o . XVI11. , Gastonia, C„ November 11, 18»7
. {gscttsag No 45.
MAJOR JONES’ COURTSHIP.
By Hajor Joseph Jones, of Pineville, Qeorgia.
LETTER XXVH.
PiNavikLU, Ga., Via roll 8L—To
Mr. Thom pton: Dear Sir — Yon
auat’nt think hard because 1 baln't
writ you no letter for io long a lime.
8*°** the arrival of the little xtranger
my time what 1 ’ve had to (pare from
tho plantation la been pretty much
luck up with nustlu and gwlno to town
after etuff (or It.
*■ wonderfol eurprlxin thing*.
Mr. Thompson. aa you know, and
wheo one ihinki Ivow muoli trouble
tliey give * body, we almost wonder
what makea ni ao anzloui to have ’em.
You mustn't thick I’m baglimtu to
git tired of mine. Ko Indeed, not by
no me ana. I wouldn’t give my
little Harry Clay for all iliu niggers
and plantation! in Georgy, aa much
trouble and worrvmenl aa i>* give* me.
Alnt It earlous what store we do eet
by the little eroeter*. eveu before we've
had ’em long enough to know auytblug
about ’em. It aaema like a new foun
tlu of hap pine** la opened In our
heart*, a now value given to ev«ry
thing we’ve got and a new puipoee to
•ur llvwa, when for the fust time wo
look upon a lltll* belpleM beln that le
born or our love, and I* dependant on
a* for auppdil and protection. II ow
anxious w* I* to do every thing we can
for ’em. What pleasure we Hod In the
pains we take to make ’em happy.
But you it a man of experience In
the** mature, Mr. Thompson, and I
oeedu’t tell yon nothin about Ik I
must tell you. though, what a terrible
akewr we bad t'other night with lb*
baby.
I had bean down to Tola Mtalllutea
mill, to aaa about geltln anuis lumber
to build ma a n»» giabouaa, and bad
been ridln and worklo hard all day In
the wet, and eose boms monstrous
tlrad, lata in tba evenln. Marv aud
the baby waa all wet, and t went to
bad pretty early, Ihtokln to git a good
night's rest for the lost time In a
month. Well, how tong I'd been
slsepln, I can’t tell, bat the fust thing
I koowed was Mary pull In my hair to
maka we wake up.
“Joseph] Joaaph!” see aha.”
“Ha; what's the matterf” eta I,
when I scad bet teanln over In tba bed
with the lamp Id her band, and her
faoa as pale aa the gown she had on.
"Ob, Joseph, do git up." see she,
“something's the matter with the
baby.”
That waa enough for me, and In a
twlnklin l waa asttln np In the bed, aa
wide awake aa If 1 hadn’t been asleep
In a waak.
“Look at him, Joseph-be aots so
curious,” ae* she, aa she lack the little
feller out or the crib, and laid him
down in the bed between ua.
For about two intuits wa both aol
and looked el tba baby, 'tbont drawin
a breath, Thar it lay on Its baek,
with Its little bands down by Ua aide.
Fust It would spread Its month like It
was laughln at something -then It
would roll iu eyes about In Its head
ana wink ’em at os—then It would
twitch all over, and katoh Its breath—
would lay right still aud stop
breath In for a second or two, and then
It would twiteh tta.liltle limbs again,
and roll ita ayes about tba strangest I
aver seed any thing In my Ufa: and
then It would ooo, so pitiful. Ilka a l.t
3.07?' „lwo or U»r** times till U
would kind of imother like, and atop
breathln agin.
• <»skl bear Mary's heart beat plain,
and I felt tba cold blood rnanlng beak
to mine like a mill-tail. I looked at
Mary, and the looked at me. and sleh
a expression aa she had In her eyes X
■never seed Io aay ha man.
“Joseph!" sea the.
“Mary!” aaa I.
-vm, osarl” mi sits, tbs big tears
fllllo her butlfui eyes. “Ob, dear! the
baby Is dytn-T know U It. Ob, wbat
shall we do?”
"Oh, no. klary, don't git akeered.''
•as I, with wbat little brstli 1 could
iimajM up for the effort
'“Oh, yea, I Snow it la. I kcow’d
something was gwlne to happen 1 had
slob a dreadful dream last night. Git
up, Joseph, and call mother and tbs
galls, quick at you ear. Oh. dear ms,
my mare little baby .”
“Don’t take on, Mary—maybe it
ain t nothin bad,” aea 1, tryio to oom*
pose her all 1 could, though I was
sheered as had afe abe waa, sod pot my
trows*re oc wrong side before In my
hurrymant.
Iuamlaitl had all the family up,
sod by the Ume I sot tbs Ore kindled,
here ooa» old Miss Stallins and ti.e
galls, all la that uigbt clothes, akaersd
almost out of her censes.
