North Carolina Newspapers

' J" Vi V-' pr v .TJgSj "ri ' 1 . '' mill .in S ELK r. u in ii v-r yon see a can or Uaklns: I,,vl." - with the -name and picture, o KI,U' ojn it, it i si guarantee ol purity Tli-'-w-t r cill-IllH" I'owuer h the rst aim cheip vdiT; u. srauus uie. nig 'test l.analv! of any brundi tifihc it a ''trial and yfc'tj vYil mi o! Iht. Sold 'bv ?';'? ! . I. W. JKKXIGAN & CO. i -tf. Dtuiii, N 0 ' V i'i;i li'KSSIONAI, CAltpS I. . W. pou, Attorney-at-Law. SMI 1 Hl-'IKLl), N. c. .iri ful .-ittfiition to- any civil matters i-n-tf'd t hiscarr ni' tht: conns of t! Harnett County : H L Godwin, -4Attoi:ni:v at Law. 1)U!UI, ' - '. ( jf Eli, - next door to r-t Office. N. C. ' a ti " in the courts of Harnett . - - . .1 : . . . i. liii'l ;t i 1 1 1 1 1 1 couiuie.- anu in ine K, ii.-i;ii 't.ni t-. : l'riniit ;it ifiitioii ivMi to all busines W- E- Murcliison, JONKSBORO, N. C. ri;H !i s I. ay in Harnett, Moore and nilj' i fiMintif-i, hit not for fun. 20 1 r. I" Isaac Al- Murchison, FA YET rEVILLE, N C. I'm. !i. c- Law in CuinbcrlaiMi, Harnett Iti i! :invwti'ie services are wanted. j ' TOWN; DIRECTORY. : CHURCHES. M i IhmJU-I Church: Ue v. E. C. Sell, Pastor, hi rvit cM llr.st Sunday Highland fourth Sun-laj- iiKiriiin initl 'night. Prayeriueeting vi i-j j Uli'din'silay - iiiht. t-vi'iy Mfiluhty lnui'iilng1 at U ran Hi. 'i iir su iieruitondeu t. Sunday schcel 18 o'clock, O. K. li.iitist Church. Rev. L. R., Carroll, pastor. Sorvjccs evt-ry second Sunday morning and iiifjht. rrayenrieetlug' every Thursday night Suinlay Stlliind every. Sunday morning, R. O TavlnrSuiKTiiiteiident. ' 1 i rresliytorian cChurch. Rev. A. M. Hassel Hstur. ' services' very first and fifth Sunday ujoniiii!,' and night, Sunday school every Sunday iiioriiiiiij, M. L. W ade Superintendent. liseiile ChurchRev. I. W. Rogers, pas tor. Services every third Sunday morning aiui night. hristian Endeavor Society every Tuesday iii-iit. Sunday School every' Sunday evening ht vi o'clock, McL'. Holliday Supt. I Free Will Baptist cVureh. Elder R. C. Jarksdii, pastpr.-: Serviced every second Sun day morning and night. - . " Primitive Baj.tist. Church on Broad street EMer W.u. Turner, Pastor. Regular servi-c'-! on the third Sabbath luorning, and Satur day lie fore, iii each month at 11 o'clock. El dur I". l.-(M, of Wilson, editor of Zlon's l.nhdinark, preaches at this church on the .fourth Sunday evening in each month at"$ pVlock. Everybody is invited to attend Ulcst- services. " , ' ' j YoiimjMeiis' Uiiion Prayer meeting every jMijidny evening at -i o'clock and Friday night at -:M) o'clock. All are cordially invited to ptteiul these services. An invitation is ex- tti'iuivd to the. visitors.' v LODGES. Lu. kiunv Lodge, No. 115, I. O. O.F. Lodge r nun ver J. I). Barnes' store. Regular ineet iug on every Monday night. L. H.iee, N. Q.; C, H. extoii, v. G.; G. K. Grantham, Secrer tary. All o,ni Fellows are cordially Invited to attend. Palmyra Lodg , No. 117. A. F. & A. M. Hall over Free Will Baptist church. F. P. Jonea u - M ; W. A. Johnson, S. W.; E. A. Jones J-;)V .; J. '-G: Johnson. Secretary. Regular C'niimiiiiications are held on the 3rd Satur day ax iy o'clock A. M., and on the 1st Friday at 7:3o o'clock ii. m. in each month. All Ma S'Mis in good standing are cordially Invited Kattcml these communications. Co i' sty Officers. sl'ri'.T.J. Poi.e. ( l-'k. F..M. McKay. K- gistor of Deeds, J. McK. Byrd. Treasurer, G.D.Spence. -. '""roller, J. J, wilsou. Surveyor, J. A. O'Kelly. bounty Examiner, Rev. J. A.Campbell. ' njinissioners : J. A. Green, Chairman HA-N. Bizzell and Neill McLeod. fJ TOWN OFFICERS. H. I.. Godwin, Mayor. .Commissioners V.K yJ-"- Vomig, j. j. Dupree, J. H. Pope and V.