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y Iff j I -1 VOL VI i. ; PrR?esi(?nal Cards. J. W. SAIN, M. D., uai located at Liauolatoa and of Ux his services a pbyaioiau to tbe duties ol Liouolotou aud surround ing country. - . Will batoand at ulgut at the Lin colnton Hotel. llarch 27, 1391 ly DENTIST. LINCOLNTON, N. C Teeth extracted without paui by the use of an anaehthe tic applied to the gums. Pos tivoly destroys all sense of pain and came no after trouble. I gturautce to give satisfac tion or no charge. call from you solicited. Aug 4, 1S83 iy. Kngliih Sjavln Liniment r mows all lsjd,witi or tallou-.cj lump i.d tl tu'eh- troui borsw, bowJ invina, unbs.plint Ewecaey, rin Uns, atiflei, ,xu., all iwollcn iLruvi, Cuiigh etc. ;-uvc $50 by u?eofoGH lottlo. WurrfcD'od the most woudertul blemish cure ever fci.own. Sold tJ J. il Lawir. UrmtKinLiucylnton Ji C E. M. ANDREWS Wbo'esalc aod I etall Ceale-s in Oak Bedroom suits 0 it-ii p 60fc9, io: -'0.00 t $15 00, Parlor Suits of x pite.. f.oiu $2-' 5 t- 20'.00. 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Your U9T Pespair. The iLicTnoPoist cures such cass. Read the testi dony ef North CaroUoa's best citi zens. Do WLT AitW SIGK-HEADAGH Makes life miserahle. All otier ailments are as nothing in com parison. Women especially know its suffering, and few escape ita torture, THE RELIEF AND CURS IS Many people take pills, which grioe and purge, weakening the body. More take Simmons iaver Regulator, liquid or powder, " be cause more pleasant to take, does not gripe, and is a mild laxative, that also tones .up the system. The relief is quick. It is Nature's own remedy, purely vegetable. "I never found anything to do ma euxj eood until I used Hlmmona Liver Hesulw- ba been thrti yars tint i flni uaed It ftnd I have not had Hick Headache Mince. 1 wntmy slater (who had from on a to vwo attacks of blck headache every wetk) one-hall of a package, and she hu S?. "''CralloaBia, irown ville, W.va. 49EVSBT PACKAGXBa Basour Z Stamp la red m mumar XD. ZEIL1M COH FbikdeMpT IN V! EN TION has revoiutlomted ENTIUN the world during tk last Lalf century. Not least imnnir tb won dors of inventive progress is method nJ i)&tem ol work tbat can be performed U over tbe country without separating the worker from their homes. Pay lib eral; any one can do tbe work; either sex, ycuu or old; no special ability required, vapitnl not needed; you are started free.: -. wi vni u i'u rt-iurn t us ana we wiij tend you tre, wmethini? ol creaL -vrIu' an-1 imp'irttince f you, that will start yop m ru5in('8S. winch will bring you in morf m ncy ruhtaway, thsn Knythin -else in t world, (jrand outfit fre. Andr-a rue to " . Aui'u'h Main r The Question of Life Assurance is not "Can you afford it?" but "Can you afford to do without it ? " ; . Woodwards, S. C. , July 3, 1893, Mr. W.J. Roddey, Rock Hill, S. C. Dear Sir : I have before me a statement of the various options of fered in settlement of my maturing Tontine policy in the EquitableiXife Assurance Society. 1 have icon eluded to accept the surplus and continue the policy. The results are highly satisfactory and X heartily commend the Equitable Society and the Tontine system insurance as practiced by it; to persons desiring safe and profitable life insurance. Yours respectfully, T. S. BRXCA. The above letter is but one selected from many received from happy policyholders in the Equitable Life It's a word to the wise a con vincing proof to the doubtful. For full particulars address W. J. RODDEY, Manager, Department of the Carolinas, ROCK MILL, S. C. Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, sod all Pat-1 cot busiDOM conducted for MoocnaTt Feu. oun Orricc is Oppositc u. 8. patcnt orrter and we can secure patent la ittiu ume uiaa utose remote from Washington. Send model, drawing or pboto. : with descrip tion. We advise, if patentable or not. Ires of i charge. Our fee nut due till patent is secured. A PAMPMirr, now 10 uDiain raiwus, wiu cou of same in tbe U. S. and toreiga countries sent tree. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. QPP. PATENT OFFICr, WASHINGTON. O. C. When Baby was biuk, we gave ber Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Mies, she clung to Castoria. (Then she bad Children, she gars them Castoria. V a lie lul i'.K I MFMbif TO Guro. Hob. J. C. Buxi9D, of WINSTON, SJS2 I found great relief fer my UtUe soa ta th 4 Electropclse, whef tha DOCTORS had failed." Cl. T. W. Farrish, ef WUSTON.saysi Mr ezserlenee with the Kectre- poise has been Tery saUsfactoTy." ' J3 cU cith. ypur fllovca. Willi WRIT?U. ATLANTIC ELECTROPOI8B CO., Tashf ngton, D. C M LINC0LNT0N, TWO WESTERN GIRLS. : A Story ol finck and Inde. pendencie. BY "NEBBA8KA." It was in the early morning of a duity summer day that I entered a Pullman carr a Chicago, bound for New York, by limited train. There were but three passengers in the car when I entered, one man and two young ladies. My section was the one next back of that oc cupied hy the ladies. I noticed that they eyed me sharply as I donned my duster and smoking cap. They were both fine appearing, and had a look in dicating intelligence. One had dark brown hair, and the other quite light. In age I judged them to be near the middle of the twen ties. They seemed to take no further notice of me; my white hair, I suppose, was the passport. tor they talked on as glibly as if in a private parlor. I could not help , hearing what they said, for their voices, wer clear and musical. All they said would fill a book and there was good eound doctrine mixed in all along.. . Soma of the' things are worth repeating and remember- . I soon learned that one was from Kansas and the other ;trom Ne braska, and that their acquaint ance was otily an hour's length, since meeting in the depot. Thev knew all about each other's State. had travelled over nearly the same ground an different parts of the world, nnd had read the the same books. The Nebraska girl was a Blaine Republican, the other an Independent. Neither of them j was a "slouch" in politics. The Nebraska girl was the light haired one, and I could tell when she was talking, for she motioned it out with . her. head. . I never heard two men discuss polical issues more intelligently, in my life. I learned many things I never knew before, especially about the West. These ladies were both on their way to Chatauque, for the purpose of spending a month in camp and were to stop at Jamestown. No other passengers entered our car till toward night, so no reason was afforded for snspending freedom of expression. I would have joined them in conversation but I was too much interested in their talk. Tariff, currency, and railroads were discussed. I thought tbe Kansas girl was a little too much for her opponent on tariff, when she asked what benefit the tariff was to the West, that we should pay the East two prices for every thing we buy of them. ; The only answer made was that it keeps our money at home if it is all kept in tbe East. Their conversation soon turned upon the subject of marriage. 4No," said the Nebraska girl, with a toss of her light hair, "I never had a genuine offer of marriage in my life, and have my opinion of girls who boast of having had a dozen offere. They either fib or they are heartless fllirts. Men of sense do not propose unless there is reason for believing that they will bo accepted. A fool only would propose to the Statue of Liberty from the Brooklyn Bridge. I like to see girls who encourage the attention of men, for $ while Until marriage is proposed, and then send them adrift I say I like qUeilceg. My father was a drunk to see such girls paid off in their I ar..' I3 there no w ay of bridg- own coin. They are the worst 'rr.es to whino and snivel then, but jthuy get no sympathy from me. i ITnvr iln T wnrlr it t l.-t tbrm " ..U a . - I Inow I am not in market? ell, i nve vears from to-dav. My hand iT , . A c ue . 'I have a method of my ovu. I.6nan bc frpo. and if you can then have one of father's picture in n aY ,hat ,,(,t a dr,p ofintoxirating . ........ . . .. l 4 - 1 . , , . lo.Ket taueu wn'u n wu icmj- four, I work it so as to let tln.t jj,. ,j.no a,., will give me your fall into his hand; he is.suro tojp ror ,ie fV;uin we can be opau it and ak who it is, or sug-; nuirrjed 4ile rc turne l to New gest it is my brother or, if net. I" York on the next train. He v.rites ; s': if it does not resemble bin;? I me oci-aional'.y, and I answer his then put bw the serious and re- letters with equal coolness. Do I N. C, FRIDAY, APR. 20, 1894. mark, is dearer than a broth er.' We then can continue to be friends with no disappointments on either side. "No, it is not money that I am looking for. Had I met a mam who filled the bill, years ago, without a dollar, I would' have married him anil trusted to four willing hands aud tko loving etsarts for success ; but now, of course I shall marry, if at all, a man about my own age, and ho niuet have laid by at least as much as I have,. or I will not marry him. I never could love or respect- a drone or a