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7" Sfc if m Iff ! Ill IS. ; : II II: III I F h..-. II 1131 III Vol 1 1 1. LINCOLN TON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 1889. NO 28 II y A Vision In thinking of what the State ot ttuuth Carolina in doing for her bovs wbile she is leaving her girls t light lile's battles alone and un aided a kort of vision, as it were, :aiiie across our mind and it whs Qch a sad one that we cannot re iraiu Irom telling it. We imagiued that we Haw a young man and a youug woman, both without means, approach the Mate House and knock at itH por tain. They were njet at the thres hold by a reat dignitary, clothed m the purple robes of State, who asked them their mission. Sad'y they both told him ihat they were without education and without the njtaus ot obtaining it ; the yoang man was btioug aod robust while Jhe girl was delicate. The great fctaie dignitary grasped the young man warmly by the hand and poiut ing him to the grand University told him to enter there through its wide open doors and be educated ud trained and fitted for his life work, or if he preferred he could go to the citadel iu Charleston and be educated there all at the State's expense- While listeuiug to all this the eyes of the fair joung girl sparkled wuh hope and expectancy, but alas for humau hopes. The great State Uguitary turned to her, aud in toues ot alTected sympathy and tenderness told her that he was orry, but the State could do noth ing for her, but that she would have to look out for herself as best she could. That the State could not aid her girls iu preparing themselves lor the battle of life, that she pro P ed to give her boys the best uainiug possible for the different avocations but could do nothing to aid her girls in obtaiuing instruc tion in the industrial arts and sciences. He told her, however, in a sort of apologetic tone that if she ouId manage to get au education herself and theu wanted to become - teacher she might possibly get a year's scholarship in the Winthrop Training School. A few years afterwards ;this y oung man seeks a position in the industrial pursuits or wishes to es tablish himselt in a chosen profes sion aud he goes armed and equip ped with the State's diploma and strong letters ot recommendation lrom the State's great professors. The youDg woman is forced to make her own living and seeks from place to place without success. All the industrial aveuues of life art closed to her, lor she has not been j traiued and equipped. Everywhere! be seeks employment she is forced away by the young man the State has educated aud trained. In dis pair she goes away ; the bright sur. of lile sets almost before it has arisen. Her brain is on flre;sh leels and falls and those who come to puk her up pity her. The State dignitary passes along aud says Voor git'," u,.ve oice stopping to think tuat the Hail creature has betnhteralU killed up by the State's injustice. .Do you c ill this a strongly drawn picture? Well, it may be but it is jus: what the greai Oommon wealth ot Sourti Carolina, which has al ways boasted of her chivalry, i doing tcday, and we hang our heads in shame because the picture we have drawn is true. - It we would elevate the race and advauce our civilization, we must fctet elevate aud ennoble our women and there is nothing more calcula ted to elevate aud slreugtbeu the character of our women than to educate their minds and hearts and iiaiu their bauds, thus giving them feelings of iodepeudeuce. The State should lose ho time in establishing upon a broad and lib erai basis au uuiversitj for her girls into which shall be incorporated a echool of technology where all the Industrial arts are taught, for as stated iu a previous article every consideration of jastice, reason, ch valry, patriotism aod statesman ahip demands it. Our civilzation and our destiny rests upon the shoulders ot our women, and every industrial avenue should be opened to them, and every possible help mould be extended to our girls by the State to fit them for their tre nendous duties and responsibilities Shall our hopes be realized? Yes. For we believe that God ia workiug u the minds of men and bringing about a revolution in the public jonscieuce'upou this subject. Men are waking up to a Rente of their luty iu this respect. 