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LINCOLNTON, N. C, "FRIDAY, FEB. 19, 1892.
NO. 42
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ONE OF LIFE'S
LESSONS.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
Mr. Copperedge bad just come
from tbe post-office, plunging
throagh the snow-drifts like aPolar
bear and setting frost and cold at
deliberate defiance. For, cat in
those bleak Massachusetts Lilis no
nniforraed postman came, nobody
knew how many times a day, with
letter bag and whistle. If people
wanted their mails at Copper edge
Farm, they had to go after them.
Mrs. Copperedge was hustling
around the bright kitchen, busied
iu gettiug tea readya savory meal
that meant hot wades, honey, cold
roast pork and quince jam. Mr
Copperedge prided herself on her
abilities as a housekeeper. All day
long she had been dying carpet rags
for a masterpiece of a carpet, which
she was meditating a wedding
present to her daughter, Melinda
Ann, who was soon to be married
to a well-to-do young farmer ut the
neighborhood and now she came
into the room jast in time to hear
the contents of her hnsband's let
ters. "What I" said Mrs. Copperedge,
"your mother coming to live with
us T Copperedge, 1 never shall con
sent to that, in the world Iv
Mrs Copperedge sat serenely gaz
ing into the fire, apparently quite
undisturbed by tnis expression of
hia wife's sentiments.
"Why not ?" said he.
u Wby not?' shrilly echoed his
wife. "That's a man's question al
over. Do I look like a person to be
domineered over and dictated to, by
a mother-in law T1
No," said her husband, compos
edly, "I can't say vou do, Phoebe
Jaue, But my mother don't want
to domineer and dictate so there's
a pair of you I"
"No, tbere ain't 1" 8aid the lady,
"And there never will be, what's
more I"
"I think," said Mr. Copperedge,
reflectively, "che would like the
South room jn the wing. You don't
use it for anything now."
"And where am 1 to keep my
feather-beds and spare pillows 1"
indignantly demanded his wife.
"Tbe south room is the one of all
others that I can't spare."
"The west chamber, then ?' sug
gested the farmer.
"I'm calculating to keep summer
boarders in that, next season," said
Mrsr Copperedge, with compressed
lips,
"Tbe little settin'-rooai, out of tbe
big parlor?"
That's tbe room I always use
when I quilt or weave,'7 declared
Mrs. Copperedge.
The old man glaaced shrewdly at
his wife.
"I guess, Pbcebe Jane," said be,
'the trouble is there ain't no room
for my mother in your heart. II
tbere was free quarters there, there
wouldn't be no trouble in finding
room in the old farmhouse I"
"You may as well write to her
that she can't come," said Phoebe
Jane. "She's got other children.
Let ber go to them."
And she bustled out of the room,
while her better-half still sat before
tbe fire, without a muscle of bis
face stirring or becoming relaxed.
"He has got such an obstinate
streak through him," said she to
herself. "But I guess what I've
said will mike some impression ou
him. One thing I know : I'll have
uo peeping, prying, meddling old
mothei-iu.Uw about this house ! '
But as Mrs. Copperedge sat down
to her patchwork that evening, a
curious recollection, balf painful,
half pleasurable, ot her own good
old mother, who had died twenty
odd y ears ago, shot across ber mem
ory. She had Lever seen thismoih
r of her husband's, Copperedge
was not a man to be commuuicative
ou the subject of his own family re
lations, but she kuew that be both
loved and honored this venerable
old matron.
But, tor all that, I think I am
right," said Mrs. Copperedge to
herself, "I always said I wouldn't
tolerate a mother-in-law ; and J
won't
While her huabaud sat opposite
her, calmly reading tbe paper, and
from the adjoiniog ''oest parlor,''
where a fire had beeu kindled, tbe
voices of Melinda Ann and her
swaiD, Mr. Rufns Hodgnian, could
ever and anon be beard.
"Want to hear tbe President's
Message I ' said Mr. Copperedge at
last. "l'il read it aloud it you're
any ways curious."
"Jast let me run upstairs first and
get a bag ot pieces," said Mrs. Cop
peredge. (T'm clean out of these
turkeyred blocks.''
So while her husband trimmed tbe
lamp and adjusted his spectacles,
sbe hurried, in the dark, up into the
b-edroom above the best parlor,
where she kept her treasures of caI-
ica and cambric iu a bureau drawer
Iu tbe floor there was a Btove-pipe
hole, stuffed full of waste paper,
communicating with the zoom be.
low, which had been unused for
some time, and without tbe slight
est idea of eavesdropping or any
other surreptitious practice she
plainly heard the tones of Melinda
Aon, iu the room below Melinda
Ann, who evidently bad not studied
tnat especial feature of "Shakes
peare," which commends a "low
voice" as beiug a most excellent pos
session of womankind, and who gen
erally pitched her accents on high
G.
