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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-04
Electric BItters.

Electric Bitters is medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gen.
orally needed In the spring, when the
languid exhausted feeling prevails,
when the liver is torpid and sluggish
and the need OF tonic and Alternative
is felt. A prompt use of this medicine
has often averted long and perhaps
fatal bilious fevers. No medicine will
act more surely in counteracting and
freeing the system from the malarial
poison. Headache, indigestion, con-
stipation, dizziness yield to Electric
Fifty cents and 81 90 per bot
tie at Fisk Bangs Drug Store.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-04
4 Narrow Escape.

The company had assembled in the
church, but the bridegroom was no
where to be found Finally messenger
announced that the young man had
been run over and killed while on his
way to the church.
And just think, she said month
afterward to friend, what narrow
escape had from becoming widowi"
Pick Me I'm
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-04
BuckIen,s Arnica saIve

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and pos
itively cures piles, or no pay required
II is guaranteed to give perfect salts
faction or money refunded. Price 25
cents per box. For sale by Holmes &
Cornell.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-04

IL you have ever seen child ia the
agony of Group, you can appreciate the
gratitude Of the mothers who know
that One Minute Cough Cure relieves
their little ones as quickly AS it is adj
ministered. Many homes in this city
are never without it. w. l. Benedict
T. ~
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-04

One minute is all the time necessary
TO decide from personal experience that
One Minute Cough Cure does what its
name implies. w. |. Benedict & Co.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-04

1t is surprising what "wee bit Of IA
thing" can accomplish. Sick head
ache, constipation, dyspepsia, sour
stomach, dizziness, are quickly Danish
ed by DeWitt's Little Early Risers.
Small pill. Safe pill. Best pill. w.
/. Benedict & Co.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-04

There's naught in looking back. BE up and on
No clock can tick for us the moments gone.
Carrie Blake Morgan, January Lippincotts.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-04

1t would seem TO have been poor
plan, the holding the midwinter meet
ing of the NJ =. A. at the same time
rs these other gatherings as although
there was large number of newspaper
men in the city, the business sessions
were characterized by very small
attendance. It's too bad, too, for a
splendid program had been prepared,
but the counter ATTRACTIONS proved too
strong.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-04

An exchange gets of the following:
want to be farmer, and till the vir-
In soil, and labor in the sunshine to
tew and sweat and boil; | want to own
arge acres, where on the rye to SOW,
nd watch the cornstalks waving and
ear the mortgage grow; | want to be
farmer and grow hubbard squash,
he big pumpkin and potato, and other
tuff, by gosh; want to be a farmer,
o, upon my soul, but | haven't got the
honey to buy a gopher knoll.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-04

This is inauguration day. Mckinley
ill assume the Office OF President OF
he United States in Washington,
here preparations have been made To
axe the ceremonies very imposing.
he limitation gold badges OF prod
.ous size worn on the person by many
Bedding today are in honor of the
yent.
-.
The III TO ! fever is not over yet by
~ means. An exchange says: "There
not one girl in sixteen who would
bit rather be won some time In her
he than TO be sixteen all her life and
|sver be won, and then TO finish the
] ca adds: 1T costs less to keep girl
hen she Is sixteen than after she's
on."
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04
Four dollars and a quarter for hard
wood, payable in Pennsylvania Buck
wheat Flour.
AL. ZANER, Audubon.
NE EARNS weishs.

Professor Rioharz and DR.. Krigar
Mcneil of Berlin announce, as the
result Of Investigations extending
over IL years, that 1.-The density of
the earth is such that the globe
weighs "a, ss1, 900, 900, 600, 900 tons"
The odd trillion gives such en- air of
extreme accuracy to the statement
that one is almost tempted to in
quire whether the Berliners use the
French or tho English system of no.
tation in making their computa-
tons. 1t would make quite a diff.
ference-on paper - according to
whether the one or the other method
were employed, but somehow the
yearning to, clear up the uncertainty
is not very strong. New York
Times.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04
Did You Ever.

Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for
your troubles? If not, get a bottle
now and getrelief. This medicine has
been found to be peculiarly adapted to
the relief and cure of all Female Com
plants, exerting a wonderful direct
influence in giving strength and tone
to the organs. If you have Loss of
Appetite, Constipation, Headache,
Painting Spells, or are Nervous, Sleep
less, Excitable, Melancholy or
troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric
Bitters is the medicine you need.
Health and Strength are guaranteed
by its use. Fifty cents and $1.OO Mt
Chas. w. Houston's Drug Store.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04
secret Inks,

Those who wish to carry on a
secret correspondence with their
friends should try invisible or SYM
pathetic ink. A whole page may be
Allied with writing and still be en-
tirely white, as if there wasn't a
word upon it. In this way 1t may
be sent any distance, and no one can
find out what it contains. But the
person who receives it knows the
secret of bringing out" the writing
so that 1t may easily be read.
One of the simplest of these invis-
iible inks is a very diluted solution of
sulphuric acid, Buy 5 cents worth
Of the acid at a drug store and pour
In a considerable quantity of water,
at least three or four times as much
as there Is of the acid. Now, write
with this solution, using an ordinary
pen, and blot the surplus ink as
you 60 along. To make the writing
show black, all your correspondent
has to do is to hold the letter close
to hot stove, when, presto, out come
the letters and words one by one,
80 chat they may easily be read.
Another good secret ink, more
difficult to bring out than the one
already mentioned, can be made by
using a cheap solution of sugar of
lead. To bring out the written words
1t is necessary to sponge the letter
with q solution of sulphuret Of am
monia.
Another simple secret ink is made
Of q weak solution of ordinary
starch. A letter written with this
will remain entirely invisible until
1t is washed with a solution Of 10.
dine, which quickly brings out the
writing.
In using secret ink it is best to
write an ordinary letter telling
about the weather and other unim-
portant things, and then between
the lines write with the secret ink.
This will serve to lead quite astray
any n who ices the letter, because
there could be no suspicion of any
thing written between the lines
Chicago Record.
A 1o%%av. r.oso |o:-. III TN
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04

Boys" says al exchange, ''do
not sheer at the Woodworking me-
chanio, for beneath that dust soiled
jacket may rest the spirit of true
nobility"
The exchange is emineptly cor
reot. It is indeed wrong to pass
through this world sneering at me
chanics. A good, average, able
bodied mechanic Is a bad man to
sneer at. At almost any unexpect-
ed moment he is quite liable to
transfer some Of the dust Of his
jacket to the broadcloth coat of the
sneerer and jolt him severely if he
sneers too hard at the mechanic. If
q boy or young man is contemplat-
Ing sneering at u mechanic, it would
be quite as well not to let a hard
working mechanic catch him at it.
When the boy wants to sheer real
hard and feels that he can't hold it
any longer, it would be far better,
instead Of plunging right into the
midst Of a lot Of Woodworking me-
chanics, to seek some secluded To-
cality and have the sneer out all by
himself. It would look a great deal
better, and the boy would look bet
ter whom he went back to the bosom
Of his family.
No, boys, it is neither polite, gen.
teel nor wise to sheer at a mechanic.
Neither is 1t healthy. The sneerer,
is too often found in a pensive mood,
abstractedly engaged in applying
pieces Of raw beefsteak to his eye,
trying to reduce a swollen ncse with
q generous decoction of arnica, feel
ing his lame back or picking the
gold filling out of his teeth, which
he happened to casually cough up
soon after indulging in his playful
little snee4 at the Woodworking me.
chanic. Thisi is a practical lesson in
parlor etiquette which the youth
will not be liable to forget in a
month Or six weeks
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04
wordswcrtl,s spd MIlton,s w.tche.,

Wordsworth always talked a
good deal about himself and his own
poems, and I have a sense of his be-
ing not vain, but conceited. l have
been told since, in confirmation of
this, that when Milton's watch
preserved somewhere-was shown
to him, he instantly and involun-
tartly drew out his. own watch and
compared not the watches, but the
poets. The severe (sic) creator of
immortal things, as Lander called
him, read us some Of his verses ad-
mirably. life of Augustus j. G.
Hare.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04
ON II BALCONY.

