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xt m ti? it iT:T tn ah ir. w , m it m m ii HDL 1121 2L AV a- vlf -ita A. V Aia. xa. jia jaj- LINCOLN COURIER- J. M. ROBERTS. EDITOR AND MANAGE!.. FNTERFD in the Post OffiCF. at j LlNCoLNTON A3 second class 31 a i ; ' MAT rtK .subscription Cash in Advance. year . S1.50 months 75 3 months' 50 Bates of Advertising. Oneincb, one time. 1.00 ; 25c for each tnbseuen insertion. Two inches, one time, 1.50 ; 50 seut for each nbsequent insertion Three inches, one time, -.00 75 cents for each subsequent inser tion. rn Four inches; one time, J.ov U 00 for each subsequent insertion. Special rates lor one-half and one fourth column ; also, for any advertisement continued longer than two months. LINOOLNTON, N. C, OCT. 30, 1601 HO WTIII2 MATTER STAXM.V The Stategville Landmark, in an editorial on 1 he work of the late Democratic meeting held in Kal eigb, closes with the following; "It is not lawful to disclose the secrets of the meeting, but there is rr. Hiiii'r wo are going to tell be mina it nn-Ait to be known : Sir. E. ! C. Beddm-neld, like the honest and . candid man that no is, torn iur ruittee that there will be a xnira party ticket in the field in this Slate next year and that this fact had just as well be looked squarely in the face. Mr. Beddingfield was one of the few persons who did what needed above all things to have been done by everybody on this oc casion: ho talked plainly and with out reserve. And for the lack c I ibis plainness ot speech that which tias been heralded abroad as "a great Democratio love feast" was in aoX a trreat Democratic w-sco. Nei- s her faction showed its hand. Gen J tuman r.i.nq fnr tho time being to i i. link at well known facts, and to postpone the evil day. The issues, which should have been made up at his time on the old lines, go over to the next State convention, when ,onn'rt blood will be hot aod their .iii iMavtttt.imA the .nd minera Lave seven months in which to work." We trust that that committee of ten will get together and decide committee's opinion, tbe D-mocrati ic platform of 1890 or the Ocala nouncer of monopolist, female ora p'atform, comes nearest containing tor the oracle of the Farmers' Alli hd truo principles of Democracy, ance.' We want them to define true Dem ocracy in clear, distinct and une quivocal terms. The committee is aid to be good men. Wo kuow ome of them are good men. If t: ey are good men they have good ( ouBciences; aud we hope, therefore, i nat they will allow conscience as w ell as policv to guide them in their ;tsk. Policy is all right if it can be i xercised without tbe sacrifice o principle. But too much policy and too little conscience may bring forth much evil. There is too much c,i taring to everybody's opinion in this ::ge. There are too many prominent aen trying to serve God and mam niou ; trying to keep on both sides vt opposite factions. Men have beu chosen (because they are supposed to bo able to judge) to define and to declare to ihe people what true . Democratic principles are and to suggest a plan of warfare for the purpose, it possi ble, of ranking a successful defenso ot those principles. Now let the men chosen for this purpose go to work aud perform their duly man ful'y without fear or trembling. Let us have a clear aud distinct under standing as to what party is the Democratic party of North Carolina. Since writing the above we learn that the committee have their ad" dress to the people about ready to publish and vre hope to be able to give it to our raiders in the next issue. Every time Sam Jones holds a moeiiuj in Wilmington he stirs up htrife and unpleasant, if not unkind eeliugs amon many good men of that city. Sam Jones will call men dogs and pusillanimous polecats of hell, and compare ministers of the gaspel who cannot agiee with him to mosquitoes, aud otherwise treat fiem with insoleiK-e and then at t ie wind up of his meeting will stand up before the people aud des clare that he had not expressed an unkind wnril nhmif- onrrwiu nml Ai,1 not entertain an ut.kind feeling to- I ""j""1 ulu : vyards anyone ! And the people, iutoxscated beyond measure by the great crowds and the novelty