North Carolina Newspapers

emir-smm JOH1T "W. SLEDGE, h.oi'Iiietor. -A. HEWSPAPEE FOR THE PEOPLE TERlVlS:-1B0 I'KR ANNUM IN ADVANCE VOL. XXXI. WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 15. 1897. NO. 51. ADVERTISEMENTS. PRUNELINE (Trnilc Mark KeitlstiTeiU THE IDEAL LAXATIVE Ami euro for w-C 0 N ST I P AT I 0 N- - As pleasant hh honey and mn1 cure tor llllliiiisnca. Headache, I(,everi, Ktiiinarli Trouble.. Itowel Derangements... iter Ill-case.. Nlrk Mtiiinarh, Irregularity, hiilnry Trimblea. Kkln ami It1m.il ll. ordera, Hii'1 vtry in my other il i jim.. iiihI fomplluitloii Mii, .. I lie ilnirtlvi' Ntillruf tho Imiiii-Ih. PRUNELINE1" "fe" "'"I catliar t. Kll'l III'lTll'Ilt IMI, run tl"'. It tll'T'illKllly fj.'iniHi'i. without kHiiIiik. punlles tin1 liloml an.l r.nio e nil waste Imin Itii' nv-U'Iu. U do.. any with CASTOR OIL SALTS Hlue M ass Mm all other nmi.ei.iis I'l.ruii' live'. 11 tones H"d eil'ri.1.i.H all llli'Klrnt 'llkirtllH nfthe system. Keep Hie hl'ml lliol, tin' leet warm aiid lh IV'Wels open, muni. I'Kl .SKUNK .... ihe lallrr mirHo. -uld l.y Hll ilrnlim, or.elit on receipt ii.aO centa tn iiiiv ii'Mri" liy WINKKI.NIANN A BROWS lHT'i IK.. llaliluinre, Mil. ,pl ly. -HUDSON'S 1H7 il.au at., Noit.ilk, Vu. LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S DININb ROOM. AM, M EALS SiS CENTS. SfltPASSlXd COFFEE A SPECIAL? J. K. HUDSON, Proprietor. The 1M of Everything in Season oct 10 lyr. 0. H. HALE, HALIFAX, N. C. Carries full line Dry Goods, Notions, Boots SHOES, GROCERIES, Etc. A Kent for STANDARD SEWING MA CHINES. Can liirnish any purl of uny kiml ol machine tit short notice. Scud postal card fer slip illustrating part to machine yon have anil will name price lor piece nenled. I carry a full line Coffins & Burial Cases. Give me a trial when in uetd of any thing. my7 1v. W. T. PARKER, -DEALER IS- Heavy AND Fancy Farm Implements. 24 POUND SACKS OF SALT FOB 81.10 PER SACK. lCorra:t prices and polite attention to ill. aug i ly. $ TRAOI MARKS, rftt' COPYRIGHTS Ao. AnynMiwnmnft nketch tnd -hwcrlptlnn mar oultikly oerttn, free, whether Bit Intention 11 robnhlr ptittHble- OiiiiiiiunloBtlc.i.i trl-tly Ottuttduotlal. Oldest tM6cyforiwurtTr patent in A merle. We have ft Waaliliwuui offloe. Pttenta tnkpn thruuwh Uuuu A Co. rwMl-n pwuftl outiM in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, baaatlfiillT llliinrntoil, larva, dnnlailon of any dentine Innraal. wwkly, trnui will a year; II all alz mmittia. spertmpn Cupli. and UA1 LuoK OJI t'ATKMTa Mint trae. Adilraaf MUNN A CO., S61 Broadway, Mew Vark. rrWTin Hasiioiml. It is the only strictly pure venetohle blood medicine on the market- It regulates and cleanses the liver, trenuthena anil beula diseased kidneys, assista tin nhnnl organs in a wonderlul manner, cure chills and tever, catarrh in iU iirst atapa, ulcera, sores ol Ioiik stand ii, aids di(etion, creates appetite, trengthena the weak and lanKtiid, gives tone and vigor to the wholo system. No one should he without it. Ollice and Laboratory 277 Church street, Norfolk, Va. ntf-l'lilCE 50 CENTS. Je 11 ly. w. mTTiaih7iston & co., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in CARPETS, STOVES, and Mattresses, etc IMMENSE STOCK AND LOW PRICES. W, M, HABU8T0NAC0., No. SO N. Sycamore St., PtUraburg, Va. Groceries k44- BO VI AW I Tail I Professor Jas7Harvey's V I LVL 1 I UNEXCELLED 1 111 II III I' i:i.nkJ U. 11U1 LIVBT, MBBI)J"D1UII ADVERTISEMENTS. WW IKfSl Before Retiring.... take Aycr's Pills, and you will sleep better and wake in better condition for tlie day's work. Ayer's Cathartic Pills have no equal as a pleasant and effect ual remedy for constipr.tion, biliousness, sick headache, and all liver troubles. They are sugar-coated, and so perfectly prepared, that they cure with out the annoyances experienced in the use of so many of the pills on the market. Ask your druggist for Ayer's Cathartic Pills. When other pills won't help you, Aycr's is THE PILL THAT WILL Moments and Tombstones. DHSItiNS KENT FHEE. In writing; give some limit us to price mill state aije of (Icccascd. 