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A Gray Coat relates to his friend, a Blue Coat tltu following Incident of tho late war: General Lee, sorely fatigued by a hard day's march, sat down to rest at the roadside., when he soon full Into a deep sleep. Ilia soldiers, who observed Itliu as lie slept, whispered wirninga to their nearest, comrades not to disturb him. The wills par was then passed from man to man along the Hue of miireli. Southern Historical Fnpers. Had ynti heard the distant tramming On Unit Klowlnir Summer day I Had yon seen our comrades riiimlng To meet us on t he way t Oil ! the wondrous, sudden silence, I'll' tin in 1 1 it:t ty creep, As down the line that caution ran, "Mai'se Itidiert Is nsleep !" Oivo mo your hand, old Blue Coat, Let's talk of this itwh.le, For the prettiest march of all the war Was this f rank and file ! ' Was the piissliiK of thai army When 'twas hard, 1 ween to keep Those ineii friiiii crying out, "Hurrah ! Mar.so llubert l n-l-ep !" There lay that liiiiyhtly tiirttre, One hand up n his sword. The otiier pressed above his heart, A vow without a word ? The laurel leaves had flntter'd down, For dowers their vigils keep And crown'd him, tliotth, 1 think, they knew "Mar.so Hubert was asleep I" la glorious Old Westminister, No nioiiument of war, N'o marble story half so grand As this, our army saw ! Our li'itl'y olu Westminister Virginia's woods now keep I in mot till Unit low whisper, 'Miii'sn Robert is asleep!" As we clasp hands, Old Blue Coat, 1,1st, Brother of tho North, Had Foreign foe assail'd yonr'iomes You then had known his worth ! Unbroken vigil o'er those homos It had been his to keep : step lljrhlly o'er the border then , "Mnrse Kotiitrt Is asleep i " He's yours and mine, is Ilollcrt I.ee, He's yours and mine, Hurrah ! These tears von shed have sealed the past. Ami closed the wounds of war I Thus clasping hands. Old Blue t.'oat, We'll swear by tir teais you weep, Tho sounds of war shall he inullU'd- "ilarse Robert Is asleep !" BACKBONEJND GRIT. "The static has gone, sir, but there's a widow lirea here, and sho'l got a boy, and he'll drive you over. He's a ulco little fellow, and Dea con Ball let's him have, his team for a trlllo, and we like to Ret him a Job when we cm." It was a hot day In July. Away up amonir the hills that muko the lower slope of the Mon adnock Mountain a friend lay very ill. In order to reach his temporary home ouo most take an early train to Hie nearest station, and trust to the lumbering old coach that made a dally trip to K . The train was late ; tlm staKO, after waiting some time, was tone. Tho landlord of the Uttlo wblto hotel appeared In his shirt sleeves, and leaning his elbow on tho balcony rail, dropped down on the hut ami thirsty traveler what comfort could bo ex tracted from tho opening sentutico of my sketch. "Would wo not come In and have some din ner?" "Yes." "Would he send for the dca- eon's team ?" 'Yes." "Yes." "And the boy i" And the dinner was eaten and the team came round an open bugy and an old white horse, and just as we were seated, the door of a little brown bouse across the way opened and out rushed the widow's boy." In his mouth was the last morsel of his din ner; he had evidently learned how to "eat and -run." His feet were clad in last winter's much worn boots, whose wrinkled legs refused to stay within the limits of tho narrow and failed trousers. As bis lugs flew forward, his arms flaw backward in au Ineffectual struggle to get himself inside ot a Jacket much too short In the sleeves. 