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LINCOLN TON, N. C, FRIDAY, DEC. 6, 1SS9.
NO. 31
.SS TBE SHJX :
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N0TK7E
By virtue of a decree made at last i
jexax of Sopenor Court for Lincoln
vonoty, lam authorized . to sel.(
PiiTately some valuable real estate1
in the town of Liocolotou al30 a1
raluable plantation within a few
p iles of town, known as the - Phifet
;iltatiou. . Will be glad to
ccfertntb parties deslriog to par
. : C.E.gChilds.
-;.commis8oner.' '
' Oct. 11, 18S9. - " tf . '
TUH BIO M ATCH.
It I YE D
Goods.
THOMAS C. WETMORE.
COVERING A PERIOD OF MH5EE
FOR 3-00. .
WAITING FOIt'lo CENTS.
NOTICE-
iTT-AYIXG qaaUfied as Adaiin-
JL-L trator of M. A. Little, a?ca.,
I hereby notify all persons having
claims against said Estate to pre
sent same to the undersigned, cu or
before Not. 25r 1890, or this notwoe
will be pleaded in bar of their nv
covery. Persons indebted to said
estate will please make prompt pay
ment. A: NIXON, Adrur. of M.
A. Little. Iot. 22, 188ft. tt.
! FAITH Mc4WI.VS TII AXKH
IVIXU
A wild, fitful November storm,
wit the rain coming down ia tor
reuts. Tbe wind sobbed and moauel
jf'oat Faith .McAlpio'e cottage win
dows and iu (he chimneys, as if tl
great heait of nature was con
vulsed with gtief.
The leafless branches of the old
elm scratched agaiust tbn window
pane, and one could scaicely im
agiue a more de?ola'e nitht in
autumn than the one of which I
write.
A long stretch of country road
that wound down a steep bill and
into the peaceful valley of Olover
ton was drenched and washed into
gullies, and dowu this same way
came a horse and carriage slowly,
uncertainly, as though unaccus
tomed to the road. A single occu
pant bad the carriage, a figure so
muffled that m the intense dark;
ness it was impossible to Jell
whether tbe solitary person was a
villager or a stranger.
Cloverton was a pleasant little
village, nestled down in a great, fer-
I tile valley tbat lay between two im-
t meDse bills', and the inhabitants of
i
'ttr e, place were not crowded, but
bartJ gardens and lawns, with trees
a to .shrubbery grouped about their
n white houeee, aud in summer
CU Vrton was enchantingly beau
tiful Ti tewttage which we have inec
tione x3l tood further down the vaU
ley, q'.BEte .removed from the village,
thoug h not out of sight, and a little
beyonu' the cottage a tiny brook
that thtreaIed its way across tbe
road wa. ? spanned by a biidge of
two or tb ren jplatnks. But the stream,
usually sO jsnjaJL, wa swelled by
tbe heavy ratn, and rushing along
like a thing of Jiie, in its mad
career it had swept away the little
bridge, tlins leaving" gully across
tbe track, and as the horse with in
stinctive dread turned from the
danger, a sudden lurh upset the
carriage. ancV ihrfw out tho occu.
pant, whjle the auijnai broke from
his fastenings and dashed down the
was tbe week before thanks-1
giving.
Faith McAloiu sat before a nice,
cheery little fire, in her pleasant
sitting-room.
One arm leaned Upon bef hand,
and she seemed m a reverie a sad
reverie, ii one judged by tbr
ows in her dark hazel eyes, the or
rowfnl carve of her lips, and the
sigh tbat came up at intervals from
her bosom;
She was alone, and tbe only
sounds that broke the stillness were
the pathetic meanings or the wind
and rain, tbe harsh grating of the
elm branches against tbe window,
and inside the crackling of the
wood fire that spoke of comfort and
hopefulness.
