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JOHN" "W. SLEDGE, proprietor, VOL. XXV. -A. 1TEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1894. TEIo. M.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. AVER 38 ARB SUGAR-COATED, EASY 70 TAKE, And a Bare Curb tor SickHtad .cho, Biliousness, Ccri ;pation, and Dyspepsia. y Keep tLe System in Perfect Order. !'.ir venrx," writps f'.MiiliE K. Stim-kwh.i., uf Chi'sliTllild, X. II., "1 v.'iis nlllictcil Willi' mi extremely scv. rn piiin in t lit- lower purt of the c'r.-.l. The feeling wan lis if a ton w i i i , : 1 1 was luiil mi 11 spot the size of in V iiiiicl. I'lirhiK t In attacks, the p' ,-'';.', il ion would st.iiul In drops on my face, and It wiis nguiiy for me tn make hiillii'ii'Pl effort even to wliis per. They ciiine liiniilenh, nl any himr of the day or nin'it, lusting from thirty minutes to half a day, leaving uh imi'iIimiIv ; hut, for several days after, I was quite profiled and .('. Smn 'limes tlie attaeks were almost daily, then less trei leid. .'.lie. uii'int fimr years of this suffer, lug, I was taken down i h I. ii.m tvp'mii! fewr, and when 1 began to recover, I had the .'r.l ,ut k d im ml t.'iHii.li' 1 ever eperienced. At tl:3 first of the li ver, my ni 'liier nave me AVER'S Tills, my doctor recommending" tlnm ns Icing oetl'T liitm nulling lie could prepare, I continued taking these lidi, and siific::! was the benefit derived that tliiring nearly tbirtv yeaif I have l it one attack of my former trouble which i liiid r. iii'.ily to tiie fi'ine n nil d," "For a long tine1 l ;! a sufferer from riomaeh, liver, anil kidney troubles, experienclni; m e 'i ili lin'ty In di;!estlon, with severe pains in the lumbar region and other parts of the I .ly. Muring tried a variety of remedies, Including warm haih.i, with i.mlv temporary relief, about three months ntri I lieg-Mi the us" of AYI'.i.'s 1 ills, mill already my health is so much improved that iJadh testily to I lie superior merits of this medicine," Manhi.i, .Iiiihk 1'i.i:kiua, (!.orto, Portugal, AVER'S PELLS Preprd by Dr. J. 0. A; er ft Co,, Lowell, Mui. os;o Hflootlve mm m 4 10 D 1 NAVE'S TRIPLE, VIOLET WATER, WOODWORTll'u K1.URI1IA WA TER, AND SACHET POWDER. New Line of -8 T A T I 0 N E R Y $ Just Received 150 Linen wriiiur Tablets, which I'll sell Ht a small PKOI'IT. ACCURACY W o 'A O 9 .3 H SB M s Q 03 PURITY! sug brand Prepared Paints. Pur Whit Lead k Ljnseed oil. J'U sell paint at a Terj small margin. Stock ol LA NUKE I'll '8 (jAKIH.N THE. PLACE TO GET JEDRUQS JEDICIflES AT THE "WEST PKTOES, t IS .A.T ZOLLICOFFER'S, NGTON AVE. OPPOSITE E. B. BHED. -3 1 A FACE AT THE WINDOW. A little face at the window, Two little feet tiptoe; Eyes open wide as they peer outside In search of a form they koow. A face of weary wonder; A little tongue all dumb, While to ami fro the people go, Hut the right one doesn't come, A little face transfigured; A cry that is low and sweet, And a merry laugh to telegraph The juy to the liny feet. The face is gone from ihe window; And, toddliug over the flour, He laughing goes, for the baby knows That siiniebody's at the duor. THE FARMER. HIS RKIIIN 1IKIIAN WITH A HAM WILL LAST AS I.ONll AS TUB SH1NKS AND THE KA1N KAI.I.S. AND SUN Mankind could survive the collapse oi all other industries but this: The one essential man is the farmer. He is the king of all and at the same time the ser vant of all. His reign began with Adam and will last as long as the sun shiues and the rain falls. He is cme of the few laborers who never go ou a Mi ike, and who could ot affurd to go on a strike. His shipping work wt.uld be as bad as cutting off the world's supply of air. The farmer not only gives the world its bread and meat, nut only sustains 1 lie bodily life from year to year, but he forms a vast surplus of reserve capital upon which the ciiiwns and nations are constantly drawing for tho maiutainauce of their physical and