New
departure
n ,r o --li ard prices are attract
"Wra from all parts of the
,D?(;rV wm wf feel justiaed m
gaf, rcane therefor:
First
u-a kf a full I stock and you
can always get that for which
v m to the store.
Second,
Our prices are always reason
able aud you can feel assured
t&nt you will get the worth
cf your money.
Third,
x keen abreat in prices for
all kinds of-produce.
Fourth,
Uur aUoes were bought before
the rt cent big jump in leain
er, rut our. prices remain Jkt
the sa rue old figure.
Our entire stock is now complete,
ana we can bdow you a good assort
ment of
Dry Goods, Notions,
Hats, Caps,
Boots, Shoes.
Big Lot
Ready-Made Clothing.
And for fun, !
Buy a gun.
Big lot of them, 13 to $25.
And for comfort,"
Buy a stove. j
Big lot of them, $8 to $25.
Will coct now wholesale, $10 to $35.
We make a specialty of
GUANO and sell none
but the HIGHEST
GRADES.
W ill pay cash at all times for
Shingles and Wheat.
Respectfully,
MOORE & HOKE,
Granite Falls, - - N- -
WE
Don't Want All The
: EARTH,
But we want our friends to call and
see our stock of
DRY GOODS.
General I Merchandise,
Boots and Shoes,
Clothing,
NOTIONS.
GROCERIES.
HARDWARE
'Lumber and-Stiingles.
Highest Prices paid for Country
Produce. J
The Farmer's Friend Plow, the Hi
Side Plow 1 nd 2 horse.
We make a Specialty Of Hardware.
. V'e will give you full value fov ev
ery dollar you spend witn us.
M, DEAL & CO.,
feUrVallev. - - - - N. Q
. j ,
A HORSE ! A HORSE
Li-very, Feed and Sale Stable
Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Sad
dles and Lap-Robes a
Specialty,.
o -
Everything in
Harness Lin,.
7- . '
"fcp a Repair Shop in Connection
win our Oher Business.
m, CRl k COMPANY.
LENOIR, N. 0.
Mn
HI
I VOIDER HHY.
p. T. Observer.
I wonder why this world's good
Should fall in EUCh niif nnn.1 ah
Why some should Uste of all the
joys,
And Other8 Onlv feel thn r.nrea T
I wonder why the sunshine bright
onouia iaii in paths some people
tread.
While others shiver in the shade
Of clouds that gather overhead !
I wonder why the trees that hang
00 run oi luscious fruit should
grow
Only where some may reach and
eat,
While others faint and thirsty
go!
Why should sweet flowers bloom for
some,
For others onlv thorns be found ?
And some grow rich on fruitful
earth,
While others till but barren
ground ?
I wonder why the hearts of some
uvernow with joy and happiness,
While others go their lonely way
unblessed with aught of tender
ness !
I wonder why the eyes of some
Should ne er be moistened with a
tear,
While others weep from morn till
night,
Their hearts so crushed with sor
row here !
Ah, well we may not know indeed
he whys, the wherefores of each
life :
J
But this we know there's One who
sees
And watches us through joy or
strife.
Each life its mission here fulfills,
And only He may know the end,
And loving him we may be strong,
Though storm and sunshine He
may send.
NOT FOB GOLD.
BY AMELIA E. BARB.
New York Ledger.
"Janet's fortune ! How much is
it, mother ?'' said Ronald Mitchell,
as he carefully measured the ancho
vy for his boiled salmon.
"How much, Ronald t .Nothing
less than the whole Gross-me-loof
estate, besides ten thousand pounds
good money in the .Bank ol Scot
land"
"Toolit'le." replied Ronald, shak-,
ing bis head in a meditative man
ner. "I could not sell mysolf so
cheap "
"But there is the lassie forbye :
she is cot bad-looking, and she is a
carefu' housewife arid a gcod Chris
tian."
"Doubtless, mother, she is better
than she's bonnie ; but I know a
girl worth ever so much more than
Janet McDonald."
"That will be Bailie Johnson s
daughter ? '
"Yon do me too much honor. 1
do not aspire to a woman six feet
high, especially when her temper is
of equal proportions "
"Well, laabelle has a bad temper
But Janet is different ; she has no
vice, nd
"No heart."
"She has plenty of money."
"And no intellect."
"But she has interest enough to
send ynu to Parliament."
"I don t waat to go there, moth
er, and I do want iry dinner, and
you are taking away my appetite.
