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m ins ssiji ESTABLISH IU IN 1866. A NEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Anniiii VOL. LI. WKLDON, N. C, THURSDAY, Al'dl'ST -4, 101(5. NO. 18 Children Cry The Kind You lluvo Always Honglit, nml which lias been lu mo for over :JO jour, Iium bornotho xigimtiiro of J - und Ima heou Hindu under lils por- sjty annul Niiix'i'vi.stiiii since its Infancy. ac4li Allow no mm to U ivo you In thin. All Counterfeits, Imitations mid "Tiist-us-good " are but Kxporlmonls that trillo w llh and rmlaiiKcr tho health of lutauts and Children Uxpcrlcnve uguinst Expt-rliaeiiU What is CASTORIA Castorla Id a harmless Ntihstirtito for Castor Oil, Pare goric, lrops and Koolhintf Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor oilier .Nurcotio substance, ltd ago is Its guarantee. It destroys AVorms and allays IVveri.shiu'NS. I'or more than thirty yenrs it lias been lu constant use fur the relief of Constipation, l latiilency, V.'lnd 'olie, all Teetlilnjr Troubles and J)iarrhua. It regulates the Stomach and liowcls, assimilates the Food, (jivlnff healthy nud natural sleep, 'i'he Children's I'auaeca The Mother's Frloud. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought Till CINTAUR COMMNY, NSW YORK CITY, THE BANK OF WELD'jN WKLDON. N. C. Organized Under the Laws of the State of North Carolina. Slate of Nonh Carolina Depository Halifax County Depository. Town of Weldon Depository. Capital aiirt Sorplus, $55,000. For over 21 years this institution has provided hanking 1'uoilitieH for this section. Its stockholders and ollict-rs are idcntilicil with the busi ness interests of Halifax and Northampton counties. A Savings Department is maintained lor the benelit of ull nho desire to deposit iu a Savings Haul.. In this lcmitnicnt interest is alloned as follows:' Kor Deposits allowed to remain three months or lonircr, L' per cent. Six mouths or longer, 3 percent, twelve mouths 01 'longer. 4 pel cent. Anv information will be furnished on up plication to the President or Cashier FBKSIDKNT : W. E. DANIEL, V ICR I'KKSlllkN l : W. It. SMI III. L, !. liltAl'Kli, Toller. DIRECTORS W. li. Smith, . K. R. T. Daniel, J. I.. Shepherd, W. A. flO OWR REFRIQEM TOII Has All These Star Features Built on the RIGHT principle, wiih a consiani circulation of dry, cute' air surrounded wiih walls thai are H-ply and a thorough insulatim against heat and cold wiih a drain thai has never been known h clog with light, easily-cleaned eleciricully-welded wire shelves and the most perfect water cooler ever built into a refrigerator truly you get a wonderful machine for preserving food and waier in the AUTOMATIC REFRIGERATOR. Let us point 10 you these star features.and the other good points of the AUTOMATIC No other refrigerator can use holder and inverted waier bottle with out infringing Newell patents. Weldon WELDON, N. C. 101 I.ZABA. MERCHANT O Next door to Zollicoll'er's, WKLDON, N.( O msI 1 take your measure and make suit to order on my bench. Call and ma Vinspect line line of piece goods and samples. Satisfaction guaranteed i iaononi TAN HEP3 ROOF Pillil SOLD BY Pierce-Whitehead Hardware Company, WELDON, N for Fletcher's Signature of CAKlllKiC t). DKAKK. 1'imi.l, ,1. O. Inake, W. M. I'olien, Pierce, I'. I'.. ..Ilirollei, .1 . W. Sledge. Furniture Company, o TAIL0R, c. j SUPPER FOR TWO By EARL SILVERS. For quite n time before she becume engaged to .luck Abbott, Olive Alkln sou hud illspluyed u cordtiil liking for Hell livcrlnu. Hut ufter she hud given her iv old to Juck, Kert hud gradually been fiii'Kolleu. until, shortly ufter her uiiiiTliigc, his niilue wus little mors thuii u memory, lint Juck Abbott nursed u deep resentment towurd I lot uiiiu he hud defeuted lu the ruee fur Olive's luiiid. "I never liked 1 1 1 m and 1 never will," he sulil. "I hope thut we shall never see him ngulu." "There Is I'eully no need to worry," Mrs. .luck uuswered, plucldly. "Uert Ims gone into business in Chicago and doesn't expect to come Eust for yeurs." After thut the other man's name wus not mentioned in the Abbott household. Mr. und