(M 1 $i iff ii'l1 U J I III ! fliPT iff III VOL V LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 8. 1891. NO. 1 Professional Cards. BAFvTLETT SMIFF, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Jan, 9,'18'Jl. ly. Finley & Wetmore, ATTYS. AT LAW. LINCOLNTON, N. C Will practice in Lincoln and surrounding counties. All business put into our hands will be promptly atten ded to. April la, l&M. lv. wilt i. fsatif. SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE IN COBB BCJILDINO, MAIN 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. Jurj '21 '91 ly lias located at Liucolnton aud of feVg hia sei vices an physician to the ciuzens ot Lincolntou aud surrouud country. Will he round at. night at the res ide.-.ee of B. G. Wood March 27, 1891 iy 30 TO BARBER SHOP. Newly fitted up. Work aways. neatly done. Customers politely waited upon. Everything pertain ing to the toosorial art is done according to latest styles. HeNRY Taylok. Barber. Who Is Your IlcMt Friend? Your stomach of course. Whyi? Becaus if it is out of order you are one of the most miserable creatures living. Give it a fair hororable'chance and see if it is not the best friend 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 the evening and it will tell on you less. If your iood ferments andl does not digest right, it you are troubled with Heartburn, Dizziness ot the head, coming cn after eating, "Biliousness, Indigestion,or any other trouble ot the 6tomach, you had psbuse" Green's August Flower, aefs no person can use it without immediate relief Baby Carriages, $7.50 Baby Carriages, 7.50 Baby Carnages, 7.50 Baby Carnages, 7.50 EM ANDREWS, FURNITURE PIANOS & ORGANS- I made tne largest purchase of BABY CARRIAGES this season since I have been in business. Bought over 75 CARRIAGES At one single purchase: I can sell you a beautiful RATTAN CARRIAGE with wire wheels at $7.50. Did you ever see any of taose $12.00 Silk Plush Upholstered Carriages Of mine ? Th nk of it ! Silk plush at $12. 1 have something new to show you this season. They are beautiful styles in Rattan carriages, finished 16th century, for from $15 to 125. The UA9IBOO is something new also, and is Having a big run. I can lurnish you CATALOGUES of all my stylt-s, and 1 guarantee to sell you carriages lrom 15 to 20 per cent, less than any other dealer in the State. lErloir Suits. 1 have an endless variety FARLOR SUITS to suit all tastes and e verybody's pocket. I can sell you anything from the Wool Plush Suis of Opera-, in Walnut Frame, fer only 35 00 to the handsome Suit ot 5 pieces for $250 00. This is a suit that retails in Jfew York Gity for $325.00. My stock is more than complete in every respect. Ot the finest, most reliable makes sold at lowest prices for cash or on easy payments. Write for my new CATALOGUE. E. M- ANDREWS, 14 and 16 West Trade St. Charlotte, N. C. fc ,.,-.,.,1 ... .. . xvwio,.....-...--.-.- -..N..s. -.a, A for Infants and Children. "Cutoria i so well adapted to children tiuU I reoommend it a ru peri or to any prescription known to me." H. A. Axchxk, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. "The use of Castorla is bo universal and its merits bo well known that it seems a work ot supererogation to endorse it. Few are the Intelligent f amilies who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." Guuxm Matti, D.D., New Fork City. Late Factor Bloomingdale EeX ormed Church. Th Ckmtau HAPPY HOOSIERS. Wm. Tiirnnoni, Postnmstf-r of Idaville, Ind., writes : "Electric Bitters ba? done more for me than all other medicines com bined, lor thtit had feeling arisine from Kidney and Liver trouble."- John Leslie, farmer and stockman, of same place, says: "Find Electric Bitters to ha the best Kid ney and Liver medicine, made me ieel like a new man." J W Gardner, hardware merchant, same town, says : Electric Bit ters is just the thing or a man who is all run down and don't care whether he lives or dies ; he found new strength, good ap petite and felt just like he hud a new lease on life. Only 50 cents a bottle, at Dr. J M La wing's Drug Store. That time is the worst employed which we give to regrets, unless we learn from them the lesson of the f ature. Due de Lav is. 