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I' Ml Ml M ' 4 VOL IV. LINCOLNTON, N. G, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1890. NO. 1 SSJK itffrt't I fl. 1 III "Do you think,'' he asked in hesi tating accents, "that you could learn to love roe ?" "Yes," she replied coyly, "I could learn but I'm afraid you'll have a good deal of trouble teaching lath er." W'dhiivjton Post. City lover I fain would thy sen aphic form in love's embrace enfold. Rustic Maiden Wal, young feU ler, you can't fiet about it too quick. binghamtou Leader. 'Yon say you shopped at the Ski rate hotel all the time you were away t Wasn't the bill pretty high for a man of your means ?" "Oh ! not too high. I managed .to jump it without mnch trouble." Terra Haute Express. "Why do you lock through the large end ot your opera-glass ?' "I wanted to see if distance wonld be tool enough to lend any enchant ment to that chorus." New York "There is that horrid, ill-fitting iidiDg dress of mine. I've tried to give it away several times, but no body saems to want it." 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Prof. Jones is not only a beautiful writer, but an excellent, and suc cessful teacher. D. Matt Thompson, Principal Piedmont Seminary. ks The cash must accompany each order. PriD. Business Dep't. of Piedmont Seminary,incolutoo,N .0.Nov.889 D. W. ROBINSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Lincolnton, N. C. Practices in this and surround ing counties. Also iu Statu and Federal Courts. JsaTNext door to the Racket. Uo 4t., 1S9. ly. L L WITHERSP00N, ATTORNEY AT LAW, NEWTON, N. O. Piactitcsiu the Courts of CatawN ba, Lincoln, and adjoining counties. Acstv to .Loan on improved farm in Catawba and Liucoln couutiesip sums of 200 and upwards, on lonj time and easy terms. Will meet clients at the Alexander House, iu Lincolnton, on second and fourt Mondays iu each mouth. Aug. i 1SS!. tf. 3 fcLEEPLES NiwHTi, made miserable by that tornlltf rough. Hhilnh's Cure is the remedy for you. For sale by J. KeeiyAco. RACINE, WIS. Log, Lumb erVard a Gity;TrucRs A title often sells a book a easily as it buys an heiress. Pitch. Police Justice (to tramp) Take oft your hat in court. Tramp What's tbe use ot being cerernouiout, judge ? We have both been here before many times. Texas Sift in s. Five is the average number of billiard balls that can be cut from each tuek of an elephant Metro politatv Get a habit, a passion, for read ing ; not flying from book to book with tbe squeamish caprice of a liti erary epicure, but read systemati cally, closely, and thoughtfully, an-, alysing every subject as you go along and laying it up carefully and safely in your memory. It is only by this mode that your information will be at the same time extensive, accurate, and useful- Old Home stead. Why delay subscribing for your home paper ? You will be benefited more than the price of subscription. The Lincoln Courier i your connty paper: Subscribe at once. Piedmont emmary. MALE AND FEMALE. LINCOLNTON, N.C- An English, Classical, Mathematical and Commercial School. It is thoroagh and practical in its work and methods. It does not assume to itself tbe claims of a CoU lege, but is thoroughly Academic, Location healthy, and ot easy access by railroad. Penmanship and Bus iuess Department iu charge of Prof. G. P. Jones. Spriug Term of 1890 begins tbe ttth of Jauuary. CiT For Circulars, dc., send to D. MATT. THOMPSON, Principal, Lincolnton, N. C. Jan. 3, 1890. Subscribe for the Lincoln Cotj KIF.I?, $1.50 per year. auccm p djes CHA1SE. Nl Ik PATLHL. jChMS E B RAKS. FISHBR9S1fVAGHG5 RACINE.WIS. THE STORY OF A SPRING BLOSSOM. BV Ail A BCATH. "Aren't they beauties, Auntie?' A giimy little hand held out a bunch of bloodroot blossoms, and a soft flush of pleasure crept into a very eager little face. Auntie was an invalid ; that is to say, seldom left her couch ; but she was the merriest, cherriest woman who ever auntied a bunch of lively boya and girls. It was understood that the first fruits of everything belonged to her without question. The first enow drop that showed its tiny white bell in the garden was brought in tri umph to her ; eo was the first apple blossom and tbe first strawberry, and even the first snowball was tossed to her window? for the boya knew she rejoiced with them in the bright sunshine and clear, invig orating winter air. This season the snow drop had made its bow and retired some weeks before; the dainty wild wood bepaticaa had gladdened her eyes, and recalled the