- If j ' f8'' 7 . ... "Prove ali things; hold fast that which is good." Vol. 6. U-XMIM, N.-C, WIAY-12, 1897. No. le. i?LK LK ELK AVIimi i'wv you . e a cun of B.-iki.ig I'.iWdiTS With tlltf tlUUie UmI f ictn. of 0fiU on if. it i a. sfti.-irjinte- of puii-t The Klk I'owilyr r lie bsr ami cli.ip- '-t )'V.IT. It .-tUIKIS til'' lll'lf.-t !!-iiii ::l analysts of .my lrunl on llw niai Ui-t. Give it a trial and voir will n. vv. jkknigan & co. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. i ; w. pu- " Attorney-at Law. I i Ill-IKUV N. C. I iin fiil alk'iiiioii to any c-ivil matters int ni-lr I to his can in the courts of Harnett County - : H L Godwin, ;-' Attorney at Law. J) ii mi, - " ' N. C xt door to l'ost Office. . Will practice in the courts of Harnett ami adjoining counties and in the J-'clcial ( '-on l Is. : : . Prompt attention given to alibuslnes W E-Murchison, JONE8BORO, N. C. Pi-ttcticerf. Law in Harnett, Moore and other counties, but not for fun. Feb. 20-lj. 1 Isaac A- Murchison, FAYKTTEVILLE, N. C, .Viaetiees Law in Cumberland, Harnett anil anywhere services are wanted. SEWING MACHINES. 1 wL-li to itiiuoiini'u to the people of 1 in tin land surrounding country that I am selling the YVh.'eler and Wilson No. 9. and the Whin Sowing Machines, wliich are guarante.-d ;.t"'J-give perfect i-f.iM i'tn. mi reasonable terms. l l't'l lu st mat liiiie il, m-eiljes, fixtures. Si-., ill ways ou hand: I al-o repair in i liiin" at moderate cost. Work gii;$i:iircd. I have, fourteen years ex pi'Vienre in the machine business and am thoroughly acquainted with them. My licaiiuuariers are at; Mr L. F. Young's store where I will be pleased to sdunv my niaehiiies V- Your to please. ' J. M. HAYES. :ipi-2tf. Dun::, N. C. TOWN DIRECTORY. -i CIIDUCHES. Mefl'odist Church Kev. B. C. Sell, Pastor. Services ilr.st Sunday uijfht, and fourth Sun day moriiing1, and mglit, Prayerineetlngr every Wednesday night. !UKday schcl every Sunday :' morning at 1 o'clock, 0. K, (Irauthuni Superiutemleiit. Uaptist Church. Rev. L. R. Carroll, pastor. Services 'every second Sunday morning- and night. Prayenueeting' every Thursday night .Sunday School every Sunday morning:, R. Q Taylor Superintendent. Presbyterian Church. Rev. A.M. Ilassel jastor. Services every first and fifth Sunday morning aud night. Sundav school every Sunday morning, SI. L. V ade Superintendent. liijij)le Church Rev. I. W. Rogers, pas tor. Services every third Sunday morning and night. Christian Budeavor Society every Tuesday night. Sunday School every Sunday evening a"t 3 o'clock, MoD, Holliday Supt. Free Will Baptist Church. Elder R. C. Jackson, pastor. Services every second Sun day morning and night. Primitive. Baptist. Church on Broad street Eider W.O. Turner, Pastor. Regular servl ets ou the third Sabbath rooming, and Satur day before, in each mouth at 11 o'clock. El dr P. D. Oold, of Wilson, editor of Zion'a Landmark, preaches at this church, on the fourth Sunday evening in each month at7M o'clock. Everybody Is , Invited to 1 attend tbest services. Young Mens' Union Prayer meeting every Sunday evening atx o'clock and Friday night at 7:30 o'clock. AH are cordially invited to atteud these service. An invltatien is ex tended to the visitors. LODGES. Lucknow Lodge, No. 115, I. O. O.f. Lodge room over J. D. Barnes' store. Regular meet ing on every Monday night. L. H. Lee. N. Q.; C H. Sexton, V. O.; G. K. Grantham, Secre tary. All Odd Fellows are cordially Invited to attend. Palmyra Lodge, No. 147. A. P. A A. M. Hall over Free Will Baptist church. P. P. Jones W, M ; w. A. Johnson, 8. V,; E. A. Jones J. W.; J. a. Johnswn, Secretary. Regular communications are held on the 3rd Satur day at 10 o'clock A. M., and on the 1st Friday at T:3t) o'clock p. m. in each month. All Ma sons in good standing are cordially Invited to atteud these communications. Cointy Officers. Sheriff, J. H. Pope. , 1 Clerk. F. M. McKay. Register of Deeds. J. vMcK. Byrd. Treasurer, G. D.Spence. ' Coroner.'j. J, wilson. Surveyor, J. A. O'Kelly. County Examiner. Rev. J. A.Campbell. Commissioners: J. A. Green, Chairman H. N. Bizzell and Nell! McLeod. TOWN OFFICERS. H. L. Qodwin, Mayor. CohmissionxbS ,KvF- Young, J. J. Dupree, J. H. Pope and V . P. Pearson. . G. P. Hoi i ad, Policeman. W. L Douglas $3 Shoe. Stvlish. durable, tvrfert fittln v Endorsed by over i .000,000 wearers. V. L. Douglas $3-50, $4.00 