VOLUME XIX.
LENOIR, N. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 85, 1893.
NUMBER 6.
North Carolina
to the Front.
iii
Advantage
CONTRIBUTE TO
Wonderfol Growth , aid
Development.
JVo Section so fa
vored by nature.
AND-
None obtaining
supplies at lower
cost.
The Leading Wholesale
House of North
Carolina
claims the credit for not oinly carry
ing the Largest, Handsomest and
Most Complete Stock of General
Merchandise in the State, but what
is of much more consequence,
Leading all in low
prices.
-o-
In DryGoodsand Notions
we are the acknowl
edged leaders.
Few Can Meet' Our Prices ;
none Attempt to Beat Them.
The Columbian
year promises to
be the most memorable in our his
tory. It must necessarily be the
greatest we have ever1 had in busi
ness, as we are not only lied to nerve
you betteT than any of our competi
tors, but that is just what wtj intend
to do.
Years of experience, a thorough
knowledge of the wants of our peo
ple', and an intimate acquaintance
with the manufacturers of- the East
and South, places as on a footing to
do all we claim.
You want to be at the bottom in
' the way of low prices, and at the top
with handsome and desirable goods.
Our 8tock for the Fall Traders com
plete and we are ready to serre yon
fours, truly,
SOMEWHERE.
Somewhere, today, yen think and
. : send-
A thought, to me ! I know ft, I
feel it, - , -
Tho not a word or sound doth
. ' ' rend " .
The utter silence to reveal it.
But as a carrier dove doth start
And finds its home with pinions
curving
The message sent from heart to
heart
Doth reach its goal with course
unswerving.
Somewhere, today, yon stand and.
dream
Of hours gone by no more return
W ing;
i Whose memory, a fitful gleam, ,.
Within our hearts alone is burn
ing. And wondering if J forget,
. Doth your heart long for wordjor
token
The sign that must not feed regret,
-The word that must remain un
spoken ?
Sometime,- somewhere, oh, weary
soul, -
Hope holds a beacon o'er the mor
row!
The dream that died in Fate's control-
,
Shall aken, purified by sorrow.
Hush, soft the passion of your pain,
Thro' distance to me wildly, beet
For Bevered hearts shall meet again,
And bless the parting in the meeting-
Uocla Adlal ind Mrs. sfaiBBSon.
J. D. in the North Carolinian. -
Your Uncle Adlai Stevenson isn't
saying much these days, but he is
making friends in the quiet way
which is characteristic of the Vice
President. If you should happen to
ieave the capitol any afternoon
about 6 o'clock, you will see the
Vice President walk down to. the F
street horse cars and take a seat,
perhaps, beside the humblest labor
er who is going home after his day's
hard work. Ten chances to one the
Vice President Is reading the Star,
or exchanging "howdy" with a
friend. Many of the Senators and
Representatives ride home in fine
carriages, but our Vice-President
doesn't put on any frills, but Hves
within his income, and rides in a
Democratic way. His wife is as
sensible a woman as she is charming
and accomplished. She says that
Mr Stevenson is not a rich man
and that they will not attempt to en
tertain on a large scale.or in any way
that her husband's income will not
justify. It's rare that you hear the
wife of a prominent man talk such
"horse sense."
"I was a school girl in Danville,
Kentucky, and only sixteen when I
first met Mr. Stevenson," the wife
of the Vice-President, is quoted
recently as saying. "It was one
Sunday as I was crossing the campus
of the college of .which my father
was president. In the distance I
saw Mr. Stevenson and another ap
proaching the house. They were
inyitad to dinner, much to my dis
gust, and when my mother pro
- claimed her intention of including
them as guests in a party to be given
the next evening, I openly rebelled.
But my mother met me half way by
insisting that it was'No Stevenson,
no party and I surrendered. The
next evening the party passed off
pleasantly, in spite of the presence
of the objectionable guest, who soon
returned to his home in Blooming
ton, and 7 thought no more about
him. .
"It happened that my married
sister, Mrs. 8cott lived in the same
town, and I went to pay ber a short
visit. One day I was sitting in the
house darning on a pair of Mr.
