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nil- iMf mws m&am in? III II 'III III ' II V Mil II V ' VOL III. LINCOLNTON, N. C, Fill DAY, JULY f, 1889. NO. 9 II V iieatu and the: ikioi:i- (TLfeEe EoLla linvs are the story of tha the heroic rider who met Liu death ia the waters of Conemaugh while trying to ave the people trora their horrible late. Such death ia glorious. The darkaesa around ; not the dtrknesn ot night, For tU sua has not dipped 'neath the angel of light ; But the gloom in the air seems the pres age of ill, Acd the grim Allefhanies are solemn and still. ifot a sound, gare the ong of the rain swollen rill, That is restlessly falling from mountain to hill, And from hillock to talley, seen dimly below, Vheie the mud burdened waves of Cone maugh flow. Kight ahead, the white coaU of the vil lagers strike The eye of a rider on Conemaugh pike ; One of troubled expression, wno urges to speed Down the wet valley roadway his gallant lay ted. Now tni thu he will turn him, uncheck- ing hi j horse, Aod anxiously gaz3 up the slippery course. The great storm now ceasing was not at its worst, 1'cr the laka up at South Fork is burst" icg HAS BURST ! "With a crash such as mountains na'er echoed before, Tba big dam has parted ; the terrible roar Of the Bearing black horror brings won der and dread To the vale's busy thousands now low with the dead. Ah, he hears it; oh, man, quick I aside, for your life ! Think of children and home think of mother and wife TLey are safe Mighty God! leave the dangerous track 1 . See him tear down th pikeway with death at his back 1 Not a thought for himself; not a tug at his rein ; Just a prayer for the one he may ne'er see again, And he dashed past Conemaugh's chiU dren and wive3, Wildly crying, "The hills ' To the bills for your lives On and on flies the horseman and on comes the wave. There is Woodville to reach ; there is Johnstown to save. And the thundering torrent is keeping its course, vr gaining In strength, unlike rider and " horse. Mothers rush with their children above in tbeir feat; Some remain, at the crazed mountain cen taur to jer. Nowthty shudder. They hear itl Too late! They are gone I And the bay hcrss is still plunging fear fully on ! See, tie bridge is at hand. How he foams 1 how he strives 1 lie h&s gained it, good horse. To the hills for your lives I Onward sweeps the wet death in its mercii less flight. And the horse and the rider go out into night. Intoiiiu;ht ? Nay, no darkness the record shall hid, NoMo heart, of that faitbial, that terrible ride, ' "When you carried the warning of .Ruin's attack Down Conemaugh's pikeway with Dtath at your back. Thomas Foster , in New York Ilerald. "WE 1MV:'X SAID OUR 1 HAYEKS. MOTIIEIl." .' '-"We haven't said our prayers, mother." "Xever iniud, dear; I'll hear them in the morning." "Please to hear me say mine, mamma !" The earnest, pleading tones iu which these words were uttered made the mother hesitate for a min ute before she replied : "Yon know mamma's in a hurry, dear. There's company in the parlor, but she'll hear it in the morning." And with a ki$3 and a look of unutterable fondness bestowed on each of her little boys, the young, beautiful aod loving, bat careless, thoughtless mother descended to the parlor, leaving the door ajar, so that if the little ones should call for anything they conld be more distinctly beard. The wind blew in this crevice, mak ing the light of the caudle flicker until at last it was extinguished. There was silence in the room for some ten minutes, then a sweet, sil very voice aked : "Are you asleep, brother T' "3fo," was the reply. 'I wish nursie was at home to night." "Why !'' 'liecause she would listen to my prayer." Auotber silence followed. Then again waa heard I lie same sweet voice. "Let us get up and say our prayers, brother." "Why, It is all daik, Willie." "Never mind ; we will take hold of each other's hands, and then we won't mind the dark, and you know that Qod can see ns in the dark just as plain as if it was light." "But it's cold." "We won't stay in the cold long ; and we will soon get warm again when we get back into bed. Will you come, brother ?" "Mother said it was no matter; she saidshe'dhear themin the morning.'5 "Maybe God will not take care of as until the morning if we do not ask Htm to, brother. Will you come? ' "Mother knows best, aud she eaid 'never mind.' " After another silence there