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Naught can cruel wrath discover, Satan ne'er can find a Haw, 1 shall be a perfect lover Of a perfect moral law; I shall be a perfect doer, Perfect image of my Lord ; He will find His Son no truer To the plummet of His word. True and faithful, pure and holy, So I shall remain for aye. And await the outward glory Of my Lord's millennial day. For the rest inward glory Shall be mine, that very hour. When iny soul shall be made holy 15y Jehovah's sovereign power. Elsie Beattie. An Address On Matrimony. At the recent wedding in London of Maj.-Gen. R. Pole-Carew, who won distinction in South Africa, to Lady Beatrice Butler, elder daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Ormonde, the Bishop of Ossory per formed the ceremon', assisted by Rev. Canon Fleming and Rev. C. H. Murphy, chaplain of the forces. The nave was lined with non-commission ed officers and men of the Coldstream Guards, in which regiment thfPbride- grooin formerly commanded a bat talion. 'The Rev. Canon Flemiug," says the London Standard in its account of the wedding, "addressed the bride and bridegroom as follows: "Beatrice aud Reginald, with mu tual pledges and trusting hearts, you have to day eutered on the most sol emn and sacred compact that can biud mau and woman together, for marriage is the very sacrament of love. It is often said that marriage is a lottery, but if it is founded, as I believe in jour case, on true affec tion, there is no lottery in it. Two hearts that have hitherto dwelt apart are to-day made one, two lives that have hitherto been divided run to day, like quicksilver, into one. In joy and sorrow, from this hour, there are two to share or divide it. Bea trice, remember you are the wife, or, as the word implies, the "woof" of the home, weaving the threads of love out of your own gentle heart, to environ him against the cold winds of life. This is a rough world out side. Let your husband return from it to be always greeted with the sun shine of unfailing gentleness, for gentleness is the loveliest robe you will ever wear. If I venture to speak thus to you, it is because I have known you so long, because I speak to you as an old friend, because I be lieve you have formed the highest ideal of the new relation into which you enter to day, and will seek help from God to fulfill it. And for you (the bridegroom), to whose sheltering care she is henceforth intrusted, who can doubt for a moment but that a soldier, so distinguished for his fidel ity to his late Queen, and now to his King, so foremost in devotion to his country, will cherish the young life you take to your heart to-day, as a llower given by God into your tender care, shielding her from every rude breath and guarding her always with a pure and manly love. Duty is the watchword of the brave soldier, and the same traits of character which have always found you where danger was to be met or duty was to be done will hold you ever faithful and true to her, as her Irish heart will ever beat faithful and true to you. And may this auspicious day be crowned by Heaven with life-long happiness and blessing!" Reflections of a Bachelor. Until a man falls in love all girls look alike to him. Be sure you're right, then go ahead but don't ask a woman. Every engagement on one side or the other, is a put up job. A girl has got to be 23 before she H wjse enough not to try to be witty No baby under a year old can ever take the place in a man's heart of a setter pup. When a girl is proposing to a mau she acts most like a cat climbing down a tree backward. It is generally a race between the honeymoon and the lace nightgown to see which will disappear first. He may claim to the other wo men that he doesn't, but the average man likes to have a girl chase him No matter how much he is in love with a woman, for the first hour after he has proposed to her, he wishes he hadn't. At a wedding all the unmarried women cry because they aren't iu the girl's place and the married ones cry because they were. A (iood CourIi Medicine for Children. oi hnni nn liKit.inov in recommend ing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," says F. 1'. Moran, a well known and popular baker, of Petersburg. Va. "We have given it to our children when troubled with bad coughs, also whoop ing cough, and it has always given per fect satisfaction. It was recommended to me by a druggist as the best cough medicine for children as it contained no opium or other harmful drug." Sold by M. K. Robinson & I5ro., J. F. Miller's Drug Store, Goldsboro; J. R. Smith, Mt. Olive. AKP 0 SPRING. Bill Finds Pleasant Thought When the Sun Shines Again. How inspiring is the earliest breath of spring when nature like a blush ing maid is putting on her pantalets and preparing