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Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-09-09

A man nay like to stand On the pinnacle of
fame, b1t he does not care to sit down on the
first part Of IL
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-09-09

Gave instantaneous relief st. Jacobs
Oh. Neuralgia Prof. Tics.-Sf. L9sis
1 Post Disp0tck.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-09-09

Great improvements have recently been
made in Carboline, deodorized extract Of Pc
troleum, the great natural hair remover, per-
feet as an exQuisitely perfumed hair dressing
and restorer. Sold by all druggists.
ALIENS BRAIN FOOD.-Most reliable tonic
n for the Brain and Generattve Org ans. ~
positively Nervous Debility and restores LOST
Free by mail on receipt of price. JOHN H Al.
LEN, Chemlrt. 315 First Avenue. New York
A bunion is spoken of as nobby thing in
low-cut shoes.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-09-09

YOuNG MEN nyea would learn relbnAphy 3
HfuAfion. Aa1rem Valentine Bros.. Evansville VIA
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-09-09

NAL fesh. Try a bottle.
As these cuts indicate, the Oil Is used success
fully for all diseases Of the human Jori and animal
flesh Shake well before using.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-03-04
Eighteen Hundred Beggars.

You want to know how many men
dicants there are in Philadelphia Well,
| should say there were 1900" said
Charles ID. Kellogg, General Secretary
OF the Society for Organizing Charity,
in reply to a question from Record re-
porter. Last winter Mayor Stokley
took census of this class of our people
for the benefit of the society, and he
found there were 1000 persons depend
ent upon street begging for support,
while in the House of Correction and
Almshouse there were 600 more seeking
food and shelter during the winter
months, but who would become COM
mon beggarS when warm weather re-
turned. OF course some of these were
forced by circumstances to beg, but the
greater number did so from choice or
laziness, whichever you wish to call it.
Business being better this winter than
last, there are fewer men out of work.
Besides this, the society has cut off the
sources OF supply of many mendicants,
and as consequence of these two facts
we find the number of persons needing
relief reduced by several hundred.
Nine-tenths of the street beggars will
refuse work if offered them. Last win
ter the Superintendent of one of the
district associations sent 200 able-bodied
men to the woodward, and how many
of them do you suppose reported to the
manager and earned their bread by
work? just thirty; the other 40 pre-
ferring to beg from soft-hearted persons
who would give them food or clothing
without inquiring into the needs of the
recipient. When the society began its
operations it found hundreds of families
that depended upon soup houses fol
their food and the Guardians of the Poor
for fuel, cheating the landlords out of
rent by moving as often as possible.
Neither the men nor the women would
work when opportunity offered. 1t is
this kind of pauperism that the society
is seeking to break up, and already
Philadelphia is Stunned by the pro-
fessional beggar as city where his
trade does not thrive. 1t is our aim to
find employment for the poor, and per-
manently relieve their miseries, spend
ing so for such purpose rather than
81 for temporary relief. We only re-
sort to this latter method in urgent
cases, How many families are under
our care. Well, about 5000. This is
large number, but when the society
aids family our agents keep an eye on
its future movements, and by this means
we have supervisory care over large
numbers to whom we give no relief. ~
Philadelphia Record.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-03-04
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A turn in the tied-the first quarrel
after marriage.
-" If thought | was going to be-
come gray. know | should dier' ex-
claimed Miss Springle. When she
turned gray, she did dye, sure enough.
Wealth does not bring happiness
1t only provides the means by which
people can make themselves happy if
they have capacity for enjoyment.
There are ten shades of gloves
which are fashionable for evening wear,
and there is no earthly excuse for a gen
tleman laundering in upon a wedding
with pair of buckskin mittens on his
paws DetrOH Free Press.
Ike has an irritating skin dis
ease" Mrs. Darlington says; Charlotte
russo broke out all over him, and if he
hadn't wore the Injun beads as an ONE
let it would doubtless have eliminated
fatally"
-" What is your nameP'' asked the
Justice. ''Smith, replied the bibulous
prisoner. John" inquired the magis-
trate. "JO," responded the prisoner.
That's demijohn," said his honor
"Well, you look like it; take ten days"
The Kentucky Legislature has re-
fused to consider bill TO make living a
punishable offense, and now nothing on
earth can prevent the old liars from put
ting in one of the best seasons on record
Detroit Free Press. ..I ..H| Isl
- Father, did you ever have another
wife besides mother?" mo, my boy.
What possessed you to ask such ques-
tionP' Because saw in the old fam
lily Bible where you married Ammo
Domini, in 1885; and that isn't mother,
for her name was Sally Smith" .II
Ma, am / all made now?" asked a
little miss of three-and-one-half years at
the breakfast table yesterday morning.
"Why, dear?" said the fond mother
because | have had my ears pierced,
and was vaccinated yesterday" said
little Tot.-Hartford Sunday Journal.
They mad been engaged to be mar
ried fifteen years and still he had not
mustered up resolution enough to ask
her to name the happy day. One even
ing he called in particularly spoony
frame of mind, and asked her to sing
him something tender and touching,
something that would move him. She
sat down at the piano and sang; Oar
ling, Am Growing Old" = 14au
He was praising her beautiful hair.
and begging for one tiny curl, when her
little brother said; "Oh, my! 'tain't
nothin' now; You just ought to have
seen how long it hangs down when she
hangsit on the side of the table to comb
it.'' Then they laughed. and she called
her brother cute little angel; and when
the young man was going away, and
heard that boy yelling, he thought the
lad was taken suddenly and dangerously
Ii.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-03-04
OYER TIE VIZ


