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PARTING AND MEETING-
One by one the links are broken,
Link that bind life's precious yew ;
One by one the partings spoken,
Parting hushed In silent tears ;
But the alienee hear the greeting
From the far-off ninny slioro,
Where the links each other meeting,
Are a brokeu chalu no more.
One by one each aoul tucendlug,
Lifts, us to a higher life,
Kacli with other, closer blending,
Stills the murmur and the strife,
Anil their volco sweetly calling-
Touch ua like a household psalm,
And their blessings softly falling
Soothe us like a sabbath's calm.
On by one the leved are leaving,
Hut return an angola fair,
Heavenly splendor round thetn weaving
Willi (he human looks they wear ;
All the past those looka restoring
Childhood, youth and riper years,
How can grief, their los deploring,
Mmgcr ask the heart tor tear.
One by one, above us bending,
("loser draw its daye decrease ;
Watch and wait with lore's dear tending,
Watch and wait our glad release ;
Hutids aro neartlielr final grasping,
Reaching through the parting vale ;
Hearts aro near their final clasping
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THE DOUBLE CABIN.
From the Danbury Reporter.
It is not generally known perhups
that tlicre stands away umone the
Buck Inland hills, and within almost
a stone's throw of the beautiful Dan,
a double-cabin that is known to a few
I in that immediate section a the
haunted house, where onco a year
on Christmas Evo night, at any hour
between 11 o'clock and day break
Christinas morning may ho heard the
sweetest notes of the violin and the
I regular step of the merry dancers keep
hit: time to the music.
It was in 18G-. There had been
what is kuowu as a conscript meeting
in Danbury. 1 ho day was cold and
dreary ; the lowering clouds that hung
around the lolty peaks ot the mountain
una the keen north-east wind, tuld of
the cominir snow storm. Amid the
''roup that huddled around the court
house stove, where the. conscripting,
w.ib a tall, dark-complexioned lemale,
rith ever as black as a coal and pier
cm" as inc nsn-nawt s. one sioou
around, looked and listened, yet said
ut little. Un more than one oecasion
Nhe was seen to leave the conscript
room and walk leisurely toward the
grove at the west end ol the village,
where sho was loined by a beardless
youth whose very appearance showed
him to be accustomed to Hardships,
and almost as fleet of foot as the red
fox. After a few moments spent in
low conversation they would separate,
when the youth would bound away to
ward the mountain, ami the young
woman would return to where the
couseriDtiuu1 was fromcr. on. All day
Ions the hoo, hoo, hoot ot tue nig owl
eould be heard reverberating along the
sides ot tho mountain Irani a point
within half of a milo of the courthouse
to the summit of Moore's Knob. That
"hoot, hoof'was' tho signal used by
the deserters to notily their comrades
that no danger threatened them, lhe
dark-eyed young woman was tho spy
and sweetheart ot the leader ot the
band of deserters. Tho beardless youth
was her brother, and tho courier of
the band.
The conscripting was over, tho ofli
cers left town in the direction of
Greensboro, and the people and Homo
Guard returned to their respective
homes
This was Christmas Evo night ; ar
rangements had been made for a grand
gathering aud jollification to the double-cabin,
which was at that time the
home of an old man near seventy-five
years of age, an old woman probably
ten years younger, the dark-eyed spy
and the beardless youth. A treineu-
'Tib 11 o'clock, and while without
the storm and hail rattled among tho
dead leaves, and the wind howled
around the corners of the cabin, all
within was joy, comfort and glee, Dut
hush 1 A 'chicken' is discovered to
bo torn from between the cabin logs,
and the muz.les of several muskets
simultaneously appear through the
pening. In a nash, tu a twinkling,
11 is confusion. Kach deserter rushes
for his gun, when. bovo the screams
of women and the howling of the
storm, the report of fire-arms is heard;
the cabin is filled with smoke and the
fumes of burnt powder; tho leader of
the mind, with a bullet through his
head, lies a lifeless corpse upon tho
floor, while across his breast ti.o dark
eyed spy, hi sweetheart und aflianeed,
is gasping for breath, an, accidental
shot having pierced her heart. It was
but the work of a moment, lhe de-
sorters, grabbing their arms, swarm
from tho cabin liko bees from a hive.
I'lio Home Guard, finding tl'at they
aie out-numbered, fly in every direc
tion, while tho shots from tho desert-
rs' guns, without aim, are hied in the
storm.
