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V LENOIR, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22. 1896. NTJMB2R 16. New. DeparfuUre )pr 'onds and prices are .;, res from all parts Attract- of the ( our ' , hence we feel justified in !tii)kT a few leasons therefor First. We Keep a lull stocfc and you ...... . can always cet that for which vou go to the store. , Second, Our prices are always reason able and yon can feel assured tbat you will get the! worth of your money. Third, We keep abreat in prices for .it- 3 J all Kinas or, prouuce. Fourth, Oar shoes were bought before .i i i : ' i a me receuii ujg jump iu lemii er, but ocr prices remain at the same oia ngnre. Our entire stock is now complete, mid we cen show you a good assort ment of Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Caps, Roots-: Shoes. Big I.ot Ready-Made Clothing'. And for fun, Buy a gun. Big lot of them, $3 to $25. And fo!- comfort, Buy a stove. Big lot of them, $8 to $25. Will coet now wholesale, $10 to $35. We make a specialty oi GUANO and sell none but the HIGHEST? GRADES. W iil pay cash at all times for Shingles and Wheat. Respectfully, MOORE & HOKE, j Gnnite Falls, - - j N. 0. WE Don't Want All The : EARTH, Bat we" want our friends to call and see our stock of DRY GOODS, General Merchandise, i Boots and Shoes, Clothing, " NOTIONS. ' GROCERIES, HARDWARE; Lumber and Shingles. HigteEt Prices paid for Country Produce. The Farmer's Friend Plow, the Hill Cc Plcvr 1 and 2 horse. We Eake a Specialty of Hardware. We will give yon full value foi ev ery dollar you spend with ns. M, DEAL & CO., f'edarValley, - - - - N. 0. AHORSE! A HORSE Uvery; Feed and Sale Stable Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Sad dles and LaD-Robes a Specialty. : Everything in Harness Line. Abo a Repair Shop in Connection TO our Other Business. v r M, CRJLIG & CO LENOIR, N. 0. JPANY. TIE LITTLE PATCEED TROUSERS. Hou. Z. B. Yanc. How dear to my heart are the pants of mv childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view, The pants that I wore in the eep tangled wild wood, And likewise the groves where the crab apple grew, The wide spreading seat with its little square patches, The pockets that bulged with my luncheon for noon, And also with marbles and fish worms and matches And gum drops and kite strings from March until June, The little patched trousers, the made over trousers, The high water trcusers that fit me too soon. No pantaloons ever performed great er service la filling the hearts of us young steis with joy ; They made the descent from Ailol phus to Jervis, Bight down through a family of ten little boys. Through no fault of mine, known to me or to othors, I'm the tenderest branch on our big family tree ; And having dene service for nine older brothers, They came down to me slightly bagged at the knee. The little patched trousers, the second-hand trousers, The old family trousers that bag ged at the knee. ILTIGETHER MISTAKEN. BY A11T RANDOLPH. New York Ledger. "Three young ladies," exclaimed Mr. Wimple, dropping his book of fishing-flies in dismay. "And all coming here ? Dear me, what are we going to do with them ?" "That's just what we were con sidering," said Miss Araminta Banks, with engaging sweetness. "If you wouldn't mind going down to the widow Peeler's, just for a night or two, Mr. Wimple, and let the young ladies have your room oaly as a temporary matter, of course it would be such an accom modation." Mr. Origen Wimple was probably the most bashful young man at Spruce Mountain. 'He was just nineteen, with a pasty complexion, very light-blue eyes and a scanty growth of lemon-colored down be ginning to ornament his chin and upper lip. He liked seclusion and courted the solitude of wood and glen, believing himself to be a poet, although he never yet bad been able to string two consecutive rhymes to gether, and he had come to board at Mr. Bank's farm-house, on Spruce Monntain, because there was no one else there and no possibility of any one being admitted, as he himself accepted the only spare chamber, under the caves of the roof, whose windows locked out on the balsamic growth of the mountain-side, and beneath which a little river roared and gurgled and beat itself into a spray of white foam against the edges of the rocks. So that, toward the mid prime of the golden