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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1896-10-29

-Hawsville, Ky, Plain Dealer:
GA certain young man has agreed
with his best girl that if Palmer Is
elected he is to work six days in
each week to support her, but Nc
Klnley goes in, then she Is to take in
Washing for the layout.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1896-10-29

Ripaus Tabules: for sour stomach.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
Whisky from Sweet Potatoes.

j. W. Grow has a small bottle of sweet
potato whisky that is very interesting
commodity in this section of the country,
and not familiar one to the world at
large. The liquid is crude and white, as
all new whisky is, but it is the genuine
stuff and not counterfeit. Among the
homeseekers who have been to this Sec
ton lately was Mr.. Hansberg, German,
who is skilled in the distillation of spirits
When he saw how abundantly sweet po-
tatoes were raised in this section of the
country it occurred to him that he could
distil whisky from them. Several bushels
of sweet potatoes we're shipped to him,
and soon Mike Brown received half
gallon of sweet potato whisky.
AS result of the success of the scheme
arrangements are being made to distil the
liquor for commercial purposes. If the
residue can be converted into starch, the
sweet potato will soon become one of the
most valuable products of Southern soil.
augusta Chronicle
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
Rv WAY of Protest.

How foriorn and dreary is the thought
that for mcst of US it will not be enough
to die once-to have it said of US, as OF
one gone hence in summer,
"His part in all the pomp that fills
The circuit of the summer hills
Is that his grave is green"
But that in addition to giving up the dear
life we love, the work the wages the peo-
pie we care for, the bright pleasures and
Joyous activities, we must also be drop
ped forever from the family talk, our
names Stunned, our little ways forgot
ten, till the places that now know US will
literally soon know us no more. "Don't
speak OF - to her mother; she cannot
bear it," we say, in tender fear lest we
shall lay q rough finger on an aching
wound. "Don't stir up the grief of that
child; let her. go on her light hearted way
and forget her mother for her father I"
"Don't allude to -; her people are not
able to talk about her" And soft goes,
from one to another, always the mo.
always the result the same-a gradual
and imperceptible but relentless oblitera-
tion of the personality that was lately
One would suppose it crime or a
blunder on the part of the dead to have
gone away, leaving themselves so help.
less that they cannot raise even the wan
ghost of opposition to the oblivion which
is their portion. Are they not twice
dead, these beloved ones, of whom we
never speak, whose little jest and quips
We no longer revive, whose portion it is
to be dismissed from the table, drawing
room, the walk, the drive, from the con-
gregations of men, as if they had never
existed?
Yet by singular paradox our forgot,
ten dead refuse to be dis missed and ig
nored; this babe in your arms has the
trick of eyebrow, the turn of head, which
belonged to her grandmother. That coll
lege boy has the manner, the pose, the
bearing of the young uncle who passed
away at Gettysburg and was buried on
the field. Family traits will not be blot.
ted out; they are imperishably alive.
Ones follies. faults, tempers, as we'll as
ones physical peculiarities are revived,
and reappear in successive generations.
We die, but it is in way as last years
flowers died. others as fair shall step into
our vacant places, and 10 1.-The places will
not be vacant; the same will go on; the
music, the laughter, the dancing feet, the
wedding joy, all will come again.
Yet why must it be, for us and for ours
that once buried we who did love and do
remember them should avoid their very
mention? One loves to think of dear
fatherles children, who always in the
nightly prayers still ask God "to bless
papa" Why not2
"God's in bis heaven:
All's right in all worlds"
-Rdrpers BdzQr.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
TRUSTEES SALE.

UIder and by virtue OF Deed of Trust ex-
eculed to me by Isom and Jane Terrence. and
registered i'll Book &c. page 5l2 etc in the Office
county North Carolina, will sell for cash at the
County Court House Door, in the city of Char
lotte, North Carolina, on Monday, the 30th day OF
March, 1896. at 12 o'clock M. that following lot
of land in the city of Charlotte, bounded and
described as follows:-COmmencing at stake
J. B. Kerr's old corner, 800 feet from the inter
section of Myers and Eighth streets on 9Th street.
and runs with Eighth street in an eastern direc-
tion fifty feet to a stake thence parallel with
Myers street in northern direction ninety-nine
feet to stake; thence in western direction fifty
feet to stake in Kerr's line thence ninety nine
feet to the beginning-same being part of the
Englehard lot and same being house and lot now
occupied by Isom and Jane Terrence and being
conveyed by ]. Fl Wearn and wife to them,
deed dated November 2nd, 1892 and duly re-
corded. HERIOT GARRISON
Feb. %, 1895. 5w Trustee
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

