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"Is The^Young Man Safe?”
Such was the question which David
asked about his sou Absalom. And well
lie might feel anxious about bis safety,
knowing him guilty of treason, re-
1 ellion. and disobedience. He also knew
the character of the men who were
lighting to makt suie his crime. It was
in jeopardy.
Jacob was no compromiser with re
bellion, and David knew that he had to
give especial orders to save the lives of
those who were leaders against his royal
authority. But it amounted to nothing
with Jacob as a true and loyal subject
of David for he had a fair and good op
portunity to cut Absalom's head oft and
did it.
David never forga ve him for that, and
Mime two others lie had slain through
jealosy and ambition. Jacob was a most
decided character with some very bad
traits of character, and David made
Solomon swear that he would kill him
after his death, which Solomon did
pretty soon, and seyeral others that he
had no particular fancy for, especially,
his half brother Adonijah, who wanted
Abishag, the prettiest girl in all Israel,
who acted as a nurse to David in his old
ago. Solomon had no idea of giving
> or to any one, and said Adonijah might
avo as well asked him for his kingdom.
Jewish history is rich, rare and racy
a many particulars, and worth reading
to get a proper idea of the Jewish j>eo-
le. God's dealings with the Jewish
jtoople were very peculiar to say the
least of it. It would not begin to do in
tins our day. Their morals, govern
ment, and ideas about everything be
longed to an age long since past, and
t heir laws were for their peculiar civili
sation.
DAVII) AS A I A THRU.
The conduct or action of David in re
gard to Absalom was remarkable. His
at rental affection upset his judgment,
-ill need his reason, prevented, justice,
;iid disregarded all law, and encouraged
rebellion.
Absalom must have exercised a won
derful influence upon David, so much
-o, that David hud no will power and
-t uU regal authority.
Had Absalom been permitted to live
he would have given Solomon a great
i:"al of trouble, or divided the kingdom
with him.
The story is about an allegory like all
the stories in the old Testament, told to
< ouvey a great truth. Jesus spake in
i arables or allegories at all times we are
told to teach great truths.
ALLEGORY ILLUSTRATED.
What was the real character of Ait-
• loin's ambitions, grasping egotistical
v. in, self-reliant, self-asserting and
•lespiser of authority. With no filial
sped or obedience. Plausible, and a
atnral born demagogue, with attractive
maimers. Had a very handsome face
and winning ways, and hanked on his
curtesy, all of which in the end led to
' > ruin and undeiiig. Has haul thor-
- .lids of others since the days cf Absa-
b. n rn their min.
“is Tin: young man safe.”
That question is always asked of all
young mi ll, not in the way of an al-
J- rory, but as a real fact based upon
it.dividual action. Fathers watch their
sens when they become young men. and
take careful note of llieir doings, their
liens, their opinions, their sense of
truth, of liouor and integrity. And the
INDIGESTION
“I w*s troubled with stom
ach trouble. Thedford’s Black-
Drr.u?ht did mo more good
in oqcj woelc than all the doc
tor's medicine I took in a
year."—MRS. SARAH E.
SHIRFIELD, Ellettsvillc, lad.
Thedford'sBlack Draught
quickly invigorates the ac
tion of the stomach and
cures even chronic cases of
indigestion. If yon will
take a small dose of Thed-
ford's Black Draught occa
sionally you will keep your
stomach and liver in per
fect condition.
THEDFORD’S
BLACK-DRAUGHT
More sickness is caused by
constipation than by any
other disease. Thedford’s
Black-Draught not only re-
lieve-i constipation butcures
diarrhoea and dysentery and
keeps the bowels regular.
All druggists sell
25-cent packages.
“Tliedford’a Black-
Draught is the best medi
cine to regulate the bowels
I have ever used."— MRS.
A. JI. GRANT, Sneads
Ferry, N. C.
consiiFATion
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble
and Don’t Know it.
How To Find Ont.
Fill a bottle or common glass &ith your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a
sediment or set-
— ' fling indicates an
father deep down in his own mind or
heart weighs his son or sous.
Tin: BOY, THE MAN.
Wo are told that the “Boy is father to
mail,” and in a great degree he is. The
boy who lias no regard for truth loose in
his morals lins no binding sense of
honor, grasping, over-bearing, bullying,
and contentious, will grow up to lie such
a man, nine times out. of ten.
His life will he one of expediency and
policy at all times, and true principle
will play but little in all of his dealings
of any kind. Such men or boys are
never safe, they will never do to bo
trusted at any time, for expediency or
policy will control them at all times.
