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TIKIS TIMES, The largestnew$paper pullished in CHARMS, ROWAS, STAXLY, U3NTSD.aERY. RASDOLPH, MSM t RiCHacsD m DAViasos coumties, THE BEST Advertising Medium IX THIS , WHOLE SECTION! JOB PRIUTIUG Plain and Fancy, JOLY SHERRILL, Editor: CCJBE JTXJST -AJstX FEAR 1STOTV SI. SO Vrar. ia A4satt, WL V-No, 14. Tiror., KtabUhcd !MJ. I Consolidated Jon 23, ISS7 CONCORD, X. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER SJO, 1887. nTATTTTTP iJL JLA JL V J v i v u n ii mmm .III ill 1 U111JI I11JUU) Attorney and Councilor at Law, coxcoiw, X. C. Will practice in all parts of the State. Collect iTn made in al parts of the icoun tr t-J"Oniseoj(posite the courthoube. D.D.S., CONCORD, N. C. o. 'JVi over S.OJ'e. Davia & Con-ell's jew- 01. w.H. LILLY. OuVts pj-jfesi-i'mal Kervices to the citizviis c. Concord, and vicinity. V,.n r ,,v,..,i.it'r ttTided to. day or nurht. Oau-- ii r. Hidence on Bast )eopt s-tn " riaii chureli .)tO.-iltO the Presbyte Aug. 12 ly J. II. VAKNESS, PHOTOGRAPHER, CHARLOTTE, K. . 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Slo.-.n lecd, I will on tlie 6th da' f,f September, 1887, at 1 1 a m , proceed to sell at'tlw late res- . iiicnce if Airs, huth is. Moan 1-,'t of household and kitcjin hfclt-'-Tiiior to the e tat of the flecM, a furniture j-aid V 15 S',iau, and also a certain tract of 'AN I) c:ntaining sixty iC0)ares. sit n Ued in Xo. 3 township, pn VCst side of Ilia's creek and on East side ot tlit great io.nl laading from Charlo!!" to i-'a.ishur', ll,bevt W mu adjoining the lands Ilace and others, the san: o-;n- the ptoce whereon the late Huth ii. Sloan lived. .' Terras made known on day of f:;ie. MW. JOHNS PON, Exr. V. U. Sloan. P.y M. II. H Cnldwell. Ait,. .'orr:rd."N. C. Aa. 14, 18S7. Classical &&1ilitary In a country nole.1 for beautv and health. Conrs of starty, 10 brai1L-liPS. surpassed in tlioronshnest l-y no acitdemy in ib South. M dieal and Law ( ... i '.i. mwi j km lilt; Ullivtrwuv OT a. '"!.. rl, ii Hi n medical attendance, bni sesalon H. C HERRING, IHII Weak Y OLD JUDAS GRIMM. Old Judas Grimm waa dying fast. They thought each hour would be his last; ' " : ' ' But in bis perfect senses still ! He ronsed and said, "I'll inake my will." ! A lawyer quick was summoned then, Who came with paper, ink and pen, "Write plain, said Unnun, I've to say. f'what And put it in the strongest way. The homestead here. I give nay wile. And cash enough to last her life; Ten thousand collars it shall be. From all provisos clear and free. She helped me make and helped me save, - ' But now she need not '.oil and hlave. T he timbered laud, the upper mill And water power all go to liilh The lowlalid farm, its stock and grair, ' " With fruit and hay, I leave to Jane. Jerry shall have the city block, And Ben must take my rr.ilroa 1 stock The lower mills and lumber piles And lands around nmst go to Giles. To Mollie and her son I give I The fine, rich farm on which they live. I And allshall share alike the gild Which mortgages and bondd now hold." . f The will was drawn; witnesses came To see old Grimm append hi.s name. He waved them all aside with "Wait! There's one thing nuwer-1 havo to state. The brindle cow I lost last year She never will be found, I fear She' hold her milk, she'd hcok and kick. She'd jump a fence in double quick, She d chase the sheep, and more than that, She never gained a pound of fat I will be generous; and now give to God the brindle cow." With steady hand the will he signed, And soon to death his soul resigned. Since then the saying goes around: "God gets what's lost and can't be found." ' SOME FOOLISH THINGS. Talking slang. fraising yourself. Wearing ; tight shoes. Tramping for a living. Borrowing newspapers. Getting mad at nothing. Living beyond your income. Sleeping away the early morn ing hours. - Hunting for white-handed em ployment. Counting your money before it is earned. Trying to do business without advertising. - Marrying a man for his splen did mustache. Endorsing notes for friends and acquaintances. Marrying a woman because she has a pretty face. lhinking it does t pay to econo mize in trities. 