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LINCOLNTON. N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1S89.
NO. "7
The Ten Travelers
AN GI.D PUZZLE I.N' KUVMU.
Ttn weary, loot-sore travelers,
All in u wolul plight,
Sought shelter at a wayside inn
Uiio dark ami et'riny Hjght.
"Nine rooms, no more," the landlord said,
Have 1 to offer yon.
To each of eit,'hl a tingle Lei,
hut th ninth must servo lor two."
A din rio. The IrouMud ht-t
Could only scratch his heaJ,
For of those tired men no tw.
Would occupy one bed.
TLi puzzled host was soon at ease
lie was a clover man
And so to pleaatj hia guests devised
This nicst ingenious plan :
A-B-C-U-E-i'-U-U-I
In rooia marked A two men were placed.
The tnird was lodged in IS,
The fourth to C was then assigned,
The tilth retired to D.
In E the sixth he lucked away,
In F the seventh man,
The eighth and ninth in G and II,
And then to A ho ran,
Wherein the Lost, as I Lave said,
II nil laid two travelers' by ;
Then taking one the tenth uud last
lie lodged him safe in 1.
Nine single rooms a room for each
Were made to serve lor ten ;
And this it is that puzzles me
And many wiser men.
3XK AND MItS, UOWSItJ
BY MRS. BOWSER.
In returning from a trip down
town tLe other week I left my shop
ping bag in the car, and when 1
mentioned the tact to Mr. Bowser
and asked Lim to call at the street
railway ollice and get it, he replied :
"No, ma'am, 1 won't! Anybody
careless enough to leave an article
of value in a street railway car de
terves to lose it. Besides, you did
not take the number of the car, and
they would only laugh at me at the
office."
"Do you take the number of eve
ry street car you ride in i,y I asked.
''Certainly. Every sensible per
son does. Day before yesterday I
came up iu No. 70. I went back in
No. 44. I came up to supper in No.
66. Yesterday I made my trips in
No9.55, 61 and 3S. To-day in Nos.
S3, 77 and 15. The street railways
contract to carry passengers not
to act as guardians for children and
imbeciles.'1
"Mr. Bowser, other people Lave
lost articles on the street cars."
"Yes other women. You never
'ilea rd of a man losing anything.''
I let the matter drop there, know
ing that time would sooner or later
bring my revenge. It came sooner
than I expected Mr. Bowser took
his dress coat down to a tailor to
get a couple of new buitons sewed
on, and as he returned without it, I
observed :
"You are always finding fault
with the procrastination of my
dressmaker. Your tailor doesn't
seem to be in any particular harry."
"How r
41 Why, vou were to bring that
coat back with you."
"That coat ! Thunder !"
Mr. Bowser turned pale
sprang out of his chair.
''Didn't lose it going down,
you ?"
"I I believe I I !''
"You left it on the street
when ou camo upf
"Yes."
and
did
car
"Mr- Bowser, anybody careless
enough to leave au article ot value
in a street car deserves to lose it
However, you took the number of
the car, 1 presume ?'
"N no !"
kiou didn't! That shows what
sort of a person you are. Yester
day when I went down after baby's
shoes I took car No. 111. When
returned I took car SG- When
went over to mother's I took car 56.
The conductor had red hair. One
horse was browu and the other
black. The dtiver had a cast in his
lefteje. There were four women
and five men in the car. We pass
ed two loads of ashes, one of dirt
and an ice-cream wagon. The con
doctor wore No. 8 shoes, and was
near-sighted. The street railways
contract to carry passengers, Mr.
Bowser, not to act as guardians for
eapheads and children ''
"Bat I'll pet it at the office to
morrow," he slowly replied.
"Perhaps, but it is doubtful. As
you can't remember the number of
'he car they will laugh at the idna,
and perhaps take you for au impos
tor.'' ; : ; ;
He glared at me like a cag-d ani
mal, and made no reply, and I con
fess that I altnist hoped he would
never recover the coat. He did,
however, after a couple of day, and
as he brought it home he looked at
ne with great importance and slid:
"There is the difference, Mrs.
ttowaer. Had you lost anything on
(he elicit would Lave been lost for
ever. The Street car people were
even seuding out messengers to
dud me and restore my property."