“Dear me, wbat upon yaatb’s the
matter?” see old Mias file Hina
“Oh, the baby I rny pore little baby I”
ered Mar*.
“Wbat Is happsaid?” hi all of 'am,
get her In round tbs bad.
“1 don’t know wbst alls It," see
Mary, but It sots 10 straose— like it
was a wins to dla”
Mercy on oil” ass ths galls.
“Don’t take oc so, my child,” ass
old Miss Stallim. "It (nought be ysry
bad tor you.”
Dot pore Mary didn’t think of soy
thing bet tha baby.
••Whet's good forlt, mother? what’ll
cure It?” as* she.
TM old woman pot on bar apoell
olr», and looked at It, and frit It all
orac. white Mary waa UoMlo it In bar
lap by Ua Bra.
"Don't baUacrad,”aaa iba. "Don't
ba akeaavd, my child, aayba Ua aothln
bat Ua hlrr*. or (hr yalar tbraah, ar
torn* othar baby allaant what won't
hurt*.’’
"Oh, It'll Bin—1 haow It will,” aaa
"Mayka I la only tfah at IU llula
atuaatafc, aothar,” ma Mator Garlloa.
-and aoaaa a«t too to Ua hrat thing lo
tha world tor that, thay aay.”
" Aad U It’* Ua Ihrmah, aaa aauip
taa win dtlaa it oat la haif a owor.”
■•a tha old womu. "Prlsey, make
aoaa catnip tea, quick aa you can.”
“Aod hare aome water warmed to
batha IU little feet lu,” tea Slater Xee
“fur maybe IU ipaantny."
"Oh. dear, aea bow It wtnke IU
ayn!" eae Mary.
“That ain't nothin uncommon,
dear,” are her mother.
"Now lu twitching iU little limbs
•gain. Oh, It will die, I know It
will."
“Wouldn’t some eaffon tea he good
for U?" aea Mias Cirlloe, “Poor lit
tle dear!”
“Tea, and a omitard poultice for IU
little bowela.” aos the old woman.
By this time nil the niggera on the
place waa up gat Un hot-bathe, and
yarblaai aod muaterd poultloai, aad
inrun juice, and lord knows what all
for Die baby. Mother and the galls
waa flyln about Ilka ttwy was oraay
aod I was so terrified mraclf that I
didn't know which rend I stood oo.
In Um hurryment and confusion. Aunt
Katy noaot the lea-kittle and aoalded
little Motet, and be sot up a yell In the
kltohfn loud enough to be heard a
Bile, and I knocked the lamp off the
table, and filled the oil all over
ertry thing, crym to turn around three
waya at tba tame time. After brealt
In two or three otipa and austere, and
•rilin' Mary’s night cep allre with the
candle, old Mies Stelllns made out to
git a teaspoonful of eut tea in the
baby's mouth, hot enough to scald Ita
life nut. and then ther was rich anoth
er to-do as nobody erer did hoar be
fore.
“We! - wa yal -ke wa ah!" went the
baby.
tioofi uraclouil mother, tbe tea's
bill" Holl" eee eleter Carllne.
"My lordl i'riaay. haln’t you got no
belter sente? Wlut upon yeatli did
you give It to me to hot for?” see tbe
old women, when the put her Anger in
tue cup.
''Min Kssiab tell me to pour Mlto
water on It,” aes Prissy, with her eyes
aa big aa aaaaerv
“Wa-yi 1 ka wa-ah I ke-wn I” tea
the baby, klckln and Oetin away like
all rath.
" Whar’a tbe drape, Joseph ? Git
tbe <lraia. It moat be oollloky,” tea old
Miti Mullins,
1 got the parrygorick as quick aa I
oould, end tried to pour out Are drape.
*s *be told me. But my baud trim bled
eo I couldn't draptt to save me.
‘‘Giro It to me, Joseph,” eee she—
"you'e too agiutad.”
And tbe tuok tbe rial and poured
belt of It ou her lep, tryln* to bit tbe
•pool—the pord old woman’t eyee la ao
bad. Then abe told ibUr Caroline to
drap It—but both the galls waa ’frmld
they mought pour too mnob. So Mary
had to do It benalf. Then tbe neat
difficulty was logit It In the baby’s
mouth, and when they did git it thar
It liked t« choke it to death before it
could (waiter it.
Pretty soon after that U got qalet
and went sound to sleep in Mary's lap,
and we all begun to feel e good deal
better. Old Mias Mullins sad abe
keowed wbat it wanted aa anon aa abe
had time to think and she wondered
■be didn’t tbli.k of It before. Lord
only knows wbat oaought happened If
we hadn’t bad tbe parrygorick la the
liouee. We all fait so good after we
got over our akeer that we sot thar
and congratulated one another a little
while before gwloe to bed agin.
