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- is? WilBon CLAUDIUS F. WILSON, EDITOR & PROP R. LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY'S, THY GOd's, AND TRUTH'S. $1.50 A YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE VOLUME XXII. WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, N. C, MAY i9fh, 1892. NUMBER 18. The Advance (asliCatchesTtie Bargains ! Don't Want The Earth. Politicians would have it that the earth, but formers warn this Itii lib impression is erroneous. ; a fact, however, that they, evervbody else, want all they can ret for their money. The Cash Racket Stores realizing this fact have on sale this Spring an assortment in every department at prices ,vcn lower than ever. We would call your especial' at tention this week to our stock )f Gents and Ladies r Shirts We are satisfied the prices are very much below the market. The Cast Racket Stores. and Goldsboro Streets. THE WASHINGTON LIFE Co. nsurance OF NEW YORK. ASSETTS, - - - $10,500,000. he Policies written by the Washington are Described in these general terms: Xon-Forfeitable. 1 nrestricted as to residence and ! travel after two years. I Incontestable after two years. s' cured by an In- ested Reserve. ; Solidly backed by bonds and mort gages, first liens on real estate. . Safer than railroad securities. . Not affected by the Stock market. : Better paving investments than U. - : S. Bonds. Less expensive than assessment certificates. More liberal than the law requires. I efinite Contracts. T L. ALFRIEND, Manager, p , 1... . Richmond, Va. " 1 I . ADAMS, V Sal Wist. Agent, J:-6, Wright Building, ' "'" Durham, N. C. ' W. S. ANDERSON, sician and Surp-eon, WILSON, N. C. OB 'ri-' in Druir Stnre rm Ti-K- c wi 1U IIUI J wJl, ALBERT ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, WILSON, N. C. next door to the First Nati ona 1)R; E- Kr WRIGHT, Surgeon Dentist, Harin . c. in n. I off, h .wanently located in Wfl- fc public '"J P'oiessional services to S'Ofrice in Central Hotel Building- Sc ottandNeek Military School, OTLAJiD. XECK, N. C. erm IieSins January 25th, 1892. EAL THE SCHOOL FOR BOYS j gs ai"iedat: Health of body rlZl m6- Charges reasonable. Nation address w C. ALLEN 0HX )- couperT Supt. "LE & GSivitii "iS .iravf-ctr. o Hi "i'iO, etc, nu5r5ank St.. NO FOLK, VA. 1.,. 1i . " nte f0: prices. 5-14-iy. St.5CcntsPer hundred. r S0Marble Works ""son v . Gauze We I I I 1 l I Li II 0 "'WilUDfl, Ur-i rMLTop Never you mind the crowd, lad, Or fancy your life won't tell ; The work is the work for a' that, To him that doeth well. Fancy the world a hill, lad, Look where the millions stop ; You'll find the crowd at the base, lad, There's room always at the top. Courage and faith and patience, There's space in the old world yet, The better the chance you stand, lad, The further along you get. Keep your eyes on the goal, lad, Never despair or drop ; ' Be sure that your path leads upward, There's always room at the top. GOOD-BY, GOD BLUSS YOl". BY EUGENE FIELD. I like the Anglo Saxon speech With its direct revealings ; It takes a hold and seems to reach Far down into your feelings ; That some folks deem it rude, I know, And therefore they abuse it ; But 1 have never found it so, Before all else I chose it. I don't object that men should air The Gaelic they have paid for ; With "Au revoir," "Adieu, ma chere," For that's what French was made for. But when a erony takes your hand At parting to address you, He drops all foreign lingo, and He says, "Good-by, God bless you !" This seems to be a sacred phrase With reverence impassioned ; A thing come down from righteous days Cjuaintly, but nobly, fashioned. It well becomes an honest face, A voice that's round and cheerful ; It stays the sturdy in his place And soothes the weak and fearful ; Into the porches of the ears It steals with subtle unction, And in your heart of hearts appears To, work its gracious function ; And all day long with pleading song It lingers to caress you, I'm sure no human heart goes wrong That's told, "Good-by, God bless you!" O MOON, DON'T TELL. O moon, did you see My lover and me i In the valley beneath the sycamore tree? Whatever befell, Oh moon ! don't tell ; Twas nothing amiss, you- know well. very O moon ! you know, Long years ago, You left the skies and descended below. On a summer night, f By your own sweet light You met your Endymion on Patmos height. And then, O moon ! You gave him a boon You wouldn't, I'm sure, have granted at noon. 