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, Indisestion, Flatulency and Con eumpiion. Guaranteed and sold by Dr. J Al Lawing Druggist. Time is money, they say. And we have often observed that it takes a good deal of money to have a good timp. A CHILD KILLED. Another child killed by the use of opiates given in the form of Soothing Syrup. Why mothers give their children such deadly poison is surprising when they can relieve the child of its peculiar troubles by using Dr. Acker's Baby Soother. It contains no opium or morphine. Sold by Dr. J M Lawi ing, Druggist. "I am delighted to have seen your beautiful city, aud must com pliment you upon its evideut pros perity and its undoubted progress.'' This is what President Harrison threw out ot the car wiudow at all ihe Texas towns, but the Democ ratio majority still remains about 200,000 Augusta Chronicle Dem. A DUTV TO YOURSELF. It is surprising that people will use a com nion, ordinary pill when they can secure a valuable Lnglisn one for the same money. Dr. Acker's English pills are a positive curet or sick headache and all .Liver irou- nble. They are small, sweet, easily taken and do uot eripe. For sale by Dr. J M Lawing, Druggists. A fig for intellectual eminences if it makes a man oppress his infer rioTs and bully his equaV." Mrs. Humphey Ward. CAN'T SLEEP NIGHTS Is the complaint of thousands suffering from Asthma, Consumption, Coughs, etc. Did you ever try Dr. Acker's English Re medy ? It is the best preparation known for all Lung Troubles. Sold on a positive guarantee at 25 cents and 50 cents. For sale by Dr. "J M Lawing, Druggist. Light labor Cleauing the lamps. WE CAN AND DO Guarantee Dr. Acker's Blood Elixir, for it has been fully demonstrated to the people of this country that it is superior to all other preparations for blood diseases. It is a positive cure for syphilitic poisoning, Ulcers, Eruptions and Pimples, It purifies the whoie system and thoroughly builds up the constitution. For sale by Dy J. M. Lawing, Druggist. Parlor Suits, $35 Parlor Suits, 35 ParlorSuits, 35 Parlor Suits, 35 3E 0rtori cores Colic, OonMJpetton, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, .Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di- Witoutinjurious medication. For several years I hare recommended your Castoria, ' and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial results." Edwin F. Parbr, M. D., "The Winthrop," 125th Street and 7th New York City. CewAirr, 77 Hcsjlit Stkxkt, Nkw York. Godey's Lady's Book. MISS JANE'S MEMO RIAL DAY. BY LILLIAN GREY. 1Y, missus, please won't von fJ give uoe bo me snow-balls jest two or lhree "Dear me 1 I wonder now many more is comin' here alter flow ers ? I've pulled my poor enownball bush pretty nigh to pieces now for one an' another; an I had a few early pmeys an' I had to even pick Mm off for the Lewis girls. Au', now, what do you wautof flowers Miss Jane Smith looked the small applicant over from head to feet as bhe asked the question. The boy stood meekly before her, and twist ed the stems of some wild flowers round and round in his small brown hands. "I wanted to take au' put 'em on my ma's grave out to the cemet'ry. She used to take a sight of notice to flowers, ye see; an' everybody's tak in' 'em." "I kuow; but I can;t sea no real good in it for my part. The Bible avs that the dead don't know uoth in' that goes on under the sun, so what pleasure is the flowers to 'em ? It's jest a fashion an' a troubles some one, too, if the posies have to be begged. They'd much better stay on their bushes, where livin' folks can see 'em, 'cordin' to my op inioo. Say, do you know how to weed ?" "Yes'm ; a little in gardin beds an seeb." ''Cause my onion beds is a suffer in' for want ot it since this last rain, au my arm is that lame I can't do it luyaelf. I'll pay you a little some thing, an' it won't be no harder work for you tbaO trudgin' out to the graveyard in the hot un; eo coma along." And little Jim choked down a lis ing sob, and followed the imperious lady down to her cherished garden. "Now, mind you, dou't pull off the young onion tops, too. Boys is so careless, all I've come acrost yet." Yes'm," said Jimmy ; "I'll look out." Miss Jane went back to the house and, taking her mending basket, sat down in a window where ahe could overlook her email gardener. He had taken off his jacket, and was on his knees at work, but frequent ly he raised his arm and brushed