time when she could wander in the great glad out-of-doors of eaily spring, wheD the whole world whis pers one promise. They brought back to her visions of a clear, soft sky, seen through a tracery of baie, yet swollen, branches aud twlggery she could hear once more the j rastle of tbe dead leaves as she softly stirred them to reach the furry stems upholding so modestly their little blue crowns. Those days were over for her, but had left their sunshine in her life. And now, tbe pure white blood- root blossom had come once more. Jennie brings a handful, with the query, ''Aren't they beauties, Aun tie? I picked aud picked they seemed to beckon me to come and gatner them, and they looked so delicate and pure I couldn't bear to leve them out all night. But just look?' the child added, holding up a pair of hands stained and red dened by the juice of the plant "I s'pose that's the reason it's called bloodrootj I don't see how such red blood can make such a pure white blossom, do you ?" Auntie picked up one of the dainty stars aud gently blew it open to examine the golden crown within, when all the petals drop ped suddenly, leaving the bare stem in her haud. "That's the way they always do," she saidi "They never wither and droop as other flowers do. They're too much like a pure spirit to show any signs of decay, and they hardly seem to belong on this old earth, though in May it is beautiful enough for anything. Do you know tbe story, Jennie, about the oiigin of the flower I It's an old, old tale, and dates back to the first settle ment of this country. Bring your own little bench and rest here till tea time, and I'll tell you about it." "It was long ago, before cities aud towns bad had time to grow on this side of the water, and the people had to work so hard to get a living out of the earth that it is very possible they overlooked the little white blossom, for there was scant time in their busy lives to search for wild flowers. Be that as it may, the story claims for it a very romantic origin. The first set tlers were geuerally plain, honest folk, and delved and dug in the field, and spun and baked and brewed withiu doors, and led hard, unsentimental lives for the most part; but, nevertheless, Capid did his woik among them, as well as elsewhere. Amy and Jacques were as handsome a couple as one could find in a day's walk, and well suited to each other, the neighbors said ; and they loved each other with all their hearts- Already the wedding, day was shyly spoken of between them, and Jacques liked to watch the pretty pink flush mount into the face of his beloved when he alluded to it. But, alas ! suddenly a little doubt crept into his heart, a doubt that at first hardly called itself a suspicion ; then his manner grew cold and distant and his heart estranged, and suddenly a word, a quick retort, and all was over be tween them. No explanation would he hear from her, and, indeed, she was too proud to ofiV it when she found he could for an instant doubt her devotion to him. One more woman's heart was broken ;'one more woman must live her life alone, and see another take her place in the heaif, and then in the home, which should have been her's. Bnt still she lived her life, baked, and sewed and spun, and, after awhile, even sang over her spin ning, as she stepped back and forth before the great wheel sang in a a low, soft voice hymns which breathed a promise of the coming rest and peace with many a look outward and upward as she passed the raany-paned windows. And so she lived from day to day (and every life her's touched was tbe better for it), until a whisper reached her that, stealthily and sorely, a band of Indians was ad vancing on the peaceful little set" tlement, slaughter and revenge their end and aim. Then away she went, silently and swiftly on her errand of mercy, to ward the cabin in tbe woods, where she knew the new-made wife waited, helpless and alone, the home com ing of her husband from a short trip to a distant settlement. She reached the door, gave the alarm, saw the bride safely hidden iu a place well known to her, and then, as she turned toward her homeward path, not far from the cabin's threshold, she fell, strickeu down by a shot from the stealthy, murderous enemy. On the spot where she yielded her life a sacrifice, the story says, year after there sprang a flower, a stranger hitherto in that neighbor hood. Each spring-time it lifted its pure white blossom to the May sunshine, and year after year a man might be seen