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pi vol in. LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, OCT. 25, 1889. NO. The Mortgage. We worked through the spring and wiuter, through summer and through fall. Hut the mortgage worked the hardest am! the- steadiest of them all; It worked ou the nights aud sun days, it worked each holiday; It settled down among us aud it never went away. Whatever wo kept from it; seotned almost a bd as thett; It watched us every minute and it ruled us right aud left. The rust ami blight were with us sometimes, aud sometimes not; The dark browed scowling mort gage was forever on the spot. The weevil aud the cut worm, they went ad well as came, The mortgage stayed forever, eat ing hearty ail the same. It nailed up every wiudow. stood guard at.every door, And happiness aud sunshiue made their p.'acj with us no more. Till with falliug crops aud sick ness, we got stalled upou the grade. Aud their came a dark day among us when the interest wasu't paid. Aud their came a sharp foreclosure aud I kind o' lost my hold, And grew weary aud discour aged, aud the farm was cheap ly sold. And the children left and scat tered when they hardly yet were grown, 3Iy wife she pined and perished audi found myself alone. What she died of was a "mystery and the doctors never knew. 15ut I knew she died of mortgage just as well as 1 wanted to. It to trace a hidden sorrow with in the doctors ait, "They'd found a mortgage lying on that poor woman's heart, Worm or beetle, drought or tem pest, on a farmers land may fall, But for first class ruinatiou, trust a mortgage 'gainst them all: Will Carkton. Dottle a Xroubles. KATE GATES. She had a great many of them, so many in fact, that she was rap idly growing to look peevish and discontented all the time. One day it rained so that she could not go out of doors to play, the next pr haps, Mamie Morton had gone to see her cousin, and so she could not come to play with her, or else mam. ma wanted her to amuse the dear little baby while she sewed. Oh, there was something all the time, and as I said, Dottie's face instead of being bright and sunny was usually peevish and disconten ted. It troubled mamma very much "Why cannot my little girl be hap py sometime!1' she said to Dottie one day. "I should like to hear he laugh ing and siugiug about the house as hear other little girls." "Bat probably other little girls don't have so much trouble as I do," replied Dottie, very gravely and mamma hardly koew whether to laugh or cry. "I do not know about that,'' she answered. "I think it very likely they have just as much, perhaps many of them have more, only they don't fret abotit them all the time. I am going to give you a little mot to, Dottie. If you try to follow it faithfully for one week, I will give you 'Little Lord Fauntelroy,' will you!'' "O h. I will if it isu t too hard," promised Dottie, jumpiug ' up and down with delight. "No I do not think it will be very hard; it is jast this: 'Look out and not in." And it seems that instead of looking into your own self, and thinking just how you feel, and how everything goes with you, that jou should be looking ont and thinking of other folks. Now tor Instance, you wanted to go over to Jamie's today, but Mamie is sick -ana cannot have yon there, and you have been fretting about it all the morning, thinking how disap pointed you were. Don't you think it would have beeu much better to Jhave thought instead how thankful you were not suffering pain as Ma uie i8, and then tried to thiuk of something yon could do ftr her! Will you try my motto for a week, the minute you flu 1 yourself fret lug and thinking about yourself just stop and thiuk of somebody else? Look oTit aud not in." Dottie's face looked rather dubi ous, but she promised to try it, but was uui more man nrceen miu utos before she came te her mother with a very long face. 'Idon't know anvthiug what 1 an do with myself,'' "I wanted to read in my Susy books, aud Grace Deaue La- got them. I just thiuk it too bad she didu'c bring them back." Dear, dear me, you have no idea how woe begone Dottie did look over it! ' Lookout!" said mamma. "Where?" asked Dottie foloruly. "Well," said mamma "you think of Bessie Graves or Nora Fiynu. I don't suppose neither of them have a took or a toy belonging to them and you have ever and ever so many of both, you know. Then their is poor little Beunie Frost who is blind.'