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IF YOU ACE CUSTUin Tec wut ADVERTISE Tor Business. IS TO BUSINESS -WHAT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, ADVERTISING Democrat. J. HIE Titat Great Propelling Power. Write up a nice advertisement about your business and insert it in THE DEMOCRAT, and you'll "see a change in business all n round." PROFESSIONAL. D it. w. o. Mcdowell, Office Xorth corner New Hotel, Main Street, Scotland Neck, N. C 'Always at his office when not professionally engaged elsewhere. 1 i) 9(! 1v e. 9 D R. FRANK WHITEHEAD, Office North corner New Hotel, Main Street, Scotland Neck, N. C. jfiCAlwavx found at his office when not professionally engaged elsewhere. 7 0 ly D R. A. C. LIVERMON, Office Over J. D. Ray's store. Olliee hours from !) to 1 o'clock ; 2 to T, o'clock, p. m. 2 12 ly SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. D It. J. II. DANIEL, -DcNx, 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 the State. ? 8 ly A. DUNN, .1 T T 0 11 X L Y-A T-L A IF. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever required. his services 2 13 ly are w. H. KITCHEN, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Scotland Neck:, N. C. JSyOtnce : Corner Main and Elev enth Streets. 1 -r ly Joseph Christian P. St. Geo. Barraud. Late judge Supreme ) Court of Appeals Appe of Virginia. G IIRISTIAN & BARRAUD, A TTOIiXE YS-A T-L A TF, Will ractice in all the Courts, State and Federal, in the city of Richmond. Office Room 10, Chamber of Commerce Building, 1 7 ly RICHMOND, VA. I. J. Mercer fc son., 02(5 East Main Street., RICHMOND VA. LUMBER COMMISSION MERCHANTS. -o- C Jives personal and prompt attention o all consignments of Lumber, Shin ies, Laihs.tc. 4 17 90 ly -.NEW evvelry After six years experience, I feel thor oughly competent to do all work that is expected of a, WATCIIM MCER WATCHMAKER and JEWELER. a;:i JEWELER. Repairing & Timing Fine Watches A SPECIALTY 1 also car y a full line of WATCHES, CLtC;CS, JEWELRY, MUSIC A L 1 XST : ; 1 A E X TS AND FANCY G-OODS. "Xl Spectacles and Hi Eye Glasses Properly t: Fitted lo tli" Eve. IT Md Swing Ma.chin THE BEST ON EARTH. Store SEWING MACHINES CLEANED AND REPAIRED. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. IF. H. JOHNSTON, New Hotel, next door to entrance. 10 6 6m. E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. X. The Old Friend And the best friend, that never fails you, i3 Simmons Liver Regu lator, (the Red 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 is the King of Liver Medi cines ; is better than pills, and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel. It acts directly on the Liver, Kidneys and Bowels and gives new life to the whole sys tem. This i3 the medicine you want. Sold by all Druggists in Liquid, or in Powder to be taken dry or made into a tea. ' WEVERY PACKAGE"!! Hm the Z Stamp In red on wrapper. J. XI. ZEIUN & CO., Philadelphia. vZ A THOUSAND YEARS FROM NOW. Behold the wonders of the world, Wherever you may be The palaces upon the land, The ships upon the sea. Go count the triumphs of mankind And crown art's marble brow, Yet wonder what this world will be A thousand years from now ! The temples great of Babylon Where are they all to-day? And where is hundred-gated Thebes? All these have passed away? The mighty walls of queenly Tyre In pride no longer stand ; What is renowned Palmyra's site? A heap of desert sand ! The palaces that Cyrus built No longer are sublime ; Old Carthage crumbled long ago, Beneath the hand of time ; And with her passed forever more, Into oblivion s peace, The glories of her rival Rome, The marble marts oi Greece. How insignificant is man ! In fame how strong his trust ! What are the Ptolemies to-day? A pinch of mummy dust ; And where is Macedonia's boy, Who from his gilded throne Saw all the nations at his feet? His very grave's unknown ! Tribes, nations, kingdoms disappear Nor leave a trace behind ; The dust of monarchs long forgot Is scattered by the wind. Where is the prophet who can say Upon what regal brow The English diadem will rest A thousand years from now ? Will Venice sit upon the sea In splender as to day? Will haughty Paris rule the world Of fashion, proudly gay? Say, will the mosque of Omar rise Above the Orient deep? Will London be a mighty mart, And not a ruin heap? What capitals will crown the plains? What empres new will rise? What peoples, now in darkness held, . Will flourish neath the skies ! Ah, will the manner of the stars Crown freedom's radiant brow, And float above her capitol A thousand year's from now ? WilJ all the nation's be at peace, If nations then exist? Will not a crimson battle.plume Be by the sunshine kissed? And will the glowing firnament Know not a baleful star? And not a fragile flower bleed Beneath the feet of war? Who knows? We cannot look beyond The boundaries where we stand ; He holds the many nations in The hollow of his hand. He drives the chariot of time Across this Hying clod ; The past is dead, to-day is ours, The future is with God ! The Discovery Saved His Life. Mr. G. Gaillionette. Druggist, Beav ersville, 111., says : "To Dr. King's New Discovery I owe my life. Was taken with La Grippe and tried all the physicians for miles about, but of no avail and was given up and told I could not live. Having Dr. King's New Discovery in my store I sent for a bottle and from the first dose began to get better, and after using three bottles was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. We won't keep store or house without it," Get a free trial at E. T. Whitehead & Co's Drug Store. An authority on hypnotism says that hysterical persons are Aery difficult to influence. They are so wedded to their own fancies mental and physical that they prove very obstinate hypnot ic patients. Even if an influence is gained, it passes of! very quickly. Selected. SCOTLAND NECK, Written for The Democrat. GOD EVERYWHERE. On the Mountain, in the Sea, the Sunshine and Storm. A portion of a discourse pronounced by the Rev. Thomas G. Lowe, from the tSXtJ "I know that my Redeemer liveth." God, on withholding his visible pres ence and his audible voice from man has not left himself without a witness, for the visible creation shows forth his eternal power and godhead, while the heavens declare his glory and the firm ament showeth his handy work. Take a plain man in whose mind a vain in fidel philosophy has started no difficul ties and you will find a belief in God a fixed element in his creed. He believes the earth is in his creed. He believes the earth is an extended plain, circum scribed in its dimensions, reared upon a solid structure and stationary in its position but he believes God made it, because man could not make it and it did not make itself. Proceed to induct him into the sublime mysteries of pro gressive science and demonstrate to his mind that the earth which he supposed to be hemmed in by the overhanging horizon that skirts it on every side, is of immense magnitude, fettered on one hand with bonds of perpetual ice, and at the same time, expanding o'er the other in fiery- suns. That its surface is diversified with oceans of unfathomed depth and mountains of untrodden at titude and swarming tribes whose stranger dialect has never sounded in his ear. Convince him of its spherical form and its aerial suspension, that in stead of reposing in motionless immo bility, it is flying with thoughtlike ve locity along the trackless azure and bringing in its diurnal revolution the alternations of day and night. Follow its ifiagnificent circle around the lumi nary of day and see with what regulari ty the successive portions of its annual revolution bring the rolling seasons 'round. Winter and summer, seed time and harvest, now clothed with waving forest and flowery wreaths, then crusted with frost and mantled with snow. Unfold to his vision the great mass of beings and then let him see that this earth is but a minor number of a numerous family of worlds all fitted up as the abodes of life and intelligence, and that the sun which he considered but a great ball of fire burning above and beneath him, is the great central orb of this extended system, silently sending out his influence through un measured distances and binding the re motest member in the circle of his at traction. He will stand bewildered with the proof and majesty of God. Proceed now to show him that notwith standing the amazing vastness of the solar pystem its planets and sattellites so diminutive is it when compared with all the worlds wrhich people immensity that to an ejTe which can at one glance encompass the whole material creation, should it be blotted from the map of being, it would occasion no greater vac uum than a leaf falling in the solitude of a vernal forest. Trace your progress ot investigation and discovery along the milky way that belts the azure vault pass the glimmering nebulae, the clustering constellations and the scin tillating stars, where worlds on worlds buried in the profundity of distance, swept on in their unbounded rivalry through the universe of endless expan sion : there where thought can not follow and bold fancy tires. Tell him that so far from having arrived upon the confines of nature, that he is yet in finitely remote from the vast profundity of gloom or glory where hangs the cen tral scale that balances creation. Would he turn blindly away and say with the mad astronomer there is no God? While the music of the spheres is floating softly around him as the echo of a harp string he would respond to the angelic song and shout "Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty." Go stand upon some landscape cloth ed in nature's own simple loveliness, where the flower is scenting the breeze, when the butterfly is revelling in a par adise of sweets and the lark is teaching her nestlings their first hymn of praise. EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. N. O, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1894. See