carefully, nay, revently, pluck ing tbe blossoms, sighing as he saw the blood-red stains which the sterna left on his hands. No one else was ever allowed to touch the flowers ; the little children looked with awe upon the spot where they grew, and watched with silent worn der as father and mother quietly walked away to a little clearing in the woods, a Goda acie in the for- est, where, upon a turfy mound, they left the handful of snowy blos soms, a tribute to the pure, white soul who gave her life for tbeii's. "Is that all, Auntie ?'' said a quiet voice. "That's all, Maddcheu ; I heard the story when I was a little girl, and, perhaps, it is the reason the flower always seems to me differ ent from any other." The Most Mostly Wood- The most costly of all the various w oods now in use among cabinet makers is what is technically known a3 French waluut : it does not, how ever, come from France, but is brought from certain parts of Per sia, Circassia, and Asiea, its growth being thus exclusively Oriental. To work the logs into a condition for veneers, they are first subjected to a steaming process until they hex come almost as soft as butter ; they are then fastened to an iron beam, which revolves around a finely tern pered knite with a razor-like edge of the same length as the log. Ev ery time this beam turns around it moves a fraction of an inch nearer to the knife and a thin sheet of wood is shaved off with great smoothness aud laid on tbe floor ; these sheets are in fact bnt the oue hundred and twentieth of an inch in thickness, and indeed the veneers are frequent ly made as thin as 175 to the inch. The veneers used on furniture are somewhat thicker, the thinner ones being used ou picture frames, also for covering walls in some cases. Ex. Taikinton Prairie P. O., Liberty co. Texas. Mr- Radam I have used "Wm. Radam's Microbe KUler, and many of my neighbors have used it with the most wonderful result in many cases. Geo. F. Allen. For sale by John Reedy & Co., sole agents for Lincoln county. "HIPS FROM N.VMJOES. PIckert I7p iy One Who Saw Him Hewing In UieCtiarlntte Tabernacle. Reported lor the .tar. I don't know any of yon, there fore my remarks are not personal. I'm going to hew to the line and If you get on the line you'll be cut in two. If any of you find yourselves minus a limb, you'll know you've been on the Iiue. I know which hele to shoot in. I ve been there before. Sometimes I shoot and a fellow crawls out riddled with shot and swears he wasn't in there! There is but one load, yonr con. dition depends on which way your face is turned. Convert is from the latin "Verts" to turn, and "Con" altogether. Everybody try to tnrn somebody else. Many of you Chris tians will be green at the bnsiness, but you'll never learn younger. Some people say I have too mnch levity in my preaching. If solemn preaching could have saved Char lotte, it would have wings now. Some of its preachers make you feel like you had met the burial service. Solemnity means death ; a corpse is the most dignified thing I ever saw. I'm going to eay what J please, and won't ask Charlotte for a certificate of good behavior: It wouldn't do me any good a hundred miles away. If you don't like what I say, stay at home and let somebody of some account have your seat. We want workers, not carping critics. If you don't work with anything but your mouths you won't amount to nyich. Some mouths are like pistols, selfcockinq. I'd rather take my chances before the pistol, it might miss but the mouth never does. If you don't go to prayer meeting but once a month, don't you sing "Come angel band bear me away on your snowy wings';" if you get to heaven the angels will have to tote you. Our religious differences are onr dusters we wear on the road to heaven. Yben we get to the gate Peter won't ask ."what's the color of your duster." The most uncommon thing in America is common sense. Muddy physical distinctions and fool osopher's arguments won't do for practical leligiou. Dou't try to pray if you are mad with anybody. I'd as soon try to pray with a stolen sheep on my back. Pray for yourself and the next meanest fellow, the one you are mad with. Don't get mad until you have been treated as badly as you have treated the Lord. If you say you forgive but can't forget, you simply bury the hatchet and erect a monument a hundred feet high. Better dig up the hatchet and bury the monument. The busiest people are the most useful when consecrated. A hen with one chicken will scratch her self to death. The