- - . v- , . . - - LENOIR, N, C, WEDNESDAY, NOTEMBBRH, 1804. NUMBER 8. fill HAY MILE -THE- SON SHINES.', in opportunity That Comes Once in a Great While. s,uoU.t merchandiser all kind I, eiatfci wintry. J extraordinary dprew ,ltwW . ' frequant, -toUe purclui which may nerr U taowsaoy Jfri' iprlBO is boaimeaa, wa Unit so tic Na 1 PlUon to er 001 cu-ooc" n H taay elsanct to make a dollar. Tit kf.e Haloa u dear, tbi wbo wiasplj'i to tJ that "this is tha accepted CM' Hjd ir tn boaineai to tsaka a bigl itrrtc to yon. MOMiof it, we Don ta excloaiTfly Wholesale baatnaas aad rttiboTtng eapaclty la exoeaa of cotnpaUtora, w u tdrantage which we hay not failed to ' 4i rxd u of, icd tctecd that onr euatocoera m iM tt (nil teoeflt of It, On Kock forth fall aeaaon la tow ready, and to to fwe t "Blf winner," AH departments are loaded down with nw WiMlratie goods and many things r t- the eon of production. " tiaia to -ad the Tan In Jow prises, nd TJ Ko money on your purchases. U tuiom interact loJn?eat!fU lUiJrttI earl aa poaalcje. Yours truly. Wallace 8R08. is it t5 Tomhn, John B. McRorie. WiUmI vin repres.pt V Mh road r,d visit UDioy ' ctomen M pooiblt. 'fob num. H I Tha Churchman. Thrw little wordt, but full of ten- u ere!, meaning ; Three little wprda, the heart can Three little wordi, but on their im- DOrt dwftllino. What wealth of 'lore- their tjlU- "For mj skew cheer the tufferin, help the needy ; On earth this wu My work I tire it tn thM If thou wouldtt follow in thy Maa tera footatopa. Take up My crow and come and For my takeMlet the harsh word uib uuuLLerea. That tremble on the awift, im- For my take" check the qnick, re- That ria8 when thy brother doea ' thee wrong. "For my take" paaa with itead- i xui, patisuce onwara, Although the race be hard, the battle long. Within My Father's home are many mansions ; There thou shalt rest and join tha yictor's song. And if in coming days the world re Tile thee, If "for My sake" thou safftr pain and loss, Bear on, faint heart ; thy Master went before thee ; They only wear His crown who share bis croas. Amiriei Obi landnd Titrs li. St. Loot Glob Democrat Erery gentleman wore a queue and powdered his hair. Imprisonment for debt was a com mon practice. There was not a public library in the United States. Almost all the furniture was im ported from England. An old copper mine in Connecti cut was used as a prison. There was only one hat factory, and that made cocked hats. A day laborer considered himself well paid with two shillings a day. Crockery plates were objected to because they dulled the knires. A man who jerred at the preach er or criticised the sermon was fined. Yirginia contained one-fifth of the whole population nf the coun try. A gentleman bowing to a lady al ways scraped his foot on the ground. Two stage coaches bore all the trarel between New York and Bos ton- j The whipping post and pillory were still standing in Boston and New York. Beef, pork, salt ish, potatoes ana hominy were the staple diet all the year round. Buttons were scarce aaa "P" siTe, and the trousers were fastened with pegs ana Jaces. - Tk.M ara nn m-miiiactures in M. w .n w. w . - i- .. t mriri aworv honiflWlie toil UUUUUJi . w. , raised her own flax and jnada her own linen , The churoh collection was xaaen : l... . f Via anil nf a nole. With A bell attached Jo rouse sleepy con tributors. . . t tk. t.MAhu m. eheaked sbirc. a red flannel jacket and a cocked 3 il. nf an art nat iormea to uw v . " "when s mm had enough t he plsced his spoon across his cup to indicate that he wanted ?0-W. . . -fa.il il 161 upon by his fellow prisoners -and robbed of eyery thing he bad. fiecx if TittilL Popular gna. A man's conduct is n nnfpoen MrThegolden fgo i Rot before u. m A happy oresiae w v bank acflon . ... Wi? nnmbata. tht tOIM ! 0 bi cohqner owiflfM, ' ' Tne none "j- ,air. it boMtl Vl . '. in Tnougn iavu . . . - couM.leti, t do not- tomk. tto A man who .. -. -i t- ment too loDg will god t Biffed bj . . . v. irAAi to sret it. the w-??-s -2 t Wt shading to a fliore in picture, it mtkea stnd OUt in itrong Mlil. Th. w?altb of . man ttt Wr ber of thing wnion Lf.u v.. 1. lnwiid and blesir- Ntrue work line. tl world bj- iran was ter wastedj no tro li Pnctba?worId beza h2t - Ht i. not so mneb h . feefng Wpt Iron -laBUl-M.W. Mi tnd wife w liU f scissors so long s they are tcxaer, th-y re disnnited. ' . . their amy, oun ,T xnmcii of it. . IS CUB LIST EID P1IIFUL? Iht Cuxu tli Fur if Put. ? Bar. B. J . Hardy, M. A., In Sunday Magazine. Many people, through fear of death, are all their fires subject to bondage. The questions How shall we die f When shall we die ? and Where shall we die ? are con tinually worrying them. Indeed, there hare been sereral suicides caused by