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THE AGED CHRISTIAN MOTHER.
Her liyesight is Almost done; liut
the Splendors o( the Celestial
City kindle t'p Her Vision.
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
Bears the
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THE CINTAUH CCMUNV, NIW VOHH OITV.
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THE BANK OF WELDON
WKLDON, X.
Organized Under the Laws of the State of North Carolina,
State of North Carolina Deposiiory.
Halifax County Depository.
Town of Weldon Depository.
Capital and Surplns, $55,000.
For ovi'r -1 yea this institution has provided hankinc facilities for
this section. Its stockholders and oilicus aic i.h-ntiiii .1 nith the busi
ness interests of Halifax and Noilhampton counties.
A Savintrs Department is maintained fur the hi noiil of all who ilesne
to deposit in a savinirs Hank. In this Dcpailiiieiit interest is allowed us
folluxvs:
Fur Deposits allowed toreniain three mouths or lunger, e per cent, six
months or lomrer, : per cent iwelx e nionthsot longer, percent.
Any information will lie furnished on application In the I'rosi.lcntnirashiei
To its it is a beautiful sight to !
see an aged Christian mother busk- j
iiig in the sunset of a life that has :
been nobly lived. X'e visit her at j
her home. There she sits the j
old Christian mother ripe for
heaven. Her eyesight is almost!
gone; hut the splendors of the i
Celestial City kindle up her vision.
The gay light of heaven's morn
has struck through the gray locks
which are folded back over the
wrinkled temples. Nie stoops
very much now under the burden
of care she used to carry for her
children. She sits at home today,
too old to find her way 10 the
house of God; but while she sits
there, all the past comes hack to
her and the children that forty
years ago trooped around her arm
chair with their 'ittle griefs and
joys and sorrows those children
are all gone now. Some caught
up into the heller realm, where
they shall never die, and others
out in the broad world, attesting
the excellency ol a Christian moth
er's doctrine. I ler last days are
full of peace, and calmer and
sweeter will her spirit become un
til the gales of life shall lift and let
the worn out pilgrim into eternal
spring-tide and youth where the
limbs never ache and the eyes
never grow dim, and the staff of
the exhausted and decrepid pil
grim shall become the palm of the
immortal athlete.
UOT THE JOB.
BAKING POWDER
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Insures the most
delicious and healthful food
ly the use of lloyal Hiking Powder a
peat many more art ides of food may lie
readily made at home, all healthful, de
licious, and economical, adding much
variety and attractiveness to the menu.
The" Royal Maker and Pastry Cook,"
cont.-liliiiiir. live linoiireil praelieal
receipts lor all kinds ol baking
ion! cookery, free. Address lloxal
Jiakinj; Powder Co., New York.
THE OLD CIRCUS.
The Papers Say The Circus
About to (io Out.
Tito papt'i s say, and i
. tin- paper ; know, t hal
; t i 1 1 1 circus is about to
of liiisjiit-ss. Thry say
. ''biggest, slmxv mi oartl
about I'-adv In quit,
till' Dill
gO (lilt
that the
" N just
because
I"
Ho
lletesteil, 'I'll,
pii't lire show
thine; ill reali
Civil clepliatll
ailv
now longer iii
i say I he 1 1 1 ( ing
lis liniloit every
iii, from the sa-
to the l,eaf,e,l
M fon all the peopli and
lited city is mi longer
sarv in the win Id's com-
f
U AWAY OUT IN THECGIINTRY.
Sfc !
Away out in die country, where there is no ceaseless roar,
Where it's eight miles to the railroad and it's three miles
"' ... .i
is pleasure and perhaps some
io the store,
There is hope and there
maiden there
Has contrived to make somebody think her fairest of the
fair.
fBKilliKSl :
w. t:. uiNiia.,
VIl K-ritlislliHN I
V. 1!. SMITH.
I.. C. DUAl'L'U.Tell
slKH:
ii. I 'Ham;.
lUHI-CTOUS-W. Ii. Smitli. W. I-:. Hamel.
H. T. Ii.iniel, .1. 1.. hepher.l, W. A. pu ree,
.1 (i Inakc. XV. X
IV II. ZolllcoUrr, .1 .
Cohen.
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Dixon & Poole ilanufiiduniiir (iiikiii)
Once upon a time there was a
boy, and he applied for a job.
"We don't want lay boys here.
Are you fond of work?" asked
the boss.
"No, sir," answered the boy
looking the boss straight in the
face.
"Oh, you're not, aren't you?
Well, we want a boy that is."
There ain't any," insisted the
boy, doggedly.