'iaying the gallant to every wo man but your wife. Expecting to have money with out working for it. astmg your smiles on every man but your husband. j Loaning an umbrella without bidding it an eternal adieu. 1 Exposing your ignorance - by pretending to know everything. - Moping through life when it is just as easy to dance tnrougn it. Getting married in life haste, and repenting at dead leisure. . Judging a man by ihe cut of his coat, or a woman by tthe shade of her complexion. Envying other ..'people-' their wealth when you might be hoard ing up a pile for yourself. x1 amng m love with a woman s hair or teeth before you know how much she paid for them. Joining so. many lodges and church societies, that you have no time to become acquainted with your family. i j Can't Make Anything Like It. I have been practicingmedicine for twenty years, and have never been able tojput up a vegetable compound that -would,: like Sim mon's Regulator,promptly and ef fectively more the liver to action and at the same time aid (instead of weakening) ;the digestive and assimilative5 powers of the systsm. No other remedy within my knowledge can. fill its place. L. M. Hinton, M. D., . i Washington, Ark. : Renews Her Youth. Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay Co., Iowa, tells the following remarkable story, the truth of whieh is vouched for by the resi dents of the town; "I am 73 years old, have been troubled with kid ney complaint and lameness for many years; could not dress 'my self without help. Now I am free from pain and soreness, and am able to do all my own housework. I owe my thanks to Electric Bit ters for having renewed mj youth, and removed completely all dis ease and pain." Try a bottle,50c and SI at P. B. -Fetzer Store. Drug Life becomes almost a burden wlien the body is racked with the suffering which arises from scrof- ula. If any taint of this disease lurks in your blood, Ay er's Sarsa- ,qTill.i will oTnal If ,prUlX IU expel it. The entire sv'st-uui may bd tuorouidirv renovat- I ea by tailing um meUi:uie. . i i . , - ... 5 '. : - CHRISTIAN HOSPlTALiTY. 1 - - 1 An Inteoesting Sermon By Rev. Dr. Talraags "Given to hospitality Rom xii:T3. i Therein danger that the mul tiplication of large and coinmodi- i ou hotels ir. our towns and cities and villages will utterly extermi- j nate that grace which Abraham exhibited when he entertained the angels, and which Lot showed when he watched for guests at the gate of the city, and which Christ recognized as a positive, retpaisite for entering heaven, when He declared: "I was a etranger and ye took Me in." ' I propose to speak this morn ing of the trials and rewards of Christian hospitality. The first trial often comes in the whim and eccentricity of the gnost himself. There are a great manyxcellent people who have protuberances of disposition, and sharp edges of temperament, and unpliability of character, which make them a positive nuisance in any house where they stay. On short ac quaintance they will begin to com mand the household affairs, order the employees to unusual service, keep unseasonable hours, use nar cotics, put their feet at 'unusual elevations, drop the ashes of their Havana on costly tapestry, open bureaus they ought never to touch and pry into things they ought never to see, and become imper vious to rousing bells, and in a thousand ways afflict the house- 1 hold which proposes to take care ' n 4 1 1 1 1. -11 1.1. oi tnem. Auaeu 10 an, iut;y &iy too long. Thav have no idea when their welcome is worn out, and they would be unmoved even by ' the blessing which my friend, Gerrit Smith, the philanthropist, asked one morning at his breakfast ta ble, on the day when he hoped that the long-protracted guests would depart, saying: "O Lord, bless this provision, and , ,our friends who leave us to-day!" But, my friends, there are alle viations to be put on their side of the scale. Perhaps they had not the same refining influences about them in early, life that" you have had. Perhaps they had inherited