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NO. I
Children Cry for Fletcher's
The Kind You Have Always Bou,:' (, and which hai 6eea
a usa tor over over 30 yeuis, h. . j;irne the eiipiature of
aud has b,x:i mude under his per-
annul supervision since Its infancy.
-Ct Allow nn one tn Areriv unii in (hie
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
c What is CASTOR I A
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
age is its guarantee. For more than thirty y arn it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, latulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishr.fi . arising;
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and HMvels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and aa'-iifui sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signatu
Hears the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
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A SavinfTft Department in iniiintuiiu'd for tlie benefit of nil who denire
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followa:
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handling of baggage and freight by experienced
drivers. For dray service call Ben Rodwell Phone
No. 323.
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WELDON, N C,
CRIMINAL RECORD OF THE STATE, i
A POEM OP CORN MEAL
Report of the Attorney General
For the Period from 1914 to
IU16.
In ihe repon of the Attorney
General for the period from 1914
to 1916, u complete statistical rec
ord of crimes is given in the State.
Thetc were 19,459 cases disposed
of. Male defendants numbered
1 8, 0(j I, while females numbered
1 ,M)H. Convictions were secured
were secured in 13,177 cases,
while acquittals fell in 2,815; nolle
pros in 2,543. There were 924
disposed of in other ways. Of the
entire list of defendants 9,405 were
white, 10,005 colored, and 490
Indians.
In the Supreme Court itself
there were 1 1 U criminal appeals,
sixty of which were affirmed, 27
reversed or given new 'trials, 24
appeals dismissed, I appeal aban
doned, I advisari, I appeal abated
on account of defendant's death, 1
appeal continued.
In the biennial period, the report
records 1 9 murders in the first
degree, 344 murders in the second
degree, 88 cases of manslaughter,
44 cases of rape, 99 cases of as
sault with intent, 31 cases of arson,
I case of burglary in the first de
gree, I J J cases ot burglary in tne
second degree, 253 cases of for
gery, 2,620 cases of larceny, and
1 5,839 cases of miscellaneous
crimes and misdemeanors.
THE FAILURE.
The $100,000,000 distributed
in Ik to workers at the year's
end ly the employers of Aiiitir
ii'st IimI (ii'urtji' W. Perkins to
say at a dinner in New York :
"It is impossible to miss suc
cess in America, it's impossi
ble tn fail in this rich land, un
less, indeed, you've Kot the
spirit of the Taint Kock store
keeper. ''The keeper of the Paint
Knek store was playing check
ers, and chewing tobacco be
side the blazing stove in the
bark room, when a man came,
in and said:
"There's two customers in
thur wuitin', Si.'
"S sh,' said Storekeeper Si,
in a whisper, 'keep quiet and
they'll go away again.'"
Washington Star.
Tt'eie's j sight of joy in living in tins li ippy land uf in:n,
Where the days are hoi with sunshine imU the woods aie full of (lowers,
Where ihe rosy cheeks nf children and the glow of youth reveal
Th'- full, unfettered iiicrtis of the sweet, delicious menl !
Then hearken ye back to ihe wholesome hoe cake,
The pone and the muffins that mother would make!
At breakfast in the tiiuniinu it would -ii;;liieii the way.
And lighten the load of a w earisome day.
At noon it would come in its charm and content,
And at evening bring dreams of hours well ' pent --
Then bring to your mind in a stream of delight,
The corn cakes and dodgers and muffins, tonight !
You can dilate on biscuit, and on batter cakes and rolls,
And bring along the other breads to take their meager tolls,
You can whoop 'em up for wheaicakes, till you make the language reel,
But we're partial to the products of the sw eet, delicious meal !
There comes in a thought wiih happiness spread
Of the dear and delightful old crackerling bread !
If ihe ill and dyspeptic are looking for aid
From the terrors that custom and habit have made,
May they hearken them back for their welfare and weal
To the health and contentment afforded by meal
And so doth my heart and my appetite steal
To the peace and the pleasure and comforts of meal !
