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VOL. LIU.
WELDON, N. C, TIIUltSDAY, .JANUARY '.UK l!M.
NO. II
SMILES.
Children Cry for Fletcher's
Th Kind You Have Alwayt Bounht, and which hai been
la tut lor over over 30 yean, has l.nrne the signature o!
and has been made under his per
fjfLsjGWTtt,, 'onal supervision since its Infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you In this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but
toperiments that trifle with and endanger the health ut
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
! What is CASTORIA
) Castoria Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
! neither Opium, Morphine nnr 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.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
'Bears the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
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Wl-LOON, 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 aids digestion.
And good digestion means health.f
HAVE JJS 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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We are in position to sive first
class service on Automobile Repair
ing, also Automobile Ignition, Light
ing and Starting. Battery charging
a specialty. When you need irsc
Class Service at once call
JONES & SONS
The IMevator to happiness Isn't
Running lake the Stairway
oi Smiles.
Did you ever notice how many
dillcreni kinds of smiles there are?
There is die smile of the good
looking diiine ili.it makes youwunl
lo go A. W. 0 L There is ilie
smile of revenue of the fellow who
is glad you got what you deserved.
There is the silly smile of ilie fel
low who never sees any further
lh.ui his nose There is the cheery
smile of the hube. There is the
counterfeit smile of the pessimist
and there Is the smile of pride that
the fellow has who owns a
Ford. Then there is the most
common smile lhat the Kid (you
know how he wears his rings and
mlks wiih his hands), who wants
to sell you a $35 suit for $9.99.
(Jl course, we tlon't pet to see the
latier smile now days. Instead we
see the smile of satisfaction of the
quartermaster sergeant, who is
lo get rid of the stuff. There is
the cynical, smile, gasiromic smile,
professional smile and numerous
other smiles, but the smile of
smiles is the sunshine smile that
reaches from the heart to the soul,
and seems to say: "Are we down
hearted? No!"
The fellow must have had a
cheerful smile who said : "The
world is so full of so many things
I'm sure we should smile and be
happy as kings."
There is lots of good philosophy
in the Chinese niaxium, "Cheer
up ! You'll soon be dead."
It would lake a discharge to
make some guys around this place
smile. With their long faces they
look worse than the poor old wid
ow woman when some one wet
her kindling and cut her well-rope.
They haven't cultivated the easy
habit of slanting the mouth up
ward and brightening the face.
Maybe they don'l know thai smil
ing is an investment with small
premiums that pays a big dividend.
The fellows you like lo associate
with most are the cheerful. Your
most confidential friends are peo
ple who look on the bright side of
life and smile. The fellows in G.
H., No. 19, you like best are
smilers. The reason Sammie
Grossman is the most popular fel
low in the detachment is because
he has a smile for everybody and
goes about his work in a superla
tive cheerful manner.
The Elevator to Happiness isn't
running take the Stairway to
Smiles.
DEFECTIVE GOODS.
Mother was attracted by the
yells of her youngest offspring.
For some strange reason she sus
pected that her son William had
something to do with the vocal
commotion. With father's Sunday-
go-to-meetin' razor strop in hand
she hurried 10 the nursery.
Willie met her with a disappoint
ed look on his face.
"Say, ma," he began, disgusted
ly, "Mrs. Brown was all wrong.
It won't do it at all."
"Won't do whai?" demanded
ma.
"Bounce," said Willie. "She
the baby was u bouncing boy, but
he ain't."
Increased Demand
For Scuppernong Grapes
The discovery of a remarkable method of pro
ducing Virginia Dare in NON-ALCOHOLIC
form will, under prohibition restriction, make
Virginia Dare the national drink. We will need
more Scuppernongs than ever. Keep your soil and
vines in A I condition for a big yield. The de
mand will be great. The prices will be attractive.
If you know a
Scuppernong grower
cut this out and mail
it to him.
GARRETT & COMPANY
Bush Terminal Bldg. No. 10
Brooklyn, New York
TO GET BACK HOME.
BY I.IUUTENANT RICE, THIRD AKMY A. li. F.
Phone 205
P.O.Box 244
GARAGE,
WELDON,
Weekly Health Talk
Whare Most Slcknaat Begins
and Enda
BY FRANKLIN DUANE, H. D.
It can be aaid broadly that moot human
UJi begin in the stomach and end in thr
Btomacn. UOOU oikokuiid mimiia (in
health, anil poor digestion means bin
health. The minute your stomach fails t
properly dispose of the food yoir eai
Irounlos begin to crop out in various form.'
Indigestion and dyspepsia are the eon.
monest forms, but thin, impure blood
hwulachee, backaches, pimples, blotches
dutiiiots, belching, eoatml tongue, weak
di-jw, poor appetite, sleeplessness, eounhH
eoiiis ni utuuuiuu tuu uol 4C0lil;.
Then but one ay to hare good hrall
and that is to put and keep your sunn
in good order, This is easy to do if yo
take Dr. Pierce's Golden Mediral )i
corery It a wonderful tonic and bloo
purifier, and is to safs to take, for it i
made of roots and herbs Dr. Pierce, c.
Buffalo, N. Y., stands behind this standar
i.n I it is SOod tO luiOW tlllU I
li.iimm '.u nhvsieiu is proud to hliVl
his nmno ulc milled witb it. When you
take (lu'.Jun Medical Diaoorery, you are
riling the beuefit of the experience of a
da.iur whose reputation goee " around
Hit. earth. Still more, you get temper
,..., moilifiine thai eontainB not a drop of
alcohol or narcotic of any kind. Long ago
Dr. Fierce combined certain valuable
vegetable ingredients without the use of
alcohol so that these remedies always
hav hn strictly temoarance medicines.
