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THE LINCOLNTON NEWS
J. 3D. COLLEY & CO.,
VOL. I.
WASHINGTON ADVERTISEMENTS.
LORENZO SMITH & BRO.,
—OF—
* < m H t3 O *5 rs $ >
A*a OWSBING FOB TUB FAT.T. TBADE
CincinnatiBuggies
AT $50 TO $75.
Columbus Buggies
AT $100 TO $160.
Buggies and Carriages of other makes and
grades at various prices. Also
STUDEBAKER WAGONS
At $65 and $70.
TENNESSEE WAGONS
At $60 and $65
WEBSTER WAGONS
$60 to $75.
THREE 3-4 WAGONS
-A.T $35.
Oiefliso Wap, wl Seat,
Own Hake, at $40.
KEMP’S MANURE SPREADERS, ORAIS
DRILLS, ALBION SPRING TOOTS
HARROWS, WINDMILLS,
And a General Assortment of
Agricultural Implements
Also Single Harness of Harness, from $9 Hubs, up. Double Spokes
Harness, parts
and Rims.
4 Good Buggy 6Haraesslor$68.
Onv prices are guaranteed to be as low as
any similar house in the South. Give ns a
•all. Correspondence solicited.
0. M. MAY,
WASHINGTON, GA.,
GR J
AKTD DEALER IN
era fcrt i s=c
The liberal patronage which I have ob¬
tained from the people of Wilkes and adjoin¬
ing counties, I intend to hold by continuing
to sell my goods at the very lowest prices,
and by fair dealing in all things. Also
C. M. MAY & CO.
Will carry on a General Mercantile business
at Doable Branches, Lincoln Co., Ga.
MEMO'S STORE
A First-Class Store in Every
Respect.
A full stock of General Meicnandise always
on hand.
J. N Mercier.
T■ H. REMSEN’S
STORE!
FINE WINES ana WHISKIES.
GENUINE MONOGRAM.
THE AUGUSTA, ELBERTON AND CHICAGO RAILROAD.
ESTABLISHED I87S.
i
LOWE & BRO.,
.
RETAIL DEALERS IS ;
!
FINE LIQUORS
OF ALL SORTS.
AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF
KORTH CAROLINA CORK WHISK!
APPLE AND PEACH BRANDY, FINE
WINES, RUM, GIN, ALE, BEER,
ETC., ETC, ETC., ETC.
TOBACCO 41 CIGARS.
WASHINGTON. CA.
AU6USTA ADVERTISEMENTS.
BOBT. H. MAY. A. B. GOODYEAR
ROB’T H. MAY & CO.’S
GRAND EXHIBITION
OF
And PLANTATION WA80NS.
ALL SIZES.
The largest and most complete assortment
of One and Two-Horse Vehicles ever shown
in this section. All first-class work, and will
be offered for the next sixty days at price*
way below their value and lower than can be
duplicated.
Do not lose this opportunity. On exami¬
nation this work will prove to you that it
cannot be purchased elsewhere at the prioes
we offer.
Harness, Also, a Umbrellas, large stock Lap of Robes, Saddles, Blanket*, Bridle*
Cali Skins, Sole and Harness Leather, Rub¬
ber and Leather Belting, Trunks, Bags,
Hubs, Harness, Spokes, Wagon Reins, Harness, Axles, Trace Lowasz Chains,
Cash Pbioes. eto., at
THE ROAD CART
(PATENTED.)
The safest, lightest and most easy riding
two-wheeled vehicle ever produced. Of all
the road carts made, use and experience has
demonstrated these to be the best. The
ArowrABut Balance is a most valuable fea
ture of our Road Carts. Buy no other. Price
$ 50 .
N. B.—We warrant all the vehicles we sell.
Remember our prices are the lowest.
ROB’T H. MAY & CO *5
BROAD STREET ’
Opposite Georgia R. R. Bank
AUGUSTA, GA.
