. .- i ( VOL IV LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, OCT. 24 1890. NO. 25 "I really don't see how Center manages to live' "They say he lives by his wits." "Yes, That's the reason I wonder at his living at all." St. Joseph 2feu:s. THE YlRiT SYMPTOMS OF DEATH. Tired feeling, dull headache, pains in T&rioug parU of the body, sinking at the pit of the stomach, 1o?h ol appetite, fever lbnese,- pimples or urea, are all positive evidtDce of poisonel blooj. No matter how it became poisons! it inuat be purified to avoid death. Dr. Acker's English Blood Elixir ha necer failei to remove scrofulous or syphilitic poisons. .SoM under positive guarantee by Dr. J M Lawing, Druggist. She If you at tempt to kiss 1118 I'll cail iiiaii'iua. He What would happen then f She Oh, nothing, for mamma isn't at i'imr Chicciijo Put. VR. ACKKR S ENQLI-sH PILL Are active, effective and pure. For fe'ick . ireadacbe, disordered stomach, lo.-s ot ap petite, bad complexion and biliousness, they have rever ben equaled, either in America or abroad. Dr. J 31 Lawing, Druggist. A scientific exchange states on authonfy that two bodies cannot comje together without losing some ot their energy. How about a man and a tack: .Laurence Amtrican. Farmers of the United States re ceive more clear money from chick ens and eggs than from any other 'one source, ami it is a fact that Ganter's magic chicken cholera 'q re is daily adding to that revenue. Sold' and warranted to cure by Dr. . J. M. Lawing. Minister You ought to whip your boy for fishing on the SabbUh. Deacon I intend to, sir, but I .thought I'd let him clean them first. '--Detroit Free Press. Viiemember that it you do not reg ister yoa caunot vote in the coming efidclfon. 1MPOBTANT! look. Get -Prices and Photos, read, FROM J; Before S3- 1hm jTSIiFSJEl TSTSS, i you buy Furniture. It will pay you. I want to call the a I Hon of all the readers of this paper that my stock ot FURNITURE, PIANOS AND ORGANS is now larger and more complete than at any time siuce I have been in the business. I have just received a car load of nothing but Autique Oak aud Sixteenth Century Suits, ranging in piice from 26.50 to $75.00. These were bought at a bargain and are the very newest stvles. I have made a large deal in Parlor Suits also. Listen at these prices ; Plush Suits of 6 and 7 pieces I am offering now for $32.50 to S100.00. Plush Su'ts iu Walnut and Antique and 16th Century that I sold lor 10 per ceut. more uiouey last year. 1 have a well selected liue of Divans Plush Bockers, Book Cases, Mantle Minors and Novelties in Furniture I have scoured the country this year for bargains, buying in large quan tities for cash to get the best bargains, my object being to give my cus tomers this fall the most and best goods possible for the uiouey. I make a specialty of furnishing residences and hotels complete from top to bot tom. I am anxious to sell you all your furniture, and will do it if you will only allow me to quote my prices. Long time given on Pianos and OrgaLS. Write me for prices and terras. E. M. ANDREWS, Charlotte, N. C. What is Castoria Is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It Is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by bullions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates tho food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas toria is the Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend. Castoria. '"Cairtoria ii an excellent medicine for chil dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of it pood effect upon their children." Dr. O. C. Osgood, Lowell, Mass. V Castoria U the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is sot far distant when mother will consider the real Interest of their children, and tide- Castoria in stead of the various quack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves." Db. J. F. Kjschilok, Oonway, Ark. The Centaur Company, T7 Murray Street, Nw York City. Even the successful feminine ef fort to be oeauiiful is a vain at tempt. Washington Post. DO HOT SUFFE ANY LONGFR. Knowing that a cough can be checked in a day, and thft stages of consumption bro ken in a week, we hereby guarantee Dr. Aker's English Cough Remedy, and will refund the money to all who buy, take it H3 per directions and do not fctid our states ment correct. Dr. J M Lawing, DruggUt The self-made made man is al waysinteresting especially to him. sell. Somerville Journal. ELECTRIC BITTEE3. This r-rnedv is becoming so wli known and so popular as to need no special men tion. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the i-i'tiie .song o praise. A purer medicine roes not exist and it is guaran- teed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Kheuni and other anections caused bv impure blood. Wiil drive Malaria from the system and prevent as well as cure all Malarial fevers. For cure of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Electric Bitters Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. Price 50 cents and 11.00 per bottle at Dr, J. M. La wing's Dru store. A man of a fllghtv disposition ebonld never be made I he cashier ot a bank. Pittsburg Dispatch. How 31 en Die. If we know all the metbois of approach adopted by an enemy. we are the better en abled to ward off the danger and postpone tne moment when surrender becomes in evitable. In many instances the inherent strength of the body suffices to enable it oppose the tendency toward death. Many However nave lost tnese iorce3 to sucti an extent that there ia little or no holp. In other cases a little aid to the weakened Lungs will make all the difference between sudden deeth and many years ot useful life. Upon the first symptoms ot a Cough, Could or any trouble of the Throat or Lungs, give that old and well-known rem dye Bo9chee's German Syrup, a careful trial. It will prove what thousands ?ay of it to De tne beaetactor ot any Home." Advertise in the Courier Rates are reasonable. Try it one year and see if it does not pay. tten- Castoria. " Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. Arcsxb, 1L D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. " Our physicians in the children's depart ment have spoken highly of their experi ence in their outside practice with Castoria, and although we only have among our medical supplies what is known aa regular products, yet we are free to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us to look with favor upon it." United Hospital asd Dispmsart, Boston, aaa. Aixxm C. Smith, Prtt., New York Ledger. A Doctor's Inheritance. BY ANNA SHIEDS. WO gentleman, both past Uj middle age, were seated be side a glowing grste-fire, chatting as old friends will, who have met a'ter a loug separation. The he or was late, nearly midnight, but no sign of weariness was ou either face. The room was a library, with well-filled book-cases on all sides, a large bus nf?s bke table in the center, and deeply cushioned chairs tcattered about. One book.caee contained only n.edical works in substantial bindings, and with marks ot service plainly visible. Dr. Thornton, host and owner of the handsome bouse iu which the room was situated, was a man past forty, with iron-gray hair, strongly marked features, a tall, erect figure, and an expression at once kindly and resolute. Yon read prompt de cision iu his dark. blue eyes, and a sympathy in the pleasant smile that often crossed his lips. His companion, heavily bearded and bronzed bv travel, was a far handsomer man, but with a weaker face. 'At last," he said, stretching him self lazily in bis deep aim chair, "I find you alone aud disengaged. Give me permission to stuff a towel into that obtrusive office-bell of yours, so that no whiuing woman or equal ling brat can summon you away and make me unhappy." "Con't be done, Tom. Mae the most of me now, for the claims ol the whining women and the equall ing brats cannot be denied.' "You know what I want to hear 1 I left yoo, twelve years ago, a poor man with a straggling, almost who! gratuitous practice, a sworn bache lor, and almost a hermit outside of your professional duties. I find you wealthy, with a charming wife, aud a popular member of society, and yet your practice is, as before, almost entirely amongst those who could not fee you if they would. From what relative, unknowu to me, your own cousiu, did you lnnerit your fortune"' "Did it ever occur to you, Tom, that there are romances in real life, all about us, quite as improbable as those found upon the shelves of a circulating library. My experience will convince you that I speak with authority. Twelve years ago we are getting old, Tom ! I was- as you say, a poor man, studying hard, living in a stuffy little bouse in a poor neighborhood, hoping for bet ter times, more profitable practice, and a inUer purse. I was a bache lor because I could offer only pov erty to a wife : a hermit because my studies were engrossing. Iu my small house X kept one old womau servant, who cooked lor me and kept things tidy. Having no car riage I needed no boj, for Martha could write, and I had a much lar ger office pract ce than outside. J 'It was late, oue bitter night iu j January, when I was roused by tbej office-bell, and the sound of excited voices under uiy window. Hasteu" liug down, I found several men car rying upou a shutter the uncon scious patient I was to aid, if possi ble. j " An old man, sir, kuocked down i by runaway horses, and ruu over,' said one of the party, as they geu j tly deposited their burden on a sofa. ! tRaiilr hnrturl I'm thinlrinrr T-irrr but not dead V 'Badly hurt, indeed, I found him, and my examination convinced me that any further motion would re sult fatally. Keep him I must, or risk bis life by removal to a hospi tal. With the assistance of two ot the men, I undressed him, and put into my own bed, noticing then that he wore no coat. ' 'Somebody took it off!' they told me, and apparently somebody kept it, as it never appeared agaia. In the trousers pockets were only some trifling articles, a bunch of keys and a handkerchief, but Doth to give any elew to the identity of my patient and uninvited guest. "I will not enter into the details of the in jaries that excited my in-? tereet as a phytic u and surgeon, as much as they c illed for my sym pathy as a man. Ther were com plications in the case that called upou all my 