'All through the ages one eternal purp jse runs, A.ud the thoughts of men are widen- ing with the proceks of the suns," aod t'ey ate widening with re spect to this very thing. God speed the day. Sumter Advance. OUR LITTLE UK BEL When the confederates came swarming acros the Crewa farm to reach us on Malviu Hill, we knew that they were coming to dea-b aud defeat. We had beeu driven back from the Chickahominy step by step and day by day, fighting fierce battles at every rallying point but this was the end. Malvern Hill crowned with troops and bristling with canou wa? impregnable. I was posted on the point looking toward the Crew's hoose in the dry bed of creek. It, was a capital r.fle pit, and we packed in there so thick Chat we scarcely bad elbow room. As the legions iu gray attacked, our rapid fire, assisted by the batteries above us, was enough to demoral ize the lines without the mfantrv higher up firing a gun. Magruder must have beeu nsaue tbat afternoou to send bis men to their death across that open as he did. We could see them com out of the forest in splendid foimuion, and a they got the order to a-ivanc their step was like clock work. Ther was a meadow with hardly a sump in it stretching away brfore o for a half mile, and the confederates had uot the slightest cover. Be;n so low down, we ceuld see under the smoke, and it was enough to make your flesh creep to see the havoc' worked by our shell before th line got within musket range. Ti- man on my left laid down his musket and prayed God that the rebel would go back and put an et d to the horrible work. Then, wb n tbey pushed on and got within range, there was a flame all along our mile front flame after flame and u t a rebel within stones throw. The last charge, made just at twilight, was the most desperate t all. The lines started with h veil and charged on the run,and though hundreds went down other buu- : 'reds kept ou. We shattered and scorched and withered tbem with' uusketry fire and I finally heard obem sound "retreat". We sprang ip gave tbem a fast voll6.vaud then lasbed forward a tew rods with he bayonet Out ot the smoke aDd larkness suddenly appeared a fig ure on my ftont. There a a blaze and the man on mv rightweut down shot in the shoulder. There was a whizxz z! and the but of a musket lust cleared my had and knocked the man on mv left to the earth- I bad musket at a charge when a voice called out: "Hold od, I surrender!" I went forward aod took hold of bim, and who or what do you sup pose he was! A boy not yet 15 years old aud as pale faced and gentle spoken as a girl. More than that he was wounded in the side in the leg and in the head- We had them diiveu back to stay, and our boys were cheering aud yelling, and I took the boy on my tack aud par ried him beyond the creek and into our lines. He must have been snf fering painfully with bis wounds but he never uttered a groan. I heaped to or three blankets togeth er and made him a bed, but I could get no one to do for htm There was dead and wounded men almost without number around, us, and that last desparate charge had hardly been drivea back before Mc Clellan issued his orders to. fall back to the river under cover of ii . . . . . me gunooats. As my bridge wa8 nearest to the rebels we were the last to move aud it was long after midnight before we got the word. . Meanwhile I had inspected the boys wounds and soothed him as best I could. It was plain that he wasiatallyLbit aud when he realize this he said: "I don't care f.r myself but mo ther poor old mother! And sister Vlary aud little Jim it will break their hearts, Bye and bye he tell into sort of a .stupor which lasted quarter ot an henr. Then he roused himself aod exclaimed: "It was a glorious charge! We knew that we were going to death but never mau hung back never a man lost step ! Were tbey driven back!'' "Yea,"; ; v . uBut we reachod your 1 ues?,? "Yes, a few." "And I was oue!" "Yes, yoor boy. Never a one came nearer than you." "That's grand! They said I would be afraid, hot I wasn't. I didn't feel it wben.I was hit. We were on the double quick. I was cheering hur rah! hurrah !" Half an hour later he was dead. There were three of us beudingov. er him when he suddenly sat up waved his arm aud sought to cheer again, but the blood cb0ked him and he fell back dead. Twenty long years afterwards io a Georgia farm house, I found his mother, old and bent aud gray, and little Jim now grown to manhood, and sister Mary now a woman wife and mother. They knew he fell at Malvern Hill