his shirt across his eyes. Someway, that ac tion troubled his employer, and, af ter the fashion of people who live much alone, she began to talk to herself, ' I do b'lieve that boy is cryiu'. Now, what under the sun ails him, I wonder f Mebbe he didn't want to work after all, but I was so glad to git bolt of somebody to do that weedin'. Can't be he's silly enough to cry about the flowers I wouldn't give him; boys ain't so tender hearted as all that. Mebbe he's hungry. I guess I'll take him out a bite of something, an' see what the matter is, for it kind o' worries me. I'm all stirred np to-day, anyhow A few minutes later Jimmy was surprised by the offer of a cap of milK and a generous piece of cake. "Set down on the step here, little boy, au' rest while you eat it. I don't think I asked you yonr namfe did I !" No'm ; but it's James Lewis White." "White ? That name sounds real familiar, an' yet I can't think. Has your ma been dead a great while?'' "Only sence December. She was sick a loug time ; she had consumps tion.'' "Oh, my ! Why, I want to know if that poor sufferer was your ma ? Why, I beard about her several time , au' once I seut her some things. Why, I declare I She was a widow, they said, an' no means. Was there any other children but you 1" "No'm; there was Aunie, but she died wheu I was real little 'fore pa died ; they've buried way off over the river." "I want to know 1 But there, I hadn't ought to make you talk about your troables when you're try in to eat Ye see, livin7 out ot the village as I do, I lose track of things- Wbure be you livin' now ?" 'With Mr. Brown's folks ; but I don't want to keep on a-stayin' there, 'cause there's a good mny ot 'em, an' an' they ain't no call to have me. If 1 was only bigger I could git lots ot places to work; but I'm too little, they all say, an' Mr. Brown laughs an' says I'll grow; he's real good ! I git errants to do, some, an' take care of Pete that's the baby ; he's jest as cnnninV, "I waut to know ! Well, now yon are done eatin', you fiuish that one bed, an' can you come to-morrer an' do the other V "Yes'm ; I guess I kin ; or I'll do It uow." "No ; it won't take no real hurt till then ; an' it ain't too late for you to go on to the cemetery. I ain't ?eeu nobody comin' back yet, an' I'll have some flowers all ready for you against you git that bed done ''Yes'm ; I'll be sure to come to morrer for the other, an' you're aw ful good." "Nonsense ! I ain't no saint, mer cy knows ?' Jimmy knelt again to his work, but he did not have to draw his sleeve across his eyes auy more, for they were clear and shining. His body was refreshed; his sore little heart was comforted, aud hope and ambition revived. And, someway, Miss Jaue felt better, and went about among her syriuga oushes and flower beds, picking here and there witn more good-will than she had done before that morning. And when the boy's work was done she set out a basin of water, soap and towel for his use, and, giving him five cents and the lovely bouquet, watched him as, with fleet feet, he sped up the road leading to the cemetery on his loving errand. Miss Jane sat down to her work again, but her thoughts flew faster than did her needle. There were few of her kindred left. A long row of graves ont in the hillside cemetery belonged to her. She sometimes went there on Sunday afternoons, and read the names and dates, and counted up the years since the sleep ers fell asleep; She saw that the stones were kept upright, and the grass mowed several times each i-ummer; but not a blossoming bush or plant graced the spoL Where was the use f The dead know not anything. And yet to-day she felt dissatisfied, as though she of all the village and country side had failed in having respect. Even little Jim, regardless ot discouragement and dust, and noon-tide heat, was hur rying to lay his tribute above the dear dead mother, feeling in some unexplained way its fitness After awhile the drum. beats broke into tne stillness of Miss Jane's mus ing. The goldiers were coming back Each year there were fewer of them to go and come back. One after auother went to stay; but they were not forgotten. Comrades were loys al, and the younger generations were not uugrateful ; and Memorial Day was the link that bound them into one common loving brotherhood. Then after