White we was all chaUlo’ sod eld
Mias Sullies waa beginnlo’ to nod. I
noticed Mary was watching the baby
mocatroua dose, and ber eyas was be
ginning to git bigger and bigger aa aba
looked at its face. Blineby it groaned
one of tbe longest kind of groeoi.
"Oh, dear I” mm Mary. “I do blieve
i» * ajm' r*
We *11 Jumped up end cuo to her,
eod shore eooagti, it looked e beep
worse then it did before, eod kep ell
the time e moanin' like It wee brsatli
io’ lie I eat gaap,
"Oh, mother lt*e gwlne I U’a Jest
as limber as a rag, and lt*a neb a ter
rible death look. Sand for the doctor,
quick,” era Mar;, irtmblln’ all over,
and lookin’aa If ibe eras gwlne to faint
In her ebeer.
Mine Carlins tuck hold ot Its little
hands, and moved ’em, but they whs
Jest Ilk* a dead baby’s, and staid any
wlier alts put ’em.
Ned was amt Is town for Doctor
Oaltar, sa hard aa the bom oould go
Mary mid the galls all Cell eeryin’ like
tbey was at a funeral sod I fell so
falnty myself that I couldn’t baldly
stand oo my Teel. Old Miss Stall I ns
wonld glye It some ingln-)ulce, and
have It put In a warm bath all ever:
but nothin’ we oould do for It done It
■°y good, and we Jest bad to wait In a
agony of ananense till the doctor oome.
It ain't only two miles to towu, and
Halim’s one of the fastest hoaees In
Georgia, but It seemed like the doctor
would never coma
"Pere little thlag !’’ sea Mary,”!
know’d my heart was act on him too
taueb-I know’d It was too pretty and
•weet to live. Ok, deer!’’
"How It dose suirsc-pora little an
gel, ^•• eee Miss Oarlln*. “What kla all
the ehlldf'
"I wish the doctor wonld oome.’ are
ail of 'em.
Sloh thought* aa I had la that owar
I oarer want to bara agio aa long aa I
lira. A coffin, with a little baby la Ita
abroad waa all tba time Mora my
•TOO. aad a whole funeral prorata Ion
waa pawin’ through my haad. Th*
•armon waa rlnglaln my aari, and I
oould a)moat hrar the romhtln of tha
foal Htorrlfol of yaatii on tba grara
board* of my IllUa boy, aa I waited
round and roand tba loom, atoppln
now and U>an to taka a took at tba
port lltU* thing, aad to apoak a word
of aoooaragMMht to Wary. It waa a
dradful faajln, Hr. Tbompwn. aad f
do twllara I’ra t«lt 10 yaan aliararar
Wmeby we beard the howM fart—
all of ui drawad a loag braatb, aod
nary faoa brlglitaaad up at tba sound.
In a mlnit mure tba doctor laid bis
udd la-bags on tbs table.
“Good areola, Ladles,” sea be, Jeat a*
pluiln and partita aa If nothing wasn’t
tba matter. “Good treeing, Malar,
bow ara you thU—”
"The baby I The heby 1“ eee allot
em. Doctor, uwii’t you aura the
baby ?”
"Yoa, doctor,” aaa Mary, “our only
hope ta lu you, dootor.”
“And Fiurldcnoe, my obild,” Ml
old MU* Stalling.
It aremed Ilka tbs doctor would
uorer git all his grate-coils, and (lores
aod baukerohera ofl, lliourb tba wlm
mlo was hurryia him and bslplu him
all they could Rimeby, tie orawad a
cheer up to whar Mary was slttlo, to
look at tba baby.
"What's tha saalUr with yet child,
Mrs. Joeas ?” w be. pul) In away Ita
gowo and feallu Ita pulse.
"I don't know, doctor—bat ludrsd
ful sick,” tea Mary.
"IVbro was it took sick, aod what
was Ita almptoua?” aaa tha dootor
All of ’em begun to tell at onoe, till
too dootor told *6(0 1m oookl undir*
eland ’em better If they’d only talk
one at n time, and then Mary told blm
•II about it.
"And bow much parrygortek did you
(Ira It?” aaa Dr. Gaiter.
“Fire drape,” aaa MU* Stall In*; "I
wasted to glra It more, but the child
ren was all so ikeery.”
MiwmiDur parrygoriea,” Ml
tin doctor.
Ha tuck it and amellad it, aod tasted
it, and then. asya ha, "You’i» lure you
Uidu't give It only five drape madam?'1
“No, no nxirtr'n fly*.” aea Mary
“for I poured it 0*1 tnyaelf.”
Then tb* doctor looked nvoortroo*
• lae at tb* baby, for about a oninlt,
and if you ooutd Jrel aeed tb* wiaarain
lookin at bin. Nose of ui breathed a
•iiiflc hrealli, and pore Mary looked
right iu tb* doctur’a face, aa It ah*
wanted to aee bia very thought I.
