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11 Subscription $1.50 per year. WE MUST WORK FOR THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE. W. II. Kitehln, Oinier. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1885. YOL. 1. NO. 46. V BMMOCBAT A JIANGS WAY. Young man with the strangely troubled face, And the footsteps sad and slow, I3e not cast down by a girlish frown And a softly whispered "No!" ilcr sweet blush tells me a different tale; There is hope for you to-day. Iu your hour of bliss remember this: It is only a woman's way. She must not be too easily won. She thinks in her maidenly pride; .So she lifts her eyes quite in surprise When your arms are opened wide; And when you offer your heart and hand, Then she begs for more delay: 1 n her lover's need she would have him plead It is only a woman's way. If a maiden ever adores a swain, In this vale of smiles and tears. Who her heart hath stirred by loying word, 'Tis the man that perseveres. She hates a coward whose heart is faint, Like the zephyr in odorous May; Who will drop his lance, at a maiden's glance Tt is only a woman's way. 'lis all the same throughout the land, In the palace and the cot, That maidens are shy and men must try For the blessings they have not. For the helpmeet'lleaven doth mean for all, To cheer till the head grows gray; W ith the soft caress, and the power to bless, In a woman's pleasant way. The Sleeping Car Genius. lie slept days aud made tip berths at night. Truly, he began making tip berths at Jersey City, and when he got through, about daylight, it was time to begin to unmake them again. All night I could hear him opening and shutting the berth like a concertina. lie sang softly to himself all night long. You must camp a little in the wilderness And then we'll all go home. And played his own accompanis ment on the berth. When in repose he was generally asleep with a whisk broom in one hand and extended with the palm up, waiting for a dividend to be de clared. Die generally sat with his mouth open, so that you could read his in most thoughts, and when I com plained to him about the way my bunk felt he said he was sorry, and wanted to know which cell I was in. Bill Nye in Boston Globe. Tlie Kci Was Off. A few days ago, after a couple of esteemed citizens, who are close neighbors, had arranged to puss a few daj'S with their families at a lake in Oakland county, one of them offered to wager a box of cigars that he would catch the largest fish. The wager was promptly taken, and next day one of the gentlemen put in an appearance at a fish stand on the market, and said to the dealer : "Have you got a fresh pickerel weighing about fifteen pouuds?" "I have, sir?" "Well, I want you to put him on ice and ship him to me at Lake. I propose to cath him on a hook out there." "Very well, sir. I think I'll ship the two together." ';The two?" "Yes, sir. Mr. mentioning tb. other esteemed citizen was here an honr ago, and bought one weigh ing twenty pounds. It will take less ice to pack the two in the same box !"' The fish were paid for, but the bet was declared off. Detroit Free Press. Curioitfe of lYature. A lemon weighing four pounds and thirteen ounces wa3 recently pick ed at Panasoftkee, Fla. On recently-cleared land in Kan sas red clover has grown this season that was seven Feet high, and white clover five feet six inches high, A Holstein calf belonging to E. W. Albety, of Pittsburg, Kan., has grown one hundred pounds in the last month, which is fifty-three ounces per pay, or over two ounces per hour. That Owl. Two of our townsmen uptown saw an owl on a Telegraph pole on Mon day night, and, procuring an air-gun, fired about forty shots without bring ing down the bird. A boy climbed the pole and ascertained that the supposed owl was an insulator a lit tle out of place. -X Is Popular Government a Failure?! A friend sends us a copy of thi Charleston AreM?s and Courier with an editorial on the above subject in which the writer endorses the words of Secretary Bayard, that "Popular government is a failure, if a party is to administer the government oaly to put its followers in office." Mr. Bayard may be right if there is any part' in this country likely to get in power, that w?nts to admin ister the government only to put its folloicers in office. But if Mr. Bay ard thinks that the democratic party can successfully administer the gov ernmtnt by letting it3 enemies hold the offices, be will most certainly find that the. party i3 a failure, if popular government is not. "Partj' organization and party work are in dispensable to success, but the most effective work is not always obtained from the persons who expect offices," says the News and Observer, but, pray, what do they work for? Is it to carry out a distinctive policy of the party? If so, are they not nec essarily bound to intrust the carry ing out of that policy to men who are thoroughly in accord with them? We quote further from the News and Courier's article : There is some basis for action and for confidence as well, when a party appeals to the public spirit and pa triotic feeling of the people, telling them that the business affairs of the government should be administered as a citizen administers his private affairs, and that a political party serves its . purpose only when it serves the public Precisely, WThat