nc, fresh young beauty, laughing eyed,
VINO reckons lovers by the score.
But Just sweet old maid who died
while was yet in pinafore.
She lived upon the shady side
Of that Old-fasnioned country street.
spreading chestnut grcenly tried
To screen the door of her retreat.
tiny garden, trim and square,
a snowy light of steps above,
AND sweet suggestions I'm the air
vi all the flowers the poets love.
Within the trcllised porch there hung
a parrot IN a Furnished cage
a foolish bird. whose hooking tongue
Burlesqued the piping tones of age.
branching apple-tree Oerspread
"A rickety old garden seat;
NO apples sure were Ger so red
Or since have tasted half as sweet.
In Memory's enchanted land,
see the gentle spinster yet.
WIN Watering-pOt in mittened hand,
Gaze proudly at her mignonette;
And when the spring had grown to June
She'd sit beneath theapple tree,
And dream away the afternoon,
With some quaint volume on her knee
A gray-robed vision of repose,
"A pleasant thought in Quaker guise:
For truly she was one of those
Who carry Heaven in their eyes.
Chambers Journal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-03-04
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin
has decided that teacher who unduly
whips a pupil is guilty of a INSIDE
Dleanor NJ
The London Guardian says that sin
spite of anti-religious manifestations,
there never was time when religion
commanded a larger and more intelli-
gent interest than in these days"
Friday is the Turkish Sabbath. On
that day the Sultan goes to the Mosque
near the palace, and, as the successor of
the prophet, makes a public PRAYER.
The event is attended with much pomp
and ceremony and great crowds gather
in the streets to see the Sultan.
There are now 26 Protestant church
es in Utah, with membership of 958.
and the Sunday-schools number "a, with
1921 scholars and 1879 teachers. The
growth has chiefly taken place within
the last five years, and it is said that the
Gentle religious influences have now
begun to be felt in the land of polyg-
amy.
The Young Women's Christian As
ISOLATION is quietly doing q good work
of APO, has free classes in sewing, pho
biography, type-writing, penmanship,
bookkeeping, photo-coloring and silk
painting-all practical ways by which it
is able to assist young women. Last
year it furnished positions to 1,123 ap-
plicants, and secured board in Christian
families for many persons. Such a work
is valuable in many ways, and deserves
Christian encouragement.
The Ladies' University at st Peters.
burg has a physical laboratory with 1870
students, a chemical laboratory with 60
students, and a physiological laboratory
with 400 students. The botanical cabi-
net has twenty microscopes. The whole
institution is maintained by private CON
tributions and by entrance fees of S25
per year, the Ministry of Public Instruc-
hon allowing only $1,500per year. The
ectures are delivered by professors of
the st. Petersburg University, and since
last year the programme has been rem
| dered quite equal to that of the male uni
yersity; special mathematical faculty
was recently opened. The number of
students at, this Free Ladies' University
is $50, and AZ assistants.
No careful observer has ever failed
to see that the chief troubles and disap-
pointments of the public schools come
from the employment of teachers who
have taken up the work merely to earn
living and not because they have a
natural aptitude for dealing with vary
ing natures and imparting ideas
To lead and enlarge young mind re-
quires peculiar tact and temper, and
not every person emerging from nor
NAL school and carrying new certif-
cate is fitted for the work. There is
not little good sense in this paragraph
from the London Globe: "For a man
to be successful teacher he must be
sympathetic with boys, there must lin
ger within him an eyer-juvenile ele-
ment, EN- rapport with their modes of
thought, sensible of their prejudices and
suspicious, abreast of all those impor-
tant discoveries for Sinking work to
| which each generation manages to add
something new, willing to see their in
dividual struggles, to cheer on their am
billions and condole their defeats.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-03-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.

