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VOL. XLV.
WKLDOX, X. (.'., TlU'liSDAY. Al'C.l'ST II, l!HO
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SOME ONE FINDS BEAUTY IN YOU. j
Friendship and Love Have Byes
When the Casual Passer-by is
1 Blind. i
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
lu two for over 30 yenrs, bus borne tho Blirmituro of
S0 - aid bn been nmde under bis per-
LtttttmA 8011111 lci vlslon since Its lnraucy.
WCV. iWU. Allownoonolo.locmvoyoiiinthU.
All Counterfeits, Imitations nnd " Jiist-as-Kood" are, hut
Experiment that, trlllo with (indcudaiiuertlio lieallh of
lul'uuts nml Children Experience against lOxperirneut.
What is CASTOR I A
Caxtoria Is a harmless sultitltiite for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syi;ps. It is l'lcasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphino nor other Nureotlo
KiiltHtaiiee. Its ni;o Is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays I'everishuess. It cures Di.irrliru and Wind
CoHe. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulate the
Stomach and Howels, giving heultliy and natural sleep.
The Children's l'anacea-Tho Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
Tie KM You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THC CtNTAUn OOMPANV, IT MURMV THSCT, NCw VOHH BITV.
!
i
J(EiW Spring and Sum
mer styles on sale -Now!
If anything a little hit smart
er and more exclusive than
usual The Jcind you see
on Paris louJevards - Fifth
Avenue too. Every last and
leather that a woman could
possihly want at any time.
A. L. STAINBACK,
Weldon, N. C.
Our dear ones, however ihey
may look 10 outsiders, are always
beautiful to us if we think of their
looks at all. Our friends, too,
have long passed the stage when
we appraise their looks Looks
may lead to love, but character re
tains it. We love our friends for
wlun they arc, but in each one we
find some superlative physical
beauty. It may be the eyes; or
the mouih; or ihe hands. It may
be the voice; the smile; the laugh.
It may be the poise the carriage;
but something we are sure to find.
Have you ever seen in one list
the adjectives we are wont to use
in speaking of a friend ? She may
be pretty, attractive, beautiful, dis
tinguished, delightful, charming,
, fascinating, siunning, interesting,
inspiring, superb, splendid, glo
I rious. She may be sympathetic,
: helpful, restful, kindly, cordial,
j unselfish, loyal, tender. For all
these and a hundred other reasons,
! we choose our friends, and no two
: will ever agree exactly in their es
i timate of another. But with a
world full of beauties of bodies and
j character it would seem that every
body should have a hosi of friends
' lo admire and treasure if he has
j an eye for beauty.
! If one cares to make a good im
pression, to be found attractive and
beautiful, health is a first consider
ation. And the second plain, old
I fashioned cleanliness. A healthy,
clean, person, neatly dressed, how
1 ever simply, is bound to be attrac
' live. But the wellspringsof beau
j ty are in a woman's heart.
; Her body's beauty is but a poem
j Written by God about her soul.
' Her gown is the binding for the
poem, which, it it serves its pur-,
pose truly, will suggest the senti-;
meni of the poem, and ai the same j
, time will harmonize with the other j
; bindings on the shelves of life's
' library. -Li. J. Kidgway, in The,
Deliniaior, for August.
REST AWHILE.
i do Out Into Air and Let God's
Sunshine Down Upon Your tiusy
Head.
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New Summer Goods !
i-i it t i it' r ni t"?Tf i't-?
W CLOTHING
Furnishings, and
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
fresh from the Northern markets. Call and see
our new goods for spring and summer.
Respectfully,
I. J. KAPLIN,
THE BANK OF WELDON
You art' wearing out the vital
forces faster than there is any
nceil, and in this way sulistrai'
ting years from the sum total
of your life. This rush and
j worry, day after day this rest
j less anxiety for something you
; have not got is like pebble
; stones in machinery they grate
ami grind the life out of you.
I You have a great deal of use
less care dump it. Pull in
! the strings, compact your busi
, ness; take time for thought of
better things. Go out into the
1 air and let (Sod's sun shine
i down' upon your busy head.
I Stop thinking of business and
; protit; stop grumbling at ad
verse providences. You will
' never see much better times in
this doomed world; and your i
most opportune season is now;
your happiest day is today.