the soldiers, came oth er people by twos and threes. Some tirried to rest a few moments on Miss Jane's porch, and to crave a drink of the famous well. They told of the thrilling address, of the pa tnetic dirges, and of the profusion of floral tributes; and when they were gone on, the listener felt still less at ease in her mind. At last little Jim came by, and she beckon ei him m and regaled him with an other lunch. "Oh ! it was jist lovely I'7 he said. "Such lots of folks an' flowers. Oh my 1 An' a lady give me a tin can for my own self, an' I filled it with water, an' put my flowers in it so now they'll keep a week, mebbe. I'll never forgit it of you givin' me them snow-balls an' all !" "There, there ! that's all right. I'm &lad I did ; an' now don't forgit to come out here to-morrer. Lifce enough I'll want you all day for chores around.'' After he was gone the house seemed still more lonely. Even Roger, friend and protector though he was, failed to serve in place of human companionship. His mis tress gave nim a generous dinner. She fed the little clamorous chick ens an(j gaYe the canary some fresh ater. Sb finished her sewing, and tiied in vain to take a nap; aud then she wandered frm loom to room, but everything was in order and the house was, oh! how still and empty ; tor the people who used to talk and laugh in it, and tread its floors ami pass in ami out and up and dowu, now had their abode in narrow dooriess houses, aud had no more a "part or lot in anything which is done under the sun." At last, the restless lonely woman exclaimed- "I'll just do it, anyhow !" She put on her sun-Donuer, took her garden shears and a basket, aud went out of doors. A cooling breeze had sprung up, tempering the uun seasonable heat ; and people weie still going to and tiom the cemetery. Miss Jane cut cluster after cluster from the soowball bush, regardless of its rifled appearance, and the few peony buds which were just reveal ing their crimson hearts, lofty tprays of syringas and lovely pansy blos aoms were also added to the basket. "I do believe there's a few white laylocks on the tree north side of the house ; and I remember mother always set seeh store by laylocks ; and to think she ain't had a one put over her all these years. Ah, well-a-day I I've said 'fore now that it was all of a piece with the heathen Chinee custom of puttin' rice an' fruits on the graves; but there j mebbe I've been the heathen after all." A little later, Miss Jane, leaving Roger to keep watch and ward, started with her flowers on her mile walk to the silent city. She found many visitors still there, and her steps were often arrested by the exquisite beauty of some floral df sigu. It seemed that scarcely a mound had been forgotten ; t-ome had only a small token, but even that was "in lemeaibrAuc?." Here and there the fluttering of a tiny flag showed where the heroes of bat' ties slept, and ou all such mounds the blossoms lay in sweet profusion. At last she reached her own plot. Six graves were iu it, where lay her nearest of kin grandmother, father and mother, brothers and sister. She went to the fountain for water, ar tanged her bowls and cups, and then, with trembling bauds, divided her flowers , some for them all, but for the mother, latest buried and most dearly loved, the fair white lilacs and the heart'a-ease. One rose, her only one, a pale pink beauty, she placed above the little sister the precious sister with laughing eyes and face like a flower, who, as the marble record shows, "Departed this life, aged fifteen years." Long the desolate woman sat there after her task was done, feel ing somehow a little nearer to her lost ones, as if she had done them still another service after all these long year.3, and as if the tie between them had been somehow newly strengthened. Then she thought of the future, of her loneliness and need, and then of little Jim, of his fnendlessness and loyalty to his dead mother, of his patience over the task she had given him, and his tears, and then the desire and re solve to blend their future lives aod fortunes took form in her miud. So, comforted and with new hope and courage, she went home in the twi light, and the petals of the flowers freshened as the dew fell on them, and, seeing their beauty, the angels, who came down to watch the graves at