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ADVERTISEMENTS
For Dyspepsia,
Costlveness,
Sick Headache,
Chronic Diar
rhoea, Jaundice,
Impurity of the
Blood, Fever and
ttMWW
Ague, Malaria,
and all Diseases
earned by De-
itiiimi ill ( liver, Bowels and Kidneys.
OF A DISEASED UVER.
tt BtmiIi : Pain In the Side, tomeumei the
tin b kk tinder th Shoulder-blade, mistaken for
KheMaansm; general lost of appetite; Bowels
awiwelf ccsrive, sometimes alternating with lax;
rae baas k troubled with pain, it dull and heavy,
witfc teauderablt lots of memory, accumpanica
wnk a aaiaftd temallon of leaving undone something
wMtfc ought to have been done ; a tlight, dry coiii;h
fmi laahed iact ii aometimet an attendant, often
mtoakea It consumption; the patient complaint
of WMH-iaesa awl debility; nervous, eatily ttartled;
hH aeld qr burning, tomelimea a pricklv scasation
of ttM aitia axisu; spirits are low and despondent,
I satisfied that exercise would t
u be bene-
ArM, ysa mm cna hardly summon up fortitude to
try ai fact, distrusts every remedy. Several
et the abv sysspt04ns attend the disease, but cases
kava eccwrM wnta but few of them existed, yet
awutoa after death has shown tlie Liver to
navo Wen estcativtly deranged.
It should be used by all persona, old and
yonaf , whenever any of the above
symptoms appear.
Pomona Traveling or Living In Pn
hrarlhjr Localities, by taking a dose occasion
avly le yrp the liver in healthy action, will avoid
ai Malaria, Blllnae attacka, Diitiness, Nau
sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It
ml iavigariM Uka a glass of wine, but is uo in.
eitoaluf beverage.
If Tem have eaten anything hard of
feeUsa. ar feel heavy after meals, or aleep
kao at night, take a dose and you will be relieved.
Thate and Doctors' Dill will be aaved
by always keeping the Regulator
hi the House!
For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly
safe pnrttntlve, alterative and tonlo can
aerar be oat of place. The remedy it harmless
and doea not Interfere with buaineaa or
pleasure.
IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE,
Ad has aH the power and efficacy of Calomel or
Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects.
A Aovernor's Testimony.
Slmaons Liver Regulator has been in use in my
family far soma time, and 1 am satisfied it is a
Valuable addition to the medical science.
J. Gill Shostik, Governor of Ala.
II rm. Alexander H. Stephens, of Oa.,
tars: Have derived some beneiit from the use of
jtmnoas Jjjir,r Regulator, and wish to give it a
"Tlta am lpr Thing that never falls to
Relieve. "I have used many remedies for Dys
aryera. Liver Affection and Debility, but never
jam found anything to benefit me to the extent
leameae Liver Regulator has. I sent from Min
naaeea te Georgia for it, and would send further for
a aaedicme, and would advise all who are sim
aWty aaVctad la give it a trial as it seems the only
thing that aerer fails to relieve.
t. M. Jannkt, Minneapolis, Minn.
Or. f. TT. MfMtnn lavtl from trtuiil ...
pernatee ra the use of Simmons Liver" Regulator in
sry practice I have been and am satisfied to use
sad prescribe It as a purgative medicine.
ISaf'Take only the Genuine, which always
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aea MuatBlc of
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Bl'SINESK UNIVERSITY
t Atlanta, tin.
For Illustrated Circular. A live actual Bud
ntiss School. Etlaoluhed twenty yean.
I TO " I Q1VB UtSALTlI
cellent Tonic, Alterative and riiuretlc Med
aoclatlon. Lvnchhurir. Va.
Jed with great benefit In Malaria and Dipthc-
! fjfcGSsfully used lu dyspepsia, chronic dinr
r; tea and scrofula Prof. Jackson, M. D., Uni
valuable as a nervous tonic Hon. I. C
I . f lcr.Tenn.
, icoinmended as a prophylactic In malarial
4K'icU- B. n. Kalrex.M. P., N. C.
Stores debilitated systems to health. T. C.
X icer, M. D.,Ind.
Japted in chronic diarrhoea, scrofula, and
it Jepsla. Geo. T. Harrison, M. I)., N. Y.
r i ircessful lu diptherla and neuralgia. J. P.
te, M. D., N. C.
cellent for cerla diseases peculiar to wo
W i Prof. J. J.' Moorman, M. D., Vn, ,
i. ' lompt in relieving headache, sick and ner-
f Rev, E. 0. Dodson,
' 1 cd with great benefit in dyspepsia, J, Mo
lh,M.D.,Pa.
lUcd to branch
fus. J. F. Ron,
bronchitis and disease of digestive
Roughton, M, D.Ala.
st valuable remody known for female dig
V fe. Jno.P.Mettenur, M. P., LLD.
