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. h-t THE KOANOKE BEACON. Published Every Friday. Entered in the PoBtOniee at Plymouth N, C, as fecond diss mutter. We appualto every reader of Tub Koanokk Bbacon, to aid us in making it an acceptable and profitable medium of news to our citizens. Let, I'lymoiitli people and the public know wnat is goiutfoiiin Plymouth. IUport l us all iteiiif of SewB the arrival and departure of friends, social eveuts, deaths, sorious illness, accidents, new buildings, new enterprises and improvement? of Whatever character, chaugesin but iness indeed mything and everything that would be of interest to our people. Hubecnption price, $l.0 per year. AdTertisemeuts inserted at low rfi'"8. Obituary notices exceeding ten lin .-, five cents hue. Count the words, allowing eight to the Hue, and send money with A1S. for all in excess of ten line. The editor will not be responsible for the views Qf correspondents. All article for publication must be accompanied by the full name of the writer. Correspondents are requested not to write on but one side of the paper. All communications must be sent in by Thursday morning or they will not appear. Address all communications to THE KOANOKE BEACON, Plymouth, N. U. BILL ARP'S LETTER. As He Grows Older, Twi light Seems to Shorten, Darkness Comes Suddenly, I confess that I do not like the night except when I am asleep. Of course 1 mean the dark night nor do I go into raptures over what we call the twilight that doubtful light twixt sunshine and darkness, and that literally means "light cut in two." It seems to me' that these twilights grow shorter as we grow older. When the day is done the darkness does seem to fall from the wings of night, and we hasten to light the lamps, for darkness is never welcome. It is -an intruder and a symbol of every evil thing. We tup pose that night was created as a con trast to that which is good. The scriptures say no good thing concern ing darkness or night, and when de scribing heaven say, "There shall hi no night there." They tell us of outer darkness and thick darkness and the blackness of darkness and darkness that may be felt. Darkness was one of the ten plagues that was sent upon Pharaoh. Job cursed the day of his birth and says, "Let that day be darkness. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it." Da vid saith, "Sorrow endureth for the night, but joy cometh in the morn ing," and tells of Ahe pestilence that walketh in darkness. The apostles use it as a symbol of every calamity. Darkness covered the land when the Savior was crucified. The devil is called the prince of darkness. An cient mythology describes Erebus as the dark cavern through which the spirits of the damned and wicked dead shall pass on their way to hell. And Homer writes of a country cal led Cirmneria afar beyond the sea where the sun never shines and the people live in darkness. Milton de scribes the darkness of Hades as so dense that it was visible. speaking of evil spirits that haunt mankind, he says they move in darkness, but fear truth and chastitv. "No evil thing that walks by night in for or fire no hag, or ghost, or goblin damned has hurtful power over a chaste and virtuous woman. M Mont gomery says, "Night is the time to weep." And Shakespeare says, "In the dark night, imagining some fear, a little bush appears to be a bear." Young says, "An atheist half believes in God by night," and Tennyson says of himself, "I am but an infant Crying in the night an infant cry ing for the light." But this is enough, and these ruminations were provoked last night about midnight the hour when the deep sleep fal leth upon a man, but not upon a woman. My wife's voice awakened and startled me. She said, "What is it? Who is it 't What do you want?" Then she ealled me anti struck a 1 match and. lighted the candle that was near. "What did vou hear?" laid I. "'Somebody is at the door." she suit1., excitedly. "Which door T Rl,0 goes to Help .Jessie, but. it is re suid I. "This one right here may- j ally to nurse and fondle Jessie baby be somebody is sick upstairs," she j j)OVj for t,h0 maternal instinct never said. Unlocking the door quickly, Uos, aA she has not forgotten the the light shone into the room,' but j lulbLbios she sang to her children in nobody was visible. 1 examined the) their infancy. 1 rememler how my room carefully and then went into j ;lv0d mother, when on her last bed, the hall and dining room and parlor j dreamed away her loving lifo imag and thence upstairs on tiptoe, but all j jmng there was a babe at her breast was silent. lien 1 returned sue said. "Well, I did certainly hear somebody at that door, and it waked me, but maybe I was dreaming. 