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Wileon CLAUDIUS F. WILSON, EDITOR & PROP R. 'LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY S, THY GOD S, AND TRUTH S. $I.SO A YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE. VOLUME XXII. WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, N. C, FEBRUARY 25th, 1892. NUMBER 6. The Advance ats and'UDS x ' s-""BSB Drive in Hats e are making; a bio- drive in Hats and offer Nobby Thatches for the dome of thought at prices that paralyze competition and popularize our hats. . are selling- Fur Crush 75c, hats at 50c,, worth and the $1.25 quality we sell for 94c. have a Settled Man's Black Fur at $1.08, sold elsewhere at $2.00. Not At Cost; . 1 1 ' 1 1 A glory, but we guarantee our prices to be lowest. the nderbuv and undersell is our motto. The Cash Racket Stores. ash and (joidsboro streets. J. D. BARDIN, TTOR NEY-AND- COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW, KAL ESTAIE bKUKMK. WILSON, N. C. Practice in all the State Courts. Claims Collected. Estates Set tled. Lands Bought and Sold. Partieshavinelhouses to rent in Wil . . I. . ? , n- : .1 . 11 j nrl nrnmntlv naiH river at the end of i .u . . . : . 1, . . . v. l rt rt. If vhave lots in Wilson, or farm- ntr hi in Wilson county, to SELL c , . Tt TT T 1 ACr 1 . : xir:i j T.l . .11 - . . . . t-n i-.--i.-i. m lltlll'lHl 1111 int. . 1 I have several bargains in lots and aniline iiiiiin. v ic ui ilk .ilui l uh All enuuiries answered1 enclose THE WASHINGTON LIFE Insurance Co OF NEW YORK ASSETTS, - - - $10,500,000 l ne roncies written dv me wasmngiun are Described in these general terms f Non-Forfeitable. Unrestricted as to residence and travel after two years. Incontestable after two years. Secured by an Invested Reserve. Solidly backed by bonds and mort gages, first liens on real estate. Safer than railroad securities. Not affected by the Stock market. Better paying investments than U. S. Bonds. Less expensive than assessment certificates, More liberal than the law requires. I Definite Contracts. T. L. ALFRIEND, Manager, Richmond. Va. nra i j - a liyiifi.j. - A Ml I i-1 I l l 1 V Special Dist. Agent, Room 6, Wright Building, r-30-iy. Durham, N. C. I. C. LAMER. -PROPRIETOR- Wilson Marble Works DEALER IN Me Moments, Headstones, Tablets, . Cemetery Work, &., Examine our Jwork .before purchasing elsewhere. Satisfaction Guaranteed, Corner Barneancl7raboroStreete Wilson, W. o. BILL ARP'S LETTER. 'WHAT CAN AN OLD DIE." MAN DO BUT He Can Cheer, Encourage, and Advise Young Men, and He Should Desire no Higher Mission. There is an old saying which has this sad relrain : "What can an old man do but die." I was ruminating over this because I had just parted with a venerable friend, who told me with a smile that this was his birth-day. He always meets us with a smile that plays among the wrinkles, and he never complains of age or infirmity or any thing else. He still pursues his call ing and walks feebly to and fro, and will likely, die in the harness of hon orable toil. He is a man of culture a man of convictions, and yet he never gives offenses. This old man can do a great more besides dying. His' very presence is a sermon to the rising generation. ino we cannot spare him yet. One such man in a community is like a beacon a light house among the breakers. If every aged man was like him there would be no wrecks, no lost passengers on the sea of life. There was another old man here not ong ago, a veteran 01 eighty-rive, whom the people of Georgia have ong delighted to honor. His mas sive scotch irame, smooth shaven face and rich gray hair, his cordial salutation and cheerful laugh give evidence of good health and a good heart. He has recently resigned a high office which he filled to the last with undiminished zeal and ability. This old man can do something else besides dying. But these two are exceptionable cases. Very few old men wear their age so gracefully. The cares of life sadden and sour them. Domestic troubles disappoint, the loss of friends or the loss of money drives the wrinkles deep, brings down the drooping corners ol the mouth, bends the shoulders and gives the voice a sad, complaining tone. I met just such a one the other day, and he complained about misery in his breast and about his taxes, and the water-works and gas works and public schools, and won- pered what they would get up next to rob a man, and he wound up his amentations with a sigh and said he didn't expect to live much longer nohow. I tried to comfort him with the story of the old woman who tried hard to keep her dog from biting a man at the gate, but at last the dog got away from her, and as the terrifi ed man mounted the gate post, she exclaimed : "Well, stranger, I reckon' you a just as well let him bite you and maybe he'll be satisfied." That man grieves and sighs around the hearth-stone. He is no comfort to his children