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LINCOLNTON, S. C, FRIDAY, JAN. 24, 1890.
NO. 3T
A son of Sylvester Pate, ot Golds
boro, swallowed a marble and died
ia gre.tt a20ny.
The excesses of our yoath are
draffs upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years
after date.
Moderation is the silken string
running through the pearl chain of
virtures.
Wheu money is tight it has more
sense than a man iu the same con
dition, for it makes itself scarce.
Baltimore American.
Nothing sharpens the arrows of
sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy
that polishes it. No reproach is like
that we clothe with a smile and
present a bow.
"A good memory is a blessing,''
says a writer. And it may be re-niarki-d
that it is one that wealth
canto buy. Just look at the man
who i; ojmcs suddenly rich. He
coniuit even remember the faces of
his old friends Boston Courier.
The cure of Mi the ills aud
wrongs, the cares, the sorrows ,and
the cries of humanity, lies in that
one word "love." It is the divine
vitality that everywhere produces
and restores life. To each one of
us it gives the power of working
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yet made their Wiuter purchases. On any aud all Dress Goods, I will
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Special sale of Carpets at 15 cents worth 25 cents.
Business will be generally suspended on Thanksgiving day and my
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the neglect of Relf. Let the thought
of self pass in and the beauty of
great action is gone, jte tjie bloom
from a soiled flower. Fraude.
! He who helps build an asylum or
; gives healthful and cultured starting
j to a young man may, twenty years
after his decease, be doing more for
the world than during his residence
upon it.
The Lenoir Topic tells of Mrs.
Brown, of (Jap Creek, who is 80
years old and near death's door,
who has had 22 children, 7 of whom
are Baptist preachers. Take the
cestos, Scott; we yield it with a
bl ush, Landmark.
It is said that there h a taxider
mist in Asheville who gaurantecs
his work to last for three thousand
years. If we could just get bira to
etui! the hide of the Republican
party what a curiousify would be
preserved for remote posterity,
Wit. Star.
Sonre London papers are discuss
ing the origin of such phrases as
"badly off," "well off," etc.. Wheu
they elucidate that to their satisfacr
tion, we hope they wiil throw some
light on the origiu of such phrases
as the "heagle flew hover the "ouse'
"ow hare ye hold oss, etc. JTiV.
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DO
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NOW
Pa
lOl'I.L KEAP WHAT
YOU SOW
Be carefol what you bow, my boy,
For seed that's sown will grow,
And what you scatter day by day,
Will bring yon joy or woe.
For sowing and growing,
Then reaping and mowing,
Are the surest things e'er known;
And sighing and crying,
And sorrow undying,
Will never change seed that is sown.
Be watchful ot your words, my boy,
Be careful of your acts,
For words can cut, and deeds bring
blood,
And wounds are stubborn facts;
Whether sleeping or weeping,
Or weary watch keeping,
The seed that is gown will still grow;
The rose briugs new roses,
The thorn-tree discloses,
Its thorns as an indes of woe
Be careful of your friend, my boy,
Nor walk and mate with vice ;
"The boy is father to the man
Then fly when sins entice!
The seed one is sowing
Through time will be growing,
And each one mast gather his own;
In joy or in sorrow,
To-day or to-morrow,
You'll reap what your light baud
has sown.
Little Men and Women,
AX rXSCSPECTED IIEK
OIXE. You thiuk him a coward, said the
old doctor, but how can you be sure
that he is one ? Courage shows i t
8;dt unexpectedly in many different
ways and places. I have seen men
who had been brave soldiers turn
pale when they sat down in a den
tist's chair, and I have seen women,
who would scream at the sight of a
mouse, bear without a groan the
pain of a terrible surgical operation.
The other day, iu an old station
ou the New Jer.ey coasr, I s-iw a
queerly shaped boat which reniin
ded me of something that happened
to me once.
Some years ago I took passage in
a large emigrant ship, the Ayrshire,
for this country. 1 had beeu at the
University ot Edinburgh, and was
impatient to reach home. There
was on board over three hundred
emigrant passengers in the steer
age, and six or seven passengers in
the cabiu.
Oue of the cabin passengers was
an invalid, a very small, delicate
young girl of twenty years, atten
ded by her mother and nurse. She
was not a patient sufferer. Her
medicine was always too sweet or
too sour; her pillows were too hard
or too soft, and at the wind or a
peal of thnnder she would tremble
aud cry like a child from fear.