There are 1000 blind persons in
Pennsylvania.
The sales from Chicago dry goods
house last year aggregated 1927, $50, 900.
In Florida there are 19,763 white
people over ten years of age who cannot
write their own name.-DetrOH Free
Press.
The loss to England by the last three
years of bad harvests is estimated at
from a hundred to hundred and fifty
million dollars year.
New England manufactures 81, $780,
600 worth of table cutlery every year
and yet it isn't fashionable to eat pie
with a knife.
There are one thousand artesian
wells in California, three hundred of
which are in the Santa Clara Valley.
They average from $50 to $50 feet deep.
New England requires about 90
900, 900 bushels of wheat and produces
only l $50, 900. New York uses about
30,000,0 900 and grows about 10000, 900.
Nevada has about 1000, 600 acres
of salt land, and could supply the whole
earth if necessary. Besides this she has
about 1000, 600 acres of soda and brim-
stone deposits.
In the ninety-nine counties of Iowa
there were in 1880, according to the
census, 2,504 working oxen; 500, 1923
mich COWS; 1854, APO other cattle;
GOA, 600 swine; 791, 1854 horses, and
A, 399 mules and asses. There were
in the State 1,624,615 people. The
greatest number of mich COWS in any
one county was o. 1872 in Lee; the
greatest number of oxen, 500 in Du-
buque; of other cattle, ~, 391 in Lee of
swine, 1873, 1875 in Cedar; of horses. TO-
949 in Clinton; of mules and asses, 1,917
in Fremont counties.
Nothing and nobody escapes taxa
ton in Turkey. The Government takes
one-tenth of all crops, besides which
there is a tax of three-tifths of one per
cent. on the value of the land On
every sheep and goat there is an annual
tax of twelve cents, and when a horse,
cow or other domestic animal is sold
two-and-a-half per cent. of the price
goes to the Government Then there is
a house tax amounting to two-fifths of
one per cent. on the value of houses
worth under $500, and four-fifths of one
per cent on houses valued above that
sum.
From the official balance sheet of
the Paris exhibition of 1878, it appears
that the total expenditures We're, in
round numbers, 81 ,155, 600, and the
total receipts S4,S70,000. leaving de-
ficit of Sc, 2S5, 900, which is more than
three times the original deficit estimate,
the estimate having been $1,000, 1000.
In almost every item the expenditures
exceeded the estimates, and so also of
the receipts. Admissions returned 49,
$4,000, or 1925, 000less than was antici-
pated. Money paid as wages amount
ed to $500, 900, as against an estimate OF
only $4,000. Water for the cascades
and aquariums cost S560,000. the med.
ais and diplomas 100000, and the
awards ceremony S40,800.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-03-04
Some Mistakes in Gardening.