July, when three of Miss Araminta'a school-mates wrote her a musk-scented pick note tbat they would arrive by mountain stage tbat very evening, to spend a week, there was a natural commotion at the farm house. For the Banks family, be it remembered, did not live on a city avenue, where one can send out and buy a folding-bedstead or acoa venient cot at a moment's notice. - "What shall we do ?" said Mrs. Banks. "Why couldn't they have let us know in time, so that we could have asked thera to postpone their visit a few weeks F" "Ma, that wouldn't be very hospit able," said Miss Araminta, with the air of superiority natural to one who has been educated in a boarding, school. "I tell yon what we 11 do. We'll ask Mr. Wimple to sleep a few nights down at the widow Peeler a. She has got a spare bedroom, and pa, sure he'll make no objection. He's so good-natured I" ... , "It seems like an imposition, t said Mrs. Banks. -Oh, he won't mmd," said Ara minta. , ... ,r The yonng lady was right. Mr. Wimple was only too glad to escape, at all and any hazards, from the aw ful invasion of three girls from the city. He did not mind Miss Ara minta, for be was used to her ways, and knew that she was safely engag ed to the young man who kept the general store at a? Corners, fife miles below. Ad Mrs. Bonks was a fat, jtof& an who made catnip tea for his Soldi ud gri np spscial little dishes for bis delectation whenever he Inowed a.y signs of a failing appe tite. Bat three young women from the outer world-three , young wo imeh who would perhaps Tt him, ask him gS': and art Yneeam-wor- i possibUitf mode MrJ Origen Wim OTwidoV Peeler a young woman ?" ne falteringly asked. ; 0bf 'bless joor heart, no i Miss Araminta, fathoming his mo tives. ',8he's five and-sixty, and a little hard of hearing into the bar gain. But I'm sure she'll make you comfortable, and it will bo such a favor to us." And so, with the fail of devy eve, Mr. Wimple packed a very small hand-bag, and, armed with many instructions as to the finding of his way from Mr and Mrs Banks, set forth to the residence of tr e wid ew Peeler, whose residence was said to be on a cross-road ha a miie from every pogsible poiut of the compass. It rained a little, and the Boft wreath 8 of fragrant mht were rising off the mountain side ; but Mr. Wimple, being in one of his poetic moods, heeded not these in significant drawbacks and plodded bravely on The three Misses Merivale arriv ed, as they bad given notice, by the evening stage, and they were sorely disappointed when they learned that the boarder had taken wings; for, in fact, one reason v- of the Misses Merivale's desire to visit their dear friend and schoolmate Araminta Banks, was that they had heard that a city young gentleman was domi ciled there for the season. m "Dear me 1" said Msad Merivale. "What a pity to disturb your board er." "I declare," simpered Ermen garde, the second sister, "I feel quite conscience-stricken 1" "Couldn't you have put us in any corntr, so as not to turn him out P" pleaded Daisy, the youngest, a dim pled hoyden of twenty-odd sum mers." "At all events." proposed Maud, "we cartainly ought to go down, en masse, and apologiza to him, What do you say, girls ?" "Oh, I don't think he'd like it," said Miss Araminta. "He's so dreadfully bashful." "Nonsense I" gayly cried Ermen garde. "Ila won't mind us " "Do let's go !" urged Daisy. ?'I dote on mounra n strolls, Aj?d it's such a lovely morning 1" And Araminta Banks, finding l erself in a decided minority, had noth'ng for it but to obey the voica of popular female opinion. "I hepe he'll be out fishing," she said to herself, with some natural vindictiveness. "It's the boldest piece of husband-hunting I er&r saw ! Those Merivale girls really do show their cards a little too plain ly." And what, all this time, had been the adventures of Mr. Origen Wim ple ? He had succeeded at last in find ing the peaked-roof farmhouse at whioh, "alone and witnouten any other companie," as old Chaucer sins;s, the widow Peeler dwelt. Mrs. Peeler was sitting by the light of one solitary candle, with her calf-skin-booted, feet carefully bal anced on the stove hearth, reading the "horrible accidents" and "re markable occurrences" in the week ly paper, and was deeply interested, just when Mr Wimple's kuocic Saunded, in an account of a bold and daring bank-burglary, which had recently been perpetrated in the nearest City. "The villain who committed this diabolical crime is finpposed to be in hiding in or near Spruce Mountain," she read to herself with infinite rel iih and an occasional mispronunci ation of the big words, "but will soon be swooped down upon by the majesty of ac offanded law." 