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ESTABLISHED 1887.
GOLDSBOIIO, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1901.
VOL. XIY. NO. 21.
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Keep Sweet.
Suppose a world of troubles do
Annoy you day by day ;
Suppose that friends considered true
Your trust in them betray;
And rocks may bruise and thorns may
tear
Your worn and weary feet.
And every day you meet a snare
Keep sweet.
Suppose you have not eaeli desire
That forms within your mind;
And earth denies you" half your hire,
And heaven seems quite unkind;
And you have not the best to wear,
JNor yet the best to eat ;
You seem to have the meanest fare
Keep sweet .
A sour heart will make things worse
And harder still to bear,
A merry heart destroys the curse
And makes the heavens lair.
So I advise, whate'er your case
Whatever you may meet,
lAvell on the good forget the base
Keep sweet.
riaving With Fire.
The downfall of uany men of seera-
'QK-y good principles may be traced
to their ventures in playing with
fire. Knowing evil, they have co
quetted with it instead of avoiding
it. Christians pray, with good rea
son, to be delivered from tempta
tions, for the flesh is weak, and it is
by avoiding temptations that some
men preserve their virtue and honor.
Those who seek temptations have to
be strongly armed if they would re
sist them. The trusted clerk or
agent who goes wrong does not be
gin by committing a recognized
crime, lie tirst plays with nre in
the shape of temptations. Some form
of gambling it may be legitimate
stock-buying first tempts him. He
uses at first his own money (nobody
can object to that, he argues), and
by the time he has lost more than he
can afford he has become infatuated
and sees an opportunity to recover.
Then he "borrows" from his employ
er without mentioning the fact, and
whether in this venture he succeeds
or fails his doom is sealed. The ice
once broken, he goes on until at last
he has lost ail sense of honor, has
stifled his conscience and is ready to
embezzle any amount or to betray
any trust to satisfy his consuming
reed for gambling profits or to'pro-
tect bis unearned public reputation.
This is no fancy picture. It is the
story of the downfall of scores of de
faulters and embezzlers who might
have lived honest lives but for the
Grst false step they made in playing
with fire. Men who sacrifice their
honor iu other ways begin in a small
way generally. Curiosity, it may
be, leads them into bad company.
They do not intend to commit any
wrong, but they want to see some
thing of "life," as it is called, and
they venture into low places "as a
looker on in Vienna." Some of them
become drunkards, though able at
first to control their appetites for
liquor and being thus led into a false
sense of security; others are tempted
into a life of vice, though they think
they can control their passions and
have begun dangerous associations
with no other intention than to look
on at others. It is a dangerous bus
iness, however, to thus play with
fire." Safety for the best of us is to
be found in avoidance of temptations,
and young men especially should,
therefore, be careful of the company
they keep.
It is just as easy to become inter
ested in literature, science or art as
in games of skill or chance, the dif
ference being that in the one pursuit
the associations are good ; in the other
companions are sure to be found who
will lead one into temptations. Nor
is the enjoyment to be found in use
ful studies one whit less real and
substantial than that which comes
from frivolous games or those that
embody the gambling element. No
one can afford to play with fire or to
expose himself to temptations to
wrongdoing. Humanity in its best
estate i3 weak, and experience tells
us that men who have had the best
of training may be led astray if they
allow themselves to be exposed to
temptatious.
Woman's Philosophy.
It is always easier to end a letter
than to begin it.
Why is it that common sense is
often so uncommon?
Some people's idea of charity is
giving away what they do not want
themselves.
You never know what it is to be
happy until you try to make some
one else happy.
Brain workers accordiug to statis
tics which have been published re
cently, are long lived.
Most men are a size bigger than
their friends thiuk they are, and
about 10 sizes smaller than they
think they are themselves.
There is only one being on earth
more wearisome than the young wo
man who prides herself on beingable
to do nothing and that is the oue
who thiuks she can do everything.
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ARP OX MARRIAGE.
Bill Discourses On Dresses and Other
Features of a Wedding.
Wedding bells have been ringing
around here for some time. Their
music always excite the good people
and everybody talks about the com
ing .nuptials. Mothers, wives and
daughters are specially interested
for it is the bride who has most at
stake and is about to surrender eve
rything to her lover. But hope is
stronger than fear aud the .women
all rejoice, in it and wish the good
work to go on. They dissect and
discuss every phase of the new re
lationship and crowd the church or
the home where the knot is to be
tied with anxious and eager inter
est. The bridal trosseaus and the
wedding gifts have especial conside
ration and are carefully inspected.
