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DBMOCEAT nn u u ij ? E. E HILLIARD. Editor and Proprietor. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SCOTLAND NECK, C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.1891. vor,. vu : jiu i" i: s s i o x a l. ;. c. c'ikistian, Scotland In l.c iC, 2. ('-. Can be found at bis ofbce i) ts in New Hotel wheu not protes sionally cngngod r Jsewhcro 2 13 tf. v. . McIXJWELL, OFFICE North corner Now Hotel Muin Street. Scotland Neck, N. C. til,-' Always at bis olliee when not professionally engaged elsewhere. 9 26 tf. It. A. 0 L 1 V E It MAN, Ori-TCK- Cor. 1 12 1 v. Main anl Tenth Streets ('( iTI,AM) K K. ' ixr C. MIOMAS X. HILL, AT TOIiXKY AT LAW, 11 u 1 i fax , N . C, Practices in Halifax an'! adjoining counties, ami the Federal and Supreme Ce-urts. :.siy. jyVYJ D HELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Knficld, X. C. Practices m all the Courts of Halifax and adjoining co:j;i!i..s and in. He Su nn me ami Federal Courts. Cla-ii.s col lected in all parts of the State. 3 S ly. W A. DUNN', A T T ( ) R N E Y A T LA W, Scotland Ni:lk, N, C, Practices wherever his services are uircu. febl;5 ly. w. " K 1 T( -II I X, Attouni-jy and ()oi'N8flok at Law, Scotland Neck, N. C. fsS?" Cilice: Corner Main and Tenth Streets. 1 5 ly. Pi. O. P.ciiT JN, J n. E. L, Tr.AVis, BURTON & TRAVIS. Ati o!::;i;ys and CorNsi:r)KS at Lav,', HALIFAX, N. C. R 1 f ly. V.H,!, vVd :i. n. kan.so.m, weldon. DAY, & HANSOM. A I TO U X K YS A T LA W, Weldon, N. C. I O II X 11 O U F It T S () X s Shoe & 'TesiaUf an- 'OPEN AT A I.L HOURS Satisfy.'; ion :uarair,cvd to patrons. Corner 'ii:t'i -md Main Mn-ets, STL A XL) ian f 1 v. XiXi X. 0. !. J. M !; R C E It- No. 1 0 South nth Si, (bet. Main A Cary Sts. RICHMOND, YA. umber Commission Merchant, (i'V-s personal and prompt attention t all consignments of Lumber. Shingles, bill.?, Etc' i-i7 !:") 1 v , .ssheld hemedy FOR ALL. I) V. r A r& a rx'o s& 5 f mi DISEASES 3 stank 5!-33S . fCSOFUI.A, ULCf RS, Sil.T T f RHE'uM, ECZc MA, cv;ry & u-siqant SKSH EFi:PTI0N. t5- Y;.-ni ot" r sldys 'Jci.-g eflicacios l.i tor.i.ig up the a ;;;.'&rr, i esiorii-y the tonsliti.'.ion, i i-pt a!r1 5fc.ii any cauLO. lis air t superr.Mwt healing properties r-s.s.j us :;; fii:ar?r.if ig a ct re. " SENT FREE Tii.rsTi: ATF.n 4 (f BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, Ca 1-1 r, lv. P dfl SSo..:t pain. Book nfVR-. S 27 ly. D. H I L i: DIN G U T (Hi E K L i: H-.s i;'..v.-.j own to his oH stami on Main Street near the Jirick mill. i Jt A. . . - Fr-,h . 'US' n:q?r on hand. vited to adi. 1-7 -11 U f5 S8 j BaSit? 1 P-MTl,,tl.H.wk nr!anail..a nrt rcn'. B,al!,l f.,d "free' " .1!? MEDICAL CO., bUFFALO. H. V In the Dark. 'l.-JCV L KCOM ) O Thou who art my tr ly !;ght: Thee do I follow through the nihf; Though home and hope are out of Eight, First trust in Thee my spirit bath; Thou knowest my patl? Although I cannot see Thy face, . T feel the warmth of Thy embrace. Enfold me in the dargerous place Where f-in lies waiting to betiay, Thou knowest ray way. O Thou who seest mc through and through, The thoughts I think, the deeds I do Thou knowest I would to Thee be true? O draw rae closer to Thy side, My Lord, my Guile! Thou knowest me, loyeirt mo in the past, Even when the temper hel l me fast; Thy wanderer has come home at last, Never azain from Thee to stray From Thee, my Way! I know not what may yet unfold Ueyond the morning's pates of gold Tin's is my heaven Thy hand to hold. Thy steps to follow through the night, My life, my Light? Small Farms. (Greensboro Workman.) A Woiikma.v reporter called re cently on a friend living in the coun ty some distance from Greensboro on a place which he settled only a few years since, lie had built him a good house in a grove, and had a few acres of ground around him Previously he had owned and operat ed quite a large farm. II is experi ence with the few acres had been al- mot a surprise, and led him to be lieve that he could support a consid erable family on three or fonr acre of good land well cultivated. Two