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HOW A 8TBAN(ir.ll HETTI.ED A FAMILY
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nuns.
It was almost sundown when I ar
rived at a mountaineer's enliiti high up
on the Tennessee side, of the Cumberland
Mountain, ou I I found iho man eeoted
on t log at the gate and his wire
smoking her pipe on tha doorstop. 1
sled hint if I could fiud lodgings for
the night, and he shook his head and
replied in doubtful turns:
"I don't skussly believe yo' kin, stran
gernot skassly."
"How far is it to the next oabio?"
'Bout a mile, I reckon, but I ain't be
lievin' they could take you in."
"And the next after that?"
'Two miles mo', but they'd hev to pass
yo' on. I'd really like to take.yo' in but
I ain't skatsly seein' how it kia be
done. .
"It kin bo done stranger, if he'll give
up his sotness," called the woman.
' But you must give up Vrs fust," he
called back.
I saw that there was a family dispute
of Bome sort on, but hesitated to ask any
questions. After a niiouie or two, how
ever, the woman rose slowly up and came
down to the gate and explained:
"Stranger, Tom- yero got up this
mawnio' aod said that the wbale swal
lercd Dan'l.''
"Aod I'atn slickin right to it replied
the husband.
"And I said it was Moses, and I'm
stickio right to that. Tom he's sjt, aod
I'm sot, and so wo've sot right yere all
day to see which would outsot the other
in sol Decs. If Tom will say the1 wbale
swallowed Moses I'll hev supper ready in
teo minutes."
"I never kin do it," replied Tom. 'It
was Dan'l, and yo've ooly got to say so
fur us to take tbe straoger in."
"But see here," I put in, "it was
neither Dan'l nor Moses, You are both
mistaken."
"Who was it, then?" they asked in
oborus.
Why Jonah."
"You don't mean ill" gasped tbe
husband.
"Listen to that!" whispered the
wife.
"It was Jonah, and all tbe Bibles in
the land will tell you so. Dan'l was
cast to the lions, and Moses was hidden
away in the bulrushes when be waa i
baby."
"Dog-gone my cats, old woman, but
he's dead-right and we are two fulis!" ex
claimed the man. "Shake, stringer, and
yo' comeriuht in and own the oabin fur
the next y rl Of oose it was Juner, and
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An Old Favorite
ICHABOD
John Greenlnf Whittier
ON March 7, 1850, Daniel Webater, the great omtor
and sttteaman, dfUvcrcil a spnwcih in favor of the
Cly compromise bill, The antiblavery men considered
this addrM a aurrender to the other aide and were
-grently incemed- Whittier, tbo nbolitlon poet, ex
premied the Indignution lit the potn given below. "And
she named the child Ic habod. tt- : ing, The glury is de
parted from lorn el." (1 Samuel iv, 21 )
fallen! so loat!
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Which once
he glory from
orevermore!
Revile him not, the Tempter hath
A anare for all;
And pitying tear a, not acorn and
wrath.
Befit hla fall!
Oh, dumb be pasaion'a stormy rage,
When he who might
Have lighted up and led hla age.
raua back in ntgnt.
Scorn! would the angela laugh, to
, mark
A bright aoul driven,
Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark,
From hope and heavcnl
Let not the land ones proud of him
Inault him now,
Nor brand with deeper ahame hla dim.
Dl a Honored brow.
. i i. m mi mi iih. in in ij n ' ayyi -mr-i "ir"iinpii;fir Tir,'ir-wn'-HrTrTT,0 " TVf'K' ffWW'"
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MRS. FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT.
IIuvIiik won iiiiii'Ii fame hi un authorem, MrC I'Viiikh'S llotlcsou Burnett
lias now nppenml us a nicveiisful Urniuutlsl. Her pliiy for children, "Tha
I.lttlo Trlucess," wlilih was recently prmhutd In New Virk, la nmklug a big
hit
THE RULING PASSION-
A good womio wai dyiny; a woman
who had been a true wife fnd a good
niuther; a womin with but one weakness
a love for gossip.
Although her lime oo citlh was short
ihe was critically watching theatteodiog
physician ind nurse, as they talk.d io
lubdued wbinpeis of the result which
their uoilcd ikill had been powerlesi to
vert.
Id response to the aummooi ot the
dying woman h.r husband ipproached
bcraodb.ot low to catch the wordi
which heeipeetedtobe wordt of love.
Again she turned her eyes, fiom which
the light wai fust fiding, upon the doc
tor ind the nurse, she Mid faintly:
'Do you suppose they aro engaged?''