this haunting terror of death. The thought of death made their lires insupportable, and they killed themseWes in order to know the worst. And yet it is quite pos sible that in respect to the physical sensation of dying we resemble Don Quixote, when he hung by his wrist from the stable window and imag ined that a tremendous abyss yawn ed beneath his feet ; Fate, in the character of Mari tomes, cuts the thing with lightsome laughter, and the gallant gentleman falls four inches I When Louis XIV. lay dying "Why weep you ?" he asked those who surrounded his deathbed "Did you think I should life forerer ?" Then, after a pause, "I thought dying had been harder." Dr. Hun ter was another who was agreeably surprised by tbe experience of dy ing. His last words were, "If I had strength to hold a pen I would write down how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die." A charming actress f ho had been twice almost drowned told a friend that dying was the nicest sensation that she knew. The late Archbishop of Canterbury, as his "agony" befell quietly remark ed : "It is really nothing much after all." Hundreds of other last or nearly last sayings of dying persons might be cited to proye the truth of Pliny's remark that the departure of the soul freqnently takes place without pain, and sometimes eren with fileasure. If the dead could come to ife again, they would, no doubt, tell us that Walt Whitman spoke the truth when be said that Whatever happens to anybody it will be turn ed to beautiful results. And nothing can happen more beautiful than death. . And again All goes outward and onward, nothing- col lapses ! And to die is different from what anybody suDDOBed and luckier ! Every moment dies a man. Every moment one is born. The first experience at least, in tbe case of death by old age is as natural as the second ; why should we think that it must necessarily be more painful ? Certainly, if some men died and others did not, death might be considered an enemy, but being unirergal it cannot.be. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled. The first dark day of nothingness, Tbe last day of danger and distress,. Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic air; The rapture of repose that's there. He who hath done this can hardly fail to see eridence that in the case of the majority of people (most dead persons, eten. tnose wno perisn oj violence, as, fqr instance, in battle, bare this expression of peace and rest) death u not painful, or, at least, not as painful as it is suppos ed to be Perhaps, as there is said to be a sort of numbness which takes hold of an animal (Living stone felt it when the grip of a lion) falling into the clntohes of a beast of prey, by the arrangement of a merciful .rroriaence, tne swoop vi the enemy may hare a narcotio ef fect upon its yietim. I am, myself, much of tbe opinion ol toe ancient thinker who said that "death, of all estimated evils, is the only one whose presence neyer incommoded anybody, and which only causes concern during its abgenee.." A men sid to Socrates : "The Athenians have condemned you to death." "And nature'" he replied, "has condemned them ffe uo not think death should be looked upon as the condemnation of na ture, bnt rather of its happy release This was the light in which Qolum hnm via wad it. When he was old and cbaiBed in prison it was a relief to him to thins: tnat soon ne woum "Mil forth on one last voyage." Though more h.PRJ in her life than the gret discoverer! the famous mathematician. x&rs eopri. could tbnMpek f the same Toy ..ge i "The Blue Peter as- long been flying at my foremast, and now that I am in my ninety-second year I must soon expect the signal for ailing- It is.a solemn voyage out it does not aifturq m(j irnquuij. I trust in the infinite meroy pf my Almighty tow.. hj tne inQieui uxeui umu considered simply as a destroyer. To them it WM the . ;Uift fad most bitter of foes Acnuies in xaue. aid to Odysseus : "apeax not comfortably to me of death. Rather would I life upon m Wl ne birelinfi of ! agttM S oyer au tne ft?4 u jm Tbe Christen if roiq-wi "inward horror of falling into naught.11 To him death u not the J ing of terrori, but the Under con- loler bo no enu vx beginning of a higher and nobler Ute And wely toanoverwrooM and weary age thif oppention ? re? looking - bimii aftef toyle, port ater a to ray seas, iK?Jt"5Varr?; dat aftcflile, doth irreat, "I look upon death," says Frank.