51 VOL V LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1891. NO. 6 Professional Cards. Has locked at Lincoluton and of fers his services as physician to the citizens of Lincoln ton and surround ing country. Will bo toand at night at the res& idence of B. C. Wood March 27, 1891 ly BABTLETT SMIPP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Jen. 'J, IS'U. ly. Finley & Wetmore, ATTYS. AT LAW. LINCOLNTON, N. C. Will practice in Lincoln and surrounding counties. All business put into our hands will be promptly atten ded to. Ai.ril 18, layu. lv. SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE IN coeb BUILDING, MAIN ST., LINCOLNTON, N. C) July 11, 1890. ly t t 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 23 '91 ly GO TO SDUMIEHK STAB 5 1 BARBER SHOP. Newly fitted up. Work aways neatly done, customers politely waited upon. Everything pertain iug to the toosorial art is done according to latest styles. 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It contains no opium or morphine. Sold by Dr. J M Law ing, Druggist. Parlor Suits, $35 Parlor Suits, 35 ParlorSuits, 35 ParlorSuits, 35 and Children. CMtorin enrol Ootte, Comtipoiion, Sour Stomach, Diarrnoea, Eructation, XiiU Worm, five sleep, and promote U- JSiowtinjarto us medication. " For several years I have recommended yonr Oastoria, ' and shall always continue to do so as it baa invariably produced beaafloial reaulta." Eownr F. PAnnn, X. D., Tbe Wlntnrop," lasth Street and 7th Are., New York City. Our-urr, 77 Mumi Stuzt, Nw Tons. 's Answer to a Stan's Question. Do you know you have asked for the cost liest thing Ever made by the hand above A woman's heart, and a woman's life, And a woman's wonderful love? Do yovknow you have asked for this price less thing As a child might ask for a toy ? Demanding what others have died to win W.ith the reckless dash ot a boy. You have written my lesion of duty out, Manlike you have questioned me ; Now stand at the bar of my woman's soul Until I shall question thee. You require your mutton shall always be hot, Yur socks and your shirts shall be whole; I require your heart shall be true as God's stars ; And pure as heaven your soul. You require a cook for your muttcn and beet; I require far grander a thing; A seamstress you're wanting for stockings and shirts I look for a man and king A king for a beautiful realm called home, And a man that the maker, God, Shall look upon as he did the first, And say, "It is very good." I am fair and young, but the rose will fade From my soft young cheek one day ; Will you love me then, 'mid the falling leaves, As you did 'mid the bloom of May? Is your heart an ocean so strong and deep I may launch my all on its tide ? A loving woman finds heaven or hell On the day she is made a bride. 1 require all things tbat are grand and true; All things that a man should be ; If you give thia all would stake my life To be all you demand of me. If you cannot do this, a laundress and cook You can hire witn little to pay ; But a woman's heart and a woman 'a life Are not to be won that way. Mary T. Lathrop. New York Ledger. MARTHA DREWE'S PARLOR. BY J. L. HARBOUR. nretfcv little farm house. paint- J M ed a snowy white, with blinds of vivid green, stood just out side the small New England village of Waterford. The house was quite new: The shinglds on its roof were still yellow and resinous. It had a trim, smart look pleasing to the eye. A small, old house. painted a dark brown, stood back a few yards from the pretty white house. Mr. and Mrs. Jared Drewe had moved from the old house into the new one. Tnev nau begun house keeping as a young married couple in the old house, and they had lived in it twenty-five years. The new house was the culmiuation of the hopes and plans of many years. True, Drewe had never liked the old house. It had no "conveniences." The new house had a well right in the kitchen, a big pantry, plenty of closets and a parlor. The old house had had none of these things. "I begin to feel as though I was somebody,'7 Mrs. Drewo said at the breakfast-table on the morning of the fifth day after they had moved into the Dew bouse. "Do, eh t" replied Mr. Drewe. "You wimmen are great for puttin on style. I ain't never felt no par tic'lar need of a parlor. A common aettin'-rooin'a good enough for me, or even the kitchen.'7 "I don't mind settiu in a nice, clean kitchen, myself' replied his wife, "but I don't want all my com p'ny to have to set theie speshly the minister and his wife. Tve felt the need of a parlor a many a time, if you ain't." "Well, you've got one now.'' uYes, when I git it furnished," "Oh, I reckon you'll want to fill it full of all sorts of flab-dubbery womau-like." I'm going to have things nice, anyhow. Land knows, I've waited loug euoogh for 'em." "What you call 'nice V "Well, I'm going to have a real Brussels carpet, for one thing, and a marbletop table and a