And Ronald drew tha moor-cocK to
ward him, and helped himself so
liharallv that Mrs. Mitchell may be
excused for altogether doubting the
fact. Then there was a few min
utes silence, which did not deceiye
Ronald ; he knew it was the lull
before the breaking of the storm.
His mother's attitude of indifference
and listlessness was all assumed ; he
was perfectly familiar with it, and
briAw for none had better reason to
know what a proud, resolute spirit
it had.
She was onlv hesitating tow to
open the subject which lay nearest
her boart, because nonam maiuwwu
ed a neutrality of perfect silence ;
and she knew that if she began .the
dispute, she gave him, at the open
ing of the argument, an ine auvau
tages which belong to the defend
ant
While she was hesitating, a ser
vant brought in a card and gave it
to her. . ,
"It is "Wylie, Ronald," she said;
"you had better go and sea him."
"Why so, mother f I know noth
ing about the property. You and
he have always managed it. Besides,
I have an engagement at half-past
seven " , ,
"But something must ba done.
Every year the rents are decreasing.
My income will soon be at stsrvation
Ronald looked up. and smiled in
credulously. iAu t lroAn nn an appear
ance, of course, and I suppose I shall,
always be able to ao mat,
not one of the foolish women ! who
Bpend as they go. I have laid, lit
X k. tha f .itnre : but what is
mo uj v
a I..a.wma at UAl . r -
"Heigh-ho 1 I haye a good an-
1 T .nnnnlD "
BAgool wife would 1)8 mora to
the purpose, and if you would only
marry Janet McDonald, aha wnnld
briDg you a fine estate ; besides, she
is a prudent lassie, and would help
you to keep the gear well together."
"How do you know thatJaiet
would have me ?"
"Miave already spoken to her."
"It was throwing words away,
mother. If there is anything else I
can pleasure you m, I shall be will
ing and obedient, but 1 dare not
cast my life away - not for gold, at
least."
"Yet you are going to do it for a
pretty face."
'You are mistaken. I have my
price, I Buppoae ; but neither land
nor beauty are able to bay mt."
"The conceit of men is wonderful;
it passes the comprehension of wo
men. 'Where are you going this
evening ?" .
"To Mrs. Sorley's."
"To see Miss Eve. Very well,
Ronald. Remember, if you decline
to accept Janet McDonald as your
wife. I also decline to receive Eve
Sorley as my daughte-. I suppose
the right of rejection is left to me
as well as you."
"Not equally, mother. You cm
not make Janet my wife ; but I, by
marrying Eve, can make her your
daughter."
"I deny it, sir, for in such a case
you would no longer be my son.
Good ovening, sir."
Mrs. Mitchell victrix as usual,"
said Ronald, laughing softly to him
self, and slowly refilling bis glass.
"Here is a new turn in affairs. I
must go and see what Eve says about
it."
On his way there he tried not to
think of. the subject ; it perplexed
and annoyed him ; but Eve had a
way of letting sunlight into every
thing, and whrtever she said of
course he should do. Eve, watching
and listening in the shadow of the
crimson draperies, heard the echoes
of his long, swinging steps, and di
vined in them something new, even
before she saw the strange light in
bis usual merry eyes.
"What is the matter, Ronald ?
do not believe I shall call you Sans
souci' tonight ; you look troubled "
"You may call me the "Disinher
ited Knight,' for I think my trouble
will amount to that."
'What havo yon been doing ?"
said Mrs Sorlry.
"My sin if one of omission, mad
am. You see, Mrs Storley, I am
only a part of the estate to my
mother. She wants to invest me
profitably, just as she does the in
terest on her loans and savingsAt
present she allows me five hundred
pounds a year ; but if I ref U3e to
carry out her plans. sh9 will with-
di&w it, I am sure. Then what am !
am I to do ?"
"Ask Eve "
- Eve met the questioning face with
one of confidence.
' Go to work, sir, and make five
hundred pounds a year. I will
marry jou when you can earn three
hundred. What do you say to
that ?"
That you are the wisest and love
liest and bravest little lady in Chris
tendon;" and he fairly lifted her
in his arms and kissed her.
"Put me down, Ronald, and lis
ten to what I say. Yon are six feet
two inch 68 high, and strong as Her
cules, Yon never haye a headache,
and are just twenty-one years old.
'Disinherited ! rahaw I xonr in
heritance is in your own keeping.