night, smiled tenderly. LA. GRIPPE AGAIN. During the epidemic of la grippe last season Dr. King's New Discovery for con sumption, coughs and colds, proved to be the best remedv. Keports from the many who used it, confirm this statement. Tbty were not only quickly relieved but the disease left no bad after results. We ask you to give this remedy a trial and we gaaranteo that you will te satisfied with results, or the purchase price will be re funded. It nas no equal in la grippe o: any throat, chest or lung trouble. Trial bottles free at J M Lawing's drugstore Large bottles 50c and f 1.00 Employ your mind in improving yourself by other men's writings . so you can come easily by what others have labored hard for. Soc rates. The great dynamite guns have revolutionized wardare, and Gant er's magic chicken cholera core has stopped the ravages of cholera among the poultry. Sold and guar. ranteed by Dr. J. M, Lawing. Southern Opposition to (lie Third Party Convention. Col. Livingstou, of Georgia, has written a letfer, very decidedly in tone, iu regard to the Alliance con vention to be held in Cincinnati on the 10th, of next month. In it he s?4vs that the Southern Aliiancemen will not participate in the conven tion, aud that McGrath, as Presi dent of the State Alliance of Kausas has cn authority to call it, because tliH w hoi n matter was cari-lully con jsideie t at Ocala last December, and a convention for the several farmers ami labor organizations was called for February 52, 1892. The mem bers of the Alliance who reside principally in the West, and who xv wit ;i third party, appear to f.ivor tiie momtut for the Cincinnati cou veiition. while the Southern Alli ance oppose the thlid party idea, so long as redress of grief auces is pos sible within the Democratic party aud are coutent to await the action of the next Democi atio House of Iiep resentatives. Many ot the mem bers of the Alliance in the West have been life-long Republicans aud are indisposed to uuite with the Democratic paity, which in the main favors the measures they ad vocate, because of a mere sentiment, We are gratified at the position ta ken by tho Southern Alliance. It shows that the latter are earnest aud will be governed by principles believing that the Democratic party aidiwill in seeming the legislation desired,and willing to giye that pari tv a fair trial. The President of an organization into which so mauy conflicting elements have entered has a very difficult office to perform He must see that with a divided counsel the effectiveness of the or gauizatlon will tie greatly neutral ized; and his skill will be taxed to the utmost to keep its strength m-s tact in order to throw it where it will be most effective. We under stand such to be the aim of the Natoinal Alliance, and to reconcile the ooutheru and Western wings appear to be the difficulty. Theie is little, if any, apprehensiou but that the Democratic parly and the Southern wing of the Alliance will act conjointly in the election of a Democratic President, and if the Western wing will be governed by the same conservatism as our Southern friends there w.d soou be a Democratic President and a Dem ocratic Congress, aud then business will revive and times get better. JSl. G. Intelligencer. Drinking and Apoplexy. The Irish Uorld presents to its readers the following wholesale les son concerning alcohol aud apo plexy. "It is the essential natuie of all wines and spirits to send an in creased amount of blood to the brain. The first effect of taking a glass of wine or stronger form of al cohol is to send the blood there fas ter than common. Hence the cir culation that gives the red face. It increases the activity of the brain and it works faster, aud so does the tongue, but as the blood goes faster than commou to the brain, it returns faster and no immediate harm may result. But suppose a man keeps ou driuking; tho blood is sent to the brain so fast in large quantities tha, in order to make room for it the arteries have to charge them selves. They increase in size, and, in doing so, they press against the more yielding, flaccid veins which carry the blood out of the brain, and diminish the size of the pores the result being that the blood is not only carried to the arteries ot the brain taster tbau is natural or healthful, but is