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As compared with the oilier great com panies of the woild, it has-: The Largest Percentage of Assets to Liabilities, and The lowest Cost of Xevr Business. Th kquitabU transact a larger limine than any other Vwipany. The popularity of a company is measured by the volume of the assuiance written annually bv it. In 1887, tlie reached the I.O-.IOj. E quiuble-s New Business unprecedented amount of J. U. YOUNG. Re-idkxt Agent, Hcnde.sa, X. C. ir av swwiiriTT i tOGIIILL, . CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, HENDERSON, N. C. Estimates for the erection of buidlings. and orders for lumber solicited. I will f.t Lal LhLnll:J,,.l"1ile.r at 1 ""I prices, with freight added. feu. ii 1 c. Of Interest to Ladies. wl!l,iit a FREE SAMPLEof oor wond.rfnI poeihe forfruaixromplunt to any lady who wi.hea ti.tiufieacj befor-purchnMia:. Bond nan n for P"e. "AKtaRtMtor CO., Box 104, Buffalo. 5. Y DOMINION OF FASHION. TALMAGE TO THE WOMEN OF AMERICA. Dissimilarity in the Attire of the Sexes an Indication of Good Morals A Masculine Woman and a Womanly Man are Alike Repugnant. In this, the fourth sermon of the scries of sermons, I wish tiiose who hear to lxar in ruiud that, I take into conaidera lio.i not only those .whom I have before int.' on Sabbath days, but the wider audi ence ojiened through the printing press; nnd while uome things mar not he par ticularly appropriate . for one locality, th-y are appropriate for many other local ities. And here It will tell a secret that 1 have never before told in public. Alxut twenty years ago I began to pray that God would open to me the opportunity ol preaching through the sccuhu . news naiier pre-s. The religious paricrs iri' which my sermons had been published chiefly went to positively religious fam ilies. So I asked God for the wider field in which to proclaim the great truths of religion and good morals. In a strange way the answer came. And the syndi cates having charge of these matters inform me that every week there are now ltt,GOO,000 copies of my dis courses published in this country, and about four million in other lands, whether English sieaking countries or bv transla- linn in manv foreitrn tontrnes. 1 want people to understand that it is all in an- Mvr to prayer to God that this onportu- j niry lia-s come, and l pray lor grace to occupy the lield. It is not. therefore, presumptuous when I give wide scope to these discourses and address them "to the women of American, with important "hi. its to men." God thought womanly attire of enough imjiortance to have it discussed in the Bible. Paul the Apostle, by no means a sentimentalist, and accustomed to dwell on the great themes of God and the resurrection, writes alout the arrange ment of woman's hair and the style of her jewelry, and in my text Moses, his ear yet filled with the thunder of Mount Sinai, declares that womanly attire must lie in marked contrast with mas culine attire, and infraction of that law excites the indignation of high heaven. Just in proportion as the morals of a country or an age are de pressed is that law defied. Show me the fashion plates of any century, from the time of tlie deluge to this, and 1 will tell you the exact state of public morals, llloomerism in this country years ago Kt etued about to break down this divine law, but there was enough of gotxl in American society to le:U back the in decency. Yet ever and anon we have imported from France, or perhaps in ventI on this side of the sea, a style that proposes as far as possible to make women dress like men, and thousands of young women catch the mode, until some one goes a little too far in imitation of , masculinitv, and the whole custom bv the e;ood sense of American womanhood is obliterated. The costumes of the countries are dif ferent, and in the same country may change, but there is a divinely ordered dissimilarity which must be forever ob served. Any divergence from this is administrative of vice and runs against the keen thrust of the text, which sars: "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all 1 that do so art abomination unto the Lord thv God." Manv ve.ars ago a French authoress. signing herself George Sand, by her cor rupt but brilliant writings depraved homes and libraries innumerable, and was a literary grandmother of all the present French and American authors who have written things so much worse that they have made her putrefaction quite presentable. That French authoress put on masculine attire. She was con sistent. Her writings and her behavior Were perfectly accordant. My text, by implication, abhors mascu line women and womanlv men. What a sickening thing it is to see a man copv Inerease in Out- ing the speech, the walk, the manner of a woman. The trouble is that thev do nut imitate a sensible woman, but some female imbecile. And they simjKT. and they go with mincing step, and lisp, and scream at nothing, and take on a lan guishing ionk, and bang their hair, and lire the nauseation of honest folks of both tjexes. Oh, man, lie a man! YouUlong t quite a respectable sex. The starting ligure of the human race was a man. Do iiot try to crossover, and so liecome a h brid, neither one nor the other, but a failure, half way between. Alike repugnant are masculine women. 