6kill and knowledge, and Ibe patient endurance of great suffering made me respect my un fortunate guest from the first. "It was nearly a fortnight before he recovered from the brain injury sufficiently to t-peak dia'inctly. When the sufferer could speak, h i told me that bis name was Fau ahawe, but said nothing more of himself, and I supposed him unwill tog to confess to poverty and the iaabibty to pay me for my services. "1 do uot take much credit to myself for my hospitality or devo tion, because I was so deeply inter ested in the 'case,' professionally considered, that I would have lived ou bread and water rather than have it taken out of my bauds. A3 he became stronger, my patient be came my Iriend, aud interested me deeply by the variety and depth of his information, his experience of trayel aud charm of conversation. "Not until he wa convalescent, and had been au iumate of my house for four months, did I know that he was a man of wealth, living iu the house I now occupy. "To cure him was beyoud human skill, but through two years I at tended him, alleviating great suffer ing, aud often accepting his invita tions to 'speud an hour or two with a louely old man.' "When he died, he left me his en tire fortune, which I supposed to be mine only because he bad no di rect heirs or near relatives. He had never spoken but ooce of his family, and then said briefly that be was a widower and had lost his only child. "I had enjoyed my inheritance for more than nine years, when I fell in love. I, who bad never cared for female society before, became deeply attached to the mother of one of my patients, a lady nearly my own age, the widow of an artist who died in Home some four or five years before I met her. She had sent for me to see her boy, an only child, slowly dyiog with an incura ble disease of the spine. "Mrs. Eastwell knew before she saw me that there was no hope of saving the child's life, but she thought I could ease the paiu and restlessness from which he suffered. She was herself an ar tist, working in water colors for the large stores that dealt in fancy goods, and em broidering most exquisitely. But her child claimed much of her time and attention, aud I know fhe worked iu hours when she should have shared the boy's slumbers. "Patient, selfsacrificiug, gentle and refined, she filled my ideal of pure womanhood, aud I loved her with all the strength of the first love of years. I gave her a man's devotion, uot a boy's infatuation. But I knew that it was useless for me to speak while the child lived. She would have thought it sacrilege to give my love consideration, while the mother love in her heart was the ruling spirit. Love-making while her child was dying ! I could see how she would shrink from the mere suggestion. "So I tried to be content with winmug t be place of a trusted friend delicately trying to makd my pres euce a comfort and a help to her, aud doing all 1 could to make smoother the bard path the childish feet were pressing. "One afternoon she came to my office to ask some question about the little boy, and as the waiting room was full, I took ber through the parlor to the frout door. As we passed by the mantel-piece of the frontroora, she suddenly gave a cry ot pam and surprise, stopping short before a life-size portrait of Mr. Fanhawe. Her face was white, her whole form trembling, and before I could catch her, she gave one cry of 'Father !' and dropped iu a dead faint. tlIt was the old story, Tom. She had loved her husbaud better than her father, and eloped with hira, never winning forgiveness. The home she had left waJ broken up, and Mr: Faushawe removed to an other city, so that for years she had not known where to find him, aud had never beard of lm death. Her bmhand had lakeu her abroad soon after their marriage, md she did not know wht thr her father had ever tried to trae or follow them. "You may imagiue how like a thief I felt when I could calmly consider this story, and think of my inheritance1, living in luxury, and sue coning tor bread I Aud the no was hers by eviy caim of humanity. "At once I commenced to arrange lor restoriug the property to her, and knowing her pressing needs, instructed my lawyer to supply her ttitb ready money, and inform her that, as soon as it could be ieg.dly done, her father's fortune would be restored to her. "Tom, she flatly refused to Uke it. She had offended her father and bad accepted her punishment, and she would not listen to any proposal to accept his money. In vain I urged the justice of her claim, the burden that mouey so wrongly willed away from her would be to me. She threatened to leave the city and never return, if 1 persisted. "While nothing was settled, her child died. She grieved, as only the mother of an ouly child can grieve, and yet I think I comforted her- I dropped all questiou of the disputed inheritance In those long months, when ber loneliness led her to turn to me, her troe loviug friend. "And so, Tom, when a year had passed, and the little life was & sa cred memory, no longer a passionate paiu to remember, I asked her once more to accept her father's fortune and his heir with it. 