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11 t I 4 tvrritKTjritirtrrrrttrfTTT-rrtfifirtrirTr... i..i-i:....-in-.j.r.ij.n HAKE ADYEETISIKS PAY f t ' by using th columns of the h o mctfi TIIirXLSS WORKER In i;iiiitleth City is tho o a o o o o o o o o o -s 51 ECONOMIST. i o it roc into the Homes or trie peepie V telling th .umt with the voice of a S trusted fried. Li the medium that re&ctiof more 1 families thmi mt nth In EaaternU arollna, : :j &occ -c ccc ceo c 2CGOCCOOOOOOOOOO EE TTakE Bach man's cBnsura tiutrBssrvB 1hy judgmBnt.HamlBt3" ELIZABETH CITY, I K. O.; FRIDAY. MAY 27,1898. VOL. XXVII. NO. 9. , . ...... . 8 T1" S3 CI : : 1 1 ... - 4 ; 5 Hi V 1 . V 1. ! i A K I r-. T t i . i t . e i : J. J t w i ?i : I- L- w . i w r i - i f j .X n il -nacr. II. U. i:;:; I V KJitor. rnnrKHioXAL cakds. Ll. .i:::t v - i . ..i th t ?tyf'.C. I .::u L iz - x A. t- iu rty, N. C. I . - 5 PKt.hHX, .-!!, o. ru-."" !rcplmvis r . r . V...i-.Ir.pton . , 1 It Mprcme . -ni w R. G 4 r n. c n., y.c. rcu r r. 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Attentive . fckrvxnt. :i"tt U.e Coart i'ouse. 0 ohm b iaH o tel, Vt.t,i:r.tA, Tvuscelx. Co. J. RHIOHKS, - - 'Proprietor. r li-t; ! r ' :t, rtai, vh! tb. Art;! M! wl .h'Ver. ffr'!:.' 'i . pubic sj-icted The fnd V.tiiion ;: Tin: oi-ii c r. v.i.ki;u house. Simmon's Hotel; I CKWTUCK C. II., N.C Ti'rtxi : Cic per taca. or $1.75 pr day, Itciud n- !.i.!k'ins:. Th pV.rocace of . ts r bic .iritd Sa'Isf tction aM jrtd. GRIFFIN CROS. - PronrV;or. Tr an'Qisil House, MAliTEO fl. C. A. V. EVA"i?t . Proprietor FIrst-c!vs in c-r ry par.iclr. Tab!e cp;l':td w.th ery .Mua:T. Hb, oyaters and Gan.eab jndanre in season. Are To Vt. Weaknea caaL'cJts iLli in the Iom of aabiiin nl rUiag bo&rs. The blood Li wtery ; th I'mum are mxtirz th door is K-in rfn d forii. A hrttle of Browns' Irtn Ji;'tfcri tikea ia time will rrstor your strens'h. ..t:.e your r.erTC. mske yoor blowl nch i A rtvL Do yi more rood thxn n npr! re ppcll cr.r. of ndicioe. n?wn--ir 3 'j-.y.crs u w i by ail UrsJen. . - . , . . r s . - fc- -"JlT- fcy V: DIRECTORY.. CV:y Cfctr. II a y r . r C. A. anks .Attorney Iacc 51. ileekin. Commisiioners--Pemon JoIm.Thos. A. Commander. John A Kramer B; Frank Spcnce and Win. W. Griggs. Clerk Chas. Guirkfn; Treasurer Gk. W. Cobb; Constable and Chief of Police -Wm C. Brooks; Street Com misslouer Reuben W. Berry; Firn Corainissioner Allen Kramer Collector of Customs Dr. I John. Postiuiujter E..F Lamb. Examining Burgeons of Peusior.s Drs. J. E. Wood. W. W. Griecs and W. J. Luiuden. Meet on the 1st und 3rd Wednesdays of each month at the corner of Road and Church Htnets, CAercu.:VetbcKlist,Rev.J.ii.IIall, Pustor; services every bunday at 11 a. m. aud 7 ik w. Baptist, Rev. W. S. Pennick, I). D., pastor; services every Sunday at 11 a. in. and 7. p, Pres byterian, Rev. F. 11. Johnston, pastor; services every Sunday at 11 a. in. and 7:1a p. m. Episcopal, Rev. L. L.Wil liams, rector ; services every Sunday at 11 a in. and 4 p.m. Lodjes Maonic: Eureka Lodge No. 317. G. W. Brothers, W. M. ; J. B. Griggs, S. W.; A. L. Pendleton J. W.; B. F. Sience, Tre?urer; D. B. Bradford, Sec'ty.; T. B. Wilson, S. I).; C. W. Grice, J. D. : J. A Hooper and T.J. Jonlan, Stewards; Rev. E. F. Sawyer, Chapliiii; J. E. Sheppard ; Tvler. Meets Ifet and Srd Tuesday nights. Othl Fellows: Achoree Lodge 2io 14. C. 51. Eurtress. N. G.: W. II. Ballard. V. G. 11. O. Hill. Fin. Secretary: Maurice Wescott; Treasurer. Me;ts every Friday at 7:30 p. m. Royal Arcanum: Tiber Creek Coun cil No. 1209; 11. O Hill Regent; D. A. Morgan, Vice Regent; C, Guirkin, Orator; W. II. Zotdler, Secretary; F. U. Cook Jr., Collector; W, J. Wood ley, Treasurer. Meets every 1st and 3rd 5Ionday night. Knichts of Honor: R. II. White, Dio tator;J. II Engle, Vice Dictator; T. J. Jordan, Reporter; T. B. Wilson, Fi nance Reporter; J. C. Beulmry, Treas urer. Meets 1st and 4th Friday in each month. Pasquotank Tribe No. S, I. O. R. 51. W. II Sanford, Prophet; Will Ander son, Sachem; B. C Lane Sr. Sagatuore. J. S. IVusley. Jr. Saga more Jam.; Si iretf.C. ol R ; S. 11. .,i urrelK.of W 5i let every Wednesday night. Cvuttj Uficert. Coramisaioners G, E. Kramer, Chairman; IV 51. Godfrey J. W. Willmms. Sheriff. T. P. Wilcox, Superior