The Caucasian., April 11, 1889, Image 3

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TMK CAUCASIAN.
i l.INTON, N- C., April 11, 18S9.
Imh'X lo w Ailtcrtixeinent.
r. .1, a'v, Druggist.
State of North Carolina L
C.
I r ! 1 1 1 :i -i -
lilymyi r Iron rks A. S. Col
v,. II. Wallace, Duplin county, N. C.
;. I-' i ri it it 11 A Co., Produce Corn-
ml I"" TCIiailf, ew KOrKCllV
Ik ik Ji MKinM'ii, with II. C. Ful-
I. r, In'lii'-: Commission Merchant,
i n ork city.
SuUscriln-
'l lit- following persons will reeeive
-iiii-i -riptioiH for TiikCalvasian at
tin- places oppite their names;
Mr-. Sue C. Carroll, Harrell'H
Sl"re;
. It. 1'nwell, P. M., Sloan;
l.eu tt (J. Ivlw;uds, Purgatory;
N. It. Johnson Clear Hun;
II. I 'riar, Fnisn;
Thos. S. Watson, Kenansville;
Mr.-. Sue Hufl-iey, War-aw;
V. L. Jones, Jr., Magirdhi;
( '. 1. l'arker, ( ypitMs Creek;
Walter S. Merrit, Taylor's Bridge;
C. II. lironson, Lisbon;
I). It. Autry, Dismal;
K. T. Turlington, Ora;
Jesse Wilson, Bus;
T. I'. Pridgen, (irav.'l Hill;
T. D. Robinson, Way Cross;
N. F. Ile-isU-V.'Jofonl;
J. C. llobl.s, Hobtonj-
II. II. JmuijlMin,'Mhtgo; ;
I). W. Bland, Bland; ''
(J. W. Billiard, Hrtyiie; -(J.
W. Carroll, Six Ru;.s.
S. J. I'aircloth, Shcphard.
J. I). Williams, Oil's Mills; .
J. II. Packer, Keener; ?
II. i. Williamson, Dohhersville;
D. I. ' Robinson, Delta;
Air-. Cornelia Vaison, Elliott.
J. W. Spell, llawley's Store;
('. I'. J"hnson, Clinton, N. C.
.1. M. I.ockeinian, Huntley, N. C.
.Mrs. Lizzie Ileaman, Beanum's
X K'M.I-;
Jiilm A. Oates, Duplin, Sampson
mm'I nlow counties.
LiOCALi3;
-There was 75,000 insurance on
tin- properly burned in SmithliehL
March was quiet, hut Madam
April ha- come in with bustle an-
lianj.'s.
We .saw pea blossoms in ('apt.
W. L. Faison's field Tuesday. What
tracker is ahead of thifc?
The sympathy of Clinton goes
out to her neighbor, Smithfield, in
this thw hour of her sad calamity.
-Our editorial oilice. is now in the
same h olding as the printing office;
upstairs in tin J. K. Howard build
ing on I'ayetteville street.
We would call tho uttedtion of
our township correspondents, who
have been furnishing us with ac
counts of curiosities, Ac, . to a clip
ping from the Jonesboro Leader,
under the head of "What Other Pa
pers Are Saying." ;
We have been thinking1 of try
ing to describe liow teirific the wind
blew here on Lust Saturday anil Sun
day, but we just now Hee that the
wind at the same time in Dakota
blew with so much force that it
stopped a train running 40 miles an
hour and turned it back.; We have
nothing more to say.
The delegates to the Statij Truek
esi'and Fruit Growers' Convention,
by invitation, visited the Carolina ;
Wood Veneer Works while in town, j
They expressed themselves as being I
agreeably surprised at . the magni- j
tude and success of the. industry, j
They were also deiightetCto find so
elegant a hall (Atkins') in our lit- j
tie town' and marvelled at tiesign's"'
of improvement and progress to be
seen in every direction. But this is .
the case with all strangers, vuiting
our place, and even our neighbors
who have not visited us iately aro
badly behind if they think that' the
Clinton of today is tho Clinton they
knew a few years since.
Last week we called on the "city.,
fathers" to improvethe condition of
the Cemetery We were a little in
error. We learn since that the Cem
etery is private property. That a
number of years ago twelve of the
citizens of Clinton bought the land
from one Perkins and placed the
management of it in tho "hands' of
Messrs. L. C. Hubbard, A,',A Nf-
ivoy, j. u. iscamau ana -A. is. CJies
nutt as Cemetery directors. Last
spring a new deed was secured from
Perkins (the original seller) by the
Messrs. L. C. Hubbard, Warren
Johnson, C. H. Stevens and J. It.
Beanian, the only survivors ot the
original purchasers. These parties
secured a charter from the last Leg
islature incorporating "The Clinton
Cemetery Company," with Messrs.
L. C- Hubbard, Warren Johnson, A.
V. Johnson, W. A. Johnson, J. It.
Iranian, W. M. tetson, 7t. II. Hub
Wrd, J. E. Itoyal, W. L. Faison and
J. II. Stevens as trustees. The con
ditions ef the charter are such that
the proceeds arising from sale of
lots shall be appropriated to keeping
the Cemetery, in repair and beauti
fyhi" the grounds. If this amount
not sufficient, then said trustees
niay levy an assessment of not more
than ?3.0 per annunm. upon each
owner. v - " -
Under this new arrangement. we
"ope to see the grounds kept respecf
ahle; and if there is .anj ucd
t hand how it should certainly be
appropriated for that purpose Im
mediately. - ...
1 4r39'isnow the ci"u,ation of
' The Caucasian and it
is daily increasing. During the last
lx weeks we have mailed 10,000
copies. Help m make it 3,000 per
Week. -
All Through the Countv.
iVhat Sampwulan an- liolng and
Saying.
XQrSend us the news, from your
township for this co'.umn.-5ia
NEWTON filtOVE.
