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THE OLD-TIME SUGAR MELON.
They're fannin, now by science ain't
like it us.-rt to be ;
The cotton's xrowin' ilifTrun, an' the
corn's ahead o' me ;
An' the melons ain't as juicy in the coun
try roun' about.
For they've raised 'em an' they've raised
'em till they've raised the sweet
ness out !
They grow 'em uow for shipin'; they
pack 'em in the trains,
An' send 'em off to cities 'crost the moun
tains an' the plains
To "advertise judiciously," use the
rotumiia f Thk Robksonian. It is pub-
lulifdin one of the Vive and growm They call 'em "Kolb," an' "Jones." an
ittwua of North Carolina and circulates
Mtenaivtly ntnonjr an intelligent and
prost.crous people, whose trade is well But
wvrth aerking nd having.
'George" they've named 'em, big
an' small ;
the old-time sngar-melon was the
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Thar warn 't .no style about it. It growed
thar in the dew,
An' turned its green sides temtin'ly to
sunshine an' to you;
But for these new-fangled melons it was
more than any match
'Twas sunny-sweet an' honey-sweet the
pick of all the patch!
When the hot sun was a blazin in the
white sky overhead
An you found a cool fence corner, an' you
ripped into its red,
An' the sweet juice was a-drippui' from
your Barlow's rusty blade
You talk of honev-sinpin'. 'twas the
sweetest ever made!
Ain't nothin now kin beat itl They may-
raise 'em fur and free;
They may call 'em "Stonewall J ickson,"
"Sam Jones" or "Robert Lee;"
But I'll tell 'em plain an' even though
the v 're liable to doubt
That they've named 'em an' reclaimed
'em till they've drained the sweet
ness out.
I don't keer whar they come from Ken
tucky, Tennessee,
The old red hills of Georgia wharever
they may be!
An' I don't keer what they call 'em, or if
they're big or small
The old-time sugar melon was the sweet
est of 'em aUl
F. L. Stanton
FOUND IN THE DARK.
BY BARAK PITT.
"Wako tip, Dicky, quick; Iv'
got something to show you."
Dickv pliffhtlv moved ln.3 neat.:
j - ij
She trudged away with her has- many as touched Him were made
et tonight with a blithe heart: whole."
mt scrap of blue paper colored Min sat bolt upright, staring at
10 whole horizon. Sunday had the platform, a sudden purpose
lways beon a bit different from flashing into her mind. If ever
is rest of the week, but Sunday that Good Shepherd came anyway
with a good breakfast for theml near their p.it.v nurl TT a wwif .r
joth was something of which Bhe villages, cities, and country, the
;iad had little personal experience book said well, when He did, she
ntherto. Close at hand, too ; it would take Dicky to Him ' to be
was Saturday night now nay, by be made whole, too. Dicky was
the time she crept up the long the one joy and anxiety of Min's
flight of stairs to her corner of the life -to keep him out of harm's
attic it was Sunday morning, and way, to keep up his reputation
behoved hor to get to sleep among his neighbors, who openly
quickly, in order to be ready for spoke of him as half-witted. She.
the feast. would tell none of them what she
Sunday morning in the quiet, re- meant to do, but she would watch
pectable streets, wherp only an and find out when the time came ;
occasional church bell broke the-.-and the stranger would help Dicky
tillness, where the people passed also, she felt sure.
dacidly by on their way to the The room was nearly empty.
iffereut churches, were not the Min slipped .off her bench; she
Sunday of Min's quarter. There scarcely gave a thought to the sad
the unwashed, half -clad mengath- dening fact that the breakfast was
ered in knots at the street corners, all over and done with. The hor-
to lounge away the time till their izon was blue still with a hope that
wives got breakfast ready. Tribes dwarfed even the memory of the
of dirty children camped out by tea and rolls.
the gutters, and quarrelled over "Dickv. were you listening to
their crusts ; wet, ragged garments what that man was saying?" she
flapped from the windows, where began, as soon as they were out on
they were suspended to dry. Near the pavement.
the end of one of the better streets "Aye."
stood a small stone building, in no It was
wise distinguishable from its neigh
bors, except for a notice above the
door, "The Sunday Morning Free
Breakfast."