One day a laboring man called at
the side door and asked for the
loau of a spade for a few minutes,
saying that h6 was at work near
by; and ho was so respectful that I
hastened to accommodate him. Two
days later, Mr. Bowser, who was
working iu the' back yard wanted
the spade, and I had to tell him
that I lent it. As it was not to be
fouud, the natural inference was
that the borrower bad not returned
it.
''This is a pretty state of affairs !"
exclaimed Mr. Bowser when he had
given up the search. "The longer
some folks live, the less tbey seem
to know."
"But he looked honest."
"What of it! Yoa had no busi
ness to lend that spade'
"I was sure he'd return it."
"Well, he didn't, and anybody of
sense would have known be would
n't. If somebody should come here
and ask for the piano, I suppose
you'd let it go. Mrs. Bowser, you'll
uever get over your countrified
ways if you live to be as oid as tbe
hills. It isn't the loss of the spade
so much, but it is the fact that the
man thinks you are so green."
In tbe course of an hour I found
the spade at the side steps, where
the man Lad left it after using, but
when I informed Mr. Bowser of the
fact he only growled :
"He brought it back because he
probably heard me making a fuss
about it and was afraid of arrest."
Two days later, as Mr. Bowser
sat on the front steps, a colored
man came up and asked to borrow
the lawn mower for a few miuutes
for use on the next corner.
'Certainly, my boy," replied Mr.
Bowser, "vou'SI find it in the back
yard.''
When he had gone I observed
that the man had a suspicious look
about him, and that I should not
Ij re trust him , and Mr. Bowser
urned on me with :
"What do you know about ieadi
ing character ? There never was a
more honest man in the world. I'd
trust him with every dollar I have.''
Iu about half an hour Mr. Bowser
began to get uneasy, and alter wait
ing a few minutes longer he walked
down to the corner. No black man.
No lawn mower. By inquiry he
learned that tbe borrower had load
ed the mower into a hand-cart and
hurried off. It was a clear case of
confidence.
"Well V I queried as Mr. Bowser
came back with his eyes bulging
out and his hair ou end.
"It's it's gone!" he gasped.
"I expected it. The longer some
folks live the less they seem to
know. If somebody should come i
and want to borrow the furnace or
the bay windows you'd let 'em go, I
suppose.''
"But he be "
"But what of it? Y'ou had no
basiness to lend that lawn mower,
Mr. Bowser. You'll never get over
your countrified ways if you live "
He would listen no further. He
rushed out and sailed around the
neighborhood for two hoors, and
next morning got the police at
work, and it was three days before
be would give up that he had been
'hornswagled,'' as one of the de
tectives put it. Then, to add to his
misery the officer said :
"We'll keep our eyes open, but
there isn't one chance in 500. Aft
er this you'd better let your wife
have charge of things- That darkey
couldn't have bamboozled her that
way."
l. l hat iiackino (Jotjgh can be . so
quickly cured by Shiloh's Cure. We guar
antee it. For sale by John .Reedy & Co.,
Druggists, Lincolnton.
Thtigisni in Chicago.
N. Y, Herald.
It becomes clearer ever y day that
Chicago is the priucip.il rendezvous
of secret alien revolutionary organ
izatioos iu the United States. The
place seems to be b "uey combed
with these societies. The climate
agrees with them. Thev flourish '
and grow t-trong. It is hard to un
derstand why this magnificent city
should be selected as the headquar
ters for ugly foreign cabals, but the
tact is quite evident.
There are few if any Americaus
engaged in these intrigues. The
conspirators are natives of other
lands who have brought with them
Old World feuds and plots. They
hold meetings behind locked doors
aud vaguely hint at the frightful
doom which awaits traitors. An
atmosphere of thugism surrounds
them- Half disguised threads of
assassination are constantly wbis
peied. But by far the most serious aspect
ot the matter is to be found in the
iufluence which these secret bodies
seem to have upon the politics of
Chicago. They wield tremendous
power over tbe officials and openly
boast that the police tear iheir en
mity. More crime is attributed to
the internal quarrels ot such organ
izations iu that city than in auy oth
er on the American continent.
