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Mm LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, MAR. 25, 1892. NO. 47 Professional Cards. gf- (5. , tetec, MX3I01AN AND SURGEON, OSsrt his professional serviceto ,he cituens of Liocolntuu and surroun- 3ug country. Office at his resis deice adjoiuing Linoolnton Hotel. All oalls promptly attended to. A. 7, 1891 ly J. W.SAIN.M. D., lias located at Lincolaton and of fers his services as physician to the citizens ot Lincoliitou and surround ing country. Will be tound at night at tbe ress idence, of B. C. Wood March 27, 1891 ly Bartlett Shipp, ATTORNEY AT LAW, L1NCOLNTON, N. C. Jun, 0, Ifr'Jl. ly. Finley & Wetmore, ATTYS. AT LAW, L1NCOLNTON, N. C. Will practice in Lincoln and surrounding counties. All business put into our hands will be promptly atten ded to. April 18, 1890. lv. Dr. W. .A PRESSLEY, SURGEON DENTIST. Terms CASH. OFFICE IN COBB BUILDING, MAIN ST., LINCOLNTON, N. C July 11, 1890. ly DENTIST. LINCOLNTON, N. C. Cocaine used for painless ex tracting teeth. With thirty years experience. Satisfaction ven in all operations Terms :.ash and moderate. Jan 23 '91 iv GO TO BARBER SHOP. Newly fitted up. Work aways neatly done, customers politely waited upon. Everything pertain iDg to the tousorial art is done according to latess styles. Henry Taylok. Barber. J. D. Moore, President. L. L, Jenkins, Cashier. No. 4377. F1KST NATIONAL BANK OF GAST0NIA, N. C. Capital $50,000 Surplus 2,750 Average Deposits - 40,000 COMMENCED BUSINESS AUGUSTl, 1890. Solicits Accounts ot Individuals, Firms and Corporations. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Guarantee to Patrons Every Accommodation Consistent wilUConservRtlTe Banhing. BANKING HOURS 9a.m.to3p.m. Dec 11 '91 vn --r I. a.---j ,; ,:,,,, ,-, , ,, - - :vt Sm . .. !' "' V' for Infants and 'CMterlA to bo wcH adapted to children that I recommend it m rupwior to nj prescription toown to ine." JJ. A. Archm, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T. "The mm of 'Castoria Is so universal and Its merits so well known that it aeems a work of tupererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria, within easy reach." Caklos Marty. D. D.. New Vork City, Late Pastor Blooming dale Reformed Church. Th Itch on tuman and Qorses and all anu laala cured in 30 minutes by Woclfords Sanitary Lotion. This never fail3. Sole by J M. Lading Druggist Liucolnton. N C True Sncceas. Success is not necessarily the ac complishment of something tbat gives a man a world-wide reputa tion. True success is the fruit of faithfulness in any position. Bat faithfulness does not imply content ment with present surroundings when courage and energy would open larger opportunities: Join the ranks of noble men who have risen above adverse circumstances and made life a success for themselves and a blesxing to others. Younq Men's Era. STRENGTH AND HEALTH. If you are not feeling strong nd healthy try Electric Jiitiers. Jf Li Grippe has left you weak and weury, ue Electric Bitters. This remedy acts directly on Liver, Stom ach and Kiineys, gentlv aiding those or gans to perform their functions. If you are afflicted with eick headache, you will fin J speedy and permanent relief by taking Electric bitters. One trial will convince you that this is tbe remedy you need. Large bottles only 50c at J M Lawing's drugstore Try To Ilea Rteslng. Let us act toward our fellowcrea tures as God does to us, and be to them what tbe son is to tbe wbo!e universe. As be daily diffuses bis benigu influence over the wbole earth ; as be tlunes upon tbe un grateful as upon the righteous , and as be gilds tbe bosom of the valley as well as the lofty summit of the mountain j so let our lives be uselub beueficent, and consolatory to our fellowcreatures. May each return ing day renew the oharitible emo 10ns of our hearts, and may we do all the good in oar power, and en. deavor so to live and to act that our lives shall be a blessing to mankind- From the German of Strum. A LITTLE GIRL'S EXPERIENCE IN A LIGHTHOUSE. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Trescott are keepers of the Gov. Lighthouse at Sand Beach, Mich., and are blessed with a daughter four years old. Last April she was taken down with measles, followed with a dread ful cough and turning into a fever. Doc tors at home and at Detroit treated her, but in vain, she crew worse rapidly, until she was a mere '-handful of bones." Then she tried Dr. King's New Discovery aDd j after the use of two and a half bottles was completely cured. Iney say Dr. King's New Discovery is worth its weight in gold yet you may get a trial bottle free at J. M. Lawing's drugstore. Love has won all the biggest bat tles in history without gunpowder or blood. Children Caatoria cares Oottc, OoaftrpAffcm, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation, ynT. Wora7Vv d promote di- Wltnoottajurious medication. Tor several rears I have recommended n.,r ' PAftoria7' and ehall always continue to lo afni7produced beneficial results. " Enwrw F. Pardm. M. D., The WintJirop," 125th Street and 7th Are., A New York City. Com - Axr, 77 MoaaAT Swxrr. N.w Yob.. Deal Gently With the Children. Deal gently with the children, But a few short years your own ; The home nest soon is empty, And the little birds have flown ; And when, no more returning, They leave that home behind, Tho thought will cheer yoar loneliness That you were good and kind. Dealgontly with the children Who gather round your knee ; Check not in sudden aner Their merriment and glee ; The play that is so noisy, So wearisome to-day, Will 8cm like sweetest music then When they have gone away. Deal gentry with the children, Fat changing every hour . Still strive to make them happy YVhUe 3et within your power ; Each smile, each word of kindness, Each joy to childhood given, Is like a step upon a stair That lifts us up to heaven. Deal gently with the children You too were once a child , Remember you were happy When those around you smiled ; And O remember always, Whatever else you do, To live as jou would have them live. For they will be like you. New York .Ledger. THE MYSTERY OF ONE LIFE. BY ANNIE SHIELDS. It was when Alma Bentley was ODly six years old tbat her father wrote to me, asking me to come to Starfiela and take the place of gov erness to his motherless girl. Amos Bentley as a far-away cousin of mv own, and he had heard of mv ' receut widow-hood, my aDxiety to find some employment. And oat of the goodness of his heart he offered me a position in his own luxurious home, that I gladly accepted. I was received like a sister, and, in deed, Alma has always called me Annt Susie. As she grew older, mastors in music, drawing and lauguages as sisted me in her education, unti!, at eighteen, it was decided that she was to 8pend a winter in Sew York with her annt, Mrs. Winship, and be introduced to society. It was natural that a girl of eigh. teen should be excited aDd eager over such a prospect, bat Alma dreaded it with a strange fear tor one so young. Had she been a French girl for two centuries earli er, she would, most assuredly, have been a nan, and I often told her so injest. Yet, m most serious earn est, I knew that I had never seen or heard of a girl in this bustling, busy age of ours so pure of heart, so deeply devout, so modest and tender as Alma Bentley. She was very fair, rather pale than rosy, yet not 8ickiylooking, with waving hair of light brown, and large blue eyes, slight in figure, and with a look of perfect serenity and peace- "Allie looks like a saint," her father said to me. "She seema to have none of the brightness of girls hood. Is she Happy V1 "Yes. I think she is happy, as far as such a pitying nature can be. But the sorrow of others, the crime, the misery, the poverty she sees press upon her." "Why need she see he asked, quickly. "You do not let her go into rhe village V "She goe every day. 1 think i he mill hands look npou her as upon an angel.'7 Mr. Beutly frowned heavily, walking up and down tbe drawing-ing-room. 'Something ought to be done," he said. "But what! What -an be done ? When Mr. Rogers built the mills and houses for the hands, he was a rich man, with every pros pect ot success before him. For neatly ten years the mills prosper ed, but when be failed, it was utter ly hopelesnly; No one else took the place; the mills were closed, and here are some six hundred famdies, too poor to get away, out of work, iheir savings spent, 8 ckness even- where! It is terrible ! I give all that I can, but I am not rich enough to support a whole colony." "Your name is in every prayer tbey utter," I said, emphatically. "Allie goes where there is sickness where poverty presses hardest. As yon say yon cannot support a colony, but Allie gives sympathy, tendernese, time, advice, and puts her hands to everything. She makes soup and tea for the sick; she wa$h es tbe babes whoso mothers are ill; she speaks words of comfort and hope in her sweet, tender voice, and she takes flowers to put in the hums h!o coffins." t quote the conversation to show what Alma Bentley's claim to sainted Iiness consisted in. Not that she made any such claim, for she was as modest and shy as she was good, but the character was given to her by all who knew her. It bad been decided to take her away, for several months, from her poor suffering charges, to go to the city to dance, to sing, to enter so ciety, wear fine dreses and give herself up to fashionable