eccentricities that they cannot help. Perhaps it is your duty, by example, " to ' show them- the better way. Perhaps they are sent to be a trial for the develop ment of you patience. Perhaps they were to be intended as an illustration of the opposite of what you are trj'ing to inculcate in the minds of your children. Per haps it is to make your home the brighter when they are gone.; When our guests are cheery and fascinating and elegant, it is. very easy to entertain them, but when we find in our guests that which is antagonistic to our taste and sentiment, it is a positive triumph when w:e can obev the words of my text and be "given to hospi tality." Another trial in the using of this grace is in the toil and ex pense of exercising it. ' In the well regulated household things go smoothly, but now you have in troduced a foreign element into the . machinery, and though you may stoutly declare that they I must take things as they find them, the Martha will break in. The ungovernable itove. The ru ined dessert. The joint that proves xinmasticable. The delay ed marketing. The perplexities of a caterer.- The dificulty of do ing proper "work, and yet always being presentable. Though you may say there shall be no care or anxiety, there will be care and there will bo anxiety. In 1694 a captain general provided grand entertainment, and other things he had found garden- a fountain of a very in his strong drink. In it were four hogsheads of brandy, eight hogsheads of wa ter, twenty-five thousand lemons, thirteeeh hundredweight of Lis bon sugar, five pounds of grated nutmeg, three hundred .toasted biscuits; and a boat built on pur- pose was placed m tne lountain, and a boy rowed around it, and filled the cups of the people who came there to be supplied. Well you say, that was a luxurious en tertainment, and, of course, the man had no anxiety; but I have to tell you that though you had, or -propose, an entertainment like that, you have anxiety. In that very thing comes the Divine re ward. We were born to serve; and when we serve others we serve God. The flush on that woman's cheek, as she bends over the hot stove, is as sacred in God's sight as the flush on the cheek of one who on a hot day preaches the Gospel. We nlay serve God with the plate and cutlery and broom as certainly as we can serve Him with psalm book or litumv. Mamarette. Queen of Norway and Sweden and Den mark, had a royal cup of ten lips, on which were recorded the names of the guests who had drunk from this cup. And every Cnristia woman nas a inf il 'ii.i it are written gl the aumej of thoia i who hare ever been entertained j by her in Christian style names not cut by human ingenuity, but written bv the hand oi dirine Je- swi. liut, ray Iriendg, yon aredoor, and two rufuAUH broke iu to! not to toil unnecessary uy. luongu.aespouiuaiiiousenoiu. .Moon--c!iain the fare be plain, cheerfal prsi-er dency of the table and cleanlines!i of appointments will be good I enough for anv"idT that ever? forth, and every dollar you giva to the entertainment of friend r foe, yoa give directly to Christ. Suppose it were announced ' thai the .Lord Jesus Christ would come comestoyourhou.se. l telling the woman to stand back,! visions, fire-arms, ami a cAWpinJth rrlit f Uin m ??r? Krv7 J i i f ' I want to lift this idea of Chris-l am happy to say, dropped the outfit, calculating to bo cone about ! man, but I am rradr ta'coafrwlvt Slt A alitor . &,', TW in nfprlnr.mfnl nut of A noi.! two assanltin? desnerados dead at ' twemv .Iavi. I waji ; iusrMniiAni.'that I netpr fll mrlf hutu . I VCTW t at lull 4 frra6JTr tive bondage into a glorious in-j his feet. "Well, now there are no ' ed by my dt, a large.and aavagea cowarth I vm at lay, and co lueement. Every effort you pw bandits prowling around to de- blood-hound. With my afi I clear-! arda will fight hfu dritro ta tUo to this place this week, whufgreat conflicts of life they fought woman in this house w ould not be glad to wash for him, or spread for him a bed, or bake bread far. hjm? There was one of old who washed for Him, drawing the wa ter from