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if ii mi vol. VI. LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, FEB. 3, 1893. NO. 39. y . ii ii ihi is hi i2t Professional Cards. J. W.SAIN, M.D., lias located at Lincolnton and of fers his services as physician to the citizn3 of Lincolnton and surround ing country. Will be round at night at the Lin coin ton Ilotel. March 27, 1S91 ly Bartlett Shipp, ATTORNEY AT LA W, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Jan, j, Ib'O. ly. Finley & Wetmore, AITYS. AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Vill practice in Lincoln and surrounding counties. All business put into our hands will be promptly atten ded to. Auril 18. 1SMO. lv. Dr. W. A. PRESSLEY, - SURGEON DENTIST. KOCK HILL, S- C. Will spend the "WEEK BEGINNING WITH TUE 1ST MONDAY Ot EACH MONTH at oilier in Lincolnton. Tho.e needlug Dental services are r quested to make arrangement by correspondence. Satisfaction guar anteed. Terms CASH. July 11, 1890. ly DENTIST. LINCOLNTON, N. C Cocaine used for painless ex tracting teeth. With thirty years experience. 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Fo two years she was a great suffer er from scrofula, or some blood disease which had lain dormant all her life. We had attention from some of the most skill ful physicians in the country, but all to no effect, until we hs.d all despaired ot her ev er recovering. Her mouth wa3 one solid ulcer, and for two months or more her bo dy was broken out with pores until she lost a-beautiful head of hair, also eyelashes and eyebrows iu fact, she teemed to be a cotnpiete wreck. Now comes the great secret which I want the world to know. Three bottles o Blood Balm medicine has done the work which would sound incredible to any one Who did not know it to be so. Today my wifo is perfectly hoalthy. and clear from scrofula taint, and she now bus a three month-old bate, also perfeotly healthy. Very respectfully, H L Gasstdy. ONE LllLLIQtl LADIES Arc d.iilv recommending the adjus- Vlhno TABLE E UlllU It Expands Across The Ball &. Joints,. 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Oldest bureau for securing patents n America. Every patent taken out by us is bronjfht before tfce public by a notice given Iree of charge in the Larpest circulation of any scientific paper In the world. Splendidly illustrated. JVo intelligent man should be without ft. Weeklr, XI.OO a ve.ir; fLSOsIx months. Address M CNN & 00 jfuBUsnEns, 361 Broadway, New Torts City. "Flonr C7orn." Mr. F. H. Dorer, of Grover, was in the Enquirer office one day last week, and brought with him a pro duct of bia farm which is to ns, something of a curiosity. The pro duct referred to is what Is known as "flour corn''. In appearance it is very similar to the ordinary Ins dia corn, except that the matured ears are about the color of the com mon white corn in Ihe roasting ear stage. The grains look something like pardelain, though they are not quite so white. Mr. Dover explain ed that the ongin.il seed came from Kansas, hut he bus been planting the corn for several years, and this year made iu the neighboihood of thirty bushels. He went on to re mark : "You say you never saw any of it before, and of couse you haven't ; bat 1 can assure you that if the truth was known, you have eaten it, and that mauy a time. Those Northwestern millers grind it into flour, and mixing it iu the propor tion of one third to two thirds of wheat flour, sell the whole as the genuine wheat product. The taste of the --flour corn'' is so nearly the same as the ordinary wheat flour, and as the corn in no way affects the 'lismg' properties of t be wheat floor, an expert could hardly detect the adulteration." To prove what he said, Mr. Do ver left a few pounds of his corn flour with the request that we give it a practical test, instruction, how ever, that it be mixed with wheat flour in the proportion of one to two. The good lady who does the Enquirer's cooking, followed itistrrc liou implicitly. We have beeu eat ing wheat bread a good long whlie, and think we ought to know some thing about it, but Mr. Dover's pre diction turned ont literally true. The quality of the bread was in no wise impaired, and the mixture was uot distiugaisbed by taste. York vrfle Enquirer. Mr. ss.iiuiuokis Likely to He Collector ot the astern jmtrfef. Special to the Observer. Washington, Jan. 2o. Represen tative Grady returned today. Be says it is generally understood in eastern Carolina that Mr. Simmons will accept the collectorship ot the eastern district. It is sid hare that he will be colieclor. 