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NO. 11
Children Cry for Fletcher's
FAITH. . I
All 1 ravelers on the Kiirnl to I :t r- I
nily Must Have I tilth In 1 he !
( I rent I HKliH'rr. 1
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which haa been
la us for over over 30 years, ha.: 1rne the signature ot
and hai been made under his per-
CtLjLJ&Jf-fZ ,onal "Pfvi8lon since its infancy.
yutry. Allow no one t0 deceive you Jn (nlSi
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 years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signatur
jjacan the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
THI CINTAUH COMA
Get The Habit
ECTBuy lor Cash. Save"C3
7the pennies by buy-"C3
ing at
W. T PARKER & CO.,
Wholesale Cash Store"
WELOON. N. C.
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MANIIKACTI'IdSIW OK
Building Material for Modern Homes, Sash, Doors,
Blinds, Mantels, Door and Window Screens
MADE TOOKIlKK AM) HKHl'l.AK H'RR'K SIZES,
flood Materials, High Orade Workmanship Our Slogan.
Weldon, N. C.
THE Dining Room should be a cheerful place.;
for when you eat your meals amid pleasant
surroundings you do much to aid digestion.
And good digestion means health.r
HAVE US FURNISH YOUR
DINING ROOM
The variety of designs In Tables, Chairs, Side
boards, China Closets, Serving Tables and the like,
is ample to satisfy your desires, whatever they
may be, in the matter of style, finish and price.
Come in and talk it over with us. We are as
eager to GIVE satisfaction as you are to receive it
Weldon Furniture Company,
Weldon, N. C.
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Life. Accident and Health. Plate
Glass and Automobiles. Repre
senting leading companies. See me
about your insurance wants.
L. C. DEAFER,
Office in Green Building,
WELDON, N. C.
Pups for Sale !
Five Male Pointer Pups, 6 weeks old, entitled to
registration, beautifully maSed. Price $5 each.
Apply to THIS OFFICE.
Il is hirhl I mil hiring whiilrd j
llili.ui'tl -i,iu' in ;l p.iilor Cdl' nl
llu' I Yiiiim Iviii 1 1 N.iilroiid al
'I'lin'iliiiig like liliv 1 1 1 1 If .hi liuur.
I lir mi is luilliiiiiily bullied. Oui
Milc ;ill is ll,itk. I iln mil klinw
win-re we are, except ihiii iliis train
lite Aihinlic 0 ity Special, bound
lor the nation's capital left Wil
mington about iwcniy minutes ago
and is somewhere between that
place and Baltimore.
Acrn'.s the ui-lc a boy of tender
yt ;iis is climbing up on his
motbetslap, and the mother, with
th it litln in her eves which only
mother-love can inspire, is patting
his curly head. They do not think
of dancer. Neither do I. We
have Faith. Vi e have faith in the
engineer, l ie is a competent man,
or he wouldn't he in charge of this
train with its several hundred hu
man lives. He knows his engine,
knows the roadway, knows all the
possible things that could happen
and is alert to avoid them. So we,
knowing his hand is on the throttle
take il easy and think of things far
removed from railway wrecks.
It seems to me that there is a
lesson in this for you and for me,
for every young man and every
young woman in bussiness the
lesson of Faith. It is not given to
us to see very far into the future.
For my part, 1 don't want to know
what is going 10 happen to me
next week or next year. I am sat
isfied to keep plugging along do
ing my little job from day to day
as best I can and trusting my fate
to Ihe Great Fngineer whose hand
is on the throttle of your life and
mine and the lives of countless
other thousands.
The business man who has faith
is not very likely to go wrong, He is
going to conduct his business on a
four-square basis; he is going to
he upt ight in his dealings with his
fellownien; he is going lo steer his
ship of commerce through the
troubled waters of misfortune.per
haps even adversity, with a seren
ity born of ihe consciousness that
nothing can harm him permanent
ly so long as he sees clearly and
acts wisely. There will be many
eager to retard his progress. Slan
der will raise its nasty head from
many little by ways along his path.
Ill health may come; the loss of
loved ones; the crippling of his
finances; the striking down of his
most cherished hopes; and yet
And yet the man who has Faith
who believes thai right is right
and will triumph; who sticks to his
principles and his ideals through
the thunder of misunderstanding
crash above him and the lightning
of malice blind him now and then
mat man will win all that is
worth while in life. This I know.
I have seen it in other lives. It is
working out in mine. We who
were on that train in the night had
faith in the engineer, and we ar
rived at our destinations safely.
