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7 1 Subscription $1.50 per year. WE MUST WORK FOB THE PEOPLE'S WELFABE. W. H. Kttchin, Owner) SCOTLAND NECK. N. C THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1885. roh. l. NO. 50. her onxwx of courtship. "If she loved you!" Of course you should know it! I think that 3 0111 must be blind! l.VCl'C a mail iwim.ur.mjw n, Vhea once I was Mire of my inind; f ia-iiit Till V All TD 111 ( You men are so awfully proud, nth your lips closed by ftar lik e a cur When you ought to ho speaking aloud. tain ! von think that it's dreadfully silly That we girls can't show what we feel! m sure that it could t worK nir, Ami "tweu'd simulifv -things a great dca!: tots mere of the girls would be married. I Could they ask to be somebody's wife. And one wouldn't always be hurried For fear she was single for lite. own I know little of duty. Of fitness and feas, and all mat; at I see the full poetic beauty, And that is enough to look at. rc .lonht vou're convinced you know bettor With that verv superior air; lk.t it don't change my dbtum one let ter yjtcause jtou condemn it so there! -wat sort of a man would I fancy? ir!i niiA ivlin lias snirit and dash: f Tall handsome that much I can say Ami oh: yes he must have a mus tache. tfich or poor? Either way's not alarm ing; Of course, one needs dresses and gloves; Cut it is so romantic and cr arming To be poor with the man that one loves. But if a real lover came to me lie wouldn't wait all of his life, Notdarina to openly woo me. ro, lie u asK me 11 1 u oe ms win-, And I'd know that Iiis bias was toward mc First, as well as when he had proposed What! must know? Thrc3 years you've adored me! Good gracious! I never supposed Daisy Dnnnington. tijj: tkai:shi fish wo:. extii aohdlnary yarn by a sail, ok Who Had Been Ship wrecked. A South-street ship-chandler vras showing how many tricks a bright little black-ami tan dog with a high forehead could do yes ttrtlay in the front part of his store, while half a dozen sailors looked on admiringly. When the dog had wnled his performance by rising on Ins hind legs and bowing around to each of the spectators, his owner gaiil: "You see what -a little persever ance will do. Six months ago that pup didn't know any more than a fish" Everybody smiled approvingly except one old sailor, who medita tively chewed a bit of rope-yarn. He said : "Nor a fish, did you say, sir! ' "Yes." "Well, it may be as some fish don't know nothiu', but others has inwe sense nor any dog that ever walked on lour legs, or two either. Fish is the knownies critters there is, only nobody never tries to teach 'em not bin'. They ne ver has any perseverance served out to 'em like dog.-? has. Why, a fish once earned 100 for me. It was whn I was in the hamanthy Abbott, aft er .she was dismasted. You remem ber her, don't you, captain! Had the sticks taken out of her when ive was three days from Matanzas with a load of staves." The "ship-chandler said: "If you'd been left twenty-four hours longer on tho wreck your recollec tions wouldn't be told here, I guess." True for you, sir," said the sailor. "Me and Jersey, the youngster as I as makin' his first trip into her, !'al a close call, but we weathered ''avy Jones that ere time, while the of the men didn't. As I was Iviir, when the squall had passed 'nil there wern't nothin' left of the Sooner, only a waterlogged hulk, aQJ no shipmates left neither, me aii'l Jersey got up a bit of canvas on tue stump of the bowsprit to attract N' attention of any ships as might U'Pen along in sight, and then we fctuownto meditate. When we m(i the sun risin' next day, and the father comin' off hotter'n ever, e did't feel no better nor we did Je day before. There wasn't a toeafhof wind, but pretty soon 1 arufflin- of the water off to st'ard, 'out 'twas only a school of (lolluins chasin' a lot of flyin'-fish, I know d that there wasn't no "i eof any vessels happeniu' along mat ere condition of affairs Wed. So me and Jersey watched "c uym -fish and the dolphins and U(i boobws what was a hoverin' over 'em, sorter listless like, and wished we had one of the dolphins. "Pretty soon they got so close we could hear the buzzin of their wings wb-h they riz outen a wave, and the dolphins was a-leapin' a fathom or more into the air after them. They didn't none of em' pay any attention to us no more than il we'd been logs of wTood a-rollin' in the water. Then the first thing w knew there was a shoal of the flyin' fish a-sailin' right over us. Jersey was for knockin' some of 'em down with his sou'wester, and I'd a mind to help him. when kerslap a big dolphin lauded right on the deck of the schooner, which it was easy enough to do, because she was wa terlogged and didn't have no bul warks on to her. "The dolphin struck right abaft the forehatch, and as I was a letfin' my knife into 'im f looks into the water, as was alir ost up to the hatch combin's in the hull of her. There I see half a dozen of them fiyin'- fish as the dolphin had neon chasm v nen tney see me they huddled together on the fur side of the hatch. I didn't know it lien, but they were consultin' toget- -or over the predicament they was into. 