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LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, AUG 15, 1890.
NO. 15
Sizing up tlie Stranger.
Mrs. Chugwater "Josiab, these
new neighbors of ours across the
way seem to be excellent people. I
see they are advertising in this
morning's paper that they have
found a gold-handled umbrella
which the owner can have by call
ing and proving the property."
Mr. Chugwater (suspiciously)
"Anybody that advertises be baa
found an umbrella and wants to
find the owner ia just a little too
good. Keep the coal bouse locked
hereafter, Samantha, and keep an
eye on the cloth ea- line." Chicago
Tribune.
A OonfiiHiou.
"Penelope," said the Boston mo
ther, "tell mo truly, did Charles
kiss you last night V
"There was a alight labial juxta
position as Cbarlea took his leave,
mother, but I assure yon it was only
momentary and therefore innoca-
ous:" Munscu't Weekly.
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There is much to be said in favor
of wisely deliberating before acting.
Doubtless many rash deeds are
performed, bringing all sorts of un
fortunate consequences in their
train, simply for the want of a little
reflection ; and others, that would
have been of the utmost benefit to
mankind, have never seen the light
from the same cause. Yet, while
thls is true, there is a kind of de
liberation much practiced which is
nearly always pernicious in its re-
sults upon future action. It is that
which pats aside the first instinct
ive perceptions of right and wrong
speculates upon them, doubts them
subjects them to processes of casu
istical reasoning, and generally ends
either by eo clouding the mental
vision that no distinct course is vis
ible, or by actually making the
worse appear the better cause.
Much of the wroner-doinr of Ihe
world is the fruit of this kind of
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A H03IANC i: OF LABOR.
BY AMELIA E. BABE.
TTfHE unwritten romance of real
life far exceeds in beauty and
tfcflS instruction anything that aim
0$ Die fancy ever imagined : and
j I have had only to keep my eyes
and ears open, aa I went up and
down in the world, to fill the atore-
housie of memory with many a
strange drama. The following true
incident was brought to my re
membrance this morning, while lisi
tening to the rebellious words of a
youog man, who conpi not eee his
father's wisdom in desiring bim to
learn a irade.
if. will makft a co in in on man of
me, father," he said, querulously;
"I shall be as dirty as a blacksmith,
and have hands like a coalheaver."
"And if you think, Fred, that
wearing fine clothes and having
white bauds will make you a gen
tieman, let me tell you, sir, you are
now a very common man, indeed,
to becin with. A good trade might
manhood.'7
Then I looked at the handsome
fellow for he was haudsome and
I thought involuntarily of young
Steve Gaskill. Steve has made his
mark now, but many a year ago I
heard just such a talk between him
and old Joeiah Gaskill, relative to
the young man's learning his lath-,
et's trade of a woolatapler.
"It is a dirty business, father,''
said tho splendid Steve, in a full
evening dress, "and I hate the swell
of oil, and the sight of thoe men
in blue linen blouses. I hope I shall
do something better for myself than
that."
"Very well, lad ; whaten Is thou
fain to be!"
"A lawyer, father."
"They're naught but a lazy, quar
relsome set, but thou sha' not say I
iver stood i' thy gate. Be a lawyer,
lad. I'll ppeak to Denham to-mor-
row about thee."
So young Steve was articled to
Denham & Downes, to study law,
and specially "conveyancing." He
was an only son, but he bad three
sisters, and over them and his
mother be exercised supreme influ
ence, wnatever ateve tua, was
right j whatever he said, vas be
yond dispute. Even old Josiah,
with all his sound seuse, was, in
spite of himself, swayed by this un
disputed acknowledgment of Steve's
superiority. H would not have
advised his son to be a lawyer, but
seeing that Steve was not afraid of
being one, he was rather proud of
tho lad's pluck and ambition:
It cost him a good deal. Steve's
tastes were expehsive, and be fell
naturally among a class of men who
led him into many extravagances.
