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Organized Under the Laws of the State of North Carolina,
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State of North Carolina Depository.
Halifax County Depository.
Town of Weldon Depository.
Kor more than fifteen years this institution lias proviilt'il hanking facili
ies for this section. ll stockholders and directors have heen identified
i itu the business interests of Halifax and Northampton counties for
nany years. Money is loaned upon approved security at the legal rate o
nterest six per centum. Accounts of all are solicited.
The surplus and undivided prollts having reached a sum equal to the
'apital .Stock, the Hank has, commencing January I, IM11.H, established a
iaving-s Department allowing interest on time deposits as follows: For
Jepositi allowed toremain three months or longer, 2 per cent. Six
nonths or longer, 3 per cent. Twelve months or longer, 4 per cent.
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ickest and most direct line to Atlanta, Bir
mingham, Memphis and all Points South
and Southwest.
TV70 TRAINS EVERY DAY
h Vestibule Coaches, Dining Cars and Pullman Drawing Room
Sleeping Cars.
onnectlons made at Weldon with A. C. L., at Raleigh with the
folk and Southern from Eastern Carolina points, trains leaving
ollows:
No. 41. No. 33
Leave Weldon, 12:07 p. m 11:38 p. m.
" Raleigh, 4:10 p.m. 4:10 a.m.
Arrive. Charlotte, 11:30 p. m. 10:05 a. m.
" Atlanta, 8:45 a. m. 5:00 p. m.
" Birmingham, 12:10 p.m. 9:50 p.m.
" Memphis. 8:05 p. m. 7:30 a. m.
No. 41 Through Coaches and Pullman Sleepers to Atlanta,
llrect connection for Memphis and New Orleans.
for further Information relative to rates, sched
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Ticket Agent, Weldon, N. C.
"Or write to
C. II- (JATTIS,
District Passenger Agent,
Raleigh, N. C.
CUTTING THE LIFE ROPE.
; Thousands ol Men are Dropping j
Into the Awful (lull. ,
John B. Couch says : "On the
island of Hoy, in the Orkneys, the
inhabitants earn a precarious live-
lihood by robbing birds of their
eggs. To get ai their nests, men
! are lei down by a rope from a cliff
i one thousand feet high, and when
' they are down perhaps rive hun
; dred feel, the men ai the top make
j the rope fast. Each man has a
I signal-cord. Then they hang out
i clear of the cliff, they work them
selves toward it with a swinging
motion. By and by they catch
hold of some jagged rock ar root
or shrub, and ihey hang there in
mid-air and fill the bags with the
eggs.
"One man, suspended thus be
tween heaven and earth by a single
rope, swung himself into a crevice
and was busy with his work when
he was attacked by an eagle. The
eagle came at him with a full force,
with wings and beak and talons.
; I he man swung out into the air,
j while the eagle battered him with
I its wings and tore at him with its
I beak and claws. Holding on with
! one hand, (he man drew his long
! sharp knife with his other hand,
and made a desperate blow at the
eagle; but he missed the bird and
cut the rope by which he was sus
pended, all but a few strands,
which soon began to untwist and
the threads to snap. He gave the
signal, was hauled up to the edge
of the cliff, and was just saved.
There are young men hanging
over the bottomless pit by a single
cord. It is all that binds them to
life, home, happiness, heaven; it is
all that holds them from destruc
tion. Instead of making the sig
nal to be hauled up into safety,
they are using their knives to cut
away every strand of the rope.
Thousands of them are dropping
into the awful gulf, utterly lost for
time and eternity by their own act
and by their own purpose, over-
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' hut it is especially good for piles.
! Sold by W. M. Cohen, Weldon, N. C,
i He that stops at every stone
never gets to his journey's end.
The best pills made are DeWitt's Little
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"YOU KISSED ME.
You kissed me ! My head had dropped low on your breast,
With a feeling of shelter and infinite rest ;
While the holy emotions my tongue dared not speak,
Flashed up in a flume from my heart to my cheek,
Your arms held me fast ; Oh ! your arms so bold !
Heart beat against heart in their passionate fold;
Your glances seemed drawing my soul through my eyes,
As the sun draws the mist from the seas to the skies;
Your lips clung to mine 'till I prayed in my bliss
They might never unclasp from the rapturous kiss.
You kissed me ! My heart and my breath and my will
In delirious joy for a moment stood still;
Life had for me then no temptations, no charms,
No vision of happiness outside of your arms,
And were 1 this instant an angel possessed
Of the peace and the joy that are given the blest,
I would fling my white robes unrepiningly down,
I would tear from my forehead its beautiful crown,
To nestle once more in that haven of rest
Your lips upon mine, my head on your breast !
You kissed me ! My soul in a bliss so divine
Reeled like a drunken man made foolish with wine;
And I thought 'twere delicious to die there, if death
Would but come while my lips were yet moist with your breath;
Oh ! Death would be rapture, if I might grow cold
While your arms clasped me 'round in their passionate fold;
And these are the questions I ask day and night;
Must lips taste no more such exquisite delight?
