North Carolina Newspapers

fflSl! VOL III. LINCOLN TON, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 24, ISS9. NO. A SWEET HOME. Like the magical city of oM, 'Twas built in a single night ; Fur the builder was busy and bold, And worked with all her might, bhe worked aa fast aa she ever could, Hut she used not brick, nor stone, nor wood, From the base to the topmost dome; She used not wood, nor stone, nor brie k, But tho lljor wai warm and tho walla were thick ; O what a 4ueer little home ! She entered my own eatate With no regard for toe laws ; She made herself a gate ; II er teeth were the knives anl sawa. Kight in my way her dwelling stood; It waa not buiU upon clay or mud, Nor on rock, nor saui, nor loam; It was not built upon earth at all, But she made" it within a crystal wall A quaint and curiou9 home, in the light ot the morning gun The work of the night 1 see ; For now the building is done, But the builder, where is she ? I found Ler not, but I know her name Ti? Mietres Mjuse, that ineJdleaaiiie dame Who loveth by flight to roam. Into my pantry she gnawed a hole, And built her house in my sugar loicl ? Ah, what a -weet, sweet home! LAGGARD LOVERS, or AFTU TWENTY YEARS. Anna Browne was forty and an teiress, and it seemed very strange tbat she bad never married. Those who knew her as a girl remembered that she bad once been in love with Tom Gaines, bat her father had sent him about his business, aud he bad not been heard ol'siuce. One day she heard a noise in the lower part of the house, and has tening downstairs, found a half crazy man who lived in the North end had been run over, and they had to bring him in there. She was a little angry at first, until she heard the poor fellow was badly injured, when she set about doing all she could to help him. She found tho patient was a man dressed in sbabbyj coarse clothes, with a rough gray beard halt cover iDg his pallid face. liis head was badly cut and bleeding profusely. By the side of the bed stood her father's old phy eician. "Ah !'' said the doctor, look, ing up, ucan I ask you, Miss Anna, to wipe the blood away ! The poor fellow has bad his rib crushed on one side.'' And then Anna ceased to follow the words that described the injury. She had washed away the blood and made a discovery that drove! every vestige of color from her face, and seemed for a moment to choke her- The doctor was not surprised at the pallor of the face she pres eutly turned to him, for it was a sickening sight and task for uuac customed eyes aud hands. "Is he much hurt V' she whis pered. "Yes, probably fatally. Danger ously at the best, and moving him Lg a great risk "Even to move him to a bedroom upstairs?'' "Oh, no. That could be done, but the jolting of a cart from hereto the hospital would be bad.' "If I get a room ready upstairs can ho bo carried up ? ' "Yes aud the sooner the better. Barnesvillo had food for gossip! then. Miss Browne, who took no interest in charity or good works beyond contributions of money, had taken a beggar into her house, a Euan who lived in the shabbiest house in the town's poorest locality, and wa3 supposed to be half starved. More tho servants told tho wonder ing listeners. The man was in the best spare room; the man had a purse from the hospital to attend blmjthe man had every delicacy that conld be prepared for him j aiisa Anna herself was in the room All day, waiting upon the invalid while the uurse rested alter night watching; Miss Anna herself took the doctor's orders and saw tbat they were faithfully carried out. And some of the servants, half whispering, told a still more mar vellous tale that Miss Anna never tpoko a cross word, never lost her temper. Into the fair face there had crept slowly back the womanly eweetness ii had lost; into the musical voice there came more the softly modulated tones of teuder uesa it had dropped when Mr. Browne died. But neither servants nor gossip heard what passed one day when the doctor had siid the invalid needed "only "care now ; he can do without me." The nurse had dressed him in a softly quilted dressing gown, with embroidered slippers on his feet, lie was shaved, ana the long gray hair cut to a becoming length, and his hands, idly folded, were white and tbin, not the hands of a workiugman. The nurse had gone home for an hour or two, and the invalid was alone, until the door opened softly, and a woman came in a woman who seemed to have dropped ten years from her age in the last two months. She crossed the room quickly, and her lips touched the invalid's pale cheek, softly, tenderly. "You look so well to-day, Tom," she vaid, a tender joy io every word. 