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The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-09-13

OYSTERS! OYSTERS!
W. B. Taylor's Restaurant.
Bananas. Oranges. Lemons, Cocoanuts, Figs,
Apples, Pears. Domestic and Imported Grapes
ALL PRIZE STOCK.
French Candies and CONNECTIONS, Cigars Pipes,
Tobacco. &c.
a. Meals at all hours. Boarders accom-.
modated.
W. B. TAYLOR,
Sept 6. 1889. % West Trade street.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-09-13
B. NICHOLS.
Baby CarriapeSl

An elegant line of Baby Carriages just re-
ceived. All styles and shades to suit every
body. Please call and see them.
My stock is now complete in every respect
viz: Bedroom Suits, Parlor Suits, Beds, Mat.
tresses. Safes, Lounges, Tables, Chairs and
everything in First Glass Furniture House.
Goods sold or the installment plan. weekly
navmonfe
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-09-13
The solver Chilled PlOw,"
The Best in the World.

HAMMOND s. JUSTICE are now Agent,
for this celebrated Plow, and carry a full stock
Boards, Landsider, Bolts, &C, and are selling
very close.
We also have large stock of Pittsburg Steel
Plows, Single and Double Iron Foot Plow
Stocks, at Rock Bottom prices.
HAMMOND & JUSTICE.
Oct z. 1888
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-09-13

March %, 1899.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
FEMININE TIPPLERS.

It is curious that while high license
has indisputably reduced the numberOf
saloons in st. Paul to the extent that
in the suburbs one must walk long
distance between drinks, the number of
private drinking places for women have
notably increased. Five or six years
ago, if a woman desired a drink she had
her chance between entering diSreputa-
BILE holes or having the liquor brought
to her habitatiOn. At the present time
there is not main street in the city but
contains places where she may enter
and drink in privacy, and with but little
danger to her name or character.
Private entrances, small booths with
spring locks on their doors,
restaurants with bar attachments
all throw out invitations for
the feminine tippler that are less easily
resisted as the city grows larger. A
woman may now enter a respectable
restaurant, go to private room, get
gloriously full over the wine bottle, be
removed to carriage through private
back way. and no one be ever the wiser
but the discreet attendants. How far
the practice extends into the higher
classes of society in st. Paul it would
be hard to determine without long and
strict espionage. But this new class of
drinking resorts are thriving, and the
evidence Is not conclusive that their
only resource is the poeketbook of the
lower classes.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
AMERICAN HUMoRIsTs.

A sarcastic editorial in late issue OF
the London Daily News flayS our Amer
lean humoriSts alive. The caustie erttl-
cism was provoked by some remarks
recently made by w. d. HoWELLs i'll
Harper's Magazine 'laudatory of Amer
ican humor. The London newspaper
makes some comparisons which, in their
way, are almost as humorous as one OF
Bill. NYE'S brainlesS creations. 1t con-
fronts JOSH Billings with DAN CHAIT-
GER, ARTEMUS WARD with SHAKE
SPEARE, Uncle REMUs with BURNS,
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER with SYD-
NEY SMITH, the Danbury News man
with TOM HOOP, JOHN PHGNTN with
CHARLES LAMB, the Burlington Hawk
eye man with dickens, BRET HARTE
with THACKERAY, land then, with the air
of one who is conscious of having car
ried his point, the Lo ndon journal wants
to know what we ca IL humor on this
side of the water, and of what sort of
material are American humorists made?
We concede the point that the London
papers array of humorists takes the
cake, but it is the old Bull JONES style
of argument; the witnesses are all dead.
They have taken their place among the
classics.
This country is too yoGng to have a
classical history Of its oy,a. CHAUCER,
SHAKESPEARE and BURNS are as
much ours as they are Britain's. be-
cause they belonged to the times and
to the country Of our forefathers. Ii
comparisons are IN order let our Eng
lish friends trot out their humorists of
this day and generation and place them
by the side of ours. There is where we
will hold the winning hand. So far as
/ humor goes, who of modern English
writers is comparable with MARK
/ TWAIN? We venture the statement
that more copies of InnocentS Abroad
have been sold in England than the
works of all the modern English humor-
Gus writer's combined. Even the dialect
stories of Uncle REMUs are in the
library of every English gentleman OF
culture. If there is an English humor-
ist now living whose books are read at
home or abroad we fail to recall his
name. To come right down to truth
full point. we are not particularly vain
glorious over our American humorists.
but as bad as most of them are, they
are ahead of anything that England has
turded out since DICKENS died.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
FROM HALLS OF STATE.

