. At oar lset report be was Still in the Church and in the Lodge. A Presby terian rLIder selected, talked lreely with a boy and desired him. The boy was de lighted; but they called him a white ser vant and made bim eat at a side table with a negro girl. We encouraged him to run away and put him where he learned a good trade. How easy to multiply such nstances! lbose who purpose to obey me goiaen ruie, are oiow ana caretul in .t t 1 1 1 1 applying for orphans. Those who intend to feed light and drive hard are always ready and persistent. Pastors seldom know the meanness of their member, and are ready to endorse the meanest. A Granville man told a traveler: "Old man Mills was at my house yesterday 'quirin' 'bout a gal he give to my neighbor. told him the gal was well treated and bad a plenty of everything. I don't tell tales on my neighbors; but I'll tell you the gal is treated mighty bad and they are no fit- tin folks to have a gal. The managers of Orphan houses seldom learn the truth about the children they hnd homes lor. But where is the remedy? The remedy is nere: iveep me cnuaren 1111 tney are trained in morals and fortified in religion. Then let them learn trades, receive wages and require their employers to treat them as they do others whom they employ. The Appetite of Birds. Of all animals, birds posses the quick est motions, the most energetic respira lion, and the warmest blood, aud they consequently undergo the most rapid change of substance, and -need the most tood. Although lew creatures are so pleasing to the aesthetic tastes of a poeti cally inclined person as birds, the breeder knows that most of them are to be looked upon as hearty or excessive eaters. Any one who closely observes birds and their conduct, will soon remark that all their thoughts and efforts, aside from the few days they spend in wooing and their short periods of resting, are directed in getting eomethic to eat. With what restless earnestness do titmice plunge through the bushes and the trees! Not a leaf is unin vestigated, every chink in the bark is ex amined for whatever eatable it may be hiding, and a sharp look is cast into every joint of a branch. How industriously does the ousel turn and thrash the leaves on the ground of the woods all the day long, spying its game with a glance of its sharp eve. and snapping it upon the in stant ! After observing a few such inci dents we can easily .believe the stories that are related of the fish-eating powers of the cormorant, and of the fruit-eating birds that are able to consume three times their weight every day. NEW GOODS ARRIVING. CALL AND SEE THEM. New lot of Navy Blue Twilled Flannel for Boys' Suits at 3?, 5Q and 60 cents. . One lot of Towels, extra nice quality, at $2.75 a dozen. Be sure to see them. New lot of Black Cashmeres, which will be sold at very close profits. All-Wool HENRIETTAS something new. Ask to see them. Also, our new line of Black Camel's Hair. Our line of Blacks is very attrac tive throughout, and every lady making pur chases in Mourning Goods will do well to ex amine our stock. It remains a fact that we are selling the cheap est line of Hosiery that has ever been on the market. The Goods are all new, bought at close figures, and sold at unusually close profits. , T. L. SEIGLE & CO., Aug. 19. 1887. 11 West Trade street. , ,. A Great Danger. Here is an item from the New York Star, j on the dangers attending cigarette smoaiog, mat snouia oe needed by our young menr ,;;.i . ; "The result of Coroner Messemer's in vestigation of the cause of young' Russell Hitchcock's death 'showed conclusively lhat ' it was precipitated by cigarette smoking. mere were eviaeoees ot con gestion of the brain but death was direct ly due to coma. The Uoroner was assist ed at the Autopsy by Dr. Charles N. Leale, TJ. S. A., a personal friend of the Knevals family. When Dr. Lewis A. Sayre was told that yonnr Knevals had died from the effects of smoking three packages, or sixty cigarettes daily, he ex claimed: - "I don't wonder that he died. We don't give tobacco fair play. It is the nicotine that poisons. A manufactured cigarette is merely a paper cylinder filled with tobacco, through which the nicotine cannot percolate, and hence is drawn into the smoker's mouth. With a cigar (and the doctor puffed vigorously on a fragrant Havana) much of the nicotine has a chance to evaporate through the porous wrapper. 11 you were to oover a cigar with paper or collodion, or varnish it, the enect in smoking would be the same as a cigarette." JJr. bay re said further that without a careful diagnosis, and a previous knowl edge of the patients' habits, they are apt to be confounded. He likened the opium habit to the cigarette habit, insomuch that if one takes bold of a man be is en slaved, and nothing less than an iron will can master it. A startling illustration of the above fact was related by the doctor who instanced a case that came under his immediate observation nearly thirty years ago. lhe symptoms were general lassi tude, drooping of the eyelids, etc. Very strong coffee was administered as an anti dote to the tobacco poison. A veteran cigar dealer advises those who have not contracted the habit of cig arette smoking not to smoke them. Fully 30 per cent, more cigarettes are sold than ever