- Dottie turned iouud aud went off by herself. Somehow she could not help feeling a little ashamed. Butnctwitbstaudingit was not very ioog before she was fretting again because Neddie joggled ber arm when she was writing to Mamie. Mamma looked up very insignifi cantly, and Dottie colored, but something remined her just then how badly Grace Pease teit when her little brother died. "Is everybody in trouble!'' asked Dottie that night. "Why yes dear," replied mamma Everybody has some trouoie or dis appointment. Some of course are harder to bear than others and then some people magnify their own lit tle troubles until they see in moon tains to them. It id always wisest and best to think of ourselves just as little as possible and ty to do all that we can to make others hap py and comfortable. Wueu you feel disappointed at anything don't keep thinking about , but just say to yourself, "I'm disappoin ted h cause I canuot do just as I wished but it cannot be helped s I won't fret about it,7' aud then look out and see if there isn't something jou can do for some one ele. It is a great deal the best w,iy to do, and mamma is very anxious that her little daughter should tiv to do so; will shef "Y-e-s,'' promised Dottie slowly; "but you will have to make me re member lots of times-'' And at first mamma diu have to but by and by Dottie begau to thiuk more for herself the fretful discontented expression wore away, idd she was ene ot the happiest little girls you ever s;iw. I wcoder if any of yon little girls need to learn Dottie's lesson? "Lookout aud not u.' How to help a Cough. A physiciau who is connected with an institution which contains many children, says: There is noth iug more irritating to a cough than to cough. For some time I had been sd fuiiy assured of this that I determined, if possible, for one min ute to lessen the nnmber of coughs heard m a certain ward of the in stitution. By the promise of re, wards aud punishments I succeed ed in inducing them to hold their breath when tempted to cough, and iu a little while I was myself eur prised to see how some of the chil dren entirely recovered from their disease. "Constant coughing is precisely like 6cratchiug a wouud on the out side of the body; so long as it is done the wound will not heal. Let a person, when tempted to cough, draw a long breath and hold it un til itsoothes every air cell and some benefit will soon be received from the process. The nitrogen, which thus refined, acts as an anodyne to the irritating mucas membrane, - ah laying the desire to cough, and giv the throat ond lungs a chance to heal. At the same time a suitable medicine will aid nature in het ef forts to recuperate. Baltimore News. From the Lutheran. Iazine the Cushion on Which the Ileril-Takea a. JlY REV. W. II. MYERS. Some people work wirh their hands, and koiuc with their brains end some do uot woik at all. Some are too old to work, mmy too proud, and the majority too lazy. I will rake on into a portrait gallery of human monstrosities. Loiter a little beforo the picture of the lazy man. Some people have it iu their bones you could sooner kill them than whip laziuess out of them. Why, come are like the old proverb has it : "as lazy as Lud harn's dog, th.it leaned his head against the wall to bark." They gen erally are fat, and I cau't under stand it, tor as Solomon has it : 'He hideth his hand iu his bosom ; it grieveth him to bring it again to hi mouth." Trie Turks say : The Devil Tempts Everybody, But the Idle man 7 emots the Devil. Let him look into a mirror, if be has straight eyes, he will never want to look again. You cau take the largest spectacles iu the town and see nothing iu him worth talk- ing about, lie is of no use toanv body, an anuoyance to busy men, a dead-beat iu the thoroughfare of ac. live life sort ol a dead man that cannot be buried. I like to talk about the dignity of labor. I listen to its music all around me. Labor has made "the wilder ness rejoice aud blossom as the rose.'7 The fields wave with golden harvest and the inillious sit down to eat the spiudles hum, and the prince dous his i-uple robe, the peasant his warm gown the trees fall, the stones are quarried, and palaces and homes shoot forth. Labor, the wonder magician, waves