the carolina watchman , ■ i ~. t j q salipuhy.;h c april 26 1383 no 28 ihe gar : an ■ : 32 esi t (^ k 3 ■ i sl k celebrated j a aba ihr itcat restorative hostettcr's bitt i . will do must be gathered i has effectejlrad - ofdyspep fever : ility con mental despon i complaints and . , feeble lire so i and dealers illy gent's fine work a specialty n * < i j j pr-4 , i j i o m ,:^ boots 5hc£5 c gaiters n i years f.x i idi . and work li - !(,.,,!•, simile wiirl i ■ u uaud - — kepairlng - ••'.. rs hv mailnrompt v n c blackier&taylor ha7inj purchased tii [•: / wi eal n-:ki:st of r r . .. firm of ■ : co ■ su ply our . ■. ! ■ < i i i ;. t)f d w a k i in hie i i j . u.6z ill du ces in the state xi see t t s i 11 v - s er savl taylor 50:ly the it i n s motto ( tl j into t lie goldsrnit h'a baud [ grave me lie said a tender thought wi'hin thegold«n baal ' the goldsmil h graved j with careful art — i till death us part \ the wedding bell rang ejladlj out the husband said o wile j ( together we shall share t lie grief y the happiness of life ( i gave to tliee my hand my heart till death us part j twas she that lifted now his hand i o love that this should be , then on it placed the golden biuid and whispered tenderly : till death u join : 1 lo thou art mine ' t and i em thine ! ] and when death joins we never more i . shall know an aching heart the bridal of that butter love ] death has no power to part that troth will he j for tliee and me eternity ' 1 so up the lull and down the liill ; i through fifty changing years j , they shared each other's happiness they dried each other's tears alas al.s : that death eold dart < such love can part ! j but one sad day she stood alone beside his narrow bed j ■ she drew the ring from oil her hand ! < and to the goldsmith said : i j "< h man who graved with careful art till djath us part xow grave four other words for nie till death i;sjoin jit took tiie precious golden band mice more with solemn wist ful look and wrought wit h care for love not coin till death us join an open letter to a farmer's boy i yon ask me for some advice as to i vour future work in life you say that you are dissatisfied with the pros ' pect of being a hard working fann er all your days but at tho same time : yon do not consider yourself a genius i and do not expect to become a stew < art or a vanderbuilt or to acquire a ' vast fortune by speculation you ex i pect to work for your living but you think there may be some pursuit i which would be equally remunerative and not so laborious and monotonous i as the farmer's you ask if it would , not be better for you to become a first-class mechanic than to be a farmer this is an important question not alone to you but to many other boys who take a serious view of life ; whose common sense gives them a fairly cor j reel estimate of their own powers and capabilities and who wish to learn a business for which they are adapted which will give them fair wages a reasonable amount of leisure and a respectable position in life now it is a serious fact that work ers in almost every branch of indus try take a gloomy view of their own business think almost everybody else is letter oil than they are and gener ally try to discourage others from en tering their vocation the farmer and mechanic are about equally ready to say our business is going to the dogs if i were a young man 1 should learn something else sometimes they do this from the selfish desire to keep down the supply of workers in their own line in order that the de mand for them may be greater some limes from the habit of judging other occupations by the standard of their most successful men but the fact remains in spite of this almost universal disparagement ' of their own pursuits among working . men that some occupations are more ' some less desirable than others and | j shall try to give you a few reasons ; for thinking that a farmer's boy tin ; less he lias a very decided bent r mechanical pursuits such as will quickly take him into that upper sto ; ry where there is always plenty of j room and recompense had better tick to the farm first the farmer has the priceless boon of independence he is his own employer he comes and goes when ; he pleases not when another man pleases he is responsible to no one but himself he is captain on his own ship xo matter if he only has j a potato patch his rule there is none to dispute in his workshop his \ prosperity depends upon hisown thrift j and enterprise not upon the prosper ity and liberality of an employer he asks no man what he shall do or how j he shall do it except as a matter of j advice he cares no more for lord j james douglas than lord james douglas cares for him he is a man among men a sovereign ol his own domain the man who owns and , cultivates his little piece of ground can snap his fingers at mr loft aml sit on his fence with his hands in his pockets when the great mogul goes by for he is getting his own living i at first hand and need ask no favors of any one the average mechanic on ihe other hand is