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Organized Under the Laws ol the State of North Carolina,
State of North Carolina Depository.
Halifax County Depository.
Town of Vi'eklon Depository.
Capital aLi Surplus. $55,000.
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thin Huotion. Its stockholders and ollieeis are idcnlitied with the busi
ness interest of Halifax an. 1 Northampton counties.
A Savings Department i i uintaiiii'l for the heuelit of all who desire
to deposit in a Savings liunl. In this Department interest is allowed as
follows:
lor Deposits allowed lorciiiuin three months or longer, 1! per cent. Ms
months or longer, H per pent I welw months or longer. 4 percent.
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WHAT DOES CUPID CARE?
The Varying Views of an Assort
ment of Love Authorities,
Don't marry a man making less !
than $2,000 a year. j
Don't marry before your twenty-1
fifth birthday.
The Rills of ihe Harvard sum
mer school in Boston have added
these 'Mont's" to the already heav
ily burdened list on the marriage
question. Their advice comes
right on the heels of the discovery
of a Western authority on marital
bliss that
No man should marry a girl
more than 15 years younger than
himself.
Added to which is the vain
searcli of Mrs. Martha Stevens, a
Brooklyn widow with a pretty
home, for a perfect husband, and
the rapidly forming opinion that
there "ain't no such species of an
imile." And in contradiction of the
whole set of theories is Colonel
Roosevelt's admonition to women
in general that mere poverty
should not interfere with adding
to families already large.
And there you have the varying
views of an assortment of love au
thorities on ihe very, very knotty
problem of what one should con
sider in taking and what one should
not consider in taking the highly
important step of 'matrimony. And
now that you have them, what can
be done about it? Will it alter the
course you have already mapped
out ? Quite likely, also very prob
ably, it will not.
While matrimonial experts, self
styled and otherwise, rack their
brains to establish certain rules and
regulations to govern the mating
of humans, the little chubby chap
of few clothes, known popularly
as Cupid, comes along and upsets
the whole arrangement without
even half trying. A simple ques
tion of age or salary or eugenic
fitness has an exceedingly small
chance of dominating the situation
when the dictates of the heart rule
otherwise.
With regard to the particular
ctse of the Harvard summerschool
girls, they have formed an associa
tion for the furtherance of their
wedding ideals. Lvery member
has pledged herself not to marry
before the stipulated tweniy-fifth
birthday, and then only to a man
who has a salary of not less than
$2,000 annually. Any member
who breaks her pledge must at the
lime she becomes a bride give the
other members an expensive pres
ent, instead of receiving gifts from
them. New York livening Telegram.
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IKE WALTON'S PRAYER.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
1 crave, dear Lord,
No boundless hoard
Of gold and gear,
Nor jewels fine,
Nor land nor kine,
Nor treasure heaps ot anything.
Let but a little hut be mine
Where at the hearthstone I may
hear
The cricket sing,
And have the shine
Of one glad woman's eyes to make
For my poor sake,
Our simple home a place di
vine; Just the wee cot the cricket's
chirr
Love, and the smiling face of her.
I pray not that
Men tremble at
By Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound and Wants
Other Suffering Women
To Know It
Mnrfrixwhoro. Tfnn. - "I have
wanted to write to you for a long time
to ten you wnai your
wonderful remedies
have done for me. 1
was a sulTercr from
female weakness
and displacement
and I would have
Bueh tirod, worn out
feelings, sick head
aches and duty
Ji B1,e,l8 DK,tor" llid
I I V! I me no Rood so 1 tried
V- 1 the l.ydia E. Pink-
ham Remedies Vegetable Compound
t Sm.ntive Wash. I nm now well and
strong and can do all my own work. I
owe It all to Lydia fc. rinkliam s veffe
table Compound and want other suffer
ing women to know about it" Mrs.
II. E. Mabkn, 211 s. Spring, ht, Mur
freesboro, Tenn.
TW famniin remedv. the medicinal
Ingredients of which are derived from
naUve roots and herbs, has for nearly
forty years proved to be a most valua
ble tonic and Invigorator of the female
organism. Women everywhere bear
willing testimony to the wonderful vir
tue of l.ydia E. Vinklmm's Vegetable
Coniiound.
Wiiy liose nope,
xi. Knmm anffHrlnir from anv form
of female troubles should lose hope un
til she has given Lyuia c. rinanam a
Vegetable Compound a fair trial.
If lou want special advice writs to
l.idla K. IMiikbaui Medicine Co. (cmitD
deutlaDLjao, Bass. Vonr letter will
lie opened, read and auswerrd by a
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PATINY Lvvii;h, . ,
.303 Ssventh St., V. .tshlnulon, &. C.
My power of place
And lordly sway,
I only pray for simple grace
To look my neighbor in the face
Full honestly from day to day
Yield me his horny palm to hold,
And I'll not pray
For gold;
The tanned face, garlanded wiih
mirth,
It hath the kingliest smile on earth;
The smart brow, diamonded with
sweat,
Hath never need of coronet.