- lin. "to be neoessary to on? copstif tntioiLfll lleen, W0 bll lis re freshed in the morning." "Death once dead, there's - no more dvinz then." It is a friend and not an enemy, coming, as it does, from the love that loves on to the endless end. One by one (iod calls those bound to us by natural rand endearing ties into his silence ; He prepares a home and kindred for tts yonder, while baring life for us here : and thus, in bis tender ness, He delivers, us from the fear of death. For many, when j the "last enemy" comes to shake his in solent spear in their face, Anag's question is their answer : "Surely the bitterness of death is passed." v "When thou passeth through the waters I will be with the," and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. vvben Banyan in his immortal allegory draws a pic tur full of pathos and dignity, of Christian and Hopeful wading through deep waters-to the Celestial City, he puts these words into nope fill's lips to sooth the tremors of his friend. Every day thousands of God's true servants are sustained in their last earthly experience by be ing able to realize this Presence. When death is bitter it is so, as a general rule, for more by reason of anxiety and remorse than irom physical causes. A man, for in stance, can scarcely die easily if he is leaving a widow and family for whom provision has not been made. The medical man who attended Ol iver Goldsmith" m his last hour ask ed him if there was anything on his miad, as he could not account for his temperature being so high. The poet admitted that there was. Debt was upon his mind. To some it is riches and not poverty that render death painful. When Garrick showed to Dr. Johnson his palatial residence, the latter said : "Ah, Day id, these are the things that make death more tsrrible." . Yet, even in a palace, life may may be well led, and I have known rich men who had learned to sit loose to the things of earth and to be quite ready to give them up. A clever medical man once said to me : "You par sons do much harm by making peo ple afraid to die. You should rath er teach them to look upon death aa their best friend." Qf course I told hint that it is not clergymen but their own consciences that make people afraid to die, and that it is our business to point to Him -''who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the 'Gospel." Think tint. I dread to see mv sbl'it fly Through the dark gates of fell mortality;. Death has no terrors wnere me uie is irue; 'Tis living ill that makes ua fear to die. ?"Tis living ill," and not parsons, that maes people fear to die. A minister in a remote part of Scotland was oLce visiting at the death-bed of an aged member of his congregation, "Well, my friend," said the minister, "how do you feel yourself today J " "Very weel, sir," was the calm and solemn answer. "Yery weel, but just a wee bit con fused with the $ittin" Jf even a good man is in t-tiu way oonfusad. with the flit tin', h.Qf Pan those who in youth and health and strength have never given a thought to that part of life's business which consists in preparing to leave it 'how can they expect to be calm and collected on their deathbeds, and to have peaoe at the last ? John Wesley was once asked by a lady: "Suppose jatT knew that you were tb die at 1$ o'clock tomor row night, how would you spend the intervening time P" "How, mad am," he replied ; "why, just as I intend to spend it now. should preach this night, at BlouQeiter, and again at 6 tomorrow morning. After that I should ride to Tewkesbury, preach in the afternoon and meet, the societies in the eynjug. I should then rpa.f to frjendMar tin's house who experts to enter tain me, converse and pray with the family as usual, retire to mv bed at 10 o'clock, com.m.end myself to my heavenly ather, lie down to rest, and wake np in glory." The way to have peace a,t tb& Hst it long be fore to take Jsus as onr individual Sayiour and try to serve Qimxot in some extraordinary way, hut in our ordinary every day life, . ThdJmother of tbe poet Goethe,, who was a strong- minded and hu morous woman, happened to receive an invitation to a party when on her deathbed from some on? whj did not know tbat b ws Ml- She thus replied tq it : Ma.dme Goethe ia orry that she' ctrjuot accept your invitation, as she is engaged in dy ing." It is not only when we come to our deathbeds that we are engag ed in dying- It is a physiological fact that death borders upon our birth, and that our cradle standi n the grave. C " v Trom hour to hour we ripe and ripe. , ' And tcn, from hour to hour, we rot a4 rot, In thj sense we all 'dia daily," whether we like it or not. Well for those who can use these words in the higher sense in which St. Paul use them who can feel that they are ready to die every day they live, This was the aim of the ChrUV soldier, flavelock, yb.oriaid "for more, hn forty years I have so ru.1. ed my life that when death came I might face it ' without '. fear.", ,It us think for a moment of the vie.w which' He who is h& example ol a godly life, and therefore of godly death, took of departing from this world; One of the seven - last say ings ol Jean from the crou as : "Father into Thy hands. I commend my Spirit." It is the free, sponta neous, unhesitating surrender of One who did not look upon death '-'.