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VOL. XI. SCOTLAND NECK, N. CU THURSDAY, MARCH 21. 1895. NO 15.
V- j
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suddenly
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called ston:-jh. No two dyq;
tics have the same predorniiw
symptoms, but vhitteyer foi
dyspepsia takes
The tindcn-ijinrj cause is
in the JLIVEIt,
and ono thing 13 certain no on.
will remain a dyspeptic who .
It vrill corrtsn ;
Acidity of tUu
Stomach,
Expel foul
Allay Irritatioi
Assist Digest) .
and at tlia sam
tlm3
Start tTie TAvev tvnrking ai
all bodily ailments
ti' ill disapjjcar.
"Tor Korc tli?n three yars sufferer! vi..
' ".'. a i.i i.s r.c.t fori". I tried sevt
o:;ors, but s,-y a(tbrtld no rcli .f. At last I ire
-!-.:r. -ir.s Liver I: emulator, which cured me ia
i i i 'i;: i. J; is i pood ir.rrcine. I would r
. :'.'u.ut it.' Jamss A. Ko.his, Philid'a, t .
li:zih;:t yea yet tt c Genuine,
v -'--i -"" on '-" 01 wrapper.
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MANHOOD.
Not till life's heat has cooled,
The headlong rush slowed to a quiet
pace
And every purblind passion that had
ruled
our noisier j-ears at last
Spurs us in vain and, weary of the
race,
We care no more who loses or who
wins
Ah, not till all the best of life seems
past
The best of life begins.
To toil for only fame,
Hand clappings and the fickle gusts of
praise,
For place or power or gold to gild a
name
Above the grave whereto
All paths will bring us, were to lose
our days,
We on whose ears youth's passing bell
has toll xl.
In blowing bubbles, even as children
do,
Forgetting we grow old.
But the world widens when
Such hope of trivial gain that ruled us
lies
Broken among our childhood's toys,
for then
We win to self control
And mail ourselves in manhood, and
there rise
Upon us from the vast and windless
height
Those clearer thoughts that are unto
the soul
What stars are to the night.
A St. John Adcock.
Happiness on the Farm.
Louisourg Times.
A prosperous farmer was in the office
of an exchange recently, discussing the
events of the past year, the financial
panic, the unexampled business depres
sion, the industrial unrest and the
progress of a rebellion against the gov
ernment, which, if not arrested, would
end in civil war. "Well, he said, as he
arose to go, "I am going back to my
farm and let the old world go its own
gait. I am happy there. Nothing
disturbs me. In the worst year that
can come I will have plenty to support
my family. I will have my books and
papers and know what is going on out
side, but 1 am safe. Panics and trade
revulsions do not affect me at all, and
even a revolution would hardly disturb
me in my quiet nook." Now, bright
people have been cudgeling their brains
to make out a picture of the future
Utopia. But is there anything, even
in the dreams of visionaries, that is
much nearer to a condition of material
happiness than this? Hardship and
struggle are there and everywhere. Life
without struggle would be worthless.
But there also is independence, and,
with frugality, absolute assurance
against future distress. It would be an
untold blessing if armies of the unem
ployed and of the unfortunate could be
transplanted to the farm.
Cure For Headache.
As a remedy for all forms of Head
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the yery best. It effects a permanent
cure and tlie most dreaded habitual
eick 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 of habitual consti
pation Electric Bitters cures by giving
the needed tone to the bowels, and few
cases long resist the use of this medi
cine Try it once. Large bottles only
Fifty "cents at E. T. Whitehead & Co.'s
Drug Store.
For Thi Democrat.
CHRISTIANITY AND TEE WAS.
China is to bo Benefitted.
IiU Rev. N. II. D. Wilson.
Many of your readers, doubtless, who
are hearing day alter day the rumors o!
w,nr from the far East, have asked
"What effect will this have on the civ
ilization and religion of these nations?