ORDEB YOUR
Saw Hills, Cane Mills
Grrist Mills,
And Plantation and Mill Machinery
Engines Shafting, and Pnlleys, Boilers, Hangers, Cotton Journal Screws,
Boxes, Mill Gearing, Gudgeons,
Turbine Water Wheels,
Gin Gearing, Jndson’e Governors, Diss
ton’s Circular Saws, Gummers and
Files, Belting and Babbit Metal
and Brass Fittings, Globe
and Check Valves and
Whistles,
Gnages, Iron and Brass Castings, Gin Ribs,
Iron Fronts, Balconies and Fence Rail¬
ing.
Geo. R. Lombard & Go.,
FOREST CITY
Foundry and Machine Works,
REAR THE WATER TOWER,
1014 to 1026 Fenwick Street,
AUGUSTA, GA.
pf Repairing promptly done at Lowes
prices.
CENTRAL HOTEL,
AUGUSTA, CA.
MRS. W. M. THOMAS, PaOPBUTMEse
This hotel, so well known to the citiiens
Lincoln and adjoining counties, is
in the center of the business portion
Augusta. Convenient to Postofflce,
graph ments office to tho and public Depot, such and only other
as
hotels can afford.
LINCOLNTON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1883.
Drifting.
The tide went out—
On Shining pebbles and shells that lay
the shore, at the beck of the white-armed
•pray,
Went out with the tide.
The tide went out—
And a hundred ships asleep on the strand
Sprang up, and away from the hateful land
Went out with the tide.
The tide went out— %
And a life as sweet as a life might be,
Drifting away to the unknown sea,
Went out with the tide.
The tide came in—
The pebbles and shells, with the waves’ dis¬
dain,
Flung from their arms to the shore again,
Came in with the tide.
The tide came in—
The weary ships from their voyaging,
Laden with many a precious thing,
Cum in with the tide.
The tide came in
But the life, as sweet as a life might be,
Came net back from the unknown sea—
Come not in with the tide.
—Emille A. Braddock.
HALF A LOAF.
“‘Half a loaf is better .than no
bread,* Charlie.’”
Little Mabel Castleton said this
wistfully, her eyes, as she spoke, wan¬
dering to the cradle, where two curly
heads were lying.
“But when one has had the whole loaf,
May, one does not exactly relish the
lialf rations you mention,” said Charlie
moodily. But his eyes followed his
wife’s to the cosy nest of the twin
babies.
“It is a bad time of year to be out
of a situation,” said Mabel, after along
silence, “and many of whom we know
are idle. It would not be very easy to
find employment now.”
“You think I had better remain with
Mr. Mifflin.”
“I do. Tell me exactly what he said
to you.”
“The substance of what he said was
simply this : Business is so very dull
that he is obliged to curtail his ex¬
penses, and he must discharge some of
his clerks. I have been with him for
ten years, and he was pleased to say I
am very useful to him, and he is very
unwilling to part with me. But he can
give me but half my present salary,
though he promises to raise it when
business prospects brighten. I don’t
know what to do. We are none too
rich at my present salary.”
“Yet we’ve saved something each
month. Besides, dear, we have not
tried to be economical. Therevwe many
ways in which I could save.”
“And make a perfect slave of your¬
self.”
“Not a bit of it. I have plenty of
leisure time now that May and Bella
can amuse each other. Come, Charlie,
accept Mr. Mifflin’s offer. You may
hear of something better, even if yon
remain there; but don’t throw your¬
self out of a situation in the dead of
winter, for my sake and the children’s.”
The last argument conquered. Char¬
lie knew too well that it would be al¬
most useless to look for a new situation,
for the whole town was echoing Mr.
Mifflin’s cry of hard times. The small
|
nest egg in the bank would soon melt
away when it became the sole support
1 of four, and so, kissing Mabel, he
Bu ‘“
He had entered the service of his
present employer at seventeen, and
slowly, steadily gainifeg favor by dint
of faithfully performing every duty, he
had won hiB way to the desk of head
clerk. Not until be had acquired this
position and the handsome salary
accompanying it would he ask Mabel
to become his wife, furnishing a pretty
cottage home from his savings, and
giving her a thoroughly comfortable
income for housekeeping expenses. - ne
was not extravagant, but it pleased him
to see his wife well dressed, to give her
an efficient servant, to have his twin
girls ever presentable, his table well
appointed. All this had been easy
enough upon his salary, and there had
been something added for three years
to the little bank fund.