A section in the Southern part of
this township, known us the fork, is
i-iimiiii it- progr ss hi tne
w ay of building and clearing. This
writer knows when there' was only
a small building hi the entire sec
tion, and now it Is dotted with neat!
and comfortabh; farm houses. j
W. J. C.
There are eight cotton gins, five
saw mills, four grist mills, one rice
mill, one flour mill, two ;eed crush
ers, one buggy factory and one syr
up factory in this township. Snub
HALL?.
The ieopIe of this township are
so lawabiding that our constable has
resigned his office. Snipe.
ihe school in District No. 11 at
Olencoe closed Friday the 5th, after
a tern; if six months, with exa-nin
.i. . . . i .
iiiion iii mi.- iorenoon aim ueeiama
lions an. i essays fi. the afternoon
Hev. Mr. Uaker wa pres.7t i find
delivered - a short but ainronriate
S-H-CCh. . . fj
A Sunday sjhcol has been "organ
ized at Ha'JVschool house. v
a i
Miss Itosa Hest, of I)uplint is yis
Itlrrg friends ;and relative iri', this
vi:inity and is now the guest .of
Miss IJettif -Darden. U6lt.
One of our good neighbors, who
prides himself in having the earliest
vegetables, has beat himself this
time. lie had plants old enough to
set out his garden on the 14th of
March. Now it is whispered that
he went quietly into his garden a
few days ago and after irtature delib
eration pulled up the lust one of his
early set plants. He had not tried
it before, arid evidently thought
that "cutting off the big root that
runs do vn" did not have the effect
he had hoard il would have. The
neighlfors are anxious for a peep in
to that garden but tho girdener is
too bu-y to take them in. II.
WESiTHKOOKrJ.
Mil. jditok: it seems that no
one reports from this township
When 1 get Tjik Caucasian the
first thing I do is to read the column
" All Through the County," and I
am sorry to say that I generally find
estbrooks "not heard from." It
naii not be so this week. v e are
all busy planting corn and if this
blustering weather will bold u p we
will soon be planting cotton. Our
young friends, W. A. Bizzelh and
J. W. Bryan, of Newton Grove, are
at work in the fruit tree business
They are now canvassing Jones
county for J. Van Lirdly ; of the
Pomona Hill Nursery.
Justices Westbrook and McLamb
held court at ltosin Hill last Satur
day.
Miss Julia, daugter of Mr. Enoch
Wilson, has gone to Bellevoir High
School.
PINEY OHOVE (township.) ;
Mr. Lewis Sutton .has a sow that
recently gave birth to fifteen pigs,
fully developed. They are all do
ing well at this time and are likely
to be raised.
SOUTH CLIXTOX.
A destructive fire broke out last
week (Apr. 3rd.) from the field of
Willie Peterson and swept the woods
to the North East for about three
miles through a valuable turpentine
district. The lands most damaged
are those of the above and It. A- Fe
terson, Luther Alderman, and Mrs.
O. A. Williamson. Farmers should
be more careful with fire, especially-
at this seasoji of the year. - We un
derstand that this fire was the result
of carelessness.'' ..-.
' UTILE COIPaKIE. ' '
, Miss Repsie White has been quite"
sick, but is now convalescent.
Mr. D. A. Cooper suffred li se
vere loss on the 3rd inst. His kitch
ec caught on fire and the flames ex
tending to the dwelling, burned both
buildings to the ground. The fire
did not stop with consuming the
houses, but burned about a hundred
acres of land for Mr. Cooper. No
thing was saved from- the dwelling
but two beds. .
ITOXEYCUTTP.
i
A very pleasant sociable was givi
en to the young folks of this section
last week, at the residence of Mr.
John Parker.
Misses Mamie and Genie Smith
have been visiting at Mr. Whitney
Royal's.
,Miss Anna Honeycutt has been
spending several days at Mr. John
Parker's.
Rev. W. M. Page will' preach at
Royal's Chapel on next Sunday. Z.
NORTH CLINTON.
Mrs. Walter P. Boney, of Wil
mington, is visiting Miss LouClute.
Mr. Giles Clute has gone to the
mineral springs in Duplin county
for his health.
Most of the farmers in this section
are making their own fertilizers. C.
MINGO.
Mr. Lovet Warren's wife died
suddenly on the 8th instant. ' . -.'
We had snow, rain and hail on
last Saturday night.
- ,USBON. - -. . -
The handsome' twor-story residence
of. Mr. Richard Ilerring was burn
ed one day this week. Mr. Herring
has the sympathy of this, communi
ty in his loss.
WHY WILL YOU cough when Shi
loh's Cure will give imniediaterelief ?
Price 10 cent?, 50 cents, and $1. For
sale by Dr. R. II. Hoiajday, Druggist,
Clinton," N. C.
The meeting of the Wilmington
Presbytery U held in Clinton thb
fpnng. The Introductory sermon
was preached Iat night at the Pres
byterian church by the Moderator,
Rev. J. c. McMullenofOoldsboro.
The Presbytery will & in session
until Sunday.
Iff mo from Blsdfa.
Married: In this county, Mr
Jake Marihburn to Mis Ernma
Page, on the 4th inst.
The propet for ati abundant crop
of huckleberries and other fruits in
Bladen is god.
The farmers are giving more atten
tion to their woik in this section
than ever before. T. J. II
Magnolia li looms.
The Magnolia Reading Club will
celebrate ibs fourth Anniversary on
Friday, June the :21st.
The first shipment of vegetables
made from this jMiint, this season,
was a box of radishes shipped by
Mr. II. J. Pope on the 4th inst.
Messrs. II. R. Kornegay, A. D
Ward and "Gen." Scott Stanford of
Kenasville were in the city Tuesday
on bsines.
Several of our citizen had the
pleasure of beholding Ex-President
Cleveland as he passed through here
ust Friday. j.
