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. . - . , - - . , m- ---- ! - - . , . . ' ' . - - I . . I - .' . . ' i" r ' ' V' ' ' ' ' :(. ; , . : " . 8 The mct TII1ELKS4 OHKER in O . 1 g , . -l-H:-. --.'-W ' :- . 8 MALL, AUlMilMnU Ih- I O 5 Elizabeth City i the g J jl - ." 4- VJF ( , -..V : i j - b using the columns of IhcX f 3SCZTC-: 8 !' - d HV tira P tlTa Tl (ir ECONOMIST, 8 MmT the wit!, the voice of a" ; lL VLi' 1L 11 VJ' 11 11 1L II Ai O j R : SroSJa " 8 X trusted friend. O ; . 7 , . j OQ0QOQ0OOXK3O0Ora It goes Into the hoins of the ineple, O telling tlie new with the voice of. a Yt trusted friend. ' O O ODDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODOOOOOOOOOOO eTakc "sach man's -censure "but resarvB thy judgment. amlBt3" ELIZABETH CITY, N. C, FIUDAY, JULY 23, 1897. NO. G. VOL. XXVI. ' ' L ' ' ': - '. ii , ; ; j ; i ' ',:''' - . I ; ; : ; m -A titf.e raor lhaa a jer mgo, ray hsir txgtn tarmns xray. nl fAtliojc cnt..aal although I tried cr o mioy llof t prevent a continuance of lhec con-IItion. I cbtatned no tifction uotil I trie 1 A je" Uatr Vigor. 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CoticctioD-a sjHviiliy J 1 THOMAS C.SKINNEIH Atlrntu ttt-Ltf. j Heritor I, N. C. T II. WIlITi. IV I S., I t) r.5i.'.iUh f ilv.. c, J OJers hi prot.fc- v-x -i nal s.rvics ti 7. tranches of Hextis- 4l .If tVrf at all t'uue. i M -k. on 3Iain Strict. In twtvn Poiod. xteran l Water. Sw. f;n;;i.itY. i. i s.. 1 . . EJialn tli city. N. ( Otters ht ri.les siornl services to the pnhlic in all the 1 tranche of i( JH'HTj Crown and Bridge A-' work n siHcialty. O f ,. hour., h to Uand I t.r any tiriie !iu!.l occasin rttpiire. (ro;:i v, Flr;i B ;il.lii. Corner Main and Water St. i DAVID COX, Jr., J. E... a u f i it V:rrr a N i !: N ? I N k i: r. IIEUTFOBD.N. C. La I snrvcyin a pc ahy. j 1'lans (urnishetl uja. amplication. JIOTBLP. ; Bay View House, i:di:xton, n. c. ! Ncr,. . Cleanly, . Attentive . Srvant. Near the Coatt llousc. Colunibia Hotel, t'oLcvniA, Tvkrcll Co. r J. E. IIUC I IKS, - - Proprietor. fartio.xl Secvantii, p-h1 rooai, po-d table. Amp! ?taU.an-l hr!:er. The r ii run iT of he pub'ie sicted and Atlsfaclona55ueJ. ; THK LI CA1T. WALK Kit HOlSF. Simmon's H o tel, CenRirrcK O. II , .C. Teria: 'c .per una. or $1.75 pr day, iocluJ o4 h-U'J-r th- patAnae of th public licit. d. SVdaCtClhia .red J. X. BItABBf.K. Pmpri:or. Tr anqiiil House, MANTEO, N. C. i A. V. EVANS. -f . Propri.tor. Firlc!a s i.i crj, pari.uljr. Table uj'pttcd with etrj- dtica y. Klsh, Oytcr and Ua:ne in abandaace io acasoo. - - ' " : -! dtdi !i.it?Lt t i ! i:tliih!e Jcwtle ir the liet -tifcto? . f Friend and putro: Wake Forest and Trtr.itv who wih their boys, to At tliejte col Itf are solicited to tend iheir sons How Old are Yon? It makes no difference -whether you answer or J not. It la always true- that "a woman is as old as she iau " Ayer Co Lowell. !. .., I B nrKnnVtt with a. DIRECTORY. tVtw Offfter. Mayor, Charlob C, Too! Attorney Isaac N. Meekins. ' 'Jommiionors Palemon John, Thos. A. Commander. Jhn A Kramer B; Frank Nj n i and Win. W. Gripes. Clvrk fhas. A. Bank; ; Treasurer W. IT1.1 r Constable nnd Chief of Police Win C. I5noks; Street Com- ini-siont r Heuiien W. Berry; tire Cmmi-.ioiier Allen Kramer Collector of Custom Jas. C. Urools. lttiiiiister K. F. Iimh. Exan.iiiin Surgeons of Pensions Ir-. J. K. WihmI, W. W. ClriRKs and W. J. l.ntn.deii. Meet on the lt antl rd Wednesdays of eacli month at the corner of Koad and Church Streets. Chufdut MetlKHlist.Uev- J. II. Hall, I,t..i- kori'ii'is fvirv Sntulav at 11 a. m. and 7 p. in. Unptbt, Kev. Calvin 1 . Blackuell, pastor ; services every Stimlar at 11 a. in. nnu p. in. rrm i hyterian, F II. Johnston, pastor; services erve ry Sunday at 11 a. m. and I T:l." . in. hiiscoial. Uev. I Ij. Wil ; Hams, rector; services every Sunday at ; 11 a in. and 4 p. m. ! Ishj Masonic: Eureka Lodge No. i::t7. H. W. Brothers. W. 3L; J. H. 1.4 - ... . 