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(.laekson, Northampton e.
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W. 1!. SMITH.
TO INSPIRE LOVE.
All Lovers Should (live This A
Hitch Place In Their Estimation.
An ancient manuscript Rives
Casanova's following love charm :
"A ymiii". man desirous of in
sptrinjj love in a yirl that looks
upon Ins suit with imlilfeivnce,
will surely succeed in his quest if
h,. i.h,.v tlw t'lillowint! tried aiu
approved instructions :
"On a !:nday iiiorninR, before
sunrise, c into an orchard and
pluck an apple, one of pale color
if the Rirl is pale, one with red
clucks if your lady love is disthi-motti.-.t
iiti sn.-h heauiv. While
.... - j
in the act turn your face towards j
the east and say not a word ere
it's accomplished, no matter how
' many people you run across. After
; securing the apple cause a little
blood to flow in the breast nearest
! your heart, and with this lover's
ink write your own and your girl's
name on a piece of thin tissue pa
per. This should be made into a
roll and wound with a rope made
of hair from the head of your girl
and your own. Ihrej; hairs en
iwined of each will suffice.
"Now divide the apple into two
equal parts, remove the pits and
: : place into the hollow the bit of
" miner wil'.i the names. Then close
up the apple again with splinters
cut from the wood of twigs of a
myrtle bush. The myrtle, accord
ing io mythology, has been a sym
bol of love and marriage since time
immemorial, and all lovers should
give it high place in their estima
tion. "Wail until full moon, and du
ring ihe night, with the light
shining upon the stove, bake the
,ipple in the oven until its dry and
hard, pronouncing from lime to
nine the name of the beloved one.
The apple you must manage to i
place under your lady love's pillow j
before she goes to bed, a girl j
friend, sister, or cousin, or per
haps a servant, will do as much for
you. Such will be the conse
quences :
"During the first night the be
loved one will be unable to sleep;
heartaches, her little head is tor
tured with uncertaiiitaimies, yet at
intervals she win uream iuc.n.im
dreams with her eyes wide open.
"During the second night the
girl will become cognizant of the
fact that she is in love, that some
one is thinking of her, wants her
and wants no one else.
"And on the third night the god
of love will tell the girl that you are
the man whose soul is craving for
her; that you will make her happy
and that no one else can make her
happy but you.
"The same methods may be em
ployed by a girl, or woman, to
ward the male person she loves."
C" ''Mr The only Baking Powdor.
i.'My made from Royal Grape m
W Cream of Tartar
i if. m i li i v a m i w
AS TO METHUSELAH'S AGE.
Critics Cut Itis M ears Down;
to 78 .(Abraham and Isaac's
Years Come Down to 72 and 71.
TWO SINNERS.
I'wivt Line and Vice, Which,
Think. Ye, Entered Paradise?
20 Years
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Caleb Cohen, a colored man of
i this place, one night recently ate
i sixty-two bananas at one sitting,
i The fruit was furnished free, pro
I vided the man's capacity was equal
to the quantity; but in case ot tau
; ure to eat the sixty-two, he was to
! forfeit 50 cents. Another darkey
with a champion appttite was anx
ious to wager two dollars that he
could eat a box of axle-grease, but
; could find no takers. l.eaksville
, Gazette.
He was old and poor and a stranger
In the great metropolis,
As he bent his step thitherward
To a stately edifice.
Outside he inquires, "What church is this?"
"Church of Christ," he hears them say;
"Ah! just the place I am looking for,
1 trust He is here to-day."
He passed through the spacious columned door
And up the carpeted aisle,
And as he passed on many a face
He saw surprise and smile,
From pew to pew, up one entire side,
Then across the broad front space;
From pew to pew down the other side
He walked with the same slow pace.
Not a friendly voice had bid him sit
To listen to gospel truth;
Not a sign of deference had been paid
To the aged one by youth,
No door was opened by generous hand,
The pews were paid for rented,
And he was a stranger, old and poor,
Not a heart to him relented.
As he paused a moment outside to think,
Then he passed into the street.
I'p to his shoulder he lifted u stone
That lay in the dust at his feet,
And bore it up the broad, grand aisle,
In front of the ranks of pews;
Choosing a place to see and hear,
He made a seat for his use.
Calmly sitting upon the huge stone,
Folding his hands on his knees,
Slowly reviewing the worshippers,
A great confusion he sees,
Many a cheek is crimsoned with shame,
Some whisper together sore
And wished they had been more courteous
To the stranger, old and poor.