There were occasional awkward
scenes, bnt Steve, supported by his
mother and sisters, always cleared
every scrape, anp finally satisfied
the family pride in being regularly
admitted upon the roll of her maj
esty's attorneys.
Iu the meantime, his father bad
been daily failiug in health, aud
soon after this event he died- Most
of his savings had been secured for
the benefit of the helpless women
of the Gaskill family ; and Steve
now found himself with a profession
and a thousand pounds to give him
a fair start iu it. People fraid old
Gaskill had acted very wisely, and
Steve had sense enough to acqui
esce iu public opinion. He knew,
too, that just as long as his mother
or sisters bad a shilling, they would
share it with him.
So he hopefully opened his office
m his native town of Leeds, aud
waited for clients. But Yorkshire
men are proverbially cautious ; a
young, gooanaturea, iasnionaoiy
dressed lawyer was not their ideal
Steve could not look crafty and
wise under any circumstances, and
the first year he did not make
enough to pay his reut.
Nevertheless, he did not, in any
way, curtail expenses ; and when
the summer holidays arrived, he
went as usual to a fashionable watr
jiDg-placeJ It happened that year
saw the debut of Misa Elizabeth
Braithwaite, a great heiress, and a
very handsome girl. Steve was at
tracted by her beauty, and her
great wealth was certainly no draw
back in his eyes. In a short time,
ho perceived Misa Braithwaite fav
ored him above a!l other pretenders
to her hand, and he began seriously
to consider the advantages of a rich
wife.
His profession hitherto had been
a failure ; his one thousand pounds
were nearly spent; his three sisters
were all on the point of marriage,
a condition which might seriously
modify their sisterly instincts ; aud
his mother's whole annual income
would not support . him a month.
Would it not be the best plan to
accept the good fqrtune so evidenti
ly within his reach t
Elizabeth was handsome and iu.
dined to favor him, and though she
had the reputation of being both
authoritative in temper and econ
omical in money matters, he did not
doubt but that she would finally
acknowledge bis power as com
pletely as his own mother and sis
ters. So he set himself to win Miss
Braithwaite, and before Christmas
thoy were married.
True, be bad been compelled to
give up a great deal more than he
liked; but he promised himself
plenty or marital compensations.
Elizabeth insisted on retaining her
own house, and as Steve had really
no house to offer her, he must needs
go to Braithwaite Hall, as the hus
band of its proprietress. She in
sisted upon his removing his office
to Braithwaite, a small village, of
fering none of the advantages for
killing time, which a large city like
Leeds did ; ann she had all her
money scrupulously settled upon
herself for her own use, and under
her absolute control.
Steve felt very much aa if his wife
had bonght him ; bat, tor a liy.le
time, the eclat ot having married a
great heiress, the bridal festivities
and foreign travel compensated for
the loss of his freedom. But when
they returned to Braithwaite, life
soon showed him a far more prosaic
side. Mrs. Gaskili's economical
disposition soou became particular!
ly offensive to Steve- She inquired
closely into his business, and did
not ecruple to make unpleasantly
witty remarks about his income.
Sbe rapidly developed, too, au au
thoritative disposition, against
which Steve daily more and more
rebelled. The young couple were
soon very unhappy.
The truth was that a great tran
sition was taking place in Steve's
mind, and times ot transition are
always times of nnrest and misery.
The better part of his nature was
beginning to claim a hearing. He
had seen now all that good society
could show him ; he had tasted of
all pleasures money can buy, and
he was not happy.
His wife had no ennui and no dis
satisfaction with herself. There
was her large house to oversee, her
gardens and conservatories, her
servants and charity schools, her
toilet and a whole colony of pet an
imals. Her days were too short for
all the small interests that rilled
them j aud these interests she would
willingly have shared with Steve,
but to him they soon became intol
erable bores.
