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and Las been itmdo under Ills er
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AH Counterfoil, Imitations and" Jiist-iis-;ni(l" are luit
KxiiprimeiitM that trifle Willi a-.tl ciidiiiigiT tlio lieallh of
Infants and Children Experience against Kxpcrimmit.
What Is CASTORIA
Castoria Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
gnric, Prop. and Soothing Syrups. It Is rVnsimt. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
Kiibstanee. Its atje is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
und allays Feverisliuess. It cures Diarrluen and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
und Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and 1 Snivels, g-iviif(jf healthy und natural sleep.
The Children's i'anaceu The .Mother's Friend,
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
MATTER OF OPINION.
"Mary !"
Father's voice rolled down the
stairs and into the dim and silent
parlor.
"Yes, papa, dear."
"Ask that young man if has the
time."
A moment of silence.
"Yes. George has his watch
with him."
"Then ask him what is the
time."
"He says it is 1 1 :48, papa."
"Then ask him if he doesn't
think it about bed time,"
Another moment of silence.
"He says, papa," the silvery
voice announced impersonally
"he says that he rarely goes to
bed before I, but it seems to him
that it is a matter of personal pref
erence merely and that if he were
i in your place he would go now if
i he felt sleepy." Harper's Maga
! zine.
Which Do You Prefer?
It is important for reasons of health and
practical economy for every housekeeper
to ask herself this question :
" Do I prefer a pure baking powder like
Royal, made of cream of tartar derived from
grapes, or am I willing to use a baking
powder made of alum or phosphate, both
derived from mineral sources ? "
The names of the ingredients printed
on the label show whether the kind you
are now using or any brand, new or old,
that may be offered is a genuine cream
of tartar powder, or merely a phosphate
or alum compound.
Royal Baking Powder contains no alum
nor phosphate.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.
New York
au-Mr.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THl: CiN'tUN COMMIT, TT MUHIMV TNIKT, NEW fOAft CIT.
THE BANK OF WELDON
WKLDOX. N.
Organized Under the Laws of the State of North Carolina,
State of North Carolina Depository.
Halifax County Depository.
Town of VC'eldon Depository.
Coital and Surplus, $55,000,
For over -1 years tlii" institution provided liiinkiiiir facilities for
this section, ltd' stockholders and otliri rs me identilied with the busi
ness interests of Uuhfax und Noriliinlm counties.
A BavinK Department is maintained I'ur the heneiit of all who desire
to deposit in tt Savinifs Hunk. In this liepaitment interest is allowed as
follows: ,
For Deposits allowed to remain three months or longer. per cent. Six
months or longer, ' per cent I nelve months 01 longer, 4 percent.
Vnv information will he furnished mi application to the President ort'ushier
BOLDNESS ADMIRED.
"I forgot myself and spoke
grilv to my wife," remarked
Meekton.
"Did she resent it?"
"Tor a moment. Bui Henrietta
is a fair-minded woman. After she
had thought it over she shook
hands with me and congratulated
me on my bravery." -Washington
Star.
AMBIQUOUS.
iiiniiiji iiirj)iitiiiiittircjiiiiiiiiijiC3iititiiiiiiCMitiieutic jiiiitintii c :iiiiiiiidMiic ni(,ii,iid(.H tnrjintJ icitititiitiiiirj ,niidc
THE FARM SPEAKS TO ITS SONS. I
I The Old Farm And The New One Need You. I
May It Please The Master To Have You Stay.
t- llllllllllll(lllllllltll JIIIIIIIHIHtllllllllllltIL Jill IIIIIIIIIC-llllllllllMIC JIIIHHIIIIIL 1IIMII tt J Illll ( Jll Hill 1 3IMIIIIiailCll Ill C
Staylate "Yes, I've been very
ill. Everyone thought I was go
ing to die, but 1 didn't, you see."
Miss Weeretgh Uh! that s too
bad. I'm awfully sorry."
ONE UOOD FEATURE.
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PR8S1DKNT :
W. K. DANIEL,
vick-I'IIKSiiikst:
W. 11 SMITH.
L. ('. Mi A I'KU, Teller.
CASHIKR:
.1. 0. UKAKE,
MRECTOUS-W. It. Smith, VV.