1 1 1 . . T 'MT . B. 1 Spenee, Tresurer; D. B. Bradford, Setr'tv.; T B. WiUon, S. P.; C. W. jtirice. ; J. A. iiooer anu 1 .j. j Jordan, Steward?; Bev. E. F. Sawyer, Uhapliin; J. E. Slwppard; Tyler. Meets Kt and 3rd Tuesday nights. , Odd Fellows: Achoree Iotlpe No P. C. M. Furess. N. 15.; W. 11. Ballard, ! V. (.; H- O. Hill. Fin. Secretary; i Maurice Wescott Treasurer. Meats every Friday at 7:30p..m. I Boyal Arcanum: Tiber Creek Coun cil No. 12U9; II. O HillRepent; I). A. Morgan. Vice Refceut; C, Ouirkin, Orator; W. II. Zoeller, Secretary; P.M. iCiH.k Jr., Collector; W. J. Woodley, t Treasurer. Meets every 1st and 3rd Mondav niht. ! Knichts of Honor: H. H. White, Pic I tatc.r; J. Ill Enle, Vice Dictator; T. !J. Jordan. Reporter; T. B. Wilson, Fi 1 nance Reporter; J. C. Benhury. Treas tur. r. M.ot.s 1st and 4th Friday in each month. , i Pas,tmiank Tribe No. i. I. O. B. M C. W. lie nj:i. Prophet ;J. P.Simpson, I Sachem:. IV. Sanfonl, Sr. Sapamor; Will An.ij rson, Jr. Sagamore; James Spires, ttlof li ; S. H. .Aiurrel K.of V. J Meet t-v.?y Wednestlay uight. ' County s Oficcrt. Commissioners C E. Kranlr, Chairman; F. M. Godfrey, LI. W. WSliams. Sheriff. T. P. Wilcox, ' SupcriorJL'oiirt Clerk. John P. Over 'mati; Relister of.Peed.s M. U. Culiep- !'..; n1,n Mnrrw PnlllltV Health tT)i!icers, Pr. J. E. .Wood; Boord ofr.Education, J. T. Davis, J. P: Fulmer. N. A Jtmes. S'.iiM-rinriiulaut I. N. Meekins SM -Atlantic Cdllegiate Insti tute, S. U. Sheep, Presileiit Sehct rSchKl. I. N. Tillett, Pnnci rml. " KlizaNtli City Public School, W. M. Hintou, principal. State Colored Normal, 1.. W. Moore, Principal. lUnkA First National: Chas. II. Rohiiimin, President; Jno. (. Wood, Viee-PreJidenti Wm. T. Old, Cashier. M. R. tlriflln. Teller. Directors: E. F. Lamb.D.H. Bradford. J. H. Flora. M. H. White, Jno. (J. Wool J. B. Blades, C. II. Robinson. (tuirkin V Co. KUetrk Jyht C.r-J. B. Blades, Presi dent. it. M. Scott. Vice President, P. P.. Bradford. Sec'ty, Noah Burfoot. Treasurer. 1 . .TtUi'hane Co. I). II. Bradford, Presi- Fred. P.ivi, Secretary and Treasurer. Tie b,pr,.rMtnl Co. E. F. Ajdlett, President; T. O. Skinner, Vice Presi .lent: C. II. Itolinson. Secretary and uvttl : I . i rs . Diiuies, hx-j Treasurer. . - A. City ( tt n Mill. President, Ur. O. Mc.MuSIan, Vice President. ieo. M. Scott, Sec. and Treas., P. H. Bradford, Supt. II. F. Smith. Pirectors: Dr. O McMullan. ii. 31. Scott, E. F. Ajdlett, J. W. Shurler, Jas. H. Blades, O. H. Robinsoiii. Tho. (i. Skinner, C. fc. Kramer. J. B. Flora, II. F Smith and I). B. Brail ford. Ar,if Rtrw. V. J. Griffin. Lieu tenant commanding; J. B. Fereliee. Lieutenant .'unior iirade; L. A. in dr. Ensirn. Hegnlar Drill each Tues- dav uicht. Arms: 40 Macazine Ititles; 12 Navy Revolvers; is uutiasses; - ia Pottnd Howitzers. &,uLerm Exvrtts Compauy.H. 11. Snowden, Acent. . , li.ti.r'-ul it ml &iitn&ti4 jiau iruui iruhiK North, leaves 3 a. m. and i:4" i. in , Koine; boutli, li:4U anu ": l p m. Steamers for Newberne leave at 0 p. tu. steamer Newton, leaves Eliza beth City for Cress well on Mondays and Tursdays .at 9 : SO a. m. Re turninc will leave Elizabeth i ity follow inff tlav at 2. 30 p. in.. Steamer liar- trioger. will leave t-izauein wij ii Hertford Wednesdays and Saturdavs at 0. 30 n. m.: Elizabeth City for Nor folk Thursdava and Iondays p. m 3. We h.tfe Blankets from 50 cts.to SoOO clea$v enough fr anybody, ana fine eaoagh for anjbody at Mocs Wcsel. John U Carr.of Durham, N, C , was announced at the Commencement at the University, the best man in Soph omore Class of 07. He was prepared BEHIND THE COUNTER REV. DR. TALMAQE TO SALESMEN AND SALESWOMEN. ': lie Would lusplre Them With a, IIeaJta ' i f Ambition and Alia Many of Their An-. ; noraneea. Sows lf-actlcal Aavioe ana Cloqant Exhortation. Washington, July' 18. This ermon cf Dr. Talmnge, -addressed to the great best of clerks in stores and offices and factories, will inspire snch persons with healthful ambition and allay many of their annoyances Text, Acts xvi, 14, VAnd a certain "woman named Lydia, a eller of rrarnle. of the citvof'ThTatira. which worshiped God, heard ns, whosort heart the Lord opened." Proverbs xxu, 29, "S.