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LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JAN. 31, 1S90.
NO. 38
Agnlt Klllott and Mamu, the
Furniture Mmiufacdirera, of
Charlotte.
Wm. L we, who lost a leg some
time ago by an accident in the fur
niture factory of Elliott & Mhrsb
sued the firm for damages. The
case was tiied in Catawba Superior
court Thursday. Tbe jury ren
dered a verdict giving tbe plaintiff
2,000. Tbe defendants appealed
to the .Supreme Court.
It. J. Sbipp is counsel for plain
tiff. Tbe defendants are represen
ted by L. M. McCoikle and Frank
I. O?borue.
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Mammi-Can you suggest a bet'
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Price" tn a uieie INCREASE OVER COST. This includes the entire
line, and it will prove a "tig bonanza'' to large families who have not
yet made their Winter purchaser. Ou any and all Dress Goods, I will
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dozen, worth from 10 to 20 cent per dozen, bhall all go to the uniform
price of 5 cents per dozen. My Stock of Clothing exceeds anything in
tbe county, and tbe fact that I sell double tbe amount of any other house
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Special sale of Carpets at 15 cents worth 25 cents.
Business will be generally suspended on Thanksgiving day and my
store closed.
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money.
I now bare a small quautity of Plaids for the benefit of customers
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The .Saddest Tear
I think, sometimes, that tbe tears
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Are the saddest tears of all ;
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vier weight,
Because they must not fall.
Must not, lest they grievetbe watch
ful love
That would sadden at oar pain ;
Must not, because that we know
and feel
Their falling were worse than
pain.
Crushed down to their cells by a
nob!e pride,
That must rouse to do and dare ;
Held back that auotber's burden of
woe.
Our stronger souls may share;
Unshed though the heart may qui
ver and ache
With anguish fierce and deep,
Lest they hinder some duty that
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And there is no time to weep.
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rowing eyes
In the restful home above,
And.bring to the wan, worn face a
smile,
In Hie infinite, tender love.
So will He not give tbe 'busy ones'
rest,
And pillow each aching bead,
And soothe from the tired, worn
heart
The tears that were never shed f
Emma 8. Arheart.
ONLY A STORY.
From the old Homestead.
CHAPTER I.
Rose closed her tired eyes, and,
uestling her head comfortably on
the pillow, wooed the god of slum
ber to come and wart her thoughts
into dreamland by bis mag e tounb,
h.it he would not be wuu. A bar Of
bright light falling through a mis
sing slat iu the window blind rested
upon her closed lids aud seemed to
pierce them, reaching the sweet eyes
beneatb. She moved ber head
about restlessly, still tbat persistent
light defied slumber. Finally she
changed her pillow, and, with a
sigh of content, dropped asleep.
Into the straoge world of dreams
glided her thoughts in sweetest
harmony. When she awoke the
western sun was throwing his light
into her room and a dying beam
played upon ber face.
"Ob, hw late it is!" she cried,
running across tbe bare old room.
and,throwiug wide tbe blinds, let in
a flood of golden brightness.
Tbe sun was just siuking bebiud
tbe hills, touching the tree tops into
a weird greenness where his last
smile rested. Tbe sweetest of sweet
pictures Rose uuconsciously made
as she stood at tho window, framed
by the old figured curtains which
fell from heavy gilt cornices. The
wealth of her hair falling below her
waist in waves of darkened gold
crowned a pure brow with a few
soft strands caressing it; One
shoulder was half revealed, but she
had uo fear of being seen in this
quiet place.
After a few moments of contem
plation she brushed her tresses,
5nd them into a soft knot on tbe
bijetf of heryjiead, dressed hurridly
and ran down the oaken stairs. The
sittingrcom "possessed no living
accupant and tbe hall was vacant.
Continuing her search for somebody
she went out to the vinecovered
back porch, and"otr-a-Abelt found a
basket of shelled corn ready for feed
ing the chickens. Taking it up she
weut out and began to call in her
clear, sweet tones, and in a moment
they came flocking from all sources
until there was an enormous nnm
ber picking up the corn greedily.
of feeding the hungry fowls a laay
came up from tne orcnara, laying
her hand on Rose's shoulder.
"Aunty, why did you let me sleep
so long?'' asked Rose, with a smile.
"Well, I knew you were out late
last night and an afternoon nap
couldn't hurt yes. Come aud tell
me all about your picnic. I was eo
busy this morniDg I didn't have
time to listen.''
"Ob, Aunty, I just had the best
time!" clapping her little hands en
tbuiastically as th-y went on the
front veranda. More than once
Rose's laugh rang clear and sweet
as fche related some merry incident
which took place at tbe moonlight
picnic she was describing.