K. T. Daniel, J.L. Shepherd, W
K. Hani !. .1. 0. Drake, V, M. Cohen,
A. Pierce, 1). II. ZolheoU'er, .1 . V. Sledge
"Do you think the income tax
is a good thing ?"
"As an economic measure, 1
am not prepared to say. But I do
know it stopped a lot of bragging.'
Exchange.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
C ASTO R I A
POLITICAL PREPAREDNESS.
mi m&cm
No Other
Refrigerator
Has All
These Star
Features
Built on the KIGHT
principle, with a constant
circulation of dry, cold
air surrounded with
walls that are 8-ply and
a thorough insulation
against heat und cold
with a drain that has
never been known to
clog with light, easily
cleantd clrc:riiNilly wel
ded wire slicl.es und
the most perfect watti
pooler ever built into a
refriireraior-irulv vou get a wonderful machine for preserving food
and water in .he AUTOMATIC REFRIGERATOR, l ei us pom. to
.1 r-...o orl tho mher onnrl nnints of the AU I DMA I Iv,
you incse swi ichiuim.iiuu ..... .....v., ,
No other refrigerator can use holder and inverted water bottle witrv
out infringing Newell patents.
Vim Furniture Company,
'Well, have you been fixing
your fences?"
"Been digging trenches, de
clared Congressman Flubdub. "I
am in for a real fight." Kansas
City Journal.
CARELESS OF HER.
"Oh, say, who was here to see
you last night ?"
"Only Myrtle, father.
"Well, tell Myrtle that she left
her pipe on the piano." Chicago
Post.
HOW; INDEED.
'How can you expect to marry
my daughter when you have no
money ?"
"How could you expect me to
marry her if I did have? Exchange.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTOR I A
THEN WHY.
"Will you marry me, Ethel?
My family is all one could wish
for "
"Then why do you want me?
The Jester.
When a man pays compliments
he is never forced to cut his words.
WELDON, N. C.
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MERCHANT TAILOR,
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1 take your .'' ' ""s ishietioi. guaranteed
s. r.
hciich.
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ALL WRONG.
The Mistake In Made by
Weldon Citizen!).
Many
TAPER'S ROOF Fill t
SOLD BY
PlAflAA WUn 111'
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ii Hardware Gorapany,
WELDON, N C
Look for the cause of backache.
To be cured you must know the
cause.
If it's weak kidneys you must
s.-t the kidneys working right.
A Weldon resident tells you how.
Mrs. Mary J. Allen, Fifth Street
Weldon, says. "I had pains in
my back and I could hardly get up
nut of a chair at times. In the
morning, 1 was sore and lame.
had headaches and dizzy spells and
the kidney secretions were too
frequent in passage. Two boxe
of Doan s Kidney nils cured me
of all symptoms of kidney trouble
and I haven't had a return of the
complaint since."
Price 50c. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills the same
that Mrs. Allen had.
FOSTER-M1LBURN CO., Pro
prietors, Buffalo, N. Y.
HAT is this I hear? You would depart from my hospitable
acres ana nutter away to realms unknown ! Boy ! my nrown
cheeked son ! stay yet another twilight lest the Whole Truth
be kept forever from you. Turn, with your strong hand on the latch
of the little gate, and look back inio God's love, peering reverently at
you through your mother's soft eyes.
Doest the great feverish town promise more for you, boy, than the
liny home nestled there in the shadows ? Are there riches more to be
treasured than the yield of upturned clods? Is there a Love greater,
sweeter, purer than the wistful mother-love? Will the world's arms
open to you with as much infinite, unselfish affection as her arms?
They were tender in their first guardianship a gray, ghostly span of
years ago. Nor are they less tender now, as they press about the
rugged man form of you at each day's fruitful close I want you here,
boy; need you; depend upon you; will miss your sunshiny optimism
and glow songs; and I shall find no substitute for your firm, sure
strength, as the grain ripens and the sentinel silos open their hungry
mouths for feed.
My orchards would be lonely indeed if you were not here to ride the
white mare under the low lying branches; my meadow streams would
cease to sing if your steps no longer crunched the wet grasses and
clover at their banks. My yellow and gold acres would stand grimly
waiting for the stronger scythe, and somewhere up yonder slope,
buried deep in marigolds and tea-roses and phlox and sweet alyssum
and mignonette, a little home would be hushed, as though death had
stopped, in passing, and called to one of the mother's precious brood.
