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V f iSTirl li ill M-lS M Jijl ,M lit L ill J Bv a hlt-v w A NEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. JOHN W. SLUDQH. Proprietor. Terms of Subscription SI. 50 Mer Annum WLLDOX, X. (., TIIUliSDAY, .JANTAKY 8, 101 L VOL. LVlll. NO. 37 V t is i r s lis feraer,. A I III 111 II 1 Dl.-U AL".H'iiilik'Prciai,alioli,TA5' ni: i.it ii ii; inr rumi Offll Krtrinn itagilifSiMtoM'dlfcwisi Ess PrnmilcsDi'ii'sliiiiiriiffiful-' rii'ss ;ir.il !t.M l"iiiu.ili-, nplllk" I'pitmi.fliii'phmc norfkcril. ROT ARC OTIC. Aw, trMDi-sviiwmm ft-nili) Seed" mi sbd'trtirtt I '' I'rmM- t p. -Yi;.rr-. 1 kUtli-ytrfii t'ltn.r. ' Aiv.:r,n'UUMWilv fill (VllsllM- toss iiiii.Snill-Sfiim.'K'lt.DilUTi'.Cf Vornis ,ComTil..iuus .1tti i ii ncssaiulLusSOrSUiEl'. Facsimile Signature or NEW YORK. Exact Copy of Wrapper. RITf ll!PAilMWISW LXTfl IBS or ir?s3Eao' THE MM QF'WELDON wi:ldox, x. ( Orjanlzeil Under the Laws of the State of North Carolina, Slate of North Carolina Depository. Halifax County Depository. Town of Weldon Depository. m .s $55,000. I'or over '.'I yi"iii' lliis iiilitiiliuii Iiuk iiniviilt'il liiiiikina: liU'ilitii'H feir this section. ll'x(iH'klinMr iui.1 nllu't is iui' iili'iitilirit nith tin1 busi ness intiti-slM of Ihililiis iiii'l Nuitli;i:iiit(iii countii's. A Siiviiil's l)ri:iilini'iit is niiinlUiiiir.l lul I lie Ih'Iiim'U (if nil Mho ili-uiv todf)t)sit in a suvinjrs I'.un'i. In th.s IVi:iiIini'iil intrrrsi is allunfil as follows: For Di'pusils ullcuM.l turi'imiin lluci' months or loiitfrr. " per cent. Six months or loniri'i-, :i per pent, i'vvolvc nioiithsor lontrer, t pi-roimt. Anv inrormntion will ho I'uitiishi'il on PHKSIDRNl v. i:. DANllX, VH'R'I'I.'KSIIIKN I' V. K. SMITH. I., c. .Krt.Ti'lIf DIKW 'THUS W. K. Smith, W. )'.. iiunicl. .1. (, liiaUc. V. M. fohin, A. ('. Iloun', .1.1.. Sh,.ph,T,l, V. A. I'u iri', l. It. .olhoolli'i. .1 . W. Shilto . -n, hi y . ii n i i ii ii VMroouanul M AM'KAt'TTIiKliS OF Building Material for Modern Homes, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mantels, Door and Window Screens MADE TO ORDKR AND Kl'.dl I.AUSTOi'K SlZKs. Good Materials, High Grade Workmanship Our Slogan. VVeldon, N. C. ' preciate the fact that every home furnishing need can be filled, promptly and at a distinctive price saving at this store. We are showing a line of Kitchen Cabinets, Stoves, and labor-savlng devices that you will be delighted to have demonstrated. It will pay you To become posted on our new offerings whether you care to purchaser now or later. No matter what you need for the homeour combination of service, quality, and modest prices together with terms that make it easy to supply your needs will make you a permanent customer of this store. WELDON FURNITURE CO., . VVeldon, N. C THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGH I BEFORE sua mrtrnm mm wf MKWlt II Y I. :v hi nuti w For Infanta r.nd Ci?Hh'0ii. The Kind Yea Have Always Bought Bears the Siffuaturc Use or Over Thiriv Years '4 uppliratiniito tin- I'lvsiilontorCushier i asiiikk: .1. t. IKKK, iu oKiurKu yi I.- .-.i.-ji"fcw. GOOD NEWS FROM THli Every housewife will ap 11C y.r feliiiis Take away Uio tnttrrorl pui;y Of my iTHtwhih' l U ty. Dim anl Hutlf-tl ami nullum tl qulle Mnckrtl tif Mmul caili-ty; Bcsolutlori!! pui ti as I hey May urvut Ht-itKnii with aplomb, Hut when the year, Kfnwn old und (jruy, Tlino'n not a cnili-h to h ni upon Of all that lofty ntntlnvnt, I fuln would close the vt-xtng tula And yet attain cxperhnent. For like a hloom perennial And rosy tinted wake the dreams Of all the morrows yijt tn come. When life Ih really what It Heeina; When tunllnegs and broken vows, And duties shirked for I'leaHUre'a court, And Mother Grundy's sad pow-wuws, And fickle Fashion's mad report Are strangers to my riKhteous heart Tear up the nlil nnd frame the new, For I would make another start. Maude l)o Verse Newton. Some New Year Don'ts Don't sprinkle salt on the tail of tempta tion. Don't try to cet the better of a man who hasn't any. Don't snore in church. It's mean to keep Others awake. Don't be satisfied