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raj u fjf Willy Cn . v ! 70L. VI. LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, MAR. 31, 1893. iNO. 48. mm t iiiH M ii H Li J Professional Cards. J. W. SAIN, M. EX,' ,Uas located at Lincoluton and of fers his services as physician to tbe citizens of Lincolnton and snrroantl ing country. Will be toand at night at the Li' colntou Hotel. March 27, 1S91 iy Bartlett Shipp, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. c: Jan. 9, 1891. iy. dentist. LINCOLNTON, N. C. Cocaine used for painless ex tracting teeth. With thirty years experience. Satisfaction iven in all operations' Terms cash and m ode rate. Jan 23 91 ly BARBER SHOP. Nevly titted up. Work :uvays neatly done. Custou.ers politely waited upon. Everything pertain ing to the tonsorial art is done according to Infest styles. HeNRY 1'Aylok. Barber. Eng!i?h Spavin Liniment removes all Lard, 30ft er calloused lumps and blemish es from hors'-?, blood spavins, curbs, splints gweeney, rin-bone, stifles, sprains, all swollen throats, coughs etc. tfave by use of one bottle. 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Have beard of no case in which it failed. Try it. Trial bottles free at J. M. Lawing's drugstore. Larsre size 50c and $1 00. Pay your saoscription to the Lin- tOLN COUEIEE. Godeys' Lady-' Book. The Voice That Blent LILLIAN A. NORTH. And may tbat peace which pass eth understanding, rest and remain with yon now and ever.'' Tbe choi? rolled ont 'Amen,'7 and the minis ter, according to his custom, lef:; tbe pulpit to mingle with his flock. Did he bring with him some of than heavenly balm he had been so earn estly beseeching, that the congre gation felt a thrill of happiness at the touch of his hand, a Iightheart edness beam from his eye I Slowly descending the gallery stairs, hand in hand came a young man and woman. "Eunita, we loo most speak to the minister before we go " She drew her hand from his with little waywardness. "Why should you call me by that name?" "Does it not please you !' and for a moment the brave blue of his eye was dimmed. "It only belongs to a song, Marian, but it pleased my fancy, as songs are perhaps too apt to do." And just then the preacher took a hand of each, and his benevolent, foll-bearded countenance smiled on the bright manly form of Allen Dale ston, and met the glauce of the young blue eyes with pleasure un disguised. Bat the smile gave place to an auxious iook as he turned to Marian. Iq the curves of her slight ..figure was a promise of a grace beyond that of Jowlv station. The girlish face was marked already with a proud discontent, and the glauce of her full brown eye was more inquisitorial than kiudly, wbi! the critical curve of the fine cut mouth spoiled, for the minister at least, her words of greeting. But he spoke to both with his uoual fondness. "My young friends, we are in debted more each passing week for your vocal services- Your voices are in perfect harmony. I hope to eee your lives blend as fully, as com pletely iu tbe years to come.'' Allen turned with a look of hap piness to bis Marian, but the words of the minister had started a train) of thought illsuited to her lover's! feelings. She was weighing the i prospects of life with Allen, with a cool analysis that was cruel, and the balance iu his favor diminished as tbey passed the outside portals of the humble chapel doer, "Eunita'' "That name again." She turned , away half angry, at tbe thrill in roused. It's sound was melting music trom the young man's lips, "You will come home by the riv i er-side this eveuing ?" ! "No, it's too far, and will tire me ! for tomorrow, Allen, it sounds so I foolish to ask for long walks, and ! call me by pet uames now. Our 'engagement is not a thing of yes- terday.'' "But tbe more we know each other '' "Yes, yes. I know what you woa(J My bufc j 6q not ,jke yoa to make soch such an exhibition al ways, or look at me and smile ev ery time I come near. I know with out that, and people must think us babies." ! "Babies are happier than cynics, 1 Marian.'' "It I am a cynic, and you prefer ;a baby," said tbe girl with a cold j glance, "fiud one, Allen. Tbe change would satisfy me.'7 "Marian, Marian, what are you saying ? Yoa know I will never give you up." The anxiety in his tone flattered her pride, bnt it made her none the less anxious to triumph more, so with a cool goodnight bhe dismissed i mm. Young girls forget sometimes that their power over one man though uulimited, may, neverthe" be abused to bring about a ruin into which they fall. True hearts are rare and still