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LINC0LNT0N;t-C., FRIDAY; NOV. 23, 1888. VOL. II. NO. 29 JVOTKMHEK Oh, how wilberfnl aa.l deal Tim tare of tu bare earth lies Under tbe Ifl&llo'f tre", Aid thu frown of the troo;ing skies! Ob how Bilfat tHd a l t!b leaj in br gloomy rut, "With uvei tL nu-r of a bird, And nsvf a tf )Wr -b her brat, Aiid yei from tl. jrl.tom H&d the tileace Th far fi spring shs.ll ari:9! Nuj ! in tli' ln Ul-ii iitf the pretty thiu- bleeping below. "NVait'u the uiouiut mi waking, liea ly to oureou and grow, "Wbo btill say bat the touch ui this cool, dirk qui--t lay, Is full ot s m iog trnfcfc Ab tti ttr Tg, 'VH.iii kiis of My? Ar.d which is the diarent anl kindest Nj otil upou ert iuay kuow! Mm Kl'uabeth Blake. A WHITE SIN. From Woman's Work. It seems nonsensical, in a world wbere real sdn and evil ioa riot, to spend cue's breath over a little mat ter that is not a sin, and could scarcely be called a folly, yet I think there is no one thins in the Lome lives ot f one about iue, that Ho ex aspetates uje an the practice that I have dubbed "a white sin,'1 and of which I will make tny little preach ; I refer to tbe family habit of caring lor o' hers. Now you will be wonder ing what manner of mortal l am, that 1 should cry out against this virtue ot uiiellish love, so 1 will try to argue my cate by giving in- I stances John Jones has to make a little business inp to the next town five miles away, and asks his wife to accompany him. It is au eveniug in early tprin aud the wind is blow, j ing uo rar her cold. j Wheu teu or twenty rods from i the houne John notices that his wife "buches" her shoulders op as j vhouh she felt cold. "Yoj did not bring a shawl or something, Jenuie !" he asks aox- j ioiifly. i "No, oh-uo, Pm not cold." "Put you will be." ' "N-o I guet-s uot," with a shrug. . "Oh, you certainly will the wind ! is rising and it will be iate before we get home.'' "Wt-II, I might have taken a wrap, but I felt warm." "I had better j-et you something "No, no, you must not go to all that trouble. Drive on, 1 think I'll be all light." lNo, you won't be all light and I i wou't drive on, Pil go and get you j something." "Ob, dou't be to all the trouble of taming round" "I won't furu. Just ho'd the lines, I'll t iJii back." And back he goes. At the house the children are all shouted up to come and sraich for mamma's shawl, and a tjeueial iskurry ensues, during which every place in the house except the riht one, is looked xuto, and ar. last John is obliged to lake an old wool shawl, as he can not wait any longer. "This is all I could find, ' he pints as he retches the wagon. "Oh John !" then in her k:ndnes, not wishing to huit his feelings the wife adds, "well that will do well enough, it is growiug sodaik no oe will be able to see what I have or. But my broche was richt in the second drawer of my bureau," and John tucks iu the lap robe and drives off. Very kind, thoughtful, and lov ing, all rcjntl, you say. Yes, but would it uot have bteu iofiuitcly better if Mrs. John had taken her broache shnwl on her arm she left h?r io..m 1 She did f.ot forget her bat or gloves, theu why forget a -wrap? Why iuconveuieuce her husband, and in consequence all of the faurly ; delay their trip, con sume valuable lime in senseless argument, when there was uo ex case for doing any of th-se things. If wps simply b.cause they had gottoo into a habit of "waiting ou" each other. A week later John gat ou theand entiiely precludes the possi - voodeu sett, o ou tho potch atier 'he days woik wan ovt-r. A n igh bor dropped in and they fell into a long pleasant. cha. Mrs. John hid leceived Lo I paper and this was the (lint opportunity be had had to .lure at if, (for jou may bo assu' d in tin family where each one watch s operand cares for the cheia, theie is veiy little time lor leading.) I But Mrs John feeU uneasy. The j vouuger children have ben put to oed, and the three old r t ue.n ate j praeiieing a & thhalh-mdiool hymn ' ou the oif-ati in the pitlor. Surely j the weary mother ought to be care reo for a fw moments, but she j starts up, and tiually peers out onto j the porch. j ' Oh, John, you are Bitting there ! without y ur coat.'' j ''I'm warm. P.fen pretty hot dty, tins ut it V This Jast to the neigh, or. ''Buf the wind is blowing up cool and stiong V7 No answer from John. He li lis- ten'ug to i remark of the neighbor. ''I'll yet your drepsing-gown II" "Ob, never. mind." "Ye.