As if by magic some fifty doots
Open simultaneously,
And as many seats and books and hands
Are proffered hastily;
Changing his stone for a crimsoned pew,
And wiping a tear away,
He thinks it was a mistake, after all,
And that Christ came late that day.
The preacher's discourse was eloquent,
The organ in finest tone,
But the most impressive sermon heard
Was preached by an humble stone,
'Twas a lesson of lowliness and worth
That lodged in many a heart,
And the church preserves that sacred stone,
That the truth may not depart.
c foil. .will
cXcluUiH1':
"M.-thu-chili loses his famous
i ui'.l. lor his :f.. rci.utc. I
. years arc whittled down toTsJ.
'lius says the Jewish nil. I in
i a ilisciissii.il of Jewish churae
' teristies.
j There has always existed a
; certain amount of doubt even
anions believers in the literal
truth of the llihlc coiicernilit,'
the ;reat aj;e to which the.lew
ish patriarchs are recorded as
'having lived. Some of the
theories evoked to reduce the
Biblical records of this kind to
soiiiethine; near the allotted
' span of iii.in are dealt on in the
; article.
It is surmised, the Jewish
! World savs, that in the earliest
j times the month, the period of
' a moon cycle, was called a
! vear. Thus Adam's n:M yeais
The billowing which i
from an exchange, shows
justice and inconsisicncy
world in dealing with two
t.iken
;he in
ol the
classes
Dr.
cured in.' 1,1
ov. r Jo i at
so bad that I
of sinners - man and woman as
we have ail seen .1 :
She was a woman, worn and
ilim, whom the world condemned
lor a single sin. They cast her
out of the king's highway, and
passed her by as they went to pray.
He was a man, and more to blame,
but the world spared him a breath
of shame. Beneath his feet he
saw her he, but he raised his head
and passed her by. They were
the people who went to pray, at
the temple of Cod on that holy
day. They scorned the woman,
forgave the man; 'twas ever thus ,
since the world began. ;
Time passed on and the woman
died; on a cross of shame she was j
crucified, The world was stern i
and would not yield, and they j
buried her in a potter's held. The j
man died, too. and they buried;
i ,,f life cnlciilatimr a vearat
' days, the length of a lunar year him in a casket of cloth, wuli a,
1 month, works out to 7.11 years, silver brim, and as they turned
! After the month year there ; from the grave away, said, "We
'came a live month year, the buried a noble man to-day. '
' limit of five beine; derived from Two mortals knocked at heav
; the lingers of one it lieintf re-! en's gate stood face to face to m
I meinhercd that primitive peo-i quire their fate. He carried a
: pie tilwavs used the tinkers for passport with an earthly sign, but
j counting purposes. Theiieanie j she a pardon from love divine,
j the twelve month year. , Oh, ve who judge 'twixt love and
Kxeuso for this rearrange-1 vice, which, think, ye, entered
i incut is found in the Psalmist's', Paradise? Not he whom the
limit of life, three score and tell ' world has said would win, but the
' vears. ami it is maintained that woman alone was ushered in
' between the
11 . art Kcnii ily lias
heart disease of
' standing. I was
could not do my
ii
wrl:. anil nml.l sra.cn oiau
a lull l.r.alli without iain'.inc; or
inmberine;- 'I I"' doe',..!' told me
u could do no move for me;
ihc a I eoimiinu'ed tal.im;- tin!
Heart. Keinedv. 1 shall never
f.,ret that nii-lit. 1 s-l'I't ,,("tu'r
than 1 had before in months. I
kept rijjlit on B-t:ii! l''t(;r, un
til I was perfectly well."
MRS. LA UK A KCSSKLL,
l.ojjau, Iowa.
When the heart a. tion is
weak, it fails to pump the blood
thr.ni'Mi the liuis with sullicicnt
rapi.lnv. Then the luns do not
absorb' the proper amount of
ow-cn, although they may be
taking in a normal amount of
air. The result is shortness of
breaih. smothering spells, dim
cult breathiuK. oppressed feeling
in chest. Dr. Miles' Heart Rem
edy strengthens the heart nerves
and muscles, and in this way
increases the circulation.
Get a bottle from your drug
eist Take it aeoirdiiiR to direc
tions, and if it docs not benefit
he will return your money.
intervened
discovered
watching lai
Ims Jacob's I 17
times of Noah ami
David no such extraordinary
change could have taken place
as to reduce the life of man by
eleven-twelfths. Ml the live
month year basis, Abraham's
17.'i vears work out al TJ and
; Isaac's Iso at 71.