Au effort should be made to sys
tematically and thoroughly investi
gate the physical forca societies of
Chicago. They are growing more
dangerous every day. If it is true
that they encourage crime under
any pretext whatever they should
be denounced by statute and exter
minated as quickly as possible.
There is no room in America any
how for secret associations of aliens
whose purpose is to keep alive the
fires of aucient hatreds. 'Jey make
more difficult the task of digesting
aud assimilating the heterogeneous
multitudes that, swarm to our shores
from other l.tnds. Dynamiting aud
assasination by committee is not an
American institution. No man who
has such ideas constantly impressed
upon him can become an American
citizen in the true sense-
This is a land of free men and
free institutions. Every good cause
can be openly and fully agitated.
But no man is permitted to incite
to crime. The country cannot have
too many good societies. There
are immense fields for work res
lieving distress, promoting patriot
ism. reforming laws, encouraging
and developing religion, art, science
and manufacture.
The kind of societies, that are
blighting the name of Chicago have
no place in a country where every
man is equal before the law and
equal at the ballot box.
New York has managed so far to
keep herself comparatively free of
these sinister plots. The dynamit
ers of this city were handed over to
the comic papers after the police
got through with them. But it is
different in Chicago. Matters look
veiy black for that community.
When will tbe people of the
Northwestern metropolis see the
danger that threatens them ?
Au American may sympathize
with the struggle ot nihilism in
Russia without coudoning murder
in Illinois. He mav applaud the
boldness and persistency of social--ism
in Germany and yet object to
not in America. He can consist
eutly admire the gallant fight for
the liberties of Irelaud while sternly
condemning crime at home.
It is time to crush this spirit of
assassination, no matter by what
name it is known
Who Is Yourllest Friend?
Your stomach of course. Why? Because
if it is out of order you are on of the ni09t
miserable creatures living. Give it a fair
honorable chance and sec if it is not the
best friend you have in the end. Don't
smoke in the morning. Don't drink in the
morning. If you must smoke and drink
wait until your stomach is through with
breakfast. You can drink more and 8moke
more in tbe evening and it will tell on you
less. If your food ferments and does not
digest right, it you are troubled with
Heartburn, Dizziness of the head, ccming
up after eating, Biliousness, Indigestion.or
any other trouble of the stomach, you had
best use Green's August Flower, as no
person can use it without immediate relief.
IToiuo and Xntive Iand.
Health and Home. .
Americans, we the people of these
United State, have a prieetess in
heiitauce in the genius of our insti
tutions and government. o can
not prize too t ighly nor cheri.sh too
carefully the first principles of the
Declaration of Independence, nor
the memory of I tie royal souls aud
their faithful wi ik and I tvoism,
who established rut- national life
upon its everlasting truth.
The- c ity of Chicago ceb brated
the Centennial ot the first inauguia
not) of George Washington to the
Presidency on the 30th of April on!
a large scale and in a manner cal
culated to educate and cultivate
the true American spirit.
It is well that the children in the
public schools should recite the
events of the struggle that won for
the thirteen colonies deliverance
from kingly despotism, aud for the
future citizens of a broad contiuenr,
a democratic form of government.
The corrupting tendences and mea
sures of political schemes and
schemers the dangerous power of
accumulated wealth m the bands of
a few, and the consequent distress,
discontent and . fullering id the
many are tossing the ship ot m: fe
on heavy billows of agitation, and
bringing her dangerously near disi
aster. It is as tmc to. day as when
the words were first uttered, that
"Eternal vrgilance is tbe price ot
liberty."
Mothers, can you not afford to
devote one day in the ear to a
special celebration in the house
hold that will inspire and quicken
every member in the family with
love for America as the home of
humanity ?
If a "government f til people,
for the people, by the people" is to
be maintained, it must derive its
vital impulse and sustaining patrit
ot'sm from the homes of the land.
"We hold these truths to be self
evident, that all men are created
equal ; that they are endowed by
the Creator with certain unalienable
rights; that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
That to secure these rights govern
ments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed."
Every child born and living in
this land ought to have the above
sentence engraven on the brain in
early childhood. This nation and
goverment was founded on the
rights of tbe human soul. We have
passed through one terrible conflict
to establish the right of the human
soul in the colored man as against
the rights of property iu the white
master.