Inside, on one of t he back bench-
was one thing to make up her
own mind that she would look out
elsewhere quite another to know
fit last, and
treet, she added, after, a rapid up the broad stem. The door was
consideration of the case; "would cioaed now but. lights Btill glim.
you speak a word for me if they mered through the stained win-
anted a character?' dow9- don,t kno if He3 in
"I'll do that," was the answer. 8jde or not." confessed Min. in her he give9
You've always done your work utter ignorance of the wavs of this In sPeech at Concord last
well enough here." fnrmimt- w si WoKeek, where he spoke to a crowd
So Min got off early, Saturday and wait Dickv we'll be in the
night though it was ; by 7 o'clock riglt piace wien Ho doe3 come,
she was speeding to Main street. "We must wait natientlv.Dickv:
'It was an awful-way," as she had ht's the first time we've ever had a
observed to Dicky, and through a chance to see Him. I don't know
mrt of the town ahe-had scarcely L-hat jt'8 eoin to belike, exactly.
ever traveled before ; but Min came but we'll inst eefc close un to Him.
back from the expedition' with a and it will all come right then."
oyful heart, for she had got the Dickv's "Ave" was not forth-
situation. A shilling a whole Comin this time, but he smiled ai9Plea9uro ot the boS3 and wa9
shilling more a week it meant, be- , "w v,Qfni fna Qia denounced therefor before his
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ides the hope cf casual windfalls that fitirrPd Min's heart straneelv. home people.
in the way of over-ripe fruit or FiPWfl,sn near getting well now. Kestler can talk, however, and
stale vegetables that. would fill up it 6eeraed to her that the coming
many a vacancy. ' -ov alref,dv Bbadowed out in it.
his usual response, but
Min could always translate it to
mean exactly what was necessary
"Of course you were ; well, Dicky,
I'm going to look out for this Good
Shepherd and get Him to make
es. sut Min aud Dicky, each with you well. I shall take you to Him
as soon as ever I can find out where
He is. You're not very ill, but it
would be more cheery if you could
talk to other people a bit when
wasn't here, wouldn't it?"
"Aye."
"But vou needn't go and tel
Dickey's were anybody what we're going to do
vy as if he were they might laugh at us, and it'
a well packed paper bag of provis
ions and a mug of steaming tea.
There was little conversation it
was not the time for it with all
that bread and butter on hand
but Min's eyes traveled' up and
down dilligently, missing very lit
tle that went on
as dull and n
1 X. r. K 111 11 -li 1 , I
inn iie wouia oe omiged.toao n. quite so far to go.
Heard ot a nlace out Main wi, i.:. i
I k-ij null iiiric
carry hers alone. She wondered """" urcu -":r-
if any of them could have found Senator Butler is engaged in a
it ouite so hard, or could have had s peecli making tour ot the btate,
in which it is said some scorching
language is used. But the crafty
Senator is not having it all his
own way. Others can talk and
Mr. Butler occasionally gets some
of the same kind of medicine that
of about two hundred, Butler be
gaii his tirade of abuse against
the newspapers and finally touch
ed up G. Ed Kestler, a local Pop
ulist leader. Kestler was one of
the most active middle-of-the-roaders
last fall and led the fight
for a straight Populist national
ticket. . In this he incurred the
The frozen streets wore a differ-
She put her head down beside his,
nis opinion ot liutier was given
later, vv nen asfced by a corres
pondent of the Charlotte Observer
what he thought of the speech
Kestler said :
"Yoy may say for me that
have heard candidates and defeat
ed dead-ducks quack before. His
abuse of me becauso I led the mid
dle-of-the-roaders last fall in fa-
i i i,t i
ent iook going oacK, and tne gas- and waited waited. Ah, surely
amps made a lovely glitter on the it waa the Good Rhenherd himself
frosted windows. At a corner that came by that night., and gath
where four roads met. stood
' I Ui uvi ill runt? iiwiiv-J iiutiu iumU)
ighted church with a broad flight and made him whole forever.