Tho scene of confusion is over, when
once more tho deserters return to the
cabin, where but an hour ago joy and
glee reigned. All is now wrapped in
loom and sadness. Tis far past mid
night ; the storm is unabated, but
Rometliinsr must bo done. As it
seemed to have been the policy of all
who opposed the Luntedcracy to con
ceal as much as posaiblo their losses
in battles from "bush whackers or
Homo Guards, with an old hoe and
shovel that happened to be in the
chimney corner, a shallow grave was
soon dug, and the lovers, wrapped in
an old blanket, with the snow lor a
windni2 sheet, and the storm howl
ing their funeral dirge, were buried
eido by side in the same grave on the
point of a ridge not far from the cabin,
where tho beautitul Han murmurs its
everlasting requiem in hearing of their
unmarked grave, lhe tailing snow
soon obliterated all signs of animated
life. The band separated, eoinu to
their respective haunts. Tho old cabin
yet stands, but is long since deserted.
The stick chimney has ''tumbled down,
the gables have caved in, and ln
roof lets in tho sunshine aud
tho rain," vet at any hour Christmas
eve niu'ht between 11 o clock and day
break Christmas moriiiiip;. it is said
that in that, old cabin the notes of the
violin and the regular step ot merry
lancers may bo heard keeping tune to
the music.
LOVE'S THOUGHTFULNESS.
"Shall yon miss me, sweetheart !"
George W. Simpson was going far away to
the trackless solitudes of St. Louis, and when
he had told Daphne McCarthy of his Intended
Journey the girl had spoken not a word, bat
laid her head geutly on Lis shoulder aud wept
ns If her heart were breaking.
Bat when he asked her the question with
which this chapter opens, the Utile head, with
Its coronal of Huffy brown hair, had risen slow
ly, and the pansy brow u eyes of the girl had
looked into his and gleamed with the ll'lit of
love that could never die.
"Shall I miss you ?" she clod, despairingly
"Alt ! yes, surely enough. Hut you v.uiuot
understand this. No man can feel the loss ot
kisses and love words as a woman can, nor
hate the slowcreeplng wakeful nights aud the
gray dawns that come with no promise
stroug arms and a loving heart and words
courage; and the windy sunsets that die away
on a day that has held no beauty or bright
ness. No man can fuel the deadly hunger In
lime of famine that a woman feels when lave
that always beckons and allures her la out of
reach of her longing hands and loving lips." '
"But I shall not he gone so very long, dar-
llng," whispered George, "and 1 have told the
candy man to let you have wlulever you want
on my account."
"You have done this?" asks the girl, put
ting her dimpled srms around his neck.
"Yes," was :li" reply.
"Then," said 1) iphne, the wistful look gone
from her fuee, "yuu cannot start too soon."
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ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY.
TALMAOB'S ADVICE REGARDING TUB MERCHANT,
TUB NEWSPAPER MAS, TUB LAWYER, AND TI1B
DOCTOR.
"If there be roam for only one more passen
ger In the life-boat, get In yourself. If there
be a burden to lift, you supervise while others
shoulder It. You be the digit, while others are
ciphers on tho right-baud side; nothing In
themselves, but used to augment you. This,"
said Hev. T. DeWItt Tahnage last Butiday
morning, "Is tu opposition to that theory of
the Gospel advanced by Paul, 'Bear ye one an
other's burdens.' Everybody has burdens,
Sometimes the burdens came down on the
shoulders, or tho head, or the heart. Looking
over this assemblage, you all seem well look
ing, hut each of you has I burden, and some of
you havo more than you ran lift. Taul pre
poses to split up these burdens Into fragments,
you to take pi t of my burden and I part of
yours. When Mrs. Appleton, daughter ot
D.i n lei Wehsler, was dying, she affected the
great lawyer to tears by hr Ihou-hlfiilness (or
bis health, as she remurked that he was out on
cold day without bis overcoat. How murli
more beautiful the care ot others than this
everlasting taking care ot ourselves 1 Wh it
you and I most uecd to leant Is the spirit ot
helpfulness.