A garden to be profitable should be
highly MANFRED. High manuring is es-
sential to speedy growth and large
crops. The more rapid the growth of
vegetables the more tender they are.
Land on which much labor is spent in
cultivation should be made by the judi
cious employment of fertilizers to pro-
duce very large crops. Market garden
ers in the vicinity of large cities ordi-
narily apply at least fifty cords of stable
manure every year to the ground they
occupy, and many use in addition wood
ashes and a considerable amount of
commercial fertilizers. The crops they
raise would astonish most farmers who
manure garden spot only as they do a
field intended for corn or small grain.
Many farmers attempt to raise vege-
tables on land occupied in part by fruit
trees, grape-vines and bushes. The
roots of these take most of the nutri-
ment from the soil, while their branches
cast dense shade. Garden vegetables
require all the soil for their own use.
Another mistake in gardening consists
in surrounding the spot with fence,
so that blowing is rendered difficult, as
well as the work of cultivation by
teams. A garden to be easily worked
should be located where no fences are
required to protect it from animals and
fowls. By having no fence about it the
soil can be plowed without difficulty,
and most of the work of cultivating
may be done by horses. Most vege-
tables can be planted in drills running
the entire length of the lot, and the soil
between them worked by means of a
cultivator. Another mistake in garden
ing consists in planting all kinds Of
seeds at nearly the same time without
regard to their natural habits or time OF
maturity. Farmers know that field
crops should be planted at different
times, but they persist in planting
onions and Lima beans on the same
day. Chicago Times
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-03-04
The Health OF London in 1881.

Both the birth-rate and the death-rate
registered in London during last year
were considerably below the average.
and lower than in any recent year. The
birth-rate was equal to 34.8, and the
death-rate PIP per 1000 of the esti-
mated population in the middle of the
year. The death-rate was l. per l 200
below the mean death-rate in the pre-.
ceding decade, 1871-S0 The most un.
favorable feature of the years mortality
statistics is the fact that 1881, or more
than IL per cent of the deaths, were re-
ferred, to the principal zymotic diseases;
these included 1871 fatal cases of small
pOx, 1858 of measles, 2,108 of scarlet
fever, 2,988 of diarrhea, 1861 of whoop-
ing-cough, 1,196 of ''fever" (includino
SO of typhus, 977 of enteric and 123 OF
simple or underlined forms of fever) and
654 of diphtheria. The death-rate from
these zymotic diseases was equal to 3. 6
per l, 900, and was identical with the rate
from the same disease in 1880. The total
cases of smallpox, which had been but
45S and AIS in the two preceding wears.
rose to 1888 in 1881 The deaths from
"fever," measles and diphtheria also
showed marked increase, while the
fatal cases of scarlet fever, whooping-
cough and dianhea were considerably
less numerous. The rate of infant NOR
tality was lower than in 1880; the deaths
under one year were equal to 148 per
1000 of births registered, against 1873 in
1880, a result mainly due to the decline
in the fatality of summer diarrhea. The
rate of infant mortality measured in this
manner averaged 1853 per 1000 in the
ten years 1880. On the whole, the
metropolitan mortality statistics of 1881
might have been regarded as satisfac-
tory but for the recrudescence of cpl
demic smallpox, and for the increase of
fever mortality, due in great measure
to outbreaks of epidemic typhus in
Marylebone and Whitechapel. Lancet.
The Boston Post boasts of cat that
has fallan from a fifth StO,.,r min 1ox,r a, a
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-03-04

They vaccinated a young man in
Cairo with mucilage just for fun, and he
now " sticks for two thousand dollars
damages.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-03-04

The Boston Post boasts of cat that
has fallen from fifth story window and
escaped comparatively unhurt.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-05-18
NO. p
A Good Plan for Improving the Public
Roads

The Editor of the Raleigh News
Observer, speaking Of the necessity
for better country Reads. says: :;
"When we were a me mber of tho
Legislature in 1870, the question
what to do with the Penifentiary
and the conTicts pressed itself upon
our attention. 1t was then rnder-
stood that the convicts might be
utilized in the construction of the
unfinished railroads in which the
State had direct interest, and we
contemplated that as soon as those
works should be completed these
State hands would be used to, ,itp-
proTe our county roads That
time is now drawing near. In two
0r three years at farthest. these rail
roads, we hope, will be completed,
and then this convict labor can4 4.be
employed with profit on those 9th
er and hardly less important high
ways that pass by the very doors Of
our citizens Some scheme Of work
must be established under legisla-
tive direction. ard it is not too ear
ly to dire ct attention to it and pres
sent some plan for discussion. Ii
we suppose that a penitentiary
force of 500 men can be put to
work on the county roads, we
would suggcs: that for the first few
years they be divided into gangs of
fifty each, aEl that. each gang
should begin TO operate in the
neighberhood OF some town where
there is considerable travel. They
might, from such Il town as a CEN
tre, put in good condition, at first,
te miles Of each road of cense~
quence leading ont of the town.
After that work has been compile
ted, they might add a second Sec
ton Of ten miles to each road. This
would SO on bring the W rst portions
of these roads and those mostly
travelled up to a fine condition. Il
would be for the benefit Of all wlle
trade in these towrs, no matter
where they live. When they had
been done, the counties might be
empowered 20 retain at home all
their own convicts, except the most
villainous fellows, and two or more
counties might work together> The
local force SO organized would form
4 band OF roal hands that would III
e few years put the roads of each
county in a far better condition than
now exists. Py such means the
people Will be in great part relieved
of the burden that now oppresses
them OF working the roads, and the
convict labor will I've turned to
good account without interfering at
all with the ordinary employment
of other iaborers. 1t thus SCENE
that the adoption of some such plan
will solve several difficulties, anG
we call it to tie attention OF the
! press.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-05-18
What Earth Worms Do.