'There he is," said tho hostler, "that's tho Widow Beebe's boy. I told him I'd hold the horse while he went home to get a bite." The horse did not look as if he needed to be held, but the hostler got bis dime, and the boy approached iu timo to relieve my mind as to whether hn would conquer the Jacket or the jaoket would oonquer hliu and turu him wrong side out. lie was sun-burned and freckled, large- mouthed and red-haired a homely, plain, wretched little Yankee boy; and ytH, as w e rode throD'h the deep summer bloom and fragrance ot the shaded road, winding up the long hills lu the glow of the afternoon sun, I learned such a lesson from tho little fellow as 1 shall not soon forget. lie did not look much like a preacher as he sat stooping; forward a little, whisking the flies from the deacon's horse, but his sermon was ono which 1 wish might hare been heard by all the boys lu tho land. As it was. I had to spurhlni on now and then by qaustlous to get 111 til to tell about himself. "My father died, ;you see, ami left my mother the Uttlo brown house opposite the tavern. You saw it, dldu't you, sir the one with Ihe lilac hushes uuder the whitlow ? Father was sick a lung time, and when he could not work he had to raise money on the house. Deacon Ball let hi in haye It, a Utile at a lime, and when father was gone mother found the money owed was almost three huu tired dollars At Hint she thought she would have to give up the house, but the deacon said, 'Let it wait awhile,' and he turned and patted me on the head, and said : 'When Johnny gets big enough to earu something 1 shall expect hltn to pay It.' 1 was only nine then, but I'm thirteen now; I remember it, and I remember mother cried, and said, 'Yea, Deacon, Johnny Is my only liape . now;' and 1 waudered and wandt ied w hat work I cou d do, I really felt as if I ought lo begin at nn.-e, but I couldn't think of anything lo do." "Well, what did you do 1" I asked quickly for I wa afraid ho would stop, and I wanted to hear the rest 'Well, at first 1 did very funny things for a boy. Mother used to knit socks to sell, and she sewed the rags to make rug carpets and I helped.' "How ? what could yoa do f " "Well, tho people who would like a carpet could not always get the time to make it. So 1 weut to the houses among the fanners and took home their rags, old coats and everything thing they had, and out in the wood-shed I ripped ind cut them; op. Then mother sewed them and sometimes I sowed some, too, and then I rolled them Into balls, and took them back to the owners, all ready to be woven into rugs." "ISut did they pay for your work !' ' "Oh yes, we got so much a ponnd, and I felt like quite a youug merchant when I weighed them out with our old steelyards. But that whs only one way ; we've two or three old applo trees out In tho back yard by tho wall, and we dried the apples and sold them. Then mne of tho farmers who had a good many apples began to send them to us to dry, and we paid them so many pounds all dry and had the rest lo sell." "But you surely could not do much In ways like these." "No, not much, lint something, and we had the knitting." "Did you knit?" "Not at first, but after awhile mother began to hare the rhematlstn lu her hands and the J ilnts became swollen and the lingers twisted, nnd It hurt lu r to inovo them. Then 1 learned to knit ; before (hat I wound the yarn for her. I had to learn to sew a little, too, for mother didn't like to see the holes without patches." And he looked half smilingly at the speci mens on III kiucs," "But you did not uit tid lho.su?'' said 1. "Yes, tir ; but I was in a hurry, and mother said tt was nol done as it oaght to be. They hud Just been washed, and 1 couldn't wait for them to dry. "Who washed them ?" "1 did, and ironed them, too, I can wash and Iron almost as well as mother can. She don't mean to let nie, but how Is she going to help it. She i nn liui'illy se her hands at all, and some days she cannot leave her chair, so I had lo Icaru lo ttiuke the beds and a, nub the lloor and wash the dishes, and I can cook almost as well as a girl." "Is it possible ? 