and is a misery to him self. The old song fits him : "What can an old man do but die." I know another aged man of four score years and he is blind. What can he do but die. A great deal and he does it. Almost all the day he sits on a big arm chair and talks to the children as they run to and fro the children of the fourth generation, and they ove him and are good to him and guide him when he walks around. He too, never complains, but says that God is good and he is lust waiting upon him. His very friendliness to death has disarmed its terrors in the minds ol those children. But the children go to school and the good mother has her duties and sometimes the old man sits alone for hours and rocks in his chair, and thinks and thinks and thinks. When asked what he thinks about when so long alone, he said, "About my child hood mostly and scenes of my youth ; the time when I was between eight and eighteen years. I remember all that and I love to think about it, for I had gpod, kind parents and I was happy all the year round. Later on some trouble came, some sorrow and affliction, and still later on some more sorrow but all that is like some hasty dream ; God will not let me recall it. I can't tell you now where I lived or what I was doing when I was thirty and forty and fifty years old. Mem ory is a strange thing. One would think that what happened to us when in the vigor of manhood would leave the strongest impressions, but they did not. The merest trifles of my boyhood are as bright to me as they were seventy years ago, ana tney t . 1 grow brighter as the years roll on see the little branches where 1 fished for minnows, the trees I climbed for chestnuts, the hills and valleys where hunted, the little school house and the winding path and the foot log across the creek. I see my school mates the boys and girls and would know them anywhere, but they are all dead now, I reckon. I see the school teacher, a man he was, and there is the very crack in the log where he had his switch. I re member the big log hres at home and the old-time ovens and skillets and the oven crane in the chimney and the Johny-cake board that stood in the corner. Oh, yes, Lremember a thousand things that are of no con sequence, but they are pleasant to think about now. I was thinking how good the Lord had been in giving me such a haoov childhood and A A making me to forget all my troubles.' And so I ruminated about that man. Suppose he had had a hard unhappy boyhood, how miserable would be his memories now. I heard a man say that all his young life he lived in fear and sometimes in terror of his own father. What will his memories be when old age shall come and blot out evervthino- but his - j 0 - - - youth. Then let parents try to make their children happy. If they have to be punished, let it be in reason, and for good cause. Don't fret, don't let the children go to bed in sadness or in tears. There is no sound so pitiful as the sighs of a sleeping child. Our school boys took a notion the other day that the first dayjof April belonging to them, and so they plot ted to play the fool and not go to school, rule or no" rule. These were the big, smart, uppity boys of the highest grade, and remind me of the seniors of a college the seniors I used to belong to. And so they asked the professors to give them holiday, and said he would like to very much, for he was about half sick and feared he was taking the meas les, but that he had no right to give holidays and the board might not like it. The boys interviewed the president of the board, and he said that he had seen the time when the boys took holidays nolens volens nunc proc tunc and bolus noxious, or words lto that effect, which the boys understood as a favorable re sponse, and so they stroked their chin fuzz and laid their plans for a country frolic. They even inveighed some of the large girls into the conspiracy. When the morning came the profes sor was left without a quorum. He pretended to be very mad, but he wasn't. He never gets mad. He said he would report the whole con cern to the board, but he didn't. He went home to enjoy the measles, but got over them in an hour or so and was seen riding with a young lady in the aftornoon, and everything was calm and serene. The boys apologized and the girls smiled sweetly and it was agreed all round they would not do so again for a year just a year. Our boy brought m his monthly re port, and it was all right algebra, 88; latin, 99 ; compositien, 99 ; physics, 100, and deportment 100. The last was the best of all. In old times, the teachers wouldn't trust the boys with their reports. They sent them to their fathers, for they were afraid the boys would change the figures to suit their own ideas of propriety, and I reckon we would, for there wasj right smart hostility between teacher and pupil. Their relations to eaeh other are muchvkinder now. The teachers used