-, I'll get it If you'll put It ou." "No, don't trouhle yourself ; sit down, Jenuie, ou are tired." "You'll put it on if I et it f "No, no, you s't still. Might get it myself." kBut you'll far it to v'ease me I am afraid you will take cold." Neighbor highly edified by the entertaining couversation. Airs John dinappers aud at the end of rive minutes returns, flushed and breathless, with the gowu ou her aim. She helps John luto if. "Think you, dear," sn'ff, snifi. I believe I was tikiog oold, fniif, .sniff." I'm euie I d u't know what would become of me if I hado t sue" a tnouffntlul little wife to look after me ' ''Perhaps yon'd learn to tke care of yorse!f, simpleton," thiuks the i-eigl bor, bu' he only says, "It has blown up rather cool in the last our ' "x bad suca a time to find it," says Mrs. John. "Some one had Luu il iu mJ closet, instead of put- tiug it in your wardrobe where it belongs " "Well thauk you. I ought lo bave ot il myself' And now it is time tUat the uelghbor sliould's'art frr home, and the subject under consideration cannot be taken up again on this visit, When the fall das come ou. s 'aie of the children will ruu a quarter of a mile to take au over- c. Mt to their father who is driving orf withur one; or the mother has a long, dreary attack of rheumatism because hf r hatband was not there t' hand her her rubber?; or the chiidieu forget their toLool-books r tlinuer-haskef, or well ary and all of tLe ills resulting from expos ure aud loss ef time just because they have one aud all fotrued a habit ot b iug cared for. But worse than co'ds in the nead; worse eveu than taidy marki is the result, brc-iuse of which, I have named the hab t of a sin aud that is the entire losi of individual selt communion. The chance o' using one's biaius f.r good solid Vudifturbed thought for a time no matter how lit' le that time might Le. Tue inven.or who could uev er be fiee to bend his thought to the matter in hand or the author whose mii.J must " alw.iy be tilled v. it h cat os could not tie exp?cte1 to do mmrh. In f ct uo oue could m -ke ither at author or inventor undr such cirruust mces; then v Imi are we to expect in the way of mental growth u the family, where each member mut be fot ever on th alert to oee the snr ro'iudings of eviy other member and kep a consiaut wfch ovei them. Besides such watching must of uecesbity Income officioueness now aud then as no person can know exactly the need of another at all times. I call this foolish habit a fin in as much as it wastes time, f .sters I carelessness, makes extra trouble, bility of prime De8hity for mental growth a time fordaep and undis turbed thought. The Aew First Header. Detnit Freo Prem. Lesson 1. "IIow is the Presi- urui ut iue uuuru uwico iuucbh .1 f 1. 7 ...1 U . ..n I "By the ba'lots of the elfetori." "Uow mauy votes does each elec tor have "Only one, but there are several offset. He can bet on hi" candidate, get drunk on election day, and abnse his best friend because he votes the other wav.' "How often is a President chosen V ''Once in fourytars. Three years oi' this is devoted to wire-pulling, and the o'her one to knocking the business of the country into a cocked hat "Is it wrong to bet on election " "Not if W'ur eide wiu-. If your party gets left it is very very wrong.'' 'What is infant by universal suf frage ?" "It meaue that a man who has little natural seuse or judgment can sell his vote for ,a sack of flour, while a woman of wit who has re ceived the highest education must stand back nt let the gang run things as they please." "What is the sacredaess of the i ballot-box?'' "Getting in the most votes for your party, and it dotsu't matter how you get 7em, either." Lesson II "Why do the men quarrel?" "It is a citizen jawing with a far mer about a. barrel of cider ." "Didn'i he 1 ke the cider ?" "He says it was half water." j diately impoverish them. .That view, . - And what does the farmer saj?" jand tho vague fear of change which "He deuies