to bang her silken hair. What harmonious feelings spring up in one's bosom and gush forth to all mankind. A balmy day fills all the chambers of the soul with music that is not heard and poetry that is not expressed. Spring is un locking the flowers. I see sweet vio lets peeping from their leafy beds and jonquills lifting their yellow bells to catch the sunshine. What a rebuke to man is the innocence and beauty of the flowers what a contrast to cruelty and strife and selfishness. The love of flowers is refining and draws a man nearer to woman and to heaven, and it is safe to say that, whatever a woman loves, a man had better love, or try to. Flowers, music and birds are given for our happiness. They are the ex tras of creation designed for our spe cial pleasure. Providence would have withheld them if He had not loved us. Or He might have given us only the howling of the winds for music and buzzards for birds and dog-fennel for flowers. The love of flowers is close akin to the love of children. Madam deStael said that music was the only thing upon the earth that we would find in heaven, for it was common to angels and to man, but she dident know. If there are beautiful mansions and golden streets and gates of pearl and trees whose leaves are for the healing pf the nations, why not flowers? Spen cer in his arie Uueen says: "And is there care in heaven and love iu heavenly spirits for the flow ers?'' Wadsworth says : "It is my faith that every llower that blooms Enjoys the air it breathes." The more uncultured and unre fined a man is the less he cares for flowers and music and birds. Cow- per says he would not number on his list of friends the man who would uselessly tread upon a worm. Sha kespeare says the man who has no music in his soul is fit for treason, strategems and spoils. Some years ago I was trying to sell a cottage home to a rough man who wanted to buy, and I pointed out the beautiful roses that adorned the front yard. He turned away carelessly and said : "I don't care anything about them sort of things. If I buy your house you needent add ary cent for blos soms." The poet says, "The hum blest flower that blooms gives thought too deep for tears." But there are folks who care no more for a beautiful flower than for an ugly weed. "A Primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, Ami it was nothing more." The poets in all ages have paid tribute to the flowers. One of the most beautiful poems ever written is the "Ode to the Flowers," by Horace Smith. It is among the classics of old England. "Y'our voiceless lips are living preach ers, Each cup a pulpit and each leaf a book. "Floral apostles that in dewy splendor Weep without woe aud blu.--h without a crime." Mrs. Hemans says: "The flowers whisper the all fostering love That clothed them into beaut-." Longfellow says: "They teach us by persuasive reasons How akin they are to human things. "Emblems of our coming resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land." But Mrs. Hemans sings the most fascinating songs to flowers when she tires of other subjects she takes a rest on flowers: "Brin 2 flowers fresh flowers for the . bride to wear, They were born to blush iu her shining hair. "Brine flowers pale flowers o'er the bier to shed, A crown for the brow of the early dead "Bring flowers to the shrine where we kucel in prayer, They are nature's offering their place is there. "Bring flowers to the captive's lonely cell. They have tales of the joyous woods to tell.' Shakespeare had a great heart for flowers, and he knew them like a bot anist. There is not a common or fa miliar one that he does not bring to pleasant use in some of his plays How pathetically he laments the death of Imogen: "With fairest flowers I'll sweeten thy sad grave. Thou shalt not lack the flowers that's like thy face, Pale primrose nor the azur'd harebell like thy veins nor the leaf of eglau tine that outsweetened not thy breath." There was a long time ago a ballad about two lovers for whom two flow ers were named, Margaret and Sweet William. We have margarets among the flowers now, and sweet williams are very common. What became of the lovers is quaintly told in the old- time verses: "Margaret was buried in the lower chancel, And William in the higher: Out of her breast there sprang a rose bush, And out of his a briar. "They grew till they grew to the church top, And then they could grow no higher; And there they tied a true lovers' knot Which made all people admire." As stern and solemn as was Moses the lawgiver, he was not unmindful of the beaut' of flowers, for when he planned the first sanctuary that was set up in the wilderness he directed that his cunning workmen should or nament the golden candlesticks with carvings of flowers open flowers. When Solomon