and $5.00 Shoes are the productions of skilled workmen, from the best material pos sible at these prices. Also $2-50 and $2 Shoes for Men, $2.50, $2 and $1.75 Boys We me only the beat Calf, Russia Calf, French Patent Calf. Trench Enamel, Vlcl Kid, etc., graded to correspond with prices of the shoes. If dealer cannot snpply you, write Catalogfree. W. L.DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. SOLD BT J. A. MASSENGILIi & Co Dunn, N- C- 'S GuL Items of Interest to the La dies, FURNISHED BY OUR CORRfSPONDENT. Marian IIarland on Tem perance, from "House keeper's Weekly." I wish to put upon - record disapproval that amounts to detestation of the practice of drinking anything that, in the words of the old temperance pledge I "took" when a child, "will make drunk come." That was the way it ran. The Rev, Thomas P. Hunt, one of the best-known temperance lectur ers in America, used to make us stand up in, a body and chant it, he keeping time with head and hand, and the boys imitating him. 1 We do not think We'll ever drink Rnuiiy or rum, Or anything that makes drunk come! I have never changed my mind on that ' head. What I thought then, I know now, that for half-a-century I have seen what desolation druukenness has wrought in our land. I never see a boy toss off his "cocktail," or "cobbler," or "sling," or by whatever other name the devil's brew, is dis guised, with the mannish, know ing air that proves him to be as weak as water, when he would have you think him strong as fusel-oil ! that I do not recall the vehement outburst in Mrs. Mulock-Craik's "A Life for a Life," 'of the old clergyman whose only son had filled a drunkard's grave : "If I had a son, and he liked wine, as a child does, perhaps, a pretty little boy, sitting at table and drinking healths at birthdays ; or a school-boy, proud to do what "he sees his father doing, I would take his glass from him, and fill it with poison deadly poison that he might kill himself at once, rath er than grow up to be his friend's curse and his own damnation r a drunkard ! " I lack words in which to ex press my contempt for the pet ty ambition, rooted and ground ed in vanity, that urges a young fellow to prove the steadiness of his brain by tippling what he does not want, or even like. For not one in fifty of those who take "nips" and "coolers," cared for the taste of the peril ous stuff at the first or twentieth trial. He proved himself a man, one of the stronger parts of creation, by pouring liquid fire down his quailing throat until he could do so without winking. He swears and smokes cigarettes at streei-cor-ners for the same reason. "I love a dog!" exclaimed a lively young girl, patting a big St. Bernard. "Would I were a sighed an amorous dude. dog!' "Oh, you'll grow!" retorted the fair one, consolingry. , I feel like plagiarizinjg' the i saucy Hit, in witnessing j me j desperate efforts afore-men tioned on the part of our mis taken boy. Sometimes (let us thank a merciful heaven that this is so !)he does grow out of the folly, and into manly self- contempt at the recollection of -tlie pity and If somebody wejre to make it fashionable to take1 -.belladonna, , aconite, or prussic acid, in , "safe" doses, three, or six, or a dozen times a day, in defiance of all the medical science in the world, the would-be man would never be content until he had overcome natural repugnance to the "bitters," and rate himself as so much higher in the of being by. the 'length - of scale time his constitution could hold out against the deadly effect of the potation, plume himself upon his superiority to men who killed themselves by taking a like quantity. To drink one glass of wine or spirits a day is to venture upon thin ice ; when the one glass has become the three that our boy must have, it is but a question of time how soon the treacherous crust will give way. Clearly uthen so clearly that it is difficult to see how .any body, however blinded" by self conceit, can fail to perceive it the only safe thing is to let liquor as a beverage alone. The practice is," at thebest, like kin dling the kitchen fire every morning wfth kerosene. In surance agents are slow to take risks upon property where this is the rule. Nobody is so besotted as to a s k, "Does dram-drinking pay?" There is notn sane man or woman in America who would hesitate in the reply, and the answers would all be the same. If he is a fool who tempts the approach of appetite that may that does in seventy-five times out of one hundred become deadly and incurable disease, what shall we say of the "strong head" that espies no sin in social convivialities with the weak brother ? Let me tell one " M.I . 