spendthrift, and if he has uot biid by nnythin ut tvun-ty-fivo or thirty he never will.' I can support myself, and my sav ings invested are vorth four thous and dollars, but I never will sup port a man for the sake of having a husband. "Yes, I met one man that I did not show the locket fo. I could have reciprocated his love, but cir cumstances seperted us, and,. we have not met for years, suppose he had a friend, or has found one since, dearer to him than a sister. I still have a desire to meet him again. I had rather look for a diamond all the days of my life and never find it than to load up with common dirt the first duv of my search ' The story of the dark haired sirl wa more pathetic. She had had an oiler, had been engaged and was really now under engage ment. ''When I was at Welh's lcy," she said, '! spent my last vacation with a chum in New York. ... There I was introduced to a man, and really fell in love with him, as th: story goes, and T love his very image yet. I believe he loves me. He was intelligent. handsome, aud rich I found by his own talk that he knew all about me, and that some intimate acquaintance of mine had posted him. That I did not care about, but at the same time it suggested to me to do the same thing, llns I was about three months before our set widding day. I went to my old pastor, told him my story, and asked him to assist me. He cheer fully volunteered to take my case Years before he had lived in New Y'rk, had many acquaintances there, and could get at the bot tom of matters. Afterward I felt i almost guilty, for it implied doubt toward the one I loved. My pastor wrote several letters and received several, but nothing resulted excepting clear avasions on the part of two or three writ ers. At last, bottom facts came. My expected husband was a mod erate drinker and addicted to oc casional drunken sprees. He never had come into my presence with the least taint of either li quor or tobacco on his breath. It was then only a little over a week to our wedding day, and the invi- ( talions were out. I decided to lay the letter before him, and act af terward. So I telegraphed him to come the day before. He came and 1 laid the letter before him. He read and re-read, blushed, bit his lips, his. hand trembled, the paper shook so that it rattled. It was more than five minutes- it seemed an age before he raised hi? eyes. 'What do you plead V said I. 'Guilty,' said he ; the let ter is true every word of it k- 'Then,' said Iour engagement is broken. I never can marry a a man who tipples, I know the fearful danger and sad consequen. j jnjr ovor this chasm?' i I he, as 'ftr the first time he 1 n.kcd me Lquarely in I he face 'None what- ! I .mcwnTtA 'luit nmr linUOr has passid vour lius uurmg love him yet Yes, I love him as I do my eyea, but not well enough to become a drunkard's wife. Do I believe he will came back ? Yes, if he loves me as I love him, and if he don't love me I don't want him to comu. You don't catch me marrying a man just through fear of his marrying gome one else. Do I believe he will keep his pledge ! Yes, as sacredly as his life or horior. He will contin ue to tell me the truth." About this time a dozen or more of passengers entered the car, and the drama ended. Who either of these girls were, or their n imes even, I havf. no knowledge of, but from their talk Ijndg.il them to be teachers. The York. Moincu ni.arkMiail li-. A woiiiHii blacksmith is an an omaly thnt probnbly does not ex ist, even in this age of woman's achievment. The nearest thing to it, however, says the N. Y. World, can bs tound in the shape of four pretty,buxorn girls,daught ers of Jas. Doris, a practical horsc siioer, now deceased. Nearly all -of their lives these girls have liv ed in a comfortable little frame house at No. 632 West Forty-1 eighth Street, in the rear of his father's "blacksmith shop. 1 While thev do not actuallv shoe 1 horses themselves, they know en-! ouh about business to do so. At all events, ever since their fath-j er's death they have carried on his business successfully, and have made a comfortable living out of it. Eheir mother, who came near er to being a veritable woman 1 blacksmith than do her buxom daughters, died a year ago. Even sine they have conducted the business alone. Twentv-two years ago Jas. Dor is brought his wife to the little frame house on Forty-eighth St. ; To be near Iiot and babies, of which there always seemed to be a new one, he built his shop in the front garden of the little house. Jus. Doris aud his wife