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VOL. LVI.
WELDON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBEll 15, 1921.
NO. 20
ABOVE THE FOG.
A DOOR OPENED.
"Behold I Have Set Before Thee
an Open Door.
Children Cry for Fie tear's
Why Should We Not Rise Above
- the Fog? We Can Do It.
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All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but .
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Infanta and Children Experience against Experiment.
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The Children's Comfort The Mother's Friend.
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The steamer was going down
the St. Lawrence." The passen
gers knew that the river, though
wide, was dotted with numerous
islands between which ihe tawny
flood poured with almost irresista
ble force. To make matters worse
a clammy fog wrapped river and
steamer alike in its ghostly shroud.
The passengers on deck observed
with alarm that the vessel neverthe
less ploughed steadily on her
course with Unabated speed. Fi
nally they sent one of their num
ber to question the captain. "It's
all right," he said when he re
turned. "I met the mate just com
ing down from the bridge, and he
says that up where ihe captain is
there isn't any fog. It just seems
to be clinging to the surface
of the river and the lower part of
the boat."
Well would it be for all of us if
on the voyage of life we should
always bear in mind that up where
our Captain is there is no fogl In
the fog in which we live there are
many things to perplex and fright
en us. Eyery day puts to us ques
tions that we cannot answer. Ev
ery day we must solve problems of
conduct and decide on courses of
action the ultimate consequences
of which we cannot foresee. Shall
we go in this direction or that?
Sometimes we are men without a
compass and cannot tell whether
we are speeding toward the safe
channel or toward the rocks and
shoals.
And sometimes the fog is the fog
of religious doubt. It hangs per
sistently over that sea of material
things on which we spend our
souls until we cry in despair that
the only thing we can be sure of is
the bit of plank on which we stand.
As we glide on through darkness
wonder whether after all we can
be sure of anything except what
we can see and touch and feel.
We know we are out in midstream.
We can feel the relentless grip of
the current as it hurries us on.
W hat if we lose the bit of plank
beneath our feet? The shoals and
the rocks are never far away.
Lest You Forget
Let us remind you that Chamberlain')
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ment of the bowel s but improve tbe ap
petite and strengthen the digestion.
FORCE OF HABIT.
My new cook is simply awful.
mourned Mrs. West. At break
fast this morning she put sugar on
the eggs, pepper on the oranges
and salt in the coffee.
My dear, she must have had her
training as a telephone operator,
sympathized Mrs. North.
Tired
"I ws weak and run-down,"
rtlatts lire. Bala Burnett, ot
Dalton, Ga. "I waa tola and
just fait tired, all tbe time.
b I tldn't rut wall. I wasn't
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Yesterday's gone it was only a dream;
Of the past there is naught but remembrance
To-morrow's a vision thrown on Hope's screen.
A will-o'-the-wisp, a mere semblance.
Why mourn and grieve over yesterday's ills
And paint memory's picture with sorrow?
Why worry and fret for worrying kills
Over things that won't happen to-morrow?
Yesterday's gone it has never returned
Peace to its ashes, and calm;
To-morrow no human has ever discerned,
Still hope, trust, and faith are its balm.
This moment is all that I have as my own,
To use well, or waste, as I may;
But I know that my future depends alone
Of the way that I live to-day.
This moment my past and my future 1 form;
1 may make them whatever I choose
By the deeds and the acts that I now perform,
By the words and the thoughts that I use.
So 1 fear not the future nor mourn o'er the past
For I do all I'm able to-day,
Living each present moment as though 'twere the last;
Perhaps it is! Who1 knows? Who shall say?
HOLLER
BY FRANK L.
When trouble falls around you, and the sky is lookin' dim,
If you cannot feel like raisin' of a halleluia hymn,
Just pull yourself together in the happy way an' then,
When the other feller sings it, you jes' holler out, "Amen I"
It's hard to do, I reckon with the mist around your eyes,
An' not a star a-shinin' in the midnight of the skies !
