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- tDevoted to the Protection of Home and the Interests of, the County. Vol. II. ; Gastonia, Gastojt- County, N. C., SATMtiJAY 12th., 188 lv No. 10. Beat & Brumileld, Manniactiurert and Dealers in niuirs BllS, to Brackets, Cornishes, Wagons, Buggies, &c. Alio Burial Cases on hand of the best mk.j Bend orders and for price Hit to BhAL A BRUM FIELD, Gtonia, N. C. CENTRAL HOTEL, Spartanburg, 8. C, VST. a LIPSCOMB, Pro. Maw houM and furniture, roc mi carpeted, lectric bella, attentive servants, location central, faro the very beat. Tenni, 92.00 a Car. fIO.00 a week.. IW.00 a month. Prammara stopping over Sunday $1.60, Only a few yardi fiom the Iron Bpringi. BepSitojaul. 1 1 !" L. . Wrkton. T. J. Moon, M. D ((IMI Wholesale and Retail JT.-W. earner Trade and Tryon iti., CHARLOTTE, N.C., And Dealers in VARNISHES, DYE STUFFS, BEUpS, LD YOUR OfiDEfiS TO J. R. EDDIN'S ron- BLANK BOOKS , SCHOOL BOOKS . . AND STATIONERY, CHIBLOTTE, N.C. CHARLOTTE T7, Q. BERRYHILL ! . MANUFACTURER OF 70SZZQN& AMEB1CAN MARBLE, MOM.VMKXTM, UMADitTOMXS, "' T4BLKTM, MAMTLKMJte' Tradi 8tretr9pp. 1 ft Presbyterian Church . .CHARLOTTE, K. C. Pet tf LIght-Rdnning, Noiseless, No Gears, Cams, No Springs, New and Elegant Styles of Woodwork. Bend for circular and price lists. Weed Sewttur Mac Aim Co. , 239 Main Slraet. Hartford, Conn. O M. Nolen, Agent, Uastoitia. rK Outfit sent faaa to than b web to engage in the most pleasantandprqA table buiineu known. Everything new. Capital not required. W will furnuh you .uverything. $10 a day and upwards is easily enada without staying away from noma over night. No risk whatever, if any new work ers wanted at once. Many art making for ianes at the business. Ladies make, as much a man, and young boys and girls make fjreat pay. No one who is willing to work nils to make mora money very day than cu be n)ada in a week at any ordinary employment. Those who engage at once erill lad a short road to fortune. Address H. Hamvtt tCo Portland, Maine. UUUXI. ; jmd jvw advertise. There is a man of our town Of reason so bereft, lie does not advertise at all, Aod io Ii always "left." He lit witbio bs it ore alone, At in a dreary den A customer a wonJrous sight, When one comes now aod tben. He wonders why bis neighbors thrive : If he'd but use bis eves, He'd see tbey prosper in their trade . Bt cause tbey advertise I Their stores are thronged, th. ir goods are . . sold, .. While his untouched remain, ' -"' And all his schemes for drawing trade Are profitless and vain. Aronnd bis shelves the spiders' webs Are filled, with gnats and flies, And dust is over all his goods He doei not advertise. Aod when he dies, as die be must, His name will be forgot, And he'll be buried 'neath the dust That gathers round the spot. Aid o'er his grave fne printer men, With sadness in I heir eyes. Will raise this monument of woe He did not advertise I" Philadelphia Evpning News. A COON HUNT DISTURBS THE REST OF MRS . ARP . And Clvoa Her Distinguished Hus band a Chance to Moralize Up on the morbid Cruelty of Little Boys and the Exceeding Sweet ness of Little Cirls. Atlanta Constitution. The boys said it was too wet to plow and they were going down on the cree to hunt rabbits, so I concluded to go along aod tote the game. Mm. Arp she said she knew we wouldu't kill any thing, and we asked her if she would e iok all we brought home, and she said, " yes, and dress it ton." About the time we got started the two little chaps cam ; up and begged me so sweetly to let them go f couldn't refuse, and an there were six of us in all, and two guns and two- dogs and in about an hour. we had jumped six rabbits, and kil.'ed five of them, and they were getting awful heavy, when suddenly one of the boys looked up in an elm tree that was in the middle of a canebrake aod said, " I thought them things op there were squir reli' but I do believe I saw one of 'em move." We all stopped and looked, and sure enuf it did move, and the other one moved, aud we knew th-y were coons. I never saw boys get excited so quhk. They called the dogs and made for the eane brake. The creek was to cross and nury log io eight so they just waded through and snrronnded the tree and held the dogs fast while one of the boys got ready to fire. By this tine I was getting ready to be a boy again myself, and I hollered to em to wait and I pulled the little ebaps through the cain till I found a log and got them across and was coon on the battle ground Bang went a gun and down came a wounded conn, the biggest old fellow I ever saw, and I never saw such a fight in my life, (fe waeent hurt much with the email shot and he did ight and growl ord screech most smazin. First one d"g and tben the other backed out with a bowl and then set in on him again until finally old Zip surrendered and gave op the ghost. Bang went another gun and the other conn let go and fell into