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( V V A A VOL V LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, J ONE 5, 1891. NO. 5 SfRittiMfiii I I M Professional Cards. lias located at Lincolnton and of fers bis servic s as physician to the citizens ot Lincolnton and snrroand ing country. Will be found at uight at the res idence of B. G. Wood March 27, 1891 iy EAIiTJjETT smipp. ATTORNEY AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Jan, '.i, ltf'-H. ly. Finley & Wetmore, ATTYS. AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Will practice in Lincoln and surrounding counties. . All business put into our hands will he promptly atten ded to. April 18, 1890. ly. i i t r t J r " 1 t r " t t f SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE IN COBB BUILblN'U, MAIN ST., LINCOLNTON, N. C July 11, 1800. ly DENTIST. LINCOLNTON, N C. Cocaine used for painless ex tracting teeth. With thirty years experience. Satisfaction given in all operations' Terms cash and moderate. Jan 21 '91 ly CJO TO S0IDTIEIIEIRIS BARBER SHOP. Newly fitted up. Work aways neatly done. Customers politely wailed upon. Everything pertain ing to the tonsorial nrt is done according to latest styles. Henry Taylok. Barber. Wlio Is Your Hest Friend? Your stomach of course. Whyi? Becaus if it is out of order you are one of the most miserable creatures living. Give it a fair honorable chance and see if ii is not the best friend you have in the end. Don't smoke in the morning. Don't drink in the morning. If you must smoke and drink wait until your stomach is through with breakfast. You can drink more and smoke mure in tbe evening and it will tell on you less. If your food ferments andl does not digest right, it you are troubled with Heartburn, Dizziness ot the head, coming on after eating, Bilioueness, Indigestion,or any other trouble of the stomach, you had psbuse Ureen's August Flower, aefs no person can use it without immediate relief Baby Carriages, $7.50 Baby Carriages, 7.50 Baby Carriages, 7.50 Baby Carriages, 7.50 mi EM ANDREWS, FURNITURE PIANOS & ORGANS. I made tue largest purchase of BABY CARRIAGES this season since I have been in business. Bought ov r 75 CARRIAGES At one single purchase: I can sell you a beautiful RATTAN CARRIAGE with wire wheels at $7.50. Did you ever see any of those $12.00 Silk Plush Upholstered Carriages Of mine ? Th nk of it ! Silk plush at $12. I have something new to show you this season. They are beautiful styles in Rattan carriages, finished 16th century, for from $15 to 125. The KATIIIIOO is something new also, and is having a big run. I can furnish you CATALOGUES of all my styles, and 1 guarantee to sell you carriages from 15 to 20 per cent, less than any other dealer in the Stale. 3E3st:rlo:r Suits. 1 have an endless variety PARLOR &U..T3 to suit all tastes and e verybody's pocket. 1 can sell you anything from the Wool Plush Suit of Opera, in Walnut Frame, for only $35 00 to the hanasome Suit of 5 pieces for $250 00. This is a suit that retails in New York Gity for $325.00. My stock is more than complete in every respect. Ot the finest, meet reliable makes sold at lowtst prices for cash or on easy payments. Write for my new CATALOGUE. Ei. M- ANDREWS, 14 and 1G West Trade St. Charlotte, N. C. for Infante 'CMtoHmWsowenAdiptdtochndrenth 1 recommend it as ruperior to xcj proscription known to ine." E. A. Aacnxm, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. T. "The use of 'Castoria is so universal and Its merits bo well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the Intelligent families who do not keep Castona within easy reach." Carlos Mattv, D.D., New fork City. Late Pastor Eloomingdale Befonned Church. Th Cwtaub ELKCTElC BITTERS. This remedy i3 becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special men-, tion. All who have used Electric Bitters sins the same song of praise. A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaran-. teed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt llheuin and other affections caused by impure blood. "Will drive Malaria from the system and prevent as well as cure all Malarial fevers. For cure of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Electric Bitters Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. Price 60 cents and $1.00 per bottle at Dr, J. M. Lawing'8 Drugstore. The man wao expects to out-run a lie bad better start with some ' thing faster than a bicycle. - Ol R VERY" BEsT PKOPLE ; Confirm our statement when we tay that Dr. Acker's Plnlish Kernedy is in every I way suierior to any and all other prepar ! Mtions for the Throat and Lungs. In i Whopping Cough and Croup, it is magic I and relieves tit once. We offer you a sam ; pie bottle free. Remember, this remedy is i sold on a positive guarantee. Dr. J. M. , Lawing, Druggist. The reason why men succeed who miutl their on business Is because there is so little competition. . ti DR. ACK.ER S ENGLISH PILLS Are active, effective and pure. For bick headache, disordered stomach, loss of ap petite, bad complexion and biliousness, they have never been equaled, either in America or abroad. Dr. J II Lawing Druggist. Now that the New Orleans graud jury have spoken Pume Minister fiudini should fight or shut up. THAT TERRIBLE COUGH In the morning, hurried or difficult breath ing, raising phlegm, tightness in the chest, quickened pulse, chilliness in the evening or sweats at night, all or any of these things are the first stages of consumption. Dr. Acker's English Cough Kemedy will cure these fearful symptoms, and is sold under n. positive guarantee by Dr JM Law ing, Druggist. The Loid knew what was best for man's peace ot mind when he failed to put eyes in I he back of his head- A WONDER WORKER Mr Frank Huffman, a young man of Burlington, Ohio, states that he had been under the care of two prominent physi cians, and used their treatment until he was not able to get around They pro nounced his case consumption and incur able: He was persuaded to try Dr King's New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds and at that time was not able to walk across the street without resting He found, before he had used half of a dollar bottle, that he was much better ; he con tinued to use it and is today enjoying good health. If you have any throat, lung or chest trouble try it We guarantee satis faction. Trial "bottle free at J M Lawing's Drugstore The bow legged man is handicap ped iu life's journey ; it is difficult tor him to walk in the way he should. Tbe roaring gas welis are a won der, but none the more than the ef feet of Ganter's magic chickeD chol era cure. Sold aud warrauted by Dr. J. M. Lawing. Parlor Suits, $35 Parlor Suits, 35 ParlorSuits, 35 Parlor Suits, 35 and Children. Catoria cures Colic, OouMrpatioa, flour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Iilla Worms, gives steep, and promotes ol- "iViifouk'injarloas medication. For several years I have recommended j our ' Castoria, ' and shall always continue to c.o bo as it has invariably produced beneficial ieeults." Edwin F. Pardij, H. D., 'Tbe Wlntorop," 125th Street and 7th Ave New York City. OWAJrr, 77 M curat Strut, Nw Yoaa. Lancaster Enterprise. ? A puzzli: IX POETUY. A great many years ago a promi nent merchant in Taunton, Mass-, promised an eccentric old woman named Lucy King, tlrat if, taking the Bible, she would compose a rid dle which he conld not guess, he r'uuul6"oucl fc. -LuCof disasters, the recollection of which nojiie was as ionows : "Adam God made out of dust, But thought it best to make me first ; So 1 was made before t'ie man, To answer His most holy plau My body he did make complete, But without legs, arms, or feet ; My ways and acts he did controT, !ut to my body gave no soul A living being 1 became, And Adam gave me a name ; I from bis presence then withdrew, And more of Adam never knew. did my Maker's law obey, Nor from it ever went astray ; Thousands of miles I go in fear, But seldom on earth appear. For purpose wise which God did see, He put a living soul in me ; A soul from me my God did claim, And took from me my soul again. For when from me that soul had fled, I was the same as when first made : And without hands, feet, or soul, I travel on from pole to pole. I labor hard by day and night, To fallen man I give great light ; Thousands of people, young and old, Do by my death great light behold. No right or wrong can I perceive, The scriptures I do not believe ; Althoughjmy name therein is found, They are to me but empty sound. No fear of death doth trouble me, Real happiness I ne'er shall see ; To heaven I shall never go, Nor to the grave, nor bed below. Now, when these lines you closely read, Go search your Bible with all speed, For that my nam's recorded there I honestly to you declare. THE JIONKY l'rol. Siiuom Newcomb on Popular Delusions. The following paper from the pen of Prof. Simon Newcomb, of Wat-b ingtou, is tbe first of a t-eiies of