“Doe—”
•Me—”
"Don't be allarmed. madam,“ ara he
"ther ain’t oo danger ’'
9icb a cbaoga aa oom* ovar tba
wlrole of na! The room asamai* to git
ligbUr lo a InateoL It waa lika the
•uolight braakin tbrougli a midnight
aky. Mary oried Ilka n child, and
lioggtd her baby to her buaaum aod
ktaard it adoaeo timeiand talked baby
talk to It; aod tb* galla begun pattln
the room to right ao It would be fit fur
the doctor to aee it.
"la you shore tber alo’t no danger,
doctor?" aea old Mias Stalliua.
“Nodo in Mie least, madam.” aea be
“Ther’e nothing iu u»«i world tba mat
ter of tb* child, only it bad a little
touch of the hives, what made It laugh
and roll IU eyaa about In IU sleep. U
your fright you burnt iu mouth with
your hot teas, till it oried a little, and
tbeo yuu’re doctored it with hot baths,
onion Juice, and parrygorlok till you've
atupylled It a little. That's all madam
By morale It’ll be well aa ever II waa,
if you don’t give It no more big does*
of parrygorlok.”
“I aod ao,” sea old Mis* SUllins. “1
told Mary tber waa no use Ukln on ao
'bout the baby. But young people la
ao easily akeered. ton koow doctor.
“Yea, and old grandmothers too,
sometimes,” aea be, laugh to.
Tba baby anon quit moaola ao bad
and Mary laid it la the bed and klvor'd
U over with klaaea.
"Bless It. m udder’■ twee toot >iul*
dorlln baby—lu dlttln wall, ao It la
and dey aunt dive it no more natty
Hates, and burn iu tweet ’title moat
| no more, so dy lent, ess aba; and the
galla got roue, and s'ch a everlactiu
gabbtementaa they did keep up.
By this lime It waa moot daylight,
and after drinkin a enp of atroog coffae
what old Miss Stalliua bad made for
blm, and laugbln at ua for be la so
steered at nothing, the good old doe
tor bundled on i.ra overcoat and went
borne to charge m* lire dollars for
ronUn blm out of bia bed and makio
blm ride four miles lo tb* oold. Bat I
•let sorry we sent for blm, for I da be
lieve if be hadn’t coma, we would bare
dosed pore littla Ilarry daad aa i door
oail before mornlo.
Tbe little feller la dole prims now,
and If be waa to have another attack
of hives, I’ll take monstrous good oare
they doa’t give him go mot* dratted
parrygorlok. 8o no more from, your
till death. Jos Ions.
(To Be Continued Next Thursday)
a need IXtauiM.
Rlblfca) Kaoorctor.
It le right hard on the cotton buyers
that oomparatlroly ao ltttl* oottun baa
been broaght to market: bat It to a
good at go, nemrlheleea. ft show* that
many farmer* are at least no longar at
tha mercy of their trieoda, the spring
time lien-taker*. Time wnt, and to
ooer with many, when If a farmer bad
out ton on October Let be no a at fated It
to market and lay it at the feet of the
merchant wbo supplied him with pru
riakm* and fertilisers In the sowing
•eaeoti. That to mooli cotton to now
In tha farmer*' hand*, and that they
express a rmdlneat to hold le Imps of
better prleee, whlob wa Del tore will ba
offered. Indicate* that the farmers am
more iodepeodaot than they bam been
which to aa good a alga of the times u
we bam dtoeorarad In many a day.
Let our farmer friend* (trim to be la
dependeot mom and mom.
BILL MP 01 HUD TOOD.
THE PHUtOSOPHBB QUOTES PBOM
UK. POKQHEB’S BOOK OHTKEE8.
*• *** Uh rin(n tnr^Tti But.
,ow Wr«M»er PImU»>< Tma
naiTkrinlaiii(iu.ik. .
mil Arp la Atlanta CMam Itailorf. ‘
8omehow I don’t like Inelanation«.
A oorreapoodent from uieslmlppi In
ainaau* Umt 1 don't know rrry ceaoi)
about Muckgum nod tumfrai end per
ilmmon, or I wouldu’t any that tbow
wrrw good for liaua and bowa
and alula. Wnll, atnen I aaw hU "oW
Ur dloU" in your paper, I aaked tba
foreman of our wagon factory, aod bn
■aid; “Wanted to nt all tba black
guaa wa oould for hub*. Cor It baa no
grain, aud you cao’t apitt it, and it
makaa a »ery due hub, but nowaday!
wa buy all our bube ready made, and
^ny are of poetoak." Dr. Poreber,
wbo la tbe lilgbeit authority ooooarn
Ing the treat and korha of tbe South,
aayelu hie book: “The wood of blech
gum te extremely dlOeult to eptlt, and
it mooli unej fur bube of wheel!”
