n A Qc t't 7 rU 1 ' ADVERTISING IS TO BUSINESS WHATSTKAM IS TO- Machinery,' IF YOU ARE HUSTLER .HE MOCR 1 or ;i vovs Business. I AT. i i 1ir . t (t rkat Vkovkua Power. ibout ' Un ,nd in-ort it in I tHe DEMOCRAT, l von 11 :i clmngc in business all frlllld." PROFESSIONAL. r. W. O. McDOWELL I lice North corner ew J-iotei, -mam . I -,-r . 1 -T-: Street, GOTLAND Neck, N. C. i wy"vlvvnvs at ins iniji.c '" ; li.- nr,,rri.ii e sewnere. hi. FRANK WHITEHEAD, WeXorth corner New Hotel, Main .Street, HCOTLAKD Xf.CK, N. C. ' 5 AhvnvH found at his office when - tfprofe.-.ionally engaged elsewhere. I- I 7 0 ly R. A. C. LIVERMON, Ioffice Over J. D. Kay's store. f rfH-o hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to I d.Vlock, P. m. 2 12 1y 11 -v-r n AVID BELL, Attorney at Law, EXFIELD, N. C. 11 if Practices in all the Courts of ITali- i and adjoining counties and in trie fjipreme and Federal Courts. Claims lltrted in all parts of the State. 4 3 8 ly j A. DUNX, ATT 0 R X E Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Xeck, X. C. Practices wherever his services are quired. 2 13 ly seph Christian. P. St. Geo. Barraud. liitp judge Supreme ) I Court of Appeals r S of Virginia. HRISTIAX & BARRAUD, ,1 TTORXE YS-A T-LA W, Will nr:iftiY in nil the Courts. State L lid Federal, in the city of Richmond. (li-e Room 10. Chamber of Commerce p Building, ' f, lv RICHMOND, VA. I. J. Mercer & Son., GlH, East Main Street., RICHMOND VA. f JJM3ER COMMISSION ERG HANTS, -o- Olives personal and prompt attention 'Of all consignments of Lumber, Shin . Laths, &c. 17 90 ly Established 1891. i c, mm k co. I CIHTOX FACTORS AXD 1'KODUCiJ IOMMISSIOX TV1"ERC HANTS, No. 9 Commerce St., NORFOLK, - - YA. (uick Sales and Prompt Returns. Correspondence and Consignments piicited. J ferenee : Burruss, Son it Co., Bank and others on application. 11 I 3m -NEW ewelry iter six years experience, I feel thor oughly competent to do all work that is expected of a MATCHMAKER and JEWELER. MATCHMAKER atd JEWELER. f pairing & Timins Fine Watches A SPECIALTY 1 also carry a full line of VTCHKS, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, rICAL INSTRUMENTS AXD FANCY GOODS. -- Spectacles and Eye Classes Properly l Fitted to the Eye. l k hM Swine Machine THE BEST OX EARTH. SKWlXc; MACHINES CLEANED AND REPAIRED. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. IF. 11. JOHNSTON. N Hotel, next door to entrance. Store 10 6 6m. E. E. HILLIAxD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. 3X THE BROTHERS. Ride we out at the dawning of dav Grav aro the hills and a blus-ii oh the sky Up between fields where the dew frosts lay, Jack and Harold and I. Can ever an hour with this compare? Is ever a bloom liko a waking one? Ho, for the breath of the unwarmedair That knows not the kiss of the sun ! Over the highway and down the hill Speed we well like the wings of a bird, A reddening east and a warning thrill, The world has awaited and stirred? A sudden ray and a cock's shrill call," A salty scent from the sea blown clown, A thought of the work that awaits us all And yonder the spires of the town ! Back we ride at. the close of the day, Met bv the breath that the brier sheds, And a bird that is Hying to rest away, And one tar over our heads. Can ever an hour with this compare, When the day and the night are almost one, Tilling the sky and the silent air, Hushed at the death of the sun? Back 'tween the dewy fields we ride, Under the deepening heart of the sky, Passing the bridge and the hills steep side Jack and Harold and I. And down by the mill will one of us wait. Wait for the wave of a hand, for a smile, And over the hill, by the vine-clad gate' Will one of ue linger awhile. But under the stars, in the gathering gloom, One rideth on, rideth on for a space, Then, oh, the scent of the white rose bloom, And the joy In a mother's face ! Vi rginia Cloud in Youth's Companion. Mr. Lease "at Home." Judge, Mrs. Lease (looking up from her newspaper) William, does it not make your blood boil to read of these combi nations of capital against Her husband One moment, my dear ; the baby is awake again. I must give him some more soothing syrun. Mrs. Lease (as lie leaves the room) Bother the baby. I can't have peace to think in the house. It's enough to drive a woman to drink. Mr. Lease (who has returned alter pacifying the baby) My dear, I don't think camphorated oil is good to rub on his chest ; it opens the pores and Mrs. Lease (impatiently) All right, do as you please ; as I was saying, Wil liam, the down-trodden farmer cannot get bread and bacon to eat, while Mr. Lease (excitedly) Ah, now I remember it ! I put the bacon in the pot ust after yon left for the conven tion, and I never thought of it again till this