6 fsreat curative vlrtuo. Thos. Y. Itumbold
Ji. B. Ma.
I Jneflclul In uterine denuiKement and mala
no4) conditions. G. M. Yall, M. D., Ohio.
i wrmiiig on the complexion; making in
IB itli, clear, soft and rosy. Miss M. of S. ('.
71u prince of mlnerul tonics. Francis Oilllnm
" lislimable as a tonic andlnltcrnt Ire. Hunter
if julro.M.D.Va.
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Bi: top Uecknlth, of Ga.
inlids here find welcome and health. It
L, llniinon. lata of La., now of Richmond
Va. jj
J I' Hhplilcts free, upon application,
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BROWN & SIMMONS.
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(tUTHKKN HOTEL,
9. B. DICKESiS, Proprietor,
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J HALIFAX, N. C.
Rrljtted, repainted and thoroughly arranged
Or etmifurt. Tallies supplied from Norfolk
d Wllinlmrton markets- Good servants and
10 tare. Comfortable rooms for all.
t We also a Livery Stable, where horses are
sptly attended to, vehicles hired out on
inbla terms to parties wishing them.
YOU.
If I could have my dourest wish fulfilled,
And take my chotca ofall earth's treasures, too,
Or choose' from heaven whatsoe'er 1 willed,
I'd ask for you.
No man I'd envy, neither low nor h'gh,
Nor king In ensile old or palace new,
I'd hold Golcomla's mines loss rich than I,
If I had you.
Toll and privation, poverty and care,
Undaunted I'd defy, nor fortune woe,
Having uiy wife, no Jewel else I'd wear,
If she were you.
Little I'd care how lovely she might be,
How graced with every charm.how fond.how true
E'en thotiKh perfection, she'd be naught to me
Were she uot you.
There It more cha-ra for my true loving heart,
In everything you think or say or do,
Than all the Joys 1 lint heaven could e'er Impart,
Because It's you.
ON A BRIDAL TOUR.
"Sny, what kind of a hotel do you keep f '
aldagreen looklni; man, as be stepped up to
the counter and registered his name aud added
and wife" after it.
"Can a new married couple settle down here
for two or three days and have a quiet visit
with each other and Dot be scared out of their
boots ?"
The hotel man said that they could go right
to tbclr rooms and stay there three days or
three weeks, and never come to their meals If
they didn't want anything to eat.
But what Is the matter? Have you been
annoyed?" asked the hotel man.
Aunoyed ! That don't express It. We
were married day before yesterday at St. Paul,
and went to a hotel.
"1 live about sixty miles west of St. Taul,
and the traveling men put up a job to make
me tired, 2' hero were about a hundred of
them snowed in ut St, Paul, and I'll be darned
If they didn't keep us awake all night. They
knew we were a bridal couple, aud they bribed
the bell boys and porters to let them act for
them, and when wu rung the bull for the bell
boy, a drummer (or a Chicago cigar factory
came In aud wanted to know what was wanted.
I ordered a pitcher ot ice water, and a Mil
waukoe diummer for a grocery house brought
It lu, aud he looked at ray wife, who is bash
ful, end made her feel real bad.