1 bey copy a man's stalking gait and go "own rue street with the stride of waikingl-eam. Thev wish thev COUld -moli ".e cijrarettes. and somp nf ihii it. incyt.dk U)isutous1v and try to sing uass. Thev An n.r !.-,. .-1. Hot lane-h thev vnir "1 hey cannot quite manage the broad pro fanity of the sex thev rival, but their conversation is often a half swear: and if they said --Oli, Lord" in earnest pravcr as often a they sav it in li-htnesa thev would be high up in sainthood. "Withal -here is an assumed rugositv of apparel, and they wear a man's hat onlv changed by Ujng ui two or three places smashed in and a i . ,,..,-.. ,.k : ... ' , ' -""-". muring id me ccn- pd wrvvk. and a man's "cat tucked in ! "l're and there aceordincr ... .,T,.,- able itheties. Oh. wmnan. stay a woman! alsu i vlong to a verV re adable sex. The second figure of" the i J?au?s a coud edition of a volume i-i the ! hrst edition improved and corrected. -Do i ""l over. If voudo vou will i i- a :aiiure as a woman and only a non a man. We already have tlcscnpt of enough mtelh-ctual and moral Umkrupts vc.nr uu-e worse tlie deficit. In my text, as by a parable or figure of apwh. it Is made evident tha Moses, the inspired writer, n, vehemently as .ur- eelves, reprehended the effeminate man and the masculine woman: "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment, for all tliat do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God." My test also sanctions fashion. In deed, it sets a fashion ! There is a great deal of senseless cant on the subject of fashion. A woman or man who does not regard it is unfit for good neighborhood. The only question is, v.iiat is right fash ion and" what i3 wrong fashion? Before I stop I want to show you that fashion has been one of the most potent of re formers and one of the vilest of usurpers. . Sometimes it has been an angel from heaven, and at others it has been the mother of abominations. As the world grows better there will be as much fash ion as now, but it will be a righteous fashion. In the future life white robes always have been and always will be in the fashion. There is a great outcry against this submission to social custom, as though any consultation of the tastes and feel- -ings of others were deplorable; but with out it the world Avould have neither law, order, civilization, nor common decency. There has been a canonization of blunt ness. There are men and women who boast that they can tell you all they know and hear about you, especially if it be -ompleasant. Some have mistaken rough behavior for frankness, when the two qualities do not belong to the same family. You have no right with your eccentricities to crash in upon the sen sitiveness of others. There is no virtue in walking with hoofs over fine carpets, The most jagged rock is covered witl ith blossoming moss. The storm that comes jarring down in thunder strews rainbow colors upon the sky and silvery drops on orchard and meadow. There are men who pride themselves on their capacity to "stick" others. They say: "I have brought him down; didn't I make him squirm!' Others pride themselves on their outlandish apparel. They boast of leing out of the fashion. They wear a queer hat. They ride in an odd "carriage. By dint of perpetual ap plication they would persuade the world that they are perfectly indifferent to public opinion. They arc more proud of being '-out of fashion" than others are of lieing in. They are utterly and uni versally disagreeable. Their rough cor ners have never been worn off. They prefer a hedgehog to a lamb. j The accomplishments of life are in no : wise productive of effeminacy or ener vation. Good manners and a respect for the tastes of others are indispensable. The Good Book speaks favorably of those who are a "peculiar" people; but that does not sanction the behavior of queer people. There 13 no excuse, under any circumstances, for not being and acting the lady or gentleman. Rudeness is sin. We have no words too ardent to express our admiration for the refinements of society. There i3 no law, moral or di vine, to forbid elegance of demeanor, or i ornaments of gold, or gems for the jer son, artistic display in the dwelling, gracefulness of gait and bearing, polite salutation or honestcompliments; and he who is shocked or offended by these had lettor, like the old Scythians, wear tiger skins and take- one wild leap back into midnight barbarism. As Christianity advances there will be better apparel, higher styles of architecture, more ex quisite adornments, sweeter music, grander pictures, more correct lieliavior and more thorough ladies and gentle men. But there is another story to be told. Wrong fashion is to be charged