-8t thou a man diligent in his bnsinessr He shall stand before Jrings.,r The first passage introduces to you; Lydia, a Christian mercbantess. Her business is to deal in purple cloths or silks. She is not" a giggling nonentity,: but a practical woman, not ashamed to work for her;HVing. All the other wo men cf Philippi and Thyatira have been forgotten, but God has made immortal In our text Lydia, the Christian sales-1 woman. The other text shows you a man with head and hand and heart and foot all busy toiling on up until he gains a princely success. "Sccst thou a man diligent In his business? He shall etand before kings." Great encouragement in these two Engages for men and women who will e busy, but no eolace for those who are waiting for good luck to show them, at the foot of the rainbow, a casket of burled gold It i folly for anybody in thid world to wait for something to turn up. It will tnrn down. The law of thrift is as inexorable as the law of the tides. Fortune, the magician, may wave her wand in that direction uutil castles and palaces come, but she will after awhilo invert the samo wand, and all the splendors will vanish into thin air. ' ! There are certain styles of behavior which lead to ; usefulness, honor and permanent success, and there are cer tain styles of behavior which lead to dust, dishonor and moral default I would like to Are tho ambition cf young people. I have no sympathy with those who would preparo young folks for life by whittling down their expectations. That man or woman will be worth noth ing to church or stato who begins life cowed down.. The business of Christian ity is not to quench but to direct human ambition. Tbereforo it is that I utter words of encouragement to those who are occupied as clerks in the stores and shops and banking houses of tho coun try. They are not an exceptional class. They belong to a great company of tens of thousadi who are in this country, amid circumstances which will either 'make or break them for time and for eternity. Many of these people have al ready achieved, a Christian manliness and a Christian womanliness which will be their passport, to uuy position. I have seen their trials.' I have watched their perplexities.. Thero are evils 'abroad which need to bo hunted down and drugged out into the noonday light. Tatience- and Diligence. . In the first place, I counsel clerks to remember that for the most part their clerkship is only a school from which they aro to bo graduated. It takes about eight years to get into one of the learn- ed professions. It takes about eight years to get to be a merchant. Some of you will bo jelerks all your lives, but tho va? t majority of you are only in a transient position. After awhile, some December day, tho head men of the firm will call you into tha back offlce, und they will say to you: "Now, you havo dono well by us, wo are going to do well by you. We invite you to have an interest iu our concern." You will bow to that edict very gracefully. Get ting into a street car to go home, an old comrade : wiH meet you and say,; "What makes you look so happy to night?" "Ob." you will say, "noth ing, nothing." But in a few days your name will blossom on the sign. Either in the stcro or bank where you are now, or in some other store or bank, you will take a higher position than that which von now occunv. So I feel I am now, nddressiug people who will yet have' their hand oti the helm or tne worm s' commerce and you will turn it this way r that. Now clerks, but to be bankers,: importers, insurance company directors, ; shippers, contractors, superintendents of railroads y o r voice mighty "on 'Change" standing foremost in the great financial and religious enterprises cf the day. 'Forthough we who are in the professions may, on the platform, plead for the. philanthropies, after all, the merchants inust come forward with their millions to sustain the movement. Be therefore patient and diligent in this transient position. You are now where you can learn things you can never learn in any other place. What you consider ! your disadvantages are your grand opportunity. You see an affluent father some day come down a prominent street with his. sou who has just graduated from the university and establishing him; iu business, putting f 30,000 cf capital in the store. Well, you are envious.' You say: "Oh, if I only bad a chancd, like that young man! If I only had a father to put 50,000 in a business for me, then I would have some c banco in the world. " Be not en vious. You have advantages over that young man which he has not over you. As well might I come down to the docks when a vecsel is about to sail for Valparaiso and say, "Let me pilot this ship out to soa." Why, I would sink crew and cargo before I got out of the harbor simply