intellectual health. Coun try air and country light seems to make strong souls. The freshness and breadlh and originuiiiy which comes front close communion with naiure, ate Dei did to give life and blood to lie Ji plilrd and urban system. From the beginning of our hislory, llie farimr has cuiitributed rcat men lo American business and pol- iiiis, pn vldiug iuU'lltciual and iural well as phjsioul maliiiiil for the country and e have reason to be tlmukful that we can look to biiu lor this also in tha fulure, as well us fur the preducls uf the si.il. Baltimore Sun. A IIOKSIJ IN TI1K KLKMKNTS Durham Knn. Another tigu or wonder nus seen iu the eastern skies this muruing at sunrise. Those who wiintsscd it say thai the sky Was perfectly clear and just above th onion in the east were tour round spots f gn y clouds the sie of the tup of an ordinary round table. In the centre ul oue of the upper spirts was a ri d figure in almost the perfict shape of a horse A red stnak uppuirtd to extend from one spot to tl ilicr, aid tbcu the spots ed up anuj"iuid the one in which was the red In rsc, and thev turmeil lino D cloud sirtuk, but all the time the pi tine of the hcrse remained upon tl e oloud until the suu was up above tl c heriton. Our informant says iluitrscle the aitentp'n uf a number of persons, aud the fitst he kntw of It, he saw th. ui ooking aud some one remarked lhi there was a hi rse iu the elements. He says the piciure was a beautiful one 3 ON. N. C. FREQUENT ARRIVALS. 1 M BnT HLK7TID MATUML.-I HOUK8 WITH GREAT CABS, BUSHES, X AND CI0AB8 JUDGE EDWARD D. WHITE, of Louisiana, Recent); somlnatad by President Cleveland, and Immediate!; connrmed by the Senate, as Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Born In Louisiana In 184S. Served In tue cn. federate army, In the stale legislature and as associate luntlce uf the State Supreme Court. Afterwards elected to the U. S. Senate, taklnn bis seat la 1HI A MYSTERIOUS METEOR. IT SURPRISES A MISSISSIPPI KA1U1LH BY DROPl'INU NEAR II 1 M. PROCRASTINATION. LET US WORK WIIILK WE MAY FOR TIIENIIHITCUMES WHEN MAN'S WORK is Done. THETHOl'BLU. Krnni the Wushiintiiu bUir. I 'I hire was trouble in the coffee com- pli sn-nid yeutig wt uil s eye as two pulicemen escoritd ber from the alley. " hat made you hit that girl? asked one ol tne outeers. "W hat made me hit 'er? I had er mil ter hit 'tr. Das what made me ht er," he wasn't delng anything, i'011 were milking all the trouble." '1 had tr right ter make de trouble. ' I' was her talk dat made me smash ir. 'What did she sit)?" 'She didu' say nuffiu. She"Jea' siuni- Vated " "Well osked the 1 nicer impalienily, "what did she iusitiuaie?" "'Twas 'bout ma m w spriug dresr. She done and me how I got du lattl offen dc ham covtr dat I w wed in tel. sleevea. An' deo 1 simHicd er." Mr. Mattox of Mississippi was housing bis hcus. The night was sutnewhat cloudy. He had visited his burns, and was on the point of returning to his house when all at once he heard a pe culiar hissing sound overhead, and at the same instant a luminous glow fell all around him, us if the moon had sud denly emerged from behind a cloud. He looked up and was almost paralyzed at the sight of a brilliant, fiery globe de scending through the air with the speed of lightning and shooting a cuuietlike tail far up into the heavens. So rapid was the descent that it was only visible fur a second, but in that brief' space, he says he suffered an eterni ty of unspeakable terror. Tho fireball struck the earth, yilh. a dull report scarcely iltlO yards IVom where ho stood. It was some minifies befure he could recover the use of his limbs, when run ning hastily to the house, he amused the family and several laborers about the place, telling them a cotnet had struck the earth and they had only a few minutes to pray. In a short while the whole plautatiun was up, and women and children were heard crying and supplicating heaven fur