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v. ' THE ROBE SON I AN, I'mWIhIiM ovry Wt'iliirwlaj' Rt humlK-rton, N.C.sl li-t' yi'nrarul for !x months. It rvrvl i-vi-ry -rk by u largo number of the iiul Inti'llljtvnt ijilf of llolx-soii county und ' li.-ms xi'il'r.ilo-niuUllim ill nil the nurroundliiK cuuuUr. IneluilliiK V'loritntw, Marlon. Mtirlboro mill lMrllntfim.ln smith (inrollim. ThkRoiik ..!um In no I" It twenty-eighth year and is no luiitfiT nuuiiHTliiii'iit. Itnuv.ur i':t.'(Un ,ur until tlieuVulh of Its lulu owner and hope to niftlr K""tl a futuni rwDfd, Particular ' utirntiviu Will !. Klvcn to kiH-'nlhg up the hlh ' ,vndnnl of I'lwlli'iu-e It hn lUtnlntnl no a pur T,y,.rof Wrf'M news. F S T5 VST Tl MM H XIJDj ESTABLISHED 1870. Country, God and Truth. SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS. VOL. XXVIII. NO. 45. NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS; JUDICIOUS ADVERTISING , CkbaTKS many a new business; ENLARGES many an old business; ?KtERVBS many a large busiuets; . 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'Tol-THB ROIIKSOMAN. MY MOTHER'S CHAMBER. Sitting in my mother's chamber, And the twilight curtains fall, While a sacred spell ot silence Casts her mantle over all. Many a sad and pleasing fancy Flits across my busy brain Thoughts of mother O, so tender ! Weave therr-mystic spell again. '- Sitting in my mother's chamber, And the. moonlight's pearly beam Lingers on each sacred treasure Like a sweet and tender dream. ;. Many years have waned and faded, But my heart has not grown cold, For I love and think of mother With the tender love of old. MEMORY GEMS. All along trie path of duty flowers of happiness bloom .thick and fair they crowd the wayside. Mother's words will linger and comfort us long after the snowy bloom has faded from memory. Madam Jeans. , LEFT BY THILL MM - ' is B ' O E Traiihient advertisements to be pub lished fne tnnnvh and under, must be TMiid for in advance. All advertising for shorter time than three months is con aidered transient advertising. Accounts rendered quarterly for all advertisements pubuslicil lor a longer period 01 unie. Local advertisements appearing among reudintr matter will be charged 10 cents pet line for each insertion. Lentil advertisements, such as ndmiui trators' and execwUrr.' notices, commis sioners' an 1 trustees' sales,, summons to inn residents, etc., will be charged for at legal rates, except when they exceed a .certain limit of space, in which cade we reserve the right to fix our own price. All such business must be pa in for in advance. The charge is very small and we cannot afford to tiike risks or wait the pleasure of persons to pay. H. K. PROCTOR, JR. S. MCIXTYRE. PROCTOR & MclNTYRC, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Lumberton, - - - N. C. , Practice in all the courts of the State. Tronipt and painstaking attention given to all legal business. tf ,N. A. MCLEAN, Attorney At Law, LUMBERTON, N. C. All kinds of "legal business at tended to anywhere. .DR. iUGENE . HOLCOMBE, Deintist, Up stairs in New Shaw Building, XUMBERTON, N. C. T. I.BWIS. M. V. J. 8. McGKACHY. M. I). Drs, LEWIS S HcGEMHY, Physicians & SdtJcods. Office in Robksonia Building. lCmberton, - N. c. Dr. McCcachy will room in the -office, where he can be found. T. A. MCXEILL. A. W. MCLEAN. -McNEILL SHcLEAN BY FRANK LEE BENEDICT. (Concluded from last week.) Before Elsie could find voice to explain, her mother said, Mrs. Conyers, it i3 past t o'clock. As your ward's tutor is doubtless fatigued, it would bo a kindness on your part to have him shown to hia room, where ho can finish his mirth at his leisure." "Oh, mamma, this is Lestor V.'arno 1" cried Elsie. "This is the boy we have been expecting 1 Oh, Mr. Warne. mamma ordered a huge rocking-horse for you last week, and I a Shetland pony; jou shall ride thorn both tomorrow.". "With pleasure," said he; "and you shall wear the boautiful gold spectacles I have bought for you. I did not know what to buy for an elderly lady, and so I hit on those." When Mrs. Barrington was at last made to comprehend the truth, she was shocked and horrified ; but the absurdity of the thing was too much even for her grandeur, and she laughed more heartily than anybody had seen her do in twenty years. "Mr. Montagu, the lawyer, will be up tomorrow," Mrs. Barrington said; "he will know how to man age. Of course, Elsie must resign her ha, ha ! the guardianship at once. "Not a bit of it!" cried Warne, resolutely. "I