4 Scientific American From Woman's Work. Chastened. BY LYLE BRGWNJ "Are you always happy, Aunt CaUaf This question was ask d ; by pretty gohleu baited Eva Mo.re as she sat on a stool at her aunt's feet. Carolina Lieightou wa3 a sweet faced woman somewhere in the for ties. Her white hair gave her the appearance of bein some years old. er, yet the face was not an old one, aud at time took on a far more youthful look even than the actual years would indicate. Era Moore was her favorite niece, and many a leisnre honr she passed with her loved Aunt Calla. Mrs. Leighton's home was a lit tTe cottage on the outskirts of a New England village, nestling among trees aud flowers. In summer the little noot was indeed beautiful, but iu winter when the tiees were bare and the flowers withered, the cot tage was bleak and unattractive in appearance. Yet winter was when Eva loved best to visit Aunt Calla. Let ob enter and see if we can discern the charm, for naught of cheer can we behold outside on tbis dreary wintet's day of which we write. We will step unbidden into the room where we saw Era enter an hour ago. Ahlmethinks this is enchantment. Surely, tbis beaa tiful room has naught to do with i he homely exterior we were view ing bvt a moment ago. Soft as velvet is the carpet be neath our feet. A bright fire is burning iu an open grate before wbiuh the two are sitting absorbed ! in conversation. Windows are at the sooth, the east and west, shaded with dark, rich curtains, over which beautiful lace ones are draped gracefully to the floor. At the south a bay-window is filled with some very choice plants and vines. The vines meet at the top aod twine their clinging tendrils about each other, drooping carelessly to the blooming flowers beneath. A pair of biighthued canaries are pouring fourth the notes of a glad song from their perches within a pretty cage. The walls are covered with a rich paper, forming a background for some rare works of are souvenirs methings of some greater, grander times. Scattered about the room are odd pieces of upholstery, easy chairs, cozy willow rockers, bine divans i and a sofa that seems ever coazing you to its easy luxury. The north wall is filled with shelves and here is the secret of the room's great attraction. We find a collection ot books, their value out of prcportioa with the sur roundings outride. Iu the centre of the room stauds a table covered with a heavy cloth. Here are late papeis, books and magazines. A ' little niche by the east window con tains a magnificent desk with all the necessary appointments for writing. Sorely Aunt Calla has literary tastes. In this cosy room Eva has been in the habit of spending many of her leisure hours since early remem brance, and here we find her now, a lovely fi.ii 1 ot fifteen, sitting npon a divan at Aunt Calla's feet, aud we ar just in time to catch the sen fence written at the beginning of our story : "Are you always happy, Aunt Calla !" 'Did yoa ever see me otherwise, Eva? and why do you ask!" "Aunt Calla, I know you have children sleeping iu the church-yard yonder, that the one you loved best on earth is lying there, too. My memory reaches back to a time of tears aud sadness, and I have had bints of trials in your past life trials so great that death is a small affliction in comparison. Yet, to me your face has ever worn the same peaceful expression, your eyes look into mine with the same qnie. loving look, speaking of petfect trust in all the ways God's provi- j dence has led yon. I have never seen you otherwise. I ask yoa why. because I can but wonder if memo ry never stirs sad thought over the 'might have been !" ' Ah ! Eva dear, your question haa already stirred my heart to tears. You know uot the effort one must make to forget the time when the sunshine seemed all blotted from my life when every hop9 seemed dead, and every hour a weary grop ing from the tomb. I am living in a forgetfulnes of self, and thus the past vanishes and the present is ever bright with the hopes I am weaving, with the golden threads of peace, into a robe ot everlasting the robe that i shall don nome day when all that 'might have been' shall be restored to me tenfold. "Yes, ycu have had hints of sor- rows in my lif; oUr than death brings. You want to hear my sto ry. I see it in your eager eyes. You shall bear it. I will once more let the clouds of the past drift ac ross my memory, that you, my little Eva, may have a glimpse of the gloom through which Aunt Calla has walked to the calm heights of peacefnlness even nnto the moon, tain top, from which, always, I be hold these dark life clouds clouds that from the heights on which I stand, I only see the side with the silver lining. "You have heard of the bright