It was a cozy room, not luxnrious,
but eminently home-like in its' ap
pointments, and the lamp-light
shone upon the deep crimson cur
tains and carpet, tbe terre-covered
chairs and sofa with a cheerful
glow, and lingered " caressingly
among the. ornaments -upon the
mautel and upon tbe pictures on
tbe wall.
The room showed, despite the
plainness of the furniture, that a
woman's hand had arranged it, that
a woman's taste had lent a cbarm
to its adornment.
Faith McAlpin had lived all her
life in this cottage, for it was her
birthplace, and bad been left her
at the death of her father.
Many wonder tbat she did. not
sell aud go away from its sad asso.
ciations, but it. was home, she said,
and so with faithful Hannah Lee,
who had been ber father's houFe
keeper after tbe death of her moth
er, she lived there still.
She was a gentle, winning girl,
and loved by all who knew her,
bat there was a shade of sadness in
her eye?, a earning passionate
pain in her heart, for Faith McAlpin
ence bad a lover, but his aristocrat
ic mother was not willing tbat her
son should wed the daughter of a
country parson, and though Ralpb
Berthold would have defied the will
of bis mother, when Faith came to
know it, he refused to fco nv tin
wife, and be bad gone away gone
in anger, too because of hr re
fusal.
i
' Fivh ears h id gonbv,au.l Faith
McAlpin wa iwHitv-five.
A-lonely t-life teemed to her
portion, and she resolutely st her
self the task of crushing her own
selfish sol row by miuisterinir to the
needy and mitterinp, and amoDg
the poor and low'y of Cloverton she
wa ever welcome guest.
The deid past he put behind
ler, 8nd gave herself little time for
vain regrets, but sometimes, when
sitting alone, as on this stormy
night, she allowed herself the
doubtful comfort of calliug up old
memories, and a packet of letters
bound with a blue ribbon had just
been perused, then refolded, to be
laid away again among ber precious
treasures.
, Though it w3s utterly impossible,
she-thought, that Ralph Berthold
should ever be anything to her, still
ic was pleasant to know that he
had loved ber.
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all,
and ber heait would be true to its
love.
After their final parting Ralph
Berthold had gone to Europe, and
Faith bad heard tbat he was to be
married to a lady of wealth and
distinction.
After a while she arose, put the
packet of letters in her cabinet, and
took up a bit of fancy knitting, but
she could not banish the old mem
ories so easily ; a presentiment of
impending evil oppressed her, and
she was glad when Hannah came
in from the Kitchen to talk of
thanksgiving preparations, for ak
though she took little interest in
the day, anything was preferable to
her own sad thoughts.
Then they discussed the all im
portant subjects of roast turkey,
plum podditfg, and pumpkin pies,
while-Faith, with seeming interest,
gave. Hannah, permission to go on
in the way she bad always done,
and the good woman went back to
the kitchen to arrange ber culinary
programme to ber own satisfaction.
: Half an hour later Faith McAlpin
was started by the sharp ringing of
the bell, and in a moment Hannah
came in with the exciting informal
tion that a man had been thrown
from bis carriage down by the
bridge, and tbr they were bringi
ing him there.
Soon the mn came in, bearing
carefully the:r unconscious burden.
Faith did not cry out or faint at
the sight, but set herself to work
with a will.
She brought stimulants and hea
ted soft blankets to wrap about tbe
injuredv.maB ; but wbn she came
and looked down into the palid and
apparently lifeless face, her own
face was not less pale, for there,
stretched npon the lounge, senseles,
perhaps dying, was Ralph Berthold,
her lover.
Had fate, or rather a merciful
providence, sent him to her home!
She did not stop to question, but
chafed his cold hands and teuderly
batbed his bruised and wounded
face, and when the doctor came be
ordered tbe utmost qjuiet, the closest
care, fearing an injury to tbe brain.
Faith McAlpin had been given
the blessed task of winning back to
life, if it might be, the man she
loved, and no sufferer- ever bad a
more careful nurse-
None knew her secret, for not
even, the doctor recognized in tbe
unconscious man the elegant. Ralph
Berthold, who, five years before,
had spent the summer in Cloverton.