'Meantime Jersey he had sliced r.he head off the dolphin, and stood it on end on the corner of the hatch With thai the fly in' -fish seemed to tumble to what had took place. Here was a dolphin as had had justice for the persecuting he'd done to 'em all his life. The way them flyn'-fish act ed was asonishn. To say that :her was grateful ain't no name for it, and we wasnt no time makin' ueh friends with em that they'd ful ler us when we walked around tha ore hatch like dogs follers meat as is ifore 'em, and we didn't have to feed "em nothin', neither. Seem' they was so familiar like, me and Jersey :nade up our minds we'd encourage tnm and set about train in' of ' em, and nside of two days they'd go through nore evolutions nor a squadron of ingates The excitement of seeir.' 'em so wonderful smart and alookin' so gratt ful every .time the' see that ere dolphin's head was all that kept me from sinkiu' durin' them lays. T don't rightly remember whether A. was four or five days we'd been driftin about, but one mornin' we woke up about daylight to find our selves right in the middle of a fleet f 9pongT-', They hadn't paid no Attention to our old hulk til! j.Ih'v saw me and Jersey movin' about, and then one of their scoon era came alongside. They passed us a pa.:ikin of water the first thing, and then the skipper says : " "Well, shipmate, can you get over the rail alone, or shall I lend a hand!' With that I thanked him polite like, and says, ; Pll be with you as soon as I get3 ray pets,' and begins scoopen out the flyiu'-QsIi. 'What the devil do you want of them 'ere flyin'-fish? ' says he. 'Thcy's trained, says I. "'What can they do? ' says he. " 'They can outfly an3r other flyin' fish as ever beat the air for a hun dred pounds,' says I. The sponger he was a Britisher and gfme to back his opinion, and he says ; " 'Put up your spondulix, and I'll rake in one as will outfly your'n by a cable's length.' "I'll admit I was a little skecred at that,' cause I didn't know bat he might have some of Ids own as was trained better nor mine. However I had a matter of a couple o' hundred pounds as had been left by my skip per into his chest afore he was wash ed overboard, and I counted out the monej into the tatfrail of the sponger. It was soon covered, and then the sponger lie begins scoopin' for flyin' fiish when a school showed up. He caught several of 'em, and an able bodied boDito besides." "What did he want of the bonito?'' asked the ship-handler, "He nut it in a tub. We were to drop our flyin'-fish into the tub, and we lowed the bonito would make them hump tuemselves iu tht send off. So me Jersey picked out our favoritt as we'd been trainin' and the sponger he picked out a wolloper md we turned 'cm loose in a tub with the bonito. You mayn't believe it captain. hut when our flyin'-fish riz outen the water and see the tother one maken' off over the port" rail while ' he was !vad in, to starboard, he just came about on the port tack and overhaul ed that ere wild, untamed, airy steed like it had been anchored. That's now I made the hundred pounds 1 vas tellin you of." The ship-handler took out his pen- kni.e and began trimming hi thum nail, while silence fell on the little roup.. Finally he said. "Say, Jack have you got any con suls' certificates about you to prove that story?" "Certainty, sir," said Jack cheer fully, as he pulled what looked like a smoking herring from a diddy-box on the floor beside him. "Here are the skin of that very flyin'-fiish. He was so very Confident of his strength fchut arler he sailed across the bows o' that wild fellow come right back and plumped hisself down into the tub for to wet his whistle, and the bonito in less 'in three minutes, bat it was too late. He was alive yet, but he just rolled his eyes np at me kind of pitiful like, and then died It broke his heart to think he'd made such a fool of his self arter all I'd done for him.'" Cou. Home Life of the An cients. It was a dismal rainy day in De cember. Socrates, who had no um brclla, stood on the front steps of his house, drawing his cloak around him, before venturing down the street. From the opposite side of the street