These words were her last. New
York Time
If il'i a bilious altaok, lake Chamber
lsio'i Uomach and Liver Tablet) aod a
quick recovery il eertaio.
For tale by W. M. Cohen, Druggist,
Weldon, N. C.
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the light withdrawn
he wore!
his gr y !;alrs guns
But let Ha humbled sons, Instead,
From Bfa to lake,
A long lament, as for the dead,
In aadneas make.
Of alt we loved and honored, naught
Save power remains:
A fallen angel a pride of thought,
Btili eUuiia In .bailie.
All else ia gone: from those great ayea
The aoul hua fled;
Vvhon faith la lout, when honor dlea,
The man is dtad!
Thin, pay the reverence of old days
To bin dt ad funic;
Walk backward, with averted gate.
And hid the shame!
COLDS ARK DANGEROUS.
How ofteu you hear it remarked: "It's
ooly a oold, and a lew dsya later learn
that the man in on bis back with pneu
riionii. This ia of such oommon occur
rence that cold, however liitht, should
not be disregarded. Chamberlain'! Cough
Remedy counteracts my tendency to
wards pneumonia. It always eurea and
is plrasani to take.
For tale at W. M. Cohen 'i drugstore,
Weldon, N C.
Judge of man by his question! rather
than ny his answers Voltsrie,
WELL AGAIN-
The many friends of John Rlount will
be pleased to learn that he has entirely
recovered from his attack of rheum itism,
Chamberlain's Tain Balm cured him
after the best doctors in the town
.(Motion, Ind ) bad failed to give relief
The prompt relief from pain which this
liniment affordi U alone worth many
limei ilsoost.
For tale at W. M. Coheo'i dtug store
Weldon, N. C
FATE OF THE ARBITRATOR,
WHAT HAPPENED TO TU MUTUAL
r
FRIEND PEACE ADVOCATE.
The lovers bad tjuaircled.
"I'll never speak to you opuiti
sh(
cried.
"Perhaps you will give me back my
rinj!," he retorted scornfully.
"I wouldn't wear your old ricg for a
thousand dollars," sho asserted.
"This is the end," he said.
"Wait a minute," interrupted the
mutual friend. "Don t forget that these
are the days of arbitration, so let's arbi
trate this affair."
"lie's entirely in the wrong," she in
sisted.
"It's all her fault," he replied.
"Well, let's have a statement of the
ease from each side," said tbe mutual
friend.
The girl thought it over, and ber face
grew red.
"If I tried to put it in words," she
said to herself, I'd be posing as a little
fool."
Somehow ber grievance wan't tang
ible.
The youth thought it over, and be be
gan to feel uncomfortable.
"I'd bo a jackass to try to explain this
thing to a cold blooded mortal" he said to
himself.
"Well, let'a hear what it is," said the
mutual friend.
Nothing," said the youth.
"Not a thing," said the girl, "and I'd
like to know what business it is of yours
anyway?"
If you annoy my fiancee any more,"
said the youth, "I'll break your head.
Here's yevr ring, Gracie."
"You're so good to me, Ralph," said
the girl.
Go away can't you," they both said to
the mutual friend. Buffalo News.
READ IT THROUGH.
'twould bpoil this story to tell it
IN THE HEADLINES.
To use an eighteenth ccuturv phruise,
this is ao "o'er true tale." Having hap
pened in a smsll Virginia town in the
winter of 1902, it is a story much of tbe
present. Up to a short tiuio ago Mis.
John . Harmon, of Moll a Station Ya ,
had no personal knowledge of the rare
curative pmperties ot Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy. "Last Jauuury,'' she
says, "my baby took a dreadful cold
nd at one lime I feared she would have
pneumonia, . but one of my neighbors
told me bow this remedy had cured her
little boy and I began giving it to my
baby at once and it soon cured ber. I
heartily thank the manufacturer nf
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for plao
ing so great a cure within my reach. I
cannot reoommend it too highly or say
too much io its favor. I hope all who
read this will try it and be convinced as I
was."
For sale by W. M. Cohen, Druggist,
Weldon, N. C. ,
ACTIONS AND WORDS-
Here's a sentiment worthy to keep
your mind
As you travel through life, fur it's true
you will End,
Thst you'ro not so much valued by what
you may say,
As by whst you may do io a practical way;
For unless jou perform what you say
you can do.
Grave doubts will arise that you'ro hon
est and true.
Thouuh vour voice be as sweet as the
song of the birds,
Remember that actions speak louder than
words.
Nor would I discourage the message, that
cheers,
Or the prayers, or the blearing of sym
pathy's tears;
They ire ilwsyi io order, they help. in
their way
To hasten the dswn of millennial day,
But a little more gold sandwiched in with
your prayers
v. ia!d usus marc tears ssd !:E!r8
more cares.
