( Cib' "1. Thy - let your neighbors know It? - And why-give them chance to guess you are even five or ten years more? . Better give them good reasons for guessing the othe way, It Is very easy; for nothine tells of see so fj quickly as gray hair. - j A F 5 1 1 US r in n youth-renewer. . ; ? It nides the age under luxuriant growth of hair the color of youth. '. It never fails to restore color to gray hair. - It will stop the nalr from coming out also.. If feeds the hair bulbs. Thin hair becomes thick hair, and'short hair becomes long hair. . - - - It cleanses the scalp: re moves c all dandruff, and prevents its formation. : we nave cook on tno rv Hair which we wiU gladly L send vou. If yoa do not ebtetn ell (be ferno flU you expected trum the una of the Vtror. write the doctor enom it. '3 Probably lite re la tome diUK-iilt with your genera,! ivitem wtilcn mi it reroovon. AuurMii C Ayec, Lowell, Mae. f-' Job Printing. : J. H. Parker'& Co., Wood : land, N. CH are now prepar. ed to do your Job Printing: at low rates. - - - ' ; - T ATTORNEY AT LAW '- - ' YVINEi&OR, TS. C '" All business Ldfffistd tohitp-vcill , . receive prompt attention. " Established W." " - . ' . - v a J, E. BKltTON, " . ; .. coMMissros HnruiJiT. ; 38 Roaaakt Dock? NORFOLK, VA. Specialties. Egv,' (Hidea, T: Poultry; I Live Stock Peas, feanuts and Potatoes. Refaftmoe: Bank of Commerce ? ft you want a good Horse or Mule it would ;bo , well to examine our stock bi'cre buying. We , try to please our customers. : 1 2.' t ; J. - Edwards &.3ai.e ;-ta"h' V Pendleton, N.C g,,.Kv. ,, ; -r -, ., - iiYirnuwc juud tJiburt - have anotuer lot ot uie iamous v C.X Laige, Yorksttro pigs, 'will be ready to- deliver about the loth apiece 6 HO.OO'a pair. v . Mr. J . Flytho lias a lot of the full blood Large , Yorkshires readjr to deli ver no-. - Same priox. v- . A. J, Britton, ' ,1 Conway. K 0. ... -. ..T - 1 - n C . ;-j.-'-ueatont55,ooa rrnrrn ifTntnurissiftH MTBrTTAnTTS - qmiliM-ft-lfi yuimuAtJuiu mi si icy aw 217 County Street. v. , ii vii-' ' " --:v 'U:if!?' Specialties. Hams, Eggs, Chiok ens, Lambs; and alikiudsof Stnclt ,, iPORTSMOUrH.. VIRGINIA. Reference People's Bank. ; , . G L DAUQliTKhii, llarblo an: 'Granite Dealer " ''' Speciiil attention paid to Cem etery work, - , " . " 'All orders received by mail filled without delay. . : Stone carefully boxed and ship ped at lowest rate's. : ...... . . ; I defy competition in prices Save "0 per cent: . ; : , .' - ' Yard 728 and 730 High Street, Portsmouth, Va U MM Liocr.cc A . llavin;? taken out license as a public Auctioneer, I resieetfully ask the patronage of per sous sell ing; property at public auction. I am the only licensed auctioneer iu Nortluuor';'". wit!l fho excep tion of the tineruT. . JAV.rs II. CAKTI-ii, . , r '. !i : -'.1.1 re, X. C. LOCH EISIOBT- The Founder ot Klch' Square JVleetiuic of Frleods In North fJ'-A- aiupton Coun yl N, 0. Written for a proponod iooiot? for the preservation of local bUtorr, by JuHhdq i'eele.) , Who were . - these , - peo le? Whence cam a they? ' In order to ascertain who ..these ' - colonial Friends 'or Quakers .were 'it Is necesiarjto go back a little." ,k In the latter part of the seven teenth century there was a large body qI Friends Id' Southeastern Virginia, who had come ipostly from the coiomos or reuusyiva nia and Jersey; with some adul tions froiu the mother country And the Friends in Northeastern North-Carolina ,were at the first mainly a continuation ot the Ylr gima Quakers. Their natural in crease as well aa some additions from. elsewhere, d rove them south ward to make new homes. How ever, it is well to note that about the 5 first seeds of Quakerism in North 'Carolina were sown by William Edmundson and George Fox who came on a religious Vis it" to' Ihe Albemarle district in the year 1872, These were the very flrs.t missionaries who trav eled v within, whalt is now North Carolina- Eden und son - waa the first to come." and he fouud but one Friend n all the province uenry rhilips; who. had come hither In 106fl, -To ibis-man's house he at once repaired; and there he held the first meetings for; worship, everbeld in.