'Eh I VVaat I Didn't I hear some one a-knockin' at the door ?" And, providing herself with a po ker, she vontured to unbolt the door with some caution. There stood a pale young man with a satchel. A oco8t unexpected vision; for the traveling peddler, who had been in trusted with a note to her from Mrs. Banks, had forgotten all about it and gone placidly by, with the half sheet of paper at the bottom of his pockets. The widow Peeler grew pale, re membering the sanguineous para graphs she had so lately, been perus ing. The bag was small, but there was nothing to hinder its containing dynamite ; the gun case and fishing-poles, for all sha knew, might be deadly instruments of destruc tion. "Who be you ?" demanded the widow. "I am the Banks's boarder," ex plained Mr. Wimple, in as insinuat ing a manner as possible. "Will you kindly gave me refuge for-" " Kefuge' " screamed the widow. "The bank-burglar I' Well, if ever I see such hardened impudence in all my lifel" And with an energy and strength which afterward seemed, as she told Mrs. Deacon Glassey, positively su perhuman, she seized him by the collar, dragged him into the little back-room, where tht seed-corn wag piled up, and succeeded in locking and bolting the door upon nim be fore he had " gathered presence of mind enough to remonstrate or re sist. 'tThe window is nailed npf said Mrs, Peeler, piling , all . the heavy furniture against the door, ffand I'll go to Sarah Jennings and send her husband off for the constables at once." . , . -s . ;. i ? . . But Mr. Jennings was m bed with rheumatism, and Sarah easily per suaded the widow, that her captive would be safe enough, all night tin the little corn-room. ij "And to morrer," said she, "well send over to Milo Beers, and hell get the constables !" This was the condition of things when the three Misses Merivale and Araminta Banks came over the next morning, on pretense of bringing some black currant jelly for Mrs. Peeler's cold and gathering wild grapes in the woods. The widow, being chronically deaf. pid no at tar lion to the greeting and inro ductions o' Araminta, but wavnd her bonnet in the air, crying breath lessly : "Gals, I've got him !" "Got whom f" cried Araminta and the three Misses Her i vale in chorus "The bank-burglar ! Shut up in the little corn room !" screamed Mrs. Peeler, "And Miio Beers has gone for the constables, and there's a reward of five hundred dollars of fered, and if you'll be very careful, you can just climb on the wood pile and peep through the outside slats of the window to see him 1" Cautiously and with many little shrieks of apprehension, Miss Disy Merivale and Araminta Banks as cended the dizzy height of the well stocked wood-pile and peeped through the murky panes of the little window. v "Qoodnesi gracious me I" cried Araminta, nearly failing backward into the kindling-wood with the sudden start she gave. "It's Mr. Wimple ! Sitting in a corner, with his hands clasped over his head, ez actiy like the Prisoner of Chillon !" "Mr. Wim pi a !" screeched Miss Merivale. "Open the door, some body, and let. him out 1" And, after a certain amount of screaming into Mrs Peeler's ear trumpet and a series of elaborate ex planatios, Mr. Origen Wimple was set free ; Milo Beers and the con stables were disappointed, and the widow never got the reward. "I've been treated atrociously !" said ths boarder. "I shall never forgive these rustic savages 1 It's outrageous ! It's perfectly bru tal !" "Glad you feel so kindly about it," said the widow, who did not htar a word be said. "For how, in all creation, when yon said you was a bank-burglar, was I to know that yoa meant the Banks's boarder ? Folks ought to tpaak more distinct ly !" Bat Mr. Origen Wimple, imstead of returning to the Banks farm house, as the three Miss Merivale fondly oxpected, packed up his things and went directly back te the city. "I can't aff ord ta expose myself to insults like this !" he said, with dig nity. And, to say the truth, things had