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Charlotte Democrat.
CHARLOTTE. N. C.
Female Education.
As the last Legislature established a
"Girl's Normal Training College" and the
whole subject of female education is now
prominent in this State, we propose pub
liahinir an occasional article on that
subject. And we hero copy from a West
ern paper a short extract from a do
cidedly able, interesting and pointed
address of Mrs. A. G. Black welder of
Chicago, at the University of Kansas, a
co educational institution, and of which
Mrs. Blackweldcr is a graduate. Mrs.
Black welder is the wife of Isaac S. Black
welder of Chicago, a prominent insurance
man of the West, a direct descendant of
tho .North Carolina family of that name,
and a kinsman of tho Black welders, Bar
ringers and Phif'ers of Cabarrus and
Mecklenburg.
Mrs. Blackweldcr is highly cultured,
decidedly literary in her tastes, and some
two years since delivered a very able and
learned address on the "Norseman."
The present address speaks for itself and
shows a facility of pith and point alike
forcible, instructive and entertaining.
Mrs. A. G. Blackwelder spoke as fol
lows :
Tho quarter centennial we clebrate to
day marks another era in educational
progress. For it is about twenty five
years since women have been graduating
in any number, from colleges and universi
ties. During that timo they have felt
that tho eyes of the world were upon them,
regarding them as an experiment, prooa
bly a useless one, and possibly dangerous
to tho health of coming generations.
Of all arguments against a long and
systematic course 01 study for girls, the
danger of physical injury has always held
first place. Never in the history of the
race has there existed such solicitude for
tho health of women as was suddenly
developed when she proposed to go to
college with her brother Toil she might
in kitchen or in field, in factory or in
mine, but never before was the heart of
man so touched with tenderness and fear
lest she might be overworked.
When Girton College, in England was
built a few years since, a pleasant apart
ment was thoughtfully provided for the
delicate women who were to break down
under tho strain of constant brain work.
Tho room has nover served tho purpose
for which it was designed.
We college women have a bond of union
more tangible than the mere community
of interests that always seems to bind
together alumni, whether spoiled with an
i or an a. Tho alumni spelled with an i
are fond of gathering in banqueting halls,
where they honor their alma mater with
feasting and witty speeches. Tho alumna)
spelled with a dipthong feel that they
owe something more to tho world and
society, a debt only redeemable by earnest,
organized efforts toward bettering present
conditions.
With this aim in viow, a few college
women in 1882 formed an "Association of
Collegiate Alumnae." Its membership
now numbers 1,200 and extends from
Maine to California.
Tho assertion that women are unable
physically to study as hard or as steadily
as men, had been made with such per
sistent frequency that the association at
once set to work to find some data upon
which to base either acknowledgment
or denial. By a careful comparison of
statistics, gathered from twelve institu
tions it was found that (to quoto from the
report) "female graduates do not show,
as a result of college studies and duties,
any difference in general health from the
average health of an equal number of
women without regard to occupation.
More recent investigations prove that
among tho graduates thero is a gain of 22
per cent, upon the health of the average
woman. In truth, tho pertinacity with
which really earnest students of the female
persuasion keep their health and strength
when according to the soundest theories
of physical science they should sink into
untimely graves, must be aggravating to
the opponents of a liberal education for
women. It is every whore acknowledged
that regular employment is conducive to
health both of body and of mind and it is
in such institutions as this, amid the sys
tematic occupations of student life that
we aro finding our salvation from the
weariness of aimless lives. You remem
ber tho women described by Dr. Johnson
in Hassolas "who thought they wero in
love but in truth wero only idle."
Members of our association profoundly
realize that most of the dangers threat
eninc our nation are found in tho ignor
ance of tho lower classes. In one of the
worst districts of New York a few of our
college girls havo established themselves
for practical work among the poor. This
is no common chanty, Dut a perpetual
obiect lesson. A home, reuned, beauti
fill, clean and well ordered in every detail,
has been made in too neighborhood sup
posed to be the most densely populated
snot on the globe, where sanitary condi
tions are so lacking that, as one head?
mother say, "The people do not live in
their houses, they die there." Our bravo
vounc alumnae have made themselves
companions and friends of these unfortu
nates," and actual results are following
their efforts, more than they darca ex
pect and more than I have time to des
cribe. "It is definite." says Miss Scudder
in her report, "to give baths every day to
thirtv womon : it is denniw to teacn
sowing to forty little girls; to shelter
a woman turned into the streets at mgnt.
A similar settlement in Chicago is doing
noble work among tho foreign population,
and showing too that refined educated
women may live serenely, even happily,
amid the most unpleasant surroundings
Other women might do these things; but
in fact, college women are doing them
Is it not a worthy use for their liberal
training? And may not the University
rejoice that at last higher education is
bearing practical truit 7
There are other phases of sociological
work in which educated women are show
ing intelligent interests. They are de
veloping in their homes an atmosphere
where the purest in literature, the most
beautiful in art may flourish ; they are
finding a use for their University train
ing in bringing about intelligent reforms
in diet and clothing, and sanitation;
increasing tho comfort and lessening the
waste of human lite.