Mrs. Juck lived In blissful pence. But one ut'tenioou In eurly summer Mr. Juck reached home ut about three o'clock, lie hud hoped to find Olive ready und willing for a set or two of tenuis before supper, but he wus doomed to dlsuppolutment. No Olive uw sited him. "Did Mrs. Abbott say where she wus folnt;?" he usked the inuld. "Yes. sir," the girl answered. "She's gone to the city and will nut be buck until this evening. She told me to tell you thut you hud better eat supper alone," Mr. Jack frowned. Tennis seemed suddenly to huve lust its charm, so he wuudered luto the lihrury in search of a book with which to while uwuy the time. On the open desk in thu corner lie suw a letter addressed to Ids wife. Tiie handwriting looked uu fumlllur, and he abseutmludedly picked up the euvelope. Moved by a sudden Impulse, lie slipped out the single sheet of puper It contained und glanced over its contents. Suddenly ids eyes contracted, his lips forming iu a straight, thin line. He reud he letter carefully, from be ginning to end, an expression of won der on his clean-cut fuce. "Deur Olive," lie read, "1 shull be In New York Wednesday for a day's vis It. Then I must hurry buck to Chi cago. Hut before I go, I simply must see you. Will you meet me at Mau ley's ut four o'clock! We can have a little supper for two and talk over old times. Hurriedly yours, Bert." For a long time Mr. Juck Abbott ga.ed at the writing before him. It seemed hard to believe that his wife would disregurd his wishes; would ac cept un Invltutluu from a mau whom she knew lie ilid not approve of. Hut she hud done It. The letter and her ubsence were conclusive evidence. Mr. Juck neither reud nor pluyed thut ufternooii. lie walked from the lihrury to the porch und into the li brary uguln. When Mis. Juck reached home, he had worked himself luto uu unusual state of mind. Hut lie resolved to lie culm ' Hello, deur !" There was uot the lightest hint of guilt lu Mrs. Jack's big blue eyes. "I'm sorry I couldn't get home, but I promised a very deur friend thut I would dine out." "Where did you go?" "To Mauley's." "Oh, u supper for two, eh?" He could not keep the sneer out of his voice, and she looked ut lilm iu wou der. "What's the mutter, dear?" s.ie asked. "Didn't you wuut me to go?" He smiled grimly at her appurent innocence. "You know how I feel about such things' lie uuswered, with a hint of dignity In his tone. "I didn't think you'd cure ut all." She seemed puzzled. "Didn't think I'd cure!" He (lushed uugrlly. "Other people do it." Her tone wus a trllle delimit. "I don't see why I should not?" "Yes," lie suld cynically, "in these modem times n woman may do al most nnytliiiiK. Hut you know how I feel towurd the iium, and I think that you lulitht ut least have said some thing to me uhout It before meeting him." "I don't know what you mean." She looked at him wonderlngly. "There's no use In heating about the bush." He arose. "Perhaps I shouldn't have done It, hut I read u letter of yours which you left on the table." "What letter?" "It wus from Pert Overton, iisklnu you to have supper with him tonight Suddenly Mrs. Juck burst into penis of luughter, tier husband watching her with amazement, finally she checked herself. "You foolish mull," she said. "Did you liiluk lieit Overtoil wrote thai letter?" "Think !" Her luughter angered lilui. "Can't I reud?" "Listen, deur." She placed her hand on his arm. 'Thut letter is from Uu berta Spencer, u college friend of mine. We ulwuys called her Bert, and I haven't seeu her for years, be cuuse as soon us she graduated she weut to Chicago?" "Oh!" Mr. Juck smiled rather shamefacedly, "I'm sorry, dear." He placed his hand over hers. "If you don't mind, we'll get Annie to bring In the supper again. I didn't eat very much a w hile ago." She smiled into his eyes. "Of course." she answered. "It will be a supper for two, after all. ' (Copyright, 19H. by the McClurn Newspa per Syndicate.) A Doctor's Remedy for Coughs Ab a cure for coughs and colds Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey combines these remedies in just the right proportion to do the most good for summer coughs or colds. A trial will prove the value of this splendid cough medicine. Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey soothes the irritation, tops your cough, kills the cold germs, and doea a world of good. A 2,rc. bot tle will more than convince you it will atop your cough. At druggist. JIMMY'S PREPAREDNESS By FANNY GRAY. Jimmy Benton was usher in the Star theutcr. He hud been part wuy through college, und had hud to stop becuuse of the necessity to eurn mora money. The first Job he took had been that of elevator hoy lu u summer ho tel, but when the summer came to nu end. he found he must try to get some thing which would give hliu u few hours off euch iluy for study. A pluy wrlght, who hud been stuylug ut the hotel und hud become Interested lu the umbltlous young mull hud spoken u word tor him lu the Slur thcuter, uud he hud made good In his position, so that ufter two months he hud been promoted to he heud usher. Thus he could study u purt of the time, uud su hasten the day for taking up college work again. There was more thuu one reuson for his application to work and his desire to make something worth while o( himself. Louise Drake, uu attractive and desirable young girl, was watch I nit his right, und he looked forward to the day when he nilcht ask her to marry hlui. For a while the work of usher was Interesting, and listening to the pluys was good fuu. But when a decided success settled down for an Imleflulte run, this becume monotonous. Having an always active bruin, Jimmy cust about for some way to puss the time, One day he discovered thut he hud heurd the star's lines so often thut be could untlclpute almost every speech. This guve 111 in a thought of something further to do. Ho would memorize the purt. It was not very difficult, and, huvlng accomplished It, be turned his atten tion to the purt thut Interested lilui must next to that of the star. It wus thut of a young mull who figured rath er prominently In the play, and was more or less Jimmy's ldeul of young manhood. He became so absorbed in It thut he frequently found himself stuudlng before his glass, iiiuklug the gestures to tit the lines as he had seen the actor do. At the end of the third week. It seemed to lilm he must know the pluy by heiirt. One Suturduy night, the young ac tor, u mull uuiued I.uugdon, was tuken vlulently ill uu hour before the per forniunce. Ills understudy had been allowed u linve of ubsence over Snu- duy, uud hud Just left towu. How could the ilay go on? The men lu the box office, who knew Jimmy und had had mniiy a chat with him about his stunt of learning the different parts, laid a seemingly uhsurd proposition before the uiuuuger und wus criticized for his pubis. Twenty minutes luter, however, the muuugcr, lu desperation, reconsidered und sent for Jimmy. Fur a half hour he heard him suy the lines, and then usked li I lu If he wus ufruld his nerve would give out. Jimmy, Inwardly quaking, said "no." Theii he was hur ried to a dressing room. The clothes titled, und someone cuuie uud "uiude lilm up." The audience begun to assemble, Among them was a girl who scuiined the face of euch usher, evldeutly look tug for one she knew. At lust the hell sounded, the lights slowly grew dim, and the audience set tled Itself for the first act, little know' ing thut behind the scenes u young amateur actor was waiting for bis cue with shaking knees uud fust beutiiig heart. The most thrilling inuuieut of Jimmy's life wus ut hand, and he felt he could not go through with It. Stuge liight hud seized lilm, his couiuge ebbed away, und lie leaned against the scenery for support. The muuugcr, close ut hand, alternately swore uud encouraged. The success of his eve ning wus at stake. The cue cume. Jimmy, more deud than alive, stepped out uu to the sluge. And, behold! With the first word of his part, all embarrassment departed and confidence returned. The curtain fell on the lust act. In the dressing room the muunger Kin sped Jimmy's hand. "He In the of, flee on Monday morning at ten o'clock, und we'll tulk things over. You're to huve