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iiMirWtffTif-f " fin i K VOL II. LINCOLNTON. N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1889 . NO. 41. Jfm , u: :ft mm it ills' THE LIME-KILN CLUB- "1 bev been requested," Haiti Brother Gardner as the meeting opened, "to present to dis club din eaveniu' do querry, 4Is de whito man improvin'!' Tickle Smith will lead off do discnsbuu." Brother Smith replied that he had been taken unawares. II had never given the matter a thought. He had seen more or loss white folks around him each nay, bnt had given them no particular attention, lie had a sore throat, a bad head ache, chilblains on both feet, and there were strong indications that a first class boil was about to hit him in the leg. lie woold therefore ask to be excused from expressing any thing like a decided opiuion on the white man question. Col- Anonymous Smith next foN lowed. It was a question which had bothered him uot a little. Thirty yeais ago tue white man got drunk. He efs diuuk today. Tuin ty years ago Hie white man bold bib vote. He mw several ot them boubt in at the last election. In the yeais tjone by the white man wore, gambled, ttole iobbed, lied, cheated and committed murder. He was doing these same things today, there had been any moral improve meet the colonel couldn't see it. He bad always felt a sympathy for white folks, and had always hoped they would do well, and ft had grieved him that no better progress .had beeu made Elder Toors siid he was glad the .question had come up. The white folks wore always concerned for fear the colored race was retrogading but th- toot belonged on the other loot. Wjihin twenty years thewhi:e man had invented the telephone, .but alas! the states bad to pass laws to keep hi'u from sending cus words over the wires. The white iuiau had erect d wouderful brieve .improve! the telegraph brought out new tvieraot architecture im proved iu pairing and ctilptur iiud elevated the stand-rd of schools and society h:: o t v is another side to the picture. The white nian had discovered other ways to beat the laws passed for the protec tiou of life and property. Lying swearing steang and embezzle ling were counted as uios. Visitors had picked pockets and stolen overcoats. Men who paid the high est pew rent in church were doing the heaviest stealing. Dressing bad become au arc but running in lebtaud beating creditors had be come a greatet one. The elder had nothing against the white mau on account of his color. The Lord had made him white and be was cot to blame for it. But whn white man stood on a corner claimed to own the earth it the and was well to investigate his claim. Way down Bebee said he had al ways felt kindly towards the white man and had always been willing to extend a helping hand. He could remember back for a quarter of a ceutury. If there were any decided improvements he could not name them- If ihe white man was better educated sj were all other men. If inventions were moro numerous, other races had helped to make them so. Take the white man as a man aud he had doubtless retro gaded. He was looking his rever cuce for the bible and the laws- Ho was liviug fast and loose, full of gossip, suspicious, and having no care hove he made his money so long as he made it- If the white man had got nearer to the moon, by means of the large telescope in the world he bad also discovered new liquids to get drank on and new ways to beat the law. If the soal bad become more poetic law-suits lor debt had also become more nus merous. If the average mind was living nearer to Milton aud Shakes peare just as many bodies were be. ing committed to state prison. Sir Isac Walpole said the query had often been presented to him, and be would take advantage of this occasion to day that he thought he could see some slight improve- ment in the last twenty five years. Who were Mormon6? The white folks. Who were bigamists! The white folks. Who were embezzling from banks, stealing from post ofi flees aud filching tcbool moneys? The white folks. All the seditions was uttered by white men. All the demagogues were white men. All tho trusts aud mon polies on the one hand, and all the stiikes and violence on the other included only white men. It was his couvictioii that white folks w ie a bad lot, hut not quite as ba I as thy used to be. Samuel Shin arose to remark that be bad seen a good deal of the white folks, and had been brought into collision with them more or loss every day for