I have noticed that married alumnae do
not board, but havo homes, Here we
are reminded of another bugbear so long
held up before society, the distaste with
vrhich "the sweet girl graduate" was to
view marriago and family responsibilities.
The difficulty of compiling our alumni
catalogues owing to the rapidity with
which the feminine names are changed,
shows that theory also to be wholly tin
tenable. After an intimate acquaintance for
several years with the married alumnae
of different colleges, I am convinced that
they aro the noblest wives, the wisest
mothers, tho most accomplished house,
keepers.
The University sends out young men
with the faith that they will maintain
the highest standards of citizenship ; she
has a right to expect that the learning
and mental discipline acquired by her
women may result in carrying out feasi
ble reforms in their peculiar province of
housekeeping. Thus, for the first time in
history, tho University may wield a
direct influence on the home.
But can a collogo fit girls for the high
est usefulness as long as it almost wholly
deprives them for four year of the com
panionship, the guidance of experienced
and cultivated women, to whom they can
go for advice and sympathy ? A thought
ful writer said recently : "An institution
is not roally co-educational until it is co
educating until men and womon together
form the teaching forco. . I can imagine a
lovely, scholarly woman in charge of ono
of the departments of this university, who
would win the hearts of tho girls by her
womanly graciousness ; whose character
it would be their ambition to copy. Her
eyes would be quick to note any physical
change ; her intuition would never fail to
discern when a girl was in mental dis
tress. How much sound judgment can you
expect from a young girl of sixteen, who
leaves tho care of a watchful mother and
comes hero to live among strangers ? It
is no wonder that she often fails to resist
the various temptations which win her
from her studies.
Her higher education should mean
something more than book-learning ; it
should mean the education of her higher
nature, so that knowledge might lead to
wisdom, and mental dicipline to the lor
mation of perfect character.
In the east members ol our association
are taking a hand in the administration
of their colleges. Are there no alumnse
in this state who are able or willing to
co-operate with their brothers for the
best interests of their alma mater? Or is
there among high officials less faith in
woman than existed twenty-hvo years
ago, when the doors of this University
were thrown wide open to her ?
We, tho first generation of college
women, havo come into a world voxed
with social wrongs, with bewildering
politicial theories ; what part are we to
take?
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps writes to col
logo girls :
" Pealing, the clock of Time
Has struck the woman s hour,
We hear it on our kneea."
am
Too Much Cotton.
Cotton has been going down since last
fall until now it is lower than it has been,
we are told, at any timo since 1854.
There aro several reasons for this which
have a direct or indirect bearing upon the
price of cotton, such as the tariff, which
hampers trade with foreign countries ;
dull times, with many idlo or poorly-paid
workmen, who are thus compelled to ex
ercise the most rigid economy in their
purchases ; a scarcity of money, which
makes it difficult for the merchant to col
lect his bills compelling him to contract
and limit the stocks he buys.
But there is another reason, which is
at the very root of the trouble, with
which the cotton planters themselves
have to do, and which they have within
their own control if they would with any
thing like unanimity resolve to control it.
It is this : Year after year the acreage
for cotton growing in the South has been
increased and the product proportion
ately increased until it has doubled itself
in the past thirty years. This, too, while
Egypt furnished her usual supplies, and
new territory was being opened in India
and in the Russian dominions for the cul
tivation of cotton. The result has been
over-production and an over stocked
market, more cotton than consumers.
That some of the planters havo begun to
realize this is shown by tho action taken
last spring by some of the sub-Alliances
in Georgia and Alabama to reduce the
acreage of cotton and to turn their atten
tion to the raising of something besides
cotton.
When the manufacturers get an un
comfortably large surplus on hand they
come together, talk the matter over and
agree to limit the output of their factories
until the surplus has been disposed of.
That's business sense. If tho same busi
ness methods prevailed on the farm that
do in the factory and in tho shops, (and
they should prevail on tho farm as much
as in the factory or the shop) there would
be less acreage and seldom, if ever, over
production. If the acreage of cotton land
in the South wero reduced one third, and
tho product to 6,000,000 from 8,000,000
bales, the planters would get more money
for tho 6,000,000 than they do for tho
8,000,000, havo that much less expense
to incur in its cultivation, that much less
labor for themselves, and that much more
land to devote to the cultivation of some
thing else.
It may be said that it isn't practicable
to do this. It might not have been a few
years ago, but it is now. The farmers of
the South are organized, through the Al
liance and kindred organizations, as they
never were before, they have more papers
as means of communication with each
other than they ever had before and show
more disposition to unity of action than
they ever did before. Through these
agencies it is not only practicable, but a
comparatively easy matter to have an
understanding among most of the farm
ers as to the acreage of any particular
crop they plant. Thero aro very few
farmers who on a proper presentation of
the advantages of limiting or reducing
the acreage of what they consider their
money crops, would not be convinced that
it was to their interest to do it; and who
would not agree to do so. Some might not
hive mental vision enough to see it and
fall in but they prould be few in number
compared with those that would.
