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O DO 300 0000 ooocoococoocooocooc o , " j j -. ; - -J. V T': ' ''r ; ' 'f;. - TO " ! ' r A j . I -; ... " I ' ' '.' I " ' I :'V : '; ' "-1' " 'i' Vyf ' - .. . ' i . o o o 8 The moet TIRELESS WORKER Elizabeth Citj ii the in o o o o o o o o o o o H HAKE ADTERTI5IKQ PAT 5 . " n by using the using the columns tf the ! ECONOMIST, It goes into the homes of the pee pie telling the newt with the voice of a trusted friend. a a. - - . , a . . uie lueuium mat reaches more families than anj other paper 165 iu xusiernu aronna. Scooosooooooooocoocccooooooooo 4 fa muuuuuiiuiwuuimuruaiiJiwiiuiiiiiiiiZj t .... ' k I i J ! w i ! . i xTakc Bach man's censure but reserve thy JudgmBnt, HamlBt3r ELIZABETH: CITY, C FKID AY.. JANUARY 28, 1898. VOL. XXVI. no: ,4i. r i "I 1 M ! i ti, I' !: t r 1 lisipirili (3 Any sarsaparilla is sarsaparilla. True. So any 9 is'tea. So any flour is flour. But grades differ. OJ tea ?You want the best. It's so arc grades. You want the sarsaparilla as well as should you ? I viiuu yuu arc J4ullIt uuj a v.wiiiA4Avyv.jr whose value you don't know, you pick out an old established House to" trade with, and trust their experience and reputation. Do so when buying fO 'sarsaparilla. - ' 26; Averts Sarsaparilla has been on the market (X? fifty years. Your grandfather, used Aycis. It is a jreputablc medicine. There are many sarsaparillas. gc iBut only one Averts. IT PUBLISHED WEEKLY i BY THE FALCON PUBLISHING CO, CjF. LAMB ....Mhnagcr. - H.lJ. CRKECY........ EJitor. Subscription One Year, $1.00 PKQFESIONAL CAUDS. i .f CRKECY. AtUrnty at-Iiie, Elizalwtli City, N. C. -r 'jn i SKINNER. i J ' Attorney at-Lat K.iztbctb City, C. Let'j.D x"A. .F- RANK VA UO HAN, i Attorney at-1. r.li7b-th Citv. N. C. CoIKctlcrs aithfallr made. TnunPN. & PRUDEN, I i - I tf,mea-at-Law, I . fc Eilntnn.N. C. l'raciicc in PajqnAiank, IVrqaiman Chowan, Ga es. Herlloni. V8hioAtMi aid Tyncll couutics, and In Saprtme Court tt tbf Sutc. GORDON, Aturny at-LaW. I Currituck, t;. ii-, Ccllrciion a fpelalty. Practice in SUte atd Federal C urt. FKREBEK, . ' At!imeyilLtu, C2"Ofl2? hour at Camden O. II. tu Mi lidays. V I:tion5 a fpccbltj." i- MIOMAS O.SKINNERl Alter ney-at' L tic, llcrtiord, X. C. J. II. wiiitk; d. d. s.. KIizarth City. r. U., v4 i sional -rvic8 to the public In all tbe vC"c'-3 branches of Dextis li r-TRT. Can Iks found IrjGGU atallliir.es. CTO01 c ia Krtimcr block, on Main Ftrcet. between Poltidexter and Watcjr. :F. MARTIN. I. l. , KlizalH th Uity, n.u. Offers hi prtfffsionaI Prricc-s to the public injill tbe branches of DKNTIITKY Can Ihj fo jr.d at all timvs. i.tl co in Roberion Bit ck on Water Street, over the Fair. W. GREGORY. V. u. ' Elizabeth City. .C. OtTei hia pfoles pior.al rvic'S to the public in all the lirnnches cf Dkxtistky. Crown ami Hride work a specialty. Od-ee hours, S to 12 and 1 to C, or any time.fhouKI special occasion requiro. CiT Oilice, Flora Building, Corner Main and Water Sta. j DAVID COX, Jr., Ja E.f ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, ! A . .HERTFORD, N. C Laad snrrcying a ipccaliy. Placs lurubheil upon arDlicatiou. HOTEL?. Bay View House, r.DKNTOJC, ?. C. Cleanly, . Attentive . Servant. Near the Cuit House. mt. vri vr- vr- "v1 . ir7u irAi lr d iru if'O iru irfu ir- irtuircu ir'u ira irruirf G olum b iaHot el, 1 COLtnCBIA,TTBXtXLI. Co. J. E. HUGHES, - Proprietor. laT Govxi Strrvanls, good room, good Uble. Ample BUbls and ihrl'er. Tbe patronage of the public sodc ted and Mtiifac ion assured. THE OLD C.trT. WAUvIlIl HOUSE. : Simmon's Hotel, v I CcRamrcK C. II., N. C. - . Terraa : 50c per mca. or SI. 75 per day. Including lodging. The ptronae of r the public solicited. Satisfaction a&sured. ' J. X. BRABBLE, - Proprietor. L' Tr anquil House, MANTEO N. C. ' A. V. EYAN3, ; - . Proprietor. First class In erery particular. Table upplied with etery delicacy. Fish, y.tcn and Game Ln abundance In season as with sarsaparilla. There best. If you understood you do tea and flour it UUIUb. DIRECTORY City OZter. Mayor C. A. Pnnks Attorney Isaac M. Meekins. Cominisionerij Palemon John, Thos. A. Coinniander. John A Kramer B Frank Spefieo and NVni. W. Gripes Clerk "has. Guirkin: Treasurer Geo. XV. Cobb: Constable and Chief of Policy Win C. Brooks: Street Com mipiouer Reulen W. Berry; lire Commifsioner Allen Kramer Collector of Customs Dr. I. John Post master E. F Iamb. Examining Surgeons of Pensions Pra. J.E. Wood. W. W. QriKKS and