- the state. :-r The peaceful Quaker was the" first to 'proclaim the "Gospel of Love." It seems that he found the . inhabitants in an .unsettled condition With no sor t of religious confirmation, for "thay Jtame said, 'he, ."and 'Sat down in the meeting smoking, their-pipes, and the Lord's power broke forth among: us, ancr many were con vinced'.' : , . The' grow to of Quakerism in what is now Pasquotank; and Per quimans counties was rapid, -for their records' show that f rom 1681 Uo K8a-there were several meet ngi et up,aAd.a yeat5yMeitiag mi hejdiR'that sdi'lion in 1698 me pioneirr memoers 01 Kicn Sqnare'meeting were , but an ex tended and extending aving of the Virginia Friends, and of those of the more, eastern counties of our1' own Staler AU along be tween the dates of 1730 and 1760. as well as later on, we tjud rec ords ot deeds to lands tongbt by some of these inJuertie,Uert;ord and Northampton ..counties though Northam plon .was , 'not formed till 1741-, Two meetings for worship were regularly held in private houses prior to tlie building of old Kich Scrtiftre.: meeting, house, one in Hertford, the other inNorthamp- ton- However, 'in i1760, Jbeir umbers had so inoreased that they built a house -for worship id- requested a monthly meet- -" This was granted by Eaa- ternsQuarterly :C Meeting .- of Friends, and the first mcnthly mee ti eg - was hid fn the new House ott, the 7th day of 6th ma 60. f I '.ihtnk the rtcords of this monthly meeting from its estab-: ishment nearly one huudred and forty years ago to tha present have been preserved in tact: 1, Upon the roll of members reg te red soou af te r 1 ho m ee ting was settled, -we dud the foilow- Ug uames; Baughm, 2Binford, rown, Copeland, Crew. Densou, Daughtery, Elliott, Ellzey, Flaa- ner, Gray.- Griffin, Hall, Home, Hollowelt Jacobs, J udkins, Jor dan, Knox, La u caster, Lad d, Law rence, Mariinoon, .Morgan, New soul, uutiaua, rattersoiu far iter, Peele, . Pitman, banders, Smith( Wilson, White and others, Space permits -that only a few of the prominent characters be touched. " , " ' John Copeland came from Per- uimaus and settled in Hertford county near what is now the vil- age of Ahoskio. A weekly meet gfor worship was-held at his house before Rich Squarw meet- g-housa was built Vy? vl: V Thomas Knox carne from Isle Of Wight county,; Virginia, aud seltied near where Thomas C- ole now resides. .Kuox was 011O of the first overseers of the meeting, and was ; much V ued the oue left to complete the meet ing-house and have it properly registered. This he did and re ported it to the meeting 2-7 1761 1 Robert Peele, Sr., came from Nansemond coucty, . Virginia about 1742 and settled we believe near what Is now Woodland vll laga- upon ' bis ' death bis sod Robert became the, head of the family, and a Firstday meeting for worship was held in his house' thereafter, - , - ' .Moses Hall was also much need in the early days of this meeting, Whence he came thewriter does not know. " It is evident that he was here when the meeting was set up, for we find no trace of his joining . it either by requestor certificate It is believed upon good authority that ha -settled not far from the home of the late Joseph Hall and that he owned a large body of land thereabouts, Ricnard Jordan stands in bold relief among the early Friends of Rich Square. Though he came here from Isle of Wight, Virginia, eight years after the meetiogwas set up, and so may not be strictly considered afounder.yet bis earn est. christian life was a strong source of ingathering, daring the las t qua r tef of the eighteen th century, t He was a highly gifted minister of the gospel, and trav eled much in the exercise of his gift '.We' find this entrvjc his ournan written iu 01a age, have now visited many of the smaller meetings and all the Year ly upeetings lor discipline in the world and soma of them several times, and have everywhere been treated with courteous considera tion.'