Scott's old socks,' when an intimate
friend of the family, seeing me so
industrious, laughingly exclaimed:
'Why such a good housekeeper as
von would make a fine wife and
I'm going to bring a youn lawytr
friend of mine up here; such a valu
able accomplishinent should not be
lost ' And sure enough, he came
up, bringing, Mr. Stevenson.
"Since our marriage Mr. Steven
son and I hare bad a very happy
home, All of his evenings were
spent in the library reading aloud
to the family, and visitors conform
ed to this custom. Our children
never went off to school, and the
home circle was always bright and
happy. Of course, I am proud that
he has gained such a high place in
the estimation of the people and I
enjoy the honor. But it is his pri
vate life that has kept us lovers
since the first dawn of our honey -
. moon."
The Vice-President goes to JNew
York Avenue Presbyterian church
and he looks as pions as a Moore
county Presbyterian mao
Wallace Bros,
0. S. Tomlin, John S. MoBorie,
John F. Bowles and L. B. Bristol
will represent US op the wad and
visit as many of our customers T
Possible. ; m "
BUtesfille, N. C., June lj '93. .
Judge-Three monVhs a,qd ten
days.
Prisoner Qn yon make it a
shorter sentence, yer Honor?
Judge I can. .
Prisoner -Thank you, yer honor.
, Judge une year.
Batcher Didn't you 'like that
bam ? Why it vas tome that I cured
myself." - :
Customer Call that ham cured?
Whyman, it wasn't even convalescent-
' , ; ' r '
THE BECIXX1KS OF THE H0KEYU001
-Bobert I AcUmaon in Atlanta Constitution.
The Wagner sleeper jolted slowly
out of the brilliantly lighted depot
and its red rear lamps' disappeared
into the night, leaving behind the
merry party of wedding guests who
stood watching the receding train.
The handsome young couple who;
a moment before stood in the door
way of the sleeping car, laughing
back at the coterie of friends, who
were shouting many parting injunc
tions after them, now dropped side
by side upon the velvet cushioned
-seat of a rear compartment. The
flushed and fluttered little bride was
dainty and sweet in a becoming
thing of gray which had replaced
her lovely bridal gown - of purest
white. She sank wearily upon the
soft seat beside her manly compan
ion, glad of the first moment of res
pite she had enjoyed in hours; glad
that they were at last off on their
wedding journey.
Their senses had been kept in a
constant whirl by the strain and ex
citement of the day, and so fast had
events been unfolding themselves,
that they could scarcely realize what
was happening. The whole thing
had the vagueness of an intoxica
ting dream. If they had suddenly
found themselves pursuing the old
familiar round of life, neither would
have experienced greater surprise
than is felt by the man who is rude
ly wakened from a delicious fancy
cf sleep. The prospect of a quiet
respite from the constant, annoying,
but well-meaning attentions of
friends, and of being alone together,
thrilled each with a sensation of de
light A delicate glow from a pink sha
ded lamp suffused itself through
the little compartment where a half
minute ago its modest light was
df owned in the powerful brilliancy
of the depot electric candles, , which
shone through the windows. A
passenger was growling at a porter
in the corridor. Another white
capped porter was moving up and
down between the buffet and smok
ing room, carrying suspicious look
ing packages. At the end of the
car, the conductor was explaining
to a passenger where he could make
connection. In a neighboring com
partment, a mother was trying to,
quiet a fretful child A young lady,
not yet ready to retire, athough it
was near midnight, had seated her
self upon one of the folding seats in
the narrow coridor and was eagerly
perusing a new novel. In the smo
king room, two or three men were
smoking and talking as men will
talk until the end of the woild.
To all theBe people it seemed a
very common place bit of travel; to
the young couple in th6 pink-light-ed
compartment, it was the journey
of their lives.
The train was proceeding tenta
tively; now spurting off as if de
termined to do or die, and now
bringing to with a sudden jerk,
stopping beside a hissing engine
which was bumping a long line of
cars together. At such stops, the
talk of the lantern bearing yardmen
could be heard beside the sleeper
window.
