Arx Independent Family Newspapers For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Affrioultural and Commercial Interests of the South
VOL. 9.
LINCOLNTON, N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1881.
NO! 661
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WHAT I LITE FOR.
I live for thoce who love me, -
Whose hearts are kind and true ;
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too ;
For all human ties that bind me,
For the task bv God assigned me,
For the bright hopes left behind me,
And the good that I can do.
I live to learn their story,
''Who've suffered for my sake,
To emulate their glory, -.'
And follow in their wake ;
5ards. patriots, martyrs, sages,
The noble of all ages,
Whose deeds crown history's pages,
And time's great volume make.
I live to hold communion
With all that is divine;
To feel there is a union
'Twixt Nature's heart and mine ;
To profit by affliction,
Reap truths from fields of fiction,
(irw wiser from conviction,
And fufilleucb grand design.
I live to hail that season,
By gifted minds foretold,
When man shall live by reason
And not alone by gold ;
When man to man united.
The wliolewoi Id shall be lighted
As Eden was of old.
1 live for those ivho love me,
For thos-e who love me true ;
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And iiwaits my spirit too ;
F or the cause that lacks assistance,
F r the wrong that needs resistance,
Ami the ou that I can do.
Temper.
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II:
ippy is lie who can command his
'temper even under trying circumstan
ces The evils wrought bv unbridled
tempers are beyond calculation. The
violent temper of a frelfukand irasci
ble man gives Ids friends much con
cern. His conduct, when under its
influence, renders him very uuamiable,
and, of course, greatly- diminishes
their regard for him. And this is not
all. If he has any real sensibility,
the emotions he feels are as painful
as those he causes in the breasts of
others. When the calm of retirement
succeeds to tbo bustle of company, his
solitary moments are embittered by
very mortifying reflections ; for it
has been well remarked, 'that anger
begins witb folly and ends with re
pentance. A few bitter words spoken
in a'nger mny rankle for a lifetime.
Self command, beside preventing their
,u i terra nee, enables us to maintain
the dignity of our nature as intelli
gent beings, establishing the empire
of reason over the passions. It ren-
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ders a person the master of himself
under all the various circumstances
of life; -in prosperity, cheerful with
out insolence ; and in adversity, re
. signed and calm without dejection.
It gives an effectual check to all the
vicious propensities of envy malice
and anger ; and in the same propor-
- lion as it restrains Ihem, it encoura
ges the growth of tbe virtues, pre
vents them from running into ex
tremes, and fixes their due bounds.
The longest drought that ever oc
enrred in America was in the summer
of 1762. N-. rain fell from the 1st of
May to the 1st of September. Many
of the inhabitants sent to England for
bay and grain. The dry spell in this
season has lasted three months.
To Cure Colic
For the violent internal agony
termed colic, take a teaftpobnful of
suit in a pint, of cold water; 'drink it
ad go to bed. It is one of the speed
iest remedies known. The same will
revive a person who seems almost
dead from a heavy fall.
One Woman's Idea of How to
Keep a Husband.
How to win a basband, has bother
ed many a woman, but bow to keep
him after the the winning has bothered
far more; and yet if a husband is wortb
winning, he certainly is worth keep
ing. 1 -have always had an idea that
I should like to write a book entitled,
'What 1 Know About Husbands.'
But there are difficulties attending
the task, not the least of which is the
danger of impressing the public mind
with a suspicion that there may have
been a-plurality of husbands, when I
assure you, dear reader one husband
will afford an ample opportunity for
the study of tbe species as though he
were a hydraheaded animal. Not
that all men are alike by any means,
but all husbands require very similar
kinds of treatment, subject to sundry
modifications of time, place, and mode
of application. Why women in -the
main do not give this question the
serious attention it demands I can
not understand, for they could save
themselves man' heartbreaks and the
world many sneers if the would as
practically apply their intellects to
the problem of how to manage bus
bands, as the' do to the acquiring of
any other knowledge.
1 am not going into the old ques
tion of smiling welcomes tidy cost
umes, dainty dinners, uniform amia
bilities, and such sweet considerations,
they are supposed to equalize the
uneven surface of men's perverseness.
On tLe contrary, I believe that wives
as a rule have lost too much of their
individuality by this eternal and gen-,
erous ' .outpouring of concentrated
sweetness. Too much of anything
creates satiety, and sugar palls the
taste much sooner than vinegar. Be
sides, men's life is a game of pursuit,
and they do not waste their powder
and'sboi on hens and barnyard fowels;
they prefer the vanity of wild hunt
and the excitement of choosing where
the prize is marked uncertainty.
