5J/V ! I I gregation, has ariy°dariag Aa past hearts mdtad Aa attao* Am ha awgohada d—arta Thh qoaadoo past genoradoas . have aagtostod, la AafatUe hope V af to eBmtnatioe through Aa law af "Ae survival of Ae fitl*^* Today, Aaakata Aettastap* tool.: if paycbological teat, Hp> alaqaatedby Aetsstaof Doetara Hoey, Healy and othara, wo an TpnqlMiDg to realise Its grava im portance. Applying these tests A A* children la oar r”l)*k schools, smarts tell us that at ■ laaot 2 per sent are mentally de fective. New York, City alone, aeeordiag to the has 16,000 feeble-minded children ta Conservative authorities have placed the number of fen bio minded pereoes in Ae United States at 202,000. aad estimated that this class one v.lr ~jtoi | i*—*-■ ape. tad (2) that every institu tion for feeble-minded children •hall cease to receive girls under tbe age of twelve, or boys of any ■ge, until every feeble minded ■brief ehild-bearing age ia pro vided for. Moon Hoerrrau MMim • N Kinstoo, N. U.—The best atory of its Mad that hea eoeee to Ue ■toa tn a loag while had Ks origin near the Big Grove swamp la Duplin county. A supposedly in fernal visitation threatened the breaking op of a colored church « abort dktaaci from the eeMara edge of thoawamp, and eaueeda peak among worshipers just at On dona of a service a few nights ago. The blaek pastor and a portion of Jus flock were returning home by way of a kan leading from tha church groandi when one of the deeeoas wee eceoeted by e demo eiseel being that towered, he afterwards evened, many feet high, and leaped upon him The sheer weight of the agent of La etfer, the deacon protested when hk atory was doubted, bore him to the ground, bat be that aa It may have been, when others of the brethren turned a bead la the read they found him oa Ida knees la supplication, and aa un earthly eraatura with a fiaoe of lira apparently about to devour him. The others paused only long enough to satisfy themselves that the deacon was about to pay for some iniquity ia measure of blood, and that so intervention oa their part if they had been so inclined, would avail for hk de Ivery from the auporhumaa thing. * Vehement prayer and burred doom, attained in tbe vicinity that night. ' _ . p Mil, HINT HMD. M Itillu ti McONpITi 1st tli Otff lug in Ibtfbrothar’e Every thing, hi ta current lame, contained the 'otto wing: The pepen are copying the fol lowing artide end crediting i* to t h e Lumber ton Robononlen. which wo also copy—not because we believe tt. but to illustrate that there is aotblag new under the bud: Ta Laurinbcrg there ie this body of e man. who bee been deed shoot eight years and has never been buried. This man waa a foreigner, it ia aaML and j wee traveling with e dress end was killed at Laurinborg by a comrade. Hie body waa taken tn charge by an undertaker end embalmed. The nan's father cam* from a northern city and lacked just a few dollars of hav ing enough money to nay the bill. 00 the undertaker refused to let tin father have the body of the eon. after which the father re fused to let the undertaker bury the eon, and he etfll ban the body in bis building, it having muni fied.’ That's nothing. We know a whole lot of embalmed Tight Wade- embalmed by nature— dead, deed aa door nails, as Dick ens would say—deed ee e Yar mouth bloater—and they walk around and grant and moan and wonder what this or that coet aad they are in all towns. Just becanas one man ia still holding ostsnd refusing to pay his funeral expanses and Is mum ihed isn’t anything for Lsurin burg to brag about. Every town has bar colony of munified one* the Ttobt Wads who have been deed for yean and refuse to be buried beceuee it eosts some thing. And unlike the silent companion in Laurinborg. these momiAedTight Wade walk around throwing rod pappar into live men’s eyes.” Col. Hairbrother apparently can't get the consent of his mind that toe above news story is a true statement, but in the mala it ie true, -and especially ie the eonuneat about the embalmed Tight Wade eo aptly applied, a true me well aa a and statement at facts. Tbenews story about thomum THE ■ 4 BIG| J ONE I COMES | SATURDAY O ( OCTOBER O Be not deceived the Sparks Circus is by far the largest^ and best Show coming this year. MORE CABS, MORE PEOPLE, and double the number of WILD ANIMALS and HORSES. WAIT FOR THE REAL ONE ill I^AAhMhLhAIhhmhh^B Ha PERFECT SPECIMENS OF THE I*« am CURIOUS CREATURES OATH ERE D TOGETHER MB ONE mnffit&EF THE CHAMPIONS OF ALL COUNTRIES COMPETE ■ FEATS OF DARINO AND ORACE/ THE PRINCELY SALARIES PAID IT TM ‘ MAMMOTH ENTERPRISE M (MS Ml ONN «r IM SNT VALUABLE ARTISTS. MALE AM FEMALE RIDERS, AERIAL artists, leapers. TUMBLERS, OYMNASTS AND i ®i*®AT,ONAL nwherni feats I SI ®K,L^ANO CAR I NO BY BOTH MALENB FEMALE PERFORMERS A MS TWK M MhUMM IMSES. 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