was a slight rustling in the room. "Where are you, Willie 1" "By the bedside, brother. I will pray lor you, loo." Some ten minutes elapsed, when a slight movement was heard, which showed that the little fellow was creeping back into bed. "Oh, how cold you are, Willie !: was the exclamation, as his feet touched his brother's. "I do not mind it, brother, I am so happy. I wish you had prayed too, bnt I asked God to take care of you too to night and IJ think He will. Brother, if I should die to night, I would not be afraid. I don't thiuk it'shard to die-'' "I do. I never want to die and leave papa and mamma.'"' "I would be willing to leave papa aud mamma to live with God in heaven, and be always happy and always good. Wouldn't you ?" "No! 1 thiuk that it is a great deal pleasanter here. I don't believe they have any kites or tops in heav en.'' "But jou know that nursie savs that the little augrls have 'ciowns of gold on their headsj and harps in their hands, and that they play such beautiful music on them aud sing such pretty hymns. O, I'd like to be in heaven with them 1 ' "I would rather spin my top than play tunes on a harp." "But it isn't like playiug common tunes; it is praising God. O, broth er, if you would only pray, you would love to praise Him! I do not mean jast to say your prayers after mother o. nursie, although it is very pleasant to have thern teach us pretty ones. But I mean to ask God for whatever you want, just as you do mamma and papa, aud to coax nim to make you good. O, how I wish mamma and papa and you would learn to pray so !'' "Where is nursie, mother! She has not been in our room this morning." "Then she did not get home last night. She said if her sister was worse she would stay all night with her. But where is Willie Y' "He is asleep yet ; I spoke to him but he did not wake." "Then I will keep some breakfast warm for him, and we will let bim sleep as long as he will. I do not think that Willie is well ; did you notice, dear," continued the mother, turning to bar husband, "how heavy his eyes looked yesterday t" But when I asked him if he was sick, he answerek in his usual gentle way, 'only a headache, mamma ; don't be worried.' ' "I did not observe that he looked ill," "But if he does not appear well to. day, you had better send lor the physician.'' "0, 1 had such a funny dream last night about Willie aod me," exclaimed little Frank. "What was it, my boy !" asked his father willing to be amused with the prattle of his child. "Well, after mamma left ns last night, the light was blown out; and Willie wanted me to get up in the cold and dark to say our prayers, and I wouldn't, because mamma eaid we needn't say them till morns ing, and X thought she knew b,est. But Willie got im and said his, and when be came to twd again he was so cold that it made me shiver all over to loach him. But he said he did not mind it, he was so happy, and he talked a great deal about the augels iu heaven, until I fell asleep, and it was that uia le me dream, 1 suppose, for I thought Willie and I had weut to bed, just as we hai done, and that he bad eaid his pray, ers, and that I wouldn't say mine. But I thought that the window was raised, aod that the shutters were wide open, so that I lay on the bed looking up into the sky, and think ing how beantiiul the moon and stars looked, when 1 saw, way up in the heavees, further up than the stars are, two shadows moving, that looked like two pale, white cloud-, but they kept floating down until they reached the lowest star, and then I saw that they were angels ; but they looked so small at such a distauce that I thought them baby angels ; but as they came nearer, they grew larger, and when they floated through the window into our room they looked like two very lovely ladies, with crowns on their brows, like Willie told of. But one seemed rather younger than the other, aod she appeared to look up to the other angel, as if to be guid ed by her. But O ! such beautiful voices as they had I Wheu they upoke it sounded even sweeter than the church organ when it is played , very soft and low. uWhen they came towards onr bed, Willie smiled aud stretched out his arms to go to them but I was frightened, and covered my face with the bed clothes. I was afraid that'they would take me away with them, and I remembered that I had refused to pray, so I did not want to be taken where God was. Then I heard one of those