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LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, -APR.15 , 1892.
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Tlie Col. Polk Interview.
The National Democrat, in its isso
of March 19, pablished an interview
of the president of the National A. .
liance, Col. L. L. Polk, in which he
was reported as saying that be ex-
peuicu io receive me nomination c r
the third party for the second placa
on cue national ticket. Lou Pol
writes us requesting a correctiOL,
and says that his name had been
prominently mentioned in that codn
nection, bat he made no remark
that could be construed into a state
ment that he expected such a nom
ination. The National Democrat has no
disposition whatever to have Col.
Polk misrepresented or do him ins
justice, and takes pleasure in giving
the full benefit of the explanation to
correct any innocent harm that
might grow out of such a report.
It has never been a cause or censure
or condemnation, we believef for an
ambitious man to aspire to high
positions of honor and trust in this
country. On the contrary, it is a
luxury often indulged in, and why
should it be denied the distin
guish president of the National Al
liance or any other man. One W.
H. T. Wakefieid, of somewhere in
Kansas, was once npon a time a
vice-presidential candidate, and va
tious other gentleman, ambitious to
serve their country, have been found
at different periods iu our political
history engaged in the same lauda
ble pursuit.
But while Col Polk corrects this
statement, we do not see that he
has given a denial to the ridiculous
claim attributed to him that this
third party that istobe will sweep
the Southern States in the coming
Presidential contest. If Col. Polk
knows anything about the senti
ment of the people ot the Southern
States, he must know thst this mis
called third parly has about as slim
a chance to carry a single one of
the as the grand old Democratic
party of the nation would have of
carrying Vermont.
But, colonel, we dou't want to
discourage your candidacy for the
second place on the third party
ticket if you can be indnced to yield
to the importunities of "many vot
ere," nor have we a desire to dis
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MACK'S EASTER
QUEST.
BY LILLIAN GREY.
; Wotever be folks takin' secu lots
1 0f flowers in the churches fer, Tom-
v ?
"Why, cos it's Easter ter-morrer.''
"Easter I Wot'e that"
"wot s mat i' wen, ver be a
reg'ler heathen, aint yer T Why,
Easter is is well, it's the risin' of
the dead nigh as I kin make out.
Leastways I heerd a part ot a ser
inunt oncet down ter the missbun
on that very subjeck, an that's
about wot the man said, anyhow."
1 TTT t m a
-oy, romuiy i it don't never
mean that dead folks wake up alive,
an' get up out o' their graves an'
come home agin, do it V
"Yes, I guess it does ; or else they
comes out an' go straight to Leav
en. 1 don't know nothin' certain'
'bout it ; but Easter comes oncet a
year, an' the churches makes a
spread,''
"Oh dear I I wish you knew for
true ! Did any o' your folks ever
come alive an' come back ?"
"No ; but then ye see none o' my
folks ain't never been dead yet, an'
so '
"Do you s'pose my ma'll come
alive ter-Ninorrer, Tommy? She's
been dead purty nigh a year ; an'
oh ! if she should come back !"
"Well, ye see, I aint over'n above
well posted on seech high matters,
an' ye better ask somebody as is j
but it'd be a prime thin? if yer ma
did rise and come bum agin, would"
n't it!'
"My sakes ! if she oul3T would,
Tommy! an' ye aint sure f Then
111 run aa' ask Granny Brink
striagbt as a string."
Granny Brink rented lodgings
for a living, and gave Alack a rag
ged nest under the basement stairs,
and sometimes odds aud ends to
eat, in exchange for numberless er
rends. For the rest, be roamed tbe
streets aud did any odd jobs be
found to do, and somehow earned a
few pennies every day, which serv
ed to keep his body and soul in
partnership.
"Say, Granny 1 what does Easter
meant"
"Bless me, Mack I how you do
pounce in on a body ! You're all
out of breath, too ; an' what do you
want now this time o' day ?"
"I want to know if it's Easter ter
morrer? an' what it means, troo an7
honest !"
Why, I I dunno, but it is ters
morrer, come to think ; ye know I'm
so drove, an' v
"Doos it mean tbat dead folks
come alive V
"Why, yea; it's something like
that, or that they will sometime or
other. The Lord he rfs from the
dead ages an' ages ago, an' "
"My! what time in tbe day,
C ranny ?"