citizen will ems ploy a man to attend to his business when he knows that man's views, concerning the business are in direct conflict with his own? If a party has principles distinct from another and it is intrusted with the adminis tration of the affairs of the govern ment, it will be expected to carry cut those principles, and it will be held responsible by the people for the manner in which the work is done. Is it wise to leave the work of carrying out these principles with the men who fought them? But ii there is no vital difference in the principles of the parties, then what is the basis of action if it be not to obtain the offices? Does party suc cess simply mean to change the head of the government? Away with such nonsense. Democratic success means that the government will be administered by democratic officers. Republican success means that the government will be adminis tered by republican officers. Call it the "spoils S3'stem," if you please, but it is the common sense system, and without it popular government will indeed be a failure. New? Berne Journal. A Sound Civil Service Reform. A 'great deal of ingenuity and agility has been expended of late in making democratic platforms about the civil service, but we have not seen one anywhere that contained a really constructive idea. Something like the following would be an improvement upon any of these efforts that we have recently had a chance to study : Whereas, President Cleveland is is greatly taken with civil service examinations and non-partisan ap pointments ; and whereas we do not want to say anything that would hurt his feelings or prevent any democrat from getting a good appointment from hira, we hereby renew the dec laration of the National Democratic Convention of 1884 in favor of an honest reform of the civil service ; and we adopt that declaration as part of our platform. Resolved, That in our opinion honest reform of the civil service requires that all applicants for ap uomtment to minor offices should be examined to test their capacity to perform the duties which they desire to assume ; aid no man should be appointed who cannot pass such an examination. Resolved. That every executive department or bureau should have an Examining Board of its own appoint ed by its head from among its em ployes. This Board should examine every applicant in reading, writing, arithmetic, and whatever . other branch of knowledge may be requisite for the correct performance of the work to be done ; and the members of this Board should have no extra pay for their services. Resolved, That competitive ex aminations and the invariable ap pointment of the individuals who succeed in them without regard to the iudsrment or preference of the appoint ing authority, are anti-democratic and onti-American ; and wc are opposed to them entirely. Resolved, That the head of every department should have power to dismiss any employe whose work is unsatisfactory, without any trial or investigation or any other reason than that in his judgment the good of the service requires it. These resolutions embody the principles of an honest civil service reform, and we commend them to future Conventions that may be de sirous of expressing themselves frankly and squarely upon this sub ject N. Y. Sun. No Ijuck. "Just my luck!'' growled a pas senger on a train down in Ohio. "I believe I am the unluckiest man off earth, anyway. Nothing goes right with me, and I'm about discour aged." "What's the matter now?" "Well, you see, I have been the Postmaster down at the corners for nigh on twelve years. My first boy I named Ulysses Grant Snyder, the second Butheford Hayes Snyder the third, James Garfield Snyder, and last week we took my fourth boy to church and had him christ ened Grover Cleveland Snyder. I paid the editor of our county paper $5 to put in a long article about it and send a copy or two marked to Washington." "But where does the bad hick come in?" "Why, the day after I mailed those papers I got an official letter from the department. It was my discharge, and now they've got a measly Democrat in my place.'' Caicago Herald. Texas Doctors and Kew York Doctors. Why New York doctors charge a great deal more than do the Texas doctorsOol.Sumpter McBride Sumpter of Austin, Who wasgquite ill during his recent visit to New York, is authority for the assertion. lie was in bed three or four days at his hotel, and when the bill was presented he took a piece of paper and a pencil and fiigured cut how much more he had to pay in New York than he would have had to pay in Texas for the same amount of indisposition. Having got through his calculation, he folded his hands saying. "I am lucky in being sick here in New York instead of being laid up in Texas." "Ah!" said the doctor. "Yes," responded Sumpter, "for all this money I'll have to pay you I'd have had to be sick in Texas for more than two months." Texas Sif tings i- J , m. mm All for Love. "Good night," he said, as he at last tore himself away and stepped out upon the porch. "Wait a min ute,'' she said "until I chain up the dog. It is about time for the milk man, and they are not the best of friends." Saratoga Eagle. Not Dead, Bat Speechless. "Is he dead!" was the inquiry made about an Irishman who, in company with a hod of bricks, had fallen to the bottom of the ladder, "Oi'm not dead," explained the in jured man, feebly, "but oi'm knock ed spaichless." New York Times. "Say,'' said the editor's smart little son, as he entered a store, "do you keep knives?'' 