and the sensations, and by the sharp witty and vulgar sayings of a re markable geuins, cry out amen ! Subscribe for tlTe LINCOLN C0U piEE, $1:50 a year. iinl Sinter Jae Ai Tote a Pass.. w a riungton. uct. iy, ikui. i Your recent editorials about Polk ... . i.i. :-nd bis passes nave oeen reaa w.u. mucn interest nere. a uiub i.ut gentleman is flattered by the notion The Landmwk, News and Observer hud other leading papers take of him. He assuredly nevtr received to much consideration, and from e.ucn. sources, before. In your last week's issue your editorial on the would" be Third party apostle and some of his henchmen was almost pathetic. I fear you don't know ihe North Carolina farmers as well you ought to. They are not go ,ng to be fooled by that crowd, and vou will Fee it next year. I believe in Polk's railroad pass, both on the strength of yonr assertion, and from ray own knowledge of the man and of the farmers. I don't begin to be. lieve the farmers would pay Polk's traveling expenses on such an ex tended scale, while the majority of them can't afford to go to anything more than a neighboring corn shucking or barn-raising. I think it would be better policy for Polk to own up to the pass and to emu lute tbe example of his- able and distinguished co-laborer in P. F. tt s. a. vinAvard. Mrs. Marv Ann Henj jj tfae way a firg'tciMS Qfl q,h describes her as aotiug : "A tall, angular-looking woman walked up to Conductor Joe Collins, o: the Southern Kansas road, at the Union depot yesterday and attempt vl to board the train. " 'Let me see yonr ticket, mam, n .id the conductor, in his charac enstically polite manner. " 'I won't do it ; I know where ;;'m going,' replied the woman, rath i r tartly. " 'O, but you must. You cannot get on tbe train unless you do; it's the rule,' said Colling. 'You most lot me see your ticket.' " I don't travel on a ticket. I have a pass exclaimed she loftily, i d Kio she attempted to pass. l" 'I must see your pass, then.' " 'Well, you haven't sense enougn to tell whether it's a pass or a ticks et, I guess.7 was issued to Mrs. Mary Lease, de. My humble opinion is that an an nual pass is a very fine thing to have- I wish I-had one. I cau't ?ee to save my life why Lieutenant Polk is ashamed of his. Cor. States ville Landmark. The Ocala Platform Fails or EmlcrMeuiPiit ISeforeTIic Georgia Legislature. The persistent and of repeated efforts to obtain an endorsement of Vie Ocala platform from the Geori a Legislature ended in complete ilure. The resolutions to this tf fect could not even make their wav through the house in which they ere introduced. From the begin aing of the session it was known r,hat the attempt to pass such reso utious would be made, and those v ho were at the back of the move ment made every effort to marshal -treugih sufficient to carry it i hrough. They boasted openly that they would succeed and based this assertion on the fact that both bousi es contained a majority of Alliance men. The result pioves that the Alliancemen ot Georgia are not united on the Ocala platform, and it also shows that boss rule is not supremo in the order. Tbe Ocala resolutions were iutroi duced several weeks ago. An effort was made to ruh them through uu der whip and spur. It failed. On several subsequent occasions the watchful guardians of the (resolu tions tried to spriug them ou the House at what were supposed to be opportune moments for their pass age. They were defeated every day On the eve of the adjournment a desperate dash was made by these importunate champions of the subs Treasury and land loan schemes, but they were again cut off. They determined to make a last supreme slfort In the dying hours of the leg s'ature and for this purpose they raliied their full streugth. Their old fate fell upon them again .and the f i.. 1....