of stone steps up to the open door. Confused, giddy and aching in
At the foot of the steps was a cart everv nmb. Min opened her eves
laden with evergreen and flowering ju be rev down. She was in the vormg a straight Populist nation
plants, that two men were busily church itself among the lights and a ticket and would not help him
carrying up. flowers strange faces all around sel1 out the 27 to the Demo'
Min stood still and watched the ber. Only one of them had a fa- cratSj shows him to be a gentleman
proceedings with great interest ; mji iar i00k tne ciersyman who without character, a traitor to the
her mind was freer now for sight- had read out the story in tne Mia. People's party and a political pros
seeing, and thejwarm light stream- sion Hall was it months or vears tltule- tLo may caU tor Peace
ing through the open door was al- Lo-o? peace,' in the Populist ranks, and
She tried to stand up, but it was vilifY middle-of-the-road leaders
,-,nao- i,or f00f coamCii in bmro who are on to his ignoble schemes
11V VIUV J UV. UUU1UVU W I
lost their power. "Is Dicky whole to destroy our party, but ther
now? Did the Good Shepherd CU1 be 110 peace until this recog
crimson curtain ; it was drawn up COme?" she cried out sharply; nized traitor is buried in the mire
on one side, and Min could see "we've waited all night for Him." of his own trickery. He has been
right up the great building. Lights For a minute no one answered ; repudiated by the Populists all
burned softly here and there like then the clergjmian put his hand over the Union and a gentleman
clusters of stars ; great sheaves of on jier shoulder will perform the duties of national
shining laurel and pine filled every "Tho rrWl Shprdimvl .lid enmp chairman. Almost every State
Dicky has gone away with Him,
and he i3 whole now."
Min has grown wiser since then,
and the friends she found there
have taught her the meaning of
most equal to a nreside ot one s
own. She stole up the steps and
peeped cautiously in.
Across the entrance hung a heavy '
two persons were killed in that
reck and the bill of indictment
charges Hand and Shepherd with
the murder of Hugh K. Leinster,-
of Statesville, one of the victima
of the wreck. Both are white men,'
and both are now serving terms inf
the penitentiary. Hand was sent'
to the penitentiary from Irdell in
1892 (fox burglary, we under-1
stand), and Shepherd waa sent up
for manslaughter from Alexander
ounty in the same year or soon
thereafter. We havon't learned
when their terms expire, but when
ever they are discharged from tho
.penitentiary they will be brought
to Iredell to be tried for the offense
with which they are charged.
"It will be recalled that th rail-;
road company always maintained
that the horrible disaster at Boa
tian'a bridge was due to the work
of train wreckers, and had one or
more persons arrested for having;
caused tho wreck. They were never
able to make out a case, however,
and the general public never ac-'
cepted their theory of the wreck.
We do not know the nature of th
evidence againt Hand and SherA'
herd and consequently are unabler
to give an opinion of it, but it waa
of sufficient importance to cause
the grand jury to find a bill, and
this in itself makes tho case 0110-of
importance."
corner. Far away to the end was
a large white wreath of waxen hot
house flowers, above a perfect bank
Prctice in all the courts of the State,
rrimi'rt and painstaking attention given
to all legal business. tf
T. X. MCNEILL. A. W. MCI.EAX.
McHEILL & MCLEAN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Office in Shaw Building up stairs,
North Corner,
2UMBERT0X, - - N. C.
Practice in State and Federal Courts.
Prompt attention given to all
legal business.
N. A. MCLEAN,
Attorney At Law,
LUMBERTON, N. C.
