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II. f - fl ' - , c?ooooooooooooooococxxcooooocco O The most TIH EL ESS WORKER ia ' o . Elizabeth CitJ is the g ' H goes Inlo the homes of the pee pie g telling the newi with the voice of.a g q, trusted friend. O ocooocooooooooccooooooocoocooo fl HAKE ADVERTISING PAT- 2 '1 2 by using the columns cf tlyo I ECONOMIST, 1 . the medium that roaches more - families than any other paper in Eastern (J arolina. 'a kutuuiiuumiuiiiuiuuuluuuiiiiiuiiiiiuuiJJ - i "CTakE each, man's csnsiirB tint rBSErvs 1hy Judgment. HamlBtj?3 i. ELIZABETH CITY, N. ;C., FRIDAY. JANUARY 14, 1898. VOL. XXYI. NO. ?J0. l mi -mi ' - 1 ! ," . .' - -- - " ; j j ..' " " 1. IV u : i i i . if H -it t 4 .t i -1, r : m 6 I: t: to i. 4 2 - V V HI is 4 r . , 'r "X bar need Ajcri Chrty Pec toral la ray family far twenty year, a ad recommend it to others for covg&a and cold, and whooping cobJ XIaT sever known a tingle cue of whooping coagh that it failed to, relieve acd care, when until he changes his mind or residence. 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Bay View House, EDENTON, 2. C. New, . Cleanly, . Attentive . Servants. rear tne uouri UOU9C. G olum b iaHo t eL Columbia, Tykrexl Co. J. E. HUGHES, - - Proprietor. t5r Good Servants, good room.cood I. table. Am pie stable and abelters. The patronage of the public soiicded and aatlsf action assured. .THE OLD CAIT. WALKER HOUSE. Simmon's Hotel, (jaarrucK C. n.,.N.C. - Terms : 50c. per meai or 11.75 per day, - Icluding lodging. The patronage of tbe public solicited. Satisfaction assured. V. VC. RABBLE. - Proprietor. 4 II t T it anquil H ouse . MANTEO N. C. A. v; EVANS, f ProJnetor. Firs)t class in every : particular. Table CDpliCa Wlta cerr ueutotj. Flab, sy tr and Game in abundance in season Fresh goods arriving almost daily at .heltacket Store. Prices below any :omftltion. Try us and see. . Wnen you want an overcoat lor your from R to 12 vears i 8 to 12 years old, see JJig iKe. Will sell you an all wool one lor Ui). f Scoff andjQougli; l The xnanwho scoffs at friendly advice to "take something: for that cough," . Trill keep on coughing", mind or changes his. earthly DIRECTORY City QfilftTi. Mayor C A. Banks Attorney Ieaac M. Meekins. Commi.ioners Palemon John, Thos. A. Commander. John A Kramer B; Frank Bpehce and Wm. W. Griggs. Clerk (.'has. Guirkin; Treasurer Geo. W. Cobb r Constable and Chief of Police Wuj C. Brooks; Street Com missioner Reuben W. Berry; Fire Commissioner Alien Kramer Collector of Customs Dr. P. John. Postmaster E. F. Lamb. Examining Surgeons of Pensions Dts. J. E. Wood, W. W. Grigcs. and W. J. Lumsden. leet on the 1st and Crd Wednesdays of each month at the corner of Ru.id and Church Streets, lliurchtM Methodist, Rev. J. II. Hall. Pastor; son iccs every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7 l. in. Baptist, lie v. W. 3. Penniek, I. D., pastor; services every Sunday at 11 a in. and 7. p, Pres- byterian. Rev. F. II. Johnston, pastor; services every bunday at 11 a. in. and 7:15 ik m. Episcopal. Rev. L. L: Wil liams, rector; services every Sunday at 11 a in. and 4 p. m. Loil'je Masonic: Eureka Ixxlge No. 317. G. W. Brothers, W. 31.; J. H. (Iriggs, S. W.; A. L. Pendleton J. 7f.; B. i-'. Silence, Treasurer; I). B. Bradford, Sec'ty.; T. B. Wilson, S. 1).; C. W. Grice, J. D. ; J. A. Hooper and T.J. Jordan, Stewards; Rev. E. F. Sawyer, Chaplain ; J. E. Sheppard : Tyler. -Sleets 1st and 3rd Tuesday nights. Odd Fellows: Achoree Lodge No 14, C. 31. Burgess. N. G.; W. II. Dallard, V. G. II. O. Hill, Fin. Secretary; Maurice Wescott; Treasurer. Meats every Friday at 7:30 p. in. Royal Arcanum: Tiber Creek Coun cil No. 1200; II. O Hill Regent; D. A. Morgan, Vice Regent; C, Guirkin, Orator; W. II. Zoeller, Secretary; P.M. Cook Jr., Collector; W. J. Woodley, Treasurer. Meets every 1st and 3rd Monday night. Kuhrhts of Honor: R, li. White, Die tator; J, H Engle, Vice Dictator; T. J.Jordan, Reporter; T.li. Wilson, Fi nance Reporter; J. C. Benbury, Treas urer. 3ieets lst and 4th Iriday in each mouth. Piu-nuotank Tribe No. 8. 1. O. R. 31 J.P.Simpson, Prophet ;.W. II Sanford, Sachem; Will Anderson, Sr. Sagamore; B. C. lne, Jr. Sagamore; James Spires.C. of R.; S. II. Murrel K.of W. 3ieet every Wednesday night. County Oficcra. Commissioners O. E. Kramer, Chairman; F. 31. Godfrey, J. W. Williams. Sheriff. T. P. Wilcox, Superior Court Clerk, John P. Over man; Register of Deeds, 31. 