7 C it, VOL. YJ. LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, DEO. 0, 1892. NO. 32. Professional Cards.' J. W.SAIN.M.D., Has located at Lineolnton and of fers bis services as physician to tho citizens ot Lineolnton and surround iug country. Will bo touud at night at the Lin coluton Hotel. March 17,-1S91 ly Bartlett Shipp, ATTOUXKY AT LAW, LINCOLN TON, N. C. Jan, 9, It'll. y. Finley & Wetmore, A'lTYS. AT LAW, LINC OLN I ON. N. !. Will practice in Lincoln and surrounding counties. All business put into our bands will be promptly atten ded to. Auril 18, J 8 JO. ly. Dr. W. A. PRESSLEY, S HUG EON DENTIST. hock hill, ,s. c;. Will spel'd I he "VVKKK IJ EG INNING WITH TIlK 1ST .MONDAY ot EACH MONTH lit office in Lincoluton. Those needing Dental services ait u quested to make arrangement by correspondence. Sotisfaction guar anteed. Terms cash. July 11, 1890. ly tH.lJllcMMler DENTIST. LINCOLNTON, N. C. Cocaine used for painless ex tracting teeth. With tiiirty years experience. Satisfaction iven in all operations Terms ash and moderate. Jan 23 '91 1v GO Tu BAUBEIl SHOP. Newly fitted up. Work aways neatly done, customers politely waited upon. Everything pertain ing to the tousorial ait is done accordiug to latest styles. HeNEY Taylok. Barber. English Spavin Liniuient removes all Lwd, soft or calloused lumps and blemish es from horses, blood spavins, curbs, splints sweeney, ring-bone, stifles, sprain, all swollen tbroati, coughs etc. Have $30 by use of one bottle Warranted the most wonderful blemiih cure ever known. Sold tyJ. M. Lawing DruggistLincolnton N C. I; -Su bsenho tor tbe Courier. J. D. Moore, President. No. 4377. FIRST N ATIONAL BANK OF GAST0NIA, N. C. Capital. Surplus Average Deposits. . . COMMENCED BUSINESS AUGUSTl, 1890. Solicits Accounts of Individuals, Firms and Corporations. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Guarantees 10 Patrons llverj- Accommodation Couslstent Willi Conservative Hanking. BARKING ROUHS 0 a. m. to 3 p. m. Dcc. 11 '91 for infants 'Caatrl k 00 wdl A&ptd to children thai t reoommend It 4 ruperior to nj prescripUoa feoro to me." II. A. Abcskx, M. D., Ill So. Oxford Gt, ErouUjn, N. Y. The use of ' Castoria is so universal and jt merits so well known that it 6cems a Work A supererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castori. wituin easy reach." Ca&los Marttk. D.D., New York City. Late Factor Blooming dale Reformed Church. Thk Csmtauk Bertha "Grandm is our teet Igood? Crnndmn "No, darling; I've got none now, unfortunately.'' Lici t ha "Then I'll give 00 my tints j to mind till I coico back. ' N. C- i Teacher. A MILLION FRIENDS. A frbnJ in need is h friend indeed, and not le than nnft million jieople hnve tnund !ust such a friend in Dr. K i rig's New Di eovery f..r -'.ii-um,tioa, Roughs ami (Adds. If you hiivo never used this (Jreat t)utb Mo.iicine, one trial will con vine you that it has wonderful curativ powers in H diseases of Throat.Chest, &od Lungs. Each bottle is guaranteed to do all that i claimed or money will be refunded. Tri.il bottler fre! at J M Lawin's Drug sto&e. Large bottles 50c. and $1.00 How lie Ciot "Up theud. Excellence is after all a matter of COti. pit! isoii. A boy 'if six .Vi'D'., who attends a private school, wheie prizes aio given on all sorts of pro vocation, but who as yet bad never earned a prize, canto bom one af teinoon and exhibited proudly tne of these rewards of merit. 'Good!" tt.tid h;a mother, "but how tl id jou get it i" "1 was first m natural history," said the hoy. "Natural history, at your age 1 liow did it happen ?'. ,Oh, they asked me how many legs a hoibe bad." "And what did ou bay ?" 