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VOL. LIII.
WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMI.HK .". 1!HS.
no. ::o
"NOW ! LAY HE,55
AN OLD VIEWPOINT.
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Children Cry
The Kind You Haw Alwayi Bought, and which has been
In hm fur over over 30 years, ha: l..rne the siijnature of
- nd has becu made under his per-
fSljCttrffrtA, ,onal P"visiun since its Infancy.
VbYVX iACA4K &low no one t0 deceiye you )n )hB
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-ns-g"ni " are bi;t
Bxperlmeott that trifle with and endanger the health ul
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
, c What is CASTORIA
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
keen 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.
Tho Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Get The Habit
C5Buy for Cash. Save'Cj
E3the pennies by buy-'Cj
ing at
W. T. PARKER & CO,
Wholesale Cash Store
WI-XOON, N. c.
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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.'
HAVE US FURNISH YOUR
DINING ROOM
The variety of designs in Tables, Chairs, Side
board, 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.
Woldon Furniture Company,
Weldon, N. C.
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a specialty. When you need First
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OARAGE,
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for Fletcher's
Signature of
& SONS
WELDON,
N. C,
MOTHER IS GONE.
Lite is ISImik; Wife, My Love, My
I lie. Has l eft Me.
While living is ihe lime Id be
slow your love. Don'i wait uniil
Ihe loving heart lins ceased us
b Miini; ami ilie lired feel lire siill
to ifll ilu'in yon love them . What
can they know of your words-of
love, and praise, tears and grief ?
(iive me all ihe love you have for
me while I'm living; il will help us
lu hear the weary burdens thai
come so thick and fast. In ihe
home more especially is this true.
The poor lired wife is the pack
horse. Without one loving word,
she mils day hy day, raises (he lit
tle children, cares for the sick, un
til it seems as it the delicate form
could bear no more. Never comes
a word of praise for irying lo do
her hesi: Yel ihere comes a day
when the feet go no more in ihe
home, the voice is still, ihere is a
deep solemnity all over the place.
Something is gone. What is il?
I might say your packhorse yet
I'll use ihe name thai should be
sweetest, "Darling Mother" has
gone. Life is blank; wife, my
love, my life, has left me! Ah,
ine! home will never be what it
lias been; mother and wife has left
us! If you could only say also, "I
never gave her anything but loving
words of praise, encouragement. I
lifted every burden I could from
her slight shoulders." Instead
you generally howl with grief be
cause your wife has gone, and
ihere is no one lo pack all the hard
work on, or scold for everyone's
faults.
COULD ANYTHING BE SIMPLER.
Yet Probably Many Who Have
Suddenly Dismounted prom a
Mule Never Saw Things That
Way.
A young soldier was walching
the efforts of his fellow privates to
ride a refraolory mule. Not one
of them could stay on its back for
two seconds.
At last the looker-on approached
and drawled:
"I say, let me show you how it's
done."
"Come on, then," said ihe sol
diers. The youth sidled up to ihe mule,
swung himself on the animal's
back, wrapped his legs beneath iis
body and look a firm hold on ihe
reins. The mule made a slighl
effort to dislodge him, bui the man,
stuck. Another slightly more
strenuous effort by the mule also
failed. Then, laying his ears back,
and taking a deep breath, the mule
shot his heels into the air at an
angle of 65 degrees, and ihe young
man was propelled lo the ground.
He slowly arose to his feet,
screwed his face into a smile and
said :
"Now, that's the way, boys!
When you see he's goin' to fling
you, jusl gel off."
NO DOUBT OF IT.
"Are you engaged in war work?"
asked the sweei young thing of
the man with ihe underslung spec
tacles and ihe coarse voice and
features.
"Yes, I am a divorce lawyer,"
answered the man, with a sigh."
THAI liiiiiiU J:,
WOMAN'S LIFL
Mrs. Godden Tells How It
May be Pasted in Safety
and Comfort
Fremont, O. "I iu puling through
the critical period of life, being furiy-
.8IX yfluivi ugi' mi l
nail all tn nynip
Umlnclclmtt("! 1
(hangs heat tie.
ni-TVouaniiaa. l
waainaffpnirBlr'.i.
down condition, i
it waa hard for '
to do my w,
LydiaE. Pii.Mi.,:,.
