VOL. XXII.
WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1891.
NO. Uro.
ENDOFTHE WORLD.
FUN A PEDDLER HAD.
A FINISHED PRAYER.
ACOOD REFERENCE.
COL. HARRY SKINNER.
A NOTED DIVINE PREDICTS A GRAND
CLIMACTERIC WITHIN TEN YEARS.
Great interest has been occasioned by
an announcement by the Rev. Dr. Joseph
S. Jenckes, rector of St. Paul' Church,
Indianapolis, Did , that the end of the
world is close at hand. Dr Jenckes save
up a lucrative luff practice in lSG t at
Louisville, and entered the Christian
ministry under a very strong conviction
that the end of this age and the inaugu
ration of the reij:n for a thousand years
of the Saviour would occur in about lli5
years For several years this was the
central fact of his preaching, but circum
stances tended some years sineo to check
his ardor of conviction, and ho found
himself drifting toward a looseness of
views respecting this important subject.
He has recently had a thorough awaken
ing through the influence of a discovery
and a publication. The discovery was
that an error in the accepted system of
chronology has been lately found, which
has made the time of the judges as gov
ernors of Israel 350 instead of 420 years.
"This correction, together with the
twenty-seven years that have elapsed
since 1SG4," says Dr. Jenckes, "bring
this astounding crisis within less than ten
years of the present time." The publi
cation is a series of "studios," as he mod
esly calls them, by Lieut. 0. A. Totten,
of the United States Army, now de
tailed upon professional duty at Yale
University, Connecticut. The series
comprises four small volumes, three of
which have already appeared and the
fourth is iu the printer's hands. In
these the author proves the position above
stated to his own satisfaction by a fund
of exhaustive researches derived from
history, sncular and profaur, chronology,
astronomy, and revelation.
Convinced by the cogent and conclu
sive reasoning of Prof. Totten and of a
number of English and some American
writers that these things are true, Dr.
Jenckes arrays himself positively and
unequivocally with the earnest advocates
thereof. He earnestly and alfeetioiiatcly
warns all persons, whoever they may be
to put themselves in-line of believers of
the Lord Jesus Christ, unless they would,
within hws than teu years, become ashes
under thu soles of the feet of the righte
ous " To morrow morning the doctor will
deliver one of a series of sermons on this
topic, lie is a conservative, thoughtful
divine, with nothing of the crank or sen
sation monger in his makeup.
TEN EYtlSIGHT DUST'S. , t
1 Do not allow light to fall upon the
face of a sleeping infant.
2 Do not allow babies to gaze at a
bright light.
8 Do nut send children to school be
fore the age of 10.
4 Do not allow children to keep their
eyes too long on a near object at any one
time.
5 Do not allow them to study much by
artilicial light.
C Do not allow them to use books with
email type.
7 Do not allow them to read in a rail,
way carriage.
H Do not allow boys to smoke tobacco
especially cigarettes.,
9 Do not nceessarilly ascribe headaches
to indigesliou, the eyes may be the excit
ing cause.
10 Do not allow the itinerant spectacle
vender to prescribe glasses.
To strengthen the hair, thicken the
growth, siop its blanching and fuliiug out,
and where it is gray, to restore the youth
ful color, use Hall's Hair llouewer.
We are over stocked in shoes and will
give low prices to reduce stock. P. N
Staiubaok & ro. '
mp r-nit r.Ai , jmif.h.
Or you nr.v aii worn ., n-it!v ccd fornotn-
JV. ''. i'' iiKiWit!Mlil. Try
H(KjV iit. Kl'rVhtiS
ItWlUciua u,rt..n::iry(iii liver, and give
gUUU UI'lJUlllV.
OUR LITTLE BOY.
I LOOK UP AT TUB WINDOW WIIKRE HIS
BLUE EYES SPARKLED AT MY COM
IN(, MJT It E IS NOT THERE.