plush sofy and lace curtains and nice chairs." "Shucks !" Mr. Drewe said, con temptuously, but he did not offer any objection to this extravagant outlay of lone: and carefully hoard ed funds. He knew, moreover, that most of this splendor would bo pur A Womai chased ont of his wife's own savings. She was a wise woman and had a purse of her own. "Ketch me having to run to Jared or to any other mau ev'ry time I want a little money," she had said, in the begmuiugof their pilgrimage as man and wile. "No, sir; my sav ingrt shall be my own Adhering tenaciously to this re alve aud ever keeping iu mind a time to come when she should have a new house, Mrs. Drewe had mon ey enough to furnish the house as she pleased. Bat his wile's second proposition aroused a spirit of antagonism in Jared Drewe : "I want to have the parlor paper ed some timn next week." "Papered Mr. Drewe looked up quickly, sur prise and opposition depicted on ev ery line of his face. "Yes, papered," replied Mrs Drewe. "You s'pose I'm going to have bare white walli when ev'ry body else has theirs papered V1 "We'd all bare walls m the old house.'' "I don't care if we did, we kept thinkin' and thinkin' we'd build ev 'ry year, and it didn't seem worth while to do any paperin' or fixin' up; but if you reckon I'm goin to live the rest o' my days in bare whiter walled rooms you're mistaken." She spoke decisively, for she saw unusual depths of opposition in her husbaud's large, unbearded face with its square, firm jaw and chin indicative of great fiimuess of pur. pose. Her own face wore a resolute, emphatic expression. She was a plucky little woman. Her husband had a secret pride in what be called her "grit,'7 although he would have died before he would have confessed it. "I don't see why on earth you ob ject so to a little wall-paper, Jared." "I despise wall-paper," he said, with something like childish per verseness. "Why ?' "Because I dor1 "That ain't any reason." "It's unhealthy, for one thing.'' "Fiddlesfaddle 1" "Any doctor'll tell ye so." "I wouldn't b'lieve it if he did. Everybody has wallpaper nowadays." "We haven't." "We're goin to have." "We're not." Mrs. Drew sat haek stiffly in her chair, itsolute and defiant. Her black eyes shone as she said : "There's no sense in your actin' so, Jared Sparks. I'm goin' to have that parlor papered." "You do, and I'll never set foot in it as long as I live and breathe the breath of life 1" "Fiddlesticks 1" "I never will, Marthy." "What nonsense!" "I never will 1" He rose from the table as he spoke, took his hat from a nail in the small entry near the kitchen door and went out to the barn, his every movement seeming to accent uate his resolve. Mrs. Drewe did not refer to the matter again; but a week trom that day, when Mr. Drewe returned home after a day spent in the city five miles distant, he met John Hays, the village papershanger, coming from the house with an empty paste bucket and a roll or two of paper under his arm. Stepping into the little front en try, he glanced toward the parlor at the right. The door was open, and he saw his wife standing in the center of the room, looking with pleased eyes at the foar walls around her covered with gorgeous giit pa- per of the most pro n on need pattern. She assumed an air of ignorance of any previous discussion of the subject, and asked, cheerilv : "Well, Jared, how do you like it t Isn't it lovely T J think it's just beautiful." "You remember what I said, Mar thy Drewe V1' "Well ?" 'Tm goin to stick to it." "Now, Jared, I" "I'll never set foot in that room long a 8 I live and breathe and keep my- senses I Never P . He pronounced each word slowly and with marked emphasis. Then he turned and went out to the barn. "He'll get over it," Mrs. Drewe said, hopefully, to heiself; bnt in her secret soul 6he feared he would uot. IIo made no reference to the mat ter at the supper table. He even talked cheerfully and pleasantly ot the events of bis visit to the city: The Brnsnels carpet, the plush so tu, the lace curtain and the marble, top table of Martna Drewe's visions aud dreams became splendid reali. ties during the next week. She called her husband to note the gen eral effect when everything was in place. He came to the open door and looked in. "Come in an' set down in this new J patent rocker and see how easy it rocks," she said. "No, thauk ye," he eaid, curtly. '! never expect to set in it." - j She tried to laugh lightly as sue said : "Pshaw, Jared 1 Don't be so silly!" He turned and walked away in silence. The minister and his wife came out trom the village to call, the next day. Mrs. Drewe ushered them in to the gorgeous pailor, her heart swelling with pride. Jared came to the door with an old wooden chair trom the kitchen, plumped it down fiat and hard on the oilcloth of the entry floor, and sat there during the entire call. "You never even come in to shake hands with 'em," Martha