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- E. E HILLlAaD. 4 iior aal rVo i --.ir nbrr tpiltin l an .SCOTLAND NECK, . C . ill LLSl A Y. .1 AN I'A K V L'H. IDi. VOL. VI!. 1;; o TAxffti Ann ''II O F L SS 1 O N A L . j L, Tit. wis, BTJTOK & TRAVIS. ATTOKYS AND CoUN AT LaW, j HSUFfeX, H. C. 8 14 lv. V TTrTTrrNiEiFT c- Daniels, Goebd.cro, K. 0. Wilson N.C. Ayccck & Daniels & Daniels, ATTO UN KV S AT LA W , Wilson. N. 0. AnTHnin,ss Entrusted to up will be Pranrt'y Attended to. ly P' 'Mr. VY ' s A T T 0 R N K Y A I L A A , SC OTLAND J, Practices wherever bis services arr ,jeqvmeo. Vv . Attorney OtrNSFXOK -vr Law Scmiand Neck, O. Office: Corner Main and Tenth Streets. 1 5 lv" fi A V i i h'FiLL, If Al'iOIiNKY A I LA. K.N FIELD, N. C. Practices in all the Courts of Halifax and adjoining counties an.l in -..e u prcme and Federal Courts. Ula-. col lected u. all parts of the Si ate. 3 8 : W.H.DAY, A.C.ZOLL1COFFEK. R RANSO.Y weid'-ii. iifTider.-on. woldon. DAY, ZOLLICOFFER & RA.NSOM. A i TO UN L Vs A 1 LAW, Vv eldon, N (. 3 8 ly. rjTlKMA N. LULL. ATTOUNLY A I LAW. Practices in Halifax and adjoining counties, and the Federal and Supreme Courts. 3 Sly. jyi. II. M. JOHNSON, arf cro wmm Wf qfTV Office- Cor. Main and Tenth Streets 10 11 ly. Scotland Neck, N. C. JOHN ROBERTSON'S Shoe Shop & 'Restaurant. OPEN AT ALL HOURS. Satisfaction guaranteed to patrors. (-r--er N" th re. ! M;.;n Streets, S: TL Nl NECK, - - s N, C. ian 6 ly. I) R. W. O. MCDOWELL; OFFICE Corner Main & lOMi Stt Ivext door to Wilson A ilsbruok Scotland Neck, N. C. i5P Always at his office when o roftsssionally engaged elsewhere. 9 23 tf. D R. C. C. CHRISTIAN, Scotland JSeck, N. C, HP Can f;ati'.i at t'.i1 OVor Prohrrs' store vtO. Dir. Vrsior; ally i'n " 2 13 tf. '-THE PEOPLE'S TYPE-WRITER" r JMie last invented ah a i Mt 1 others in si:n)li"t , ctn.ii an c-,-pne;t for in,-ii:iil-iinp. Th . 1 i Writer ewr ii.vcr.tfd u-i-i u i hon. For ..M!if.t!',-mi '-t :ia -"i-- ' i r,'Hi I ' fi" H r- - - ii? R R. Owens, A ;.. HO.vli N V r. a i. Lew ' f rKTEl-fBr!V"'., Va., VDvd "5 'Sf'i. "J" VK HAY A.( -rs7 -d "!!'! t,'-,Jt'l'' U" li il M p'' I -t)in " k ' 'o i. j . . ":r, n htvn.r b''-. -js-onfito ith 'hem as fore srian f..r .0 rears y-A ,, .et-i f r for 1 yars. foe! crotfi font fhH m tnterinv upon this nt?rpr"' " do o with a thor ough and nrac'ica! knewledj of the fruipi-iie-LJ, aD'i trust to have a share of public it tronairc. Very resnpctfrdly, R. J. STEEL, 5 15 1y. WM. ALfiXAJCDER. BEFORE THE ELOPEMENT. T"o early yAI Tiio Tii Iris tmriii set, ily lore: In peic &U earth repos. iitd drickn tbe boJmy daTr Eat tull cvj's eloving rass t I i Aj e tiu'ria od Ltte blua. Toj early pat, iuy kwe! H,-.sx- faJth In m! V.iieJi night iter aid w fl. My iy! Tbo binia bavftowaed their tiriOr, The brtsezes rest, and bcka Tbe h&A.M of stars will piilfcor Arocivl tae aid faced moon. Ti'A ihm ;o-d-by, my kve! I hail thwi. Lovely an I iKViotifuJ niht'. Y-il the?, Xoon of ti.e nilyory liffht'. Cort yu aafCcii, atu-ji.iias oa hiijh ! Clcw ii blara'yr ech v-itant ey.. FaO or hlj yo j till mornlnp; drawa biffh, AJ1 ye giitteria elcs f the sky. I hnil tbue. Lovely and baatltul tLfjfett Veil thoo, Moon of the silvery light! Omi'S, fear riot, my own gnnUe bHde, Daut;f ul Kweetlieart, tfay loe be thy gniAal Cuma thou, my aD?l, my Joy and niy prid! Come, love! John VcJlt in New York Sua. Thackeray' Itom and Oolil. Thackeray composed and wrote hla novels on long ncto paper in the most ferxiinine handwriting. The manaserip't he frequently took down to his publisher in tbe crown of his hat, stopping en rotate at the Garrick club to take lunch. Ilia habit of composition was methodical. When writing "Philip on Hia Way Thrcragh the Woiid" he told, irtth serio comic earnestness, of the necessity he waa under of spinning out more chapters because it was necessary to put another story on his house at Kensington Gar dens, and Philip must do the job. On that occasion he said, "Do you know that both Dickens and myself ure imposing on the public, for we have worked out our own views very much, and dig out more droas than ore." Thack eray waa too sensitive to make a good lecturer or take