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VJ, rrrTCVx mi IC Ha m'JlM VOL IV. LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE C, ISM. NO. 5 'That is a wideawake baby of yeurj3 liroDeon I 'Yes,' replied Bronaon, with a yawn. 'Particularly at night.' Harper's li.izar. Tangle My dear, I don't see much difference between us, after alb A'ou decorate yourself exten nally with chicken feather?, while I decorate myself internally with cocktails. That's all Liaht 'Prf, what la accident insurance ? "Accident insurance'' A techni cal term, my sou, eignifviag that when y on meet with a mishap it will be an ac.ci.1ent if you get your in surance. lici'.ktt. Young Clergyman You aaw some defects iu my sermon, I suppose. Old Clergyman Yes, d6ar boy ; but if you preach it again don't eliminate them. They are the beat things in it. Keystone. Housekeeper .Nora, you must ab ways sweep behind the doors. New Servant Yes'ni, I always does. It's the 'asiest way of getting the dorrit .out of sightOmaha World H trail. Mr. Jason Why ain't ready, I waut to know supper Mrs. Jason I was down town and got caught in the rain without an umbrella. I had to wait in a store until .'he storm was over. Mr. .Idfcon so you did have sense enough to go in out of the iain, eh ? Well, you are not an entire lool. Mrs. Jason No; only the better half of oue. Terre Haute Express. Reduced Rates. Reduced Rates. k IttViUUcm. F It O 31 E. M. ANDREWS Is extended to all his friends aud customers, and to every reader of this paper to come to the Grand Musical Festival to be held in this city on the 13th and 14th of next June, and iuspect his immense stock of Furniture, Pianos and Organs how on hand. Nothing has been seen like it in the State of North Car olina. At his store can oe found anything you may want in the furni ture line. All new goods, latest styles, and prices ate low down. Over 100 different styles of Pianos and Organs to select from. Prices cat dowu to suit the times. Every instrument guaranteed. Customers must and shall be pleased or mouey refunded. Every lover of music should come to this festival, the first ever held iu North Carolina, and you are cordially invited to make my store head quarters while you are here. E. M. ANDREWS, Piauo, Organ and Furniture Dealer, Charlotte, N. C. Fin ley & Wetmore, ATTYS. AT LAW. LINCOLNTON, N. C. Will practice in Lincoln and surrounding counties. All busine.- put into our bands will be promptly atten ded to. April lb, ls:0. ly. rTw7ROBmso, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Lincolnton, N. C. Practices in this and surround ing counties. Also in State and Federal Courts. fcS-Next door to the Racket. Oc 4t , 1S9. ly. Advertise m the Courier. Rates are reasonable. Try it one year and ste if it does not pay. R AC I HE, WIS Log,LumberYard a GitY Trucks Constance I care not for yoar poverty, George. Let us wed at once. We can live on one meal a lay if necessary. George Can you nook, love? "Yes, George. 1 attended a cook ing school for two months." "Then we will wed. I think one meal a day will answer. Yonkers' Statesman. 'Why don't yon whip that boy !'' a white man asked of an old negro whose son stood iu the road throw ing stones at the cattle. ''I would do it, sah," the old fel low answered, "but he is only my stepson. Ef he wuz my own boy I'd whup hiru iu er rninit." This beats anything I ever saw," said the white man. "I never saw a man before tbat was feiDder to his stepchild than hi was to his own. "Beats anything I eber saw, too, aah j fur ef I wuster hit dat boy his mammy, who is my wife, would w'ar me bodatiously out." Arkan saw Traveller. "Is that immovable man sitting on the hotel piazza one ot oar cit izeus ? ' asked a visitor in a neigh boring town. "Yes, he's au old resident," re plied the man addressed. "He is a very dignified man, I judge," continued the stranger. "He is a very dignified man, I judge," continued the stranger. "Oh, no, that's not dignity yon notice,'' exclaimed the other, "that's laziness." Chicaao Globe. Reduced Rates. Reduced Rates. Piedmont Seminary, MALE AND FEMALE. LINCOLNTON, N. C- Au English, Classical, Mathematical and Commercial School. It is thorough and practical in its work and methods. It does not assume to itself the claims ot a Col lege, but is thoroughly Academic. Location healthy, and ot easy access by railroad. Penmanship and Bust mess Department iu charge of Prof. G. P. Jones. Spring Term of 1390 begins the 8th of Jauuary. For Circulars, drc, send to D. MATT. THOMPSON, Principal, Lincolnton, AT. -C. Jan. 3, 