Court Clerk, John P. Over man; Register of Deeds 51. B. Cr jx'p per; Treasurer, John S. ilorris C ai:ty liealllt Oliicert, Dr. J. oou: Boord of Education, J. T. Davis, J. DJ. Fulmer, N. A Jones, guperintendant I. N. Meekins "Every morning l nave a .bad taste in my mouth; my tongue is coated; my bead aches and 1 often feel dizzy. I have no appetite for breakfast and what food I eat distresses me. I have a heavy feeling la my stomach. I am getting so weak that sometimes 1 tremble and my nerves are all unstrung. I am getting pale and thin. I am as tired in the morning as at night" What does your doctor say? "You are suffering from Im pure lood." 7fcat is his remedy? You must not have constl- Eated bowels if you expect the arsaparilla to do its best work. But Ayers Pills cure constipa tion. We have a book on Paleness and Weakness which you-may nave for tne asking. . , Yfrttm to jxp Doctor. Prhai tou woald l!ke to eontnlt nt iihfslHftOt bo tit Writ U4 f rlr all tb iom. lomJrtcol' boat yonr coudl- Uoo. u iu pxrucni n recolT procupt rp:y. AAret- DR. J. a ATETl. I III ! .1L.-WI II I -I , L U fi$ im i I TANTALIZING TALK. iOB'S COMFORTERS THE SUBJECT OF - DR. TALM AGE'S SERMON. Ob the Other 61d U'e Sh-Il I-rn WJij Cod Let Sin Come Into the World. TboM Vrho XTave 'ot Known Trouble Lack Sympathy Frep-ratlon For Glory. Covytfzht. ISii br American rress Asso ciation. WAsnrsaTox, May 22. The awk ward: and irritating mode of trying to ccrafcrt peoplo in trouble is here set forth ty Dr. Talma ire, and a better way of dealing with broken hearts is recommended; text. Job xvi, 2, "Iis erable comforters are ye alL" The man of XJz had a great many trial the loss'-cf - his family, the loss of his property, the loss of. his health but the moat exasperating thing that came upon him was the tantalizing talk of those who ought to have sympathized with ; him. And, looking around upon them and weighing what they had said, he utters the words of my text. Why did God let sin come into the world? It is a question I often hear dis oussed, but never satisfactorily answer ed. God made the world fair and beau nful : at tho start. If our first parents had not sinned in Eden, they might have gone cut of that garden and found 50 par&dises all around tho earth Eu rope, Asia, Africa, North and South America so many nower gardens or orchards of fruit, redolent and luscioua I suppose that when God poured out the Gihon and the Hiddekel ho poured out at the same time the Hudson and tho Susquehanna. The whole earth was very lair and teautiful to look upon. Whydid it notistayso? God had the BOwer to keen bacl. sin and wee Whv g eV c hJ!S did he not keen them back? Why not every cioua roseate, ana every sten . a joy, and every sotmd music, and all tho ages a long jubilee of sinless men and sinless women? God can make a rose as easily as ho can make a thorn. Why, then, the predominance -of thorns? He can make good, fair, ripe fruit as well as S-e1 tod cat? fined k. war ao naath. t.cn, OlM is gnarled and sour? Ho oan make men robust in health. Why, then, are thero so many invalids? Why not have for our whole race perpetual lei sure instead cf this tug and toil and tussle for a livelihood? I will tell you why God let sin come into tho world when I get on tho other side of the riv er of death. That is the placo where such questions will be answered and such mysteries solved. Ho who this sido that river attempts to answer the ques tion only illustrates ; his own ignorance and incompetency. All I know is cne great ' fact and that is that a herd ol woes ! has come in . upon us, trampling down everything fair and beautiful. A sword at the gate of Eden and a sword at every gate. Comforting the Troubled. More people under the ground than on it. The graveyards in vast majority. The 0,000 winters have made more scars ! than the 0,000 summers can cover up. Trouble haa taken the tender heart of this world in its two rough hands and pinched it until tho . nations wail with the agony. If all tho mounds of grave yards that havo been raieedwere put side by side, you might step on them and nothing else, going all around the world and around again and around again. These aro the facts. And now I have to. say that, in a world like