pleasure in appearing personally before the public, as Dickens did. He uBed to say: "Hang this lectur ing; it is the most unsatisfactory thing to me you can imagine. If my audi en e does not applaud me I feel mortified be cause I have failed to interest them. If they applaud me, I feel like a successful mountebank; it is equally uncomfortable both ways." Sheffield Telegraph. Fritlts in Japan. "My wife and I have been in Yoko hama seventeen years," Baid Thomas L. Boag, "and wo are going back to En gland to live. Japan is a good enough place to live in" "If you can't get away," put in Mra. Coag. "The climate is pleasant, but it's only a place to m iky money in. Old niarrie l people sucli :ts we j can get along, but lonr.ly .r jj y It isn't like L fruit there fit to eat tsaid Mrs. Boag, "and except gra ;.;.- tbev'vo vroollv. "Yes, th-i gnipo3 have a few hairs on them, and tht-y fv,U) queer," admitted Mr. Bia. "They have tried apples and pears cp in th. northern part of the isl and of Yt ddo, aad tlxey aro fine. But the nearest thing to an apple in Yoko hama i-3 '.ishi,' which has meat like a coarse pear and a flavor like nothing else I know of." Chicago Tribune. The Truth About the L'nxeom. In "Cr.rious Creat ttrea in Zoology," by John As') ton, the unic'rn familiar to. rao.t, pecplo frfrn the bottom of plates, where it is representod as conducting a per(Ctr:.".l clot,'y..s linp fight with the Hot, gt'ts a gi )d de::l of notoriety, and travelers bavo worn up hill and down dale that the- hav-? cn it, and that it looked somr- ling 1 a horse with a long twisted horn coming out of the middle of hi; forehead. The horn was a sure antidote to poison, trid Queen Elizabeth had one that wa;- valued at what would now be about &1.'0, 000. Of course it w:vs tne horn of a narwal, and they got tho stflry mixed with the rhi noceros, which, a-.cording t-o the old cir cus story, is an c p 'aiv - animal, cost i rf pils and piles of money. Chicago ' une. i'ar.i-'ii s i:T the T'tjcr. :.lliig ef the minute psra?ii:o c t r trl i t the liaiiy psvrt of a j- i. a r.ti-.t sevs: "Thev cor. .i . 0 i-1. rfuicuriosi ;rld. 11); U aj to bo almost in- visible ti t:!- ini': eye, and yet each it m :eiiVct c"inirp.irt of the tigyr head. ears. i:'.v; aws. body, tail, all arc - - - tne re. think this is a big f.'-'-'-r, bat loc-lc th" sr.bj-ct up and see il ii i- not si."' New Yor Tribune Pi-i.::rc ) Gh;ilk for the Teetb. In the earo ef viie fceeihs well as other things, the iii,pi--&t thing is the best. Lay a iiitle prewired chalk, fuch as wo men use on their faces, and a large soft brush. Dampen the brush, dip it in the Ltiaik and ufce twice a da', rinsing after ward. If this is followed out for a weel . l'A Uciiuu je it v.-ill Avhitenthe worst it.Sa a.ti hcii-dea txie gums. Interview tit".i "litiy. 13 greui could see things in front of hii noa as well as afar off. utire that the women rub the washing in e .Id waLtr," he wrote one day. "Lei . i:r,si heit the water, and the alkali is ..i.) to:tp will be freiid and take far bet tcr eUcct." Aad only after tout did women know how to wash. Detroi Free Press. Among historic rings is one said to bt !.tprre's bigi:et. Upon the seal, --.;m1 wiih a true lover's knet, ar ;.. :.'ucJ::Ls Vv. S. It was lost before bii '.- -fi ii-u f.-n -I ir.'-uiy ywirs after by a Lx-rer's if, near Stratford church yard. Ihij i.', the only authentic piece i.l his jKM-.n:a! property known to be in cSiotence. The use of face powder originated in the lancy of a French mountebank, who dredged his head with flour in order tc emphasize hia idiocy. LADIES Needing a tonic, or children ,iat want builuing up, should tn to BROWN'S IKOiV UITTEKS. Its pleasant to ta.ke, cures Malaria, Indijes Uoo, and Bilioueacw. All dealers keep it. TV niTt PAVT 4 A' IT'TT T ,C A TRAVELER SPEND? aN HOUR CN STRANGE SOUTHERN SOIL. i Alone In a CroTtt of Half C'ry Jlcn. Mttde to Drink, to stcd nihout for FnutM. Startling Kzperience in CbilUn Cob Tlct fettlwiif nt. We arrived at Panta Arenas at about 3 o'clock iu tho morning. It was very dark, and overhead the gtars in ccunt letfl millions Etoo-1 in relief against their inky background bike