The world is given to the children
of men ; go into it and take your
portion "
Nothing strengthens a man in
trouble like the sympathy and help
of the woman he loves. Ronald
went from Eve's presence gifted
with a definite purpose and an ap
pointed task. The inward change
had its outward evidences Itr was
perceptible in his firm, rapid tread,
which had lost its usual lazy swing ;
in the manner which he ascended
the steps two and three at a time,
and in the impetuous way in which
he flung hat aud gloves on the hall
table and entered his mother's pres
ence. She was half sitting and half
lying in a large duchess chair, lazily
dipping her toast into a glass of
mulled wine ; but at Ronald's en
trance she partly turned her he&d
and said, in a sleepy manner :
"Your energy is exhausting and
unnecessary, Ronald. I wish you
would be more gentlemanly."
He tried to obey her, as he had
always done, but he was too excited
tonight. Before he got half across
the room he stumbled over a small
ottoman, and then kicked it out of
his way.
"What is the .matter with you,
sir T What kind of company have
you been in to bring such a riotous
influence back with you ?"
"I have been with two of the no
blest women in the world, mother."
"Indeed 1 I am sure I should
never have thought so." And the
sneering accent was very percepti
ble. "I told you I was going to Mrs.
Sorley's, and I haye been."
"Very well, sir ; that is enough.
I am not curious about the family.
We will change the subject, please."
i The habit of obedience was so
atroncr that ha remained silent if
silence that might be called in which
every attitude was eloquent with re
sistance. ':' - '
"The two Wilkies were here to-
night. They want you to join a
fishing excursion to ttre Trosaohs, I
told them I waa wre you would
go."
"You are mistaken, mother. . I
shall be better employed, I hope."
Mrs. Mitchell raised her eyes in
credulously, but asked :
"How ?"
"I am going to try and find some
work to do."
"Work 1" almost screamed his
mother. "And, pray, what can you
do ?'
"Indeed, mother, very little ; but
I can learn I have been taught
nothing useful ; my education is su
perflcial, and no profession has been
given me. I am not even fit for a
clerkship. I tej nothing before me
but manual labor, unless you con
tinue my allowance while I study
law or medicine "
"Yen have begun at the wrong
end of your story, sir. Now be
pleased to begin your argument
properly What led you to form
this resolution1 ?" '
"Your remark this evening. You
declared that if I married Miss Sor
ley I should no longer ba your son."
' Quite correct."
"Then, as I am determined to
marry Miss Sorley, it becomes nec
essary for me to consider on some
way of supporting her and my
l If."
True ; for you can hardly expeo1,
me to support a young woman I de
test. As for continuing your al
lowances, I shall do no such thing.
I will give you a month to reconsid
er your conduct, and if at the end
of it you still prefer this this "
"Miss Sorley, mother f"
"This girl, sir. You can take
her, and go your own way. That's
all I have to say, sr."
But it was easier to determine to
work than to find the work to do,
and if it hai nit been for the
strengthening influence of Eve, Ro
land would, perhaps, have become
discouraged. The month drew to a
close, ancf still no employment bad
been found.
"What shall I do, bright eyes ?"
said Ronald, one evening "It
seems as if there was no place in the
work a day world for me."
- ' Oh, yes, there is ; you only have
not found it yet And do you
know, Ronald, mamma and 1 have
been talking over your going to
America ?"
The suggestion was not new to
the young man ; his own heart had
been giving him th same advice
from the very first; and, the subject
once broached, soon assumed a tan
gible form. It was thoroughly dis
cussed and arranged for, and Ron
ald's place taken in a steamer, leav
ing two days before his month of
grace expired.
During all his trials and prepa
rations, Ronald's home never a
happy one had bsen becoming daily
more wretched. Hia mother we-ir
ied him with alternato reproachea
and entreaties, and his friends pit
ied or abused, advised or laughed at
him Still, the last night ha was to
spend under his mother' roof ha
made another tffort at reconcili
ation. "I have a miserable headache to
night," he said. "Kiss me, mother,
for the sake of old times "
"Certainly, Ronald, if the kiss im
plies that you have recovered your
senses, and are willing to follow out
my plans for your welfare "
"I cannot give up E?e, mother.
Forgive me this."
"You are old enough to choose
between us. If it Miss Sorley, her
kisses must suffice you."
"At least, mother, shake hands."
"You are sentimental tonight ; a
thing I have no use in tha world
for. Obedience is the test of love."
"Well, good night, mother."
"Good night, sir."
And thus they parted, never more
to meet in this world.
Hard as his parting was with Ere,
't did sadden him like the unnatur
al "Good night, sir," of his mother.
In the former there were love and
hope, and the promise of a happy
reunion.