this, tho grandest occupation is that of giv ing condolence. The holy science of im parting comfort to tho troubled we ought all of us to study. There are many of you who could look around upon some of your very beet friends, who wish you well, and are very intelligent and yet bo able truthfully to say to them in your days of trouble, "Miserable com forters are ye all. " I remark, in the first place, that very volubla peoplo are incompetent for the work of giving comfort Bildad and Eliphaz Mad the gift of language, and with, their words almost bothered Job's life out Alas for these voluble peoplo that go among the houses of the afflict ed, and talk and talk and talk and talk They rehearse their own sorrows, and then they tell the poor sufferers that they, feel badly now, but they will feel worse after awhile. Silence! Do you ex pect with a thin court plaster of word to heal a wound deep as the soul? Step very gently around about a broken heart God "has bereft Then go your way. Deep sympathy has not much to say. A firm grasp of the hand, a compassionate look, just one word that means as much as a wholo dictionary, and you have given, perhaps, all the comfort that a 60.ul needs. A man has a terrible wound in his arm. The surceon comes and binds it up. "Now," he says, "carry that arm in a sling and bo very careful of it Let no one touch it " But the neighbors have heard of the accident and they come in and they say, "Let us O rt" And V Und&ffa is puR-d off. Od this me asd.fhat oce mutt fcsl it and see how much it Is swollen, and there aro irritation and Inflammation and exasperation where there ought to be healing and cooling. The surgeon comes in and says: "What does all this mean? You have no business to touch those bandages. That wound will never heal unless you let it alone; " So there are fouls broken down in sorrow. What they most want is rest or very careful and gentle treatment but the neighbors hare heard of the bereavement jr of the loss, and they come in to synma thize, and they say: "Show us now the wound. What were his last words? Re hearse now the wholo scena How did you feel when you found . you were an orphan?" Tearing off the bandages here and pulling them off there, leaving a ghastly wound that tho balm of God's grace had already begun to heaL Oh, let no loquacious people, with ever rat tling tongues, go into the homes of the distressed! Weakness of Philosophy. Again; I remark that all thoso per sons aro incompetent to giro any kind r - vi. culuju:i vi uu a uxcijr aa ufiuij pliUosopiaers. xney come in and say: "Why, this is what yon ought to hare expected The laws of nature must hare their war.'' And then they get eloquent over something they have seen in post mortem examinations. Ivow, away with all human philosophy at such a time! What difference does it make to that fa ther and mother what disease their son died cf? He is dead, and it makes no difference whether ; the trouble was in the epigistric or hypogastric region. If the philosopher be of the stoical school, he will jcome and say: "You ought to control your feelings. You must not cry so. i on. must cultivate a cooler temper ament. Yoa must have self reliance, self govejrnnieut, ?et control"- an ice berg reproving a hyacinth for having a drop of dew in its eye. A yiolinjet has his mstrtiment, and he sweeps his fin gers across, tne strings, now evoking strains of joy and now strains of sad- , ness. He cannot play all the tunes on one string. The human soul is an in strument of a thousand strings, and all sorts of emotions were made to play on it ; now ian anthem, now a dirge. It is no evidence ol weakness when one is overcome of sorrow. Edmund Burke was found in the pasture field with his arms around - a horse's neck, caressing him, and some one said, "Why, the great man has lost his mind." No, the horse belonged to his son. who had re cently died, and . his great heart broke over the grief. It is no sign of weakness that men- are overcome of their sorrows. Thank Gpd for the relief of tears 1 Have you never been in trouble when you could not weep and you would have given anything for a cry? David did well when ho -mourned for Absalom, 'Abraham" did well when he bemoaned WnLmitJ u f ere Sarah, Christ wept for Lazarus, and the that I want to see come any- ar me when l have any land of trouble is a worldly philosopher. Agam, I remark that those persons are incompetent for the work of comfort bearing who have nothing but cant to offer. There are those who have the idea that j you must groan over the dis tressed and afflicted. There are times in griW ,wke e cMrfml.fa dawaing a Tkatx't nvi, ia wwt. 1 1,000 to him. Do ! not whine over the afflicted. Take the promises of the gospel and ut ter them; in a manly tone. Do not be afraid td smile if you feel like it Do not drive -any more hearses through that poor souli Do not tell him the trouble . -i . j . y .mi was iorcoraainea. it wiu not oe any comfort to know it was 1,000,000 years coming. If you want to find splints for a broken bone, do not take cast iron. Do not tell them it is God's justice that weighs out grief. They want to hear of God's tender mercy. In other words, do not., give them aquafortis when they need valerian. God's Ministers. Again, I remark that those persons are poor comforters who have never had any trouble . themselves. A larkspur cannot lecture on the nature of a snowflake. It never saw a snowflake, and those peo ple who have always lived in the sum mer or prosperity cannot talk to those who are frozen in disaster. God keeps tiged people in the world, I think, for this very work of sympathy. They have been through all theso trials. They know all that which irritates and all that which soothes. If there are men and women here who have old people in tho house or near at hand so that they can easily reach them, I congratu late you. Some of us have had trials in life, and although we have had many friends around about us we have wish ed that father and mother were still alive that we might . go and tell them. Perhaps they could not say much, but it would havo been such a comfort to have them around. These aged ones who have been all through the trials of life know how to give condolence. Cher ish them, let them lean on your arm, these aged people. If when you speak to them they cannot hear just what you say the first time and you have to say it a second time, when you say it a sec ond time do not say it sharply. If you do, you will be sorry for it on the day when you take the last look and brush back the silvery locks from the wrinkled brow just before they screw the lid on. Blessed be God for the old people 1 They may not have much strength . to go around, but they are God's appointed ministers of comfort to a broken heart People who have not had trial them selves cannot give comfort to others. They may taUs very beautifully and they may give you a great deal of poetic sen timent but while poetry is perfume that smells sweet, it makes a very poor salve. If yoti have a grave in a pathway and somebody comes and covers it aU over with flowers it is a grave yet Those who have not . had grief them selves know not the mystery of a broken heart They know not the meaning of childlessness, and the having no one to put to bed at night or the standing in a room where every book and picture and door are full of memories the doormat wher she sat, the rap out of which she drank, th plao where sh stood at the door and clapped her hands, the odd figures that she scribbled, the blocks must have trouble yourself before you - I she built into a house. Ah, no, you can comfort trouble m others. But come all ye who have been bereft, and ye who , have been comf orted in your sorrows, and stand around these afflicted souls and ; say to them, "I had that very sor row myself ; God comforted me and he will comfort v you," and that will go! right to the spot In other words, to comfort others we must have faith in God,: practical experience and good, sound common sense. - - Tot the Sorrowful. Bat" there are three or four considera tions that I will bring to those who are sorrowful and distressed ' and that we can always bring to themi knowing that they will effect a cure. And the first j consideration is that God, sends our troubles in love. I often h43ar people in their troubles say. "Why, I wonder what God has against me?" They seem to think God has some grudge against ! them because trouble and misfortune i uaw ouzos. vja, no