brilliant gem in a vatt setting of somber black. It was a night of tsolemn stillness, unbroken rave by the occasional barkings of a de on the beach, and the weird cns of the penguins and other wil l s-'a fowl as the hip Rilently stole among them and dis turbed their e! umbers. The shore on either pide was fian':ed by great tower 'ng walls of frowning granite, whose dim shadows, like giant sentinels stand ing against the eky, appe ared to jruard tho entrance to another world beyond. We were in tho tnats - M&g&llaii, and had come to anchor on Punta Are nas, a Chilian convict settlement, about fifty miles distant fixon tne Atlantic coast. I had taken tass-icre from Xew YTork about a month before on the Pa cific Mail steamship City of Panama, en route for San Francisco. I learned fros: the engineer that we were to remain at anchor for six hours, and then the wild desire seized me to go on shore. To set foot on Patagonian soil was, to my youthful mind, an object worthy of any sacrifice. The ship's offi cers were all forward, while from the davits, near the etern of the vessel, the captain's gig" waa swung ready to be launched. I was a powerful vounii fel low then, and, though it was a risky job j to undertake alone, 1 resolved to try it. PULLED FOR THE SHORE. It was easy enough, however, to lower the boat into the water, and before many minutes had elr.psed I was rowing rapid ly away from tho ship into the darkness. "Here, you y:-tmg scoundrel," I heard tho captain shout, and then followed several pistol phots iu rapid succession. The captain had missed the boat, and ( rightly surmisiijg th-t I was the one in ' it, had shoutd Piter me, but without ef- ; feet. His voice reached me, but fortn- nately his bullets, evidently intended to frighten me, fell wide of their mark. After a half hour's hard pull the boat grounded on tho beach and I jumped out. Hauling the boat well up on shore I proceeded in the direction of a light which I saw in the distance. Arrived at tho spot I saw that the light came from a small door or ope-aing, something like the entrance to an Es quimaux hut. The building itself was a, low, square structure of log3 and rough boards, without windows, and having no other opening than the small entrance before mentioned. From the loud voices and sounds of revelry corning from within, I concluded that a party of sailors were inside hav ing a jollification. "Here's an advent ure," 1 thought, and dropping on my. hands and knees I began to crawl in. I saw a log fire burning in tho center of the room, which was filled with smoke. Around tho fire were a dozen villainous locking men. That was all I cared to see, so I started to go out, but having been seen by one of the men a general rush was made for me, and I was seize 1 and dragged to a olace near the fire. The smoke was -tiffing, and my eyes smarted so that I eould scarcely see. The men were talk ng. as near r3 I could make out, a inixt rre of French and Spanish. Their garb showed that they were convict-. 1XSIDE Till? HUT. "Here's a go," I thought, its one of ihem roughly seized my arm and flour shed a knife in my f;;c, at tha fame time a .king me in French (which I un derstood). "What do yon want here?' With the Lest French I could lunster i told my story, and then .tdded t'e:it tho moke va? suffocating me, and that I dysired to go out. Afrer a consultation ii.:uoug the m-u I waa h iuded a huge bheh bottle find toll to drink to tho velfare of "La France." I tok a swal- 'ow of the sf wn; hki' srsl- . ' -y: .' acid. "La i i ve hi F?--mce!" they e'led "Vive la Fran.: 111 . t l' ranee. fluted, and I in response. I -as bundled through tho littl? pa-age-f ;y an-.l landci outs! Ha more dead than live. The d iwn ha just begun to break, ;:id when I reached the beach I saw that e.e b.-t was gone. I shouted to the lJp, vhl?h lay about half a mile from shore, and rushed frantically about, vying to attract taeir attention. "What .1' th.; Lip shocM leave without ra?," I .bought, and then to add to my dismay i con id heiir the men on board at work on the anchor. I L.il about given up in despair when i suvv a boat put off from the ship. "The captain has it in for you," said one of the sailors, as tt boat, drew near. When 1 reached the ship the captAin amusel imreli" for something like twenty min-.it-s in generally ab'asing and swearing . :-ie. bat I was on board once mora .