VOL III.
LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JAN. 17, 1890.
NO. 36
"I cannot understand,'' said si Iit
tlo boy. ''what becomes of our sins,
when God rakes them away."
"When you do a sum, Willie, and
take a sponge and wipe your slate,
what becomes of the figures?"
"OI see now," Paid he, "they are
all gone'
And ho God says he will blot ont
our transgressions and will not re
member our sins.
Iu a recent gramrner examination
in one of the Boston schools a class
was required to write a sentence
containing a nonn in the objective
case. One of the boys wrote the
following seutence: "The cow does
not like to be licked " "What noun
is there in the objective case?"
asked the teacher. "Cow", said the
boy. "Why is 'cow' in the objective
case?'' "Because the cow objects to
being licked."
One f the Methodist Bishops ob
eerv d recently: "Many churches
send to me saying: 'Bishop, we
want a man that shall be popular
with the young people;' others say
4we want a mau that thall be popu
Jar with sinners; others, 'we want
a minister that will bo popular with
.everybody.' But no one ever sent
to me and said: "We want a preach
er who is popular with God." A
preacher who is popular with God
ah 1 that is the kind of a mau
congregations ought to seek. Then
Divine power would be sure of at
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Brigadier General V. N. G., Huriingtuu, Vt.
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DIAMOND DYES ,,'2hUCTATED FOOD
PORC SI5 SALES,
Iu order to reduce my large Stock of Cashmeres and Jeans, which
embraces the best assortment in all grades. I have decided to "Cut the
Price" to a mere INCREASE OVER COST. This includes the entire
hue, and it will prove a "big bonanza-' to large families who have not
yet made their Winter purchases. On any and all Dress Goods, I will
sell at a reduction of from 10 to 25 per cent. Dress Buttoua, about 1500
dozen, worth from 10 to 20 cents per dozen, shall all go to the uniform
price of 5 ceuts per dozen. My Stock of Clothing exceeds anything in
the county, and the fact that I sell double the amount of any other house
is the best assurance that my prices are the lowest. Any style and qual
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at short notice. A new lot of Overcoats has just come in and I am ready
to supply the waut of either Meu and Boys.
Special sale of Carpets at 15 cents worth 25 cents.
Business will be generally suspended on Thanksgiving day and my
store closed.
Come and see what a quantity of goods you can buy for a little
money.
I now have a small quantity of Plaids for the benefit of customers
Respectfully, JOHN L. COBB.
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itual life would bloom in the church.
When a woman wants the earth
it is with a view of giving it to some
maD. Bust on Courier.
That mau is truly great who can
at this time of the year be dignified
and haughty in a straw bat. Phih
a deljJi ia Tnqut rer.
The daughter of Iev. Sam Jones
was recently married to W. M:
Graham, a Stenographer of Geor
gia, contrary to the wishes of her
parent s.
It has been proved that the
strength, care and thought expend
ed by the average housewife in
coaxing a weakichested, hollow
backed, consumptive geranium up
two inches, would lift a ton weight
three.quarters of a mile aud raise a
thousand dollar mortgage out of
sight. New York News.
A speaker on the affirmative side
of the question, "Resolved, That
farming pays iu Kansas," had just
takeu the floor at the meeting of a
debating society out in western
Kansas when a fellow on the nega
tive side opened the stove door and
shoveled in three or four pecks of
corn. Kansas City Star-
It is said that the first shipment
of strawberries for this season from
Florida was made last Friday. They
went to New York.
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it. K. Knokr, Watertown, Dakota.
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When llic Train Comes In.
There are eager faces near,
And a half subdued cheer,
As around the curve the cars un
steady spin ;
While impatient feet await
For the opening of the gate.
At the station when the train cornea
in.
There is hand shaking and kiss
ing And inquiries for the missing,
And a searching here and there for
friends or kin ;
There are sad and tearful sighs,
And a waviDgof good-byes,
At the station when the train comes
in.