W Every body ought to know that
the very best thing they can do is eat
apples before retiring for the night.
Persons uninitiated in the mysteries of
the fruit are liable to throw up their
hands in horror at the visions of dyspep-
sia which such a such q suggestion may
summon up, but no harm can come to
even a delicate system by the eating of
ripe and JUICY apples juss before going to
bed. The apple is an excellent brain
food, because it has more phosphoric acid
in easily digestiable shape than other
fruits, It excites the action of the liver
promotes sound and healthy sleep, and
thorougly disintects the mouth. This is
not sll. The apple helps the kidney se-
cretions and prevents calculus growths,
while il obviates indigestion and is one
of the best preventives known of diseases
of the throat. Exchange
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
liz Ocean Waves.
Careful Data Show Them to Be Not Ov,
Thirty-two Feet High.


An article quoted in Current Literature
gives this interesting information on ocean
waves. Dr. G. Schott, as the result of
studying the form and height of the
waves of the sea, claims that under a
moderate breeze their velocity was "a. s
feet per second, or 1863 miles an hour,
which is about the speed of q modern
sailing vessel.
AS the wind rises the size and speed of
the waves increase. In a strong breeze
their length rises to 26O feet, and their
speed reaches 36 or 1854 feet per second.
Waves, the period of which is nine sec
onds, the length 400 or 1926 feet, and the
speed twenty-eight nautical miles per
hour are eproduced only in storms. During
q southeast storm in the southern Allan
tic, he measured waves 500 feet long, and
this was not a maximum, for in latitude
% degrees south and longitude 80 degrees
east he observed waves of Is seconds pc
riod, which we're ] ,l5O feet long with a
velocity of, 1877 feet per second, or 46t
nautical miles an hour.
DIR. Schott does not think that the
maximum height of the waves is very
great. Some observers have estimated it
at 30 or 40 feet in wind of the force
represented by IL on the Beaufort scale,
the highest number of which is IL, and
DIR. Schott's maximum is just 80 feet. He
believes that in great tempests waves of
more than 60 feet are rare. and that even
those of so feet are exceptional. In the
ordinary trade winds the height is FIVE
or six feet. The ratio of height to length
is about 1.33 in strong wind and l. II in
a storm, from which it follows that the
inclination of the wave is respectively
about 6, 10, IL degrees. The ratio of the
height of the waves to the force of the
wind varies greatly.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

w There is in the South American
forests fower-the night blooming GER
eus-which, on moonlight night, once a
year, at the very crown of summer, sud
denly opens marvellous blossom, whittier
than silver, more fragile than dream.
Then all the forest is intoxicated with a
perfumed breath that is sweeter than the
spices of paradise. For four or five short
hours this wonderful flower hangs upon
the vine in perfection, but with the first
ray of sunlight it droops and fades, and
by the time the sun is up nothing remains
but mass of dabby brown petals.
The fate of the flower is curiously SYM
bolical of the life of the Venezuelan
women. At about the age of II they
ripen into the most astonishing beauty.
AS a recent enthusiastic traveller declared,
"they are almost too good to be true"
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
How the Future IS Viewed by Business
Man

We do not wish to prophesy, but we
know that our readers will be interested
to learn how the future is viewed by
some of the keenest business men in the
world. 1t is our good fortune to be
somewhat intimately acquainted with
such men on both sides of the water
men who are engaged in great enter
prises involving millions Of capital and
thousands of employees in this and other
countries. These men express the most
unbounded faith in the United States, and
generally hold to the belief that the world
is on the eve of better times. Except
for squirt IN 189o-'92 they maintain
that bard times have prevailed for the
past ten years, most seriously of cource
in 1893 and since. In the natural course
of events, they maintain that the period
has come for an upward turn in values,
with it's attendant activity in every
branch of industry. They point to the
sustained advance in cotton, wheat, iron
and railroad earnings as straws showing
which way the wind is blowing. They
reckon that the prospective activity will
make both capital and labor 10 far bet
ter demand during the next Eve years
than during the past half de-
cade, with a consequent irmness in in
terest rates and wages. The men who
hold these views are not stock brokers
seeking to "bull" the market, they do
not talk for publication, but they are
planning their vast interests on the above
basis, of course discounting the ever"
possible uncertainties of the future. If
they are right, the farmer is destined
to have his share in the good times COM
lug !-American Agriculturist.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

