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WELDON, X. CM TIIUKSDAY, ) TOIJER 2(5, 1011.
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RESISTANCE.
MARY BROWN.
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The lUnd You miva Always Bought, aud which lias bocu
lu use for over 30 years, has borne tlio sisrwiluro of
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What is CASTORIA
Castnrlu Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
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contains neither Opium, Morphine nor oilier Narcotlo
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ami Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
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GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
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The Boy Who Can Say No to His
Appetite is Master of His Soul.
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Organized Under the Laws of the State uf North Carolina,
Altil'STJiiTII, I sir.'.
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Town of Weldon Depository.1
C ap it al and Snrplus, $47,000.
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il,e surplus an,l un,livi,le,l prollts liavmir n achel a sum e,ual to Hie
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"Soul take ihine ease; eat, drink
and be merry." These were the
words of a gentleman the Bible
calls a fool. He had made his
money, and he actually had it. He
did noi have to mongage his prop
erty io get what he warned. He
had plenty and lo spare, and he
proposed to take life easy and to
spend his money with a free hand.
Was that wrong? Vi'ell, it seems
so, il we are going to take the
Bible for our guide. What was
ihe crime in this man's proposi
tion? Simply this: he determined
to take off brakes and give his ap
peiife and passions full reign. He
had reached the point where he pro
posed to resist the temptation to
whatever he wanted, no longer,
li is exactly at this point that the
poor boy has the advantage over
the rich boy. The latter is made
strong by resisiance, and that is
where the blessing of self-denial
comes in. Ii is not pleasant. It
calls for strength and manhood
and it develops those very quali
ties. VC'e always regret to hear a
young fellow say:"I do not propose
to go through this world on half ra
tions. Money was made to spend,
and 1 am going to have a good
time and enjoy my money while I
can." The boy who has reached
that point has sealed his own
doom. It means a bleak and bar
ren old age if heever lives to reach
old age. It means a profligate and
worthless life and weak and flabby
moral muscles. Stinginess is worse
than extravagance, but a spirit of
economy on the part of the rising
generation is the most needful les
son of our day. To be able to re
sist is worth a great deal more than
any amount of money. The boy
who can say No to his appetite and
be master of the soul; he who can
not say this great word is merely
driftwood on the river, and failure
is writ large on the pages of his
life. If ever in the history of this
world the power of resistance
needed to be cultivated, it is need
ed today. We are on the brink of
a financial abyss. The day of reck
oning is coming fast. Our great ,
financial institutions are not pros- i
perous. li is hard for wage earn-1
ers to make ends meet, v, ny:'
Automobiles ? If only those who
were able to own machines would
ride, no harm would come from
them, but the country is plastered
with mongages that will never be
lifted because poor folks are not
able to resist the desire to fly over
good roads at thirty miles an hour.
We were told a few days ago of a
blacksmith who by hard work and
economy hammered out $7,000
on his anvil, and seized with the
automobile craze, bought a ma
chine for $3,000 and is spending
$50 a month to maintain it. He
has quit shoeing horses and spends
his lime and his money riding in
his automobile. Young chaps
earning $75 a month do not hesi
tate to encumber what ihey have
for the sake of owning a machine
whose life at the furthest limit is
five years. The country has lost
its grip on itself. We have lost
the power to resist our desires.
The financial disaster that is sure
to come is the least of the evils
growing out of this collapse of
character. The worst result will
be the moral weakening the next
generation will produce.
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FRUITS, CONFECTIONERIES
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Kr " "o '! ni ii. wit. oa touv ".T,. .rjVi.iMi rial.
The leacher asked, "When did
Moses live?"
After the silence had become
painful she ordered: "Open your
Old TcMniiems. What docs it
say there?"
A boy answered, "Moses,
4000."
"Now," said ihe teacher, "why
didn't you know when Moses
lived?"
"Well," replied the boy, "I
thought it was his telephone num
ber." Is the World flrowing Better?
Many tilings goto prove that it ia.
The way thousand r trying to help
otliera ii proof. Among them is Mra.
V. V. Gould, of Pittsliekl, N. II. Find
ing good health by taking Electric Hit
ten, he now aJviaes other sutTere,
everywhere, to take them, "for years
1 suffered with utomach and trouble,"
she writes. ' Every medicine I used
failed till I took Electric Bitters. Hut
this great remedy helped me wonderful
ly." They're the best tonic and flneet
liver and kidney remedy that's made.
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DEAR LITTLE SWEETHEART.
