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L. XXIV.
WKLDON, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1893.
NO. 11
Is Life
Vorth Living?
That depends upon the
Liver. If the Liver ia
inactive the whole sys
tem is out of order tlio
Ireath is bad, digestion
poor, head dull or aching,
energy and hopefulness
gone, the spirit is de
pressed, a heavy weight
exists after eating, with
general despondency and
the blues. The Liver is
1 the housekeeper of the
iiealtn; and a Harmless,
simple remedy that acta
like Nature, does not
constipate afterwards or
require constant taking,
does not interfere with
business or pleasure dur
ing its use, makes Sim
mons Liver Regulator a
medical perfection.
I have tested it DersonaNv. and know that for
vspepsia, Biliousness and Throbbing Headache,
f the best medicine the worm ever saw. H.
JeNU, Macon, Ga.
Take oniy the Genuine.
rhich has on the WrapDer the red Trade
murk i id Signature of
TO THE LADIES OF
iSTERX HALF OF HALIFAX CO.
know Dr. J. A. JcGill's ORANGE
iDSSOM t0 he a vcr' Sreat blessing to
. We have Ion" needed some-
g which we could use ourselves and
h could connuer the stubborn forms
chronic inflammation and congestion
ich lie at the foundation of all female
ubles. That Dr. JcGilPs treatment
ets the demand of this long felt want
ihown by the fact that many cases
ich have baffled the skill of our best
Jsicians, are being cured by it. I have
flgcd myself to let my suffering sisters
he above Counties know of this simple,
jirely safe, yet wonderful cure. To
jomplish this I must have the help of
kegood Christian lady in each township.
re are not less than tme thousand ladies
ach of the above Counties to whom this
would he of inestimable value, many
hem mothers who need strength that
may train their little ones; then there
so many .young girls whose trouble is
considered serious, but nevertheless
1 attention, as only a little time will
equired for it take the color lrom tne
s and all the iov from their clad
ng lives as it has done in thousands of
a. Sends two-cent stamp for free
nple Box. I will alsosend Township's
leut's Terms to those who will assist me.
i MISS LIZZIE Ii. DAVIS,
Areola, Warren Co., N. C.
4-20-ly
J6T THE TALK OF "
ir THE TOWN "a
m now is
Lave YOU Seen
The pretty goods at
illery's Store!
ess Goodi of all Kinds;
And trimmings to match.
EVERYBODY
s they are the prettiest in town. A
bby line of Gents' Furnishings A large
e of sample goods to be sold at
EW YORK WHOLESALE PRICES.
1 if you can't get a suit of clothes in
ck you can select a pattern and the
is guaranteed; it takes only five days
make a suit.
T'A HPQ- Ab'8 lin
ZLii-X D. Newest sty
line of the
tyles straw
d felt hats just opened
I am always glad to show goods, and
ices shall compete with the lowest that
bd goods can be sold tt. ,
Respectfully,
W. B. TILLER Y,
Weldon, N. 0.
9 29 tf.
SHE'D BEEN TO A FUNERAL.
UOW THE GIRL IN BLUE MACKINTOSH
ENJOYED THE OCCASION.
The girl with the blue mackintosh was
sitting pensively in the corner of a Niag
ara street car late one afternoon, says the
Buffalo Express. At the square a girl
with a puffed sleeved coat got on, and
the girl with the blue mackintosh wel
comed her effusively.
"Where have you been?" asked the
girl with the pulled sleeves.
"To a funeral," replied the girl with
the blue mackintosh.
"I didn't know anybody was dead."
"Nobody is. That is, nobody who is
anybody to us, but Charley and I went to
a funeral just the same."
"Tell me," said the girl with the puff
ek sleeves imperatively.
The girl in blue mackintosh snuggled
up to her companion and said: "You
know, since papa found out
that Charley only gets $10 a
week he won't allow me to have anything
more to do with bim, but I don't intend
to give him up just because papa says so.
He and I have been meeting each other
afternoons for a month and taking lovely
long walks on the side streets.
"We took a walk this afternoon and
wo went on a lot of little streets over on
the west side. We were strolling along
by a house that hud a lot of carriages
standing in front, when Charley caught
sight of papa coming round the corner in a
buggy. He is awfully smart, you know,
and he didn't propose to get caught, so
he just pulled me into one of the car
riages, and we sat there until papa got
by. Before we thought it safe to get out
the funeral services were over and some
body got up on the carriage and started
off. i
" He stayed iu and wero driven to the
cemetery aud played as mourners. Then
the man drove us back to town and we
had a lovely time. It was so much bet
ter than walking, for he could put his
arm around me, and there wasn't aDy
chance of anyone hearing what we said.