1. Altl.KS T MTO( K ill the Nuiitli to select from. COUPER MARBLE WORKS. (Eslalilisked 1HIH.) 159 to Hank st., Norfolk, Va. iiov 2 ly. Twin City BAKERY WELDON, N. C. Full line FANCY GROCERIES, FKl'ITS, anil Confectioneries. Nice lineof California Dried Fruits, l'ruuca Peaches, etc., etc. Full line of -stg French & Candies- Cryslaliie Fruits, Cream Almonds anil Murshmaliows. Agents lor Fleisch man's compressed yeast. BUSTER PURNELL, Manager, oct 15 tl. We're on our way A'Ht Ill The Hustlerl who Sells the CHEAPEST and BEST Dry Goods, GROCERIES, -0r Anything You Want.-iBI -MIIE'S GOT IT.(s- MEYER'S BARGAIN HOUSE, Enfield, N. C. Chimney Pipe, Sash, Blinds and Doors, ami a mu nne 01 HARDWARE, For sale by PLUMMER & WHEELER, PKTKaailCRO, VA, w Mir. - I rj i r nTTn Cucumber romps ONE OF THEM. The (Hi Ncaro Manny Will Never Ik I'lirmiitcn. Perhaps one more recorj of a venera ted old Virginia "Mauim)" may inler cst Jour readers. I need not dwell 1111 In r untiring c ire lor and love to us little ones, and her faithfulness and devotion to my mother. My earliest recollections are of a lire white, talilo cloth spread upon the sture room Hour and our Mummy upon her knees before a large euliu of white "loaf sugar," which with a Hi out knife 11ml hummer she w.is cutting into little blocks for the sugar dish. If little lumps flew off on the tluorit wnsours to scramble for. When the 1'nion army surrounded us "Mammy" was the last to leave us. Only when her husband and children had all departed did she con 0 ill crying bitterly to kiss us all around "good bye " Iler husband having threatened to get another wile if she loved the white folks better thun him. Wheii the Yankee soldiers crowded into her neat room they said to her, "Old woman you are a loul to stay here and cook for these people (cook having gone), don't you know you are free?" "I'uiph !" she replied, "I didu't need for such as you to come here to tell me I was free. I was free long 'fore you conic here, the Lord Jesus Christ made me free from the law uf sin and death. Now you go along 'bout your business and I'll tend to iniue." She had long been subject to severe sore throats which my mother always mopped and tended carefully, but soon after her husband took her to Washing ton she was taken sick with one of those attacks and neglect made it fatal. She passed away bitterly regretting that she left her old home, saying: "Old miss would cured her." We shall surely meet her "up there" where sho is in truth free from sin, and washed white in the blood of the Lamb, among the faithful around 1 1 is throne. Ex. Mrs. A. Invecn, residing at "20 Hen ry St., Alton, III., suffered with sciatic rheumatism for over eight months. She doctored for it nearly the whole of this time, using various remedies recoin mended by friends, and was treated by the physicians, but received no relief. She then used one and a half bottles of C'hamberlani's Pain Hultn, which effected a complete cure. This is published at her request, as she wants others similarly afflicted to know what cured lies The '.'5 and 50 cents sizes. For sale by W. M. Cohen, Weldon. J.N. Drown, Halifax, Dr. A. S. Harri son, Enfield. why he juit. A professional gentleman, who was accustomed to tako his morning glass, stepped into a saloon, and going up to the bar called for whisky. A seedy indi vidual stepped up to him and said," I say, 'squire, can't you ask an unfortunate fol low to join you?" He was annoyed by the man's lamiliarity, and roughly told him, "I am not in the habit of drinking with tramps The tramp replied: "lou need not be so cranky and high minded, my friend. I venture to say that lam of iust as good a family as you are, have just as good education, and before I took to drink was just as respectable as you are. What is more, I always kuew how to act the gentleman. Take my word 'or it, you slick to John Barb vcorn and he will bring you to just the sune place I am. Struck with his wo ds, Hie gen tleman set down his glass aud turned to k at him. His eyes were bloodshot, his lace bloated, his boots mistuatcd, his clothing