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HOLEPROOF
HOSIERY
an Men's, Ladies' and
to last you six months, If they don't you get six
pairs of hose FREE. Try a box-Men's $1.50; La
dies $2;Childrens $3; extra heavy at foot and knee
-the only kind that will stand the children. The
Shoe Store of shoe values
WELDON SHOE COMPANY,
WELDON, N, C.
SpecialReducsdFrices Holidays
! During the Holidays, I will otter my entire stock at
greatly reduced prices. My Stock Consists of
glens' and Boys' Up-to-Date
Clothing,
My Stock Is all new and of Latest Styles. If you want
Bargains be sure to call during this special sale which
will only last until January I, 1910.
Respectfully,
. J. KAPLIN,
THE BANK OF WELDON
WKLDOV, X. C
Organized Under the Laws of the Stat of North Carolina,
Ai'ursTamt, Wi-
State of North Carolina Depository.
Halifax County Depository.
Town of Weldon Depository.
? a?llaI iLd. urP.lu.. $43,000.
tor more thn 1? yer Oiii institution has provided banking fncili.
ties for this unction. Il itocklioMr i.t director hve been iden til, 'd
with the businoai interim of Halifax and Northampton pountk., I r
many years. Money ii loaned upon approved security at the legal rate of
'interent aix percentum. Aeeounta of all are solicited.
The surplus and undivided 'profit having n-ached a sum equal to the
Capital Stock, the Bank has, commencing January 1, UM8, established a
Savings Department allpwiue interest on time deposit as follows: For
Deposits allowed toremain three months or lonirer, 2 per cent. ix
months or longer, S per cent Twelve months or longer, 4 percent.
For further information apply to the President or Cashier.
prrhiixnt:
W. K. DANIEL,
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P. II. W. I.KWIS,
(Jackson, Northampton county)
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latest designs made by
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Also full line of
Children's, Guaranteed
Gents Furnishings.
ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.
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W. K. SMITH.
THC CHII.D1IN L1RC IT
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COUGH SYRU?
THE LIFE OF THE HOME.
The Happiness of the Husband
Depends Wholly Upon the
Wife.
Homes must be attractive io be
huppy homes, This does not nec
essarily imply expenditure of mon
ey. It is a cuusc For sincere grnt
tude that the hut of the peasant
can be made bright and cheery as
well as the home of the king. There
is such a tiling, where there is an
abundance of weuith, as overdoing
ornamentation and making it hcuv
y and uninviting. VC'e have been
in parlors that were ruined by a
loo lavish display of wealth. That is
n.n the way to make a home
bright.
The first step in that direction is
for the husband and wife to be
bright and light-hearted them
selves. It has been said more
than a million times that if the wife
desires to keep her husband, she
must always be cheerful, good
humored, and smiling, and that
her home must be in good order,
never forgetting to have his sup
per well cooked and hot. In oth
er words, every time this is said,
the statement seems to be intended
to be made, that the happiness of
the husband depends wholly upon
the wife. She must amuse the
husband, and between amusing
him and the children the poor wo
man will often have her hands full,
for if she has a husband that ex
pects to be thus entertained, she
will likely find him the most petu
lant child in the circle, and will
often wish that she had strength
and authority enough to spank and
put him to bed. It is the duty of
the wife to do her part toward
making the home pleasant and
cheerful, and it is the duty of the
husband to do just as much as the
wife does. He has no excuse for
not doing it. No plea of weari
ness is sufficient. The wife is
weary, too: perhaps more so than
he is. It is his duty to meet her
smiles with smiles, and her efforts
to make the home one of content
ment and cheer with equal efforts.
His home is no place for him to
play the drone. His particular
business, when he enters his home
is to show that he is a member of
the family and not a mere boarder.
Let him relieve the wife of all the
responsibility he can, play with the
children, romp with them like a
schoolboy, put them to bed, and
rock the cradle, if such an unwise
thing as rocking the cradle is done
in the home, If both husband and
wife will vie with each other in
making the fireside happy, they
will do justice to each other and
take a very long step toward mak
ing a model home.
THERE ARE OTHERS.
A big hearted Irish politician in
a Western city had just left a thea
tre one night when he was ap
proached by a beggar, who said:
"Heaven bless your bright, be
nevolent face! A little charity, sir,
for a poor cripple."
The politician gave the man some
coins, saying:
"And how are you crippled, old
man?"
"Financially, sir," answered the
beggar, as he made off.
You can tell a man who brings
up his children well by how much
more they are like their mother
than like him.
ARE YOU
SLEEPY? NERVOUS?
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IT WILL WAKEN
VP YOUR LIVER
and start it working. Then
you can work, and enjoy it, too.
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RESOLVED, We will try
year of our lives.
THE SHY LITTLE MAIDEN.
I sing not of battles nor of conquerers laden
With trophies their valor has won in their strife;
My song is the love of a shy little maiden
Who smiled upon me in the morning of life,
I whispered my passion. Though clumsily spoken,
With tear-shining lashes she heeded my prayer;
With the ring of betrothal I pledged, for a token,
The little red ribbon she wore in her hair.