Tbe Bret real flan atrlngbow 1 am
bed wee bought from an Indian boy,
and it wan made of the heart of aama
frae. He taught an* hew to fatten tbe
feather* In Urn arrowa. That bow waa
tbe rory of my schoolmates, aod oould
•sod an arrow out of eight.
" persimmon. or one cut down
and seasoned, makea a vary bard, dura
Wa (1st or wedge. Dr. Porcher aaya
that Uia grain U of sooh floe texture
that ba haa used It for eogrsvkg. I
used to taw my gluts and (two Gevel
ibe adgea, and round tba top. and my
hoy Boh said "dem slmmon gluts heat
dogwood all to please.’♦
Tula ia a wonderful book of Dr.
Porcber'e—a book of 700 page*, eon
Uining a deter! pttoo of awry treo.
plajit and abrub in our Soatberu Und.
and Utatr practical and medical uaaa.
It waa published in 1800, and IU tide
»*, -BeaooTeeo of the Southern FlahU
and koresta." What patleot nodoara
ful invaatlgaUoD waa eeoaasary to pro
duce such a book I Twelve yaarv were
■past In tba work, and ibe laaroad doc
tor beoame a second Llnneus iu bis
devotion to It. And yet this book W
hard to Ood, tod I suppose is oil of
print.
And now tba time baa coma for me
to pot away the Bowen und lliare'a
trouble on the old man's salad. I bare
cleaned out the pit and amugad the
• helves to my wlfe'a eatlefacUoo, and
am now engaged ia Uklag op the ge
rauluma and repotting the various
plan la I have to go a way down to the
lower part of Uia oow lot. and where
the rich earth had gathered, nod spade
It up and sift It into tba wheelbarrow
aud ru(l It up tba bill 'I'su-AjtvorSaQ
•no. My wife has a great big round
sifter Ilka the plasterers use, and after
I gat a load of earth and turn It out lu
the broad walk near the tot, then I
have to haul a load of sand and sift
that, aud then a load of wood ashes
and sift that, and than mix all togeth
er. She told me how. Sbe watches
me from tba window, whera alia la
eewlog, aud onocnragva me by tailing
mo nut to Work so bard, but to stop
and rest awhile. Yesterday aba came
hot to help me, nod when she wanted
osa to change the palm to a larger pot.
and the heliotrope to a smaller one. I
rebelled a little and asked her if aim
hml not load Diet ynller Jackets’ nest
under the atooe step, not far fioia
where she waa standing. Tba little
boogtra ware Just pouring out and In,
and as soon as alia sew them she ebook
bar skirts and departed those coasts
with alacrity. She wants to know
why L dou’t destroy their neat. Well,
I have triad. Time waa when wa
schoolboys dldaot waut any batter fan
than to break up a yslier Jacket’s a*t.
We fought them with brush and
brooms and dirt, and killed the last
one before we quit. Of eourev wo got
stung e»mellme*. but there It where
tbo heroism came la. Bat now I hart
no boys-they are ell flrln— and to I
poured hot water iu she hole wliere tba
jackets went in. and It killed a few,
but there are over a thousand hi the
oolony, and they all got mad with me
and ran ns Into tba house. Then I
plied up dead grata and old papers over
the graud ontraooe and poured karo
aeoa on It nnd eat it on Are and killed
■ i«w more. i>ut Ktu l coamiat ailaa
them. Thaw I got atung no Uia ear
and that made na mod aad I mixed op
a pan full of mortar aad aoueed It
down Into tba hole and alt around, aad
I pHnd up a big lot of olxy aad graral
on top and area earn I bad them fait
and would eUrve them to death, but
next morning they had a new hole aad
aro attending to bodoeai at the aama
old stand. f here put a circle of emp
ty dower pot* aronad tha promisee to
warn the children away end now I am
waiting for farther Inetruetloui from
my friend in kUmlasIpol.
Whan I waa laat la rlorida 1 pulled
ape little eprout of tba opponax aad
brought It home aad planted it. It
■row off nlaely aad wi kept U In lha
pit laat winter aad trsueferred It to
the garden teat aprtog. It la now a
boaullful little tree about eight fret
high with nomeront braaobaa end I
think will bloom next in miner if wa
eau save it. I belongs to tha mimosa
family and Ita detlaeta leaves era quit*
aawalUro, though oat so mash so at It*
humble cousin, tba ssndUvs pleat.
Lika that pleat. Ita blooms ars round
tufted balls of diftersot oolora. but ao
llke that plant, throe butts abed a de
lightful odor. Wbaopreeeed Into a
plncaebloo for a lady *bureau they will
p>r fa me it tor years, i am going to
winter It with a barrel and plottage.