Dear little sweetheart of long ago,
Innocent, happy and fond of play,
Could you have known what the years would bring,
Would your choice be the same as it was that day,
'Mid the clover blossoms in early spring
When your heart was light as a thistle's blow ?
Dear little sweetheart of long ago,
I love you now as 1 loved you when
Youth's skies were cloudless, and flowers were fair
In the meadows afar from the haunts of men;
And our hearts were happy and free from care
As the murmuring brook or the winds that blow.
Dear little sweetheart of long ago,
Little you knew what the years would bring.
Little you knew when your bark sailed fair,
That life's sweetest pleasures have sharpest sting.
That shatiered idols are hard lo rear;
And flowers once gathered no more will grow.
Dear liitle sweetheart of long ago,
Where are the dreams that you once held dear?
Where are your castles with gardens round,
And children's laughter 'mid flowers fair?
Nothing you dreamed of your heart hath found,
What you have suffered, God only may know I
Dear little sweeiheart of long ago,
Somewhere unseen an angel's hand
Hath gathered your heartaches, your love, your fears.
To blossom anew in some far off land;
Where God shall wipe from your eyes all tears
Dear little sweeiheart of long ago.
THE MOTHER,
There is no height, no depth, that could set us part
Body of mine and soul of mine, heart of my heart.
There is no sea so deep, no mountain so high,
That I could not come to you if I heard your cry.
There is no hell so sunken, no heaven so steep,
Where I should not seek you and find you and keep.
Now you are round and soft, and sweei as a rose;
Not a stain on my spotless one, white as the snows.
If some day you came to me heavy with sin,
1, your mother, would run to the door and let you in.
I would wash you white again w ith my tears and grief.
Bode of mine and soul of mine, till you found relief.
Though you had sinned all sins there are 'twixt east and west,
You should find my arms wide for you, your head on my breast.
Child, if 1 were in heaven and you were in hell
Angels white as my spotless one stumbled and fell
I would leave the fields of God and Queen Mary's feet,
Straight to the heart of hell would go seeking my sweet.
God, mayhap would turn Him at sound of ihe door;
"Who is it goes out from Me, io come back no more?"
Then the blessed Mary would say from her throne:
"Son, 'tis a mother goes to hell, seeking her own.
"Body of mine and soul of mine, born of me
Thou who wen once little Jesus beside my knee
"It is so that mothers are made: Thou madest ihem so.
Body of mine and soul of mine, do I not know ?"
What Would the World Do If
There Were Not a Whole Lot ol ;
Old Maids Like Mary Brown.
"Who is that yonder?"
"Why, don't you remember her?
i Thai's Mary Brown. You remem
ber John Brown, a sort of ne'er-do-well."
"Looks a little old, doesn't she,
even when she's fixed? But she
has a good face, and she is as good
as she looks.
"If you remember, ihe Brown
family lived over a store on Main
sireet. John Brown worked at
painting when he fell well. Said
he had painter's colic. He was
never very strong, that's true. And
one day over ai ihe stove factory
a big knife machine chopped off
one of his hands, and he couldn't
do much but odd jobs.
"Mrs. Brown? A smart little
woman and ambitious-like. She
kept the kids looking neat two
boys and two girls. She just wash
ed herself to death over her tub.
Mary, ihe oldest, helped her moth
er. "Well, when her mother died
Mary was sixteen. That was four
teen years ago. Yes, Mary is just
thirty.
"And in all that fourteen years
Mary Brown scarcely has had the
time to look up from her sewing at
the cloak factory. She got a dol
lar a day for several years. She
has been fore-woman and for
sometime at $9 a week.
"It's simply wonderful what
Mary has done. She kept the
other children about as well dress
ed as the average. Her sister was
in school, graduating in the grades.
One brother, John junior, finished
last year in the high school. He
helped Mary a good deal. Work
ed hard and sold newspapers of
evenings. The other boy is just
finishing a course in the business
college.
"Yes, for the first time in years
Mary is able to take a long breath.
"The old man? Oh, he earned
a dollar here and there. And he
was handv about the house. Died
two years ago. And he had a de
cent burial, too Mary's money.
"And somehow when you just
know what Mary has done and
what she has been to that family
she looks sort of good to you, if
her features are plain.
"And I'm telling you no secret.
One of the best men in the town
is going to marry Mary in the fall.
He knows what she is, and he
thinks a lot of her.