- f- rearson. (J.F. sncad. Policeman. ' ' steam launch with sixteen lassi'iijprs on board was' swept u)7'i the dam at Fair Mount Falls in the Schuj-lkill river Saturday and all the occupants tju-own into the water. Three young women of the party were 'how ned. v Pllwiu( Air, clerk in the - Vw lNjrt Ky .postoffic, was -aturday sentenced to eighteen nioiVths in the Columbus peni- ntiary for breaking . open let tLTS - . i ELK ELK I J: , W. L Douglas $3 Shoe. Stylish, durable, perfect fittinj. Endorsed by over 1,00000 wearers. V. U Douglas $30, $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, $Z0, $2 and $ 1.75 Boys . Wenteon1ythebe8tCalf,Ru8IaCalf,Frencl Patent Calf; French Enamel, Vlcl Kid, etc., graded to correspond with prices of the aboea. If dealer cannot supply yon, write Catalofffree. W. L.DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mats. SOLD BY J. A. MASSENG-ILX & Co Dunn, N. C- Items of Interest to the La dies, FURNISHED B"V OUR Correspondent. THE TECHNIQUE OF REST. Much has been said of the ne cessity for "slumber schools." and the like. It is; also said that the American people, and especially the American women iaye forgotten how to rest. If this be so, this lost art may be re-acquired by following the rules laid down by Anna C. Brackett in Harper's Maga zine. . She begins by asking. What shall people ; do who are con scious that they are overdraw ing their deposits in the bank of nervous supply, and yet must- go on working, and . continual- Of course every one can easi 3 see that in such ri case we must cut off all unnecesary .ex penditures of nerve force, and that we must deposit the largest possible amount of the same ; for, after all, our nerve force, as has been, said before, is our life. Without it and enough of it, we cannot digest our foods nor even keep our hearts beat ing. Everything that we do and that we think stop, when that stops, and if we have not enough to run the whole com plex machinery in the complex conditions of our modern life, some one of the organs of our body will h aye to suffer, just as some of the poor man's chil dren have to go barefoot if there are not shoes enough to go around. So we must 'give at tention to the food we eat, that it shall be of a sort to digest ea sily, and to furnish the greatest posible amount of nourishment with the ledst possible amount of work put upon the digestive organs. Remember, we have no force to throw away in any department. Economy of ex penditure must , be the univer sal rule if the working condition is to be maintained. Next, as supplying 'food for the tired brain perhaps I should have; said first comes sleep; for it is only when we are dreamlessly asleep that the brain is, not working, be it nev so slowly. Always while we are awake we are thinking .about something ; that is, we are breaking down and reducing brain cells to the, condition of useless matter. Even the slight est fancj that flits through the mind asfwe lie on the grass and imagine that we are doing noth ing, does not fail to reduce our active power; and even if we had been made capableof abso lute idleness, all the operations of our bodies; which are neces sary to the preservation of life such as the beating of our heart and the muscular movements which carry on respiration, de mand for their performance a certain amount of the total nerve force of the body. When we are asleep truly, the outgo is re duced to a-najiiimum, while the repairing forces still remain bu sily at work during our slumber and that is the explanation of the feeling of refreshment which we have after a night of quiet sleep. It is amazing how much even five or ten minutes of un consciousness will do towards this-refreshment showing how "Prove all great is the repairing power of sleep. Take all the quietness that is possible for you. Avoid all unobjectified motion. I mean; if you are waiting for a car, do not describe arabesques with the end of your umbrella in the mud or dust of the sidewalk. Do not play with your shopping bag ; let your watch chain obey the impulse of gravitation with out interference from you ; sit perfectly still at the table, and let your knife and .your napkin , . T . 1 ring rest, too. it would seem that I am unnecessarily repeat ing only tlie r ules df good-breed ing ; but it will do no harm to repeat tnem wnen tney coin cide, as here, with the laws of desired health. To have the mind habitually full of the petty details of every day life is; as many a mother of a family sorrowfully knows, to become absolutely unable to read anytning out tlie daily paper and to see herself compelled to much the same life as that of the tread-mill horse ; to feel her self sent out from all the broad and life-giving currents of thought, to find herself at last unable to interest or even to amuse those whom sne longs to serve, and tp see herself growing old before her time. For nothing cuts the wrinkles of age so . quickly and surely as the holding