But to do all this upon half the pres¬
ent income was simply impossible.
House rent must be paid, and the sum
remaining each month would have to
be carefully calculated to meet all the
expenses, leaving but little for pleasure
or extravagance of dress.
“Then what would Will say ?”
Will Castleton was Charlie’s cousin,
I who had been his Hfe-long companion.
Together they had left the school room
for a business position, Will entering
the grain store of Harvey & Bussell at
the same time Charlie had taken the
place in Mr. Mifflin’s dry goods store.
Shoulder to shoulder the young men
had worked their way, till this financial
crisis had brought sill business men into
temporary difficulties of greater or less
magnitude.
Will had>expressed the warmest in
lignation at the propossil made his
-ousin, strongly advising him to throw
up his situation and “see how old Mifflin
would get along without him,’’ and
Charlie, before seeing Mabel, was quite
ready to follow his advice.
He knew Will would think him mean
spirited to remain upon half salary,
and yet Mabel was right. Half a loaf
is better than no bread.
And while Charlie Castleton was
thus weighing the pros and cons of his
decision, Mr. Mifflin was listening to
the counsel of his old friend and chum,
the senior partner of the firm that had
been Gardner & Mifflin, and who,
though he had retired years before, was
still the friend and frequent adviser of
his former partner.
“It is a mistake, Mifflin,” he said.
“You had better send young Castleton
about his business and engage an en¬
tirely new book-keeper. You will find
that half pay means half service, mark
my word.”
“But I might search C- •from
end to end and not find a clerk compe¬
tent to take his place.”
“Then pay him full salary,”
“I cannot do. it unless I reduce the
number of salesmen, and I am short
handed now. There is but one way to
keep my head above water. You see
Clark’s failure involves me very heavily
and—”
And the worried man of business
entered into explanations of his diffi¬
culties not necessary to repeat here.
It touched Charlie Castleton deeply
when entering the counting house to
announce his determination to remain
in his old position, to see the face of
his employer brighten. And as Charlie
spoke the large eyes grew brighter and
he smiled pleasantly as he said:
“Thank you, Charlie. It would have
caused me serious embarrassment to
lose you, and I am heartily glad you
will stay. I trust you will not long be
obliged to take a small salary, but cir¬
cumstances compel me to economize.’’
“You have been a kind employer to
me for ten years,” replied Charlie, “and
if I am really of any more value to you
than another would be in my place, I
will not desert you.”
And looking into the careworn face
that trouble was marking snore deeply
than age, Charlie resovled to serve Mr.
Mifflin more faithfully in his perplexi¬
ties than in his more prosperous days.
It was not long before the old gen¬
tleman felt the sympathy of his young
clerk, and looked to him as he never
did before for advice as well as service.
He admitted him to confidential rela¬
tions, explained to him the difficulties
caused by the failure of other firms,
some heavily indebted to the firm of
Joel Mifflin, others upon whom he had
depended for goods obtained upon
credit.
Day by day, as the hard, trying win¬
ter wore away, the two friends grew
faster, and, so far from lessening his
work, Charlie found himself willingly
lifting some of his employer’s burdens
upon his own shoulders.
He gave more time to business, and
he was gaining an insight into it of
which an opportunity had never beeh
given him.
And Mabel at home was bravely
taking her share of the diminished loaf
with a smiling face and a cheerful
heart, as far as might be she kept
from Charlie a knowledge of her domes¬
tic economies, but some of them were
apparent.
The woman whose competent aid de¬
manded high wages was dismissed, and
a half-grown girl engaged to mind the
babies while Mabel cooked and washed
and ironed and sewed, meeting difficul¬
ties with a courageous heart. She had
never been a drone in the world’s hive,
having been a busy little dressmaker
before Charlie Castleton won her heart
and took her to preside over his pretty
home.
But for three years of her married
life she had been much petted, and
there were many pleasures to put aside
—many dollars well weighed before
they were spent.
It was with a heart full of pardon¬
able triumph that the young couple, at
•the. end of the year of reduced pay,
found they were still out of debt and
had not touched the nest egg in the
bank.
“You see, Charlie, we made the half
loaf go round,” said Mabel, as they
went carefully over the year’s expense
book.
