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1 - V 7 i i . V- '1 arol: TOT,. 4. MORGANTON, N. C, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1SS3. WO. 41. ii I x x I ir : i t-wi i i 1883. SPRING AND SUMMER. Office or wAIjTjCE BROS. To The Trade: We take pleasure in informing yon that oar S-T-O-C-K IS NOW COMPLETE. Oar S'ock this Season is nnupually attractive and complete complete in all departments; well assorted, new and seasonable, embracing everything necessary to the full and complete outfit of the retailer. Extending to you a cordial invitation to visit ns, and hoping to secure your orders through our traveling salesmen, We are, very truly yours, Wallao Biros. tot JP . All or Hers by mail will be filled upon the same terms anil receive the same attention as buyers in 2erson. THE MOUNTAIN HOTEL, J. A. HUNT, Proprietor, Morgantoa, N.C. J5IIEADQUARTERS FOR-a COMMERCIAL MEN. S&A Good Table, Comfortable Rooms, Polite Attention, Reasonable Rate. Special Terms by the Montlt. Important Notice to Farmers of toorth Carolina ! In order that all may be able to use Baugh's Special Fertilizer for Tobacco and Grain, we are ow selling it direct to farmers of of North Carolina, at th .Reduced wholesale prices lor rice per Single Ton - - - $35 OO Three (3) Tons for - - - - lOOOO Five (5) Tons or oyer - : : 33 OO Per Ton of 2000 lbs. in good bags of of 200 lbs-each on board cars or vesse at our works. ? We Guarantee the following annalysis Ammonia - - - - 5 to 6 Per cent Available Bona Phosphate - - 10 to 12 " " Sulphate of Potash - 4 to 5 ' " This article has been used foryearq in North Carolina with excellent results, and we think it will pay all Tobacco Growers to use it liberally. Address ail orders c? SONS, 103 SOUTH STKERT, HOWARD & -DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, 2I0RGANT0N, N. C. ARE constantly receiving new and seasonable goods, which they are ffering at the most reaionable ra'es. Call and soe thcru, and -yon will be ova that tbej can 20 1 be undersold. 1883. the following Cash: and inquiries to BALTIMORE. MD. PRESNELL, THE MOUNTAINEER. W. C. ERVIN, Editor SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1883. THE MODEL. GlllL. VIRQlIi A. PINKL.EY, A practical, plain young girl.. Not afraid-of-the-raiu young girl.,' A poetical posy. a rudy and rosy, A helper-of-self .voung girl At-home-in-her-place young girl: A nevei -will-lace young girl., A toiler serene, A life pure and clean, A princess'of-peace young girl. I A wear-her-own-hair young girl., A free-from-a-stare young girl., Improve every hou r, No sickly sunflower, A wealth-of-rare-sense young girl. Not a reader-of-trash young girl.. Not a oheap-jeWel-flash young girl., Not asipperof ruin, Not a chewer of gum, A marvel-of-sense young girl. An early-retiring young girl.. An active, aspiring youug girl.. A morning ariser, A dandy despiser. A progressive, American girl. An honestly-courting young girl., A never-seen-flirting young girl., A quiot and pure A modest demure, A fit-for-a-wife youug girl. A pought-everywhere young girl., A future-mst-frir young girl.. An ever discreet, We too seldom meet . This queen-among-queens young girl. Cincinnati JSnquirer , For The Mountaineer. "VIOLETTA." BY OUR SPECIAL story writer. "(Everything has been said," ,says a Freuch - writer, and : yet there are little, gems of romance that have never been unearthed, flowerets of truth that are ever spring ing up along Life's pathway that may be plucked aud wreathed into a gar land of story as startling and as thrill ing as the most untrammelled fiction. Not that this story is to be either start ling or thrilling. It is only a memory recalled this dreamy May evening as I sit here on the veranda and watch the sraoke from my cigar float away toward the mountains over there, where heathery height, and beetling cliff, and wild tangled rapine are fast fading from view as the twilight dies away in the west a memory of an other May evening more than a half score years ago,when dnsty and weary, I rode through those very mountains, a prisoner the cruel hand-cuffs bind ing my hands, and the dread of ap proaching punishment nierciug my heart. Young, giddy, reckless ; allured by the novelty and enthused by the dan ger, I had connected myself with one of the most active branches of that dark and mystic brotherhood which had sprung into life at the call of a magic voice, had accomplished its object, and, like thegenie of Arabian romance, had assumed the proportions of a giant that threatened destruc tion to those who had called it into existence. Of the history of the persecution of the Ku KluxKLtns, I need not speak except to say. that I was one of those who, betrayed by trusted associates, had fled from my home aud was rap idly making my way to the free wilds of the West when I was captured, and that bright May evening found me on my way to trial before a tribunal over whoe threshold were inscribed the words that Dante tells us glow over the portals of Hell "who enters here leaves hope behind!" There were three other prisoners besides myself, aud the report having reached our captors that a rescue might be attempted in passing through the South Mountains, we had beeu placed in charge of a small squadron of cavalry, and by the side of the scarred old veteran who had charge of the troop.. rode a girl, his daughter, .graceful and-pretty, whose strange freak it was to follow the old kero wherever he went, and bluff old Henry DeLaney and petit Violetta were $ as inseparable as form and shadow. ' . ! I had met her