the well of her own tears. He is coming. He will be' here to-morrow. Inasmuch as ye'have done it to one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it to Me. You see we have passed out from the trials into the rewards of Christian hospitality; i grand, glorious and eternal. The first reward of Christian hospitality is the divine benedkstion.v " hen any one attends to this duty, Gods blessings come upon him upon his companion, upon , Jus children, upon his dining halV pon hjs rmrlor. unon his nursery. Th blessing comes in at the front dodp and the back door, and down through the skylights. , God draws a Ions mark of credit for services received Christ said to His disciples:- "He that receiveth you, receiveth Me; and he tha,t giveth a cup of cold water, in thb name of a disciple shall in nowise lose his - reward." As we have had so many things recorded atramst us in heaven, it win bp a satisfaction -to have written on un failing archives the fact that in the month Of May, or June, or September, or December, 1887, we made the blissful mistake of supposing that we were entertain ing weak men like ourselves; when lo! they showed their pinions be fore thev left, and we found out that they were angels unawares. i . -j w v Another reward conies , in- Ihl good wisnes and .prayers oi our guests. I do not think one's house ever gets over having had a crood man or woman abide i -i - i ' - e . there. - George Whitefielo, jised to scratch on the window of the room where he was . entertained a passage of Scripture, and in one case, after he k left, the whole household was converted by the reading of that passage on the window pane. The woman of Shunem furnished a little room over the wall for Eli&ha, and all the ages have heard the glorious consequences. On a cold, stormy winter night, my father entertain ed Trueman Osborne, the evange list, and through all eternity I will thank God thut Trueman Os borne stopped at our house.. Iow many of our guests have brought to us condolence ond sympathy and help! , j There is a legend told of St'Se- bald, that in his Christian rounds he used to stop for entertainment at the house of a poor cartright. Coming thero one day, he found the cartright and his . family free zing for tne lack of any fuel. St Sebald ordered the man to go out and break icicles from the side of the house and bring them in, and the icicles were brought into the house, and thrown on the hearth, and they began to blae immedi ately, and the freezing family gathered around and were warmr ed by them. That was a legend; but how joften have our guests come in to gather up ihe cold, freezing sorrows of our life kind- into illumination and warmth and good cheer. Me who opens his house to Christian hospitality, turns those are strangers into friends. Years will go by, aud there will be great changes in you, and there will be great changes m them Some day you will be sitting in loneliness, watching a bereave ment, and you will get a letter in a strange handwriting, and you will look at the Post ofhee. mark and say: "Why, I dont know any body living in that city;" and you will break the envelope,' and there you will read the story of 4hanks yii - a J ior your unnstian generosiiy long years before, and how they have heard afar off of your trouble. And the letter will be so full of kindly reminiscences andChristian condolence, vrill be a plaster large enought o cover up all the deep gashes of your souL When we take people into our houses as Christian guests, we take them into Our sympathies. In Dort, Holland, a soldier with a sword at his side stopped at a house, desiring lodging and olinHnT.' T"!.! wrimon ff f Via li nnsfl a.Wf,.0 oviW. When a young man sr sin tne par th it the men of the house were not ixxo a iiome; but when he showed his edentiahi thaji he had beea hoa i orably tlischarged from the array, ! he was admitted and tarried dur-l log the night. In the night-time there was a knockimr at the front! had that come over the door sill than the armed guest, who . hail primed his piece and charg-! ed it with slogs, met them, and, stroy