Encourage the merchant, If he has a super
ior stylo of goods, or If his clerks have adorned
his show window. You need not fear that he
will bo pulled up and arrogant. Ho will have
plenty of trouble before the day Is out. Sonio
cranky woman will come In and pull down
goods enough to lit out a family (or a whiter
aud not buy a cent's worth, Don't bo afraid
that your praise will make the merchant apo
plectic with plethora. Encourage the news
paper man. Do you know how many annoy
ances he suffers? Have you understood how
often his best and most clatiorntu article Is
flung out; how he must repoit an Indistinctly
uttered speech which must of uecessity bo all
the way through a stenographic guess? Think
whal, the nineteenth century would be without
tho newspaper. Encouragu mechanics; praise
them If they do their work well. If ho does
not get hla work done It may bo because his
wife has bend sick, he has lost two children of
scarlet fever or has a felon on his linger.
"Encourage the fanner. It Is a common re
mark that lhe farmer is iudepundciit. Inde
pendent of what? Iudependei.t ot the rutin
his wheat ? Independent ot tho grasshopper,
the locust, the army-worm, and the potato
bug? Independent of the storm that blows
down his crop, of the snowbank that buries
him until he BlioVcIs his way out? Indepen
dent ot frozeu cars aud frozen (eet ?
"Encourage the doctor. There Is a great
deal of cheap, wit about the doctors. A man
recently wrote a book, 'Every Man His Owu
Doctor.' He ought to (wrllo another. 'Every
Man Ills Own I'nderlaker.' Doctors have so
many hardships and annoyances that they need
our encouragement. They stand between our
families and the grave.
"One day there was a dreadful foreboding In
our house. All hope was gone. The doctor
came (our times. The children put away their
their toys. We all walked on tiptoe, aud at
tho least sound said 'Hush 1' How loudly the
clock ticked '. How tho baulsler creaked, al
though we tried to keep It still ! The doctor
came (our times aud staved all tilght. Al last
the restless palieut s:iuk into a sweet aluuibtr,
ami the doctor looked up aud stid, 'The crisis
has passed.' We propped her up with pillows
aud easy chairs, and tho south wind tried to
blow Msu leaves into her faded check, aud the
hlldren brought flowers, and when the doctor
'old us I hat In a day or two Bertha could rido
out, oh, how life came back to our house, and,
as we helped the old doctor Into his gig, wc
nollcol not that his step was brokeu.
"Encourage the lawyer. They aro so often
cheated out of their tees, so often have lo bear
ponderous responsibilities, aud have to uiain-
talu the dignity of their profession against the
sharks of the profession. The only man al
lowed to stand on Sinai bestdo the Lord was
Moses, the lawyer.
"Encourage tho teachers. Don't cnt down
their salaries when you begin to retrench
Don't expect them lo work the great stulllng
machine of the modern school successfully
without encouragement. Tbey are expected to
take children of fifteen and make tUcin me
taphysicians, mathematicians, aud rhetori
cians.
"Encourage iilUlck people. Dou'l tell lliein
how bad they look, I ut remind them of similar
CUUTUBRN a 0 X K Jj,
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n. B. DICKENS, Proprietor,
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I HALIFAX, N. C.
Refitted, repainted and thoroughly arranged
or eomfort. Table supplied from Norfolk
ad Wilmington markets' Uood servants aud
Bod fare. Comfortable rooms for all.
on
ie also a Livery Statdc, where horses are
otly attended to, vehicles nirea out
able terms to partlos wishing theoi
ilf
- i
dous log firo was roaring and popping
in the wide slick and fire place. Dark
ness had shut out almost the last ray
of daylight, when from the deep ra
vines among the linen island mils ana
mountain rroraos. tho deserters began
to assemble, not a few accompanied I y
their swert'iearta while each and every
one carried in his hand or strapped
across his shoulder an army gun or
his trusty squirrel ritlo. As was their
custom, tho tirst thing done after as
sembling and heforo depositing their
arms at u convenient place to come at
in case of an attack by the Homo
Guard they placed pickets on all tlie
roads and by paths leading to the
building. .
It is a o'clock; the fiddler has ar
rived ; the supper of hog and hominy,
pumpkin pie, etc., is over ; the old
t wo handled demijohn, filled with pure
Buck Island applejack, has had due
attention, and the danoo is aiout to
commence. Out of doors the darkness
is intense, the wind is piercing, and
the snow just beginning to fall. The
leader of tho band, who had seen some
real service in tamp life, called around
him a few of his companions, who,
after a short consultation, conclude
that no Home Guard would venture
out on such a nirrht, and sent round
and the pickets in, and they soon join
their companions around the blazing
fire. I3en Johnnet never made sweeter
music on his old time-worn violin, and
never did an assembly apparently en
joy themselves more, as' the feet of
merry dancers kept time to the music,
and the howling storm outside falsely
assured them of their safety,
A MEAN MAN'S THOUGHT.