Here is a line that the Alliance might
work on with advantage and by doing so
point out one of the ways by which the
cotton planters of the South might vastly
benefit thmelves. When this is done
cotton which has tumbled so low will
climb up again until .it reaches and stays
at a figure that will pay the lantsr for
his time and labor, which it don't dp now.
Wilmington Star.
im III
gT The Brbie is cow translated into
the language of nine-tenths of the people
of the earth. One hundred years go it
could be read by only one fifth of the
earth's population.' -This looks like Chris
tianity is progressing' some. Raleigh
' Advocate.
OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT.
Washington. June 22, 1891.
Every effort is being made to conceal
the fact that there is an actual deficit in
the Treasury in other words that the
Government has not money enough to
pay the current expenses. Yet such is
the fact, and that too after some of the
"trust" funds have been appropriated, or
rather mis-appropriated, and used. The
apparent deficit is only about 81,000,000,
but it is actually much more, because
some of the appropriations made by the
Billion dollar Congress, which were made
available at once, have not been paid out.
There are several classes of these. Sev
eral hundred thousand dollars wan appro
pviuied to pay the findings of tho Court
of Claims the sums duo loyal citizens lor
bupplies furnished the array during the
war. Only three or four of these cases
have been paid ; the balance are held
back in the Department of Justice. Most
of the parties to whom this money is due
are poor old people who have been fight
ing for years to secure the money due
them, and after securing judgments and
appropriations, are still longer delayed
because the Treasury has been "looted."
A large number of public buildings were
provided for, and not a dollar has been
paid out for a site nor is much being done
to secure them. This class of expendi
tures always helps the locality where the
building is to be erected, and the money
is expended there for labor and materials.
It is a well known fact that thousands of
pensions that are ready to be granted are
"held up," and thus thousands of poor
soldiers are deprived of their just dues.
There is no just reason for this deficiency.
It is caused solely by the purchase of
bonds that were not due at a high pre
mium and the anticipation of interest.
That was done by Secretary Windom
to benefit the Wall Street speculators.
Whenever their gambling in grain and
stocks put them in a close place, they
appealed to Secretary Windom, and he
purchased as many millions of not duo
bonds as the gamblers said were neces
sary to relievo them. The premiums
paid on the 4 per cent bonds was an
averago of 25 per cent. Thus a thousand
dollar bond cost ono thousand, two hun
dred and fifty dollars. One hundred and
fifty million dollars worth of these bonds
wero purchased by Secretary Windom,
taking $188,000,000 out of the Treasury
for the benefit of the bondholders that
ought to be there now to pay the pen
sioners and the creditors of the govern
ment, and to erect buildings needed for
the public service. That is why there
is a deficit, and none of the great metro
politan dailies dare to tell the story, be
cause they aro all bound to serve Wall
Street.
The Democrats of Ohio have a splendid
opportunity to make a Democratic vic
tory in 1892 a certainty. If Ohio goes
Democratic in this election, the Demo
cratic candidate in 1892 for President
will have a walk over. Tho Republican
platform declared in favor of the Mc
kinley bill, against free silver, and for
the force bill. Neither one of these is
sufficient to ruin a party, but all these
render it impossible for tho Republicans
to win if the Democrats of Ohio exer
cise the slightest discretion. They owe
it to the Democrats of the country to
act wisely and secure by proper conces
sions the vote of the dissatisfied farmers.
PostmasterGeneral Wanamaker de
clared in his statement that he made,
and which the Republican press said
was a complete vindication as to his
having connection with the failure of
the Keystone National Bank and the
gigantic robberies committed by "hon
est" John Bardsley ; that he, the Post
master-General, had in no way at
tempted to delay the appointment of a
receiver for the broken bank. Comp
troller of the Currency Lacy, in the at
tempt to defend his criminal delay in
that matter, prints a telegram from tho
Postmaster General to the Comptroller
to delay in asking the appointment of a
receiver. It looks very much like the
truly good collector of campaign funds
has been as ''short on truth" as he was
on Reading stock, when Jay Gould
squeezed him so hard that the P. M. G.
accepted the old rates for telegraphic ser
vice. The "truly good" Wanamaker
will not be so "truly good" when a
House investigation committee finishes
with him.
Jews Will Honor Columbus.
The Hon. A. S. Solomons presided at a
meeting in New York City on Tuesday
last, . at which the following resolution
was passed :
"Resolved, That the proposal for the
quadri-centennial of the discovery of this
continent be marked in some appropriate
manner by the Jews of the United States
and that a committee of twenty-one be
appointed by the Chair, at his leisure, to
report at the earliest time practicable, to
an adjourned meeting of this assemblage,
what form the memorial should assume,
and the mode of carrying it into effect."