-id didn't miai it. Besides I had been . :.hore in Patagonia. I have never learned what the men I iw in the log cabin were doing there at hat hour of the night. They may have ;ecn escaped convicts. For all I know ;eing smoked oi.t may be a popular form :f amusement i;i that part cf the world. -Nov.' York Hrald. Peiitious for Jutlicitst Service. There are a number cf notabilities vho are enjoying a rxaishon for judicial services in England. The Earl of Sel berne and Lord liersehell receive each Co. 000 a year ao ex-lord chancellors, but ;it with the lord chancellor and the lords of appeal in ordinary for judicial business. Lord Blackburn, many years a judge of the queen's bench division and for eleven years a lord of appeal, en joys an allowance of 3,750. The pen sic7i usually granted to a puisne judge cn retirement after not less than fifteen years' services is 3,500. London Tit Bits. g BROWN'S IRON BITTERS Cures Inrligesl.oa, nillcusncss. Dyspepsia, Mala ria. Nervousness, aatl Cent ral Ut-bhitj-. Physi cians recommend it. All dealer? se!l it. Genuine ttatrade nmrk and rro?se-d red lines on wrap per. r:o.. r:!. u Caiir-n-.s. j One hj to go L:-l' t- lb? day- cf th j famous Spa.n:sii "rnu-c-'i.s, or frr.ticr town? built and : ! .--. 1? i i.i Spain's h" roit agi by her pnul; knights, to a fit parallel hi history to the posdriori held by Ger. Vailejo daring the closing years of the Mcxicca rule in Caiifom;.i. lie had absolute few-y for a hundred miles or mere, and ho "kept tho border." His men riie -cn Lorjeback to Moutfert-y and to Capt. Sat3-r'a fori on the S;vcra mciito. bringing him news and carrying his letters. 8panih families coloniaod . tha fertile va'.'eyh under his protection, j and Inlicji3 came and built in the shad- i on of th'1 Sonoma mission. j He owned, a 1;? b'ievcl by nnassail- j pble title, the largett and finest ranch in I the province, and he dkpensed a Le:- j pitality so generous and rmiver.-al that it was admired and f'Xtoll'-i even among tho old Spanhih famiht,. J. Qaiun vii..-u. v:.. ; v v.-! . i ,i horses that are broken to the saddle and bridle, and 9,C-GU that are not broken. Broken horses readily bring $100 apiece, but th. unbroken ones cun bo purchase-1 for a trivial sum." More and more in the closing yesr of the epoch and the ur:ys of the conquest Gen. Vallejo became the repreTeut;itive man of his people, and no hi has re ceived, among many of tho eld families, the reproachful taae cf a traitor to Cali fornia and to bis nation. The quiet in tensity of this bitterness, eveu today, hi a startling thing. I have seen men at pure blood, famous in provincial history, leave the room at th3 name ci Vallejo. Charles Howard Shun in Century. Columbus' Po3y. Christopher Columbus died ir. obscurity and poverty at Valadolid, Sain, May 0, 1506. By epecinl favor of the monks cf St. Francis his body was, for a time, deposited in the vault of their church ia that city, but some years biT, in pur suance of his own exprefned wish, the remains were translated to Hispouiola and placed in a crypt under the cathe dral of San Domingo. In 1530 the body of Diego, the son of Columbus, wu also buried in the crypt, and some yean afterward that of Luir, trie iixjyerer'i grandson, was laid with me other two. In 1795 the Spanish prtof So Domingo was ceded to the French, In before tha cession Tjenaisbioa w8ts give-i tr th re moval cf Celumbr.5 body to uvaaa. A metallic case. f,uppo3-?d o contain the body of the di verer, ws.i rwmoved and placed in the Cathedral of navana, and the matter rested until 1?T7, when a metallic casket was found ia the San Domingo vault, which beyond all doubt was that of Christopher Colmnbus. It was inscribed both within and without with his name and titles, and jtrovod be yond question that, through baste or carelessness, the persona who effected the removal in 1705 had carried away the body cf Diego, the son of Columbus, and that the remains