before. Instances were named where men of prominence had become addicted to their use, and many of them found it impossible to throw off the shackles. Per haps the real cause for the enslavement of the smoke is the fact that cigarettes are filled with vile drugs which have the same effect on a person as opium. it is not generally known, but it is a fact, nevertheless, that ladies and young girls smoke cigaretteB. One would sup pose that smoking among the feminine beauties was confined to those in the low er walks of life, but the reverse is true, and Fifth Avenue and Murray Hill belles are the chief users. Certain young ladies even get together on stated occasions and smoke their cigarettes.' s Introduction of Cotton into the United States. Spain was the first of the European States to grow cotton. It was introduced here by the Moors in the tenth century. The first cotton was planted in the United States in 1621. "Carroll's Historical Col lections of South Carolina" mention the growth of the cotton plant in that pro vince in 1(566. in 1736 it was planted in Talbot county, Maryland, latitude thirty- nine north. At the commencement of the Revolutionary war, Gen. Delagall was said to have had thirty acres planted in cotton near Savannah. Ga. It is stated that in 1748. among the exports of Charleston, S. C, were seven bags of cot ton wool, valued at three pounds eleven shillings and five pence a bag. Another small shipment was made in 1754, and 1770 three more, amounting to ten bales, In 1776, eight bales shipped to England were seized on the ground that so much cotton could not be produced in the United States. The first Sea Island cot ton was grown on the coast of Georgia in 1786, and its exportation commenced in 1788. by Alexander Bissel of St. Simons Island. In 1791 the cotton crop of the United States was two million pounds, of which three-fourths was grown in South L Carolina and one fourth in Georgia. Ten years later, 1801, forty eight million pounds were produced tr onty million pounds of which was exported. The United t.tates have long since ex celled all other countries in the quantity and quality of the cotton produced. India ranks next in importance in its supply of cotton to the United State, but its fiber is far inferior to the American. The other cotton producing countries worthy of men tion are the East Indies, Egypt, Brazil, the West Indies and Guinea. American Ag riculturist. Clergymen's Soke Thboats. An English surgeon claims to have discov ered the cause of clergymen's sore throats. No other speakers are affected in this way, and he has come to the conclusion that the malady is induced by speaking down to a congregation from an elevated pulpit, thereby depressing the vocal organi and causiner irritation and congestion. If clergymen would bold the head erect and speak up they would never have throat trouble, and even if already suffering to some extent they may cure themselves by speaking in a right position. There are bad habits of phonation, breathing, etc.. which a good teacher can easily cor rect, but the bending forward of the bead aud hanging over the sermon while read me it is worst of all, and any man can correot himself of it. E3F A little boy who was to pass the afternoon with a Doctor's little daugh ter was given two pieces ot candy. When he retorned home his mother inquired if he gave the largest piece to th,e little girl "No. mother. I didn't. You told me to crive the biizsrest piece to com pan v and I was the company over there." EST" There is a deplorable state of af fairs in Labrador and New Foundland. The fisheries have failed and the people are reduoed to the verge of starvation. So extreme is the destitution, indeed, that even cannibalism is hinted at. t3T To settle all controversy it has been figured out by a mathematical crank that if 32,000,000 people should grasp hands they would reach around the earth. Idle Brains and Hands. Bishop Peck has lately ' produced some prominent ideas about dormant forces and idle muscles. He instances the idle voung I man. jno power oomes from his muscles They were made to be strong for work, but be does nothing. His muscular abili ty is simply good for nothing.' Devoted to agriculture, or handicraft, the pbysical force which is dormant within him 'would give bread and health, and respectability. Aa it is, he is only a nuisance; j perhaps a loathsome object of pity and contempt. And the bishop takes the true ground, that, an industrious boot-black ia , better, and is better off, than a loafing miscreant sprig of aristocracy. .Work is demanded everywhere., All de partments of industry are languishing for want of faithful, skilled workers, whether it be making streets, sawing . wood or in the higher branches of skill and ,- art, . and yet,.witnes the good bi$hoo, amid, all the din of labor in farming, manufactures, in all the industrial arts, these men have nothing to do! How did other men get work? By thinking quickly and acting promptly; by seizing the best, the first that came to hand. Tramping, lounging, begging , never gave employment to any man. lhe thousands of idlers have made themselves viciously brainless. The lapse Df powers, active and bright enough ,10 children has come of parental indulgence, gerisandizing laziness, indulged