of the mind on the petty trifles of every day ; nothing keeps man or woman young and fresh like broad and deep mental activity. use, then, your little memoran dum book it must be little, so that you can have it with you always-4-to keep 'safe for you the things which you have to do for every day, and save your mind to do what the Creator intended to do to grow and develop con-J tinuallyL But -and this is often the most important thing to be said there is nothing which will give a chance for rest to over tired nerves so surely as a sim ple religious faith in the over ruling, wise, and tender Provi dence which has us in its keep ing. It is in chafing against the conditions of our lives that we tire ourselves immeasurably. It is in being anxious about things which we cannot help that we often do the most of our spending. A simple faith in God which practically and every moment, and not only theoreti cally and on Sundays, rests on the knowledge that he cares for us at least as much as we care for those who are the dearest to us, will dp much to give the tired nerves the feeling of -the bird in its nest. Do not spend what strength you have, like the clematis in climbing on your self, but lay hold on things that are eternal, and the peace of them will pass into your soul like a healing balm. Put your self in the great everlasting cur rents and then you can rest on your oars and let those currents bear you on their strength. The Wedding Ring. The associations called up by a wedding ring are very touch ing, and it is the last thing that even the poorest wife will part with. If it ever was consider ed a badge of servitude it now is much more suggestive of queenship and sovereignty. An old Latin writer thus describes thering: It is circular, because the mutual love and hearty af fection of matrimony should be forever, their continuity remain ing as unbroken as the circlet itself. It is ail old -and explod ed -notion that the ring is placed upon the 'fourth finger because a small artery onnects with the heart. The real rea son probably is that :he left hand. is not used as much as the right, and the fourth finger less than the other fingers .--Ex. When Baby was sick, ire gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castori. -When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. William Jones, a negro fish- erman, was iouna aeaa m tlie Roanoke river at Weldon Sat urday morning. t things; hold fast th at which is good." OUrsirSI, IM. C, IVIAY 19, Out on the Sea- Out on the sea, the dark pad sea. Where the breakers are wildly tossing The clouds hang low with misty tears, For another soul js crossing. The boat has slipped from the srolden sands. ,Out on the sea so dreary, And stern-faced Charon bears away ; To where there 13 rest for if$ wearY. Out on the sea, the dark, sad sea, Where the shadows are grayly sifting. 'Neath the cold, cold hand of iy death My life, and my hopes are drifting. And all is but darkness and dread de spair In face of the viewless ages : For 'tis written in letteis that sear the soul ; That for living death is the vages. O restless sea! O dark, sad.se ! WIio.e waters are onward moving. Bring back a message, th n voiceless wave, ' A hope and a promise; proving. But the answer that comes is the surf's sullCh roar, . .j ( And foam on the waters gleaming; But in the dim future we know there is i i . .. dawn, When we've passed through the dark ness of dreaming. Stella Pearl Harris, in Chicago Inter Ocean . ATRIP TO E."L,AI'1. As Seen lv n. Tourist on aWiiecl The American traveller ar riving at Liverpool finds every convenience for forwarding him to his destination, both he-and his baggage, after the latter has been examined by the customs, are quickly transferred 1 to the train and he can speed . on his way. Our experience as cyclists is that the Custom House offi cers rarely cause us mucl troub le, since we cany very little baggage and are therefore under small suspicion of introducing protected articles into the coun try without duty paid. . We had no need to avail ourselves of the excellent transit- arrangements but mounted our machines and made our wav thrpugh the crowded streets to the centre of the city. The streets' are well paved with Belgian Blocks but we were glad to strike the wood en pavement at last and show ourselves off in