18!M. HUGG'N5-TLAPtES Chaise. JpATEHl. CHAISE BHAKE, j FISH BR9S WAG2N G9 RACINE,WIS. MISS MARTHA'S TRAMP. EY CUAELts B. KIPLi as ;C certainly i a tramp, or i a peddler ! Whichever he L--X-1. is, I won't have him iu- Wf fff t-ide the gate!" "He looks tired, Auntie!'' Miss Martha Pitcher screwed her lips up tightly, and looked at her niece ami namesake with a wither ing expression. "Now, Mattie,'' she said, severely, "I won't have it ! Every time a tramp comes by, you get him milk, or br ad, or something, and as for those horrid peddlers" Bere Miss Martha's breath gave oat. Little Mattie, shy, timid, blue eyed, and pretty as a wild rose, col ored a little, and then said : "I don't think we are any poorer, Anntie, for the little we give awaj ! ' "Well, it is yours; do as you please !" For little Mattie was the owner of the farm aud a very small in come, although, as sue was only seventeen, her aunt mauaged the household, as she had while her brother lived, and Mr. Potter, the lawyer of Arrowdale, was guardian for the small property Mattie's father had left her. It was one of Miss Martha's pe culiarities to lay down the law to Mattie very emphatically, as to the child she had brought up from a baby, and theu, suddenly remem bering that the girl was really the owner of the place, to retreat, as above described, from her position. And little Mattie, submitting m all things to her aunt's dictation, took the permission gratefully, never asserting herself as owner or mis tress. In the present instance she said, wistfully : "Then I may give him some milk, if he asks for it f ' "Ob, he'll ask for enough ! He is opening the gate now. Gracious, Mattie, he look like a brigand ! Such a beard, for a civilized country !" It was a very handsome beard, if Miss Martha had only had the taste to admire it. The nose above it was handsome, too, so were the even, white teeth under the heavy mustache, and the large, brown eyes, half hidden by the broad, slouch hat. He was dusty, but not ragged, and his flannel shirt had the collar turned down over a loose black tie, hidden, to be sure, under the curling, anburu beard- Mattie, tripping lightly down the gardeu path to the gate, was rather startled at the tone of the high bred voice that asked : "Can I get some luncheon here ? I cannot fiud any tavern or hotel on the road." "Oh, no; I aoean, yes," said Mat tie, blushing furiously under the gaze of the soft, brown eyes. "I mean,'' she said recovering her composure, "there is not any hotel within three miles, and you can have some luncheon with pleasure. It you can wait half an hour we can give you dinner.'" For that this was no tramp Mat tie siw at. once, though she had seea little of gentlemen m her life, Miss Martha keeping all men, ex cepting the farm hands, at respect ful distance from her maiden do main. "Thanke ! I will wait with pleasi ure, if 1 may rest on your porch. I am very tired." He stepped wearily and slowly to the porch, and Fauk dowu upon the chintz-covered, big arm-chair with a sigh of relief. "Would you iike a glass of milk uow f'Mattie asked. "I should indeed, very much.-' But wheu the milk came in a pretty glass goblet, upou a dainty china plate, it was Jane, the ser vant girl, who brought it. Mattie, suddeuly shy, was setting the dinner-table with clean cloth and nap kins, aud the best china. 'Gracious, Mattie! whatever are you doing Vy cried Miss Martha, coming in the room. "flush, Auntie I he is a gentle man, and he is coming in to din ner." But when dinner was daintily served, the "gentleman" was found to have faiuled. Mies Martha, who leveled in sick musing, was all energy. She 3rd the ioarnphiie'' and smelling salts, loosened th; necktie, helped Jaue to carry the invalii into the large, cool parlor, and put him on the wide, old fashioned sofa. It was a long in senaib:iity ; so long, that the women became alarmed, and sent Hiram, the cow-boy, to Arrowdale for the doctor. Before the three-mile ride was accomplished aud the doctor arrived, the uninvited guest had passed from insensibility to de liiiurn, and the doctor pronounced the case a partial sunstroke. For two weeks Miss Martha nursed the stranger as faithfully as it he had beeu of her own kin, bringing him back from the very confines of the grava. She ecru-' pnloufdy refrained from any cuiions investigation of his small hand satchel, and only searched one coat pocket till she found a letter direcs ted to Me. Albert Hutchisox, Alton, Box 33. . Mich. Mattie wrote a letter to the box, describing Mr. Albert Hutchinson's sore strait. No answer came, and