W. J. Iaimsden.. Meet on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month at the corner of Road and Church Streets. Churcut. Methodist, Rev. J. 11. Hall, Pastor; services every Sunday at 11 a. m. and $ k in.'liaptist, ICev. W.o. iVnniek, D. D., pastor; services .every bundayatlla. in. and 7. p. Pres bj terian, Rev. F. II. Johnston, invstor; vertices everv buinlav at 11 a. m. and 7:15 tx. ip, Ki.iscoiwil. Rev. L. L. Wii Hams, re to ; services every Sunday at 11a in. and 4 p. m. LiMe Masonic: Eureka Lodge No. :U7. G. W. Brothen, W. M.; J. U Griggs, S. W.; A. L Pendleton J. W.; B. l'.Sience, Trsur r; D. Ii. Bradford, S,e'tv.: T. B. Wilson. S. D.: C. W Grice. J. I).: J. A. Hooper and T.J. Jordan, Stewards; Rev. E. F. Sawyer, Chaplain; J. K. Sheppard ; Tyler. Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday nights. Odd Fellows: Achoree Lodge No 14. r. m. l argess. X. U.; W. li. liallaru. I V. ci. II. O. Hill, Fin.- Secretary; every Friday at 7:30 p. in. Royal Arcanum: Tiber Creek Coun cil No. lo II. O HilhRecent; D. A. Morgan, Vice Regent: O, Guirkin, Orator; W. II. Zoeller, Secretary; P.M. Cook Jr., Collector; W. J. Woodley, Treasurer. Meets every 1st and-3rd Mouday night. Knichts of Honor: R. R. White, Die tator: J. II EnglK Yice Dictator; T. J, Jordan, Reporter; T. R. Wilson, Fi nance Reporter; J. C. Benbury, Treas urer. Meets 1st and 4th Friday in each month. J ll'aMiiiotank Trile No. 8, L O. R. M. W. 11 Sanford, Prophet; Will Ander son, Suchem; Ii. C. lane Sr. Sagamore; J. a. Bt JisIey. Jr. Sagamore; James Spins. C. of R.; S. II. Murrel K. of W. Meet every Wednesday night. County Oficcrt. Commissioners C. E. Kramer. Chairman; F. M. Godfrey, J. W. Williams. Sheriff. T. P. Wilcox, Superior Court Clerk. John P. Over man; Register of Deeds, 31. U..l;r-pep- iH-r : Treasurer, John S. Moms C anty Health Oll'xers, Dr. J. V ood; Hoord of Education, J. T. Davis, J. D Palmer, N. A Jones. juperintendant I. N, Meekins ikfiouU Atlantic Collegiate Insti tute, S. L. Sheep, President Select School. I. N. Tillett, Princi pal. Flizabeth City Public School, W. M. Hiuton, Principal. - ' State Colored Normal, P. "W. Moore, Principal. Dank. First National: Chas. H. Robinson, President; Jno. O. Wood, Vice-President: Wm. T. Old. Cashier. M. R.'Grillin, Teller. Directors: E.F. Lamb.D.U. Bradford. J. li. Flora.M. II. White, Jno. G. Wood, J. B. Blades, C. II . Robinson. ! Guirkin & Co Electric IJqH Co.J. B. Blades, Presi dent, G. M. Scott, Vice President, D. Ii. Bradford, Sec'ty, Noah Burfoot. Treasurer. .Tilephone Co. D. li. Bradford, Presi dent; L, S. Blades, Vice-President; Frel. Davis, Secretary and Treasurer. J7. Improvement G. E.'F. Aydlett, President; T. G. Skinner,- Vice Presi dent; C H. Robinson, Secretary and Treasurer. .. E. City Cotton Jfili. President, Dr. O. .McMullan, Vice President, lieo. M, Scott, Sec ar.il Treas., D. li. Bradford. Supt. II. F. Smith. Directors: Dr. O. MeMullan, U. M. Scott, E. F. Aydlett, J. W. Sharber, Jas. Ii. Blades, C. H. Robinson, Thos. G. Skinner, C. E. Ksatner.J. Ii. Flora, II. F. Smith and D. B. Bradford. Satal Jtiterrci.W.. T. Old, Lieut tenant Com.,; Harvey Crawford Lieutenant Junior Grade; L. A. Win tier, Ensign. Regular Drill each Tues day night. Arias: 40 Magazine Rifles; 12 "Navy Revolvers; 13 Cutlasses; 2 12 Pound Howitzers. Southern Expres Compavy. M. H. Snowden, Agsnt. -going North, leaves 8 a. m. and 2:43 p. m., going South, 11:40 and 5: 50 p. ra. Steamers for Newberne leave at 6 p. m. Steamer Newton, leaves Eliza beth City foi Cresswell on Mondays and Tursdays at 9 : SO a. m. turning will leave Elizabeth City follow In day at 2. 30 p. m.. Steamer Har-. binger, will leave Eizabeth City for Hertford Wednesdays and Saturdavs at 0. 30 a. m.: Elizabeth City for Nor folk Thursdays and Mondays J .D m When. you want an overcoat lor your Kvtt frnm Q tr15 rPftrS old. Se BilT Ike. II will sell von an all wool one forr si.so. y FORBIDDEN SWEETS. DR. TALMAGEi EXPOSES TRAPS SE1 FOR UNWARY FEET. ,TBBpttUn Which Attract and Then T-troy--Corrnpt Books, Alcoholl ttlifia Uoti b1 Cmmbllnr InTdched AglnU Honey From the Eternal Hock rCoDnlxlit. 