Perhaps, too,lhcr
a six month year.
by Jacob while
ban's Hocks.
years work out 7:1. The t welve
; month year began with the
Egyptians who saw that a com
plete period was made of the
two "years" in one of which
the days were longer than the
nights and in the other the
nights were longer than the ,
davs.
The Christian and Jewish
vears, concludes the Jewish
World, will not he separated.
' "for," it says "in due course of
time Kosh Mash, ma will fall at
Christinas time and then catch
up with the Christian year.
This, however, will not happen
for :',n,oi.'o years. No doubt thai
is the reason why nobody wor
ries about it."
IN Tilt: WKONU HOX
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Mc( M VS MAGAZINK
It is better to have begun and
quit than never to have begun at
all.
Keligion is not something to get
and keep, but to have and use.
Pride sometimes goes before a
fall, but it nearly always follows a
rise.
Do not light the devil with fire,
(iet him into the parlor and freeze
' him to death. I
One of the hardest things in this ;
world for an heiress to do is to lose
her money and keep her husband. I
The price ofbroomcornhasgone ;
so high it is cheaper for the aver
age housewife to wipe up the Moor
' with her husband.
The head of the house may as
well make up his mind at once that
if only one member of the family
can wear good clothes it isn't he.
The pastor of a prominent
Northern church has forbidden
ihe girls in the choir io wear nils
in their hair, and the gills are now
charging that he has bats in his
belfry.
e.'ONDIBHX 1V
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one on run kmtor.
No. .M
11:41 p. ni
4.l()u. ni.
10:05 a. m
5:00 p. ni.
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7:.) a. m.
The Cause of Many
Sudden Deaths.
;., ,1,1..,,.,,. i.ri'vuiliUL' ill til is
o.unlrv must ilunnvn.us Ihciiim' so ilwqi-
.1-. LltlAj ili-iil lm nri. runs,', I
. by it heart ills
ncilll iiiiiiiii i'i
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For further information relative to rates, sched
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Or write to
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Portsmouth. Va. MM,.C.
QEORQE C. QREEN.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
(Natioual Hank HuildiiiK)
Weldon, N.C.
W. J. WARD,
IKNTIST,
OKHCKIN HAMIiL l!i:iLDlN(l,
WKLIKIN. N.tl
Mpl2 Ij
tin- rrult nf kill
lu'V ilisensc. II
kiiliu v triml'li- ib
nllowfilti.nilviince
tlu kiiliu'V i.isim
r,l I.IihhI nt-
...i. ,'u ..;.TrV,t-ir-!, rausiiiL' catanh ot
the I1:iI.Ut, l.rii k-dust r s-,!iimMit id
the urine, liiu.l m lie, lark utlic, lam
tiack, iliznni'ss, Fl-i-,lessm'f, r.ervoiiB-11,-s,
or tlic Viilncvs thtmstlves Lrtuli
,!,n iiii.I waste away cell ly ctll.
Ma.hler troul.les nlmoit always result
from u .UraiimiiKnt of the Ui,lmy and
Ix tler lieotlli in mai urKuii . ......
iinii liest hv a iroer treatiiitnt of the kid
nevs. 5wanip-oot corrects limlnhty tc
hohl urine ami seiiliUnR paiti in assiun it,
ami ovcreonics that unpleasant neeessit
of lieitii; comiielleil to ro often thruiiKli
1 the ilnv, nml to Krt up many times diumt
1 theniiilit. The niilil and iinmciliate i fie, I
of Swamp-Koot, tlic great kidney ren.edy
. is noon reuiuoi. i,s,jniiii,r...f,, -
1 cause of its remarkable health iestorni(.
properties. A trial will cominceanyoue.
I Pwamp-Root is pleasant to take and is
s.,1,1 t.v all linguists in fifty-cent and
one-dollar sie twltles. You may have a
sample hottle and a book that tells all
i alwut it, tmtli sent free by mail. Address,
lliiu'hainton, N.
When writini? mention reading tins Rf n
erous oiler in this paper. ln't make
any mistake, but remember the name,
Swamp-Root, awl don't let a dealer tell
vou something in place of Swamp-Root
If you do you will be disappointed.
A good joke is told on an editor
who went one evening to report a
party at a home recently blessed
with a new baby. He met his
hostess at the door and alter the
usual salutation he asked alter the
baby's health. The lady was quite
.i-.r ,,! .aiH'erine with the Rnp,
and thought he was asking alter
her cold and answered tnai al
though she usually had one every
winter, this was the worst one she , nuamm
ever had; it kept her a watte ai
nifht a Ood deal and at first con
fined her to bed. Then noticing
that the newspaper man was get
ting nervous she said she could
tell by his looks that he was going
tn have one iust like hers, and
asked him to go in and sit down.