i uoyon not rcmem- ber that jiassage of Scripture, "Whora the Lord loreth he chasteneth? A child comes in with a very bad Eplinter in its I hand, and yon try to extract ft i It is a I very painful operation. I The child draxra bacJt rrom you, but you persist j You are going to take that ! splinter out, so you take the child with a gentle but nrm grasp, for, although there may be pain In It, the splinter! must come out And it is love that dictates it and makes you persist , : My friends, I really think that nearly all our sorrows in this world are only the -hand . of our Father ex tracting some thorn. If all these sor rows were j sent by enemies, j I would say, .Arm yourselves against them," and as in tropical climes when a tiger comes aown irom tne mountains and carries off a child from the village' i the neigh bors band together and go! into the for est and hunt the monster so I would have you, if I thought these misfortunes were sent by an enemy ga out and bat- tie against them. iJut, no, they come from a Father so kind, so loving; so gentle, that the prophet, speakinsr of his tenderness and mercy, drops the idea of a father and says, "As one whom his mother comf orteth so will J comfort you." ! "f ..' ,M,' ;; Again, I remark there is comfort in tho thought that God by all this process is going to make you useful. Do you know that those who accomplish the most for God and heaven Shave all been under the harrow? Show me a man that haa done anything for Christ in this day in a public or private place who has had no trouble and whose tath has been smooth. Ah, noJ j j ; , I once went through an ax factory, and I saw them take the bars of iron and thrust them in to the- terrible lur naces. Then - besweated workmen With long tongs stirred the blaze. Then they brought out a bar of iron' and put it in a crushing machine, and then; they put it between jaws that bit' it m twain. Then they put it on an anvil,' and there were great hammers swung by machin ery each; one half a ton in Weight- that went thump, thump, thump I 11 that iron ! could have spoken,! it would jurcidi "Wi7- W Why mart I bs pouwted any rartfaiBjr other iron?" The workmen would liavo 6aid: "We want to make axes out of you, keen, sharp axesaxes with which to hew down the forest and build the ship, and ; erect houses, fahd carry on a thousand enterprises of j civilization. That is the reason we pound you." Now, God puts a soul into the furnace of trial, and then it' is brought out and run through the crushing machine, and then it comes down on the anvil, and upon it, blow after blow, 'blow after blow, untiPthe soul cries out "Oh, Lord, what does all this j mean?'' God says: "I want to makei something very useful out of - you. You shall be some thing to hew with and something to build with. It is a practical process through which I am putting you. " Yes, my Christian mends, we want more tools in the church of I God, not more wedges to split with. We have enough of these. Not more bores with! which to drill. We have too many bores, j What we really want is keen, sharp, well tem pered axes, and if there bo any other way of making them than m the hot furnace, and on the hard anvil, and un der the heavy hammer, I do not know what ik is. Remember that if God brings any kind ' of chastisement upon vou it is only to make you useful. Do not sit down discouraged and say:' "I have no more reason for UvingJ I wisn I were dead." Oh, there' never was so much reason for your '. living as now. By this ordeal you have been conseorat ed a priest of tho most high ! God. Go out and do your wholo work for the Master. ; t -' ' ; j j , The Rebellious Heart. . -I- A Again, there is comfort in the thought that all Our troubles are a revelation. Have you ever thought 6f it in that con nection? The man who has never been through chastisement is ignorant about a thousand things in his soul he ought to know. For instance, herej is a man who prides himself On his cheerfulness of character. 