The adjourned meeting will probably
be held in September.
Among the suggestions already mado
with a view to carrying out the ideas em
bodied in the call for the meeting were
the following;
A .'Jewish " university, in line with
the great Catholic and Protestant univer
sities, for the promotion of intellectual
studies, open to all except that it shall
be Jewish in standing.
Dr. Drachman.
One of these things : A national fund
to endow a rabbinate for Washington, for
in no city in the Union is a man of
learning and eloquence more necessary
than in the capital of the country ; or
raise a fund to purchase books, transla
tions, and original works on Judaism and
the Jews to be placed in the new National
Library at Washington, to be known as
the "quadri-centennial" contribution of
the Jews of the United States, and to re
main separate and distinct as such ; or to
raise money for an heroic statue of
Thomas Jefferson, to be erected in the
square bordering on Pennsylvania ave
nue and Seventh street, where all men,
women and children can see how much
the Jew honors the author of the iramor
tal Declaration.
Simon Wolf, of Washington.
A C&p itai, Johce on Me. Coffin It
is told of President Co$n of Enoree Fac
tory that a few days ago fce sent to his
grocer in New Zork C'.ty of a lofflf extra
fine canned goods for bis family ue. The
grocer took great pains to fill this; order
prope? but to Mr. Coffin's utter surprise
when (the goda came the label showed
they had been putp fcy the Lanford Can
ning Company, less than a mih? from Mr.
Coffin's door. The rip ,to jjfew opk did
cot benefit the goods; even when the
freight charges two wayn.be added. The
moral is' '.'patronize Jiojne industry."
Spartanburg Herald.
Xorth Carolina Hews.
Mr. A. H. Holmes was showing to day
some of tho prettiest North Carolina hams
seen on sale here in many days. They
were from Duplin county. Wilmington
Review.
While at Walnut Cove Saturday the
reporter learned from a gentleman who
is interested that the coal mines there
promise to turn out handsomely. The
company now has several hands at work
and they are getting out coal in large
quantities They expect to commence
shipping in a few weeks. Winston Sen
tinel. Our county tax this year is not one
cent higher than last year's county tax
levy, but the school tax is 15 cents on
property and 48 on poil, instead of 12i
on property and 371 on poll. Our
economical Board havo diminished ex
penses. Last year's claims audited by
the county commissioners were only
36,307.92. This total is about four thou
sand less than the average expense
account of former Boards. Shelby Aurora.
Fiest Cotton Blooms. The mail from
Maxton, Robeson county, brought the
Star yesterday two cotton blooms, sent
by Messrs. Carter & Weatherby, who say
the blooms were plucked from a twenty
five acre field of Mr. A. J. Cottingham,
two miles from Maxton ; one bloom on
18th and the other on the 19th inst.
Messrs. Carter & Weatherby say that
crops both cotton and corn are doing
well in that vicinity. Wilmington Star.
At a meeting of stockholders of the
Chester and Lenoir Narrow Guage Rail
road, held at Newton en tho 4th inst.,
W. H. Hardin, Esq., was elected Presi
dent for the ensuing year, and the fol
lowing Directors : John L. Agurs and
J. H. Smith of Chester, L. M. Grist and
J. F. Wallace of Yorkville, Jonas Hoff
man of Dallas, V. A. McBee of Lincolton,
W. H. Williams of Newton, and G. W. F.
Harper of Lenoir. The next annual
meeting will be held at Dallas.
Morganton gets two professorships in
Trinity College, Justice Avery having
been elected Dean of the law department
and Rev. S. B. Turrentino, pastor of Mor-
f an ton Methodist church, Instructor in
lebrew and New Testament Greek.
Judge Avery will lecture at Trinity Col
lege twice a week, though his professor
ship there will not interfere with his
duties as one of the Justices of the Su
preme Court. Rev. S. B. Turrentine has
accepted the professorship tendered him,
subject to the approval of the Bishop.
Morganton Herald.
Mr. E. Wallace has shown us two small
twigs of cherries, brought to town by
Mr. Hayes who lives on the Brushy Mt.
Tho twigs were.about 12 or 14 inches long
and contained over 200 cherries. It
surpasses anything in the cherry line yet
seen in tho county, and Mr. Hayes says
the tree, which is over two feet in diame
ter, is as full all over as those two twigs.
By the way, the Brushy Mountains are
the best fruit-growing section in N. C,
and no part of the Union can surpass it
in the certainty of a crop or in the quality
of its fruits of all kinds. Wilkesboro
Chronicle.
A Living Rock. Out at White Hall
Seminary is a rock that is as round as an
orange. It is a beautiful gray color on
one side and a muddy color on the other.
