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ill iiftf Mft Sum t & j VOL IV LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, FEB, 27, 1891. NO. 42 i m m if Mi : ' ! Professional Cards. BAETIiETT SMIPP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Jan, 9, 1891. Finley & Wetmore, ATTYS. AT LAW. LINCOLNTON, N. C. "Will practice in Lincoln and surrounding counties. All "business put into our Lands will be promptly atten ded to. April 18, 1830. lv. i- ttttltfr SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE IS COBB BUILDING, MAIS ST., LINCOLNTON, N. C July 11, 1890. ly DENTIST. LINCOLNTON, N. C. Cocaine used for painless ex tracting teeth. With thirty years experience. Satisfaction 'given in all operations Terms cash and moderate. Jau23'91 ly iO TO .D'0"CTH35iaK STAB? BARBER SHOP. Kewly fitted up. Work away& neatly done, customers politely waited upon. Everything pertain ing to the tonsorial art is done ; according lo latest styles. HeNHY Taylok, Barber. XF TOUR BACK ACMES. Orfou are all worn out, really good for noth ing, it is general debility. Try nuOws's mox mttmAs. It wUl care you, cleanse your liver, and glv a BoodartetU. HONEST PRICES. I begiu the New Year determined to create such an advantage that my friends who haven't time to come down to Charlotte and see my ini mense stock can stay at home and buy as satisfactorily as if they saw the goods on the floor. I have out a complete line of photos of FURNITURE, PIANOS, AND ORGANS, which shows up Quality and Styles almost as well as if you saw the goods themselves. I guarantee every article just as represented, ana it you do not find it so you can return the goods to me and I will bear the expense both ways and REFUND YOUR MONEY. By ordering from me throagh photos you save paying the big prices mailer dealers charge you, and your railroad fare to Charlotte. Write me for photos of what you want and I will guarantee to both please and tave you money. E.MANDREWS, Dealer in Furniture, Piano3 and Organs. 16ancU8 West Trade St. FOR YOU J ,, - . !. I II 1 II """" ...J for Snfantc "CarterU k to wtil ipied to children UuU I reoonu&Mii It m superior to ay prescription known to me." H. A. ajlokxa, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. T. "The ue of 'CwtorU'fa o universal tu ttarlte so well known that it teem a work of supererogation to endorse It. Few axe tte lnteUlireat families who do not keep CaetorU wltUasarr reach." Cxaix Kiinn.D. D., New York City. 1U P actor Blooming date Reformed Churoh. T CnrrAun What Wear Out the Drain, "It is not intelkctoal work that injures the brain,'' says the London Hospital, "but. emotional excitement. Most men cau stand the severest thought and study of which their brains are capable, and be none the worse for it, tor neither thought nor study interferes with the recupera tive influence of sleep, it is arani tion, anxiety and disappointment, the hopes and fears, the loves and hates of our lives, that wear oat our nervous system and endanger the balance of the brain,'' A CHILD KILLED. Another child killed by the use of opiates given in the form of Soothing Syrup. Why mothers give thoir children such deadly poion is surprising when they can relieve the child of its peculiar troubles by using Dr. Acker's liahy Soother. It contains no opium or morphine. Sold by Dr. J M. Lawi ing, Druggist. The uumber of retail liquor deal ers in the United States, according to the official returns of the ofticers of the internal revenue for the year ending May 1,1890, was 185,863 or 1 liquor dealer to every 275 inhabit ance, on the basis of the eeusus of 1880, In New York there was 1 re tail dealer in distilled liquors to every 150 inhabitants j in New Jer- eey, 1 to 175 ; in Ohio, 1 to 230 ; in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, 1 to 400 ; in Indiana, 1 to 325 ; m Del aware, 1 to 160 ; and iu California, 1 to 75. The average in all the States which have general license laws is one drain shop to 250 inhab itants. In Maine there is 1 retail dealer in distilled liquors to every 750 inhabitants ; in Vermont, 1 to 821 ; in Iowa, 1 to 520 ; and in Kan sas, 1 to 800, Scientific American. GOOD LOOKS. Good looks are more than akin deep, de pending upon a healthy condition of al the vital organs. If the liver be inactive you have a biliou3 look and it your kidneys be affected you have a pincnea iook. se cure good health and you will have good looks. Electric bitters is the great altera tive and Tonic acts directly on these vital organs. Cures Pimples, Blotches, Boils, and give3 a good complexion. Bold at J. M. Lawing'a Drugstore, 50c per bottle. Listen FAIR DEALING. To What I Sav. tVBox2lO, nuLYutxt, MA5S. and Children OMtorU cores OoUc, Constipation, Bour Stomach, Diarrao&a, Eructation, yn Worm. circa sleep, and promote at- W uolnjvloufl nwdlcatlon. pop sereral years I have recommended your Caatoria, ' and ahall alwaya ponttnue to