Our Aim icill bet the People's RigM Maintain,
Unaiced by Power, and Unbribed by Gain" .
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WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 25. 1888.
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NO. 6
BLESSED UNION.
for
rilT PRECIOUS MARRIAGE IX
TJ ICU THERE IS XO DIVORCE.
the Love or Our BlessedJSavlour
1(pth Forever un
ptrangement.
When Christ takes a soul into His love
He puts upon it a marriage ring. Now
vtis not a whim of ours: "And I will
tettoth thee unto Me forever; yea, I will
betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and
: judgment, and in loving kindness, and
in mercies." At the wedding altar the
bridegroom puts a ring upon the hand of
the bride, signifying love and faithfulness.
Trouble may come upon the household,
and the carpets may go, everything else
njargo-the last thing that goes is the
wedding ring, for it is considered sacred.
In the burial hour it is withdrawn from
hand and kept m a casket, and sometimes
the box is opened on an anniversary "day,
md as vou look at that ring you see under
its arch a long procession of precious mem
ories. Within the golden -circle of that
rinT there is room for a thousand sweet re
collections to revolve, and you think of the
.rreat contrast between the hour when, at
the close of the "Wedding March," under
the flashing lights and amid the aroma of
orange blossoms, and set that ring on the
round finger of the plump hand, and that
other hour when, at the close of the ex
haustive watching, when you knew that
the soul had fled, you took from the hand,
which gave back no responsive clasp, from
that emaciated finger, the ring that she
had worn so long and worn so well. On
some anniversary day you take up that
ring, and you repolish it until all the old
lustre comes back, and you can see in it
the flush of eyes that long ago ceased to
weep. Oh, it is not an unmeaning thing
when we tell you that when Christ receives
a soul into his keeping he puts on it a mar
riage ring. He endows you from that-rao-
ment with all his wealth. You are . one
Christ and the soul one in sympathy, one
in affection and one in hope.
There is no power in earth or hell to ef
fect a divorcement after Christ and the
soul are united. Other kings have turned
out their companions when they got weary
of them, and sent them adrift from the pal
ace gate. Ahasuerue banished Vashti;
Napoleon forsook Josephine; but Christ is
the husband that is true-forever. Having
loved you once, He loves you to the end.
Did they not try to divorce Margarette,
the Scotch girl, from Jesus? They said:
"You must give up your religion ". She
said: "I can't give up my religion." And
so they took her down to the beach of the
and they drove in a stake at the lower
watermark, and they fastened her to it,
expecting as the tide came up her faith
would fail. The tide began to rise, and
tame up higher, and to the girdle, and to
the hp, and in the last moment, just as the
ave was washing her soul into glory, she
"tea the praises of Jesus.
V. no, you cannot separate a soul from
It is an everlasting marriage
e,and storm, and darkness cannot do
Js it too much exultation for a man
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Cr.v Out to-dav: "I am nersnridpH tha
ne tW u. , . r
"tlgnt. nor Hpnth nr.i- nrmrinqli
t, . or Powers, nor things present, nor
shall an ther creature
of God
Lord?"
mouthed children who would like to befoul
your little ones. It will not do to keep
our boys and girls in the house to make
hem house plants ; they must have fresh
air and recreation. God save vour chil-
m
dren frqm the scathing, blasting, damning
influence of the streets! We know of no
SeD.lrnto . t
v , "1C irom trie love
hlch is ! -L . , .
16 m Christ Tesus. mv-
O'beto God
are marri a , . . . .
a rrj "ey are Douna Dy a chain
r'n Hnk, and that one link, the golden
with
0neofGod'
8 everlasting love.
TE UREATII OF SOXC-
An4lOW Ils r
inrlchts Ex Is
-A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EUPIIONI.
