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WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1021.
NO. 12
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Children Cry for FletcMr's
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use lor over thirty years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per-f&jZf-f-.,
sonal supervision since Its Infancy.
. tfS 4j0W no one t deceive tou in this. '
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment
Never attempt to relieve your baby with a
remedy that you would use for yourselt
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
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 Comfort The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
fBears the Signature
Bears the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
TMI CtNTAUR COMPANY NIW VONK CITY,
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Dresses and Coats at wholesale COST sk
to EVERYBODY. No goods charged at 3
cost to anybody. Come early and get
your pick of these bargains while they last
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II J. L SWfJBCK, If
The Busy Store, WELDON, NC f
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Choice
Hams
There isf nothing more
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our choice ham. We have
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iu the line of meats. All
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Near Batcbelor's Open House,
WKI.DON, NX
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Weldon, N C.
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HALIFAX. N. C.
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ronize this Bunk. Why not have a checking account? It Is
necessary In these times. It saves you money, and you have a re
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The smallest account receives as much attention as the .argest
with us.
We pay 4 per cent. Compounded Quarterly on Saving s.ffl
Com la and talk it over with us. We uacd you, you ned us.
WHICH?
"Now which will you take," she smilingly said
"One kiss or a red, red rose?"
The rose may be kept for a long, long time,
Where a kiss has gone who knows?
A kiss is a fleeting, transient thing,
A rose may be worn or pressed;
A kiss you can keep but a moment at most
Ah, surely a rose is best.
Then sometimes a kiss causes pain in the heart;
A rose leaves not a regret.
Hare sweetness it gives, not asking reward
A kiss you may wish to forget.
He looked at her beautiful, tempting lips
He looked at the red, red rose,
'I hen he look with a lover's ardent haste,
Well, which do you suppose ?
WOULD YOU?
X A STORY I
I OF THE SIXTIES. I
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CHAPTER 1ST.
'Twus late on a November after
noon in the year 1860, as Harrold
Bently took his gun from its rack,
and started for the skirt of wood
beyond the old mill pond, upon
whose banks stood the old Bentley
mill, which for quite a'century had
supplied the neighborhood with
that sweet old-time water-ground
meal, and flour such as our
fathers knew, and enjoyed when
our great pioneer country began to
straighten itself out, after many
struggles, and trials in its determi
nation to take its place amongst the
civilized countries of the universe.
Young Bently having recently
attained his majority, and having
honorably acquitted himself in one
of our ablest institutions of learning
and being possessed of a compe
tency sufficient for material things
of this life, and being endowed by
nature with more than ordinary
gilts toward the make up of the
physical man: handsome would
scarcely express the comliness of
his person-erect in statue, standing
six feet, a typical specimen of the
perfect man: but this was not all,
ne was a child ot uod, ana ever
alert to aid the cause always dear
to his heart.
So much good is rarely to be
found centered in one human be
ing, but if this God-given earth,
still in its original beauty, could
more frequently boast of such types
of manhood, we might at no dis
tant day witness the millennium
dawn.
Now, kind reader, having
launched the hero of my story with
a bnet description of person-per
sonal attractions, and soforth, will
go with him in his attempted stroll
to t'-f nod beyond the old mill
and to follow him through devious
ways of sunshine, and shadow, till
he arrives at a triumphant conclu
sion of i - flt-ciine life.
As Hurrold Bently left the old
house on the hill, one of those old
country mansions around which
cluster so many tender memories,
where the young, the gay, and the
beautiful were wont to indulge in
amusements of antebellum days,
when life was a series of happy
hours, known the "well-to-do" of
the long anu, i In re was a feeling
of unrest in i ;s heart, anundefina-
ble idea ol .: meihing brewing, a
distant ruiuiMiig of thunder por
tending a storm that would ere
long break causing tears of blood
to flow over as line a land as ever
was created by a Divine hand: he
descended the road leading to the
wood past the old mill, where he
intended spotting the roosting
place of turkeys, and in the ensu
ing early morn, secure a coveted
dish, not always eusy to obtain,
but he did not reach their bivouac,
for passing the mill he very clearly
heard a sweet voice pronounce the
name Harrold I and while he had
lot discovered her whereabouts,
he instantly recognized the voice
f Annie Earl, (to him) the fairest
flower of earth, as she was now his
promised wife.
He found her sitting
In a little canoe,
Just under the bluff
And made for two.
He was soon by her side and
when on their way to their respec
tive homes he unfolded to her his
fear of a to rapidly developing
future, which he saw would bar
culmination of their union for the
present, perhaps forever!
"Harrold! why are yousounlike
yourself this afternoon," asked
Annie.
"Because, Annie: 1 feel the "die ,
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ROANOKE NEWS
By J. B. T.
iois()salla(0
is cast," the inevitable is upon us,
the storm will soon burst over our
fair land, and the old South will
pass most likely from us forever. '
The vicissitudes of a struggle
such as the impending one, are
many, and beyond conception, and
no living creature can forecast re
sults of this disgraceful break of
the grandest union known to civil
ization: our pride of quite a centu
ry, to be shattered, and broken in
pieces like a "potter's vessel" is a
dream too horrible to contemplate
We can but feel that a divine
Father disapproved existing con
ditions which had become a stench
in the nostrils of Almighty God,
and Hesuffereth calamities to come
upon us. If mankind would con
fine themselves to legitimate modes
of living, and follow the ways of
the Lord, such troubles would be
unknown, and earth become an
eden.
since time immemorial the na
tions of the world, have occupied
beligerent attitudes one lo another,
some tn days past have said that
future wars would be fought on
paper, that intellect would inter
vene, that wise heads would figure
out the relative strength of dispu
tants, thereby proving the stronger,
thus brute force would no longer
disagrace humanity, but till now,
there has been no practical demon
stration ot sucn a tning, ana us
more than probable there will never
be.