acres of land in corn will ft-ed a horse arid bread a consider able family. Two acres in wheat will bread a considerable family and leave seed for the next crop. Two ".ores in clover or grass will make plent' of prevrnder for a horse and a cow. Odc acre will be sufficient for a garden, besides room for peas, and potatoes. And this farm of Gve ajres can be kept in good condition by applying to it the fertilizers made from pig3, fowls, horse and cowj un. ier firdinarialiy skillful managment. Extra liaiiaoement would give a surplus for pro lit. When this five acre farm should become thoroughly rich, it would be goo 1 ( olicy to add to the area, if c it. .enient, for there woall ha no ad lilioni! expense for a horse, one of the chief items in the origiual outfit. How strange that there arc so few small farms, but so many small far mers on big farms. As You Make It. (Free Lance.) Are you like many people who pr iise or curse fate for their good or bad luck in this life. Your life 13 exactly what you make it. Yon can make it sunny or dark just as voj will. Frown at everything and every body, distrust everything and every- body, believe there i Dothing good, eurybudy bad. Look on the dark sido of everything, after doing that examine yourself and see what it has made of you. It has made yon a sour person, who believe3 there is no good in anything; mikes you over pcndtive, suspicious; mikes you be lieve and speak evil of everyone and in a word a miserable being. ,vo.v iaive me oiuer suk-. a snnny, then aspiring village. 12,000 addi jovial fellow who sees only tbo bright tioual souls have been added to your andgoolsile of every thins: : who LnnnUiinn ni I i..ni nn.in i oeueves tuac tuero i goon in every thing tsad everybody; who looks only for the good ; who looks for the silver lining to every cloud no matter how dark. Examine yoarself and see ti e ditt'-rnce. Now a sunny, jovial hippy fellow who enjoys life to the fullest, extent. What are you making life? Dark or snnny. 1- J1J-..V - S. 11. Clifford, New Cas 2l; Wis., was troubled with Neuralgia and Ubeumatisra, bis stomach was dis ordered, his Liver was effected to an r.larming degree, appetite fell awny, and he was terribly reduced in flesh and strength. Tsree bottles of Electric Bitters cured him. Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, 111,, bad a running sore on his leg of eight years' standing. Used three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of liucklen's Arica Salve, and his leg is sound and well. John Speaker, Cat wha, O,, had five large Fevei sores on his leg, doctors said be was incurable. One bottle Elec tric Bitters and one box Bueklen's Arnica Salve cured him entirely. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co's LHug ttore. TOWN-BUILDING. A GREAT OBJECT LESSON. now mi:, dantels vievted wivston. At the late Press Convention in Winston, Mr. Josephm Daniels spoke to toast. ''The Manufactur er?, the Merchant, the builders of Cities nd Promoters of General Prosperity.'' He said : ' Ten years ago, for the first time, my feet sank into mud that then made the streets of Winston the pre cursor of the real estate boom which has astonished the State. I carried away on my shoes enough of your diit to eive mc the title in fee to Winston-Salem real estate, and from that day to this no man has had more confidence in the sticking qual ities of your dirt. Whenever a man dabbles in it. he wants more of it and cannot be satisfied until he has invested bis surplus here. I only re gret that roy foresight had not been as good as my hindsight, for if I had seen what a prosperous place your merchants and manufacturers would build here, I could, with the dirt that impeded my pro?rc then, have established a Winston-Salem real estate boom that would have laid the Ziczeodorf in the shade. Since that time the mo3t ttrikiog progress has been seen in your streets. I do not believe that your excellent system of street improves ments has been altogether inaugura ted so much to add beauty to your city as to prevent depredations of ycur