to pay at you go. Save enough to get back. Don't get married with the sole idea that misery loves company. Don't follow the beaten track unless you are satisfied to remain beaten. Don't accept advice from a man who never offers you anything else. Don't expect Opportunity to come to you with a letter of introduction Don't trust to luck. Nine-tenths of the people in the world guess wrung. Don't buy your friends. They never last as long as those you make yourself. Don't envy the rise of others. Many a man who gets to the top is mere froth. Don't greet Misfortune with a smile unless you are prepared for a one-sidtd flirtation. Don't make good resolutions unless you constantly carry a repair kit with you. Don't place too much confidence in ap- fiearances. Many a man with a red nose s white all the way through. Don't forget in times of peace to pre pare for war. That's about the on'y use some of us seem to have for peace. Don't fail to have an object in view. Many a man leads such an aimless exist ence that he could fire at random without hitting it Lippincott's. DIDN'T OBSERVE NEW YEAR'S Puritan Regarded the Celebration at a Heathenish and Un christian Rite The sole record ot the observance of the New Your by the I'ilgrlma In the now world, named New England, was most pro9ulc, most luiet: "We went to work betimes." Many ot the good Puritan ministers thought the celebration or even notice of the day In any way savored of improper and un christian reverence for the heath en god, Janus. Yet these English set tlers came from a land where New Year's eve and New Yuur'a day were second In importance und domestic observance only to Christmas. Throughout every English county New Year's eve was always celebrat ed; In many It was called by the pretty name of Singing E'en, from the custom which obtained of singing the last of the Christmas carols at that time. This New Day. Out of the tomb of night a day haa risen, fie not anxious; this day is ail your own. Do not hurry, for In time it Is like all other days; neither delay, for now is passing. Early turn your face to the dawn and let Its fresh beams bathe away all stains of night; then, should the noon he dark with storms, your smile will still wear the rose tints of the morning. Step soft ly among human hearts, and leave so much of kindness along life's pathway that .!ar.ie shall spring up, bearing tribute In the cool entlde of tba world's glad New Day. Croft The passing of years is Ilk the .oniing of dawn slow, silent, tnevlt ..til The most eager cannot hasten tie quiet. Irresistible movement, and ti e most reluctant cannot forbid. Seme Kilts the years bring which we would i -.in decline age, sorrow, disappoint . M. Some treasures they take which v. e would keep forever youUt, beauty, ::nocence. But there are more prec ious treasures which time cannot supply and the year cannot remove tiieri.li.Mp, patience, faith and love. H , t I.. Willett. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA WHERE FOUND. "I notice that you quote the classics quite often " "Yes. I don't know what I would do if it were not for the back part of my dictionary." Judge. t The Fact No amount of misrepresentation by the peddlers of alum baking powders, no jug gling with chemicals, or pretended analysis, or cooked-up certificates, or falsehoods of any kind, can change the fact that Royal Baking Powder has been found by the offi cial examinations to be of the highest leavening efficiency, free from alum, and of absolute purity and wholesomeness. Royal Baking Powder is indispensable fur making finest and most economical food. RING OUT. WILD BELLS! trr7?'?.Y; r 4 l.Xf'mL isWIin -fit ( Hi i 1 - t IM, nil at s isrzv Wt 4h 3 "3 Ring out, wild bells, to ttie wild sKy4 The flying cloud, the frosty light i The year is dying in the night. Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snowi The year Is going, let him goi Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind. For those that here wo see no rnorei Ring out the feud of rich and poor. Ring in redress to all manKind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife i Ring in the nobler modes of life. With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times i Ring out. ring out my mournful rhymes. But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out the false pride in place and blood. The civic slander and the spitf Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease ; Ring out the narrowing lust of golds Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the Kindlier handi Ring out the darhness of the land. Ring tn the Christ that Is to be. Tennyson JI IV. All MVrtr-U ILe Kwit eAV.e. i Col "THERE!" The Past and the Future. Carry into the new year only the choicest thoughts and inspirations. As in the olden days when men approach ed the I'arthonon they cleansed their p ons and arrayed themselves In white robes before filtering that glo rious temple, so cleanse your gar ments from transgresio, clothe your self with aspirations. Farewell to the past! V.iUoine and all hall to the future! Newell Dwight Hlllis -J pod 1 1 Remains It i-. .. 'ji V inmm IMMHi 'i i ,:' l!l ai." S i WW. Ml-W YEAR'S DAY IN ENGLAND. New Year's day Is k pt very curt onsly in some of the old countries. In Bugland the ringing of bells Is about the only formal demonstration they show for the anniversary at Hki pres ent time, though years ago It wa as much of a gala day as ChiiMinaa. They used lo give presents and have great feasts, and there was a good deal of revelry and drunkenness, more tban there ought to have been In a civilized community. On the whole the new Is quite as good as the old way, to my thinking. In Denmark the cannon booms, as a sound of oy to welcome in the new year. Every morning of the first of January, Copen hagen Is shaken by this peaceful can nonading. The people in the rural districts go to the farmhouses and fire their muskets under the windows ot the sleeping Inmate, to inform them that a new year is at hand. The cus tom Is not a very nice one; It smacks too much of old time roughness and rudeness. New Year Resolutions. I will try to be kind. ! will try to find the good in other. ! will carry sunshine with me, espe tin'.') Into the dmk places. I will try to make someone happy Mch d H ou.u t Upme Companion. mm Vv -tb-Sw Y brother iA'muel married Mehltable Pierce when he was quite along In yeurs. Nobody thought he'd ever get married at all, any more'n my brother Heuben an' Silas. The three had lived together nnd kept bachelors' hall ever since our moth er died. I was mar rled and away from home long before she died. I didn't know how they would get along at first but all of the boys had been used to hclpln' ma a good deal, and they were real handy, and when I asked if they wasn't goln' to have a house keeper, they wouldn't hear to It. They said they wasn't goln' to have no Btrange woman round In ma's place, nohow. So Silas he took hold and did the waehln' and Ironln', and Reuben did the Bweepin', and Lemuel, he was the youngest, next to me, did the cookln'. He could cook a dinner equal to any woman, and his pies beat mine. My husband said so, and I had to give in they did. Well, they seemed to get along so nice, and none of 'em had ever seemed to think much about the girls, not even when they was boys, that I must say I was astonished when Lemuel he up and got married to Mehltable Pierce. She was a llttlo along In years, too, rather more so than Lem uel, and a dreadful smart piece. She was good lookln' and she had property, but she was dreadful smart and up an' comin'. I could never see how Lem uel ever got the courage to ask her to have him, he was always a kind of mild spoken little fellow. Reuben he declared he didn't. He vowed that Mehltable asked him herself. He said he knew it for a fact, and he said it with the tears rolliu' down his cheeks. Heuben was the oldest und he'd al ways been terrible fond of Lemuel. "That poor boy would never have got In such a fix if that woman hadn't up an' asked him, uti' he didn't have spunk enough to say no," said Reuben, aud be swallowed bard. Mehltable had a nice houso of her own that her father left her, all fur nished aud everything, so