beautiful voices i ask, 'Are we to take both V O, such music as was made when they. talk-' edl AH around our roo n it floated sweeter than the soft, low carol of a bird; and then I heard the answer. No; only the one that prayed. We are to to leave the other one a little while longer upon the earth, in hopes that be too may learn to pray before wecarry him before the great Hearer of prayer.' Then they came close to me,-and 1 trembled dread fully ; and my heart beat so that I could scarcely breathe ; and they uncovered my face and looked at me, but I did not dare to open my eyes to look at them ; by-and-by, I felt a big tear fall on my chek. O, mamma, how grieve:! I was then, to tbink that I bad made the angels weep; how sorry I was that I had not prayed ! for I uow thought I would much rather have crowns like they wore, and be as good and lovely as they, and have God love me, than to have all the kite, and top?, and marbles that are in the whole world ! But they passed away from me, and went to the othi er side of the bed, and then I open ed ray eyes to watch them, and they both smiled on Willie ; and when they smiled their whole faces grew bright, until they shone like the sun ; then they stooped down and kissed Willie, and he smiled too ; aod I saw that his face was shining like theirs; and he stretched out his little nrms again, and the taller one lifted him from the bed, and laid him in the bosom of the younger one, who hugged him close to her, as though she loved him very much. Tben the other angel twined her arms around both, and Ihey all three floated through th air, until they sailed past the stars, and became like pale, white clouds, that grew smaller and smaller, until they were nothing bnt specks, and I saw them no more. "For a long time I lay very still, lookiug up into the sky, hoping to see them come again and bring Wil lie back. Bot when I found that they came no more, O, I was so lonesome! 1 cried fo hard! and when I looked at little Willie's place in bed, and thought that he would never lie there again, and that I must always sleep alone, and have no little brother to plav with or talk to, I thought my heart would break! "But when this morning cac;e, and I awoke and found little Willie in bed with me, I was so glad and happy I His eyes were only half closed; that male me think at first that he was awake ; and his lips were parted with that ame. sweet smile that he wore last night when the angels looked at him, which made him seem so like one of them that it made me. feel strangely again, so that 1 could not speak loud, but whi!peied .fily, 'Willie, Willie !' but it ditl uot wake him ; then I I a id my hand on him very pently, but he was ho cold that it made me start; so when I found that he did uot get warm all night, I put the bed clothes tight around him and lid not try to wake him again " A strange thrill crept through the mother's heart as she listened, aud, rising from the breakfast, table, she hastened to the children's room. She found her little Willie lying on the bedside, pale, cold, but very beautiful in "that sleep which knows uo waking." Protestant Churchman. Typhoid Fever Easy to Prevent "Nothing," says Dr; Edson, of the New York health department, in a recent article, "ia more discredit able to the civilization of the nine teen th ceutury than the existence ot typhoid fever." It is disc-red t able, liH maintains, because "of all diseases it is the most easily pre ventable." Scientists have isolated its germ and taught its characteris tic, yet their teachings as to modes of prevention are utterly lost upon the larger portion of the public. Pyphoid fever is rarely due to any other cause than polluted water, milk or meat. Polluted water is re sponsible for most cases of the dis ease, and well water in the country, .is well as iu towns, ci'i s and vil lages is commonly polluted. 'Ic is safe to say," according to Dr. Edson, "that there is not a well in the coun try the water of which is safe to drink. Most of the cases of typhoid fever occurring in the city in the fall are caused by w-ter drunk from wells during the summer out ing. ' ne tact that the water of these wells is nice and sweeM-asted counts for nothing. The brighter it looks the greater the probability that it is a "wbited sepulchre." The wells being sunk near the houses, in the vicinity of cesspools, they draw their supply of water from contain mated earth. The germs of typhoid thuseoter the wellsand render them reservoirs of poison, however pel lucid and charming their contents may appear to the thirsty seeker after health. 