OUSEY ELUCIDATED.
counteracting influence but the power of
christian culture and example.. Hold before
your. little ones the pure life of Jesus; let
that name be the word that shall exercise
evil from their hearts. Give to your in
struction al the fascination of music, morn
ing, noon and night; let it be Jesus, the
cradle song. '
Tuis is important if your children grow
up; but perhaps they may not. Their
pathway may be short. Jesus may be
wanting that child. Then there will be a
soundless step in the dwelling, and the
youthful pulse will begin to flutter and
the Jittle iianes will be lifted for help. You
cannot help. And a erreat aeronv will
pinch at your heart, and the cradle will be
empty, and your soul will be empty. No
little feet standing on the stairs. No toy
scattered on the carpet. No strange and
wondering questions. No upturned face,
with laughing blue eyes, come for a kiss,
but only a grave, and a wreath of white
blossoms on the top of it. The Heavenly
Shepherd will take that lamb safely any
how, whether you have been faithful or
unfaithful, but would it not have been
pleasanter if you could have heard from
those lips the praises of Christ? We never
read anything more beautiful than this
about a child's departure: uShe folded her
hand, kissed her mother good-bye, sang
her hymn, turned her face to the wall,
said her little prayer, and then died."
Songs in the night! Songs in the night!
For the sick, who have no one to turn the
hot pillow, no one to put the taper on the
stand, no one to put ice on the temple, or
pour out the soothing anodyne, or utter
one cheerful word yet, songs in the night!
For the poor, who freeze in the winter's
cold and swelter in the summer's heat, and
munch the' hard crust that bleed the sore
gums, and shiver under blankets that can
not any longer be patched, and tremble be
cause rent day is come and they may be
set out on the sidewalk.
Christ in the everlasting song. The
very best singers sometimes get tired ; the
strongest throats sometime get weary, and
many who sang very sweetly do not sing
now, but we hope by the grace of God we
will, after a while, go up and sing the prai
ses of Christ where we will never be wea
ry. You know that there are some songs
that are especially appropriate for the
home circle. They stir the soul, they
start the tears, they turn the heart in on
itself and keep sounding after the tune has
stopped, like some cathedral bell which,
long after the tap of the brazen tongue has
ceased, keeps throbbing on the air. Well,
it will be a home song in heaven, all the
sweeter because those who sang with us in
the domestic circle on earth shall join that
great haimony above where all is peace
and all is love. ' v
Numerous Newsy Notes ana Many
Merry Morsels Paragraphlcally
Packed and Pithily Pointed.
The True "Wife.
It is
tence.
not so much what
teh vour Zi. Vhat JU formay
them." " "wuurei as what you sing to
evevhethm" has winSs and can fly
Tears 9f, ne Snored and
M!. w Vou are
talk
Peat
son:
dead.
worn out his
fifty;
and "Old Mor-
Oftime we have seen a tall ship glide by
against the tide as if drawn by some ivisi
ble tow line with a hundred strong arms
pulling it. Her sails unfilled, her stream
ers drooping, she had neither side wheel or
stern wheel; still she moved on stately in
sorene triumph with her own life. But we
knew that on the other side of the ship,
hidden beneath the great bulk that swam
so majestically, there was a little toilsome
steaming, with a heart of fire and arms of
iron, that was tugging it bravely on, and
we knew that if the little steam tug un
twined her arms and left the ship, it would
wallow and roll about, and drift hither and
thither, and go off with the fluent tide, no
man knows whither. And so we have
known more than one genius, high-decked,
full-freighted, idle-sailed, gay-pennoned
but that for the bare, toiling arms and
brave, warmbeating- heart of the faithful
liitle wife, that nestles close to him, so that
no wind or wave could part them, he
would have gone down with the stream
and have been heard of no more.
Phlcol in n . . f 1 .'
Vfti,, "ion ll4 (.ULUllti
mnu-; tne tombstone, your
Sttndchildren m . . ,
onew afternoon vou sing to your
Oh 1 atheredat your knee.
sacred? nl-V knew Ihe power of
littV ' how much of tener would
Lw. ue be
Fathered an n
i . l ait wui
Jesu, , :uia chime
e Wan
caceuDon ... . ume counteracting influ-
- moren. The v
with the songs of
Jour
ePaefP! mt the street he tep
ptation. There are foul-
try. moment
Sound Sense.