All kinds of legal business at
tended to anywhere.
still up in his solitary attic. our business, not theirs."
"It's fine in here, isn't it?" ejac- There was not the slightest fear
ulated his sister, with a sigh of cf Dickey even remembering any
satisfaction, when the empty bags thing to tell, but Min resolutel
were all that remained of the feast, discoursed to him as a rational and
"I wender if we ought to go away I exceedingly sensible person; and,
from the window ledge at the sound now. e ll see what the rest do. after all, it is not so much what a ot icathcry tenia. People were
of Min's eager voice, but he did "Aye," from Dicky. Min look- person has, but what he thinks he moving noiselessly about with flow-
not take the trouble to open his about her again. A clergyman has, that makes up the sum total, ers in their hands ; from somewhere
eves until fho had shaken and had come m ana was standing up it satisfied her, and that was tne out ot sight came the deep swelling
propped him upright. to speak on a low plattorm at the chief point. notes 01 organ music. Ao one saw
"What's the matter?'-' he asked, other end of the room. It was the very outset of the or heeded the little ragged figure without a long look at the place
in a dull, grating whisper. Some- "My friends, we are going to winter when that first free break- at the door, staring in with misty where, in blind faith, she and
thing was wrong with tho boy's have a very short service now, and fast took place the first? it was eyes at the fairest sight she had picity once waited thrush that
mouth ; he never spoke unless he we would line ior you to stay 101 aiso the last, at least 111 that par- ever seen or dreamed ot. bleak winter night for the coming
was obliged. it if you possibly can, he said, ticular quarter ; there was an un- 'jow, then, you musn t block 0f tue Great Healer.
Vf n ttr t T.nnk nt. this." Min "Just a hymn or two and a read- expected collapse in the funds, and kip the road here!" It was the
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held out a scrap of bluo paper, ing we will not keep you long." the charity was absored into a man coming-up behind her with a
"That means a lovely breakfast Some people on their bench had week-day soup kitchen, at some fresh load of greenery ; he did not
for both of us, at the Mission Hall, got up to go, disregarding the in- considerable distance too far to speak illnaturedly, and Min look-
n '1.1'... t: i . : 1 1 .4- I 1 i T-v- i :t r- i 1 1 , j j- 1,4. .,.. ,..,
tomolTOW morning. One Ot thO Vliation. llcivjiuiTOimuiwuiv gui tase UlGKy, even 11 ium uuu uecu eu up au mm im an cugci nuca
ladies cave it me herself: and there up with them. Then he glanced able to spare the time from her tion
is coins to be a breakfast every uneasily at Min, who sat still. crockery basket. "What is it? What are they all
Sunday or two all the winter, so "Sit down," she whispered au- "The Good Shepherd has not doing?
we may get another sometime, per- thoritatively. "I don't think it's come yet, Dicky," she said, rather "What is it 1 why, a church, of
hapa," very good manners to go directly sorrowfully, one night nearly two course, and they're getting it ready
Dickv manifested some interest you've eaten up their nice things, months later, as she tucked up the for Christmas
. . . . T : i. ) It..i l.J I." 11. 1 I IIT . J4- 'Unf.-nn '
at the mention of the hot break- Anyway, 1 m going lo a top. nttie iaa 011 ms miiwew, iubvwww utouk
faBt but it lapsed as Min went on So, for the sake of politeness, curled herself up beside him for "Well, you might have done;
nrpecknt.-1 t,h ft two keT)t their seats, though Inn a of their talks, as she called I it's been here lone enough the
w 1LU iiui ca uuiiauivm I"" 1 v 1 1 ' 1 '
lv he nnietlv settled his head down empty benches before and behind them, one-sided though they were. Church of the Good Shepherd
on the lede again. testified to the lack of that feature 'I've looked at all the bills on the The man passed on up the aisle
"Yoa "snirl Min looking down in many of the visitors. The hymn I walls, and found out what every I with his burden. Min stood still,
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ii.,.i,fii,r . "U'li id nr two wore snuff ratner nativ. anu it.t e crowd in T.ne street was ior; with a iace iiiai uau kiohu buu
I I I I I I I MM ' 1 I11IV . 1 tJ 11 FJV " " " v"- n mi I - ' 1 - '
has set him aside as a traitor and
almost every Populist newspaper
is loud in denouncing him. He
can manage by his paper and sal
ary as Senator, that was gotten
They Fanned.