of tho great ad miral now reat beneath the Cathedral of Pan Domingo. St. Ixuis Globo-Democrat. A Northern Kotxloo. Slug No. 4 was a pretty good printer and a jolly fellow outside when the laat form had gone down. But ho was a southern man, and he couldn't, to save his life, get rid of the dialect of the darky. "I doan't know how it is." he used to say, "but yo' fellahs seem ter see sumpin' bery .miir rism about the way i talk.' 1 he hoes in the same alley rtStid to have a good deal of fun with No. 4 and his dialoct, and one day they teased him so that, dropping a stickful cf agate tyre, he turned upon the one nearest to him, and raising both hands exclaimed : "I cuss yo': I curs yo"! I cuss yo' till de hoodoo gits yo";" That was all very funny for the boys, but the strange part came throe weeks later, whta tho oau who ha--1 been 'cu:-s-'i "fill-bid' after t ha v. hi di?ch: sw.nl f ud f' -r ac-os. He :'. couple of days I fu'id w.trk again. it. but cord, i as if th. lt h.'o Lim. SI ;v : . - s f t V (lidtVtJ: t v.u . : i.vr f-iun codoo had caught i o. Iter 4 w? that, ho t le i tret tod ve Somehow J ' - the -. ;" s 'XJ.3 .'le l.-.vi.ie--- It Eugene Smitli. eer . tsry of York Prison association, tells a the -iew tj . - t able story of the, au:-.-the question, "I.; L-. !i-; icy?" It waa ia the tV. r a u:i ran refri;iatory, ierioir;g i-i'-trnc- where a class wa-i u tion. A young man aii.l j.-em).l'iei.''ii to answer tas quelle "i 0-t-a.. -v. l.-oo-esty is the befct fhcy." t?Jd -, 'be cause of a case where I knew it to work iaat way. ee.' ere was lo vont:; fellows in New 'fork and they was crooked, tee? and they didn't su.ceeJ. They went to Philadelphia, and they turned over a new leaf and agreed to be square and honest. They opened a cloth ing store, see? and they prospered. They got every body's confidence, and they bjr rowed 100,000 to enlarge tl-eir basinets, snd then they failed and g-.t awp.y with every cent of the money, which tbev never ceroid been honest. have :-v i- raoe; jco .a: ilTuaili.?.b'e vmt.viFS. an boy who could whether rvns- or r-? dicta-iu, and ?re waa a rc-hearse 40.000 word?, non-7er3e, a? they w then repeat them iu without making a physician, about sixt; repeat the whole of .o reveroe - rder mi:-.taiie. A o j ago, could ariuiise LjOSI without making a though lie hill cu' ir.gt. mistake, ai re ad it for twenty vears. Luler. tlie areat mataetiiattcian, when he became blind, could repeat the whole of Virgil's "Eaeid," and could re member the first line and last line of ev ery page of the particular edition which he had been accustomed to read before he became blind. Spare Moments. Signs of Death. Bellows What makes yon fear your eon out in Colorado is dead? Fellows (with a sign He hasn't writ ten for money for nearly a month. Epoch. ! O 3 r.i Whiskey Habits & KSi U P M x-.Oir -M:.-a FBEF, 2fi.ffC-ly. PRIMITIVE PEOPLE. METHODS THEV PURSUED iS COOK ISG THESR FO-0D6. A 5ynopi of a trttart by Pro fr Morr-Th . n ti'jalt.T f CvkiD( rtc IdkI Munnrr i f Apftytng HmI l Mt and rT-tMr -r vqrluIS Htttj Prcf.-!"or Morv gave his rcotid )rci ore on 'I'riinitiVe I'et-g.'e"" at Academy hall, ar.d spjke p:.-ticuJarly cf GrrtLKx- And ftcve. In h bnctly v rie we 1 v- 11:t l--tnre. makirg t;-ciAl , refereiK mal-s ad. t the fact that mfu end nni ; t thcm.fi.-Ivei to their snrrjnnd- Tt.us tr.l c:.:" in c:nlizJ homes eat coni ard rc.t;real, wLi!- ctwt in Iceland will eat salt fLh as a Ftead though neither cf tUte animsli j wrraP. eat fcneb food in tha ordinary j caturai c.ate. Prweedmg to tbe eulje in hand. Profior Morse cited the finding tf baked cakes with the Egyptian mam mies as evidence cf the antiquity cf cocked food, and of the univrTal prim itive fashiou smoug ravage or pnniitive ptoplcf of cooking food in vest-els nwtin on three rounded Etonew, which man very early fuud out were tetter than four. This piethod was employed by the 2Torth American Indians, the Eui uiaux, the maJtm Finrs, and even by the Irish in the Seventeenth century. Another method employed was tba cooking of meats in baskets of water with hot stones. Some tribes of ths North American Indians cooked corn, grasshoppers, and