"I didn't know they were drummers until
the next day or I should have killed some of
them. I rung the bull for coal and a traveling
man who post) railroad cars around aud works
up excursions, he came lu and fixed the fire
and he stayed and poked It for half an boor,
He asked so many question! about how long
we had been married that I wanted to thump
him, but my wifu said we didn't waut to have
do row the first day we were marrind. I rung
for a chambermaid to clear up tho room and
bring some towels and It was about half an
hour before she came, aud I went dowu to the
office to see about my trunk, and the chamber
maid stayed about half and hour and was very
interesting, and my wife sulj she was real
pleasant, affectionate sort of creature, fur
above her station, mid I tell you I was mad
when I found out It was a smooth-faced, hand
some youug Jewish drummer for a Milwaukee
clothing house, who was in with the gang
aud he gave the chambermaid f3 to loau him
an old dress, so that he could play chamber
maid. When my wife told me that the cliam
beimaid patted her on the cheek aud suld she
was the sweetest bride that was ever lu the
hotel and atked for a kiss, aud my wife arid
she thought it would be no harm to kiss
puor chambermaid and encourage her, I
u unted to kill him uud I went dowu to the
olllee the next morning, but the smooth-faced
cuss had goue to Fargo. It was all tho laud
lord ceuld do to hold me. Well while we
were at supper somebody got Into the room
and put cracker crumbs into our bed, and we
fouud a cold oil-cloth floor mat over the top
sheet, enotiirli to freeze anybody. But the
worst was at night. We had Just got com
fortably In bed when there was a knock at the
door, and I cot up, and tho watchman was
thero and he said he wanted to point out to m
the tiro escape so I could get out in case
and I went out in the hall and lie took me
way out to the end of the building to show
to me, and while I was looking out ot tli
window my wife came runulng dowu the hall
and begging me to save her, I asked her what
was the matter, and she said as soon as I went
out a man that looked like a porter came int
her room and told her to fly and save herself
and to follow her husband. She felt awful
when she found there was no trouble aud
got back lu eur room half froze. I have got
them fellows down fine, The fellow who
called ma out to look at that Ore escape la
drummer for a Philadelphia millinery bouse
and the one that scared my wife out ot
wits travels for a hearse factory at Rochester,
N. T. My wife says she would know him, be
eauae he has a big gray moustache and wears a
diamond collar button in his shirt. She said
she thought he was pretty stylish for a porter
at the time. They woke up at several times In
the ulgbt to tell us what to do lu case we were
sick, and in the morning, beforo we wero up,
a waiter brought up our breakfast. He said
the landlord snt It lip, and ho ust stood
around until we had to sit up in bed and cat
breakfast. I thought at the time that it was
kind In the landlord to aond up onr breakfast,
but when I found that the waiter who brought
It up was a traveling man for a reaper factory
at Huckfo'd, and remembered how cussed im
indent he lunked at my wife, I could have
murdered him, but the clerk said he had gone
to Winnipeg. It was Just about as bad tool
ing down here on the sleeping car, and I think
half tho passengers on the car were those same
drummers that were snowed in. It was colder
th.m Alaska, and I would order extra blaiikele
and they would steal them. I had about '.'d
blankets put on the bed, and in the morning
there was uothlng but a sheet over us. And
every time there was a blanket spread O'er us
there was different porter put on, and I think
they were traveling men. Every little will e
semebody would pull up in the curtains and t-it
on my berth and begin to pull oil his boo',
and 1 would tell lilm the berth was occupied
and that be must have made a mistake, and lie
would look around at us as Innocent as could
be and ask our pardou, and then go out and
cuss the porter. Once I felt somebody feeling
about my berth und I asked what was the mat
ter and the fellow said he was looking for my
wire's shoes to black. Then about every fif
teen mluutes the conductor would open the
curtains and hold a red lantern In and aik for
onr ticked. I think they punched my ticket
ilxtv.flVA time. Ad; wav it looked Ilk
porous plaster when I get up in the morning.
think it was the traveling men who were
playing conductor, but I was sleepy and I
thought the best way was to let them punch It,
Well, about 3 o'clock lu the morning some
body punched us and said It was time to get
as all the passengers were np, and we
ould have breakfast In fifteen minutes. And
n we hustled around and got dressod the
best we could, lying on our backs and kicking
our clothes up In the air and cUchltig them on
ourselves when tiny camt down. I got my
pants on wrong side beforo and lost everything
out of my pockets, and my wlfo Inat her hair
and had to lie a handkerchief around her head,
nd then we had our berths made up and sat
p till day break, and the porter fouud my
ife's hair and pluued It to a curtain of a
berth occupied by a preacher from Oshkosh,
nd he kicked and got mad about It and won-
ered how It got there, ami swore about It, and
think he travels fur an Oshkosh carriage fac
tory. Oh, I never had such a night; or such
two nights in ull my life, and what I want to
now Is If I can lie quiet here and get a little
sleep and not be annoyed."
The hotel man told him If anybody came
around to bother blm to knock them clear
down stairs and ho would be responsible, and
the brilegroom took his satchel and wife and
the colored man showed them a room and they
have not shown up since. It is confounded
meau In traveling men to get
nowed In and form a syndicate
to have fun. They will cause themselves to
be disliked If they keep on. Ilrk'a Sun.
DAVID DAVIS' TOE.
San Francisco Tost.
Some two yars ago David Pavis
was Huiteriug with a sovero bunion on
is left foot. At last the Senator sup
posed it was a bunion, although as he
hadn't seen his feet for a generation.
it was pretty much a matter of guess
work. However, it hurt him more
than the Republican successes, so he
called in a chiropodist, and when that
specialist inspected the damage and
came to the surface onco more, lie re
ported that the excreseneu was about
as big as a ten cent loaf, and that milli
ng hut the most careful treatment
would save tho foot. Mr. Davis ac
cordingly procured a shoo of tho six
day go-as-you-please description,! ho too
of which he could almost sec himself
when he kicked out pretty hard. It
was a sad sight to watch the presiding
efheer of our most dignified body hob
bling up the Capital steps supported
by a big cane and the leather pedestal
lelorred to for six months after that.