4'0h yes," responded the storekeeper, "we've kept them for years." ""Well," returned the boy, starting for the door, "you ought to advertise, and then you wouldn't keep 'em so long." Boston Journal. "Do you buy your m"sic by the roll!" said a gentleman to the dea con's daughter. "No, sir," she sweetly replied; "I always wait until Sunday, when can get it by the choir." New York Journal. "I say, Bobby," whispered Feath erly, "was your sister pleased to learn that I had called upon her? "Yes indeed she was," replied Bobby "When mother told her that. Mr. Featherly had called while she was out she said, 'Thank heaven ! '' New York Sun. Anchoring A Button. He drifted into a sample saloon the other day, wiped his forehead, felt around in his pocket, and said with a pleasant smile: "Well, as it eeems I have jus one ten-cent piece left to-day, I'll take a drink." When the four fingers of Antioch nerve-tangler had been secreted in his remotest recesses, the customer fumbled among his keys and laid something on the counter. As he did so he said: "Great Scott! just look at that now!" "I see it," said the barkeeper, scornfully regarding the alleged dime. "It's a susnender button. What of it?" "Why, I didn't look at it, you know. I just felt in my pocket, and I'm blamed if I didn't think it was a dime. Ahem! I suppose you'll have to put it on the ice un til to-morrow. I'll drop in and fix it." "Oh, of course you will. Take this and fix it now." And the cock tail dispenser handed over a needle and thread. "What's that for?"' ''Why, for you to sew that button on with, right now. You may make the same mistake somewhere else; sew her on strong." Detroit Free Press. Mistakes of Great Men. In another column will be found the Eaton-Cleveland correspondence whereby the President lets one weary Civil Service bird go free. Let us look at a few of the salient points each presents. Eaton says that changes made in the law by the President have added to their force and efficiency. Bv what right under the law does the President make changes of laws and rules? Every change is in-fraction upon law. If the President can cut from the corners he can cut from the centre, as well. Eaton speaks of the examination of candidates all over the Union, to see if applicants are fit to hold officer No one objects, but all favor the ex amination of Candidates as to their fitness to hold office under the gov ernment. But what sense in bavins: a government, then having a com mission to govern the government Why not abolish the government and turn all this matter of selection and examination and appointment over to this new-fangled returning: board newly -named Civil Service Commission? We contend that when the people elect a Congress, a Senate, a President, they have put in motion -sufficient machinery to do all the threshing required without the necessity of having a little government-for-a-Cent, to act as a dog for a blind man, when the man is not blind and knows the way quite as well as does the dog. Eaton himself declares that the Civil Service Commission is intend ed to jerk the government away from Congress, and to prevent the Presi dent being controlled by that body ! That buck won't ram. It signifies a new wheel a new form of govern ment. When we, the jpeoje, desire to change our form of government, we will give due notice and make the decision known by means of the bal lot. For several years the govern ment ran on without any power be hind the curtain to hand in names to the President, except the power of Senators and Congressmen and well informed people generally, and we, the people, will not have any third party to control the will of the peo ple as expressed at the ballot box. The Civil Service system is no es- toppal of the spoils system. It is simrjlv taking the rights of those ft. ' who are duly elected entirely away from them, and converts political parties into cats-paws, for roping chestnuts out of hot fires for the delectation of Civil Service monkeys. Come we now to President Cleve land. In the first place, his election as an expression of Democratic sen timent, told plainly that the people were tired of Republicans and their applicants and appliances That the people had confidence in him as a man of honor, courage and regard for constitutional Democracy. That the people were willing to trust him, but that he is not willing to trust the people. If he is willing to thus stand before 56,000, 000 of sovereign citizens, law ma kers in their own right, so be it. Presidential terms are shorter than is the life, the backbone, the cour-: age, the patriotism and intelligence of any one man who becomes a Pres ident, If President Cleveland is really earnest in thi3 matter and in favor of Civil Service Reform as he calls it, let him issue a proclamation in whioh shall occur this paragraph : "I. Grover Cleveland. President of the United States, being of sound mind and fair understanding, as certified by a civil service commis sion! in order to carry out to the full extent the aim and ide'i of civil service reform, do hereby forever re nounce all right to appoiut any per son, whomsoever, to any position whatever. And I do hereby give