his friend, Theremenes, passing by, familiarly hailed him as "Soc," and shouted: "Blustery this morning" "Yes," replied the philosopher, "it's cold." "Heyf" suddenly shot the voice of Xautippe, from a second story window, what's thatf ' "I said," exclaimed Socrates, promptly throwing up his guard and backing prudently into the door-way, "I say it s cold." "Say what! ' was the sharp re joinder. "You say that again, and say it slow." "It's cold," repeated the philoso pher; "it's cold, it's cold; it's cold as ice I said." There was a moment's silence during which Xautippe appeared to be buned iu profound thought, while the great disciple of Anaxa goras occupied the painful interval by girding up his loins and tucking his trousers in the top of his boots and making other preparations for a lively run. Presently there came from the window: "You hold on there a minute, young man, till I come down; I want to see you a second before you go down town." There was a fierce flopping of at tic s.ind ds upon the wet pavement, the wild rush of a cloaked figure through the peltering r:dn, and ten minutes later Socrates was explain ing to Plato and Xeuopbon that he had chased a street car all the way from the Peiraic gate and was clear out of breath. Burdette. They had Forgotten it. "Say," shouted a boy in front oi the City Hall the other afternoon. Something like fifty men came to a dead halt. "Say ! your wife said I was to tell you not to forget to bring home tea!" continued the boy. in a louder voice. Fortyfive men wheeled, slapped their legs and grunted ont : ''Hanged if I hadn't forgotten all about it 1" Frree Press. ForaXr , Republican Governor elect of Ohio, is canvassing New York for Davenport. "One step, and then another, And the largest walk is ended; One stitch and then another; And the largest rent is mencod; One brick upon another, And the highest wall is made; Ono flake upon another And the deepest snow is laid." "Little moments make an hour; Little thoughts a book; Little seeds a tree, or flower; . Water dr- p-? a brook; Little deeds of faith and love Make a home for you above," For thcJDcmocrat. AOUT KMJCAI'IOX T. School or lluslne? 'Shall I go to school again or hall I io to business?" This question is being asked almost continually in the country by boys and young men who have more or less of the responsibility of this de cision resting upon themselves. A more important question they never have, nor ever will face in their lives. Happily for many boy, although.in their worry about school discipline and hard study, they wish it other wise they do not have the decision left to themselvesfor ; their fathers and iinardians make it a matter of duty in deciding that their own boys, and others under their care, shall go on to school till they have taken the course their circumstances enable them to take and demand that they should take. While these boys have nothing to do with deciding this question, the willingness with which they follow the directions of their fathers greatly affects them. If they go to the acad emy and the college against their will they are not likely to make the progress, and to develop into the men they would if thair hearts were in the work to which they are almost driven. But there is another class ofbovs and voune men to whom 1 m w this question comes with much force rand, withal, creat perplexity. That is the class of boys and young men whose parents or guardians leave it to their otii choice whether or not they will pursue and complete their course of education, or go at once to business and money-raaki.ig There is, perhaps, no class of boys more perplexed by this question than this. It is a hard tiling for them to decide. A boy of 18 sum mers, thus left to choose for hiraselt a series of years in school, or to 6tart at once with a tolerable stock, as he thinks, of practical, common sense to make his fortune in imaginary ease, is not to be envied. He has candor enough to own up to himself that he has some aspira tions for that higher life of thought which he will be able to enjoy with a collegiate or univcisity education ; but the prospects of present pleasure and an earlier start in the world sometimes drive out these aspirations forever. At home, he has a horse to ride and drive when he pleases. And he thinks that a day or two, or a week, now and then spent in visiting and hunting is just the thing for him. But from what he has heard other young men say about the hard work that is to be done at the college, and from what he has seen in the catalogues about the requirements there, he knows full well that if he continues in the academy till he is well prepared for 