1 He has no patience with anybody who is depressed in spirits. Oh, it is easy for him to; be! cheerful, with his fine house, his j filled! wardrobe and well strung instruments of music and tapestried parlor I and ; plenty of money in the bank waiting) for some permanent investment Ljlt is easy .for him to be cheerful. But suppose his fortune eroes to pieces, land his house goes down under the sheriff's! hammer, and the banks will hot j have anything to do with his paper. Suppose those people who were once elegantly enter tained at his table get so shortsighted that - they cannot recognize the street How then? Is it him upon so easy to be cheerful? It is easy; to' be cheerful in the home, after the day's work is done, and the eras is turned on, and! the house is full of romping little ones, j But sup pose the piano is shut because -the fin gers that played on it will, no more touch the keys, aad the cdldis& voice flMrt a-ked ee & ipma vsC3 ach no more. ! Then ia ii so easy? When a man wakes up and finds that : his re sources are all gone, he begins to rebel, and he says : "God is harM; God is out- - - - TT a Jm . ieem 4 f Vita raseous.. lie naa no Dusiness to ao tms to me, " My friends, those of; us who have been through trouble know what a sinful and rebellious heart we have and how much God has to put up with and how much we need pardon, jit is only in the light of a flaming furnace that we can learn bur own weakness, and our own lack of moral resource. - Family- Meetings. There is also a great deal of comfort in the fact that there will be a family reconstruction in a better place. Trom Scotland br England or Ireland. a child emigrates to America. It ia very hard parting, but he comes, ; after awhile writing home as to what a good Land it is. Another brother comes,! a sister comes, and another, and after awhile the mother comes, and af ter awhile the father comes, and now they are all here; and they have a time" of great congrat ulaiicn and a very pleasant reunion. .1 - S T " - . : 3 i : Well, it is just so with oar famlliesL They are emigrating toward' k better land. Now one goes out Oh, hh hard it is I to part with him. Another goes. Oh, how hard it is to "port with her. And ilnother and another, and Wo our selves! wiU -fter awhile go over,' anl then we wilt be ; together. OhJwhat a reunion ! Do you believe that? i?Ye,' you shy. Oh, you do not Youl do no believ it as you believe otherthings. If you do, and," with the same emphasis, why it wotdd take nine-tenths of your trouble off your heart Tho jfact is heaven to many of us is a great fog. It is away off somewhere, filled "ith an uncertain and indefinite population; That is the kind of heaven th4t many of us dream about, bat it is the most tremendous fact in all this unlverso--this heaven of the gospel. Our departed friends are not afloat The.residencejh which you live is not so real as jthe res idence in which they stay. . You are afloatH-you who do not know in the meaning what will happen before nightj. They are housed and safe forever. Dp nor, tnereiore,. pjry your cficpartea friends who have died in Christ They do no; need any of your pity. You might as well send a letter of condcf lence to Queen Victoria on her obscurity or to the Rothschilds on their bovertv as to pity those whi have won the palmj Do not say of thoso! who are departed: "Poor childl" "Poor fatherl"! "Poor mother I" They arjs not poor. ITou are poor ryou whosehomes have'beefn shatf tered, not they. You do not dwell much with your families in this world. All Iay long you are oS to busines.4. Wil uv raiKUii. r.c. ;wu uj uk gether j all the while? If you hdve had four children and one is gone, aifd any body aslks how many children you havej do not '30 so infidel as to say three. Say four cue in heaven. Do not think that the grave is unfriendly. You o into! your room and dress for some grand en-j tertainnient and you come forth beau-j tifully hppareled, and the grave as only the place where we go to dress jf or th'e1 glorious resurrection, and we will comi out radiant, mortality having become immortality. Oh, how much condolence thTa is fat this thought I rper4 to ee ray kln-reVl in heaven. I expect to see them just as certainly as I.expocft to go home today. Aye, I shall more certain ly soe tbenu Eight or ten will come up from the graveyard back of Sommlle and one will come from the moiiuxaina back ofj Amoy, China, and another will come, up from the sea off Gape Hatteras and SO jwill eome up from Greewoodl and I shall know them better thah I evf er knew them here. Mornlnff of the Resurrection. i ) ' ' . . : i And your friends they may be across the sea, but the trumpet that Isounds here will sound there. You will come up on just the same day. Some morning you have overslept yourself add you open your eyes and see that the sun is high in the heavens and you sy, 'I have overslept and !l. must be hp and away. 