And so I reach,
Dear Lord to Thee,
And do beseech
The wee cot, and the cricket's
chair,
Love, and the glad sweet face of
her !
SPEAK A WORD OF KINDNESS.
There are many hearts awaiting all along life's dreary way,
For a word of cheer to hearten as they journey day by day;
Then don'i forget to speak it give each burdened soul thine aid;
Speak a word of hope to brighten lei our kindest word be said.
Just a smile will cost you nothing It may help a broken heart;
It will help a downcast brother as he bravely does his pan,
You can never, never reckon all the good that may be done
If you cheer the sad and lonely from the morn till set of sun.
Think how Christ, the blessed Master, spent his life in doing good;
How He helped the wretched outcast, how I le gave the hungry food ;
Smiled upon the poor and lonely spake in loving gentle tone
To earth's sad and broken-hearted, 10 the weary and forlorn.
The Magnanimous Man Forgets.
Life is too short to remember
the things that would prevent one's
doing one's best.
"Forgetting the things thai are
behind I press forward," said a
brave old man in the first century.
Usually old men live largely in
the past, but this old man lived in
the future. He was a mighty good
forgetter.
Many of us fail because we do
not forget. We remember our
failures and they hamper us. We
remember our victories and they
make us vain. We remember our
enemies and fritter away valuable
lime trying to gel even with them.
But-
The successful man forgeis.
He knows the past is irrevoca
ble. He lets the dead past bury
its dead. He is in too much of a
hurry to attend the funeral of his
hopes. He is running a race. He
cannot afford to look behind. His
eyes ard on the winning post.
The magnanimous man forgets.
He is too big to let little things
disturb him. He forgeis quickly and
forgets easily. If any one does
him a wrong "he considers the
sources" and keeps sweet. It is
only your small man who cher
ishes a low revenge. Or an Indi
an never forgets and because he is
ever wanting to pay somebody
back he never gets on.
Be a forgetter.
Bigness dictates it and
Success demands it.
Rheumatism and Allied Pains !
They Must Ool !
The congestion of the blood in its tlow '
causes pain. Sloan's Liniment peue-
trates to the congestion anil starts the j
blood to (low freely. The body's warmth j
is restored; pain is koiic. I he "man or
woman who has rheumatism, ueuraliria
or other pain and fails to keep Sloan's
Liniment in their home is like a drown
inu man refusing a rope." Why suller!
(lot a bottle of Sloan s. L'."c. and ''lie.
$1 bottle holds six times as much as
the-.'-'ic. size.
In the HOME '
or oti th&MMM
BCC
best and most
The many needs for a good cleanser and disinfectant I
comically tilled by
MENDLESON'S LYjS
Its full strength cuts grease in a jiffy from sinks and pans and makes it ideal tor disin
fecting poultry houses and curing cholera in hogs.
Its purity and strength make it the best Lye to use, while the extra quantity your
money will buy. makes it tlis cheapest Twenty ounces of Solid Lye for a Dime in.
stead of Sixteen.
One ten cent can enough to saponify eight pounds of grease, making tOOte soap
than any other 10c can of lye on the market will make.
The pound can makes fifteen pounds of soap.
Three Forms solid, granulated and ball
Two sizes 10c and 5c
Insist upon Mendleson's Best Lye
(Sendueson'
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SHREWD BOSS.
HALIFAX COUNTY
WHOLESALE DF.ALF.rtS:
R. J. Madry, Scotland Neck, N. C.
Bowers & Co., Scotland Neck.N.C.
KliTAIL Dl-ALLKS:
W. B. Strickland, Scotland Neck, N. C.
Burroughs-Pittnian-Wheelcr Co., Scotland Neck.N. C.
Gee Vaughnn, Scotland Neck, N. C.
C. N. Malone, Scotland Neck, N. C.
THE CIRCUS AND BOOZE.
CHAIU.ES E. CORY.
"We do belter business in a dry town than in a wet one," said the
manager of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus yesterday. "We noticed
the difference in Missouri; always the day's receipts were better in a
town that had gone dry under local option than in a town where sa.
loons were open. And business is better in Kansas than it was in Mis
souri. "Let me give you an example. We showed in Crawfordsville, Ind.,
this summer, and that town is dry. It was dry in more ways than one
this year,7or the rains were scarce and crops bad and hard times ap
parently pushing on. Yet we showed 10 capacity crowds. A few dayi
later we pulled into Shelbyville, Ind., where the streets are lined with
open saloons. Rains had been plentiful in this region, crops were fine,
and there was plenty of money. The streets were crowded with
people at 7:30 in the morning, but our second section was delayed by
wreck and we didn i get our parade on until about noon. By that
time many of the men had gone into the thirst parlors and spent their
cash over the bar. 1 hey didn t have any desire left for the circus, and
their wives and children wandered up and down the streets without
money, and they didn't see the circus, either. So we played to miser
ably small crowds.