there how God leaves his impress Look up into heaven which an invisi ble hand has painted so deeply beauti fully blue, while the sun is looking light upon all beneath his radiant track. See then, how God has flung out his sign and written his name. Go out at night, fall upon some spreading vale which reposes the peaceful herds upon its couch of turf, when the moon, like a pearl in the heaven is scattering the lucid corruscations of her silvery car tho' a shower of the dust of diamonds was sprinkling the shining air, and the starry hosts that rejoice in her train are serenely floating amid wavy undu lations of sublimated ether, and do you not see and feel and know there is a God? There is an everywhere present and presiding Deity. The mountain enthrones him in its sunlit grandeur, ! i then, his smiles are in the sunshine and his song is on the gale. The fly ing storm bears him upon its billowy folds. Then his chariot is the cloud and his voice is the thunder. The sounding board of the old ocean re ceives his footsteps, for there the winds are his wings with which he lashes the waves into foam or fans them to repose, while the boom of rushing wrters pro claim him Almighty. When he stood upon the mountain he recorded his name in character of light upon its heaven pointing peak. When he rode upon the storm hanging in the sky and bending over the earth he left his sign in the rain bow. And when he passed upon the deep he spread it as a mirror behind him to hold in far off re flection the jeweled banners of his realm. From earth which he has car peted for his footstool and Heaven which he lias sky-curtained for his throne, the sound of his name and the song of his praise is borne in the mingled melody of human, tongues and angelic lyres. Keep out of Debt. Romona (CaZ.) Progress. Every one who has a fixed income of any kind ought so to regulate his expenditure as to bring them within it. This habit should be lncalcu lated in the very earliest years. The child with an allowance for its pleas ures, be it ever so small, should never be suffered to exceed it or to draw upon the future. The youth should be taught to undergo self denial rather than to borrow the money to obtain a gratification. There is more true independence in this lesson than in hundreds of shouts or boasts of liberty which too often only convey the idea of casting off duty and obligation. Such instruction, however, will be useless while example points the other way. The father and mother who live beyond their means, who incur debt for the pleasures of the table, or for dress, or for the vanity of com peting with neighbors and keeping up a certain style of living, or for private indulgence of any kind need n6ver expect to cultivate in their child an honorable determination to owe no man anything. How Themometers are Made. A small glass tube, blown into a bulb at one end, is partly filled with mercury. The mercury is boiled to expel the air and fill the tube with mercury vapor, and then the tute is hermetically sealed and allowed to cool. The gradations are found as fol lows : The instrument is immersed in ice water, and the freezing point is found and is marKed. Then it is placed in water, which is allowed to reach the boiling point, and so 212 degrees is found. The spans letween are marked by mathematical calcula tions. , .r mm Cure for Headache. As a remedy for all forms of Head ache Electric Bitters has proved to be the very best. It effects a permanent cure and the most dreaded habitual sick headaches yield to its influence. We urge all who are afflicted to pro cure a bottle, and give this remedy a fair trial, In cases ot habitual con stipation Electric Bitters cures by giving the needed tone to the bowels, and few cases long resist the use of this medicine. Try it once. Large bottles only Fifty cents at E. T. White head & Co's Drug Store. KAILS FB02X THE STREETS. How They Enable a California Han to Pick up a Living. San Franchco Call. In all cities men have countless way ot making their livings, and wine of them are verj strange. On the corner of Kearny and Post streets a few days a?:o, a man was seen scratching between the cobble stones with his cane. Few people paid any attention to him, but one man stopped and watched him and soon saw him scratch out a horse-shoe nail and put it in his right hand coat pocket. He re peated the oteration several times and put several of the nails in the other pocket. "What do you want with thoe nails? asked the man who had watched him. a SAC "J 11111 UUl Ul IUJ?H7 nails," replied the other, "and I ain't ashamed of it either." An interesting conversation was started, and the man who had leen hunting horse-shoe nails liegan to tell the other all about himself and his strange business. He said his name was Thomas, but whether he referred to his first or last name he did not say, and then he was gathering horseshoe nails for a livelihood. "You see," he began, "an