it iu a vigorous man-j is strong while times are prosperous, uer." j swept a host ot votes to the Kequbi "And does he tell the trutht" jlican side. , And the mouey of the "He does. He made the cider meu wh.o were makiug lortuues un. with his own hands and he pat iu,n-. a war ta: iff flowed info the only one-third water. When a man j coubtful distiicts l;ke a freshet. charges htm with putting in h-lf' water he is going altogether too far, and the farmer does right to stand J on his dignity and w ear au injured j look." . LfcsaON III. "Does the mau ron?" ; "Yes, he goes its fast as a hot se." "Is he fiying fiom the police?'', "Oh, no. He is flyiug from his friends." "Are they too good to him?" "They are. He was a candidate for effke and was elected by a handsome majority. All (his mob voted for him." "Ard have they gathered to con gratulate hb-n?'' "Sorter, and Sorter to remind h'm that he promised each an office, and that they want it right offquk'k." "And cm he escape them by ruu uing!" Ouly temporarily. They'll make bim the most miserable man in America in the next month.; He might better go and hang himself at once." Leon IV. "Is the mau disgusted with the weather? '' 'OJs no." The weather ju it suits hint. '"But something troubles him." VYes b is the proprietor of a creameiy." "And What?'' "When he s'arted out this tnorn?. ing he met a man who is going toff,uv tbat tbe principles of the de- estab ish a uiilkery. h ys minutes later ne was asseo to name a bci, tion for a buttery. A little later he encountered a man making ready to set up in ejrgerv. He headed for home but was iuvited in'o acoffery. aud he hadn't got through dodtiing when the owner of a butchery a-ten him if bethought it would be profitable to open a ben cry in nection. Just now he is hurrying to get away from a chap whopto poss to open a fiuiferv ou the cor ner, havif.g' i ome west to try hs hand, afier failing in a vegetablry in the east." Subscribe for the Lincoln ootj i:ieh, $1 50 a jear. The merchants of Lincolntou thould aid their hums ' paper by advertising more liberally lt:FI?ATKI THIS TIM K But tlie Fight W ill do On. ;! : , , , - Let us frankly f-e and measn.e the disaster, s the SpnuKlield Ibpublican. The country h lost itue dcmi x reenitiii ti lias oau ior . 1 T 1 - I.. -. I. : I I . , , - lunuy yomtt. xi lias iwl uiui wutui, nia worK was uut. nan none. in(j.: Democratic patty h ta beeu beaten ;, ,1,. i i r : pJ cated tax Mjstem roiiaea no tuch when for. the flrrtt time since it!i, i. . , - early days it was distinctly identi fied with a great popular re f or tji. The Republican patty" has come back into power, still dominated by ifs most nnfit jnau, and victorious through its subsetvietcy to a gteat moneyed iuterest. We shU not make light of such a national mis fortune as this. It is the movement for taiiff re (iuctiou that has brought about the defeat of Cievelaud. Had that ques tion not bceu imsed, tLe .general merits of his adnmustiation would iroVably have giveu him a ecoutl term. When, following h s lead, the democracy uudettook to relieve the treasury aud the overtaxed peo ple by a wt ll-considered lowering of impoit duties, . they alarmed that vast league of protected' inteiests which has joined bauds to fight any reduction whatever. The cry was raised that the laborer's wages were to be cut down. It was an appeal that touched the poor man's pocket. The argument might have been sound or unsound the tariff dis cussion was a good deal bewildering to the average voter; bat one thing at least was pla'u if the Republi- Caus were riaht the operative's .images were in danger from the - 1 Democrats, wbilethe Democrats did j uot even pretend that their oppo- neut's success was eoinar to inime- Revenue leforai has been for the i time defeated as any great re'otm i almost sure to he at the outset, xut tee wliat has been won ! A great party has been renovated ami almost revolutionized. Tlie Democ racy, which was bopeiesslj ou the. ; wroug s.de through the ar period, land. which tor man yensaftr that as a mere party of opp sition Las been enlisUd iu a great move- ment to emancipate the common people from; an unjust tribune to a clas. . Tariff reform means no jess tuan