szr i si
ffl
VOL IV.
LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1890.
NO. 8
Travis I wonder what makes all
these Philadelphia girls so pretty i
Eloodgood Oh, physicians say
that sleep is conducive to beauty.
Burlington Free Prcas.
Enumerator Do you speak Eng
lish ?
Householder
es
that isi T
. -
thought I did uutil 1 read the re-
port ot a basebedl game in the pa
pers the other day. Button Tran
scrif!. Gui-st (attempting to carve)
What kind of a chicken is thin, any
low? Waiter Dats a genuine
Plymouth Kook, ah. Guest (thrown
irig op both handt?) That explains
it. 1 kuew she was au old timer,
but I had no idea sbe dated back to
the Mayfiowet.
Jbe Lincoln Cockier is you
couuty paper. Subscribe at once.
Temperance Missionary And
does your naabrtiid drink liquor ?
Mrs. O'Tonle Bless y'sowl ! He
hasn't tiched a drap fei three years.
T M That's a good tbiug tor you.
Mrs, O'Toole A good thiDg, t?
An' me as has been a widder ever
since thot day, an' wid five childer
to support-
The Lincoln Cockier is your
county paper: Subscribe at once.
Reduced Rates.
Reduced Rates.
F K
E. M. ANDREWS
Is exteuded to all his friends and customer!?, and to every reader of this
paper to come to the Grand Musical Festival to be held in this city ou
the 13th and 14th of next June, and inspect his immense stock of
Furniture, Pianos and Organs
now ou baud, Ndbiug has been seen like it iu the State of North Carolina-
At his store can Oe found anyihiug you may wnut in the furni
ture line. AM n-w goods, latest styles, and prices are low down.
Over loo different styles of Pianos and Organs to select from. Prices
cut down to suit the times. Every instrument guaranteed. Customers,
must and hail be pleased or mouey refunded.
Every lover of music should come to this festival, the first ever held in
North Carolina, aud you ore cordially invited to make my store head
quarters while you are here.
E. M. ANDREWS, Piauo, Organ and Furniture Dealer, Charlotte, N. C
Finley & Wetmore,
ATTYS. AT LAW,
UNCOLNTON, N. C.
Will piactice in Lincoln and
surrounding counties.
AU buiness put into our
Lauds will be promptly atten
ded to.
AiTii is, lv0.
lv.
"1 nil Sti U fiNniRs t'Tit in tho-.!-
1 , I 1 .
J I snnd3 ct luruii, but are sur
passed ty tue nrnvtis of laveutiyti. Those
wbo ure :;i i.tU ut routatle work that
can be ucne wbiie living ht home should
at once stui their iiJit:;s to ilaliet k Co.,
Portland, Mme .and receive tree full ia
fwrmulicn bow either ex, of h 11 ages, can
sra irem jo 10 ?2j per dty .and upwards
wherevev they live. You are started free.
Capital not required, bome Lave made
over K0 in n ;ule diiy t tbis work- AU
UCOCed.
AnoJi'iTit si:i; machine:
Prices uuueed. Kvoiy family note can
have the i.t.v Autnjiiiitnt S.-vmg Ma
olnio u il.v iii.uki t ; t reduced price.
For pa: i.la. s ml foi oar new lllus
tratc 1 Clival. u witii dimples of stitch
ing. On liiiistj .ilvd fiicalar hows
every p. tit f the Machine perfectly, and
is worth ser.die.i; fur even if yon )ave a
Machine. Kru-c A- ruihy Ifr. Co.,
4oj and 4"7 Vv"et '2Cih St., Y. City.
RACIME.WIS.
Log,LumberVard a Git V Trucks 5
SHHINU
Counsel to witness, the father of
a large family Why are you so
certain. Mr. Smith, that the event
occurred ou such a date f May you
not be mistaken.
Witness Impossible, sir. It was
the day I didn't have to buy any of
my children a pair ct shoes.
Miss Culture Oh, Mr. Sharpe,
doesn't the Professor play charm,
ingly f I just dote on his pieces in
j flat.