I Calmly do your duty, and let
I (Sod take care of His own
I world. He is still alive and is
; the King. Do not imagine that
I things w ill go to everlasting
smash wlienyniidisappearfroin
! this mortal stage. Do not fan-
ROANOKE RAPIDS. N. C. ! cy that the curse of heaven, in
mmmmmmmmmmm j the shape of the Vllill task (if
JIJJJJJUJ EmS3 O righting up a disjointed earth,
is imposed upon you. ( ease lo
fret and fume; cease to jump
and worrv early and late. The
A WOMAN'S REASON,
I have a reason now for all I do,
A reason that's so sw eet, so old, so new -
Well, if you were not quite so near to-day,
Or if you'd turn your eyes another way
And while 1 lei my hand a moment rest
With clinging touch yet light upon your breaM,
I might pretend that it was half a jest,
I think, perhaps I'd tell ou.
'Tis ibis no, turn your eyes another way !
'Tis easier so when what one has to say
Is half pretense yet somehow makes one's heart
Stir in one's side, with such a soft, quick start;
'Tis this the Old World has been born again,
Born with a strange, sweet, bitter throe of pain,
The sad Old World I treated with disdain
Is new because I love you I
I scarcely know my own lace, in the glass,
It almost seems to mock me as I pass,
Once of its few poor beauties I was vain,
Now they can only rouse me to disdain,
I should be twenty thousand times as fair,
The stars and sun should light my eyes and hair-
And yet sometimes I think I only care
Because because I love you.
I am so changeful and so full of mood,
Sometimes 1 would not and sometimes 1 would;
I'm proud and humble, scornful, thoughtful light,
A hundred times between the morn and night.
1 cast you off I try to draw you near,
I hold you light and I hold you dear,
And all the time I know with ioy, with tear
It is because I love you.
And now my hand clings closer to your breasi;
Bend your head lower, while I say the rest,
The greatest change of all is this that I,
Who used to be so cold, so fierce, so shy,
In the sweet moment that I feel you near,
Forget to be ashamed and know no fear,
Forget that Life is sad and Death is drear,
Because because I love you !
YOU LOVED ME.
You loved me.
The knowledge went through me like wine;
The passion that filled ine was wholly divine,
When you whispered those words, with my head on your breast;
Not even my faith could have brought me siuh rest.
All sorrow fell from me and vanished in bliss,
When you crushed on my lips that first exquir.iie kis-..
You loved me.
Not only your voice told me so;
'Twas your soul that spoke to me in passion's first glow,
You crushed me up to you, unheeding your power;
Your kisses fell on me like rain on a flower.
No human achievement, nor worship of men,
Can bring me such happiness ever again.
You loved me.
What odds if your fancy roams free ?
I know that your life love is no ope but me,
It was I who first quickened your soul in your breast.
Tho' others may follow, you gave me your best.
No woman on earth, be she holy or bad,
Can ever take from me what once I have had
Tho' you wound with your folly, you never can kill
The love you created it lives in us still,
And when you return, and your follies confessed,
I'll forget in your arms that you ever transgressed.
Helen Roslyn in Smart Set.
A PATHWAY OF ROSES.
But the War Came and Took
l-'roni fler Her Home and the
(iarden of Mowers
I PUTTING AWAY SMALL SUMS
Never was there a union of two
more congenial spirits; seldom has
the path of life been so strew n with
roses or flooded with sunshine as
that upon which the newly wedded
pair began their journey together,
and so, the sun shone on and the
roses continued to bloom until the
dreadful cloud which rose upon
the horizon of North and South
alike in I Slit) broke with terrilic
force over the heads of these two
happy beings who, in their adversi
ty proved so well their marvelous
strength ! Never was there a hap
pier home circle than that at Ar
lington; never was a trial more bit
fer than that which came to Mary
Custis Lee when she heard the
call of the army for her husband,
yet, with the wonderful heroism
that the women of that day showed
she saw him go; with tears, per
1 Here, you can put away small sums not needed I'M' pie-'elit
g use. And while waiting your u.ill they will draw interest.
An account in our Savin;;-, I )ep n tmeiit dues not always imply
s small transactions, far Irom it. Many large depositors arc using
:j our Savings pass lock'.. They ate using them tor the inierest
they get; they are also using them because t.l the convenience
j afforded. 4 pet cent, interest allowed, compounded quarterly.