Tho following pathetic lines are from
the pen of Robert J. 1'itrdctte and will
strike a tender chord with any parent
who has laid away in the grave a little
son :
' I saw my wife pull out tho bottom
drawer of the old buioau this evening
and I went softly out and wandered up
and down until I knew she had shut it
up and gone to her sewing. We have
some things laid away in that drawer
which the gold of kings cannot buy, and
yet they are relics which grieve us until
our hearts are sore. I haveu't dared look
at them for a year, but I remembered
each article : There are two worn shoes,
a little chip hat with a part of the brim
gone, some stockings, pantaloons, a coat,
two or three spools, bits of brokeu crock
ery, a whip and several toys. Wife,
poor thing, goes to that drawer every day
of her life and prays over it and lets her
tears fall upon the precious articles, but
I dare not go. Sometimes wo speak of
little Jack, but not often. It has been a
long time, but somehow we can't get over
grieving.
"Sometimes we sit alone of an evening,
I writing aad she sewing, a child will
call out iu tho streets as our dear boy
used to do, and we will both start with
beating heart and wild hope, only to find
darkness more of a burden thun ever.
It is still and quiet now. 1 look up to
tho window where his blue eyes sparkled
at my coming, but he is not there. I
listen for his patteriug feet, but there is
uo sound. There is no one to search my
pockets and tease me for presents and I
never Qnd the chairs turued over, the
brooms down, ropes tied to tho door
knobs; I want some one to tease me for
my knife, to ride on my shoulders, to lose
my ax, to follow me to the gate when J
go, and be there to meet me when I
come to call "good uight" from the little
bed now empty.
"Aud wife, she misses him still more.
There are no little feet to wash, no pray
ers to say, no voice teasing for lumps of
sugar, or sobbing with the pains of a hurt
toe, and she would give her own life al
most to awaken at midnight and look
across to the crib and see our boy there
as he used to be. So we preserve our
relics and when we aro dead wo hope
strangers will handle them tenderly even
if they shed n ) tears over them."
ALLIANCE IN CONGRESS.
STRENGTH CLAIMED AND MEASURES
CONTEMPLATED BY THE ORDER.
At tho Farmers' Alliance headquarters
in Washington city it is stated that the
Alliance will have fifty -five men iu the
next house who will vote with it on all
measures that it may sec fit to bring for
ward. In the Senate the party claims
four souators Peffer, Kyle, Irby and
Vance. At tho next session the Sub
Treasury bill as it was introduced in the
last Congress will not mako its appear
ance. That measure has been repudiat
ed by both houses of Congress aud will,
for that reason, not be resurrected. A
bill constru'.'t'jd, however, upon lines sim
ilar to it, aud embodying tho sauio prin
ciple, will be introduced into both houses
and pushed to a vote. The Stanford
land loan bill will not be touched by the
Alliauoe, but a bill bearing upou the
same subject will be introduced. Another
mca.-uie which tLe Alliauee will demand
i) a free ccimtgo bill. Theo three meas
tiros aro the ones in whi'di the party take
tho most interest, but other measures
will bo Introduced and efforts to pans
them will be made.
As a general rule, it is'beot nut to cor
rect costivoness by the use of saline or
drastic metlb-iiics. Wheu u purgative is
nucdcJ, tho uiu.-.i prompt, tiif. -tive and
benefit Id is Ayr's PilU. Their tendency
is t j restore and nut weaken, tlie uoimal
action of the bowels.
DOWN IN HARNETT A STOP ALL NIUHT
SOME WILD ONES.
"Now," I says to tho old woman, "I f
you will tell me what you want made out
of some of that white cloth I'll mako it
for you."
"Well, Polly Ann wants a pretty coat
but how's yu'uns goin' tor make it with
that thar thing?"
"Oh, I can make it easy enough. Let
me get the measure of her waist so I'll
know how much cloth to cut." I took
moasuro out of my pocket snd eoinrrene
ed to pull out the tapo, when here went
the brats back under tho bed again.
Finally I got Polly Ann to come out
aud bo measured. Every time I'd press
my had on her person she'd give a little
grunt and exclaim:
"Oh, quit that man. You tick ul."
"Where are your scissors?" I asked.
Didn't have any; dad allers cut usscs
cloth with the ax. Got my knife out
and cut off what I wanted and went to
work. I soon had the machine running
and the kids finding out it wouldn't catch
'em came from uuder the bed again. The
"pettycoat" was soon made, and when I
held it up for them to look at dad open
ed his mouth so wide in astonishment
that it got out of socket. I went to
work to get it back again when those
dad blasted young ones began to howl,
Polly Ann howled, tho old woman howl
ed. That made the dogs howl. They
thought I had "cunjered" dad and was
going to kill him. But it came to
gether again with a report like a pistol.