'I said five." "But a horse hasn't five Itgs, child V "1 know it, but all the other fel lows yaid six.7' A'. (7. Teacher. DESERVING PRAISE. We desire to say to our citizens, that for years we have bee.t selling Dr, King's New discovery for Consumption, Dr. Kins New Liie Pills, Rucklen's Auncti Salve and Electric Bitters, and have nevev handled remedies that sell as well, or that have given such universal satisfaction. We do not hesitate to guarantee them every time, and we stand ready to refund the purchase price, if satisfactory reesults do not follow theii use. These remedies have wen their great popularity purely on their merits. At J.Al. Lawing's Physician and Pharmacist. BUCKLEN'3 ARNICA SALVE The best Salve in the world for cuts and bruises, sores, salt rheum, fever sores, tet cr, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and nil skin eruptions, and positively cures riles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refun i'd. price 25 cents per box. For sale by J M Lawins:, Pvhsician and Pharmacist Pay your suoscription to the Lin coln UOUEIEB. Ii. L. Jenkins, Cashier. . . $50,000 . ... 2,750 .... 40,000 and Children. Caatorla cores Colic, Constipation, Hour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di- Witftoat injurious medication. " For seTeral years I have recommended your ' Castoria, ' and shall always continue to do so as it baa invariably produced beneficial resuits." Edwin F. Pardki, M. D-, M Tll3 Winthrop," 135th Street and 7th Ave., New York City, Comfakt, 77 Murrat Strjxt, Km York. I'laLnt ol lltf! Diiiuiii) Ilcliior Would you ank us why this dunning ? Why these'sad complaint and muruiurs Murmnrs loud atut delinquents Who have read t!e paper weekly. Read what they have never paid for, Kfad with pleasure and with profit, 'e.td the essays and the pnems, Kull of wid iu and instruction , lltd th notes ot urient topics, Oarcfully complied and writf n Should you a.ik us why this dunning? We will answer, we will u-M u Prom the printer, lr-m the mailer, From the kind ld paper n.aker, Krom the landlord, from the 'devil." From the man who taxes letters With a stamp of Undo kSaiu Message kind but firmly spoken: "Pleaso t pay the bill you owe u." Sad it is to hear such message When our funds m e all x haunted ; When the last bank-not has ielt us ; When the red cent- all have vanished; one to pay the paper-niaker, Gone to pay the toiling printer, Gone to pay the Ian-' lord' tiibute, Gene to pay the derk and devil, Gone to pty the city tax'-s Gone to pay for beef and 'taters Gone to jay our faithful helpers. Sad it is to turn our ledger, Turn the leaves of this old lsdger, Tura to see what sums re due us, Due for volumes long since ended, Due for years of pleasant reading, Due lor years of anxious labor, Due despite our patient waiting, Due despite our eanstant dunning. Wonld you lift a burden lrom us? Would you drive a specter lrom you? Wonld you taste a pleasant slumber? Would you have a quiet conscience ? Would you read a paper paid for ? Send your over-due subscription, Send the money that you owe us. Exchange. FAITHFUL LOVE'S REWARD. BY AMELIA E. BARK. Under the shadow ot a great lig tree, a young girl sat in a deep rev. erie. Such a tender liut wa8 in her eyes, such a sweet smile of full sat isfaction on ber face, that a stranger would certainly have said: "She i thinking of her lover." But no lover bad Mabel Kae, aud her pleas ure sprang from a far less dangerous source from the handful of tube roses in her lap. Their spiritual, dream v beauty, and rare, lich per fume al ways held hor as in a spell of measureless content. To breathe their odor was to till her eoul with holy aud tender thoughts, aud the lovely waxen flowers, pale, pure and white as moonshine, haunted h i heart and imagination, and received from her a perpetual love and wor ship. There the tal until the heat and stilueas of the torpid noon drove her to the house, a giaud old home hid among giaut live-oaks gray with the solemu, waving, Southern moss. She went firtit to the large, dim par lors, inteudiug to put her favorites amoug the damp moss of the hang ing baskets ; but the dieamy languoi ot the darkened room overcame eveiy desire but that of sleep, and she lay down on the nearest conch, holding her Mowers m her bauds. Half an hour later,Mr. Kae opened the door aud ushered in a gentleman that had accompanied him from New Orleans. "Sit down, Allan," he said. 