little more than a hired t-eif while he remains a me lianic lie surrenders his individual liberty to his employer for his wages ind works through another man's jrains he is an automaton manipula ted by the golden wires of capital fie learns to gauge his work by what s requiredof intelligent ai d conscien i ious servicje unless he is an ex optional case his self-respect is mi lermined by the temptation to loaf ivhile the boss is not looking and o work industriously under his eye ' he becomes a school-boy instead of a nan learns to look furtively and faer ' fully.at his employer and bridles his nan hood through the necessity of ileasing him or losing his work the neetianie is a subordinate in his de ; partraent ; the farmer is chief ef his ind it is better to bo captain of a ca i nal boat and preserve your indepen | lence than to be second mate on the areat kistern and have no mind of pour own secondly the farmer has health or he means of getting it free of cost if lie he does not possess it his busi ness assures him in larger measure han almost any other of nature's : jjrand conservers of health — air and j jxercise these are better tonics than j my which go into people's stomachs i city patients get them after paying ; for a doctor's prescription but to the i farmer they come as free as air better than any one else the farmer j an combine business and the hygien ist's golden rule take the open air the more jou fake the ' better follow nature's laws to he very letter l..'t the doctors go to the bay of biscay let alone the gin the brandy ai.d the whis key ! freely exercise keep your spirits rlicerfnl ' lot no dread of sickness ever make you i fearful eat the simplest food drink the pure cold i water then you will be well — or at least you : on-lit to the farmer is free from many of the temptations which beset the workingmen whose occupations bring many men into close association ihe seductions of the dram-shop and of fast society do wot appeal to him as they do to the townsman he can choose his associates instead of having them forced upon him lie is not compelled to listen to the idle story or the profitless gossip if he does not choose to hear it statistics show that farmers live longer than men in any other pursuit — except washington's body-servants the farmer can look forward to an earthly existence longer by several years than that of the black smith the carpenter the machinist | the mason the printer or any other artisan and as long as that of the av erage professional man third the farmer has the means of obtaining mental culture if he lias the will the dissatisfaction with which many farmers ami farmers bovs look upon their lot in life comes from their having too much hard work and too little spare time they have not yet learned to adapt them selves to the modern ten-hour law of labor they toil fourteen hours a dav and come home exhausted and lit for nothing but supper and bed they feel discouraged and dishearten ed at such a prospect through life overwork is the thief hat steals the farmer's happiness j'ut it ought not to be so a farm enn be made to pay on the ten-hour plan i have in mind a farmer who makes his farm pay a good dividend takes an active interest in tiie world's work has a fair library keeps abreast of thought of the age spends his evenings in reading and writing is teaching his sons the value of study and work com bined and docs all this on ten hours daily work it is not the amount of labor that we put into a thing that determines the result it is the intel ligence the king of spain you have no doubt read spent a day in trying to stand an egg on end ; col umbusdid h for him in a second an hour spent in thinking out a new way will often accomplish more than fif teen spent in working in the old way farming requires enterprise and thought quite as much as any other business and fresh plans cannot come from a weary brain ten hours spent in work and two hours spent in study by a mind quickened by moderate physical exercise instead of exhausted by over-exertion will achieve vastly more than twelve hours of unceasing manual labor make no mistake \\ hen a farm is managed in this way the farmer can devote his evenings to study and to rational enjoyment far more effective ly than the mechanic for he isolated from the distractions which usually surround the latter much of the farmer's work too does no require the constant straining of the atten tion which many mechanical pursuits demand and he has opportunity for reflection while promoting his busi ness interests so my boy if yon wish to be man ly self-reliant and independent if you wish to be your own employer and your own master ; if you wish to make a fair living independently of another's caprice ; if you wish to lay a solid foundation of health on which to build your career if you wish i to avoid tiie temptation into wliicli so j many artisans sink year after year if you whisli to elevate your mind broaden your empathies and deepen \ your understanding by study reflee j tion and