What a difference between man and
woman about such things. What a
difference between my wife and I.
It was of small concern tome wheth
er the bride's apparel cost a thous
and dollars or a hundred. Just so
she was dressed in good taste and
wore a few pretty ornaments was
enough for me.
I like to see a pretty woman
dressed in a way that you can tell
pretty well how much of her is clothes
and '.how much is flesh and blood.
Padding and petticoats may fool a
man in a new acquaintance, but a
home girl can't fool anybody. We
see them ride and walk and stand
up and sit down and ruu around and
we can measure them up like David
Harum measured a horse. The mo
dern style of dress is much more
pleasing to men than the old style
of hoop skirts and bustles. Noth
ing is lacking now but to shorten up
their walking frocks so that they
won't drag behind and sweep up the
sidewalks with all their filth of cigar
stumps and quids and bacteria and
expectorated germs of expectorated
consumption.- When I see a girl's
skirt dragging along I suspect that
she is pigeon-toed or box-ankled and
wants to hide it. My wife never
wore a dress that way in her life for
she wears a number two shoe and
steps like a deer.
But it is a woman's nature to love
ornaments. She cannot help it and
it is no sin. John Wesley tried to
cure her of it in the discipline, but
he couldent discipline about orna
ments and jewelry and other finery
is a dead letter. I have suspected
that maybe he was too hard on his
wife about such things and that is
why she quit him. What a misera
ble time those women had in the
days of the Puritans when a pretty
girl had to wear a plain dress to
church; a home made straw hood
shaped like a coal scuttle on her
head, and not au earring nor a breast
pin nor even a string of glass beads
around her neck. The creator
adorned the earth with flowers and
studded the heavens with stars. He
gave the birds their beautiful plu
mage and taught them to sing for
our pleasure. There are diamonds
in the mines and pearls in the ocean
and of course they were made for
women. We men care nothing about
such things. I wouldentgive ten dol
lars for a bushel of them, but my
wife goes into rapture over them
and would give everything she has
got for them, except her children
and maybe me.
Woman is a curious and peculiar
creation. I have been studying them
for sixty years and don't fully un
derstand them yet. They are very
near to us and very dear to us, but
very unlike in their devotional na
ture; their love of the beautiful; their
long suffering under trial and adver
sity. They go willingly and eagerly
to the marriage altar when they
know that theirs is all the peril and
theirs to be all the pain and care and
grief that inevitably comes to a wife
and mother. I have pondered over
all this and if I was a woman and
had ouly a man's instincts and emo
tions I would not marry any man
upon earth. It is the God given ma
ternal instinct that persuades and
forces a woman to marry. She will
launch her boat upon the stream
and take her chances to jump the
waterfalls. She will marry even
against her judgment and the plead
ing of her friends. She does not
realize the force of this maternal in
stinct, but it impels and controls
her. My little granddaughters are
perfectly happy with their dolls.
They play with them by day and
sleep with them by night. A little
four-year-o'.d said to me last night,
"Ganpa, don't take dolly away from
me till I get fast asleep." Little
boys care nothing about dolls. They
want balls and drums and fire
crackers and guns something that
will make a noise.
A man loves a woman and marries
her, but there is not a particle of pa
ternal instinct influencing him. The
young mother hugs her first born to
her bosom and is happy. The young
father takes the advent of the child
as a matter of course, but not of
choice. In course of time the little
one grows into favor and he becomes
attached to it, and even proud of it,
but there is no paternal instinct.
The true woman loves to be a moth
er. She is not content with one
child. She wants another and an
other and another. Two children
double her love and therefore her
happiness and finally when she has
no more little ones to foudle, her ma
ternal love laps over to her grand
children, and she would claim tbem
if she coulfl. Mrs. Wilcox wrote a
lamentation on the "Decay of the
Maternal Instinct in New England,"
asserting that the women up there
did not wish for children and there
was hardly a household that had
more than one or two just enough
to inherit the father's estate. When
that decays everything else decays.
A town or city or a state without
children a natural complement of
children is on the down grade. To
arrest or impede the coming of chil
dren is a violation of the law of God.