People who have lived thero all their life
say the rock turns itself over every
morning, and. that it has kept it up ever
since they can recollect. If you visit the
rock early in the morning, it is said, you
will find loose, fresh earth on top of it,
and the red or gray Jsido down and go
again the next morning and fresh dirt
will be on it and the side that was down
will bo up. This fact is very strange and
is beyond a satisfactory explanation.
Concord Times.
Why is thero not a canning and fruit
drying establishment in Rocky Mount?
Its one of those things ''no fellow can
find out." Surely there is every ad
vantage. Fruit of all kinds going to
waste overy year on account of the lack
of a home market. We let more money
go by us every year than we make.
Wake up, the sun's rising. The scup
pernong vines are absolutely loaded with
grapes. It is the same with the scupper
nong as tho old toper said about whiskey,
"all whiskey is good, only some is better
than some other." So all are good grape
years for the man who has a scuppernong
vineyard in North Carolina, but some are
better than others. Rocky Mount Argo
naut. A man in north Iredell (name forgotten
by the informant) climbed a tree in his
yard a few days ago to take his bees, and
in sawing off the limb on which they were
settled he so shook it that the bees " let
go" the limb and the whole swarm settled
oa the man and went to work on him.
Dr. J. E. King stayed by him all night
and saved his life with difficulty. The
farmers are in the midst of wheat harvest
this week and the crop is turning out
quite well it will be at least an average
crop. The warm days and nights aro
bringing the cotton and corn out of the
kinks but they are wofully overrun by
the grass, and the farmers can't get to it
on account of having to save their wheat.
Tobacco is really the only crop that is in
good shape. Statesville Landmark.
A bed of miocene or shell marl lies be
tween Rocky Mount and the river. Its
extent is not known, as there has been no
developments to amount to any thing.
It is known to be fifteen feet in thickness
whero pits have been sunk, and as they
have never gone through the deposit its
depth is not known. This quality of
marl is very valuable and will undoubt
edly help greatly in adding to the riches
of this wonderfully rich country. Tho
warm dry weather of the past week has
greatly improved the crops. Everything
in this vicinity looks well, except cotton
and it is coming out every day. The to
bacco crop is looking very encouraging
and promises to be another bonanza. year
for tobacco farmers. Tho scuppernong
vines are absolutely loaded with grapes.
Rocky Mount Argonaut.
Reidsvillk, N. C, June 18. Ex-Governor
David S. Reid died this morning at
his home in this place.
Xaviu Settle Reid was born on April
19th, 1813, in Rockingham county, studied
law and was admitted to practice in 1843.
In 1834 he was elected Senator 'from
Rockngham and was re elected continjj.
ouslf until f40.
Prom m$ to 'jj ia served in .the Con
greas of jtJao United gtaiss jtyh' great
acceptability to his constituents.
In 1848, without his knowledge, he was
nominated for Governor and was defeated
fef a small majority.
Jin ?8$, wfcn he had positively de
ekned, he was' agatn nnaed. and
elected, after a briljianj, Qanvass, as the
first Democratic Governor of the tate.
N. C. Weather Crop Bulletin.
Central Office, Raleigh, N. C.
The reports of correspondents of the
weekly weather crop bulletin iisued by
the North Carolina Experiment Station
and State weather service for the week
ending Friday, June 19th, 1891, show
that the weather during the entire week
has been the most favorable experienced
for a long time. The temperature has
been considerably in exeess, sunshine
abundant, and towards the latter part of
the week occasional showers have pre
vailed generally. In consequence crops
have made marked improvement. Grass
is getting under control somewhat,
though still very abundant. The wheat
harvest now progressing has prevented
farmers from devoting much time to
the cultivation of crops. Farm labor
is reported difficult to obtain. Of crops
generally, cotton shows the least im
provementj it i.s not all chopped yet,
and stand continues poor. Tobacco has
made a fine start. The wheat harvest
will probably be completed next week ;
the yield will bo a good average and of
excellent quality. Another favorable
week will enable farmers to bring their
work nearly up to date, and will give a
better outlook to the crop prospects.
The condition of crops averages about
the same now in all districts.
Western District. Dallas, Gaston coun
ty Wheat about all in shock some good,
some bad and some between ; excellent
week to kill grass. Danbury, Stokes coun
ty Corn badly in the grass. Lincolnton,
Lincoln county Wheat harvest about an
average crop ; corn and cotton late and
not well worked. Old Fort, McDowell
county Everything growing rapidly, in
cluding weeds and grass. Ashevule,
Buncombe county Dry weather most
desirable for crops in general : rain-fall
0.98. Rutherfordton, Rutherford county
Two good rains with warm sunshine
has caused corn, cotton and garden vege
tables to grow very rapidly ; wheat being
harvested. Shelby, Cleveland county
Cotton and corn growing off rapidly ;
wheat very good. Dobson, Surry county
Nice weather for work and everything
growing; harvest upon us and we think
good. Salisbury, Rowan county farm
ers are hard at work cutting wheat and
plowing and hoeing cotton and corn;
large part of wheat cro has been cut;
the yield will be good; rainfall 0.63.