1 shall have lo take supper with you on my way back to tho city and test your skill." "Johnny blushed, and I added : "It's a pity, my boy, 1 lint, you haven't a sister." "I had one," he said, gently, "but she died; nnd If she had lived, I shouldn't bate wished her to lift, and bring wood urn! water, and scrub us poor mother always did. ttouietimes I wish I could have sprung all the way from a baby to a man. It's such slow work grow lug up ; and It was while niollier was wailing for us to grow np that she worked so hard." "Hut, my buy, you cannot expect to be sou and daughter nnd mother all lu one, You cannot do the work for a whole family." "Yes, I can ; It Isn't much, and I am going to do il and the work my father left undone. I'm going to pay the mortgage, If I live." "Heaven graut you may," I said, fervently, nnder my breath; "for not many mothers have such a son." "Mother don't know I mean to do It and she Is very aniuus I should go to school, and I mean to, some time; but I know Just where the buys lu my class aro studying, and I get the lessons at home. Mother reads out of the book, while 1 am washing the dishes or doing her work, and wc have great fun. I try to remember and repeat it, and If wo come to anything we can't make out, I tako It over to the teacher in the evening; she Is very kind, she tells tue." Very kind I Who wouldn't be kind to such a by? I felt the tears coming in my eyes at such a sudden vision of this son doing girl's work, while his poor old mother held the book lu liar twisted hands and tried to help him to Id! I'll. But all Ibis docs nut earn money, my boy. How do yon expect to save If you spend your timo Indoors ?" Oil, I don't do girls work nil day; no In deed ! I have worked our taxeson the road. It wasn't much, but I helped the men build a stone wall down by the river; nnd Deacon Ball lets ine do a great deal of work for him, and when I got a chance to take anybody from tho hotel to ride, ho lets me have this team for al most nothing and I pay to l.im whatever 1 make. And I work on the farm with the men In summer; and 1 have a cow of my own and sell the milk at Ihe tavern; and wo have antnn heus, too, aud sell Ihu eggs, And In the f ill I cut and pile the winter's wood in the shuds for the people who haven't any boys and there's is a goot many people about here who haven't any tmys.'s lie added, brushing a II y from the old horse with the tip of his whip. After this wo fell Into silence mid rode through the sweet New Kiigluiitl roads, Willi Monaduock rising bt fore us ever hearer and more majestic. It Impressed me Willi a sense of bis rugged strength uni? of the hills, 'rock ribbed and inirieiil us the t.un :" bull glancitl from the mountain lo the little ted headed morsel of hniuaiiily at my side with a sort, ot recognition of kinship. Somehow lin y seemed to belong together. I fell as if the mine stur dy stuff were In them both. It was only a fancy; but It was confirmed the next day, fur when I came buck after seeing mv invalid friend, I called on Deacon Hall. '1 found htm while huii'id and kindly faced, lie kept the village stoic and owned n piell v house, aud was evidently very well to do. Naturally we talked of John, and the deacon said In me wilh tears in his old watery blue eyes : "Why bless your heart sir, you don't think 1' am going lo take Ills yuniev, do )"il? the tiuly sou of his lumber and she a widow and all tied up iu double bow-knots with rheu matics besides! True enough, 1 lei his father hate the money, and my wife, she says, says she lo me: "Well, deacon, my dear, We've not gut a child and shall ba just as well oil a hundred yens fruui now II the widnw never piisaeent; lint. 