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O be moet TlKFLESS WORKER iuQ O O u O o a u r.uxaoetn tjity U the g I HAKE AD7EET1SIKG PiiT. i by using thej column of 'the I ECONOMIST, s thp tneiliura that reaches more I i i It gos into the home f)f the ieepbO telling the nes njth the voic of bV trusted friend. ' : x o I &5o6ooooooooooooooooooooocoo 21 utiiiiuvs ijia.u any oilier paper in Eastern Carolina. itlTilt tLaauu ffttttf ttiuu Takd each man's censiirB "but rsservB 1hy judgment.-r ariilst3" t ; j VOL. XXVI. ELIZABETH CITY, IN". C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER & 1897. 111 2sT0.2G. , , : ' - i J I' w r i I I i i 9 r Drs. maybe and Mustbe. () () 0 () () () () To? lie cause choose the e!J doctor before the youajf one Why? you "don't want to entrust vour life in inHn.i ycanx doctor nay te experienced. But the v Y Tree, ou Jccter must Yea take no chances wlih Dr. Mvhe .. -v.. la rcacn. oiire TTita xned.'ciacs as with ncLic makers the Is-tricd nzzz&j has yenr confidence. rCi n:ac2 to expertise;:: rhea yea arc concerned. f- Te od remedy-xacst be Dcd jidjed oa Its record of f) KEVEItEXCE FOE AGE. 1 JOSEPH AND HIS DEVOTION TO HIS OLD FATHER. It. v-.c. jus: one niore reason fcr r in'.M fa rrcfertnee to any other. i.o!MEOM sarrarrjriO: f:r talf c Diuc.'.ce oLI yenrs of cures. Oyer's Sarsarrlla mx:st be, Uic s' JZlVSSzTzmrV.li. choosing AYEXT3 Sarsa- It has K-n Vt ita-iiarJ a centarr. Its rcr.rJ fr-fr- If ethers Tvavhc rood. Ycu take nj chances when rcu C) PUS..;5HED. VEEICLYl . -.I:V Tlll-r-" ! DIKECTOHY. falcon miwim co., Mavor Attorney I.aae J fJo:nmi;onTj; CouiinarnIer. Frank SixT,e Subscription.. One Year, $1.00 rv.' A. 1'aiikj K. V. LA'JIJ... .Manaser. Ktlltor. ) PRoF K.S U )X A L C A HDS. it. Ci;KEc;Y, I5ai'ii!-ij Jolm.Tlios. J".'!ii .VKraiutT II; and Wr i. 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N. v : V. j ; a. a, iijji. i i v Muinict Wi -.-4iit 'i!if . j.'-ry I riilay at : it i j . m. ; IIyal ArT,ntini : TJii -r Cj-, t. Cciin :t il Nivl:.iti; II. O ;liilili. K, in: 1. A. Morgan. ' ire II. -ent ; U, ii:irkin. ; Orator; W II. Z.x ller. eretarv; F. M. fC.Hik Jr., (Collector; W, J. Voiiley, ; Treasurer. Me ts every 1st and Crd j .Monday t.iht. ! Kniciits tif Honor: It. II. White, Die ;tnter;.J. II HhkU', Yioo Dictator ; T. f.J. Jordan, RejMrter; T. R WHscm, Fi- nance KejHrter; J. C. Uenbury. Treas , ur r. fleets : i-nch month. I I'afquotank Tribe o. 8, 1. O. U. M. !.I.I.iiirpoii,Pro.!iet ; W.I I Sanford, f Sa'hin; Will Anderson, Sr. Sagamore; 1st and 4th Friday in o. a, OCe.- hH pre I -fit nil s rvic s; to ,rfT..f,,,,i; .will m m . -4 ,..v . . ...... f. - - ti y Can t 'ouud -r. rNiRaniore:. jaines L th ! I'ircS C-of H ; S. II. Murrel K. of W. . . ! Meet eve rr eun.jsday uicht. e in Krair.tr !! ck. t.n Muio ( CWjlf Coiniiii.-.ioner3 (J. tffen r.Hfid.Mcr and iiker. ; ,. ,-,.. Vi1,riMn. l M. Godfrv. " J." W. William!. SlierilT. T. P. Wilcox. Mi'ii 1 1 ' Snj.erior Court Clerk, John P. Over- U. ' 1 UI iiai;. th f itv. N.C. j inan; Kv&Krvt Deeds, M II. Cr pep-0;T.-.- f'ih. iTor. .--i.nal in r ; Treasurer, John S. Morn? C J:)ty fv . r.j .. to tlf jul. be in all Health -Ollicer. Dr. J. K uod; -'"t l:f brai. v7"Vi l-iH f Dr. Talmac rreachc Sermon on F therlj Lo and ' TUIaI Deration Bu tlcltj Is m P1ac Tbe Inrrt and the Fate That Should Be 111. I. Copyright. 1837. by American Press Asso ciation. WAsncfaTOx, -Oct. S. Dr. Talmao In his sermon shows us a scene of ten derness and reverence and teljs us how. vro ought to treat old pooplo. His text is Genefiis xlr, 23, I will go and see him before I dia' Jacob had long since passed the hun dred year milestone. In those times peo ple were distinguished for longevity. In ) ccrTic i after persons lived to great asre. ualea, the most celebrated phy- 'iian of his time, took so little of his oivn medicine that ho lived to 140 years. A man of undoubted veracity on the witness stand in England swore that he remembered an event 150 years before. Lord Bacon speaks cf a countcs3 who had cut three sets of teeth and died at 140 years. Joseph. Crele of Pennsylva ma lived 140 years. In 1857 a book was printed containing the names of 87 per sons who lived 140 years, and the name? m 1? 