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VOL. X.
The Old Friend
And the best friend, that never
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people should not be persuaded
that anything ebo will do.
It is the Iving of Liver Medi
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Liver, Kidneys and Bowels and
gives new life to the whole sys
tem. This is the medicine you
want. Sold by all Druggists in
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RUNNING A RACE.
A little tear and a little smile
Set out to run a race ;
We watched them closely all the while,
Their course was babys fa3e.
The little tear he got the start
We really feared be'd win ;
He ran so fast, and made a dart
Straight for her dimpled
But somehow it was very queer,
We watch. ed them all the while
The little, shining, fretful tear
Got beaten by the emile.
GIVE !
"Give as you would if an angel
Awaited your gift at the door ;
Give as vou would if to-morrow
Found vou where waiting was o'er ;
Give as vou would to the Master
If you met His searching look ;
Give as you would of your substance
If His hand vour offering took."
The Exploits of Diving Birds.
Scientific American.
Engineers have often announced
that submarine vessels would some day
acquire a speed mucn greater tnan
that of ordinary ships. The diving
birds furnish us with a powerful ar
gument in support of this opinion, for
they move with surprising rapidity un
der water. The penguin, for example,
can neither fly nor walk, . but hops
along as if its legs were tied together.
Xor does it swim, for it literally flies
under water. When, at the Zoological
Garden of London, the keeper brings
food to these birds, a sudden transfor
mation is witnessed. The bird, which
is heavy and awkward, suddenly be
comes a superb and rapid creature, cov
ered with globules of silver formed
by the air imprisoned :n i's plumage.
and 11 i tig in the depths of the placid
water with a rapidity oi evolution that
is unknown in aerial i'iyht. The mo
tion of its wings is u.enieal with that
of ordinary flight, and its feet, extend
el in . i:ne with its bod serve neither
as rs nor as rudders. Steering is
effected through the acceleration of the
wings at the expense of the other.
The fish thus chased is captured and
swallowed without any retardation of
the speed of the bird being visible.
The cormorant, on the contrary swims
with his feet, which act like the paddle
boards of the wheel of a steamboat.
Yet the conditions of the submarine
medium are so exceptionally favorable
that the speed obtained therein by the
cormorant is three or tour times greater
than that which it makes upon the
suriace.
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SCOTLAND NECK N. C, THURSDAY,
Unwelcome Discoveries.
Minneapolis Times.
Modern science ha made many a
wonderful discovery, but unfortnnately
not all of its discoveries are welcome.
It has revealed the beautiful processes
of nature, but it lias also revealed her
destroying agencies. The more closely
man has studied, the more complica
ted has he found conditions and the
more dangers has he recognized.
Where all is outwardly lovely, he has
found inward harm. The microscope
has disclosed minute horrors, none the
less horrible because minute. The tel
escope, as it sweeps the heavens with
its farseeing eye, has foretold stupen
dous catastrophes. Much that was
thought beneficial has been proved
dangerous, and much that was thought
harmless has been proved fatal. It has
been demonstrated that hand in hand
with benefits stalk injuries. Great
good is always attended by .-ateliUes of
little evils.
Years ago people lived in calm con
fidence that whatever is, is right. Toey
had faith In all things. To-uay people
have faith in nothing. They are like
pilgrims walking through the valley of
the shadow of death, leeling thick
about them horrors they could not see.
They have learned that the very air,
once considered a life-giving nectar, is
peopled with ferocious microbes seek
ing whom they may devour. They
imagine their insidious enemies perch
ed on restaurant chairs, sitting atilt on
the passing coin, flying from shoulder
to shoulder in the jostling crowd.
They have learned that the water they
drink swarms with life and carries
germs of dread disease. They have
learned that one article of food is bad
for the nerves, another heats the blood,
another is hard to digest, and so on
through all known menus. They have
learned that imperfect sanitation ana
ventilation endanger health, and that
proper conditions are, moreover, very
rarely attained. Nor is it in every
day affairs alone that science has point
ed out the dangers that await man.
Through all the realm of human inter
ests it has coniured up evils. Its
warning runs the gamut of calami
ties from the danger of not exercising
enough up to the danger of the race
multiplying too fast for the earth to
support it and the equally dramatic
danger of the earth flying from its or
bit and rushing into the warm embrace j
ot the sun.
Sensitive souls are reduced to a
state of abject terror when they think
of the small chance man has of life,
health, and prosperity, in the face of
these orgies of science. What shall
i hey eat, wnerewunai snau mvy u
clothed, what can they in safety do,
when in all tilings lurk death and dis
aster? They dare not indulge their
pet weakness for coflee. They eschew
their favorite dainties. They fear io
come in contact with their fellows or to
touch the railing, counter, or car .-trap,
touched alike Ly all sorts and condi
tions of men. They fear contagion in
the doctor's office and blood poisoning
from his knife. They tear a thousand
things in daily life. Meanwhile they
still live.