'e nding to my calculations it's better I . let the boy think he's uivln'.' Mlie says 1 might as well try lo keep a parrel of vinegar from worklu' us to keep that boy workln'. It's tha mother lu him and it's got to work. We think a great deal of tho widow, Mandy nnd me. I did before lever saw Mandy; but for all that we bold tho mortgage, aud Johnny wauls tn'work It oat. Mainly and uie, we are going to let him work. I tinned away, for I was going tt) sup at Johnny's house; but before I weut 1 asked the deacon how much Johnny hud already paid. "Well, I don't know; Maudy knows I'pass it to her she keeps Ihe book. Drop III before you go lo the train and I'll show II to you 1 dropped In and the deacon showed me the account. It, was the hunk of a sitings bank iu a neighboring town, and on its pages were credits of all the little sums tliu boy had earned or paid; and 1 saw they were standing to Widow Beebe's name. 1 grasped the dea con's band. He was looking away over the house tops to where Monadnock was smiling under the go ld night kiss of the sun. "Good-by, sir, good-by," he said, returning my squeeze with 'interest. "Much obliged, I'm sore, Mandy and me, too; bat don't you be worried about Johnny, When we see it we know the real stud tt takes to make a real man and Johnny has got It; Johnny Is liko that mountain over there chock full of grit and lots ot backbone." THE SOLID CONTENT A FARMER HAS, Funning is n slow way to make money, but then thuro is a law of I'liiiipi'iisation alimit cvcrytliing in tliis lift', and farming Iiiih its tilossitigs that oilier jitifsuitri do not ltavo. Tho fur me r bulongs to no body, lie is tin; fii't'Mt man upon earth and tho most indt'pt'iuk'iil. Ho lias inoro latitude and longitude Ho has a houso in tho country with plenty of puro air and good water. If ho makes but little in the field, lie has no invasion to Hpeiul but little, lie ean raise his own hogs, and sheep, and cattle ami chickens. I Tir wood costs nothing, and and tho luxury of big back logs and binning (ires in open lire-places all winter long is something that city people long lor, but cannot n fibril. My own farm cost mo 7,000. I have 120 acres of open land iu good condi tion, ainl il yields me on an average about live dollars an acre over all ex penses. S.iy nine per cent, upon the in.'estineut. Well, that is mighty little considering my own labor ami supervision. I've seen Ihe lime when I made live times as much without any capital except my head. Lint Ihen wo have to keep a pair of horses lo rido around and they have to be fed from the farm. There are little leaks all around, but still we tire happier on the farm than we were in the town, and feel more secure from the ills of life. Ve fear no pestilence or disease, no bur glars or lliieves We lock no doors, and Mrs. Arp has (juit looking under the lied for a man. I love to hvar the churn dasher splashing in the butter milk. I lovo to hear the rooster crow and the peacock holler; and see the martins sailing round the martin gourds. I love to hear a neighbor stop and chat about the growing crops. I love to tako ttu children with me to the watennill and fish be low the dam amid tin; roar of falling waters, or paddle around the pond iu an old leaky bateau. 1 love lo wander through the woods and glades, and wenr old chillies that can't get no older or dirtier, ami get caught, in a shower of rain if I want to. OKI man Horace remarked about two thousand years ago that the town was the best place for a rich man to live in, ami the country was the best place for a poor man to die iu, and inasmuch as riches wore uncertain and death was sure, it becomes a prudent man to move to t.ho country sis soon as ho can get lucre, farmers have their nps and downs, of course, but they don I collapse and bust up liko tradesmen. They don't go down under a panic. ru.t. Ai:i BABY IS DEAD. "Iiau-y is dead !" Three little words passing along the telegraph hi copied somewhere and soon forgotten. Jut after all was quiet again, 1 leaned my