because I know nothing about pilotage. Wealthy sea captains put their sous before the mast for the reason that t'ley know it is the only place where they can learn, to be - suc cessful sailors. ; It is only under drill that people get to understand pilotage nnd navigation; and I want you to un derstand that it takes no more;- sQll to conduct a vessel out of harbor and across the sea than to steer a commer cial establishment clear cf the roexs. You see every day the folly cf people going into a business they know noth--ing about A man makes a fortune in cue business, thinks there is another occupation more comfortable, goes into it and sinks alL Many of the commer cial establishments of our cities are giv ing their clerks a mercantile education as thorough " as .Yale or Harvard or Princeton are giving scientific attain ment to the students matriculated. The reason there are so many men founder ing in business from year to year is be cause their early mercantile education was neglected. Ask the men in high commercial circles, and they, will tell you they thank God for this severe dis cipline of their early clerkship. You can afford to endure the wilderness marclrlf it is going to end in the vine yards and orchards of the promised land. But you say, "Will the womanly clerks in our stores have promotion?" Yes. Time is coming when women will be as well paid for their toil in mercan tile circles as men are now paid for their toil. Time is coming when a wom an will be allowed to do anything she can do well. .It is only a little while ago when women knew nothing of te legraphy, and they were kept out of a great many commercial circles where they are now welcome, and the time will go on uutilhe woman who at one counter in a store sells $5,000 worth of goods in a year will get as high a sal ary as the man who at the other coun ter of the same store.sells $5,000 worth of goods. Ail honor o Lydia, the Chris tian saleswoman. ' Submission to Rules. The second counsel I have to give to clerks is that you seek out what are the. lawful regulations of your establish ment, and then submit to them. Every well ordered house has its usages4! In military life, on ship's deck, in com mercial life, there must be order and discipline. Those people who do not learn how to obey will never know how to command. I will tell you what young; man will make ruin, financial and mor al. , It is the young man who thrusts his thumb into his vest and says: "Nobody shall dictate to me. I am my own mas ter. I will not submit to the regula tions of this house." Between an estab lishment in which all the employees are under thorough discipline and the establishment in which the employees do about as theychonse is the difference between success and failure between rapid accumulation and utter bankrupt cy. Do not come to the store ten min utes after the time. Be there within two seconds and let it be two seconds before instead of two seconds after. Do not think anything toq.insignificant to do well. Do not say, "It's only just once." From the most important trans action in commerce down to the partic ular style in which you tie a string around a bundle obey orders. Do not get easily disgusted. While others in the store may lounge or fret or com plain you go with ready hands and cheerful face .and contented spirit to your work. When the bugle sounds, the good soldier asks' no questions, but shoulders his knapsack, filft his canteen and listens for the command . of "March!" Do not get the idea that your inter ests and those of your employer are an tagonistic. His success will be your honor. His embarrassment will be your dismay. Expose none of the frailties of the firm. Tell no store secrets. Do not blab. Rebuff those persons who . come to find out frfem clerks what ought nev er to bo known outside the store. Do not be among those young men who take on a mysterious air when something ia said against Jhe firm that employs them, as much as to say, ".I could tell you something if I would, but I won't." Do not bo among those who imagine they can build themselves up by pull ing somebody else down. Be not ashamed to be a subaltern. Again, '! counsel clerks to search out what are the unlawful and dishonest demands of an establishment and resist them. In the 6,000 years that