mercy They cuuld nut get eluser than about 'i0 yards on ac-c.nu.ut of the heat and uoxjous fumes of sulphcr aud gas which the stone emitted. The stone sis zled aud rteamed and shot out jets uf steam or vapor fiuut a thousand pons Hy duyliulit it showed up a dull, diti.y black aud Wits full uf pores, which still shot out juts of vapor i f an offensive smdl which almost stifled. I he stone is evidently imbedded iu the ground for some distauee and shows only about a foot above tho surlaee. Mr Mattox estimates il to be about the siije of a hogshead tltkig I'vtf. 1 UK jpOWElt OV UOI,D. (r'lutn fhelJelrolt free Press.) He loved her. She loved him. I'hey loved each other. But her fath"t objected because the young man w is almost a total stranger The lime had come when the youth must usk the father for his daughter, and ho fcan d in gu to him. He had a long conference with his beloved. He t Id her he did not want to ask tor fai ber. 'limrgi', dear," she asked in a 1 remit Inus whim r. ' how much are youw. rih? "A mi li Imlars, dar ing,' lie re ponded proudly licrlaiv sit- c i ike twilight. Then y 11 d n l bavo t ak him," slip mid wnh a .1111(10 lr St. "Let bltU kuuw 1I1111 and he will ask you " Aud tl-uf egiVt-tin- old m ill a lip. All of us, even the most conscientious, are disposed to procrastinate. We say to ourselves when a duty arises is our pathway; "I will do so to morrow." But alas) to morrow may not present the same opportunities, or may never come at all We know not what a day may bring forth; "and thee the all beholding sun shall see no more." Our life is but span at the longest and liable to be broken before the three score years aud ten have passed. The drunkard say "I will stop to morrow. But at night us he staggers home such a home as it is his stupitied mind dues not realize that the engine is almost upon him, even when the engineer gives the warning whistle, and he is borne to the home In has ruined and to the faithful wife who has prayed in vain, a mangle curpse. f riicrasttnationl He meant to reform next day. But next day for him is one endless night. They say th mad to hull is paved wiih goud reso lutions. W lieu the last day comes and we stand before the Judge of the Universe, with what bitter lamentations will we look back upon all that we meant tn do in the future, but failed to ucuuuiplish. Our opportunities never stay, they are like the swallows that ahtde a season and are gone. A young girl was walking along one of the princi pal streets in a large city, when she saw a poorly clad girl standing on the pave niuiit She iutended speakiug to her a cheering word for she was a Kiug's Daughter, but seeing some of her cum. pinions approachiug, she hastened on Her opportunity fur speaking a kind wurd has gone, never to return again, We du nut pints, or tkutrotyl of life hut auce, and we cannot turn back aud re trace our footsteps, or accomplish some thing icli undone, ne are tramping onward and our hearts are "beating funeral marches to the grave." Tb let us wurk while we may for the night comes when man's work is done. Charlotte Democrat. Frederick Locker, 111 hi"Palehwurl," tells a stoiy in illustration ol In unwillinguess amoug eettain circles to allude to suen a tiling as a tej. a ym trues in hut haste to letch a doctor tor her sister, who, she says, has a brokeu a limb. "What limb is it?" says the lootnr. "Oh. I oau't tell Vou which limb," says the girl. "But you uiuM,' replied the doctor. "Hang it! is it the limb that she threads her needle with?' "No, sir," says the girl, immensely relieved, "it's the limb she wears h r garter ou." Beklen,BAriiicaMalv. Th best aalve in the world fir cult, bruises, Sorea, uleers, salt rhetttu, fever ores, tetter, chapped bauds, chilblains, oorns, and all skiu eruptions, and puei titrelj onrea piles, or n pay required. It il guaranteed te give perfect satisfaction, - - miu refaiidrd. Price Z ceuU IX r (from Iiife.) A