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IF YOU ARE A HUSTLER Yor will ADVKP.TISF. TO! K Business. -WHAT STEAM IS TO Machinery, ADVERTISING IS TO BUSINESS Democrat. HF -o- That Great Propelling Power. C- -C- -O- - " "" " " Write up a nice advertisement about your business and insert it in THE DEMOCRAT, a id vou'll "see a change in business all around." PROFESSIONAL. D r. w. o. Mcdowell, Office North corner New Hotel, Main Street, Scotland Neck, N. C. gXT Always at his office when not professionally engaged elsewhere. 9 26 ly D R. FRANK WHITEHEAD, Office North corner New Hotel, Main Street, Scotland Neck, N. C. 'Always found at his office when not professionally engaged elsewhere. 7 f ly D R. A. C. LIVERMON, Office Over J. D. Ray's store. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to i o'clock, p. m. 2 12 ly SCOTLAND NECK. N. C. D R. J. II. DANIEL, -Dunn, N. C. Makes the disease of cancer a Specialty. 9 10 ly D AVID BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, N. C. Practices in all the Courts of Hali fax and adjoining counties and in the Supreme and Federal Courts. Claims collected in all parts of tho State. 3 S ly W. A. DUNN, A T T O R X E Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are required. 2 13 ly w. H. KITCHEN, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Scotland Nkck. N. C. ijiher : Corner Main and Elev 1 5 ly enth Streets. I. J. Mercer & son., 626 East Main Street., RICHMOND VA. LUMBER COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Gives personal and prompt attention to all consignments of Lumber, Shin gles, Laths, Ac. 4 17 90 ly N EW Jewelry Store After six years experience, I feel thor oughly competent to do all work that is expected of a WATCHMAKER and JEWELER. WATCHMAKER and JEWELER. I o Repairing & Timing Fine Watches A SPECIALTY. -O- 1 also carry a full line of WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND FANCY GOODS. XL Spectacles and l Eye Glasses Properly l Fitted to the Eye. Zt The hid hm Mm THE BEST ON EARTH. SEWING MACHINES CLEANED AND REPAIRED. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. W. II. JOHXSTOX, Xext door to X. Ii. Joscy. 10 6 6m J, H. LAWRENCE, Dealer in GRAIN, MILL FEED, HAY, CLO VER AND GRASS SEEDS. Improved Farm Im plements A SPECIALTY. Agent for Clark's Cutaway Harrow and the Deering Mower, A Model of Perfection. SCOTLAND LECK. N. O. 16 ly E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. X. FOR A LITTLE FELLOW. Say, Sunday's lonesome fur a little fel ler, With pop and rnam a-readin' all the while, An' never eayin' anything to cheer ye, An' lookin's if they did'nt know how to smile ; With hook an' line a-hangin' in the woodshed, An' lots o' 'orms down by the outside celler, At Brown's creek just over by the mill dam Say, Sunday's lonesome fur a little feller. Why, Sunday's lonesome for a littel feller Right on from sun-up when the day commences ; Fur little fellers don't have much to think of, 'Cept chasin' gophers 'long the corn field fences, Or diggin' after moles down in the woodlot ; Or climbin' after apples what's got meller, Or fishin' down in Brown's creek an' mill pond But Sunday's never lonesome for a little feller When he is stayin' down to Uncle Oris ; He took his book onct right out in the orchard, An' told us little chaps just lots o' stories ; All truly true, that happened onct fur honest, An' one 'bout lions in a sort o' cellar, An' how some angels came and shut their mouths up Au' how they never teched that Dan'l feller. An' Sunday ,s pleasant down to Aunt Matilda's ; She lets us take some books that some one gin her, An' takes us down to Sunbay school 't the school house ; An' sometimes she has nice shortcake fur dinner, An' onct she had a puddin' full o' raisins, An' onct a frosted cake all white and yeller, I think, when I stay down to Aunt Matilda's, That Sunday's pleasant fur a little feller. Michigan Christian Advocate. A Boy Giant in Virginia 15 Tears Old and Weighs 535. Wyth-eville, Va., Letter Richmond Times. Wythe county numbers within its population the greatest man in the commonwealth, if one considers his dead weight, Melvin Grubb, whose won drous girth and ponderous limbs make him the daily wonder of his neighbors. He was born something more than fif teen years ago, and has ever since that event kept his neighbors