1 r oi 11 persons who uvea iou years. Among the grand old people of whom wo have record was Jacob, the shepherd of tho text But ho had a bad lot of boys. They were jealous and ambitious and every way unrrinciDled. . Joseph. however, seemed to bo an exception, but he had been gone many years, and tho probability wa3 that he was dead. As sometimes now in a house you will find kept at tho Stable a vacant chair, a plate, a knife, a fork, for some deceased member of the family, so Jacob kept in his heart a place for his beloved Joseph. Thero sits tho old man, the flock of 140 years in their flight having alighted long enough to leave tho marks of their claw on forehead and cheek and temple. His long beard snows down over hii chest Hi3 eyes are somewhat dim, and ho can see farther when they are closed than when they aro open, for he can sec clear back into tho timowhen beauti ful Rachel, his wife, was living and his children shook the oriental abode with their merriment ever chiiaren? ' well, there was, no doubt, a great change in Joseph from tho time Jacob lost birn and the time when Jacob found him between the boy of 17 years of age and the man in midlife, his forehead developed with the great business of state. But Jacob was glad - to( get back Joseph anyhow, and it did not make much difference to the old man whether the boy looked older or looked 1 younger. And it will be enough joy for that parent if "he can get back that son, that daughter, at the gate of heaven, whether the departed loved one shall come a cherub or in full grown angelhood. There must bo a change wrought .by that celestial cli mate and. by thoso supernal years, but by his children, who said, "Oh. God. strengthen thy servant iuad keep thy promise," And Christ in the hour of excruciation provided for ; his old moth er. Jacob kept his resolution, ."I will go and see him before I die, " and a little while after we find them walking Mr.!: d Wan .f i:-:ntistuy nooru 01 i.mn'auon, j .d :;t a!I tirre-. ' r unner. .. a .iens . 1 - 1 .4.-l,.. IS m ;i fv mil I f CfV. ! SlUHTllill IllUIHl Sin et.lw I n Polndcxter r .-:' fr. ' T. Davis. J. D 1. N. Meekins Insti W. '.Ki'iinIIY. D. D. S.. KliuU ih c icy. N. C nuV.s hi pn-fes-- tde-;nl rie-H t V';' tin- pdlic in all -"dl.- the branches of V m ?V-'v Crown ami Hride K work . a et ialty. J.onr-. n to VI aii.i 1 to u, or any - ?'. ;f.l sjtrial H'cioii rntiire. " o : , Flora Iiulldii.. Corner Main j 1 Wat r t. S. : f ( DAYID COX, Jr., J. E., .cti-t Atlantic Collegiate tute. y. L. Sheep, President Select School. I. X. Tillett, Princi- 'Mil. ' '. KJizabetli City Public School, W. 3I. Hinton, Principal. State Colored Normal, P. W loore, Principal. ' Jitnls.-First National: Chas. II. Hobinson, President; J no. (t. Wood, Vice-President! Win. T. Old. Cashier. M. K. firillln. Teller. Directors: E. F. Lnmb,I.li. Bradford. J. B.FIoru.M. II. White, Jno. G. Wooil, J. B. Blades, C. U. Itobinson. (luirkin & Co. The Dead Alive. i The centenarian is sitting dreaming over tho past when ho hears a wagon rumbling to tho front door. He gets up and goes to the door to see who has ar rived, and his long absent sons from Egypt co mo in and announce to him that Joseph, instead of being dead, is living in an Egyptian palace, with ali tho investiture of prime minister, next to tho king in thd mightiest enipiro of all tho world. The hews was too sudden and too glad for the old man, and his checks whiten, and he has a dazed look, and his staff falls out of .his hand, and ho would havo dropped had not the sons caught him and led him to a lounge and put cold water on his face and fanned him a little. In that half delirium the old man mumbles something about his son Jo seph. Ho says: "You don't mean Jo seph, do you my dear son who has been dead so long? You don't mean j Joseph, do youj" But after they had iniiy resuscitated him and tho news was conhrmed f the tears begin their winding way down tho crossroads of tho wrinkles, arid tho sunken lips of tho old man quiver, and ho brings his bent fingers together ;as ho says: "Joseph is yet alive. I will go and seo him before I die," j