Eugene Hay has become known as
the AdOnis Of the house.
A Hennepin member is now known as
the Rev. Freeman Proxy Lane.
1t is slyly rumored that Jared Benson
and Obieetor Holman have formed
secret alliance.
Representative Brush, once an Illinois
lawyer, is now Northern Minnesota
farmer.
They call him "Daye" and 'sDan,"
but his correct appellatiOn is Darius
Morgan.
Repres entative Husher finds time
during the morning hours of the session
to do exchange clipping for his news
paper.
The bloom that perpetually rests
upon the ckeeks of Senator Marcus
Jehnson makes him q capital adver-
tisement for Recamier's cream.
When Senator Tosten johnson. who
IS a bold Norseman, says ''Phwat,"
with unmistakable brogue, the Irish in
Senator Kellar bubbles all over.
It is suspected that Senator Buckman
intends making st. Paul his permanent
home.
Senator Scheffer will shortly intro
duce q bill raising the wolf bounty.
His favorite dog is sans an ear, owing
to recent encounter with one of these
nests
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
end the temperance agitation Of thus

end the temperance agitation OF this
session,
The temperance committee has before
it two bills for county local option. in
troduced by Maland. The Stebbins
bill, to punish blind pigs: the Temple
bill. to increase the amount of the pres
ent license fees and the Hompe bill for
the submission of the constitution pro-
hibition to the people next June. There
is still another bill to come, and which
is now being drafted, which materially
increases the penalties attached to the
high license law and makes its enforce
element of the house and SEN
ate is the best organized of
any of those contending
over temperance this winter. OF the
$50 members. 80 are strongly inclined TO
no changes from the present law. and of
this 80, so are said to be pledged to no
change which, If it is true, makes further
agitation useless. The prehibitionists
have no organization and are divided
among themselves. respectable mum
Der being opposed to any submission OF
that question this year. The local OPP
tion people are not much better off.
and are unsustained by any petitions
from the country asking for it. The
prohibition petitions have fallen off ma
terially also, and their force been some
what weakened by the discovery in one
petition that the body of it and the sig
natures were i'll one style of handwrit-
ing.
The temper of the house is such that
it would not be surprising to see the
temperance bugaboo killed off mex,
Tuesday for good.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
MILLIONS In DEBT.
Failure of the Ohio and Western

COaI anu IRON company.
COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 9.--The Ohio and
Western Coal and Iron company has
failed. Glidden & Curtis. the Boston
banking firm which collapsed few
days ago, was backing the company.
and the embarrassment Of the bankers,
through the Pacific Guano company's
misfortunes. is supposed to have brought
about the crash in the affairs of the
Ohio company. Attachments were
run to-day against all the COM
pany's Columbus property by the
Hooking Valley railroad. whose
claim is for S21, 800. Other suits have
been filed by parties residing in Cieve-
land and elsewhere. The company has
been doing heavy business in the
manufacture of iron, and its furnaces
in the Hooking valley are among the
largest and best III the West. 1t is
claimed that the assets are large, bat
that for some reason the company has
been unable to collect on accounts long
since due. and that the Boston failure
may have only hastened an inevitable
crisis. The company was capitalized
for 5000, 900 in bonds and sJ,00O,0 in
stocks. OF the latter il is understood
that Glidden d Curtis controlled seven
eighthS. The firm is said to have adj
yanced the company S1s50.00o.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
sTuDYING POLITICS.

The debative elements in the high
school are fertilizing their minds this
week with colliding theories in regard
to the propriety of allowing contrOyert-
ed public questions to agitate the for
native mental period. 1t is noted that
in New York an association has been
organized among the most intelligent
young ladies for this special object.
They are not of the short hair and nu-
merous horse power mentality class.
but merely sensible young women who
think American girls should be in
formed upon the questions that pertain
to the government and political fabrics.
Their first lessons will be of the conSti-
tuition Of the United States, its scope
and principles. and the eau ses thst led
to its adoption. There is no Immediate
apprehension Of such political enlarge
ments as will require young ladies to
be trained for politicians, but there is
no special peril seen in their gathering
in few ideas about the matters that
the voting elements are supposed to
know all about. The latter, of course,
is a romantic supposition-a theory,
not condition.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
A FLIRTING BOWER.