wondering at his growth. Each year since he was ten, has seen from fifty to one hundrod pounds added to his weight, until he is believed new to be the heaviest youth alive; and should his avoirdupois ap preciate at the same rapid rate, he will soon break all the heavy-weight records since Adam. At thirteen years of age, he weighed 410 pounds ; at fourteen, 450 pounds ; and now at fifteen, the scales creak at 535 pounds, and the end is not yet. Grubb is not merely a mountain of flesh, but an active and intelligent boy. He can follow a plough all day without unusual fatigue, and is a bright and in telligent pupil of the public school near his father's farm at Walter's Bridge, about two and a half miles west Wytheville. They are Coming South. Springfield Republican. To those over-confident people who have been claiming all along that New England has nothing to fear from Southern competition in common man ufacturing, the report of corespondent to the American Wool and Cotton Re porter will prove disturbing. He has been visiting the mills in Virginia, the Caroiinas and Georgia and finds them nearly all running on full time and earning handsome profits- on the investment. Textile manufacturing in the South has suffered less from the depression than anywhere else, and the number of new mills being built and old ones extended is reported to be sur prisingly large. As to the claim that the South will never get beyond the man ufacture of the coarser grades of cotton goods, this correspondent notes a steady tendency everywhere toward the manufacture of the finer grades. It is stated that nearly all the cotton mills in North Carolina have reported divi dends of from 8 to 16 per cent on the operations of the past year. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. THURSDAY, T. B. REED. CLARE HOWELL TOCOVEHS HEff. Still Hates tho South. Xfw York Herald. Since the Presidential aspirations of Thomas Brackett Reed have passed the chrysalis state and he has blossomed into a full grown republican candidate for the Presidential nomination, his recent Philadelphia speech possesses a deeper significance than appears on the surface. Indeed, that speech was delivered more in behalf of Thomas Brackett Reed than of that distinguished republican veteran, Galusha A. Grow, the republican can didate for Representative at Large, in the interest of whom Mr. Reed took the stump in Philadelphia. The keynote of Mr. Reed's address was his attack on the South. He has always been a South hater, and his po litical career has been characterized, more than by anything else, by the per sistency of his assaults on Southern in terests. He is the prince of the rapid ly diminishing band of South haters the unconquered pirate, who yet sails under the Bloody Shirt, pursued by the civilized and conservative sentiment of a generation which looks upon his sec tional buccaneering pretty much as it would upGn the reappearance of Cap tain Kidd upon the high seas. But this savage enemy ol the South, this sectional desperado, surpassed him self in the hostility of his warfare on the South in his Philadelphia speech, and his wonderful ingenuity was never more clearly manifested than in the adroit plan of his campaign, as ap pears between the lines of that address. The following paragraph , of the speech, which can be taken as the text of the whole address, is a fair sample of his revised plan of attack on the South : "Are the people no longer tne rulers of this country? How much longer are ve to have over us a set of irrespon sible tyrants? Why is it that this coun try is in the hands of one-fourth of its citizens? I will not be accused of sec tionalism when I say that the Southern men are in control of the Democratic party, for I am simply saying the Lord's truth." This is misleading from beginning to end ! It is the most unjust extreme to which even Mr. Reed has yet resort ed in the long series of his Quixotic at tacks on the South. As an humble but devoted Southerner I protest against it, and the sentiment of every Southern State will repudiate the charge that the Southern influence is respon sible for the policy which has dominated the administration since it came into power a year ago. It is quite ingen ious in Mr. Reed to justify his long warfare against the South by holding it responsible before the country