"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Vol. '6.
OUIMIM, IM. C, JUIME 2, 1897.
No. 21.
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...iy ' V.-.tneslay ullit. Suk day .-ye he el
i v. iy .ini.iv momiiifr at lflo VloekO . K.
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liapti-t i liiin-li.- Rev. L. It. Carroll, i-astor.
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'in.:iy .. f t very Sunday morning, R. O
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li.--J t . rian ' Church. --Ilov. A. M. Ha.ssol
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in. .nun's' ami nijfh't, Sunday school every
sin..l.iy in. riiiiis'. M. L-AV ade,Suierhitt;nden't.
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Tu. ...iay ni-M. Sunday School every Sunday
:vnii.s: at i .."eloi-U, Me 5). Holliday Sup.t. ,'
l'r.-.- r.ai.tist .Church. Elder R. G.
Ja.-U..u. j.iUtor. Services every second Sun-.
la v in. .riling aiid liisiit. .' ' -
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WHAT IS THE LAW?
Infants Tri Kin anility to
M A K K Ci N TRACTS .
All infant cjinnot make any
contract. that" will bo upheld.
either In' a court of law or equi
ty, unless it be for necessaries,
such as board, and perhaps
medicinal services and tuition,
and the like but in these in
stances the infant must be an
orphan as well as an infant,
for the law is very careful in its
considerations of the' creative
comforts of infants, and anv
parent or other persons standing-
in Loci parents, failing to
provide .- adequate support and
maintenance for such infant is,
both by the common as well as
the statute, law, guilty of a mis
demeanor', and subject by the
laws of 18(J.'- to a fine or im
prisonment," or both. ;
If an infant makes a contract,,
for instance executes a note, or
mortgage, or other obligatory
paper, or conveys land, either
al sol utely. or by way of mortr
gage, can at any time thereaf
ter, either during infancy or
any time within- three years
after arriving at full age, disaf
firm such a contract, or convey
ance, and annul the whole
thing"; and should the infant be
a female, and marry before com
ing of full age, she can disaffirm
said contract or avoid her con
veyance of the land at any time
within three years after the
death of her husband ; for,
speaking as a lawyer, "(while an
unmarried lad' never gets ol
der than 1(5 years, ) a married
ladv never gets older than she
is the day she marries, until af
ter the death of her husband,
for her existence is merged in
that of her husband husband
during marriage, by operations
of law ; hence the law says that
she is incapable of asserting her
right in oar courts during the
marriage state, and therefore
will not sutler any of her rights
to be impaired until she has,
had a reasonable time in which
to assert and protect her rights
three years after the death of
her husband. .
"A conditional promise by
one, after having reached his
majority, to pay a note given
during his infancy, the promise
being hedged about with the
statement that he would when
he could do so without incon
venience to himself, and with a
refusal to fix a time for pay
ment,' does not amount to a
ratification, since in order , to
amount to a ratification of a
voidable instrument by an in
fant the promise, must be uncon
ditional, express, voluntary, and
with a full knowledge that lie
is not bound by law to pay the
original obligation." Bresee
vs. Stanley, 110-278. ''Where
a married woman, who was at
the time a minor, applied for a
loan, and executed a note and a
mortgage purporting to convey
her separate real estate to se
cure the note given for the loan :
Held, that fraudulent represen
tations made by her at the time
the note was executed, that she
was twenty-one years of age,
will not es'top her to insist upon
the invalitoy of the mortgage,
thouglihirrepresentations were
material inducements towards
the working of the law."' Loan
Association vs Blaek, 119-323.
In the case of State vs How-
jard, 88-G50, which was an in-
dictment for disposing of mort
jgage property, the Supreme
Court held : that the defendant
being under the age of twenty
one years when he executed the
the mortgage, that in law, there
was no mortgage, for an infant
cannot, in law make a mortgage
there being an executory con
tract in all mortp-ao-es. To re-
peat, an infant, while . such,
cannot make a binding con
tract, except for necessaries,
which include such things as
his meat, drink, apparel, physic,
nursing while sick, schooling
etc. , and even in these cases
there must be an actual necessi
ty for the infant to make the
contract, i. e., that there is no
one else whose duty it is to
make the contract for him.