of course Lemuel he went to live with her, and Mehltable's bouse was pretty near where 1 lived, so I could eee every thing that was goln" on. It wa'n't very long before I said to Hannah Morse, my husband's old maid sinter that lives with us and teaches school, that I believed Lemuel was henpecked, though I hadn't anythln' against Me hltable. "I don't see what else anybody that married Mehltable Pierce would ex pect," said Hannah. She spoke real sharp for her. I've always kind of wondered If Hannah would have bad Lemuel if he'd asked her. "Well," said I, "I hope poor Lemuel will be happy. He's always been such a good, mild, wlllin' boy that it does seem a pity for him to be rode over rough-shop, and have all the will be ever did have trodden Into the dUBt." "Well, that Is what will happen, or I'll miss my guess," said Hannah Morse. For a long while I thought she was right. It was really pitiful to see Lemuel. He didn't have no more lib erty nor will of his own than a five-year-old boy, and not so much. Mehlt able wouldn't let him do this and that, and if there was anythln' he wanted to do, she was Get against It, and he'd al ways give right In. Many'a the time Lemuel has run over to my house, and his wife come racin' to the fence and screamed after him to come home, and he'd start up as scared as he could be. And many'a the time I've been la there, and he started to go out, and She'd tell him to set down, and he's Bet without a murmur. Mehltable she bought all his clothes, an' she favored long-tailed coats, and he bein' such a short man never looked well In 'em, and she wouldn't let him have store shirts and collars, but made them herself, and she didn't have very good patterns, she used her father's old ones, and he wasn't no uch built man as Lemuel, and I know he suffered everything, both In his pride an' bis feello'a. Lemuel began to look real downtrod. Ha didn't seem like half such a man as he did, and the queerest thing about It was: Mehlt able didn't 'pear to like the work ot her own hands, so to speak. One day she talked to me about iu 1 dunno what 'tis," said she, "but Lemuel he don't seem to have no go ahead and no ambition and no will of hla own. He tries to please me, but It don't seem as If he had grit enough even for that. Sometime I think he ain't well, but I dunno what alls him. I've been real careful of him. He's worn thick flannels, and be't bad wholesome victuals; I ain't never let him have pie." "Lemuel was always dreadful fond Df pie." said I. I felt kind of sorry, tor t remembered how fond poor Lemuel bad always been of mother's pies, anj, what good ones he used to make him self. "I know It." said Mehitabla. "Ha wanted to make some himself, when -we were first married, but I vetoed that I wasn't gcHn' to hive a man messln' round makln' pies, and I wasn't goln' to have him eatln' ot 'em after they were made. Pies ain't food for him. But I declare I dunno what does make him act so kind of spiritless. I told htm today I thought he'd better make ..rjeojutlon for the New YlH and m stick' to it, und see If It wouldn't put some spunk into him." Pretty soon she went home. I could ! see the was real kind of troubled. She always did think a good deal of Lent- uel in epite of everything. The next day was New Year's, and ! in tho afternoon Mehitablo came lu again. She didn't have her sewin' as she generally did, ehe was a very in- i dustrlous woman. She jest sat down j and begun twisting the fringe of her ! shawl as If she was real nervoue. Her face was puckered up, too. "I dunno what to make of Lemuel," said she, finally. "Why, what's the matter?" said I, kind of scared. "He Bays he's made a resolution tut the New Year," said she, "and thai he's goln' to keep it." "Well, what Is It?" said I. "I dunno," eald she. "Well, If It's a good one, you don't care, do you?" said I, "and It couldn't be anythln' but a good one If my broth er made It." "I dunno what It is," said she, "Won't he tell?" "No, ha won't. I can't get a word out of III in about it. He don't act ll'.ie himself." Well, 1 must Bay I never saw such a change as come over Mehltable and Lemuel after that. He wouldn't toll what his resolution was, and b1i-j couldn't make him, though she almost went down on her knees. It hegun to seem as If she was fairly changin' characters with Lemuel, though h'ic had a spell of belu' herself mor.