'Twas nothing amiss, Being only the bliss Of giving and taking and innocent kiss. Some curlish lout Who was spying about. Went off and babbled, and so it got otit; But for all the gold The sea would hold, O moon ! I wouldn't have gone and told. So, moon, don't tell Whatever befell My lover and me in the leafy dell. He is honest and true, And remember, too, He onry behaved like your lover an.d you. A MISS THAT WAS NOT ALL A MISS. She said farewell, and, saying this, we parted ; She called; me back and said fare well again ; . She kept this up until the train had started ; And thus tbrough sweet farewells I missed the train. The above is from Bro. Scott's spicy Topic, and everybody says Scott is 40 years old and a bachelor. No one would, believe he jcould be guilty of such foolishness, but he comes into court and pleads tmilty. He ought to be sentenced to married life for life if he can find a woman brave enough to marry such a sin ner. Ed.1 WHAT TO DECLARE FOR. What will the Democratic platform at- Chicago contain ? Well, good, old-fashioned Democratic doctrine will suit us. Tariff reform should be the chief plank. If we had to make the platform the following should be prominent : 1. Tariff reform, and plenty of it. 2. Silver on an equality with gold. 3. An economical administration. 4. No Federal interference in Elec tions. We could go before the people and win on such a platform. It is just what Democracy has stood Tor for the past quarter of a century. Jim Evans, editor of the Latta (S. C.) Sun, is kind enough to say : "There may be some better Dem ocratic newspapers in the South than The Wilson (N. C.) Advance, but il it is so we haven't seen them, and we take great pleasure in placing The Advance on our exchange list. We can remember when we used to work in its printing office, when it had the largest circulation in the State, and it looks that way now." The Advance is just a litde proud of itself these days, thank you. Proud of its circulation, its generous adver tisers, its growing constituency of rep resentative men, who are subscribers, and the kindly feeling they enter tain for it, and their appreciative pat ronage and support. When traveling, whether on pleas ure bent, or business, take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it acts most oleasantlv and effectively on the kidneys, liver and bowels, preventing fevers, headaches and other forms of j sickness. For sale in 50 cents and $ 1 bottles by all leading druggists. BILL ARP'S LETTER. THE GEORGIA CRACKER AND LIFE IN THE OLD DAYS. HIS A Product of the Georgia Hills Graphically Described Good People, But "Sot" iu Their Ways, the cracker is a lapse sometimes a relapse. It takes two or three genera tions to produce him. It has been often said of the negro, that but for his contact with the white man he would fall back in civilization and resume his ancestral barbarism. Environment has much to do with us all. It is easy to backslide in manners-and customs and language as it is in religion. The cracker is not an original institution. He is an Anglo Saxon lapse. A few years" ago while I was sojounng at Sanfor.d, in Florida, I heard General Iverson ask Major Marks if he had any yam potatoes to sell. "No," he said, "I have not, but if you will send a team down I will give you a wagon load of laps, but you will have to dig them." On in quiry I learned that laps were the volunteers, the uncultivated crop that comes from seed not planted, but left in the ground from the the crop of the preceding year. For want of cultivation they are scattering and stringy and lack good shape and flavor. They have matured outside of good potato society they have lapsed they are vegetable craekers. Not to go back in history further than my own time and recollections, let me venture upon some unoccupied territory and tell how Cherokee Georgia because the home of that much-maligned and misunderstood individaul known as the Georgia cracker. I have lived long in his re gion, and am close akin to him. There is really but little difference between the Georgia cracker and the Alabama or Tennessee cracker. They all have, or had, the same origin, and until the Appalachain range was opened up to the rest of mankind by railroads and the schoolhouse, these crackers had ways and usages and a language peculiarly their own. It will 1 e remembered that until 1835, the Cherokee Indians owned and occupied this region of Georgia the portion lying west of