with many of the worst evils of society, and its path has often been strewn with the bodies of the slain. It has often set up a false standard by which people are to be judged. Our common sense, as well as all the divine intimations on the subject, teach us that people ought to be esteemed according to their individual and moral attainments. The man who has the most nobility of soul should be first, and he who has the least of such qualities should stand last. No crest, or shield, or , escutcheon can indicate one's moral iecr I age. Titles of Duke, Lord, Esquire, Earl, Viscount or Patrician ought not ' to raise one into the first rank. Some of the meanest men . I have ever known had at the end of their name I D. D., LL.D. and F. R. S. Truth, honor, ! charity, heroism, self sacrifice should win , highest favor, but inordinate fashion ' says: "Count not a woman's virtues; count her adorn ments.' "Look not at ! the contour of tho head, but see the way she combs her hair." "Ask not what ! noble deeds have- been accomplished by I that man's hand; but is it white and i soft?"' Ask not what good sense i? in j her conversation, but "In what was she I dressed?" Ask not whether there was j hospitality and cheerfulness in the house, but "In what style do they live?" As a consequence, some of the tnost ignorant and vicious men are at the top. and some of the most virtuous and intel ligent at the bottom. During the la.-t war we suddenly saw men hurled up into the highest social positions. Had they suddenly reformed from evil naoiis, or 1 1 1 . irraduated in science, or achieved some r- . good work for society? No, they sinijdy J assures his host tlut he lias enjoyed him had obtained" a government contract. . j geLf. This accounts for the utter chagrin i Thus social life has been contorted and Tvi.iVl, f-l at the treatment thev i deformed, until, in some mountain cabin, receive when iney lose uieir proper. Hold up your head amid financial disas ter like a Christian! Fifty thousand sub tracted from a good man leaves how much? Honor, truth, faith in God, tri umphant hope, and a kingdom, of inef fable glory, over which he is to reigu for ever and ever. If the owner of millions should lose ? penny out of his pocket would he sit down on a curbstone and cry? And shall a man jxessed of everlasting fortunes wear himself out with grief lecause he has lost worldly treasures? You have only lost that in .which hundreds of wretched mi-iers surpass you. and you have saved that which the Civsars and the Pharaolis and the Alexanders could never afford. And vet -cioty thinks differently and . r 1 1 . . you see the most intimate fnendsnip. broken up as the consequence of linan cial embarrassments.. . You say to sooit one: "How is your friend?" Tho man looks bewildered .and say: "I do not know." Y'ou reply: "Why, you used to be intimate." ''Well," aays the man, "our friendship Las been dropped. The man has failed." Proclamation has gone forth: "Vel vets must go up and plain apparel must come down," and the question is: '"How does the coat' fit?" not ."Who wears it?" The power that bears the tides of excired population up and down our, streets, anil rocks the world of commerce, and thrills all nation, Trans-Atlantic and Cis-Atlantic, is clothes. It decides the Last offices of resect; and how long the dress shall be totally black; and when it may subside into spots cf grief on silk, calico or gingham. Men die in good circum stances, but by reason of extravagant funeral expenses are well nigh insolvent before they are buried. Many men would not die at all if they had to wait until they could afford it. Wrong fasluon is productive of a most ruinous strife. The expenditure of many households is adjusted by what their neighbors have, not by what they them selves can afford to have, and tho great anxiety is as to who shall have the finest house and the most costly equipage. The weapons used in the warfare of social life are not Minie rifles, and Dahlgren guns, and Hotchkiss shells, but chairs, and mirrors, and vases, and Gobelins, and Axminsters. Many house-hold establishments are like racing steam boats propelled at the utmost strain and risk, and just coming to a terrific explosion. "Who cares," say they, "if we only come out ahead?" There is no one cause today of more financial embarrassment and of more dis honesties than this determination at all hazards to live as well as or better thjin other people. There are persons who will risk their eternity upon one pier mirror or w ho will dash out the splen dors of heaven to get another trinket. "My house is too small." , "But," says some one, "you cannot pay for a larger." Never mind that, my friends have a better residence and so will I." "A dress of that style and material I must have. I cannot afford it by a great deal ; but who cares for that? My neighbor had ono from that pattern, and 'I must have one." There are scores of men in the dungeons of the penitentiary who risked honor, business everything in the