frivolity. Mr. Bentley, a most icdulgont fath er, was resolute about this, "She will be an old womat twen ty, if she stays here,T he said to me, "I wish her to go to her aunt Har riet." I was to remain at home, having for many yearn been housekeeper, as well as governess, and needed in my own place. It as the first time Alma and I had beon seperat ed for twelve years, but she was a good correspondent and letters came frequently ; letters that were like conversations, tbey were so fall ot every detail o her new 1 f e, To my surprise, she entered into every pleasnre heartily, her desire to please her father being the duty that sustained her. Alma must have a duty to make every act of her life pleasure to her, and fo for filial obe dience she submitted fo deck her fair, delicate beauty in dainty fab rics, to go to social gatherings, and to win a position there by her gen tie sweetness, as sure as she had won it amongst her poor proteqes at Starfleld. In January, two great events oc curred. The mills were purchased and opeued by a gentleman from New York named Owen, and tbe hands taken on at full time and jood wages. The letter of glad shanksgiving tbat Alma wrote m answer to this told me another piece of news, not unexpected. She had promised to marry Charles Lathi rope, a young clergyman, who has taken a prominent place in her lets ters. She had written to me very often of the rest it was to her,in tbe life she could not find really congem ial,to couverse with Mr. Lathrope,to help him a little, quietly, amongst his poor people, to attend tbe ser vices in his church. Mr. Bentley was well pleased. The father of the young clergyman was his friend, and, in wealth, cult, ure and social position there was nothing to be desired. And I pat down the letter with a sigh. I had been building an air castle that tbe letter shattered. Mr. O A?eu, the gentleman who had taken the mills, had remained in Starfleld only enough to get every thing well started, and had then returned to New York, leaving the entire control in the hands of bis son Godfiey. It had been ono of Alma's special requests, on leaving home, that I would take care of seme of the sick amougst the milKhands, and take her place, as far as I could spare time, in the poor cottages where po much help was needed. And even when the best of all help came, in steady work' at good wages, there were t-till many sick, many too old to woik, who needed visiting. Aud it was in those vis-its that I firrt met Godfrey Owen. My first dmiration was awaken by the extreme beauty of bis face, almost womanly in delicate refine ment, in spite of a heavy blond rau8tchp. He had an air of cam mand, the result, I think, less of pride thau of a life of power ; tbe power of large wealth aud associa tion with bis father in vast basiness schemes. He was about thirtyfive or six when he came to Siarfield aud took control of tbe mills, a con trol at once firm and liberal, stri.-i ia the observance of every rule, kind in tbe interest felt and shown in every mau, woman and child in the establishment. There was a great deal of sickuess. At once, a resident physician was sent from New York, and a free distribution of drugs and nourishment estab lished, under firm .rules that pre vented any imposition. Coal was put into every cellar, to be paid for where it was possible, as a gilt where it could not be purchased. Food, blankets, bedding were all distributed at the lowest possible price to those at work, given freely but judiciously to the old and sick. And as I gave advice, pointed out urgent need or special cases, met the tall, erect finro and lie .u'iful face everywhere, I told mjheif eveiy hour that here was the only man who could fully understand Alma . do jus fee to her pure, relf-saerifie-ing spirit ; give h-r the full sympa thy aud help all womeu nee.l iu their life-work. Thi3 was my dream, the life these two would lead to gether, and it was shattered ! Why had we Bent our child io the city f If only we had kept her with us, she must surely have loved this man. She came home in June, the same geut'e, loving girl, and yet changed, older, more self-reliant, more de veloped iy her intercourse wilh the world. Even her diess was no iong er the girlish costume of a year pre. vious, but raiment better suiting the only child of a wealthy man. Her figure was carried with more erect grace ; her lace, loosing roth iug of its nun -like purity, had more animation. And before Godfiey Owen had me her a dozen times, I, dreading worse than had already happened, met him by appointment oue day, j and our consultation over a cottage matter settled, asked him to walk with me. Very kindly I told him of Allie's engagement. No thought of coquetry could ever linger iu her heart, jet her very innocence and frankness were deceiving him. He turned his face from me t r a mo ment, then let it meet my eyes, pale with emotion, the dark eyes full of a half-suppressed agony. 