Bold Street, the most fashionable street of the city. In Bold Street all thel best cycle shops are situated and there we finished making our outfit. Our party were al ready familiar with Liverpool, and we stopped only long enough to complete our J outfit and take necessary refreshment. We however recommend the American tourist to spend a few days in Liverpool, a city which ought to be of interest to South erners as the chief market of Southern raised cotton. It is all about the streets near the exchanges and cotton brokers rooms. There are splendid jmb lic libraries and fine art gallery and immense stores ; The Landing Stage is a cosmopoli tan promenade. After a few hours in city we crossed the Mersey to Birkenhead where the riding part of our journey really began. Birkenhead is like some, of our American towns, "an unfinished dream'' and has been described as the last part of creation which the Creator left unfinished. Here are situated the fine shipbuild ing yards of Messrs. Laird, where the Alabama was fitted out for her ; adventurous cruise. The road from Birkenhead funs direct 16 miles to Chester. It is a good and level road, a favorite spin for Liverpool and Birken head cyclists on runs parallel to holidays'. It the river, so one gets glimpses of the ship ping, including some of Eng land's old "wooden walls," now usedfor training and industrial purposes. The country one passes through is rather flat and uninteresting, having enough woodland to keep it from look ing to bare. We were passing through the country of Cheshire, famous for its cheese made from the milk of the cows raised in its rich pastures. On the way we passed wha is a familiar ob ject in an English landscape, a village church. The country churches, mostly of ancient date, are nearly always square towered, built of stone, of many styles of architecture,, the addi tions of various, periods,' Gothic a 4nd Early English predominat ing. We met a brother cyclist 18T: I .. 7 " 1 ruefully wiping himself and his machine down, after a fall (ing out) on the road. Not far from one portion of this road is the estate of Mr. Ismay of the well known White ' Star Line. We have a lively recollection of our first encounter with the English gamekeeper of this place. He wanted us to try how it felt to be dog bit or receive a charge of small shot from his gun. All this fuss because we picked his Lordship buttercups. As regards the dog, the game-keeper was wjthin liis rights as every dog in England is entitled to his first bite. Soon the tower of Chester Cathedral came in sight and in this city we stopped short time. For a small sum of money, a verger took us, as one might say, "from basement to garret through dark passa ges in the thickness of the walls, which any one unacquainted with such building, could never imagine to be there, up to the belfry, where there are enor mous bells and at last to the summit of the Tower, from whence one could survey the city and a wide expanse of coun try around, with the River Dee, making its way to the sandy estuary andthe Welsh hills loom- ig in the distance. Mr. W. EJ Gladstone's farm is not far off, we can refer our readers to the excellent account of it in "The Out Look." Eaton Wall some miles up the Dee is the seat of the Duke of Westmin ster and a beautiful place. As we! made our way by the river it was crowded with measure )oats. To those of antiquarian tastes Chester is a happy hunt ing ground. The Rows are a curious row of houses, the up per chambers project over the ower so that a kind of elevated arcade is formed, reached by steps from the streets. These louses have many curious carv ings inside and - out. The old city walls are still standing, they are wide enough -for several per sons to walk abreast and have small towers projecting from them; "The memories of the past cling" to everything. (To be Continued.) Art of Man- Let us paus for a moment What has man don for hies self or hies neighbor, hies country or fellow man. man has mad the pen thate I yous now it is won of the grandest envenchens ewer yoused bey man. man envented the Prenten Press A grand envenchen as ever has ben in a mearica it prents the neus in al partes of thies World it lias prented an wil prent the Word of god, for al peple to reed. If it was not for the. art of man. we woud not labear in