- . . T. ,t5M"uuous wenc aown Prol- luiy never 10 rise again in a Goora gia Legislature. The sub Treasury ind the land loan were fairly whip ped in a body which could have oeen absolutely controled by A1IL incsmen on any line which they had agreed upon. But they were divid Hi ou the Ocala resolutions and the Legislature was saved from the folly of their adoption. .In their stead were passed resolutions of a general character requesting such Federal legislation as will best conduce to relict of the people from evils which re permitted to exist. This was all right The adoption of the Ocala resolutions by a Dem ocratic Legislature would hav been all wrong, for the Ocala platform contains some things which are as far from Democratic doctrine as the north pole is from tbe south. The Legislature did well so sit down hard on the Ocala resolutions every time they were presented. Atlanta Journal, lGth. The Situation at tbe White House. New York Sun. i I "I am perfectly well." James G. j Blaine. ; "Theu I am very sick." -BemJAi jiin Harrison. Tbenu Joolliog Oil'. BY PROF. ALEXANDER WDiCHELL, L. L. D, We are not diiven to tbe necessi ty of summoning exaggerated and imaginary agencies to tbe destruc tion of the earth; There are hostile powers reserved for tbe final con flict that will not be content wivn directing toward us merely "Quaker guns." Tne sun, we say, aff jrds us thirty nine foitieths of all the warmth which we enjoy, and we feel quite unconcerned about the alleged slow cooling of the earth. To the sun we owe the numberless activities of the organic and ignorganic worlds, and we feel quite independent of the warning temperature of this dying ember which we call the earth. Tne amount of heat dispensed by our solar orb is truly something the contemplation oi wuiuu ovBipuw ers the imagination. Tbe rays which tall upon a common burning glass, cou verged to a focos, speedily ignite a piece of wood. The heat which is received by a space of ten yards square is sufficient, as Erics son states, to drive a nine horse power engine. The amount of heat which falls upon half a Swedish square mile is sufficient to actuate 4 OOO onorirxis . jptx 0.10 .VMB.Q received annually by the earth would melt a layer of ice one hun dred feet thick. As the solar heat is radiated equally in all directions, it is easily calculated that the total emission of beat from the sun is 2, 300 millions of times the wuole imount which reaches our earth. Such an enormous expenditure of ueat is efficient to reduce the tem perature ot the.sun two and oue-fifth iegrees auuuaUy. During tbe hu nan period of 6,000 years, tbe tem perature would have been reduced nore than 19,000 degrees. At such i rate of cooling it is obvious that the sun must speedily cease tj warm our planet sufficiently to sus tain vegetable and animal life. But it is certain that the sun's high temperature has been maintained during almost couutless ages ante rior to the commencemest of the human era. Those titanic reptiles, which could luxuriate only under tropical warmth flourished a hun dred thousand years before the world was prepared for man; and those rank, nmbrageous feme, whose forme we trace upon the roof shades of a coal mine, existed be- fore the reptile horde, and purified I the air'for their respiration. What unseen cause has perpetu ated, for a million ot yeaas those solar fires ! Cepler asserted that the firmament is as full of comets as the sea is of fishes, and Newton conjectured that these comets are the fuel carriers of the sun. Alas! we only know that the wandeiing comet, though flying in tantalizing proximity to the sun, but accele rates its speed and hurries onward, as virtue hastens past the vortex of ruin. Is it a chemical action which maintains the solar heatt The most efficient chemical action far this purpose is combustion. Now, if the suu were a so'id mass of coal, its combustion would only suffice for the brief space of forty-six ceu turies to replentish the solar system with its vivifying influence. Is it the effect ot the sun's rotation on his axis ? Such rotation could gen erate no heat without the resistance of another body. Even if that other body were present, a calcula tion based upou tbe sun '8 mass and his rate of rotation shows that the heat generated could only supply the expenditure for the space of one hundred and .eightythree years'. These exists, nevertheless, a means of recuperation to the solar energy. It is not an exhanstles resource, bat it prolongs materially the peiiod of tho sun's activity. Though no comet