Wilmington Star.
The editor of thcjAugusta, Ga.
Chronicle speaks of having met
Mr. J. II. Manning of Little Rock,
Marion county, S. C, a practical'
farmer who in twenty years has-'
never failed to make money farm-'
ing. Mr Manning is forty years
old and has spent hi3 life on a
farm. He began with fifty acres
of cotton and now plants 350 acres
in cotton and 250 in corn oats and
peas. He can make ends meet, he
says, on five-cent cotton and make:'
money on seven cent cotton, and
the reason is because he raises not
only all the home supplies he-
needSjbut more than he needs and
some to sell. There are a good?
many of that kind of farmers
the Kew Testament story; but trom tne "epuoiicans Dy iaise pre- 9cattered through thd South.
she never passes by the stately tenses, to work up his schemes in They are in Georgia, South Carq-
church where the four roads meet this State for awhile, but sooner lina Korth Carolina and in other
or later the honest people will states, and among them are men
learn that of all slick-tongued who started witli nothing but braia
demagogues that ever fooled our uerve and industry not many yaarifc
people Butler takes the cake. ago wi10 are today hidependont
Some day the people will know But they farmed. They used brain
they have been humbugged by this a3 Well as muscle, studied their.
.j: 1 1 nr : . . . . ..... .
prince 01 uumuuggeij. is uuw business, cultivated an acquaint
campaigning for re-election as tance with the land they worked
Senator. 1 have no apologies to an(j the crons thev srrew and thua
I at
ALFRED ROWLAND.
ROWLAND
ATTORNEYS AT
L I'M BURTON,
J. A. ROW'tASD.
& SON,
LAW,
N. C.
something for him to think about, very much out of time and tune, if He'd been here I'm certain I'd denly scarlet.
ur T drn't. think T'll take him out and then the clergyman opened a have heard about it." She had found it at last ; tound
Butler's Mission.
Charlotte Obaorver.
Senator Butler, disowned, des-
CA J 1 xviVVAy. hjj wis . . . i . . .... . . . 1
1 I ,-eiirr I ; . i in. mrr in 11 IT nil TV! ha n-Qir j , 1 1 i 1 . l F 1 i 1
the nation at large, hated by iUi x" ? .. "J S01 ine oesi rB9Uua oul 01 oum
' 1.,- A-vrj-v-M-ltlvy-vKr-t-!!- fat m T ti tl AIIO I I "l I mi . . . 1
iu uvciimunmg uowuuuj 0ese men raise crops ana wiuie
and this is the reason ot his fresh they are doing it improve the land'
abuse. I am on the executive com- and raise large and better crops
mittee of the N. P. P. A. and at at comparatively less expense, and..
Memphis helped to storm the Nash- thus get more for theit - labor-.-,
ville meeting of which this sneak- Raisillg their own supplies they
inn A o ffAmm -n a nn f onmowTiPrfi t i i l I
he is personally in peril. Hence 1 , T i luuepenueu. um. wj
his campaigning so long before an outside the pale of Populism and out their plang aud grow their
LOO O Uin 'l.inniTi I .f him 1-11111 I i ! A J 1. J.
ueutc ma .id3u. jjoumiuuv..., crops wiinouu going imp ueui w
but I'll be dad-gummed if he don't a0 it- That's th& secret oC thfeiaj
meet his Waterloo in North Caro- SUCcess. Any man who pursue
lina as he has met it in every oth- these methods, can succeed on the..