This American principle must be
maintained or our conntry must
perish. TLe home is the training
school of the citizen, or ought to be
An intelligent reason why we should
love our country and diligently
strive to preserve in purity the dem
ocratic principle on which its gov
ernment was founded, ought to be
famili?r to every child in the land.
L. B. C
Queen Victorias enilIe
Shoe.
A shoemaker from Londou, who
worked in the shop where Queen
Victoria's shoes are made, being in
terviewed by a reporter, said : "I
suppose the queen's number is at
least a six and she wears a sensible
shoe, long and broad, with a low
heel, and plenty of room at the toes.
She has several bunions and corns,
you know. I suppose her common
seuse ideas didn'i come to her until
late in life. I remember making a
pair of ball shoes for the Princess
Beatrice just before I left. She has
a foot something like her mother's.
It was short and fat, the ankle bo
ing what you might call boxed just
a little. Her number was a lour
and she wore out perhaps a dozen
pairs a year."
.
Chicago will probably have one
of the finest libraries in the world
in tbe course of a few years. Mr.
W. L. Newberry, oue of the earliest
residents, left the sum of 250,000
for the purpose, and a temporary
building has been used for some
time. It is now intended to erect a
magnificent edifice, capable of hold
ing 300,000 volumes.
Hon filing (JooiIn and Unlet.
Bombazine was once considered
the only suitable fabric for deepest
mourning, whereas now there are
Mu eral others and we do not hear
of bombaziue at all. Henrietta
cloth is the favo'ite, at $1 per yard
for the all wool, aud as high as
$4.50 forsilkand wool. This fabric
anI Tamise coth are Je riqtur for
the. first six months of mourning
and then more latitude is admira
ble. With this stage goes the close
plain bouuet, covered eutirely with
the veil of crepe or nun's veiling.
The latter preferable as it is lighter
and stands the weather better than
crepe They run iu lengths from
oue to two yards, extreme length
two and a hal.
A widows veil is made the niot
extreme length possiMe, contioKed
ot course, by height of the wearer.
The nun's veiling made u' has a
finish of broad hem and hemstitch
ed, and there also conies a bordered
veiling, tbe border ruuuingonly on
the sides aud hemmed broadly at
the bottom. These are rather less
expensive than tne made up veils,
are cut off iu required lengths and
run from 1.50 to 85 per vard. The
o' rs fiom s2 to 12 : piece. The
.ai i made perfectly p! 'n, nd L
veil is fastened (o it with doll jet
pins or sewed on, as the very latest
ones are.
The arrangement of the veil is
the important coup of the whole
costume. Everything depeuds up
on the graceful arrangemeut of its
sombre folds. In fact, the length
and general disposition of the
mourning veil ate the iudicator of
the wearer's grief, so to speak. If
worn over the face the loss has been
receut ; if it is partly withdrawn
the wearer has recovered from that
first shrinking away from observa
tion, which one who has been be
reaved of a friend ran understand.
When thrown back it is an indica
tion that tbe wearer has at last
schooled herself to again admit the
full light of day to submit to the
inevitable, and so gradually the
mourning weeds are lightened as
time heals or softens the wound
. Widow's caps and hands remain
about as they have worn them for a
long time. The white collars and
cuffs of mull aud organdie are an
improvement :ipo the old fashioned
dead black, unrelieved by a glimpse
of white. They are of two widths,
the collar to just show above the
neckband of the dress, or to turn
over about an inch. The cuffs from
two to four and a half inches in
width, with hems from one to two
inches wide, and both hemstitched.
The popular hemstitch is carrif d
into everything-
The visite that must go with . the
deepest mout:;u U piii, the main
fabric being of heavy lustreless
grcs grain or armure silk, with rows
of dull gimp, giving it richness. The
dress is made very plaiu, after the
Dirtctoire design mostly, trimmed
with straight panels of crepe at the
side, or a broad band at the bottom
of the skirt if preferred ; yet, with
out the crepe trimming, it is most
durable.
After six months rather more li
cen-e is admissible in fabric and
finish. Grenadine bunting is used
at any time, aud later, silk striped
nun's veiling. The second year,
plaids, brocaded gocds and silks au
fait though some even wear su
rahs from tbe earliest stage. It is
unsuitable, however, with a veil.
