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The Marion Record. ,G DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. MARION, N. C. j Xj. g-olay & sojsr, Jolimont Vineyards, Grape Nurseries, DISTILLERY & MANUFACTORY OF Pure Native Wines, French Cognac, Brandie A n d FINE LIQ UOItS. Awarded Fir6t Premium at Exposition of New Berne, N. C, Feb., 1894. OiJ) Fout, X. O. Horner Military School. OXFORD, N. C. Modern buildiugs, healthful and at tractive location. Efficient instructor. Number limited. A beautiful Southern Home for Boys. Catalogue tent on ap plication. JAMES MORRIB, R. B MoCALL, Marion, N. C Asheville, N. C. MORRIB A M'CALL, Attorneys at Law. Tract ice in DcDowell, Rutherford, Talk, Yancey and Mitchell counties, and in the United States' Circuit Court at Aiheville and Statesville, and in the Supreme Court of the St.te. Rusinew promptly attended to. M A. NEWLAND, Attorwet at Law, Ma i n, - N. C. Practices in the 10th and 12th Judi cial dintricts, the Supreme Court of N rth Carolina and th i Federal Courts of the Weitero dutrict of North Caro lina. D. R. Hrnorws, Marion, N. C. E K. WT801f, Rurnsville, N C IIU1H.INS& WATSON, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. (0 t7AU business entrusted to them will leceive prompt attcution. R.. J. Surgin, Dentist. Offers his professional services to his friends and former patrons of Marion and vicinity. All work guaranteed to be first class, and as reasonable as such work can be afforded. Office opposite the Flemtuing House. sWard air like h. I NFAV LINK. New r.Mite to Charlotte, Hiluigh, Wil mington, Richmond, Norfolk, Washing on, liiltiinore and the East. Alsto Atlanta, New Orleans and all points in Texas and the Southwest. Memphis, Kansas City, Denver and all points in he (Jreat West. For Maps, Folder., Time Tables a.id lowtpt rates write to B. A. NEWLAND, (it'll. Triv. Pans. Agent, Charlotte. N. C. Le ve M iri'in C. C. A. C. ft 4") a in ' Cli idotte S. A. L 1 1 50 a in Arrive Raleigh " (( pm " Wilmington " ft 2 p in Atlantt " :i !) p m 15. A. Nkwi.xnh, T. J. Andkkon, !. T P. A. O P A. 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A Close Shave for a Bill. Atlanta, Ga. The Georgia General Assembly adjurned at midnight after a 50 days' session . Many local measures were rushed through in the closing hours. The only bill of general im portance was the appropriation bill and the conference committee's report passed the House by only one majority. Had it been lost the Governor would have called an extra session. The General Assembly holda another 50 day a' session next falL Post office Conspirators Tried and Convicted. Columbia, S. C. Barrett, the chiei of the gang of postoffice conspirators who have been on trial here the past week in the United States Conrt, was sentenced in the conspiracy case to 18 months imprisonment in the govern ment prison at Columbus, Ohio, and to pay a fine of $3,500. He has not yet been sentenced in the forgery case in which he was convicted. The maxi mum sentence for this offense is 15 years and a fine of $5,000. The other conspirators convicted along with him have been given similar sentences. One of them, J. T. Tillman, who was tried and convicted, is a fugitive in Texas. Two other members of the gang are fugitives also, but they have not yet been tried. J F. MORPHEW, Attorney at Law, Practices in the Courts of Mitchell Yancey, Buncombe, Watauga, Ashe; Supreme and Federal Courts. Tonsorial, WM. SWEENEY, Prsctical and Scientific Barber. Over Streetm n's drug store. Call and see nte, as I promise satisfaction in all ift- the Marion Record Is the only Democratic Nvppap i In McDowell county, and has a large, cir culation in adjoining counties It pub lishes all the news without fear or favor, and Is the organ of no riug or clique. It la the bold champion of the' peo ple's rights, an earnest advocate of the best interests of the county of McDow ell and the town of Marion. Its adver tising rates are reasonable, and the sub scription price is $1.00 per iy tar in ad- vane. If you want the beet newspaper In the country brimming full of choice reading matter for business men, fanners, me chanics, and the home circles of all classes subscribe and pay for the Record. If you don't, why just don't, and the paper will be printed every Thursday evening as usual . If you haven't enough interest in you? county's wellfare to sustain the best ad vocate of its diversified interests, and its truest friend the newspaper you need not expect a 2-column obituary aotice when your old stingy bones are hid from the eyes of progress in the ground, All who owe subscriptions to tns Rbcorb will be dropped from our list unless they pay up at once. Tours Respectfully, The Marion Record, J. H. ATKIN, Editor and Proprietor. Professional tifarbn. J L. 0. BffiD Arroif it