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fI V till . :.;iU.!iril iitciiit .K! S! .-J,H!H VOL. VI. Professional Cards. PHYSICIAN AND SUKGEON, Oildta hh professional serviceto .he citizens of Lincolnton and surroun ' ding councry. Oinco at his resN dence adjoining Lincoln ton Hotel. All calls promptly attended to. Auc. 7, 1891 iv j7W7sxin7m7d Has located at Lincolnton and of fers his ser vices as physician to tin citizens ot Lincolnton and surround ing country. Will be tound at night at the res idence of B. O. Wood March 27, 1S91 ly Bartlett Shipp, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LINOOLNTON, N. C. Jan. 9, lfeOl. ly. Finley & Wetmore, A1TYS. AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. O. Will practice i'ji Lincoln and surrounding counties. , All business put into our bands will be promptly atten ded to. Aurii 16, IS'JO. ly. Dr. W. A. PRESSLEY, SUUGEON DENTIST. liOCK uill, a- c. Will spend t tie WEEK BEGINNING WITH TUE 1ST MONDAY Ol EACH MONTH at cilice in Linco'nton. Those needing Dental sei vices are it quested to make arrangement by correspondence. Sctisfaction guar anteed. Terms CASH. July 11, 1800. ly t,lj$lc$fflMlcr DENTKS V. LINCOLNTON, N. C. Cocaine ued for painless ex tracting teeth. With thirty years experience. Satisfaction jivenin all operations' Terms w-ash ami moderate. Jan 23 'Jrt lv BAUBEK SHOP. Newly fitted, up. .Work aways neatly dona, Customers politely waited upou. Everything pertain iug to the tousorial art is done according to latest styles. -." IIeNRY TAYLoB,'13arber. J. D.'MaoE, President. No. 4377. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF GAST0NIA, N. C. Capital Surplus Average Deposits. . . . COMMENCED BUSINESS AUGUSTl, 1890. t K Solicits Accounts of Individuals, Firms and Corporations. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Guaruutccs lo Patrous Every Accommodation Consistent wHlifJoiiserYaiive Baulking. BANKING HOURS 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. Dec 11 '91 for Infants 'CattrU k M well Uptd to childrra tht t rwommend it ac ruperior to tuxj precripUoa known to toe." IL A. Abotxk, M. D., Ill So. Oxford Si, Brdoiin, N. T. 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The best salve in the world for Cuts bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever erts, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, orns,and all skin eruptions, and positive ly cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give pertect satisfaction, or money refunded. Pnce 25c. per box. For sale by Dr. J. M. Lawing, Druggist' SPECIMEN CASES. C. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was troubled with neuralgia and rheumatism nis stomach was disordered, his liver was affected t an alarm'ng degree, appetite fell away, and he was terribly reduced in llesh and strength. Three bottles of elec tiic bitters cured him. Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, 111. had running sore on his leg ot eight years' .standing Used three bottles of Electric bitters aad seven boxes of Bucklea's ami a salve, and Lis leg is ?ound and well, .loh.i Speaker, Catawba, O., had five large lever sores on his leg, doctors said he was jm jrable. One bottle ot electric bitters and cue box of Buclen's Arnica Salve c ured him entirely. Sold at J. Lawing's I -Vugstore. Engiiah Spavin Liniment removes all hard, soft or calloused lumps' and blemish es h omhorsfej, blood spavins, curbs, splints svyeeney, ring-bone, stifles, sprains, all swollen throats, co jgbs etc. Save $50 by use of ne bottle Warranted the rrost wonderlul blemish cure ever known. Sold by J. M. Lawing Druggist Lincolnton N C Itch on human and Horses and all ani mals cured in 30 minutes by Woolfords Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sole by J M. Lawing Druggist Lincolnton. N C. Subscribe tor the (JOURIBE. L. L. Jenkins, Cashier. i si . $50,000 . . . 2,750 ... 