After Ronald's departure, Eve
waited hopefully and happily for the
good news sbe was sure would oome.
Nor did she wait in vain. Ip two
years Ronald had completed his
8tu.lv for the law, and opened a'
small office in a flourishing town in
Western New York. For some time
his practice was small, but at the
end of the fourth V6ar he was mak
ing more than enough to claim the
redomption of Eve's promise.
Mrs Sorley accompanied her
daughter to America,and lived many
happy years with the young couple.
Ronald is always a warm defender"
of that much abused character, a
mother in- law.
As vears wore on, the littla viae
covered cottage was added to and
enlarged, until it became the pride
of the town ; and Judge Mitchell's
handsome house and gardens, his
thorough-bred horses and numerous
servants are certainly evidences of
an income vastly above the five hun
dred pounds a year he refused to ac
cept as equivalent for manhood's no
blest rights and privileges.
. Ronald is a portly middle-aged
man now, and Eve, though still
beautiful, has lost the early bloom
of youth ; but up and down tha
long piazzas, and through the shady
arcades of elm aud chestnut, many
beautiful girls, play, walk or read,
uncontrolled by any element but a
wise and patient love. For Ronald
has still a sad remembrance- of a
home cheerless and loveless amid all
its splendor, of a childhood unbless
ed by fairy-lore or mother's kisses,
and of a youth in which everything
was to have been sacrificed for in
terest and ambition.
Mrs. Mitchell still lives. If her
heart ever softens toward her son,
she never soff jrs it to make any
sign. She is apparently as indiffer
ent to his later honors as she was to
his early struggles and trials. It is
likely even that she may outlive her
busy, hard working son, whose brain
and heart carry the cares and sor
rows of many besides his own, for
"The good die first,
And they whose hearts are dry as
summer dust'
Burn to the socket "
Yet never has Ronald Mitchell
regretted the day in which he chose
love before land, and a true wife in
preference to ten thousand pounds.
Ask him today if he would part with
even one memory of the ' real life
which commenced for him with that
decision, and he would answer,
proudly aud confidently : "Not for
gold."
No Placa to Uotb to.
Washington Poet.
Ex-Congressman Yoder, of Ohio,
in commenting on the recent elec
tions, told a party of friends the f ol.
lowing story at one of the uptown
hotels:
"In one of the counties in Ohio a
German was running for sheriff on
the Democratic ticket. He felt very
confident of election, but when he
read the returns he found he was
snowed under by about 4,000 major
ity. This roused his ire, and he said
to his wife:
"Dot settles it. We vill move out
of 'dis"tShtate where dey treats a
Democrat like dis Yost you pack
oop our things right away unt git
ready to move away.'
"He left the house in great wrath,
but in about an hour he returned
and found his wife tearing up the
carpets and taking down the curtain
poles.
" 'Shtop dot, Kathrina,' said the
German, 'yust you let dem carpets
alone.'
" 'But vat is der matter mit you,
John ?' asked his wife, 'yust a leadle
vile ago you said git ready to move,
unt now yon say don't git ready to
move '
" 'Veil, dot's so, I did say dat,
but I yust been dowg to the depot,
unt dare is no place to move to.'
said the German "
Hell Varsus too Penitentiary.
Mt. Airy News.
A negroiwho stole a cow from the
editor of the Forest pity Ledger was
recently sent to the penitentiary for
four years. If all the people who
steal from editors were sent to the
penitentiary it would be so full of
them that their feet would stick out
of tae windows. In our 20 odd
years' experience publishing a paper
we have accumulated 18,000 of sub
scription debts that we will take one
fourth of a cent on the dollar for.
Our deliberate opinion is that the
men who have defrauded us out of
the jus', fruits of our labors are as
guilty of'the theft in the sight of
the Almighty as the negro who stole
editor Green's cow. It is no conso
lation to think that they will not
escape hell in the world as ea3ily as
they have the penitentiary in this.
Dobs Wealth Dispel Lots ?
Century.
"Did nobody ever tell you that in
some far prehistoric time I was in
love with my husband ?" said Mrs.
Romaine carelessly. "Well, I was.