"Oh, yes, there are. We have
had a doen of thai kind here this
morning looking for a situation
with us."
"How do you know they are
not lay ?" persisted the boy.
"Why, they told me so."
"So I could have told you so;
but I'm not a liar."
He got the job.
M.iM'l'AC'I'l'UFKS OF
Building Material for Modern Homes, Sash, Doors,
Blinds, Mantels, Door and Window Screens
MADE TOOHHF.lt AND liFiil'I. X It STOCK sl.Ks,
Good Materials, MlRh Grade Workmanship Our Slogan.
Weldon, N. C.
Iii S til !
1
AN OMINOUS AI)A(U;.
When a lady patient living far
from town had to telephone for
her physician she apologized for
asking hint to come such a dis
tance. "Don't speak of it,' said the doc
tor cheerfully; "I happen to have
another patient in that vicinity and
so can kill txvo birds with .one
stone."
Away out in the country, where the fragrant lilacs blow
There are people who have never seen a moving picture
show;
Bui they may not need your pity, though the thrills they
have are few;
They may go to bed untroubled by such cares as come to
you.
Away out in the country, where the woods are full of song
And the hens are cackling loudly and few men are going
wrong,
There are people who are never filled with fear or discon
tent When the grocer wants his money or it's time to pay the
rent.
Axvay out in the country, where no mobs disturb the peace
There are people who are happy, though their neighbors' Sij.
gains increase.
There are men and there are women who believe that life iri.
is sweet, 'j'i
Though they aren't busy spending all on what they wearijf.
and cat. '5''
'C $'4 t(r $'6
?A?A?A?A?A ?A ?A?ASf
Every housewife will ap
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-saving devices that you will be
delighted to have demonstrated.
It will pay you
To become posted on our new offerings whether
you care to purchase 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.,
Weldon, N. C
MRS. WINN'S
ADVICE TO WOMEN
Take Lydia E.Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and be
Restored to Health.
Lill'i
TANNER'S ROOF PAINT
SOLD BY
Pieroe-Whitchcad Hardware Goiiiii)
XI
WELDON, N. C,
Kansas City, Mo. - " The doctors told
me I would never he a mother. Every
month the pains
were bo had that I
could not hear my
weight on one font.
I began taking l.y
diu K. Pink ham's
Vegetable Com
pound and had not
,y;y-jiiiiisnen me nisi nor.-
'-Cx; . vSTi'iV L" w n e ii i it'll
ptrv:Hyi 1 l,sm ii unill it
- !--'-w!lmnile me nnnnil ami
well, and 1 now have two tine baby
girls. I cannot praise I.ydin F.. rink
ham's Vegetnlile Coinpoun I too highly
for what it has done for me. I always
speak a word in favor of your medicine
toother women who siiiferwhen I have
an o..rlai.i!y." Airs. II. 1. Xvinm,
1225 I'reemoiit Ave., Kansas City, .Mo.
Itcnil What AiiDtliiiXX'iiiinui soys:
dimming, (!a. "I tell some sutler
ing woman every day of l.ydi.i I). Pia!:
ham's Vegetable Cempound and wl-.at it
has done for me. 1 could not eat or
sleep, had a bad stomach and was in
misery all the time. 1 could nut do my
housework or walk any distance without
suffering great pain. 1 tried doctors'
medicines and dill'erent patent medi
cines but failed to get relief. My hus
band brought home yourVegetalile Com
pound and in two weeks I could eat any
thing, could sleep like a healthy baby.
and walk a long distance without feeling
tired. I can highly recommend your
Vegetable Compound to women who
suffer as I did, and you are at liberty to
use this letter. "-Mrs. Charlie Baq-I-ey,
R3, Cumming, Ga.
1 lVI-'.lt cross1. Try Dr. Miles laxative
ljtx blets. Nothing bcttes for consti
pation. At druggists. Adv.
?A
THROUGH THE NIGHT.
?A
?A
A
?A
'A '?A '?A ' '?Ar,8'' 'A'AA'A'?''
("otild you bin hear,
liven in echo, dear,
The loving word I send you through the dark,
Then might your heart cease moaning, just id hark
And know, for one brief moment's golden space,
What I would tell you were we face lojace.
Could you but know
How, when your soul must go
Down the long valley where lurk pain and fear,
My own soul walks in loving nearness, dear,
Then might your grieving spirit lilt its head,
And you be braver, being comforted.
Could ihere but be
In all eternity
One hour God set npan from all the rest
To be of all hours heaven's holiest,
Naught would I ask except to clasp your hand
And know that He had let you understand.
the t
lleee:
olliy.
