JOHUST W. SLEIDQE, l-noi'itiKTOR.
VOL. XXXL.
A. IT IE "W SP APBE 3T O IR THE PEOPLE
WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1897.
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NO. 4li.
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And Cure fur
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Savage
people,
have I
miprrstilion thai
un evil eye may be
ca upon a prifmn
to briiiK all Milts o:
triMiblc and mi
fortune. Thai
(terms like a prett)
foolish notion
but it ln't tmirli
WOTsf tllHH HOttH
of the notion
which civilized
ppople indul-re in
Oiu worn out u
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his parents he is pretty sure to die of con
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In all the weakened debilitated conditions
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We're on our way
-To
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Chimney Pipe, Siwh, Blinda and Doors,
Gucumber romps,
anu n iun hub ui
H ABDWABE,
For sale by
PLUMMER & WHEELER,
PETEBSBURG, VA. . .
myMlr.
AN ESSEX ELOPEMENT.
A l i.ic Character SkcKh from iho Tacpa
hainnck. Va.. Tiicwakr Dcmnciat.
The youthful couple, after clmlinf; the
paternal viilutico, nod linilinj; tho pcrsoi
on wlioiii they hinl ci i u n i cil to tie the
knot olidurale in his refusal, rcsolvctl to
iiiical .o 'iuire K , and swift Ij
drove from the pu'somigu to ihcrcsidi ncc
of "His llnnnr," where t lie 'Squire's
worthy wile pivo them a warm recepi ion ,
and promix il fori It with lliat ",101111"
should perform hc ceremony on tohl
nut V so hitipeiieil Ihut "Ills Honor,
acenrdiiiK to his cusloui, wheu the wind
was tiuht iu the liunliii", season, was oil
after the hounds, and I tie hoif o"hi
return uncurtain. So aflc partaking of
the goud cheer set hi lore them by their
wiinn-lieii'lcd hostess the would-be-hride
fearing pursuit, declined to wait longer
and they ugain set forth. Several uiiics
had been ir.tvet led, when, taking a by road i
knowu to the groom to be shorter llian the
regular highway, they chanced to meet
the Squire and seveftil ul'liis I'cliow-hun.s-uieu
returning I'rutu tho chase. The
wishes ol' I ho couple wore soon made
known, aud his Uonur invited I he whole
parly lo return with him to his icsiduuco,
promising to marry the pair at once.
Hut the lady feared I o retrace her steps
and perhaps encounter "Papa" before
being made over to "Joe." His llotior
was in a uandurj; he did not remember
the marriage ceretnoney, and the enoite
uicnt of the recent chase had inextricably
mixed up aud confused all the little iul'oi
malion he could call his own us to the
itws and ceremonies of matrimony.
But upon his stateme.it of his inability
to perform the ceremony at a distance
from his "authorities," the groom looked
serious and Antiio begun tu wipe her eyes.
This was too much for the Sipiire, and
throwing his bridle tein to a companion
he dismounted "Light," said he, ud-
dressing Joe aud Annie; aud ihey (ju'ckly
stood before him.
"Now, said his Honor, "Jiue yc.r right
hands," and the promptness with which
ic and Annie obeyed the injunction
ght have suggested to a icflec.itig
mind that it was not the first time the
said light hands had been "i'lucd."
Sam," said his Honor addressing the
uian who held his horse, "are we iu K sex
or Cir'iiDe?"
"Kssex," promptly responded another
of the pu-ty, while "Sam" peered dubi
ously into the woods, looked up and doun
the road, and replied"! ain't ccr a'U."
"Well," said the justice, "I reckon we
ain't over a hundred yatds from the li'ic,
and I rule the cjurt has j ivliciioo."
"Joe, do you look here, young man,
are you a lawful citizen of Ksex, ol
sound and disposing mind, aud not d: -qualified
fioui testifying before the col' I?"
"Judge," replied Joo caruesi'y, 'I voted
for Bryan."