depend ence, .drinking, disuse or misdirection. ttrand nelds 01 industry, wealth and use fulness lie all around this idle, shiftless nuisance, but be cannot think himself into them. He has lost his sole eyesight. .The very bread, money, comforts, elegance he sighs for are within reach of his hands, but he cannot see them; wouldn't know them if he did see them. But he does not only denounce the idler but he tells bim bow to find employment. Employ yourself then. Sell that apple in stead of eating it. Sell it and buy two. sell toe two and buy more, liefore you know tt you will nave a basket-toll be a trader, a merchant, a valuable citizen. Do not hang about the city doing nothing. Push out into the country, seize that saw and axe; cut up a few sticks of somebody's wood, .barn your dinner, don t beg it. Get hold of a spade; show somebody that you are just the man they have wanted for a long time to make a garden. Seize a plow, and if you don't know how to hold it, learn. "Hands all blistered!" Very well. Glad of it. The first signs of life in you for a long time. If you had blis tered them before they would have been tough and good for something by this time. Order. "Where s my hair ' "wnos seen my Knue r" "Who turned my ooat wrong Ibereyou go, my boy! When you came into the bouse last evening you flung your bat across the room, jumped out of your, shoes and kicked 'em right and left, wriggled out ot your coat and gave it a toss, and now you are annoyed because each article hasn't gathered itself into a chair to be ready for you when you dress in the morning. Who cut those shoe-strings? You did it to save one minute's time in untying them ! Your knife is under the bed where it rolled when you hopped, skipped, and jumped out of your trousers. Your collar is down behind the bureau, one of your socks on the foot ot the bed and your vest maybe in the kitchen wood box for all you know. .Mow, then, my way has always been the easiest way. I had rather fling my hat down than to bang it up ; I'd rather kick my boots under the lounge than place 'em in the ball; I'd rather run the risk of spoiling a new coat than change it. I own right up to being reckless and slovenly, but, ah me ! Haven't T had to pay for it ten times over? .Now set your foot right down and determine to have order. It is a trait that can be acquired. An orderly man can make two suits of clothes last longer and look better than a slovenly man can do witb four. He can save an hour per day over the man who flings things belter-skelter. He stands twice the show to get a situation and keep it and five times the show to conduct busi ness with profit. An orderly man will be an accurate man. 11 be is a carpenter every joint win fit. If he ia a turner, bis goods will look neat. If he is a merchant, his books will show neither blot nor errors. An orderly man is usually an economical man and always a prudent one. If you should ask me how to become rich. I should answer, "be orderly, be accurate." The Value of an Engagement Ring. Occasionally the courts are called upon to decide issues winch go down deep into the human heart, and one of these cases has just been adjudicated. To young peo ple contemplating matrimony, or breach of promise, litigation, and all , that, a de cision just rendered by the supreme Court of Missouri will be of interest. In this case, which was a suit for damages for breach of promise, the defendant, a fickle and mercurial youtb, who could net know his own mind for thirty consecutive min utes. contended that the woman whom he had jilted had surrendered her engage ment nog to him on demand, and that annulled the engagement. From this opinion, however,. the rever end and gallant seigniors of the Missouri Supreme Court felt themselves constrained to dissent. They put themselves emphati cally on record against this sort of reason- ing. " i nere was noinmg mat tne piam tiff could do," says the court, "but accept the situation" her faithless lover made for her, "abandon all hope of marriage, give up the symbol of that hope, the ring, and . . s . i seek sucn compensation in aamsger as iu law could give her for the injury she had suffered, without fault on her part, at the hands" of her lover. - Fickle young gentleman whocontemplate jilting their betrothed sweethearts and de manding the surrender oi me engagement rings in order to close the transaction, are referred to this decision as conveying val uable information. t3f When a man is twenty five be knows something, when he is forty-five he wishes he knew something. .' ! ' Paying an Old DebUd;l A merchant very .extensivielv eB&ised in commerce.'in one Mf . our' Allan tfe cities, died intestate Februarv 18. i 8" it wi. K vi DCfiuij-uis. filter un uciiu, i , ' ' . J 1 . . ' . among nis papers a package 01 cpnsiaera ble size was found, carefully tied-up and "Notes, due-bills, and accounts against persons down along-shore -some of these may be got by suit or severe dunning. Jiul the people are poor; most of them have had fisherman's luck. ' My children will do as they think best. Perhaps they will think, with me, that it is best to burn this entire package." r" Y V '", ' 1 About a month after be died his -sons met together, when the elder brother,-the administrator, produced this packet, read me