13. Cr 'pep per ; Treasurer, John S. Morris C anty Health Oillcers, Dr. J. E, ood; Boord of Education, J. T. Davis, J. D Fuliner, N. A Jones, guperintendant I." N. Sleekins ikAeoU.' Atlantic Collegiate Insti tute, S, 1 Sheep, President' ' Select School. I."N. Tillett, -Princi-ial. Elizabeth City Public School, W. M. Hinton, Principal. State Colored Normal, P. W. Moore, Principal. . Bank. First National: Chas. II. Robinson, President; Jno. G. Wood, Vice-President! Wm. T. Old, Cashier, 31. R. GrilUn, Teller. Directors: E. F. LambXB. Bradford. J,,H. FIora.M. II. White, Jno. G.Wood, J. B. Blades, C H. Robinson. Guirkin & Co. Electric Li'jM Co. 3. B. Blades, Presi dent, G. M. Scott, Vice President, D, B. Bradford, Sec'ty, Noah Burfoot. Treasurer. - Tibphone Co. D. H. Bradford, Presi dent; L, S. Blades, Vice-President; Fred. Davis, Secretary and Treasurer. JA? Improtenunt Co. E. F. Aydlett, President; T. G. Skinner, Vice Presi dent ; C H. Bobinson, Secretary and Treasurer. . City Cvtlon JIi&t.-President, Dr. O. 3lc31ullan, Vice President, Geo. M, Scott, Sec, and Trea3., D. B, Bradford. Supt. H, F.Smith. Directors: Dr. O. SIcMullan.G. 31. Scott, E. P. Aydlett, J. W. Sharber, Jas. B. Blades, C II. Robinson, Thos. U. Skinner, C. E. Ksamer, J. B. Flora, H, F. Smith and D. B. Bradford. Xacal fieMrrts. W. T. Old, Lieut tenant Com..; Harvey Crawford Lieutenant Junior Grade; L. A. Win der, Ensign. Regular Drill each Tues day night. Arms: 40 Magazine Riflee; 12 "Navy Revolvers; 13 Cutlasses; 2 13 Pouud Howitzers. isitttfum Erprt Osmpauy. M. H. Snowden, Agent. ; going North, leaves 8 a. m. and 2:45 p. m., going South, 11:40 and 5 : 50 p. m. j Steamers for Newberne leave at 6 p, m. Steamer Newton, leaves Eliza beth City for Cressweil on Mondays and Tursdays at 9 : SO a. m. lie turning will leave Elizabeth City follow ins day at 2. 30 p. m.. Steamer Har r,ini?pr.'will leave Eizabeth City for H-rtford Wednesdays and Saturdava at S.30 a. m : Elizabeth City for Nor- nlfc Thursdays and Mondays Jf.pm Why suifer with Couli8u Colds, and iLaQripne when Laxative Urmo ici vtvc will rnrA von in one dar. Dos nQt proluCe lue ringing in the head like Sulphate of Quinnine. Put up in tat I eta convenient lor taking. Guaranteed to cure or money refunded. Price 2o Cents For tale by Dr. W. W. Onggs and all druggist. Barxrams in blankets at Fowler rv'a theirs before bavincr. TWO KIXDS OF CLUBS. REV. TALMAGE ON THE GOOD f AND THE BAD. rimow Clnbhonaea 1b tha Hlg ClUea. HSct of tho ClaS Upon Baslneaa and Cellriona Life A Wmrnlng to tbe CosTTictt 1S33. by American Press Aaso- ; ; elation. WAsnnraTONjTan. 9. This discourse of Dr. Talmage will be helpful to those who want to find places with healthful and ixnrjrDvicg eurronndincrs and to avoid places deleterious. His text is II Samuel 11, !l4, 'Let the young men now arise and play before us." There are two armies encamped by the pool of Gibeon. The tima hangs heavily on their hands. One army pro poses a game of sword fencing. Nothing could be more healthful and innocent The other army accepts the challenge. Twelve men against 12 men, the sport opens. But something went adversely. Perhaps one of the swordsmen got an unlucky clip or in some way had his Ire aroused, and that which opened in cportfulness ended in violence, each one taking his contestant by the hair and then with the sword thrusting him ia the side, so that that which opened in innocent fun ended in the massacre of all the 24 sportsmen. Was there ever a better illustration of what was true then and is true now, hat that which is Innocent may be made destructive? At this season of the year the. club houses cf our . towns and cities arerrn full play. I have found out that there is a legitimate and an illegitimate uso of the clubhouse In the one case it may become a healthful recreation, like the contest of the'21 men in the text when they began their play; in the other case it becomes the massacre of body, mind and soul, as in the case of these contes tants of the text when they had gone too far with their sport. All intelligent ages I have had their gatherings for political, Eocial, artisticj literary purposes gath erings characterized by the blunt old Anglo-Saxon designation of "club." javf ITamoaa CI aba. 1 If you havo read history, you know that there was a King's Head club, a Ben Jonson club, a Brothers' club, to which Swift and Bolingbroke belonged; a Literary club, which Burko and Gold smith and Johnson and Boswell made immortal; a Jacobin club, a Benjamin Franklin Junto club some of these to indicate justice, some to favor tho arts," some to promote good manners, some to despoil the habits,-some to destroy the souL If one will write an honest history of the clubs of England, Ireland, Scot land, France and the United States for the last 100 years, he will write the his tory of the world. The club was an in stitution born j on English soil, but it has thrived well in American atmos phere. Who shall tell how many belong to that kind of club whero men put purses together and open house, appor tioning tho expense of caterer and serv ants and room and having a sort of do mestio establishment a style of club house which in my opinion is far better than the ordinary hotel or boarding house? But my object now is to speak of clubhouses of a different sort, such as the Cosmos or Chevy Chase or Lincoln club of this capital, or the Union Leagues of many cities, the United Serv ice club of London, the Lotos of New York, where journalists, dramatists, sculptors, painters and artists from all branches gather together to discuss newspapers, theaters and elaborate art; like the Amtricus, which camps out in summer time, dimpling tho pool with its hook and arousing the forest with its stag hunt ; like tho Century club, which has its large group of venerable lawyers and poets; like the Army and Navy club, where those who engaged in war like service onco on the land or the sea now come together to talk over the days of carnage; like" the New York Yacht cltftr, with its floating palaces of beauty upholstered with velvet and paneled with ebony, having all the advantages of electric bell and of gaslight and of king's pantryQne pleasure boat costing $3,000, another $15,000, another $30, 000, another; G5,000, the .fleet of pleasure boats belonging to the club having, cost over $2,000,000; like the American Jockey club, to which belong men who have a passionate fond ness for horses, fine horses, as had Job when, in the Scriptures,, he gives us a sketch of that king of beasts, tho arch of its neck, the nervousness of its foot, the majesty of its gait, the whirlwind of its power, crying out: "Hast" thou clothed his neck with thunder? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. Hepaw eth in the valley and rejoiceth in his Etrength. He saith among the trumpets 'Ila, ha 1' and; he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting ;" liko tho Travelers club, tho Blossom club, the Palette club, the Commercial club, the Liberal club, the Stable Gang club, . the Amateur Boat club, the gambling clubs, the wine clubs, the clubs of all sizes, the clubs of all morals,1 clubs as good as good can be and dubs as bad as bad can be clubs innumerable. : During the day they are comparatively lazy placea Here and there an aged man reading a newspaper cr an employee dusting a sofa or a clerk writing up the accounts, but when the curtain of the night falls on the natural day thentbe curtain of .the clubhouse hoists for the entertainment Let us hasten up now the marble stairs. What an imperial hallway 1 See, here are par lors cn the side with the upholstery of the Kremlin and the Tail erics and here are dining halls that challenge you to mention any luxury that they cannot afford, and herej are galleries with sculp ture and paintings and lithographs and drawings from tha best of artists, Crop sey and Bierstadt and Church and Hart and Gifford pictures for every mood, jfhether you are impassioned or placid; ' i : iiti . a i Eiupnreu. or buuiiu. uer iiio ci, Sheridan's ride or the noonday party of . tot-mom nnrfoi th trw. f naming ! Ceer pursued by the hounds in the Adi- ' rondacks cr the sheep on the lawn. On this side there ar3 reading rooms where you find all newspapers and magazines. On that side there is a library where you find allbocke, from hermeneutics to the fairy tale. Ooniing In and out there are gentlemen seme of whom stay ten minutea other stay many hours. Some cf these are from luxurious homes, and they hae excused them selves for awhile from the domestic circle that they may enjoy the larger sociability of the club house, i Theso ; tie from dismembered households, and they have a plain lodg ing somewhere but they come to! this clubroom