our houses; but how often ' it is that we find those that- have j oeen our guests oecome our ae- fenders! We gave them shelter first, and then afterward, in the for our reputation, they fousht for our property, they, fought for our soul. j Another reward that comes from Christion hospitality is in the as surance that wr shall have hos pitality shown to us and to ours. In the upturnings of this life, who knows in what city or what land we may be thrown, and how much we may need an open door? There may come no such crisis to us, but our children may be thrown into somo such 6traits, He who in a Christian manner hospitable has a free pass through all Christendom. It may be that you win have Deen dead nitv years before any such stress shall come upon one of your decend- ants; but do you not suppose that God can rejnember fifty years? and the knuckle of the grandchild will be heard against the door of some stranger, dhd that door will open; and it will be talked over in Heaven, and it will be said "That man's grandfather, fifty years ago, gave shelter to a stran ger, and now a stranger's door is open for a grandson." , Anions the Greeks after enter taining and being entertained, they take a piece of lead and cut it in two, and the host takes . one half of the piece of the lead and the gugsts takes the pther half as they part. These two pieces of lead ar handed down from gen eration! to generation, and from family o family; and after awhile perhaps one of the family in want or in trouble go out with this one i piece of lead and find the other l , famirT ' with" th corresponding t i i i . ii piecB of lead, and no sooner is the tally completed than the old hos pitality is aroused, ami eternal friendship pledged. So the mem ory of Christian hospitality will go down fipn generation to gen eration, and from family to fami ly, ancl-the tally will never be lost, neither in this World nor the world to come. Mark his; the day -will come when we will all be turned put qf doors, without any expectation bare-foot, bare-head, no water in the canteen ? no bread in the hav ersack, and we will go in that way into the future world. And I wonder' if eternal hospitalities will open before us, and we bo re ceived into everlasting - habita- everlasting tions! I- was reading tho account which Thomas Fuller gives qf the entertainment provided by George Neville. O, what a grand feast was that! but then compare it with the provision which God has made for us on high; that great banquet hour; the one hundred and forty anq. four thoiisand as guests, all the harps and trumpets of heaven as the orchestra; the vintage of the celestial hills pour ed into the tankards; all the fruits of the orchards of God pUd on the golden platters; the angels of the Lord for cup-bearers, and the onco folded starry banner of the blue sky nung out over the scene, while seated at the head of the table shall be the one who eigh teen centuries ago declared,, "I was a stranger and ye took Me in." Our sins pardoned, may we all mingle in those hospjt.nlitif s! Vitality of Great Men. is. not always innate or born with them, but many instances are known where it ha9leen acquired by tho gersistent and judicious use of Dr. art er's Iron Tonis. Baldness may b6 prevented, and a thick growth of hair stimulated, by the use of Ayer's Hair Vigor. ' This preparation also restores tne natural color to 'gray hair, and Riders it soft, pliant and glossy. Eclectic, Ala., Oct 20, 1SS. Dr. A. T. Shallenbcrger, Rochester, Pa., Dear Sir Last Februarj I receive 1 from you a Lot tie of your Antidote for Malaria, and trave in to a young lady attending school here, but who had not been well enough to go for several weets, and was quite broken down in health. In a few days after taking the" medir cine she was back in scnooi again, and has not lost a day the entire summer. I think it is the best med icine J eyer knew. Yours very truly, - R. C. Williams. lor talking nonseLse to his best girl thai a capita!. But when to stay iu oi evening alter marritfd-i'tkat'g labor. - he has they're H (PANTHER'S DEN. The