"Why, early in the mornin' 'fore
erer it was real light, so the Book
yjys ; au' that's a troo sign for other
dead folks, so they say."
"Did you ever see anybody what
was dead an' come alive agin, Gran
ny!" "Mercy 'on us, no! how you do
talk ; why, I should be skeered out
of my seven senses to see one 1 No
I aint never had no deahu's with
ghosts, the saints be praised !''
"Then don't you think nobodv'.l
rie ter-morrer!"
"Law sakes, I should hope not !
I don't want the world to come to
an end yet not till I'm sale out
on't;botdo &top troublin' your
foolish head 'boat sech things, an
run along out iu the street j you'll
miss gittin' a chance to kerry a
portmanty, or somethin'."
Mack turned slowly away, and
Granny Brink said to one of btr
lodgers:
"That air boy'il ask question-
tbat a priest couldn't answer, lettin'
nj.me a poor ignorant woman like
me. I never see the beat !"
Mack went ont in the street and
walked on and on he knew not
where, while pondering the mighty
matter iu his little perplexed mind.
Who else could ask ! He paused in
front of a church where some men
j were carrying from a truck great
i pots of palms and ferns, and the
: child ventured a question.
Probably the man did not nnder-
stand, for he pushed him aside, and
j said hastily : "Don't bother 'round
here, boy ! Don't you 8e we're in
a dreadful hurry!"
Mack went on, still questioning
within himself. What were they
trimmiDg the churches for? Would
t'ie dead come to them from their
graves far outside tlio limits of tbe
city I Would his mother do t bat !
She had not been nsed to going to
church when she was alive, because,
as she often said, her clotber were
too shabby.
The boy was in a fever of doubt
and wonder, and spting a pleasant
looking old gentleman sauuteiiog
along, resolved to a-k bim.
"Say, mister, please, what do
Easter mean !''
"Easter! why, my little man, it
means the resurrection that is, the
rising from the dead."
Mack's brown ayes began to glis
ten again.
"An' is it ter-morrer, sure ?"
"Wby, yes, bless my soul, I do
believe it is! bat I hadn't thought
it was so near ; iime does go so
fast; bat it's Easter to morrow, sure
enough 1 But why are you so inter
ested !"
"Cos 1 wus jest achin' ter know !
Thankey-aor !"
"Bless me ! what a queer little
chap ! thought tbe old gentleman
aa he sauntered placidly ou, aud
Mack said to himself :
"He ain't got no dead ones ler
come back, or else he'd a-had it in
Jiind 'fore ever 1 asked bim. An'
so it's reely troo ! I kuowed he
kuowed everything soon as I seed
htm ; ac wasn't it a piece o' luck I
run acrost him ?"
It was growing late in the after
uoou ; It looked like rail), oo, and
tbe wind blew chill up from the
river, but Mack, used to all sorts of
weather, turned up his jacket-collar
and slipped into a quiet alley to
count his hoard ot pennies. Then
he went out and bought a couple of
burns, and eating oue he took his
way to an East river ferry. He had
followed his mother to her resting
place, and knew that so far he was
right. Arrived on the other side,
he timidly asked a policeman :
"Please, sor, which 'ere o' them
there horse cars goes where tbey
burry dead folks ?"
The policeman was too busy in
directing the tide of travel to ans
swer, but he pointed ; aud Mack got
into the car which be thought was
the oue meant, and paid his fare
with the dignity of a man. He
at.ked no questions of any one. He
was used to taking care of himself,
and keeping his eyes open, and he
was sure he should know the place
wheD became to it. He remember'
ed bow long the way had seemed to
Ij m before, through he had gone in
a rickety back, and, child-like, had
counted the cars they had met and
passed on the way ; but now mile
a1 ter mile went by and he saw no
gite-way or gleaming marbles to
irdicare tne abode of the dead.
His fellow-passengers -had looked
curiously at bim, but finally all who
ti id started with him were gone,
aid others took their places, and
then tbey too were gone, until Mack
was tbe only occupant. Tbe bouses
along the line grew poorer with bar
ren spaces between them, and then
the car stopped.