er State in the Union. The Peo- farm.
pie's party of this State is not a
set of such tricksters as Butler.
ty in
his former adherents with a bitter
ness that cannot find words to ex
press itself, is seeking to bolster
up his waning fortunes by an at
tempt to maintain his grip on his
own State where he also sees that
election is even in sight". Knowing
of his special talents in the way
of fooling tho people, he is seeking
to bring these gifts into play in
the Populist mind. His lonely
campaign at this time is a con
fession of weakness on his part
I with me to-night. A sleep will do book and began to read out a story. Dicky gave a shivering sigh and it when she was not looking, not . should be especially en- At the ProPer time thf midle-f- We
That Is RighU
ChHrity and Children.
rejoice in believing
that
him far more good for to-morrow." Some ot the hearers might have burrowed into his pillows. even thinking aoout it tne very
Min bad to yo (mt aTain herself, heard it betore it was quite new "Never mind," she said, patting place and out, ior tins journey to
- - - . I. - r i 1 i C j 1 . ...lli rt.i UTT J i . 1 i. 1, n rvTt 4- YinirMt l-i n trr
Tbern vni a basketful of iugs to Min tne story 01 tne vjoou. mm sottiy. "lies sure to oome luain sireeu hjiw imm ncvci ua.u
and dishes outsido the door, wait- Shepherd, who had compassion on sometime. I've got something known of it. Glad tears welled up
inir to be delivered to their respect- the hungry multitude away in the eise to tell you you'd never guess and rolled unheeded down her tace.
o ' 1 . .,, ,, I . ... .. I i i . J Z IA l.
ive owners. She was eoneral mes- desert, and ted them with tne what it is." sne una not iaucieu n uum
eorro trirl nt a Hmnll crockery shop loaves and fishes, Min wished he No attempt to try. "I knew you such a grand place ;. the book had
ATTORiiEl AT L A W, close by, and the class of custom- would come down their street wouldn't," she
ers wno patroniseu nei uububob n"""-' o-"-"-v i
were greatly addicted to making and hungry, and needed some one
t.hfiir nnrchases late in the even- like that badly.
I ... - wf . ji r i i I . t - t n t t 1 i T-l 1
lie went, nn- where thev want a message girl, wanted: and n sne Drougnt uickv,
and they waited here on the steps
shall go and see till the Good Shepherd came past,
Practice in State and Federal Courts.
Prompt attention given to all
legul business.
T. W. COSTEN, JR.,
RED SPRINGS, - - N. C.
Trnctict in State and Federal Courts.
4.Vn -snAr.fei lirlll t.Z 4" 1l a PiMlll 1 1 I 4-V. lliu-lllrtL-l nr11 A 1 f 1 nil O nf tVl
couragmg to Democrats. Know- .
has been sole J Lv ivoo xuki&i w uuuuuj tuc vu nicnu) tnv nu u -
because 01 tne tarin or any ouier
EUGENE HOLCOMBE,
Dentist,
Up stairs in Nev Shaw
Building,
LUMBERTON, N. C.
. r WW l. M. I). J. n. McfiKACH Y, M. V.
Drj. LEWIS & McGEACHY,
Physicians & Surgeons,
Office in McLeod Building, up stairs.
I.r.MliKHTOX, N. C.
llr. McGeachy will room in the office,
where lie can be found.
g. w. mcqueen.