Though your voice be 11 iweet aa Ihe
long of the birds,
Remember that actions speak
than words.
louder
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There ii no impossibility to him who
Hinds prepated to conquer every haiaid
the fearful ire the failing. Sarab J.
Hale.
To be good ind disagreeable ii high
treason agiioat the royilty of virtue. II
More.
SENATOR HOAR ON THE SOUTH.
AN EXTRACT OF HIS ClilCAOO SPEECH
THAT TOUCHES RACE CONDITIONS,
Washington l'ost.
A portion of Senator Hoar's speech
tho other day before the Union League
Club of Chicago that was overlooked in
the telegraphia report touches in an in
teresting fashion on raeo conditions in
the South. Coming from a Massachu
setts man highly honored by the country,
the following words have uousual signifi
cance :
"I know how sensitive our Southern
friends ore on this matter of social equal
ity and companionship, ami I think I
might say fairly and properly und that
perhaps I have a right to say it I hut it
is not wise for the people of the North to
undertake to deal rashly or even to judge
hastily of a feeling so deeply implanted
in their bosoms.
Time, the great reooneiliator, will
reconcile them to that if in the nature of
things and in the nature uf man they
ought to be reconciled to it. Aod if in
the nature of things and in the nature of
man time does not reconcile tbem, it will
be sign that they ought not to be re
conciled to it; aDd that some other mode
of life for them must be devised.
"Now, my friends, baviogsaid what I
thonght to say on this question, perhaps
I may be indulged in adding that, al
though my life politically and personally
hae been a life of almost constant strife
with the leaders of the Southern people,
yet as I grow older I have learned not
only to respect aod esteem, but to love
the great qualities which belong to my
fellow citizens of tho Southern States.
They are a noble race. We may well
take pattern from them in some of the
great virtues which make up the strength
as they make the glories of the free
States. Their 'ove of home, their chiv-
Irous respect for women, their courage,
their delicate sense of honor, their con
stancy, which can abide by an opinion or
a purpose or an interest for their States
through adversity and through prospcri
ty, through (ho years and through the
generations, are things by which the peo
ple uf the tuuie uieiculial Nullh may
take a letson? And there is another
thing covetousness, corruption, the low
temptation of money has not yet found
auy place in our Southern politics.
"Now, my friends, we cannot afford to
live, wc don't wish to live, aod we do not
live, in a state of estrangement from a
people who possess these qualities. They
are friends of ours; born uf our boroings;
flesh of our flesh, blood of, our blood, and
whatever may be the temporary error of
any Southern State, I, for one, if I have
a light to speak for Massachusetts, say to
her: 'Entieat me not to leave thee nor
to return from following after thee. For
where thou goes! I will go, and where
thou st a j est I will stay also. And thy
people shall be my people, and thy God
my God.' "
HONESTY PAYS
We have just read in one of our ex
changes an account of a young lady who,
by the death of relatives, was placed io
very reduced circumstances, aod com poll
ed to enter a dry goods store as saleswo
man at the glove counter.
Some very defcotive gloves were given
ber to sell. She called the attention of
the Moor manager, lie told ber it wis
her business to obey orders and tell what
ever she was told to.
She oould not do it conscientiously,
and though very much in need of her
wages, told him she o uld not. He dis
charged her and she was almost heait
broken. But the merchant who owned
the store notioed her absence, heard the
floor manager's explanation, sent for the
young lady, examined the gloves, sent
them back to the manufacturer, thanked
her in behalf of his firm, raised her
wages, and assured her that she should
never again be interfered with in the
conscientious discharge cf her duty.
No hand can make the clock strike the
hours that arc past. Biyon.
WAKKFLL CHILDREN.
For t long time the two year old child
of Mr. P. L Mcl'hcrson, 59 N. Tenth
St., Ilarrisburg Pa., would sleep but two
or three hours io early part of the night
which made it very hard for her parents.
Her mother concluded that the child had
stomach trouble, and gave ber halfof one
of Chamberlaio'i Stomach tnd Liver
Tablets, which quieted her stomach and
she slept the whole night through Two
boiet of these Tablets have effeotcd s
permant cure ind (he ii now well and
' strong.
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A mao's own goodbnediog is the bd
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!S;,ELLOW.P0lSOi,
In your blood ? Physicians i ;
It Malarial uerm. It can be e . ,
changing red blood yellow urn: r
mtcroacope. It works day ni.J
night. First, It turniyourevm
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sensation creep down your
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