don't believe she can. She has accepted the trust; she is my guardian, and must stay so for a year yet. I do not reacn my majority until I am twenty- five that is in my father's will. You. can't turn off a poor or phan 1" All laughed again. "At least he can stop for a visit, mamma," eaidElsio. "Youkoow, next week the cousins are coming. Tho house will be lull ot young mon. Ho. can stay, too." draw my . allow your signature, Guardyl" said Warne. "I hope you mean to tip me, for I am aw fully hard-up. Your gold specta cles were frighttully clear, l was sorry afterward that I did not buy you an agate-headed walking- stick." Tho next day Mr. Montagu, the lawyer, arrived, according to ar rangement. The absurdity of the business was too much at first even for his legal composure. After a long conversation, tho matter was definitely settled. Mr. Montagu decided that to attempt "I can t oven anco witnoutf ATTORNEYS AT LAW Offices in Shaw Building np sUirs, any cnangw wuiuu uijr fiiY uut-u publicity to the business, and per North Corner, LUMBERTON, - - N. C . Practice in State and Federal Courts Tronipt attention given to all legal business. iGw. mcqueen. TUB LUMBERTON BAIIBER. When yon wish an easy shave, As good as barlK-T ever gave, Just call on me at my saloon, At morning, eve or noon; I rut and dress the hair with grace, . To suit the contour of the face. My room i neat and towels clean, Scissors sharp and razors keen, And eivrvlhiii'' I think vou'll find To suit the face and please the mind, Ar.ii all niy art and skill can do, If you just call I'll do for you. uounced would be the case, tin house filled with a party of rela tives who had not seen the mother and daughter since a year before the death of Mr. Conyers. Of course, they knew nothing about the guardianship, and cared less. They all knew who Mr. Mannering was, and nothing could be more natural than that he should have confided his nephew to the care of Mrs. Barrington, the wife of one of his very oldest friends. So, all through tho pleasant summer, Les ter Warne, under one pretext or another, remained at Beechcroft. When autumn came, Mrs. Bar rington decided that Elsie's health required change, and the advko of a physician, and so took her down to the house in New York. The plain English of all which was (though the mother did not know- it) that she was herself wertry of leading a retired life, for Mrs. Bar rington craved amusement and ex citement as much as if she had been eighteen. Of course Elsie did not go into society, or receive beyond seeing intimate friends in a very quiet r.y. li-z. JMrs. iJamnjrton' went out constantly ; it was a sacrifice, but she submitted to it for her daughter's sake. i never nave snrunk irom my duty, Elsie, and I never shall," alio roiteratod, over and over. "You cannot remain a recluse for ever at your ago. I must go about, in the meantime, and keep people in remembrance of the fact that you exist, else, when you appear in tho world again, you will be utterly forgotten. I am sure you understand my motive, child." "Yes, mamma," Elsie would answer. Then her mother would kiss her, and sail off to opera or ball, majestic in velvet and dia monds ; and if she could catch Warne, would take hint with her. But that young gentleman show ed a strange distaste for what is called "society." He liked best to spend his eveninga.in Elsie's drawing-room. Of course, he liv ed at a hotel, but, under one pre text or another, he managed to six days in the week at her house, reading to her, or talking, while she netted, or embroidered, or drew, or wen on with whatever employment she might chance to ave on hand. lie went out with Mrs. Barrington, if he could not avoid it, but. usually managed to find some excuse for getting back to Elsie before the evening was over. Mrs. Barrington never wearied of talking of his perfections to JiiJsio. and iidsio said, "les mam ma," a. nothing more, till, some times, Mrs. Barrington was seized -with, the idea that her daughter did -not really appreciate "the boy," and used fairly to reproach her with indifference. .. "Because," said she, "after all, grown man though he may be; he is your ward, and you ought to care; and, Elsie, strong as? he looks, my own opinion is that his chest ia very delicate. His great- aunt died of consumption when she was twenty. I was a tiny child at the time, but I remember it well . She was a beautiful creature, and lie looks very likelier." But Elsie never seemed much concerned, and frequently Mrs. Barrington grew fairly vexed with nor lndiilerence. 