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LINCOLNTON, N. C., FRIDAY, FEB. 28, 1890.
NO. 42
Tommy : "I wish the school room
was round." Mother: "Why t"
Tommy ; "So the teacher couldn't
make me stand in the corner."
Texas Si ft logs.
,4My friend," said the revivalist,
"dou't you feel concerned about
jour soul F
"Bant got any soul," was the
hopeless answer. "I write verses for
comic valentines.'' Chicago Tribune.
''father," paid a Senator's son
vtLo had juyt arrived in Washing
tot, "I fully realize that I have
many fchoit comings "
"Yes, and 1 have no doubt that
this is one of them. You are ahoit
and are coming to tell me about it.''
Washington Post,
Colored Gentleman Permit ine,
Hiss Simberly, de extreme felicity
ot presenting my gear.
Miss 3. -Thanks, kindly, Mr.
Jobcs ug, bat don't deprive, your
self. Mr. J. No depravity, mam, no
depravity at. all, 1 assure you.
THAT TERRIBLE COUGH
Jn tie morning. Lurried or difficult breath
ing, raising phlegm, tightness in the chest,
quickened pulse; chilliness in the evening
or sweats at iiight, ail or any of these
things are the firat stages of consumption.
Dr. Acker's English Cough Kennedy will
cure these fenrtul symptoms, and ia sold
under a pOHitue guarantee by Ur J il Law
iog, Druggist.
L L WIT HERSPOON.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
NEWTON, N. C.
Practices iu the Courts of Cataw
ba, Liucolu, and adjoining conuties.
JUos.y to Li.jAN on improved farm
iu Oataivb i and Lincoln counties ir
gums of 300 aud upwards, on louj
time and easy terms. Will meet
clients at the Alexander House, in
Liucoltiton, on second and fourt
Moudays in e acu month.
Aug. L 1SS9. tf.
To die Public.
We have sold out our interest iu
the Lincoln Iron Works and will
hereafter devote our attention to
the Courier and to the job office.
All those indebted to the Lincoln
Iron Work up to the first of Janu
ary must make immediate settlement
with the uudersigned.
Respectfully,
J. M. Roberts.
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Keiiutor levari food Iuu
"Ifmnning from the eyes and
nose,'' said Senator Evarts, ''is an
indication of the grippe, then the
Democratic members of the House
must have been suffering from a
very Hevere attack. They have been
running from the ayes and noes for
over a week.''
ot Even With Sam Jones.
"Thank God ! tbeie is one man
who never ppoke a cross word to
his wife," ?aid Sam Jones at an
Omaha meeting the other night, as
a round-faced, good-natured man
rose iu reeponse to Sam's question
if such a person was preaeut. The
good-natured man smiled a bland
smile and said : '-I haven't any
wife; I'm a bachelor."
Mrs. Fond wile Yes, I have a
secret for making my husband hap
py. I add something to his cares,
and that diminishes them.
Mrs. Griggle Oh, do tell me
what it is 1
Mi b. Fond wife I add an "s."
Detroit Jounun.
THE FIRST 9TMPTOMS OFDEATH.
Tired feeling, dull headache, pains in
various parts cf the body, sinking at the
pit of the etomach, loss of appetite, fever
ishnesa, pimples or fores, are all positive
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Lincolnton, N. C.
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W AGOflS fLL STYLES.
PAT E T
Ladies Chaise.
PATWCC CHAISS BRAKE. g
FISH BR9S-MG9N G9-
Only One Mother.
You have only one mother, my boy,
Whose heart you can gladden witn
joy,
Or cause it to ache
Till ready to break
So cherish that mother, my boy.
You have only one mother who will
Stick to you through good and
through ill
And love yea although
The world is your foe
So care for that love ever still.
Yon have only one mother to pray
That in the good path you may
stay ;
Who for yon won't spare
Self sacrifice rare
So worship that mother alway.
You have only one mother to make
A home ever sweet for your sake,
Who toils day and night,
For you with delight
To help her all pains ever take.
You have only one mother to miss
When she has departed from this.
So love and revere
That mother while here.
Sometime yon won't know her dear
kiss.
xou have only one mother lust
one,
Remember that always, my son;
None can or will do
What she has lor you.
What have you for her ever done?
b. c. DODGE.
NOT ALL WEEDS.
From tha Lutheran Visitor.
"I'm afraid he won't come to-day.