his miracle working wand, And forth leap coal to feel the thousand fur- races, the stack smokes, the anvil rings, the wheel whirls, the harbor clashes, the ships shoot out, the counter buzzes, the streets clatter, the bells ring, religion exults, the mountains sin, the valleys shout, civilization smiles, liberty is glad all humanity seeds up its huzzahs, because Labor sits triumphant upou the throne: The noblest thing in the world is honest !alxr. Toere is jven no produ-t th? comes ont of !be laboratory oJ retire, ir, water, tight but come-! by the lalor of God. I wonder how the best of us would like to bring back the good old linsey-woolsey, tow and linen, raush-and-milk, pork aud potato times of our revolutionary fathers! It goes easier now but we are do better before God. Scriptures speak iu scat n ing terms of the piuggard, and Paul says: "If any wou'd not work, neither sbouM be eat." Lazy People Always Have the Blues. One of the first conditions to en joy life is to have something to do. Naturally the mind is active, and unless it is regularly engaged it soon breeds me'an?helly. You pity the honest working classes and say ''how hard- they have got it in this world!'' Why the hardest thing to do is to try to do uothing. I pity daughters of millionaire, and others, too, who by viitne of their position in sociery are expected to have nothing to do. 11 is such a dull life to look into the looking-glass all the time and fold lily hands, and po6e iu society. Aud then the young rich man who settles down to train his moustache, just because he has no other tt purpose or aim in life.1 The people who work are the happiest, aud the humble home of the laborer, the mechanic, the clerk, has more sunshine than the palace. Leisure is sweet to those who have ear ned it, but burdeusome to those who yot it for uothing. What sap is to the tree activity is to life its relish. You Must Either Toil or Steal. Yoor fine dress will wear thread-. bare,aDd borrowing, sponging, gambling-, swindling, stealing, robbing, will be surely tripped up by justice. In the Eastern penitentiary are 1, 060 convicts, and only nineteen of these have any trade at all. Me chanics do not belong to the crime Idas. It is a mistake to punish men with hard labor. Crimiuals ought not to be taught to look upon labor us a punishment; labor is glorious, it ban made the State. To be a man yon must do a man's work. To that purpose you have your hands, feet and brains. Let your boys do something study or team a trade. Laziness grows. At first it is a cob- wen, later an iron chain. Nothing but pestilential gas bags and fetid air-bubbles some boys are. Teach them that fortune smiles only on those who roll up their sleeves and go to work with a will. Too Pro ad to Work. Oh this false pride some people have! No matter how genteel, how well bred, how nice on the outside idleness is a rickety worksbip for the devil to tinker in. Kings and queens have stimulated their peo ple to work. Queen Mary had reg ular hours of work: She plied the needle while her maid of honor read to her. Fashion has driven economy off the track, and choked common sense black and blu. Washington worked on the field, and his Mar tba was mistress of parlor and kitchen. The wife of a uoble duke gave orders to the servant to feed tbepigs. Sir Walter Raleigh, her guest, just stepped in for breakfast and jocosely askel, "have the pigs all breakfasted?" "AH, sir, but th strange pig I am about to feed.'' He took the stinging rebuke from a busy bousewife, and walked up to the trough. How some seek to get i:et through life ou their wits! Thoroughbread loafers do this. But one ot the most pitiable spectacles of manhood is that poor fellow who is sanwiched between two boards J- walking advertisement on the street for some humbug of life. He does that to escape the gentility of honest work. This Side Heaven and Nothing to Do'. God, who created the world, and daily labors to provide for you ; Christ, who trod the wine press, and sweated drops of blood for you ; Paul aud his host of worthies who labored and were martyrs for you, raise the question in thundering tones. "Tbou, nothing to do." I have a thousand things for you to do. When the Church would be astir and active, wheel into line. So many are hongry, more are un bappy, aud thousands are lost. Get