association with tlio.se who | will help not hinder you in these these things in a word if you wish | to be healthy wealthy and wise my advice to you is stick to the " farm h ii a r . in the christian j u,iiou a i kkctric shoe-blacks professor aryton in delivering a lec ture at tlu london institution dwelt on j the future uses of electricity as a means j of transmitting power work tug tools and ( machines and propeling trains carriages j cars and tricycles lie remarked at present much household work is done by ! ham simply because there are uo easily worked machines for doing it the old ! knife board has given way to the rotary j knife cleaner ; biit even that requires a certain amount of grinding to give the ; knives a polish so that for large estab lishments a knife-cleaner boy is still nc i cessary the blacking of boots the black i ing of grates aud the cleaning of door steps are all done in a most laborious way j by hand now there can be no doubt that very shortly electricity will be sup plied as gas is now to houses for light | ing purposes and when this has been ac j complishod tlio same wires that convey i the electricity for lighting will be em ployed to convey the power to work electric motors to tarn rotary knife clean j ere to turn a wheel for the blacking of boots and a small motor carrying a brush like the one in my hand will simply be ; passed by the servant all over the grate for the purpose of giving it a good black j polish the black-lead brush will then be taken off and replaced by the blacking : brush for t!i bunts and later on in the i day a rotary flannel will officiate for the : doorsteps there is indued scarcely a limit to the ! possibility of electricity in the driving of sniiill machines and especially machines ] of the class that can be taken to the work j instead of thv work being taken to them j in many cases this will be effected with i stored electricity two years ago , said the professor the storage of elec i trie energy in black boxes and their pow ! er taken out of thorn by sir william j thompson may have passed before tho j minds of the public as one of those mere j seven days wonders which in these latter times have become so common hut to the scientific man whe could foresee the possibilities connected with the electrical storage of power these experiments of sir wm thompson were of pre-eminent importance the two latest employments of elec tricity stored in faure-sellon-valckmar accumulators are in the boat electrici ty which many have seen running at kew and the electric tricycle of profes sor perry and myself in the tricycle no work is done by the rider but little black boxes carried on the base-board contain the stored electric energy pretty much in tho same way as a horse's body con tains its breakfast f oats and hay with the difference that with the accumulator it is the receptacle which has weight mi that neither in receiving its feed in the mom ing nor discharging its power du ring the day dors tho accumulator gain or lose in its weight by means of a tap the rider can turn on more or less elec tricity and go faster or slower a desperado meets fate near bakersvilie william pritchard bad bill was a notorious outlaw who has long been operating in this county burke and mitchell and in the courts of these three counties ou tho criminal side are all sorts of cases against him the three sheriffs and their deputies having their pockets full of capiases for him he es caped arrest by slipping from county to county living like a beastof prey last wednesday two constables named burlesou brothers camo up with him in the house of his brother-in-law the noto rious reese bialock a few miles this side of liakersviile.il mitchell county they had warrants for him and for his mistress linth carpenter who was in the house 1'iitchard made u attempt at resistance but said hat the woman was too sick for removal and asked one of the constables to go aud ask a doctor who was near by to come and give opinion scarcely had the constable gone when pritchavd snatched a gun and snapped a can at the other one quick as thought the constable who remained behind threw a bullet into l'ritchard's breast and the i:oi e ol the firing brining back hiscomrade they both opened lire upmi the desperado who fought to the last attempting to dub his assailants with his gun ha was shot twice in the head and twice in the breast tiie country is rid of a bad man sunday in spain — the sundays in malaga are very different from what they are in england with the exception of their great festivals which are numerous sunday is the gayest of all days the alameda is crowded with gaily dressed people ladies with their mantillas and fans soldiers servant beggars ; here and there a stray priest in his black gown and of these people not one in a hun dred has been in church the church es are empty ; the theatres are full daebys prophylactic fluid a ilouschow article for universal family use hellsbessasipj for scarlet and t5f 1if ft+a fevers jsdf.valgswes 1 diphtheria sau watipta 9 ration ulcerated j~~~z sore throat smau g j l i^t«''fay ! i 1 j~^ia i'oi jleasles and all contagious disease persons waiting on the sick should use it freely scarlet fever has never been known to spread where the fluid was used ycliow fever has been cured with it after black vomit hail taken place the worst cases of diphtheria yield to it feveredandslckper s:«aix-pox bons refreshed and ' and bed sores prevent pitting of small ed by bathing with p ox prevented darbys fluid j . , c , impure air made i ., a mcm '^ r f yfam harmless and purified g ta . ken , w " h for sore throat it is a %™\ u p c , x - 1 p ed the sure cure ■ flul : ,. ll .' e patlelu wa contagion destroyed n ?' 