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WHY NOT?
UNFAIR.
The employer of a Polish ser
vant maid who has learned to
speak English was telling her
experience with tho telephone.
After its use was explained to
her she was eager to answer
every call. One day a ring
came anil she jumped to the
instrument.
Hello!" came from the ro
coiver.
'Hello!" answered the girl,
flushed with pride at being able
to give the proper answer,
'Who is this t'ontiiiiiud the
voice.
'I tlon't know !" exclaimed
the maid. "1 can't see you."
I'hilatlelphia Ledger
Our idea of a mean woman is
one who refuses to pay the doctor
after he has converted the late la-
mented's insurance policy into
ready money.
AH OPERATION
AVERTED
Philadelphia, Pa. "On year lira I
in very lick and 1 lufTered with paina
in my suit mid back
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until 1 rVarly went
.Tiny, l wm ui
tlitt'ereiit UoeUiratitl
it., y all iiud 1 had
iVinalf trouble Mid
viuulil not get any
ri'lief until 1 would
lu. tinprulwl lit,. I
' rt nerora una
Vi- Ntinix l,ut I Lent art.
tiiiK worse the more
medicine I took. Every month aince I
via a young girl 1 had Buffered with
crampa In my aides at period! and waa
sever regular. 1 aaw your advertise
ment in the newspaper and the picture
of a woman who had been suved from
an operation and this picture waa Im
preaaed on my mind. The doctor had
given me only two more days to make
up my mind ao I sent my husband to the
drug store at onco for a bottle of Lydia
E Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound, and
believe me, I soon noticed a change and
when I had linished the third bottle I
was cured and never felt better. 1 grant
you the privilege to publish my letter
and im only too glad to let other women
know of my cure. " M rs. Taos. McCon
JQal., 8432 Uartville Street, Phil., Pa,
If a female duke is a dutchess,
Would a female spook be a spuchess
And if a male goose is a gander,
Then would a male moose be a mander ?
If the plural of child is children,
Would the plural of wild be wildren ?
If a number of cows are cattle,
Would a number of bows be battle ?
If a man who writes plays is a playwright,
Would a man who makes hay be a haywright ?
If a person who fails is a failure,
Would a person who quails he a quailure?
If the apple you bite is bitten,
Would the battle you fight be fiteen ?
And if a young cat is a kitten,
Then would a young rat be a ritten ?
If a person who spends is a spendthrift,
Would a person who lends be a lendthrift ?
If drinking too much makes a drunkard,
Would thinking too much make a ihunkard ?
But why pile on the confusion ?
Still I'd like to ask in conclusion :
If a chap from New York's a New Yorker,
Would a fellow from Cork be a corker?
LIKE ANNIE LAURIE,
"Those We First Love We Seldom Wed."
Bayard Taylor said that Annie Laurie lived because every man at
some time time in his life had known his own Annie Laurie. Her
voice might not have been like the wind . in summer sighing, and her
eye might have been a different color than Douglas gave the original,
but the Bonnie Annie Laurie the story of a heart- has lived and will
forever live. As Duvall Porter, the poei of cascade, Virginia, recently
sung :
The whole worhl love a Invel.
And that's the rcasun why
The unmet of Annie Laurie
And I louglaN cannot die.
And so it was with that beautiful old poem, written by Thomas Dunn
English, entitled "Ben Bolt. The story he wrote about Ben Boll
was along the lines of "Twenty Years Ago," which started out :
" wandered to the village. Turn
And aat beneath the tree," ele.
The siory of Ben Bolt took up a dozen different scenes of twenty
years ago Appleton's mill, log cabins, school houses and hills and
brooks but where is the man who remembers anything about that
poem, set to musie and sung by a million men, hummed by ihe gray
beards and recited by fervent youth, except the first verse, which had
to do with Sweet Alice who lies under a stone? That first verse :
Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Boll,
Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown,
Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile
And trembled with tear at your frown?
In the old churchyard in the valley, Ben Bolt,
In a comer obscure and alone.