Burdelte or the Burlington Ihtwkcije gives his
notion about a mean mm :
Sometime 1 wonder what a mean man
thinks about when he goes to bed, when he
turns out the light and lies duwu. When dark
ness closes about him und he is alone, and
compelled to be honest with hlmaelf. And not
a bright thought, not a generous liupu.se not a
manly act, nor a word of blessing not a grace.
ful look, eoiues tu bless him again. Not a
li.'unv drouoed into the outstretched palm of
p iverty, nor the bairn of the spoken wur.l
dropped Into an aching heart; no sunbeam of
encouragement cast upon a struggling lite; the
strung right hand ot fellowship reached out to
help some fallen man to his feet wheu uoue
ot these I lungs coma to him as til "God bless
you" of the departed day, how he must bale
hin.self. How he niuii try to roll aw.,y from
himself and sleep on the other tide of th.i bed.
When lliu only victory he can think ot Is some
victory in which he has wruuged a fellow
ueigbbor. No wonder be always sueers wheu he
tries to smile. How pure and (air and good
ail the rest of the world must look to him, and
cheerless and uud dusty aud dreary must bis
own path appear. Why one lone Isolated act
of ineimncfs is enough to scatter cracker
crumbs in tho bed of lhe average, ordinary
man. and what must bo thu feeling of a man
whose whole life is given up to nieaa acta
Where there Is so much suftciiug and heart
ache and misery In th world anyhow, why
should you add one pound ut wickedness or
sad ness to the guueral burdeu. Don't be mean
hi buy. Sutler tolas lee a thousand times
rather thun comtnU it once.
cases that you have se.cn cured. Chcerlttl
words are more stimulating than cognac, tunic,
or bitters. Encourage young men sturtiug in
business by reminiscences ol your own exper
ience. You who are established In business re
member what you went through.
'It you have nothing to say that Is encour
aging put your teeth tight together, cover
them with the curtain of your lips, press your
lips tiitht, aud hold your hand over your mouth
aud keep still I A man once bought some
caged birds, aud Immediately opened tho doors
of tho caue and set the birds at llhcrty. 'What
did you do that for ?' asked a bystander. 'B
causu I was a captive ouco myself and I know
how good it Is to be tree.' tiuv. Alexander
II. Stepheiis, on bis dentil bed, signed the par
don of an iMifortuti.ite rtmuu w! In
prison, and wheu ho was about to do it a friend
said to him, 'lioveruor, this Is too great a rc-
siiunslhiMi v for a sick man. You am very si k
to-day; you bad better wait until to-morrow
is it Uo. snrpheiis said, 'I Kuow whal 1 am
about, and tho slgilatuie to that pardon was
ln last signature he ever wrote Surelv If
Christ bore our burdens we can afford to bear
each other's burdens."
The body is a tool of the spirit, und If we
keep it in imperfect condition, how shall either
soul or Intclltct do good work with it? Hap
piness and usefulness aro not indued Impossi
ble wilbout physical health; but they are ot
very difficult attainment and ot very unreliable
quutv.
A Love Lettkr. "Dearest Amelia : My love
18 stronger than the smelt at coffeo, patent
butter, or the kick of a young cow. Sensations
at exquisite Joy Joy go through mo like co
horts of suts through an army cracker and
caper over my heart like young goats on, a
stable roof. 1 feel as it I could lift myself by
my boot straps, lo the, height of a church
steeple, or like an old stage-horse In a green
pasture. As, the (mean pup hankers after
sweet ' milk, so do 1 hanker after
your presence. Aud as the gosling swlmmeth
lu a mud puddlo, so do I swim In a sea otde
lighlfulness wbcu you are near mo, My heart
flops up and down liko a churn dasher, und
my eyes stand open like cellar doors lu a country
town; aud If my love Is not reciprocated, I will
pine away and die like a poisoned bed bug, and
you can come and catch a cold on my grave."
HIS MA DECEIVED HIM.