5 el:rl °" 5 ' was , not for frosted feet p'"t d ' and wa ? a out clulblains piles t»e house again in three chafing etc *" ks ' an . d "° ° thera rheumatism cured had ll j y ? ark ' soft white complex pnnadelphia ions secured by its use f t*^fc '■* j^^—^^aftw phip fever prevented [ to purify the breath ( hitiv'thpt'ia cleaune the teeth | ip^nena j it can't be surpassed i «» i •> h catarrh relieved and | frevsiltsd « kryslpelas cured qsr g-:»igr.^'.^^^s dysentery cured | succe ssfu:iv in the treat wounds heale i rapidly racnt of d . p h h . ria . scurvy cured , a st.ll n.verck an antidote for animal ; greensboro ala or \ egctabie poisons ' ' stings etc totter dried up i used the fluid during cholera prevented our present affliction with ulcers purified and scarlet fever with de j healed cided advantage it is in cases of death it indispensable to the sick should be used about room — wm f sand the corpse — it will pord eyrie ala i prevent any unpleas ■ -. ,.«- .... 0 tlc elmnent pj,y lacaxiexjisyerra suns m i new d i vork says i am c^tsd ? convinced prof darby j v^tfu h prophylactic fluid is a ■\ rv^v s t ' "^-^^ valuable cisinfectant vaaderbilt university nashville tenn 1 testily to the most excellent qualities of prof darbys iv phyiactic fl lid as a disinfectant ar.d detergent it i both theoretically and practically superior to any ] re iratii n with which i am ac quainted.—n x lui row prof chemistry darbys fluid is recommended hv hon alexander if stephens of georgia rev chas f deems d.d church of the strangers n y jos leci im k columbia prof university s c rev a j haitlr prof mercer umversiw rev geo f piehce bish p m e church dxdispensabu3 to every uo1ie perfectly harmless used internally or externally for man er beast the flurrl has been thoroughly tes'.c.l and we hive abundant evidence t!:.it it has done everything here claimed fjr f.il r mf irmr.tion get of your ljru^jist a pamphlet or s.-m to the proprietors j ii zr.ilin & co 6 manufacturing chemists philadelphia the statistics of crimes in the south published by lied field sonic years ago appeared to us so far at variance with the peaceful disposition of our people that we promptly rejected them as unworthy of credence all of us have more or less information about the state of society in ■ the various sections of the union and we 1 preferred to rely on this general informa tion to accepting what had tho appear i aiiie of cooked figures prepared to order or doctored for a purpose lhc census is impartial its figures are alien from the most reliable sources and the work has been done thoroughly i it is proper that we should be judged by | the census figures and we are uothiug ! loth to stand the test the compilation ! below takou by the charleston courier i from the census of 6io tells a tale that > we of the south need not be at all as ! hanied of all that we desire is that the ! truth shall appear and these figures speak ! the truth as near as the thorough aud ! impartial agents of the government ! have been able to arrive at it in the following table the population ! of all the new england states is given with the number of prisoners and the percentage of prisoui rs as compared with i the total population in each of the states per rent pop 1'r's fir's connecticut 622.7u0 73-2 tx)u maine fr«,i)3 40d xwc massachusetts 1,783,085 3,659 0u2u n hampshire 34t>,i»91 27:i 0007 rhode island 27b\531 320 0011 vermont 332,286 261 0007 total 4,010,529 5,653 0014 i las figures show that there are 14 prisoners in new england to every ten thousand people the following table gives the same in formation concerning the southern states per cent pt>l i'i's i'r'a vlabama l,262,50o l,39d 0011 arkansas t3(«,525 767 0009 florida 275 0010 georgia 1,543,180 1,837 0011 louisiana 939,946 1,077 0010 mississippi 1,131,597 1,329 0010 \ carolina 1,399,750 1,619 null s carolina 995,577 cm ooofi tennessee . 