They can be ever told by saying:
“Houestv is the best policy.” They are
honest from a matter of mere policy,
and would lie, cheat, steal, misrepre
sent and deceive if it could be made to
their policy.
DO RIGHT
Bnt take the boy or mail who says
and acts upon the thoughts or idea to:
•'Do right because it is right to do right,
regardless of whatever other may do,”
and you have one whose life is based
upon sound principles. That boy or
man is at all times safe any where and
at any time. He does not consider ex-
pediencev, which ever looks to the be
ginning of a thing; to policy, which
sees only to the middle, but to principle
which looks at all times to the end. It
is the end which is the ultima tliule of
his actions.
GREAT MEN.
Really great men, 'great in thought
and action, never consult expediency or
policy to accomplish great results. No
one can compromise a principle and suc
ceed, for to compromise a principle, is
like compromising truth or honor, which
never can be done.
ALWAYS SAFE.
ney trouble; too
frequent desire to
pass it or pain in
the back is aiso
convincing proof that the kidneys and fclad-
cer are outef order.
What to Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamto-
Root. ;he great kidney remedy fulfills every
u,rh in curing rheumatism, pain in the
tack, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part
of the urinary passage. 1: corrects inability
to heia water and scalding pain in passing
t, or bad effects following use of liquor,
w.r.e or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to go often
Curing the day, and to get up many times
curing the night. The mild and the extra
ordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon
realised. It stands the highest for its wen
Show me the boy or man who ever
first considers his honor, truth and in
tegrity, first, last and all the time, and
will never listen to any sort of compro
mise to please a friend, a relative, or do
so and so because all do it, or do it be
cause it will be popular. When such
are found, then yon can put yonr hand
on the noblest worth of God, “an honest
evidence of kid- Vman," and a truthful man, the perfection
of God's work, Joseph and Daniel in the
old Testament for instance.
ire bonds, his oaths are
“His words
oracles,
i His love sincere, his thoughts immacu-
I late,
| His heart as far from fraud as heaven
| from earth."
R. M. <>.
Beware of Ointments lor Catarih
that. Contain lYZercurv.
As mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and complete derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles
should never he used except on preserip.
derful cures cf the most distressing cases 1 Gons from reputable physicians, as the
If you need a medicine you should have the 1 damage they will do is ten fold to the
‘ st. Sold by druggists in 50c. and $1 -ires ' eoo<1 vou can i>ossibly derive from them.
Ycu may have a sample bottle of this Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
| F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., con
tains no mereurv, and is taken internal
ly, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buy-
_ Hoim of | ing Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get
Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing men- , the genuine. It is taken internally and
ben reading this generous offer in this paper. in „j oledo, O'' 10 ! hy J. Cheney
& Co. Testimonials free.
Don’t make »»v m.stake, but remembre Sold by Druggists. Price
'.a* t nine. S vamo-lloo'. Dr. Kilmer's bottle.
Seuuip-ttoot, anil ttie iultire.-s, )■'ngbatn
tor.. N. Y„ on everv bottle.
be;
wonderful ciscovery
ar.d a book that tells
more about it, both sent
absolutely free by mail,
address Dr. Kilmer &
ioc. per
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipa
tion.
The Swing of the Pendulum.
Saturday Evening Post.
In all democracies—and that incurs
ours, too—the tendency is for the pen
dulum to swing from class government
to mass government and back again.
We have had three such existences.
First, the class government with
which we started, an inheritance from
colonial days, was upset and dashed to
pieces by Jefferson amid shrieks of fright
and horror from all the highly educated
and highly prosperous. Second, the
oligarchy which gradually grew up,
with the United States Bank as its most
conspicuous centre, was oast down and
out by wild and wooly Andrew Jackson,
and there again were heard the awful
outcries from “everybody who was any
body.” Third, the independent small
farmers and free artisans, under the
leadership of the sometime railsplittcr
and always socially “impossible person,"
A. Lincoln, flung to the winds the aris
tocracy erected in South and North upon
the holding of slaves and the working
up and selling of the products of slave
labor, and again the “old families” and
the “leaders of society” thought the
end of the work! and the beginning cf
chaos had arrived.
And now, once more, we havearapid-
fonning class government, with most of
the prosperous and highly comfortable
people either in it or associated with it
and in sympathy or at least not opposed.
Just how and just when the balance will
begin to be restored who can say?. But
those who know history know that the
pendulum must sooner or later swing
back, as it did with Jefferson, as it did
Jackson, as it began to do with Lincoln,
and would have done then hut for the
tact of the war. Violence always defeats
democracy.
CURE CATARRH BY BREATHING.