that. . The ied issue i: Shall every , household in the ' n'i pay dear : tor the necess-iios ot liie, to svell the profits of a wealthy class? The Democracy has said no, has staked its fortunes ou that no, has Diet an bouorable defeat-and stands in the h'ghay to future victory it it will push bravely on. . Look at the elements it has gathered the embodiment of plaiu business inn tellience iu Cleveland, the brains and hart o? the new South iu tuck meu as Mills and Carlisle, ihe awakening farmers of the great Northwes, the bet young blood of the Eat, the old type of New Eng land culture and eonrage iu men like Higginaon, Qamcy, Rusel, Brown, Andrew. Who is ashamed of defeit ffi such compan? Who does uot see that here are the forces to comraaud the future! It may even be, as often hereto- feaftd party will tiinmph through their opponents. Greeley was beaten in '72, but his fight drove th Re pnbiicaus to' concede amnes'y to the Cootelerae leaders, and Graut at last withdrew support from the carpetcbaier". Hayes was elected ! owA-nrm! nfA,s. hat lie le?an bjs ydmiui.-ttatiou by a complete re oguition :ol ih" self government of the Southern S'ates. When fr e trade iu giaiti was impending in Eu gland, the Tories carried the Parliament at y eleciion,bat tbe Tory leader, Pee', found it necessary to Hbolise the train duties. And if now the Republicans prove wise euough to c teal tariff reform fioui the Democrats, no tears need be shed over that larceny: Bj one way or another the reform is houud lo come. Only education (f the people in Decenary to win the people'n cause. Aud this ham- ipalgubas b en a jreat beginning cf Hwh eduOHtioa. Uh,BbwQ ;, Afl iu lut.,lgeiu d,Hcnion, anrt (th. tl hm i? - , i,,.,. i i ' ' neaa are fiow-r than thos t, ich come i.le Jprt A iom. liuiij jwoiihi iu lutnuniy an 9wepL auiiust the lavt power. : No such hugo plow share fiis gone throngh party linen as when the ltopulilir.au party cttne into being. The rank r d - file change slowly. Bnt the mark. of intelligence, if slower, is Surer aud more inevitable than th rush of piston. This has beeu a political Banker FI ill. When it was announced iu Pariirtinent that His Majesty's forces had gtdned a vic tory over the American rebuls. Ye?,' answered Colonel Harre, "and a few more such vicforifK will lose Amer ica to His Majesty." Gentleman of the monopolies, you have beiten this time but the people's time is coming fast ! A Seruiou to One tfau. The smallest congregation that ev?r listened to a sermoD. is among the many interesting rem'nisceoces now published in the career of Di. Lsman Beecher. The. result of Dr. Beecher's sermon to a single 1 tcner deserves publication, if only pis an encouragement to preachers who are depressed by the pauciy oi their hearers. In the early part of his career Dr. Lyman Beecher once engaged to preach for a min ijter, "whopechnrch was in a remote disttict, peopled by a ppatsH and scattered population. It was in mid winter; the day was unusually stormy and cold, and the enow lay f-o deep iu some places that he could scarcely proceed. Oa his ariival, although he saw no oue, he took hi seat in the pulpit. Preasantly one mau came iu aud sat dowD, frjd at the appointed hour the preacher began, roe service was .; closed with th benediction, when the solitary hearer dej arted and Inft the preacher alone. Twonty years after, Dr. Beecher was traveli ing in Ohio when a stranger accos ted him by name. "Do you remem ber preaching," said he, "twenty years ago to one man T "Yef, yes," said the doi-tor, grasping his hand, "that 1 do; and if ou are the man, I have beeu wishing to see you ever sine." "I am the man," was the epiy, "and that sermon saved my soul aud made a minister of me. aud yonder is my church! The con vene of that sermon are all over Ohio I ' Church , Work. : . The evidence of the profuse expen diture of money at tbe polls on be half ofthT Republican national can didates .accumulates from all the closely contested States. The Han cock Democrat aud the , Frankford Crescent declare that $25 to $50 each was paid for votes in Iudiaua dur ing the morning of E'ection day. aud that the "blocks of live rloateia" spokeu of iu Dudley's letter were swolleu to blocks of