-! ', . - Joaiah Brown, Thomas and Jo siah Outland, Joseph Patterson, David Marimoon and many oth er characters . among . .those staunch old time Quakers might be treated upon with profit -But if the historian, is searching the early records ; of . Rich Square monthly .meeting for the name most frequent upon its pages, he cannot fail to see that John Peele is the one. ' He was practically the first-clerkpj JJbe. meeting, mLnister.'of tbe wspeWirjeood esteem, almost from its estab lishment tilt, his .death in 1804, and was much used upon impor tant committees; as well as being citizen of varied and constatfl service in the pomm unity aboift nim. tie with his wife Mary Mas worthy Peele came from Nanse mond connty. Va.. and settled about a mile Southwest of the old Peele homestead recently owned and occupied by WHliam T, Peele john" Peele, like many others of those early settlers, Friends included, was a large land and slave holder. Tradition sv s he owned not only all the lands ad joining the. home farm,; whid) have since belonged to his de scendants but his possessions ex-i tended all the way to the .Roan okq eir bracing many thousands of acres, r He was well educated for one of his time,.- and endeav ored toeducate his children. One of his sons was a medical doctor ---John Peele. ' father of the late Isaac Peele and 'grandfather of the Peele family of Jackson, N.C. Indeed nearly all tbe Peele s of ibis county are the descendants of John Peele, Sr. ' Kich Sqnare' monthly meeting was settled Just about the time when a few" of the Friends of North Carolina were beginning to feel that slayery was an evil from which the Lord was requiring them as a body of his children, to cleanse their hands. From 1758 10 about 1808 various concerns ot the church , in the way of plans for their amelioration and eman cipation are to be found uion record.- The plan at last pursued by North Carolina Friends was this:. Tbe owners of the slaves transferred tUeut to trustees ap pointed - by the meeting, whose duty was to look after these wards, hire them to suitable par ties, receive their wages and use the same for the benefit of those who earned them; and to provide means to transport them either to a free state or to Liberia when. a ver way opened for it , Among jar old family papers the writer uas found the list of tbe names aud dates of birth of sixty ne groes, born to her great-grand father John Peele given to two of his sons Edmund and Thomas and by them transferred in 1800 to the trustees of the meetmgl Another list names fourteen ne groes belonging to the sami Ed; mund Peele, which appears 10 have come ' to him by his wife, also transferred, upon the -tame date to the trustees of the meet ing. 'Another list: gives fcaiifes and dates of birth of twenty ne. groes sent through the trustees to ; Indiana; and still another of twenty eight who were sen( to Liberia in 1827. My own falser remembered with great aces racy the circumstances of the ship coent made from bis borne to Li beria id 1827. r iV ' It is hoped that the reader 'will note the entirely different. pjan pursued Jby Friends for the ex tinction of slavery, from tha tak-f en by the Abolition party, A true Friend could not be'ong tdsaid party as John Whittier apd pjanyl others have shown ?1 These Friends possessed tnlyrr buildiD iD the world, than Southern hospitality, tality, iqved to'en tertain. and were ' fond of social (gatherings' and the "big; wed1 dings" of their day.' Our fathers have ' told us . that ; when? Kiel Suqare - monthly ; tneeting.wai young, it was no uncom mouthing afjf r a marriage was-'VsolejnnigJ ed" and the meeting bad closed, for the-, father- of ; the biide lo4 mount, a stump and invite every body present to go faomQ'with him and dine.- An old time Quaker tuarnagej would be a novelty today. .When two members intended marriage with each other.thuy both ap peared 10 tbe monthly arae,ting where tbe woman wata member tbe : man went into the woman's meeting," and took the woman by the hand- and L-d her into thej men a meeting.and declared their intentions of marriage with each other; then they went back into the women's meeting an J, again declared the same intferh.iiAns Thereupon the meeting appointed committee to ascertain whether thev were clear of other marriau1! ngagements; and if tW patleSf SAM minnn tn oV.oti ,Wf Vr nuv imvi . av wkvv a iui u rw ulv. 1. is r the parents oj guardians eon trterpf monthly meeting following, the parties again appeared and in the same manner declared;: their con tinued, intentions of", marriage with