years, lie could not say, as a beyiuning that he liked the color. It wasn't fast. It ran all tho way from the color ofau c!d roan borne turned out to die. to fiesh snow and he could never be made to believe that straight bair i was ot any good except in the cae of a wolf. White folks had cheated him, lied to him, stolen bis wood and poultry, had he had come to distrust the race. He didn't doubt that there was some slight improves ment, but even s&vager are com pelled to improve. He believed the time was near at hand when black would be the popular color all around, aud when the men with the woolly head woold step to the front. "Gem'len," said Brother Gardner as he arose, "de queshun has no doubt, bin decided in de negative, but we shouldn't b'ar dowu too heavy ou de white folks. Dey has had a heap of tribulasbuu, espeah ually in dis kentry. I fur one bev great an' abidin' faith in de fncher of de white man. He is gradually learnin' to speak de troof, au, to keep his bauds off of odder folkses' chickens. Time will make him fear or respect de law brush up his man ners ah' compel him to realize dat buildin' big skule houses doan' make manners nor bring bizne?. Let us gin him a fa'r chatioa to sbow de stuff be are made o. De answer to de query will darfo' be: He ar7 improvin' mighty slow, but expects a change of fodder will make him hustle.' We will now dispel de meetin' an' adjudicate homewards.'' Free Press The Departed Glories of lletUthfnl Womanhood. Bl URS. CY MORLAN. From Woman's Work. Alter spend'ng a long period of time in the land of reflection, the genius of truth which guided me thither, aroused and bade me fol low as he led the way toward a vast cemetery, which, when we had entered I found to be the burial place of tbe unseen. Monuments, builded from death producing causes, marked each grave. One towering above the others, and sur rounded by a crowd of unusually depressod mourners, attracted my attention and drawing near I learned from the strange inscription that Bloomiug Womanhood(an at tribute I had mnch admired was gone. Iu the monumental pile of warning causes which marked her resting place, I beheld such a vari ty of things with which my ignoraut mind couli associate no injury, that with saddened heart I turned to my guide, asking interpretation thereof. "A sad storv" said he 'lies hidden in this epigram which I see you fail to comprehend. To the creat ure of loveliness which lies buried here was given the heritage of health as foundation to all intelecU ual aud Spiritual excellence. With compass and chart to guide her in to paths of wisdom and righteous ness, she started on the journey of life- Therein she could leain the bidden laws of her being, her ref lation to external things and through obedience not only could she maintain her rare degree of loveliness, but be enabled to grow in Godlike beauty and perfection. In tue esrly phase of her existence she spent much of ber time in the open air and sunshine thus insuring good digestion; aud pure blood gave rosy tint to the pure complex ion brilliancy to the eyes and elas ticity to every movement.. When the intuitive prompting to greater perfetion developed in her soul the element called evil, which were serpent like subtility is ever ready for the restless spirit came at the solicitation of hfr hungrying for knowledge and pointed out easier and quicker methods than those which came through obedience to divine law. With grief we saw her yield to the charms of this false teacher and the tii at step from a lighteous course wai an effort to improve her Iwatitiful form in imita tion of the tmdrtls given her. With fotterlike thongs did she cramp and draw her ditnentations about the moat vital part of her organic structure; thus the nice adjustment of that delicate unchinoiy was dis turbed; no longer could pure food be properly digested aud assimilat ed, with the great piopelling mus cular power crippled. The natural breathing power gone insufficient oxygen entered the lungs for purU rication of blood and sluggishly this fon nt or vigor coursed its way, poorly nourishing the hungry tis sues. Soon plumpness of form was diminished, elasticity of limb was gone, the roses had tied from cheeks, shrivelled and sallow was her corns plexion aud the dull eyes told plain ly of diminishing vigor. Again she listeued to the suggestions of her evil teacher. Cosmetics were now given her, and iu this artificial cov erings of defects she was satisfied. Tbe deformity of