to hae their chief enjoyment. One blackball ;s;mid I ten votes will de feat a man's booming a member. For rowdyism, for ! drunkenness, for gam bling, ior any Kind ox misdemeanor, a member, is dropped out. ' Brilliant club house fifom top to bottom -the chande liers, tbje platej th furniture, the com panionship, the literature, the social prestige, a complete enchantment. - Bad Club. But the evening is passing on, and so we hasten through the hall and down the steps and into the street, and from block td block until we come to another style cfl clubhouse. Opening the door, we find the fumes of strong drink and tobacco; something almost intolerable. These young men at this table, it is easy to understand.what they are at, from the flushed cheek, the intent look, the almost angry way of tossing the dice or of moving the "chips." They are gam bling. lAt another table are men who are telling vile stories. They are three- fourths intoxicated, anck between 12 and 1 o'clock they will go staggering, hoot ing, swearing,! shouting on their way homo. .That is an only son. On him all kindness, all care, all culture has been bestowed. Ho' is paying his parents in this way tor their Kindness, mat is a young, married man who, only a " few months! ago, at the altar, made promises of kindness and fidelity, every one of which the has broken. "Walk through and see; for yourself. Hero are all the Implements of: dissipation and of quick death. ;As the. hours of the night go away the conversation becomes imbecile and more debasing. Now it is time to shut up. Those' who are able 'to stand will gej; out on the pavement and bal-.M ance themselves against the. lamppost or against the railings of the fence. The young man who is not able to stand will have a bed improvised for him in the clubhouse, or two hot quite so overcome with lihuor will conduct him to his fa ther's house, and they will ring the doorbell, and the door will open, and the tw imbecile escorts will introduce into the hallway the ghastliest and most hellish spectacle that ever enters a front door a drunken son. If the dissipating clubhouses of this country would make a contract with the inferno to provide it' 10,000 inen a year md for 20 years on tho condition that no more should be asked of them,' the clubhouses could af ford td make J that contract, for they would $ave homesteads, save fortunes, save bodies, minds and souls. The 10,- 000 men. who would be sacrificed by that cohtraot would be but a small part of the Imultitude sacrificed without the contract. But I make a vast difference betweeh clubs, j I have belonged to four clubs a theological club, a ball club nnd two literary clubs. I got from them physioal rejuvenation and moral health, What shall be tho principle?. U God will hfclp me, I will lay down three principles by which you may judge whether the club where you are a mem ber or the club to which you have been invited! is a legitimate or an illegitimate clubhotise. I j Club Influence. .Firsts of all I want you to test the club by? its influences on home, if you have a home.: I have been told by a prominent gentleman in club life 'that three-fourths of' the members of the great clubs of I these cities are married men. That wife soon loses her influence over her husband who nervously and foolishiy looks upon all evening absence as an assault on domesticity. How are the great enterprises of art and litera ture arid beneficence and public weal to be carried on if every man is to have his wold bounded on one side byJiis front doorstep and on the other side by his back window knowing nothing higher than his own attic cr nothing lower than his own cellar? That wife who becomes jealous of her husband's attention to art or literature or religion or charity is breaking her own scepter of conjugal power. I know an instance whero a wife i -thought that her hus band was giving too many nights to Christian service, to charitable service, to prayjer meetings and to religious con vocation. Shej systematically decoyed him away until now he attends no church i and is on a rapid way to de struction, his morals gone, his money gone arid, I fear, his soul gone. Let any Christian wife rejoice when her husband consecrates evenings to the service of God of to . charity or to art or to any thing elevated, but let not men "sacrifice home life to club life, I can point out to you a great