The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-11

plump were better exhibi-
ted in a fashionable ball-dress than
without any at all. Queer thing-is
old Human Nature mt she
Money is exceedingly scarce, and
collections seemingly impossible.
There is great deal of suffering
We have hal three or four applica-
tions-aye, fearful appeais-from gtrTS
of al twelve years, to give them
work, of any kind, at any price. Some
of them, of course. were little impos-
tors, begging for the greed of it. But
others were painfully anxious. and it
was with real regret we had 20 refuse
Ie, who have in plenty. and to spare.
he openhanded now, and lay up for
yourself sweet recollections for the
day of final surrender
The editor Of the New York I'ri-
Jitne has twice, at intervals of year,
received check for 81 900 with re-
quest to apply it to meet the necessi-
ties of the poor, in such way as he
might see tit. The second thousand
lie divided among five clergymen Of
the leading city churches. to be by
them applied as necessity called. The
donor was from Connecticut, and
simply signed himself ID. B." We
should like To know more about I'D.
b." Does he give of his abundance,
or from meagre purse: Does he
give from genuine charity, or with
| design to eventually allow his good
/ gifts to find him out !: Lastly. does
/ he give as Conscience Fund"-one
| thousand from the te,ss of thousands
| he has stolen, or was the act one of
| pure benevolence Alas, for the
| times when one must question even
| the deeds Of charity
Say what you please about unseN-
ing and unwomanly employments, we
certainly think there should be female
physicians, or female specialists in
medicine and surgery for the treat
ment of womens special ailments
Modesty in woman is ranked next to
her virtue, yet the modesty of many a
woman prevents her revealing trou-
bles that might be speedily remedied
by medical skill 1t may be best that
male physicians should attend to or
dinary practice, but undoubtedly a
trained. cOol-headed woman doctor in
every town of the size of Raleigh lac
cessible to adjacent smaller towns)
would save many life, and many a
| year Of domestic wretchedness.
Joseph Caldwell OF Boston. illus
trates the shoddy aristocracy foisted
on the country by the stealings of the
! war. In 1888 Joe was a clerk on a
small salary, i'll a dry-@oods store.
| Three years later the war began. and
| Mr.. Caldwell got employment under
the government. Two years farther
| on. we find "Col." Caldwell mot of
/ the army. however,. a wealthy specu-
| lator. In 1867, Hon. Joseph Caldwell,
| worth 80 or 10 millions, began a house
| which in the pride of his heart he de
/ signed should be the finest IN America.
/ 1t was to cost half a million Of dollars.
! 4 single window cost him $500.
| Think what a sum of heartfelt bless
| incs might have been purchased with
81, 5000 Well, the panic came along
propcr,y decreased IN valne-anl now,
| again. it is Joe; for the poor devil
! has not a dollar He is bankrupt, and
the unfinished palace is being torn
down for lumber. But there is no lack
of; shoddy to take his place.
in hunting up data { + i history Of
| Mecklenburg runty. we were M
pressed with the fact that there is
more homogeneity in the population
of North Carolina than in any other
STATE in the Union. No State has so
| small a 70 'eign element no State has
so large a number of families Who, e
| ancestors came over with the con-
| queror" "(s)-of the forest wild, and the
denizens thereof. and have clung to
the soil OF their fathers unto this
day Go into any county, and You
will find the same family names, yes,
and the same given names. which fig
urc III history as the original occuplers
of the land one lu ldred and fifty
years agN.
This fact accounts for the circun'- :