each.other, after which the committee in charge reported, and "i no obstruction appeared. they were . then liberated to ac complish their marriage accordi ng to tbe manner of Friends, which was much the same as it now is when performed in a reli gious meeting. In the three im portant epochs marriage, birth. and death the genuine Friend al ways discards every thing that is of a priestly'nature. . Henoe at a marriage among them we see 00 -man officiating between - the con tracting parties, but instead, they stand and clasping each others right hand they state tl.aMn the presence of God and, the assem bled .witnesses, they take each other as husband and wife;, mak-1 ng tbeir promises of Zfldelliy di rectly to each other instead of to priest or , preacher, . The near relatives often gave - wedding presents, either in some-useful article or in cash. , t ; " - That the founders of Rich Rquare meeting were alive in their faith is evident not only by their patient endurance of losses and reproaches both during the warof the Revolution and in their work of freeing their slaves; but they were-growing fa numbers, for itl768 they settled a newmeet ing in Edgecombe, and in 1794 a Monthly meeting was established, at a place called Jack Swamp, while the mem bership in these parts was scattered over live counties. " ; " It may be asked what has cans ed their decline? I would answer in a single statement the posi tion ' they took on tbe subject of slavery. - , s After the pretty general intro duction of the cotton gin, cotton became a staple crop in the state, and she at once determined to tceep her slaves. Hence ,, tbe Quaker' felt she could not keep nim, so thousands of them emi grated to the new lands of what is now . the Middle' West Sixty, eighty, or even a hundred certifi cates of removal were gran led ai one time, and in a few instances whole meetings - emigrated al I once. Jack Swamp was 'very' nearly an example of this last, while from Rich Square Monthly meeting they went In large com panies. Too writers mother with htar parents and about forty other I Friends of this immediate neigh borhood went ' in ' 1810 to'-Mt. Pleasant Ohio: " It took the Friends in North Carolina almost a century to clear their skirts of every trace of slav oy-.' Those, who resided in the ery. eastern . part- of tbe state were compelled to make the greatest sacrifices in the struggle. lultlvation of Character, v Character is .often little more than the accident of our heredity and en virbnmeht. "Dispositions -are left to assert themselves and Lcontrol life, withourhe interven tion 01 a strong controlling pur- posH There la far less charao- )f,u&ht to be when weconsider the fact that numberless essayists. and preachers are constantly in sisting on this duty. Our chief responsibility is forourselves.for what.weare. Yet many do not think of this. They are morally weak and sickly; there is no vi f tality in their virtues; their gifts are dwarfed and unused; they are subjects to moods 'and pas sions: their Jives are all scarred and disfigured tErough frailties and sins, and yet they have no shame or concern on this account and -possesses no sense of respon sibilitv for.it ought to feel 3elf condemn ed for nemaining ignoble and se) fish and subject to petty passions. The .reason we are not better specimens of Christian: manhood and- womanhood' is because we never and try to be. ' We let things take, their course, giving fue reins ' ta native' inclinations and ;ex posing ou rselves tb the" moulding -power of our environ men ts, - There Ms vastly more earnestness, in building up thein kltectual life and the material wueuai me ttDQ inB M1SW ' IUO-, tUOntl : ttllU C Tl ijlt 'iKA maw4 n T ii 4kliajt,tt4tLffiiie a man of mVself, said an ambitious young manjout his idea of manhood was limited to the secular life. The new Tes tament is full of precepts regard log the cultivation of character Build up yourselves on your most holy faith.' Baptist Com mon wealth. Too Economical. A remarkable list of casual ties caused by a niggardly 'at tempt to get something for noth. ng. b peaking ot close us tea men the Osborn "Farmer" asks: Did you ever hear tell of tbe man who was too economical to take his home paper, but sent his little boy to borrow the copy taken by neighbor. In his baste the boy ran over a $2 staua ot oees, ana n ten seconds looked like a warm summer squash. 