1 he time came when Lester Warne,, too, had rea son, or thought he had, to feel dis satisfied with Elsie's conduct They had been the best of friends haps be tho means of exposing Mrs. Conyers to unpleasant re marks. She could perfectly well sign the chocks whereby "her ward" would draw his allowance, and, as far as their neighbors were concerned, it would bo easy enough to make them suppose that Mrs. Barrington "waa the guardian, that if it was found necessary to say anything. Fortunatoly, neither Elsie or her mother were ot the order of women who go about con fiding their private affairs to for ty-five different intimate friends; and tho matter of the guardian ship had been from the first so dis all winter: as trank and tree in their intercourse' a if the tie be tween them had been that which' unites brother and sister. " It was early spring when Warne first noticed this inexplicable change in Mrs Conyers. In anoth er month she proposed to go back to Beechcroft, andja month after that he would reach his ridiculous ly prolonged majority, and his twenty-fifth birthday. Quietly as she lived, Warne had more than once had an opportuni ty of being iealous. A man does not need to love a woman in order to be jealous. The merest boy At.FRF.fJ ROWLAND, J ROWLAND & ATTORNEYS AT ' LUMHKRTON', A. ROWUND SON, LAW, N. C. J'rnclirr in State and Federal Courts. 1'ionipt attention given to all legal business. T. W. COGTEN, JR., ATTORNEY AT LAW, UK!) Sl'l'.'.NCS, - - '. C. tasteful to Mrs. Barrington, and will be annoyed if any feminine so terrifying to Elsie, that they had never talked about tho busi ness at all. After a couple of days Warne took litilu Williamson down to New York to confide him to the care of his relations. Tho poor child had boon cent to Amer ica to try what hi:; native air would do for him, while hid .mother was condemned, by lim verdict of the ; complete, to lay their physicians, to tho equable climate made his possible of San Romo. arne stay in town as short as on whom he considers that he has special claims, venture so much as to nppear interested in the conver sation of any other ' masculine, young or old.J And Elsie had . hosts of admir ers. Half a dozen men wero only waiting till nine months of her second year of widowhood wore hand3 and feet. And their fortunes ut her Warne knew this better than Elsie herself; for, indeed, though she t bought about love, or being made love to. Th.it sort of thing had been hitheito so entirely kept out of her life, that she dreamed but seldom, and then very vaguely, of such a consummation ever reach ing her. She had been very hap py this winter; but she did not ask herself why, till suddenly there came.that'change in her, a change so noticeable, that even Mrs. Bai rington observed it, and discussed its possible meaning with Warne. Lester, himself, had quite made up his mind. She was in love with the lawyer, Mr. Montagu. Montagu was still young, hancL some, and poor. She feared that her mother would ' object, and dreaded to let the truth be known. Just as she was prepareing to leave town, Lester came to her one day, and announced his intention of making a trip to California'. She received the news with such unfeigned satisfaction, that he n.e&fly lost his senses, and set off the very next day, to Mrs. Barring ton's undisguised despair. He did not come back, and sel dom wrote. It was'September.be, fore he return fid. He was recalled by a letter from Mr. Montagu, re minding him that he would only have time to reach the East beforo his majority would arrive. "It is necessary that you should be punctual," the lawyer said, "because Mrs. Conyers contem plates a voyage to Europe and de sires definitely to settle all affairs connected with her guardianship before her departure ;.,a matter rendered the more imperative be cause I also expect to be absent from New York for several months. Our house is engaged for a lawsuit in the case of an American estab- ished in St. Petersburg, and I lave neon deputed to go over, and attend to it." It was not difficult, as Warne told himself, bitterly, "to put two and two together;" and a letter from Mrs. u Barrington, which reached him at the same time, aid ed his faculties considerably in hat attempt at. multiplication. She wrote that it was rumored Mr. Montagu was to bo married. As for Elsie, what ailed her was be yond her mother's comprehension ; but she was evidently guarding