ao so ae It has Invariably produced oeneaoial result." Idwim F. Pjju. M. D., The Wlnttorop," lth Street and Tth Ave., New York City. CeiffAKT, 77 McnnAT Strut. Naw Tobx. New York Ledger. HOW I SAID "YES." BY AMELIA E. BARE. xr ir.ii i 1 hi guuiaiuera aim my kuu- i mothers in my baptism called WM me "Olive," and they lived to ilpf be heartily ashamed of them-, selves for it, for never was there a child with a more mistaken name. A belligerent state was my normal condition. I do not remember my nurses, but I have grace enough to pity them. The mildest of my teachers considered me "unruly," and you can ask Geoffrey what he thought of me a year ago. Now it is different. I have found my mas ter and I believe 1 rather like it. This is how it came about : Geoffrey had asked me three times to marry him, aud three times I had said "No," in the most decided man ner. Bat that never made the least difference to hirm He only laughed, and said I would know my own mind hetter next time. "I suppose," I said, "you mean to ask me once a quarter ? ' "Is that enough ?" "Too often, a great deal, sir, ' 'Well, then, we will say once in sir mcuths, Miss Olive." And then he walked smilingly awfty, and began some nonsensical talk with father about Dr. Koch aud his bewildering theories. This last asking was just at the beginning of warm weather, and father, who thought Geoffrey's opinion infallible, asked him where he would advise us To go tor the summer. I had made np my mind to go to Long Branch, and I said so, very distinctly ; but Geoffrey proposed some out-oMheway place in the Virginia mountains. Then he paint ed it in such glowing colors that no ting would satisfy father but a persoui.l investigation. It was all Geoffrey's doing, and 1 told him so at the railway station. "It is your doing, sir,'' I said, "aud I shall remember you for it." "Thanks, Olive," he replied; "there is nothing I fear but forget fuluess.'' I wanted to speak uumistakably to him, but the tram moved, and I felt that it would be only waste ma teria!. At the end of the second day we got to our destination. It was a pretty place; I must acknowledge that. Nature had done all she could for it, but art and civilization had passed it by. The men were simply "frights," and the women were well, none too good for the men. The houses were log-cabins, through which daylight peeped ard the wind blew a3 it listed. But there was, of" course, a big white hotel there always is. I have no doubt if we had gone to Stanley Falls or Guth rie w-3 should have found a hotel and a proprietor the institution is ubiqaitary. We procured rooms, and my trunks were with some dif Acuity, got up the hill and the flight of wooden steps into the hall. '1 suppose," I said, with a rei signed look at father, "There is no use in taking them upstairs. I can have no use for my dresses here ?" As you like, Olive," he replied, in one of his meek and mild ways ; "as you like, dear ; that gray thing you have on looks pretty well, and it does not show the dirt." After this remark, of course, I had every trunk, bonnet box and satchet taken up stairs : and the noise and confusion, and even the occasional bad word their size and weight called forth, were quite grateful to me. "It is not my fault," I explained. "If people will build stairs like cork screws, I am not responsible." In this amiable mood we took possession, and I think, if Geoffrey had known what I was thinking about it, as I did up my hair and put on my white evening dre98, he would have lost a trifle of his self complacency that is, if men ever do make a loss of that kind. The first thiag that pleased me was the supper. It really was good, partic ularly the berries and cream, which are a specialty with me; "But, sir," I inquired, "are there mi any Christians here besides onr selves V7 "It is to be hoped eo, Olivp. I saw a little church in the valley." "Pshaw, father I I did not mean church Christians ; I mean society Christians.'' "Ah, they are different, are they Well, what do you think of Augusta Pennington for a Christian t'7 ''Augusta Pennington! Is she here ?" I asked, amazed. 'iO, she is not, but her lives within two miles, and brother he has age as hi daughter about the same yourself. Mrs. Pennington wrote them we should be here today: they will doubtless call in the morning.'' Well, I did not care if they did. The dresses in my trunks were suf licient to inspire any women with comfortable assurance. The uext morning 1 made a beautifnl toilet, but neither Mr. nor Miss Lacelles called. Ju3t after supper 1 heard a !ittle stir and bustle on the stairs, a little laugh, the rustle of silken i obes, and, leaning on her father's irm, Miss Lacelles entered. She was beautilul ; I saw that at a glance; tall and pale and iady-like, reminding you of a fair white lily. We soon struck up a friendship a girls' friendship, I mean. Some one has said that there is no friendship between