Than then are ioasoa rarbanss, ar
elUedarat, U»t are always rafreahlag
aad dellghtfal to tha altaalarys. Wa
put tha email ease la the pit and leave
the large ooee out. Than there are a
variety of pretty pleats whom diwar*
Will glad den us all tha winter. A
gras abeam eight by elxteao feat oan tm
Milt aad gtaaead for tea or Iftesn dol
lars aad It Is always pin mine and ro
Botug to the family, espaaUtlyto the
wMs aad daughters.
Aad new the chryaantbemame are
-- -
buddlag Into baautr and ailing the air
with uamnoi. There ru a tiara
wbw lb# flower. wan all goMea, and
bwaea lea oacne from croeoe, golden,
bat tba art of tb« Serial baa developed
aaarly all Uia color, of tha rainbow.
Than tbara are ilia tall and uadr
Tw«a ptaka. or onatoe, that, Ufa tha
auuOowrr and tha morotsg glory, will
ajwlog up any wbare aa<f • eery where
whether you waat them or not. There
■ nothing prettier thus a bad of aaorn
lug glorler. their troll aad beautiful
bower# retting a poo the dewy cnee at
raorlea. We bare hade wealth of
lorely roaaa tbla rammer aod an atill
wijoyleg the exqalrita beauty of La
Fraoor. Ibe bride, the aateor, her
mujeety, the American beauty aad
•none other*. Uow many pretty poem
bare been written about tha llewan I
Homo* aad Janbe Smith's ode to the
Oowrn la auMiae. Mr*. Herman'a
"Hrini Flo wore to the Fair Yeuag
Bride’’ la a gem. Tliao there It "The
LmI Boae of 8umtaer." by lfoon. and
“The ltoeo That All Are Praia lap”
aod many otbera. Flower* adorn tha
wedding and Ibe grate. They an akin
to matte, aod both prove the Ion of
Cod to hit creature#.
cNAiKMAa unn wu.
Tklak. TM m« Va*«r*taa«laS
The HlMliM Better.
Chairman Clement Ueuly. ot Um
DemocreUo State exeoQtlrt commu
te. telegraphs tha X« w York World
concerning the late slsetloo ;
“The chief mum which brought
»J»«U th« Dvmoe ratio triumph ot
Tmmdof i« * fuller cmdersUied Ing
whtuh Ibe people bare of the Chicago
platform of 18«, aed eU that it menu
**• prwenrvatton of ledlrldatl
rights and furs retire to national
pro*parity wai for the reason that a
freer end uopuiehaaed expression of
the people'* will was bad on last Tea*
day end Dial Republican promisee are
falae and rod only la the premie*.
Uryaa to the embodiment of the lend
ing features of Dam tortile faith eud
their oousbtot uavieUleg champion.
If be line and I* fa health be will be
nominated by ibe DemooreUe petty
for I retldeut to 1000."
a* ”*rt rate." mats raua.
Ha le Bat Here at Sf 1* Ba-SUeattau—A
Strttat
**■* Vo“’ *0T- *-The Evening
World print* Ibe following telegram
addreesod to Its editor.
“Thiyr tell me 1 am sure of a reflec
tion' That le all I know about It. It
to an off-day. and. oompered with ale©.
Uous that usually follow prealdeoUa)
election* in Ohio, I think these to noth
ing to complain of.
“The weather was against the Re
publican* this year, and good times
have made them carets**.
“1 do not thick the result has any
significance at to silver. I d »i't see
bow the Democrat* can reasonably
bring «ilm up at an Issue io tbit Mate
again. They did not make an irewe of
It this year. I hardly thick the money
question ought to be considered as
affected either way. The result* all
oyer the country show It was so off
year.
(8lgnad) “Maucu* A. Hawha."
Tb* Meat* Paper.
OuiMrjro llaadllfbi.
Only those wbc have lived In a email
town can realise the power and fascina
tion of a home paper. It occupies a
place that no other publication can Oil.
The borne newspaper comes first, al
ways Everybody looks through every
column to aee if bit or her “ammo is la
the paper.” Each bit of local gossip i*
read and discussed. Sometime* u is a
birth, sometimes It to a death, some
time* a marriage, Xo matter whut It
ts, every name mention«d U familiar
to all, aad for this one reason atone the
liosae paper Is prtxsd above end beyond
anything the “lltenrv fallows” la the
oitie* can prodoe*. It doesn’t lake a
great while to rued the new* lo the
bom* papers; there’s lima to rted the
advertisement*. and tkaadvertisements
are reed, Jast toe same vs the news.
Every business man la every town
where a paper Is printed should be
represented In tbet paper. If be is met
If is bs, sod not the publisher, who to
the loser.