The headquarters of the telephone
and telegraph for the legislature at the
state capital have rightly been named
SThe Bower of Flirtatiens." Soft
sighs and softer words continually echo
through them, sweet from the lips Of
fair operators or rugged and manly
lawmakers.
Bronzed men famous in the political
circles of the state there throw off the
cares of Office and bask in the sunshine
radiated by women. The thunderous
orator Oh the rights Of the people there
become a whispering lamb.
''Te, he, he."
"You don't mean it"
s'Now, Senator"
s'Thanks. awfully."
''Of, DEAR"
''How lovely"
Exclamations such as these float past
doors aiar and invigorate the routine of
dull work.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10

the poetic expression of the sentiment,
it must have occurred even to Col,
lNGERsoLI. that the conversion of the
body into deeayed flesh, only fit for
worm food, is mighty poor reeompense
for lifetime of unselfsh devotion to
the cause of humanity. MARY FIsKE's
friends may have wished for no more,
but the good woman herself left the
evidence behind her that she longed for
something better. 70 those who are
familiar with her writings will arise the
recollection of her musings on Death in
which she-says: 81 do not believe much,
but l hope for great deal" Her faith
was embodied in this sentence: IF be-
yend this life there is any reward for
the dwellers oil earth, the crown must
rest upon the golden head that never
conceived an evil thing-the palm must
reach that gentle. generous hand that
was helpful and open to ALL" Her
hope, stronger than her faith, reached
out fer something better than annihila-
tion
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10

the world, you can do SO, and some one
will probably write your obituary be-
fore you'have attained full and mature
manhood. If boys are taught to walk
erect there will be more tall men and
less short ones. Erect forms are apt to
grow upward, while those who carry
themselves IN a slip-shod manner are
apt to spread cut. The present fast age
is producing large number of short
men, for they begin soon after leaving
the cradle to chase the almighty dollar,
and rush through the world so hurriedly
that they have not time to straighten
up, and hence their growth is latitu-
dinal, not longitudinal"
fIf
One who has been close student of
female character notices that woman
never reckons time by the calendar
years. For instance man says: ''My
house was burned in the summer of
'67." His wife says ''our house was
burned eleven years age last summer.
So marked is this feminine popularity,
the statement may be safely made that
there is not one married woman in
twenty-eight here in ST. Paul who can
off-hand till the exact year Of her we'd
ding. She may have the day of the
month On her tongues end, but the '69s
and SIS she has no use for.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Gen. BouIanger is afraid that an at
tempt will be made to poison him. He
has gone to Rogat for rest and has
taken his own cook with him.
Amelie Rlves-Chanler Indignantly de-
nies the story that she has been ROAM
ing about the woods of Virginia clad in
a bearSkin oyercoau and a silk hat.
DR.. Mary Walker is the most active
lobbyist in Washington. Her trousers
twinkle about the corridors OF the
capitol with persistence that COM
mands admiration.
Elsie Lawrie, little school girl of
Philadelphia, was so happy at gaining
promotion at her recent examination
that she wrote to Mrs. Cleveland telling
the White house mistress of her good
fortune. On Saturday Elsie received
photograph Of Mrs. Cleveland with her
autograph attached.
Pitcher Stagg, of Yale, will not play
ball next season unless the success Of
his college, depends upon his services
as twirler. If he does not pitch he
will preach. In either case his delivery
will be an important factor.
The Very Rev. Canon Baynes, an
English Episcopal clergyman, formerly
of much prominence and dignitary of
Worcester cathedral. has just been sen
fenced at Oxford to four months i'm
prisonment for sWindling barmaid Of
SIS by means of a worthless check.
Miss Drexel, the $4,000, 900 heiress of
Philadelphia. has not only secured a
husband but convert. She is devout
Catholic. and it was one of the cOndi-
tions of the nuptial contract that he
should embrace the Catholic religion.
He did.
The daily mail of John Wanamaker,
of Philadelphia, has become burden
some since he was considered cabinet
certainty. His influence is asked by
men who want positions under the new
administration. AS his exact cabinet
position is not known, he receives let
ters asking for naval places and others
requesting postmasterships. One man
wrote that he had invented a lock for
mail bags and wanted the government
to adopt it. All these letters are filed
and acknowledged.
Mrs. Cleveland is very fond of waltz
ing, but up to a few nights ago she had
not danced since she entered the White
house as mistress. She and her hus-
band have no prejudice against the
waltz on moral grounds, but they de-
cided that it would be moro dignifed
for Mrs. Cleveland to abstain from dane
ing in public. The president does not
waltz. as his boyhood was spent in
domestic atmosphere antagonistic to
Terpsichorean accomplishments. Mrs.
Cleveland is fine dancer if her part
ner is skilful enough to do his full duty.
Senator Vance is rapidly recovering
from the operation recently performed
on his left eye. For several days it was
thought that he would lose the sight of
his right also. but the danger line has
been passed, and he is now able to use
his remaining eye in reading. He is
very restless and anxious to leave the
dark room to which he has been con-
fined for some weeks. He amuses him
self by playing cards and listening to
the contents of the daily newspapers,
which his wife reads to him. 1t is not
probable that he will resume his duties
in the senate during the present session,
as his physician has warned him against
taxing his right eye too severely.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
FLOORING TO THE CITIES.

