North Carolina Newspapers

DR. C. P. BOGERT, Surgeon and Mechanical D S IT 1ST Edenton, N C. Patients visited when requested. Monuments aijd Tombstones c-ji DESIGNS SENT FREE In writing give some limit as to price and state ae o: az ceased. Largest Stock (Couper (Marble (Established 1848.) 159 to 163 liank. St., Norfolk, Ya. W P.Ives & Co Blenders of Old Whiskies. II Coniiiierciiil Norfolk, Va- Write for Samples and Prices, Tetter, Salt-Rhcum and Eczema. The intense itching and smarting, inci- dent to these diseases, is instantly allayed by applying Chamberlain 's Eye and iikm Ointment. Many very bad cases have been permanently enred by it.. It im equally efficient for itching piles ana a favorite remedy for sore nipples, chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites and chronic sore eyes. 25ets.per box. Dr. Cady's Condition Powders, are jnst what a horso needs when in bad condition. Tonic, blood purifier aid vermifuge. They are not food but medicine and the best in use to put a horse in prime condition. Price 25 cents per package. 500 Men WANTED -TO- Unload Schooners A GOOd Job One that willjast all Sum mer. To se cure the job a nickle is required as a deposit of good faith. Apply at once to J. K. BERGERON, At the PAi.Ais, on Main Street. WHICH IS THE BLACKER LINE ? Deceived. I jy venders 01 spectacles and Eye-Glasses Tin are not Optlcleirxs, But if they were, they could not do justice to their patrons 111 that way There is located at Eden ton, N. C, a Scientific Optician who has a reputation to sustaiu,who will treat vou rieht and is reliable.care ful and practical: so sav two of the leading physi cians Diliard and Mc- Mullan. Respectfully B.E.BYRD, The Optician. LUM A JJ 9 Material. ok oxes ...AND. Now is the time to place your order tor the latter for the Spring Shipping. Address (Kramergros., &io., Elizabeth City N. C. 15 Jjj Jtb B Higher Help. PREACHED IN THE E. CITY BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST. SUNDAY, MARCH 7. By the Pastor, Rev. Blackwell. Calvin a. "He waters. h t'.ic li'.'.i i'min His chambers." Ps. 104:13. Fable says, "original iy all birds were made without wings Hence they were the most help less of creatures. Th y com plained of the creator. They said, 'look at the ox with his four legs, and two horns, and strong body ; and, at man, with histwoLgs and two arms, and we have but two little legs for support and protection Then God made for each bird a pair of wings and laid them down by their sides, and bade them pick them upand carry them. 'What add still other burdens to our already helpless condition ? they groaned. Most of them went off and left the wings and died in despair. But a few said "Well, as our creator has made these wings and bids us carry them we will do it." As soon as they picked, them up and started to carry them they found the supposed weights turned to wings, with which to fly. ! They could fly faster than the man could run, and over the head of a strong ox. So all of our help i r U., Af lu 115 a,v l nrst they may seem weignis, out if we pick them up ill faith nuri:ptlt1v tlirv will turn to . J' j " - wings. "He wateretll the lulls frnn, His rhamhers." The hlp-h .. .... c , . i dry hills find help 111 the higher u - iod sent, ana ram laden ciouas. . . " .J ' "ram is tne most lasciuaiing phenomenon in the universe, f, , , r . F r;i It is thawed for us out of Polar lcebunrs, and sucked up by lotus flowers in tromcal forests. The Jt sea is ever laboring lor the land; the billow and the furrow have a constant trafficking through the ministry of the cloud while the sun unceasingly turns water into vapor, so that it may be light enough to be carried through the air. From the Med iterranean, Dr. Halley calcul ated, it brews during twelve hours of a summer's day, five thousand two hundred and eigh ty millions of tons; and Dr. Wat son estimates that from an acre of ordinary ground in the same time, two thousand gallons are taken. Vegetables constantly dischLare vapor, and every hu- man oein 111 110c weauier con- tiibutes daily nearly five pounds -a quantity which if it were vis-. lble would cause us all to appear in a little cloud. Yet all this immense store of watery vapor would not benefit the farmer unless God had made provision for carrying it where it was needed. So he has or dained currents of air, whose ex plicite business it is to take up cargoes of vapor at the great oceans tanks, and hasten this is so surely and constantly done that no train, starting with its load of passengers and freight to a given point, is more sure of its work and destination. Filled far out on the ocean, by invisible hands, the clouds catch the wind and make for the shore, deli ver- insr their precious freight over cities, mains. and mountain ; slopes. If