"Ah, there is Uncle James!" she
exclaimed, breaking into the middle
of a sentence, as she dicovered a
buggy hailing at the foot of the
magnificent avenue of elms which
led up to the house. "I will get his
chair,, Running into the house she
soon returned with a straightiback-
ed, green, most uncomfortable con
trivance ever made for sitting on.
Placing it against one of the mass
ive pillars she stood on the steps
awaiting her uncle, Col. James Fer
aid. CHAPTER II.
Roee was a girl who would trust
instin lively. Her girl friends at
school would tell their stcrrts with
out making her first promise "not
to tell.'' She was not s rictly pretty,
but e had around ber a ui)ston
ous air of attraction infinitely bets
ter than beauty. Children would
smile for and kiss her wheu for no
one else. Dogs and all animals
seemed to recognize in her a friend.
She bad lived in New York until
the last three months. Six long,
weary months before her father and
mother had been taken -awav by an
epidemic which raged in Gotham.
One day a poor woman came by
basing for a morsel of bread, aud
Mrs. Winfteld's tender heart was
touched by the sad spectacle. Ask
ing the poor wretch in she let ber
sit, by ber own fire and comforted
ber as best she could. In a short
while the woman could not go ou,
and died in a few davs in spite of
Mrs. Winfields careful nursing. In
a very few hairs she herself was
stricken, and bpfore Rose could be
8utn"ed from her school she liadj
passed awaj'. They would not allow
her to see ler father, in spite of
pleadings, threats, etc. Once she
stole away from the balls of her
boarding school, but was caught
before having reached tbe depot. It
almost made her mad. She who was
so gentle and submissive to all her
teachers, who loved her dearly, at
any timo, rebelled now, all to no
avail. ?he had to stay aud let her
beait break, she thought. Tho face
once so bright with merriment
grew sadder than seemed possible,
and only wrthin tbe time she had
been south, iu uew scenes, bad ber
old nature begun to assert itsett
somewhat.
This aunt who had given her a
home was her mothers only sister.
Though many miles divided them
they remained true in heart, and
when her little niece was left an
orphan she wrote for ber, and she
and her husband received the child
with open arms tbe fair girl wbom
they had never seeu until that hour.
Rose's aunt had been unhappily
married tbe first time, but iu her
secoud ventnre she was as happy as
could be. Within tbe past year she
bad married a widoi'er, who took
her to live iu this old southern
home, fast going to decay as so
many of them are. After the war he
bad bought if, furniture and all,
from a family who had beeu ex
tremely wealthy. Iu time fine car
pets wore away and curtains fell to
pieces, for he was not able to keep
it up in the old style. A womau's
baud had been missed there for
many a year until Rose's aunt came,
making it a home before mauy
weeks had rolled over her band-
some head of forty-five years.
"I am rot able to furnish the
house it need to be," Col. Ferard
told her before they were married
"I am not rich, Elizabeth. I have a
home not furnished luxuriously. I
bad rather save my money for our
old age- What do you say, dear ?"
She had idaced her hand in his
as a reply and w?s roost happy in
the big old house, where love, peace,
comfort aDd happiness reigned
supreme.
"Why arn't you riding, Lucyf
asked the colonel, after having af
fectionately kissed his wife, chaDged
his shoes for a gigantic pair otred
cloth slippers, and settled himself
into the straight-backed chair.-
ABntie was so sweet andgood
w.ike me, so I slept
enjny
yourself last
44 Yes, sir, indeed. I was just tell
ing auntie about it as you came up.
Mr.. Hoke is a charming little host
ess."
"A splendid woman. Poor girl,
she is most unluppily marred. Her
husband is a perfect brute !" ex
claimed the colonel savagely, as his
chair, wbiith bad been tilted back,
came to the floor with a lung.
"I didn't nee bim at all, or if 1
did I didn't know it," was Rose's
reply, as a pitying light eto'e iuto
her eyes and quiet settled upon the
group.
Away down the dim old avenue
the moon conld be seen just raising
her jolly face, an I in a short while
she rose higher, more majestic and
q'leenly, as a laughf cr-loving child
grows to thonghtful, generous wo
manhood. Soon (be old pia'n was
was bathed in the moonlight, which
imparted an encbauted air to all and
touched each commouplace article
into weird beauty. The great house,
with its encircling veranda and
magoificent grove of tnes so dark,
was euougb to awake wild thoughts
iu a stranger's breast and cause
uucanuy feelings to play upon bim
also with a desire to explore far
ther aud see what hidden mystery
those walls guarded. He would
have seen a trim little figure clad in
white sitting on the steps, a longing
expression on ber face and a sid,
dreamy light, which would creep
there uuawares, in the beautiful
eyes. Lut be would also have seen
the face brighten and all traces of
sadness disapptar when ber uncle
said :
"Lucy, time for lights, is it not ?"