First Action-Second Action-.Third Action.
So said the wise Athenian. We shall
be wise to follow his advice in many mat
ters; in none more 60 than in graphing
with cold or with dyspepsia; or in SEEK
ing relief from consumption in its earlier
stages 1t is absolutely useless to sit down
and bemoan onr bad fortune. We must
act-act-act. The first and most im>
perative action necessary is to procure a
bottle of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. The second action will be to
use it, The third action will naturally
follow-we shall proclaim abroad its vir-
tues.
Sardis, Big Stone, Co., MINI.
R. V. PIERCE, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y:
Dear Sir-Having felt it duty to write
of the good I received by taking your
medicine, now would say, that one year
ago was given up by my family physi-
clan and friends; all said l must die. Ny
lungs were badly affected and body re-.
duced to a skeleton. My people COM
menced to give me your Medical Dis
covery," and soon began to mend. 1t
was not long before became we'll enough
to take charge of my household duties
again.
owe my recovery to DR.. Pierce 6
Golden Medical Discovery.
Respectfully, MIRA MILLS.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
Her Objections.

o maiden, thou art passing fair;
No charms with thine are worth
comparing.
love thee yes, 1 vow, 1 swear
Said she, II much object to swear
ing" 49,.
o, from suit, love, do not shrink,
So. I feal thy bright eyes fascinating;
Intoxicating love draught drink
Said she, 81 hate intoxi cation"
If thou reject, my race shall end
Beneath the turf the earth embrac,
ing,
The last remains ofthy fond friend
Said she, 81 hate the t urf and racs
ing"
But if he had taken with him as pres
ent, bottle of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription he would have been more sue
cessful in his suit. She doubtless owed
many of the charms which captivate6
him to it's virtues. For Frightening
woman's eyes, and giving her that
healthy look so much admired by the
opposite sex, it has no equal. Send II
cents for Book 168 pages on Woman.
Diseases. Address Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
The Marrying of a Poet.

Rarely sweet the cong he sang,
Sweet and clear
From the starry heights the music rang,
Down quivering fell and touched the ear
OF struggling men. of suffering sin-sick men:
'tAh hush and hsrk" they cried; "Sing thou
again"
Again the note down quivering fell
The same sweet song,
Like sound of distant silvery bell.
For him the land hath waited long"
Said one in cap and gown: "This man hath
What these have failed to do. Arts best ID
"He sings as sing the birds of morn"
But others said:
His song is not for us earth born.
Earth worn, and fated still to tread
The dusty way. He sees US not nor knows
On heights serene our struggles and our woes"
Then something chanced know not what.
Perhaps he sinned
And grieved thereat; or this or not,
A.something twas that like the wind,
Storm blown 'gainst aerial harp, wakes music
deep
And rich and strange that stirs the heart to
weep.
ALIAS !' cried he of cap and gown,
IA priestly song
Had he but sung as first the crown,
Well won, were his but now of wrong
And rig ht he chants, Of duty, God, and love
To man. Falls he from far clear heights above
"The moiling crowd, from heights the where
Enshrined Is Art"
But still outpoured the singer, rare
Sweet music fountained in his heart.
While listening stood hopeful sin freed band.
Cried they "Thou'st helped us-man and
friend, thy hand !"
Meta Folger.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

az M. Flammarion, in the course OF
experiments on the radiation of spectrum
colors, has made some interesting obser-
vations on sensitive plants. Four plants
sown the same day and OF
the same size were placed under glass
excluding respectively all but the red
green, and blue rays, the fourth plant
being under ordinary white glass. Al
the end of six weeks the ''red" plant was
twice as high as any of the others
the green came next. then the "white, u
while the "blue" had not grown the
traction of q centimetre. The red plant
was healthy but abnormally nervous
curling up at breath. The plant kept
under white glass, exposed to the ordi-
nary sun rays, though third in order oi
growth, was vigorous and stout.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