1SD3. by American Press Asso- . ,. elation. "Waehisctox, Jan. 23. Dr. Talmage here starts with an oriental scene, from which be draws practical lessons as to the allurements which entrap, the un wary, and the -discourse will put many on their guard. The text Is I.Samuel xir, 43, "I did but taste a little honey with tho end of the rod that was in my band, and, lo, I must die," . The honeybee is a most ingenious ar chitect, a Christopher Wren among in sects; geometer drawing hexagons and pentagons, a freebooter robbing the fields of -pollen and aroma, wondrous creature oi uoa, wnose Diograpny, wru ten by Huber and Swammerdam, is an enchantment for any lover cf nature, Virgil celebrated the bee in his fable cf Aristseua, and Hoses and Samuel and David and -Solomon and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and St. John used the delicacies of bee manufacture as a Bible eymbol a miracle of formation is the bee. Five eyes, two tongues, the outer having a sheath of protection, hairs on all sides of its tiny body to brush up the parti cles of flowers, its flight so straight that all the world knows of the bee line. The honeycomb is a palace such as no one' but God could plan and the honeybee construct, its cells sometimes a dormi tory' and sometimes a storehouse and sometimes a cemetery. These winged toilers first make eight strips of wax, and by their antenna?, which are to them hammer and chisel anu square and plumb line, fashion, them for use. Two and j two these workers shape the walL If an accident happens, they put up buttresses of extra beams to remedy the damage, . ' When : about the year 1776 an insect before unknown in the nighttime at tacked the ' beehives all over . Europe, and the men who owned them were in vain trying to plan something to keep out the invader, that was the terror cf the beehives of the continent, it was found that everywhere the b,ees had ar ranged for I their -own protection and built before Iheir honeycombs an espe cial wall of wax with portholes through which the bees might go to and fro, but not large enough to admit the winged combatant called the Sphinx atropos. f. Divine Direction. Do you know that the swarming of tho beesls divinely directed? The moth- . . . mi 9 9f er bee starts lor a new nome, ana be cause of thi3 the other bees of the hive ret into an excitement which raises the heat of the hive some four degrees, and they must die unless they leave their heated apartments, and they follow the mother bee and alight on the branch of a tree and cling to each other and hold . . Ma . on until a committee oi two or inree bees have explored the region and found the hollow of a tree or rock not far off from a stream of water, and they here set up a new colony and ply their aro matio industries and give themselves to the manufacture of the saccharine edible. Butwho can tell the chemistry of that mixture of sweetness, part of it tho very life of the bee and part cf it the life of the fields? Plenty of :this luscious - product w as hanging in the woods of Bethaven dur ing the tune of Saul and Jonathan. Their army was In pursuit of an enemy that by God's command must be exter minated. ' The soldiery were positively forbidden to ', stop to eat anything until the work was done. If they disobeyed, they were accursed. Coming through the woods, they found a place where the bees had been busy a great honey manufactory honey gathered in the hoUow of the trees until it had over flowed upon the ground in great profu sion of sweetness. All the army obeyed orders and touched it not save Jona than, and he, not knowing the military order about abstinence, dipped the end of a stick he had in , his hand into the candied liquid, and as yellow and tempt ing it glowed on the end of the stick ; he put it to his mouth and ate the hon- mm m, X ey. Judgment reii upon nim, ana; oui for special intervention he would have been slain. In my text Jonathan an nounces his awful mistake, "I did but taste a little honey with the end cf the rod that was in my hand, and, lo, I must die.". Alas, what multitudes of people in all ages have been damaged by forbidden honey, by which I mean emptauon, delicious and attractive, but damaging and destructive I ETtls'of Tl&d. Liter tare. Corrupt literature, fascinating, but cleathful, comes in this category. Where one good, honest, healthful book is read now there are a hundred made up of rhe torical trash, consumed with avidity. When the boys on the cars come through with a pile cf publications, look over the titles and notice that nine out of ten oi the books are injurious. All the way from here to Chicago or New Orleans notice that objectionable books domi nate. Taste for pure literature is poi soned by this scum of the" publishing house. Every