'His cries reach ed his fatner who ran to his res cue and failing to notice a barb wire fence ran into that breaking down, cutting a handful offish bait out his anatomy and ruining ii $4 pair of pants. The old cow took advantage of a gap in the fence, got out, ate 40 ceots'worth of alfallaanddiedof bloat. Hear ing tho racket the wife ran out upseta lour gauon cnurniuuoi cream iuto a basket of kittens and drowned the whole mess. In her hurry she dropped and broe a $7 set of false teeth. The baby left alone, crawled through the flood of cream into the parlor, ruin ing a bran new carpet' Duriog the excitement the oldest daugh- ter rau away with a book agent, tbe dog broke up eleven setting hens and the calves got out e nd chewed the sieves from four fine shirts which bung on the line. . . . . . . . . . v Ex - . ''Deeds Are Ouits Words are but leaves.'. ' It is not what, we say, but what Hood's Sarsaparilla does that tells the story The many wonderful oures effected T.- T10 .B"."M which it snouw do juagea.i inese ,. ... , Ld.in,:i. Vhnmat.iEm sornfnla. .alt rhoum. catarrh and Rli other ailmen ts due to impure or im- poverishedbtocKL f ; - s Hood's Pills are non-irritating, mild effective. kJ ' .A' 0. ' uvy i-i vcvjDZtt Makes the food more delicious and wholesome : doval eArme f v BeiDg aBoy;-. 1 , On" of thn hnol tlaoinca in tha world t0 be is a boy. It requires La -.nnriAnn. thonirh u nium uo experience,; though it needs some practice 'to ! j a good one. The' disad vantage of the position Is that it does notlast longenough. It is soon over,- - Just as you get ustd. to being -ahoy you have to be something, else,, with a good deal more work to do, and not half so'muobfun. And yet every boy js .anxious to" be a man. and is yjery uneasy with the restric tions thaf are but upon him as a boy, . : :-".v::.-:v; There so many bright spots in the life of a farm boy that I some times think I should like to live over again. -I should almost be '"S b-e a li iwere ?ot tol th chores' There is a great "mfortto a boy in the amount of work he can get rid of Doing. It , is sometimes astonishing how slow be can go an errand. Perpaps he couldn't exblain him self why when ' be is sent to a neighbor'i after yeast he stops to stone the frogs. He is not ex actlj ci oel, but he wants to see it ne can hit em. It is a curious fact about boys that two will be a great deal slower in doing any tning tcan'one. rJoys nave a great power olbelpingeach other do nothing. vBnt, say ; what you will about the general usefulness of boys, a farm without a boy would very soon come to grief. He is always in demand. 'In the first place he s to do all the errancTfe, go to the ? stored the pdltoffice and to carry all 6orts of niessages": ' He Would "? " r - -6- - "heel :haai 8Pkes .!d-rotate ISIra i:A'arifiiA a li'" m n v rt' lna nan I a fc " t tlifk a j m a anit f-,.Tki 1.A enmAtlmui tnaa 'I r n n A .Mnittn I oviuguuivg vvy v. uuu uwmid BThrar,ia',iQng t.h nf t.h ma 1 have suDDOsed thai ha was am us ing himself and idling bis time, He was only trying to invent a new mode of locomotion, so that be could economise hes legs and do his errands, with greater dis patch. Leap frog is one of bis methods of getting over the groundquickly. He hasa natural genius of combining pleasure with business Charles Dudley Warner. Concert at Littleton, The Alumnae Concert which was postponed in August, will be given in the Uhapel at Liittletop Female College, Littleton, N. C-, Oct 23rd, 1899. at 8 P, M. ,j This Concert will be given by the resident Alumae, assisted by some memers of the College Fac ulty. The program will be vari ed and exceedingly .interesting and all who fail to be present on that occasion will miss a Area t Surprised the Congregation, Two little folks went to chu rcb alone. It was' only around the corner from their borne, and their mama- know they would be safe During the long sermon they got tired,, and the-older one, suppos- ing that the school Jules held good in ch urch, led his sister up in front of the pulpit and