InmWr firm in uhich I emidored deirel to" (f.taiUh a near iu hftw-wiur r Ujf.oue oi thr ixatilLer trll put i Wot? river, Wisenin. an 1 I waj mstrncte! to look th prouTnl and : relHrL', I lft Sliewano in An- gust in a daff, taking with mc pro-- ed away & place for the buildings, blazed the waT to a spring, and cut down a number oi mnau pine to be ready for fire-wood when winter and the the men arrive. I had a small tent with me. plenty of pool provisions, and the first two or three day and night passed without alarm. One night as I Bat smoking at the - door of my tent, I heard the cry of a pan ther from a jungle across the riv er. There was no mistaking : the sound. Tho man who has -ever listened to the long drawn scream of a panther, will never confound it with the cry of any other wild beast. This fellow creamed out three or four times, with an inter-; yal of about tive minutes between the screams, and then ho was sud : denly answered by his mate, who was on ray side of tho stream, and apparently not more than 20 rods away. Ive had to do with vairous wild beasts in my time, and I never knew anything to weaken a dog like the "yell of a panther, That dog of mine wouldn't have hesitated a moment to attack a bear or wolf, but the yells of those panthers made a coward of him in no time. He crawled into the tent, and I could neither coax nor drive him out. However, I don't blame' him so very much, for every yell sent the 6hivers1climbing up m my spine in a way to make me ashamed of myself. I heaped on the wood until I had a big fire, and after the beasts had called to each oth er a few times they ceased scream ing, and the woods wero as fcilent as a grave yard. In- about an hour the dog, regjii.ied his cour age and came out of the tent and began snuffing around. By and by some small animal ran across the open ground in our front, and the dog uttered a bark and dashed after it. I heard him rushing through the woods for two or three minutes, and was about to whis tle him to return- when there was one loud, fierce yell from one of the, panthers a yell of terror from the dog, and I knew that he was a goner." I whistled and called, but I had seen him for the last time. ; I got but little sleep that night, feeling that I was at the mercv of the beasts if they had a mind ! to attack. Directly after breakfast 1 started out in the direction tho dog w takec, and after travel ing about 250 feet I came upon the spot where he had met his death. I think the panther had leaped down on him from a tree and secured a great advantage, lor there had beer) no struggle". The pine cones were splashed with blood, . and tufts oL hair could be found hero. . and there where the dog was dragged of in the direction of the stream. I had .with me a double-barrel ed shot gun and a. reyQlrer, and I determined to revenge old Tiger's death. I had noticed a big heap o drilt-wood a short distance up the river, and on the other side and from this heap a fallen tree bridged the stream. W hen I canto to inspect this tree, I found more blood and tufts of hair, and it was plain that the dog's body was carried across to some den in the drift-wood. I crossed by the log and mounted the heap. It was composed of limbs, trunks, and dead logs which had been Hung there on the low ground in high water. It looked like a good place for a panther's den, and as 1 carefully moved about I held the gun ready for a shot. JMy idea was to descend the heap and look for the pnenjng qf the den, but I descended in a manner entirely unlooked for. A limb suddenly ga ve way under ray feet, and 1 was crashing down through the pile, which at that spot contained a hollow ' as bisj aa an ordinary bedroom. Both bar rels of the gun exploded as I fell and the gun was .lost from my grasp, I landed in a heap on the ground, surrounded .by broken branches, and enough daylight came down to enable me to see what sort of a place I had fallen into. It would be" no great job to climb out, and I wis making a move in that direction- when I heard 1 the faint squeels j and squeak of kittens, and looked down to find