have passed there has never been an occasion when it was one's duty to sin against God. It is never right to do wrong. If tho head men of the firm expect of you dishonesty, disappoint them. "Oh," you say, 4 'I should lose my place then. " Better lose your place than lose your soul. But you will not lose your place. Christian heroism is always honored. You go to the head man of your store and say: "Sir, I want to serve you. I want to oblige you. It is from no lack of industry on my part, but this thing seems to mo to be wrong, and it is a sin against my conscience, it is a sin against God, and I beg you, sir, to ex cuse me. " He may flush up and swear, 'but be will cool down, and he will have more admiration for you than for those who submit to his evil dictation,-and while they sink you will rise. Do not, because of seeming temporary advan tage, give up your character, young man. Under God that is the only thing you have to build on. Give up that, you give up everything. That employer asks a young man to hurt himself for time and for eternity who expects him to make a wrong entry, or change an invoice, or say goods cost so much when they cost less, or impose upon the ver dancy of a customer, or misrepresent a style of fabric. How dare he demand of you anything so insolent? A Few Trials. ! Again, I counsel all clerks to conquer the trials of their particular position. One great trial for clerks ia the incon eideration of customers. There are peo ple who are entirely polite everywhere else, but gruff and dictatorial and con temptible when they come into a store to buy anything. There are thousands cf men and women who go from store to store to price things, without any idea cf purchase. They are not satisfied until every roll of goods is brought down and they have pointed out all the real or imaginary defects. Tbey try pn all kinds of kid gloves and stretch them out of shape, and they puton all Btyles of cloak aDd walk to the mtSfr to ee bow they loot, and then they st&J I t , I I ' - . S oat of the store, say ing. "I will not take it today," which means, "I don't want it at all," leaving the clerk aQ)ld a wreck of ribbons and laces and; cloths to smooth out aj thousand ; dollars' worth cf goods not a cent of Iwhich did that man or wbfaan buy or jexpect to buy. Now, I call that a dishonesty on the part of the customer. If a I boy runs into a store and takes a roll of cloth off the counte-j And sneaks oit into tho street, you all Join in the cry pell mell, "Stop thief Vi jWhen I see you go into a store, rJot expecting to buy any thing, but toj price things, stealing the time of the clerk and; stealing the time cf his employer, I sayj too,," Stop thief 1' ' If I were asked; Which class df per sons most need tho jgrace of God amid their anuoysjnees, jlf would say,- "-Dry goods clerks.' All tthe indignation of customers about the high; prices comes on the clerk For Instance: ; Ai great war comes, j The manufactories j are closed. T"he people go off to battlej. The price of goods runs up. A customer comes into a jstore. iGoods have goej up. "How much is that worth?" VA dol lar, v "A dollar I 'Outrageous?; A dol lar I" Why, who i3 to blame for the fact that it has got to be a dollar? Does the indignation go out to, the manufacturers on the banks; of the Merrimao: because they have closed up?,; No Dot?s the in dignation go; out toward the employer, who is out ai his country seat? No. It comes on the- clerk He got up the War. He levied the taies. ,He puts up the rents. Of course, the' clerk. j Then a great trial comes to clqrk9 in the fact thatlthey see the parsimonious side of human nattire. You talk: about lies behind tie counter there are just as many lies before the counter.! Au gustine speaks of: a. man who adver tised that ho would,1 ion a certairj occa sion, tell the! people hvhat was iii their hearts. A crowd; assembled, and he stepped to thja front and said: MI will tell you what is in your hearts. To buy cheap and sell dear.' Oh, lay. no aside your urbanity when you go into a- store 1 Treat the clerks like gentlemen and la dies, proving; yourself to be a gentle man or a lady. Remember that jif the prices are high arid your purse if lean that is no fault of i the clerks. And if you have a sou or ja daughter ami4 those