some secret, and living in fear of her parent's discovering it, and Mrs. Barrington was nearly frantic. Of course, under such favorable circumstances for behaving like a donkey, no masculine could have resisted the opportunity. Lester stayed in California till autumn, and wont mad with rage and jeal ousy sixteen times each day. It was toward the close of a Sep tember atternoon, that he once more found himself driving along the. well-remembered avenue to Beechcroft. He had reached. New York on the previous evening, had disdained to, call upon Mr. Monta gu, and in the morning set out on his journey up the Hudson. Let ter after letter had reached him from the lawyer, but had received no answer. At last Mr. Montagu wrote : , "You are" delaying my marriage ; embarrassing Mrs. Conyers beyond measure. I must leave America before the end of September. If this letter meets with no response, we shall leave your affairs in the care of my partner." So, on Warne came, more to torture himself by the sight of their, happiness, than for any other reason . lie was at the house, xio was in the library. Mrs. Conyers had started up at sight of him. and was trying to speak some words of welcome. She had left off her black, and it seemed to him that the gray dress made her look changed, and unlike herself. He tried to be completely at his ease ; began a dozen subjects, and never finished a sentence. When he perceived his utter failure in doing the dignified and indifferent, he turned sulky, and said several provoking things, man-like. She took no notice. She talked pleas antly. At last, she pointed to tho papers scattered about the table, and said : "I was just going over these, in order to send them to you. I re ceived them all from Mr. Monta gu yesterday." "And you are going to Europe 1 " ho said, rather than askod. "Yes. Mr. Montagu is obliged to sail next week " "Oil!" he interrupted, with a harsh laugh. "Then I'm in time for tho wedding.1' took s.jeak playfully. "That place four days ago." He turned deathly white, and leaned back, holplesshr, in his chair. He had thought himself prepared for the worst, but he per ceived his mistake now. He would not give way. He would speak. "At least, I am not too late to offer you my best congratula tion," he said, with an effort, as if each word were a load. "Offer him and Clara Yaughan, you moan," laughed Elsie, looking at him strangely. "Aren't you married to him?" he exclaimed. She, blushed scarlet, then grew pales ---JIad he looked at her, he might have seen that her eyes showed that a sudden light had dawned upon her. "Perhaps you will go over these papers with me," said she. Not that she at all knew what she was saying. She held a letter toward him. He took it as blindly as itvas of fered. He could not speak. So, he tried to read it while ho got his senses back. He did road ; and when ho had finished, he under- stood the reason of the change in Elsie Conyers. lie had been worth a hundred thousand dollars. The companies in which it was invested had failed during tho past winter Elsie' had been trying to use her influence with her husband's exe cutors she herself was not really free yet to turn over that amount of her own fortune to hi.s credit. She had persuaded them at last. She thought she was handing him a letter from Mr. Montagu. She had given him tho executor's letter instead. They had consented to her plan simply because they found, that it was positively certain that the whole of Warno'a money could bo recovered in the course of two years. A sudden exclamation, which Warne uttered, made her look up. She saw, then, what she had given him; tried, insanely, to snatch the paper from his grasp. Ho seized both her hands in his, and said, in a choked voice, ""lav tiou Damon me I lean- i if i not iorffiye mysen. He had not moant to eay more, but something in her pale, agita ted face gave him courage. "Elsie," he whispered, "I'll ac cept your money on one condition that you give me yourself , too." She did not speak; but she let him draw her head down upcm Jiis shoulder as he asked, "Shall it be, Gnardy?" Then he caught her tremulous answer, "You are free now, Ward. It is for you to choose." Truths For Farmers. Elder P. D. Gold, in the Wilson Time?, tells some striking truths in the following: "The remedy for farmers is to produce all they eat, such as corn, wheat, pork, milk and buttor, fruits feed for horses, mules, cat tle, etc., and buy as little as pos sible. Have good schools in the country. Too