The twilight fell in ashen gray.
Ger Capri shyly peeped the moon.
The lights were winking on the bay.
A bagpipe droned q drowsy tune.
Anon a tinkling tambourine
Echoed n mimic serenade.
/ watched my lady idly lean
Her arm upon the balustrads.
The range blooms their fragrance shed,
With odors of acacias blent.
Vesuvius reared his sullen head.
Where moonlight sweet enohantment lena
Below We heard the pattering feet
Grow fainter where tho midnight calme
Old Naples dir. Our pulses beat.
Ny love had clasped me In her arms.
Harold Won Santvoord in Penny Magazine
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04

rant Stonebrook's baby boy is i'll.
Toy Funk is at home from Des
Dimes.
Conductor AL. Stafford was here
Tuesday.
Some of M. r. Kerwin's children
are quite i'll.
Band tournament at Audubon Feb
%, 20 and "a.
'Thos. NILSSON is recovering from a
spallsof sickness.
John Sherman,s restaurant: Meals
15c, lodging 25c
VIM. Owen was looking after bust
1ess in Extra this week.
Carl Christensen was in Audubon,
Monday, selling vinegar.
MIR. A. H. Roberts is not himself
this week,-the grip has got him.
Mrs. Cloughley, of Clarinda, visit
her Audubon friends this week.
John Coleman and Anna Ballman
: We're shopping at Atlantic Tuesday.
Marion johnson is shipping hay to
st. Louis, the results being satisfac-
tory.
Mrs. A.. G. Darland, of Douglas
township, is very ill of some stomach
g. H. Jones and wife passed last
Sunday; at Extra with Mr.. and Mrs.
John. Gray.
Dr. Gleason and family now occupy
the johnson property on South Wash
ington street.
Monday VIM. Owen sold two tat
-yearling heifers to Northup Bros. at
1856 per head.
W.tP. Fargnson and wife drove tc
Grand Junction and passed this week
z with relatives.
Miss Emma Culver soon goes tc
the city to study the spring styles il
Paris millinery.
Many from these parts contemplate
g going on the Texas land excursion, 81
says Agent Smith.
There will be a Citizens CaucuI
held Monday, February 18th, to nom
mate a city ticket.
During the past few months job,
Davis has sold over 100 IONS of ha,
to Marion johnson.
y. Shingledecker, of Melville town
ship, took the first step in Pythian
ism Tuesday night.
Geo. Barlow has sold his 40 acre
OF land, south Of town, to Fred But
terton at $3.50 per acre.
Gill Jones states that he will opel
up his new stock OF farm machiner,
theslatter part of this month.
John Hite, the blacksmith, has
very sore hand, a piece of sharp stee
having penetrated said member.
"'am Sears boarded the e1cursio,
',uesday for u I'd, Nilsson
thinks nn a farrn
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04
A PuxzlinR Bottle.

An ordinary white glass wine
bottle of European manufacture,
brought from Monghyr Cur of the
Chaldees), is without a flaw, and on
the inside an ode Of Hafz, a celebrat-
ed Persian poet Of the fourteenth
century, has been beautifully in
scribed by a Mohammedan, whose
method of executing it no one has
been able to discover. = Boston
Globe.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04

,tou Auditor Mcclure
gas attending 70 the laying out of a
lew road in South Extra township
thursday.
Supervisor Nels P. Hoegh attended
farmers Institute and read an
eresting article on the Audubon
nty COW.
title Miss Ethel Freeman enter.
ID a merry company of little
ds at her birthday party last
day evening.
$. Lohncr and baby, wife and
the county auditor, are passing
week with her sister, Mrs. Hans
IN of Extra.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04
.cALMNEss WAS A FAILURE.