moment. How could I De so stupid? Mrs. Lease (after bis return from the kitchen) William, I fear you can not raise your mind above sordid things. It is of no use to talk to you of the great problems which are now engaging the human intellect. When I start to tell you about capitalistic domination you give your thoughts to the baby ; and when I try to explain the causes of the agricultural depression you can not take your mind off your humdrum household duties. Mr. Lease (humbly) Don't be hard on me, my dear. After your office hours you can spend your evenings in improving your mind while my work is never done. I was up with the baby nearly all last night. To-day I couldn't get the ketttle to boil, and I have a heap of sewing ahead of me to-night. Mrs. Lease Well, perhaps there are excuses for you. Go on with your sewing while I finish this article. Knights of tha Maccabees. The State Commander writes us from Lincoln, Xeb., as follows : "After trying other medicines for what seem ed to be a very obstinate cough in our two children we tried Dr. King's Xew Discovery and at the end of two days the cough entirely left them. We will not be without it hereafter, as our ex perience proves that it cures where all other remedies fail." Signed F. W. Stevens, State Com. Why not give this great medicine a trial, as it is guaranteed and trial bottles are free at E. T. Whitehead & Co.'s Drug Store. Regular size 50c. and f 1.00. Everybody seems to be saying a good word for the bush and lima bean. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, TRAIN ROBBERIES. THEY ARE INCREASING. Higher Rates for Carrying Money. Richmond Disjjatch. The express companies throughout the country have put up their rates for the carriage ot money. The Increase amounts to about 25 per cent., and is the result of the losses entailed upon the companies by the train robberies which have grown so much in frequen cy and daring during the last two year3. In every such cage the companies are subjected to much expense in pursuing the thieves, and often they fail to recover the treasure stolen. Experience has taught them, they say, that they can not continue to carry money at the old rates with hope of profit, and that the increase which they have made is the simple dictate of common-sense business management. The following table compiled by the Express CQette, of Cincinnati, gives the number of "hold-ups" of railroad express-trains during the past five years, and shows that the evil is a growing one and that vigorous legislation is needed to put an end to it : Xumber of Year. "Hold-Ups." 1890 12 1891 1G 1892 16 1893 33 1891 27 Total number trains "held up" 104 Total number of lives lost - - 27 Total number of peoxle injured 27 Senator Butler has introduced a bill which puts money packages of express companies on the same level as United States mail matter, and it is believed that if it becomes a law "hold ups" will be of infrequent occurrence. Train robbers seldom interfere with the mails. They have more fear of the United States authorities than of the State authorities. They know that to touch any piece ot mail matter is to set in motion a band of trained officers who have ample means with which to pursue them to the land's end, whereas local authorities are rarely provided with the means to pursue and punish them. So, when they have to take chances of detection and conviction they prefer to incur the penalty of the State law rather than of the Federal law. And then, of course, they know that they are far more certain to find currency in express packages than in mail matter. If the United States Government would undertake the carriage of money packages and would insure delivery, it might have all of this carrying business. But this the government has, always declined to do. If the Post-Office De partment will not do this business why should not Congress extend its protec tion to money packages carried by express companies? If it would do so we should soon see the companies returning to the old rates ; perhaps to rates lower than ever before. We are not familiar with the details of Senator Butler's bill, but unless it is liable to some objection that does net occur to us, we should think that it ought to pass. In the Instance of the Aquia-creek robbery we see how difficult and costly it is to pursue train robbers, and how troublesome it is to bring back for trial a prisoner who has been arrested in another State. This, too, notwithstanding the fact that Governor O'Ferrall has made untiring efforts to bring the guilty to judgment. Indeed, if the executives ot all other States which have been the scenes of train robberies had pursued the rascals with the same vigor and determination that Virginia's