Veterinary.
Many years ago while assisting in
the editorial and business conduct of
one of the most popular agricultural
publications in the South, Mr.T. Jeff.
Lee,- the well known Druggist,
from ah extensive pe rusal of the cur
rent literature of the day pertaining
to farm stock, was struck by the la
mentable ignorance prevailing in
regard to the diseases of our domes
tic animals and their proper treat
ment, and he wished to discover, if
possible, a more rational and scien
tific nwthod of diagnosticating and
and treating animal ailments. The
opportunity, however, for the re-
se uches and investigations he desir
ed to make, was not presented un
til he entered the drug business in
Clinton about twelve years ago.
Thoroughly acquainted, by previous
study, with the physiological effects
of medicines upon the amimal econ
omy, upon opening his drugstore he
began at once a regular and syste
matic reading of the works of the
most eminent ve'erinary authors,
and instituted at the same time a
series of. experimental tests as to
the virtues of their various remedies.
While he made fair progress and ac
quired much valuable knowledge in
this way, still it was not altogether
satisfactory ; he determined, there
fore, to enter upon a regular course
of veterinary study under the best
nst ruction possible, and to this end
he sought the services of the most
distinguished veterinary surgeon on
this continent. Hnving completed,
under the direction and supervision
(by correspondence,) of this eminent
veterinarian, the full course of study
required for graduation at the cele
brated Ontario (Canada) Veterinary
College, he proffered to furnish his
fellow countymen, free of charge,
the best advice he was capable of
iving as to the proper treatment of
all diseases of our domestic animals.
To what extent the people liave
availed themselves of Mr. Lee's spe
cial knowledge so generously ten
dered his-fellow-citizens orSampson
county know full well.
Read his card in another column.
P. S. Apropos to- the above, we
would reuiark that, in addition to
the large sales of his.pupular speci
alties (Wart and Worm Specifics,
and Backache Plasters) . throughout
thi3 county and Eastern Carolina
generally, Mr. Lee is almost daily
receiving orders for the same from
nearly every. Southern Slate. lie
always Keeps at his drug store a full
ine of medicines for horses, cattle
i id other domestic animals, and at
piices as low as they canbeobtained
any where in the United States.
Personals.
Miss Berta Ilobks is
visiting at
Mr. TV M. Terrell's.
Mrs. S. Barksdale left Tuesday
for Florence, South Carolina
Mrs. David Pearsall, of Fuplin,
s visiting Mrs. A. F. Johdson.
Mrs. Dr. Newton Robinson, of
lizabethtown, is visiting at Judge
Boykin's.
Miss Addie Bizzell, who has been
visiting in Elizabethtovvn, returned
last Saturday.
M. Ilanstein, the "King Clothier
and Hatter," returned from the
Northern markets Tuesday.
Mr. J. E. Royal, who has been
XnrMi TMirTioairnr hia crti-ino ami
a. Va. Ill I'M. V lltJlikj lllil J r I 1U iMIU
summer stock, returned Saturday,
Misses Jerushaand Ella Hubbard
of Middletown, Conn., are visiting
at Messrs. L. C. Hubbard's and A.
Johnson's.
Cols. Faison and Hicks, of the
Board of Directors of the Peniten
tiary, passed through Clinton Tues
day en route to the convict camp on
the C. F. & Y. V. Extension, in
McDaniel's township.
ARE YOU MADE miserable bv In
digestion, Constipation, Dizziness, Lo-.s
of Appetite, Yellow Skin"? Shiloh's
Vitalizer is a positive cure. For sale by
DkR. II. IIolliday, Druggist, Cliu
ton, N.-C.
T" r 1 -
THE SLAUGHTER.
OR.
TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE IN 8T.
LOUIS.
Jteltlir noranw Kc Vamdmr .
A Vomm That Caattot IW Beptaevd Tb
Equipment of Mas Danger to Tonne
! la Gra Citlca.
St. Locts, April 7. The Iler. T. De
Witt Talmage, D. D., of Brooklyn,
preached hero this evening to a vast
audience. His subject was "The
Slaughter," and his text. Proverbs,
rii,21: "As an ox to the .laughter."
The eloquent preacher said:
There is nothing in the voice or
manner of the butcher to indicate to
th ox that thOre is death ahead. The
ox thinks he is going on to a rich pas
ture field of clover, where all day
long he will revel m the herbaceous
luxuriance; but after a while the men
and the boys close in upon him Tith
ticks and stones and shmiti
drive him through bars and into a
doorway, where he is fastened, and
wiui a wen aimea trroke the ax fells
llimi nvwt 41... . : r il
l anticipation oi uie
redolent pasture field is completely
disappointed. So many a young man
nas been driven on by temptation to
what he thought would bo iaradi.siaoal
enjoyment; but after a while influ
ences with darker hue and swarthier
arm close in upon hira, and he finds
uiai instead or making an excursion
into a garden he has been driven "as
an ox to the slaughter."
a. e are api 10 Diame yoirng men
for being destroyed when we ought to
blame the influences that destmv
them. Society slaughters a ereat
many young men by the behest, "You
must keep up appearances; whatever
be your salary, you must dress as well
as others, you must wine and brandy
aft many friends, you must smoke as
costly cigars, you must give as expen
sive entertainments, and you must
lire in as fashionable a boarding
house. If you haven't the money,
borrow. If you can't borrow make a
false entry, or subtract here and there
a bill from a bundle of bank bills; you
wip only have to make the deception
a little while; in a few mouths, or in
a year or two, you can make all right
Nobody will be hurt by it; nobody
win uo uiu nuer. iuu yourseii wiu
not be damaged." By that awful pro
cess a hundred thousand men have
been slaughtered for time and slaugh
tered for eternity. .
THE MISERIES OF GETTINa IN DEBT.