.Maybe so.
Hut xve don't xvant to believe
it. To us there is noihini; in
this world like a circusand
we leioenilier tonight, as ue
sit here writing, how we walk- '
cil seventeen miles oiu; after
noon to meet the circus, and
how we walked back with the
j wagons and animals. We nev
er like to miss (joins to a circus.
There is always soinetliino-
about it that appeals. We don't
'can; a lie; about the acting -about
the animals about any
! tiling hut the air the alums-,
I pheiv xv i' feel like xve were ill '
aiiother xvorhl and it is just to
our liking. '
j We remember the old circus
l the one rino- circus. Han
; Rice's circus was the lirst or'
a no mo; the lirst xve ever saw.
Van Aiiibroiijjh's came next
ami then John Koliinson's. ( if
course xve lived in the far xvest
and a circus didn't come every
J season but xvhell it did come
it was an event . It xvas dreaio-;
cil then that a railroad show
. xvas possible; llieoiie l ine; made
;xvith actual savdiist:a funny
clown, full of local hits; a half
dozen cages of animals and
i plenty of xvax figures - that xvas
I a circus -ami when an .amlt
; would ride bareback or I'ele
Cookling would get oil a joke
i or John l.owlow would tell
' them t" In nig in aiiot her horse"
i why I he circus xvas I he I hi ng.
These wonderful enliiliina
, tions: these magniliceiil exhi
: Iiitiolis which the younger
folk have seen, have been
xv o i th while from an education
al point of view because there
have been millions of dollars
, expended in bringing under
one tent the best the xx orld has.
! not only in athletics ami acro
bats -lint in animals. Natural
history has been enriched be
cause of the ambition of circus
men.
But if it xvants to puss Id it
go. The old things are rapidly
going out forever machinery
has come along ami broken all
our old idols and mechanism
is presenting for a nickle xx hat
it used to cost ten dollars to see
a photograph of in moving
pictures. We all must get
ready for the changes, and in
bidding the circus adieu, if it is
really going, xve do so sadly
and reluctantly. From Kvery-thing.
THO GULF STREAMS.
The One of Air is What Create '
the Deserts of the l;ast.
The gull stream, as every one '
knows, is a broad river of warm i
water which si, iris in the (iull ot
Mexico, wanders across the cold
Atlantic ocean and bumps into the
British isles, giving them a warm
climate and no end ol log and rain.
Hut few people know rli.it in the
atmosphere above there is a second
gulf sire. mi ol warm, moist air.
This slow, damp bieee strikes -the
Bmii-.Ii isles and does not ca-,
roon oil like the gull stream, but
continues over burope. As it
. passes over Sweden, I inland ami ;
northern Russia these cold lands
elull the wind and cause it in drop
its moisure in the lorm ol rain.
The lakes and rivers ol these
northern countries are all supplied
! by the moisture taken uplroui the
gull stream.
The rotation ol the earth makes
this xxind veer gradually to t he
southward about the tune it has
given up the last of iis moisture
and xvarinth. As a mighty draft
of dry, cold air, the gull stream
wind moves on across the plains
of Russia. As it approaches the
equator the xvind warms again, but 1
becomes ever drier.
At last, as it sweeps over Turke
stan, Arabia and Sahara, it evapo
rates like a great sheet of blotting
paper all xx ater it meets, forming
the deserts of Turkestan, Sahara
and Arabia, fortunately this de
vastating wind now leaves the con
tinent, becomes the trade winds
and returns to its starting point at
the gull of Mexico.
Several somewhat visionary
schemes have been suggested for
altering the course ol ihe gull
stream. One of ihe immediate re
sults of any such change would be
the shifting of the present deserts
to other pans of the world. ---New
York American.
F-IOI -OSIONAL CAkMlS.
X AI.TF" I;. I) AMLL,
Attorney-at-Law,
XX I.I.I IN, l .
1'l.l.Th'
i r
N'eO.ieiiplon .m I
h o, -ml conn- i
pails ol Ninth I in
ut Halifax ojii-ri fv
ii- ol ll.o.,u. ami
ll.i j p! :i :,- ana
conns ma. le in all
iu I'.iiui'li oiliee
.Xloniav
Wm. I.. KNKiMT,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
XXI. I dm N. V i
ml,.',- a, xx , j.,:, I..,.,, a. a ,.t l; :i. la, k.
liii-ni, p nut pi ;;. an, I lail 1,1'iii' v at-lemle-l
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ATTOKNIiV-AT-LAW,
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Weldon. N. C.
Li.i.iorr Ii. CLANK,
ATTOKMiY-AT-LAVV,
II U.ll .. Y '.