then other letters were taken from the pocket and were fonnd to be directed all over the country, aU ays to "Mr. Albert Hutchinson," who had evidently beeu upon a extended summer tour. It was im possible to guess where, iu all this variety of location, the home of the wanderer might be, and so Miss Martha put the letters back saying: "If he dies, Mattie, I s'pose we'll bave to read some of '.hose letters to find his folks, but I'm not going prying into them until I can't help myself." But Mr. Albert Hutchinson did not die. Very slowly he won bis way back to health, and in his conn valescence opened a new world to Mattiei He was au artist, he told her, and he bad been on a sketch ing tour, sending hU papers by mail to his studio, in New York, where a brother artist took care of them. lie tailed of books, of life in Switzerland; Paris, Loudon, Vienna, Rome, till the girl felt stir ring iu heart aud brain, ;i longing so intense as to be painful, for some knowledge ot this new world of art and letters, of which she had never heard. There was nothing epoken be tween the two of a sentimental nature, Imt Mr. Hutchiuson, find ing this eager young intellect gras ping all he put before it, talked as he had never talked before, with the keen pleasure ot impartuig knowledge where every word was treasured and valued. It was a great void when he was fully recovered and went away. He paid Miss Martha liberally, with most earnest words of gratitude for her care of him, but when be was goue, Mattie would not look at the roll of greenbacks, flushing hotly as she said : "I am sure he , was poor, Aunt Martha. Put the money a'ay. 1 hate it!"' But she was restless, and craved books out of her reach, opportuni ties to study, and the life of travel and culture that seemed far re moved from her. It seemed to her only natural when a tremendous change came. There had long neen a talk at Arrowdale of coal in the vicinity, and . about six months after Mr. Hutchinson's departure, experi ments were made that proved "Pitcher's Farm' to be a great coab bed. Mattip, who by her fatherV will was of age at eighteen, found herself an heiress. Her guardian, a man thoroughly houest, became her agent, and smiled approval when she proposed to sell the farm land move to New York with Aunt Maltha, who was very much elated at the idea. "I can have good teachers there for a year or two, and then I will go abroad," Matiie said, wheu the plan was finally adopted. "I'll never cross the ocean,'' Aunt Martha declared, "bat no doubt; you'll tin 1 i'on,piny going, and I'd iaep some turi of a home warm for you till yon come back.'' "Xaw, my der Algernon," Mrs. Mni,tro5ie said languidly to her son, ai he entered her "apartments" iu Pari "do show a littie morn inter-e-t. in Miss Pitcher's pursuits. If was finch a chance, her consenting to rime abroad with me, and she is tiO ric.1i.'7 "But,'7 drawled Algernon, caress iug hirt silky musdaehe, '.ue is so dreadfnlly energetic. She tires to death, rushing about. 1 am sure she saw everything in London, aud now she i.i -doing' Paris at a most tremendous rate! By the way, where is she V "She went to a private exhibition of American artists with Mrs. Cope and Carrie. Yon know Carrie id quit.? an artist, and she knows where all the best studios and ex hibitions are," "Yesf Dear me, mother, l am duce.dly glad you aie not forever rushing about as girls do nowa days. It is a complete rest to come in here, after Mattie Pitcher aud Carrie Cope.7' While he spoke, the two ladies named, with Mrs. Cope as chapeiou, were standing iu a large, well lighted gallery, wnere a few paint ings hung wiih wide spaces be tween them, inviting admiration or criticism. "But Mattie,'7 Mi-js Cope was say ing, "the face aud figure are a per-, feet, portrat of yonreelf. You look different, too, more childlike. The expression is not o iutelleetual, but l am sure you looked just like that when you were very young ! Now, mamma, isn't it like Mattie?"' "I think it is !" was the quiet reply. "No, 32. Why Carrie, it is one of Al Hutchinson's pictures. I wonder if he is in Paris !" "Cease to wonder, Cousin Mary,'7 said a masculine voice, close beside the group. How are you ! Oh Cad ! what, an atrocious hat ! 