JOHlsr "W. SLEDGE, i-uoi'mimm.
VOL. XXXIV.
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F0R THE BLOOD
W. W.KAY
-Dealer In-
Liquors, Wine;
CROCERIES AND CIGARS.
Why not cull on V. W. Kay, as he ie
open both niht and day. Keep the fo'
lowiujj brands f well known whiskies:
"Old Oscar Pepper,"
Gump'i G. P. R. Rye.
Stamp Straight,"
"Ooidon Baltimore Rye"
and other brands
I sell Garrett k Co.'s pure Chocko
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I keep tin-best of every thine my
ine. u.l'olite attention to all at Kay V
west side R. It. Shed.
my21y.
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Wholeiiile anil Iletuil"
. IHriiler Iu Fine '
Staple
and
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Crockery, Glass Tin, and wooden and wil
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Hop and Poultry Kood, and (irove's
TtWtelrtM (MiUI Tonic. AU'XiuhUt'i
Liver mid Kidney Tonic tor purityiny
the lilood. Tliitu tonic i wurruuted 01
money rt'l'iinded.
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;o. 2t Wiisliiiiton Ave., Weldon, N. C'
dec 11 lv.
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FANCY 0001)8 and NOVKI.TIER.
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Hats aud houuets made ami tiiiumeil U
order.
MRS. P. A. LEWIS,
Won K n
W, T. PARKER.
Weldon, N. C
-DEALER IN-
Groceries
Iptctries
Queensware, Cutlery, Plows, plow Castr
ingn, Hum, Forks.
RECEIVER AND SHIPPER OF
Corn.Hay & Oats
auglly
A Rural Depositor.
WANTED HIS MONEY.
DIDN'T WANT TUB NKW CRISP HANK
NOTES, HUT WANTED Ills l'AR
T1C11.AR 1IRANII.
He c;iilc in from the rural districts
and approached the village bank cuutious-
ly, and with leur and trembling.
lie and the cashier had been friends
in bnh I, but they hudu't met since
the b.ink upeiied fir business. In fact,
be hadn't "been to tnwn" in three years.
''Jirhn," he said, to the easbier, "hae.
you trot lime to step outside u minute?'
When the cashier did s.i be led him to
a fence comer, iiullid out a bu of money,
and Haiti, solemnly :
"John, you au' me has been ol' fr'ens?"
yes"
"Knowed each other senco boyhood."
"Certainly."
"Kat at the Hiimo table?"
"Ollen."
" ' I'l'mli-d the same ebureh ?"
'Kriqiiently."
' John! '
"I'm listening ?"
"Here's three hundred dollars!',
"Three hundred "
' Three hundred dollars, John all
counted niiare an' fair !"
"Well?"
"Now, you keeps money fer people,
don't you ?"
"I do."
"John, I wan't you to keep this fer
me fer one week, John jest fer one
week I An' I want it when I come fer
it, John I want it j ;st like I give it to
you !"
In about a week's time the rural depos
itor was in the bank demanding his
money.
The cashier counted it out lo him in
crisp, new bills.
"That ain't my money, John," be said.
"I want my own money !"
"You want three hundred dollars,
don't you ?"
"Ye?."
"Well, hero oie three hundred dol
lars !"
"Hut it ain't my money, John my
money nbat 1 left with you I I give you
$1011 in 810 bills, $100 in silver, $50 in
Ht'y-eent pieces, an' 850 in quarters! I
want my owu uiMiiey, John jest like 1
iiive it to jam !"
Al'ier much aruirijr and explanation
he was persuaded 10 leave with his 8300,
but as he went away he was overheard lo
mutter:
"I reckon it's all rij;ht but I didn't
think that John would take an' spend my
money the money I left with him I
di'ftl't .think John would ha' done it I"
OLD OUKII'.r.Y WAS KIGIIT.
Wallace P. Keid in Atlunu Constitu
tion says :
Some intelligent people profess a singu
lar ignorauee of the nature of an adver
tisement, and they tt.ro all the time urging
newspapers to publish, free ol charge,
reading matter which p!aiu!y serves the
private interests of those who baud it in
or request its preparation.