"Come, my boy," said the con?
ductor ; "tbis is the end of tbe route
You've had a loug lide. Did you
come on purpose lor tbat !'
"Wby, no-sur ; I come ter the
burryiu place, ai' I can't see uotb
in' ot it."
"There's no cemetery here that I
know anything ot. What one did
you wan sonny !"
"I dunno. Is there more'u one !"
"Why, es; Iherev a balf-adoz
en in different directions; none on
i his line, though."
"I want tbe one where my mother
was put !"
"Well, I can't tell you where that
is, I'm sore. Come, do you want to
go bck with this car?''
"!N'o, I can't; I want 'o find my
mother. I jest most know it wus
oat here some'ers!"
"Look around then, or ask some
one that lives hereabouts; but you
bad better take the next car in
anyhow, for it's most might.''
Left to himself, Mack locked
anxiously about him ; everything
was dreary in the extreme. He
walked on aways, and then seeing a
man leaning over a gate, he asked :
"Please, mister, do you koow
where's a boryin' place anywheres
around here !"
"Not neajer'n a half mile or so,
my young friend. Why I have you
got something to bury ? a kitten,
may be?"
Tbe boy turned on him a look so
full of mute reproach, that tbe man
hastened to add :
'No oflense meant, my boy ; I'm
jest given to jokin' that's all. But
what did you want ?"
"I wanter find the place where
my mother's burned. I don't mean
tne exact spot, but jest the gate
what goes into it."
"Wbafs the name of it Green
wood, may be ?''
"I dunno s it had any uame, but
it wasn't in the spot where the rich
folks is put."
"Iu a free ground then, probable,
Well, there's sech aone'hout balf-a
mile away. Ycu go back along the
car track till you come to a house
on your right with red blind., an'
turn up that street aways ; an' then
yon better enquire, for there's a
turn or to more; but ft r pity 8ak-!
what do you want to go to such a
place tosiiight for ! it'.s 'most dark
an' beginin' toratn. You better go
straight home !"
"Oh no ! I can't, cos ter morrers'
Easter, ye know !"
"What did that little fellow want,
father !" called a woman (rom the
open door.
"Wby, MoWie, he says he wants a
gravesyaid where bis mother is, an'
this time o' night, too. Blest if I
don't think tbe boj's a leetle off in
his head ! dunno as I ought to have
lot him went, all alone so, but he
was off like a flash."
Tbe boy was out of hearing, flit
ti ug along through the gathering
gloom like a little phantom, past
the house with red blinde, on and
on, until he knew that he must ask
his way again. How bard the rain
began to comedown aud how quick
ly it grew dark ; and for tbe moment
he almost wished himself back in
bis den under Granny Brink's base
ment stairs. The street seemed de
serted, aud tbe houses straggled
unsociably here and there, aud fin
ally the boy timidly knocked at one
A brawny man with a pipe in his
moaih opened it, and said gruffly :
"Well, youngster, an' wbat'll you
have ?"
"Please, ra ster, is there a burry
in1 place 'round here anywheres? I
wanter rind where my mother's bur.
ried, so as so as as "
"So as to what! don't begin to
snivel !"
"Well. I want to find it oiful
bad !"
"Find a cimit'ry now, in the
da'k an7 rain ! You must be down"
right crazy ! wby, you ought to be
locket up in a loonatic asylum !"
The child waited to hear no more,
aud mortal fear lent speed to his
weary feet. Locked up ! he, a poor
little boy, doing no harm, only in
search of his buried mother. What
should he do ! It was so dark now
that he could not see the gate even
if he should come to it. He was
afraid to ask any more questiouc,
aud he was so conlused that he could
not find his way back to tbe street
where tbe cir tracks were. The
street lamps were dim and far apait,
acd in one of the dark places in I e
tween he fell ou the uneven pave
ment and cruelly hurt his knee, and
became muddy as we'd as wet. And
the wind blew so cold. Ob ! it was
d'eadlnl to be lost and hurt and
cold and sad ! And bo sh uld he
and his mother ever find each other
now! Poor little Mack I But he
limped on in tbe rain, t-imply be
cause be did not know what else to j
do, until through the cnrtaiukss
window of a house standing close
to the ntree he saw an o'd man
readiug. He looked eo pleasant
and kiud that the boy ventured to
knock, Tbe door was speedily op
ened, and a cheery voie inquired :
"Well, my little fellow what do
you want !"