1 or two stories 01 tne score mat rush upon mv memory with the approach to this part of my sub ject.. ' 'S Forty years ago I sat down to the dinner-table of a man who stood high in the community, and church. He was a liberal liver, as his father had been be fore him. Tftrit father had taken his toddy tri-daily for seventy years, and died in tne odoi of sanctity. They could do such tilings in that day, and never transcend the three-glass limit. My godly grand-father did the same, and was never one whit the worse for liquor in his life. Their sons and grand sons cannot do it without ruin ing themselves, body and soul. I wish I could write it in let ters of fare over the door of every liquor saloon. - It may be the climate ; it may be the high-pressure, fever heated rate of modern living ; it may as well be that those honest men who made their own apple-whiskey and peach-bran dy, by their daily dram-drink ing transmitted the taste which aduiteratea liquors in tne gen eration following were to lash into uncontrollable appetite. But to my story. ' My father, one of the first in his day to set the .example of total abstinence " for his brethren and compan- ion s sane, naa spoKe repeat edly in my presence of the harm done by social drinking, and what influence women could exert for or against the custom. So I declined wine upon general principles when it was offered by the courtly host. No ver bal comment was made upon 1 i 1 i 1 .1 my singular conuuet, uui me pert fifteen-year-old son of the house took occasion to drink my health with a dumb grimace, and beckoned the butler auda ciously to fill up his glass, and a distinguished clergyman, whose parishioner the host was, looked polite astonishment across the table at the girl who dared. He took his wine grace fully, pointedly, it seemed to me, an example imitated by his , curate, a much younger man. When we returned to the drawing-room, the master of the house sought me out, and began to rally me upon the at tentions of a young man in the company to myself, in uch a fashion that my cheeks flushed hotly with indignant astonish ment. Lifting my eyes to his, I saw that he was drunk ! The horror and dismay of the dis covery were inconceivable. The rest of the interview, which was it. Often ah ! shame of it ! ended by his .wife's appearance j upon the scene to coax him off to his room, left an indelible impression upon mjv mind. Another and later experience j was in a fine old farm-house in the Middle States. There had been a birthday celebration, and neighbors and friends gathered about a board laden with coun try dainties, and congratulated the worthy couple who presided j over the feast upon the four stalwart sons who, with their wives ana cnuaren, were set tled upon And about an estate that had been for six genera tions in the family. Hale, mer 1 1 1 1 ry fellows they were, a little more red of face and loud of talk than was quite -?;emly in a stranger's eyes, but industrious and "fore-handed," and kind of heart to parents, wives and ba bies. After dinner we sat un der the cherry-trees upon the lawn, and one of the sons brought out a round table, an other a tray of glasses, another a monster-bowl of milk-punch. Everybody pledged the pa triarch's health in the creamy potation except myself. Again I acted upon general principles . Were I a wine-bibber I should never touch glasses with a young man, or offer him anything "that could make drunk come." Disliking spirituous draughts of all kinds, and with the object lesson of my girlhoood branded upon memory, I refused to taste the brimming glass, ever when the pastor of the household, a genial "dominie," rallied me upon mv abstinence: He of- : fered gallantly, w hen he found me obdurate, to drink my share, aiid had his glass replenished by the rec!dtst-iacc-(Varid loudest-mouthed of the farmer sons. 4 "You're the rightsort, dom inie !" he said with a roar of laughter, filling the tumbler un til it ran over and into the jas tor's cuffs. Whereat the farm er laughed yet more uproarious- One of the four young men died awhile aro of