He often called her Lucv. . TT said
sue luocea as it that ought lone
her name, and she told bim he
might call her tbat if be wished.
'Yes, sir; this mooulight is so,
beautiful I forgot everytting else. I
I love it, though it makes me sad."
CHAPTER III.
Rose, in a letter to a fiieud at
her old home, said :
"I love the southern customs.
There is no formality here in this
quiet eld town, just a mile from my
new home. All is warmth and
brightness here. Everyone has beeu
to see me- The girls ride or walk
out as often as they wish, and fre
quently take me back to spend a
uight. I have no regret, i long to
see you all, but in my big old south -ern
home I am happier than I woahl
be where I have experienced so
much sorrow. Like m-uiy of my
friends in New York, I believed
Georgia to be a perfect bed of fever
iu tbe summer. How happily dis
appointed I was to find such a de
lightful climate. A delicious breeze
plays through tbe?e large rooms and
wide hall. The grandest aveuue of
elms I have ever seen leads from the
house to the road. Oh, bowl wish
you could be here to help me eDjoy
my hammock, which auntie has bad
swung between two of the trees out
there. You could not help loving
this dear place. My dear annt and
uucle are as good and kind to me as
my own parents could be, but in
spite of it all sometimes I feeltbat
my heart must break, though I am
more cheerful thau when I came
down here."
JE olus clasped time in his jealous
embrace and sped away, leaving
Rose dearer to Col. Feiard and his
wife than even they ever dreamed
she would be. The house was rarely
silent. Little slipper heels clattered
up and down stairs, sounds of laugh
ter were olten beard, the piano
stood open half its time, and a cans!
ary hung on the veranda singing
unceasingly it seemed. Boys add
girls walked out from the village
once or twice a week, tbe way was
so sweet and cool, and pretty little
words of love came so readily to
yonng lips 'neath tbe enticing shad e
of tbe old elm avenue.
Tben, when tbe house was reach"
ed, would follow such rounds of
merriment as that old hall haC not
witnessed since its builders child
ren had scattered far and wide. Tbe
orchard was ransackedcuppernong
vines and fig bashes stripped of
she wouldn't
too late.''
"Did you
night !'
their luscious fruits. It was voted
by everyone to be the most charm
ing place for miles aud wheu the
colonel would bear of it be would
say,laughingly, though well pleased
too :
4,Ob, wel, g;ve a crowd of boys
aud girls the re:ns, and plenty to
eat, and they will say they bare
had a good time."
He and his wif seemed to grow
younger with this merry throtif
about them so frequently. It was
a source ot amusemeut to Rose to
watch her aunt and uucle, at times.
Bolh were well set ted in their d e
tiuctive ways before mariiage, and
could not bo changed at such a late
day.. Each had bis or her likes and
dislikes, individual tastes, aud were
even members of different churches.
Still they lived on happily tngother,
too sensible to aggravate each other,
as a younger couple might h ive
done. Their discussions relating to
different religious beliefs vero not
at all frequent, but when they were
mentioned in tbe quiet mannor ha
bitual to each, underneath the calm
exterior ran determination and con.
v ction too stroug to be described.
One day at dinner th couveisa"
tinu glided .iuto matter relating to
religion, and the colonel said :
"Lizzie is a hidebound Method
ist," and in almost the same breath
exe'aimed : ''I came as near as any
thing saving 'amen' iu th Method
ist church not long ago."
It se was tempted to smilp, bat
only looked into her plate demurely .
Col Ferard bated dogs, yet made
his wife a present of a tiny rat ter.
rier, because be thought she might
like ir. Tbe bright little eyes of
her pet knew the colonel from a'ar,
and kuew bis hour for home-coming
also, but at times would forget it
After kissing his wife, bis next dntv
and woe he unto her should she be
in the bouse. Often she would iuii
upstairs to take a nap in an unus ji
room. The colonel seemed to know
when he occupied ir, too. for a tew
minutes after his return from town
would find bim armed with a strap,
which buug conveniently near,
creeping up "tbe stairway in srarcb
of bis antipatby. Only a few mos
meuts, and tben tbe sound of tbe
strap, accompanied by a bowl of
pain and tbe glimpse of a scared
little dog with in-curled tail tumb
ling down stairs, witn only one idea
in her small head that to get away.
Down would come tbe colonel be
hind her, though more composedly,
a complacent and knowing imile
bearing evidence to tbe state of bis
spirits, while by his side swings the
strap with diabol cal gbe.
CHAPTER IV.
4,I like you aud want you for a
friend," exclaimed Margaret Bass,
as in the twilight she and Rose
promenaded up and down the ave
nue. "Well, I love you, and will give
myself to you as a fiiend,'" replied
Rose, with eyes full of tears and a
tightening of her arm about Marga
ret's waist.