too much is given, it is carried back to the sea, and anon returns, witn a generous obstinacy, on its gracious duty When the atmosphere is of high temperature it will hold a great deal of vapor; but colder streams of air continually invade it, and the vapor thus condensed by cold becomes a cloud. Every one must have watched clouds forming in this way in a clear sk' and leit something of tne adoration which a visible act of creation would evoke. Gener- ally this miracle is worked from two to three miles above the farmer's head; but the clouds do not stay there; many things com bine to win their watery treas ures from them chillier tracts of sky an atmosphere too full of vapor to bear more accessions or the persuasion of mountans and woods; then the floating clouds desdend as fog, or rain. hail, or snow. And how wonderfully they descend! Not. in torrents and floods, sweeping all before them but trickling through the air in drops, and falling so gently on the earth that not a blade of grass or the petal of a flower is injured. Slowly sailing over field after field, leaving no part unwatered, they come, as God's blessings al ways come, as if they love to be compelled to bless. In tropical lands, where the sun blews vapor in enormous quantities, a shower is a more emphatic thing; but such rains have a local need and significance, and are as necessary as our more temperate falls. tor thousands of years these gigautic waterworks of nature have never been at fault, and never out of order. Whole lakes are annually hoisted into the up per air, ana men lowered with such exquisite precision that seed-time and harvest never fail. Neither is this their only duty. In their descent, they purify the atmosphere as well as the earth; for water is the life-blood of the world, and, its active circulation as necessary to the health of the planet as is the steady flow of blood in our own veins necessary to our life. "All the rivers run into the sea, the sun lifts them into the firmaments, from whence they return to the earth loaded vith blessings; from the place whence the rivers came, thither they return again." We know that mist and fog are deadly magazines of sheathed electricity that the gases of the sea released from their combin ations would produce intenaest flame that the atmospheric el ements transformed, would pois on and suffocate everything that breathes that the clouds uns restrained would sweep us away with a flood that the winds not held in his hand v;oald take us off in a hurricane yea, that if the ties of chemical affinity were relaxed, the globe itself would crumble. Hut we also know that God holds the winds and water in the hollow of his hand; that he hides the thunderbolts in drift ing vaper; that in all ages he is the Preserver of men, and that he makes all things work to gether for our safety and good. Lord we are thine, and thou art ours; Thine, too, are sun and rain: And thou, for i.s, their varying pow ers Wilt heighten or restrain. Then be the weather what it will. Welrustlully will serve three still-" As God uses clouds as his blessing bearers to hills, fields, forests and flowers, so He uses the hearts and lives of Bible characters to bring us refreshing from His presence. 1. It your semi becomes parcli ed and thirsty because of Im patience, go and sit down with Job on his ash-pile and let him talk to you. See him in his af Mictions, afflictions in his for, tune, all gone ; in his family, all swept away, except a fretful wife; in his flesh, all covered with boils; in his friends, who acid misery instead of comfort. Read right along. You should use Job for a "spell" of impatience iust as you would a course of medicine take it right through. 2. SirongsJieadcdness protruces itself, like so many hard, hot rocks in a drought smitten field ; but God will send you cooling from His chambers through the life of Moses, the meekest of men if you will let him. Moses started out with a bad case of strong headedness, and knocked an Egyptian on the head and killed him, before God was ready to deliver his people. He sent Moses off in the baelo woods to herd sheep for forty years and learn meekness. You 0 alone with him. Let the innocent sheep, the quiet fields away from courts, fashions and ambitions teach you. You will find your head cooling off. When it does, God will call you to some good, and perhaps great work. That's the way He did Moses. 