has been known to fall into suo, it id now generally admitted that cosmical matter i raining down ujon the son from j rtvery direc ion. Besides the planetry and couie tary bodies which revolve about r,be suo, it is now demonstrated that the interplanetary spaces are occupied by smaller masses of mat ter, from the size of a melearite to particles of cosmical dnst. These all are flowing about the sun in a circling stream, but forever ap proachiog nearer and nearer, until they are gradually drawn into the solar firep. The showers of meteoric hail which pelt onr earth at certain Peri(Ml8 of the Vear are merely cos- C 1 K tlint liAnn (man rfiforfi ,ultttl uuu,t lUtt" u.u " ed from their path 'in certain parts of her orbit. That iaiat cone of light which streams upward from the setting or the rising sun, near the time ot the equinoxes, is but a zone of planetary duet illuminated oy the sun's rays a shower of mat ter descending upon the solar oib, and rendered visible to us, like the rain sent down from a summer eloud and projected upou the clear heav ens beyond. The conviction cannot be rested that the process going forward be fore' our eyes aim directly at the 3nat extincS'on of the olar fire Uelmhottz says : "The inexorable laws of mechanics, show that the store of beat is the sun must be fi nally exhausted." What a concep tion overshadows and overpowers tbe mind I We are forced to con template the slow warning of that benegcienr orb whose vivid light and cheering warmth animate and vivify the circuit of the solar sysn tem. For ages past unbounded g.ftg beeQ wagted through the expanding fields of space wasN 3 1, I say, since less than half a bil liou of his rays have fallen upon our planet. The treasury of life and motion from age to age is running lower and lower, The great sun which, stricken with the pangs of dissolution, has bravely looked down with steady and undimmed eye upon our earth ever since or ganization first bloomed upon it, is -The pelcing"rain ofTjosmicaT malfer descending upon his surface ctn only retard, for a limited time, tbe encoaohmeut8 of the mortal rigors, as friction may perpetuate, for a few brief moments, the vital warmth ol a dying man. Methodist Magazine. Table Customs ot Our Ancestors. A thousand years ago, when the dinner was ready to be served, the first thiug brought into the great hall was tbe table. Movable tres tles were brought, oa which were placed boards, and all were carried away again at the close of the meal. Upon this was laid tte tablecloth, which in some of the old pictures is represented as haviug a handsome embroidered border. There is an old Latin riddle of the eighth cen tury in which the table says: "1 feed people with many kinds of food. First I am a quadruped, and adorned with handsome clotning; theu I am robbed of my apparel and lose my legs also." The food of the Ane;losSaxon was largely bread. This is hiated in the fact that a do mestic was called a "loaf eaer," and tne ,aJy OI the house was called a "loafgiver." Tbe bread was baked in round, flat cakes, which tbe su perstition of the cook marked with a crosH, to preserve them irom the perils of tbe fire. Milk, butter and cheese.were also eaten. The prin cipal meat was bacon, as the acorns of the oak forests, which then cov ered a large part of England, sup ported numerous droves of swine Onr Anglo-Saxon forefathers were not only hearty-eaters, bnt unfortu nately deep drinkers. The drinking horns were at first literally horns aud so must be immediately emp, tied when filled , later when the primitive horn was replaced by a glass cop, it retained a tradition of its rude predecessor in its shape, for it had a flaring top while tapering toward the base, so that it, too, had to be emptied at a draught. Each guest was furnished with a spoon, while his knife he always carried iu his belt; as for forks, who had dreamed of them ,when nature bad given man ten fingers! But you will see why a servant with a basin of water and a towel always pre sented himself to each guest before dinner was served and after it was ended. Boasted meat was served on the spit or rod on which- it was cooked, and the gnest cut or tore off a piece