In 1927 Mr. Darwin first published.
bis views as to the formation of veg
etable mold and the aeecny of worms
in its production, and ever since that
time be has made the matter subject
of observation. His views at first
did not appear to receive much sup
port from geologists, but the result OF
over forty years study fully bear
them out. The author speaking of
worms ir a late work says: Gin
many parts of England weight Of
over ten tons of dry earth annually
passes through their bodies and is
brought TO the surface on each acre
of land. SO that the whole superficial
ted oil vegetable mold passes through
their bodies in the course OF every
few years From the collapaing of
the old burrows the mold is in con-
slant though slow movement. When
we behold wide, turf-covered ex-
panse, we should remember that its
smoothncss, on which its beauty de-
) pends, is mainly due TO all the ins-
equalities having been slowly levelees
by worms. 1t is a marvellous reflec-
; ton that the whole of the superficial
. mold over any such expanse has
: passed, and will again pass, 'avery
: few years through the bodies o
worms. The pillow is one OF the mos
. ancient and most valuable of man
inventions but long before he exis
:, ;, ted the land was regularly plowed
=. and still continues to be thus plowe'
III lNn xlo ,tnk
9 ed whether there are many other ar
imals which have played SO importar
a part in the history of the world 6
- have these lowly organ iz e
-, creatures"
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-05-18

In Florida there are native North
Carolinians as follows: Whites, o.
1872; colered, 3,5o5. In Georgia
there are 1893 whites. 1908 col
ored. In Indiana 1917 whites.
3.167 colored. In Kentucky S.946
whites, 792 colored. In Louisiana
lap whites, 4,790 colored. We
have not the statistics by us for
South Carolina, Alabama, Missis=,
sippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and
Texas, but they would show large
number of North Carolina natives
lamong their populations
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-05-18

:. A "BUN1oN" REnEDY.-Use pull
verified saltpeter and sweet oil.
Five cents worth of saltpeter put
into a bottle with sufficient sweet
oil to nearly dissolve it.
Shake up we'll and use night and
morning. It is a well-tried remedy.
Earache may be cured by dropping
little sweet oil and laudnuin
warm into the ear, aud applying
hot salt in flannel bags, 80 as to
keep the part continually warm
a better plan still! is this: Take {
bit OF cettoE batting, put upon it :
pinch of black pepper, gather it VI
and tie it; dip iii sweet Oil and inser
it in the ear; put flannel bandag
over the head to keep it warm. /
, will give Immediate relief.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-05-18

The Supreme court CT this State
has decided, in the case of the State
against Freeman from Henderson,
Vile, that a Police officer has au-
thority to arrest, without warrant,
persons who violate law and are
guilty of disorderly acts, such as
drunkenness, &c, and contine them
in the calaboose or Jail, until saclI
time as they can be carried before
the Mayor or Magistrate.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-05-18

Chronic DlARRHeA.-Ac cores
pondcnt has found great relief from
which he has long suffered, in the
daily use of wheat bran and soft
water, strained through cloth and
used as a beverage at meals. The
g,uelss ais said to be very helpful tc
persons suffering from constipation
So simple and accessible a remedy
ought to be 'universallyknown'
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-05-18

1t is estimated by Hon. NJ. Nc
Gehaesthat the sale of fertilizers in
hi State this season will reach 90.
900 tons, which will require ovel
three million dollars to be taker
ont of the growing cotton crop.