3. Perhaps it comes to you to be a policy man. Many are afflicted that way. You say "success is all that is necessary, and how a man succeeds matters not." To succeed, a Scripturally cducated conscience is greatly in the way." When such whisper ings are heard in your heart, make a trip to Babylon at once, and find Daniel. See him there away from home, in a strange citv. vet the decided favorite of the King. He is youiiP. His blood is not. Allot his hlelies before him. The King offers him wine from his own table. To refuse is to insu.t the King and lose his chances for success in life. To accept, is to srrieve the spirit and debase his own conscience. What would you do? Daniel refused. The Kino- said, "don't pray to God, but to my idols, and if you disobey me I'll shut you no in the den of lions." Lions are mighty hung ry sort of beasts. What would you have done ? Daniel said, "I'll pray to God, for I'd rather be shut up 111 a lion's den, than to be shut out of heaven." So he prayed on and made a great success of life. 4. Sordid selfishness, some1 times seizes us, and then what help may we expect, and how snau we get it ? 1 d go to Matthew and sit down with him at "the seat of custom." I d watch him count his money as he occupied his fat office of big pay and little work. Then I'd watch him as Jesus passed by. I'd listen to Jesus as he told of soul value above silver value, until Matthew closed up the of fice and followed Jesus. Sordid selfishness is called on to give up, sometimes, more than place and profit. But the higher the sacrifice the sweeter the blessing. Greater than all other in fluences combined, is that exer. cised upon the life and destiny or a cniid by. the example and teachings of its mother. When Gertrude Howe, a missionary to China, gave her heart to Christ she promised to go. to a foreign field. She kept it a secret, how ever, till the evening of her res turn from school. She prayed all day for strength to break the matter to her mother. In the twilight the mother sat rocking contentedly for a few 'minutes, thinking possibly that there was less need of haste now that the young hands could take hold of house affairs once more. Ger trude knelt down beside the lit tle rocker, and laid her diploma in her mother's lap. "Mother," she said, "I have something to tell. you that I am afraid will hurt you. I know how hard you have worked to help me through school; but I caunot stay with you now that it is all over. I proposed the Lord, when he forgave me my sins, that I would go to China to teach the heathen." Then softly through the deep ening shadows came the quaver ing, happy voice : Praise God frjm whom all blcsiugs flow Mothers so consecrated would rear a race that would capture the world for Christ within a score of years. 5. We are apt to grow weak kneed occasionally. The strong est men do. Old Elijah did. But if you get strength, follow Elijah beyond the juniper tree of weakness to the mouth of the cave where the 'still small voice' spoke to him and you will learn how he grew strong. But above all other things don't failv to read the book of Judges through. Joshua is the "man of courage, and courage is catching. He was afraid of nothing but sin. When sin got into his camp he could win no battles. It's that way, yet "conscience doth make cowards of us all." But even a child, with God in his heart, is Stronger than Corbett or Fitz simmons : A lad in Boston, rather small for his age, works in an office as errand boy for four gentlemen who do business there. One day the gentlemen were chafing him a iu.Ie io: being so small and said to him : "Yen will never amount to much- you can never do much, you are too small." The little iellow looked up at them. "Well," said he, "as small as I am, I can do something that neither of you can do." "Ah, what i.s that" said they, "I don't know that I ought to tell you" he replied. But they were anxious to know, and urged him to tell what he could do that neither of them was able to do. "I can keep from swearing," said the little fellow. There were some blushes on four faces and there see med to be no more anxiety for further in formation. 6. Sometimes all the song of the heart is hushed. It's a sad state whan you can pass a whole day and never hum a song, or whistle a tune. Look . after yourself when such a condition prevails. All the fires of hell start in silent hearts. You can't sin$r when vou meditate evil. Don't turn to the book of Psalms first, but so back and find David and walk with him through the ..ooks of Samuel and Kings. See him pursued for his life by the jealous Saul, his wife taken away, his family banished, and he himself forced to live in caves and as sociate with outlaws. Yet around it all carried his harp and com posed and saug his Psalms. Your sighs will soon turn to songs to stay with you. 7. Faith itself sometimes fa I ters, then what? How" fearful is a faltering faith ! There is but one thing to do. Don't get a book on "Evidences." but get four Fvaugelists, after that let Paul take hold of you by the hand and lead you through the Acts and the Epistles. By the time you reach the end ofHeb. XI. you