'During the last year,' says the doctor, '1 have visited twenty towns supplied with water from dug or urJven wells; in every instance the supply was polluted and in most cases its pollution was the cause of the prevalence of ty phoid fever.' The bacilus fyphosns, to which the disease is due, is con, tained iu the spittle of typhoid fevet patients. It 5s easily destroyed by such disinfectants as corrosive sub limate and carbolic acid, ice often disseminates the disease. Though boiling water i fatal to it, cold does not hurt the germ to which the fever is due, even if a temperature 22 degrees below zero is reached. Dr. Fordyce Barker recently dem onstrated that twenty-two cases of typhoid fever developed at a pop nlar watering-place were due to the use of ice taken from a lake near by. The ice had been cut from a point near the entrance of a sewer. Only those who used this ice had the disease, and when the use of this ice was discontinued the ep idemic ceased. Milk is sometimes the carrier of t phoid germs. In such cases it is contaminated by the water with which the milk cans are washed, or it gets the germs through the digestive system of the cow. In almost every case, it seems safe to say, the disease germ is derived ultimately from water con taminated by drainage from cess pools. Baltimore isun. 1. That Hacking Cough can be so quickly cured by Shiloh's Cure. We guar antee it. For sale by John Reedy & Co., Druggists, Lincolnton. 2. Will You Scffer witli Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint? Shiloh'a Vitalizer is guaranteed to cure you. Buy it from John Reedy & Co., Druggists.. 3. Sleepless NiOHT3,niade miserable by that terrible cough. Shiioh's Cure is the Remedy for you. For Sale by Jno. Reedy & Co. 4. catarrh cured, health and sweet breath secured,byShiloh's catarrh remedy. Price 50 cents. Nasal Injector free, For Sale by John Reedy f co., Lincolnton. o For Lame Back, side or chest, use Shiloh'a Porous Plaster. Price 25 cents. For Sale by John Reedy & co., Druggists. 6. Shitoh's cdugh and consumpticiii cure in s !i by us on a guarantee. It cures consumption. For qale by John Reedy & Co., Druggists, Liincolnton J' SHtLOH'a Vitalizer is what you need for constipation, Loss of Appetite, Dizzi ness, and all symptoms of Dyspepsia. Price 10 and "oicents per bottle. For sale -by . John Reedy & cc, Druggists, Lincolnton. HOW TO Hl'Y A HOME. Economy of liirliHMinic n HoiiNe Through ti Loau Am ftoelHtlou. It is quite easy to show by figures the economy of buying one's house with the assistance of a building and lon association as torn pared with paying rent. The followiug -tatement is only given as a form of comparison ; every prospective borrower cau change the figures to u't his own locality. C and D occupy houses worth ?3,000 each, (lot $iV() and bui d;ng 2,400). O is a tenant, paying ler month. D, with 601) in cash, has borrowed ?2,400 on twelve shares of a building and loan asso ciation and built his bousp. Sup posing that D's shares mature in twelve years, their accounts at the end of that period will staiid thus: C has paid out $3,600 in rent, and has nothing to show for if. D has paid out : Monthly dues 1,728 Interest 1,723 Premium, 5 per cent 120 Search 50 Taxes . . 20 Insurance 100 Interest on value of lot . 432 Total 4,418 The neighborhood iuu t 'e a verv inactive one where the iucreaseu value of the property will not more than offset the cost of repairs. We find, then, that D owns his premises by paying out only $818 more tban G, who, at the end of the period named, has nothing to ehow for hit money. Scribnefs Magazine. Girl's Birthdays. An astrological prediction gives the character of a girl according to month she is born in, as follows : If a girl is born in January she will be a prudent housewife, given to melancholy, but good tempered aud fond of fine clothes. If in February, au affectionate wife and tender mother, and de voted to dress. If in March, a frivolous chatter box, somewhat given to quarrelling, and a connoisseur in gowns and bonnets. If in April, inconstant, uot very intelligent, but likely to be good looking and studious of fashion plates. If in May, handsome, am'able and given to style in dress. If in June, impetuous, will