ADVERTISING IP TO - BUSINESS -WHAT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, IF YOU ARE HUSTLER uYn:n-K Business. Democrat. i THFIFC -o TllAT GliKAT I'KOrEIXINO 1'oWKK. Write tip a nice advertisement about your business and insert it in THE DEMOCRAT, and you'll "see a ch;mge in business all around." PROFESSIONAL. D k. w. o. Mcdowell, Office XortJi corner New Hotel, Main Street, Scotland Xf.ck, X. C. ff"Always at his office when not professionally engaged elsewhere. 9 26 lv D R. FRANK WHITEHEAD, Office North corner New Hotel, Main Street, Scotland Neck, X. C. yAlwaM found at. his office when not professionally engaged elsewhere. 7 0 lv D R. A. G. LI VERM ON, Oi tick Over J. D. Kay'w store. Oilu-e hours from t to 1 o'clock ; 2 to it o'clock, p. m. 2 12 ly SCOTLAND NECK, X. C. D R. J. TI. DANIEL, Dl'NN, X. C. Makes the disease of cancer a Specialty. I 10 ly QAVID DELL, Attorney at Law, EN FIELD, X. 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 the State. : 8 1 v W I A. DUNN, A TT OH X A' Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Xi:ck, X. C Practices wherever his services are required. 2 13 ly w. H. KITCIIIN, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Scotland Nlck, X. C. 2rOHice : Corner Alain and Elev enth Streets. 1 5 ly Joseph Christian. P. St. Geo. Barraud. Late judge Supreme ) urt of Anneals of Virginia, ) i. 1 i c HRISTIAX & DARRAUD, a rrnnxEvs-A t-la if, Will practice in all the Courts, State and Federal, in the city of Richmond. Oijici' Room 10, Cfia tnber of Commerce Jn ihli iuj , A lv RICHMOND, VA. I. J. Mercer & son., 020 Eat Main Street., RICHMOND VA. LUMBER COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Jives personal and prompt attention o all consignments -of Lumber, Shin ies, Laths': Ac. 4 17 DO ly X L 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. Repairing & Timing Fine Watches A sTKCIA LTY 1 also n.vry a full line of WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, MCSICAL T'STR T'MENTS AXD FANCY GOODS. Spectacles and Itl Eve i lasses Properly Fitted to the Eye. The Mid king Machine THE REST OX EARTH. SEWIXO MACHINES CLEANED AND REPAIRED. SATIS FACTION C VA HA XTEEP. IF. H. JOHNSTON, Xnc Hot' I, next door to entrance. 10 6 Cm. E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. X. The Old Friend And the best friend, that never faib you, is Simmon3 Liver Regu lator, (the Bed Z) that's -what you hear at the mention of this excellent Liver medicine, and people should not be persuaded that anything else will do. ' It i3 the King of Liver Medi cines; is better than pills, and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel. It act3 directly on the Liver, Kidneys and Bowels and gives new life to the whole sys tem. This is the medicine you want. Sold by all Druggists in Liquid, or in Powder to be taken dry or made into a tea. . EVERV PACKAGE'S Has the 3S Stamp In red on wrapper. J. H. ZEIL1N & CO., Philadelphia. Pa. UNARMING. "Unarm the long day's task is done." "Anthony and Cleopatra," act iy. scene 12. At last ! Chill phrase by loyal love ab horred ! There lives a lingering sadness in each word ! At last the unvanished knight suspends his sword. The Lancelot of our lists for so many years Victor so oft amidst loud storm of cheers ; Shall not such passing touch the source of tears ? War worn but yet unbroken, straight and strong, We hoped he yet should head the charge for long, The star of battle and the theme of song. Yet he Jiangs up that sword, that there lays by, Conscious, though loud applauding co horts cry, Of failing vigor and dimming eye. "The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep" Time's battery from the heart. The cruel creep Of the slow years bears all to the great deep. Bears champion with coward, knight Avith clown, The hero of a hundred lights steps down, Hangs up the sheathed sword, and takes the crown. 'Xo more a soldier : Bruised pieces, go ; You have been nobly bore." Bo, in proud woe, Cried Roman Antony, by love laid low. "Unarm, Eros ; the long day's task is done," This is no Antony ; here's a nobler one ; Yet like the Roman his great course is run. Hang up the sword ! It struck its lat est stroke, A swashing one, there Avhere the closed ranks broke Into Avild cheers that all the echo woke. That stroke, the last was swift, and strong and keen, Xow Jiang thou there though sheathed, yet silver clean, For never felon stroke has dimmed thy sheen ! For thee, good knight and gray, whose gleaming crest Leads us no longer, every generous breast Breathes benedictions on thy Avell Avon rest. Specimen Cases. S. H Clifford, New Cassel, Wis,, was troubled with Xeuralgia and Rheuma tism, his Stomach Avas disordered, his Liver Avas affected to an alarming de gree, appetite fell away, and he Avas ter ribly reduced in flesh and strength. Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured him. Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg 111., had a running sore on his leg of eight years' standing, Used three bottles ot Electric Bitters ana seven boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and his leg is sound and AvelJ. John Speaker, Cata wba, O., had five large Fever sores on his leg, doctors said he was incurable One bottle Electric Bitters and one box Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him entirely. Sold by E. T, Whitehead & Go's Drug Store. Trash of all kinds in the garden or orchard furnishes a hiding place for insect pests. Gather it up and burn it. Wheat chaff affords an excellent litter on poultry house iloors, in.whicli the hens can scratch and exercise. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C THURSDAY, THE FARMER'S BOY. WHAT TO DO WITH HIM? Why. Educate Him. Rev. Ji. T. Vann in Biblical Recorder. "What shall I do Avith him?" This question is worrying many a farmer in Xorth Carolina to-day. He is tliinking about his loy just turned from child hood into youth, and he knows that the next turn Avill be irom youth into man hood. Time was wlien he cared mostly that the little one might be healthy and bright, and might bloom into vig orous youth. As to his manhood there was little care and as little planning, but only the feeling that somehoAv the dear baby must become an honored and successful man. But now, kind friend, as your boy stands midway between childhood and manhood, you begin to feel that if there is ever to be anything in the man it must be got out of the boy ; that the man is to be made out of the boy. The rifle barrel, you have observed, is only three feet long, and yet it fixes the course of the ball for a thousand yards. So the man is apt to take his whole course from the boy. But the boy, gay, light-hearted, rollicking fellow, Avhat does he know or care about the future? So preparation for this future must be made largely by you. The question once too far off to disturb you is now pounding at the door. What makes the matter more serious, too, is the thought that it will be A ery bad for the man to undo a mistake made on the boy. But the question pushes itself forward and must haye a speedy answer. Well, have you decided? Wait awhile till you liaye thought the matter OAer again. You see, the rest of us, as Avell as you and the boy, are deeply concerned about the kind of man he is to be. For remember, this boy represents tlie largest class ot hoys. Taking the Avhole country, farmers' boys are just about equal in numbers to all the other boys together. But in this State, where there are no large cities and but feAv manufactories, no doubt the farmers' boys out number all the others five times over. So this farmer's boy is to take the greatest share in controlling our State. He is to do most of the voting. He is to make the laws, direct ly or otherwise. He is going to step forward and take the reins of govern ment, or say Avho shall do so. He will determine what kind of schools and churches Ave shall have, or Avhether Ave shall have any at all. So Ave are all anxious to know, dear sir, Avhat kind of man you are going to turn out from your boy. And, now, let us see your boy and try to make out Avhat kind of a felloAv he is. It may help you, too, to take him apart and look at him. You can .tell better Avhat kind of timber is in him. Well, lie is pretty lively, I should say, up to any kind of frolic. He is apt to be so if a farmer's boy. You get him up soon in the morning and let the sharp air take him. You brace him up Avith plain food and healthy Avork. You give him a turn Avith the calves and colts, and a light sweat at the wood pile ; and Avhen night comes you plant him in bed early, and he sleeps till you call him. Well, if that kind of boy isn't lively, you had better put him in a doctor's hands, for he's about dead. But you don't Avant a corpse nor a mummy ; you Avant your boy lively. Oh yes ; who Avants an engine Avith no steam ? Only see that you keep the valves in order and the track in good condition, then pile on Avood, and move things. He is probably the best boy Ave haAe. Xot better, perhaps, than otlier boys raised in the country, but better than the average tOAvn boy. He has fewer temptations; he knoAvs Jess about many things concerning Avhich it is a virtue to be ignorant. Many of his faults come from the city, in one way or another. He is apt to be more of a home boy than the town boy. He probably comes home earlier at night, and stays there better Avhen he comes. His eye seldom