consecrated peo ple are generally poor; rich men think they cau pay their way to heaven, and get excursion rates at that. Nine-tenths of the old folks are in pursuit of the dollar, and nine tenths of tbe young folks in pursuit of a good time. Many a father don't spend five waking hours a week with bis children. If you hear anybody abusing me don't trv to defend me. Tell them my room is 75 Buford Ilouse, I'll have it ont with them; they won't come ! Nobody who is for God and the right will cus9 me. If there are enough to hold while I skin I'll make hides go down. Dignity will get its urbanity smashed sure, if it comes here. A lieh man is not as generous as a hog. A hog that has a stolen ear of corn will stop every once in a while and shell off a little for the others; that's more than a rich man will do. Politics will never settle the race question ; it only can be settled by strict adherence to the Sermon on tbe Moaur. Beaven and hell, Christ and the world are put before you, make an intelligent choice. Don't wait "the Lord's own good timp." One man said be had been waiting to hear that still small voice sixty years. I told him he had better get up closer, or pick hie ear I If I'd beeu listen, ing for a thing sixty years I'd con clude I wasn't in hearing distance. Foolishness is a thiug to rub on foola. If you gel auy rubbed on you, yon ll know your name hereafter. 3ome Christians are too humble. One man told me he was a "worm of the. dust." A worm with whiskers aud breeches on I Some Bing, "Oh, to be nothing" until it cets to be the God's truth. Old Mr. Nothing, going nowhere. If he ever gets to heaven he'll be trampled on, for they can't see nothing. Duesty is the etymological name of duty. Yon plank down what you have and Christ puts in the rest. How many pastors want as many more just such members? Not more members, but better members, is what is needed. I don't know who is the spiritual daddy of you Charlotte Christians. You can't lay 'em to me. I've never preached here before. Some people say, will Sam Jones converts "stick?' I don't guarantee them ; but they'll be as good as the ones you've got. Peo ple here go to church twice every Sunday. Preachers must be cntting it fine, warming it, aud giving it to them a little at a time- If you don't do better you'll have to take down your church spires ; you've built higher in that direction than you own ; you'll be put in hell for infringement. AH denominations condemn dan cing. There is not oue that has not thundered anathemas against it. Ain't that so, preachers Say, Amen! You'll let a man come here and clean out your dictches aud never bring him a drink of water. Don't notice my peculiarities You put hay and briers in the rack for your cow. She will eat the hay and leave the briars. Have tbe sense of your cow. People have heard that the "Water of Life" is free until they are willing to pay for everything else but that. Auold colored broth er said once, "The Water of Lite is free but the pitcher coat something, and I'se de pitcner. Two things are necessary to make a great man a brain that coiu.eives truths fully, and a b'g leart foil of sympathy. It is not honesty alone to pay your debts ; that is commercial dig nity. No man has a right to an opinion on a moral question. If you want to know whether a thing is right or not apply the sfiaight edge of the Bible. To a sensible womau agentleman ought to be equal to any one that wears a title, no matter what bis rank or what his nation may be. To be a thoroagh gentleman is to be that which neither money nor estates nor insignia can buy. It is peculiarly a birthright. It is m herited in the biood, ami sure to make its appearance even under the most unpropitious circumstances. There is a sort of faUe geniility that is affected by stu bs and parveuns that have suddedly accumulated riches, but tSis is a very cheap de vice in comparison with the sterling article. No one can be deceived by the counterfeit, because the name of the real gentleman does not alone consist of entering a drawingroom gracefully or of making a how in the right form. These accomplish" ments may be necessary in order to help one to fix his position in polite society, but they are really nothiug compared to those graces of mind, manner?, and morals that a true gentleman is ure to possess. A good definition of a real gentleman U one that adheres closely to the spiiit of the wise utterances of the Saviour. "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so un to them." A