to work, there is something to do. The powers of darkness drive through the ranks of the perishing till the axles are hot. "The devil like a roaring lion goeth about seeking whom he may devour.' The angels are busy, and so roust you work while it is day. You will re gret it, when you get above, to see how rnach has beeu done for you, how little has been done by jou. Ob, this grand work of salvation is Christ ! Ob, the city of many mans sioos he has built for you and me! Yet, "nothing to do." lie Never Struck His Children "I have never struck my two children,"' said a young American father the other day, "though I have ofteu been tempted strongly to it, and sometimes would not have blampd any parent for doing so. But I was thrashed so moch bv my own father, a good enough man, too, that I always stood iu tear of him, seldom told him the truth if I could help it, and never confided in him. Often I was whipped for errors I had committed with good inten tions, and I remember the wild spirit of hatred that used to come over me at such times, when, smart under the blows I felt I did not de serve I would get away by myself and swear silent but bitter oaths that would have opened the old gen tleman4seves to bis folly, perhaps, if he could have heard them from so young a child. So I made a vow that I would never beat my own children. And now I feel sure that they do not staud in fear of me, I am pretty sure t'jey tell me the truth, aud I know they confide in me as a friend. And though they do not obey me nearly as implicitly as I did my father, and make them selves mcch more of a nuisance to me than I was to him, yet they do not regard me as a bully, and that is something. New York Tribune. An oldy in Leeeborg, Va-, died from fright on Sunday. Her soa-ins law threatened to kill her and when he went to get his pistol she fell down aud dit d. i lev. P C Ilenkel D D Dead It is painful to announce in onr columns this week the death of this grr, and good man. Polvcarp Ovnran Ilnkl, tb son of Rev. David Henkel, war, horn in L'ncoln vnntv, N. O., Au- rrnat OA TO OA ..A i . io4u, wi-u i nii notn m " n . iiover, oepi.i'b, 18-SU aeel 60 erq. i month, and 6 duv. Hm eath insulted from partial naralv- is of the heart afrran illness of hrnt two dav. ineuocpaaed ws no ordinarv imii. nHrnre gave him a fin eonstirnion such as few mu p-s sss. She aNo endowed him with a vigorous intellect, superior in qca'i tv and power, snch as 8h bestows edupon few men.Spirifoally he wan eifted of God with strong faith wlllnti hrA,it.f I i. . . i ........ x,uii. ui it-aiiu iiironum ble subjection to the word of Goi. As a student and theologian, he was a man among men, the fore, most not only in his own svnod but also in his own church in the South. He was ever an earnest en. quirer and searcher after truh, and an uucompromising foe. of error wherever found. Iu the wphere of polemics be, perhaps, had uo supe rior. His power as a controversi alist was tested again and ngain, in which he always proved himself fully eqnal to the task. As an ex pounder of God's word and guide in spiritoal things he was always safe, because he was always on the side of the Scriptures: As a pastor he was gentle, humble, and faithful ly conscientious fn bis ministry. As a husband and father, he was ten der, devoted and affectionate a truly modl min. He was, in short j a good and faithful servant whose life and work have been bles?ed to hundreds aud thousands of souls. Dr. Henkel to be appreciated needed to be known. Those who knew tiim best loved him most, lie was a truly genuine christian, "without partiality and without hypocrisy." He lived to please God, and to finish the work sriven him to do. Now that this work is done thousands will rise up and call him blessed, and thank God for so good, so great a man. Being dead he will continue to speak and to live in the hearts of those to whom be ministered so long aud so faith fully and in ibeir children and chil dren's children. His impress upon the church wiW be fVIt now that b is gone to his reward,perhaps more than if he was etill living. H" did more to mold and sape the Lutherean Church in the South than perhaps any min living or dead. He was strong in the Lord, and in the power of bis might, bev cause He was mighty in the Scrip ptures which were to him the yea aud the amen of