and CouicsxLLom at Law. Marion, - N. 0. Practices in all courts, State and Pet. eraL Special attention given to lave tigating land titles and collecting olairna, larOffice on Main 8treet. JUSTICE A JUSTICE, Attorneys at Law, Mrrioa, N. O. E. J. Justice is located here. O flics u upper room of Flemming HoteL HOLLY BERRIES, Hotly berries, holly berries. Bed and bright and beaming through the dusky evergreens Like spray of coral gleaming, I hare power to fill the heart With memories of glee ; OJ what happy thoughts can cling Round the holly tree f When I seethe holly berries I fnney that I hear Merry chimes and carols sweet Ringing In my ear. Christmas, with Its blazing fires And happy hearths, t see ; Ob, what merry thoughts can cling Round the holly tree t Bring the glowing holly berries, Snow is lying deep ; All the gay and blooming flowers Till the springtime sleep , Lt them grace our happy homes Witb their crimson light. Mingling with the somber flr. And the laurel bright. Keenly blows the Icy wind, Shorter grows the day, Winter scatters cold and gloom In his dreary piny , Yet we love the closing years Fop the joy tbey bring, And the holy memories That round the holly cling. Holly berries, holly berries. Red and bright and beaming. Through the dusky evergreens Like sprays of coral gleaming Ye have powor to All the heart With memories of glee ; Ab, what happy thoughts can cling Round the holly tree ! "LEFTY." A CHBI8TMAS STORY. CERTAINLY he was a woe-begone ob ject 8 be rode up to the Rita Blanca 3 ranch house. His clothes were in rags; his immature freckled face sharp with anxiety and l3aw possibly with hun ger. The diminutive gray pony he rode seemed to share in his dejection ; man and beast looked as though life had used them ill, and turned to tbem only its harshest side. Clark Sargent was manager of the Rita Blanca, which was owned by an English company. It was a clean, well ran, closely managed concern, and a very unpromising place for shirks, sweaters or loafers of any sort. Clark himself was sitting on the porch as this forlorn-looking pair came np. "No," he said in reply to a request for work, "we're not taking on any hands now." Then, as he noted the look of abject despair that settled upon the thin face, "get down and rest and have some dinner. You look sick." "No, I ain't sick," was the answer hastily and anxiously given. "I hain't been sick. I'm jest tired an hungry. I been ridin' all day." Clark had just come in from where all the headquarters hands, including the cook (for your genuine ranch cook is always a rider, too, and quite as liable as not to be the best broncho buster and handler of cattle in the force) were gathering two-year-olds for shipment, and there was no one at the ranch house but himself. As he set out some cold grab and pat the coffee pot on the stove he glanced at the man from time to time. Something in the meager form that looked like a boy's only because it was not strong and well-nourished enough for a man's touched bis sym pathies. "Why, yon are not able to do a cowboy's work," he said, speaking almo6t sharply, becansehe was annoyed witn Himself lor feeling inclined to employ the poor fellow against his business instincts and for pity's sack alone. "O, yes, I am, sir. I'm a heap abler than what I look. I'm used to it. I been out in more northers, an' worked to stop more stampedes than I've got fingers an' toes. I can stand anything, if I c'u'd je6t git a stiddy job. I been out of work ain't had no stiddy job for six months; that's what's need me np so." The end of it was that Clark put Thompson or Lefty, the sobriquet bis lefthandedness had earned for him in the free and easy style of the plains, where a man's conspicuous feature or trait dubs him on the force ; and be was started out on regular range work the next morning. .: There was no complaint from the boss of any lack of ability, capacity or energy on Lefty's part ; and no re marks of any kind from Lefty himself. He seemed only too well satisfied, and most anxious 10 please. - But one morning, when Clark was riding across the Minneosa pasture, he saw one of his cowboys dismounted and sitting on the ground beside his pony, which was graz ng. As the figure remained motionless, he rode nearer to see what was the matter, and recognized in the crouched form, with its head on his knees, Lefty. He called to him by name. Lefty raised his face, wiping his mouth fur tively. "I git a little dizzy, sometimes," he said appealingly, "when I ride right hard; I ain't hurt, Mr. Sargent; I ain't sick." "Good God, boy," said Clark, look ing at the blood spatters on the brown plains grass, and on the shirt frjut which the other was trying vainly to cover with that trembling left haud, "you've had a hemorrhage ! Go right np to the) house as soon as you can." Lefty