Carlyle once asked as Edenburg student,
tnc tho Ktnrv in the Milwaukee Sen-
nil" j m T"l,
tinel, what he was studying for. lhe
youth replied that he had not quite made
.,n his mind. There was a sudden light-
A cold dealer The ice man.
Beats the awl The machinery.
A stable character The groom.
. A host in himself The landlord.
A scratch race Barn yard fowls.
Always ready to go bale Cotton bro
kers. A promising band The engat ement
ring.
A gang of desperadoes is a preying
band.
-
The toney girlThe soprano of the
choir.
The two European B's Bismarck and
Boulanger.
Dispensers of charity are permitted to
carry alms. ' "
There will be no eclipse of the honey
moon this year.
France is just now suffering from a
violent Boulanger craze.
Lord Salisbury thinks the European
rulers are united for peace.
Instead of electric wires their victims
seem to be going under ground.
The Envelop Trust does not appear to
bear the stamp of public approval.
In a Michigan town there is a girl
whose height is six feet nine inches.
A Michigan girl has found 2,125 four
leaved clovers, and is not married yet.
. It was the lady you thought was go
ing to swoon who had a faint suspicion.
Mr. Conkling is' now pronounced out
danger and is on a fair road to recoverv
When she mikes upV'fier mind to get mar
ried you may wager she stoops to conquer.
The Tangier , tangle ' was caused by
Americans leasing mosque improved es
tate. The latest figures show that there are
16,447,990 Sunday School - scholars in the
world.
Emperor Frederick is using his privy
purse to relieve the sufferers by the flood
at Posen.
--The steamer Enterprise is back at
Tangier, and may escape capture by be
having itself.
A Paris paper says: "The people of St.
Louis, D. T., are dving of a disease called
the blizzards." ' '
.1
Democrats in Congress should stand
by their Tariff bill. The Democrats at
home are all right.
Austin, Texas, wants the President to
visit it on the occasion of the international
and interstate drill.
The first syllable of Bismarck's auto
graph is always illegible, but he can plain
ly make his marck.
Senator Ingalls has been censured by
Brooklyn Post No. 443. It calls upon him
to retract his slanders.
One of the teachers recently asked a
pupil what lb stood for. "Elbows, I guess,"
was the unexpected reply.
"I'm stuck on that girl," said the court
plaster. " v ell, she breaks me all up, too,"
remarked the peanut candy.
Sam Jones k a level headed politician.
He says Cleveland is certian to be nomina
ted, and that Ingalls is an ass
A cotemporary says: "This is the age
of brass." Over in the Canadian colony
they say : "This is age of steal
A labor writer asks: "What luxury
can the common ditch-digger claim as his
own?" Dear man, he can take pick
The Transcript speaks of the turtle as
"takinsr a leadincr part at dinners." We
thought he generally appeared as a supe
There were 600 converts m a great re
vival held recently in Charleston, S. C ,
conducted by Rev. Mr. Eatman, an evan
gelist. Boston's leading citizen, John Sulli
van, the big bruiser is mad. He challen
ges the world to fight him at $5,000 to
ning
flash of the old Scotchman's eye, a j $10,000 a side. Boston must turn out td
sudden pullirg down of the shaggy eje-
brows, and the stern lace grew T-
hs said: "The man without a purpose is
like a ship without a rudder; a waif, a
fi.:., r,r man. Have a purpose in
. - 1 t J .A rail - m "T a . 1
life if it is onlv to km ana aiviae au bc ree Speecn. uui mat 10 nac uec spcccn.
oxen well, but'have a purpose; and having , Bufc that privilege seems to be reserved for
it. throw such strength- of mind and mus-
cle Into your works as God has given you.' Englishmen.
receive him.