THK LUM15EKT0N BARilEK.
went oh tnum- said nothing about that, but it had
but I heard today a said that as many as touched but
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woman torn me tnat mure a uie uuiuw ui xxio gaimcuw
lovelv fruit shor in Main street made whole, and that was all she
r . i ' I Ai-.H ii-hol.mmr Ha IVOIIT. Tl fl - I U I U .... ... , 4- mnaonrr& rf 1 1 I
ing. It was uy no means an aris-1 mi. "wu ,.v, vviieit) iuery wuuu ixi.tjdci5o
tocratic place of business, and ished the reader, in conclusion, ani if i can only getaway early to
would accent bundles of waste pa- "mto villages, or cities, or coun- morrow night I
per. raes. and even empty bottles, try, they earned tneir sick into about it. it's lucky I'm a good tnere wouia sureiy ue some cnuuoe
in part payment which added con- the streets and besought Him that walker, for it's an awful way from to touch His garment.
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a.,lprnl,lv to Min's labors. If the t Hey might touch n it were out me here." , "mcKey, xjicksj,
i t border of His garment: and as
I Ml.-ilVT: t Wl L VVAV 1 T T Jll'-l 7 - I
was at least manageable in com
parison with the unwieldy pack-
lien yon wish an easy hhnve,
An (xhI h larber ever gave,
Just rail on me nt iny saloon,
At morning, fve or noon;
I-nit mid drt-sitthe hair witli grace,
To biiit the contour of the face.
Mv rfK)in is neat and towels clean,
Scissrjrs ulinrp and raz-oriv keen,
Ami everything I think you'll find
To unit the face and pleane the mind,
And all my art wid r.kill mil do,
If you juit-.cv.il rilu for you.
ages that had often to bo carried
back on tho return journey. Min
had borne them patiently for over
a year past, but she was not with
out ambit ion of a kind ,and planned
out many an elaborate scheme for
the future over those same pack
ages.
There was a fruit and vegetable
shop higher up the same street,
where the message girl often got
an odd apple or damaged orange,
a . i . I 4 1
and tliose were trines mat came in
most usefully when one's own din
ner had been one of the scantiest,
or Dickey wanted something to
brighten him up. After any chance
meeting with that fortunate girl,
Min would eye her jugs and dishes
with increased disfavor, and reit
erate her solemn determination to
change into the provision line at
tho very first opportunity.
i r
viuup,
Coughs,
Tooth-
1 vrtuiii), i i
J C0iuS.
A Sure, Safe. Quick Cure
tlieso troubles is
Diarrhoea,
Dysentery, A
..d n Bowel Complaints. ?
for ' 5
A
At 1U I. 1X. kl UDL.U VI
Mechanic, Farmer, Planter,
Sailor, aud in fact all classes, o
Used lnter;iu!!y er externally, y
Beware of imitations. Take
none but the genuluo " Pkkry
Davis." Sold everywhere.
25c. and 50c. bottles. -
I've found
"He's gone to sleep," remarked Him ; wake up you're going to see
the speaker, after a pause, stooping Him," she cried, as soon as she
closer to look at her audience; could get her breath, after her race
"what a good thing he'll not feel home, and up those interminable
the cold so much now." stairs. "Wake up! you're going
For when they were asleep was to touch Him, and get quite well
almost the only time they did not and strong-now-this very night."
feel the cold. A black, biting Dicky, sat up, blinking. But
frost that hardened the streets like it's it's cold,
iron, hovered over the city and "Yes ; but you won't feel it -after
Ulti till LA U HAD omjJSW .uiat-r Mvi uv-w I , , ,y , J .
, B, , .... , . the contrary notwithstanding
ly through maintaining the bal- . , .
ance of power between the Dem
crats and Reptiblicans. Senator
Butler is badly frightened just at
present over the prospects of a
straight Democratic fight on State
issues in the next campaign. By
a sort of tacit understanding Dem
ocrats all over the State, have
witii uiio iiuuu a , chanted with Train Wrecking,
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repudiatea tne tnougut 01 iubxuu. The mQgt terrible railroad disaB
There appears to be a spontaneous ter that ever occurred In North
Democratic outburst caused.per- c lina wa9 that at Bostian's
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haps, oy ropuiisn peiuuy uuu J I bridge, near Statesville, six years sure
a private individual, did not wish law but simply because our peo.
to get mixed up so early in poli- pie have been economical and. in-t
tics again, but if the Senator, dustrious, and the-Lord has giver
elected by Republican votes, wants us good crops. This year's wheat
to die politically, ere his national crop i& above the average in the
course is run, which at best is very United States, while the countries
short, then perhaps we can help a that compete with us in supplying
little in the matter.'