but he had been bur ied among the uuknown and how he died they knew not. Hog Cholera ys. Charcoal. For pigs and fattening bogs give tutbracite coal every few days. Il this cannot be had, get Cumber land coal, and the next best is char coal. These coals are one of the best correctives . for a disordered system, and in a number ot cases experimented on by several large feeders of pigs as well as oui selves, we have found that anthracite es pecially will stop the spread ol cholera, even where it has gotten into the herd- Some years ago we lost some 18 large fattening pigs, aud by nsing anthracite freely the disease was stopped. Our pigs have now the run of the woods, where they have free range and a variety of food, yet we feed coal freely, especially char coal. We burn charcoal ourselves. It is a very easy matter to keep a quantity on band. Make a good fire, and after it freely smother it with sods and a Jittle waier pouie iver it, and a la'ge pile of good co' cau be had. Use it freely. The ap proach of cholera can usually br ooticed by the appearance of large red spo8 gradually turning int running sores back of the ears, lie move sach animals from the rest, give small quantities of laxative food, and feed coal freely to the ick, as well as to the bealtby ani mals. Those having the dieae badly canuot be cured, and had bet ter be at once killed and bornt. A real cholera sick hog caunot be sold for meat without detection in the open market as the appear ance of the animal is against it and none would risk buying such meat. If sold at all, it would be by stealth, and then it -would bem made up into sausage. Pigs should have a wood range, and access to pure water, aud cholera would be rare. Filth, impure water and exposure to intense heat during the summer, will usually, inoculate the auimals with the disease germs which will cause the disease to manifest itself in the early fall. Had the large sums of money spent by our gov ernment for a number of years to eradicate this disease been used in enforcing health laws for the proper feediBg and caring for . these animals, some good might have bten accomplished. As it is, we have hundreds of . ex pensive agricultural books -ub-lished with queer microscopio drawings which bewilder the rea'd er and confuse his ideas, and do lit tle if any good. - Filth heat and impure, also crowding together in numbers will on disease in almost any animal, and only the most rigid inspections ot all meats and severe penalties will be of any use. THE DKlUMKIt S LATEST THICK. lon't Pick Ihe Hinxy Thread From -bin Coat Tnle You Want to re iansheil at. The dinmrner always brings the lttesttiick. Here it Take a spool of white basting cot ton. Drop it into your iuside coat pocket, aud threading a needle with it, pass it up through the shoulder of your coat. Leave the end an inch or so long ou the outside o! your coat and take of Ihe needle. Four men out of five will try fo pick that whole thread ott your shoulder, and will pull ou the tpool until it actually does seem as though your clothes are all bastings, and that they were unravelling not only your clothes but yourself. "I was in to see Wilson Barrett in "Claudiau in Boston hist week,' said the travelling mau. ''It was in the most iuterestiug and pathetic portion of the play. Everybody was wrapt. 1 was sitting bolt upright, and didn't know or care to know a soul around jq. when suddenly I felt some one tugging at the basting I cotton tbat I myself had clean for- gotton. I didn't say a word and did not move. Foot bv foot it unrolled. Half glancing around, I saw a man a total stranger yanking at that thread. His face was scarlet. He had pulled out about ten yards and was now hauling in hand over hand. He didn't dare to stop be cause be bad decorated my back and the whole aile with basting cotton. He hardly dared to go ahead, for he didn't know what por tion of my d Hues? ic iu'eror econ omy be was Ir fling with, li'p! Rip! went the thread. Hand over hand he yanked it iu. The aitde was full of it. 