Suppose you borrow. There is noth
ing wrong about borrowing money.
iiiti vj is narujy a man in me nouse out
has sometimes borrowed money. Vast
estates have been built on a borrowed
dollar. But there arc two kinds of
borrowed money. Money borrowed
for the purpose of starting or keeping
up legitimate enterprise and expense,
aim money borrowed to e-et that
which you can do without. Tho first
is right, the other is wrong. If you
have money enough of your own to
buy a coat, however plain, and then
you borrow money for a dandy's out
fit, you have taken the first revolu
tion of the wheel down grade. Bor
row i or mo necessities; mat may be
well. Borrow for the luxuries; that
tips your prospects over in the wroii;?
direction.
The Bible distinctly says tho bor
rower is servant of the lender. It is a
bad state of things when you have to
go down some other street to escape
meeting some one whom you owe. If
young men knew what is the despot
ism of being in debt more ot them
would keep out of it. What did debt
do for Lord Bacon, with a mind tow
ering above the centuries? It induced
him to take bribes and convict himself
as a criminal before all ages. What
did debt do for Walter Scott ? Broken
hearted at Abbotsford. Kept him writ
ing until his hand gave out in paraly
sis to keep the sheriff away from his
pictures and statuary. Better for him
if he had minded the maxim which he
had chiseled over the fireplace at Ab
botsford, "Waste not, want not,"
The trouble is. my friends, the peo
ple do not understand the ethics of
going in debt, and that if you pur
chase goods with no expectation of
paying for thorn, or go into debts
which you cannot meet, you steal just
so much money. If I go into a grocer's
store, anu l buy sugars and cottees and
meats, with no capacity to pay for
them and no intention of paying for
them, 1 am more dishonest than if I
go into the store, and when the grocer's
face is turned the other way I fill my
pockets with the articles of merchan
dise and carry off a ham. In ihe one
case I take the merchant's time, and I
take the time of his messenger to
transfer tho goods to my house, while
in the other case I take none of the
time of the merchant, and I wait upon
myself, and I transfer the goods with
out any trouble to him. In other
words', a sneak thief is not so bad as a
man who contracts for debts he never
expects to nay.
Yet in all our cities there are fam
ilies that move every May day to get
into proximity to other grocers and
meat shops and apothecaries. They
oi everybody within half a mile of
where they now live, and next May
they will move into a distant part of
the city, finding a new lot of victims.
Mcau while you, the honest family in
the new house, are bothered day by
day by the knocking at the door of
disappointed bakers, :md butchers, and
dry goods dealers, ..l newspaper car
riers, and you :v ,'aked where your
predecessor i.-s. You do not know. It
Avas arranged you should not know.
Meanwhile your predecessor has gone
to some distant part of the city, and
the people who have anything to sell
have sent their wagons and stopped
there to solicit the "valuable." custom
of the new neighbor, and he, the new
neighbor, with great complacency
and with an air of affluence, orders the
finest steals and the highest priced
sugars, and the best of the canned
fruits, and perhaps, all the newspa
pers. Aud the debt3 will keep on ac
cumulating until he gets his goods on
the 30th oinext April in the furniture
cart.
Now, let me say, if there are any
6uvi persons in the house, if you
have any regard for you own
convenience, -you hadbetter re
move, to some greatly djtstant part of
the city. It is too bad that, having
had all the trouble oj consuming
the goods, you should l.lso have the
trouble of being dunneUl And let me
say that if you find thai this pictures
YOUT OWD nhOtOeTaoll. lnktead of bein
1 a C A 7 0
itentiary ! No wonder iLt so mTny"
i"1. our mcrcnants tail m business.
lhey are swindled into fcnkruptcy
by these wandering Arabs, uese no
mads of city life. They cheat the
grocer out c,f the green apples -which
make theirT sick, the physician who
attends their distress, and the under
taker who fits them out for departure
from the neighborhood where they
owe everybody when they pay the
debt of nature, tho only debt they
ever do pay
"NEITHER A 'BORROWER NOR A LEN
j)ER M."
Now our ydttng men are coming up
in this deprafed state of commercial
ethics, and & am solicitous about
them. I want to warn them against
being slaughtered on the sharp edges
of debt Yoii Want many things you
have not, m$ young friends. You
shall have thtem if rou have patience
aaH Icmsty anJ induib-r. rtiTr.
lines of. conduct always lead out to
certain successes.
There u a law which controls even
those thing that seem haphazard. 1
have been told by those who have ob
served tliat it u potiblo to calculate
just how many letters will be sent to
the Dead le tter office trcrr rear
through misdirection; that it poi
ble to calculate iust Iww many letters
will be detained for lack of "pusta-e
stamps through the forgctfuoss of
tne senders, and that it is pible to
tell just how many people will full in
the streets by slipping on an orange
peel. In other words, there are no
accidents. The most iusignificant
event you ever heard of b the link be
tween two eternities tho eternity of
the past aud the cteniitvnf th ri,t"
Head the right way, young man, and
you will come out at the right goaL
Bring me a young man and tell me
what his physical health is, and wliat
his mental caliber, and what lii lial.it.
and I will tell you what will be his
aesuny tor this world, and his destiny
for the world to come and Twill nAt
make five inaccurate prophecies out of
uie nve hundred. All this makes me
solicitous in regard to young men,
and I want to make them nervous in
regard to the contraction of an payable
ueuis. i g!ve you a paragraph from
uijr own experience.
DR. TALMAGE HAS BEEX THERE HIMSELF.
My first settlement as pastor was in
a vuiage. .My salary was i00 and a
parsonage. Ihe amount seemed enor
mous to me. I said to myself, "Wliat!
all this for one year?" I was afraid
or getting worldly under so much
prosperity 1 I resolved to invito all
the congregation to my house in
groups oi iwenty-liyo each. We be
gan, and as they were the best con-
Kijiauuu iq an xue world, anu we
telt nothing was too good for them,
we piled all the luxuries on the table.