once before at a grand tounament ball in a South Carolina town, and when that morn ing I noticed a glance of recog nition from her dark piercing eyea, I had bowed to her,' and the , grim old Lieutenant, who hid a -kind theart under his rough exterior, had allowed me to ride by her side, though gener ally riding himself near enough to overhear every word that was spoken. Violetta regarded me with looks of the tenderest sympathy that touched my boyish heart and aroused there a feeling deeper, perhaps, than mere gratitude, or let us call it that thankfulness which the heart of man feels for favors bestowed by the hand of a beautful woman. She talked to me in her vivacious French style, led me gadually to forget ray sorrow and danger, insisted upon my sharing, of her dinner when we stopped at noon to rest, and showed me a hundred delicate attentions more highly ap preciated as they were unexpected. It was growing late, and from the steep ivey-clad mountains that over shadowed our road the lonely owl was alredy "complaining to the moon,'' and we had not found a place to spend the night. As' the narrow roadway was momentarily becoming more in distinct, there was every prospect of our lossng our way among the deso late mountains, and, for the first time during the day, Violetta and I were left alone, out of earshot of any of the squadron, who were strung out along the road' that ran in rather dan gerous proximity to a chasm at the bottom oT which could be. heard . the roarings of a turbulent mountain stream. ri'h Lieutenant was ' some distance in front, picking his way among the boulders, aud peering out through the darkness for some signs of a human habitation, but without success. Suddenly Violetta, who had been unusually quiet, whispered tome: "Quick! Give me your hands T have. the key." And almost before I could ' com prehend her meaning she had unlock the shackles that bound my hands and they fell to the ground, unheeded a mid the clatter of the horses hoofs on the stones. "Now, look to yourself," she contin ued in an undertone, "and, by God's help, you are free." I grasped the little hand of my fair liberator and reverently pressed it to my lips as a token of my gratitude, aud she murmured "good-bye," and rode on to join her father Then, to spring from my saddle and take refuge in the thick ivey jungle that clothed the mountain side was the work of an instant. The alarm was given, aud a succession of shots fired into the thicket, but too late Aided "by the friendly darkness, I made good my escape, and a few years later, when I visited the cottage of the Lieutenant, then retired on half pay, to ask him for the bright little flower that bloomed on his hearth stone, he answered: M Ask Violetta herself, Lionel. She carries the key to my heart as she once carried the key. to your shackles' my boy." And so I knew that the veteran, who is now all that a father could be to me, had guessed how it was that I had escaped him that night in the wild gorges of the South Mountains. Ridding Land of ; Stumps. The Scientific American is authority for the following plan of getting rid of stumps: "In the autumn or early win ter bore a hole one or twj inches iu diameter, according to the girth of the stump, and about eight inches deep. Put into it one or two ounces of salt petre, fill the hole with water, and plug it close. - In the ensuing spring take out the plug and! pour about a gill, of keroseno oil into, the hole and ignite it. The stump will smoulder away, without blazing, to the very extremity of the roots, leaving noth- j fug but ashes." THE BAD BOYS LITTLE SISTER "What is it a boy or a girl ?" : said the groceryman, winking at an old lady with a shawl over her head, who was trying to hold a paper over ; pitcher of yeast with her thumb. "How in the blazes did you know anything about it?" said the boy as he looked around in - astonish men! and with some indignation. "Well it's a girl, if you must know, and that's enough," and he looked down at the cat playing on the floor with a potato, his face a pictureof dejection. "Oh, don't feel hard about it," said the gioceryman, as he opened the door for the old lady. "Such things are bound to ocur. But you take my word for it, the young one is going to have a hard time in life unless you mend your ways.! You will be using it for a cork to a jug, or to wad a gun with, the first thing your ma knows." "I wouldn't touch the darn thing with the tongs." said the boy, as he rallied enough to eat some crackers and cheese. ''Gosh, this cheese tastes good. I hain't had nothing to eat since morning. I have been all over this town' trolling for nurses. They think a boy hasn't got any feel ings. But I wouldn't care a gol darn if ma hadn't been sending me for neuralgia medicine, and hay fever snuff all winter, when she wanted to be rid of me. I have cjmin the room lots cf times when ma and he sewing girl were at work on some flannel things, and ma would-hide them in a basket and send me off after medicine. I was deceived up to four o'clock this morning, when pa came to'my room and pulled me out of bed to go over orif -the-' Wt 'Sid Rafter. some old woman that knew ma, and ; they have kept me whooping evet since. What does a bov want with a sister unless it is a big sister ? I don't want no sister that I've got to hold, and rock, and hold a bottle for. This affair breaks me all up," and the boy picked the cheese out of his teeth with a sli ver he cut out of the counter. "Well, how does your pa take it?" said the groceyman, as he charged the boy's pa with