designed his magnifi cent temple the molten brass was ornamented with representations of flowers, and so was the cedar carved with figures of open flowers. The Bible makes mention of flowers, but not by name, except the lily and the rose. "I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley." "Consider the lilies how they grow. They toil not neither do they spin; but Solo mon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." I notice in a late New York paper that the culture and sale of flowers has largely increased in that city; that fort' years ago the sale amounted to only sixty thousand dollars a year, and that for the year just passed the sale of roses alone was nearly six millions, and that it was not uncommon for a millionaire to spend ten thousand dollars for flowers for a single entertainment. This is a good sign, and may beahelp to save Sodom I mean Gotham from destruction. I wish that all our public schools would encourage the pupils to study flowers. There is a little simple botany that even a child can understand, and it will tell them why the kingly house of the Planta genets took its name from a flower the Scotch broom (planta genestha) with which Henry II had himself scourged for a heinous crime. And why the geranium means a cranes bill and eglantine a needle and nas turtium a nose twister, etc. The origin ot tne names oi nowers is a funny book to me. These school boys and girls keep me pretty ousy answering ineir questions and doing their perplexing sums, and most of them inclose stamps in their letters. I will con clude this letter by giving them a sum: A man sold a sow and pigs for eighteen dollars. He received as much for nine-tenths of a pig as he did for one-tenth of the sow. How many pigs did she have? Bill Arp. Want Xo Woman's Department. Missouri clubwomen, led by the Wednesday Club of St. Louis, have addressed a petition to the Legisla ture of the State asking that at the exposition to be held at St. Louis in 1D03 there shall be no distinctive wo man's department and woman's build ing. It is earnestly desired by the Missouri women that such work as shall be sent in by women exhibi tors shall take rank according to merit, and along with exhibits dis played by men. It is felt that this differentiation of work according to sex is a false and pernicious one, and that women are entitled to the ad vantages of a general competition. It is even urged that there shall be no board of lady managers because, as Mrs. Potter Palmer has explained to the Missouri women when con sulted upon the subject, from this board of lady managers at the Chic ago Fair grew naturally a Woman's Department and a Woman's Build ing. Siilu and South Carolina. The Boston Post condemns the system of contract labor in South Carolina by which, it is reported, a considerable number of negroes are held in what is practically involun tary servitude. "But," adds the Post, "a practice which strikes us as intolerable in South Carolina is established and recognized under the Stars and Stripes in Emperor McKinley's new vassal state of Sulu, in the Philip pines. There it is found to be con ducive to industry and prosperity, if we may credit the statements of United States officers accompanying the agreement with the Sultan of Sulu, whereby the market price of slaves, to be sold under the Ameri can flag, was fixed. Sulu is a long way from South Carolina, but slavery is the same thing in one place as in the other." Remarkable Cures of Kheomallim, From The Vindicator, Rutherfordton. X. C. The editor of the Vindicator has had occasion to test the ellicacy of Chamber lain's Pain Balm twice with the most remarkable results in each case. First, with rheumatism in the shoulder from which lie suffered excruciating pain for ten days, which was relieved with two applications of Pain Balm, rubbing the parts afflicted and realizing instant ben efit ami entire relief in a very short time. Second, in rheumatism in thigh joint, almost prostrating him with se vere pain, which was relieved by two applications, rubbing with the liniment on retiring at night, and getting up free from pain. For sale by M. E. Robinson & Bro., J. F. Miller's Drug Store, Golds boro; J. R. Smith, Mt. Olive. AT HOME AND ABROAD. The 'ews From Everywhere Gathered and Condensed. uais of Lioverport, ivy., was burned Thursday night, and 1,000 persons are homeless. Robbers murdered Mrs. Jerry M. Heas, aged t7 years, at Bladens burg, O., Sunday night. The farmers are boycotting Cum berland, Md., because of an objec tionable tax on their wagons. While delirious, A. M. Winn, a cotton broker, committed suicide by shooting, at Memphis, Tenn., Tues day. Deputy Sheriff Halman, of Calave ras county, Cal., was killed Sunday while trying to arrest two highway men. During