In Tillman "vs. Bridges, 4,
Jones, 1, which was an action
brought against an infant to re
cover the value of timber fur
nished him to build a house on
his land, it was, held it was not
a necessaiy.
In the case of Skinner vs.
Maxwell, GG, 45 it is decided
that when an infant purchases
a stock of goods for the purpose
of trade or merchandise,, and to
secure the ru rch ase money exe
cutes a note and mortgage of
the stock of goods, such con
tract is voidable, and may be
disaffirmed by such infant by
any act which manifests such
purpose.
the reason assigned by the law
for all this is to prevent the in
fant from being exposed to the
misfortune of entering upon
adult life with the burdens of
bankruptcy resting upon him.
There is one contract that an
infant can and often does make
that is upheld by the law and as
to where it is a. necessary or not
the reader is left to . decide for
himself. Marriage is termed
in law, "A civil contract," and
whatever hardship the law ma'
seemingly put on those under
twenty-one years it has never
been so unkind as to tell the
ardent lover that he and his
best girl . must will till
must will till 21UV alwavs scrapecihis f00t on
years passes uv ana x suppose me.
. . ..!. 1 .i t .-. . j-i.v. (
reason of this is that unmarried
ladie
s never irei- 10 oe mat,
old
onl' '-about 1G
' 1
F. P.-J.
Lost
Men who can find their way
through boundless forests and
pver trackless plains may easily
be lost in the streets of a large
city, a truth of which the Tole
do Blade gives an amusing ex
ample.
On a recent trip of the City of
Mackinac with a cargo of horses
for a local lumber firm came a
backwoodsman. He had a
great reputation, as a "land
looker.";; Without a compass,
by the bark and moss on the
trees, he had been known to
traverse a quarter section with
out diverging 20 5 feet from the
straight line fromVstake to stake.
He had heard much of the
city, and thought lie sh&ukl
like to sec some of the wonder
ful things th,at he had been told
about.
He found work at once, his
duties being to deliver lumber
to the retail trade about the
city, lhe first day a man was
sent with him to show him the
way about the town. The next
he was sent out alone, and did
not return, and in the
evening
was found on the outskirts of
the town with his load of lumber
so completely lost arid-'-unhappy
that he had decided to stay there
all night.,
Three times he was sent to
it 1 1 i i 1
deliver lumber and three times
1 . e t- i. f
lit" . iuuuu 111 (iiiuiiivi J
the city. Finally he asked his
employer for transportation
home. Said he, "I do not like
these places where the sunchages
its position every five minutes
and one street is made to go in
four or five different direc
tions." If we sell one bottle of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy, we seldom fail
to sell the same person more, when it
is again needed. Indeed, it has be
omc the family medicine of this town
for cougbs and colds, and we r com
mend it because of its established
merit! Jos E. Harned, Prop. Oak
land Pharmacy. Oakland, Md
Sold' by N. B. Hood, druggist
Dunn, N. C:
TBI'.
Fob The Cniox.
'Try to live life in its fulness, ,
And realize tin beauty it liols.
Try with thy 'might to lift the veil of the
future :
Ami gra.-p wlmt to 3 011 it-uufohls.
Try w ith thy talent to live life riht,
Tho fault U ea.-t upon 3-011 in the strife,
Firmly stai.e! ami piove it in tight
In this h found the sweetness of life.
Try with thy tongue to east the truth
In everj' word, be it gn at or small;
First lean-to guide it while in youth;
Then it will rise agai.i though it may
fall. ' - -
Try thy character to make and keep
white,.
So that the days the future may bring
Will not be sorrow nor even dare to
blight,
The sweet songs hoar' years ma
. v ish to bring.
Try with kindness to make other happy,
You t an lighten their burden or pain
I;y even smiling and .saying to them
.This will be your eternal gain.
Try with thy smiles to suppress sorrows;
Even forge l the past, with all its
wrpngs
But now take up the work of the Master
To whom it all rightly belongs.
J. L.-1I. 1
Falcon. Nr C.
Mav20.:T07.
America, One Hundred Years Ago.
There was not a public libary
in the Unitid States.
Almost all the furniture was
imported from England.
An old copper mine in Con
necticut wa? used as a prison.
There whs only one hat fac
tory, and that made cock e d
hats.