We whu are all travelers on the
greater and longer journey toward
Eternity must have faith in the
Great Engineer. We must know
that if we do our part, we shall ar
rive at the end of the road with
shining eyes and happy hearts.
Jerome P. Fleishman in the Balti
more Sun.
NOT WITHOUT PRECEDENT.
An illiterate preacher who pro
fessed to despise education, re
marked during a conversation with
an educated clergyman:
"I a thankful that the Lord has
opened my mouth to preach with
out learning."
"A similar event occurred in
Balaam's time," was the quiet re
tort. IN TENSE.
MrH. (loodn I iimlerHtanil
the future MrH. (Jay boy has a
past.
Mrs. Betthar Then she doea
n t get a present from me.
PRESENT STYLE.
I always call a spade spade.
Well, just now, it's not what
you're calling one, but if you're
using one that matters.
IMPROVE THE SETTINQ.
Howell How can a man get
his wife in a pleasant frame of
mind?
Powell Just see that the frame
is gilded.
Packers' Profits
Large or Small
Packers' profits look big
when the Federal Trade
Commission reports that four
of them earned $140,000,000
during the three war years.
Packers' profits look small
When it is explained that
this profit was earned on
total sales of over four and
a half billion dollarsor
only about three cent on
each dollar of sales.
This is the relation between profits
and sales:
Profiu
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p
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If no packer profits had been
earned, you could have bought
your meat at only a fraction of
a cent per pound cheaper?
Packers' profits on meats and
animal products have been lim
ited by the Food Administration,
since November 1, 1917.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
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OVER THERE,
There's a little white cross on a little green hill
In a land that I never have seen;
The country around it is peaceful and still,
The landscape is soft and serene.
You never could tell that the brook in the glen
Which babbles and purls on its w;iy
Ran red with the blood of the army of men
Sleeping under the crosses today.
There's a little . white cross, but it is not alone,
There are thousands its vigil to share;
No monument high and no rich carven stone
Marks the graves of the boys "over there."
But the bright, cheerful sun through the dancing leaves peeps
And lovingly touches the sward,
Caressing the spot where my soldier boy sleeps,
With the little white cross keeping guard.
Oh, those crosses of white, what a tale they unfold
Of homes that are lonely and bleak !
Not half of the story will ever be told
But if the while crosses could speak
They would shout to the sky not a paean of who,
But a song of triumphant refrain
From the million brave hearts who had courage to go,
And whose lives were not offered in vain !
The little white crosses are everywhere set
In a land that is smiling and fair;
And the people who love it will never forget
To mention them often in prayer.
Our hearts may be empty and ready to break,
But they stand in a God given light
Our loved ones, who died for Humanity's sake,
Sleeping under their crosses of white.
WHERE THE CRIME Ol'ClRRED.
Court Decided I hnl Heaven Hud
No Particular Ni hil Inn to the
Case on Trial.
Kvi'll I'l'llloll' 1'iiliu i lm. i-itl Ii IIIH
to tln l 1 1 1 1 si iv How nl I'H'il !
; oratory, willVri-.l u wvi-ri- j"lt
i" llu' i ks iii tlir liihtrii't of
Coliilnliiii Siiiii'iiii' ( 'mill liuild
in, w hen u ivrlnin ilin k nk in
ni'il I'liiiiliiliir i f )i'inisllii'iii'it
ili'livel'i'il one of his s c 1 1-
i'H to it jury, ifhiti a the Wash
ington TimcH.
Hi; it uiidi'i'stiinil in passing
Hint, this Afro-Aiiicriciin inrm
bcr of tho clislriet liar is known
to linvt! lliivr net ailili'i'Nsi'H.cai'h
f which he apices to rid him
self of for the acquittal nf his:
client for a stipulated price.!
Now the j'i.'i type nf oratory is 1
his best, the oilier two licint; of
the .lo and .l.'i species. It wad
Hie highest priced address thai,
was beiiiK delis eicd on the oc
casion in question.
John loe, nei;ro, as charged
w ith stabbing "a fren'." The
evidence waB all taken and it
behooved the Ethiopian De
mosthenes, represuntint; John,
to iniprcsH not only John, hut
numerous others in tlin court
room, who, to use legal termi
nology, might lie placed in the
category of "prospective cli
ents." "When man took Father
Time by the forelock anil start
ed to meander with him dow
the halls of eternity," vocifer
ous began the negro attorney.
You could have heard a pin
d tup.