to stand upon their dignity and carried themselves with stiff and stately reserve. They are more com panionable now and have the love of their pupils as well as their fear. In the old times the boys were kept so disciplined and subdued that when they did break loose the havoc was fearful. They were like young mules in a pasture and kicked high and pranced around and brayed immense ly. One time the boys took a notion to have a holiday and "old Cargill" said we shouldn't. He kept good seasoned hickories always on hand, but he did smooth the knots down I'll give him credit for that. Squirt guns were at that time all the rage with the boys. This devilish weapon of offense was a long joint of a large cane. There was a small hole in the end that was called the suck hole. 1 he other end was open and had a drawstick or ramrod with enough rags around it to make it draw tight like a syringe we could suck up a cane full of water and then shove the stick like a popgun and skeet the water forty feet away. Early in the morning we toted water and took possession of the school-house, up stairs and down, and when old Car- gill came poking to the door, we opened on him with about forty squirt guns from all windows above and below and deluged him until he look ed like a drowned rat. vox hall a minute he kept his dignity and looked fierce and defiant, and then suddenly dropped his dignity on the steps and ran like a turkey. We ran him plum to his boarding house and saw him no more until next morning. We prepared ourselves for the worst, but he had the good sense to acknowl edge the joke and make friends. But the way he did get even with us afterwards was awful. He licked us on the slighest provocation. I never made mnch fuss over a common size whipping, but when the hickory cut into an old mark that hadn't got well, it hurt, I tell you it did. It was piling "Pelion upon Ossa" that is to say, it peeled to the bone. The boys wouldn't do a teacher that way now, nor would the teacher lick the boys like they did. Our young lolks are having a good time and no mistake. loo good, I'm afraid. They are taking up a power 01 time with their societies. There is a Bumble Bee Club, that meets once a month, and it take a good deal of time and talking to fix it. They meet and laugh and talk nonsense and play all sorts of plays and kick up the carpet and desolate a window shade or two and three or four chairs, and we have to grin and bear it, for the young folks must be happy, you know, for the sake of future memories. Then there is an other set who have gotten up a cook ing club, the Y. L. C. C. If they have ever cooked any we haven't heard of it. We thought it was a good training school, but I don't see the train. It took my folks all day to make and bake a Rocky Mountain cake to carry to that club for a mid night lunch, and a lot of hungry boys eat it all up as soon as it got there, and I never got nary slice, and nobody there learned how to make it or bake it. Yesterday my folks told me to send up some cabbage, and thought it was for dinner and fixed up my appetite, and when dinner came there wasn't a sign of cabbage, and I found out it was converted into a bowl full of chicken salad for the clubi So I never got any cabbage nor chicken, nor salad, nor anything else hardly. I consider myseif the injured person, for I am not asked to join the club, not even as an honorary member. It is all outgo and no income to me, and I'm almost ready to sing : "What can an old man no but die." Bill Arp. DEATH OF GOV. A. M. SCAL KS. At his Homo In Greensboro Last Tuesday veiling. Ex-Gov. Scales died at his home in Greensboro Tuesday night last, after a long and painful illness. Gov. Scales was born November 26th, 1827, in Rockingham county. In 1846 he entered the Junior Class at Chapel Hill, but remained there only one session. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1854, and in 1857 was elected to Congress, but served only one term, being defeated by Gen. Leach, the Whig nominee. In i860 he was elector on the Breckenridge and Lane ticket. Gov. Scales served with great dis tinction during the war between the States. He volunteered as a private but was at once elected Captain of his company. He succeeded Pender as Colonel of Thirteenth North Caro lina regiment, and was engaged in the skirmishes around Yorktown, in the battle of Williamsburg and the fights around Richmond, at Fred ericksburg, and at Chancellorsville where he was shot through the thigh. His gallantry in the this action led to 11s promotion as Bngadier-Oeneral. In the first day's fight at Gettysburg he was again seriously wounded, but continued in service and was engaged in all the battles of the Army of Northern Virginia that followed until the close of the war. Gov. Scales after the war, resumed the pratice of law, with much success, and in 1874 was elected to the