I BANK OF ENFIELD,
ENFIELD, N. C.
Look Steadily at the (ioul I'.cfore
You.
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There is a moral grandeur in
the thought, "I have made my
self." The world may wag their
i heads, and you may be denounced,
but if you are conscious of that in- j
tegrity of purpose which has al-;
ways characterized you, and that '
you now stand on an eminence, i
Sl'BSCRIBl-:
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NOW!
OK Till:
1
Si
haps, but with the brave words:
"Which ever way you go will be !
in the path of duty. You will
think right and 1 shall be satisfied. "
I'p lo this parting, Mrs. Lee,
who had been the petted child of ;
fortune, was overtaken by a series 1
of troubles, discomforts and priva-:
lions ihai followed and tried her j
solely thi ughout four dreary years.
Arlington had meant so much to
her. It was the home of her par-i
ents who had gone into the great1
beyond; it was the place of her
birth, the scene of her courtship
and marriage; of her birth of her ;
children. It held so many person
al recollections of General and i
Mrs. Washington, stored such
priceless heirlooms from Mount
Vernon that to leave it seemed j
well nigh impossible. And yet, ;
when ihe time came, Mary Custis
left the wooded banks of her loved
I'otomac, said goodbye to the trees
she and her soldier husband had i
planted when they were children,
looked her last look upon the fair
llowers in her cherished garden ;
with a sad heart bin no outward
murmuring. The war had come
and taken from her her home-
National Monthly.
placed there by your own rectitude
of heart, you have nothing to fear.
You had not the influence of
wealth, nor the "God speed you"
of powerful friends; but you had
more a heart fixed and deter
mined, and this is what has made
you what you are. Go on add
inure to virture look steadily at
the goal before you, and at last
your best teachers and artful
companions will acknowledge your
superiority and feel proud of being
among the number of your friends.
The man who is resolved to be
something in the world should
have nothing to fear, and when he
little dreams of it honors are gath
ering about his head and influence
goes out from him, which i s
exerted silently but surely for - the
good of thousands.
hoim:i.i:ss.
"Your store is no good,
Daily,
Sunday
and Semi-Weekly.
fc Largest Circular southi
of Baltimore.
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BY MAIL
Per Annum
Daily and Sunday
Daily only,
Sunday only,
Semi-Weekly,
$7.
$5.
$2.
$1.
week,
asked for lace curtains last
and I couldn't gel 'em."
"Indeed?"
"Yes. And I asked for silk
stockings yesterday, and I couldn't
get 'em."
"That's strange."
"nd to-day I asked for credit,
and can't even get that. Is this a
regular store, or what Vj
A BAD TEMPER.
nesKrJsir
The Bible Says That "He That
Ruleth His Spirit is Better Than :
He That Taketh a City.'' !
Staggers Skeptics.
Thai ai'lrun. nii-e. fiunnint compound
like Iluckli'ii's Aniira Salve will instant
ly rt'lii'vc u I'lid luirn, put. seul'l. wound
or piles, staL'L'eis skeptics. Hut ureal
eures prove its a n underfill healer of the
worst sores, uleers, hoils. letons. eeze
ina. skin eruptions, as also chapped
hands, sprains and corns. Try it. -"'C.
at all druirirists.
I .
The hardest money to gel to
spend is when you married. for it.
Struck a Rich Mine.
s. W. Iteuds. of Coal City, Ala., says
he struck a perfect mine of health in
lir Kind's New Life Tills for Ihey cured
him uf I.uei und Kidney Trouhle aftel
1'J years of Kullerinir. They are Ihe hest
pills on earth for Constipation, Mataoa,
Headache, Hyspepsia, lielnlily. 'I'm. at
all iliunirisls.
AN OBSERVANT CHILD.
WKLDOX, X. C.
Organized Under the Laws of the State of North Carolina,
Al'lifST-.til'll. IS!l'-.
State of Nonh Carolina Depository.
Halifax County Depository.
Town of Weldon Depository.
?.aPM..y..aJ.ur.Dltt.sL-. $45,000.