'For Heaven's sake ! will it never end V said Le above his breath. I sat perfectly still aud ran the spool while he pulled. How I wanted to yell. 1 never saw any thing in my life half so luuny. The whole section of the house got onto it. They didn't know whether to laugh at me or him, and some look ed on amazed at the spectacle. At last the stranger behind me gave one frantic rip and yanked out about eleven yards on one bunch, aud as the cotton cot twisted around his watch chain, over his eyeglasses, in his very " hair and filled his lap. I turned aronnd and producing the spool from my pock et said : 'I am very much obliged for your interest and very sorry that I misled yon. Yoa see I have abom e uunuud .n i iwntv-fonr ymds - fr, bur I presume that you 4lon: carp for any m"re to-night. Iam mieftly sorry, but I can't heip mibng.' 'The roan was a modes: sort ol entlemau in appearance. His lce vas red as fire even to his ears. He looked at me and then at the spool. He chanked coor once or twicp, and then as the erowd caught, on a h'g laugh went up rigbt in one ot 'be painful passage of 'Claudtan' and the gent'eman who had inten ded to pull tha; thread off joined in 'he laugh nd said, 'I will square ttiat up on my wife when I get home; but, my friend, I swear to heaven that I did think at one time that 1 was going to undress you where you sat.' "It catches every time, and my own wife has been fooled twice on it.'' Kn II road Men Checked liy Federal Troops. Kausas Cty, M., A special to the Star from Wichita says: The people of Kingfisher, I. T. are great ly excited, and the town is crowded with an unruly mob of railroad hands driven there by Unifed State troops. The survey of the Rock Is land road beiog built to Fort Reno, crosses the line between Oakland City and the Indian Reservation, 7 miles south of Kingfisher. A large gang of men has been grad ing and laying track, and yesterday the west Hue of Oaklaboma ' was reached. There the United States troop3 were congregated to prevent further progress. The railroaders proposed continuing the course of the railroad and onlv ar,er om.- personal confU"s w-ie di i. ea buck r, . . at U.c lutui the bayonets. The Morris Ciue J. F. Stultz of Keidsville, went up to Davidsou College Thursday morn iug. He carried there the stomach heart and part of the liver of the body of D. E. Morris alleged to h av been poisoned by his wife last Aug. Col. W. J. Martin, L. L. I)., Prof- esaor of chemistry oc Davidson col lege is to analyze the body and see if any traces of poison can be lonnd He told Mr. Stultz that he would go to work imiuediatelv and havn his analysis ready ly the next -ourt which conveuHs the 4tlj of N ve n -her. The organs of the b;dv are in glass jars, iu which they wre seal ed bv Dr. Bronghton of Reidsvillt, asristv'd by Dr. Gregory of Greens boro. They were takn to th State cbernist for exi niina'ion and an al.v sis about the 27ih of September but Mr. Stultz says the leai.slatnre has abolished the law that the Mtate Chemist shall exs-nine min. rals or parts of ho'it'8 snspec'ed to re toi. soned. He has had charge ot rhese organs for about a rrmuth. ' hjr lotte Chronicle. The Children not in lit nine. The people who complin that children are disagreeab'e often are as much to Wane for th fa-;t, when it is a fact, as the children them selves are. Is it not you. madam, who today are com men ting on the self eonsciousne! of xcwr neighbors child whoteterday cal'ed attention to the beauty ot her hair and the fast fulness of her dreos? D people would stop sayiug such foolish and harm ful things to children, or of them within their hearing a permanent cause of the unpleasantness of some. boys aod girls would cease to operate. There is nothing except actual solicitation to evil, which ju dicious parents more dread for their children than such kindly intended but mischievous remarks. All who have much to do with the young un stand this danger. Congregational -ist: THE L, A DIES CP IX They Clean out Haley Whis key Shop ane Cliasc liimdonn the Street. DlUE Springs, Mo., Nov. 4 John Haley came here a week ago from Argentine, Kan. and opened a quiet club room. The local laws of B'ne Spii" ae of t?e frirtest pos siMe kind, but a- H.!ey kpt high'oned plac no one intefered with him. Oc Saturday night, how ever, twenty five womn belonging to the temperance organization of ihe town, masked aod armed with c'nb, made an attack on the club room. They broke iu the doors found seven or eizht o'd soaks en gaged in a game of cards. Tney or dered them out of the room and then began knocking the bungs out of beer kegu and wb'skey barrels. Haley made a show of resistance but he was bitou the hbead with clubs aud finally ran down the street with four women atter bim. He escaped in the roller mill. The women then