perplexities of commercial life, and such a one 'comes, home all worh out, bo lenient, and know that the martyr at the stake no more certainly) needs the grace of j God! than our young peo: pie amid the-seven times heated exas perations of a clerk's life, j Inconsiderate Employers, i Then there are! all the trials jwhich ,come - to clerks from the treatment of inconsiderate employers. There ae,pro fessed Christ ja'n. men who have n) more regard for" their clerks- thai thor have for the scales on which the sugars are weighed. A' clerk is no more than so much store furniture. No consideration for their rights or interests. Npt one word of encouragement from sunrise to sunset, nor from January to December. But when anything goes wrong a streak of dust on! the counter or a box with tho cover offt thunder showers of scolding! 'Men imperious, capricious, cranky toward tfaeii: clerks their;whole manner as much as to say, "All the in terest I have! in you is to see what I can 'get out ofyou." Then there are all the trials of incompetent wages, not in such times as these, when if a man gets half a salary for jhis services hejought to be thankful, but I mean in prosper omTtimes.! Some of jjourememberj when the war broke out and all merchandise went up, I aftd merchants were jmade millionaires in six months by the sim ple rise in the value jof goods. Did the clerks get; advantage of that rise? Some times, not always. ; I saw estates) gath ered in those times over which the, curse of Godjhas hung ever since.; The cry of unpaid meojand women iri those stores reached the Lord of Sabaoth, and the indignation of jG6d has been around those establishments ever since, ! flash ing1 in the chand4liers glowing j from the crimson ppboistery, rumbling in the long roll! of the tenpin alley. J Such men may build upj palaces of merchan dise heaven high,. but after awhile a disaster will; come! along and will put one hand on. this pillar and another hand on that pillared throw itself for ward until down jwill come the whole structure, crushing toe -worshipers as grapes are m!ashed in the winepress. Then there' are! boys ruined by laok of compensation. In howmany prosper ous s stores it has-been for the last 30 years that boys were given just enough money to teach them how to steal! Some were seized lupbn by the police. The. vast majority instances were not known. The . head of the firm asked, "Where is George inow?" "Oh, he isn't here any more." j A lad might better starve to death on a blasted heath than itake one farthing; from his employer. Woe be to that employer who unneces sarily puts a temptation in a boy's way. There have been great establishments in these cities, building marble palaces, their owners dying- worth millions and millions and; millions; who made a vast amount of 'their estate put of . the blood and muscle and ierve of half paid clerks. Such men! as well, I will not mention anyjuaniei But I mean men who have gathered up vast estates at the expense j of the people who' were ground under their heel. "Oh," say such merchants, y.if you don't like j it here, then gd and 'get a better place 1" As much as j to say: "I've got you in my grip, and I mean to hold you. I You can't get any other place." ; j ' ' ,; , True Sympathy. i i , j - ; Oh, what a contrast between; those men alid Christian merchants who to day are sympathetic with their clfcrks---when they pay the! salary, acting in this way: 'liiis salary that I give you is not all my interest in you. You are an immortal man; you are an immortal woman! l am interested in your pre sent and your everlasting welfare. I. want you to understand that if Ij am a little higher ttp in this store I am be-, side you in Christian sympathy.' Go back 40 or 50 years to Arthur Tappen's atore in NewYorkj'a man whose, worst enemies nser questioned his hoiuef.ty". rfccD vmiD rVtBaaiaal I VVI U Ban laV I ialU r Surely if the word REGUmLA TOR is not on a package it is m mo ns Wjm Regulator. Nothing else is the same. Deen put up oy any one except J). H. ZEQiLOH & CO. And it. can be easily told THE RED Z. For Hale f Drf. W. W.TCJRICJOf Ml MOM. Every morning he brought all th clerks and ithe . accountants and the weighers into a room for devotion. They sang, they prayed, fheji exhorted. On Monday morning the