teu wherever money could buy votes throughout the State. Tbe Hartford Times an nounces that as. high as $50 was paid for single votes, iu the Seventh ward of that city : and so general was Republican conuption through out Connecticut that it is wonder ful that ev?n the sagacious general ship of Senator Baruum, baeked by the steady virtures of tbe Dosiocn ratic line, saved tbe party from dis aster. Puck sums op the situation by saying that Cleveland could not have been.and was Dot, defeated by 'honest vote. Who i Your ltet Friend ? . . Your stomach of course. Why ? B?cu if it is out of order you are one of the iu'st miserable creatures living. Gke it a fair, honorable chance and sec if It is .not fch bst friend you have in the end. Don't smoke in tte morning. Don't drink in the morning. If you niust imoke and . drink wait umtii your stooicU ii through -with breakfast. You can drink more and smoke more in the evening and it will tell on you l?s. If your food feruient and does not digest rght, it you are troublej uitb Heartburn, Dzinet:j of the head,"ccming up after eating, Bi'ioun9ss, Indigestion.or any other trouble ot the stomach, you Lad be.st use Green'a August Flower, as no person can use it without immediate relief. h: u yo it k r. kt r k it to thi: t orun:it New Yoks:, Nov. 20 K'ligs County did the busineso. Thi th 'hnnis u 'tloubt about V. Nev Y ik ilnl nob y, 'showing a tremendous increase on the mnjor ity of four yars ago. It is the old tory of crying over q ilr milk, but therein after all t-ome satsractioii iu proving for Treason. There i? fleret talk here ngainsf Bocb M Laughliu, who asned the Deaio catii Ooroiii'ttee f a majority of at. leaf, t 2J,0()0, and turned out a miserable half of that number. There are some Demociafs also who am sore over the fact that Gov. Hill should have got in by a veiy substantial ruapjhu, while Pres ident Cievelaud was so sadly lelt in tbe lmvh. Whether this has any real significance, 1 do not pretend to say, for hot headed partisans smarting under defeat are apt. to seize npou aloiost any object which preseuts a. favorable surface for venting their disappointment From talking with Democrats, though, 1 believ that. if au election were held in New Yoik City to-morrow with Gov. Hill as the Presidential car did.tte, the ciiy would o Republi can, or tome vety near to it. As a matter ot fact, there does not seem real evidence lhat the Governor countenanced any trad ing, and ?'e feeling against him will dou tie s wear off as the keen edj;e of the disappointment is blun ted. There are still other Democrats' who soundly berate Chairman Brice for his conduct of the Campaign aud loudly declares that he lo.-t ihe fight. They says that be was out witfed every time by the more adroit Qua, aud that it was the height of imprudeuce to trust the direction of a great Campaign to a mau with next to no political train ing. Thi, too, peihaps, is the voice of disappointment. The veteran Brnum was on hand from first to ia-t, and Senator Gormau, than whom there is no more astute polit ical manager in the country, spent much time in the service of bis patty at the National Committee rooms. Sti I other Demo rats are cryiug out lustily at Tammany Hall, point ing to the tremendous, majority by which its ticket swept tbe city, as uncontrovertible evidence of trad- 'iugwith the Republicans. Tho j may have been trading to. the ex tent of three or four thousand votes, but iu the light of the figures, tha' seems the top limit. That Gov. Hill shculd have mn ahead of the Na tional tickel to the extent of a lew thousand votes on account of hi attitu le on f he liqnor licenee ques tion, w' ich made bi'n very popular with tbe Germau eleuK-ut, is obly rratutal. I am enly giving you what I beat on every la-d, aud you may take whatever you like and reject tbe ret. One thing the election proved tbat New YoikCity, tbe gi eat man ufactutiug and commercial city of the Westeru world, is-distinctive'' In favor of revenue reform. Cleve land's gaius iu the manufacturing cities of Tioy, Albany aod various otbr inteiior towns, make out the same case with "ietpect to that. It is the sam3 in the mauufac.uriug S'eles ot New Jersey and Connec ticut. A careful