Certainly science has evolved much
truth, and its warnings are worth the
heeding. But the warnings of science,
like ail other advice, should be referred
to a indicious committee on common
sense. It should be remembered that
doctors sometimes disagree, and the
verdict of one of authority, or a half
dozen, is not necessarily the verdict of
science. Moreover, a truth mav be too
sweepingly applied. Circumstances
and individuals differ, and what will
hold good in one case needs modifica
tion in another. It seems to the hard
ened and incredulous that if life be
really so beset with dangers, it is pass
ing strange that generation after gen
eration should have lived and thrived
in their midst, and this also without a
knowledge of their existence. If our
ancestors, knowing nothing of these
wonderful discoveries of hidden evil,
managed to avoid the pitfalls, why not
we ? Does mere knowledge of danger
make one more susceptible to its ef
fects? Where is the wisdom that
should accompany increasing knowl
edge? Natural living and confidence
in nature are the . best safeguards
against such evils. Common sense is
the best of disinfectants and work the
EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO
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LWXOTXJK&.AWAY.
tSyEOOOA. D.'OnlyrLininitiass
Will Inhabit The Earth.
Exchange.
A French t-tatisticia,n who has been
studying the military and other rec
ords, with a view of determining the
height of men at different periods, has
reached ?ome wonderful reilts.
A Frenchman is naturally an artist
even in figures. A German might
content himself with a drv arithmetic
al compilation ; but this artist carries
his statistics into the realm of history
and of poetry, and even of prophecy.
He has not only solved some perplex
ing problems in regard to the past of
the human race, but also is enabled to
calculate its future, and to determine
the exact period when man will disap
pear from the earth.
The recorded facts extend over near
ly three centuries. It is found that in
1010 the average height of men was
1.75 metres, or say 5 feet 9 inches. In
1790 it was 5 feet 6 inches. In 1820
it was 5 feet 5 inches and a fraction.
At the present time it is 5 feet 3f
inches.
It is easy to deduce from these fig
ures a rate of regular and gradual de
cline in human stature, and then ap
ply this, working backwards and for
wards, to the past and to the future,
by this calculation it is determined
that the stature of the first men at
tained the surprising average of 16
feet 9 inches.
The race had already deteriorated in
the days of Og, while Goliath was a
quite degenerate offspring of the
giants. Coming down to later times
we find that at the beginning ot our
era the average height of man was 9
feet and in the time of Charlemagne it
was 8 feet 8 inches, a fact quite suffi
cient to account for the heroic deeds of
the Paladins. But the most astonish
ing result of this scientific study
comes from the application of the
same inexorable law of diminution to
the future.
The calculation shows that by the
year 4,000 A. D., the stature of the av
erage man will be reduced to fifteen
inches. At that epoch there will be
only Lilliputians.
"What to Bead and How.
Selected.
A young man found that he could
read with interest nothing but sensa
tional stories. The best books were
placed in his hands, but they were not
interesting. One afternoon, as he was
reading a foolish story, he overheard
one say : "That boy is a great reader ;
docs be read anything that is worth
leading?"
' Xo," was the reply ; "his mind will
run out if Le keeps on reading after
resent fashion. He used to bo a sen
sible boy till he took to reading non
sense and nothing."
The boy sat still for a time ; then
arose, threw the book in the ditch,
went up to the man who said that his
mind would run out, and asked him if
he would let him have a good book to
read.
"Will you read a good book if I will
let you have one?"
"Yes, sir."
"It will be hard work for you."
"I will do it."
'Well, come home with me, and I
will lend you a good book."
He went with him, and received a
volume of Franklin's works.
"There said the man, "read that,
and come and tell me what you have
read."
The lad kept his promise. He found
it hard work to read the simple and
wise sentences of the philosopher, but
he persevered. The more he read, and
the more he talked with his friend
about what he read, the more interest
ed he became. Ere long he felt no de
sire to read the feeble and foolish books
in which he had formerly delighted.
He derived a great deal more pleasure
from reading good books than he had
ever derived from reading poor ones.
Besides, his mind began to grow. He
began to be spoken of as an intelligent,
yrnTnipinr TTMnnr ww
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NOVEMBER 22, 1894.
ITo Siterine-ts.
A Frencn lady, .-laying in America
for wme time, was wrestling with the
Engli-h language. She had made very
good progress, ?he thoucht. and one
day accepted an invitation to dine.
As the dinner went on the wa of
fered a dish that was new to her. Net
fancying its ?. ranee, he declined
it, saying :
"Ah ! thanks, n... .non-ie'ir. I e:it
only acquaintance. ?r
"You don't seem to admire young
Lankins," eaid one girl.
"I don't," replied the other. "He i
the champion all round clumsy man.
He handles a tennis racket as if it were
a chafing dish, and a chafing dish as if
it were a tennis racket." Wa.-hington
S'ar.
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I I Hi .. 1 of Dr. Pierce's Ploaant I'elleta
but then you get a lasting benefit
and a permanent curt of your
bilious or Sick Headache, Con
stipation or Indigestion, loss of
appetite, and all those troubk
which follow a disordered liver.
The time to treat an inactiTs
liver is before it becomes a dis
ease. If these tinv Pellets wera
in every day use people would be
germ-proof. The germs of disease
Ly I inrougn ine liver your nealtn ana
Yr I well-being aepenls on the liver.
Url if you suffer from wind and pain
III I in the stomach, faddiness, costive-
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They Ye guaranletd to give satisfaction, or
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Think of the thousands of hopeless cases
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catarrh nemeay, Derore its proprietors
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is no notify all persons having claims
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