Rev. H. Loomis, Agt. American Bible
Society, writing from the ground Itself,
Japan, gives an answer which I beg
leave to condense and quote for the
benefit of your more thoughtful read
ers. He says in substance :
"It is too early to foretell what will
be the result. As far as can now be
seen, it will give precedence to advanced
ideas in civilization and religion like
nothing else. The anti-foreign and
un progressive spirit will be buried out
of sight, and the life and teaching of
Him who is the Light of the world will
be studied and followed as never before
This does not mean, however, that
Japan is to become a Christian nation
at once. But it does mean that as a
nation they are facing toward the Sun
of Righteousness, and the thoughtful
ruling men no longer look with lavor
on the systems that have prevailed so
long in the land and have failed to
elevate and purify the hearts and lives
of the people. This means, then, to
the workers in Japan a larger and
brighter outlook for the future and
greater responsibility for the use of the
wisest and most effective means of
evangelizing the people. This is now
an imperative duty, and the religious
future of the country depends upon the
efficiency of the men and means now
being used to spread the knowledge of
Christ and his salvation.
But not to Japan alone Is this a
momentous struggle. It means, as far
as can now be seen, a new life and
civilization for Korea. No one who
has closely watched the conduct of
Japan can doubt but that it is her pur
pose to mate an end of the wretched
state of political corruption that has so
long cursed and impoverished that
unfortunate people. And when the
obstacles were found to be too great for
the men engaged in the work of recon
struction, one of the first statesmen of
Japan was appointed to take charge of
this most difficult and important un
dertaking. And so Count Inouye with
two Christian associates has gone to
Korea to fully establish a new and
better order of things. No better man
could have been found for such a
position, and his appointment means
that this country is determined that
her demand for a better order of things
in Korea ia not to be thwarted for the
want of competent men to carry it out.
And whatever way the war may end
it is likely to be a benefit in the end
to China. Nothing but the most
crushing defeat, the complete humbling
of the native pride, and the enforced
conviction that other nations are not
only their equals but superiors will
ever arouse that people from their leth
argy and convince them that their land
ia not the center of the universe and
the most favored spot under heaven.
Such a revolution in the public mind
will be costly, but it will in time lift
the veil of pride, prejudice, and error,
and open the way for a better day than
the Land of Sinim has yet known.
But tne best and most wonderful
results seem to be the help that Is likely
to be given to Christianity. The sick
and wounded Chinese prisoners were
filled with astonishment at the kindness
which they had received, and so when
I brought them copies of the Scriptures
they were evidently greatly pleased to
receive them. Among those at Hiro
shima was a colonel who was a bright,
fine-looking man. Some one had al
ready given him a copy of the New
Testament, and he had read nearly one
half of it. He expressed by his action
as well as by his words that he was
deeply grateful for the gift, and said
that he believed much of it. He will
also tell his companions what he has
learned. He had heard something of
Christianity from the missionaries in
China, but it had never come to him
so impressively oefore. On his sleeve,
as on all others, was the badge of the
Red Cross Society. WThen he was asked
it he knew the meaning of that emblem
he replied that he did, and that Chris
tianity was the origin of the care and
comfort which they received.
These men came from various prov
inces, and when they go home will tel
that Instead of torture and death at the
handi of their foes they had expe
rienced such kindness and attention as
could not have been received among
their own jeople. The story of such
treatment cannot but be helpful in
opening the hearts of the people
toward all foreigners, and thus prepar
ing them to receive the teachings of
jurist. Ana inus wnne war is a
scourge to be dreaded, and the suffering
and death of thousands the penalty to
be paid, yet God is evidently overruling
all for the spread of his kingdom and
the glory of his name."
"The American Society Young Man."
Norfolk Virginian.
It is not a belief that the American
young man in society is inferior in any
respect to the jroung man of like class
in Paris or Rome, and yet a society
young man of New York makes the as
sertion, that because he is inferior is a
reason why so few very rich American
girls marry American young men. He
makes the statement that young women
in wealthy society seldom or never
meet young Americans, except of their
own set, and that "stalwart, self-made
and successful young men in that set
are not common."
