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WELDOX, X. C, TIIUHSDAY, SKl'TKMUKK 2, 11)15.
NO. 1!)
"NOW I LAY ME."
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I . Z A B A .
His First and Last Prayer.
iniimiirinii i urinnn inr i nil rnr n 1
The Kind Yon Have Always Bought, and which, has been
in us fur over SO years, ling borno tlio signature of
-A - and has been made under IiU per-
4V 0,ml PGrvislon since Its Infancy.
ar7f. UcXi Allow no one todccelro you In this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and" Just-us-good" are but
Experiments Hint trllle with and enduni;er tlio lienltli of
lufuuts and Children Experience against Experiment.
What Is CASTORIA
Caxtoriu Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
forio, Drops and Soothing' Syrups. It Is I'leasnnt. It
eoutuius iK'ltlu r Opium, Morphine nor oilier Nnrcotle
Mubstunce. 1 1j acre is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays 1'ererishness. It cures I)i.irrlii'.i and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulate the
Htouiaeli and liowcls, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Erleiid.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Sears the Signature of
The KM You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THE BANK OF WELD ON
WNLDOX, X. re
organized Under the Laws ol the State of North Carolinn,
State of North Carolina Depository.i .
Halifax County Depository.
Town of Weldon Depository.
Capital anil Surplus, $55,000.
For over 21 vcars thin institution imv provided hanking facilities for
this section. Its' stockholders ami ollicers are identified with the huai
neas interests of Halifax ami Noithuniptoii counties.
A Havings lippartineut is inuiiitaiiieil for the lienelit ol'ull ho desire
to deposit in a saunas Bank In this I icpaitincnt interest is allowed a.
follows:
For Deposits allowed to remain three months or lonirer, :i per cent. Sn
mouths or louier, 3 per cent Twelve mouths 01 -louver. I percent.
Any information will he furnished on application to the l'residcnloi ('ahier
raasniKN i
W. F.. DANIEL,
VIlK-l'KKSIIIKNl:
W. It SMI I'll.
I., l KHAFKU, t eller.
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DIRECTORS W. K. Smith, W. K. Dauiel. J. O. Diake. U M. i .dim.
R. T. lianiel, J 1.. Shepherd, W. A. 1'ierce, li. ii. .olheoilei. .1 . . Nr.lv
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CALOMEL WHEN BILIOUS? NO! STOP!
MAKES YOU SICK AND SALIVATES
"Orison's Llwi Tom" Is Harmless To
Cliai Toy Sluggish Liner
titd Bowels.
I'gh! Calomel makeii yon Dink. It's
horrible! Take a dose of the dangerous
drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose
a day's work.
Calomel i mercury or quicksilver
which valises necrosis of the b"n.
Calomel, when it conies into contact
with aour bile crashes into it. breaking
it up. 'Hi it is when you leel that awful
nausea and cramping. If yirn are slug
gish and "all knocked out." if your
liver is torpid and bowels cuustipatut
or you have headache, diztiuena. coated
Uineue. if breath is had or stomach sour,
iust try a Swonful of harmless Hudson's
Uver lon tonight on my guarantee.
Here's my guarantee (lo t any drug
1nrt iliiiI vet H fill cent Little of tlii.1-
sun's Liver 'tone. Take a spismful and
if it divsnt straighten von right u
nn.l liulke Hill feel tine lllld viciiroUS
wunt uu t" go tmek to the store and
gel MMII Ulillli-V. Dodsoii's Liver Tone
is det roving the sale .if iilloiiiel Irviuisc
it is real luer medicine; entirely vege-
talile, therefore it can not salivate
,.,,L.. ,-.. -i.
I glijiliilitis- that one sMNMlfill of llud
u.m',1 I in.r Ti.ti.. Ulll lull lolir nlllei'isi
liver to Work and clean your bowels of
that sour bile and constipated waste
which is rlocgitig vonr system and mak
ing .Mm feel mif ruble. I guarantee that
a luittle nt lnd-ons Liver lone will
keep vmir entire faniilv f.d i !: tine I
moot lis l!ie it to voltr children. it t-
harmliss; , hasn't gripe and tin-.i !.- 0
ili-a.-,ant tat-lc.
Not so long ago, in one of the ;
beautiful tidewater towns of the J
State, a ghastly deed was done. !