Then from out the baggage car
Oh, so careful, lest to jar,
Comes along and narrow box amid
the diu :
As the mourners gather round,
There's a fobbing, wailing
sound,
At the station when the train comes
in.
Then the ringing of the bell,
And the whistle clearly tell,
They are ready a new joorney to
begin
For it brooks not to be late,
There are other hearts that wait
At the station when I he train comes
in
Helen F. O'Neill in Family Album.
LIVE IX THE r RESECT.
BY THOMAS W1NECOFF.
Davidson's Monthly.
'Tis pleasant to live again in
memory the happy days of the past,
or in imagination to lift the veil of
a future ever bright. When over
whelmed with the cares and trou
bles of life, bright visions of by
gone happiness often rise to cheer
our gloomy solitude ; and hope,
with soothing voice, sings to us of
an unclouded future. We love, to
touch the keys of memory and stir
all its hidden springs of joy, though
the bitter waters of sadness and
sorrow may sometimes mingle with
the sweet. Memory is indeed a pre
cious store-house ; but we should
be daily adding to its golden hoard
instead of living only amid the
treasures alreadj gathered. Life is
terribly injured when it looks only
backward. We t-hould not be so on-
grossed with the joys of the past
that we are irresponsive to those of
the present. The springtime must
be followed by summer suns, and
summer must give place to the fall
ing leaves of autumn or winter
chilling winds. The springtime had
its work wheu its genial forces sent
the warm currents of life through
the body of sleeping nature aud
woke it from the deatbliko repose
of winter; but it were surely vain
to look for mellow fruit or ripened
grain from the suns of May.
And so with us. Thojoys aud
sorrow of the past were meant to
give us experience, to prepare us
for the work of the present, not to
take its place. The accomplish
ments of the past, however great or
glorious, cannot relieve us from the
responsibilities of the present. They
were merely to give us that much
added power for the duties of to
day. That we did those things then
was iu itself an earnest of other and
greater achievements awaiting us
in the future.
Nor should the sorrows of the
past occupy our minds now. 'Tis
true, they had their message for us,
a message telling of new truths and
bidding our hearts beat to nobler
impulses, and our characters assume
a purer cast ; but useless is the
scaffolding when the structure is
complete ; and instead of even re
remembering these sorrows, we
should retain only their impress on
our hearts.
Not even the follies, mistakes and
sins with which we ourselves have
marred our past, are to be forever
(wept. True repentance is not mere
ly a sorrow, it is a turning away;
St. Augustine has well said that of
our vices we may frame a ladder
that shall lift us to a higher des
tiny. Instead of stopping to mourn
over our Mistakes, we ought to
make each one of them a step in the
stairway that leads to life's great
end. Let each one of them engrave
npon our minds, not a lesson of
continuous grief, but a lesson of Wr
creased wisdom.
' Deem not the irrevocable past
As wholly wafted, wholly vain,
If, rising on its wrecks, at last
To something nob'er we attain."
Even if we have by some fatal
misdeed lessened our possibilities
for usefulness in life, yet do not let
useless grief, which can never undo
the past, lessen them still more.
Though our life may never be what
it would have been but for these
things, though we may again in the
future make other missteps, still it
need not, should not, be ignoble.
Then
"Weep not for the past, 'tis a dream that
has fled,
Its sunshine has vanished, its garlands are
Weep ii';t, child of sorrow, for hope that
Merc thine,
Unblest are the gifts of an unhallowed
shrine :
Thy idol was earthly, thy life-etar has --et;
Bright ftara are in heaven that beam for
thee yet.'"
But as wo should not fill our
mind- with memories of the past,
no more ought we to spend our
days with idle daydreams and air
castles, vain imaginings of the uns
known and unknowable future. As
the hours of the past are gone back
to the God who gave them, so are
those of the future-still at lira com
mand to give or withold; only the
present is ours. ) But this present is
rich in possibilities ; every hour
that God sends is fraught with
golden opportunities, though we
may not always view them as such.