the purt till Lungdon gels well, uud by thut time there'll be something else," he said. Too happy and excited to know he was tired. Jimmy washed the greuse pulut off nnd put on his own clothes as lu a dream. As he passed out the sluge door, the paetty girl who had so eugerly watched for someone In the theater seized bis arm. "Jimmy 1 Jim my! I was there all the time 1 Didn't you remember I was coming? I looked for you und looked, und then when you nunc on the stuge Oh, Jimmy, it was great !" It wus great, although It did not lead to college. Tho money earned that season made It possible to heglu the kind of study thut would develop the abilities of a growing young actor. I'p hlll work It wus sometimes, but al ways steady. And when, after several yeurs of hard work, the night came on which Jimmy saw his name emhluz oued In lights above the door of the Ktur theuter, his thoughts went back to thut night In his past when "pre pureduess" hud enabled hliu to seize the opportunity knocking at his door. And the pretty girl who had waited for him at the stage door that event ful night now sat, proud and happy, in the manager's box and applauded her actor husband us he achieved his stardom. She, too, believes In pre paredness. (Copyright, uu, by the McClure Newspa per Syndicate..) Cure For Cholera Morbus. "When our little boy.now seven years old, was a baby he was cured of cholera morbus by Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Dianhrea Remedy," writes Mrs. Sidney Simmons, Fair Haven, N. Y. "Since then other members of my fam ily have used tins valuable medicine for colic and bowel troubles with good satisfaction and I gladly endorse it as a remedy of exceptional merit." Obtainable rvery where. IKE LITTLEST BRIDESMAID By IZOLA FORRESTER. "If Nunc) were only Just a little pit taller, she might do." Murjorie glanced at the youngest member of the Itulelgb family speculatively. "1 do think It wus perfectly lleucllsli of Dell to dlsuppolut me right si the very lust inluute. She knew I never could get tiuulher girl wuy up here lu the moutitulns lu time for the wed ding." "Don't you cure. Marge. -Saucy spoke up generously. "I'll be the res cue party. I can weur your high heeled slippers if I stuff the toes uud I'll do my hulr wuy up high. 1 dou't mliul a hit." Murjorie went down to the veruuila, where her mother sut planning the tlual arrangements for the wedding the next day, uud presently Nancy heard the familiar voice cull her down likewise for close Inspection. "The hUh heels Mould udil to her heltht," Mrs. Kuiidull suld musingly, "and there's a little dress you wore ut the Farley lawn parly. You remem ber, dear, It bus u lace underskirt and the overdress of white mull flowered In pink roses." So It wus arranged, and Nancy trod on air In the seventh heaven while the dress was altered to tit her slim, ulert llgure. The wedding was to be ut ten lu the little Ivy-covered chupel across the winding rond from the Kulelnh estate. Nuncy, us she came downstulrs with the other girls, In tent on her slippers uud new dignity, beard one of the men suyiug thut Andy was late as usuul. And It ineunt nothing ut all to her who Andy was or why he was lute. She almost tripped on the veraudu steps, but caught her bulunce. "You tore the luce." Vera Kennedy whispered the girl Just behind her und Nuncy, taking one backward glunce at the telltale shred dungllng, slipped out of line and made for the sitting room for a pin. It did seem as if every pin hud vanished. "Did you lose something?" Nuncy was oil her knees before the lower desk drawers when the new voice startled her. It must he a be lated guest, she thought, yet a very desirable. He was lull uud athletic and Just dusty uud rumpled enough to look refreshing ufter the groomed perfection of the others. "Huve you a pin?" asked Nancy. "I tore my skirt." "Indeed I huve," he retorted heart ily. "Right here. Can I help the flower girl?" "I'm not the flower girl," Nancy an swered hutightlly. "I am oue of the bridesmaids." "The littlest one," he added grave ly, us she rose with the ruffle pinned safely lu place. "Cuu you run? I've got to, becuuse the ring's lu my pocket und I'm lute." Nancy's blue eyes duueed with sud den mischief. They weut dowu tho steps und the path on u run like chil dren. "You're Andy und you're always late," she suld. "You know, Nuucy." Mrs. Kulelgli suld a few hours later, when it was all over und Murjorie sturted ou the crest of matrimony's tide, "you looked very winsome uud sweet und acted very nicely. 