Forty- fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty -sixth, Forty seventh and Forty-eight Congress. In 1884, he was elected Governor of North Carolina, with our former townsman, Maj. Chas. btedman as Lieut. Governor, serving in this, as in the other high offices he had filled, with honor to himself and credit to his State. Wilmington Star. What About The Cotton Acreage. Our Southern correspondent writes some pertinent things in this issue on the above question. It really looks like the cotton acreage will be con siderably reduced this year not from choice, but from necessity. We all know that it is not the wish of the planter to reduce. Especially in a year like this it is his wish to over crop if possible. He thinks his neigh bor will plant less, and this is his chance to put in a full crop. To reach this he will strain every nerve. But the average cotton planter in the South is not the man who can do as he pleases in affairs of this kind Back of the planter is the merchant, the backbone of the cotton belt. It is the merchant who stands behind the planter and supplies the wherewithal which keeps things going. He has by far more interest in the crops of his section than anyone else. A long drouth injures the merchant much more than it hurts any one planter, It is the merchant who has his thou sand invested in the crops while the planter has his hundred. This is the stutus of affairs; The merchants of the cotton belt for once have become thoroughly awakened to the risks which they have been taking The over-cropping the past year and the consequent low price of cotton have taught a whosesome lesson. In putting out supplies on the crop-time plan there has been a halt The merchants find it too risky and thev have decided to hold up. When they say no, the planter has no re course, and if a certain per centage of his supplies is cut off ; then a corre sponding percentage of crop must be reduced, ihis is the "condition which conlronts the planter not a 'theory," but a stern reality which will force him to reduce the size of lis cotton crop for 1 892. Winston Tobacco TournaJ. THE CREDIT MAN'S SOLILOQUY To sell or not to sell ? That is the question. Whether it is better to send the goods, And take the risk of doubtful pay- ment, Or to make sure ol what is in posses sion, And by declining, hold them ? To sell, to ship, perchance to lose Aye, there s the rub ! For when the goods are gone, What charms can win them back From slippery debtors ? Will the bills be paid when due ? Or will the time stretch out till the crack of doom ? What of assignments ? What of relatives ? What of uncles, aunts, and father- in-law, With claims for borrowed money ? What of exemptions, bills of sale, and the compromise That colly offers ten cents on the dollar ; And of lawyer's fees That eat up even this poor pittance ? Yes, sell we must, And some we'll trust. We seek the just, For wealth we lust ; By some we're cussed, And stocks will rust, But we'll skip the wust, Or we'd surely bust. Exchange. NEWS OFA WEEK. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE.WOKLD ABOUND US. Condensed Report of the News Oar Contemporaries. From J. H. Johnson, a Tarboro grocery man assigned last Thursday liabili ties $7,000 ; assets, about $10,000. The New York legislature has re pealed that part of the law, providing for the executions by electricity, which excluded reporters. Ia Berlin two workingmen threw a lover of their own wives into a heat ed furnace and roasted him alive. At Texarkana, Ark., 6,000 people wit nessed the horrid deed of seeing a negro ravisher burned at the stake. The store and stock of general merchandijpf J. A. Taylor, of" Dunn, Harnett county, N. C, were burned Wednesday night of last night, it is believed, by an incendiary. The loss is $8,000 with no insurance. Here it is again. The Hookerton correspondent of the Grifton Lamp light says : "A great many of our farmers will plant tobacco. Tno. Silli- vanL M. E. Dail, W. L. Churchill, Y. T. Urmond, D. B. Taylor and others. Mr. Sillivant will stick tobacco hills as an experiment." A dispatch from Rocky Mount on the 1 6th, says : A gloom is cast over our entire town by the death on yes terday, at 4 p. m., of John W. John ston, a prominent leaf tobacco dealer on this market. He died after a short illness of meningitis. It was brought on by excessive smoking. Mr. Johnston was married only two months ago to Miss Gladstone, of Reidsville, N. C, his former home. Robert Ford, who acquired wide spread notoriety by killing Jesse James, the Missouri outlaw, in 1882, was shot and killed last week in a saloon row at Crede, a new mining town, some distance from Denver, Col. For some time Ford had been drifting among the mining camps. He had been in many quarrels, but until the tragedy above no serious results came from his fights. It is time to stop and ask, whither are we drifting ? when as staid a