Some figures recently gathered in Hi
nois show the surprising fact that most
of the agricultural countias are at a
standstill, or actually decreasing, i'll
population. There are 102 counties in
the state, and only seven of them show
an increase the past eight years in the
number Of male Inhabitants under
twenty-one years of age. The seven
contain the larger cities of the state.
The increase in Cook, which contains
Chicago, was greater by 2S,917 than the
gain of the entire state. That state is
at the head of the Western states in
agricultural productions, and farm life
there should have attractions for the
young men, if anywhere. But it does
not hold them in needful proportions.
They flock to the cities and overcrowd
all the avenues to employment, leaving
their fathers to struggle along as they
can under the mortgages. AS result,
the surplus Of competition in the cities
reduces wages. The tendency is the
same in all the states, and propabIy no
city can be found that could not profit
ably spare great many young men to
operate farms.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
WoOL-GRoWER LANE.

At the time of the visit of the Min
neapolis Republicans to Washington to
secure the holding of the Republican
national convention at the Flour City.
s'Free" Lane went along TO see the fun.
Accidentally he discovered that the dele
gate from Montana would not be pres
Which led Lane to telegraph him for
his proxy, and it was promptly forth
coming. The committee meeting duly
assembly and all outsiders were ex-
cluded. Lane staid in because he held
a proxy. A delegate rose and moved
that proxies held by persons not resi-
dents of the state or territory which
they represented should have no vote
IN the proceedings. Lane felt the
ground slipping from under his feet:
but John c. New, an old-time friend OF
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
THE SON OF THE SHAH.

There was a Shah had a second son
Who was very unlike his elder one,
For he went about on his own affairs,
And scorned the mosque and the daily
prayers:
When his sire froWned fierce. then he cried.
"Iia. ha.'
Noureddin, the son of the Shah.
But worst of all the pranks he played
Was to fall in love with Christian maid
An Armenian maid who wore no vail,
Nor behind a lattice grew thin and pale;
At his sires dark threats laughed the youth,
'Ha. ha"'
Noureddin. the son of the Shah.
Il will shut him close in an iron cage"
The monarch said. in a fuming rage;
But the prince slipped ont by postern door,
And away to the mountains his loved one
bore;
Loud his glee rang back on the winds "Ha,
har"
Noureddin, the son of the Shah.
And still in the town of Teheran,
When maid and youth ADOPT this plan
All frowns and threats with laugh defv,
And away from the mosques to the mount
aims fly
Folk meet and greet with gay ''IIa. ha"'
Noureddin, the son of the Shah!
Clinton Scollard.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
AN UNRELIEVER STILL.

Col. INGERSoIL has again appeared
before the public as funeral orator.
This time it was at the bier OF MARY
FIsKE that the eulogy was pronounced.
and words of music fell from the lips of
the great unbeliever which told of the
generous deeds and lofty thoughts of
gifted woman. Death is theme which
never fails to stir all the poetry in the
soul of the distinguished orator, but
that for which the public listens most
eagerly is to catch something that will
betray The orators lack of confidence in
his intidelity. At the grave of his
brother, while speaking in the agony of
bereavement, q sentence escaped his
lips which was construed into waver-
ing on his part, but since that time his
funeral orations have evidently been
prepared beforehand, and none OF them
betray the slightest evidence of his be-
lief in a hereafter. The nearest ap-
proach to the subject of religion he
madeHin his Grafton over MARY
FISKE's dead body was in the fol-
lowing sentence: ''She knew that
circumstances and conditions de-
tCTIHIlieu CildIdCleI4 tldG IHo lOW6SU
end worst of our race were children
once, as pure as light, whose cheeks
dimpled with smiles beneath the heaven
of mothers eyes. She thought of the
road they had travelled, Of the thorns
that pierced their feet, of the deserts
they had crossed. and SO instead OF scorn
she gave the eager hand of help. No
one appealed TO her in vain. She list
ened TO the story of the poor, and all
she had she gave. A god could do no
more" There was no intimation that
this good woman had a reward beyond.
The headaches and the heartaches of
this life were supposed to have been
all the compensation for the life of
charity and good deeds. Col. NIGER
SOILS address closed with this invoca-
ton: 1--WE pray, thee, Mother Nature,
that thou wilt take this woman and hold
her as tenderIy in thy arms as she held
and pressed against the generous throb-
bing heart the abandoned babe. We
ask for no more" Notwithstanding
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
The Blue and the Gray.