Mr. Gecrga Sbarpe Aw, weally,
Miss Culchah, I pwefer sharps G
bharp, for instance. Ha, ha.
MissCukure Yes ? but you know
G sharp is A fiat. Boston Budgtt.
Good manners are not learned
from aibitrary teaching so much as
acquired from habit. They grow
upon us by use. We must be cour
teous, agreeable, civil, kind, gentle
manly, and womanly at home, and
then it will eoca become a kind of
secoud nature to be so everywhere.
A course, rough manner at home
begets a mauuer of roughness which
wo c.Aiiuui lay on, if we try, among
strangers. The most agreeable
people we have ever known in com
pany are those that are perfectly
agreeable at home. Home is the
school for all the best things, es-
per ially for good mauuers.
Reduced Rates.
Reduced Rates.
O 31
Piedmont
leminary.
MALE AND FEMALE.
LINCOLNTON, N. C
Au English, Classical. Mathematical
aud Commercial School.
It is thorough and practical in its
work and methods. It does not
assume to itaeif the claims of a CoU
lege, lut is thoroughly Academic
Location healthy, and ot eaay access
by railtoad. Penmanship and 13u8i
mess Department iu ch&ige of Prof.
G. T. .3 ones. Spring Term of 1890
begins tbe tt I or January.
Fur Citclrfjrt, da., Stnd to
). MATT. THOMPSON,
Principal, Lincolxton, K. C:
Jau. 3, ISvlO.
IVMu OVij' rLL. j i r
PATHICHAISE BRAKE, j
7
FISHBR9SWAG9NG5
RACLNE.WIS
Selected for Cctrifr.
A Printer' Essay lo
Catherine. I oiTTK.
An SA now I maan 2 wrfte
2 U sweet KT J,
The girl wirhout a j
The belle of UTK.
I lder If U got the 1
I wrote 2 U B4
I sailed iu the RKDA,
ic eent by LN Hoore.
Aly MT head cau scarce conceive
I calm IDA bright,
But 8T miles from U 1 must
M- this chance 2 write.
& first should NE NV U
B EZ mind it not
If NE friendship show, B sure
They shall not B forgot.
But frieuds and foea alike DK
As U may plainly O
In every funeral RA,
Our Uncle's LEG.
From virtue never DV8,
Her influences B9
Alike iudu ce 10derce33
Or 40tude divme.
& if TJ cuuuul cub a,
Or cause rue !,
1 hope TJ'll put a .
2 1?.
R U for anXatiou 2
My cousin heart and Sx3
He offers iu a J
A broad of laud.
He says he loves U 2 XS,
E'er virtuous & Y's,
In XLNO U XL
All others in his Ps.
This SA until U I O
I pray U 2 XQ's,
& not burn in FIG,
My quaint and wayward muse.:
Now fare U well, dear KT J,
I trust that U II true
When this U C then U caa say
An SA I O U,
A. L. C.
Liucolnton, N. C.
From New York Ledger.
A PATCHWORK
QUILT.
BY MARY KYLE DALLAS.
Have you anywhere about your
house, amidst your counterpanes
and comfortables which you looked
at five minutes before buying, per-
bapg, one of those ohl-fashioued
patchwork quilts made of tbe tiniest
pieces, arranged iu the most intri
cate patterns, over which at least
one pair of eyes we're strained for
days aud weeks before quilting time
came, and all those puffy little dia
mouds were marked out, amidst
chat and laughter, by half-adozeu
ladies ? Did you ever, iu childhood
sit upon the bed and hear the his
tory ot the various pieces of chintz?
That's a piece of your first colored
dress ; that I had when I was a girl;
that was your grandmother's morning-gown;
this is a piece Miss S
gave me. I have heard such a his
tory many a time, and Utile pictures
used to pass before my eyes with
the words. I could bee just how
grandma looked iu tbe moruing
gown. 1 could see myself a baby,
taking toddiing steps in the bine
frock. It seemed so funny to have
been a baby when I was au im
portant person ct five years. It
doesu't seem half so fuuny now, tor
I "nave begun to doubt whether I
shall ever be anything else, and to
know just how many big babies
there are in this world.