Several days passed before he
recovered consciousness, but tbe
iojury was less severe thau the
doctor anticipated, and one mom
iog he opened bis eyes suddenly to
find Faith McAlpin tenderly bath
ing his heated brow.
"Ob, Faith," he exclaimed, as he
drew her face down to his and
pressed a kiss upon her lips ; "am I
in heaven, or is this a dream !"
And Faith, blushing in sweet
confusion at his earnestness, ans
swered :
"Neither."
After that Ralph recovered rap
idly, and when thanksgiving day
arrived he was able to sit at the
table, Faith McAlpin honored
guest, and her accepted lover, for
Ralph Berthold's mother was dead,
and there was no longer any obsta-
le to their union ; th hppj.
ness so long delaved came at last
to render their future life on long
thanksgiving d ay.
Bertha Bertov.
From OH Homestead Savannah, Ga.
.
Significant Utterance.
Ky the Commercial Cable to the Herald.
Herald Bureau, )
No. 49 AVENXE de l'Opera, -Paris,
Nov. is, 1880. S
"I am not in the least surprised
to know that Brazil has at last
decided for a Republic,'1 said Erailio
Ca9telar, the Spanish statesman, to
me today. "In fact my only wonder
is that she did not do so sooner. It
is only a few weeks since I assured
a prominent French statesman that
the teudency in Brazil was irresis
tibly in that direction. To one who
has, as I have, studied tbe con
dition of things in South America
it has long been apparent that the
thinking classes there were too
deeply imbued with the spirit of
republicanism to make any other
form of government more than tem
porary. Dom Pedro hs always
tried to conceal this from Europe,
and he had more or less succeeded.
"It is simply ridiculous to claim
tbat the revolution in Brazil was
due to the recent abolition of sla
very, for tbe men who have had the
most to do with the overthrowing
of the Empire are precisely the oues
who brought about the liberation
of the slaves, and in both cases they
were simply acting in accordance
with the enlightened ideas of the
century.
AS TO PORTUGAL.
"As the effect this revolution my
have upon Postugai, while I do not
feel entitled in prophesying that it
will lead to the establishment of a
republic in tbat country, lam con
ince' it will have a diiect and
marked effect in liberalizing the
policy of the Portuguese monarchy.
Tbe two nations are really but one,
with the same language, customs
and tendencies, and the ection of
Brazil cannot but icact powerfully
upon Portugal. Besides, I have
reason to know that many of the
most irjfiueu rial and able Portu
guese writers and orators, such
men as Latino Ceeibo and Beossio
Braza are heart and soul iu favor of
a republic.
THE EFFECT OF SPAIN.
"In Spain, I think, the immediate
effect of the South American up
heaval will be less maiked. Were
we under a conservative monarchy,
unpopular with the masses, I should
think differently, but the govern
ment of Spain is very liberal, and
is, of its own accord, app'oaching a
point where republicanism . will
assert itself as a ma tier of course,
by the universal consent of the
people. There is uo need of precipe
itating that movement, but all the
countries of Europe may well find
food for reflection in this almost
unprecedented event.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT-
Think of it ! They awake one
morning, these tottering relics of
worn out-absolotism, and fiud that
a nation almost as large as all of
them put together has in the twin
kling of an eve and without vio
lence changed from an empire to a
republic- The revolution is over,
and a new order of things will be
established before, they are aware
tbat the old order was compromised
or tbat a revolution was threatened.
Cutiou", is it not? And th-y may
at Jeast open their eyes to the fact
that mankind have entered upon an
era of re aon and are no longer to
be driven against their fellows in
murderous herds and slaughtered
by thousands like unreasoning
brutes to suit the caprice of some
vain autocrat who boasts that God
made him their master.
A PROPHECY.