-WW . as an irresistible necessity, out as something tbat cornea from a Fath er's love. This waa :tha feeling which en abled -,he American, general, Stone wall Jackson, to : die as he did. When told that he had only about two hours to live, he answered : "Very good ; it as al I right. Order A. P. Hill to prepare for action. Pasa the infantry to the front rap idly. Tell Major Hawks " Presently a smile of ineffable sweet neas spread, itself over his pale face, and he said quietly and with an ex pression of relief : "Let - us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees." And then, without pain or the least struggle, bis spirit passed a way. We should all be able to pass over the dark river bravely if we hoped and trusted as truly as did this Christian soldier, t to rest under the Tree of Life upon the other side. 19 DEATH PALM JUL f So lire that when the. summons comes to loin The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take . His chamber in the Silent Halls of Death, Scourg-ed to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unalterlng trust, approach thy grave, As one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, lies down to pleasant di eami . Trnti Tillisg. Baltimore Sun, It is undeniable that there is some confusion in the popular mind res pecting truth-telling and lying, arising from a failure to understand the essential elements of truth and falsehood. So far as the individ lal himself alone is concerned he may make a false statement without ly ing or he may make a true state ment without and yet lie in doing so. The question is one or sincer ity in the one case and an intent to deceive in the other. All the soph istry about lies, and especially white lies, disappears when tested by the purpose or intent of those uttering them. When a sincere man tells wLat he believes to be true he has not uttered a lie, though the state ment itself may be false. On the other hand, the hypocrite who., keeping within the bounds of truth. insinuates a falsehood by suppress ing a part of the truth convey a false -impression, and does so with the intent to deceive is an absolute liar, more despicable even than those who lie outright with no pretense of adhesion to the truth. The distinc tion shouli be clearly impressed on the minds of children lest they should mistake the form and sub Itanoe. Sincerity,0 honesty, frank ness these are the sleiaents of truth-telling; deceit is the essential elements of bine. The harsh measures soma times used against children to punish them for slight offenses ajro very ofteu responsible lor the development of a habit of lying The child becomes afraid to acknowledge his offenses, finding, it much easier to play the hypocrite and thus win favors than to brave disclosure and a whipping. It ia a great mistaxe to ferea qown a young persQQ'i franfcneaa and sincerity by harsh treatment, for there are no better qualities which better deserve cultivation. With them he will be naturally a truth tejUe Without them he may pay no respect to the outward forms of truth as a matter of polioy, but will do violence to it whenever it may serve hia rmrpose to do so It is an imnraaaive lesson to the younjs aometimes to point out two opposite characters in a com munityone respected and trusted, the other feared and d istrusted and then let thesa nd out for them selves the difference between the two men. If they are &t al) discern ing they will toon see that one is frank, ajnoere, honest and that the other is tricky ,f also in word and deed and -very often a hypocrite. The contrast is greater if the men are in the same class of society, with ret pact at least to worldly possess ions. Whether they are rich or poor, a wide gulf is drawn, between them the one ha. troop of friends, the other warj and auipiejoua ac quaintance. Truth telling, hich is something more than strict ad herence to the letters of troth, is so essential to the formation of good character that the young should be taught to esteem the qualities from which it springs, and not merely be taught by note the sin. o Jjinjj. Tvwiwi7 ' Mrs- Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City, 111,, waa told by her doctors she had Consumption and that there was no hope for her, but two bottle Dr. King's New Discovery complete ly cured her and she says it saved ber life.