said: -Please. m wego home?" Much surprised,' the clergyman gazed at them over bis spectacles; then be understood and said: "Cer. tainly, my children." - And the two toddled out while the con grevation smiled- Ex. Newspaper in the Schools. The use of newspapers in .the public schools is growing from year to year. Teachers find there is no better way of arousing in terest among their pupils. Get a boy read a good news story and he "u Interested at once.. If it tells about the charge up the hill af San Juan or the sea fight off Santiago in which oune men . . from his own town or state par ticipated. his eyes will flash and bis mind Will be On the quivive. Geography means something to "im then He will study tha map to see where (Juba is located with out any ' suggestions from his teachen. He will ask ciictic I d pommwr rx., shtw voen. about the island and will eagerly read every newspaper article be can find on the subject ' Hm mind is active and if rightly di rected be will learn more la two I--' l - ..A. 1 f . . ... 1 weens aoout niswry, geograpny. and national affairs thu he would in a whole year from, day text books fc , v , The newspaper is practical not theoi-etical reading. It treats of live topics, of vital issues, and tbe child ren can see the difference between itand the dry textbooks.' Give ' tbe children good, clean newspapers to read and they will develop into bright intelligent moti . And unman T'ha 'mni-a ' newspapers ase used tbe better informed will Joo tbe scholars ' graduated from the public, schools. Fourth Estate. OLNEY HIGH SCHOOL. (At Woodland Depot) Opens October 1899 under the. management of Bertha White as Principal, She is a graduate of Guil ford College and has also spent one -yoar at Bryn Mawr College. T ; : .-- Tuition from $1.00 to. f 1,60 per moeth'. Board can be procured in the neighborhood at reasouable rates. For further Information ap-' ply to . A. W. Bbown, Ch'm. of Committee, Woodland, N. 0. TALK IS GHEAP. ' Pr6vided you do not talk by the use of Printers Ink; in that case . it comes high unless you have something worth saying.' What - tual benefit to the reader and myv self. To the point: I now have Dry Goods- and Notions, HardT ware . urocKeryware, i in ware, lx 'uiu uwirn.m-.ini, nnnraj; &c. V &x , and my prices are mark ed way down. I am at small ex- pense, comparatively, and don't have to add, to the price of my ; goods to 4nake up for bad ac counts as I sell for fash or, bar ter only. Here are a few prices; Meat 6c; best- Granulated Sugar, :: 6c; choice coffee 10c; best Booking' ; soda 5c; starch 5 to 10c; white ; fish 'small size kegs $2.50, stan--dard size $2-70; best pure lard 8c; Ivory soap 5C; good assortment other toilet soaps at low prices, ' good laundry soap at 3oj Flour , an) oil nthor crrruciTica o lfYfiraa. .. U V S A. S.U IV V U V DRUGS AND MEDJCINES. J ; - I keep a good line of Drugs, v Medicines and ! Druggist Sun--dries. Plenty of blue', vitriol : (bluestone) for wheat growers, al- so b pices, borax, alum, salts, cop-' eras, pepper, sulphur, nutmegs,-. oils, turpentine, flavoring exracts campnor gum,unimenis1i'oriier's ; Healing oil (best .in the world for burns etc.) Chamberlain's medi-, . e.ines. Tirnirin Rltaifr. Dr. TTirura. r : . ' o i David's, Warner's and Pierce's medicines, Laxative Bromo Qui-, nine, Grove's Chill Tonic and half . a hundred other articles in this line, all marked Way down, - - - DRY GOODS. ' Good yard wide cotton cloth 6c; heavy.; quality 5i to 6C; bleach coiuui vueap - juany-. siyies ana -: grades of ladies dress goods at ; 5, 6, 7, 10, 12J-, 15, 18, 20, 25 cents ; per yard and np, Men's shirts at, from 25 cents to $1.00 ' Big value at 80c;1: big lot of handker- : chiefs at stunningly low prices, v. .- . FIELD SEED. . I keep constantly on hand a : supply of Field Seed -Wheat oats, rye, Barley, clover, timothy j red top or herds &c. 1 ; r v.. PANTS. . A large lot of new Pants, bought very close, but my space Is all used and will have to wait till . another week to tell you about them, Dont forget that I keep Brtn. Middlings, Meal, Corn aod pay the highest market price for Eggs, Hides, Cotton, Peaunts kc. Y '. MILLS H. CONC'", " . Atl' ', ' '' ' " . ; Rich Squwra, O