thies , school room to day Let us nodies a Jan what man has a compliched man has draun the most bautaful pict urs that he eye of man evvear flached .bvear the grandest an nobest bauteful Pictures man or Ladey haf draun man caugt the! pour of steam won moning from a tee cattel that was boil ing he saw the steam had to com out som whear, he ses if I coud confind it in a vessel and let it out thrue a smaa! space ho vr much pour wod it have, matt envented the steam enJine that is to da' shuten ' thrue the tunnels an overs the yallies It wil carry you any whear you walito geo on thies erth. Man envented the Telagraph, it wil give you the news from enny point at enny time. - Arte of man envented the Tel afon Sou you can ast a friend enny a question from adiestens. I can not give ryou al the par ticleors. The above composition is word for word and original spelling of one written by a young man in a mountain vil lage of Western North Carolina. He was splendid in arithmetic but in grammar and spelling was deficient. At the insane asylum at Pe tersburg, Va.t Saturday Ran dolph King an inmate, struck Otto Templeton, another inmate on the head with a scouring mop killing him almost instant- iy. Subscribe for TnE Union. THE STATE SUPERINTEN DENT ON IMPORTANT SCHOOL TOPICS. To THE FKIENDS OF Pontic Education: I .wish to explain one or two importautchanges in tlie school law as enacted by tlie last Gen eral Assembly of North Caro lina. First : The township is to be the unit of our public school system. The public schools in the township are under the con trol and management of the five school committeemen. These men have large discretion as to establishing schools in their townships. As a matter of fact under the old law in many instances there are three huts, not school houses, each re ceiving about $75 per year. Un der the new law it is possible to have instead of the three cabins one good" school house, near the centre of the territory covered by the three cabins and have $225 for this school. Instead of having three $15 teachers, we may have one good $50 man or woman that may do, more for the school children in four months than under the old sys tem was done in two or three years. Who would not rather send his children two or even three miles to a school that is a school on the corner of his farm? I am aware that some are very much opposed to the township system on account of . school houses being near them, and on account of work or money spent on some of these houses. I hope those persons will take a liberal view of these matters, lay aside personal preference and join in hearty co-operation for the greatest good to the greatest .number. When we unite the small schools into , one good strong school with one en ergetic live teacher, then and not till then, may we expect to have public schools of such force and character that will be felt in our State. Second: The election to be held Tuesday after the second Monday in August, is worthy of vour careful consideration. This election is to be held in ev ery township. The county commissioners at their June meeting are to give notice of of this election in every county in North Carolina. Any township that voters-, to tax itself $500 for public schools will receive $500 fronj the State Board of Education. Or if this amount is raised in private sub scription for a township, ;the same amount may be received from the State Board of Educa- tion. amends, do not necome alarmed when you hear the wo"rd tax. I am aware that our country people do have a hard time to pay their taxes, but con sider how little would Ik; the tax on each one in a township; in order to raise $1,500 and then lave this supplemented by the State with $500, making $2,000 in addition to what school fund you now have. Suppose where we now have twelve schools in a township we make only eight strong schools, eacli one would receive from the $2,000 $250 ; add this $250 to your regular schoVjl fund; if; we can put three of the $75 schools togeth er, then we would have $250 plus $225, which is $447 (or each school. Now, my friends, do not say that all this looks very well on paper, but it can not be done in our State. I tell you it can be done ; and when we have $475 for our pub-, lie schools in our State, then will have- a right to demand professional teachers in