clerks . were asked jwhere they had attended church on the previous day and what the ser mons were about. It must have sound ed strangely, that voice of praise along the streets where the devotees of mon were counting their golden You say, Arthnr Tappeu failed, he was unfortunate, like a srreat Mam beads. Yes, many good men, but 1 understand ne metj aii his obligations before he left thi3 world, and I know that he died in the pease of the gospel arid that he w before the throne of, God today forever blessed. If that be failing, I wish you might all fail.) " - . . ; There are a great many 'young men and-young women who want a word of encouragement Christian encourage ment. One smile of good cheer .would be worth more to them tomorrow morn ing in their places of business than a present of $15,000 ten years hence. On, I remember the apprehension and the tremor of entering a profession. I re member very well the man who greeted me in the ecclesiastical court with the tip ends oL the leng fingors of the left hand, and I remember the other man who took my hand ;.in both' o his and said: "God bless you, my brother. You have entered a glorious profession. Be Jaithful to' God, and he will see you through." .Why, I feel this minute the thrill of that handshaking, though the man who. save me' the Christian grip Whas been in heaven 20 years. There are old men here today who can iook pacx to 40 years ago, when some one said a kind word to them. Now; old men, pay back what you got then. It is a great art for. old men to be able to encourage the young. There are. many jourig peo ple in our cities who have come from inland counties, from the granite hills of the north, from tho savannas of the sou.th, from the prairies of the west. They are here to get their fortune. They are in boarding houses where everybody seems to be thinking of himself. They want companionship, and they want Christian encouragement. Give it to them. . .r , balancing- the llookt. j My word is to all clerks, Be" mightier than your temptations. A Sandwich In lander mod to think when he slew an enemy all the strength of that enemy came into his own right arm. Audi have to tell you that every misfortune you 'conquer is . so much added to your own moral power. With omnipotence for a lever and the throne of Gofl for a fulcrum you can move earth ana heav en. While there are other young iSen putting the cup of sin to thei lips you stoop down and drink out of the foun tains of God, and you will riso up strong to thrash the mountains. The ancients used to think that pearls were fallen raindrops, which, touching the surface of the sea, hardened into gems, then dropped to the bottom. I have to tell you today that storms of trial have showered imperishable pearls into many a young man's lap. Ob, young man, while you have goods to sell, remember you have a soul to save. In a hospital a Christian captain, wounded a few days before, got delirious, and in the. mid night hour he sprang out on the floor of the hospital, thinking he w-as in the battle, crying: "Come on, boys! For ward 1 Charge !" Ah, be was only bat tling the specters of his own; brain I But it is no imaginary conflict into wJiiclh I call you, young; man, today. There are 10,000 spiritual foes that would cap ture you. In the name of God, up and at. them 1 , . ' After the last store has been closed, after the last bank has gone down, after the shuffle of the quickfeet on the cus tom house, steps has stopped, after the long line of merchantmen on the sea has taken sail of flame, after .Washing ton and New York and London arid Vienna have gon-j where Thebes au lie buried, after i the judgment day burning of a wc: the affairs of bank' -vn into the grave :!.ibylon and Tyre great fire bells of : ;jve tolled at the : en that day all . L'.