perhaps other delica cies by placing them in clay lined bask ets, with rel hot coals, and shaking the oaskets back and forth and blowing off the ashes and cinders till tho content were done to what tho Indiana probably considered a turn. CSC'd-MATJ HCT3. The kitchens of New Zealand and Cey lon are but rough primitive forms cf many that are seen in Germany and Eng land, except that in tho former c&f;" the fires are out of doors. English and German fireplaces aro far behind ta American ttove and cooking range, and are really survivals of prehistoric timoa though the hearths for the fire areraietsi and arrangements made tor the escape of the Miioke. Suecerd iug the pj-iiod of pl.,.:l.e- pot on three stones over tbe hre comes their suspension by some support, a fuinilLar method being by means of three sticks fastened together at the top. The Hpii mau suspends his kettle from the ceiling ct'his ice hut by moans cf cord or hide. And here the lecturer departed from his subject to describe how the hut is built spirally, with blocks of ice an.l of dome Ehape. The hut is lined with fekins, so that what little of tho ice melts will not drop down on the occupants in the f .rm of water. These huts are warmed by open crude oil Limn-:, in which is inocs saturated with oil, and over them are suspended the kettles. The oil comes from the blubber of the whale, seal and sindlar animals, and is obtained by the women and children, who.se principal buin. -ss it is in the winter tlmo to chew blabber to get the oil. Under lh hut there is ubu ally a largo sujply of blubber stored for winter ue. lJroteeor lorse describes tne f-t-sve of China and Japan, and showed two patterns of what appeared to be ear then. j ware prjrtablo stoves, about the : i::e of i u. rrfts. Oth;-r stoves ar( rou.ro clav or brick a ffairs, with open hugs lor v. o Vl and varying numbers of holes on top for ..iti(.?i of riinVii'" nh-TKil and none have arrau;. .its for the di rect escape of the sraoko out of doors. EA.RLY ;ir:TUOD3 OK Gi.TTI'J VIH1Z. Some of these eastern stoves have shrinrs or symbols over the fireplaces to keep out evil spirits, and in some of them a iight is kept bnraing, cr a little food or some other trifl phi-.-i-d by uy of m- voting toe care i : eoin 1 .-pliit over i the toou taat is to :.e coo:cf . I-. In closing, the h;etrrer had fouie thing to say about pri'jr.tive ni- ! . r O ere: and iV.S.T v'i?:. 1 i- tc-re.-:tiag ( xo-: ; a arices. Th- - oii.'iv. .e 1 nor ite llrst i:i:--ovvr r, h;:i the (lis -.-., ery ; j must have Ixeo fallowed by alreintii luus j stride of advaiicenieut by the human race. Probably are v.,? nrst nf.e-i as a religious rite, aii(l by mar.y savage nations it has been worshiped a3 a god; after that it was probably r.sed fur cooking, and then for other purposes. Some people never learned tbe art of making fire, but took good care never to be without it. Emin Pasha, whose rescue fi.itu the heart of Africa Stauh-y format. ! vor.ches for wondrous taiesio th .t ivgloii ! to the effect that in somo sectl a ; of Cen- l -r-A A frir-i h.-imh nf f-hir;-".'iT'7 occa sionally raid the native villages wiu: lighted torches. Professor Mor3e illustrated three meth- j ods of starting fires -one by rubbing a piece of bamboo with a sharp edged stick; another by ruobi ;g a etick in a groove on a piece of wood, and a third by means of a fire drill. None cf thu-x methods brings a direct bh;z .-, :.:iz wui proauce a fcparn. noui v.iuu . a.o- i.i.t f be brought by co-.mg wita tm tire drill was the ta;--t suvt-.o;."! experiments on this occttsiCi:, an coinnanied bv co::r-idc-raolo a l Li" Z ll.i; ac - out no the. Th" drill i s a simple ainenge msnt cf wood and cord, by which a stick i3 kept rr; pi lily revolving cn a piece tf wood, ana ia a fraction of a minute cr- ate 3 smoke e.zA ppaiks. Saic-ai Gazette, Queer Kemedie-. F,,-.," h fruea'lv worn upon the' tinr, but to possess the re- quisite virtue it is necessary that th quisite ring should bo made of somem"tal taken : an 1 piueapp by stealth, without discovery. Tne great panions - - . Pnvl.i r,i.