delirium tremens. , and notone of the other three has drawn a sober breath in years. The parents are dead, the old farm is sold, and the brother are all poor. Rum has done it all. . I do not imply that either Of these scenes had any marked influence upon the destiny of the slaves of appetite, except a$ they were encouraged to pursue a course tacitly approved by the wise and good. But I am thankful that I did not lend the weight of a straw to the down ward slide. "Woe unto him. that putteth the cup to his neighbor's lips!" says the Book of books. There might be sub joined, "Or helps to hold it there when the neighbor's own hand has lifted it V' A Story of the Late War- An old soldier tells of this in cident, on the banks of the Rap- Ipahauock V One evening when the contending armies were en- camped on opposite , slfores of the river, a Union regimental band played "The Star Span gled Banner." A Confederate band responded with the "Bon nie Blue flag." Then the Fed eral band played "Annie Lau rie." The Southern band res ponded with "Swanee Ribber." Twilight began to fall - and the band on General Grant's side of the river struck up "Home, Sweet Home." The Southern baud caught the melody, ancl i keeping time to the Federal bauton, played the familiar tune in union with their brethern in blue. The hour arid the music (blended admirably; The rip pling waves ofthe river bore the harmony along its darkening current to a knoll where the commander-in-chief, Ulysses S. Grant sat, surrounded by his staff. He caught the meaning of the situation, and a mist came into .his eyes, as he said : "Together these two armies would be almost invincible. They are brothers with mon fatherland." Ex. a com- Thet County Union is the transcend the limit of his au only paper published in Harnett thority as entertained by a county. Subscription price $1. j strict construction of the instru Subscribe now. . ! j ment under which lie acts. The WHAT IS LAfy? Section 3113 of the Code, as amended by chapter 336, Laws of 1895. reads : "It shall be the duty of the board of commis sioners of the county, upon pe tition of one fourth of the quali fied voters of any county, town or township,, in their respective countv, to order an election to be held on' the first Monday, in June, in any year, to ascertain whether or not spirituous liquors may be, sold in said county, town or township. Section 3118 : Whenever any county, township; city or town shall vote in favor of "li cense," the board of commis sioners of the county shall grant license for the sale of spiritious liquors to all . proper persons applying for the same accord ing to law. . Code, Section 2814 : Upon the writen application of one fifth of the qualified voters of any district or teri to ry, whether the boundaries of said district follow township lines or not, made to the board of county commissioners at any time, setting forth well defined boun daries of said district, it shall be the duty of the said com missioners to submit the ques tion of "stock law" or "no stock law' ' to the qualified vot ers of said district, and if at any such elections a majority of the votes ctfst shall be in fa vor of "stock law,"' then the said stock haw shall be in force over, the whole of said district." "The plaintiffs insists that i the provisions of the statute wtiich permits the' association of de tached parts of several town ships into a single district, con stituted for the sole purpose of giving effect, to a statute within its limits which did not prevail elsewhere, is in violation of the Constitution of the State, which recognizes only the territorial division into county and town ship, municipal organizations, and is void. The case entitled, Ex-Parte Wall, 48 Cal., 321, denies validity to all enactments which are contingent upon the approval of the popular vote, indeed to all local option legis lation, upon grounds which are expressly repudiated in Manly ys City of Raleigh, 4 Jones Eq., 370, and cases determined at the present term. We see no reason why convenient terri ritorial districts may not be formed by the union of several townships or fragmentary parts of them, or by the severance of a single township, as the legis lature mav deem best for the interest of those who therein reside. Certainly the power to pass laws, operating within a limited locality, has been too long exercised by the