-uses and stores .ection. Oh, what will come up for i an ooeninz of acc, :A books 1 Side by side the clerks and the men who em ployed them. Every invoice made out all the labels of goods all certificates of stock all lists of prices all private marks of the firm, now explained so everybody can understand them. AH the maps of cities that were never built, but in which lots were sold all bar gains, all gougings, all snap judgments, all false entries, all adulteration of liquors With coppers and strychnine. All mixing of teas and sugary and coffees,' and sirups, withcheaper mate rial, all embezzlements of trust funds.' All swindles in coal and iron and oil and silver and stocks. On thai , day when the cities of this world are srriok ing in the last conflagration the trial will go on, and down in an avalanche of destruction will go those who wrong ed man or woman, insulted God and defied the judgment. Oh, that will be a great .day for you, honest Christian clerk. . No getting up early, no retiring late, no Walking around with weary limbs, but a mansion in which to live and a realm of licht and love and ioy pvcc notrniT J not It cannot be and never has by their Trade Mark'-.. over wnicb iu noid e masting uotuin iou. Hoist him up from glory to glory and from noug to song and from throne to throne, for .while other go down. into tho sen with their gold like a mill ptorie hanging to their" lieck, this one shall come up the heights of amethyit and alabaster, holding in his right hand the pearl of great price iu a spar kling, glittering, flamrug caktt Klialng In Krntnckjr. "A Kentucky man." says the Cincin- uati Tribune, "va lined $35 last week for kissing a girl ouee. t About three months hack another iuaU in the same otute was fined $10 for kissing another girl thrne times. It will be interesting to vrtrtch these oseulatory experiments, for -iy ho doing we may discover juit how often it i necessary to kiss a Keu-y tueky girl without incurring the dis pleasure of the Jaw. I- According- lo (Quantity. Thoro is a local capitulint whose niother-in-luw, to tho chagrin ami p:vin of lier immediate .family- and descendants, peryists in taking on llesli at iru alarming rate. She has tried Banting and dumbbells with out any. appreciable result and now would al'uost .-attempt tho bicycle if the city council would vote Iiur tho use of one entire street to learn in. While euch a thing h her avojrdu poia is never trcatwl lightly in her presence,' when nhe in not'nnnmd it inevitably leads to more or Iwh Iiu. inorousVemarkB. Her little grand daughter frequently uses her weight as a term of comparison.. Tho atonp sidewalk? near the house isjidly "cracked' on" one side of thoHtroet,. rwhile on the other it is in an excel lent Ktate of preservation, which btato of things the. little girl insists is due to 'the fact that her grand mother walks almost entirely on the injured side. The other day th capitulist'n wife, in accordance with un old fam ily cuntonv decided to havo her mother's portrait painted. She men tioned it to her .: husband, and witli out thinking twicejibout the matter ho told her to go ahead. Chicago boasts Home artists of considerable reputation, and these artists uro fre quently able to boast tho receipt of. large sums for their work. Ilia lady ixl question ftat for one of them. In a Khort space of time ho transferred her lineaments, . together with a Hmilo prepared for tho , occasion, to canvas. ' . .ia. ' A few days later her Kou-in-law, vho,lhough a wealthy man, abhors extravagance', received a bill for tho same. It camo one morning before he left for business.; Ho tore opon the envelop and glanced at it u mo ment. Tho' amount askixl was -',-000. : "Why, heayens, Maria," ho said, turning to his wife, who ws stand ing jiear . him, "that man must charge by thlj square inch. '! Chi cago Times-Herald. Tr ilk nndustrv of China em-i I ploys, it is estimated, from 4,000, -j 000 to 5,000,000 people, V i . i , : i Potatoes in Greenland never grow larger than a marble. . - ... - - i As Usual. ' "Mrs. Saver must feel that she was very extravagant in buying that new gown.", I "What makes you think o! "She's begun to argue that it will be the cheapest .in the cud." Cbi ca go Journal. '. RHEUMATISM CURED. After eminent physicians and all other known, rem id ies fail. Botantic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) will quickly , cure. Thousands .of. -testimonials, at test this fact. No case of Kbeamatism can stand before its magic healing power. Send 8 tain p for book of par ticulars. 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The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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July 23, 1897, edition 1
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