'I will soou arouse the house. You see, it is the hour for siesta, and 1 believe all take it at the same time when 1 arc away.'' For a few miuufes the young man believed bimtelt alone. The subile, powerful perftnor q-nte unknown, but delicious lt v :id expression wa- ids fii.- t i-ens tl in-. T!(hu, an bis eyes l ecim" accus-toiiit-tl to the tlun li ht ot the carp fully '.i sl jalousies, he saw a pi-.i-lute that he never mote foigot a moi Imely giii,iu:he first bloom of anideiihood, fast asleep ou th' silken cushions pil d on a low divau. Her whit' icbes mide a kind of gloiv in the darkened cornor. One band had fallen down, and the flowi ets gemmed the carpet at ber side; the other lay actors her breast, as if embracing the. tuberoses which it' had scattered there. Never in all hi native mountaius, never in any diorm of love or farcy, had Allan Monteith seen a woman half so fair. Almost entrauctd, he stood gazing on Mabel as if he had "seen a vision." There lay his dea- ! tiny asleep ; he knew it, and opened J his whole sole I o welcome "LoveV young dream' Bat when Mr. Kae, j followed by a r:ejro valet, returned, and Mabel languidly opened hei ; great pensive eye and stretched out her arras for her father's embrace, Allan almost thought lie nhou!d faint from i-xeess of emotion ; and it was with difficulty lie controlled himself to receive the iutioduction and apologies necessary. Aliin Monteith was a young ctttchuiarj, the only sou of a gen tleman with whom in early life Mi llie had formed a most at dent friendship. Allah was lich and by natuie and birth equally noble; but be was utb'iiy devu'd as el ol any expediences but Nuchas hiscllege and ids tuuuniaiti home bad bronchi tuui. Nevei theicNS, he was not des tituie or the traditional business capacity of his house, as some late transaction in cotton aud sugar in Nesv Orleau bad proven to Mr. liae. And paitly bicaute he liked (he oung ?nau and partly as a matter ot inteiesf, he had invited him to his home among the woods and la goons of the Evergreen Bayou. Ala tile, in this transaction had scarcely been properly considered; but to her father she was yet a child. Tiue he recognized her woudeifut beauty and was very ptond of it ; he knew, too, that he possessed an exquisite, voice and gteat skill in mu-c, and the passing idea of showing his ;earl of price to the foreigner rai ti er liaiteied his vanity ihau alarmed his tears. Hi' did not. dleatu that no was introducing a new claimant for ils possession. Yer. so it proved. Allan lingeied as it in an enchanted castile, till he had no lite, no wiil, no hopes but those which c-Mteieii in Mabel liae. And she, innocent at i impressible, onu returned his passion w:ih a ove even tar less selfish than her lover's. O tbe sweet, warm, love-laden days in those solemnly shaded woods ! O the blissful houis in the cool evenings, when tbe perfume of tuberoses and jasmines and olean ders filled the a r ! When the soft, calm moonlight glorified every love. :y and eveiy common thing ! It was like a dream of those days when the old lustie gods reigned aud to live was to love and to love was to be happy. With the fall, however, there came imperative letters from Scotland, and Allan could no longer delay. Love has its business as well as its romance, and this side was not so satisfactory. Mr. liae would hear of no engagement lor two years, by which time he said he hoped to be ib!e to give Mable such a fortune is would make her acceptable in the eyes of Allan's father. But, for the present, he absolutely declined to look upon the young people's at tachmcut as binding on either side. tlIn less than two 5 ears, when the tirsl inberoses bloom, I will be here again, Mabel, darling!'' were A Han's last wddspered wotds, as he held her leudeily in his army and kissed again and again the face dearer than all the world to him. And Mabel smiled through her tears and held the last tuberose of the summer to 'his lips for a parting pledge. But the two years brought many and unexpected changes. That very winter the Grst war-cloud gather ed, and long before Allan