God. His remains were committed to the ground in Christian order at St Peter's Lutheran Church, Oa tawba county, N. C., on las Satur day amid the largest coocoarsd of relatives and friends ever known to attend the funeral service of any man in that county. The pad bear crs were Revs. Bernheim, Koiner Yoder, Schaid, Little and Rodisill. Rev, J. M- Smith, the first theolog ical student of the deceased and the senior pastor present, coudact ed the funeral services. Remarks were also made by all the ministers present, showing tbe h;gh esteem in which Dr. Henkel wa held by his brethren. Many and bitter tears were shed because of the great loss to the cburcb and the oinmunity. Confessedly; a good and great man has gone to his long home. It is isnotstrange thet tbe mourners go about the streets. Text: "I havefooght a good fight I have finished my course; I have kept the faith, henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteous ness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me in that day.'' Servant of God, well done! Faith ful ur.to death! Fare thee well!' Dallas Eagle. An exchange tells us that among the small industries of the town of Xewberne, N. C, is an ink factory. The enterprise, it is said has aU ready attained paying proportions, aud the concern is now shipping its product to a number of States. A TFHHIIII.t: SPECTACLE Tli 4 w ful Denth or a i.lneinnn It j an Elec trle C'nr rent In hf j.rppnce ol thousands of people John E. Ff. Peeks was killed yesterday afternoon in a network of electrio wires at,aehed to a pole at the corner of Chambers and C-n tre streets. Fe-ks was foreman of tbe lineman employed by the Wes tern Union Telegraph Companv, aud be had c!im!ed the pole to cut a dead wrie of that corporation. He reached tbe foorth of the nine cross- ties, and then settled doin to sever the dead wire. It was -observed that he carefully avoided a cable to his right, which was known to be live, but in circling tbe pole with bis left hand, be touched another live wire. He was shocked. Th Impact of che shock took away his strength, tbe right arm fell on tbe cable that had been so carefully avoided, and the chin and nose came in contact with other live wires. A perfect electric connection was formed. The currant began at once its fatal work. Tbe stages of its dead ly progress were easily observed by the rapidly growing crowd of spec tators. First from the right arm sparks that gathered almost into allies shot ou. Then trickled from the limb large, black drops of blood, that fell to the sidewalk and made the awe-stricken crowd form a circle around the quivering form above them. Two thousand people were within 52 feet of the qoiveriug body, but not one could arrest the work of the deathdeaiing current. Bnt the most terrible results were et to come. In a few seconds the left arm began to emit sparks, and from it also fell to tbe ground spat tering drops of blood. And then tbe neck and head showed that tbey were at tbe mercy of tbe death dealing current, and fire and smoke proved bow thoroughly its victim was at its disposal. Five thousand people bad now gathered around the cradle of death. The silence of the grave prevailed. As the body of poor Feeks settled more and more into the fatal embrace of tbe net work of wire, sighs from hundreds ol Urea's could te twar ', !ut lhose only made the qu et that followed more impressive. Those around Fek's death couch ot wires, though riveted to tbe soot, gave oul.v f irt've glances to ward his convu'sed ad charred body. The sceue ws too horribH sickening for even tbe most hard ened to gazti upon it tor a moment Btt these spasmodic glances were sufficient to prove that the man who but a few moments before had mounted the pole in the full vigor of manhood bad met with a sudden and horrible death. A robust veteran, hose hair wa- streaked with gry, be t cried from tbe sickening spectacle pre sented, as the disfigured corpse was taken down, from the death cradle, said : "During all my experience in the war I never saw anything so terri ble as this." y. Y. Star, 12th. A lady who owned much real es tate one Sunday saw one of her ten ants at work in the garden. She reproved bim askiug if be did oot know he was breaking the third commandment. "I break it no more thn yourself, my lady." "Why!" said she in astonishment. "You never saw me at work on Sunday?'' "No," was tbe answer ; "nor or any other dy, and don't the command ment read, -ix dys sfmlt thou labor1 fn An Interesting Fact. Why do birds not fall from tbe perch when they are a.