I never had a nicer afternoon.
"Whose funeral was it?" asked the
girl in the puffed sleeves.
"Oh," said the girl with the blue mack
intosh, "I haven't any idea, but it was
perfectly lovely, and I'm awfully obliged
to the corpse."
FLOORED HIM.'
The merchants who sell dry goods and
what not in the country stores have some
odd experiences. One of them, a live
fellow, was buying stock in Richmond
and he told a good many stories of the
flow of trade up there. "A bright, healthy
and somewhat fleshy woman came into
my store t'other day," he ' said, "and
asked for garter elastic. 'How much ?'
I asked. 'How much will it take?' says
she. I was floored. I didn't know what
to say to get out of the dilemma. I had
to say something in a hurry, and blurted
out : 'How should I know ?' 'Why, to
be sure,' says she, and I'll be hanged if
she didn't step to the rear and measure
right there, and she bought a yard aud a
quarter." Richmond State.
IN GLASS.
That's the way Dr. Tierces i'leasant
Pellets come. And it's a more impor
tant point than you think. It keeps
them always fresh and reliable, unlike
the ordinary pills in cheap wooden or
pasteboard boxes.
They're put up in a better way, and
they act in a better tay, than the huge
old fashioned pills. No griping, no
violence, no reaction afterward that
sometimes leaves you worse off than
before. In that way they cure perma
nently. Sick headache, bilious headache,
constipation, indigestion, billious attacks,
and all derangements of the liver
stomach and bowels, are prevented,
relieved and cured.
They're tiny, sugar coated grauualB, a
compound of refined and vegetable
extracts the smallest in size, the
easiest to take, and the cheapest piil you
buy, for they're guaranteed to give satis
factiuu, ur your uoney is ret irned. You
pay only for the good you get.
There's nothing likely to be "just u
good."
MUSTACHES FOR WOMEN.
A PROFESSOR OK I'HVSIOLOUY SAYS
THAT THEY" WILL BE FASHIONABLE.
A learned German who has devoted
himself to the study of physiology, an
thropology, and allied sciences, makes the
rather startling assertion that mustaches
are becoming commoner among the wo
men of the present day than iu the past.
He tells us that in Constantinople among
the unveiled women that arc to be met
with one out of ten possesses an unmis
takable covering of down on the upper
lip. In the capital of Spain, again, the
proportion of ladies with this masculine
characteristic is said to be quite equal to
that observable in the Golden Horn.
An American medical man states that
in Philadelphia fully 3 per cent, of the
adult fair sex are similarly adorned, and
probably the proportion would be still
larger, but that many women take the
trouble to eradicate the unwelcome growth
by tho application of debilatory prepara
tions. Is this increase in the number of
women with hair on tbeir faces to be
regarded as a sign that the human race
is improving ?
Very few men, at all events, will be
disposed to consider that a mustache adds
to the charms of the opposite sex. En
glishmen, indeed, only a generation ago,
had such a detestation or mustaches and
beards that the practice of shaving all
hair off the face down to their mutton
chop whiskers was all but universal.
From one extreme our clean-shaven
fathers plunged into the other, and beards
and mustaches rapidly became tho
fashion. The fashion has of late years
again been modified. Beards are less
common, but the mustache is cultivated
in England as widely as on the continent.
But why should the fair sex be visited
by this infliction? Some writers on
ethnology hold that the higher races of
mankind are always the harrier, and Mr.
Mott thinks that in a few centuries men
and women will all be clothed with buir.
But we do not believe Mr. Mott, and we
certainly should not care to live to see
the day of bearded beauty. London
Standard.
CHEWING GUM IN t'EVEKS.
"The salivary glands play quite an
important part in continued fevers, yet
they arc not considered in the treatment
of the case.
"One of the first and most important
restrictions in the patient's dietary is to
drop all solid food from the list at the
physician's first request, and just then the
salivary glands begin to lapse into a torpid
condition which very olten results in an
inflammation, and, finally suppuration,
and that disagreeable dryness of tongue
and fauces so uncomfortable to the
patient.
"For the relief of this trouble 1 have
found nothing of so much importance as
some nice form of aromatic chewing gum,
which relieves the thirst and dry mouth,
improves the appetite and digestion, and
restrains nausea, if any," Medical Re-cjrd.
SEVERAL COMPARISONS.
SUBSCRIBE AT ONCE.
THE FAMILY THAT DON T TAKE NEWS-
PAI'EItS.
"Money is like women in ouo respect,"
said Mr. Darley to his wife.
"That's so," she replied. "It's a good
thing to have about the house.'
"That wasn't the resemblance I had in
mind," Mr. Darley went on.
"I suppose not."
"No; money is like women becauso
money talks."