book in which sin tri nmphs over virtue or in which a glamour s thrown over dissipation or wnicn eaves you at its las line with less re- rpect.for the marriage institution and less abhorrence for the paramour is a depression of your own moral character. Ihe book bindery may be attractive and the plot dramajio. and startling and the style of writing sweet as the honey that Jonathan took up with his rod, but your best interests forbid it, your moral safe ty forbids it, your God forbids it, and one taste of it may lead to such bad re sults thf t you may have to say at the close of the experiment, or at the close of miUmproved lifetime, "I did but taste I iatle honey with the rod that was in Ky band, and, lo, I must die." Corrupt literature is doing more to- lay for the disruution of domestic life than any other cause. Elcpcraenta, mar ital intrigues, sly correspondence, ficti tious names given - at postefnee win dows; clandestine meetings in parks and at ferry gates and in hotel parlors and conjugal perjuries jje among the ruin ous results. "When a woman, young or old, gets her head thoroughly stuffed with the modern novel, she is in appal ling periL But some one will say, "The heroes are so adroitly knavish, and the heroipes so bewitchingly untrue and the tnrn f f the story so exquisite and all the characters so enrapturing I cannot quit them!" My brother, mv sister, vou can find styles of literature just as charming that Will elevate and purify and ennoble and Christianize while they please. The deviljdoes not own all the honey. There is a wealth of good books coming forth from j our publishing houses that leave no excuse for the choice bf that which is debauching to body, mind and soul. Go ta some intelligent man, or woman and ask for a list of boots that will be strengthening to your mental and moral condition. j Life is so short, and your time for im rrovqment so abbreviated that you can not afford to fill up with husks and cin ders and debris. In the interstices of business that young man s reading that which will prepare him to be a mcr- chan prince, -and that young woman is filling her mind with an intelligence that will yet either make her the chief attraction of a good man's home or give her an independence of character that will Qualify her to build her own home and maintain it in a happiness that re quires no augmentation from any cf our rougher sex; That young man or young woman can by the right literary and moral improvement of the spare ten minutes here or there every day rise head Jand shoulders in prosperity and character and influence above the loun gers Who read nothing or read that which! bedWarfs. See all the forests of good American literature dripping with honey! Why pick up th honeycombs that have in them the fiery bees which will fcting you with an pternal poison whilo'you taste it? One book may for you of me decide everything for this word and the next It was a turning point with me when in a bookstore in Syracuse one day I picked up a book called? "Tho Beauties of j Ruskin. " It was chly a book of extracts, but it was all pure honey, and I was! not satisfied until I had jurchased all his works, at that time expensive Beyond an easy ca Dacitv; to own them, and with what de light 1 went through reading his "Sev en Lamps of Architecture" and his "Stones of Venice" it is impossible for me to -describe except by saying that it gave iie a rapture for good books and C . a. J 2a' an everlasting aisgust ior aecrepit or immoral books that will last mo while my life lasts. All arcun the church and the world today there are busy hives of intelligence' occupied by authors and authoresses from whose pens drip a dis tillation which is the very nectar of heave4, and why will youj thrust your rod of acquisitiveness into the deathful saccharine of perdition? .1-7 1 j Bevrare of Strong: Drink. Stimulating liquids also come into the category cf temptationj delicious but deathful. You say, "I cannot bear the taste &f intoxicating liquor, and how any m&n can like it is td me an amaze ment, 'f Well, thena it is no credit to you that you do not take it Do not brag about our total abstinence, because it is not jfrom any principle (that you re ject alcoholism, but for the reason that you reject certain styles' of food; you simplyf don't ' like the ta$te of them. But multitudes of people have a natural fondness for all kinds ofj intoxicants. They Jlike itjso much that it makes them