'Thank you," he said, gently, t'for what I know is a kindly warn ing. It comes too late to save me; bat Alma need never know tbat. Could I see her and not love her ? I think my wbole heart was hers the first time she put her hand in mine and spoke to me. I had no right to bope tc wiu her ; it was too soon to think of wooing her; but I loved her. You will keep the secret you gaessed so eoou ? 1 "I will," 1 said- "And you will not thick haidly of me for telling you ?" "It was tbe truest kindness," he said. "I kno now what I must conquer. " Whether others guessed the struggle he made, I cannot tell, but I could see it plainly. He never sought Alma, but he did not in any marked way avoid her. He grew very pale in those long summer days, and his great daik eyes seem ed unusually large ; but he kept on iu his daily routine of duty and charity, and Alma was enthusiastic in praising bim to me. It was lato in the autumn when wo began to be uneasy about Cbas. Lath rope. He had been in St Lou is through September, on some bus iness errand, and had written regu larly to Alma. In October, his let ters suddenly ceased. For weary weeks, Alma watched tbe mail, her face growing daily more palid and sad. I had not fully realized how deepiy her love had taken hold of her heart until this time of sas pense. But I knew then that with her to love oDce was to love for life. I bad not thought of any plan for relief, until, one morning, Godirey owen 3ent in his card o me, and I met him in the drawing-room. "Miss Bentley is at tbe village," he said to me, "aud I ventured to call to ask yoo to tell me what sor row is killing her. Can I help bet!" I told bim as frankly as he asked. "We have written to the address in St. Louis," I said, "but have no answer.' "Will you give me that ad!resf-?" he asked, and put it carefully in hia notebook. "I will start for St. Louis tONnight," be eaid, "but it would be best, bethaps, not to tell M ss Bemly until you hear from me there." "It would be bost," I said. It may only throw her into a state ot agitatiou and suspense worse than she is now enduring." So bo went away, my hero my martyr, giving me the last c!ap I was ever to feci of his strong baud, the last kindly look from bis dark eyes, the last tender words his lips ever utter red for aie. Oae letter, only one, ho wrote to me. He found Chailes Lathropo in a house, deserted by everybody but a little negro boy, lying dangerous ly ill wl h gm&U-pux. Before he euteted th hou.vo iii-jut.elt he wtote to me, warning mo he should not dare to write to me from there. "But if a brother's devotion, a brother'-! care, will save th life oi a man Alma loves, In; sure he shail have them." So h wrote- Weary days follow ed without one word of tidings. Then came a telegram from Charles Lthrope : "I am recovering. Mr. Owen has taken the small-pox. Is very ill." Lter he told us that the physi cian took this and some ether tele grama for him, but woiild not let him send a letter. It was after Christmas when he came home and to Starfield. "I owe my life to a stranger," be told me; "aud not until he was dy ing dfd he tell me the motive that led him to St. Louis to nurse me back to life. It was the most pec ui, beautiful death I ever imagined, and must have been the end ol a sinless, unselfish life. Not a doubt ! Not a fear! He bade me give his love to Alma, ami told me that it was an entire happiness to him that be bad helped to save my life for her." Tbey are very happy. Alma and her husband, liviug useful Christian lives, "doing good without tiring.'' But I, who am still sit Starfield Amos Bentley's housekeeper I trnnk, with tears always, of the no ?!lo life laid down so calmly the gr?at generous heart stilled forever md wonder if, in the great here after, the mvstery will be explained and I shall know r?hy happlacss was denied Godfrey Owen in this life. Trial lly Jury. The Superior court system of this S'ate is one not in keeping with the advancement an.! pros? ess of the age. It i out of daft. It is a great killer of time, it is expensive, and in most cases iudifleret.it. Liw que tiom should be decide i by mn learned iu the law. The aveiage jyror takes his seat in tbe box think ing he knows a little about law, but bj the Ume the lawyers i-ave ceased filing at bim and the Ju l;e has de livered the uuil impartial charge, the p-or juror is so hopelessly mix ed that be has grave doubts in his own mind as to his ability to give an intelligent 'erdict, He is ex pected to decide poiuts of law that would puzzle the best of