“There are no crumbs,” he said, with
a weary face.
“Never mind that; it was better than
idleness.”
“You are right; and there was more
than that, Mabel. I have been able to
help Mr. Mifflin more than I could have
done in our old relations to each other.
His complexities made him long for
some one to whom he could speak con¬
fidentially, and when the ice was once
broken he took me fully into his busi¬
ness confidence. I could often suggest
a way out of difficulty that had not
occurred to Mm, and even when I was
not of actual use to him it was a re¬
lief to peur out his troubles to some
one who was in full sympathy with
him.”
“But you have worked very hard,
Charlie. I never saw you so tired as
you often have been this year, and
your face is more careworn than it has
ever been.
“Well, it Is some Somfort to know
that business prospects are growing
brighter. By closest economy Mr.
Mifflin has managed to meet the obli¬
gations he was afraid would ruin him,
and there is a good lookout for the
coming year.”
“Will he give you a whole loaf yet,
Charlie?”
“Not yet, I think. Is ever mind. We
Vill not despond yet.”
“Despond! I guess not. I am go¬
ing to have some of those crumbs you
were speaking of next year. I have
learned some valuable lessons in sav¬
ing.”
The second year was certainly not
an easy one to Mabel. A wee baby, in
addition to the three-year-old twins,
kept the mother’s hands busy, while
there was no decrease in the household
work. Many articles of clothing and
housekeeping, too, that lasted well one
year, were past service in the second
and it was not so easy to replace them.
Often Mabel feared that the saving
for a “rainy day” must be broken in
upon, but she kept all such fears shut
up in her own heart, and always had a
bright word of cheer for tired Charlie
when he came home.
She never told him that the late
breakfast that she had planned to let
the babies sleep while he ate his early j
one, comprised none of the little tempt
ing dishes of his own meal, but was
litterally bread and milk six mornings
out of the seven. She never let him
know that the reason she suggested his i
lunch down town, to save the long walk j
home, was really to save the price of
that meal toward the dinner, the dainty
little parcel he carried never costing
the price of a regular meal for them
all.
She did not tell him that she was
cutting up her old dresses to clothe the
twin girls, and sewing busily every
leisure moment to keep all the little ;
ones tidy.
And yet there came a dav in June,
when six months of the second year
were almost gone, when she spent the
last dollar of the week’s money while
the week was haM gone. Charlie had
given her, long beiore, some signed
checks to meet such an emergency, but
it was her pride to think that not one
of them had been presented at the
bank.
She took one from the desk where
they had lain so long and spread it out
before her, calculating, with puckers
on her pretty face, how small a sum she
could stretch over the necessary ex
penses.
“I hate to begin,” she said half aloud;
“if once we break in upon that money
it will melt away like snow before the
sun.”
There was no alternative but debt,
and Mabel knew that Charlie would I
never be willing to owe any man a
cent while he had a cent with which to
pay him. So, with a great sigh, she
dipped the pen in the ink to fill out the
blank check. Before it touched the
paper, however, she paused, listening, j
There was a step in the hall that was
not that of the nurse or her charges, a
voice ringing out full and clear, calling:
“Mabel! Where are you, May ?”.
“Here in my room,” she answered.
“Oh, Charlie, what is it ?”
For the face at the door was so
radiant that all care seemed to have
slipped from it forever.”
“Good news, May! And yet—per.
haps I should feel sorrow, too, only I
did not know him.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Did you read this morning’s paper?”
“Yes.”
“Did you notice the death of Amos
Gardner ?”
“No. Is that the Mr. Gardner who
used to be Mr. Mifflin’s partner before
•you went into the store ?”
“Yes; he has left his whole estate to
Mr. Mifflin except a few legacies. The
store will be closed till after the fu
neral, so we have three days’ holiday,
May.”
“I am glad you will be able to rest 1”
“But that is not all. Do you guess
the rest?”
“You are to have your old salary
again!”
“More than that, Mr. Mifflin took me
to his house this morning and told me
all his plans. He will enlarge his busi¬
ness and take on all his old salesmen
who are wiling to come, He has given
me permission to offer a position to
Will Castleton, who has bee* nearly a
year out of employment because he
would not accept your theory of ‘half
a loaf better than no bread.’ ”
“I know. Poor Will! I am afraid
that Maria had a worse year than ours
has been, Charlie.”