will find yourself on the mountain top exclaiming, "I can d all things through Lhrist who strengthens me." God tests our faith, even the strongest faith sometimes. The Jate Dr. Gordon seemed almost Pauline in faith but God tried him, The Doctor preached a powerful sermon or giving to missions. The people were con tributing by the hundreds as he stood before them exhorting and encouraging them, when do wn the aisle walked his own daughter and extended her hand saying, "Father I give my life to the cause of missions." The faith of the strongs man faltered. The frail girl had to hold the strong man lest he fell. But God stood by him. and gave him heart and power to say: "God gave you to me, I give you back to Him with my blessing." 9. vve get lazy at times. BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CA- I AKHM THAT CONTAIN MURCURY, as mercury will surelv destrov thP sense of smell and completely derange wc wuuic system wuen -entering it mrougntne mucous surfaces. Rnrh articles should never be used except on prescription from reputable physi- """i me uumage iney will do is ten fold to the good von cau ti..sS;m,. derive from them. Hairs Catarrh Cure, manufactured bv bv F T. rin(v & Co., Toledo.O., contains no murcury and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally.and made in Toledo Ohio, by E. J. Cheney & Co. Testil monials free.- Sold by Druggists, price 75 cents per bottle. Halls Family Pills are the best. Then we criticise every thing and every body. When we are doing nothing ourselves we are dissatisfied with the work of others. We are apt to complain of the preacher and his preach ing, and suggest that "a change of pastors is all the church needs" We complain of the officers and find fault with their work. Your only hope is to let Mark get hold of you. Mark is a religious "hustler." In the first chapter he uses the expression "straight way," and "immediatel v" eijrht times he is 111 a hurrv. Hif gospei is written for busy people. After you have been rushed through Mark, reach o.-er there and let the hard handed James get hold ot you and show you how 10 "work." 10. At times the star of hope grows din and our vie w of heaven is obscured. The dust from the wheels of pleasure and traffic get iut,o our eyes and we can't see how to walk bv faith. Make a voyage to Patmoss and find that old rock on which St. John stood that Lordsday morning when he was " in the Spirit. " As the Lord says to him, "come up higher," take him by the hand and he will lead vou up, and perhaps in, where the glory that gleams through the gates will light up your soul again with an ardent hope. You will see and hear "The Sain Is in triumph sing, Ahile tuned to tones of golden harps, Heaven's boundless arches ring, No more in tears and sighing, Our weak hosannas dying,' But hallelujahs load and high Roll thundering through the skv; Our chorus thrills their countless throngs; 'Ten thousand times ten thousand tongues rill them with overwhelming s'ongs, Jerusalem my home.'' "It I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me." Just as the sun reaches its unseen fingers down and draws water up from mud holes and filthy ponds, and purifies it, so Jesus the son of righteousness draws by the un seen power of his love the un clean hearts of sinful men. Then the influence of these regener ated men descended again on the lives of others and help and bless them. There is no word so full 0 of meaning and about which such tender and holy recollections cluster as that of " Mother" she who watched 1 over our helpless infancy and guid ed our first tottering step. Yet the life of every Expectant Moth er is beset with danger and all ef fort should be made to avoid it. so assists nature in the change tak ing place that the Expectant Mother is ena bled to look for w a r d without dread, suffering or gloomy fore bodings, to the hour when she experiences the joy of Motherhood. Its use insures safety to the lives of both Mother and Child, and she is found stronger after than before confinement in short, it "makes Childbirth natural and easy," as so many have said. Don't be persuaded to use anything but " My -wifs suffered more in ten min utes with either of her other two chil dren than she did altogether with her last, having previously used four bot tles of 'Mother's Friend.' It is a blessing to any one expecting to be come a MOTHER says a customer. Ukndeeson Dale, Carmi, Illinois. Of Druggists at Sl.CO, or sent ly mail on rerript of price. Write for book contain inu: rsriracnials nd valuable information for all Slotlicrs, free. Tlio BradfieH Escalator To., Atlanta, C!a. The columns of the Fisiikr man & Farmer are open to any suggestion that might lie made for the building up of Elizabeth! City or the good of our people. IF 