happened rather unfortunately ! Loving Too Late. Amelia . Sarr, in Ladie's Home Journal. Not long ago I met a young lady in poverty whem I had previously known in wealth, and this was, in substance, the story she told me: "Father died suddenly in Washing ton, and the professional skill through which be had coiaed money for us died with him. I am not weeping because we are poor. I am broken-hearted because none of us saw that he was dying. Was it not pitiful that he should think it best not to tell anv of us tbat he was sick ? And I, his petted daughter, though I knew lie was taking opium to sootho his great pain, was so ab sorbed by my lovers, my games and my dresses, that I just hoped it would all come right. If I could only remember that even once I had pitied his suffering, or : felt anxious about his life, I might bear his loss better I" The story is common enough. Many a father, year after year, goes in and out of his home carrying the burden and doing the labor of life, while those whom he tenderly loves hold with but careless hands all of honor and gold he wins by toil and piiu. Then some day his head and hands can work no more ! And the hearts that have not learned the great lesson of unselfish love while love was their teacher, must now be gin their sad duty when love has left them alone forever. Ths Fresont CoBgnss. According to the new congression al directory, which has just made its appearance, th? House of Repre sentatives of the Fifty-fourth Con gress is composed of 223 lawyers, 24 farmers, 18 newspaper men, 16 merchants, 15 manufacturers, nine physicians, six bankers, five lumber men, three brokers, four railroad men, three college professors, two clergymen, two ship owners, two miners, two builders, one printer, one architect, one druggist, one theatrical manager, one school teacher, one music teacher, and six teen who have followed no other business or profession than politics The Senate of the Fifty-fourth Congress contains sixty lawyers, six merchants, three newspaper' men, three farmers, three railroad men, two clergymen, two mmtrs, one physician, one manufacturer, one banker, one ship owner and five men who have followed politics only. That man is a stranger to himself who raads no books. BILL 1X0 THE TWO TAB HEELS. A Lively Colloquy in tki Sioati. Cor Charlotte Observer. Washington, Jan. 13. In pre senting numerous petitions in favor of recognizing belligerent rights iu the Cuban revolution, Mr. fall, Democrat, of Florida, asked to have teoi printed as a public document, with the names of the signers, etat mg that it was important for Con gress to be made aware of the feel ing of the people on any great nub lic question like the war ii Cuba bat objection ws made by Mr. Piatt! Republican, of Connecticut, who stated tbat all the pet.tions were on the same printed form, and that there was a rule of the Senate for bidding the printing of names in such cases. The Vice President ruled in accordance with Mr. Piatt's views, and Mr. Call withdrew his request. Mr Kyle, Populist, of South Da kota, introduced a concurrent reso lution empowering and directing the President of the United States to rective such persons as may present themselves, satisfactorily accredited on behalf of the Cuban patriots, and, oa the xred uctlon of evidence show iag shat they have established a seat of government on the island of Cu ba, and tbat a majority of the na tive born residents are actively sup porting and defending it with arms, or are in sympathy with the cause, to extend belligerent rights to the Cuban patriots. The resolution was referred to the committee on foreign relations. Mr. Pritchard, Rspublican, of North Carolina, replied to the criti cism indulged in by Mr. Hill, Dem ocrat, of New York, a few days ago, against the two North Carolinia Senators, who, though chosen at the same time and by the same combi nation, stood n directly opposite sides on the tariff question. He re viewed Mr. Hill's speeches and votes on the Wilson tariff bill, referred to the fact that one of Mr. Hill's political supporters ia Troy was now counting in Sing Sing, the hours that were to elapse before his elec trocution ; and suggested that the difference between his colleague jlr. Butler and the New York Senator, was that the former left the Demo cratic party because its abuse could not be