Kor more thau 17 veam thin institution has provided banking facili
ties for this section. Its Htoekholdem and directors have been identified
with the business interests of Halifax and Northampton counties for
many years. Money is loaned upon approved security at the legal rate of
interest six per centum. Accounts of all are solicited.
The surplus and undivided prolils liav iig readied a sum equal to the
Capital Stock, the Hank has, commencing January I, established a
Haviuirs Department allowing interest on time deposits as follows: For
Deposits allowed toremain three months or longer, t per cent. Six
months or longer, 3 per cent. Twelve mouths or longer. 4 perceut.
Korfurther information apply to the President or Cashier.
I'Hbsiiisst: vicn-riiiisiDKST: cahiiim:
V.K? DANIEL, W. It. SMITH. li. S. TKAV1H,
No wonder the women dislike
Father Time. I le always tells on
them.
time U Ctilliillg, but VuU eiio
never bring it; (Soil can; can,
and will; take breath, sit down
tt ml restmd lakea long breath.
Then go culinly to the task of
life, and do. New Hern Daily
Sun.
HIS VOICE.
3E
BINQHAM
SCHOOL
un mi
lMi.lt,IA,rtbnMM, I atlM fr.w. ml,. O-f. S1UTSJW DUSirilM.
OjHTKOL m, tlkN 1 11)1 -M ..H W OIM, ni, .!. '
iumi (u. a annua, ftwt.
It was at a summer hotel, and
the baby, being warm and fretful,
cried. "Tut I Tut ! We can't
disturb our neighbors this way,"
ihe fond father said, taking the
child in his arms. "Let me sing
to him, if he won't go to sleep."
He sang, and straightway came a
knock at the door and these words:
"There's a sick lady next door,
and, if it's all the same to you,
would you mind letting the baby
cry insiead of singing to it ?"
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTOR I A.
Life on Panama Canal
has 1 1 li,! one fnghtruldiawhack-inalaiia
- that has brought suHeiiug and death
to thousands 'the germs cause chills,
fever and ire, biliousness, jaundice,
lassitude, weakness and debility. I'.ut
Kleclrie Kilters never fail to destroy
them and cure malaria troubles. " I'hiee
bottles completely cured me of a veiy
severe attack of malaria," wrib s W in.
A. rrelwell. ofl.ucuma, N C , "and I've
had good lieallh ever since." Cuic
Stomach, l.iier and Kidney troubles,
and prevent Tvphoid. .'Hie iluaianteed
by all diuggists.
Don't expect
friend. liven
limit.
too much of
friendship has
CASTORIA
For Infanta and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the Vx
Signatura of C&tfy
Little Adelaide was inclined to
be cowardly. Her father found
thai sympathy only increased this
this unfortunate tendency, and de
cided to have a serious talk with
his little daughter on ihe subject
of her foolish fears.
"Papa," she ventured at the
.use ui me lecture, wnen you
see a cow, are you afraid ?"
"Why, ceriainly noi, Adelaide.
Why should I be?"
'Well, when you see a dog.
aren t you afraid of them?"
"No, indeed !" with marked
emphasis on the '"no."
"Aren't you afraid when it
thunders, papii ?"
"Why, no," and he laughed at
the thought and added, "Oh, you
silly child !"
Papa, uiid Adelaide came
closer and looked into her parent's
eye, "aren't you lafraid of nothing
in the world but just mamma?"
The Best Hour of Life
is when you do some great died or dis
cover some wonderful fact. This hour
came to. I. I! I'itt, of Itocky Mount. N.
('., when he was suHcring intensely, as
he says, "from the worst cold 1 every
had, 1 then proved to my great satisfac
tion what awouderful ( old anil Cough
cure ir King's New I 'iscovery is. Kor,
alter taking one bottle. I was entirely
cured. ou can't say anything too
good of a i bciue like that." lis the
surest and lies! remedy for diseased
lung-. Hemoribages. LaOuppc, Asthma
Hay Kever.any Throat or LungTrouble.
"sic , SI. Trial Isittle free (iuarauteed
by all druggists.
Starve il. Give it nothing lo
feed on. When something tempts
you to grow angry, do not yield to
temptation. It may for a min
ute or two be difficult to control
yourself to do nothing, to say noth
ing, and the rising temper will be
obliged to go down because it has
nothing to hold it up. The person
who can and does control tongue,
hand, heart, in case of great prov
ocations, is a hero. The world
may not own him or her as such,
but God does. The Bible says
that "he that ruleth his spirit is
belter than he thai laketh a city."