The opportunity of speaking to the
erring a word of kiudly recall, of
relieving the faint, or ot cheering
the hearts that are gloomy and sad,
may seem small things to us now
and of little importance; bur. the
sum of these small things make up
life.
"Small sands the mountain,
Momenta innke the year.
And trifles life."
The way in which wo use these
opportunities of the present will
determine the pattern of our web
of life. The loom of life never stops,
and the pattern which was weaving
when the sun went down will be
weaving wheu it comes up again.
That which we do to-day will he
with us to-morrow. The present
shapes the future, and makes our
past. Bit by bit our character is
taking shape, and our life work
stretching out behind us. In secresy
and silence our character is forming.
Each hour's deeds supply the mate
lial and determine the form and
strength of the fabric, Each day
something new is added, and the
structure rises' steadily aud quietly
as the coral reef rises beneath the
sea. Wo cannot dream ourselves
into, a character ; but while we are
idly dreaming of future usefulness,
we are fast losing the power ot
being useful. If we have a noble
life, we must by daily practice ham.
mer aud forge it out for ourselves.
The wide universe is fail of good,
but neither present nor future will
ever bring us one morsel of it ex
cept by our own endeavor. Then
let us grasp that good while yet we
may, before by our idleness we lose
the power and opportunity ot en
deavor. Our to-days are last slip
ping away into the great ocean of
yesterdays, and life too short to
lose one moment. Every to-day
has a work which no to-morrow cau
perform, and an hour wasted is gone
beyond recall. Then act, act in the
living present, which constitutes
our sole but sure possession.
''The present is ours,
To shroud it in sadness, or gild it
with flowers;
To sink on life's ocean or find on its
wave
A halo that wakes e'en the grave'
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To tho Southern Ires.
There are matters of moment to
which the Manufacture!;' BE
conn would call the earnest atten
tion and candid consideration of
Southern editors and press corres
pondents. It is the universal custon to make
as much as possible of every local
sensation. Leaded headlines em
phasize whatever news item seem
to be especially exciting, an 1 re:
porta of local occurences are padded
with all the verbiage they will bear.
All this" is well enough. The
happenings of a neighborhood are
of more interest to the immediate
citizens than are affairs elsewhere,
however great may bo their actual
importance. It does not follow,
however,that the happenings of any
and every neighborhood interest the
world at large:
Aud yet news gtthers seem to
think so, judging by the trivialities
daily sent over the wires and pub
lished in a thousand papers.
Nor are more serious events,sfJch
as rapes, assaults, murders, which
are usually reported at length, of
real interest to any other than the
community in which fhey ocoured.
Yet take any paper and note criti
cally its press dispatches for sever
al consecutive days, and you will be
astonished to see how much spaee
is occupied wifh such item. A
foreigner reading the average
American daily paper, and having
no other source of information,
would naturally conclude that we
are a nation of thieves aud mur
derers. For like reasons the North
ern citizen has largely reached the
conviction that the South is given
over to lawlessness, that crimes
abound, that human life is but, light,
ly esteemed, and that however rub
and inviting the business opportu
nities, they are accompanied by
risks and dangers that he does not
care to encounter.
For this erroneous opinion the
Southern ncws.gathere are nv in Ir
responsible, and they cau easily and
quickly correct it if they chose by
giving it interesting facts about
business, political and social life the
space they have hitherto devoted to
crimes.
Last wreek furnished notable illus.
trations ofomissionand commission.
No single event of equal importance
to the death and burial of Henry
Grady has a ecu red in the South for
years. It wms ot national interest,
and should have been accorded large
space. At about the same time
there was a riot near Jessup, Ga. in
which several black and white men
were killed. The accounts of this
affray occupied much more space
than was given to the Grady obse.
quies and to the memorial meeting
next day. Yet, while the former
was of no more importance than if
the affray had occured between so
rainy Italian and Irish laborers at
Nor tli, it was made much of by the
press, and thus afforded cumulative
evidence to maintain the false no
tions of Southern moral and social
conditions.