falls upon the flaming 11 ay bills that run the town boy crazy. The strictly moral exhibition, Avhose proceeds are divided with the orphan asylum, is not so plentiful in his neigh- "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. ty)rhood. Ye?, he has a fair show of leing better than the tOAvn boy Jetter, too, at the very time when character is forming, and when you haAe him in hand. It seems, then, that you have a loy that ouglit to be something in life. What will you do with him? Well, suppose you give him a chance, and let him help make himself. Many a boy has failed to be a man just because his father wouldn't let him. Now a man, a really great man, need not be a law yer, nor a politician nor a physician, nor a preacher ; he need not be in any of what you call "the professions." He may just be a plain levelheaded, cultiA-ated farmer, and still be a man. If the Maker seems to have endowed your boy Avith social gifts for any of the professions, Avhy let him follow it, and lend him a helping liand Avhile he is getting ready. But don't conclude that you must make a professional man out of him just because lie is a bright boy. AVhere in the Avorld did ever the I notion come from that men must pick ! out tlieir clever boys lor lawyers, doc tors, and Avliat not, and save the fools to make farmers out of? A little thought Avill shoAV you that tlie dull boy is quite as likely to succeed in j other tilings as he is in farming. If any business in this Avorld requires a j clearer head and sounder judgment than good farming does, this writer doesn't know Avhat that business is. Xoav, suppose your boy is to be a doctor ; you try to get money enough together to give him an average gen eral education, and then put him in a medical college. And you Avould try to give him the same chance, if lie wanted to become a lawyer. Why should a boy who is to i;irm be neglec ted, and be the only one that is neglec ted? The preacher, the lawyer, the physician, are not made in the schools really, but by the actual practice in life ; and yet, it is a good thing lor them to learn the principles of their profession before they commence tlie practice. They might after awhile pick up those principles themselAes, without ever going to school ; but if tliey can learn from experienced teach ers in a feAv months what they must otherwise learn alter many years, if ever at all, it pays to go to teachers. Xow stop and tliink Avhether the fol lowing statement is true : One intel ligent, thoughtful farmer in a commu munity influences the farming of tlie entire community, because tlie neigh bors Avatch him and learn from his methods. Well, if alt could be trained and thouglitlul, Aonld it not be that much better? One may learn the art of hillside ditching after awhile by ac tual experience ; but it Avould clearly pay him to lay out a little money in learning it before the soil has all Avash ed off. One may learn after awhile that some manures, excellent in them selAes, kill each otlier by mixing ; but it is surprising to knoAv how many per sons die in ignorance of that fact. One of the most successful planters tlie pres ent Avriter knows, after fifty years of ex perience, Avasted his money and dam aged his crop by mixing Peruvian gu ano and hickory ashe.J. The feeling is common that general education for farmers is purely orna mental, and tliat if a boy is certainly going to farm, a Aery meagre bit of schooling Avill do for him. There is a prejudice against "book-learned" far mers as being theoretical and unpracti cal. Of many such farmers this is un doubtedly true ; but is it not also true of man- not ' 'bookl earned?" If a man ha-s not sense enough to put principles into practice, he hardly has sense enough to practice much without prin ciples. The mill doesn't turn out rlour if you put pease in the hopper: and you can't leasonabiy exiect bread from an oven in Avhich there Avas no dough. If you send a natural fool to college, you will probably get back about the same kind of fool. Pray consider, friend ; education is not Avhat you learn in books, it is the training Avliich the mind receiA-fes for independent study. Very feAv college bovs in after life remember about the languages or higher mathe matics, unless theA" refresh their memo ries by teaching ; they didn't study things expecting to remember them, AUG-UST 23, 1894. and in inst ca-c's they don't juirtu u Jarly need to rernemlr them. What they wanted wa to ft retch and toughen j and strenhen their mind f.r ANliatev-; er work they misfit have to d. And m). h me of our -ei educated public; men and larmers can't read a line f Latin, but they can put thfir mind down close, hard thinking when they) will, 1-eoause tliey practiced t hat iuj studying Latin. It M-em to the -l-i dier a useless and cruel thing to make j him drill twice a d.