filthy. "Then it was driukiug that made you like Ibis?" "Yes, it was; and it will bring you to the same if you stick to it." Picking up bis uutouehed glass, he poured the conteuts upon the Hni,r and said, " I hen it a time 1 uit, and left the taloon never to enter i again. Classmate. Wtial j womUr it i- tll.lt SI, tot women are .0 heiillcss about t'.u tlnnifs that con cern them nne-t They endure nil aorts nf pain mid misery with cutc lessni sa which would never he possible if llley -yorealized the conseiiut nets. Comparatively few women timlersland lltnl when they ntulect their health because they are loo busy or overworked or their minds are taken up with other concerns, thai they are balancing on Ihe ediro of a fatal precipice. Any weakness or dis ease of woman's special organism is no trilling matter. A woman w ho through indifference neglects these troubles is laving the foun dation for life long wretchedness. A modest woman naturally recoils from the mortifying ordeal of examinations and local treatment which doctors insist upon. But there is no necessity for any such re pugnant alternative. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures these delicate comp hunts positively and completely. It is a medicine devised for this particular purpose by one of the most eminent of living specialists in woman's diseases. I)r Pierce has been for nearly 10 years chief consulting physician of the Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo N V. During this time he has received fully ninety thousand letters from women who have been cured by the " Favorite Pre scription." Some of these Utters are printed Dy permission 111 unr i"i ; Pierce's great thouaand-page book, ine People's common sense mruu.iT... "':r 1. a.lvi-p and amnrestions for self- treatment which every woman ought to read. More than half a million copies have been sold at l so each. An absolutely fret edition in paper covera will be Bent for a limited time to anyone sending l one-cent .,,,. 10 v ihe cost onnailing only, so dress World's Dispensary Medical Associa tion, Buffalo, N. Y. ror a nanusomc no". bound copy send ji stamp. -Jv'-.. YOUNG AT 125. Half While, Half Iniian; Born in a Tar Heel Hamlet. Noah liuby, an inmate of the poor farm of Piscalaway township, three miles from this city, will be 125 years old to morrow, if his reckoning is correct. He has been ut the poor farm thirty years, and is totally blind. His skin is perfect ly white, though, so he suys, his father was an Indian. The old man tells this story of his life: "I was born in North Carolina, Gates county, in 11 little village called Eaton town. My mother was a native of North Carolina, while my father was a North American Indian named Andrew Bass, I think. They never sent me to school. I did learn to read, but could never write even my own name. "I have smoked for 120 years. I started by smoking my mother's pipe when I was a child. It never made rue sick. I've drunk whiskey as long as I have smoked, and never the worse for it. I did get drunk two or three times, though; once when about 17 years old, when I was in Virginia. I wont to town and got some whiskey for an old negro. I suppose I drank as much of it as he did, und hud to be taken home in an ox cart. It took me a week to get over the effects of it. The next time that I drank too much was in New Brunswick. A young fellow persuaded me to drink with him. I took more than was good for me and he had to carry me home. "My mother lived in a little hut built oo poles When I was 7 years old she got married und I had to go. I was bound to a Mr Fields then. He owned lots of slaves, but would never sell any of them, because he did not believe in it. When I was 21 I struck out to get a job for myself. Widow Penelope Parker gave 1110 work about her place. I was with her five years and she paid me $2110 a year, i hen 1 lelt tier to work lor her daughter-in-law, Sarah Parker. I thought that I might possibly marry her, and all her slaves and big plantation would be mine It would have been all right if I hadn't fallen in love with