The last half of tbe mourning yar
more dressy wraps are used bead
ed with doll jet and embroidered ;
they are madepelerine shaped most
ly, and are very tasteful and rich.
Mourning parasols are at first
carried ot lustreless silk, with li n
ng of higher lustre and crape on
outer edge from four to eight inches
in width. Fan of dull black silk,
and gloves of undressed kid, or if
warm weather, of silk. Dry Goods
Chronicle.
A Good Insect Destroyer.
not alum water is the best insect
destroyer known. Pot the alum
into hot water and let it boil until
dissolved ; then apply the solution
hot, with a brush to all cracks,
closets, bedsteads, aud other places
where insects are found. Ants, bed
bugs, cockroaches and creeping
things are killed by it, while there
is no danger ot poisouing.
Things one would rather have
left unpaid: Miss Bugge "Ob,
but mine is sucL a Lorrid name!"
Young Brown "Ah a um I'm
afraid it s too late to alter it now"!'7
London Punch.
Uhnt Are the Though In ol the
IiiiK?
In tin Soeiete d Itiotogie, IVre
affirmed tint a dying person in bis
last moments thinks of llu chief
events of his liU. Persons, resusci
tated from drowning, epileptics
with grave attacks, persons dying
and already unconscious, but mo,
mentarily brought back to cou
sriousuess bv ether injectious to ut
ter their last thoughts, all acknowl
edge that their last thoughts revert
to momentous events of their life.
Such an ether inaction revives
once more the normal disposition
of cerebral activity, already extin
guished, and it might be possible at
this moment to learn of certain im
portant events of the past life.
Brown-Sequard mentions the re
markable fact that persons who. in
c.uisequeuce of grave cerebral affec
tions, Lave been paralyzed for
eaic, get back at once wLen dying
their sensibility, mobility, aud in
telligence. All such facts c'early
show that at the mgment of disso
lution important changes take place
reacting upon tbe composition of
the blood and the functious ot the
organs. IVien. Med. Zeitung.
Own the Land in Amer
ica? Who owns the land in the United
States ? Why, the citizens do, or
shonM, would be the natural reply.
Hut unfortunately it is not altogeth
er so. Some of th best lands in
this country are owned by alien
landlords. Nearly 22,000 000 acres
of land are owned by meu who owe
allegiance to other governments.
To be exact, there are 21,241,900
acres of land under the direct con
trol and management of thirty for
eign individuals or companies.
There are 2,720,283 acres of land
in Massachusetts, so that the meD
living in other countries and owing
allegiance to other powers own
laud enough to make about ten
states like Massachusetts, more
than the whole of New Euglacd.
more land than some governments
own to support a king. The larg
est amount of land owned by any
one man or corporation is owned by
a foreicrn corporation called the
Holland Laud Company. Talk
about alien landholders in Ireland;
there is twice as mnch land owned
by aliens in the United States as
there is owned by Englishmen in
Ireland. Think of it ! More thar
22,000,000 acres ot land owne 1 by
nun in Europe- American Citizen.
The New State n.nd the Ffg
There is perhaps a technical ques
tion whether the admission ot the
new States is so far accomplished
by the mere enabling art that theii
representative stars may properly
be placed on the flag for tho ap
proaching Fourth of July. It is
not probable, however, that tbe
question will ever assum? any prac
tical importance. The older States
of the Union wilt not be apt to ca
vil on points of etiquette in the wel
come with which thev meet theii
new sisters or to stickle on the ex
act location of the threshold. T e
field of forty two stars may not be
legal for Federal agencies until
next year, but there is assuredh
nothing illegal in tbe prior recogni
tion by States and private persons I
of the practical relations ot the new
States to the remainder of tbe Un-
ion.
Such a recognition would be
t the worst but a brief and passing
irregularity ; and that is hardly to
be placed in tbe scale opposite to
the comity of States. The fortu
nate design of our national flag en
ables the older Statrs to signalize
at ouce the cordiality with which
tbey add to tbe roll ot tluir sister
hood the names of North D-ikota,
South Dakota, Montana and Wash
ington. Ihe Century for June.
THE NEW DISCOVERY.