Suffolk Herald.
l-'orced Into Uxile.
William t'peliurcli, of den I 'iik.i Ikla..
as an exile I'mm liuine. Mountain air.
he IhoiiL'lit, noiil.l euie u t"i m lit fill liinn -raekuiL'
cnwli that bad .b lii'd all reine
diin I'm two year!.. After six months
he it'tiii ui'.l. .h atli di.L'Uim; ln steps.
"Hi, -ii I Ui L-aii t ue IM. Kinir's New
Hiseoveiy," ho iiles. "ami al'tei tukintr
i butllcH I am a well us ever." II
navci thousands ycatly li""i di'sperati.
Iiiiib iliseiises. Inlallilili' for IouhIik
i , ,.i.i.. , .,,..IU ll..rsi,,ii,ss an.I
Sure Tlirout. l iiiw I. up. llnmcliitiB.
lleiiioriliuces. Asthma, t'omp. Wlioop-
1 inu Condi, '."i' and trial bottle fif
,,,1 t all ,liiim;isi.
A girl, a moon, and a garden
could take away a man s sense,
even if he had any.
MANY THOUSAND SKINS.
If you put up a sign over your
door you are an advertiser, says
the Centerburg (O.,) uazetie. i ne
sign is intended to advertise your
business to the people who pass
by. To advertise in a reliable pa
per is many thousand signs spread
over manv miles. You can't carry
everybody to your sign, but the
newspapers can carry your sign to
everybody.
Kills Her l:oe ot 20 Years
. ti, i meii'ili'ss enemv 1 had for
'.'II yearn," ibvlmvi Mrs. .lames Imuran,
of iluynesulic. Me., "us Dyspepsia. I
il.!,,l intensely uftel eatinif or driiik-
i,r,l could scarcely sleep. Alter many
remedies ha.l failed ami H,iverul doetora
iruve me up, I tried Kleetnc Hitters,
,. I.1..I, nnriul me round, 'telv. Now I pan
cut unvtliinit. I am n yearn old ami wrong
am overjoyed ut irrttinK my beullli luiek j Sociillist
UL'uiu. l or Indiueslion, i.osx oi .pie
tite. Kidney Trouble. Ijime l'.uek, l'e
inule ( 'ompluinK its iine.iiale.l. tlnW
"sic. at all druKKists.
Sinilini;, I'at stn.lh'.l into the
exainination room, whoro can
(lidiitfs for the poliet' force un
(li'i wcnt their physical test.
"Strip!" ordered the police
set'icant.
. "Thwat's that?" demanded j
the uninitiated.
"( iet your clothes nil' and he !
: nuiek about ill" j
1 Mumbling and muttering, l'at
I .lisrohed and the doctor pro- ;
ceeded to the test. :
! - Hop over this bar!" ordered j
the doctor. j
I'at did his best, which land- j
ed hint on the small part f his j
back. j
"Now jump under this cold
shower!" ordered the doctor. ,
"Shtire, that's funny!" mat- j
teml th" applicant an be obey- !
ed. !
"And now," concluded the;
doctor, "tun round the room i
ten times, to test your heart j
and wind. j
Tat hesitated then
Oi'll not!" be blurted out.
"Oi'll sthay single!" j
'Single?" inquired the doc-1
tor, mystified.
"Yes, single!" repeated the;
Irishman. "What's all this j
fussing got to do wid a marriage
license'"
lie had strayed into the
olliee.-Chicago Daily
THAT
ISA1)
TACTBr-T-l
LIVl
in your
mouth
is a
SURE
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
;Vi;i.K)N, n. c.
WIVietic-ln l be courts of Halifax and
rij,,iiiiML'.'..uiiiirsuu,l a. tbe supreme
,.,,ii ,.l tlie Mule. Special attention
Uivrii to eolleelions and prompt return
We Ask You
i to take Cardul, for your femate
i troubles, because we are sure n
"3 will help you. Remember that
g this great female remedy ;
WiHEl
OF 1
has brought relief to thousands of
.. .7 ..U.. try
Otlier SICK women, bo wu uv
you ? For headache. Daotacne,
periodical pains, female weak-
t n.mo hivn said It is the
best medicine to take." Try It l
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iiiiinedi.itclv, and still Letter
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lnfallihle forllurns, S-alds, Cuts, Conn,
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