Dear old patchwoxk quilts 1 We've
lost something in losing them, I
think, and probably Mrs- Mumtord
thought so, too, for whenever any
of her children were fouud sitting
with those idle hands, for which
Doctor Watts declares that Satan
always rinds some mischief, she in
variably remarked : "Fou'd better
get your patchwork.-'
They always obeyed, those three
little girls, Lucy, Kath and Olive,
and there were piles of quilts in the
upstairs room where spare bedding
was stored quilts of many colors,
quilts of only two, quilts with large,
6quare blocke, and quilts with intri
cate patterns, like a Chinese puzzle,
quilts that had been made by people
in their nineties, and quilts made
by people who enuld not yet say : I
am nine years olV' Piecir.cr a quilr
was the first work and the la3t of
the members of tho AIumford family.
I think au anct'sror made some
patches on board of the JudyrloiCtr.
At least, it was said so.
Wheu a young person married, a
dowry ot quilts had always been
provided always would be while
Mrs; Mum ford Jived. When Olive
rwas filteen, she had beeu told that
the white and Tuikey red quilt
which her great-graudmother had
made was to be among her share,
as tbe eldest daughter of the house.
She laughed then and said :
"I shall always stay at home with
you, mamma. I shall be the old
maid daughter.'1
A year afterward she did not
think mis, whatever aha might
have said, for tbe year had made
her feel that she was no longer a
child, and she had met Harry Mar
tin, who had put an engagement
ring on Olive's finger, and, if all
went well, her seventeenth birthday
would find her a matron.
'Nothing like seeing your child
ren settled before you are broken)
down yourself," said the mother;!
and thereupon began to teach Olive
the higher mysteries of pastry.
Plain cooking every girl of that
family quite understood.
A lover always takes great inter,
est in his lady's handiwork. Harry
regarded all the little pieces of sewi
ing which passed through Olive's
hands with immense admiration,
and the homely patchwork was just
as fine in his eyes as anything else ;
ud there was often much talk
about the pieces, and, once or twice,
he had cut them out, after the card
board patterns, loving to meddle
with anything that she was busy
with, in old true lover's fashion.
One evening, when he went iu,
he found the girl lookiug; a3 an ar
tist might iook at a rare old master,
at a long breadth ot old-fashioned,
flowered chintz.
"Mother has just given me this.
Harry,'' she said. "It is like a gown
cf old aunt Hepsiba's. It shimmers
like silk, and see how fine it is. But
faucy wearing such large patterns.
Look I a batteifly on a bough, and
a rose, aud a butterfly on a bough
again, and then another rose, like
wall-paper. Tbe difficulty will be,"
said Oiive, pausing to consider,
'how to get the pattern into a patch
without spoiling it."
"I'll help you,'' said Harry j aud
to work he went, and for a pleasant
hour or two be kept cutting patches.
A bud ami a butterfly on one, a
rose on the other, bud and butterfly,
aud rose again.
"And be has not spoiled one,
mamma,'' said Olive, in a tone of
pride. "I'm sure I would have cut
a dozen butteiflies' heads off, if I
had tried."
So tbe young things laughed over
their exploits, and then slipped
merrily away to have their lovers'
cnat where nobody could listen.
It was the last. The next day,
Harry Martin was missing, and with
him a large sum of money from his
employers' safe. Tee news spread
through the country town like
wiid-fire. Harry was an orphan,
and the son of an old friend at the
head of the firm. It was understood
that they would be merciful, but his
character was blighted forever.
No one doubted his guilt but Ol
ive. She steadfastly declared him
innocent.
Weeks passed on, and there was
no news ot him at least, none that
reached the Mumforda' ears ; but
one night, when Mrs. Muni ford
went out to tbe cow-house to see
that Cruinmie was safe for the night,
some one came out of the darkness,
and called to her.
"Who is that ?" cried the lady,
her heart giving oue great throb.
"It's I Harry," said a wells
knowu voice. "Oh ! Mrs. Mumford,
let me eee Olive."