head upon my hand aud fell into : deep reverie of all those words may mean . Somewhere a dainty form, sti ami cold, uiiclaspeil by inotliei s anus tonight. F.vcs that yesterday were bright ami bine as skies ol June tliotipoil to -nii'iil tieneain wtuie mis thai no voice can ever raise again. Two soft hands, whose rose-leal I'm gets wete wont lo wander lovingly aroiiiiilSinother s neck and laee, loose ly holding white limls, quietly folded in conline.l rest. Soft lips, yesterday tippling with laughter, sweet ns wood land brook tails, gay as a trill ol for est bird, lo-niglit tiutesponsiye to kisn or call ol love. A liny mound snow-covered in soint quiet gr.ive-yunl. A silent home the palter of baby It-el forever hushed a enidle-ned mi pressed, liitlle shoes halt worn dainty garments shoulder knots of blue to mulch those eyes of yesterday folded with aching lu-arl uway. A mother's groping touch iu uneasy slumber, for the fair head that shall never rest upon her bosom. The low sob, the bitter tear, as broken dreams awake to sad reality The hopes of future years wrecked, like fair ships that suddenly tfo down in sLrht of land. Tlio watching of other habit dimpled, laughing, strong, an I this ono gone ! Tho present agony of grief, the future emptiness of heart, nil held iu those three little words, "Baby is dead 1 Indeed, it is well that we can copy and soon forget the words so freighted with woe to those who receive an send them. And yet it cannot harm us now and then to give a ten thought to those lor whom our care less pen-stroke is preparing such weight of grief. An indignant landlord writes thai. he adopted coils ol lire escape rope in his bed-rooms, ami that three gnosis successfully escaped, though there was iio (ire. They left unpaid bills. A NOVEL SUIT. Published by request of a Vhlslclan. A doctor named Hoylston had sued Peter Bcnuctt for his bills long over- duo, for attending the wife ol the latter. Alexander 11. btephens was the Bennett side, and uoliert Toombs, then Senator of the United Stales, was for Dr. Iioylston. Tho doctor proved the number of his vis its, their valtio according to the local custom, nnd his authority to do medi cal practice. Mr. Stephens told his client that the physician had made out his case and us there was nothing herewith to rebut or offset tho claim, the only thing left lo do was to pay it. "No," said I'etcr "I hired you to peak in my case; now speak." Mr. btephens told huu there was nothing to say; he had looked on to see that it was made out, nnd it as. I'cter was obstinate, and at last Mr. Stephens told him to make a speech outsell, il he thought one could be made. "I will, replied reter, "if Bobby I'oombs won't bo hard on inc." Senator Toombs promised, ami lVter began. ''Gentleman of the Jury. You and I plain farmers, and if we don't slick together these 'ere lawyers and doc tors will git ihe advantage ol us. I tin t no lawyer nor a doctor, and 1 tiu't no objections to them in tin ir proper places, but they ain't fanners, ntlemen of the jury. Mow this man Iioylston was a new doctor, and 1 went tor linn to come and doctor my wife's leg. Aud he conic, an' out some salve truck on if, nnd some rags, mt never done one bit ot good, gen tlemen of the iury 1 don't believe he no doctor, no way. There is doc tors as is doctors sure enough lint this man don't earn his money; but if you scud for him, as .Mrs. Sarah At kinson iltil, lor a negro as was worth $1,01)11, he just kills him aud wauls pay for it." "I don't thundered tho doctor. ''Did you cure him ?" asked I'cter, ith the slow accents of a judge i;h the black cap on. The doctor was silent, and Peter proceeded , "As 1 was saytn , gentleman ol the jury, wo farmers, when we sell our cotton, has got to give vally for the money wc ask, and doctors ain't none too good lo be put to Ihe same rule. And