effort to shine like others. Though the heavens fall they must le "in the fashion." The most famous frauds of the day have resulted from this feeling. It keeps hundreds of men struggling for their I commercial existence. Ihe trouble is that some are caught and incarcerated if their larceny b? small. If it le great they escape and build their castles on tho Rhine. Men get into jail not because they steal but because they did not steal enough. Again: Wrong fashion makes people unnatural and untrue. It is a factory from which has come forth more hollow pretenses and unmeaning flatteries and hypocrisies than the Lowell mills ever turned out shawls and garments. Fashion is the greatest of all liars. It has made society insincere. You know not what to believe. When people ask you to come you do not know whether or not they want you to come. When they send their regards you do not know whether it is nn egression 01 tneir man or r.n c ternal civility. We have learned to take almost everything at a discount. Word is sent "not at home" when they are only too lazy to dress themselves. They say "The furnaco has just gone out." when in truth they have had no fire in it all winter. They apologize for the unusual barrenness of "their table, when they never live any better. They decry their most luxurious entertainments to win a shower of approval. They apolo gize for their appearance, as though it were unusual, when always at home they look just so. They would raa'ke you believe that some nice sketch on the wall was the work of a master painter. "It was an heirloom and once hung on the walls of a castle, and a duke gave it to their grandfather." People who will not lie al)out anything else will lie alxmt a picture. On a small income we must make the world believe that we are affluent, and our life Wcomes a cheat, a counterfeit and a sham. Few people are really natural and un affected. When I say this I do not mean to slur cultured manners. It is right that we should have more admiration for tho sculptured marble than for tho un hewn block of the quarry. From many circles in life fashion has driven out vivacity and enthusiasm. A frozen dig nity instead floats about the room .and iceberg grind against iceberg.. You must not laugh outright; it is vulgar. You must smile. You must not dash rapidly across the room, you must glide. There "is a round of bows, and grins, and flatteries, and olis and aha. and sim perings. and namby pambyisin a world of which is not worth ono good, round, honest neal of laughter. From . ... 1 J 1 . . . 1 ... . . r . "sucli a hollow rounu tae iori.ur-u jjuw" retires at tho ckwe of the evening, and where rusties gather to the quilting or more good lhe apple paring, there is cheer than in all the frescoed ice houses of the metropolis. We want in all the higher circles of society more warmth of heart and- naturalness of behavior, and not so many refrigerators. Again: Wrong fashion is incompatible with happiness. Tliobe who depend for their comfort upon the admiration of otliera are subjectto frequent disappoint ment. Somebody will criticise tlieir ap pearance, or surpass them in brilliancy, or will receive more attention. Oh. tbe jealousy and detraction and heartburn ings of those wlio move in this bewildered maze! Poor butterflies I Bright wings do not always bring happiness. "Slie that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth." The revelations cf hih life that come to the challenge and the fight are only the occasional crop pings out of disquietudes that are, un derneath, like tle stars of heaven for multitude, but lie tlie demons of tlie pit for hate. Tlie misery that will to-night in the cellar cuddle up in tlie straw Ls not so utter as the princely disquietudo which stalks through splendid drawing rooms, brooding over the slights and of fenses of luxurious life. The bitterness of life seems not so unfitting when drunk out of a jiewter mug, as when it pours from tho chased lips of a golden chalice. In the sharp crack of the voluptuary's pistol, putting an end to his earthly misery, I hear the confirmation that in a hollow, fastidious life tliero ia no peace. Again: Devotion to wrong fashion is productive of physical disease, "nieuta? Imbecility and spiritual withering. Ap parel insufficient to keep out the cold and the rain, or so fitted upon the person that the functions of life are re strained; late hours filled with excite ment and feasting; free drafts of wine that make one not beastly intoxi cated, but only fashionably drunk; and luxurious indolence are tho instruments by which this unreal life pushes its dis ciples into valetudinarianism and the grave. Along the walks of prosperous life death goes a-mowing and such harvests as are reaped! Materia Medica has been exhausted to find curatives for these physiological devastations. Drop sies, cancers, consumptions, gout, and almost every infirmity in all the realm of pathology have been the penalties paid. To counteract tho damage phar macy has gone