judges. The mode ot instructing the jury is 'another draw-back t the system. The judge must instruct fairly aud impartially tLat i-, he must say the case is this and the case is that else up jutnp the lawer and the cae goes to the Supreme court, on excr-ptions to the charge, the costs pile up and time i wasted. In tbe matter of Koesster ve. tbe Commis sioners, the two da.s should have been amply mCi-jient for its final disposal, but it went throagh a whole week and resulted in a hung jury and a f'aily accumulation of js's - The demands ofthe day are for courts vhere justice is meted out according to law, no delay is incur red and the expense reduced to the minimum. This age has not tbe time uor patience to dally with the jury fystem. The day for its retire ment h at hand. The News would have law cases tried before three Judee, a in the Supreme court. That's the way cases were tried in Solomon's time, arid a system im vented ami enforced by as wise a man as Solomon, ought to Jbe worth giving a trial. Cfiarloite News. Tbe Lincoln Coueiek can be had for $1.25 a year,Jcash in advance. Adtlross of ilio Stale Committee. Booms of the state democratic Executive Committee. Kaleigh, N. C, March 10, HJ2. To the Voters of North Carolina : At a meeting of the Democratic Executive Committee, heUl in this city on the 2ud ist it was resolv ed that the next State Convention should be held in tbe city ot Rals eigh on the 13th of May, 1S02, at 11 o'clock a. m. It will devolve ou this Conven tion to nominate candidates foi Gov ernor, Lieutenant Governor, Secro tary of State, Attorney General Auditor, Treasurer and Su$;ennteu -d:'tit of Bol.'ie ltnN!;.io:: ; toelect fi-ur delegates at l:ng and lour al ternates to tho Xitait.al Demoetatic C nventi .u to no he'd at Chicago Juue ; to uum ite two can didates tor E'er tors at Large, to adopt a platroiiu of principles, and t transact such ether l u-iuoss as may properly come before it. In ad eases when the Congress ional Conventions have not been held previously, the delegates to th's Convention from each Congress signal District will choose, tsro dele gates aud two alternates fo ihe Na- tional Democratic Convention, and report their names to the State Con vention. There has been for soma time a firmly rooted idea among the peoi p'e that some system should be adopted by which minorities in the various counties sho;dd have their proportionate voic in all State and District Conventions, nn5, in defer euce to this fair and just eeutimenr, th9 Committee, while realizing that it had no power to add to or vary the "Plan ot Organization,'' as adopt ed by the last State Convenftou,aod bind the people to its obs rvance, unanimously recommended to all Ccunty Conventions the following iiile, and earnestly requests that ir. be observed. 'Iu all Couuty Conventions in which delegates shall be selected to attend any S'afe, Congressional, Jii' dici or o'her Convention, a vote shall be takn in accordance with the plan of organization as to the candidates whose name- may be preeuted to such County Conven tion. The delegates shall be select ed from the friends and supporters ot each candidate voted for in pro portion to th'1 number of votes he shall receive in such county conven tion, and no other instructions shall be Riven. Provided that where only one candidate ia presented and vcN i d for at such County Convention it sh d! bo law 1 to instruct for such caudidatp.' It is urged that all county cons vr ntions shall, at the same time they tab-el de' gates to this coin en. tion, elect, a county committee to serve during the coming campaign This action is es.-ential to perfect organization, and enables the chairs man of the State committee, io at once put himself in touch with the county chairman. Ail township and county conven tions should be held at such times aud places as will afford to each member of tbe party an opportuni ty for full and fair discussion. It is essential to success that animosities should not be engendered and dis seuiou fostered, and no one shou'd be given even the semblance of au excuse for refusing to support the Democratic party, tbe supremacy of which is so necessary to secure good government and au honest adininu. tration of pnbhc affairs. To divide now is to turn over tbe State to tbe enemy. Let us stand together as in the past aud thus perpetuate the reigu of the Anglo Saxon. Ed. CHA3IBEES Smith, Chm B. O, Beckwith, Sec. When Eaby was sick, we gare her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria When she became Miss, she c'.ur.g to Cactorla. When she had Children, she gave them Castor Merchants should Advertise. It helps them and speaks well for the tOWD.
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