a free fight at Hindman, Ky., Saturday, Benton Messeus shot and killed Rufus Wooten and John Everage. Two thousand men are idle because of the strike of the handlers and tes ters at the Riverside plant, Wheel ing, W. Va. The Evans bill forbidding prose cution for unlawful cohabitation ex cept by relatives, passed the Utah Legislature. The bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the Louisiana Purchase World's Fair at St. Louis has passed the Missouri Legislature. During a quarrel of paupers. John McMahon, aged sixty, was fatally stabbed by William Harris, at De troit, Mich., Tuesday. Charles W. Ryan, cashier of the Halifax Natioual Bank, at Halifax, Pa., was shot to death by two bank robbers Thursday coon. Eleven passengers were hurt by the ditching of a train on the Lea venworth, Kansas & Western road, near Soldier, Kan., Monday. Fire destroyed two shirt factories at St. Joseph, Mo., Saturday, caus ing the death of eight female opera tives. The aggregate loss is $100, 000. The village of Comer, Ala., was almost wiped out by fire early Fri day morning. isine stores and a large number of dwellings were de stroyed. The boiler of an engine on the Le high Valley Railroad exploded Thurs day while pulling a coal train near Mudrun, Pa., and three men were instantly killed. Three young men are under arrest at Brooklyn, N. Y.,-for having drug ged and assaulted Miss Mamie Paige, aged 10, Sunday night. The girl is iu a critical condition. A special car, containg the Ed. Davis "Uncle Tom's Cabin" com pany, was burned Saturday at Olive, Mont., four members of the com pany losing their lives. Fire in the Merchants Hotel at Washington, D. C, early Friday morning, resulted in the death of one man, injury to nve other per sons and a financial loss of $2,500, Three men were burned to death and nearly a dozen more or less in jured, the result of a fierce fire in the Daily Advertiser and Record's se ven-story building, at Boston, Mass., Friday night. Sixty persons, mostly colored, are supposed to have perished in a tur pentine camp near Mobile, Ala. Thursday night. They were asleep when COO barrels of raw turpentine caught on fire. In a head-end collision between freigtit trains Friday on the Illinois Central Railway at Clayswitch, Ky., three men were instantly killed and three were fatally injured. A mis understanding of orders is said to have caused the wreck. A bursting boiler wrecked the Doremus Laundry in Chicago, 111 Monday -morning. To add to the horror the wreck caught fire within a few minutes after the explosion Eight bodies have been recovered from the ruins; seven persons are still missing, while at least 25 men and girls were so seriously injured that many of them will die. John Henderson, colored, who bru tally assaulted and murdered Mrs. Conway Younger, a farmer's wife, living just outside of Corsicana, Tex., several days ago, was burned to death in the courthouse square Thursday noon, in the presence of 5,000 people. He confessed the crime. Another negro, Sherman Harris, was lynched at Shellman, Ga., that night, for killing S. J. King, a prominent farmer. Foreign Affairs. Queen Victoria's funeral cost $175, 000. France will build 23 new submarine boats. The new British naval estimates call for $154,377,500. Fifteen new cases of bubonic pla gue are reported at Cape Town. The United States and Russia are acting together to prevent further bloodshed in China. British with fixed bayonets are facing Russians at Tientsin, China, where they are disputing over apiece of land. A Western Campaign. The Atchison (Kan.) Globe hits off the somewhat amusing mayoralty campaign now in full swing at To pe k a. There are two candidates, and both are regarded as law-abiding, moral and temperate men. But the friends of each seem bent on proving that the other is a monster of moral obliquity. Colonel Hughes, says the Globe, points proudly to his record, which is that he has not miss ed his weekly prayer meeting in 18 years. "Can Colonel Warner say as much?" he tauntingly inquires. "It is true," retorts Colonel War ner, "that during 18 years 1 have been absent from prayer meeting twice, but what are the facts? I can prove that I had malaria, and could not leave my bed. Nothing but se vere illness would have kept me from weekly prayer meeting, and Col. Hughes knows it." It is understood that the Journal, which is supporting Colonel Warner, will spring a sensation ; it will charge, and prove by the records, that dur ing the past 18 years Colonel' War ner has entertained preachers at his house 30 times, including the bishop on 2 occassions. In addition, he en tertained 92 delegates to Sunday school conventions, prohibition con ventions, Bible study conventions, whereas Colonel Hughes has always been backward in doing his