The earth must be peopled by hon
orable marriage. Milton says "Hail
wedded Love true source of human
offspring." And again he says of
marriage, "It is the sum of earthly
bliss." Other cynical old poets make
sport of it and call it a "lottery."
"An institution where those who are
out wish to get in and those who are
in wish to get out." Some of our
modern poets ask the question, 'Is
marriage a failure?" and discuss it in
prose and poetry. Well, suppose
that it is, what is to be done about
it. Who is going to stop it? How
shall the earth be peopled when we
all die off? What kind of incubators
do they propose to substitute?
Emerson says "All the world loves a
lover," and that is why the good peo
ple of every community flock to wit
ness a marriage ceremony. Every
body loves the happy couple then
and wishes them- joy. Will he be
kind to her, and there is a smothered
thought in every mother's mind.
Dr. Gaines of the Agnes Scott In
stitute gave us a discourse the other
day on the importance of educating
our girls. It was deeply entertain
ing and convincing. How comes it
that six times as much money is in
vested in giving our boys a high ed
ucation as there is for our girls.
Who are our educators at home and
in our public schools. Sixty-six per
cent of all the teachers in Geor
gia are women and they should
have the best opportunities to fit
them for their vocation. Who teaches
the children until they can go to
school. The mothers the patient
loving mothers all over the laud,
while the fathers are in the field, the
counting room, the workshop, or
maybe at the club or the billiard ta
ble. Why should the female colleges
be neglected by the state? Who are
doing the most good in the school
room, the church, the Sunday school
or by the fireside in the establishing
and perpetuating morality and vir
tue among the children? Is it the
boys who come from college or the
girls who cannot go, but have to be
content with such education as they
can get at homo.
Well, the good doctor gave us food
for thought and when he closed I felt
a wish that I was rich so that
I might enable every good girl to
get a higher education than she
can get at home. When will we
have a legislature that will have
heart enough to give a woman
all of her rights? The marriageable
girls ought to form a trust and vow
to marry nobody until their rights
were recognized. If it wasent for
the maternal instinct they would.
Bir.L Arp.
Itillville Literary Notes.
Our representative in congress has
been heard from. He has sent us
three packages of garden seed.
There is a decided lull in literary
circles. The poets are plowing, and
the novelists are grubbing stumps.
The new magazine has died a nat
ural death, but has made all its un
paid contributors honorary pallbear
ers. We return thanks to the Chatta
hoochee river for moving our office
and residence six miles from town
taxes.
Major Williams's "History of the
Lite War" shows conclusively that
all we need in this country is peace
and pensions.
Billville will not get the new gov
ernment penitentiary, and yet we
demonstrated to the government
that we could fill it comfortably.
One of our leading authors has just
closed a contract with the railroad
to dig an artesian well. He will
probably make enough money out of
it to publish his new novel.
The authors' supper, on Wednes
day evening last, was a highly enjoy
able affair. There was a 'possum to
each poet. All literary matters were
laid under the table, with the auth
ors. A Prominent Chicago Woman Spaaks.
Prof. Roxa Tyler, of Chicago, Vice
President Illinois Woman's Alliance, in
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AT HOME AND ABROAD.
The Sewg From ETerywbere Gathered
and Condensed.
Burglars got into the Oak Park
(111.) postoffice Monday night and
rifled 4,000 letters.
Fire broke out Tuesday at mid
night in the large canning factory of
C. M. Nails, at Roanoke, Va., and
Burglars cracked the safe of J. A.
Rushing & Son, at Walnut Springs,
Va., Sunday night, and secured $4,
000. The Navy Department will send
an expedition to Sumatra to observe
the total eclipse of the sun on May
17th.
Three children of R. McCarty were
cremated Saturday night in a fire
that destroyed their home in Kansas
City, Mo.
Frank Klufsky, aged 68 years, of
Cleveland, O., moody over money
loss, refused to eat and died from
starvation on Tuesday.
The battleship Wisconsin will be
put in commission Monday, Februa
ary 4th, in deference to superstition
against Friday, the day first set.
the entire building with contents
were destroyed. Adjoining ware
houses caught but the damage was
not great. Total loss about $30,000.
Robert S. Fosburg was arrested
at Pittsfield, Mass., Friday, charged
with killing his sister, Miss May L
Fosburg, of Buffalo, N. Y., during
last August.