"Harry Martin !" said Mrs. Mum
ford. ' Oh ! Harry Martin, you've
made a sad home of mine !" And she
broke into tears.
"And you all believed it at once''
said Harry, sadly. "I didn't thiuK
you would."
"Ob, Harry," said Mrs. Mumford,
"Satan tempts us all
I'm sorry
. fr you, but you can't see Olive. It V
i)H rr-r tr.r i.ar mn ti i, . o i
.... JV, fcuuuiun i. oue
was very fond of y6u, Harry."
"And fhe has turned against me,
too, then ."' a-id the yonnj man.
"You shan't blame her, poor
Iamb, " said Mrs. Mumfoid. "A
gul like tbat cau t have anything
to tlo with one who has disgraced
himself."
"Love is more steadfast,"' eaid
Hairy. "Evil reports could not
have won me from Olive'
Then, without auother word, he
went away and such a hold have
homely things upon our memory
sometimes, that, as he went, he saw
the pretty household picture he had
last seen beneath the roof that now
refused to welcome him, as plainly
as we see things in dreams; his love,
with her dark curls about her face,
aud the needle iu her hands, and
the skein of thread about her neck ;
a bright; lamp burning upon the
table, aud ou the other side, himself
cutting pieces for patchwork from a
pasteboard patters, and laying in a
brilliant little pile, squares and tii
angles on which were a rose and a
butterfly upon a flowering branch, a
butterfly on a flowering branch, and
a full blown rose, alternately.
A Western editor speaks of a
wind that "just sat up on its hind
legs and howled." Such a wind it
must have be9ii that was bowling
through the bleak Maine country
twenty years from the nigbt on
which Harry Martin turned from
the Mumfords' door and went his
way alone.
The inn or tavern or hotel, which
ever it was, which bore tbe name of
T. JOLLIVER.
upon its signboard, was not expecti
ing any guests that night, but, nev
ertheless, one came to its doois
came late, too, as the clocks were
striking ten, and people generally
thinkiug of bd.
The guest was a mau of foity,
with a sad sort of facea face with
a story in it. But he was well
dressed and evidently no poor trav
eller. He had supper in the beirt
parlor, ami, meanwhile, a fire was
made in the best bedroom, m which,
when he made his way thither, he
found a buxom, youngish woman
spreading au extra counterpane
upon the bed.
"Good evening, ir," she said,
turning toward him with a manner
tbat bespoke tbe landlady. "I
thought I'd see that yon were com
fortable myself. I never leave ev
erything to chambermaids. When
I married a hotel-keeper, I made
np my mind to help him, aud there's
no such way of making guests feel
discouraged as turning them over
to help. And I've giveu you my
prettiest quilt, too," said bhe, with
a little laugh. "There's an honor."
The gentlemae looked toward the
bed. The quilt was a patchwoi k.
It had a wide striped border, but
in the center the blocks were all
the same bright chintz alternated
with white a butteifly on a brauch,
a rose, a butterfly ou a branch, and
a rose again.
The man took a fold of it up in
his hand, and looked at it, as men
do not often look at patchwoik
quilts. The woman bubbled on.
We're great for patchwoik in
our family. Such a pile as we had
of these quilts at borne. Sister
Ruth had twenty when the was
married, but I had fittv. My other
sister gave me her share, seeing
that I married a hoteNkeeper, and
she thinks she'll never marry. Ob,
dear! There's a story in a good
many qnilts, it you did but know
it; and there ia a story in this. It's
the last one Olive ever made. But
I'm boring you, sir."
"No, go on," said the geutleman.
"Go on, please."
"She was engaged," said the land
lady, "aud she wa8 but sixteen.
One afternoon, she and her sweet
heart cut out these block-, the next
they were parted. He was suspect
ed of a crime of robbery, sir, if I
must say it and she never saw him
agaiu. She kuew that he was inno
cent. She said that all the angels
in heaven couldn't make her doubt
it, but no one else thought with her,
I until a year had gone by, and then I
. 1 . ,
I a u om connnentiai ciert, wno was
I trusted in evervthiug, being caught
jin another theft, confessed to that
which mv eistet'g sweetheart had
been accused of. Tbe story he had
told to his employers of being
knocked down in the streets of New
York, where he went that holiday
afternoon, and being thought drunk
and put into a station house, and
being ashamed to give his name
next moniing, and too sick to come
home next day, was no doubt tiue.