Vegetable iv
pound waa roc:-i
mtandod to mo r ' ;
beat remedy ( i
troublee. wbita
aurelv Droved to be.
1 teal better and
atronirer in every way ainra taking it,
and the annoying symptoms have disap
peared. Mrs. H. UODUKM, WO HI'
DoleonSt. Fremont, Ohio.
Such annovine svmntona aa heat
flaahei, nervousnsas, backache, head
ache, irritability and "the blues," '- ay
be speedily overcome and the sv i in
restored to normal conaiuona ny : .1
t nmoua root and herb remedy Lydii
Pinkham'e Vegetable Compound.
If any complications preaent thei:
aelvea write the Pinkham Medicine Co.
Lynn, Mm., for auggesttona how to
ovarcoma them. The result of forty
years experience is at your service end
your teller utta m einci couuueuev.
mmmmmm
"When ihe wounded in the hospitals come lo die, " says a British
officer, "iheir last request in ihe great number of cases is for ihe pray
er, 'Now I Lay Me l)own lo Sleep.' "
When my sun of life is low,
When the dewy shadows creep,
Say for me before I go,
"Now I lay me down to sleep."
I am ul ihe journey's end,
I have sown and I must reap,
There are no more ways lo mend
"Now I lay me down lo sleep.
Nothing more to doubt or dare,
Nothing more to give or keep
Say forme the children's prayer,
"Now I lay me down lo sleep."
Who has learned along the way,
Primrose path or siormy steep
More of wisdom lhan lo say,
"Now I lay me down to sleep"?
What word have you more to tell
When the shadows round me creep
All is over, all is well,
"Now I lay me down 10 sleep."
PAYING,
We pay for the glory of days of sun
With ages of tempest and tears and loss;
We pay for the hill when the summit is won
With the weight we have borne when we bore (he cross;
We pay for our leisure and laughter and song
With the days of worry, the nights of care;
We pay for our shining, our weakness and wrong,
With the agony of a life of prayer.
We pay for our sin and our lust and vice
With moments of shadow and darkening dread;
We pay, we pay such an awful price
With the thorns and the rocks in the path we tread,
When we seek to adventure beyond the bound
Of the living truth of the inborn law
Ah, we pay every inch of the sin-strewn ground
When the halters of evil around us dawn !
We pay for the rose of the springtime sweei
With the ice and the snow of the winter's reign;
We pay for the dancing of lewd, wild feet,
With ages of aching and horror and pain;
We pay for it all such a price in the end
But the race goes on, and the game is played,
And only ai last have we love for a friend
When as men in a world of men we've paid I
WOULDN'T BELIEVE WE.
A party of sportsmen had been
oul all day big game hunting and
as they rested after their days la
bors they spun yarns.
'Last lime I was out here on
(his game," said (he quiet man, 'I
mei a magnificent lion almost face
10 face. With a terrible roar the
beast sprang at me, but just missed
his aim by jumping two feet too
high. Disappointed, il dashed
away into the woods. The next
day we set out to track the beasi
down and at last came upon it in
an open space in the jungle er
practicing low jumps'
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Self-possession
with the lawyer.
is mne-poinis
Children Ory
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
THE TRUTH AT LAST.
"My dear, you know there is
nothing I hate more than a domes
tic scene."
"Well, then, John Henry Dub
waite, why do you conduct your
self in a way lhat forces me 10 cre
ate domestic scene ?
"Whal have I done?"
"Nothing, that's just it. You've
said, 'Yes, my dear,' to me so
many times I'm sick and tired of
hearing it. Why don't you lose
your temper occasionally ? Throw
tilings around, slam ihe door, kick
the cat! Threaten to choke me!
For once in your life dosomeihing
to convince me that I'm married
10 a red-blooded man and not a
spineless jellyfish." Birmingham
Age-Herald.
A WIFE, INDEED.
A man who hud looked on the
' winp wlun it. uinu r..l u ,ri.n.t
deal too often was induced to
sign the pledge the other day
His wife was delighted.
ou mtiat let me have it !"
hub cooeu, taking tne precious
document. "I will keep it for
you !"
On the noxt day the man was
driuking as freely aa before.
How i8thi8?"asked a friond
"You signed the pledge yester
day und now you are drinking
again."