many names of men who are guilty of this sacrilege. They are as genial as angels at the clubhouse and as ugly.ns- sin at home. They are generous on all subjects of wine suppers, yachts and fast horses but they are stingy about the wife's dress and the children's shoes. )That man has made that which might j be a healthful recreation a usurper of his affections, and he has married it, and he is guilty of moral bigamy! Under this process the wife, whatever her features, becomes uninter esting and homely. He becomes critical of her, does not like the dress, does not like the way she 'arranges her hair, is amazed that he ever was so unromantio J as to offer her hand and heart " She is always! wanting ; money, money, when she ought to be discussing eclipses and Dexter i ' and - Derby day and English drags with six horses, aU answering the puU of one "ribbon. " I teU you ; there are . thousands of houses in the. -'cities being clubbed to death. ThereTare clubhouses where membership always involves domestic shipwreck. Tell me that a man has joined a certain club, tell me nothing more about him for ten years, and I will write his history if he be still alive. The man is a wine guzzler, his wife broken hearted cr prematurely old,! his fortune gone or reduced and his home a mere name in a directory.- Here are six secular nights in the week. Vhat shall I do with them?" says the father and the husband. "1 will give four of those nights to the improvement and en tertainment of my family, either at home or in good neighborhood. I wRl devote one to charitable institutions. I will devote one to the club." I congrat ulate you. Here is a man who says: 'I will make a different division of the six nights. I .wiU take three for the fclub and three for other purposes." I trem ble. Here is a man who says, "Out of the six secular nights of the week I WiU devote five to the clubhouse and one to the home,- which night I will spend in -scowling like a March squall, wishing I was out spending it as I had spent the other fiva"; That man's obituary is written. Not one out of 10,000 that fever gets so far oh the wrong road ever stopa Gradually his health will fail through late hours and through too much stim ulus. He" will be first rate prey for (ery sipelas and rheumatism of the heart. The doctor coming in will at a glance see it is not only present disease he must fight, but years of fast living, i The clergyman, for the sake of the feelings of the family, on the funeral day jwill only talk in religious general ties. jThe men who got his yacht in the eternal rapids will not be at the obseqUiea They will send flowers to the coffin lid and send their wives to utter wordjs of sympathy, but they will have engage: ments elsewhere. They never cpme. Bring me mallet and chisel, and I jwill cut on the tombstone that man's epitaph, "Blessed are the dead whd die id the Lord. "-I "No, " you say, "that Would not be; appropriate," "Let me di the death of the righteous and let mji last end be like his. " "No, " ybn Jsay, "that would not be appropriate," Then giveme the mallet and the chisel and I will cut an honest epitaph, "Her6 lies the victim of a dissipating clubhouse." I think that damage is often done by the scions of some aristocratic' family who belong to one of these dissipating clubhouses. People coming up? from humbler classes feel it an honorjtso be long to the - same club, forgetting the fact that many of the sons and grandsons of tho large commercial establishments of the last generation are now as to mind imbecile, as to body diseased, as to morals rotten, j They would have got through their property long ago if j they had had full possession of it, but the wily ancestors, who earned the money by hard knocks, foresaw how it Was to be, and they tied up everything In the will. Now, there is nothing of that un worthy descendant but his grandfather's name and roast beef rotundity.' And yet how many steamers there are which feel honored to lash fast that worm jeaten tug, though it drags them straight into the breakers. j The Club In Business. Another test by which you can find whetheryonr club is legitimate or ille citimate the effect it has on your sec ular occupation I can understand how through such an institution a man can reach commercial successes. I , know some'men have formed their bestlbusi- ness relations through such a channel. If the club ; has advantaged you i in an honorable calling, it is alegitimataciub. But has your credit failed? Are bargain makers more cautious . how they trust you with a bill of goods? Have th$ men whose names were down m the? com mercial agency Al before they entered the club been going down ever since in commercial standing? Then look out 1 You and I every -day know of ' com mercial establishments going - to' ruin through the social excesses of one or two members, their fortunes beaten to peath with ball players' bat, or cut amidships by the front prow of the regatta, or go- incr down under the swift hoofs or the fast horses, or drowned in largefpota tions of "cognac or monongahela. Iheir clnbhonse was the "Loch Earn. " - Their business house : was the "Ville du Havre, " Thev struck, and the "Ville du Havre" went! under; A third test by. which, you may know whether the club to which you belong or the club to whose membership you are invited is a legitimate club or San il--legitimate club is this: "What is its ef fect on your sense of moral and religious obligation? Now, if I should taite the names of all the 'people in any audience and put them on a roll and then 1 should lay that roll back, of the organ, and 100 years from now some one should take that roll and call it trom a to Amere would not one of you answer. I say that any association -that makes me forget that fact is a bad association, xsow, to many of the cities there are two routes, and you can take the Pennsylvania rail road or the Baltimore and Ohio; bu suppose that I hear that , on onej route the track is torn up and the bridges are torn down and the switches are unlock ed? It will not take me a great while to decide which road to take. Now, here are two roads into the fh ture, the Chris tian and the un:Christian, the safe and the unsafe. An; institution or any asso ciation that confuses my idea in fregard to that fact is a bad institution jand a bad association. I had prayers before I joined the club.' Did I have them! after? I attended the house of God before 1 connected myself with the club, j Since that union with the club do I absent myself from religious influences? Which would you rather have in your hand when you come to die, a pack of cards or a Bible? "Which "would ycu rath- rr tiavo Tjressea io your hub iu iub 'closing moment the eup of Belsbazza- rean wassail or the chalice of Christian communion? Who would yon : rather have for your pallbearers, the elders of a Christian church or the companions whose conversation was full of: slang and innuendo? : Who would you rather have for your eternal companion, those men who spendTheir evenings betting, gambling, swearing, carousing and tell ing vile stories or your little child, that bright girl whom the Lord took? Oh, you would not have been away so much l i KEEP YOUR Surely if the word REGULATOR is not on a package it is not OEMS HiVEe feoLATO! Nothing else is the samel It cannot be and never has been put up by any one except V JJ- IHI. ZEDLDCl & CO. , find it can be easily told by their Trade Mark ' "THi! RED 2. :; : ( SALE BY DR. W flights, would you, if you had known she was going away so soon? Dear mo, your house has never been the same place since. Your wife has never bright ened up. -She has not got over it; she never will get over it How long the evenings are, with no one, to put to bed' and no one to tell the beautiful Bible story. What a pity'it is that you cannot spend more evenings at home in trying to belp her bear that sorrow 1 You can never drown that grief in the wine crjtp. You can never break away from the lit tle arms that used to be flung around your neck when she used to say, "Papa, do stay home tonight do stay home to night " You will never be able to wipe away from your lips the dying kiss of your little girL j The fascination of a dissipating club house is so great that sometimes a mah'j pas turned his back on his home when his child was dying of scarlet fever. He went away. Before he got back at mid night the eyes had been closed, tho un dertaker had done his work, and the wife, worn out with three weeks' watch ing, lay unconscious in the next -roam. Then there is a rattling of tho night key in the door, and the returned father jcomes up stairs and sees the empty cra dle i and the window up. He says, f What is the matter?" In God's judg ment day he will find eut what was jthe