more rarely valued at their inestimable price. Marian Ainsworth was a poor yonng dressmaker, considered by many of her friends and acquain tances to be a superior girl in her station, and, it is easy to see, as eured ot the fact herself, Marian was not always plying tbe needle at her bumble home, bat more often busy ac various rich booses, where the costly surroundings and luxu rious appointments fostered her superior (T) tastes, and made her owu position in life seem poor and inaofficient. Allen, at tbe best, could only make her mistress of such a home as her own parents kept, and the prospect of such a iotare seemea oarc. one was a. poor, hard-working girl, and she wanted to be something mors. The words of a thoughtless woman of fashion whom she had habited with clothes admirably adorned by her clever needle, had helped to foster Marian's discontent. "A girl wnh such pretty eves, manners and speech aa yourself, Miss Ainsworth, should marry well.'' "I am going away for a time," said Allen, when they met auain, but he did not refer by word or deed to the paiu she had givu him oa Sunday evening. "I can earn more away from this qniet little village, and lay something in store to make life pleasauter ' when you give yourself to me.'' He purposely refrained irom endearing epithets, made his conversation as plain and practical as possible, and only took her hand for one short moment when he said goodby, Marian was herself cognizant of the change in his manner,and looked up at him wonderingly when he dropped her hand. "You understand, ot course,'' she said, in a forced voice, "how much I sbali miss you ; but we must write each other." He turned his fine blue eyes upon her for a moment, and Marian ex- pect-d one of tbe old outbursts of tenderness, but instead he murmur ed : "Yes; I will send you my ad dress. See my mother sometimes, Marian," and was gone- She dm miss him in the days tbat followed, and in his letters there was not quite what, there had been in his presence. It never occurred to Marian to aualyze her own message es to him. She was dever effusive. Her letters were colder than her manner. Bat she did not neglect his moth er. Mrs. Dalston was a sweet, pe tite, little woman, Alieu had ber Oeautifnl blue eyes, and there the resemblance eoded. S'ue welcomed Marian as a daughter, and, to do her justice, the young girl liked her for her own sake, though she felt ill at ease and bored when the mother spoke of her only son, a fond moth ers are apt to do. Unconsciously, Mrs, Dalston thus possessed the power to arouse Marian's discon tented, critical side, anil injure tbe hopes of ber son. There was an other who also had the power to disturb Miss Anisworth's serenity. It was the minister of the little chapel where she and her lover had always bleut tbeir voices in the humble choir. Tbe preacher missed Allen's handsome form, and the choir was uninteresting without that melting tenor. So he, too, was apt to speak in the unguarded language of friendship of the absent, and thus to jar on Marian's peculiar prejni dices, and dislike to effusion, "What was it that he kept from me V she asked herself. "Some thing tbat he has made yisible to his admirers," never dreaming tbat one's inner self destroys tbe clear ness of one's vision. One of Miss Ainswortb's patrons interested in the young girl's ap pearance, and anxions to secure tbe services of so sood a seamstress-, made her a flatteriug offer. ' "I would like to engage you all !be time,'' she said, i4but you can Dot tell yet how it would suit yoa. Suppose you come and stay in the ;ioase all summer, and if you feel satisfied with the trial, we will take you away to onr winter quarters. We shall not overwork you, and you will have an opportunity to go home as often as you like." So Marian went to live at one of tbe grand houses it bad been her delight to wish for, and gradually her o'd associations fell from ber as a cloak. Her letters to Allen were fewer, and the thought ot him aN most distasteful. Her mistress and the young la dies of the house made much of ber, and it seemed to Marian she bad never been anything save one of them. Her pretty voice was as often called inio recognition in the handsome drawing-rooms as ber taste and ingenuity in the sewing room. "Gome and join us at dinner this evening, Miss Ainsworth. An even ing dress never satisfies me till you have seen it in wear and approved it." This was a common request. So Marian went down in her soft gray gown, with just a glimmer of shapely wiists and throat visible, and with ber abundance of soft, silkeu locks dressed in a