could re deem his promise tbe little island plantation was desolate and desert ed. Mr. liae had gone to the war, am: Mabel boarded in a ladies' school in Nw Orleans. These were but the beginning of sotrowe. An o'h r year found her an oiphan and cruelly embarrassed m money af fairs. Claimants without number appeared against the liae estate, and ciedilois forced the plantation ito the market at Ihe most unfa vorable Mme. She was diiveu fiom home, m stiict accoidauce with the tetter of the law, but she felt and kuew, though powerless to preveni it, that she had be- n cruelly wrongs cd. Poverty is a grand teacher, how ever, an 1 Las many learned disci pies rd I now, lor the first time in all her life, Mabel thought for ber sdf and dared 10 look the future in the lace. She had promised her fa'her never to write to Ailau with out iiics permission, but she consid ered that death annuls all contiacts. and sin ely now, if ever, it was Al lau's duty to befiieud anil care for her. So she sent him w.-rd in a few shy, timid sentences, of her sorrow anil louliuess. But it was doubtful if ever the letter would leach him ; mails iu those days were not cer tainties; aud eveu it it did reach Allan it was still tuoio uncertain whether he could reach Mabel. And in the meantime she must work or sr.arvo- a blessed alterative in great sorrows, I say. People who have to fight 4,a sea of tum bles" do not go mad IVorky tbe oldest of all preached evange's, is the caiisoic!, and tilings them through. And 1 hough Mabel Uae could command no higher positon than ti at ot a nurse' y governess, yet she found iu it a higher life ihau ever the dreamy, Insurious !e'n'sh ness of her fathea's home had gieeu hor. Her employers were of the, ordi -nary class, I ran weave no romance out (d them. They felt no speciol jinteiest in Alabei. neither did they ilLune her. She was useful and unobtrusive, and asked neither for sympathy nor attention. No letter came from Allan Monteith, though she waited aud hoped with failing heart and paling cheeks for moit than a year. She bad not the cour- J age to write again, and her anxiety j and duties began to tell very per j Cep ildy on a naturally frail const u tutiou then a physician advisi d her to try at mice a mote invigoiat itig climate, and she not unwillingly agreed 10 accompany the invalid wife ot an etlicei' returning to t er I home in New York. Tiiis was the -lawn of a brighter Ulay for Mabel. She found friend eveu if she did nor. find health, and her rare beauty and her wonderful musical talents soou procured her the admiration of a large and influ ential circle. Uy the advice of her friend, ue established herself in a fashionable 'oeality iml commenced the teaching of music. 1 think few women could have been mine sue. c8dul. Part of this was umioubt" edly due to the social power of her friend ; but neither this nor her own lovliuesN and winning manners would have been sufficient without tbe genuine knowledge ol ber art and that wonderful voice which charmed all w ho be nd it. So, in the second winter of Ma bel's residence in New- Y'ork, it be came 4 tiie thing" to invite Miss liae to prosideover select social and mu sical entei 'ainments. I have a friend who met her during this sea son frequently, ami who describes her tract and influence as something extraonlinaiy aud magnetic. Her rare beauty was undiminished, though more thoughtful and spiritU' tl in charactei ; her dress was ut i formly the same a pa!e-pink lus terless srk, with tuberoses in her hair antl at her breast, for her pas sion for these flowers was stronger than ever, and when thev were to be procured at any trouble or co-d her little room was always full of their peculiar fragrance. During this winter, Mabel had many lovers and, repoit said, more than one excellent offer of marriage : but she quietly or else decidedly re fused all advances. Hei heart was still vjth the tal1, fair mountaineer who had won ir, amid the warmth and perfume of tropic noons and moonlit nights; and though twica two eai had pas:-ed, she refuged to bepeve him bd.