Though now it is faded
I picture it braided
The way it shimmered that night on the stair;
And often i kiss it,
And think how I'd miss it
The little red ribbon she wore in her hair.
The years have tlown by and her locks have grown whiter;
I smile when she speaks of the gray in the gold;
I whisper to her that her glances are brighter,
Her dimples more witching than ever of old,
Our love life has witnessed more laughing than weeping;
We chase with fond kisses the footprints of care;
But my own little wife never dreams I am keeping
The little red ribbon she wore in her hair.
Though faded and crinkled
And rumpled and wrinkled,
The bonnie bright looping that glistened so fair
Far down in my pocket
It lies deep in a locket
The little red ribbon she wore in her hair.
DREAMS OFLONG AGO.
I thank the love that gives me life that this one thing I know
The love that lives forever in the dreams of long ago,
The valley, and the low, green hills,
The meadows and the silver rills;
The wildwood, with its bloom of spring,
Where birds of old illusions sing,
I thank the light that leads me on, through these and all I see
The vision of the sweetheart lips the old vision dreams bring tome!
They tell us life is fleeting and at best is pain and care,
But in the dreams of long ago love lives and whispers there.
The soft, sweet springtime and the bloom,
The warm midsummer's murmuring loom,
The twilight and the moon and star
In silver arcs on hills afar,
1 thank the arm that holds and helps that these and all they mean
Are mine when in the dreams of old my heart regains its green!
1 thank the fates that most men hate for this o'er all the rest,
The lyric of the long ago that dreams upon love's breast.
The music of the dream of May,
The apple bloomy, sweetheart way,
The childhood of the heart that grows
On lips of child as on the rose;
The clean, sweet love that lives and smiles, that fairy-like and fine,
Goes down upor. the dancing feet of dreams as old as mine 1
I thank the love that lifts and lights and leads me to the door,
Where twilight lips lean out to meet the dark that cries: "No more!
No more, no more, to love no more,
Ah. love dreams back the gone before,
And in her dream of life it lies
As morning swi tt as springtime skies I
And this cries out: "Be bold, be bold I Brave be the hearts that know
The love that lives forevcrmore in dreams of long ago !
REFLECTIONS.
Birds never quarrel over differ
ences of a pinion.
It is so strange that a baker will
sell what he kneads.
A dumb wife is surely and un
questionably an unspeakable bles
sing. Judging by the way some peo
ple try to occupy two seats in a
car, they must be besides them
selves. The florist says that he doesn't
consider the palmist the best judge
of a palm.
It is a poor detective that cannot
shrdow a man without standing in
his own light.
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E. CLAHK.
Getting in a tight place doesn't
improve a loose character.
Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure any
case of kidney or bladder trouble tha '
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invigorates the entire system and
strenghens the kidneys so that they
eliminate the impurities from the blood.
Backache, rheumatism, kidney and
bladder troubles are al! cured by this
great medicine.
E. CLARK.
HE LOVED HIS MOTHER.
That Little Newsboy Has Left
Lesson to the World.
The following is a sketch full of
touching interest, of a little ragged
newsboy, who had lost his mother.
In the tenderness of his affection
for her he was determined that he
would raise a stone to her memo
ry. His mother and he had kept
house to-gcther, and they had been
all to each other, but now she was
taken, and the little fellow's loss
was irreparable. Getting a stone
was no easy task, for his earnings
were small; but love is strong.
Going to a cutter's yard, and find
ing that even the cheaper class of
stones were far too expensive for
him, he at length fixed upon a
broken shaft of marble, part of the
remains of an accident in the yard,
and which the proprietor kindly
named at such a low figure that it
came within his means. There
was much yet to be done, but the
brave little chap was equal to it.
The next day he conveyed the
stone away on a little four-wheeled
cart, and managed to have it put in
position. The narrator, curious to
know the last of the stone, visited
the cemetery one afternoon, and
he thus describes what he saw and
learned :
'Here it is,' said the man in
charge, and sure enough, there
was our monument, at the head of
one of the newer graves. 1 knew
it at once. Just as it was when it
left our yard, I was going to say,
until I got a little nearer to it and
saw what the little chap had done.
I tell you, boys, when I saw it
there was something blurred my
eyes, so s I couldn t read it at first.
The little man had tried to keep
the lines straight, and evidently
thought that capitals would make it
look bigger, for nearly every letter
was a capital. I copied it, and here
it is; but you want to see it on the
stone to appreciate it.
MY mOTHER
SHEE DIED LAST WEEK
SHEE WAS ALL I HAD. SHEE
SED SHEAD Bee WalTING FuR
and here, boys, the lettering stop
ped. After awhile I went back to
the man in charge, and asked him
what further he knew of the little
fellow who brought the stone.
'Not much, ' he said, not much.
Didn't you notice a fresh little
grave near the one with the stone?
Well, that's where he is. He
came here every afternoon for
some time, working away at that
stone, and one day I missed him,
and then for several days. Then
the man came out from the church
that had buried the mother, and
ordered the grave dug by her side.