It did not take tho old man a great whilo to get reaidy, I warrant you. Ho put on tho best clothes that the shep herd's wardrobe could afford. '. He dot into tho wagon, and though the aged are cautious and liko to ride slow tho wagon did not get along fast enough for this old man, and when tho wagon with the old man met Joseph's chariot com ing down to meet him and Joseph got' out of the chariot and got into the wag on and threw las arms around his fa ther's neck it was an antithesis of roy alty and rusticity, of simplicity and pomp, or ulial affection and paternal love, which lcafes us so much in doubt whether wo had better laugh or cry, that wo do bo" tlx. So Jacob kept the res olution of tho text; "I will go and seo him before I die!" it will only be from loveliness to more loveliness and from health tomcr - :vU ant health. i - When the Old Parent Come. Oh, parent, as you think of the dar ling panting and white in membranous croup, I want you to know it will be gloriously bettered in that land where there has never been a death and where, all the inhabitants will live on in the great future as long as God. .Joseph was Joseph notwithstanding the palace, and your child will be your child not withstanding all the raining splendors of everlasting noon. What a thrilling visit was that of the old shepherd to the prime minister Joseph! I see the old countryman seated in the palace looking around I at the mirrors and the fountains and the carved" pillars, and, oh, how he wishes that Rachel, his wife, was alive and she could como with him to see their son in his great house, "Oh," says the old man within himself, "I do wish Rachel could be here to seo all this!" I visited at tho farmhouse of the father of 5Iillard Fill more when the son was president of tho United States, and the octogenarian farmer entertained me until 11 o'clock at night telling me what great things he saw in his son's house at Washing ton aiM what Daniel Webster ' said to him and how grandly Millard treated his father in the White House, The old man's face was illumined with the story until almost the midnight He had just been visiting his son at tho capital. And I suppose it was something of tho same joy that thrilled the heart of tho old shepherd as he stood in the palace of tho prime minister. It is a great day with you when your old parents come to visit you. Your lit tle children stand around with great wide open eyes, wondering how any body could be so old. The parents can not stay many days, for they are a lit tle restless, and especially at nightfall, because they sleep better in their own bed, but whilo they tarry you somehow feel there is a benediction in every rooir in the house, Ihey aro a little fee Die, the tessellated floor of the; palace, Jacob and Joseph, the prime minister' proud of the shepherd. . f j ! 1 "I may say in. regard to the most of you that your parents nave probably visited you for the; last, time or will soon pay you such a visit, and "I havp wondered if they will ever visit rou in rtho king's palace. Oh." von say. I am in the, pit of sinl' Joseph was in the pit "Oh, " you say, "I am in the firiscn of mine iniquity i'f Joseph was once in prison. "Oh, " j you1 say, "I cu.a t La re a fair chance 1 1 was denied maternal kindness." Joseph was denied maternal attendance,- "Oh," you say, "I am far away from tne land of my nativity!" Joseph was far from home,' "Oh," you say, "I have been betrayed and exasperated 1" Did not Joseph's brethren sell him to a passing Ishmael itish caravan?. Yet Cod brought him to that emblazoned residence, and if you will trust his grace in Jesus Christ you, too, will bo empalaced. Oh, what a day that will be when the old folks como from an adjoining mansion in heaven and find you amid the . alabaster pillars of the throneroom and living with the king 1 - They are coming j up the steps now, and the epauleted 'guard of the palace rushes in and says, "Your fa ther's coming, your mother's coming!" And when under the arches of precious stones and on- the pavement of porphyry you greet each other the scene will eclipse the meeting on' the Goshen high way, when Joseph: and Jacob fell