smack their lips to look at it. They are dyspeptic, and they like to aid digestion; or they are anpoyed by in somnia, and they take it to produce sleep; lor they are troubled, and they take It; to make them oblivious; or they feel happy, and they must celebrate their hilarity. They begin with mint julep sucked through two straws on the Long Branch j piazza and' end in the ditch, Staking-from a jug a liquid half kerosene and half whisky. - They not only-like it, but it is an all consuming passioi) bf body, mind and toul, and aft er awhile have it they will, though one wineglass of it should cost the temporal and eternal destruction of themselves and all their families and the whole hu man race. They would say "I am sorry it is going to cost me and my family and all the world's population so very much, ;but here it goes to 'my lips, and now let it roll over my parched tongue and down my heated throat, the sweet est, the most inspiring, the most deli cious draft that ever thrilled a human frame.j" To cure the habit before it comes j to its last stages, various plans were tried in I olden times. This plan was recommended in the books: When a man jwanted to reform, be put shot or bullets! into the cup or glass of strong drink-?-one additional sh6t or bullet each day, that displaced so much liquor. Bullet jafter bullet added day by day, of course the 4iquor became less and less until he bullets would entirely fill up the glass and there was noroom for the liquid jand by that time it I was said the inebriate would be cured. jWhether any one ever was cured in that? way I know not, but by long experiment it is found that tli'e only way is to stop short off, and wnen a man does that he needs Gsd to help him, and there have been more cases tjian you can count when God has so helped the man that he' left off Jhe drink forever, and I could Jcount a score of them, some of them pillars in the house it God. J. . I Moral Death. Oneiwould suppose that men would take warning from some of the ominous names: given jto the intoxicants and stand kjff from the devastating influ ence. You have noticed, for instance, that some o'f the restaurants are called "The Shades,' j typical of the fact that it puts' a man's reputation in the shade, and his morals in the shade, and his rosperity in the shade, and his wife and children in the shade, and his im mortal destiny in the shade. Now. I find cn some of the liquor signs ln all our cities the words "Old Crow," mightily suggestive of the carcass and the filthy raven that swoops upon it. "Old Crov I" Men and women jwithout numbers slain cf- rum, but unburied, and this evil Is pecking at their glazed eyes, and pecking at their ' bloated cheek; and pecking at their destroyed manhood and womanhood, thrusting beak and claw into the mortal remains of what was once gloriously alive, but now morally, dead. "Old Crow" But, alas, how many take no warning I They make me think of Caesar on hiai way to assassination, fearing nothing, though his statue in the hall crashed into frag ments at his feet, and a scroll contain ing the names of . the conspirators was thrust into his hands, yet walking right on to meet the dagger that wa4 to. take his life; This infatuation of strong drink is so mighty in many a man that, though his fortunes are crashing, and his health is crashing, and his domestic interests are crashing, and we hand him a long scroll containing the names of perils that await him, he goes straight on td physical and mental and moral assassination. In proportion as any style pf alcoholism is pleasant to yojur taste nd stimulating to your nerves, jand for a time delightful to all your physical and mental constitution, is the peril awful. Remember Jonathan and the forbidden honey in the wood3 at Beth aven.! .- ' j: , Furthermore, the gamester's indul gence must be put in the list of tempta tions delicious, but destructive. You who have crossed the ocean many times have noticed that always one of the best rooms has from morning until jlate at night been given up to gamblihg prac tices.!; 1 heard of men who went on board with enough for a European ex cursion who landed without, money to get their baggage up to thef hotel or railroad station. To many , there is a complete fascination in games 6fj hazard or the risking of money on possibilities. It seems as natural for them to bet as to eat. Indeed, the hunger for food is oftens overpowered by the hunger for wagers, it is