marry early, be frivolous, and like dressy clothes. If in July, possibly handsome, but with a sulky temper and a pen., chant tor gay attire. If in August, amiable and prac tical, likely to marry rich and to dress strikingly. It in September, discreet, affable, much liked, and a fanhiouable dresser. If in October, pretty and coquet lsh and devoted to attractive gars niture. If in November, liberal, kind of a mild disposition, and au admirer of stylish dress. If in December, well proportioned, fond of novelty and extravagant, and a student of dressy effect. Harpers Magazine, for July. An Irish Gentleman The S9ats were full, but one was occupied by a roughslooking Irish man. At one of the stations a couple of well bred and intelligent looking young ladies came in to procure seats, but seeiug no vacant ones were about to go in a back car, when Patrick rose hastily and of fered them his seat with evident pleasure. "But you will, have no seat for yourself," responded one of the ladies with a smile, and with truest politeness hesitating to ac cept it. "JNever ye rnoind that, ' said the Hibernian, 4yer welcome to it. I'd ride npon tbe cow-ketch-er any toime from here till New York for a smoile from such jintle manly ladies," and retreated into the next car amid the applause of those who had witnessed the inci dent. Perhaps the foregoing hint to many ladies will show that a tri fle of politeness on their part has often a happy effect. 3. croup, whooping cough and Bron chitis immediately re iered by. Shiloh's 'cure. For. Sale by John Reedy & co., Druggists, Lincolnton. llov Viiii IteNt. tiw oirwenii' mn ana women indtil 'H thxinselve m what is called a resting spell. "I gmvs I'll sit down and mend I heae stocki ngs and rest ahile,' siys the. wife; but her husband throws himself upon the easy lounge, or sits back in his arm hair, with hands at rest and feet placed horizonta'ly upon another 'hair. The result is that his whole O'lv gains full beneBt of the half hour he allows himself from woik. and his wife only receives that in direct help that comes from chauge of occupation. A physician would tell her that taking eveu ten niin utes in a horizontal positiou, as a chauge fiom standiug or sitting at work, would prove more beneficial to her than any of her make shifts at resting. Busy women have a habif of keeping on their feet just a- long as they can, in spite of back aches and warning pains. As they grow older they see the folly of per mitting snch dra'U upon their strength and learn to take things easier, let what will happen. Tbey say, "I used to think I must do thus and o, but I've grown wiser aud learned to slight things." The first years of housekeeping are tiuly the hmdest, for untried and unfamiliai cares are almost daily thrust upon the mother and home-maker. X. Y. Graphic. Lite's Force, Whoever diminishes sleep dimin ishes life. People of active, nerv ous temperament wear out mire rapidly than slow folk, and Tequire more rest. They may seem to re quire less, because they are so much interested in whatever claims their attention that after a moderate amount of sleep they find it easy to be wide awake- Energetic people need not be afraid of sleeping too much. Persons who feel uncom fortable after sleeping may gener ally trace their bad feelings to oth er causes than too much sleep, which may have been heavy by an unhealthy condition of the blood, want of ventilation or obstructed circulation from improper clothing or position. No one should become so fatigued bv work of muscle oi brain that a good night's rest will not follow and afford complete re cuperation. No love of being con sidered "smart," or of fine cookery, or business, or wealth, or pleasurf can justify perseverauco in wearing out life's forces without carefulh affording daily oppoitunity for re cuperation. Only the ca-e of tb sick can excuse a lark of so essen tial a duty as that of securing a sufficient amount of this great re storer, balmy s'eep. Ihould be taken regularly, if possible, when the light and noise and bustle of the day cease. It is important to have several hours sleep before midnight, and better to sleep during the shad ot night than when tbe suo bids all things be astir ; yet it is b ttr. to take a nap during th day than no' to sleep enough. V Clever Hoy. Tat be',' said a hopeful sprig, 'bow many fowls are there on that table!'