superscription, ana asxea wnai course should be taken in regard to it. ; Another brother, a few years younger than the eld eat, a man of strong, impulsive tempera ment, unable at the moment to express his feelings by word, - while he brushed the tears from his eyes with one hand,, by a spasmodic jerk of the other toward. , the fire-place, indicated his wish to have the packet put into the flames. It was sug gested by another of the brothers that it might be well first to make a list f-the debtors' names, and of the1 dates ' and form such as might offer payment that their debts were forgiven. '" ? On the following day they, again as sembled, the list bad been prepare du.JUBd all the notes, due-bills, and accounts- the amount of which including ( interest, amounted to 130,000 were committed to the flames. .! - ..Jl It was about four months! after 'our father's death, continued my informant, in the month of June, that as. I. vte eiuing in my eldest brother's countioir-toom. waiting for an opportunity to speak wth him, there came in a hard-favored,1 little old man, who looked as if time and rough weather had been to windward' of' him lor seventy years. He asked if my brother was not the executor of the estate.y,.My brother replied that he was administrator as our father died intestate. - Well," said the stranger, 'Pve come up from the Cape to pay a debt I owed the old gentleman." - i ul My brother requested bira to take a seat, being at that moment engaged with other persons at the desk. The old man eat down, and putting on his glasses, drew out a very ancient leather pocket-book, and began to count over his money. When he had finished, as he sat waiting histurn, slowly twirling his thumbs, with his old, grey, meditative eyes upon the 'floor,'' he sighed, and I knew the money, as -the phrase runs, "came hard;" and I secretly wished the old man's name might be. found upon the forgiven liBt. ! -vxil My brother was Boon at leisure, and asked him the -ordiuary questions bis name, residence, etc. The original debt was. four .hundred and forty dollars; it bad stood a long time, and with tneipter- est amounted to between seven and f left hundred dollars.. My brother went desk, and, after examining the . forgiyen nee attentively, a suaaen smiieugQisa np his countenance, and told me the truth at a glance. The old man's name was here! My brother quietly took a chair , by , his side, and a conversation occurred between them which I shall never forget. ... y, "x our note is outlawed," said h "it was dated twelve years ago,' payable -in two years; there is no witness, and no in terest has ever been paid: ' you are not bound to pay this note; we can never" re cover the amount. - - .'li'-w Sir," said the old man, "I wish' 61 pay it. It is the only heavy debt I bate, 'in the world. It may be outlawed here,- but I have no child, and my wife and .1 hoipe we have made oar peace with God 'and we wish to do so with man.' I should tike to pay it." : "4 w And he laid his bank-notes befdrethy brother.requesting him to count them brer. 1 can not take this money, said ' -my brother. .bua; The old man became alarmed. "I have cast simple interest for twelve years and a little over," said he. "If will pay you compound interest if you require it. The debt ought . to have been, paid long ago: but your father, sir. .was very indulgent: he knew I had been unlucky, ana iota me not 10 worry soout iw' (OW , My brother then set the .whole . matter plainly before him, and taking the,, bank- bills returned them to the old man's pdek- et-book, telling him that although.. our father had left no formal will, he had .re commended to his children to destroy cer tain notes, due-bills, and other, evidences of debt, and release them wbomight be legally bound to pay them. ,;n ' s For a moment the worthy old man ; ap peared to be stupified. ' After he had ..col lected himself, and wiped few tearairom his eyes, he said: , ,'. i "From the time I heard of your father's death I have raked . and , scraped i and pinched and spared to get the, money to gether for the payment of this ' debt. About ten years ago I had umade up! the sum within twenty dollars. i My wife knew how much the payment of this debt lay on my spirits, and advised me to sell a cow, and make cp the difference and; get the heavy burden off my mind. I did so, and now what will my wife say? I must get bsck to the cape to tell her this good news. She'll probably repeat the very words she used when she put her hands on my shoulder as. we. parted 'I have never seen the righteous forsakeD,. or his seed begging their bread.'.", , ; Giving each of as a hearty shake of the hand, and a blessing upon our old, father's memory, ne went on ma way rejoicwg. f After a very bhort silence, taking, bis pencil and making his cast,my brother said: "There, your part of the -money t would be so mocb. Contrive a plan to convey to me your share of the pleasure7 derived from this operation; the money is at your service." 1 ' ' - li fV ; Such is the simple tale," which I f have told ssit was told me. To; adrt the evi dent moral would be an insult to ' the reader. Anon. ' ' - SUP When Webster was asked how he had acquired his clear,' simplex style of speaking, he said: "I -have been leaving I off words all my-Hfet'' 4 "I