analysis of the vofe shows that the Republican gains come almost entirely from the agri cultural sections; that is, theclas of our citizens who? products are without the slightest protection ot any kind vcted to euta'n this tax on all things they buy, while the man ufacturing voters, who are supposed to reap the advantages of the tax, indicated a preference for tariff re form. Perhaps the happiest man in New York City over the news of Harri son's elect ioi', was Charles A. Daua of the Sun, wbo has" been predicting that sort of thing all along. Some of the papers are poking fun at the old tnn by ayiiig-rhf b wdl be tended to the position of private secretary to PrehHent Harrison. Iu an exubtrra.it editorial he congratu- lated the State of West Virginia break ing away from the Democratic field, hnd again dec'ares his le!iHf that the Republican p.itty is iu to stay for peri aps a generation. Fit ink Pi. Vauuhan. TliHiikKilii I'roi-lutuittiou. North Carolina, ExKcnrrvK Department. " Ciod is recogniz. d in the Conidi- ' tntion of our State and should ever f e honored as the Hnpreme Rule" of the Universe in tho hearts of our people. To 11 tm wo aie indebted for our countiy and her institutions for civil and religious liberty for our holy religion ami its adapti-iu to rnan'k wants and happiness t 'eth et with th linitibei'lttsr mer cj hu1 blessings which have crowued our daily lives. 1 therefore Alfred M. Scales, Governor of Noith Carolina iu view of our dependence and God s good ness do hereby appoint Thursday, Dkceukkk "JyiH, 18S, as a day ot thanksgiving ami praise, and I earnestly request the people of tbH State devoutly to assemble themselves together to eugage in IPs worship, to praise His holy iiam, and invoke for us the perpe lu ty of our institutions aud the coutiuuat ou of IPs blessings ; and while iu discharge of these sacred duties, let ns also contribute of our substance to the poor aud needy and the widow and orphan, and' especially would I invoke the geu-ero-ity and prayers of tho people for the orphan asylum at Oxford, wh te so many orphaus ate in train ing for life. Done at the citv of Raleigh, ibis the Hi h day of November, 1833, aud In the oue hundred aud thir teenth year of our Americau Inde pendence. By the Governor, Alfked M. Scales. C. H. Abmfield, Private Seo'yi lluu it landed. Alice can you help me now? "Iu a minute, Nora." A minute passed thu Another and another, still Alice read ou, urn til roused by Nora's voice pgairi sating, "If you please Alice won't you come now v "Oh, yes, ' replied Alice, shutting her. book. D d she mean to tell a falsehood? Why, no, certainly no; she only, forgot to keep her word. But what think you is the difference Later in the attemoou Alice was busy with her arithmetic, when her mother cime in with au errand. Seeing that Alice wa? occupied, she concluded to wait. Shortly, after, Alice p'eked up a m igazine; mi l forgetting all about arithmetic, she read for au hour or more. She had jusr resumed her study when her mother returned, "Haven't you finished your iessou yerr fNo, Ma'm, '' replie 1 Alice leaving her mo'h r to infer that r-h; had. Spent the whole timeou the lesion. Sh thought nothing about it how ever till che heard her mother tell a calhr that she feared her s hool work was takiog tier too iuucb, for she bad speut nearly the whole afternodn co oue leaon. No Aliee k new that thi- whs un true and she knew that she was re- , -pousiblrt for mother thnking what she did: yet it see ned good to bo thought so stoJiotit anl to have restJous of so much importance. The next day some one asked her if sbe was studying hard and re calliqg what her mother said and without a second thought te re peated it. Her little sister happened to hear her and she also happened to be in the room tbe day before when Alice ws studying and she said: "Wny, sister I ku w you ae mistaken '' What could she do? Alice's first thoogbt was of herself and so tbe in was forgotten. She was too proud to acknowledge the mlsike and so sbe rtaffirned her statement thus telling another falsehx d. Look btck aud see if you can tell bow all this trouble a ' arted .Ex. Now is the lime to take your onjcoanty papeP) the Coubieii. $1.5!).