'f So you will open your eyes oh the' morning of the ; resurrection,! in the lull piaze oi uod's iignt, ana. you wm say, 4 ' I must be up and ' away, f Oh, yes, you will come j up, and thei-e will be a reunion, a reconstruction of your j family -I like what Haliburton (I think it was) good! old Mr. Haliburton said !in his last moments : "V thank God that I ever lived and that I have & j father m heaven and a motner m neaven and brothers in heaven and sisiers in heaven, and I am now going up I ; to see them.' , . : . . j I remark once iriore, ow troubles in this world are preparative for glory. What la transition Jt was for Paul from the slippery deck of a foundering ship to ! the calm presence of Jesus! What a transition it was for Latlmer---from the stake to a throne! What a transition it was for Robert Hall-f-from insanity to glory I What a transition it was for Richard Baxter from the dropsy! to the "Saint's Everlasting Rest 1' ' And what ia transition ft will be'' for you from a world of sorrow to a world of joy I John Holland, when he was .dying, said: ''What means this brightness in the room? Have youj lighi- ed the candles?" "No," they rf plied, "we have not lighted any candles. f l Then said he, "Welcome, heaven I" tne light already beaming upon his pillow. Oh, ye who are persecuted in this jwdrld, your enemies will get off the track after a while; and all will j speak well tor you amongjthe thrones! Ho, yewho ape sick now ! INo medicines to take therel One breath of the eternal hilLs will thrijl you. with immortal vigor. And ye Who are lonesome now, there will be a lhillion spirits to welcome you into their com panionship 1 Oh, ye bereft soulst there will be no gravedigger's spade that wil cleave !the side of that hill, and there will be no dirge wailing from that tern- pie! Tho ri . er of God, deep as the joy odorous With balm and over -depths briaht! wiih jewels and under skies roseate with gladness, argosies of light going dov. n the stream to the stroke of glitUxiog - ..r and the.-oefr of tKgtimi Net one e-U ia the wind; hA crm tMur mingling Avith the waters. The Spanish. Language. Habla" V. Espanol? . Perhaps act It is a very pretty tongue, however.! There i mi is Latin in it of course. Then there are Punic, Gothio and Arabic, In these ele ments reside its construction and 'its his tory. jSpain means hidden. .? .'A lottg time ago the Carthaginians disxverd the country... When the Ronaans Jdiscov ered it, too,' they threw a. toga over it The Visigoths f stuck: their gutturals there. ! The floors brought their filigrees and arabesques. Lathi was beaten" In tude," filed in his American and Earo with the hilt of the sword, Gothio, with iean laboratories in thousand s from a trowel, and Arabic. with a scimiter.: t&fftafa" Xi of today. is the result Edgar Saltus in Qq whicb. uninterrupted, Collier's Weeklv. iLr s ; il .nAaiv onfi orfain rfonth. -M I - Comparing Kotes. : "And you" have seen" Naples I I shall never forget my first view of ;the lovely j hay. 'See Naples and die!' " -"I thought I should die. when I ameU- td it '-Chicago Tribune. . CONTENT. 7 J When I behold how same tmroe- Fame, that Is cere's embodiment Or forraae, whose false ace looks tnr a aoDcta oome wita sweet oonms Xa all 1 ask or tne and yea. : t A ham hie home, where pi peons ooo, i i Whose path leads under breesy Uao j Of frosty berYted cedars to . J A ft, one nam of trumpet rt-aflb ' - I Is aU I ak for mo and you. . ' j A irarden which, all summer throat-, ; The roses old make redolent, . : And morning g larks, gay of hne. And tansy, with its horoely cent, Li all I atk for mo and you. An orchard that the pippins eirew. From whose bruiwtxl . goid the julont itprtaa; ' : i ' . A Tlneyard where the grapce hang blue. Wine blf and ripe for rlntgt, Is all I ak for nte and