said, aften ward. "1 know it." "What you s'pose they'll think V ' "Dunno what.'' "If that's the way you're goin' to act ev'ry time anybody calls here,I'd thank you to keep out of sight alto aether." "1 reckon I want to see folks much as you do." "I've a notion to go and have ev 'ry room in the house papered," she naid, hotly. "Then I'll take np my abode in the tavern," he replied, calmly. "The Drewes always was a stub born set. but I vutn I didn't s'pose Jared could be so pig-headed," she said when Jared had left the room. She had mauy callers during the rext few weeks. The fame of her gorgeous parlor brought all her friends and acquaincances to behold its splendors. Jared eat at the door on the old wooden chair during nearly all of these calls. He was careful not to let even the toe of his boot enter the despised room. The shap eyea of some of Mrs. Drewe's callers soon noticed J red's peculiar conduct; their keeu noses scented domestic discord. "What's the matter of Jared f asked Sarah May, Mrs. Drewe's sis t?r, a few weeks after the papering and furnishing of the parlor. "Nothing tbat I know of," replied Martha. "WTbat makes you ask ?'' "Didn't be want you to buy yoar parlor things?" "He didn't care. Whatever put that idee into your head, Sally !" "They say he won't set in one of the parlor cheers, nor even step into tae room." "Wh0 8ays so?" "Oh, it's common talK. I've been asked about it morcn once." Mrs. Drewe went home greatly distressed and humiliated. She was a sensitive little woman, notwith standing her "grit," aud she could not endure the thought of having her domestic affairs made a subject of common gossip. She was rigidly truthful, too, and she was forced to admit to her sister that she and her husband had had a disagreement. She felt hotly rebellions toward Ja. red as she entered the pretty little new bouse in which she had expect ed to be so happy. Jared was lying on the lonnge in his shirtisleeves and stockinged feet, reading the weekly paper. "Well," said Martha, while unty ing her bonnet-8tring8,"it's got out." "Whafa got ont ? " 'Bout you sayin' you'd never set foot in the parlor." "I can't help it if it has," he said, imperturbably. 'Can't help it!" she cried, hotly; "you can help it any minnit, Jared Drewe I " "How t" "Why, by simply giving up your mulish Dens and coming into the par lor next time we have company." "Hnraph ! said Jarei, and re named the readiu of his paper. Martha raged inwaidly. So mauy of her plans were thwart etl by Jared 'a "mulish news." She bad the deserved reputation of belli a very "nociable" woinat), and he had planned to have "a sight ot comp'ny" iu the new house. She had ofren pictured to herself the tea-parties and the dinner-par tics she should give- She had even pi meed a grand housewarming,with a .supper that should surpass any thing ever given in that neighbors hood. It as hard to have all these fair dreams coming to naught. "For 1 can't invite company with Jared actin' so. He'd have to be in ' the parlor 8ome,"8he said to herself, often with hot tears in her eyes. The summer days waned into those ot autumn, and the autumn days gave place to the winds aud snows of late November and still the feet of Jared Drewe had never crossed the threshold of bis own parlor and Martha had suffered un told mortification on this account. They were sitting alone in rather gloomy silence at the close of a dark and stormy day in late November, Martha bad not been well for sever- al days. She had never been confin ed to her bed a day in her life and a slight indisposition usually made her irritable. She felt that it would ir some degree be a disgrace for her to be ill. It was with as much pride as gratitude tbat she remem bered that neither she nor Jared h :d ever needed the services of a physician. But she looked ill enough to need one now. There were great black hollows under her dull eyes, ber cheeks were flushed, her lips dry, arjd she crept about slowly and Ian-, gc.idly. "Better let me go for the doctor, Mirtby," Jared had said several times. "I b'lieve you're sicker'n you reckon you air." 'I've an idee I'll be better in the morning. I'm going to take a dose ol: them bitters that helped me so w uen I was kind o run down in the su -nmer. Wish you'd get em for me.' 