dirt which is getting as valua ble as gold dust and passes current as readily as silver. The education of to-day has evolved itself away from the painful progresses of the days of Soloman. We teach now in kindergarten school', and information is imparted bv o' i ict lessons. Fiftv vtnrs ac;o i J mf m men theorized about city building and read descriptions of how an cient cit'es were budded into great use and magniDcence. Called upon to-night to speak of the men wbo build cities, I do not need to turn to theories or histories. I cast my eyes upon the wonder3 which have been wrought here and say : ''Circumspi cere." I give jou in the 14,000,000 pounds of leaf tobacco sold here within nine months, ii the 00 per head paid for tobacco for every man, woman and child of the 30,000 in Fors;. th county ; in the So" plug to- hacco and 75 other factories, exten sive wagon work?, woolen mill i, cot ton factories, etc., that pay out over one million dollars a year in wages, an average of 25 cents a day for ev ery mar, woman and child in the city ; in the 530.000 worth of build iiigs out up hero last year; and the $1,5000,000 worth to be erected this year; in the street car lines , electric lights, telephone service, belgian block and mncaeemized streets ; fa mous schools that are kuown throughout tli3 contiuent, an object lesson. I turn to these enterprising and progressive merchants and man. ufdcturer? and proclaim : ''These are the men who have built this splen did city, and these are the city build era of the age.'' What has been already wrought tere is but an evidence of what the decade closing in 1 000 will witness. j Since thH association met last in your predicting that the inciease as shown by the next census will at leaf-t douv le that of the ten year9 that has closed and you shall have added to your number many thousands more. Not many days ago I beard & frien i, a prominent speaker, deliver an address to a gathering of farmers. He described the burdens which the legislation of a quarter of a century had brought upon the farmers (and if it were not forbidden to touch upon the domain of politic I would say that he could not draw that pic ture too darkly) and after a detailed statement of the effects of the leg islation, he turned slwI with fine ef fect said : ''Where are now the pa latial residences in which the far mers of this county jesided twenty -five years ago? Where are the lux nries and comforts?" I did not interrupt him but I wanted to say : 'The farmers of this county never lived in palaces or enjoyed luxurious living, and they resided in better houses to-iay and have more comforts than ever before ia their lives." Of all the fictions inyented and transmitted, the most tiresome aod absurd is that the Southern, planters m ante-bdium days !ied in pskce, dressed in purple and Qne linen and fared sumptuously every day. They did no such thing. A very few had large, roomy house, but there were not in Old North Carolina fire hun dred palatial resi ienca?, and very few were the families that lived in luxory. This is true ot the South as & whole. Go through it ac count the fine residences of the old den time, and the fictioa is dlsolved . A mere handful of people compara tively weie able to live . without la bor, but for the great mass of whi people (not to speak of the negroes) the poverty was most abject ncd what we call necessaries were re warded as luxarious comforts. Let us rid ourselves of the notion that the ante-bellum d yi were better for the average man than these. Oj portunities were few, life was nar rowed, and caste pervaded too largely to give to every man the even chance that the f un of this better and broader day has caused shine in the pathway of every hon est and industrious son of the Sooth. Farmers then, except large slave owners who were few in comparison to the whole population, lived in houses that were wanting in con veniances or comforts, and Hie was ten fold harder and more hopeless. Agriculture was relatively more prosperous, but it was the one occu pationofthe people, and