the sexes, and some one is mistaken, I think, for the world holds no safer friend for a womau than au honorable man. A woman's friendship is very likely to be the result of convenience, contiguity, or jof being, as ray father rather sneer- ingly remarked, "the only Christian within hail of each other." Mary showed me all her dresses and told sue her secrets, and I returned the compliment, mindful of Burns's ads vice to still "keep something to rnyseV I wadna tell to ony." - - Life settled down into an uuexs citing but endurable routine. Mary and I visited each other and ar ranged our next winter's campaign, for I had invited her to spend the cold weather with me in New York. One day, iu the middle ot one of these pleasant chats, a servant came in and handed me a card. The name on it roused at once all the antag onism in my nature. It was : Geoffrey Gardiner. : Now it so happened that the exis tence of this gentleman wastheoue thing I had kept back in my confi dence with Mary. So I had now to explain who and what he was, I wauted her to come into the parlor with me ; but no, she would go home first and dress but she promised to be back to tea. I disliked Geoffrey, yet I was glad to see him. My mental faculties were rusting for want of attrition. Father would not quarrel with me, and Mary was my only face card. I could not throw her away. Besides I rather liked to see his great, handsome figure in the room. He was so full of life that he seemed to vitalize even the chairs and stools; they tumbled about and got out of the way in the straugest manner. I told him about Mary Lacelle and warned bim that he would lose his heart. He gravely told me be bad none to lose. Imagine six feet two inches of manhood without a heart ! We waited tea for Mary, but she did not come till quite dark, and we bad begun tea. She said she had been detained by company, but I knew better than that. She was dressed with reference to candle light effect, and would not lose its influence on her first appearance. I never saw her look so lovely; her rose-colored dress, with its broad shimmering bands of white silk, wonderfully enhanced her charms. Geoffrey looked delighted, and she gave him the full benefit of both her upward and downward glances. When tea was over, I left the room a few minutes, and when I came back, found Geoffrey and Mary sitting opposite each other, with the chessboard between them as an excuse for flirtatfon. The move had been so rapid that I was aston ished, and a little anirry, too: and father did not improve matters by whispering, as I passed his chair : "Checkmated. Olive !" It was not a pleasant evening to me, and it was the beginning of many nnpleasaut ones. "Hot; it came let doctors tell," hut I began to like Geoffrey just as soon as he began to like Mary. I called up pride to the rescue, but it did not help me much, and I euf-j fered a good deal in watching Geof frey's attentions to Mary, and lis tening to her prattle about him. I ! thought her supremely silly, and I told her so. She was astonished at my petulance, but I don't think she i suspected the truth. Only father! did that, and he looked eo : "Serve! you right, mies," that I longed for him to be a woman for au hour or no, that I might talk back to him. One day, after Geoffrey had been a month with ns, a riding party was proposed to the top of the mount! ain. Father and 1, Geoffrey and Mary it hat would be the order, of course; and I was prepared for that; but there is a last straw in every burden, and my last straw was this incident: They were mount ed and waiting for me, when Mary dropped her gloved From my win dow I saw Geoffrey pick it up, put it on the baud laid so confidingly in his, and then kiss it. After that I was not going to ride for king nor kaiser I sent a positive refusal lo all entreaties, and as soon as they were out of flight, indulged iu a good, refreshing cry. I cried myself to sleep, and woke about dusk with a new-horn purpose in my heart which comforted me wonderfully, the keymote of which was: "She stoops to conquer.' Yet I did uot dress again. I knew they were to take tea at Mr. Lacelle's ; so I threw my dressing-gown around me, and taking a novel in my hand, I orders ed a cup ot strong' tea and went into the sitting-room. As I walked in at one door, Geoffrey walked in at the other. "I came to take you to Mr. La cells's Olive," he said, "How do you propose doing it, sir ? For unless you bind me hand aud foot, and get a couple ot dark ies to tote me there, I really don't think you will succeed." "I could carry yon myself." "Could you I I don't think you would enjoy the journey." "Will you dare me to do it ?" "Not tomight I should like to in suremy life first." 