many are moving to town. . Build up the country. Improve your lands, your society, educato your children at homo. Teach them to labor, and not to despiso.it. . "In the town tho question is asked, what shall wo do with our daughters? Too many of them aro brought up to think only of dressing, going with boys, riding bicycles, spending their time fool ishly. ieach them to labor to cook, sew, make clothing, etc., by putting them at it. Teach your boys to do farm work. hut. . i i n . , no snouia quit ouying so much. No wonder wo are so poor. We will got worso and worse every year until we return to the indus trial and economical ways of the bible. Read Proverbs .31." A Monster Piano Trust. New York Dispatch. Another great trust is In tne Way ot tpijjra.n.. j The evil we do not only lives after us, but plagues us mightily before wo go. Alimony is the fine a man pays for having made an unsuccessful experiment. Credit ia a false friend, who only stays with you until you are in trouble. There are psopl who will never get; into tho heavenly orchestra because they refuse to play any thing but first fiddle. It's very easy to judge how much smoking.ftiil drinking other people should do. A light heart goes easily with a heavy purse. It'a not tho loudest amons that get tho Lord's oar the quickest. Some people imagine they are religious when the pleasures and excitement they get from it is the real attraction. Time will fly for every one but for him who waits. va:i'c.O ii IV, itutunl rdurai Courts.-1 JXho.uwtt weok, aa. Lie had an-! liked nieu'a society, Elsieiiycr Don't Talk of Your Ills. "Every one of us has his or her own ailments," writes Edward W. Bok in the December Ladies' Home Journal, decrying tho unpleasant labit many people have of dis cussing their , bodily ills. "It is enough for us all to keep well our selves: to be compelled to listen to the ailments of others does not make that task any easier. Besides all this, these unnecessary narra tives of personal ailments are pos- itivelv .injurious to ourselves. Physicians all agree that many of the slight illnesses, of which some people make so much, could be cured if they would but take their minds from themselves. Too many people work themselves into ill nesses, or prevent themselves from getting well, by talking about a petty ailment, which, if forgotten, would right itself. M will not say that women, more-.than men, are tyrone to do tn:s evil, mvc the majority of women have-more leisure than the -majority of men, thoy-are more likely to let their minds dwell upon every little ill that assails them, and talk about it. It seems to methadone of the most important lessons we can all learn with the close of the year is to rrfrain from inflicting upon others what is purely personal to ourselves. Let us cease this tire some, this inconsiderate, this un necessary talk about our ailments. Cold and hard as it may seem, the fact is nevertheless true, and will ever remain so, that the vast ma jority of people aro interested in what is pleasant in our lives, but not in what is unpleasant. Pains and sorrows are elements in our lives which are sacred and inter esting only to ourselves." J. II. Thirsweud, of Grosbeck, Texas, &pys that when he has a spell of indiges tion", and feels bad and sluggish, he takes two of De Witt's Little Early Risers at night and he is all right the next morn- ! ing. Many thousands of others do the beinj tormed. It is to bo composed of the principal piano manufactu rers of the country, and to include by absorption all of tho 200 con- I cerns making instruments. The capitalization has been placed at $50,000,000. It is said that matters have pro ceeded so far that two or moro leading bankers in this country and Europe have given the scheme favorable consideration. Nathan Stetson, one of tho head men of tho Stein way concern, said to-day that his people had not yet been approached on the proposition, and he knew nothing of the plan only what he had heard from non- ofhcial sources. Hugo Sohmer said ho had heard that tho old plan to form a trust had been re vived, but nis concern had not been asked to join. 