7 "I won't be railed Cad ." pouted Miss Carrie. "Yes I will, too! You may call me Cad for 'auld lang syne.' Mattie, let me introduce my cousin s'xteeu tim-s removed, my dear Mi. Hutchinson." But already Matlie'a band had been taken iu a firm clasp, and Mr: Hutchinson was exprer-sitig his delight at meeting Miss Pitcher, and iuquiring for Aunt Martin. It was a delightful morning. They sauntered through the gallery, ad miring the works of their country men, chatting of old times, plan ning a thousand excursions, until Mrs. Cope gave a dismayed excla mation over her watch, and hurried down to her carriage. "The Copes have really taken possession of Mattie,'; said Mrs. Montrose, a month later. "She is never here. It is fortunate there is no son, Algernon.'' "Yes: but there is an artist fellow always with them a cou.-dn, er something. Widett sys he is im mensely rich, and paints for love of it. I don't know myself whether it is Miss Cope or .Miss Pitcher that is the attraction, but he is always dangling after them." "Oh, Algernon ! how can you let such things go on 1 Whv don't you exert yourself, and make yourse'f attractive to Mattie ? You are tbe handsomest man in Paris at this minute." "Well, the truth is, mother, Miss Mattie seems to look upon me as about one remove from an idiot, because I cannot talk art or books or music." Which last remail: certainly proved that Algernon Montrose had not, at all event, lost his pow ers or penetration. Mrs. Montroae, however, made one strenuous efibit t;. matters by proposing to leave Paris at once, aud proceed to Italy. "I think," Mattie said, "that I should like to stay a month r two longer in Paris. But I need not detaiu yon, Mrs. Montrose. Mrs. Cope has most kiudly invited me to joiu her party." A letter crossed the ocean, not long afterward, to .Miss Martha, some sentences of which may be here recorded : "We will delay the wedding until I coiiip home, dear Auntie, but that will b in a b-w weeks. It may be tint Albeit and I will lefurn to Europe nest year, hut we, are com ing back to yon now. Ho is anxious to st', on, and he suro you are willing for me to marry your 'tramp.' 1 never thought, when Im left 'N .1 . - urn 111 a sir.inge country we should meet again, and 1 hear from his own Hps that he loved me Ions ao, and was hear t-bioken when he went to seek me at Arrowdale and found only a yawning coal pit! But it i.s u;l right now, Auntip, and 1 am thrt happiest womau in the world.'' A". Y. r.?Ijcr. Death otICcv.I. r.. M:um. I. 1. A telegram from Hon. D. W. Bain, inr pui nes of iui ileum Ot this distinguished uiini.-tcr. He died of typhoid fever in St Louin. Dr. Mann was one of the clerical delegates from the North Carolina Conference to the General Confer ence ot ihe M, V.. church, South, now in session in St. Loui. He joined the North Carolina Confer euce at a session held in Raleigh, N. C, in lSoTJ. He was for rifarly 37 years a valiant leader ot the host of God. He tilled many of the most important appointments iu his con ference, and had a host of friends wherever he was ki:ovn. Me was, 1 t ;i r. . l. . . I .. - c x 1 - . . during his ministry, pastor at etteville, Goldsboro, Greensboro, and Wilmington, and presiding el der on tho Washington, Wanentou and New Brne districts- At the last session of the North Carolina Conference he was sent to New Berne, which was his last charge He was a delegate to th Geueral Conference which met iu Rir hmond, Va-, in 18S6. Dr. Maun was a native of Ala mance county, North Carolina. He was about 60 years of age. State Chron icle. A Paradise for rVegroca. In a recent letter, Henry M. Stan ley, the African explores, writes : "There is space enough in the Up per Congo basin to loi-ate donl.le the number ot the ne:oe in the United States without disturbing single tribe of the aborigines nov inhabiting it. 1 refer to the :m neu!e Upper Congo i'oiest country, Ijf.OjOOti square miles '.n exte.ir, whb-h is three times larger thun tho Ar gentine Republic aud one and half times larger than th entire German empire, embrac.ingL'lMiOO'OO acres of umbrageous fore.it land, w herein every unit of the T.OnO.nim negroes might become the owner of 10 aHy a quarter-square mile of land. Five acres of thi.i planted with bananas and plantains would furnish every soul with sufficient snbsis.tei.ee fool and wine. The remaining twenty-seven acres of his estate would furnish him with rimb-r, rubher, gums, deetifi3 for sale. There are lo days ot rain through, out tbe year. There is a clear stream every tew hundred yards. Jn a day's journey we have crossed as many as thiityfwo btreams. The climate is healthy and equable, owing to The impei vious forest, which protects th lands from chii y winds and draughts. All my whi'e officers parsed through the wid area safely. Ivght navigable rivers course through it. Hilis and ridges diversify the scenery ami give mag nificent prospects. To those ne groes in the South aecostomed to Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisana it would be a reminder of their own plantations, without tbe swamps ami the depressing influence! ot cy press forests. Anything and every thing might be grown on it Irom the orauges, guaves, sugar cane tmd cotton of sub-tropical land-, to th wheat of California and lice ot South Carolina. If the emigration wa- prudently conceived and car ried out the "lowing accounts ser.t home by the fir?