"Well, money has some well known
masculine characteristics, too, retorted
Mrs. Darley. "It gets tight. More than
that, it requires the same remedy as its
human exemplar in that case."
"And what is that?"
"The gold cure." Puck.
A gentleman, under forty years of age
whose hairw as rapidly becoming thin
and gray, began the use of Ayer'g Hair
Vigor, and in six months liii hair was
restored to its natural cu.ur, and eveu
more than its former growth and richness.
R. P. Hackney, one of tho pupils at
the Durham Male Academy, made a
speech at the Academy about a month
ago, and selected for his subject the
following:
"The man that don't take newspapers
was in town the other day. He brought
his family in an ox wagon. He still
believed that Milliard Fillmore was
President, and wanted to know if the
"Kamcbatkians" had taken Cuba, and if
so, where they had taken it. He had
sold his pork for six cents, when he
might have got ten. One of his boys
went to a blacksmith shop to be meas
ured for a pair of shoes and another
mistook the market house for a church.
He hung his bat on a meet hook, and
patiently waited one hour for "meeting"
to begiu. Oue of the girls took a lot of
"seed onions" to the postoffice to trade
off for a letter. She had a baby which
she carried iu a "sugar trough," stopping
occasionally to rock it on the sidewalk;
when it cried she filled its mouth with a
a cotton handkerchief, and sung "Barbara
Allen." The oldest boy had sold two
"coon skins," and was ou a bust. When
last seen, he bad called for a 'sody and
water,' and stood soaking ginger bread
in it, and making wry faces. The shop
keeper mistaking bis meaning had given
him a mixture of sal soda and water, and
it tasted strongly of soap. But he'd
"hearn tell of sody water," and was
bound to give it a fair trial "puke or no
puke." The old man had. a tea kettle
ho wanted "fixed up" and he carried it
to tho millioner shop. . The clerk
thought he was crazy, hut noticing the
hole iu the kettle, politely told him that
Charley Taylor could mend it for him.
He then took an old plough to the jew
eler's to have it "pintcd and sharpened."
We told the old fellow he ought to read
papers, but he would not listen to it. He
was opposed to "internal improvements,"
and he thought "larnin" was a wicked
invention.
HE WAS A COMFORTER.
It was in an English hospital. The
chaplaiu was making his morning rounds
when he met a porter.
"How's Robinson, this morning?" he
asked.
"Ee's dead, sor," answered the porter.
"Dead I"
"Yes, sor."
"But why didn't you call mo ? I might
have been able to comfort the poor fellow
a little iu his last moments.
"Hi comforted 'itn myself, sor."
"You? Indeed. And what did you
say to comfort him ?"
'Hi said to 'im, 'Robinson, Hi suppose
you know you're very sick ?'
" 'Yes,' says 'ce."
" 'Robinson, Hi suppose you know
you can't last long?"
" 'Yes,' says 'ce."
" 'Robinson, Hi suppose you know
you've been werry wicked ?"
" 'Yes,' says 'ee."
" 'Robinson, Hi suppose you know
you cuu't go to heaven ?"
" 1 Yes,' says 'ee."
" 'Well, Robiuson,' tny TT i . 'you
ought to bo werry thankful that there's
a place provided for you fellows to go
to.'
' -Yes,' says 'ee "
"An' then 'ee turns 'is face to the
wall an' died vithout even thanking me
for comfortiog 'im."
RELIGIOUS PARLIAMENTS,
GREAT CHURCH CONGRESSES ARE TO
GATHER IN THE FALL.
THE BUILDING IN WHICH LINCOLN WAS
SHOT FALLS IN RUINS.
Amid all the grandeur of the Colum
bian celebration, religion is destined to
play a mighty part, and Chicago is to be
the seat of the first religious gathering of
its kind known to history. Considering
the time, place, and occasion it is much
to be deplored that the coming parlia
ments of religions is not better under
stood than it is. But some people will
not see anything in its right light, there
by justifying the time-worn saying that
there are none so blind as those who
won't see. A brief explantion, then,
of the aims and purposes of the religious
congresses of tho World's Fair will no
doubt be acceptable to many as a means
of acquainting themselves with a move
ment which promises to he the most phe
nomenal event in modern history.
When tho Columbian Exposition was
first mooted, it thought that a valuable
accessory would be the holding cf various
congresses for the consideration of thoso
questions which were of the greatest im
portance to the welfare of the whole hu
man family. And of all the congretsei-
which will meet in their turn, none are of
Buch universal interest as those which
will treat of religion. Nearly all of the
great church bodies in the United States
have on foot arrangements for the hold
ing of individual denominational gather
ings, and the whole series will culminate
in a world's parliament of religions, to
which have Leen invited representatives
of the great historic faiths of the world,
For this occasion Christianity the broad
minded and liberal Christianity of Amer
ica will assume the part of hostess, and
under her patronago will bo welcomed
with open arms those who worship at the
shrino o f Buddab, Mahomet, or
any sect known to history.