on each other's neckf arid wept a good while. . : '! ..!! . :- The Reunion. . But, oh, how changed j ihe old folio; will bed Their cheek smoothed into thv, flesh of a little child, their stooped pos ture lifted into immortal symmetry, their foot, now so feeble, then with the sprightliness of a bounding roe, as they shall "say to you, 'A spirit passed this way from earth arid told; us that you were wayward and dissipated "after we left the world; but yon have repented, our prayer iiaa been answered, and .yor. aro here, and as wo used to visit you on earth before we diet! now we visit you in your new home after our ascension," I and father will say "Mother,, don't you see Joseph is yet alive?' f and mother will say, "Yes, father, Joseph is yet alive," and then they will talk over their earthly anxieties j in regard to you, and the midnight supplications in your behalf, and they will recite to each other the old Scripture passage with which they used tp cheer their iEEF YOUR EYES OPEN I Surcy if the word REGULATOR is not on a package : :':. - :' : it is not ' . ! Nothing else is the same. It cannot be and never has been put up by any one except ; iJJ. H. ZIcDO-D & (SO. And it can be easily told by their Trade Mark THE t'i tie 1- IrM. W:V.;t2ItIC;C2M & HON. The Cord That Is Not Snapped. What a strong and unfailing thing is KUetric TJsU Co. J.'B. Ulades, Pre?i- parental attachment Was it not almost dent. G. jf. Scott, Vice President, D. time for "Jacob to forget Joseph? The . Al: iilTF.CT AND ENGINEER,, " iiuurouw,.v v. t.ta 1 surveying. J .fn:li--l Umi , jiptc a. J-. PUns t i'tdicti-u. :Bay iew House, .JOTKLH. t' i:ur.MONM.c. CKrtn'y. . Attentive . Srynt. Mar ihc Couit Hoc?. Jolunibia Hotel, Columbia. Tykui:li. Co. ' K. IIL'GIIFS, - - Proprietor. de r re Bradford, Sec'ty, Noah Burfoot. rer. . TiUihone Co. D. B. Bradford, Prese nt ; I. S." IKndt-s Vice-President ; Davis, bccretar and Irtasurer. 1 tnyG.1 Servant, good room , K"I i .'.U-. . ArapT-staMs and hd'fr. Tfcc ' f uintr- uf the, pubic sdcted nnd :"(.ri.,ntf?Uf(l. l I tiik old crT. y.! ki:i: uiirsfc Siniinon's Hotel, CU2RITUCK C. H., N.C. I .-nr. : .v.xx per mca. or !. per uay failed Ogic,r. SH n the a KciUd J. W. BRABBLE. Thli ratronare of S-t!fdCtioa assured. Froprictbr. Tranquil House, MANTEO W. C. A- V. EVANS, - Pxopiutor. First c!as in evry pardcular. Table .'Tlled with erry delicacy. -Fish. Ttert and Game in abundance in season J?t Improvement Co. -E. F. Aydlett, rreident; T. G. Skinner, Vice Presi dent ; C. II. llobion, Secretary and Treasurer. .. (V.'y CULn Jm. President, Dr. O. McMuIIan, Vice President. Geo. M. Scott, Sec, an.l Trea?., D..H. Bradford, Supt II. P. Smith. Directors: Dr. O. McMulIan.G. M. Seott, E. P. Aydlett, J. W. Sharber, Jas. R Blades, C. II. Kv.linon. Thos. G. Skinner, C. E. Kramer, J. B. Flora, II. F. Smith and D. Ik Bradfjnl. Xurnl I2erre. W. J. Griffln, Lieu tenant commanding; J. It l-t-rebee. Lieutenant Junior Gr.ule; Ij. A. Win der, En-sifcn. Regular Drill each Tues dav night.- Arms: 40 Magazihe Rillet; 12 "Navy Revolvers; 12 Cutlasses; 2 12 Pound Howitzers. SouLVrn Krprcss Company. il, II, Snowden, Agent. Railroad and Steamboat Mail train going North, leaves 8 a. in. ami 2:45 p. m., going South, 11:40 and o : 50 p. in. Steamers for ;ewoerne leave at o p. in. Steamer Newton, leaves Eliza beth City for Cresswell on Mondays and Tursdays at 9 : GO a. m. Re turning will leave Elizabeth City follow ing day at 2. SO p. m.. . Steamer Har binger, will leave Eizabeth City for Hertford Wednesdays and Saturdavs at 9. SO a. m.: Elizabeth City for Nor folk Thursdays and Mondays 3 p. m. hot suns of many summers had blazed on tho heath; tho river Nile had over flowed and receded, overflowed and re ceded again ahd again; the seed had been sown and the harvests reaped; stars roso and set; years of plenty and years of famine had passed on, but tho lovo of Jacob for Joseph in my text is overwhelmingly dramatic. Oh, that is a cord that is not snapped, though pull ed on by many decades! Though when tho little child expired tho parents may not havo been more than 25 years of age, and now they aro 75, yet the vi sion of the cradle, and