uess, the wealth and luxury ot my early married life. You have been told of the mansion where life was one joyous whirl of gaiety; where every comfort that earth can give was miDe, where the two that sleep out yonder were given me to keep, metbought for all tim9 ; for life and fort n ne seemed so secure that naught could darken my happy day. "But mv feet were destiued to! tread the well-woru path of adver sity, afil etion, disappn;ntment, and loss of dear friends by death, e'er the true meaning of life the de velopment of a soul for heaven was understood. How I repined and would not be comforted when fortune took flight. To me it meant shame and disgrace, poverty and degredation. "Your ancle tried to dispel the gloom by picturing the happy time when his strong determination and willing hands should restore to me the luxury of our former lives. Day and night he worked, while I griev ed and fretted, making the lives of those about me unhappy, that should have been my privilege to brighten. "The years flew by, and far from the scenes of that early life, again we found ourselves possessed of wealth. Then for a few years I re gained my spirits aud entered into that aiena of life that belongs only to the frivolous butterfly of fashion. "But the one who had gained all this luxury for me was broted in health, and worried in miud and body but I saw it not. WishiDg to see me happy and contented, he went on uncomplaining, becoming more and more eugrossed in busi ness cares, which were already weighing him down. My Careless ness blinded me to his true condi tion. Engrossed with the pleasant social life, and with pride iu my beautiiul children, Georgie and Bessie, I 8a not the clouds gather ing over my head. I was doomed to pa3S through a trial to which loss of property was as nothing. "Bessie grew ill : all the skill that medical knowledge could give was at the bedside of my child", without avai'. When they said she could not live, I sent- up agouizing pray ers to the Great Physician for aid. 1 besought and pleaded, aye com manded, that she should be bft to my care. But prayers could not avail against the decree of the heav enly will. Bessie was gone a mother's heart was broken. Be yond the gloom I would uot eee,and hence was comfortless. "But my husband's condition soon aroused me from thi3 over- wlifdrmrvo nrief. Another was ?o ing down the datk valley or the j 1 red ,bose wo,(l5 : you WdUt moned tmd remained at his bed sbadow of death, and I was power- me to come'' si .untn e dieL less to stav his feet. The death of I k CMr the stormy billows, thous- His death was quiet and peace- .. . I .-j . t .... ... i ful and he retained his conscious- oor little Bessie bad hastened my husband's decline; and now remorse J worus iroin a momer s uearr, ,J-1 and grief together emed eatingld ng him come and telling him hew j away aiy very bert. Why bad 1 not set-u sooner, and stopped him ia his eager race for weabh? Ir was too late, tor In a tar he was Iaid beside little Bessie, and Georgie and 1 were left alone. "How I loathed the luxory I saw at every hand. I shut my ears to every sympathetic word. My heart grew hard in my affliction aud 1 cared for naught on eaith, I neg lected my bojT turned him over to the care of others and brooded a-looe- "Six years of thin miserable life passed. Georgie was sixteen, and I knew not whether my boy r an good or had. His wants wei supplied lavishly, and Ida education atlended to ; but betweeu him and myself there had sprung up no bund of ' sympathy during all I hes- years. I had forgotten that my boy had d soul to cultivate. The thought did not come to me that I might lose all the love that he gave me before Bessie and her father died. This was the condition of thiugs at tb e end of theunharov six vears. 'One afternoon Georgie did not return from school. Greatly a! armed, I sought him throughout the town. He had been seen last with a bad boy, Joe Hudson, getting aboard the evening train going to ward the seaport a hundred miles away. That wasali we conld learn. In fact, that was all we could learn, ed for two years. Money was need freely. I was completely aroused to my neg ect of duty, and resolved that if these chastisements were from tbe hand of God, henceforth my tir8f, thought would be: 'Lord, what wile tbou have me to do ? "At. last I gave Georgie up for dead, and set about making up for my se!6sh, negligent life by doing whatever my hand? found to d for the needy of this earib. Ever since my husband's death, my beautiful home, my jewels and fine dress were hateful to my sight. I aw in it all, the life it bad worn away in the gaining. I wanted none of it. All should