Why to It t
□Saltum BoeoriL
KImUm prtoi of oyttou drop pod
down to »N>nt 3 onto daring Clove
laad'e administration all tbo Moon
on laid on him aad tba Damooratla
party. Ye*, many ueu bitterly da
nouaoaJ President Cleveland, and tba
democratic party and bald tham re
sponsible for Uia low pries of cotton,
aad yat, otraaga to aay, thoaa very mac
hava not a ward to ety af clast Proa I
daot McKinley when cotton U again
down to about S canta a pound.
If Cleveland and tba Deeaocratle par
ty warn nmpaatibU aad warn de
noaaeed for tba low price of cot too la
1801, why ara not MoKlnloy and tba
Uapablloan party responsible aad da
Bounced for the itaa thing In 1808 T
Ctoatunto Oroaar.
Tba trade of Uaatonla ao far thla
rad la about what It usually It for tbla
season of tba year, with perhaps nm
lncraaa« on tome Moot. The dnmanda
of oar frit ad* la Uie country far eaU
Mea era aat »> largo aa lbay ware la
yea re put, fur the farmer* la tbla
eeaatry are raising caora "bag and
bonlny'' new than eevr bsfocn. Tbla
la a hopeful aad aacoaragltur alga, too,
far aa tong aa wa keep ear aaeotee boaaa
la the want wt may tspent u baaa
empty pocket hooka,
|
I
I
A CHATHAM MUM.
WEALTHY FABMEB MATO UOYB
btmail.
Wrrttjr It* T(—*— *
tuiclrt Nmra sat Imyi^lii
“All tbs world lore* »lovsr."
And wbsa that lorsr Ugood loofcing,
ssssasrjassircat^
tloiishios of lift to win tbs voota sf
hto oho loo, U>« world lores hiss sit tbs
osofs-mu though bo bos widower
•f 43.
ouoii • lover to Jum Gillian, a
*•»«-»•«* famr la Chatham ooooty.
At laaat be was *ach a lover yaatntoy.
Tbla morales be is peetoMy a bus
baad-aad let m tope stnj alovar. too.
Hi* fable, if UMeabe to, to Mite
Sowe. of Mew York city.
„ Giuun. ae bto frfead* fanl
llarly call bln, to wet a rich ana, bat
MMag bis neighbor* ha bee always
arx^^s&j-af
<ai«ttUt Brt ba 1—4 , p*j
to* farm of rich toad aear PltUboro.
end m bto little family grew a* they
wen alto to reader bln great aaete
taace la tin saturation ef hie amps.
la do*i Una two of the children Mr-,
rtrf; aod the tarn grew and Jin wee
*•*5 bwt to
P5^ “»&• * few toiler* Iter* aad there
aatiltohea beoone known ee a naa
at ehne wealth.
He loved hie efcUdre*. to laved ht«
fam, to loved hie aelgbW But oft
ttotoy’e tali, be would
think of the good wife, who** oompan
loeahto to eorely raUeed, end to would
yeeip far that love and sympathy that
titlldreu or neighbor* or Aside and
ton*i cannot give. He seeded It to
complete hi* llfa, end wondered dimly
would such love ever come again to I
bln.
U wee about Bee nontlw ago that I
ttor* appeared la a matrimonial paper
a “penooal” eoaeetblag after thtofaeb
ioo :
•GBMTLlfMAM. forty. of good
fanUy. character, reputation, sppear
aaco, food of horn aad It* atormTla
flueoce, man of Due*, desire* to eor*
rnpood with a lady steal 13, median
elM. good looking, rvflaad and booer
*ble; view: matrimony.”
la reply to this ervsral answers oamv
—some weil-wrlueu, eon« aearady
legible; eon* mourn mattoal aad badly
•pelled. Of tb-m all. that arltlea by
. «* *«» rvrk. meat aatta
todJtm Gin lata'* ideal, aod pleased
hie faoey. U« answered the totter at
oner. Then another etna, mid anuth
•r, aod aooltiei: and dually them w*a
one with a photograph lit It.
It wae the portrait of a (all, graceful
»?*»•■ oftoeoty-Are, perhaps thlrtr.
with Itoekeyea and Ink. and the tag
gestion of a sweat nail* shout tor
month. Mow the courtship program d
rapidly, for the naa liked th* picture
—U became hi* Ideal, Urn elpeot of hla
adoration.
urwm, inn im tUyM bard toil, ho
weald come boos, taka It oat and
gua long upon It. Then ba told a fbw
o( bis Intimate friend*, aud they told
others aud tba new* of tba roekeoo*
want flying on gouip'a Upi, until tba
ooortablp of Jim Gilliam was a daligbt
tampered with anxiety to the entire
popnlartlon of Pltuboro aad tba sur
reuodiog community.