A man was stabbed, again and i
again near a score ot times so
that he fell where he was and died
where he fell. The slayer was
tried with the usual formalities.
Witnesses testified, law
yers made speeches, the judge
charged the jury, the verdict fol-
owed and the prisoner was sen-
lenced to prison for a term of
years. There was nothing so un
usual about the trial. The people
read about it all in the papers and
soon forgot it. It is needless to
rehearse it here. Society used the
besi means it has been able to de
vise to administer justice, so let it
pass. But there was an incident
connected with the last moments
of the dead man, which it may be
worth while to relate.
When the stricken man sank to
the ground, with his life blood
gushing from his many wounds,
he asked that some one pray for
him, because he knew that his end
was at hand. But those who had
gathered around him stood dumb
in iheir horror. When silence
was the only answer to his request
he began to pray for himself.
Whether, in the hurly-burly of a
busy life, he had learned no other
prayer, or whether, when his
mind ran swiftly back over the
years he had spent, as they say
the mind does in extreme mo
ments, he saw in the gathering
gloom the vision of a good woman
bending over the bowed head of a
litne boy as he knelt in the even
ing prayer, it is needless to now
inquire; but this is what he said as
best he could in his dying agony:
"Now I lay me down to
sleep I pr-pray the Lord my
soul to k-keep If I sh-should
die be-fore I wake 1 pr-pray
the Lord--my-soul-to ta-ta--."
The crimson stream of life had
censed to flow, and so it was that
this strong man died with the pray
er ol childhood on his lips The
tide went out to the sea; the stars
looked down from on high; and in
thousands of homes little children
were kneeling with bowed heads
and saying their "Now 1 lay
nir's " And thus ii happened that
when Sundalplion, the Angel of
Prayer, gathered up the "Now I
lay nteV ihat night and bot e them
as a g.irl.ind of pure white blos
soms through the portals uf the
City Cele-dial, lo, u blood-rose was
found within their midst -State
luriul.
Ill: HADN'T IIRARI1
Teacher Wliete is the Dead
Sea?
Toiimik- Diin't know, ma'am.
"Don't know where the Dead
Sea isr"
"No, ma'am. I didn't know
any of the seas were sick, ma'am."
1 onkers Statesman.
WRIGHT5VILLE BEACH ii
CAROLINA'S
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WEEK END -
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SUMMER EXCURSION
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WELDON, N. C.
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Large hopes grow from small
s;ed.
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WOMEN WHO ARE
ALWAYS TIRED
May Find Help in This
Letter.
Swan Creek, Mich. " I ennnot sjiealt
too highly of your medicine. When
through neglect or
overwork I get run
down ma) my appe
tite is oor and I
have that weak, lan
guid, always tired
feeling, I get a bot
tle of l.yiliu K. rink
ham's Vegetable
Compound, and it
builds mo up, gives
me strength, and re
stores me to perfect
health again. It ii truly a great bless
ing to Women, and I cannot speak too
highly of It, I take pleasure in recom
mending it to others."-Mrs. Annik
Cameron, R.F.D., No. 1, Swan Creek,
Michigan.
Another Sufferer Relieved.
Hebron, Me. "Before taking your
remedies I was all run down, discour
aged and had female weakness, t took
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and used the Sanative Wash, and
find today that I am an entirely new
woman, ready and willing to do my
housework now, where before taking
your medicine It was a dread. I try to
impress upon the minds of all aiang
women I meet the benefits they can
derive from your medicines. " Mu.
Charles Kowe, Kennebago, Maine.
If you want special advice
write to Lydln E. Pink ham Med
lcine Co., (confidential) Lynn,
Mass. Tour letter wil be opened,
read and answered by a woman
sad tteld la trtct cenfldence.
MERCHAHT TAILOR
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W Sfxt tlocir to Z'.llii'ullct's, UT.I.lHiN, N.
1 lake your measure ami make Milt to onlrr on my 1,,-mcIi. Call ami
sped tine line ol piece kfoois unit wimpiea. atisT:itiioii uiiaraiiu'i'i
Vnsi
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mv m .Sm
"Fm looking for a tall man withla long thirst"
"and maybe he won't be glad to see me!