over, and peacablj surrender all right to appoint a cabinet, foreign minis ters, postmasters, etc., etc., that the entire business of appointing to office and selecting government agents may be taken out of politics and turned over to a civil service commission, contenting myself With drawing my salary, signing pardons and acting as a figure head ! I also wish to thus express my opinionof the mil lions of Democrats and others who elected me, and I hereby favor the giving of all matters pertaining to the government over to the rearguard of the Republican party, in proof that the people do not know enough to elect, and the elected does not know enough to appoint to fill vacant cies ! In consideration of the supe- rior fitness of the head of the Civil Service Commission to officer and to man the ship of State, I hereby ask him to come up higher and take hold of the reins of Executive Govern ment while I step down and inform the Democratic party that neither I nor the government have any further use for it." If Mr. Cleveland is tired of being President, let him resign! U. S. Democrat. INHABITANTS OF CENTRAL. AFRICA. A more remarkable or unique race does not exist on the continent of Africa indeed, I - might safely say in the two hemispheres. In their physio tie, manners and customs and raligious beliefs they are dis tinct alike from the true negrOeS and from the Galla aud Somali- They are the most magnificently modeled savages I have seen or even read of. Beautifully proportioned, they are characterized by the smooth and rounded outline of the Apollo type, rarely showing the knotted and brawny muscles of the true athlete. The women are very decently dressed in bullock's hide. They wear by way of ornament, from 20 to 30 pounds cf thick iron wire coiled round the limbs arms and neck, besides a great as sortment of beads and iron chains. The men wear only a small kid skin garment round tile shoulders and breast, that being of -somewhat more ample dimensions among the mar ried men. The most remarkable dis unctions characterize the various epochs in the life history of the Masai The boys and girls up to a certain age live with their parents, and feed upon the curdled milk, meat and grain. At the age of twelve with the ?irls, and from 12 to 14 years with the boys, they, are sent from the married men's kraal to one in which there are only young unmarried men and women. There they live till they are married. At this si men are warriors, and their occu pation is cattle lifting and amusing themselves at home. The young women attend to the cattle, build the huts, and perform other house bold duties. Both sexes are on the strictest diet. Absolutely, nothing but meat and milk passes the lips Spirits and beer, tobacco and veg etable food are alike eschewed. So peculiar indeed are they in their diet that they will not even eat the meat of any wild animal. Moreover the meat and milk are never taken to gether. For several days the one is their diet, to be followed by the other after partaking of a powerful purgative. On killing a bullock they drink the blood raw, which doubtless supplies them with the necessar salts. In eating meat they always retire to the forest in small parties, accompanied by a young woman. So pleasent does the Masai warrior find this life that he seldom marries till he has passed the prime of life and begins to find his strength decline- The great war spear and and heavy buffalo hide shield the sword and knobkerry, are then laid aside. For a month he dons the dress of an unmarried woman, and then becomes a staid and respected member of Masai society. He goes no more to war, but devotes himself to the rearing of a brood of young warriors. His diet changes with his mode of life and he may indulge in vegetable food, drink beer or spirits, and smoke or chew tobacco. At death the body is simply thrown out to the hyenas and the vultures. Throuqh Masai Land Joseph Thomson. SAVED BY A JACKAL, 'Jackals are at once the bane and the blessing of India," said a gentleman whose face either through a disorganized liver or from a quar ter of a century of steady curry-eat' ing under an eastern sun, or in con sequence of both, had acquired a rich yellow hue. "They banish sheep with their nightly howling, and sometimes they carry off a child, but they are the scavengers of the plains, which, I think, would hardly be habitable without them. Let me tell you a curious story about one of the brutes saving a child. I had better say at once, to check undue sympathy, that the jackal which rescued Lai Uhokrce, acted purely as an involuutary agent for he certainly ' intended to eat her. The little girl's name given to her in England a year previously, was Mabel Stern. Her father Col, Stern whose regiment was in India, was on leave of absence in his native land when little Mabel was born and three months later rumors of the coming mutiny in India began to be heard. Col Stern was ordered to rejoin his command, and with his wife, who insisted on accompaning him, his infant daughter and an ayah, or native nurse obtained with some difficulty in London he turned his face eastward. When he stepped ashore in Calcutta the country was in a flame of jnsurrection.and the col onel learned that his own regiment composed of Sepoys, recruited chief ly in the northwest, had been among the first to