But think: The light is somewhere on the hills of Life-and then,
When the other feller's singin' you jes' holler out, "Amen!"
Trouble jes' can't stand it that halleluia hymn!
It ripples out a rainbow all the stormy way along!
You listen to the music if yoti cannot sing an' then,
Jes' thank some brother fer the tune, an' holler out, "Amen!"
OABRIEL'S TRUMP.
It happened during the early
days of the war, but it's just as
good now.
A member of the local Council
of Defence had hired an enthusias
tic small boy to put up some pos
ters he had received the day before.
The youth was instructed to cover
every vacant space he could find
with a poster.
All went well until noon, when
an indignant old gentleman stamp
ed into the office and demanded to
know what in the devil that kid
was trying to pull off anyway, and
insisted that the council member
accompany him.
There in the cemetery, on the
side of the mausoleum which con
tained all the mortal remains of
one of the city's fathers, was em
blazoned the command:
"Wake up! Your country needs
vou!"
THE SPEECH OF TRUE FAITH.
A traveler who believed himself
to be the sole survivor of a ship
wreck on a cannibal isle hid for
three days in terror of his life.
Finally, driven out by hunger, he
discovered a thin wisp of smoke
rising from a point inland. Crawl
ing there cautiously on his hands
and nees. he arrived just in time
to hear a raucous voice demand :
"Why the h I did the you play
that d n card?"
"Praise the Lord!" gasped the
survivor, kneeling devoutly.
'They are Christians. ,
PRENEZ QARDE1
"Why do you look in the mirror
so much?" asked the married man
of the pretty maid who had just
been hired.
"The mistress told me to watch
myself when you were around,
sir," she answered demurely.
NO PERCBNTAQE.
"Nossuh." said the old colored
lady firmly to the proprietor of the
merry-go-round at the Southern
country fair. "Ah'll never spend
man money to ride on one of dem
contraptions. Mali husband he got
on and rode fifty cents worth and
when got through Ah says, 'Rastus,
you, is been away 8 long lime and
you is blowed in yo' money, but
whah is you been in' what is you
seen?' "
CASTORIA
Tor Infanta aad Children
In V for Over 30 Years
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Hjoature of.
STANTON.
HIM IN THE HACK.
A Swift Boy From the Country
"How fast can you run?" , the
humorously inclined bell boy of a
New York hotel asked the country
lad who was on his first visit to the
city.
"Well," replied the lad bashful
ly, not very fast, I guess."
'How fast is that?" asked the
bell boy winking at his friends who
had gathered to see the fun.
The country lad frowned thought
fully, then replied :
' Well, now, seeing as you've
asked me, the fastest I ever ran
was one time last summer. You
see, fellows, 'twas like this. I took
my gun one morning and started
out to get some game. I hadn't
any more than stepped out of the
house before I saw a woodchuck
sitting by his hole on a hillside.
So I fired at him.
"But I'd heard tell that a wood'
chuck might drop back into his
hole when you hit him. So, hav
ing that in mind, I threw down my
gun as soon as I d shot and started
for the woodchuck. Well, fellows,
I d have got him, but just as I
stooped over to grab him by the
hind legs, the shot I'd fired hit
me in the back."
DESPERATE CASE.
A country doctor had been called
to a neighbor's home and found
the wife in a hysterical condition,
"How long has she been like
this?" he asked the husband.
"Ever since this morning," he
replied. "She ran up against an
echo out in the back yard and
found she couldn't have the last
word."
YOUNQ RASCALS.
New Priest I am told, Mr,
Murphy, that you boast of two
fine, healthy boys.
Mrs. Murphy Divil a boast.
yer riverence. Sure I do be aoolc-
gizin for thim liny toimes a day
WHAT THEY NEEDED.
Mother We must gel nurse
for the baby.
New Pop A nurse? What we
need is i night watchman.
THE AQES.