Hope he don't forget I've got some thirst myself
for a cold drink of Pepsi-Cola.
To refresh jaded spirits and appetites there's
nothing more satisfying.
Drop 'round to the fountain and prove what we say.
Pepsi-Colas put
V C up carbonated in
H (Fxi bottles, too at
y U your grocer 's.
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For All Thirsts Pepsi-Cola
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
R. P. Schwerin
On the Seamen's Bill
The American plowmen are Interested In sea com
merce. It is expensive and likewise humiliating to have
oi huiuio u foreign iuig eeiy uuiw u rai uiur wants io amp
a bushel of wheat, a bale of cotton or a pound of farm '
products across tne ocean. I he American farmer is en
titled to the protection of his flag In sending his productl
across the sea, and Congress should give such encourage
ment to shipping interests as Is necessury to meet foreign
competition In ocean commerce. A recent bill known as
the Seaman a Hill became u law under the President's
signature and Mr. K p. Schwerin. vice president of the
facltlc Mall Steamship Company. vheu asked to define
this law and outline Its effect upon American steamship
lines, said In part:
"The bill provides that no ship of any nationality Bhall be permitted to
depart from any port of the United States unless she has on board a crew
nut leas than seventy-five per centum of which. In each department thereof,
Is able to understand any order given by the officers of suca vessel, nor
unless forty per centum In the first year, forty-five per centum In the second
eur, fifty per centum In the third year, fifty-five per centum In the fourth
year after the passage of this Act, and, thereafter sixty five per centum of her
deck crew, exclusive of licensed officers and apprentices, are of a rating not
leas tuau able seauieu.'
"The oversea trade of the world is competitive, therefore the original
cost of the Bhlp and the operation of the ship have to be reckoned with In
the keen competition of these rival nations with one another. The Oriental
sailor Is obedient and competent and Is the cheapest sailor In the world.
It la therefore manifestly clear that if this taw applied to all nationalities
In the transpacific traffic, all would be on the same economic basis, but it
works a single hardship to all the ships of the world, except the Japanese
and American ships, and with the latter It works two hardships. With the
European, the cost ot constructing a ship Is no higher than the cost of con
structing a Japanese ship, but If they bad to provide European crews, while
the Japanese operated with Japanese crews, the condition of competition
would be such that they could not overcome the handicap and they would be
driven off. Hut the American Bhlp would bave to contend not only with the
tremendous Increase of cost of wage In the substitution of the European crew
for the Chinese crew, but also the greater Initial cost of the ship. As the
Japanese have now done away with their European officers and Japanese
crewg, all of whom speak a common language, there Is no difficulty for them
to comply with all the conditions of the bill and continue their Japanese
crews, with Oriental wages.
" 'The law, therefore, Instead of assisting the American ship, adds another
heavy burden, while it places none whatever upon the Japanese ship, but, on
the contrary, turns over to the Japanese the traffic of the Pacific Ocean,
which the American ahlp Is forced to forego by act of Cougreea of tha
United HtatesT
CHARITY THEATRICALS.
"At this point, Mrs. Smythe, I
am supposed to kiss you. Will
yourhusband mind, do you know."
-Life.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
C ASTORI A
ALL MIXED UP.
Low Excursion
Fares va Seaboard
Air Line Railway
Commencing; Saturday, May 29th, and contin
uing; each Saturday and Sunday morning; until
September 12th, inclusive, the following week-end
rates will apply from Weldon, with final limit re.
turning to reach original starting point not later
than midnight on Tuesday following dete of sale:
Portsmouth, $2.50; Va. Beach 2.90
Littleton, N. C. 70c.
Commencing Sunday, June 6th, and continuing each Sunday there
after until Sept. 1 2th, tickets will be on sale for train No. 16 leaving
Weldon at 8:30 a. m. to Portsmouth and return at $1.50 good to re
turn only on train No. 15 same date. For further information apply to
C. Ii. CARTIiK, Ticket Agent.
JOHN T. WEST, D. P. A., Raleigh. N. C,
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"Well, how did you come out
with your jury duty?"
"I don't like it," confessed Mrs.
Wombat. "When the lawyer for
the plaintiff got through I didn't
know who was right." Pittsburg
Post.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTOR I A
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
A woman who has wedded and
buried six husbands says there are
times to jolly a man nd there are
times to set your foot on his neck.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
All the world may love a lover,
but it doesn't get silly enough to
hand the price of a marriage license.