S3 H4 it
Hi t'S5 n k raw, 3S Hi!
9
made life but bleak just then. It
had lasted so long, too ; and every
day Dicky looked smaller and
more pinched. Min carried an
anxious heart behind her bas
ket. Scant food and scantier fire
if no helping hand came very
soon, what was she to do with him
till spring?
"Idon'tknow that it's much use
your coming here after this wetk,"
said the woman at the crockery
shop next day. "The place isn't
paying its expenses and: I'm going
to give it up."
"Oh," said Min, rather blankly.
a little ; it won't matter a bit com
ing back; it's only the getting
there; and I'll help you all I can.
Dicky, you must you must!"
He stumbled to his feet, and Min
muffled everything she could think
of in the shape of wraps about him,
and led him down the stairs, out
into the frosty night.
."They carried-their- sick into the
streets." The words came back to
her continually, like the refrain
of an old song. "Carried their
sick;" it couldn't have been all
easy work for them ; still, it was
"they" in the story. She had to
fusion misgovern ment m tavor
of a straight fight. Evidences of
such a sentiment are multiplying.
It was only yesterday that our
Raleigh correspondent noted the
fact that Mr. Frank S. Spruill,who
had been in the western part of
tho State, comments favorably on
the desire of. Democrats there for
a straight fight. It is this that
frightens Butler. As long as he
bad the Democrats making over
tures to him, he knew he was se
cure, even though he contemptu
ously spit upon every proposition
made him. But with a united
Democracy to face and to fight,
the Sly Fox sees his danger, and
he is going up and down the State
now trying, amongst other things,
to sow discord in Democratic
the European market'are far below.
India, with her great famine wiJLDU
of course, send no wheat to Enjni
this year, and Australia and Err?--,
sia will barely mate enough for
home consumption. This will in-
good prices. Other cropa-.
ago this month. Twenty-two peo- have done well, and the prospect
pie were killed and others injured is bright for good prices. If our
more or less seriously. Immedi- people will only "be thankful and;
ately after the wreck the railroad go on" we shall pass out of the.
authorities said that it was the hard times, Jhardly knowing how..
train wreckers and had
detectives at work on the case. No
proof could be found sufficient to
sustain the claim and the outside
public believed that the disaster
was caused by rotten cross-ties on
the bridge, which let the rails
spread" and hurled the train with
its freight of human beings into
the ravine below.
Interest in the matter has again
been awakened by the action taken
at the term of Iredell Superior
A Benevolent Judge.
Now York Trilmno.
There is a venerable and benev.
olent judge ia Paris, who, at the.
moment of passing sentence on: .
prisoner, consults his assessors on
each side of him as to. the penalty-
proper to be inflicted
"What ought we to give thi.
rascal, brother?" he says, bending
over to the assessor on the right.
"I shouid say three years."
ranks. But
to"" Butler.
the people- are "on
Secretary Sherman is able to re
collect that he didn't say it.
j Washington Post.
trVo4- ia iTAiir aim n l rn 1 TVkf Tl
Court, held last week, of which the er? tQ the agsessor on the 'left.
Statesville Landmark says : "I should give him four years.'
"The grand jury has returned a . The judge, with benevolence r
true bilL for murder against J.'A. "Prisoner, not desiring to give yoa
Hand and Bird Shepherd, who are long and severe term of mipns-
... . , onment, as I should have done k
charged with having caused the leffc to mysolf? T have consulted
wreck at Jtiostian s Driage, near mv learned brothers and shall
Statesville, Aug. 27,1891. Twenty- take their advice. Seven year j
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