Now cannot this business be
stopped by the voluntary action of
Southern newscatberers? The
South abounds daily with good news
items. There are charities to unfold,
literary and educational institutions
to exploit, great sermons and able
forensic efforts worthy of rneution
and new business enterprises
springing info being. If Southern
news.gatherers will diligently give
tacts like these iu their pre?? dis
patches and leave the" publication ot
petty broils or larger affrays to the
local papers, they will soon correct
the wrong impresMon that is alto
gether too prevalent in other sec
tions, and do simple justice to the
bright beautiful and prosperous
South; Manufacturers' Jieco id.
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To Dcftfroy Moth.
Hero ia a jotting, the practical
science of which may interest my
lady reader?, obsf-rves a writer in
the London Illustrated News. Heaii
mu3, moro than one hundred and
fifty years ago, sivs my authority,
made quite extensive researches on
clothes-moths; and, observing that
they never attackr-d the wool and
hair on living animal?, he inferred
that the natural odor of wool, or of
the oily matter in it, was distastes
ful to them. He therefore rubbed
various garments with the water in
which the wool had been washed,
and found that they were nover aN
tacked by moths- He also experN
men tod with tobacco smoke and the
odors of spiiils of turpentine, and
found that both of thoso were do
structive the moths; but it was
necessary to closo the rooms very
tijjhfly and keep the fnmes very
dense in them for twenty-fonr hours
to obtain satisfactory results.
Mr. C. IT. Fermld, of the Mass
achusetts Agricultural College, has
always found that any material sub
ject lo the at tacts of moths may bo
preserved from them if packed
away with sprigs of cedar between
the folds. The oder of cedar is so
disagreeable to them that they will
not deposit their eggs where this
substace is present in full length.
Chests of cedar, or closets finished
iu the same woo I, will protect cloth
ing from moths as lonjr as as the
oder is strong; but this is lo-t with
age, and then they are no protect
tion. It. must bo remembered that
the oder of cedar, camphor &;.,only
prevent the moth from laving br
eggs on the fabrics, but if the -ggs
are laid before the garments are
packed away with cedar, e., the
oder will not prevent, the hatching
of the eggs nor the destructive work
of the larv;e afterward. Clothing
may also be protected from moths
by paching it iu bags rnad ot eithT
or stout paper or cotton cloth, if
made perfectly tight, but this mu3t
be done before the moths appear on
the wing in the Ki.ring season.
Protection for tour Infant
I'oultry.
Protection has produced many
fallacies and many offences have
been committed in its name. lint
the ahsurdest excrescence that has
ever 3'et sprung from i was one
brought to a head by two witrif ss s
who testified before the ways and
means commit'ee of the House yes
terday. In insisting that the duty
on coal should not be abolished
there was given as the chief and
most momentous reason that coal
mining employed the colored labor
er ami thus kept him from preying
on the community. That in a tax
of 7t" cents on a ton of coal was to
be found a vast and effective moral
force to keep the erring in the way
of rectitude must appfal eloquently
to the leaders of the party of Great
Moral Ideas. But that the people
should pay 75 cents a ton more for
their cal m order to protect their
hen roosts aud corn cribs is a fresh
absurdity in protective reasoning
that has never been equalled before,
and that can never be surpassed.
This astonishing argument was
probably conceived with the pur
pose of shrewdly winning the sym
pathies of the humanitarians of the
North, to whose ism-loving dispo
sitions nothing could appear more
wise and proper than taxation of
auy part of the people in order to
remove the temptations that are
supposed to be irresistibly in the
way of some weak fellow men, aud
that their employers must thus be
compensated for their philanthropy,
exhibited so generously iu keeping
them out of mischief, at the rate of
a seventy-five cent tax on every
ton of coal I bey sell. Such a tax,
according to is champions, has a
double action it pavsa b unty to
a few favoied citizens, and it casts
a' protective wing about t he farmer's
poultry. Such a wise conceit in po
litical economy should be encour
aged, on the ground that it protects
the infant chickens of America
against the predatory pauper labor
k i Africa. Richmond State.
la c3Kr.'
