THE WILSON ADVANCE: AUGUST 15, 1895.
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Thursday,
August 15, '1895.
SOCIAIi CRIMES 1JKOK EN "PROMISES.
If we were to charge any person
of our acquaintance with deliberately
breaking a promise the result might
be a case in the Police Court, and yet
what man is there who reads these
lines who has not broken a promise
this month? There are many ex
cuses for you, no doubt, O, gentle
reader! Perhaps your wife made
you promise to bring her, a spool of
No. 40 cotton and you forgot it in the
press 'of business.- Perhaps you told
the collector on Monday that you
would call and oav that little bill on
Tuesday, and when. Tuesday came
you went to a barbecue. Maybe you
promised your mother not to smoke
any more cigarettes, but who ever ex
pected a MANto keep a" foolish
promise like that ? Maybe you
promisedyourself at church last Sun
day that you would do a little better
hereafter, but somehow or other you
have not kept that promise. The
list is a long one for, however it may
be elsewhere, in this part of the king
dom more promises are broken than
kept.
This practice to which we are all
so prone is a great crime' against so
ciety, or in other words against our
fellow man. It renders a life, already
uncertain enough, still more uncertain.
We engage a man to cut wood. He
promises to come, but he does no
and we have to engage another and
in this way about half of our work
must be done twice over because
people don't keep .their promises.
Because the man failed to exit the
wood, as promised, you could not
have dinner on time as y&t promised
and , hence your husband could not
meet a man on time as he promised
and oe nee a trade was missed, and so
it goes, until a little thing grows into
a big thing and the Editor on the
watch tower sees it and raises the cry
of warning.
You are not obliged to make a
promise. But if you., do, be a man
and keep that promise. Try it awhile
and get your friends to try it. Try
it at home and try it at the store.
Try it on the farm and if you are a
miller in the name of all those peo
Dle who have had to wait all dav to
get their corn ground try it at the
mill. If you are a politician try it
on the voters. They will hardly be
lieve their senses at first, but try it for
luck.
You can't have any idea of how
smoothly this globe would revolve
how pleasant would be the days, how
sweet the nights if everybody kept
their promises. . Why if people
kept their promises to the newspapers
alone it would create; enough happi
ness in North Carolina to well we
would like to see that tried.
Suppose you make a start at keep-
mo- vnnr nromises ? If VOU can't
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tVimlr r.f anv-one else to start with
start with the Wilso Advance.
Tust think ol it! l he corn crop
'of the United States for 1895 is esti
mated at 2.aco.ooo.6oo bushesls. If
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this be true corn -will sell for about
two dollars a barrel beiore Christmas.
FOKIEIGN MISSIONS.
In commenting upon the massa-1
:re of the missionaries in China, an
account of which appears elsewhere :
in our columns, the Washington
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Post expresses the opinion that the
efforts to convert the heathen are
not very successful, and it enters a
protest against the sacrifice of chnst
ian lives without any adequate results.
This seems to be a very sensible
view. The heathen do not want to
be. converted, as we all know, and
while it mav be a christian duty to
make the attempt, it is certainly poor
policy to. continue the efforts in the
face of such small results. Large
sums are raised in this country
and spent in Foreign Mission field?,
devoted men and women give their
labor and their lives, and yet we can-
not learn of any substantial advance ( Kenly. I mentioned the shooting of
oi the christian religion in any for-: Mr. Holland some weeks ago, and
eign country. j he has not been shot since. Dot re-
The same money, the same labor, 1 ports all that takes place about Ken
expended among the heathen in our j ly that is fit to tell and it is wrong to
midst would no doubt yield a better . report one mean circumstance twice,
return. When we have converted li j leam that john T Godwin was
all of the people within the bounds
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Chrisntendom it will then be
to try our hand on the heathen
ot
other lands. The Question is
one
for our churches to consider in a
spirit of practical wisdom and with due
regard to the experience already
gained The blood of martyrs is the
seed of the church, said Ridley at
the stake, but we cannot view with
indifference the continued loss of j
christian lives in China and Turkey
with no yisible gocri resulting.