be used for the good of oth ers, while I repented in sackcloth and ashes. Hamble in look and apparel I went abont my task of doing good, 'At last the wealth was gone, but not all in charity. Reverses came that swept away the most of my hnsband's hard-earned fortune. After that I conld smile. My pray er was answered, and adversity was mine. Then it was that this peace settled down over my soul and leit me as you .see me to-day, serene and contented. Happiness was not for this life, my hopes were anchor ed iu heaven all but one I be lieved my boy was dead, but of this I was not s-ure. I gladly left the beatiful borne where everything I beheld bat brought back some sad remembrance. The beautiful be longings of tbis home procured for me tbis little cottage- I thought at first to make it bare and comfortless an exile and a punishment for my neglect of duty. But a little before rny plans were all completed I had a vivid dream of my boy. He came home to me, and I held him for one brief moment in my arms. When 1 awoke, it was with a resolve to fur nish one room for bim. And here in Aunt Calla's Retreat,' my love for bim found expression. This work of love had much to do with making me the contented woman you see me to'dav. Sufficient had been left me for all mv modest wants by a small venture of my husband that was not swallowed up with ihe bulk of his tortune. Thus, whatever I thought my boy wou'd prize found a place here as you see- But about Georgies return. Yu saw his grnve out yonder with the others. I had beeu here only a few mouths, when word came that he was alive and well. He wrote me a letter, tebiug me he had heard - through tbe papers of my los?, and would hasten home fo me If I ned-! edhiu or wished him to come. 1 cannot tell ycu of my great joy, nor t tl,A ovton rf m-rr lioarl otlrrnlll ahoil I i " " "-" - - "j uc very much I wanted bim. ''' iK'en in Australia more than a year, he said, and had earned enough to make a little start for me wbeu hi came. "Georgie came home to me, but I could not keep him. He was taken sick aboard the ship, but the thought of home and mother kept him np; aud when at last, in this room, I clasped him close to my arms. Ve carriei bin. thereto Georgie'd conch where he lay for a week, hoveling between life aud death. i:Ue dually rallied, and for a yea ho was able to be up ; but fever had broken his constitution ; I knew too j T H thu s'.iadow h.id fHlW'd upo-i the last ot my treasures, and he, loo. would soon leave me. Aud yet this was the happiest year of my life. We learned to understand each other, and little by little I drew from him his boitom lor my coldness to him : how he bud felt j that I loved only Bessie and father. I how he had wished that he, too, i might s'eep beside them, for he had i i loved the l09t ones aud longe.l lor their companionship. How, after a time, he fell iu with bad boys, and although he ever did anything vi'e and low, he grew rough, and was delighted with the stories Joe Hud son told him of adventures ou board a ship; how they had at last run away, taking every precaution to conceal their flight. "He had become disgusted with Joe aud hired out to a firm where be was winding respect aud buv. ness ability. He had not consider ed it very wrong to t.ke the step he did, for the thought always came up: "Mother does not love me; he cared only for father aud Bessie ; she wou'd nfver miss me.' But when he heard of the great loss, and thought that mother might be in ueed, his great desire was to return and take his tathers's place and thus win her to thinking of him as ber stay and comfort. "These tacts were gathered dur ing little confidential talks all through the happy year of my boy's stay with me, and when at bst I knew that 1 could not keep him, I gave him up without a murmur, feeling that his I work on earth was done, and that little Bessie and papa would rejoice in welcome one more into their bright home above For myself, I knew that my soul had grown out of earth's selfishness into the ways of peace; that my trust was in tfce promiee of a union, in God's own time, with those who had gone be fore: that the 'might have been' would yet be lived in a home be yond the skies.". Aunt Calla had been softly strok ing the fair bead while she talked. When she had finished, Eva bowed her face aud sobbed aloud. Quietly raising tbe drooping head, Aont Calla kissed her and bade her wipe away tbe tears, "for see, my child, I have passed oneo more through all the trials and under all the clouds of my sorrowful life, but am aaiu on the side that has the silver lin ing; that side, dear Eva, is the side toward heaven, and 1 am content." Looking