- Mr. Tnoa, gers, 139, Florida St., fian Francisco, suffered fron dreadful,, cold, approaching Consumption, tried withont res ul t everything else and then bough C one. bottle of Dr, King's Hew Discovery and in two eekl .was onred. He is naturally : thankful. It it such results of which these, are samples, that prove the wonderful , effiicacy of thit . medicine in Coughs and Colds. 'Free trial bottles at W. W. Scott's Drugstore. Regular size 50c and $1.00. ., Cstasrs if Kitsv The Home, "All tbat I am," said John Qain- cev Adams, "my mother made me." in tne great oiograpny oi many w .a 1 a m . . I m great men we find marked! mention made of mothers' influence in di recting teir genius or otherwise af fecting their career. . Washington was only oleven years old when! his father died, leaving the mother with five children to ed ucate and direct. She Used daily to gather her flock around, her and teach them the principles of relig ion and morality from a li ;tle man ual in whicn she wrote all her max ima. Thijs manual was preserved by Washington as one of his most precious treasures, and was oiten examined by him in early life. It is said that the simple majesty of the moral 'greatness of Mary Wash ington called forth the following re mark from certain foreign1 officers, on retiring from her presence : "It is not turprising that, America should produce great men;; since she can boast of such mothers.' In the biography of Olivier Crom well we find frequent allusion made to tbe noble character of his moth er. The following is an example : "A woman possessed of the most glorious faculty of self help when other assistance failed her, jand who preserved in the gorgeous palace of Whitehall.! the simple tastes that distinguished her in the old brew ery at Huntington, whose dnly care, amidst all her splendor, was for the safety of her son in his dangerous eminence.'! I Watt, the great civil engineer. was greatly influenced by his mother, whom he described as a "brave, brave woman : none now to be seen like her." j j Cuvier, the geologist, is j another instance of a mother's influence. She learned Latin in order to assist him in his studies; she also! laid the foundation! of drawing and literature in his mind, and so helped him in all hia studies that he attributed a greater portion of his success to her efforts. De Maistre asserted that the noble character of his mother made all women venerable ia his eyes, tie described her as, lan an gel to whom Gcd lent a bc4y for a oner season. fciamuel Johnson, even in time of his greatest difficul ty, contributed largely out of his Slender means to the comfort of his mother, who exercised ' remarkable inflaenca ovejr him. But . the in stances of lio-able mention of the i influenoe of mothers are toojnumer- ' ous to cite. t ' As a rale, our first instructor, the : mother, ia our example. Nero's 1 mother wa&; a murderer on a large j scale. Bjrbu'a mother was vain, ! ill tempered aad violent, and so was i Byron. The child iearus by simple imitation and without effort. The moat important era of life is! that of ; childhood, when the child begins ; to color and mold himself by com- j bauionship With others. Every new : educator effects leas than his prede- i cessor. Thus it is," through! the in- i fl.ne.noe over the mind and the mold ing of the character in childhood, that mothers ultimately influence and direct the. ooursd of events of ' tbe world's history. A Jack-Leg Carpenter. -S a Maoon Telegraph. 'i lawyer was cross-question mg a negro witness in one of the justice courts the other day, and was get ting along fairly well until be aked the witness what his -occupation was j. "I'se cr carpenter, sah. "What kind of a carpenter ?'i "Ihey, calls me a jack leg carpen ter, sah j "What is; a jack-leg carpenter ?" He is a carpenter who is not a first-class carpenter, sah." . "Well, explain fullv what you un aeratana a jaoa-ieg carpenter to oe, insisted the lawyer-. "Boss, I declare I dunno 'splaiu any Smo 'oept to sav how to hit am jea de same d iff u nee twixt you and ola- a first class lawyer. t The negro was. one of the fashioned kind, and did not mean to be insolent or impudent, but had decided in 1 his own mind .that ther lawyer asking the questions Iwaa not a first-class! lawyer. It is needlessrto say that questions ceaseoiat once- EUctrlc Bitten. This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same of Draise. IA - Durer medicine not exists and it ie guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils. Salt Rheum and other affec tions caused by impure blood. Will drive away Malaria from the system and prevent aa well (.a care ill . Ma larial fevers. For cure of Headache, Constipation -and Indigestion, try Electric Bitten. Entire satisfaction guaranteed or - money - refunded. 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