Mt. Airy, Surry county Generally the
past week has been most favorable, little
rain and warm growing weather; how
ever since farmers are so much behind in
the cultivation of their crops, and the
harvesting to be done just when the first
opportunity for cultivation has come, and
laborers so hard to find, it is impossible
under the most favorable conditions to
make an average crop of tobacco or corn.
Pineville, Mecklenburg county Week
clear and favorable for killing grass and
more of it to kill than I have ever seen in
one season ; good deal of corn to plant
yet. King's Mountain, Cleveland county
Prospect for the cotton crop has im
proved for the past week ; wheat pretty
well harvested and the yield good. Mt.
Pleasant, Cabarrus county Wheat and
oats harvest hindered by scarcity of
labor ; corn and cotton grassy. Lodo,
Mecklenburg county Fine week for
work ; farmers made most of it ; most of
the cotton has been chopped and grass
getting more under control. Bat Cave,
Henderson county All crops looking fine
except the fruit crop; potato bugs in
Irish potatoes. China Grove, Rowan
county Corn and oats crop doing well ;
cotton improving; wheat good. States
ville, Iredell county Wheat harvest
about over, promises above an average
crop in quantity and quality ; fruit crop
good; rain-fall 0.34. Catawba, Catawba
county Weather very fine. Iron Sta
tion, Lincoln county Very busy week,
some up with their work, others will not
"get there;" some improvement in crops.
Marion, McDowell county The weather
has been favorable on all crops; wheat
is now being cut ; farmers report light
crop.
H. B. Battle, Ph. D., Director.
C. F. von Herrman, Assistant.
Educated for Matrimony.
Among the graduates of the year ono
brave young woman has completed a
course frankly taken in preparation for
matrimony. Like many girls who make
society amusements their chief existenco,
this young woman did not realize the defi
ciencies in her education until she had
won the friendship and love of one who
was her superior in intellectual acquire
ments. With the realization of her igno
rance came the determination to 6tudy for
self-improvement Entering as a pupil at
a well known school for girls, she took
courses in literature, philosophy, and
others studies, which would enable her to
write and speak with accuracy and would
teach her the best methods of thought.
She entered classes of political economy
and studied the newspapers under com
petent direction. Urging her teachers to
correct all imperfections in her speech and
manner, she made constant effort to attain
the standard which might bring her
nearer to an equalfty with her future
husband. The struggle was not easy.
There were trials of . pride in studying
with girls of a moro youthful age ; there
were many moments of mortification from
the exposure of her ignorance. Determi
nation to succeed won its usual rewards.
The society girl, whose bright mind had
been ecljpsad by the routine of pleasures,
became renowned in the school as one of
the most earnest and satisfactory pupils.
When she graduates this ypar into the
refined home that has been in preparation
for her she will meet her husband upon an
equality, and entertain his friends with a
feeling of cheerful confidence. She says
that the whole world seems more stable
since she has been sure that her sentences
are grammatical and her pronunciation
according to tlie best authorites. Boston
Journal.
There was a debate held un in the
mountains of Mitchell some time ago, so
report, says on this question :
"Which destroy the most fowls,
The preachers or tu j owls."
The question was decided in favor of
the preachers. According to this, Mitch
ell must have more preachers than she is
generally given credit for, when they can
thus successfully compete with the large
host of owls native' to that county.
Wilkesbojo Chronicle.
1T" That was a good ono on Solicitor
Blount, which happened during ibe re
cent Court held here. He" was "cross
'pjamining a witness, when he "asked the
witness ; "Sow don't you k'r.ow ou are
lying? "No, sir, Boss." ' 'Well, ejr. ' one
or the other of us is lying, now wnicti'is
it ?" ."You see,' Ross, dar is 'dis diffurl
arice you has got a 'license ter lie an I
heint.." "Stand aside r." Washington
To Country Boys.
Tho Democrat feels great interest in
boys. Its editor was a boy for several
years. The Democrat feels special interest
in country hoys. Its editor was a coun
try boy as long as he was a boy at all.
Country boys have an opportunity to be
happy and useful which few of them re
alize. But there has crept into the lives
of country boys and young men a rest
lessness that moves many of them from
the farm and sends them to the towns
and cities.
They go occasionally to the city and
see gay and glittering life all around
them, and they are soon contemplating a
change from the country to tho city them
selves. They do not know how many
disadvantages there are in tho town or
city life. Not long ago we were in con
versation with a young man who left the
old home roof before he reached his ma
jority. A good homo he had, but his
father told him he might do better if he
could. He thought he could. Ho tried
it, and in tho conversation referred to he
told us that he had hardly slept enough
a single night since he left his father's
home.
To be sure, he had seen and heard and
learned many things that he would not
have known had he remained on the
farm ; but he has had to pay the price for
them. The boy and young man on the
farm, in the country, froe from the tight
lacing of so-called society, is happy, in
deed, if he only knew it.