In the first moment of their bliss
ful quiet, the young couple caught
each other's hands (a trick that
v '' till
levers nave; ana tner eyes, nuea
with the light of love, met. Even
now the day's events had the sem
blance of a dream. The carriage,
the crush at the church, the flowers,
the white-robed brides- maids, the
minister, the ceremony, the torrent
of congratulations, the reception,
the hurrying to the train it was
too unlike the rest of their lives to
be anything but a dream. And yet
it was true I "The ponderous sleep
er was rocking over the track.
To the lives of all men, there
comes an hour, a day, perhaps, of
sweetest, completest bliss. To the
young man with the bride, this hour
had come. His senses were thrill
ing with a delicious feeling f a
man who naa just married the wom
an that he loves. It was the first
time he had been alone with her for
Idaysj the preparations for the wed
ding had kept them apart, but now
she was his his 1 Not for a day,"
; nor a week fox a lifetime ! It ap
peared a very long time, and just
now it appeared in all the roseate
hues in which happy youth sees the
future. Now that she was hisshe
was different, but not less dear in
r his . eyes. He was a deep and an
earnest man ana inis was me nrsv
great happiness he had ever felt.
Her soft hands were clasped in
his.-
"Oh, Clarence," she cried, "I am
so glad it's over 1"
"I am so glad you are mine " he
said warmly. I
"It was so trying," she said, turn
ing her glad eyes uponhim, "J do
hope it "all went off well s I was so
badly excited that J could not - tell.
I must fcaye locked awfully fright
ened.' ' '
" Yon looked like an angel," he
said. .'I wanted to squeeze yon all
the time" . . 4,
Yon big boy 1" she said. "You
are married now and musn't be fool
ish. If you think X looked well, I
don't care for the fibers ; But,"
he added, Mhow could you tell
yon were frightened, Clarence." "
Db you think so, dearest V
"Were you T
v "It was like a dream," he answer
ed, "I half doubted its reality. I
was thinking of what? a lucky fel-r
low I was to get you, my angel "
Clarence kissed her. Some poet.
speaks of the rushing together of
two souls to lover's lips and meeting
there in a kiss. This bard has re
ceived flattering endorsement from
a thousand pairs of young lovers
How the kiss of love thrills the1
blood of youth ! How it condenses
all the sweetness of a lifetime into
one ecstatic moment I Other hours
may well afford to be dull since their
nectar is compressed into the lover's
kiss. Let the pendulum of time
swing slowly when young lovers
meet in the electric touch of a kiss,
in the poetry of melted glances, in
the eloquent pressing of hands
The train passed a familiar street,
whose long lice: of glimmering
lights stretched as far as sight could
reach, affording a passing glimpse
of a massive church, black and
gloomy looking, towering into the
night.
To the two young people who
saw it from the window of a passing
train it would always be a dear
spot.
"Doesn't i look deserted, now?"
she said, "I wonder if they took all
the pretty decorations away ?"
The train had proceeded halting
ly at first, but now as it neared the
suburb?, it was dancing along at a
fair speed. It shot past side streets,
muning off into the dark; the gloom
here and there was illuminated by
the redlights of saloons and billiard
halls. Sleepy looking policemen
and watchmen stood at the corners.
It did not once occur to the happy
young couple in the sleeper that the
world was pursuing its daily round,
just as if they had not been married
at all. To them, everything seem
ed to have caught the spirit of the
happiness they were experiencing.
The lights blushed with a sympa
thetic glow, the train rumbled along
musically. Even the passengers
must feel that this was an extraor
dinary occasion. And the world
outside that was reeling past the
windows, here bristling with num
berless lights, and there running off
into hopeless blackness and gloom,
seemed full of new beauty.
"Are you very happy, Mabel ?"
he asked. r
"Verry," she said,' "and are you
quite 8 cue that you are as happy as J
if it had been Laura Dearie instead
of me?"
He laughed. "I never asked her
to accept the honor," he said.
"Perhaps she would not have ap
preciated it if I had. As it is, I am
more than satisfied."