Everything got quiet Hgain I asked
Miss Polly Ann if she could sing. Not
much. "Yes she can," said her mother.
"Polly Ann can beat anybody singin'that
goes to Black Jack singin' school over
'cross tho erik."
' Hold on," I said, "and I'll give you
some music," and I went to my wagon
and got an accordeon out of the trunk.
I never made any fuss with it until I
got in tho house and sat down. IFhen
all the kids got pretty well around me, -I
quietly opened tho box and took it out.
How they looked io amazement at it.
What was ii? they would ask. Would
it bite? Could it Just then I pulled
the accordeon open and made all the
fuss I could with it. Selah. Swish!
Like a bird they were gone to the
woods. I went to the door and listened.
They were gone.
About two hours afterwards I heard
a voice calling as if it was from away
down under the ground. It was the old
man calling me from the woods.
"Mister man! Oh, Mister maul is that
thar thing gone? Say, Mister man!
Did that thar thing bite yu'uns? Oh.
Lordy! I speck hit's got Polly Auu,
I've got the younguns au' the old 'ooman
here, lleekin hit'll git me if I come up
4har? The gallemippers is pow'ful bad
ou". lierc."
I fut sorry for the poor old man and
told him to come in. After much per
suasion they came in one at a tiuie
each looking like they had been buried
throe months. Not long after Pol!y
Ann came in. All of her freckles were
gono, aud so was the wart on her nose.
If Bill Sikes could see her now she'd
soon be Mrs1 Sikes-r-she's so pretty.
About 1 o'clock P.dly Ann went up
into the loft and went to bed, the old
woman put "wo" childnn on tho floor to
sleep and a few moments after all wa
quiet inside. Outside tho owls were
hooting their loueiy hoot, a;id the whip
poorwills playing with their beautiful lute;
the bull frogs sang their songs in the
swamp nut of sight, and "umskeeters"
made hideous the night, while I lay and
snoozed till morning. Raleigh Visitor.
,. IT WORKS WONDERS.
Tho tonic and alterative properties of
S..S. S are now widely known, and it
enjoys wonderful popularity as a spring
medicine. It is as perfectly adapted to
the delicate system of a little child as it
is to that of the adult. It works wonders
on those who use it as a tonic, as an al
terative, and us a blood purifier. It gives
health, strength und heartiness to the sick
and the feeble. It is adapted to the very
young and the vry old. It revives, re
nuns aud bi.ul.s up the fblo or th"
broken-down system.
LIFT ME LP, SAID THE DYING CHILD
IN A FULL CLEAR VOICE ; "HOLD ME,
PA PA. WlULK I SAY MY PRAYERS."
The sick room was very still; tho night
lump burned low, and the watchers made
fantastic shadows on the wall, but no one
moved or spoke. The doctor said this
was the turning point of tho disease, and
there was nothing to do but to wait
wait.
The boy slept and his father kept his
eyes fixed upon the thin, wasted fea
tures, and watched for what ho hoped
would prove a new lease and rest. The
nurse sat ucar and dozed. At last the
sick child suddenly opened his large
bright eyes and said in a clear voice :
"Papa."
"What, dear boy!" answered the
father softly.
"Is it near morning?"
"Yes, dear boy!"
"xYnd will I be well in the morning ?"
"I I hope so," sobbed the poor father,
faintly.
There was a long silence, then the sick
child moved restlessly on his pillows.
"I want to say'my prayers," he mur
mured. The father beckoned to the nurse and
she brought the mother, who stole softly
in and knelt ou the other side of the bed.
"Lift mo up," said the dying child in a
full clear voice; "hold me, papa, while I
say my prayers."
He clasped his littlo hands together
and repeated like one who was dreaming.
'Our Father which art in Heaven
hallowed be Thy name Thy king
dom come Thy kingdom come "
"Papa, I can't remember! I can't re
member!" "No matter, dear boy, you can finish it
in the morning."
Again he lay among the pillows like a
pale lily, and his eyes were open wide.
"I cau't see you, papa," he murmured.
"Will it soou be morning?"
"Yes, dear boy."