were an ideal marjed couple,even if their love making was done amid such humble surroundings i as a blacksmith shop. And it usually happened that his wife was in the shop with him. As for the children, they practically grew up in the 6hop with him. As for the children, thev practically grew up in the shop. It was their play-ground as children, when they had delighted to ' watch father make tbe sparks lly." But Jas. Doris had one disaprointment. All bis boy babies died in infancy- ! And like manv men of greater wealth, he regretted having no eon to take up his business. Mrs. Doris was her husband's "right hand man," as he used to fondly express it. He did the work while she kept the books, did th3 savings arwd managed general ly. In fact, when James was ill or away she carried on the busi ness quits as well as he did. So it happened that when James died, about five vears ago, leaving his widow with four daughters, the business went on just the same. Jas. Doris' jovial face was missing, but a capable man had taken his nlace at the forge. Gradually the customers many of whom had been patronizing Jas. Doris for a dozen vears or more, became occustomed to the idea of a woman blacksmith. They soon forgot the uniqueness of seeing a woman at the forge. And instead of patronizing Mrs. Doris because she was Jas. Doris' widow, as th-y had done at first, thev patronized her because 6he wng u good blacksmith. Although she rarily shod their hcrses her- u aroncd K.0 , - , that satisfactory work was dom. , year3 after her hu- I ,:nd'. death Mrs. Dons Lecarr.e ; . ill. From that time until the date of her death she was unable to look after the shops. A year ago she died. Then something hap pened which proved how fuiilfhad boon all of .Jas. Doris regrets that all his hoped-for sons had been girls. Just as naturally as a duck takes to water did those four girls take hold of their father's busi ness. Never for a moment did they think of disregarding their mother's wishes, that the business should go on after her death just the same ae before. The eldest daughter, Mary, or "Mollio," had relieved her mother ho much during her illnea that naturelly the principal responsi bility fell on her. Without doubt, many a horse had been shod in Jas. Doris' shop because its owner hoped for a few minutes' chat with tne pretty blacksmith. About 3 o'clock one morning sawi'iil week ago u fire broke nut in the shop. Tne shop waa burn ed to the ground. The splendid new one, which is in process of building on tbe old site, is of brick. Moilie is a pretty young woman of 25. She has big blue eyes, fair hair and a round plump figure. She was also appointed executrix of her mother's estate. About a year ago she married Thos. Barn brick a policeman. Shortly after her mother's death relatives ad vised her to give up the shop and move further up town in a more stylish neighborhood. The reason The reason they gave was that tb girl3 would get better husbands. Her very sensible answer was: "My sisters are good girls and they don't ned to .live in a stvlish neighborhood to gfjt husband. The right kind of men would go after them if thev lived in a band box. The others can stay awav. The three unmarried tiris are Katherinc, Margaret and Sarah, but they are nick-named by their friends, Katie, Maggie and Sadie. Katie is next to Moilie. She is a pleasant-faced girl about 23. Her accomplishments are by no means confined to grossly useful. And while she can superintend the shoo ing of horse, beat up the lightest biscuit, or iron a shirt-bosom un til it rivals the product of Tohu Chinaman, she can also ploy the piano and speak German. Maggie comes next to Katie. She is a decidedly good looking jirl of 1. She sings in a clear mezzo soprano voice, is a dress-maker for the family, and that is saying a good deal foa the Doris girls are the arbiters of fashion for that part of the town. Sadie is the youngest, and the prettiest and herj sisters say affec tionately, "the leait uselul in the lot." She is 18ypars of age, is very light ot toot in a dance. mere is always a rivalry among her numer ous beau9 to secure hor as a partner at a party. Lincoln' BoyuoocI Cbnui. Austin Gollaher. a plavmate of Abraham Lincoln, is 88 years old. Ho lives near tho top of Mul. drugh's Hill, a few m'les north of th.e town of Hodgen ville, and though suffering from great ag and the rheumatism, is still cheer ful and ready to talk with any vis. itor, says the Louiiville "Couries Journal." Austin Gollaher, in spite of his unique claim to remembrance by the world at large, has been little heard of. Wheu Ficolay and Hay published their life of Lincoln in the Cextury Maoa2IHE they re ferred very br efly to his existence and published his portrait. Gol laher was then, as now, living with hisson, Thomas Gollagher. When he was a playmate of the martyr ed President he lived on a little farm threo miles south of Hodgen- 1 vine. jjicv iuuru iucu; wuvu u- 1 . ., . . . . . , " , , , . . I press 01 their features on his sur- was only 6 vears old. thrtir farm'; . t .. ,. I ... . y . . . , fa?e, mtepdia to people hn ova I ad joidmg the Lincoln homestead. , . I .t, ... T . .... 