ar tides from the pen of that rtisting uished scieutist and political econo mist written especially for tbe Sun. The quest'ou discussed is one in which everybody is interested, and the method of its treatment is so clear and forcible that every one may readily comprehend it : There is an old story about a cer tain king named Midas which has always seemed to me very instruct ive. Like many other men he was very fond of "uiouey, aud devoted great energy to the work of getting rich. Being also a very hospitable person, he once entertained a guest high in favor with the gods so roy ally that the gods offered to make him whatever recompense he pleas ed. After due consideration be concluded that there was nothing ho liKed better than gold, and notb ing in the world would suit him bet. ter than to have that metal in the greatest plenty, so be asked that whatever he touched might be turn ed into gold. His prayer was prompt ly granted and for a time he was delighted with the resalt. He at length sat down to his midday meal. He very soon had golden dishes to eat out of and a golden fork in his hands, but the first mouthful hepat ioto his mouth also turned into gold. Then new light began to dawn upon Lim; he saw that what he thought v ould be a source of unlimited pleas ure was just the opposite ; that in fiict he had no prospect before him but that of starving to death. He w is gla'i to hurry "back to Bacchus, at d when, in accordance with the directions of the god, he changed himself back into an ordinary man by bathing in tbe rirer Pactolus, be fmnd himself restored to his former sSate with more pleasure than he bad experienced in getting out of it. I call this story an instructive one because lhe mistake made by old King Midas is one the like of which men have been subject to in all ages and times, and in no part of the world have men suffered from it more than in these United States of America. Every nation, when such a mistake is made, hands down the recollections of it to its posterity, so that the latter will avoid it for com! ing generations. Thus the French j nation had a sad experience of the j kind during the revolution. Moved by the same arguments now ad vanced by our Western farmers they cuujusiwDac tuose iarmers now want done ; they issued mouey sup posed to be secured by moitgage ou land in immense quantities; The result was financial rnin a series a l-e-u to well kept in lie national mind tnet the Fiench nation have submitted without a murmur to a ll standard all through the recent depreciation in the price of silver We have a notion that the expeih ence of our forefathers goes tor very little, aud so we make no ue of the lesson so abundantly taught by all experience that au increase iu the volume or money in circulation is ouly a repetition ot the experiment f poor old Midas. The notion ot which I speak is so videspread that it even rinds ex pression in proveibj, for example . 'Money makes the mare go.'' Now, I say that this proverb, as common 1 interpreted is wroug. It is neith er more nor less true than to say that iufe mskes business go. You em't do much business without ink, but if anybody wonld propose to ac cumulate a large amount of ink so as to get more business, jou would all laugh at him, and yet he might make a very good argumeut against you by showing h)W impossible it was to trausact, business aud get :tlong without that indispensable commodity, so that you would be tin wise iu discouraging its manu facture. . Bat 3rou may ask why is il ihat money thus deceives people? I reply that uuiveisal experience shows that there is a curious para dox about. money which people wib never believe until they find it out by trial. This paradox is that the more money you put iuto' cireula tiou the Ncarcer it is and the harder it is to get if you want to borrow any. We had an instance of this during our civil war. In the begin, ning the government fouud it rath er bard to borrow money; six per cent, and even highei interest had to be paid for i. So Congress and the Treasury Department thought that if they issued a few hundred million ot legaMender notes these notes would go around through the banks, and the government would find no difficulty in borrowiug all the mouey it wanted. Mr. Chase was puzzled to find that they did not get it back ; so the issues were increased, and besides that national b;iuk8 were established with antb ority to put still larger sums in cir culation. But all this onlv made