Wlinl It Wan Doing in Koiuo
or the CitloH YcHfcrrinjr.
New York, Jan. s.Tho returns
to the liureau of Vita! Statistic
show that 2.0 deaths occurred in
this city for the 21 hours ending at
noon today. The like of this has
never Wen known in the history ot
tho Department Gjcrt, ul0 time of
cholera. Tho record to-day is 15 iu
excess of that of yesterday.
Dining tho four days of this
week S'M people have died iu the
City of New York. The morgue is
crowded to its utmost capacity.
The reports from Uellevuo Hospital
to tho Central office, today t-h.iwed
that ;)() bodies, tho greatest number
in tho history of that institution,
weto there awaiting removal.
I 'our .lie ii to
Gov. Fowle Yesterday fixed the
day of execution of four nun, ap
pointing ihosamo date, February
7th, for the execution of all of theaj.
Thefcrt are John Wilson, convicted
of murder iu Yancey county at the
spring ourt of 1SS9; Manly I'ank
ey, convicted of murder in Mont
gomery county, fall term, 18H9;
Samuel Halford and K. 1 Willis,
both convicted of nrlary in Ruth,
erford county at pnng term, 1889.
All the parties loo'; appeals to the
Supreme Court, but the judgment
in each caso was couiirmed. The
next month will have it fullBhare
of hanging in the State, In addi
tion to the. above there ate l'arr ah
and Imyle, of this city, Lijo Moore,
at Greensboro, who are also uuder
death sentence. Newsi- Observer.
The Cleveland County ftlioot.
SiiEi.in, N. C, J. II. McNeelv,
who shot II. O- Jenkins it the lat
ter's distillery nar I'rle Stalio i
yesterday, has been arrested, tr ed,
and acquit tee, on the ground of self
defense. McNeely, who had beaid d
with Jenkins, fell in love with the
seventeen-year-old daughter of the
latter, who did not favor McNeely's
aspirations. Yesterday while drunk
Jeuking approached McNeely in a
govern 'rent warehouse with a
drawn knife, accused him of under
mining his family, cursed and tried
to cut McNeely. Although McNeely
ordered Jenkins to leave the ware
house, the latter still threatened
him, when he drew a pistol and tired
two shots, tuiHsing Jenkins at first.
Jenkin's left arm was broken, and
the ball lodged in the body and has
not been found. Jenkins is improv
ing today, and it is thought he will
recover.
After the shooting McNeely came
to Shelby, cashed a money order,
hired a horso aud buggj; aud re
turned to the warehouse.
A Way That Webster Fore-
HtlH.
Seventy years is along way to
look ahead, but Daniel Webster in
1820 foresaw the chief features of
yesterday's doings in Congress as
clearly as we tee them this morning
from tho accounts to the printed
page. Edward Atkinson, in his
latest book ('The Industrial Pro-
gressofthe NatioD,' published by
the Putnams), takes from the files
of the Boston Advertiser an account
of a meeting of Boston business
men held iu October, 1820, to resist
the attempts of Calhoun and other
representatives of the Blave States
to establish a system of protection
for the benefit of tho cotton in
dustry ; at thia meeting Mr. Web-
ster pointed out the results of i?ucli
a policy as follows :
Heoce a perpetual contest carried
on between the different interest of
society. Agriculture taxed today to
sustain manufactures commerce
taxed tomorrow to sustain agricul
ture aud then impositions per
haps on manufactures and agricul
ture to support commerce. I can
hardly conceive of anything wor.-e
than a pobcy which ehaU pla:e the
great interests of this cjuatry In
hostility to one another a policy
which will keep them iu constant
conflict aud bring them every year
to fisht their battles in the com-
J mittee rooms of the House of Rep
resentatives at Washington.