smashed all tbe.bottles and glasses and poured the whiskey in the street. Oae of the old toners who remained ou the sidewalk ap pealed to the women nor fo destroy the whiskey but to take it home and keep it for medic-' purposes ''That's mighty good whiskey, las dies," be cried, ''and the Lord did uot iutend it should be dumped ia the gutter while th ir are so many poor sick people ar.und. i am uot feeling well myself.'' This remark was a signal for an attack and the man ws compelled to take to bis heels. The club room and all its attractions were destroy ed. The women are the leading ma trons of the town. Farmers, like other men, must be Democrats or Republicans, and as the Republican party is chiefly dis tinguished for the advocacy and adoption of measures most hurtful to farming interests, it is reasonable to suppose that farmers who know tl.tir ii.rhln will iffonrl them in tin i . - ' 'ranks of tbe Democracy. Aew Jlerne Journal. ISMZZARD 0 THE CATTLE HAUES. Several CoultojM IVriMh of Cold and Hunger in the Smw llrlli. DENVER, Col., Nov. 5 One of Ihe rults of the terrible blizzard wh-cl swept over eastern Colorado and northern New Mexico ou Thursda aixi rridty ot taut we k reached here toay ftom Folnoin, X. M. On Thursday uijht Henry Miller, the range loremau tor Col. R O, Head, with several cowboys, camped near Sierra Orandt. with 1,801) beef cat which tbey were hold for ;the pur pose ot loading in cars. At 4 o'clock lhat morning a blizzard from the Northwest struck the herd driving the eattle towards Pau Handle, Tex as the cow toys being unable to hold them. Tbe snow was so blinds iog that it was impossible to see fifty feet ahead- Miller called bin men together and they started to follow the herda ud made au ats 'eipt to Leap tnem bunched so far as possible. The men became separated. Oh Friday night one of tbem wandered idto Head's Home raneb half dead with ccld and hunger. He told bis story and a rescuing party was im. mediately sent out, and at noon the frozen bodies of Henry Miller, Joe Martin and Charley J illy were found lying on the open plains not far from Folsom. The other men succeeded in finding their way to camp before bei us overcome with cold. The i or- Astonished Harriet Beecber Stowe's son, tbe Rev. Chas. E. Stowe, of Hartford, Conn., mtit with an experience re cently, which completely nonplused him. One evening quite recently be dined with Mrs. J. W. B ardmar, proprietress ot the Hotel Woodruff. Visiting Mrs. Boardman is a cufp little niece about fiv years of age. She is a regular chatterbox and makes many brigbt remarks dur ing tbe day. Fearing lest the child would astonish the preacher by some outlandish sayiug her aunt warned her to keep mum duriug the dinner. The admonition was listened to with awe and at the table the little One scarcely dared look at Mr. Stowe, not wishing to commit a supposed sin. While The servant was absent from tbe roo-u tbe little girl noticed there was no butter ou her small pink dish. She didn't mind holding her ton gue,bat to eai oren.1 without buiiei Tti.tt wu d never do. f - . k -xuvey id ih. tib n-d lo nu ! . In Id ihe butter d sh ww directly in from of the prearher Wistfully -he gazed at both a few heond Never in her brief exs ence d d site appear so peut-ive. Then gathering a'.l her courage ai-d eleari g hei throat, she said "Dear pastor, will yoa please for Christ's sak, pass Ihe bnttei? ' The Rev Mr Stowe never received such s ock. He leaned ovenu his chair to pick up his napkin, whicb of course had not fa! leu Mrs 15. must at lhat moment arrange a window curtain and tbe other guest wer troubled with a friendly cough and little Mable was self sati-fieo iu tbat "hf had done the proper ca per. jV. E. Farmer. Why he Enjoyed Ihe Dinner Mr. Particular GooJtorm(to the hostess after dinner)Yoirs is the first dinner I've attended his year tbat I really enjoyed. Mrs. Comstick Oh, bow very com plimentary! To what feature of the of the entertainment shll I attrio ute your pleasure? Mr. uoourorm io tne spoon, Mrs. Comstick the spoons. Those placed before me were all of a size and I cannot tell you bow the time usually devoted to speculation as toi which spoon was designed tor course. Boston Bacon. tbe Mr. Nicefellow (o adored one' little brother) There ! You did that errn i very nicely. Here's a peun for yon. Little Brother Oh, ma ! Mr Nicefellow av me a penny. Ma Well, my dear, you should say Little