paper as the Wilmington Review perpetrates a thing like the following : There is a family on Greenville Sound who own a remarkable cow. She should have had a calf a short time ago but lost it. They got her up on her feet and milked her. At the first milking she gave butter-mik, and at the next, a soft and creamy butter. The narrative stops here, but we presume that they milked her a third time and got ice cream. Charlotte Chronicle. The Inter-State Trust and Brok erage Co., ol this city has recently had correspondence with the officials of all counties ol the State, and out of fifty-four replies have found the fol lowing twenty-five counties to have no bonded or floating debt, and some in fact, have money in the treasury unappropriated : Brunswick, Cabar rus, Caldweil, Chowan, Columbus, Duplin, Edgecombe, Forsythe, Gas ton, Gates, Granville, Guilford, Har nett, Hyde, Jackson, Johnston, Hali fax, Lenoir, Perquimans, Randolph, Robeson, Rowan, Wayne, Wilson, and Yadkin. Raleigh State Chroni cle. A special from Raleigh, dated Feb. 1 8th, says: "Several of the delegates chosen to represent the Congressional districts m the farmers and laborers' convention at St. Louis are here and all leave to-morrow for that city. The delegates are T. T Grinson, First District ; J. T. B Hoover, Second ; W. C. Wilcox, Third : E. C. Beddingfield, Fourth P. H. Massey, Fifth; J. F. Johnston, Sixth ; A. C. Shuford, Seventh ; H, M. Lent, Eighth ; J. C. Brown, Ninth, and Marion Butler at large. Inquiry was carefully made to-day as to whether the third party would be or ganized. It was answered that it would not be. The only trouble will be to arrive at an agreement between the various organizations. The views as to the advisability ol the lhird party are mixed, but the opponents of it will have the mastery. The Alli ance, or certainly nine-tenths of it will firmly stand by what its leaders do there. All this information comes from the highest source. FREE SILVER COINAGE. Fully Endorsed by the House Committee All Efforts to Get Another Result Fail. Washington, Feb. 10. The House committee on coinage, weights and measures to-day disposed of the silver question as far as the committee is concerned Dy vonng to report favorably to the House the bill introduced by Mr. Bland, of Missouri for the free coinage of gold and silver and for the issue of coin notes. The vote on the bill was 8 to 5. Washington advices of Tuesday are that the free coinage bill was not dis cussed at great length in the Senate finance committee, and when it came to a vote on reporting the bill to the Senate adversely it was at once apparent that there had been some change in views of certain Senators since the last Congress. The vote stood 7 to 4 in favor of an advorse report. The four votes in favor of free coinage were cast by Senators Jones (Republican), Vance, Voor- hees and Harris (Democrats.) Sena tors Carlisle and McPherson (Demo crats) went over to the majority and voted for the adverse report, aslid Senator Allison and all of the Repub lican members of the committee ex cept Senator Jones. A GROWING 8YSTCM. The Atlantic Coast Line New Tapping All Portions of Eastern North Carolina The Short Cut,: Completed and Track I.ny Ing to Commence on th Washlugtoa Branch. The work of laying the track on the Washington branch of the Wil mington and Weldon railroad will be commenced to-morrow by a force of 150 convicts from the North Caro lina penitentiary. The entire grading has been completedjfand the track laying will begin at the jmnction of the Greenville extension and the AlbemarleJandRaleigh railgbad. There will be twenty-four miles of the Washington"branch, and when completed it will give the Atlantic Coast Line a perfect system of roads, tapping nearly every important sec tion of Eastern ( North Carolina, and opening up to the markets- of the country the fine grain-growing sec tion of the extensive east, the magnifi cent trucking regions of the sea coast counties, as well as the fish and oyster regions of the State. The Washington branch will particularly open up one of the finest truck grow ing regions of the Southern States. and consequently it will make a very important feeder- for the Coast Line. Atlantic l Outside of the sections already permeated by the Atlantic Coast Line in Eastern Carolina there is but one important place where the system has no independent connection. That place is New Berne, but it is learned from an official source that New Berne is also soon to be taken within the embrace of the system, as the Coast Line management has decided to put a line of boats on the Neuse river from Bell's Ferry to New Berne. This steamboat line will connect with the Kinston branch of the Coast Line and will give them an independ ent line into and out ol New Berne. This means the acquisition of one of the finest trucking and fishing regions on the south Atlantic, and