old straight horseshoe nail that is, one that lias once been on a horse's foot is worth twice or three times as much as a new one. This is easily explained if you stop to think that a new nail is always liable to split when being hampered and injure the horse's foot. An old nail has been tried, and the blacksmith knows he can depend on it. Most of the nails that I find are ient, but the good ones I can always sell to black smiths who know their business." "What do you do with the others?" asked the man interested. "Oh, those that are not very bad I sell to gunsmiths and other men who repair small machinerjT. The steel in a horeshoe nail is of the best quality. Those nails that are broken and bent sell for old metal." "Can you make much of a living at such a business?" "No," replied the nail gatherer ; "there ain't a fortune in it, but as long as the horseshoe nails hold out and blksmiths are willing to buy them I won't have to stop a man on the streets and ask him for a dime to buy somthing to eat." A Brave Girl. Youth's Companion. One of the last official acts ot the late President Carnot, of France was the sending of a medal of the French Legion of Honor to a little American girl, named Jennie Carey, who lives at Muckford, Indiana. Last year, while a train on the Pan Handle railroad, having on board sev eral distinguished Frenchmen, was bound to Chicago and the "World's Fair, Jennie Carey, who was then ten years old, discovered that a trestle r i , , - r a 1 - a was on lire, and that ii me irain, which was nearly due, ran upon it a dreadful wreck would take place. Thereupon she ran out upon the track to a place where she could be seen from some little distance. Then she took off her red flannel skirt and. when the train came in view, waved ii back and forth across the track. It was seen, and the train stopped. On board of it were seven hundred peo ple, all of whom must have suffered death but for Jennie's courage and pres ence of mind. When they returned to France the Frenchmen on the train brought the occurrence to the notice of President Carnot, and the result was the sending of the medal of this famous French society, the purpose of which is the honoring of bravery and merit, wher ever they may be found. When chickens show symptoms of leg weakness give them a little milk to drink and feed them sparingly on coarse oat meal, millet and wheat scattered among the chaff, compelling them to dig for it. A little exercise tnat way with plenty of green fool will stimulate the digestive organs and of ten throw off the trouble. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00. NO. 43. Dangers to theErts. Heading Time$. An eminent oculit declare that typewriting ha injurious effect on the eye. The operator i obliged to glance in cessantly buck and forth from the keyboard to the shorthand note. ait this is muscular exercise of the nvst fatiguing sort. For this raton, the oculist aays.it is desirable for ty- writers cultivate a familiarity with tin keyboard fimilr to that ;iiwwi1 h the accomplished piamt with the key board of his instrument, so that it will l necearv to look at the kc a little asi jKwible. While the injury that may m-uSt to the eye of a hanl working t y -writer who Is not to e regarded t lightly, it ia not likelv to I near a serious as that rcultinj; from tin practice indulged in by many in the- days of railroad travel and jKMsinteii! reading on trains. This practice in most trying on thve delicate muol that regulate t lie fhaje of the eycV lenses and so affect the focalization of the organ. The danger is greatest of course, on thoe railroads whoso bal lasting is imperfect and whoe rails are roughly laid, producing much jarring and consequent rapid changing of the distance between the eyeb and the paper. In some cases the eyes of a victim of the railroad reading habit are hi affected as to focus at differet distance-, and then his sufferings are most acute, and though much relief m.ty le afford ed by the treatment of a skilled prac titioner, nothing, but a discontinuance of the habit will afford a jcrlect cure. In the case of a jerson who puf fered tortures for two or three years from eye disorder due to train trad ing neither rest nor professional skill availed until by accident the yellow window shades in the office in which he was employed were removed, when he was able at once to work with great ly increased ease and comfort, and in a few months was entirely cured. How to Utilize an old Hat Selected. If you have an old straw hat, take the trimming off and dust the. straw perfectly. Take a half cup of clear coffee and a clean black cloth and wash the straw, rubbing it vigorously until it seems to be pretty wet through ; then lay the hat on a flat surface, with a dark cloth under it and another over the brim, and with a moderately hot iron press it till it is dry. For the crown select a tin pan or bucket that is about the same size as the crown and press it over that ; then put