shrunken, stnrved muscles was further iuoreased by the adoption of heat-producing, artificial plumpness. Stimulating beverages she must use with stim ulating food to rouse the latent forces to unnatural effort and un timely end. But she knew it not. Forgetful of the laws we gave her, bhe knew not that the fresh strength she felt was the death struggle, aud confidence in her destroyer in creased. No longer proud of ber lithesome step, she sought lo hide her ladn movements in trailing robes; and thus further lettered, she no longer roamed o'er field and meadow, Queen of Nature. No! In stead of that, we now beheld ber a groveling subject of the king of darkness. Books were now given her, with rules for action from which she learned to assume that which she felt not and which left tbe iuner life none the purer or better. By some peculiar law of her being, we were powerless to lend onr influence without her earnest desire and in the last extremity, when all else faled, she did turn with beseeching entreaty toward us her natural protectors. All possible sustaining influence was thrown about her, but her sensibilities seemed stupefied and difficult to impress. Our only comforts came in the last moments, when her nat ural forces rallied and with a slight semblance of her old vigor, she clasped our hands with full evi dence of recognition, while she spoke in tones of ontrtaty, begging us to tell a'l of the snare into which she bad fallen. 'Go,' said she 'tll my sifters that I have drank the cup of ignorance to its dregs and found therein no drop of joy naught buti the poison which brings my death. Tell them I now see wherein I was wroug,that I worked upon the outer instead of the inner nature the source of life. Instead of acqiirinitruth sincerity elegance and refinement. I assumed their manifestations alas! to tiud that as mere trappings they contributed nothing toward soul growth. Bid them learn the real grace of worn an hood in the true culture of all their faculties: then and not till then, will the hidden life be kuown by the spontaneous inanifdstations. Urge them to cast aside every de ceptive article of apparrel: to study the science of human life until fa miliar with the cause and care for every departure from symetary in either sonl or body. If they would build safely they must learn to stand without stimulating support carefully utilizing the remnant of life force which like tbe principle from which they derive tupport, must be carefully managed to in sure good return. When my advice is heeded then will come mv resur rection These were her last words," said mv guide. "We laid her here she had fallen with the enormous but dens nhich had borne her down by death marking the spot, whilst now we wait the glad day of resurected womanhood. Wilt thou, oh, woman tarn and work with us for that eudt Turn ing with tearful eyea to thank my deliverer aud to proclaim uiyselt enlisted in his service, I found that he had disappeared and only tbe ob jects of the outer world greeted my vision yet. all things were infused with new meaning aud my soul was plumed for higher range of action. A Nlgnirtcaut Story. A wealthy banker in one of onr large cities, who is noted for his large subscriptions to charities, and for his kindly habits of private be nevolence, was called ou by his pastor, one evening, and asked to go with him to the help of a man who had attempted suicide. They found the man iu a wretched hcuso, in an ally, not far from the hankers dwelling. The front room was a cobleis's shop, behiu.I it ou a miserable bed iu the kitcheo, lay a poor shoemaker; with a gappihg gash in his throat, while his wife and children were gathered about him. "We have been without foo l for days," said the woman wheu he re turned. "It is not my husbauds fault. He is a hard working man. But he could neither get work oor pay for that which he had done. Today he weut for the last time to collect a debt due him by a rich family, but thegeutlemau was not at home. My hnsband was weak from fasting ami seeing us starving drove him mad. So it eu(ied h tt way," turning to the fainting motionless figure on the ben. The banker, hiving fed and warmed the family, hurried home, opened his desk aud took out a file of little bills. All his larye del.ts were promptly met, but be was apt to be careless about the accounts o' milk, bread, etc., because th-y were petty He found there a bill of Michael Joo'ilow's for repairing shoeo S10. Michael Goodlow was tbe suicide It was