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Ip'or more than fifteen years thin institution lias provided banking faeili-
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with the business interests of Halifax and Northampton counties for
many years. Money is loaned upon approved security at I lie legal lute of
iuterest six per centum. Account of all are itolicited.
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Capital Stock, the hank has. commencing January t, established a
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If
the GmNBtsT woman. ;
The Chariots of Ood Came Down
To Ketch Her to Heaven.
When you want 10 get your
grandest idea of a queen, you do
not think of Catherine of Russia,
or of Anne of England, or Marie
Theresa of Germany, hut when
you want to nil your grandest idea
of a queen you think of the plain
woman who sal opposite your
fattier at the table, or walked with
him arm in arm down life's rail
way; sometimes to the Thanks
giving banquet, sometimes to the
grave, but always together sooth
thing your petty griefs, correcting
your childish waywardness, join
ing in your infantile sports, listen
ing to your evening prayers, toil
ing for you with needle or at the
spinning wheel and on cold nights
wrapping you up snug and warm.
And then at last on that day when
she lay in the back room dying,
and you saw her take those thin
hands with which she had toiled
for you so long, and put them to
gether in a dying prayer that com
mended you to the God whom she
had taught'you to trust oh, she
was the queen ! The chariots of
God came down to fetch her, and
as she went in all heaven rose up.
You cannot think of her now with
out a rush of tenderness that stirs
the deep foundations of your soul
and you feel as much a child a'pain
as when you cried on her lap, and
if you could bring her back again
to speak just once more your name
as tenderly as she used to speak it
you would be willing to throw
yourself on the ground and kiss
the old sod that covers her, crying:
"Mother! Mother!" Ah, she
was a queen !
Children Cry
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THE OLD FASK10NEH GOOKS.
Poets have sung of the old-fashioned glories,
The old-fashioned pictures that hung on the wall,
The old-fashioned people, the old-fashioned stories,
The old-fashioned fashions they love to recall,
The squeaky arm chair that our grand mothers sat in,
The old-fashioned shelves with their old fashioned books,
immortalized have been in Saxon and Latin,
Bui I sing my song to the old-fashioned cooks.
0 come, all ye gods, and give grace to my ballad,
Today I would sing as i ne'er sang before;
I'm heart-sick of dining on lettuce and salad,
And canned goods warmed over delight nie no more.
1 wish I could go once again to a dinner
That hadn't been planned out of style sheets or books
They may be all right for a sweet young beginner,
But they were not needed by old-fashioned cooks.
How well I remember the table-cloth spotless,
The dishes that shone like the cheek of a child,
The jellies and relishes, O there were not less
Than eight or nine kinds on the festive board piled,
There no little dabs served to make you ungrateful,
They took it for granted, I guess from your looks,
That hunger was yours, and they gave you a plateful
Of viands most toothsome, those old-fashioned cooks !
You came to their tables to eat, not to chatter,
And heaped were the plates that they passed up to you;
In richest of gravies the meat in the platter,
Was swimming, and side dishes never were few.
They fed us with plenty, not starved us with fashion,
They gave us enough and they cared not for looks,
And just now with me, it is almost a passion
I yenrn for a dinner by old-fashioned cooks.
GOOD-BYE
Good-bye, sweet day, good-bye !
1 have so loved thee, but I cannot hold thee.
Departing like a dream, the shadows fold thee;
Slowly thy perfect beauty fades away;
Good-bye, sweet day !
Good-bye, sweet day, good-bye !
Dear were thy golden hours of tranquil splendor,
Sadly thou yielded to the evening tender,
Who were so fair from the first morning ray;
Good-bye, sweet day !
Good-bye, sweet day, good-bye !
Thy glow and charm, thy smile and tones and glances,
Vanish at last, and solemn night advances;
Ah! could thou yet a little longer stay !
Good-bye, sweet day !
Good-bye, sweet day, good-bye !
All thy rich gifts my grateful heart remembers,
The while I watch thy sunset's smouldering embers
Die in the west beneath the twilight gray.
Good-bye, sweet day !
Celia Thaxter.
Sayings of Mrs, Solomon
Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth
Wife and Translated by Helen Roland for
the Washington Herald.
0 m?'
mv daughter, heed my
men shall follow ihee all the
followeth a string. Yea, the
most seriously and the married man shall sigh that he did not meet
thee first but the confirmed bachelor shall look upon thee with fear
and trembling.
Verily, verily, there is a lime to
and a lime to be sentimental, which is after luncheon.
A time to be silent, and a time to be confidential.
A time to be tender and a time to be cold.
A time to be "at home" and a time to be "out."
A time to be formal and a lime to be merry.
Lo! the man who fascinateth a woman is the one which putteth a stop
watch on all her emotions and timeth
Yea, she is a constant variety and
tents of a Christmas stocking.
For a man liketh something different eery day; but she giveth him
a change of bill every thirty minutes.
Then, let no man find thee sad
shall get upon his nerves.