the matter worse. Prices kept go ing up so that more money was wanted, two prices had to bo paid for nearly everything, and govern ment bonds depreciated to such an extent that the government was p-iying an equivalent of ten, twelve or fifteen per cent, interest on all the money it borrowed. Now, al- t lough this may look paradoxical, if you would examine the matter c osely you would see that there is a good reason for it. In the first place let us remember I a id bear in mind that we cannot eat n oney ot any sort, nor wear it, nor u?e it in any other way except to b3y something we want. We can n)t buy anything with money ex cept under two conditions; there rr ust be somebody who wants to sell something to us, and that somebody ir ust be williug to sell it for the amount of money we are willing to otfer him, Now the more money you put into circulation the more money everj'body will want for his goods, so you have to pay more to get what you want, and thus, so far as. mere buying is concerned, you are no better off than before. But you may reply, granted that this is the cas?, I do not see why it should make money scarce. But you can see why if you will consider a little further. When prices are going up there are a thousand chances for people who are in business to make money for speculation. Suppose,for example, it is quite certain that tbe price of wheat is going to rise five cents a bushel. Then the man who can buy a million bnsuels on credit and bold it a month will make $50,000 by the operation, and need pot invest any more money thau he has to pay in as secuiity for his part ot tbe bargainperhaps teu per cent, ou the amount ot his purchase. The operatiou will be something like this : He buys oue million bushels ot wheat, pays $100,000 in cab aud gives his note for the remaining $000,000, say in a mouth. At the end of the month He sells the wheat at an advance ot $50,000. pays off his note and has $150,000 cash to Giiow for the 8100,000 with which he Ktai ted. Now, what I said about '?heat may be said about ever thing lhat can be bought ind sold iu ihe wholesale market. When thousands of sharp men of business see chau ces to double their money in a few months they want to borrow all the mouey they can, thus the rate of in. terest goes up. In fact, everybody who has any money to spare wants to speculate with it and nobody wants to lend it. If any debts are due the creditor wants them paid, lecause he knows that it he does not get his money now he will lose fome chance of speculation or of I waning at a high rate of iuterest, -nd when his money does come it will not be worth so much to bun if be waits. When this fever of spec ulating once gets started there is no telling where it will stop. When everybody who has mouey gets to buying prices will keep going up, speculation will be successfu', and the very fact that it. is successful will make people want to speculate and eend prices still higher. And so, with all this plenty, money will to scarce and hard to borrow. But what is the resalt of this rise of prices on people who don't t-pec ulate, ou the laborers aud the sala ried meu, the physicians and every body who works for wages. They are the sufferers. Every time thev go to market they find butter a cent or two a pound higher, and every new suit of clothes they buy costs them more- Thus society is divided into two great classes, the great speculators making fortunes and the poorer classes getting pinched. It is true that there is more money than ever in circulation, but "more mouey is wanted, so that really a large amouut of money is of no more use than a small amouut would be Now, iu all this 1 am only telling you tacts that have happened. They happened in our country during and after the revolution, and they hap. paned in France at the lime of the French revolution, and again iu this country iu 1837, and again during the civil war. In all cases the ao thorities and the public got very augry and made all sorts of com plaints agaiust the speculators, the forestalled and the brokers, and threatened to do all sorts of things with them. I believe that Napoleon actually hanged some of them, and Washington was very sorry that he c uld not hang them. But all these complaints are perfectly silly. You may just as well let a flood against a lam and then complain because tbe dam breaks and tbe flood des stroys the country below. The wagei earners are the people below, and the inflated currency is the