I never completed the undertaking.
At the end of six months I was in
financial despair, i found what every
voung man learns in tim to save
mmseii, or too late, that you must
measure the size of a mans body be
fore you begin to cut the cloth for his
coat
When a"young man willfully and of
choice, having the comforts of life,
goes into the contraction of unpayable
debts he knows not into what ho goes.
Tho creditors get after the debtor, the
pack of hounds in full cry, and alas!
for the reindeer. They jingle his door
boll before he gels up'in tho morning,
they jingle his doorbell after he litis
gone to bed at night. They meet him
as he comes ofF his front steps. They
send him a postal card, or a letter, in
curtest ntyle, telling him to pay up.
They attach his goods. They want
cash, or a note at thirty days, or anote
on demand. They call him a knave.
They say ho lies. They want him dis
ciplined at the church. They want
him turned out of the bank. They
come at him from this side, and from
that side, and from before, and from
behind, and from above, and from bo
neath, and ho is insulted and gibbeted,
and sued, and dunned, and sworn at,
until begets the nervous dyspepsia,
gets neuralgia, gets liver complaint,
gets heart disease, gets convulsive dis
order, gets consumption.
Now ho is dead, and you say: "Of
course they will let him alone." Oh,
no! Now they are watchful to see
whether there are any unnecessary ex
penses at the obsequies to see whether
there is any useless handle on tho cas
ket, to sco whether there is any sur
plus plait on tho shroud, to see wheth
er tho hearse is costly or cheap, to see
whether the flowers sent to the casket
have been bought by the family. or
donated, to See in whose name the
deed to the gravo is made out. Then
they ransack the bereft household, tho
booksthe pictures, the carpets, the
chairs,;tho sofa, the piano, tho mat
tresses,, the pillow on which he dies.
Cursed be debt 1 For the sake of your
own happiness, for the sake of your
good morals, for the sake of your im
mortal soul, for God's sake, young
man, as far as possible, keep out bf it.
H. But I think more young men
are slaughtered through irreligion.
Take away a young man s religion and
you make him the nrev of evil. We
all know that the Bible is the only
perfect system of morals. Now if you
want to destroy the vouncr man's mor
als take his Bible away. How will
ou uo that l Well, you will cancatu re
is reverence for the Scriptures. Vou
will take all those incidents of the
Bible which can bo made mirth of
Jonah's whale, Samson's foxes, Adam's
rit then you will caricature eccentric
Christians or inconsistent Christians,
then you will pass oil" as your own all
those hackneyed arguments against
Christianity which are a3 old as Tom
Paine, as old as Voltaire, as old as sin.
Now you have captured his Bible, and
you have, taken his strongest fortress:
the way is comparatively clear, and
all the gates of his soul ae set open in
invitation to the sins of earth and the
lorrows of death, that they may come
In and drive the stake for their en
campment A LOSS THAT CANNOT BE REPLACED.
A steamer fifteen hundred miles
from shore with broken rudder and
lost compass, and hulk leaking fifty
gallons the hour, is better off than a
young man when you have robbed
him of his Bible. Have yon ever no
ticed how despicably mean u is to take
away the world's Bible without pro
posing a substitute? It is meaner than
to come to a sick man and steal his
medicine, meaner than to come to a
cripple and steal his crutch, meaner
than to come to a pauper and steal his
crust, meaner than to come to a poor
man and burn his house down. It is
the worst of all larcenies to steal the
Bible, which has been tho crutch and
medicine and food and eternal home to
so many 1. What a generous and mag
nanimous business infidelity has gone
into! This splitting up of life boats
and taking away of fire escapes and.
extinguishing of light houses.
I come out and I say to such people,
"What are you doing all this for?"
"Oh," they say, "iust for fun." It is
such fun to see Christians try to hold
on to their Bibles! Many of them
have lost loved ones, and have been
told that there is a resurrection, and it
is such fun to tell them there will be
no resurrection ! Many of them have
believed that Christ came to carry the
burdens and to heal tho wounds of the
world, and it is such fun to tell them
they will have to be their own saviour I
Think of the meanest thing you ever
heaid of ; then go down a thousand
feet underneath it, and you will find.
yourself at the top ot a stairs a hun
dred miles long; go to the bottom of
the stairs, and you will find a ladder a
thousand miles long; then go to the
foot of the ladder and look off a preci
pice half as far as from here to China,
and you will find the headquarters of
tho meannesa that would rob this
world of its only comfort in life, its
only peace in death and its only hope
for immortality. Slaughter a young
man's faith in God, and there is not
much more left to slaughter.
Now, what has become of the
slaughtered? Well, some of them are
in their father's or mother's house
broken down in health, waiting to die;
others are in the hospital ; others are
in Greenwood, or, rather, their bodies
are, for their souls have gone on to
retribution. Not much prospect for a
voung man who started life with good
health, and good education, and a
Christian example set him, and oppor
tunity of usefulness, who. gathered all
his treasures and put them in one box,
and then dropped it into thesea. .
f Kow, liow i flu woleiale klaug a-
V?t U 1 nU'pped I There U not a per-
so-i in tho hous but i interest! in
i that o'v-ttkm. Young man, arm vour-
ewif. Tho object of my sermon is to
put a weapon in each of tout hand
for your own defense. Wait not for
Young Men's Christian association to
protect you, or churches to proUvt
you. Appealing to God for help, Uke
care of yourself.
First, liavo a room somewhere that
vou can call Your own. WlwtJsp it
j Ixi the back parlor of 4 fashionable
j b'jardiog house, or a room in the fourth
tory of a cheap lodging, I care not
j Only have that one room your for
! treei. Ltt not tb di-wipator or un
clean stp over the threshold. If the v
cojne up the long flight of Uir and
knock at the Uojr, nrevt tbem fce to
fare and kindly yt t firmly refuse them
admittance, llavp a few family por
traits on the wall, if you brought them
with you from your country home.