a fork and tliere he lay for dead for about fifteen minutes, when one of the boys said he was going to have him anyhow. So he climed the tree and when ne bad got about fifty feet np the coon straightened up in the fork and looked savagely at bim and gave a growl. I wish you could have seen that boy slide. He came down that tree like a fireman comes down a scaling ladder. He left his hat and right smart of bis breeches on the bark and grape vines. Well, of course they shot him again, and that tumbled him, and then we had another fight, and the boys say tbey never bad as much tun. aad tbey fell sorry for your town boys who don't bave any sport and are penned up ithin brick walls and the beet tbey cun do is to waste a few dollars ou a French actress. 1 aod not fcnow .a word she said, and then go ' home and say, bully for Sara. . Wi II, 1 j shouldered tbe biggest, coon, and I think .he I weighed about twenty pounds when we started and about forty when I got home, and I laid bim down suddenly in Mrs.Arp's lap aod raid "skin him and cook him if you please." I oagbteut to bare done that. It was premature and not nltogetie calcula ted to promote oar conjugal felicity. Mrs. Arp is a stately, deliberate woman, but I tbiuk she got np a little auiefcer tttan t bad ever olieciwed her. tthe thought -it was a bear, or a hyena, or a catanjogut, aod she screamed accordingly. All that was lass Monday and I think she has about recovered from it know, but if I were to kill a thous and coons I wouldent try that little joke again. It dident pay. I wonder what makes men and boys so cruel. My little girl was the only friend those poor coons had and I can not-tell what mad me take pleasure in their death. Boys begin early to show thir love of cruelty and destruc tion. They rock tbe birds and the cats and the chickens, and rob the bird's nests, and then they hunt tbe rabbits and squir rels, and shoot all sorts of wild animals just for sport. There is an original sin about them . that dni , belong to girls Girls are tender and kind and sympa thetic I reke4ht js one retwan twhy we love 'em, but why they love os I don't know. I knew a boy once who caught a wild torn cat in the barn and lied a plow line round his neck and tied the other end to o rinsf bthind the saddle that was on the old mare hitched to the fence and then turned the old mare loose ... and pitched the cat on ber back and " she run herself to death in fifteen minutes, and the bays all laughed an I hollered and enjoyed it splendid. That was mighty bad, but that boy married one of the sweetest girls in the county and made a good hus band and a kind father. I reckond its the devil thut is in us for a while, and then lie quits us and goes into somebody else or into some hogs or ma ! dogs or something They say that every boy must sow his wild outs, though I have noticed that it lakes some a heap longer than others to do it. They love a noise and a racket. They begin early to shoot fire crackers and little pistols and beat drums and tin pans and tie things to the dogs' tails arid make em run and m ike em fight and set em on tbe cuts and a' nigger cant go along the road but what they whisper, sic him Cesar. When tbey get bigger ond have a few bumps on their chin they want to do omethitia more heroic. They want some girl to fall in the creek so tbey can jump in and si ve her life, or they want some wild horses to run uway with a carriage so they can jump to the rescue of the ladies and seize the furious animals and j-rk em down just in the nick of time, or he wai ts to whip another boy bt-Cuuse he bucked up to his girl, and what ie curious about these boys the girlb ertm to like that sort the best- If 1 hadent fought a feller who in euhe.l me I dnt belie e Mrs. Arp would have surrendered. I dont. May be she would have took the other feller, and then what would have become ol me aid my children? I'.'s melaocholly to think of. I'm sorry we killed tbtm coons, lor they don't do any harm to spebk of, and tbey are lively vaimints and enjoy life. The boys have got four coon .skins now, and the girls have promised to muke a rug oat of i hem with a striped tail sticking out at every comer, anil I'm goini; to put it down io Mrs. Arp's corner lor her dointy little number twos to rest upon as an atonement for my rudeness. .She always comes around ripht when I show my repentence, aod I'm shore to show it sooner or later. Well, I suppose the inauguration Is Over and we nave got a president at last. Four years is a long time to do without one, and I'm glud they made a big fuss over the swearing in. Now, if ; Mr. Garfield is going to be king . over all his suhj ets and wants 'em to love him just let him throw onr share of nubbins dowu this way. That's all we want. Yours Bux A hp. HIGH OR LOW HEELS. Some time ago Mr. Morey devised an apparatus for registering the steps, which he has culled an odograph. It