Pi; ii- .- in the t'iuit- ul'llulil'ax Ulnl
:i.lj'niiiiiLr ci inn tii- and in llif Sti
(urine ci, nit ui ilic '-tutc. jM'ciul atti'ii
tinn t'urn to eullfciitijis and UKinpl if
tiirn, lo-ti-ly
Vv . J. WARD,
KKNTIST,
oi l ut: in d.-xniki. hiti.di.m.
XVKI.DO.N, N. CJ
sepl'J lv
A. I. SCHISLCR,
CIVIL LNGINLLR,
Surveying a Specialty
1'lione -..Ml
KMI'dKIA,
X A.
1). I:. STAIN BACK,
NOTARY PUBLIC S
And l ire Insurance. I
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Hot Weather Tonic anil Health
Ihiildt-r
tr 'iM run dtu u u
I- C t'l I i.lll;.' n'l 'In .III i I
l.uy yun .ti- -ici,' Y
l-.v.-i. iMdn-yv :iti I ,..,
a I'linr I. inic and i. a!
dlU'r Mill till' HJ-lr inaili
up and ii'iirrt yum "iM'iii.
lo'il,-i tli:tn iJ.'iii.x' I'liMrr
day. h . .'aiiir- I miiumn
Me . u utt v: ' t un ft- lc
a I'lrt M unal ductin-- 'uu i
and i al ymn di iil'i;i-!.
r.in'Mi-n Viiiu'a ";ir t'i'i ( ui
ATTOHMtY AT LAW,
i;i.i'ON, n, r,
i'laclii-t
udj'iiniliL'
Citiill id '
t'l V I'll u I
uvi ol Halifax and
and n, tin' '"iiptftnc
"i'iul altciitiuQ
i utiti ptompl returns
-l.udd
-tail
vim
lliHIL'
GREAT BARGAINS
e-l
lie -nie
IN TVI'I WITCKKS.
' up
xx i
l.l'e
IMII'ATINU HI:R MISTKIiSS.
"We had Io ipiit 1
cook use the motor
'What was the tr
''She got into tin
rolling up to the
shops and biiyin
credit."
tting our
nr."
lll.le-"
e habit of
fasliionable
thiiiLTs on
I'v pt 'A 1 11 1
arch. I ,.v
Minll, I n :
an, I I ii,!, i
one-sal,-to
,
Ivp,
TIIOSi: IIAI'I'V DAVS
The 111,
lib
lime iii all
s inaiiv years
AUNT JEMIMY'S MAXIMS.
By CALLY RVLAND.
Hits easy null to fuhgit a injury: but
fuhgit you's forgotten it.
it's mighty hard to
Some men comniils suiciih' en some jes xviiils aroun' full do
fool killuli.
Hits do gal xvhar kin be
time to he axed
lad full do axin' dat's waits a life-
AtiAINST Ainr.RTISIMi.
"Why don't you advertise ?"
asked the editor of the home pa
per. "Don't you believe in ad
vertising ?"
"I'm agin advertising," replied
the proprietor of the Hayville
Racket store.
"Bui why are you against it?"
asked the editor.
"It keeps a feller loo durn busy, "
replied the proprietor. "I adver
tised in a newspaper one lime about
10 years ago and 1 never got tune
to go fishing."
Uest
xva
( 'I course I didn't kin
Iiinv xvas a man
And they xvould sini;
songs to forty
tunes
And every meal they served to
you they passed around
tho prunes.
my
j;o
ixx it then
to klioxv;
the old
kinds of
-tuck of sia.ii.UM
l .1:1 1A t iii i -1 1 al mice M,,n
I o l, llellillliltiill. Uoval,
1.1 I . Snolli .V lll'o.'s
ii X nv oilier make I'toin
i, XX e have liolh th-
u '--.iil.' XX e I'ollL'ht a
,1 : lies,. Typeix l iters ironi
, '!, -h.ih'tlie lemilarxxliole
i l on -ale niox al onc-fouitb
ir imulai ii lail prices. A
ilt-i iiotn s-7 mi to 1.1. A
: l.etli i i,i,i- 17 ."i to s-.'s.:,o. Ihe best
ft, nil r:i'iii lo any piiee. Will he L'lad
to aii-.o i any nii,nirv in Conllcclion
miii tin -e iiiai'liiiii-s. and send samples
ol tiieui.is ilmie liv aiiv ot the Tvpe
vuiii e in- !,;ur. I.veiy hoy and irir
slum!, I l,.i e one ot onl cheap Typeivri
, ti-is to I, am Imw io use. Any peisou
: xx ho i'iiii u lie wi ll on a typewiiter cau
' ih ii,.4i;-l a Lui- aiaiy. Anyone who
I luiys a fin ap Ivpeu liter I'toin us and
xxanls a In IP l ulie lulei, Hi' will take
hai-k H i i,ii, 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 and alhox Ihesumi
I paid loi ii 'ii i xeliunee Im a heller one,
1 1 o i,n in-,! ,u jood eouilitn.n and xxitiim
, Sl in, '111!,- ll lint III .rood Condition xve
i allow ll.e maiket value. XX e carrv l vpe
xvritt i ol,! s and other supplies.