I don't be believe this Sain Iioyls ton is no doctor. Die physieim again put in with book at toy diplotn i if you think I am not a doctor." "His diploma ! ' exclaimed the new Hedged orator, with great contempt. His diploma I Oetitleinai' that is a Uig word for printed sln'i p-kin; aud it lidn l make no doctor ot the sheep is first wore it tiiir does it ol the man that now eanies it. A good news inper has more m it, and I II point, o il to ve that he am t no doctor at ill." I'he man of medicine was now in i fury, and screamed out, "Ask my i itioiits it 1 am not a doctor ! "1 asked my wile," retorted reter, in' she said as how she thought vott wasirt. "Ask in v other patients," said Dr. Dr. llovlston. "This seemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back. l'eler re plied with a look and tone of uuiitler- al'le sadness. "This is a hard savin' g"iilleincn of the itli'V, and one that requires me to die or have powers as I've earn tell ceased to be exercised since Ihe apostles. Hues lie expect me in nrtng tile angle Ii tbriel's cow to tout his burn beluie his time, and cry aloud, 'Awake, ye dead, and tell this court and Jury your opinion of llloyls ton's prni'ttce? Am I to go to the lonely church-yard, and rap on the silent tomb aud say to 'em ns is of rest from physic and doctor bills, '(let up here, you, and stale if you du d a natural death, or was huiried up suine by luctoi? lie says, 'Ak my patients,' and gen tlemen of the jury, Ihey are all dead. Wl.eie is Mrs. It ii.ley's man Sain? io a-k the worms In the graveyard where he lies. Mr. Peak's wo man Sarah was attended by him, aud her fun eral was appointed, and he had the eorpv! ready. Where Is Unit baby gal of Hurry Steph- naV She are where doctors cease from trotih- liu' and the Infants are at rest. "(icntleiiieu of tliu Jury, he lias ct chickens enough at my house lo pay fur the stive, and I furnished the '"!?, ami I d'Oi't 'ipp fi- lie charges for iiiaklui! her worse, in I even h - don't pretend to charge for cuilu' of hei, and I mil humbly thankful he never gave her nnthlii' lor Inwards, as he did his oljier patients, for sonie thin' made 'cm all die mlghly sudden'' Mere the applause made the speaker sit dow n In great confusion., and, in spite ot a logical statement 'f the ease by Senator Toombs, the duetor lost and IVler won. Consi.'Ikn'ck. A tender conscience is like the apple ol a man s eye; the least dust that gathers iu il aU'ects it. 1 hero is no surer ami belter way to know whether our consciences are dead and stupid than to observe what impress'tMis sinall sins make upon us. If we are not very careful to avoid all appearance of evil, and to shun what ever looks like sin; if wc are not so much troubled at the rising up or sin ful desires iu us as we havu been for merly, we ma v then conclude that our hearts are hardened, and our conscien ces are stupefying; for a tender con science will no more allow ol'sinall sins tuun of great ones. WASPS. KEV. DR. LAFKKUTT. Wo are persuaded that the wasp is not an incentive to rural piety. Why the country sexton allows them to hibernate in our Bethels we cannot find out. Tho first warm spring day is a signal for a parade of these count less' dormant insects. They attempt flight on heavy wings over the congre gation, nnd drot) on the heads ol the just, and unjust. The hair is directly ami rapidly shaken out to the terror ol neighbors. Tho hearers lose the thread of the discourse nnd their temper. Men wilh bald places are in a fidget; spinsters quiver with hysterics. Tho audience are concerned more about the flight of the was)) than the soaring of the preacher. They are on the look out lor the peroral ion of the wasp, and not the senium. There is usually n window in the rear of the pulpit. The wasps turn their faces towards tho rising sun. They buzz about the head ol