tho childish face, and the first utterances of the infantile lips are fresh today,: in spite.of the pas sage of a half century. Joseph was as fresh in Jacob's memory as ever, though at 17 years of ago.the boy had disap peared from the old homestead. I found in our family record the story of an in fant that had died 50 years before, and I said to my parents, "What is this rec ord and what' does it mean?" Their chief answer was a long, deep sigh. It to was yet to them a very tender sorrow. What does that all mean? Why, it means our children departed are ours yet, and that cord of attachment reach ing across tho years will hold us until it brings us together in the palace, as Jacob and Joseph were brought togeth er. That is one thing that makes old people die happy. , They realizo it is re union with those from whom they have i long been separated. I am often asked as pastor and every pastor is asked, the question "Will my children be children in heaven and for- ably not visit you very often perhaps never again. ' You go to their room after they have retired at nightf to see if the lights are properly put out for the old people understand candle and lamp bet 4ter than the modern apparatus for illu mination. In the morning, with real interest in their health, you ask how they rested last : night Joseph, in the historical scene of the text, did not think any more of his father than you do of your parents. The probability is, before they leave your house they half spoil your children with kindnesses. The "First and the Last. Grandfather and grandmother . are more lenient and indulgent to your chil- n than they ever were with. you. And what wonders of revelation in tho bombazine pocket of the one and the sleeve of the other 1 Blessed is that home where Christian parents come to visit Whatever may have been the style'of the architecture when they came, it is a palace before they leave. It they visit you 50 times, the two most memorable visits will bo the first and the last. Those two" pictures will hang in the hall of your memory .while memory lasts, and you will remember just how they looked, and where they sat, and what they said, arid at what figure of the carpet, and at what doorsill. they parted with you, giving you the final goodby. Do not be embarrassed if your father como to town and he have the manners of the shepherd, and if your mother come to town and there be in her hat no sign of costly millinery. The wife of the Emperor Theodosius said a wise thing when she said, "Husband, remember what you lately were and re m ember what you are and be thankful. ' ' By this time you all notice . what' kindly provision Joseph made for his father Jacob. Joseph did not say: "I can't havo the old man around thi place. How clumsy he would look climb ing up these marble stairs and walking over those mosaics! Then he would Iw putting his hands upon some of these frescoes. People would wonder where that old greenhorn came from. He would shock all the Egyptian court with his manners at tabla Besides that, he might get sick on my hands, and he might be querulous, . and he might talk to me as though I were only a boy, when I am the second man in all the realm. Of course he must not suffer, and if there is famine in bi-H country and I hear there is I will send him some provisions, but I can't take a mao, from Padanaram and intro duce him into this polite Egyptian court What a' nuisance it is to have poor relations!" 1 Joseph did not say that, but he rush ed out to meet his father with perfect abandon of affection and brought him up the palace and introduced him to the' emperor and provided for all the rest of the father's days, and nothing was too good for the old man while liv ing, and when 'e was dead Joseph, with military escort took his father's remains to the family cemetery. Would God all children were as kind to their parents I . . ..' - The lug-rate and His Fate. It the father have large property and he be wise enough to keep it in his own name, he will be respected by the heirs, but how often it is when the sou finds his father in famine, as Joscch found and you make it as easy as you can for Kgermg faith