the Chatta hoochee and north of the Tallapoosa rivers. They were most peaceable and civilized of all the tribes, but they were not subject to Georgia laws, and had many conflicts and dis turbances with their white nabors. It seemed to be manifest destiny that they should go. "Go West, red man," was the white man's fiat. They went at the point of the bayonet, and all their beautiful country was sud denly opened to the ingress of whom soever might come. Georgia had it surveyed and divided into lots of forty acres and 160 acres, and then made a lottery and gave every man and widow and orphan child a chance in the drawing. The rude, untamed and restless people from the moun tain borders of Georgia and the Caro linas flocked hither to pursue their wild and fascinating occupation ot hunting and fishing for a livelihood. They came separately, but soon assimilated and shared a common interest. There are such spirits in every community. There are some right here now who would rather go up to Cohutta moun tains on a bear hunt than to go to New York or Paris for pleasure. I almost would myself, and I recall earnest cravings' of my youth to go West and find a wilderness, and with my companions live in a hut and kill deer and turkeys, and sometimes a bear and a panther. But for my town raising and old field school education, I, too, would have made a very respectable cracker. This was the class of young men and middle-aged that first settled, climbed these mountians and fished in these streams, By and by the fortunate owners of these lands received their certificates and many of them came from all parts of tde State to look up their lots and see how much gold or how much bottom land tbere was upon them, but gold was the principal attraction. The Indians had found gold and washed it out ol the creeks and branches and traded it in small parcels to the white man, and it was believed that every stream was lined with golden sand. This proved an illusion, and so the squatters were not disturbed, or else they bought their titles for a song and then sang "sweet home" of their own. They built their cabins and cleared their lands and raised the scrub cattle, and with their old-fashioned rifles kept the family in game. Many of these settlers could read and write, but in their days there was but little to read. No newspapers and but few books were found bv the hunter's fireside. Their children grew up the some way, but what they lacked in culture they supplied in rough experiences and hair-breadth escapes and fireside talks, and in sports that were either improvised or inherited. Pony races, gander pul lings, shooting matches, 'coon hunt ing and quiltings had more attrac tions than books. How they got to using such twisted language as you'uns and we'uns and inguns and mout and gwine and all sich is not L known, nor was such talk universal. When such idioms began in a family they descended and spread out among the kindred, but it was not contagious. I know one family now of very extensive connections who have a folklore of their own, and it can be traced back to the old ancestor who died half a century ago. But these corruptions of language are by no means peculiar to the cracker, for the Enelish cockneys and the genuine Yankee have an idiom quite as eccentric, though they do not realize it and would not admit it The Georgia cracker was a merry- hearted, unconcerned, independent creature, and all he asked was to be let alone by the laws and the outside world. The justice court of his beat was quite enough limitation for him. He had far more respect for the old spectacled 'squire than for the highest court in the nation. From this home made tribunal he never appealed until the lawyer began to figure in it, and seduced him into the mysteries of the law and the wouderful perform ances of the writ of "sasherary." Nevertheless they looked upon law-. yers as suspects and parasites, and their descendants have the same opinion still. 1 he old squire was specially "foment" them, and looked 1 upon the sasherary as an insult to his judicial capacity. Sometimes he would let two young limbs of the law argue a case before him for half an hour, and then quietly remark : "Gentlemen, I judgnpenticated this case last night at home," and would proceed with his docket. That old 'squire and the preacher were quite enough to pilot these people through and across the dark river. i t, , 1 , ,, I 1 hese rough, rude people were the , r .' 