you. ' 1' A lane that leads to some far view Of forest end of fallow land. Bloomed o'er with rose and meadow roe Each with a too In Its hot band, j Is aU I ak for me and you. ' At morn a pathway deep with dew And birds to vary time and tana. At ere a sunset srenne And whippourwllls that haunt the moon, I all I ask for me and you. Dear heart, with wants so small and few. And faith, that' better far thaa gold, : A lowly friend, a child or two 5 To care for us when we are old. Id all I ask for me and you. v- ' Madison fj-weln In Harper's Magaslne. ' A Busy New York Corner. At that busy corner, Grand streut fend the Bowery, there may be Been cara propelled by five different 1 methods of propulsion by steam,' i oy came, uy 'underground trolley, by storage battery and by horeca. Overhead, running up and down, the Bowery, are the cara of the ele vated railroad, -drawn by steam lo comotives. Running up and down the Bowery on the surface aro tho cars of the Third Avenue railroad, drawn by cable. The Mudieon ave hiio cars, which turn into the Bow ery at this point, looming along Grand,street from the west, ore run by the underground trolley system. The cara on the Second Avenue rail road, which oome up the Bowery and turn into Grand street going' west, returning around the same corner going down, aro still drawn by horses, aa are also nearly, all the cars of the Grand street crosstown line, which crossea the Bowery go-. ing east and west. But there are four cars now running on tho cross town line that are run by power, from a storage battery. New York dm The Star Was TosU The story ia told of a green hand on board a cohating vessel who could not ' learn to steer by the mariner's compass. It waa a clear, starlight night, and the captain told him to head the vessel toward a particular bright star which he pointed out. " ' This was done, and for a short time all was right. But before long she was veering wildly from her. true course and rushing rapidly bo- fore the wind. "Ahoy there at the wheel 1" roared the exoited captain. "Port your helml What do you meant Where's the star?" ' . , . "It's awl right, captain," tlmildy replied the nervous helmsman. ; loet the star, but . found another brighter and' better than the one you showed me." London Vn-. swers. - ,.. - f 'Appreciative.' ' r ' "What a beautiful specimen of jn-i laying," exclaimed the guest. . "Yes," replied Mr. Cumrox as h'ol put his hands behind and tiptoed' complacently. "But that iun't ny- thing. You ought to have eoen.tno! outlay it represents. " iltteDurg Dispatch. THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE LUNG TROUBLES AND CONSUMP ! TION CAN BE CURED. An Eminent New '' York Chemist Scientist Makes a Free Offer, to Our Readers. . , and The distinguished New York chera ist, T.. A. Slocnm, demonstrating his discovery Cf a reliable and absolute core for Consumption (Pnlmonary long and chest diseases, stnbboru eonghs, catarrhal affections, general decline and weakness, loss of flesh, and all conditions of wasting away, will send THREE FREE BOTTLES (all different) of his New Discoveries to any afiiictiBd reader of the Economist . writing for them. ' . ; ; . His "New Scientific Treatment" has cured thousands permanently by Its timely use, and he considers it a simple professional duty to suffering human ity to donate a trial of his infallible . ji a. . a . l m i i" mi . cure, . " ' - .' . ; . Science daily develops new wonders, and this great chemist, patiently ex perimenting for years,, has produced results as beneficial ' to humanity as can be claimed by any modern genius. Hi assertion that lung troubles . and consumption are curable in any climate is any climate is prov- en by 4,heartfelt letters ; of grati- means sneedv and certain death. " Simply write to T. A . Siocum, If. C 98 Pine street, New York, giving post office and express address, and the free medicine will be promptly sent. Suf ferers should take instant advantage, of his generous proposition. Please tell the Doctor that you saw his offer in the Economist. v .
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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May 27, 1898, edition 1
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