They have lined a slab of the griiniie so gray,
And sweet Alice lies under the stone
Has the Annie Laurie thrill. Every man, almost, we dare say, for
those "we first love we seldom wed, you know," had an experience
with some Alice whose hair was so brown, and he recalls her fair im
age, sees ner in ms imnu s eye as uc nums uic oiu iovc tune, ana
that is why such poems, standing alone without strength to bring back
lo the mind the early scenes, would die and be forgotten in a season.
But because they tell the story of a human heart, because they kindle
anew lires which smoulder but which can never die, they become well
remembered stories and will live as long as primed pages are preserved.
rnr.ui.n or Tim srncins.
The little boy was evidently a
firm believer in ihe old adage, "Of
two evils choose the lesser." Turn
ing a corner at full speed, he colli
ded with the minister.
"Where are you running to, my
little man?" asked the minister,
when he had regained his breath.
' Home!" panted ihe boy. "Ma's
going to spank tne."'
"What!" gasped the astonished
minister. "Are you eager to have
your mother spank you that you
run home so fast?"
"No!" shouted the boy over
his shoulder as he resumed his
homeward flight, 'but if 1 don'i
get there before pa gets home he'll
do it !"
for Your Child's Ctugh
Here's a pleuiiuut cough syruu that
vei v child liken to lake, In. IMU I'uie
Tar llouey. II" your child has a deep
hacking eoiufh thai worries you ifivc
him In. llcH'i I'me-Tai-Hoiiey, the
Hoothiotr pine haKams relieve the cough
lotwcn ihe phleirm aud heals the irri
tated tiNNueH. net a bottle today at
your druiofist and start treatment at
once '.'."e.
Mb KNEW.
Willie Willis "What are
pieces of artillery, pa ?"
Pupa Willis "I think they
must he the kind that the girl
next door plays on the piano.
Children Ory
FOR FLETCHER'S .
CASTORIA
OF NORWEGIAN COD LIVER OIL
which is nature's easily-assimilated food, to increase
your red corpuscles and charge the blood with life
sustaining richness. Scott's creates warmth to throw
off colds and gives resistance to prevent sickness.
No Alcohol in SCOTT'S. Every Druggut hat it
rOT: BOWNF, BloumT,.id,N.J. ,.
iflur umin Aim! nsiMT
imiid luun mm mmi
with LA. M SEMI-PASTE PAINT and
fV-, your L!r,seed 0il-
inn power. The L & M PAINT is so
positively Rood that it is known as the
"Master Paint."
Whereas the best of other high grade
paints cost you $2.75 a gallon, our L & M
Paint mtide readv-for-use will cos:
MadtLattwulartM you onjy 32.OO a gallon.
oi Sale by VOU SAVE 75c. A CALLON ON IVIIY CALLOW
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THERE'S HOPE IN TtlK j By QUR BLQQD W
circulation is probably at fault and you need
A Olltltlei't leilt MI'tiil'IKII'illll ;
Ikik worked for lil'iy vcaii on
mi i n v ci 1 1 ic ui . uml ha- 1 1 1 ; 1 1 1 i
linile tlnili three hundred iru.l. i
els, each id' whieh was iiiisni -;
eessflil ext epl the lust mie He i
hiM sulci his invention fur a lo ,
fortune.
"Many times I was ilisheart
eneil ami was aluiul tn sina-h
my models anil (rive up " In
says: "hut then I Ihuuylit that
if I kept on trying 1 hail u
ehaneo to win, while if 1 tpiit
there were no chance at all.
At last, by ticcitlent, 1 hit upon
the sr-eref."
l'.v areiilrni :- Isn't il id
man in error here!'
All. inspii at ions. ami
meehanical 'secrets pome we
know not how or whence, hut
they pome only to the mind
that is prepared.
Ideas are opportunities only
to the mind that can grasp
them anil turn them to use.
It took fifty years of study
and ex-periinent on Ihe part of
this man to fit him to compre
hend a certain mechanical
principle. There wan no acci
dent about it.