1 nM ongmal Georgia crackers. 1 hey con- , , ,R ;fl, stituted a large proportion 01 the population of Cherokee half a century " v ir ago. They were generally poor, but they enioved life more than they did J ' T, -ii 1 money. I hey were sociable and mey. i ney they were kind. When one of their number was sick they nursed him when he died they dug a grave and buried him, and that was the end of the chapter. There was no tombstone, no epitaph, no obituary. Their class is fast disappearing from our midst. Civilization had encroach ed upon them, and now their children and their children's children have assimilated with a higher grade of humanity. It was among these untutored people that I cast my professional fortunes about forty-two years ago. I had been studying law about two months and was admitted on the sly on promise of the future diligence or rather upon the idea that if any body was fool enough to employ me it was nobody else's business. An other young man of my age was admitted at the same time and he knew less of law if possible than I did. I remember that the first case we had was up in Shake-rag dis trict where two nabors had fallen out because one had accused the other of stealing his hog. And so he sued him in the justice's court for $30 worth of slander, My brother Alex ander, was employed for the plain tiff and I foi the defendant. I dident know that a justice court had no jurisdiction over a slander case. My brother Alexander, dident know it. The jury dident know it. I rather suspect that the old 'squire knew it but he wasent the man to limit his ow n consequence and so we roiled up our sleeves and waded in. My brother Alexander, made a fine il- .1,,, tn rh.t irv ahnirt I the value of a man's character how 1 dear it was to him and his wife and his children and how it should be transmitted down the line from generation to generation pure untar nished by the foul breath ol" slander. And he closed his speech with an extract from Shapes peare, wherein he said, "He who steals my purse steals trash, but he who filches from me my good name takes that which does not enrich him but makes me poor indeed." I was very much alarmed and very much impressed with his eloquence, and so I concluded that my very best chance was to ridicule the whole business and laugh it out of court if I could, and I told that jury in con clusion that it was impossible for my client to slander anybody for he had no character of his own to begin with, and nobody would believe anything he said whether he was on oath or off oath. The old 'squire charged the jury to weigh all the evidence and to agree on a verdik if they could, and if they couldn't then they mout split the difference and compromise. Thejury retired to a log near by and cussed and discussed the matter and joked and carried on powerful, and in about an hour came back with this verdict, "We, the jury, find for the plaintiff two dollars and a half, onless the de fendant will take back what he said." Well, I dident exactly know wheth er I had gained the case or lost it, but I took my client out doors and advised him to take it back and save the cost. He finally consented to do this, but said he had hearn that thev was gwine to make him sign a lie-bill and he'd be dingnation dadburned if he would do it. So we returned to the seat of war and I stated to his honor that my client had concluded to accept the suggestion of the jury and would take back what he said. The old 'squiie congratulated us on our disposition to peace and har mony and just then my client stretched forth, his hand and said : "But, 'squire, if I take back what I said, I want it understood that he must bring my hog back." The next question that came was who should pay the cost. I con tended that my client had complied with the verdik of the jury and was not bound for the cost. My brother Alexander contended that he corn- plied a little too late ; that he had to be sued to make him comply, and therefore he was bound for the costs, The old 'squire seemed muddled over I the question, and finally said that he would leave it to the jury. So they retired to the log again, and in about five minutes, came back with this ; verdik : "We, the jury, find that the lawyers shall pay the cost." Well, I thought it was all right and I think so yet. I planked up my dollar and my brother Alexander paid his and we mounted our horses and rode home covered with dust and glory and glory was all we ever received from