prevented from leaving it as fast as usual. Hence Ja double set of causes Ot death are in operation. Deuce a man may drink enough brandy or other spir its in a few hours, or even minute?, to bring on a fatal attack of apo plexy. This is being literally dead drunk." A young man advertised for a wife, and his sister answered the advertisemens ; and now the young mau thinks there is no balm in ad vertisements, and the old people think it pretty hard to have too fools in one family. Ex. Old Clothes. One of the tritest of old proverbs is "Waste nor, waste not" We are familiar with it from our earliest days, und wrote and rewrote the simple words a score of times at least, in the loug since laiduby copyobooks, which, with the maxim itself, are only too frequently set aside on some old dust v. nmafv shell, and together forgotten. That one is in the closet and the other iu some part of what, for ant of a more definite term, miibt bo called the iuner consciousness, does not change the fact that for all practi cal purposes ot this everyday life they are both equally nugatory. Each day of our lives something is wasted, and so surely the something; is wanted. "Waste and want" cause and effect two grim, gigantic skeletons, linked together, stalk this weary world of ours ; and to think how much of this evil ii pieventable ! Permanent good is not to he at taiued by big spurts of charity, tak ing the shape of handsome dona tions given when some cry, louder and sharper than the average, pierces the comfortable lethargy in which we enshroud ourlves. A vast plan is now Iwjing freely dis cussed for alleviating the almost hopeless misery of thousands : but even if its sanguiue founder's higb est anticipations are realised, still tho old truth remains as true now as wheu it was first utteied, neatly 4000 years ago "The poor shall never cease out of the land.'' To Hsist these, it is not always necess sary to give up any of the daily lax. uties that society, in many instanc es, makes almost indispensable, but to turn our disused luxuries to ac couut. It is not money that is need ed, but time and thought. If mothers would only teach their children, or let them be taught, to mend and renovate their own cst otf clothing, eo as to make it suiu. ble for poor children of their owu ag, it woold proveanlncalculablesource of good perhaps not less toHhe giver than to the receiver. The worn-out schoolroom Irock, with probably little holes iust beginning to peep at the elbows, neatly patch ed (and any superflous trimming, unfit lor the recipient, removed), would prove a blessing ol inestimable magnitude to many a shivering mite. Of course, the kindest little bauds could never make a silk frock servicable or suit able tor such wearers, but out-grown coats, worn undergarmeuts and tho boys' cast-off clothes, would be far more welcome and useful than treble their money value. Paradoxi cal as it may seem, it is through their small value that they are so valuable, lc is no temptation to the most degraded, drunken father or mother to pawn or sell what would hardly fetch the price of one of their favorite drinks. AgaiD, if tho proper methods for distribution are taken, the offender could easily be detected, and the necessary means usud to prevent a repetition of the offence. Women hardly yet understand how strong they are to do good in their own true sphere and to miti gate the fearful misery by which thy are surrounded. It is the steady, constant help, given with discrimination and sympathy, that h required, and it lies in every woman's power to assist here. For the little ones special pleading has been given, but how many a poor mother, recovering from illness, most of whose clothes have been pawned to meet the extra require ments of such times; would receive with heartfelt gratitude the bundle of warm, it worn, garments T The bread-winner would be spared maoy a rough and gruff dismissal iu his search for employment if, perhaps. bis toes would not show eo ob- tructively through his boots ; and then possibly the first lazy habits of slouchiug around public-house doors would not be engendered Ti.e Home Fascinator. If yon grow crops among voar truit trees apply manure enough for both. Subscribe for the Lincoln Cou eiei:, $1.50 a year.

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