"Well," said his hjnor, "that settVs
that point, who gives this gi 'I woman, I
mean in marriage?" There was a mi
inents silence, while the anxious couple
gized inquiringly at each other and his
Honor glanced appealiogly at the wit
nesses to see if soma one would volunteer.
No one did, but oueof the fox hunters
broke in with "Now, look hi re, John,
you r goiu' wrong; that's the q'ie.tion
the parson asks, but as an I'ffi ;er of the
Couimouwealth you oUiht to know t h it
marryiu' is making a civil cuoti e-t and
beard Judge Croxton say it took a val
lible consideration to a contract; you are
spiling the whole thing where j'uu
talk a'lotit giving."
His llouor's la 'f cleared at once, us
he annouced, "The Court rules lint pint
well taken "
"Annie, said he, "do you agree to take
this man whose right hand you now hold
to be your lawful wedded husband, to
love and obey hi n so long as both of
you live aud he keep out of the Pen
itential)?'' " Yes, sir," said Annie, faintly.
"Joe, d you solemnly swear you
can't laise your light hand, but there is
plenty of witnesses that forsaking all
otlur evils, you will cleave to this uno,
and honestly demean yourself as a law
abiding cil in 'n of thu State of Virginia,
so long as you shall live?
The proceedings bein suddenly inter
rupted by a terrific howl from 11 gaunt
hound whose appear mee when cuilrasted
with tho volume of soan l belied the law
of cause and effect. His Honor observed
with considerable asperity, "Dan, if you
don't make that bluzj faced fool you ate
riding keep his feet off Rattler, after the
ruu he gave us this morning, I'll fine you
heavy for contempt of Court; and turn
inc again to tho couple he remarked, "1
declare vou man and wife, having joined
you together according to tho directions
of St. faul and Mayo s guiue, aua
d tho man that puts you asunder.
"Constable, collect the costs."
"Now constable present," taid Sam,
with a erin. "Then I'll divide the costs
and collect 'em myself," said the Court
and planting a kiss on the cheek of the
bride, he remarked, "Settled, and Joe,
your costs are just what yu choose to
Kive.
OABTOI1IA.
I. a
IF I WERE RICH."
(inj Docs Nut Ask You to like as It' You
Were Rich tut to (ike AecurJini; to
Your Means.
Kate and Jack stood at the window
watching the people who passed It had
bee'i a snowy day, but the sun rouiing
out bright and clear ill the afternoon
made the st reels wet and sloppy.
"See lliat poor li.tle girl," exclaimed
Kai!c; "how wu her feet must be! Her
shoes are full of ho'ei. If we were rich
we might buy her shoes for her."
"And for that boy just behind her,
his shoes are worse than hers," added
Jack.
"And if we were rich wo miht buy a
shawl for that old peanut woman. See,
she is trying to get tho e children to buy
eanuls from her basket."
How poor sho looks! There comes a
real old man; if I were a rich man I wojld
just call him iu and say: Here, old man,
here'ssome dinner for you.and lake what's
left fur the children."
"Now, if I were rich," exclaimed Kat;e,
"that is the one I would hel-, that poor
sickly woman wMi a baby in her arms."
The children's mother had been listening
to what they said. She sat sewiug near
the window. "I am glad," she said,"to
hear my children express such kind
wishes, but wishing is not giving. Just
lo say, 'Be ye wanted be ye fed,' will not
make these poor people any less cold or
any less huug'y. You say that if you
wee rich you would help tins one or that
one. Ood does not ask you to give as if
you were itch but to give according to
your means. Now let us see what you
h tve to give, and then we can tell how
your good wishes will help thce poor
people."
All the money thojo children had to
spend they kept in th-ir little bank in
the nursery. They run upstairs and
played iu their mother's lap tho conteils
ofthe bank. Katie had 80 Jack had
8."). jack spent 81 of his money in gettiti';
his ska.es mended.
'Now, Kat'e" said her mother, "how
much of this will you give to carry out
your good wishes?"
Katie thought a moment, and then re
plied: Well, mother, I think I ought to
give the half."