-'y, and it seems to you a waste of money to keep an army so long in mere drilling. But when you Avatcli thon? well-trained men by the side of new troops under tire, you will think it wortli while to make sol diers drill not that they may know how to drill, but how to fight. So don't fe too hard on 'look-learned far mers." What they learned in sch nil books may not Jielp them mucli in farming; but tlie mental drill that studying gives may help them very much. But it is not altogether certain that your boy ought to le a farmer. Possi bly lie ought to enter some of the pro fessions, dull though he seems, lie has as yet shown no signs of talent in tliose directions ; but have you given him a lair trial in the matter? Cold often lies deep ; but it is pure gold when you bring it up. I susieet there is a rusty old axe lying alout your premis es, Avhicli would make the chips lly if you Avould give it a helve and a little grinding. Whet the boy up a little, even if you hardly can spare him at home. Don't send him anywhere, just to say he is at school. The greatest trouble about our common schools is that they are so very common. Send the boy where he will be likely to learn sometliing, if lie lias a mind to. But, alas ! the farmer's boy is a poor boy. It would be a hard pull for him to go to college, or even to an academv. But did it strike you that the poorer the boy is, the greater his need of edu cation? And if Jie lias but little money, hadn't he better invest it where it will pay best and can never be lost? Sup pose you advance to the boy now what you had thought of leaving him when you die. Wliy not? To finish his education you might have to advance him more than Ids share of the estate. How would it do to give Jiim Jiis sh:ue and lend the rest, as some parents are doing with boys at school now? Let no one get disheartened because he will Jiave to work hard and live close to get an education. Whether ricli or poor, it is lest for all boys at school to feel poor. The boy always conscious of his wealth is from that very fact a fail ure from the start ; exceptions to this rule are about as common as black swans. Anybody Aho is asliamed to dress plainly and save money at school had better stay at home and live and die in the obscurity he deserves. But tlie boy witli a goxl will and a god character and little else, need not blush to face the sons of wealth. There ued to be at Oxford university some proud young noblemen, whose names are knoAvn now only because a young lad named George Whitefield used to black their boots. Ho for the poor boys ! I wish I could set before you the Ion-' line of great men Avhose hearts knew the cares, and Avhose hands knew the marks of poverty. I would name John Bunyan, the tinker, and George White field, the b t black, and William Shakespeare, the butcher, and Rolx-ri Burns, the plow-boy, and William Carey, the cobbler, and William Her schell, the cabin lxy, and Benjamin Franklin, the soap-maker, and Thomac S. Jackson, the constable, and James Garfield, the mule driver. Ah ! the carpenter's son at Xa.areth forever dignified the work bench. And now. friend, put t! oe things together and see if you '-.m't an-wer that troublesome question aliout our bow Boil the "Water. Wilmington Star. The Board of Healtli, of Norfolk, advii-e the boiling of cistern water, used for drinking, until the cisterns are ex amined and the water tested. It is the safest to boil the water anyway, and take no chances. If there were more boiled Avater there would Ik? fewer graAes in the cemeteries. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i oo. NO. 38. W ritr f 'f Tiir I'l m T ) KDIVATKTHE FAKMKll lioY. Let lie:: bo Edited. i:v . t . iix v Thi n"t a -he!!ie to bin- hr away fm.n tlie farm to --k a p'.-r in j one of the profe-io!i. Ahe.tdv ibi has to Ions lon th tind"iicy. 1 ? Jilm st.iv on the farm. TJie?v i a -tr !!. demand for educated burner and i.err i i wn it so apjoaling as to-d.ty. The p'-1 i that there is no monev in farming i n I misconception. This c inMui' n i- i reached from a mere casual oborvat ion, True it is that a Kreat many fall t- make farming profitable, but i it not true al-o that the git 'at majority . ,f tliese farm are left to t ho management of the iinedm-ntM f Wliat proportion of the fanner- m the SoutJi have a .-urlieient Know Udvi- ' of Clicmitry to understand th table on ! their guano sacks, giving the iel.tti-I jer cent, of the chemicals u-ed in th mixture, tlie .-oluhle and in.-ohihltcm- ! lM)undsand the relative value of ea. , as a fertile,- It mn-t U' a-inutUsl l.o ,;- ,. i. .,, ,11 .,,..1 O . .