way that co one conld imitate, fince no one had Marian's wealth of "bair. At dinner, a middle-aged gentle mau, Mr. Lambretb, took charge of her. He was not very handsome, but possessed tbe polish that Mari an had grown accustomed to, and was very attentive. Very soou after dinner he joined her aud Mrs. Win some iu the dawingroom, where they sat, comfortably chatting about that lady's costume. "Make tbe most of your time," the lady whispered, playfully, as she saw who approached them. "Mr. Lambietb is a bachelor und ira. ulensely rich." Mrs. Winsome retired, and Mr. Lambreth found no one in the aN cove save Marian. "Has Miss Ainsworth no fondness for society that I find her alone ?" he asked, in soft, well-bred tones. "I expected to find such a charming young lady surrounded with adiuU rers.'' "It is hardly time for the gentle-, men to seek the drawing-room,' said Marian, a little mischievously. "I am glad to have forestalled them," said Mr. Lambreth, as he took a seat beside her ; and some bow he managed to continually forestall them the evening through even in the matter of assisting with Marian's music-sheets when she -ang. He remained a guest at Mrs. Winsome's for an inddfinite time, and Marian met him each day. On one occasion he found his way to the little cbapel to hear her sing, aud then walked home with ber along that vpry river-fide where Allen had beeu pleased to lead her; but Marian thought not of him now. "I have paid Mrs. Winsome a much longer visit than I intended,'' Mr. Lambretb said, as they strolled together along the pleasant way, "for which, my dear Miss Ains worth, you are entirely accounta ble." Marian started, not so much with surprise, as with a natural nervous less. The greea banks sloped to :he water's edge, just as when, in ;hat season a year back, a strong tall, manly form bad strolled beside aer, a tingling joy within his youth t'ul veins. Yet the absent hardly crossed her thoughts at that moment- Aboat her senses was the glamour of silk-curtained alcoves, velvet-covered floors, artadoroed galleries and halls, and all tbe re ined, softly-breathing, softlymov ing luxuries and appointments of wealth- What had Allen to do with these evidences of a superior taste ? Ah, what, indeed ! "And the happy termination of my visit," continued Mr. Lambreth, "depends, too, entirely on Miss Ainsworth. I am nov a young man or a very romantic one, but I own now to a deep seated desire to make one woman my wife that one is beside me now.'' The graceful figure of Marian in its summer gown of white paused, and the brown eyes tbat were Al len's pride bent to the shimmering river. Certainly this was tbe calm, weM-bred sort ot wooing she had always argued for, and now that tbe subject was opened it did not ruffle her in the least. "Marian, I call you Marian, 1 can give you all that wealth can buy, and my own lastis: affection. What I cannot give yon is the youth that would le fit mate for jour own ten der years of woman-hood. And, my der, I leave tbe rest entirely with you, ueither wishing to hasten your decision, ir it piease you 10 withhold it, or delay it, if yoa feel you can give rue my answer now.'' And Marian said, in a low but steady voice, "I thank you for j our confidence, and am willing to trust my whole future in your hands.' She held out trembling fingers to him. He took the hand, placed it npou his arm, and smiled beniguly on her. They continued their wrvlk, and the soft breeze played with the cent of the flowers and the shim mering ripples, as if no vow had been broken that day no noble heart trampled with aisdai'j. Miss Ainsworth bad written ber letter of explanation to Allen Dals ton, and given him in all honesty the extent ot tbe Witter truth. "I will not trcst such messages a3 have passed between ns to the pot," she wroee. "When yoa retaru, perhaps you will come to me aud receivr them with your own hands.'' Months and months bad fled since then, and the stipulated length of her engagement was drawing to a close. Still had she received no word from her former lover, nor had any other, since that fatal letter winged its bitter tidings to a faith ful heart. The sweet, gentle mother, worn with anxious waiting tor tidings ot I er boy, put aside at last her pride and resentmeut, and sought Marian to see vvhat she could learn. But Marian knew nothing, and sent the little, old lady away, realiziug for tbe first time the barrier she had built with her own bands between them. There caoie news at last, but not to Miss Ainswoitb. His mother broke the seal and read with pain atifled hart : Dear Mother: Because of