His employers advertised for him,
but in vain. And mother owned to
sending him away from the doer
when he catne to see Olive. It is a
ead story. Olive can't seem to Pke
any one else, and the poor feilcw
was so fond of her. Sci that's the
story of the quilr."
The woman stopped and gave a
little cry, for the guest had flung
himself upon his knee?, and was
kissing that patchwoik quilt as
lovers kiss their sweethearts' lips.
She gave another little crv in a
moment, and knelt down beside him,
aud put her hand upon his th julder.
"Ob, dear I ob, dear !" she wobbed,
crying hard herself. "Ob, dear! I
do believe it is Harry Martin."
And it was Harry Martin, who
had been to the far ends of the
earth aud had found gold, but not
happiness, believing himself lobbed
forever of love anil of fair repute,
and who had returntd to find both
awaiting him, through the means of
that patchwoik quilt, with its buN
terflies and flowering boughs and
roses.
"Lucy," said Olive to her sister, a
few months afterward, "now that
we are going to housekeeping, I
want you to give me one thing."
"Anything on earth that I cau,"
said Mrs. Jolliver. "I was thinking
of a silver service-"
"Oh, Lucy, dear," said Olive, be
ginning to cty for very happiness,
"it's only the butteifly quile that I
want. The dear old quilt. Harry
says we can't keep houe without
it, we both love it go."
"I've rolled it up lor you already,"
paid Mrt. Jtdlivor. "It seeuit? to
belong to you, Olive."
Aud so to-day Olive's last baby
6its upon the brillUnt quilt, and
tries, with his chubby fingers, to
pull therefrom the butterflies and
rot-rs.
Eavew Kjectioit and
it MTean-
WIlMt
Eaves "i not afraid of the devil,"
but since the Senate has rejected
bis confirmation he is afraid of the
Republican Senate, which now, iu
bi3 estimation, Is doubtless the next
thing to his satanic majesty. He
will step down from bis hih office
kicked out by J. .J. MOTT. better
known as ttie Iron Duke. It has
been appareut for sorrm time tbat
Mott was the Grand Mogul of the
Republican party, and the Great
Dispenser of Patronage. lie se
cured Eaves' appointment, hut be
cause the reliable would not do his
bidding, he turned against him,
and has now secured his defeat.
Truly the Iron Dnke cau kiil aud
make alive so tar ai tbe adininistra
tion p-itronage h concerned.
The iesult of t he deft-at ot Mr.
Eaves will be that a regular Anti
Administi ation organization will be
effected in ttie Republican party in
North Caioliua of which Mr. Eaves
will be the head. With him wiil
stand tbe best ami ablest Republic
cans in the State, and they will nee
to it that Mr. Harrison will ask in
vain for North Carolina support
when ha a.ks a re-uominatioul
There is war ahead between the
Iron Duke aud his heuchmeu aud
Eaves aud his host of Reliables wbo
"are not afraid of the devil."
It is none of our tight, but we
shall watch it with interest. TLe
country will be helped if ench fac
tion kills thf other. State Chronicle:.
A teader-hearted and compare
sionate disposition which inc ine
men to pity and f-el tbe misfortunes
of others, and which in even for its
own sake incapable of involving any
man in ruin and misery, of all
tempers of mind, the most amiable,
and, though it never receives much
honor, is worthy of the highest.
HAItKISOV AFKAID
That Heed In Working for the
.Nomination Iu 1992.,
WashinitTox, June. 17.Tbe
Lndge-Howtll national law biil will
be taken np in the Honseou Friday,
and will pasa on next Wednesday.
However, it will not be by a solid
Republican vote. There is oppoN
tion iu Republican ranks, aud it ia
led by a Soatberii man, ouo who has
sufficient nerve not to be bulldozed
by Tom Reed.