'Yes, I stiall soon be well,'' he ati8werd, regretfully, "and must leave you." 'You shall never leave me," was i he quick reply. "I have found you and you are mine." "But, Anna, cousider; I have failed in everything. I have tried and tried, traveling from city to city, poorer each year, not daring, even to write to you. I have noths ing, uot even two pairs of shoes. IIow can I live on your bounty?" "That we will find out," she an swered, cheerily; "but I shall never let you go, Tom." And she kept her word. Barnes- ville made a romance and accepted it as truth, that the man who was supposed to be half-witted was a great genius, and had hoards of money stowed away. There were several variations of the story, and some of the older peop'e did re- member tbat "Anua had a beau years ago named Tom Gaines, who went away to make bis fortune." But Mr. and Mrs. Gaines let gos sip run as it would. jLittie tney heeded it in the new, full life upon which they entered. For, in their happiness, Anna's heart expanded to embrace all humanity. Because one ueeu or cnartty bein tnrust upon her had brought such iich reward, she filled hfr life with charity, rousing her husband from visionary dreams to active benevT olence. lie had Jong before abandoned all hope of seeing his inventions per fected and tested, and when money was at his command he found that long brooding over his plans-had destroved their unity. He could no longer perfect even the models. And so he gave them up and jcined Anna in devoting the wealth they conld scarcely spend on them selves to good works, to gentle charity. Homesick. The sensation of homesickness has been variously described, but never more graphically than by a little girl, who, miles away from home and mamma, sat, heavy eyed and silent, at a hotel table. "Areu't you hungry, dear f ' asked her aunt, with whom she was traveling. "No'm." jJ'Does your head ache ?" "No'm "What is the matter I" The child'd lips quivered, and she said, in a tone to grieve the heart : "I'm so seasick for home'!' Youth's Companion. The Chicago School. "What is the matter, Nelly ?" "Nothing, ma, except" 'Except what, Nelly T" "Except that we've got a new teacher, and she's just as uppish and insulting."' "Who is she !" "Priscilla Ryan, from Bostou." "What did she do ?" "Oh, she took us out of our A B C's, and began some funny business right off, such as 'How many feet make a yard Three.' And she made ns say it, too. I knew it was lo 8lur about Chicasro feet. The idea of our yard being; -only big three fret !' San Tho S peril of Ship Progress in naval construction has again been sipnally illustrated by the remarkable trip of the steam ship City of Pans across the ocean. Sire eclipsed the best previous ree- rd by two hours u 1 forty-eight minuses, making the distance bei tween Q leenstown and Sandy Hook within the limits of six days. A. few j ears ago it was deemed a marvel lor a steamship to cross I he ocean in seven days, and the slip ping off so soon of one-seventh ot the time shows the strides which uaval science has made of late. It is a question for experts how near the speed limit has been at tained ; and with the present re sources ot power which can be made available, the skilled naval architect can tell what is both possible and practicable. Possibly the City ot Paris, the City of New York, one or two of the former record breakers which have not experienced condi tions favorable to the attainment of the highest speed throughout a voyage, and the great steamships which are now building with an especial view to both speed and safety, may one or all, under favor able circumstances, equal or surpass the record which now stands at the head, and this is expected of some of them. Alter a certaiu point any decided increase in speed is not at tainable except at a cost which would deter the effort were it not for the great desire ot several steamship companies to enjoy