There are seven ages of man,
but only three of the modern wo
man
1. When I get married
2. Now that I'm married
3. When I was married.
Children Ory
FOR FLETCHER'S
CA8X0.8J.A
Before the bank three or four
persons are waiting for the great
doors to be unlocked. How heavy
and strong they are! You might
dash yourself to pieces against
them and they would not give so
much as the traction of an inch.
A clock begins to strike. At the
ninth stroke a clerk appears be
hind the door and on the inside ol
the heavy plate-glass window
hangs a card bearing the words,
'The Bank Is Open." Then he
turns a key in the lock of the doors
and, drawing it out again, returns
to his work. The people outside
press up the steps, The foremost
person puts his shoulder against
one of the leaves of the door. It
swings slowly back, and the people
enter the open door -opened, not
by the shoulder of the man with
out, but by the key of the man
within.
As ! passed on down the street I
thought of the sign hanging there
in the window, announcing that
the bank was open. The doors in
deed were shut, but the bank was
not. Anyone with business there
was free to enter. He could push
confidently against the closed
doors, for he knows that the clerk
always turns the key at nine o'
clock, and that the turning of the
key opens the bank.
The doors of opportunity are
much like the doors of the bank.
The Master holds the key to every
door. He urges us to go forward
to service and accomplishment,
though again and again the doors
appear to us to be closed. But
really they are not shut against us.
Christ has said, "Behold, I have
before thee an open door." He
does not mean that He has removed
every obstacle from our path. He
does mean that He has turned the
key in the lock and that what we
could not do before we now can
do. The door is opened, but we
must approach it in faith and set
our shoulder to the task of push
ing it back so that we can enter.
How many limes we come to
doors of opportunity and, finding
them apparently closed, have
turned away discouraged; whereas
if we had only had faith and cour
age we should have found that the
door would swing open before us
if we made any genuine effort.
PERILS OF TIMIDITY.
Very good people, and groups
of people are of very little use in
ihe world because they are too
timid to show enterprise in order
to carry out their aims. If they
have no aims the case it is far
worse. A good use of this meet
ing would be to raise the questions:
Exactly what do we wish to accom
plish in this community? Have we
any plans? Are we accomplishing
anything? Are we standing in the
light ot others because we are too
shy to take a risk? We must reck
on here with differences and indi
viduals of communities.
Chronic Catarrh.
Our manner of livine makes us very
susceptible to eolds and a succession of
colds causes chronic catarrh a loath
some disease with which it is estimated
that ninety-five per cent, of our adult
population are afflicted. If you would
avoid chronic catarrh you must avoid
colds or having oontraoted a cold get
rid of it as quickly as possible Cham
berlain'aCougb Kemedy is highly rec
ommended as a cure for colds and can
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THE CRITIC.
To play the role of the critic is
about the easiest thing we know.
It requires neither grace nor brains
to turn this trick. And it seems so
funny that those whom we criticise
are usually head and shoulders
above us. Jealousy, envy, malice
and criticism generally consort in
the same territory. Judas was t
first-class critic. Even the disci
ples assumed the role of relentless
criticism, but our Lord refused to
condemn the poor unfortunate wo
man. Real piety removes the critic
io far from home that his act be
comes self-condemnatory.
A Qratelul Utter.
It is in trying conditions like that re
lated below by Mrs. Geo. L. North, of
Naples, N. Y., that proves the worth of
Chamberlain's Colie and Diarrhoea
Remedy, 'Two yeara ago last summer"
she aaya "Our boy had dysentery. At
that time we were living in the country
eight miles from a doctor. Our son
was taken ill auddenly and waa about
the eiokeet child I ever aaw. He waa in
terrible pain all the tiro, and passed
from one convulsion into another. 1
sent my husband for the doctor, and
after he wet rose thought of a bottle
of CbembeiMn's Colie and Diarrhoea
Remedy ia tbe cupboard. I gave him
aome of it and'be began to improve at
once. By the time the doctor arrived
he waa out of danger."
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