her and became loo bashful ask her to marry me. I knew ii n old darky, called Uncle Mingo I told him of my trouble, and ho said he would bewitch me so she would have me I didn't like th it idea, though, and would not let him. She was the prettiest wo man I ever saw. I never told her that I loved her until it was too late. ' One day my half brother came to see mc,and saw that something was wrong. He asked me if I were in love. I said I was. He advised a sea trip to cure it. I took his advice, leaving my beloved with out receiving what was due me. Later I got a leave of absence from the ship 1 was on and went back to her. She paid me in full, aud asked why I left so suddenly. I guess I did not cure so much for her then, for I told her that it was because I loved her. What do you think she said? 'Faiut heart never won fair lady.' It was loo late then, howeter, for she had married her overseer two weeks before I was sorry then, but am not Dow. Per haps I wouldu't have lived so long if 1 had marrieJ her. "When I was in Norfolk I beard Gen. Washington speak. I am not sure what be was talking about, but I know he was very angry. I shall never forget one thing he said. It has stuck in my mind almost a hundred years. 'Oo right on, fellow citizens, as you have been going on, and I can assure you we shall have the devil to pay in this republic, aud no mistake.' Those are just his own words. "I lift the navy because I didu t want to go to war. I'm sorry that I lost my discharge papers, because they'd help to provo my age. "I've been a number of the Elizabeth Baptist Church for forty years. I believe the Baptist Church is all right, but don't think that being a Baptist is all that 1 necessary. There's got to be a chatigo ol heart to go to heaven, and that is what 1 ml down in Old Virginia. I was taken sick and one night I begun to feel slrungi ly huppy. I got up aud weul about the house shouting glory hallelujah. "No, I've nothing to complain of. I've had plenty to cat all my life and had good lime, loo. I ought to know some thing ubout polities, hadu't I, for I'm older than the 0 mntry is. Well, I've been Democrat ever since they have had a parly. They won't let me vote now, for 1 can t pay poll tsx. 1 vc only one tnmg n regret. 1 hat u. that 1 duln t learn tc write my name. However, i suppose if 1 bad I couldn t see to write it now "Uncle Noah," spends nearly all his time in Overseer Hummers sitting room He sleeps sitting in a chair, for he fears a rush of blood to his head. He makes a tour of the poorhouse grounds every day, his footsteps being guided by a wire stretched from point to point, He weighs hssthan 100 pounds. His frame is slightly bent, but bis muscles are firm and he is very active. He looks forward to his birthday with much pleasure and expect his friends for miles around to call on him New Brunswick, N. J. Cor. N. Y. Sun. OABTOnlA. Tit fu ll alii tfiwua. f NO USE FOR MONEY. A Settlement ufllueer People un the Isthmus of Panama. "We had to remain in Panama bay three days before the steamer suilcd," said a traveler who had rccemly returned from a trip across the isthmus, as he ligtcd a fresh cigar, "and a friend and 1 decided to spend the time exploring the bay. We hired two West India durkies, who had a longboat, with a sail which could be utilized when the wiud was fair to row us urouud. Well, o( eourso,we sailed up the canal lis fur as there was any water and saw the progress which had been made, or rather the lack of progress; but that is another stury. "Wc shot one alligator and shot at a dczen more. They were lying along the banks of the canal sunning themselves, sod looked cxacly like logs to the inex perienced eye from a distance. Upon nearer approach the log would suddenly become animated and would slide off the bank into the water with a splash. "But what 1 started to tell about was a peculiar settlement of natives some dis tance up the northern shore of the bay. It seemed peculiar to me, but such things may be common down in that country. I am told they arc. At any rate, it was a settlement of