turn the arms they had obtained and the arts they had learned from their English masters against their teachers. He was or dered to do general duty with the forces at Delhi and still accompanied by his wife and child, through the ayah refused to go any further, he went up the country. "The last ocenes of the mutiny were being played. Their horrors and those that preceded them are too well known to need description. Col. Stern and his little family, with another ayah, were living in a bung alow, or Indian house, a few miles from Delhi, and keeping a careful watch at night time, for parties of disbanded mutineers were still prowl ing about actuated by one prevailing purpose, to murder white men, wo men, and children whenever they could do so with a fair chance of escaping with their lives? The col onel was au old Indian campaigner, and was apprehensive of ap attack. It came at last in broad daylight, and when the master of the house and his wife were absent in the city for an hour, and nobody was in the bungalow except the ayah and the child. When the colonel and Mrs Stern returned Mabel was gone, and the ayah, who seemed half-distracted told the story in her native tongue " 'They came Mem-Sahib,' she said excitedly addressing' Mrs. Stern, 'so quickly that I heard no noise until they were in the room, Where is the Sahib Logue? said one of them. I told them the colonel had gone out and would not be back before night. They wanted to know where the Mem- Sahib was. I told them you were with him. Great Allah I said the leader, nobody to kill! Then a dirty little fellow, who lives by rob bery and mutinied but never fought said : "There is still the chokree." " 'Oh! Mem Sahib! I put my forehead to the ground to them. I said : Kill me.bnt spare the ebokree.' At last they said I should not see the baby die. The leader asked her what her name was, and I said Ma bel Stern. "That will not . do, said the man. She must not meet Allah with such a name as that- The country is still red with blood. Let us call her Lai Chokra, (Red Girl). Then they took her away. "Mrs. Stern shrieked and rushed toward the door. The colonel stop ped her. 'What will they do with our ba by? he asked the ayah. " 'The woman bowed her head 3orrow fully. " 'Sahib.' she said, 'I know them well. The leader will take her home and let her lie an hour with his own little girl, I have seen her a child a year old, with a great scar on her forehead. This child will get all the good fortune that might have come to yours had she lived. Then he will take her to the river, and leave her lying on a pillow on the shore until the tide rises. It will be full at 9 o'clock.' " 'There may be time yet,' said the colonel, looking at his watch Mabel, you may stay here. Ayah do you know where the leader's bungalow is?' " 'Yes, sahib she said. 'I will show you. It is ouly half a mile away, and perhaps many men will not be there. Take your pistol and come.' The colonel followed her pistol in hand. But they had not come a quarter of a mile before both stopped as they heaid the noise made by some animal approaching them. Then, under the bright moonlight and only a few jrards away a great gaunt jackal passed them, going at a labored trot and carrying some thing in his mouth. Both saw plain ly what it was a-native child with a great scar on its forehead. " 'The colonel raised his pistol and was about to fire at The brute when the ayah stopped him with a hasty grasp on his arm. " 'Stay, sahib, she whispered. That is the leader's child. The Jack al may have taken yours first and then gone back for the other. Let us follow him. Ho is not going fast.' "Acting on her adviee, they fol lowed until they saw the jackal stop and drop his burden under a tree. The next mordent he fled, snarling like a hunted cur, into the juugle, and the colonel lifted his daughter, fast asleep and unharmed, from the side of the Hindoo baby just laid down. While Mabel had been transferring fortunes to the leader's child, and the family were waiting patiently at the rear of the bungalow for the completion of the operation the jack al, coward and sneak-thief ot the wilderness, had carried otf the white baby, and deferred his supper until he had returned for the black one. "A year afterward Col. Stern and his wife stood at the window of her home in England, smilingly watch ing two children on the grass below. One was Mabel Stern, and the other a dusky little girl with a scar on her forehead, and a faithful and remark ably intelligent ayah was taking care of them both. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Remember that I can sell you bug gies as cheap as you can buy anywhere in the world. I sell the celebrated Wrcnn work, C. W.Dunx. R AILROAD HOUSE, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. MRS. LAURA BELL, Proprietress Good beds, polite and attentive servants, the best table the market affords, and good water. Neatness one of its special aims. Stop at the Railroad House. D AVID A. MADRY, BRICK MANUFACTURER. Will take contracts for furnishing Brick as cheip as the next man, and give oetter work. Satisfaction guaranteed. The best brick in the market made by him at lowest prices. Give him a triaU Brick always on hand and for sale in any quantity. Scotland Neck, N. C. June 25, IS3C. 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