Now just why this American society
young man shoull suffer in comparison
with young men of the same class of
Europe is not altogether clear. The
theory advanced by the young Ameri-
can, is that the European man nas
made a study of imanner all his life and
he charms the young woman of dollars
by his genuineness and refinement
which is lacking in the young society
man of America. This may be true in
some cases, but as a rule it is not so.
The young American reared in polite
society is the peer of all others in gra
ciouaness of manner, and it is unfair to
that class of American young men to
say otherwise.
It may be that the society girl meets
only society men as a rule, and that
they are rarely brought in contact with
the men who are great and useful and
famous, but it is not true that the soci
ety young men of America are lacking
in manners and polish, which charac
terizes their European brethren of the
same school to that extent that one ol
their number declares. It may not be
pleasant reading for some of them, but
the fact is, there 13 a lurking suspicion
that one of the chief reasons, if indeed
not the chief reasons, if indeed not the
chief reason, why some American girls
in society marry foreigners, is the craze
after some sort of title without regard
to character or refinement or manner,
and generally the lamentable result of
such alliances is a fit retribution to
such matrimonial tolly.
Mystery of Seed Germinating.
New York Independent.
It has been long a mystery why seeds
vary in their time of germinating.
Though sown atone time, all from the
same package, all at an equal depth
beneath the uurface and indeed with
every condition exactly the same
many days, and in some cases weeks,
will elapse between the appearance of
some plants and others. Indeed, in
the case of some trees one half the
seeds may perhaps grow in the spring
of the year, while the other half will
lie over in the ground till the following
spring before growing.
Some explanation of this has recently
been made by the Agricultural Science.
The more near maturity a seed may be
before it is gathered or falls from the
parent, the longer time it requires for
germinating. A German experimenter,
M. Holter, used for the purpose barley
taken just before fully matured, and
barley taken from the same storing.
The earlier matured seed sprouted in
three days, while it took ten days for
fully ripe seed, and thirty days for
plants to appear from seed that bad
matured by storage. It is thought
that more sugar is formed during ma
turity, and it is to this and not mere
quest ions of heat and moisture that the
facts are to be referred.
COULD HAVE A WAVE.
LASE MICHIGAN COULD EISS UP
AND SUEPEISS CHICAGO.
All It Neees is an Earthquake to S3t
It a Going.
"Apropos of the recent Atlantic tidal
t ri - . ?
wave, saia an anoeni manner 10 a
Chicago Tribuu man the other day,
"an account of one nearer horoe might
be of interest at this time. It ien't
necessary to have an ocean of water to
produce one of these waves by long
odds. Old Lake Michigan could get
up a prime article in that line and
show Chicago a lew things heretofore
unthought of. All that would be nec
essary would be an earthquake in the
lake and then there would be irom six
to ten leet of water here in no time.
The story that I started to tell you has
an earthquake as the prime cause, a
tidal wave as the immediate effect, and
a ruined town was the result.
"New Madrid, Mo., was destroyed by
the 'great shake,' as it was called, in
the year 1811. The whole Mississippi
valley was affected. The center of vio
lence was at Little Prairie, near New
Madrid. The vibrations were felt over
the Ohio valley as high as Pittsburgh.
New Madrid suffered more than any
other town on the Mississippi. At that
time Indians were dangerous and the
persons engaged in carrying produce in
loats to New Orleans kept in company
for mutual defense. In the middle of
December 16 there was a terrible shock
aud jarring of the boats so that the
crews were all awakened and hurried
on deck, thinking of an Indian attack.
The noise and commotion were dread
ful, but soon stopped. In the morning
oud roaring and hissing were heard
and there was a tremendous boiling up
of the waters of the Mississippi in huge
swells, tossing the boats about so vio-
ently that the men were thrown about
on the decks. The water in the river
changed to a reddish hue, then became
lack with mud thrown up from the
Uottom, while the surface, lashed by
the agitation of the earth beneath, was
covered with loam, which, gathering
into masses tho size of a barrel, floated
along the trembling surface.