40,000 and Children. CastorU enres Oelic, Oonatfpation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Killa Worms, gies sleep, and promotes di- Without injurious medication. for several years I have recommended your ' Castoria, 1 and shall always continne to do so as it has inrariably produced beneficial MUlts." Edwin F. Pardkb. M. D., The Winthrop," 125th Street and 7th Ave., New Tork City. Coktaxt, 77 MvaAT Strket, New York. LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, EMMA ABBOTT- LWe aio glad to credit this ititen sel intonating; sketch of Llmnia Abbot to Eli TerkniH iu K. Y. Suu. Editor Household J One day there lauded in the depot of Peoria, Illinois, a poor music eeeher, with a sick wife and half a dozen children. The eldest of these was little Kami a, biiuimiu over with life and laughter and snatches of song. From her early infancy the little child bad taken au intense delight iu muaic. A feong or an orau u the street would draw the little thing hungry from the table. At t'ae age of six little Eaima was con stantly singing about the houe, catching every tune alio beard her fatner play i aud at nine yeaia old, to the surprise of everybody, the be gau to play the guitar herself. She p'ayed so sweetly and skilfully, and created so much talk among tbri neighbors, that the father thought he would better his circumstance s by biiuging her out, vith her iittie brother George, in a concert in Peo ria, Illinois, where they were then living. The night came. The little thing? not much taller than her guitar, amazed and delighted the audieuce. Her debut was ao successful that her father resolve ! to take her on a conceit tour. Tuis he did, aud the child singer appeared hundred of times before delighted country au diences, before t-he was tbiiteeu years old. While in her thirteenth year, lit tle Emma waa invited to visit some school friends near Peoria. Know iug the poverty of her lather, and wishing to surprise him with money eained entirely by herself, she re .-olved to get up a concert 'og her own hook' She went to the pnntiug-ofiice in short dresses, got trusted for her on haudi-bills, and posted theoi arouud town herself. On one of these hand-bills, new before me, is printed : "Miss Abbott will sing 'The Merry Swiss Girl,' a chorus I'1 The little thing didn't know what a chorus meant, but it looked n c aud so she had it put on the bill. She drew quite a house, took in ten dollars and took seven dollars home to her motber. Her laiher now becoming sick and dicouragckl, little Emma went down to Lincoln, saug iu a school house, and then came home to give guitar lessoua for tweuty cents per lesson to pay her own tuition in . a select school. At fifteen Emma secured a class of twenty poor children, who came to recite at her mother's house On Sunday sbe sang in the Hebrew syuagogue.a kind old rabbi,' Marx Moses, teaching he to pronounce in Hebrew and German. The spiing of her sixteenth birth, day found Emma's father poorer than ever before, and the little woiuau, to help her mother, tiied to secure a clerkship iu a store, but failed. Sbe saw her father sick aud discouraged, her mother sick aud her brothers aud sisters hungiy. Iu the midst of her distress she heard of a school, nine miles from Peoiia, which needed a teacber. Thither she went on foot, through the mud and slush. She found the piiucipal trustee, a kin J old man it diuuer. "What do you want, my little woman ?" asked the old farmer, a he laid down his Knife and fork to stiiv our hills heroine. ; "I hven Prona, sir, and I've walUrd' "Whai ! walked child f w-a Lk er!" iritorTuptr d the old mn in asti:uisLmeut. 'Yes, Mr; :ud I wnut t teach cur fctsool.' Well, I declare! Bat my child, there aie fiffeeii applications in ahead of yours.' :I don't think any of them need it s bad as I do,7 said Emma. 'No and . you aie the smartestM loi-kih' one in the whole lot, and as lucky asJulius Ca-f r. Have .your certificate!' No, sir,' faltered Emma- 'Well, my girl, if you've walked nine miles through this mud and slu-li, you'll do to teach the scho )l for 'em S.t up and have soin dinner!' Etuaa comniwiieed the school the next week wou the respect of pareuto ; aud the love of the children, and in lour months took forty dollars back to her mother in Peoria Alter school closed, EmiiiF, as aisled by her father, gave her first large concert in Peoria. House Hall was tilled, t he people cheered, and her poor mother and father re ceived $100. Thia was all used except S3- Wish, this small sum cbe left her father sick at home aud started for Kock Island to visit a young lady friend who thought she might get up a concert there. She found her friend absent and her money dwindled to twenty cents. 'What sball I do?' sbe asked l er-i self, almost disheartened. Then a new thought her. She remembered'her father had once taught music iu a family nam ed Deer, wbo lived across the Mis sjssipri, in Moline 'Mr. Deer will will surely help me,' he said 'and I will get up a concert there.' Ten cents took Emma ao Alolioe, but Mr. Deer was abseut. Mrs. Deer looked iuciuualingly at Emma and said, I don't know what a. pretty young woman like you wants of my husband, guess be aiut got no time to fool away getting op conceits.' Just then Emma spied tbe piano aud asked if she she might play something- Iu a moment she was war'jliug a sweet song. The old womau listented, then dropped her dishes, wiped her bauds on her apron, and came and looked over her glasses in astonishment. Just theu Mr Deer eutered. 