P. O'Brien, M. P., gets three months
in jail for his speech on the Sth of Janua
ry last. And England pretends io have
Minister: "Well, Bobby, what do you
want to be when you grow up?" Bobby
(suffering from parental discipline): "An
orphan."
"I can't go to jail," sain a funny va
grant, "I have no time." "The court pro
vides that," said the Judge. "I give you
ten days." .
So far this section of Congress about
9,000 bills have been introduced in the
House. Of the bills passed 1 27 were pub
lic and 222 private.
Lord Randolph Churchill, is a speech
at Birmingham, is very enthusiastic in his
praise of the Tory party ,and thinks they
are solid and lasting.
. "Look out!" he exclaimed, suddenly,
there's ice under that snow." "Yes," said
she, as he restored her tenderly to the per
pendicular, "I tumbled to it."
Stranger (to workman driving railway
spikes): Are you working for the con
tractoaof this road? Pat: No sor; Oi'm
working fer the extender av it.
, The Democrats had big victories on
Tuesday at elections held in Albany and
Cohoes, N . Y., and in Jersey City, N. J.
They litterally swept the field.
It is in the highest degree improper
and unjust to ridicule a man on account of
his small stature. Because he happens to
be little it isn't right to belittle him.
Wealth is more evenly divided in Eng
land than in the United States, although it
is a Monarchy and our land is a Republic.
The Chancellor's budget shows this.
Mayonnaise dressing, made with the
yolks of two raw eggs, stirred wtth the
best olive oil, added drop by drop, is the
foundation of the best salad dressirTg.
There is fear expressed in London of
an invasion if Boulanger should become
Dictator of France. Bismarck thinks a
Dictatorship quite probable in Francel
During the first three months of this
year 5,000 more immigrants arrived at
New York than in the same time last yean
There were 28,945 arrivals in March.
The hen, fool though she is considered,
possesses in a marked degree the faculty of
making much out of little. Feed her corn
by the pint and she eats it by the peck.
The Secretary of the State of South
Carolina, Z. W. Leitmer, aged 59, died
suddenly of disease of the heart at Colum
bia, while he was preparing for church.
Senator Gray, Minister Phelps, Secre
tary Bayard, Speaker Carlisle, Judge Cool
ey and Judge Jackson are all named tor
the Chief Justiceship in the public prints.
The Democrats have gained a big vic
tory in Albany, N. Y., and in the city of
Cohoes In 18S4 Swinburne, Rep., car
ried Albany by 2,500 majority for Con
gress. -
A year ago Saratoga, Kan., was' a
flourishing town of 2,500 inhabitants. Now
it has but 150 and is fast becoming smaller.
A boom(erang) in real estate caused the
collapse.
The original elements are earth, air,
fire and water. Fire is the most destructive
and water is the most powerful. Fire
water, therefore, forms a combination that
is a teaser.
Boulanger is immensely popular, as
will be seen by his vote in the Department
of Nord held on 15th inst.: Gen. Boulan
ger received 172,272 votes, Foucart 75,SSi,
and Moreau 9,643.
Bishop Beckwith, a native, we think,
of Raleigh, N. C, but now of Georgia, has
been spending some months in travel m
travel in the Holy Land. He has returned
much improved in health. '
Rise early, exercise freely in the open
air, and do not sleep in the daytime Eat
light suppers, and retire at a regular hour.
Sponge the body with tepid water, and rnb
brisklv with a course towel.
Mr. Matthew Arnold, the noted poet,
scholar critic and theologian, whose article
on "Civilization of the United States," at
tracted, such marked attention, died sud
denly in Lsverpool, from heart disease.
The life of a young man in Reading,
Pa., has been seriously endangered by lead
poisoning, contracted by kissing a girl's
rouge-painted cheeks. Had he kissed her
lips he might have lost his life in an explo
sion of natural gas.