But since many will go from the coun
try to the cities and towns, the best
thing they can do is to make the best
possible success in their new fields. Some
of them succeed financially and many of
them fail every way. In many cases the
failure comes because then feelings grow
taster than their purse strings tighten.
On the farm the boy is glad enough many
times to get a pair of shoes for Sunday,
and he never thinks of having some one
to black them for him. When he moves
to town he must have fine shoes all the
timo (and that is well enough), and he
must have some ono, to black them for
him. When he is in the country he rests
so well that the elasticity of his body sel
dom allows the sunshine to find him in
bed even on Sunday morning. When he
moves to town he soon learns to sit up
late, in many cases to keep questionable
company, and then is to be called up next
morning to breakfast. In the country
ho spends very little money. When he
moves to town his cigar bill soon gets to
be as much as his clothing bill while he
was in the country.
Sometimes after all these radical
changes in bis habits of life, which have
been going on through many years it may
be, ho wakes up to find that he has sped
on past many mile posts in the way, his
hair is perhaps prematurely gray, and is
a first class failure. He has no one to
blame but himself.
Boys will leave the country and seek
the centre of population. In many cases
it is best, but in many other ca&es it is
not best.
Let the boys who do make the move
remember that success has its price
among many people as well as among
small numbers.
Boys, black your own shoes, wait on
yourselves in the town and city like you
do in tho country ; get up in time for
breakfast ; go to church in time to hear
all the sermon ; do nothing that will
lower you in the opinion of others; do all
this, and there is one chance in a hun
dred for you to succeed, if you will not
grumble at your every day board which
is several times better every meal, per
haps, than your father and mother got
Sundays when they were young. Scot
land Neck Democrat.
Dr. w . A. Lash, of Walnut Covo,
has been elected to the presidencj' of the
C. F. and Y. V. R. R., its former presi
dcnt,$Hon. Julius Gray, lately deceased.
SUMMER SHOES.
Meu's Canvas Lace Shoes, the best and finest,
$1 50. Men's good Canvas Lace Shoes, well
made and serviceable, $1 Men's Canvas Lace
Shoes, good value at the price, 75 ci-nts Bi-y'
good Canvas Lace Shoes $1.
You will find real comf it in these Shoes.
Many people use them to plow in, and 8y they
wear well. Al hough they were intended for
Base Ball, thev have come to be an all-around
Shoe ' GILREATH & CO.
31ay 29, 1891
WE CA SELL YOU
ANY KIND OP VEHICLE
YOU WANT, FHOM A
HAND CART
TO THE
FINEST CARRIAGE.
A LOT OF
Road Carts at Cost.
A O. HUTCHISON & co.
Next to Wadsworth's StabUa,
May 22, 1891. Charlotte. N. U.
MEN'S SUITS.
Men's Suits $3.50 Men's Suits $5 00
100 Suits at $3 50 worth $5 00
150 " " $5 00 " $7,50
100 " .' $6.50 " $10 00
200 " " $7 50 " $12 00
Greatest stock of Men's Suits you ever saw.
Come quick. They will soon go at these
prices
JIOGER3 & CQMPANY.
Nearly opposite Court House
Oct. 31. Ib90 Charlotte. N. C.
A- C. HUTCHISON 8f QQ.,
(Next to Wadsworth't Stables)
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
LEADING CARRIAGE DEALERS.
Also Ajjents for the Whiteley Mowers and
Binders and Winship Cotton Gins.
April 24, 1891.
PATENTS.
MUNN t CO.. of the Scientific American,
continue to act as solicitors of Patents, Caveits,
Trade Marks, Copyrights, for the United States,
Canada, England, France. Germany, etc. Hand
Book about Patents sent free. Over forty years'
experience.
To oav. who has mode an invention or discov.
ery, the first inquiry that suggests itself is Can
I obtaio a Patent?" If so. "How shall I proceed ?
Whom shall I consult ? How much will it cost?"
out expense is to write to us (Munn & C6.) des
cribing the indention. We will immediately an-
patentable ; fend.if 'so.'giVe Ure necessary instruct
tions for further proceddre. ForthU advice we
make " d6 charge." '
Patents obtained through MUNN & CO. are
noticed in the Scientific A
beu, and most widely circulated tcientific paper.
i & sear, Weekly.4 Splendid engravings and
interesting informktioa: Specimen ccpy pf the
Scientific American sent free. ' 1 " ' ' '
Address ' - MUNN & CO.,
Scientific American olfice,
Jan. 16, 1891. 4 361 Broadfway, N Y.
Comparative Cotton Statement
The followingis the comparative cotij
statement for the week ending June lg
Ntt ncuipts at U. S. ports, 20,376 v-
Total receipts to date. 6,817.502 5754
Exports for the week, 37,416 ' 7'
Total exports to this date, 5.579,262 4 tV
Stock at all U. S. ports, 319,516 14
Stock at all ioterior towns. 37.212 '
Stock in Liverpool, 1,170,000
American afloat for
Great Britain, 77,000
Total Visible Supply of Cotton.