4'Do you know," went ou Marga
ret, in her warm southern manner,
"you are so noble and good I don't
know how to talk to you ? And"
Here a merry laugh broke from
Rose's lips.
"Margie, don't think that. I try
to be good, but utterly fail. You
do not know me, dear. Please do
not be afraid to talk to me just as
you wish, aud if I don't care to bear
it I'll say so.''
41 believe jon will," assented
Margie. ,4I didn't like you at first.
1 1 thought you were a stuck-up little
yank, when yon were so far my su-
peiior I couldn't breathe even the
same atmosphere comfortably.''
"Ob, you put it in. the past tene.
I was your superior, but now?" mis.
chievously.
"We are more nearly on an equal
footing. For, don't you see, I am a
great deal 'gooder' than Iwas when
I first knew you ?" with an arch
glance.
4'There is the tea bell now for a
race.'' And boih tbe girls rushed
op tbe step and almost pell-mell
over the colonel, who had come out
to tell themtea waited.
"When I go north I shall have
my tea served just like auntie's."
exclaimed Rose as they took their
seats.
"When yoa go," said the colonel,
aa be tucked his napkin into hia
vest and folded his hands for grace;
i4wo are not going to let you go,"
positively.
Tears born of gratitude at tbe
kindly words sprang to ber eyes,
and with a smile about her lipj ste
said, simply :
"1 do not waut to go, bu: nay
have to some day.'
Anyone would have been tempted
by this dainty supper, prepared by
an antb iiellum trained negress.
Broiled chicken, rolls, waftles, butter
sweet and fresh, peaches and real
cream, coff ee for Col. Ferard and h s
wife, with ice tea for the girls, all
served in dtinty gilt banded china
on the snowiest of linen.
"Margaret.wbo is your own bright
particular utar now f" jocosely in.
quired the colonel after they bad
gone to tbe veranda, he lighting his
cigar and leaning back bis bead for
tbe enjoyable scratching flosa inva
riably gave it after tea.
"I have none. It has set," mourn
fully. "Never more will it shine
across inv p tthway bringing to light
tbe mud boles and rocks which lie
therein. I recko i tbe remainder of
my life will he spont s the children's
in "Great Epe-t inon," who were
always fdlling ovoi their mother's
footstool. What was her name?
Oh, yes, Mrs. Mis shucks! I can't
think of it." (Margar t sotnet'm?
indulged in Ntrong voids such as
you have read ) "Anyway, thiir
lives consisted alternately of tumb
ling up and falling down, be ('aid
otherwise Dickeus" said Margie,
not in the least disconcerted, be
cause she proved herself rather fen
"Why, vi here is Eb!" giving his
wifcs band an extra squet-z.
"He has found me out. And then
you know 1 could not bear bin.
Who would love a boy who aid
'Bis Bargaret,' just dhlike he 'ad a
cold in his 'ead all tbe tnnef' with
righteous disgust.
"You should have taught him bet
ter "
4T tried time after tini, lor he
was goo Hooking, but all to no
avail. 'Call me Daphne, ca'l me
Chloris, call me Ldaugeor Druia,'
! said to him once, and, do you be
lieve it? the boy, muchjto my
tonisbment, finished itfor me 'only,
only call me thine' ar.d 1 told him
he was a couceited vidian ; that I
didu't want bun to call me 'hisen,'
and off be stalked, and haan't been
seen iu these parts since,'' with
tones full of wicked enjoymeut.
"You are rather fastidious, aren't
you, Gret ? ' c.me Rose's soft tone,
full of laughter.
'Don't know. I am going to bi a
spinster, ion know there is a vast
d'lfereuce between old maid and
spinster, cr at least betweeu an old
maid and a spinster. Rose and I
shall reject a hospital for erected
young men men" stopping sud
denly as every one broke into hear
ty laughter. "Now, wasn't that
brilliant of me ? We will erect a
hospital for reject td yoong men.
Now, I reckon that is all right.
Wouldn't my dear parents be
shocked if they could bear this con
versation ! Come on, Rose, and
sing some sweet song for me. It'll
iiidbne my spirits more quickly ,
than anything save magic," briskly
rising.
Soon tbe girls retired to Rome's
room, laughing as they prepared for
slumber. Through one of those
treacherous blinds cam a bat, like a
piece of tbe dusky summM night
mbued with life, llounu and round
the room he circled, until Margaret
caught a glimpse of bim.
"Good gracious !" sh sq iale 1 ;
"there's a bat !"
4 Where V1
"Don't you sf e f G - t a broom !
There he is knock him flat ! Now !
Ouch! Owl'as the bated thing
swooped close to her head, and she
flew to the bed, wrapping up in tbe
clothes with a rapidity wonderful
to behold. "F.y, for the avenger
pursueth tbet-! ' she sang iu muffl d
onep, and eyes just peeping out
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