BoTH ARE ASKED TO REsIaN.-Greens.
boro, N. c., Feb. 22.-The investigation
of the colored A. and M. college was con-
tinued to day and, as on yesterday, the
charges were not sustained by the evil
dence.
At about o'clock the committee went
into executive session and passed resolu-
tions to the effect that after hearing all
the charges and counter charges made
by DR. Dellinger and DR.. Crosby, nothing
in the evidence was found to sustain the
charges against them; but while this is
true, owing to the friction which exists
between the officers, that DR.. Dellinger
and DIR. Crosby are recommended to re.
sign with the close of the term, as on ac-
count of other matters of less Importance
their retention after the end of the pre-
sent session would not be advisable fol
the best interests of this institution.
Both DR.. Crosby and DR.. Dellingei
agreed IN this decision and stated that
they had no intention of appearing for re
election next year.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
STRANGE CASE OF BL1NpNEss.-Mr.

STRANGE CASE OF BL1NDNEss.-Mr. G..
W. Knox lives near Huntersville. Some-
thing very peculiar has happened to him
in the past four years. Three years ago
on February 14th he had . family re-
union and dining, and he was well and
happy as any one at the table. The fol-
lowing morning he lost the sight Of one
of his eyes.
On February 14th, this year, he gath.
cred his children and grandchildren
about him once again in family reunion.
On the day following he lost the sight OF
his other eye and is now totally blind
This story is vouched for by Mr.. W. e
Alexander, son.in-law of Mr.. Knox.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

~- Not day passes over the earth
but men and women of no note do great
deeds, speak great words, and suffer
noble sorrows. Of these obscure heroes,
philosophers, and martyrs, the greater
part will never be known till that hour
when many that were great shall be small
and the small great Charles Reade.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
Marvellous Res ults.

From a letter written by Rev J. Gunderman
this extract I" have no hesitation in recon-.
mendiDg DR.. Kings New Discovery. as the re
suits were almost marvellous In the case Of my
wife. While was pastor Of the Baptist Church
at RiVes Janction she was brought down with
Pneumonia succeeding La Grippe. Terrible
paroxysms Of coughing would last hours with
little interruption and Il seemed as il she could
not survive them. A friend recommended DR..
Kings New Discovery; it was quick in its work
and highly satisfactory In results" Trial bot
ties free at Burwell 81 Dunn. drug store. Regular
size Soc. and 500.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

signs and advertisements daubed on
fences, stable and bridges is because they
do not know whether they are reading
advertisements of some firm that is still in
business or one that has been dead for
years. When people read an advertise
ment in newspaper that is up to date
they know the advertiser is alive and
doing business.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
Advice to Young.
Don't mistake notoriety for fame

Don't mistake notoriety for fame.
Don't do work unworthy q you if you
Don't say 81 am a gentleman it ID
never necessary.
Be loyal to death to those who have be-
friended you.
When you assist the needy, don't do ii
ostentatiously.
Don't introduce lady's name where
you would not intro duce the lady.
Remember impertinenoe isn't wit, any
more than insolence is brilliancy.
IF young men will not believe in
themselves, no man or woman can believe
in them.
Don't indulge in the luxury of strong
opinions in the presence of your elders
and betters.
Don't talk about what you are "going'
to do, then, if you fail to accomplish it,
nobody will know.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

w Save only the resource of earn
est prayer, there is no better safeguard
against his (Satan's) wiles than is
found in living and growing familiarity
with the embalmed thou. hts of noble
men and women who have created the
worlds great lteratures.-NashUute
Christian Advocate,
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
Electric Riftars.

Electric Bitters Is medicine suited for any
season, but perhaps more generally needed. when
the laDguid exhausted feeling prevails. when the
liver is torpid and sluggish and the need Of a
tonic and alternative is felt. A prompt use OF
this medicine has often averted long and per-
haps fatal bilious fevers. No medicine will
act more surely in counteracting and freeing the
system from the malarial poison. Headache
Electric Bitters. SOC. and $l.O0 per bottle si
BurWel & Dunn drug store.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

az Every time business man talks
hard times he loses q trade by 80 fright
ening some people that they will hide
their ready made money instead of spend
ing it.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