"1 have seen this whole game up and down and backward and
across," he concluded, "and I want to tell you that all this talk about a
town needing saloons or gambling houses to stimulate business is the
purest bunk."
Here is an amusement man s view on booze. Once again ihe verdict
is thumbs down for John Barleycorn. Poor Old John! He can't
mix ui;h religion or politics or business. If he can't mix with the
amusements where does he get in? And ihe answer is that national
prohibition is just around the corner. William Allen White in ihe
Emporia (Kan.) Gaetie.
"Yes, sir, 1 want to get married,
and I thought you might give me
an increase of salary of $5.00 a
week.
ii... .i . -1 . . .
i 30, mat s ii, enr l ou wain to
get married ?"
"Yes, sir."
"A man who gels married these
days is taking big chances. I am
going to reduce your salary $5
a week in order to keep you front
making a fool of yourself. You'll
thank me some day. Houston
Post.
Distress In the StomaLh.
Theie are mauy people who have a
distress in the stomach after meals. It
is due to indigestion and easily reme
died by taking one of Chamberlain's
Tablets after meals. Mrs. Henry 1'ad-
tihau, Victor, N. Y., writes: "Tor some
time 1 was troubled w ith headache and
listress in my stomach after eatme. also
with constipation. Alioutsix niontliKago
I heirau takmi! Chamberlain's Tablets.
They regulated the action of my bowels
and the headache and otbel annovances
ceased in a short time."
ohtai liable eerv where
DOO CLIMBS TRRRS.
W. L. Plumley, of North Clar
endon, has a freak dog whose
specialty is climbing. The highest
dimh he ever made was 32 feet.
Veterinarians and others who!
have examined the dog's feet are
at a loss to understand how he
grips a tree trunk in climbing.
His nails are like those of the
ordiuary dog, though possibly a
trifle more pointed, and the fleshy
pads of his feet are perhaps a little
broader.
So accustomed to height is the
dog that he sleeps in tree branches
20 feet above the ground. He is
three years old and part pug and
pari bull. St. Albans (Vermont)
Dispatch.
Colds Do Not Leave Willingly.
Because a cold is stubborn is no rea
son why you should be. Instead of
"wearinir" it out, get sure relief by tak
ing Dr. King's New Discovery. la..Ker
ous bronchial and lung ailments often
follow a cold which has been ucglected
at the beginning. As your body faith
fully battles those cold germs, no better
aid can lie giveu than the use of this
remedy. Its merits has been tested by
old and young. (Jet a bottle today.
50c. and $1.
A woman never tires of being
told that she is loved.
Chamberlain's Tablet..
This is a medicine intended especially
for itomaoh troubles, biliousness and
constipation. It is meeting with much
lucceas and rapidly gaining in favor and
popularity.
Obtainable everywhere.
WHAT IT'S COMING TO.
Visitor What are the boys
around the store talking about
nowadays?
Village Storekeeper Politics and
the next campaign.
Visitor Already discussing the
chances of the native sons, eh?
Village Storekeeper Not much.
This hen-pecked crowd here don't
care. They are discussing the
chances of the native daughters.
Judge.
WHAT "ONE" WILL DO.
One false alarm will create a
panic.
One broken wheel will ditch a
train.
One match will cause a confla
gration. One lie will destroy a woman's
character.
One hasty word will lead to di
vorce. One mischievous boy will break
up a school.
One false step will cost a life or
ruin a character.
One wayward daughter will
break mother's heart.
One false witness will send an
innocent man to jail.
One demagogue will turn facto
ries into souphouses.
One hasty act of legislation will
entail untold hardships.
Children Ory
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTO Rl A
'Mi That's what I'm looking for, Grandma
Leave it to "Young Hopeful" to know what not only
tickles his palate delicious but what also satisfies his
thirst and refreshes his tired little body. It's Pepsi-Cola.
A Goti-seiul to tlie thirsty uM and youru. Mo wonder it has
ftchii'vt'd such popularity as delicious, tempting drink that has
joyful taste in every sip.
At the ibuntkit.,5
or carbunaied
in bottles, at your
grocer's.
I Eli 31 lOsC
For All Thirxl
Cola
The constant strain of
factory work very often
results in Headaches,
Backaches and other
Aches, and also weak
ens the Nerves.
DR. MILE3
ANTI-PAIN PILLS
will quickly relieve the
Nerves, or Pain, while
Dr. Miles'
Heart Treatment
is very helpful when
the Heart is overtaxed.
IP FIRST BOX, OR BOTTLE,
FAILS TO BENEFIT YOU, YOUR
MONIY WILL BE REFUNDED.
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SEVERE PAIN.
"I uipiI to suffer a treat deal
with lumbago In mv shimMers
ami buck. A frlund IndiK xl m
to tiv Dr. MIIm' Anll-I'atn
Pills and I am only too slid to
b ablo to attest to the relist
that I gut frum Uicso splnndld
pills. Tliry furm a valuable
medicine and ilo all tliat H s
claimed tli'V !" do."
LEWIS J. CUTTBR,
Marietta, Ohio.