"And then," said Melinda Ano,"lf
anything should happen to pa and
we're all mortal, you kuow, Kufua "
"Yes," blandly assented her suit
or, "we're ail mortal."
"Then ma could come home and
live with us," said Melinda Ann;
"and the little red room would be
tbe very one for ber, and "
"No you don't 1" said Mr. Bodg
man. "Eb 1" said Melmda .Ann.
JTo motheriulaw for me V1 said
the young man, with eaphasis. "No
if 1 know it ! That's a kind of artis
cte I don't care to have about my
house P
"B-bDt," said Melinda Ann,scarce
!y willing to believe ber own ears
"she's my mother "
"Exactly," said flodgman, uacd
she'-s all very well in ber place. But
her place ain't my place, he 1 he!
he!"
Mrs. Copperedge stood bolt up
right beside tbe treacherous stove
pipe hole, while the expression of
her countenance would have been a
Mtudy for Hogarth himself. How
inefiably coarse aud heartless had
this common formula on the subject
of motbers-in-law seemed to ber!
How devoid of all logic and common
f.ense ! As if she, the guardian of
Uelinda Ann's infancy, tbe loving
custodian of her riper years, were
not the truest and most valuable
friend she could ever have I And
was she to be shut out from all com
panionship with her own child, be
cause, forsootn, people chose to
laugh and niieer about mothers-in.
law I HodgmaD seemed a brute, a
fool j Melinda Ann was strangely
lacking in duty and principle ever
to allow him to speak in such a
fashion as this I
And then, with ligbtning-like ra
pidity, it flashed across ber mind
what she herself had said to ber
husband that very evening upon
that identical subject.
"It's a judgment upon me, so it
l !" said Mrs. Copperedge, bursting
into tbe first real genuine tears that
she had shed for a year.
Sbe went straight down stairs.
"Copperedge," said sbe, "I'm
wrong."
Mr.C -pperedge looked up in grave
kindly suipriae.
"About your motber," explained
Mrs. Copperedge. "Sbe shall come
heie, and welcome, any time she
pleases. And I'll try aud be a daugh
ter to her."
' Phoe je Jaue," said Mr. Copper
edge, "I always knew you bad a
good heart. And I don't believe
you'll ever regret what you're say
ing now."
Grandma Copperedge came the
next spring a sweet, saintly-faced
old lady, who was like a household
angel at ttie hearthstone, and who
regarded ber son's wife as little less
than" perfect Aud Melinda Ann
married Mr. liodginan aud went
away, and neither brid nor groom
erer mistrusted that Mrs. Copper
edge ind beard the hitter's opinion
of mothers-tiU'law.
"Tbe Lord knew that I needed a
lesson," said Mrs. Copperedge. "And
I thiot that's tbe way He chose to
give it to me ! '
Mills ou Hill.
At the reception of the Reform
Club last night, Koger Q. Mdls,
member ot Cougrens from Texas,
was the guest. There was a large
gathering in the club- hous?, and
Mr. Mills was introduced by E El
lery Audersori, President of tbe
Clut, Iu response to the greeting,
Mr, Mill, on the subject ot tariff
reform, spoke iu part as follows:
Pel hap there has been no time
for a number of years when it was
more necessary for us to work
work steadily, zealouslj', aud per
sisteutly than at tbe present time,
Tbe cause which we all have so
much at heart, from some reason
not necessary for me to mention, has
received a check. The minds of
many of our people are wavering.
Our columns that were marching,as
it were, to victory, s-em to have
halted somewhere. They seem to be
staggering; and a great body of the
army of tariff reformers are anxious
ly inquiring, What is the matter
Why are we in this condition f Some
ot onr leaders sav, in order to try to
reassure tbe connMciue of the peo
ple, that we r not gi "g to take
any step backward.
To take no step backwaid does
not satisfy the people. To take uo
step backward may be to stand still.
To stand still is to stagnate and to
stagnate is to die. Motion is the
law of life. We must either advance
or ietreat. If wo retreat our troops
become demoralized, our army is
lost; and the enemy captures us bag
aud baggage. We mast advance.