New Yokk, June 20. The total vj
ble supply of cotton for the world
2,575,259 bales, of which 1,914,359 t
American, against 1.779,869 and 1,090 61
respectively, last year; receipts at'
interior towns 11,942 bales; plantatio,
13,047 bales. Crop in sight 8,454 0;
bales. '
The "Olirer Chilled PIoT
The Best in the World. '
HAMMOND & JUSTICE are now A
for this celebrated Plow, and carry a full
ol all I extras for same, such as Points, M01
Boards, Landsider, Bolts, &c, and are sell
very close. ' KlSi
We also have a large stock of Pittsburg St.
Plows, Single and Double Iron Foot p
Stocks, at Rock Bottom prices
Oct. 17.1890. HAMMOND & JUSTICl
Rubber and Leather Belting? ;
We have a large stock and compete asa
mentof size, of Rubber Belting oi Ed. wi
rant every foot we sell and guarantee our prij '
against any House south of Baltimore i -i
Oct. 17. 1890. HAMM0ND TIC.
HARDWARE!!
Hardware.
HAMMOND & JUSTICE
Wholesale and Retail dealers, now have f.
stock of all Goods in their line H ardware.Cu
lery, Iron. N ails, Carriage and Wagon Materii
Merchants of the surrounding country bit
only to give them a trial to be convinced ti
. L . ! TT J .
nicy mc Beiuog naruware as low as any Ho
in the State.
Charlotte Oct 17.1890.
SPRING MILNERY.
We are now opening the largest and most cob
plete asortment of Millinery Novelties f
Sprinsr and Summer wear tn 1p fmmrl th u
- -, ' ' . . U UIU ...
of Baltimore.
Miss Carrie Houston, our trimmer, has ja
returned from New York and Baltimore with i
the latest and newest ideas for trimming Hat
and Bonnets of all descriptions.
Ladies de8irinc fashionfthlp nnrl etvliah mill!.
ery will find it to their interest to see our stvi
uciuic Luamug men purcnases.
We have our onenin? of Vine Paitn tt..
i n - - m. u v ivi u 11a.
and Bonnets in a few days.
Mrs. P. QUERY & CO
March 27. 1881
NEW SHOES.
We make a Special Leader of a MAH'
FINE SHOE
At $2.00 a Pair.
We have the Largest Stock, Best Stylet r
Best Wearing Shots at this price ever offered;
Charlotte.
T
Be sure to see us, no matter what fcta
Shoes you want. We are the leadere in Fris
Styles and Qualities.
GILREATH & CO.
May 1, 1891.
THE WILSON DRUG C0S1 PANT,
36 East Trade Street.
(White Front )
White-Wash Brushes, Paint Brushes, Re&3;
Mixed Paints, Machine Oil, Horse and Catt
Powders
Spices. Pepper aod Mustard Matches puti
for family use in nice tin cans, and sold cheap
than those in ordinary paper boxes.
Patent Oil Cans for filling lamps with
toiling hands or spilling on floor. Call 1
examine.
Rough on Rats and all Patent Medicii
usually kept in first-class Drug Stores.
THE WILSON DRUG CO,
36 East Trade Street, Charlotte, US
April 17, 1891.
LOOK OVER
Our Special Bargains for This Week
900 pairs Boys pants at 23 cent a pair
100 pairs Boys pants at 35 cents a pair
3QQ pairs Boys, pants at 50 cents a pair
200 pairs Boys pants at 75 cents a pair.
Overcoats at 25 per cent discount
Boys' Suits at 25 per cent discount
Boys' Overcoats at 25 per cent discount
We have just received
50 dozen all Silk Neck Ties, imported f T
made by yirgoe, Middleton & Co, 0
London.
None in the lqt are worth less than MfW&
We offer all of them at 25 cents ecb-
ROGERS & CQMPANY,
New Bryan B8
Nearly Opposite Court tlooa
Feb.20,18Ql. CbartottM
FOB
MEN AND BOYS.
Broad-Brim Straw Hats by the cs
Nobby Styles in Gents' Straw Goods, either
cream or black.
Ngligee Shrts ape the coolest and very l1
fad in flente' Furnishings. We have aOod W
ready for your Inspection, worth 85 cents
upward.
Bear in mind we baye every thing kep1 15
large first-class Dry Goods House.
T. L. ALEXANDER., 80 $ $
May 15.' 1891. 1,1 ' '
gTJGHES'
Quinjne Hair Tpajc.
The best preparation made tor the Hair,
parts Vigor to the Scalp. Clertiesrt
oughly eradicates Dandruff, aid toJ m
f44JPnce25and60eentr WgJ,
SrifiDgs' CorneV Charlotte,!;