''No ! The sway of autocracy on
this old continent is nearly ovVr. If
there is any one thing I believe
with all my heart it is that before
fifty years Europe will be repub
lican from end to end. and I believe
i the change will be brought about
without the horrors of war, as easily
as it has just, been brought aUuit
in Brazil; as naturally as a man lays
aside one coat and puts on another,
U-rausn lie iikestb other beter.
TMe people rf Knrnpw , p rovint'
w if r rv t i-ar sHim '-ffpr
wbif art rh intr'.
WK ARE THE PEOPLE.
They will one day sav to their
kings, queens, emperors and prin
ces : 4Ve are masters her. After
1 this conntrv our-. not yours.
There is the door. .Go!"
And then, king, queens, emper
ors and princes will go, and ir will
be a beinf'fnl sijrhf.
You look incredn'o'is and think
me a Uonit; But wht wonM you
have thought lal l toM yon a week
ao that todav fh 'npire of Brazil
would b -. republic I A 1 said, I
beliv flies rer change will be
accomplished without war. nor lo I
bfbeve Europe is now threatened
with war."
.4 Owarlly Party.
The Republican party is on the
ragged edge. It never had much
principle, and what lilt'e it had it
has abandoned for expediency. It
is a cowardly party, anf when the
people crack tbe whip, its leaders
cring like whipped spcorels and
get to their kenne's. When the
sentiment for protection seemed to
be in the ascendencv, they stuck
tfie feathers high in their hats and
strutted as the loud-mouthed
champions of protection, but as the
tide turned and the people began
to see through the arrant humbug
gery of this so-called protection,
they began to tuck in the feathers,
play mum, and finally when they
found tbe tariff reform sentiment
become so strong as to be danger
ous they hustled to the front and
announced themselves tariff refor
mers now, from the big chief who
distributes the offices in Washing
ton to the little puppet tbat dances
when he pulls the wires.' They are
tariff reformers from fear not from
principle.
So they coquetted with the pro
hibition movement in States where
the prohibition sentiment, was pret
ty strong, openly endorsed it when
it was stt.,ir i nu2h to win at the
b"!'ot b -X and wer non committal
in Stat s where they were doubtful
as to the situation, lacking the mor
al courage to act. honestly in any.
Now they are trying to hedge and
recover some of the ground they
have lo"t by rhangiog front and
proposing a repeal of the prohibitory
a'vs in Iowa, and Kansas, to con
ciliate the anti-prohibition vote,
which is an important factor in
these and other Western States.
Here agan they are actuated by
expediency, for they have no pnn-
c'p'e in this either.
So with the trusts. Even only as
far b;ck as one year ago who ever
beard of a prominent Republican
politician declarii g against trusts?
Who ever heard one of them say
that the trusts had not tbe right to
exist and -ply their business after
their own methods?
What one of them was ever beard
to dissent from James G. Blaine's
declaration that :trusts were mere
ly private enterprises, withwllch
tbe public had nothing to do"?
Which one of all the leading Re
publican journals of the country
was found io oppose or denounce
them ! Hut since tbe people have
begun to demand that the trcst
shall be throttled we find Senator
Shenjan. Senator Allison, and Sen
ator Ingalls all ready to cuff the
trust which one short year ago they
coddled and supported, and even to
strangle and bury it. They are not
actuated by principle either, but
merely from fear and truckling ex
pediency, which deserts and de
nounces to-day the thing which
they fondled and nourished yester
day. So on the pension question. They
appealed to the support of the sol
diers in tbe lst campaign, as tbev
have done in all their campaigns,
on the ground that the Republican
party was tbe friend of the soldier,
and that they would in tbe event Of
.the defeat of Mr. Cleveland, who
had dared to veto so many pension
bills, be liberal to the soldiers, who
bad "saved the Union.'7 Corporal
Tanner canvassed Indiana and
"plastered it," to use his own ex
pression, "all over with promises of
iteral pensions," and thus. he says,
saved that State (with Dudley's
block five) to Il-irri-on. After
the election, when fanner inaugu
rated iin-l carried our th policy
which he said, be would -with the
full endorsement of - Einrrfeoo.- and
the leaders of tbe party, and the
popular protests began to roll iu
against Tanner's modeof shovel
ling out the money in tb- treanrv,
they bounced i bim aud tm.le him
suffer for doing what he i nu-iisd
to do with their full knowl e1e nod
consent. They did not bodun Ti,
ner because tbey disapproved of b h
acts, but because tbey feared tbe
people who did disapprove of them.