'college, and goes on through the course of training necessary to graduation, he must be deprived of all these home pleas ures. He thinks how easily he can drift into business with his father or un cle and have pleasant time mean while, grow large and be a fine look ing young man by the time he is "free." He contrasts himself thus with the pale, lean rcllow he would be at the end of the same four or five years if he should go to college. He has not learned that "the great est blessing a young man can get is an education, whether in college or in a technical school, or wherever or how ever acquired." And, too, he does not know the truth in the poet's words: "Were I so tall to reach the pole, -Or grasp the ocean with ray span, 1 must be measured by my soul; For 'tis the mind that makes the man." But who wonders that the boy or young man does hesitate to tear himself from home and its happy surroundings, when its seems to him that his education is already suffix cieit for practical purpoi-est He hears some business man say that behind the counter and at the desk, and not at the business college, is the place to learn business success fully. The boy may look around him and see that the man with the most money Is the man who stopped when he knew about as much as he knows. He thinks that perhaps he would do well to act likewise. It is hard for him to decide ; but too often he decides to leave off study ing and to go to pleasure or to busi ness. Alas ! how many such mistakes are made. In most cases it is better for a boy to be orccd to his decision, forced by parent or guadian or forced by circumstances, And circum stances give more powerful impulse to aspirations and action than the commanding dictates of parent or guardian. Youns man. is this ques tion facing you? Be careful how you decide. You may make a good c!erk or a good merchant without your thor ough education. But Is that all you want to be? Perhap it is, but it is not all you ought to be. It is a high and worthy attainment for some men to be good merchants, good agents, good me chanics, considering their opportu nities ; but with the choice before you which I have mentioned it is not all you ought to be. With this choice before you, it is too small achievement for you to simply make a living in the world, or even a for tune. It is your privilege.'and ought to be your aspiration, to fit yourself for something more than the routine work or business of the ordinary man. It is yours, if you will make the effort, to enter into the world's thonsrht. and to eet broad views of lite, aud thus know more of what there is in it besides the bare gain in dollars and cents. Thousands would rejoice to have the choice left to thrm that is left to you. It is excusable in one who sees no chance to rise to heitate to make an effort, buttil is unmanly in those who mav have orooortunities not to make j - the best of them. E. E. Hiixiakd. What Water Will Care. Uncle Zack Baker, of Benton county, is interested in a mineral spring, lie nas not atcempieu w introduce a bill offering the spring as an amendment to tho constitn. tion, a piece of legislation, though, which may be expected of him. '-What is the water good. jforF asked the Speaker of the House. "Good for evcrythingiglt will cure any case of yaller jahders.in the world. Tell you what's a fact. A fellow came along some time ago with a yaller dog. He was the yal- loyest dog I ever saw, but he feli in that spring, and when he came out he was as white as a sheet." How is it for rheumatism!" 'I'll tell you what's a fact. Do you know young All" Wilson!" "I think so." "Well, Alf hail the rheumatism so bad that he had to carry one leg on his shoulder. He drank that water for three weeks and can now jump a ten-rail fence." "Will it cure lying" "Will itl Tell you what's a fact. A Little Bock newspaper man came up there some time ago, and now you can almost believe half of what he says.' Arkansas Traveler. How wars Originate. "Papa, how do nations get into war?' asked Tommy Seasonby. "Sometimes one way, sometimes another," said the father. "Now, there are Germany and Spain they came near getting into war because a Spanish mob took down the German flag." - "No, my dear," put in Mrs. Sea sonb3 "that wasu't the reason." "But, my darling,'' said Mr. Sea sonby. "don't you suppose I know? You are mistaken. That was the reason." No, dearie, you are mistaken. It was because the Germans " "Mrs. Seasonby, I say it was be cause " "Peleg, you know better, You are only trying to " Madam, I don't understand that vo'ur opinion was asked in this mat ter anyway. Well. I don't want my boj' in structed by an old ignoramus." "See here, you