consists of a small cylinder, rotating by means of clockwork in the interior, and of a pen which marks on the cylinder, and is raised at each step by an impulse communicated by a ball of air beneath the sole. Obser vations have been made on a number of young soldiers- Ii is ascertained that the step is longer ingoing up hill than in going down - hill. It is shorter when a burden js carried ; longer, with low than with high-heeled boots ; longer when the sole is thick and prolonged a little beyond the foot than when it is short and flexible. It thus appears that tbe heel may with benefit be almott indefinitely lowered, while it is disadvantageous to prolong the sole of the boat beyond a eeitain limit, or to give it an absolute rigidity. Some influen ces which leagtken 'he step lessen its fre quency ; so in goin op bill the step be comes at the ssme time longer and less frequent.. In walking on level ground the length of the step and its frequency are always proportioned ; the quicker the walk the longer the step. "Nature here proves the folly of the high IrfH m a most practi cal manner ; and the objection to them in men is equally applicable to them in ladies and K they could only sea themselves as uj totter along torched up on hit;b beets and walking as if stepping on egg-shells, tbeir ludicrous appearance would at once stop the fashion. Any one accu tomed to country life and long walks on the bills must have felt that terrible leg-weariness which, a day's shopping with a lady entails. The slow, irregular walk, the frequent causes, and the difficulty of taking short 'teps with proper balance are trials well known to' men. Wiihout a good shaped low-heeled boot, no lady, howetcr pretty ber foot or graceful her carriage, can walk beci.minelv, with euse to bereelf, and a proper flexion of the muscles of , the feet and hfjiz. Hulf the ricked ankles come fpbrit heelif being t50 high- to form a proper Bieady base for the weight of the body, and the narrow pointed toes prevent their proper expansion and lise. Make a foot print in the sand and then go and pluce your boot in it what a margin there will be! Horses even, with a horny hoof, suffer horribly if their shoes are cramped and do not allow the foot to expand. Much more might be written of the accompanying ill9 of tight and high-heeled boots ; but as long as women will bear the pains so as to ap pear taller and to have tiny feet, so long will they do violence to nature's gifts. Legs and feet were given us for use to exercise tbe body upon. In fact, so cramped np and stilted has fashion made the walk nowadays that a lady with wooden legs might puss muster in the park undiscover ed. The Ijtnctt. WOMEN AS WIVES AND MOTH ERS. " -"It is not good for man to be alone. We all need the motherly, and we must fin I it in a wife. Do you know what I think the prettiest story of courtship I ever read ? It is the account of Isaac's marriage with Rebecca, away bark in the simple old times. Tou remember the end ing of it. 'And Isaac brought htr into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and I.?uac was comforted for hU mother's death.' There's the philosophy of it," he added, "its the mother living again in the wife; The motherly instinct is in the hearts of all true women, and sooner or later the true wife brcon.es a mother to her husband. She guides bim, cures for him, teaches him, and catechises him, all in the nicest way possi ble. Why I!sauie I never should know how to get along a day without Polly to teach me the rtquirings and forbiddens of the commandmcntj, to lecture me for going out without my muffler, and see that I put on my flu nude at the ri lit time, to insist that I shull take something for. my cough, and raise o rebellion to my toing out when titer's a northeaster. So much for the body, ond as for the soul life, I believe it is a wrnian who holds faith in the world it is a woman behind the wall, casting nil on the fire Unit burns brighter, while tbe devil pours on water ; and you'll never get Chi istianity out of the earth while there's a woman in it. I'd ra'her have niy wife's and yonr mother's Opinion on a meaning of a text of Scripture, than all the Doctors of Divinity, and their faith is an anchor that always holds. Some jackaiiapes or other I read once, said evtry woman wanted a master, and was as forlorn without a husband asa maFterless dog Its a gieut deal truer that every mnn w;ints a mother Men are more forlorn than mas terless dogs, a great deal, when no woman cares for them. Look at the homes single women moke for themselves j how ."neat, how cosy, how brght with the oil of glad ness ! The fuel is, women ere born comfort makt rs, and can pet along by themselves a great deal better than we ran, "Uncle Jacob" in Mrs. Stoire's Story in Christian Union. TENDERNESS AND LIBER ALU Y. What is charity? This question was put to a little girl, and her reply