I will be a God to them, and you realize they will prob l 7 , a"er infV ; palace, mo jjuiaire, iuv piiiauc i xziab x what Richard Baxter called "The Saints' Everlasting j Rest " That is what John Bunyanr called the "Celes Uial City." That is Young's "Night Thoughts" turned into morning exulta tions. That is Gray's! "Elegy In a Churchyard" turned to resurrection spectacle. That is the "Cotter's Satur day Night" exchanged for the cotter's Sabbath morning. That is the shepherd Of Salisbury plains amid . the flocks on the hills of heaven.' That is the famine struck Padanaram turned into the rich pasture field of Goshen. jThat is Jacob visiting Joseph at the emeraldj castle. The. Duke of Wellington at Home. In Dean Hole's ''Memories" are re lated several anecdotes of the Duke of TTT.ll." Li J-t is ' J.'. i 1 1- Y v umiigion, tne nrsc 01 1 wnicn snows that he had the modesty, common among great men, that is unconscious of its own greatness. - -i . : . He met a lady who. was; going up the steps to see the mqdel of j Waterloo and remarked to her :' I j . . "Ah, you're going to isee Waterloo! It's very good--I was ther, you know. ' ' A bishop was once ; preaching in the Chapel Royal of :St James when he was much perplexbd by the conduct of the verger, who at the close of, the ser mon opened the door of the pulpit ahd suddenly closed it ;with all his force so that tho noise rang through the build- "He informed me in a whisper," re ports the bishop, "that his grace the Duke of Wellington j was . asleep and that, not liking to fbuch him, he adopted this method ! of rousing him from his slumbers.." This ingenious simulation of a 'bombardment never, failed to stir the old; warrior. j ; Wellington left behind him three memorable sentences. Education with out religion would surround : us.with clever devils. "-To a verger who pushed aside a poor man who was going up be fore him to the altar,; with the words, "Make way for his igracer the Duke of Wellington," he said, "Not so; we are all equal here," ! And when a young clergyman was speaking in disparage nient of foreign missions he rebuked him with, "Sir, you forget your march ing orders, 'Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every crea ture,'": '; , I i :: ; A Railway f Drama. Scene L Train shopping at a big junction. ; 1 j : -. Ticket Collector (examining j passen ger's ticket) This won't do, sir. You'U have to get out and r Passenger I shall not get out I re fuse to be buUied by; you.; Here is my 2ard. You have your remedy" (etc). Ticket Collector I only wanted to say, sir - ; f I , ! Passenger Doa't talk to me. You're enly a meniaL "Fetch the station mas ler. ... : -v, i (.:... Ticket Collector It's aU right, sir. , Train croceeds aid passenger relate tales of his various jbriumphs; over rail way officials. Scene EC A dark and lonely railway platf orm. One melaticholy figure, brooding- '; ! . Passenger (thoughtfully) I wonder if that collector only meant to tell me I was in the wrong! train! Pearson'a Weekly. Jacob in faming, the young-people make it very kard for the old man. They are so surprised hoi eats with a knife in stead of a fork! They are chagrined at his antediluvian habits. They aro pro voked because he cannot hear as well s a-? ho used, to, and when he asks it over again and the son has to repeat it ho bawls in the bid man's ear, "I hope you hear thatj" How long he must wear the old coat or the old hat before they get him a new one ! How cha grined they are: at his independence of the English grammar! How long he hangs on! Seventy years and not gone yet 1 &e venty-n ve years and not gono yet! Eighty years and not gone, yet! Will he ever go? They think it of no use to have a doctor in his last sickness and go up to the drug store and get something that makes him worse, and economize on a cofflnand beat the un dertaker down to tho last pointy giving a note for the reduced amount which they iever pay: I havo officiated at ob sequies of aged people where tho family have: been so inordinately resigned to Providence that I felt; like taking my text from Proverbs, "The eye that mock eth" at his father and . ref useth . to obey, its mother, the ravens of r tho valley shall pick it out and the young eagles shall eat it " In other words, such an ingrate ought to have, a flock of, crows for pallbearers. I congratulate you if you have tho ; honor of providing for aged parents. I The blessing of the Lord God. of Joseph and Jacob will bo on you. ; ; .