corrected inside of the organ izanization, while the latter had been kicked out and "branded as a traitor." Mr. Hill, Democrat, of New York, said that he was not aware that he had said, the other day, anything that called for such an elaborate speech as that just made by the Sen ator from North Carolina, As to his Mr Hill's having been "kicked out of the Democratic party," he .said, "the Democratic party has met with some reverses within the last two or tnree years. That ia true. But stiil I flatter mysslf that I am a lively member of what is left of that organization." Laugoter As to Mr. Pritchard's aliusioa tj "Bat" Shea and John Y. McKane, Mr. Hill explained that Shea had got into a row at a local election fight in the city of Troy which had started at a Republican primary ; and that, at the time of his Mr. HulY and his colleague's Mr. Murphy'oJ elec tion to the S 3n ate, Mr. McKaae was a Republican. ,Bat,"Mr. Pritchard interrupted, "McKane never got into the 'peni tentiary until he jomed the Demo cratic party." Laughter. Mr. Butler, Populist, of North Carolina, defended -his political course and his present position on the tariff question, contrasting both with those of Mr. Hill Mr. Hill commented upon Mr. Pritchard's statement to the effect that North Carolina was Republican and had been Republican ever since the war, if there had been fair elec tions there ; and upon the fact that the other North Carolina Sanator Mr. Butler had acted with the Democratic party all ths tioia that that party was charged with being so corrupt. He could not under stand why Mr Pri '.chard shonld have made "so vicious attack upon his colleague." He was inclined to believe that they had had pretty fair elections down in North Carolina ; and that in 1896, the people of North Carolina would be still for the true, not spurious, principles of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jacksen which the two North Carolina Sena tors ware so fond of. "Then," said Mr. Butler, "it will have to nominate a man for the Presidency who does not favor a single gold standard." "Still harping on my daughter," Mr. Hill quoted amid laughter. "Every discussion has something inserted in relation to gold and sil ver I am pretty well convinced that North Carolina is not going to be satisfied at the next election 1 think that either the Democratic ticket or the Republican ticket will be elected. I hope it will be the Democratic ticket . but I am in clined to believe, from the inconsis tent claims made here today, that it will be utterh impossible for either of the two great parties to gratify the fickle constituency of North Carolina." An interruption by Mr. Allen, Populist, of Nebraska, caused Mr. Hill to exclaim, with the Duko of Gloucester, ' 'another Richmond in the field." Loud laughter. I The colloquy between Mr. Hill, Mr. Allen and the two North Caro lina Senators was still going .on when the Vice President, at 2 p m, put a stop to it bo announcing the nnfiriahed business, the House bond bilLwh the finance committee free silver substitute therefor, and Mr. Morgan addressed the Senate in a speech in favor of the substitute. The 8p3ech was directed principally against Mr. Sherman's course both as Senator and as Secretary of the Treasury, adverse to the recognition of silver on an f quality with gold in the payment of the liabilities of the government. He spoke of Mr. Sherman in a sarcastic vein as the Napoleon of finance and predicted far him an approaching Waterloo and a relegation of a St. Helena. He charged him with having done all that could be dona to drive silver out of circulation and to deprive it of its bullien value. The Senator from Ohio, Mr. Morgan said, was the author of five measurss of fi nance that had given the people and the country more troublo in hand ling ahe $346,000,000 of greenbacks than they had had in paying twelye billions of appropriations and three billions of public debt. These meas ures were the demonetization of sil ver in 1873; the sequestration of the gold reserve in the Treasury in 1878; the power given to the Secretary of the Treasury in 1880 to preserve the parity between the metals ; the pow er to sell bonds at private sale, and the power to enable private persons by contract to dispense with the le gal tender laws in their transac tions. ! In a reference to the