a pair of wee ;little panthers almost under my j feet. Scattered around were bonea and pieces of flesh to tell the fate of old Tiger. I was was in a paniuers. den, and as I realized it my heart jumped into my throat until it v,,o nnfii seemed as if 1 could not get my breath. I was thoroughly rattled and ready to run, and for two or fart to cUtaWr out. A f4 I ! rr!ud lunb it W4e oshW ta I wviht ruV- Ut m 1 lnt 1 a ta! tr in, Bra I hrdi It tran th rrr of lW prrtioa! mght, nut a vnatri oi r, at.4 If knm I wa W atUcird Xowt for what follJirM I Lt rcivl I wall. I jofct bent Qtr thaetaW; drew ia v rvvohrr, and idwut a minute t caught sight of a ruut. thers head &the wokd her ri In through the drift. I took quick aim and U4 Lcr hat it, ad she didnl lick a doawti titncj t know the other one tra' around there somewhere, and I didn't have thrw miunte to wait. He came for me by a diffomit rmito, and he was almost ujxm me be fore I tirnl the shot whieh finish ed him. The kittens were nbout two week old and after the old ones had been finished I knockid th little ones in the head. - When I ret urned to Shawano, 1 carried the paws to prove that I had de stroyed four panther, and, I told you, 1 got the credit of being a lion-hearted Nimrod. I desen d not one word of praise. I simply had the nerve to use 'my. revolver when pinched, and the killing of the first Wat by one bullet was Kiuiply a lucky shot. The News-Observer corres pondent, writing from Lexington gives tho following which idiould be a warning to all ehool com mitteemen: Two men, J. H. Hedrick. and Wm. Swicegood, member of school district No. 11. Davidson county, were indicted for obtain ing money under fatso pretences; The facts proven were alxut these: Mr. Swicegood, w ho by the way, is a prominent republican politician and an influential man, took tho census of the school aud made his return to the Board of Education. The number of chil Iren returned as living in that school district was 117, twenty three more than resided in the -district. "By thin nifrans 'about $20 moro than techool district No 11 was entitled to wero appropri ated to that district. The Stat charged that Swicegood and Hed rick prepared their list with the intent to defraud tho school fund and to secure for their own dis trict more money than it was en titled to. Tho jury convicted iawicpgood and found Hedrick not guilty. Tho bchool committee-men iu the State had better bo warned in time and go to work and prepare accurate lists. Mr. Swicegoods carelessness got him into trouble and tonight tho penitentiary doesn t seem bo far away from him. It is very probable that he will visit Ilaleigh in a few days. When a Note Under Seal isBarred. -The question, "when a Hcalts' note is barred by the statute o limitations," puzzled some o f our best business men recently. One of them looked the matter up ant handed a solution to the reporter. with the rcnucKt t( publi.sh. Jt 1 copied from "The Law in" North Carolina of Notes aud Drafts,' and is as follows: - "The statute of limitations bar an action on a bond r note under seal for the payment of money af- ter ten years as to tne pnucipa and three years a to tlie surety If, howeqer, payments are en dorsed thereon the tiin& mut be coxfnted from the last payment." "TIip statute of limitation bar an action on a promisory note not under seal after three years a to principal ami surety alike, with the same proviso as to endorsed payments as above. Worth Knowing. Mr. W. IL Morgan, merchant. Lake City, Fla, was taken with a severe cold, attended with a dis tressing cough and running into consumption its first stages. He tried maug so-called ropular cough rernedi&s and steatlily grew worse. Wasfrcdnced in flesh, hal difficulty in breathing and wa unable to sleep. Finally tried Dr. King's New Discovery for Con sumption, and found immediate relief, and after using about a half .1 V-li1 t 1 1 . 