the biokers unpaid debt which had (nought these people t the verge of the grave, and driven this mau to depsratiou, while nt the verv time the banker had given away thousands in chanty. Tiie cobler recovered and wil never waut a frieud so long as the banker lives nor will a small un paid bill ever be found on the bank er s table. No man as a right to be generous until his debts are paid: and tbe most efficient mouey is not alone in almsgiving but to pay liberally and promptly the people whom we emK ploy Ex. An old ladv, but a portly one, heavily veiled, came into a St Louis street car and eet a huge well filled basket down. It chanced to intiude on the toes of a superbly dressed young woman opposite She immed lately was indignant. She abused the people who cairied them. Then she allowed th opinion to eseape that the people who carried baskets had no business to ride on strter cars. A nd then she decried against poor people being allowed to iide in every street car. Some cars should be reserved, 6he said for genteel folks. Tne girl mortified eveivbody. The ladv said not a word uutil both motioned the driv er and the car stopped. "Ho'd olI Take that." said the elder lady. iter tormentor looked a moment in as stonishment. "Take that pail and carry it home.'' repeated the elder. uWhy didn't you tell me who you were mo thei?r asked tbecrestfailen girl, as she picked np tbe pail and went out, wbile tbe occupants of the car giggled. Do you know that the droppings of a hen in a year will moro than buy her feed T Therefore, you can see what you loos? by allowing your poultry to roost but iu trees, or on the fence, not to speak of the injury of the fowls. Do not allow this waste to go on It will pay you to take a little extra care in this mat ter. How i:lgar loe Died. ONE OF THE MEN WHO DRUGGED HIM TELLS THE STOKY. NoAmercin Poet has attracted more attention, living and dead, than Edgar A. Pop. Nin lives of him have been written, yet abou' no eelebrt.d writer of modem timos has it been to difficult to get the real facts of his life and death, writes Eugene L. Didier iu the New Yoik Star. According lo some f nis biographers, he mingled atrong men like a bewildered angel, whi'o others describe him as a jryii'g rieud, or an Ishm ilite.with h;s hand against everyone and everyone's against him. Tho time and place of his birth were for many ytars uncertain: even now some biorrpa phers differ as to that matter. The place of his buna' was at one time nndecided, bnt that was definitely settled in 1875, when his lemains were discoveied in Westminis'er church yard, Biliimore, and a uioi: ument of 7ft. Gin. height elected over his grave. Tho cause of hi death aud the circumstances at- j tending it have not yet been defi-l uitely determined, and everything that throws auy light upon the Fub ject will prove interesting to his many admirers. A former Baltimoreon, now liv ing m San Fraucisc, gives what he claims to be a true account of t ie! poet's last days and death. This is the story: UI was intin a'ely ac qnainted with Edgar Allen Poe for years. Much that has been said and written in regard to his death is false. His habitual resert in Bal timore was the Widow Meaglnr s place Tuis was au oyster stand aud liquor bar on the city front, conesi ouding m t-ome respect with the coffee houses of San Frai-shco. It was frequented much bv primers, and raukeri as a respectable place, where parties could enjoy a social c mversatiun or a gama of ards Poe was a good favorite with t e old womanj The fav rite seat f the poet was just behind the stano1, and he was alout as quiet and ociahle as an oyster himself. He we it by the name of Baid ai d wbeu 1 pirties came into the shop it wa 'Bard, con e op and take a nip,' or Bard, come up and take a hand iu tbe game.' Wheuever Widow Meag ger met wit'i any Incident or ide that tickled her fancy bbe would a-k tbe Bard to veisofy V. Foal ways complied, writing mauy a witty couplet; and at times poem of some length These veises, quite aa meiitorious as some by which his name was immortalizod, were tbm frittered into obscurity. It was iu this little shod that Poe's attention was railed to an adver tisement in a Philadelphia paper for a prize for the uest story, and it was there that he wrote his famous 'Gold Bug,' which oarried off the ?1)0 prize. "Poe had been shifting for many ypars betweeu Baltimore, Philadel phia and New york. He had teen away from Baltimore torthieeor lour months, when he turned op one