to suit himself- , Boiled meat was laid on the cakes of bread, or later on thick slices of bread called "trenchers," from a Norrvan word meaning 'to cur,'aas these were to cut tbe meat on, thus preserving; the tablecloth from the knife. At first the trencher was eaten or thrown upou the stone floor for the dogs which croached at their mas ter's feet. At a later date it was put in a basket and given to the poor who gathered at the manor qa'e. During the latter part of the middle ages, the most conspicuous object on the table -was tbe salt cellar. This was generally of silver in the form of a ship. It was placed in tho center of the long table, at which tbe household gathered, my lord and lady, their family i nd guests, being at one end and their retainers and servants at the other. So one's position iu regard to the salt was a test of rank the gentle folks sitting "above the &alt" and the yeomanry below it. In the hous es of the great nobles dinner was served with much ceremony. At the hour a stately procession enter ed the hall. Fuxt came several musicians, followed by the steward bearing his rod ot office, and then came a long line of servants carry i:ig different dishes. Some idea ot tje variety and profusion may be gained from the provision made by King Henry ill. lor his household i t Christ mis, 1254. This included tbiryoue xeu, o ie hundred pigf, taree hundred and fitiy-tix fosvlf, tweoiyMiine hares, fifty- niue rab biU, nin pheasants, fifry-six yr tridges, sixtyeigbt woodcocks, tbir tynine plovers, aud three tbousaud eggs. Many oi our favorite dishes have descended to us from tha mid dle ages. Macaroons have served f s dessert since the das ot Cuaucer. Our favorite winter breakfast, grid die caked, has come down to us from the far-away Britons of Wales.while the boys have lunched on ginger bread aud girls ou pickles and jeN lies since the time of Edward 11., more tbau five hundred years ago. Scientific American. Go the Racket for your fall j and winter goods, where you can get the most for the least ; money. Clothing Department. The Backet has the largest stock of raeu'8 and bos' pauts that is in the place, and a nice line of full fiuits in men's, boys' aud children', 85o and up: men's suits $4.25 and up SHOE DEPARTMENT, Our shoe department is full up in every respect and at rock bottom prices. You should examine our stock before you buy your tall and wiuter shoes, We sell ladies over shoes at 20c per pair, and misses' for 15c. No such bargain ever offer, ed before. MILLINERY DEFT. This department is complete in every respect. Styles the best and prices tbe lowest. We also crry a large line of dry goods, notions of all kinds, station ery, tiu ware, glass ware, crockery, fcugar, coffee, soda, and a big lot of tobacco always on hand at the lows est ptices. All that havo wool and want it spun into yarn or worked into blan kets or jeans, if you will bring it to the Racket, we will have it worked for you. We have on harids ac all times a full line of wool yarn, both single and doubled and twisted. When you comi to town come in to see us whetuer you want to trade or uot. We will cladlv show vnn through our stock. - That id just what we are here for. Respectfully, J L. KISTLER, Propr. Sept. 18, 1S91 The Liver When out of order, InvolYe every organ ot the body. Remedies tor some other dertnge ment &re frequenUy token without tbe tout ffeet, because It U the lirer which U the real aouree ot the trouble, and unUl that la et right there can be no health, strength, or comfort in any part of the system. Mercury, faa some form, la a common specific for a slug gtah liver; but a far safer and more effaettva medicine is Ayer's Pills. For loss of appetite, bilious troubles, consti pation, indigesUon, and sick headache, these Pills are unsurpassed. For a long time I was a sufferer from tomach, lirer, and kidney troubles, expe riencing much difficulty In dlgeaUon, with severe pains in the lumbar region and other larta of the body. Having tried a variety of remedies, including warm baths, with only temporary relief, about three months ago I began the use of Ayer's Pills, and my health Is so much Improved that I gladly testify