flood which they let ioto tbe dam above them because tbey think it is very ni3o to have plenty of water. But where does this speculation ! stop! You are buildiug on a very narrow foundation. The man who can build the highest makes the most money, provided be can get dewn before bin edifice topples over Sc they go on, brick by brick, but as often as a prudent man uteps dewn another climbs up. But the inevitable time comes when things topple over. Prices stop rising be cause the poor people canuot. pay them aDd have to to withouf. Then on-i speculator fails, aud then an other fails, uutil at last the whole thing topples over, aud . the last state of every body is worse than the first except in the case of thos1? cautious and lacky speculators who retired before the crash came. Now I must ask you to think very caiefully over another aspect of the case in fact, I want you to think as closely as if you had to do a dif ficult sum in arithmetic. Theprob. lem is, Why are people so anxious to get money T If yon look at the case you will see that nothing in tut world is of less use than mouev. Vou cannot eat it any more than poor old Midas could eat his gold. It will not shelter ou; it will not iive .ou any purpose whatever. You can answer the question with-i-jt difficulty. We all want the i ouey because with it we canj buy v hat we want. Now if you will al ,T ays remember ami be ir iu mind In aU discussions of this Mihject that money is g-o,l for nothing lor its one sako ami is useful i' ly u ac t mnt ol what wecmi buv with if, ou will avt id one of the greatest mistakes that aie made iu dealing ith this subject. You have simply to remember that the value of mon e, is not in having so many dollars, l it in being all to bu' so in ny h its, so muc'i hie id and such a suit of clothes. This being tbe case you 8-;e at ouchi tnat if any policy is ad- o ite l by which ou buy less bread U v a dollar and have to pay more for a suit of clothes, your money is worth less. An increase of one third in the cost of everything yon b ay is not really an increase of value an all ; it is only a reduction of yoor ir come by '25 per cent. You have as many dollars as you had before, but you really do not have as much value iu monev. No doubt it will seem very para doxical to you at first to talk about the value of one dollar and to say that that value may change. You tliiuk that $1 is always just l$l and S10 always just ten times as much, n matter wuat happens, and there fore canuot see why it is not an in v iriable measure of value. I h trouble is that, you canuot seethe value of a dollar as plainly as you can see whether a yard measure is or is not a yard long. Let me give ou an illustration : Suppose one foot rules were all made of such rua tonal that in the course of a few months they would shrink up to ocehalf, and that they all shrunk iu the same proportion. You might still call their length oue foot, and if the laws required that Ihe measures should be taken aud called one foot, m matter how much they might shrink, you would have to consider that that was their real leDgth. See also what would follow from this Ou measuring your height you would find that you had grown to t! n or twelve feet ; that your house was twice as broad and twice as long as before. So long as you did not know that vour foot measure had shrunk, you might be in as delight ful a state of mind as the men some times are who have taken a dese ot seme drugs which make them im agine they are the largest, strongest at d happiest people that ever ex is ed in the world. If you saw a m m who did not recognize the fact U. it tbe measures were shorter, and wl o boasted of his immense stature yc would think him very tcolish j in fact, every person would who saw hew the case stood. Now, when in consequence of having more dollars, aii;( especially cheap silver or paper dc lars, you make prices go up, yon ar j doing in values exactly what vo j are doing in length when you m$: ke the foot r ule shorter. Things arc really not worth any more than th y were before; it is the dollars w Licit are worth less. Yet people understand this so liitle that no incisures are at first more popular th;'u those which infl-ife the curren cy. Everyoue expects great things to follow, bat when they come it is foi ud by sad experience that tbe inflation does not mend matters.bnt on y makes ihem worse. Simon Xe.ccomb in Baltimore Snn. DO WOT SUFFEtl ANY LONGFK. Knowing that a cough can be cheese! in a dvv, and the stages of consumj.tion bro ken in a we'-k, we hereby guarantee Dr. Ak.