your wire hack in the edge of the rim if it had one and bend the hat in the ghaje that you desire to h.ve it. You can change the shape entirely if you like. If the crown is too high, take out a few rows of straw close to the brim, where the trimming will cover it. And if the brim is too low for the present fashion put in a few rows of straw taken from another hat or a piece of buckram. It will tjo. covered by the trimming. Then get some good shoe polish and give the hat three coats of the liquid blacking, waiting for each to dry. You will see your straw look like new. This is a good way to freshen old hats during the summer. Brush and apply the polish without removing the trim ming. How Spiders Walk. Atlanta Constitution. H. H., Dixon has been studying the locomotion of insects and spiders by means of instantaneous photographs. He finds that the limbs move together in diagonals. In insects the first and third legs on one side move with the second on the other, the antennae moving with the first leg on the same side. In the case of spiders, which have eight legs, the first and third on one side move with the Pecond and fourth on the other. Pumpkins are an excellent fall and winter feed for cattle. ?U:u Y t A:w .nt wi vt t Now. THAT CLASS OK KEADKHS tiut vor WUh your A hrrt lament is the ! h nrd Tut Divotrit. Tl.e Lir" An o rr?' ur 1 a variety. U'lnj; intftvliKvd In tlt j-T-lion of the country f-r which firing claim are readc. Th-re Wine no rwd or core, the tictv l naturally ery dfelrable for canning or for Ubw ue. It might ali rtve more attractive to the pmlitorr rn.t!l -if that were po.iMo. ItubhUL around trw- harbor mire ainl im Me- injury, by dlanaa ia 1N natural rtult it jum aJlow Tour Urmr to tnt ln4-ti, jrvmr Impure, and jour Mktrt run d n TbrM-maof Cunu tui tion. Urtn. or Mala ria, wait for Uila tiro of ttnM Uita to thir cnnmctunltT. If you row tl Ilrr to artiTltr. o It will throw of? thM prnii, purify it 1 thn will t fx k MM'ta; I mill up kmtfky weight bi tlm l a fihnj( of?, will rbt arur from diu, fur you'll Im trrm- Vr. rima(nMn Mtiu Vimyiwrrr nm this aa nothing can That tlx rn 11 can to punninfrt. In ontivalvvtK from t-neumonl. fwrrra, or othrr mt)t !. It an pjlrin. mMnratlv t'xno to tmikl Up nrtl fWh anl tffnj;1h. For all dlaruw of thn lirrr or LUxM If " DisoovM-y " fall to l-rw'flt or cur, yoa ba your motwy t k No matter how IhuI tout rut. Dr. Hu."Va Ilamedy will permanently cur your C-atarrh. NR. H. 0. HYATT'S SANATORIUM, KINKToN, X. . )i'nnnii the inxl trnrrnt Su rgery. 21 iv Norfolk Commission Co,, . S. I. SAVl.S. Mmgr., of ;Uinhro, A. ('. C:nii::i:n Merchants and MSSCHA1TLISE EIl0n:?.5. 'rnitM, Vegetable, and other l'r"ii . J.r, (' 17 Hn.tnoke . L , .V..r-.. , i. Kkkkhentkh : Tho Hank of Com merce, Norfolk, Vh. ; T. W. D wiy, ('ahier. Farmer' and Merchant ' Hank , New Heme. X. !. ; Iv H. U .rdcn. l're-. tank of Wavno, (odloro, N. 1 VI ly HI 'CK LEX'S ARNICA SA EVE. Tut; Hkht Sai.vk in the world fr 'ut. Hrui-e, Fleer, Salt Rheum, F - er Sore, Tetter, ("hapil Hand, Chilblain, Corn, and all ?kin Eni. lons, and itivelv run rile-, nr no ay required. It i tmrante-! jmo erfeet HwtlMaetion or money refunded, 'rice 2t cents r box. FOH SALE HV E. T. WHITE IEAD A CO. TllAfHV MUiHINM. Many Mich flool the floM the mar ket. Hotanic Hlood Halm in a on- scientiouly coniounded rnedi' ine, the result of forty yearn pnwtice by an nn- nent physician. It I- the l--t I ! I urifier ever offered to trie public, and ind is guaranteed to cum if jriwu a air trial. Trv it for all kin and b!o.-l lieae, including catarrh and rheu matism in it ort form. One Initio f it contain more curative and build- ng-up virtue than a dozen of any oth- er kind. Trv "The Old Reliable." Sc.. adverti-omcnl elev here. FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS Ax Oij) AM) Wt.uTntnt Rkmkov Mr. Window's Soothing yrup ha en uel for over fifty year by rnt J ion of mother for their childieit while teethint', with i-rfe;t Mic-e-. It soothes the child, often the ; uri , allay all pain run wind cohc, uwl in the l-f.t remedy for Diarrhoa. I plea-.nt to the ta-te. Sold by In.! gist in every part til the World. Twenty fie cent a ltt!e. It v.di.e i incalculable. Retire and a-k for Mr. Win-low'. Soothing Syrup, a,,d take no other kind. English Spavin I.inlrr.ent remote all Hard, Soft or Callow :d Lump- a- d and Clemi-he from hor-n. Hl'l Spavin Surbs, Splint, Sweeney, Rii' worm tifle-, Sprain, anf4 Swollen Through, Cough, Etc. Sne 't by use of one Isott'e. Warrarted the most wondrful Hlernism Cuit? ewr known. Sold E. T. Whitehead A Co., Druggist., Scotland Neck, X. C. 10 1 ly. Hog Cholera. The famous Major Hog Cholera Cure, which cures and prevent cholera in hogs and oultry i on sale at X. H. Jowey'a and at E. T. Whitehead' Drug Store. The medicine is highly rcom raended by many western farmer. a a sure cure. Try a package. At X. B Josey's and Drug Store. mm -w I ' 2 3"" . r " 1
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