strict following of tbb golden precept is infinitely better for the individual and society than all the finished bowings and scrap ings under the sun. Old Home stead. The Jeffersou Davia mansion in Richmond will probably be convert ed into a museum tor Confederate relics. Wil. Star. Frank' fJrent .Speech. Frank Lane is a bright boy of twelve. He belongs to the Loyal Temperauce Legion, and the rent of tho tovs regard him as a doe ora tor. He has many origiual idtai, and an eay flow of words. Whan Prank has a speech as part of th.9 programme at the Legion, the other boys are sure to be on hand to hear. Yesterday I weut in and heard Frauk's speech. He went to th platform and looking about earnest 3', said quietly i "Last uight I dreamed that a great white, flyiDg horse came to me and 1 got on his back and rode out into the air. We flew down to Texas, where there were acres aud acres of hops growing. They shook out tht-ir gieeu tassels as far as eye could aee. Then the hops picked themselvesaud fell into a long heap aud turned into a great liver of hops, aud begau to flow out far over the laud. "Then we flew a little north, over Missouri, aud 1 saw corn field- miles on miles of corn fields. Tbe corn stood Mtraighi as soldiers, and tall an a mau. In a little while the corn picked itself and husked iUeLf, and fell into a long heap, and turned into a great river of corn, aud began to flow out over the laud. 'Then I fl?w on my horse still farther north over North Dakota; and I saw field on field, al! stand ing thick with rye; and it waved In the wind like the billows of a great green sea. Then the rye reaped itself, and threshed itself, and fell into a river of rye, and flowed out along the land: And these three rivers united, and rolled on and on. "Then I flew east, and peibapa it was Micigan; and I saw whole farms of beautiful tall barley. Its beads glistened In the sun just like silver. And the barley reaped itself, and threshed itself, and fell into a long heap, and turned into a barley river, and rolled off across the land. Aud it met the rirer made of the other three, and joined them, aud rolled on; "Then I flew over Northern New York and 1 saw great orchard. There were thousand of trees full of apples. The apples picked them selves and fell into a long heap, and rolled off like a liver, aad joined the other four. "iheu I saw two great buildiugs. They looked as big as the earth. They were lull of windows and i'hiutneys, and fires roared iu tlieui. The great river made of five the hops, rorn, rye, bailey aud applet! rolled right into thee two gisaC buildings. My rlyiug horse took me away over these buildiugg, so I came where I could se? tb? . other ude. and fheie 1 s tw the liver lLat had just rolled iir, rolling out. But ic was turned into a liver of beer aud whiskey. "It rolled over the Itud like ft great rloo.l. Ii curried otT luer, wo men, and children. It Hwept dowu houses, and barns, and shops. Jt carried away clothes, and books and furniture. It was rnnetv ban died times bigger than the Johns-, town flood. All before it was quiet, and rich, and green, and happy. All behind it was ruin and wreck. And I heard an awful cry of people wanting to he saved from tnee rivers of whiskey aud beer! Then" my home flew back to my home with me, and lett me, I suppose, for the next thing I kuw I was in my own bed. And I wondered what we should do to keep the beautiful hops, and corn, and rye, aud barley, and applet frum turning into a flood to destroy everything. And why it is we rnuot let people have a trade of tuiniug good things into bad things." This was considered Frank Lane's best hpeech. Y&ung Urusader. Nam Joiiee Tnlke lo Aegroew. . Chahlotte, N. C, May L Fully 8,000 negroes were scrouged into the tabernacle here this afternoon to hear Sam Jones. Itwaaspe cial meeting for negroes. No whites allowed tn. Probabiy a thousand negroei were crowded out for want of room. In this town of 12,000 population such a sight was never before wit nested. Sam Jones talked plainly to the negioes about lying, stealing, whiskey drinking and immorality. As long as a race sells it virtue for epool thread or ribbon it co never hope to amount to much. The most stiikiug M-ene ever witnessed was at the cloe of the sermon, wleu Jones asked all those who were gos ing to quit stealing, lying, wbitkey drinking and immorality, and here after lead a Christian life, to stand up. The entire congTegarion iosj in solid mass.
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