-r's Enslish Cough llemedy, and will refund themoney to &l! who huy, tako it as pt-r direction an-1 do not find our state ment coirect. Dr. J M Lawing, Druggist lie Will Iep Still. 'Tommy Can we play at keep ing a store in here, mamma. Mamma (bo has a headache) Tommy WeP, we'll pretend we don't advertise," Wheu driving nails into hard wood, if they bhow a disposition to double over dip them in lard or oil, and they will sink into the wood without any trouble. Advice to a Young Mau. So you were a little to pert, aud sooke without thinking did you, my sou f And you got picked up quite suddenly on your statement, eh! Ob, well, that's all right; that happens t i older men thau you every day. I have noticed that you have a very positive way ot filling a decesion where other men state an opinion, and you frequently make a positive assertion where other men merely expiess a belief. But never mind ; ou are jouug. Y'ou will know less as you grow oMer. Don't J mean you will kuow ii. ore f lieaveu for bid, my boy. No indeed ; I uieau you will kuow less. You will never know more than mu do now. No hoary-headed sage, whose long and studious , ears were spent in reading men ami books, ever knew as much as a boy of your age. A jrl of fifi teen knows about as much, but then she gets ov-r it sooner and more easily. "Does it cause a pang, then, to get lid of early knowledge?'' Ah, my boy, it does. Pulliog eye teeth and molars will seem like pleasant recreation alongside of shredding off great solid slabs aud layers of wisdom and knowledge that now press upon you like geo- logical strats. "Hut how are jou to get lid of all this superincumbent wisdom!" Oh easily enough, my boy ; just keep on airing it ; that's the best way. It won't stand cons staut use, and it disintegrates rap idly on exposuee to air. Burdette in the Brooklyn hiqle. TH KlRiT SYMPTOMS OK IE.TU. Tired feeling, dull head hi he, pain in various parts of tbe bo ly, sinking at tbe pit of the stomach, los ol appetite, fever lhness, pimples or pore, are ail positive evidence of poisoned hlonj. No matter liow it became poisoned it must he puriBed to avoid death. Dr. Acker's English Blood Elixir has never failed to remove scrofulous or syphilitic poisons Sold under positive guarantee hy Dr J. M Lawing, Druggist. Some idea of the vast damage done by the 'orest fires which ha.e lately uwept over portions of Michi gan, Wiscousin and Minuesota.ieav iug out ot consideration tbe damage done hy the destruction of houses, barnt-, fences, farm produce, stock, etc., moy begotten from the state ment that the area of the buant dis trict is larger than the State of Pennsylvania, which contains 45,215 square miles. This may be an ex aggeratiou and probably is, but the fact that this statement is made gives evidence ot the immense sweep of the conflagration aud of the havs oc done. The timber la not all burn ed in the area referred to, but mnch that may have escaped the touch of the fire will be found to have been so injured by the heat as to cause ita speedy decay. As that was the sec tion which furbished most of the lumber for the Northwestern market an advance in prices will follow as a matter of course. Wil. Star. Strange Freak of Lightning. A curious freak of lightning is re ported on the place of Samuel With erspoon'8 2 miles southwest of the ciy during tbe heavy storm of Mon day evening. Lightning struck the chimney of Mr. Witberspoon's house, ran down tho chimney into the room where the family were pitting, tore the ear rings out of the ears of Mr. Wither spoon's daughter, and so shocked tho family that none of them have been able to bear since. A large tree in Riley Rudiaill'a yard was completely splintered Charlotte Chronicle. Tue distinguished Republican oN ficials under this administration look alter their progency and find mauy berths lor them in the gov erumeut service. Blaine appointed a ton as his legal adviser, and has sent another t Spain with the treaty commissioner. Attorney General Miller has found a place for his boy, and Secretary Windom's son has also provided for Coporal Tanner had his daughter in the Pension office, and Raum put his boy in where he could rake in some pocket money on the ely by selling appoint ments. They are a thrifty lot. WiL Stvr. Sweetaeea that never sours will do more to sooth your pathway through this vale of tears than con giderable money.