broken faith (may God forgive me), 1 have broken faith with you. I know what it means for a yonng man to go to the dogs, and now I am ill too ill they 8-y to live. 1 would like to come home, but I dare not. ALLEN. But before a week had passed he was at home, a wreck of his former self, with nothing to remind a dear anxious face of her boy, save his biave blue eyes that grew so des perate at times, and soltened tbe succeeding moments To thank a mother for her love. Gradually he recovered some measure of strength under ber care and bop the hope of youth entered his breast again. Perhaps, after all, be wonld not die. Despite his past wild life of months, God might spare him to live for his mother. Of his return, Marian as yet knew nothing. Under the new charge in her prospects, Mrs. Winsome bad desired to make her stay tbat of a guest. But there was a spark of independence in Miss Ainsworth. She preferred to continue her duties till such time as she left them as tbe mistr ess of Mr. Lambreth's mag nificent home. The months had passed in a sort of vague anticipa tion that was not unpleasant. Only when Allen's mother had corne to her for news of her son did Marian's heart sink within her, and a vague dread of worse Jo come possess her. On that Sunday morning before her wedding v she repaired to the little cbapel, where, during Allen's long absence, her voice bad beeu accustomed to lead all the hymns. Absorbed in her own thoughts she noted not ;he return ot the shadow of a former man, nor saw a wan, pale face beneath fair chistnut curls look out upon ber from unchanged blue eyes. Not till on the breath less congregation the barmonv ot their blent voices fell did Marian know of his presence. . A quicK j flashing glance in his direction, and J a deadly faintness threatened to I overcome her. Wi:h a desperate, j frightened effort she strove with her j failing voice to carry the strain to the end. So many were present who Knew her it would never do toj fail. Mr. Lambreth' ejes were 0:1 j her, as those of Mr". Winsome. And j she did not tail. j After service Mrs. Winsome beset; the minister for an introduction to the young man with the charming I tenor voice. "You must come and ! singfor ns,"' she aid, offering her j hand to Alien. "We are so fond cf vocal music, and your voice harmo nizes so wonderfully with Mies Aius. worth's. Promise yoa will come soon, for Marian goes away iu a week's time." Allen made excuses cn the plea of health, but Mrs. Win some was not to be dismayed. She attacked Marian, and insisted, if she knew the young man, on her uing her personal iutlnence. So Miss Ainsworth, with an aching heart, penned an urgent note to Allen, and made it, as excuse, an opportunity for exchanging tokens of a past friendship neither conld continue. So Allen came, still we;k and aud thin, and pale, but handsome as a young god. The strong. Lardy, dauntless presence, as she had once known it, would have left but slight tiac9 on Mari;n, out at Hgbt of him ! reduced and weakened, she knew at last she had a heart and it be longed to him. Bitter awakening ou the eve of her marriage witb an j other ! She received him alone. "Allen I'' she cried, taking one glad step forward, aud then re treating under the bitter check of remembrence. He strode towards her, and for one instant the words of a song he had rendered so oft in his melting tenor rose with the flashing iupira tion of memory to bis lips . ''Eunita, Eunita, ask thy soul if we snould p-irt, Eunita, Eunita. loan thou on my heart !' " The name tbat bad once annoed her sence of dignity the voice that bad spok u too tenderly! B th were ecstatic music now. And be fore the voice bad ceased, the two young people found themselves in each other's arms, 'Eunita, Eunita, ask thy soul if we should part " He did not whisper or speak the words now- He sang them iu a voice tbat thrilled ber heart. But a moment, and she bad brok eu from him, and the next glanc revealed his Marian indeed but changed aud enthroned amidst all the splendor and evidence of wealth that could but be distaut from him all through his life. De reeled backward from her, and caught wildly at a chair for support. Why nad she brought him here to tor, tnre him ? As it divining his thought she beckoned him gently to a seat, and handed him from a pocket in her gown a packet. His own hand writing stared back in empt., rejected, unless sentiments from those old letters. With a smothered cry, he cast them into the fire opon tbe hearth. "And mine ?' she asked tremo lously. He gave her three little notes and that last bitter latter the sto ry cf ber broken faith, She threw them into the flames. "I have only this now," he said slowly and chokingly, "you will let me keep it," and be produced a withered bunch of violets. She bad worn them the day she promised to be bis. and gave them with her vow. In other scenes he did not learn to forget her, but grew familiar with another voice tbat blent hiR anoth er choir, not quite so sweetly but stronger and more faithfuily. Withj partially returning health, and I some measure of life's enjoyment,) past bitterness grew softeued in the wear The ordinary little girl, who sang W'side him now awikentd kinder feelings toward womankind. And then be had his mother. 