Polly, and I don't see how I can
wait much longer to see him prom,
ised, too, that he'd be here iu a day
or two, but he seems to forget all
about it,'' complained Deacon
Plympton, turning uneasily in his
large armchair.
"Now, John, don't fret; maybe
we'll see him today. Yoa know it
takes some time to move in and fix
up, and settle down, with a family
like he's got," said the Deacon's
plump, rosy-cheeked wife. "Here's
some water, fresh and cool, just from
the spring," aud she handed a glass
of the cool, sparkling beverage to
her husband.
The new pastor had arrived near
ly a week ago, but the deacon was
just recovering from severe illneesj
aud had not been able to make one
of the committee to meet aud wel
come the pastorelect, who was au
entire stranger to most of his new
flock. This, and tho suspense of
waitiug to see and know oue around
whom most of his waking thoughts
bad lately centered, had been terri
bly trying to the deacon's unfeebled
nsrvous system, as his wife could
have testified; and this biight,warm
August morning be was more thau
usually irritable and impatient; ev
erything in general and of church
affairs in particular. But the pure
sweet draught of water, seemed to
80otheand refresh him wonderfully,
and just as he passed the goblet
back to his wife a shadow fell from
the open doorway, and Mrs. Plymp
ton hurried forward with beaming
face and outstretched hand, saying:
uHow are you brother Forhes, I'm
so glad you've come- John, here's
our new pastor," and she led him to
her husband's chair, whose occupant
greeted the min;ster warmly.
Aiter some general conversation
the deacon said: "I've been telling
my wife that I'm afraid you'll feel
disappointed aud disheartened flnd
ing the parsonage somewhat out of
repair, the garden overrun with
weeds, it's been so long since any
one lived there, and we didn't know
when anybody would come, till too
late in the season to make garden,
aud Pve been sick so long things
were neglected." 'Ob, well," said
the pastor, "willing, industrious
hands will soon set all that right."
"Perhaps 80,"said the deacon,"but
I'm afraid you'll find the church and
its members in a bad condition too.
We've been so long without a shep-(
herd that we seeai to have run wild.
Some of us have brought reproach
upon our Christian profession by
giving way to anger,some by wrong
doing, and none ot us are what we
ought to be. Sometimes when we
talk the church over, I tell Polly that
we're jast like that parsonage gar
den nothing bu- weeds not a real
Christian among ns." "And I tell
him,''said bright.cherry Mrs. Plymp
ton, "that while all our members
have their faults, and are BOmetimes
overcome by their begetting sins and
weaknopse?, yet they all mean well,
and try to do right, and there's not
one but has plenty of good in him
Toey don't all just agree in every
thing, but they're kind, neighborly
and God-fearing a the members fvf
most congregations. And not a
word can be said against some of
them." "I believe yo'u, Mrs. Plymp
ton, but I forgot till this moment,
something my wife senr," said the
pastor, taking from his pocket a box,
which he gave to Mrs. Ply m ton.
She opened it, and there on a cool
green bed of wet nioss lay some
flowers, fresh and lovely. There were
roses, red and white, with a few
d-iinty buds'of exquisite shape and
color, large. eyed pausies. glowing,
fragrant pinks, spicy mignionette,
and other late summer rlowerp, tied
together with ribbon grass.
"Now aint they beautiful," said
Mrs. Plympton, as phe laid the box
before her husband. "Would you
mind telling where they grew," she
asked, when he had admired them
sufficiently, aud she was arranging
them iu a vase of water.
"See if you can guess,1' was the
smiling answer.
"Oh, I guess your wie brought
them from ber old Lome,'' was the
ready answer.
"Or maybe they are from Judge
Cameron's garden; that has beauties
in it," suggested the deacon.
4Vell,you are both wroug.for my
wife found them in the parsonage
garden.''
"Not in that wilderness of weeds!
Why, it hasn't been tender for three
years," exclaimed the deacon, while
his wife said: "it dont aeem possi
ble that such a pretty bunch of flow
ers could be picked from among all
that wild growth."
''So I thought," answered the
pastor. "When my wife and I stood,
this morning, at the garden gate,
looking over the neglected inclosure,
I laughed at her, when she said she
would go inside aud find some flow
ers, "Tuey will be tue blooms ot
weeds, then," I said, "for there is
nothing else there, aud they are tal.
ler than you are, and so thick you
can't get through them." But she
soon came our. witn tuese iu ner
hand, aud knowing there had been
sickness here, she asked me to bring
them with me to-day."