I'm lost, please I an an ''
"Lost ! my goodness ! this raioy
night, too ; but do come right in by
the fire!"
"But, mister, I'm so orful mud.
dy !"
"Sure enough ; but all the more
reed of your being seen to. Here,
niary! here's a lost little boy, wet as
suds; bring a shawl or something
dry for him. Xow, child, who might
jou be, nu where did you come
fiom ?
"I'm Mack ; an I come from New
York !"
"Mercy on us ! an here you are at
thecxtremestcud o' Brooklyn, How
come it ?"
"Now, Hiram," said the bu&tliug
old lady, 'don't make him talk till
he's more comfortable; he's got a
regular chill, poor dear ! Just bang
up his jacket to dry, an' pull off bis
shoes an' stockings, an' put his feet
nht to the fire, while I warm him
up a bowl of that soup left over from
supper ; that'll do him good."
A haH-diour later, Mack warmed
and fed anil comforted, repeated his
oft- told and pathetic story, and this
time to svmnathetifi ears, flnrwl
Mistress Mary wiped h r e es it"
peatedly during the recital.aud even
her husband was fotced to do I be
same when Ihe child told of his re
solve that as be could not rind the
exact spot of bis motbei's grave, he
expected to watch jut outside the
gattt until the wonderful procession
began to filo past in the dawning,
atul then, as she came l.y, he would
call to her and upring to her sid;
"Dear heart! whatever put nuch
a wild idee into your poor head V
asked the old man.
"Why, I knowed she never could
find me in the city, nor I her, if she
come ever so much; she didn't know
nothiu' 'bout Granny Bunk when
sbo was alive, ye see."
"Yes; but didu't you think you'd
be jest scared to death yourself
waiun all nigbt in sech a spot!
Why, I'd hardly want to do it!"
"I didn't know it was goin' ter
rain ; an' I never seed it so dark,
never, nowhere !"
"Sure enough, Hiram! what would
a child, living in the heart of a ciiy,
re.Jize about darkuess ! Well, I'm
gl;:d you'ie all safe heie, child."
And then the old people, in an
plain end simple words as possible,
told the puzzled child all tbey kuew
about Easter and the mystery of
the resurrection.
"I'hen it ain't no use! an' I've
come way out here a huntjn1 fer
nolliin'," said tbe disappointed boy.
"Sow, maybe it ain't ier nothing
Hon jy,'' said the kind old man. "You
tiha.il stay here till jou're res-ted
out, anyway ; an' I know a nice man
rigt.t over here in the green-nous
thai, wants a boy for light work, an'
I wouldn't wonder if you'd do."
Tuat night Mack slept in a soft,
while bed, aud the next day was
petled, and feasted on eggs beyond
nny thing in his experience ; aud on
Mot day, tbe florist, after hearing
ihe boy's story irora good Uncle Hi
ram, took the little waif into his
emjJoy.
As soon as Mack had become ac
customed to the locality, so that he
cou d fiud his way back and forth
aloi.e, he made a trip over to New
Yori to tell Granny Bank of bis
good fortune, how, though he bad
failed in findiug bis mother, yet he
had found a good home and conge
nia woik in his Easter quest.
SPECIMEN CASES.
C. U. CJitforJ, New C&sscl, S 'u.t was
troubd with neuralgia and rheumatism
bi? Umach wa? disordered, his liver wa9
affected to an alarming degree, appetite
frfil away, and wa? terribly reduced in
flsh and strength. Three bottles of elec.
trie bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, 111. bad
running sore on his leg of eight years'
standing Used three bottles of Electric
bitters aad seven boxes of Bucklea's arni
ca salve, and hi? leg is ound and well.
John Speaker, Catawba, O., had five large
fever sores on h:3 leg, doctors said he wps
incurable. One bottle of electric bitters
and ooe box of liuclen's Arnica Salve
cured him entirely. Sold at J. Lawing's
Drugstore.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla.