Think deep, as you stand on the threshold of your high resolve. New
worlds to conquer, mayhap, but the old is yours already. A king
here, God's very blue heaven bows respectful homage to you,
as with bared head you face the dawn with the larks. Man never yet
builded of stone and egotism a more beautiful highway than the lane
which runs quietly betwixt your mother s jonquils and the pasture.
No Great White Incandescent Way can match the bright splendor of
these crisp September nights when the moon rises over the black sil
houette of the hills and a million stars hang balanced in holy space
Boy! Boy! have you placed these things in the balance?
You stand noV at the parting of the ways. Back of you the rugged
homely, honest virtues upon which the best things in life foundaiioned
a real Home, real Love, real people if you please, real roses and
trees and perfumed air to breathe. Not one fictitious element here in
the heart of this grain-yellowed acreage. Nature does not lie. Here
all is solid, dependable, trustworthy, God-fearing. In front of you
linked to home by a mere double thread of shiny steel, are the tinseled
wonders of the town. The man in you may bear on and upward and
out of the muck of it, but, boy listen to us! granting that success
does come granting that all fares well with you is there not greater
peace here, in God s country, where you are never far from the
love of "little mother's''?
There's a girl, living in the white farmhouse yonder, who idolizes
you, my lad. You saw her at dusk today, as she was bending over her
blossoms in the garden. The face beneath the sunbonnet was a pretty,
fair, clean face, boy, and the unbound hair, rippling out from beneath
it, as fine as gold, spun of sunshine. It will hurt her, boy, if you go
away hurt deep and long. We had beautiful dreams for the both of
you. There was to be a little new home, built where the river road
makes its last turn, and a fine silo the biggest in the county, boy
was to raise its concrete finger to the sky. Down in that hollow, boy,
the soil is rich and sweet and fertile, and the gently sloping hills to the
northward will look mighty fine planted in corn.
You may not know it, boy, but the little mother you see yondtr
bending over her work-basket had picked all the furniture for the new
house settled on it, after shrewdly making the sunbonnet girl express
an innocent preference. Land sakes, boy! We've seen those two,
with their heads close together and their hearts going pitapat, whisper
the hours away among the well-worn pages of a treasured mail-order
catalog. We can't let you go. Boy, we just can't do it' 'Maybe it's
becHuse your blood is ours ana Decause you ve grown so surely into
our affection that to tear out the roots would make even paradise with
er. Stay a little longer, boy. VI ho knows? Maybe the thousand
voices calling will make you close the gate.
In the village, yesterday, we saw, for the first time, the dearth of
young faces. All of us were old old, and tired, and perhaps a bit
lonely, too. Boy! There were old men driving the teams and old
men sitting under the trees at court-house square and old men buying
at the stores fine, clever, brown men, as hard as iron and brave, too;
but twilight was coming all past the forties and fifties. And the slips
of girls, bouquets of them, went winding in and out among us like
roses in a dead garden. There were too few young men too lew-
fellows of your age, boy, to pick up the plow where we had dropped
it and to keep on and on and on, making God glad he created the soil
and the seed and the mighty mystery ol the seasons. It isn t bravery
or sacrifice or even cowardice that keeps the little sunbonnet girls back
home on the farm, lad. It's love Lord bless them love; the sort of
love that winds itself about mothers and age and home and flowers
and white hair and reverent memories.
Boy there at tne garaen gate; a tear on tne Drown check ol you
and the shadow of doubt shining in your wide blue eyes the old farm
and the new one need you. May it please the Master to have you
stay ! Christian Herald.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
A Cherryvale historian has gone
back through the files and pro
duced this story:
A woman wiih a rapid-fire inter
rogatory apparatus approached a
news butcher on a Frisco train
out of Cherryvale during the high
water a few days ago and asked
excitedly :
"Say, when is the train due at
the next stop? How is it running?
How deep is the water on the
track? How do you sell your ba
nanas?" The vender of fruit and litera
ture, who was something of a po
et, answered :
"Nine o'clock. On time. Knee
deep. Three for a dime. Kan-1
sas City Star.