aosura tor tnose or us wno have never felt the fascination i of the wager to speak slightingly of the temp tation. It has slain a multitude of intel lectual and moral giants, men and wo men stronger than you or L Down un der Its power ;went glorious : Oliver Goldsmith and Gibbon, the famous his torian, and Charles Fox, the renowned statesman, and in olden times senators of the United States, who used to bo as regularly at the gambling house all night as they were in the halls of legis lation by day. Oh, the tragedies of the faro table 1 I know persons whd began with a slight stake in a- ladies parlor and ended with the suicide's pistol at Monte Carlo. They played with the square pieces of bone with black marks on them, jnot knowing that satan was playing for their bones at the same time l and was sure to sweep 11 the stakes off on his side of the table; . State legislatures have again and again sanc tioned the mightyjevil by passing laws in defense ox race tracKS, ana many young men have lost all their wages at such so called "meetings. " Every man who voted for such infamous bills has oh his hands and forehead the blood of those souls. " l ! Eternal Catastrophe, s But in this connection some i young converts say to me: "Is it right to play cards? Ia there any harm in a; game of whist or euchre?" Well, I know good men who play whist and euchre and other; styles of games ! without any wagers. I had a friend who played cards with his wife and children, and then at the close said, "Come now, let us have prayers."; I will hot judge oth er men's consciences, but I tell you tnat cards are in my mind so associated with the temporal and spiritual ruin of splen did young men "that I would as soon say to my family,; "Come, let. us have a game of cards" l as I would go into a menagerie and say, "Come, lest tia have a game of rattlesnakes" or into a ceme tery and, sitting down-J by a marble slab, say to the gravediggers, "jcome, let ud have a game at skulls. " .Conscien tious young ladies are silently ,saying, "Dojyou think card playing will do us any harm?" Perhaps not; but how will you feel if in the great day of eternity, when we are asked to give an account of our influence, some man should say, "I was introduced to games pf chance in the year 1898, at your hose,and I went on from that sport to sometnmg more" exciting and went on down until lost my business and .lost my morals. and lost my soul,! and these chains that you see cn my wrists and feet are the chains of a gamester's doom; and I am on my way to a gambler's hell. " Hon ey at the start, eternal catastropne as the last r ' -1 i -. I" Stock gambling comes into the same catalogue. It must be very exhilarating to go into the stock market and, depos iting a small sum or money, run. me chance of i taking out a fortune. . Many men are doing an honest and, saf busi- ness fin the stock market, and you are aa ignoramus u. yon uo noil it is just as legitimate to'deal in stocks as it is to deal in coffee or sugar or flour. But nearly aU the outsiders who go there on a nnanciai exeprmuu iusw alL The old spiders eat up tne unsus pecting flies. I had a friend who put his hand on his hip pocket and iSaid in substance, "I have there the value of $250, 0(A). " His home is today pennl- ess. What was the matter? StocJt gam bling. Of the vast maionty wno are victimized you hear not one word. One great, stock firm goes down, and whole columns of newspapers discuss their fraud or their disaster, and wa are pre sented with their features and their bi ography. But where one such famous firm sinks 500 unknown men sink with them. . The great steamer goes down, and all the little boats are swaUowed in the same engulfment. i Gambling is gambling, whether In stocks Or breadstuffs or dice or race horse betting. Exhilaration at the start, but a raving brain and a shattered nerv- lus system anda sacrificed property. KEEP I TOUR Surely if the wordiREGULA TOR is not on a package it is amm & Nothing else is fheame. It cannot be and never has . Peei Pqt up by any one except v J- IKU ZEiEiOEl B CO. And it can be caiity told by their Trade Mark- THlE RED 2. FOR SALE BY W. and a destroyed soul at the last Young menj buy no lottery ticket purchase no prize packages, bet on no baseball games or yacht racing, have bo .faith in luck, answer no mysteriou! circulars proposing great income for small invest ment Drive away1 the bnizards that h6ver around our hotels trying