"Give me ten cents' worth of saffron, quick,"
said the bad boy to the groceryman, as lie
came In the grocery on a gallop, early one
morning, with uo collar on, and no vest. He
looked as though he had been routed out of
bed In a hurry and had Jumped Into his pants
and boots and put ou bis coat and hat on the
run.
"I don't keep saffron," said the groceryman,
as he picked, up a barrel of axe -handles the
bny had tipped over In his hurry. Yon wsnt
to go over to the drug-store on the corner, If
you want saffron. Rut what on earth Is the
mat-"
At this point the boy shot out ot the door,
lipped over a basket of white beans, and dlsop
pi'ar4 in the drug.sloro. The groceryman
got down ou his knees en tho sidewalk and
scooped up the beans, occasionally looking
ever lo thu drug-store, and Just as he got them
picked up lhe boy came out e( the drag-store
and walked deliberately towards his home, as
though there was uo particular hurry, fho
groceryman looked after blm, took up an axe
handle, spit on his hands and shouted to the
boy to come over pretty soon, as he wanted to
talk with lilin. The boy did not come to the
grocery till lowarda night, but the grocery man
had seen him running down a dozen times a
day, and onco he rode up to tho house with
the doctor, mid the grocer surinl-ed what wB
the trouble. Along towards night thu boy
came lu In a dejected sort of a tired way, sat
down on a burrpl of sugar, and never spoke.
"What Is it, a boy or a girl ?" said the gro
ceryman, winking at an old laciy Willi a snawi
otcr her head, who was trying to hold a paper
over a pitcher of yeast with her thumb.
"How lu bluaes did you kuow anything
about it?" said the boy as he looked around In
astonishment aud with some Indignation,
Well, It's a girl, if you must know, and that's
enough," and he looked down at tho cat play
Ing on the floor with a potato, his (ace a pic
ture ot dejection.
"Oh, don't feel bad about It," said Urn gro
ccryuian, as ho opened the door for tho old
lady, "duch things are bound to occur. But
you take my word (or it, that young ono Is
going to hate a hard life unless yon mend your
ways. You will bu using It for a cork to a Jug,
or to wad a gun with the Hist thing your ma
knows."
"I wouldn't touch the darn thing with the
tongs," said the boy, as he rallied enough to
eat some crackers and cheese. "Gosh, this
cheese tastes good. I hain't had nothing to
cat since morning. I have becu all over this
town trolling for nurses. They think a boy
hasn't got any feelings, But I wouldn't care a
gol dam It ma hadn't been sendln!; mo (or
neuralgia medicine, and hay fever stuff all
winter, wheu she wanted to get rid f me. I
have come In tho room lots ot times when ma
and the sewing girl wcro at work on some Ban
lie I thlrgs, mill ma would hide them In a basket
and sctiJ me oft atler medicine. I was de
ceived up to (our o'clock this morning, when
pa come to my loom and pulled me out of bed
to go over on the West Bide after some old
woman that knew mc, and they have kept me
whooping ever since. What does a boy want
of a sister, uulcss it Is a big sister ? I den't
wnn't no sister that I've got to hold, and rock,
and hold a bottle (or. This affair breaks mo
all up," and tho boy picked the cheese out of
his teeth w:th a sliver he cut oil tho counter.
Well, how does your pa lake it?" said tho
groceryman, as he charged tue uoy s pa wnu
cheese, aud saffron, and a number of each
thiiius.
t)li. na will null through, lis wanted to
hoss '.he whole concern until ma's chum, an
old woman who take's snuff, llred him out
luti) the hall. Va sat there on my hand-sled,
a perfect picture of lies -air, and I thoaght it
would be a kindness to play it on him. 1
found lhe cat asleep in the bath room, und I
lied lhe cat up In a shawl nd brought It out
to pa and told him the nurse wanted him lo
hold the baby. It seemed to do pa good to
tie I that he was indispensable around the
house, and he took the cnt on his lap OS ten
derly ns you ever saw a mother hold an infant.