'Olive you have been crying." "I have not sir," iudignantly "And if I have, what is that to you?" reproachfully "A great deal. Oh, Olive, you teasing, provoking, bewitching little J mortal I How often must I tell yon I love you i How often must I ask you to marry me f "It is not six months since the last time, Geoffrey." "L dou't care; it seems like six years. Aud, oh, Olive, you know that you love me-" "I do nor." 4'You have loved me ever since you were eight years old." "I have not " "Now you must take me forever or leave me lorever to-night. I have asked you three times before." t(Fonr times sir." "Well, four times, theu. Odd numbers are lucky ; here is the fifth time. You know what I want, Olive your promise to be mine. Is it to be ? Now or never I" I suppose every one has a good angel. Mine must have been at its post just then, for a strange feeling of humility and gentleness came over me. I glanced np at the hand some face all agio with love's divine light ; at the eyes full of gracious entreaty; at the arms half-stretcbed out to embrace me. Yet pride strug gled hard with love. 1 stood up 6ilent and trembling, quite unable to acknowledge myself vanquished, until I saw him turn away , grieved and sorrowful. Then I said : "Geoffrey, come back ; it is now.1' That ia the way T.said "Yes," and I have never been sorry for ir. If I live to the age of Mathuselah, 1 shall never be a meek woman ; but still I suit Geoffrey, and I take more kind ly to his authority . than ever I did to paternal rule. Father laughs with sly triamph at Geoffrey's vie tcry, and he sent tue as a wedding present a handsome copy of "The Taming of the Shrew." , i Vauce anil International Copyright BUI. Mr. Vauce did nor know that he would have had the temority to op pose the pending bill if it had not been that in the course of debate, and of the vots. he had thoucht that he discovered an old acquaint ance. He thought that he ftlt the hair of his friend protectionist Esau, although the vo'ce as that of free trade Jacob. Being emboldened by that recognotion ot au old acquaint ance, he expressed himself and his fortunes like the lady in the plav, wbo, on leaving the room said : "I bid you good-bye ladies, and leave my character with you." To com bined hostilities of authors of litera ture of the two leading nations of civilization, he would rather be the means of placing a cheap book (a book printed and published and told cheap) iu the bands of one poor, ambitions boy that would stimulate him to greater exertions than of placing million of dollars in the pockets cf Harpers by the passage of the copyright scheme to make a man pay a dollar for a book which he could now get for fifty cents, was quite as dishonest, and a scheme to appropriate the work of another mau's brain. It was as dishonest a scheme as ever been manufactured by a publisher in publishing books without authority. If he could he would repeal the tariff duiy on books and would allow all boots to come in free. Going ou to epeak Hgamst t he bill Mr. Vance declared that when it was simmered down it would be found to be simpiy in the interest of American publisbers. That was the sum aud substauce of it. He was opposed to it in prin ciple, out and out. Who Is Your Rent Friend? Your stomach of course. Why? Becaus if it is out of order you are one or the most miserable creatures living. Give it a fair honorable chance and see if it is not the bestfriend you have in the end. Don't smoke in the morning. Don't drink in the morning. If you must smoke and drink wait until your stomach is through with breakfast. You can drink more and smoke more in tbe evening and it will tell on you If your food ferments andj does not digest right, it you are troubled witb Heartburn, Dizziness ot the head, coming on after eating, Biliousness, Indigestion,or any other trouble ot the stomach, you bad Dsbuse Green's August Flower, aek no person can U9e it without immediate relief Xo Extra Session. It ia much to be hoped that there wdl be no extra session of Congress. Ibat combination of illustrious bodies has done about as much sits tiug since March, 1889, as the capa city of the Capitol can stand. We are informed that on both sides of the House of Representatives the floor has sagged at least a foot, and ! in the Senate Chamber, under Sen ate Chamber, under Senator Blair's chair, it has gone down two feet aud four inches. Nor is this all the damage that has been done. Mr. Reed has broken eighteen gavels aud has turned six Speakers' tables into toothpicks trying to keep the Democrats in order. Mr. Kilgore, as will be remembered, has been guilty of some unparliamentary breakage, with a green baize door for his victim, and even that emblem of authority, the Mace has suffered. All the lacquer on its surface has been peeled off by the comtemptu ou3 Democrats with whom it has come in contact, and altogether things are in a wofnl state at tbe Capitol. Congress owes it to the country not to hold au extra eession but to adjourn promptly when the time for so doing arrives, so that the janitor-in-chief of the two houses can get things into shape again. The Continent. As to who butt the bull off the bridge we can't tell, unless it was the fellow who wouldn't use Gant ter's magic chickeu chollry cure. Sold "no cure, no pay," by Dr. J. M. Lawing. Kiln dried sand will keep Roxbury russets perfect for a year. IS LIFE WORTH LIVING ? Not if you go through the world a dys peptic. Dr. Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets are a positive cure for the worst forms of Dys pepsia, Indigestion, Flatulency and Con aumpuon. uuaranteea ana soia Dy Dr. j LW1DS Druggist. The State Geological Survey. The followiug letter is from Ben ator Vauce to Representative, HoN man : Washington, D. O. Feb. 3.' 1891. Hon. J. B. Holmau, House of Rep resentatives Raleigh, N. O. My. Dear Sie.- Let me bag jou to consider the propriety of reator icg the Geological Sarvey and mak ing an appropriation for it tap port." It was suspended at a mo meat wheu it was most needed by the mineral interests of the State. I feel the want of it here every time a proposed iuvestor talks to me about North Carolina lands and Mineral., which is very often. The United State Survey pl posod to do a certain work in our State but there is a certain other work which it is not allowed to do. The two surveys should co-operate, and whilst the United States Purvey would give ns the general outline the State Survey could give us the location, quality, quantity ect of each particular mineral disposiL Ia tins way by a small appropriatiou say 10,000 per annum, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of dollars could be secured ns invest ments in our mineral land. I do assure -ou that this is a matter of vary great importance to our people and the prosperity of our otate. As our tanner's Legislature bows so much hberalitv on tfaa subject of education I do hope they will show the same enlightened spirit in relation to the develop ment of our mineral wealtb. Very truly Yours, Z. 13. Vance. GUARANTEED CURK FOJtLL GRIP. We authorize our advartis-id druggist to sell you Dr. King's .New Diicovery lor consumption, c-mglis and colds, upru thia condition, ft you are afflicted with La Grippe and will use this remedy according to directions, giving it a lair trul, and ex perience no benefit, you may return toe bottle and have your money refundeJ. We make tbia offer "because of th wondarful success of 1-r King's New Discovery dur ing last season's epidemic. Have heard of no ca9 in which ii tdiled. Try it. Trial bottles free at J. M. Lawing'i drugstore. Large size 50c and $1 00. Statewvllle Inuduiark of Cleveland. Grover Cleveland is tbe rervkf-t man ou tbe continent. Just at this juncture when a presidential nomi nation, meaning certain election, is within his grasp, but when three fourths of the couutry seems to be rising up and demanding the flee coinage of silver, instead of falling into the current or remaining silent upon the subject he writes a letter iu which he plants himself in the aiost unequivocal manner againsS the doctrine ot free coinage They say-this lettee is going to cost him tbe nomination. He doesn't care. They said his tariff message would defeat him in 1888. It did, but be didn't care: He is no trimmer and he never conceals his opinions be cause they may happen not to strike the public right. The Landmark has been rather on the free coinage "lay" of late. It is like the farmer in Raleigh who said he was in favor of a railroad commission unot that I know auy thing about it," he add ed, "but it is something new.r Free coinage is something new" aud the order has panned down the lioe that tbe Alliance must be in iavor of it and the Alliance baa fallen into lioe and The Landmark with it. Rut we have great respect for a man who has tbe courage to apeak his mind, especially when . the tide seems to run against him, and our admiration for Cleveland was never as strong as it is now. WE CAN AUD DO Guarantee Dr. Acker't Blood Elixir, for it has been fully demonstrated to the people of this country that it is superior to all other preparations lor blood diseases. It is a positive cure for syphilitic poiscnins, Ulcers, Eruptions and .Pimples. It purifies the whole system and thoroughly build up the conetitution. For sale by Dy J. M. Lawing, Druggist. A liberal use of cream is good for consumptives. A DCIT TO TOCKiXLF. It is eurprising that people will use a com mon, ordinary pill when they can secure a valuable English one for the same money. Dr. Acker's English pills are upositivt curef or sick headache and all Liver Trous nble. They are email, sweet, easily taken and do uot gripe. For sale by Dr. J ii Lawing, Druggists. Be getting ready for spring work. Feeds have tsvo values feeding and fertilizing. vt LADIES Needing atonic, or children who wantbuCd- In? up, honld take BROWN'S IRON BITTERS. It Is pleasant to take, cures Malaria, Indl- feftton, BiUousaeaa and liver Cox&Blalnta.
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