-'." I rejoice to remember that though my father lived in a plain house the most of his days he died in a mansion pro vided by the - filial piety .of a son who had achieved a fortune. There the octo genarian sat, arid the servants waited on him, and there were plenty of horses and plenty of! carriages to convey him, and a bower! in which to sit on long summer afternoons, dreaming Over tho past; and there was not a room in the hbuse where he was not welcome, and there were musical instruments of all sorts to regale; him, and when life had passed the neighbors came nut and ex pressed all honor possible and carried him. to the. village Machpelah and put him down beside the Rachel with whom he had lived more than half - a century. , Share your successes with the old peo ple. The probability is that tho princi ples they inculcated achieved your for tuna Give them a Christian percentago of kindly consideration. Let Joseph di vide with Jacob the pasture fields of Goshen and the glories of the Egyptian court.. ! : .--. V' -:" . 4 ' A Tribute to the Spinster. i And , here I would like to sing the praises of tho sisterhood who remained unmarried that they might, administer to aged parents. The brutal world 'Calls these self sacrificing ones peculiar or angular, but if you had had as many annoyances as they have had Xantippe would have been an angal compared with you. It is easier to take care of five rollicking, romping children than of one childish old man. Among tho best women of our land aro those who allowed tho bloom of life to pass away whilo they were caring for their .par ents. While other maidens were asleep they were soaking the old man's feet or tucjong up tho covers around the invalid mother. While other maidens were in the cotillon they" were dancing attendance upon rheumatism and spread ing plasters for tho lame back of tho septuagenarian and heating catnip tea for insomnia. ; In almost, every circle of our kindred there has been some queen of self sacrifice to whom jeweled hand after jeweled hand was. offered in marriage, but who staid on tho' old place because of the sense of filial obligation until the health was gone and the attractiveness of personal presence had vanished. Brutal society . m 'a may call such a one ny a nickname. God calls her daughter, and heaven calls her saint, and I call her domestic martyr. A half d r.m ordinary women have not as much ii ability as could be found in the small . t joint of the little finger of her left S, World has Btcod () first apotheosis of j.: in the long, line of thoe who have de clined marriage that they might bequali tied for some especial mission aro the names of Anna Ross and Margaret Oreclonridge i and 3iary bnenon and Anna Etheridge and Georgiana Willetts, tho angels of , the battlefields of Fair Oaks and Lookout Mountain and Chah ?llorsYille and Cooper Shop hospital, ind, though single life has been hon ored by tho fact that the three grandest v-nen of the Bible, John and Paul and 'Jhrist, were celibates. "Over the SUlls to the Palace." Let tho ungrateful world sneer at the naideri aunt, but God has a throne lurning for her arrival, and on one side d that throne in heaven there is a vase ontaining two jewels, the one brighter han the Kohinoor of London Tower nd the other larger than any diamond ;ver found in the districts of Golconda the one jewel by the lapidary of tho jalace cut with the words, "Inasmuch i ye did it to father;" the other jewel jy tho lapidary of the palace cut with ths words. "Inasmuch as 1id It to mother." "Over the llflls to the l-.r house" is the exquisite Uilla ! of Will Carleton, who found an old woman who had been turned off by her prospered aous, but I thank God 1 may find in my text. "Over tho hills to the palac." As if to disgust us with unfllial con duct, the Bible presents us with tho ' story of Micah, who stole.. the 1,100 shekels from his mother, and the story of Absalom, who tried to dothrono hit father But all history is beautiful with stories of filial fidelity. Epamlnoudas, tho warrior, found his chief delight in reciting to his parents his victories There gos Eneas; from burning Troy, on his shoulders Anchisett, his father.' Tho Athenians punished with death any unfllial conduct There goes beautiful Ruth escorting venerable Naomi across tho dewert amid tho howling of the wolves and the barking of . the jackals. 