Falling from his wagon, which was
loaded with five towns of stone, Sam
uel Bradley was crushed to death at
York, Pa., Monday, the wheels pass
ing over him.
In a Are which destroyed the Com
mercial Hotel at Kewanee, 111. .Tues
day night, Elmer M. Peterson was
burned to death and two men were
dangerously hurt.
Business failures in the United
States for the week number 281
against 290 last week, 242 in this
week a year ago, 240 in 18'JO. 288 In
1898 and 320 in 1897.
Morton Finley, colored, was killed,
and five workmen were seriously in
jured in a boiler explosion at the
Ohio Falls Iron Company, at New
Albanj', Ind., Saturday.
Lee Conkling, 17 years old, was
struck in the back of the head by a
snowball at school at Middletown,
X. Y., several days ago, and died
Tuesday from the injury.
In trying to stop a quarrel be
tween Will Mosher and Frank Brown
over a game of pool, Ralph Stark
was knocked down and killed at Au
burn, N. Y., Monday night.
The report of Receiver J. Frank
Aldrich, of the American National
Bank of Baltimore, shows an appa
rent deficiency of about $34,000, in
dicating the loss to depositors will
not be very large.
The Josiah Morris Bank, of Ment
gomer', Ala , one of the oldest pri
vate banking institutions in that
State, failed to open its doors for
business on Saturday. The capital
stock of the bank is f 100,000.
The American Window Glass Com
pany and the Independent Manufac
turers' Association,at Hartford City,
Ind., have agreed to close their fac
tories on April 1 instead of June 1,
throwing out oO.OOO workers.
The residence of Grorge Fleming,
agent of the Seaboard Air Line at
Watertown, Fla., was burned Friday
night. Mr. Fleming, his wife and
oldest child were badly burned, and
the two younger children burned to
death.
Mrs. Augusta M. Burton is fight
ing at New York to have set aside a
decree of divorce entered against her
24 years ago. Her husband lived
with her until recently, when he died
and she denies that she ever knew
of the divorce.
During a friendly boxing match in
one of the Harvard dormitories at
Cambridge, Mass., Saturday night,
between a young man named Crane,
of Boston, and George R. Ainsworth,
a sophomore, the former received a
knockout, which resulted in his
death.
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Foreign Affairs.
The wheat crop in Uruguay and
Argentina is in a very bad condition.
Tib funeral of Queen Victoria of
England will take place at Windsor
Castle on Saturday.
Thirty-fjve persons perished in a
hurricane tat Herro, Norway, on
Tuesday. Sixty boats were sunk in
the harbor, and eight houses were
blown away.
Giuseppe Verdi, the celebrated
composer, died at Milan, Italy, Sun
day morning, aged 87 years. He
had been ill for several days and his
death was expected.
The Berlin Courts have ordered
the confiscation of the book "My Re
lations With William II," by Coun
less Von Wedel-Berard, and the de
struction of the plates.
A dispatch from Shanghai says the
Italian naval authorities recently
captured eleven pirates, who were
executed. The Italian G over undent
it is added, has thanked Admiral
Candiani for the service thus ren
dered to navigation.'
National Capital Matters.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Jan. 29, 1901.
Democratic Senators are now call
ed upon to decide whether the Ship
subsidy bill, which is again the "un
finished business" of the Senate,
shall pass or shall fail to reach a
vote. It is admitted by friends and
foes of the bill that if the democrats
choose they can easily prevent its
being voted upon. The course of the
democrats is not yet certain. There
are two sides to the question. Some
contend that on general principles it
is the duty of the democratic and
populist Senators, as representatives
of the people, to defeat such a vic
ious bill, while others are equally
confident that as a matter of party
policy the democrats ought not
to stand in the way of placing
of such a millstone around the neck
of the republican party as this sub
sidy bill would be likely to prove, if
allowed to become a law.
Gen. Miles can thank his personal
friends in the Senate for the discov
ery in time to defeat it, of a scheme
to depose him from the command of
the army, under the Army Reorgan
ization bill. That bill as drawn by
Adjutant Gen. Corbin, whose hatred
for Gen. Miles is widely known,
specially provided that the present
Adjutant General should be retained
and with the same rank, but in pro
viding for the appointment of a lieu
tenant general who should have com
mand of the army, the appointment
was left wide open. The scheme first
became known by friends of Gen.