F. C. Howe
On The Advantages of Free Ports
Mr. i. C. Howe, Federal Commissioner of Immlgra
tlon, wbo is one of the best American authorities on
marine commerce, In discussing the relation of free ports
to the development of sea trade said In part:
"Ships will go hundreds of miles out of their way to
avoid ports surrounded by a tariff wall. The only way,
therefore, for a country with a tariff to compete In the
shipping world w ith a free trade country la to establish
free ports at strategical points along Its coast line. Uer
many has done so. and In a comparatively short period
has built up a carrying trade which betore the war
seriously threatening England'i supremacy. Hamburg,
ona of the three German free ports, now ranks as the second greatest seaport
In the world, Its total foreign commerce In 1913 being only 16,000.000 uudei
that of New York.
"The free port would offor great orflxirluulty for financial operations, now
made possible by the recent currency act. It would stimulate International
banking, and would teud to snitt tne nuauciai ceuier oi iu on iu no.
country. And America, by the logic of events, baa become the natural center
lor the world's financlug. Just as London became that center several centuries
ago, when It shifted from the cities ot the Netherlands. But the financial
center will only move to this country when It becomes a clearing house ot
goods as well as of money. For credit the world over is created by currently
created wealth lo transit or change so that our financial expansion Is depend
ant upon the opening up of American porta to the clearance of the wealth ol
the world. A port should not operate to yield a return on the investment,
but to develop the prosperity of the country." Iu recapitulating the advan
tages, Mr. How bring out the importance of the free port in developing out
shipping and linking ut with South America, Asia and Africa, and then coa
eludes:
"The most important gain it tne direct gain to America. It will cheapen
commodities by bringing great quantities of goods to our doors for importa
tion or export, ai trade needs demand. It will stimulate the growth of export
ing houses, which can bald goods for an Indefinite period without payment ot
tariff dues (often equal to the cost of the article Itself) for disposal to meet
the trade demands of the whole world It will upbuild international credit
and shift to America an Increasing and ultimately a predominant share lo
International exchange
"Finally, America li the natural country to be the counter of the world.
Its aeacoasts face every other continent; It is the greatest of all reservoirs
ot raw material and foodstuffs. In Iron and steel and standardised produc
tion It I In a position to compete with the world. But international trade
(and this 1 alway overlooked) must be reciprocal. It cannot b one-sided.
And credit balance cannot for any prolonged period be paid in fold. They
can only be paid by exchange of wealth "
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
AJwsys bear
the
Signature
TfiBRED
That keeps the family healthy
is Mountcastle's.
Once used it becomes a luxury
that you can't dispense with.
No more dyspepsia, indiges
tion, bilious anacks.sick head
ache or tired feelings I
Give it a trial if you mi not
already using it.
Baked fresh every day..
MOUNTCASTLE'S BAKERY
Weldon, N. C.
The only asset you would leave
your family or business that would
be worth 100 cents on the dollar
is the cash you have in the bank
and your life insurance. Did you
ever think of that ? How much
have you of each ? Think it over
and fix up the life insurance end of
it TODAY. Don't put it off -tomorrow
may be too late.
i Sale for Taxes.
I will sell for cash at the court house
' door iu Halifax, Monday, September 0,
I 191 j. the following described real estate
' in Littleton township to satisfy tax and
, cost for the year 1H14 tax:
I Miss Laura Browning, St town lots, tax
and cost, 123.62.
' L. C. Crawley, 1 town lot, tax and cost
1 11.70.
I T. W. Jenkins, 40 acres land, tax and
I costs (J7.
Mrs. Mollie Harris, 12 acres land, tax
! and cost, 'J.V0.
I Mrs. Tempie Xewsom, 16 acres land,
i tax and cost, 3.62,
Brunswick Keaity to., it acres, tax
and cost, 3.20.
COLORED.
Ben Powtin, 1 town lot, tax and cost,
915.413.
J. E. PEI'r'ER,
Tax Collector Littleton Township.
See or Phone
Lewis B. Suiter,
Representing the
New York Life Insurance Gcmpmy
Largest Strongest Best
Phone 303 L - WELDON, N. C.
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