Executive has pursued those who held up the train at Aquia creek, this form of crime would have disappeared long ago. But experience has shown that in some States the au thorities are not very diligent in pur suing such offenders. The fact is that takes money and men to follow these desperadoes, and to overwhelm them if they show fight, and too often the officers of the law have considered their detection and punishment more a mat ter that concerned the express compa nies than a matter that concerned the general public. Shake the deciduous and evergieen shrubs after each heary snowfall. EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. THE STONY SIDE. Be Ever HspefsL Selected. There is no greater man than he who is true to himself when all around deny and forsake him. There is no woric so humble that faithfulness in it will not be noticed and rewarded. Notice in any path in life the most successful figures walking in it, more often than not, you wiil find that they are people who have failed more than once. "When Emerson's library was burn ing at Concord," relates Miss Alcott, "I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong sweet face and expressed my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but be answered cheerily : 'Never mind, Loui sa, see what a beautiful blaze they make ! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was never forgotten, and in the varied losses that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright." None of us realize that hopefulness is not only a delightful quality to meet with in others, but a positive duty in cumbent on all of us. St Paul, the most practical of writers on life and its difficulties, brackets it with faith and love as the chiefest of Christian virtues. It is not a mere accident of disposition whether we persistently look on the dark and gloomy or the brighter side of things, but a habit of mind which we can cultivate or allow to die through want ol use. Begin with small things, and the habit will grow on you in greater ones. Steadfastly resolye to look for the bright place in every event, and if your path in life is gloomy and difficult, look not only on the thorns and stones of the way, but fix your mind steadilj on the helps which come in the dark est lot, and the sun and stars which are always shining above, if we will but lift our eyes and see them. It is not yourself only you will serve by the formation of hopeful yiews and habits ; you will be a perpetual cordial and tonic to all those among whom your lot is cast. Exercise a strong will to secure tran quillity. If Ave worry about the past which is gone, or the future which has not come, the blessed to-day, which is all we can be sure of, we never have. Gone to the Dead-Letter Office. Detroit Free Press. He slowly approached the stamp clerk's window at the post-offlce with a letter in his hand, and asked : "Do you trust?" "Not in any one on earth," replied the clerk. "If I should frank this envelope, same as congressmen, would it go?" 'No, sir." 'Isn't this government a paternal one and willing to furnish a stamp to a needy person and collect later on?" "Xo, sir." "But there must be a wav 1 can send this letter to Washington?" "Yes ; post it without a stamp, and it will go to the dead-letter office there." "Yes ; post it without a stamp, and it will go to the dead-letter office there." "Ah ! I see. It's to a friend of mine in that same office, and of course he'll get it. 'Scuse me, sir, but I'm a bit off this morning, and not as clear-headed as I might be. You have saved me a stamp, sir a 2-cent stamp and I feel grateful, and will always remember you. That's the way, ot course, and here she goes. What could I have been think ing of to stamp a letter going to the dead-letter office !" It May do as Much f:r you. Mr. Fred Miller, ot Irving, 111. writes that he had a Severe Kidney troubiej for many years, with severe pains in his back and also that his bladder was affected. He tried many so-called Kidney curerf but without any good re sult. About a year ago he began use of Electric Bitters and found relief at once. Electric Bitters is especially adapted to cure of all Kidney and Liv er troubles and often gives almost in stant relief. One trial will prove our statement. Price only 50c for large bottle. At E. T. Whitehead &. Co.'s Drug Store. JANUARY 24, 1895. ARE M0HALS IMPROVING.' A CHANGE HT BCTS. 2zt They En:x Mere. Xnc Utti Journal. We have recently seen - stated that the standard of moral- ha- tMi low ered. We do not think . It has leen in some resreeLs changed, and in seme cases very much for the letter. Many things that our fathers did, with out fear and without reproach, would le inadmissible in this day. lnde 1 