1,542,359 2,129 0013 texas 1,591,749 3,153 00j9 j total 11,477,6s1 14^26 0012 j from the above it appears that even i counting in texas there are only tj pns oiu rs at the sontli to every ten thousand , o f | onulation they embrace loth whites and blacks bni it i manifestly iiafairi to compare the tutored and leanied aud tr ined people of the x«»rth with the southern negroes the latter should not be counted the comparison bhould be made betweeu the whirls oi tho two tiona respectively aud the are the figures relative to the southern whites white white per nt pop pr's pi's alabama 002,185 221 0003 arkansas soi^l 3fr2 0005 florida 142,605 « hm ' georgia b16 90g 231 0002 lo«sa 454 54 230 ioooo mississippi 479,:$w 53 0003 ncarofil p67^42 601 0007 s carolina 391,105 56 0001 tennessee 1,138,831 770 0007 texas 1,197,237 1,579 0013 total 6,741,904 4,l!'l 0006 1 from t '. i i 3 it apiwars that only six whiles in ten thousand sure in dura x new spring goods j&v 3 r/gto r v -^--. »>•. have now receiyed their entire stock of spring and summer g ids which have been selected with great care to suit the timed wants ami tastes uf their nnmi all of which they offer as cheap as the cheapest they have now in stun largest as8oetment of dry goods notions clothing furnishing goods shoes ladi s and men's hats and family groceries they have bought for manj seasons l±r a new stock of table and glassware full assortment of five cent t1hwarf till have the best flour oat meal meats si g irs teas mjl5g fr kks rice canned fruits jfllies pure lard bil\n meal new orleans molasses ana syri ps,&e a fall assortment of fa3iily medicines agents for coats spool cott ts for the empire guaso which is j3p fir.-i class an<l which we offer for 400 lbs of li cotton 1 come and see us before you buy or sell for we will tl yon good w w tatlob »>.- d i bostias april 12 1883 m « a w salisbury n g % iheiiibs boilers saw mills jfl h turbine wheels also contractor ana builder • ja 25 s3 rowah cotjbty * kiorcocrt nancv l boyd p u.^:j j aqai ! • suit for divorce henry boyd defttt ) it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that henry boyd the defendent above named is a non-resident of this state it is ordered that publication be made in the carolina watchman 1 a newspaper published in rowan county notifying the said henry bind to be and appear before the judge of our superior court at a court to be held for the county of rowan at the court-house in salisbury on the i'th mon day after the 4th monday of march 18s3 and answer the complaint which will be de posited ii the office of the clerk of the su perior court of said county within the first three dav of said term and tiv aid defen dant is notified thai it he fail to answer the said complaint during the said term the plaintiff will apply to the court for the re lief demanded in the complaint j m horaii clerk 24:6w sup court rowan county vile it the south while in the new eng land states the number i 14 if now we exclude texan which is a sort of recog nized bete noir the uninbcr f whites in prison at the south would be only about four and a half in ten thousand to new england's fourteen that is new eng land has relatively three t imps as many penitentiary bii i s the white so:it!i ex 1 eluding texas lilliou whites in x .-,•>• pop ilation f 5,653 five nsilli >:■■ aud five hundred thou lvl ' •' li;is on popula - - • the dif ference now let the leviathan mge and carl schurz and the xation gnash their ; teeth the truth is i 1 will pre vail grapes ami trees i:i north carolina ; wiii:u - we promised to git tatistics from mr hale's wo - of north • carolina 1 ■ - - are indi . venous to n ■ is and tion of all persons wh i desire investmi i way or who are practical vintner the eu i.mer gi i unitedsl na fi oni this « the « ten or twelve oth -. the fox grape j in middle north cai : .. < . r more in s state 1 cape ■ ' ' ' come from soul not i ; originated in b \ • sote ' :.:::- error i:i respect to 1 - ' " ' •'■ " ni the grapes menti > land the li mass the latter has • o n . ' . i - • " - ■ dang ■ - whi : " ■ ■ quenc ' l ' conti t with the and therefore ith 1 hit -■ - -\\- ... ant of thccasli !:• • - ] '"" day the entire inrn-m-j • i nee by the committee ap]ioin.ted by ihe swre tary o f i • t ■•• ' " ' otcr to then ui - ■ ttivi ftn .- ■ w i nd a-ain ■■ ■ - election notice ! notice i li .-.:■'. given tlr.t municipal elections will be held lor the towns of salisbury gom hill bum hville aud third civl-k en m .;. ! iv tliu till il:iy i»f may a i i the polls will be opened in c!i of those towns from 7 o'clock in tin morning until suiim-t and h . tor will l>i : . municipal officers it duly rejfisti r n siffl rowan county match j 1883 lm cv'l tfi to tiip want of nriiiirs lint j ' ' fe ■ j \ nn jpii f v i liilj wlllol ll uuuioo uul p^'x-<;:rx.''jy'-'x-'v.''j:-'j a good piano is a balm gilliard of happiness to all ! vy good or^an is the fountain of goodness mcsmxth music house [ ib jam full of pianos orcans nl music anil haiti mch pockkth arr m t tnoav i v<)ll time tostbikehim rr-s,.n i for cat iloguea pricks and tkrm8 they win m tkc your wives and dam litem hino laugh nnd u imsti.k m hours i ,„„,„,.. ty-hati8tnctlon guaranteed »-" ' ' j " "' b greai readi . - - not ■ • ce t ■ _ ird to thi ] ' ' • tli i through wit - ther . : • i t the good f right band 1 » tv in 1 37g iaviewoftl f re:i • : . • f de boctatb on that jury ' •- him fo coua ting out ti -• publkns for cu';:.ti;:u r ::• 3 -. i ; - , l-'.'.h :