'We needed no lawyer then to make the transfer, for. I won my wife without losiug my inheritance," "And there goes that confounded officesbell T' said Tom, rising; "so I am off." How tho Kicli aud the Poor Fare. The McKinley tariff bill went ins to operation yesterday, but the merchants say there was not that general advance iu Baltimore in the price of commodities by which the new measure will make its disagree able existence best known. That accompanimeut is postpoueo, the merchants say, until the stock m hand, bought under the old tariff bill is disposed of. Then, they &ay, look out for the penalties. These will come along in the winter, when supplies of spring goods are being laid iu. This Is the merchants' view ot the situatiou. They would not admit that as tradesmen they would not take the oppor tunity to advance whenever they could, prices of goods bought under the old tariff law to the rates provide! by Mr. McKiu ley. They would not even admit that this would be the view to be taken if humau nature is to be con sulted at all. While interviewing merchants iu every branch cf industry, a Sun re porter fouud much opposition to the bill, aud gloomy predictions for the futuje were given freely. Strikes without number were foretold, be cause, said oue intelligent merch ant, consumers will naturally res'st the increase of prices brought about by the new bill, and in any effort to restore prices to something Zike the old standard the workiugmen will be called upou to cut down their wages. The;re8istence will result in strikes. Ex Mayor Hodges, one ot the largest importers iu the city summarized the situation thus; "There has been a general advance iu all commodities, but owing to the glutted condition of the market, biougnt aoout by excessive impor tations, stimulated by an lncrenee of duties, it will be extremely diffi cult for importers and wholesale merchants to obtain any marked advance in prices. Nothing so dis turbs the regularity of trade as con stant changes in the tariff law. It unsettles the market and confuses values. The merchants will be ben efited by the new tariff, as the ten dency toward new prces is inevit able. It is the consumer who will suffer. The advance in prices with out increases in wages or inconries must necessarily diminish the de mand for goods to the extent of the advance in viloes. It is plainly perceptible that consumers will have to economize to that extent. A summary of the bu riness situa tion, in its relation to workmgmen especially, is something like this : Old tariff, 47 per cent.; new tariff, 60 per cent. ; wage- , stationary ; re 4 sun, piucning economy and priva tion to million j of consumers." ou i e siaiiimg cnanges win he ma le by the new law, if not imme diately, wi'hiu the uext two or three months. The time will uot be so loug that consume'8 will forget what they heretofore p.iid for the atae articles, and the poor consum ers are the ones whose memories should best be jogged, for it is upou the am les they use that the heav iest ex.-ict ions arc la'd. Imitatiou kid cloves, for iustahce, which could be bought at ; Lexington street store for everty-bve reuts will be wholly driven from the market by the high prices at which they it 1 have to te sold to pay duties. Gen nine kid gloves, which the rich buy will be sold, a- heretofore, at 2 per pair. The ti h, who could afford to nay the iucrease, wiil not be com pelled to do so. The poor inuot go without eveu imitation kid gloves, or pay $2 for geuuiue onef, which, as a rule, they have not been able to do. Such toys as five-cent pock et knives are alsj driven out of the market, or must be sold tor ten e's. Street fakirs of knives will be de prived of their business or must sell twenty rive cenl pocket knives for fifty ceu's.aud it is piedicted they will uot get much trade at these figures. The little bootblack's stock m trade blacking will here fter cost him 15 iustead of 10 c's., and a good brush iu proportion. The mau who has been content to smoke a live-cent cigar and enjoy it bd just as well prepare to give up either of two things the five cent cigar or the enjoyment. The two cannot go together, and what is the use of one without the other? The duty on Sumatra tobacco, with which all amokable cigars are wrapi ped, is iucreased from about 50 ts. per pound to $2 per pouud. To bacco of that grade cannot be grown in America any more than can tea or spices. But the rich man cau still get a very good cigar for 10 cents the kind he has al ways smoked. But five cent cigars will not disappear. Heretofore they have had part Havanu a tilling and Sumatra wrappers. Now if they have Sumatra wrappers tbey will have no Havaua fillings ; if they uave Havaua fillings they will have jo Sumatra wrappers. Cigars selU ing for two for five, cents will have neitln-r. A dealer said that smok ers are so aecustomeu to Sumatra wrappers that they will uot do with out thera, even if the duty were 85 per pound. It is thought that such an increase in duty as that on Su matra tobacco will result iu "doc oriugr; cigars to such u extent that tbey will prove very injurious. The repobl cans had promised to tke off the tax of 8 cents per pound on tobacco, but they