the distinction of having the fastest vessel. This rivalry will lead to the construction of vessel after ves sel, almost regardless of cost", until naval constructors will be forced to admit, that nothing more can be done. That admission will not be made until there is no point iu the machinery or desiff" of a vessel having regard to the uses to which it was to be put in which improve ment can be made. Then who knows but jnst at this point, when it will be thought that the limit of the attainable has been reached, the science of steam navigation may not be revolutionized by some won derful discovery which will set a mark, from which thereafter prog ress will be measured ? Detroit Free Press. Notes- Never mix wood ashes with ma nure of any kind, but apply it to tfce land separate and a'one. If your fruit crates are getting old and looking dirty and rusty, paint them with some bright color ed paint at once. Be carefol in setting strawberry plants not to plant the roots in a bunch, but spread them out fan shaped and all will grow. Don't pile manure up around the bodies of your old fruit trees, but scatter it over the surface as far out as limbs extend. Poor, light sandy soil will prod- uce the earliest fruit and old straw berry beds will ripen thesimekiud earlier than young beds If you have a first class seedling of a peach, pear or apple, sow pits or seeds from it, and as a rule you will get fruit the same or similar. Whitewash the fruit trees, get ting it well io the crotches with lime. Whitewash the limbs as far up as it can be clone, as well as the bodies. Plough among the raspberries at once, throwing furrows np to them, aud then run through wi:h the cul tivators up to nearly time of ripen ing froit. It is said that rags saturated with kerosene aud fastened in a split stick that has been driven in to the squash, melon and cucumber hills, will keepbugs off. As soon as catapillar nests begin to show, take a long stick and with a pail of gas tar pass among the trees, dipping the end of stick in the tar and twist it around a few times in each nest Follow this up two or three times and the worms will be destroyed and trees saved. e inugb to hold Francisco IVasp. Wonderful re of Paper. There does not appear to be any limit to the use to which paoer will Oe devoted in the future. II uises are constructed of this material, and car whedJ, boxes, tubs, plates, boats, cat, and other goods are uiadf o' it. La-t anion.; the dis coveries is i s prep tr.-tliou in the form of ami purpose of being used for vvindo' la-s. Hie process of preparation is said to b; ;s follow-: "A window panef made of vhife paper, manufactured from cotton or linen, and modified by chemical I act iini A f erwtiid the. imncr i im mersed in a preparation of camphor and alcohol, which makes it like parchment. From this point it can be molded into remarkably tonh sheets, entirely transparent, and can Le shaded wilh almost the w i.le of the aniline colors, the result ' being a transparent sheet, showing, far more vivid hues than thrt best glass.'' Nothing is said about the cost, but if a sheet as transparent as class can be made at'the same cost from yaper it will possess a quality which glass does not, toughness. In Worcester, Mas., a portable house to be u-ed by fhe Harvard college astronomical party in their South American expedition has been on exhibition. The building is con structed of heavy paper aud can vas sheets, being btretched upon a frame of pine scantling three-quars tets of an inch wide and half an inch thick. It is built in small sec tions, so that it can be easily and cheaply transported. The building is eighteen by twenv tystwo feet, with eighttoot posts, and covered with a third hiproof, thus elevating the centre of the roof about fourteen feet- above the floor. The top is surmounted by a handsome galvanized iron cupola, in the centre of which is a large pipe which can be used as a stove funnel in cold weather. The build ing is divided iuto three rooms, and lighted by six large windows. It is to be taken down and transported to Peru as soon as the necessary arrangements can be perfected with the Peruvian government to pass through the custom house, in bond. This is the largest paper house ever constructed in the United States, and