evening at the Widow Meagher'. I was there when he came in. He privately told me that be had been to Richmond and was on bis way north to get jeady for his wedding. It was drink all around and repeat until the crowd was pretty full. It was night before the election, and four of u?, including Poe started up. We had not half a dczen squares, when we were nabbed by a gang of men who were on the lookout for voters to 'coop,' It was tbe practice in those days to seize people, whether drunk or sober.lock them up uotil the polls were opened, and then march them around to every precinct, where they were made so vote the ticket of the party that controlled tbe 'coop.' Our coop was in the rear ot the engine house on Calvert street. It was part of the game to stupefy the prisoners with drugged liquor. Well, the next dav we were voted at thirtyione different,places. and over and over.ir being wouh as much as a man's life to rebel. Poe was so badly f rugged that after he wan carried on two or three different rounrie, and the gang said it was no nse to vote a dead mau any longer. So they moved him into a cab and sent him to a hosjiitil to get him out of tlin way. t4The eommonU accepted story that Poe died irom the effects of dissipation is all lnsh. It was nothing ot the kind. He died from laudanum or hoiu other mihoh that was forced upon him in the coop. He was in a dying condition when he was iMMng voted around the city. The story told by (iriswold of Poe's having bevu on a wt-ek's spree, and being piekeit up on the street is a false; I saw him shoved into a cab myself, ami he told met he hhd juht arrhed in the city." The altove narrative will form nn interesting chapter iu the lite and death ol tho poet, whose life, was a ornance whose death was a trage dy. Tho account of IVe's last days agrees in several respects with the account which the late Chief Judgo Keilson Poe, of Baltimore, gave to the nudersigned. It is painful to think that a mau ot Poo's wonderful genius would after a life ot inteler abb, misery, die in the wretched manner above deetihd. But it must be admitted that the nufhor of "Tbe Haven" was cooped and drug to death by polifiel toughs, who used the hapless poet as a re peater at a loaal election. OiherN Hav staled this before, and the de tailed account now giveu by one who whs with ie at the time con firms the horrible story. Centennial Iteuntuu of The Alumni mid Mittrlcu httea or I lie lTiitver otWorfti Caroliutt. One hundred years ago the char ter of the University was granted by the General Assembly of North Carolina: The long, useful and hon. orable career of the University makes it a loyal duty ami a proud privilege for her bona to celebrate the Centeuuial Anuiversary of her birth. For this Celebration the Tmstees ami Fau'ty of the institu tion hae set apart Wednesday of Commencement week, June 5th, 1 880- The program for the day will in clude a reunion ot the livingalumni iind matriculates in Mem' rial Hall, at 10:00 A. M. The members ot each class will sit together. An ad dress of permanent historical valu will be delivered by an miinent alumnu, at the conclusion of which the roll of alumni will be called by classes aud a few moments may be occupied by speakers representing each class present. Where it is desired for special reasons a longer time will be allotted. Tbe class of 187'J, for example, tbe first to enter the University ou Us revival in 1S75, has requested and been gran ted special time to celebrate tbe decennial of its graduation. It is proposed aho that the mem beis of each class dine together on this day and that the class dinners be occasions for fiieudly reunion and reminiscence. At niht ano'her address by an eminent alumnus will be delivered, and the peial class exercises will be continued, uuless completed in the morning. On Thursday niirht, aftr the Commencement exercises, there will he a social reunion of all the alutnn in the Library and a reunion of the voung people in tbe Gymnasium in costumes of the last century. A catalogue of all tbe students of tbe University since the beginning and a comp'ete history of tbe Uni versity wilt be published for tbe celebration. It is important to know, as soon as possible, who will attend the reunion, which classes desire special time on tbe program and which will provide for class dinners. In arranging for class dinners tbe undersigned committee will gladly ass st the spfcial class committees, if their help be desired. The social reunion of all