-AmT!ipnf"!c.l for et-rtaia thhsea-es i "a little bag hang ao-oat tue necK, con taining the ixwder nxvie of a r made of a live toad oj a burnt in a n?w ptt." London Ti'.-I-.to If you put a t:-:n ia a glass u'-i-. r pouring ia the water the glass will not crack, even if the water i.s boiling. Cut if there io no spoo" csei it taea a new ,,iass to every hot drink. o Belt on hi: man and horces sa l all nimsls cured in -SO minutes by Weol ord's Sacitarv Lotion. This never fa'ls. Sold by E. T. Whitehead A Co , Brar--- nt',ndv.Neck, N. C. b 31 ly I? rray r .J u.--r-r-t !. rr.J-r to klKw what raav jttr.;.l A Untli Suite patent vr-,11 rw (rraK-1 to !uryyr. on who hx -.r.T.-ciM -r ilirwrm4 mrf new and twfol art. maThir-. rsvnnfsx-t-un. or t!pr- v-ETFT-5t w r f , - knwTi .- uv-1 by : ; r in ths c -.-7 , n-4 pv ntf: r dr-n-ribr-d in -v.y prssu! pnLhcaU'?"! '-: il.iji ir xzf cthr nnnur, -!sr bvs dt v-rrrr or invention H.tr4, mul ttot. m j -at. he tw' i.-r ..1 aI tor more than two yt-Ar pr r : Lu. a -7 'i raUen. unie-a th? sa3s u prfl v 1.av! Ivt. abr.J.:)i. In tin rx t.n rt-cn t:. j W: : "rvrt r.: the . or ru-:hf! in an old r new nw!, I.' of dcin ar-ytL'.ng cor:ta;a o iir'v tcj3 ti: irwYs. is r -"-able. The word "roachirje" inc.-.- hi: ' vice or tLing t-y laoioa f w!.u-i chosical re alt tny be r-nl;'c , iiiara, tr a iocoiiv. urc. Tlie wr-rd "cutnn'MCtnrv '" t)-rv a main cp ar.icle, ?uch '.irmtz.rr-, "m -texz, harness, aad the ihoa&and ut thin which are cftrrrxl for sale. "Composition cf matter" m'.a.? a chemical c ::.. Tad of ingrvli-r1U4. ich a hard rubl i, liquid glu latliru eu-. Patent :'cy also lv .bt;vlr -1 fv-r signs fir :i:..nuf:u-lr.rc and w.,:k:- tf an, fur Lhre t-r ,ri a ..od ta r.'-- Trademar'.ca may Ixj rt;ut ;t-d ft r any arbitrary eigii or symbol which u juA descriptive; the government fee ut Such marks are tbe mcltarive prcprriy of the regiitrar for thirty yoars, and tS time may te fiteodetl. A "label" is any descriptive tag, print or impression to I placed upon any ar ticle or its case, and it may be regisu-red for twenty-eight years. The gorernirKut fee for a "labtl"' is $3; but if it contain any srxrLal mark or ymbol the ofik de cides it to 1h3 a tradenuwk instead of a label. Youth's Companion. Malleable (11k. One cf the lost arU, provided it ever existed, was the malleable glass of the ancients. Tho Egyptians and the Phoe nicians made glass for many early ppoc imens remain fully 2.0C0 years U. C. Ia the reign of Tiberias a pemwi ap peared in Home who claimed that h had invented iurVxibie gluss. The "lory tells t hut he p-roduced a ;'!: which ue cast on the maihle tlo-vr With v hemence. ho : to teud it, but rvstor-J iis shape with a few blows from a ham mer, and that, at tho solicitation of a mob of artificers, who feared that th new proccv..' might supersede the use ol their vesntls of mtUtls, the einjeror re tained the glafe-.- vae, but ordere-1 the in genious artiht o m j.nt to death. ',-' oi x la-, e ". .e r j- : . - v -1 overy of a r.;i--:; f o".' :;1 es. but in i'. iv a '. h" . v('r, is s. ar. i:i t. i i hou.-.' s -.' "-!nee, thy la.n'tf ' '.'. i 5 .iiiont l.Jakmg. bir Siuce th -u ' - v claimed the o ; making i.ualh cerise of k. '":. ly "h-t," h ilurano. t '. j . das plate v thrown abovd will not bear t. be h.-iTuiiii.r. d. llv-r Ot:e almost 1- --S ; t en what is aie-l i,puii lass, which yo-u can twine round t':t Lng'.-rasif it wtreulk; 1-ut this ranrot be converted by any process into a ve.-,-fci to hold water. Malleatde gla is Uor a lost, cau.se it lias nevr bwen a found, art. Thomas J. Lowditch in Troy Times. About Hank f") .Ks. The cashier of a downtown bank ad recently Avhen the pubhe l.