It was a new edition of Bunion's Pil
grim's Progress, bound in calf. Some
times the bunion would grow better
ind sometimes worse. Meanwhile the
foctor sent in his bills regularly "for
ligging out the Senator's foundation,"
is he facetiously called it. At last the
sufferer became imbued with an ab
sorbing desire to visually inspect the
cause of his torments, and, onn day,
yielding to a sudden impulse, he limped
into a photograph saloon, pried off his
shoe, uud requested the operator to
take a tin type of his foot. W hen it
was completed he almost fell oil his
seat in an apoplectic lit of rage, lor
the picture disclosed a small iron
clamp attached to his liltlo toe, tho
screw ol which the chiropodist evident
ly tightened or loosened at pleasure,
flic Senator determined upon a fright
ful revenge, and tho next morning,
when tho corn doctor knelt t remove
the shoe as usual, the man of weight
deliberately turned around and sat
on him,
But why dwell upon the sad partic
lars ? The corn doctor was removed
to the hospital, where three months
after he died to slow music, after hav
ing made a full confession, and in the
full hope of a glorious immortality.
THE POISONED SAUSAGE.
The old Dutchman slept pltcldiy. His head
reclined upon the table, amid s me empty
glasses, while his long white hair fell over bis
arm like a tleecu of silver. A brace ot iDtdl
cal students entered the saloon and glanced at
the sleeper. They noticed the end ot a Bol
ogna sausage peeping out ot the aged man's
coat pocket. Here was an opportunity for a
practical joke which uo well regulated studeut
C'juld permit to etcape. Tliey secured the sau
sage and ate It. Still the old man slept. They
had him aroused. He rose and prepared to do
part. He missed the sausage. A wave of an
gulsh swept over his mellow cnunU-nuiice
Tee Joke was taking splen lidly uni the enjoy-
tient of the young men was keen. The old
mm searched all his pockets, under the tub lu
and under tho stove. IThe look of anguish
wa rapidly aasurulng an ex leaalmi u horror,
The Btudenls wore positively being consumed
by the Inexpressible fun of It all. At last the
old man gave up the search, and, approach
ing tho bartender, said lu tones of InUnse ex
citement :
"I had a sausage. Did you see him V
"Yaw."
"Did you take bimf"
".Vein."
"Thunder unt bllxou
kill rr rats I I thiuk it
him round looso I"
I Dot vus poisoned t
fas tatiRerous to leu
Immediately that saloon contained the sick
est pair of studeuts In Bnltituoro. A physician
was summoned, emetics admiuittercd to the
sufferers, who were eudurini; all tho agonies
rcsulllx from too much strychnia, nd they were
Ju-t palled through, they were assured, by the
skin of their teeth,
When It was all over, the poor fellows were
pronounced out of danger, tho old man de
parted. At the door he turned and Autitf back
this partltiK shot :
Dot naus'.iKe shust as eood unt nice as
never vas. It vas nut poisoned. I dink '"U
heaf to raise up a loeillo early mit d day veil
you blay de shoke on mi, I dinkde lull vas ou
my side tult de house 1"
A Kentucky woman hai ne;ir y reformed her
husband by persuading him to use bottles of
whisky as weights for the clock. The oftener
hs drinks, the slower the clock goes, ind the
longr be on to wsit far but mooli,
FARMINQ.
KH INTENSIVE ALABAMA. FARMER BEATS MR.
Fl'KMAX, THE GEORGIA FARMER, AT UIS OWN
GAME.
'On a high bill, about a halt mile from the
city limits of 7'roy, Pike county, Is the resi
dence of Mr, J. P, Hill, a cosy frame building,
with necessary farm houses In excellent re
pair without much to attract particular atten
tion, except the tidy appearance of the yard
and house and comfortable surroundlugs and
the large number of mounds aud heaps which
greet the eye. 7'hcse are the potato hills and
compost heaps, and it Is tho latter to which
we desire to call particular attention, as
well
as the results they have accomplished,
This farm, undar Mr. Hill's excellent man
agement has become the nearest (o a model
farm of any In this section, and for several
years has produced the largest crops gathered
from the same acreage of any farm In Alabama.
7 lie yield of 04 bales, 500 pounds average,
from II fty acres, Is the largest made lu the
Stale, If not In the .South, from the same acre
age; aud his hill compost land even exceeded
that in ratio of production, being 41 bales
from thirty acres.