NEW YORK, Feb. "a meeting Of
old soldiers Of both the Confederate and
Union armies was held tonight at the
Fifth Avenue hotel, for the purpose Of
devisng the best method by which to
raise funds for the permanent estab-
lishment of a Confederate soldiers
home at Austin, Tex. Speeches We're
made by MAJ. Stewart, of Texas, and
others. A committee was appointed to
push the project. 1t was announced
that Chauncey NJ. Depew had consented
TO act as treasurer
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILD.

Oh, other women might be queen1y fair,
With radiant eyes and shining waves of hair;
Yet earth for him held but one Paradise
A wee, wee cot where ever 10 his eyes
Show'd n Madonna plain, but strangely
sweet,
With baby boy APPLYING at her feet.
He was king, and this his royal throne,
The crown was love, the Kingdom was his
homel
A monarch more than other monarchs great
With the fee simple of his large estate
He clasped her to his heart, the world might
froWn,
He still would smile from heights of heaven
-E. S. L. Thompson.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
ToElNG THE LINE.

The Christmas carols had been sung;
The guests had turned to go;
Down from the chandelier there hung
A spray of mistletoe.
Beneath, along the polished foor,
A clear-marked line there ran;
No face was peering at the door;
| was alone with Nan.
Her hair in ripples ringed her brow.
An aureole divine;
Then courage came-I know not how
dared her toe the line.
She smiled a roguish smile and feet,
She gave dainty trip
And oh the honey. Hybla-sWeet,
tasted from her lip,
A few months more and opine-
perhaps you'd like to know
Twill be the matrimonial line
The charming miss II toe.
-Bissell Clinton i'll December Harper's.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
Farming Is UnproftabIe.

READING, Pa. Feb. 9.-The sheriff OF
Berks county to-day sold ten fine farms
in this county, aggregating nearly 1000
acres. During the present winter sea-
son the sheriff has sold some twenty
other large farms, besides the farm
stock of twenty other farmers, all of
whom had failed. This condition of
things is taken as an indication that
farming no longer pays as formerly, as
a similar state of affairs exists in other
C ounties in this section of the state.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
Che rardi Will succeed Luce.

NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Mueh surprise
was caused at the Brooklyn navy yard
to-day, when the fact became known
he will cease to be conlmandant of the
station. 1t is thought he will relieve
Rear Admiral Luce in command of the
North Atlantic squadron. stationed at
Hayti
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10

his, was equalto the emergency. Rising,
he addressed the chair as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, | have known Mr..
Lane who holds the proxy for the dele
gate from Montana, for years. He is a
noted sheep-raiser and wool grower of
the great territory. Montana boasts no
resident SO we'll qualified to discuss her
sheep interests or to protect her politi-
cal rights there as Mr.. Lane"
Mr.. Lanes proxy was promptly recog-
part in all of the official proceedings.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
TO AN EXCITED CLERGY.

Oh. why object to dancing at
The Inauguration ball.
The festive waltz can never hurt
A gentle soul at all.
just look about, We ministers
Go interview the ladies';
You'll find it's but the dancer bad
Who runs the risk of hades.
The moral of which seems to be
That he who cannot do it
Should straight eschew the giddy whtrl
Lest later he shall rue it.
For others, those who graceful are,
ION with the dancer the cry.
They'll BE- the ones to lead the hosts
In the happy by and by.
And to conciude-the rhyme is bad;
All ye who never dance
Remember: Honi-hom soft,
Good sirs. qni nal y pense.
l-Carlyle Smith.