Editors as a rule are kind hearted and
liberal. An exchange tells of a subscriber
to a paper who died and left fourteen years
subscription unpaid. The editor appeared
at. the grave when the lid was being
screwed down for the last time and put In
a linen duster, a palm leaf fan and a re
ceipt for making ice.
STATE NEWS.'
FROM THE DEEP BLUE SEA TO Till"
SR,IND OLD MOUNTAINS.
An Hour Pleasantly Spent With Onr
Dellchtrnl Exchanses.
Plymouth jail has been burned.
The Statcsville Mail comes out for pro
hibition. There are 37 bonded goverment distiller
ies in Iredell county.
Eleven prisoners escaped from Nash
County jail last week.
There are now fifteen cotton factories in
construction in the State. 1
The Grand Lodge of Odd, Fellows will
meet in Greensboro on the Sth of May.
About four miles have been graded on
the railroad from Stokesdale to Madison.
Gov. Scales is expected to be present at
the railroad celebration at Mt. Airy, May
ist
A panther is reported to have been seen
near Cascade, Stokes county, a few days
ago.
The business men of Thomasville are
agitating the question of starting a cotton
factory.
The post office at High Point has just
been promoted to third-class, and thus be
comes a salaried office.
It is rumored in militery circles that a
mor ement is on foot to organize a cavalry
company in Reidsville.
Rev. W. S. Creesy, of Wilmington,
commenced a series of meetings In her
church on last Sunday .night
It is claimed that North Carolina is far
ahead of Virginia in the matter of advance
ment in agricultural interests. ' -
Washington county truckers complain
that seed potatoes rotted in the ground,
and the crops will be a failure.
W. ' W.' Nichols caught ixb shad in
Neuse river, in two days last week. This
is the largest catch we have heard of. "
The High Point Entergrise says that
George T. Leach has arrived with his fami
ly from New York and is working a great
transformation in the Bellevue Hotel.
The Smithfield Hearald says, Mr. E. W.
Pou, Jr.., will deliver the address at the an
niuersary of Olive Bianch Lodge, No. 37,
I. O. O. FM of Smithfield, on the 7th of
May next
Colonel J. M. Leach, Jr., is to be mar
ried in July, savs the Thomasville Gazette,
to one of the most accomplished daughters
of Virginia, Miss Lucy Green, of Culpeper
county.
In Halifax, on the 14th instant, passed
away quietly and peacefully one of North
Carolina's oldest and most worthy sonc,
Dr. Edwin T. Clark, is the ninety-first year
of his age.
The Governor has authorized an ex
change of courts between JudgesMontgom
ery and Connor, by which the former is to
hold the April term of Cabarrus Vnd the
May term of Rowan, and the latter the
spring terms Dare Tyrrel and Hyde.
There will be more truck raised this year
in the eastern part of the State than there
has been for many years past Peas and
vegetables are being nearly ready for ship
ment, and truck farmers are making a
good thing of their business this year.
A steel chisel that was left under the
present State Capitol, when it was built in
1833, was found sound a few days ago by
the plumbers who were employed in put
ting the steam-heating. The chisel is in
perfect state of preservation and looks as if
had only been in use for a few days.
The Wilmington people are looking out
for Summer resorts. They are making im
mense preparations. A railroad to Riehts
ville sound will be completed by June, so
one can "run down to the Sound" in a few
minutes and come back when he pleases.
But the latest chartering of a sidewheel
steamer that will from 600 to Soo passen
gers at the rate of sixteen miles per ,houi
to run between Wilmington and Carolina
Beach and Southport
. I am one of the oldest horseshoers in the
town, and I have used your Salvation Oil
for cracked heels, mange, and sand cracks
with horses; it gives perfect satisfaction.
Chas. W. Lee.
414 W. Baltimore Street, Balto Md.
A Methodist preacher hinted that it
would be nice to go to Europe, as his throat .
trouble wa getting worse, but the good
deacons sent for a bottle of Dr. Bull's
Cough Syrup, and consequently now enjoy
a good sermon.
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