probably in the world. It is regarded as a revelation by all who have viewed it. Woman Progress. In Washington's time women had scarcely any tights or oppor tunities out of the domestic circle. A married woman was a legal nonentity. The husband was ihe legal guardian of the wife, or rath er he possessed all the rights of both. In law the twain were one, and that one was the husband. To-day a wife is in many respects a distinct, independ-nt being in law. She may acquire, hold, con vey and will property. She may engage in b u si nes, carry on trade, make contracts. She may sue and be sued, enforce her rights and de fend them. Both married and unmarried wo men have acquired political rights. In certain Territories a suffrage e qual to that enjoyed by men has been conferred on them. In some States they may vote fur certain of ficers and hold certain offices. Ev erywhere there is growing tendeu Icy to enlarge the political rights of married women. Still more striking has been the opening of a vast and varied sphere for the occupation of women. In literature they have come to the front in large numbers. In trade and industries countless thousands are employed. They are found in office and tore, in shop and facto ry. A large proportion of the sex have ceased to be dependents. They have become wage earners aud self-supporters. They are re spected and houored for battling with the necessities of life and earn ing their own livelihood. And this vast army of employed women and girls are destined to in crease with every coming y ear. N. Y. World. A shy disposition is a misfortune to its possessor. It causes him to sh'iuk from meeting orhers, and when he can not help meeting them. it !..,.;... .,.;.r ; , ii uiinri uiiij -iiu mi ii I n ii lit- iimi a kwhhi in Kpeeen. Arrhbidiop Wbi'ley tvus very l.y in his e-irly life. His friends counselled him to imitate the ex ample of polite men. lie tried, bur th ttTort made him think so much of himself that he became more Hly than ver. Alter a time he siid to himself, 4,I rid, and peilnps I mut continue to be, as awkward as ,-i bear. Well, I will try and n.t think much about it, and make np my mind to endure what crn't be cured. Acting on thi resolve, he ays, "I not only got rid of the personal suffering of shyness, but also llmse faults of manner which shyness pro duces, and acq-iired ar easy ai;d natural manner. ?' In saying this, the Achbishop told the becret by which all shy people may conquer their shyness, I . , . . t . . ' at least m part. It is, forget your-1 part. self. Self forgetfulness is the cure for shyness. Our Youth. IMonly I.oit Over. In a certain church in Ireland a young priest was detailed to preach. The occasion was his first appear ance, and he took for his text, "The Feeding of the Multitude." He said: "And they fed ten people with ten thousand loaves of bread and ten thousand fishes." An old Irishman said : k That's no miracle; begorra I could do that myself," which the priest overheard. The next Sunday the priest an- nouueed the same text, but he had it right this time. lie said : "And I they fed ten thousand people on ten loaves of bread ami tn fishes." He waited a second or two aud then leaned well over the pulpit'and snd: "And could you do that, Mr. Murphy?" Mr. Murphy replied : "And sure, your reverence, I could." "Aud how could you do it, Mr. Murphy ?" said the priest. And sure, your reverence, 1 could doit with wiuit was i ft over from last Sunday" ile Hedged Just in Time In a family residing at the !outb end is a bright little one who is the life of the house. Whenever any one iu the household rioes u thing which does not pleaee him he re taliates. "I don't love you,'' he had said to his fond grandmother and his lather said : "If you ever speak to our grandmother again lhat way I sbaM be ob'iged to punish you." A lew nights later the walch- ful grandmother removed from the boy's plate something which she did not think, he could eat. He blurted out: "I don't love you, grandma.'' His father glanced at him from across the fable as much as to say: "I II settle with you after supper, young man,'' and the little fellow added, "as much as I love Jesus."' Then he explained himself in saying: "Of course, 1 don't love any of you as much as I do Jesus." It is