General Assembly to be now called into question, and t is well settled tli at its operations at all may; be made to depend upon the will of the electors within its bounds expressed at box . " Ne wsome vs the ballot Earnheart, 80,-391 . "The power conferred by a town charter to pass ordinances for its local government, is in subordination to the public laws regulating the same matter for the entire State." State vs Langston 88,092. "Whenever the authorities of a town shall be commanded to levy and collect taxes to pay a judgment rendered against it, they may appoint a special tax collector to collect the same. (Acts, 1876-77, chap. 257.) But this power to appoint such a collector is additional, and does not abridge their right to require the collections to be made by the regular officer ap pointed for that purpose." Webb vs Beaufort, 88, 496. "Gambling being an offence under the general law (chap. 29. Acts of 1891) a city ordi nance covering the same subject is- void." State vs. McCoy, 116, 1859. "The Code, section 3799, does not empower a town to pass an ordinance forbidding one who sells liquor to occupy his own premises between cer tain hours. It is familiar learn ing that an agent, acting under a power of attorney, cannot maxims delegatus non pro- 0 , V .i : Truer, SMr-lthcnm nd Edema. TEST dklkisari applies to the j The intense itching nnd smarting inci legislature or a CO-ordinate 'dent to these diseases, is instantly alia red branch of the government, ex ercising authority derived from the Constitution, as well . to J agencies constituted by the or-: dinary power of attorney exe- cuted by an individual "Anj svi.ri;nnrw.i ' n:n,Ai xr- ordinance, says Dillon (1 Man- ley, Sec. 325) " cannot legally" be made, which contravenes a ! 1 . ... common, or common law right, . unless the power to do so be j plainly conferred by a"validand competent legislative grant." State vs. Thomas 118,-1221. Municipal authorities having power to abate nuisances, can not absolutely prohibit a lawful business not necessarily a , nui sance. An ordinance prohibiting anything lawfuj in itself and not necesarily dangerous is void. To render an ordinance of a town effectual and valid, it must be reasonable impartial and not against the general policy of the State. State . vs. Taft, 118, 1190. The board of town Commis sioners like magistrates have no general powers, but only those that are specially, delegated to them, and as the legislature is only an agent of the Constitu tion, the legislature can only delegate such powers as the Constitution has not, but per mits to be delegated, not con travening any vested or common right. F. P. J. .. . The United States Tha Greatest, Incredible though it may seem forty million men could be plirced in the field. This means that all over the globe one man in every forty of the population is ready for the fray. According to the London Daily Mail's es timate the United States can call upon a greater number of trained soldiers than any other country in the world. Although, the standing army numbers only 27.000 men, each State has to support its own militia, and should it become necessary as a last resource upward of seven and a half million men could assist-in maintaining the inde pendence of the States. To de fend the coast there would be a navy of some seventy ships, with 10,000 men. Of the Eu ropean armies the biggest is that of France. The number of men in the .active army and its reserves is 2,350,000. The ter ritorial army is 900,000 strong, and its reserve 1,100,000, mak ing a total of some 4,350,000. It is not likely, however, that under any conceivable circum stances more than two a half ! million men could be called out. i tne iPiUS TT' u,m V ' The navy with 451 ships, niso prano and the alto would no has a reserve of 114,000 nien onger raise a barbary over the of whom about 25,500 are serv- ! amtoiu; All would be peace, ingatthe present time with! 1 hen with a phonograph ser the fleet. Next in point of num-j on t," h"1 warden, the har- ,.n n Arnr fWuino- rnm dCaCOH Of the elder, as tllt-CasC . Tl,o W rrnrl! ,f tl,n cfnn.i;.m nrmv i nl win t r I 520,000. There has been nort,m V 4mT I ! late return of the war strength :! preach over 20 minutes the con- k.,4. w.,..:-.. igregation could stop it without manr would havtt :m . nrmv 0f not far short of three millions trained men, while 22,000 