-o. Ar.d she was right. A Pan deservi ed her fullest f .uib. Hei letter had never n o te d hlu and yet he had, with incredible Uflicnb. made Ids way to N'v Oilems, oniy to find the lite 1 lanlr.tiou in ihe hands o: fltran ers, hi" friend dead ard Ma !.el gone, 1101. e knew whither. Af;et 1 a Ion:; and dispiiiMig search, he j b ft Mabel's discovery in the ha ids 1 of web-paid flouts and returned to J Scotland, ahno-t broken-heai Jed at the destruction of all his h"pes. But be stilt Lived ber ms lonate h, aud olten in sicnav nights, when me winds to;-8-d 1 be (all pines like j straws and mountain snows beat at i barred doois and windows, he thought of tbe happy peace and the solemu silences iu which he rnd his Move had walked, listening only to the beating of their own hearts or the passionate undernotcs of the mocking-birds. Often, loth fn s'eej ing and waking dreams, he raw aain that dim parlor and the beau" tiful girl sleeping on the silken ouch; and with these memories there always came Ihe same sensa t ous of some delicate ierftime in the air. Far away amid the heath er and the broom and the strong, fiesb bi'efzes of the North Sea, he isl li was visited by tbe breath of the tropic woods, and the fragrance bi the tuberose and the memory of his lost Mabel were one and indivisible iii his heart. Thus vvo w.dked apart who should have walked hand in hand, and it seemed as if the years only widened mat breach over which two j souls looked longingly and called vainly. But there are ills vi hich happen for good, and 1 think any one who would have taken the trou ble to analvze the gain iu charactei which this Seperation and stiuggle produced would have said no. Fot, after five years of battle with hfe, Mabel w-a no longer a lovely, impulsive thoughtless child; she was a noble, woman, beautiful in ad the majesty of completed suffering ; and Allan's whole nat me had swelled j under t'ie ii.fluei.-ce of a mighty and j ur;sdti.su love, as sees swell undei (be influence, of huh aud moon. If we wait, however, the haives' of the heart ictl'. come. One day. jeaily in in. winter, Mabel gota note niui a friend, announcing ber re urn from abioid and begging bet Jo be piesent at a small, inlorma' leuuion at her house that evening. She went early iu the day and speut the afteruoou iu that pleasant gos sip which young and happy women enjoy. Her boste? rallied her a good deal upon her growing years, and laughingly advised her to recuie a young Scotchman with whom ihey had had a pleasant acquaintance in their travels, and who was now iu New York and going to spend the evening with them. Bid fate knock softly on MabeiV soul then? For she blushed io leatly, and instautly, as if by magic, tbeie sprung up in her heait a hap I y refrain which she could not con trol, aud kept on singing : 4iJe comes! He cones! My lover comes !'' She dressed with more than or dinary care, and was so impatient that her toilet was completed be fore others tiad begun. So bhe sat down in the uulighted pallors, say ing to herself : UI must be till. I will be calm. For how should I bear disappoint ment, and what grouud of hope have I i Absolutely none but that be comes from tbe aine count 1 v. No, there is no hope !'' But still, above tbe doubt and fear, she could hear thy same chim ing undei tone : "He cornea ! He comes ! My lover comes !' She became nervous and super stitious, and when tbe silecee wis broken by a quick ring and u rapid footstep, she lose involuntai dy from her chair and stood, trembling and flushing wi;h excitement m the middle of the room. Ah, Mabel) .Mabel ! Your heart has seen luith er than your eses. Allau has come at. last ! "Ah, my darling! My darling! My far, sweet flower, whose pe fu!J;e has followed me o'er land and sea, I have found you aiiain at last!' excl i'm d Allan. a he clasped Ma' i el to bis t-osom. And so Mabf I's winter of discontent and soi row was over. Never mjre did she have grief or paiu unsootb en r. m:ot ted, l only wisn i could cb'S as 1 be fairy-tales do, aud say : "o 1 iiie) lived