needless to say that he was not punished: In mi Arl4Uiia Hole "I desire to retire," Rid a Iios ton guest to the proprietor of a hotel iu Arkansas. "You which ?" asked the dazed ma1:. "I desire to retire." "Yon what?'' "I desire to retire." Vell I I'll be durned if I b lieve we've got it in the house mis-' ter." "Got what?" said the amazed guest ; "I didn't ask for anything." "It is strange you cannot under stand plain English. I simply said I desire to retire. That i-, J wish to go to my room." "Oh aw oh ! That's hit I You wanter turn in, ehf Whvn't you say so? We don't kuow nothing, 'bout des:rin' to retire here in Ar kansas. We jnst put off to bed." And when he crne down stairs he said to his wife: "If that's the way they talk in P.oston, it ain't no wonder there's so many fools there; to i. hit- Well PI 1" -v.. .rv. A Trip trotim! flic- World N-vi his leached the ltrooklvu l tu-n .-.i . ihmxm V. i v.i.i t. ., ii... ot. . . i i c hicio, II t n, Al'anta and York- town are to be ti'tel out as a living 'qiudioii and si id on a cmi e around the woild. It is thought that the Maladroit will sail as soon a the Yoiktowu rce"ves ht-r bat tery. The vecsel can quit kly run to Washington ard lake a' oid -ix of the six inch linVs now awrtilini: '..iisi!im-nt ihere. It is aid that Commodore Walker will command the squadron ami that ihe Chicg will be his flagship. It is thought th'it the run rati be matte iu two years, as it wi'l not !. he. policy of the commander oi the squadron to lemaiu iu any poit for more than a few days. It will be a splendid opportunity tor ront nual fleet diill, it is .believed, and with all kinds of weather to be eneonn tered the cruise will try the mettle , , , . , 3 of the ships to just that extent that . A. , iiftvrti umcers ai e oe-jirous or freeing. Orders may be expected any day for the departure of the cruisers. It is hoped tint the Yoiktown will get. a complement of apprentice bovs fur this j ear's contingent. Ofri;ers hold that it would be a pitv to find on ho'-trdof her a crew mule up almost wholly of foreigners. It is true that native-born American sailors are scarce among the blue jackets, but there should be nearly l,oOO men in the service who, if they are not present apprentice, have been at one time. The new war ship, officers say, should be manned almost wholly by Ameri cans. Then the apprentices can feel that when they leave the training ships they will stick together, that their services are rated h'gb, and that they are. looked upon .as the fighting men of the navy. When it comes to active service it is sur. prisiug to see how dependent otli cers are on the American element abroad. Xeio York Times. A IFuriiites Tale. "lieraember, Honora,'' said Mrs. Perkins to the new nurse girl, "that I do not, allow the children to hear sloths that might fugh'en tlom when they go to bed. You may lell them a')out birds and haim'ess lit tle fairy stories, bjt nothing a''oat be us or lions. " "YiJ, mem,' replied Honora, and this was the harmh's little story she to'd tlint tiiglit : 'Waust there wuz a gr-r-r-eat big mo'isther of an animal wid honn an' a tail of hot fire an' teeth a yard 1 ng that wint around i the dead of the noight atiu up little byes un' girruls that laddered their nure askin' her to get up an' give them wather in the noight an' te'U in' how she lift the baby for a wut rud wil the perlaccmitie in the pr ruk and little things loike that. An' this ter-r-rible big rnonstlnr could go roight through solid wal s, moind yeez, an' he'd ate yeez up'fou-yeez could scrarue out. Now cuddle up an' go to slape like good bes an' girruis or he'll b1 aflher yeez nv yeez sty wurrud. Moind that. Sthop yer s'liverin' now, II rdie ; an phwat do ye-z mane by chattertn'' yer teeth loike t')af, Wilbe? To slape wid yeez or yeez'll b vte ;.p the ininit I takes the light our." II iK Claim lor Ollice Mr. Wanamaker (to app'icant) : So you would like the Sna-shville posteffiee ! Applicant: Y"es, sir. I have ben aiding the Republican party for twenty years and this tho first t me I ever asked for anything. Mr. Wanamaker : There 'a some thing queer about this. A peiiuon in favor of your rival sas you have .ilas voted the Drliiot'.i at ir, t iok -t. Applicant: That may be line; but 1 have aided h Itei u- Hchii