Have a Bible ou tho stand. If you can
afford it aud you can play on one,
have an instrument of music harp or
Uute, or cornet or ntelodcoii, or violin,
or piano. -Every morning before you
lpavc that room, pray. Every night
after you come homo in tliat room,
pray. Mako that room your Gibral
tar, your Sebastopol, your Mount
Ziou. Let no bad book or newspaper
cc-me into that room, any more than
you would allow a cobra to coil on
your table.
Tako care of yourself. Nobody else
will tiko care of you. Your help will
not coriro up two or three or four
flights of stairs; your help will come
through the roof, down from heaven,
from that God who in the six thousand
years of the world's history never be
trayed a young man who tried to be
good and a Christian. Let me 6ay in
regard to 3-our adverse worldly cireum
stauces, in passing, that you" are on a
level now with those who are finally
to succeed. Mark my words, young
man, and think of it thirty years from
now. You will find that "those who
thirty years from now are the million
aires of this country, who are the ora
tors of tho country, who are tho poets
of tho country, who aro tho strong
merchants of the country, who are the
great philanthropists of "the country
mightiest in church and sUde ar this
morning on a level with you, not an
inch above, and you in straitened cir
cumstances now."
EVERY M AN HAS A NATURAL EQUIPMENT.
Ilerschd earned his living by play
ing a violin at parties, and in'tho in
terstices 01 tne play he would go out
anu iook up at tho midnight heavens,
the fields of his immortal conquests.
George btophonson rose from !eing the
foreman in a collicrv to bo tho nnvst
renowned of the world's engineers. No
outfit, no capital to start witlU Young
man, tro down to tho Mercantile li
brary and get some books and read of
...1. 4 1 . . e . 1 , . ,
uai uouucriui mecnanism uou gave
you in your hand, in your foot, in
your eye, in your ear, and then ask
some doctor to tako you into the dis
secting room aud illustrate to vou
what you have read about, and never
again commit the blasphemy of say
ing you have no capital to start with.
Equipped! Why, the poorest young
man 111 this house is equipped as only
the God of the whole universe could
afford to equip him. Then his body
a very poor affair compared with his
wonderful soul oh, that is ' what
makes tne solicitous. I am not so
much anxious about you, young man,
becauae you have so little to do with,
as 1 am anxious about you because
you have much to risk and lose or
gain.
IhCro is no class of persons that so
stk my sympathies as young men in
great cities. Not quite enough salary
to live on, and all the temptations that
come from tliat deficit. Invited on all
hands to drink, and tlieir exhausted
nervous system seeming to demand
stimulus. Their religion caricatured
by the most of the clerks in the store
and most of the operatives in tho fac
tory. The rapids of temptation and
death rushing against that young man
torty miles the hour, and he in a frail
boat headed tin stream, with nothinc
but a broken oar to work with. Unless
Almighty God help them they will go
under.
Ah ! when I told you to take care of
yourself you misunderstood me if you
thought 1 meant you are to depend
upon human resolution, which may
be dissolved in the foam of the wine
cup, or may be blown out with tho
rst gust of temptation. Here is, tho
helmet, the sword of Lord God Al-
mnrhtv. Clothe vourseir 111 that ran-
oply and you shall not bo put to con
f..: t 11 . .1-
luhiuu. owi wys wen neuncr in mis
world nor the next, but rijrht thinking
and right believing and right acting
will tako youMn safety through this
life and in transport through the next.
1 never shall forget a pravcr I heard
a young man make some, fifteen j-ears
ago. It was a very short prayer, but
it was a tremendous prayer: "Oh Lord,
leln us. We find it so very easy to do
wrong and so hard to do right. Lord,
:ielp U3." That prayer. I warrant vou.
reached the car of God, and reached
his heart. And there are in this house
a hundred men who have found out
a thousand young men, perhaps, who
have tounu out tliat very thins. It is
so very easy to do wrong, and so hard
to do rijrht.
I got a letter, only one paragraph of
which I shall read: "Having moved
around somewhat I have run across
many young inonN of intelligence,
ardent slrivcrs after that will-o'-the-wisp,
fortune, and of one of these I
would speak. Ho was a young Eng
lishman of twenty-three or four years,
who came to New York, where lie had
acquaintances, with barely sufficient
to. keep him -a couple of wcoks. He
had been tftndcrly reared ; perhaps I
should say too tcnclcrly, and was not
used to earning his living, and found
it extremely dillicult to get any posi
tion that he was capable of filling.
After many vain efforts in this di' ec
tion he found himself on Sunday even
ing in Brooklyn, near your church,
with about three dollars left of his
small capital. Providence seemed to
lead him to your door, and he de
termined to go in and hear you.
"He told mo his going to hear you
that night "was undoubtedly tho turn
ing point in his life, for when he
went into your church he felt des
perate, but while listening to your
discourse his better nature got the
mastery. I truly believe from what
this young man told me that your
sounding the depths of his heart that
night alone brought him back to his
God whom ho was so near leaving."
TAKE THE RIGHT ROAD AND KEEP TO IT.
The echo, that is, of multitudes in
the house. I am not preaching an
abstraction, but a great reality. Oh!
friendless .young man, Oh! prodigal
young man, Oh! -broken hearted
young man, discouraged young man,
wounded young man, I commend you
to Cl1ri.1t this dav, the best friend a
man ever had. lie meets you this
morning. You have come here for
this blessing. Despise not that amo
tion rising in your soul ; it is divinely
lifted. Look into the face of ChrisIL
lift one prayer to your father's God,
to your mother's God, aud etthe par
doning blessing. Now, whdo I speak,
you are at the forks of the road; and
this is the right road, and that is the
wrong road, and I see you start on
the right road.