The land Is what Is known as ."sandv with
clay foundation." Last year his crop from
eighty acres, cultivated by two mules, was as
follows;
50 acres colton, 01 bales, at 50, 3,200 00
30 acres oats, 000 bushels, at 50 cents, 450 00
o acres sweet poiaiocs, s.ovu ousueis, at
iv ceiiis, ovu uu
10 acres core, 230 bushels, at 74 cents,
1J acres Held peas,
105 00
120 00
l,7.'i.5 00
200 00
Total,
Premium,
I,!H5 00
Total cost of fertilizers,
Total cost of cultivation, etc.,
m 20
1,500 00
Total profit,
$3,547 SO
Thirty acres of oats were replanted lu pota
toes, corn and Held peas, with the result Indi
cated above. The fertilizer used on the oats
was a compost made us follows : 20 bushels of
cottou seed aud 100 pounds ot Ashepoo phos
phate, lu ultortiute layers. The first layer on
tho ground being the soil from the forest, cot
ton seed next and then the phosphate; then
cottou seed layer and pboipato layer alter
nately, with soli from forest on top, and no
other covering. Of this compost ho used 1,
050 pounds to the acre.
The same land was fertilized the second
time before planted in corn, potatoes and peas,
with compost nuido as follows : 25 bushels top
soil from forest bottom, 5 bushels cottou seed
second layer, 100 pounds phosphate thhd layer,
50 bushels lop soil from forest fourth layer,
25 bushels stable manure fifth layer, 50 bushels
tep soil from forest, top. T his compost sleod
two mouths in a rail peu uncovered. It was
used ou the potatoe land at the rate ot two 2-
horse wagon loads to the acre. Ou corn, at
the rate of four loads to five acres, or twenty
bushels to the acres. The fertillizcr was put
only in the hills op the corn luml.
His cotton lauds were divided Into SO and
twenty acres lota. On the twenty aero lot he
used one thousand pounds of Alabama fori Hi z
er the acre competing for a premium of
200, which was awarded to Him. This twenty
acres produced S7 700 pounds of seed cotton-
Ii . -1 i. i aim . i T V
threo bales of 500 pounds average. Ou the
thirty acre lot he used a compost made as (l
follows : 50 bushels top s ill from forest bot
tom; 15 bushel of cotton seed second layer:
200 pouuds phosphate third layer; 75 bushels of
top soil fourth layer; 75 bushels stable manure
fifth layer; 200 pounds phosphate sixtli layer;
75 bushels top soil, top.
Ui llie compost he used three hundred p r
acre. The 30 acid lot Yielded 41 bales, 50U
pounds average
The reader will notice In the results ot this
crop that the cost of commercial fertilizers was
Sl2 for twenty acres and the yield wVs 1.15
bales ot colton to the acre. The cast ot fcr
lilizers for the other forly ilyht acres was
3H.1.30, about $5.40 per acre. The yield of col
ton wns l.SCI bales per acre. The cost tor
commercial fertilisers was $il per acre.
.Mr. Hill experimented on kalnlt lu one pen
of comport, In connection with stable inmiiiic,
eotton seed and phosphate a'.most Ideulicsl in
proportion to Funuan's formula. lie regards
top soil from Urn forest as better aud much
cheaper. In fuel liu now uses top soil entirely
for kaiult, and his experiments have satisfied
him that It Is more valuable. He estimates
the value of muck from brunches or ponds as
more valuable than cither, and in future lis
will use 11 exclusively, if he cuu get it, In place
of the top soli.
Mr. Hill regards the valno of li Is team and
four hands In nniklui; compost as equal to a ton
of guano or a bale ot cotton per day. the re
sults of his farm show that he does not over
estimate their value. Uo Is now making hli
. .i. . .... .. .1 win I,.-
one compost bed to every three acre.. He
making it as follows:
Fifty bushels muck or top toll, bottom, 5
bushels cm ton seed, second layer, tit) pounds
phosphate, third layer; 125 bushels muck or tup
soil, fourth layer, 'J5 bushels stable manure,
fifth layer; &0 pounds phorphate, sixth layer;
25 bushels muck or lop soil, seventh layer.
Maintaining the same order as above until
at high as desired, remembering that tho
ciiiipost is of six layers, and that the bottom
au 1 top of tho pile should have fifty bushels of
top soil, but for layers In the middle ot the
compost only twenty-five bushels should be
used. He will use ten loads ot this compost
SSO bushels to the acre. U estimates the
cost per acre at 17.70, aud will get better re
sults than if twice that amount la value of
commercial fertilizers was used.
A boarder at a Ltadvllle hotel Investigated
hit beefsteak ind found that it was a fried
liver pad that a former boarder had pawned for
hit board. The landlord didn't want to lose It,
to he had it cooked. A liver pad, if nicely
conked, it fine eating, with mushrooms, but of
course, In that new country where they have
not all the cooking utensils, It must be a trifle
r.iw.