Another distinguished leader of
our party says that we must retreat
go back to the tariff of 1833 and
accept that as the final settlement
of all that we desire. He forgets
that tbe tariff act of 1883 received
a! most the solid condemnation of ev
ery Democratic voter in the Hoie
of Representative aud the Senate
when it was passed. He forgets that
since 1883 a Democratic House, un
der tliH leadership ot Wiiliam R.
Morrison, made two bills to repeal
that Tariff Act and substitute a bet
ter in its stead. He forgers that for
t?ae long years that intervened tbe
Democratic party have denounced
that act and branded it as a coun
terfeit to the people of tbe United
States. He forgets that the Demo
cratic President, and the only one
that we have had for thirty years,
arraigned that tariff bill before the
bar of Congress and tbe country.
He forgets that a Democratic
Honse of Representatives passed a
bill to modify that and make it a
better bill than it was, aud tht a
Democratic National Convention
endorsed that measure and that a
majority of the people of tbe United
States at the pells have condemned
tbe bill. The man who says that
we have got to accept the high pro
tective Republican tariff of 1883 as
a Democratic measure has lingered
too long in tbe rear, among the
camp followers, deserters and sut
lers. No, gentlemen. We dont iuteud
to retrea We dont intend to stand
still one single moment. We dont
intend to go back one single incb.
We are for war ruthless, eternal,
uncompromising war with wrong
not war with Chili, No. We dont
intend to cry havoc and let slip the
dogs ot war on the little ewe lamb
that was born witbin our fold. Those
little democracies thit have arisen
upon the American hemisphere were
oalled into existence inspired by the
example of the Government of the
United States, They have been
struggling alter u?, to follow in our
footsteps and rise to enjoy a higher
civilization nnder the protecting aim
and protecting power ol the people
of tbe United States. Vhenalien
ation shall occur we say there shall
be no war until lime shall have bad
opportunity to hral tbe wounds,
soothe the distempers, and give rea
Bon an opportunity to .asseit itself.
A ISI1I to Irupone a Uraduaied
lucerne Taj.
Mr. Williams, of North Carolina,
introduced the following bill :
Wiiebeas, Tbe farmers and la
boring classes ot our country have
been paying an unjust and unequal
taxattou, imposed upon them by
tbe Government, and are demandiug
of their Representatives in Congress
some measure of relief : and where
as, taxes for suppott of the Gov
ernment should be imposed upon tbo
c tizens of the United States tV.iriy
and justly, so that all should bear
the burden of taxation in proportion
to their ability to pay, with tbe
equal aud exact justice to all and
special privileges tt uone; therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Un ited
States of America m Congress assem
bled, That every person, tiriu, es
tate, or corporation residing or
domiciled iu the Uuited States
whoso annual income shall be live
thousand a year and upward, des
rived from any ource whatever,
shall be assessed aud required to
pay income tax j-s follows, tbe same
to be collected by tbe collectors of
internal revenue, and paid annually
into the treasury of tbe United
States, to-wit: On five tbousaud
dollars up to ten thousand dollars,
one per centum of said income ; ten
thousand dollars to twentyfhe
thousand dollars, two per centum
of said income ; i went vlive tbous
aud dollars to fifty ihousaud dollars,
three per centum of said income ;
fifty thousand dollars to seventy
thousand dollars, five per centum
of said income; seventy-five thous
aud dollars to one hundred thousand
dollars, six per centum of said in
come ; one hundred thousand dol
lars to two hundred thousand doU
lars, eight per ceutum of said in
come ; and all over two hundred
thousand dollars, ten per centum of
said income.
SEC, 2. That tbe tax herein be
fore provided for shall be assessed
annually upou said income for tbe
year ending ou the thirtieth day ot
June, and shall bo levied annualh
on the first day of August in each
ai;d every year, and be due any pay
able on or before the first day of
November iu each year ; and iu ad
dition to any sum annually due and
unpaid after the first of November,
and for tea days after notice aud
df maud thereof by tbo collector
there shall be lev;ed and collected
a penalty the sum of five per cen
um on the amount unpaid, and in.
terest ou said amount at the rate of
ote per centum per month for the
time tbe same became due, except
froiU the estates uf deceased or in
sane persons.
SeC. 3' Tnat tbe Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, with the ap
pioval of the Secretary of the
Treasury, shall from time to time
as he may deem it necessary, lusue
regulaticns for the assessment and
ccheetiou of the taxe hereby im
posed, and for b? crrjiog into efi
test the provisions of this act.
lVljy Women May I'ropose.