we might add that it means a great deal for New Berne in a way that it is not necessary to even hmt at. With the New Berne connection made, this will give the Coast Line a superb system in Eastern Carolina, and it is stated in this connection that it will not be necessary to build any more branch lines in this part of the State for a long time to come, the new portion of the Wilson and Fayetteville Short Cut, from Fayette ville to Rowland, having now been completed, as it is learned that the last of the rails between those two places will be laid to-morrow. This means that the Coast Line's Short Cut to Florida is now an accomplish ed Jfact, although, it is understood that it will be about thirty days be fore the new part of the Short Cut will be opened to operations. The bridge over Lumber river near Pates was completed yesterday. When the Washington branch is completed, it will give the Coast Line a total road mileage of 1,223 miles of which there will be 684 miles in North Carolina alone. The branches of the Atlantic Coast Line in North Carolina together with the mileage of each road in the limits of the State, is as follows : Miles. Wilmington andj Weldon rail road, main line, Weldon to Wilmington Tarboro branch, Rocky Mount to Tarboro Scotland Neck and Kinston branch, Halifax to Kinston Nashville branch .Rocky Mount to Spring Hope Wilson and Fayetteville branch Wilson to Fayetteville Wilson and Fayetteville branch in course of construction, Fayetteville to Rowland, N. C. 162 17 86 20 74 43 Clinton branch, Warsaw to Clinton Midland, North Carolina, Goldsboro to Smithfield Washington branch, A. & R. junction to Washington, N. C, in course of construction Albemarle and Raleigh rail road, Tarboro to Plymouth Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta railroad, Wilming ton to Fair Bluff Norfolk and Carolina railroad, Tarboro to Gates Cheraw and Salisbury railroad Wadesboro to McFarland's Wilmington, Chadbourn and Conway railroad, Hub to Mt. Tabor 13 23 24 56 65 63 24 684 Total Wilmington Messenger. Does He Want to be Sheriff ? Our efficient, clever, and handsome Deputy Sheriff, R W. King, of Greenville, was in town Friday night and Saturday. He left us one dollar, and said he must needs have the Lamplight Grifton Lamplight. The Cause of Rheumatism. An acid which exists in sour milk and cider, called lactic acid, is be lieved by physicians to be the cause of rheumatism. Accumulating in the blood, it attacks the fibrous tissues in the joints, and causes agnoizing pains. What is needed is a remedy to neu tralize the acid, and to so invigorate the kidneys and liver that all waste will be carried off. Hood's Sarsapa rilla is heartily recommended by ---- many whom it has cured ol rhema tism. It possesses just the desired qualities, and so thoroughly purifies town and the people of Wilson show the blood as to prevent recurrence of ed good judgment in patronizing and rhematic attacks. We suggest a trial of Hood's Sarsaparilla by all who suner from rheumatism. 1 love thek;morb. OWEN MEREDITH. Since we parted yester-eve, I do love thee, love ! believe. Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer, One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer ; thus much more Than I loved thee, love ! before. SOMETIME. MARY RILEY fAlITlI. Sometime, when all life's' lesson have been learned, And sun and stars forevermore have set, The things which ur weak judgments here nave spurned, The things oer which we grieved with lashes wet, Will flash before us, out of life's dark night, As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue ; And we shall see how all God's plans are right ; And how what seemed reproof was love most true. And we shall see how, while we frown and sigh, God's plans go on as best for you and me How, when wejcalled, he heeded not our cry, Because his wisdom to the end could see. And even assise parents disallow 1 00 much of sweet to craving baby hood, So God, perhaps, is keeping from us now Life's sweetest things because it seemeth good. And if, sometimes, commingled with life's wine, We find the wormwood, and repel and shrink, Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine Pours out this portion for our lips to drink. And il some friend we love lying low, Where human kisses cannot reach his lace, Oh do notblamethe loving Father so, But wear your sorrow with obedient grace ! And you shall shortly know that length ened breath Is not the sweetest gift God sends this friend : And that, sometimes, the able pall of death Conceals the fairest boon hlsMove can send. If we could push ajar the gates of life, And stand within and all GodYwork- mgs see, We could interpret all this doubt and strife, And for each mystery conldfind a key ! But not to-day .