the ex pounding K.ra. When he rises to the height ol some great argument he squats to escape a sting. The reser voir of poison secreted during the long winter and suddenly shot uuder the tender skin at the nape of tho neck has a disconcerting influence on "Thirdly." The wasp is not, a means of graec. Bear brethren, sit.1 wards, trustees, ex -horters ami leaders, please kill 'em. THE NEW RIVER MINES. Immi'nsh Com. Fiki.hs Amino, tub I.inb or Tin: Nolirol.K AMI U'KsrKKN ItllLltOAD, l'liil.Aiim.i'iiiA, dune lit. The Norfolk and Western Kill iu. id C,iiniiuy will soon have tho coal mines on Its New Ittver Division s i wel developed that the d illy shipment nf coal to Norfolk will amount to 1,'nlt) tuns. It is iiiicn- ded at an early day to double these shipments, and wilh llie-iiiirediiell.iii uf new capital mid mining fu' llitles to in.iku the shipments re.ieh the enormous Ilgure of -I'l.OOJ tons daily at tin expiration of the Hist year. Tho coal lands owned by the company are 2i,tl00 acres lu extent, and a vein on a largo portion wt the-e which is eleven feel In thickness Is estimated to contain 'J50,O0O,O00 tons of coal. 8o exlei- sivo la the coal business of the company to become, that Its management has purchased L tuibert l'olut, Just above Norfolk, upon whitn very extensive wharves and docks for the ship ment of coal are to be elected, aud, in connec- tlou wilh those already built ut Norfolk, will givu the Norfolk ami Western a capacity f r handling an uulitniled tiiniutity of coal, The situation of Lambert Point as a shipping har bor is said to bn superior to any other in Virgin- la, not excrpllug Newport News, City Point is also to bo made a conling station bv Hie Norfolk and Western Company, and he the first of the year docks aud wharves up.iti an extensive scale will be srecled there. 'TWILL EVER BE SO. Nearly all the great statesmen ol the present day can look back to tin time when they would rather stand in . , , , . urn mini ami water up to their knees and I'bdi for hull-heads than help plant potatoes in ihe best garden in the country. Kvcn the best kind of a hoy who will gladly work like a major at any other season of the year, seems to have a fearful falling out wilh all manner of labor in the spring. But somehow the spring garden is made each year, and the boy grows np to manhood, and finally has a boy of his own, and a garden that demands atten tion; then it seems that when he wants his own boy to help iu the gardt n, and lil'teeti minutes all if ho s.Ms the boy l work he finds him in tin! street playing marbles, he lorgots how it was when he was a boy himself, ami he argues with his hoy with a h ic-haudle. 'Twas ever thus. SENSIBLE ADVICE. There is uolliinu like their own home fot married people, mid especially for yoau in ir rietl people, even if the wife shall have to cook mid sweep the lloor and clean the win dows. Ifrlle.be a healthy mil tint exerc: will do her piod -and no yumo; m.iii who h is to labor for the llvlni; should marry a cji'l thai Is not heal'hy, stroiii; and l!liii to do lu r own work while they am too poor to bite servant. V'ltls tiling of marrylnj; a clrl that you have to liiro another to lake cue of Is not a w ise thlni; for a poor yonni; man lo do. He should look out for a ulrl that Is broad should' red, I slromi In muscles, havnin of course other virtues. Tha Ideal (jirl, the con stiiitpnve, tlcht laced, pirly-golng piano- playing, French - talking, fashionable cirl, can be no proper wife for him. This luu- KU.n;e the Kil ls may think unkind, but it Is not. It is better for fills that aro not tilled to he pool man's wife to r. -in on with their parents than li.Tuuie sticli. 11 u ill Ik heller or Ho n lovers t,oo, aud better for society. t'loritla ii- ticA. t - A beautiful wonuu is Ihe hell of the soul, the putaratury of the purse, and tho paradise of I the eyes. . Skinny Mr.s "Wells' Health Rencwer ' r, . Stores health and vlsor,cures Dyspepsia, Impo tence, Sexual Debility. 