tbe alumni in the Library will be arranged by the lcal committee. Specisl time on tbe program may be secured by correspondence between the class committees and tbe under&ignei. John Manning, F. P. Venable, Geo. T. Winston, ! Committee of the Faculty. University of N. C, Chapel Hill, February 15, 1889 BTJKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE The best Salve in the world for cuts and braUea, iorea, 8H rheum, fever sows, tet ter, chapped hands, chilbbvns, corm, and all skin eruption, and positively cuna Pile?, or no pay required. It is guaratteed to give perfect satisfaction, or mony refun ded. Price 25 cents per box. For tale by J. M. La wins. Physician and Pharmacist. The Itatlon of Food. From Health and Home. Having determined what sort of food is best adapted to our several constitutions and conditions, the next question to be answered is this : "How much cf it should we eat at a meal ?" This is n very im ortant matter, because of he gen eralization indulged in by physi cians and others who give advice upon the subject. Two meals a day are sutlicient, ajsoue ; three meals are better, says another , four meaN are best ot all, says a thiid. Each one applies his particular theory to cveryboby without any distriniua. tiou, forgetting that while eome constitutions aie adapted Iu iwj meals a day, others it-quire thiea meals, and somo others peihaps four. In like manner we geneialize as to the quiutify necessary br eae.ti moel, an to eich ingredient of it. In a medical publication we have le -centlv seen a holemii waitiin against the habit of eating too much and iu anotger of equal ho thority a portentous cautiou again t the practice of eating too httltj as it the same general advice is appli cable to eveiybody. This advice n usually fortified by some stup:d maxim fiom some celebrattd ma ; that intolerated ohl sae, Abe.rua thy, being the favorite ret ere nee. In the article warniug us against eat. mg too much the writer torture us ith the truth of the great surgeon, Abetuathy, which truth is this "One fourth of what we ent kep us, the other thtee fourths we keep at the peril of our lives. There is more mischief iu some itioverhs of eminent men than i'i the babbling of loo's. A moment's thought wdl how im that 'th truth f the great surgc-u, Abriuetln, ' is nor a 1 1 nt b at all, lui a fl hot d, nable to woik injury I.e. uu-e t passes cunetit umter thu sanction ofau tmineut man. Vet- we iu act upon Abenietny's mx m, n tfive up three-fourths of our daily luead, we shgu'd thereby weaken all our faculties, depiive ouixlveS of health, and shorten our lives. Yet many persons belbveing in"the grea: surgeon'' will adopt his prin ciple, and inflict upon then selves gieat suileiing before ttey nee it 4 folly. Iu another midicd journal we h.tve lately read a treUKse tquallv prof uind and stupid, which dcplortS the popular h tbitof eating too little- It also is foi tified by maxim dtawn from the wear aud treat f the body, the fuel necessary to kep up the fires of health aud life, the continual wanie of tissues, which must besupp itd with new materia), and similar wis1om the coucits'ou being that a nrr-ater quantity' of food than we are in the L. at it of taking is necessary to supply our dily waste and degeneration. I u these matteis the individ-a' person mnt be coni'erel aid theiefore all general maxims are tatigerous which prescribe the kind and quantity of f o I nec8Miy for healthy esisteuce. Tbe rttio of daily food which best a!ee with -tuy i articular uai is ibecoirct ration for him, although it might le too much or too li'tle frr bis twin hrother. Ic might be well to adv9 every mau to examine tha habitual bill of fare and see whether he ha not permitted appetite to add more dishes to it thn is necessary, and also it might bs well for us all to uake a rigid s-lf-fxamination and find out whether th ) grat fe aion of the palate is not temptiog us to eat too much. Aud while we are about it we may as well give onr elrus a rigid cross exatninat on, lest an ambition to avoid sensuaHfy in its consequence?, may tempt us to eat too little. Grass means cattle; cattle means manure; manure means rich land?; rich lands means good crops, and good crops means prosperity. This is tbe history of t'e woild. Seed part of your laim down to pra, aud sea if the assertion is not true. Buy Wild Orange Syrup for Dys pepsia, RheamatiBm, Blood Poison, &o.at W,.M.Iteedy&Co'8.aug.ll,2m
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