What is gained by yielding to tem
per? For a minute there is a feel
ing of relief; but soon comes a
scene of sorrow and shame, with
a wish that the temper had been
controlled. Friends are separated
by a bad lemper, trouble is caused
by it, and pain is given to others
as to self. The pain, too, often
lasts for days, even years some
thing for life. An outburst of tem
per is like ihe burst of a steam
boiler, it is impossible to tell before
hand what w ill be the result. The
evil may never be remedied. Starve ;
your temper. It is not worth keep
ing alive. Starve it.
BILIOUS?
CONSTIPATED ?
HEADACHE?
All the news!
o All the time I
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1 SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR S fl 1 1 fl 1 I
t,t you? Special Sale!
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Electric
Bitters
Sacced when everything else fails.
In nervous prostration and female
weaknesses they are the supreme
remedy, as thousands have testified.
FOR KIDNEY, LIVER AND
STOMACH TROUBLE
it is the best medicine ever sold
over a druggist's counter.
Htirsf shoeino; A Special!?!
How important some little things
seem to a small man.
Chlldreal Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTOR I A
WORTH HliAI.INO. i
j
l J riff inaki's otii' hour ten.
It is ood to ln i' the un
known. Nothing is law that is not
reason.
Xo legacy is so riht as hon
esty. God helps lltein that helps
themselves.
Art may err, hut nature eun
nol miss.
The heart will break, yet
brokenly live on.
Never look for birds this
year in the ties In of the last.
We are ne'er like ungols till
our passion dies.
II w.trl piitirwtilt'.'.l
at I'ato's old land.
neat Second.
, oine to s,' riiii
svcamoie Mieet,
W. H. DAY,
Weldon, N. ('.
TIIL N. C. STAin
Normal and Industrial CoIIer
MuitUuine'lliy tho staU f.ir tho
men uf North Carnltna. Knur reirulai
Coursi's loa.liuir to I't'irn'i'N. teml
Courses for Toiu'hcis. l ull Session he
ir ins September I i, 1!MO. Those (lesiriiur
lo slioultl apply as early as possible. Kor
caUli'irne ami other in I'm mat um aihhvss
JULIUS I. FOUST, President,
UiKKNSUOKO, N.
The North Carolina College of
AiEricnlture and MecliaDic Arts.
We hae mi haml seveial Consign;
iiient ol the latest in wool. Wash ninf
1'i'ineess laches Suits. Hut her than re
turn these suits our headquarters tleei-
1 to put them on Mile at Pali price
toi eu-h uiilv. tl- Suits fr7.."0. rrili-
ei , lute uii'l all oilier cu' rs K to
nm ?J ! to M umi out Suits M to
r. in M.'N to i, $t to f'i Net Waist
le.lueetl ?l .7'. to ?''..'.o .(lack and eol
hiihI Kilk IVMifiml M tn t now
to f t 7''. oile Skilts $ti to $ now f't.'rO
to M. Nt Iii.ihm yut.ls laee ami enihroi.!-
nes to eloNo out at halt pnee. 7"ie to
I .MessuhiH silks, all colors, now ro to
e o ami tie, eaheoes ;V1 to le.
It' ami rj',0 iriiichums 7 to '.to. About
:t,tKM uuls ilrehs tot it Is to close out leftB
than eost. lilies huts al hali' pnee,
Kmrs, ili uLreets,earpetimrs ami matting
at ami below eost.
SPIERS BROS.
WKLPOS, N. C.
Children Cry '
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
The State's rolleirc for traininir indus'
trial workers. Courses in Airrieullure.
Horticulture, Animitl Husbandry and
Dairying; in Civil, Klectneal and Me
clmu'ieal l.nifinccrinir; in Cotton Milling,
and iiyeintr; 1 si Industrial Chemistry; in
Agricultural teaching.
Kntrance examinations at each coun
ty seat on Hie 14th ol .Inly.
D. H. HILL, President,
West lUleinh, N.C.
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PATENT LAWYER!,
303 Seventh St., Washington. D. C. ,
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