You have heard your friends and neigh
bors talking about it You may yourselt be
one of the many who know from personal
experience just how good a thing it v.. If
you have ever tried it, you are one of its
staunch friends, because the wonderlul
thing about it is, that when once given a
trial, Dr. King's New Discovery ever after
holds a p'ace in the housp. If you have
ever used it and should bt atfliod with a
cough, cold or any Throat, Lung or Chest
trouble, secure a Lottie at once and give it
a fair trial. It is guaranteed every time
or money refunded. Trial bottles Free at
Dr. J. M. Lawing's Drugstore
I The l'oor Man Chance.
3Her is Bnrdette's little sermon
on the comparative chances of tha
poor man aud the rich :
My Hou,the poor man takea a boot
all the chances, without waiting to
have one iveti him. If you give
him any mor cbauces than he takea,
he will soon own everything and
ruu the Ohio man out of the coun
try. The fact K we must curtail the
poor man' chauce a little. We mujt
sit down on him aud hold'biru dowu,
and give tbe rich man a chance.
The poor mau has had thing hia
own way too long. He has crowded
the rich man out. But for the poor
nun this world would hare cast
anchor 6,000 years ago, and' be
covered with moss and barnacles
to-day, like a United States mau-of-war.
George Peabody was a boy in a
grocery ; Edgar Allan Poo was the
son of a strolling player ; John
Adams was the son of a farmer;
Benjamin Franklin, tbe printer, was
the son of a tallow-chandler Ox
ford , the first editor of the Quarter
ly Iteview, was a common sailor;
Ben. Johnson was a bricklayer ; the
father of Shakespeare couldn't spell
and couldn't write his own name
neither can you ; even his illustrious
son couldn't spell it twice alike;
Robert Burns was a child of poverty,
the eldest of seven children, tbe
family of n poor bankrupt; John
Milton was the son of a poor Irish
man ; Andrew Johnson was a tailor;
Uatfield waa a boy of all work, too
poor even to have a regular trade;
Grant was a tanner, Lincoln a keel
boatman and common farm hand ;
and tbe Prince of Wales is the son
of a queen. It is bis misfortune,
not his fault; he couldn't help lr,
and he can't help it now. But you
see, my boy that's all there is of
him ; he's just the Prince of Walea,
and he's only that because be can't
help it. Be thankful, my son, that
you wern't born a prince; be glad
that you didn't strike twelve the
first time. If there is a patch on
your knee, and your elbows are
glossy, there is some hope for you,
but never agaiu let me hear you
ay that the poor man haa do
chance. True, a poor farmer, a poor
lawyer, a poor doctor, a poor prin
ter, a poor workman of any kind,
lias no chance ; he deserves to have
lone- Tbe poor man monopolizes
about a'l the chances there are. Put
Laban and Jacob in business to
gether anywhere, and in about four
teen years Jacob will not own about
four-fifths of the cattle, but he will
have married about onehalf of his
partner's family. Go to, my sod,
let us give the iich man a chance.
The Origin of Ear Kings
According to the Moslem creed
tbe reaon why every Mohammedan
lady considers it her duty to wear
ear lings is attributed to the follow,
ing curious legend: Sarah, tradition
ells us, was so jealous of tbe pre
erence shown by Abraham for
lagar that f ho took a solemn row
that she would give herself no rest
jntil she had mutilated the fair face
f her hated rival and bondmaid.
Abraham, who had knowledge of
is wife's intention, did bis utmost
to pacify bis embittered spouse,- but
j long in vain. At length, however,
I idie relented, and decided to forego
her plan of revenge: ' Bu5 how was
she to fulfill the terms of the vow
she had entered into T After mature
reflection she saw a way out of the
lifficulty. Instead of disflgnrtDg
'be lovely features of her bond'
maid she contented herself with
boring a bole in each of the rosy
lobes of her ears. The legend does
not inform us whether Abraham
afterward felt it incumbent upon
him to mitigate the mart of these
tittle wouods by tbe gitt of a cOstly
pair of ftar rings, or whether Hagar
roccred tbe trinkets for herself.
The fact remains, however, that tbe
Turkish women, all ot" whom wear
ear rings from their seventh year,
derive tbe use of these jewels from
Hagar, who is held in veneration as
the mother of Ishmael, the fouuder
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