ROCKY MOUNT.
Our Managing Editor spent Sat
urday and Sunday last in Rocky
Mount, and was pleased to find that
the prosperous era which has reached
Wilson is also visible there.- We
noticed four fine brick stores going
up and quite a number of handsome
residences, among them were those
of Dr. S. P. Hilliard, Mr. L. F. Til
lery, Cashier ol the Bank, H. E.
Brewer, and C. C. Cooper. Mr. R
R. Gay has just completed two large ! near he saw a patriarch sitting on
frame stores and is pushing , forward the porch of Able, which caused his
to completion a new tobacco ware-! eyes to leak water and his heart to
house. The latter will be occupied j turn within him to think that good
by Mr. C. C. Cooper. The Davis, Jef- j parript would wonder what his busi
ireys', and Gravely warehouses will ; ness was. And it -came to pass
also bid for a share in the trade.
The prospects are that they will all
have their hands full as the crop this
year is the finest ever raised, both in
quality and bulk. While in the city
we had the. pleasure of meeting Mr.
R. H. Ricks, who is one of the large
est and most successful tobacco plant
ers in the State, Mr. Ricks spoke
very encouragingly ot the conditions
and said that he anticipated no mate
rial decline in prices, as the old crops
of tobacco were virtually consumed.
We learned from outside sources that
Mr. Ricks' crop this year was by far
the finest ever raised in the county
and by a most conservative estimate
will net him $20,000. Mr. Ricks,
although a wealthy man, has not ceas
ed to give his personal attention to
every acre ol land he cultivates, to
this and also to the fact that he raises
his own farm supplies may, in a large
measure, be attributed his marked
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success.
Among other signs of progress in
the town was a fine telephone svs-
tern which has recently been put in
by Mr. S. K. Fountain. The phones
are made and put up by Mr. Foun.
tain and are being patronized exten
sively. A GOOD MOVE,
New Orleans is to have a new and
complete system of sewerage, which
is to cost about $8,000,000. The
City Council recently adopted the
plans and voted the funds. It will
take at least five years to complete
the work. Exchange.
Wilson is not quite half the size of
New Orleans but she needs sewerage
just the same. While $8,000,000
are required for New Orleans about
$15,000 will put in the initial work
here. Let's have them.
KENLY NOTES.
Mr. Elias Ferrell says?
it is a girl.
No. 41.
Mr. Raiford Fulghum, of Wilson
county, was in our town last Monday,
coking as iamilliar and as natural as
collards. .
Some theif or theives broke
through a back window of the store
of Mr. J. W. Hinnant on Tuesday
night of last week and carried oft a
lot of overalls, shirts and sardines. .
Mr. L. B. Richardson sent me two
tomatoes, from the
country, which
weighed two pounds and seven
ounces. You see there is benefit to
be derived from being a literary char-
acter.
The Advance said last week that
a Mr. Holland had been, shot near
taken to :ail ast Saturday for the
col., which shooting was mentioned
j by me some weeks ago. Godwin
j was taken lrom home leaving one of
, h;s children dying which was buried
I Sunday. "The way of the transgres
i scr is hard."
Mr. H. F. Edgerton talks a great
deal .about the 22d of August and it
has seemed to bear on his mind so
much that he has had some printing
dene which talks about that date.
He says he wants Dot to go to
Smithfield on that date. Probably
after that time I shall be allowed to
tell a thing or two about Peter.
And it came to pass in those days
that there lived a medicine man in
the city of Kenly, whose sir name
was Hood who said, I will get me
up and go down into the land of
Able where I will espy a young lass,
before whom I will pour out the melt
ing portions of my heart, but it came
to pass the man of medicine drew
that he essayed to pass by saying I
will get me to the river where there
I will wash away my fears'so that I
can approach the patriarch of Able.
But it came to pass that on his re
turn the same fear was upon him
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and he returned to he city without
the lass knowing that he had been
in the land of Able.