"And will I bo well then ?"
The poor father could not answer. No
one spoke, and a faint light soon stole into
the room that drowucd the flickering rays
of the night lamp aud shone rosy on tho
wall. Then suddenly a little voice filled
the room. It was so sweet and clear that
it sounded like a strain of music from
celestial spheres. It was tho dying boy
finishing his prayer! When he canio to
the last clause he seemed groping in
doubt.
"Forever and ever forever aud ever "
aud with thu words ou his lips ho drifted
off to sleep again.
The rising sun shone into the room
and lighted up its dim obscurity. It lay
in golden bars on the white pillows, and
touched the little face with a mocking
glow of health and Strength. Perhaps it
wakened him, but in the valley of the
shadow of death he could not discern,
and with wide open eyes that saw not, he
murmured plaintively :
"Is it nearly morning, papa?"
"It is morning now, dear boy,"
A smile trembled on the closed lips
there was a flutter of breath that came
aud went as thu child clasped his thin
hands together :
"Forever and ever Amen?"
CONSUMPTION CURED.
An old physician, retired from prac
tice, having had placed io his hands by
an East India niisiouary tho formula
of a simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and permanent cure of Consump
tion, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and
all throat and Lung Affections, also a
positive and radical cure for Nervous De
bility and till Nervous Complaints, alter
having tested its wotidcrlul curative pow
ers in thousand of caws, has felt it his
duty to make it known to his suffering
Yellows. Aetuaied by this motive and u
desire to relieve human suffering, I will
sj'iid free of charge, to nil who desire it,
tiiis recipe, iu German, French or h'nglish,
with full dun-lion for preparing and
u ing. Seut by mail by addieasing with
sjanip, ''naming (hi paper. W. A.
:oy., fc'-'j i'-ivcu iliuck, Rochester, N.
Y. upr30 1y.
B. V, NEWHERRY, IN THE "MORNINO
STAR'"
John was fifteen, and wanted a desir
able place in the office of a well known
lawyer, who had advertised for a boy,
but doubted his success because, being a
straugcr in the city, he had no reference.
"I'm afraid I'll stand a poor chance,"
he thought,' "but I'll try aud appear as
well as I can, for that may help."
So he was careful to have his dress
and person neat, and when he took his
turn to be interviewed, went in with his
hat in his hand, and a smile on his faee.
The keen eyed lawyer glanced him
over from head to foot.
"Good face," he thought, and pleas
ant ways."
Then he noted the neat suit but other
boys had appeared in new clothes saw
the well brushed hair and clean looking
skin. Very well, but there had been
others here quite as cleanly; another
glance showed the finger nails free from
soil.
"Ah! that looks like thoroughness,"
thought the lawyer.
Then he asked a few direct, rapid
questions, which John answered as di
rectly. "Prompt," was his mental comment;
"can speak up when necessary. Let's
see your writing," he added aloud.
John took the pen and wrote his
name.
"Very well, easy to read, and no
flourishes. Now, what references have
you?"
The dreaded question at last!
John's face fell. He had begun to
feel some hope of success,.but this dash
ed it."
"I haven't any," he said slowly: "I'm
almost a stranger in the city."
"Can't take a boy without referenaes,"
was the brusque rejoinder, and as he
spoke a sudden thought sent a flush to
John's cheek.
"I haven't any references," he said,
with hesitation, "but here's a letter from
mother I just received."
The lawyer took it. Ic was a short
lotter:
"My dear John, I want to remind
you that whenever you find work you
must consider that work your own. Don't
go iuto it as some boys do, with the feel
ing that you will do as little as you can,
and get something better soou; but make
up your mind you will do as much as
possible, and mako yourself so necessary
to your employer that ho will never let
you go!
" You have been a good son to me. Be
as good in business, aud I am sure God
will bless your efforts."
"Il'm!" said the lawyer, reading it
over the second time. "That's pretty
good advice, John excellent advice! I
rather think I'll try you, even without
references."
John has been with him five years,
and last spring was admitted to the
bar.
"Do you intend taking that young
man into partnership?" asked a l'riend
lately.
"Yes, I do. I couldu't get along
without John."
And John always says tho best ref
erence ho ever hud was a mother's good
advice aud honest piaise.