Would you care if your breast were my shelter as then,
And if you were here would you kiss me again ?
SWEET REST AT LAST.
The following poem is an exquisite gem. It was written by John S.
Adams, of Boston, Mass., a man of purest spirituality. He was gentle
and kind almost to a fault. ...While suffering from a very painful dis
ease, he manifested the utmost cheerfulness and amiability and met the
sympathy of his friends with a fine play of words none knew better
to use.
Sweet rest at last !
At last the hands are folded
Upon a pulseless breast,
And a soul tired, of earth's great burden weary,
Hath found sweet rest. x
Sweet rest at last!
A long and faithful worker
'On life's broad, beaten road,
Reaching the confines of a life immortal,
Lays down his load.
Sweet rest at last !
No longer thorns are pressing
Upon a careworn brow,
But from the heavens a fadeless crown of blessing
Rests on it now.
Sweet rest at last !
No more earth's fretting discord
Disturbs the holy calm,
But the angel choirs chant to the list'ning spirit
Their peaceful psalm.
Sweet rest at last !
We clasp our hands in silence,
And only hope to be
Sometime with those who
And heaven to see.
Sweet rest at last !
Sometime, amid the realms of fadeless beauty,
Earth's toils and sorrows past,
Find, with the dear ones who have gone before us,
Sweet rest at last.
SHERMAN AND THE SOUTH.
The Present as Well as the Fu
ture Generation Will Stamp
Sherman as a Monster.
General Sherman seems in a
fair way to receive a tardy meas
ure of justice from the South. Of
all the Northern commanders he
has been singled out for lasting
resentment. His devastation of
the "enemy's country" from At
lanta to the sea and in the South
Carolina campaign has been treated
by the Southern people and their
historians as wanton cruelly. Now
that Sherman's letters home, writ
ten in the field to his family are
published ending in the latest num
ber of Scribner's Magazine, it is
found that the General realized the
dreadfulness of the destruction he
had left in his wake, but that he
was impelled to lay waste tne
country by the grim necessities of
war. Philadelphia Press.
Possibly it was true that Gener
al W. T. Sherman did realize the
dreadfulness of the wonton and
wilful destruction of property he
had laid waste to in the South du
ring the war between the States.
The famous, or infamous utterance
attributed to him that "war is hell"
conveyed that idea long ago. But
Sherman made it an unnecessary
hell lo a large number of non com
batants, to helpless women, and
defenseless children, by burning
the roofs from above their heads,
and idestroying everything upon
which they could subsist, leaving
them to starve and die. Sherman
could find no more excuse for
burning Atlanta than Nero found
for burning Rome, both deeds
were inspired by the devil.
I!y Keiiut't.
JJ
enter at the portal,
Sherman's army swept over the
fertile fields of South Carolina and
Georgia with a whirlwind of flame,
he left a track of smoking ruins,
blackened rafters, and despairing
desolation. His was the war of a
vandal, he carried the torch of an
Attilla, a scourage of humanity.
No reason existed then, no plausi
ble excuse can be found now for
burning the houses of private citi
zens, and laying waste to every
thing that could sustain the lives
of helpless women, and innocent
children.
Grant fought the South with the
stubbornness of a brave and deter
mined foe, but fought fair with the
spirit of a humanitarian, with the
impulse of a brave and heroic sol
dier. When the South was de
feated and ullen helpless 10 the
ennh, it was Grant who held out
his hand to help her to her feet
again. He immortalized himself
in his magnanimous treatment of
Lee in the surrender at Appomat
tox', and in his answer to John
son's threat to arrest Robert E.
Lee after the surrender.
Burn your histories if you wish
and destroy every sentence that
relates to Sherman's march to the
sea, and the infamy of the deed
would live on in tradition until the
stars failed, and the sun hung cold
in the heavens; you cannot efface
it from man's memory. The pres
ent as well as the future genera
tion will stamp Sherman as a mon
ster, it is too late to talk of his
measuring the import of his deeds,
everyone knows them, for he made
war a hell upon the helpless.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
FOLKS, PLACES AND THINGS.
Men are Constantly Growing
More and More Willing to Talk
About Religious Matters.
A Chicago attorney who says
modestly that he tries to improve
every fair opportunity for conver
sation on religion with men of his
acquaintance testifies that men are
constantly growing more and more
willing to talk about religious mat
ters. "One rainy day some years
ago," he recalled, "going down
one of the principal streets of Chi
cago, I suddenly ran into a mem
ber of the City Council. 'Say,'
he said bluntly, 'are you a candi
date for anything this campaign?'
1 didn't really intend to say it, but
quick as a flash the words popped
out of my mouth: 'Me? I'm a
candidate for heaven.' The man
gripped my arm nervously and
pulled me into a doorway out of
the rain. 'Look here,' he said
tensely, 'what made you say that
to me?' 'I don't know, I'm sure,'
I answered. 'It flashed into my
mind all of a sudden. I wasn't
planning it. I mean it, though.'