our clients. Bill Arp. AS TO POLITICS. Senator Voorhees will place ex Gov. Gray in nomination for Presi dent before the Chicago convention. The Grimesland Alliance of Pitt county, denounce President Butler for proscribing such Allianceinen, as will not accept the St. Louis demands 1 1 1 1 V 1 1 1 dim mat tne ucaw demands are enougn lor me finance, A reporter of the New York World Tuesday sent to Mr. Cleveland a copy of a statement by Henry Watterson that Grover Cleveland was preparing a letter of withdrawal. Mr. Watter- son's statement was returned, with the following in Mr. Cleveland's hand- writing on the back : "I have nothing to say upon the subject." t, c . ... c ,. .. a r . . 1 he following is the full hstofdel- ". c -cr, i egates from this State to the Repub- ,- . 1 hcan Convention at Minneapolis : At , n . r . 1 Jarge, n. r. vmeainam, 1. rmcn- IS. A. White, and J. C. Dancy. First n,Y-f.-w r it i,.. -,1 1 u u n , A aittt Cole; Second, C. A. Cook, J. H. TI , , - 0 . J, . iiannon; lmru, vj. v. ocuriocK, . R. Middleton, Fourth, E. A.John son, John Nichols (seat contested bv John H. Williamson); Fifth, J. H. Cheek, T. B. Keogh ; Sixth, Archi bald Brady, J. H. Young, Seventh, Z. V. Walser, W. A Bailey ; Eighth, L. L. Jenkins, and J. O. Wilcox ; Ninth, R. W. Harris, C. . Logan. These are all instructed to vote for Harrison first, last, and all the time. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physi cians, as the damage they will dois ten fold to the good you can possibly de rive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and is made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. C3FSold by druggist, price 75c. per bottle. AN INTERESTING RUMOR That Cleveland is About to Withdraw Favur of Campbell of Ohio. Washington, May nth, '92. A Columbus, O., special to theEven ing Star, says : "Ex-Gov. Campbell has received some news which has caused a flurry among his political friends here. There was a hurried conference l his confidential advisers, to whom he conhded his telegram and asked their advice. It was decided that the sit uation in the East regarding the Democratic Presidential nomination was such as to make it advisable for the ex Governor to be on hand to look after his interest, and he will probably leave for New York to-day, or as soon as he can his business in terest to be absent. It is understood that the ex-Governor has been in formed that Mr. Cleveland has be come convinced that it will be impos sible for either Hill or himself to carry New York, and that a new candidate must be selected, and that he had determined to write a letter to this effect, and it will shortly ap pear. In that letter he will discreet ly allude to the troubles of New York Democracy, and gracefully withdraw from the race, but in doing so will place the tariff question at the front as the issue of the day, and deprecate the discussion of the silver question at this time. No reference to the candidate will be made in the letter, but it is understood that Mr. Cleve land will quietly throw all his influ ence to ex-Gov. Campbell, whom he admires alike for his personal quali ties and political opinions." Now this just suits us exactly. We have no candidate for President. We admire Gov. Campbell. He is a brilliant man, and last year made a magnificent fight in Ohio. If he is nominated and D. B. Hill put on as his running mate, they will sweep the country. We can do much worse. Ed. State of Ohio, city ol Toled, ) Lucas county. f FrankJ. Cheney makes oath that lie is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the city ot loledo, county and Mate atore said, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of Decem ber, A. U., 1886. A. VV. GLEASON, Notary Public. The man that looks at everything through money never sees very far. C A Thompson, Seymour, Indiana, Writes ; My sister Jennie, when she was a young girl, suffered from white swelling, which greatiy impaired her health and made her blood very im pure. In the spring she was not able to do anything and could scarcely get about. More than a year ago she took three bottles of Botanic Blood Balm, and now she is perfectly cured." When a nrettrv crirl discovers that she is pretty she loses her greatest I charm. Atchison Globe. NEWS OF A WEEK. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WOULD AROCTND VS. A Condensed Report or the News Our Contemporaries Gleaned Hei There For llusy Readers. From ami A tree in Salisbury, which takes a smoke every morning after dinner, is exciting the Herald man. Dunn, N. C, has a man who can e, t 6 dozen eggs for brea&ast in ad d ion to some shad and coffee, so tfia limes expects us to believe. A hen belonging to Mr. J. R. Ide, y. iterday presented him an eesr with j the letters I. S. nlainlv raised on the smaller end. Salisbury Herald. - E. F. Moore, the ex-President of the People's Bank of Eayetteville, was convicted last week and ' sen tenced to five years in the peniten tiary. I The Smithfield Herald is 1 1 years ; old, and is improving as it goes along- i We wish it many prosperous returns of its happy birthday. C. D. Wilkins, the R. & I), agent at Wilkins, is in trouble. He spent $300 dollars of the Company's money for green goods. He has been ar rested. John Dnrr and Furhian Tudor, two young men of Goldsboro, who are old enough to know better, wore fooling with a gun that wasn't loaded last week, when it went off, uid Durr's face was filled with bird shot. He narrowly escaped instant death. Cards are out announcing the mar riage of Miss Mary Deshazo to Mr. George P. Pell, of the Mt. Airy News. The marriage is to take place on the 25th, inst., at Glendale, Spencer county, Va., the home of the bride. Among the North Carolinians who passed away in the month of April, we mention Cant Augustus Landis. Rev. Dr. B. F. Marable, Rev. J. J. James, Rev. Dr. Aristides S. Smith, Richard Bradley, Capt. Benj. W. Beery and Nathaniel Alexander. Messenger. The will of the late Robt. S. Moran, of New York, bequeathed Si, 000 each to Dr. C. F. Deems and Rev. J. R. Wilson, of Clarksville, Tenn., provided they attended his funeral as they had promised many years ago when they were boys. The strange lact is, that, although thcy knew nothing of the will, they both attended, and will be paid the money. Harnett county is boasting of the most industrious woman so far on re cord. Some four years ago Mrs. Lucy McLeod, of Neil's Creek township, did most of the work on building herself a comfortable little house. This winter she has clone all the necessary ditching on her fai was some 8ooor 1,000 yard she has split a number of repaired the old fences. Gov. Holt has appointet lowing -delegates from this th national silver coftvi shington, D. C, May 2 which At 1 lare. VV. A. Oliver, C ). Sim ri si Lustnct, riarry oKinner, b. Sprusll; Second, Frank Barnes, E Carr ; Third, F. M. Simmons, Makeley ; Fourth, W F. Green, H. Merntt; Fifth, A. J. Boyd, J Lockhart ; Sixth H. B. Short, R Waring ; Seventh, J. B. Holman, J. Holmes; Feighth,J. W. Alspau Jias P. A. gh, Fifer Ef win ; Ninth, W. F. Breese, M. C. Toms. Mondays morning of last week, H. W. Dupree of Edgecombe county, arose from bed, awoke his wife and told her he was going to set fire to a stack of fodder near by. His wife tried to reason with him, but it was of no avail. I le left the house, and in a few minutes the fodder stack was in a blaze, and his barn a short dis tance off, was beginning to catch. Mrs.' Dupree ran out and managed to save only one buggy from the conflagration. Mr. Dupree gave no assistance, but sat on the doorsteps of bis dwelliug, apparently well pleas ed with the work he had done. He is believed to be insane. A Iislif ui-m! l'nu!en:niff. Many people who woul 1 scarcely notice an armless or legless man will instantly detect and remark 011 any blemish of the human face, and dive into all sorts of speculations as to its cause anil attendant circumstance's. If you doubt this assertion become pos sessed of a disordered optic and note how much attention it will invite. A black eye is generally avoidable, but blotches, pimples, and other scrofulous and eruptive marks steal upon us without warning, and are frequently the first intimation of the tact . that ( mt blood is going wrong. A prompt and systematic ese of P P P (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium), will purify the blood, cleanse the skin and give back to the face natures familiar, ru r v sins gist. of health. Get drug There is often more religion in a smile than there is in a tear. Associate Justir- Davis, of '. C. Supreme Court, says : . Dear Miss Tillinghast: Yours of the 12th is received, and I cheerfully an swer by saying that 1 have Leer, much benefitted by the use of the Electropoise. I .suffered from a severe and long continued attack of he Grippe, followed by rheumatism in neck and shoulders. I commenced the use of the Electropoise in October last, and