Syphilis, Scrofula, Blood Poison and
Rheumatism are cured by P. P. P.
(Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium.")
If you feel weak aud badly take P. 1'.
P., uud you will regaiu your flesh and
strength.
For Rheumatism, Malaria and Syphil
is, P. 1. P. is tho best known remedy.
For females in delicate health, for In
digestion and dyspepsia, take only P. P
P. It is the best Spring Medicine in the
world.
W. II. Wilder, Mayor of Albany, Q. ,
says he has suffered with rheumatism for
fifteen years, and in that time he tried
all the so en'led specifics but to no pur
pos". His grandson, who v,is on the
B. it W. R iilroad, finally tot him a bot
tle of P. P. P. showed it remarkable
eibic's, aod uttrr uing a short time te
rheumatism disappeared, and be wiites
he feels like a new man, and takes pleas
ure in recommending it to rhenuiMtie
sufferers.
For g.du at W. M. Cohen's drugstore, j
! Weldun, N. C. " 1
A REPUBLICAN PREDICTS THAT HE WILL
BE NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR.
Mr. Claudius Bernard, who was the
Republican nominee for Congress, has
been talking politics to a Post reporter.
Among other things he is quoted as say
ing: "I have no doubt the Alliance will
capture the Democratic State Convention
next year and nominate Col. Harry
Skinner, of Greenville, for Governor.
Col. Skinner is but thirty-five years old,
but has gained State fame through his
campaigning with Polk and the other
Alliance leaders. He is a brother to ex
Congressman Thomas G. Skinner, and
the law partner of ex-Congressman Lewis
C Latham, both of whom oppose the
Alliance ideas. Though not a member
of the Alliance, being precluded by his
profession, he is in full sympathy with,
the movement and the father of the Sub
Treasury plan. The scheme first eaw
the light through an article written by
Colonel Skinner for Frank Leslie's in
1887.
"The ulterior object of the Alliance
is to send Col. Skinner to the United
States Senate in place of Mr. Ransom
in 1894, He has been given to under
stand that his election to tbe governor
ship will mean his elevation to the Senate.
The Alliance is in absolute control of the
politics of the State, and can, in my
opinion, accomplish anything it under
takes." A PLEA FOR RAILROADS.
SAM JONES SAYS WARFARE ON RAIL
ROADS DOES HARM.
In a trenchant letter to the Atlanta
Constitution Georgia's queer genius and
popular evangelist, Rev. Sam P. Jones,
protests against the uuiversal outcry
against railroad and o ther corporate con
solidation. In reference to tho opposition
to railroad consolidation he says:
The Vanderbiltand Pennsylvania Rail
roads combine a network of railroads
.stretching almost over half tho United
States, give the best equipped lines, the
fastest trains, the most reasonable rates of
any railroads in the world. What the
South needs is not the dismemberment of
railroads and the bankruptcy of her cor
porations, but such friendly consideration
and wise legislation as will conserve their
interest and develop their resources until
the Southern States shall have as magnifi
cent railroads as New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Illinois.
I may not have eyes to see rightly nor
cars to hear wisely, but surely I have had
opportunity to see and hear, as I have
covered most of the ground from Maine
to California aud Canada to tho Gulf. I
aju candid when I say that this warfare
on our railroads and corporations have
done us infinitely nil re harm than all
other things combined, for when you de
press and hummer down Southern se
curities to tbe point where our bankers
cannot hypothecate them in New York
to get money to move our cotton irop,
then it's time to call a half. Central
Railroad stock 12o one month and S6
the next, not because Wall strut is on
the rampage, but because ol homo war
fare on combines.
Tbe greatest prosperity 1 have Been in
America is along the'lino of the pros
perous and well-managed railroads. Tho
two are interdependent. If you will show
me one prospering without the other then
you will show me tsight I have not look
ed upon iu my peregrinations. I 1 how it
is unwise to push this battle further
against railroads, and il'ihwo in authority
shall think and ittt diffuviu'v, time in
and will demonstrate who was wise arid
who was foolish.
When Baby was sick, wo gave hor Castoria.
When Blie was a Child, rtie cried for Castoria.
When she Warne Mis. she chins; to Cas'ori.a.
When she had C'hlkUvu, she gave them C.istorm.