"I really sometimes wonder
what the world would do if there
were not a whole lot of old maids
like Mary Brown. But, then, they
are not all so lucky in the outcome
as Mary, and more's the pity. ' '
LANDED ON HIM.
HIS PROMISES ARE MANY.
Edward Mat, Who Weds Guaran
tees to Be Model Husband.
Chicago. Ld ward Matt, who
to-day married Miss Gertrude
Ellis, sought to avoid future do
mestic infelicity by filing with the
county recorder a guarantee to be
as nearly the model husband as
possible. The guarantee signed
and witnessed by a notary, prom
ised :
"She may do as she pleases.
She is free to go and come when
she likes, to go with whom she
chooses and I will not be jealous.
I will not go gunning for a fellow
because he admires her, and be
cause she smiles when he speaks
to her; 1 will not interfere with
any of her plans.
"I will be kind and good to her.
I will give her all my earnings,
and it will be her privilege to do
as she pleases as long as she feeds
me well.
"When we have a surplus and
it goes to ihe bank, 1 agree not to
hold the keys. The checks may
be signed by either of us. I agree
to come home at a proper hour
each night or give her a valid ex
cuse. "And 1 further agree that I will
let her get a divorce if I fail to be
have as a kind, loving gentle con
siderate husband should."
When the guarantee had been
duly placed on record the couple
sought a minister and were mar
ried. THE OLD, OLD STORY.
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"FULL MANY."
Full many a man who has made a
pile
And won success in life,
Owes half his wealth und all his
style
To the brains of his little wife.
(EST AND HEALTH TO M0THEI AND CHILD.
MkiWifiiiow'i Sooth i mo ftYBirr to" bw
VMdfarovfr SIXTY YBAKftby MILLIONS of
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TULTlllVrt it. tiUuLBPT VI II
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CASTORIA
For IiifanU aud Children.
Hii Kind You Hava Always Bought
Baars the
Blgnatnr
People don't seem to care how
you got your money; they are in
terested only in how you spend it.
Every lime a man adds another
dollar to his collection he lays up a
little more trouble.
A man's two great ambitions are
to be chairman of something and
to have his portrait painted for it.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
11
Tim Did you ever have swim
min' in the head, Ragsby ?
Ragsby Yes, once. 1 was at a
house and the lady turned me
down and I wouldn't leave. Then
she called the old man, and then
all of a sudden it came on me.
HER INTERPRETATION.
Fragments ol conversation drif
ted in from the billiard room,
where the husband and his friends
were enjoying their cigars. "1
called," said the husband, happily,
"and when it came to a show
down as to who was the winner,
why the other fellow simply didn't
have a chance ! And so I stretched
out my hands and gathered in that
which really gave me my start. I
think that i did better that night
than any other man in our crowd
has ever done. Ah, what a hand
I held ! I always recall that night
with thrills of pleasure."
The young wife slipped away,
her, face dyed with a deep pink.
"The old dear is telling Mr.
Blinker how he cut out Freddy
Banker and made me say "yes,"
she whispered to herself. "Isn't
her just perfect !"
"Folks say young Spender mar
ried for money."
"Well, it will be a case of 'a fool
and his money soon parted.' His
wife is suing for a separation."
Puck.
TOO NEAR HOME.
A linle bank in ihe South blew
up one day and a bank examiner
came down to look it over.
A he was working he noticed
an old negro walking back and
forth in front of the bank, stopping
each trip to look anxiously at the
door. The examiner finally went
out and asked :
"What's the matter with you.
"Boss," the negro replied. "1
done had fo'iy-eighi dollars in dat
bank."
"Oh, well, you mustn't worry.
Banks fail frequently you know.
It is nothing unusual. We'll make
an examination and you'll get all
that is coming to you. Didn't you
ever hear of a bank blowing up be
fore?" "Yes, sir, I done hear tell of it.
But, boss, this yer is de fust time
I ever had one to blow right up in
my face
EMPTY WAS THE CRADLE.
Man may declare that he is the
lord of creation, but all the same
he fears his wife above everything
else should he happen to reach
home very late at night. Recent-
, ly a certain husband arrived home
much later than usual "front the
olhce." He took off his bouis and
stole into the bedroom; but, vain
precaution, his wife began to stir.
Quickly the panic-stricken man
went to cradle of his firstborn and
began to rock it vigorously.
"What are you doing there,
Robert?" queried his wife.
"I've been sitiing here for near
ly two hours trving to get this ba
by to sleep, he growled.
"Why, Robert, I've got him
here in bed with me," said she.
And he never said another word
all that night.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
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