"Did you think she looked pretty
tonight," Mabel asked, "I suspected
that she felt a pang of jealousy as
she stood beside me. Wouldn't both
of you have been glad -if she had
been in my place f" she added teas
ingly. i
"I do not suppose such thoughts
are keeping her awake," Clarence
said, "but I do fear that poor Jim
mie Franklin's slumbers are badly
disturbed tonight, eh ?"
"Do you think so ? I am sorry
if it troubles bin. I only hope
that he is quite as happy as I am."
"I used to think you had a ten
derness for Jimmie," he said. It may
have been jealousy in me."
"I never cared for any one, but
you," she replied "I didn't care a
snap for a single one of the gentle
men who paid me attention. - You
were the only one, Clarence."
The lights of the city had vanish
edj behind. The train was roaring
along through the night. The
gloomy wftld lay asleep; the loco
motive dashed along like a great,
restless monster on some momen
tous en and. The semaphore signal
and the operator's light at a wayside
station flashed by the window. v
With his arm about her, Clarence
drew her head to his shoulders To
have her all his own for the rest of
his life Was joy enough for him.
Unconsciously, his mind ran ahead
into the future; he saw themselves
living hapily together, loving each
other none the less after the passage
of years. Maturity had added sweet
er charms to her. Through all the
years to oom she would listen for
his footfall coming home and would
meet him at the door with a smile
and a kiss. His wife ! His pulses
throbbed delightfully at the
thought.
Neither spoke. He was filled
with blissful reveries. She, tired:
and weary, was resting her head
confidingly upon his shoulder No
words were needed to give Utterance
to their happiness. It was enough
to know that they were each other's
and that they were together.
Only the monotonous murmur of
the train broke the silence. The
passengers had sought relief from:
weariless in, slumbers and the' only
tlight that, burned in the car was
that hidden beneath the pink shade.
. Rousing himself from the de
lightful train of thought into which
he had fallen, he stooped to kiss her.
The brown head was drooped so
low upon his arm that the face was
quite hidden from his gaze. She
was perfectly still. Very tenderly"
be lifted her head until her eyes
looked straight into his. A silvery
tear glistened upon her lashes. The
look she turned upon him was one
he could not understand, ; They
gazed mutely at each other for an
instant, then his eyes dropped to
her folded hands. While he was
thinking of the ' future -the. bad
slipped his watch from his pocket.
But it was not upon the dial that
she had been gazing. While she
had been resting so passively in his
arms she was looking at the picture
of a beautiful woman not her pic
tureglued fast to the inside case.
He took, the watch from her hand
quickly, atfd his eyes fell before the
look of earnest inquiry in hers. She
did not speak.
"That that picture," he stam
mered, "that's, ah that's a friend
of my sister's."
The brown head, dropped back
upon his shoulder. She was sob
bing half tearfully. She refused to
look up to him or Bpeak.
"Oh, Clarance," she cried, "why
didn't you tell me !"
And that was the beginning of
his married life. .
Vtnct tnd Bmsob-A Protest.
Morgan ton Herald.
We regret to see anything in the
papers even hinting at a rupture be
tween Senators Ransom and Vance.
We still hope that it is all smoke
with no fire behind it, but the very
suggestion is distasteful to us.
A rupture between Bansom and
Vance would mean the division of
the Democracy into two clearly
marked factions with all the evils
incident to a factional strife; for
let it be remembered that both
would have their followers by the
thousand and there would have to
be a very careful count to tell who
had the majority.
W e don't want to see it come to
that or anything approaching that.
As North Carolinians we are proud
of their stainless records on field
and forum. We never want to see
the day come when to love our
matchless Vance more we must love
our peerless Ransom less.
In that great conflict in which
North Carolina's sons won fame and
glory on so many battle fields, Vance
and Ransom stood shoulder to shoul
der. In the struggle for the resto
ration of otrrliberties and the re
building of our waste places and for
the widening' and beautify ing of our
borders none have fought more va
liantly than they.