One Sabbath morning, at tho close
of my service, I saw a gold watch of
the world renowned and deeply la
mented violinist Ole Bull You re
member ho died in bis island home oft
the. coast of Konvay. That gold watch.
.
j he ks! wound umty aterdir throvch
his ilinasas, and tbrn Lmj mu4 to hi
companion. "Now I want to wind thi
! watch as Km a I can, and then wUro
If. ... .!..--. . .
J P utl t PPts to lay friend Dr. Dorp
j niua, in New York, and then b will
keep it wound up until hu Ufa it dome,
and then I want the watch U jr to
hi ycHiti- ton, my especial favorite,"
The grvat tnuktn, w bo m?r than
any other arut had mado vtobn
prk and s.it' wul weep aad Unfit
and triumph for it Kvnml when Im
drew the bow acro&a lh trinc as if
all earth and heavea trrenblwl in do
lighted sympathy the great musician,
iu a room looking off upon the aea.
aud surrounded by his favorite instru
ment of muwe, cloatsl Lis aye in
deatli. W hi lo all the world waa mourn
ing at hi departure, aisteen crowded
fcteaznera feti mto hue of funeral pro
cesion to carry hi body to tho main
land. There were fifty UxKttaud of
hU countrymen gathered in an amphi
theatre of Uie hill waiting to hear the
eulogium, and it wan said when the
great orator of the day with stentorian
voice began to speak, tho fifty thou
sand people on Uie hillside burst into
tears.
Oh : that was Uie -cloae of a Ufa that
had done so much to mako the world
happy. But I liave to tell you. joung
man, if you live right and dio right
that wa. a tamo scene compared wiUi
that which will greet you when from
Uie galleries of heaven tho oilo hun
dred and forty and four thousand
shall accord with ChrUt in crying,
"Well done, thou good and faithful
servant"
And tho influences that on earth you
put in motion will go down from gen
eration to generation, tho influences
Jou wound up handed toyourchil
ren, aud their influence vouudun
and handed to their children until
watch and clock aro no mora needed
to mark tho progress, because Umo it
self shall be no longer. .
BUSINESS LOCAIA
Potato Slips and Brass Ijimp, at
B. P. Powell'.
Bargains! Bargains!! ComotoM.
E. Hobbs & Bro. to get Straw Hats
of nil kinds, from 10 ivnts to $2.00.
Smoke IJaih-y Itrothcrs' Long Tiller
Havana'. SatUfactio'i guaranteed. Tor
sale by 11. j. Wh.i.iams.
Truckers, 1 am representing the
commission House of B. C. Fuller,
New York, and will take pleasure in
serving you ami see that your goods
bring always the lest market price.
Itespeetfully,
3t ' PRKNCII M(t KKX.
Finest 10c plug of tobacco in the
town "The Dark Horse" for sale by
W. A. Johnson.
BARGAIN STORK.
If you want the boat Smoking To
bacco go to B. p. iVnvKi L's.
RACKET STORE.
New (i ods coming in every week,
and they are cheaper than ever. Will
astonish you next week with low
prices.
Jliis.M. E. Pktkkson.
I Tot v;cather- coming. lilizzard
Miik Shaken at the old stand. Cou
and tako a refreshing glass and be
happy. Dr. R. H. Holliday's
Drug Store.
I am'just back with a handsome
line of Clothing, Hats a id Shoes-
all the latest styles. Don't buy till
you see what I have. My new "ad"
will a pica 1 as soon as my goods are
all oj)eued. Respectfully,
M. IIaxstki.v,
King Clothier and Hatter.
Try it once and you will always
use "The Dark Horse" tobacco, only
ten cents a plug, at
W. A. Johnson's.
A new lot of Knitting Cotton, all
colors; Patent Medicine to make you
healthy, wealthy and wise, and very
jolly, at B. p. Powell's.
I am just back froui'the Northern
markets with a l arge and well select
ed stock of goods. Too busy mark
ing and arranging goods to write an
"ad" this week. Be sure to call in
wheu you come to town.
J. K. Roy a 1.
The question has been asked I
my native and adjoining counthv,
"Who is L. H. Hines, representing
the Produce Commission Iloue of
limes A Mansfield in New York?"
Maj. J. S. jlincs, of Sampson coun-
ty, is my father, and I will take f
special pains to see that the e.ple
ofSaiupson and adjoining counties
...s... ?l 1llvtJ IVI
pHKiuce consigned to our house.
Respectfully,"
L. II. II
rvi .:
I
The "New Home"
a I UKl'
Hint home. Then, husband, buy for '
wife the 'Xow Home' light rum ing !
Sewing Machine from
3. T. Rawls,
In Postottce Building, CMntoti, X. C
Another lot of that nice fresh Bet
ter at J. A. PicukkllV.
just rpc 1:1 vj:i.
Meat, Flour, Sugar, A.c.
1,000 yards Rockinjha n 4-4 Sheet
ing.
One Barrel New Crop Cuba Mo-j
lasses. t
One Barrel Keioseiu Or, 150'
proof.
Five bags Coffee. i
ALWAYS IX STOCK.-
Secd Rice. , r
'Horsford'.-)" Breal Preparation
and Starch always on hand, for less
price than any jobber can deliver
it.
Reuiember that I am now at my j
new stand on Wall street.
T. M. Feruell's
Persous wishing to improve their 1
memories or strengthen iheir power
of attention should send to Prof.
LoLsette, 23X Filth Avenue, New
York, for his prospectus post free, as
adyeUei Jnanotaer column. -
it.
The KumLy NhcxC here Km been
ro-organUed with fifteen t cache r
and one hundred ant twenty-nvr
1-uplh. Mr. J. II. WwU Uauper
intendent. The arhool commence
work Ith flattering propcrt.
tloheit Academy, after a vnrotUm
of only oue week, resumed I tiwifk.