"I know that poor woman who passed
just now with her bady in ber arms, and
I know that she is a very worthy woman.
What would you like to give her?"
Hcmcuibcriug how poorly the woman
was c'ad Katie suggested a shawl.
"Now, Jack, what will you give the
p)or boy who had on such a miserable
p lir of shoes.
Jack thought he could spend some
mouey to keep the boy's feet dry, and he
consented to givj shoes'
The next day mother went out shop
ping with the two children, and as the
result they brought home a warm shawl
and a pair of stout shoes. Mother had
added a little to the amount they had to
give, so that the shoes were thick and
stout aid the shawl was good and warm,
fu" mother knew both the poor woman
and the poor boy, and was quite sure these
articles were needed.
"You have f.iven what you had to
give," said mother," and that is much
better that wishing you were rich so that
you might give more. Always rcmcmbe'
that while (Jod does not ask for that
which lie has not given you, He does ask
for that which Ho has given." Child's
Paper.
DIDN'T MOVE THE TIIKE.
"George, I wish you would carry the
oleander ttce into the cellar tonight."
"Tub and all?"
"Of course, tub and all."
"Maybe you think you married a der-
lick."
"Oeorgc, what is the tuittor with you?
Have you been drinking?
"What do you take me for, a cyclone?"
"A cyclone?"
" Yes; cyclones move trees."
"All I've asked you to do is to take
the oleander d wn the cellar stairs. It
surely can't weigh moro than a few hun
dred p.mnds. What is tho matter with
jm?"
"I'm just thinking."
"Thinking ol what?"
"Thinking it would ba well to get
Mary Ann out of the kitchen on some
pretense. She's a good girl as girls go,
an 1 1 would not want to have her figuring
in the co irts us an accessory to hom
icide"
"George, yot've got a fever. You
must go right to bed, and I'll get you
some hot whisky and quiuiue."
"That's the ticket. But, say, Millie."
"Well, what?"
"Never mind tho quinine." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
CASTORIA
For Infant and Children.
ft. fit
ll Bill
StpUtEK
RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
Warning Notes Calling- the Wicked to Re
pentance. Young lions arc often very lean. Get
ting the big h ad, shriuks the heart.
There is no suffering like tho crucifix
ion of love.
The fears wo borrow are the hardest to
drive away.
Whenever the flesh is on the throne,
the devil is kiud.
I'nh-s you want to be poor, don't Iry
to keep all you gel.
The man will always be busy who tiuly
follows Christ.
The devil has no better helper than a
harmless looking lie.
It is harder to dine with some men
than it is to fust uloue.
We are rich, not in what we have, but
in what we cannot lose.
Is there anything the devil ein't meik
out of an envious man?
Live to do good, und you will never
tire of your employment.
When you pray for a revival, don't go
to church v'th a long face.
The more men disappoint us, the more
we should have fa'th in God.
When a little man is lifted up, every
body finds out that he is little.
The man who thinks he knows others,
is a great stranger to bin self.
The man who would be considered
wise often turns out to be otherwise.
Do away with a personal devil, and
there is no need of a personal Christ.
It is a mistake to call anything success
that is not according to God's plan.
If you knew that to-morrow would
bo your last day, how would you spend
this?
There are some very im orlant lesions
which can only be learned from a
mistake.
It is doubtful if there is any man who
has not at some time in his life been a
hypocrite.
The man who hrs lived only for him
self has wasted his time and robbed the
world.
There can be no true and abiding com
fort and peace that is not rooted and
grounded in faith. '
Tho man who has never uicd his eyes
to consider the mercies of God, Iras used
them to small purpose.
Turning a mad dog loose is a trifling
thing, compared to what the devil can do
with a gossipiug tongue.
In the very same breath with which
Jcsue said, "Let nut your heart be trou
bled, "he also said, "Believe."
The man who refuses to walk in the
light as God gives it, has only himself to
blame for what happens in thu dark.
Do good as often as you have oppor
tunity, and tho Lord will see to it that
your time and talents are well employ
ed. There was weeping at the grave of
Lazarus, but everybody threw a stone
at the place where Absalom was bui
iel. The business of fault-finding would
soon come to an end, if every faultfinder
could only be well introduced to himself.
Money is one of the levers that moves
the world, and it always moves it in the
right direction when a godly man con
tr.ils it.
The devil has a good grip on the man
or woman who never thinks of attending
church, no matter whether they live in
Fifth avenue or the slums.
While the devil's messengers were tel
ling Job everything had been lust, the
Lord's messengers wcie on the way to
say that his gain had been a hundred per
YOl'K MOTHER.
Honor the dear aged mothr. Time
has scattered snowfiikes on her brow
pillowed deep furrows in her cheeks, but
she is sweet and beautiful now! The lips
are thin and sunken, but thus) are lips
that have kissed many a hot tear from
childish cheeks, and these are the sweet
est lips in all the world. The eye is dim,
yet it ever glows with soft radiance uf holy
love which can nevet fade. All, yes; she
is a dear old mother. The sands of life are
nearly run out, bul, feeble us aLu U clu v'i!t
go further and roach down lower for yiu
than all others on earth, You cannot
walk ioto a midnight where she cannot
so you; you cannot walk intu a prison
whose bars will keep her oul; you cannot
mount a scaffold too high for ber to reach,
that she may kiss you and bless you in
evidence of her deathless love When
tho world despises and forsakes you, when
it leaves you by the way-side to die un
noticed, the dear good mother will gither
you into her foeblo arms and carry you
home, and tell you all your virtues, until
you almost forget your soul is disfigured
by vieo. L we her tenderly and cheer
her declining years with holy devotion.
l)e Garry "Why is it that when a fel
low is alone with a girl he loves thoy s ,'l -dom
play oirds?" Merritt "Because if
they did she would have to hold her own
bind
OABTOniA.
flu ha
ll all.
tffUUM
fitW,
TWO N.C. RAILROADS.
ne the Crookejest anJ Steeiest; the
the Straiclcst ani Must Level.
"For ils length the champion railroad
in this country for tunnels, steep grades,
lofty trestles aud shurp curves," said u
railroad builder, "is the Craubery Rail
road, which extends from Johnson City,
Tcnn , to the Cranberry iron mines in
North Carolina, a distance of thirly live
miles. It runs through a region of moun
tains, ravines and swift crooked streams.
There uru six long tunnels, cut through
solid rock, and a score or tnoic of trestk.i
spanniug deep, wide gorges, some oflhem
at a height of nearly -Nil feet ubove the
bottoms of the chusms. Grudcs of I'll)
feet to the mile are common. The road
was bcuo as a standard-gauge road, but
it was found impossible to build it of that
augc owing to the heavy grades and the
sharp curves, some of which almost
double on themselves, and it was changed
to a narrow gauge. Kven then it cost
over $50,00 a mile to build.
"While the Cranberry Railroad is per
haps, the erookedest and steepest railroad
of its kind in the country, another North
Carolina railroad is the straightcst and
most level. This is the Carolina Central,
part of the Seaboard Air Line system,
which for 125 miles has not thesl'ghtest
curve nor as much as a foot of cultting,
with no grade as much as a foot to the
mile."
FORGET THE HAD.
If you would increase your happiness
and prolong your life, forget your neigh
bor's faults. Forget the slander you have
heard. Forget the temptations. Forget
tho faultfioding, and give little thought
to the cause that provoked it. Forget the
peculiarities of your f.lends, and only re
member the good points that make you
fond of them. Forget all persona1 quar
rels Blot out, if possib c, all the dis
agreeables of life Obliterate everything
disagreeable from yesterday; start out
with a clean sheet for to-day, and write
upon it, for sweet memory's sake, only
those things that are lovely and lovable.
Disciples Exponant.
FIN D II EH AGE.