Well, 1 got lu the b.iek hall, where ho couldn't
see me, an I pretty a-mil ine eat negan to wsae
up and strelcb himself, and pi said, 's-h b-
tootsy, go to sleep now, ami lot Its pa bold It,'
and pa he rocked back and lorth on the hand
sled, a"d began lo sing 'by, low baby.' That
settled It with tho cat. Well, some ca'.a can't
stand musi?, anyway, and lhe cat wanted to
get out of tho shawl, the louder pasting, and
bimeby I heard something rip, and pa yelled,
scat, you brute,' and when 1 looked around
the corner of the hall the rat was bracing his
aelf sgainst pa's vest with Ills toenails, and
yowlng, and pa fell over the sled and began lo
ta'k about the hereafter like the mini.iter dues
when ho gels excited In church, and then pa
picked up the sled and seemed to be looking
for mc or the cut, and both of ns was olTitl
scarce. Don't yon think there are times when
bovs and cats are kind of few around their
aecustoiuid haunts ? I'a don't look as though
he was very smart, but he can hold a cat about
as woll as the next man. But I am sorry for
ma. 8ho was Just gelling ready to go to
Florida for her neuralgia, and this will put a
slop to It. cause she has to stay and take cue
ot that yimu one. I'a says I will hale a nice
time this milliner pushing thu bihy wogou
Ily the great hum spoons, Ihcru has got to bo a
dividing Hue somewhere, between business aud
pleasure, and I strike the Hue al wheeling a
baby. I had rather catch a siring of perch than
to wheel all the babies ever was. They
needn't procure no babies on my account, If It
is to amuse tne. I don't see why babies can't
bo sawed off onto people tint need them In
In Ihelr business. Our fn.ka don't need a
baby any m-oe thiol you need a safe, aud there
are people Just suffering for bibies. day, how
would It be to take lhe baby some night and
leave It on somu old batchclor's door step ? It
it had been a bicycle, or a brecchloading shot
gun, 1 wouldn't navo careu, nut a uany i is in i
It makes me tired. I d drilther had a prize
package. Well, I tun sorry pa allowed me cou.a
borne, after bu drove mo away last week. I
guess all he wanted me to come back (or was
to humlllato me, an I send me on errands.
Well, I must go and see if he and the cat have
made up."
And tho boy went oat and put up a paper
Sinn In front of tho store, "Leaye your meas
ure for saffron lea. IWk't Sun.
MAY I KISS THAT BABY?
To a soldier, far away from home, there Is no
more touching eight than that of a baby In Its
mother's arms. While ou their way to oeuye
burg our troops were marching by night
through a village over whase gateways hong
lighted lantern, while young girls shed tears
as they watched tho brothers ot Other women
marching on to possible death. A scone of the
march Is Ihns described by the author of
"Bullet and Shell." Stopping for a momeut
at the gate of a dwelling, I noticel a young
mother leaning over It with a chobby child
In her arms. Aboye the woman's head swung
a couple ot stable lanterns with their light
upon her face. The child was crowing whh
delight at the strange pageant, a It watched
the armed hot pass on. "I beg your pardon,
Ma'am," said Jim Manners, one of my men, as
ha dropped the bult of bis musket on the
ground and peered wistfully into the faces of
the mother and her child. "1 beg pardon, but
may I kiss that baby of yours? I've got one
Just like him at home, at least when I last saw
him, two years ago." Tho mother a sympa
thetic tear rolling down her blooming cheek,
Silently held out the child. Jim pressed bis
unshaven faco to its inrocelit, smiling lips for
a moment, and then walked on, saying : ' God
bless yon, Ma'am, for that!" Poor Jim Man
ners! Ha never saw his boy again In life. A
bullet laid hlin.low the next day as we made
our first charge, Youth's Vomjumion.
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p R O F E SJjONAJCARDS
-y Q. ELLIOTT.
Attorney and Counsellor n( Law
NOKFOLK, VA.
Booms 2 and 3 Virginian Building.
Oct I ly
JRANCU BELL.
ATTOKSKYS AT LAW.
ENFIELD, N. C.
Practices lu the counties of Halifax, Nash
K'lx-ecombo and Wilson. Collections made In all
parts of the State. Jan 18 tf.
JU. 8MiriI, JR.
ATI'OUIVKY AT LAW,
(sootlaxo Nkok. Halifax County N. 0
Practice In tho county of Halifax and adjoin
ing comitlc-a, aud hi the huprcmo court ( the
State. H ly.
J
M. UKUSUKD,
ATTOKEY AT I. Art,
HALIFAX, N. C.
omen In thn Court House. Strict attention
s'lveutoall branchesof tho profession.