to the superior merit of this medicine." Manoel Jorge Pere.ra, Porto, Portugal. For the cure of headache, Ayer's Cathar tic Pills are the most effecUve medicine I ever used." R. K. James, Dorchester, Mass. " Wheu I feel the need of a eatharUc, I take Ayer's Pills, and find them to be more effec tive Ui&u any other pUl I ever took." Mrs. B. C. Orubb, Burwellvttle, Va. I have found In Ayer's Pills, an invalua ble remedy for constipation, biliousness, and kindred disorders, ieculiar to mlasmaUe localities. Taken In smaU and frequent doses, these Pills Act Well on the liver, restoring its natural powers, and aiding it in throwing off malarial poiions." C. F. Alston, Quitman, Texas. "Whenever I am troubled with constipa tion, or suffer from loss of appetite, Ayer's Pills at me right again." A. J. KUer, Jr., Bock House, Va. " In 1868, by the advice oi a friend, I began the use of Ayer's Pills aa a remedy for bil iousness, constipation, high fevers, and colds. They served me better than aaythlng I had previously tried, and I have used them In attacks oi that sort ever since." H. W. Hersh, Judsonla, Ark. Ayer's Pills, TZXTAMXO IT OR. J. C. AYER & CO., Lciill, Mass. old by all Druggists and Dealers la Mdictn. MUSIC Anything from a $1000 Piano to a lc Jew's harp 1 have peifected arrangements whereby I can get you anything in the music line. Prices guaranteed low as tbe lowest. Call and see my Bntupieu abu jnii w. ouuft EUUS1C, song and dance folios, sacred soup book r for churches, Sunday and dav schools, e?c I am still in the lead with fresh con ectionp, fruits, etc. Fine ci gr and tobaccos. Closing out on b x tobacco at cost. JUST RECEIVED a fresh lot oi baoanas and Italian oranges, verj fine. RESPECTFULLY, FLEMING RAMSAUR, Black Front, E. Maiu St. . April 3rd 1891 ly :::THE.::S COURIER PUBISHED and EDITED BY J M. ROBERTS, LINCOLNTON, N. C. A family newspaper devoted to the interests of Lincoln and ur ronnding counties and to tbe State of North Carolina. Subscription, I year, 81.50. 6 months, 75 cents. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Advertising rates reasonable. -- V. ,1- RAMSAUR AND BURTOii HAVING purchased the itocfc of 11. R & J. B. itamsaur, we wUl continue to carry the sa me lint of goods. If you want a STOVE or RANGE or the Teasels, or pipe, call and ex amine our stock. Wo keep on band Buggies and Wagons, iiurnets, Saddles and Col lars, "Handmade," also tha best sola and Harness Leather. Lare btock out soles. Old Hickory aod Piedmont Wag-, ooa kept iu stock. Glass Fruit Jar, Flower Pois GUsm Wtrrt Tiu Warn, Jug- Towd i Ware, lrou ot all kiuda, Nails, "cut" wiie and horHesboe, Horse and Mai ahoes, ouo and two borae iiolaud and Steel Plows and repairs. The hugt-bt stock ot Hardware in town. Buckets, Tubs, Chums, wbeel bar rows, lence wire, in fact EVERY THING kept iu Hardware aud Leather goods line. Tne thanks of tbe old firm are hereby teudered the public for their iibei al patronage and encourage ment. The new firm will endeavor to merit a coutinuance ot same. Come to tee uat whether you want goods or nor. All questions cheeri fully answered, except as to weath er forecast. Substitute for Sash weights. The "Common Sense" Sash Balances. They can be used where it is impossible to use weights or other fixture. Tay ara especiaUy valuable for repairing oii. buildings, and are as easily put m ek( buildings as new ones. Common Sense Curtain Fixture The most perfect Curtain Fiitura mad. Tbe curtain can be let down from the lop to any desired point, giving light or venit lation without exposing tbe room or its occupants, answering tbe deuble purpose f an inside blind and a window ourtain. Automatic CentreRail SashLock The only automatic centre rail sash lock made. No bolu, springs, or riveti axe uc e4: We will take pleasure in showing tbesQ improved goods. RESPECTFULLY, Ramsaur & Burton. DO NOT FAIL To Examine 0TlJ3F3L complete stock 0 hats, caps, . BOOTS, SHOES HARDWARE,- lassvyare Tinware CROCKERY Cs As we think it will be to your advantage to come to see us before buying elsewhere, as wE BUY FOR CASH and SELL FOR SAME Respectfully H0i(E AND fillCHAL
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