Newark, M ., Feb 26.-The State Re
publican committee this morning issued q
call for the State convention to nominate
delegations to the national convention at
St. Louis, to be held in Taylor's Opera
House, Trenton. April 10th.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

HARRISON, Bros & Co.
Philadelphia, Pa.
GENTLEMEN About ten Q0) years ago used
vour Town and Country Paints. olive shades, on
nv hotel, "The Eager House" and am pleased
to- inform YOU that today the paint is in good
condition and shows no signs of fading or
giving away. Very Respectfully,
HARRIsON'S TOWN AND COUNTRY
Ready Mixed Paints,
Are sold exclusively by
R.H. JORDAN s. CO.,
Sept. IA, 1895. The Retail Druggist
Dec 6, 1895.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

az 1t is only by labor that thought
can be made healthy, and only by
thought that labor can be made happy ;
and the two cannot be separated with i'm
punity.-Ruskin.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

"a Gretchen: Elizabeth, what do
you think 2 Mamma said that once I
was little baby
Elizabeth: Oh, is that true2 Why, SO
was L. What a coincidence that we
should meet-let rs be good friends
TRUTH
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
Administrators Notice.

Having duly qualified as administrator of the
estate of John G. Miller, deceased, all persons
having claims against the estate of said John G.
Miller are hereby notified to present to me for
or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their re-
covery. All persons indebted to said estate are
notified to make immediate payments to me-
81. N. PHARR,
administrator, Estate, j 6. Miller, decd.
Feb. 90, CIV
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
WARM OVER SHOES.

WARM OVER SHOES.
Ladies wool lined plain rubber ovei hoe,
price so cents. less than you can buy than any
where in America; Ladies plain overshoe
"gold seal" brand every pair warranted,
PRICE SOC.
This overshoe will wear longer than two
pairs of any other, ever made, comes high up all
round, affordipg more protection from mud,
rain; or snow, than any of the fancy styles cdst-
ing as much, and not near so good.
LADIES RUBBER BOOTS,
for working garden in early spring, every lad
should have pair With rubber boots you will
not mind the weather 80 the wind don't blow
PRICE $2OO.
Best stock of shoes in the State.
Jan. "a, 1896 G1LREATH & co.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

B9 Metbyl Violet, one of the divini-
ties of common coal tar is now reported
by Vienna society as being sure cure
for cancer.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06

According to the Medical Record, cas-.
tor oil has not failed in any case to res
move warts to which it was applied once
a day for two to six weeks.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
Administr ator's Notice.

Administr ator's Notice.
Having qualified as administrator of Mrs.
Minnie A. Alexander, deceased, late of Mecklen-
burg County, N. c., this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate of the said
deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on
or before the 2Sth day of Dect amber 1896, or this
- 9tice will be plead in bar for their recovery.
An persons indebted 10 said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This, the 10Th day of December, 1895.
j. Fl. ALEXANDER,
Dec %, 1895. CIV Administrator
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
ALI Comfort.

Ladies' felt slippers, warm lined, thick felt
soles, low heels, extra wide, very soft, exceed,
ingly comfortable, the ideal house shoe, and real
seryceable, price so cents, by mail 60c; all sizes
3toS! Send and get pair, and do not wear
vour good shoes about the house and fire, which
will ruin them. GlLhEA1h % W.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
Administrators Notice

Administrators N NOC1C0
Having qualified as administrator of the es-
tate of W P Carpenter, deceased this is to no.
tify all persons having claims against said estate
to exhibit them to the under signed on or be-
fore the 9Th day of January, 1897. or this notice
will be plead in bar of their recovery. AL per-
sons indebted to said estate will please make me
payment.
This the 9Th day of January, 1895.
JNO. w MILLER,
The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-03-06
OLD MANS

OLD MANS
WIDE, SOFT, EASY, CONGRESS SHOES.
sewed ard warranted, best grade satin calf, fine
Dongola top, good elastic, the best you ever saw
at such price
50 90
Young Ladies, Married Ladies and Old Ladies
So co. guaranteed the best grade ever offered at
this price. The best of people make the great
mistake of allowing themselves to be fooled into
buying trashy shoes, thinking they are getting
something for nothing We are here to serve
the people with good value in footwear and will
save you money. We have grown up in the
business. Are young, yet old, and seem to know
what we are talking about. Come to see US.
Feb 13 1895 GILREATH & co.