forth with medicament, panacea, elixir, embrocation, salve and cataplasm. Tonight with swollen feet upon cush ioned ottoman, and groaning with aches innumerable, will be the votary of lux urious living, not half so happy as his groom or coal heaver. Wrong fashion is the world's undertaker, and drives thousands of hearses to Greenwood and Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn. But, worse than that, this folly is an intellectual depletion. This endless study of proprieties and etiquette, patterns and styles, is bedwarfing to the intellect. I never knew a woman or a man of ex treme fashion that knew much. IIow belittling the study of the cut of a coat, or the tie of a cravat, or the wrinkle in a sleeve, or tho color of a ribbon! How they are worried if something gets un tied, or hangs awry, or is not nicely adjusted! With a mind capable of measuring the height and depth of great subjects: able to unravel- mysteries, to walk through the universe, to hoar up into the infinity of God's attributes hovering perpetually over a new style of cloak ! I have known men reckless as to their character and regardless of interests momentous and eternal, exasperated by the shape of a vest button. What is the matter with that woman wrought up into tho agony of despair? Oh, her mull is out of fashion ! Worse than all this folly ia not satis fied until it has extirpated every moral sentiment and blasted tlie soul. A ward robe is the rock upon which many a soul has been riven. The excitement of a luxurious life lias been the vortex that has swallowed up more souls than tho Maelstrom of Norway ever destroyed ships. What room for elevating themes in a heart filled with the trivial and ua real ? Who can wonder that in this haste for sun gilded baubles and winged thistle ','.0'.vn, men and wouicu should tumble into ruin? Tho travelers to destruction are not all clothed in rags. On that road chariot jostles against cliariot; and be lli ad steeds in harness golden plated arvl glittering, they go down, coach and four, herald and postilion, racketing on tho hot pavement of hell. Clear the tracks! Bazaars hang out their colors over the road; and trees of tropical fruitfulncss overbranch the wav. No sound of woe disturbs the air, but all is light, and song. and wine, and gorgeousness. Tho world comes out to greet the dazzling pro cession with: "HurrabJ hurrah!" But suddenly there is a halt and an oatcry of dismay, and an -overthrow worse than the Red sea tumbling upon the Egyptians. Shadow of gravestones upon finest silk! Wormwood squeezed into irupearled gob lets! Death with one cold breath wither ing the leaves and freezing the fountains. In tho wild tumult of tlie Last Day the mountains falling, the heavens flying.-tho thrones Uprising, the universe assembling; amid the boom of the last great thunder peal, and under the crackling of a burning world what will become of the disciple of unholy fashion? But watch the career of one thoroughly artificial. Through inheritance, or per hans his own skill having obtained enough for purposes of display, he feels himself thoroughly established. He jaJoof from the common herd, and looks out of his window uion the poor man aud says 'Put that dirty wretch off my stepj im mediately!" On Sabbath .day he finds the church, but mourns the fact tliat he mubt worship wi'A so many of the inele gant, and says: -They are perfectly , awful!" '-That man that you put in mv iew Iiad a coat on his back that did not cost $3." He strut? through life unsympathetic with trouble and says: -I cannot be bothersd." Is delighted with some doubtful story of Parisian life, but thinks that there are eomo very indecent things in the Bible. Walks arm in arm with the successful man of the world, but docs not know his own brother. Love? ' to be praised for his splendid liouse. ami when lold that he looks younger than ten i years ago, says: -'Well, really; do you j think so?" i But the brief strut of his life is about ! over. Up stair, lie dies. No angel wings hovering about him. No Gosptl promises kindling up the darkness: but 2S35 Tlie pulses stop. The minister comes in to read of tho resurrection, that day when "the dead shall come up both lie tliat died on the noor ana ne mat ex pired under princely upholstery. He U carried out to buriat Only A lew mourners, but a great array of carriages. Not one common man at the funeral. No befriended orphan to weep a tear on his grave. No child of want pressing through the ranks of the weeping, saying: "He is tho last friend I have, and I most see him." What now? He'waa a great man. Shall not chariots of salvation come down to the other side of the Jordan and escort him up to the palace 2 Shall not tle angels exclaim: "Turn out ! A prince is coming." Will the bells chime? Will there be harpers witli their liarps and truiniicters with their trumpets? No! No! No! There will bo a shud der, as though a calamity had luijipened. Standing on heaven's battlement, a watchman will see something shoot