Otis and of Gen. Brooke seeking
Senatorial support for the nomina
tion of one or the other to be lieuten
ant general. Fortunately the nomi
nation has to be confirmed by the
Senate which would never have con
sented to such a low down trick be
ing played upon Gen. Miles, even
had it not been made impossible by
an amendment added to the bill in
conference.
It is customary for Senators who
indulge in bad language toward each
other to apologize to the Senate, if
not to the blackguarded Senator,
but Senator Ilawley has made no
apology for having called Senator
Chandier a liar at the secret session
of the Senate that confirmed the
nomination' of Justice Harlan's son
to be Attorney General of Porto
Rico, several days aJo. The incident
was brought about by the reading
from a pamphlet written by Chand
ler, twenty-odd years ago, by Sena
tor Pettigrew, of a statement that
Justice Harlan was given his place
on the bench for work done as a
member of a political commission
sent to Louisiana by Hayes, and that
Ilawley, who was a member of the
same commission, was to nave re
ceived the appointment of United
States Commissioner to the Paris
Exposition of 1878 as a reward for
his work, but declined it because it
didn't carry enough salary. Chan
dler's only reply was that Ilawley 's
age and irresponsibility prevented
his feeling any resentment, and that
he stood by his original statement
Chandler's strong point is not re
sentment of personal insults. Joe
Blackburn once tweaked his nose in
a committee room, in the presence of
even or eight Senators, and he
didn't even make an effort to resent
the insult.
Inviting sons of ex-Presidents to
be assistant marshals of inaugural
parades is an old custom, but those
in charge of the coming inauguration
are said to be afraid to invite Russell
Harrison, lest he take advantage of
the opportunity to say a few things
about his discharge from the army,
for instance in a letter declining to
serve. Russell Harrison is in Wash
ington. When asked if he had been
invited to be an assistant marshal in
the inaugural parade, he said that he
had not, and added: "I know I am
persona non grata 9 the White
House, and it would seem a little
strange for me to occupy a promi
nent position in the inauguration for
that reason."
Without in the slightest detracting
from the many good qualities of
Queen Victoria, which were known
and recognized by the whole world,
especially those relating to her do
mestic life, many think that it was
unwise to make a precedent, as Mr.
McKinley did when he ordered that
all the flags on the public buildings
in Washington be half-masted on ac
coHnt of her death, by paying such
unusual honors to the head of a for
eign monarchy.
The Senate Committee on Finance,
instead of reporting the Revenue
Reduction bill this week as expected,
seems to have got things awfully
tangled up by amendments it has de
cided to make to the House bill and
by what it has refused to do. The
brewers are clamoring worse than
ever and demanding that promises
made to them when they were asked
to contribute to the campaign shall
be lived up to, and they have got
some of the Senators badly fright
ened.
The President forwarded to the
Senate a lengthy report from the
Philippine Commission, with the in
dorsement of Secretary Root, urging
speedy action on legislation for the
islands.
ALt OVER THE STATE.
A Summary of Current Erents Tor the
Past Seven Days.
The town of Wadesboro now has
water works in operation.
Albemarle has a barber shop war.
Shaves are going at five cents and
hair cuts at 10 cents.
The elm trees of Wilson are saved.
The exciting contest has ended in a
victory for the trees by a vote of 109
to 43. .
Koetia Dellinger, aged 23, of Lin
coln county, was killed Thursday by
a tree which he was cutting falling
on him.
An entire block of brick buildings
belonging to A. C. Miller was de
stroyed by fire at Shelby, Saturday
morning.
W. H. Allen, the Charlotte alder
man, who was convicted of washing
his feet in the water works pond,
has resigned from the board.
An east bound freight train was
wrecked near Marion, Saturday
night. Ten coal cars' were smashed,
a broken axle causing the wreck.
W. S. Furgerson, of Durham, has
been awarded $1,030 damages against
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany for failing to deliver a message
promptly.
Deputy Marshall T. A. Royal, who
was accidentally shot in Yadkin
county by Deputy Marshall Sheek
last week, died Tuesday from the ef
fect of his wounda.
Fire destroyed the dry kilns, lum
ber sheds and over one million
feet of lumber of the Addington
Lumber Co., near Washington, Beau
fort county, Thursday night, causing
a $30,000 loss.
A negro named John Rollins, of
Kinstou, was run over and killed by
a freight train at Falling Creek,
Tuesday night. It is supposed that
he was drunk and fell asleep along
side the railroad track.