Every gentlemen wore a
queue and powder-.nl his. hair. -
Crockery plates were object
ed to because they dulled the
knives. -
Virginia contained a fifth of
the - whoJL population h of the
country.
A man who j e e r c d at the
preacher or criticised the sermon
was fined.
A srentleinan bowing to a la-
y "
the ground.
Two stage
coaches bore all
the travel
between New York
and Boston.
A day laborer considered him
self well paid with two shillings
a day.
The whipping-post and pillo
ry were still standing. in Boston
and New York.
Beef, pork, salt fish, potatoes
and hominy were the staple diet
all the .year round'. j
Buttons were scarce and ex
pensive, and the trousers were
fastened with pegs or laces. I
A new arrival in a jail was
set upon by his fellow-prisoners
and r 0 b b e d of everything he
had. -
When a man had enough tea
he placed his spoon across his
cup to indicate that he wanted
no more. 1
Leather breeches, a checked
shirt, a red flannel jacket and a
cocked hat formed the dress of
an artisan.
The church collection was ta
ken in a bag at the end of a pole
hvith a bell to arouse sleepy con-
tributors. St. Louis ; (ilobe
Democrat. During the summer of 1891, Mr.
Chas P. Johnson, a well known at
torney of Louisville, Ky., bad a se
vere attack of summer complaint!
'Quite a number of different remedies
were tried, but failed to afford any
relief. A friend who knew what waa
needed procured him a bottle of Cham
berlaiu'a Colic, Cholera and Diarrboe
Remedy, which quickly cured him
4VCUiC J' . . . ,V
and he thinks, saved his life, lie
eays that there has uot beeu a day
since that time that he has not had
this remedy in li s household. He
speaks of it in ihe highest paai&e and
takes pleasure in reenmmending it
whenever an opportunity is offered,
for sale by N. B. Hood, Druggist
Dunn. N. C.
John L. Davis, a notorious
moonshiner of Moore county,
was convicted and sentenced to
14 months in the United States
penitentiar at the sitting of
the Federal court last week.
Davis is said to have been
moonshining for 27 years and
has six wives and thirty-nine
children.
The Mission of Tineas-
.Eneas was the son of An-
chises and Venus, and the fame
of the Tat her has been thrown
into shade by that of the son,
-Kiieas was ranked next to Hec
tor the brave, and was engaged
in the ten years struggle be-
tween the Greeks and the Tro
jans. Etieas, though warned
by the gods in the night when
tlie (jrreeks entered lroy, to
take his house-hold gods and
flee from the impending doom
of the city, remained in the con
test until Priam fell. The last
day has come, and the inevita
ble doom. The Troyfof walls is
razed to the ground. A great
miracle is performed, the god
of Ik nea's, the god of the uni
verse, will not permit his mer
ciful intentions to be: crushed by
the disobedience and stratagem
of the Greeks, lly his infinite
power the brave hero escapes
the trembling walls of the burn
ing Troy and wanders over some
lonely path until he reaches the
mountains of Phrygia where
the woods are in their Summer
beauty and the ground carpeted
with a rich mosaic of flowers.
He soon collects a fleet of twen:
ty vessels and sets sail across
the unknown seas. With tears,
he leaves the shores and ports
of his country, and the plains
where Troy once stood and ap
proaches a land inhabited by an
unknown race.
His last view of his native
land is the smoking Troy, which
is the burial-place of his beloved
comrades. There once was a
Troy ; Troy was, but is no more ;
the place is gone. The won
drous art of navigation might
well'" seem nothing less than
miraculous in an age when all
the forces of nature were person
ified. So, when the great ships
carried out their crew of ancient
heroes on that first voyage of
discovery, in their . prows were
set beams cut from the oak of
Dodona which had the gift of
speech, and gave the voyagers
oracles in their distress. iEne
as and his fleet soon reached
Sicily where his father died.
"Companion of the rocks the livelong-nighty
He dreamed on the shore, but not at rest.
With groans and tears and lingering undellght
Gazed on the pulses; of the ocean's breast."