Rather let him find thee smiling
afternoon; ready to make an engagement ai 4 o'clock and to break it at
7. at his side on Monday and at another s side on Tuesday, that he
may never say unto himself, "I'm
Behold, many a man has been
flattery faileih, and many another
not worked.
But wnen all else nam oeen incu
shall succumb. For a man can van endure to be trampled under any
girl's feet, but he chafeth to be avoided by them.
Then, so let thy light shine that it shall flicker like unto a firefly; for
what man pursueth a woman w ho doih not dodge him?
Verily, verily, a small boy yearneih for the complicated toy which
it requireth skill io work; man seeketh capricious woman whom it
taketh two hands and all his time to manage.
Go to! What man wasteth his evenings upon a play with one plot,
when he can gel a vaudeville show for the same money? Selah !
Tortured On a Horse. ,
"For ten years I couldn rule a hois
without lieiug tortured from piliVwriles
I S. Nupier, of Itugples, Ky.,"when all
doctors and other remedies failed, lluek
Icn's Arnica Salve cured me." lnfalli
hle for I'iles, Burns, Scalds, Cuts, Hoils,
Kcver Sores, Kcema, Salt Itlieuni.loius.
2,. (luaiauteeil hy all druggists.
xjg man seldom begins to
"' -rd until after he set-
ry
SWEET DAY.
wisdom and learn my ways, and
days of thy life even as a kitten
eligible thing shall regard thee al
be merry, which is before luncheon,
all her moods.
a greater surprise than the con
for two days in succession; for this
in the morning and weeping in the
solid."
won by a liitle quarrel, where much
by "friendship" where flirtation hath
iii vain nie man hiu ia iiiuivi
Too late to lock the stahle door when
the horse is gone. Zoo Colic Relief is
the only one that requires no drenching
ami guaranteed to cure Colic in horse
and cattle instantly. Kottle contains
enough for ten cases, price $1.
Sold hy W. M. Cohen. Weldon, S. C.
When a man spends all his s- a
ry himself it's a sign thai he isn't
married.
(iet DeViU'Curbolied Witch Hasel
Salve when you ask for it. There sic a
great many imitations, but there is just
one original. This salve is good for any
thing liere a salve is needed to lie used
but it is especially good for piles.
Sold by W. M. Cohen, Weldon, X. C.
A BLIGHT ON THE MANNA.
It May He That the Most Melan
choly Chapter of Lamentations
Remains to Be Written.
The most distressing informa
tion that has come over the wires
for a long time is the story that a
number of negroes in Louisiana
have died from the effects of eat
ing blackberries.
The shock of this statement is
about what it would be if we sud
denly discovered that the trout
were beginning to drown in the
mountain brooks or the cows had
caught enteric fever in the sweet
fields of clover.
From a period beyond the mem
ory of man the blackberry crop in
the Southern states has been to
the negro population like manna
in the wilderness, while to the
white people themselves it has
been one of the most important ad
juncts of daily diet in the good old
summer lime. The latter, for the
most part, were not their own
purveyors. They bought the dus
ky bucketfuls at the back door, and
erved them fresh for breakfast,
made them into jam or cordial, in
fifty-seven different varieties find
ing them wholesome and delight
ful.
It was the country darkey to
whom they belonged as of right.
Never a land -owner in all this
Southland was so heart-hearted as
to maintain that he had any vested
or prescriptive rights to the black
berry vines which wove them
selves along the rail fence, giving
white promise in the spring of rich
largeness when spring rounded into
summer. This succulent fruit,
wild as the crab and "sweet as re
membered kisses," was in the
category with dogs valuable, but
not property.
It was the spontaneous usufruit
which belonged to all the people,
and most especially to the country
negro.
The news that the blackberry
crop had failed would have created
greater consternation and infinitely
greater hardship than the failure
of the Barings or the arrest of the
tide.
The beauty of it all was that it
was a crop which never failed. It
could be relied upon with the im
plicit faith we place in Johnson
grass.
Nor has it failed yet; but the
tragedy of it all is that a parasite
the ever present and all devouring
has made its appearance, and
this parasite, it seems, is poisonous.
At any rate, the Louisiana ne
groes are dead, after a hearty al
fresco meal, partaken from the
vines on the roadside.
We have scarcely caught up.
with our sleep since the San Jose
scale gave us such a jolt, when the
staple crop of the South seemed
threatened. What cotton is to the
Southern negro as raiment, the
blackberry is as food throughout
the summer months. He could
lie down and rise up, and there
was no one to make him afraid of
going hungry so long as the black
berries held out! It "ft as a kind of
suspension bridge between the
two ends of the 'possum season.
And now this most delectable of
fruits, so free and abundant, has
fallen under. suspicion if not actual
contamination.
We are told "there's death in
the pot."
If these fears should prove well
founded, the most melancholy
chapter of Lamentations remain to
be written. Goldsboro Argus.