'Wo would not join such an enterprise. The piano is an artistic production and cannot be treated from a trade point ox view, as nans or Deer or any other ordinary article of com merce." Some idea of the magnitude of the proposed enterprise is gained when it is known that recently, just after the death of . William Steinway, an English firm offered $5,000,000 for the Steinway plant, and was told that the figures were not high enough. The Chickering plant in Boston covers two of the city blocks, and employs enough workers to make a small city. Alfred tolge was the prime mo ver in former schemes. He has spent years working up the de tails. The United States Army. Phllsdolphla Times. Tho annual reports of the Secre tary of War and of General Milan, commander-in-chief of tho army, aro an interesting study for the American people. With a popu lationfof "72,000,000 and the coun try extending from Eastern to Western sea, including tho new lerritorv or Alaska tnat is an em pire in itself, tho entire cost of the Army Department for tho ast year was under $50,000,000, and of that sum $6,'J00,000 wero expended for fortifications and seacoast expenses, $13,700,000 for rivers and harbors, and $3,000,000 for national soldiers' homes. Thus the actual cost of maintain ing our army does not exceed $27, 000,000. Couldn't Afford to Take a Paper. One of our exchanges describes the man who could not afford to take the homo paper as follows iiy getting jioid ot a toreign adver tising sheet he spent $1 writing to find out how to keep sober ; the answer being to take a pledge Ho also sent fifty 2-cent stamps to find out how to raise turnips, and received a postal card reply : 'Take hold of the tops and pull." It was the same person who sent 50 cents to a follow in the east for twelve useful household articles, and received a package of needles. He is a near relative to the man who sent $1 to find out how to get rich, and received the reply: Work like the devil and never pend a cent." He is also related to the man who sent .fo to tind out how to write without a pen or ink, and tho answer was: "Try lead pencil." He is a twin brother to the man who sent ?5 to find out how to live without work and received the reply printed in one black line on a postal card: Fish for suckers, like we do." A New Kipling NoYstett. About the last story published from the pen of the master Kip ling appeared in the August num ber of McClure'a Magazine, and his next story is announced for publication in the Christmas number of the same periodical It is a long story practically i novelette but it will be publish ed complete in one number. In it Kipling returns to India the ground, undoubtedly, on which he is most engaging to his readers The story is described aa the nar rative of the experience of a young English officer whose family had done their duty in India without noise or brag, but with great effi ciency and bravery,, through number of generations, and who on taJring up the tamily work found himself compelled to livo up to a very high family tradi tion in the matter of shooting ti gers and laying down the law to the native tribe of Bhils. Espec ially exacting on him was tho fi nal disposition of a certain "cloud ed" tiger, entailing a series of great adventures. A novel exper iment has-been tried in illustra ting thejstory for McClure's. Two well known artistists have collab orated one chosen for his per sonal familiarity with India and the other for his general skill in bodying forth imaginative persorr ages, aetioiis and scenes. As it Was in tha Day f Abraham. Morgftiiton tterald. Within full view of the streets of Morganton and not eight miles away as the crow flies is a country where the farming methods are identical with thoso in vogue in the time of Abraham. On the top of Kaylor's Knob, one of the high est peaks of the South Mountain, is a wheat field containing noarly a hundred acres, comparatively level and of remarkable fertility. In this field on the side next to Morganton is a great flat rock which has been used time out of mind aa a threshing floor. Here the wheat and rye is brought and threshed with flails and winnowed just as Boaz winnowed his barley at his threshing floor near Bethle hem centuries ago. John Evans, tho negro wl o convicted of criminal assault at tho recent term of Richmond f . pcrior Court and sentenced to I hanged last Friday, did not'pa t the penalty of his crime. After r consultation with the Council oi Stato Wednesday afternoon Gov ernor Russell respited Evans unf January 26th, 1S9S. Tho follow ing reasons are given for granting tho respite : "Tho case .demands serious and thoughtful investigation. Out of ' four other liko cases that have oc curred in this State during this year, one of the culprits escaped beforo arrost, two wero hanged by i.1 . . i 1 1 , -r tjiu courts ami one