Jan 12 ly
T
UO.MAS N. HILL,
WAITING TO BEWHIPPtD
Thu humorist of Perk's Sun has been threat
ened with a whipping by a young man whose
sweetheart broke her engagement after reading
ono of Peek's articles advising girls to let
young men to whom they aro engaged severely
alone l( Ihey take to drinking. To tho young
man's threat Peck replies: "What would we
be doing whllo such a youth, with his skin full
of benzine, was whipping us on sight? This
young in in has never whipped any editors, ev
idently. He has never had to be carried out
on a window shutlcr lo a hospllal, and lay In a
stupor whl the doctors s -t bis bones, und has
never laid lu a delirium for months, and seen
the air full of sumd-top ed editors walking
over him wuli hunting hoots an. He should
coniiiH iicK down low and work up gradually to
editors. Let hliu attend u few ward caucuses,
with their rows, uud take lu a few summer
garden picnics, sin! baits, and prize lights, and
II he lives, I lieu ho can think about whipping a
newspaper man. Hut bo wants to learn to pray,
and it is best to bid an affectionate adieu to
friends, and pay up whisky bills, for there is
nothing that Injures a young man's reputation
so much as to have his trunk attached, after
be has been bulled by tho authorities, for an
old liquor bill, In addition lo announcing that
ourofllce hours for being whipped at sight for
articles that appear In tho paper, aro from 8 i.
m. to 0 I' M., we wo will stale that thd advice to
g rls who are engaged to drunkards Is still lu
force, and If they will all take It to themselves,
and Blilp the drunkards before it is everlasting
ly loo late, and thus make themselves aud their
mothers happy, wo will take tho chances on a
whipping from tho drunkard In every case, and
make them a pres-nt when they marry a sober
young man. Don't lung ou to any drunkard
for fear he will whip us."
T.
Attorney mt Law,
HALIFAX, N. C.
Practice In Halifax and adjoining countlo
aud Federal and Hilpremo courta.
Will bu at rjeoiluud JVuck, once every fort
ulh'ht. augSSif
W. M ASUS,
atiohi;y at law,
GAKYSIlURQ, N. C.
Practice In the courts of Northampton and
adloliilnir counties, also In the Federal and Nil
tireuie courts. Juneetf.
A L T E 11 K. 1) A N I E L,
attorney mid ( ouiiMellor At Law,
w t: i. n o n. v.
Practice in Halifax and adjoining counties.
Special iiiieiiiniu given to collection lu
ill parts of the state and prompt return made,
tell. 17 1 y
W. HALL,
AT TOKXEY AT LAW,
WELDON, N.C.
Special attention given to collections and
remittances promptly made.
limy nr.
Q K. E. I.. HUNTER,
SUKOGOX DEK T I S T . '
Can be found at hi ollice In Enfield.
Pure Nitrous Oxide (las lor tho Paln
Ich Kxtraotlng of Teolh always on hand.
Juuo 22 tt.
liMKS t. nn.t.Ks.
LIEN 4
JOUN A. WOOBI
MOORK,
18 to
'Oo,
Tub I.ovicSn'ic I'ausok. "OIi. said
Daisy to tier niaintmi, "I was m the
at lor last nin'lit, behind tho sola.
when tlm pivacliiT cumo to nee sister
Kute, iinil tlit'V lill xet "P Umelnso lor
anything; an' the preacher said, 'Katie,
dear, 1 Ittv you , an Kate said, 'Uo
o,' an then the preacher kissed her
ritfht smack in the mouth, n said,
Dear Kate, how ood the Lord
us poor miners; and lvato said,
oo; an, then an, then
"Well," said her mamma,
wicked child, you wicked child, what
did you do.'
"W y mamma, 1 felt so good, 1 blurt
ed ritfht out, 'Let us pray,' and you
ouht to have seen 'em jump-"
nwirrf0 i TBir-rTnwssaaBaaisjrr last
ADVERTISEMENTS.
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SALICYLICA.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
HALIFAX N. C.
Practice In the couutlesof Halifax, Northamp
ton, Edgecombe, Pitt and Martin In the Su
promo court of the State and In the Federal
Courts of thf Eastern District. Collection made
In any part of the State. Jan 1 ly
"V. J. naw:
BAKER & CONFECTIONERS
WELDON, N.C.
you
A very large supply of
Cakes, Cracker. Candles, French nnd Plain,
nuisiua, rruns, auia, sc,
The largest stock of Toy of every variety ever
urouKut io mis marker..
Orders for candles, cakes, tc,
est notice at Northern prices.