-t settlers would r-outi dissipate all fear and reluct ance on tho part of 1'ie otherp." UCCKLEN'IS ARNICA SALVK Tbe hcM Ssdve in the world for cut hud brnUes, sore, palt rheum, ferer sows, tt er, ch-ippf-d hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required, It rs guaranteed to giie perfect satisfaction, or money refun e j. eri.'A 25 rent par box. For salt by J. M Liwins;, I'yLsirian ami PharciAciit The Ileit of llnuks. Ruthiand Ray did not want to jet then lessons one sunny day. "The leaf of the chilluns don't mamma. Thev don't nrnr ct ia. 1 son sat li.imu '' : . bWV ll'llllIC "And tlitjyjnst have good times ill day long, mamma." addad Ray. "W hat do you put money into this for, my boy ami lad mamma, tak iug Ray's iron savings bank from the uhelf ami shaking it until tbe money insid rattled sbarplv. "Why-H-e ! You kuow, inaniiuft. If I spent every bit I wouldn't bave any when f get to be a mau- Wto 1 that i full I shall nut it into a real I aving-i bank,' answered puzzled It ay. "Do you always put iu pennies ?' asked mamma again. "No, indeed! Sometimes I have 1 tin Lei, sometime- a dime, and yes terdav pupa gave me a quarter," re plied Ray, .still more p.izled. 'Just no," and mamma smiled up on the two eager little faces. "Aud did you know that you had auotuer bank, from which no one but ur selfcan take your treasure one which pays more interest the mere you put into it f It. is the bank of learning. When you are learning your A R C's you aie ruitlin in Fay-Ipeunies ; your first reader n ee OJ nickels; the second leader will bring dimes ; the thrd gives dime and nickels boih. F.r the, tounh you drop in ohilliugs, and no you keep increasing until y.m ?e.ve school, and begiu your own I f e work. Even then, yonJiardh knew what a va-t treasure you hav; better than gold, dears. No.v you can begin to draw from this woo derful hank, and The mme you u;e its richts the mote there w.ll be tor you to u-e. .No one au tke :t from you no one can ue it v.iihuf. your h-lp, hut you can make, u a blessing to all o.iud you. What do you think 1 i , .ny der ?" T b'lieve v. t .-n'r nev cry 'cause we have . r c lesson any more, mamma,'' a:i.. i.'ufhie pen -d her b (." . "And I t.iiik we ii l.-oMhat ! k fnll o.iu as we. c i.. I . e-g jf ever I ody's m m. ma to ii the,. . Inl luns '00 nt that, Ihere'd b- smaitr folk-? in 'h's uorM, don'r yo 1, hiix ma V an t Ray took his book Ha.u. "N'uLel- now, but dollars w U surely come,' t-aid mamma, aud there has, btei: no i.ooe tt ub'e ab nit lesions Hi our hwuse 'Tran- A tiiiiiclo cl Monet al 1 Jackson A Madison, G i., fp-eial t: the Allauta Cons! -luiion -as: Rjv. Benjamin L ilmne, an aged Mid highly leep'Cfcd citizen ot thi couuty, is afflicted with paralysis at his home juet outside this city. Rev. Mr. Hume was a guide, for the fam ous war 1 101, (jeiierni .jtouewau Jocknou, duiing V.rginia campaign and he kne.v many interesting inci dents in the life of that great man which have never yet beeu recorded upon! lie page4 ot h:s;ory. Rev. Mr. Hume camn to thi county at the close ot Ihe war with 24U,0o0 iu 1a uiey. iwwori une came, and n:a estate today constats of a house acd farm of a few hundred i.ctes near thh city. Mr. Hume is unconscious, ami his recoveay is exceedingly toabtful. He baa been asuperanu ated Methodist preacher for somej years. Such h IifTe. This is a sortof to'psy tutvy world. No man seems to be satisfied. One man is struggling to get justice, au. other is flying frou; it. Oiie man is waving up to build a house aud auother trying to sell his dwelling for !e-s thn it cost, to get. rid ol it. 0;ie man is spending all the money he can make in ia':ing a pirl to the theatre, and sending her flowers in the hope 1-ve.ntU'illy of makiug her hi.s wife, while hi, neighbor is spending all the gold he has to get a divorce. One man escapes all the diseases that man is heir to and gets killed on the railroad another goes through halt a dozu wars without a scratch and dies of the whooping cough. Durham. Sun.
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