up, Eva saw tbe peaceful, happy countenace ot Aunt Calia, and throwing her arms abont ber neck, kieed Ihe dear face and thanked ber for tbe story. which she said wo'ild be a lesson for her through life- Eva has gone, and Aunt Calla is l lft alone with her b rds, her books and her writing, above atl the Pleasant memories of ber bay all through that happy year when each had learned the others nearr, anu sum loving wtmeu me ,5,jai i.'uu'i cuui'iric. JAME BLAIXK DEAD. The Struggle i Ciidecl ai Last. Washiouton, Jan. 27. James G. Blaine died at 11 o'clock this morning. He passed a restless night and this morning was very weak. Shortly befo-ie 5 o'clock a change for the worse occurred, and i both physicians were hastily sum- H. f- aeatli. His whole family, Miss Dodge onI -Mio trnino1 miFCAa itat ot hie bedside. Dr. Hyatt said that Mr. Blaine's death was due to sheer exhans- tion. He was unwilling to make any statement regarding th ex act disease of Mr. Blaine until ho had received the consent ofth family. The news of Mr. Blaine's death spread like wild-tire. Crowd gathered on the corner? and vis itors flocked to the house. Dr. JIainlin, who passed th house at the time the announce ment of death was made, at once entered and remained with tho family some time. Word was sent to the President immediately after his death. At lh-o Pre-ideM Harrison, accom panied by Private Secret uiy llal toid ami Lieut. Parker, walked over to the Blaine mansion. The President showed marked oivus of grief. Po-tmater General Wan amaker followed the President. The President had been warned of Mr. Blains's approaching end, j through pivsa bulletins which in j formed him that Mr. Blaine could not live through the day. A few 1 minutes later lie received the an i nouncement of his death. The cabinet was immediately notified. Secretary Foster, of the State de partment, w as at home preparing to leave town when he was noti fied by telephone of the ex-Secre- I tary's death. He postponed hig ! trip and ordered the State De partment to be closed. The President issued a procla mation announcing the death of Mr. Blaine and directing that on the day of the funeral all the ex ecutive departments at Washing ton should be closed ; that on all the public buildings thronghout the United States the national Hag be displayed at half mast, and for thirty days the Depart ment of State be draped in mourning. Hon. L. . C. Lamar, Associate Justice ot the Supreme Court of tbe United States, died on Monday, He was one of the South's greatest and purest men. Speculation Is rife as to whether Harrisou will fill the vacancy or leave it for Cleve land. Ifnarrison appoints, there may be doubt of confirmation. Siuce his death, there are only two Democrats on the Supreme court Cheif Justice Fuller, and Justice Field AT. (Jarolinian. The Spilt in the Alltnuce. Mempbis, Tenn., January 22. The next issue of the National JScon omist will contain a manifesto from a faction ot the Farmers' Alliance appealing to members, in the order to repudiate the acts of tbe late Memphis convention, by forming a new rganizatiou on a strictly non partisan basis. Tbe manifesto is -igued by J. F. Tillman, of Tenoest see, who, along with bis office, was "abolished' as far as the Alliance is concerned, at the Memphis con vention. Mr, Tillman denounces the men who now control the Alli ance, and reveiws the origin and growth of the order, pointing out lis original purposes, which he de c area were in accord with the prin ciples of the Democratic party, and which he, as a lifelong Democrat, undertook to carry out and impress upon its members. Referring to and defining the flec tion of the late national campaign, in which he is charged with treason to the Alliance by sending oat, un der his official signature, numerous documents appealing to tbe Alli ance to be true lo the Democratic teachings upon which it was found e J, he ays : "I conceive it a duty devolving apcu me, both as general manager and director of tbe lecture bureau of the Democratic party, to contribute to tbe success of a cause common to tbe interests of both That the literature sent out under my signature aided the Democratic party and contributed alike to the defeat of tbo Republican and Third pariies, I have no doubt, and freelj admit in fact, such were my de sires, because tbe Third party id my State and other Southern States was allying with the Republicans in its efforts to defeat Democratic prin ciples." A call will be issued in a few days for a convention ot the seceding; faction, which will meet in Mem phis or Atlanta some time during April. 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