And then without further
mention of the evidttnee against
his client the derspiring orator
soured into the highest realms
and started adissertation uneut
the angels and urkangels. Old
er habitues of the court real
ized that the defendant at the
bar had paid a $-.' feu to Ilia
counsel and anticipated a half
hour of irrelvant epigrams and
verbiage. But not so with the
court.
"Leave heaven and get back
to Anacostia," the court lacon
ically suggested. ''There's
wheru this crime happened."
Now every one is wondering
whether the Vo address is be
ing revised.
CORRECTING FAMILY SPEECH
WfiY SpEfo LL You Efi?
You might get sick or hurt- he prepared for it
You might want to make an investment start
now, "Takes money to make money," you know
You might he visited hv thieves or firv-an account
with us prevents loss. The saving habit is a mighty
good one lo get into. We pav 4 per cent on Sav
ings Ai'tiiiiuls
9 THE BANK OF HALIFAX
HALIFAX 1ST. C.
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OLD FASHIONED FOLKS
All grown-up folks have greaily changed
In almost every way;
They do not seem to do the things
They did in grandma's day,
U'hen quiltinc bees and sincing schools
Were quite the style, she says;
But all those things she tells about
Sounds very strange these days.
But children never change a bit;
They're iust the same, you know
As Utile children used to be
A hundred years ago;
They like to play the same old games
Like ball and blind man's buff;
Of dolls and hoops and jumping ropes
They've never had enough.
They love to play at keeping house;
And if you watch, you'll see
That rinp iround-a-rosy is
As new us new can be.
And so, while other folk have changed
In almost every way,
They're the only real old-fashioned folks-
In all the world to-day.
Capital aad kphs, $60,000.
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A Cleveland man who makes a
practice of choosing his words wiih
care, a practice which he has en
deavored to instil into ihe family
circle, made a memorandum of
the misused words uttered by his
son and daughter during a recent
breakfast. Here is ihe result :
"lilegant," nineteen times.
"Awful," eleven limes.
"Dandy," six times.
'Tierce," four limes.
"Great," two times.
When the meal was over, the
head of the household called the
family around him in the library,
and gravely read the totals to them.
"(lee, that's tierce!" said the
an.
"Isn't it awful?" said the daugh-
CLOTHES DON'T MAKE A
WISE AND OTHERWISE.
Platitudes are useful in conver
sation. I hey give one sucn an air
of respectable dullness.
It takes the moon two weeks to
get full and two more weeks to get
over it. Men are different.
When a eirl is eneaeed 10 be
married she is sorry for all the
young men who missed their
chance.
There are two periods in a man's
life he doesn't understand a wo
man. One is before marriage and
the oilier after.
Too many people spend their
time condemning the conduct of
others instead of spending it in im
proving their own.
If sealskin sacks could be pluck
ed from trees the average husband
would have to squander his coin
on other things to match.
It is easier for a married man to
say that he is free from worry than
it is for him to prove it to the satis
faction of married men.
MAN BUT THEY HELP.
THAT Is, they help him in business as well as
social life, by giving him a properous, well
groomed appearance,
Men who dress in good taste say they like to
buy here because of the excellent assortment to
choose from. Everything in the store is carefully
selected by experts and quality is the first consid.
eration.
In men's hosiery for Instance, we sell the reliable
Interwovan socks "The Hosiery of a Gentleman."
All fashionable colors; all weight-; in Silk, Lisle!
Cashmere and Cotton at
40c. 50c. 75c. Per Pair
FARBER & JOSEPHSON,
Mens and Boys Outfitters
WELDON. N. C.
COTTON G1NS&PRESS FOR SALE
EXPLAINED.
Bragg says his house is well
supplied with hot air.
I don't doubt it. I've heard him
talk in it.
The undersigned offers for sale one 70-saw Van
Winkle gin, feeder and condenser, four years old,
One oO-saw Eagle gin, feeder and condenser, five
years old. One Beasiey Single box down packing
press, five years old. This machinery is In good
condition and bargain prices will be made on the
entire lot or on separate portions. Write or come
to see me at once.
M. E. MARTIN,
Rural Route No 2, TI1ELMA, N C.
jv 4 41
EAST CAROLINA
TEACHERS TRAINING SCHOOL
A State school to train teachers lor the public schools ol North
Carolina. Every energy Is directed to this one purpose. Tuition
F-'ree to all who agree to teach. Fall Term begins SEPTEMBER 25.
1918. For catalogue and other Information, address
ROBERT H. WRIGHT, President,
6 20 lm GREENVILLE, N. C.