1 1 w,luf Ioan 1 and has had no return of the di ease, oinerreinwiv can mw s so grand a reeord of cures. Guar liUar anteed to do mst what i claimed tivcs maj,e a w b for it, Trial lole free at P. B. j remfemr Congremoa Ig etZr 8d8toyf; ? ers, although I wa a nmall Uy t aro nmn t, BAlLlenrA-1 hen be dieL He wa a ry cation. Said Le tenderly, a they sat looking at the stars: I do not undeiiitand what you Ani . .J ., J then the ingenious maiden gurgiea: trinaiB irnai evervooay a- Then the silence became so tnat you couia near tne twinkling. Knm mi QHSLSti, 'Oar 7.KT r,. it- e; ' i . . . ... v i I Wsms s. i , . . ." T ri f'n :?V u t88 tiiiis WUi , . Ul vn J th, Jf, or td fvxvj tii, . orr, S3. Attd ooai hord hit n ut to of North ('andi&Ufcft Hid lie, ia trcyi: "Yoa ktu that Mt Vn ed U ixf a lariuWr of th Ntut, Ib-u-Mj before ar.aml lU? rr prw etd th lUWU.i ditrirt ' tn.VajT. Vr!L m .frimd Mnt Vra&k ShoUr, of Kdidnsn. and m & Trr fiaa utaa on Uy.- 'At and Sion dmn l U out (wait dtow. and tby ucd (, cHnj aiuuiid aud inn u mighty oftyn. In f r t, thry Warn gtWt friend ot.otirtif k'inz r!..wr than rot hrm bile ih in latcd, -"One nhiht, ftfu r thy hd i- ibvod u of a half do&'u l-ottlnt wort? or lc, thfy yot t fa-liiti! rvtty pvKLaitd Her mvhtU 7UU rcmarkinl that he ha tlht AlMltli tlirt t North Carolina rter wtii to tnv. grew. r . Now'ndMttlv strr- harl of Zeb Yance'a virtaf an a tUtir H-forv. 1-vrrr ono tht ho loesn't in tho lrat' it mbl a a!ht mrl. He aiu t Imilt rkht Uv lanoe, anil I tlidn't Itrliewi hih l a a . ever had auv extHnemH in that lirt'ctioti Urforo that nicht: but ie ntuckto bi aMK'rtini. " "Will, 7a' t pt rciHatiiig thn ' tat-meiit tinti! tmallv Sion mv': Zeb, I don't count" hum If any great thak an a practical eyi)- uent of the art tcnirbort'a!i. l.ut-' I allow that I'can iut diic t!i . hind leg off of yon , - "Now, Hion wan built like a can imjIo. He wa over i ft high and a thin a a wafer, and no living man ru-r'aaw him Mith- out a big pair of ey tveltt-tt ltd -: jukU1 to hi long ioe. If it waa funny to think of Zeb Vance' daucing, it wa aimply to connidcr Hion Loge ridiculou a .a gert in that connection. But hholT aaid ho Wlievod Hion could down Zeb; 1 . asserted to the contrary, and Hho- fcr iK t rao IHK.I. Tho room wm cleared, Zeb and Sion poelod of th-ir wearing ap parel until nothing wa hdt but. nocturnal habiiiment. aud tho two contestant toik their. piw tions on the floor. It was an ill sortel pairnever were two wen more unlike, bhoher and I tern to do tho patting, and Zeb and Sion were told that the man ho fctood on tho floor the longer wa to have six lottle of ohr wine. Shober started the old plantation pat; tho dancer caught mtep ami went at it. " (5o it, Hion. shouted Shober. " 'Buckle down to it, Zeb 1 f claiiu(xl, ami lth men Wgan to rattle off a double HhufTlo back step that wonhl have turned any nigger in North Carolina green with envy. "Time kihhh1. . "Midnight came and went; thr clock on the r mantel Mrut k cme. Tho danc ing htill went on "Daylight apeared Vail"' was lMgiiiuing to double hunchback and to aweat like like draft horse. Sion aeemed to grow taller everv minute; hi head wa thrownuacK, in arm wood akim bo, onl bin toe apjHared b touch the fltHjr, and not a drop iA perspiration wa viib!o aRnit him. "Tlie hotel breakfaat Wll rang. SholH-r and I ere nearly r-xhaust-1, although wo tok turn iriitst- ting But the dancing hidl w ent Z b'a ahiii' wa ktiekiug to on. him like a huge coart-plater, but Sion hxkel a cool aa a hrit &im now-torm. Zd wa lent over until he bad nearly asma-d a aitting psture, hi low-hga looking aa round aa a barrel hoop. Sion continued to grow taller; and hid eye-glawM-sjitUl prrwrye! theif equilibriom on the end of la nose. "When 12 o'clock raw- and Congress aKsembkd we ugge.ll a recew. But no; Hiun woaldn't hear to it. " Finally I w that Zeb, who now tol only about two feet, two inehea ia hi fcUMrk, wa alwut to utilwid, ml I gave up. "The arti-d then once more r'- galed themelve will - ; Jml t to hL ith our woe, KfUt dan (.tii'y Til iinnrrf witliotlt a tol ho - ! . t it,d If.ti t,t T!-fri-ent-i- - : ; , eioqiurnt sreaaer, juv y- ut And mere ue lies as you anu xt rres.Ur iH wmA ihr tome. -v--- . - "CH "A thicr. Y tars 0Vr which th ravfc&rlaps U xaf i real wins,