A patent medicine manufacturer died in New
York last week, Before he died his friends ask.
ed him how lie would like to lie burled. Ho
had just strength left to say, "Insert me tup
column next to reading matter 52 times electro
ky mall," and then be closed hit eyet and pais
ed away te that bourne where there are do o-
oliiloui uor wrong Insertions.
THE MYSTERYJF DEATH.
AN ELOQUENT FUNERAL ORATION BT INOEltSOI.T.,
TUB VIRTUES OF A DEAD JOURNALIST BET
FORTH UT TUB SKEPTIC.
An address over tho remains of tho
lato John G. Mills was delivered- last
nirxht at tho residence of Col. N. W.
Fitzgerald by Col. Robert G. Ingersoll.
Tho parlors wherein tho deceased lay
were crowded with lrienus king be
foro tho arrival of the immediate rela
tives and the orator. Tho remains
were eneased in a handnoino Stein
casket, extension bar handles and satin
quilted liniiij'. On a silver nlato was
the namo, date ot deatk. and (f e ot
tho deceased.
Col. Inp-orsoU's address was very
eloquently and impressively delivered,
lie Hfioku as follows .
Again we ate laco to lace Willi
tho great mystery that shrouds this
world. We question, but llicro is 1.0
reply. Out on tho wide waste seas
there drills no spar. Uver the desert
ot death the sphinx cazes lorever, out
never speaks. In the very May of
life another heart has ceased to beat,
Niirht has fallen upon non, but ho
lived, ho loved, ho was loved. Wife
and children pressed their kisses on
his lips. This IS enough. TllOlOIlg-
est life contains no more. This fills
the vase of joy
He who lies here clothed with tho
perfect peace of death, was a kind and
loving husband and good father a
generous neighbor) an honest man;
and theso words build a monument of
glory above tho humblest grave.
He was always a child sincere and
frank as full of hope as spring. lie
divided all time into to-day and to
morrow. To-morrow was without a
cloud, and ot to-morrow no uorroweu
sunshine for to-day.
Ho was my friend. He will remain
so. 1 tie living olt become estranged
the dead are true.
Ho was not a Christian. In tho
Eden of his hope there did not crawl
and coil tho serpent of eternal paiu.
In many languages he sought tho
thoughts of men, and for himself ho
solved the problems of tho world. He
accepted the philosophy ol Augusto
Comto. Humanity was his God (he
inman rnco tho Supremo Being. In
that Supremo Being ho rested. He
believed that we arc indebted for what
we enjoy to the labor, the self-denial,
the heroism of the human race, and
that as we have plucked the fruit of
what others planted, we, in thankful
ness, should plant for others yet to be.
v ith him immortality was tho eternal
consequences of his own good acts.
lie believed that every good thought,
every disinterested deed, hastens the
harvest ol universal good, tins is a
religion that enriches poverty, that en
utiles us to boar tho sorrows of the
mMmi lit... that peoples even solitude
w,!1,.l" '"'IW m"lll.",s ,H l,-n
ri'liuriou horn uot ol sellisiimw and
fear, hut of love nnd hope the religion
that di;rs wells to slake the thirst of
others that gladly bears the burdens
of the unborn.
In the presence ol death, how biv
iel's and dogmas wither and decay;
how loving words and deeds burst into
blossom, ritick from the tree ol any
life these (lowers, and thero remain but
the barren thorns of bigotry and
creed.
All wish for happiness beyond this
ife. All hope to meet again the loved
and lost, in every heart thtre grows
this sacred llowur of eternal hope
Immortality is a word that hope
through all eyes lias been whispering
to love. 1 he miracle ol nought we
cannot understand. The mystery of
h ath and hope we cannot compre
hend. 1 Ins chaos called the world
has never been explained
The gol
den bridge ol tile tro in gloom emer
ges and on shadow rests. Ueyond
this we do not know. Fate is speech
less destiny is dumb and the secret
of tho future hns never yet been told
We love, we wait, we hope. Tin
more wo love, the more we fear, Upoi
the tenderost heart the deepest shad
owh fall. All paths, whether filled
with thorns or flowers, end here.
Hero success and failure aro tho same.
I. TJ' S wretchedness and tho pur-
pie robe of power lose difference nnd
distinction in this democracy of death.
Character alono sutvives. (4oodpf
alonfe lives. Love alone is immortal.
Hut to nil there comes a time when
the levered lips of life long for the cool,
delicious kiss of death. Tired of the
dust and glare of day, they hear with
ioy the rustling garments ot the night
What can we say ot death T V hat
can wo say ol the dead r vy here
they have gone, reason cannot go, and
from thence revelation has not come
lint let us believe that over the era
die nature bends and smiles, and lov
ingly above the dead in benediction
holds her outstretched hands. wash
Post.