staggered to his feet, aud ftood clinging to his saddle horn, in a pitiful effort to pull himself together, and look all right. "Mr. Sargent," he said, beseech ingly, "this ain't nothin'; it don't interfere with my work none ; an' you don't know how bad I hate to be knockin' about from one place to an other." "Why, Lefty," said Clark, horrified, 'yon don't think I wanted to dis charge you ! Here, let me help you np on the horse, an! I'll lead him in." Clark had a medicine chest, a fair practical knowledge of the effect of drugs, and considerable tact in their LAI nee. Lefty, ot course, was burning oat but slowly in thi high, dry air, so unfavorable to the development of his disease ; and Clark doctored him faithfully with tonics and palliatives. He was not sent out on the range again ; work was found for him about the house, and he soon came to be cdOk and general domestic manager. He develops Into a skilful house keeper and his cooking saved much of the customary wear and tear of the boys' moral natures. Indeed, Pletch Phillips declared that it was a more potent means of grace than the ex hortations of the cowboy evangelist over at Lone Jack. Bat it was to Sargent's especial comfort and welfare that his loving services were watchfully devoted. The pegs and gun racks in the office room at the Bita Blanca arc all gleaming buffalo horns, picked np on the plain by Lefty, with the weather worn bark of years of exposure on them, aid patiently scraped down and polished till they look like little half crescents of jet. He searched out, polished and put np, too, the great spreading cattle horns over the office doors a ad windows. Clark likes to hunt, and the heads and skins of deer, antelope, coyotes and big "loafer" wolves that he has shot, stuffed and mounted, or stretched and tanned by Lefty's skilful hands, adorn the walls and floor. Clark's pony, his saddle, spars and all his equipments and accouterments were kept in the shining and speck less condition of a crack cavalryman's ; and his clothing was searched for rents and missing buttons with the eagerness of a young wife, new to her duties. Lifted out of vagabondage into a comfortable home, and freed from the haunting dread of losing it ; simply pleased, like a child, at being a valued factor in the comfort of that home, Lefty, whose springtime had been nipped and chilled by adversity's northers, came into late blossom. His face filled ont and bloomed till it looked like a yonng boy's. In this fostering atmosphere he pat forth nnmberless entertaining little accomplishments; he discovered un suspected graces and developed the cheerful optimism of the consump tive. His cough was always "better," and ho was mildly impatient of any inquiry as to his health, assuming the attitude of a great stoat fellow who ought to be ont on the range earning his way, but who accepted these light er duties because they were of a sort unpopular with the others. Notwithstanding this, ho took faith fully the medicines Clark gave him, as be would have taken, done or en dured anything asked or imposed up on him from that quarter. But there was one medicine Clark could not get him to take; and it was a tonic upon which' be placed the most reliance in such a caaa plenty of wl-xky. "Jio, Mr. Sargent," he said, "don't give me none o' that. Whisky an' ine's bad friends." "Why, Lofty, that's mighty queer. I know you've drank plenty of whisky before now." "Yes, sir; an' it's what I'll never do again ; it's been my worst enemy. I've been in with rustlers an' all kinds o' thieves when I was drinkin, an I didn't get no good by ray meanness, neither. Whisky starved me an' froze me as long as I stuck to it, an that's what it'll do for any man that loves it like I do." As Lefty said this he looked care fully away from his employer. Clark's drinking habit wrs the one gnawing anxiety and distress that he had. It had been growing steadily worse since Lefty came to the Rita Blanca. It need to be that Clark only drank to excess when he went to Antelope, where there were bar rooms and con vivial companions ; but now the buck board could not be got ready for a drive of a day or two across the coun try without a jug of whisky in it. Lelty's own bitter experience, to certain passages in which--the most shameful and criminal he always re ferred with open simplicity, gave him an appreciation and horror of the de clivity upon which the other was start ing ; and he only lacked the courage to f peak. When Clark was beginning on one of his sprees Lefty's beseeching eyes would follow him, only to drop hum bly when they met his look ; and the silent protest and entreaty was as well understood between them as words could have been. Lefty stood between him and publi city so far as was possible, and lessened by his own watchfulness and care the