my rheumatic pains ceaseel imme diately, and I think my health and feelings have been much improved by its use. Very trulv yours, JOS. j. DAVIS. Louisburg, N. C, Jan 15th, 1892 Mr. who Hinton Reams, aged S3 yearSj lived near Stem, Granville countv. went out in the woods and shot himself through the head. Death was instantaneous. Young - Are making a great display of all kinds of suitable for Spring and Summer, and you will to your advantage to examine these styles, qualities and price - before doing your shopping. Clothir Half tii. men are not just abour h Je a donkey t throws you. put up wit better to a ho'-se ti taming, -V they are - streak vommon sense clears the atmosphere like a streak'' of lightning. For common sense buyers we have a common sense suit. It's just the thing to buy now ; it's just the thing to .vear now fit's better tKii - ,1 . . ' 1 -- man uiusL anct 11 b d..S 'way down. We will will come and see us. IT IT New m iwear. We have just received a large shipment of Men's Neckwear. Elegant goods, new shades and latest shades. AsCots Puffs Wide lour-in-hands, bows and ties. There the county the choice. oee our Some of Remember The Candle Will be lighted on the 30th of this month. You get a guess tree of charge with every purchase. If you are a good guesser you may get a nice suit or dress free of charge. , Respectfully, YOUNG BROS. v(r;c iv. days eek; that's unless i 1 steal from four bu ess require- ther ; or money, r gave :t with mo id get int. , nesty and son itnin; less profit finish this v or forever : in it. reek po and v. h Y' you can t stp until next, it s cs out over sav, off and put 1 tne end 01 tne year in the stove, writes R. .-it J. Bur- dette in his department "From a New Inkstand" in the March Ladies' Home journal. Four seasons have passed and that's all there is. You must make a fresh start every year. It isn't an easy matter to learn it sometime, either before you die or when you die ; why not learn early and get the good and the comfort of it ? Everyday of my life the evening is apt to find something on my pro gramme that I haven't got to. I say, "Maybe I wont do that to-morrow," and as a rule I don't, i go to sleep and forget about it. Every year closes with uncompleted work on my hands, and that year ends that work. I'm not going to drag it along with me into a new year. 1 used to do that, so that about half the time I was working weeks ago instead of to day.and dragging.wearisome business inaugurated by the present Reprwli it was. When you die there will be can administration. unfinished work and ravc!ed-out plans on your hands. Then what are ytiu going to do ? Take it to heaven with you and bother and drag along with it there? Not much you won't, Well, then, why not learn to drop some of it here? It is a lesson not so easily learned, !but, once learned, it is more refreshing than a glass of cool milk to the lips of the man with the grip. C ( 'J C - ... Cf ; G mm. :5 V t M AW 31 : - Bros. oods fid it cr llf suited in suits. They C their money's worth. It's iat carries you safely than Fairy stories are enter :o be taken seriously. A no gOOU US any. KJUV priCCS save you some money it are vou Tecks, Regular four-in-hands, is no sunerior line shown in necRwear window 15c. these scarfs are worth 75c. 1 . 1 ------ gets C WARREN . 1:. VV ARREN RE INSURANCE AGENTS, iccessors to H. F. BriggS & Co.,) Ui ICE OVER FIRST NAT. BANK., WILSON, N. C. Ve purpose giving the busiv 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 the world. We want your in surance. Come to see us. How is Tli i- ? The Elizabeth City North Carolin ian reports that at the convention of the Republicans of the first district the following resolutions, offered by C. M. Barnard, of Pitt, were adopted : "Resolved, That we hereby ap prove and endorse the McKlnley bill and the doctrime ot Reciprocity as Resolved 2d, 1 fiat we are in sym- pathy with the fight now being made by the Farmers' Alliance in the State of North Carolina lor free political liberty and honest elections in the State of North Carolina." Is this on a line with the meeting held the evening of May 12th, at Wil- mington between certain Third party schemers and some Republicans ? Is . there a "combine ?" Ladies Sometimes object to a Pipe, and every one ob jects to a Bad Cigar. You can smoke OLD VIRGINIA CHEROOTS . ith perfect satisfaction oth to yourself and lends, as their aroma is jusl to the Best Cigar. IVE for TEN CENTS. ) ) g