cheese and saffron, and a number of such things. "O, pa wall pull through. He want ed to boss the whole concern until ma's chum, an old woman who takes snuff, fired him out in the hall. Pa sat there on my hand-sled, a perfect picture of despair, and I thought it would be a kindness to play it on him. I found the cat asleep in the bath room, and I rolled the cat up iu J shawl and brought it oui, to pa and told him the nurse wanted him to hold baby. "It seemed to do him good to feel he was indespensable around the house, and he took the cat on his lap as tenderly as you ever saw a mother hold an infant Well, I got m the back hall, where he couldn't see me, and pretty soon thecathegan to wake up and stretch himself, and pa said, 's-h-h-tootsy, go to sleep now, and let its pa hold it,' and and pa he rocked back and forth on the hand sled, and began to sing 'by, low, baby.' That settled it with the cat.' Well, some cats can't stJ nd music, anyway, and the cat wanted to get out of the shawl, the louder pa sung, and bime by I heard something rip, and pa yel led, 'scat, you brute,' and when I looked around the corner of the hall the cat was bracing, hisself against pa's vest with his toenails,, and ypw ing, and pa fell over the sled and . be gan to talk about the , hereafter like the minister does when he gets exci ted in church, aud then pa picked up the tied and seemed to be looking for me or the cat, and both of us was offul scarce. Don't you think there are times when the boys and cats are kind of few around their accustomed haunts? " Pa don't look as though he was very smart, but he can hold a cat about as well as the next. mati. But I am serry for' ma. She was just get ting ready to go to' Florida "for "her neuralgia, and this will put a ttop to it, cause she has to stay and take care ; of that yoong one. Pa says I will have a nice time this summer pushing the baby wagon- .By the great horn spoons, there has got. to be a dividing : line somewhere, between business and pleasure, and I strike the line at wheel ing a baby. I had lather catch , a string of perch than to wheel all the babies over was. They needn't pro cure no babies on my account, if it ,is , . to amuse me. I don't see why babies can't be sawed off .onto , people that need them in their business- . Our folks don't ueeed a baby any : mora . than you need a safe, and there are people just suffering for babies. Say, how would it be to take . the baby ; some night and leave it on some old bachelor's door step? If it had beeu a bicycle, or a breechloading shot-gun, . I wouldn't have cared, but a. baby! Bah! ; It makes me tired. I'd druther . had a prize package. Well, I'm sorry pa allowed me to come home, after he ; drove me away last week. . I ..guess : all he wanted me to come back for , was to humiliate me, and send me on . errands. Well, I must go and see if he and the cat have mad up." . Hans Crockebs Marriage Cere, mony. Hans had just been elected a justice of the P ace, and was called on to marry a couple. He had never before thought that he might be called on to perform that ceremony, and as there was none in the Code of Georgia he was puzzled vsry much. .So he be gan to reflect and study up a ceremo ny. ' When the time came, Hans put on his best clothes and repaired to the house of the bride. There was only one room to it, and it was pretty well filled, and Hans was given the post of honor. - - After waiting awhile and nothing being said until silence became painful he arose and spoke thus: . "Vel, mine vriends, a3 you haf all corned oud here to-night to get mar ried, de goople vil blease stand up." "Dear vreinds, dis goople wants to get married, and it is a ferry goot thing and bin in practice an awful long time, and if anypody objects to the marriage of these too goople . let him now hold this Justice of the Peace or he must not keep Lis mouth shut some more. " There was no objection and Jake proceeded. "Now Shon and Mary, blease hold up your right bauds." Right handt went up, and Hans continued: "Yott and each of you do solemnly swear that you vil both be man and wife to oneanother, till one or the other die, to the best of your knowledge and be lief, so help you God." Answers, "We do." "All right ; now blease shine your right hands." Done. "Now whoever this court jines together let no man put asunder, and suffer little children to come unto you and forbid them not, for such is the word of the Lord. Amen." Could Afford it. "Boss, does yer wanter buy a ham?" asked a ne gro of a white man " "What is it worth?" ' "Wall, as it's yerse'lj yer may take it fur fifty cents." . ' : ' . "That won't do. You can afford to sell it for less," for I believe you stole it, anyhow." " ' "Boss, doan' cuse me so rash. Have a little mussy 'bout yer pusson. , .But, ' I tell yer, boss, if yer won't say noth-. in 'hout it, I'll Jet yer uabtf fur forty cents." , ' ;'' ; The white man agreod, and paid over the amount. . The. negror: just aft) he crossed the street, was accosted by, an acquantance, who said: . "What did yer let dat man bab dat ham so cheap fur?" f "Oh, I Could 'ford it, case T stole; it outen his own smoke-house. -ytr- kxnsaw Traveller. ' ' ' A dude with a downy mustache On a simpering girl made a mash, -But alas! it is said ; ' ' That tliev never did wed i i - For they had neither hohvny nor hash' The dreamiest dude of the "dudes To skate up.m rollers concludes. Vhe:i he falls on his pants We can see at a glance A rent whence some linen protradca'. 1 t i. X i V
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