"This sort of thing used to make old
Horace Oreeley mad aud it drew from
him the following periiucgt advice:
" 'Vheu you waul a article inserted
to subsctve some purpose ether lliau the
public good you ehoultl offer to psy lor it
Itisuotju.it that you should elicit the
use ot the uewspaper columns tthe pub
lisher's slock io trade) to promote your
own or your Irieuds' private iutcre-t with
out pa)ing foriheui. The fact that you
are a subscriber gives you no right in
this respect, if the paper is not worth its
price, dou't lake it.: True, you ma)
olieu crowd an article; iu, through tin
editor's enuiplaceucy, 'that you ought to
pay lor, but he sets you down as a spongi
and sneak, and is (jenerally right. Ii
you wish to use the columns of any jour
ual to promote your own or some othci
person's private interests offer to pay f,.i
it; there is no other honest way ' "
Hoy, said the great mssiine editor l.
hia nearest hireling, run out and get no
a red peoeil. This story is so tiogcr.
with pessimism thai a blue pencil marl,
does not show
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THE JEALOUS LOYEE-
IIY FRANK
El' I kill only fin' the words I know jest
w hat to tell :
It's, "Maria, ef I'erevcr fercver fare-you-
well!
My bout is on the shore, au' my bundle is
on the sea,
But fare you well, Maria a long farewell
IVom me !"
Don't ax of roe the "what-fcr:" I've liearn
that six yoniiK men
Culled rouii' on Siitul ty eveniu' au' staid
till alter ten !
You smiled on ever' one o' 'em that's
jest the word I'm tol'
An' me a-hiingiu' roun' outside, in
conip'nv with the col'!
DEACON GREY'S CHOICE.
13 Y I1KLKN WHITNKY CLAKK.
"TTTei.1,," Mis. Ferobia Cymonds
VV laid aside her new poke-honuet
with its lavender ribboos,-and slipped off
her plum-colored alpaca dress, while a
smile of satisfaction spread itself over her
rather Bharply marked features. "If
Deacon Gray don't mean something by
his attentions then I'm mistaken." It
was prayer meeting night, and Deacon
Grey bad just escorted the widow to her
domicile. "This is the third time hand
running that he took me homo eveniog;
beside last Sunday was two week ago
that he walked to church with me."
Mrs. Ferobia's method of expression
was somewhat mixed, but her facts were
undeniable.
The deacon had escorted her to aud
from evening prayer meeting on several
occasions, and had thus become the sub
ject of much gossip among the village
folks.
"Deacon Grey's a sprucin' up," they
Bail. "Lookin' round for a wife, of
course. Wal, he mout do worse, though
the Widow Cytuonds is poor as a church
mouse, fur as property's coosarned."
They said nothin' of Widow Cymouds
temper, however, which was as uncom
fortable to encounter as the barbel wire
fence whieh surrouuded the uVae m's well
kept farm.
Possibly, the widow had a talent lor
concealing any little acerbities of tempi .
from the outside world, and bemuwiug V t
ill-nature only on the members ol her
own household.
"Yes," she mused, tapping the home
made carpet with her foot, while a shiewd
look shone in her steel-gray ey 'ys,
to my tuind it's just asgood as s, tiled,
and I mean to do over my wtiUiu 'ri 18
I ain't woru it much, aud it'll - ive buy
ing a new one. Hut there s one n.iog
about it 1 hero the widw put lo r mt
down emphatically "that old maid si-ter
of the deacon's has got to do most iJ the
work if she lives with u-. I d .u't l ave
any shiftless, do-nothing folks a!; ' me,
but of course I won't say a wo ' now."
"La!" said Miss Letitia Pi;, popping
her head into the widow V room.
bright and eail; 'he ' t mortiiiii: - "la,
now, Ferohy! is it set led vi? I'm dy
ing to know!"
"Well ahem!" saiic wi low. look
ing conscious and trytni? ''' blush
" 'taint exactlysettled ibn k tl e time
aiu't set, but it's all undent" "'I oetween
us, you know."
"Of course," assented Misi Pipes.
"Well, I reckoned it was understood,
that you areas good as e waged,
course. How soou do y.;u thin'a . i
be?"
"Well," said the widow, meditatively,
"n it before fall, I don't n eon. You
see, I've got a right smart bit of sewing
on hand and sooae ipuliiiu to do, too
There's that piny-bud quilt I put togeth
er last winter, and a rising sun Dorcas is
making."