for the evils which have resulted, not from carrying out, but from repudiating the most salient obligations of the demo cratic platform. It is true the South played a con spicuous part in the making of the platform, but it is equally true that it is not responsible for the breaking of it. And yet it will be hard to convince the country that the evils which have visited us like the plagues of Egypt, for in the hands of such astute republi can leaders as Mr. Reed, circumstantial evidence will be used with powerful ef fect before the national jury. "Look at the Cabinet," they will say, and emphasizing the fact that three out of eight of its members are trom the South, they will ask if Southern sentiment is not largely responsible for shaping the policy which is the out come of Cabinet deliberations, and the voice of the dissatisfied ana the discon tented throughout the North, unfa miliar with the facts, may be inclined to affirmative response. For when the pinch comes will those democratic Representatives who have repudiated democratic obligations and by co-operation with the republican minority in Congress have succeeded in outnum bering the democrats who have stood for party honesty be brave enough and candid enough to say to their constitu ents that the South does not merit the responsibility which partisan prejudice seeks to place upon it? It is true that three of the eight members of the Cabinet are from the South, but there is not one of the three ! "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. who did not surrender, Iock, stock and barrel, and burn the intense of his con victions tion the altar of Cabinet pro motion. What better evidence can there be of the fact that Mr. Cleveland was not looking for representatives f Southern sentiment in making up hi Cabinet, than his choice of three South erners who-1 chief qualification war their readiness to co-ojerate in the es tablishment of the single gold standard, notwithstanding the fact that the States from which they were appointed r.ere practically unanimous in their opposition to the consummation of the outrage? Since the democrats came into pow er nearly a year ago Southern senti ment has been persistently ignored in shaping the policy of the administra tion, and Mr. Reed knows it. In the successful campaign for the establish ment of the gold standard, and the com plete demonetization of silver, the rep resentatives of the South were helpless against the combined forces of republi cans and democratic repudiators, led in the House by Mr. Reed himself. There never was a day in that that long contest when the democrats who were co-operating with Mr. Reed would have been willing to subject the settlement of this vital question to a party caucus. Why not? Because the South stood like a rock wall between them and the consummation of the conspiracy to re duce valuations to the gold standard basis, and to hold the currency of the country to the contracted limit of the grasp of the money power. If, as Mr. Reed charges, "the people are no longer the rulers of this coun try ;" it "we have over us a set of irres ponsible tyrants ;" if "the country is in the hands of one-fourth of its citi zens," it has been because this alarm ing condition has been brought about in spite of protests from the South. Southern men are not in control of the Democratic party, and Mr. Reed does not "simply say the Lord's truth" when he charges it. Southern men are not responsible for the appointment of mugwumps and republicans to the highest offices within tho gilt of the administration. Southern men are not responsible for the indifference which such appointments have created in the ranks of the organized democracy throughout the country. If the country Is dominated by a "set of irresponsible tyrants" they are not from the South. If Mr. Reed tries to make a sectional issue out of this ar gument he will soon find himself in deep water, for in the general complaint which has followed the repudiation of democratic obligations none is more emphatic than that whicn comes from the South. Mr. Reed's revised plan of attack on the South should have at least one good effect. It should put ever' dem cratic Representative from the South on notice that the South is to be held responsible for whatever is or is not done. They should therefore be lire