What Is the extreme penalty fur bigamy? B Two iii .ihers in law. l.UAiaiueed t'ui-e. m We author an our advertised druggist to sell Dr. Kiug's New Discovery lot consumption, coughs and cnldB, upon this eondniiiii II you are ainictea wiin aoougb, cold or any lung, throat or chest trouble, and will una this remedy a directed, givlug It a fair trial, and eiperienoenu tati lit, yuu may return the bottle and nave your money n-luuuca He could not make this offer did we nut know tha. Ir. King's New Discovery could be relied ou. It never disappuiuts Trial bottles tree at Wtu Cohen' diug stare Large sum SOc and f I OH. I'OWElt OK PASSION. Ardent Lover Do not turn from me M itbcl! Something seems to tell me we were born for each other. In the elo quern glance uf your eyei the flitting blush that mantles your brow and cheek and iu the very loues of your voice there is somethiug that stirs my tutuust, beiog to its profouudest depths. Kiodn ualttrs at" linked by sympathetic cords that vibrate iu unison when love touches the beattsi rings, aud the chamber the soul resound with the melody awakos Deep responds to deep. Un beard hy the oold world, the thrilling music pulsatoa frutu heart to heart aud the listeuing angels bend down l hear love's immortal symphony. Mabel dearest .Viable, does not yuur own heart' answering thrill bid you to hearken to my plea and make me the happiest uiuitalt? Oirl of the Period Gee whii! Chicago Iriliunc. Or Too. an all worn out, rosily loud d big. It Is general dul'llit; 1 ry miriMjV'A iko.v ''JIT. noth- PRAYER. HEN WK readtiieword, uod speaks TO US, WHEN yVE PRAY, WE SPEAK TO HIM. TKINIiU, (from Truth.) "Your little brother's in the hall," He muttered; "we must stop." "Oh 00," she answered, "not at all; He's looking out for pep." OR DTPCPI, tadlrestlon, and faomsck dtoorden, takt taowii ikon Bmsan. AH dMl.ti keep It. tl per botu. Genuine ht tnte-nuk aai emawtl ml Uaaseja Wffv A woman's beau ideal is the man who A'. Y. lhrahl. Pray without ceasing. I- Thessaluiuus, 17. Wc are frcijtteutly tuld that prayer is duty, but it is vastly more tliau that is a privilege. We might go still further and say that is a necessity. All men pray either consciously or unconsciously, eveo the atheist who recognizes a blind Puree in the universe which may either fall with crushing weight or bear him to goud fur- no, and to that Puree he utters an ejaculation in tbe emergency, as though could hear and save. Prayer is either an offering of gratitude or a petition fur help. If the Christian's faith is genuine he keens the way always open between himself and heaven, feels ipiite a liberty under all circumstances to state his case in his own terms, is sure hat the Lord has not retired beyond hearing distance, and that what he asks for will be granted if 00 the whole it is est that it should be. This relation between us and the upper world incites to nuble action and mighti ly repels from vicious practices. To use homely illustration, when a man is possessed hy the grand passion of is life the purity of the woman whom luves is in subtle way transferred to his own soul. That love both restrains and urgeB, not in her presence only, but also in her aWuco. She may be invisi ble fur a time, but she alill controls him. The deed which he would do without ouipunction if he had no such love be comes impossible because in imagination er eyes are looking iutu his. A good wuuiun s love theretore is the strong est moral force iu any turn's life, for in some mysterious way she has turuwn Ins standard down and set up her own in its stead. In like manner, the knowledge that God is solicitous fur your welfare, that the spirits of the depurted, like "a cloud ol witnesses," are round about yuu, that all heaven is nigh at hand, can scarcely fail to give that kind of dignity which makes baseness repulsive and virtue attractive. The artist pupil draws a straight lint when I lie master