'By Jove, Matilda! that' a nice smgiu',' he exclaimed. ho's do in it?' " ,My name is Emma Emma Ab bott, sir. My faiher used to teach' 'Yes, yes ! I remember Mr. Ab bott, but what are you doiu' here ' What' 'Pa and ma are very poor now, and I came to see if youui help me get up a concert.' 'Help yon I Why of course I wlt ! You shall have our church. You're a brave girl, aad we'll get you up a big house.' Aud she did have it. She got her bills priuted, went around peiv soually and anuoanced the coucert in schools, and the house was crowded. 'It was a very warm night Mr. Pel klus,' said Miss Abbott, when she laughingly told me the story; 'so hot that my guitar was out of tune, and the strings broke six times during the evening. When I meuded them, the audience laughed aud cheered me. They called rue back a dozen times, and when I got through they wauted me to repeat the next night.' The nest night Miss Abbott pang again, and at the end ot a week she returned to Peoria with sixty dol lars in cash. When she showed her money her astonished mother held up her bauds, and, with joy and sadness in stiange combination ex claimed, 'Ob, Emma ! 1 hope you haven't been robbiug somebody ! Emma was now m her seventeenth year. She saw ber lather and mother getting poorer every day. She knew sbe had talents, but sbe bad no oue to bring them out. Her father was too feeble to help her. So sbe started on a concert tour through Illinois all alone,' accom panied by her faithful guitar. Ar riving at a town, ; she would an nounce her concert in schools, often with success, sometimes without, but alway hopefully. she always sent, nome all the money she tl;d not need to use. ' At Jol'et a Chicago opera troupe came np behind her, saw her bills, aud heard such praises from the people that they engaged her to slirg with them " for' seventy-fire j nights through Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, Where the troupe broke up and left her out of money. ' The next town was Grand Haven- Pe'ii'uiiessVand two hundred miles away from home, she determined to give one more concert alone, and NOV. 11, 1892. raise money ei.oub to lake her home. Poor, friendless and dis c mraged, it was to be her lat ef fort. The audience came late, aud among them was a kind-hear! ed railroad mau who listened with en thusiasm. "My child, you have the voice of au angel !" ho said. "You must go to New York.' 'But I have no money.' 'I will give yon a pass to Detroit. Fiom there you can sing through Canada to the Falls, and some way gei to New York. Trust iu Provi dence, and go and see Parepa. She's in New York. Sbe'i! help you.' With thanks lor advice, and san guine with hope, she landed tbe uext day in Detroit, and then cross ed over to Canada. Contrary to hr expectation, she found Canada a poor place for her. Many times sbe walked hungry irorn place to place, aud once, to raise money, she Gilt off her hair and sold it. Once she froze her feer aud sang while they ached with tbe intense pain which follows. The applause of the audieuce and her love for music overcame hunger sorrow tnd even the pains of frozen feet. Her one intense desire was to gat to New Yoik aud see Parepa. Ou she was wafted toward tbe big city. At Lyons, in Wayne Couuty, her mouey gave out, and she stopped to siug in a school bouse. All day shw went without lood. Sbe actual ly sang when faint and hungry. With the roceeds she bought a supper and went on her way. After two weeks of singing and hoping anil struggling, Miss Abbott finally arrived in New Yoik, alone and iu the night. Tbe uext night sbe paid her last Mouey for an op era ticket, but, to her great disap pointrneut, Parepa did not siDg. She finally beard Parepa at Stein, way Hall, but never succeeded in meeting her tace to fa e. Failing to interest any one in her welfare in New York, aud anxious about her father aud mother, Miss Abbott resolved to return to the West. What could she do ? She was out of money, with no ftieud except her sweet birdlife voice. Many a time her voice had saved her from want before. It bad opened stouy hearts. So, bonowiug fifteen dollars from a lady in the bote', our little wauderer started foi the West. Her money took her to Monroe, Michigan, where she hazarded ev erytbiug iu advertising three con certs. The nk'hts were