duty in this respect, claiming that his house was too small, whereas it is generally known that his house is larger than that of Col. Warner. A Ludicrous Telegraph Blunder. The vagaries of the telegraph ser vice have caused any number of se rious and amusing errors in the trans mission of messages, says an English monthly. One of the most ludicrous mistakes ever made by the telegraph was caused by the loss of a single dot in a telegram from Brisbane to a London news agency. As it reached London it read thus: "Governor General twins first son," which the news agency "edited" and sent around to the papers in the following form: "Lady Kennedy, the wife of Sir Arthur Kennedy, Governor-General of Queensland, yesterday gave birth at Government House, Bris bane, to twins, the first born being a son. me telegram arriving in tne small hours of the morning, there was no time to refer to any books, and it was published by most of the newspapers in London and the prov inces and caused an unexpected sen sation. Sir Arthur's friends pointed out with conclusive force that some one had blundered, as there never was a Lady Kennedy, Sir Arthur be ing a bachelor. The repeated mes age which followed read: "Gover nor-General turns first sod," refer ring to a railway ceremony. Fined For Spanking His Wife. For spanking his wife Jas. Brown, of Akron, O., paid $5 fine and costs Mnnd.iv morninir. after which the , nnnnto loft, thi onurt together. Rrown J ' said be spent half an hour or more trying to get her out of bed. It was getting time to start for work, aud there was no breakfast in sight. Ac cording to the testimony, Brown fin ally dragged her from bed, but she went back again. He pulled her out and laid her across his knee. She says that he used a hair brush, but be says it was his bare hand. The Best & Rings To E ARE MADE WITH R.O Bal YAL Powder Risen with Royal Baking Powder, all these foods are superlatively light, sweet, tender, delicious and wholesome. Royal Baking Powder is the greatest of time and labor savers to the pastry cook. Besides, it economizes flour, butter and eggs, and, best of all, makes the food more digestible and healthful. The " Royal Baker and Pastry Cook " containing over Soo most practical and valuable cooking receipts free to every patron. Send postal card with your full address. ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO., ALL OVER THE STATE. A Summary of Current Events for th Past Seven Days. Hillsboro had an incendiary fire Friday night, causing a $0,000 loss. Rutledge Clayton, of Asheville, while druuk Monday night seriously stabbed Thomas Cole over the eye with a knife. Mrs. Martha Wiles, of Alleghany county, attempted suicide Monday by trying to cut her throat with a razor. It is thought that her mind is unbal anced. Andrew Carnegie, the philanthro pist, has offered to give $20,000 to establish a public library in Char lotte if the city will furnish a site and agree to support a library at a cost of $2,500 per year. Three weeks ago Will Wilkerson and Levi Shelton, while gambling in barroom at Marshall, in Madison county, shot and seriously wounded each other. Wilkerson died several days ago and Shelton died Tuesday. While trying to couple cars at Air Line Junction, two miles from Char lotte, early Monday morning, W. C. Hartness, a white brakeman, was killed. He fell between the cars and was injured so badly that he died an hour later. A. Wernwag, a meat dealer at Asheville, was fatally injured by a Jersey bull Sunday morning. A place eight inches long was gored in his leg to the bone. He also received internal injuries and died from the effects Monday night. John P. Melton, a farmer living near Hot Springs, Madison county, was killed by a log rolling on him last Friday. He was loading a log at the bottom of a steep hill when a log on the top of the hill began to roll towards him. Before he could get out of the way he was knocked down and his head mashed between the two logs so that he died in an hour. The State Supreme Court has de cided that a negro church has a right to expel a member for voting the Democratic ticket. The case went up from Vance county, the defend ants, fourteen in number, being mem bers of the Shiloh Missionary Bap tist church, colored, from which the plaintiff, Benjamin F. Person, had been expelled because he voted the Democratic ticket in August. The five year-old son of John Hat chett, in Iredell county, had seen his mother use creosote for her tooth and Monday, when no one was watching, he got hold of the bottle and poured some of the poison on the face and in the mouth of the little baby, saying that he wanted to give the baby med icine for the tootache. The child died from the effects of the creosote administered by the boy, who had no idea of the