matter. Oh, man astray, God help you I Tho influence which some of tho club houses are exerting is the more to bo4do- plored because it takes -down the very, best men. The admission fee sifts put; the penurious and leaves only the best fellows. They are frank, they are.gener-. ous, they are whole souled, they jire tal ented. Oh, I begrudge the devil such a prize 1 After awhile the frank look will go out of the face, and the features will be haggard,- and when talking to you, instead of looking you in the eye, they will look down, and every morning ihe mother will kindly ask, "My son, what kept you out so late last night?" and; ho will make no answer, or he will say, 'That's my business." Then some time ho will come to tho store or the bank cross and befogged, and ho will neglect some duty, and after awhile he will lose his place, and then, with nothing to do, ho will come down at 10 o'clock in the morning to curse the servant be cause the breakfast is cold. The lad'who was ajclerk in tho cellar has got to ! be chief clerk in the great commercial es tablishment,: the" young manHvho ran errands for the bank has got to be cash ier, thousands of -fthe younglmen who were at the foot of the ladder ihave got the top of the ladder, but here goes tho victim of the dissipating clubhouse with staggering step and bloodshot eye and mud bespattered hat set sidewisd on a shock of greasy hair, bis cravat dashed with cigar ashea Look at him, pure hearted joung man, look, at him I The clubhouse did that I know one such who went the whole round and, turned put of the higher clubhouses, went into ihe lower clubhouses and on down un til one night he leaped out of a third story window to end his wretchedness. I A Warning:. ; Let me say to fathers who are becom ing dissipated, your sons will follow you. You think your son does not know. Heknow8 all about it I have heard men who say, "I am profane, but never in the presence of my children." Your children know you swear. I have heard men say, "I drink, but never in the presence of my children. ' ' Your chil- i dren know you drink. I describe now what occurs in hundreds of households in this country. The tea hour has ar rived. The family are seated at the tea table. Before the rest of the family arise from the table the father shoves back his chair, says he has an engagement, lights a cigar, goes out comesback aft er midnight, and that is ..the history of 865 nights of the year. Docsany man want to stultify himself by saying that that itf healthy, that that is right that that is 1 ; ..orable? Would your wife have maii::d you with such prospects? Time vv:;i j3ass on, and thd son will be 16 or 1". years of age, and jyou will be at the t. :i table, arid he will shove back and i-.ive an engagement, and he yvill light Ms cigar,- and he will go out to the cliibouse, and you wiU bear nothing of him until you- bear the night key in the door after midnight But his physical constitution is not ! quite so strong as yours, and the liquor he drinks is more terrifically drugged than that which you drink, and so he will catch up witn you on me roau w uew, though you got such a long start of him, and so you will both go to beU together. The revolving Drutnmond light in front of aheteL in front of a locomotive, may flash this way and flash that upon the mountains, upon the ravines, upon the city, but I take the lamp of God's eternal truth, and I flash it upon aU the clubhouses of these cities, so. that no young man shaU be deceived. "By these tests try them, try them I Uh, leave the dissipating influences .of the clubroom, if the influences of your clubroom are dissipating. Paid your money, have you? Better sacrifice that than your souL "Good feUows, are they? Under that process they wiU not remain such. Mollusca may be found 200 fathoms down beneath the Norwegian seas, Si berian stag set fat on the stunted growth EYES OPEWI W. CRICCS A SUN. or aitai'au peaks, ncuyhuriuiu grow amm the dn-dation of Sahara, tuft of oiir and birch grow on the hot lips of vol cauio Sneehattan, but a pure heart and au honest life thrive in a tli&ipatiug clubhouse never. The way to conquer- a wild beast ia to Veep your eye on him, but tho way for you to conquer your, temptations, my friend, is to turn your back on them and fly for your life. Oh, my heart aches 1 I seo r..vn strug gling against evil habits, t.nd they " want help. ' I havo