Cringing, crawfishing, cowardice
are the characteristics of the party
now, the sole aim of whose leadeia
is to keep iu power, aoQ who resort
to all sorts of dodge and trickery,
however disrepotable, to accom
plib that. There is not one can.li-1,
honest,true aud manly leader fry tbe
whole gang. Their brave .leader
are all dead. What are left ai
simply sneaks and timeservera.
Wilmington Mornin-j Star.
Some very rich gold finds have tetn
reported from Montgomery .county
within the past week, placer wash
ings which are pronounced to be ex
traordinarily rich. Thebo Saunder,
the owner of one of the properties on
which these discoveries 'have been
made, has about one hundred men
employed washing on shares. He
has recived as his share up to tb
time reported 2,000 penny weights
of gold. It is said to be the richest
discovery ever made in that coun
try, in which rich gold fields nre
not a rarity. Toese late big atrikei
are creating" coesiderable excite
ment. Morning Star.
.
Outtlng Dowu Mire
Cleveland, Ob io, No v. 25. The
citizens of Cleveland are up iu arm
against the electric street car motor
wires in the 6treets. From 7 o'clock
yesterday UDtil sundown a big foice
of linemen under the tiie d-par.-ment,
Chief Dickinsou, have been at
work cutting and slashing down
wires. Scores of live telephone
wires have been sacrificed in the
interest of public safety. Tbe p'eople
are intensely excited and another
acc:denr, gocb as the killing of a
horse Friday, will lead to ah 'open
assault upon the heavily 'charged
electric wires. Nearly one" 'hundted
workmen were employed Saturday
climbing over roofs'and to 'the topi
of poles seeking foV wires liable to
fall into the streets. Great crowds
congregated on the streets and
cheered the linemen as wire after
wire was chopped down and de
stroved. iWicv? and Observer.
Mercurial Poison.
Mercury is frequently injudicious
ly used by quack doctors incases of
malarial and blood "poison. Its after
effect is worse than the original
disease, e. b. b. (Botanic Blood
Balm) contains no mercury, Jbut
will eliminate mercuria-l poison from
the system. . Write to Blood Balm
Co , Atlanta, Ga,, for . lx?ok of com
vinping proof of its curative virtue..
A. F: Brittain, Jackson, Tepn.,
writes: 'I caught roalar-a in Louis
lana, and when tbe fever at Vast
broke, my system whs saturated
with poison, and I had sores in my
mouth and knots oa my tongue.. I
got two bottles e. b. b., which healed
my tongue and mouth aud made a
new man ef -me.- - ' ,
Win. Richmond, Atlanta, Ga.,
writes: "My wile could ba'd.y see.
Doctors called it' sypb'ilric iritis.
Her eyes were in ' dreatiul co'ooTi
tiou. Her appetite failed, she had
pains in . her . joints ' and - boas,
ller kidneys were deranged also,'
and no one thought sie could be
cured. Dr. Gillam i- oaimeoded b.
b. b which she ued until her
uea!th was entirely reitored.7'
K. P. B. Jones, Atlanta, Georgia,
writes: "I was troubled with cop
per co'orefJ er options, loss of a
perife, paio in back, aching joVuis,
debility, emaciatiou, loss ofha7r,
sore turoat, aud great uervousuess.
B- B- B. put my system in fine con
dition." Itch, Mange,- and Scratches 'on
human or animals cured in 30 min
utes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotioo.-
J This never fails. Sold by J.M.Law.
ing, Druggist, Lincolnton.