WASHINGTON'S MAXIM'S.
Speak not ill of the alst-m. It
is unjusi.
It is better to he alone than in
bad company.
A good character is the lirsi e-,-sr-tiii.it
in man.
Commerce and industry air best
mines ol a nation.
Associate with men of good
qualiiy if you esieem your own
reputaiion.
To persevere is one's duty, and
in be sileni is the best answer to
calumny.
I never wish to promise more
than I have a moral certainty of
performing.
Labor to keep alive in your
breast that little spark of celestial
fire called conscience.
FOR BRONCHITIS, WHOOPKG COUGH,
CROUP, COUGHS AND COLDS
Make the Best Remedy at Home 128 Teaspoonsful for 50 cents.
If everything was sold in as liberal and
fair a manner as the below named drug
gists are selling Schiffmann's New Con
centrated Expectorant, absolutely no
cause (or complaint or dissatisfaction
could possibly arise from anyone. These
druggists say "Buy a bottle of this rem
edy and try it for Bronchitis, Whooping
Cough, Severe Cough, Croup or any
Bronchial Aifection, and we will return
your money, just the same as we do with
S,(-hiffmann's famous Asthtnadur, if it
does not give satisfaction, or if not found
the best remedy ever used for any of
these couiDlaints." Why not take ad
vantage of this guarantee and try tins
medicine, and get your money back, rath
er than buying another purely on the
exaggerated claims of its manufacturer
or on the strength of testimonials from
others and run the chance of getting
something worthless and also wasting
your money?
In buying this remedy, besides secur
ing an absolute guarantee of its efficiency
from these druggists, you also get about
eiidit times as much medicine as you
would in buying most any of the old
fashioned, ready-made kinds, which aver
age from 20 to 32 teaspoonsful, because
5Uc worth makes a whole pint (128 tea
spoonsful) when mixed at home with
simply one pint of sugar and one-half pint
of water. This remedy positively does
not contain chloroform, opium, morphine
or any other narcotic. It is pleasant to take
and children are fond of it. You will be
the sole judge, and under this positive
iiinr.-inteo absolutely no risk is run in buy
ing this remedy. Druggists everywhere
are authorized to sell it under the same
guarantee as Schiffmann's famous Asth
mador of "Money Back" if not perfectly
satisfactory. K. J.Schiffmann, Proprietor,
Saint Paul, Minn. Guaranteed here by
W M.('..h"i'.
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Vou are invited to open an account with the
BK OF EflWLD,
Eft flELD, fl. C.
Per Cent, allowed in the Savings Depart
ment Compounded Quarterly.
YOU can bank by mail
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STICKING TO FACTS.
" 'Tis easy to see," said the
tourist to I'addy, who was driving
him round, "that your parents
came from Ireland."
"No, sir, they did not," replied
Paddy.
"What! Do you mean to say
vnur narents did not come from
j ,
Ireland?"
"No, sir, you're mistaken," re
plied Paddy, they re there yit.
Pittsburg Telegraph.
MA'S IOO BUSY.
"Fverybody's sick at your
house."
"Yen. Pa's cot the grippe, bo
has Aunt Mary and Sister Jane
I'm just getting over it."
"And vour mother? Has she
the grippe, too?"
"Gee, whizz no! Ma ain't got
no time to have it. She's got to
wait on all the rest of 'em."
SEEKING JONAH.
Parson Phillips, addressing a
village Bible meeting, was inter
rupted by a man who asked him
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it ne Deueveu mat jouun was swal
lowed by a whale.
"When I go to heaven," said
the parson, "I will ask Jonah."
"But supposing," the man per
sisted, "he is not in heaven?"
"In that case," said the reverend
pentleman. "vou will have to ask
him.
The Best Plow is the Cheapest
PLOWS Made by BIlLUPS, of UORI OIC, Are BEST!
Our reputation as Plow ExperU-the result of more than 40 years
of studying the farmer's needs and bu.ldt good Mows to h i them
stand, bac k of every Plow we make lhat'e why our Plows are
Registered in the U. S. Talent Office-to protect our reputa
tion and to protect YOU ! We hve rn,d, t to your interest
kea&y for you
and our name
on every Plownone is f?e thcut heP' 5
BILLUPS PLOWS, made in NORFOLK,
and get the BEST.