people who bad kept them selves so far removed from the modern world that they had no desire for money. "To tell the truth, they have little or no use for money, but yet I have never before seen people who honestly cared so litt'e for the root of all evil as these half naked natives of the isthmus did. It was a small settlement of perhaps two dozen houses. A dwelling consisted of small poles stuck up endweys, an inch or so apait, to allow the air to circulate freely, with a thatched roof. Each hab itation consisted of one room, open to the gaze of all the neighbors through the spaces between the poles. "In this lived father, mother, children pigs, dogs, chickens and any other animals in the possession of the family. The chil dren, up to the age of 12 or 11, did not wear any clothing whatever, und the adults Done to amount to anything. Ba nanas, cocoanuts and other tropical fruits grew on every hand, and there were plen ty of fish in the bay, which were easily cu tight. "The members of the whole community imcd to spend their time much as the alligators did, lying about sleeping and mining themselves. When they wanted any fruit, it was to be had for the pick ing, and the fish were secured almost as easily. It was a long sail in our small boat from the ship lying at anchor in the bay, but we had started early, the wind was fair and we arrived at the settlement about noon. The natives paid little atten tion to us and some of them did not deigu even to wake up as we passed. Others partly opened their eyes and listlessly looked upon our approuch, but when we had passed they went to sleep again with out so much as turning their heads to see where we were going. Our guides told us to pick as much of the fruit as we wished We expressed a fear that the uwners would object, but were assured that they would not. So picked a basketful in one family's back yard, if that fenceless lown could be said to have a back yard. But we felt otuewhat guilty nevertheless in walking away with a big basket uf delicious fruit without so lunch as offoriug to pay any thing for it. We so expressed ourselves U our guides, so they told us to offer the people something whatever we pleased. "1 took several small sivcr pieces Irom my pocket aud offered them to the man who seemed to be ihe head of the family He was lying with half closed eyes near the entrance ol his home, lie opened his eyes a little wider when I approached, looking at the coins in my outstretched hand, shook his head and mumbled some thing which I could not understand. I looked imuiring'y at the guide, who had followed me. 'Ho mya hn has no use for it,' the guide interpreted and 80 wo went our way, and it was starlight when we again reached the ship ' New York Tribune. NO FKKK MST He barred her passage. I.et me pass?" she cried haughtily. Not a muscle of her face moved. "Do you hear me?" she again cried. "Let me pass?" "You cannot, shall not pass," he at last exclaimed vehemently, "without." "Well?" Showing your ticker. This is no free show " There was nothing for her to do hut submit, Tot 1 or, Snlt-Ilheiiiii Kciema. ti, infonap Itchliiff and smarting, incl- j dent to (hose diseases, is instantly allayed iy applying Cliainberliun s r,yn anu Air, 1 liniment. Manv very had cases l.wn nMrmanentlv cured ItV it. It la eiMiniiy einoient iur ileum pu a favorite remedy for ore nipplea, hands, chilblains, frost bites and chronic sore eyes. 25 ct. per box Dr Cnilj'i Condition Powders, are jnst wlmt a horse needs when in bad !L,...nti,.n T.inln. blood purifier and ,..nifi ,m. Thev are not food but ...li,.ir.o anil the best in DS6 til Pllt In nrime condition. Price 25 cents per package. For sale by W. M Cohen, Woldoi ; J N. Brown, Halifax; Dr. A S. Harrison, Enfield. THE JOKER JOKED. A Siory of a Practical Joke PlaveJ on Pu laski Cowter. In his reminiscences in the Patron and (ileancr last week, Mr. Pulaski Cowpcr tells of some practical jokes played in the old times in Jackson by Mr. John M. Cal vert, who had a keen sense of the redic ulousand a quick percepliou of a practi cal joke. After