The real basis of his mictvus
was his persistency. A million
men would have (jiven up in
failure, He realized that his
only chance of winning lay in
continued trying, and he, the
one man in a million, kept on.
The million men who would
have quit would say it was
"luck" with him. Hut there
was no "luck" except that
which is the natural fruit of
persistent effort to conqiierdif
Mciilties. The history of every success
ful man reads much the samo.
Whatever his work, he muster
ed it, and grateful nature
yielded into his capable hands
her secrets jealously guarded
from the unworthy.
The keynote to most failures
is that detestable phrase, "I
can't." V n n w out lind
a trump or loafer anywhere
who will not tell you that he
has found out there is no use in
trying. "Luck" is against
him. he says; and so it is: luck
is against any man who sees
no use in trying.
We may think we have failed
so often that il is impossible
for us to succeed. It's non
sense. There is no failure ex
cept for the man w hose spirit is
undaunted.
The old man who tried for
fifty years and failed more than
three hundred times might have
missed u lot of "failure" by
giving up. So he would have
missed success.
He might have given up in a
year, as some nf us do; or in a
month, as nunc of ui' do; or in
a day, as most uf us do: aud
consoled himself in failure with
tho belief that he had done his
best. He too. then would have
been "unlucky" and dragged
out his life in disappointment
and pessimism.
There is no doubt it was a
great principle he adopted: as
long us one keeps on trying
there is chance of success;when
one quits trying tlieres no
chance at all. It is a good
principle for any hoy. It will
tit itself to any life. Ex.
K have on sale in our salesroom now the
largest stock of Automobile Tires ever shown
" in Weldon. Three of the best makes on the
American market. Tires that will give you more
miles fur your money than any other make. Our
tires are guaranteed by the manufacturers on
mileage basis of 3500 to 5000 miles.
II have in stock almost anv size or style
W Plain Tread, USCO Tread, Chain, Nobby and
Silvertown Cord Tread. The market is un
settled now, and Tires may advance at any time,
buy now, save money, get the riIit tires at the
right prices. Also carry in stock a full line of all
Automobile supplies and accessories.
Batchelor Bros.
Muscle Soreness Relieved
nusual work, beit'lintf and liftiag or
Rtn-ntiouH excrriMi i a Htraiu on tlte
mim'li1, they become no re uml ftlitf,
you nrt1 crippled aud iu pain. Sloan's
Liniment bntiRH yon quick relief, Piny
to apply, it penetrates without rubbing
anl drives out the no re tie nn A ctfar
liquid, eleauei than muHsy planters or
ointments, it doeH not main the Hkin
or elotr the pore. AlwayH liaveahottle
handy for the pain adieu of rheumatism
trout, lumbairo, snppe, I utiles, "tiir
otHs, backache anil ail external iid.
At your drumt, 'i')C.
Chalmers and
Chevrolet Automobiles
Oldest Oarage
In Weldon
Republic
Trucks
I INVITATION.!
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BWK OF EfiFltLQ,
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ment Compounded Quarterly.;
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When a homely girl has her pic
ture taken she acts as il she con
sidered the artist responsible for
her looks.
k Will Be Entirely Satisfied
Whooping Cough
One of the most auccesHful prepara
tiona in iae for thia (lineage in Chamber
lam a Couifh Kemo.ly. 8. W. McClin
too, Dlandon Springs, Ala , writes, "Our
baby had whooping eouith an bad as
moat any baby could have it. I gare
him Chamberlain' Cough KemeUy and
it aoon got him well." .
Obtainable everywhere.
With your SPRING Suit if you let us take your
order for it, and dress the "STROUSE WAY." We
know how to incorporate your ideas. Strouse &
Bros., custom tailors, whose line we show are
past masters at the High Art of Styling and Tai
loring, If you want the best, if Style, Price and
Fit appeal to you, come to us by all means.
FARBER & JOSEPHSQJ,, .
MEN'S AND BOYS' OUTFITTERS. I
WELDON.; N. C.
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