Wives, never iet your husbands know
vour thoughts' : never allow anv one
whose love you .wish to retain to feel
that, like a finished book, you have
given forth -all your attraction, and
are ready to be closed and laid on the
shelf with others of your kind. Always
keep in reserve a new chapter, so that
the volume shall remain unfinished
even w hen the binding fs old, and the
reader himself -worn and weary. Do
you not suppose that men appreciate
the value of a little mystery, and that
half their attractiveness to us women
is the varied.life they lead of which
we are believed to know so little ?
Women before they are wives are un
certain, capricious, and coy enough ;
why should they change the very bait
that lured their captive.'
A husband is the nicest thing in
the world, if you choose to think so
and keep him so. In the first place,
he must think he is having his own
way, and that you are- permitting it ;
not because of any fear of him, or of
any fawning love for him, but because
you are convinced he is the best judge
ot ins own atiairs, and, irom your
knowledge of bis character, you have
the most implicit and unvarying con
fidence in him. This is the most sub
tle ot flattery and though the dear
one may know he is flattered, he lit
tle dreams that you know he is flat
tered. Say you and herein lies
deceit not so; it is but the keeping
bright of a golden treasure, that
would tarnish if neglected.
Some men love to feel themselves
very autocrats in the eyes of their
wives; so, it is well to assume a help
lessness and dependence which you
have not, and which will, if you have
it not, never interfere with your natu
ral dignity in their eyes. Nine times
out of ten a little woman full of help
iessness and clinging, tenderness- will
win a man when a self-reliant, self
asserting female will fail ; and it does
seem as if these subordinate little
creatures know just how to rule, a
man. But there is a method in'their
madness that does not spring from
ignorance of tbe power.of their weak
ness If a man is jealous, give him
no cause to doubl you, and so establish
his nerfect conhdence. Ibis is one
T . , ... ;
trait in a husband's character, bow
ever, that is beyond all others difficult
to manage, because jealousy though it
may sleep profoundly, never really
dies, but awakens at the slightest
touch with redoubled folly; and un
reasoning misery. A fault-finding ill
tempered husband is cursed with bis
own medicine, given in well-selected !
doses and dignified quantities. One I
of a curious turn of mind gives you a
power that is incalculable, for to hold
a secret over an inquisitive man will
endow you not only with the value of
the secret, but the satisfaction in the
telling of it, which has almost the
same effect upon the humor that a
good dinner has upon the stomach.
xue man wno is ionu or oeauty
must have it in his wife, or all else
fails her. Even beauty, if 6be has it,
must be adorned , but this is no hard.
ship for any woman, so I will not
dilate upon it. The truth is, dear
wives, a husband must bo studied tbe
same as any other lesson, and it re-
mains with yourselves whether the
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task conouers vou. or ron the tHsk:
Some one has said that women are
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born martyrs, and I believe they are ;
but that is no reason why they should
remain so. We are all born babies
or that matter, and yet we outgrow
babyhood in spite of this slate of at-
airs at the dawn of our existence.
'All's fair in love and war' and
surely in marriage are both, and there-
ore a double excuse exists for using
any available means to make fewer
martyrs in the world.
We live in wicked times, and must
not expect to find perfect mortals,
vv e must, iaKe our man just as be is,
not as he ought to be, and live to meet
his defects with intelligence and pru-
dence, not antagonism and fault-find-1
ng. The chain of matrimony that J
betrays its weight is galling enough,
and if we never felt its check no cynic
wouid have dared to say, 'Marriage is
the sepclehre ot love.'
But to sum up my receipt for mar-
.
led happiness, let me add that it is
of man's weakness a wife has to treat,
Having discovered all these, and found
an antidote ior eacn, she holds the
keynote to her own and husband's
lappiness. it any man knows a bet
ter receipe than I have tried to pre
sent, women, 1 know, will bo glad to
receive it
Brother Uardner on the Kevised
'I take pleasure an' satisfaction,'
Miiid the President mm h held nn
parcel, 'in inforiiiatin' vou a worthy
citizen of Detroit, who does not car'
to have his name menshun'd, has pre-
nio.l iw i-Mviwi ,wiiwhiin of t ha
Bible to do Lime kiln Club. We do
not open our meetin's wid praver, nor
do we close by siugiu' the doxology,
but ncberdeless I am shuah dis trift
will be appreshiated by all. Dar has
been cousiduble talk in dis club about
-
dis revised edishun. Some of you have
got the ideah dat purgatory has all
been wiped out an' heaben enlarged
twice ober, an' I have heard odders
assert dat it didti't forbid lyin'. stcalin'
and passin' off bad money. My
friends, vou are sadly mistaken. Hell
is just as hot as ebber, an' heaben
hasn't got any mo' room. In lookin'
ober some of de chanires las' niffnt I
selected out a few paragraphs which
hab a gineral b arm'. Fur instance,
it am jist as Wicked to steal watcrmel-
lyons as it was las y'ar or de yar be
for' an' de skeercer de erap de bigger
de wickedness.