-'n ever at first, tryln' to force him t;-. tell what that resolution was. Then she give that up, and she never asked him where he was goln', an' he coulil come In my house an' sit jeal an long as he wanted to, and uhe bought him a short-tailed coat and tome store col lars and shirts, and he looked like an other man. He got to stayln' down to the store nights, an' talkin' politics Mehitable She Bought All His Clothes. with the other men real loud. 1 heard him myself one night, and I couldn't believe It was Lemuel. Well, Lemuel he never gave lu, and he never told till the next New Year's day, when he'd said he would. He'd said all along that he'd tell her then. I'd got mout as curious as Mehltable myself by that time, aud New Year's mornlu' 1 ruu over real early they wasn't through breakfast. I knew the minute I saw them that be hadn't told. He said he wouldu t till he was through his breakfast. He was most through was finishing up with a big piece of mince pie, aud he'd made It himself, too. When he'd swallowed tile last mouthful, he looked up and he laughed, real pleasant and sweet, at.d yet with more manliness than I'd ever cm In him. "S'pose you want to know vthut that New Year's resolution was?" said Lem uel. "I guess I can stand It a while long er," said Mehltable. Now the time had come she didn't want to act too eager, but I showed out Jest what I felt. "For the land sake, Lemuel Babbit, what was it?" said 1. lx'inuel he laughed again. "Well, it wasn't much ot niiytliln'," be said, In his gentle drawlin' way. "I didn't make no resolu tion, really ' ' W hat, Jjcmucl Da'ufcit'" cried VKblo. "o." said he; 1 couldn't think of mne tn make, so 1 made a res olution uut to tell that 1 hadn't made any." .... YI ROSES, Carnations, Violets and other (lowers always on hand. Shower Wedding ltouiuets. Handsome Moral Designs, I'alins and Kevns for home culture. Hyacinths, Tulips. Narcissus and many other varieties ol Hulhs for fall planting either for out or indoor cul ture, liose bushes, Magnolias and Kv ergreens Write, 'phone or telegraph. H. STEINMETZ, Florist. Raleigh, North Carolina. 5-13-lT mam - f L- ft 3 .:.' l"y Btory Pub, Cojl Ffi 4 A 1 :i't, l'epiin al;.l i m it, quench d'i'csuuil, relii-va 'v;:yioJy lilies its .vur. PEPSI-Cok gieci yor. what ye.u wan: ;!':!, on a hut, .;:i;L:ir; mmmer th'.y, lt'3 ori;'livil. It's different. Keeps y.iu h;:j pj' and clear-lier.dcd for any work v.-hieh you should do. It b safer to drink than water, fur it is filtered, puritied, tested and proved. Drink l'epsi-Cola when your body ivants refresh ment. Ask yuurself the question "Ain I thinly, NOW?" ,. M. Dlu;tNS, Local Af-nt, Welclon, N. C. GREAT BARGAINS IN TYPEWRITERS. We carry a large stock of standard l' ew Titers. Can furnish at ouce lion iii'eli. l-ox, Oliver, Kemington, Hoyal, Si.mli I remier, L. C. Smith & lSio.'s atel I'm.erwooil. Anv other make from j l.'inuyn' notice. We have both the vi.ni pie aieitlie invtsiliie. we nougiu a laigc stock i these Typewriters 1'iom one-Ion i th to nne-half the regular hole sale price, ami on sale now atoue-lourth to one-hall tin- reuular retail prices. A good Tvpe.witi r horn 7.o(l to tU. A I ni let one --17 ;.ii to JS .ill. I tie Ixst from i'.M up to a: y puce. ill tie glad tuanxAcr any nni.irv in eonm-cM n nitli tin si- machines, anil Mint saniplis ni 'the MPtk ih ne I y any ot the 'Ij'l'e iMitets v.- I, use. Every hoy and k i r lioulii have one ol our eluap 'lypuui i ers to lean) how to use. .ny peison lio can v.nie veil on a lyiewntii can ien.ai.il ;. lame salary. .Mmuie who .ii ys a el-. -up typewntcr lioni us aLd ivani--a I etter one later, we will take .nick the one lioi.uhl anu allow liiesamo paid lor it in exchange for ft better oue, ii rettnni .l in good condition and within six months. 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