Oiled at short
NO
iMOIti: UIICI l ATIM1, (iOlT Oil
It VI. 1. 1 A.
NIX.
Over two tons of hair plus are turning out
daily by lhe factories, aud yet a man found
with a new one clinging to bis coat can't make
fell wife believe that 11 belongs to ber.
IMMEDIATE RELIEF WARRANTED-
PERMANENT CURE GUARANTEED-
Five years established and never known to fail
In a single case, acute or chronic. Ilefer to nil
prominent plnslelaus and druggists tor tho
standing of Salicyiiea,
SECRETI
The only dlasolvcr of the poisonous nrle add
which exists In thu lik-o.l ut ihcumatlc and
Itouty patients.
SALICYLICA Is kn ran a a c nunion-sensn rem
edy, Ueeauso It strikes dire tly at the cause of
I! brumal lam, tiotit and Neuralgia, while so many
so-called speelllcs and supposed pauaeeaa only
trcit locally th ell'eel.
It has been conceded by eminent scientists
that outward applications, such as rubbing with
oils, ointment, liniment, aud soothing lotions
will mat -m-lleite theso dUt-.i-w which are the
resitllof the poisoning of the blood with I'nc
Acid.
SALICYLICA works with marvelous died on ilib-
acid aud remove lhe disor lor. It is now ex
clusively used by all celebrated physician of
Ann i lea and Europe. Highest Me Ileal Academy
of Paris reports 95 per ceut cures u three days.
REMEMBER
that Salleyllca Is aeertaln cure for llhcmnatlsm,
(lout and Neuralgia, The most Intense pains are
soli Inc, I almost instantly.
(Jive II a trl.il. Heliet guaranteed or moniy
refunded.
Thousands of t-atlmontiil sent on application.
(I a Hox. 0 Duxes for t.
Sent free by mail on receipt of money,
ASli YOL'll IIRUOOIST F0 IT.
llut do not be deluded Into taking Imitations
or substitute, or something recommended as
"just as good I" Insist on tho geuulno with tho
niimo of Waslibnrno & Co., on each box, which Is
guaranteed chemically pure underoursigiiature,
an Indispensable requisite to Insure success in
the treatment. Take no other, or send to us.
WASIlllURNE.Ji CO., Proprietors,
!7 Brou iway , eor. Rcnde St., New York,
jnn 4 tlm
Weddiiur and othcrpartlos Bundled as chean
as the cheapest. octlsly.
leM. ItiSJ.
cocKAiii: n titBLi: works,
(F-stablished iulfkw.)
''cul , SB sa-rtsl
'ttiTlase5r -I
Sycamore si reel, opposite Halifax,
l'ETIiKSnURO.VA.
Monument,
Tom Its,
I'rnnsrsi.
lleudHtonrsi
itnd Uravcstonea
of every description made to order raaiginsr in
lirien lr.mi r- u;-.
Designs sent by mill toany address, with post
a' ' stumps cuc!uM.'il for return.
sTWhen unices tile received, the work I pre
pared and forwarded; If it does nut itive perfect
satMiietlon. piti-cha. -va are requested to return
at my expense I pnyinir (i'l"ht hoth ways.
Lowest prices and cheap fright guariiuteed. J
Correspondence solicited from all sections.
CllAS. M. WALSH.
apr. 13 ly.
AY- W- HALL,
t ire and Lite Insurance Agent.
Can be found lu the Roanoke Nowa Office.
Rev. E.d Hall said that every rock was a ser
mon, when a boy was stealing apples from Mr.
Hall's orchard. When the boy's father subse
quently asked him why ho limped bo replied
that he was ilruok with one ot Mr. Hall's eer-moni.
O K 8 A L B.
Two Taylor Dins liT goodrepalrcheap.
Also one Bull Cotton Press ready for
use. '
They can be seen at the Howard Ma
chluo Shop In Weldou.
C. BRADLEY.
July II tf
Weison, N.O.
BKPBE.8 ZlXTt,-
NeW York Underwriters,
"Aerie.ultural" of Watnrtown, N. T,
vcsiirn, i Toronto, r annua,
Pamlico. otTarhoro, N.C.
L.vnehhurir, of Lyiichbnrfr, V4
Kqultable Llfo Insurance Co. t)t N, Y.
Will place rlaka 1b any athar m,mmi '
I atlowsaleratei. .JulW?
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