terrible risks Clark ran when drink ing. It came to be the regular thing that whenever the backboard was, brought out for one of the manager's trips. Lefty got old Hank Pearaall to take charge of the house and the cook in ? whiln he drove for Clark. It was only so that he felt at ease, for then he knew that whatever manaun reaca ing for the lines or slashing at the) fcaif-brok9 broncho team there was, he was there to take care of Clark, who) bad more than once of late rolled out of the backboard, and Lefty had had hard work, what with ths wild team and Clark's helplessness, to get him back in. : One lowering December afternoon they stopped at Antelope for the mail, on their way home from a distant ranch. Things had been going bet ter ; it was weeks since Clark's last spree, and he had been doing almost entirely without liquor. But it was, Christmas Eve ; every bar room was full of cowboys and ranchmen, drink ing and hilarious. Clark would have the team put up and fed, and they themselves had sap per at the Antelope House. When Ifty went to him in the bar, after supper, Clark would have eome, but there was a crowd around him that wouldn't hear of it. Finally, an noyed at Lefty's persistence, they turned their attention to him, and it was only by the exercise of consider able dexterity and address that he got oat withoat having to drink with them. Full of anxiety, he went back again and again, sometimes finding Clark determined to make a night of it, sometimes half sobered np and will ing to go, but when on the strength: of this be got the horses out and brought the backboard around, he always failed by a little to get Clark away. Once he got him in and they drov as far as the outskirts of the town, when Clark turned obstinate and made him go back. . Finally, long after midnight, when he went again into the bar, Clark said he would go with him if Lefty would take one drink. Hoping to pac ify and get him away Lefty finally took the drink ; then, on a similar plea aud promise, another and an-J other, till by the time they left they were about equally intoxicated. ; When they came to the first gate, into the Rita Blanca pastures, about three miles from the ranch house,' Lefty gave the lines to Clark and got' down to open it, the whip unheeded, in his hand. But the long drive in the sharp air had sobered him up enough that he wondered to see the tall posts on each side of the gate moving. The next moment he knew that there was a man behind each post, it being the only possible cover an assailant could have found for miles upon that bare, open, ' half moonlit plain. The revelation was like a bucket of ice water dashed over him, and he gussed instantly with a throb of that anxiety for Clark which was always with him that these were some of the Mexicans with whom the Rita Blanca was having trouble. His mortal fear for Clark's - life swept the befogging fumes ont of his brain. It was Clark's life they wanted ; he knew that; it was not himself they were after. He could go forward and open th gate safely, siuce they likely tnongni mm too drunk; to notice them. But if they knew that the one in the backboard was Clark, they would jump npon it and knife him as he drove through. Lieftv reeled toward the irate. nanorVit it and clung to it, shaking in every limb. The silent watchers behind the posts might well have thought him very drunk indeed. hiven while his noor omnt fmmo drooped ehndderina acrainst th rri - oiB single ana nnaeviating mind ran desperately through everv noRsihlA scheme to save Clark. Thaw rs nf tunth tko coma and size enough so to be mistaken in? the semi-darkness. Why not make it: seem why not 1 He tore the gate open with a larch! and flung it wide "Lefty 1" he screamed, "Lefty! Drive for your' life. Lefty I" And as the excitable team of cow ponies, trained to run at the shout, swept through at a gallop, he slashed the rear hone with his' whip. The outfit whirled away like a' cloud, while Lefty turned to face Clark's fate. When Clark Sargent, thoroughly, sobered, got ths wild ponies pulled down, turned around and drove back to the gate, there was nothing in sight on the great, gray, glimmering leyel but a dark, motionless heap by on of the gate posts. He flung his lines over ne post, went and knelt beside the still body. "Leftv." he whispered, with his heart in his throat. Trior a was no answer. He fonnd the man's shoulders, lifted them, and straightened him out it was Lefty, mark raised him cently, and felt for the wounds that were soaking his clothes with blood. Lefty moaned and opened his eyes. "O, Mr. Sargent, l m going xo cue; and who'll take care of you then, when when you're drinking. "Who is it knows like me that's been through it, the hell yon re a walkm' right aown into I And who'll be willin' to bo with yon, faithful, through