men and worren wer compelled to make their own clothing and bread and meat at home. They lived most frugally ; despite the roseate colors ot the novelist and the tinted views of the old men who love to depict the glo ries and delights of ihe Old South. ''All times are good when old" says Burn3. Glory, honor and happi ness there were, and I thank God for the true men and women who honored our Southland by their lofty characters and patriotism. But in this presence and everywhere I pro- tect against the pessimism which will admit naught of the improve ments fnd blessings which have come to us to-day. I refuse to be duped by the novelist's description of Ibe South as a Paraiise before the war. The Southern people, except a very few, have ever toiled and earn ed their bread in the sweat of their fare. The ex ception of the Southern gentleman of leisure has ben made the rule in portraying Southerners, and the time has tome when honor must te paid likewise to the great body of Southern men who have never known what luxury and leis ure were, but whose lives have ever illustrated a phase of Souther bis tory which Is not dimmed in compar ison with the portrayal of the ele gance and nobility of their more fortunate neighbors. I assert here that there never was a time, except in days of extraordi nary prices, as in the California gold period, or in 1S6G-G7-'G3, or when there were such openings and ad vantages afforded our youth, nor when labor found a surer reward, nor when men could save as much if as economical as their fathers. Do you all think this optimism? Then I thank God that I can see the progress of the age which lie blesses and in which He has permitted me to live. I do not close my eyes to the evils that confront us or the burdens which plutocracy imposes. Heavy a3 are fhese burdens, and earnestly as 1 stand against them like Paul : 'i thank God and take couraje" when I see men everywhere coming into greater enlightment and broader opportunity, and enjoying mere of the comforts of civiliz tion. Condition that surrounded Iht South in slavery did not tend to build cities and factories Ic was left for manufacturer) and merchants under different conditions to under take this work. I speak of thst rdass of speculators who build cities as a iraoe ana go from state to state laying out cities upon old field 1 and selling corner lots at fabulous prices. They have done mach to inj :re the S uth , and we ought to disown them and giye them no countenance. I con gratulate you that the wonderful progress of your city has not been hindered by these pests and vampires who dupe the unsuspecting and who ever responded to the cry ''movp on.'' Their advertisements read as much like entrancing dreams as Joe Caldwell's description of the Santcr reads like Baron Munchausen. Your city'i building has been ac complished by merchants and manu facturers who Olid a home here, aod whose energies and industries are helped by tie continued groi of tie city. Their publio pTit not '.03', but they and their nr iu bors art. c.ictc 1 by it atder their Ji vine rule that goo I only csxes to him wto ii wi'.lm to spend himself for others. I trust I may bi pardoned for say ing that I see but one cloud, as small now as the pain? of a man's band, uon the horiaon of your city's fu ture, I r-ioice that never have the business men of this city or State been found whining before Congress aid putting up a wailieg cry for help Yon have illustrated the manhood that helps itself, and the doctrine of equal rights to all and special privi lege to cone- I rejoice in your in dependence, and wouli implore you cot to lose confidence la self-help and in yourselves and not to allow your selves to be dictated to by any one. There is a band of men in our country in all trades that seize the name of boa constrictor. They siezc hold of a business and if they cannot con trol it, they throw their roils around it and by their might destroy it with out remedy. The tobacco business in some of its branches has succumb ed to this deadly destroyer and evil Is produced to