Different in manner and in meth
od, moving along different lines to
different oonclus.ons, yet always
with North North Carolina's good
as their supreme desire, they have
written their names side by side on
every page of our history and are
enshrined together in the hearts of
the sons of the State from Pisgah to
Pamlico.
Ransom and Vance have shared
too many dangers and together won
too many victories for ; their names
ever to be used in any, other connec
tion than that of bon eomardes. The
honors that North Carolina had to
bestow, she has lavished upon them
both. With unsullied records, with
long years of brilliant service behind
them, and possessing as do few oth
ers the esteem of the people, it is no
time now for dissensions and divis
ions. The years that have gone by
should have drawn them nearer to
gether. The work that remains for
them to do can best be done togeth
er. The Democracy has need of
them both, and does not wish to
choose between them now.
The people who have honored and
who still honor both, would bitterly
resent the uplifting of the hand of
one against the other, and he upon
whose. head the responsibility was
fixed for such an unseemly and un
timely action would have a big score
to settle.
Let the seer of Black Mountain
and the sage of Roanoke let no
cloud of selfish ambition or un worth
spring up between them now to ob
scure their glorious past or to ob
struct their visions in looking to
that future still fraught, we trust,
with many years of service for both.
'" 9
Scoriflg Tka Siaati.
In the couse of a letter to the At
lanta Journal, written in his own
orignal way, Sam Jones says :
"I see the Senate is still vaporiz
ing, and delaying. Now the papers
talk of gold shipment to Europe, and
things do not look as lovely as they
did a week ago and the worst may
not be over. "I read with interest
Mr. Cleveland's letter to Governor
Northen. It seems that he has
ceased to argue and has begun to
pray. It's time to dissolve parlia
ment. "I spe some of the Senators have
gone home, drunk. Some men can
serf e their country better dead drunk
than when they are sober..
(,f i had a pack of hounds that
ran a fox like the United j States
Senate ohaaea legislation, I would
lose interest in the fox and go dog
hunting and go home dogless.
"I'd rather have no dogs than
some kinds of dogs.
: ' Why don't they do something ?
A hundred " hens cackling in the
barn lot and not an egg laid 1 I
would. eat hens and do without eggs
for the balance of the year. I
f "Let the august body do some
something or resign, and let us send
somebody to Washington who will
act, who will repeal or confirm,
'. "They can't dicker and ; piddle
and yaporize much longer without
disaster to the country, aad we will
make, them snyke for their conduct
when they get home and want in
dorsement bv. reelection. . "
private allei:
Raw Ua Eisslsslppr Congrasjcur Got
lis Arai lisksxnsi .
Atlanta. Constitution.
"I never knew untif today," said
a well known Georgia politician,
'how Representative Allen, of Miss
issippi, got the nickname 'Private
John Allen."
"How was it?" somebody asked.
"He was running for Congress
against General Tucker out in Miss
issippi and'Tucker made a speech!
one day whooping himself on his
war record. He started - out by
saying in stentorian voice: 'I slept
one night before the battle in a
tent v
"This was enough for Allen,
When be got np to speak he said:
Yes, boys, General Tucker did
Bleep in that tent that night, and I
stood guard on picket around that
tent. Now all you here today who
slept in tents vote for Tucker, and
those who stood guard in the rain
and cold yote for John Allen.'
''From that moment to this he
has been called 'Private' John Al
len. Of course he was elected."
?iOdol SLEEP
CLEAR nt LONG
El rk iffi
i
MENTAL
ENERGY,
A VCDj?
Sarsaparilla
Fannin; la Ua Sontk. .
North Carolinian.
The prospects of the Sonthern
farmer seem better now than they
have been for many years. They
have come nearer raising their own
supplies than they ever did before
and they have contracted no debts
that they now find themselves un
able to pay. And were it not for
the fact that many of them are con
fronted with debts made for several
years past, when crops were bad and
they were unable to pay what they
owed, they would be better off than
they have been for more than a
quarter of a century. Our people
have practiced strict economy and
we learn than in many counties the
pinch of "hard times" has not been
felt at all by the agricultural popu
lation. The number of crop liens
this year is not so great as usual and
the amounts are much smaller,
while there has been a very great
decrease m the number of real es
tate mortgages. The condition of
the entire South is, without doubt,
better than it has been since 1860.