Under some circumstances he
might have found nis work in the
ordering and investing5 of his wife's
large estate ; but Elizabeth was far
too cautious a woman to trust it in
untried hands. Her father's agent
was her agent; her banker man
aged all her investments ; her park
aud farms and gardens were all un
der ihe cre of old and experienced
servants, who looked upon Steve
merely as 'Missis's husband."
In the second year of his rnarri
age he began to bavo some thoughts
whicu would have astonished bis
wife, could she have thought it
worth her while to inquire what
occupied his mind in the long,
moody hours when he paced the
shrubbery, or eat sileutly looking
out of the window. But Steve was
now ready for any honest thing that
would take him out of the purpose
less, dependent life which he had
so foolishly chosen for himself.
On day, greatly to his surprise,
Elizabeth said to him :
"Steve, I have a letter from a
cousin of my mother's, who lives
in Glasgow. 8be is going to Aus
tralia, aud wants me to buy her
hoase. She says it is a great bars
gain ; and I wrote to Barrett to go
and see about it. I have a letter
this morning, saying he is too ill to
leave his bed. I wonder if y on could
go and attend to it !"
Anything for a change. Steve
showed a very proper businessslike
interest, and said :
4Yes, I wouid be very glad to go."
"Very well. I should think yon
knew enough of titles and deeds
and conveyancing, and all that kind
of thing. I will trust the affair to
you, Steve."
So the next morning Steve found
himself on tbe Caledonian Line,
with one hundred pounds in his
pocket, and a veritable piece of
business on hand. The first twenty
miles out of Leeds he enjoyed with
the abandon of a bird set free ; then
be began to think again. At Crewe
he missed a train, and, wandering
about the station, fell into talk with
the engineer of the next one, who
was cleaning aud examining his
engine with all the love and pride a
mother might gire to a favotite
child.
The two men fraternized at onco,
and Steve made the trip over the
Caledonian hue in the cuddy of the
engineer, who was a fine young fel
low, "one of seven," he said, "all
machinists siud engineers." The
young mechanic was only serving
his time, learning every branch of
his business practically; he had
brothers who made engines, and he
hoped to do so some day.
In spite of his soiled face and oily
clothes' Steve recognized that re
finement that comes with educa
tion ; and when his new friend
called upon him at the Queen's Ho
tel, he would not have been ashamed
of his appearance, even iu hiu most
fastidious days.
"Mr, Dalrymple, I am glad to see
you," said Steve, holding out both
hands to him.
"I thought you would be, sir ; it
is not ot'leu I am mistaken in my
likings. I will go with you now to
see my father's works, if it suits
you'
Never had such a piace entered
Stephen Gaskill's conception ; the
immense furnaces, the hundreds of
giants working around them, the
clang ot machinery, Ihe mighty
struggle of mind witb matter, of
intellect over the elements, was a
revelation. He euvied those Cy
clops in their leathern marks aud
aprons; he longed to lift their
mighty hammers. He looked upon
the craftsmen with their bare,
brawny arms ann blackened hands,
and felt his heart glow with admi
ration when he saw the mighty
works those hands had fashioned.
The tears were in his eyes when
Andiew Dalrymple and he parted
at the gate of the great walled-in
yard.
"Tbauk you' he said; "you have
done me the greatest possible ser
vice. I shall remember it."
That night Steve formed a strange
but noble resolution. First of all,
he devoted liimself to his wife's
business, and accomplished it in a
mauner which elicited Mr. Barrett's
warm praise, and made Elizabeth
wonder whether she might not
spare her agent's fees for the fut
ure. Then he had a long, confideni
tial talk with the owner of the DaK
rymple Iron and Machine Works,
the result of which was the follow
ing letter to Mrs. Gaskill :
"My Dear Wife : I shall not be
home again for, at least, two yeara
for 1 have begun an apprenticeship
to Thomas Dalrymple bere, as an
ironmaster. I propose to learn the
whole process practically. I have
lived too long upon your bounty,
for I have lost your esteem, as well
as my own, and I do not say bat
what I have deserved the loss.