There were two young men in the
cabin besides myself, aud I am
afraid that they found a good deal
of amusement in provokiug her ter
rors by telling horrible stories of
corpse-lights on the rigging, or of
sharks and devil-fish and other sea
monsters, or the sailors' yarn of the
great shadow of a fish which fol
lows a sh'p on which is a human
being appoiuted soon to die. She
nsed to stand by the hour at the
stern of the ship looking down into
the cool, green depths to see if the
shadow pursoed her.
Her nervous system was shaken
by long suffeiing, and I sympathized
with her ; but the other men voted
her a nuisauce. They were strong,
and full of health and fun, and
thought it a hardship that the cabin
should be, so they said, turned into
a hospital ward, with bottles and
pillows.
One of them, Frank Lowe, had
served in the French army in Al
giers out of sheer love ot excite
ment and adventure ; the other, Ber
nard Knott, had been a volunteer
in the United States Army during
the Civil war. So you see that, not
withstanding their unfeeling be
havior toward the invalid girl, they
were not cowards.
It was one day near the end of
the voyage, and we hoped to see
land on the morrow. Early in the
evening Knott and Lowe and I went
down into the cabin, as the fog was
so heavy that in the darkness we
could scarcely see one another's
faces on deck. The lamps were
lighted, and we sat down at the
table. I took up my book ; the other
men begau to play dominos.
Miss Murray, the invalid, was ly;,
nig on a Kofa, knitting, as usual, at
fcume, ni.uu uuuy siuri. xub young
meu cdled the poorgiil ilissMuffet
to each other because she was al-J
ways scared and shuddering at)
some fancied object of terror
Set in the woodwork at one end
of the saloon was a long mirror,
and draped about it were some
faded red and gold curtains ot mo
reen. Mrs. Murray, who was a chat
ty, cheerful little body, called onr
attention to the drops of moisture
on the glass.
"You cannot see your face in it,''
she said. "The fog most be very
heavy."
'Where are wo?" aked Lowe.
"Did the Captain work up our po
sition this evening ? "
'Yes,'' sid Knott. "He figured
it nut by the dead-reckoning, of
course. But I believe he does not
kuow any more than I do where we
ate."
I noticed that Knott had no jokes
to make that evening, and that he
was restless. Throwing dGwn a
book that he had taught up, be
paced up aud down the cabio.
There was shooting aud tramp-,
ling ou deck, but I supposed that
the crew were reefing sail in anticis
pation of a-storm, and paid little
attention to the commotion over
head. Suddeuly it seemed to me as if
every bone in my body had been
wrenched. I found myself on my
hands ami knees, with the floor of
the cabin rising like a steep wall
before me. Then I saw a very queer
thiug. The mirror broke obliquely
fiom corner to corner, and through
the rent came a torrent of foul
bilge wa'er. People have described
the wrecking of a vessel m a storm
at sa as a magnificent, terrible
spectacle, but that is all that I saw
at tint moment of its occurrence
the mirror parting in the middle
and the bilgewater pouring into
the room.
But that was enough. I knew
that the ship was doomed.
The mate, Sandep, stood in the
doorway.
"What is this!" yeXed Knott.
"The ship has struck a bar and is
going to pieces!" the mate answered.
"AH hands on deck !"
He spoke pretty much as he
might have talked if he were giving
an order to holystone decks, yet I
knew that ho had a wife at home,
and a chi'd whom he had never
seen, but had hoped to see on the
morrow. His coolness was habit,
you see.
I don't know how we got on deck.
We men helped the three women
up, ot course. That was habit, too.
Good habits tell in a time like that
jnst as much as they do in an even
iug party in a drawing-room on
shore.
The Ayrshire was on the great
sandbar which lies off the whole
New Jersey coast. Hundreds of
ships used to be wrecked there. Be
fore the life-saving service was es
tablished the New Jersey shore was
strewn with wreckage.
The emigrants were swarming on
the decks. A fearful surf broke over
us continually. The ship was irre
movably settled in the sands, but it
was rocked incessantly by the
waves. All around us was the im
penetrable grayness of the fog,
through which came the terrible j
thunder of the breakers on the
shore. It drowned the shrieks of
the women aud even the hoarse
shouts of the Captain s trumpet.
"Sorely we are on land f" piped
Mrs. Marray, close beside me. "The
ship is fast."
"On a bar," said the mate.
From the moment of her striking
there was no chance of saving the
vessel, which was rapidly going to
pieces. The passengers and crew
were huddled on the quarter-deck.
Three boats were launched, but bev
fore one of them could be manned
they were swept away like feathers
in a storm.