|yCALMNEss WAS A FAILURE.
It Was Very Well In Theory, but Didn't
Work In Practice.
Never tell me about that Hindoo
preacher again." she said impatient
ly, land don't you dare to say a
word in his favor"
II haven't" responded the girl in
the bolero meekly, land I'm not 60
ing to. But what has he done to
you2'
"Everything-everything that a
man can do. He's upset all my plans
and made me miserable for life.
You remember that lecture on
calmnessa 1t sounded lovely, but it
was all bosh. Thought d try how
the theory worked out. I was so
tired Of hurrying anyway. I've
tried faithfully for a week. or more,
and everything unpleasant which
could possibly happen has come to
pass in that time.
ut began just the minute I got
home from the lecture. Papa was
in a hurry to get to bed that night,
and the boys were just nervous
with WEAKNESS. I can see that now,
but at the time I couldn't see any
thing but my resolve to be calm; so
I wouldn't hurry u bit, and we lost
the train. They've been cross ever
since and I've been miserable.
ut was the same thing next morn
ing. Mamma wanted me to go down
town with her, and l wouldn't, be-
cause I know how she hurries, and
I Just knew 1 shouldn't be calm one
minute after we started. So she felt
bad, and our family life has been
perfectly horrid for a week.
"Then last night even Charlie
went back on mt. We were going
to the theater, and he was waiting
down IN the parlor. He sent word
up by one of the boys for me to
hurry, but I wasn't going to break
my calm after all that horrible
week of trying to keep it. So I
dressed just as slowly as I could,
and when he demonstrated with me
on the way to the car 1 told him
that he was hindering my spiritual
progress. And what do you think
he saida Why, Darn your spiritual
progressi Why can't you be nice,
as you used to bee
"Of curse I wouldn't speak to
him all evening unless he apollo
gized, and when he did apologize he
was so unpleasant about it that he
only made me madden. So we had
a miserable evening. 1 wouldn't
have gone down town with him at
all only I didn't want the folks to
know we'd %quarreled. And he bade
me the barest good night you ever
saw when we got home again.
cried most all night.
This morning I rode down in the
same al with him, and I smiled
just as sweetly as I could, but he
never came near me. When we got
off at Dearborn street, I hurried
just a little bit and got next to him,
and I said, Why won't you speak
to me, Charlie7' and he said, BE
cause / don't want to hinder your
spiritual progress
well, that made me madden thar
ever, and I told him he need never
speak to me again or come to see
me, and just now as l came owe,
from the Office I saw him walking
into the Saratoga with Maud Strong
land all because I followed that
blessed Hindoo's instructions and
kept calm at all hazards Charlie
will never get over it I know, and
we would have been so happy to
gether. l wish 1 was dead; l Ger
tainly DOR And she Topped discon
solately down on the sofa and bic
her face in the pillow again.-Chi
cago Times-Herald
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04
lBuctlen's Arn,ca sa1ve.

HE BEST SALvE in the world fol
8, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Sail
1nn, Fever Sores, letter, Chapped
Is, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin
'tipns, and positively cures Piles
pay required. It is guaranteed
ge perfect satisfaction or money
'ded. Price 25c per box. For
ale by G. w. Houston, Extra; or q.
u. Bison, at Brayton.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04
MONEY.

We have plenty Of money on hand
to fill all realestate loans at 6 and 7 per
cent. No delay. Abstract, making
papers and recording free. :
NASH & PHELPS.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04

A letter from Cairo, Egypt, will
be received in New York in Is DAYS.
The Robesonian., 1897-08-25
The South Of the Future.

A few more weeks more and
king cotton will wave his scepter
over this Southland. And the
powerful monarch Of our Southern
cotton fields goes to clothe the
millions who live in lands where
the fleecy staple does not grow.
Great is the South by nature
and the little children of the pres
ent Will live to see the day when
the country south Of Mason and
Dixon's line will be the wealthiest
part of this great country. From
their poverty and dependence, al
ready are the people of the South
growing rich and independent
But in their power and wealth
we trust that they will not forsake
many of the old paths blazed out
by their forefathers nor cast aside
the principles which were as dear
to them as life itself.
The Robesonian., 1897-08-25

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that connot be
be cured by Halls Gatarrh Cure.
F, J, CHENEY &, CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last IS years, and be-
Iieve him perfectly honorable in all bust
ness transactions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made by their
firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O.
WALDING, KINSAN & MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toiedo, o.
Halls Catarr1l Cure is taken internal
ly, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. Testi-
monials sent froe. Price 75c. per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists.
Halls family Pills are the best.
The Robesonian., 1897-08-25
The Party of the Future.
Wilmington Messenger.

The opinion is growing, perhan
rapidly crystalizing, that there
must be an earnest, determined
campaign fought in North Carroll
ma for the supremacy of the white
race, and it will be started with
al needed vigor probably next
year. The decent people of An
glo-Saxon descent are remarkably
tired Of the rascalitios and law
lessness of these times, arc DISCUS
ted at the turbulence, brazen eff
frortery, deceitfulness and treach-
ory-r the new-fedgcd leaders now
to the front, and Of the bad laws
enacted by he,last two utterly ig-
norant, incapable and unfaithful
Legislatures. A party inspired by
patriotism, a love Of their race.
thorough fidelity 10 eternal prin-
ciples ofrightand justice and honor
and manhood will be the probable
outcome next year.
The Robesonian., 1897-08-25
The rise in wheat is one of the

The rise in wheat is one of the
most attractive questions at pres
ent. In August, 1886, it was quo
ted on the Chicago board of trade
at SO cents a bushel, while in
August 1897, it brings dollar,
an advance of nearly a hundred
per cent in one year. '"There
are, says the Charlotte Observer,
"good reasons upon which to ac-
count for it, so that it cannot be
characterized as one Of the phe.
nomena of trade, and yet, look al
it as we will, it is very extraordi-
nary
The Robesonian., 1897-08-25
Batier and Brodie.
Charlotte Observer.