1 He went to her one Sunday morn 1 before service, and kisspd th swe-t J tiny fac where the faint roses of J ber girlhood were stamped even toj old age. 'Ada is a good girl, mother.'' "Yes, my boy." "I think she loves me. I can give her what is left of me, and be grateful as a dog for what Provi denco is pleased to bestow." So be took tbe kindly little girl j to himself, and half cheated himself j Into the bebef that he was happy with his Topsy, as called her. j But the snatch of better health j was but a frpak of his dread disease j conrted under the madness that , followed Marian's broken promise. He fell ill agiin, and with his strength went their subsistence. It was then that his Topsy proved her devotlou. She took the place of bread-winner, and was happy even in his fading smiles. Through the long twilight of that last summer's evening, they were together singing their favorite hymns tbe exquisite melting tones cleaving to the skies the trongerf the more thrilling for the impend iog change, till sobs choked the ut terance of his faithful little helps mate, and he ceased his singing to console. "Never mind, .Topsy. We shall meet again, in the sweet bye-and be."' He was carried to that humble little chapd of familiar by-gone days, to receive his last benediction from tbe man of peace who had blessed his full, living, breathing manhood. The minister's funeral service was ircoherent his task heavy, for be could ouly remember him in the pride of youth and beauty. 'He i riot dead, but sleepiug.' That peace is his which passeth uq derstanding." A heartrending cry broke tbe si- lence, aud a woman's fainting form fell at the feet of mourners gathered near. It was not Topsy, no- She was as yes only strivng to realize the blow. Upon this woman the blow had fallen the dread responsibility of a wasted life fell ou tbe ycung and beautiful shoulders ot Marian Lam bretb. Not all the wealth of ages, the glittering dross of worlds, the teuderness of an unloved though unsuspecting husband, could ease the burden of what was only now a memory but one fraught with tbe account of a human life. Prof. Langley, of the Smithson ian Institution, Washington, has de veloped a flying machine which be beleives is practicable. It's coming there's no doubt about that When a lot ot American citizens conceive an idea they keep ham mering on it until tbe desired re salt has been produced. Years ago, when there first began to talk about a type-setting machine, prac-. lical printers cackled outright. One of the first men, if not the ve ry first to make an experiment in this line was a North Carolinian, a iidleigh man named Foster. That wa at least twenty-five years ago. He was langhed at. Nobody, ex cept a few supported cranks, believs ed tbat tbe type would be set for a newspaper, the lines "justified," &c by anything short of human intelli gence, But tbe few wbo bad tbe kink in tbeir brains kept pegging away and now tbe greater part of the type on all of the great papers is set by machinery. In tbe same way the flying-machine people will keep at it until they find tbe aecret tbey are searching for. Bat nobo dy wants to fly away before finding our, who are to get all tbe different offices, Charlotte Observer. These facts regarding the Haw aiian islands may be of interest at thi time : The size of the largest of the eight islands is giveu as 4210 square mile with an elevation of 13-805 feer. The next largest island Maui, contains only 7C0 square miles, Oahu COO square miles, Kaaai 590 sqaare miles, Molok&i 270 square miles, nd Nubau, tbe .smallest of the group, only 63 square mile. Th population hj th census of 1884 was 80,573, .vhich bad advanced m 1890 to 90. 1C0. Tbe pure Hawaiian on tbe la ter date were 35,020, the mixed Hawaiins S50, the Chinese l4,560t tbe Japnese 11,780, tbe Portuguese 3,330, the Americans 1.970, and the British 1,340. 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