The heart of yEneas is in his
native island ; but sooth to say
he makes the best of his present
captivity. He decides to con
tinue his destined voyage, and
prepares to set sail a second
time. Scarcely had the Tro
jans, losing sight of Sicily,
launched out into the deep,
Juno espied them. At her com
mand jeoIus lets the winds rush
forth at every vent, and scour
over the lands in a hurricane.
"They jn'ess upon the ocean and
at once plough up the whole
deep from its lowest bottom,
and roll vast billows to the
shores. In an instant clouds
snatch the heavens from the
eyes of the Trojans. Sable
night sits brooding on the sea,
thunder roars Ifrom pole to pole,
the sky glares with repeated
flashes, and all nature threatens
them with immediate death."
"iEneas groans, and spreading
out both hands to heaven, ex
claims : O, thrice and four
times happy they who had the
good fortune to die under the
high ramparts of Troy."
For seven long years he is
tossed on both sea and land and
encounters many pestilences
and wonders of the sea. But
hope is not yet crushed . Eneas
safely reaches Italy where he
visits the Elysian fields.
"The to Elysian fields, earth's farthereat end.
Where Rhadamauthus dwells, the gods shall
send;
Where mortals ea.iest pass the careless hour
2To lingering -winters there, nor snow, nor
shower.
But ocean. ever, to refresh mankind,
Breathes the shrill spirit of the western
wind."
The great Cumean Sibyl ac
companies him to the dwell
ings of the dead, and there
they meet Anchises again and
receive intimations of their fu
ture destiny. iEneas soon
reaches the country of Latinus.
Lavinia, daughter of Latinus,
had been destined to marry a
stranger, but her mother had
promised to give her in mar
riage to Turnus king of the
Brutuli. A mighty war ensued.
"Eneas meets Turnus in single
combat, in which Turnus per
ished at the point of the pois-
ened spear of .Eneas. The war
terminates in the marriage of
Eneas and Lavinia. Their son
J2neas Syloius the ancestor of
the kings of Alba Loiiga and
also of Romulus, and Renins,
who were the founders of im
perial Rome.
Thus we see that .Eneas or
his descendants were thebegin
ners of the great Roman polity,
just as Columbus voyage to
rAmerica led to the founding of
the great American renublic.
1
But the founding of Rome by
.Eneas is not accepted by some
historians as true aiid real his
tory, but oifly as an allegory.
This voyage of .Eneas occurred
in an age when all the natural
forces were personified as living
gods, an age when the gods
walked the earth and mingled
in the affairs of men.
iEneas established his little
band of Trojans in Italy, and
there the Trojans and the Ital
ians blended and moved togeth
er in harmony. iEneas' char
acter presents an imposing com
bination of great qualities. En
dowed with broad human svm-
athies, massive energy, marilv
and affectionate simplicity, and
rich, if sometimes coarse humor;
te is at the same time a great
genius, lie was a leader of
men, and a soldier in the high
est sense. His nowers were
M.
fitted to his appointed task:
A. A.
of Titantic magnitude
and he himself was a Titan in
intellectual robustness and mor-
il strength and courage. It
1 .1
was only trie divine energy
which swayed him and of. which
ic recognized himself the organ,
that could have accomplished
what he did. '
"We are not born for our
selves alone." iEneas was
not, if he had been he never
could have been called the foun
der of that family which is so
well known to us in history, the
members of which were Julius
md Augustus Ca'sar who ruled
in that empire which was once
the proudest of all nations ; that
empire which produced such
sons as the Cavsars, Pompey,
Crassus, Cato and Cicero; that
empire in which lived the learn
ed Varo, the "genial Horace,"
the "sweet strained', Virgil, the
eloquent Livy and the polished
Sallust."
iEneas was the mythological
bunder of the empire which
only a "fanatical and partial
patriotism would deny the
proud privilege of having most
enriched the world with what
the world values most. Neither
Spain, nor France nor Germany
nor even England can boast of
laving grafted civilization on
conquest so successfully and so
widely as Rome.
Religion, science, art, litera
ure, law. all have to trace their
ertilizing streams back to Ita-
y, and notning is more aston
ishing than the persistent vital
ity of Italian civilization.
Italians have had their peri
ods of despondency, and even of
degredation. . What nation has
not? But for nigh on three
thousand years Italy has had its
sculptors, its soldiers, its law
givers, its poets, its searchers of
the stars and its rulers of men.