was, "(Jiving to the poor what we do not want for onr selves" Her answer was: undoubtedly given, from observation; for children are observing creatures, more so than we al ways give then credit for. Often-we hear and say, if not in words, by our actions, It is only a little child, it will not notice or remember," and yet all the while th y sre receiving impressions from which they draw their own inference and definitions of what grown people do and say. .' Is it not too often tl e case that we. give them good cause to define the word charity as the little girl did? When we attempt to give the poor anything sre we not apt to select those thinjrs that we consider worn out, or peibaps fit so badly that we want them out of the way ? If we have things we do not wai.t it is all right to let tho-e have them who need them and will use them. But if our charity extends no further than this, bow much of tbe gvouine article do we possess f Many years ago a merchant was passing along one of tbe it reels of a large city. It was a cold, dark, wintry night, but what cared he for the cold, even though the snow was fulling tbick and fast around him ? His cotly overcoat ws buttoned close, and his h.inda were encased in gloves thut defied the bitter winds. ; From the cold, marble steps of a build ing he was passing a little girl clothed (if you on call it clothed) in a few sennty rags, extended a thin cold hand, and id faint, piteous tones, begged for "only one penny." .The merchant passed on, nor heeded tbe pittons pleading of the homeless one. He wes on bis way to a meeting called to devise ways and means to relieve the suffering of the poor. As be passed on be said to himself. "Yes, it will be as good an invest ment as I can make. It will be a good advertisement Ur my business, and will pay a big pn fit; for, if to-nigbt I give 8500 to the committee for tbe poor, it will come out io the me'rnTng papers with a big puff, my name will stand high, and many new Customers will be sure to patro nize the merchant who was so generous to the poor." He reached the place of meeting and gave his hundreds of dollars for the poor ; but was there any real charity abont it ? No. It was simply a eelfish transaction , to gain more money and a big name for him self. The morning papers came out with a glowing account of the large-hearted charity of the merchant. Following the lengthy report of the meeting for the benefit of the poor was an item staling that a little girl was found dead under the snow nl the foot of tbe steps leading to the bark building on - street. Many seems to think that charity is simply the giving of our goods to the poor and needy, but Webster defines the word with three others, ''tendernes?, good-will and liberality." Tenderness I 1 am glad that word is put in as one definition to the word of charity, that we may show true charity by threwing a cloak over the fault of others, and trying to bring to light tbeir virtues. In an old book I read that "Charity sufferetb long, and is kind; cliarity enviqth not io- not pnffed up. And now .abideth faith, hope, charity, these three, but the ereatest oHhese is chanty. And above all things have charity among yourselves." Household. ANALYSIS OF 1HEJBIRLE. The following analysis of the r Old and New Testament will be interesting : Books in the Old Testament, 39 ; chap ters, 929 ; verses, 22,214 ; words, 592, 439; letters, 2.728.100. Books in the New Tes'sment, 21 ; chap ters. 60 ; verses, 7,959 ; words, 181,253 ; letters, 838,380. " : . The Apocrypha has 183 chapters, 6,081 verses, 152,185 words Whole number of words in tbe Bible. 3,718.655. The middle chapter, and the least in the Bible, is Psalm 117. The middle vrrse is the 8th Psalm 117. The word "and" occurs in the Old Tes tament 35,543 times. The sime in the New Testament also occurs 10.6S4 times. Theworj -Jehovah" occurs 6.855 times. The middle book ol the Old Testament is Prorerbs. " 'The middle chapter is Job 29. The middle verse is 2d Chronicles, chap ter 20, 17th verse. Theleast verse is 1st Chronicles, chap ter 1, 1st verse. o The middle book io the New Testament is 2d Thessa Ionian. The middle chapters are Romans 13 and 14. The middle verse is Acts 17. 