'No change has bin made in regard
to loafin' aroun' de streets. De loafer
am considered jist as mean an low as
eber he was, an' I want to add my be-
lief dat he will grow meaner in public
estimasbun all de time.
(De ten commandments am nil down
heah widout change. Stealin' an'
lyin' an' rundin' out nights am con-
sidered jist as bad as eber.
'I can't find any paragraph in which
men am excused from payin deir
debts and snpportin' deir fam'lies.
'I can't fin' wbar a poo' man or a
poo' man's wife, white or black, am
'speeted to sling on any particular
style.
'Dog fights, chicken liftiD', polytics,
playin' keerds far money, an hangin'
aroun fur drinks, an' all sum low bis-
ness am considered meatier dan eber.
tact is, I can t fin any change what-
ober which lets up on a . man from
bein' plumb up' an down; equar an
honest wid de world. Dey have
changed de word 'Hell' to 'Hades,' but
at de same time added to de strength
of de brirastun an de size of de git,
and we want too keep right on in de
Btraight path if we wpuia avoid, it.
Doan' let any white man make you
believe dat we s lost any gospel by
di TOvisionor dat Peter or Paul or
Moses hab undergone any change of
sperrit regardin de ways of libin' re-
spectably an' dyin' honorably. Free
Press.
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Aunt Susan's Suggestions to a
Fretful Wife.
'Hester !' exclaimed Aunt Susan.
ceasing her rocking and' knitting, and
Bitting upright. 'Do you know what
your husband will do when you are
dead ?
'What do vou mean ?' was tbe
startled reply.
He will raarrv the sweetest-tem-
pored girl be can find.'
0h. auntie!' Hester becan.
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'Don't interrupt me until I've finish-
rf iA ia..n;nn. k,.i, 1
v, uunaiii 1 1 t-fc 1 1 i 1 1 &l vablk
and taking up her knitting; 'She
may not be as pretty as you are, but
she will be good-natured. She may
nnt hn n
are ; in fact, I think not,1h.u"t she will
bo good-natured. She manpt even
love him as well as von do; but hH a
will be good natured.'
'Why, auntie'
Tbat isn't all,' continued Aunt
Susan. 'Every dav vou live vou are
making voiir husband more and more
n iov with that good natu red woman,
who may take your place some day.
After Mr. and Mrs. Harrison left you
the other night, the only remark he
made about them was: 'She is a
sweet woman.'
.. 'Oh, auntie '
'That isn't all,' composedly continu-
cd Aunt Susan. 'To-day your hus-
band was half way across the kitch-
en floor, bringing you the first ripe
i . - -
peaches, and all you did was to look
on and eay : 'There, Will, just see
vour tracks on mv clean floor ! T
won't have my floor all. tracked up !'
Some "men - wbuld fiave throwrt ihe
peaches out of the wfffdow. To-day
yOu screwed up your face when he
kissed you, because his mustache was
damp, aud said, 'I never want you to
kiss me again. When he empties
anything you tell him not to spill it ;
when he lifts anvthins? vou tell him
notjo break it. From morning until
'"got your sharp voice is heard com-
plaining and tault-tindini;. And last
winter, when you were so sick, you
scolded him about his allowing the
PumP to freeze, and took no notice
wnen nc saia : i was so anxious
about you that i did not thiuk of the
PumP
lt, auntie
Miarken, child. ibe strongest
i . ... ... :.
and most intelligent ot them all care
W010 for a woman's tenderness than
for anything else in the world, and
without this the" cleverest and most
perfect housekeeper is sure to lose
her "usbana s anection in time, mere
mav be a few more men like your
Willas gentle, as loving, as chival
r0U8 as forgetful of self, and so satis
fied with loving that their affections
w,, die a long, struggling death ; but
111 mo8t c"86 11 lake Dut n Iew vears
of FreUalne and tault fanding to turn
a husband's love into irritated indif
ference.'