If oilea are torturing you, get and use
Pierce's Anodyne Pile Ointment The
quick relief it gives is hard to believe until
you try it. II constipated, Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets should be taken while
using Anodyne Pile Ointment. Few in
doeif are the eases which thinti splendid
remedies will sot relieve and usually over
come. They are so good that newly
no drag taanlar ml.
To get back home again and there to see
Old friends and faces of long vanished days,
To hear some friendly voice call out to me
From street or corner of remembered ways,
Where rain or shine or wind-blown winier snow
The lights of home hold up iheir golden shield,
With soft, warm arms from out the long ago
In wailing welcome from the silent Held.
To get back home again to know at last
The guns are still from Flanders to Lorraine;
The day of slogging through ihe mud is past,
The night of terror in the driving rain
Lies hidden in the midst of Argonne drifts,
A grim, yet holy spectre of the years,
That wait ahead, where every shadow lifis
Before the smile thai welcomes through its tears.
To gel back home again 0, dream of dreams
Too radiant to last but for a breath;
The drift of purple nights and singing streams
Beyond black dawns still rife with ghosts and death,
Beyond the dreamless sleep of (hose who wait
To hold the line they fought for to the end,
Eternal sentinels at Freedom's Gate,
Where none shall pass save those who whisper "Friend."
To get back home again yes, that is all;
The rest is less than nothing down the world;
To hear no more the bugle's waking call
The tramp of marching feet all standards furled
And only silent thought of those who siay
To hold the guard across the endless years,
Who will not come again the ancient way
Nor know the "smile that welcomes through its tears."
BEYOND THE GATES
WELL TRAINED.
"Sweetheart, Dinner Is Served.''
Hawaiian servants are among
the most faithful in ihe world, says
a woman of experience whose
story in Harper's Magazine, but
they are strangely unsophisticated.
They have an overwhelming de
sire to call you by your first name.
Our man servant was always say
ing to my husband, "Yes, Frank,"
or "All right, Frank;" and to me,
I "To be sure, Mabel," and "I'm
going out, Mabel. Finally it got
on my nerves to such an extent
that I discharged him, and when
the new cook appeared I told my
husband not to mention my first
name in his presence; (hen per
haps he would call me Mrs. So
Frank was always very careful and
always addressed me as "deary"
or "sweetheart"; but the new
cook, a prudent fellow, gave me
no title ai all.
One night we gave a dinner to a
large pany of friends, I was telling
them how I had successfully over
come, in my new cook's case, the
native servants' abuse of their em
ployers' Christian names. I could
depend, at .least, on this servant's
not addressing ne as "Mabel."
At lhat moment the new cook en
tered the room, bowed to me re
spectfully and said :
"Sweetheart, dinner is served."
"What !" I stammered.
"Dinner is served, deary," he
answered, with another bow.
I go on strange adventures
Through the Gates of Sleep;
Ay, in a world of wonder
My will-less way I keep;
With marvel after marvel
Passing before mine eyes,
However great the mystery
It gives me no surprise.
1 go on strange adventures-
Men proclaim them dreams,
Declare it all unreal, I
Where nothing is just seems;
And yet and yet, I now not;
Forsooth, how can I dare
To say, the body slumbering,
How far the soul may fare?
go on strange adventures,
And while agone 1 mate
With most amazing company
Beyond the Sleeping gate;
By paths not of my choosing
Most mystically led
Sometimes I greet the living
And oftentimes the Dead f
I go on strange adventures.i
I flit from place to place
Without a touch of weariness,
Defying time and space;
Sometimes I talk with monarchy.
With sages 1 converse,
And in majestic presences
SiBoth fear and awe disperse.
I go on strange adventures,
But not unmoved, ah, no!
For oftenest in them I meet
Dear ones of long ago;
And after I've been pilgriming
Adown the vanished years,
Sometimes 1 come back smiling,
Sometimes I wake in tears I
MOST UNKIND
"Do you think 1 could borrow
$50 somewhere around here?"
nskcd Jibway.
"You might," answered Doppel.
"What security can you offer?"
"My word of honor."
"You niisundcrsiand me. I
mean what security can you offer
that anybody who knows you
would be willing to accept?"
THE SAFEST WAY.
"I see it's etiquette for a man at
court to walk out of a room back
wards." It may not be etiquette
jround here," remarked Pizen
Peie. "but it's the sefest way if
you think some galoot is liable lo
draw a gun."
A PROVISO.
BRAIN WORK.
"Adam gave a name to each of
the animals."
"Yes," commented the lesson
weary small boy. Maybe having
to study all lhat zoology wn one
reason why he wasn't happy and
contented in the garden.!'
Children Cry
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Men are taking good care of
iheir automobiles these days. Most
of them don't know where they
will get another.
The other day a man ran away
with our neighbor's wife and his
automobile at the same time.
Our neighbor came up out of
the basement just in time to see
him driving away, and he yelled
at the driver.
Don i forget to send the car
back."
PLAYED CARDS
Sunday School Teacher - "Is
there any mention of gainbbng in
the Bible?"
Bright Boy "Yes'm, DuvhI
played cards."
Sunday School Teacher--"How
do you know?"
Bright Boy "Why, doesn't the
Bible say that he look four kings
from the Philistines?"
Pat After all, it's a great pleas
ureto be missed by some one.
Mike Sure it is, Pat; if yez can
be there to enjoy it.
TOO MUCH SYMPATHY
Si Oates Jusi like this dineed
well to go dry ihe next dktf after
the town did.
WOMEN OF
MIDDLE AGE
Need Help to Pin die Criiu Safe-
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t T-1 fit i f- 1 1 :
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U I read of Lvoia el
rinktuun a Yeiie-
aieuia vompouiHi
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women u a s s i n a
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St, Urbana. III.
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