happy ever after w ttd-" Hut, alas ! Though a lovely Mabel Monteith, with ber fatherV b.nr aud her mother's eyes, makes :iU( gladness in Allan's home, tbe fur dearer one has gone "to tbe abode where the eternal are." In a country-ymd 1 or twenty mdes from New Yoik, tbe beautiful Mat'tl Ra- ''.deeps the sleep tint knows no waking." Half the jeai round cu weu'd know her grave by the delicate odor ot the tubei oes with which it is covered ; and oven when the snows cover if, and wild w inds and rain beat over its senseless turf, one noble heart offers thefe still "th incense of an undying atTectiou.. - . For be sure that a fnv lore ''strik en but out hour' and he or 6he has never loved emu: Ws Mabel's short life a lott one ' Ob, no! Life is peetect in small im asuies, aud she left upon the mountaui'tops of death a light that makes thm love ly to those who shall follow her. Movement ol Col ton Crop. Nkw OkleAns, Dec- 1 The move ment of the cotton ctops, as given by Secretary Heater, of tbe Ner Orleans cotton exchange, issued iu- d.y, shows the aun nut of co lon biought into sight bo November is 1,500,000 bales loi rir-t U ... iu thui uianth tiuce 18bJ. The dtliciruey to the quanily market, hw;b at the close of October whs 873,202 hales, compaied with last year, ami 69,967 compared with the year before, was ncieased up to last niht to 1,314, 205 uuder the former, aud 575,351 under the Utter. Compared with the three mouths to November 30, inclusive in J830, tbe 7,311,322 crop year, the deficit is 343,402 bales The total nu mberof bales brought into sight during the thirty days ot November was 1,478.200 agiinat 1, 010,272 iu Novemb r, 1891, a id 1, olS,bl7 iu November, 1800, a de crease from laftt year of 441,003 and from the year before ot 140,348. The movement from the first of Sep tember to November 30 includes toial receits at all United States dr lively poi ts of 2, GG0, ooG against 3,056,820 last year and 2,238,147 the ve r befoie. Is It a Chunk or 11 Comet? Blnvek, Col , Nov. 30. A des patch to the News from New Castle, Col., says : 'About 9 A. M. yesterday, a stone weighing probably ten tons fell lrom tbe sky, sti iking I lie tanb a mile northeast ot tnio town, Tbeie were no witnesses as fur as known to the meteor's fall, but the fact that it sunk deep into the earth and was in a betted condition when di covered leaves no doubt in the minds of the inuubi ants as to where it came Iro n and great excitement exists. kThe tone is a color entirely for eign to the locality, being slate-col ored, and the people weie convin ced that it droppad fiom the much-tatked-ofi-comet.' Know si Language l.cai-ning 11. Withou A San Francisco paper fells a carious sioiy ol a. Mr. Watson, ot that city, who understands the Turkish language without tverhavx g learned it. His father was a miHsmnaiy in Asia Minor, and died thera sn.Mdime before the birfch of his chil l. Nid many months f er bis birth bis mother returned with him to litis country, aud died while he was e' an in'ant He received a fair education, but never devoted himself ptrticuiaily to linguistic studies. Not long ago be happened to be in ihe olhee ot ihe Turkish co icsel iu Shu I'raucisc.o, when he overheard some conveysatiou going ou betwte.i the consul and some Tii'kiah sailers. Lit was surprised to notice that the sound steuied familiar to him, aud listening care, fully, he found that he could under stand almost all that was faid. He says that it seemed as thoogh a veil was removed troin his compre hension, or a new faculty added to h s mind. He is said to have test ed this gift a number ot times 8 nee. Arab c he can uud rdand a little of All other foreign languages are . simply a jumb'e of strange sounds iu hi4 ears, bat Tuikisb he under stands almost perfectly. State Chronicle. WThea Eaby was sick, wo gare toer Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for (Astoria When she became Bliss, she clur.g to Castoria. tfhen Aehad Children, she gave them Castori Subcriie for ihe CGTiinEK.

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