-amel whu h nd of the check they sl'onld t-ign ih- ir oiLines on it would be a gru-t tnd p oua day for the employes of the barhs in New York. "When the j rjr.iK- has been taught thia little detail,"' the nv h ier siiid, "it would be well to give th? banks a 1cs.mjii in printing their chock. The latest fashion in checks is by far the most convenient one. All of the in formation on the check which is of value to the banker is placed on ow er-.d. At the right har.d upper corner is the date. Under this i lh 1 name of tho man to whom the che-j'i is drawn. Beneath this again is the amount of th obe k in fig ures, and rarht b low that tlu1 signature of the mao who draws it. Th4 other end of the cheek is tb-d with the name of the bank, re J f on. "The advantages of this form of chck are: First, that the dat-e, amount, feigner and drawee can be se-u at a glance; second, if tlie check is lound up with dozens of other checks and bills it is not necestsary to pull it out from the bundle to get information about it. A cashier can take up a package of such checks, thumb over the ends, and feet them aside in less time than it would take to go ver two or three checks of the older form. Nearly all of the larger banking Louses and big corporations have adopt ed the check, and it will eventually find its way down to the smaller concfcrns," New York Sun. ret Pence. Off-i n. SJa-rriTi nrirr. to fifnrfl thft . faVor 0f the sovereign pontiff, engaged pay a yearly tribute to the treasurer , of te Vatican. In order to raise the i promised sum Offa was forcl to imjiose a ax cf on0 r-if-nnv on each hcusehr,ld"r , w-,c5e annual income wai as in u i aj thirty pence. This imposition b-k g a't r vard levied on all England was c :u liionly denommnttd as "Peter s Pence." Uence tho expression. St. IxUhs Ile pubiic. Sharks Are OfT. Trie stomach of a tdiark has for many i years ben hupposed to be capable of di- j geacmg anything be eouiu. swallow, no I matter what the fcubf.tance thereof, but ! h t must no v.' toke a '-ck fec-at. Tho ' jtnw of one jolly p:n.--appie will dissolve j ten pouno ' t t-'-tJgh o--i, and dyspeptic wui now t-e t;-oca com t Free Irocs. Cor; nt to Judge. ! i-ittio Joan me nau jusi, rexurneu iruia j a star chan i motiier had of tdippcr. mec-ttn-r at wra.cn nu rea-Vid him to a laying on mi l tears he turned Vo hia .nd paid: "Don't I wish n't thrown that siipjwr grandpa h. when rna got married. She jast throws Ls ct me ever since." St Joseph News. HE., DISEASES AfJ THEIR TRtftTcfiT." A valuable illustrated boo of 's-ivnty-two pages scat tree, oa receipt of 1 ) ctats. ;o cover cot of miiil ing, etc. Address. P. O.JHox lO-so, Pida delpbia. Pa. 11 IS "rru H. C. JO -i'Irticte. dr i by t' r dv. r ft:m . i'.:; , Iu n cartfaSit ciU- ! : .... t r; cotur. Tncc" made to ui! t! e f t-.r . L.'SCktt of aii ty I ri-. 1 A; . . -rk of all d h r. .... ihorl notice at vti.v i..w i i . 1 bave erxploed a 1 1 lis i l l.A t;ni rr and m hrn in nrr-! .so,, sa that l.re I -t uJ tr i vou p. '.,-. . 1' 2 It. V 1 Wo hi)v row and will l tantly oo ban i a full imit! 'irtt chit$ tfotk. FlNK a KNTUT K V hkokkk and i NtmnKKV, at pr: . UlT puicl.ss.t. SAVE OV t'lsmlnl') o.il a? it. ,i , It fort buvu t 1kcv . i. , UKidS A- JOHNS- i. . 12 11 tf, Scotland N- rk. J. L.KITCH! lf, 'IlLI.WUliaiTaii.iMiii; V Neur cor. 1 ' nml sl OTJ.AM) I'rrpsrrpp to n.. 0 uv kind i i ri-p.i onliected i ? i hi 1 't-d bv iarotr w .? f .S 'i l fisod . I nils nd null mi f ..-tl.refV ,r , h- illi, li-. (It liti'o- .-. d jiisin s, .r, . ni'iMi ! o r. i , V ill ira v I re mi tor ' . .,y t I"" I'J r 1, -OOKS ! BOoKs! 1'.i ;m. (iood hook" !re t- fn -in of cnltlVai ion HiOis!it' mh o t of c.bh'ncter. I batcci-scl totravi ! tie aDd bave on band f t i' r4iks prospectu.; ho i a. . . . , O fill ordeff lor tri- r-. IVmd to lrnvrn"; )-.t dp- f . . i. v. to f 22; 'The beautiful St .r ; -Iioal path of Llf-' ' iL-Hr. L . The World, W. i d r- ; " tne VN Ui VV -t. or . 'tanlev in tne )a'k " bnt in the Cam, " . Ilorrows,; I' L'iit i i. oanf , ' 'i'ractortal Ui-tor ol lil'de." I bare tUete twoka on band will till orders for towr. I also keep attscbmrnli for inn Machines, aod bit order liA.susiMi iUaN. Obeap foi Cb or oo Ii i.l.. t ni. 10 9 tf J. L KH ClfciN. 1 ilYiE 1k IVIUsTg. WATCHES, CLOCKS, JWLLkY AND Ml'H' .! IN.-'! i l!3 rrTCnr , V!' jrwr' r WOHK tr A T'R "rer. I,FVF Of jrw: : - Mnsicai ln-tr'i! r I, xr-Hi.- ' v '- - -in z 'H t :'H'"Ji , .1 - You can be wU i l0 ir. rCOTLj S 14 5in. FOR SALS. I will sell cheap a 25-hori engine and boiler with ew mill compete. Aro!y to LW. T. WHITEUEAD. 1 13 St. Scotland Neck, C !
The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 29, 1891, edition 1
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