"Thank her kindly for me- It
takes a woman to fiudflowers,when
we men see ouly weeds."
"True f r you deacon. My wife
and yours are alike in that, I per
ceive. My wife found that bouquet
of flowers where I would have de
clared only weeds were growing.
Four wife finds pure sweet flowers
of Christian love and goodness,
where you see only the noxious
growth of sin and unholiness. I
doubt not that all you say for yours
selves as a people is true, and that
the rank noisome weeds of envy,
malice, and perhaps worse, bve in
the hearts, and crop out in the lives
ot many of our church members.
Hut there is perhaps, in each case an
honest, earnest effort to check, and
root out the poisonous growth, and
to cultivate the germs of grace and
piety instead. 1 have studied this
spiritual garden but a few
dayf yet I have found many
bright, fragrant blooms, and
none purer nor fairer than the
snow-white flower of charity which
your wife displays when she puts
the faults of her brethren and sis
ters in the background, and brings
forward their virtures. I have been
received with Christian kindness
and courtesy, and thoughtful ness
for ray comfort, and that of my fam.
ily. I have already noticed the
buddings of chnrchIove, and self
denial, which will surely blossom
and bear rich fruit to the glory of
God -
Then where will you find a
lovelier Christian character than
that of poor, bedridden Mary day,
who lives close by the parsonage V
Such patient and resignation under
deepest affliction of body and mind,
such warm love and tender charity
lor her fellow-creatures and such
constant effort to speak a word for
Jesus to all who come within herj
influence. And theso are nH a fewl
t i -i . . . I
uu ii er Kimi, ciieerfnl manners at-
trapf fwith v.uimr onil 11 1.
hmw hn . V
bumble home. mar. a wo ar itrr..i.
w .. . ,
mi in :i i.usn o: lowiy ewe-tsi!)-Il!n;
ma ni Qnralr t-ln io . .;
ouim .srm is a pleasing rose
c-t 1 ..I ;
in the garden of the Lord."
"That she h," answered the dea
con haetily. wasn't thinking r,f
her, nor of my wife nor any of the
: sisters when 1 stid (here were no
Christians among us, but ouly of us
wrongNiieadad men. And it's when
I look at i!ielr, that I'm feeling
most downhearted. IVe been sick,
it's true, but my sutiViing were
nothing to Mary Gray's, and look
how poorly I have borne them ! She
is always thankful and cheerful, aud
I am forever fretting and complain
ing. What can there be but weeds
iu such a soul as minef'-
"Ah, now, I serf the tender shoots
of the bitter aweet herb of repent
ance putting forth bravely, while
tlie dnwn-diooping flower of humil
ity is Hheddiiiif its fragrance around.
Satan often takes advantage of
bodily weakness such as your?, and
flaunts your own sins and those ot
our brethren so close to your spir
itual eyes that their sight is ob
s.'ured and you cannot see the good
that is in them or yourself. Shall
we pray for stronger faith and
clearer vision ?"
And the deacon covered his tear
dimed eyes with his thin, trem
bling hands, while his pastor gave
hearty thanks for the evidences of
Christian life among his people, and
asked for them purer Jove, broader
charity and stronger and more tri
umpbant faith- For himself he
craved patience, strength and wis
dom to lead his flock aright, and
that both pastor ann people might
exhibit in their lives jlcb, luxuriant
growth in grace and iu tho knowl.
edge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Virginia Wythe.
The Household.
Ammonia is better for washing
windows than soap.
Lard keeps better in tin than in
earthenware, which it penetrates.
For a weak back pour a beef's gall
into a pint of alcohol aud bathe
frequently.
A pair of bellows to blow the
dust out of the corners makes the
sweeping of stair easy.
Bags with feathers and the outs
side cover, usually of china silk,
tied at tho neck with ribbou are
used for sofa pillows.
When hoarse speak as little as
possible until the hoarseness is re
lieved, else " the voice may be per
manently lost or difficulties of the
throat produced.
Merely warm the back by the
fire, and never continue keeping
the back exposed to the heat after
it has become comfortably warm ;
to do otherwise is debilitating.
When going from a warm atmos
phere into a coolor oue keep the
mouth closed so that the air may be
warmed in its passage through the
uose ere it reaches the lungs-
In building a new house it is a
good thing to have an attractive
hall. It is the first thing to impress
a visitor upon entering a house and
the last as he leaves it.