Please God, I will redeem my wast
ed past, and with Ui help, make a
man of myself. When 1 am worthy
to be your busbaud you will respect
me, aud, until then, thiuk as kindly
as possible of
Stephen Gaskill.
This letter struck the first noble
chord in Elizabeth's heart. From
that hour not even her favorite
maid durst make her usual little
compassionate sneer at "poor mas
ter." Steve, iu leathern apron and
coarse working clothes, began la
boriously happy days.which brought
him nights of sweetest sleep ; and
Eliz iboth began a series of letters
to her husband which graduallv
grew more ana more imbued witb
the tenderest interest and re
spect. In a few weeks, she visited
him of her own free will, and pur
posely going to the woiks, saw ber
self-banished lord wielding a pon
derous hammer upon a bar of white
hot iron. Swarthy, bare-armed,
clothed in leather, be bad never
looked so handsome iu Elizabeth's
eyes ; and her eyes revealed this
fact to Steve, tor in them was tbe
tender light of a love, founded upon
a genuine respect.
Steve deserved it. He wrought
faithfully out his two years service,
cheered by bis wife's letters and
visits, and when he came out of tbe
Dalrymple Work-, there was no
more finiehed ironmaster than he.
He held his bead frankly up now,
and looked fortune boldly in the
face; he could earn his own living
anywhere, and, better than all, he
had conquered bis wit wor: her
esteem and compelled her to ac
knowledge a physical strength and
a moral purpose greater than her
own.
Between Leeds and Braithwaite
Ha'l there have beeu for many years
gigantic iron. works. The mills ami
railways of the West Riding know
them well ; their work is famous for
its excellence, for the master is a
practical machinist and oversees
every detail. Their profits are enor
mous, and Stepheu Gaskill, their
proprietor, is also the well-beloved
and thoroughly respected master of
Braithwaite Hall and of Braith
waite Ha l a mist trt.s.
Captain mil man Talks to u
Newspaper lleporter.
While in Charleston last week
Capt. Tillman was inter viewed by a
representative ot the Philadelphia
Press, to whom he said:
"No; I dou'fc believe they will as
eassinate me, hut I would like to
know what they mean wbeu they
say I shall never be Govirnor of
South Carolina. They are desper
ate, and they want to scire ine out
ot the race tor Governor. I have
smashed ring rule in South Caroli
na, and 1 have already won the tight.
There are only two courses open to
the old ring. They must either as
sassinate me or appeal to the negro
vote. I don't thiuk they will as
sacsiuate me, and God have mercy
on them if they appeal to the negro
to settle a family fight between
whites. We will not have any ne
gro rule. Any man who conies into
Edgefield to appeal to the negro
will do so at tbe peril of his life.
They are sore now, but they will
swa'low Tillman before they go to
the negro.
"It will be a bitter pill, but they
will take it. I am just as good av J
elected Governor, and wbeu 1 am
Governor I will tdiake up the old
drvbonesin old South Carolina..
My fight was for the common peo
ple of the State. They have never
beeu allowed a voice in the govern
ment, aud 1 have secured it now.
Hereafter candidates will have to
face the people; and net a small
packed convention of aristocrats,
who pay no taxes and live in the
past.
"For the first time in her history
South Carolina is about to get a rei
publican form of government. We
are going to have a new Constitu
tion and a new government iu which
moss-backs will bo conspicuous lot
their absence. We will reduce tax
ation by cutting off useless officers
and reducing salaries. Hereaftn
we will have no kid glove dndea
around the State House at faucy
salaries, but men who will do a fall
day's work at a reasonable salary.
We will not have any official class. '
Adveetise in the Courier. Ptates
are reasonable. Try it one year and
see if it does not pay.
A Polite Sharper.