ast with fiery downfall and sliriek: "Wan dering star for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever!" But sadder yet is tho closing of a wo man's life that lias been worshipful of worldliness, all the wealth of a lifetime's opportunity wasted. What a tragedy! A woman on her dying pillow, thinking of wliat she might havw done for God and . humanity, and yet having done nothing! Compare her demise with that of a Harriet Newell going down to peace fully die in the Isle of France, reviewing her lifetime sacrifices for the redemption of India; or the last hours k Elizabeth Hervey, having ex changed her bright New England home for a life at Bombay amid stolid heathenism, that she might illumine it, saying in Iku last moments: "If tin-? is the dark valley, it lias not a dark spot in it; all is light, light! or the exit of Mrs. Lennox, falling under sudden disease at Smyrna, breathing oui her soul with the last words: "Oh, how happy 1" or the departure of Mrs. Sarah D. Comstock, spending her life for tho salvation of Burinah, giving up her children that they might come liome to America to be educated, and saying as she kissed them good-by, never to see them again: "Oh, Jesus, I do this for Theel" or the going of ten thou sand good women, who in less resounding spheres have lived not for themselves, but fof God and tho allevia tion of human suffering. That was a brilliant scene when, in 149.1, in the cam paign for the capture of Ronda, Queen Elizabeth of Castile, on horseback, side by side with King Ferdinand, rode out to review the troops. As she in Wight armor rode along the lines of the Spanish host, and waved her jeweled hand to the warriors, and ever and anon uttered words of cheer to the worn veterans who, far away from their homes, were risking their lives, for the kingdom, it was a spectacle that illumines his tory. But more glorious will be tho scene when that consecrated Christian woman crowned in heaven shall review the souls that on earth she clothed, and fed, and medieined, and evange lized, and then introduced into the ranks celestial. As on the white horse of vic tory, side by side with the king, this queen unto God forever shall ride past the lines of those in whose salvation she bore a part, the scene will surpass any thing ever witnessed on earth in the life of Joan of Arc, or Penelope, or Semira inis, or Aspasia, or Mariamne, or Mar garet of Anjou. Ride on, Victor! HUW ISTHJS? Hon. Daniel L. Russell Declines the Nomination for Supreme Court Judge on the Republican State Ticket He Suggests a CoaKtian With the Prohibitionists. fWilmhiton Star.l Hon. D. L. Russell, in conversation vestcrdav w.th a reoresentative of the Star, said that he had no hesitation in saving that he will decline to accept the nomination for Associate Justice i I the suprcrnc Court on the Repub lican State ticket ; and, furthermore, that in his letter of declination he will advise the withdrawal of the entire State ticket, and that a coalition be formed with the Prohibitionists. He gave it as his opinion, that it would be futile for the Republican party to make a campaign in this State, and that the approaching elec tion will be a walk-over for the Dem ocrats. In the first place," he said, " they (the Republicans) cannot win"; and in the second, if they could, they would be counted out." Hr thinks that if a coalition is formed with the Prohibitionists it will break the color jine and jn thjs wa perhaps, lead to R blican success hereaflcr. ..Rat," f he added. if a Chinese eoncr cam paign is inaugurated, with joint dis-! cessions between Fowle and Dockcry, it will result, probably, in a majority of 40,000 for the Democratic ticket." Judge Russell was one of the dele gates Irom this State to the Chicaga Convention, was a member of the Committee on Credentials of that body and, it will be remembered, had an animated discussion with John S. Wise of Virginia, on the status of the delegation from that State. He is an astute and sagacious politician and one of the most in3uential members of the Republican party in this State, and there' can 'be no question that tbe stand he has taken in this matter will ; have great weight with his party. , German Professor In the old COUD- ofTthe rTa 1TP J If I rest I rust." Ycung Mr. J icker ; Well we have nearly the same thing here, "If I trust I bust," is OUT VST- Read and Leaf. advertise in lUc G.oij) Absolutely Pure This powder never v arias- A mirw of purity, fttrength and wlwtoancneaeaa More economical than ihe ordinary kinds, and cannot be rold to competition with tbe multitude of low tut, sber weight alum or phosphate powdere. Sold oniy tin cans. KoyaI. BiKlKO Pow ikr Co., 106 Wall St. N. Y , aug. 18, le. PROFESSIONAL CAKDS g- T. W ATKINS, Attorney and Counsellor art Lew HENDERSON, N. C Court : Vance. Granville and Warrtm. and the Federal Court at Halelgh. uince: juaio utreei. . juija i JAS. NOKF1.EET, ATTORNEY JWT LAW. HENDERSON, N. C. 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