Never stand still in cold weather,
especially after having taken a
slight degree of exercise, and al
ways avoid standing where the
person is exp osed to a cold wind.
To make washing easier a com
pound made of a pound of potash
dissolved in a gallon of warm water
and half an ounce of sal ammonia
is recommended. Add a cupful of it
to the water in which the clothes
are washed.
Everything that can vitiate the
air of the cellar should be removed.
The air of the cellar permeates the
whole house, and especially when
windows and doors are closed iu
winter should the cellar be kept
clean and wholesome.
For washing fine blankets take
two gallons of water, add a half
cup each of ammonia and alcohol,
mixed to a suds with Castile soap.
They should be sopped up and
down in it, rinsed in tepid water,
well shaken, and improved by card
ing with a comb while on the line
drying. Old Homestead.
(old In Concord.
I A very rich vein of goid-bearing
quartz has been struck within the
corporate limit of the town of Con
! f'or, winch has b.en
the rails of
! "mint"!
r
pames are enagea in uiffcinr
along the vein, and ore taken from
a depth often feet, where a shaft
was snnk,shows considerable spark-
ling of free gold to the naked eye.
lhisis not the first discovery of
this kind, however, in Concord, for
veins have heretofore been discov
ered in and near town, from which
eousiderable gold was taken Wil
mington Star.
Every week, new aud rich dis
coveries of gold are being made in
various parts of the State, proving
what we have heretofore said, that
North Carolina is one of the richest
gold bearing States in the Union.
If one half the enterprise and skill
had been employed in developing
the gold interest of this state that
has been employed in Colorado aud
other Western States, the reputation
ot North Carolina would to-day be
world-wide. Now that attention is
being directed to our mineral wealth
magnificent ffuds are being made in
rapid Miceessiou and our mining in
dustry will soou rival any section ot
the world.
Window in F.ggM.
A French scientist who removed
the. shell on either nde of an egg,
without injuring the membrane, in
patched about the size of the diame
ter of a pea, and snugly fitted the
openings with bits of glass, gives
the following report of the wonders
ful experiment :
"I placed the egg with the glass
bull's-eye in an incubator mu bv
clockwork and revolving once each
hour, so that I had the pleasure of
looking through and watching the
change upon the inside at the end
ot each sixty minutes. No changes
were noticeable until after the end
of the twelfth hour, when some of
tke lineaments of the head and body
of the chick made their appearance.
The heart appeared to beat at the
eudof the twenty-fourth hour, and
in toity-eight hours two vessels of
blood weie distinguished, the pub
sat ions being quite visiMe. When
451 hours had elapsed we heard the
first cr3' of the little imprisoned bi
ped. From that time forward he
grew rapidly, and came out a full
fledged chick at the proper time.'
Londnn Standard.
The Girl WlioUorks
An unknown author pays this
tribute to thegiil who woiks: "The
girl who works God blaaj her. She
is brave and active and not too
proud to earn her own living nor
ashamed to be caught at her daily
task. She smiles at you from be
hind the counter and desk. There
is memory of her sewn into each si.
lent gown. She is like the beauti-
ful mountaineer already far up the
hill, aud the sight of her should be
a fine inspiration to us all. It is an
honor to know this girl to be wor.
thy of her regard. Her bands may
be stained by dish - washiug, sweep
ing, factory grease or printer's ink,
but it is an houest hand ami a help-
i iog. It stays misfortune fiom homes,
it is one shield that protects many a
forlorn little family from the alins?
house and asylum."
How (o 3Iako a Uood Ilnw-tmnd-
A lady writes to the Danville
Register the following receipt (of
her own expeiieuce) as to how to
make good husbands :
"We married, he with a small
salary, I with nothing. I confided
in him, studied his interest, never
deceived him, never had a secret
from him, expected him to err, told
him of it in a way to improve the
f ruit, urged him to do the same,
entered into his trials or pleasures.
He consults me iu everything, es
pecially financial affairs ; is reason
able,, affectionate, forbearing, for
giving, freely offers an opinion with
ut apologiziug, knowing it is per.
fectly understood by both. We
have succeeded, acquired handsome
property, are happy, satisfied and
contented, love our home and our
mother"iinHlaw.
DyiiiJJ lxreHlou,
It is well. Waahiugton.
I must sleep now. Byron.