A man and wife who had lived together near
ly thirty years got to quarreling, and it wat ar
ranged to have a board placed lu the centre of
the bed as a tort ot dividing lie. This lasted
some time, until nne morning when the old
man was lying about half asleep, the old lady
peered over the board and ejaculated: "Bless
Ills dear old heart 1" The husband, starting np,
said: "Uo you mean that?" The answer wat
lu.tlie auVinatlve, and the old fellow roared:
"Sake away thut board I"
A young lady Inquires: "How can I avoid
being addressed If I walk out at night without
a protector?" If you wear an old lliiwl and
carry a olotbet-btiket you will not be dUturb-
td.
MARRIAGE.
ST THEODOItB PARKER.
Men and women, says Theodore
Parker, and especially young people,
do not know that it takes years to
marry completely two hearts, even
tho most loving and well-assorted. Gut
nature allows no sudden change. We
slopo very gradually from tho cradle
to tho summit of life. Marriage is
gradual a fraction of us at a time.
A happy wedlock is a long falling
in love. I know young persons think
love belongs only to brown hair aud
plump, round, crimson cheeks. So it
does for its beginning, just as Mount
Washington begins at Boston bay.
But the golden marriage is a part of
love which tho bridal day knows noth
ing of.
Youth is tho tassel and silken flower
of love j age is the full corn, ripo and
solid in the car. Beautiful is the morn
ing of love, with its prophctio crim
son, violet, purple and gold, with its
hopes of days that aro to come. Beau
tiful, also, is tho evening of love, with
its glad remembrances, and its rain
bow side turned toward heaven as
well as earth.
Young people marry their opposite
in temper and general character, and
such a marriage is generally a good
one. They do it instinctively. The
young man does not say, "My black
eyes require to be wed to blue, and
my ove:,'elio:nei oe requires to bo a
little modilied with somewhat of dull
ness und reserve." When theso oppo
sites come together to bo wed they
do not know it, but each thinks the
other just like himself.
Old people never marry their oppo-
sites: they marry their similars and
from calculation. Kach of these two
arrangements is very proper. In their
ong journey these opposites will fall
out of the way a great many times,
and both will charm tho other back
again, and by-and by they will bo
agreed as to the place they will tro to
and the road they will go by, and be
come reconciled. I ho man will bo
nobler and larger for being associated
with so much humanity unlike himself.
and she will bo a nobler woman for
having manhood beside her that seeks
to correct her deficiencies and supply
her with what she lacks, if tho diversi
ty be not too great, and there bo real
piety and love in their hearts to begin
with.
The old bridegroom, having a much
shorter journey to make, must asso
ciate himself with one like himself. A
porifct ana complete mauiago is, per
haps, as rare as personal beauty. Men
and women aro married fractionally
now a small fraction, then a large
fraction.
Verv few arc married totally, and
tllOV nnlv T lliinl.' nl'tne enmn iiM'l tr m
nay years of gradual approach and
excitement. Such a largo ami
id sweet
fruit is a completo marriage that it
needs a winter to mellow and season.
Hut a real happy marriage ot love and
lodgment between a man aud a wo
man is one of tho things so very hand
some that if the sun were, as the Greek
poets tallied, a god, he might stop the
world in order to feast his eyes with
such a spectacle.
OFF KENTJSUND.
A correspondent tendt the Rimldfr the to)-
lowing and lays we may vouch for lit truth,
We decline to stand godfather, but willingly
publish it as a very curious addition to the lit
erature of the Chesapeake Bay:
"I was once becalmed off Kent Island in
company with three vessels, mine, making a
fourth. I was In speaking distance of three
schooners. I spoke to Iheiu all with the fol
lowing rctull:"
Ahoy, there: hat vessel Is that on my
port quarter?"
"The Dandy Frank!"
"Who'se herc.iplalu?"
"Thomae Lank!"
"What are you loaded wllh?"
"1'lne plunk!"
"Where from?"
"Tony Tank!"
Addressing another ahoy, there on my tin
Uoiird! "What vessel Is that?
"The Ida Blank!"
"Who'se her captain?"
"Johnathan flank!"
"What aro you loaded with?"
'Tine plank!" .
"Where from ?"
"The Choptank !"
"Ahoy, there astern! What vessel It that!"
"llattieMank!"
'Who'tethe captain ?"
Peter Blank I"
"What are you loaded with 1"
"Pino plank !" "
"Where from ?"
"The l'laokstiink 1"
"They all proyed to be bouud for Phlladel-
Via the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal."
He Com.n oo to IIkavbn Just tub 8amk.