"A visit to Mount Vernou is ac
companied by some curious expert
ence these days," said a gentleman
yesterday who was recently In Wash
ington and went down to Mount
Vernon. "The place has bee-i g vt-u
over to Coney Island practice--, and
you can be relieved ot a i.w k-: or a
dime every time you turn tt.ound;
They have a restaurant row, and
serve a lunch or dinner in one wing
of the Washington mansion, tbe
meal being cooked in the o'd kitch
en. But tbe funniest thing to me
was a photographer, who most have
been a good judge, of human nature.
Vou know when there is a crowd
anywhere any one man who steps
out and assumes leadership and din
reefs what shall be done ia generally
followed bliudly. This photogra
pher would order everybody to go
up on the porch, would po3e them
in front of his camera, t;ke their
negatives aud then demand a quar
ter apiece for pictures to he eut to
each one by mail. The crowd
obeyed bim and paid kiui their
quarters just as if they were obliged
to tlo so. I remarked to bim that I
lived iu Washington, and he couldi
n't eoine any such game on me,
wheieupou he touched his hat and
begged my pardon, but weut on
driving ihe others about." New
York Pr ess.
Character in Idle.
1 am very much pleased with a
consolatory letter of Pkalari, to
one who had lost a sou who was a
young man ot great merit. The
thought with which he comforts the
afflicted father is, to tbe best of my
memory, as follows : That he should
consider Death had set a kind of
seal upon his son's character, and
placed him out of the reach of vice
and infamy; that, while he lived, be
was still within tho potiibility of
falling away '.om virtie, an4 losing
the fame ol which he was pwseaaed.
Death onh i loses a man's reputa
tion, arid iletei mines it as good or
bad. This, among other motives,
may be one reus :i why we are nat
urally averse to the launching 'oot
into a man's pra"ie till his head ia
laid in the dut. Wnilo he is capas
hie of changing, we may be forced
to retract our opinion. He may
forfeit tbe esteem we have oon
ceived of bim, and appear to us un
der a different light. In short, as
the life of any man cannot be called
happy or unhappy, bo neither can
it. he pronounced vicious or virta.
(us, before the conclusion of it. As
there is not a more melancholy con
sicleintiou to a good mm thau bis
being onxioiit to Mich a chauge,
ho there is nothing moie glorious
than to keep up a uniformity in his
actions and preserve, in lull truth,
tbe beauty ot his character to tbe
last. Josr'h Addison.
A French Jllne.
The deepest mine iu the world is
at St.. Andre du Poirier, France,
and yearly produces 300,000 loos rf
coai. The mine is worked wiih two
shafts, one 2052 feet deep an i the
other 3063. The latter shaft is now
being deepened and will soon reach
the 4000-foot level. Tbe remarka
ble feature in this deep mine is the,
comparatively low temperature ex
perienced, which seldom rises abov o
75 degrees Fahrenheit. The gold
and silver mines of the Pacific
coast of our own country, at a dept h
of half that of the French mine,
often have much difficulty In keei
tug the temperature low enough to
admit working. In some levels tf
the great Comstock lode the tem
perature rises as high as 120 decrees.
Who Jh Your IIel Frieutt?
Your stomach of course. Why? Becaui
tf it is out of order you are on of the uii?t
TiistT!tl)li cr&turs living. Givo it a fair
honorable chance and see if it U not the
best Irieiid you have mlhend. loo"t
smoke ia the morning. Don't drink in the
morning. If jou must smoke anl cni.k
wait until your stomach U through with
jreafclast. 1'ou can drink more and smok
more in the evening snd it will tell on you
less. If your l.xl frmt-nti and does net
litest right, it you are troubled with
Heartburn, Dizziness ot the head, coming
on alter eating, Biliousness, Indigestion,oi
any Other trouble ot the fctomach, you had
psbuse Green's August flower, aefs no
erson wan use it wituoutim mediate relief
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