Somewhere in the New Testa-
ment a Judgment is pronounce
Ell upon those who pervert the
Scripture and turn il to their own
use. We are frequently struck
with the fiippancy with which the
name of the Master is employed
by hounds trying to justify their
meanness, a late instance being
that of a United States Senator,
making speeches in North Carroll
ia, glorying in the fact that he is
Il calamity-howler and saying by
way Of justification, that "Christ
was calamity howler.' Alater
instance is afforded by the case of
the negro Brodie, convicted at
Henderson last week of an afro
cious crime and sentenced to be
hanged in few days now. In a
special to the Raleigh News and
Observer, of date the Goth, it is
said that he made full confession
Tuesday night, saying that cit was
exactly as the girl had stated
on the stand;" the special conclu-
ding with these words. "He says
he says he has no harm against
any one; that Christ was persecu-
ted, and that he did not expect
anything BETTER
Here are two cases exactly of q
kind. Brodie confesses his crime,
but forgives his prosecutors" on
the ground that Christ was perse-
cuted. The Senator confesses
his guilt i'll appealing to the base
passions Of the people, and claims
warrant for doing so in the exam.
pie of Ci.Fist, who, he says, did the
same thing. We do not mean tc
be too hard on Brodie. He has q:
much ground to stand on as ha:
Butler.
The Robesonian., 1897-08-25
COMMISSIONER'S SALE.
E. D. MCNEIL.
WA. T. BRITT and wife, NARY ANNE BRITT
and EDDIE BARNES and Wife JENNIE
BARNES.

BY virtue Of a decree of the Superior Court
oI R"ees"n County in the above entitled Gauss.
entered at the October Term 1886 VIII. si,
Monday. September the 9th 1897, sell for ,.asl,
To tie highest bidder al PuIic Auction at ;h.
court house in Lumberton, n o. tit. foIIoo-jn,.
lands in said State and County: ADJOINING tbr
lands OF Elias Stonc. Francis Stephens. and
others. on the West side of Lumber River. Re.
ginning ut Il stake at the Greek Road EIiz,
beth stephens corner. and runs with her lin,
southwest 10 Francis Stephens line at "A stake
and then with said Francis Stephens and II
BTltts lines to the corner at Stony Pond: then
with E. B. Stones. Sr's line To the road n,..,-
Tom Brltts house at a stake; then with ssid
road to the beginning, containing fi.ty t5o,.
acres, more or less, and being the same land
conveyed by Stephen Barnes and wife To Mary
Anne Britt
Second Tract: Being the same described in 4
mortgage deed executed December 12tb. 1ssa
by Eddie Barnes to f. d. McNeiIl and dulv
recorded in Book s. s. S. page H. Registers
Office Of Robson County, n. c., containing
fifty (5O) acres.
This 31st day of July. 1897
STEPHEN MCINTYRE.
Hu61T' commissioner
The Robesonian., 1897-08-25
Valuable Land for Sale.

nN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th.
- 1897, "ill offer sale at the Courthouse,
door IN Lumberton, NC. the tract of Iande
bounded and described as follows:
On the west side of Shoe Heel Swamp and on,
tie North side Of Mill Branch. beginning at
the run of said branch marked by stake and
TWO pines, on II. NJ. McGreggor's line and runs
east = chains to a stake 10y pines; thence
south o. degrees east, I5 chains to a Iightwood
stump; thence east , chains to a stake l,v <
oaks; thence South with the edge of Shoe Heel
swamp Il chains to a pine. where Mill Branch
enters said Shoe Heel Swamp. then up the. run
OF said branch to the beginning containing
1lo acres. adjoining the lands of Hugh Nc
Grcggor, \. L. Mcqueen and others. known as
the \. W. Gaddy land.
Terms of sale CASH
A. G.. RICAUD.
Receiver First Natl Bank. Wilmington, y. G.
PROCTOR & McISTYRE, Attorneys augfs-svT