It nw Ua forty pupil. The are
twenty-three In tho writing cUs
which n.ect at night.
Our penman, Mr. Irince, wa call
ed to the Utl of a Mck brother In
Hale Igh two week since, lie Waa
aWnt cue week. On arrlvlug In
Raleigh he wa suddenly taken aick
aud wa under IK Immediate car
of two p!vyMan while he w there.
Mr. J. It. Suttou recently took
little Allen Rarbrey Motion on hta
fir-t vWt to hi grau-1 pare t Mr.
and Mr. Jolm D. O. Culhreth.
Mm. Rev. D. A. Putrell, of IJ.
Ungtoo, hag been on vUlt to her
parent, Mr. and Mm. S. R. Ifeugh
tiy. Omhen a! way ha a warm
plice fr "Mb MoMe.'
Mr. 8. W. Sulton wan urprUed
one morning recently to ftod tliat
wven of his laborer had left during
the night for the "negro Paradlne,'
Arkansas, but their pUr worcaoott
filled by other laborers.
Ml- M. V. Wilson write that he
I spending tho lime pleuntly in
South Carolina. . .
z
' IteafatM f Be far
by local application, a they cannot
reach the dioad Hrtiou of the
ear. There Is on v one wav ta ihm
Dcafuc;and that I by ctmtttutlou
al remedied. 1 leafnetw it raul hv
an inflamed condition of the mucin
lining ot the Eustachian Tube.
When this tut gets Inthmuxt you
have a rumbling sound or lmmrfeet
hearing, and when Itlsentlrrfy cloa
vd Deafne U the result, and nnlmt
the Inflammation can bo taken our
and this tube restored to ll normal
condition, hearing will t destroyed
forever; nine ease out of ten art
causal by Catarrh, which Is i.oUilng
out an innaintu coiidit.oti of the mu
cus surlm-e.
Wo will give Ono llun-ired D.,1.
lars for any cneof Deafness (cauxod
by ("atari h) that we can not euro bv
taking Hail's Catarrh Cure. Hem!
for circulars, free.
P. J. CHENEY A CO.,
Proprietors, Toledo, Ohio.
ftuTSohl by all Druggists, 7iic.
Quarterly -Meetlngii.
I will attend tho BaptU1 .Juarterl y
Meetings for the colored race at the
following times and places:
Kenausville (1st Baptist church) 1st
Sunday in May, Clinton (1st Baptist
c hurch) 2nd Sunday in May,
Pilgrim Rest 3rd "
Big Piney drove 4th " "
Rkv. O. Millkk, Pattor.
Mrr-21-lyr.
Mil LOU'S CATAKItll REMEDY
a positive cure for t'utanii. Diphtheria
and Cnnker-Moutli. For sale by Du. U.
II. UoLLiitAY, Drus;lHt,(.'liutou, N.f.
Tho legislature of Arkansas
lias parsed a bill providing. that
contract for labor nlodeln o:h
er SUUa.shilL "of hold good
against tho laborer. ;ThI- la
dono to. stop the tide of negroen
that is pouting into Arkansas
from other Stales.
"I I A ( ; K M ETA 1 K, ' n laM ins and fra
craut perfume. Price 2 and M centa.
For nale by Dr. R. II. tlor.1.1 ia V, Drug
gist, Clinton, X. C.
MARK in s.
'LIN TON'.
(Kcmrtcl ly A. K, Joannon.)
Corn, (m w) .....
''as ..... 70 lo
IL-x-on io
Chicken IU lo
Kj-'irx,
Ifc-CFWax .... M to
Ittittcr, . . .; . 20 to
!.rl JU to
N.1
12
r.
10
21
12
Fodder, ....... 1 00
r lour 5 7.1 to 0 7."
Hidi-c, . . ... ( to 07
1'uriH-ntinc, (vcllow dij) ... ! (11
(hanl) '-. . .. 1 r
V,iton, . 9 . in
WILMINpXUX.-,
Spirit Turpcntlw,. . ."1 4(1 Mr trullon
Koin, (tralned) . . . H7 per karri-1
" (iroood xtraincd) . . Ml iter Inrrel
Tar . . . fi sr, H-r lmrr
Cnidf Turpentine, (Hard) . f 20
(Vlrfinand Yj'llow
Ii) 2 art
Cotton, in
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
STATE OF NORTH CA NO
NA. Sampkon Col'xtv:
Before L, ('.Hubbard, J. P., April
81 h, 1889.
A. P. Peterson, Receiver, AcM
vs.
W. II . Moore.
To V. II. Moore. You ire hew
by commanded to appear before me
nt "'' mee in Clinton, N. C., on t!io
2',th da' of..fn1j A'iH' to H-
It.,.t.,ver j,, tl,fc ea'-e of Adrian Vol-
leis vs. S. B;u Kd lie,- fir the' non
payment til" Ihe sum of f 32.00, dm
ly two ((rnii notes or bonds, with
ni' rr'l I :'!! IK; Z'Hll (ItiV oi J-
ceiriber. 1179. d mid iiavahlelo the
sidS. IhirkHl!r- r iiulirtnent till!
i,e ta! en agaii s! v 'i or the amount
due uj)ii mid 1 otcs, 1 costs.
L C. II t'BBAPD, J. I'.
npll--3i
I BLYHYER IHOIi WORKS.
j LAKG EST M A NUFA CTURERS
j -:of: .
' SUGAR CANE KACHIHEEY IS TBE U. S.
Having been appointed agent fr ,
the above firm, in the counties of
Sampson, Duplin and Pender, would
be pleased to hear from anj one In
want of anything In that line at
manufacturer's prices.
Be sure to order in time' to secure
i prompt deliver. Ad1rea-s,
A. 0. CULWLLL,
Wallace, Duplin Co., N; C.
.April 11, 1889.-tf -