stormy, and she lost all her money. She could not pay her hotel bill, and tbe landlord held her guitar. With tears in her eyes she left and went to tbe next town, where she sang iu an icecream salooui making money euough to go back aud redeem her guitar. This was one ot tne most dismal episodes of Miss Abbot's life. So discouraged was she that when a theatiioil troupe ctme along sho was glad to joiu it for seent nights, to sing in Iowa, Kansau, and even out among the Nebraska In diaos, sending the proceeds to her mother. After the close of tbis engagement, success and failure followed each j other for a time alternately, and the ! pittances she was able to send home J were so smalt that she almost gave I up in uispair. j '1 will go to Toledo,' s'ie said, 'make one more ii rt, and trtist in Providence tor the rest.' Arriving at Toledo she advertised to sing iu tbe parlor of tbe Olivei Houu Fate was agaioot her. The small an hei ce, though enthusiastic, did u t pay expenses, but the ebtv rtlrv landlord refused to take her gutar. :No sir,' said he, forgetting that be was addressing a young lady. 'George Brown aih'f goiug to take no young ladj's guitar, and more'n that you can' stay an' try it again.' Things now looked dismal en- 0ugh . Her splendid courage began j to gU e out. Behind her she saw i nothing but a three years' struggle j with poverty. The future locked j af black as midnight, j 'he kindness of George Brown 'brought tears to her eyes, but alter U came dreadiul thought ot sui cide. The idea of failure in tbe scheme of her I'fe was dieadlnl that day little Emma went with a bursting heart and looked eft the great Toledo into the dark water, j Then ehe turned away. Hope was gone, oat ner iove lor ner moiner saved her. Returning to the Oliver House 'le oaugnt a glimpse of Clara Lou- glimpse ise Kellogg, then in the zenith of her fame, but in a moment pbe was gone, disappearing iu the Oliver Houje, Folio wiug atter, Utile Em. ma eucountered Miss Keltog's maid. 'Oh, I do want to see Miss Kel logg so inuch !' she exclaimed to Petrilla. 'Oh, can't I see her?' 'She's just none to dinner with her mother, but ili be out iu a mo ment.' auswered the maid. 'I'm Miss Abbott,' said little Em ma, half frightened, as, a little later, j Mi Kellofg reappeared, 'and I do wish to see ou .-o much !' 'Never mind, come in. What can I ilo for you V asked the kiiid-beait-1 ed Miss Kellogg. I want yon .o try my voice, I do think 1 cau sing, and if you only say so, I shall be snie,' said Eunua, looking up pleadingly with her clear blue eyes. 'Why, ceartainly, my child,' said Miss Kellogg's mother, wbo got up and opened (he piano; but seeing little Emma's shabby dress aud wild, sad look, sbe he'd up her bands aud exclaimed, 'Why, Louise ! Where has this poor child been wandering V In a moment Miss Abbott was singing one of her beautiful ballad, lull of native sweetness aud pathos As her witching voice touched those high, clear notes which have siuce astonished the kings aud princes of Europe, Miss Kellogg's mother sat in mute wonder, seeming to feat on the clear, sweet strains; then she burst out enthusiastically : 'Louise ! Louise ! Do you hear that voice f How clear 1 No break there,' That night Miss Kellogg kindly gave Miss Abiott a letter to Er- rani, a singing teacher in New York aud money enough to pursue her studies for two years. With tears in her eyes Emma thanked her benefactor, the singing angel sent by the Lord fo lead her out of captivity, . Then she weut to New York. A home at Dr. Elder's two yeaia with Errani, and an engagement to siug in Dr. Chapiu's Fifth Avenue church in 1,500 per year followed. One day (March 1, 1872), a ricn business man, with a big beaat, Mr. John T. Daly, sat down in his oflice and wroie a note to Miss .A hi o't. II,. Ml h.rW nw.nl. I. M ailmii aA her talent and lesneeted her liluck. lafid that il te wir-hed to go to Uilan jand study he would fuinih Lei the I money. 'I want to go,' said Miss Abbot, 'when the writer talked with her, j ber eyes beaming with gratitude. 'It is the hope ot my lite, Mr. Per kins, but I do not wish to receive.so much from one person. . Jf the whole congregation will, interest themselves in me, bow gladly I will I go. ! 