knelt beside them, and I havg heard them cry for help, and then wo havo risen, and ho bus put one hand on my right shoulder and the other hand on my left shoulder and looked into my faco with an infinity of earneiF ness which tho judgment day will have ho power to make me forget u be baa cried out with bis lips scorched iu ruin. "God help me 1" For such there i? no bain except iu the Lord God Ahniuhtr. I am going to make a very ttwut ropa You know that sometimes a ropemaker will take vry small threads and wind them together until after awhile they become .ship cable. And I am going to take- some very small, delicate thread and wind - them, together until they make a very stout rope. I will take all tho Basmories ox the marriaga day, a . thread of laughter, a thread of light, a bread of music, a thread of biia quot ing, a thread of congratulation, and I twist them together, and I have ono strand. . Then I take a thread of the hour of the first advent in your hpnso, a thread of tho darkness that preceded, and a thread of the light that followed, and a thread of the beautiful scarf that little child, used to wear when sho bounded but at eventide to greet you, and then a thread of, tho beautiful dress in which you laid her away for tho rei urrectioh, and then I twist all tbfao threads together, and-1 havo another strand. Then I take n thread of tho scar let robo of .a, suffering Christ, and a thread of tho white raiment of your loved ones before tho throne, and a string of the harp cherubic, and a string of the harp seraphio, and I twist them all together, and I have a third strand. "Oh, "you say, "either strand is strong enough to hold fast a world I" No. I will tako theso strands, and I will twift them together, and one end of that rope I will fasten," not to tho communion ta ble, for it shall bo removed not to the pillar of tho organ, for that will crum bio In the ages but I wind it round and round the cross of a sympathizing Christ, and having fastened one end of the rgpo to tho cross I throw tbo other end to you. Lay hold of it I Ioll for yourlifel Pull for heaven I To prevent trousers from bagging at the knees re-enforcing strips of nonelastic material are placed insido the legs in diagonal positions and crossing each other at tho front of the kneo to strengthen tho cloth and prevent stretqhing.' ! The finest opal of modern times belonged to the Em preHH Josephine It was called the "Burning of Troy." Its fate is unknowii, ns it disappeared when the allies entered Paris. .',', - ; - ' The population . of many couth sea islands manufacture their entire suits from the products of the palm tree. - ' . The students in Paris aro radical the students in London mostly con-. CUKEQ OF BLOOD POISON AF TER FIFTY-TWO DOCTOR3 FAILED. Blood Balm Co. Atlanta Qa. Gentlkmkx: In 1872 a sraajll pim ple broke out on my leg. It began eating! and In 'four months I was treated by a physician of Talladega County, Ala, where I lived eighteen . years. He relieved it fora short while. In six weeks it broke out in both legs, also on roy shoulder. Two - small bones were taken out. It continued until 1670. In this time I had twelve different physicians. They told-me the only remedy was amputation: that it could never be cured For six months l coma nor, waixnsiep. I went to 3Iineral . Wells, Texas, spent 300.00; came home; went to Hot Springs, Ark., staid nine months all failed to cure me. In 1837 1 came back to Burmingham, Ala I was ad vised to write you, which I did. You wrote we that B. B. B. would cure me. and I could get the mediciae from Nabors & Morrow, Druggists-'irr our city. I bought ten bottles end before I had finished ray nrtn bottle . my legs began to heal, and in less than two months 1 was sound and well. That has been nearly two years ago, and no sign of its return yet. I have spent in ca&h over fiOO.OO.and B. K B. done the work that all the rest failed to do. You have my permission to publish this. I have traveled so much trying to get well that my cure Is well known, riity-two doctors nave treat- id me in the last 17 years. AU they did was to take what money 1 bad, and done me no-good. "l am now a well man. Prof. C- H. Rakoer, For sale by Druggists, Shady xaie, Ga. - Price $ 1.00 per large Dottle, u
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Jan. 14, 1898, edition 1
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