I asked if it was for the little chap,
He said it was. The boy had sold
all his papers one day, and was
hurrying along the street out this
way. There was a runaway team
just above the crossing, and well
he was run over, and lived but a
day or two. He had in his hand,
when he was picked up, an old file,
sharpened down to a point, that
he did all the lettering with. They
said he seemed to be thinking only
of that until he died, for he kept
saying, 'I didn't get it done; but
she'll know I meant to finish it,
won't she? I'll tell her so, for
she'll be waiting forme' and, boys,
he died with those words on his
lips.' "
When the men in the cutler's
yard heard the story of the boy,
the next day they clubbed together,
got a stone, inscribed upon it the
name of the newsboy which they
succeeded in getting from the su
perintendent of the Sunday school
which the little fellow attended,
and underneath it the touching,
explosive words : l ie luveu
his mother."
When the stone was put up, the
little lad's Sunday school mates,
as well as others were present,
and the superintendent, in speak
ing to them, told them how the
boy had loved Jesus and tried to
please Him, and gave utterance to
this high encomium: "Scholars,"
said he, "I would rather be that
brave, loving, little newsboy, and
lie there with that on my tomb
stone, than to be a king of the
world, and not love and respect
my mother." That newsboy has
left a lesson to the world.
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
Till Kind You Have Always Bssght
Bears the
Blgnatnr of
HE WAS A TRUE GENTLEMAN.
They Objected to His Playing
Fear He Would Be Hurt.
for
A few days ago I was passing
through a pretty, shady street
where some boys were playing at
baseball. Among their number
was a little lame fellow, seemingly
about twelve years old a pale,
sickly-looking child, supported on
two crutches, who evidently found
much difficulty in walking even
with such assistance.
The lame boy wished to join the
game, for he did not seem to see
how his infirmity would be in his
own way and how much it would
hinder the progress of such an ac
tive sport as baseball.
His companions very good-na
turedly tried to persuade him to
stand at one side and let another
take his place; and I was glad to
notice that none of them hinted
that he would be in the way, but
that they all objected for fear he
would hurt himself. !
"Why, Jimmy," said one of
them at last, "you can't run, you
know."
"G, hush!" said another, the
tallest in the party; "never mind;
I'll run for him," and he took his
place by Jimmy's side, prepared
to act. If you were like him,"
he said aside to the other boy, "you
wouldn't want to be told about it
all the time."
As I passed on I thought to my
self: "That boy is a true gentb
man." Exchange.
AND THIS WAS LOVE.
A young man and a young wo
man lean over the front gate. They
are lovers. It is moonlight. He
is loth to leave, as the parting is
the last. He is about to go away.
She is reluctant to see him depart.
They swing on the gate.
"I shall never forget you," he
say "and if death should claim
me, my last thoughts will be of
you."
"I'll be true to you," she sobs.
"I'll never see anybody else or love
them as long as I live !" They
parted.
Six years later he returns. His
sweetheart of former years has
married. They meet at a party,
She has changed greatly, between
the dances the recognition takes
place.
"Let me see," she muses, with
her fan beating a tatto on her pret
ty hand, was it you or your
brother who was my old sweet
heart?"
"Really. I don't know," he
says; "probably my father."
NO ROOM FOR MORE.
The Kov. Daniel Isaacs once
alighted at an inn to Btay over
night. On asking for a bed he
was told he could not have one
as there was to be a ball that
evening, and all the beds were
engaged.
"At what time does the ball
break up?" asked Mr, Isaacs.
"About three in the morning,
sir."
"Well, then can I have a bed
until that time?"
"Yes, certainly; but if the
bed is asked for you will have
to remove."
"Very well," replied Mr.
Isaacs, and away he went to get
between the sheets.
About three o'clock in the
morning he was awakened by
loud knocking at his chamber
door.
"What do you want?" he
asked.
"How many are there of you
in there?" inquired a voice.
"There's me and Daniel and
Mr. Isaacs and an old Metho
dist preacher," was the reply.
"Then there's plenty of you."
And the speaker passed on,
leaving Mr. Isaacs to enjoy his
bed. Pittsburg Chronicle,
You'll feel better after taking DeWitt'i
Little Early Risers, the safe, sure, pleas
ant, gentle little liver pills. If you
would be aura of good results insist on
DeWitt's Carboliied Witch Haiel Halve,
the original. It is good for big cuts or
little ones, small scratches or bruises or
big ones, but it is especially good for
piles.
Sold by W. M. Cohen, Weldon, N. C.
The jump of the rabbit is not ex
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Best for coughs and colds ii Reme
dy's Laxative Cough Syrup. It moves
the bowels freely yet gently and thereby
drive the cold from the system. It
stops the cough. Children like it pleas
ant to take.
Sold by W. M. Cobait, Weldon, N. C.
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"My son was cured of a very
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if it does not benefit he will re
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WELDON, N. V.
Practices in the courts ofllalifax and
adjoining counties and it. the Supreme
court of the State. Special attention
given to collections and prompt return
We Ask You
to take Cardul. for your femals
troubles, because va are sure It
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this great female remedy
has brought relief to thousands of
other sick women, so why not to
you ? For headache, backache,
periodical pains, female weak
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