1 . , , , , ' land with similar beings. When Being older than Lincoln, he can . . A - , , ., .. 1 k he egsaved to imitate God s wo ik.s. easily recall some circumstances l. 1. 1- jj uC - h5 made nothng but a slimv ser- i of th.ir boyhood da vs, though his . . A , , . J . ' . - pent, which sinco that d.iv has ; conversation is rather bane.-i of ntlua to foM aoJ unf(M itsl details, ud it is probable that he mightv coil in full view of th has confused things tnat he has decendnnts of the Gd cr.Mt.l b? ! heard of with things that has real- ing. St. Louis Republic. ly happened. Sab en 1 r tH CoURiK. ' lie whs rather garmlousbut ui- ub on t t iu- Couuikb. I -1 1 Tl . i U V V. .. NO. 52. verting, and always returned to theme that ha loved so well t speak about. At t his first ac quaintance with.Linooln, he 33 id : 'In 1712 my father settled near the Line horn (Lincoln) place. In a tw days Abe and his mother came over tose ma and my moth er. At first sight I must say I didn't like Abe one bit. HU ap pearance was not taking, and I was sullen liko, and had little to do with him. In a few days more me and my mother goe, over to see them. Then I was throw, 1 w ith him a good deal, aid bjguu to like him first-rate-. Abe wus thr. years younger than me, but we be came fast friends after that. We plaved in the wood todhvr. fished and hunt-jd togjth t, ai d wheu school took up in thy little cabin over on South Fork Creek we went there. Then next year we went to another school house further on the other side of the creek. ' Abe was a areat learner Ha ciphered on everything around and read everything he ojuU find to read. The fence corii.T were full of big iron weeds, and he'd gather them by great piles to throw on the fixe at night to make 1. big blaze so he could se to study." "I have heard that you saved nia life once. How was that 'Oh, yes I" and h'u face bright ened. "It was when we wa a fish ing one day tho creek was up and we had to coon' it across on a log Abe slipped and feel off, and 1 b ing the biggest got a syc.unore limb and fished him out. The histories all say that Abe was 7 years old when he left for Indiany, but he must have been 11.' They weren't there, and th -y can't be expected t get every thing correct." ' "Are there no other of Lin -obi' early school-mates now living!" No; none but me now. There was one living oror here near E'tDwn some years ago, but lie is dead as far as I can find out." Mr. Gollaher is a very devout Christain. There is a little Bap tist Church on tbe Louisville and Nashville Pike, near the top of Muldraugh's Hill, where he holds his membersnip. It is a small frame building, unpainted and upceiled. He is sometimes dis tresses him that they cannot finish it. He is an upright and pious man, but can -not endure; the sanctification craze that is strong in his community. The Man In tbe Moon. According to Pratoriu, the man in the moon is the Patriarch T9aac, carrying a bundle of sticks which were to be lighted to sacrifice his own body on tho mountain top. Dante beleives him to be Cain, carrying a bundle of thorns, th.? meanest offering his land allord od, as a present to God. In Ice land tne people claim that tV.'y can see the face of Adam in the moon and that of Eve in tho sun. Among the Frieburgers there is a superstition which say that the marks and spots on the moon's face are the outlines of the traitor Judas Iscariot, holding hi3 hand over his face while sneezing ju prior to hanging himself. This last beleif accords with the old Frankigh legend, which says that there was no spots on Luna's bright face until after the cr u fix ion of Christ. Still another story tells us thtt in the time of crea tion God threw and offending an gbl against the face of the moon, while another is to the effect that tae moon witnessed th creatio'i of Adam and Eve and took an im-
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