"The earth opened in wide fissures,
and closing again threw the water,
sand and mud in huge jets higher than
the tops of the trees. The atmosphere
was filled with a thick vapor of gas.
At New Madrid several boats were car
ried by the great waves up onto the
bank of the river just above the town,
and were left high and dry a consider
able distance from the water. Many
boats were wrecked on the snags, while
others were sunk or stranded on the
sand bars and islands. The scenes for
several days during the repeated shocks
were horrible. The sulphurated gases
discharged tainted the air with noxious
effluvia, and so strongly impregnated
the water of the river for one hundred
and fifty miles below that it could
hardly be used for any purpose for
many daj-s.
New Madrid, which stood on a bluff
twenty feet above the summer floods,
sunk so low that the next rise covered
it to a depth of five feet. The bottoms
of several lakes in the vicinity were
elevated and have since been planted
with corn." People lived along the river
in those days more than in the country,
so the big water disturbance did proba
bly more damage than the 'shakes'
where there was no water. So you can
easily see how there can be a tidal wave
without an ocean and that we may
have one of our own some day. When
it comes It should be a good one, k
those eastern people will be satisfied we
did not manufacture it to get even."
The Discovery Saved his Life.
Mr. G. Caillouette, Druggist, Beav-
ersville, 111., says : "To Dr. King's New
Discovery I owe my life. Was taken
with La Grippe and tried all the phy
sicians for miles about, but of no avail
and was given up and told I could not
live. Having Dr. King's New Discov
ery in my store I sent for a bottle and
began its use and from the first dope
began to get better, and after using
three bottles was up and about again.
It is worth its weight m gold. We
won't keep store or house without it"
Get a free trial at E. T. Whitehead fc
Co.'a Drug Store.
Found SiSX.
The tnccrd StanJ.trd i crtlatr!
with the following :
"Four thousand and right hun!rri
dollar in gold coin found.
It u-.akc one's head nm mil frd
like it had nhevh in it.
George Side. lb n cl Purity S .!
and a brother of Poum Side, M t!
whom lie jut lyond the CHharn
and Stanly line, w uj to the Utter
part of last week n awfullv j.Kr ly.
Ho ha got fl.MK) in gold coin
now
Here' the way it all hapienod. l-a?t
week he went down to tho niy t ion near
New London (Bilesville) on the Yad
kin railway, and ljn to prtjiert.
There Is no trouble to pick up a good
days' work at prospecting either in
Cabarrus or Stanly county.
George Sides a rock that soomod
to have teen placed there by hand.
Ho turned it over. Beneath it wan an
other rock. Digging around It, he
turned it over only to find another
rock. After much trouble (and ul-out
this time he lecame very much Inter
ested) ho removed the third rock.
Here was a wooden Ixu, decayed,
which crumbled from touch.
Here
In ono pile was $1,S0Q in gold coin.
This is r jtreasuro doubtless hidden
there by some one during the war ; and
death probably took away the banker
and no one knew tho wherealoiitj ol
the treasure, or may) tho banker
himself lorget and could not again lo
cate his treasure."
IT SEEMS TOO SMALL
to do any good. wLt-u you
lJok at one of Dr. IVrce's
Pleasant I'elleU. but just
try it, when you'ro bilious
or constipated, or huv
sour btouiach, or a lit of
indigestion and you'll own
up that they're tun best
things in the world.
That because titer cure
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hi i ear - coated, ami eafty to
taxn. There's no disturb
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money refunded.
Jlouxtcm, if Inn.
Dr. R. V. Pierce: Dear Mr I could tIi
of a number of cases where Dr. Pieron's 1 amily
Medicines have cured. A friend of mine. Mr.
Williams, was about used up with llrrr troub
les; now he says that Pleasant Pellets" have
helped him more than any or all tbe medicines
that he has ever taken.
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pay repiirei. It i- guaranteed to iri j
jrf-rfvt fatiafactioij or money refnndel.
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