Sees Mother Qrow Young,
"it would he hard to overstate the
wonderful change in my mother since
she began to use I-.mi.C I.;"crr,
write Mrs. Y. L. UilpatricK, of Dan
fortli, Me. "Although pant 70 she seem
really to be growing young again. She
Bulli-red untold misery from dyspepsia
for M years. At last she could neither
eat, drink nor sleep. Doctors gave her
up and all remedies failed till Electric
Hitters worked such wonders for her
health." They invigorate all vital or
gans, cure liver and kidney troubles, in
duce sleep, impart strength and appe
tite. Only Mc. at all druggist.
All work is drudgery to those
who are not interested in honest
labor.
The best pills made are DeYVitt Little
Early Risers, the famous little liver
pill. They are small, gentle, pleasant,
easy to take aud act promptly.
Sold by W. M. Cohen, Weldon, ti. C,
Lots of high steppers overstep
themselves.
Chlldron Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CACTORI As
WHY2IIE DIDN'T WHIP MM.
Was Not Prepared l-'or 11 im and
Never Hit Him a Lick.
In making a speech in Charlotte
on the 2()ih of May, Gov. Kitchin
by way of illustration, told this
story, which is good enough to
pass around :
The other day in reading over
the papers in an application for
pardon, from Burke county, I read
the cross-exaiiiinaiion of a witness
(Judge Jones, I believe it was,
who was doing the work). He
made the witness admit that he
had taken part in tights in Swain,
in Madison, in Buncombe, and in
Transylvania counties. He made
him admit that he had been fined
in police courts and in Superior
court. He made him confess to
about 25 different offenses :
Finally Judge Jones said :
"Didn't you whip a Baptist minis
ter over in Swain county ?"
"No, sir; I didn't do that, was
the answer.
"I ask you if you didn't whip
Rev. Mr. Jones because he re
ported you for blockadiug?"
"No, sir; I never did that."
"Look-a-here, witness," thun
dered Judge Jones, "didn't you
meet him out on the public road
between such and such, points on
such a day and administer a whip
ping to him?"
"No," said the witness, "I
didn't do that; but since you ask
me, if you'll wait a minute I'll tell
you how it was. Mr. Jones was
coming along the road in his bug
gy, when 1 stopped him and says,
'You're the man that reported me
for blockading, ain't you? I've
been wanting to see you, and
now's my chance.' The preacher,
he jumped right down out of his
buggy, came over to where I was,
pulled a gun out of his pocket about
this long, shoved it in my face,
and says: 'Yes, Cathey, I'm pre
pared for you." No, I never
whipped him. I just says, "Well,
Brother Jones, I ain't prepared
for you, and I never hit him a
lick."
WanrtaMxaanUiaBHaaWaVai
FOR
Biliousness
Constipation
Headache
Indigestion
Dyspepsia
Flatulency
Malaria
Chills & Fever
Jaundice
Sleeplessness
Nervousness
Loss of Appetite
and all disorders aris
ing from Torpid Liver.
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( buy their groceries at our store,
(i All the seasonable tlelecacies are
( found iu our store the year
round.
CONFECTIONERIES
FRUITS
CROCKERY AND TIN
WARE
vjtioods delivered promptly any
(l where in town, l'olite clerks.
C I'hone So. NO.
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That Parker's Store?
Yes.
This is Mrs. Wilkins' Boarding
House. Please send round one
barrel of
J. E. M. Flour
and one 50-lb stand Shaffer's lard.
Want flour to make bread for sup
per. '
W. T. PARKER,
Weldon, N. U.
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No Rest
Day or Night
'i would lay awake for hours
without any apparent cause, or
dream terrible dreams which
would bring on extreme spells
of nervousness. After taking
Dr. Miles' Nervine and Tonic
fur awhile I could sleep well,
ami the nervous spells have left
me." MISS ALMA HUG,
K. R, No. 4, Canal Dover, Ohio.
Without sleep the nervous
system soon I'ecomcs a wreck,
and the healthful activity of all
the organs obstructed. Restful,
body-building sleep accompanies
the use of Dr. Miles' Nervine
because it soothes the irritable
nerves, and restores nervous
energy. When taken a few days
according to directions, the most
restless sufferer will find sleep
natural and healthful. Get a
bottle from your druggist. Take
it all according to directions, and
if it does not benefit he will re
turn your money.
We Ask You
to take Cardul, for your femala
troubles, because ve Are sure It
win help yoa Remember that
this great female remedy-;
has brought relief to thousands of j
other sick women, so why not to
you ? For headache, backache,
periodical pains, female weak
ness, many have said It Is "the
best medicine to take." Try It I
Sold In This City , n
T. CLAEK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WKLDON, N. C.
Practices in the courts of Halifax and
adjoining counties and ii. the Supreme
court of the Stale. Special attention
given to collections and prompt return
Y'S
KIDNEY CURE
WILL CURE YOU
of any case of Kidney or
Bladder disease that is not
beyond the reach of medi
cine. Take it at once. Do
not risk having Bright's Dis
ease or Diabetes. There is
nothing gained by delay.
50c. and $1.00 Bottles.
HFUII lUBSTITUTie.
E. CLARK.
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