"Going to keep Dircas with you?"
"No, 1 ain't," snapped the widow,
tartly Dorcas was her stepdaughter
"She aiu't nothing to me, and I shan't
keep her no longer tbau to git the sewing
done up, au' the apple butter making an'
preserving over; then I'm a-going Iu tell
her to fiud some other home."
"Jes' so," assented Miss Pipes.
And before night it was all over town
that the widow Cym mils was lo be mar-ri-d
to Deacon (liey, in the fall just as
Mrs Cymonds meant it should be
And at last the gorgeous piney-bud
and the refulgent glories of the rising
sun were nearly finished and laid a vay in
the big, old fashioned chest of drawers in
the best chamber.
A ten-gallon keg was fi led wi b Irani
lucent, crimson-clear apple-butter, aud
the swinging shelf in the cellar was cov
ered with jars of preserves and auiber
bued jelly all made by Dorcas Cymonds'
deft fingers.
Aud no,, the sparkling frosts of Geo
ber had turned the dogwood an I sassa
fras leaves to red, an I the oliincupins and
overeup acoros were dropping on the
crisp, brown grass in the woodlands and
now pretty, hrown-cyed, industrious Dor
cas was told that she must fiud another
home and look out for herself in the fu
ture. "For I expeot to be married before
long, and shan't want to be burdened
with any hangers on," said the wid iw
heartlessly.
Tears sprang into lb) affect, brown
eyes, but Dorcas turned away to hide
hem from bar stepmother's sharp gau.
I.. STANTON.
I know they praised yer cheeks o' red
likewise, ver eves o' blue :
Likewise, the roses that you wore the
ones 1 give to you !
(That, like the love you had fer me, have
pined away an' died.)
An' you clean ferxot the feller who wun
liangiu' roun outside !
It's jest the ways o' women folks you're
like the rest, I s'pnse,
That pick a heart to pieces, jest like they
would a rose !
But my lioat is on the shore now, my
imnine is on ine sea,
An' sencc you've slummed the door now,
farewell fare well-to thee!
1 oor Dorcas! She knew no more of
the wide world and its ways than a half,
fledged robin, but she started out with a
brave heart to seek ber fortune.
Oue text from tho Book of Diviue
Revelations came ioto her heart to comfort
her "I have never seen the righteous
forsaken, nor his seed -begging bread;"
and somehow Dorcas felt that kind Prov
idence had not for forsaken her.
Mrs. Cymonds put on her best dress,
tied her lavender bonnet strings in a be
coming bow under her chin, and looked
at herself in the mirror with a smile of
satisfaction.
"He'll be certain to come to the 6ew
iug society today, and who knows what
liny happen, as we walk home together!
My, but won't L:titiu Pipes be mad! 81 o
almost turus green with envy now, whin
the deacon walks with me."
But Deacon Grey did not mako his
appearance at the sewing-circle, and the
widow returned home in a somewhat dif
ferent mood from that in which she had
set out.
"What in common sense ho means by
not coming I don't see!" she said, erab
li dly. "And that Letitia Pipes was
g ad of it lookedVta she wanted to tit
t ir right nut, when I had to on my
bonnet and start home alone."
The afternoon had worn away, and
the sun was sinking fiery shafts of crim
son beneath the far-off western horiz m.
"Who in creation's a-coiniog now?"
grumbled the widow, as a lithe, slender
figure swung open the front gate, and
tripped up the path to the cottage
door.
It was Dorcas, her brown eyes shining
and her checks glowing like a full-blown
Jacqueminot rose.
"Back again, like a bad penny!" cried
the widow, crossly. "You'll have to stay
all night, I s'pose; but I've told you once
I couldn't keep you and I can'l!"
"I've only enme for my things," said
Dorcas, demurely, her cheeks dimpled
with smiles and blushes. "The deacon's
out in the buguy waiting for me."
"The deacon?" gasped the widow, as
tounded. "Yes. I I'm married to Deacon
Grey," exclaimed Dorcas, while her Btep
mother glowed iu wrath and dismay. "I
met him at the stile, this morning, and I
think he married mo out of pity, for I was
crying a little, you know, to think I had
no home to go lo. So he took me to the
parsonage and we were married, and
went home to dinner. And here's the
deacon coming in now for my trunk."