To every educated person, Italy
is the old country; to every
filial m;nd Rome is the "Alma
genetrix." Only in Rome can
we trace the majestic pageant of
the centuries, following each
other now with elate, now with
faltering footsteps, but always
contributing something to the
onward, if at times devious
march of man. When some
other conception of society shall
have create other Londons and
another Paris, Rome will still
be the foster-nurse of the Poet,
the home of the Archa-ologist,
the goal ofthe artist, the "bourne :
of the pilgrim," and the sanct
uary of the saint. Again .Eneas'
mission was to vanish the lndief
in the existence of such gods as
Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, and
when done the battle of chris
tian faith began and is yet to
reach some parts of the world.
RoiJKKT I L. Godwin.
The famous Roman poet, Vir
gil, in his poem called the
iEueid, beautifully describes
the wanderings of iEneas, a
Trojan prince, and the only-one
of the many who so bravely de-
fended Troy that escaped G re-
Jcian javelins. .
Tetter, Salt-Itheum and Eczema.
The intense itching and smarting, inci
dent to these disease, is innUntly allayed
by applying Chamberlain's Eye and
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He had a far greater mission
here than to stnnd in Trojan
ranks plunging his well aimed
javelin into Grecian hearts, like
his comrades who had fought
and fallen by his side. Their
Their highest aim was to do
and die for Troy, a j city, whoso
walls would soon melt to ashes
beneath their enemies fire.
He came to found a city,
whose power would ho uncoil
querable, for it should .-conquer
the world. In the walls of this
City the gods of every race could
claim a shrine. It should bo
the cradle of every. industry."
There the greatest poets,
statesmen, warriors, astrono
mers,' and sculptors should
dwell, There should reign rul
erswho would set the rule of
peace over the vanquished,
spare the humble, and subdue
the proud." But (many trials
were set as snares in his way,
many a day of disappointment
and sorrow would 'drag , their
slowlength by, ere he couhL re
viewing his work say, "It is fin
ished and is well." j Thcrfuture
to some would have seemed like
a vast sea of hopelessness upon
which they must 'launch their
helpless and hopeless, boat.
Not so with .i:neas, as he stood
and saw Troy, the Troy for.
which he had so valiantly
fought , sink into red embers be
fore him. . j '
No thought of despair entered
his heart. He turned his back
on Troy and the jjiast, and be
gan to think of a new homo
where peace and rest would be
combined rulers. He at once
built a fleet of twenty ships,
and with his father and. a few
comrades launched . out on the
friendless bosom ofjm unknown
sea. He sailed to Thrace, but
does not remain then; but goes
to Delos to consult the oracles
of Apollo mistaking Crete for
this place he sails there, and
begins to build' a city. In a
dream he is told by the Penates
(household gods) that he. must
not stay here but must go to
Italy, which t h: y declared
should be the future home of
the wanderers. Tbey again set
sail and were driven by storm
to the shores of Stroplnwles,
thence to Actium and after sac
rifice to the gods, they sailed to
Epirus and were gladly received
by the King of the country "a
Trojan. by birth." From here
they sailed to Sicily, but soon
find that this place too is in
habited by the Greeks, their
most dreaded enemy. They
again launch out; to sea like a
hunted hare frightened from
his hollow, at every bound hears
the voice of his persecutor, at
every pause for breath hears his
foot fall.
They land at
Carthage after
a'
a
port
hn li
near
and
stormy voyage tiy whichjnany
of their ship were destroyed.
Soon after they had landed they
went out to explore the cotintry
and enter the city of Carthage
and are warmly
Welcomed by
Queen Dido, who
taneously in love
He captivated1' by
falls install
with .Kncas.
the great love
port which he
Dido, forgets tin
is seeking
sends his
At length Jupiter
mes-nger bidding
him depart. The unhappy
Queen, frantic with grief and
disappointment, slays herself
with the sword of her lover.
.Kiieas. sailing on, comes to a
land in which is the cave of
Sibyl. He visits the cave and
is taken by her to the dwellings1,
of the dead. Here he sees
many men who will play prom
inent parts in the future history
of Rome, the city he is to found.
After leaving this land he sails
to Latin. Latinus, the King
of the country, had an only
daughter, Lavinia by name,
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