Matthew Wiggins, of Edgocombe
county, while out hunting Saturday,
accidentally killed himself. It is be
lieved that he stumbled, and in so do
ing his gun was caught in the brush
and by some means discharged.
The Hickory Mercury says that
at a chopping at J. A. Abee's, in Ca
tawba county, last Friday, Gaither
Abernethy, aged 18, was killed by a
falling tree. The trunk of the tree
fell on him and he was so badly in
jured that he died in a few hours.
The five-year old daughter of Wil
liam Libass, near Salem, was stand
ing in front of an open fire-place
Friday afternoon when the clothing
of the little one ignited, burning her
to such an extent that death resulted
in about an hour, after excruciating
pain.
A Charlotte law3er turned over to
the court the other day some funds
which had been paid him about $175
which on reflection the lawyer had
concluded his client did not come by
honestly and which under the cir
cumstances his conscience would not
allow him to retain.
Alfred McNeill, a colored preacher
of Fayetteville, Saturday night fired
on and slightly wounded two young
white men of East Fayetteville, who
knocked at his door. He contends
that they had already trespassed
on his premises and given him great
annoyance, while they state that
they merely called there to inquire
for some one they were seeking.
According to the Wilkesboro Chron
icle, Bowie Edminston's little girl
near Miller's Creek, was very
nously burned Monday evening,
She is about 10 years old and had a
little fire out in the yard and was
playing about it. The parents were
not at the house at the time. IJer
dress caught and her clothes were
burned off her. She will hardly re
cover.
There are now in Asheville two
TeSas twins, visiting relatives
They stand six feet three inches in
height, are built in proportion and
are still growing as they are only 19
years old. There are thirteen chil
dren in the family and the dwarf of
the family measures six feet. Their
parents are North Carolinians who
moved to Texas, where all the chil
dren were born.
Jo. Koontz, colored, who several
weeks ago shot and killed Tom Mil
ler, also colored, in Rowan county
was arrested in Salisbury last week
and put in jail. The shooting was
supposed to be accidental and the
coroner's jury so found, but Koontz
had promptly disappeared. Late
there was -some doubt about the
killing being an accident and the
officers had been on the lookout fo
Koontz.
Governor Aycock makes the fol
lowing appointments on his military
staff all with rank of Colonel: Ad
jutant General, Beverly S. Royster,
of Oxford; Inspector General, T. H
Bain, of Goldsboro; Quartermaster
General, Francis A. Macon, of Hen
derson; Surgeon General, Robert
Young, of Concord; Inspector of
Small Arms Practice, S. J. Cobb, of
Lumber Bridge; Judge Advocate
General, William J. Hannah, of Way
nesville; Assistant Adjutant, Alfred
Williams, of Raleigh.
Elopement of an Aged Couple.
There was a run-away marriage at
Wilson Thursday and the couple
were as youthful in feelings as are
usually seen. But the bride had
buried two husbands aud only on
Wednesday was her dower on the es
tate of her second husband laid off.
More than that eighty summers and
winters had passed over her and
yet she was so anxious to marry the
man she loved that she willingly con
sented to run the gauntlet of the
disfavor of her people. The groom
was seventy-nine years old and is
hale and hearty.
They were Mrs. Alie Lamm and
Mr. John Barber, both of Nash
county, and as they recounted the
particulars of their courtship one
was reminded of the fact that love
never grows old. This is the fourth
time the groom has faced the altar
and pledged to love and cherish.
This is the third time the bride has
promised to obey. On August 18,
1S99, she was married to Mr. Jack
son Lamm, the brother of her first
husband.
The most beautiful thing in
the world is the baby, all
dimplei -.id joy. The most
pitiful thing is that same baby,
thin and in pain. And the
mother does not know that a
little fat makes all the differ
ence. Dimples and joy have gone,
and left hollows and fear, the
fat, that was comfort and
color and curve-all but pity
and love-is ironc.
The little one gets no fat
from her food. There is some
thing wrong; it is either her food
or food-mill. She has had no
fat for weeks; is living on what
she had stored in that plump
little body of hers; and that h
gone. She is starving fcr fat;
it is death, be quick !
Scott's Emulsion of Cod
Liver Oil is the fat she can
take; it will save her.
The penuine has this j-icturr. a
it. take n other.
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