I used to go to afternoon services in
Lent and pray for that love to last,
because the sensation was so much
to my taste. I used to have ecstatic
feelings when his foot was on the
stair, and 1 sat sewing little baby
clothes. We lived in a pla'nish way
then; $3 spent in two theatre tickets
was a tremendous outlay, and we
walked out to dinners, I tucking up
the train of my best gowo under a
long cloak, and laughing if the wind
snatched It away from me at the
corners and whipped it around my
feet. Then he grew richer, and we
broadened the borders of our phy
lactery, and then how when
dear knows if I can remember, we
grew further and further away
from each other. Now, when he is
at home I am aware of it, because
he is there behind a newspaper, but
that is all 1 When our lips meet it
is like two pieces of dry pith coming
together. I know nothing of his
affairs, nor he of mine. I have
money in abundance. Money
money who cares for money when
a man's heart and soul and brain
have' gone into it ?"
As an emergency medicine, Ayer's
Gherry Pectoral takes the lead ox alt
other remedies. For the relief and
cure of croup, whooping-cough, sore
throat, and the dangerous pulmon
ary troubles to which the young are
so liable, it is invaluable, being
prompt to act, sure to cure.
t Boyibus kisaibus
' Sweet girlornm,
Girlibus likibus,
Wanti 8omdrum.
Vi in Appretiitli i bat Dsa't Sisv
it Uael.
Cfc&rlotte Observer. j
North Carolina is a good old State.
Patriotism is a chief virtue among
her people. It cannot be truly. said
that we are an unappreciative peo
ple, and yet we have the poorest way
of showing our appreciation of any
people on the ( fce Of the earth.
Looking over the papers that come
to the Observer, .we find the Cle ve
lar d Star complaining because no
monument to Vance has yet been
erected and only a small fund so far
collected for that purpose. Just af
ter Vance's death there waa a burst
of sentiment favorable to eommemo
rating his memory with a monu
ment ; a few funds were collected,
and then the agitation, if it really
amounted to that, died down. It
took us 30 years to build a shaft in
honor of our Confederate dead, and
it really looks j from this point of
view, at least, that a monument to
the greatest son of North Carolina
is yet in the dim distance.
We take up another paper, the
Wilmington Messenger, and find a
complaint that only 150 subscribers
to the proposed volume of poetry of
Prof Henry Jerome Stocuard have
materialized, l it was proposed, it
will be remembered, to publish a
volasie of Mr. Stockard's poems if
encugh copies could be disposed of
in advance to cover the expense of
publication. This shows a lament
able lack of appreciation on the part
of our people, especially as a large
proportion of the 150 subscribers
above mentioned are not North Car
olinians. Yet Mr Stockard is a
real poet.' The Messenger speaks
the truth when it says : "What we
have read of him is poetry."
A splendid cm iser in our navy
has been named for the capital of
this State, and yet no testimonial in
behalf of North Carolina for the
honor thus conferred upon her has
been sent to the Raleigh, and her
officers are known to be much hurt
at the slight. This is to our shame.
And yet, no one can deny that the
image of Vance is graven on the
very hearts of Tar Heels ; that all
cultured North Carolinians are
proud to read Stokard'a sonnets in
the Century ; and that when the
name of Raieigh catches our eye in
the prints our attention lingers over
it, and we pray that in the future
Success and Glory may ever stand
by her guns, land "Fortune play up
on her prosperous helm."
Her Composition.
A little girl in Boston wrote a
composition Jon boys Here it is:
'Thebov fis not an animal, yet
thev can be heard to a considerable
distance. When a boy hollers he
opens his big mouth like frogs, but
girls hold their tongue till they are
.spoke to, and then tbey answer re
spectable and te'l just how it was.
A boy think3 himself clever because
he cn wade where it was deep, bur-
Gjd made the dry land for every
living thing, and rested on the aev
enth day. When the boy grows uo
he is called a husband, and then he
atopa wading and stays out nights,
but the grew up girl is a widower
and keeps house,
The Home Uarcku'.
Durham San,
The home merchant is entitled to
your trade and ought t3 have it, as
against the itinerant dealer or tbe
merchant of some distant city, lie
spends his money here. He builds
a house which enhances the value ol
all property. He helped pay for
the c lurch you worship in, anl tbe
school to which you send your chil
dren. He cannot afford to misrep
resent his goods or swindle you.
Self-interest alone would prevent
this. He stays with you in sun
shine and storms, m times of adver
sity He bears his share of the bur
den of good government. When a
subscription paper is passad ha is
first approached.
These are a few of the reasons
why you should patronize the home
merchant. And if he needs tha
goods you want and sell them at the
right price, and lets the fact be
known by an advertisement in the
local paper he will be very apt to
get his share of the trade.
$ioo Raward $ioo. .
The readers of this piper will be
pleased to learn that there js at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages,
and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, , re
quires a j cansUtutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter
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blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giv
ing the foundation of building up
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