the biblical narrative recites many things, in connection with the early worthies, which would be considered reprehensible now. Morals have not deteriorated. The bleiied work of our holy Christianity is going on, and civilization is advanc ing with every revolution of the wheels of Time. Of course we know that Morals and Christianity are not the same, but men would have ho faith in our religion if it did not ennoble life and make a decent regard for the ! servance of Morals an essential of exalt ed character. "Our hoys are not as good as th y used to be," is sometimes referred to as showing the decadence of morals. Admitting the fact, while doubting its truth, it may be observed that boys are not what they used to be. A boy of six years is more in contact with the world and knows more of "the pleas ures of sin now, than a lad of twelve dared to thinic of in the days ot our father ; and a young American of fifteen has sounded depths and scaled heights that men of that early day never dreamed of in their wildest mood ; but, in the grand aggregation of life, the mighty mass of humanity is moving upward and onward. There are more Christian mothers than ever before, and it would be i contradiction of all history to assume that a mother's influence is not supreme in shaping character. She may not !e able to make her child amodel of piety, but she can, and in most instances dees, mould his manners and influence Lis character. Tell us not that in expressing these opinions we are optimists. We are optimists in its broadest sense. We do lelieve that all events are ordained for the best but we are very far lrom be lieving that whateyer is is best. There is much that is wrong in this life ; very much that is evil in the world, but eo sure as day follows night, we are ap proaching the time foretold by seer and prophet when the wilderness shall blossom as the rose. Maternal influence, educational facil itie?, church privileges, civilization in its higher development, and agencies of which we know nothing, are working out the grand problems of life and drawing man nearer to the good, the beautiful and the true. John Wesley and the Farmer. Onward. A farmer went to hear John Wesley preach. He was a man who cared lit tle about religion ; on the other hand, he was not what we call a bad man. His attention was soon excited and riveted. Wesley eaid he would take up three topics of thought : he was talking chiefly of money. His first wa, "Get all you can." The farmer nudged a neighbor and said : "This U strange preaching ; I never heard he like be fore ; this is very good. That man has got things in him ; it is admirable preaching." John Wesley discoursed on "industry," "activity," "living to purpose," and reached his second divis ion, "Save : 11 you can." The farmer became more excited." "Was there ever anything like this?" he said. Wesley denounced thriftlessness and waste, and he satirized the wilful wick edness which lavished in luxury; and the farmer rubled his hands as he thought, "All this I have een taught from my youth up," and what with getting, and what with hoarding, it seemed to him that "salvation" had come to his house. But Wesley ad vanced to his third head, which was, "Give all you can." "Ah, dear! ah, dear," said the farmer, "he haa gone and spoiled it all." SUBSCRIPTION PRICK Siw NO. 7. JL O I "Sho i Ktidyins; f. r a pro'e-ion. oj ay " "Yc ; that of a lecturer. "An idvai proffvJor.. I hoiM ki . at 3eat f..r a woman. Nothing :. d but talk." A a (Tr.vr.ir; coKnrcm'r Ala what rou Drt hn your livwr toom Uum-Ut. It't what tou r4 whrn you Ul i Ir. Hrr F4U. 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If not kept by your local drupsrtst, nend IL0O for a large bottle, o' V't for nix bat tles, and medicine wili b-sut, freight paid, by BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, 61. iat?'fffFr"7yTtrTT?t!f!?i?a!BtB'ariari1 I E ly (h) LAXATIVE o QUININE Moves the Bowels gently, relieves the cough, cures the teverisn condition and headache and prevents pneu "2 monia. Cures in one day. Put "j cp in tablets convenient tot q taking. O PRICE, 25 Cts. . rOH SL Bt ALL CMJSBISTS. "D O Z o ti a a o o u il 1 u II Q COUGHS O o W o -r U 6- g CDS M : Y ' k i 1 1 : ; - t v i r ! N -r. Ill U rl Aoi KK Wi;! Ttt Kl V ' W'Uh jour AthrrtiMMuent ki i m ! the -!.; t ;,. . m- ! Tur l'l Vr KT. I DR..H. 0. HYATT'S SANATORIUM, K1NTV N. j , .;tw . I'l Ix ! r 1 1 ft f : NonoiK uommission uo., . '. S.l 11. , M m .t . . . y f j ; f.n.ml.r! Vr.Vii i ,.Tf,-, i. . . it I., i.i I rtil!.-, fi.'-t;il.!-. :ii:i "H r I i -1 ;:, .1 . . . A . l!nn;io- The Hani . f 'hi tneive .V.rf .lk. V.i ; I W k..., "a-hier. Farmer' and Mr-h.int ink . 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