The pastor of a congregation over In New
Hampshire received a call one day this winter
from one ot bis deacons said he felt It his duty
to cuter complaint against a brother member
for horse racing.
"Was he really racing?" asked the pastor.
"Well, he pasted me, and my animal goet
in 3.10."
"How fust do you think he wat going ?"
"I should say about 3 55."
"Jy dear brother, you are eutlrely mistak
en," tald the pastor. "My pacer cau only go
In 2 55, ind I mure you that whenever I have
come op alongside of Deacon Q. I have
cleaned him out in tho handsomest maimer."
"Whit! do you drive iu 2 55?"
"Tliil't the best I have done thus far, but
live lu hopet to improve on tt before Summer.
Don't be too thlu skinned, brother. You can
work your old plug down to three minutes and
go to Heaven Just the tame IV
It it more slewed te give thin to receive
, the ltcb.
-y a. ELLIOTT.
Attorney aud Coanaellor at Law,
NOItFOLK, VA.
Rooms 2 ud 3 Virginian Building.
QCt I ly
JJ RANCH a BELL.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
EXFIELl), N. C.
Practices In tin' counties of Halifax, Nash
Ecliri'vomtie and Wilson. Collections made In all
liaruol tlie State. Jau 11 ti.
U.SMIfU, JK.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Scotland Nkok, Ualipax Count N. O
Pracllcns In the county of Halifax and ailloln-
inir counties, ami In the Supremo court of th
State. Is ly.
J
M. UltlZUlt D,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HALIFAX, N. C.
Office In t lie Court House. Strict attention
rflveu to all branches of the profession. . -
jan li ly
UOMAS N. HILL,
Attorney at Law,
HALIFAX, N. C.
Practice In Halifax ami adlolnlnr cnrratla
mill Federal anil Supreme courts.
wilt no at ttcoiiaud Neck, oneo every fort-liis-lit.
augsmf
T.
W. MASON.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
GAUYSUURO, N. C.
l'ractlco In tho courts of Northamntnn ami
aujolinuif counties, also In tlx Federal and Nu-
lireiue courts. Junegtf.
ALTER E. DANIEL,
Attorney aud Conimellor At Law,
WKLDON, ti. C.
Practices In Halifax and adjoining counties.
Special attention irlven to nOlntlm. in
nil parts of the State aud prompt returns made.
W. HALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WELDON, N. C. '
Special attention adven to collections and
remittances promptly mads.
may ut.
R. B. I,. HUNTER,
SURGEON DEN TINT.
Can be found at bis office in KnSeld. .
Pure Nitrous Oxide Uan lor the Pain.
Ips Extracting of Teeth always on hand.
"June TI tt.
JtUBS II. MULLEN. JOHM. MOORI
jyULLEN 4 MOORE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
HALIFAX N. C.
Practice In the countleaof Halifax. Northamn.
ton, Kdgecmuhn, Pitt and Martin In the Su
preme court of the State and In the Federal
Courts of the Kasleru District. Collections made
in any pan oi me stale. lanlly
V. J. naw;
BAKER & CONFECTIONERS
WELDON, N.C.
A very large supply of
cakes, Crackers, Candles, French and Flaln,
Kalslus, Fruits, Nuts, 4c.
The largest stock of Toys of every variety eve
orougiu 10 mis market.
Onlprs for candles, cakes, Jtc.. filled at short
est notice at Northern prices.
Weddln and otherpartiee supplied as cheao
as the cheapest. octltly.
1M3. 1888.
lOt'K.tDF. W tKTtl.F, WORKS,
(Established lnlSfij.)
Sycamore si reel, opposite Halifax,
l-bl kKSUUKU, VA.
Monument,
Tomb.
Crnaacn,
llendittones
nnd vjiraveitonca
of crrvy J.wi Ipiiuu wads to order ranging in
m mn
price i roin :i tin. i
Demons sent by mall to any address, with post-
an" mumps enclosed for return.
mr lien orders are received, the work la tire
pared and forwarded; If H does notxlve perfect .
satisfaction, inirelias 'rs arc reauested to return
at my expense 1 paying freight both way.
i.ow. 'si prices ami cueap ireiKUU) guaranteed. J
Correspondence solicited from all sections.
l-'UAS. M. WALSH.
opr. 13 ly.
W- W- HALL,
Fire and Lite Inanrame Agent
Oan be found la the Roanoke News effloe.
Wkldon.N.C.
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New York Underwriters.
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Western, f Toronto, Canada. ,
Pamlico, ol Tarnoro , N . C.
Lynchburg, otLytiehnurff, Vtvf i
Equitable Life Insurance Co. or K, T.
.Will place risk! IB UJiOthtr f0o company
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