-!eep Because they cannot op n the foot when tbe leg is bent. Look at a hen walking and see it c'ose the toes as it lifts its foot, and open them as it touches tho ground. Evangelical Messenqer. 16. A Nasal Injictor free nith each bottle of Shiloh's Catarrh Kemedy. Price 50 cents. For sale by John Reedy & Co. UHESIHWON CLEVELAND. A Uepublleau' Ftluiale or the M- orUeftllny. A special f-otn Columbus, Vi o the Milw uik 'e Journal, sys : Jud;e Walter Q. Grtwh mi, who passed through this city the other day, talked politics freely with a gentleman whom he met ou the traio. He admitted that Harriou'i idminiatration is uot proving a suc cess, and he gave his opiuioa as to the causes. As he was not speak ing for publication, and his criti cisms of the President were quite personal, it is uot fair to give them for publication. Tbe'signidcant part of the Judge's remarks was regard, ing ex.Presideut Cleveland, lie spoke iu very high terms of Mr. Cleveland's admiuistratiou, and said it was remarkable how fast tbe people are coming to look upon him as a very strong aud courageous man, who did his duty under cir cumstances that would have over whelmed a weaker character. Judge Gresham believes that Mr. Cleve laud will oe renominated in ISO-, and says he can see no possible way in which he can be deteated at the polls. A Punctuatlou luzzle. The following article forcibly ib lustrates tbe necessity of proper punctuation. It can be read m two ways, describing a very bad n u or a very good man, the result de pending upon the mauner in which it is punctuated. It is very well tforth the study of all : "He is an old and experienced mau in vice and wickedness he is never found iu opposing the works oi iniquity he takes delight iu the downfall of his neighbors he never rejoices in the prosperity of bis fel low creature he is always ready to assist iu destroying tbe peace of society be takes no pleasare in ser, ving tbe Lord he is uncommonly ddigent in sowing discord among his friends and acquaintances he takes no pride in laboring to pro mote the cause of Christianity he has not been negligent in endeavor ing to stigmatize all public teachers he makes no effort to subdue his evil passions he strives hard to build up Satan's kingdom be lends no aid to tbe support of tbe gospel among the heathen he contributes rgely to th Jevil he will revrr :o o heaven he must go where tie will eceive the just re'oaipene of re ard." Would you like to o.y a dog-kin, "If it is a good one I will buy if.'' "A good one? "vV iy, it was taken .ff the fattest dog you ever saw. H vas dreadful fat ob, you never di I ee anything like it! He was as tat as fat ob, be was almighty fat !" "But I don't know aboot fat dog's skins being ao vey good. I lave heard they were tender." "Oh bat wall I don't know a L can say he was so durned, thun deration fat after all.'' flbeuinatlHui aud Catarrh. Iibeuinatism aud catarrh are both blood diseases. In many severe cases they have yielded to treatment with b. b. b. (Botanic Blood Balm), made oy Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, G. Write for book of convincing proofs. Sent free. 11. P. Dodge, Atlanta, Gau, says: "My wile had catarrh aud notbiug dia her any good. Her constiutiou finally failed aud poison got into ber blood. I placed ber on a ue of B B B., aud to my nurprise her re covery was rapid and complete." W. P. McDaniel, AtUnta, Ga., writes : UI was much emaciated and had rheumaticm so bd I oou: 1 not get along without crotche3. I a'so had neuralgia iu the head. First c!a3 physicians did me no good. Then I tried B B B., and its eSVcta were magical. I cheerfully recom mended it as a good tonic ajd quick care.'' Mrs. Matilda Nichols, Knoxville, Tenn says: I had catarrh fiixyeart ind a most distressing cougu, and my eyes were much swollen- Five bottles of b b b., thank God! cured me." John M. Davis, Tyler, Texjs, writes: "I was subject a number of years to spells of inflammatory rheumatism, which ix bottles of bbb., thank heaven, has entirely cured. I have not felt the slightest pain since.''
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