impudent "Put down your cane you old brute. Don't yon dare bristle up to me, or I'll send this rolling-pin at your head, j-ou old " " "Never mind," interrupted Tom my, "I guess. I know how wars be gin." Chicago Newt, llcforc and Rchlnd The Scene. To show more clearly the comicali ties and absurdities of stage life we cite a lew incidents, which arc the results of personal observation, and which, to the unthinking, show ti e vat difference between the relations of professional people before and be hind the scenes. Before the scenes Hero: For years 1 have iollowe l yvu as the re lentless tiger followed his prey, and your crimes deserve. Thus do I bury my knife again and again in your craven heart, thus do I satiate my direst vengeance. Villain : With my dying breath I curse 3'ou. (Dies.) Behind the scene Hero: Say, Curly lend me a collar button ; some fakir has collared mine. Villain: That's an old guy. But here you are. Don't be ashamed to return it. Before the scenes King: Down, slave, and beg my royal pardon. Slave : Yes sire ; most humbly do I crave thy clemency. Behind the scenes Slave : Here, you royal dummy with tho Jtin fake on, pull off my boots, will you? I can't stoop over this pad. King : Why, cert, Jimmy. Before the scenes Hero : Thus do I endow thee with a royal ransom. Take this package. WTituin it you will find $40,000, and if you need more you have but to send word to ray lawyer. Behind the scene Hero : (who is also manager) I am very sorry Lillie, but I can't pay you 'our sala ry this week. Here is a dollar make that go till we strike better business. That's a good girl. Re Jieboth Sunday Herald. Why the Democrats Should Have the Offices, . When the .people of the; United States, in November, 1884, voted r to put thft Republicans out an the Dem ocrats into, power in the national Government., did they mean. t . have the change limited to the Presidency, the Cabinet, and the most prominent places in the public service, or waa is their wish to bring about a more rad ical and throughgoing reform by putting in new meo generally! , It seems to us I hey wanted to lea ven the whole lump wit h Democracy. We are unable to see : why a Dem ocrat who. seeks a small office should be characterized as an impudent spoilsman any more than ( a Demo crat who seeks a great office ; or why either of them should be subjected to this reproachful appellation. ; The Democrats want the office? because they think they can serve the public better than the Republi cans. If they can. they should have tht offices. If not, the Republicans should be permitted to keep them. There is nothing in this notion at all inconsistent with the frequently expressed idea of President Cleve land that public office is a public trust. All that the Democracy asks is that when-ever a new trustee is to be appointed, a Democrat shall have the opportunity to prove that he will make a more competent and faithful trustee than any Republican that can be selected, or tflan any Mug wump. Sun. TUE EDITOR AS A COMPOSI TOR. A Western editor has recently discharged all his compositors be cause he thinks the wages demanded a new imposition, and hereafter in tends doing his own type setting In the next issne of his paper he says : 4'oWring to tile eXorbiTANT Wcges dEmxNded by printers we h Ave concluded to do oTJr 0W1 trpe SEtinng in Tile fuTUre., ; and aLTHoug we nEver leArned tije Business! wE dO Not see yny gR at ra.fsterY in tnE aR. X. John O- Gamage & Sons 100 & 102 WATER STREET, NORFOLK, VA. SHELL AND BUILDING LIMES, CEMENTS, LATHS, BRICKS, HAIR. TAR, FIRE CLAY, &c, &c. 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ErTOifiee on 10th Street, first door above Main JJAILROAD HOUSE, SCOTLAND NECK, N..C. MRS. LAURA 13 ELL. Proprietress Good beds, polite and attentive EervaBts, the best table the market s-tto-rds, ar.d good water. Neatness one of its special aims. Stop at the Railroad House. D AVID A. MADRY BRICK MANUFACTURER. Will take contracts for fura!shir.g Bnck as chenp as the next man, and give oetter work. Satisfaction guaranteed. Tho best brick in the market made by Liia at lowest prices. Uive him a . rrv, Brick always on hand and for sale iu any quantity. Scotland Neck, N. C. June 25, LIFE and FIRE IIUSURAN fen I am representing tkj strongest most 'liberal, prompt and it.h.bk companies n tho U. S. Cull at my olnce. take out a policy nnf' secure your property. A policy in the iEtna, Lue (Jo., is more secure tfcen Sit. 6VO Banks in the Union. J. II. LAWRENCE, Scotland Neee, N. C. MISCELLANEOUS, NOTICE? :o: .33 YEARS AT THE BUSINESS Look to vour interest and dout" bo DiccErvicn. 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