-Then be content, heart ! poor God's plans, like lillies pure and white unfold. We must not tear th close shut leaves apart, Time wiU'reveal the calyxes of gold And if, through patient toil, we reach Where tired feet, with sandals loosed the land may rest, When we shall clearly see and under stand, I think that we will say, "God knew the best!" OUB SPECIAL EDITION. The tjBrethren of the Press Receive It Kindly and Say Pleasant Things Which are HaartilyiAppreclated. "DOES CREDIT. The special issue of theTWiLSON Advance has just reached our table It is 12 pages, and does credit to its talented, and enterpising editor. Wil son has need to be proud of the AD VANCE Grifton Lamplight "HIGHLY CREDITABLE The Wilson Adtance of last week appeared as a 12 -page trade and industrial edition of s.ooo copies and was a highly creditable publication. Charlotte Chronicle. "AN ALL AROUND GOOD PAPER.' The Wilson Advance showed com mendable enterprise last week in the handsome get up of its 12-page issue of which it printed 5,000 copies. The Advance is an all-around good paper. Reidsville Review. "DESEHVES SPECIAL MENTION We intended, but overlooked 7 it at the time, noticing the 12 page edi tion of the Wilson Advance (5,000 copies; which the editor sent out on nthmst. It was well done and de serves special mention. Wilmington Messenger. "A CREDIT TO THE TOWN. The last issue of the Wilson Ad vance was 1 2 pages, well printed and contained several whole page ad vertisements. It was a credit to the town and the biggest sort of credit to i the editor. Durham Sun. "A HUMMER WITH HORNS." The Wilson Advance of last'week was a twelve page edition tolled with interesting reading and well displayed advertisements. In the language of Col. FaLibrother, it was "a hummer with horns," and worthy of the pluck and energy ol Editor Wilson Golds boro Headlight. "A BIG ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE TOWN." The Wilson Advance is showin signs of prosperity and enterprise which must be as gratifying to its readers as it is creditable to its intel ligent and energetic young editor Mr. Claude Wilson. Last week it was 12 pages in size. 5,000 copies. It was filled with choice reading matter and wen displayed advertisements. 1 ne three tobacco warehouses of Rocky Mount had one whole page, the New Berne Fish and Game Fair another and the Wilson warehousemen one. Then the merchants and other busi ness men of the town were represent ed by neat and attractive anneunce- - ments, the whole forming an edition that can't fan to be productive of eood - 1 to Wilson. buc an issue of its local paper is a big advertisemont for the encouraging friend Wilson in the substantial way they did.--Hender son Gold Leaf. FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS, (Successors to B. F. Briggs & Co.,) OFFICE OVER FIRST NAT. BANK. WILSON, N. C. We purpose giving the busi ness intrusted to us by the citi zens of Wilson and neighbor ing territory, our close and per sonal attention. We represent some of the best companies in A, :he world. We want your in surance, come to see us. ahtp SJUIU Institute. For Young Ladies TStrlctly Non-Sectarian. TheSprlng Term Begins Tuesday, I January 25, 1892. A most thorough and comprehensive preparatory course of study, with a full Collegiate course equal to that of any Female College in the South. Excel lent facilities for the study ol Music and Art. Standard of scholarship unusually high. Healthful location. Buildings and grounds large and pleasantly situa ted. Moderate charges. Catalogue and.Circulars on application. SILAS E. WARREN, Principal. MISS ERSKINE Announcesthat the Holiday trade so nearly cleared out the Holiday goods that the re mainder will be sold very low. Regular Millinery Business, with new attractions, will now be resumed. ! MISS P. ERSKINE, Wilson, N. C. Under Briggs Hotel. Scotland -Neck Military School, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. Spring Term Begins January 25th, 1892. THE IDEAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS, Two things aimed at : Health of body and vigor of mind. Charges reasonable. For information address, W. C. ALLEN, Supt. J OHN D. COUPER, MARBLE & GRANITE Monuments, Gravestones, &c. in, 113 and 115 Bank St., NORFOLK, VA. Designs free. Write for prices. 5-14-iy. DR. W. S. ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, WILSON, n. c. Office in Drug Store on Tarboro St. DR. ALBERT ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, WILSON, n. c. Bank. DR. E. K. WRIGHT, Surgeon Dentist, WILSON, N. C. Having permanently located in Wil son, 1 offer my professional services to the public. tyomce in Central Hotel Building. Horses & Mules. I have now on hand a select lot of fine Horses and Mules at my Sale Stables on Goldsboro Street. The lot consis ts of Fine Farm And excellent drivinp- and to draugtit horses. ' It IS your interests to see these animals before purchasing elsew here. I will be glad to show them to you. Respectfully, J.D. 2-1 1-tf. Millinerv. Mules FARROR