( vino, 111 v l rniiii i iiirt i'l the success of llu'se that the Iucvik-i- ienced voiitli julgis a hen lie decides to abandon tlie farm for his imayinarv ' easv walks of life. Tlie increase migration from the country to the eity is attended with greater want. Mother eartli must supply the need of tlie human race and lie Avho knows the laws of nature lest knows U't liow to get from the earth t he j;reatet incit'.ase, and to that man there is always a com petency. Furl hormore, is it not a fa-t tliat t!;e farmers have m the lei.-lati ve halls a smaller representation, in proportion j f to number, tlian any otherc la-s of men ' j But is it not a fact, also that intellect rules in all the civilized nations of the world? Napoleon, who nee led men only to light at Ids command, wanted educated men. Tliey served liimlx'-t. and in a republic educate 1 citizens can serve their own interests and profeet tJiemselves letter. Since intelleet w ill dominate, tliat man or class of men who Is the least cultured and educated will have the smallest voice in the control of state and nation. The farmer is practically at the foundation of all departments of bu-i-ness. WJiat is lest for Jiim coneern the whole nation and this leing true the importance fif eflucating the f armei cannot In too strongly urged. It l latnentable that this -Ias ha- U-en more neglectful of education than any other, but now there is a general awakening from the .-lum!er of indif ference. Tlie farmer w ho was denied a liberal education realizes hi1 mi-foi-tuueand feels a burning de-ire to do more for Jiis children. Tneman wlio-e truest altar is tlie bosom of Id- family, Jiolds the welfare of Jiis wife and cJiil dren paramount to all tilings cl-e and wJien lie is called from the duties f Jm.-ban 1 and father it mu-t l- swert to know that he leaves them enougJi of this world's gools to md:e them ::. fortable, but how much more comfort ing it will lif; to know that l.e lf-a - them an heritage tliat cannot U - jn. - .n - , .t . :, uercu or to-i, an euocauon mai win render tliem letter men and women, and letter -'rvants ..f their country and their Ood ! A H3"asehcld Treasure. I). W. Fuller, Canajoharie, X. Y.. says that ;e always keejis Dr. King' Xew Discovery in tlie Jiou.-e and Jiis family has always found the very 1-e-i reti!ts follow its u-e, that he would not be witliout it, if procureab'e. . A. Dykeman Druggi-t, Cat-kail. N, V. says tliat Dr. King's Xew Di.-covery i. undoubtedly the -t CougJi remedy : tliat he has u-ed it in his lamiiy for eight years, and it has never failed to do a'l that is claimed for it. Wliy not try a remedy so long tnel and tested. Trial kittles fre. at K. T. Whitehead A Go's Drug Store. Kegu lar size oOc. and $ l.t. The biggest plants on the fann are sure to grow where the last year's ln,n fire Avas made. (iod a-hes give a strong grow til. ) : Y ' t. A''M' "u v,.t v Vili nur lihrrtiM-nient ! 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'.'!! Norfolk Commission Co., . S. I. SA t.S. Ma. .v. r. 0m liki. Fruits, Vegetable-. ;md ot I i I'm-! IJH J 1. N ' I - The H M;! Ilieo-e. No, folk. V... . 'I . Y Ta-hler, I'jHtnei-' and x o N'w lu rne. N. c. . i; : i; , Hank of 'a n.-. loM -I,.,.,,. nrcia.F.vs i:nm - i vi: Tin: U - i s s . i ti. p-t,' ut-. Mrui-e-. I'!. . -. -,.M I:! er om--. I'-'Ai-!. i j . 1 1 j -- ( 'biH'l.il n-. 'o; li-, md .i! (ion-, and -- t ! ' ! mi pay e.jiiire.. It !- ..,: jrfTfeet -at i-faet io, r !f, I 'rice l' cent j--r I - ri: safi; by i ni:.i) a o. I. I ! I','. Tl: , - II d Mmhv -hcIi l!o.! !,. r -i t ! ket . 5 itaiil'- B! i 1 '. ! in . --c;-ntioii-ly eojiij-ii. ;,'!! ;.'.! le-'iit of foity ye,.r- pr.i inent pjiy-i'-ian. J' I.ll.'lMT I'M V ' '!:Tf'i I ) and l- guar nt--l to I fa'.r trial. I rv it I n di-.'i-e-, i 1 1 ' -1 1 . i j r j e.i' . f !, , mat i-m in i t w o; -t f m of it cont.iilj- !(. .re : ' . : , ir;g-up i : t ;e t i i n .. : -, ' . er kind. Try " I J.e i . ! IU . 'id verti-err.ent ',:, ! -re. Foii ovi.i: fifty 'i: : A.N (S.l M 'li! li.'jj. I .'i Mr-. Win-low'- ""f .'.;;,. - :' ; 'U u-el for over '! . .-, lio!.- of ino'l.i-'- f !:. :. . : :i it v.h:!c 1. 1 'h::::'. -o iTi.e a!Lr. - a! he : -.,,f. i tli' ;.-ir i- .. I D' p'ea-.i!.' !o i t.'-'" " " ! g'i-ts in e-.ery j , i : T'.M'iit y ti e i i.'. - i b ' : i- incidcubd-.e. lU- -tire .: i Win-low's ,-oothirig .-wuj. no otlier kind. D Kng!i-h Sj-avin l.mitiien! all Hard. Soft or I'.,!;., i-ed J.-'nt-and lemi-Jies from ho--- j; Sj'-ivin Smb-, splint-. s . !; worm titles, spr.on-. ' Through, 'ough-. V.'.c S ." iw of one Uttle. Waro.-'ted : ne mo-t wondrful Biemi-ni , kn a:i. S. I Im. K. T. V. 1- re!,. : I Co., DrU'gi-t-. Si-4,tl:Uld Neek, N. '.' 10 1 ly. I 7 2T .Jg 0JIumiV V