stands at hisVde, though he may be careless when he is alune. If the master has a personal interest in his pupil and says, "Yuu will du grand work some day ; I am always iu the sludiu, cuu suit me at your pleasure," the sludeut is enkindled, aud all the talent which na ture endowed him with is brought to the surface. Te be able to call on the Father when ever our urgency requires His presence, and to feel that a whispered cry will bring to our aid a goodly etunpany of those invisible beings who "walk the earth both when we wake and when we sleep," is to have our lives so changed by what seems to be magic and what is really mystery that our outluok is bright er, our ambition is higher, and even our afflictions are radwut with unwonted hopefuluesa. There are some practical details in con nection with this subject which are quite worth considering. Tbe value of a prayer does not depend in any degree upon its form or upon the attitude you assume, but colety on your filial confidence and yuur earnestness. Yeu may kneel or stand or prostrate yourself according lo the demands of temperament or habit; yuu may us the words which have been formulated by others and which have been sanctified by tbe usage uf generations, or you may ex press yourself iu such language as you can Butnmon at the moment tho-e mat ters are of no oonsr-ouence whatever. If your child i'eebi grateful for the lo,va vou have bestowed, or wishes to ask a lavor which you may or may not (rant, according to your best judgment it makes but little difference how he tells the story provided his Words oeuie warm from his heart. Hut if he thanks you in a perfunctory way, and gives you the itnprel iau that be is performing a rather ilk some duty, he may speak iu choice lan guage, but his vuice lis" au music for your ear. Kvcr;thia depends on bis consciousness that yuu are his friend, and on his eager and complete appreciation of that fact, A great many prayers are not prayers at all. A great many winged words fly as high as the roof and then drop to the ground again. One oan commit as grave an offence by praying insincerely as by not praying at all. A soul is neither saved nor helped by words without feel ing, for such prayers are very close to mockery. The true prayer is a quiet talk with the Almighty behind closed doors. Or on cad Bit in solitude and commune with Him without utteiiog a word.. An eagar but unuttered thought will reach heaven more readily than the most gold en form of speech that lack either faith or oouldcnce, Many of the prayers that bava nailed a multitude of aaiuhter inj spirits from the skie hart had at or a simple jaculatiun, If one is profoundly sure that the In finite Presence envelops him, that an In finite Providence guards and leads him, and accepts that Presence and Providenee as the controlling power of his life, he prays "without ccusing," for the spirit of prayer pervades his life. His lips may never utlcr a wurd, aud yet he cemmuues with I lie Lord. A great artist has painted a picture in which Chiist, whu is "ibe light uf the world," is represented standing at the duor in the night time with a lantern iu His hand. You mistake, therefore, when yuu think of prayer as a ladder up which the soul laboriously climbs to heaven. The Man with the Lantern is always near when the shadows fall, and if yuu pray you simply unbolt the dour and bid him enter. He hangs the lantern in your room say ing, "While ibe night lasts you will need il; when the morning da'vns I will return and take it to other homes which sorrow bus darkened." As Saint Augustine said, When we read the Wurd, Gud speaks to us; when we pray, we speak to Him. NO. 2. iMENTS. THE DKl'SKAKirS APPEAL. The liquor business of necessity blunts the fiuei sensibilities of the man who en gages in it. His heart becomes adamant. His conscience is hardened. His soul becomes imbrulcd. 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