Brother Yes, I know, I shoold say thank you. but I vrxs so s'prised I forgot. You said he hadn't a cent New York Weekly. Our miuister to Mexico, ex-Coa-yresHniau Ryau.ol Kansas, a high tariff Republican, when he was lit Congress, ha had his eyes opeued si lire he. has crossed over into th land ot the MonUzu-uas, aud h learned several things about the practical results of the high tariff upon our trade with that country, nd what is to his credit, he has candor to acknowledge that this high tariff business wh eh he had beeu supporting is a blunder. Hj is now urging the Government aud using all the influence he cau briug to bear to pull down the tariff wall and establish free trade with our sister Republic: Iu his report to the Department of State he says there s $100,000,000 ol trade annually in Mexico which the Uuited States cu and will secure if reoiprscity ba adopted. There is a tine field in Mexico; not only for the American mauulacturer and trader, but for investments of Americau capital iu mines, railroads and other enter prises if it were not for tbediscrim- uating policy of this Government which throws obstacles ia tht way of free commercial iutercourse be tween the two countries, operating to the detrimeut ot our people aud u the interest of their Europeau competors. What folly ! riZiii7. ton Star. IudUcreet Articulation. The little daughter of . d me museum manager came to the tea table the other dav eatinc soma ionfectiouery. "Where did you get it !" asked her father. 'I bought it of pig faced man 'round tbe coruer," be said. Her father rushed out of che house, but soon came back look ing disappointed. "Whom did you say you bought your sweetmeats of ?" he asked. 4'0f the fig paste man 'round the corner," she and swered. "Oh!" said the dime mu seum man, as ho sat down to finish lis supper. Detroit Journal. Next season woeac acreage in the West and the Southwest will bt nuch larger than it has beeu this ar. Near the towu of Wadesboro, N. C, tbero is an immense bed of saud stone in process of formation. Wheu the rock is takeu out, it is so soft that it can be bevu into shape with a common axe or batcbet ; aud after teiog exposed to tbe sun and at mosphere for awhile, it oeM iim very hard aud urates very fiuj building stone. Uhull? Jonrnil. Mercurial foiMi. Men; 'i v is fn-ij .e..-;y . judi; ou- ly i!-d by q'l ck Uocoic iu casea of u hthI an. I blood poison. Its after -lb-el is worse than tbe original tisease. b b. b. (Botsuic Blood Balm) contain no mereurv, but vill eliminate mercurial poison from the svMtem. W nt to Blood Balm Co, Atlanta, Ga, for bojk of eoiii vincing proot of its curative virtue.' A. F. Brittain, Jackson, Tenn., writer: 'I caoght roaiara in Louis' ana, and wheu the fever at last broke, my system was saturated with poiou, and I bad sores in mv moutb and knots on my tongue. I got two bot'les b. b. b., which healed mytougoeand mouth and made a uew roan of me. Wra. Richmond, Atlanta, Ga., writes: "Jly wiie could bardiy see Doctors called it syphilitic iritis. Her eyes were in a dreadful condi tion. Her appetite failed. She bad pains m ber joints and bjnes, Her kdoeys were deranged also, and no one thought se cou'd te cured Dr. Gillam neoT mended b. b. b , which she ued uotil her nealth waseutirelv restored."' K. P. B. Jones, Atlanta, Georgia, writes: "I wis troubled with cop per co'ore J erupt oos, lo-s of ap petite, paiu in hack, ac ting joints, debility, emaciatiou, loss of hair, ore throat, and great uervousoes. B. B. B. put my system in fine con dition." I t.r Viaora Pnl si i.,riM with tVi a I I UP UUJUUUi VI W IC1 u.. beigiitol the river. Prof. Guanine estimates he average amount of 1 8 000,000 cabic feet per minute. A W O VI 'aTDlbCO V JSRY- "Another wonderful discovery ha been m&detnd that too by a lady in this coun ty . Unease fastened its clutchea upon'her and for seven yeare she withstood its se verest test, Out her vital organs wfere undermined and death teemed imminent. For three months she coughed incessantly but could not sleep. She' bought of us a bottle of Ir Kmg'a New Discovery for Con com'jtion and was so much relieved on tak ing fir?t dose that be slept all night and wi:h oue bottle has beta miraculously cured. Her name is Mrs. Luther Lutz. Tnus write W C Uamrick & Co, of Shel by, North Carolina. (Jet a free trial bot le &t Dr. J. M. Lawing's Drug Store.
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