the worst of it all, like I'd a been glad an' proud to? Nobody ! Nobody I U, i can i go I ain't readv I Mr. Sarsrent O, my God ! promise me promise promise 1 'I do. Lefty I 1 do I do promise ! The Lord he my witness" The dying man, witn some remin iscence of a cradle-side prayer, raised his life-scarred hands and laid them together, "For Christ's sake, amen," he whispered, and breathed no more. As the buckboard went Blowly home ward with its freizht. the dim light of Christmas morning wrought pallidly npon the plain, it songnt out ana tnnnhed nnon the face of that patient care taker, never eloquent as now in its yoicelessness. When Clark came to his own door it was broad day. Bat Lefty's Christ mas was spent otherwhere. Wash ington Star. Christmas in the Tast. The father of the boy or girl of to day can well remember, if he has reached the age of forty or upward, a time when Christmas had practically no existence for him. In certain parts of the country, indeed, Christmas has never been forgotten. In New York City, in Pennsylvania, and in the South generally, Christmas, as well as Easter, has always been observed. In New England, however, in many of the rural parts of New York, and in portions of the country which were ettled from New England and from rural New York, Christmas was, forty years ago, but a name. Some trace of it seemed to have sur vived in the occasional practice of tanging np the stocking on Christmas Eve. Boys and girls often hang their stockings by the fireplace, and in the morning, if they were fortunate, there was in each stocking a store of nuts, a little candy, and perhaps a jack-knife or a thimble. But next day Christ mas Day the boys and girls went to school as usual, and fathers and mothers went about their usual tasks. There was no holiday and no big Christmas dinner. The one feast of the year had been eaten at Thanksgiving. The mince pies accumulated for that festival were still making their appearance upon the familv table : and the nies. and the memory of all the other good things and sports of Thanksgiving, had to serve the children of that period, as far as holidays were con cerned, until Fast Day came round again. In most of the States, indeed, the children had not even Fast Day to look forward to. There, was no real holiday until the Fourth of July. For them there were practically but two holidays in the year. The recollections of Christmas which a person of fifty should under take to relate to his children would be very much like the celebrated chapter about the snakes in Ireland, which simply stated that there were no snakes in Ireland. He might, how ever, have a vivid recollection of a rather lonesome ten minutes spent in hanging a woolen stocking by a fire place, during which time his parents sat solemnly by, looking as if they did not altogether approve what he was doing. The joy with which he might anticipate a possible gift was tempered not a little by the remem brance of oe Christmas morning when he arose eagerly, searched his stocking, and found nothing whatever in it. Very soon, however, the real Christ mas began to grow up, as it were. The most powerful agency in making its observance general was the Sunday school. Always on the lookout for something with which to arouse the interest of children, the Sunday school of thirty years ago early made choice of Christmas. "Trees" were introduced as a feature of an annual 5bservance, and many little gifta were listributed. It was customary to have the pas lages in the Gospels relating to the birth of Christ read aloud by one of he pupils of the Sua lay-school who iouM read well, and this office was jreatly coveted. The ohance of being telected to read these passages alond t Christmas was a sufficient incentive 5o many pupils to pay particular at tention to their realing lessons at icbool for months together. The interest of the children in these sxercises was very great from the start, ind it soon drew the older people into a almost equal interest in the revival jf the old festival. In a surprisingly ihort time Christmas hal bsooms t'ae Jiont important day in the year. Youth's Companion. fireens lor Church Decoration. Teople used to be rather more par ticular than they are now as to what greens they used for church decora tion. The favorite plants were holly, bav. roKPmarv a.n1 lan.