Kis me Hardy. Nelson.
Heal of the. army. XapoUon.
Don't give up the ship. Lawranca
Let the light enter. Goethe.'
Into thy hands, O Lord Taso.
Independence forever. Adams.
The artery has ceased to beat
Haller.
Is this your fidelity. Nero:
This is the last ot earth. J. Q.
Ad'.ms.
Give Dayroles a chair- Lord
Chestetileld.
A dying man does nothing well.
Frankliu.
Let not poor Nellie starve.
Charles.
What ! is there no bribing Ueaihf
Cardinal Beaufort.
All my possessions for a moment
ot time Elizabeth.
If matters not how the head lieth
Sir Walter Raleigh:
Clasp in v hand, my darest friend
I die. Allimi,
I feel as if I were to be myself
again. Sir Walter Scott.
Let me die to the sound of deli
cious music. Mirabeau.
1 know that my Redeemer liveth
Horace Greeley.
God preserve thee.uiperor Hay da .
It is small, very small indeed,
(clasping her ueek.) Auna Boleyn.
"I pray you see me safe up, and
for my coming down let me shift
for myself," (ascending the scaffold)
Sir Thomas Meoie:
'Don't let that awkward squad
fire over my giave." Burns
"I resign my soul to God, and my
daughter to my country." Thomas
Jefferson .
"I wi-h you to undeistaud the
true principles of the Government.
1 wish them earned out, 1 a?k noth
ing more." Harrison,
"1 have endeavored to do my
dutv." Taylor.
"rou spoke of refreshment, my
Emilie; take my last notes.ait down
to my piano here, sing them with
the hymn ot your sainted mother;
let me hear, How grand thwsw lays;
they seem to beckon earth to heav
en." Humboldt.
(The sun was shining brilliantly
into the room in which he was
l.ing.)
"Once more those notes which
have so long been my solacemcnt
and delight. Mozart."
"God bless you, my dear." Dr.
Johuson.
"God bless you; is that you,
Dora?" Wadswoirb.
Now it is come. John Knox.
Dying, dying. Hood.
DO JNOT MIFKKit ANx" LONOFR.
Knowing that a couijhctin he checkeJ in
a day, and the tat-a ot oiuuiiiption br;-k-ii
in a ve-k, w lirly guarantee Dr.
Ar kfcr's Kuliiih Couh Keoi&ly, and wiJl
reiuii.l tli iit 'iiny t alt wL huy, take it
as t directions, anl do not find our state
ment correct. Dr. J M 1 awins, iirusjfjiit.
President G.irfleld appointed
Fred Douglas to be recorder of
deeds of the District of Columbia
and he held the place till President
Cleveland came iu. This gentleman
gave it to one Trotter, a colored
Democrat from Boston. Republi
can orators aud newspapers during
the campaign of 188H forgot aboai
the Douglas incumbency and made
au awful howl about Cleveland giv
ing this valuable office to "a nig.
ger," and upon the streugth ot this
appointment they went on and
swore that Cleveland bad appointed
more "niggers" to office than the
whole line of Republican Presidents
had done. They made lists of the
Kepublicau epittoon-cleauera in the
departments at Washington and in
the various government onices mat
are throughout the States, and set
them down as Cleveland's appoint
ees, and in North Caroliua Colonel
Dockery said on the stump that
Mrs. Cleveland "kissed negro
wenches," aud all that. And now
the good Mr. Harrison has turned
the bad Mr. Cleveland's nigger out
of the reeordership ot deed of the
District of Columbia aud appointed
in bis stead who a white man ?
Nay, verily. But another nigger I
Thus the whirligig of time bnog
its revenges Stntesville Landmark.
OUR VERV BEST PEOPLE
Confirm our statement when w say tbat
Ur. Acker s Lnxlian nerneiy n in every
whv uur prior to anv and all othr Drenar-
ation for the Throat and Limes. In
Whoopin? Cough and Croup, it ii magic
and relieve at once. We offer you a sam
ple bottle free. Hemtmber, ihii remedy is
gold on a positive guarantee. Dr. J. M..
Lawing;, Druet.
Doctor Well, Dennis, did yoa
take the pills I sent you ?
Dennis Indade, docthor, an' I
did not; ye wrote on the box "One
pill three times a day," an' I've bin
waitin- till I see you to ask you how
a man was to take a little bit av a
pill loike that three times i wan
day?
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