1 0 11 Irakis IF SO, correspond with 3E5 Large Capacity ! Splendid Nothing but It will be No Orders In 11 Afcge fable Preparation for As similating UieFocd and Reg uta tirg iheStomachs andBowcis cf Promote s Digesun,Cheer ful ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium.Morpbine nor Mineral. NotNakcotic. Janpfni Set J" AbcJtnn Sad J) ppernaut -jA CartmaltS& fiirmSctd -Clarifutf Suqirr . A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Siomach.Diarrhoea. Worms .Convubions .Feveri sh ticss end Loss OF SLEEP. Tac Simile Signature of TEW YORK. 55 Sg2 1 if "53 iS EXACT COPYCF WRAPPED A m 1 L, Butter if nm A alico Print A Tramp Print, TIi FISHERMAN & FARMER A Butter Print" is used to mold, and print butter, A "Calico Prinfis used to make ladies wear ing appear el. A "Tramp Print" is used to lumping around the United States, giving "advice" to country editors- . The VFishkrman & Farmer print" is an en til el v different kind of an Sprint Those business-like, attractive posters or handbills, or pamplets. or circulars, or catalogs, which you see attracting so much attention; 3fvy down in the lower left-hand corner . 4,F:.sheriuaii z Farmer Print" We printed them Let us quote you prices. Si 3 U IT K f a v v 2 5-i g y f u V t:r "i ,Yj2. .JsT - it "Sr. - t.rr 1 "1 csli ' Pn vv rm f-c Gi " r i " " J-ive iiim a uaii.- '.Si f 9 15 croll Work.. ppmi 0 M the best work sent out. to your interest to let us quote you prices ?L.ES FURNISHED ON REQUEST. 1 Too Large None Too SEE THAT THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE IS OIT THE OF EVEBY BOTTLE OF zti CastcrJa is pet ct in ors-EliO lottlos ctly. It r!s not sold in build 2on'fc eIIov anyoas to sell yon anything elso ox tia plea or promise taat It ''s rocd" r.Jiil will enswer every pnr- 11 cn A. L9 nnt, j i- - .4.l - - t' 7 c- It . H OF WRAPPER Has opened a SALK, EXCHANGE, BOARD and LIVERY STABLE On Water Street, And solicits the patronage of Friends and the public generally. his cared for at the moat reasonable terms- r " - - - r r- Stables on Water St. sir . O " OP 1 o I r if kind ? i 1 ci o "a r. Small. i Q HIP M mam m m Norfolk & Southern f?R Schedule in effect Feb. 22, j r. -. Norfolk & Southern II. R. Mail r , Express trains. Southbound, dni' v , , cept Sundaj-s.) leave Klixabcth t u . 11:40 a. m., aud at 6:xj p. m.; N!-: bound, daily, (except Sundays) h . Elizabeth C'.tv at 2:45 P- m.,and ni. The trains nrrive at and l rn: from Norfolk& Vcstetndcpot.N rl connect at Norfolk with nil Kail ;; Steamer liuc5, and at IKntun v. Steamer for Koanokc, Casliic, . and Scuppeinong rivers; t:;u -v steamers to Mackey's Ferry, t'u -v . Norfolk & Southern U.K. to l.n-,. and Hclhaven, connecting withsu. n .. : Virginia Dare for Makcley ill'-. .i ra, Washington and all intci :nt landings. Eastern Carolina Dispatch AND Old 23ouilxilou 3Li 1 j o The steamer Ncnsc leaves City Tuesday, Thin sday am! J-.u-,. atb;2op. m., for Ncwlntn cor: ;; with the A. & N.C. K K. forC.ol.! . Kinston, and More head Citv. ' -thcW. N. &N. K. K. t r j 'u .;-. i Wilmington, N. C, etc. I.i tin; , leave Newbcru Monday, Wuln. -and Friday, touching at Oc::u okt ing and returning. The steamer New-hern Itavi -.; 1 belli City at 3 p. 1:1., d.iily. , Thursday and Sunday l : I;, a: Island direct. Tickets on .sale at l"'.i;.ai th Station to Roanoke I.-land, New ! i : Kinston, doldsboio. Morehead . . and Wilmington, N. C. Daily all rail service W tw. 11 ; beth City antl New York, r'nil.u'.i l;, Llaltimore and Noifolk. Through cais and as quicker time than by a 1 w Tatv O 1 1 U ' ! 'ill' sin; ;-, ,1 a.- It.!,. - Soi.t" .v. 1; Direct all goods to . Eastern Carolina Dispar From Norfolk by Nort Railroad; Baltimore bv . R., President Street Stat: n; l'l;;:a Dock phia, rhiladelj'lila R. K. Station; rsew ork, bv Ieniis ! . R. R.. 1'ier 27 North Riv ei , Dominion Line For further information aj ply- to M. II. Snowden, Agent, IClizalu th Citv. u: to the General Uliice of the Noi.oik Southern R. R. Company, Noil M. K. KINCdenernlMana-er. n.c. nuDGiNs,G. f. & r. ,gt. A D R. Muiiden, ail Maker. A wii ingsT en ts and Fl a gs Old Sails Bought and Sold. Orders by mail will receive prompt attention. Cor. Water and Matthew vSts. (Over W. J. Woodley's Store.) '. O. If OX ijj. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. n I, I 5 p ' R M St ' mm -I-Oil- AM) Wifl. J. HOOPER 6. Cv lid 2. Pratt, rear Litfi BALTIMORE. Wr iVyrtufaotorsrS f;f cotton and flax gill n l(z. Corks, Seine: Leads, &.z. Sflne Twine of all klnr. h uilla. Cotton & II cm Mn" You Have Tried Othrs And if you do 'tcct perfect satisfactioii you do't pay a cent. Can we do more ? d. C. MITCHELL, E dent on ,A f '.. F. T. HORTON, Elizabeth Cily,.Y. C Are our agents; good left with them will receive prompt attention. JJ Mm A. IK .a