&l T. objectionable because it was formerly awcreu m uitccuus. uypress was some times asea. DUE ItS funeral ajuaMMfttinna made it out of place at so festive a season as Christmas. Mistletoe was excluded because it was Bacred to the Lruidic religion, and perhaps because it was considered too frivolous in its suggestions. The decorations should properly remain in the church till the end of January, but must be cleared away before February 2, Candlemas Day. The same is true of private dwellings, for superstition regards it as a fatal omen if this period is over stepped. New York Sun. Do not seek for silence on Chris fnas Day. Remember that even In hoetry, Christmas inspires each rhvmes as boys, toys and noise. Under the mistletoe she eooJ And yet be never kissel her' She happene J to be his sister. ' SOMETHING Mlssrsci. Hnsrsrins " Did Christmas present please you'" Kissam "It was" very' fine made it herself, but there sras to k! something missing. " Hnggins "what?" Kissam "A diagram eiplai'-nin. use. A FORECAST. "PaDS won't luv m a a cried the little daughter of a verrTV man. "Don't err. dear." said hr soothingly; "when romiren..?' will buy you a puppy with a title.- A GEXEROfS CHILI'. Mamma "Tommy, what ari? going to buy mamma for her Christen gift?" Tommy ''Why, momsr dear r thought and thought about that, anj decided that the best thin? I ionld get for you would be a pair of aew skates for your little boy." HIS DISPOSITION. Wife fswcetlvl "And wW .v..u r. get my dearie for a Christians present this year?" Husband (eTimlv) "Oh. nm- small, cheap trifle." Wife "Oh! lou are awfnllBit. est, aren't yon?" " Hnsband- "No. Awfully poor." v TOO OOOD TO LAST. It Isn't strange at Christmns tlm wa flndttn moments fly ; Then everybody is lovely and t;jo miUg nangs nign. Old Christmas Carols. The earliest collection of ChristmM carols was published in 1521. Many are little more than drinking gons used at social or religious festivities. of which singing and daucing then formed a prominent feature. In one old legend a jolly knight ismaileto say : "Not a man here shall taste my M mi tar Till a Christmas carol he tloth slna : . Then all clapt their han ls, an t shout.)! m suntr, Till the hall an i the parlor 1H ring." Indeed, the burden of many a carol might be condensed into "plum pud ding, goose, capon, minced pies and roa&t beef ;" and everybody was ex pected to indorse the sentiment ex pressed a couple of hundred years ago in "Poor Robin's Almanack :" Now, thrice welcome, ChrKmaa Which brings us good cheer. Minced pies and plum pudding, Good ale and strong beer ; With pig, goose and capon, The best that may be, Bo well doth the weather And our stomachs aree " 27o less characteristic is the quaint Nowel el el el. Now is wel that evere was woo or: Now make we myrtb, For Crystas byrth, j And sing yeyole till Candlemes. while the innate sweetness of 61 rest you, merry gentlemen ; Let nothing you dismay ; For Jeans Christ, our S ivlour, Was born upon this day. and of Herrick's "Star Songy" and similar carols, can never be lost. Christmas-Day Thoughts. Santa Clans is a curious old gentle man, lie will not enter a cnimney unless it soots him. That it is better to give than to re ceive is proved by the fact that tht enstom of giving at Christmas has out lived the custom of receiving at tie Year's. Utility should not always be the guiding factor in the selection of a gift. A ton of coal is always useiui, but hardly appropriate to send ta your best girl. There are some people who would be dissatisfied on Christmas morning if Santa Clans hid dropped the earth into their stockings the night before. Fortunately their number must al ways be limited, because very few peo ple wear stockings sufficiently largo to accommodate so extensive a pres ent. Early Celebration ot the Nativity. Away in the first century there are' indications that the Nativity was cele brated by the early Christians. Though the date of Christ's birth is only tra ditional, the 25th of December is be lieved to have been appoints! in the fourth century, by Julius I., Hisnop of Rome, as the anniversary of that event. Previously the Eastern Church had observed the 6th of January in special commemoration of the appear ance of the Star which guided the Wise Men to the Saviour's birtbpUvce in Bethlehem. For a while the East ern Church adhered to this date, in spite of Julius's edict, though th Western Church observed the 25th of December. This had a natural ten dency to extend the festival over ths time intervening between the to dates. In the sixth century all Chris tendom united upon the observance ol the 25th of December. I I used to be a handsome bird With featnew black nn I yellow, And wa'tle r1. Upon my worJ I was a gallant fellow. I walked the barnyar 1 with rit, And when I fell to liramminK, The liltlejrlrls woal 1 ran and "Look out ! the gobbler s earning And when I spread my nm Ison tall. With pride an t joy unf.iiliu?. No ship that floats upon the sua. Hal finer rig for s tiling. Alas I my (robbllnjr days are dona i My face la std an 1 murky I am that poor, plckei, nad tb'Dff Known a-. Christ Vrs. ,
Marion Record (Marion, N.C.)
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Dec. 20, 1894, edition 1
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