'But, auntie
'Yes, well ! you are not dead yet,
and that sweet-tempered woman has
not been found -r so you have time to
become so serene and sweet that your
husband Can- never imagine that there
i a better tempered woman in exis-
tence.'
I Mustard Plaster.
i
By using syrup or molasses for
mustard plasters, they will keep' soft
and flexible, and not dry up and be-
come hard, as when mixed with
water. A thin paper, or fine cloth
should come between tbe plaster and
j the skiu. The strength of the plaster
is varied by the addition of more or
less flour.
Wftgon Wheels.
When tbe paint gets off the rims of
the, best wagon wheels, they lose
moisture and shrink very fast in dry
weather. The .quickest -preventive is
a mixture of petroleum and linseed
oil applied to the felloes with a brush,
several times over, where they are
dry.
j Stove lustre, when mixed with tur-
j pentine and applied in tbe usual man-
ncr,is macKer ana -more giousy ana
durable than if put on with any other,
liquid. The turpentine prevents rust.
and when put on an old rusty stove
will make it look as well as new. The
odor of the turpentine, passes off.
quickly.
"What a Nose !"
Not many years ago, in the village
of Eatonton, Georgia, a man made bis
appearance and stopped at the tavern.
He was possessed of a most remark
able nose, which almost raonoplized
his entire face red, Roman, enor
mous ; it was such a noso as is only
seen once in a lifetime. So great a
show was it that it attracted univer
sal attention. The' glances cast at it
and the remarks made about it had
owner somewhat sensitive upon the
i - .
8U jeci
A;-V half crown
egro . boy
wa8 summoned
by the proprietor
to carry his baggage to his room.
Cuffee was "much taken with hisnbso.
As he came out" of the room unable
to contain himself longer, he exclaim
ed 'Golly, what a nose !'
Our traveler overheard him and
went to his master with bis demand
for his punishment.
Cuffee was called up, and at tbe
suggestion of somo bystanders, let off
on condition that he would apologize
. This he
readily agreed to do. Walking to
the room where our traveler was, and
touching bis hat and humbly bowing
he said -
'Jlassa, you ain't got no nose at all.
Handsomely Taken In.
Captain Archibald Western was a
noble specimen of a fine old Ameri
can gentleman. lie kept the hand-.
somest horsds and owned the best es
tate in all the country, and his heart
iness of manner aud cordiality of sonl
made him beloved and honored by
the constituenta tgm he had re
peatedly represented in the
). But Cap
tain Archibald had, like all other
men, his-week points, and sometimes
he would meet an unscrupulous neigh
bor who would jiot hesitate for a mo
ment, if opportunity offered , to turn
them to his advantage. One hot day
as he was returning homeward from
a visit to a distant field with a heavy
new overcoat which he had taken
with him in anticipation of rain, fold
ed across his arm, he -overtook a
young sallow faced man, who was
walking in the same direction, and
accosted him with
"Here, Jim, you just, carry my
coat along a little way, until we
reach my gate.'
Much to his astonishment Jim
made not a word of objection, but took
tbe coat and walked along aside him
in silence. Pretty soon, however,
his pace slackened and he began to
lag a little behind.
'Hallo," said the Captain, 'if you
can't walk faster than that, I'll take
the coat myself.'
'Why, you see, sir,' said Jim, apolo
getically, 'I've just come from the
fever hospital and 1 ain't Very strong
yet. 1 reckon you'd better carry it.'
'The fever hospital!' shouted the
captain, who entertained a holy hor
ror of all contagious diseases. "Did
you say that you came from tbe fever
hospital?'
To be sure I did,' said Jim ; and
his eye twinkled mischieviously : 'I
came out this morning. Here's your
coat, sir..
'Keep off! keep off!' cried Captain
Weston, his fat frame quivering with
excitement. 'If you come near me,
I'll knock you down. The fever hos-
pital ! you rascal ; why didn't you
tell me before ? Don't you touch me
Take that coat away ! Burn' it, sir.
Never come near me again. O, Lord,
O, Lord, what if I've caught the fever.
Be off, you villian, be off!' Poor Jim
took to his heels with thecoat,and the
captain hurried home to dose himself.