'Where are they !' he asked, ris ir from his chair, the paper he had br en reading still In his band. Ob, they 're in the the set down Js red,l'll get up and get 'em myself.' Sue was lying on the lounge at thi time and she sat up painfully ard slowly,whiie he hastened to cay: 'No, uo, Marthy ; lay still ; I'll get 'em. Where are they V 'Theyre iu that little corner clos et in the parlor, Jared.' He stared blankly at her for a moment, his face crimsoning; he to:k a step forward and then drop ped back heavily into bis chair and held the paper up before bis face in silence. His wife rose without a word and feebly walked across the floor. breathing heavily and keeping her self from falling by leaning on ta bles and chairs. Jared watched her turtively while pretending to read. There was a visible twitching of the corners of his month once, and his teeth, set close together, showed be tween his parted lips- The hand that held the paper trembled, but be sat still. His wife slowly groped her way across the hall. He heard tbe part lor door open. He heard the door of the little closet swing back, creak ing slightly on its hinges. Then he heard Martha fall. He ran to the open door of the parlor. She was lying at full length, face downward on the floor. "Marthy I Marthy !" he cried ; but he stopped short, with his toes on the parlor threshold, his stubborn, inflexible will loth to bend or break even to give aid to the wife he truly ov?d. "Marthy ! O, Marthy !" he called, stretching his arms far into tbe room toward her, "Lordy, Marthy, come here, and I'll do anything I kin for you. Roll over, If you cau't wa'k, Marthy !" He diopped to bis knees, bent hi great body forward and tried to reach her, but failed by several feet. There was a ludicrous side to it all. "Mai thy I" he faintly shrieked. She neither moved nor spoke, but suddenly she gave a pitiful groan. "Good Lord ! What a fool I t ! cried Jared, suddeuly leauing back aud sinking his breast with his cleuched fists. "A fool ana a beast to let tbe best wife auy man ever had nffer a second, whin I might help her ! The Lord forgive me l" He bounded to her side as he spoke, and took her limp aud un conscious form up iu his arms, say ing, as ha did so : "It'll be a judgment on me if she dies. The best, wile iu the world Marthy ! Marthv , deal 1 What aiU t e ?" He seldom called Ler 'dear.' He did so now with great tenderness and gentleuess. "Marthy can't ye open your eye9t See, dear; I'm in the parlor. I'll come in it right along now. The pai perin reely sets it off. I've thought so from the fust but 1 was too cus sed stubborn to say so. Ob, Marthy! What is the matter f " For the did not even open ber eyes. It was seven weeks before she left the bedroom to which he carried her. He had been one of tbe ten- derest and most patient of nurses, but the word "parlor" had never passed either his lips or hers duriug all that time. She had thought much about it, however, but not with pride or p!easure, because she had no hopa that Jared would ever enter it now, aud the wallspaper could not be re moved. He carried her out tenderly and gently the first time she left her room. "Want me to carry ye into the parlor, Marthy !" he asked, after he had her in bis arms. "It's sunny and bright in there. I've got a good fire in the stove and the the wall piper shines beautifully." She looked up with shioing eyes and the first flush there had been in her cheeks for many weeks. "If you would carry me in and lay me down on the sofy awhile, Jared. Why I I Oh, Jared ! What does it mean ? I thought you Ob, Jared!'' for as be carried her out into the dining-room and through the sitting-room to the ball she saw tbat all the once bare and cold and staring white walls were covered with more expensive and beautiful paper thau she herself would have bought. There was a warm, red and black carpet on tbe hall floor, a new car pet for the sittiug-room, new and pretty chairs and tables here and there, and a mirror in a gilt frame between the two front-parlor wia dows that reached nearly from tbe floor to the ceiling. Wheu she caught a reflection of their faces in the shining glass, she saw in both a kinder, gentler, tenderer look than either had worn for years. IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? Not if you go through the wold a dys peptic. Dr. Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets are a positive cure for the worst forms of Dys pepsia, Indigestion, Flatulency and Uon eumption. Guaranteed and sold by Dr. J M Lawing Druggist. The TreaHiiry Vault. Tbe great Treasury vault at Washington, built not long ago, covers more than a quarter of an acre, and is twelve feet deep. In its interior there is a cage of iron lattice work, tbe bars of which are made of wrought iron, and which were riveted together with red hot rivets after the lattice work was put up. It took 100,000 rivets to fasten tbe iron work ot this vault together, and tbe lattice bad to be very strong as the silver is very heavy. The amonnt of silver now in tbe vault weighs over 3000 tons, and you could put these $90,000,000 on one side ot the scales and 35,000 men, weighing each 180 pounds,, on the other side, and the silvar would out weigh them. It would taks 1V freight cars to carry this silver to the sea-coast if America should be conquered and this treasury vault looted. And still this is only a small part of the coin iu the treasury. There is another vault which con tains $59,000,000 more of silver and $25,000,000 in gold. Ex. TT