“Nor is it all, May."
“More good news still?”
“More still! Mr. Gardner, Mr.
Mifflin says, did me some injustice
some time by supposing that I would
proportion my wdrk to the decrease in
my salary. To atone for this he has
left me $5,000.”
“Oh, Charlie!”
“Hold on, little woman; he also ad
vised Mr. Mifflin in their very last
interview to reward me for my faith¬
ful, disinterested devotion to him in
his late difficulties by taking me as a
partner in the business.”
“Charlie, oh, my Charlie 1 I must
either laugh or cry,” said Mabel, almost
hysterically.
“Laugh, then, by all means. The
new firm of Mifflin & Castleton must
not be christened by tears, even happy
ones! Hurrah! who says after this
that half a loaf is no better than no
bread?”
The Monster Trees of California.
As regards the wonderful size of
the Sequoia, that is a matter which
does not at first fully come to one. The
fact is that all the trees are so large
that one fails to realize the magnitude
of the giants. All have increased in
proportion. It requires a mental *al
culation to convince one’s self that the
transformation is something quite out
of the common. It is only when you
come to walk in and out of the hollow
trees and to circle round them and
take a constitutional by walking along¬
side of a fallen giant, or perhaps, (if
it has done duty as a chimney before
it came to grief) by riding up inside
the hollow for a considerable distance,
that you begin to understand their
size. You do so best when, standing
on the ground beside a prostrate tree
tying buried in a ditch of its own
making, you look up at a red wall ris
ing perhaps fifteen or twenty feet
above your head, bulging outward
considerably and extending in a
straight line for 300 feet along the
ground, and tell yourself that it is
only a tree! The owners of the beau
’
tiful ^ ove near the hotel h ave erected
taU ladders to euabIe P M l !le to elimb
t0 some of these hei S hts aRd walk
a * 0D *> the ^ al ' en trees 33 ^ on £ ar den
terraces. It sounds cockney, but it is
P leasant t0 a view of
the forest from an elevation of thirty
feet, and it is not every one who can
scale the red rampart without the aid
of the ladders. If you choose to
clamber along the upturned roots you
may find an airy seat some forty feet
above theground. This sounds high,
but on further consideration you begin
to marvel how such extraordinary
small roots can ever have formed a fit
pedestal for so ponderous a .weight
They have literally no depth and a
comparatively small spread, so that
^ 1;l ' 0 mere ^J a superficial hold on
the earth’s surface. Yet this slight
support has enabled these huge bodies
to resist the wild storms of many cen¬
turies. All the big trees ]of the dis¬
trict are concentrated in two groves,
namely, the little forest gem of Cala¬
veras, and a much larger belt known
as the South Park grove, on the Stani¬
slaus river, about six miles further.
In the Calaveras grove all the Sequoias
lie within an area of fifty acres, over
which space altogether about 100 lie
scattered singly or in groups. Of these
twenty attain a circumference of about
eighty feet near the base, and one,
which is distinguished as the Father
of the Forest, is found to measure 110
feet round, it now lies prostrate, and
has apparently done so for many a
century, for the well-nigh imperishable
wood is in part decayed, and long use
as a chimney has burned out its inside
and destroyed its summit ere it fell.
The portion that still remains is like a
long mountain, and two large archways
have been cut into the side of the said
in order that those whose
taste lies in that line may ride into the
hollow trunk and come out by the
further opening. It is estimated that
the tree, when perfect, must have been
about 450 feet|in height. Of the trees
now standing, four exceed 300 feet in
height, and one measures 325. About
twenty-five are said to exceed 250 feet.
One can, perhaps, better realize what
these sizes mean by finding the amount
of house-room to be obtained within a
hollowed tree. Several, such as “Miner’s
Camp” and “Pioneer's Camp,” have
been used as temporary homes. In
the latter, fifty persons can find sitting
room ; others are -used for stabling
horses.— Gentleman's Magazine.
Advantages of the American Press.