fouud their pension bills so large that they had to keep on the tax, at least a arf of it. The reduction to 6 cents was anticipated in June by tobacco .iealers, and they simply advanced the ptice two cents a pound. The dealer, uot the consumer, has ob- tamed the benefit which should have followed the reduction. The increase iu the ptice of chain pagne which the rich will driuk while smoking their 10 and 15 Cent cigais, is about 3 cents per bottle, not enough to deter any one who can afford cbampaune from pur chasing a bottle. Champagne nip pers are among the fev articles iu the hardware trade not affected by the new tmiff, and it is stated that poor people have uot much use for them. Brandy goes up 50 cents per gdlluu. Opium is admitted free. Morphine is reduced from 1 to 50 cents per pound. Codliver oil is im creased from ?3 to $4.50 per barrel. Sugar ot milk for infants isincreas ed 8 cents per ; ouud. The tin lu a 5 cent can will hereafter coat over i cents. That same can, with no more and no Inter c-outeutP. will hereafser sell for 10 cents. In dress goods the gener al ad vance is 11 per cent. The increase culminates in pearl shirt and dress buttons, being from 150 to 200 per cent. The general effect is to ki crease domestic goods three or four times their present price. Towels that heretofore cost -boUale $i: per dozen will sell for $2.20 , hand kerchiefg formerly selling at $2 per dozen will be put ou the market at 62.40. Jersey cloth will be advance ed 30 per ce'it. ;sbove pn suc cost ; velvet ribbons, 10 to 20 per tent.; cotton velvets, 10 to 20 per cent.; silk and cotton velvets, 10 to 20 per cent. ; silk at d cotton plushes, 30 per cent. ; cotiou hosiery, 15 to 25 ! er cent. ; silk hosiery (for the rich) "percent.; v. ool hosiery, 10 per tint.; woo! underwear, 10 per cent.; French umlei wMr, 25 per cent.; wool cishmer8. 10 to 15 per cent. These tigur- , as in other caaeB, do not altogether represeut the per centage of iucrea-ed duty, but the actual advance in price ot the ar. tides necessary to compensate im porters. The advance in imported cloth for meus' suitings is from 8 to 12 per cent., but Baltimore dealers say that this advance coiuj aiativtly bo small tha: tailors will uot make more charges; that nousers wh ch hcietofore cost 15 r S20 wi.l cost the same. Oue importer thought it probat le th tt taiioiw might try to make the 50 cents additioual iui pos d by the new law by reducing the wages now set by cutters and trimmeis Iu this he anticipated a strike, as all cutters aud trimmers are organized luto unions. The cheap glass vasoi with whica the poor housewife oruaments her mantel-piece, and which have here tofore cost, say $1, will hereafter co.it SI. 50. More handsome vases for elegaut parlors of the licb are increased only 13 per cent. Child ren who have gone into raptures over toy tea sets must give up the raptures or the toys, for tho increa here is 100 per cent., from $1 to $2 per set. This increase is uot on tha to s, but on the packages. Upon the same principle opera glasses will cost 25 and 50 cents each more than formerly. Dinner plates which heretofore cost say 90 ceuts per dozen, wili hereafter cost 95; if decorated they will coit $1. . The increase iu the price of silverware is due to the advauce iu the price of silver on account of the new sil ver coinage law, not to auy iucrease iu duty. America is already ahead of Europe in the manufacture of jeelry. There is uo increase in the duty ou diamonds, because, it was explained by a jeweler, any higher duty would be an !n;euti,e to smuggling. A Congressman, who receives $13 per Uay, w.ll nor have to pay more for a diamond brooch for his wife, bui he would not let a workingman, recelviug 1 per day, have a tin diuuerpail with out paying four tim-a its value. A ten-dollar mus ca instrument wi l hereafter coi-t 12. Five ten's wHl buy only halt as mauy s'a penci'a as formerly. A fif teen-do:lr gun will codt 20. The duty on black smiths' anvils will be 2 cents per pouud instead cf 2 ceuts. One-d ' Inr hair brushes will cost $1.25. Quiuiue hair tonic will cost 1 per bottle instead of 75 cents. The much oppressed farmer was not overlooked by Mr. McKin'ey. His wheat, not a bushel of which is ever imported, is protected 25 cents a bushel. He exports hundreds of million of bushels every jear. His hens' eggs are protected at the rate of five cents per dozen. The cattle which he never imports are taxed 10 per bead. Hut a hardship im posed ou the truckers of Maryland and Virginia, aud ju-t as abooiiua hie as that tax on tin cans, in which are packed thbir peacnes, corn, to rua'oes and other vegetables, h that duty on impo'ted beans and peas. Truckers are compelled ans nsially to buy peas f- r seeding pur posee1, not because they cannot save them during a wiuter, but because tnev are unfit for seeding purposes. Each year in this climate and t-oil th pea deteriorates iu quality. It ia only in Canada that it grows and thrives, aud each spring the truck er has procured his peas for seed iig trom Cauada. Now ha mut pay tvsieeas much as heretofore for k these peas. Baitimore Sun.

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