oy a moo. n the two convictions there was i" reasonable doubt of guilt and t probabilities are that tho mob g- tho right man. Hero comes a where a friendless wretch has hot put on trial m a community f7 erod with excitement and indigna tion, justly aroused by tho com mission of a crimo for which tL. perpetrator ought to suffer death. There wero excellent men on thv jury, but no jury can expect to deliberate and coolly weigh evi dence uninfluenced by tho epii": pervading tho community. it i- posaiblo that a jury of likecharr- ter in a different community wouliV lave rendered a different vord upon this same evidence, and - remains to be seen whether jurors in this caso may not char.."'; their opinion upon mature consid eration, under quiet or circu.' stances. Evidence directly male rial to tho prisoner's guilt has be;--produced since the trial. It '. urged that tho identification c the prisoner was incomplete r-;. unsatisfactory; that an alibi v-.-completoly proven by witnesses both races, and that the admitted facts of tho case strongly indica.fcu. that the perpetrator of the c.""-. was familiar with the habits of 'l! prosecutrix in walking along that certain path, anil at that cert:', hour when the crime was comml.- i eei; tnat tno prisoner coum v have known these things 'oocav" he was virtually a strangcTrrn' town; that he had only been the once inside of a 3'ear and hence is most unimeiy tnat lie snou.i have known the prosecutrix r been familiar with her habits. A. to the truth of these allegations., no opinion is expressed, but th; " come from sources so worthy consideration as to demand t; for clone scrutiny and though . investigation. It further a from documentary evidence ' ." there is a sentiment to the f' that aside from tho guilt or i.. cone? ot tins prisoner, it wou; best for the county that the tence of the court bo at once l ecuted. This Bentiment cannot prevailing among just or Christ-icr. people except as a result of tem porary ebullition of passions, pro yoked by frightful outrages. Iu -granting a postponement of this execution, tho executive is sus tained bv the Council of Si ate; by prominent citizens of Richmr.;..- county and various other conn1-- by intelligent clergymen und t. nent lawyers and editors, an the further consideration or caso he evoked the aelvice c: educated, substantial, rel. ; and law-abiding elements o State." "Ne, indeed, -you drtadful young aian!" . sho., answered, trying tosauie thing. . Do you! J. D. McMillan. I write this to let you know what I would not do : I would not do without Chamberlain's Pain Balm in my house if it cost $5.00 per bottle. It does all you recommend it to do and more. J. R WALLACE, Wallaceville, Ga. Chamber lain's Pain Balm is the best household liniment in the world, and invaluable for rheumatism, lame back, sprains and bruises. Be' ready for emergencies by buvimr a bottle at Dr. T. D. McMillan's drug store. When the football season ends we'll have to be satisfied with reading of touchdowns in Cuba. t I i n i I Colds, I i Diarrhea, Dysentery, d Bowel Complaints. A Sure, Safe, Quick Cure for these troubles is Mechanic, Farrr.sr, Piantcss Sailor, and in fact all classa?. Used interna!!? or externally. Beware of imitations. T.ike none but the genuine 'Tijaav Davis." Sold everywhere. and 50c. bottles. The Editor's- Son. A wicked editor down in gia gets off the following: : editor eat in his office cold, w -all but him had fled, but he i-- ' that every last dead beat his grave, stone dead. II: v then wandered far away . time when he should die, a-..; loyal editorial soul go ecooi.; .: . the sky; when he roams tl of paradise and sails o'e- seas, and all things gloric combine, his every sense He thought how, when !- - across the great gulf . -drear, that yawned bet v.. happy soul anel those wl v : died here ; and then for water v would call and in agony caper, he'd shout to them . moisten your tongue wit: that's on your paper.' " mmMM 25c. lM2f-0 ftHCO 0OCO- O The exchange is good following advice . for ai of the cotton belt : " would suggest to our L.." te allow cotton to lie arc "ins. If veui intend io i better prices we would f -to haul it home." The less danger of losing b; thieves. It is too ton;.'" fanner to have his cei or stolen after he had all yearand made andg:.-
The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.)
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Dec. 1, 1897, edition 1
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