Tba seeing soolatlM la tba Httla
town never talked of anything else,
the preacher’* sermon at the oountry
tnretlns-botia* was forgotten Urn miu
ute he finished delivering it, In the all
aheorbing topic of this wonderful love
makiag tot wean Maw Tort city and
Chatham county. At far the man,
they parched ttmmmlvm on teama or
lounged on good's bom aad S'SCUla
ted a* to what Jim Gill lam's children
»*es going to say shout aH him “narry
on”- and whether an old waa la lava
t* • bigger fool than a yoang man.
Mona uftbam anmtkma wptoever
satUCneisrlly decided, bat yesterday
about noon, wits* Mr. Gilliam aad bla
■flUnoad drove out from lloocwr* to
bis pises, two. mils* aortbeaat of Pitta
bora, It was almost liks som* great
•vast In tba country's history. The
news bad goes before that they war*
coming, sad everybody triad tom
them. Half tba paoplaooadamaad aad
half appeared these.
Vow then were imeae alee, eon
mttoeel emoae-wtiy Ur. Gilliam
■bonld go slowly U this matter of
Joining their daatiuloa for Ufa. Yoeag
•r beads and warmer heart* would
bsro anted differently, of aauma.
They would have said.- •’! lorn you,
sad you lave me—bow esa anyth tag
lln t&AlUr?"
ado mwb woeic un mm a Mar*
ri*r> on Um mm*. Bat la tbteeae*
tea man la 45 red tba «mh M. The
CMS baa two Married abtldnm bad
fetr otbara at Immo, tbair fata re neat
ba oo Bruited. Tba «mh bad boon
Am, a«tlb. they bod both Mm la
^sffassu"®?*
f* ‘Bteter oea oca aaotbar aaw. go
nor the whole oUaattoB and Umw «£
***■ After tW there <m be eo
heert-beralage, do reenmlnutoea, no
charge* of henna beta 4mM.H
llteVwSScaSJhuJjn M? OmT
*»’• tern, be oumated that Xfae
D»wm mn dm, leak Itaadtta
a IkMI 4ntfl
°r not aha w *eld take tbeei for better
Of won*, for life or death.
JTetthla parpeee b» aaat bar Meaty
•any Mm. that ba woatd pay bar
way beet. tu» waa aapeaGf loot
Xrw Tort Sun, 3»V.
Yellow jonraailaai made a meae of II
essssssss:
Mtt el the eUethM two au or »w
Barts
SK-.°S^S S^yiuS
rasswsffisswysB!
kOHXatVM^ 1 *
Both HttdWwnaaw
ZluStu V"4*™
tote. After a edt oftwobotueho
» MMH that Vea Wyok
weaeleotad. aed wee ordered U turn
looae the Van Wyek ■‘extnuL’* la Me
beate ho opeeed a bo adle olLe*»ex
traa,» exThetore ibaaUeLake waa die
WWW* half a hundred wnkow am
howlte* on Broadway ttatLew ^rea
■tooted.
*# «•* **» “•****.” •<
oocree, hot baadwda boafhtUiem aa
Hw oew >oeraa!Uek •***'****,B*B -
*«- ear a wo auTum.
»— ■»--H r i
OberWte Mr*?, Ml.
Mr. tvill feta toeing* Began ruin
day •»?• oat Ua following Vntrnaant
“Tba return an an iaaeanMattet t
u lupoeaiMe to dlaao** *ESGn
eWetioQ in detail. Tbs EfapwbUaaa*
ararywban endorsed Ua llnnMloia
Statu, It would on tLat^EnabUna
MUUca moot Mag .ado53rtu5
P?11*- Tbs aanUawmt la Uvor of Ua
Ckteago ptetfam abowa • boalUy
growu Uroogbout Uo aoaatry, P*r
iaps oar oppoonnU wfll bow udnlt
that surer is not dead. Tba atUmot
to saew* International bi-natalUan
baa prorad a ration and It la now non
anssaar
UataaalTM ae tba flotoelu loaaltna.
*obna o* agrar
at Id to t la naanr now (Saw Uwaoa
yaar ago. High tart* apao a gold
5ssw»s*A£
oowagUn. IUUkTroto tbnaaau
■not of Denocrate, ftp a Wot a aad
Sllrar Bap«bllaaaa. wban l nr Ua
«*bt winbaeoatlawad with MMaoa
Mmstoanoaui tba gtld maopan k
broken and tba anotf Uwat taorar
tbrown.* Tba totg'iwSaa laaaant
ably ti»
for Ua' apbaUdtM~of''
boaitUy aodona all It i
Uat Gastonia's
U ••tndlrldaal i_
but tba Una Baa
2tetKr SmSSte*•&» Mite
ttepod or ua •amTwMmTSS?
MaaSaotlaa wi wfll an bnebteteZ
•nr* water-worts, steatite Mtn.
gradedaabaal*aodnaay otMrSCga
*arynantUL Un ten