"Well, well!" exclaimed Miss Letitia
Pip", when he heard the news. "But
a Ii ody inL'lit u-ku .wn it was Dorcas the
deacon was a courting. Rut I'll bet a
button Ferohy is as mad us a wit ben
about id"
And so she was. Saturday Night.
TKAXSlHMtT.
"And you will be mind" he cried iu
transport.
"Yes," sh'i answered, for she was in
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SUKK Cl'ltK.
"Jones got broke of walking in hit
sleep."
"How?"
"His wife made him carry the baby."
Philadelphia Bulletin.
NO Sl'OKT.
"Is Philander Perkins anything of
cyclist?"
"N iw he's one of theso fellows that
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SOME POINT TO YOU.
TUB CHICAUO NEWS STIUNQS Til EKE
OIT FOR THE WISE AND OTHER
WISE. Fools invest first aod investigate later.
Learning and wisdom are not always
on good terms.
Love in a cottage is but another name
for a labor union.
People who live iu glass houses should
have them frosted.
A wise man prepares for the worst
while hoping for the best.
Nearly every married woman thinks a
lot of other women envy her.
The inebriate is unable to get sixteen
drams out of an ounce of whiskey.
At a wedding tho men all pity the
bride and the women all pity the groom.
Actions may speak louder than words
but women will continue to use words.
A wise man never questions a child io
public unless he is sure of the answer.
Uneasy lits the head that wears a
crown, but some other heads seem to lie
easy enough.
The man who has little and wants less
is richer than the man who has much
and wants more.
About the easiest thiog in the world
to lose is a diary. It is almost impossi
ble to keep one for any length of time.
Only those who dwell where there are
mountains without valleys experience
joys without sorrows.
Havana wrappers make good smokirg
jackets.
Dreams and weather predictions usual
ly goby contraries.
Book agents and sailors need wind io
their canvas.
Many a girl lives to regret the day she
married her ideal man.
The man who waits until tomorrow
never accomplishes anything.
Perhaps all men- are liars, but thete
are times when it's unwise to say so.
Some girls are kept so busy getting en
gaged that they have no time to marry.
An honest man is not only the noblest
work of the Creator, but also the ecarcesl.
It is better to do oue thiog good than
only partly to accomplish two good things.
A fish diet may not strengthen the
brain, but going fishing often invigorates
the imagination.
Occasionally a wise man makes a fool
of himself by getting married.
The pessimist kicks because of the
thorns on roses, while the optimist re
joices because of the roses on thorns.
Probably nothing bores a man more
than to bave another man begin an ex
planation of something he was just going
to explain.
Deaf mutes are familiar with signs, but
only drunken men try to shake hands
with the wooden Indians in front of cigar
stores.
HEAVEN ENOUGH VOll HIM.
Io the Medical World we find the fol
lowing, contributed by Dr. Eugene II.
Winkler, of St. Charles, Ark., which
will be read with kneen appreciation no
doubt by our medical friends and others :
Au angel had been sent to call the
doctor from labor to reward. He had
served the people faithfully aod well; had
gone to see them at all hours of the day
and nigtiv.n kinds of weather. Had
made moderuie charges 1 waited pa
tiently on them Had sympathized w'..ti
them in their afflictions, mourned with
them in their sorrows, rejoiced with them
when restored to health. Before loaving
for heaven the doctor asked if he could
visit the regions below. Permission be
ing granted, while the angel waited out
side, the doctor went in to look around.
Having been gone ao unusual length
of time, the angel went to look for him,
nd found the doctor seated fanning him
self and watching a lot of people burn
ing in one of the hottest fires in the
place, while a look of supreme bliss lighted
his face. The angel looked, and over
the door was the sign, "These are people
wno aid not pay the doctor. The anitel
touched him and said, "Come, let us go."
With a radiant smile the doctor said,
"You go on; this is heavco enough for
me."
THE FACE.
Nature has laid out all her art in beau
tifying the (ace. She has touched it
with vermilion, planted io it a double
row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles
and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened
it with the brightness of the eyes, lining
it at each side with curious organs of
sense, given it airs and graces that cannot
be deseribed and surrounded it with such
a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beau
ties in the most agreeable light,
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How To Dress.
ADVICE TO MEN.
don't wear long hair and an air
op dishabile.
In seeking to win the affection and
friendship of women, dear boys, you
will find dress an important thing to be
considered.
Although I will not go as far as to
say that a woman's heart has ever been
broken by a badly brushed hat, I have
known a woman to look at a bulging
shirt boBom and decide that even if she
could ever consent to pillow her head
upon such an uncomfortable looking
spot the loud vivacity of the waistcoat
beneath would make rest there quite im
possible. I am not going to tell you
what to woar. That is the work of
mightier intellects than mine. And
there are the young lady impersonators
of tho variety stage to oopy. These rep
resent tbe woman's ideal of man's cloth
ing. I may, however, provo myself use
ful io telling you what not)to wear. To
begin with, there is one rule you should
have written on your mirrors. It is
this:
Do not dress like a genius, even if you
are one.
The average woman has a strong aver
sion to go with a gentleman who be
cause laurel wreaths have gone out of
fashion substitutes for them long hair,
short trousers, decollete shirts aod a gen
erally carefully arranged dishabile.
The average woman is a silly little
thing, you know, aod she would rather
that you looked oommonplace aod well
groomed than that every newsboy should
be able to tell that she is walking with
an intellectual giant.
As for the woman above the average
well, she knows that you're not a geni
us anyhow. You cin't fool her with
freak neckties and doornob studs!
Rememoct that I am directing your
doings to meet the tastes of the majority
of womeo. There aro ladies who go rid
ing on tandem bicycles with gentlemen
who wear red niits, and some women love
the society of a ne.k'in or vest that al
most barks.
The ring, 31'ehehain and Wic a-brao
habit is popular with y"";', ladies who
stand on the oibei side ol the foutiia!'.'.
and have a taste for auy thing that slitters
even if it isn't 18 carat.
By this class of ladies you may be loved
for your scarf pin, bat a large percentage
of the weaker sex prefer to do all the
glittering that is to be done themselves.
New York World.
WANTED A WOMAN.
A young volunteer from the west in a
letter from Cuba to his home says :
"Two months ago I left Tampa for
this blasted land, which we are trying to
liberate. For forty-five days I never saw
a woman. Fellow citizens, if you want
to appreciate a woman, get away from
her. You don't know what the Creator,
when he performed the first surgical ODer-
ation on Adam, did in mappiog out glo
rious woman. If you want to know
what a grand, glorious and sugar-coated
thing a womau is, just join tbe army as
I did. See nothing but men from morn
ing until night, Join the army and loaf
with men, eat with men, help men, oarry
pon, walk over men, men, and nothiog
but men. Live in a perpetual atmosohere
of suppressed profanity, and boot smelb
and at the end ol three weeks you would
be passionately enamoured with the mum
my of ao Egyptian servant girl and give
her an electrical kiss that would burn
three rt.,,asl4n J y,mr, 0f hide into
flushed and animation."
THE FADING OF HKAUTY.
A 16-year-old girl imagines that she is
an angel, and never gets over it. After
a woman gets old she thinks of how she
was admired aod complimented in her
youth and feels that some great wrong
was done her because she did not remain
as pretty as she was at 16. If she i
married ahe is apt to lay tho blamo on
the brutality of ber husband; if she is an
old maid, she lays it oo her father, who
was poor, and thus foroed her to work,
which resulted io a Hooping figure and
harsh features. A man never has this
experienoe. He is at his worst at 16 and
does not reach his best until he u 26 to
30. By that time he has acquired a lit
tle sense, and never mistake a oompli
meot for the truth.
THE BEST PKKBCRIPTION
For chills aod fever is a bottle of Grove's
Tasteless Chill Tooio. Never fails to
cure; why then experiment with worthless
imitations? Price 60 cents. Your money
baek if it fails to cure. For sale by W.
M. Cohen, Weldon, N. C.
A Colorado gentleman advertised for a
well preserved skeleton, aod shortly after
the paper was out ao old maid of hit
town appeared io her bib aod tucker aod
asked if hit inteotiont were honorable
OABTOIIXA.
Bsarstlw II Iilrf ton Hw lrt Bought
Hpatan
SELECT THE FLOWERS.