our, public schools. What right have we to talk about professional teachers in bur public schools with only $75 or $100 a year to pay such teachers. Third : I would like to re move, if possible, the idea that some of our people have in re gard to teachers' salaries. I have heard school committee man compare the time of school teachers with that of the wood chopper, the ' ditcher and the ordinary laborer. I have not aught to say against any man who does this sort of work it is honorable ' and right, but No. 19. Tetter, S.iU-ltheum and Ecxrrna. . The intense itching and smarting, inci dent to these diseases, la instantly allayed by applying Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment. Many very bad cast's have been permanently cured by it. It is eqnally efficient for itching piles and lavonie remeur ror eore nipples, chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites ana enrome sore eyes. 23 eta. per box. . Ir. Cadj Condition Powders, aTe just -what a horse needs when In bad condition. Tonic, blood purifier and vermirnge. Ther are not food but medicine and the best in use to put a horse f in prime condition. Price 25 tents per pacnage. For sale by N. B. Hoon, Drug gist, Dunn, N. C. what I want to call your at tention to is that a man's edu cation is his investment. Let us see what an ordinary edu cation costs. In time it costs six years ; 'two year prepara tory, and four years in college. We will saj- the cost of the pre paratory education is $300, of , the college four years at $250 each, making a cost of $1,300. The six years' time spent in school would bo worth' at Irast 900. Thus we see the total cost of an ordinary education, in time and money, is about $1, 900. These figures mean strict economy on the part of the stu dent. The interest on this edu cation is 32 cents per day at f per cent, interest. Now what farmer, or what business man would invest $1,900 and compare his income with the 25 cent woodchopper, or the ordinary laborer who has invested neith er time nor money? I C. H. Mkhank, Supt; of Public Instruction in News and Observer. : Tampering With Sin i ' i Wo cannot consider sin to be, a light thing. Has not God told us plainly that it is hateful in His sight? Have we not abun dant illustrations showing that the least sin if wo may, speak of it iii any comparative sense "bringeth forth death?" Wo have not yet come to true knowl edge if we ever regard it as per missible. '"Whosoever shall keep the whole law. and offend in one point, he is guilty of all." Tho evil having found a place within tlie heart, unless washed, must olfend ever) good principle in the moral code. Unforgiven, the sinner is under condemnation as truly as he who breaks tlie whole law. How, then, can we Indulge conscious enmity or continue in practices that' conscience con demns, and still regard ourselves safe? Do you suppose that our mere outward profession will avail any tiling in God's sight? No man can touch fire and not 1 suffer ; no more can a soul cher ish evil in thought" or life and not be harmed. Who can livn in a malarial atmosphere with out experiencing its baneful ef fects? On what ground do we think our choice of evil associates will not work death in our spiritual habits?. Just here 'we find the destructive influence of much of our current literature. The treachery of corruption appears on almost every page. False ideals of life and pre verted sen timents concerning virtue are surreptitiously taught in mani fold ways. The fascinating charm of style and language too often excuses the unhallowed teaching. Thus an atmosphere of poison envelopes thereader ; conscience is ma!de dull truth loses its power because the spir itual faculties are. made incap able of receiving truth. Do not tamper with sin. "Kerp thy heart with all dili gence ; for out of it are the is sues of life. Put away from ?thee a froward mouth, and per verse lips put far from, thee. Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine, eyes look straight 1 fore thee. Ponder the path of thy feet and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left ; re move thy foot from evil. I). II. Tuttle in Progressive Farmer. John E. Doehring, ex-treasurer of Belville, 111., was short in his accounts and could not make settlement and committed suicide Saturday by hanging himself. v. .