1. An Albany man invented a fire escape, and they say the thing knocked him down in his room ami broke - his leg belore ho could got it to the win dow when his small boy shouted "Fire." That IIi'siund or Mink Is three times the man he was before he bexau using "Wells' Health Kenewer." tl. Druggists. PROFESSION AI-AJRDS a. ELLIOTT."' Attorney nnd Counsellor at Law, KOtll'ULK, VA. Rooms 2 and 3 Virginian Building. oct I ly jTJ HANOI 4 BULL. .ITTOKVEVM AT LAW. UN PI EI. I), N. C. 1'r.ietlivs lu the counties of Halifax, Nash Kdtcc uutlic and Wilson. Collections made in all part of the Slate. Jan ii tf. I n.sMini, ju. ATlOltiliV AT LAW, (VMTI.ANO Nllt'K. tlAI.lt'AX CoUNTV N. C Practices In t!e county of Halifax nnd adloln- nur enmities, mid lu the Siipreuin court of the Slate. Hly. M. (I II 1 Z . A K 11, ATT4MlKY AT LAW, HALIFAX, X. C. oniee In the Court House, strict attention (Iveii f i , nil liranehes of the profession. not il ly ptlOMA.". N. 1ULL, Alloruej at Law, HALIFAX, N. Practices In Halifax and a.llultuiur countla ami federal and supremo courts. Will be at Scotland N'eck. oiieo everv fort- uU-ht. auxiSif T. W. M A SUN. I SOItI.V vr LAW, i! A KYHHU ltd, N. C. Practice iu til-' uiirls of Northampton and , also in Ihe Ki'deral and Sn Juno 8 tf. 1I . 1 1 ll 1 1 1 r eiuiiitie ir''llleeo,irtS. r A I. T li It K. I) A N 1 H L, Attorney mid ouiisellor At Law, w i: i. o o x, n. v. I'eiii l ie.'.i in Halifax and '1,1 joinliur counties. 'ai a'l'ulion -.'icon In cilleel tuns In ill p in - "f lb" suite mid oruuiot returns made. I. li. IT lv A t'TiMClEY AT LAW, WELDOX, N.C. Special attention priven to collections and remittances promptly made. may m. Q It. K. I.. UUNTEK, .s ii it u i: o si n e it t 1 1 t , Can lin found at Ills ofllee In Enfield. ftiro Nitrous Oxido (ins lor the Pain- iess ICxtraotiotj; of Tooth always on band. Juno tt. I IMIS . Hri.t.KN. JOHN A, Milling 1. L ti N it M 0 O It K, ATroitKKY.H AT LAW. HALIFAX N. C. 1'raetle.. in the counties uf Hnlifnx. Korthamn. ton, Kdirecomlio, put and Martin In the su premo court of the state and In the Federal I'ourls uf the Ktsteru IMstriet. Collect Ions mado in any ean ol tin) state, Jan 1 ly V. J . N AW, BAKER & CONFECTIONER, WKLDON, N.C. A very larj! supi'ly of Cakes, crackers. Candies, French and Tlnln. Ilaisiiis, Fruits, Nuts, ic. The largest slock of Toys of every variety ever orotiKiii io nits inaraet. Orders fur candles, cakes, ,xc, filled at short sr nolle,' at iSurlltern prices. W'i'.M n : an, 1 other earl les mo, filed as chean ns the ciieii.est. net lit lv. A. W I! r. S N & SO N, M VVI I'llTI'CKI'.SOl' A NO DKW.EItSIS ALL KINDS 0 ( a frillies, llnrnesN, NiuliUm, llridlcs. f nllars. Carls, Wheels. Axles. FamfJear' Horse I'liHIiiiiir, Lap liobes, 4c, Nos. li. net ly. V. 41 Ji JP fnlon Norfolk, Ya. T HE GREAT CURE RHEUMATISM- As It la f.tr all the painful diaraaca of tha KIDNEYS, LIVER AND BOWIL8. It eleiuisi'S Uie anient of tho aerld Mlun thai cause, tho ilivn.iriit .urn-rmsr which only the uclims of Uhpimalisiu coil ruoilM THO'JSAKCS Cr CAi.au or the worst tortus of ttua temnlo dtaeas have been quickly ivllovoil, and In ahort time PERFECTLY CURED, null, i. i nn mint iiui, siu.u nv nuriiuisTS. u'T es" "i'"-lit bv nmil. WEIAS.BICILAKDSON On.. BiirllTirtrm V net la ly W- W- HALL, lire it ml Lite Insurance A(en Can be found In tho RoanokeXewa en WKI.D0N, N. C. R E t X ES!EIN T 8 ,1 N'ew York Underwriters, "Airrioiittiunl" nf Waterfown, N.T.J Western, f Toronto, Canada, ratntleo, of Tarhoro , N . C. Lynohbunr, of Lynehnurff, V Ktiultahlo Life Insurance Co. of N. T, Will place rlsksln any otlur!fceo4 eompsry at low eaterates. JolfatUy . C. reprlttl

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