parry all ih same, for 1 have bought mw stock at your ore ever since I went into business. Mr. W.marnaker: Ah! I sider your case. con- Buy Wild Orange Svrup for Dys e psia, heumatism, Blood Poison, at WM.Reedy&Co's.aug.llin 1). sin dot I e A l'lea-.tnt Story About The KiiiMcr. Soriesofthe (lerman Knperor are always abiunhnt, often tincom. pliieentary and not infreipientl y apocrypb-il. Mere is one which sc ims to have rather better creden ti lls than usual. One day, it runs, ho invited ;i oudg lieutenant, who is an excellent zither player, to d n. ner. The imperial family dines at 2 o'clock, and after d nner the ofti- c r gave a little concert on the zither to their mijesties. Toward 1 oYIock !:e asked permission to retire. "Why sosoin V graciously afrked the emperor. - Sire," replied the lu utenant, "1 return to my gar rifo'i to -mo row, and I have prom ised my sister to came and say good( bye this afternoon at her peusious nar.''" You are a good brother; but before you go you must take eotlVe with us." Twenty minutes later th lieutenanr went with his sovereign info the drawing room, when who. ii should he see but his sister sitting next to the empress and surrounded by three or four little princes. lake a good German housewife the empress herself poured out the coffee for her visit' ors. The conversation, varied by music, was prolonged till the eveu ing, when the emperor said to the two young people that he would like to keep them to supper ; offer ing his arm o the girl, the emperor led the way into the diniag room, while the empress followed with the brother. It was a very simple meal which was placed before them, consisting of a dish of vegetables and a piece of roast meat. But it appeared that it was rather more elaborate than usual, for the amia ble empress said laughingly, "You must not think that we have always such luxurious suppers. It is only when we have visitors that we are so grand." Berlin Letter. IIow 3Ien Die. If we know Jill the medio Id of approach aloj tyJ ly nn enemy we are tlie better en abhrd to ward f'lf the danger nnd postpone the moment wh?n surrenicr becomes in evitable. In many instances the inherent strength of the boJy suilices to enable it oppose the tendency towa'd death. Many however have lest these forces to such an extent that there ia htlle r no help. In other caci a little aid to the weakened Lunjs will make all the (iiit'ercnc'J between sudden death an J many years of useful life. Upon the first symptoms of a Cough, oiild or ny trouble of the Throat or Lung-, give that old and well-known rem edy HoFchte's German Syrup, a careful trial. It will prove what thousands ay of il to ,'b3 the benefactor of anv home." otliing Too (ood. Editor, to-gentlemin just arrived "We don't want any poetry." Gentleman "Xo ?"' "Nor prose' "No "Nor blank verse.'' "How would a 2 bill suit you for a year's subscription in advance?' "Why, my dear sir, why didn't you say ho at first 'r" (To office: b yj "James, give this gentleina'i a c jupl of chairs and the floor to spit on." The Women PraUo It. It. It The sutlering of wouv.-n certainly awa kens the sympathy of th true philanthrop ist. Their b st friend, however.is li. II. Ii. (ISotanic liiood Halm). Send to Blood Halm Co., Atlanta, Ga , for proof-!. 1J. L. CassiJy, Kenneaw, (Ja., write.: 'Three bott'es II ti Ii cured my wife of scrofula." Mrs. I. M Laws, Zilaba, F1h., "I have never used anything to equal Ii. B. B.'" Mrs. C H Gay, Kooky Mount, N. C, writes: "Not a day for 15 years was I free from headache. Ii H Ii entirely relieve! mf I feel like another person." James W Lancaster, Hawkinsville, Qz., write;: "My wife was in bal health for eight years. Five doctors and many patent medicines had done ner no gooJ. Si i bot tles ol B B B t urel her " Miss S t'oii.liiison, Atlanta, fis., says: 'For years I sufT'rl with rheumatism, aa?ed hy kidney trouble und indigestiou, I ;.is. was lee'nle anl nervons. II li li re ii'nedmto one. although several other medicines had failel." llev. .1 M Ricard-nn, CNrkston, Ark., writes: "Mv wife suffered twelve years I with rheumatism and f.-male complaint A lady member o' my church had been cured by li l B ihe persuadHd ray wife to try I i , who n w 6as the.e is nothing like At li li., as it quickly gave her relief."