1 was glud you didn't muke yourself conspicuous ut all." "Yes'in." suld Nuncy demurely. And then, oddly enough, she went up to the little hull room, she the last of the Kulelgli duughters, and Just Jumped Into the cushions ou the win dow seat, crying beculise Andy Kin culd hud culled her the littlest brides maid. Tile hulr done high and the slippers and grown-up dress hud not deceived hlui. He hud smiled at her amusedly und hud been nice Just to pleuse her lu her musquerude. Thut mis ull. And yet she wus really go ing nu eighteen. It was nearly dusk when the car stopped outside. Nuucy looked out the window, try ing to distinguish the two llgures. One was surely her father and the other the dilatory Andy. And they came lip the broud veranda steps like a couple of puis together. Nuncy stood In the little room, her heart beating fast like a cuptured bird, listening. Then came her fulher's step on the stairs, and she run to meet hint. "(io down and welcome Andy. Nan," he salt), cheerily. "He's going to spend a neck with us. His dad and I were chums through college. And listen, Nannie," as she sturted down, "I'll tell your mother why he's here myself, see?" Nun caught ut the big, strong hand on the hunnlsters, and pressed It to her Hps, then went softly, shyly down to the big. shadowy living room where lie stood wultliif. "! never ilrenmed you you'd he hock so soon." she faltered. "I couldn't wait for you to grow up. deur. And when Mr. llalelgh uked me there at the station If I wasn't Tnrt Morrison's boy, I knew the trull letl buck to your feet. Su here 1 am." He paused und took her hands In his, nultlng. "I won't hurry you. you know; I won't suy anything nt all until you give me the signal, hut I Just wanted to come hack and look In your eyes and he sure you knew me us I did you." Nancy's voice was almost a whis per, a very hurried but eager whis per. "I did the very minute you gave me the pin. But how soon you earn true." iCupyrifht, ltl, by the McClure Newspa per Syndicate.) Children. Ory FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA A man never complains of poor eyesight because he is unable to see his own faults. Children Ory FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA POLLY'S SOLDIER By ELLIS GRAHAM. 'lio. Illlle uiitlM iiorhu u-uiirv hut wide-eyed, sut silently fanning a wounded soldier. He hud been brought In during the iluy with a shuttered nnu uud u bul let wound lu the kldv and now he tosseit feverish and delirious ou hit tuuttres heil. one of two dozen 'u the ruins of the old mission. The ueut was almost tiulieuruble, not u breulh uf ulr stilling lu that desert region. The little nurse wus thinking us she fanned, uud this was what It was all uhout : II wus cherry time and a girl und a mull were out under the crimsou heurt tree. The girl hud u color lu her cheeks almost as rich us thut of the cherries the young man hud hung over euch of her eurs, und her lips, Juice. stulned, were too tempting to resist. "I love you, Polly!" he declared. Im petuously seizing her In his anus. "Tell tue ull over again." "I love jou, Will I " she dedured hap pily, snuggllug up dose to his breast. "And you'll never, uever forget I Promise!" "I promise!" "And no matter whut anybody ever says, you'll never go back on me. Cross your heurt, Polly !" And Polly solemnly crossed her heart. That evening at dinner Polly's fa ther said : "It looks us though we are going to have war. The mllltlu hus heen ordered out." Poor white Polly hud dropped her fork and the cheeks that had matched the cherries hud gone white as the tablecloth. For Will wus cuptulu la the local Guurd and that meant oh, what? "Are you sure, daddy?" "Yes. Pauline, I'm