giving somo of the jokes Mr. Calvert played on others, Mr. Cow pcr does not spare himself, but adds the following story, which appeared in the Washington Post some years ago: "Sonic years ago Colonel Pulaski Cow- per, thau whom there is not a more clev er, whole-souled and popular gentleman, one more widely knofn, or one who en joys a good joke better, even if it is at his own expense, in the North State, was reading law in town of Jackson, ihe coun ty seat of Northampton county. In the vicinity of Jackson lived Un cle Tom Wheeler, who was well known in Northampton as Col. Cowper is in the Slate. It is said that Uncle Tom was possessed of considerable means though somewhat miserly, at any rate, very few people saw him spending money. "One characteristic of Uncle Tom was, when away from home he was never seen without his gun; "Old Betsy," as he al ways called it, as well as his dog always accompanied him; and though he never went anywhere without his gun, no one ever saw him with any game. "It made but little difference in what direction Uncle Tom started from home to take a 'little hunt,' it was always near er to go via Jackson, and some of his oeighbors insinuated that the 'wet groceries' had some attraction for him, as it was almost a daily occur rence for him to be seen in town; and while he was ever ready, if drinks were proposed, he was never known to 'set 'cm up.' "This reminiscence occurred during a court in Jackson, and, on account of an important case to be tried, there were a large number of people in attendance, estimated by some to be five thousand. Near the court house was the store of Mr. John Randolph, a distant relative uf John Randolph, of Roanoke. "In the South, the storehouse in the towns and villages, is not considered com plete without a piazzi in front. Ran dolph's store had a very large one, on which were seated some fifteen or twen ty men, including Uncle lotn He had set "Old Betsy" inside the store and near the door, and he was sitting in the porch, about midway between the two front doors of the store. "Col. Cowper had become somewhat weary at the wrangling of the lawyers, over the admission of some evidence, so he took up his hat and walked out of the court house over to Randolph's store, where he found the crowd in the porch teasing Uncle Tom about always carrying his gun and never having any game aud some intimated that they did Dot believe he could kill anything. Colonel Cowper seeing Mr. John Calvert, who was inside the stoic, lake up the gun and draw out the shot, leaving only the powder in, and set it baok where Uncle Tom had left it, and being confident he had a "sure thing" on the old man, joined in with ihe others in teasing him. Col. Cowper proposed to bet treats for the crowd that Uncle Tom could not bit his hat, if placed on a huge oak stump about fifteen feet off. (Col. Cowper had on a fine silk hat, for which he paid $." the day be fore ) Uncle Tom said, 'Well Laski (that's what he always vailed the Colo net) '1 don t want to hurt your new hat, but as you insist upon it, and propose di inks for the crowd and as I feel a little dry, if you will let me take a rest, I'll see what Old Betsy can do "The Colonel said, "All, right, you eau lake a rest, and sit down tuo, It you like ' "The Colonel sent five or six hoys around lown to tell everybody to emu quick round to Randolph's store, there was going to he a "free lre.it." He aud Uncle Tom then went to the oak slum; in pill ihe hat in posillou. Il was little time before Uncle Tom could place the hat just exaeily as he wanled it Whil all this was going on, John Calvert took up the gun, which was near the shot pouch, and filled her about half full of shot and set it back in place. Everything in readiness, Uncle Tom took up his gun. remarking, "Old Betsy, you have never lulled me, now do your best." Seating himself in a chair he rested the gun on the railing, took pulled tho trigger, and Uncle Tom was picked up at the other end of the piazza and the gun went a cavorting through the air, and landed on the other side of the street, and