Well they are gone ; Man in this
life is subject to mishaps, some of
which seem to be almost unbearable
a great deal of trouble is brought on
by nature, that we are able to antici
pate its coming, yet such things be
numb the feelings and cause us to
feel not like we did before. We lie
down at night, the mind is romantic
for hours and cannot be controlled,
we at length get into a restless sleep,
when we wake we feel there is
trouble, our mind is affected and fog
gy yet at the time do not realize
what it is, but it soon gathers its ob
ject and pulls and tugs at it eighteen
more hours before sleep. We forget
the divine assertion that "all things
work together for good, etc.," or
some of us may fear that we do not
belong to that crowd Now these
are my feelings with regard to huc
kle berries being gone, but there is
some consolation in all trouble and
in this it is that the mosquitoes, ticks,
and red bugs are being disappointed.
Dot.
Our friend of the Smithfield Her
ald has evidently come to the con
elusion that the least said is soonest
mended. It is a great pity he did
not divide his two column article
into sections. Too much of a good
thing is as bad as nothing at all. He
is young, however, and may learn in
time.
EL.M CITY ITEMS.
The Fair View farm, one mile from
town, attracts attention by its supe
rior culture and crops.
Dr. W. P. Mercer is also doing
some fine farming. His cotton and
other crops are as good as you would
expect anywhere.
Mr. J. L. Bailey has nearly com
pleted a warehoose 40x80 feet. This
means business. Mr. Bailey is al
ways wide awake in business matters.
Mrs. Pinnie Coggins, formerly a
resident of this town and an estima
ble christian, was buried at 4 p. m
on last Friday in Cedar Grove Cem
etery. The store of Mr. W. B. Barnes was
broken iiito on last Thursday night
and goods stolen therefrom. The
value of the goods or the quantity
taken was not ascertained. Efforts
to catch the guilty party or parties
have thus far availed nothing.
These and other farms and farmers
near this place simply show what this
section can do in products. I would
pronounce it one of the finest farming
sections of the world. If the farmers
would only adopt the cash instead of
time payments they would all soon
be happy and prosperous.
Mr. R. S. Wells has been spending
much time on his Barron farm of late.
He is saving the finest crop of tobac
co there this year that he has ever
grown. He had a good crop there
last year that brought fine prices, the
grade is equally good this year with
a much larger acreage and better
growth.
The farm of Mr. M. T. Williams
a few miles from town is quite a
centre of attraction. His farm pre
sents and represents perhaps a great
er variety in products than anywhere
in the State. It would take consider
able space to catalogue his growing
crops. He has large crops of tobac
co, cotton, fruits, vegetables, stock,
fowls, etc. His crop of tobacco
alone is supposed to be worth $20,
000. Mrs. Leah Winstead, aged about
eighty-five years, died on Friday
night and was buried on Sunday morn
ing, Rev. G. A. Oglesby, P. E. of
this district pleaching her funeral ser
mon. Mrs. Winstead had not only
lived a long time, but she had also
lived a very valuable lite. As a wro
man of consecrated christian charac
ter and Godly life, her superior, if
her equal, has never been known to
this town or community. Much of
her long life was spent in prayer and
communion with Uod. Her gentle
manners, sweet and amiable disposi
tion and hallowed life remains a bless
ing to all. She enjoyed the rare
privilege of seeing five generations of
her children grow up aronnd her.
Tois-Elm.
TALBOT JOTTISGS.
Miss Sidney Boykin, of Tarboro,
is visiting her sister Mrs. J. F. Cor-'
bett.
Mr. Vance Halei, son of the late J.
H. Hales, was recently here on a bus
iness trip.
We regret to have to chronicle the
death of Mrs. Bartley Williams, who
died at her home on Tuesday last.
Mr. B. T. Boykin and wife, who
have bean visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Corbett, have returned to their home
in Lucama. .
Mr. A.' J. Boykin, formerly of Lu
cama, now of TalBot, has a fine crop
of tobacco. He is some pumpkin on
the weed anyway.
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