When she was a ChUd, she cried for Castoria
When she became Miss, she clur.g to C&storla.
WLea she had Children, she gave them Castorir
THE ST. I.OUIS COXVEX-TIOX
Interpreted Kjr CnngreHHtnaix
3Iose
Charles L. Mopes, Congressman
from tne Fourth Georgia district,
and a leading AUUncemen. has
written a veiy long letter to the
Southern Alliance Farmer. In it be
exposes tbe St. Louis Third party
eouvention and the Third party it
self. He says he was requested to
make a report on what was done at
the St, Louis conference, and de
Clares that when h arrived iu St.
Louig he learned that, Ihe represen
tatives of the lYnplis pirty had
beu on the ground two .Uys work
ing and plotting t r.;p!ur tne cou
feience. It v;in app.iieut. that tbe
Thitd party iter had but little oppo
sition except from the Southern AN
lisiuci'S; and the Southern delegates
did linully foico tht in to adjourn
the conlerenco without directly en.
doi-fiug the People's party. The
thought uppermost in the minds of
theso "non-partiisans" seemed to bo
how to destroy the Democratic par
ty and how to build up the o-c;illed
People's party. To do this it was
conc.slcd that the solid South must
be broken. Ont? enthuxiiNti; dele
gate expressed it in this way : "We
already have an euteiiiig wedge in
Georgia; we will break .hi lnu k of
the damn Democracy in that Slate,
and other States will follow."
As to the report of Iho committee
on platform, Mr. Moschsrvh : "I was
j sitting on ilio si-cond tier of .seats in
front no-ir the. desk. Perfect silence
reigneit in the. hall, ai.d I he ud dis
tinctly every word that was Npokeu.
The first part, consisting of the pre
amble or address was read by Don
nelly, and was received with the
wildest enthusiasm. IIh then an
nounced that Chairman Cavanaunb
would read the platform. The pre.s,
ident requested that there b. n.
applause before the entire platfotm
was read, which r quest was co.ii
plied with. Chairman Cavanauh
then lead the platform. In tbe
platform there were twelve planks,
and ihe last, one was as follows:
"WK DEMAND THAT TIIK GOV
ERNMENT ISSUE LEGAL TEN.
DEU NOTES AND PAY THE
UNION SOLDIERS THE DIF
FERENCE BETWEEN TrlE
PRICE OF THE DEPRECIATED
MONEY IN WHICH THEY WERE
PAID AND GOLD,'"
"Now as to the different Reports
as to what the platform is. Tbe
platform was n ad and adopted as
civei above. I copied it from the
Kn'Qhts of La'jor Journal of March
3,pu ilished ten days after the meet
in. The seoetary of the Knights
ot Ixbor was tho secretary of the
convent inn. It whs so published in
nearly all the Alliance papers in tho
country. I have a letter before r:p,
'written by Miss WPIard, the Pre-i-i.cnt
of the Woman's ChiisMan Tern
perance Union, whose reputation
for truthfulness is recognized
throughout Christendom. She was
u member of the platform commit
tee. In this letter she stales thaj
the j ension plank was adopted in
the committee and m the conference
as a part of the platform. Jerry
Simrson has said repeatedly, that
not cnly is it a part of tne platform,
but tbat it haa been in every green
back platform since the war. The
editor of the National Economist t iu
tbe issue of March I2rh, admits that
the division (of tbe platform) into
three planks has been done since
the adjournment of the convention,
and that he did it at the suerestiou
t Marion Butler, of Xortb Carolina.
The truth of the matter is, when
they saw the South would not ac
cept it, tbe bosses herein Washings
ton patched it. up and isMied a spe
cial edition for Southern consump
tion. Tbey don't deny the pension
plank iu tbe North and West: Mr.
Turner, tbe secretary, says he favors
it. Why do they want to deny it ?
The Third party Congressmen favor
it. Just the other day eight of them
voted to add about twelve millions
more to a pension bill that was al
ready too large."
I warn the people against this
People's party. It s pregnant with
unseen dangers. He-ware of exRe
publicans and missionaries from our
enemies, who are persuading ua to
pull down the walls of Democracy.
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