SPIERS BROS.
TOL'tiM DISPOSITION.
Iui'ing a concert tour of an
orchestra one of the musicians
died and the following tele
gram xvas immediately de
spatched to the parents of the
deceased :
'John Black died today. Ad
vise by xv ire as to disposition. "
In a few hours the answer
xvas received as follows: ''We
are broken-hearted; his dispo
sition xvas a roving one."
i
XX'KI.DON. N.C
Administrator's Notice.
lfouiL' loialuied as administrator of
the est;ile ot XX II. Conned, deceased,
lale ol llahlu County, N. C, this is to
utility all pei sons haxniur claims anainst
Ihe eslale of said ili-Ceaseil, to exhibit
ihein to the uiideisii:neil al llalil'av, .
t'.. on oi liel'oie the 1 1th day of May.
i'U.V in this notice will be pleaded ill
liatol liieu ii-coxeiv. All persons m
deltteil to the eslale xxill ph use make
iiiinii 'liate pax un lit, 'fins l-uh of Xlay
i!M I flddiUT 11. 1'l.XKk. '
A dm l. of eslale ol XV. II Council, dee.
The
Be lies' brand nv happiness is de homo-made kin'.
:"'
Be onlics' ninn xvhat kin say truly dat his wife is a angel
have been a xviduliuh full some time.
' '
Be folks what is hard to git along xvid is de folks whur 'out
let us have our oxvn way.
A 'onian kin sxvulluh a spoonful u.x flat'ry about huhsef; hut
she kin sxvulluh a whole soup tureen full about huh chillun.
.,..,.
Life is dat full nv tips en downs dat oven de man xvhar is on
de level don' I'm' it no smooth prop'sition.
'"
Be xvuss trouble 'bout de man xvhat 'out agree xvid you is
he seems to think lie's got jes ez much sense oz yon is,
We is mighty ap' to suy a 'oman is obst'uate when she don'
ngrpp wid ns.
Coughs ami Colds Weaken
System.
1 Ciinlinned I'oiiirhs, Colds and I'liou-
Chilli trouhles ale depressing and weak
I en the system. Loss of appetite uelier
alljt folloA. Let a one. hotlle nl ll.
! King's New Di-coxeiy toilax . ll will
j stop your Couirll. I he lirst dose helps.
I The best medicine for sluhboini oimlis,
Colds and all l'hroat and l.ungiionhleH.
Mr, O. II Itrowu, Muscatine, Ala.,
wnles "Xly xxife was sick duonic the.
hot summer months and 1 honestly be
lieve Dr. Knur's New Discovery saved
her life."' Hood for children. .Mlc. and
$1 ut your Druggist.
The world never sits up and
lakes notice of the chap who fol
' ioxis in ihe fooisieps ol others.
Txvo heads arc better than one
-cxeepi in a family.
; Hardships comes when the fire
of genius isn't hot enough lo keep
the pot boiling.
Strive to become a leader; the
supply of followers exceeds the demand.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
Some people worry because ihey
have nothing else lo worry about.
Children Cry
FOR FLEICHER'S
C ASTOR I A
COR SALK Single comb white
1 Leghorn eggs gathered every
day. Price per setting of 15,
50c. R. M. PURNKLL,
2 26 if Weldon.N. C.
Wood's Seeds
Seed Potatoes
FOR FALL CROP.
The plnnlinR of Seed Potatoes
in June and July is increasing to
a wonderful extent. A great
many farmers claim that they
give better ciops planted at this
time than they do when planted
in the spring. Potatoes planted
in June and July mature in the
cool weather of the fall, at a time
when they can be harvested to
best advantage.
The Seed Potatoes we offer
are put in cold storage early in
the season, so as to keep in first
class, vigorous condition.
"Wood's Crop Special"
Riving pricM and full information about
Late Seed Potatoes and all other Season
able Seeds, mailed free on request.
T. W. WOOD & SONS.
Seedsmen, Richmond, Vi.