sorry to say It's true." "What's wrong, Polly?' exclaimed her mother. "Nothing," she answered with dry lips, "except thut I was thinking that some of the hoys we know will nave to go." "I suppose so. Will Fieloing has something to do with It, hasn't he? Why, Fully " For the girl was un able to endure It any longer, had rushed from the table to her room, She knew her pureuts were discussing her behavior und thut her conduct had been us good as a confession, but what of it? She loved Will Fielding and there wasn't any reason why they shouldn't kuow. But, later, her mother came to her and kindly but llruily told her thut she wus too young to full lu love, and. be sides, that ulthough personally she liked Will well enough, the fuuillynus new and she couldn't consent to a daughter of hers uitirryliig Into a fina lly no one knew anything uhout. And so things weut ou for three duys. Then something occurred, some thing dreudful. Polly had Iieer learned the exact truth, for no one would tell her. It was something uhout the dlumoiid ring her mother lost. She had dressed for a purty and gone to the kitchen before leaving to tell Nora about dinner. Finding that her rings Interfered with her gloves, she hud drawn them off and laid them ou the tuhle lu the kitchen. Intending to drop them Into her hag. But she was hnlf way to the car before she re membered them and returned. Noriih, In the meantime, hud taken a basket und gone out for cherries for pies, leuv lug the doors open. That wus all they would tell her, except that when her mother returned the two-carat diamond was gone, and thut night her pureuts made her promise never to see Will ugulii. And on the other hand, the company marched away with never a goodby from Will, nor so much us a salute from hi in us he hud passed. The sick muu moaned und muttered something. "Polly! flood-by. Polly!" he snld. "Wou't you suy goodby? What's the mutter with everybody?" More mut tering and then: "Nobody was at home, Polly. I cut across the back w ay and Duke ran Into the kitchen. I chased him out. and he tore your mother's silk dress. She hates Duke. Poor Duke! Oood-by, Tolly, dear!" "Will," breathed the little nurse softly, "live for my sake. Will. There was some mistake I am sure, and It will come out all right.'" Dawn came swift and hot and a horse galloped near. It was a messen ger with mall. There were letters for Polly, one from home and she opened It eagerly. "Dear little girl," wrote her mother, "I hope you are safe und well and not working too hard. Fa ther and I are so anxious about you," and so on. Then, after other bits of news, "You'll be surprised to hear I found my ring. It wus very queer the way It was lost. We found It stick log to the bottom of the old cherry basket. Nora must have set the basket down on my rings that day and the diamond one caught. It's been In the cellar ever since until today, when she found the ring. Do you ever hear of Will Fielding? We've Inquired about his family, Polly dear, aud flndl the Fleldlugs come of splendid old New ftlngiund stock. If Will comes home safe and sound and my little girl re turns soon, daddy und I won't say a word If you still care for each other. Wasn't that a fearful battle at Tor estos?" and so on. The letter slipped to the floor. "Thank Qodl" whispered the little nurse. (Copyright, un. by the HcOlure Newspa per Syndicate) Your Bowels Should Move Once a Day A free easy movement of the bowels every day is a sign of good health, Pr. King's New Life Pills will give you a gentle laxative effect without griping and free your system of blood poisons, purify your blood, overcome coottipa- tiou and have an excellent tonio effect on the entire system. Makes you feel ike living. Only 25c, at druggists. A Small Amount Deposited Now And Systematically added to, is the only sure way of attaining independence WELDON, N. C. 4 per cent. Interest on Savings Deposits. EAST CAROLINA TEACHERS TRAINING SCHOOL A State school to train teachers H Carolina, livery energy is directed to this one purpose. 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