The best of the joke, however, was
that Jim bad not been inside of the
hospital, at all having only wajked
there to carry a basket of eggs for
tbe doctor's wife. But tbo captain
never saw the coat again, and he has
never to this day, heard the last of
"that fever."
Most persons, when tbey come in
from tbe rain, put their umbrellas in
the rack with handle upward. ,They
should put it downward, because
when the handlo upward the water
runs down inside to the place where
the ribs are joined to tbe handle, and
cannot get out ; but stays rotting the
cloth and rusting the metal until slow-
ly dried away. The wire securing ,
the ribs soon rusts and breaks. If
placed tbe other end up tbo water
readily runs off.
A Yankee in the Smith Family.
Well, I put up with it firrt-ratc,
a good natured fellow that I met
at a billiard table. I went in and
was introduced to his wife, a fine, fat
woman looking as though she lived
on laflfin, her face was so full of fan.
After a while afier we'd talked
about ray girl, and about the weather
in come three or four children, lafBn'
and skipping as merry as crickets.
There was no candle lit, but I could
see tbey were fine looking fellows,
and I started for my saddlebags, in
which I bad put a lot of sugar candy
for the children "as I went alonjr.
'Come, here,' said I, 'you little
rogue; Come here and tell me what
your name is.' The oldest camo to
me and says : "My name is Peter
Smith.' 'And what's your name, sir?'
'Bob Smith.' The next said his name
was Bill Smith, and the fourth said bis
name was Tommy Smith. I gave
'em sugar candy, and old Mrs. Smith
was to tackled that she laughed all
the time.Mr. Smith looked on but didn't
say much.' Why,' says I, 'Mrs. Smith,
1 would not -take a good deal for them
four boys, If I. had 'em tbey aro so
beautiful and sprightly.' 'No,' said
she, laffin', I set a good deal on 'em'
but we spoil 'cm too much.' -No, no,'
saysl, 'they're well behaved children
and by gracious,' says I, pretending
to be startled by a striking resem-,
blance betwejn the boys and the fa
ther, and I looked at Mr. Smith; I
never did see anything equal it,' says
I, 'your own eyes, mouth, forehead
and perfect picture of hair, srr," tap
ping the oldest on the pate. I
thought Mrs. Smith would have died
laffin' at that, her arms fell down by
her side, and she shook the whole
house laffin'. 'Do you think so, Col.
Jones," said she, looking toward Mrs.
Smith, and I thought she'd go off in
a fit. 'Yes,' says I, 'I do really.' 'Haw
haw, haw !' says Mrs. Smith, kind o'
half laffin', 'you are too hard on mo
now with your jokes.' 'I ain't jokin'
at all,' says I, "they arc handsomo
children and do look wonderfully like
you.' Just then a gal brongbf a light
in, and I'll be darn'd if the little
brats didn't turn out to be niggers,
every one of 'em! and their heads
was curly all over ! Mr. and Mrs.
Smith never had any children,and sort
o' petted them niggers as play things.
I never felt so streaked as I did
when I found out how thingt
stood. If 1 hadn't kissed the nasty
things, I could a got over it ; but
kissing 'em showed I was in airnest.
A Scheme to Encourage Wedlock.
At the next meeting of the Ontario
Legislature application will be made
for the incorporation of the National
Marriage Dowery Association. The
object of the promoters of the scheme
is in all probability to make money,
but the result of that quest of money
will undoubtedly be to encourage the
man and the maid to wed. The soci
ety first began its operation in Indi
ana, and is casting its benevolent arms
over tbe bachelors and spinsters in
other StateSjTerritories andProvinces.
In the words of the circular, the as
sociation is established "to encourage
lawful wedlock, to promote economy,
to endow homes and to make married
life the end and aim of the rich and
poor alike.' The scheme is as follows:
Supposing John Smith, on the 13th
day of August, cast his- lot in with
this association. He pays, in tbo
first place, $5 for bis certificate, and a
semi annual payment thereafter of 1.
In case some of bis co-insurers' marry
and there not being sufficient funds in
the Treasurer's bands to pay the sum
to which tbe newly married man is en
titled, an assessment of 81 is levied
all round. These are tbe payments
to which he is liable. Tbe benefits
are that should be marry on the 13th
of August, 1882, he is entitled to $200.
Should his marriage not occur for five
years, he would been entitled to $1,000
and so on. We don't suppose that la
dies are excluded from the association
It's a grand scheme. Any young
lady who was known to have one of
the certificates would be the observed
of all observers, and the admired of
all admirers. At church and market
places she would not want for swains.