to entrap strangers. Go out and make an honest living.; Have God on your side and be a candidate for heaven. Remember all the paths of sin are banked with flowers at the start, and there are plenty of help ful hands to fetch the gay jcharger, to your aoor ana noia tne stirrup wmie you mount But farther on tbe horse plunges to the bit in a slough inextrica ble. -i - - ;r: - The Truth of God. The best honey is not like jtbat which Jonathan took on the end of the rod and : brought to his lips, "but that which God j puts on the banqueting tableof mercy, ; at which we are all invitedl to sit 1 was reading of a boy among tbe moun tains of Switzerland ascending a dan gerous place with his father and the guides. The boy stopped on .the edge of the cliff and .said, "There is a flower.! mean to get." "Gome away from there," said the father. "Yok will fall off. ' "No, ". said he. "I mult get that beautiful flower." And the guides rushed toward him to pullfhim back; when just as, they heard hiln say, ,fI almost have it," he fell 2,000 feet. Birds of prey were seen a few! days after circling through the air andf lowering gradually to the place where fthe corpse lay. Why seek flowers off tile edge of the precipice when you can Walk knee deep amid the full blooms of the very paradise of God? When a man may sit at the king's banquet, why will, he go down the steps and contend for tho ref use and bones of a hound'l kennel? "Sweeter than honey and the honey comb, " says David, is. the truth of God. "With honey out of the rock Would I have satisfied thee, " say's God to ' the recreant Here is honey gathered from the blossoms" of trees of life, aid with a rod made out of the wood of fthe cross I dip it up for all your souls. The poet Hesiod tells of an ambjosia and a nectar the drinking bf which would make men live forever, and one sip of the honey, from the Eternal Rock will give you eternal life with God. Come off the malarial levels of a sinful life. Come and live on the Uplands of grace, where the vineyards sfan them selves. "Oh, taste and i see f that the J Lord is gracious 1" Be happy how and happy forever. For those who take j a different course the honey will turn to galL For many things I havb admired Percy Shelley, the great English poet,: but I deplore the fact that it jseemed a great sweetness to him to dishonor God. The poem "Queen Mab" hai in it the maligning of the Deity. Shelley was; impious enough to ask for j Rowland Hill's Surrey chapel that he might de nounce the Christian religion,' He Was in great glee against God and the truth. But he visited Italy, and 'one $ay on the Mediterranean with two friends in a boat ' which was 24 feet long he was coming toward shore when an hour's squall struck the water. A gentleman standing on shore through a Iglass saw many boats' tossed in this squaU, but all outrode the storm except one, in which Shelley and his two friends were sailing. That never came ash ore, but the bodies of two of the occupants were washed up on the beach, ona of them the poet A funeral pyre was boilt on the seashore by some classi friends, and the two bodies were consumed. Poor Shelley V He would have no God while he lived, and I fear hid no God when he died. "The Lord knbweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the unferodlv shall perish." Beware of the forbidden honey! The Whipping Pot. A whipping post for the correction of bad boys has been set up in Evansville, Ind. The itrdge of the local police court is respaii iLle for the innovation. 'He - A A 1 f ll. was pu-JwU wnat to ao witn dojb in different ta parental control jand hesi tated to '.nfiict the penalty of a fine which wr.-i really a punishment on the parent I o discovered that an old stat ute perniitting the flogging of jawbreak- . - a. ers had not been repealed, ana at once set up the whippiog post ' Now when a Doy is zouna guniy oi miaaemeanur his father is sent for and given his choice of paying a fine, seeing his .boy go to 3 all or giving mm a eoudu eg ging with a strap in the presence of an Officer whose duty it is to see tnat tne re is no sham about tbefJunishment There is seldom heed of the mentor's inteffer- ence, tne angry parent wieiuiug uio strap to good purpose. The Humane sot ciety felt impelled to interfere, but the judge stood upon tbe law, and tberS has been a marked decrease ini the num ber of boys brought before the court -r New York Post j : An Oft Vaccinated Han. : r Probably