'Well, you've knocked me all in a
heap,' he said huskily. 'I'm a
candidate for heaven, too, but I've
come pretty near forgetting it. I'm
a church member, and I thought 1
was a pretty good Christian when
I went into politics. I haven't
done anything very shameful yet,
but I have been losing sight of my
religion and getting awful careless.
This Council business hasn't been
good food for me. I've been kepi
out late nights, and I always go
with the boys for supper at some
restaurant after Council meetings
are over. They're a hilarious
crowd, and we go bumming around
the town more than is good for
anybody. I've neglected my fam
ily and neglected my church, and
this thing you've said brings it all
back over me. I'm going to do
better. I don't have to let this
political business lead me off. I'm
glad that thing was put into your
head to say to me. I needed it.'
"One day," continued the at
torney, "1 had been working with
another lawyer over a case; and
when we finally wrapped up the
papers and he was ready to leave,
the words slipped out of my mouth
sort of musingly: 'Well, all so,
"the wages of sin is death." ' He
whirled around and stared at me
fiercely. "What do you mean by
that? You trying to preach to
me ?" 'Not a bit of it,' I answered.
'What are you getting excited
about? That's in the Bible. Don't
you think it's true?' He paused
and studied several seconds. 'Yes,
it is true,' he answered slowly. 'I
know it's true. And I haven't
been living like 1 ought to; 1 know
that. There are a lot of things I
have been doing that I wouldn't
dare to have my wife know. Tm
going to try to cut them out. I
don't want the wages.'" The In
terior.
SARDOU S OPINION OF WOMEN
I have, said Sardou, the highest
opinion of the fair sex. I consider
women superior to men in almost
everything. They possess the in
tuitive faculty to an extraordinary
degree and may almost always be
trusted to do the right thing in the
right place. They are full of no
ble instincts and, though heavily
handicapped by fate, come well out
of every ordeal. You have but to
turn to history to realize the truth
of what I say.
, Too late to lock the stable door when
the horse is gone. Zoo Colic Relief is
the only one that requires no drenchiug
and guaranteed to cure Colic in homes
and cattle instantly. Ilottle contains
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Don't say "Rubber 1" just be
cause somebody shows you a
bouncing baby boy.
If you wish to see yourself as others
do, look at the man w ho does not take
care of his health. To take care of your
health, useDrs. Hoag & Turbin'a Dys
pepsia Tablets, price 50e.
Sold by W. M. Cohen, Weldon, N. C.
When the police get on a man's
trail he can'tconceal himself among
the branches of his family tree.
Women may not lie permitted to vote
hut when they are Jicalthy in mind and
liody they usually make the man vote
their way. Ovalo Suppositories used in
conjunction with Vino ltcpens, the Fa
vorite Tonic for Woman, is an ideal
health producer. Price ft.
Sold by W. M. Cohen, 'Weldon, N. C.
Long after forgiving an injury a
woman keeps trying to forget that
she has forgotten it.
NO FRIEND LIKE THE DOG.
When you find a man always
grateful, always affectionate, never
selfish, pushing the abnegation
ourselt to the utmost limits of pos
sibility, forgetful of injuries and
mindful only of benefits received?
Seek him not; it would be a use
less task. But take the first dog
you meet, and from the moment
he adopts you for his master, you
will find in him all these qualities.
He will love you without calcula
tion. His greatest happiness will
be to be near you; and should you
be reduced to beg for bread, not
only will he aid you, but he will
not abandon you to follow a king
to his palace. Your friends may
quit you in misfortune, but your
dog will remain; he will die at your
feet, or if you depart before him
on the great voyage he will accom
pany you to your last abode.
CHEER UP.
Don't kick because you have to
button your wife's waist. Be glad
your wife has a waist and doubly
glad you have a wife to button a
waist for. Some men's wives have
no waists to button. Some men's
wives waists have no buttons on
to button. Some men's wives
who have waists with buttons on
to button don't care a continental
whether they are buttoned or not.
Some men don't have any wives
with buttons to button, any more
than a rabbit.
Trust not too much in an en
chanting face.
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where in town, route clerks.
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HELLO!
That Parker's Store?
Yes.
This is Mrs. Wilkins' Boarding
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barrel of
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Dr. Miles' Nervine only four
months."
MRS. C. G. UENNin-T,
Alma, Mich.
Epilepsy, Fits, St. Vitus'
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cured in so many instances with
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get of its merits is to write to
those who have used it. Get a
bottle from your druggist. Take
it all according to directions, and
if it does not benefit he will re
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We Ask You
to take Cardul, for pur female
troubles, because ve are sure It
vlD help you. Remember that
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
VELIOX, N. C.
Practices in the courts of Halifax and
adjoining counties and ii. the Supreme
comt of the State. Special attention
given to collections and prompt return
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Constipation, Stomach and
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by stimulating these organs and
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or nauseate.
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