In the matter of late news the Am¬
erican press hits the advantage of the
European. Whatever happens in this
country after 10 or 11 o’clock at night
is too late for the morning editions of
the London papers; but anything oc¬
curring there as late as 7 or 8 o’clock
in the morning can be published in the
morning papers on this side. In the
same way the afternoon papers in this
country may get the whole day’s news
fromfabroad while the European, pa¬
pers can get only half a day’s news
from this side,
PUBLISHERS.
NO. 18.
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.
Cranberry poultice for erysipelas Is
a remedy we find in Dr. Foote's Health
Monthly.
To eat to repletion, work to exhaus¬
tion, and then stimulate in various
ways in order to recover strength, is
the sure road to sickness.
Thousands of strong, hardy, hearty
men die annually in America, simply
because their habits of living are
destructive to life.
A good remedy for warts and corns:
Drop a little vinegar on the wart or
com, cover it immediately with cook¬
ing soda or saleratus ; let it remain ten
minutes. Repeat several times a day
for three days and the warts and corns
will be gone.
An open lire (well guarded) la not
only a great ornament, but acts as a
ventilator and health giver. It is oxly
by the greatest necessity that one
should allow anursery to be heated by
a furnace or stove. It is better to
paint or calcimine a nursery than to
paper it, for reason that some pre¬
pared papers are poisonous, and one
cannot be sure that the paste used is
not sour.
When to Slop Advertising,
When every man has become so much
a creature of habit that he will [cer¬
tainly buy this year where he did last.
When younger, fresher and spunkier
concerns in your line of business cease
stalling up and using the newspapers
in telling the people how much bstter
they can do for them than you can.
When nobody else thinks it pays to
advertise.
When population ceases to multiply;
and the generation that crowd on $fter
you stop coming on. . -
When you have convinced everybody
whose life will touch yours that you
have better goods and lower prices
than they can ever get at any
outside of your store. j ’ "*, c
When you perceive it to be the rule
that men who never do, and nevef did
Advertise, are outstripping their' neigh¬
bors in the same line of business.
When men stop making fortunes
right in your sight, solely by a disereet
use of this mighty agent.
When you can forget the words of
the shrewdest and most successful
business men concerning the main
cause of their prosperity.
When you would rather have your
own way and fail, then take advice
and win.
Fox and Peasant—A Fable.
A fox who had gorged himself with
three fowls was sitting in a fence cor¬
ner with a disgusted look on his face
when along came a peasant, who said:
“The only thing I have against] you
is that you steal my fowls.”
“If that’s all we can be friends,” re¬
plied the fox.
“How ?”
“Why, I am ready to promise that I
will never again disturb the peace of
your hen-roost.”
“Honest?”
“Honest Injun,” said Reynard as he
laid his paw on his stomach.
Two days afterward the peasant was
crossing his fields when he suddenly
came upon the fox devouring one of
his finest hens.
“Ha! but its scarcely forty-eight
hours since you promised to let my
fowls alone!”
“Yes, I know,” replied Reynard as
he gulped down a leg; “but just then I
was stuffed with chicken and could
hold no more.”
moral ;
Dont expect that what a man prom¬
ises on a full stomach will be carried
out on an empty one.— Detroit Free
Press.
Growth of Christianity.
The following statistics gathered
from a speech made at the Congrega¬
tional union of Englsmd and Wales, by
Dr. H. M. Storrs of New York, are be¬
lieved to be accurate, and will be of in¬
terest : At the end (of the first con
tury) of Christian history it is eom
monlv estimated that there were about
500,000 adherents to the Christian
faith; at the end of the second century,
about 2 , 000 , 000 ; at the end of the third,
5,000,000; at the end the fourth, it),000,
000; the end of the fifth, 15,000,000; at
the end of the sixth, 20,000,000; the
end of the seventh, 25,000,000; at the
end of the eigth, 30,000,000. Now the
number of enrolled communicants in
the United States in eighty years, from
1800, has increased 9,700,000, or nearly
as many as the number of adherents to
Christianity at the end of the fourth
century of the Christian era. These
adherents were not all professed Chris¬
tians, or enrolled members of the
churches. On the basis of “adherents”
the United States present an increase
of 35,230,000—more than the entire
Christain body at the end of eight
centuries.
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A want that has long been felt—A
new hat,