pared to accept accountability, and the only way to do so is to stand to the Democratic rack and carry out every pledge of the Democratic platform, with or without tho consent of the element which is being used by the republicans as a catspaw to do that which even the republicans when in power dared not do. Mr. Reed has sounded a note of warn ing to the Southern Representatives in Congress, and if they do not take ad vantage of it it will be their own fault, and the South will have to pay the penalty. The situation is assuming a serious stage now, and the result de pends entirely upon the determination of the democrats to carry out the pledges of their platform. Atlanta, Ga. Clark Howell. Choice Bits. A woman's age is one of nature's se crets. Whenever good Gospel seed is sown God sees to it that some of it reaches good ground. There is more power in gentleness than there is in dynamite. When you try to be good try to be good for something. MARCH 8th. 1894. Or, Sensstirnalissi Sn t: Ssjd. by kkv. v.. t rwy.ix. Writfoi fir The ut It is a sin to f-peak in this aire worl unk-s- one ha- s-omethit:.; t n; . Surelv men never Hiked .- mu-h .i:.v. said so lut'e. The truth i-. we thinV so little and sav so much, tiut the irtv thoughts we have are !o-t in a luby - rinth )f words. Nothing so surely measures a feneration as it.- sicech : "By thy words thou tluAi U justified ; and by thy words thou shall v C'v.- demised" ; "As a man thinkcth in lAi heart so is lie" and "From the abun - dance of the heart the mouth s;oak - eth." So we seethe lightness of oi.r speech indicates the poverty of or character. This is why we are blown about by every wind of dov'triue. We have fed on chaff until we have become like it, we have given our sap to leaves until we are nothing but leaves. Our want of thought shows i 1 f again, in our sensational methods. We seek to hide our shame by painting our j hide. We endeavor to make up in! form what we lack in truth. We take bluster for knowledge and noise for progress. I do not mean by what I have said, or shall say, a wholesale condemnation of our literature or generation, but only a part of both, herein desciiled. Lit erature was never stronger and the world never better than now, but vice versa also. Nor am I an emerny to every sensationalist, but only to him who lives without a purpose, except to glorify himself. By all means make a sensation, if thereby you can benefit your race, but otherwise don't. Boil the pot but boil something in it, make a racket if vou must, but make some thing else, if you please. To be sure, the man whose character we wish to portray is unreal, but his character is a fad reality. Indeed, the unreal reality is tho meaning of our subject. Let me say, then, in the first place, that our mutual friend is a most noto rious personage, but what for and why, I defy the world to answer. Every body has seen him and he is in every body's mouth, yet nobody knows him. He lives to himself and for himself and yet succeeds in interesting all in him self. He is not wicked in what he has done, but rather in what he has not done. He always has a move on him but never moves anything ; eternally acting he is never active. He burns with zeal but never makes anybody zealous, always blazing he never sets anything afire. Our brother's second characteristic is that he shines in a borrowed light, but don't he shine though ! He compasses sea and land to get his light but he gets it. He don't say where it comes from, but my soul, don't it come ! He pours it upon you as freely an if it were his own, perhaps more so. He has as much mouth & a funnel md more free dom ; and like a funnel he gives as he receives. He blazes like a flame, but is as cold as a wedge. He is as bright as a dollar, but as dead as a door-nail. He appears like vehet, but is as hard as a flint. He seems very near, but you can never get at him. He is a ver itable will-o-the-wisp, ever leading you on to a winding nowhere. Then in the third place our fellow citizen is monstrous variable, he neirs, quarters, half, or fulls according to circumstances. He is anything you want and yet nothing you would have. He is all things to all men that he might by all means save himxrtf. He is either a demagogue or a gold bug, neither or both. He is a sucker, a parasite, a sycophant and all the other "cuss" words in all the other languages. Once more and lastly our fellow countryman is censorious. He makes faces at everything and frowns at every body, not knowing that what he sees in others is the reflection of his own w ick edness. He complains that the sun is too pale and that the stars are too few, though he neither looks at the one nor counts the others. He wants to paint the sky and white-wash the teary gates and coal-tar the roof of that house not made by hands. Indeed he is a eelf- SUBSCRIPTION PRICE St oo NO. 14. I ci utitutl ivf.mirr :d would ! ith tho Almighty. He ice:it. the cw! of tv.ij hUt and e hi on n ::.c.:i!.r m cataloguing the sits of other IK--tirs up a ! iuh end !si:j it an 1 ,. ;i faith in . ! , b 1 v: lMo:.d tho : J. i ' I He l-xc- I : o-s ' . !.;:.- i "r .:!.:-, he !:ki ' not t l-e m-n. lit L- hk.e t!. f.l i J w h thought nolly o-uid t ! n i his own rye- were -hr.t lie !f lilt- i!.f :!. mo:.- lu-hi he !. tht b!itn!-r j h i- lit jir.t.s to it:a'fci' h (. p-. j ; mi e between hh: and d..rlt:M and; I r-voi.ei! God m-A the de d To -mil J j up. he is the inco-nation of mi the ; ; ihnent m the voi! i m ! r-.if.in' I i mirac'e a eriiab!e .1 uda- 1- :o: .:t-l I ( -t - n j te: m j i wheels run bv a combination of and ehvtricity. The mo-t disastrous Uu- of a!! soT'je of o:ir wi'jik-mind si-tr- !hf! f.-illen it) Io-,t with thi m.n in tin moon and :v oing to iiinitv him -ooi; To le puf t ! " will a ;'"d t! :i! of moon-shii:e .i;t J don'i e.iw then: tl.-:r honey-moon. If nnv cue is ,;e.ro. s t f ..tI'mm i '. n- tify tliis distir.iM'i-h'il can on v saw he i-. er v m:ii;'M i'.is m.d that his nani is Le.i.n. What the World Eats. St. iAjuis Globe Democrat. The world's crop of cinnamon is 10, 000 tons. France i-ais and eats every year 5,000 tons of radinhes. Last year the Italians exjKirted 4H, 000,000 dozen of eggs. Paris killed hist year ,MY1 old horses for roasts and soup. The world's oat crop every year ex ceeds 15,000,000 tons. Our beet sugar crop last year 8,000,000,000 pounds. The English eat eyery year J5,000 tons of American anples. The resturants of Paris sold in Ib'Jl, 18,000 dozen frogs' legs. The world raises and eats every year 2i,000,000 ton of rye. This country's crop of beans is esti mated at 70,000,000 bushels. Tho average man uses twenty-nine pounds of sugar per annum. Only 10 er cent, of the sugar we consume is grown in this country. Euroeans every year eat 0,470,000 tons of beef, mutton and pork. The estimated yield of ecans in this country 8,X)0,000 hushed. There are 50,000,000 bushels of j-np annually grown in this country. We produce and eat eery year about 310,000 tons of U-et-root sugur. A grocers' journal estimate the world's crop of cloves at 5,000 ton. The French raise and consume ewry year 350,0O bushels of nni.-s;l-. Tho annual value of the world V eo coanuts is estimated at .fGO.OOO.KiO. Our imports of fruit and nut lH-t year exceeded $20,000,000 in vulne. The parsnip yield of this country i estimated at 10,JO.0OO bu-hels. One district in New York raid's 20. 000 pounds of par.-" every year. The world any u ally makes and eat 1,010,000 tons of butter and chee. Last year Iyondon consumed with more or less relish 20,000 torm of fruit. The almond product of the world i- estimated to l worth $5,0 0,000. The Best Investment a CcmmiLiiity Can Ea70. Governor Fraiuii of Minouri. Each year the local pafier gives from if.jOO to .f'.",000 in freo lin.H to the com munity in which it i located. No other agency can or will do thi. The Editor, in projotion to hh mean, do more for hi town than any other lo men and in ftll fairne-w with men he cught to be upforted not Ix-ca'i' you lice him or admire hi writing-, but because the lrx-al pajr i the l"-t investment a community can make. It may not )v brilliantly edited or crowded with thought, but financially it i of more lenetit to the community than the teacher or preacher. Understand me, I do not mean mentally or morally UUl IJIjaiit Kill , ftJUl UU IUC question you will find mrt of the lecal papere on the right !ide. To-day the editors of the home pa;ers do the mot for tne least money of any people on the face of the earth. Sit Yot k A: rKT;-i vit t Now. THAT I'l.A" l Ill I'K1 T It T or WUh our Athrrt lament i li.r c!w!,i rtwl Tui h kit. 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