1 remember now, I did have a troubled dream, but please look under the bed before you put out the light." Such is conjugal life and : felicity. For some time I laid awake listening for a noise and ruminating on human helplessness during the darkness of the night. I remember when I had an unwil ling fear of ghosts that I would not acknowledge. I got it from the aw ful stories that our negroes told us children, for there was a fascination about them that drew mo to their cabins by night, and I listened to t heir - made-up tales of ghost? and witches and Jack O'Lanterns and raw head and bloody bones until I was afraid to look around behind me, and had to be guarded to the big house door when I left. But this childish fear passed away, and long since 1 have rerlized that there are no spirits to hunt us, and that "only man is vile." My wife is not a timid woman, but she is cautious, and will not consent for me to keep a pistol in onr bed room for fear I might have a bad dream and shoot somebody through mistake. She never sleeps very sou nd 1 y. ii mother who has nursed ten children never does, and the cracking of the paper on the wall will arouse her. She is happy now, for there is , another grandchild not far away, and she goes there every day. Protends Grove's and whispering a song to it just be fore she died. She found Ml, 0 heaven wnun she got there. . O young men who linger asm jest in the saloon or around the gaming ta bles or frequent disreputable places, stop and4think. Stop and think, ami remember the long and weary nights that a mother watched with you and never complained. Maybe her spirit IS watching you HOW and ( Yearning oyer yon in the spirit land. For her sake stop and think and conic back to the innocence of your childhood. And there are some little songs that I, too, remember and still can sing to the little helpless teething i . i ' i .i . .i . i . . i ! iniiiya iiuu M.'uiiie Liicni iu tiee ;ib i walk the room. My little baby'songs are stereotyped in my memory and have been handed down, though not published or copyrighted. They are a masculine medley of "By, baby, bunting,"" "Mush, my dear, lie still and slumber,' "d ulianna Johnson, j don't yon cry,'" 'Avay down Continue;! on via pate.j in A Life And Death Fight, Sir. W. A. llines of Manchester, la. writin? of his almost mhucti Ions escape from death, says: "Exposure after meas.i-s induced Kerious lung trouble, which ended in Consumption. I had trctpaeut hemor rhages aud couched niht and day. All my doctors said I must soon die. -Then I bei: an I to use Dr. King's ?qew Discovery f,r Ooa- sinption, which completely cured me. 1 would not lie without it even it it cost tfo.UO , a bottle. Hundreds have used it on my j recommendation and all say it never fails to i cute Throat, Chest and Lung troubles." I juegnlnr size 5ec and $l.oo. 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Y.'o idile r. nvri i.M'irt il won I cf a most remark M- which is to he m..uo to women by The. J' !!,:,, of New York. Tnk.ii o fact ila: iH'Xt rear beging a now centurv, j lie JkUnraior offers to distri- Iniio $ IV, r.-Ot) among women. Tho plan Is ?o cleverly arm inred that a woman livinp iu a winall town or village, has just as good ft ehaiico to win ono of these WOT prizes as a woman living in a city because tho prues etro eiven fur tho number of gubscri' ieri;ona hO pajyc ' t Beeurcd m a town m proportion to tliO i . e i t . ,' i t i , latum of that town, instead of being being ' give pimply to thoso who hoikI tho largest list ,i ' " , i i ,f , Biibsoribors which, of course, arc ; obtnjnod in bj Auoil)r , o ,ho ,au ;., lvU lho ciliM , aro most o clever fer, I ul i no pian is, mac an mo cuius anu iowi i tho .Uniied States and Canada liavo been I ranged ia seven classes. Tho cities of th' .l .'. .t i. it .1 1 a greatest population aro grouped in Class L and as those ciiics am not very many, the . prizes offered aro twenty-eight; 'tho high est prize beinir $."00, and, tho lowest $5.01 Tho total amount of prizes given away in this class is $l,Oi)0. Tho remain nig smaller towna and villages fall into six other classes, and as tho number of towns iu a class increases, bo cause, of course, there aro tnoro small towni than largo ones, tho amount of prizes given away to a' class increases, po that in Class 7. there will bo $4,000 distributed among 60' winners. Furthermore, to everyone who fails to win enc of the l'JOl priaes tliero will bo paid aav extra commission on subscriptions, providedr" the' equal one out of every two hundred in habitants of the town. from which tho con, lestar.t sends them. Tins is altogether a rely liberal ofTor, and ono which the famous old JMincalvr is well able to make good. From our point ef view, we do not see why such an oiler needs to bo made by tho Publishers of The Iklineator, for we bchevo it already has nearly half a million itibseribers. Its strong hold upon tho affec dons of American women' lias come in tho past geueraiion, from its practical adviea :bout dross details and home mutters. i . . . . j.'i) r-v. I To r i -a S I C K HEADACHE, j NASrn?.'U CONST! PATIO W, J dJrstlcai. Thsy wiSJ purify youv i blcoc: and rr.;ke ycu cornplcKlon las i-ASH AS A LILY. 1 hoy sire j EC latt n coldii. i'C? 25 CTHTS. 1 a ivamMJl rliiil ii' ".a. 'to' i; IK I i I fl: 1 i tit ,4k, V A-:'
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