. Vby,' said the old gentleman an he looked complacently on a pair of finely roasted chicteos that wen smoking on tbe dinner table, 'why, my son, there are two.' Two!' replied the young smart ness ; 'there are three, Mr, and T'l prove it, Tbree 1 replied the old gentle man, who was a matter-of fact man and understood things as he saw them. 'I d like to have jou prove that' 'Easily done, eirj eas:ly done. Isn't that ooe?, layiDg his knife up- ou the first. 'Ye?, that's certain,' said his tatn. er. 'And isn't that two !' pointing to the second, 'and don't one aud two added together make three?; 'Really,' said tbe father tnrniug to the old lady, who was listening with astonishment to tbe learning of her son ; Teally this boy is a ge nius anddeerves encouragement. Here, old lady, do you take tne fo and I'll take the secoud. and John W have tbe tfcrd for bis learning.' 'Vh Average Hoiunn Hotel Call Ho Madame, yoa must hurry if you would save your life. The hotel is all on fire. This ia the third time I have warned you. Lady Guest Well, tell tbe tire, men to keep the flames under cop trol until I take out my curl paper and triz ray hair. I just know there's a great crowd of meu down there aud some ot them are newg paper reporters. Omaha World. Its One Good Feature. Tbey tell of a certain Massachu setts Governor, who, as he waudered out of church one Sunday after a young man preached, veutured the general remark : 'That was a good sermon.' His judgment was disputed. 'Well,' said he, 'the illustrations were good.' This w&9 disputed. Determined, however, to put ia tne saccharine element, he said : 'Well,anyhow, he had a good text.' L sevoT (be lllble. In many parts of Chiua the Bi bles given to the natives by mis sionaries are used in the manufact ure of cheap boot soles which are not the kind of souls the Bible is in tended to benefit. But the heathen in his blindness doesn't know any better. Now in America it is differ enr. In many parts of the country Bibles are used for pressing ferns and autumn leaves, and are frequent ly placed oa a child's cbair to ele vate the little oue. Xorristown Her ald. Sahara One Populated. M. Tarry, one of the engineers on the Sahara Railroad, now being constructed by France, reports a curious discovery of great archaeob ogical value. Coming upon a mound of sand he bad it dug into and found a dome, which proved to be the top of a tower; and digging deeper the tower proved to belong to a mosque embedded in the sand. Continuing his researches, he has already un covered nine houses and a water course. The water course is of great value and will be used for ir rigation. Th's discovery confirms tbe impression that tbe Sahara was nce a populous land, by no means i waste or desert. The restoration of the vast tract will be pushed -vith renewed courage. Oklahoma Hotel Rule. Gents goin' to bed with their boots on will be charged extra. Three raps at . the door means there is a murder in tbe bouse and von must get up. Please write your name on the wall paper, so we may know you've oeeu here. The other leg of the chair is m the closet if you need it. If that hole where that paia of lass is out is too much for you, you'll find a pair of pants back of he door to stuff iu it. Tbe shooting of a pistol is no ause for any alarm. If you're too cold, put the oil loth over your bed. Caroseen lamps extra; candles ne, but they musn'iborn all night. Don't tare off the wall paper to iieyour ph e with. Noffof that al ady. Guests will not take out tiem hricks in the mattress. If it rain through that hole over head, you'll find an umbrella under tbe bed. Tbe rata won't hurt you if they do chase each other across your face. Two men in a room must pat up with one chair. Please don't empty tbe sawdust out of the. pillars. .-- If there's no towel bandy, use a piece of th carpet. Philadelphia Forth American. THE VERDICT UNANIMOUS W D Snlt, Druggist; Bippus, Itdianaf UI can recommend Electric Bitters as th very bst remedy.. Every bottle sold ha eiven relief in eveay case. One man tok six. bottles,- 'nd wii cared of Rheumatism, ot ten years' standing " Abraham Hare, druggist. BellTil'e, Ohio, affirm-: Tb best sllng mediioe 1 hve ever handled) in my twenty, yean' eiperience, is Elec tric Bitters." Thousands of others baw added their testimony, so that the verdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters do care all diseases of the Liver.Kidneysor Blood. 2ft$rI.koWt At Vr. J. AI