We found afterward that we had
i gone upon the bar off the village of
Point Pleasant. Oar guns were
heard on shore and the crew of men
along shore came at once to our
our recnp, but the fog was so dense
that we did not see their signal
lights nor, with the wind blowing
toward shore, hear the firing of
their mortar. It was after hours of
mortal agony aud suspense that a
wild veil of dehVht liroL-P from
ighl
i r -
ship's crew ; they rushed together,
grappling a light cord which had
fallen as if from the skies across the
deck.
It was a line shot from the life
saving men's mortar on chore.
"Gentry, men ! gently!" shouted
the Captain, hoarsely, as he himself
canght the cord and pulled on if.
By means of the line the crew
pulled a rope from the shore to the
ship, and this rope served in turn
to draw on bo.ird a great cable.
The crew made the cable fast to
tliH hull of our vessel, and it was
pulbd taut from the ishore.
At that period of marine history,
when a cable had been stretched
from the land to a wrecked vessel
it was generally supposed that the
rescuers had done all they could,
and it remained for the ship's coin
pany to find their way to the shore
if they could, clinging to this rope.
But now, sluug to the cable, there
came out to the vessel that same
queer little boat which I saw the
lother day at Point Pleasaut: It is
shaped like an egg, with a hole in
the top through which the passen
gers crawl to enter the boat. The
car will hold about fifteen people.
Wheu the passengers are packed
away in it and the lid has been
screwed down, it is drawn back to
land through the breakers, turning
over and over as it goes.
It was a fearful trip to make, but
it was the one chance for life to the
people ou the ship.
I cannot fitly describe tLe awful
scene on that wreck ; the daikuesg,
the wet, the thunder of the soo, the
hundreds of meu and women stand
ing there facing death, and fully
realizing the perils that surrounded
them.
It was the first time that the life
car had ever been tested by actual
service, and even the Captain looked
doubtfully at the straoge-lookiug
craft that had come out to the ship
along the cable.
"Who will go in it J" he shouted.
"The women have the first choice.
It is not a good chance, bat it is the
only oue-''
The men among the emigrants
begau to push their wives and chil
dren toward the car, but the poor
creatures they shrieked and fought
against entering it. I did nor blame
them. It is bad enough to go down,
drowned in the open waters, but to
go down locked up in that iron
coffin
"Very wed," cried the Captain.
"There is no time for choice- If the
women will not go, the men shall."
At that little Miss Muffet stepped
forward before them all, actually
smiling.
"Come," she said to the terrified
women, "if I go, you surely will fol
low me. lam nothing but a poor
little cripple !"
She stepped into the dark box
and lay down in it. Then the others
crowded into it after her. Stout
English matrons and pretty Irish
girls, children and babies. When
the car was full, its lid was screwed
down tight aud it was pulled out
into the waves. Upon the ship no
man shouted and no woman cried
in the few minutes that followed.
We could see and hear nothing.
Bat presently the car came back
empty. Then we breathed freely
again, for we knew that the people
it had carried had reached the land
safely.
All of the other passengers were
taken to the shore in the same man
ner. Over three hundred lives were
saved by that life-car on its first
night of service. Do you wonder
that I took off my hat to it the
other day 1
Two years after the shipwreck
which I have told you of, I met Mrs.
Murray, and with her plump, rosy
girl who ehe told me, was her
daughter, the one that I bad known
on the Ayrshire as an invalid. Now
the girl's eyes shone and the red
blood glowed in her cheeks.
Miss Murray said that the voj'ago
in the car had given her new life.
But I thought that the new life had
come rather with the awakening of
courage and the spirit of self-sacri-tice
within her Youth's Companion.
The Vicissitude or Journalism,
Translated fir Avibkax Trks.
It is exceedingly amusing, re
marks a provincial exchange, to
conduct a newspaper. Give your
readers a qnantity of current news
or political discussion, and some will
complain that you have exceeeded
the just measure. Dispense less
lavishly the same information, and
these very readers will perhaps
notify you that you are poorly in
formed, and not conversant with
the requirements of your calling.
Do yon print yonr papr in distinct
and readable type, the public will
protest that you sacrific the amount
of information, at their expanse, for
jour own aggrandisement. Employ
a smaller ty pe, and objection will
bo raised that it is unreadable.
Furnish recent and reliable tele,
graphic news, and you will be
charged with having copied it;
subordinate this feature, ami yo;i
are at once accused of negligence ;
omit it entirely and your paper will
prove for a multitude a prolific
somnolent. If yon are accustomed
to publish original articles, you will
meet with peremptory condemna
tion for not furnishing desirable
reading matter; contrariwise, till
your journal with the products of
contemporaneous periodicals, and
lo ! you are designated a plagiarist.