'Very wel'.. said a leading member, Mis. George Lake, on ; the morning of March 20th, '1 will give l,00O ! toward it,., Then Mis. George Hoff mon gave 500, Mr. C P. Hunting too, 500, Mr. J. Q. Koy.r, 500, Mr. E. A. Wetherill, ."00, Mr.. A. J Johnson, $200, s.ome others, $100 apiece, and. Mr. Dal m-ide. up.tke rest, all payable to Mr. D.,T. Mar i shall. . j On Saturday morning, Jay 20th, 1372, a great crod of fiiends, with bouquets and benedictions, through ed .ibe steamer City of Pait, jo bid Godspeed to Mis Emma A , Abbott ou her journey ai ios tie Atlantic to ilau. . Lamperti, of .W.Ian, pronouined Mia Abbott a vocal maifei. Na'a, to whom Beutler recsmmended hi r after hearing her siug from '.Wig- noil,' said, 'You must quit the nun sic of Ambrose Thomas zud take the yraud scores of the masters.. San Giovanni finally became -iiss Abbott's teacher. Losing her health, she took a trip to the Mediterranean, and back to NO. 28. Pans, where one day he was iu -vittd to the palace of the Koths- childs by the Baroness, wbo was so 'enraptured with her voice that she embraced her and became au intu mate friend. The celebrated' masters who Uuf,ht Lpr and jeartl hpr ainc while aboard variously prccdited that she ! 'would vat, havo the world . at her j . " nM w without a livalin L, , v . tbe World when finished, and that her voiced 'pure, sweet, limpid, pow erful,' would draw like Jenny Lind's, All Vat in voon became enthusiasm tic over the wondetirig 'thild from Peona. Adelina Patti luvlled her to her" villa, 'abd a hen 1 she ' sa'ng folded Emma iu her aims and said! 'I love you because you love vur ;r, aud i see you will become great.' After so u,u h rcoutag rnent .1iss Abbott's hep s wile grently dmn by a Umpo.a ,OMonier Ua friei,8 ww raiaed np to her iu ihis eme geuey to the little looiie singer, nt.d this time the tUion bs liothchild was her bi ne f actress. Thrre-'was alovir. also, Wetherill, a New York druggist, aud a mem bcr of Dr. Chapm's church, wbo, beared of her sad pbght, croesed the ocean aud insisted upon inar r age, But the thrushes in her thrpat were not long silent,, and Jit-s Ab bott prepared to keep her eiigagc meiit for a sea sou iu 'Loudon with Impiessario Gye. This engage in nt was broken by her refusing upou moral grounds, to l ersonate Ciuiille iu La Traviata, Her frieuds m New York ap" pl.tuded her warmly lor tbis, and 'the child of Dr. Chapins's church re eived au enthusiastic welcome home. Her first appeareuces in Now York during Febuary, 1S77, are de scribed as sot ill suece-s s and at titic failures, but her many friend and the press covered with cheers and plaudits any public setit-o of disappointment, aud launched the little singer bravely forth upon a career which season after' season was steadily pursued, growing more aud more successful up lo tin; tune ot her tleat b. She wh etery wheio attended by her own English opeia company, her hub iud feting manager until bis death two years beioio hei own. The membeis of Miss Ahbolt's cojupany were deeply attached to tier, and wnre like one large family, tbeir birthdays being j alwas brightened with some pleasant souven'. Miss Abbott's fortune, actumulat ed by ranging,' was ' variously esti j mated at from oueibalf to oue-aud onehalf millions. She died m Salt Lake Jity,-ef pneumonia, during 18'Jl. Her, litueial was held iu Chicago and her remains were tern--porarily placed iu the Graced and Cemetary to hw ait cremation, u din oied by Ler will. This, will, alter 1 1. 1 ..ii i i .. .... ........ ..f t 1 Oei aU I J IJ V llll IJ g lut UHTUIWvla I Iw.r fjmilv li:isi'a thru lilllk lf lit r I . . . ' . . foitune to churches and charitable Jnstitntions. - Wakroretl Letter. Saturday morning, 22 inst., the spirit of Dr. A.'IJ. Vaim, Auditor and trustee to the'ftollege, took ila tirght o climes lighter, ' scenes brigLUr. In proaprity u adyer, , sity Dr. Vanu ev-t stood a friend to the College. His life was lull of years ; his days a blessing to mau. Wake Foiest Foot Ball Team met the fierce iCadela of the Virgiuia Military Institute Friuay.jJl inst . and the score stauds 12 to 12. Sat utday tbe uuUe 3one,of;oue of Vir- gima's most supetb - luitilutious lick the dust Jjefoie the dashing dV' termined dexterity ol.f'Or et noir". . The score Rtauds : Wake Foiet 1C Washington and :Lve, 0- A Uicb mond. Exchange jj.osiounces . tut ono of the liercfciL gaiuus ever play -ed oi a Virgfma bail ground. Mou day. Wake Forebl literaU. wiped ap the. ground ;tvith ,lhe. Kiefwoyod Cllege Team in forty liuou:. The score stands. 22 toj):iu f voi ot Vaki Fored, , , Ouj; ys retuuied thus afieruoou on the o o' Jock tram, still upholding th .-jiai daid of lor idci corarades still aJdjughjuu-Ls to i th.i . magnificent iecoid tf their !fcp!cndid Alma Matin. . . J Bah!, iwh! ,iah ! o Or, et uoir ; W hoopla I vive jal W. F, (' 1 M. Of Car tenter. For Malaria, Li er Trou ble, or Indigestion'., use BROWN'S IRON BITTERS j