the communities that have followed. Winston's success ful manufacturers have none of them fallen in its coils; your manufactu rers still own their own souU; and 1 pray God that the day may not come when the blight of belonging to a trust hall fall upon your factories and upon your town , and make your manufacturers but servans to dot the bidding of Wall street manipula tors. The love of my state, pride in your great town, and devotion to farmer and manufacturer alike impel me to warn you 1 gainst the bursting of that cloud which would rain vassa- arge and stagnation ufon you. Fellow Editors : Let ns catch the spirit of these city baildcr1; Ictus set at the feet o? these people,, let us learn their method; let ui with one united purpose lobor to build up and bring increased and increasing prosperity to our great state. Go Slow, Girls! (N. Y. Ileraid ) Scarcely a day passes without its f newspaper story 01 some jouna woman who met a man 60 interesting that she thought s .e culdn7c live wilLoat him, so she married him in haste and afterward learne 1 that he was an ex-convict or a brute or al" ready bad a wife or two from whom he had separated without the for mality of a legal divorce. In such cases the blame is laid up on the man, who generally deserves more abuse than he gets. But, girls, look at the matter seriously a few minutes and see if the trouble might not have been avoided if you had not been in too much of a hurry. Marriage means partnership for lift ; decrees of divorce arc merely exceptions that proyo the rule. Would any man enter into a business partnership with as little knowledge of the other party as you seem satis fied with? Well, no not unless he were a sweet souled lunatic. Talk i3 cheap, gtUs; it can be made t order as fast as the tongue can run, especially when thera is s pretty face to inspire it and two ears willing to receive it. Don't fear that some other girl will get H12 fellow unless you secure him at once. A fish that any one can catch isn't worth throwing a line for. Play him to find out whether he amounts to anything. If he be comes inpatient and dashe3 away, why, follow Dogberry thank God that you're rid of a knave. It will cost yon Dothing and will 8 irely do you good, if yoi have a Cough, Cold or any trouble with Throat, Chest or Lungs. Dr. Kmj's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds is guarantee 1 to i ve relief, or money will be paid back suiTVrers from Li Grippe fi-und it jast the thing ana under its ute had a speedy and perfect recovery Try a sample bottle at our expense and learn for yourself just how good a thing it is. Trial bottles free at E. T. Whitehead & Co's Drug Store. Large size 50c. and $100. Engli-h Spivin Liniment removes al Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and Blamiahes from horses. Blood Spavin, Curbs, Splints Sweeney, Kips-bone, gtirles, Sprains, and Swollen Throats. Coughs, Etc. Save k by use of one bottle. Warranted the mo-t wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck. N. C, 8 21 ly. MEN COWARDS. ITSEEmSSO WHEN THE? COME BEFORE THE MINISTER HOW THEY ACT. ileetcd 5 Ministers declare that in nine caes out of ten briden tre mre sudf posessed than are bridegroom when the marriage ceremony is belrg per formed. A shy, modest-looking hHle creat ure robe-1 in white will stand per fectly erect, looking the micister in eye without for an initant losing her-self puie, while the tip. Hunt six-footer of a bridegroom by her side is pale and nervous and trem bling. His fingers are likely t- twitch nervously, and he may evtt. - 1.:- i . . uniu at ui3 iiuumtj C9 or lwll U a corner of his coat skirt. I was once 'Met man" to a stal wait, middle-aged bridegroom, noted for bis courage and frats of daring, and when tbe time caicc fjr ns to go down stairs to meet the bride and her attendants he nearly had a fit and he lookid like a walking corpse all through the ceremony. I had to keep saying : "Brace up. old boy," and "conic, come, you've got to go down," to get him started, and the dor he was idiotic enongh ciutch at