danger. At a school exhibition, in Yancey county, Friday night, John Robert- .i: i.i.:u-j js sn s,"ul uuu '"""y '"cu anu bis brother, Tom Robertson, was seriously wounded by two men, Chandler and Buck, from Madison county. The Robertson brothers were acting as deputies to keep order and had ordered the men away for being drunk and disorderly. They started away but turned back and shot the Robertsons and then got away. Hot-breads, biscuit, cake, rolls, muffins, crusts, puddings, and the various pastries requiring a leavening or raising agent. There are cheap baking pow ders, made from alum, but they are exceedingly harmful to health. Their astringent and cauterizing qualities add a dangerous element to food. 100 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK. Effect of War on Trade. German manufacturers of cotton goods are beginning to feel the result of the war in China and their deter mination to restrict production may affect American exports of cotton. "For years," states the New York World, "cotton has been our chief export, exceeding in value all classes of breadstuffs; for the pastj-ear high prices have made it more than ever the leading feature in our commerce. Last year the English spinners lim ited purchases, but were unable to prevent cotton from goingtolOcents and one or two pretty sharp 'corners' from being engineered. "As cotton was quoted in New York only a shade above 9 cents on Monday, the day when German wea vers were agreeing in Stuttgart to curtail production, reasons other than the price of raw material doubt less influenced them. One of these reasons a trade factor which will be felt more and more in the future is that one of the chief cotton markets ef the world, China, is devastated by war and bankrupted by the extor tionate demands of the powers, Ger many leading in both lines of activ- ity." The Churches Closed. The people of Waycross, Ga., went through a novel experience on last Sunday. Waycross is a city of about 7,000 inhabitants, and has seventeen churches, but every place of worship was closed. None of the Sunday schools were open, and no religious services of any kind were held ex cept by the families in thuir homes. This suppression of religious gather- 5 was due to an order of the Board of Health forbftiding the as semblage of persons in public places because of the existence of an epi demic of scarlet fever in the com munity. The people and even the pastors of Waycross agreed with the Board of Health that the step was a necessary one, and no one raised any objection. Scrofula Is a disease as old as antiquity, ami ai young as the newest born infant. It has infested tlie blood of humanity from ancient times down to the pres ent minute. It is hereditary or may be acquired. It appears in swollen glands, scrof ulous sores, hip disease, boils, pimples, eruptions, aud, as believed by high authorities, even in the forms of catarrh and rheumatism. It can be cured by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla faithfully and iH-rcUtcntly. We know this, because Hood's Sarsaparilla has done it. It will cure you if you give it a trial. You should begin to take it today. Hip Disease "I Buffered from hip disease; had 5 running sores; used crutches and each winter I was confined to my bed for weeks at a time. Hood's Sarsaparilla has accomplished a perfect cure saved my life. I have a good appetite and feel strong and well." Annie Robebt, 49 Fourth St.. Fall River, Mass. In Her Eyes-" My little girl had scrof ula and sores appeared in her eyes. A few bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla entirely cared her and she has never had scrofula since." Maa. Howabd Pope, Alpha. Oregon. N. B. If you decide to take Hood's Sarsa parilla do not be induced to buy any oLher. HOOD'S Sarsaparilla Is sold by all dmeeists. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell. Mass. REAL ESTATE BULLETIN! FOR SALE. 8 room residence, George street, A. M. I. $:j,ooo. G room residence, George street, A. M. I. 92.250. 5 room residence, Oak street, A. M. I. $1,500. 10 room residence, Walnut street, l.i00. 7 room residence, John street, A. M. I. $2,750. 9 room residence, Daisy street, $1,750. 5 room residence, Beach street, $1,150. 5 room residence, Park Avenue, $1,250. 5 room residence, cor. Chestnut and William streets. A. M. I. $1,200. Several choice building lots on William, Beach streets, and Park Avenue. Two or three small tracts of sub urban property, East of the city. Big investment. FOR RENT. Nice pleasant rooms in Arlington Hotel, single or en suite, to desirable parties. HUMPHREY-GIBSON CO., Goldsboro, N. C. Opposite Hotel Kennon. DR. SAH'L EDWARDS, Diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. PRACTICE NOT LIMITED. Office over Giddens' Jewelry Store THOSE .