Tbat man is H. G Ewart, of Ashe
ville, N. C.
He spoke his mind In the Repu'
Iwmu caucus last night, ami will re
peat it when the bill comes before
the house. In the caucus Mr. Ew
art ma le a ringing speech in opLo
sition to any "force measure." He
said that as a measure of relief to
tbe republicans cf the south it. ai
not worth tha pper it was written
upor. It would only intensify race
prejudices and engeuder sectioDal
hostility. Mr. Ewart stated tbat
in North Carolina, except In what
is kuotvn as the black district, tbe
elections were as fair as in any state
in the Union : and no election law
like the Lodge bill was needed
there. The law would only be ap
plied in tbe black district, where
tbe inevitable result would be riots
and bloodshed. If the gentlemen
of the north desired to show their
sympathy for the unfortunate ne-
gro, and soi.-alled downtrodden
republicans of the south, let them
exhibit that sympathy in a practical
manner, by running their hands
down in iheir pockets and passing
au educational bill, which would fit
the negro for citizenship and enable
him to protect bis rights at the ballot-box.
He predicted that the paa
sage of the lull, iustead of increas
ing, would decrease the Republican
majority in the filty-second Con
gress. Indeed, he said, if the bill
passed the Republicans would have
letH representation in the next Coi
gress from the south than they had
ever had. With all the talk ot
frauds in Extern North Carolina,
and especially in the black district
of that State, not a single indicts
inent has yet lx-tii found, though
both the jiHs.'" .iiid district attor-
ney were Kep.jiiiicans. Th negro
question woii i settle itself aftar
while. HeM.'i toice bills and elac
tion bills, muddle l ou the Lodge
plan, would pn.vo abortive aud
make Republican .-uccess iu that
section absolutely iinosbible.
Mr. Reed suggested i hat hn need
not app'y the law to nt district,
but Ewait replied tb-it be would
have to detend it, aud that it would
not only defeat his re-election, but
would defeat the electiou ot any Rii
publican in the South.
In speaking of tbe bill to-day Mr
Ewait aaid that fourteen Republic
cans voted against it in the caucus
la-t mht, and that iu the othor
boue there would bis at least a balf
h dczen votes recorded against it.
He s id, i bile it luigbt pa-a tbe
lioue, if i o ild never go through
t'ne Sei.aV, and he, thoief.irc, had
no tfrtia 1 1 1 t it would become a law.
It in jiveii our to.drty th-tt the
President has weakened on Ibis b II,
and t fiat be now thinks it would be
hent not to pais it. A Republican
member, who ha the (,-xv of thfj
President, f'd to-day that Mr. Har
ririon eilt tor Reed yesterday, and
told bim he was going too fast in
rushing through legislation without
due consideration aud dehate. He
al.-o told Reed it would not be ad
visable to pa-n huch a rabid law ai
the Federal election bill now pend
ing. Reed, however, replied iu hhi
usiul d!r:4sti(; cin, aud retired in
a rage. The Republican member
who gave out this information, said
that Harrison and other party
leaders who are aspirants for the
'9-' Pi evidential nomination, were)
ot tbe opinion that Reed was work
ing for a perpetuation of the power
of tbe Republican party simply to
have himself le-elected Speaker,
and in the hopes of making biin3elf
so popular with the masses of the
Republican party us to secure tbe
Presidential nomination in '02.
A SAFE INVESTMENT
is one which is guaranteed to bn'Dg you
satisfactory r- ultj, or in case of failure a
return of purcLa-e price. On thli safe
plan yru ran t'uy from our advertised
Drn:gi?t a bottl of Dr. Kia's New Djs
covery for Con3ua.pt.ioTi. It is ruarar.tei
to bring relief in very case, when used for
any afi-ction of Threat, Lungs or Chest,
such as Cousutnption, iLtiamation of tbe
Lung?, Bronchitis, Asthma, Whooping
Cough, Croup, etc., etc. It i pleasant aDd
agreeable to taste, perfectly sate, and can
always be depended upon. Trial bottle
frte at Dr. J. M Lawing's Drug store: