jOHIT "W. SLBDC3-B, proprietor.
yOL. XXXVI.
A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
TERMS:-'1'50 PER annum in advance
NO. '36
WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16. 1902.
Tim Kind Too Have Always Bought, and which has been
In ue for over 30 years, has borne tho signature of
f and has been made under his per-
f' yjih, onal supervision since Its Infancy.
Wo, COCA'. Allow no one to deceive you In this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Justus-good but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment,
What is CASTORIA
Caitorla is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
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contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotlo
substance. Its age Is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhcea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
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CASTORIA
Bears the Signature of
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Si
The Kind You toe Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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UUllUUll iMUiau
W0 BY A KISS.
"It was the Dear Lady's Kind
Look and Touch and Kiss
that Did It."
. Tbia prettjr pieoo in worthy of a place
is any Christian paper- There are so
many waja of working fr Jesus. Tliia
incident is ooly one of the thousand of
meani which God usss toaocumpliih Ilia
purpoaea.
It il nut uu.l that a aoul can be won
to Oed by a mere k'ui. But auch waa the
recently io the tour of a lady city
miHionary, aha saya: "1 bad been
making one of my regular visits among
the poor and distrenaed, and on leaving
waa followed to the door by a young girl, was 6xed upon a beautiful looking violin
litlle more than a child. that bung io the oentre ol the window.
Uoconacioualy, or perhapa rather aa a I Upon coming nearer he heard him sing-
matter of oourae. I nut mv arm around I in? familiar melody in a pure, swer t
her, and kiiaing her cbaek, took my voice, which be accompanied with rhyth-
leave, and thought no more of the inoi-1 mioal morementa of his Blender arms and
dent. fingers aa if he were playing the violin.
A few weeka later thia girl aiose in a I He stopped to listen, quite charmed at
teatimooy meeting at our mission, aud, in I the innooent, childish apeotaole. Just
vain tiRmblinu wiik emotion, said. 'I then the little bov looked up, and, abashed
love the Lord, and want to tell you bow t being observed, oeased his performance,
I came to be a Christian. One day a "Do you think you could play as well
lady came to where I lived and tellud upon that violin, if you had it, as you
about Jeaua. It wasn't o much what I can ting, my little fellow ?
she said, but when ahe was going she
kissed me I It had been so loug since
soy one bad given me a kiss or a kind
word, the first time ainoe my mother
died, and aomebow it seemed to soften
my heart, and I felt that this Isdy mutt
have tomelbiog that makes her different
from the other folks that haven't cared
anything about me, aod the m ire I
thought ab-rat it the mire I wanted it
myself. And an I oams to Qd and
aaked Him to forgive my aios for Jesus'
sake, and I know that I am saved. But
0, in the first place, it waa the dear lady'a
OLE BULL'S CHRISTMAS GIFT.
The Great Musician Became In
terested In a Little Boy Who
Was Looking Through a
Shop Window at a Beautiful
Violin.
Christmas eve, as s tall, dignified-look
ing gentleman was wslkiog leisurely
along one of the by-streets of London, bis
attention was attracted to a litlle hoy
who was looking in at a abnp-wiodow io
which were displayed various atliclea
(soma of them apparently second-hand)
for ssle. As the gentlemen, whose long,
thick hair fell far below his fur oap, ap
proached the little boy, he saw his gsae
-VISIT OB WEITE-wi
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203 AND 207 N. SYCAMORE ST.
PETERSBURG, VA.
STORY OF THE MISTLETOE.
How The Mistletoe Gets On The
Trees.
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THE HUSTLING: AND UP-TO-DATE LEADERS
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"I don't know, sir, but I would like to
try, the boy replied.
"Come with me," isid the gentleman,
and together they went into the ehnp.
"How much for the violin in the window?"
"Five pounds."
"Too much by half," said the gentle-
... H
man. "show me something oneaper.
After being ahowo five or aix other
violins, which he rejected after merely
glancing at them (the little boy's big
blue eyea lookiog more and more wistful
all the time), the shopkeeper haoded out
kind look aud touch and the kias tba1 a dingy, antiquated violin, witb the re
did it I" mark, "Here'e an old fiddle that I got of I
uilnr. It needs flintr UD a bit. but yon I
. . .. ..,llnm I
SHE UIU A5 HC AUVIatU. M0 ntva U juet a it is fur use pound tan
hillinn." The itentleman ecrutioild it
. - n - o I
Hocus What happened wties you i in,M and out remarked that it
told your mother-in-law to mind her own . f ; bll, ,tid
business ?
Pocus I don't exactly know.
I recovered consciousness, I waa
hospital.
Postage stamps ate egotistical
they get stack on themselves
When
in the
when
Mi
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Nothing
"Just
ho
Good"'
A. TV. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
(or womanly diseases. N one knows
thia better than the wamyn who has
tried local doctora and many medicines
and found no cure until ahe began
the, nae of "Favorite Prescription." It
establishes regularity, atopa weakening
drains, heals inflammation and ulcera
tion and cures female weakness. It
makes weak women strong and sick
women well. '
. tmnhlM ft llltM TMII with ulcera
tion sad fem.le we.kne-. and my doctor in
me but little relief." writM Mr tula Hunter,
at Alleotoo, St. Loot. Co., "
adTattiaimnt la the paper of Doctor Pierce j
F.yoril. Prencrlptloa. J bS" . rf
boat a Tear .so. I took bot- " , ""i
one bottle of 'colde Medical Dtacoeent,' d
my healta U netter aow in.n J
I liae also recommended theae mediclnei to
loeae of my friende, who taSered from lemsU
weakseaa. aad food rctulU kav foUowed."
Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser is sent fret on receipt ot ai one-
expenae oi maum
k. V. Pierce, Bu
cent stamps to pay expense ol mailing
aarfrcaa Tr. IL V. Pierce, Bui-
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DEST FOR THE
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CANDY
CATHARTIO
ar a-r sens I lata? CANDY
Ptaaeaat. PalaUM., P.w. "L,2"ij'!2?I
aU.ttak AalalrataM
Ainu
m Sim viiM
IM
eawiae e asw voaa.
that he would give just one pound for it(
which the ahop-kaeper, after aome hesi
tation, accepted, and the money was paid
him.
"Put oo s string io plsce of this I ro-
ken one," eaid the gentleman; "aod fur
nish me a sood bow I will psy extra
for it."
While tbia waa beiug doue, the gentle
man looked down at the little pale, won-
darinv faee unturned to his, and said.
n (
"What iayour name?"
The boy quickly reaponded, "Leo 1 1
and father ringa the obimea if you hark,
you oan hear 'em now I" Tbe gentle
man listened for s moment or two, and as
fie sound of the grand old bells died
stay, tbe abopman handed bits tbe vio
lin and bow ready for use. After tun
ing the instrument carefully, be uubut-
toned hia fur-trimmed travelling ooat,
sod placing tbe violin under his ohin,
began eofily aod aweetly to play the tune
which the Christmas bells had just rung
out. For some minutes he coniinued to I
nlay, weaving the air into ever) conceiva
ble kind of variation, and ended by play
Ins the melodv once more, acoompaoied
n
with harmonica and brilliant arpeggios
After the violin and bow bad been placed
is tbe box he haoded it to the bewildered
bov. and patting him on bia eurly bead, I
remaiked as be buttoned up bis great
overcoat: "Carry the violin home witb
you and take good care of it; il is .worth
naa hundred oounda at least. Learn to
play the tune I heard you singing out
side tbe window, and aa many mors as
you esn. Tell your father to get you s
good teacher. Yoo may keep the violin;
it is s Christ mas preaent from Ola Bull."
Ha opened the door for hia little protege,
aod vassed out into tbe crowd just as the
nhriaimaa bells raoi out aeaia their I
merry ehime.
UKUflOWHTO UWtERS
Judga , one of the great lawyera of 1
the last generation, charged s client s re
tainer of 11,000 io an important case, but
the parties get together next morning and
aattlad the suit before the judge had
opened a hook ec wiiiUa a !iss ee?ri-
log it. His client celled to see it ne
weald sot refund part of the money. Tbe
lawyer seemed surprised at tbs sugges
tion. "IWundt" be exclaimed. "Re
fund, did yos say T My friend, that ia a
kind of fund unknown to tbe legal pro
fession I"
RmECTlONS OF BACHELOR.
A man earns bis fame, his friends
spend it for him.
Little children are the rosea surround
ad by the grown up thorns.
Good men er women can love the bad
nmaa or mee. but the bad seldom love
the geod.
Gives woman bar child, her Bible and
her old love letters sad so adversity oaa
dauat her.
The mas who hasn't anything good Is
aay f aey'uedy else hasn't anything
good to ba said of himself.
Tbeioea,k thief lakes things nnj,
1
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(V Ull MIL, IILIUIIItJi At
AGNES HELEN LOCK H ART.
We strolled together where the apple boughs
Bright with the ruddy fruit, bent 'neath their
weight,
And down the aisles whtre four-leaved clovers hid,
Until we reached the time-worn garden gate.
Behind us like a sea of molten gold
There flashed a field of waving tasseled wheat,
And scarlet poppies bowed their stately heads
To kiss the blue-eyed flowers at their feet.
The birds were trilling forth sweet notes of glee;
The dial marked the speed of fleeting hours;
The red rose bared her fragrant golden heart,
And lured the sun god from the lily's bowers.
So stood we thus, my love and I, together;
For here our paths divided at the gate,
Her's leading through the sweet, old-fashioned gar
den, Mine o'er the hills, where silent shadows wait.
She would not climb the darkening hillside with me,
And I in anger would not go her way,
So, each one scorning to recall the other,
We parted then forever and a day!
Now through the magic mist of memory's twilight,
So like a star my loved one's face I see
Ah, would that I had crossed the garden with her,
Or she had climbed the ruggea neignis wun me i
The story of bow tbe mistletse geln
on the trees is to me a meet iotereeiiog
oae. Covering the mistletoe twigs sre
pearly wbile berries. These come io thi
wioter sesson, when food is comparniv.i
ly scree, and benoe aouie of our bird
eat them freely. Now when a robin eaia
a cherry he swallows simply tba meat
and flipa the atone away. Tba aeed of
the mistletoe the bird esonot flip. It is
sticky and holds to 'be bill. His only
resource is to wipe it off, and be does so,
lesviug it sticking to the brsnohes of tba
tree oo which he is silting at the time.
Thia seed sprouts after a time, aod not
Soding earth which indeed its ancestral
habit has made it oease wsnling it sinks
its roots into tbe bark of the treo and
buota there for tbe pipea that carry the
sap. Now thessp io the bsrk is the
very richest io tbe tree, far richer than
in the wood, and tbe mistletoe gets from
its host the choicest of food. Witb a
strange foreaight it does not throw ila
leavea away, aa do most psrssites, but
keeps tbem to use in winter, when tbe
tree is leafless. When our old Saxon
ancestors worshipped under the oaks,
aod indeed tbe trees themselves, they
naturally felt a rrapect for the mistletoe
wbich the oak supported. When we
hang it in our rooms at Christmaa time
we are but making a blending of our
early heathen with eur later Cbristisn
religion.'
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A Litlle Boy's Life Saved.
I have a few words to ssy regarding
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It saved
my little boy's life and I feel that I can
not praiae it enough. I bought a bottle
I of it from A. S. Stcere, of Goodwin, 8.
ID., and when 1 got home with it tbe
poor baby could hardly breathe. I gave
I the medicine aa directed every ten min
utes until he "threw up" and then I
I thought aure he waa going to choke to
death. We had to pull the phlegm out
of his mouth in great long airings. I
I am poailive that if I had not got that
I bottle of cough medicine, my boy would
not be on earth today. Joel Demoot,
Inwood, Iowa. For sale by W. M. Co-
I hen, druggist.
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LIFE'S SCARS,
a-t-.tJllvl
ELLA WHKKLEtt WILCOX.
They say the world is round, and yet
I often think it square;
So many little hurts we get
From corners here and there.
But one great truth in life I've found,
While journeying to the west;
The only folks who really wound
Are those we love the best.
The man you thoroughly despise
Can rouse your wraih, 'tis true;
Annoyance in your heart will rise
At things mere strangers do;
But those are only passing ills.
This rule all lives will prove:
The rankling wound which aches and thrills
Is dealt by hands we love.
The choicest garb, the sweetest grace
Are oft to strangers shown;
The careless mein, the frowning face
Are given to our own.
We flatter those we scarcely know
We please the fleeing guest,
And deal many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
Love does not grow on every tree,
Nor true hearts yearly bloom;
Alas! for those who only see
This cut across a tomb!
But, soon or late, the fact grows plain
To all through sorrow's test
The only folks who give us pain
Are those we love the best
"A millionaire can have things pretty
much bis own way in thia world," said
ese philosopher.
"Ha oan," said the other, "until be
cornea to make bia will."
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Articles
Prescriptions carefully and accurately
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Its s luoky thing for tbe average man T T, JTJDKINS.
tbat be doesn t xnow some oi me miug.
thst other people know abnut him.
Wholesale and Retail
Dealer In Fine
tnaladv IStanlefl
nearly alwaya inherit it not neceaaarily ni 'ivTVPVP
SutTerera from thia horrible
bom the parents, but may be from aome TJ1 -remote
ancestor, for Cancer often runs I tlllUy
n.. lav dormant in the blood for
T 'uf 1,M11U then
Ears, or unui yw -
s first litUe sore or ulcer makes its sp-
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To cure Cancer thoroughly and penn K Tasteless unui ionie. Alexanders
SO cure 6 f r I W . . . tr-lJ 1W. for .nrifwlna
aenUy all the poisonous virus must be
ll it driven out. This 8. 8. S. does, and
b the only medicine that can reach deep.
.- h.tlmta blmd troubles like this.
When'aU the poison has been forced out
of the syatem the Cancer heala, and the
disease never returns.
Cancer begins often In a email way, as the
ih i.tt fmin Mrs. Shirer shows :
A m.U pirapic came un u,y j- -- -
lJrtk.Siathelettald.ola.laca. Itga-a
saa ao pain or nico-Tcn-alaee,
aud I .koultl have
IWfOtte- about It had It
aot dccud to Indarne and
e
U MOTHER'S SONG.
MttauedforaotaellBe, I I 1 1
well, becomliif -ry e.v f t
aaiaraL The Cancer be- -x T S
i.a o aat aad .oraad, f
Snlll It was a. l.ri. ui
fclldollar,w-enreerd 1 fjf
ill IS and delermla- T, I
d to (i- K a f.lr trUl, ,e A
a4 It wt. remark. bia WrawWt
Liver and Kidney Tonic for purifyina
the blood. Tbia tonic ia warranted or
money refunded.
J.L. JUDKINS,
No. 23 Washington Ave., Weldon, M. 0'
dee 11 ly.
H. L. QRANT,
jaiCYCLE
il WORKS ....
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Of lira's thorny, rufgud track,
' Aa we tarry looking back,
Tender momoriea aweetly riae
To the simple and the wiae
And saong the variuus iliiuugi
Softly echoes mother's songs.
First s'er every sunny head,
Is ita little cradle bed,
Bent tbe tender faoe and true,
With the love-light ahining through,
Crooned the baby lullaby,
Crooned the baby lullaby.
When the little feet could walk,
And tbs lisping tongue could talk,
Then waa put to laving ass
Wiser (T) songs of Mother Qeoee,
Till the baby laughter rang
Merrily as mother sang.
Then aa growing girls and beys,
Taating childhood's dearest ioys,
Mother's voice ws loved to bear
Singing songs of hope and chest,
Chanting hymns io her sweet way,
Hymns whose echoes live today.
Dearest mother, airs divine
Ne'er oaa seem like hyuas of thine,
Bleeeed kymoa we bpe to hear
Whea tba feeareeJy lewd vm near,
Hyaes of weieoma, hyssas of peace,
yV has all oars ssd pat ehtU seue.
what a wonderful en eel l
h kad Train ike er. Dcflmiai t the sore beta J
Ceataw fter taking, few bottles dtiappeare. I
eaUrely. w wa. two ye. i - i
MfU ot lae Canear.and mr awral kealll I
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MS M B UHUBITT. If IBS IVTR STALLIMO
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314 Miii Street, NrfoIlc. Va.
Teeth extracted wtthuot the slightest pain
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the safest anaesthetic koowa. It has
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