men could man the 220 o constituting the navy. The third great power is Russia. " The total peace foot of th; t cl,u!ch a.nl al.n country is 900,000, an the w;ir ; o that th ollerings of he pec -footing 2,000,000. Tho navv: pl can be quickly and easily consists of 1G0 ships, manneil , collated, as. ,s done in the de- by 32,000 men, Italv can boat of an army numl ering :j,o:ju,-; 000, of which nearly a Jpiarter million are under arms, 000,000 are on unlimited leave and 530,000 are mobile militia and'b.. t.. tr.e.blj orprUe lu i and 1,050,000 are territorial militia. The navv comprises 21,500 men and 220 ships. From a military point of view Great Britian ill compares with m 1 I fPI her European neignoors. inei total of all branches oi tne ser vice only amounts to . 71o,0oi, and of these only CG5,154 are classed as effective. The regu- lar forces at home and the col - ni nnlr numlr 147.105. the ' army reserve is 80,100, the mil - 14?l'1?4, th,6 yemBS5ri roV I UIU iiliu luc i vtuiiivt o .--"- The British navy, therefore, should at ail times Ik? a remark- abl- strong one. Philadelphia".! i-t:ir at i.iv-r Tonic an.r u jn: Record. ! llN f T llpttut si? oy applying unantfjer Iain's Eye and Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases have been permanently cnrtsl by it. It I eqnally effluent for itching piles and IJnbU! Tw-Ptttli mid chronic sore eyes. -25 cts.per box. ' . , , "r J Condition Tomler, are jnst what a. horse needs when irT bad condition. Tonic, blood purifier and IfJWP. a not S00- Vut medicine and the best in use to pnt a horse In prime condition. Price 23 cents per package. For sale by N. B. Hoop, Drug gist, Dunn, N. C. The Phonograph in Church- America has been famous for its labor-saving inventions for two centuries. Invention after invention , has been made by which machinery takes the place of human hands and steam and electricity supersede muscle. But the Rev. Mr. Sainmis, of New Jersey, has taken the prize. It is true that the Rev. Mr. Sam mis did not invent anv new ma chinery, but he nwule a new ap plication.' of the phonograph which promises 'marvelous re sults and is susceptible of an al most indefinite extension. The other Suntlay after the congre gation had gathered the minis ter imlimbered -a phonograph and the services for the day be gan. First there was a, fine vio lin solo, then tire machine read a psalm in excellent style, then it prayed a prayer and then it sang a hymn, and finally it pro nounced the benediction. The good people went to their homes beatified, having been prayed for and blessed by inachin ery. Only one thing more was needed for the complete success ofthe enterprise. The phono graph should have preached tho sermon. Then the preacher could havo remained quiet at his home and rested. And while he was resting he could have enjoyed the consciousness that his flock was being fed. The advantages of the sermon preached by phonograph aro manifest. The struggling con gregation in the country can en joy at a moderate expense tho sermons of the highest priced city divines. The expense of public worship would be so re duced by this labor-saving me thod that the 'church fair, tho grab-bag, the raffle, the Trilby part would no longer bo re quired. To do away with the church choir might bring peace. It wouldabolish flirting in tjie country church ; it would put an end to the contention ofthe bass aiid the treble for the smiles of it... I i : -1 1 1. ""gilt COUld gO be, could go to sleep . .if i: .1... .1 " " I Ollt IHI J I1LT 1 11" lilt " uuiuK nu- l'nT.u-iu. The Rev. Mr. Sammis. is a gentle man having a large head plcn- M vrsse'ls'b" furnished with gray mat ter, it oniy remains now ior i"" '- ; ; Mr J.'hu iV'erBoo, of Paioutville, ' ' , i? r.-r I'ltnie-u iitO'Hi.c ne i l.. i i u-.lfl m irh ilj rutt ry aiid I h. i . i f the ictor tu r . ,w Ch-..iUin,i J 1 (..,fc (;,.,..f4 ... u .ir' uj i Kftuedr, u 1 i t.i reii gur- 1 pn-, thr-- i if.; ihat reui.djr if iuJ p-niMutnt core. Mr. - 'A m. ' M.-N. .. . w. h kM. u.-rciiaoi of lL V " w l , " "d . ,tt'"t ,u tU.e 1 v N It Hoed. D.uggi.t II.,,,, ! - . ,"., .., P. iA .. ,.r. riluT. Kcinov'4K It.tl.ii4ies4 wiilioiit pur;;!"?. A" ilei:iiil a iuoji Syrup. It ta l-irc A any PolI.ii mic a.iU re tail for T. - t CJEMllNK.ik for Orove'M Fr ami :riuranlf ' lIooW;(3railli;ni, Piinii. N.C

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