While Christianity assumes for the
time being this all important and very
human roll, it is not to be supposed that
6he abates one jot of her own faith in
Christ. Neither is it to be supposed
that because she consents to sit in relig
ious equality with the representative of
other faiths that her own purity is be
smirched. Not so, for if Christianity
cannot withstand the searchlight of com
parison wherein lies the claim for her
ever repeated superiority. This parlia
ment, then, is for the purpose of discuss
ing in a friendly spirit that questions
which have particular reference to man's
welfare here upon earth, aud his condi
tion in the great hereafter. There is
picuijr VI uuiuumj IUI rum a uiui;iiu,
for man is but man, and God is God,
whether He be so styled by one name or
by a hundred.
The governing body of the parliament
is a general committee comprising the
representatives of the worshipping bodies
in Chicago.
In connection with the parliament of
religions, and a part of it, will be the
presentation by tho various Christian and
other denominations of their history, doc
trine, outlook, etc.
The programme fur the parliament is
still iu a tentative form, and must remain
so until it is definitely known what part
will bo takeu by the representatives ol
the nnn-Clirisli.nl faiths, many of whom
lire purposely making this visit to Chica
go to attend the parliament.
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Hall's Hair ltenewer is the best preven
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A MATTER OF DOUHT.
Mrs. Whitetie What are you think
ing so hard about?
Rev. Wliiietio-I am wondering wheth
cr a woman who wears crinoline can pots-
sibly walk in the straight and narrow
path. Truth.
Happy duys and restful nights result
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OVER A SCORE KILLED,
With a crash and grinding roar a
section of three floors of tho old Ford's
Theatre building, at Washington, occupied
by 500 clerks of the record and pension
division of the War Department, fell
through to the collar at 9:10 o'clock last
Friday morning, carrying down to a
horrible death over a score of men, and
maiming or otherwise injuring at least
seventy-five more. Careless excavating
under the insecure foundations of tho old
building was the immediate cause of the
catastrophe. By a strange coincidence
this frightful disaster in the building
where John Wilkes Booth assassinated
President Lincoln occurred on the day
and at tho hour when the friends of the
dead tragedian, Edwin Booth, wero
bearing his body to its last resting place.
Oue hundred and fifty clerks occupied
the sections of the three floors that gave
way. They were busily engaged with
their daily tasks when without warning
the crash came. Tho third floor fell to
the second, the combined weight of the
two carried way the first, and the whole
mass thundered down into the excavation
that had undermined the building.
Tho tremendous shock was felt for
blocks around, and in less than a minute
the street in front of the building was
filled with horrified men and women, who,
though unable to appreciate the extent
of the disaster, knew by the cries of the
njured and the great clouds of dust that
burst from the windows that there had
been a frightful accident. The work of
rescue began almost before the people
outside the building understood what had
happened. Indeed, the clerks who occu
pied the sections of the floor that still
remained in place ran to the aid of their
comrades, without regard to the imminent
danger of being buried beneath the
tottering walls that threatened to fall at
the slightest shock. The firemen, tho
police and volunteer workers quickly
burst in the doors and windows and came
to their assistance. Tho work of rescue
was speedily systematized and all day
long they toiled in the stifling atmosphere,
pulling away the debris and tenderly
carrying out the dead and injured.
Repeatedly, within the past ten years,
Congress has been urged to eomo to the
relief of the GOO hard working clerks
confined in a space inadequate for half
that number, and just such a catastrophe
as that has been prophesied repeatedly.
The extent to which the almost price
less records of the War Department have
suffered cannot now be estimated. Com
pared with the awful loss of life this
matter seems of little moment. Yet it
may iuvolve the providing of thousands
of pensions due deserving veterans whose
service and disabilities cannot otherwise-
be shown.
The total casualties as near as can bo
ascertained are as follows : Twenty-one
dead bodies arc at the morgue and the
cuergency hospital. Four more persons
are repoitcd dead, whose names were
probably confused with those of the
victims or their identity confused with
some of the bodies through physical re
semblauce. Two persons whose names
were iucluded in the earlier list of victims
taken from the ruins escaped uninjured.
The number of injured reported io about
fifty but many others who wero able to
proceed to their home were hurt more or
less badly.
Years of study, experiment and scien
tific investigation have given the world
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leading druggists.
AFTER THE HONEYMOON.
She (sweetly) What would living be
without me?
lie (gloomily) Cheaper. Judge.