Girl of marriageable age do not like to
tell how old they arc, but you can find
out by following the subjoined instruc
tions, the young lady doing the figuring
Tell her to put down the number ofthe
month in which she was born, then mul
tiply it by 2, then add 5, then multiply
it by 50, then add it to her age; then
subtract 3U5, then add 115; then tell
her to tell you the amount she has left
The two figures to theri;',ht will tell you
her age, and the remainder the amount of
her birth. For example, the amount is
822, she is twcniy-two years old, and was
bom in the eighth month August,
A PORTABLE WELI
A Gordon county man recently
brought suit in a justice court against a
former landlord to collect 8u' fur digging
a well.
"Whut ycr got ter say erbout it?" asked
the court of the landlord.
' Wal, yer honer, I'll jest say I didn't
authorize him to dig no well. He dug hit
ufhisowo free will for his own use, an'
konscquintly hit's his well, an' he can jest
take the blamed thing an' go with hit to
Texas fur all I keer."
THE LAW TO MEET IT.
Gazzim "I'm going to have my
neighbor's chickens arrested. The roos
ters waken me every moring at 3 or 4
o'clock aud spoil my rest"
Maddux "There is no law which
authorizes the arrest of chickens "
Guz.am "Well, there's a law which
forbids the use of fowl language."
CONNUHIAIi MYSTERIES.
"A man who is just married tells his
wife everything."
"Yes?"
"And after ho gets better acquainted
with her he doesn't tell her anything:"
Chicago Record.
HOW DID HE KNOW-
"The usual seats? ' asked thu gentle
manly box office attendant.
"Er no; give mesom'Hhing cheaper,
in the pit "
' Here you are. Thanks. Glad your wife
got safely home froin her trip."
DOUBLE-BARRELED.
He, (angrily) It soeina to me that
the biggest fools are always marrying the
prettiest women.
She, (sweetly) John, you are a most
audacious flatterer. Ex.
"She "Then papa didn't refuse to lis
ten to y iu?" He "Not a bit. I began by
telling him I knew of a plan whereby he
could save money."
"Papa, why does the sun go South, in
the winter?" "Ob, I suppose be can af
ford to?"
A BASHFUL BACHELOR.
Nothing- Left Now Hut lo Sit in Solitude
and Nurse ihe Gout.
"Fate made me what I am," growled
the gouty old bachelor who has his lux
urious quarters within u block of Grand
Circus Park. "I was intended by na
ture to love and be loved, and lo have
the joys of old ago in a bright family
circle instead of being shut up in a deco
rated dungeon like this. The fickle jade
has played me a tuighly lueiii Ire-k.
"Why didn't you marry like a sensible
fellow?" asked the old friend who was
making a duty call.
"Fate, I tell you; predestination, hard
luck or some of those other ugencies to
which we charge all mit'ortuno. When a
young man I ws s.uitteua score of limes
and hit so haid that it duz.'d inc. It made
an awkard sort of au idiot of me. I
could neither think, talk nor properly
control my emotions. The only thing on
caith I was afraid ('' was a pretty woman
and she simply paralyzed me."
"Pshaw! Nothing but bashfulness, and
you could have overcome it."
'You don't know what you're talking
about, It wasn't anything ofthe kiud.
When in love I was controlled absolutely
by some ulterior force. If I attempted to
croH.i a room to address a young lady, my
fectwould walk me out ofthe door. When
I bowed I would fail to straighten up till
some one broke the spell by a word or a
laugh. I'd start to say som ething and
the result would be something else en
tirely irrelevant."
'Why didn't you make one grand ef
fort and throw off the strange control?"
"That's what I did when I was visiting
in Tennessee and fell in love with the
grandest woman that ever lived. One day
in the garden I set my teeth and deter
mined to propose. Then I passed out of
myself, I walked through a flower bed,
fell over a baby carriage into a barbed
wire fence, swore like a pirate and came
up with a face like a cranbeiry patch.
The sweet creature ran. So did I. That
was my last love affair. And now there
is nothing left but to sit in solitude and
nurse the gout."
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