Geo. D. Case Offers to Return Money if
Hvomei Treatment Fails to Cure Ca
tarrh Without Stomach Dosing.
If for a few minutes four times a day
yon breathe Hyomoi, all catarrhal germs
will be destroyed and the irritated mu
cous membrane restored to health
With every Hvomei outfit there is a
neat inhaler which can be carried in the
purse or pocket. Hvomei breathed
through this contains the same healing
balsams that are found in the air upon
the mountains, where catarrh is un
known. Boaro tie
It destroys all catarrhal germs in the Signature
air passages of the head, throat and 0 (
nose, anil makes a positive and perma
nent cure of catarrh.
The complete outfit costs bnt$L while
extra bottles of Hyomci can be obtained
for 50c., making it oue of the most eco
nomical of treatments for catarrh.
• Geo. D. Case believes so thoroughly
in the merit, of Hyomei, that he guaran
tees to return the money if it fails. This
is certainly the strongest evidence lie
can give of his faith in the Hyomei
treatment. It enables any one to use
Hyomei without risk of spending money
for nothing.
Ask Geo. D. Case to show you a Hyo
mei outfit and explain to you what a
simple and easy way it is to relieve and
cure your catarrhal troubles.
Fair Passes For Editors.
Thousands of world’s fair passes, good
for ten admissions to the exposition, are
being mailed to editors of daily andj,
weekly newspapers throughout the
United Ssates.
These papers are signed by Edward
Hooker, secretary of the department of
press and publicity. Mr. Hooker lias
signed so many passes that lie has con
tracted a serious case of writer’s paraly
sis. Every newspaper in the United
States that has printed news of the
world's fair is to receive free admission
to the grounds in return for the editor’s
courtesy.
■'•Hill A Cure lor lwli|collH.
I use Chamberlain's Stomach and Li
ver Tablets for indigestion and find that
they suit my case better than any dys
pepsia remedy I have ever tried and I
have used many different remedies. I
am nearly fifty-one years of age and
have suffered a great deal from indiges
tion. I can eat almost anything 1 want
to now.—Geo. W. Emory, Rock Mills,
Ain. For sale by Geo. D. Case.
Columbia (S. C.) Stale.
Fresidout Roosevelt and Judge Parker
present an enlightening contrast. Roose
velt has si>e!it his life in varied forms of
relmstiousuess; he lias hunted for bear
in the Rocki'-s mid in the swamps of the
lower lands; he lias lived the wild and
more or less law d< tying life of the fron
tiersman; he has reveled in the rough
pleasures of the ranchman; he has
camped beneath the pale stars; lie has
tempted the mountain trout, fought the
mountain lion, ridden and shot, and
led men in battle; he has proved him
self a “parlous” fellow. Parker has
spent his life in quiet endeavor-; |lie has
taught school; lie has practiced as a
young lawyer; he has risen stop by step
to the head of liis profession in his na
tive state; ho has cultivated a modest
farm; he lias lived the quiet, sane life
of a man of conservative yet effective
temperament; ho has proved himself a
modest, accomplished and valuable citi
zen. Roosevelt might be the hero of a
border romance; Parker might figure as
the hero of one of Jane Austen’s quiet
Novels. The oontrnst betweenjitlie two
men is like that between the art of the
impressionist school and a study in
black and white. It seems that the
American people should not have to hes
itate in a choice for a president.
OASTOH.IA.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
a mu mud tag nitvB ftitvay:
Wimmyj,
35c a
40c
and
50c
MATTING
I
ALL AT THE
UNIFORM PRICE OF
19 & 24c.
A BIG SAVING.
These prices are for spot
cash only as they are great
sacrifices.
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JUST
ONE
WORD that word Ia
It refer* to Dr. Tutt’s Liver Pills and |
MEANS HEALTH.
Ate you constipated?
Troubled with Indigestion?
54ck headache?
Vbtlgo?
Insomnia?
ANY of these symptoms and many othc
indicate Inaction of the LIVER.
You Xeed
THE NEW SPRING STYLES OF
Queen Quality”
Shoes and
Slippers
Have Arrived at Our Store.
Our windows and inside Shoe Stands contain
all the latest styles and Prettiest Footwear
ever exhibited in this city: A neat and stylish
shoe adds greatly to one’s appearance. They
cost you anywhere from $2.50 to $3.50.
Everything New For Men,
Women and Children.
Too many winter goods in stock. In order
to reduce this stock will sell at low prices.
Come to us, and we can supply your wants
At The Corner Shoe Store.
Take Mo Substitute.
VAUGHAN & HINES.
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