"It's all right," replied the
pledge signer in unsteady tones,
I don't have to keep that
pledge. My wife says she'll
keep it for me. Hooray!"
London Answers.
Children Ory
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
WISE GUY.
Hello I Dr. Bunyan? Yes?
Come right away. My husband
has another one of his spells."
Why didn t you send lor me
sooner?" said the doctor, half an
hour later. "You should not have
waited till your husband was un
conscious."
well, replied the wite, as
long as he had his senses he would
not let me send tor you
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
the
ttsjoatura of
Music Makes People As u Rule
l.a AbidliiK
Does lllllHic keep pcoplr out
of juily It lias ciflni Iiim'ii said
iu print Hint iniisii' wiih Knmlit
into tin' world In uplift anil
lii'iililify mil' 1 1 1 1 1 ) 1 ' ) r-1 1 J 1 1 inrchali
icnl lives. A public hcIioiiI 1 1-i 1 s -cipltl
regrets tlint his tciiehci'H
arc giving only one and half
lioiiiH a week In the Htmh of
music, llo regrets this lie.
nuiHo he Hiiys through music
ami its educational value young
people become hotter citizens,
more useful members of society
und more ellioient members of
the State.
Hut now a man comes for
ward unci submits ligures to
show that musicians give the
jails a wide berth. Out of some
where about 15,U00 profession
al musicians in the- I'niled
Slates it is said there are only
1.1 in the nine largest peniten
tiaries throughout the Repub
lic. This makes a good show
ing when the corresponding
figures are considered :t!i out
of only 57,000 bankers iu these
penitentiaries; :W out of 1 15,000
lawyers; 22 out of 150,000 phy
siciaiiB, and six out of ;j5,oou
puinters or artists. It begins
to look as if music keeps you
out of jail or at least helps to.
Philadelphia Record.
N Haolfh P
Health
About
Gone
s
I
Many thousand1! ol
women sulfering irom
womanly trouble, have
been benefited by the use
ol Cardul, the woman's
tonic, according to letters
we receive, similar to this
one from Mrs. Z.V.Spell,
ofHayne, N.C. "I could
not stand on my teet, and
Just sulfered terribly,"
the says. "As my suf
fering was so great, and
he had tried other reme
dies, Dr. had us
get Cardul. . . I began
Improving, and It cured
me. i know, and my
doctor knows, what Car
dul did lor me, lor my
nerves and health were
about gone."
TAKE
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The Woman's Tonic
1
She writes further: 'T
lm In splendid health . . .
can do my work. 1 feel I
owe it to Cardul, for I was
In dreadful condition."
If you are nervous, run
down and weak, or suffer
from headache, backache,
etc., every month, try
Si h
Cardul. Thousands
women praise this medi
cine lor the good It
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done them, and m
physicians who have used
Cardul successfully with
their women patients, for
years, endorse this medi
cine. Think what it means
to be In splendid health,
like Mrs. Spell. Qlve
Cardul a trial.
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All Druggists
-. j-im iji if i y j,
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GIRLS! WHITEN YOUR SKIN
WITH LEMON JUICE
Makt a beauty lotion for a few centt to
ramove tan. rracKies, aiiowrteBi.
Your irroeiT hint Die liim-un ami any
drutf ittiro or toilet rouiiti-r will hupp!..
you witn tnroo mnuva m omiain vt
lor a few cent. Niiii'tw tlie jni" -two
frvHli It-moiii into a Mile, tlhti
In thf nrMnl v'tit- -it?'! ),'!'-: v
Thii Diakro a qtmili r pint of Uv
tfHt It'iDim nkin wlntiinT am) com pit
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Buck, arma and hunda and ut ace li
freckles, tan, sfillnwnrM, rt'dneM and
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aoft and rlrar the akin becomes. V'm
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will aurpriae toil
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CLOTHES DOH
BUT
THEY
THAT Is, they heln him in business as well as
social life, by giving him a prosperous, welk
groomed appearance,
Men who dress in good
! buv here because of the
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choose from, Everything in the store is carefully
selected by experts and quality is the first consid.
In men's hosiery for Instance, we sell the reliable
Interwoven socks "The Hosiery of a Gentleman."
All fashionable colors; all weight-; In Silk, Lisle.
Cashmere and Cotton at
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