the hat, not a piece of as tig as accnt piece could be found in the whole tnwn "Snike 1 by jings," exclaim Col. Cowper. "A conspiracy some one has played fool on me; but I'll set 'em up," and all were invited to a saloon near by, where he arranged with the proprietor for drinks for the crowd. The Colonel then went to the hotel to get his dinner and about two o'clock p. m the line ti formed, and the drinking oommene 1 The; would go in at the front door, got NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. KEEP YOUR EYES OPW. Surely if the word REGULATOR is not on a package it is Simmons Lwm m Nothing else is the same. It cannot be and never has been put up by any one except J. H. ZEILirJ & CO. And it can be easily told by their Trade Mark THE RED Z. driuk, and puss out at ihe rear. "About sunset tho Colonel went over to settle the bill, wheD, lo bis astonish ment, the drinking was still going on; the line had resolved in a ring, and was repeating; and ever and anon there would go up a yeli, "Huh tor Uowper. tie called a halt on the bartender, who, knowing the Colonel's ability to pay, was! keeping the glasses filled. He asked for the amount of the bill. Tho proprietor told him it would tuke some lime to count it up, as he had chalked it duwu on the side of the house," The Colonel asked how many barrels they had drank aud was told about two. He said he would pay for it at wholesale prices, and was compromised for $117.50. "Colonel Cowper became so disgusted with the whole affair that he resolved to give up the study of law, and immediate ly packed his truuk, and hired a man to take him to the railroad. Just outside the town, on ascending a hill, an ob struction was noticed in the road. The driver got down to see what it was, and reported that a cart was bottom upwards. They took hold to remove it, when a voice underneath stammered out, "Hie; come in boys, free treat rah for Cowper." Reaching the station, the Colonel took the first train for Raleigh, where he opened an insurance office and he is to day considered one of the best and most reliable iosuranco men in or out of the State." Americans are the most inventive peo ple oa earth. To them have been issued nearly bl)0,(IOO patents, or more than one-third of all the patents issued in the world. No discovery of modern years has been of greater benefit to mankind than Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, or has done more to lieve pain and suffering. J. V. Vaugn, of'Oakton, Ky., says: "1 have used hamberlain s Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy in my family for several years, and find it to be the best medicine ever used for cramps id thestomacb and bowels. For sale by W. M. CohcD, Weldon, N. Brown, Halifax, Dr. A. S. Harri- sod, f.nneld. WHAT MATTERS IT? What matters it if on the morn Hull mists obscure and darken. And nature's charms droop low, forlorn, As il to gnel the d hearken .' If later on the glorioua sun Bursts lorth in all its glory, Tis as if day hud just begun And clouds were hut a story. What matters it if life's young dream Be sometimes rudely shatteied, Aud often hopes that brightest seem Be darkened, torn anil sealtereii, If after all our guiding stur Full hngh and clear emerges, And fairer still, no more alar, I Iur grief to sunshine verges ? What matters it if on the sea The shin mav light and tremble, Tossed heie and you ns winds decree Where furies wild assemble, If, when the tempest vaice is stilled And storm gods have retreuten. She still sails on, with glory hlletl, Full tried and not defeated .' What matters it when lite is done, If, when we look behind us. We see no glorious victories won Or earthly tics that bum us, If, lookiug forward to the day, We aee a uopelul gleaming. With angels smiling 011 the way Aud radiant sunlight streaming r leal will forgive our many sins, Will heal hearts that are broken, Hind up the wounds wheii life liegins, Hint out words we have spniteu. What matter it, then, after all. If henrts with grief are heating? 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