FLORAL CALENDAR THAT TAKES THB
I'l.ACE or NEW YEAR CALLS.
It is now a custom with many people
to send a bouquet of flowers accompanied
with appropriate New Year wishes in
stead of makiog personal calls upon their
Iriends. Theso flowers, however, are
not sent hupbaz ird.
A big bunch of violets lied with pur
pie ribbon uieaos "I wish you many hap
py returns of the New Year." But if
the violets are tied with white ribbon the
significance changes to "I wish you a
happier New Year than tbe lost." If
tiiid with a changeable ribbon or scot io
a basket, the meaning becomes "Happy
New Year for all the family."
(.'alias rent to a young woman mean
"You ate the most magnificently beauti
ful girl I know." Callas to a married
woman for men make calls with the ut
most freedom aod pay out sentimental
thoughts with the utmost liberality then
denotes "It is dangerous for me lo
gaze upon your beauty, so discontented
do I become !" But if the callas aro laid
in a box with pansies around their stems
they read, "Although I admire your
beauty, I can only rejoioe that you have
so happy a home aod so delightful a
family."
The realm of love is reached with the
red double pinks. These denote love,
pure and simple, Tbe girl who ceta
box of vivid carnations without green or
other oolor can read, "I love you so dearly
that I can never be happy without you
for my wife."
Tbe same carnations addressed to
matron say: "I have received ao manv
favors from you aod yours that I offer
you my devoted service upon the thresh-
bold of a new year. You can command
me until death."
Tbe chrysanthemum falls from its
high estate into the commonplace as
New Year's greeting. It means "Think
of me." A tingle big chrysanthemum
says, "I have a happy new year thought
for you. And chrysanthemums enough
for a tall vase as much as say, "I havo
friendly feeling for all your family."
They mean intellectual thought and
ir 1 -Heal gift for a student. Yon
canon, t ' !"ppy new year io anj.
belter way.
Tbe red rose mean.- ;Mv ieart j,
bteukiijo for you." IV; girl who re
ceives a Li of red roses can understand
that she is very cruel tj a faithful heart
who wishes she would reform from her
cruel ways. A bunoh of mixed rosea
mean affeotion. "I might love you more
if you were not ao cruel to me." To a
hostess they mean "I hope you will often
give me the opportunity of being with
you and your family this year."
The white jasmine says, "Allow me to
wish a happy new year to the cleverest
and most amiable young woman I know."
The same is told by the white lilao, by
the white primrose or the tin; white
rose.
The passion flower reads: "I believe
io you aod will make you my atar the
coming year. You are true." The scar
let geranium growing io a pot meant
"You have my sympathy in your bereave
ment." The primrose growing in pot
is the proper New Year'a gift for grow
ing girl. It aays, "You give promise of
much beauty of character." The grow
ing ivy means "Pray tell me how I can
please you this year ?'' A growing box
of pansies reads, "I wish you the beat of
health." A combination of sentiment!
can be expressed by uniting the flowers.
When the 1899 girl receives tbe loweri,
m anil
places it in tne parlor winW., vl seuT it
in the bay window of ber boudoir or
But you select the flowers and the
girl will do the rest.
COURAGE.
Courage is the bright and shinioi vir
tue of heroes. Tbe person who can con
quer a crisis ia of more use than pon
toon bridge to a retreating army. Don't
be cast down by any circumstances but
death, and kc?p even that at bj k;
as possible. There it no suoh word as
defeat to the brave, and tha teat of
bravery lies more io trifles than in threat
ening of grata import. It takes "more
sand" to Hand against "little foxes"
always in evidence than agai ntt tlgtr
io the jungle. We may not be called upon
to visit the jungle, but the Tinea Iba -lure
tho foxea hang thick in ever; life.
Proof of the pudding Ilea lo the eating
of it. Proof of ROBERTS' TASTELESS
CHILL TONIC Ilea In the taking of IU
COST NOTHING If It fails to euro. W
oente per bottle If It curea. Bold strictly
on Its merit by
W. M. Cohen, Druggial, - Weldon, N. 0.
Tbe Mistress Mary, don't let ao
catch you kissing that bulober again.
The Maid Lor', mum, I don't meaa lo
but yoo do bob aroun' to!
OAHTOHIA,
Mall)
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