Famous "Champion
our leading bram!. Various styles 'Girl
t "A Champion", -B l-nampion , i n
. w ! Chnmi:ion". Etc. i suitable for
ill all uses. Tbe "Cirl"is the most popular
e "Champion" brand.
j tjy upu j j
i J f 'h,mninn". " li'liaX . MCttialte
i .n:j;tfi;tat;,n. Lonk for these traae mcirxs
lampion ,
Catalog
describing our Plows jjli; ,oi
and Castings. We make NKS
a complete line, suitable for tij M
all purposes. All Plows fur
nished in either polished cast iron H"
aT"
CAUTION: At
look for the
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Toid imitmtiont
Mine "CHAMP-
insist upon tha orig-
made only bf us.
or wrought steel, wood or steel beams.
This Catalog ia valuabla to overy
(armor write- today, it's Ire.
Our Plows Are Sold By Leading Dealers. If Yours Cannot Supply jou, vmM n.
n t t ire crM P. CC M Ve NORFOLK, VA.
DlL.L.UrO, Oll Jt. w.t t -as g a o. ErtbtUhJ isa.
A Small Amount
Deposited Now
And Systematically added to, is the
only sure way of attaining independence
WELDON BAH TRUST CO..
A curio is any old
costs about len limes
worth.
thing that
what it is
Most cf us loyally try to forget
the meanest things we know of
ourselves.
If a millionaire tells you that he
was far happier when he earned a
dollar a dav. remind him of what
David said in his haste.
MMaMaaaaaaUkftiYjalBIMIBBitttaWBWMHLfl
ELDERLY WOMEN
SAFEGUARDED
Tell Otheri How They Were
Carried Safely Through
Change of Life.
Durand, WU. "1 am the moth.Tof J
fourteen children and 1 owe my life to
LUm Ii. I il.Kli.ui. 3
Vegetable loin
pound. When 1 wan
45 and had the j
Change of Life, I
b f t i e n d recom- I
mended it and it
gave me such relief
from my bad feel
ings thut I took
several bottles. I
am now well and
healthy and recom
mend vour Comnound to other ladies."
-Mrs. MARY K1DUWAY, uuranu, w.a.
A MassachusottsWoiuiiu Writes! j
Blackntone, Mass. - ' My troubles
were from my age, and I felt awfully
sick for three years. 1 had hot flashes
often and frequently suffered from
pains. I took Lydia E. PinkhanVs
Vegetable Compound and now am well."
Mrs. Pierre Cournoyek, Box SI'J,
BlacksUme, Mass.
Such warning symptoms as sense of
suffocation.hot flai Ues,headache,bck
aches.dread of Impending evil, timidity,
sounds in the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu
larities, constipation, variable appetite,
weakness and dininess, should be heeded
by middle-aged women, Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound has carried
many women safely through this crisis.
4 per cent.
WELDON, N. C.
Interest on Savings Deposits.
,111
liiniimiiliitliltlllHinil
OUR
LiSfECIALTC
ft
A Ij
of a prescription lies in
the Purity of its Ingre
dients.
rgj- OUR DRUGS
are selected for theii
PURITY
and have been tested
for strength.
I'lRST QUALITY. REA.
SON ABLE PRICE and
CAREFUL COMPOUNDING
Three Reasons for bringing your I
prescriptions HERE.
WELDON DRUG tiOMPANY.
RECIPE FOR CRAY HAIR.
To half pint of water add 1 oi. Bay
I Hum, a small box of Barbo Compound,
and M oz- or glycerine. Apply to tne nnir
twice a week until It becomes the desired
shade. Any drumrtflt can put this up or
you can mix It at home at very little cost.
Full directions for mnldnar and use coma
In each box of Barbo Compound. It will
gradually darken streaked, faded xray
hair, and removes dandruff. It Is excel
lent for falling hair and wilt make harsh
hair soft and glossy. It will not color the
scalp, Is not sUcky or greasy, and does not
rub off.
CASTORIA
For Infanta and Children
In Use For Over 30 Yers
Always bear
the
Signature of
OLEY KIDNEY PILL;,
m ai',Mi Ktirtm aim lutati