Endeavor to speak favorably of
such nnd such an one ; it is ads
judged abominable partiality. Go
to the opposite extreme and your
indiscr-tion will be equally ru'p
ble. Should you chance to insert
an article that receives favor from
your female readers, the opposite
sex will naturally be displeased. If
you dabble in religion, ou area
hypocrite; on the other hand, if
you maintain a discreet silence, you
are decreed a heretic. In a word,
the pleasure of pnhlishing a news
paper in this enlightened Hee may
be compared to the satisfaction ex
perienced by the'nged traveler in
the fable, who accompinied by his
little fon, leading a capricious don
key, was grievously perplexed in
his attempt to conform to the cour
sel of passers-by some advising
him to ride, othe's cautionincr him
to go afoot. Archives de 1'Irnprh
mene.
A liittic CJIiilil U'aiidorH from
Home A Long but Success
ful Sear oil.
Last Satorday evening while Mr.
and Mrs! James M. Morgan were
out feeding their stock, their little
daughter, Laura Josephine, a tod-
dler of two years, concluded to take
an evening walk by herself. When
Mr. and Mrs. Morgan came to the
house their little daughter was gone,
and which way thev did not know.
Search was at once instituted, darkT
ness came and the mothers grief
and anxiety for her little girl bai'y
increased with every moment. A
general alarm was made and the
search continued until 5 o'clock
next morning, when they stopped
to rest and wait for day. A Roon
as day dawned the search was re
sumed, and the searchers increased
in nnmber until there were over one
hundred. About 9 o'clock Sunday
morning the little wanderer was
found over a mile from home about
25 yards from the road beside a log.
Its father was the first to find it,
and when trying to get u it said
to its father: "Me is been out with
hogs." The child was not chilled
very much and was soon itself again.
SaUsburii Watchman.
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Medicinal Properties ot
Vegetables.
The following information rxny be
useful to some at this season of the
year, if not new to many."
Spinach has a direct effect upcu
the kidneys.
The common dandelion, naed 8i
greens, is excellent for the same
trouble.
Asparagus purges the blood. Cel
ery acts admirably upon the neiroaj
system, and is a cure for rheuma
tism and neuralgia.
Tomatoes act upon the liver.
Beets aud turnips are excrlint
appetizers.
Lettuce and cucumbers are cool
ing in their effects upon the fy-teuo.
Onions, garlic, leeks, olives and
shalots, all of which are similar,
possess medicinal qualities of a
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Iled onions are an excellent dm-,
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A soup made from ouiona is re
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Tlie l.it Foiiud.
The following true story comes
from Asheville, Ala-: Five years ago,
while vifitiug friends in Calera, Ala.,
Jasi O. Arnold, of Ah ville, hid a
little six-year-old dangMer stolen
from him. Tie learned that she had
been abducted by one Sarah Col
bert, a woman of bad repute, but
could not learn in what direction
the woman had gone. A cloe search
was made, and detectives were em
ployed to assist in It, but nothing
could be heard of the woman or
child. Erer since the father Ims
kept up the search, and until lnut
week, he found litt'e to encourage
him. Last week Arnold went in'o
St. Clair county. Following He
Coosa Bluff, he proceeded until he
reached the centre of Chtrokee
coanty. Here he learned that a lit
tle waif girl was at the house of
oue McAlva, about fifteen miln
distant. He found the child playing
in the front yard of McAlva's place,
and readily recognized her.
McAlva gave the girl np with rei
luctance after Arnold proved be
was her father. McAlva says the
Colbert woman left the girl at bis
house five yeara before and called
for her a few days later ; but hj res
fused to give her up. McAlva is a
bachelor, and had formed a warm
attachment for the child, who will
probably inherit his eatate. The
child is now about eleven years old,
and is a girl ot remarkable prepoa-
sessing appearance.
Some of Fraiikllu'tf Maxim.
Work today for yo i know not how
moch you may be hindered tomors
row.
Dilligence is the mother of good
luck ; and God gives all tbiDgg to ic
duatry.
Fly pleasure and it'll follow yoo;
The dilligent spiner has a large
shift.
Early to bed, early to rige makes
a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Now I hate a sheep aud a cow,
every body bids me good morrow.
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
By dilligence and perseverance
the mouse eats the cable ia two.
If you would know the value of
money try to borrow some of it,
Waut of care does more d-im?ge
than want of knowledge.
Not to oversee workmen ia to
leave them yonr purse open.
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