8 John Lawrence, burned at tho stake in Colchester, was cheered in the flames' Hough on Dunda. Quo of the DUinerous Dundatics ono , year exhibited 'a collection of pic tures which lie had lately purchased in (Jcrniunyj previous to their boin transferred to hirt privnto rcsidohciv-J It hapiK'nciIj n year later, that ono of tlio guests at Lord Howbery h ta- . bio . mcu'tioiHHl liis intention of Vihit- ing tho continent for tho purine of ; making home addition to his own collection of paintings, nnd honskctl Lord Eldoriif lie could givo him any s suggestions iks to wneio no nai ucx ter begin his search. "I think ho hod better go to DutsseUlorf," Lord El-.' doh replied.- "And why to, Duswd dorf ?" Faid the inquirer. "I thiuk you might; find something good there, us oir 'friend Dundas went thero last year and bquglit all tho d. -d tra?"h in 'tho placo." Saa Francisco Argonaut. ' - Perhaps Some Time. Mrs. Bjoriee Mrs. Brown" is a very pereisterit woman. - . Mrs. Bsriiith How eoT ' Mrs. Bjonea For years nho has been asking her dealer if his eggs aro fresh in the fond delueion that some day ho will Bay no. Philadel phia Record. ' - '1 1 1 Tho omiiibuees of j ono, .London . company cover just about 20,000,000 miloa in tHe courso o( a year half as much as fs covered by tho trains of the London and Northwestern railway a distance sufficient to tako the'm nearly throo times around tho. world every day. . j ' : :'.f A wasp you should never attack unless you are sure io destroy it, or it will nssiiil you again with in creased exasperation and redoubled yigor.-r-MirabeaU. . . Chum pt llolea' In Umbrella. - One of the fruitful causes of holes in the folds of an umbrella is im proper caro when it is wet To roll ui a wet umbrella w to invito: tho dyes to rot it, and one of thp banes of the umbrella manufacturer 'ia loaded dye on silk. Out of 100 sam ples of silk submitted to tho writer1 i not ovbr ten wore puio dye, and 50 nd. Although the 'jO yfars, this is the Jdeuhood, although 1 rifr fent of ,Hfi Killr thrcntl n)imi ted .was overloaded with dyo and Would not stand our chemical test ' This is a fruitful cause of troablo in umbrellas, and - our concern ihfcibts on all thovilk and eilk threads standing a chemical test in this ro sject When overdyed silks are wet and the umbrellas . rolled and tset away, we find tho owners complain-, ing that their umbrellas are crack ing in tho folds. Fine holes appear and they are apt to return the um brella to tho.' merchant and claim damage. llard wara AN OLD DOCTOR'S FA VOIUTF. 5l. Gillam,. who practiced over forty ' years, onjr. Dr. U medicine inatetl, used and claimed that Botanic Blood Balm (B B. B.) which has now been In use about fifty-five years, was the-best Tonic and Blood Puriflor ever given to the world. It never fails to cure the roost' malignant ulcers, sores, rheumatism, catarrah, and all skin and blood diseases. lie. ware of substitutes. Use th'ig standard remedy Price per large bottle $1;00. AFTER SEVRRAL DOCTOR FAILED, I have been . afflicted with Catarrh for many years, although all sorts of medicines ana several doctors did their best to cure me. My blood was very impure, and nothing ever had any effect upon the disease until I used that great Blood Remedy known as Botanio Blood Balm. (B. B. B.), a few bottles of which effected an entire cure I recommend it to all who have Ca tarrh. I refer to any merchant or banker of Atlanta, Ga., and will reply co any inquries. . It H. SAULTKR. For sale by all Druggist L 3
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Oct. 8, 1897, edition 1
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