Speaking of disarmament, peace
treaties, and soforth, we believe all
such to be worthless as we have
never yet known intelligence to
prevent homeicide where anger
had full sway, and anothor thing
to be noted, is that the nations have
not yet ceased preparing for hostil
ities, ominous indeed!
CHAPTER 2ND.
If antiquity lend a charm to old
homesteads, then to the home of
Annie Earle, a double charm might
be added, being descended from
an honored line of ancestry
(more than a century back) of fair
financial ability, ever able to keep
the old place as its progenitors had
desired, in perfect condition: peo
ple ot mgn rank naa entered ics-l
portals, and knighthood had often
bowed at beauty's shrine beneath
its hospitable roof.
To describe Annie Earl, the fair
mistress of this ancient domicile,
would require more than the elo
quence of a "Past-Master" in the
descriptive art: she was simply an
embodiment of all that the words,
perfect lady, implied, com
bined with intellect, beauty, and
those sweet Christian attributes be
longing to a child of God.
Could a more amiable pair have
found mutual esteem, could Cupid's
arrow have pierced more congenial
hemta ilidii liiuaC of Harrold Bent
ley and Annie Earl? We appeal
to the reader for a reply?
As the sun was declining in all
of its roseate charm, and the sweet
word peace was written upon the
tranquil face of nature, Harrold
bent his steps over the lawn to
ward the one spot of earth most
dear to this noble hearted, aspiring
young man, while queries like
these ran through his excited
brain. (The year was now 1861,
and enlistments were being made
all over the land) should she say,
"are you going to enlist, and must
we part" I shall say, "Darling put
yourself in my place!" I will ask
you me question. "Would You?"
Well! when we met on that old
threshold, those very words passed
her lips: I took her beautiful hand,
covering it with tears and kisses,
asked her if she would have me
"desist now, hire a substitute, and
become a slacker?" "No," said
she, "do what you conceive to be
your duty, though it palsy
and wither my poor heart." At
these words, he inwardly exclaim
ed, "I cannot leave this noble wo
man who has every fibre of my
heart entwined about her, though
the heavens fall, 1 cannot make
this sacrifice," what shall I do?
Thought "Be A Man" came to
his aid: then with a long-loving
kiss he lore himself away, deter
mined to seek the Source of solace
for the quieting his distraction.
When he entered his chamber
after tea, he experienced the bitter
est heart aches he had ever endur
ed, for he was mad with love for
the one woman (to him) in all the
world, and the thought of separa
tion, perhaps forever, completely
unnerved him, but as he became
quiet, determined to do his duty
though he die in the attempt.
The days sped rapidly by, and
ere long, Harrold as an enlisted
man, began to feel the fatigues of
maneuvers, and drills preparatory
to entering a regular encampment,
Our story to this time has a tone
of sadness in it, and must so con
tinue to the tragic end, because of
the extraordinary trials under
which the occurences have been
enacted.
We are ever averse to depicting
events that must fill the heart with
sadness, and cause tears of anguish
to flow, but if incidents of this
fracticidal combat could be enu
merated, of which a great many
will ever remain unknown, a deep
er gloom would hang like a pall
over the entire land.
The battle of Kernstown, Va.
only a short distance from Win
Chester, seemed now inevitable,
and must soon culminate in a hor
rible affair, as the enemy are three
to one in number, well equipped,
and if not victorious, it will simply
be, because of Southern prowess,
coupled with the reputation of
Jackson, already warding off many
an attack, because of abject terror
from any conflict with this invinci
ble commander.
Harrold Bentley had attained
the rank of Captain, and his com
pany formed a portion of the fa
mous "Stonewall Brigade," and
he had on more than one occasion
proven his temerity in hard fought
struggles,. thus when this unequal
conflict came on, notwithstsnding
the fact that General Garnett's
command, occupying the central
position in the fight, ran short of
ammunition, General Jackson ever
believed the victory would have
been ours, had he at this juncture,
given them the bayonet, instead of
retreating, it was well known that
they would not stand "cold steel"
and were then partially demoral
ized.
Garnett retreated without orders
from Jackson, which very much
incensed him.
Harrold Bently in this combat
lost his life! and in the last sad mo
ments of this heroic man, Annie
made her way to his side, absolute
ly crusnea oy nnding mm so near
the finale" of his earthly exist
ence, but bearing bravely, as only
a woman could do, heard his part-
ing words of endearment, as he
pressed the beautiful hand for the
last lime to his dying lips, bidding
her come to him in the "Glory
Land."
One query more, darling! Could
we play over again the sweet role
of affection as already experienced:
WOULD YOU?" A long affirm
ative kiss, from this true woman,
and Harrold had passed to
Heaven's Realm. Annie was com
pletely undone, she was never her
self again, in five weeks time, this
broken hearted girl gave way to
her grief, und went to join Harrold
in the land beyond the skies. They
were placed side by side in the
family burying ground,
Two victims of a single shot,
Two hearts that beat as one.
True happiness is not the growth
of earth,
The soil is fruitless, if you seek
it there,
Tis an exotic of Celestial birth
And only blooms in Celestial air.
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"1 Buttered for years Willi stomach
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lad.
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To the Owner of .Mitchell Five 1'asseu-
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J. A. HOL'tsK,
6 23 4t Sheriff of Halifax County.
Automobile For Sale.
To the Owner ol bodge Bios 5 Tasseil
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You aje hereby notified within thiitv
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1H2I, to come forward aud institute
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Ilalilax county wlnle being used lo
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delraying the expenses of making such
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B 23 4t Sheriff of Halifax County.
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