me and say ; "Say, Fred, how would it do to in have Mary and I he preacher fdp here and have it all over with before we'go down at all? I cau't go through it before all that crowd." "Idiot.'' I said, pointedly enough to leave no doubt as to my meanii g, Mary won't come in here, and you will go down this instant." He got through at last without loingor saying anything ridiculons, in which respect he was lucl ekier th.nl m of m another stalwart bri legroo acquintancc who was o dtzM and overcome that he held oat oue of his own fngcrs for the ring when the minister said : "With this ring I thee -wed.'' Another bridegroom I know lost his head to 6uch a degree that when it C9rae time for him to say: "I, Horace, take thee, Annie , to be my lawful wedding wife,' he said in an unnaturally loud tone: ' I, Annie, take thee, Horace, to bu my lawful wedded wife," and when the time came for hiuj to introduce his bride to eome of his friend who had no! yet seen her, he did it by sa)in2, awkwardly: -'Ali.er Miss Carter this is my wife ,Miss Bartor," calling her by her maiden name. Few men say ''my wife ''easily and naturally the first timeihty use the words i 1 public. A funny case was that of a badly rattled bridegroom who started blankly at the minister until asked f he took "this woman to be hi lawful wedded wife,'' when h? star ted and said m the blandest manner : ' Begpardor ; were you ppeaking to me?" A village prejL".hor siid that he once married a rural couple at the home of the bride' parents in the presence of a large company of invited gutsts. The bridegroom was a big, bony, rd faced young fallow, who looked as though he could have felled an ox with his fist, but he shivered and turned pale at the beginning of tLc cerernonv, und bt its disc fell down in a dead faint, to the manifest an noyance of hi3 bride, who nad been as cool as a rue amber. I feci it my duty to write you m regard to the B-.-acSt var Bradycro line has bten to my wife. Ever since a child she his been subject to the most dreadf.il headache", us ually several tirjjes a month. She has tried doctors from Maiue to Cal ifornia but none comU prevent these spells runnb? tb-ir cwr'f. B'ady crotine has not failed to effect a cure to a single inline', one doe nsu ally being suili int. O'.car F. Frosjt Monmoit-, Maine. FITS. U Fit - st )r p';d free bv lr. K!;::e"s (r-,. N.ryc P..-t Ter. o ; d't-.r firt dav ue. Marve'lous Mfc. Trrutie $2.0) tr:a! Uotlle free V fit cases. Send to Dr. Knne, 0!1 An.h .St. I'hiisdelphia. Pa i . i Itch on human and hors and all tnimah cured in ) minutes by Wool ford's Sanitary Lo'ion. This neer fais Sold by K. T. Whitthea 1 i Co's Bru.i tsore, Scotland Neck, N. C. 8 21 lv fHRCVER FIFTY YEAF.2. Mh.Q. WTXIiOW'S Scothino SVKUP has been used for over tifty years by millions of rxothers for their chillren whde teeth - ih nerfect euccpss It sooth f 8 the chdl, Ko!Uns the pums, al;a-vs:ArrPnt for CI. A P.1 all pain, cure wind colic, and iSj- It will relieve the poor 1 :t:Ie Buhrer ira rtseJiatety. Soil hv I)ru?sitj in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be Sure and ask fur "'Mrs. In low's Soothing Syrup.''and take no other kind. 1023 ly. - " J 1 i I .::--.- 'J i M t l Vint. it V.i Li - M ri v- fc . rv..,, - t '. tn In - u. -v - , . t-r i-t-. i i t V I' JLi aAUt. l i.l 4 jni.i BiucW. 1 or sale by. F. T. .t Co., I )ra."ji t. D ?ttfyj&r.:n ;' - t:. lu tl.ii N V., 1.' .!i I t in HIIK'k !); I.IH!' ! . :;. t !: y . . n'.ijTf I r .i . . 1 '. IV!1 111.' ui f.- Ii '. H- ; -i'l 11 i r b'uni'Mil m: I Ii i 1 Cf.-.h.iiy l '-ou Ui UiO. JP"Jff-A V:ii:il.! v If I h "' ' - llLaLs tiris liii- i.. u. Tl m r'-iti'-'lv .: '!! t: I'-l.r K'.' rut.-. ! I ..n ' Uikj v i n -! ..: i h; KOL'NiC t-P.UT. CO. ' 9 I. I l.iir,;-' -:. , ; : !-i v. h f t t !r"- ' . U L-i LJjI " A r rri' to a n, f r A O P 1 e-' " j 7 S UlAHi-f'-,ii.TV-?.,. ,u.4r. d f:nZl tH . . " ' f- ... 2-10 ly. J. H. 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The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)
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