Colin Sbacklelord said ; "Some
one asked me the other day what
was the origin of women proposing
marriage during a leap year. Hooks
ed it up, and while it may not be
new to all I dare say it will interest
many. In the year 1288 a statute
was published by the Scotch parlia'
ment, of which the following is a
copy, and is, to my mind, the origin
of the custom or idea. I do not
know that it is a custom or ever
was :
" 'It is ordaint that during the
reign of Her Malat Blessit Majestie
Margaret, like maiden, ladee of baith
high and low estate, shall hae liber
ty to speak to tbe man ebe likes.
Gif be refuses to take ber to be his
wf, he shale be mulct in the sum
of ane hundredity pounds or less, as
his estait may bee, except an alwais
gif be can make it appear that he is
betrothit to another weman, then
be shall be lree.'
"After the dear old Margaret had
passed away tbe women became
clamorous tor their privileges, and
to appease them another act of par
liament allowed tbera the privilege
every foarth year." Chicago Tribune.
A Doubtful Outlook.
There is no doubt, we take it, of a
ginuineand wide-spread hostility
to Mr. Cleveland in North Carolina
among two formidable classes the
Alliance and the office seckers.That
this state will go against the great
statesmau and honest man is we
tuink certain. That not more than
three Southern States will send an
titCleveland delegations is perhaps
assured. That Hill will not have a
single Northern delegation outside
ot New York is sure wo may Itelieve.
That he will not get the nomination
is perhaps as certain as anything
can be that lies in the future ot pob
itics. That Mr. Clevi'lui.d may not
be nominated u p:obi!ility. With.
New York against bun, ilh Virgin"
ia, perhaps, ;utd Noi in CuioIh a cer
tainly against him, it is injudicious
to put tbe illustrious aud true Demi
ocrat before tbe people to be knifed.
What then 1 When tbo Convene
tion assembles and it is apparent
that Mr. Cleveland can not be nom
nated then it will be wise if all his
iriends to a man vote for some West
tern man for Vilas or Campbell or
Boies, or some true and honorable
Democrat who can command tbe
CDutidence and unite the whole
strength of the Democracy.
It is apparent that Mr. Cleveland
will not be able to do this, and we
profoundly regret to have to believe
it. It is much mo:e apparent that
Senator Hill will never nnile the
Di!mocra;y of either North or South.
U'8 personal and official tecord if
undeistood, as it will be If he is
nominated, will drive from his sop
pott a half million of voters. I you
would learn something ot bin official
record send two cents to the New
York Evening PosU a very able and
hi ih toned Independent newspaper,
and get the little pamphlet showing
up Hilld conduct as a politician and
official.
The Democrats will have all ibey
caa do to elect any man. They
must take a man of unblemished p
litical tecord or they will dtive II
all t he Independents, and tbe IVorld,
a liiil paper, admits that there are
100,000 in New York State alouf ,
aui silence Democrats by the thou
sands. Hill wjil not begin to do.
Cleveland will nut do if he cannot
carry the South. He may be elect
ed without New Yoik but he must
have the "solid South." We feel
sure if be is nominated that the Hill
gang in New York will knite him
and give tbe State to Harrison.
Wil. Messenger.
What Woman Can Do.
She cau corn? to a conclusion, and
generally a good one, wiihrmt tbe
slightest trouble of reasouiug oo it ;
an 1 no sane man can uo lli-v.
Six of tbetn can talk at once and
get aloug first rate, aud no two
meu can do that.
Sbe can safely st:ck fifty ping in
ber d es while he is getting ooe
under nis thumb nail.
Sbe is cool as a cncumber in naif
aciozentigbt dresses and skirts,
while a mau will sveit and mme
aud growl iu one looe shirt.
Sbe cau talk as sweet as peaches
and cream to tbe woman sbe hates,
while two men would be punching
each other's beads before they had
exchanged ten word 3.
She can throw a stone with a
curve that would be a fortune to
a base ball pitcher.
Sbe can say "no" in such a low
voice that it meaus "yes."
She cau sharpen a lead pencil, if
you give her plenty of time and
plenty of pencils.
Sbe can dance all night in a pair
of shoes two sizes too small for her,
and enjoy every minute of the time.
She can appreciate a kiss from
her husband 75 years after tbe mar
rlaga ceremony is performed.
She can walk half the night with
a colicy baby in her arms without
once expressing tbe desire of mur
dering the infant.
She can drive a big burly tramp
out of the back yard with a broom
stick, and can run from the cellar
to the carret to get away from a
mouse.
She cau do more in a minute in
many ways thai a man can in an
hour, and do it better. Ex