To this new and improved condi
tion of affairs the farmer is partly
indebted to circumstanees over
which he had no control, but most
especially to new and better meth
ods adapted on his farm. The
planters are to be congratulated on
the outlook and on the fact that
they have raised their own supplies
and are no longer dependent upon
the West for their hay grain and
meat.
In this, matter they have taken a
new departure. They are getting
out of the old ruts and striking out
on a highway of prosperity and in
deoendence which the price of cot
ton cannot materially affect. The
man who "raises his own supplies
and keeps out of debt can get along
no matter how low the price of cot
tony There is also another departure to
which we wish to direct the atten
tion of the farm-owners of North
Carolina, and that is the improve
ment of their stock. There is no
reason why there should not be as
many blooded horses and cattle in
North Carolina as there are in Ken
tucky or California. With the de
thronement of cotton and the low
price of tobacco, our planters must
cast about them for some means of
making ready money, and at present
there is no more profitable branch
of agriculture than that of stock
raising It often proves a source of
greater profit than the crop raised
upon the soil. Improved breeds of
horses, cattle arid hogs are always in
demand and bring a good price.
And yet it requires a very small out
lay of money to introduce -the im
proved breeds, and it is no more
expensive to keep them than to keep
inferior stock. Many men in North
Carolina are yearly making large
profits in this way and the number
ber is steadily increasing. When
this new departure becomes general
it will mark another era of increas
ed prosperity for the Southern cot
ton grower.
Ho's"tbTs?
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh
Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.,
Toledo, Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known
J. F. Cheney for the last 15 years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and fi
nancially able to carry out any obli
gation made by their firm.
2 West & Traux, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, O., Walding, Kionan
& Marvin, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly J upon the-
blood and mucous surfaces of 'the
'system. Price, ?5c per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists Testimon
ials free. ; " ' -: ; -. r j
Mad Why did you break; off
your engagement with Charley f"
Ellen Well, you see he would
wear shirts and neckties that didn't
become my oomplexiozu'' '
.M,-,.I?,aPlmel'1& a well-known business man
of HUlsboro, Va., sends this testimony to
the merits of Ayer'a Sarsaparilla: - "SeVeral
years ago, I hurt my leg, the injury leaTin
a sore which led to erysipelas. My suflerlnKs
were extreme, my leg, from the knee to the
ankle, being a solid sore, which btraq to ex
tend to other parts of the liftdy. After, ryme
various remedies, I feeimn takimrAyer'a
Sarsaparilla, and, before 1 ha-l finished the
first bottle. I experienced great relief: tho
second bottle effected a complete cure."
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
Prepared by Dr. J. O. Ayer rCo., Lowell, Maa.
Cures others,wIII cure you
DAVENPORT FEMALE COLLEGE!
Lienoir, N. O.
Fall term begins Sept. 11th.
Send for Catalogue.
John D.'Mimck. A. M.. Pres.
Bargains In Furniture.
1-0 -J
Having given up our lease on the
Lenoir Furniture Factory the stock
I on hand consisting of .
Bed Boom Suits. Bed
steads. Bureaus.
Tables, etc..
i
will be sold at
Reduced Prices
until the 1st of July, at which time
we will
The furniture which is first class of
its kind must be sold.
Harper & Son.
I A. H W LAND
The Emigbants Fbiend
- Going West or North
west Take the Chicago & AtoftR. R.
Parties contemplating going West '
will save time and money going via
the Alton route. It is the only line
' running solid vestibuled trains be-
tween St. Louis and Kansas City
makes direct connection for all
points in Kansas, Nebraska, Color
ado, California, Oregon, Washing
ton end "Reclining chair cars and
Tourist Sleepers free of extra charge.
For low rates and full information
maps and disention paphlets of the
West apply to I
J. Chaelton,
Q. P. A.
Chicago, 111-,
B. A. NEri,iCi.
rran. Pass Agent,
Asheville, N. C.
New' Barber Shop,
North Main Street.
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