the most thoroughly vacci nated man on earth is Chief Veal of the health department at Atlanta, but ne has never felt the effect of j the virus that has been put into his arm. Since he has been in charee of tbe health de- EYES OPEN ! not UtATQR. W. CRICCS A SUN. partmcnt Chief Veal baa bandied many cases of smallpox and has Utu cxrcul too many times to estimnte. Siuro he began the work Chief Vtal bas been vaccinated 263 times with tho purest and freshest virus, but not once hat it had tho desired effect Although j by sician8 have dcuo everything known to medical skill to mako Tccinatiou "take" cn him, they have failed. Savannah News. . . ' "A Conundrum. Here is a conundrum: An Irishman, a Frenchman and an American'' were waiting fdr a street car together. Sion one appeared iu the distunco. "He U coming," said tho Irishman. " bo is coming," said the Frenchman.-.' "It U eoming,f' said the American. Which was right? Most peoplo answer, " Why, tho American, of omrse. " Bnt, no; tho Irishman was right It was n mail car. New York Tribune . The Letter M. ' Tho Hebrew uumo of M was Mem, water, and it is curious to liote that tho original forni of this character in tho most ancient inaniiscript'is a' waving .liiKV which, to tho ; not too particular ancients, retireHcnted wa ter. By some philologists thp letter M as used by the Phoenicians is .imp posed to havo comor from a picturo representing tho human 'fuce; tho two' down strokes representing tho contour of tho countenance, tho V efroke signifying tho nose; tho two dote, long sincQdisused, mid a fetroko beneath tho V representing tho eyed..' and tho inouth.; The ohi Phoenician form of tho letter does indeed bear a comical sort of resemblance to tho human face. ' - ! Wbm They Ate Valuable. "You seem to havo lott all your superstitions. "I don't uecil any, now," taid tho ex-actor. "No? Are superfctHions of.j'nrtic ular value to the theatiicul profes- . sionf" "They kro if you can get them published in the. papers." Indian apolis Journal. . a Piorunc Judge. ' After Baron Martin, who posscHHecI a great horror of sporting Vproph ets," had become partially deaf, ho was on one occasion trying a racing case, an exercise of his. functions that ho reveled in. One of the counfcel engaged in it was named Stammers, a eolcmh, formal," fcentcntioua personage, who seldom maden speech without quot ing passages fromf'Kcripture. In ad- . dressing the jury, ho was about to pursue bis oltl habit, and got as far us "as tho iirpphet says," when tho judge interposed: "Don't troublo the jury, Mr. Stammers, about , the prophets. .There is not one of them wjio would notell his father sixpenny worth of halfpence." ' '. "But, my lord," said Stommers, in a subdued tone, "I was about to quote from tbe Prophet Jeremiah." . "Don't tell me," replied the baron. "I havo no doubt your friend Mr. Myer is just as bad as the rest of them." Nuggets. ; CURED OF BLOOD POISON .AF TER FIFTY-TWO DOCTOR 3 FAILED. Blood Balm Co. A tlantd, Ga. Gextlkmb: In 1872 a small pim ple brake out on -ray leg. 1 1 began eating and in four months I was' treated by a physician of Talladega . County, Ala-.'where I livel eighteen years. He relieved it for a short while. In six weeks it broke out In both legs, also on my shoulder.: Two small bones were taken out. It continued until 1&70. In this time I had twelve different physicians. They told me the only remedy was amputation: that it could never be cured. . For Wix months I could not walk a Step. I went to Mineral Wels, Texa. spent . 300.00; came home; went to Hot Springs, Ark., staid r Ine months alj failed to cure me. In 1887 1 came bacx to Barmingham, Ala. I was ad vised to write vou, which I did. YouY wrot we that B. D. B. would cure me. and I could get the medielne from Nabors & Morrow, Druggists in oar city. ' I bought ten bottles and before I had finished my fifth bottle my legs began to heal, and in lesathan -two months I was sound and well. That has been nearly two years ago, and no sign of its return vet. I have spent in cash over $400.00,and B. IL I, done the work that all the rest failed to do. You have my permission to publish this. I have traveled so much trjing to get well that my cure is Well known. Fiftyt wo doctors have treat ad me in tbe last 17 years. All they did was to take what money I had, and done me no-good. I ana now a well man. Pbof. C- H. RaxoeR.. For sale by Druggists, Shady Dale, Gai Price 11.00 per large bottle, . 1