Rothschilds and Seligmans as princes of finance Mr. Morgan spoke sneeringly of the latter as "people who used 'to sell cheap clothing down in Alabama.1' He expressod his willingness to have greenbacks funded into gold bonds if silver certificates were iuued to take the place of the greenbacks in the volume of currency and and if the silver in the Treasury were coin ed for the redemption of those cer tificates. Mr. Morgan occupied two hours in reading his speech. The floor was then taken by Mr. Butler, of North Careiina, who will speak on the bill tomorrow. The Senate then, at 4:10 p m, ad journed until tomorrow after a short colloquy in which Mr. Chandler, Republican, of New Hampshire, re marked sarcastically that he had thought at one time of welcoming Mr. Hill to a Republican caucus, but that there was no hepe foi that now. "I am inclined to agree with you in that statement," Mr. Hill re plied. Ha Huded Him. There was an old negro floating in a skiff on the headwaters of the Licking. He was fishing fish mighty fine down that way. He had a boy in the boat with him who kept looking into the water until he lost his balance and disappeared in the water. Quicker than I could tell yon the old man hai his coat off and dove for the boy. He brought him up all right and than rowed for the bank. When they got out, drip ping, of course, a white man who had Bern the whole business compli mented the old man on hii heroic act. "He must be a son of yours," said the white man. "No; no, sah; nj son o' mine." "Nephew, then ?" "No; no, sah; no nephew." 'Cousin ?" f'No; no cousin." Then you deserve all the more credit for saving his life." r'Well, I doan know 'bout that, boss. You see, he had all the bait in his pockej State of Ohio, City oi To-) 1 lido Lucas County. f ss. Frank J. Cbkney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Chiniy & Co., doing businees in the City of Toledo, Coiunty and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each anl every case of Catarrh thai can not be cured bj the use of Hall's (Utarbh Cube. Frank j. Chknkt. Sworn to before me and subscrib- ed in mv presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON. j fiAL j- Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intern ally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Strad for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c Hall's Family Pills are the best. In China, if a man loses his per in public, he is liable to days' imprisonment. tern five j BbciIii's arnica Silvi. The best Salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all skin eruptions, and positively cures Piles, orj no pay required. It is guaran teed to give satisfaction, or money; refunded. : Price 25c per box. For sale by W. W. Scott Restores , Gray Hair to Natural Color "More than j t year ago, my hair began turning gray and falling out. Tho ugh J tried many reme dies for it, nothing 1 used satisfied me until I commenced to use mm Hair Vigor After using one bottle of this preparation, m to its natural mv hair was restored color, and ceased. falling out." -4 Mrs. HKRZMANN, New York, N. X, wy Ji. 68tb StJ Prevents Hair from Falling ok READ THIS I There are lot of people iu vicinity who this town and would appreciate a present more highly if it should be is some of onr Perfumes TpUet Artie les; Elegant China ware; Fine Sta- M I tionery or other handsome and use- f ul novelties which we have yery recently Jeceived Can't name prices you will have to see the goods i, to judge., whether prices and quality are so sure . are right. We that both are right that we cordially invite you to com- pare them. Freih. Drug's and Med icines received every week, wnicn. will at all j times be carefully and accurately- compound ed and dispensed at the DRUG STORE. SPECIAL NOTICE -TO 8AW-UILL HEN! 0 We are buvinsr for cash white pine, oak, poplar and ohestnut lumber delivered at Caldwell Mill, one mile from Lenoir, and also at Collettsville and Olivet on the line of tho Caldwell & Northern Railroad. We have a competent and reliable inspoo ' tor to take up the lumber as it is delivered in our yard, and it will be taken up at other points when 5,000 feet or more are ready. Wagon lumber will be in- ( speoted at the plant as it is un-J loaded and paid for in cash invv mediately. , . , :-: :,. , : OALDWELL LAND r AND LU1IBEB 00. n