17th veise. The least verse is Acts 9,35th verse. The 2'.st verse, diopter 1, of Ezra has all the letters ol tbe alphabet. The 19th chapter ,of 2d Kings, and chapter 37 of Isaiah, are both alike. WORDS OF'w'iSDOM. Netting can constitute good breeding that has not good nature for its founda tion. Some people think it anetces of mag nanimity to forgive those whom tbey have injured. Speak of people's virtues, condone their infirmities; ifjoucun say no good, talk no ill of tbem. v 4 0 The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, io a mist man, wisdom hath In keeping. We appreciate no pleasures unless we are occasionally deprived of tliein. Re straint is tbe golden rule of enjoyment It has been publish 1 over the country thut Mr. John Pamell, near West Point Georgia, had tbe largest peach orchard in the world, and that it yielded 70000 worth of peschra last season. Bah! Mr Parnell has 2S0 acres, 1 gtoial. industri ous, intelligent gentleman, and naliz"d not quite 70,000 from bis peaches, but 97,000. SOY SOLDIERS. The schoolboy? of Paris are being form ed into battalions of 600, divided into four companies. They are armed with a light rifle, manufactured expressly v for them, wilb sword bayonets, and are uniformed with trousers, blouse and Scotch bonnet. Tbey are drilled once a week, and execute various military manoeuvres once a month. There are now 23,000 young soldien enrolled, aged from 11 to 14 years. IDLENESS. This is one of the great curses of this county. It is humiliating to see tbe stout, healthy men who make a business of loaf ing, not at all ashamed to eat the bread made by the exertions of others, and allow ing themselves to be cloihed by tbe worn fingers of some overworked mother, . sister or wife. The limes are bard, but they are made harder than they naturally are by this dead weight of idleness, which weigh upon the energies of tbe industrious peo ple, and places tbem at disadvantages in tbe fight against-anfortunate circumstan ces. GOLDEN MOMENTS. How sorry one would be for a man who, starting ont upon a journey, had his pock ets lull of golden coin whicb, one by one, hud slipped through some untnended bole or rent, so that when be came to the end of his trip be had not :ne left, but lay down upon his bed a beggar 1 How strict ly we would look at our own pockets after hearing the tale, and making very sure that what coin we had should be well spent, or boarded carefully, and not scattered in the roadside dust ! Yet, we start upon our lives, each one of us, with a store of gold en moments, of which we keep little ac count. Rapidly they slip away through tbe rents of sloth and ignorance. Save tbe golden moments. WOMAN AMD HOME. Heaven did not intend women to be the Inmates of boarding bouses. Tbey are out of tbeir element in all such abiding places. There are erratic exceptions to tbe general rale ; but the true sphere of a really wo manly woman is in ber own borne her true .mission' to make heF husband and children happy. Her heart, more than her heud, 'murslials her tbe way that she should go.' Her affections, ber wise and motherly love, instruct her inteNect, sharpen ber perceptions, and jiive force, energy, and precision to her plans and purposes. Such a woman prutetb not for ber sex's rights -j-moHrnttb not over its wrongs. She attends no conventions, covets not tbe doubje barreled garment, demands not a seat on the bench, a post in tbe state, or a vote through the ballot box. A NEW MONTHENCLATVRE. Instead of calling the months by ridicc lous old names, derived from the Latin, we should describe them by names which would suggest the most prominent quali ties of the months. That would enable children to learn tbe names readily on the kindergarten plan, as applied by Mr. Squeers. The months, if this sensible plan were adopted, would be named as follows : Jbnuary would be Slusboary. February would-be Slopuary. March would be Winduary. April would be Rainuary. May would be Buduary. June would be Warmuury. July would be Roastuary. August would be Broiluary. September would be Chilluary. October would be Colduary Novtmber would be Frostuiry. December would be Snowuary. Puck. SUPPLIES. We beard a farmer the other day hav ing a spirited controversy with one of our Cobb county citizens upon tbe necceai t of furnishing bim wilb provisions to make his next crop. He said be would be unable to make his next crop, unless be advanced him sufficient frm supplies to "run bim." In other words, this farmer wanted this citizen to buy corn, meat, hay, etc., ship ped from the West, and let him have it on a credit, and run the rik of making a crop, before the crop is planted or tbe ground plowed regardless of death, sickness or anf calamity that is liable to befall mortal man. This farmer wanted this citiien to furrtish him that whicb be should bave made on his own farm. We thought that what farming woe followed for, was to make plenty offura supplies and a surplus to sell. It seets a farce to farm a w hole year aod then buy piovisions torthemxt Sotch improvidence aud waul of system in culture, paying norous interest tor farm supplies, will ketpamsnn nose to tbe runt-stun aa long as that way of doing business is per sisted ui, A man cannot pay high rates el interest from year to year, ard Lope to succetd and come out aJuad. There most tie less credit and mora economy, mora supplies aod has col una mada, and then the former may hope to be independent, and not at the eud of the year "beg" lor (arm supplies on a credit, to run him to nuki the next crop, '
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